Oh my. I had no idea these guys were part of that group. I used to work for KeyLabs which was bought out by Exodus Communications (then they both went bankrupt and Keylabs spun off). I've done consulting work for Altiris (nice people) and HomePipeline.com (after 9 months of no payments I had to threaten to sue them to get paid. Can you believe that crap).
Overall my experience with Canopy has been a good one and Ray Norda really is a nice guy. I've spoken with him during company parties/functions and found him quite personable. That was about 3 years ago. I hope he hasn't changed into this. Would be a shame. He really was a nice guy and fair businessman.
Hell.. he was the guy who started Novell way back when it meant something. Seems when he lets go control or sells his interest in a company that it goes to hell. I've seen it happen over and over.
"In otherwords, lets apply the principles used in DDOS to saturate their mailrooms:) And we can do this *legally*"
Sorry if this sounds like a poor comment but I personally am in favor of something like that. I've never appreciated the SCO products and after reading this crap I'm even less likely to support it.
To date I've worked only on a couple of SCO servers. Now I understand why their product is soo bad. Look at the company employees and what they are doing. It explains it all.
First we have Napster and other services being attacked and now we have companies like apple and AOL starting up services.
Remember how everyone a year or two ago mentioned how the RIAA is behind the times and are playing catch up? Well.. seems they are still playing the game while other's are moving forward.
Slashdotters were right. It's a great idea. Our prophecy has been proven correct:-)
") Linux doesn't scale to large SMP systems yet. I think 2.6 is supposed to make it nicely to 16 processors."
I'm probably showing my ignorance (again) but didn't 2.4.x already scale to around 64 procs? I'm pretty sure I read something a couple of years ago on linux.org about this. The problem I'm hearing is Linux multi threading is very weak and 2.6 is supposed to clean it up a lot!
Agreed however remember that the argument here is against Lindows. While Apple did not create the GUI (Everybody knows it was Xerox right?), Microsoft can't use similar arguments stating that "Windows" is a trademarked name. America is the ONLY country to grant Microsoft the Trademark. Period. No other country would allow Microsoft the Trademark for the very reason Lindows is arguing the point. It's a generic name predating Apple and Microsoft.
Personally I hope Microsoft and Lindows legally lock horns. After it settles down I'm pretty sure that Microsoft Windows tm crap will disappear (though the product will unfortunately stick around for a few more years).
"an improved search engine that refines a document's relevance score based on interconnectivity of the document within a set of relevant documents.""
You have got to be kidding me. I'm pretty sure there is prior art floating around out there. Google isn't the only one to perform this sort of function out there. Sounds like another patent that's way too broad.::sigh::
"Maybe the university administrators have more important things to do (like, say, running a university) than hunting down students dling mp3's"
What's really irritating about this is those students downloading mp3's are the ones going out and purchasing the cd's everyone is soo anxious to sell. As I've mentioned on many occasions... I haven't purchased an audio cd in 10 years. Then I start downloading mp3's and realized I like the songs I'm listening to. Some I listen to all the time. Now after 10 years I've purchased dozen's of cd's.
Oh... and it wasn't their advertisements that motivated me to part with my money.
What a retard. So now that the 4th ammendment has been thrown out... any other unpopular ammendments we should target next? I know... how about the 1st? We don't value freedom of speach.... do we?
"I have read a lot of studies that indicate piracy does not detract from corporate profits whatsoever. In fact it makes them grow because the ability for users to hear an artist inspires them to support them (at least they think they are by buying the CD). Piracy promotes numerous smaller artists."
I'd have to agree. For over a decade I haven't purchased a single CD. Nor have I downloaded them via the internet. Now that I'm using Kazaa and other P2P's to download music, I find myself listening to some albums/singles that I really enjoy. Now after a decade of never purchasing a CD I've purchased over a dozen or so in the last year. Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Goo Goo Dolls, Enigma and so on (yeah... I like a wide variety of music).
Has Kazaa (piracy according to the RIAA and other BS groups) hurt their pocket book? Not a chance. I'm not the only one this has happened with either.
"(My apologies to those 5 people in the country who actually know how to make free software work to help the people, not destroy the economy.)"
Hmmm... IBM comes to mind as the first of those 5 people (did you mean companies ?) who have made opensource work. Over a billion in sales just last year from free software. Sounds oddly like capitalism to me.
" Why would I trust "free" software from a vendor while at the same time pay them to support that software?"
This argument can be applied to our Government. Would you trust a closed Government to handle your needs for you? Isn't that what Communism was all about? At least in part I should say.
"Seems to me that they WANT the software to be low quality or hard to use so they can charge me more to support it."
Are you saying software like Microsoft's IIS was high quality software? That's scrapping the bottom of the barrel according to the Garner report (SP?) They even told people to abandon IIS and find another web server. Never thought that would have come from their lips.
