So if they are not going to sue, what motivation would anyone have to but a licence?
Look, just shut up and buy a license. This isn't that complicated. You send us $699, we stop harassing you and your family. You don't send us $699, maybe we'll break your legs or your grandmother might trip down some stairs accidently. Stop trying to confuse the issue by debating with us over this.
How come if you called anyone else and said "I want to purchase a license for this software" They would jump on it and get your CC# when all SCO is doing is going on and on about lawsuits? This has to be a joke.
SCO ceased to be a company when this whole mess began. It's only purpose in life is to act as a litigation engine. Nobody would buy their products unless under threat of extortion anyway.
It is not our god given right to download music. It is a product, just like any other, and stealing is stealing, regardless of the venue.
So speaketh the Lord unto delivering his 11 commandments:
11. Thou shalt not commit copyright infringement.
Errr, no. Sorry bub, copyright infringement is not the same as stealing. It's violating a government granted monopoly on distribution of data, nothing more, nothing less. If I made 10,000 copies of a song and gave it away there isn't suddenly 10,000 less copies of the song available to sell. God doesn't want you stealing your neighbor's car or his stereo. He couldn't care less if you made an exact copy of it.
Or, in the case of well known ports such as port 135 mentioned in the original posting, I've actually used port 135 to share entire windows directory structures across the Internet (between a system in Indiana and one in North Carolina). It was slick and very handy, although too few understand how cleanly (and safely) this can be set up and made to work.
If it is setup safely and cleanly (over an IPSEC ESP vpn tunnel) then his port 135 block would not have affected you. Windows file sharing is for INTRANET use as the hundreds of exploits and bugs in it have made abundantly clear.
An ISP service isn't much good if you have to pay for it at international timed call rates.
Well, you didn't say you needed shell access via dialup. There are tons of shell accounts available via ssh if you've already got a PPP account. I don't know the point of it though since it's pretty easy to hack someone else's box and get yourself a shell account. People do it to insecure Linux boxes all the time.
- Why was morse code originally required for amatuer radio operators?
- What advantages does morse code have, vs other forms of radio communication?
I dislike the morse code requirement, but I think both of these can be summed up in that even under the worst communications conditions you can almost always transmit and receive morse code. A noisy signal that would be uncopyable for voice communications would be sufficient to hear morse code. One of the main reasons for amateur radio to exist has been and still is for emergency communications in a disaster. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I guess I've nullified my own argument. Maybe morse code should stay.
- How often is morse code used today?
Don't know. I've never used it on any of the UHF or VHF bands. The only time I ever hear it is a repeater singing off it's station call sign in morse code.
Perhaps the old-timers don't want their hobby to grow (for example to grow like the internet grew!) Perhaps they want to keep it like it is - rather clean, a bit of the elite-touch.
I hate to break it to the old-timers who have this opinion, but if amateur radio continues to dwindle in users you're not going to have it pretty soon. The government will take away those frequencies and sell them off to the highest bidder for commercial communications. There's already VERY strong support for doing that. I'd be very sad to see that happen which is why I hope that they can do something to increase interest and decrease the amount of meaningless hoops you have to jump through to obtain broadcast privileges on certain bands. I'm not about to take a morse code test, but I'd certainly go learn the extra material required to pass a written test for general or advanced/extra (whatever) license.
Of course it does. It teaches you the responsible spending of money. For example, if you picked up a puppy from the APL, that is called responsible spending. If you bought an AIBO you are a fucking moron and should have your credit card cut up because you obviously have too much money or too much credit (or both) for your own good.
RHat 7.3 release date was May of last year. That's a few release cycles behind, don't you think (8.0, 8.1, 9.0)?
Way to miss the point. If I was going to play fair I would've said Red Hat 6.2 or whatever release was out around the time Windows 2000 was released (1999) since that's what the main bitching is about. A Win2k SP2 box is no more insecure than a Redhat 7.3 box that hasn't been patched.
You're refering to holes in Apache, not Linus
So? People refer to holes in IE/Outlook/IIS and blame it on poor Windows security. Apache is bundled with every major distro so it's part of Linux. Or should I say, GNU/Linux.
Simple firewall script, anyone....
