Wild mud slinging? You're the asshole who said I had a child porn business, fuckface.
And as for the rest, there are plenty of things to do online that are frowned upon that have absolutely nothing to do with copyright infringement. There are lots of reasons to want to hide your MAC address.
Oh, I get it. You're not a troll, you're a shill. Well, since I've got your attention - go fuck yourself.
Your business is busted, the genie is out of the bottle, and there's nothing you can do about it except die a slow death. Thrash around all you like, do as much damage as you want to our civil liberties on the way out the door. It won't make a damn bit of difference in the end. You're still going out that door, and good riddance to you and any of your Constitution thrashing ilk.
Start working on your resume, pal. You're gonna need it. Soon.
I'm not saying Happy Jack's death should be celebrated, but "he was misguided, at least, but he was a human being" isn't sufficient cause to not celebrate. There are some deaths that are simply good for humanity in general. Don't make me Godwin you to prove the point.
Seriously. Investing in these kinds of companies versus millions of dollars in lottery tickets. What's the difference? About the same odds and the same payout.
Save yourself the trouble and the time in court and the lawyers fees - and just buy lottery tickets.
In addition to this breaking one of the most sacred taboos at Intel, it also hints that engineering now has the upper hand over bureaucracy
No decisions involving that much money are left to engineers.
Engineers are the people who say, "You know what would be cool?" and then lay out an idea. The bean counters study it, perform an analysis, and then decide if there is money in it. If there is, then the idea is given a green light. If not, no matter how cool the idea is - it gets buried.
Remember, we're talking about one of the major money making product lines for Intel - a company worth billions. Engineers are never going to have an upper hand in that environment.
HP is allowed to sell their goods any way they wish. That is capitalism at work.
The catch is, so are their competitors.
How long before you see a Lexmark with this exact same technology at work? Do you think they'll go on a services model? Do you think absolutely everyone in the market will? Even the guys in China?
And when someone finally does start selling the same printer technology rather than leasing it, what will HP have to do to keep up?
And there is no way I'd treat a cop poorly. The simple truth is that they are people with guns who are allowed to shoot you on a judgement call. When they do, they get paid leave while their friends investigate.
Treating cops poorly never helps. Smile through clenched teeth, take the ticket with a smile, and get away from the guy in the uniform with the hand cannon as quickly as possible.
BTW, traffic stops are not my only bad run-ins with cops. As if you couldn't tell. =)
I mean c'mon - it's the most widely distributed piece of spyware YET. And it occasionally calls legitimate users thieves and reports them. And blackmails people. How did that not make the list?
If you don't apply the same ideas of justice & freedom to children, how can you expect them to grow up with those same virtues instilled? You can't, really. Once they turn 18, they still remember a lot prior to being 18. Any injustices they suffered are probably not forgotten.
Too true my friend, too true. A good example from my own past is cops.
I was a teenager and I got pulled over for having a crappy car. Twice in two different cities. I wasn't speeding, I wasn't playing loud music - I was just trying to get to work. How do I know that's what I was pulled over for? Both times the cop said so.
I was searched. My car was searched "for drugs". One cop told me to get my "piece of shit car out of his city and not come back".
That was close to 20 years ago. I'm now nearing 40, have a nice job, and drive a brand new Prius. Or my minivan. I am invisible to cops, and haven't had any reasons given in the last 20 years to dislike them.
But still every time I pass one on the road I think "motherfuckers".
This is a great scam for someone who wants to commit fraud on a national scale. Send people letters claiming that they breached copyright law and demand a settlement. Offer an opportunity for settlement for $2000. If they get a lawyer, drop any claim. If they ignore it, write it off. If it costs you a dollar per letter and 0.1% of people accept your "offer", a million letters will net you a million dollars. Maybe this is the new business model for big media.
No, because without some locally hosted software, you can't get to the web site all your other stuff would be on anyways.
That being said, still no. My cablemodem is fast, but I doubt it's as fast as the SATA cable between my application and the file it's trying to load.
