Could this be the most effective attempt on their part, so far? It's hard to argue against them, without being labelled
as a supporter of kiddie-porn. It doesn't matter how legitimate your claims against this bill, you'll still have to put up
with the obnoxious cries of, "think of the children!"
If this works, their next step will show how Kazaa supports terrorism. You don't want to aid terrorists - do you? Did you know that if you search for "how to make a bomb" on Kazaa, 49% of the results will be PDFs of the Al Queda Bomb HOWTO? I am aghast that children are being lured into terrorism like this.
Actually, I wonder how many people will read the NYT article and think, "Wow! Easy access to porn! I gotta
download that now!
That is exactly what I thought. I've never used Kazaa or Napster or any other p2p app for getting music (I prefer bands that offer legal downloads of their own stuff), but when I read this story my eyes perked up (yeah "eyes" - that's the ticket). Tons of free porn delivered straight to my hard drive without me having to do anything sounds pretty good to me (apart from the kiddie porn, which the RIAA can keep). Way to shoot yourself in the foot, RIAA.
I thought for a second that the headline said that the ESR is the new Aibo. Then came the dreams of a massive, self-replicating army of robotic ESRs descending on a certain company in Utah. Then I realized that I am dyslexic. Oh well.
"which is quite an acheivement considering my 15 years of web browsing..."
Which is quite an acheivement in and of itself.
Not really... 1 people-year is equivalent to 7 troll-years, so he's actually only been browsing the web for a little over 2 years. Let's just hope he's been neutered.
Another great resource is SCORE, which is the service corp of retired executives. My Grandfather used to work
with them before he got too old.
WTF? How can you be too old for SCORE? The 'R' stands for "retired". I think you probably misunderstood what your grandfather told you - he probably told you that he was too old to score, not too old for SCORE.
Not really, the applications do most of the limiting, and since you HAVE to open the restricted document within a
trusted application, it can stop you: printing, faxing, taking screen shots of that application
Circumventing screen-shot protection is trivial. Simply run Windows and Office in VMWare and then take a screen shot of the VMWare window. With screen shots, printing becomes simple (albeit annoying for long documents). With printing, faxing because simple. The DRM house of cards tumbles very quickly.
Who exactly isn't an innocent bystander here, besides SCO and IBM? SCO has been harming a massive number of innocent bystanders throughout this whole process (for example, the 1,500 Linux-using companies that they sent letters to, costing them legal time at the very least). No, two wrongs don't make a right and it sucks that the DOS attacks are harming innocent bystanders, but why is eWeek focusing on that when SCO is harming so many more innocents?
Kind of makes it distinct to plugins, even though if you had the rendering for, say, a gif image in a DLL it may also be using the patent idea.
Wouldn't the same thing apply to "helper applications" then, which are external programs spawned by the browser? That's been around at least since Netscape 1 (way back in 1994 when the patent was filed) and I think it was in Mosaic before that. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm rooting for Microsoft on the appeal.
Has he really, or is this just something everyone keeps repeating?
While there have been plenty of insider stock sales at SCO, Darl has not been among them. Check the list - he's not there. Now, if he has family that is selling (I would say "friends or family", but this is Darl we're talking about), then they would not appear on this list, so his brother Larry or his other brother Darl could be selling.
Actually, it did. The 2nd link talked about the MIT strider bots.
OK, my bad... although Slashdot didn't explicitly mention the robots last time, which is why it looked like new info to me. Are you seriously suggesting that you actually expect us to read the articles!?
So this is why Darl claimed that the "silent majority" supports SCO - he mis-counted all the opposers as one voice since he thought it couldn't be anything other than IBM heading up a consiparcy. F.U.Darl.
If there are any little green men on Mars, I'm sure they've built some
awesome snowmen and ice castles!:)
Forget the little green men, I want to see the little green women. Bring on the martian pr0n! I say we point the Surveyor at the martian locker rooms and co-ed dorms.
