If I say "John Smith has not beat his wife in the past eight months" it implies that at some point in the past he abused her. The statement may be true, but very deceptive. Moore used the same tactics in Fahrenheir 9/11.
Can I quote you on that and just change "John Smith" to Michael Moore?
Maybe I'll just keep the phone for 911, maybe keep the answering machine at best.
That's what I pretty much do these days. Call screening via my answering machine. If they don't have time to leave a message then why should I answer the phone at all?
"I'm busy playing Doom 3, please leave your message at the tone":-)
Bah, If they are to sue Apple and other MP3 player manufacturers then why not sue everyone that makes CD players also since they could be playing illegally copied CD's. Not to mention manufacturers of CD/DVD writers. They are all pirates!!!
That's what worries me about these crazy new laws being proposed. My wife and I run a side business which "could" be severely impacted. We create DVD movies from customer photos and movies (VHS and miniDV). It has been discussed that DVD writers could infringe and thus become illegal. If that happens then we're shut down.
I would be very upset since we were hoping to continue expanding. Perhaps someday it would become my day job. We're doing pretty good and no, we don't pirate for our customers. They own the material (music and other media). We even went as far as purchasing royalty free music and backgrounds just in case people wanted it for their creations.
While I support P2P and these technologies, as currently conceived we would be going out of business. this is a garbage in garbage out law.
European marketing director Paul Salazar admits there have been plenty of screw-ups along the way but that Red Hat is now working hard to please the open-source community and investors alike. Making money from open source is a balancing act
I know this is going to sound bad but I really believe that Fedora was a big mistake. The previous RedHat releases IMO were MUCH more stable by a long shot than any of the Fedora releases I've used. It feels like alpha software at time. I know people who have had great success with Fedora. For some reason I'm just not all that happy with the uptime.
In all fairness I believe it's probably not all that bad. My experience with it however hasn't been all that great. I've been with RedHat since 4.1 came out. Since Fedora I've switched to other distros including SuSE, Debian and Open/Free/Net BSD.
I'm hoping they will either fix it before releases are available for use or simply dump Fedora and go back to the good old days.
Yes, I've been told Fedora isn't what you should be using for production. In the past I haven't had any problems with production environments running RedHat 7, 8 or 9. Now I wouldn't trust anything to Fedora. I've spent months working with it in a test lab and chatting up a storm on the mail lists.::sigh:: Sorry if this sounds like a bashing session. I really enjoyed RedHat in the past. Yes, I did purchase quite a number of AS 2.1 and 3.0 servers. I'm supporting them (in case anyone asks).
You're right, I don't. They should rein in their spending if they are spending more than they are taking in
That's what most people do. Especially when the economy tanked. Lots of people were cutting back as a result. The Government should take a lesson here and cut back. It's hard and it's necessary.
I used to work for Hill Air Force Base and learned really quickly what the Government does with our money. It's not spent in the best way possible. Usually it's spent in the worst way. I was in a position to know. I'm sure it hasn't improved since then.
What's ironic is the RIAA and MPAA are making more money with filesharing running free than without it. There have been many articles already posted on slashdot pointing out this overlooked fact. There is an unscientific poll going on which gives some insight.
Check it out. I've personally purchased a few thousand dollars in DVD movies (read box sets) that I wouldn't have without P2P. Basically it's given me the ability to see if something sucks and should avoid it (or purchase it).
Q: What makes you believe Linux will continue to gain momentum? A: I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it -- but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it.
Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in knowledge.
Very well said! The world works better when everything is shared... well... maybe not everything:-)
I thank you for your attempts at bringing honor back to the SCO name. In reward for your efforts, I'm willing to offer you a 1% discount when you purchase your Linux license.
Believe it or not I did. I also read several other articles which spoke about the retarded bills going before our Government (especially the one by Hatch). The bills could tear into our right to fair use overturning the rights we currently enjoy.
The article only states that P2P software should inform useres that downloading certain things could be illegal, warn users about sharing files, not include spyware with there software, and to make better (user-controlled) porno filters. How is this bad?
I never said it was bad. I did say the Government was going after a much broader range of freedoms we currently enjoy (thus my Betamax comment).
So I guess they think it's worse to do something illegal with P2P software than with a gun!?
