Apparently, there is only one person needed to make the link between Kevin Bacon and
Miguel de Icaza. Surely Miguel is linked to a bunch of people here (I know people who know him, as I'm sure others do). Ergo, Kevin Bacon must use Linux.
My interpretation is that they may have given SCO something else beside cash to add up to seven figures.
Hmm... what might SCO want from a hosting company...
I'd have more pride in my country if I could afford health care than sending someone to mars.
You speak as if the government is spending an amount on space exploration that is actually significant compared to what it spends on social programs. Do me a favor and open up your 2003 instructions for form 1040 up to page 76. See the pie chart at the top of the page detailing where federal money goes? Social programs and community development make up 69% of the outlays. Where is space exploration on there, you might ask? I don't know - I don't see it. It's probably in that 3% sliver that says "Law enforcement and general government". The point is that the US government is already spending over two thirds of its money on socialist programs. The rest is on the debt (8%), defense (20%), and that miscellaneous 3% that certainly includes much, much more than space exploration. Even if NASA's money were shifted to social programs, it wouldn't have that big of an impact.
Personally, I don't think the government should be funding space exploration (or health care, for that matter), so I'm not arguing in defense of NASA, just in defense of actually considering the numbers.
Also, I have enormous pride in my country. I feel very lucky to have been born in the US.
this is a shocking misnomer. people who are technophobes write letters with fountain pens. the people this article is referring to are 'techno-dumbasses'.
It wouldn't be a measly $1k, for two reasons. First, if a lot of people contribute to such a fund it could be substantial. Secondly, and more importantly, if you win a case against a spammer the court will hopefully award you damages. Aren't Microsoft and the NY AG suing some spammer for $17M? I forget the exact number, but it's way more than $1K.
I will pay 1000$ to anyone who seeks out and beats the living daylights out of a spammer. With as many pics on the web as possible for posterity.
How about putting that $1K towards a legal use and offer it as a bounty to anybody who tracks down a spammer, sues him, and gets him thrown in jail and/or bankrupts him (via court imposed fines)? It may not have the same immediate satisfaction that you were originally seeking, but it's far more legal and I think you could find plenty of people here on Slashdot to chip in some extra $ to raise the pot even higher.
Do you really want to let that man and woman be the 'Adam and Eve' of a whole new planet?
Consider the alternative. If we don't want to send Earth's least desirable people to Mars because we want to make the new planet a good place, then it would stand to reason that we send our most desirable people. But if we were to send Natalie Portman and Beyonce Knowles, our legacy on Mars would obviously not survive beyond their old age, for they cannot pro-create. Arguments for lesbian Mars-porn aside, it's obvious that we would need to send Beyonce and some guy. Now, unless I happen to be that guy, I would much rather have Beyonce here on Earth because I would have zero chance of getting with her if she were on Mars (that's as opposed to the 0.0000001% chance I have now, which is still better than 0%). So obviously, we need to send Darl and Laura.
Send paypal donations to DarlMcBrideMarsTicket@yahoo.com.
We can't send just Darl. He will obviously need somebody to keep him company and help populate his new home. I nominate his good friend Laura DiDio. They've already shown that they work splendidly together.
What, you think I'm suggesting this is an easy way to kill two bees with one stone?
If my trade costs weren't so high, it'd be worth losing a dollar or so and then calling up the SEC.
BUYandHold and ShareBuilder both have very cheap trades and I think they both have plans where you can make unlimitted trades for around $12 per month (yes, that's per month, not per trade). I've also read about Ameritrade's FreeTrade program where you get something like 20 free trades per month if your account balance is above $5k. I haven't actually tried the Ameritrade option, although it sounds pretty nice. BUYandHOLD and ShareBuilder both let you buy fractional shares, so I think you could actually buy just $1 worth of SCOX if you wanted. I don't know if that's enough to complain to the SEC about, though. It would be hillarious if everybody here on Slashdot went and bought $0.01 worth of SCOX each through something like ShareBuilder or BUYandHOLD and then everybody filed individual suits against SCO. They would get Slashdotted through the courts.
SCO GROUP INC
355 South 520 West, Suite 100
Lindon, UT 84042
People have been wondering where our code is at. Well, we've hidden it in a very safe place - on Mars! Obviously, if you are controlling the rover, it is very likely that you will come in contact with our IP, and as such you must pay us for the right to not be sued.
I don't think it is true that if SCO wins it's suit every one will stop using Linux: instead, the offending code will be rewritten by someone else...
Well, they are claiming ownership of the "DNA" of Linux (their word, not mine), and they've already stated that they would not be OK with the code just being removed. That's all beside the point, though - based on the numbers I put forth before, the $3B from IBM would do way more for their market cap than Linux licensing revenue, so we can effectively ignore the question of whether people will pay for a license, stop using Linux, or rewrite the code - the IBM payment strongly dominates the numbers.
