These king of pages always bog down when I am opening google news articles (I usually open four or five in a row). I simply terminate the windows that are too slow to open. And didn't they say that these adds would 'always work'. The Allianz add didn't work on my browser.
If I hacked your SS number, took your identity, trashed your life, wouldn't you be pissed off? These hackers did worse than that. They took stuff of zero economic value to 'them' and tossed it around the world to be trashed for no apparent reason except to say that they hacked Valve. Big wooo! Big man hacked Valve. Big man put Valve on life support. WTF is wrong with people when they think beating up a small company of video game geeks is a 'good thing'!
What if the company goes under, lays people off or other bad shit. No one got hurt 'physically', but neither did anyone with Enron, except everyone who was involved with the company, the people who lost everything when their retirement plan evaporated. The point is that it may seem harmless to toss around a bit of code, but the effect is to destroy people's work and hard earned benefits. Its one thing to pull peoples pants down, deface a web site, leave an amusing message, whatever, but to destroy a company is something else. Its probably going to be another 6 months before they get a product to market, Valve is in deep shit. I don't see how you can excuse this kind of blatant theft that ruins lives. I don't see what rights were violated here on the part of the person who was searched, they had a search warrant signed by a judge. They didn't send him to Gitmo and aren't beating him with a phone book. They took his computer, and that sucks, but this isn't the Gestapo hauling him off in the middle of the night to a concentration camp! Seven of those computers were probably pulled from the trash anyway.
Valve could go under because of this. $tens of millions in damage has been done. The programmers who work there could have their work destroyed. That is a crime. The hackers who did this should go to REAL prison and spend REAL time. This crime is as serious as an arson attack. This isn't about fear, it is about justice. These hackers ruined lives! They need to pay a price for that.
Half Life is a pretty cool game. It is a shame they were hacked like this and their code was stolen. They had a nice story line and decent graphics and seemed to have a quality, independant development team. This could well destroy the company. The people who put their work into the project over the past few years could likely end up on the bread line. It isn't cool to destroy someones lifes work for cheap thrills and bragging rights. I am all for cracked copies of photoshop and free software but destroying peoples lives like this isn't cool. It is malicious, mean spirited and rotten. I don't feel sorry for anyone who would help with spreading this code around so they can ruin the game for everyone with cheats or worse. They deserve to go to jail for potentially ruining hundreds of peoples lives and doing $ tens of millions in damage. The people at Valve have families and need to pay rent too, and doing this makes their life really hard. The hackers who did this were petty, mean, cheap and stupid.
What P2P user is going to participate in such a scheme! I see at least 2 options.
1. People would migrate to new unencumbered software or change the ways they use data. Everyone knows someone who already has 100 gigs of music so they can simply swap hard drives at this point. People may also go underground and do more stealthy transfers, secret bitorrent cabals.
2.The music industry gets its act together and stops putting out such crap and giving decent service making all swapping unnecessary.
The end game of this is to make an industry out of stealthy transfers of data which cannot be controlled. At least everything is in the open now, but that could change if people develop technology to stay secret, helping to create a criminal underground. This is already a problem with child pornography.
Keep it like it is, just add a better GUI user space to the top, 'consumer space' which is easy to use and basically idiot proof which can use existing GUI projects. That way you can keep the powerful reatures while letting any fool turn on his box and download and install and do whatever without being mystified by the command line. The only other barrier is a lack of consumer applications.
The Irish were completely reliant on a resource that was vulnerable. That is the point of the analogy, not the political situation at the time. If you were to carry the analogy further, beyond a useful scientific explanation, you could say that Microsoft is equivalent to England, forcing the poor people to farm a vulnerable resource and they are unwilling to allow other resources such as corn or grain (operating system diversity) into the food supply as they benefit from the current position of forced reliance on their ownership of the land (their operating system monopoly).
