I'm pretty sure the corporation system is not designed to let you create or purchase a shell corporation, commit illegal acts and rack up debts, and then just toss the shell corporation into bankruptcy and say "whoops all forgiven". But this looks to me exactly like what Canopy's trying to do.
I don't believe that Canopy has any ownership in SCO at all any more.
Yarro is now the largest stockholder in SCO, not Canopy.
I'm going to get paid $2 million to transfer $14,000,000 worth of money from the All-Super Bank of Nigeria to an undisclosed location? Sounds too good to be true! Oh, wait...
The nigerian scams aren't Phishing scams.... Phishing scams are the emails you get from your bank or paypal saying that you need to update your information.
Maybe he has a Nigerian Express credit card and phishing scams on Nigerian Express credit cards work that way.
In other words, he gets an e-mail saying that he needs to update the information on his Nigerian Express credit card and if he does it immediately, they will give him a credit of $14,000,000 of which he can keep $2,000,000.
In the early 70s, one software company in Pennsylvania (they sold an accounting systems for PDP-11s running RSTS/E) had a weekly Friday afternoon keg party paid for by the company.
If you called them on Friday afternoon, someone would answer, but you could never get the person you wanted.
As a result, SCO issued a stop-use order with the 100-day hiatus required under the contract, but IBM neither changed its behavior nor embarked on good-faith negotiations to settle the issue. SCO therefore asked the court to enforce its rights under the contract.
I find it hard that you have to negotiate to settle an issue when you are completely in the clear by the terms of the contract.
SCO's interpretation of the contract is so overbroad that it is absurd. The definitions they are using for the terms are completely different from the normal usage of the same terms.
For example, a derivative work incorporates the original work or elements of the original work. But SCO takes the view, with nothing in the contract to support them, that developing your own code to run under their UNIX makes it a derivative work even though it has never contained any element of the original work.
As far as I could ever tell, it had no effect at all.
Aren't credit reports indexed by social security number? Since I never filled out anything for them, they didn't have a social security number to use to report anything.
They could try to match the address and I suspect it would be easier these days with even more computerization. I don't know if they had that capability then.
I figured that if it ever did make a difference, I could protest the bogus report.
I don't know about citations, but I was told that back in the 60s.
My understanding is that there was a major problem with people shipping unordered merchandise through the mail and then billing for it. So a law was passed that made any such treatments something like a gift.
About 15 years ago, someone started sending me issues for some lame business newsletter that I did not order. There was also a calculator and some other cheap things that glitter in the first package from them. That was about January or February that year.
The issues looked like they went through a few of the more popular business magazines and summarized the first paragraph or two of some of the articles until they had three or four pages worth of summaries. If you read Business Week the week before, you would have already seen just about everything in the newsletter. And in pretty much the same order.
After about a month they sent me a bill for something more than $100 for a year's subscription. Since there is no requirement that I pay for unordered merchandise, I threw them away.
After a couple of months, they started sending me letters demanding that I pay them the subscription price. I threw them away.
About November, they turned my delinquent account over to a collection agency who started sending me letters demanding that I pay up. I threw them away.
At some point the collection agency even doubled the amount they claimed I owed. I threw them away.
After that, I didn't hear from them again.
About two years later, they started my "subscription" again.
This time I went over to the local post office and talked to the postmistress. She suggest that I just write "Forward to the Office of the Postal Inspector" on the envelopes along with a brief explanation and put them in the mail. No postage required.
So every time I received anything from the scammers, I sent them on to the postal inspector.
After about two months, they sent me a very indignat letter telling me that they are not crooks. Other than that, I never heard from them again.
Later, I was working at a software development company and I was using a cow-orker's computer for testing one day while they were on vacation. Right in the middle of their desk was something from the very same company.
I had already figured out that what that company seemed to be doing was sending subscriptions to business addresses figuring that most of the time it would be turned over to accounts payable without a glance.
So I told the president and the owner of the company about the scam. They immediately canceled the subscription. When the cow-orker came back from vacation, he was a bit irked because he had intentionally signed up for the subscription!
