As of late many Linux-communists have complained of our efforts here at SCO (the owner of the UNIX operating system) to bring fairness and equality to the management of our Intellectual Property[**]. The Linux collective launched a denial of service attack on our web site earlier this week, and in doing so forced us into reciprocating with a return denial of service attack of our own. It is unfortunate that it has come to this, but we must take measures to protect our Intellectual Property[**] - it is not a choice we have made, but a course of action that we have been forced into. Our enforcers, Vinny and Spike, will continue to administer these denial of service attacks against Linux-terrorists in a freedom fighting effort for the good of all Intellectual Property ? our Intellectual Property[**] as well as the intellectual property of others[***].
For a totally unbiased explanation of why our policy of DOS reciprocity is pro-America and good for everybody, please refer to the completely independent report by the Yankee Group's Laura Didio, who has not connection to SCO whatsoever and doesn't know anybody here and has never worked with any of us and is totally unbiased. Please quote her repeatedly as she is totally unbiased and doesn't even know us.
Love, Darl McBride
[*] This letter may be reprinted until January 1, 2004, for the nominal price of $699 provided that you can actually track down a SCO sales person that will actually sell you a license. After January 1, 2004, the price will return to the regular $1399, except that it actually won't.
[**] I.e., all software composed of a sequence of zeros and/or ones.
[***] I.e., all software not composed of a sequence and/or zeros or ones.
The company I work for doesn't generally sell to individual users -- not a whole lot of people at Best Buy shopping for $100,000+ digital microscopy systems.
So true. I was in Best Buy the other day and all they had were crappy $80,000 (after $10,000 mail-in rebate) digital microscopy systems. They said they don't stock the high end models because most consumers are happy with the el-cheapo versions.
8. Urge Free Software and Open Source developers to drop support for SCO Unixware across all softwares being developed. GNU Software (GCC, Emacs, libraries, autotools, base utils), Samba, Apache, OpenSSL, OpenOffice, XFree86, Gnome, KDE, etc.
No, no, no... you've got that backwards. Open Source developers should be adding support for Unixware. Are you using Apache on Unixware? Fantastic! Apache 2.1 will automatically detect this and help you spread the word on how open and welcoming your company is by making it very easy to serve images of the most "open" and "welcoming" guy on the web (i.e., every once in awhile it will randomly replace your images with the goatse guy). Are you using Sendmail on Unixware? Excellent! The new Unixware enabled Sendmail will help show your compassion for those with turrets by randomly replacing every hundredth word in your outgoing email with "fuck", "shit", or "Darl". Are you using OpenSSH on Unixware? Upgrade now for the latest and greatest features. Never worry about having to remember your root password again as we have done away with those pesky things on Unixware. (You just don't need passwords anymore because if somebody logs into your machine without your permission Darl McBride will sue their ass for using his IP without permission.)
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Do not take the parent post for legitimate advice. The poster copied somebody else's Score 4 post from 2001 and passed it off as his own. What type of sick person intentionally spreads disinformation about HIV for the purpose of gaining karma
(and if you're unsure if that's what he's doing,
read
his journal)? This is getting downright dangerous. Stop your trolling Fux, these topics are serious and don't deserve to be made light of.
Look at the poster's comment history and you will see many instances of plagiarism from many different sources.
For a specific example, check out this other post by Fux The Penguin and my comments attached to it. There he put two old Slashtdot comments (from others) together and posted it as his own. That's just the tip of the iceberg, though. He's copying material from too many sources to have that many pseudonyms.
The parent post was copied directly from a DesignTechnica review of the SliMP3 (scroll down the page until you hit the "Likes and Dislikes" section). Do not believe the parent poster - his advice is a lie and he does not actually own a SliMP3. He frequently cut-and-pastes reviews and comments by others in order to build up his karma. If you don't believe me, visit his journal and see for yourself. You can take the DesignTechnica review as legitimate advice on the SliMP3, but ignore this joker.
If this trend continues, it will clearly dilute the quality of the discussion here at Slashdot. What do people gain by plagiarizing other people's posts?