I think it is a valid analogy, but it has limits. Obviously bilogical infestation and a computer virus behave differently, but the point remains that a diversified system will survive a singular attack. One point the article did not make is that huge monocultures do exist in nature, take plankton for example, or certain kinds of bacteria. They can afford to replace half of their population, it is built into the life cycle of the organism, it reproduces at a rate which allows it to survive. The same could be said for computers. They can be replaced or wiped clean at a fast enough rate to stem the infection. Therefore the idea might follow, that if you do not need to updated,c onfigure and replace machines you won't need tech support, and that would put 50% of/. people on the bread line.
Other methods of protection from infection and predation should also be noted. For example, a 'dormant' computer cannot be infected. Also, a computer with an extremely short lifespan cannot be infected easily. A computer that is hidden or inaccessible cannot be infected. These are all strategies that could work in addition to diversity.
On a separate note, this is why we all need to hang on to a Commodore 64, it is our last line of defense.
SCO is like that obnoxious skinny kid in elementary school 2 grades younger, who you used to feel sorry for, so you were nice to him, because he lived in a trailer, had no dad and his mom beat him and he was always dirty and only had wonder bread and grape jelly and Ho Ho's and Mountain Dew to eat at lunch time, where he sat alone because he stank and the only nice thing he ever had was a pocket knife but he lost it.
But then he started mouthing off to you in front of your friends because you were the only person who would talk to him. So one day, you find him...alone...next to the dumpsters where no one can hear him, and you decide to beat the crap out of him...and you are about to slam your fist into his mouth and he cowers in fear and starts to cry and then you change your mind because he is so pathetic. Instead you laugh at him and leave because you know that forcing him to confront his own crappulent life is punishment enough and that fighting you and getting his ass kicked would make him feel important and useful. He collapses as you leave, shrunken, there next to the dumpster, alone, angry and irrelevant like a shirivled potato.
Ten years later you hear about him on the local news how he was convicted of check fraud and is going to spend the next ten years in jail and you wonder what his life would have been like if you had cared enough to kick his ass way back when...but then sports comes on and you forget all about him.
I think many people have forgotten what Disney used to be like. Perhaps I am dating myself, but back 'in the day' when I was a kid I used to love watching Disney specials on TV. A couple of times a year a special would come on and we could see something like Peter Pan. There was a clip of old Walt chatting it up with Donald or Mickey and then they would show the movie. You got the impression that the characters were actually 'alive', and that you actually knew Walt and the Disney characters like they were distant cousins in your family. You were completely comfortable when enveloped in a Disney story. Disneyland was the holy grail of imagination and the most fantastic place imaginable.
That feeling is completely lost now. Disney has become a mechanical operation, with a cyborg/viper (Eisner) replacing the affable Walt as the figurehead at Disney. I can't imagine Eisner loves kids, the only thing he loves is money and himself. He is a supreme bastard.
They stopped building on their main characters (when was the last time a new Mickey Mouse sketch came along). Disney is now a massive entertainment conglomorate, where the directors and animators seem to churn out mere product for consumption. Disney today is known more for its ruthlessness and mean spirited competition than its product.
With the Old Disney I trusted the story to open up a delightful world for me to experience. With the new Disney I get the feeling I am on an overpriced theme park ride, where I get on and ride over a boring and rehashed route and at the end am left wondering why I wasted my time and money. I don't care if they do 2D or 3D. The problem is a lack of vision, a destruction of brand identity and a dispassionate and calculating artistic style devoid of any substantial emotion or feeling.
I like the old Disney. But I would never support the new Disney. I go out of my way to stay away from their 'product'.
Go to Groklaw and read the Asset purchase agreement yourself. You can see first hand, just how full of shit SCO is, and exactly what rights they have.
