First off, to whom is the settlement money being paid? Should it not be the dumb smart-downloaders who shuld be getting compensated?
Secondly, this opens up a thought - how about Passport (in)Security violations, Smart Update to IE, Smart Tags, etc..Next to Rich, Smart is the most commonly used MS propoganda word. Seeing there are many dumb users of SMART features, who's gonna settle their privacy issues?
Just wondering - is Netscape tring to say it's still alive?
Mozilla lends $100,000,000 to AOL to keep Netscape alive. Despite trying to get back in the news with a dead products after the IE steamroll, and competition from Opera and AOL-sponsored Mozilla, Netscape is failing miserably.
Such 'settlements' are illusory and just PR stunts.
They're charging just $ 100,000 to inspect - just consider! MS spends $5 bn in R&D, yet the fruits of the R&D can be inspected for just.001% of their investment!
If that ain't reasonable, what is? You thought you could see the MS code for free? You got to be a non-American govt. threatening to use Open Source, for that sort of privilege.
" Most of the spam that I receive comes from South Korea, Russia and China, not the United States"
I'll assume you're in the United States. Now, assuming your experience is typical of all US of Aians, then the US should be getting bombarded with spam mails from these other countries.
Have you ever known the US to be passive against foreign countries whose only aim is to bring economic and social (yes, spam is a social problem as well) harm to itself? The contrary is true, generally.
Er.. how do you define 'local spam'. I got a Nigerian-type mail from a Hong-Kong based system on my Hotmail (More Useless Everyday). The Niegerian account is hosted by an American entity and the beneficiary seems to be an American as well.
2. Start sanctions agaist countries / ISPs from which spam originates."
How does one detet the origin of the spam? It could have been added as payload during a virus infection on a Windows PC. Since ALL countries in the world have Winows PCs, and even Microsoft's systems have suffered from spam and virus attacks, whom do you start sanctions against?
The ONE country affected and profiting from spam and anti-spam s/w is never known to suffer in silence when other countries cause economic harm to it. In other words, if outside spam was the real problem, this would have been solved a million times by now.
"But if you keep it restricted to one country, you won't go very far"
Huh... about 70% of all internet traffic happens in ONE country. Contrary to public posturing, this ONE country houses most spammers. Most anti-spam s/w firms operate in this ONE single country, and they make profits. Most porn also originates from this SINGLE country.
There can be a simple solution to spam originating from outside - a penalty on the beneficiary of the spam (not the conduit). Confusing the issue further only delays a meaningful solution.
Incidentally the SINGLE biggest software firm operating in this SINGLE country OPPOSED anti-spam legislation. This firm also acquired an anti-virus firm, instead of writing virus-resistant code. Food for thought?
Some even weigh 800 lb. They own insane amounts of cash. These gorillas control millions of supposedly more intelligent sapient humans.
Evidence of evolution is also seen in the computing industry. 30 years ago, smart humans sat in front of dumb terminals. These days dumb bimbos operate smart PCs.
1. Does SCO certify that this does not include source from MS Outlook, leaked by HP:-) ?
2. Why use a client that apes Outlook behavior, when better faster thinner clients exist.
3. How much RAM does Evolution need now, for decent response? Last I tried on my 64MB RAM system, it took 72 seconds to load. About 16 seconds slower than Outlook. And 60 seconds slower than Mozilla mail.
1. Weather alerts - Global reach, software controllable as well. Should be ideal to get local alerts. Specially suited for/ers who spend hours in front of their PCs blissfully unaware of the weather!
2. Terror alerts - need we say more?
3. Service Pack alerts! the best of the lot. We could have daily bulletins, sponsored programs by virus writers, chat shows with hackers etc.
Slashdot Mirror
The Pentagon demands IPv6 by 2008.
1. Spread rumors. :-(
2. Get mentioned at Slashdot.
3. Everyone jeers and boos.
4. ???
5. Loss
Why should we read about rumors from a company that 98% of the nice world (except the us) doesn't think much about?
Rumors from Microsoft are a different matter. Billyboy resigns and takes up Buddhism? We're all ears. MS to bundle SCOde into LongHorn? You don't say!
Apple rumors aren't tasty.
First off, to whom is the settlement money being paid? Should it not be the dumb smart-downloaders who shuld be getting compensated?
.Next to Rich, Smart is the most commonly used MS propoganda word. Seeing there are many dumb users of SMART features, who's gonna settle their privacy issues?
Secondly, this opens up a thought - how about Passport (in)Security violations, Smart Update to IE, Smart Tags, etc.
Just wondering - is Netscape tring to say it's still alive?
Mozilla lends $100,000,000 to AOL to keep Netscape alive. Despite trying to get back in the news with a dead products after the IE steamroll, and competition from Opera and AOL-sponsored Mozilla, Netscape is failing miserably.
Such 'settlements' are illusory and just PR stunts.