According to the poster's journal, he does it to get karma so that he can then post trolls with a default score of 2. He also seems to derive some perverse pleasure by pointing out that he can easily game the moderation system. I guess some people just have fun ruining what others enjoy.
Way to cut and paste
somebody else's Score 5 post. At least you're learning how to cut and paste for real now, unlike your post from a few minutes ago that was a sloppy cut-and-paste of somebody's blog. I would show you the advanced cut-and-paste technique using the middle mouse button, but my middle finger is busy showing you something else right now.
Here's a couple of links on recent developments in understanding this rare and curious disorder called. It got me...
I think you meant to say that the disease is called "Foreign Accent Syndrome".
Next time, do a better job cutting and pasting when you repost other people's blog entries as your own (see the second post on the page). Other than that, you copied this other guys blog posting verbatim.
Why do you insist on copying other people's work? You sir, are worse than Darl McBride.
Oops, I messed up that first post. Here is the relevant plagiarism. From the "Fux" post (parent to this post):
Since these video disc players are not DVD licensed, do they have the right to use DVD keys to decrypt existing DVDs? These keys, I imagine, are licensed along with the patent and royalty agreements. This will work great in non-DMCA countries, the USA, however, will likely stop them at customs after some mild lobbying from various patent owners and trade groups. It's very likely that these are destined for the huge chinese market, but they are probably hoping to skirt around the law and get these into the US as well.
BTW, since these video disc players are not DVD licensed, do they have the right to use DVD keys to decrypt existing DVDs? These keys, I imagine, are licensed along with the patent and royalty agreements. This will work great in non-DMCA countries, the USA, however, will likely stop them at customs after some mild lobbying from various patent owners and trade groups. It's very likely that these are destined for the huge chinese market, but they are probably hoping to skirt around the law and get these into the US as well.
Mr. Fux just removed "BTW" from the beginning and copied the rest verbatim.
To make a player that plays just this new protocol, there is no license fee involved (I presme). The players they'll probably make will be APEX-like, playing DVDs, CDs, MP3s, and will probably pay a DVD licensing fee. At least, auditable units, or units shipped to the west will pay fees. Who knows about grey-market ones.
I'm sure there are licensing issues - with re-posting other people's Slashdot comments as your own. Way to copy a six month old post (read the last paragraph) without giving credit. Read the original poster's journal and you will see that he routinely copy-and-pastes other people's old posts to get more karma.
Apparently
Belgium, as that's where the poster claims to be from, unless he happened to move in the four days since that post. Take his post about the state requiring fingerprints with a large grain of salt. If you'll read his journal you'll see that he routinely makes things up and plagiarizes other people's posts in order to build up karma. There may very well be a state that requires fingerprints, but I wouldn't take his word for it.
Perhaps that's the same policy that EVERYBODY HAS FOR EXAM4.
Whatever. Lest anybody believe this "anonymous" coward, just read the original poster's journal or look at his comment history. His posts are all either made up or copied from somebody else.
That's funny, because it looks like you lifted the policy that you quoted from The University of Maryland's Law School Policy.
I think it's no coincidence that this is the first link that shows up when you search in Google for exam4 policy. Do not follow the advice of the original poster - it is bogus advice and he is lying. He is most definitely is not in "dental school" and does not use Exam4.
He is making up crap like this to get extra karma, which is kind of funny, but he is spreading disinformation and plagairizing posts by others in the process.
Read
his journal if you don't believe me.
Moderators, this "anonymous coward" is most likely the original poster who copied the Mozillazine comment. Anybody out there who is swayed by this poster and doesn't want to click on the link that I provided, click on the link to the Mozillazine article in the original story and look for comment #9. You will see that the original post is plagarized from there.
Uhhh...right. maybe you ought to stop trolling and write something insightful yourself, if you can. Jerk.
WTF?! I gave a link directly to the original post that was copied word for word. Are you too lazy to actually click on the link? Or are did I use too big of a word for you when I called it "plagarism"? Let me rephrase it for you with fewer syllables so that you can hopefully comprehend it: this guy did not write his own post - he copied what someone else wrote. Understand?
