Well, 1234.8% profit. (Scroll to bottom, left side just below graph. Percentage at posting time is 52-week performance as of 6-13-2003.)
But look at what they purchased at on the insider's buying link. They granted themselves shares at 1/10th of a cent apiece off-market. $24 for 24,000 shares and on up. So multiply your percentage by a thousand.:-)
What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO utterly from quietly selling all of their SCO stock sometime between now and the point SCO goes into court, thus making gobs of money in the span of time between SCO's stock price being temporarily knocked up by all the publicity around this case and SCO's stock price being knocked down once it becomes apparent SCO has nothing to back up their claims with?
Notice the huge block of 26-34k shares sold off-market at 1/10th penny apiece to all the executives just before the 100-day-warning IBM volley in March? Notice how this isn't an annual reward program -- didn't happen last year? Notice that there's not been any insider buying since that point, but plenty of selling once the stock swung upward?
This sort of thing is not going to go unnoticed by the SEC. At this point, if I were playing devil's advocate and suggesting this were a glorious pump-and-dump scheme, I'd say that McBride and friends were merely playing for the cameras at this point, trying to look genuinely quixotic to the end while they take their turns selling off their chunks at one million percent profit.
A lot of people are going to walk away from this with very fat wallets, no matter what happens. Some anticipated the market's buy-in and have already entered and exited.:-)
I woudl guess that right now, the burden of proof is on SCO. If IBM goes after SCO for making allegations against them, IBM may be drawn into having to prove innocence.
If so, it's better for SCO to be forced to present evidence before proceeding.
What mainstream category of software doesn't have an OpenSource counterpart.
I'd like to agree with you, but I haven't found the free alternative to the kind of 5 minute database-form-query-and-reports jobs you can do in MS Access. Once you get past the secretary pool, these are the bread and butter of many kinds of medium-sized businesses.
Do you have any open source or free software suggestions?
I'm for mandatory 100% open (patent and trade secret) data formats, but I'd also like mandatory 100% open protocols.
If you suddenly find that the data on your server is open, but the method for getting at it isn't, you're still thoroughly locked into a pricey single vendor solution.
This is totally the OJ Simpson case for the free software crowd. It's dirty fun -- I'm digging it, and others are too. There are also going to be some opportunities for a million developers' eyes to be useful when the actual code is named, so it's good to have a lot of folks involved.
But if you reallllllly can't bear it, you know you can customize your home page to suppress Caldera/SCO, right?
Yeah, like a wireless headset really needs an IP address. (or a keyboard or mouse)
Wireless ethernet != wireless IP. There are dozens of other addressing schemes available.
That said, wireless attached peripherals would be a clever use of the extra space in 127.0.0.0/24, so long as devices were guaranteed to only see one PC.
And the ironic thing is that you are all, to some degree, the ones that helped cause this.
I think it has more to do with Caldera/SCO failing to turn out a product or a service that anyone wanted, despite having one hell of a running head start with UNIX-like OSes.
For every SCO joke around here, there are a thousand people making MS jokes, yet the overwhelming majority of the Slashdotters are still using MS products at home or away.
Oh my god!!!! Junior saw a tit, he is sure to grow up being a serial killer/rapist/laywer/president
Human sexuality is shaped at an early age. Things that junior commonly sees with sex can, and often do, become neccessary associations. Kinks, if you will.
It's not at all far-fetched that irreparable harm is being done by exposing kids to a thousand adverts for Barnyard Antics, bondage fetish sites, so on and so on. And if the parent's not around and junior picks one of these as the first site to spend a little time doing his first-ever exploring, it will leave a long-term impression.
on another anonymous poster's claim that Yahoo's continued FreeBSD use is merely a legacy decision.
In all fairness, that article appeared in issue one of the FreeBSD News, circa 1997. That's not a good or honest way to disprove that Yahoo's ongoing use of FreeBSD is a legacy decision.
Reading FreeBSD postings from a Yahoo engineer's blog is an excellent way to understand FreeBSD's strengths and appeal, however. Doesn't look to me like they're itchy to migrate.
I find that I get IM spam immediately on logging on to just one of AOL's AIM servers. Never with the others. I fully believe that there are spammers and IM blasters out there who manage to get a snooping system in somewhere between major service providers and the backbones which monitor traffic and report back to the spammer.
Is Hotmail still plain http after the https login? If so, this would be one theory.
Another might be that banner advertisers are using the referrer if your mailbox name is encoded in the URL.
Corel won't even let you register CorelDraw and similar without agreeing to submit your physical and 'net locations to a sleazy "opt-out" spam house, presumably so they get a kick back, and further -- installs spyware (according to AdAware, anyway) on your system. This is bullshit in what's supposed to be a $500 professional package. CorelDraw is about their only remaining money maker, and they're driving customers away.
I took mine back to the store, exchanged it as decective, then turned around and returned the unopened copy. Good riddance.
Telemarketers do not follow current law. Very rarely do I get them to tell me their name or company name, let alone a manager name or address. 80% of them hang up when I ask to be placed on their DNC list.
If they don't follow the law now, why will they follow it in the future.
If one caller in a hundred is willing to chase that $11,000 fine, and if only one in a hundred succeed in tracking you down and pressing charges, your cost of doing business on the phone still went up by $1.10 per call, plus court costs. And every suit's going to be easier to prosecute than the last, meaning the success rate goes up up up.
You'd have to be doing really well with your marketing campaign to make that cost effective.:-)
Debian users could make good use of "deborphan" and "cruft" for a little hard drive spring cleaning.
deborphan will show which library packages are installed but not referenced by any apt-managed package. If you're reasonably sure you aren't building any unmanaged packages, you can just "dpkg -r `deborphan`" a couple times to remove any spurious libraries.
cruft will show all files not recognized by Debian. Capture to a file and filter it through a chain of a few grep -v statements for areas you know you want left alone. You'll get a list of files you can toss in pretty short order.
I tried "get him companionship and a friend with the potential for a good lay later on, though that's not the goal of the relationship because women are keen" and the ha ha seemed to leak out.
Hee. I told him it would get him laid, then forgot to mention it was a joke. A year and a half later, it was just too funny not to let him keep running with it. Shh! My bad!
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But look at what they purchased at on the insider's buying link. They granted themselves shares at 1/10th of a cent apiece off-market. $24 for 24,000 shares and on up. So multiply your percentage by a thousand. :-)
Well, apparently nothing.
Notice the huge block of 26-34k shares sold off-market at 1/10th penny apiece to all the executives just before the 100-day-warning IBM volley in March? Notice how this isn't an annual reward program -- didn't happen last year? Notice that there's not been any insider buying since that point, but plenty of selling once the stock swung upward?
This sort of thing is not going to go unnoticed by the SEC. At this point, if I were playing devil's advocate and suggesting this were a glorious pump-and-dump scheme, I'd say that McBride and friends were merely playing for the cameras at this point, trying to look genuinely quixotic to the end while they take their turns selling off their chunks at one million percent profit.
A lot of people are going to walk away from this with very fat wallets, no matter what happens. Some anticipated the market's buy-in and have already entered and exited. :-)
If so, it's better for SCO to be forced to present evidence before proceeding.
How much to just park a big cardboard box next to a tube?
I think we wnat SCO to win. If they lose, Sun or MS buys their assets and tries this again with a competent legal team.
SCO has given Brazil 30 days to cough up. Central Services have issued no response, in triplicate.
Do you have any open source or free software suggestions?
If you suddenly find that the data on your server is open, but the method for getting at it isn't, you're still thoroughly locked into a pricey single vendor solution.
Presumably they hoped to leverage it in foisting .NET on the masses.
But if you reallllllly can't bear it, you know you can customize your home page to suppress Caldera/SCO, right?
Wireless ethernet != wireless IP. There are dozens of other addressing schemes available.
That said, wireless attached peripherals would be a clever use of the extra space in 127.0.0.0/24, so long as devices were guaranteed to only see one PC.
For every SCO joke around here, there are a thousand people making MS jokes, yet the overwhelming majority of the Slashdotters are still using MS products at home or away.
There may be some small merit to taxing simple carbs (sugar, corn syrup), but not just carbs as a whole.
Human sexuality is shaped at an early age. Things that junior commonly sees with sex can, and often do, become neccessary associations. Kinks, if you will.
It's not at all far-fetched that irreparable harm is being done by exposing kids to a thousand adverts for Barnyard Antics, bondage fetish sites, so on and so on. And if the parent's not around and junior picks one of these as the first site to spend a little time doing his first-ever exploring, it will leave a long-term impression.
In all fairness, that article appeared in issue one of the FreeBSD News, circa 1997. That's not a good or honest way to disprove that Yahoo's ongoing use of FreeBSD is a legacy decision.
Reading FreeBSD postings from a Yahoo engineer's blog is an excellent way to understand FreeBSD's strengths and appeal, however. Doesn't look to me like they're itchy to migrate.
Is Hotmail still plain http after the https login? If so, this would be one theory.
Another might be that banner advertisers are using the referrer if your mailbox name is encoded in the URL.
Assuming 40 characters per line on average (which is probably a bit high), that's 3,200 characters, or $312,500.00 per character.
I am completely willing to write all the $2.5mil "while(1)" loops you like!
I took mine back to the store, exchanged it as decective, then turned around and returned the unopened copy. Good riddance.
You'd have to be doing really well with your marketing campaign to make that cost effective. :-)
I just spent an hour with debfoster and knocked nearly 20% off my /usr size!
deborphan will show which library packages are installed but not referenced by any apt-managed package. If you're reasonably sure you aren't building any unmanaged packages, you can just "dpkg -r `deborphan`" a couple times to remove any spurious libraries.
cruft will show all files not recognized by Debian. Capture to a file and filter it through a chain of a few grep -v statements for areas you know you want left alone. You'll get a list of files you can toss in pretty short order.
plz advise further, Mr. Wizard!
Hee. I told him it would get him laid, then forgot to mention it was a joke. A year and a half later, it was just too funny not to let him keep running with it. Shh! My bad!