Currently, net performance is orders of magnitude slower than local cabling (for most of us, anyways. You guys on Internet2 can ignore me.) But as soon as those two are on par, web based applications will become a possibility. But until then, who would want load times that slow?
Medievals didn't understand the atom or crystalline structures, but they still made carbonized steel for armour. They had the wrong ideas about exactly how metal became properly carbonized and tempered, but they still came up with correctly tempered spring-like steels (IIRC similar to tempered 1050) without getting any of the "why" of it right.
I think someday we will be viewed as the medievals of AI. We occasionally make progress even though we really don't know what we're doing. Yet.
Not being snarky, but could you show me a company that relies on litigation as their primary revenue stream that's doing well in the stock market?
As for looking at the bottom line of a company - sure. That's important. But I was always led to believe that investment managers also look at the company as a whole before investing. Profile the company a bit to get a feel for their future worth. The lawyer lottery can be great but it's hardly what you'd call stable. And IIRC, stability is one of the things they look at.
Of course, I'm not in the industry so I could be flat-out wrong too. But if I am, I'd be surprised to be. And I'd welcome a correction.
For SCO, off the top of my head I'd say fire Darl and turn over every last bit of his correspondence to the SEC. Then stop pursuing baseless lawsuits as a means of revenue. Shareholders are not interested in companies that play the lawyer lottery as a business plan. Finally, make a fucking product and sell it.
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Wild mud slinging? You're the asshole who said I had a child porn business, fuckface.
And as for the rest, there are plenty of things to do online that are frowned upon that have absolutely nothing to do with copyright infringement. There are lots of reasons to want to hide your MAC address.
The net is bigger than MP3 files, moron.
Oh, I get it. You're not a troll, you're a shill. Well, since I've got your attention - go fuck yourself.
Your business is busted, the genie is out of the bottle, and there's nothing you can do about it except die a slow death. Thrash around all you like, do as much damage as you want to our civil liberties on the way out the door. It won't make a damn bit of difference in the end. You're still going out that door, and good riddance to you and any of your Constitution thrashing ilk.
Start working on your resume, pal. You're gonna need it. Soon.
I think that's more of a comment on Jack than on my posting speed, don't you? ;^)
...you decided to go AC on that one. It's probably the funniest post in this thread. Bravo, sir. I'm still wiping away tears.
I'm not saying Happy Jack's death should be celebrated, but "he was misguided, at least, but he was a human being" isn't sufficient cause to not celebrate. There are some deaths that are simply good for humanity in general. Don't make me Godwin you to prove the point.
This kind of information is good for more than just entertainment.
And as Forrest Gump says, "That's about all I have to say about that."
Best simulpost ever. We even had the same title. High five!
How is that going to help them find anyone?
Hey RIAA - read this first.
And everyone else too. Never hurts to know stuff like this, y'know. Just in case. Yeah. That's it.
It has pretty much the same color glow that every power generating thingy in Star Trek does. It looks like a pile of warp cores, doesn't it?
Freedom is about being able to do what you want. Responsibility is knowing what to do with your freedom.
Port blocking, while it will restrict copyright violations - is a restriction of freedom.
Seriously. Investing in these kinds of companies versus millions of dollars in lottery tickets. What's the difference? About the same odds and the same payout.
Save yourself the trouble and the time in court and the lawyers fees - and just buy lottery tickets.
In addition to this breaking one of the most sacred taboos at Intel, it also hints that engineering now has the upper hand over bureaucracy
No decisions involving that much money are left to engineers.
Engineers are the people who say, "You know what would be cool?" and then lay out an idea. The bean counters study it, perform an analysis, and then decide if there is money in it. If there is, then the idea is given a green light. If not, no matter how cool the idea is - it gets buried.
Remember, we're talking about one of the major money making product lines for Intel - a company worth billions. Engineers are never going to have an upper hand in that environment.
It's interesting though, because now Microsoft is actually on both sides of this fight.
They just recently partnered with Novell, and were funding SCO through Baystar.
Wouldn't it be great to just have 1% of the money that Microsoft has wasted on this? I'd retire.