Novell never sold any patents to SCO, that is blatantly written in the asset purchase agreement. SCO probably has few if any copyrights to Unix, the document describes copyright transfer conditions, which SCO has not met. SCO and Novell have actually registered many of the same copyrights to the same Unix products (I have no idea who really owns them but both companies can't claim exclusive ownership of the same copyright). It seems what they really bought was the right to use and sell Unix, not own it free and clear. People are stupid, that is the one thing I have learned from all of this. It makes me wonder how many bogus lawsuits have been settled over similar bogus crap in the corporate world. It also makes me wonder just how smart these hotshot lawyers are. This whole episode shows me just how empowering a distributed network of people can be, like the open source community.
That is why they need to use this in a cell phone with a password or number lock attached if you need extra security. A prepaid card would limit your loss. That would be a better way to pay than a watch, and you could use a phone to check your account balance and operate bluetooth devices in addition to RFID. You could turn it off too, rather than always being on and subjected to thievery.
The document itself is brief, but refers to a sixty-page supplement which lists the offending lines, and asserts that it can find more when IBM produces some of the evidence demanded of them by SCO.
This is the same BS as the last round. They only sent out 60 pages which can't possibly describe accurately the history of 1 million lines of code. I thought they were required to spell out in detail 'how' they owned this stuff not just what lines of Linux were supposedly contaminated.
Can someone enlighten me, as I do not know much about Unix. What is 'SVRX'. This seems to be a piece of property that Novell has strong rights, as SCO has to pay them royalties whenever they use it. It appears this was the basis for the SCO ceetification letter that went out a few days ago.
The I-pod is hot. The marketing is on fire. If this goes badly, HP can always dump Apple and build something else. But all the publicity built up around the I-pod makes selling product based on it easy, giving them a leg up on Compaq and M$, which in this formative time gives them better prospects for long term market share. HP has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, this is smart business.
This come from the Iraqi information minister? The Windows people are just shitting their pants because this will mean HP will beat them to market, they will have cooler designs and a better infrastructure in place when the battle for music dominance begins. This is a wedge into their tight little monopoly and they are freaking out. I am sure Apple will find a way to screw this up though.
PIA factor = Pain In the Ass factor. For any corporate overlord who does not want to be concerned about Linux, they have an option where they no longer have to consult the legal department, demonstrate risks, do bogus studies and paperwork just to use Linux. SCO is causing them too much PIA, now they can forget about it and go back to what is really important, their golf game.
Building any complex lego creation, like a spaceship requires some kind of structure, symetry, hierarchy and organization. Take a lego rocket: The rocket engines attach to the fuel tanks which in turn attach to the landing vehicle which needs matching aerodynamic stabilizers and landing gear. Some elements are rare and unique, such as the cockpit to the rocket but must be fit within an overall design. If the parts become too unique a matching scheme becomes difficult. Instead of finding parts which meet goals or criteria, the process is reversed, the parts are a given condition and a use must be found for them, this limits options. This problem is solved by having a larger and larger pool of legos, where parts can then be matched, you can find the 3 matching rockets parts you need which is more useful than 3 unique rocket parts which would necessitate an eccentric layout of the rocket. At a certain point, if the lego pool has too many unique or specialized parts, the vast quantity of legos needed to organize a construction process will create an orgnaizational problem, where you have the part you need, you just can't find it or you spend as much time inventorying your product as you do building it. At the same time, unique and un-repeated elements begin to dominate, causing the overall construct to fragment because you cannot make any general assumptions in your building process, all process elements are unique. You may be forced to make substitutes due to lack of parts or time constraints which lead to inferior structure and cause process defects or you are forced to reduce the complexity or size of the project. Unseen process defects could invalidate the original intention of the design, for example a rocket may now have to be converted to a space station. A huge tub of legos filled with specialized and unique where most parts aren't needed is less useful than a smaller tub with more related parts where most of them have an expectation for usefullness.
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These king of pages always bog down when I am opening google news articles (I usually open four or five in a row). I simply terminate the windows that are too slow to open. And didn't they say that these adds would 'always work'. The Allianz add didn't work on my browser.
