There was a great story that took place years ago (during the 1970's aerospace crash) where a guy with a Phd consistantly got turned down for every job he applied for because he was "over qualified." So he modified his resume, while still telling the truth;-)
He put under education - High School. He put under Hobbies - BS,MS,PHd.
His first interview with the modified resume - the guy doing the hiring states "We approve of hobbies;-)" He got that job.
IANAL - but from all the reading I've done, this is just more of the same bluff and bluster that SCO is now so infamous for.
Let's suppose that SCO indeed has the now just "65" copyrighted files in the kernel for an ABI (betting it's the Intel ABI). The reason they have to attack the GPL is because all their other claims are tripped up by it. Don't forget that Caldera/SCO shipped these same files under GPL from their web-site for quite a long time. In my mind - they have willing released those files under GPL by that action, consequently, they have no claim UNLESS they can get the GPL invalidated some how.
I'll further wager that those files got their as part of SCO's original business pursuits and were put their by SCO, and not IBM or others. I have no proof of that - just pure speculation on my part.
First - I didn't even MENTION what I think of the war in this post, merely that there are some amazying people who are willing to give their lives to protect my freedom - Consequently this rebuttal is out of place and bull shit.
Well - I'm sure you are going to see a pretty good spread on what a family of a soldier killed in action will have to say.
The simple fact is that they DID die in the service of their country - and that is the more important detail to remember. WHATEVER you think about the war - honor the men and women who ARE willing to put their lives on the line to protect your and my posteriors and allow us to have this discussion!
And you forget to how the French bypassed the sanctions and had special deals with Saddam and how Saddam pocketed a bunch of the money from the UN food program while the French turned a blind eye!
Look - the facts are pretty simple. The UN sanctions were suppose to let food and medicine get to the people of Iraq - but instead that money lined Saddam's pocket instead of doing what it was designed to do - and the Russians and French helped! If you want to find someone to blame for the misery of the Iraqi people you'll find his picture on CNN/Foxnews/MSNBC as the guy we captured today!
I care also - and think that today is GLORIOUS. It illustrates a few simple points. When this President says he is going to do something - it seems to happen. There is no equivocation, no needed parsing of what he said. He has the follow-through that all of more recent leaders have lacked.
Also as the poster said - the US President is responsible for the well-being of US citizens FIRST. That is what Mr. Bush cares about.
He challenged the UN to put up or shut up - well -they did neither. He simply did what he said he was going to do (again..)
Lastly - from my reading it seems the average Iraqi is neither a sheep or a fool. There are obviously those who are most influenced by their religious leaders, but don't forget - under So-Damned - it was a secular country. Most Iraqis like what modern life brings (as oppossed to the 12th century style of life available most recently in Afghanistan.. whoops there goes W keeping his word again?) I also think that those who were still afraid that some how So-Damned might come back are finally free of their fear. The few pictures I saw on the media today had alot of dancing in the streets. This is even a bigger day for the average Iraqi.
Summary: US 1 - Bad Guys 1 - but the game aint over yet.
Bruce, you got this sorta right - you are going to see ionospheric bending at the height of the sunspot cycle, but you'll also see tropo-ducting, E layer skip, and meteor-bounce to name the modes I can think of off the top of my head.
In my mind this is absolutely the wrong kind of characteristics you want for this kind of application. You're going to get regional interference all the time from all these different types of propagation.
I do agree with you that microwaves, or at least high VHF/low UHF would be a better choice for this kind of service.
In a surprise move - SCO Corporation (SCOX) has announced that it has found that the internet is actually a derived work of Unix System V, and consequently they are moving to sue WIPO, ICANN, the US government and all internet users for copyright infringement. To avoid any penalties, a license is being offered in advance of litigation that can be purchased by the internet user for $770. See www.sco.com for details.
Nominally, when you are talking aboutthe word size of a machine, you are talking about it's internal data path and register size NOT it's path size to memory.
So 8 bit machines DO nomimally have a 64 bit address space limit. yet that doesn't insure they have that space.
Example, the 8086 is proof that the internal size doesn't directly tie the address space to the word size of the machine. The 8086 can only address 1Mbyte of memory.
The problem with all this is that scientists are NOT united in accepting that man is responsible for the temperature going up. Small things like volanic emissions and the variability of the sun have MAJOR affect on our environment.
So the author of the code thinks that Apple is violating CA law. Did the author use ANY resources from Apple in developing the product? For instance - did Apple give him his home machine as part of his employment benefit? Where did the compiler come from? Did he have access or use internal Apple tools in developing the product?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes - he would be liable to their claims. That's why you REALLY gotta go the extra mile in separating yourself from your employer. If you work for Apple - develop software for Windows as an example.
I don't know if the guy is being screwed or if Apple is within their rights. I think Apple is being heavy handed - but I don't know all the facts either.