OK, let's calculate out the odds that the market is giving SCO then... The $3 billion from IBM would be a one time deal, and so would just go towards SCO's book value and not their recurring revenue, so let's ignore the $3B for a moment. Stocks are trading at around a price to earnings ratio of 20 now, so multiply SCO's current market cap by 20 and we should get the expected value of SCO's earnings. Their present market cap is $251M which means their expected yearly earnings would be $12.5M. At $699 per license, that means they are expected to sell 18,000 licenses per year. The Linux Counter websites estimates that there are 18 million Linux users. Let's say for simplicity that each Linux user purchases a new computer and needs a new SCO license every 5 years. That would result in 3.6 million licenses needed per year. So the market is giving SCO a probability of 0.005 of capturing the Linux market as it claims it will do.
Let's take a different approach and assume that if SCO wins its case, everybody will stop using Linux. At that point, SCO will be worth its cash on hand. Ignoring whatever it needs to shell out to lawyers and Satan, $3B in cash would give a $3B book value and a $3B market cap since they would have no revenue. In that case, their current market cap is 1/12 of that, so the market is giving them a 1/12 chance of winning. That's a lot better than the 0.005 probability, but I still feel much better being on the 11/12 side.
Disclaimer: this are back-of-the envelope calculations. Please do your own math before drawing any conclusions and please share the results here.
Hopefully yes. It has been free in the past, but not without problems - I'm hoping they will keep it free anyway. The last time they had free beer at their party some guy named Darl tried to stop everybody from drinking it by claiming that he had pissed in the beer. Everybody paused for a second, but then kept drinking because they realized he was just being a mormon. Later it came out that what Darl meant was that because he has pissed in the past, and that piss has since evaporated, and that water vapor then turned into rain, and beer is ultimately derived from rain, his piss was therefore in the beer. Some people suggested that the actual situation was probably the reverse and that there would be a very good chance of finding beer in Darl's piss, but nobody wanted to taste his piss to see (it didn't help that he wanted us to sign an NDA saying that we would never piss again).
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I'll tell you what I can't say: "Supercalifragilisticexpialiousdoouscousious".
If you say it loud enough
you'll always sound precocious.
Even just the sound of it
is something quite atrocious.
It's been suggested in nanae that as a brutal display of the efficacy of spam-fighting and, most importantly, blocklisting, major ISPs all simultaenously turn off their spam defenses for a day to show users just how much UCE spew is clogging the internet every day.
So let me get this straight... you're asking us to imagine a beowulf cluster of spam?
If I can go to almost any bank machine in the world and be able to use it without needing to sign up for a new account, why can't I do the same with hot spots?
That's easy - it's because ATMs use Windows. We need something a little more secure when we're dealing with hot spots.
What does fiber optic cable transmit? Light. And who is responsible for light?
The role and liability of light goes far deeper than that. When a CD is originally ripped and files made for pirating, how is that CD read? That's right - a "laser" is used to steal the original bits, and what is a "laser"? Why, it's light! I think the RIAA has a pretty good case here and it wouldn't be too shocking for them to announce an attack against the forces of light.
However, would the RIAA be so foolhearty as to go up against somebody who has a
very litigious streak of His own? Let's hope so - it would almost be as ideal as if they were going up against IBM's lawyers.
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Apparently, there is only one person needed to make the link between Kevin Bacon and Miguel de Icaza. Surely Miguel is linked to a bunch of people here (I know people who know him, as I'm sure others do). Ergo, Kevin Bacon must use Linux.
Personally, I don't think the government should be funding space exploration (or health care, for that matter), so I'm not arguing in defense of NASA, just in defense of actually considering the numbers.
Also, I have enormous pride in my country. I feel very lucky to have been born in the US.
The parent post was copied verbatim from a Slashdot post from last year. The parent poster is karma whoring. Check out his posting history for other examples of this.
What, you think I'm suggesting this is an easy way to kill two bees with one stone?
355 South 520 West, Suite 100
Lindon, UT 84042
People have been wondering where our code is at. Well, we've hidden it in a very safe place - on Mars! Obviously, if you are controlling the rover, it is very likely that you will come in contact with our IP, and as such you must pay us for the right to not be sued.
Love,
Darl
Let's take a different approach and assume that if SCO wins its case, everybody will stop using Linux. At that point, SCO will be worth its cash on hand. Ignoring whatever it needs to shell out to lawyers and Satan, $3B in cash would give a $3B book value and a $3B market cap since they would have no revenue. In that case, their current market cap is 1/12 of that, so the market is giving them a 1/12 chance of winning. That's a lot better than the 0.005 probability, but I still feel much better being on the 11/12 side.
Disclaimer: this are back-of-the envelope calculations. Please do your own math before drawing any conclusions and please share the results here.
I'll tell you what I can't say: "Supercalifragilisticexpialiousdoouscousious". If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Even just the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
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