As SCO's own representatives have proclaimed, if SCO is successful at this effort, it can add "billions" of dollars in undeserved revenues to its declining bottom line.
They could win "billions" and have a one in several hundred million chance of actually doing so. That seems very lottery-like, but the fact that the phrase is so accurate makes me wonder if anyone from SCO actually said it.
Well, having not seen it, I don't know for sure this would work, but my instinct is that a good place to start would be to take a copy of the movie and run it at a high speed (say maybe 30 frames per second give or take) between a bright light and a lense, such as those that are found on a standard movie projector. After that, make sure the sound is synced and the screen is crystal clear, so as not to detract from the suckiness. Oh yeah, and lock the doors. If everyone leaves early, the movie may only be ruined half way through.
It may be hard to take out a 800lb gorilla with a slingshot, but half a million mosquitoes will suck one dry.
Hey, come on now, I hate mosquitoes as much as the next guy, but don't go comparing them to lawyers working for SCO. Mosquitoes at least spread disease to keep animal populations low enough that they can self sustain.
From the SCO Letter: We [SCO] continue to urge IBM to provide legal indemnification for its
Linux customers.
Now why, oh why, does SCO want that? Well, one reason that occurs to me is this: IBM has been fairly unaffected by SCO's suite against them. They're not cowering in fear or hiding under rocks or anything. SCO would like IBM to look worried because, well heck, if I'm going to make flagrantly ridiculous accusations against somebody who could squish me like a bug, and nobody believes me, nobody's going to put up much argument when it's squish-time. So here's what SCO has to gain:
If IBM (or Redhat) were to indemnify Linux users, that's as good as saying they're not so sure of their case. HP can get away with it because they haven't been targeted and probably won't be before the thing is over. Besides, for them, it looks good. So one thing SCO wants is for IBM to show a tiny bit of uncertainty in public instead of all this "SCO's claims are without merit." and "The Earth is not flat." stuff that they keep throwing around.
The second reason is a little more complicated: Right now, SCO has a huge legal staff devoted to protecting a large corporation. Right now, if SCO were to choose a bunch of Joe-Linux-user types (not companies using Linux, but individuals), it would look really bad, and they'd have to fork over their evidence soon, since for $699, that's small claims court, and it's not that easy to delay a small claims trial for the next two years or so. So, with no indemnification from IBM, it's not at all practical to sue the little guys. If IBM is indemnifying them though, it works well for SCO to attack all of the smallest users they can find. IBM is able to defend itself perfectly well, but if SCO were to go RIAA-style and start with a few hundred or even a few thousand Linux users, and IBM had to defend them or pay up, IBM is not so well equipped. They'd have to hire a bunch of lawyers on the side to take care of it which would cost money and create a huge sideshow to mask whatever SCO's goal is.
So there you go. Unless SCO is actually concerned about Linux users. Ha! Can you see it?
SCO: Hey IBM, we're really concerned about your users. We're worried that we might accidentally catch them up in our extortion scheme. How bout you pay us off and nothing bad happens?
IBM: *stomp*
SCO: *squish*
Darl, I'll let you sleep on the couch in my basement. Note though that my cat is very fussy, you'll have to completely bury your turds in the litterbox or she'll get mad. Thanks, buddy!
Darl's such a turd, your cat will try to bury HIM.
Already done... sort of. I was using pictures of Darl to train my cat to attack him, and the dumb cat ate the pages. After several hours of... processing, Darl re-emerged and was promptly buried. What's sad is that he was far more pleasant afterwards.
Pet Peeve #843287: SUV drivers that whine about the price of gas. You bought that overpriced penis extension, learn to live with the consequences.
It's those bastard spammers again! Sure, they tell you how big you'll get and how much you'll please your lover with your new size, but do they mention how much the extra weight hurts your fuel economy? Hell no!
Every dollar MS gives to schools is a dollar they don't have to give to SCO!
Wow I wish that were true. Well, I suppose it technically is true, but think of it this way:
$49 Billion in the bank - $500 Million to universities over the past 5 years = Still a hell of a lot of money.
