But the "trade-secret" code is already published in the Linux source, if SCO is to be believed...
Either: 1) SCO's code is included in the Linux kernel, and is therefore irrevocably publically available and no longer qualifies as trade-secret; or 2) SCO's code is not in the Linux kernel and may still be a valuable trade-secret. Or it may not, but that's not Linux's problem.
There isn't a third option, and all this dicking around with NDA's and crap like that is merely making SCO look stupid.
8080cpu, 16Kb memory, assembler, cassette player for storage...
When I got a Sinclair Spectrum, I didn't know what to do with myself - twice as many registers, 4MHz clock, z80 cpu, Sinclair Basic. Still only 16Kb memory and cassette player, though. I eventually got some kind of 5.25inch floppy interface for it that turned out to have some bits of a parallel port available on a 9-pin Canon D-type connector.
I think the last program I wrote for that Spectrum was in assembler to toggle the parallel port to drive a bunch of radio-control servos using The Beasty controller. Counting bytes in delay loops to get precise timing to deliver 8 servo control pulses in a 20ms frame. I never quite got around to building the Lego robot to go with it, unfortunately.
So, does this mean PC sales are up or down? If sales are up, but piracy stays the same, the stats would be down. On the other hand, if the sales are down, the piracy growth rate would be down too...
Re:SCO still packs a punch?
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Following a link from the linked article, I came across this gem:
If IBM wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparently all ears.
Is it stretching the imagination too much to suppose that SCO are simply pissing people off in order to get themselves bought out in a settlement?
Leaving out whether it was a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction - if Tucker can prove that every word is true, he ought to be safe if he publishes. If he can't prove every word is true, he should be prepared to fight a libel case.
Just taking a couple of things from the story: the drunken scene at the wedding ought to be provable, provided the other parties were not so drunk they can't remember it. Being stopped by the police for speeding is a matter of public record, unless Katy was able to suppress it somehow. Tucker having wild sex, or not, at various times with Katy would be much more difficult for him to prove, or for Katy to disprove, but I suspect a libel judge would rule in her favor...
If that were the case, I think that the company would be given the option of either authorising the agents, or face further secret searches. Or possibly even no-so-secret searches by, for example, the IRS or the SEC...
After months worth of managers badgering me to fill out the form, I signed it "Mickey Mouse" and returned it.
Just FYI, you might want to pick a different name in future - Disney might just start biting your ass if they found out you took their god's name in vain...
Sounds like you definitely have grounds for legal action. If the company concerned is large enough, maybe one of those ambulance-chasing lawyers we all hate so much would take it pro-bono in the hopes of getting a big slice of punitive damages?
In fact, the law states that H1B's must be paid a fair wage minus 10%, as determined by the state Dept of Employment. One H1B I know received something like a 12% pay raise (she didn't tell me the precise figure) in order for the company to comply during her Green Card application.
Note that that probably wouldn't have happened if not for the Green Card application... And yes, the position has to be advertised, which implies that the salary would be posted or at least discoverable by anyone interested. I mean, only and idiot would apply for and accept a job without finding out what salary was offered before signing the contract...
Also note that companies found to be violating H1B law can lose the right to hire H1B's. This gives them some incentive to comply.
I'd be very surprised if any judge would allow the company to limit an employee's spouse's employment opportunities. I mean, where would that stop? Suppose the employee's kids wanted to work for a competitor, or maybe the employee's parents already work for a competitor. How about brothers and sisters? Cousins, aunts and uncles, etc?
I'm British, working in Oklahoma - could my employer (with branches in England) reasonably expect to prevent my sister working in the same field for a competitor?
Those are mostly rhetorical questions - I don't imagine any company would be stupid enough to try it...
True, you'd be in breach of contract, but if you can: 1) prove that you took no leads with you and; 2) that your current employer gained no benefit from your knowledge of your ex-employer's business; then a judge might be lenient. Particularly if you couldn't have gotten a job in a different trade.
