The cracker was trolling for passwords. People often use the same password for many authentication purposes. The cracker would possibly gain access to other more interesting sites this way.
C'mon. SCO executives' compensation includes much non-diversified stock. This is just an ordinary, routine diversification of the exec's stock portfolios.
Honest.
Do those things and you risk getting slapped with the exact same complaints that appeared in IBM's smackdown countersuit: "tortuous interference in business matters".
Sheesh, if it's a SCO employee who's maintaining the SCO/gcc compaibility, so be it. That contributor is not an emissary for the SCO legal department. Live and let live. Dropping gcc support cedes the territory to some other compiler vendor -- presumably one that could yield more profit for SCO if they resold it.
The OSS community just wants to vent, and suddenly a potential whipping boy appears. This is a great way to end up looking just as culpable as the assholes that provoked you. Look before you leap.
My definition of annoyance is "something I didn't expect, that impedes my progress". Yes, certain fundamental design differences will always exist, and not all of them will be annoyances. For instance I don't think the lack of drive letters impedes me (though someone else might differ). But there are plenty of differences that do annoy.
You need to go back and read this. But here's the pith:
...a
lot of people and companies have standardized on one thing - Windows. There's
not a whole lot you can do about that - one the decision is made and people
are trained, the inertia in the system outweighs EVERY other factor.
We as geeks tend to forget this, but many people want the computer to just do
its job and stay out of the way. Which really means "do what I expect". What
they expect is what they are used to. Checkmate.
Narrowing the differences in the user's experience, within the confines of the existing design differences, is both desirable and necessary if we want to reduce annoyances.
While GIMP's features are good, the UI exposing them has almost nothing in common with anything I've used on Windows. That makes using it a major pain in the ass.
Coming from Photoshop or ImageComposer to GIMP is like going from Earth to Mars. Even doing the simplest tasks requires long tedious visits to the documentation to divine the correct mouse/keyboard incantations -- the UI does nothing to instinctively guide your old reflexes to the right choices.
I do not want to learn a whole new UI idiom for manipulating graphics! My brain is too stuffed already.
Yes. Even though you are not an "insider" of the company you intend to short, your knowledge of the announcement and its effects on the competitor's stock still falls under the category of insider information (private information which if made public would materially affect the prospects of the company). So the SEC could nail you if you traded on it before it became public knowledge.
Think of it this way: suppose a visiting customer sneaks into your office, discovers the same information, and shorts the competitor. Do you think the SEC would view that as insider trading? You bet they would.
He's in good company. That's how John D. Rockefeller got started. Well almost -- he did get paid at the end of the 3 months but he had no clue what his pay, if any, would be.
IBM is safe here because their side-letter to the original contract giving them the UNIX source code specifically granted IBM ownership of deriviative works. Read the linked articles.
Maybe IBM is the real benficiary here. Letting RH and SCO duke it out softens up the combatants while IBM sits in the corner able to deliver a coup-de-grace at the appointed time. Viewing RH as a competitor, IBM can benefit by the lawsuit's financially weakening effect on RH. Or IBM can buy RH and bring in the cavalry if that proves to be a better business decision.
Other claims discredited by scientific evidence that Valtin discusses include:
* Thirst Is Too Late.
It is often stated that by the time people are thirsty, they are already dehydrated. On the contrary, thirst begins when the concentration of blood (an accurate indicator of our state of hydration) has risen by less than two percent, whereas most experts would define dehydration as beginning when that concentration has risen by at least five percent.
* Dark Urine Means Dehydration.
At normal urinary volume and color, the concentration of the blood is within the normal range and nowhere near the values that are seen in meaningful dehydration. Therefore, the warning that dark urine reflects dehydration is alarmist and false in most instances.
Somebody else needs to improve their reading comprehension. Something used "jointly" or "in turns" is a single ("serially reusable") resource -- not a copy.
Not so mathematical, just having a signature style: traditional harmonic structure with bold counterpoint. I suppose the counterpoint suggests a mathematical puzzle, but the critics of his time said he sounded too ancient (as in Ars Perfecta). For music that sounds like math, see Schoenberg and the 12-toners.
Yes, you'll get creative about how to get the kid to finish the evening crying fit and go down at night, how to get your wife to roll out of bed to change that diaper at 3 AM, how to manage your mental health, how to not despair at how long it will be until you get your freedom back. Yes the joyful part is there too but more than half the time it's just the stressful work of parenting, especially at the begining when it dawns on you that raising children well takes as much or more effort and self-education as your current job.
Ethics != legalities. Ethics == right and wrong == morals. Look it up on dictionary.com.
Perhaps you have noticed that "morals" come up often in religious practice (preaching against "immorality") and "ethics" arise in legal practice (the House Ethics Comittee), but the two terms mean exactly the same thing in each context (modes of conduct).
> FOTR and TTT stories were not really worthy stories for such a grand setting.
Taken in isolation, that could be a reasonable view. But the stories in these movies are events at the very tailpipe of a many-ages history that Tolkien crafted. The total story is much bigger than the slice you saw. With a fuller awareness of the gravity of that history in mind, the setting takes its place. That is not to say that you'd find his invented ancient world leading up to this story very entertaining either.
I haven't read the Silmarillion. I assume the reason it does not enjoy the same popularity of the others is that its content is even heavier on the lore/history/language stuff; I will test that assumption sometime.
Slashdot Mirror
Corrected link here.
LMAO I think you nailed it.
That picture is from way back. Or at least after a glamour remake. The true Darl has bed head, fake smile, 5-day sloppy goatee, 29% body fat, and sports rumpled colorless business fashions.
You can't fool me Darl. You only look like an OSS developer.
The cracker was trolling for passwords. People often use the same password for many authentication purposes. The cracker would possibly gain access to other more interesting sites this way.
