"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful [the bablefish] could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
"The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
"`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
All the geeks here should look into the Swiss Army Cybertool. I have used it to fix countless computers, and I never have had a task it couldn't handle. The range of screwdriver bits it has is great. I even fixed a clock radio with stupid Torx screws with it.
I got 7 tickets for myself and my six closest friends, and we'll be there at the theater for a whole 12 freaking hours! How much fun can you possibly have on a Tuesday?!
I agree, I have one in my PDA case because it is so small. I'm never without a pen. And it writes very well to.
However, pentel.5mm are the best mechanical pencils, the only ones I use.
First of all, it would take a while for me to not be distracted using this "phone." How many of you are not in some way excited every time you get a new tech toy. I would be thinking more about the device, how it works, and the fact that I am in water, more than about the conversation. Your general conversations: "Dude! I'm floating in water while I talk! Isn't that cool?!"
I like the feedback comment at the bottom. I was thinking the same thing before i noticed it was down there. It's so true that it was/is near impposible to check if code was taken out of Unix. Would SCO like to give us a copy of their code? No, so they should just complain whenever they see a problem, and then the Linux community will take it out. It's that simple. No liscensing deals necessary. Here's the quote:
Nathan Hand commented...
"Secondly, no-one seems to have answered the perfectly legitimate question about the open source development process - just how DO you ensure that code submitted by a developer HASN'T been ripped off, just because the developer claims that it hasn't? McBride IS right when he says that Open Source is still maturing and we DO need to look at, and answer these questions."
How do you ensure it in any project, open source or closed sourced? You ask the author. You assume they tell the truth. How else could you do it? There's no magic marker on code that says "this is owned by foo". There's no central code repository where you can check ownership of a fragment. If there's no attribution in the comments or the README then there's practically nothing you can do. It's not like the Linux developers have access to SCO's source code so they can check every submission, looking for violations. SCO keeps their code secret. The best that the Linux developers can do is assume the author is telling the truth.
But this is true for ALL projects. I've worked on commercial projects and I know full well that violations occur. I've seen BSD code dropped into proprietary products with the BSD attributions stripped out. SCO put a slide up at SCOForum... it was code stolen from BSD! SCO thinks it's theirs but the history of the code is well known and it most definitely has gone from BSD to SCO. A SCO developer stole it and assumed nobody would ever know. Why isn't SCO "respecting the IP" of BSD developers?
The reality is, Linux is far more "IP accountable" than any closed source product. If a company developing a closed source product copied code from SCO, would SCO ever know? Of course not. But any company can look at Linux source code to determine if violations occur. The Linux model encourages transparency and "no secrets". The result is that violations are infrequent (in fact, SCO is the first claimant ever and their case looks VERY weak).
It's the closed source model where the vast majority of IP violations occur but most of them go by unnoticed.
There is nothing "immature" about the Linux model. It is following best practises of the industry and then some. SCO is trying to paint a picture of "immaturity" because they want to win this case in the court of public opinion, but I have every confidence that they will never win this case in a court of law.
I remember that there was another site a while back on slashdot that was planning on paying people to watch webcams like this. Anybody remember the site. I can't find it with/.'s terrible search engine or google's.
It's more important that they have seen that they are lying. I wouldn't care if they fined them $1, as long as it has been taken to court and they have shown that their claims are baseless. That damage is in the past, stop it from happening anymore in the future.
That's quite an interesting point. Now, is slashdot guilty of posting the code because it is on their site? Will slashdot break their policy of never deleting posts? We shall see...
I'm glad that Redhat finally brought their suit. This will assure linux users that they are not being left out to be attacked by SCO. Even if their claims are unfounded, you must agree that they seem to have a quite large legal team (if that isn't all that they have), and could really cause some damage if they started to attack companies. The companies may have to settle to just avoid a suit. Also, this'll nicely divide the SCO legal team into two suits.
Maybe it's because CF is 10 times as big as SD and they need to save space? That's my guess. They don't really care how much you will have to pay for the cards, that's your deal. If you want extra storage space, you'll buy a card.
yeah, you're right. Look at the insider trading on yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/t/s/scox.html. Over 1.25 MILLION dollars since June 20th. I also like how someone some of them, like
Jeff Hunsaker, and Reginald Broughton traded twice on the same day, but once it went down as "Vice President" or "Senior Vice President" but the second time it went down as "Employee." Sounds kinda weird...
