Anyway to check what was copied where and in which direction? if the bits of code are the same is there a way to tell if it was put into Linux first or SCO? Is it possible that the identical code was actually copied from a third source by both parties?
I doubt if the ISP's will stop logging the info. Congress will probably pass some dumb bill requiring them to keep all logs and records for 5-20 years. I am sure EMC and all the disk drive manufacturers would support such a bill too. Imagine if the phone companies had to keep the recordings of all phone conversations for 5-10 years!:)
Wolf to guard the sheep? I think that analogy is incorrect. M$ will not predate on DHS, they just treat security as an afterthought. They bring out their latest offering, ie same dammed thing with more wiz bangs than you will ever need and then go and fix all the holes as "other" people discover them. They seem to belive very much in security thru obscurity in practice. If you do not know about our security holes you cannot take advantage of them. Its more like asking a lamb to guard the sheep than a wolf to do so.
DMCA makes it illegal for you to take a DVD series you bought legally that came in 4 DVD's of 30 min each and compile it into 1 DVD which you burn to watch without having to swap 4 DVD's in/out of the recorder. So sue me for being too lazy to walk up to the dammed DVD player every 30 minutes. FYI, it is also illegal for me to make a copy of that DVD bypassing all the stupid crap they put DVD's now. I just want to plop a DVD into my machine and sit and vegitate for a couple of hours not have to sit and push buttons for the next 5 min through all those crap menu's that pop up.
I wonder how fast the security holes in this system would be fixed once some hacker used it to snoop on some Congress phone conversations and posted it on the net.
Want to bet if we run into star travelling aliens, the RIAA will want to hit them up for recompense for any recordings they made of the radio broadcasts we have sent out?
If one can sue over copyright infringment based of a reppetitive set of tones, what is to stop someone from generating millions of tonal combintations with a computer copyrighting the lot of them and suing every "artist" that ends up duplicating them?
Reading those articles makes me admire mankinds ingenuiy, to be able to build robotic explorers of such capabilities. It also makes me despondent over how those with irrational fears limit us. There is a significantly greater chance of a nuke being set off delibrately in a city by madmen than one of these nuclear powered spacecraft hitting a city. Radioactive pollution of Mars? Wake up guys, its pretty much a dead planet! Landing probes on those icy moons will give us the greatest possiblity of finding life off the earth. Given the Mars rocks we have found on Earth I would not be too surprised to find standard DNA out in space. We have had enough big meteorite hits on Earth to spread quite a few Earth rocks to the other planets and moons.
If I remember correctly the original design by NASA was for a smaller shuttle. The bigger orbiter that we have now is because of the US military payload requirements. As for the commercialization of space, I am all for it. The faster we move manufacturing off the planet the better it will be for the enviroment.
They should pass a law then that makes it illegal to send EM waves thru the home of anyone who opt-out on recieving these signals. After all given that some people think that EM waves cause tumors, we should be allowed to sue these companies for beaming all these waves thru our homes without our permission.
Just bought a FX5900 this weekend. I built a water cooled computer because I got tired of hearing what sounded like jet engines from my PC. The FX5900 did not make any perceptible increase in noise levels. It is not water cooled, if it had made a racket I would have water cooled it too.
As for ATI vs Nvidia, I just had an ATI card die on me. My oldest nvidia card a TNT I just replaced with an old GF card on my linux machine. With ATI I had driver issues with java and multiple monitors.
Primary reason I keep to nVidia is their stereo drivers is that my DTI3D monitor works with nVidia drivers.
Hmmm....
RIAA is allowed to destroy a computer. How? If they have a method currently it will be out in public the first time they use it. Imagine some hacker getting his hands on that procedure and cobbling it up with a virus or worm.
Imagine the RIAA targeting 500,000 computers and destroying them only later to discover they are all based in China! Hmmm, can we say declaration of war? Might as well hand over the control codes to our nukes to the RIAA.
If he intends to legislate a self destruct chip into every PC imagine joe consumer looking at his choices, upgrade to a new PC with a self destruct chip or keep his old one.
How does he intend to force the self destruct chip into use in the rest of the world? How does he intend to stop any hacker from finding out how to activate the chip? Use the DMCA?
