why not create a ATX tower box with a built in cluster,putting Motherboards on PCI Cards all working together. Imagine 5 PCI card motherboards working in tandem with the main motherboard.
1) Their CD will be sold for $20 of which they will get 20 cents. 2) Their new and creative song will be played once per day while they have to listen to boy bands have their song played twice per hour 3) Their CD's will be used to test the latest anti-copying technology which winds up ruining their bands reputation. 4) They will have to pay their own money to make their own tape, and the "record industry" will give their music to a prettier classmate to create a cover song for a totally lame commercial that ruins any hip appeal their song might have had.
The state cannot arbitrairily ban all unsolicited commercial email. However kneejerk popular these spam laws are, that doesnt make them right. Please dont bother citing Rowan v. Post office because that case concerned the sending of unsolicited obscene PORN through the mail not all junk mail. If you want such a draconian law, then dont you dare whine about DECSS codes on tshirts, professors threatened for publishing about encryption or any other first amendment cause you care about because otherwise you are a hypocrite. The first amendment is not to protect the popular but instead the unpopular.
However the government can intervene in a more selective manner. However it is not the role of the states to regulate commercial email. It is the role of the federal government under the interstate commerce clause.
What should a model Spam law do.
a)Establish a national do not email list (that way it is the receivers choice and not the governments choice. b) Prohibit fake unreplyable email names in commercial email. Consider it an act of fraud to do so. c) require the sender to remove a recipients name upon request d) require the use of ADV: in bulk email advertisements e) make it a felony under US law to send those "african letters". That may not stop them but the people who send them wont be able to leave their country.
I have been trying to get them to do something about this. I have mozilla so I am ok in regards to infections but the damn emails keep coming...250 in one day. Earthlink has these indian call center people who are completely clueless. Their people think "spaminator" will stop it. Spaminator only shunts it to the webmail box, it still fills up their 10mb capacity because their "suspect" emails count against capacity. I can control it while I am online because Ive trained mozilla to send all of things to the junk box.
There is one way to control it somewhat. The swen virus has a 150k payload if you tell your computer to screen out all emails larger than 50k that might do it.
The first amendment the last time I checked
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...was to protect against government censorship.
It does not protect you if you make statements designed to damage someones elses business. SCO clearly has stated linux has pirated code in it.
Redhat's primary business is selling Linux products, whether Redhat was a primary target of that statement is irrelevant, it was an intended target. SCO has clearly intended through its statments and actions to target linux users and potential users who include Redhat customers and those who might become redhat customers. These statements were and are potentially misleading and deceptive.
This may be causing actual financial damage to redhat. Courts do not want to impose prior restraint, but if Redhat can establish they are losing customers because of false and misleading statements by SCO then courts can and do act.
All of these issues are for a jury to decide , so I dont think SCOs dismissal action will succeed
Your use of the term "competent" is subjective. If you mean competent as in the person can do his job, and keep his server patched. Then it is easier to find a competent windows administrator. The fact that an admin is part time does not in of itself make them incompetent. They are a "BASIC" admin , they are not a wiz or a pro. Most people who run windows dont need a "wiz" to run the servers...they just need the servers to run and they need people who can simply step in without having to understand someone elses custom setup.
Both Linux and Windows have their place in computing. If windows serves someones needs better then they should use it. If linux serves their needs better than then they should use it.
Its time to accept that NASA was good to start us off, but its time to break away from mommy, and start to walk on our own. One of the great myths of the last 20 years was that government created the internet.
The government created DARPA and it successor, a network whos users still numbered in the thousands as of 1990. It was when the government opened up that network and was used by university students for non-academic work (piracy) and businesses that the internet(porn) that it started to boom. Porn and Piracy and some naive librarians with some utopian scheme called hypertext got the internet up and running.
Now what will sell space...sex. More people will pay $100,000 to have zero-g sex in space for an hour or two than to take photographs in space or do other dorky things noone cares about.
What else will sell in space? Hotels. Whatever you can say about space its one hell of a view. There are tens maybe hundreds of thousands of people who will pay $100,000 for a weekend(or a honeymoon) in space.
What further service? Sameday transpacific delivery service.
How do we get there from here...the people who build the spacecraft need to be taken off the government tit and design craft that can be run inexpensively and operated efficiently. If the spacecraft industry had progressed at the same rate as the airline industry, space travel would be routine and cheap.
What is the difference? NASA pays contractors to build stuff for them, and then operates the stuff itself. There is no competition because NASA provides service below cost to the customer.
In 1930s the post office had an actual need(air mail) and then contracted with private enterprise to provide that service and didnt pay unless the service is rendered on time and on schedule. Now these airlines had room for passengers so carried passengers in addition to the government contract.
