The US hasn't even had a chance to do anything to him yet. All that was done was he was placed on a list of wanted criminals known back in 1992, and when his true identity was discovered by Japan's officials, they're sending him back to the USA to face the pending charges.
This isn't about what he's said recently, it's about declaring that if you're an American who does business with a sanctioned nation you're going to have to spend your entire life on the run because one slip of your true identity and you're headed to jail.
SCO *only* gets to do discovery related to a preliminary injunction. For the most part, that's a distinction without a difference... to win a preliminary injunction you need to prove that 1. There'd be an ongoing harm and 2. that your case has at least some merit. Since SCO is still looking for it's first shred of merit...
The judge told them not to bother with the discovery if they're not going to try for a preliminary injuction - which sets a trap for them. Only if SCO forgets to hand in their legal homework. There's no question they're going to swing for it just because they can given their past history.
The "stay" has very little power to it. It basically says that there will be no more major courtroom events for the next 90 days, meanwhile the discovery phase of the case is still ongoing and SCO can still try to peer into AutoZone's operations through that process. All we know for sure now is that it won't be going to trial nor be dismissed in the next 90 days, unless the judge doubles back on his own ruling which is also possible so... uhm, what does this tell us?
This is not any ruling on the merits of the case, nor a firm concurance with AutoZone's agreement with SCO's own request that the case be delayed until IBM v. SCO is settled. There's really not much news in this... but this is Slashdot where any action in the SCO lawsuit is reported.
Does Sony sell PCs in Japan like they do here? If so, and Sony agreed to such a contract, then Sony would effectively be licensing all of their patents to Microsoft for free. Even if that resulted in an XBox that couldn't be sold stateside... Microsoft could use that leverage to dominate the Japanese market and rob Sony that important testbed, causing Sony to release costly and embarassing flops in the USA....
It exists. It's Roxio's New Napster and Real's Rhapsody service. Both offer pay-per-month schemes that allow you to have unlimited playback access (on DRMed computers, of course) to all of the music they're allowed to give you. Any major artist that's not there is excluded because the artist or their label is holding out... $9.95 a month for either service.
Real uses a streaming model, but Napster actually allows you to authorize three PCs, and cashe tracks on disk. Therefore, you can download music to a laptop and play on the go...
This is too much like a sales pitch, so I might as well finish it with this link to napster.com:)
Well, hooo-kay then, how did she activate it without her credit card, which was presumably back in her purse as well?
A customer who picks up an AirPhone without properly authorizing it with a credit card will be connected with a human phone opperator on the ground. They actually do have a protocol for dealing with people who claim to be on a hijacked plane claiming they want to call home... and given the circumstances of 9/11/01 such calls were connected without payment from that doomed flight.
What is known is that the people on board attempted to overtake the hijackers... that is proven by the widdows and widdowers who survived the people on that plane who heard of the "Let's Roll" plan as the last contact from the doomed passengers.
Even if the passengers were killed by a missle rather than their own doing, they most certainly welcomed death that way than death by hitting the Capitol, White House, or any other target.
If you want to spin the headline a bit... you also can see that the FCC is actively considering making cellular service companies file downtime reports just like landline companies do, and that's something that has never been required before.
Of course, that'd be something that's only of geek interest. It becomes a whole lot more newsworthy when the Department of Homeland Security has come in to claim terror fears should be reason enough to not publish such reports along side the service providers who would be expected to grasp at any reason they'd have to object.
This really smells like a case of the "terror card" being played so that information that otherwise would deserve to be public gets pulled back not just for protection from terrorists, but also to protect other interests... including:
- Protecting embarassing localized failures of a cell network from being reported as news, which would of course lower a company's stock price. - Protecting the cell phone industry from consumer groups keeping stats on outages, which would actually cause companies to have to improve their service in poor areas. - Allowing Tom Ridge and friends to ask that cell phone service be cut around areas where "National Security Events" are taking place and being able to claim that the tower simply went down rather than having own up to the fact that they interrupted service to the general public based on nothing more than a reasonless fear. - Allowing the government to take down cell service around any incident that the government would rather not news spread quickly about. By ensuring that the people within the secured zone can't call or send pictures out, and reporters can't get in, they can assure a delay in the release of any account of what's going on in that zone... such jamming would be glaringly clear if all of the cell companies filed reports about the simultainous downtime without any equipment failures.
