"The situation isn't that bad. It would be if Microsoft's os were coming out with the new hardware, but it's not. "
I hate to rain on your parade, but what exactly does the following statement tell you?
"As part of the "trustworthy computing" model established by Microsoft, Phoenix d-NA will leverage support for Redmond's CryptoAPI (CAPI) to deliver intrinsic security on systems running Windows and.NET applications. In addition, a variation of digitally signed core system software will allow the integration of devices serving as network endpoints - a step the company bills as the "critical first link in a 'chain of trust'."
Look at their stock recently, nobody can argue that SCO hasn't been extremely succesful in the one way that matters to most investors.
Currently the largest flow of money is not on the stock market, it is on SCO's obvious capability to raise hard money from investors. Not stock trading, but hard currency flowing from one account to another. USD 50Mio were recently transferred to SCO and that represents a ton of money for a company whose sole aim is litigation. With that kind of money you can keep an army of attorneys busy for years, suing the holy bejeesus out of anything that has an "x" in its product name.
What's more: We still don't know the actual "sponsor" of the lump sum and we will most certainly have to wait a couple of years to really find out, *why* someone would invest hard cash at this point of the proceedings. On what ground did an investor come to the conclusion that USD 50 Mio is money well spent? For a company that does not have a marketable product, a company that hardly has any competent technical guys left?
What we are going to see in the next couple of years is a company that will always have at least one multimillion Dollar lawsuit going on. Always enough publicity to make it into the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and generally maintain the picture of "Linux Bad, Linux Bad".
Whatever the outcome of the IBM proceedings will be, SCO will always be in business of suing another company. They can't get bankrupt, unless one judge finds SCO guilty of something so hefty that no investor would be willing to cover that lump sum.
[...] Ever notice that China is officially the "People's Republic of China" despite very little representation for or by the people? Then there's the "Democratic Republic of Congo", which isn't democratic. And let's not forget the "Democratic People's Republic of [North] Korea"--a 2-for-1 deal there.
"As it stands the/. community for example as been very vocal about things like this but unfortunately it is not the majority of the public.
You know what? I doubt that.
The majority of the public is defined by who gets to represent them in parliament. I would be surprised if a bunch of savvy people couldn't make all the difference and mobilize an amazing number of creative people to utter their voice heard in the institutions they need to be heard.
" You using the NVidia binary drivers? There are longstanding issues between the NVidia drivers and Linux kernel framebuffer. Solution: don't run the framebuffer, or run the non-accelerated free nv driver."
The VESA-framebuffer works fine with many higher relotions (1600x1200) on my notebook together with the NVidia drivers.
" Could you please make page 2 of comments actually be page 2 of the comments."
Easy: Leave the main page as it is and pipe the comments to NNTP.
Is it really just the advertisements that prevent this? Why not create alt.fan.slashdot and have the discussions a lot easier to read with your favorite newsreader?
"Incidently...while I couldn't care less about what brand my shoes are (even if I was concerned about the style, nobody looks at the things anyway, and if they did, they'd hardly care),"
Shows you have never moved in the corporate world.
" Whenever I read an article talking about "bridging the technology gap" in a country where the reporter finds himself describing the average living conditions as "abject poverty", I can't help but wonder if the government isn't just trying to make a token gesture of goodwill and make it look like they're solving a problem."
That's nonsense.
The government needs IT for its administration - all of it. The decision to switch from Microsoft to Open Source is a migration, not an introduction of a new technology for the ruling masses.
"You will also note that quietly buried in the body of the article is that Forbes was also served with a subpoena. This is undoubtedly because of Mr. Lyons' articles."
BS.
From the article:
"One subpoena provided to Forbes requests all material related to communication with SCO or Canopy and any agreements that outsiders may have made with SCO or Canopy."
"[Perens & Raymond] I understand that you and he feel like you've got important things to add to the discussion, but chances are, Boise, et. al. aren't interested in any of that. They'd ask you a few rather meaningless questions, and that'd be it."
Last time I checked, a witness in trial can be questioned by both sides.
" Yes, but where your logic fails is that 1) train tracks are very expensve to build and 2) you still have to get the material from the rail termination to the final destination."
Mind you, that is not the point, just as the question trucks vs. rail in general misses the basic economic question of the necessity of any of these transport methods.
There is way too much redundant, hazardous, money burning and unnecessary traffic on the road that should be reduced in the first place.
What kind of goods are there that need to be transported over thousands of miles from their origin through manufacturing through storage until they finally land into the customers' hand. Using local products whenever reasonable in terms of environmental *and* economic calculation is the best way of protecting *anything* that is currently influenced by too much commercial traffic.
