So are you one of those guys that say we never made it to the moon?
Don't you think that every friggin radar station NORAD has on the planet is tracking that thing? Don't you think that they saw the heat plume immediately upon launch and started watching it then?
Don't you think that maybe JUST MAYBE it's not the place of the US Government, or any other government besides China's to reproduce or rebroadcast China's military transmissions? You can't even rebroadcast / reproduce transmissions of baseball games without the written authorization of the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Don't you think there would be some diplomatic hot water, or perhaps showing some of NSA / CIA's cards if they were to do so?
Sell conspiracy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.
What is on the CD is actually PCM, or Pulse Code Modulation. It's close to AIFF, but as someone else pointed out, PCM doesn't have all the timecode stuff that AIFF does.
Do you have any solid confirmed information that they did this, or is it just speculation fueled by some idiot h4x0rz that think they are cool for griefing?
Instead of saying that these morons caused millions of dollars of problems, get some concrete evidence.
When the FBI starts using the "Federal Master Key" on doors, then I'll believe it.
Reading your post, I had this vision play out in my head...
Scene: prison yard
Prisoner #1: What are you in the joint for? Prisoner #2: I drank too much Wild Turkey and then ran over a family of four. Prisoner #3: Wow! You're a real piece of shit! How about you, Prisoner #1? Prisoner #1: I sold a kilo of blow to a high-school kid. Got caught, and here I am. Prisoner #2: And I'm a piece of shit? What a scumbag... Prisoner #1: Yeah, ok what did you do to get here Prisoner #3? Prisoner #3: I wrote a DVD player for Linux, and was busted under the DMCA. *laughter from prisoners 1 and 2* Prisoner #3: What's so funny? Prisoner #1: We'll both be out and back before you get out! Prisoner #2: Speak for yourself. Next time I'll drink some peppermint schnapps before I leave the bar to clean up my breath! I won't get caught again!
Myself, as a slashdot reader and a system administrator, this is what I would like to see happen:
Wide proliferation of more secure systems, and managers that actually listen to the engineers.
However, since I'm sure we'll see flying cars before these two things even come into the same time zone as reality, I'll just hope that the threat of more time in a "pound-me-in-the-ass" federal penitentiary will do the trick.
Photoshop has to be one of the top five applications that gets stole^H^H^H^H^H installed without authorization. That, and Adobe being an active member of the BSA makes this very easy to see coming.
Hell, look at the back of any Adobe CD case (if you actually have one for that software that is on your drive, you bad bad individual! No ice cream for you!), you will see at least two logos: Clearly Adobe Imaging, and Business Software Alliance member.
I didn't say that he hasn't done things that merit legal action, I just said he doesn't fold like an accordian.
The more Microsoft goes after this guy, the more he is going to want to make them go after him.
Then he can say "ohh OHH look at the big monopolistic tyrant holding me down with lawsuits and anti-competitive practicies!"
While MS is anti-competitive, and they are a monopolistic entity, most uninformed people won't know of Robertson's past side with him, especially as he is "fighting the good fight" for Linux.
It's all political posturing, and Microsoft is playing right into it.
To be honest, PGE has put some of these windmill things out in Eastern Oregon, and man are they an eyesore! I'd rather have one cooling tower on a river somewhere than fields upon fields of fans sticking up 50 feet in the air puree-ing birds...
Never mind that it takes a very specific configuration of a reactor to produce plutonium in a weapons-grade fashion, and separate facilities to remove it from the rest of the material...
Never mind that modern designs such as the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor don't use water as the coolant (it uses helium, which is inert, and does not absorb neutrons), so you don't have to worry about radioactive steam getting out, or a steam explosion, or the coolant changing AT ALL except for it's heat...
Never mind that also in said reactor, you don't have to shut it down for months to refuel it - new pebbles in the top, old pebbles out the bottom...
Also pay no attention to the fact that each pebble of fuel is of a small enough quantity of fissile material that all the fuel needed to operate a plant for 40 years can be stored on site from when the plant first fires up, to the point it is turned off for good. Oh, and there is still room for the waste to be there for up to 80 years - no transportation necessary...
Did I mention that it is physically impossible for this design to melt down? There goes that FUD...
Oh, and these things are cheap, and total construction time from ground breaking to flipping the switch is 24 months.
