If the only reason they don't call you is fear for punishment, that does not make them ethical.
I think a more important difference is that it costs them money to call you. So, basically, a Do Not Call list saves them money because they do not need to call people who hate telemarketing.
I like the idea of the do not spam registry that they mention in the article. But it seems like a real pipe dream considering how much trouble there has been getting the do-not-call registry up and running.
Also, most telemarketing is done from in-country because of LD charges. Not so with e-mail. It's pretty hard to enforce US laws on a Taiwan spamhaus.
Ah well, every little voice against spam warms me a little at least.
Uh, actually it didn't kill anything on my machine. I think it's supposed to restore wmplayer afterwards (Which probably won't work for people who pull the plug in a panic). Sorry if that didn't work:(
yyyy-mm-dd dates can be sorted alphabetically also, just like regular numbers, it's big-endian.
The most significant advantage is that it's not ambiguous: no-one uses yyyy-dd-mm, so 2003-10-06 MUST be October 6th, while 06-10-2003 COULD also be June 10th
I watched a divx rip of a dvd screener of Bruce Almighty, and where he looks at his beeper, it shows something like 555-1234, but when he reads it out load, he mentions a completely different number. Now, I find it hard to believe this is an error (it's not even a 555-number, and a quick look on imdb.com reveals it's not been noted as a goof, so it's probably only in the screener. Now, if every copy of the screener has a different number in the audio track, it would be easy to spot who leaked it.
My thoughts exactly. This company is asking for a whole lot of attention from black-hat crackers. Instead of one bank statement, they can get thousands.
Also, reading it in some internet cafe in Beijing will probably leave it in the temp directory. I really don't think this is a good idea.
I posted this in a previous SCO thread, but I'm reposting it here, because it's the best answer I can think of to explain SCO's "business model"
What Does Darl Get Out Of It?
Darl gets a big fat payoff if he can deliver four straight profitable quarters. Most of it is in stock, which means he'll have to keep up the fiasco for extra quarter or two to cash out.
At that point, I think we can expect him to leave SCO -- if there is any SCO left to leave. Maybe the final legal showdown will be Darl v. Ralph, to be filed in late 2004 or early 2005. We all know how much Darl loves to sue his employers.
Anyway, this means the SCO v. IBM case is not likely to ever make it to court because there's *no* motivation for Darl to go that far.
In the meantime, he'll do whatever it takes to show profit on the next two or three 10-Q's. He'll slash personnel, support, anything, doesn't matter how it affects SCO's long term prospects, as long as he shows profits each quarter.
He'll try to get people to pay for SCO IP in Linux licenses NOW, not after the case is resolved in court, because he doesn't care what happens that far down the line.
He needs the money on the books and in the 10-Q next quarter and the following quarter. He's got two profitable quarters in a row now, though he probably wouldn't have made it this quarter without cutting personnel and associated costs. Two more to go, and he's golden.
If he hasn't done it already, we can expect some *extremely* creative accounting over the next two quarters. Personally, I think that asset listed as "Goodwill" is just the start of SCO's attempts at creative accounting. Or maybe more money from MS. MS, according to the latest 10-Q (available at SEC), has apparently purchased those "expanded licensing options" that were mentioned in the April 30 10-Q.
Darl's biggest fear is that something will shut down SCO and/or it's FUD machine within the next two-three quarters. If he sounds irrational and afraid, well, that's because he is. He can't pull any more profits out of Germany. Australia, Austria, and Poland are lining up to gag him in their countries. Red Hat's trying to do the same in the U.S. Of course, none of this matters much as long as no court decisions are reached within the next 3 quarters. Which means delay, delay, and delay will be SCO's legal strategy going forward.
If only port 80 seems blocked, it's probably just a result of their self-inflicted DDOS attack. Blocking port 80 does NOTHING to solve the DNS problems. It's the fact that you get an ip to contact in the first place that's the problem.
The only place where you can solve this is in the DNS servers, NOT routers/firewalls.
Isn't there this "election" thing you can do every once in a while? Sure, it will get you less than the $20, but it's still YOUR goverment that creates these laws.
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If the only reason they don't call you is fear for punishment, that does not make them ethical.
I think a more important difference is that it costs them money to call you. So, basically, a Do Not Call list saves them money because they do not need to call people who hate telemarketing.
I like the idea of the do not spam registry that they mention in the article. But it seems like a real pipe dream considering how much trouble there has been getting the do-not-call registry up and running.
Also, most telemarketing is done from in-country because of LD charges. Not so with e-mail. It's pretty hard to enforce US laws on a Taiwan spamhaus.
Ah well, every little voice against spam warms me a little at least.
