I didn't lose money, Bin Laden wasn't produced. You actually believe we're out there murdering people on purpose? No one seems to notice how many Iraqis the car bombs are killing but you Internet activists would be seriously upset if the US wasn't always the bad guy. And I'm sitting here, running a build process.
Saeed is a troll. His remarks show that he enjoys talking shit and inciting flame wars. See the thread where he rants and raves about computers in India, is actually shot down by someone in India, and falls silent.
No unit has 100% communication with other units. I believe he did not let anybody know since there's no evidence at all that he did.
Passage through friendly lines usually depends on the unit involved/SOP but we used chemlights, passwords, IR signals, whitestar clusters, that sor tof deal. In other words, we established an agreed upon method, not just hauling ass through checkpoints in a war zone.
8 years in the Marine Corps. Every checkpoint depends on the physical situation at hand but there is an SOP established which is referred to many times in the document in this story. I was a Marine but the Marine Corp and Army pretty much ran checkpoints the same way except our small unit leaders have a little more latitude in making decisions on their own.
So all US serviceman are murderers and a jackass's? Then you're not a jackass, you're a FOOL . And I'll bet money out of all the US servicemen you've seen in person, you didn't say a word to them.
Service in the Italian gov't and Iraq are 2 different things. If they were so experienced, why didn't they let the Americans know that they were coming through the area? We who have military service call it "passage through friendly lines" and we make DAMNED SURE they know we're coming.
Yeah, it sucked, there was tons of foreign fighters, most of them didn't want to fight us directlyu they just wanted to make IEDs, they kill more Iraqis than we do, the foreign fighters also do LOTS of drugs.
Hate to tell you this but there actually are quite a few foreign fighters in Iraq. Lot of fair skinned Syrians. Also, quite a bit of drug abuse going on by these "fighters."
Slashdot isn't in the business of covering the war in Iraq. I will note that the same article points out that terrorist bombs killed more than the US troops.
Also, as a former US serviceman, we are not out to murder anybody. You're a jackass if you think that's what the servicemen are out to do.
Nope. If you've ever been to Iraq or around military vehicles, you'd know the difference. Particularly between a "machine gun" and a 120mm smoothbore cannon on a tank.
Re: SCO V. IBM -Thursday April 28/05 Author: Robert Weiler (204.247.40.---) Date: 04-29-05 16:45
Dear Paul,
I have over 25 years in the software business, most of it on Unix systems and I have worked for two SVR4 licensees. It was very clear at both of these companies that code that we created belonged to us and that AT&T did not control it in any way. The only copright notices that we placed in our code was our own, not AT&T's. This is explicit in IBM's agreement, and it was made explicit in the $echo newsletter. The notion that SCO controls the subsequent work product of everybody that has ever seen Unix source is complete nonsense and would in fact be illegal restraint of trade in most states. Your notion seems to be even more expansive than SCO's; as I read your argument, any code that ever ran on AIX and was subsequently ported to Linux would belong to AT&T. This idea is so silly it doesn't even merit a response, so I'm asuming that I've misinterpreted what you wrote.
SCO's notion of what constitutes a derivative work is not only completely at odds with the SOFT aggreements, it is at odds with copyright law. If the only thing that SCO has is a few suggestive emails and the 'mental tainiting' argument that you espouse, then IBM will win on summary judgement as a matter of law. And according to Judge Kimall, that is apparently all they have.
Finally I should note that even if SCO were to prevail on their contract dispute with IBM, it means absolutely nothing to Linux. At worse, the offending code is removed, any liability is IBM's.
I would greatly appreciate it if you would inform yourself on the issues of this case and write a followup article. Every CIO should be evaluating a migration from Windows and proprietary Unix to Linux as the cost savings are dramatic. It would be very, very unfortunate if any CIO delayed a transition to Linux based on misinformation about SCO's legal propects which are virtually nonexistant.
Who stands to benefit from an unsuccessful or even canceled launch of Tiger?
Why would a company like TigerDirect do this to Apple the day before the Tiger launch
Something's up here. Needless to say, my IT budget is going elsewhere. I advise all to stay away from such a litigious company.
The lesson is and examples ahve been posted amny times on./ is that selling a Mac on eBay is a very chancy thing to do. Apparently you never read./ or you'd know this.
If you car was stolen, would you hate all Daewoo owners out there?
Riiight. It was your anger at Steve Jobs' ego that made you go through the hassle installing Debian on your Powerbook? After all, since you don't like the CEO of Apple, you can't trust the OS, right?
Slashdot psuedo activism here... How do you know ol' Steve-o hasn't installed a hardware solution to monitor your ethernet/wireless traffic on your Powerbook since you can't trust him?