For another example, my mother is in her 80s and is more easily confused. One time she answered an ad for a free gift of some books. She received the books and then about a month later she received an invoice for the books. I had her send the invoice along with a note explaining the situation to the Postal Inspector's Office. The Postal Inspector's Office appears to have had a quick talk with the company involved because she received a letter cancelling the invoice within a month. And the company who sent her the ad for the "free books" hasn't sent her any more such ads.
Three years ago, everything we had used Microsoft Office. We now use Star Office and Open Office on PCs and don't even bother with Microsoft Office.
The way this came about was I started using it on my own. Whenever someone new came in, I'd set up their PC with Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. Earlier this month, our accounting clerk, the final holdout, asked to switch.
Now the only Microsoft Office we have is on the Macs. And they are using a really old version of Microsoft Office because of one particular feature available on that version.
I've talked to many of the school board members about OpenOffice and Star Office. They keep complaining about the school district being short on money but they still haven't seriously looked at switching.
most people are honest about their gender unless they are in a chat room. But without any social interaction nobody has a reason to lie.
On the other hand, if they had a slashdot poll asking what is your sex and the possible choices were "male", "female", "none", "both", "not applicable", and "i ate a pizza for supper last night", the "male" and "female" would probably be on the low end of the answers.
In Texas, if she (or he) is a student in a public school, it is illegal for any employee of the school to have sex with the student regardless of the student's age.
So you could conceivably see a 22 year old teacher going to prison for having concensual sex with a 20 year old.
Sometimes, it seems that subpoenas are something you must provide.
In other cases, it's a starting point for a negotiation about what you will provide.
Of course, the typical ISP cannot afford to spend much money on lawyers to negotiate what they are going to turn over and just turn over what is requested.
In any event, I've never seen anything in the U.S. requiring an ISP to maintan logs that could enable them to provide the subpoenaed information. Is there a law requiring ISPs to keep track of the times when someone was logged on and the IP address assigned?
I was doing some work at the Pasadena Police Department for a few days.
While I was there, the traffic seargeant asked me if there was anything I'd like to see while I was there. He was obviously thinking Hollywood, Movie Studios, Disneyland, the beach,....
I really surprised him when I said that I'd like a tour of JPL. It turned out that the father of one of the cops was a scientist at JPL so it might just be possible.
The next day he told me that they couldn't set up a tour of JPL at the last minute because some big project was going on. I think it was a Mars launch that week.
So he asked what else I'd like to see. Again, he was thinking of the standard tourist sites.
My second choice was Caltech. That kind of shook him up a bit.
The seargeant called the head of campus security for Caltech and asked him to arrange the tour. Since I'm a computer type, he called up the computer center and arranged for us to meet him to give me a tour that afternoon.
So the next day, we went over for the tour. One of the people with me grew up in Pasadena, knew exactly where Caltech was, but had never been on campus at all. I was a bit surprised to find out it was right around the corner from the motel I was staying at while in town.
We went to the security office and the head of security showed us over to the computer center for the tour. We were on time, but the student who was supposed to give us the tour didn't show up for about 45 minutes. When he arrived, he said "Nobody has ever called us up for a tour. I thought it was some kind of joke."
So we looked around the computer center a little while. Then we went over to see the seismographs. I wanted to walk through the physics building, but the security dude couldn't believe anyone would actually want to do that.
One night in 1974, my younger brother and I stopped at a hamburger joint in another town for a bite to eat.
The bill should have been $4 and change, but it was $3 and change instead. It didn't take long to realize that the waitress had added it up incorrectly.
So when I was paying, I told her there was a mistake.
She carefully added up the bill again, took off another $1 and charged me $2 and change.
On our network, SMTP sessions are only permitted between the e-mail server and another computer, whether it is a local user or out on the Internet.
If a customer wants to run his own SMTP server, that's no problem. They just have to request that the block be modified to permit traffic to and from their system.
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I don't believe that Canopy has any ownership in SCO at all any more.
Yarro is now the largest stockholder in SCO, not Canopy.
One time in the early 80s, we had a fire drill where I worked.
So the head of the department and I each walked down the fire escape and out of the building completely loaded down with backup tapes.
The PDP 11/70 would have been a bit tough to carry out.
Maybe he has a Nigerian Express credit card and phishing scams on Nigerian Express credit cards work that way.
In other words, he gets an e-mail saying that he needs to update the information on his Nigerian Express credit card and if he does it immediately, they will give him a credit of $14,000,000 of which he can keep $2,000,000.
