Cool. And if by some remote chance, the spammer actually paid them a dime, that would be forfeited as the procedes of criminal activity. The computer would need to be seized as evidence too for an indefinite period. With luck, they'll be put on five years probation wuith a restriction to not touch any networked computer during that time.
If this catches on, the average IQ on the net might start climbing again!
Damn. I'm assuming judges with a clue. I knew there had to be a flaw...
What puzzles me is why the town near where it is presently (Folkstone, UK -- sounds small; dunno) doesn't just erect a small park/museum around the sucker and pull in tourism revenue...
I think you have it backwards. I've had the dubious privilege of running OpenServer; my theory is that it came from Hell, so it being pirated to Hell seems unlikely.
Perhaps DarlCo is infringing Satans' IP? Probably not a smart move for someone who asserts devout faith. But Darl never was the sharpest crayon in the box...
You will see outsourcers and contractors at the "front" such as it is. Think food service and fuel suppy in Iraq; think Halliburton (or Kellog, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of theirs). Oh, I forgot... that war is "over"
I think there's far more danger of reading a headline like:
Dozens of Nerds Die as Result of latest McBride Utterances
AP -- Emergency rooms worldwide reported numerous deaths by asphyxiation following SCO CEO Darl McBride's latest announcement. Friends of some of the victims were reported to have been shaking their heads in disbeif, uttering arcane acronyms. One was quoted as saying sadly, "I told him not to read Groklaw any more, that it was only a matter of time before such a tragedy occured. Death by ROFLMAO... who'd have thought? He was so young, too. What a terrible waste."
SCO was unavailable for comment, reportedly investigaing their "Ass" IP porttolio and "laughter as a derivative work". McBride was reportedly overheard muttering about "a million guffaws! And we own rights to them all..."
(although I don't completely understand the law, being non-US)
I don't even mostly understand the law, despite having been born here. What scares me is that the people making the laws don't seem to have a clue either, at times.
True... and my half tongue-in-cheek post also didn't address the requirement that the claimant be able to demonstrate "real damages" from an infringement. However...
Suppose I have a copy of the OED on CD - a database of words (currently covered by copyright). I skim this from time to time with the goal of improving my vocabulary, and use obscure words in conversation.
Let's say my friend who I'm talking to on the phone asks me "what was that word?" and I have OED open on my computer. Would I run afoul of this law (by quoting him the definition -- a "fact" ( let's assume I paraphrase it so straight copyright is less of an issue)? I am, after all, using the facts in that database in a way that potentially deprives the owner of the income they might get if I told my friend they needed to get a copy of OED for themselves.
Yes, it needs to be "signifigant" -- but what does that mean? This imprecision gives wiggle room for the filing of not-quite-frivolous lawsuits against the "owners" of the facts.
An aside: since the publishers of OED created those definitions (for non-archaic words, at least) by observing usage in the collective public database we call "Spoken Language", would there be a cause of action against them in a class-action by the "owners" of that "database" which is known as the public? (not seriously suggesting that; but such a scenario seems as absurd as the legislation at hand)
If I'm called to testify under oath in a court, can I refuse to answer any question I wish because I can't know if the facts as I relate them might be some 3rd party's IP?
Can I demand an immunity deal as a condition of testifying at all?
I stand corrected on Schiller v. Sculley. A confusion of vaguely similar names for which I apologize. The point remains; Apple had an incompetent CEO, formerly of Pepsi, in the late 1990's who presided over several abortive attempts at a new OS.
Rhapsody, however, was an abortive effort as mentioned here (descriped as a "hiccup" on the road to OS X). Some might argue that Rhapsody is/isn't a direct anscestor of OS X; again a pointless argument. Pink and Copland were certainly dead ends and the status if Rhapsody is irrelevant to my earier point.
But whatever; I've already spent more time than foul mouthed AC rates.
I don't have any inside knowledge of what happened at Apple, but I find it more plausible that the OS failures at Apple were management-based then the idea that Apple's software team was incapable of creating a decent OS without using NeXT technology.
I certainly can't argue with that. Jobs brought Schiller aboard by taunting him with "You want to sell sugar water to kids, you you want to change the world?"... then when Jobs was booted (to go off to form NeXT) Schiller became CEO and proceded to do exactly that: try to be a competitive vendor in a commodity market. That doesn't work when you're a different architecture and OS and mindset; it failed horribly.
Schiller (of Pepsi fame) had failed in the eyes of the stockholders. The buyout of NeXT may or may not have been a requirement for Jobs to return, and NeXT certainly wasn't a commercial success.
But your assertion that they killed at least 3 OS initiatives (that were consecutive, not concurrent) borders on the paranoid. If that's what you were asserting; I had difficulty parsing "As for the failed attempts at a "next generation" OS at Apple, we don't really if the "failure" was for technical reasons or political ones." [full "sentence" quoted] Don't really what?
Possibly becuase there were a number of failed attempts at a "next generation" OS at Apple (Pink, Copland, Rhapsody...) that got axed.