>> Heck, even CDs have a "no copy" bit, which is >> universally ignored....DAT has a no-copy bit >> that is honored by most "consumer" DAT devices
> I have every reason to believe that this is > completely false.
State your reasons, whatever they are.
Fact is that DAT and redbook standard Audio-CDs have incorporated SCMS, which allows you to make
a digital copy from the original, but not a second generation copy.
Your idea about a "60 Hz notch filter" is as absurd as I have ever read on/. CDs/DATs are digital media and the issue is about digital copies.
" remember that the fcc is ultimately run by people that are *elected*. if in 2005 poeple are bitching about not wanting to lose old-analog, it's not going anywhere."
The people most directly and negatively affected by digital restrictions do not vote.
There is something that *no* computer based voting process cannot guarantee: Anonymity
Whatever way you set it up, a computer can always be manipulated in such a way that the vote itself can be ascribed to one specific person, a person that left an electronic trail and can be identified.
With this in mind, computer based elections are unconstitutional, aren't they?
There is no better way than using a piece of paper and a ballott. Use electronics and computers to to the calculations, not for anything else that touches the area of IDing a voter's personal vote.
" I think that to have Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V implemented though would be awesome. I started w/ Command-C, Command-V on a Mac 15 years ago, then moved to Windows and used Ctrl-C, V, and then in linux now, I can't guarantee that it will work. I think that there is nothing wrong with having something that is more in line with what everyone "knows"."
That's BS.
Copy & Paste in X is a lot easier and more userfriendly than anything under Windows or Mac. It actually is the one feature that most Newwbies in the *ix world immediately grasp and see it as a welcome change to the constant haggle beetween having to use both mouse and keyboard to make use of a very simple (and fundamental) function.
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"4) Yes, When an exploit hits Windows, it hits many more machines, because there's many more Windows boxes than Linux"
That's news to me. Last time I checked, one of the biggest pieces of the cake *is* taken by Linux: the server market.
Try again.
"The situation isn't that bad. It would be if Microsoft's os were coming out with the new hardware, but it's not. "
.NET applications. In addition, a variation of digitally signed core system software will allow the integration of devices serving as network endpoints - a step the company bills as the "critical first link in a 'chain of trust'."
I hate to rain on your parade, but what exactly does the following statement tell you?
"As part of the "trustworthy computing" model established by Microsoft, Phoenix d-NA will leverage support for Redmond's CryptoAPI (CAPI) to deliver intrinsic security on systems running Windows and
RTFA helps.
[snippo great idea] Would that be an effective counterfud/return fire against Microsoft?
Where do I sign?
"what am I missing here. or is this thing on by default?"
RTFA
Do you realize that Google today is the foremost source of information for largest part of the industrialized world?
Just imagine Google having an editorial "Special" on Linux on their startpage - in all languages of the world.
Microsoft's worst nightmare coming true. Thank you, SCO.
Look at their stock recently, nobody can argue that SCO hasn't been extremely succesful in the one way that matters to most investors.
Currently the largest flow of money is not on the stock market, it is on SCO's obvious capability to raise hard money from investors. Not stock trading, but hard currency flowing from one account to another. USD 50Mio were recently transferred to SCO and that represents a ton of money for a company whose sole aim is litigation. With that kind of money you can keep an army of attorneys busy for years, suing the holy bejeesus out of anything that has an "x" in its product name.
What's more: We still don't know the actual "sponsor" of the lump sum and we will most certainly have to wait a couple of years to really find out, *why* someone would invest hard cash at this point of the proceedings. On what ground did an investor come to the conclusion that USD 50 Mio is money well spent? For a company that does not have a marketable product, a company that hardly has any competent technical guys left?
What we are going to see in the next couple of years is a company that will always have at least one multimillion Dollar lawsuit going on. Always enough publicity to make it into the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and generally maintain the picture of "Linux Bad, Linux Bad".
Whatever the outcome of the IBM proceedings will be, SCO will always be in business of suing another company. They can't get bankrupt, unless one judge finds SCO guilty of something so hefty that no investor would be willing to cover that lump sum.
I am not holding my breath.
And when they show you some matching code, which happens to come from BSD or something, how are you going to figure that out ?
I'd post it here.
Stupid question.
Apple are using a bsd core for OS X, not linux. Thus they are safe.
And I thought BSD was next. Silly me.
2) [surely] Give huge competitive advantages to foreign companies that will start selling non-DRM enabled hardware.
I'd like in writing that there will never be a law prohibiting you from importing DRM/TCPA-free computers.
[...] Ever notice that China is officially the "People's Republic of China" despite very little representation for or by the people? Then there's the "Democratic Republic of Congo", which isn't democratic. And let's not forget the "Democratic People's Republic of [North] Korea"--a 2-for-1 deal there.