Also scary thinking they could be using their time to dismantle the Betamax ruling. I know that Hatch has said he doesn't intend to allow the laws he's pushing to mess up our rights to use a VCR (for example). Problem is, he's clueless when it comes to practical application.
For example, some time ago here on/. we had a discussion about the Patriot act used by the FBI to pull the financial records of a gentleman running a StarGate SG-1 fan web site. So now we're using the terrorism bill in a manner Hatch never thought about. A friend in my local congregation works with Hatch and is shocked to hear of this. I provided a copy of what I have so she can bring it up. Should be interesting to see IF he does anything to fix this screw up.
That's exactly what the original complaint was (ie, misuse of SCO code into AIX), so they're well withing their rights.
Yeah I caught that too. How does this relate to Linux? Sounds to me like it doesn't and Linux so far is clean. The article had a bit mentioning their attacks on Linux. I don't see it. Perhaps someone smarter than me can help explain this one. Doesn't make any sense.
Personally I have dibs on Mercury. Once we start exploiting minerals and metals from other planets I'll be rich;-)
(Yeah.. I Know that's a lame comment, but so is owning the Sun)
This may come across wrong but...
on
The Saga of Katie.com
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Personally I feel this is simply corporate terrorism. I hope she doesn't hand over the domain to them. It's hers and she had it for years before the book was published. Apparently they knew it was in use since they have that disclaimer in the book stating that katie.com wasn't associated with them.
What makes it all especially ironic of course is that the book itself is about the abuse of the Internet to disrupt an innocent person's life. In the situation of Katie.com, however, it is increasingly the case that the abused has become the abuser.
I think this sums it up nicely. I wish her luck in fighting this!!
Even if Linux were as secure as Windows, Windows is the wrong benchmark. Defense systems should be held to a higher standard.
As secure as Windows? He's kidding.. right?
When I worked for the AirForce, they had several instances in which systems were comprimised (desktops). Various worms came out of the blue and just hammered their network. My systems running Linux noticed it immediately. In fact I was told there was NO problem. After a few hours of watching the logs logging attacks over and over again I then noticed a general email sent out to all explaining there was a problem and instructions were provided.
As secure as Windows? God I hope not!
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires software that runs commercial (and many military) aircraft be approved as part of a DO-178B certification. DO-178B Level A is the highest safety standard for software design, development, documentation, and testing. It is required for any software whose failure could cause or contribute to the catastrophic loss of an aircraft.
Several operating systems have been DO-178B Level A certified. Until Linux is certified to DO-178B Level A, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines should not be asked to trust their lives with it.
If Linux isn't at this level then what is the point of the article? Linux is certified for various things in the military. Whenever I stand up a server I was asked what OS I would be running. Everyone was apprehensive it would be Windows which requires a whole heap of testing before it's allowed to run in production. As soon as I told security it was either Unix or Linux they would sigh and tell me to go ahead. Much more confidence there:-)
"We definitely have duplicates and we have a lot of plain - is there a nicer word than junk?" Medenwaldt said.
Best quote of the article. It's no wonder that the music industry has been hurting for so long. They sell "junk" and people respond by not purchasing it. Obviously the RIAA is aware of this otherwise the CD's would never have been shipped to the libraries.
We all know that these mod chips have limited legitimate uses, but it is intellectually dishonest of the Slashdot crowd to intentionally ignore the primary purpose of these chips.
Huh? And who defined the primary purpose of these chips?
mod chips are nothing special. You can program them for basically anything. Heck, I can build one to run Linux on such a system.
Take fire for example. Is it something that is good or bad? Do we make such a general argument based on the fact that fire is primarily used to burn/destroy something? This is usually considered bad but then again there are specific uses in which fire is a good thing.
To clarify (if needed), I'm simply saying that mod chips are not bad. The use of mod chips like anything else may be used for something which is.
Slashdot Mirror
Copyright is automatic whenever you write something down. You probably mean trademarking.
:-)
Oops.. Yes. My mistake
You realize Microsoft will be calling for the rights to that
If I say "John Smith has not beat his wife in the past eight months" it implies that at some point in the past he abused her. The statement may be true, but very deceptive. Moore used the same tactics in Fahrenheir 9/11.
Can I quote you on that and just change "John Smith" to Michael Moore?
Maybe I'll just keep the phone for 911, maybe keep the answering machine at best.
