My friend was a victim of identity theft last year, and the FBI wouldn't touch it unless he'd been screwed for at least $20,000. Good luck, man! Hope it goes better for you than it did for him.
I'd say this is actually the most bizarre claim made by SCO yet.
I wouldn't. I think the most bizarre claim is that SCO says IBM misappropriated trade secrets yet they have posted the code online freely accessible themselves.
Interesting, once "national" interests come into play then free trade goes out the window
um...what's wrong with that? The home nation must come before the other nations, otherwise the government is simply doing a shitty job of representing its people.
and for any firms wanting to use linux, BSD, or OSX on the desktop, GAIM builds above.60 all have excellent logging and even have a good division-by-conversation format. Though your best bet for logging it all would be a custom jabber server that would save everything serverside (with warnings at conversation starts, of course)
easy. because the government is riding a deficit. Farming feeds people. RAM does not. It pays cheques for people to remain employed, but it does not produce foodstuffs.
as i recall, they passed laws concerning the ownership of more than a certain number of pennies due to the government's desire to have money actually circulate. This wasn't penny-jar scale, but people getting tons and tons of them (literally and figuratively) for purposes such as getting into the guinness book of world records. Also, I seem to recall them being limited in their quantities in which they could be considered legal tender (i.e. you cannot purchase something worth $100 with all pennies.)
tyan would make sense. I have a p133 board that has screen printing and contacts on it for a second processor. unfortunately, i'm not adventurous enough to do something about that:P however, the fact that I have two dual pentium pro and two dual pentium 2 systems makes it sort of pointless.
A world without big-budget movies and manufactured music != a world without entertainment.
I quit watching TV over two years ago. I'm not fanatical about it, and I don't go running and screaming if I happen to catch an old episode of MASH when i'm over the inlaw's house. However, I find that I not only get a lot more done, but that I do a lot more things I used to wish I had time to do as a result. There's more to entertainment than consumption.
wow...good thing I'm in no rush. I can get a slightly flawed one just like my first edition for $5 at a local book liquidator once they start getting returns for cosmetically imperfect ones...
the only feature that really gets my goat about flash is that I can't right click to find out where the file came from (to block the thing). For that I end up looking at the page's source. However, if I had some skills in the coding arena, I think I would certainly get moving on this project.
That's what is known as erosion of freedom and it's still unconstitutional. Without somebody other than the officer agreeing with him in order to consider such a warrant, it's nothing more than a recipe for tyrrany.
That's wherein the problem lies. It is unconstitutional, therefore despite the fact that laws have been passed to that extent they are stil unconstitutional. I could care less how it's supposed to work out according to "anyone who understands the law" as to that. What matters is whether legislators can legally create that law, which they cannot.
wow...that was an extremely poor response and appears to have been entirely based on the fact that my comment was moderated higher than yours. But I feel I must respond.
1) So a piece of software that does its job "well enough" is OK?
Of course it is. Because if a piece of software does its job, I don't need to pay for one that does the same job.
2) If taxes are miscalculated, then this is OK so long as it's a minority who suffer then? And the same of potentially life-threatening things such as air traffic control or medical systems?
If taxes are miscalculated, that's the fault of the CPU, not the operating system. Same goes for air traffic control and medical systems. Besides...before being placed into such positions as flight control and medical applications (by the way, both are complete systems and thus not software products) they are quite thoroughly tested. That, my friend, is why we have such old systems in place right now and why they are so difficult to swap out for newer ones.
So in response to your poorly-formed and uneducated retort, I must say nay. Paying more taxes does not equal better software, in fact I would be hesitant to say that more expensive software is better for most low-level tasks anymore.
that's all fine and good for your personal use, but when it comes to government use, i'd prefer they look towards open source before using my taxes to pay for something they may not have needed.
Is Windows sometimes the proper choice? yes. Is windows the proper choice for a low-level bitpusher who only uses a word processor and email? no.
When discussing work and government computers, the vast majority of business and government applications have no need for an expensive Windows license or Microsoft Office. The only thing keeping it there is proprietary formats, which seem to be something the government should move away from rather than perpetuating.
So I don't think that "the best software for the job" is the angle we should look at for government purposes, but rather "does this software do its job well enough to make it unnecessary to purchase proprietary software" or "does this software do its job poorly enough that it justifies buying proprietary software".
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ah yes. thanks for the correction...it was the secret service, now that I think about it. And thats exactly what happened.
My friend was a victim of identity theft last year, and the FBI wouldn't touch it unless he'd been screwed for at least $20,000. Good luck, man! Hope it goes better for you than it did for him.
yep...it's still a little buggy though. It has issues with the buddy list when MSN isn't running yet not connected (like down in the system tray)
I'd say this is actually the most bizarre claim made by SCO yet.
