For everyone screaming that this isn't feasible, will kill mailing lists, and other wise render effective communication via SMTP impossible you might want to consider that about a quarter of global email volume is already flowing through a system very much like what the OP describes.
Ironport (recently purchased by Cisco for $830 million US) has been doing this kind of service for large providers for several years. Their statistics site is publicly viewable, but using their stats requires a subscription fee. http://www.senderbase.org/ Its interesting to look at how well or poorly the MTA's you use are scored. All of the stats are gathered by the systems they sell to ISP's and enterprise customers. These boxes perform the spam filtering for that organization's customers and provide statistical data back to senderbase.org, which allows all Ironport customers to "know" about problems for all other Ironport customers.
We evaluated their system last year as a possible replacement for a third party spam/virus scanning provider and may end up purchasing their equipment once everything with the Cisco purchase shakes out. Their solution, while not perfect, behaves far better than some of the things that large service providers *coughAOLcough* have tried and are (or were when we tested) comparable to most of the content based scanning systems in terms of spam filtering with a lower rate of false positives.
As an example of why this kind of thing might be cause for concern in an FPS, which is what the entire discussion is about. Perhaps you might want to re-read the OP or perhaps try ginkoba, I hear it does wonders for those with wandering mental focus.;)
The griefer specter regularly gets raised in these kinds of discussions, but my first question to you is more practical. Do you really let a child that's too young to read play FPS games? While there might be some that aren't rated Teen, I doubt the the under teenage market is really what the the developers are after.;)
Sorry, but this is incorrect. SORBS does _not_ make execptions for people who follow the rules, at least not in the 8 tickets that we have had to open with them. They can be contacted via their web site ticketing system, but communication is slow, arrogant, ignorant, and inconsistent. We were able to get delisted once without paying their blackmail, but the next time we were listed they refused to even provide headers so we could locate the offender. Perhaps you were fortunant enough to only have to deal with them once, but they are far from reasonable.
The key point for many people is that time == money and money == time. I get paid to work and that takes a large chunk of my time in exchange. The same is true for most adults in the US. If I didn't work, I would have more time but less money to dedicate to gaming. Since I, and more importantly my wife;) decided that I need to work I have the more money and less time scenario. Just as I pay a cleaning service to come by every 2 weeks and I am seriously considering getting a lawn service this summer, I exchange money to save time when I am not working. Its not about instant gratification, its simply being able to enjoy a game. I'm currently playing GW and a few FPS games so this isn't a huge issue for me, but I certainly understand why someone playing a long grind game might want a short cut or two.
Its interesting how many people decry the evil of buying and selling virtual assets with real currency. Its also equally interesting how the multi-national companies that run the games, who generally claim to oppose the practice, are unable to stop or even slow it. Despite PR campaigns and well publicized, but ineffective, mass bannings nothing has slowed the growth of these services. I personally believe that the gaming companies are quite happy with the current situation, does anyone really believe that WoW would have over a million subs in China if it weren't for gold farmers? I think not. At the same time this underground economy allows for an additional path for in game advancement, one that suits people with more spare money than spare time, a condition common among working professionals who want to continue gaming but don't have the 30+ hours a week that they had in college to devote to gaming. I'm sure the gold farmers are also pretty happy, both the workers and the business owners.
Which would you rather do, build furniture on an assembly line in Shanghai or grind in WoW/CoH/EQ/SWG/$fav_mmo for gold and items? This isn't to say the practice is free of flaws or negative impacts, but I'd say its better for gaming as a whole because it allows far two different vertical markets to be engaged and allows the third (people who enjoy time spent grinding) to stay in the game. If the unofficial pressure valve (short cuts) didn't exist I'd imagine that the content would have to be changed to stay relevant, and that would upset a large number of people who like the repetitive and predictable nature of these games. I've noticed that, in general, companies like to have more customers rather than fewer.:)
I'm not talking "Sabertooth tigers changed into the tigers we have today". That's the same species, with some mods over the years.
Wow, I guess you really didn't pay attention in biology class, Sabertooth tigers weren't tigers at all. You might want to read the article on sabertoothed cats here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat/ Even the animals called sabertoothed cats weren't related to each other, in fact by accident you picked one of the best examples of convergent evolution.
As for new species just look at Darwin's original work. He did quite a good job of documenting the new species on the Galapagos, both their differences from animals on the mainland and from island to island.