This is just so much noise brought to you by the same guy who brought you "Linux for hams."
Then he started Debian - but dropped out. It was brought to fruition by others years later.
So Bruce, why should we follow you on this effort? Why should we believe your going to follow through with this effort considering your lousy track record?
I too have received the obligatory 1 dollar for a patent I helped develop. Consider that under law you did the work for them when you created the invention. Doesn't it make some sense that the invention is rightly owned by the corporation?
Further, did you pay the 10K to 20K dollars to file the patent? Yeah - the patent itself doesn't cost that much (more like $2k I think) but the lawyers that wrote it did.
So - what did you have on the line versus the company. You received your normal compensation and the company through in say another $10K on top of your compensation to receive the patent. Seems to me they have a moral right to it too!
Now - if you did something on your own dime, and the company tried claiming that as well - this is another discussion all together. That doesn't seem to be the case in the initial query though. I happen to live in CA - with all it's OTHER faults (and there are so so many) CA does have a law on the books since around 1980 that if I develop the idea on my own time with my own resources, then NDA or not, I own it.
I have some problems with this way you have reported this story (and maybe I'm taking it personally cause I do hardware.).
You say the protocol has exceptions instead of always being the same. Do you KNOW that the exceptions were put there to get around a bug? How do you KNOW that a fix for the bug existed - maybe that fix was the addition of the protocol exceptions because for technical reasons there wsa no other solution available to the engineer. Do you KNOW that the hardware engineer saw the bug - or even defined it as a bug?
Let me give you an example of how the hardware guy might have been constrained. He might not have had enough time to fix the problem otherwise. He might have simply been out of room in the FPGA to implement the fix in another manner. A decision might have been made by management to fix the problem a certain way when presented with choices.
All of these are realities in the world of hardware.
My whole point is that there is almost more than one side to such a story!
As often as not - schedules & resource limit the types of fixes that can occur in a program as it nears production. They DO get more expensive to fix at this point because it often means that the steps that occur between design and production have to be repeated (like layout of the chip in hardware). As soon as you near product release the decision to fix a bug becomes more a matter of "is it a show stopper or not?" Can we "program" around the bug instead of fixing the hardware.
I think the original problem in this post should have clarified the space the question was being asked about. Maybe software production costs are lower than hardware (heck I know they are.) To make a mask set for a 0.13 chipset costs perhaps a million dollars. You ARE going to think twice before you decide to make a hardware fix at that kind of cost.
I think this might be just the case to take to the congress and point too as something that "chills free speech" Those are 1st Amendment fighting words that MAYBE they'll pay attention too!
"Use of Kazaa to transmit certain material *may* be a crime."
Look - if a person is using Kazaa to transmit to others who haven't paid for it - that IS a crime. Whether you like the fact that it is illegal or not is irrelevant - it's still a crime.
Others have argued that the school needs to prove that you're committing a crime.
THAT is nonsense.
The school has the right to control how their network is used. PERIOD! Resnets are NOT the same thing as the DSL connection I have to my house. There is a completely different set of requirements and legalities that apply.
If I use Kazaa to commit a crime from my DSL line then the carrier isn't liable - I am. The student can't say the same thing - the Resnet provider is likely going to be held equally liable.
Let's draw some lines here. I hate the DMCA just as much as the next slashdotoid. However, I also tend to act responsibly and within the law. I think it should be legal for me to copy music onto another format for my own use. The same is true for movies or any other "entertainment." That doesn't mean it is right for me to give that material to others who haven't paid for it.
Another way of looking at it - The P2P world and their tendancy to share music, etc. is why I have my rights being infringed by RIAA and MPAA! What you say? (Yeah I know Valenti thinks he won the betamax case...excluding that detail;-) They would have the strength of claiming rampant theft as the excuse for abortions like the DMCA!
So - if the resnet decides to crack down and they use a broad brush to fix the problem - the bad apples are the ones that caused the problem!
So the university has taken a pro-active to insure that they're hardware isn't used in the commission of a crime - and people don't like it.
Now I KNOW that not all P2P users are copying music - but MOST are.
Further, you probably sign a usage agreemnt when you connect up to the school's network saying that you won't due anything illegal. All the university is doing is holding you to that agreement.
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There was a great story that took place years ago (during the 1970's aerospace crash) where a guy with a Phd consistantly got turned down for every job he applied for because he was "over qualified." So he modified his resume, while still telling the truth ;-)
;-)" He got that job.
He put under education - High School.
He put under Hobbies - BS,MS,PHd.
His first interview with the modified resume - the guy doing the hiring states "We approve of hobbies
Some times it's how you put the resume together!
That is the DUMBEST response in this whole chain.
Saddam came to power in 1979 by his own means without the assistance of the US. He had been the "heavy hand" behind the previous dictator.