Doesn't this screenshot look a heck of a lot like the TiVo logo? I thought it actually was the TiVo logo when I saw the thumbnail and worried for a second that TiVo had sold its soul. Microsoft might want to rethink that screen, though, if they don't want a trademark fight.
Whoa - for a second there when I saw your subject line I thought you were talking about the "boxers or briefs" question. To bad Georgy didn't take that stance. That reminds me of the (porn-star) governor candidate Mary Cary's stance on global warming which is that people will just have to get used to wearing fewer clothes.
Seriously, though - he isn't off-topic moderators. He was refering to the vi vs. emacs question, even though it's not immediately obvious.
Great for suppressing advertising, but it also includes a webfilter with which you can change
the content of pages before it gets to your browser. Like:
s/IANAL/I am not a lawyer/g
But what if the poster actually was talking about being anal?
Any thoughts on which governor will get recalled for this?
More importantly, what actor would be most fit to replace him? My vote is for Laurence Fishburne, so long as he gives his campaign speeches high atop a rock dressed like Moses with a booming voice and protruding belly.
Though it's great that somebody is willing to step up and offer legal protection to Linux, the kind that Microsoft are
readily willing for the lack thereof. How will this help?
until 2005... SCO can say and do as it more-or-less pleases
Oh, RedHat's suit against SCO will definitely help. One of the most important things to note about SCO's suit against IBM is that Boies' law firm is doing it on a contingency basis, so it is costing SCO practically nothing. However, the RedHat suit is a separate issue and there's a good chance that it isn't covered by the contingency and as such is going to cost SCO real money to defend against. It would be wonderful if SCO were bled dry by such suits before we even make it to 2005. I haven't run the numbers myself, but other people have pointed out that SCO's financials are awful and they may not make it very long even without having to defend against a flood of counter suits.
Incidentally, it's also possible that IBM's countersuit is costing SCO money to defend. If Boies is doing that one on a contingency as well, then it has to be more than a little annoying for him because it includes patent infringement claims which will necessarily require additional lawyers to be put on the case because of the specialization in patent law required, and this will at the very least entail a substantial opportunity cost because those lawyers could be working for paying clients.
I say open the floodgates and bring on all the counter suits that can be mustered. Every single kernel contributor should be suing SCO right now for infringing their copyrights through illegal distribution of their code.
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I thought for a second that the headline said that the ESR is the new Aibo. Then came the dreams of a massive, self-replicating army of robotic ESRs descending on a certain company in Utah. Then I realized that I am dyslexic. Oh well.
Who exactly isn't an innocent bystander here, besides SCO and IBM? SCO has been harming a massive number of innocent bystanders throughout this whole process (for example, the 1,500 Linux-using companies that they sent letters to, costing them legal time at the very least). No, two wrongs don't make a right and it sucks that the DOS attacks are harming innocent bystanders, but why is eWeek focusing on that when SCO is harming so many more innocents?
So this is why Darl claimed that the "silent majority" supports SCO - he mis-counted all the opposers as one voice since he thought it couldn't be anything other than IBM heading up a consiparcy. F.U.Darl.
Doesn't this screenshot look a heck of a lot like the TiVo logo? I thought it actually was the TiVo logo when I saw the thumbnail and worried for a second that TiVo had sold its soul. Microsoft might want to rethink that screen, though, if they don't want a trademark fight.
Seriously, though - he isn't off-topic moderators. He was refering to the vi vs. emacs question, even though it's not immediately obvious.
I thought of a new meaning for FUD last night - Fuck U Darl.
Incidentally, it's also possible that IBM's countersuit is costing SCO money to defend. If Boies is doing that one on a contingency as well, then it has to be more than a little annoying for him because it includes patent infringement claims which will necessarily require additional lawyers to be put on the case because of the specialization in patent law required, and this will at the very least entail a substantial opportunity cost because those lawyers could be working for paying clients.
I say open the floodgates and bring on all the counter suits that can be mustered. Every single kernel contributor should be suing SCO right now for infringing their copyrights through illegal distribution of their code.