The main story has the link to Detritus' content incorrect, this is the correct link All I can say is this is truly an amazing game, I am currently in the Alpha and have been for almost a year. For those of you that have avoided the MMoRPG scene because, this is the one you want to try. The graphics are simply amazing, but more importantly it actually has fun PvP. Arena.net has done their best to elminate the "unfun" parts of most games, the most obvious being the infamous level grind. So far it looks like the process to level from 1 to max (currently 20) only takes a few weeks. While the PvE is fun, the focus is PvP and the game is balanced for team PvP. Also of note the Word Preview Event has started a day early, so those who want to play can jump in now.
Lasers are _not_ a good medium for long range communication, especially a (fairly) low height ocean crossing. You quickly get into problems with fog and rain, not to mention passing ships if you aren't high enough. You can try to brute force the issue, and pump more power at the problem, but that means its more likely to be an eye hazard. The current technology used, called free space optics, is limited to ~1.5 miles. These are normally used to transmit Gigabit speed transmissions over relatively short distances, often between high rise buildings to bridge LAN's. On the plus side you could really juice up the power and use it to ward of the forces of evil! Of course by then you have real problems using the laser to carry data since thermal blooming keeps bending the beam:-)
Its ironic that you mention using barbed wire as a transmission media. Back when Elastic networks was still alive and trying to see us stuff one of their sales people told us you could bring up modems on their Etherloop products over 10 feet of barbed wire and get ~300k of through put. Of course we had to try this ourselves, and we found over new wire we could get ~300k at 20', oxidized and generally old wire didn't work anywhere near as well;p
Forget about cable companies in the rural areas, in most cases its not gonna happen. There are two things you can _try_ first go bug your local telephone company about when they are going to deploy DSL in your area if that answer doesn't suit you, you may have to use a satellite based service. The satellite broadband systems are great for some kinds of users, but certainly not all. Latency from going up to the satellite and back kills many games, I'm not talking about Pogo, but trying playing UT2004 across one and you will know what I mean. However, for browsing, email, and (some) file sharing they work ok. The one thing to be really careful of is bandwidth caps which are getting better in most cases, but have been truly atrocious.
How about MySQL actually accomplishes what I want to do for a reason?
I love people screaming that the tool I am using is wrong, when they have no idea of just what I am doing. We also use Oracle, where needed, but we run MySQL 24/7/365 in an incredibly mission critical spot and are very satisfied with it. We tried other DB's and technologies including:
LDAP (Open and Sun/Netscape's) Oracle Postgres Informix (Ok we still had a license and were bored:)
and none of them offered any better stability and only LDAP matched the performance in reads. Writes MySQL blew LDAP away so thats what we run. since we need good read & write speed.
As for what MySQL does better? Thats easy speed. The team started with that as its goal and kept performance in their sights the entire time. The pushed back other things, like row level locking, sub-selects, and views expressly for the purpose of running quickly. This is obviously not the right approach for some applications, but for most database driven web sites it makes perfect sense. Honestly, how many web sites really need triggers and stored procedures? There is a reason that LAMP has changed small/medium web site development business, and while its not right for all sites its a perfect fit for the vast majority.
You didn't really mean to cite something that uses the Bible as a basis for scientific fact did you?
Moreover, the "Freudian unconscious" is contrary to the Word of God. No Scripture passage supports such an idea. Instead, the Bible is consciously and volitionally oriented.
Have you ever used an office product other than MS office? Did you realize that the.doc.xls (etc) formats haven't changed significantly since 1997? I had all of my work in as MS formats, since that what the business side of our operation still runs. The technical side abandoned MS Office long ago, in part pushed by the switch to Linux for workstations. If I handed my boss a.sxw he would have no idea of what to do with it.
You may need to check your work here. I created (yesterday) and 7 page Word doc that included mutiple tables created in in Calc that behaved flawlessly. There are some problems in document conversion, but I have been using OO for more than 2 years and I have had only 2 issues that I had to find work arounds for, one of them being the font translation issue that messes up some bullet points. Btw I produce an average of 6 docs per week, since a large part of my work is technical writing. Also, its worthy of note that most of the people I send these to have never heard of an Office alternative, that idea hasn't even entered their universe, but I have not had one report of a problem.
