"Hi, I notice that you are attempting to place a pair of shorts in your microwave, would you like me to help by:
- recommending other nutritious meals from our corporation
- Retrieve the warranty text for your microwave and shorts from the corporate web site
- Call the authorities to help educate you about the benefits of the RFID EULA you agreed to.
- Retrieve information about the penalties for violating the DMCA
- Suggest other apparel made from al-foil worn by kooks like yourself"
One day Scott got into his car and drove to work and arrived at the Interstate. Only then did he realise that you cannot travel without changing yourself and the universe.
A trouble Cathy sat in the gridlock and implored her in-car navigation, "Why am I stuck?". The GPS replied, "You are here", and she was enlightened.
Destination is illusion if you do not know from where you start and where change in your journey.
A single GPS point coordinate is as protected as the robin that nests in an inpenetrable briar patch.
It seems to pop up a lot in stuff like POS applications (there's a couple of franchises here in.au that us it for their inventory) and I know someone else who uses it a lot because it's used a lot in text DBs (again, mostly inventory systems).
Needless to say, after some years of "if it ain't broke..." said person is actively trying to get off SCO on account of their willingness to sue customers.
Every time one potential target gets hardened, new targets will be selected.
The next big terror attack won't be a hijack, but someone exploding a canister of radioactive cobalt or spraying smallpox around, or something else that's new.
There's no point is getting preoccupied with just hardenin one vector and ignoring others.
Set up an answering machine to pick up all incoming calls and have a message like:
"If you are an authorised caller, please wait for someone in the house to answer your call or press 1 to leave a message. If you represent a telemarketing company, please press 2 then enter a valid credit card number when you hear the tone. Please be aware that premium rates will apply to direct marketers if you are calling outside of 9AM to 5 PM AEST"
No need to have a voicemail system behind it, your friends will quickly figure out there isn't one.
My camera came with Windows driverss that were the biggest POS I have *ever* encountered. The install process (Win98 SE) involved so many reboots and other vagueness, I had GPhoto2 built from source and installed on my laptop (plus a kernel rebuild to include USB-fs which I had left out as I didn't own any USB peripherals) hours before the Windows reboot-a-thon stopped. GPhotos2 works perfectly, while the Windows drivers are flakey and the app is crap.
Linux on the desktop is most likely to suceed where manfacturers include a properly configured install with their hardware, ordinary people don't do much more then plug in peripherals.
Recived from: weownzjuu.microsoft.com Mail Error: Certificate presented by your User Agent is not issued by Microsoft.
And you can b suree that the spm you *do* receive is once-in-a-lifetime marketing opportunities from companies able to pony up the dough to whoever issues the certs.
Today the leader of the global Empire, George strongly condemmed violent actions by foreign protesters and terrorists who attack the very symbol sof our nation's supremacy...
The USA is becoming the very thing it fought so hard against.
Yeah, IBM could make their life a misery if they ever tried to sell any products that crossed IBM's patents. But it seems clear to me that SCO only want to be an IP protection racket. If I was a SCO customer, I'd be looking for replacement products.
"We originally got the cluster to do rendering, but we ended up needing it to handle traffic generated when we appeeared on Slashdot..."
That or they can lease it out to needy sites that appear on Slashdot.
Xix.
Spoken like a programmer
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This is the sort of Rube Goldberg thinking that gave us Windows "We could get a 16 bit DOS and put a software thingy on it to fake access lots of memory so that we can stick on a GUI, DirectX could provide a way of kludging past this horrible compromise when the performance became too sucky...".
We have a truck that already uses 24 volts. In fact lots of trucks use 24 volts. We hve a 24 volt charger because trying to jump start a truck with a car doesn't work. Because the system is all 24 volts, it's nice, simple and *reliable*.
If the car companies had any brains, they would anticipate this problem. They could put some electronic thingy on the charging posts that automatically senses 12v and runs it through some power electronics to step it up to 42v. I don't know how efficient that would be.
Or, if the engine electrical system still runs on 12v (through a step-down), there could be a direct interface to the starter -- once the engine is started, the alternator takes over and charges the battery at 42v.
Oh yeah, people shouldn't be using ye-olde jumper leads on cars that have EFI computers. Use of such leads can lead to the loss of magic smoke.
And then there are reports from people who tried to sign up with other ISPs to be told by Telstra that the line was not up to scratch. Then they apply to Telstra's ISP and are told that the line is capable after all.
Or what do you do when you have something like a locked bag which doesn't have to exist at any particular meat-space? Or you have a company that has several offices in say a shopping mall or a cruise liner that moves around all the time?
It would make more sense to set a standard that would let people use DNS to deliver physical mail. That way mail routing could be altered on-the-fly depending on what where the destination was.
