would be very useful, as it can cut both ways. I wonder how many Linux or BSD device drivers found their way into SCO source code? Once similarities have been detected, it would be a simple matter to go through the Linux kernel archives and trace the source of the device driver code. Could SCO do the same? Would they dare?
Of course, the hashes would have to invariant against camoflauge by variable name search and replace, whitespace and blank line insertion, etc. And tests would have to be made to ensure nobody is pulling a fast one by swapping code - It would have to be shown to compile correctly to the executable.
A car that continuously drives itself around the block, and avoids the need for parking. (Or parking tickets) Paying for the extra fuel is probabably cheaper that hourly parking in most major cities, and certainly would be in Japan.
Car That Can Park Itself Put on Sale by Toyota Mon Sep 1, 7:04 AM ET
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A car that can park itself without the driver having to touch the steering wheel, said by maker Toyota Motor Corp. (news - web sites) to be a world first, went on sale in Japan on Monday.
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Toyota's new hybrid gasoline-electric Prius sedan uses electrically operated power steering and sensors that help guide the car when reversing into parking spaces.
Toyota President Fujio Cho sat in the driver's seat at a demonstration laid on for the press, surprising reporters by holding his hands up as the car quickly parked itself.
"I forgot to put on the brake," Cho said. "But it's easy."
The new Prius five-seat passenger model is said by Toyota to be more fuel-efficient and cheaper than its predecessors. Rivals General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co will launch their first hybrids later this year.
Toyota said it expects to sell 76,000 new Prius worldwide in 2004, counting on growing demand for environment-friendly cars.
The sales target is more than double the annual figure for the Prius for the past two years of around 28,000 units. Toyota, the world's third-largest auto maker, has sold about 120,000 of the cars since its launch in December 1997.
"Development of eco-friendly cars is a key to our future growth strategy," Cho told reporters.
Toyota aims to sell 36,000 units at home, 35,000-36,000 in the United States and 4,000-5,000 in rest of the world next year, he said.
The new model sells for 2.15 million yen ($18,430) in Japan, against 2.18 million yen previously. The intelligent park assist system is offered as an option, at an additional cost of 230,000 yen which includes a DVD navigation system. Toyota has set itself a goal of producing 300,000 of the eco-friendly hybrid vehicles a year by 2005 or 2006.
I wonder if the Iranians will seek revenge by creating an anonymized Warez site that only accepts IP addresses based in the US. That would certainly annoy the hell out of a lot of US interests.
You could have read it right here. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76491&c id=6820 566
Don't know why Taco rejected my original submission...
Looks like they finally got competent legal representation, who informed them their chance of winning this was akin to being hit on the head with a Soviet satellite.
Now the question is whether or not IBM and Red Hat will let them off the hook, or continue with their countersuits.
This hot off the press today, from SCO in Australia. I think these guys have split personalities or something. I just submitted it as a separate story item, and I will be stunned if it is rejected, since this just now hit the presses. Was it all a protracted April Fools joke, or did it just get to hot for them to handle alongside the IBM lawsuit?
Contents: The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux companies, had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court.
The company was responding to questions routed through its PR people in Sydney.
As the Canopy Group, which has a stake in SCO, also has interests in several other Linux companies, SCO was asked whether it planned to sue all these companies. The answer was "No. SCO has never planned to sue Linux companies."
In June, SCO senior vice-president Chris Sontag was quoted as saying the company would either will file a new suit or amend its lawsuit against IBM to target other companies which SCO alleges are illegally appropriating its Unix source code.
Today SCO also said it had no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court.
Earlier this year the company issued a letter to commercial Linux users threatening them with legal action.
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Among the companies in which Canopy is involved is Linux Networx, which has supplied a supercomputer to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; asked whether SCO would sue the laboratory, the company spokesperson said: "No. SCO has never made concrete plans to sue anyone."
In a statement made on August 20, SCO chief executive officer Darl McBride said the company was identifying Linux users for possible litigation.
In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract."
SCO also claimed that Linux was an unauthorised derivative of Unix and warned commercial Linux users that they could be legally liable for violation of intellectual copyright. SCO later expanded its claims against IBM to US$3 billion in June when it said it was withdrawing IBM's licence for its own Unix, AIX.