In the early 70s, one software company in Pennsylvania (they sold an accounting systems for PDP-11s running RSTS/E) had a weekly Friday afternoon keg party paid for by the company.
If you called them on Friday afternoon, someone would answer, but you could never get the person you wanted.
I don't think it was written almost two years ago.
In fact, if it was written on April 29, 2003, the writer would not know anything about what happened or didn't happen within the 100 days.
I find it hard that you have to negotiate to settle an issue when you are completely in the clear by the terms of the contract.
SCO's interpretation of the contract is so overbroad that it is absurd. The definitions they are using for the terms are completely different from the normal usage of the same terms.
For example, a derivative work incorporates the original work or elements of the original work. But SCO takes the view, with nothing in the contract to support them, that developing your own code to run under their UNIX makes it a derivative work even though it has never contained any element of the original work.
My suggestion would be to program the phone with a specific number to call when 911 is entered.
; ;
It wouldn't take much.
if ( strcmp( num_dialed, "911" ) != 0 )
dial( num_dialed )
else
dial( num_emergency )
I picked it up from alt.folklore.urban long before it was used in a Dilbert strip.
As far as I could ever tell, it had no effect at all.
Aren't credit reports indexed by social security number? Since I never filled out anything for them, they didn't have a social security number to use to report anything.
They could try to match the address and I suspect it would be easier these days with even more computerization. I don't know if they had that capability then.
I figured that if it ever did make a difference, I could protest the bogus report.
I don't know about citations, but I was told that back in the 60s.
My understanding is that there was a major problem with people shipping unordered merchandise through the mail and then billing for it. So a law was passed that made any such treatments something like a gift.
About 15 years ago, someone started sending me issues for some lame business newsletter that I did not order. There was also a calculator and some other cheap things that glitter in the first package from them. That was about January or February that year.
The issues looked like they went through a few of the more popular business magazines and summarized the first paragraph or two of some of the articles until they had three or four pages worth of summaries. If you read Business Week the week before, you would have already seen just about everything in the newsletter. And in pretty much the same order.
After about a month they sent me a bill for something more than $100 for a year's subscription. Since there is no requirement that I pay for unordered merchandise, I threw them away.
After a couple of months, they started sending me letters demanding that I pay them the subscription price. I threw them away.
About November, they turned my delinquent account over to a collection agency who started sending me letters demanding that I pay up. I threw them away.
At some point the collection agency even doubled the amount they claimed I owed. I threw them away.
After that, I didn't hear from them again.
About two years later, they started my "subscription" again.
This time I went over to the local post office and talked to the postmistress. She suggest that I just write "Forward to the Office of the Postal Inspector" on the envelopes along with a brief explanation and put them in the mail. No postage required.
So every time I received anything from the scammers, I sent them on to the postal inspector.
After about two months, they sent me a very indignat letter telling me that they are not crooks. Other than that, I never heard from them again.
Later, I was working at a software development company and I was using a cow-orker's computer for testing one day while they were on vacation. Right in the middle of their desk was something from the very same company.
I had already figured out that what that company seemed to be doing was sending subscriptions to business addresses figuring that most of the time it would be turned over to accounts payable without a glance.
So I told the president and the owner of the company about the scam. They immediately canceled the subscription. When the cow-orker came back from vacation, he was a bit irked because he had intentionally signed up for the subscription!
For another example, my mother is in her 80s and is more easily confused. One time she answered an ad for a free gift of some books. She received the books and then about a month later she received an invoice for the books. I had her send the invoice along with a note explaining the situation to the Postal Inspector's Office. The Postal Inspector's Office appears to have had a quick talk with the company involved because she received a letter cancelling the invoice within a month. And the company who sent her the ad for the "free books" hasn't sent her any more such ads.
Three years ago, everything we had used Microsoft Office. We now use Star Office and Open Office on PCs and don't even bother with Microsoft Office.
The way this came about was I started using it on my own. Whenever someone new came in, I'd set up their PC with Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. Earlier this month, our accounting clerk, the final holdout, asked to switch.
Now the only Microsoft Office we have is on the Macs. And they are using a really old version of Microsoft Office because of one particular feature available on that version.
