"We are firm in our belief that the unchecked spread of open-source software, under the GPL, is a much more serious threat to our capitalist system than U.S. corporations realize," McBride said.
"Open-source software--available widely through the Internet--has the potential to provide our nation's enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities that are restricted by U.S. law," McBride said. "A computer expert in North Korea who has a number of personal computers can download the latest version of Linux...and in short order build a virtual supercomputer."
Watch out, everyone! Kim Jong II is going to hack whitehouse.gov with his new Copyright Infringing Beowulf cluster and leave the message
in response to questions, I wrote these lyrics myself and they are copyrighted in their entirety to me.
Except for the bits by Joss Whedon and JRR Tolkien.
(Gandalf)
I've got a theory, that it's a Nazgul, A dancing Nazgul. No, something isn't right there.
(Frodo)
I've got a theory, that Bilbo is dreamin' And we're all stuck inside his wacky Broadway nightmare.
(Aragorn)
I've got a theory we should work this out.
(The Fellowship except Gandalf)
It's getting eerie, what's this cheery singing all about?
(Gimli)
It could be Elves, some evil Elves. Which is ridiculous 'cause Elves they were persecuted wicked good and loved Middle Earth and fairie power and I'll be over here.
(Merry)
I've got a theory, it could be lunchtime... [crickets chirping]
They are doing EVERYTHING in their power to delay/slow down requests, to discourage people from making the changes. They knew for at least a year that this was coming, and other carriers are having no problems initiating/running these changes--just them, with failures on this level. Just my own humble opinion, but I feel they are delaying things, and having "failures" to discourage and frustrate clients into not leaving them. If, however, this isn't the case, then they're completely technically incompetent on a fairly amazing scale.
Either way, I hope the FCC makes an example out of them, to drive home the point for both the industry and consumers that their games will not be tolerated at our expense.
"Your honor, it wasn't my computer that was responsible. It was the poorly designed code that had `x` number of security flaws. Microsoft is at fault!"
The simple way that my site is constructed gave a little extra googlejuice to this random post of mine, which led to it being mentioned a few times on other sites, and BOOM. That post turns into an instant Revolutions spoiler board, complete with "Larry Wachowski" posting there. You can see the search here.
The same way that the Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions are two halves of the same film.
Or, an even better example: KILL BILL. Quentin Tarantino wrote it, conceived it, and filmed it as one movie, but it ended up being nearly five hours long, so he split it in half. KILL BILL I, and KILL BILL II, but it's all one film. If he had made it six hours long and made it KILL BILL I, II, and III, it wouldn't be a trilogy but a single film in three parts.
STAR WARS = trilogy
BACK TO THE FUTURE = TRILOGY
LotR = one incredibly long film
I think the guy who invented the concept of royalties should at this point issue a lawsuit against the entire planet Earth for 1% of all gross national products that are protected under other royalties.
A fair point, and THAT is the point at which you ratchet up your monitoring practices to compensate for things that are being missed. It's the same as the military; carpet-bombing is often ineffective, but preciosion targeting will (almost) always get you what you want. Pings look good? Check. Things still not working? Dig deeper.
More often than not, though, ping queries should be enough (assuming the network/host doesn't block ICMP or screw with it).
Except if you open those monitoring tools to your client base, it opens the possibility of them seeing the same info you do, which isn't always a good thing for a variety of technical reasons.
Their 'harvesting' your IP block is tacky at the least. That said, the current range of InternetSeer type monitoring is flat out overkill, and doesn't even work right half the time. According to some of them, my site is constantly down, but it *never* is. I know, since I'm an access_log nerd and always play with it; people are always going through it without any large 'dead' blocks appearing. All you need is a remote monitoring system to let you know when your major ports aren't functional, and to have it mail you ONLY when it's down. These 100k emails dripping with HTML to let you know that your site is still up are a complete waste of good bandwidth. Ping your damn site on your major ports, and that's all you need.
Wow....I bet a Canadian company could make a fortune selling high speed Internet access to those in the US, Or possibly just a high speed proxy service.
Now THAT would open a whole fun to watch can of legal worms, that's for sure. I really wish someone would do it, just for the entertainment value if nothing else.
...until Linus comes along to pat Darl McBride on the head again like the spoiled little brat that he is? Even better, how long until SCO just uses up all their current money and goes away for a very long time?
