It is for this difference in design philosophy that I will never fly in an Airbus. A human should always have the final say in matters of life and death and not delegate them to a machine.
So, would an Airbus allow a suicidal pilot to, say, crash a plane-load of people into the Atlantic Ocean? Or is that just a feature of 767s?
The LinuxFund credit card interest rates seem to have gone up a bit from the 7.9% you are quoting. They appear to be offering 12.99% currently. That's significantly higher than any similar card offer I've seen recently.
There is a significant difference to logging in to a site in order to participate in conversation and logging in to simply read news. At/., posting requires an identity, since anonymous postings are mostly ignored. However, there is absolutely no requirement that one log in to/. in order to read the stories. Your anology is broken. Privacy should be a choice. At/. one has that choice, with the NYT one does not.
Another point is that anonymity is one of/. greatest strengths. Some of the most insightful and interesting posts have been from "insiders" posting anonymously.
NY Times... user tracking is less sophisticated than slashcode's vital anti troll features.
Care to back this statement up?
...continual complaints on slashdot from people who are obsessed with privacy on the net unless karma is involved
You seem to be quite willing to give up those rights. And that's OK. But there are people here that feel that privacy is a rather important right. That should be respected as well. Enough people actually thought that privacy was a right of such importance that it is enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see Article 12).
This is entirely in Sun's favor and gives no money or direct benefit to SCO.
Maybe you missed the part of this story that happened a few months back, where SCOX had two major licensees after the lawsuit, one of which was not disclosed, increasing SCOX's revenue and showing a profit for the first time? It made it look like their lawsuit-threatening tactics were working to garner the more business. Because of this, their stock went up. That secret licensee is now known to be SUNW.
SUNW paid SCOX money for these licenses and the warrants. The implication was that SCOX stock would go up after the heavy influx of revenue from SUNW. (BTW -- This seems to me to amount to insider trading. It sure smells fishy.)
SCOX has seen the benefit -- it's stock has gone up. They are sharing that benefit with SUNW. How is this a losing proposition for SCOX?
In a democracy the public should have a right to determine what is publicly acceptable and legal and what is not.
You are correct. Actually, that would make a reasonable definition of a democracy. But this is a story about US copyright issues. The US is not and never has been a democracy. It was formed as a representative republic and has degraded into a corporate republic. The public has little input into the political process.
Unless the voters that agree with you can outspend the RIAA in the political arena, their opinions mean little.
How inflation and other scalar fields (e.g. "dark energy") mesh with this is something you'd have to ask an astrophysicist about.
Like they would know...
My magic eight ball can give me answers with the same level of certainty that anyone could answer questions such as these right now. Heck, we don't even know all of the forces we are dealing with here. We only recently observed that the Universe is expanding at an increasing rate, quite opposite of what we understood as even possible.
They may be able to tell you what is observed, but the How that you mention will only get you blank stares.
I posit that the increase in media piracy and tools that facilitate such are a direct result of the erosion of the public domain and the illegal manipulation of the media market by the media cartels (namely the RIAA and MPAA). The fact that such massive piracy exists is due in no small part that the equation between copyright and the rights of the public have been horribly skewed in recent years in favor of the corporate media giants.
Restore balance in copyright law and the problem will fix itself.
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if they can convince the judge the claim is legit...
You said, "T-Mobile... sucks ass in the States." My response was directed towards that statement.
It sounds like you took my response personally. It was not intended as such. My comment was made for the broad audience of Slashdot readers, and not directed at you. Look at how the sentences are phrased. I generally avoid the use of the word "you" unless making a personal response. This message, as you may note, is a personal response.
I don't think that one can extrapolate the service at one's house to the entire US. Most areas in the US I've been in T-Mobile service is great (Denver, Chicago, New Orleans, L.A., Atlanta, Tampa). I've had real problems with service in NYC on one occasion. But my service in the Denver metro area is so much better that what I had with Sprint or Nextel. I was roaming on Sprint half the time, and Nextel would drop calls constantly.
Reviews of T-Mobile service throughout the US can be found on Usenet.
Buy your Treo and you probably have to get it from a service provider.
Switch to GSM. You can buy unlocked phones, or, after a few months wait, get your provider to unlock your network-locked phone. You can then switch providers as much as you want -- and keep the same phone. All US GSM is on the same frequency band and use the same technologies. Just pop in a SIM from your new provider and go.