And don't get me started on Map Point. Thre's a perfectly good set of *extensible* standards for storing, querying and retrieving spatial attribute data. Map Point looks like a half-arsed set of proprietary spatial datatypes that they acquired a couple of years back in order to duplicate these services (start by looking at www.opengis.org)
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the the Scarpelli family's Guido Public License gives you more freedom with the benefit of protection for you, your family and your business. The Guido Public License applies to most of the Scarpelli Family Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Scarpelli Family Software Foundation software is covered by the Guido Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.
Accidents, fires and floods happen. The Guido Public License protects you.
We protect our rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy and distribute the software.
Failure to abide by the rules of any of the Guido Public Licenses will mean a visit from Guido Scarpelli himself.
This is a far saner, less failure prone solution to "The Problem". I have already seen similar hardware solutions used by a friend who develops commercially sensitive commerce stuff, the laptop's a paperweight without the key-card.
Only keep your keys on a something like a USB keychain rather than proprietary hardware. Then attach it to said employee's security pass so they don't leave it plugged into the laptop (or keep a log that emails you every time the laptop is shut down with the USB key left plugged in).
But alas, I can see the PHBs of the world will demand the Mission Impossible version because it sounds cooler.
I have recommended -R drives because that's what Apple have been shipping in their Macs. I figure that there should be enough of a user-base out there that I'll be able to get blanks and drives for at least 5 years (and at that stage +R was still a bit of an orphan).
We've noticed problems with some older drives, but AFAIK, that'll be a *potential* problem with any drive that pre-dates the +R or -R standards.
Can anyone find figures on sales of drives and media for the two formats? I have found plenty of heat, but little light.
Anyone allowing proprietary, patented methods to potentially infect their company would have rocks in their head.
How can W3C ever trust any closed source IP when it involves placing yourself one clever lawyer away from being sued for applying that IP outside the sandbox of the initial agreement.
In the current climate, licencing patented methods could be even more deadly in the long run. Licenced companies may end up preparing for an onslaught of creditor raised IP suits ever time a past or present partner goes bankrupt.
Anyone who thinks that the central argument of the SCO case is directed at open source software should consider the possibility that IP licencing has put a bomb in their hold.
If it weren't for Quallcom's patents on CDMA, nobody would be using GSM
....
Building an infrastructure from the ground up on TDMA technology is just brain-dead politics.
Leaving aside any technical arguments, grasping your ankles for Qualcomm would be even more brain-dead.
At least this way their phones will work in most of the free world.
Slashdot Mirror
OK, so *whose* copyright disclaimers???
I just did:
cd linux
find . -name "*.[c|h]" |xargs grep "[Cc]opyright" |grep "[Ss][Cc][Oo]"
And a few variants thereof like "([Cc])", "IBM", "[Ss]anta" "[Cc]ruz" "Novell" and "[Mm]icro" and don't get much that looked out of place.
If it's as obvious as SCO claim, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what parts they are talking about.
Xix.
"Hi, I notice that you are attempting to place a pair of shorts in your microwave, would you like me to help by:
- recommending other nutritious meals from our corporation
- Retrieve the warranty text for your microwave and shorts from the corporate web site
- Call the authorities to help educate you about the benefits of the RFID EULA you agreed to.
- Retrieve information about the penalties for violating the DMCA
- Suggest other apparel made from al-foil worn by kooks like yourself"
Xix.
One day Scott got into his car and drove to work and arrived at the Interstate. Only then did he realise that you cannot travel without changing yourself and the universe.
A trouble Cathy sat in the gridlock and implored her in-car navigation, "Why am I stuck?". The GPS replied, "You are here", and she was enlightened.
Destination is illusion if you do not know from where you start and where change in your journey.
A single GPS point coordinate is as protected as the robin that nests in an inpenetrable briar patch.
Even the road travels the bridges.
It seems to pop up a lot in stuff like POS applications (there's a couple of franchises here in .au that us it for their inventory) and I know someone else who uses it a lot because it's used a lot in text DBs (again, mostly inventory systems).
Needless to say, after some years of "if it ain't broke..." said person is actively trying to get off SCO on account of their willingness to sue customers.
Xix.
Xix.
All this airline security is bunk anyhow.
Every time one potential target gets hardened, new targets will be selected.
The next big terror attack won't be a hijack, but someone exploding a canister of radioactive cobalt or spraying smallpox around, or something else that's new.
There's no point is getting preoccupied with just hardenin one vector and ignoring others.
Xix.
Set up an answering machine to pick up all incoming calls and have a message like:
"If you are an authorised caller, please wait for someone in the house to answer your call or press 1 to leave a message. If you represent a telemarketing company, please press 2 then enter a valid credit card number when you hear the tone. Please be aware that premium rates will apply to direct marketers if you are calling outside of 9AM to 5 PM AEST"
No need to have a voicemail system behind it, your friends will quickly figure out there isn't one.
Xix.