:-)
That's what I pretty much do these days. Call screening via my answering machine. If they don't have time to leave a message then why should I answer the phone at all?
"I'm busy playing Doom 3, please leave your message at the tone"
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine"
Things are about to change. SCO is about to disappear.
"Guess this means I'll have to buy the white album again..."
:-)
Fortunately it and several others will fit on the same HVD disk
Bah, If they are to sue Apple and other MP3 player manufacturers then why not sue everyone that makes CD players also since they could be playing illegally copied CD's. Not to mention manufacturers of CD/DVD writers. They are all pirates!!!
That's what worries me about these crazy new laws being proposed. My wife and I run a side business which "could" be severely impacted. We create DVD movies from customer photos and movies (VHS and miniDV). It has been discussed that DVD writers could infringe and thus become illegal. If that happens then we're shut down.
I would be very upset since we were hoping to continue expanding. Perhaps someday it would become my day job. We're doing pretty good and no, we don't pirate for our customers. They own the material (music and other media). We even went as far as purchasing royalty free music and backgrounds just in case people wanted it for their creations.
While I support P2P and these technologies, as currently conceived we would be going out of business. this is a garbage in garbage out law.
European marketing director Paul Salazar admits there have been plenty of screw-ups along the way but that Red Hat is now working hard to please the open-source community and investors alike. Making money from open source is a balancing act
::sigh:: Sorry if this sounds like a bashing session. I really enjoyed RedHat in the past. Yes, I did purchase quite a number of AS 2.1 and 3.0 servers. I'm supporting them (in case anyone asks).
I know this is going to sound bad but I really believe that Fedora was a big mistake. The previous RedHat releases IMO were MUCH more stable by a long shot than any of the Fedora releases I've used. It feels like alpha software at time. I know people who have had great success with Fedora. For some reason I'm just not all that happy with the uptime.
In all fairness I believe it's probably not all that bad. My experience with it however hasn't been all that great. I've been with RedHat since 4.1 came out. Since Fedora I've switched to other distros including SuSE, Debian and Open/Free/Net BSD.
I'm hoping they will either fix it before releases are available for use or simply dump Fedora and go back to the good old days.
Yes, I've been told Fedora isn't what you should be using for production. In the past I haven't had any problems with production environments running RedHat 7, 8 or 9. Now I wouldn't trust anything to Fedora. I've spent months working with it in a test lab and chatting up a storm on the mail lists.
You're right, I don't. They should rein in their spending if they are spending more than they are taking in
That's what most people do. Especially when the economy tanked. Lots of people were cutting back as a result. The Government should take a lesson here and cut back. It's hard and it's necessary.
I used to work for Hill Air Force Base and learned really quickly what the Government does with our money. It's not spent in the best way possible. Usually it's spent in the worst way. I was in a position to know. I'm sure it hasn't improved since then.
What's ironic is the RIAA and MPAA are making more money with filesharing running free than without it. There have been many articles already posted on slashdot pointing out this overlooked fact. There is an unscientific poll going on which gives some insight.
http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/sharing/
Check it out. I've personally purchased a few thousand dollars in DVD movies (read box sets) that I wouldn't have without P2P. Basically it's given me the ability to see if something sucks and should avoid it (or purchase it).
Q: What makes you believe Linux will continue to gain momentum?
:-)
A: I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it -- but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it.
Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in knowledge.
Very well said! The world works better when everything is shared... well... maybe not everything
How about decapitalizing 'God' ?
;-)
*gets struck by lightning*
Now look at what you've done. You made Uncle Bill mad again.
Dear Slashdot reader,
I thank you for your attempts at bringing honor back to the SCO name. In reward for your efforts, I'm willing to offer you a 1% discount when you purchase your Linux license.
Sincerely,
Darl McBride
Dear Darl,
I just bought a mac. Send me the money instead.
Sincerely,
A previous SCO user.
Well I for one welcome our new Overlo.....
Never mind... Too easy.
Uh, rtfa
Believe it or not I did. I also read several other articles which spoke about the retarded bills going before our Government (especially the one by Hatch). The bills could tear into our right to fair use overturning the rights we currently enjoy.
The article only states that P2P software should inform useres that downloading certain things could be illegal, warn users about sharing files, not include spyware with there software, and to make better (user-controlled) porno filters. How is this bad?