Wired News? Or Wierd news?
Wait! You aren't supposed to _read_ anything before posting.
Even if you read, don't _think_ !! Just consume, don't criticize...
Why doesn't Slashdot cover real important SCO news? Instead of giving publicity to useless testimony to word-of-mouth opinions?
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Some useful links:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/16/10556
and an important MS story as well:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesst
Instead, we have these useless trivia articles.
"$100.000 is not reasonable, it's extortion"
I was just quoting the MS party line there. Would you actually pay a 100 grand to read a billion lines of junk?
Likewise on non-discriminatory.
You can never go broke underestimating American intelligence.
I don't either. Can I get my $50,000?
They're charging just $ 100,000 to inspect - just consider! MS spends $5 bn in R&D, yet the fruits of the R&D can be inspected for just .001% of their investment!
If that ain't reasonable, what is? You thought you could see the MS code for free? You got to be a non-American govt. threatening to use Open Source, for that sort of privilege.
All orgasms must come to an end.
Were they waiting for MS to inject some funds - like SCO??
AOL - A lossy company.
MS - A lousy company.
The movement can be called Gas - for short.
"Why don't they just pray it away?"
Or better yet, start a chain e-mail denouncing spam!
" Most of the spam that I receive comes from South Korea, Russia and China, not the United States"
I'll assume you're in the United States. Now, assuming your experience is typical of all US of Aians, then the US should be getting bombarded with spam mails from these other countries.
Have you ever known the US to be passive against foreign countries whose only aim is to bring economic and social (yes, spam is a social problem as well) harm to itself? The contrary is true, generally.
" If i wanna screw my business competitor I just send lots of spam out advertising his/her companny?"
Watch it! Since you seem to be interested in competing using such sly techniques, your competitors products might actually succeed...
You'd do better improving and selling YOUR product, than screwing competition. One Microsoft is enough for One World.
" I propose the following:
1. Get local spam under control.
Er.. how do you define 'local spam'. I got a Nigerian-type mail from a Hong-Kong based system on my Hotmail (More Useless Everyday). The Niegerian account is hosted by an American entity and the beneficiary seems to be an American as well.
2. Start sanctions agaist countries / ISPs from which spam originates."
How does one detet the origin of the spam? It could have been added as payload during a virus infection on a Windows PC. Since ALL countries in the world have Winows PCs, and even Microsoft's systems have suffered from spam and virus attacks, whom do you start sanctions against?
The ONE country affected and profiting from spam and anti-spam s/w is never known to suffer in silence when other countries cause economic harm to it. In other words, if outside spam was the real problem, this would have been solved a million times by now.
"But if you keep it restricted to one country, you won't go very far"
Huh... about 70% of all internet traffic happens in ONE country. Contrary to public posturing, this ONE country houses most spammers. Most anti-spam s/w firms operate in this ONE single country, and they make profits. Most porn also originates from this SINGLE country.
There can be a simple solution to spam originating from outside - a penalty on the beneficiary of the spam (not the conduit). Confusing the issue further only delays a meaningful solution.
Incidentally the SINGLE biggest software firm operating in this SINGLE country OPPOSED anti-spam legislation. This firm also acquired an anti-virus firm, instead of writing virus-resistant code. Food for thought?
Some even weigh 800 lb. They own insane amounts of cash. These gorillas control millions of supposedly more intelligent sapient humans.
Evidence of evolution is also seen in the computing industry. 30 years ago, smart humans sat in front of dumb terminals. These days dumb bimbos operate smart PCs.
At Slashdot, a few ninja monkeys....
The entire XP team walked out, saying "This code isn't gonna get good anytime next 10 years?"
The entire IIS team walked out, saying "We can't touch apache in the next 5 years"
The entire Hailstorm team walked out "No one's gonna buy this!"
Sounds like all of the above happened - prolly explains why we get the same old code with new names.
b5b? b2b? d2d? d5d? Except b2b I can't think of meaningful expansions!
Port Mozilla to Linux (Linux without SCOde) --> Show code to SCO --> Collect $1,000,000. SCO sues Mozilla, collects $1,000,000,000 from AOL!
Enjoy.
That explains why it's so hard? :-)
1. Does SCO certify that this does not include source from MS Outlook, leaked by HP :-) ?
2. Why use a client that apes Outlook behavior, when better faster thinner clients exist.
3. How much RAM does Evolution need now, for decent response? Last I tried on my 64MB RAM system, it took 72 seconds to load. About 16 seconds slower than Outlook. And 60 seconds slower than Mozilla mail.
1. Weather alerts - Global reach, software controllable as well. Should be ideal to get local alerts. Specially suited for /ers who spend hours in front of their PCs blissfully unaware of the weather!
2. Terror alerts - need we say more?
3. Service Pack alerts! the best of the lot. We could have daily bulletins, sponsored programs by virus writers, chat shows with hackers etc.
Good stuff.