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Watch out, everyone! Kim Jong II is going to hack whitehouse.gov with his new Copyright Infringing Beowulf cluster and leave the message
You mean that there is no journalistic ingrity out there anymore? Hooray and thank you, Fox News!
in response to questions, I wrote these lyrics myself and they are copyrighted in their entirety to me. Except for the bits by Joss Whedon and JRR Tolkien.
I've Got A Theory and I'll Never Tell are liked a damned brain virus.
I've got a theory, that it's a Nazgul, A dancing Nazgul. No, something isn't right there.
(Frodo)
I've got a theory, that Bilbo is dreamin' And we're all stuck inside his wacky Broadway nightmare.
(Aragorn)
I've got a theory we should work this out.
(The Fellowship except Gandalf)
It's getting eerie, what's this cheery singing all about?
(Gimli)
It could be Elves, some evil Elves. Which is ridiculous 'cause Elves they were persecuted wicked good and loved Middle Earth and fairie power and I'll be over here.
(Merry)
I've got a theory, it could be lunchtime...
[crickets chirping]
http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001404.shtml
Either way, I hope the FCC makes an example out of them, to drive home the point for both the industry and consumers that their games will not be tolerated at our expense.
"Sorry JOSEPH I am died! NoW increase ur size!"
"Your honor, it wasn't my computer that was responsible. It was the poorly designed code that had `x` number of security flaws. Microsoft is at fault!"
Or, "Your honor, Bill Gates 0wnz y0u!"
So, how long until Darl McBride realizes he can team up with SBC, Verizon, et al to sue even more people?
Alright, this made me genuinely laugh out loud.
Hurrah for 8 trillion badly Photoshopped celebrity per second!
Matrix Revolutions Spoilers
The simple way that my site is constructed gave a little extra googlejuice to this random post of mine, which led to it being mentioned a few times on other sites, and BOOM. That post turns into an instant Revolutions spoiler board, complete with "Larry Wachowski" posting there. You can see the search here.
Is their obfuscating content in any way on a public government website illegal?
Except he would get royalties on those, too. Yay, commerce!
Or, an even better example: KILL BILL. Quentin Tarantino wrote it, conceived it, and filmed it as one movie, but it ended up being nearly five hours long, so he split it in half. KILL BILL I, and KILL BILL II, but it's all one film. If he had made it six hours long and made it KILL BILL I, II, and III, it wouldn't be a trilogy but a single film in three parts.
STAR WARS = trilogy
BACK TO THE FUTURE = TRILOGY
LotR = one incredibly long film
I think the guy who invented the concept of royalties should at this point issue a lawsuit against the entire planet Earth for 1% of all gross national products that are protected under other royalties.
Thank goodness I will no longer have to worry about unfair or adverse taxation on my free pornography.
My bad. Long live full disclosure of all things, no matter how bad it would be for them to be disclosed!
A fair point, and THAT is the point at which you ratchet up your monitoring practices to compensate for things that are being missed. It's the same as the military; carpet-bombing is often ineffective, but preciosion targeting will (almost) always get you what you want. Pings look good? Check. Things still not working? Dig deeper. More often than not, though, ping queries should be enough (assuming the network/host doesn't block ICMP or screw with it).
Except if you open those monitoring tools to your client base, it opens the possibility of them seeing the same info you do, which isn't always a good thing for a variety of technical reasons.
Their 'harvesting' your IP block is tacky at the least. That said, the current range of InternetSeer type monitoring is flat out overkill, and doesn't even work right half the time. According to some of them, my site is constantly down, but it *never* is. I know, since I'm an access_log nerd and always play with it; people are always going through it without any large 'dead' blocks appearing. All you need is a remote monitoring system to let you know when your major ports aren't functional, and to have it mail you ONLY when it's down. These 100k emails dripping with HTML to let you know that your site is still up are a complete waste of good bandwidth. Ping your damn site on your major ports, and that's all you need.
Now THAT would open a whole fun to watch can of legal worms, that's for sure. I really wish someone would do it, just for the entertainment value if nothing else.
Are you implying that banks aren't out to make money, at any and all costs...? Shock! Awe!
...until Linus comes along to pat Darl McBride on the head again like the spoiled little brat that he is? Even better, how long until SCO just uses up all their current money and goes away for a very long time?