IANAL, and this is slightly off topic, (mod me down if you must, but it is interesting SCO related material I haven't seen here) but I found this little gem, which could could spike SCO's guns even if they won:
>>For instance, did you know that, because SCO filed its initial Complaint before it registered its copyright, it's therefore limited by statute to recovering merely $150,000 for any infringements? There are several such Aha! moments awaiting an assiduous reader of this analysis.
When you purchase a vehicle from a dealership, you are offered a certain selection of options - colour, trim, and maybe engine size.
There are a huge number of possible options that you are not offered. You are not offered the chance to stretch the body by 1 metre, and most dealerships will not sell you a 3000 watt stereo, or exotic underbody lighting. If you want to do such weird and wonderful things with your vehicle, there are plenty of after market auto parts stores that will sell you just about anything.
Same for your OS. The average desktop user has certain needs, power users may want more, and somebody running a firewall on low end hardware may want no gui at all, or at most a mininimalist one.
# Don't try to stretch your position. If you have weakness, admit to the weakness, and try to persuade the Judge that you should win anyway.
# If you have a bad argument, leave it out of your brief and your oral argument. Making bad arguments hurts your credibility with the Court.
An exerpt from the Groklaw page: "In his ruling, Kimball said Jacobsen did not 'express any disapproval' of the series until 1999, after the third volume had been published. 'Had Jacobsen voiced his disapproval in 1996, Hughes would have had the opportunity to take the offending material out of the books,' Kimball wrote. 'For Jacobsen to wait until three volumes of the series had been published before voicing his disapproval, when it is clear he had ample opportunity to let Hughes know of his disapproval as early as 1996, results in extreme prejudice to Hughes.'
Sound like SCO had better hope he steps down or kicks the bucket before their case is heard.
Anybody who lives there should immediately phone every candidates office, and make sure that this law is rewritten with the consumer in mind. Don't think you don't count, this election can be won or lost on a very small number of votes, giving the large number of candidates running. If enough of you vote as a block, you can have a surprisingly large clout.
Actually, recent studies have suggested that hydrogen wasn't even the main cause of the Hindenburg disaster. The silver anti-reflective coating on the airship was largely made from powdered aluminum, which we now know makes for excellent rocket fuel. (Used in the solid rocket boosters of the shuttle)
I have been hearing this story for the past 20 years, along with the death of magnetic storage media. Light bulbs are so damned cheap that it is very difficult to convince people to replace a $0.20 part with a $20.00 one, or even a $2.00 one, despite their energy inefficiency. Another problem: I purchased a few of the high efficiency screw in florescent bulbs, (despite their costs)and as soon as I installed it my wife commented that they were ugly, so they have all been relegated to the basement.
When Darl waved that phone book sized stack of press releases around, it might have seemed a tad heavier if he had realized that every last clipping was a potential weapon for IBM or Red Hat lawyers. Remember, everything you say can and will be used against you, and they are doing an awesome job of blowing their feet off, one toe at a time.
IBM's legal team must be holding their colletive guts in with glee, given SCO's own executives and legal team are feeding them such wonderful ammunition to beat them senseless in court. If they look like crown fools in the press, just imagine how they will look in court.
I rather enjoy reading these SCO stories now. It is analogous to watching Baghdad Bob's press briefings during the war. These buffoons are out there like Pluto. I think they are realizing they mistook a hornets nest for a Pinata, and are looking for a face saving way out of the mess they are in.
This should give more than enough leverage for IBM and others to slap a "cease and desist" injunction against them. Darl wanted things to move along quicker, and on this one point I agree with him. It will also encourage other organizations to step up to bat against SCO.
Is that the Russian space program is bankrupt. They had great difficulty even in maintaining their obligations to the ISS, and their shuttle program was scrapped and turned into a carnival ride. That is not to say that they don't have some great ideas and hardware. Maybe they can partner with India or China or the US and actually take their designs off the drawing board.
Slashdot Mirror
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid
would be very useful, as it can cut both ways. I wonder how many Linux or BSD device drivers found their way into SCO source code? Once similarities have been detected, it would be a simple matter to go through the Linux kernel archives and trace the source of the device driver code. Could SCO do the same? Would they dare?
