They claim that enough of the SysV code in linux was cut n' paste of their code.
Frankly, I think they could be right, and the zealots would be wise not to dismiss everything SCO says and does as stupidity.
I doubt they'll collect any damages. But they'll succeed in making linux look like a grey-market stolen piece of software and drive corporate adoption of it back 10 years.
Can it be because the programming they offer flat out sucks?
Can it be that people aren't as stupid as they've assumed since the 50s?
That they dont want to see another sitcom about a family with a precocious little kid that runs the house, or 5 20-something hipsters drinking coffee and making dumb wisecracks?
Can it be that they've reached the puking threshhold with this reality TV crap? That people dont care which of the 40 masked guys that some whore chooses?
Can it be that the old standbys of Leno and Letterman kissing hollywood ass is frankly BORING?
I mean there's a reason I'd rather watch some longwinded documentary about the treasures of King Razamatooten from the 3rd dynasty; as dry and uninteresting as it is, it's better than anything NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and the DUBBYA-BEE have to offer.
Perhaps just getting "known star" to do a sitcom for 2 million an episode doesn't guarantee ratings anymore.
Go to any script kiddy channel, and see what they're running. It ain't windows.
Name some good H4X0R t00lZ for windows. Not so easy, is it?
All the portscanners, eggdrops, warbots, and other bullshit is linux based.
I guarantee the fellow/group behind fizzer connects with his linux box to control all of his 7337 bots.
The windows users are the leghumpers who keep asking you "a/s/l".
So why ban the victims? Ban the jerks.
You should really ban any scriptable client to 'save IRC'. There are enough stupid linux users to download "megascript for IRC-II" and have no idea what it's exposing to the mega h4x0rs of DALNet.
Your OSism is pretty much, like all prejudices, ignorant of the real issues. Just like the poor white hillbilly who thinks blacks are the cause of his problems, you sit pointing fingers at windows.
The thing to do is to simply realize that IRC is simply an insecure telnet hack. It always will be.
Recreate is based on ssh or something.
The windows users have all moved on to AIM and ICQ anyhow. IRC is old news.
No, that would be UVB or UVC. IR can't hurt you Noone goes blind from the TV remote.
UVC can blind you instantly and irreperably, like looking into the sun or watching someone weld.
Blue laser would work much better than IR. The researchers are still split on it, but there's a lot of talk about blue light causing slow eye damage, since we have a harder time focusing on higher wavelength light like blue. (BluBlocker sunglasses make everything look crisp because they block the blue).
That leads to a sick-but-funny possibility: some merchant takes a ``new'' $20. Later, you come into his shop, spend your ``new'' $20, and he calls the cops, who haul you away for counterfeitting. The problem? The first $20 was counterfeit, and yours was real, and neither the merchant nor the cops knew the difference.
When I still lived Canada, this happened to me. I went to an ATM, took out some cash, and walked next door to McDonalds.
I ordered my QP with Cheese, and handed the clerk a 20. She then went back and got her manager, both of them gawked at the bill, and then the manager tells me she cant accept it.
This pissed me off, since I don't like people accusing me of a felony. The funny thing was, the currency was at least a year old at the time. I guess McDonalds employees dont often see anything bigger than a five. (Having worked there when I was 14 I can attest to that).
Anyways, I told the manager to either accept the bill, or call the cops. It says right on the currency, "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private". Technically, that means, you either accept it as payment, or agree not to be paid. (I've heard of assholes running around with 1000 dollar bills demanding that if a clerk doesnt accept it they dont have to pay at all)
Now where am I going with this story? Oh yeah, she called my bluff and called the cops. The cop came and asked what the problem was, and she walked around the corner with him all in private like she just busted some great counterfeiting ring. The cop, visibly annoyed, pulled one out of his wallet, held them side by side for McTwitwich, and said there was nothing wrong with the bill.
So then I decided I wanted Arbys. I didnt really want Arbys. Noone really wants Arbys. But thats what I said, and I left.
People are educated about their money. You read the article just now didnt you? If people are too stupid to educate themselves, thats their own fault.
