Hey, if you own SCO stock, couldn't you find out? I don't really understand how you would go about it, as IANAL, but you partially own the company, and you could force them to disclose financial records right?
Remember a week ago when at Senate hearings RIAA people said Peer to Peer that it could put inexpierenced users personal information at risk? My guess is there'll be a similar "Ban the Technology" movement against this for government use because of the potential danger. Except in cases where it would logically be needed, like free public internet access points. Of course, I could be wrong, but it's a thought.
Yeah, but the law is not blind. Just because it's only a search engine doesn't exempt it from the fact its primary use was to find and distribute copyrighted materials. The reason google and alta vista are immune is they're searches are not primarily used for illegal purposes. I think it's wise to go back to the lockpick example. As I recall, most states require a permit to own a lockpick. Not because a lockpick is a bad thing, but because of the potential for illegal use. This search engine, which was primarily used to further illegal activity, had no controls against illegal use, thus it became a target. IANAL.
Yeah, if this passes, the era of Kazaa et al. will end perminantly, as everyone will be too scared to get caught to share or download as the FBI WILL catch people for copyright violations. Fair use? Hah.
On the Metallica issue, I recall a very funny series of cartoons mocking Metallica while they were driving napster into the ground. They're still funny today, and can be found here. I mean, with this new site, could they be any more hypocritical? You can find Ulrich's testimony before congress about shutting down napster here. As I recall, he came off as whiny.
On SCO, this is a neat new idea. If enough major OSS developers start a divestment strategy against SCO, if nothing else they'll be ostracized and dead sure to fall when their lawsuits start going downhill. These sort of tactics could make the OSS community a force to be reconed with in buisness as well as technical circles, and maintaining the goodwill of the OSS community more important.
On ice cream and liquid nitrogen, i have no idea what to say because the site is/.tted to hell but Sounds Yummy.
Yeah, but everything Ambrosia puts out absolutly rules. 90% of absolutly suck. In my expierence, non-box games are more fun and more inventive than box games because box games today rely too much on graphics and cutscenes and voiceovers, and wind up terrible. See enter the matrix. Good graphics, good movie, downright crappy gameplay. Then consider Rockstar's GTA Vice. The graphics aren't the most impressive (I will not argue about this.) but the gameplay rules. Rockstar is a smaller, more independant develper. The big developers such as EA just insist on putting out rehashes of the same junk.
Why should we let them place wiretaps on spammers, who, mind you, at present commit no crime? Why not just make spam a crime and let them get a warrent like any other enforcement agency? It seems, at the least, they should have to go before a judge. To give a commerce regulatory agency spying powers is absurd and smacks of a police state. Let them regulate commerce, but leave spying to law enforcement and national security.
This is the last gurgle of a dying corperation. SCO produces, for all purposes, nothing. Why didn't they pursue these claims when they manufactured Caladra, a form of Linux? because they know they're groundless. There's no way that the Linux kernel isn't in public domain. To try to prevent distribution based on 80 lines of code of a program with thousands of lines is ridiculous. Not only that, but any 80 lines of code could be easily removed, thus SCO can't reveal it. When this goes to trial and they're forced to reveal the lines of code and the lines are promptly removed, no one will care and SCO will fade into obscurity. Good Riddance.
This should go without saying, but don't forget Cat 5's. Someone always forgets his, we all can make them, so bring a few extra. Not a big deal. And power cords. And label them so you don't lose yours, though Cat 5's are cheap.
What if, instead of a.sex, we have a.safe, where spam may not be sent, under penalty of fine. It seems this would be the optimal solution to the issue, a vountary opt-out program.
That's awesome. I was thinking of buying one of those a while ago. If you want more information go here. Price scared me off, though. Too bad, might reconsider it now.
Oh but there is. It is a trade secret. The trade is suing people.To reveal the lines of code would seriously jepordize SCO's only viable product, stupid lawsuits.