Even scarier, imagine that that $49 Billion is invested for a modest 3% interest. That's $1.47 Billion in interest annually, which ought to pretty well cover some cash for schools and hiring a few lawyers for another antitrust case or two.
"We have absolute direct knowledge of this. If you go behind the scenes, the attacks that we get that don't have IBM's name on them, underneath the covers, are sponsored by IBM," McBride said.
If you ask me, they're now so desparate that they are hoping to fragment the open source community's stand against them with ridiculous accusations like this. They're trying to appeal to the small subset of the open source community who dislikes collaboration with Big Corporations by saying that IBM is controlling us, and although I doubt it would have worked anyway, it'd have a better chance if SCO hadn't flushed ALL of their credibility down the toilet and if they too, weren't a Big Corporation.
Oh well, let's just sit back and watch them flail.
Scientists have reconstructed the face of Lucy, famed early human, using this technology. To little surprise, they found her primitive features closely resembled those of homo sapiens SCO executivus...
Highly unlikely. It says here that Lucy was a hominid and therefore able to walk upright.
The first creationist who takes this opportunity to reply and infer that Einstein's "god does not play dice" comment is tacit proof of god is going to get beat with a dusty 1200 baud modem.
Damnit! I knew there was a better way to clean off a dusty modem than with a rag. Now why didn't I think of that, and why did you never tell me?
As for "god does not play dice" being tacit proof of God, heck, that's not even tacit proof of dice.
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I can only imagine this would be useful for talk radio... I mean... what would be the point of using this for a top 40 station?
Wait, are you saying you have a radio station that plays 40 DIFFERENT songs??? Do you mean over a period of 5-10 years, or have you just not listened to the radio in the last decade?
Access is a noun. Hence one can perform an act which becomes illegal access, one can grant or revoke access, but one cannot access something anymore than one can plane, car, or fireplug.
Hmm... Take a look at this and go to where it says "access[2,transitive verb]"
Of course, bitching on/. about grammar is about as pointless as crying "Dupe"
But what the hell, I do that too.
Even on stories that are not duplicated, I take it.
Ok, not duplicated yet.
Would it stand to reason that these devices would _generate_ electricity when bombarded by photons? Or would they be destroyed?
I'm sure several orders of magnitude more of these nanotubes would fit in the space of a solar cell.
Stephenson's aerostats just might work.:) Perhaps someone with a background could answer.
Well, I don't know about that, but you might be able to pull somebody who doesn't know jack about electricity, solar cells, or nanotubes, but is extremely opinionated, and they could say something like "That'd never work, it's clearly impossible you moron!" or "Of course it'd work, I was trying to suggest that at my last job, but they wouldn't support me, so I quit, and can't afford the research or a patent myself, so some huge corporation is just going to come along and rip off my idea!"
Hold on now, it's not ready yet! It doesn't have more than a few gaping loopholes and could still be used to actually deter telemarketers from waking you up or callind during dinner. You need to wait until our noble legislators have completely defanged it before you're allowed to try it out.
If the RIAA keeps talking about how "we" are hurting the artists, what measures are they taking to give the artists restitution?
Ahh, a fresh mind unspoiled by the cynicism that comes with watching the RIAA's and MPAA's actions:-) The answer to your question is: None! I mean come on, if the RIAA gave some of that money to artists, that would mean less money for the record companies, and that just wouldn't be fair, since it's the record companies perpetrating the extortion, not the artists.
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As SCO's own representatives have proclaimed, if SCO is successful at this effort, it can add "billions" of dollars in undeserved revenues to its declining bottom line.
They could win "billions" and have a one in several hundred million chance of actually doing so. That seems very lottery-like, but the fact that the phrase is so accurate makes me wonder if anyone from SCO actually said it.
I mean, how exactly does one RUIN Freddy v Jason?
Well, having not seen it, I don't know for sure this would work, but my instinct is that a good place to start would be to take a copy of the movie and run it at a high speed (say maybe 30 frames per second give or take) between a bright light and a lense, such as those that are found on a standard movie projector. After that, make sure the sound is synced and the screen is crystal clear, so as not to detract from the suckiness. Oh yeah, and lock the doors. If everyone leaves early, the movie may only be ruined half way through.
