I am sure our Aussie friends can explain their system better, but laying a 'US'ish system of justice on this incident - whoever allowed these raids should be in big trouble (even the judge involved).
Even if they find personal copyright violations (personal piracy), it would be next to impossible to associate this to the company's business directly (ie. that they are a pirate ring). They would be liable only for the copies found.
The only thing I guess they were hoping for (and had zero evidence of before the raid probably) would be that they were using kazaa to share these themselves and therefore could be a 'pirate ring' of sorts. If the warrant was on shaky grounds, even if things were found, it could be thrown out.
More than likely the company has both criminal and civil complaints it can register against this act and burn whoever did this. I really hope that they at least were smart enough to run clean at their offices (home raiding would be iffy from any stand point for a corporate 'act' and could be fought as harasment so hopefully that can save them there).
This is outrageous, but the US isn't the only place where bad laws are made. At least I hope they were using bad laws (and not just being authoritarian).
Why can't MX records become required to list all in AND out going official SMTP for a domain. From then on, SMTP servers could reject non matching MXed sender IPs and if spam does get through - you know you to blame.
Having been disappointed many times with the 'release' quality of Mandrake (but loving their attempts at ease of use) I think this is a great solution. It is obvious that their rpm catalog needs much more work than what it is currently getting (especially for big version updates), this should iron out the bugs and make a superior product when it is ready to ship CDs to off-the-shelf first time users and nonhacker corporations.
Hopefully this will finally make Mandrake suitable for corporate use (since Redhat Enterprise did the same thing against regular Redhat and now Fedora and Debian does a similar but MUCH slower version).
I hope that source based distros start to find a similar solution ie. Gentoo and Gentoo"Stable" (well mirrored and tested) so that they can reach a more mission critical set of users. I use ROCK Linux and they have been trying and failing to bridge this gap. It is important especially if distro makers want big contracts.
Cable companies as always are being little weasels in spreading FUD to defend their monopolies.
Cable companies get their digital sources(if they even have upgraded to digital) from similar flat panel high frequency satellites. So if rain effects yours, it will effect theirs. Snow does cause some problems if it builds up on 'the fake rock', but if it is in an open area (no trees in the way). It should be unnoticeable as digital is actually pretty tolerant to bad signals. I know most small town US cable TV is still using large dish analog feeds which are more prone to sun spot problems.
On a related note, the closer you are to the equator, the more likely your signal will suck and therefore be effected by rain, sun spots, etc. This is true even for digital low orbit satellites as they only cover specific areas of high user density.
In Singapore, our starhub cable has many outtages due to the sun and rain interference (it is illegal for consumers to have satellite receivers here so censored cable is the best we can get). The signal is definitely digital, but I suspect that to even get this crappy of a signal in this region it is something other than a flat panel dish. Most telecom dishes in this part of the world are gigantic(40+ feet) to reach the northern hemisphere parked satellites. Even to reach Australian (Murdock TV) positioned satellites must take effort. It is equally bizarre in that many of the viacom, hbo, news channels are locally originated in S'pore for Asia.
I have seen people intentionally place bogus ads like this. The ones that sell 'information' on how to get something cool/popular cheap. They are placed to look like they are an accidental good deal.
I am always suspicious when prices are to good to be true. Some chump will ALWAYS put a bid on something they are interested in 6 days before the end. If there isn't an initial bid, are you falling for something those idiots didn't?
On a personal note, I bought a 16x4 Rose KVM for $50 because it was mislabelled(It was marked as the chasis model only and mispelled, but pictures showed it complete so I gambled). Not all the ports work(2 bad), but 16x4!!! That is a $4K piece of equipment that I could never afford but actually needed.
Some of those liquidation lot purchasers are great when they screw up like this.
Uh, Don't give the defense contractors money?
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The Future of NASA
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If true, how badly will NASA's scientific mission be effected if it becomes a conduit for giving research and development money to defense contractors?
Even though this will be at the bottom of useless gpl discussions and never read. I would just like to point out why Kiss as a company has to be the big asshole here.