Proving those points would be a bit tricky... That your ex-employer didn't actually notice your presence at their competitor wold be a point in your favor. Also, that they didn't take action during the NDA period ought to be in your favor too. IANAL, of course, and we all know they have a different view of the universe...:)
Doesn't matter who has the source. What guarantee do you-the-voter have that the program running in the voting booth was compiled from the available source? For that matter, even if you could prove it was the same program, what about other software in the system? Another poster asserted that the voting machine is running WinCE with a modified Access database - what are the chances of THAT source being available? And provably the same as the software running the voting machine?
It's no good proving the program is good and secure and accurate if some device driver or communication module might be able to alter the vote.
Far-fetched and paranoid? Yes. Could it happen? Absolutely.
A friend recently had to visit the dealership to have his ECU reprogrammed on his brand new Peugeot 206 - they were able to determine from that what, amongst other things, his top speed had been since owning it.
I remember reading some time ago about a guy who tried to keep the milage down on his car by disconnecting the speedometer cable. I think it was a BMW - something expensive, anyway. Only problem with that was when, after some thousands of unclocked miles, he hooked it back up, and then stared in disbelief as the mile counter started rolling up... I guess the onboard computer was keeping track after all...:)
I've heard that too, but I'm not sure I believe it. I guess I'll never know, because I don't have enough of that mythological stuff known as "money" to be able to check out the rumors about stores selling nVidia cards...
Re:Time for a class action lawsuit
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Apparently, being tagged as a potential terrorist is enough to get you locked up without access to legal representation, without a trial, and without even notification to your family. If Homeland Security can do all that without worrying about the Bill of Rights, why would they care about someone's right to travel?
The interesting thing to watch would be if all the various David Nelsons chartered a private flight to DC... Would they get off the ground, would they be forced down before reaching their destination, or what? Imagine the scene in the control tower:
Pilot: This is the David Nelson flight requesting landing clearance... Flight Controller: NO! Go Away! You can't land here! Pilot: You don't understand - I'm low on fuel. I'll be landing shortly whether I want to or not...
I just hope that when the material degrades, it does so safely. If it gives off any kind of fumes or melts down, it could make a big mess of the inside of your DVD player. Never mind any warnings there might be on the wrapper, you can guarantee that it wouldn't be long before someone's player got trashed...
No, but you can download an ISO that'll play UT2003demo on boot, with no installation necessary. If you're lucky enough to have an nVidia card, that is...
So if the US DOJ and Gov't evolved some backbone and actually clamped down on Microsoft, Bill Gates could simply buy Russia and move the company over there? Anyone else get a bad feeling about that?
Maybe your spam volume hasn't gone down, but the cases have created legal precedent that will be very useful in the future. The fact that several courts have found in favor of AOL and Earthlink adds weight to the argument that spammers are the scum of the earth and makes it more difficult for them to sue for the right to send their trash.
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Either: 1) SCO's code is included in the Linux kernel, and is therefore irrevocably publically available and no longer qualifies as trade-secret;
or 2) SCO's code is not in the Linux kernel and may still be a valuable trade-secret. Or it may not, but that's not Linux's problem.
There isn't a third option, and all this dicking around with NDA's and crap like that is merely making SCO look stupid.
When I got a Sinclair Spectrum, I didn't know what to do with myself - twice as many registers, 4MHz clock, z80 cpu, Sinclair Basic. Still only 16Kb memory and cassette player, though. I eventually got some kind of 5.25inch floppy interface for it that turned out to have some bits of a parallel port available on a 9-pin Canon D-type connector.
I think the last program I wrote for that Spectrum was in assembler to toggle the parallel port to drive a bunch of radio-control servos using The Beasty controller. Counting bytes in delay loops to get precise timing to deliver 8 servo control pulses in a 20ms frame. I never quite got around to building the Lego robot to go with it, unfortunately.
Isn't that rather jumping the gun? I thought it was up to a judge to grant injunctions...
So, does this mean PC sales are up or down? If sales are up, but piracy stays the same, the stats would be down. On the other hand, if the sales are down, the piracy growth rate would be down too...
