We should just assume that, even when it wasn't stated in the article? Was it so likely that a disability pensioner would be in jail before ever being convicted for something no one had yet received jail time for? Were they concerned that this disability pensioner was going to skip out on them?
From the article:
....today sentenced the disability pensioner to a maximum of five years and three months in jail, with a non-parole period of four years and four months.
and later:
Marinellis will first be eligible for parole in February 2008.
Do they let just anyone in Australia do the reporting?
The MPAA is in a much different situation. Box office receipts aren't down at all -- 2003's figures were $9.5 billion, the second biggest in history.
Ahm yes, but those numbers are based on data when the MPAA wasn't treating their customers like dirt and wasn't sueing everyone. Maybe after their lawsuits get the press they are after there will be a change in the numbers. Of course, if there is, they will just point to that as proof that piracy hurts their bottom line.
His sister, Jessica DeGroot, 28, of North Carolina, was fined $2,500 for each count, for a total of $7,500.
Considering the crimes involved (not just spam but fraud), and that all the defendents made millions (and the property records prove it), it's damn sad that one got off completely and pne that was convicted got only 3 "fines" of $2500 each. She must be laughing here head off now.
it may never happen at all because of "legal and management concerns".
Makes sense. I expect the lawyers and management pointed out that SCO would certainly never say anything about someone else that was not 100% true, and a program of wild accusations would be unseemly for a respected member of the community.
Chump is right, but here's a good reason why: Rather than pay full retail for XP, you could have bought an OEM copy. Perfectly legal and fully supported. Some mail order houses make you buy iy with a system, or at least with a CPU or hard drive, but some will sell it with any hardware (even a 95 cent cat-5 patch cable). And heck, even if you buy it with a low end cpu or small hard drive, your total cost is still less than the retail cost of XP.
Everything seems to be slashdotted, so I'm going to ask my question here in hopes of getting an answer: How did the anit-scammer manage to get the 419 scammer to actually send money? I know from what little I've been able to learn that the 419 scammer sent a bad check and was hoping to get merchandise and even money back on an "over payment", but how did the the anti-spammer convince the 419 scammer to send real money?
Taking the logic of the decision one step further, any copyright or DCMA protections a manufacturer of a device like the Xbox or the PS2 to lock the owners of those devices into only buying games with the manufacturer's protections in them are not valid either.
But after looking, my first thought was "have to get one to use as router/firewall"
No, I can't build it as tiny with off-the-shelf parts. But that's hardly the point, since tiny but crippled just doesn't cut it. As to your thought of getting one to use as a firewall, well, lets just say you might give it a bit more thought. The damn thing has a 56k modem, but apparently no ethernet port. And a decent firewall needs (at least) two ethernet ports; but this thing has no expansion capability. Hope you don't plan on using USB to Ethernet kluges for the connections; they would not only be expensive, but since the spec's only mention USB I'm guessing this is USB 1.1 and not even USB2. So no good for a tiny dedicated device like a firewall, and doesn't compete well with larger computers you can build up from stock parts.
Sure, there are always a small number of dedicated applications that one can use a slow, low power computer for. But there are many other choices available for such projects. This thing wasn't intended to be that, and doesn't compete well in that market. So let's take it for what it claims to be and evaluate it based on that; a very low end PC replacement with a brain dead OS (that in the end the user pays for). It just doesn't stack up against what else is available.
For $249 it's not partiularly inexpensive, fast or useful. Although it might be had to find parts like a hard drive of only 10 gig any more (at least for any manufacturing project where you want to make a number of the product over a year or more of time and have a viable supply of identical parts for the run), I certainly can put together a more capable PC for $249 with off the shelf parts. I expect third world users who look to spend a month or more of income on a PC are more likely to want to buy as much computer as they can for their money rather than care much that it comes in a small plastic box (and runs slow, has limited storage, and includes an OS that the user paid something for but will have to ditch).
So maybe he's half right. Piracy is certainly also caused by inexpensive hardware (as in Why should I pay $700 for software that I'm going to run on a $29.95 computer?"). So piracy is caused by expensive hardware or by cheap hardware. Simplifying theequation, piracy is caused by hardware. Q.E.D.