They are funded by investors, to get this money they have made many great promises. The first one will be that they actually made their own technology. (It is damn hard to get capital in this world unless you are sole licenser of IP.) Now it is coming out that they cheated to make the software and worst yet, they used GPL in their core app. It is too late because it has already been distributed and co-mingled. They really do understand this whether they act stupidly about the situation in public or not. This means they WILL lose all their IP to GPL unless they can lie cheat or buy their way out of this mess.
SCO has publically denounced the GPL and that implies that it does not agree to its terms. This stance would seem to involve more piracy on the part of SCO than just the clouded linux kernel issues. All of their current OSes contain SAMBA for example. SCO by publically not agreeing to the GPL has basically admitted to pirating 100's of software packages in ALL of their OSes.
I am sure there are plenty of them the FSF has copyright on (emacs comes to mind) and the FSF should go after SCO immediately. The FSF should seek an apology and public retraction of SCO's position (ie. make SCO say the GPL is valid) or damages of infringement as well as harm done to their reputation (unamerican, etc.). They should seek to immediately stop SCO from distributing its software.
I have been through community college and umich and now live in Singapore. I can say that around the world a 4 year degree is not equal. I hope that this will encourage students to beg for better course designs and more advanced knowledge than what 90% of the world currently gets.
I also hope that engineering faculty will seriously discuss and compare their current curriculums and bring them up to par as much as possible (with in their and their students capability).
I thought low cal diet increased life by 3 times?
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My pet mouse lived for 2.5 years (before getting the deadly neurological/arthritis problem most mice get at that age) and I have seen others live that long easily. I thought mice were the animals that were tested with the low cal diet that made them live 3 times longer. I remember the news film having mice.
Shouldn't it be at least 7 years if mice were in that test? Something is strange here.
They wire up one building (Suntec convention center not even all of Suntec) and all the sudden they are signing big deals allowing people to 'roam' in Singapore. This is complete PR bull. My own house's wifi has larger coverage, maybe I should make some deals.
And yes they have claimed the airport and Singapore Expo, just try and find real info on them at www.starhub.com.
Wow 20,000 hot spots and 3 of them in Singapore. What a great deal.
Whether you are full of sh*t or not this kinda makes since. All of Asia was hit pretty bad by a flu recently, whether it specifically was the hk one or not. It could have really hurt our immune systems. I know last year (same time around CNY) there has foot and mouth scares and a mild virus variation going through SG. Damn did that physically hurt. I had never had my body feel that way and I know it hurt my immune system permenantly.
I would feel a lot safer if I lived back in the US.
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Even if they find personal copyright violations (personal piracy), it would be next to impossible to associate this to the company's business directly (ie. that they are a pirate ring). They would be liable only for the copies found.
The only thing I guess they were hoping for (and had zero evidence of before the raid probably) would be that they were using kazaa to share these themselves and therefore could be a 'pirate ring' of sorts. If the warrant was on shaky grounds, even if things were found, it could be thrown out.
More than likely the company has both criminal and civil complaints it can register against this act and burn whoever did this. I really hope that they at least were smart enough to run clean at their offices (home raiding would be iffy from any stand point for a corporate 'act' and could be fought as harasment so hopefully that can save them there).
This is outrageous, but the US isn't the only place where bad laws are made. At least I hope they were using bad laws (and not just being authoritarian).
Why can't MX records become required to list all in AND out going official SMTP for a domain. From then on, SMTP servers could reject non matching MXed sender IPs and if spam does get through - you know you to blame.
Hopefully this will finally make Mandrake suitable for corporate use (since Redhat Enterprise did the same thing against regular Redhat and now Fedora and Debian does a similar but MUCH slower version).
I hope that source based distros start to find a similar solution ie. Gentoo and Gentoo"Stable" (well mirrored and tested) so that they can reach a more mission critical set of users. I use ROCK Linux and they have been trying and failing to bridge this gap. It is important especially if distro makers want big contracts.