"Plus, now I have to hire a 150,000 a year linux geek. No thanks."
But of course. You want to hire 10 MCSE's to manage a network that one *NIX geek can handle in his/her sleep.
"Freakin' communists."
Not really but it's clear you have no idea how the OSS idea works. It's like fire. If used properly it can warm your house and cook your food, or burn the whole place down. Learn to use it wisely. (just an opinion)
"Police are considering asking leading hardware chains to sell piping only to adults. Local stores that sell hairsprays and pressurised lighter fluid, the favourite propellants for the DIY weapons, may also be asked to sell them only to adults. Failing that, police suggest that youngsters should have to explain why they are buying them."
Give me a break. Before you know it they will be asking why you are combing your hair and brushing your teeth. Yes that's right... toothpaste and hairspray may be denied to these youngsters. Hopefully they can still buy soap without a note from their parents
Ok so the courts say file swapping of copyrighted material is "clearly illegal" but then again these are the same courts who "claimed" Micro$oft "clearly violeted the monopoly laws". Oh and Micro$oft is stronger after all the court room monkey business.
I guess we should turn P2P into a monopoly, dominate the world in P2P and force the courts to claim we are illegally swapping files then turn around and let us continue business as usual.
And yes I'm pissed at this. The reason for the post. Since when have we been able to rely on the courts for justice unless we have a few billion to throw at them.
Oh and regarding the file swapping, sure I've downloaded plenty of songs from kazaa but guess what... I own the cd media which has that song. I believe the free use laws apply in that case. I'm not selling the damn thing. I'm making another cd most likely because the original was damaged in some way (most recently my "Unforgettable" cd was damaged). Kids...go figure:D
Have you checked Yahoo's financial news lately? They are running mySQL for their backend. Sounds like they are pretty happy with it. Oh, and it runs 24x7 also:D
I believe there was a slashdot article last month which mentioned this also. Very impressive.
Is this what really will happen or will kids line up at the store asking people over 18 to purchase the game for them. Kinda like how they purchase their cigs.
My concern is will this bill make the Government more the parent than the original parent? (did that makes sense?)
What would be interesting is what happens if it affects Microsoft's interests in P2P such as kazaa. A few weeks ago I fired Kazaa up and their main page had a blurb about Microsoft selling products through Kazaa. An interesting idea.
So if Microsoft's interests were damaged in some way... would be nice to see that 40billion used to sue the RIAA:D
Unfortunately Microsoft seems to get away with just about anything they want. After years of investigating and clearly showing that Microsoft is a monopoly exercising their monopoly power, we have a simple hand slapping to show for it.
Microsoft was VERY eager to accept the "punishment". Hopefully Sendo's court action will go further than the DOJ's joke of a punishment (well... we can hope).
With a history of screwing partners, I was VERY surprised Sendo partnered with these guys. I mean lets face it. Hardly anyone who has partnered with Microsoft has benefited from it.
I'm pretty sure they are talking about the technology that allows the Predator to fly around without a crew/pilot. Simply take what they have and put it into a C-130 or some other plane and there you go.
Heck, they were talking about this stuff after 9/11/2001. Using this technology so a ground pilot can fly a plane that has been comprimised. Quite an interesting idea.
I received DVD's for Christmas including the Back to the Future Trilogy. Disk 1 IMO is defective. It plays and randomly (in the middle somewhere) plays garbage on my screen (no scratches on the disk.. looks in good condition). I've looked at the other two and they play just fine. Only disk one has a problem. Then at the end of the DVD (disk 1) I noticed a macrovision protection screen pop up.
Macrovision for those who don't know is an older VHS copy protection scheme that screws up your video when you make dups of your tapes. How the heck did they get it on a DVD???
BTW, my DVD player is a JVC I purchased 2 years ago. Pretty new still. I'm calling the vender for another copy. Hopefully the Macrovision didn't screw me over. I'm NOT purchasing another DVD player because they are paranoid. I'll simply burn a DVD without the Macrovision if I'm forced to.
Pity, follow the rules and get shafted. Don't follow the rules.. well.. they will never know;D
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Oh my. I had no idea these guys were part of that group. I used to work for KeyLabs which was bought out by Exodus Communications (then they both went bankrupt and Keylabs spun off). I've done consulting work for Altiris (nice people) and HomePipeline.com (after 9 months of no payments I had to threaten to sue them to get paid. Can you believe that crap).
Overall my experience with Canopy has been a good one and Ray Norda really is a nice guy. I've spoken with him during company parties/functions and found him quite personable. That was about 3 years ago. I hope he hasn't changed into this. Would be a shame. He really was a nice guy and fair businessman.