Of course, the hashes would have to invariant against camoflauge by variable name search and replace, whitespace and blank line insertion, etc. And tests would have to be made to ensure nobody is pulling a fast one by swapping code - It would have to be shown to compile correctly to the executable.
Could it be that Microsoft is now taking a page the Linux kernel development model?
A car that continuously drives itself around the block, and avoids the need for parking. (Or parking tickets) Paying for the extra fuel is probabably cheaper that hourly parking in most major cities, and certainly would be in Japan.
Except I don't need to Karma whore, mine is maxed out already. Have a nice labour day. ;-)
Car That Can Park Itself Put on Sale by Toyota
Mon Sep 1, 7:04 AM ET
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A car that can park itself without the driver having to touch the steering wheel, said by maker Toyota Motor Corp. (news - web sites) to be a world first, went on sale in Japan on Monday.
Reuters Photo
Toyota's new hybrid gasoline-electric Prius sedan uses electrically operated power steering and sensors that help guide the car when reversing into parking spaces.
Toyota President Fujio Cho sat in the driver's seat at a demonstration laid on for the press, surprising reporters by holding his hands up as the car quickly parked itself.
"I forgot to put on the brake," Cho said. "But it's easy."
The new Prius five-seat passenger model is said by Toyota to be more fuel-efficient and cheaper than its predecessors. Rivals General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co will launch their first hybrids later this year.
Toyota said it expects to sell 76,000 new Prius worldwide in 2004, counting on growing demand for environment-friendly cars.
The sales target is more than double the annual figure for the Prius for the past two years of around 28,000 units. Toyota, the world's third-largest auto maker, has sold about 120,000 of the cars since its launch in December 1997.
"Development of eco-friendly cars is a key to our future growth strategy," Cho told reporters.
Toyota aims to sell 36,000 units at home, 35,000-36,000 in the United States and 4,000-5,000 in rest of the world next year, he said.
The new model sells for 2.15 million yen ($18,430) in Japan, against 2.18 million yen previously. The intelligent park assist system is offered as an option, at an additional cost of 230,000 yen which includes a DVD navigation system. Toyota has set itself a goal of producing 300,000 of the eco-friendly hybrid vehicles a year by 2005 or 2006.
You can hear faint laughter from a basement in Iraq, perhaps echoed from some remote cave near the Afghan-Pak border.
I wonder if the Iranians will seek revenge by creating an anonymized Warez site that only accepts IP addresses based in the US. That would certainly annoy the hell out of a lot of US interests.
You could have read it right here.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76491&
Don't know why Taco rejected my original submission...
Looks like they finally got competent legal representation, who informed them their chance of winning this was akin to being hit on the head with a Soviet satellite.
Now the question is whether or not IBM and Red Hat will let them off the hook, or continue with their countersuits.
This hot off the press today, from SCO in Australia. I think these guys have split personalities or something. I just submitted it as a separate story item, and I will be stunned if it is rejected, since this just now hit the presses. Was it all a protracted April Fools joke, or did it just get to hot for them to handle alongside the IBM lawsuit?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/10620
Contents:
The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux companies, had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court.
The company was responding to questions routed through its PR people in Sydney.
As the Canopy Group, which has a stake in SCO, also has interests in several other Linux companies, SCO was asked whether it planned to sue all these companies. The answer was "No. SCO has never planned to sue Linux companies."
In June, SCO senior vice-president Chris Sontag was quoted as saying the company would either will file a new suit or amend its lawsuit against IBM to target other companies which SCO alleges are illegally appropriating its Unix source code.
Today SCO also said it had no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court.
Earlier this year the company issued a letter to commercial Linux users threatening them with legal action.
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Among the companies in which Canopy is involved is Linux Networx, which has supplied a supercomputer to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; asked whether SCO would sue the laboratory, the company spokesperson said: "No. SCO has never made concrete plans to sue anyone."
In a statement made on August 20, SCO chief executive officer Darl McBride said the company was identifying Linux users for possible litigation.
In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, for "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach of contract."
SCO also claimed that Linux was an unauthorised derivative of Unix and warned commercial Linux users that they could be legally liable for violation of intellectual copyright. SCO later expanded its claims against IBM to US$3 billion in June when it said it was withdrawing IBM's licence for its own Unix, AIX.