Cable companies get their digital sources(if they even have upgraded to digital) from similar flat panel high frequency satellites. So if rain effects yours, it will effect theirs. Snow does cause some problems if it builds up on 'the fake rock', but if it is in an open area (no trees in the way). It should be unnoticeable as digital is actually pretty tolerant to bad signals. I know most small town US cable TV is still using large dish analog feeds which are more prone to sun spot problems.
On a related note, the closer you are to the equator, the more likely your signal will suck and therefore be effected by rain, sun spots, etc. This is true even for digital low orbit satellites as they only cover specific areas of high user density.
In Singapore, our starhub cable has many outtages due to the sun and rain interference (it is illegal for consumers to have satellite receivers here so censored cable is the best we can get). The signal is definitely digital, but I suspect that to even get this crappy of a signal in this region it is something other than a flat panel dish. Most telecom dishes in this part of the world are gigantic(40+ feet) to reach the northern hemisphere parked satellites. Even to reach Australian (Murdock TV) positioned satellites must take effort. It is equally bizarre in that many of the viacom, hbo, news channels are locally originated in S'pore for Asia.
I am always suspicious when prices are to good to be true. Some chump will ALWAYS put a bid on something they are interested in 6 days before the end. If there isn't an initial bid, are you falling for something those idiots didn't?
On a personal note, I bought a 16x4 Rose KVM for $50 because it was mislabelled(It was marked as the chasis model only and mispelled, but pictures showed it complete so I gambled). Not all the ports work(2 bad), but 16x4!!! That is a $4K piece of equipment that I could never afford but actually needed.
Some of those liquidation lot purchasers are great when they screw up like this.
What non-defense contractors of NASA are there?
They are funded by investors, to get this money they have made many great promises. The first one will be that they actually made their own technology. (It is damn hard to get capital in this world unless you are sole licenser of IP.) Now it is coming out that they cheated to make the software and worst yet, they used GPL in their core app. It is too late because it has already been distributed and co-mingled. They really do understand this whether they act stupidly about the situation in public or not. This means they WILL lose all their IP to GPL unless they can lie cheat or buy their way out of this mess.
Wow, it looks like SCO has the best filesystems for Linux with JFS and XFS.
SCO has publically denounced the GPL and that implies that it does not agree to its terms. This stance would seem to involve more piracy on the part of SCO than just the clouded linux kernel issues. All of their current OSes contain SAMBA for example. SCO by publically not agreeing to the GPL has basically admitted to pirating 100's of software packages in ALL of their OSes.
I am sure there are plenty of them the FSF has copyright on (emacs comes to mind) and the FSF should go after SCO immediately. The FSF should seek an apology and public retraction of SCO's position (ie. make SCO say the GPL is valid) or damages of infringement as well as harm done to their reputation (unamerican, etc.). They should seek to immediately stop SCO from distributing its software.
I have been through community college and umich and now live in Singapore. I can say that around the world a 4 year degree is not equal. I hope that this will encourage students to beg for better course designs and more advanced knowledge than what 90% of the world currently gets.
I also hope that engineering faculty will seriously discuss and compare their current curriculums and bring them up to par as much as possible (with in their and their students capability).
My pet mouse lived for 2.5 years (before getting the deadly neurological/arthritis problem most mice get at that age) and I have seen others live that long easily. I thought mice were the animals that were tested with the low cal diet that made them live 3 times longer. I remember the news film having mice.
Shouldn't it be at least 7 years if mice were in that test? Something is strange here.
They wire up one building (Suntec convention center not even all of Suntec) and all the sudden they are signing big deals allowing people to 'roam' in Singapore. This is complete PR bull. My own house's wifi has larger coverage, maybe I should make some deals.
And yes they have claimed the airport and Singapore Expo, just try and find real info on them at www.starhub.com.
Wow 20,000 hot spots and 3 of them in Singapore. What a great deal.
Whether you are full of sh*t or not this kinda makes since. All of Asia was hit pretty bad by a flu recently, whether it specifically was the hk one or not. It could have really hurt our immune systems. I know last year (same time around CNY) there has foot and mouth scares and a mild virus variation going through SG. Damn did that physically hurt. I had never had my body feel that way and I know it hurt my immune system permenantly.
I would feel a lot safer if I lived back in the US.