If I hacked your SS number, took your identity, trashed your life, wouldn't you be pissed off? These hackers did worse than that. They took stuff of zero economic value to 'them' and tossed it around the world to be trashed for no apparent reason except to say that they hacked Valve. Big wooo! Big man hacked Valve. Big man put Valve on life support. WTF is wrong with people when they think beating up a small company of video game geeks is a 'good thing'!
What if the company goes under, lays people off or other bad shit. No one got hurt 'physically', but neither did anyone with Enron, except everyone who was involved with the company, the people who lost everything when their retirement plan evaporated. The point is that it may seem harmless to toss around a bit of code, but the effect is to destroy people's work and hard earned benefits. Its one thing to pull peoples pants down, deface a web site, leave an amusing message, whatever, but to destroy a company is something else. Its probably going to be another 6 months before they get a product to market, Valve is in deep shit. I don't see how you can excuse this kind of blatant theft that ruins lives. I don't see what rights were violated here on the part of the person who was searched, they had a search warrant signed by a judge. They didn't send him to Gitmo and aren't beating him with a phone book. They took his computer, and that sucks, but this isn't the Gestapo hauling him off in the middle of the night to a concentration camp! Seven of those computers were probably pulled from the trash anyway.
Valve could go under because of this. $tens of millions in damage has been done. The programmers who work there could have their work destroyed. That is a crime. The hackers who did this should go to REAL prison and spend REAL time. This crime is as serious as an arson attack. This isn't about fear, it is about justice. These hackers ruined lives! They need to pay a price for that.
Half Life is a pretty cool game. It is a shame they were hacked like this and their code was stolen. They had a nice story line and decent graphics and seemed to have a quality, independant development team. This could well destroy the company. The people who put their work into the project over the past few years could likely end up on the bread line. It isn't cool to destroy someones lifes work for cheap thrills and bragging rights. I am all for cracked copies of photoshop and free software but destroying peoples lives like this isn't cool. It is malicious, mean spirited and rotten. I don't feel sorry for anyone who would help with spreading this code around so they can ruin the game for everyone with cheats or worse. They deserve to go to jail for potentially ruining hundreds of peoples lives and doing $ tens of millions in damage. The people at Valve have families and need to pay rent too, and doing this makes their life really hard. The hackers who did this were petty, mean, cheap and stupid.
For whom the bell trolls?...It trolls for you!
What P2P user is going to participate in such a scheme! I see at least 2 options.
1. People would migrate to new unencumbered software or change the ways they use data. Everyone knows someone who already has 100 gigs of music so they can simply swap hard drives at this point. People may also go underground and do more stealthy transfers, secret bitorrent cabals.
2.The music industry gets its act together and stops putting out such crap and giving decent service making all swapping unnecessary.
The end game of this is to make an industry out of stealthy transfers of data which cannot be controlled. At least everything is in the open now, but that could change if people develop technology to stay secret, helping to create a criminal underground. This is already a problem with child pornography.
A smart company would launch i-porn...
Keep it like it is, just add a better GUI user space to the top, 'consumer space' which is easy to use and basically idiot proof which can use existing GUI projects. That way you can keep the powerful reatures while letting any fool turn on his box and download and install and do whatever without being mystified by the command line. The only other barrier is a lack of consumer applications.
The Irish were completely reliant on a resource that was vulnerable. That is the point of the analogy, not the political situation at the time. If you were to carry the analogy further, beyond a useful scientific explanation, you could say that Microsoft is equivalent to England, forcing the poor people to farm a vulnerable resource and they are unwilling to allow other resources such as corn or grain (operating system diversity) into the food supply as they benefit from the current position of forced reliance on their ownership of the land (their operating system monopoly).
I think it is a valid analogy, but it has limits. Obviously bilogical infestation and a computer virus behave differently, but the point remains that a diversified system will survive a singular attack. One point the article did not make is that huge monocultures do exist in nature, take plankton for example, or certain kinds of bacteria. They can afford to replace half of their population, it is built into the life cycle of the organism, it reproduces at a rate which allows it to survive. The same could be said for computers. They can be replaced or wiped clean at a fast enough rate to stem the infection. Therefore the idea might follow, that if you do not need to updated,c onfigure and replace machines you won't need tech support, and that would put 50% of /. people on the bread line.
