"Isn't this over by now? The last time I saw a SCO article here, it seemed that even the judge was sick of their nonsense. Is there anyone still taken in by this charade?"
Yep, you recall correctly but the last time a judge showed any honest sign of being sick of nonsensical and irritating behaviour in court Microsoft got let off by the "tainted" judge's replacement.
Hopefully the judge in this case is only putting up with this bullshit in order to avoid accusations of failing to hear SCO's side of the story fairly.
Un-bunzip it and copy the contents of the resulting folder into/usr/lib/win32 (you may have to create it depending on your distro) and all of a sudden you can play wmp files in mplayer and several other media palyers on Linux (not encoded ones but DVD Jon's got a fix for that i hear).
If you put mozilla and mozplugger on you can then play embedded media (make sure that konqueror is set for the plugins dirs).
Sadly, the BBC is still using closed formats but they do have a fully open audio/video codec in development that they will hopefully use in future.
BTW No, I don't work for the BBC but they are one of the few organisations in Britain worth caring about.
Sovereign governments do have to obey the law but they have the added advantage that they make the laws including those dealing with the validity of contracts. Hence they could nullify all EULA's from a company back to the year dot using shrink wrapping as a justification. A smarter move however may be to announce that for the sake of simplicity when dealing with EU government agencies, all business documents in the EU need to be stored in an ISO compliant open document format.
God I love the sound of flying furniture in the morning...
During the 70's and 80's there was a backlash against the police forced mainly by the activities of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad who seemed to have been the cause of as much crime as they were fighting. There was also the anti-corruption investigations in the Met Police instigated by Sir Robert Mark and also concerns over the interrogation of the IRA Birmingham and Guildford pub bombing suspects who were convicted only to have their convictions overturned some 20 years after sentencing.
In a typical British fashion, it's now impossible for a copper to even fart without filling out a 70 page report on the circumstances surrounding the event which ties the poor sods up in the office filling out paperwork if they do any more than say hello to a member of the public. I also remember hearing a met traffic officer saying that he'd let a driver off of speeding at 65 on the Old Kent Road in London (30mph limit) because he too scared of being accused of racism if he'd given him a ticket.
No doubt all the 'initiatives' that are landed on them by a government that seems determined to issue a new edict for every aspect of public servants work and insists on skewing things with pointless performance targets doesn't help.
It's all very well knowing that two cars have the same plate but what matters more is what happens afterwards.
In the UK, most of the traffic police have been pulled off the roads and put onto other duties. Usually, this happens after a press release showing an increase in the public/a focus group's perception of what crime is currently the most scary. As a result, you can drive thousands of miles on the UK's motorways without encountering a police car because there may only be one traffic car within 50 miles of you and the rest of the police are trying to lower the second most scary crime stats.
Ultimately, breaking a system like this only requires a 'man on the inside' i.e. a sympathetic worker within the DVLA/Administrating authority who can make any modifications to the necessary data or a sufficiently large brown envelope to an existing operative. Anyone who has enough to gain politically or financially knows this and it would be a big advantage to any criminal or terrorist to have their fake id backed up by fake data on the official database.
Overall, I don't know why all this is being done i.e. the degree of malicious intent involved in the minds of those in charge but the potential for abuse is huge and it scares the crap out of me.
If you're talking charity in the christian sense Mark 6:1-5 is as relevant:
6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
6:2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
i.e Donating to charity and not boasting about it is charity. Putting out press releases afterwards makes it self publicity.
Members of the government not being collared for corruption could well be because they're good at hiding it. Also, in a country where you can cane, imprison or kill people for offences that would warrant a fine elsewhere you may find the press and media are too deeply involved with or too downright scared of whoever's doing the fiddling.
I think it's just a matter of incentive. OO wouldn't gain by dropping support and if they did it'd be comparatively easy for someone to code a patch/filter whatever to restore it.
Microsoft on the other hand have everything to gain from locking people into a format that they could publish the specs to while still maintaining control by including patented components that would prevent OO from utilising it.
At the end of the day, I've never been lied to, ripped off by or treated poorly by OO.org or any other Open Source group before so I know who I trust more. Should they turn nasty it shouldn't be too hard to find a low cost/free alternative that can handle OO docs.
But will support for it in MSOffice be perpetual? I mean support for existing office formats isn't guaranteed between one version and the next. The new format could be in MSOffice for long enough to capture the vast majority of Government and enterprise contracts before a free upgrade installs a new new format that imports the free one but only saves out to the new version.