Lets build a spacecraft that takes passengers up to a space hotel/hub then goes back down to a diffeent port with their packages and their passengers.
Noone is forced to use MSN messenger, Yahoo and AOL both have clients with multimillion user bases. AOL IM, ICQ, YAHOO, GAIM.
These silly car road ownership analogies dont work....Microsoft isnt a monopoly in instant messaging, both AOL and Yahoo(and otherS) have signficant user bases that are growing.
I have MSN messenger on my windows machine, but I almost never use it because Yahoo messenger is better.
Dont whine because microsoft doesnt play ball, tell your friends you dont use MSN messenger because its not interoperable, tell them you use Yahoo, or GAIM or whatever.
I dont think its right for competing clients to make money off Microsofts network that Microsoft built with its own money.
Microsoft is not licensing users, its licensing its competitors to use THEIR SERVERS.
While $50 copies of office are obviously fake...microsoft and others in the industry have long turned a blind eye at OEM copies.
I find symantec's broad definition of "piracy" to be laughable...they made the discs, they distributed them to people who didnt make pcs they didnt audit any of the businesses selling their products. They are not counterfeit, they register properly with the Symantec site.
Im sure when symantec comes out with their product activation the new version OEM cds will work just fine.
I do respect symantec efforts at keeping counterfeit versions of their software off the market...but to lump OEM with fakes as "counterfeit" is shady. If they want to claim that the OEM copies are unlicensed for retail sale thats fair and stop distributing to dealers who sell OEM copies retail thats fine too. Most dealers technically comply with the OEM license by including a $3 network card or some other doodad with it.
There are more than enough dirt cheap semi-legit OEM copies around that you can buy with a $2 network card that noone really needs to deal in pirated versions. The OEM copies of Virusscan and Norton sell for between $7-15. How does Norton make their money off it...simple when a person renews their anti-virus they still have to pay $9.95 a year for more patches, a cost most people happily pay.
I meant to say to accuse someone of theft when the "victim" wont tell you what they stole and the matter is still of legal dispute is irresponsible at best.
Maybe because no responsible person actually supports the hacking and defacement of websites...maybe slashdot doesnt consider website hacking to be news?
Although your link you posted didnt actually work.This is actually the correct link
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067743.html?tag =l h
Of course for all we know you could have been the guilty party yourself trying to self-promote. Ok maybe not, but accusing someone of theft when the "victim"
As for the rest of the article heres an important quote you left out...
"Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative advocacy group, urged the hacker, if a member of the open-source community, to stop the attack, because it could do more harm than good.
"We're the good guys. But that doesn't matter if we aren't *seen* to be the good guys," Raymond wrote in the Sunday posting. "We cannot fight our war using vandalism and trespass and the suppression of speech, or SCO will paint us as crackers and maybe win.""
Compare the amount that weve spent to keep the space station in orbit to the amount weve spent to keep hubble in orbit versus the amount of science generated by those dollars and hubble is looking better and better all the time.
I have no idea where this "garden of eden" internet mythology popped up. I have been on the internet since 1991 and people were flaming each other back then.
Were people more respectful? No they were more educated.
Whatever if the US wants to kill off its civilian space industry then non-us Space pioneers can launch from Cuba. Havana Cuba is only 400 miles south of Cape Kennedy.
100k for a 15 minute trip to nowhere is not worth it.
100k for a two hour suborbital flight from New York to Tokyo...the economics look far more appealing. Right now people pay somewhere in the range of 12000 for a first class seat from New York to Tokyo and still have to endure an 18 hour flight. There are plenty of superwealthy people whos time is worth more than their money.
100k for the two hour delivery of a custom fabricated part to keep a factory running that has an idle cost of 10 million a day. Now you see there is a market.
Now Same-day package delivery from Australia/Japan/China to the US might be worth something.
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why not create a ATX tower box with a built in cluster,putting Motherboards on PCI Cards all working together. Imagine 5 PCI card motherboards working in tandem with the main motherboard.
1) Their CD will be sold for $20 of which they will get 20 cents.
2) Their new and creative song will be played once per day while they have to listen to boy bands have their song played twice per hour
3) Their CD's will be used to test the latest anti-copying technology which winds up ruining their bands reputation.
4) They will have to pay their own money to make their own tape, and the "record industry" will give their music to a prettier classmate to create a cover song for a totally lame commercial that ruins any hip appeal their song might have had.
Can anyone else think of anything?