Jobs returning to Apple along with the buyout of NeXT brought with it a strong UNIX inclination, along with a liking for the Mach microkernel. So in a sense, it was a reprieve from death for Apple... one last chance. And they pulled it off; after years of slowly shrinking market share they're seeing slow growth (depending on who you ask. Look at "installed base" rather than "sales")
Pre-release (up to and including the public beta, at least) did use telnet as the default (but not enabled by default if I recall correctly) 'standard' means of remote CLI login.
since at least 10.1, however, it's been ssh. I suspect there's a binary for telnetd lurking somewhere in/bin or/sbin, but I've never needed to look. While ssh isn't a panacea, it's much prefered... especially as a defence against the casual packet sniffer.
Anyone who can't "locate httpd.conf" and find it in/private/etc/ probably shouldn't be mucking around in the file anyhow. Aside from the location of the config file, it's all the same. Of course most folks will be using the default binary, but rolling your own is pretty trivial using the included developer tools.
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...and a matter of peronal taste, but I think the XB-70A Valkyrie was sweeter than either Concorde or the SR-71.
101.12.125.24.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR c-24-125-12-101.va.client2.attbi.com.
"Sick and Offensive" apparently applied to the earlier MasterCard parody, not the current Amex one.
If this catches on, the average IQ on the net might start climbing again!
Damn. I'm assuming judges with a clue. I knew there had to be a flaw...
What puzzles me is why the town near where it is presently (Folkstone, UK -- sounds small; dunno) doesn't just erect a small park/museum around the sucker and pull in tourism revenue...
Perhaps DarlCo is infringing Satans' IP? Probably not a smart move for someone who asserts devout faith. But Darl never was the sharpest crayon in the box...
OS X 10.3.3
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No, I think you were the only person to make that association.
You will see outsourcers and contractors at the "front" such as it is. Think food service and fuel suppy in Iraq; think Halliburton (or Kellog, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of theirs). Oh, I forgot... that war is "over"
That should be 256 bytes, not K.
Ever since the "Extrans" and "code" options were added I've found posting with HTML to be hit-or-miss as well. Ah, to be a beta-tester.
SCO was unavailable for comment, reportedly investigaing their "Ass" IP porttolio and "laughter as a derivative work". McBride was reportedly overheard muttering about "a million guffaws! And we own rights to them all..."
I don't even mostly understand the law, despite having been born here. What scares me is that the people making the laws don't seem to have a clue either, at times.
Suppose I have a copy of the OED on CD - a database of words (currently covered by copyright). I skim this from time to time with the goal of improving my vocabulary, and use obscure words in conversation.
Let's say my friend who I'm talking to on the phone asks me "what was that word?" and I have OED open on my computer. Would I run afoul of this law (by quoting him the definition -- a "fact" ( let's assume I paraphrase it so straight copyright is less of an issue)? I am, after all, using the facts in that database in a way that potentially deprives the owner of the income they might get if I told my friend they needed to get a copy of OED for themselves.
Yes, it needs to be "signifigant" -- but what does that mean? This imprecision gives wiggle room for the filing of not-quite-frivolous lawsuits against the "owners" of the facts.
An aside: since the publishers of OED created those definitions (for non-archaic words, at least) by observing usage in the collective public database we call "Spoken Language", would there be a cause of action against them in a class-action by the "owners" of that "database" which is known as the public? (not seriously suggesting that; but such a scenario seems as absurd as the legislation at hand)
Can I demand an immunity deal as a condition of testifying at all?
That'd be "In Redmond, Washington..."
... we seem to have skipped directly to April 1st...
Rhapsody, however, was an abortive effort as mentioned here (descriped as a "hiccup" on the road to OS X). Some might argue that Rhapsody is/isn't a direct anscestor of OS X; again a pointless argument. Pink and Copland were certainly dead ends and the status if Rhapsody is irrelevant to my earier point.
But whatever; I've already spent more time than foul mouthed AC rates.
But your assertion that they killed at least 3 OS initiatives (that were consecutive, not concurrent) borders on the paranoid. If that's what you were asserting; I had difficulty parsing "As for the failed attempts at a "next generation" OS at Apple, we don't really if the "failure" was for technical reasons or political ones." [full "sentence" quoted] Don't really what?
Jobs returning to Apple along with the buyout of NeXT brought with it a strong UNIX inclination, along with a liking for the Mach microkernel. So in a sense, it was a reprieve from death for Apple... one last chance. And they pulled it off; after years of slowly shrinking market share they're seeing slow growth (depending on who you ask. Look at "installed base" rather than "sales")
since at least 10.1, however, it's been ssh. I suspect there's a binary for telnetd lurking somewhere in /bin or /sbin, but I've never needed to look. While ssh isn't a panacea, it's much prefered... especially as a defence against the casual packet sniffer.
Anyone who can't "locate httpd.conf" and find it in /private/etc/ probably shouldn't be mucking around in the file anyhow. Aside from the location of the config file, it's all the same. Of course most folks will be using the default binary, but rolling your own is pretty trivial using the included developer tools.