It's a fair assumption to have, considering it's held by the states, federal government, supreme court, and basically all informed people. And good thing, too. Otherwise there'd probably be pre-1960's mandatory prayer recitals in the public schools here--if not slavery.
I'm happy to live in the city that snatched this asshole. Unfortunately, the federal Can Spam act is going to make many individual spam laws null and void, and replace it with a bad and worthless federal law. If tech people thought congress was capable of making a problem worse, they will certainly see it with spam. When the Can Spam law goes into effect, the spam problem will probably get much worse, unfortunately.
SCO is knowingly making false and misleading statements which negatively impact IBM, RedHat, etc. Furthermore they are representing themselves to linux-using businesses as owners of Linux IP and demanding license fees. This is all not just unlikely to succeed, but in fact illegal. It's fraud. If prosecutors want to deal with it, Sontag, McBride, etc could see themselves facing not just civil actions which could be ameliorated by resignation and/or bankruptcy, but criminal actions. And I hope they do. They represent a destructive force, they are theives, and I hope they suffer the consequences.
I love the Orwellian Work Product known as MSFT. Every time somebody say they won't exclusively use Windows, MSFT says, "You Have To! If you don't you're Anti-Choice!"
I thank my lucky stars I don't have to use a CLI. GUIs are clearly better. Who wants to read Slashdot from a text-browser like Lynx, for instance? Basically nobody.
As a physics guy who advocates greater science education and literacy, I'm occasionally asked by otherwise intelligent people, "Isn't it just a waste of time? We have division of labor, so why should I have to know anything about science?" This is the sort of headline which implicitly answers that question.
I switched to Mozilla a few months ago. Not out of zeal, but because Mozilla's better software. And it's hard to beat that native pop-up blocking. Using Mozilla, I forget that the web is infested with pop-up ads. When I have to use IE for some reason, I'm quickly reminded.
Or, you could go to Dell and get a Thick Client for the same price. $600 will get you a 2.2 Ghz box, with 256M ram, 15" flatscreen, 40 Gig HD. Comes with XP Home, or you could throw Mandrake 9.2 on there for free.
It might be fun to rename someone's keys as a practical joke, not that I've ever done it to anyone's computer keyboard.
Joke would be on you if you did this to someone like me who types on a QWERTY keyboard but with the OS set to Dvorak. They probably wouldn't notice the renaming.
I hope they do for Linux what Apple did for BSD--give it an effortlessly-useable GUI. That's the sort of thing the open source community has not shown itself capable of doing. Although commercial interests Red Hat and Mandrake have made progress in this area.
So Ritchie and company can end this SCO issue by convincing IBM to pay for the lawyer's fees necessary to sue SCO for copyright violation, asking for damages of $100 per sold SCO license of Ritchie's code.
Labeling technology with superlative names is a dumb idea. When it gets outdated it sounds stupid. When a 'supercollider' is surpassed, what do you call its replacement? When things NEWCARD is slow, creaky, and obsolete, what do you call it's replacement? NEWERCARD? EVENNEWERCARD? This isn't my idea, many people have said it. It's just a bad idea to name things in that fashion.
You're quoted as saying, "Scientists...now know how the universe will end and are on the brink of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the deciphering of the human genome." Is it also your belief that the consequences of understanding the beginning of the universe will approach the transformation of living that we're just beginning to see from the deciphering of the genome?
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sell the lot and cabin and live in a technologically decent place, Mr. Kaczynsky.
It's a fair assumption to have, considering it's held by the states, federal government, supreme court, and basically all informed people. And good thing, too. Otherwise there'd probably be pre-1960's mandatory prayer recitals in the public schools here--if not slavery.
I'm happy to live in the city that snatched this asshole. Unfortunately, the federal Can Spam act is going to make many individual spam laws null and void, and replace it with a bad and worthless federal law. If tech people thought congress was capable of making a problem worse, they will certainly see it with spam. When the Can Spam law goes into effect, the spam problem will probably get much worse, unfortunately.
SCO is knowingly making false and misleading statements which negatively impact IBM, RedHat, etc. Furthermore they are representing themselves to linux-using businesses as owners of Linux IP and demanding license fees. This is all not just unlikely to succeed, but in fact illegal. It's fraud. If prosecutors want to deal with it, Sontag, McBride, etc could see themselves facing not just civil actions which could be ameliorated by resignation and/or bankruptcy, but criminal actions. And I hope they do. They represent a destructive force, they are theives, and I hope they suffer the consequences.
Dipshits.
After reading that interview, I feel it's appropriate to quote Mr. T: "Ain't got TIME fo no JIBBA JABBA!"
I love the Orwellian Work Product known as MSFT. Every time somebody say they won't exclusively use Windows, MSFT says, "You Have To! If you don't you're Anti-Choice!"
I guess that's what you mean by 'the UN is like the Catholic Church'.
I thank my lucky stars I don't have to use a CLI. GUIs are clearly better. Who wants to read Slashdot from a text-browser like Lynx, for instance? Basically nobody.
As a physics guy who advocates greater science education and literacy, I'm occasionally asked by otherwise intelligent people, "Isn't it just a waste of time? We have division of labor, so why should I have to know anything about science?" This is the sort of headline which implicitly answers that question.
I switched to Mozilla a few months ago. Not out of zeal, but because Mozilla's better software. And it's hard to beat that native pop-up blocking. Using Mozilla, I forget that the web is infested with pop-up ads. When I have to use IE for some reason, I'm quickly reminded.
You should learn about how the government is set up in this country. Simple claims like Majority Rules are inaccurate. Fortunately.
You can use it as a thin client. You just keep your options open. You should spend some of your ($$$$$$) on a spell/grammar check.
Or, you could go to Dell and get a Thick Client for the same price. $600 will get you a 2.2 Ghz box, with 256M ram, 15" flatscreen, 40 Gig HD. Comes with XP Home, or you could throw Mandrake 9.2 on there for free.
Joke would be on you if you did this to someone like me who types on a QWERTY keyboard but with the OS set to Dvorak. They probably wouldn't notice the renaming.
gentle, obviously. Not gentile.
Be gentile in your responses, I read what he said, and he's just sort of hypothesizing, he's not really advocating.
I wouldn't either, because it was wrong.
It's important to get an expansion of fair use from congress. I don't think that'll happen, though, and we'll all be the worse for it.
I hope they do for Linux what Apple did for BSD--give it an effortlessly-useable GUI. That's the sort of thing the open source community has not shown itself capable of doing. Although commercial interests Red Hat and Mandrake have made progress in this area.
So Ritchie and company can end this SCO issue by convincing IBM to pay for the lawyer's fees necessary to sue SCO for copyright violation, asking for damages of $100 per sold SCO license of Ritchie's code.
Labeling technology with superlative names is a dumb idea. When it gets outdated it sounds stupid. When a 'supercollider' is surpassed, what do you call its replacement? When things NEWCARD is slow, creaky, and obsolete, what do you call it's replacement? NEWERCARD? EVENNEWERCARD? This isn't my idea, many people have said it. It's just a bad idea to name things in that fashion.
Not 'just like the inquisition'.
Plea bargains are valuable as they generate evidence which is useful for convicting associated criminals.
You're quoted as saying, "Scientists...now know how the universe will end and are on the brink of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the deciphering of the human genome." Is it also your belief that the consequences of understanding the beginning of the universe will approach the transformation of living that we're just beginning to see from the deciphering of the genome?