Roughly 70% of the population of Utah are Mormons.
Compare this with Catholicism in Spain (99%), Argentina (90%), or Italy (95%), to name a few.*
Certainly, Papal influence in these countries has historically been and continues to be great. But we don't ascribe a Catholic taint to everything that comes out of them... I would suggest that our fixation on a Mormon connection to all things Utah comes from Mormonism's novelty -- it's still a relative unknown to most people, and it has a peculiar history.
"What comes of litigation? Poverty and degradation to any community that will encourage it. Will it build cities, open farms, build railroads, erect telegraph lines and improve a country? It will not; but it will bring any community to ruin." -Brigham Young, JD 11:259.
Sure, the federal government wouldn't let old Brigham retain governership of Utah when it became a state, but wouldn't it by nice if we could install the guy as head of SCO? Even as a man who's been dead for more than a century, he could probably run that ship better than its current leadership.
but if they find works still covered by copyright, then they've got a lucky winner. A little signal strength triangulation analysis will reveal from which building the signal is coming from and roughly where in the building there is.
Good point.
But, but this is a tad more difficult than simply running a P2P client from your office and noting the IP numbers that come up when you type in "Madonna", and then sending off the paperwork to the ISP, waiting for identification, and then sending off more papers to the court and the violator (the current method).
Add to this the hit-n-run capability of WiFi (download from your car and take off), etc., and enforcement against violators becomes much more difficult.
And when individual enforcement becomes difficult, the powers seek to punish the entire population through regulation, law-making, and banning technology.
The money, like a sweet virus, trickled into Caldera's veins to the tune of around $450 million as the settlement for the DR-DOS suit against Microsoft. Once in the bloodstream, it spread to the heart, brain. The lungs were the last organ to be affected, until Darrel McBride could no longer breath without trying to squash the impetuous mosquito that is Linux and all its devil-spawn communist long-hairs.
Caldera took about $350M from Microsoft in the DR-DOS settlement. Now, Caldera/SCO are using that money to fight Linux and open source.
AOL took $750M from Microsoft in the Netscape suit. How many threatening letters to developers and users of Netscape patented technologies, perhaps even those in Mozilla, will that pay for? How quickly after AOL begins such a scheme will Microsoft donate another couple million to license that IP for use in IE?
Is there a planet I can move to that has a constitution banning all private possession of intellectual property?
How about Americans visiting other countries? Better pretended to be Canadians.
This is a very common Canadian myth. I think they teach it in the schools up there. I've heard it over and over and over again from my Canadian family: "Europeans love Canadians, abhor Americans," or, "Oh, you're going to Hong Kong -- better stick a maple leaf patch on all you clothes so that they won't think you are a big fat American jerk!"
Guess what? I've traveled abroad a fair deal. And, believe it or not, I've had more than a handful of people (in hotels, at museums, on the street, etc.) say that the Canadians are FAR worse than the Americans -- that their patriotic Maple Leaf wearing is offensive and that their attitudes are annoying.
I, on the other hand, think that Canadians are wonderful people, and I love the fine Canadian country. I visit Ontario and Quebec regularly, and am impressed with MANY things there. But one thing I've never been able to stand is the fact that Canadian patriotism often equates with a snottish attitude, particularly as it involves a comparison with the U.S. You guys are better than that -- quit trying to establish your identity by being "better than the Americans."
I agree 100% with Mr. Gates. It is cool to complain about bugs. I am cool like Fonzie from Happy Days when I complain about bugs. Cool. Cool. Cool. That's me, complaining about bugs all the time because I am cool all the time. Way cool. Hey, did you hear about the bug in the Internet? Pretty cool, huh? There were some bugs in the AOL, too, so I switched to the MSN. Then I found a bunch of bugs in the MSN too. Oh man, am I cool.
I attended a presentation given by Rivest on this scheme a few months ago. I'm convinced it will work.
BUT, not anytime soon, and you've identified the exact reason why: peppercoin patent monopoly. No reasonable merchant nor consumer should bet on a scheme that locks you into one vendor, especially for something as vital as your very revenue source. We like money because it is 100% transferable -- I can get it from anyone willing to trade with me. Credit cards are also competitive -- if I don't like Visa, I can try AmEx or Discover or MasterCard, and most vendor's have a single machine that can take any of the above. If I don't like peppercoin, there's no alternative I can switch out for -- the system is closed, patented, and sealed. Sure, there are other micropayment schemes that have lived and died, but if I wanted to start a peppercoin-compatible service, tough luck; it'll be at least 17 years before we get a legal shot at that.
"Christensen obsolescence" refers to Clayton Christensen's description of disruptive technologies and their impact on established, successful business. His work is best summarized in The Innovator's Dilemma"
Where did you pull this from? James C. Christensen is an artist and retired BYU professor. The "Pelican King" piece that you refer to is an oil painting.
"Christensen obselescence" refers to Clayton Christensen's book: "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail". Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business school. He is a renowned expert on disruptive technologies, which is really what the Innovator's dilemma is all about, and thus, the reference to the Internet and Open Source.
But, getting the two confused is understandable, they are both BYU grads.:)
From the bugtraq post, "When the player is exploited, a few things happen. First, all p2p-serving
software on the machine is infected."
Doesn't this suggest that the worm needs to have privileges sufficient to infect the p2p software, i.e., root? And if that's the case, it either relies on me running as root, or includes a privilege escalation. And if it can do either, why wouldn't it also trojan xmms?
Downloaded at least 20 tunes in the last week. My results? rpm -V xmms shows that nothing is amiss. Bring it on, Gooblers!
RPM's greatest asset: ability to catalog every installed file, including MD5 checksum, ownership, timestamp, mode, size, etc. So any "worm" has to not only trojan target files, by RPM itself. Good luck.
BTW, since all my executables are installed and owned by root, and since I log in as myself, wouldn't this so called worm need not only a buffer overflow in the executable, but some way to elevate its privileges to root? The bugtraq posting makes no claim that it does this.
There is a reason satellites don't commonly use TCP/IP: it performs HORRIBLY over high latency, high BER links. This is because TCP makes the assumption that ALL data corruption is due to congestion, and thus its backoff algorithm throttles way back when errors are actually caused by a noisy link. Likewise, the high latency of a satellite link (rougly around 500 ms RTT) causes TCP to send unneccessary retransmits, etc.
And, this isn't the first satellite to use TCP/IP, by the way. TCP/IP has been run over satellite links numerous times, most often to demonstrate TCP's shortcomings in relation to better methods.
note: that's not to say that TCP/IP isn't a fine protocol -- it's a perfectly reasonable way to do things on a low BER, low latency network (i.e., the majority of networks we commonly use). I'd have the same criticisms of someone trying to run, for example, SCPS on a terrestrial network. It's the wrong tool for the wrong job.
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Certainly, Papal influence in these countries has historically been and continues to be great. But we don't ascribe a Catholic taint to everything that comes out of them... I would suggest that our fixation on a Mormon connection to all things Utah comes from Mormonism's novelty -- it's still a relative unknown to most people, and it has a peculiar history.
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Sure, the federal government wouldn't let old Brigham retain governership of Utah when it became a state, but wouldn't it by nice if we could install the guy as head of SCO? Even as a man who's been dead for more than a century, he could probably run that ship better than its current leadership.
Good point.
But, but this is a tad more difficult than simply running a P2P client from your office and noting the IP numbers that come up when you type in "Madonna", and then sending off the paperwork to the ISP, waiting for identification, and then sending off more papers to the court and the violator (the current method).
Add to this the hit-n-run capability of WiFi (download from your car and take off), etc., and enforcement against violators becomes much more difficult.
And when individual enforcement becomes difficult, the powers seek to punish the entire population through regulation, law-making, and banning technology.
The money, like a sweet virus, trickled into Caldera's veins to the tune of around $450 million as the settlement for the DR-DOS suit against Microsoft. Once in the bloodstream, it spread to the heart, brain. The lungs were the last organ to be affected, until Darrel McBride could no longer breath without trying to squash the impetuous mosquito that is Linux and all its devil-spawn communist long-hairs.
AOL took $750M from Microsoft in the Netscape suit. How many threatening letters to developers and users of Netscape patented technologies, perhaps even those in Mozilla, will that pay for? How quickly after AOL begins such a scheme will Microsoft donate another couple million to license that IP for use in IE?
Is there a planet I can move to that has a constitution banning all private possession of intellectual property?
This is a very common Canadian myth. I think they teach it in the schools up there. I've heard it over and over and over again from my Canadian family: "Europeans love Canadians, abhor Americans," or, "Oh, you're going to Hong Kong -- better stick a maple leaf patch on all you clothes so that they won't think you are a big fat American jerk!"
Guess what? I've traveled abroad a fair deal. And, believe it or not, I've had more than a handful of people (in hotels, at museums, on the street, etc.) say that the Canadians are FAR worse than the Americans -- that their patriotic Maple Leaf wearing is offensive and that their attitudes are annoying.
I, on the other hand, think that Canadians are wonderful people, and I love the fine Canadian country. I visit Ontario and Quebec regularly, and am impressed with MANY things there. But one thing I've never been able to stand is the fact that Canadian patriotism often equates with a snottish attitude, particularly as it involves a comparison with the U.S. You guys are better than that -- quit trying to establish your identity by being "better than the Americans."
Just a few thoughts.
I agree 100% with Mr. Gates. It is cool to complain about bugs. I am cool like Fonzie from Happy Days when I complain about bugs. Cool. Cool. Cool. That's me, complaining about bugs all the time because I am cool all the time. Way cool. Hey, did you hear about the bug in the Internet? Pretty cool, huh? There were some bugs in the AOL, too, so I switched to the MSN. Then I found a bunch of bugs in the MSN too. Oh man, am I cool.
BUT, not anytime soon, and you've identified the exact reason why: peppercoin patent monopoly. No reasonable merchant nor consumer should bet on a scheme that locks you into one vendor, especially for something as vital as your very revenue source. We like money because it is 100% transferable -- I can get it from anyone willing to trade with me. Credit cards are also competitive -- if I don't like Visa, I can try AmEx or Discover or MasterCard, and most vendor's have a single machine that can take any of the above. If I don't like peppercoin, there's no alternative I can switch out for -- the system is closed, patented, and sealed. Sure, there are other micropayment schemes that have lived and died, but if I wanted to start a peppercoin-compatible service, tough luck; it'll be at least 17 years before we get a legal shot at that.
"Christensen obsolescence" refers to Clayton Christensen's description of disruptive technologies and their impact on established, successful business. His work is best summarized in The Innovator's Dilemma"
"Christensen obselescence" refers to Clayton Christensen's book: "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail". Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business school. He is a renowned expert on disruptive technologies, which is really what the Innovator's dilemma is all about, and thus, the reference to the Internet and Open Source.
But, getting the two confused is understandable, they are both BYU grads. :)
But yeah, never attribute to "the cold hard facts" what you can more easily attribute to a vast conspiracy theory. Absolutely.
Doesn't this suggest that the worm needs to have privileges sufficient to infect the p2p software, i.e., root? And if that's the case, it either relies on me running as root, or includes a privilege escalation. And if it can do either, why wouldn't it also trojan xmms?
RPM's greatest asset: ability to catalog every installed file, including MD5 checksum, ownership, timestamp, mode, size, etc. So any "worm" has to not only trojan target files, by RPM itself. Good luck.
BTW, since all my executables are installed and owned by root, and since I log in as myself, wouldn't this so called worm need not only a buffer overflow in the executable, but some way to elevate its privileges to root? The bugtraq posting makes no claim that it does this.
And, this isn't the first satellite to use TCP/IP, by the way. TCP/IP has been run over satellite links numerous times, most often to demonstrate TCP's shortcomings in relation to better methods.
note: that's not to say that TCP/IP isn't a fine protocol -- it's a perfectly reasonable way to do things on a low BER, low latency network (i.e., the majority of networks we commonly use). I'd have the same criticisms of someone trying to run, for example, SCPS on a terrestrial network. It's the wrong tool for the wrong job.