While I am not aeronautical engineer, I have a hard time believing that shielding for space is harder than shielding a nuclear reactor. Did you mean that we have a problem making the shielding light enough for flight? Do you have any references that illustrate this? As for human emotions you are absolutely correct in that can be a problem. However, its a problem that we have already overcome, at least to a great extent. Submariners are a good example and more telling are some of the Mir cosmonauts: Click here for details
Are things prefectly safe, of course not, but it wasn't perfectly safe to go to the moon, or to America, or to sail around the world. In fact its still not perfectly safe to do any of those things. We do need to do more work on keeping people in good shape in micro-gravity situations, but we have learned a great deal already. 437 days in orbiting Earth in 1995 by Valery Polyakov is a remarkable achievement, but we have to remember that he had already been up once before for 241 days in 1988 and he isn't even the record holder! Sergey Avdeev spent a total of 747 days in orbit over 3 flights, dealing with all of the problems you point to, except radiation.
While a manned lander to Mars certainly shows the kind of ratio you mention, thats not what I am espousing. A manned Mars orbiter would be a more expensive craft since it has to house fragile human beings, but the robots and rovers could be much less expensive. The benefits of having real _intelligence_ in the neighborhood that can act, plan, and react is priceless. The rovers don't have to have electronics and radios that can reach Earth for command and control, they just have to reach the orbiter. Instead of deploying one, highly sophisticated rover, we can deploy several specialized systems. Imagine being able to drop a simple probe whose only mission is to impact the ground, analyze what it impacts, and then relay that information to a near Mars orbit. We could scatter a large number of sensors like this to identify areas for closer study and eliminate thos that look intriguing from a far, but upon closer inspection aren't as interesting.
While this is a serious setback it illustrates an important point that many seem to have missed. Its damed _hard_ to operate a complicated piece of equipment you can't deal with in real time or even near real time. The rover is some of the best science we have deployed to another planet and I am sure many will point to this and say that is an indication that we should send more rovers and robots to Mars before we even consider sending people. I disagree with this point, since in many cases a human could avoid problems or work around them in ways that a robot currently cannnot. I don't believe that human life is cheap at all and every effort should be made to keep explorers safe, but believing that there will no cost in human life in our quest to explore the stars is just naive. I would rather our next step to be deploying a manned orbiter around Mars, with the intention of being able to drop far less sophisticated robots and rovers who are controlled by humans orbiting above. This gives a great deal more flexibility and makes incidents on the Red Planet much less likely to cause a mission to be a complete multi-million dollar/euro failure.
Its obvious that there are lots of folks here who have never had to lead a team of people to do anything, much less work. Not that I am holding up McD's as a paragon of virtue (they aren't) but this is about as sinister as when a former neigbor of mine let me know that the US Post Office changes the stamps in circulation as part of a world wide code to communicate with the angels living here on earth.:-)
In any environment where you have high turn over finding a way to track workers is critical, especially in low margin businesses like fast food. Business implements changes out of (hopefully intelligent) self interest, not part some conspiracy to "control" workers. Now, do there need to be safeguards in place to make sure corporations don't share biometrics as well as other personal data, absolutely. However, American corporations are so afraid of being sued most only confirm employement dates of former employees, rather than telling the truth, even when the former employee deserves a negative review. So I find it hard to imagine the circumstance where some minimum wage worker's handprint is so valuable that a corporation is willing to part with the data, and take the risk of a high profile lawsuit. The only real exception to this is of course, the government. There is a potential for abuse there, and if I were a potential employee I would like to know what the employer's policy on information requests from law enforcement looks like, ie do they require a subpoena etc. Also how long will the company keep the information would be something I would ask.
What I would love to see happen next is all of the developers that have released their code under GPL and SCO continues to distribute, send them cease and desist letters. If they aren't going to follow the license then they have no right to continue to distribute the code, but it is up to the authors/maintainers of that code to speak up.
Umm, what did you think it would be under, magic mouse movements? In any case did you try to RTM (F left out intentionally)? I mean at least the section titled Basic Skills, its a whopping 10 pages of about 8 lines of text on each page. I agree that the documentation needs to get better, but RedHat has done better than any other company IMHO at getting docs right. I was disappointed that this wasn't in their Getting Started Guide.
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For everyone screaming that this isn't feasible, will kill mailing lists, and other wise render effective communication via SMTP impossible you might want to consider that about a quarter of global email volume is already flowing through a system very much like what the OP describes.
s ed_control.pdf
Ironport (recently purchased by Cisco for $830 million US) has been doing this kind of service for large providers for several years.
