User: linuxislandsucks

How R Reagan handles telemarketer calls

On: Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List

Reagan: hello..huh?

telemarketer: is the Man of house home?

Ragan: what man ? huh?

telemarketer: the man of the house sir..

Reagan: what house..wha?

telemarketer several hours later: the man in the moon house flew over th spoon and the cat cried all the way moe..

bidding on terrorism?

On: Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism?

bidding on terrorism..wait I thought the stock market was for that?

a question about SCO

On: IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution

Sounds to me like SCO Group top managment disagreed with past actions of Caldera employees concerning the code they contributed to FS (Journaling File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory Access) software

So McBride hatches this FUD plan to sue IBM for copyright infringement despite the fact that the actual code is from their own employees!

Hoping for buyout from IBM..unfortunately IBM has clear records of Caldera employee contributions and thus knows its own contributions to same subsystems and thus know its in the clear and ha snot violated copyrights..

So my question is..

When SCO goes bankrupt aroudn Christmas wil the top execs be charged with fraud for pumping up stock on false information and if so whne can we see MCbride behind bars?

Costs of Spam

On: What Is The Real Cost of Spam?

Costs of Spam..

6 years to life for every M*ther F**Ker you kill :)

MS Bob meet Mrs Bob

On: Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes

what about Mrs Bob?

oh wait she went on to make min-Bobs with Bill Gates..

Bruce-my Software Dev Process Questions

On: Ask Bruce Perens About Linux and Open Source

My question is more aobut the OpenSource dev process....

Recently there has been further baby steps by Sun moving the Java API-JSR process towards theOpenSource appraoch..some say by dragging sun by the hair every step of the way..

What can a Language standardization and improvement process learn from OpenSource and Linux in the software dev process?

Spoiller ahead

On: Interoperable Remote Controls

Yes but becasue of the FCC googup over specturms allocated for DTV(ie iTV) we wil not see thi until 2010..2005 is suppose to be the year that sale channels finally show up fro devlopers of apps for itv so that one can mak emoney devloping itv apps..

A coment or single line fo code is the same?

On: Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea

A comment or single line of code exactly the same prove snothing in big realm of things..it doesn't even prove copyright infringment!

THat is right copyright infringment refers to the development process to procude that code and comments on the underlying coments and code itself!

So the heart of the SCO matter is the IBm dev process did it infringe or not..given the large contributions from SCO itslef in all areas it claims IBM infringed on..it seem smost unlikely that IBM infringed..

More likely that SCO Managment decided they did not like past directions of codd devleopers from Caldera and decided to sue someone to produce some more FUD..

Napster did not violate copyrights

On: German Constitutional Court Blocks Napster Suit

Napster in no way is leaglly liable for its users..

That is about like saying civilians should be shot for US astrocitires in Iraq by Us soliders..

remember folks

On: Gates: Microsoft IP Finds Its Way Into Free Software

Ms has actually been convicted of the charge that BIll Gates details..

several years ago they were convicted of infringing on copyrighted code and had to pay some damages..

copyrights!=IP rights of patents..it seems Bill Gates has problems with these details..

For patent rights to be on the same level of copyrighted code..ie the code gets you in trouble..the code has to be included in the patent application..

Only one set of patents I know of is set up this way..AOP patents from Xerox-PARC

if the code implements features different or differently from the patent feature there is no repeat no infringement!

SAMBA is immune from these attacks of FUD as MS would have already been in court if it was otherwise!

Outsourcing why? Healthcare and Real estate

On: Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute?

Outsourcing why?

The major costs driving outsourcing are Healcare/Retirement and Real estate prices..

However, I suggest a simple solution ..

Pay Salary+401k employee buys their own health insurance..and of course telecommunting to handle real estate prices..

gee India is nice

On: Growth Job Sector: Freelance Technical Support

gee how might one do this and compete with Indian tech support?

This article ignores the trends in IT currently so how might they infrom the it public then if they did not check their assumptions?

and what..

On: SBC Hit with Antitrust Lawsuit

You are surprised?

SBC= Stealing By Congress mandate..

Thank you congressmen today fro such a fine FCC set of rulings..

error-Fair use

On: Cringely Proposes a Music Sharing Alternative

People you forget Fair Use only applies if you do not in any way make money off of the copy..

So Cringely is quite wrong in this concept..

Now a non profit org that gives a used music cd for someone to use in exchange for another music cd fromtha tperson..would probably be very legal..:)

of course lets put..

On: RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents

Of course let sput the pople who give an allowance to teenagers to buy our music..from the RIAA is stupdi dept

So what happens when all the music buyers are in jail to RIAA profits?

give u a hint..your in the jungle baby and you're goin' to dieeee....

In Real Russia

On: Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back

In Real Russia Spammers do not get call backs.. ..we take you out back in the woods and have you shot!

dupe story

On: House Overturns FCC Media Consolidation Plan

Okay if we are posting dupe stories..

Arnold S filed for runing as governor in CA....

SCO is still using Linux!

On: Skeptical Reactions To SCO From Around The Globe

do a netcraft query on www.caldera.com

SCO Group is still using Linux while claiming that Linux infringed on theri copyright..

Its time to indict McBride and SCO Group for Fraud, racketering, and etc via the RICO statutes!

Corrections

On: Programming Wireless Devices With Java 2

its CDCL1.1 and MIDP2.0

there is no CDCL2.0 with MIDP1.1... ..info from a real J2mE game developer..

Read the fine Print

On: Microsoft Improves Its Licensing Terms

Read the fine print folsk its more FUD..

they only pay costs that mount to full price of the software you bought..in other words you are stil screwed..

Terminator is trying to

On: Saving the Net

Terminator is trying to ..excuse me RIAA/MPAA is trying to get Arnold to run for President under their banner..

Not a joke people..

Its time for Revolution...

How stupid is RIAA

On: MIT, Boston College Refuse DMCA Subpoenas

not only doign the supeona in the worng court jurisdiction but the following:

Most students in all major US colleges have what is call a online storage locker to store files and applicaitns they use every day..any student can load their sharing app onto a computer in a lab and run it in background..IP trace shows ip of lab but does not identify students as they do not login to use the computer lab..

only the stupid ones using it from dorm rooms are going to get caught..

info provided by former Boliermaker-Purdue University..

reduce costs?

On: IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas

so its okay to outsource jobs to reduce costs but not okay to lower salaries of the top management to reduce costs?

please

On: MPAA to Launch Anti-Piracy Commercials

please feed a starving pirate today..

send food to India, China, Asia, and anywhere else but US..

what about sco trangressions against Linux?

On: SCO Extorting Unixware Licenses to Linux Users?

What about a license to indemnify me from trangressions of SCO against Linux..oh wait IBM gives those out for free!

Thanks IBM!