I've actually had staff try and convince me that there is no such thing for TCP/IP for Linux (or for that matter, OS/2), and they wouldn't let up or otherwise ask elsewhere. When asked "well, how am I connecting to the internet?", they are absolutely convinced that it is not possible that I am connecting to the internet.
I've also had tech support tell me that connection problems that are on their end are really on *my* end by techs at...well, the company's name rhymes with "birth stink". Obviously their phones just ringing off the hook is because I didn't change anything on my machine. (Said problems were solved by threatening attrition.)
I've already seen people who are trying to do raw text versions of the Harry Potter books. (The link on Geocities is gone anyway.) What's there to stop people from otherwise OCRing (or for those with buckets of spare time, typing) large books such as the HP series?
It's called "express mail". They only update once per day, but one is able to track it to some extent. Ditto with registered mail, which has the added security of a lockbox on your article.
Ah, you don't need it there in one or two days or in a lockbox? Sorry, you can only confirm delivery with the other trackable services they offer - certified, insured, merch return receipt ("brown label"), delivery or signature confirmation (which are only offered for priority mail (which is pretty much just first class mail weighing more than 13 ounces)), etc. And again, those only update once per day.
Keep in mind that this is a government run institution, so their internal capabilities are pretty underwhelming - as such, the ability to track mail in real time (something that all private overnight couriers offer) would be far too overwhelming to the USPS. If you want to know how underwhelming, to give you an idea, last I checked our local processing and distribution facility in Anaheim Hills, there was a bank of XTs and PC286 machines whose purpose in life it was to handle the scanning of PostNET barcodes (you know, those dual-length lines you'll probably find near the address or bottom of the envelope on an article of snail mail you get if you're in the US.) Now just think, do you think that they're going to use a beowulf cluster of 286 and XT boxen to electronically store every article of mail that passes through this little rinky-dink P&DF (one fo two in Orange County, CA)? They pass tons of mail per day, they just don't have the power there, and if they're still running said boxes, do you think they're going to fix what ain't broke? This is the government we're talking about.
Said barcode, by the way, is a twelve digit code that pretty much boils down to which box the letter lands in, with an added check digit (each digit in the 11 digit portion is added together, check is n, where n is the next multiple of 10 minus the total of the added numbers). Hardly privacy invasion. Example: PO Box 62 in Fullerton 92836 would wind up being a barcode that reads "928360062626". (The total of the first eleven is 44, next mult of 10 is 50, ergo 50-44=6.)
Don't even ask how I know this shite, it's less painful.
In the original article up top, I just simply pointed to the link on Yahoo biz. Now here's what was going through my mind last night when I submitted, as best as I can translate it.
Move away from the GPL? Perhaps McBride has been dropped a few times as a child. Last I checked, as far as the GNU GPL was concerned, it boils down to the old expression "in for a penny, in for a pound". Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I mean, hell, if it really was a mistake that the SCO or SYS V code should not have been submitted, fine, but now McBride appears to be trying to clean up on the perceived mistakes of his forefathers. Did the SYS V code get submitted by the previous owners? If not, SCO has no claim. (Beware, IANAL.)
Another consideration - if the code was submitted by a SCO employee acting as SCO without the *endorsement* of the higher-ups at SCO, do they still have a claim?
But back to the GPL, which basically requires people to distribute with source code and asks people to share their modifications to the source tree for general consumption. Both parties (IBM and SCO) may have done this. IBM certainly has contributed to Linux on various levels - if not in code, then in endorsement. And SCO wants them to move away from it. As if it were a business model? If they were moving forward with it as SCO seems to perceive, there's probably a lot of their stuff that would be under GPL. OS/2, anybody?
I wouldn't say that this would be the end of free software. Remember, there is more than one way to do this. The copycenter method, among others, comes to mind immediately.
Anyway, set the wayback machine to early 1986, when Halley's was making its once every 76 year orbit near earth. One distinct memory I have was going outside, looking up, and seeing the Milky Way arm that runs through the sky. This was in Yorba Linda, CA. (Yes, Dick Nixon's hometown, now shut up.) Back then there were still many fruit farms around the area.
Cut to present day. The farms are almost gone. Lots of light pollution. The last time I saw the MW was a couple years ago when I went out to have a look at the Leonids with a friend and my wife out by Lake Matthews in Corona. Simple reason: it was the closest location to Orange County where we could watch this with no worries about light pollution.
My point? Maybe they're not physically harming us, but in the name of progress we are probably shutting down the backyard astronomers.
$11.03, down $.97 (8.08%) from yesterday. And here's the source of that bit o' data.
So the trend? It seems to be going downhill a bit now. They press release, their stock goes up. Another volley from other people not SCO, they hit the basement - but they never *totally* recover.
Maybe by the constant barrage of press releases from IBM, Red Hat, Novell, etc., can SCO be done under.
Consider this redundant, but the government has a whole bunch of resources on their end. You know, like the IRS, the SEC, the FTC, that sort of thing. Hell, I bet the USPS can even get involved by means of the Postmaster General.
Well... he'd still be a black hat, but a bit more respectable. I think to do this, said black hat would start doing the Right Thing, seeing good feedback come his way (or if done anonymously, see the good feedback tossed about), encouraging him to do the Right Thing more.
Or, you could consider that, in a strictly legal sense, spammers do have the same rights on their machines as do J Random User (IE, no illegal intrusions), whether we like it or not - ergo the black hat stays black. Which, quite frankly, sucks. This being overturned would probably have been one really nice side effect of the Berman Bill, if said bill was twisted *just* so. Woulda been nice at any rate.
On the third hand, if said spammer is left wide open...well, it's very interesting what you can do with dd and a log file. Or dd and an entire partition. Or just fdisk.
Quit slashdotting the site! We're so busy taking the money from the children of the MPAA that the MPAA can't afford to run a good computer to host this site on! How can you be such insensitive clods, you filesharers!
This may be redundant, but louder is worse. The louder something is, the more likely it'll do long term damage to your ears. Other factors like frequency have a play in this as well - you can have a high frequency at a lower volume do the same damage (and induce more pain as well) than lower frequencies at higher volumes. No charts, just experience to demonstrate.
Linux is a process, he says. Well, I *could* just 'kill -9 (pid of init)' and make my machine at home promptly stop, but why in tarnations would I want to do that?
Then RMS says linux is the kernel, and the product is GNU/Linux.
Other consideration, off topic here: if SCO really does have their way, are we going to run something called SCO-GNU/McLinux?
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Then Cisco will fail.
I've actually had staff try and convince me that there is no such thing for TCP/IP for Linux (or for that matter, OS/2), and they wouldn't let up or otherwise ask elsewhere. When asked "well, how am I connecting to the internet?", they are absolutely convinced that it is not possible that I am connecting to the internet.
I've also had tech support tell me that connection problems that are on their end are really on *my* end by techs at...well, the company's name rhymes with "birth stink". Obviously their phones just ringing off the hook is because I didn't change anything on my machine. (Said problems were solved by threatening attrition.)
OK, that's it, kazaa is like Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything there.
I've already seen people who are trying to do raw text versions of the Harry Potter books. (The link on Geocities is gone anyway.) What's there to stop people from otherwise OCRing (or for those with buckets of spare time, typing) large books such as the HP series?
Considering their stock has been going generally down recently, that hope may come soon. =)
As for BSD, weren't the rights on that settled years ago anyway when AT&T still had copyright?
Ah, you don't need it there in one or two days or in a lockbox? Sorry, you can only confirm delivery with the other trackable services they offer - certified, insured, merch return receipt ("brown label"), delivery or signature confirmation (which are only offered for priority mail (which is pretty much just first class mail weighing more than 13 ounces)), etc. And again, those only update once per day.
Keep in mind that this is a government run institution, so their internal capabilities are pretty underwhelming - as such, the ability to track mail in real time (something that all private overnight couriers offer) would be far too overwhelming to the USPS. If you want to know how underwhelming, to give you an idea, last I checked our local processing and distribution facility in Anaheim Hills, there was a bank of XTs and PC286 machines whose purpose in life it was to handle the scanning of PostNET barcodes (you know, those dual-length lines you'll probably find near the address or bottom of the envelope on an article of snail mail you get if you're in the US.) Now just think, do you think that they're going to use a beowulf cluster of 286 and XT boxen to electronically store every article of mail that passes through this little rinky-dink P&DF (one fo two in Orange County, CA)? They pass tons of mail per day, they just don't have the power there, and if they're still running said boxes, do you think they're going to fix what ain't broke? This is the government we're talking about.
Said barcode, by the way, is a twelve digit code that pretty much boils down to which box the letter lands in, with an added check digit (each digit in the 11 digit portion is added together, check is n, where n is the next multiple of 10 minus the total of the added numbers). Hardly privacy invasion. Example: PO Box 62 in Fullerton 92836 would wind up being a barcode that reads "928360062626". (The total of the first eleven is 44, next mult of 10 is 50, ergo 50-44=6.)
Don't even ask how I know this shite, it's less painful.
Move away from the GPL? Perhaps McBride has been dropped a few times as a child. Last I checked, as far as the GNU GPL was concerned, it boils down to the old expression "in for a penny, in for a pound". Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I mean, hell, if it really was a mistake that the SCO or SYS V code should not have been submitted, fine, but now McBride appears to be trying to clean up on the perceived mistakes of his forefathers. Did the SYS V code get submitted by the previous owners? If not, SCO has no claim. (Beware, IANAL.)
Another consideration - if the code was submitted by a SCO employee acting as SCO without the *endorsement* of the higher-ups at SCO, do they still have a claim?
But back to the GPL, which basically requires people to distribute with source code and asks people to share their modifications to the source tree for general consumption. Both parties (IBM and SCO) may have done this. IBM certainly has contributed to Linux on various levels - if not in code, then in endorsement. And SCO wants them to move away from it. As if it were a business model? If they were moving forward with it as SCO seems to perceive, there's probably a lot of their stuff that would be under GPL. OS/2, anybody?
I need my monopoly money. Sorry.
I wouldn't say that this would be the end of free software. Remember, there is more than one way to do this. The copycenter method, among others, comes to mind immediately.
Oh, don't worry, if they respond to this with a demand for money, I plan on it. Granted it would be small claims, but hey.
Anyway, set the wayback machine to early 1986, when Halley's was making its once every 76 year orbit near earth. One distinct memory I have was going outside, looking up, and seeing the Milky Way arm that runs through the sky. This was in Yorba Linda, CA. (Yes, Dick Nixon's hometown, now shut up.) Back then there were still many fruit farms around the area.
Cut to present day. The farms are almost gone. Lots of light pollution. The last time I saw the MW was a couple years ago when I went out to have a look at the Leonids with a friend and my wife out by Lake Matthews in Corona. Simple reason: it was the closest location to Orange County where we could watch this with no worries about light pollution.
My point? Maybe they're not physically harming us, but in the name of progress we are probably shutting down the backyard astronomers.
So the trend? It seems to be going downhill a bit now. They press release, their stock goes up. Another volley from other people not SCO, they hit the basement - but they never *totally* recover.
Maybe by the constant barrage of press releases from IBM, Red Hat, Novell, etc., can SCO be done under.
Isn't that what diff(1) is for?
Consider this redundant, but the government has a whole bunch of resources on their end. You know, like the IRS, the SEC, the FTC, that sort of thing. Hell, I bet the USPS can even get involved by means of the Postmaster General.
Or, you could consider that, in a strictly legal sense, spammers do have the same rights on their machines as do J Random User (IE, no illegal intrusions), whether we like it or not - ergo the black hat stays black. Which, quite frankly, sucks. This being overturned would probably have been one really nice side effect of the Berman Bill, if said bill was twisted *just* so. Woulda been nice at any rate.
On the third hand, if said spammer is left wide open...well, it's very interesting what you can do with dd and a log file. Or dd and an entire partition. Or just fdisk.
I clicked send.
The message that was on the response page was "You will be hearing from us soon.". That almost has an ominous tone.
Almost.
The customer support staff has no clue whatsoever as to what's going on. Hammer them now. 800-726-8649
I suppose now is a good time to plug my own letter to SCO. Yes, I'm self plugging, but why not have a bit of fun?
I now present the following bits of source code that SCO has on display...
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$12.08. See here.
Time to buy? Are you nuts? Sell now before it's too late!
I didn't expect Red Hat to do this - was more expecting IBM to go at them with at 20MT nuke or something. Nonetheless, good show!
Quit slashdotting the site! We're so busy taking the money from the children of the MPAA that the MPAA can't afford to run a good computer to host this site on! How can you be such insensitive clods, you filesharers!
This may be redundant, but louder is worse. The louder something is, the more likely it'll do long term damage to your ears. Other factors like frequency have a play in this as well - you can have a high frequency at a lower volume do the same damage (and induce more pain as well) than lower frequencies at higher volumes. No charts, just experience to demonstrate.
Then RMS says linux is the kernel, and the product is GNU/Linux.
Other consideration, off topic here: if SCO really does have their way, are we going to run something called SCO-GNU/McLinux?