if Windows code had been magically grafted into the Linux kernel
He didn't say there was any Microsoft code in Linux. He addressed Linux and said "the fact that that product uses our patented intellectual property is a problem".
In other words Microsoft has a Software patents on Ones and Zeros, Linux uses Ones and Zeros, therefore Linux infringes Microsoft's Valuable Intellectual Property.
Anybody remembering when it was reported that Windows code has escaped to the wild? I mentioned this back then, but it seems appropriate to mention this again. Windows code escaping into the wild opens up the can of worms. All Microsoft has to say is, "This incident was reported and documented. PROVE to us that you never looked at our code."
I've actually resisted becoming an 8-track fanatic. I've seen good 8-track recorders come up at auctions and just sat on my bidder's paddle to avoid ending up with them. I suspect there are spare tapes available somewhere. You could record tunes off CDs to 80-track. I recently got a 'bonus track' on a BlackCrowes album I bought at WalMart. The slip of paper in the jewel box said to go to the Walmart site and download it, so I did. It was a WMA file so I had to download and install Windows Media Player 9 on a machine here that still runs Windoze to burn the file to an audio CD. Now that Black Crowes track ("Lovin' Cup") is ready to rip to MP3, and if I had the gear, ready to record to 8-track.
I take it you're a penguinista. Yes, you can listen to.wma files in xmms, just need the xmms-wma plugin for it, readily available for Debian, Fedora, & Ubuntu, some assembly required for Gentoo, of course...
I said 'illegal', but never mentioned importing or exporting it. Phil went through quite a lot of legal trouble for publishing it, and under today's US government, would probably be wasting away while waiting on a tribunal for 'National Security' crimes if it came out last month.
I used PGP back in the day when it was still illegal due to the 'fact' that it was considered a 'munition'. Thanks, Phil, for giving me the amount of encryption enjoyed by many small governments of the day...
Merely trying to put it in perspective. As in, if you think Missile Defense is expensive, it really isn't. Particularly when you compare it to what our enemies were capable of doing with a handful of airliners. A missile attack would be far far worse.
Every weapons system has a counter. If you want to dodge under the 'missile defense system', just don't use a missile. Deliver the payload in a Ryder truck. Reputedly, it worked in Oklahoma City with a fuel oil bomb. I'd imagine it'd work even better with a nuke...
It is only a matter of time before our enemies have sophisticated missile technology. Several countries openly hostile towards us and our allies are actively pursuing missile and nuclear weapons development programs. Unless you advocate nearly immediate pre-emptive military attacks, nation-states hostile towards us, our policies, and our allies will develop long range nuclear equipped missiles.
I've heard this kind of rhetoric before. Does the name 'Team B' ring a bell? Those were the guys back in the 80's who were given total access to the CIA's files on the Soviet Union. A civilian group, without Congressional oversight and whatnot. They decided, since there was zero evidence of the Soviets coming up with a brand spankin new acoustic submarine detection system, that the Soviets had developed a nonacoustic means of submarine detection, and started sounding the alarm. They never found it, of course, because it didn't exist. They pressed for 'more and better' defense spending, which got us saddled with Star Wars. Star Wars was a contractor's wet dream, tons of cash to develop science fiction weapons against a nonexistent and unproveable threat.
As a footnote, 'Team B' later became the leaders of what we now know today as the Neoconservative Movement, comprising all the Usual Suspects such as Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld. Interestingly enough, Bush Sr. thought they were full of shit, having been head of the CIA, but Reagan half-bought their line. Even though he believed the Soviets were the 'Evil Empire', he still thought he could bargain with them...
If anyone believes North Korea and Iran are developing their missile and nuclear programs as interesting science projects... I've got this bridge outside Tucson...
I kind of doubt the peak-oil stuff, mostly because they keep moving the peak so it is always five years in the future, but the motives of the oil companies arguing against it is are pretty blatently obvious.
They keep 'moving the peak' because of new technology allowing them to go after reserves that weren't economically feasible before. Eliminate the technological improvements, and peak oil pretty much predicts when the shit will hit the fan.
I can't imagine why an energy research organization would actually seek out and listen to national energy secretaries in developing energy analysis - can't they just publish some near-term doom-and-gloom conclusions with only selective data like everyone else?
Funding, why else?
1. Pick a cause, any cause.
2. Cherrypick your data, tailor it to your customers.
3. ????
