This article reminds me of a joke one of my CS professors told us (I hope I remember it right):
The year was 2015. Joe, a programmer, was getting up in years and decided he wanted to have his body frozen after he died. He made the arrangements, and when the time came, he was frozen and placed in a government facility. Time passed, and he was forgotten.
Jump ahead a few centuries... suddenly Joe finds himself conscious again! He is on a lab table surrounded by strange looking people in uniforms. Their leader, speaking through a translator, welcomes Joe back to life.
Joe is amazed! There are so many questions he wants to ask, but first he says, "Why did you bring me back to life?"
The leader answers, "Well, the year is 9999. Y10k is coming up, and your file says you know Cobol."
It seems to me that this is the only realistic thing that can stop the RIAA. If the courts get so bogged down with these suits that they can't get any real business done, SOMEOME in the government will find a way to put a stop to it.
Oops, darn it...too late for my computers, just replaced another Windows installation with Slackware last night. Just one left to go now! I guess I'm stuck with BSD...or I could just ignore Gartner. And SCO. Yep, that sounds good.
Yeah, imagine the guy in court announcing in a deep, serious voice, "The case of the Recording Industry Association of America versus cuntfuckcunt@kazaa will now commence." I'd pay money to see that.
It's a great place to live, but there are NO tourist attractions here, unless you count the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is nothing to write home about. In fact, you may want to skip Ohio completely, unless you like amusement parks, in which case I recommend Cedar Point in Sandusky.
I guess it's about time I asked: How do you pronounce "SCO?" Is it "skow" (rhymes with "blow") or is it "ess sea oh?" Dumb question, I know, but I've never heard anyone say it; I've only read the name online.
In a greedy, selfish kind of way, I hope computer recycling doesn't catch on too fast, since I have gotten most of the hardware I have from residential trash piles. It's just starting to get good, too - they're throwing out Pentium II's now, and 10 GB hard drives! After a few years, imagine the size of the Beo..er, never mind.
I don't believe Microsoft plans to add IPv6 functionality to any OS earlier than Win2k. At least I couldn't find it mentioned on their IP version 6 site.
When I first glanced at the headline, I thought, oh no, not another SCO article! Well, this doesn't sound quite as serious. I, for one, don't WANT my washing machine to have an IP address. I have visions of my underwear getting 0wNeD...
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This article reminds me of a joke one of my CS professors told us (I hope I remember it right):
The year was 2015. Joe, a programmer, was getting up in years and decided he wanted to have his body frozen after he died. He made the arrangements, and when the time came, he was frozen and placed in a government facility. Time passed, and he was forgotten.
Jump ahead a few centuries... suddenly Joe finds himself conscious again! He is on a lab table surrounded by strange looking people in uniforms. Their leader, speaking through a translator, welcomes Joe back to life.
Joe is amazed! There are so many questions he wants to ask, but first he says, "Why did you bring me back to life?"
The leader answers, "Well, the year is 9999. Y10k is coming up, and your file says you know Cobol."
Sure, for playing Gorilla.
Or, like their OS, they have all died.
It seems to me that this is the only realistic thing that can stop the RIAA. If the courts get so bogged down with these suits that they can't get any real business done, SOMEOME in the government will find a way to put a stop to it.
Who will they sue when they can't sue the p2p or it's users?
The ISPs.
They ought to try this with North Korea, since the Bush administration apparently has no idea what to do about that problem.
We had better fix this. I'll go ask SCO what to do.
Or else goatse.cx. You'll NEVER try to visit Slashdot again.
the error reporting program crashed.
Funny, KDE is like that, too.
'The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy'
Riiiight...
We have to save broadband! But how? I know! Let's limit what people can do with it and throw them in prison if they don't comply!
Wow, the CRIA's website is pretty screwed up, at least in Mozilla. There are invisible links over the text that partially block it.
Does Gartner use Linux internally? Maybe they got a letter from SCO, freaked out and decided to warn everyone else.
Oops, darn it...too late for my computers, just replaced another Windows installation with Slackware last night. Just one left to go now! I guess I'm stuck with BSD...or I could just ignore Gartner. And SCO. Yep, that sounds good.
Don't know much about it, but how about OpenVMS?
He better be full of it - I'll need my fast food job when I finish my CS degree!
My computer's a Commodore 64. I'm safe!
Yeah, imagine the guy in court announcing in a deep, serious voice, "The case of the Recording Industry Association of America versus cuntfuckcunt@kazaa will now commence." I'd pay money to see that.
It's a great place to live, but there are NO tourist attractions here, unless you count the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is nothing to write home about. In fact, you may want to skip Ohio completely, unless you like amusement parks, in which case I recommend Cedar Point in Sandusky.
I guess it's about time I asked: How do you pronounce "SCO?" Is it "skow" (rhymes with "blow") or is it "ess sea oh?" Dumb question, I know, but I've never heard anyone say it; I've only read the name online.
In a greedy, selfish kind of way, I hope computer recycling doesn't catch on too fast, since I have gotten most of the hardware I have from residential trash piles. It's just starting to get good, too - they're throwing out Pentium II's now, and 10 GB hard drives! After a few years, imagine the size of the Beo..er, never mind.
Or northwestern Ohio, for that matter. I can't imagine how Kansas could be any flatter than the region around Bowling Green, where I go to school.
So, when SCO eventually accuses Microsoft of stealing its intellectual property and tries to re-license Windows to me, will Microsoft pay for it?
I don't believe Microsoft plans to add IPv6 functionality to any OS earlier than Win2k. At least I couldn't find it mentioned on their IP version 6 site.
When I first glanced at the headline, I thought, oh no, not another SCO article! Well, this doesn't sound quite as serious. I, for one, don't WANT my washing machine to have an IP address. I have visions of my underwear getting 0wNeD...