I never said it was bad. I did say the Government was going after a much broader range of freedoms we currently enjoy (thus my Betamax comment).
So I guess they think it's worse to do something illegal with P2P software than with a gun!?
/. we had a discussion about the Patriot act used by the FBI to pull the financial records of a gentleman running a StarGate SG-1 fan web site. So now we're using the terrorism bill in a manner Hatch never thought about. A friend in my local congregation works with Hatch and is shocked to hear of this. I provided a copy of what I have so she can bring it up. Should be interesting to see IF he does anything to fix this screw up.
Also scary thinking they could be using their time to dismantle the Betamax ruling. I know that Hatch has said he doesn't intend to allow the laws he's pushing to mess up our rights to use a VCR (for example). Problem is, he's clueless when it comes to practical application.
For example, some time ago here on
http://www.connect-dots.com/Poofs/chewbacca.html
The Chewbacca defense.
I get it now.
Thx!
That's exactly what the original complaint was (ie, misuse of SCO code into AIX), so they're well withing their rights.
Yeah I caught that too. How does this relate to Linux? Sounds to me like it doesn't and Linux so far is clean. The article had a bit mentioning their attacks on Linux. I don't see it. Perhaps someone smarter than me can help explain this one. Doesn't make any sense.
hehehe..
;-)
Personally I have dibs on Mercury. Once we start exploiting minerals and metals from other planets I'll be rich
(Yeah.. I Know that's a lame comment, but so is owning the Sun)
Personally I feel this is simply corporate terrorism. I hope she doesn't hand over the domain to them. It's hers and she had it for years before the book was published. Apparently they knew it was in use since they have that disclaimer in the book stating that katie.com wasn't associated with them.
What makes it all especially ironic of course is that the book itself is about the abuse of the Internet to disrupt an innocent person's life. In the situation of Katie.com, however, it is increasingly the case that the abused has become the abuser.
I think this sums it up nicely. I wish her luck in fighting this!!
Doom 3 wins :-)
Personally, I can see people war driving up and down the roads with a laptop and cars behind them falling apart as the bolts come undone ;-)
Even if Linux were as secure as Windows, Windows is the wrong benchmark. Defense systems should be held to a higher standard.
.. right?
:-)
As secure as Windows? He's kidding
When I worked for the AirForce, they had several instances in which systems were comprimised (desktops). Various worms came out of the blue and just hammered their network. My systems running Linux noticed it immediately. In fact I was told there was NO problem. After a few hours of watching the logs logging attacks over and over again I then noticed a general email sent out to all explaining there was a problem and instructions were provided.
As secure as Windows? God I hope not!
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires software that runs commercial (and many military) aircraft be approved as part of a DO-178B certification. DO-178B Level A is the highest safety standard for software design, development, documentation, and testing. It is required for any software whose failure could cause or contribute to the catastrophic loss of an aircraft.
Several operating systems have been DO-178B Level A certified. Until Linux is certified to DO-178B Level A, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines should not be asked to trust their lives with it.
If Linux isn't at this level then what is the point of the article? Linux is certified for various things in the military. Whenever I stand up a server I was asked what OS I would be running. Everyone was apprehensive it would be Windows which requires a whole heap of testing before it's allowed to run in production. As soon as I told security it was either Unix or Linux they would sigh and tell me to go ahead. Much more confidence there
"We definitely have duplicates and we have a lot of plain - is there a nicer word than junk?" Medenwaldt said.
Best quote of the article. It's no wonder that the music industry has been hurting for so long. They sell "junk" and people respond by not purchasing it. Obviously the RIAA is aware of this otherwise the CD's would never have been shipped to the libraries.
Very sad.
We all know that these mod chips have limited legitimate uses, but it is intellectually dishonest of the Slashdot crowd to intentionally ignore the primary purpose of these chips.
Huh? And who defined the primary purpose of these chips?
mod chips are nothing special. You can program them for basically anything. Heck, I can build one to run Linux on such a system.
Take fire for example. Is it something that is good or bad? Do we make such a general argument based on the fact that fire is primarily used to burn/destroy something? This is usually considered bad but then again there are specific uses in which fire is a good thing.
To clarify (if needed), I'm simply saying that mod chips are not bad. The use of mod chips like anything else may be used for something which is.