I've talked to many of the school board members about OpenOffice and Star Office. They keep complaining about the school district being short on money but they still haven't seriously looked at switching.
On the other hand, if they had a slashdot poll asking what is your sex and the possible choices were "male", "female", "none", "both", "not applicable", and "i ate a pizza for supper last night", the "male" and "female" would probably be on the low end of the answers.
In Texas, if she (or he) is a student in a public school, it is illegal for any employee of the school to have sex with the student regardless of the student's age.
So you could conceivably see a 22 year old teacher going to prison for having concensual sex with a 20 year old.
I'm a bit confused about subpoenas.
Sometimes, it seems that subpoenas are something you must provide.
In other cases, it's a starting point for a negotiation about what you will provide.
Of course, the typical ISP cannot afford to spend much money on lawyers to negotiate what they are going to turn over and just turn over what is requested.
In any event, I've never seen anything in the U.S. requiring an ISP to maintan logs that could enable them to provide the subpoenaed information. Is there a law requiring ISPs to keep track of the times when someone was logged on and the IP address assigned?
I visited Caltech once.
... .
I was doing some work at the Pasadena Police Department for a few days.
While I was there, the traffic seargeant asked me if there was anything I'd like to see while I was there. He was obviously thinking Hollywood, Movie Studios, Disneyland, the beach,
I really surprised him when I said that I'd like a tour of JPL. It turned out that the father of one of the cops was a scientist at JPL so it might just be possible.
The next day he told me that they couldn't set up a tour of JPL at the last minute because some big project was going on. I think it was a Mars launch that week.
So he asked what else I'd like to see. Again, he was thinking of the standard tourist sites.
My second choice was Caltech. That kind of shook him up a bit.
The seargeant called the head of campus security for Caltech and asked him to arrange the tour. Since I'm a computer type, he called up the computer center and arranged for us to meet him to give me a tour that afternoon.
So the next day, we went over for the tour. One of the people with me grew up in Pasadena, knew exactly where Caltech was, but had never been on campus at all. I was a bit surprised to find out it was right around the corner from the motel I was staying at while in town.
We went to the security office and the head of security showed us over to the computer center for the tour. We were on time, but the student who was supposed to give us the tour didn't show up for about 45 minutes. When he arrived, he said "Nobody has ever called us up for a tour. I thought it was some kind of joke."
So we looked around the computer center a little while. Then we went over to see the seismographs. I wanted to walk through the physics building, but the security dude couldn't believe anyone would actually want to do that.
The tour was a bit disappointing.
I've tried several times to get $2 bills. The banks just never seem to have them.
One night in 1974, my younger brother and I stopped at a hamburger joint in another town for a bite to eat.
The bill should have been $4 and change, but it was $3 and change instead. It didn't take long to realize that the waitress had added it up incorrectly.
So when I was paying, I told her there was a mistake.
She carefully added up the bill again, took off another $1 and charged me $2 and change.
In Loving County, Texas, there are kids who ride a school bus something like 100 miles each way to school and back.
My 12 years of public school involved a 40 mile school bus ride each way. With all the stops, that was at least two hours each day on a school bus.
The obvious solution would be a hacked version of the drive's firmware that ignores the password.
On the other hand, while I have updated the firmware on a number of devices, I've never done so on a disk drive that I can remember.
It would be a good idea if the manufacturers made such firmware available that one could install before there was a problem.
May I suggest the Digital Pyramid Project?
It involves constructing a string of pyramids in the desert in a binary pattern and will last many tens of thousands of years.
The only downside is the meaning of what is encoded thousands of years in the future.
Will scientists ever learn the Egyptian meaning of the number 7 (111 base 2)?
I bet he's a Harry Potter fan.
On our network, SMTP sessions are only permitted between the e-mail server and another computer, whether it is a local user or out on the Internet.
If a customer wants to run his own SMTP server, that's no problem. They just have to request that the block be modified to permit traffic to and from their system.
If the mail is identified as probable spam, you shouldn't challenge. That just bothers the person who's e-mail account is being spoofed.
Challenge the legitimate e-mail and keep track of who responded so as not to challenge them again.
Let's hope that angeogenesis inhibitors do away with the need for most chemotherapy.
Of their developers spending 20% of their time on pet projects, I wonder how many of those are open source projects of various kinds.