Other methods of protection from infection and predation should also be noted. For example, a 'dormant' computer cannot be infected. Also, a computer with an extremely short lifespan cannot be infected easily. A computer that is hidden or inaccessible cannot be infected. These are all strategies that could work in addition to diversity.
On a separate note, this is why we all need to hang on to a Commodore 64, it is our last line of defense.
SCO is like that obnoxious skinny kid in elementary school 2 grades younger, who you used to feel sorry for, so you were nice to him, because he lived in a trailer, had no dad and his mom beat him and he was always dirty and only had wonder bread and grape jelly and Ho Ho's and Mountain Dew to eat at lunch time, where he sat alone because he stank and the only nice thing he ever had was a pocket knife but he lost it.
But then he started mouthing off to you in front of your friends because you were the only person who would talk to him. So one day, you find him...alone...next to the dumpsters where no one can hear him, and you decide to beat the crap out of him...and you are about to slam your fist into his mouth and he cowers in fear and starts to cry and then you change your mind because he is so pathetic. Instead you laugh at him and leave because you know that forcing him to confront his own crappulent life is punishment enough and that fighting you and getting his ass kicked would make him feel important and useful. He collapses as you leave, shrunken, there next to the dumpster, alone, angry and irrelevant like a shirivled potato.
Ten years later you hear about him on the local news how he was convicted of check fraud and is going to spend the next ten years in jail and you wonder what his life would have been like if you had cared enough to kick his ass way back when...but then sports comes on and you forget all about him.
I think many people have forgotten what Disney used to be like. Perhaps I am dating myself, but back 'in the day' when I was a kid I used to love watching Disney specials on TV. A couple of times a year a special would come on and we could see something like Peter Pan. There was a clip of old Walt chatting it up with Donald or Mickey and then they would show the movie. You got the impression that the characters were actually 'alive', and that you actually knew Walt and the Disney characters like they were distant cousins in your family. You were completely comfortable when enveloped in a Disney story. Disneyland was the holy grail of imagination and the most fantastic place imaginable.
That feeling is completely lost now. Disney has become a mechanical operation, with a cyborg/viper (Eisner) replacing the affable Walt as the figurehead at Disney. I can't imagine Eisner loves kids, the only thing he loves is money and himself. He is a supreme bastard.
They stopped building on their main characters (when was the last time a new Mickey Mouse sketch came along). Disney is now a massive entertainment conglomorate, where the directors and animators seem to churn out mere product for consumption. Disney today is known more for its ruthlessness and mean spirited competition than its product.
With the Old Disney I trusted the story to open up a delightful world for me to experience. With the new Disney I get the feeling I am on an overpriced theme park ride, where I get on and ride over a boring and rehashed route and at the end am left wondering why I wasted my time and money. I don't care if they do 2D or 3D. The problem is a lack of vision, a destruction of brand identity and a dispassionate and calculating artistic style devoid of any substantial emotion or feeling.
I like the old Disney. But I would never support the new Disney. I go out of my way to stay away from their 'product'.
You need to read the stuff that Novell just put out , they have their correspondance with SCO which is very illuminating.
Go to Groklaw and read the Asset purchase agreement yourself. You can see first hand, just how full of shit SCO is, and exactly what rights they have.
Novell never sold any patents to SCO, that is blatantly written in the asset purchase agreement. SCO probably has few if any copyrights to Unix, the document describes copyright transfer conditions, which SCO has not met. SCO and Novell have actually registered many of the same copyrights to the same Unix products (I have no idea who really owns them but both companies can't claim exclusive ownership of the same copyright). It seems what they really bought was the right to use and sell Unix, not own it free and clear. People are stupid, that is the one thing I have learned from all of this. It makes me wonder how many bogus lawsuits have been settled over similar bogus crap in the corporate world. It also makes me wonder just how smart these hotshot lawyers are. This whole episode shows me just how empowering a distributed network of people can be, like the open source community.