You forgot the German Democratic Repuclic.
"As it stands the
You know what? I doubt that.
The majority of the public is defined by who gets to represent them in parliament. I would be surprised if a bunch of savvy people couldn't make all the difference and mobilize an amazing number of creative people to utter their voice heard in the institutions they need to be heard.
"My open response to Congress can be found at www.wtf.com"
And pop goes the wea^Hbserver.
" You using the NVidia binary drivers? There are longstanding issues between the NVidia drivers and Linux kernel framebuffer. Solution: don't run the framebuffer, or run the non-accelerated free nv driver."
The VESA-framebuffer works fine with many higher relotions (1600x1200) on my notebook together with the NVidia drivers.
" Could you please make page 2 of comments actually be page 2 of the comments."
Easy: Leave the main page as it is and pipe the comments to NNTP.
Is it really just the advertisements that prevent this? Why not create alt.fan.slashdot and have the discussions a lot easier to read with your favorite newsreader?
"Incidently...while I couldn't care less about what brand my shoes are (even if I was concerned about the style, nobody looks at the things anyway, and if they did, they'd hardly care),"
Shows you have never moved in the corporate world.
"What kept the USA and the USSR from destroying this planet?"
Luck. Sheer luck.
" Whenever I read an article talking about "bridging the technology gap" in a country where the reporter finds himself describing the average living conditions as "abject poverty", I can't help but wonder if the government isn't just trying to make a token gesture of goodwill and make it look like they're solving a problem."
That's nonsense.
The government needs IT for its administration - all of it. The decision to switch from Microsoft to Open Source is a migration, not an introduction of a new technology for the ruling masses.
"You will also note that quietly buried in the body of the article is that Forbes was also served with a subpoena. This is undoubtedly because of Mr. Lyons' articles."
BS.
From the article:
"One subpoena provided to Forbes requests all material related to communication with SCO or Canopy and any agreements that outsiders may have made with SCO or Canopy."
"[Perens & Raymond] I understand that you and he feel like you've got important things to add to the discussion, but chances are, Boise, et. al. aren't interested in any of that. They'd ask you a few rather meaningless questions, and that'd be it."
Last time I checked, a witness in trial can be questioned by both sides.
Please mod parent up. Right on.
" Yes, but where your logic fails is that 1) train tracks are very expensve to build and 2) you still have to get the material from the rail termination to the final destination."
Mind you, that is not the point, just as the question trucks vs. rail in general misses the basic economic question of the necessity of any of these transport methods.
There is way too much redundant, hazardous, money burning and unnecessary traffic on the road that should be reduced in the first place.
What kind of goods are there that need to be transported over thousands of miles from their origin through manufacturing through storage until they finally land into the customers' hand. Using local products whenever reasonable in terms of environmental *and* economic calculation is the best way of protecting *anything* that is currently influenced by too much commercial traffic.
Pretty simple, actually.
>> Heck, even CDs have a "no copy" bit, which is ...DAT has a no-copy bit
/. CDs/DATs are
>> universally ignored.
>> that is honored by most "consumer" DAT devices
> I have every reason to believe that this is
> completely false.
State your reasons, whatever they are.
Fact is that DAT and redbook standard Audio-CDs
have incorporated SCMS, which allows you to make
a digital copy from the original, but not a
second generation copy.
Your idea about a "60 Hz notch filter" is as
absurd as I have ever read on
digital media and the issue is about digital
copies.
What's that stuff you're smoking?
" remember that the fcc is ultimately run by people that are *elected*. if in 2005 poeple are bitching about not wanting to lose old-analog, it's not going anywhere."
The people most directly and negatively affected by digital restrictions do not vote.
The digital divide is already there.
There is something that *no* computer based voting process cannot guarantee: Anonymity
Whatever way you set it up, a computer can always be manipulated in such a way that the vote itself can be ascribed to one specific person, a person that left an electronic trail and can be identified.
With this in mind, computer based elections are unconstitutional, aren't they?
There is no better way than using a piece of paper and a ballott. Use electronics and computers to to the calculations, not for anything else that touches the area of IDing a voter's personal vote.
" I think that to have Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V implemented though would be awesome. I started w/ Command-C, Command-V on a Mac 15 years ago, then moved to Windows and used Ctrl-C, V, and then in linux now, I can't guarantee that it will work. I think that there is nothing wrong with having something that is more in line with what everyone "knows"."
That's BS.
Copy & Paste in X is a lot easier and more userfriendly than anything under Windows or Mac. It actually is the one feature that most Newwbies in the *ix world immediately grasp and see it as a welcome change to the constant haggle beetween having to use both mouse and keyboard to make use of a very simple (and fundamental) function.