I had a manager that was on a nuclear submarine, and he said when he got out of the Navy, he started interviewing with employers in the Nuclear Industry, becuase people tend to "go with what they know."
After a couple interviews, he actually had the interviewer tell him to look into another industry, because the NRC was not in the business of renewing any licenses for power plants, and these things are only commisioned for 50 years.
Call it heresay if you want, but when were some of these things built? Sounds like it's about time for some of them to start going away, and the energy crisis to worsen.
Heck, Oregon and Washington already lost Trojan due to PGE's bungling, environmental FUD (I distinctly remember seeing political commercials with overhead helicopter shots of Chernobyl burning when there was a state ballot measure to shut Trojan), and GE not stepping up as the manufacturer and helping to fix the problem.
Now we have a large cooling tower visible from I-5 in Kalama, WA; and a concrete containment facility filled to the brim with spent fuel that has nowhere to go... oh, and spiking power rates due to the environmentalist FUD being directed at hydroelectirc... some of which is at least believable.
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Except in states like Oregon that have Juvenile Felony laws, where the juvie can be tried as an adult if a judge says so.
At least, that's my understanding of it, IANAL bla bla blah
You're right, the grandparent post is not a troll.
However, YOU are.
Technology improves over time.
Why don't I just die from suprise? At least THAT would be news.
So are you one of those guys that say we never made it to the moon?
Don't you think that every friggin radar station NORAD has on the planet is tracking that thing? Don't you think that they saw the heat plume immediately upon launch and started watching it then?
Don't you think that maybe JUST MAYBE it's not the place of the US Government, or any other government besides China's to reproduce or rebroadcast China's military transmissions? You can't even rebroadcast / reproduce transmissions of baseball games without the written authorization of the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Don't you think there would be some diplomatic hot water, or perhaps showing some of NSA / CIA's cards if they were to do so?
Sell conspiracy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.
BWAAAAAhahahahahaha
I love it when people are so stubborn about an idea that they will ride it flaming all the way to the bottom.
Oh, and this is WAY off topic, so I'm guessing it will be moderated down, and I'm counting on it.
What is on the CD is actually PCM, or Pulse Code Modulation. It's close to AIFF, but as someone else pointed out, PCM doesn't have all the timecode stuff that AIFF does.
So stick that in yer iPod and listen to it!
Apparently you didn't bother to even read the synopsis of the article, much less the actual article:
This is going to announce the availability of iTunes for WINDOWS
Do you have any solid confirmed information that they did this, or is it just speculation fueled by some idiot h4x0rz that think they are cool for griefing?
Instead of saying that these morons caused millions of dollars of problems, get some concrete evidence.
When the FBI starts using the "Federal Master Key" on doors, then I'll believe it.
Wow, I thought that all of Connor's drives just parked the heads right in the middle of writing, smack in the middle of the platter.
*ZZZEEERERRRRRTT*
"If it's a Connor, It's a goner."
Actually saw someone using one of these at a football game... well outside it at least...
They were getting nice and stiff by making Margaritas before the kickoff.
I thought it was one of the coolest things I'd seen at the time.
Wait, you didn't actually think the editor was going to RTFA like all 8 of the other readers that do, did you?
They even get the chance to read it before it's slashdotted and they don't!
You aren't suggesting that there will be overgrown muppets in Revolutions, are you?
NOT THE EWOKS!!! GAAUGHH!
*takes own life*
Reading your post, I had this vision play out in my head...
Scene: prison yard
Prisoner #1: What are you in the joint for?
Prisoner #2: I drank too much Wild Turkey and then ran over a family of four.
Prisoner #3: Wow! You're a real piece of shit! How about you, Prisoner #1?
Prisoner #1: I sold a kilo of blow to a high-school kid. Got caught, and here I am.
Prisoner #2: And I'm a piece of shit? What a scumbag...
Prisoner #1: Yeah, ok what did you do to get here Prisoner #3?
Prisoner #3: I wrote a DVD player for Linux, and was busted under the DMCA.
*laughter from prisoners 1 and 2*
Prisoner #3: What's so funny?
Prisoner #1: We'll both be out and back before you get out!
Prisoner #2: Speak for yourself. Next time I'll drink some peppermint schnapps before I leave the bar to clean up my breath! I won't get caught again!
Seems a little rediculous in this context.
Myself, as a slashdot reader and a system administrator, this is what I would like to see happen:
Wide proliferation of more secure systems, and managers that actually listen to the engineers.