Their statistics site is publicly viewable, but using their stats requires a subscription fee.
http://www.senderbase.org/
Its interesting to look at how well or poorly the MTA's you use are scored. All of the stats are gathered by the systems they sell to ISP's and enterprise customers. These boxes perform the spam filtering for that organization's customers and provide statistical data back to senderbase.org, which allows all Ironport customers to "know" about problems for all other Ironport customers.
The link to their PDF on their metric's is here:
http://ironport.com/pdf/ironport_wp_reputation_ba
We evaluated their system last year as a possible replacement for a third party spam/virus scanning provider and may end up purchasing their equipment once everything with the Cisco purchase shakes out. Their solution, while not perfect, behaves far better than some of the things that large service providers *coughAOLcough* have tried and are (or were when we tested) comparable to most of the content based scanning systems in terms of spam filtering with a lower rate of false positives.
As an example of why this kind of thing might be cause for concern in an FPS, which is what the entire discussion is about. Perhaps you might want to re-read the OP or perhaps try ginkoba, I hear it does wonders for those with wandering mental focus. ;)
The griefer specter regularly gets raised in these kinds of discussions, but my first question to you is more practical. Do you really let a child that's too young to read play FPS games? While there might be some that aren't rated Teen, I doubt the the under teenage market is really what the the developers are after. ;)
Sorry, but this is incorrect. SORBS does _not_ make execptions for people who follow the rules, at least not in the 8 tickets that we have had to open with them. They can be contacted via their web site ticketing system, but communication is slow, arrogant, ignorant, and inconsistent. We were able to get delisted once without paying their blackmail, but the next time we were listed they refused to even provide headers so we could locate the offender. Perhaps you were fortunant enough to only have to deal with them once, but they are far from reasonable.
The key point for many people is that time == money and money == time. I get paid to work and that takes a large chunk of my time in exchange. The same is true for most adults in the US. If I didn't work, I would have more time but less money to dedicate to gaming. Since I, and more importantly my wife ;) decided that I need to work I have the more money and less time scenario. Just as I pay a cleaning service to come by every 2 weeks and I am seriously considering getting a lawn service this summer, I exchange money to save time when I am not working. Its not about instant gratification, its simply being able to enjoy a game. I'm currently playing GW and a few FPS games so this isn't a huge issue for me, but I certainly understand why someone playing a long grind game might want a short cut or two.
Its interesting how many people decry the evil of buying and selling virtual assets with real currency. Its also equally interesting how the multi-national companies that run the games, who generally claim to oppose the practice, are unable to stop or even slow it. Despite PR campaigns and well publicized, but ineffective, mass bannings nothing has slowed the growth of these services. I personally believe that the gaming companies are quite happy with the current situation, does anyone really believe that WoW would have over a million subs in China if it weren't for gold farmers? I think not. At the same time this underground economy allows for an additional path for in game advancement, one that suits people with more spare money than spare time, a condition common among working professionals who want to continue gaming but don't have the 30+ hours a week that they had in college to devote to gaming. I'm sure the gold farmers are also pretty happy, both the workers and the business owners.
:)
Which would you rather do, build furniture on an assembly line in Shanghai or grind in WoW/CoH/EQ/SWG/$fav_mmo for gold and items? This isn't to say the practice is free of flaws or negative impacts, but I'd say its better for gaming as a whole because it allows far two different vertical markets to be engaged and allows the third (people who enjoy time spent grinding) to stay in the game. If the unofficial pressure valve (short cuts) didn't exist I'd imagine that the content would have to be changed to stay relevant, and that would upset a large number of people who like the repetitive and predictable nature of these games. I've noticed that, in general, companies like to have more customers rather than fewer.
I'm not talking "Sabertooth tigers changed into the tigers we have today". That's the same species, with some mods over the years.
Wow, I guess you really didn't pay attention in biology class, Sabertooth tigers weren't tigers at all. You might want to read the article on sabertoothed cats here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat/ Even the animals called sabertoothed cats weren't related to each other, in fact by accident you picked one of the best examples of convergent evolution.
As for new species just look at Darwin's original work. He did quite a good job of documenting the new species on the Galapagos, both their differences from animals on the mainland and from island to island.
For a pretty in depth comparison look HERE as a bonus the thread was started by HillaryClinton :)
Bah, anyone who says EQ wins anything needs to be tarred and feathered.