Personally I think you're insane not to build your laptop by hand since you can't trust anybody! Who's to say your drive manufacturer's CEO is trustworthy?!
He talks about an Australian lawyer who patented the wheel.
"In particular, Mr. John Keogh, a Melbourne lawyer, was issued in 2001 a patent for "a circular transportation facilitation device", more commonly known as a wheel.
And people talk trash about America's patent system. Looks like we're not the only ones with problems.
-standard gui. Nope, that's the distro's or
user's choice. Linux is a kernel, nothing
more
-standard cli. Nope, that's the distro's or
user's choice. Linux is a kernel, nothing
more. There's korn, bash, etc...
-standard sound package utility (WTF are you
talking about?) ALSA?
-standard install/removal. Once again, WTF?
apt-get? yum? rpm? autopackage?
As far as your little complaint about FireFox, yes you can upgrade it. Generic rpms abound unless rpm -Uvh is too hard for you to run. And Suse did add 1.0.3 as an update a day afterwards. The more I think about it, the more I realize that was a moronic statement. Are you telling me you've never had to update IE after installing your vaunted Windows?
Now repeat after me: "Linux is not a GUI, not a distribution; it is a kernel. What distributions choose to do with it is their choice. Anyone can customize Linux however they want."
Linux is not Windows. Capice? Your remarks show that you just want Linux to be like Windows, one standard GUI, standard everything and probably one company to standardize it all. That shows you don't understand about choice and exactly how much freedom you have with Linux. Stick with Windows. If it's too much trouble for you to learn how one distro works or even how a few work, stick with XP, there might be a revison of it in a year or two.
As far your little "server appliance" remark, Amazon, IBM, Novell, the National Security Agency, Google all disagree with you. But your remarks clearly show you don't actually run Linux yourself and have little to no experience with it. It just blow my mind everyday that I can download something for free designed by a community that beats Windows on the desktop (if you're not afraid of a new GUI besides XP's nonsense) and blows Windows away on the server side of things.
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I didn't lose money, Bin Laden wasn't produced. You actually believe we're out there murdering people on purpose? No one seems to notice how many Iraqis the car bombs are killing but you Internet activists would be seriously upset if the US wasn't always the bad guy. And I'm sitting here, running a build process.
Saeed is a troll. His remarks show that he enjoys talking shit and inciting flame wars. See the thread where he rants and raves about computers in India, is actually shot down by someone in India, and falls silent .
That was a fascinating comment and an excellent point. Should have been modded up but I will look forward to more comments like that in the future.
No unit has 100% communication with other units. I believe he did not let anybody know since there's no evidence at all that he did.
Passage through friendly lines usually depends on the unit involved/SOP but we used chemlights, passwords, IR signals, whitestar clusters, that sor tof deal. In other words, we established an agreed upon method, not just hauling ass through checkpoints in a war zone.
8 years in the Marine Corps. Every checkpoint depends on the physical situation at hand but there is an SOP established which is referred to many times in the document in this story. I was a Marine but the Marine Corp and Army pretty much ran checkpoints the same way except our small unit leaders have a little more latitude in making decisions on their own.
So all US serviceman are murderers and a jackass's? Then you're not a jackass, you're a FOOL . And I'll bet money out of all the US servicemen you've seen in person, you didn't say a word to them.
Me and my brother both served in Iraq as US Marines. My brother was shot in the ear by a blonde haired blue eyed Syrian sniper.
Service in the Italian gov't and Iraq are 2 different things. If they were so experienced, why didn't they let the Americans know that they were coming through the area? We who have military service call it "passage through friendly lines" and we make DAMNED SURE they know we're coming.
Yeah, it sucked, there was tons of foreign fighters, most of them didn't want to fight us directlyu they just wanted to make IEDs, they kill more Iraqis than we do, the foreign fighters also do LOTS of drugs.
Hate to tell you this but there actually are quite a few foreign fighters in Iraq. Lot of fair skinned Syrians. Also, quite a bit of drug abuse going on by these "fighters."
How is this not Off-Topic mods?
Slashdot isn't in the business of covering the war in Iraq. I will note that the same article points out that terrorist bombs killed more than the US troops.
Also, as a former US serviceman, we are not out to murder anybody. You're a jackass if you think that's what the servicemen are out to do.
Nope. If you've ever been to Iraq or around military vehicles, you'd know the difference. Particularly between a "machine gun" and a 120mm smoothbore cannon on a tank.
So you were there? Hate to tell you this but that's not how the checkpoints are run. Of course I was there so what would I know?
In the same boat still. Mad at Amazon.
This could be of interest to PJ at Groklaw.