The state cannot arbitrairily ban all unsolicited commercial email. However kneejerk popular these spam laws are, that doesnt make them right. Please dont bother citing Rowan v. Post office because that case concerned the sending of unsolicited obscene PORN through the mail not all junk mail. If you want such a draconian law, then dont you dare whine about DECSS codes on tshirts, professors threatened for publishing about encryption or any other first amendment cause you care about because otherwise you are a hypocrite. The first amendment is not to protect the popular but instead the unpopular.
However the government can intervene in a more selective manner. However it is not the role of the states to regulate commercial email. It is the role of the federal government under the interstate commerce clause.
What should a model Spam law do.
a)Establish a national do not email list (that way it is the receivers choice and not the governments choice.
b) Prohibit fake unreplyable email names in commercial email. Consider it an act of fraud to do so.
c) require the sender to remove a recipients name upon request
d) require the use of ADV: in bulk email advertisements
e) make it a felony under US law to send those "african letters". That may not stop them but the people who send them wont be able to leave their country.
I have been trying to get them to do something about this. I have mozilla so I am ok in regards to infections but the damn emails keep coming...250 in one day. Earthlink has these indian call center people who are completely clueless. Their people think "spaminator" will stop it. Spaminator only shunts it to the webmail box, it still fills up their 10mb capacity because their "suspect" emails count against capacity. I can control it while I am online because Ive trained mozilla to send all of things to the junk box.
There is one way to control it somewhat. The swen virus has a 150k payload if you tell your computer to screen out all emails larger than 50k that might do it.
It does not protect you if you make statements designed to damage someones elses business. SCO clearly has stated linux has pirated code in it.
Redhat's primary business is selling Linux products, whether Redhat was a primary target of that statement is irrelevant, it was an intended target. SCO has clearly intended through its statments and actions to target linux users and potential users who include Redhat customers and those who might become redhat customers. These statements were and are potentially misleading and deceptive.
This may be causing actual financial damage to redhat. Courts do not want to impose prior restraint, but if Redhat can establish they are losing customers because of false and misleading statements by SCO then courts can and do act.
All of these issues are for a jury to decide , so I dont think SCOs dismissal action will succeed
The IE patent infringmenet case they just lost.
Your use of the term "competent" is subjective. If you mean competent as in the person can do his job, and keep his server patched. Then it is easier to find a competent windows administrator. The fact that an admin is part time does not in of itself make them incompetent. They are a "BASIC" admin , they are not a wiz or a pro. Most people who run windows dont need a "wiz" to run the servers...they just need the servers to run and they need people who can simply step in without having to understand someone elses custom setup.
Both Linux and Windows have their place in computing. If windows serves someones needs better then they should use it. If linux serves their needs better than then they should use it.
Commodore 64 had the GEOS desktop which did have a word processor with proportional fonts.
Our grandchildren will be dead and buried.
Its time to accept that NASA was good to start us off, but its time to break away from mommy, and start to walk on our own. One of the great myths of the last 20 years was that government created the internet.
The government created DARPA and it successor, a network whos users still numbered in the thousands as of 1990. It was when the government opened up that network and was used by university students for non-academic work (piracy) and businesses that the internet(porn) that it started to boom. Porn and Piracy and some naive librarians with some utopian scheme called hypertext got the internet up and running.
Now what will sell space...sex. More people will pay $100,000 to have zero-g sex in space for an hour or two than to take photographs in space or do other dorky things noone cares about.
What else will sell in space? Hotels. Whatever you can say about space its one hell of a view. There are tens maybe hundreds of thousands of people who will pay $100,000 for a weekend(or a honeymoon) in space.
What further service? Sameday transpacific delivery service.
How do we get there from here...the people who build the spacecraft need to be taken off the government tit and design craft that can be run inexpensively and operated efficiently. If the spacecraft industry had progressed at the same rate as the airline industry, space travel would be routine and cheap.
What is the difference? NASA pays contractors to build stuff for them, and then operates the stuff itself. There is no competition because NASA provides service below cost to the customer.
In 1930s the post office had an actual need(air mail) and then contracted with private enterprise to provide that service and didnt pay unless the service is rendered on time and on schedule. Now these airlines had room for passengers so carried passengers in addition to the government contract.
Lets build a spacecraft that takes passengers up to a space hotel/hub then goes back down to a diffeent port with their packages and their passengers.
Ok it makes me sick to say it...buts its true
Noone is forced to use MSN messenger, Yahoo and
AOL both have clients with multimillion user bases.
AOL IM, ICQ, YAHOO, GAIM.
These silly car road ownership analogies dont work....Microsoft isnt a monopoly in instant messaging, both AOL and Yahoo(and otherS) have signficant user bases that are growing.