It's an imperfect world. Now, show Dick some respect!
HP is allowed to sell their goods any way they wish. That is capitalism at work.
The catch is, so are their competitors.
How long before you see a Lexmark with this exact same technology at work? Do you think they'll go on a services model? Do you think absolutely everyone in the market will? Even the guys in China?
And when someone finally does start selling the same printer technology rather than leasing it, what will HP have to do to keep up?
Thank you, that's it exactly.
And there is no way I'd treat a cop poorly. The simple truth is that they are people with guns who are allowed to shoot you on a judgement call. When they do, they get paid leave while their friends investigate.
Treating cops poorly never helps. Smile through clenched teeth, take the ticket with a smile, and get away from the guy in the uniform with the hand cannon as quickly as possible.
BTW, traffic stops are not my only bad run-ins with cops. As if you couldn't tell. =)
I mean c'mon - it's the most widely distributed piece of spyware YET. And it occasionally calls legitimate users thieves and reports them. And blackmails people. How did that not make the list?
If you don't apply the same ideas of justice & freedom to children, how can you expect them to grow up with those same virtues instilled? You can't, really. Once they turn 18, they still remember a lot prior to being 18. Any injustices they suffered are probably not forgotten.
Too true my friend, too true. A good example from my own past is cops.
I was a teenager and I got pulled over for having a crappy car. Twice in two different cities. I wasn't speeding, I wasn't playing loud music - I was just trying to get to work. How do I know that's what I was pulled over for? Both times the cop said so.
I was searched. My car was searched "for drugs". One cop told me to get my "piece of shit car out of his city and not come back".
That was close to 20 years ago. I'm now nearing 40, have a nice job, and drive a brand new Prius. Or my minivan. I am invisible to cops, and haven't had any reasons given in the last 20 years to dislike them.
But still every time I pass one on the road I think "motherfuckers".
Windows. QED.
This is a great scam for someone who wants to commit fraud on a national scale. Send people letters claiming that they breached copyright law and demand a settlement. Offer an opportunity for settlement for $2000. If they get a lawyer, drop any claim. If they ignore it, write it off. If it costs you a dollar per letter and 0.1% of people accept your "offer", a million letters will net you a million dollars. Maybe this is the new business model for big media.
Um...hello?
No, because without some locally hosted software, you can't get to the web site all your other stuff would be on anyways.
That being said, still no. My cablemodem is fast, but I doubt it's as fast as the SATA cable between my application and the file it's trying to load.
Currently, net performance is orders of magnitude slower than local cabling (for most of us, anyways. You guys on Internet2 can ignore me.) But as soon as those two are on par, web based applications will become a possibility. But until then, who would want load times that slow?
Medievals didn't understand the atom or crystalline structures, but they still made carbonized steel for armour. They had the wrong ideas about exactly how metal became properly carbonized and tempered, but they still came up with correctly tempered spring-like steels (IIRC similar to tempered 1050) without getting any of the "why" of it right.
I think someday we will be viewed as the medievals of AI. We occasionally make progress even though we really don't know what we're doing. Yet.
Not being snarky, but could you show me a company that relies on litigation as their primary revenue stream that's doing well in the stock market?
As for looking at the bottom line of a company - sure. That's important. But I was always led to believe that investment managers also look at the company as a whole before investing. Profile the company a bit to get a feel for their future worth. The lawyer lottery can be great but it's hardly what you'd call stable. And IIRC, stability is one of the things they look at.
Of course, I'm not in the industry so I could be flat-out wrong too. But if I am, I'd be surprised to be. And I'd welcome a correction.
What can a company do to boost its share price?
For SCO, off the top of my head I'd say fire Darl and turn over every last bit of his correspondence to the SEC. Then stop pursuing baseless lawsuits as a means of revenue. Shareholders are not interested in companies that play the lawyer lottery as a business plan. Finally, make a fucking product and sell it.
You know, just to keep things fair. But unfortunately they're Linux, and I don't have enough cash to buy licenses for them. Ah well.