OK, so level criticism for an over cynical approach but if a car dealer sells me 10 piles of crap in a row it'd take more than a promise to be nice this time to convince me that that they've changed.
A TV executive wakes to find himself in a strange isolated place with a whole lot of other TV execs. The only way he can get himself released is by coming up with an original idea for a new series. Given the current output of recycled bollocks on the telly it could easily run for several thousand episodes.
The claim that the Police need 90 days detention for hard disk cracking seems a bit feeble to me as I'm sure they can already exceed this using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The RIP which passed as law 3-5 years ago allows the police to seize computer equipment and arrest the owner(s). The suspect is then not allowed to contact anyone, and should encrypted data be found on their hard disk, they are obliged to disclose the encryption keys. Failure to do so can result in up two years detention without the need for a messy trial.
Once someone is caught up in an RIP style seizure it becomes illegal for them to actually tell anyone about the investigation under penalty of 5 years imprisonment.
Basically, the recovery of encrypted data may be the only half decent reason for the new anti terror laws but it's also the one power that the police already have under existing law begging the question, whats the real thing the government are after?
When you smoke too much crack, you start seeing hostile things that aren't there.
Next it'll be "We demand the code to the Linux kernal that was written by the Pot Head Pixies as they fly around Baghdad serenading the evil terrorists wearing Bill Clinton print Y-Fronts on their heads".
Is that the high pitched tone just stuns them. It's the following 30 minutes of Leonard Cohen sings the Smiths greatest hits that has them hurling themselves into the sea.
"What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?"
The bastard who designed the shrink wrap on CD-Rs. You know the one, where you pull the little tape that splits the plastic coating except it snaps so you run your nail along it except it's so bloody flexible that it won't tear. Then you have to get a really sharp knife and cut it scoring the jewel case. I mean for f***s sake, if getting a CD out of a wrapper can be made such a pain in the arse by a thin bit of plastic just think the container he/she could make if given enough steel, lead and time.....
And another thing.. F***king blister packs that need a friggin scalpel to open... NNNNNNNRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH,.,..... World turning red..... can't think...... I think I'm lapsing into unconciou
Our school was in the same position with 700MHz Celerons, 64MB RAM etc. Since January, we've stripped them all out and built our own replacements using 2400 Semprons with half a Gig of DDR, 40GB HDD etc. (£105 each due to bulk buy) and am currently expanding our network and swapping the CRTs for flat screens.
All this was funded by by dumping 5 NT/2000 servers and fitting 2 Dual Xeons running 10.2, lDAP, Samba, Postfix/Opengoupware etc. The saving made on server licences, CALs, Exchange CALS etc. really was that good and although we have XP on the desktops the Linux side was all done with the free downloads.
The schools hardware stock is now up to 250 desktops and around 50 laptops with the old PCs being turned into CUPS print servers with click and print driver setup and per user quotas provided by pykota.
So you've finally worked it out, the truth being that your president is really Robobush !!!! (You'll have to imagine some dramatic chords). Yes it's true people of America, Robobush was made in secret by Jaque chirac and gerhard schroeder and deployed in place of the real GWB to cripple US science, pollute your air, get your schools teaching that the world was created by a spaghetti Monster, God , whatever, and piss your economy away on sending soldiers all over the world.
The only clues were that sometimes it uses the right words but not necessarily in the right order, needs constant recharging vacations and upon being told of the 2nd Tower being hit crashed and did nothing for several minutes.
Don't think that voting Democrat will help you as Robo- Hilary is having the final touches put on now.
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"Isn't this over by now? The last time I saw a SCO article here, it seemed that even the judge was sick of their nonsense. Is there anyone still taken in by this charade?"
Yep, you recall correctly but the last time a judge showed any honest sign of being sick of nonsensical and irritating behaviour in court Microsoft got let off by the "tainted" judge's replacement.
Hopefully the judge in this case is only putting up with this bullshit in order to avoid accusations of failing to hear SCO's side of the story fairly.
"Microsoft Teams Up With Japanese VoIP Carrier"
The natural result of which should be "Japanese VoIP Carrier sues Microsoft in embrace and extend case"
Deal with someone with Microsoft's history and you'd better be sure your contract's tighter than a shark's arse at 40 fathoms.
You can also go here:
m l
/usr/lib/win32 (you may have to create it depending on your distro) and all of a sudden you can play wmp files in mplayer and several other media palyers on Linux (not encoded ones but DVD Jon's got a fix for that i hear).
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.ht
and download the essential codecs package.
Un-bunzip it and copy the contents of the resulting folder into
If you put mozilla and mozplugger on you can then play embedded media (make sure that konqueror is set for the plugins dirs).
Sadly, the BBC is still using closed formats but they do have a fully open audio/video codec in development that they will hopefully use in future.
BTW No, I don't work for the BBC but they are one of the few organisations in Britain worth caring about.
So that's where Saddam hid the WMD!!!!!
Sovereign governments do have to obey the law but they have the added advantage that they make the laws including those dealing with the validity of contracts. Hence they could nullify all EULA's from a company back to the year dot using shrink wrapping as a justification. A smarter move however may be to announce that for the sake of simplicity when dealing with EU government agencies, all business documents in the EU need to be stored in an ISO compliant open document format.
God I love the sound of flying furniture in the morning...
During the 70's and 80's there was a backlash against the police forced mainly by the activities of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad who seemed to have been the cause of as much crime as they were fighting. There was also the anti-corruption investigations in the Met Police instigated by Sir Robert Mark and also concerns over the interrogation of the IRA Birmingham and Guildford pub bombing suspects who were convicted only to have their convictions overturned some 20 years after sentencing.
In a typical British fashion, it's now impossible for a copper to even fart without filling out a 70 page report on the circumstances surrounding the event which ties the poor sods up in the office filling out paperwork if they do any more than say hello to a member of the public. I also remember hearing a met traffic officer saying that he'd let a driver off of speeding at 65 on the Old Kent Road in London (30mph limit) because he too scared of being accused of racism if he'd given him a ticket.
No doubt all the 'initiatives' that are landed on them by a government that seems determined to issue a new edict for every aspect of public servants work and insists on skewing things with pointless performance targets doesn't help.
I could go on but it only depresses me.
It's all very well knowing that two cars have the same plate but what matters more is what happens afterwards.
In the UK, most of the traffic police have been pulled off the roads and put onto other duties. Usually, this happens after a press release showing an increase in the public/a focus group's perception of what crime is currently the most scary. As a result, you can drive thousands of miles on the UK's motorways without encountering a police car because there may only be one traffic car within 50 miles of you and the rest of the police are trying to lower the second most scary crime stats.
Ultimately, breaking a system like this only requires a 'man on the inside' i.e. a sympathetic worker within the DVLA/Administrating authority who can make any modifications to the necessary data or a sufficiently large brown envelope to an existing operative. Anyone who has enough to gain politically or financially knows this and it would be a big advantage to any criminal or terrorist to have their fake id backed up by fake data on the official database.
Overall, I don't know why all this is being done i.e. the degree of malicious intent involved in the minds of those in charge but the potential for abuse is huge and it scares the crap out of me.
If he chokes to death on piece of pasta tonight I'm gonna convert immediately.
Beware his noodly vengeance!!
If you're going to quote the Bible, how about quoting a modern translation ... say, less than 100 years old?
Old, new, the meanings the same.
By the way, you quoted Matthew 6:1-5, not Mark 6:1-5. Hope this helps.
I'll be more careful over my choice of god-botherers online resource I pick next time.
Cheers
If you're talking charity in the christian sense Mark 6:1-5 is as relevant:
6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
6:2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
i.e Donating to charity and not boasting about it is charity. Putting out press releases afterwards makes it self publicity.
has a very uncorrupt government....
Members of the government not being collared for corruption could well be because they're good at hiding it. Also, in a country where you can cane, imprison or kill people for offences that would warrant a fine elsewhere you may find the press and media are too deeply involved with or too downright scared of whoever's doing the fiddling.
That does it. If the next government press release is "Hello World" I think I'm gonna shit myself.
I think it's just a matter of incentive. OO wouldn't gain by dropping support and if they did it'd be comparatively easy for someone to code a patch/filter whatever to restore it.
Microsoft on the other hand have everything to gain from locking people into a format that they could publish the specs to while still maintaining control by including patented components that would prevent OO from utilising it.
At the end of the day, I've never been lied to, ripped off by or treated poorly by OO.org or any other Open Source group before so I know who I trust more. Should they turn nasty it shouldn't be too hard to find a low cost/free alternative that can handle OO docs.