What's strange about this announcement is the inconsistency in the policy. They do charge for multiple licenses when there are multiple processors in a single server. What they have announced is that if Intel or AMD put two (or more) CPU cores in one chip, a server that uses one of those chips will only need a single license. However, if I take multiple CPU's and imbed them in epoxy and make a server out of it, and call it the "frovingslosh processor", they would want to charge me or my customers multiple licenses based on the number of CPU's in that. Where is that consistency in that? Is it even legal? (OK, I know Microsoft is above the law, but would it be legal for anyone else?)
From the article:Spearing estimates a version capable of putting out enough power to run devices would take two to three years more, with another year or two beyond that to produce a marketable version.
So, it's 5 years away, like flying cars and jet packs and everything else that stays 5 years away. Why don't I feel good about this?
By the way, so anyone else remember seeing TV comercials in the 60's that showed a new miracle insulation material (made of low tech aluminum foil and cardboard) that they showed in a refrigerator keeping both hot coffee steaming hot and live chicks alive, and that we were supposed to have in just a few years to insulate our homes so well that we wouldn't need heat in the winter? What happens to all this good stuff?
And I wonder how powerful that signal must have been to have caused such interference. Either that, or the receiving satellites must be having one hell of a resolution capability.
Hardly. Hams have talked around the world on low power battery radios (although not on this frequency range). It's not that suprising that something plugged into AC power was able to get a signal to a receiver in straight line of sight, even if it was a malfunction. And the receivers are designed to pick up weak signals, there are even watches made that can send the emergency signal (and note that they don't have an external antenna, which at this frequency should be quite large!) Now think that a TV might be attached to an antenna of the proper size for this frequency (it's between TV channels 6 and 7 and just a little above the FM broadcast band). Which is more amazing, that a small watch can get the signal to the satellite, or a TV plugged into the wall with a full size antenna might have a signal that gets out?
People don't seem to be willing to pay a premium for gadgets and alternative systems
Yea, how strange it is that people don't want to pay a premium for a device built with an OS the manufacturer got for free, rather than paying a licensing fee for each unit to Palm or Microsoft. Maybe some of the Linux developers that freely contributed their own work are willing to pay a premium for a device that profits from it, but many consumers seem to figure thay shouldn't be paying a premium for a device that already has saved on development costs and software licensing fees. Go figure!
That makes sense. And I can certainly see how Klaus would prefer to focus on what Knoppix is really intended to be, a CD distro. However, I would question his wisdom of accepting and including scripts that have proven to have problems over years of time. It doesn't reflect well on Knoppix. Better would be to just include a link to a web based source of the scripts. With that relatively simple extra step to get the scripts, it would be much easier for the script writers to continue to update and refine the scripts as problems with the install are found, and it would give the users a better communication path to get this information back to the script writers. But as things stand now, while there are hacks included on the CD to "install" Knoppix, it just doesn't work well, thus my respons to Yeah, cos using the Knoppix "Install to Hard Drive" menu option and waiting is difficult, which would have you think that Knoppix does have a good install system.
There are scripts right in Knoppix that let you do a HD install; but that doesn't mean everything is going to work as you would expect. I've been a regular at www.knoppix.net for a couple of years, and I'm always seeing problems that just shouldn't happen with HD installs. Simple things like permissions being set wrong on the install and networking that worked from to CD no longer working after the HD install. In fact, if you look at the specialized forums, you will see that there are nearly twice as many posts in the HD install forumthan even the hardware forum , and nearly three times as many posts as in the networking forum (yet many of the posts in the networking forun are about network access stopping after a HD install). So you can install to HD, just don't expect it to work even as well as it did from CD after you do!
Yeah, cos using the Knoppix "Install to Hard Drive" menu option and waiting is difficult.
Actually, the gripe is a legitimate one, although very poorly presented. I'm a regular on the Knoppin forums at www.knoppix.net and I constantly see people posting problems with things (mostly simple networking) that worked fine under Knoppix when running from the CD but stopped working as soon as Knoppix was installed to hard disk. Most of the time this seems to be simple permission issues or something that for some reason I don't understand needs to be added to a configuration file. But it's been going on for years and the install scripts never seem to get around to addressing it and making the premissioins right. See for yourself by scanning this forum.
I just write it off to the arogance that almost all Linux geeks seem to have for newcomers who don't know the cryptic commands to change permissions or all the magic places startup configuration stuff is stored. The geeks who master Knoppix must come across the same problems, but just know where to go to twiddle the right bits to make everything right.