Argh! I hate those sites. If I ever happen to stumble into a site that has background music, I go back and never come again. They lost my business. Websites are for reading, not listening to some really crappy midi files.
I'm not sure about XP, but 2000 had a CD that, with physical access to the machine, could very easily reset the admin password to whatever you wanted. All you did was boot up to the CD. Here's info about Windows 2000. Also, on Windows XP, there is an option to create a password reset disk when you first create your password, or Start->Control Panel->User Accounts. From there, choose the option to create a password reset disk. This only works for BEFORE you forget your password, and is quite unsafe (if someone gets the disk).
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The poster is trying to point out that the fiscal earnings call was today at 11 am, rather than tomorrow, so no need to mod him down.
The real text, if you want it:
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so
mindboggingly useful [the bablefish] could have evolved purely by chance that some
thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the
non-existence of God.
"The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I
exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am
nothing.'
"`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It
could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore,
by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
"`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly
vanished in a puff of logic.
"`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove
that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
All the geeks here should look into the Swiss Army Cybertool. I have used it to fix countless computers, and I never have had a task it couldn't handle. The range of screwdriver bits it has is great. I even fixed a clock radio with stupid Torx screws with it.
I got 7 tickets for myself and my six closest friends, and we'll be there at the theater for a whole 12 freaking hours! How much fun can you possibly have on a Tuesday?!
Linkage! And it works quite well too.
I agree, I have one in my PDA case because it is so small. I'm never without a pen. And it writes very well to. However, pentel .5mm are the best mechanical pencils, the only ones I use.
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First of all, it would take a while for me to not be distracted using this "phone." How many of you are not in some way excited every time you get a new tech toy. I would be thinking more about the device, how it works, and the fact that I am in water, more than about the conversation. Your general conversations: "Dude! I'm floating in water while I talk! Isn't that cool?!"
How about the .cc TLD? http://jlkdfjlasdkf.cc/
Hey, you're good! I applaud your searching (or memory) abilities.
I remember that there was another site a while back on slashdot that was planning on paying people to watch webcams like this. Anybody remember the site. I can't find it with /.'s terrible search engine or google's.
Yeah, if anyone gets one of these, fill out a Mail Fraud Complaint
Sorry, I can't ready German very well ;-) And the babelfish translation was quite obfuscated.
It's more important that they have seen that they are lying. I wouldn't care if they fined them $1, as long as it has been taken to court and they have shown that their claims are baseless. That damage is in the past, stop it from happening anymore in the future.
That's quite an interesting point. Now, is slashdot guilty of posting the code because it is on their site? Will slashdot break their policy of never deleting posts? We shall see...
link, you could link to an article...grr, i need to preview more...
You could like to an article, like The Register or Apple PR itself.
If you RTFA, you would see this link: http://news.com.com/2100-1006-983593.html?tag=nl
I'm glad that Redhat finally brought their suit. This will assure linux users that they are not being left out to be attacked by SCO. Even if their claims are unfounded, you must agree that they seem to have a quite large legal team (if that isn't all that they have), and could really cause some damage if they started to attack companies. The companies may have to settle to just avoid a suit. Also, this'll nicely divide the SCO legal team into two suits.
Maybe it's because CF is 10 times as big as SD and they need to save space? That's my guess. They don't really care how much you will have to pay for the cards, that's your deal. If you want extra storage space, you'll buy a card.
yeah, you're right. Look at the insider trading on yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/t/s/scox.html. Over 1.25 MILLION dollars since June 20th. I also like how someone some of them, like Jeff Hunsaker, and Reginald Broughton traded twice on the same day, but once it went down as "Vice President" or "Senior Vice President" but the second time it went down as "Employee." Sounds kinda weird...
Argh! I hate those sites. If I ever happen to stumble into a site that has background music, I go back and never come again. They lost my business. Websites are for reading, not listening to some really crappy midi files.
Could be wrong, but doesn't Recovery Mode make you log in?
I'm not sure about XP, but 2000 had a CD that, with physical access to the machine, could very easily reset the admin password to whatever you wanted. All you did was boot up to the CD. Here's info about Windows 2000. Also, on Windows XP, there is an option to create a password reset disk when you first create your password, or Start->Control Panel->User Accounts. From there, choose the option to create a password reset disk. This only works for BEFORE you forget your password, and is quite unsafe (if someone gets the disk).