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The government is working on something similar.
That is why they need to use this in a cell phone with a password or number lock attached if you need extra security. A prepaid card would limit your loss. That would be a better way to pay than a watch, and you could use a phone to check your account balance and operate bluetooth devices in addition to RFID. You could turn it off too, rather than always being on and subjected to thievery.
The document itself is brief, but refers to a sixty-page supplement which lists the offending lines, and asserts that it can find more when IBM produces some of the evidence demanded of them by SCO.
This is the same BS as the last round. They only sent out 60 pages which can't possibly describe accurately the history of 1 million lines of code. I thought they were required to spell out in detail 'how' they owned this stuff not just what lines of Linux were supposedly contaminated.
Can someone enlighten me, as I do not know much about Unix. What is 'SVRX'. This seems to be a piece of property that Novell has strong rights, as SCO has to pay them royalties whenever they use it. It appears this was the basis for the SCO ceetification letter that went out a few days ago.
The I-pod is hot. The marketing is on fire. If this goes badly, HP can always dump Apple and build something else. But all the publicity built up around the I-pod makes selling product based on it easy, giving them a leg up on Compaq and M$, which in this formative time gives them better prospects for long term market share. HP has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, this is smart business.
I think you can use other players than an i-pod with i-tunes, it is just another step in copying.
You can listen to all of your own music on your i-pod, no limits. It is just like a hard drive with a player on it.
This come from the Iraqi information minister? The Windows people are just shitting their pants because this will mean HP will beat them to market, they will have cooler designs and a better infrastructure in place when the battle for music dominance begins. This is a wedge into their tight little monopoly and they are freaking out. I am sure Apple will find a way to screw this up though.
PIA factor = Pain In the Ass factor. For any corporate overlord who does not want to be concerned about Linux, they have an option where they no longer have to consult the legal department, demonstrate risks, do bogus studies and paperwork just to use Linux. SCO is causing them too much PIA, now they can forget about it and go back to what is really important, their golf game.
Legos were ariginally designed as an engineering tool that was converted to a toy, not the other way around.
Building any complex lego creation, like a spaceship requires some kind of structure, symetry, hierarchy and organization. Take a lego rocket: The rocket engines attach to the fuel tanks which in turn attach to the landing vehicle which needs matching aerodynamic stabilizers and landing gear. Some elements are rare and unique, such as the cockpit to the rocket but must be fit within an overall design. If the parts become too unique a matching scheme becomes difficult. Instead of finding parts which meet goals or criteria, the process is reversed, the parts are a given condition and a use must be found for them, this limits options. This problem is solved by having a larger and larger pool of legos, where parts can then be matched, you can find the 3 matching rockets parts you need which is more useful than 3 unique rocket parts which would necessitate an eccentric layout of the rocket. At a certain point, if the lego pool has too many unique or specialized parts, the vast quantity of legos needed to organize a construction process will create an orgnaizational problem, where you have the part you need, you just can't find it or you spend as much time inventorying your product as you do building it. At the same time, unique and un-repeated elements begin to dominate, causing the overall construct to fragment because you cannot make any general assumptions in your building process, all process elements are unique. You may be forced to make substitutes due to lack of parts or time constraints which lead to inferior structure and cause process defects or you are forced to reduce the complexity or size of the project. Unseen process defects could invalidate the original intention of the design, for example a rocket may now have to be converted to a space station. A huge tub of legos filled with specialized and unique where most parts aren't needed is less useful than a smaller tub with more related parts where most of them have an expectation for usefullness.
Me neice and I built an 8' tower out of duplo blocks when she was 3. That was when she learned what a cantilever was, and the power of leverage.