You're missing the point. All the terrorists have to do is get a forged passport from one of those countries and they'll slip through. A security net with tons of holes doesn't do any good.
american passports can't be forged?
bad UI design, can't be bothered to figure out how to post a URL properly and it's not evident.
anyways, edit out the space in the cid and you'll see that i said Sun Micro was in on this.. lol.. too funny.
it's just too easy to point a finger at MS each time linux is attacked in some shape or form. Sun is actually getting hit alot harder by linux's popularity than MS.
Second undisclosed company licensing SCO's "technology"?? hmmm Sun Micro?
ah seems somebody else posted this theory earlier. i really should read everything first. however one thing i would like to know is if SCO wins in the US how does this affect the rest of the world, specifically europe?
maybe SCO is hoping that if they don't have to release the code and its location to the public AND the trial is held behind close doors AND they win, that they can charge license fees for all the linux kernels out there since there's no way to remove the offending code under these circumstances without rewriting the kernel from scratch.
how can a judges preside over cases where they have no clue of the subject matter? first of all it's a waste of time since things probably have to be constantly explained to them. secondly how can they be expected to rule fairly if they have no deeper understanding of the underlying issues?
judges should either have to have a technical degree to go along with their law degree or at the very least be required to take some sort of course (and pass it ).
justice can be blind, but does it have to be ignorant as well?
the US gets kicked in the nuts with perl harbor and decides to get involved. it gets kicked in the nuts with 9/11 and decides to get involved again..
how many times is the US gonna have to get kicked in the nuts before it realises that the world is small and getting smaller all the time. we all live on the same planet in what is fast becoming a global community and one country cannot ignore issues just because addressing them isn't convenient.
focusing on the short term with complete disregard for the future can be disasterous. 9/11 is a prime example (cia training and funding of nuts anybody?). careless past actions will always come back to bite you in the ass.
the higher good isn't who can make the most money or who has the most weapons. those things are meaningless in the long term. we must protect our species
people are forgetting that as a publicly traded company MS's obligation is ultimately to maximise shareholder profits. they can only lose money for so long before their shareholders say, enough. BG's net worth would drop quite a bit if investors start bailing on MS stock and i doubt he'd be happy.
the xBox is not like internet explorer where MS can just give it away for free and subsequently highjack/destroy an entire industry (yes, there was a browser industry before MS decided the internet might be something important). this is an arena where they have to prove themselves and so far in the home entertainment/appliance business they haven't exactly been doing to well. why? because they have no OS or installed userbase to leverage and therein lies their entire business model. their modus operandi is: protect and expand the monopoly at ALL costs which imho does not carry over to a marketplace where the consumer actually has a choice.
also, imho what makes or breaks a console is the games, not the console's technology. how many beautiful games have we seen which almost immediatly die because they just plain suck? How many games does the xbox currently have? compared to the PS2?
my prediction is that the xbox will be dead within a year and if not will be when the PS3 is released.
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dunno if anybody mentioned this already control-insert (copy) shift-insert (paste) works everywhere.
You're missing the point. All the terrorists have to do is get a forged passport from one of those countries and they'll slip through. A security net with tons of holes doesn't do any good. american passports can't be forged?
bad UI design, can't be bothered to figure out how to post a URL properly and it's not evident. anyways, edit out the space in the cid and you'll see that i said Sun Micro was in on this.. lol.. too funny.
somebody give me GOD status please http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67707&cid=6204 785
it's just too easy to point a finger at MS each time linux is attacked in some shape or form. Sun is actually getting hit alot harder by linux's popularity than MS. Second undisclosed company licensing SCO's "technology"?? hmmm Sun Micro?
ah seems somebody else posted this theory earlier. i really should read everything first. however one thing i would like to know is if SCO wins in the US how does this affect the rest of the world, specifically europe?
maybe SCO is hoping that if they don't have to release the code and its location to the public AND the trial is held behind close doors AND they win, that they can charge license fees for all the linux kernels out there since there's no way to remove the offending code under these circumstances without rewriting the kernel from scratch.
wow, that was a long sentence. plausible?
how can a judges preside over cases where they have no clue of the subject matter? first of all it's a waste of time since things probably have to be constantly explained to them. secondly how can they be expected to rule fairly if they have no deeper understanding of the underlying issues?
judges should either have to have a technical degree to go along with their law degree or at the very least be required to take some sort of course (and pass it ).
justice can be blind, but does it have to be ignorant as well?
the US gets kicked in the nuts with perl harbor and decides to get involved. it gets kicked in the nuts with 9/11 and decides to get involved again..
how many times is the US gonna have to get kicked in the nuts before it realises that the world is small and getting smaller all the time. we all live on the same planet in what is fast becoming a global community and one country cannot ignore issues just because addressing them isn't convenient.
focusing on the short term with complete disregard for the future can be disasterous. 9/11 is a prime example (cia training and funding of nuts anybody?). careless past actions will always come back to bite you in the ass.
the higher good isn't who can make the most money or who has the most weapons. those things are meaningless in the long term. we must protect our species
people are forgetting that as a publicly traded company MS's obligation is ultimately to maximise shareholder profits. they can only lose money for so long before their shareholders say, enough. BG's net worth would drop quite a bit if investors start bailing on MS stock and i doubt he'd be happy. the xBox is not like internet explorer where MS can just give it away for free and subsequently highjack/destroy an entire industry (yes, there was a browser industry before MS decided the internet might be something important). this is an arena where they have to prove themselves and so far in the home entertainment/appliance business they haven't exactly been doing to well. why? because they have no OS or installed userbase to leverage and therein lies their entire business model. their modus operandi is: protect and expand the monopoly at ALL costs which imho does not carry over to a marketplace where the consumer actually has a choice. also, imho what makes or breaks a console is the games, not the console's technology. how many beautiful games have we seen which almost immediatly die because they just plain suck? How many games does the xbox currently have? compared to the PS2? my prediction is that the xbox will be dead within a year and if not will be when the PS3 is released.
This petition is directed to the European Parliament. Its goal is to warn European Authorities against the dangers of software patents. This petition is supported by the EuroLinux Alliance together with European companies and non-profit associations. http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en