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Anyway to check what was copied where and in which direction? if the bits of code are the same is there a way to tell if it was put into Linux first or SCO? Is it possible that the identical code was actually copied from a third source by both parties?
I doubt if the ISP's will stop logging the info. Congress will probably pass some dumb bill requiring them to keep all logs and records for 5-20 years. I am sure EMC and all the disk drive manufacturers would support such a bill too. Imagine if the phone companies had to keep the recordings of all phone conversations for 5-10 years! :)
Wolf to guard the sheep? I think that analogy is incorrect. M$ will not predate on DHS, they just treat security as an afterthought. They bring out their latest offering, ie same dammed thing with more wiz bangs than you will ever need and then go and fix all the holes as "other" people discover them. They seem to belive very much in security thru obscurity in practice. If you do not know about our security holes you cannot take advantage of them. Its more like asking a lamb to guard the sheep than a wolf to do so.
DMCA makes it illegal for you to take a DVD series you bought legally that came in 4 DVD's of 30 min each and compile it into 1 DVD which you burn to watch without having to swap 4 DVD's in/out of the recorder. So sue me for being too lazy to walk up to the dammed DVD player every 30 minutes. FYI, it is also illegal for me to make a copy of that DVD bypassing all the stupid crap they put DVD's now. I just want to plop a DVD into my machine and sit and vegitate for a couple of hours not have to sit and push buttons for the next 5 min through all those crap menu's that pop up.
I wonder how fast the security holes in this system would be fixed once some hacker used it to snoop on some Congress phone conversations and posted it on the net.
Want to bet if we run into star travelling aliens, the RIAA will want to hit them up for recompense for any recordings they made of the radio broadcasts we have sent out?
If one can sue over copyright infringment based of a reppetitive set of tones, what is to stop someone from generating millions of tonal combintations with a computer copyrighting the lot of them and suing every "artist" that ends up duplicating them?
Reading those articles makes me admire mankinds ingenuiy, to be able to build robotic explorers of such capabilities. It also makes me despondent over how those with irrational fears limit us. There is a significantly greater chance of a nuke being set off delibrately in a city by madmen than one of these nuclear powered spacecraft hitting a city. Radioactive pollution of Mars? Wake up guys, its pretty much a dead planet! Landing probes on those icy moons will give us the greatest possiblity of finding life off the earth. Given the Mars rocks we have found on Earth I would not be too surprised to find standard DNA out in space. We have had enough big meteorite hits on Earth to spread quite a few Earth rocks to the other planets and moons.
If I remember correctly the original design by NASA was for a smaller shuttle. The bigger orbiter that we have now is because of the US military payload requirements. As for the commercialization of space, I am all for it. The faster we move manufacturing off the planet the better it will be for the enviroment.
They should pass a law then that makes it illegal to send EM waves thru the home of anyone who opt-out on recieving these signals. After all given that some people think that EM waves cause tumors, we should be allowed to sue these companies for beaming all these waves thru our homes without our permission.
The main reason I have stuck with nVidia is their driver support. Heck, just look at their website they even have drivers for Athlon64 for Linux!
Just bought a FX5900 this weekend. I built a water cooled computer because I got tired of hearing what sounded like jet engines from my PC. The FX5900 did not make any perceptible increase in noise levels. It is not water cooled, if it had made a racket I would have water cooled it too. As for ATI vs Nvidia, I just had an ATI card die on me. My oldest nvidia card a TNT I just replaced with an old GF card on my linux machine. With ATI I had driver issues with java and multiple monitors. Primary reason I keep to nVidia is their stereo drivers is that my DTI3D monitor works with nVidia drivers.
Hmmm.... RIAA is allowed to destroy a computer. How? If they have a method currently it will be out in public the first time they use it. Imagine some hacker getting his hands on that procedure and cobbling it up with a virus or worm. Imagine the RIAA targeting 500,000 computers and destroying them only later to discover they are all based in China! Hmmm, can we say declaration of war? Might as well hand over the control codes to our nukes to the RIAA. If he intends to legislate a self destruct chip into every PC imagine joe consumer looking at his choices, upgrade to a new PC with a self destruct chip or keep his old one. How does he intend to force the self destruct chip into use in the rest of the world? How does he intend to stop any hacker from finding out how to activate the chip? Use the DMCA?