IANAL, and this is slightly off topic, (mod me down if you must, but it is interesting SCO related material I haven't seen here) but I found this little gem, which could could spike SCO's guns even if they won:
>>For instance, did you know that, because SCO filed its initial Complaint before it registered its copyright, it's therefore limited by statute to recovering merely $150,000 for any infringements? There are several such Aha! moments awaiting an assiduous reader of this analysis.
Anybody know if this is true?
When you purchase a vehicle from a dealership, you are offered a certain selection of options - colour, trim, and maybe engine size.
There are a huge number of possible options that you are not offered. You are not offered the chance to stretch the body by 1 metre, and most dealerships will not sell you a 3000 watt stereo, or exotic underbody lighting. If you want to do such weird and wonderful things with your vehicle, there are plenty of after market auto parts stores that will sell you just about anything.
Same for your OS. The average desktop user has certain needs, power users may want more, and somebody running a firewall on low end hardware may want no gui at all, or at most a mininimalist one.
It could recompile its own kernel?
One thing caught my eye from the first link:
# Don't try to stretch your position. If you have weakness, admit to the weakness, and try to persuade the Judge that you should win anyway.
# If you have a bad argument, leave it out of your brief and your oral argument. Making bad arguments hurts your credibility with the Court.
An exerpt from the Groklaw page:
"In his ruling, Kimball said Jacobsen did not 'express any disapproval' of the series until 1999, after the third volume had been published. 'Had Jacobsen voiced his disapproval in 1996, Hughes would have had the opportunity to take the offending material out of the books,' Kimball wrote. 'For Jacobsen to wait until three volumes of the series had been published before voicing his disapproval, when it is clear he had ample opportunity to let Hughes know of his disapproval as early as 1996, results in extreme prejudice to Hughes.'
Sound like SCO had better hope he steps down or kicks the bucket before their case is heard.
Yields an analog computer. Which is really a digital computer if you count individual electrons...
Now I am confused.
California Recall Election
Anybody who lives there should immediately phone every candidates office, and make sure that this law is rewritten with the consumer in mind. Don't think you don't count, this election can be won or lost on a very small number of votes, giving the large number of candidates running. If enough of you vote as a block, you can have a surprisingly large clout.
Actually, recent studies have suggested that hydrogen wasn't even the main cause of the Hindenburg disaster. The silver anti-reflective coating on the airship was largely made from powdered aluminum, which we now know makes for excellent rocket fuel. (Used in the solid rocket boosters of the shuttle)
I have been hearing this story for the past 20 years, along with the death of magnetic storage media. Light bulbs are so damned cheap that it is very difficult to convince people to replace a $0.20 part with a $20.00 one, or even a $2.00 one, despite their energy inefficiency. Another problem: I purchased a few of the high efficiency screw in florescent bulbs, (despite their costs)and as soon as I installed it my wife commented that they were ugly, so they have all been relegated to the basement.
I will trade you for my Enron and Bre-X shares!
When Darl waved that phone book sized stack of press releases around, it might have seemed a tad heavier if he had realized that every last clipping was a potential weapon for IBM or Red Hat lawyers. Remember, everything you say can and will be used against you, and they are doing an awesome job of blowing their feet off, one toe at a time.
IBM's legal team must be holding their colletive guts in with glee, given SCO's own executives and legal team are feeding them such wonderful ammunition to beat them senseless in court. If they look like crown fools in the press, just imagine how they will look in court.
I rather enjoy reading these SCO stories now. It is analogous to watching Baghdad Bob's press briefings during the war. These buffoons are out there like Pluto. I think they are realizing they mistook a hornets nest for a Pinata, and are looking for a face saving way out of the mess they are in.
RedHat and SuSE and SCO!!!
What they managed to accomplish in every journal where the BSA smeared them. That would be sweet revenge!
This should give more than enough leverage for IBM and others to slap a "cease and desist" injunction against them. Darl wanted things to move along quicker, and on this one point I agree with him. It will also encourage other organizations to step up to bat against SCO.
Is that the Russian space program is bankrupt. They had great difficulty even in maintaining their obligations to the ISS, and their shuttle program was scrapped and turned into a carnival ride. That is not to say that they don't have some great ideas and hardware. Maybe they can partner with India or China or the US and actually take their designs off the drawing board.