It is a whole lot easier to cover up a cell service downtime being caused by either company mistakes or government demand if nobody has to file a report on it. And that seems like a much more likely motivation.
Oddpost is an emulation of Outlook Express written entirely in JavaScript, and tied to their own pretty-good webmail system. They aren't free to use, so they have a small but loyal base of paying customers.
They wrote exclusively for MSIE because at the time they felt that they wanted to use parts of IE's "extended" JavaScript object model... yep, it's Microsoft's "Embrace and Extend" tactic paying off. It's not stupid on their part, it's just the effect of Microsoft's behavior that's borderline to illegal but nobody's enforcing the law about.
In converse, it's the elected representatives who control NASA's funding to begin with... NASA can't fund a mission if they don't include enough money to do it in the budget.
The current political pressure on NASA is to go to the moon and Mars. If NASA has to spend all of its money on that, there's nothing left for Hubble.
Safety concerns was the offical reason why they didn't want to service the Hubble, but this report most clearly is saying that's bunk.
But what about the finacial concerns? I don't think NASA has the funding to allocate to a Hubble Repair mission... could the safety claims just have been a smokescreen to cover when the real reason was because they can't get the funding to do this?
It's not silliness if they know their application is going to crash on other browsers... it's preventing themselves from having to answer support calls from paying customers who are wondering why it isn't working.
The "why" is the same reason why your teacher called the roll every day at the start of class. Schools need to keep attendance records so that they know who showed up and who didn't, and track down why anybody who didn't show up is absent for the record. Schools are legally responsible for the kids in their care during the day, so they need to know where they are.
The RFID chips aren't scam-proof, but they improve the process over doing it by hand.
This isn't really a "protect from danger" use as much as an "avoid administrative hassle" use. Instead of having a sign-in attendance sheet, you just mark off everybody who's chip passed the scanner at the door as being present for class. You could imagine it as a barcode-based ID card for the same effect, only this is a little more passive because it can detect the chip as the kid passes the door rather than making them pull out the card.
Sure, there's room for gaming the system by having your friend carry your chip. However, unless that friend has exactly the same schedule they'll eventually end up scanning your chip somewhere they belong but you don't and that'll trip the administrator to wonder what's going on...
These kids are NOT (I repeat... they are NOT) getting an RFID chip implanted in them. Instead, they'll be given RFID tags that they'll be expected to wear/carry so that as they pass by a scanner, their attendance is automatically recorded, automating the school attendance process from paper to bits without the teachers having to spend much time on it.
Of course, the flaw in this system would be that Student A could give their chip to Student B and sucessfully cut class...
You might want to notice the decimal point next time. Free accounts at Yahoo now have 100.0 MB of storage. A 2 GB is limit available, but it's part of the $19.99 a year upgrade model.
We don't know if Yahoo's going to muck up Oddpost's killer features by trying to merge it into Yahoo... or if this is going to be a premium service that they're going to try to upsell their freeloaders into, at which point it may be allowed to run as-is with a much higher userbase and budget.
Because it's a low rent Outlook clone that runs in a web browser. That's right, they took the time to clone outlook using JavaScript and sever-side tools such that the user gets the look and feel of Outlook but can use it without need to install anything on any computer that has MSIE on it.
The service isn't as popular as it could be because they couldn't use their interface on a free webmail service... it was just too expensive to develop so they had to charge for it. However, it looks like Yahoo's come up with the money to change things.
However, both sides seem to have an eye on overtaking the other's stronghold... Yahoo seems to be readying new search offerings, while Google's getting into the e-mail business for the first time.
Of course, the results seem to be great for the user. Yahoo has clearly just reinvested in its mail offering which has been static for quite a while up until the pressure of Google came. Now, will Yahoo make Google come up with an even better search than they have now?
For those of us hearing about this fork for the first time, could somebody explain what these people felt was so wrong about the FreeBSD tree that they decided to go off on their own?
Or, to put it another way... what's the diference between DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD?
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The US hasn't even had a chance to do anything to him yet. All that was done was he was placed on a list of wanted criminals known back in 1992, and when his true identity was discovered by Japan's officials, they're sending him back to the USA to face the pending charges.