4. Profit!!!!
I'd imagine that they would be most effective when deployed as part of a deep network of sensors. The 'gun' would use these sensors as its eyes and ears, and would use them when selecting and engaging targets, even if a particular target wasn't visible from the gun itself (not that you can do a whole lot of accurate indirect fire with a 5.56mm machine gun). Perhaps more importantly, a network of these guns would allow them to be coordinated, and engage targets in concert -- working together far more skillfully than would even be possible for teams of discrete human shooters with radio communication.
You do realise, of course, that this $200,000 'weapons system' is going to be built by government contractors, right? Anybody in their right mind that ever had to deal with government contractors would know upfront that it'll be an overpriced POS that would work real well as a paperweight, and that's about it.
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Anybody remembering when it was reported that Windows code has escaped to the wild? I mentioned this back then, but it seems appropriate to mention this again. Windows code escaping into the wild opens up the can of worms. All Microsoft has to say is, "This incident was reported and documented. PROVE to us that you never looked at our code."
Without a good audit, we'll never know.
Why you think they call it Unix?
Naw, the EPA would sue 'em if they didn't bury it. Something to do with toxic wastes...
Besides violating a Microsoft patent by releasing it as GPL?
Water is still wet
The sky is still (more or less) blue.
Jack Thompson is still an asshole.
I take it you're a penguinista. Yes, you can listen to .wma files in xmms, just need the xmms-wma plugin for it, readily available for Debian, Fedora, & Ubuntu, some assembly required for Gentoo, of course...
Only if Mission Control is a lot blonder than she is.
OTOH, if they did send her up without an air bottle, she could just shove a straw into her head and breathe that...
Not to mention getitng 99.9% of said nerds out of their mom's basement for the first itme in decades...
That still doesn't get you off the hook for tomorrow's lottery numbers.
I said 'illegal', but never mentioned importing or exporting it. Phil went through quite a lot of legal trouble for publishing it, and under today's US government, would probably be wasting away while waiting on a tribunal for 'National Security' crimes if it came out last month.
I used PGP back in the day when it was still illegal due to the 'fact' that it was considered a 'munition'. Thanks, Phil, for giving me the amount of encryption enjoyed by many small governments of the day...
Every weapons system has a counter. If you want to dodge under the 'missile defense system', just don't use a missile. Deliver the payload in a Ryder truck. Reputedly, it worked in Oklahoma City with a fuel oil bomb. I'd imagine it'd work even better with a nuke...
I've heard this kind of rhetoric before. Does the name 'Team B' ring a bell? Those were the guys back in the 80's who were given total access to the CIA's files on the Soviet Union. A civilian group, without Congressional oversight and whatnot. They decided, since there was zero evidence of the Soviets coming up with a brand spankin new acoustic submarine detection system, that the Soviets had developed a nonacoustic means of submarine detection, and started sounding the alarm. They never found it, of course, because it didn't exist. They pressed for 'more and better' defense spending, which got us saddled with Star Wars. Star Wars was a contractor's wet dream, tons of cash to develop science fiction weapons against a nonexistent and unproveable threat.
As a footnote, 'Team B' later became the leaders of what we now know today as the Neoconservative Movement, comprising all the Usual Suspects such as Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld. Interestingly enough, Bush Sr. thought they were full of shit, having been head of the CIA, but Reagan half-bought their line. Even though he believed the Soviets were the 'Evil Empire', he still thought he could bargain with them...
It's in Lake Havasu City, dood...
I think Larry Niven might have a claim on it.
All we need is for Dubya to claim there are terrists & oil on Mars, & we'll be there next week.
Well, at least the 82nd Airborne will be...
They keep 'moving the peak' because of new technology allowing them to go after reserves that weren't economically feasible before. Eliminate the technological improvements, and peak oil pretty much predicts when the shit will hit the fan.
Funding, why else?
1. Pick a cause, any cause.
2. Cherrypick your data, tailor it to your customers.
3. ????
4. Profit!!!!
Yes.
Just back from MySpace, eh?
What, the feminazis are wrong???????? Can't be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Naw, I'm just sticking to mp3s & movies until I get the 20 terabyte RAID up & running here.
THEN I'll go loot the pr0n...
I just wanna know what happened to all the pr0n, if the 'Net is only 1%. Who knew so many idiots would put pages on MySpace?
I wanna see what happens when a l*wy*r serves a summons & complaint on one of these things. Talk about high comedy...
Then tell 'em to stay off my goddamned lawn.
You do realise, of course, that this $200,000 'weapons system' is going to be built by government contractors, right? Anybody in their right mind that ever had to deal with government contractors would know upfront that it'll be an overpriced POS that would work real well as a paperweight, and that's about it.