Currently, the GSM providers that I know of in the US are T-Mobile (formerly VoiceStream), AT&T and Cingular. I use T-Mobile in the US and in Europe (same phone) and am very happy with the service.
The real fun begins when number portability goes into affect.
I would put AMPS on my wish list as well, but it falls well below other requirements, such as battery life, size, international use, etc.
Aside from Darl, here is a list of the current directors of SCO Group. Note the control that the Canopy Group has over this company, along with the former head of the BSA (Business Software Alliance, not Boy Scouts of America).
Ralph J. Yarro III has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since August 1998. Mr. Yarro has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Canopy Group, Inc. since April 1995. Prior to joining The Canopy Group, Inc., he served as a graphic artist for the Noorda Family Trust. Mr. Yarro holds a BA from Brigham Young University.
Edward E. Iacobucci has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since January 2000. In 1989, Mr. Iacobucci co-founded Citrix Systems, Inc., a supplier of products and technologies that enable enterprise-wide deployment of software applications, and held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Strategy and Technology. In September 1991, he also became Chairman of the Board of Citrix. Mr. Iacobucci holds a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Darcy Mott has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since March of 2002. Mr. Mott has served as Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of The Canopy Group, Inc., a technology investment company, since May 1999. Prior to joining Canopy, Mr. Mott served as Vice President and Treasurer of Novell, Inc., from December 1995 to September 1998 and prior to that position, Mr. Mott served in various other financial management positions for Novell since September 1986. Mr. Mott worked for Arthur Andersen & Company from 1977 to 1986. Mr. Mott is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr. has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since September 1999. He has been with MTI Technology Corporation since 1987, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer since December 1999, as Chief Operating Officer from April 1998 to December 1999, as Senior Vice President and General Manager from January 1996 to April 1998 and as Vice President of Marketing from 1991 to 1996. Mr. Raimondi holds a bachelor of science degree in communications from the University of Maryland.
Steve Cakebread has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since July 2000. He has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SalesForce.com since June 2002 and prior to that was Chief Financial Officer of Autodesk, Inc. from 1997 to June 2002. Prior to joining Autodesk, he was Vice President of Finance with Silicon Graphics, Inc., a provider of computing and visualization solutions, from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Cakebread holds a BS from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Indiana University.
R. Duff Thompson has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since May 2001. Mr. Thompson was appointed as a director of Tarantella in December 1995. Mr. Thompson has served as Managing General Partner of EsNet, Ltd., an investment group that is active in both technology and real estate ventures from 1996 to the present. From June 1994 to January 1996, he served as Senior Vice President of the Corporate Development Group of Novell, Inc. Prior to that time, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for WordPerfect Corporation, and before joining WordPerfect Corporation in 1986, he was a partner with the Salt Lake City law firm of Callister, Duncan & Nebeker. Mr. Thompson is a former Chairman of the Board of the Business Software Alliance, a software industry association dealing with software industry issues. He also serves on the board of Syzygy AG, and serves on the board of O2 Exchange, Inc., a private company.
Most free source code is crappy. When looking for C code, for instance, you'll hardly ever find any that bothers to check the return value of malloc() and other functions that might fail.
Don't you find it easier to fix things like this than write your own? In the cases where I've used open source libraries that were, shall we say, a bit under-developed, I found it easier to contribute fixes to the library than to roll my own. With the framework already in place, contributing some corrections or documentation is still easier than writing ones own library -- especialy for complex problems where the solution is almost there.
"That works up and until you live with someone, then it's just a major pain and expense."
Care to elaborate on that a bit?
When I first dropped my land-line, I lived with my GF. Each of us got a mobile phone. The family plans that most mobile phone companies provide are quite reasonable. The charges when I first signed up were no more than $10/month more once long distance charges were factored in, and the prices have come down considerably over the past four years since that time.
Don't pay the phone monopoly. Get yourself a mobile phone. 90% of the US population lives in a well covered area. At least there is some reasonable amount of competition in the mobile phone biz. My phone bill is now less than what it used to be with a Qwest/USWorst land-line. Plus I get tons of nifty features that my land-line never had.
I never get phone spam on my mobile. I've been land-line free for four years now.