That they don't "bother" to go back and make the HD install scripts do this seems strange.
forget the shitty camera, what's the point of this? I don't buy the "cool looking" coment; I want my color displays to have white backlighting, not red. Why have a color display if the backlight is red?
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We should just assume that, even when it wasn't stated in the article? Was it so likely that a disability pensioner would be in jail before ever being convicted for something no one had yet received jail time for? Were they concerned that this disability pensioner was going to skip out on them?
So he's a "disability pensioner", so what? Why assume he's not a sleazeball? Heck, I'm assuming his "disability" is a scam too.
and later: Marinellis will first be eligible for parole in February 2008.
Do they let just anyone in Australia do the reporting?
Ahm yes, but those numbers are based on data when the MPAA wasn't treating their customers like dirt and wasn't sueing everyone. Maybe after their lawsuits get the press they are after there will be a change in the numbers. Of course, if there is, they will just point to that as proof that piracy hurts their bottom line.
Considering the crimes involved (not just spam but fraud), and that all the defendents made millions (and the property records prove it), it's damn sad that one got off completely and pne that was convicted got only 3 "fines" of $2500 each. She must be laughing here head off now.
Makes sense. I expect the lawyers and management pointed out that SCO would certainly never say anything about someone else that was not 100% true, and a program of wild accusations would be unseemly for a respected member of the community.
Don't worry about him getting elected to the Presidency. Worry about him getting appointed to the Presidency.
None of this even mentions the serious problem that one of the people running might actually get elected.
Chump is right, but here's a good reason why: Rather than pay full retail for XP, you could have bought an OEM copy. Perfectly legal and fully supported. Some mail order houses make you buy iy with a system, or at least with a CPU or hard drive, but some will sell it with any hardware (even a 95 cent cat-5 patch cable). And heck, even if you buy it with a low end cpu or small hard drive, your total cost is still less than the retail cost of XP.
Everything seems to be slashdotted, so I'm going to ask my question here in hopes of getting an answer: How did the anit-scammer manage to get the 419 scammer to actually send money? I know from what little I've been able to learn that the 419 scammer sent a bad check and was hoping to get merchandise and even money back on an "over payment", but how did the the anti-spammer convince the 419 scammer to send real money?
Taking the logic of the decision one step further, any copyright or DCMA protections a manufacturer of a device like the Xbox or the PS2 to lock the owners of those devices into only buying games with the manufacturer's protections in them are not valid either.
No, I can't build it as tiny with off-the-shelf parts. But that's hardly the point, since tiny but crippled just doesn't cut it. As to your thought of getting one to use as a firewall, well, lets just say you might give it a bit more thought. The damn thing has a 56k modem, but apparently no ethernet port. And a decent firewall needs (at least) two ethernet ports; but this thing has no expansion capability. Hope you don't plan on using USB to Ethernet kluges for the connections; they would not only be expensive, but since the spec's only mention USB I'm guessing this is USB 1.1 and not even USB2. So no good for a tiny dedicated device like a firewall, and doesn't compete well with larger computers you can build up from stock parts.
Sure, there are always a small number of dedicated applications that one can use a slow, low power computer for. But there are many other choices available for such projects. This thing wasn't intended to be that, and doesn't compete well in that market. So let's take it for what it claims to be and evaluate it based on that; a very low end PC replacement with a brain dead OS (that in the end the user pays for). It just doesn't stack up against what else is available.
For $249 it's not partiularly inexpensive, fast or useful. Although it might be had to find parts like a hard drive of only 10 gig any more (at least for any manufacturing project where you want to make a number of the product over a year or more of time and have a viable supply of identical parts for the run), I certainly can put together a more capable PC for $249 with off the shelf parts. I expect third world users who look to spend a month or more of income on a PC are more likely to want to buy as much computer as they can for their money rather than care much that it comes in a small plastic box (and runs slow, has limited storage, and includes an OS that the user paid something for but will have to ditch).
So maybe he's half right. Piracy is certainly also caused by inexpensive hardware (as in Why should I pay $700 for software that I'm going to run on a $29.95 computer?"). So piracy is caused by expensive hardware or by cheap hardware. Simplifying theequation, piracy is caused by hardware. Q.E.D.
When did they thaw out Robert Heinlein?