Is it stretching the imagination too much to suppose that SCO are simply pissing people off in order to get themselves bought out in a settlement?
Just taking a couple of things from the story: the drunken scene at the wedding ought to be provable, provided the other parties were not so drunk they can't remember it. Being stopped by the police for speeding is a matter of public record, unless Katy was able to suppress it somehow. Tucker having wild sex, or not, at various times with Katy would be much more difficult for him to prove, or for Katy to disprove, but I suspect a libel judge would rule in her favor...
If that were the case, I think that the company would be given the option of either authorising the agents, or face further secret searches. Or possibly even no-so-secret searches by, for example, the IRS or the SEC...
Just FYI, you might want to pick a different name in future - Disney might just start biting your ass if they found out you took their god's name in vain...
Sounds like you definitely have grounds for legal action. If the company concerned is large enough, maybe one of those ambulance-chasing lawyers we all hate so much would take it pro-bono in the hopes of getting a big slice of punitive damages?
Note that that probably wouldn't have happened if not for the Green Card application... And yes, the position has to be advertised, which implies that the salary would be posted or at least discoverable by anyone interested. I mean, only and idiot would apply for and accept a job without finding out what salary was offered before signing the contract...
Also note that companies found to be violating H1B law can lose the right to hire H1B's. This gives them some incentive to comply.
I'm British, working in Oklahoma - could my employer (with branches in England) reasonably expect to prevent my sister working in the same field for a competitor?
Those are mostly rhetorical questions - I don't imagine any company would be stupid enough to try it...
Proving those points would be a bit tricky... That your ex-employer didn't actually notice your presence at their competitor wold be a point in your favor. Also, that they didn't take action during the NDA period ought to be in your favor too. IANAL, of course, and we all know they have a different view of the universe... :)
But if you've just been fired, and your recently-ex employer still expects you to honor the non-compete you signed, then you're fucked...
It's no good proving the program is good and secure and accurate if some device driver or communication module might be able to alter the vote.
Far-fetched and paranoid? Yes. Could it happen? Absolutely.
There's a similar problem with Saturday...
And of course, this email would not be delivered to any recipients with the letter P in their name...
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I remember reading some time ago about a guy who tried to keep the milage down on his car by disconnecting the speedometer cable. I think it was a BMW - something expensive, anyway. Only problem with that was when, after some thousands of unclocked miles, he hooked it back up, and then stared in disbelief as the mile counter started rolling up... I guess the onboard computer was keeping track after all... :)
I've heard that too, but I'm not sure I believe it. I guess I'll never know, because I don't have enough of that mythological stuff known as "money" to be able to check out the rumors about stores selling nVidia cards...
The interesting thing to watch would be if all the various David Nelsons chartered a private flight to DC... Would they get off the ground, would they be forced down before reaching their destination, or what? Imagine the scene in the control tower:
Pilot: This is the David Nelson flight requesting landing clearance...
Flight Controller: NO! Go Away! You can't land here!
Pilot: You don't understand - I'm low on fuel. I'll be landing shortly whether I want to or not...
I just hope that when the material degrades, it does so safely. If it gives off any kind of fumes or melts down, it could make a big mess of the inside of your DVD player. Never mind any warnings there might be on the wrapper, you can guarantee that it wouldn't be long before someone's player got trashed...
No, but you can download an ISO that'll play UT2003demo on boot, with no installation necessary. If you're lucky enough to have an nVidia card, that is...
So if the US DOJ and Gov't evolved some backbone and actually clamped down on Microsoft, Bill Gates could simply buy Russia and move the company over there? Anyone else get a bad feeling about that?
Maybe your spam volume hasn't gone down, but the cases have created legal precedent that will be very useful in the future. The fact that several courts have found in favor of AOL and Earthlink adds weight to the argument that spammers are the scum of the earth and makes it more difficult for them to sue for the right to send their trash.
Nice to see the US finally catching up with Europe...