And paying the phone company $5 to block phone spam is giving in to racketeering. They are the ones selling your phone number to the phone spammers. And, yes, it should be illegal.
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You must also be prepared to upgrade your version of Wife when upgrading BeerPeltier. Earlier versions of Wife usually conflicts with BeerPeltier 2.0. The upgrade can be very expensive.
What I would like to see Red Hat release is both the 32-bit and 64-bit X86 versions on one media set (DVD-ROM, CD-ROM) and automatically choose the correct platform to install. I don't want to have to manually choose which disk sets to bring along to install/upgrade a system.
Red Hat is the #1 Linux distro in North America. Slashdot is an admittedly US-centric site. So it an appropriate news story. Many of us Red Hat users are anxiously awaiting their X86_64 release.
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So, would an Airbus allow a suicidal pilot to, say, crash a plane-load of people into the Atlantic Ocean? Or is that just a feature of 767s?
For reference, I don't see any Airbuses in the list of accidents by pilot-induced dive.
Fine. If that is what you want, amend the consititution. Until that happens, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.
I happen to think that the consititution should be altered to fit a changing world far more frequently than it is.
The Linux Fund Master Card Application has the details.
Another point is that anonymity is one of /. greatest strengths. Some of the most insightful and interesting posts have been from "insiders" posting anonymously.
NY Times... user tracking is less sophisticated than slashcode's vital anti troll features.
Care to back this statement up?
You seem to be quite willing to give up those rights. And that's OK. But there are people here that feel that privacy is a rather important right. That should be respected as well. Enough people actually thought that privacy was a right of such importance that it is enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see Article 12).
Maybe you missed the part of this story that happened a few months back, where SCOX had two major licensees after the lawsuit, one of which was not disclosed, increasing SCOX's revenue and showing a profit for the first time? It made it look like their lawsuit-threatening tactics were working to garner the more business. Because of this, their stock went up. That secret licensee is now known to be SUNW.
SUNW paid SCOX money for these licenses and the warrants. The implication was that SCOX stock would go up after the heavy influx of revenue from SUNW. (BTW -- This seems to me to amount to insider trading. It sure smells fishy.)
SCOX has seen the benefit -- it's stock has gone up. They are sharing that benefit with SUNW. How is this a losing proposition for SCOX?
You are correct. Actually, that would make a reasonable definition of a democracy. But this is a story about US copyright issues. The US is not and never has been a democracy. It was formed as a representative republic and has degraded into a corporate republic. The public has little input into the political process.
Unless the voters that agree with you can outspend the RIAA in the political arena, their opinions mean little.
Like they would know...
My magic eight ball can give me answers with the same level of certainty that anyone could answer questions such as these right now. Heck, we don't even know all of the forces we are dealing with here. We only recently observed that the Universe is expanding at an increasing rate, quite opposite of what we understood as even possible.
They may be able to tell you what is observed, but the How that you mention will only get you blank stares.
Restore balance in copyright law and the problem will fix itself.
IBM has requested a trial by jury.
It sounds like you took my response personally. It was not intended as such. My comment was made for the broad audience of Slashdot readers, and not directed at you. Look at how the sentences are phrased. I generally avoid the use of the word "you" unless making a personal response. This message, as you may note, is a personal response.
Reviews of T-Mobile service throughout the US can be found on Usenet.
Switch to GSM. You can buy unlocked phones, or, after a few months wait, get your provider to unlock your network-locked phone. You can then switch providers as much as you want -- and keep the same phone. All US GSM is on the same frequency band and use the same technologies. Just pop in a SIM from your new provider and go. Currently, the GSM providers that I know of in the US are T-Mobile (formerly VoiceStream), AT&T and Cingular. I use T-Mobile in the US and in Europe (same phone) and am very happy with the service.
The real fun begins when number portability goes into affect.
I would put AMPS on my wish list as well, but it falls well below other requirements, such as battery life, size, international use, etc.
From SCO's Proxy Statement filing:
Ralph J. Yarro III has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since August 1998. Mr. Yarro has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Canopy Group, Inc. since April 1995. Prior to joining The Canopy Group, Inc., he served as a graphic artist for the Noorda Family Trust. Mr. Yarro holds a BA from Brigham Young University.