Hell.. he was the guy who started Novell way back when it meant something. Seems when he lets go control or sells his interest in a company that it goes to hell. I've seen it happen over and over.
"In otherwords, lets apply the principles used in DDOS to saturate their mailrooms :) And we can do this *legally*"
Sorry if this sounds like a poor comment but I personally am in favor of something like that. I've never appreciated the SCO products and after reading this crap I'm even less likely to support it.
To date I've worked only on a couple of SCO servers. Now I understand why their product is soo bad. Look at the company employees and what they are doing. It explains it all.
First we have Napster and other services being attacked and now we have companies like apple and AOL starting up services.
:-)
Remember how everyone a year or two ago mentioned how the RIAA is behind the times and are playing catch up? Well.. seems they are still playing the game while other's are moving forward.
Slashdotters were right. It's a great idea. Our prophecy has been proven correct
") Linux doesn't scale to large SMP systems yet. I think 2.6 is supposed to make it nicely to 16 processors."
I'm probably showing my ignorance (again) but didn't 2.4.x already scale to around 64 procs? I'm pretty sure I read something a couple of years ago on linux.org about this. The problem I'm hearing is Linux multi threading is very weak and 2.6 is supposed to clean it up a lot!
Agreed however remember that the argument here is against Lindows. While Apple did not create the GUI (Everybody knows it was Xerox right?), Microsoft can't use similar arguments stating that "Windows" is a trademarked name. America is the ONLY country to grant Microsoft the Trademark. Period. No other country would allow Microsoft the Trademark for the very reason Lindows is arguing the point. It's a generic name predating Apple and Microsoft.
Personally I hope Microsoft and Lindows legally lock horns. After it settles down I'm pretty sure that Microsoft Windows tm crap will disappear (though the product will unfortunately stick around for a few more years).
"an improved search engine that refines a document's relevance score based on interconnectivity of the document within a set of relevant documents.""
::sigh::
You have got to be kidding me. I'm pretty sure there is prior art floating around out there. Google isn't the only one to perform this sort of function out there. Sounds like another patent that's way too broad.
"Maybe the university administrators have more important things to do (like, say, running a university) than hunting down students dling mp3's"
What's really irritating about this is those students downloading mp3's are the ones going out and purchasing the cd's everyone is soo anxious to sell. As I've mentioned on many occasions... I haven't purchased an audio cd in 10 years. Then I start downloading mp3's and realized I like the songs I'm listening to. Some I listen to all the time. Now after 10 years I've purchased dozen's of cd's.
Oh... and it wasn't their advertisements that motivated me to part with my money.
Personally I don't have a very high opinion of lawyers. Those few I've spoken with don't impress me as people who care about doing the right thing.
Considering how low I believe them to be, you have to admit this is a radical statement coming from them.
If lawyers think the punishments are too harsh for hackers, then they really must be. Think about it.
I stand by my comment. The 4th ammendment is being attacked with crap like this. You don't see a pattern of attacking American values?
Pity
What a retard. So now that the 4th ammendment has been thrown out... any other unpopular ammendments we should target next? I know... how about the 1st? We don't value freedom of speach .... do we?
Trolls all of them.
Actually Microsoft is suing spammers because they don't like the competition.
"I have read a lot of studies that indicate piracy does not detract from corporate profits whatsoever. In fact it makes them grow because the ability for users to hear an artist inspires them to support them (at least they think they are by buying the CD). Piracy promotes numerous smaller artists."
I'd have to agree. For over a decade I haven't purchased a single CD. Nor have I downloaded them via the internet. Now that I'm using Kazaa and other P2P's to download music, I find myself listening to some albums/singles that I really enjoy. Now after a decade of never purchasing a CD I've purchased over a dozen or so in the last year. Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Goo Goo Dolls, Enigma and so on (yeah... I like a wide variety of music).
Has Kazaa (piracy according to the RIAA and other BS groups) hurt their pocket book? Not a chance. I'm not the only one this has happened with either.
"(My apologies to those 5 people in the country who actually know how to make free software work to help the people, not destroy the economy.)"
Hmmm... IBM comes to mind as the first of those 5 people (did you mean companies ?) who have made opensource work. Over a billion in sales just last year from free software. Sounds oddly like capitalism to me.
" Why would I trust "free" software from a vendor while at the same time pay them to support that software?"
This argument can be applied to our Government. Would you trust a closed Government to handle your needs for you? Isn't that what Communism was all about? At least in part I should say.
"Seems to me that they WANT the software to be low quality or hard to use so they can charge me more to support it."
Are you saying software like Microsoft's IIS was high quality software? That's scrapping the bottom of the barrel according to the Garner report (SP?) They even told people to abandon IIS and find another web server. Never thought that would have come from their lips.
"Plus, now I have to hire a 150,000 a year linux geek. No thanks."
But of course. You want to hire 10 MCSE's to manage a network that one *NIX geek can handle in his/her sleep.
"Freakin' communists."
Not really but it's clear you have no idea how the OSS idea works. It's like fire. If used properly it can warm your house and cook your food, or burn the whole place down. Learn to use it wisely. (just an opinion)
"Police are considering asking leading hardware chains to sell piping only to adults.
Local stores that sell hairsprays and pressurised lighter fluid, the favourite propellants for the DIY weapons, may also be asked to sell them only to adults. Failing that, police suggest that youngsters should have to explain why they are buying them."
Give me a break. Before you know it they will be asking why you are combing your hair and brushing your teeth. Yes that's right... toothpaste and hairspray may be denied to these youngsters. Hopefully they can still buy soap without a note from their parents
Ok so the courts say file swapping of copyrighted material is "clearly illegal" but then again these are the same courts who "claimed" Micro$oft "clearly violeted the monopoly laws". Oh and Micro$oft is stronger after all the court room monkey business.
.go figure :D
I guess we should turn P2P into a monopoly, dominate the world in P2P and force the courts to claim we are illegally swapping files then turn around and let us continue business as usual.
And yes I'm pissed at this. The reason for the post. Since when have we been able to rely on the courts for justice unless we have a few billion to throw at them.
Oh and regarding the file swapping, sure I've downloaded plenty of songs from kazaa but guess what... I own the cd media which has that song. I believe the free use laws apply in that case. I'm not selling the damn thing. I'm making another cd most likely because the original was damaged in some way (most recently my "Unforgettable" cd was damaged). Kids..
mySQL not ready for prime time?
:D
Have you checked Yahoo's financial news lately? They are running mySQL for their backend. Sounds like they are pretty happy with it. Oh, and it runs 24x7 also
I believe there was a slashdot article last month which mentioned this also. Very impressive.
Is this what really will happen or will kids line up at the store asking people over 18 to purchase the game for them. Kinda like how they purchase their cigs.
My concern is will this bill make the Government more the parent than the original parent? (did that makes sense?)
Don't knock it. They are the experts in what is not human. Just look at the Judge Judith and you'll understand.
:-)
The fact that it reduced tariffs from China had nothing to do with it. Honest
What would be interesting is what happens if it affects Microsoft's interests in P2P such as kazaa. A few weeks ago I fired Kazaa up and their main page had a blurb about Microsoft selling products through Kazaa. An interesting idea.
:D
So if Microsoft's interests were damaged in some way... would be nice to see that 40billion used to sue the RIAA
Unfortunately Microsoft seems to get away with just about anything they want. After years of investigating and clearly showing that Microsoft is a monopoly exercising their monopoly power, we have a simple hand slapping to show for it.
Microsoft was VERY eager to accept the "punishment". Hopefully Sendo's court action will go further than the DOJ's joke of a punishment (well... we can hope).
With a history of screwing partners, I was VERY surprised Sendo partnered with these guys. I mean lets face it. Hardly anyone who has partnered with Microsoft has benefited from it.
I'm pretty sure they are talking about the technology that allows the Predator to fly around without a crew/pilot. Simply take what they have and put it into a C-130 or some other plane and there you go.
Heck, they were talking about this stuff after 9/11/2001. Using this technology so a ground pilot can fly a plane that has been comprimised. Quite an interesting idea.
I received DVD's for Christmas including the Back to the Future Trilogy. Disk 1 IMO is defective. It plays and randomly (in the middle somewhere) plays garbage on my screen (no scratches on the disk.. looks in good condition). I've looked at the other two and they play just fine. Only disk one has a problem. Then at the end of the DVD (disk 1) I noticed a macrovision protection screen pop up.
;D
Macrovision for those who don't know is an older VHS copy protection scheme that screws up your video when you make dups of your tapes. How the heck did they get it on a DVD???
BTW, my DVD player is a JVC I purchased 2 years ago. Pretty new still. I'm calling the vender for another copy. Hopefully the Macrovision didn't screw me over. I'm NOT purchasing another DVD player because they are paranoid. I'll simply burn a DVD without the Macrovision if I'm forced to.
Pity, follow the rules and get shafted. Don't follow the rules.. well.. they will never know
Exactly!
Some people forget it was a SPACE RACE against Russia. If we didn't beat them then why no complaints from Russia?
They were after all gunning for the same thing.
He's just pissed off. Too many times being slashdotted I guess.
And this thing we call Democracy, get's in the way too often. Time for more Patriot Act Laws to suppre^H^H^H^H^H^H protect the American people!
(No.. not a troll... I'm making a stupid statement which actually helps some people think... a little. Sad isn't it.)
You expected the RIAA to figure THAT out? ::grinz::