IANAL - but from all the reading I've done, this is just more of the same bluff and bluster that SCO is now so infamous for.
Let's suppose that SCO indeed has the now just "65" copyrighted files in the kernel for an ABI (betting it's the Intel ABI). The reason they have to attack the GPL is because all their other claims are tripped up by it. Don't forget that Caldera/SCO shipped these same files under GPL from their web-site for quite a long time. In my mind - they have willing released those files under GPL by that action, consequently, they have no claim UNLESS they can get the GPL invalidated some how.
I'll further wager that those files got their as part of SCO's original business pursuits and were put their by SCO, and not IBM or others. I have no proof of that - just pure speculation on my part.
First - I didn't even MENTION what I think of the war in this post, merely that there are some amazying people who are willing to give their lives to protect my freedom - Consequently this rebuttal is out of place and bull shit.
Well - I'm sure you are going to see a pretty good spread on what a family of a soldier killed in action will have to say.
The simple fact is that they DID die in the service of their country - and that is the more important detail to remember. WHATEVER you think about the war - honor the men and women who ARE willing to put their lives on the line to protect your and my posteriors and allow us to have this discussion!
Yeah - right -
And you forget to how the French bypassed the sanctions and had special deals with Saddam and how Saddam pocketed a bunch of the money from the UN food program while the French turned a blind eye!
Look - the facts are pretty simple. The UN sanctions were suppose to let food and medicine get to the people of Iraq - but instead that money lined Saddam's pocket instead of doing what it was designed to do - and the Russians and French helped! If you want to find someone to blame for the misery of the Iraqi people you'll find his picture on CNN/Foxnews/MSNBC as the guy we captured today!
I care also - and think that today is GLORIOUS. It illustrates a few simple points. When this President says he is going to do something - it seems to happen. There is no equivocation, no needed parsing of what he said. He has the follow-through that all of more recent leaders have lacked.
Also as the poster said - the US President is responsible for the well-being of US citizens FIRST. That is what Mr. Bush cares about.
He challenged the UN to put up or shut up - well -they did neither. He simply did what he said he was going to do (again..)
Lastly - from my reading it seems the average Iraqi is neither a sheep or a fool. There are obviously those who are most influenced by their religious leaders, but don't forget - under So-Damned - it was a secular country. Most Iraqis like what modern life brings (as oppossed to the 12th century style of life available most recently in Afghanistan.. whoops there goes W keeping his word again?) I also think that those who were still afraid that some how So-Damned might come back are finally free of their fear. The few pictures I saw on the media today had alot of dancing in the streets. This is even a bigger day for the average Iraqi.
Summary: US 1 - Bad Guys 1 - but the game aint over yet.
Bruce, you got this sorta right - you are going to see ionospheric bending at the height of the sunspot cycle, but you'll also see tropo-ducting, E layer skip, and meteor-bounce to name the modes I can think of off the top of my head.
In my mind this is absolutely the wrong kind of characteristics you want for this kind of application. You're going to get regional interference all the time from all these different types of propagation.
I do agree with you that microwaves, or at least high VHF/low UHF would be a better choice for this kind of service.
In a surprise move - SCO Corporation (SCOX) has announced that it has found that the internet is actually a derived work of Unix System V, and consequently they are moving to sue WIPO, ICANN, the US government and all internet users for copyright infringement. To avoid any penalties, a license is being offered in advance of litigation that can be purchased by the internet user for $770. See www.sco.com for details.
I think that gates got it right.
Nominally, when you are talking aboutthe word size of a machine, you are talking about it's internal data path and register size NOT it's path size to memory.
So 8 bit machines DO nomimally have a 64 bit address space limit. yet that doesn't insure they have that space.
Example, the 8086 is proof that the internal size doesn't directly tie the address space to the word size of the machine. The 8086 can only address 1Mbyte of memory.
But it can severely harm economies.. Even Russia announced it wouldn't sign up to the Koyoto protocols this week for that very reason.
Before we know what we're doing - know why we're taking the action.
The problem with all this is that scientists are NOT united in accepting that man is responsible for the temperature going up. Small things like volanic emissions and the variability of the sun have MAJOR affect on our environment.
Things just aren't THAT simple!
Just a slight nit in the above - Power lines ARE twisted - but once every 4 or 5 poles.
I'm a ham also - and BPL is an on-coming disaster that we don't need.
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So the author of the code thinks that Apple is violating CA law. Did the author use ANY resources from Apple in developing the product? For instance - did Apple give him his home machine as part of his employment benefit? Where did the compiler come from? Did he have access or use internal Apple tools in developing the product?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes - he would be liable to their claims. That's why you REALLY gotta go the extra mile in separating yourself from your employer. If you work for Apple - develop software for Windows as an example.
I don't know if the guy is being screwed or if Apple is within their rights. I think Apple is being heavy handed - but I don't know all the facts either.