Re: SCO V. IBM -Thursday April 28/05
Author: Robert Weiler (204.247.40.---)
Date: 04-29-05 16:45
Dear Paul,
I have over 25 years in the software business, most of it on Unix systems and I have worked for two SVR4 licensees. It was very clear at both of these companies that code that we created belonged to us and that AT&T did not control it in any way. The only copright notices that we placed in our code was our own, not AT&T's. This is explicit in IBM's agreement, and it was made explicit in the $echo newsletter. The notion that SCO controls the subsequent work product of everybody that has ever seen Unix source is complete nonsense and would in fact be illegal restraint of trade in most states. Your notion seems to be even more expansive than SCO's; as I read your argument, any code that ever ran on AIX and was subsequently ported to Linux would belong to AT&T. This idea is so silly it doesn't even merit a response, so I'm asuming that I've misinterpreted what you wrote.
SCO's notion of what constitutes a derivative work is not only completely at odds with the SOFT aggreements, it is at odds with copyright law. If the only thing that SCO has is a few suggestive emails and the 'mental tainiting' argument that you espouse, then IBM will win on summary judgement as a matter of law. And according to Judge Kimall, that is apparently all they have.
Finally I should note that even if SCO were to prevail on their contract dispute with IBM, it means absolutely nothing to Linux. At worse, the offending code is removed, any liability is IBM's.
I would greatly appreciate it if you would inform yourself on the issues of this case and write a followup article. Every CIO should be evaluating a migration from Windows and proprietary Unix to Linux as the cost savings are dramatic. It would be very, very unfortunate if any CIO delayed a transition to Linux based on misinformation about SCO's legal propects which are virtually nonexistant.
Anybody gotten their copy of Tiger or even shipping information on it from Amazon yet?
Who stands to benefit from an unsuccessful or even canceled launch of Tiger?
Why would a company like TigerDirect do this to Apple the day before the Tiger launch
Something's up here. Needless to say, my IT budget is going elsewhere. I advise all to stay away from such a litigious company.
The plural of "thief" is "thieves." Posted from your Mac.
The lesson is and examples ahve been posted amny times on ./ is that selling a Mac on eBay is a very chancy thing to do. Apparently you never read ./ or you'd know this.
If you car was stolen, would you hate all Daewoo owners out there?
Riiight. It was your anger at Steve Jobs' ego that made you go through the hassle installing Debian on your Powerbook? After all, since you don't like the CEO of Apple, you can't trust the OS, right?
Slashdot psuedo activism here... How do you know ol' Steve-o hasn't installed a hardware solution to monitor your ethernet/wireless traffic on your Powerbook since you can't trust him?
Personally I think you're insane not to build your laptop by hand since you can't trust anybody! Who's to say your drive manufacturer's CEO is trustworthy?!
He talks about an Australian lawyer who patented the wheel.
"In particular, Mr. John Keogh, a Melbourne lawyer, was issued in 2001 a patent for "a circular transportation facilitation device", more commonly known as a wheel.
And people talk trash about America's patent system. Looks like we're not the only ones with problems.
I've seen the link but can't find it right now. Here's an old article on it.
has anyone here seen the online ads where they ask if you want to get back your old employer by reporting them to the BSA?
Ok, let's take a look at your "valid points"
-standard gui. Nope, that's the distro's or
user's choice. Linux is a kernel, nothing
more
-standard cli. Nope, that's the distro's or
user's choice. Linux is a kernel, nothing
more. There's korn, bash, etc...
-standard sound package utility (WTF are you
talking about?) ALSA?
-standard install/removal. Once again, WTF?
apt-get? yum? rpm? autopackage?
As far as your little complaint about FireFox, yes you can upgrade it. Generic rpms abound unless rpm -Uvh is too hard for you to run. And Suse did add 1.0.3 as an update a day afterwards. The more I think about it, the more I realize that was a moronic statement. Are you telling me you've never had to update IE after installing your vaunted Windows?
Now repeat after me:
"Linux is not a GUI, not a distribution; it is a kernel. What distributions choose to do with it is their choice. Anyone can customize Linux however they want."
Linux is not Windows. Capice? Your remarks show that you just want Linux to be like Windows, one standard GUI, standard everything and probably one company to standardize it all. That shows you don't understand about choice and exactly how much freedom you have with Linux. Stick with Windows. If it's too much trouble for you to learn how one distro works or even how a few work, stick with XP, there might be a revison of it in a year or two.
As far your little "server appliance" remark, Amazon, IBM, Novell, the National Security Agency, Google all disagree with you. But your remarks clearly show you don't actually run Linux yourself and have little to no experience with it. It just blow my mind everyday that I can download something for free designed by a community that beats Windows on the desktop (if you're not afraid of a new GUI besides XP's nonsense) and blows Windows away on the server side of things.