This isn't about what he's said recently, it's about declaring that if you're an American who does business with a sanctioned nation you're going to have to spend your entire life on the run because one slip of your true identity and you're headed to jail.
No, the wosh and crash was an attempted joke going horribly off course...
No joke... a $900ish fine is painful for most college students.
SCO *only* gets to do discovery related to a preliminary injunction.
For the most part, that's a distinction without a difference... to win a preliminary injunction you need to prove that 1. There'd be an ongoing harm and 2. that your case has at least some merit. Since SCO is still looking for it's first shred of merit...
The judge told them not to bother with the discovery if they're not going to try for a preliminary injuction - which sets a trap for them.
Only if SCO forgets to hand in their legal homework. There's no question they're going to swing for it just because they can given their past history.
The "stay" has very little power to it. It basically says that there will be no more major courtroom events for the next 90 days, meanwhile the discovery phase of the case is still ongoing and SCO can still try to peer into AutoZone's operations through that process. All we know for sure now is that it won't be going to trial nor be dismissed in the next 90 days, unless the judge doubles back on his own ruling which is also possible so... uhm, what does this tell us?
This is not any ruling on the merits of the case, nor a firm concurance with AutoZone's agreement with SCO's own request that the case be delayed until IBM v. SCO is settled. There's really not much news in this... but this is Slashdot where any action in the SCO lawsuit is reported.
Wake me when it's over...
Does Sony sell PCs in Japan like they do here? If so, and Sony agreed to such a contract, then Sony would effectively be licensing all of their patents to Microsoft for free. Even if that resulted in an XBox that couldn't be sold stateside... Microsoft could use that leverage to dominate the Japanese market and rob Sony that important testbed, causing Sony to release costly and embarassing flops in the USA....
It exists. It's Roxio's New Napster and Real's Rhapsody service. Both offer pay-per-month schemes that allow you to have unlimited playback access (on DRMed computers, of course) to all of the music they're allowed to give you. Any major artist that's not there is excluded because the artist or their label is holding out... $9.95 a month for either service.
:)
Real uses a streaming model, but Napster actually allows you to authorize three PCs, and cashe tracks on disk. Therefore, you can download music to a laptop and play on the go...
This is too much like a sales pitch, so I might as well finish it with this link to napster.com
Well, hooo-kay then, how did she activate it without her credit card, which was presumably back in her purse as well?
A customer who picks up an AirPhone without properly authorizing it with a credit card will be connected with a human phone opperator on the ground. They actually do have a protocol for dealing with people who claim to be on a hijacked plane claiming they want to call home... and given the circumstances of 9/11/01 such calls were connected without payment from that doomed flight.
What is known is that the people on board attempted to overtake the hijackers... that is proven by the widdows and widdowers who survived the people on that plane who heard of the "Let's Roll" plan as the last contact from the doomed passengers.
Even if the passengers were killed by a missle rather than their own doing, they most certainly welcomed death that way than death by hitting the Capitol, White House, or any other target.
If you want to spin the headline a bit... you also can see that the FCC is actively considering making cellular service companies file downtime reports just like landline companies do, and that's something that has never been required before.
Of course, that'd be something that's only of geek interest. It becomes a whole lot more newsworthy when the Department of Homeland Security has come in to claim terror fears should be reason enough to not publish such reports along side the service providers who would be expected to grasp at any reason they'd have to object.
This really smells like a case of the "terror card" being played so that information that otherwise would deserve to be public gets pulled back not just for protection from terrorists, but also to protect other interests... including:
- Protecting embarassing localized failures of a cell network from being reported as news, which would of course lower a company's stock price.
- Protecting the cell phone industry from consumer groups keeping stats on outages, which would actually cause companies to have to improve their service in poor areas.
- Allowing Tom Ridge and friends to ask that cell phone service be cut around areas where "National Security Events" are taking place and being able to claim that the tower simply went down rather than having own up to the fact that they interrupted service to the general public based on nothing more than a reasonless fear.
- Allowing the government to take down cell service around any incident that the government would rather not news spread quickly about. By ensuring that the people within the secured zone can't call or send pictures out, and reporters can't get in, they can assure a delay in the release of any account of what's going on in that zone... such jamming would be glaringly clear if all of the cell companies filed reports about the simultainous downtime without any equipment failures.