My camera came with Windows driverss that were the biggest POS I have *ever* encountered. The install process (Win98 SE) involved so many reboots and other vagueness, I had GPhoto2 built from source and installed on my laptop (plus a kernel rebuild to include USB-fs which I had left out as I didn't own any USB peripherals) hours before the Windows reboot-a-thon stopped. GPhotos2 works perfectly, while the Windows drivers are flakey and the app is crap.
Linux on the desktop is most likely to suceed where manfacturers include a properly configured install with their hardware, ordinary people don't do much more then plug in peripherals.
Xix.
for $name (glob(/dev/random/*)) {
touch("/upload/Metallica-$name.mp3");
touch("/upload/Madonna-$name.mp3");
}
Me? I have stopped buying records from major labels anyway. Let them wither on the vine.
Xix.
Recived from: weownzjuu.microsoft.com
Mail Error: Certificate presented by your User Agent is not issued by Microsoft.
And you can b suree that the spm you *do* receive is once-in-a-lifetime marketing opportunities from companies able to pony up the dough to whoever issues the certs.
Xix.
Today the leader of the global Empire, George strongly condemmed violent actions by foreign protesters and terrorists who attack the very symbol sof our nation's supremacy...
The USA is becoming the very thing it fought so hard against.
Xix.
Yeah, IBM could make their life a misery if they ever tried to sell any products that crossed IBM's patents. But it seems clear to me that SCO only want to be an IP protection racket. If I was a SCO customer, I'd be looking for replacement products.
Xix.
That or they can lease it out to needy sites that appear on Slashdot.
Xix.
We have a truck that already uses 24 volts. In fact lots of trucks use 24 volts. We hve a 24 volt charger because trying to jump start a truck with a car doesn't work. Because the system is all 24 volts, it's nice, simple and *reliable*.
Oh yeah, people shouldn't be using ye-olde jumper leads on cars that have EFI computers. Use of such leads can lead to the loss of magic smoke.
Xix.
And then there are reports from people who tried to sign up with other ISPs to be told by Telstra that the line was not up to scratch. Then they apply to Telstra's ISP and are told that the line is capable after all.
Xix.
Xix.
It would make more sense to set a standard that would let people use DNS to deliver physical mail. That way mail routing could be altered on-the-fly depending on what where the destination was.
And don't get me started on Map Point. Thre's a perfectly good set of *extensible* standards for storing, querying and retrieving spatial attribute data. Map Point looks like a half-arsed set of proprietary spatial datatypes that they acquired a couple of years back in order to duplicate these services (start by looking at www.opengis.org)
Xix.
CTRL-C CTRL-V
GPL: The Guido Public License
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the the Scarpelli family's Guido Public License gives you more freedom with the benefit of protection for you, your family and your business. The Guido Public License applies to most of the Scarpelli Family Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Scarpelli Family Software Foundation software is covered by the Guido Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.
Accidents, fires and floods happen. The Guido Public License protects you.
We protect our rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy and distribute the software.
Failure to abide by the rules of any of the Guido Public Licenses will mean a visit from Guido Scarpelli himself.
You don't want that.
This is a far saner, less failure prone solution to "The Problem". I have already seen similar hardware solutions used by a friend who develops commercially sensitive commerce stuff, the laptop's a paperweight without the key-card.
Only keep your keys on a something like a USB keychain rather than proprietary hardware. Then attach it to said employee's security pass so they don't leave it plugged into the laptop (or keep a log that emails you every time the laptop is shut down with the USB key left plugged in).
But alas, I can see the PHBs of the world will demand the Mission Impossible version because it sounds cooler.
Xix.
I have recommended -R drives because that's what Apple have been shipping in their Macs. I figure that there should be enough of a user-base out there that I'll be able to get blanks and drives for at least 5 years (and at that stage +R was still a bit of an orphan).
We've noticed problems with some older drives, but AFAIK, that'll be a *potential* problem with any drive that pre-dates the +R or -R standards.
Can anyone find figures on sales of drives and media for the two formats? I have found plenty of heat, but little light.
Xix.
>> ..things like make soap...
> That's not the first skill I'd associate with the > SCA.
That's because you have to issue make clean as well:
localhost$ make soap; make clean;
Xix.
The first year results are held on an unpatched IIS box.
:o)
For your final exam, there's a security certified server that holds your results. If you can give yourself an A+, you probably deserve it.
Xix.
Anyone allowing proprietary, patented methods to potentially infect their company would have rocks in their head.
How can W3C ever trust any closed source IP when it involves placing yourself one clever lawyer away from being sued for applying that IP outside the sandbox of the initial agreement.
In the current climate, licencing patented methods could be even more deadly in the long run. Licenced companies may end up preparing for an onslaught of creditor raised IP suits ever time a past or present partner goes bankrupt.
Anyone who thinks that the central argument of the SCO case is directed at open source software should consider the possibility that IP licencing has put a bomb in their hold.
Xix.
Leaving aside any technical arguments, grasping your ankles for Qualcomm would be even more brain-dead.
At least this way their phones will work in most of the free world.
Xix.
Xix.