This is just so much noise brought to you by the same guy who brought you "Linux for hams."
Then he started Debian - but dropped out. It was brought to fruition by others years later.
So Bruce, why should we follow you on this effort? Why should we believe your going to follow through with this effort considering your lousy track record?
Don't you imagine that apt-get, etc. constitutes prior art?????
I certainly did this with Suse in the early days.
I too have received the obligatory 1 dollar for a patent I helped develop. Consider that under law you did the work for them when you created the invention. Doesn't it make some sense that the invention is rightly owned by the corporation?
Further, did you pay the 10K to 20K dollars to file the patent? Yeah - the patent itself doesn't cost that much (more like $2k I think) but the lawyers that wrote it did.
So - what did you have on the line versus the company. You received your normal compensation and the company through in say another $10K on top of your compensation to receive the patent. Seems to me they have a moral right to it too!
Now - if you did something on your own dime, and the company tried claiming that as well - this is another discussion all together. That doesn't seem to be the case in the initial query though. I happen to live in CA - with all it's OTHER faults (and there are so so many) CA does have a law on the books since around 1980 that if I develop the idea on my own time with my own resources, then NDA or not, I own it.
That's my two cents worth.
I have some problems with this way you have reported this story (and maybe I'm taking it personally cause I do hardware.).
You say the protocol has exceptions instead of always being the same. Do you KNOW that the exceptions were put there to get around a bug? How do you KNOW that a fix for the bug existed - maybe that fix was the addition of the protocol exceptions because for technical reasons there wsa no other solution available to the engineer. Do you KNOW that the hardware engineer saw the bug - or even defined it as a bug?
Let me give you an example of how the hardware guy might have been constrained. He might not have had enough time to fix the problem otherwise. He might have simply been out of room in the FPGA to implement the fix in another manner. A decision might have been made by management to fix the problem a certain way when presented with choices.
All of these are realities in the world of hardware.
My whole point is that there is almost more than one side to such a story!
As often as not - schedules & resource limit the types of fixes that can occur in a program as it nears production. They DO get more expensive to fix at this point because it often means that the steps that occur between design and production have to be repeated (like layout of the chip in hardware). As soon as you near product release the decision to fix a bug becomes more a matter of "is it a show stopper or not?" Can we "program" around the bug instead of fixing the hardware.
I think the original problem in this post should have clarified the space the question was being asked about. Maybe software production costs are lower than hardware (heck I know they are.) To make a mask set for a 0.13 chipset costs perhaps a million dollars. You ARE going to think twice before you decide to make a hardware fix at that kind of cost.
I'm just a user and this announcement makes me fell really old.
I had alot of fun compiling KDE 1.0 for the SPARC 5 I had on my desk back then - though it was little slower than CDE at the time.
That is a BIG assumption saying they can't win!
Tell that to Dmitry and his employer!
I think this might be just the case to take to the congress and point too as something that "chills free speech" Those are 1st Amendment fighting words that MAYBE they'll pay attention too!
But then I believe in the easter bunny too.
"Use of Kazaa to transmit certain material *may* be a crime."
;-) They would have the strength of claiming rampant theft as the excuse for abortions like the DMCA!
Look - if a person is using Kazaa to transmit to others who haven't paid for it - that IS a crime. Whether you like the fact that it is illegal or not is irrelevant - it's still a crime.
Others have argued that the school needs to prove that you're committing a crime.
THAT is nonsense.
The school has the right to control how their network is used. PERIOD! Resnets are NOT the same thing as the DSL connection I have to my house. There is a completely different set of requirements and legalities that apply.
If I use Kazaa to commit a crime from my DSL line then the carrier isn't liable - I am. The student can't say the same thing - the Resnet provider is likely going to be held equally liable.
Let's draw some lines here. I hate the DMCA just as much as the next slashdotoid. However, I also tend to act responsibly and within the law. I think it should be legal for me to copy music onto another format for my own use. The same is true for movies or any other "entertainment."
That doesn't mean it is right for me to give that material to others who haven't paid for it.
Another way of looking at it - The P2P world and their tendancy to share music, etc. is why I have my rights being infringed by RIAA and MPAA! What you say? (Yeah I know Valenti thinks he won the betamax case...excluding that detail
So - if the resnet decides to crack down and they use a broad brush to fix the problem - the bad apples are the ones that caused the problem!
So the university has taken a pro-active to insure that they're hardware isn't used in the commission of a crime - and people don't like it.
Now I KNOW that not all P2P users are copying music - but MOST are.
Further, you probably sign a usage agreemnt when you connect up to the school's network saying that you won't due anything illegal. All the university is doing is holding you to that agreement.
I don't see a problem here
I do believe that is what Rich is saying SGI is doing.
Hey Suid - you made Slashdot!
How do you tell the difference between this from normal operation under Windows?