And what about IBM's countersuit? I believe unless IBM also voluntarily agrees to drop its complaints, they still get to proceed against SCO too. SCO is going to get it one way or another. They have walked too far into this to just be given a 'get of court free' card.
Somehow I do not think they are targetting active Linux users with these deal. Their target market is those people who are basically computer illiterate, but want to get on the web/email without the hassle of going down to their local Best Buy to buy a computer, and then sign up for internet access. This is similar to what a lot of mobile phone carriers do. They bundle a phone with a contract.
I think 3G is dead in terms of what it originally aimed to be. Wifi has virtually destroyed what was supposed to be the most lucrative market for 3G. But if the carriers are somehow able to make their 3G offerings work side-by-side with Wifi, they might stand a chance of making some money off their investments. But I suspect you won't see any major innovation until 4G or 5G when carriers are able to integrate their networks in the Internet. When I can get native VOIP on my cell phone (without paying through the nose!), then the killer apps will really start to happen.
There is one difference this time. The Euro was never around in the 1980's, and by devaluing their currency they are going to motivate the other central banks around the world to rely less heavily on the US dollar. The consequences of this are non-trivial. When the US comes around from its current devaluation policy it's going to have lost some of its economic clout in the world, and won't be able to control its terms of trade as favourably as before. This makes no difference to the US Federal Reserve, but it will have an effect on international trade.
Do not be so quick to dismiss the long term viability of the Euro. The EU member nations realize they have too much to lose by dismantling the currency. I can't argue for France, but I think the rest of Europe can accept Germany's temporary flouting of the rules, as the Germans had to sacrifice quite a bit to make the EU a reality.
Yes, the impeding trade war was the massive tarriffs the EU Commission was threatening to put in place against US steel exports to the EU. Thanks for the further clarification, I should have been more specific.
Your argument has several flaws in it. You assume that military R&D is the only way to way to growth. The reality is that investing in military technology is not the most efficient way to advance your economy. Investment and advancements in the private sector is what really drives economic growth.
While there are examples of military technology making its way into the general market, like the Internet, much greater advances would be achieved by diverting those funds to non-military research labs. Look at Japan, they have a very small military compared to the US, and yet they have become very technologically advanced in the production of electronics.
The steel tarriffs are not being removed because of 'economic pressures'. They were just put in place a short while ago. The EU went and complained to the WTO, and the WTO agreed with the EU. So the US has to drop their steel tarriffs or they are going to face massive tarriffs at the EU (their biggest customer). In general tarriffs are being removed, because of basic economics, but not in this case.
The EU holds a lot of clout in the world. While they currently don't hold as much as the US, they are the second largest economy in the world (bigger than Japan). Foreign national banks still hold more US currency in reserve than the Euro, but the percentage of share for the USD is falling, and the percentage for the Euro is rising.
And obviously you haven't taken any either. Do you know why currencies fluctuate? Because of demand. If you want to import European goods to your country, at some point in the transaction you have to convert your dollars to Euros to purchase those goods. You are therefore demanding Euros, and the currency will rise accordingly (remember this is happen on a macroeconomic scale).
Currencies trade just like commodities do. When the Euro rises against the dollar it indicates that an increasing number of people have decided they want to hold onto Euro dollars, an increase in the demand. The lower valuation of the US dollar is a reflection of decreased demand for US goods. That is NOT a good thing for the US.
That is an oversimplification of the issue. It is almost the same as saying 'all good webpages should be good'. Well of course. But what defines good? Similarly, what defines making content easily available? The answer is not as trivial as you might think. And the definition keeps changing, because both people and the technology they use keep changing.
I don't think is how it would happen. I would be willing to bet, they did not even know the MAC address of the computer stolen.
It isn't that simple for the FBI to 'wait around for a specific MAC' address. AOL (and other ISPs presumably too) would have had to configure all of their systems to watch for this. Much more likely, the system 'called home', and let someone know that at a certain point in time the computer has a specific IP address. The FBI would have been notified, they would have asked AOL to check their logs to see which subscriber had that IP at that time. Then they got him.
No, you are still wrong. The MAC address is not used. The IP address is logged at the time the connection is made and is traced to the subscriber information (that DOES NOT mean it uses the MAC address, it could have been the username/password used for dialing in, it could have been a user/pass for PPP).
It not's very difficult. Once you have the IP address, you just do a query at ARIN. That will tell you which ISP the address belongs to, so you phone the ISP and ask them for the information about which subscriber had that IP address at the time you are concerned about. Almost All ISPs maintain this sort of information for auditing/logging purposes.
More than likely, the computers had some sort of software built into them to 'phone in' and notify a central location of its IP address. Then they just traced the IP address to his AOL account. Not very fancy detective work, just standard stuff.
You can replace an RFID with a new one. Hard to replace your retinas though. Think of it as a smaller credit card, but instead of carrying it in your wallet, it is embedded.
Personally, I wouldn't want to deal with the hassle of embedding. I think a smart approach would just be a small versatile chip that you could place on your watchband, a bracelet, or cellpone (whichever your prefer).
It would just be a new identifer number to match to you. How many bits are an RFID anyways?
I'm not sure everyone in the thread is going to get this joke. I believe the author is refering to the former German currency, called the mark. Though it has since been replaced by the Euro.
The law only gives the FTC the authority to make the list. But the FTC has stated they have neither the resources nor the technology to implement such a list.
Way to deflect the issue, kids. "yeah yeah, we have to be accountable... but in two years". Too bad they're going to have a little thing like "presidential election" first before all that comes about, huh?
You have to give the counties an appropriate amount of time to purchase voting machines that work this way. Not all of them have money falling out of their pockets that they can spend on brand-new voting machines (again), if they happened to recently purchase some machines without these features. Granted, those counties probably should not have purchased such machines, but if you force this on them too soon, you will get a backlash because the counties will have to pull the money from other parts of their budget.. AND that would piss voters off.
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And down the hill we go!
I expect that by the time the new year rolls along, we will be looking at a much lower stock price.
And what about IBM's countersuit? I believe unless IBM also voluntarily agrees to drop its complaints, they still get to proceed against SCO too. SCO is going to get it one way or another. They have walked too far into this to just be given a 'get of court free' card.
How dare you compare spammers to Saddam Hussein!
Not even Saddam deserves to be compared to spammers.
Somehow I do not think they are targetting active Linux users with these deal. Their target market is those people who are basically computer illiterate, but want to get on the web/email without the hassle of going down to their local Best Buy to buy a computer, and then sign up for internet access. This is similar to what a lot of mobile phone carriers do. They bundle a phone with a contract.
Yeah, something smells fishy.
I think 3G is dead in terms of what it originally aimed to be. Wifi has virtually destroyed what was supposed to be the most lucrative market for 3G. But if the carriers are somehow able to make their 3G offerings work side-by-side with Wifi, they might stand a chance of making some money off their investments. But I suspect you won't see any major innovation until 4G or 5G when carriers are able to integrate their networks in the Internet. When I can get native VOIP on my cell phone (without paying through the nose!), then the killer apps will really start to happen.
There is one difference this time. The Euro was never around in the 1980's, and by devaluing their currency they are going to motivate the other central banks around the world to rely less heavily on the US dollar. The consequences of this are non-trivial. When the US comes around from its current devaluation policy it's going to have lost some of its economic clout in the world, and won't be able to control its terms of trade as favourably as before. This makes no difference to the US Federal Reserve, but it will have an effect on international trade.
Do not be so quick to dismiss the long term viability of the Euro. The EU member nations realize they have too much to lose by dismantling the currency. I can't argue for France, but I think the rest of Europe can accept Germany's temporary flouting of the rules, as the Germans had to sacrifice quite a bit to make the EU a reality.
Yes, the impeding trade war was the massive tarriffs the EU Commission was threatening to put in place against US steel exports to the EU. Thanks for the further clarification, I should have been more specific.
Your argument has several flaws in it. You assume that military R&D is the only way to way to growth. The reality is that investing in military technology is not the most efficient way to advance your economy. Investment and advancements in the private sector is what really drives economic growth.
While there are examples of military technology making its way into the general market, like the Internet, much greater advances would be achieved by diverting those funds to non-military research labs. Look at Japan, they have a very small military compared to the US, and yet they have become very technologically advanced in the production of electronics.
The steel tarriffs are not being removed because of 'economic pressures'. They were just put in place a short while ago. The EU went and complained to the WTO, and the WTO agreed with the EU. So the US has to drop their steel tarriffs or they are going to face massive tarriffs at the EU (their biggest customer). In general tarriffs are being removed, because of basic economics, but not in this case.
The EU holds a lot of clout in the world. While they currently don't hold as much as the US, they are the second largest economy in the world (bigger than Japan). Foreign national banks still hold more US currency in reserve than the Euro, but the percentage of share for the USD is falling, and the percentage for the Euro is rising.
And obviously you haven't taken any either. Do you know why currencies fluctuate? Because of demand. If you want to import European goods to your country, at some point in the transaction you have to convert your dollars to Euros to purchase those goods. You are therefore demanding Euros, and the currency will rise accordingly (remember this is happen on a macroeconomic scale).
Currencies trade just like commodities do. When the Euro rises against the dollar it indicates that an increasing number of people have decided they want to hold onto Euro dollars, an increase in the demand. The lower valuation of the US dollar is a reflection of decreased demand for US goods. That is NOT a good thing for the US.
That is an oversimplification of the issue. It is almost the same as saying 'all good webpages should be good'. Well of course. But what defines good? Similarly, what defines making content easily available? The answer is not as trivial as you might think. And the definition keeps changing, because both people and the technology they use keep changing.
I don't think is how it would happen. I would be willing to bet, they did not even know the MAC address of the computer stolen.
It isn't that simple for the FBI to 'wait around for a specific MAC' address. AOL (and other ISPs presumably too) would have had to configure all of their systems to watch for this. Much more likely, the system 'called home', and let someone know that at a certain point in time the computer has a specific IP address. The FBI would have been notified, they would have asked AOL to check their logs to see which subscriber had that IP at that time. Then they got him.
No, you are still wrong. The MAC address is not used. The IP address is logged at the time the connection is made and is traced to the subscriber information (that DOES NOT mean it uses the MAC address, it could have been the username/password used for dialing in, it could have been a user/pass for PPP).
It not's very difficult. Once you have the IP address, you just do a query at ARIN. That will tell you which ISP the address belongs to, so you phone the ISP and ask them for the information about which subscriber had that IP address at the time you are concerned about. Almost All ISPs maintain this sort of information for auditing/logging purposes.
More than likely, the computers had some sort of software built into them to 'phone in' and notify a central location of its IP address. Then they just traced the IP address to his AOL account. Not very fancy detective work, just standard stuff.
Yup. Silly me..
Sounds like they need to form a new non-profit organization to represent the indie labels. Kind of like the FSF does for free software.
I would be happy to contribute to such an organization, and I am sure they would get a lot of support from Slashdot.
You can replace an RFID with a new one. Hard to replace your retinas though. Think of it as a smaller credit card, but instead of carrying it in your wallet, it is embedded.
Personally, I wouldn't want to deal with the hassle of embedding. I think a smart approach would just be a small versatile chip that you could place on your watchband, a bracelet, or cellpone (whichever your prefer).
It would just be a new identifer number to match to you. How many bits are an RFID anyways?
I'm not sure everyone in the thread is going to get this joke. I believe the author is refering to the former German currency, called the mark. Though it has since been replaced by the Euro.
The law only gives the FTC the authority to make the list. But the FTC has stated they have neither the resources nor the technology to implement such a list.
You have to give the counties an appropriate amount of time to purchase voting machines that work this way. Not all of them have money falling out of their pockets that they can spend on brand-new voting machines (again), if they happened to recently purchase some machines without these features. Granted, those counties probably should not have purchased such machines, but if you force this on them too soon, you will get a backlash because the counties will have to pull the money from other parts of their budget.. AND that would piss voters off.
Slander laws are sufficient, why recreate the wheel.
Because the legal system operates with glacier-speed slowness. Half of these kids would graduate before a case ever made its way in front of a judge.
From this moment forth, I declare this type of attack to be referred to as Belkin/Goatse Attack.