The main story has the link to Detritus' content incorrect, this is the correct link
All I can say is this is truly an amazing game, I am currently in the Alpha and have been for almost a year. For those of you that have avoided the MMoRPG scene because, this is the one you want to try. The graphics are simply amazing, but more importantly it actually has fun PvP. Arena.net has done their best to elminate the "unfun" parts of most games, the most obvious being the infamous level grind. So far it looks like the process to level from 1 to max (currently 20) only takes a few weeks. While the PvE is fun, the focus is PvP and the game is balanced for team PvP. Also of note the Word Preview Event has started a day early, so those who want to play can jump in now.
Ughh so this is the reason I can't get a phone thats _just_ a damn phone?
Lasers are _not_ a good medium for long range communication, especially a (fairly) low height ocean crossing. You quickly get into problems with fog and rain, not to mention passing ships if you aren't high enough. You can try to brute force the issue, and pump more power at the problem, but that means its more likely to be an eye hazard. The current technology used, called free space optics, is limited to ~1.5 miles. These are normally used to transmit Gigabit speed transmissions over relatively short distances, often between high rise buildings to bridge LAN's. On the plus side you could really juice up the power and use it to ward of the forces of evil! Of course by then you have real problems using the laser to carry data since thermal blooming keeps bending the beam :-)
Its ironic that you mention using barbed wire as a transmission media. Back when Elastic networks was still alive and trying to see us stuff one of their sales people told us you could bring up modems on their Etherloop products over 10 feet of barbed wire and get ~300k of through put. Of course we had to try this ourselves, and we found over new wire we could get ~300k at 20', oxidized and generally old wire didn't work anywhere near as well ;p
Forget about cable companies in the rural areas, in most cases its not gonna happen. There are two things you can _try_ first go bug your local telephone company about when they are going to deploy DSL in your area if that answer doesn't suit you, you may have to use a satellite based service. The satellite broadband systems are great for some kinds of users, but certainly not all. Latency from going up to the satellite and back kills many games, I'm not talking about Pogo, but trying playing UT2004 across one and you will know what I mean. However, for browsing, email, and (some) file sharing they work ok. The one thing to be really careful of is bandwidth caps which are getting better in most cases, but have been truly atrocious.
Here are the details on DirectTV's DirectWay
How about MySQL actually accomplishes what I want to do for a reason?
:)
I love people screaming that the tool I am using is wrong, when they have no idea of just what I am doing. We also use Oracle, where needed, but we run MySQL 24/7/365 in an incredibly mission critical spot and are very satisfied with it. We tried other DB's and technologies including:
LDAP (Open and Sun/Netscape's)
Oracle
Postgres
Informix (Ok we still had a license and were bored
and none of them offered any better stability and only LDAP matched the performance in reads. Writes MySQL blew LDAP away so thats what we run. since we need good read & write speed.
As for what MySQL does better? Thats easy speed. The team started with that as its goal and kept performance in their sights the entire time. The pushed back other things, like row level locking, sub-selects, and views expressly for the purpose of running quickly. This is obviously not the right approach for some applications, but for most database driven web sites it makes perfect sense. Honestly, how many web sites really need triggers and stored procedures? There is a reason that LAMP has changed small/medium web site development business, and while its not right for all sites its a perfect fit for the vast majority.
You didn't really mean to cite something that uses the Bible as a basis for scientific fact did you?
Moreover, the "Freudian unconscious" is contrary to the Word of God. No Scripture passage supports such an idea. Instead, the Bible is consciously and volitionally oriented.
This sounds pretty flat earthy to me....
err what?
.doc .xls (etc) formats haven't changed significantly since 1997? I had all of my work in as MS formats, since that what the business side of our operation still runs. The technical side abandoned MS Office long ago, in part pushed by the switch to Linux for workstations. If I handed my boss a .sxw he would have no idea of what to do with it.
Have you ever used an office product other than MS office? Did you realize that the
You may need to check your work here. I created (yesterday) and 7 page Word doc that included mutiple tables created in in Calc that behaved flawlessly. There are some problems in document conversion, but I have been using OO for more than 2 years and I have had only 2 issues that I had to find work arounds for, one of them being the font translation issue that messes up some bullet points. Btw I produce an average of 6 docs per week, since a large part of my work is technical writing. Also, its worthy of note that most of the people I send these to have never heard of an Office alternative, that idea hasn't even entered their universe, but I have not had one report of a problem.