"the license is perpetual for everyone"
But will support for it in MSOffice be perpetual? I mean support for existing office formats isn't guaranteed between one version and the next. The new format could be in MSOffice for long enough to capture the vast majority of Government and enterprise contracts before a free upgrade installs a new new format that imports the free one but only saves out to the new version.
OK, so level criticism for an over cynical approach but if a car dealer sells me 10 piles of crap in a row it'd take more than a promise to be nice this time to convince me that that they've changed.
Just showing my ignorance there. I must admit that I couldn't stomach it long enough to find out the name of the pic.
Or even worse goatse.cx.
Oh the horror.... the horror
The Prisoner part two - Synopsis....
A TV executive wakes to find himself in a strange isolated place with a whole lot of other TV execs. The only way he can get himself released is by coming up with an original idea for a new series. Given the current output of recycled bollocks on the telly it could easily run for several thousand episodes.
The claim that the Police need 90 days detention for hard disk cracking seems a bit feeble to me as I'm sure they can already exceed this using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The RIP which passed as law 3-5 years ago allows the police to seize computer equipment and arrest the owner(s). The suspect is then not allowed to contact anyone, and should encrypted data be found on their hard disk, they are obliged to disclose the encryption keys. Failure to do so can result in up two years detention without the need for a messy trial.
Once someone is caught up in an RIP style seizure it becomes illegal for them to actually tell anyone about the investigation under penalty of 5 years imprisonment.
Basically, the recovery of encrypted data may be the only half decent reason for the new anti terror laws but it's also the one power that the police already have under existing law begging the question, whats the real thing the government are after?
When you smoke too much crack, you start seeing hostile things that aren't there.
Next it'll be "We demand the code to the Linux kernal that was written by the Pot Head Pixies as they fly around Baghdad serenading the evil terrorists wearing Bill Clinton print Y-Fronts on their heads".
Is that the high pitched tone just stuns them. It's the following 30 minutes of Leonard Cohen sings the Smiths greatest hits that has them hurling themselves into the sea.
"What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?"
The bastard who designed the shrink wrap on CD-Rs. You know the one, where you pull the little tape that splits the plastic coating except it snaps so you run your nail along it except it's so bloody flexible that it won't tear. Then you have to get a really sharp knife and cut it scoring the jewel case. I mean for f***s sake, if getting a CD out of a wrapper can be made such a pain in the arse by a thin bit of plastic just think the container he/she could make if given enough steel, lead and time.....
And another thing.. F***king blister packs that need a friggin scalpel to open... NNNNNNNRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH,.,..... World turning red..... can't think...... I think I'm lapsing into unconciou
I dare say that they've bolted the furniture to the floor in that office by now. After all, a thousand welfare offices can't be wrong.
Q. Shit, how come I get a 3% raise when the CEO gets 25% and a $30,000,000 bonus?
A. 'cos the CEOs job won't be getting done for $2 a day in Delhi if he doesn't stop asking questions and get back to work.
Our school was in the same position with 700MHz Celerons, 64MB RAM etc. Since January, we've stripped them all out and built our own replacements using 2400 Semprons with half a Gig of DDR, 40GB HDD etc. (£105 each due to bulk buy) and am currently expanding our network and swapping the CRTs for flat screens.
All this was funded by by dumping 5 NT/2000 servers and fitting 2 Dual Xeons running 10.2, lDAP, Samba, Postfix/Opengoupware etc. The saving made on server licences, CALs, Exchange CALS etc. really was that good and although we have XP on the desktops the Linux side was all done with the free downloads.
The schools hardware stock is now up to 250 desktops and around 50 laptops with the old PCs being turned into CUPS print servers with click and print driver setup and per user quotas provided by pykota.
Well worth it:)
So you've finally worked it out, the truth being that your president is really Robobush !!!! (You'll have to imagine some dramatic chords). Yes it's true people of America, Robobush was made in secret by Jaque chirac and gerhard schroeder and deployed in place of the real GWB to cripple US science, pollute your air, get your schools teaching that the world was created by a spaghetti Monster, God , whatever, and piss your economy away on sending soldiers all over the world.
The only clues were that sometimes it uses the right words but not necessarily in the right order, needs constant recharging vacations and upon being told of the 2nd Tower being hit crashed and did nothing for several minutes.
Don't think that voting Democrat will help you as Robo- Hilary is having the final touches put on now.
MuHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH