Sounds about right - put in one 300lb steel door, take out one or two seats from coach to even out the load (one or two less passengers, depending on how much the seats weigh). The remaining coach seats could be spread slightly further apart, giving a little more (inch or two) or legroom, allowing people to move in their seats to avoid deep vein thrombosis. Everybody wins.
Let's face it, flight attendants have a hard enough job keeping dozens of passengers happy without having to watch the fart monitor as well...
So NASA could "be surprised" by a very kind offer from the Russians to give them a nuclear powerplant that they just happened to have launched "by mistake". If that powerplant just happened to have been built by JPL and, er, *cough*lost*cough*, so much the better...
Or perhaps the Russians or the Chinese might be kind enough to at least lift NASA's fuel, so that NASA can launch an empty reactor.
I wonder if the craft could slingshot around one or
more moons/planets and return in a trajectory that would end up in a parking orbit around Earth's moon? By the time it comes back there may be a moonbase that could use the materials. If not, boost it slowly back to Earth for a refit after checking it out by remote (or something). It wouldn't be coming back for years (decades?), so there are possiblities...
3) Saddam had a ridiculous amount of warning time to hide his wmd even outside of Iraq. I would say that it is even likely that he did so.
There's hundreds of square miles of open desert in Iraq, and a rather large border with Syria and more open desert. It wouldn't take all that much to bury some useful stuff under the sand. With the sandstorms that go through that region regularly, there'd be very little surface evidence.
Actually, I'm fairly surprised that nobody popped up out of the sand in southern Iraq after the troops went past, to harrass them from the rear...
Not to mention that some of the protocols are public domain anyway... Wonder if they'd have the nerve to demand payment if those were the only ones someone wanted to see?
The difference between Bush and Clinton is that Clinton is no danger anymore - he's had his time in power, and now he's out. Bush, on the other hand, has the balance of his first term still to run, and some chance at a second term, depending on how well the ballots are rigged.
I don't necessarily agree with Clinton handing out pardons but hey, if those individuals really are dyed-in-the-wool crooks, it won't take them long to get in trouble again, will it?
What this really needs is for some Senator or Congressman to stand up in Senate or Congress and publically issue a challenge to DOJ to either piss or get off the pot. Enforce the damn law, or admit they're a bunch of pansies who can be pushed around by anyone with over $1Bn in the bank.
No, I don't for one moment imagine that will happen, but I can dream, can't I?
"The human fossils from Herto are near the top of a well-calibrated succession of African fossils," White said. "This is clear fossil evidence that our species arose through evolution."
That's really going to irritate everyone in Kansas that fought to have evolutionary theories suppressed...
Agreed, that if IBM copied Unix code, then they violated their license. But SCO are making the accusation, failing to prove it either by publishing irrefutable facts or by legal judgement, and are trying to stampede Big Blue into accepting an offer of settlement. Which all sounds a bit like a used car salesman trying to force the sale of a substandard car by implying that others buyers are about to make an offer.
Have you read the OSI position paper that demolishes SCO's claims? Among other things, it states that not only did Linux acquire SMP, JFS and other things before IBM was involved, but also that SCO's own Unix doesn't have those things now. Well, not reliably, anyway. So, stating that Linux is only enterprise-ready because IBM illegally copied SCO's code is laughable at best...
Forget about the code, this is about SCO revoking IBM's Unix license...
IIRC, recently someone at IBM said that they believe their Unix license to be "in perpetuity". He may have said "irrevocable" as well, I'm not sure. If IBM truly does have a perpetual Unix license, then: 1) SCO probably can't revoke it; 2) If SCO claim they can revoke a perpetual licence, they'll be looking at being dragged through court; 3) If SCO actually can revoke the license, expect IBM to sue SCO to get the balance of their license fee back, which would be all of it. perpetual - 20? years = near enough perpetual... 4) Isn't this extortion anyway? Like SCO threatening to sue Linus if other people don't roll over? Like a hijacker saying, "I'll shoot this kid if you don't give me fuel"??
You got it the wrong way around - Do Not Call lists imply that the methods being used to push spam out to unwilling recipients are actually OK. They imply that spam is a good thing, and that it should take some effort on my part to avoid getting spammed. It doesn't matter if the spam is email advertising pr0n, male enhancement products, some id10t in Nigeria with $25M, or telesales calls at dinner time, or even junk faxes.
The fact of the matter is that Do Not Call lists legitimize spam, by giving spammers something to point at and say "if you don't want to hear from me, get on the list."
If I had the funding to get legislation started, I'd be pushing for a Do Call lists - "Do call me, because I want spam" - with tough penalties for spammers that email outside the lists.
Before anyone starts barking about Freedom of Speech, consider this - an entrepreneur can stand on a street corner and try to sell stuff to you as you walk past, by boasting about his products. How would you react to that entrepreneur grabbing hold of you and forcing you to look at his product and listen to his spiel? It may only take a few seconds to hit delete, but those few seconds can add up quite quickly.
...these things have been going on in urban centers for decades
The school I was at in the South of England had to give up 150 rifles, 6 Bren guns, 6 Stirling submachine guns and a nmber of handguns due to the activities of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). That left us with 150 rifles, several 2-inch mortars, 6 non-firing Bren guns and a 6-inch rocket launcher. Barely enough to support a decent field exercise...
This was a British Public school, btw, not and kind of military academy. Yep, the school provided the weapons, and proper training. The only injury I recall was one kid who picked up some bruises when he missed the catch when a rifle was tossed to him...
BTW, it is widely believed in England that the IRA is/was supported in part by donations from Irish-Americans. Such support (whatever the source) allowed the IRA to bomb pubs (bars) and other public places, killing their own people as well as the hated British Army. Ever hear of "sectarian killings"? IRA hitmen would gun down their targets, in their own homes, in front of their wives and children, for "crimes" such as being associated with the "invaders".
So why should it be allowed to treat these wonders of the LORD's creation as liveless objects ?
I like to think it's because God himself gave mankind dominion over every living thing. If you want to argue with Him, feel free to take it up with Him in person.
So, the trick would be to get P2P tools classed as munitions...
Uh, does this fine country still class encryption products as munitions? If a P2P product was to, say, pick up a file from a remote location and encrypt it to my local disk, would that count? I'm thinking ROT-256 on each byte would work pretty well...
It doesn't really matter if they reveal the alleged infringing code or not. There are many web sites that carry the whole Linux kernel source, and many companies that package and distribute that code, and/or sell service contracts. Trade secret status requires that the secret not be shared without something like an NDA to lock it down, but once the secret escapes into the wild, its all over. If it's in the Linux kernel, it's not a secret.
At this point, all SCO has is the possibility of copyright infringement and/or IP theft. It makes no sense to conceal the infringing code.
Besides which, now that SCO has announced that they believe the Linux kernel to contain infringing code, they have to allow the Linux community the chance to correct the situation. Only an extremely SCO-biased judge would let them keep on milking the cash-cow of copyright infringement without insisting that the community be allowed to replace the alleged infringing code
Think of it as a logical win or lose... It really doesn't matter, as long as the machine keeps playing and thereby making it difficult for anyone to establish any kind of pattern.
Microsoft don't need to have the ability to pull off this complex Machiavellian stunt. They've got $40bn in the bank to fund other people to pull it off for them...
Does anyone really believe it's a total coincidence that Microsoft bought a SCO license so quickly? I don't imagine we'll ever find out, but it would surely be interesting to know what kind of communications went on between Microsoft and SCO immediately prior to that license being bought. In particular, did SCO announce the need for licensing, and Microsoft rolled over and paid up without argument? Or did Microsoft maybe propose this course of action to SCO, then used the license to bankroll them?
Remember, even if you are paranoid, there might still be people out to get you - even paranoids have enemies.
I just wanted to get the point over that if SCO's code is in the Linux kernel, it's already too late to use the trade secret argument for the NDA.
I agree that there could be IP theft going on, and that SCO may also have shot their own toes off by distributing the code themselves, and that possibly SCO stole the code from Linux... What I'm hoping is that if it gets to trial, a decent attorney for IBM/Linux can show the judge exactly how petty, childish and monumentally stupid SCO are being over the NDA. With luck, the judge would toss out the NDA (or whatever, IANAL), allowing the reviewers to go public with the "stolen" code blocks, and the Linux kernel would rapidly acquire patches to replace that code.
Indeed, it's definitely suspicious that SCO are not publishing the alleged infringing code, and thereby allowing the alleged infringers to cease-and-desist by patching it out. Seems like SCO are trying to set up a situation where they can perpetually claim infringement and effectively shut Linux out of the corporate world with threats of lawsuit
2) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment;
Such as what? I'm running Gentoo on a Compaq Armada laptop (333MHz, 6Gb, 128Mb) that a friend gave me. I've seen the same Armada going on Ebay for $200 - $300. Stage1 build, by the way, everything compiled from source...
If that's SCO's idea of expensive design and test equipment...
Don't forget that the "independant analysts" - the Aberdeen Group - is the same company that was paid by Intel to report that AMD's performance ratings were bogus. Also the same company who reported that MS Windows was more secure than Open Source, Linux and Mac OSX - oh, and Microsoft is a customer of the Aberdeen Group...
Now there's a good point - maybe those blocks were written by the same people...
If one (or more) of the early Unix developers later went on to contribute to the Linux kernel, any code they wrote may well have similar comments, due to being for similar functions.
There's one hell of a lot of stuff in the kernel, developed by numerous people - is it beyond the bounds of possibility that some early Unix developer took an interest in Linux and maybe contributed code within his special area of interest?
...the copyright holder gives the company a chance to correct his mistake (and shows proove immediatly)
It's been said here before - if SCO tell us which bits are "stolen", those bits would be replaced very fast by the kernel developers. This would not be optimum for SCO, because they could not then demand licensing from all Linux users. If they can get a judge to confirm the theft without disclosing to the public where the stolen code is, then they'll have a legal leg to stand on when holding the entire Unix world to ranso
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Let's face it, flight attendants have a hard enough job keeping dozens of passengers happy without having to watch the fart monitor as well...
Or perhaps the Russians or the Chinese might be kind enough to at least lift NASA's fuel, so that NASA can launch an empty reactor.
I wonder if the craft could slingshot around one or more moons/planets and return in a trajectory that would end up in a parking orbit around Earth's moon? By the time it comes back there may be a moonbase that could use the materials. If not, boost it slowly back to Earth for a refit after checking it out by remote (or something). It wouldn't be coming back for years (decades?), so there are possiblities...
I don't suppose there are any jobs openings for people to shoot power capsules at walls? Sounds like a fun job!
There's hundreds of square miles of open desert in Iraq, and a rather large border with Syria and more open desert. It wouldn't take all that much to bury some useful stuff under the sand. With the sandstorms that go through that region regularly, there'd be very little surface evidence.
Actually, I'm fairly surprised that nobody popped up out of the sand in southern Iraq after the troops went past, to harrass them from the rear...
Not to mention that some of the protocols are public domain anyway... Wonder if they'd have the nerve to demand payment if those were the only ones someone wanted to see?
I don't necessarily agree with Clinton handing out pardons but hey, if those individuals really are dyed-in-the-wool crooks, it won't take them long to get in trouble again, will it?
No, I don't for one moment imagine that will happen, but I can dream, can't I?
That's really going to irritate everyone in Kansas that fought to have evolutionary theories suppressed...
Have you read the OSI position paper that demolishes SCO's claims? Among other things, it states that not only did Linux acquire SMP, JFS and other things before IBM was involved, but also that SCO's own Unix doesn't have those things now. Well, not reliably, anyway. So, stating that Linux is only enterprise-ready because IBM illegally copied SCO's code is laughable at best...
IIRC, recently someone at IBM said that they believe their Unix license to be "in perpetuity". He may have said "irrevocable" as well, I'm not sure. If IBM truly does have a perpetual Unix license, then:
1) SCO probably can't revoke it;
2) If SCO claim they can revoke a perpetual licence, they'll be looking at being dragged through court;
3) If SCO actually can revoke the license, expect IBM to sue SCO to get the balance of their license fee back, which would be all of it. perpetual - 20? years = near enough perpetual...
4) Isn't this extortion anyway? Like SCO threatening to sue Linus if other people don't roll over? Like a hijacker saying, "I'll shoot this kid if you don't give me fuel"??
Just how fast is "a couple tens of thousandths of rotations per minute"??
The fact of the matter is that Do Not Call lists legitimize spam, by giving spammers something to point at and say "if you don't want to hear from me, get on the list."
If I had the funding to get legislation started, I'd be pushing for a Do Call lists - "Do call me, because I want spam" - with tough penalties for spammers that email outside the lists.
