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Inciting people into a violent revolt that thretens the stability of the entire society is not responsible.
Nor is inciting people into a passive complacency that threatens the stability of the entire society. Sometimes you have to throw out the baby with the bathwater, especially if the little runt is a Hitler-baby.
Maybe we should put a whistleblower fund together, something like one million USD in a Caymen account and a handful of plane tickets to said country. First guy to bring in a metric assload of proof gets the whole shot.
I hope this gets used on currency too. It's already so easy to counterfit U.S. money, using Xerox printers. This would be an easily replicated security feature that would draw attention away from the flaws in the printing process.
So the ink is a little smudged, but look at the glossy square with JFK in it. It has to be real!
Even if the PC's aren't cheaper without the Microsoft CD, I would still get it without an OS, or want to be able to sell my copy legally, for the price I choose. I mean it's no good to me, so why not make some money off of it?
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You know, it really isn't fair to make them pay for their additional bandwidth when we could easily repost the article text here and save them a couple of bills.
It's not like anyone here follows ad-links anyways.
Your statement is a fallacy. Sure people can only remember 7 or so random numbers (that's numbers, not digits), but ipv4 addresses are only four numbers, not 12. Phone numbers are grouped into three numbers of three-three-four digits. This is how we expect to see them, and we logically categorize them as such. Try giving someone your telephone number as five, five hundred and fifty-five, fifty-five, five, fifty-five, five. See how well they remember it in that sequence. The main reason that we haven't switched over is the same reason that there are still IBM mainframes that are as old as I am. They work well enough. They don't work great, but they work, and we can build around them, but only so much. IPv4 is alright. It's a kludge in some areas, has some work-arounds in place, but it works.
The SCO box had a static IP, but it had an issue with the way in which Microsoft boxes on the same network crafted the DHCP packet to ip address 255.255.255.255. Upon reception of enough of these packets, the network interface would stop processing packets, making the server appear as if halted. Console worked fine, but no matter what you did in an attempt to get the interface back up, the only solutions were to either reboot, or unplug the DHCP server from the network and wait. There was a binary patch released to resolve this.
And yes, the SCOAdmin interface was impressive in its scope, but Webmin is IMHO, superior.
They can't prevent reception. Thanks to the DMCA, they can prevent descrambling. See the DSS arrests and the DirectTV vs. Everyone who ever bought a satellite programmer online debate, both featured here.
And property owners can scramble/block waves, as long as they use an FCC approved device, otherwise they can be considered transmitting on privatized bands. In the case of wireless networking, they could use their own Wi-Fi stations to block access to others. I believe that Starbucks was doing this. Buy the strongest transmitter available, and broadcast on all channels and you have essentially hijacked the spectrum, legally. The laws that allow us to have wi-fi are a double-edged sword.
You mean watered-down unix right out of 1992. The only real advances they did was SCOAdmin, a curses-style interface where you could manage the system.
We use SCO Openserver 5.0.6, nothing special. Supports 40 users, will not support more because I'm just not buying licenses for it. I'll move to Redhat just to spite them.
And oh yeah, Red Hat's boxes don't go crashing down when you hook them to a MS DHCP server. SCO's sure did. Nice TCP/IP stack there McBride. Ass.
By using the 2.2 kernels, you are taking a lot of the enterprise capabilities out of linux.
SCO is not threatening you or me, they are threatining big customers, datacentres, movie houses. This is where they can make the most money, and where the biggest fear is. These guys can't roll back to 2.2, it's a matter of money. And they can't afford to get sued out of existance.
Hopefully they can't afford to switch to MS products either, and they take the fight to SCO as well.
That's why. You could patent my work, and if I never challenge it, then you can say it's yours all you want.
SCO is stating that any code which IBM develops becomes property of SCO, due to a licensing agreement. So looking up patents is a moot point.
Aside from stating that IBM's license for AIX is perpetual and irrevocable, they have stayed quiet. If they were to come out and say "We own RCU. We own NUMA. This is why...", IBM could kill a lot of the FUD flying around in one swat.
Of course, to IBM, this would be tipping their hand too early.
The Linux kernel code is copyrighted under the GNU GPL. IBM owns its AIX additions and copyrights to Unix System V code and its development of JFS, RCU, and NUMA software code
Well it's about time. Now put up some substantiating evidence.
Exactly. I could sue everyone for broadcasting radio waves into my house, into my car, and into me. This is exactly why they do not make reception of radio-waves illegal, merely the decryption of radio wave signals, and broadcast on restricted bands. They make one mistake on this one, the floodgate will be opened.
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Inciting people into a violent revolt that thretens the stability of the entire society is not responsible.
Nor is inciting people into a passive complacency that threatens the stability of the entire society. Sometimes you have to throw out the baby with the bathwater, especially if the little runt is a Hitler-baby.
I will go through and cataloge these images, and write a web slideshow for each category for a 25% cut, plus a generous supply of Kleenex(tm).
Maybe we should put a whistleblower fund together, something like one million USD in a Caymen account and a handful of plane tickets to said country. First guy to bring in a metric assload of proof gets the whole shot.
Easy. CHeck SCO source for code. Compile said code. SHA1 compiled binary and compare to widely available distributions.
The part that would be hard would be verifying comments.
I hope this gets used on currency too. It's already so easy to counterfit U.S. money, using Xerox printers. This would be an easily replicated security feature that would draw attention away from the flaws in the printing process.
So the ink is a little smudged, but look at the glossy square with JFK in it. It has to be real!
It is now.
Like my entire Space Quest saga that I had to build an old DOS PC to play...
Now I can put it into my Mame cabinet!
Even if the PC's aren't cheaper without the Microsoft CD, I would still get it without an OS, or want to be able to sell my copy legally, for the price I choose.
I mean it's no good to me, so why not make some money off of it?
If I didn't pirate my software?
Oh well.
You know, it really isn't fair to make them pay for their additional bandwidth when we could easily repost the article text here and save them a couple of bills.
It's not like anyone here follows ad-links anyways.
Your statement is a fallacy. Sure people can only remember 7 or so random numbers (that's numbers, not digits), but ipv4 addresses are only four numbers, not 12.
Phone numbers are grouped into three numbers of three-three-four digits. This is how we expect to see them, and we logically categorize them as such. Try giving someone your telephone number as five, five hundred and fifty-five, fifty-five, five, fifty-five, five. See how well they remember it in that sequence.
The main reason that we haven't switched over is the same reason that there are still IBM mainframes that are as old as I am. They work well enough. They don't work great, but they work, and we can build around them, but only so much.
IPv4 is alright. It's a kludge in some areas, has some work-arounds in place, but it works.
Open up an Xbox. You'll see all kinds of information goodness stamped on the semiconductors.
Not that it would be easy to do...
Natural stupidity will always beat Artificial intelligence.
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The SCO box had a static IP, but it had an issue with the way in which Microsoft boxes on the same network crafted the DHCP packet to ip address 255.255.255.255. Upon reception of enough of these packets, the network interface would stop processing packets, making the server appear as if halted. Console worked fine, but no matter what you did in an attempt to get the interface back up, the only solutions were to either reboot, or unplug the DHCP server from the network and wait.
There was a binary patch released to resolve this.
And yes, the SCOAdmin interface was impressive in its scope, but Webmin is IMHO, superior.
They can't prevent reception. Thanks to the DMCA, they can prevent descrambling. See the DSS arrests and the DirectTV vs. Everyone who ever bought a satellite programmer online debate, both featured here.
And property owners can scramble/block waves, as long as they use an FCC approved device, otherwise they can be considered transmitting on privatized bands. In the case of wireless networking, they could use their own Wi-Fi stations to block access to others. I believe that Starbucks was doing this. Buy the strongest transmitter available, and broadcast on all channels and you have essentially hijacked the spectrum, legally. The laws that allow us to have wi-fi are a double-edged sword.
You mean watered-down unix right out of 1992.
The only real advances they did was SCOAdmin, a curses-style interface where you could manage the system.
We use SCO Openserver 5.0.6, nothing special. Supports 40 users, will not support more because I'm just not buying licenses for it. I'll move to Redhat just to spite them.
And oh yeah, Red Hat's boxes don't go crashing down when you hook them to a MS DHCP server. SCO's sure did. Nice TCP/IP stack there McBride.
Ass.
By using the 2.2 kernels, you are taking a lot of the enterprise capabilities out of linux.
SCO is not threatening you or me, they are threatining big customers, datacentres, movie houses. This is where they can make the most money, and where the biggest fear is. These guys can't roll back to 2.2, it's a matter of money. And they can't afford to get sued out of existance.
Hopefully they can't afford to switch to MS products either, and they take the fight to SCO as well.
That's why. You could patent my work, and if I never challenge it, then you can say it's yours all you want.
SCO is stating that any code which IBM develops becomes property of SCO, due to a licensing agreement. So looking up patents is a moot point.
Aside from stating that IBM's license for AIX is perpetual and irrevocable, they have stayed quiet. If they were to come out and say "We own RCU. We own NUMA. This is why...", IBM could kill a lot of the FUD flying around in one swat.
Of course, to IBM, this would be tipping their hand too early.
The Linux kernel code is copyrighted under the GNU GPL. IBM owns its AIX additions and copyrights to Unix System V code and its development of JFS, RCU, and NUMA software code
Well it's about time. Now put up some substantiating evidence.
Still waiting...
Nope. Nothing yet.
I was referring to the 1942 DeSoto Grille that doubles as a dental appliance.
And I like my tinfoil hat!
Exactly. I could sue everyone for broadcasting radio waves into my house, into my car, and into me.
This is exactly why they do not make reception of radio-waves illegal, merely the decryption of radio wave signals, and broadcast on restricted bands. They make one mistake on this one, the floodgate will be opened.
The headgear will protect him.
You mean the same way anyone with a TV tuner and wi-fi link can broadcast live games, without all the professional angles, equipment, and commentary?
Yeah, I would definitely say that this is a major problem.