I have MSN messenger on my windows machine, but I almost never use it because Yahoo messenger is better.
Dont whine because microsoft doesnt play ball, tell your friends you dont use MSN messenger because its not interoperable, tell them you use Yahoo, or GAIM or whatever.
I dont think its right for competing clients to make money off Microsofts network that Microsoft built with its own money.
Microsoft is not licensing users, its licensing its competitors to use THEIR SERVERS.
While $50 copies of office are obviously fake...microsoft and others in the industry have long turned a blind eye at OEM copies.
I find symantec's broad definition of "piracy" to be laughable...they made the discs, they distributed them to people who didnt make pcs they didnt audit any of the businesses selling their products. They are not counterfeit, they register properly with the Symantec site.
Im sure when symantec comes out with their product activation the new version OEM cds will work just fine.
I do respect symantec efforts at keeping counterfeit versions of their software off the market...but to lump OEM with fakes as "counterfeit" is shady. If they want to claim that the OEM copies are unlicensed for retail sale thats fair and stop distributing to dealers who sell OEM copies retail thats fine too. Most dealers technically comply with the OEM license by including a $3 network card or some other doodad with it.
There are more than enough dirt cheap semi-legit OEM copies around that you can buy with a $2 network card that noone really needs to deal in pirated versions. The OEM copies of Virusscan and Norton sell for between $7-15. How does Norton make their money off it...simple when a person renews their anti-virus they still have to pay $9.95 a year for more patches, a cost most people happily pay.
Cause until 2004 there wont be any
AMD64 Windows.
I meant to say to accuse someone of theft when the "victim" wont tell you what they stole and the matter is still of legal dispute is irresponsible at best.
Maybe because no responsible person actually supports the hacking and defacement of websites...maybe slashdot doesnt consider website hacking to be news?
Although your link you posted didnt actually work.This is actually the correct link
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067743.html?ta
Of course for all we know you could have been the guilty party yourself trying to self-promote.
Ok maybe not, but accusing someone of theft when the "victim"
As for the rest of the article heres an important quote you left out...
"Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative advocacy group, urged the hacker, if a member of the open-source community, to stop the attack, because it could do more harm than good.
"We're the good guys. But that doesn't matter if we aren't *seen* to be the good guys," Raymond wrote in the Sunday posting. "We cannot fight our war using vandalism and trespass and the suppression of speech, or SCO will paint us as crackers and maybe win.""
I havent...even in windows. No video card maker that I have ever heard of has charged for video drivers.
Compare the amount that weve spent to keep the space station in orbit to the amount weve spent to keep hubble in orbit versus the amount of science generated by those dollars and hubble is looking better and better all the time.
The 8086 was the 16 bit chip...
but it was too expensive to use
at the time...so the 8088 was a compromise.
The 80286 was the next progression
on the 8086. The main difference
between the 8086 and the 80286
is that 286 went faster.
by the time this is all over with... ;-)
:-P
we will all be cheering on the machines.
Who needs scary killer robots, when they have
plenty of scary goosestepping humans ready to do
whatever dirty work that can be thought of.
I dont know about you guys but I think Ill side with Skynet.
Then there will be no interference from powerline internet anyway. Because when the power is off...the Internet over powerlines wont work. DUH!
SKYNET DEFENSE SYSTEM
;-)
:)
conclusions
SCO is a threat
SCO is runs by humans
Humans are a threat
Destroy all humans
So thats why the machines took over
btw: AH-Nuld is running for Governor
http://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxlicensefaq.html
The problem is with their licensing terms
there is no settlement possible. We must now win our case...or Open source Linux dies.
Their license doesnt allow distribution. Its
an end user CYA license only.
Their licensing terms indicate that their desire
is to kill linux for all practical purposes.
THANK YOU!
I have no idea where this "garden of eden" internet mythology popped up. I have been on the internet since 1991 and people were flaming each other back then.
Were people more respectful? No they were more educated.
Whatever if the US wants to kill off its civilian space industry then non-us Space pioneers can launch from Cuba. Havana Cuba is only 400 miles south of Cape Kennedy.
100k for a 15 minute trip to nowhere is not
worth it.
100k for a two hour suborbital flight
from New York to Tokyo...the economics look
far more appealing. Right now people pay somewhere in the range of 12000 for a first class seat from New York to Tokyo and still have to endure an 18 hour flight. There are plenty of superwealthy people whos time is worth more than their money.
100k for the two hour delivery of a custom fabricated part to keep a factory running that has an idle cost of 10 million a day. Now you see
there is a market.
Now Same-day package delivery from Australia/Japan/China to the US might be worth something.