Actually, there are the colored bands that go through the paper with the denomination printed on them. So while you can bleach a one, you cant remove the plastic strip inside that has "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1" on it.
It's virtually impossible to replicate every single feature in modern currency. What the big counterfeiters hope for is to fool most of the people most of the time, and get an army of kids/lackies to pass the bad notes for them.
Counterfeiting is more about finding ways to pass the bills than create them - it always has been.
You have to find clerks and gas station attendents. But since most stores have you on camera, it's easier to find the guy who passed the bad bill. You'd be a complete idiot to go to Best Buy and pick up a fancy Alienware PC and 21" LCD monitor with counterfeit 20's.
Better would be strangers on the street ("hey buddy can you break a 20?"). Street level drug dealers and prostitutes no doubt get a lot of funny money.
But it's a slow, labor-intensive process.. You have to pass one note at a time, and in the smaller denominations, as to not arouse suspicion.
It's much like other organized crimes like drug dealing or bookmaking - it's not generating the money thats the problem, it's getting rid of it (laundering).
They'll probably never make an "impossible-to-duplicate" bill, but they can make the enterprise of counterfeiting so fraught with headaches and dangers that few would even bother.
1) A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2) A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3) A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others
Number 1 is your R2D2 spaceman conventional robot crap.
Number 2 is your R.C. car, your microwave, dishwasher or toaster - all robots in the literal sense.
VGS wasn't flawless by any means. It was good, and more compatible than Bleem! for sure, but many many games had serious issues, or just flat-out didn't work.
Neither prevented you from playing copies, both threw in little routines to check for originals, both were easily patched out within a day of release, which is Sony's main beef.
I'm talking about a piece of software that was developed using stolen code from microsoft, and is a port of open source code (GPLed, IIRC).
Sure makes the OSS community look grand, doesn't it?
So fine, you don't respect MS's IP in the XDK, but you respect the IP of every PSX devloper. I'll buy that.
But I'd bet the next step is to use the same reasoning as the kazaa users. "Why should I pay 20 bucks for a game with only 1 good level?"
I already said that technically I think emulation is really interesting.
I used to follow the develoments closely a couple of years ago. I watched NES and GameGear, then SNES and Genesis, then N64 and PSX emerge from the works of skilled coders.
By then it had all changed 100%. It was about 0-day r0mz and free games, not about mastering a piece of hardware.
Watch the emu community now, this "preservation of hardware" stuff, which used to be the driving mission, is now mostly lip service. Lots of work emulating popular stuff like GBA or PSX, little to nothing on Jaguar or Saturn or Dreamcast (the platforms in need of "preservation").
So this is just another step. Free 0-day r0mz for your xbox. Very little skill created this. It's a port of some open source using stolen libraries. It's written for a community that cares nothing at all for IP, and feels entitled to free games.
When your harddrive is full of 9 gig xbox images that you "fair use legally" backed up after you rented them from blockbuster, this gets to be a pain in the ass.
Also, you have to make an ISO on your PC, then ftp to the xbox, copy it over, then play it (maybe).
That's a lot of work to avoid paying 25 bucks for a modded PSX.
PCSX is highly incompatible on a P4 2.53 with a Radeon 9500. I highly doubt any sort of extreme performance on the xbox.
Just get a PS2 - oh and mod it, because we all know this isnt about playing the games, but playing them for free.
From a technical view, emulation is really neat. Too bad the authors cant get credit for what they accomplish, as they're drowned out by some asshat who ports the source using a stolen dev kit for the sole purpose of pirating games.
Actually the quality of audio on a HiFi VCR is comparable to CD.
I used to have a cool zenith vcr that had a secondary audio input for doing exactly this. Especially back when there used to be "simulcast" events, like a concert on TV but with the audio being broadcast via FM as well.
It also had a feature that you could set "programs" on a tape, ie; fastforward to program 5 or 6. Pretty much like seeking tracks on a CD (albeit somewhat slower).
Californians will be the most heavily taxed state in the union inside of a decade.
Thank Gray Davis and his complete incompetence, but don't forget to give a shout out to the hippies and celebrities who hold so much sway out there.
I swear to god, there's something wrong with people's heads in that state. I've mentioned before I write police software for a living, and we have some California sites.
Most municipalities out there have this screwed up system for dealing with false alarms, and it all boils down to: after the seventh alarm, your permit is revoked, you're charged with being a public nuisance. Both of which make some sense, but get this, the police are to no longer respond to your residence.
I mean, any crooks in LA and it's surrounding counties, theres the hot tip o' the day. Find a business that has had seven false alarms within 12 months (thats a sliding window, not a calendar year), and it's free for the pickins! Smash the window, shoot the owner in the face, the police wont come!
All because some dipshit politician with his head up his ass thought that the police refusing protection to citizens would be a great cost-cutting measure.
Of course, the police will still show up. They cant afford not to, there are too many liability issues (imagine the feeding frenzy if some clerk bled to death on the floor of a 7-11 because the police wouldnt come out for alarm #8).
Bah, that states done. You could fill a library with stupid laws and idiotic political moves in california. Cecede and form Moronia, already.
Apple got its head kicked in because IBM created a platform, not a product. The clones kicked it's head in, IBM's own PCs have always done relatively poorly.
Apple will always be a tiny little niche segment of the market, so long as they stick to a proprietary closed system.
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He used to support linux. So he at least was gay. Maybe he was cured?
They didnt write it.
They claim that enough of the SysV code in linux was cut n' paste of their code.
Frankly, I think they could be right, and the zealots would be wise not to dismiss everything SCO says and does as stupidity.
I doubt they'll collect any damages. But they'll succeed in making linux look like a grey-market stolen piece of software and drive corporate adoption of it back 10 years.
What's below cost?
It costs maybe 25 cents to produce a copy of Windows 2003.
Dev costs are already written off/recouped.
Software isn't a tangible product. It only "costs" what people are willing to pay.
I think I'll wait until a reputable news source reports this before I overreact.
This top secret confidential memo got leaked to the International Herald Tribune, but noone else.
Uh huh, sure.
Next up on slashdot, crop circles made by crunchy peanut aliens from Uranus.
I wonder if it's worth it for the 10 Apple users who have any inkling at all to "hack" their glossy new computer.
Why are they losing audiences to cable channels?
Can it be because the programming they offer flat out sucks?
Can it be that people aren't as stupid as they've assumed since the 50s?
That they dont want to see another sitcom about a family with a precocious little kid that runs the house, or 5 20-something hipsters drinking coffee and making dumb wisecracks?
Can it be that they've reached the puking threshhold with this reality TV crap? That people dont care which of the 40 masked guys that some whore chooses?
Can it be that the old standbys of Leno and Letterman kissing hollywood ass is frankly BORING?
I mean there's a reason I'd rather watch some longwinded documentary about the treasures of King Razamatooten from the 3rd dynasty; as dry and uninteresting as it is, it's better than anything NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and the DUBBYA-BEE have to offer.
Perhaps just getting "known star" to do a sitcom for 2 million an episode doesn't guarantee ratings anymore.
Go to any script kiddy channel, and see what they're running. It ain't windows.
Name some good H4X0R t00lZ for windows. Not so easy, is it?
All the portscanners, eggdrops, warbots, and other bullshit is linux based.
I guarantee the fellow/group behind fizzer connects with his linux box to control all of his 7337 bots.
The windows users are the leghumpers who keep asking you "a/s/l".
So why ban the victims? Ban the jerks.
You should really ban any scriptable client to 'save IRC'. There are enough stupid linux users to download "megascript for IRC-II" and have no idea what it's exposing to the mega h4x0rs of DALNet.
Your OSism is pretty much, like all prejudices, ignorant of the real issues. Just like the poor white hillbilly who thinks blacks are the cause of his problems, you sit pointing fingers at windows.
The thing to do is to simply realize that IRC is simply an insecure telnet hack. It always will be.
Recreate is based on ssh or something.
The windows users have all moved on to AIM and ICQ anyhow. IRC is old news.
What's next? Robot humans sniffing each other's butts and humping in the street?
You've never seen a Linux Users Group have you?
No, that would be UVB or UVC. IR can't hurt you Noone goes blind from the TV remote.
UVC can blind you instantly and irreperably, like looking into the sun or watching someone weld.
Blue laser would work much better than IR. The researchers are still split on it, but there's a lot of talk about blue light causing slow eye damage, since we have a harder time focusing on higher wavelength light like blue. (BluBlocker sunglasses make everything look crisp because they block the blue).
Thousands of slashbots stare at each other in bewilderment.
"What's a date?"
RIAA and MPAA and I hate the DMCA and Palladium.
What about my fair use rights?!
Patriot 2 and Micro$haft!
Also, KDE Gnome and WiFi and Ximian desktops.
???
Profit!
That leads to a sick-but-funny possibility: some merchant takes a ``new'' $20. Later, you come into his shop, spend your ``new'' $20, and he calls the cops, who haul you away for counterfeitting. The problem? The first $20 was counterfeit, and yours was real, and neither the merchant nor the cops knew the difference.
When I still lived Canada, this happened to me. I went to an ATM, took out some cash, and walked next door to McDonalds.
I ordered my QP with Cheese, and handed the clerk a 20. She then went back and got her manager, both of them gawked at the bill, and then the manager tells me she cant accept it.
This pissed me off, since I don't like people accusing me of a felony. The funny thing was, the currency was at least a year old at the time. I guess McDonalds employees dont often see anything bigger than a five. (Having worked there when I was 14 I can attest to that).
Anyways, I told the manager to either accept the bill, or call the cops. It says right on the currency, "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private". Technically, that means, you either accept it as payment, or agree not to be paid. (I've heard of assholes running around with 1000 dollar bills demanding that if a clerk doesnt accept it they dont have to pay at all)
Now where am I going with this story? Oh yeah, she called my bluff and called the cops. The cop came and asked what the problem was, and she walked around the corner with him all in private like she just busted some great counterfeiting ring. The cop, visibly annoyed, pulled one out of his wallet, held them side by side for McTwitwich, and said there was nothing wrong with the bill.
So then I decided I wanted Arbys. I didnt really want Arbys. Noone really wants Arbys. But thats what I said, and I left.
People are educated about their money. You read the article just now didnt you? If people are too stupid to educate themselves, thats their own fault.
Muted and light colors with less contrast are much harder to scan/photocopy.
Actually, there are the colored bands that go through the paper with the denomination printed on them. So while you can bleach a one, you cant remove the plastic strip inside that has "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1" on it.
It's virtually impossible to replicate every single feature in modern currency. What the big counterfeiters hope for is to fool most of the people most of the time, and get an army of kids/lackies to pass the bad notes for them.
Counterfeiting is more about finding ways to pass the bills than create them - it always has been.
You have to find clerks and gas station attendents. But since most stores have you on camera, it's easier to find the guy who passed the bad bill. You'd be a complete idiot to go to Best Buy and pick up a fancy Alienware PC and 21" LCD monitor with counterfeit 20's.
Better would be strangers on the street ("hey buddy can you break a 20?"). Street level drug dealers and prostitutes no doubt get a lot of funny money.
But it's a slow, labor-intensive process.. You have to pass one note at a time, and in the smaller denominations, as to not arouse suspicion.
It's much like other organized crimes like drug dealing or bookmaking - it's not generating the money thats the problem, it's getting rid of it (laundering).
They'll probably never make an "impossible-to-duplicate" bill, but they can make the enterprise of counterfeiting so fraught with headaches and dangers that few would even bother.
Well, what is a robot?
Courtesy of dictionary.com
robot
1) A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2) A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3) A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others
Number 1 is your R2D2 spaceman conventional robot crap.
Number 2 is your R.C. car, your microwave, dishwasher or toaster - all robots in the literal sense.
Number 3 pretty much describes slashdot readers.
VGS wasn't flawless by any means. It was good, and more compatible than Bleem! for sure, but many many games had serious issues, or just flat-out didn't work.
Neither prevented you from playing copies, both threw in little routines to check for originals, both were easily patched out within a day of release, which is Sony's main beef.
That thing can't read CD-R media at all,
Neither can the xbox. CD-RWs usually work, its hit and miss. You need to replace the xDVD drive to get anything working well.
I'm talking about a piece of software that was developed using stolen code from microsoft, and is a port of open source code (GPLed, IIRC).
Sure makes the OSS community look grand, doesn't it?
So fine, you don't respect MS's IP in the XDK, but you respect the IP of every PSX devloper. I'll buy that.
But I'd bet the next step is to use the same reasoning as the kazaa users. "Why should I pay 20 bucks for a game with only 1 good level?"
I already said that technically I think emulation is really interesting.
I used to follow the develoments closely a couple of years ago. I watched NES and GameGear, then SNES and Genesis, then N64 and PSX emerge from the works of skilled coders.
By then it had all changed 100%. It was about 0-day r0mz and free games, not about mastering a piece of hardware.
Watch the emu community now, this "preservation of hardware" stuff, which used to be the driving mission, is now mostly lip service. Lots of work emulating popular stuff like GBA or PSX, little to nothing on Jaguar or Saturn or Dreamcast (the platforms in need of "preservation").
So this is just another step. Free 0-day r0mz for your xbox. Very little skill created this. It's a port of some open source using stolen libraries. It's written for a community that cares nothing at all for IP, and feels entitled to free games.
The emulator was developed using MS's XDK, and is itself nothing more than a bunch of stolen libraries and system calls.
You'd probably break down and cry if someone violated the GPL.
When your harddrive is full of 9 gig xbox images that you "fair use legally" backed up after you rented them from blockbuster, this gets to be a pain in the ass.
Also, you have to make an ISO on your PC, then ftp to the xbox, copy it over, then play it (maybe).
That's a lot of work to avoid paying 25 bucks for a modded PSX.
PCSX is highly incompatible on a P4 2.53 with a Radeon 9500. I highly doubt any sort of extreme performance on the xbox.
Just get a PS2 - oh and mod it, because we all know this isnt about playing the games, but playing them for free.
From a technical view, emulation is really neat. Too bad the authors cant get credit for what they accomplish, as they're drowned out by some asshat who ports the source using a stolen dev kit for the sole purpose of pirating games.
Actually the quality of audio on a HiFi VCR is comparable to CD.
I used to have a cool zenith vcr that had a secondary audio input for doing exactly this. Especially back when there used to be "simulcast" events, like a concert on TV but with the audio being broadcast via FM as well.
It also had a feature that you could set "programs" on a tape, ie; fastforward to program 5 or 6. Pretty much like seeking tracks on a CD (albeit somewhat slower).
It was a pretty cool vcr.
If you already live in California (about 1/6 of the population of the USA does)
s/USA/Mexico
Californians will be the most heavily taxed state in the union inside of a decade.
Thank Gray Davis and his complete incompetence, but don't forget to give a shout out to the hippies and celebrities who hold so much sway out there.
I swear to god, there's something wrong with people's heads in that state. I've mentioned before I write police software for a living, and we have some California sites.
Most municipalities out there have this screwed up system for dealing with false alarms, and it all boils down to: after the seventh alarm, your permit is revoked, you're charged with being a public nuisance. Both of which make some sense, but get this, the police are to no longer respond to your residence.
I mean, any crooks in LA and it's surrounding counties, theres the hot tip o' the day. Find a business that has had seven false alarms within 12 months (thats a sliding window, not a calendar year), and it's free for the pickins! Smash the window, shoot the owner in the face, the police wont come!
All because some dipshit politician with his head up his ass thought that the police refusing protection to citizens would be a great cost-cutting measure.
Of course, the police will still show up. They cant afford not to, there are too many liability issues (imagine the feeding frenzy if some clerk bled to death on the floor of a 7-11 because the police wouldnt come out for alarm #8).
Bah, that states done. You could fill a library with stupid laws and idiotic political moves in california. Cecede and form Moronia, already.
Apple got its head kicked in because IBM created a platform, not a product. The clones kicked it's head in, IBM's own PCs have always done relatively poorly.
Apple will always be a tiny little niche segment of the market, so long as they stick to a proprietary closed system.