It may be hard to take out a 800lb gorilla with a slingshot, but half a million mosquitoes will suck one dry.
Hey, come on now, I hate mosquitoes as much as the next guy, but don't go comparing them to lawyers working for SCO. Mosquitoes at least spread disease to keep animal populations low enough that they can self sustain.
We [SCO] continue to urge IBM to provide legal indemnification for its Linux customers.
Now why, oh why, does SCO want that? Well, one reason that occurs to me is this: IBM has been fairly unaffected by SCO's suite against them. They're not cowering in fear or hiding under rocks or anything. SCO would like IBM to look worried because, well heck, if I'm going to make flagrantly ridiculous accusations against somebody who could squish me like a bug, and nobody believes me, nobody's going to put up much argument when it's squish-time. So here's what SCO has to gain:
- If IBM (or Redhat) were to indemnify Linux users, that's as good as saying they're not so sure of their case. HP can get away with it because they haven't been targeted and probably won't be before the thing is over. Besides, for them, it looks good. So one thing SCO wants is for IBM to show a tiny bit of uncertainty in public instead of all this "SCO's claims are without merit." and "The Earth is not flat." stuff that they keep throwing around.
- The second reason is a little more complicated: Right now, SCO has a huge legal staff devoted to protecting a large corporation. Right now, if SCO were to choose a bunch of Joe-Linux-user types (not companies using Linux, but individuals), it would look really bad, and they'd have to fork over their evidence soon, since for $699, that's small claims court, and it's not that easy to delay a small claims trial for the next two years or so. So, with no indemnification from IBM, it's not at all practical to sue the little guys. If IBM is indemnifying them though, it works well for SCO to attack all of the smallest users they can find. IBM is able to defend itself perfectly well, but if SCO were to go RIAA-style and start with a few hundred or even a few thousand Linux users, and IBM had to defend them or pay up, IBM is not so well equipped. They'd have to hire a bunch of lawyers on the side to take care of it which would cost money and create a huge sideshow to mask whatever SCO's goal is.
So there you go. Unless SCO is actually concerned about Linux users. Ha! Can you see it?SCO: Hey IBM, we're really concerned about your users. We're worried that we might accidentally catch them up in our extortion scheme. How bout you pay us off and nothing bad happens?
IBM: *stomp*
SCO: *squish*
SCO/GNU/LINUX
I realize you're joking, but please, never say that again. Really.
Darl, I'll let you sleep on the couch in my basement. Note though that my cat is very fussy, you'll have to completely bury your turds in the litterbox or she'll get mad. Thanks, buddy!
Darl's such a turd, your cat will try to bury HIM.
Already done... sort of. I was using pictures of Darl to train my cat to attack him, and the dumb cat ate the pages. After several hours of... processing, Darl re-emerged and was promptly buried. What's sad is that he was far more pleasant afterwards.
The return of Yoko Ono...
Naked.
And petrified.
With hot grits
And cottage cheese!
Yum!
I mean, no, yuck! Bad! I didn't mean that. Really, I didn't.
Pet Peeve #843287: SUV drivers that whine about the price of gas. You bought that overpriced penis extension, learn to live with the consequences.
It's those bastard spammers again! Sure, they tell you how big you'll get and how much you'll please your lover with your new size, but do they mention how much the extra weight hurts your fuel economy? Hell no!
Having seen Palm Pilots that went for $199 in stores go for $289 on e-Bay, it'll be interesting to see how high the price for a $0.99 song goes.
Let's just say that the profit margin seems to be a little bit higher on resold digital music.
Wait till all the venture capitalists find out!
And what about my stick deoderant: "Not for use in the eyes."
Now what the heck am I supposed to do when I've got a bad case of stinky-eye?
Every dollar MS gives to schools is a dollar they don't have to give to SCO!
Wow I wish that were true. Well, I suppose it technically is true, but think of it this way:
$49 Billion in the bank - $500 Million to universities over the past 5 years = Still a hell of a lot of money.
Even scarier, imagine that that $49 Billion is invested for a modest 3% interest. That's $1.47 Billion in interest annually, which ought to pretty well cover some cash for schools and hiring a few lawyers for another antitrust case or two.
"We have absolute direct knowledge of this. If you go behind the scenes, the attacks that we get that don't have IBM's name on them, underneath the covers, are sponsored by IBM," McBride said.
If you ask me, they're now so desparate that they are hoping to fragment the open source community's stand against them with ridiculous accusations like this. They're trying to appeal to the small subset of the open source community who dislikes collaboration with Big Corporations by saying that IBM is controlling us, and although I doubt it would have worked anyway, it'd have a better chance if SCO hadn't flushed ALL of their credibility down the toilet and if they too, weren't a Big Corporation.
Oh well, let's just sit back and watch them flail.
Scientists have reconstructed the face of Lucy, famed early human, using this technology. To little surprise, they found her primitive features closely resembled those of homo sapiens SCO executivus...
Highly unlikely. It says here that Lucy was a hominid and therefore able to walk upright.
And the contents of my toilet had many similarities to SCO stock!
Take some pride in your excrement! What did it ever do to you? Poor little s***s being thrown into the same category as SCO.
The first creationist who takes this opportunity to reply and infer that Einstein's "god does not play dice" comment is tacit proof of god is going to get beat with a dusty 1200 baud modem.
Damnit! I knew there was a better way to clean off a dusty modem than with a rag. Now why didn't I think of that, and why did you never tell me?
As for "god does not play dice" being tacit proof of God, heck, that's not even tacit proof of dice.
Is anyone actually going to post ontopic to this story?
I'm sorry, but what does "on topic" mean again? I think I missed the article that defined that.
the licensing of Windows -- product activation and the like -- are what's really kicking Microsoft's teeth in
Awww, why do licensing and product activation get to have all the fun?
Argh! There are so many links in that submission that my head is about to explo
... Take a look at the articles - More links! They're trying to reverse-slashdot the people who actually read the articles!
Hey baby, wanna see my storage?
I can only imagine this would be useful for talk radio... I mean... what would be the point of using this for a top 40 station?
Wait, are you saying you have a radio station that plays 40 DIFFERENT songs??? Do you mean over a period of 5-10 years, or have you just not listened to the radio in the last decade?
Access is a noun. Hence one can perform an act which becomes illegal access, one can grant or revoke access, but one cannot access something anymore than one can plane, car, or fireplug.
/. about grammar is about as pointless as crying "Dupe"
Hmm... Take a look at this and go to where it says "access[2,transitive verb]"
Of course, bitching on
But what the hell, I do that too.
Even on stories that are not duplicated, I take it.
Ok, not duplicated yet.
No -- that would be "North Korea". Do not be fooled by the lies of the Americans -- Dear Leader is one seriously l33t d00d.
As the one person in his country with access to email, yes, over there, he probably is.
Would it stand to reason that these devices would _generate_ electricity when bombarded by photons? Or would they be destroyed? :)
I'm sure several orders of magnitude more of these nanotubes would fit in the space of a solar cell.
Stephenson's aerostats just might work.
Perhaps someone with a background could answer.
Well, I don't know about that, but you might be able to pull somebody who doesn't know jack about electricity, solar cells, or nanotubes, but is extremely opinionated, and they could say something like "That'd never work, it's clearly impossible you moron!" or "Of course it'd work, I was trying to suggest that at my last job, but they wouldn't support me, so I quit, and can't afford the research or a patent myself, so some huge corporation is just going to come along and rip off my idea!"
Hold on now, it's not ready yet! It doesn't have more than a few gaping loopholes and could still be used to actually deter telemarketers from waking you up or callind during dinner. You need to wait until our noble legislators have completely defanged it before you're allowed to try it out.
If the RIAA keeps talking about how "we" are hurting the artists, what measures are they taking to give the artists restitution?
:-) The answer to your question is: None! I mean come on, if the RIAA gave some of that money to artists, that would mean less money for the record companies, and that just wouldn't be fair, since it's the record companies perpetrating the extortion, not the artists.
Ahh, a fresh mind unspoiled by the cynicism that comes with watching the RIAA's and MPAA's actions