However, since I'm sure we'll see flying cars before these two things even come into the same time zone as reality, I'll just hope that the threat of more time in a "pound-me-in-the-ass" federal penitentiary will do the trick.
At least, it doesn't suprise me.
Photoshop has to be one of the top five applications that gets stole^H^H^H^H^H installed without authorization. That, and Adobe being an active member of the BSA makes this very easy to see coming.
Hell, look at the back of any Adobe CD case (if you actually have one for that software that is on your drive, you bad bad individual! No ice cream for you!), you will see at least two logos: Clearly Adobe Imaging, and Business Software Alliance member.
I didn't say that he hasn't done things that merit legal action, I just said he doesn't fold like an accordian.
The more Microsoft goes after this guy, the more he is going to want to make them go after him.
Then he can say "ohh OHH look at the big monopolistic tyrant holding me down with lawsuits and anti-competitive practicies!"
While MS is anti-competitive, and they are a monopolistic entity, most uninformed people won't know of Robertson's past side with him, especially as he is "fighting the good fight" for Linux.
It's all political posturing, and Microsoft is playing right into it.
Aww nurtz!
It's SCO that are the litigation-happy bastards!
Which bastards are Microsoft again? Anti-competitive? I can't ever remember...
Robertson doesn't buckle to pressure from Microsoft.
Send all the lawyers you want, he'll come up with something new to make you send more lawyers.
Oh, and he'll win because it makes MS look like the litigation-happy bastards they are.
You do realise that when you dial a 1-800 or 1-888 number, that call doesn't just magically disappear from the phone companies' billing right?
Instead of the call showing up on YOUR bill, it shows up on THEIRS.
Congratulations, you just gave them your phone number. Be sure to start practicing your "I'm happy with my long-distance service" speech right now.
One smartass remark is a -1 Troll, another that is almost exactly the same is +4 Funny.
Pull your heads out!
Time for another SCO story!
you forgot...
4) Profit!!!
To be honest, PGE has put some of these windmill things out in Eastern Oregon, and man are they an eyesore! I'd rather have one cooling tower on a river somewhere than fields upon fields of fans sticking up 50 feet in the air puree-ing birds...
Never mind that it takes a very specific configuration of a reactor to produce plutonium in a weapons-grade fashion, and separate facilities to remove it from the rest of the material...
Never mind that modern designs such as the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor don't use water as the coolant (it uses helium, which is inert, and does not absorb neutrons), so you don't have to worry about radioactive steam getting out, or a steam explosion, or the coolant changing AT ALL except for it's heat...
Never mind that also in said reactor, you don't have to shut it down for months to refuel it - new pebbles in the top, old pebbles out the bottom...
Also pay no attention to the fact that each pebble of fuel is of a small enough quantity of fissile material that all the fuel needed to operate a plant for 40 years can be stored on site from when the plant first fires up, to the point it is turned off for good. Oh, and there is still room for the waste to be there for up to 80 years - no transportation necessary...
Did I mention that it is physically impossible for this design to melt down? There goes that FUD...
Oh, and these things are cheap, and total construction time from ground breaking to flipping the switch is 24 months.
For some actual INFORMATION, please read this.
This is absolutely true.
I had a manager that was on a nuclear submarine, and he said when he got out of the Navy, he started interviewing with employers in the Nuclear Industry, becuase people tend to "go with what they know."
After a couple interviews, he actually had the interviewer tell him to look into another industry, because the NRC was not in the business of renewing any licenses for power plants, and these things are only commisioned for 50 years.
Call it heresay if you want, but when were some of these things built? Sounds like it's about time for some of them to start going away, and the energy crisis to worsen.
Heck, Oregon and Washington already lost Trojan due to PGE's bungling, environmental FUD (I distinctly remember seeing political commercials with overhead helicopter shots of Chernobyl burning when there was a state ballot measure to shut Trojan), and GE not stepping up as the manufacturer and helping to fix the problem.
Now we have a large cooling tower visible from I-5 in Kalama, WA; and a concrete containment facility filled to the brim with spent fuel that has nowhere to go... oh, and spiking power rates due to the environmentalist FUD being directed at hydroelectirc... some of which is at least believable.
Save the Salmon! Down with U235!
There is a literary concept known as "drawing a parallel"...
This is one of those. It makes you think.
Thinking yet?