It's nice to get all philosophical and speculate. I don't know if Sal is real, or if he's a poorly-written AI program running on an ancient PDP-10 in MIT's basement... but I lost $405 real dollars to him, her, or it. I have no first-hand knowledge of Justin's or anybody else's stories, but I bought a coin on eBay I never received.
Good Bonus Troll, I give you points! This whole thing stinks like prank thought up over beers... My money is on the whole thing folding quickly as people realize that it's a couple of guys seeing how far they can take it! Good show!
It's nice to get all philosophical and speculate. I don't know if Sal is real, or if he's a poorly-written AI program running on an ancient PDP-10 in MIT's basement... but I lost $405 real dollars to him, her, or it. I have no first-hand knowledge of Justin's or anybody else's stories, but I bought a coin on eBay I never received.
It's nice to get all philosophical and speculate. I don't know if Sal is real, or if he's a poorly-written AI program running on an ancient PDP-10 in MIT's basement... but I lost $405 real dollars to him, her, or it. I have no first-hand knowledge of Justin's or anybody else's stories, but I bought a coin on eBay I never received.
Plus the US government isn't making a real commitment to make broadband a part of everyday life.
I'm not sure it's the US Government's job / mandate to build high-speed gaming networks for the populous. But one thing is for sure, cable and internet infrastructure companies need to price their wares more competitively.
I can't say I blame you. If I weren't involved in it first-hand I'd probably feel the same way. As I posted on Justin's online forum a couple days ago, the stranger this gets, the more I feel like this whole story is in a Robert Anton Wilson novel, and I'm just one of the minor characters...
Nice damage control, but the gigs up. Cat's out of the bag. Story is prank. Move on.
I don't think there's any real proof that both this AND the original site are real. It all reads way too much like something staged as a game to see how many people (including Slashdot eds) can get sucked into the story. I don't buy any of it.
You know, I really don't think it's too much to ask that people in the military with access to confidential electronic documents NOT install Kazaa or Limewire or whatever on the computers that access these documents.
As has been said, it's probibly not being done from mil machines. Most military desktops are locked down to prevent people without admin rights to install apps. In addition, here at least, they probe you from the NOS now and then to see what you have running... These breaches are from shit-for-brains who have violated their security clearences and taken this stuff home and worked on it from a personal machine.
Doesn't NASA know that Linux is national security threat??? And 10240 cpu cluster no less? Don't they know that such concentrated evil will create a singularity? This could be the end of our civilization.
This upcoming election is going to be a mess. Of course GWB will steal it, and after much to-do, he will be re-anointed. Just the way they used to do it is South America. Soon, he will even start wearing a military uniform.
Sorry, but "netscape" always suffered from bloat. We don't mention it much here because of the intense IE hate mongering. But bloated it was, bloated it is. Netscape was never anything but bloat, but it was "our" bloat, not "M$" bloat. Besides, since "years ago" you where doing wheelies in the street on your bike with a banana seat and a sissy bar, exactly what version of NN where you talking about? NN6?
suggests that open source software has the capability of being sabotaged by foreign developers and should not be used for U.S. military or security purposes.
As if most software is not already developed outside the US...
Am I incorrect in thinking that embedded means that the OS is onchip?
Think along the same lines as BIOS. It's on the chip, but not always burned in perminently. For example, your BIOS can usually be flashed for an upgrade.
Does anyone actually listen to Dan O'Dowd? Isn't it patently clear that Green Hills is spewing this FUD strictly for business reasons? It's just more of the AdTI crap, and carries no real weight. While there might be some in government who buy this line, certainly the NSA, DARPA, and the various Secret Labs don't. Personally, I see this as a scared man trying desperately to shore up a business that has become a dinosaur with numbered days.
I read/. from tent in a certain small country north of Afghanistan (one of the former Russian properties collectivly known as "The Stans"), last year. I also read it in Diego Garcia.
I don't consider your investor threatening to sue you a healthy situation.
This is more or less standard in business. We don't hear about it most times because most cases of this nature are not high profile. It is posturing.
SCO is a big old machine that's at the end of it life; everything is shaking, and soon it will just fall apart.
And this is exaclty why the suit will never happen, BayStar knows that in the end, with a law suit they will only help bring down SCO before they get any money at all. The threat of a law suit (and that's all it is right now) is BayStar's way of saying "look here, SCO, do what we want or else". In the end, it will probably work.
Keep in mind also, SCOs propensity to drag lawsuits out. Do you think BayStar really wants to get into a 2 or three year legal hassle only to get nothing when SCO craters into the moon after bankrupsy death spiral? This is all just a dance.