Yeah, but is he? Is there an IMMINENT, PRESSING NEED for this law? Isn't there just a need for a warning label? I guess what I'm saying is that we should consider whether we should allow the government to just take away the right to copy-protect CD's without an imminent need. I mean, just becuase it can be done doesn't mean it should be done. I, for one, think that the US was not created to take away liberties without societal need, and here there's no need past a warning label to the extent of "this cd can't be copied. don't buy it" or some such. Allowing the government to take away rights just because it's popular is dangerous. See DMCA, Patriot Act. And it's expensive. Consider the small record label that wants to copy-protect its CD's, but can't afford a lawyer to appear before a judge. This isn't fair. There's no reason the government should regulate this beyond a label, the forces of the market should handle this.
You know, we should get our information from a reputable and IT source like symantec who provides details on how to remove it rather than a news source owned by the people who make windows, the vulnerable software.
yeah nasdaq loves asshats who sue people for no good reason. Generates publicity and buzz around a stock. Not only that, SCO is looking pretty damn powerful with those threatining letters. All moronic reasons to buy stock, but popular ones.
Ok, assuming that 10 class A adresses are gone for LANs and such, there are 244*254*254*254=4,014,830,680 IPs availible. Ignoring servers and assuming everyone (from newborns to old people) needed a unique IP, we would be 6,338,915,000 people- 4,014,830,680 IPs =2,324,084,320 IPs short. I'd say that's a slight problem, if a goal really is to "wire the world".
But Linux, by its nature and the lack of a need to pay programmers/testers, allows more time to test it, and thus Linux crashes less than windows. A decade doesn't matter, a decade of man-hours do.
I know this is intended to to be funny but no, it can't. See the law of conservation of energy. You can't produce energy from a hard drive from mechanical means without energy change. You could try chemical change though. (burn it and use that to power mower).
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Hey, if you own SCO stock, couldn't you find out? I don't really understand how you would go about it, as IANAL, but you partially own the company, and you could force them to disclose financial records right?
Remember a week ago when at Senate hearings RIAA people said Peer to Peer that it could put inexpierenced users personal information at risk? My guess is there'll be a similar "Ban the Technology" movement against this for government use because of the potential danger. Except in cases where it would logically be needed, like free public internet access points. Of course, I could be wrong, but it's a thought.
Yeah, but the law is not blind. Just because it's only a search engine doesn't exempt it from the fact its primary use was to find and distribute copyrighted materials. The reason google and alta vista are immune is they're searches are not primarily used for illegal purposes. I think it's wise to go back to the lockpick example. As I recall, most states require a permit to own a lockpick. Not because a lockpick is a bad thing, but because of the potential for illegal use. This search engine, which was primarily used to further illegal activity, had no controls against illegal use, thus it became a target. IANAL.
Yeah, if this passes, the era of Kazaa et al. will end perminantly, as everyone will be too scared to get caught to share or download as the FBI WILL catch people for copyright violations. Fair use? Hah.
On the Metallica issue, I recall a very funny series of cartoons mocking Metallica while they were driving napster into the ground. They're still funny today, and can be found here. I mean, with this new site, could they be any more hypocritical? You can find Ulrich's testimony before congress about shutting down napster here. As I recall, he came off as whiny.
/.tted to hell but Sounds Yummy.
On SCO, this is a neat new idea. If enough major OSS developers start a divestment strategy against SCO, if nothing else they'll be ostracized and dead sure to fall when their lawsuits start going downhill. These sort of tactics could make the OSS community a force to be reconed with in buisness as well as technical circles, and maintaining the goodwill of the OSS community more important.
On ice cream and liquid nitrogen, i have no idea what to say because the site is
Yeah, but everything Ambrosia puts out absolutly rules. 90% of absolutly suck. In my expierence, non-box games are more fun and more inventive than box games because box games today rely too much on graphics and cutscenes and voiceovers, and wind up terrible. See enter the matrix. Good graphics, good movie, downright crappy gameplay. Then consider Rockstar's GTA Vice. The graphics aren't the most impressive (I will not argue about this.) but the gameplay rules. Rockstar is a smaller, more independant develper. The big developers such as EA just insist on putting out rehashes of the same junk.
I have it, I'm on the ritalin, don't waste your money on the omega-3, doesn't work. At least for me that's true.
100 BILLION DOLLARS! (austin powers :-) )
That's so absurd. That's like saying because the military can bomb people, they should bomb everyone.
Why should we let them place wiretaps on spammers, who, mind you, at present commit no crime? Why not just make spam a crime and let them get a warrent like any other enforcement agency? It seems, at the least, they should have to go before a judge. To give a commerce regulatory agency spying powers is absurd and smacks of a police state. Let them regulate commerce, but leave spying to law enforcement and national security.
This is the last gurgle of a dying corperation. SCO produces, for all purposes, nothing. Why didn't they pursue these claims when they manufactured Caladra, a form of Linux? because they know they're groundless. There's no way that the Linux kernel isn't in public domain. To try to prevent distribution based on 80 lines of code of a program with thousands of lines is ridiculous. Not only that, but any 80 lines of code could be easily removed, thus SCO can't reveal it. When this goes to trial and they're forced to reveal the lines of code and the lines are promptly removed, no one will care and SCO will fade into obscurity. Good Riddance.
This should go without saying, but don't forget Cat 5's. Someone always forgets his, we all can make them, so bring a few extra. Not a big deal. And power cords. And label them so you don't lose yours, though Cat 5's are cheap.
What if, instead of a .sex, we have a .safe, where spam may not be sent, under penalty of fine. It seems this would be the optimal solution to the issue, a vountary opt-out program.
That's awesome. I was thinking of buying one of those a while ago. If you want more information go here. Price scared me off, though. Too bad, might reconsider it now.
I believe the parent was referring to facism. The current administration is trying to remove socialist policies.
Oh but there is. It is a trade secret. The trade is suing people.To reveal the lines of code would seriously jepordize SCO's only viable product, stupid lawsuits.
Yeah, but is he? Is there an IMMINENT, PRESSING NEED for this law? Isn't there just a need for a warning label? I guess what I'm saying is that we should consider whether we should allow the government to just take away the right to copy-protect CD's without an imminent need. I mean, just becuase it can be done doesn't mean it should be done. I, for one, think that the US was not created to take away liberties without societal need, and here there's no need past a warning label to the extent of "this cd can't be copied. don't buy it" or some such. Allowing the government to take away rights just because it's popular is dangerous. See DMCA, Patriot Act. And it's expensive. Consider the small record label that wants to copy-protect its CD's, but can't afford a lawyer to appear before a judge. This isn't fair. There's no reason the government should regulate this beyond a label, the forces of the market should handle this.
You know, we should get our information from a reputable and IT source like symantec who provides details on how to remove it rather than a news source owned by the people who make windows, the vulnerable software.
yeah nasdaq loves asshats who sue people for no good reason. Generates publicity and buzz around a stock. Not only that, SCO is looking pretty damn powerful with those threatining letters. All moronic reasons to buy stock, but popular ones.
Don't worry. We're sure, like all other big ideas from PARC, it'll leave within a few days and start its own company.
Ok, assuming that 10 class A adresses are gone for LANs and such, there are 244*254*254*254=4,014,830,680 IPs availible. Ignoring servers and assuming everyone (from newborns to old people) needed a unique IP, we would be 6,338,915,000 people- 4,014,830,680 IPs =2,324,084,320 IPs short. I'd say that's a slight problem, if a goal really is to "wire the world".
I didn't catch it, so if anyone could explain how this works... would greatly appreciate it.
Hmm, it says it's a reference in time AND space, a sattelite time reference would be nifty, I don't think one exists at present.
But Linux, by its nature and the lack of a need to pay programmers/testers, allows more time to test it, and thus Linux crashes less than windows. A decade doesn't matter, a decade of man-hours do.
I know this is intended to to be funny but no, it can't. See the law of conservation of energy. You can't produce energy from a hard drive from mechanical means without energy change. You could try chemical change though. (burn it and use that to power mower).