I wouldn't. I think the most bizarre claim is that SCO says IBM misappropriated trade secrets yet they have posted the code online freely accessible themselves.
hypocrisy or not, i'd rather them look out for our nation than preach free trade and actually carry it out.
Interesting, once "national" interests come into play then free trade goes out the window
um...what's wrong with that? The home nation must come before the other nations, otherwise the government is simply doing a shitty job of representing its people.
and for any firms wanting to use linux, BSD, or OSX on the desktop, GAIM builds above .60 all have excellent logging and even have a good division-by-conversation format. Though your best bet for logging it all would be a custom jabber server that would save everything serverside (with warnings at conversation starts, of course)
i'll bet the researchers drink real coffee.
easy. because the government is riding a deficit. Farming feeds people. RAM does not. It pays cheques for people to remain employed, but it does not produce foodstuffs.
as i recall, they passed laws concerning the ownership of more than a certain number of pennies due to the government's desire to have money actually circulate. This wasn't penny-jar scale, but people getting tons and tons of them (literally and figuratively) for purposes such as getting into the guinness book of world records. Also, I seem to recall them being limited in their quantities in which they could be considered legal tender (i.e. you cannot purchase something worth $100 with all pennies.)
tyan would make sense. I have a p133 board that has screen printing and contacts on it for a second processor. unfortunately, i'm not adventurous enough to do something about that :P however, the fact that I have two dual pentium pro and two dual pentium 2 systems makes it sort of pointless.
A world without big-budget movies and manufactured music != a world without entertainment.
I quit watching TV over two years ago. I'm not fanatical about it, and I don't go running and screaming if I happen to catch an old episode of MASH when i'm over the inlaw's house. However, I find that I not only get a lot more done, but that I do a lot more things I used to wish I had time to do as a result. There's more to entertainment than consumption.
wow...good thing I'm in no rush. I can get a slightly flawed one just like my first edition for $5 at a local book liquidator once they start getting returns for cosmetically imperfect ones...
the only feature that really gets my goat about flash is that I can't right click to find out where the file came from (to block the thing). For that I end up looking at the page's source. However, if I had some skills in the coding arena, I think I would certainly get moving on this project.
That's what is known as erosion of freedom and it's still unconstitutional. Without somebody other than the officer agreeing with him in order to consider such a warrant, it's nothing more than a recipe for tyrrany.
That's wherein the problem lies. It is unconstitutional, therefore despite the fact that laws have been passed to that extent they are stil unconstitutional. I could care less how it's supposed to work out according to "anyone who understands the law" as to that. What matters is whether legislators can legally create that law, which they cannot.
there are a lot of servers at doubleclick that are in my hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 so that doesn't matter to me.
I don't believe this quite qualifies as no vendors produce hardware for this specific purpose.
hear, hear!
Thank you, good sir. You phrased your response far better than my own. Good day :)
wow...that was an extremely poor response and appears to have been entirely based on the fact that my comment was moderated higher than yours. But I feel I must respond.
1) So a piece of software that does its job "well enough" is OK?
Of course it is. Because if a piece of software does its job, I don't need to pay for one that does the same job.
2) If taxes are miscalculated, then this is OK so long as it's a minority who suffer then? And the same of potentially life-threatening things such as air traffic control or medical systems?
If taxes are miscalculated, that's the fault of the CPU, not the operating system. Same goes for air traffic control and medical systems. Besides...before being placed into such positions as flight control and medical applications (by the way, both are complete systems and thus not software products) they are quite thoroughly tested. That, my friend, is why we have such old systems in place right now and why they are so difficult to swap out for newer ones.
So in response to your poorly-formed and uneducated retort, I must say nay. Paying more taxes does not equal better software, in fact I would be hesitant to say that more expensive software is better for most low-level tasks anymore.
You are dead right. Our busniess was foolish to skip on legal advice, and we has to release early versions of our software under the GPL.
To any business owners / managers reading this: Please, please don't listen to the Linux Maniacs. It's cheaper to avoid the GPL altogether.
if only you had released a windows distribution instead of trying that whole linux thing, huh?
that's all fine and good for your personal use, but when it comes to government use, i'd prefer they look towards open source before using my taxes to pay for something they may not have needed.
Is Windows sometimes the proper choice? yes. Is windows the proper choice for a low-level bitpusher who only uses a word processor and email? no.
When discussing work and government computers, the vast majority of business and government applications have no need for an expensive Windows license or Microsoft Office. The only thing keeping it there is proprietary formats, which seem to be something the government should move away from rather than perpetuating.
So I don't think that "the best software for the job" is the angle we should look at for government purposes, but rather "does this software do its job well enough to make it unnecessary to purchase proprietary software" or "does this software do its job poorly enough that it justifies buying proprietary software".
How's that for you?
funny...last time i checked the "all your code are belong to us" strategy resulted in BSD becoming independent last time i checked.
now who am i gonna get to chase those damned teddies with no payment except yellow jelly?