What's strange about this announcement is the inconsistency in the policy. They do charge for multiple licenses when there are multiple processors in a single server. What they have announced is that if Intel or AMD put two (or more) CPU cores in one chip, a server that uses one of those chips will only need a single license. However, if I take multiple CPU's and imbed them in epoxy and make a server out of it, and call it the "frovingslosh processor", they would want to charge me or my customers multiple licenses based on the number of CPU's in that. Where is that consistency in that? Is it even legal? (OK, I know Microsoft is above the law, but would it be legal for anyone else?)
Yea, that's what it means.
Well, there is a real danger that one of the canidates running for office will win.
So, it's 5 years away, like flying cars and jet packs and everything else that stays 5 years away. Why don't I feel good about this?
By the way, so anyone else remember seeing TV comercials in the 60's that showed a new miracle insulation material (made of low tech aluminum foil and cardboard) that they showed in a refrigerator keeping both hot coffee steaming hot and live chicks alive, and that we were supposed to have in just a few years to insulate our homes so well that we wouldn't need heat in the winter? What happens to all this good stuff?
Hardly. Hams have talked around the world on low power battery radios (although not on this frequency range). It's not that suprising that something plugged into AC power was able to get a signal to a receiver in straight line of sight, even if it was a malfunction. And the receivers are designed to pick up weak signals, there are even watches made that can send the emergency signal (and note that they don't have an external antenna, which at this frequency should be quite large!) Now think that a TV might be attached to an antenna of the proper size for this frequency (it's between TV channels 6 and 7 and just a little above the FM broadcast band). Which is more amazing, that a small watch can get the signal to the satellite, or a TV plugged into the wall with a full size antenna might have a signal that gets out?
Yea, how strange it is that people don't want to pay a premium for a device built with an OS the manufacturer got for free, rather than paying a licensing fee for each unit to Palm or Microsoft. Maybe some of the Linux developers that freely contributed their own work are willing to pay a premium for a device that profits from it, but many consumers seem to figure thay shouldn't be paying a premium for a device that already has saved on development costs and software licensing fees. Go figure!
That makes sense. And I can certainly see how Klaus would prefer to focus on what Knoppix is really intended to be, a CD distro. However, I would question his wisdom of accepting and including scripts that have proven to have problems over years of time. It doesn't reflect well on Knoppix. Better would be to just include a link to a web based source of the scripts. With that relatively simple extra step to get the scripts, it would be much easier for the script writers to continue to update and refine the scripts as problems with the install are found, and it would give the users a better communication path to get this information back to the script writers. But as things stand now, while there are hacks included on the CD to "install" Knoppix, it just doesn't work well, thus my respons to Yeah, cos using the Knoppix "Install to Hard Drive" menu option and waiting is difficult , which would have you think that Knoppix does have a good install system.
There are scripts right in Knoppix that let you do a HD install; but that doesn't mean everything is going to work as you would expect. I've been a regular at www.knoppix.net for a couple of years, and I'm always seeing problems that just shouldn't happen with HD installs. Simple things like permissions being set wrong on the install and networking that worked from to CD no longer working after the HD install. In fact, if you look at the specialized forums, you will see that there are nearly twice as many posts in the HD install forumthan even the hardware forum , and nearly three times as many posts as in the networking forum (yet many of the posts in the networking forun are about network access stopping after a HD install). So you can install to HD, just don't expect it to work even as well as it did from CD after you do!
Actually, the gripe is a legitimate one, although very poorly presented. I'm a regular on the Knoppin forums at www.knoppix.net and I constantly see people posting problems with things (mostly simple networking) that worked fine under Knoppix when running from the CD but stopped working as soon as Knoppix was installed to hard disk. Most of the time this seems to be simple permission issues or something that for some reason I don't understand needs to be added to a configuration file. But it's been going on for years and the install scripts never seem to get around to addressing it and making the premissioins right. See for yourself by scanning this forum.
I just write it off to the arogance that almost all Linux geeks seem to have for newcomers who don't know the cryptic commands to change permissions or all the magic places startup configuration stuff is stored. The geeks who master Knoppix must come across the same problems, but just know where to go to twiddle the right bits to make everything right. That they don't "bother" to go back and make the HD install scripts do this seems strange.
forget the shitty camera, what's the point of this? I don't buy the "cool looking" coment; I want my color displays to have white backlighting, not red. Why have a color display if the backlight is red?