Before anyone starts barking about Freedom of Speech, consider this - an entrepreneur can stand on a street corner and try to sell stuff to you as you walk past, by boasting about his products. How would you react to that entrepreneur grabbing hold of you and forcing you to look at his product and listen to his spiel? It may only take a few seconds to hit delete, but those few seconds can add up quite quickly.
The school I was at in the South of England had to give up 150 rifles, 6 Bren guns, 6 Stirling submachine guns and a nmber of handguns due to the activities of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). That left us with 150 rifles, several 2-inch mortars, 6 non-firing Bren guns and a 6-inch rocket launcher. Barely enough to support a decent field exercise...
This was a British Public school, btw, not and kind of military academy. Yep, the school provided the weapons, and proper training. The only injury I recall was one kid who picked up some bruises when he missed the catch when a rifle was tossed to him...
BTW, it is widely believed in England that the IRA is/was supported in part by donations from Irish-Americans. Such support (whatever the source) allowed the IRA to bomb pubs (bars) and other public places, killing their own people as well as the hated British Army. Ever hear of "sectarian killings"? IRA hitmen would gun down their targets, in their own homes, in front of their wives and children, for "crimes" such as being associated with the "invaders".
I like to think it's because God himself gave mankind dominion over every living thing. If you want to argue with Him, feel free to take it up with Him in person.
Well, first he has to find this discussion on Slashdot, which might be tricky if he just lost all his assets...
Uh, does this fine country still class encryption products as munitions? If a P2P product was to, say, pick up a file from a remote location and encrypt it to my local disk, would that count? I'm thinking ROT-256 on each byte would work pretty well...
At this point, all SCO has is the possibility of copyright infringement and/or IP theft. It makes no sense to conceal the infringing code.
Besides which, now that SCO has announced that they believe the Linux kernel to contain infringing code, they have to allow the Linux community the chance to correct the situation. Only an extremely SCO-biased judge would let them keep on milking the cash-cow of copyright infringement without insisting that the community be allowed to replace the alleged infringing code
Think of it as a logical win or lose... It really doesn't matter, as long as the machine keeps playing and thereby making it difficult for anyone to establish any kind of pattern.
Does anyone really believe it's a total coincidence that Microsoft bought a SCO license so quickly? I don't imagine we'll ever find out, but it would surely be interesting to know what kind of communications went on between Microsoft and SCO immediately prior to that license being bought. In particular, did SCO announce the need for licensing, and Microsoft rolled over and paid up without argument? Or did Microsoft maybe propose this course of action to SCO, then used the license to bankroll them?
Remember, even if you are paranoid, there might still be people out to get you - even paranoids have enemies.
I agree that there could be IP theft going on, and that SCO may also have shot their own toes off by distributing the code themselves, and that possibly SCO stole the code from Linux... What I'm hoping is that if it gets to trial, a decent attorney for IBM/Linux can show the judge exactly how petty, childish and monumentally stupid SCO are being over the NDA. With luck, the judge would toss out the NDA (or whatever, IANAL), allowing the reviewers to go public with the "stolen" code blocks, and the Linux kernel would rapidly acquire patches to replace that code.
Indeed, it's definitely suspicious that SCO are not publishing the alleged infringing code, and thereby allowing the alleged infringers to cease-and-desist by patching it out. Seems like SCO are trying to set up a situation where they can perpetually claim infringement and effectively shut Linux out of the corporate world with threats of lawsuit
Such as what? I'm running Gentoo on a Compaq Armada laptop (333MHz, 6Gb, 128Mb) that a friend gave me. I've seen the same Armada going on Ebay for $200 - $300. Stage1 build, by the way, everything compiled from source...
If that's SCO's idea of expensive design and test equipment...
Do you see a trend developing?
Now there's a good point - maybe those blocks were written by the same people...
If one (or more) of the early Unix developers later went on to contribute to the Linux kernel, any code they wrote may well have similar comments, due to being for similar functions.
There's one hell of a lot of stuff in the kernel, developed by numerous people - is it beyond the bounds of possibility that some early Unix developer took an interest in Linux and maybe contributed code within his special area of interest?
It's been said here before - if SCO tell us which bits are "stolen", those bits would be replaced very fast by the kernel developers. This would not be optimum for SCO, because they could not then demand licensing from all Linux users. If they can get a judge to confirm the theft without disclosing to the public where the stolen code is, then they'll have a legal leg to stand on when holding the entire Unix world to ranso