Edward E. Iacobucci has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since January 2000. In 1989, Mr. Iacobucci co-founded Citrix Systems, Inc., a supplier of products and technologies that enable enterprise-wide deployment of software applications, and held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Strategy and Technology. In September 1991, he also became Chairman of the Board of Citrix. Mr. Iacobucci holds a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Darcy Mott has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since March of 2002. Mr. Mott has served as Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of The Canopy Group, Inc., a technology investment company, since May 1999. Prior to joining Canopy, Mr. Mott served as Vice President and Treasurer of Novell, Inc., from December 1995 to September 1998 and prior to that position, Mr. Mott served in various other financial management positions for Novell since September 1986. Mr. Mott worked for Arthur Andersen & Company from 1977 to 1986. Mr. Mott is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
Thomas P. Raimondi, Jr. has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since September 1999. He has been with MTI Technology Corporation since 1987, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer since December 1999, as Chief Operating Officer from April 1998 to December 1999, as Senior Vice President and General Manager from January 1996 to April 1998 and as Vice President of Marketing from 1991 to 1996. Mr. Raimondi holds a bachelor of science degree in communications from the University of Maryland.
Steve Cakebread has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since July 2000. He has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SalesForce.com since June 2002 and prior to that was Chief Financial Officer of Autodesk, Inc. from 1997 to June 2002. Prior to joining Autodesk, he was Vice President of Finance with Silicon Graphics, Inc., a provider of computing and visualization solutions, from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Cakebread holds a BS from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Indiana University.
R. Duff Thompson has served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors since May 2001. Mr. Thompson was appointed as a director of Tarantella in December 1995. Mr. Thompson has served as Managing General Partner of EsNet, Ltd., an investment group that is active in both technology and real estate ventures from 1996 to the present. From June 1994 to January 1996, he served as Senior Vice President of the Corporate Development Group of Novell, Inc. Prior to that time, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for WordPerfect Corporation, and before joining WordPerfect Corporation in 1986, he was a partner with the Salt Lake City law firm of Callister, Duncan & Nebeker. Mr. Thompson is a former Chairman of the Board of the Business Software Alliance, a software industry association dealing with software industry issues. He also serves on the board of Syzygy AG, and serves on the board of O2 Exchange, Inc., a private company.
For even more pertinacious network environments, one can use httptunnel or the more advanced desproxy
Don't you find it easier to fix things like this than write your own? In the cases where I've used open source libraries that were, shall we say, a bit under-developed, I found it easier to contribute fixes to the library than to roll my own. With the framework already in place, contributing some corrections or documentation is still easier than writing ones own library -- especialy for complex problems where the solution is almost there.
With Linux, who has the legal standing to engage in such as suit?
Care to elaborate on that a bit?
When I first dropped my land-line, I lived with my GF. Each of us got a mobile phone. The family plans that most mobile phone companies provide are quite reasonable. The charges when I first signed up were no more than $10/month more once long distance charges were factored in, and the prices have come down considerably over the past four years since that time.
If your only broadband option is DSL, then you might as well keep the land line. Otherwise, please don't feed the Baby Bells.
Don't pay the phone monopoly. Get yourself a mobile phone. 90% of the US population lives in a well covered area. At least there is some reasonable amount of competition in the mobile phone biz. My phone bill is now less than what it used to be with a Qwest/USWorst land-line. Plus I get tons of nifty features that my land-line never had.
I never get phone spam on my mobile. I've been land-line free for four years now.
And paying the phone company $5 to block phone spam is giving in to racketeering. They are the ones selling your phone number to the phone spammers. And, yes, it should be illegal.
You must also be prepared to upgrade your version of Wife when upgrading BeerPeltier. Earlier versions of Wife usually conflicts with BeerPeltier 2.0. The upgrade can be very expensive.
Yeah, and it's a damned shame one can't short stocks that are trading at less than $5 per share.
What I would like to see Red Hat release is both the 32-bit and 64-bit X86 versions on one media set (DVD-ROM, CD-ROM) and automatically choose the correct platform to install. I don't want to have to manually choose which disk sets to bring along to install/upgrade a system.
Red Hat is the #1 Linux distro in North America. Slashdot is an admittedly US-centric site. So it an appropriate news story. Many of us Red Hat users are anxiously awaiting their X86_64 release.
And this technology must be Unix proprietary technology owned by SCO, because, god knows, no one else could come up with ccNUMA...