It's the corporate death penalty! but the problem is that corporations are allowed to loot the corpse of other dying corporations without picking up the liabilities. it's something dead people can't do, we have lots of laws specifically so that debtors get fair estate rights if individuals, but not nearly so for corporations. Much of SCO's "property" is IP.. technically NOT property.. but instead of dying with the owner like yours or mine would for anybody to find our old diary and use, corporate IP persists ad infinitum... Something like System V for all the battles fought over it should just have the IP killed outright. It's 40 years old at this point.. kill it, PD it, be done.
a judge can dismiss a case "with prejudice" meaning that to sue again would require special approval of substantially different circumstances than the last case you lost... It's the civil version of no "double-jeopardy" so large companies with deep pockets can't keep re-suing with slightly different claims.
the judge has started throwing out evidence gathered and stopped them from changing claims after the last discovery deadline passed. SCO was really crying about it because they posted the evidence "after the bell" and expected to get credit like every other time. (that's a legal trick to deny IBM the chance to respond to it before trial! OR IBM asks for more time and the case drags on and on) the judge denied it. Because they didn't get evidence in on time to support another made up claim, IBM started shutting down claims for not being substantiated... SCO is crying "unfair" to anybody that will hear them.
exactly, contempt isn't "one single thing" like an emotional outburst as seen on TV. IN SCO's case they are repeatedly breaking basic court rules and scheduling dates. Look at it like a sports game... SCO is like a bad basketball player throwing "fouls" to break up the game.. when it gets to a point, the refs start throwing the somewhat ambiguous "technical" foul on the whole team for being an ass! In other words, play the game fairly.. or lose!
SCO is taking "honest mistakes" like late filings and mislabeled filings as a way to abuse the court process. IN order to remain "fair" the court has tolerated them lest the judge get so fed up like judge Jackson did with Microsoft and "taint" the case being just plain mad at the lawyering going on.
I like the fact the NYT published the redacted article anyway. It clearly shows that what's blacked out was purposefully meant to change the MEANING of sections of text and not to cover up facts. It's a great "slap back" by the NYT to show what "redaction" is and why it's silly!!! The point of the article can't be missed though... the USA has been asshats to Iran... even when they felt sorry for us after 9/11. One interesting partially redacted point was that they actually helped us catch fleeing Al-Queda operatives in 2001... but Bush in his "wisdom" called them an "axis of evil" in the 2002 State of the Union. It also pointed out Iran doesn't need the US to "control" Iraq so they can be "safe". They are capable of defending their own boarders if the US can't control Iraq anymore... if the US won't treat them as an equal, there's no point talking.
The present administration refuses to give them "brownie points" publicly for any good that they do... while still beating the same dead horses of "evil Islamics" and "evil nukes". It does paint a different picture though, the rumor mill has been painting Iran as the source of our Iraq problems for several years now...perhaps as an "excuse" for war like they made up something to invade Iraq? This article would refute that in some sense that they would really like to get along. More than that they don't want to get invaded! So interfering in Iraq doesn't benefit them politically. Of course, Cooperation is not helping them either. No matter how much they cooperate, the White House won't take certain "self defense" measures Iran wishes to have off the table and negotiate. They've tried to be good, and the US response is "our way or the highway". Unfortunately, the current leader of Iran LIKES that option! As it stands right now, Iran has got no credit for their help with Al-Queda, and the US President has openly advocated, perhaps even planning, an unprovoked attack on them... Unless Bush backs down on that talk he's not going to get anywhere! At that point why should they try to help us out?
Simple, these guys aren't actively working in govt positions right now. If they came to any knowledge on their own, that happened to be true, it's unethical for the prez to censor it because he doesn't like it. They can't know (or at this point shouldn't know) one damn thing about the White House policy on Iran.. if what they might write is TRUE and the White House does act in some manor they said, it's either "procedure" set up ahead of time, or they are planning something far in advance, for example an unprovoked attack on Iran, and the prez would have huge egg on his face if the report was to be published and the media started adding up the pieces to see the prez is acting disingenuous in the Iran matter...
The simple fact is that the CIA cleared the report... only THEY are authorized in international intelligence and illegal spying. They keep tabs on who we attack with our armies (national security) and who we don't. They also like to keep their secrets for a very long time. The FBI on the other hand, is a POLICE organization, not intelligence. They have no more right to secrets about the past than your local cop does about a traffic stop.... they are civilian, police, and law enforcement... they have no right or need for secrecy beyond immediate investigations. Again, this would lead one to believe that somebody is going to be "making up" an "attack" by Iran real soon now... because there have not been crimes committed in the USA related to Iran and terrorism.
IN short, it's a report policy and official opinion that are being censored, not the facts and not secrets. Like the "conspiracy" nuts have said about Iraq, that it was all a setup start to make sense for Iran also now.. more than likely the report contained "forward looking statements" about Iran from too long ago.. and when something DOES happen with military action in Iran, the Prez wants it to be a "surprise" to the congress and people and to hide knowledge that the game was rigged from the start. Remember, these guys have been moved on for a while... they shouldn't know secret stuff, unless the secret stuff is something PLANNING or SET UP to be done... and that should never be secret!!!
why would the police "note" he has a passanger seat a full 7 days before it is missing. I would note one missing, but any normally stained one would go unnoticed. He was under suspicion already at that point, what cop writes that on a citation... half the time they can't spell my wife's name or license number right.. and they're just copying from the card!!!
Obviously the police were looking for something from the 3rd on... but there's a really big gap in timeline and they supposedly were bugging him often. Either he's incredibily stupid for a computer geek, or something is fishy. But he IS weird.. cops are jocks and don't like weird...
the telcoms cried that they could not possibly manage to re-license all their existing phone lines as cable devices in all the places they serve... after all, most are state-wide agencies. There is an element of truth to that in that it would be hard to deal with all the individual localites making special demands when the telephone companies are set up as state wide networks...they have nework links (i.e. 1 piece of fiber) that probably cross 3 cable juristictions after all. It would be innapproperiate to subject every telco repair to regulations... just get the work done.
BUT it's also a ploy to get around localities trying to sync services and infrastructure. Being as a fair portion of cable companies already have fiber to the neighborhood access point, many localities would probably rather have the telco SHARE those pipes!!! That would be really BAD for the telcos. They want to play both sides.. they don't want to be accountable to local rules for their telco equipment, and line maintenance with which they get considerable privellage as telco is a mandatory service and you MUST accept it's presence. Cable does not have privillages to do things like remove trees or aquire property thru emmient domain for the new bigger badder distribution points... cable has to really fight to stay in public right of way. Also, localities get some revenue from cable companies, this exempts telcos from that as well...they get to provide the service under "telcom" protected mandatory lines AND they don't have to follow local regulation or pay local franchise fees. Essentially to houses like mine that already have 3MB DSL they get to roll out a service for FREE.. and step on somebody else's monopoly.
For contrast look at where ethernet over Power line is going... that would make even MORE sense as then you'd need only 2 wires for EVERYTHING!!! and only 1 set of lines and one set of distribution towers... we could eliminate 2 utility bills per month for everybody! Power companies get even MORE monopoly power than telco... they can dig up yards, move poles, add transformers, knock down trees pretty much at will to keep the juice going. you can see why that would NEVER fly, it would make telephone lines obsolete overnight! but it's what they're doing to the cable companies..
your definition of "country" and the phone companies are drastically different. In my city "country" as defined by the telco is about 3 miles out of town. never mind the houses have been there for 40 years+ and some Subdivisions are just as old.. you don't get cable or DSL because they're too stingy to build it out. You'd think in 40 years, they'd upgrade equipment as the network grew to support the new features for end users but they DON'T. If nobody makes them do it, they upgrade equipment to make THEIR jobs easier, when for an almost equal amount of money and trenching and labor they could give the end users the same features. My parent's house has been rewired by all the major services in the last 10 years or so...They've even trenched for Fiber for some other purpose along their road!!! there's no reason they SHOULDN'T be able to have those things...but they're still over 2 wire copper that is barely capable of 33.6k.
The Telcos took big money to upgrade EVERYBODY 10 years ago. Now they'll be doing it as they were orginally granted tax breaks for.. but only for customers of the new "profitable" cable business. They've fucked around what the govt nicely requested and paid them to do for 10 years!!!! They're just waiting it out for the bar to get lower and lower until they get free money and gross profits...and get to kill the only other competition for wired data to your house!!! They're playing regulators for fools!!!
this is about the TELEPHONE companies wanting to roll out cable services. But they want the exemption so they don't have to roll out the high-bandwidth services everywhere, just where it's profitable... that's not really fair to grant one state-wide monopoly (phones) rights into another local-area monopoly's (cable) rights but then not expect them to upgrade.. not furnish, all their existing customers to the new stuff. What are we EXCHANGING with the telcos their right to show TV for WHAT? Remember, we're putting local Cable and third party phone companies out of business with this new rule!!! We already pay a little extra fee on our bills to get rural areas phone service... if we're granting telcos the right to show TV over the lines why SHOULDN'T they do that for everybody who has phones already... they've already taken money to get phone lines all over. It's a UTILITY to now have data/cable service on those lines. For example my parents live in a populated area, but they're still on an old fashioned, Party line... very crappy. They are close to town and should be getting something better.
the key is to get convicted... then get appealed for lack of some evidence. (If a case is just dropped without conviction..like they used to do on Matlock or Perry Mason with "last minute" courtroom revelations, then you haven't been CONVICTED and it's just starts a new crime-trial cycle. In those cases the case is not acquitted, it's withdwawn...a big difference!) At that point you have been guilty, and can't be re-guilty. The key is to find the "dead" person in between times and REALLY knock them off. Because if the person actually shows up there's ways they can undo the conviction. But if they don't "offically" present themselves... like they're trying to run away illegally and set you up... they might be harmed. At that point, even if the police DID find the body, you were convicted of a crime on X date, and this body is obviously fresh...
he knew for several days the police were going to investigate him...he had plenty of time to clean these things up! leaving sloppy evidence like book and tools in the car doesn't make sense. The wife was also known for playing very dirty also and milking it for all it was worth before the divorce was final(the sfgate news mentioned that earlier in the case) She did the usual "husband is beating me" routine but as they described it, it was almost fake (impression from news at the time)... but of course police take the report out on the MAN's fault, and because of that HE has to move out of his house, and HE can't have the kids.. even though everybody KNOWS the reports of abuse are fake or not fully true. She was cheating on him...in his house! and he had to get a new one. She was killed when the kids were with him... that almost points to the boyfriend as the suspect or a paid hit. It's almost like the OJ thing.. the setup evidence is almost TOO good... but pinning the suspect to the actual crime doesn't fit the time tables of where the POLICE say everybody was at. It's like the ex-wife did all the hard work to set the guy up as a bad guy for the divorce, but was living the wild life with somebody else... it's like a gift-wrapped mob hit and the police are falling for it while they have coffee with the real killer at the doughnut shop.
I'm not saying he couln't have done it, but it's like the OJ case.. soon we'll be finding the police lab "embelished" some reports...mislabled where evidence came from...etc. once that happens, the police have failed to do their duty of running a clean show and you HAVE to let him go not knowing if the police lied, or just did crappy work. His reputation is stained forever, So they just bleed him dry with legal fees and call it good. Nobody gets BANNED from law enforcement for deliberately screwing up the trial!!! That's what's sick with the whole system right now.
Quake 3 is a good example! Remember that there were several Open Source Mods just waiting for the engine code to be OSS... I believe you'd see the same here. There are OSS MMORG games out there, but none work "out-of-the-box" to where the focus can be on JUST art and game play not spending time waiting for basic features. All the "really good" OSS games are clones of commercial games that were able to leverage lots of free artwork made by fans for the established commercial game.. Nexius, Battle for Wesnoth, FreeCiv, etc. The open source "artists" and "gamemasters" are a different breed than programmers and they prefer to be in already working places like Neverwinter or Diablo2 for example where their work gets a large audience. The real NEED is for an artwork repository for OSS games with tools to migrate art between OSS engines. An extension of CChost just for game art would be really useful so engine writers would have something to work with... think of all the game mods out there...Quake, Unreal, Neverwinter, Dungeon siege, Diablo...but it's all over the web right now in incompatible formats... that needs fixed.
This is WHY we have record companies that pay for big marketing and why artist perfectly capable of putting their own stuff on iTunes still want to be part of a "label". I don't have a new mac yet, but I'm almost curious to buy this while it lasts! I've thought the small companies should band together like this for a while. After all, the one turn-off of the Mac shareware scene for me is that there are so many little companies that want $39.95 for little utility apps... not that I'd mind paying, but tracking all those little charges from year-to-year and version-to-version would be a real PITA over time! In the online world it would make sense for a website to act as "publisher" and collect a bundle up for a better price, and give a cut to the developers. After all, a $39.95 app probably costs most developers $10 to $15 just to invoice and bill you.. even online.. after credit card fees and labor charges to have somebody monitor it. If they drop the cost in the bundle, and let somebody else pick up the cost of invoicing they probably end up ahead. Perhaps the MacHeist people accidentally stumbled upon a better way to get developers PAID for their work!!!
Sure it makes things wildly insecure. You know lazy tired TSA workers will only glance at the passport and just trust what the display says. The usefulness works like this... I'm an evil terrorist, I know I can't get on planes.... I can remotely grab another passengers RFID tag in line at the boarding pass counter with a ticket on same flight I wish to perform evil deeds... even easier than pickpocketing!! Now I get THEIR pass info, forge my hacked RFID chip with their passport ID...it doesn't have to be a "real" ID chip, just report to the reader like one. remember, it will probably be in those little folders anyway... as long as the reader sees my hacked on first, and again the agent is too lazy to remove the document from it's case and inspect the passport for tampering, I'm in with their ticket and ID...
Before the goons come to get me!! I'll say I know NOTHING about these new passports beyond what's on slashdot. I got no expertise in RFID beyond looking at it. A good security system should have something in place to prevent this sort of "cloning" attack... you'd hope like hell that somebody's thought about this!!! and they don't just send the goons to cover it up.. after all, that's the new policy for scientific reports now... and has been the policy for security reports since 9/11.
in most cases the president wants the law... he just wants to change the wording...another of those issues where we should "trust the President, not some damn piece of paper" that seem to be happening more and more often.
first, I doubt military or "secret" agencies need to report to the FCC about outages... unless they are Shell corporations so we don't know they're working for the feds. The report of outage listings wouldn't be of that much good, but it would be interesting. They're talking about outages affecting 90,000 hours of phone serivice or more. There wouldn't be identify info for any one caller there, and if the numbers were presented in the report correctly I doubt every incident was reported individually... there would be breakdown totals by day/week/month... per company. There would need to be enough abstraction to make the report readable.. which would rule out too much info on any specific network node's condition.
Unless... the carriers are doing REALLY stupid stuff like blacking out entire city grids at say 3am. every Saturday nite. Companies are known to do repeatable stuff like that... I know my bank takes their ATMs down almost the same time each week. You could get that info from such a report because it is so widespread... and that could cause havoc. It's also incredibly stupid to the point of criminal that carriers would collude in such a manner... but that hasn't stopped companies before, has it?
good point, now that Microsoft has the channel locked in, I could see them working on an "office console".. in PowerPC of course... to cut out PC vendors. Of course they would still enforce their PC lock-in while the vendors wither, while undercutting them with their own product.
MS already has the tools in place...the only thing "saving" the PC makers at this point is that Microsoft can't execute to save it's ass!! All they need to do is port.Net to Xbox360, remember how they were supposed to port Office to.Net... see a pattern. it's got more than enough power, and even disk space. It would be a great thing for IT, one standard configuration "cookie cutter" and "just works". Use "grid" computing in the server room for processor intensive tasks but do everything from the console... it's got wireless network, wired network, wireless controller (kbd/mouse?), USB 2.0, You can supply hard drives or not.. and they're proprietary so they can't be "stolen" or hacked. It's the "perfect" office PC. Completely controlled by Microsoft!!!
the difference is that EVERY SINGLE CAR ON THE LOT doesn't include the very same "MotorSport" engine!!!
GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, etc... all make their own engines to put in their own cars... kind of like Apple. There's not one engine company out there demanding that car companies put only that engine in the car or they'll double the price of the car.
this is the same French Law applied to Apple's iPod/iTunes Lock-in when it was JUST Apple's system because they could not inter operate with other companies music or players. This is great news for OSS fans because it's sort of forcing HP to officially admit there are other OSes out there. Under French law Microsoft cannot legally enforce their OEM lock-in tactic like they do here and European laws & courts don't respect corporate "privacy" nearly the same way the courts here do... it is a "put you in jail" punishable offense over there to "conspire" to what MS has done for years here. perhaps this is an attempt to draw out HP into advertising another OS on their machines? Do they face the Law or face the wrath of Microsoft? Clever lawyer that got the ball rolling!
you realize at one point Nvidia tried to roll everything into binaries for the nforce chipsets... All that's needed is a company like Adobe to make a binary kernel package for Flash/Shockwave and the gig is up for Open Linux. That's what Linus doesn't see. Tivo routinely DMCAs people for "cracking" the non-kernel parts of their code... imagine if they could actually put a kernel module in for ALL the external plugs on the box! Imagine if Adobe released a Flash package that used a binary kernel module that loaded an encrypted Flash program... we'd have cool software in a heartbeat, and the **AA would be happy as clams.. but it would probably rewrite TCP and video to make a "Secure" stream. Maybe buddy up with Nvidia's binary video to help out! Of course NOBODY, not even Linus himself could troubleshoot it without breaking the DMCA, no matter how simple it would be to fix. From a developer POV they won't KNOW what to fix when they get bug reports... it may be ILLEGAL to try to find out!!
That's why "Tivo-isation" should be fought at all costs. Like other posters have said, Linux got this far on it's own... why allow changes to our "ethics" just because companies smell the money NOW?
The telecommuters are the ones with the most secure jobs... because IBM NEEDS them to be geographically close to the customers. It's the people that are doing all the leg work. Unfortunately that would be really bad SO disconnected. I'm not a people person, but when I'm left completely alone and ignored even by the boss, my disposition goes downhill fast... the kind of slide maxed out on Prozac can stop... It's the main thing that's kept me from traveling jobs even though I'd be REALLY good at it.
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It's the corporate death penalty! but the problem is that corporations are allowed to loot the corpse of other dying corporations without picking up the liabilities. it's something dead people can't do, we have lots of laws specifically so that debtors get fair estate rights if individuals, but not nearly so for corporations. Much of SCO's "property" is IP.. technically NOT property.. but instead of dying with the owner like yours or mine would for anybody to find our old diary and use, corporate IP persists ad infinitum... Something like System V for all the battles fought over it should just have the IP killed outright. It's 40 years old at this point.. kill it, PD it, be done.
a judge can dismiss a case "with prejudice" meaning that to sue again would require special approval of substantially different circumstances than the last case you lost... It's the civil version of no "double-jeopardy" so large companies with deep pockets can't keep re-suing with slightly different claims.
the judge has started throwing out evidence gathered and stopped them from changing claims after the last discovery deadline passed. SCO was really crying about it because they posted the evidence "after the bell" and expected to get credit like every other time. (that's a legal trick to deny IBM the chance to respond to it before trial! OR IBM asks for more time and the case drags on and on) the judge denied it. Because they didn't get evidence in on time to support another made up claim, IBM started shutting down claims for not being substantiated... SCO is crying "unfair" to anybody that will hear them.
SCO is taking "honest mistakes" like late filings and mislabeled filings as a way to abuse the court process. IN order to remain "fair" the court has tolerated them lest the judge get so fed up like judge Jackson did with Microsoft and "taint" the case being just plain mad at the lawyering going on.
The present administration refuses to give them "brownie points" publicly for any good that they do... while still beating the same dead horses of "evil Islamics" and "evil nukes". It does paint a different picture though, the rumor mill has been painting Iran as the source of our Iraq problems for several years now...perhaps as an "excuse" for war like they made up something to invade Iraq? This article would refute that in some sense that they would really like to get along. More than that they don't want to get invaded! So interfering in Iraq doesn't benefit them politically. Of course, Cooperation is not helping them either. No matter how much they cooperate, the White House won't take certain "self defense" measures Iran wishes to have off the table and negotiate. They've tried to be good, and the US response is "our way or the highway". Unfortunately, the current leader of Iran LIKES that option! As it stands right now, Iran has got no credit for their help with Al-Queda, and the US President has openly advocated, perhaps even planning, an unprovoked attack on them... Unless Bush backs down on that talk he's not going to get anywhere! At that point why should they try to help us out?
The simple fact is that the CIA cleared the report... only THEY are authorized in international intelligence and illegal spying. They keep tabs on who we attack with our armies (national security) and who we don't. They also like to keep their secrets for a very long time. The FBI on the other hand, is a POLICE organization, not intelligence. They have no more right to secrets about the past than your local cop does about a traffic stop.... they are civilian, police, and law enforcement... they have no right or need for secrecy beyond immediate investigations. Again, this would lead one to believe that somebody is going to be "making up" an "attack" by Iran real soon now... because there have not been crimes committed in the USA related to Iran and terrorism.
IN short, it's a report policy and official opinion that are being censored, not the facts and not secrets. Like the "conspiracy" nuts have said about Iraq, that it was all a setup start to make sense for Iran also now.. more than likely the report contained "forward looking statements" about Iran from too long ago.. and when something DOES happen with military action in Iran, the Prez wants it to be a "surprise" to the congress and people and to hide knowledge that the game was rigged from the start. Remember, these guys have been moved on for a while... they shouldn't know secret stuff, unless the secret stuff is something PLANNING or SET UP to be done... and that should never be secret!!!
Obviously the police were looking for something from the 3rd on... but there's a really big gap in timeline and they supposedly were bugging him often. Either he's incredibily stupid for a computer geek, or something is fishy. But he IS weird.. cops are jocks and don't like weird...
BUT it's also a ploy to get around localities trying to sync services and infrastructure. Being as a fair portion of cable companies already have fiber to the neighborhood access point, many localities would probably rather have the telco SHARE those pipes!!! That would be really BAD for the telcos. They want to play both sides.. they don't want to be accountable to local rules for their telco equipment, and line maintenance with which they get considerable privellage as telco is a mandatory service and you MUST accept it's presence. Cable does not have privillages to do things like remove trees or aquire property thru emmient domain for the new bigger badder distribution points... cable has to really fight to stay in public right of way. Also, localities get some revenue from cable companies, this exempts telcos from that as well...they get to provide the service under "telcom" protected mandatory lines AND they don't have to follow local regulation or pay local franchise fees. Essentially to houses like mine that already have 3MB DSL they get to roll out a service for FREE.. and step on somebody else's monopoly.
For contrast look at where ethernet over Power line is going... that would make even MORE sense as then you'd need only 2 wires for EVERYTHING!!! and only 1 set of lines and one set of distribution towers... we could eliminate 2 utility bills per month for everybody! Power companies get even MORE monopoly power than telco... they can dig up yards, move poles, add transformers, knock down trees pretty much at will to keep the juice going. you can see why that would NEVER fly, it would make telephone lines obsolete overnight! but it's what they're doing to the cable companies..
The Telcos took big money to upgrade EVERYBODY 10 years ago. Now they'll be doing it as they were orginally granted tax breaks for.. but only for customers of the new "profitable" cable business. They've fucked around what the govt nicely requested and paid them to do for 10 years!!!! They're just waiting it out for the bar to get lower and lower until they get free money and gross profits...and get to kill the only other competition for wired data to your house!!! They're playing regulators for fools!!!
this is about the TELEPHONE companies wanting to roll out cable services. But they want the exemption so they don't have to roll out the high-bandwidth services everywhere, just where it's profitable... that's not really fair to grant one state-wide monopoly (phones) rights into another local-area monopoly's (cable) rights but then not expect them to upgrade.. not furnish, all their existing customers to the new stuff. What are we EXCHANGING with the telcos their right to show TV for WHAT? Remember, we're putting local Cable and third party phone companies out of business with this new rule!!! We already pay a little extra fee on our bills to get rural areas phone service... if we're granting telcos the right to show TV over the lines why SHOULDN'T they do that for everybody who has phones already... they've already taken money to get phone lines all over. It's a UTILITY to now have data/cable service on those lines. For example my parents live in a populated area, but they're still on an old fashioned, Party line... very crappy. They are close to town and should be getting something better.
the key is to get convicted... then get appealed for lack of some evidence. (If a case is just dropped without conviction..like they used to do on Matlock or Perry Mason with "last minute" courtroom revelations, then you haven't been CONVICTED and it's just starts a new crime-trial cycle. In those cases the case is not acquitted, it's withdwawn...a big difference!) At that point you have been guilty, and can't be re-guilty. The key is to find the "dead" person in between times and REALLY knock them off. Because if the person actually shows up there's ways they can undo the conviction. But if they don't "offically" present themselves... like they're trying to run away illegally and set you up... they might be harmed. At that point, even if the police DID find the body, you were convicted of a crime on X date, and this body is obviously fresh...
he knew for several days the police were going to investigate him...he had plenty of time to clean these things up! leaving sloppy evidence like book and tools in the car doesn't make sense. The wife was also known for playing very dirty also and milking it for all it was worth before the divorce was final(the sfgate news mentioned that earlier in the case) She did the usual "husband is beating me" routine but as they described it, it was almost fake (impression from news at the time)... but of course police take the report out on the MAN's fault, and because of that HE has to move out of his house, and HE can't have the kids.. even though everybody KNOWS the reports of abuse are fake or not fully true. She was cheating on him...in his house! and he had to get a new one. She was killed when the kids were with him... that almost points to the boyfriend as the suspect or a paid hit. It's almost like the OJ thing.. the setup evidence is almost TOO good... but pinning the suspect to the actual crime doesn't fit the time tables of where the POLICE say everybody was at. It's like the ex-wife did all the hard work to set the guy up as a bad guy for the divorce, but was living the wild life with somebody else... it's like a gift-wrapped mob hit and the police are falling for it while they have coffee with the real killer at the doughnut shop.
I'm not saying he couln't have done it, but it's like the OJ case.. soon we'll be finding the police lab "embelished" some reports...mislabled where evidence came from...etc. once that happens, the police have failed to do their duty of running a clean show and you HAVE to let him go not knowing if the police lied, or just did crappy work. His reputation is stained forever, So they just bleed him dry with legal fees and call it good. Nobody gets BANNED from law enforcement for deliberately screwing up the trial!!! That's what's sick with the whole system right now.
should have had the W3C do their encrypting engine!! Cascading Style Sheets STILL haven't been cracked!
Quake 3 is a good example! Remember that there were several Open Source Mods just waiting for the engine code to be OSS... I believe you'd see the same here. There are OSS MMORG games out there, but none work "out-of-the-box" to where the focus can be on JUST art and game play not spending time waiting for basic features. All the "really good" OSS games are clones of commercial games that were able to leverage lots of free artwork made by fans for the established commercial game.. Nexius, Battle for Wesnoth, FreeCiv, etc. The open source "artists" and "gamemasters" are a different breed than programmers and they prefer to be in already working places like Neverwinter or Diablo2 for example where their work gets a large audience. The real NEED is for an artwork repository for OSS games with tools to migrate art between OSS engines. An extension of CChost just for game art would be really useful so engine writers would have something to work with... think of all the game mods out there...Quake, Unreal, Neverwinter, Dungeon siege, Diablo...but it's all over the web right now in incompatible formats... that needs fixed.
This is WHY we have record companies that pay for big marketing and why artist perfectly capable of putting their own stuff on iTunes still want to be part of a "label". I don't have a new mac yet, but I'm almost curious to buy this while it lasts! I've thought the small companies should band together like this for a while. After all, the one turn-off of the Mac shareware scene for me is that there are so many little companies that want $39.95 for little utility apps... not that I'd mind paying, but tracking all those little charges from year-to-year and version-to-version would be a real PITA over time! In the online world it would make sense for a website to act as "publisher" and collect a bundle up for a better price, and give a cut to the developers. After all, a $39.95 app probably costs most developers $10 to $15 just to invoice and bill you.. even online.. after credit card fees and labor charges to have somebody monitor it. If they drop the cost in the bundle, and let somebody else pick up the cost of invoicing they probably end up ahead. Perhaps the MacHeist people accidentally stumbled upon a better way to get developers PAID for their work!!!
Before the goons come to get me!! I'll say I know NOTHING about these new passports beyond what's on slashdot. I got no expertise in RFID beyond looking at it. A good security system should have something in place to prevent this sort of "cloning" attack... you'd hope like hell that somebody's thought about this!!! and they don't just send the goons to cover it up.. after all, that's the new policy for scientific reports now... and has been the policy for security reports since 9/11.
in most cases the president wants the law... he just wants to change the wording...another of those issues where we should "trust the President, not some damn piece of paper" that seem to be happening more and more often.
each cell phone needs a randomly triggered "outage simulation" so that a terrorist can't tell the real outages from the fake ones!
Unless... the carriers are doing REALLY stupid stuff like blacking out entire city grids at say 3am. every Saturday nite. Companies are known to do repeatable stuff like that... I know my bank takes their ATMs down almost the same time each week. You could get that info from such a report because it is so widespread... and that could cause havoc. It's also incredibly stupid to the point of criminal that carriers would collude in such a manner... but that hasn't stopped companies before, has it?
MS already has the tools in place...the only thing "saving" the PC makers at this point is that Microsoft can't execute to save it's ass!! All they need to do is port .Net to Xbox360, remember how they were supposed to port Office to .Net... see a pattern. it's got more than enough power, and even disk space. It would be a great thing for IT, one standard configuration "cookie cutter" and "just works". Use "grid" computing in the server room for processor intensive tasks but do everything from the console... it's got wireless network, wired network, wireless controller (kbd/mouse?), USB 2.0, You can supply hard drives or not.. and they're proprietary so they can't be "stolen" or hacked. It's the "perfect" office PC. Completely controlled by Microsoft!!!
GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, etc... all make their own engines to put in their own cars... kind of like Apple. There's not one engine company out there demanding that car companies put only that engine in the car or they'll double the price of the car.
this is the same French Law applied to Apple's iPod/iTunes Lock-in when it was JUST Apple's system because they could not inter operate with other companies music or players. This is great news for OSS fans because it's sort of forcing HP to officially admit there are other OSes out there. Under French law Microsoft cannot legally enforce their OEM lock-in tactic like they do here and European laws & courts don't respect corporate "privacy" nearly the same way the courts here do... it is a "put you in jail" punishable offense over there to "conspire" to what MS has done for years here. perhaps this is an attempt to draw out HP into advertising another OS on their machines? Do they face the Law or face the wrath of Microsoft? Clever lawyer that got the ball rolling!
unfortunately with mobile work the hours you keep end up being MOST of them...
you realize at one point Nvidia tried to roll everything into binaries for the nforce chipsets... All that's needed is a company like Adobe to make a binary kernel package for Flash/Shockwave and the gig is up for Open Linux. That's what Linus doesn't see. Tivo routinely DMCAs people for "cracking" the non-kernel parts of their code... imagine if they could actually put a kernel module in for ALL the external plugs on the box! Imagine if Adobe released a Flash package that used a binary kernel module that loaded an encrypted Flash program... we'd have cool software in a heartbeat, and the **AA would be happy as clams.. but it would probably rewrite TCP and video to make a "Secure" stream. Maybe buddy up with Nvidia's binary video to help out! Of course NOBODY, not even Linus himself could troubleshoot it without breaking the DMCA, no matter how simple it would be to fix. From a developer POV they won't KNOW what to fix when they get bug reports... it may be ILLEGAL to try to find out!! That's why "Tivo-isation" should be fought at all costs. Like other posters have said, Linux got this far on it's own... why allow changes to our "ethics" just because companies smell the money NOW?
The telecommuters are the ones with the most secure jobs... because IBM NEEDS them to be geographically close to the customers. It's the people that are doing all the leg work. Unfortunately that would be really bad SO disconnected. I'm not a people person, but when I'm left completely alone and ignored even by the boss, my disposition goes downhill fast... the kind of slide maxed out on Prozac can stop... It's the main thing that's kept me from traveling jobs even though I'd be REALLY good at it.