It would be except that the compromise actually occurred during a 1-week window of vulnerability in March.
C'mon. SCO executives' compensation includes much non-diversified stock. This is just an ordinary, routine diversification of the exec's stock portfolios. Honest.
Do those things and you risk getting slapped with the exact same complaints that appeared in IBM's smackdown countersuit: "tortuous interference in business matters".
Sheesh, if it's a SCO employee who's maintaining the SCO/gcc compaibility, so be it. That contributor is not an emissary for the SCO legal department. Live and let live. Dropping gcc support cedes the territory to some other compiler vendor -- presumably one that could yield more profit for SCO if they resold it.
The OSS community just wants to vent, and suddenly a potential whipping boy appears. This is a great way to end up looking just as culpable as the assholes that provoked you. Look before you leap.
My definition of annoyance is "something I didn't expect, that impedes my progress". Yes, certain fundamental design differences will always exist, and not all of them will be annoyances. For instance I don't think the lack of drive letters impedes me (though someone else might differ). But there are plenty of differences that do annoy.
You need to go back and read this. But here's the pith:
We as geeks tend to forget this, but many people want the computer to just do its job and stay out of the way. Which really means "do what I expect". What they expect is what they are used to. Checkmate.
Narrowing the differences in the user's experience, within the confines of the existing design differences, is both desirable and necessary if we want to reduce annoyances.
While GIMP's features are good, the UI exposing them has almost nothing in common with anything I've used on Windows. That makes using it a major pain in the ass.
Coming from Photoshop or ImageComposer to GIMP is like going from Earth to Mars. Even doing the simplest tasks requires long tedious visits to the documentation to divine the correct mouse/keyboard incantations -- the UI does nothing to instinctively guide your old reflexes to the right choices.
I do not want to learn a whole new UI idiom for manipulating graphics! My brain is too stuffed already.Looks like "market efficiency" from here.
Yes. Even though you are not an "insider" of the company you intend to short, your knowledge of the announcement and its effects on the competitor's stock still falls under the category of insider information (private information which if made public would materially affect the prospects of the company). So the SEC could nail you if you traded on it before it became public knowledge.
Think of it this way: suppose a visiting customer sneaks into your office, discovers the same information, and shorts the competitor. Do you think the SEC would view that as insider trading? You bet they would.
He's in good company. That's how John D. Rockefeller got started. Well almost -- he did get paid at the end of the 3 months but he had no clue what his pay, if any, would be.
Sorry, it wasn't in the slashdot story! I got off an OSnews article ("Attorneys Critical of SCO"). Here.
There were a lot of other good links in the OSnews article. It's still showing today.
David> became a derivative work
IBM is safe here because their side-letter to the original contract giving them the UNIX source code specifically granted IBM ownership of deriviative works. Read the linked articles.
Maybe IBM is the real benficiary here. Letting RH and SCO duke it out softens up the combatants while IBM sits in the corner able to deliver a coup-de-grace at the appointed time. Viewing RH as a competitor, IBM can benefit by the lawsuit's financially weakening effect on RH. Or IBM can buy RH and bring in the cavalry if that proves to be a better business decision.
Well that sure wasn't the deciding factor in this case.
The litigation track record is also indicative. Which firm has been more successful in court I wonder...
You can divine the number of shares outstanding by dividing market cap by share price. For SCOX it comes to a little over 13 million shares.
Other claims discredited by scientific evidence that Valtin discusses include:
* Thirst Is Too Late.
It is often stated that by the time people are thirsty, they are already dehydrated. On the contrary, thirst begins when the concentration of blood (an accurate indicator of our state of hydration) has risen by less than two percent, whereas most experts would define dehydration as beginning when that concentration has risen by at least five percent.
* Dark Urine Means Dehydration.
At normal urinary volume and color, the concentration of the blood is within the normal range and nowhere near the values that are seen in meaningful dehydration. Therefore, the warning that dark urine reflects dehydration is alarmist and false in most instances.
Somebody else needs to improve their reading comprehension. Something used "jointly" or "in turns" is a single ("serially reusable") resource -- not a copy.
Not so mathematical, just having a signature style: traditional harmonic structure with bold counterpoint. I suppose the counterpoint suggests a mathematical puzzle, but the critics of his time said he sounded too ancient (as in Ars Perfecta). For music that sounds like math, see Schoenberg and the 12-toners.
Yes, you'll get creative about how to get the kid to finish the evening crying fit and go down at night, how to get your wife to roll out of bed to change that diaper at 3 AM, how to manage your mental health, how to not despair at how long it will be until you get your freedom back. Yes the joyful part is there too but more than half the time it's just the stressful work of parenting, especially at the begining when it dawns on you that raising children well takes as much or more effort and self-education as your current job.
He enjoyed a second marriage to a fresh young thing that actively supported his carreer. I doubt that was the average pattern in the study.
Ethics != legalities. Ethics == right and wrong == morals. Look it up on dictionary.com.
Perhaps you have noticed that "morals" come up often in religious practice (preaching against "immorality") and "ethics" arise in legal practice (the House Ethics Comittee), but the two terms mean exactly the same thing in each context (modes of conduct).
Because:
void sue(infidel){
throw LegalTarPit();
}
> FOTR and TTT stories were not really worthy stories for such a grand setting.
Taken in isolation, that could be a reasonable view. But the stories in these movies are events at the very tailpipe of a many-ages history that Tolkien crafted. The total story is much bigger than the slice you saw. With a fuller awareness of the gravity of that history in mind, the setting takes its place. That is not to say that you'd find his invented ancient world leading up to this story very entertaining either.
I haven't read the Silmarillion. I assume the reason it does not enjoy the same popularity of the others is that its content is even heavier on the lore/history/language stuff; I will test that assumption sometime.