Tiny Personal Firewall anyone... Again, you miss the point of what I was saying. An OS is only as secure as the incompetent system administrator taking care of it. Personally I fscking HATE Windows because these god damn Sobig/Blaster/Nachi infections have us running around in circles tracking down rogue infected machines. All the properly administered machines were patched and virus innoculated a long time ago against this crap.
The moral of the story kids is that today's indestructable technology monopoly can be tomorrow's bankrupt and forgotten company. Remember that Microsoft.
Of course, it's already been pretty well established that what was stolen were not mainframes, just a couple of server boxes, so why are we even talking about it?:-)
Maybe the servers were running Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition. That sort of makes them like mainframes right? *giggle*.
The RIAA reminds me (right so) of a typical trade union. Something could be done more efficiently and cheaper by cutting out the middle-men, but because of long-standing tradition and putting the fear of god into customers, you just HAVE to use them. Want to change a light? Call the electrician's union. Want something shipped, call the teamsters. Want to listen to any popular music, call the RIAA. Want to move a dead body? Call the teamsters.
So I wonder why, instead of spending all these hours on manpower for the current worms, they don't just block ports 445, 135-139. Do they really need them on the residential network?
Don't forget ICMP echo requests for the Welchia crap and port 25 for Sobig virus spamming everyone. Oh hell, just block all the ports and require everyone to use an authenticated web proxy with content filters and you even cut out P2P file sharing!
No, Linux has the Lion, Adore, Ramen, and Slapper worms. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Linux is definitely NOT secure by default by any stretch of the imagination. If you were to go take a vanilla fresh installed Red Hat 7.3 machine and stick it on the Internet it'd be hacked in under an hour. The only thing all this proves is that operating systems have bugs... ALL of them do, including OpenBSD and a major OpenSSH root exploit in the default install last year. Any OS should be administered by a competent system admin who patches and/or disables services as necessary to avoid exploitation.
...who later grew up and, upon reaching manhood, was promptly sued by the RIAA, MPAA and SCO for sharing data with the rest of the community.
No kidding. Any parent that teaches their children that sharing is a good thing these days needs to have their head examined. Sharing should be revealed to be the evil deceitful thing that it is: stealing. Whether it's sharing music or sharing answers to homework, children should definitely be discouraged from any kind of sharing. Remember kids, sharing = stealing.
Keep your Tivos and your monthly subscription.... MythTV is the best/cheapest PVR out there.
The only problem I have with MythTV is xmltv. When Zap2it takes a shit or decides to change their format, xmltv's program guide grabber breaks and I get no new guide info. With the monthly subscription to Tivo you don't have to worry about that. On the other hand, having dual tuners (2x Hauppauge WinTV dbx stereo) in my MythTV box makes up for it since I would've missed many shows without it. Time to see if I can fit a third in there for the hell of it (WinTV PVR 250). Maybe I'll just put three WinTV PVR 250's in.
I own an Explorer 8000 from Scientific Atlanta, and the big advantage from that box is that it has built in TV-Guide for the next 3 days, and you can go to the show of your choice and tell the PVR to record the show for you. I'm willing to lose a few functionnality to get this extremely usefull feature.
My MythTV box's default configuration is to grab 8 days worth of program guides using xmltv from Zap2It. How is that different than what you're describing? No, the big advantage of an explorer 8000 would be direct saving of digital cable signals without having to encode it with a tuner capture card.
I have a question, would you all be as excited about yet another PVR, would this be newsworthy, if it ran Windows CE or anything other than linux?
Like a ReplayTV? I don't recall what OS it runs, but it's definitely not Windows or Linux. Probably some realtime embedded OS. I'll stick with my MythTV box. It's been running fine and with 2x200GB drives in it I've been able to record whatever I want since mid-May and I still have 195 gigs free (about 800megs an hour for MPEG4 at the default rate it's using). The important thing I've learned from this whole MythTV project I've embarked upon is that there's nothing good on TV. I already have 97% of the Seinfeld episodes recorded!:-)
Not to rain on your parade, but I've never seen the LA "aquaducts" even look moist. Much less with standing water.
Of course not. They're for Hollywood car chase scenes, not for carrying water. Every chase through LA must include one or more dips into the aquaducts... it's part of their contract.
So if I hack Mr. Oppenheims computer and "unreasonably" search it (i.e. rifle through his private data) I am immune to rules on unreasonable searches because I am a hacker and not a cop? Nice to know.... Now where did I put that SubSeven kit.....
Browsing a public file share on a P2P client and "hacking" someone's private data are two entirely different things. If you kept your MP3s locked up safely on your drive and didn't share them you'd have an excellent case if someone were to come along and somehow gain access to them.
I really can't see anything positive coming out of this, people are going to be screwed (pay up because they can't afford the lawyer), the pblic won't care, and the RIAA will just gain more momentum.
Well, there is an alternative to getting sued by the RIAA. You can just stop offering copyrighted material on P2P networks. I realize this is a crazy solution since people like to get free music and share it, but unless you want to be sued out of existance it's your only option. The days of having fun with P2P sharing is over guys. Time to move on and go back to hiding on FTP or IRC like the criminals we are.
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Look, just shut up and buy a license. This isn't that complicated. You send us $699, we stop harassing you and your family. You don't send us $699, maybe we'll break your legs or your grandmother might trip down some stairs accidently. Stop trying to confuse the issue by debating with us over this.
- SCO Legal/Sales Department
SCO ceased to be a company when this whole mess began. It's only purpose in life is to act as a litigation engine. Nobody would buy their products unless under threat of extortion anyway.
So speaketh the Lord unto delivering his 11 commandments:
11. Thou shalt not commit copyright infringement.
Errr, no. Sorry bub, copyright infringement is not the same as stealing. It's violating a government granted monopoly on distribution of data, nothing more, nothing less. If I made 10,000 copies of a song and gave it away there isn't suddenly 10,000 less copies of the song available to sell. God doesn't want you stealing your neighbor's car or his stereo. He couldn't care less if you made an exact copy of it.
Is there space to fit 9 fans into a Powerbook chassis? Maybe they'll make it bigger.. say 5 inches thicker.
If it is setup safely and cleanly (over an IPSEC ESP vpn tunnel) then his port 135 block would not have affected you. Windows file sharing is for INTRANET use as the hundreds of exploits and bugs in it have made abundantly clear.
Well, you didn't say you needed shell access via dialup. There are tons of shell accounts available via ssh if you've already got a PPP account. I don't know the point of it though since it's pretty easy to hack someone else's box and get yourself a shell account. People do it to insecure Linux boxes all the time.
Is not informative is. Crack moderators smoke plenty hmmmm?
- What advantages does morse code have, vs other forms of radio communication?
I dislike the morse code requirement, but I think both of these can be summed up in that even under the worst communications conditions you can almost always transmit and receive morse code. A noisy signal that would be uncopyable for voice communications would be sufficient to hear morse code. One of the main reasons for amateur radio to exist has been and still is for emergency communications in a disaster. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I guess I've nullified my own argument. Maybe morse code should stay.
- How often is morse code used today?
Don't know. I've never used it on any of the UHF or VHF bands. The only time I ever hear it is a repeater singing off it's station call sign in morse code.
I hate to break it to the old-timers who have this opinion, but if amateur radio continues to dwindle in users you're not going to have it pretty soon. The government will take away those frequencies and sell them off to the highest bidder for commercial communications. There's already VERY strong support for doing that. I'd be very sad to see that happen which is why I hope that they can do something to increase interest and decrease the amount of meaningless hoops you have to jump through to obtain broadcast privileges on certain bands. I'm not about to take a morse code test, but I'd certainly go learn the extra material required to pass a written test for general or advanced/extra (whatever) license.
Of course it does. It teaches you the responsible spending of money. For example, if you picked up a puppy from the APL, that is called responsible spending. If you bought an AIBO you are a fucking moron and should have your credit card cut up because you obviously have too much money or too much credit (or both) for your own good.
Way to miss the point. If I was going to play fair I would've said Red Hat 6.2 or whatever release was out around the time Windows 2000 was released (1999) since that's what the main bitching is about. A Win2k SP2 box is no more insecure than a Redhat 7.3 box that hasn't been patched.
You're refering to holes in Apache, not Linus
So? People refer to holes in IE/Outlook/IIS and blame it on poor Windows security. Apache is bundled with every major distro so it's part of Linux. Or should I say, GNU/Linux.
Simple firewall script, anyone....
Tiny Personal Firewall anyone... Again, you miss the point of what I was saying. An OS is only as secure as the incompetent system administrator taking care of it. Personally I fscking HATE Windows because these god damn Sobig/Blaster/Nachi infections have us running around in circles tracking down rogue infected machines. All the properly administered machines were patched and virus innoculated a long time ago against this crap.
The moral of the story kids is that today's indestructable technology monopoly can be tomorrow's bankrupt and forgotten company. Remember that Microsoft.
Maybe the servers were running Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition. That sort of makes them like mainframes right? *giggle*.
The RIAA reminds me (right so) of a typical trade union. Something could be done more efficiently and cheaper by cutting out the middle-men, but because of long-standing tradition and putting the fear of god into customers, you just HAVE to use them. Want to change a light? Call the electrician's union. Want something shipped, call the teamsters. Want to listen to any popular music, call the RIAA. Want to move a dead body? Call the teamsters.
Don't forget ICMP echo requests for the Welchia crap and port 25 for Sobig virus spamming everyone. Oh hell, just block all the ports and require everyone to use an authenticated web proxy with content filters and you even cut out P2P file sharing!
No, Linux has the Lion, Adore, Ramen, and Slapper worms. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Linux is definitely NOT secure by default by any stretch of the imagination. If you were to go take a vanilla fresh installed Red Hat 7.3 machine and stick it on the Internet it'd be hacked in under an hour. The only thing all this proves is that operating systems have bugs... ALL of them do, including OpenBSD and a major OpenSSH root exploit in the default install last year. Any OS should be administered by a competent system admin who patches and/or disables services as necessary to avoid exploitation.
No kidding. Any parent that teaches their children that sharing is a good thing these days needs to have their head examined. Sharing should be revealed to be the evil deceitful thing that it is: stealing. Whether it's sharing music or sharing answers to homework, children should definitely be discouraged from any kind of sharing. Remember kids, sharing = stealing.
Well if you're running Linux then why would they be advertising to you? You've already switched.
The only problem I have with MythTV is xmltv. When Zap2it takes a shit or decides to change their format, xmltv's program guide grabber breaks and I get no new guide info. With the monthly subscription to Tivo you don't have to worry about that. On the other hand, having dual tuners (2x Hauppauge WinTV dbx stereo) in my MythTV box makes up for it since I would've missed many shows without it. Time to see if I can fit a third in there for the hell of it (WinTV PVR 250). Maybe I'll just put three WinTV PVR 250's in.
My MythTV box's default configuration is to grab 8 days worth of program guides using xmltv from Zap2It. How is that different than what you're describing? No, the big advantage of an explorer 8000 would be direct saving of digital cable signals without having to encode it with a tuner capture card.
Like a ReplayTV? I don't recall what OS it runs, but it's definitely not Windows or Linux. Probably some realtime embedded OS. I'll stick with my MythTV box. It's been running fine and with 2x200GB drives in it I've been able to record whatever I want since mid-May and I still have 195 gigs free (about 800megs an hour for MPEG4 at the default rate it's using). The important thing I've learned from this whole MythTV project I've embarked upon is that there's nothing good on TV. I already have 97% of the Seinfeld episodes recorded! :-)
Of course not. They're for Hollywood car chase scenes, not for carrying water. Every chase through LA must include one or more dips into the aquaducts... it's part of their contract.
Browsing a public file share on a P2P client and "hacking" someone's private data are two entirely different things. If you kept your MP3s locked up safely on your drive and didn't share them you'd have an excellent case if someone were to come along and somehow gain access to them.
Well, there is an alternative to getting sued by the RIAA. You can just stop offering copyrighted material on P2P networks. I realize this is a crazy solution since people like to get free music and share it, but unless you want to be sued out of existance it's your only option. The days of having fun with P2P sharing is over guys. Time to move on and go back to hiding on FTP or IRC like the criminals we are.
That's about 500 more SCO stories on Slashdot's front page before the trial even begins. Wow, it's going to be a long year.