While I am not aeronautical engineer, I have a hard time believing that shielding for space is harder than shielding a nuclear reactor. Did you mean that we have a problem making the shielding light enough for flight? Do you have any references that illustrate this? As for human emotions you are absolutely correct in that can be a problem. However, its a problem that we have already overcome, at least to a great extent. Submariners are a good example and more telling are some of the Mir cosmonauts:
Click here for details
Are things prefectly safe, of course not, but it wasn't perfectly safe to go to the moon, or to America, or to sail around the world. In fact its still not perfectly safe to do any of those things. We do need to do more work on keeping people in good shape in micro-gravity situations, but we have learned a great deal already. 437 days in orbiting Earth in 1995 by Valery Polyakov is a remarkable achievement, but we have to remember that he had already been up once before for 241 days in 1988 and he isn't even the record holder! Sergey Avdeev spent a total of 747 days in orbit over 3 flights, dealing with all of the problems you point to, except radiation.
While a manned lander to Mars certainly shows the kind of ratio you mention, thats not what I am espousing. A manned Mars orbiter would be a more expensive craft since it has to house fragile human beings, but the robots and rovers could be much less expensive. The benefits of having real _intelligence_ in the neighborhood that can act, plan, and react is priceless. The rovers don't have to have electronics and radios that can reach Earth for command and control, they just have to reach the orbiter. Instead of deploying one, highly sophisticated rover, we can deploy several specialized systems. Imagine being able to drop a simple probe whose only mission is to impact the ground, analyze what it impacts, and then relay that information to a near Mars orbit. We could scatter a large number of sensors like this to identify areas for closer study and eliminate thos that look intriguing from a far, but upon closer inspection aren't as interesting.
While this is a serious setback it illustrates an important point that many seem to have missed. Its damed _hard_ to operate a complicated piece of equipment you can't deal with in real time or even near real time. The rover is some of the best science we have deployed to another planet and I am sure many will point to this and say that is an indication that we should send more rovers and robots to Mars before we even consider sending people. I disagree with this point, since in many cases a human could avoid problems or work around them in ways that a robot currently cannnot. I don't believe that human life is cheap at all and every effort should be made to keep explorers safe, but believing that there will no cost in human life in our quest to explore the stars is just naive. I would rather our next step to be deploying a manned orbiter around Mars, with the intention of being able to drop far less sophisticated robots and rovers who are controlled by humans orbiting above. This gives a great deal more flexibility and makes incidents on the Red Planet much less likely to cause a mission to be a complete multi-million dollar/euro failure.
Since when is this a criminal case? No one is being prosecuted here, there is no 5th Amendment right for corporations.
Its obvious that there are lots of folks here who have never had to lead a team of people to do anything, much less work. Not that I am holding up McD's as a paragon of virtue (they aren't) but this is about as sinister as when a former neigbor of mine let me know that the US Post Office changes the stamps in circulation as part of a world wide code to communicate with the angels living here on earth. :-)
In any environment where you have high turn over finding a way to track workers is critical, especially in low margin businesses like fast food. Business implements changes out of (hopefully intelligent) self interest, not part some conspiracy to "control" workers. Now, do there need to be safeguards in place to make sure corporations don't share biometrics as well as other personal data, absolutely. However, American corporations are so afraid of being sued most only confirm employement dates of former employees, rather than telling the truth, even when the former employee deserves a negative review. So I find it hard to imagine the circumstance where some minimum wage worker's handprint is so valuable that a corporation is willing to part with the data, and take the risk of a high profile lawsuit. The only real exception to this is of course, the government. There is a potential for abuse there, and if I were a potential employee I would like to know what the employer's policy on information requests from law enforcement looks like, ie do they require a subpoena etc. Also how long will the company keep the information would be something I would ask.
What I would love to see happen next is all of the developers that have released their code under GPL and SCO continues to distribute, send them cease and desist letters. If they aren't going to follow the license then they have no right to continue to distribute the code, but it is up to the authors/maintainers of that code to speak up.
Umm, what did you think it would be under, magic mouse movements? In any case did you try to RTM (F left out intentionally)? I mean at least the section titled Basic Skills, its a whopping 10 pages of about 8 lines of text on each page. I agree that the documentation needs to get better, but RedHat has done better than any other company IMHO at getting docs right. I was disappointed that this wasn't in their Getting Started Guide.