This still doesn't represent any real threat to SCO because it is just a maneuver by BayStar to get the terms they want. SCO can't afford to have a protracted fracas with BayStar, so almost certainly there will be a settlement soon. This is all just pre-resolution chest thumping. S.O.P.
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Good Bonus Troll, I give you points! This whole thing stinks like prank thought up over beers... My money is on the whole thing folding quickly as people realize that it's a couple of guys seeing how far they can take it! Good show!
It's nice to get all philosophical and speculate. I don't know if Sal is real, or if he's a poorly-written AI program running on an ancient PDP-10 in MIT's basement... but I lost $405 real dollars to him, her, or it. I have no first-hand knowledge of Justin's or anybody else's stories, but I bought a coin on eBay I never received.
I'm not sure it's the US Government's job / mandate to build high-speed gaming networks for the populous. But one thing is for sure, cable and internet infrastructure companies need to price their wares more competitively.
Nice damage control, but the gigs up. Cat's out of the bag. Story is prank. Move on.
I don't think there's any real proof that both this AND the original site are real. It all reads way too much like something staged as a game to see how many people (including Slashdot eds) can get sucked into the story. I don't buy any of it.
As has been said, it's probibly not being done from mil machines. Most military desktops are locked down to prevent people without admin rights to install apps. In addition, here at least, they probe you from the NOS now and then to see what you have running... These breaches are from shit-for-brains who have violated their security clearences and taken this stuff home and worked on it from a personal machine.
That's the was it's normally done.
Why would they arrest him? There is nothing very interesting or sensitive about ANY of the screen shots / pics.
Doesn't NASA know that Linux is national security threat??? And 10240 cpu cluster no less? Don't they know that such concentrated evil will create a singularity? This could be the end of our civilization.
This upcoming election is going to be a mess. Of course GWB will steal it, and after much to-do, he will be re-anointed. Just the way they used to do it is South America. Soon, he will even start wearing a military uniform.
Sorry, but "netscape" always suffered from bloat. We don't mention it much here because of the intense IE hate mongering. But bloated it was, bloated it is. Netscape was never anything but bloat, but it was "our" bloat, not "M$" bloat. Besides, since "years ago" you where doing wheelies in the street on your bike with a banana seat and a sissy bar, exactly what version of NN where you talking about? NN6?
This is a good point. We pay taxes for services. Want to live in a third world nation? Or forth world nation like Somolia? Go for it.
And there is nothing wrong with this idea.
As if most software is not already developed outside the US...
Think along the same lines as BIOS. It's on the chip, but not always burned in perminently. For example, your BIOS can usually be flashed for an upgrade.
Does anyone actually listen to Dan O'Dowd? Isn't it patently clear that Green Hills is spewing this FUD strictly for business reasons? It's just more of the AdTI crap, and carries no real weight. While there might be some in government who buy this line, certainly the NSA, DARPA, and the various Secret Labs don't. Personally, I see this as a scared man trying desperately to shore up a business that has become a dinosaur with numbered days.
Music videos? I don't listen to rap...
Indeed, it's a "feature"!
Not really. Lot's of run-of-the-mill grunts like me in The Stans and at Diego. Standard short tour TDY for DoD and Air Force folks.
I read /. from tent in a certain small country north of Afghanistan (one of the former Russian properties collectivly known as "The Stans"), last year. I also read it in Diego Garcia.
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This is more or less standard in business. We don't hear about it most times because most cases of this nature are not high profile. It is posturing. SCO is a big old machine that's at the end of it life; everything is shaking, and soon it will just fall apart.
And this is exaclty why the suit will never happen, BayStar knows that in the end, with a law suit they will only help bring down SCO before they get any money at all. The threat of a law suit (and that's all it is right now) is BayStar's way of saying "look here, SCO, do what we want or else". In the end, it will probably work.
Exactly. And this is why SCO will settle.
Keep in mind also, SCOs propensity to drag lawsuits out. Do you think BayStar really wants to get into a 2 or three year legal hassle only to get nothing when SCO craters into the moon after bankrupsy death spiral? This is all just a dance.
This still doesn't represent any real threat to SCO because it is just a maneuver by BayStar to get the terms they want. SCO can't afford to have a protracted fracas with BayStar, so almost certainly there will be a settlement soon. This is all just pre-resolution chest thumping. S.O.P.
The problem is, IT has more than an abundance of, more than its share of pompous asses .