Of course the clunkiest feature of Office is the part where you have pay several hundred dollars for it. I wish they'd get that bug ironed out already.
This bug has been fixed for awhile - update your machine already. You can download the patch for it here.
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I didn't get his joke because the interesting bits weren't there. With a little investigation, I determined that my company's proxy server was delivering a modified version. Is this a common practice?
Yes. Ever since we've been under new management, the company proxy server has gotten progressively more restrictive in what it rewrites. It is really starting to smurf me off. The other day I needed to send an email to a customer about how to smurf a smurf and it rewrote every occurrence of smurf! I shudder to think what it might smurf up next.
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This isn't from a big shot, per se, but it is by far the funniest anti-Linux site around:
http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/ It is astoundingly brilliant. While it is set up as a "pro-Micorsoft" site, there are a lot of insults hurled at Linux.
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BOINK/BOINC has a totally different meaning in countries outside the US.
Well then, being from the US myself I think we should change the name so as not to give people in the world at large the wrong impression. I propose that we change the name to "SHAG" since the program is like a dense carpet in that many different goals will be interwined.
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Slashdot Mirror
Dear Reuters,
As of late many Linux-communists have complained of our efforts here at SCO (the owner of the UNIX operating system) to bring fairness and equality to the management of our Intellectual Property[**]. The Linux collective launched a denial of service attack on our web site earlier this week, and in doing so forced us into reciprocating with a return denial of service attack of our own. It is unfortunate that it has come to this, but we must take measures to protect our Intellectual Property[**] - it is not a choice we have made, but a course of action that we have been forced into. Our enforcers, Vinny and Spike, will continue to administer these denial of service attacks against Linux-terrorists in a freedom fighting effort for the good of all Intellectual Property ? our Intellectual Property[**] as well as the intellectual property of others[***].
For a totally unbiased explanation of why our policy of DOS reciprocity is pro-America and good for everybody, please refer to the completely independent report by the Yankee Group's Laura Didio, who has not connection to SCO whatsoever and doesn't know anybody here and has never worked with any of us and is totally unbiased. Please quote her repeatedly as she is totally unbiased and doesn't even know us.
Love,
Darl McBride
[*] This letter may be reprinted until January 1, 2004, for the nominal price of $699 provided that you can actually track down a SCO sales person that will actually sell you a license. After January 1, 2004, the price will return to the regular $1399, except that it actually won't.
[**] I.e., all software composed of a sequence of zeros and/or ones.
[***] I.e., all software not composed of a sequence and/or zeros or ones.
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Do not take the parent post for legitimate advice. The poster copied somebody else's Score 4 post from 2001 and passed it off as his own. What type of sick person intentionally spreads disinformation about HIV for the purpose of gaining karma (and if you're unsure if that's what he's doing, read his journal)? This is getting downright dangerous. Stop your trolling Fux, these topics are serious and don't deserve to be made light of.
The parent post was copied directly from a DesignTechnica review of the SliMP3 (scroll down the page until you hit the "Likes and Dislikes" section). Do not believe the parent poster - his advice is a lie and he does not actually own a SliMP3. He frequently cut-and-pastes reviews and comments by others in order to build up his karma. If you don't believe me, visit his journal and see for yourself. You can take the DesignTechnica review as legitimate advice on the SliMP3, but ignore this joker.
Way to cut and paste somebody else's Score 5 post. At least you're learning how to cut and paste for real now, unlike your post from a few minutes ago that was a sloppy cut-and-paste of somebody's blog. I would show you the advanced cut-and-paste technique using the middle mouse button, but my middle finger is busy showing you something else right now.
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Moderators, this "anonymous coward" is most likely the original poster who copied the Mozillazine comment. Anybody out there who is swayed by this poster and doesn't want to click on the link that I provided, click on the link to the Mozillazine article in the original story and look for comment #9. You will see that the original post is plagarized from there.
This bozo is karma-whoring and somebody needs to mod him down. What he posted is a blatant duplicate of post number 9 in the original Mozillazine article.
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