"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."
- Niels Bohr
Uh, actually it didn't kill anything on my machine. I think it's supposed to restore wmplayer afterwards (Which probably won't work for people who pull the plug in a panic). Sorry if that didn't work :(
when they use internet explorer on these machines.
yyyy-mm-dd dates can be sorted alphabetically
also, just like regular numbers, it's big-endian.
The most significant advantage is that it's not ambiguous: no-one uses yyyy-dd-mm, so 2003-10-06 MUST be October 6th, while 06-10-2003 COULD also be June 10th
I guess I didn't look hard enough: it's not a goof, but trivia
Oh well, it would have been possible.
Actually I suspect they do (something like) this:
I watched a divx rip of a dvd screener of Bruce Almighty, and where he looks at his beeper, it shows something like 555-1234, but when he reads it out load, he mentions a completely different number. Now, I find it hard to believe this is an error (it's not even a 555-number, and a quick look on imdb.com reveals it's not been noted as a goof, so it's probably only in the screener. Now, if every copy of the screener has a different number in the audio track, it would be easy to spot who leaked it.
It would be even better if you ordered music cds. Will they rip them for you and send you the mp3s?
My thoughts exactly. This company is asking for a whole lot of attention from black-hat crackers. Instead of one bank statement, they can get thousands.
Also, reading it in some internet cafe in Beijing will probably leave it in the temp directory. I really don't think this is a good idea.
What's wrong with bi-girls?
I posted this in a previous SCO thread, but I'm reposting it here, because it's the best answer I can think of to explain SCO's "business model"
What Does Darl Get Out Of It?
Darl gets a big fat payoff if he can deliver four straight profitable quarters. Most of it is in stock, which means he'll have to keep up the fiasco for extra quarter or two to cash out.
At that point, I think we can expect him to leave SCO -- if there is any SCO left to leave. Maybe the final legal showdown will be Darl v. Ralph, to be filed in late 2004 or early 2005. We all know how much Darl loves to sue his employers.
Anyway, this means the SCO v. IBM case is not likely to ever make it to court because there's *no* motivation for Darl to go that far.
In the meantime, he'll do whatever it takes to show profit on the next two or three 10-Q's. He'll slash personnel, support, anything, doesn't matter how it affects SCO's long term prospects, as long as he shows profits each quarter.
He'll try to get people to pay for SCO IP in Linux licenses NOW, not after the case is resolved in court, because he doesn't care what happens that far down the line.
He needs the money on the books and in the 10-Q next quarter and the following quarter. He's got two profitable quarters in a row now, though he probably wouldn't have made it this quarter without cutting personnel and associated costs. Two more to go, and he's golden.
If he hasn't done it already, we can expect some *extremely* creative accounting over the next two quarters. Personally, I think that asset listed as "Goodwill" is just the start of SCO's attempts at creative accounting. Or maybe more money from MS. MS, according to the latest 10-Q (available at SEC), has apparently purchased those "expanded licensing options" that were mentioned in the April 30 10-Q.
Darl's biggest fear is that something will shut down SCO and/or it's FUD machine within the next two-three quarters. If he sounds irrational and afraid, well, that's because he is. He can't pull any more profits out of Germany. Australia, Austria, and Poland are lining up to gag him in their countries. Red Hat's trying to do the same in the U.S. Of course, none of this matters much as long as no court decisions are reached within the next 3 quarters. Which means delay, delay, and delay will be SCO's legal strategy going forward.
... there was going to be some kind of space elevator making all other spacecraft redundant?
It's forst pist
Well, for one thing, THEY ARE FAT!
I always p after jumping into your pool.
But it's still not on the stack. Sorry, you lose.
You misspelled shizzle, nizzle and yo, whizzle.
If only port 80 seems blocked, it's probably just a result of their self-inflicted DDOS attack. Blocking port 80 does NOTHING to solve the DNS problems. It's the fact that you get an ip to contact in the first place that's the problem.
The only place where you can solve this is in the DNS servers, NOT routers/firewalls.
I let hungry children swallow my cum. Does that count as an act of altruism?
And I thought the purpose was to get these things as flat as possible.
Phone's ringing, dude.
Isn't there this "election" thing you can do every once in a while? Sure, it will get you less than the $20, but it's still YOUR goverment that creates these laws.
Turns out the +4 funny doesn't increase your karma, but the -1 overrated does decrease it.
Yeah, what's up with that? This moderation system here is the worst ad-hoc hack imaginable.
The best part is, overrated/underrated mods aren't metamoderated.
here is a screenshot of some beta AMTP software in action. Nice to see open source improve like this.