It is a whole lot easier to cover up a cell service downtime being caused by either company mistakes or government demand if nobody has to file a report on it. And that seems like a much more likely motivation.
Oddpost is an emulation of Outlook Express written entirely in JavaScript, and tied to their own pretty-good webmail system. They aren't free to use, so they have a small but loyal base of paying customers.
They wrote exclusively for MSIE because at the time they felt that they wanted to use parts of IE's "extended" JavaScript object model... yep, it's Microsoft's "Embrace and Extend" tactic paying off. It's not stupid on their part, it's just the effect of Microsoft's behavior that's borderline to illegal but nobody's enforcing the law about.
In converse, it's the elected representatives who control NASA's funding to begin with... NASA can't fund a mission if they don't include enough money to do it in the budget.
The current political pressure on NASA is to go to the moon and Mars. If NASA has to spend all of its money on that, there's nothing left for Hubble.
Safety concerns was the offical reason why they didn't want to service the Hubble, but this report most clearly is saying that's bunk.
But what about the finacial concerns? I don't think NASA has the funding to allocate to a Hubble Repair mission... could the safety claims just have been a smokescreen to cover when the real reason was because they can't get the funding to do this?
It's not silliness if they know their application is going to crash on other browsers... it's preventing themselves from having to answer support calls from paying customers who are wondering why it isn't working.
The "why" is the same reason why your teacher called the roll every day at the start of class. Schools need to keep attendance records so that they know who showed up and who didn't, and track down why anybody who didn't show up is absent for the record. Schools are legally responsible for the kids in their care during the day, so they need to know where they are.
The RFID chips aren't scam-proof, but they improve the process over doing it by hand.
This isn't really a "protect from danger" use as much as an "avoid administrative hassle" use. Instead of having a sign-in attendance sheet, you just mark off everybody who's chip passed the scanner at the door as being present for class. You could imagine it as a barcode-based ID card for the same effect, only this is a little more passive because it can detect the chip as the kid passes the door rather than making them pull out the card.
Sure, there's room for gaming the system by having your friend carry your chip. However, unless that friend has exactly the same schedule they'll eventually end up scanning your chip somewhere they belong but you don't and that'll trip the administrator to wonder what's going on...
These kids are NOT (I repeat... they are NOT) getting an RFID chip implanted in them. Instead, they'll be given RFID tags that they'll be expected to wear/carry so that as they pass by a scanner, their attendance is automatically recorded, automating the school attendance process from paper to bits without the teachers having to spend much time on it.
Of course, the flaw in this system would be that Student A could give their chip to Student B and sucessfully cut class...
You might want to notice the decimal point next time. Free accounts at Yahoo now have 100.0 MB of storage. A 2 GB is limit available, but it's part of the $19.99 a year upgrade model.
We don't know if Yahoo's going to muck up Oddpost's killer features by trying to merge it into Yahoo... or if this is going to be a premium service that they're going to try to upsell their freeloaders into, at which point it may be allowed to run as-is with a much higher userbase and budget.
Because it's a low rent Outlook clone that runs in a web browser. That's right, they took the time to clone outlook using JavaScript and sever-side tools such that the user gets the look and feel of Outlook but can use it without need to install anything on any computer that has MSIE on it.
The service isn't as popular as it could be because they couldn't use their interface on a free webmail service... it was just too expensive to develop so they had to charge for it. However, it looks like Yahoo's come up with the money to change things.
Of course, wasn't Hotmail the hands-down leader in the free web e-mail market before Microsoft aquired it?
However, both sides seem to have an eye on overtaking the other's stronghold... Yahoo seems to be readying new search offerings, while Google's getting into the e-mail business for the first time.
Of course, the results seem to be great for the user. Yahoo has clearly just reinvested in its mail offering which has been static for quite a while up until the pressure of Google came. Now, will Yahoo make Google come up with an even better search than they have now?
Yahoo's Games section plays host to many third-party developed games that'll only run on Windows and/or IE.
For those of us hearing about this fork for the first time, could somebody explain what these people felt was so wrong about the FreeBSD tree that they decided to go off on their own?
Or, to put it another way... what's the diference between DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD?