I don't know what the huge deal is, considering all new cars look basically alike anyhow. Is there no more creativity in the auto industry? Designers, if you are reading this, there is a market for cars that are not curvy with stupid ovals and wierd angles all over the body. And all new cars do NOT need to copy the design of Mercedes!
True, but in addition to the prosecution errors, all the OJ attorneys had to do was brainwash a jury and he was free. SCO does not have this luxury because even if they manage to do this, the verdict would not stand up to appeals. So their chance of success, even if they have a case, is miniscule. And even if they win, all infringing code would be removed from Linux and they would not have their much hyped revenue stream.
I don't see how it would be possible to sue end users of closed source software. If there were infringing code in Linux, it could at least be argued that the users had access to the source and could have found the code. Whether they are obligated to do so is a different matter. But with Microsoft products, I have no way of knowing what code was used, even if I want to find out. The user has no obligation and no ability to police Microsoft's use of code, so how could someone file a lawsuit in a case like this without it getting thrown out immediately?
The Dallas airport tram is now free to ride, but my God is it slow. You could crawl to the next terminal in less time. I believe this is a consequence of it being fully automated, it must be slow just in case something happens that the computer did not anticipate.
I'm surprised so many Slashdot readers like Maxim. I'll read one if I find it somewhere, but I wouldn't pay for it. To me, Maxim represents everything that people on here usually hate, except for the hot chicks of course. Maxim's sole purpose is to sell products. Every article in there seems to be an advertisement in disguise (Men's Health does this too). This is in addition to the fact that the magazine is half ads anyway, and you pay about $7 for a newsstand copy. Why do we despise ads on the web but not in a magazine that we paid for?
Or more accurately, follow the money trail. How does the patent office make money? Mostly in application fees. More applications = more money, so they have little incentive to put a stop to filings other than the most ridiculous ones. If the process were reformed to where the application fees for overturned patents were taken from the patent office and applied to the defendant's legal bills, they would have more incentive to keep frivolous patents from being approved. At the very least, it would keep these types of patents from being a money maker for them.
In order for a company to face civil or criminal spamming penalties, it would have to be proven that they did indeed spam. if the only proof was their name on some email, that would not hold up in court. Either their mail servers would have to be shown in the headers to have sent the mail, or there would have to be some sort of arrangement with a spammer that they made. I think false accusations would be a nuisance at the most, but they would be overall a lot less costly than the spam problem that plagues the internet for everyone.
Usually the spammers are scamming both sides. They send out a round of spam to generate business, which says something along the lines of "promote your product to millions of people for only $2000". They think, wow what a bargain, and pay the spammer. The emails result in few if any responses and the marketing campaign is a failure. The business owner gets burned and learns a lesson, but as they say a new sucker is born every minute. Once the profitability of spam is gone and word has spread among online merchants that spam is a failure, only then will it go away.
Auto manufacturers are required by EPA (environmental protection agency) mandate to post a car's estimated city and highway fuel economy on the price sticker for new cars.
True story: I once worked for a guy who wanted me to convert a fairly large Access database into an Excel file because he thought it would be easier for him to work with. Luckily, I was able to convince him that would not be the case and that he would lose a lot of querying functionality, so he ditched the idea.
Wow, the Finnish bank solution is way overkill. I'd rather have to deal with identity theft every 5 years than to keep a list of one time use passwords. I'm surprised anyone even uses online banking now that they've completely removed the convenience factor. As long as the user has a fairly secure computer and is not using some shady public terminal, password theft from websites should be a non-issue. I'm no security expert, but I think there's a solution somewhere between having weak security and making bank websites so inconvenient as to be useless.
Wow. That's taking the idea of power savings just a bit too far. A system like this could inconvenience people to the point that they start creating clever (and often unsafe) workarounds, such as running extension cords between rooms or putting warmers underneath thermostats.
Your perception of bias largely depends on your political orientation. Liberals will find Fox News to be biased, and CNN to be correct. Conservatives will say the opposite. Fox News is obviously conservative compared to CNN, which tends to be a little more to the liberal side. When it comes down to it, stories are reported according to what will sell (papers, ad time, whatever they're selling). If a liberal slant will sell more papers, that's what they will use. If Fox News feels that they will sell more ad time by playing up a conservative angle, that is what they will do. It's all business in the end.
I'd go as far as saying that El-Al is the only airline that truly takes security seriously, and not just for show. They have been dealing with a specific and very real threat for their entire existance. The main reason other airlines don't take it seriously is because of the cost and inconvenience factor. Not to mention, nobody wants to hijack their planes quite as badly as they would want to hijack an El-Al plane if they could.
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. Micropayments will never be successful because people don't want them, therefore there will be no demand. I hear this drivel brought up over and over in the technical news and each time its the same old bullshit arguments. The only people who want micropayments are the companies selling the systems.
Let me make this clear for maximum emphasis:
Micropayments will not work! Micropayments will not work! Micropayments will not work! Micropayments will not work!
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And something tells me that the non-profit that they donate them to will be tightly controlled by them. This organization will then make significant "donations" to some Disney ventures using the licensing revenue they collect. Its all about maximizing those profits, or should I say "increasing shareholder value".
I hate to say it but, these guys are going to get fucked. There's no avoiding this. The company has their source code, and there's been no agreement for them to pay. Now is not the time when they can or should try to force a license agreement. The company most likely will pay something, but it won't be favorable to the authors of the software. They will have to take whatever they are offered and if they don't like it, what can they do? I doubt they can afford an attorney at this point. Chalk it up to a lesson learned, and never make the same mistake again, guys.
Notice over the last 15 years or so, outsourcing has been a reversable trend. For a while, companies think that outsouring everything will make them more profitable. Then they realize certain things cost more to outsource and they bring them back in house. The current trend has already started to reverse itself in some ways and will continue to do so. I think the cause of this cycle is when executives have success with outsourcing in some aspect of the company and think the same cost savings will result when they outsource other things. Perhaps they rely on the outsouring vendor's sales staff to tell them how much they will save, and as we know, vendors never lie, right? Recently, it was announced that Best Buy outsourced their entire IT operations to Accenture. I'll bet my retirement account that they bring at least some of their operations back in house within 3 years, since outsouring of this nature rarely saves as much money as predicted.
is a substantial contributor to the issues behind the "War on Terror."
How so? Unless you're referring to Western countries purchasing Middle Eastern oil, I don't see how a rise in productivity of American and European companies fuels the terrorists.
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I don't know what the huge deal is, considering all new cars look basically alike anyhow. Is there no more creativity in the auto industry? Designers, if you are reading this, there is a market for cars that are not curvy with stupid ovals and wierd angles all over the body. And all new cars do NOT need to copy the design of Mercedes!
In other words, a Beowolf cluster of GMail accounts.
True, but in addition to the prosecution errors, all the OJ attorneys had to do was brainwash a jury and he was free. SCO does not have this luxury because even if they manage to do this, the verdict would not stand up to appeals. So their chance of success, even if they have a case, is miniscule. And even if they win, all infringing code would be removed from Linux and they would not have their much hyped revenue stream.
I don't see how it would be possible to sue end users of closed source software. If there were infringing code in Linux, it could at least be argued that the users had access to the source and could have found the code. Whether they are obligated to do so is a different matter. But with Microsoft products, I have no way of knowing what code was used, even if I want to find out. The user has no obligation and no ability to police Microsoft's use of code, so how could someone file a lawsuit in a case like this without it getting thrown out immediately?
Windows ME is the official trailerpark OS.
Like the Tripod URL wouldn't be a dead giveaway. Anyone who falls for this deserves to lose all their money.
The Dallas airport tram is now free to ride, but my God is it slow. You could crawl to the next terminal in less time. I believe this is a consequence of it being fully automated, it must be slow just in case something happens that the computer did not anticipate.
I'm surprised so many Slashdot readers like Maxim. I'll read one if I find it somewhere, but I wouldn't pay for it. To me, Maxim represents everything that people on here usually hate, except for the hot chicks of course. Maxim's sole purpose is to sell products. Every article in there seems to be an advertisement in disguise (Men's Health does this too). This is in addition to the fact that the magazine is half ads anyway, and you pay about $7 for a newsstand copy. Why do we despise ads on the web but not in a magazine that we paid for?
Update: AEI asked to produce stolen code, claims it is in a briefcase in Germany that their lawyer will bring to court, when he gets around to it.
Or more accurately, follow the money trail. How does the patent office make money? Mostly in application fees. More applications = more money, so they have little incentive to put a stop to filings other than the most ridiculous ones. If the process were reformed to where the application fees for overturned patents were taken from the patent office and applied to the defendant's legal bills, they would have more incentive to keep frivolous patents from being approved. At the very least, it would keep these types of patents from being a money maker for them.
In order for a company to face civil or criminal spamming penalties, it would have to be proven that they did indeed spam. if the only proof was their name on some email, that would not hold up in court. Either their mail servers would have to be shown in the headers to have sent the mail, or there would have to be some sort of arrangement with a spammer that they made. I think false accusations would be a nuisance at the most, but they would be overall a lot less costly than the spam problem that plagues the internet for everyone.
Usually the spammers are scamming both sides. They send out a round of spam to generate business, which says something along the lines of "promote your product to millions of people for only $2000". They think, wow what a bargain, and pay the spammer. The emails result in few if any responses and the marketing campaign is a failure. The business owner gets burned and learns a lesson, but as they say a new sucker is born every minute. Once the profitability of spam is gone and word has spread among online merchants that spam is a failure, only then will it go away.
Auto manufacturers are required by EPA (environmental protection agency) mandate to post a car's estimated city and highway fuel economy on the price sticker for new cars.
True story: I once worked for a guy who wanted me to convert a fairly large Access database into an Excel file because he thought it would be easier for him to work with. Luckily, I was able to convince him that would not be the case and that he would lose a lot of querying functionality, so he ditched the idea.
Wow, the Finnish bank solution is way overkill. I'd rather have to deal with identity theft every 5 years than to keep a list of one time use passwords. I'm surprised anyone even uses online banking now that they've completely removed the convenience factor. As long as the user has a fairly secure computer and is not using some shady public terminal, password theft from websites should be a non-issue. I'm no security expert, but I think there's a solution somewhere between having weak security and making bank websites so inconvenient as to be useless.
Wow. That's taking the idea of power savings just a bit too far. A system like this could inconvenience people to the point that they start creating clever (and often unsafe) workarounds, such as running extension cords between rooms or putting warmers underneath thermostats.
Exactly. In other words, its the perfect marketroid buzzword, and you've got to have some of those to sell any new "solution".
Your perception of bias largely depends on your political orientation. Liberals will find Fox News to be biased, and CNN to be correct. Conservatives will say the opposite. Fox News is obviously conservative compared to CNN, which tends to be a little more to the liberal side. When it comes down to it, stories are reported according to what will sell (papers, ad time, whatever they're selling). If a liberal slant will sell more papers, that's what they will use. If Fox News feels that they will sell more ad time by playing up a conservative angle, that is what they will do. It's all business in the end.
I'd go as far as saying that El-Al is the only airline that truly takes security seriously, and not just for show. They have been dealing with a specific and very real threat for their entire existance. The main reason other airlines don't take it seriously is because of the cost and inconvenience factor. Not to mention, nobody wants to hijack their planes quite as badly as they would want to hijack an El-Al plane if they could.
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. Micropayments will never be successful because people don't want them, therefore there will be no demand. I hear this drivel brought up over and over in the technical news and each time its the same old bullshit arguments. The only people who want micropayments are the companies selling the systems.
Let me make this clear for maximum emphasis:
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
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Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
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Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
Micropayments will not work!
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And something tells me that the non-profit that they donate them to will be tightly controlled by them. This organization will then make significant "donations" to some Disney ventures using the licensing revenue they collect. Its all about maximizing those profits, or should I say "increasing shareholder value".
I hate to say it but, these guys are going to get fucked. There's no avoiding this. The company has their source code, and there's been no agreement for them to pay. Now is not the time when they can or should try to force a license agreement. The company most likely will pay something, but it won't be favorable to the authors of the software. They will have to take whatever they are offered and if they don't like it, what can they do? I doubt they can afford an attorney at this point. Chalk it up to a lesson learned, and never make the same mistake again, guys.
doesn't pick duff cases.
Then who drafted him to be SCO's lawyer?
Notice over the last 15 years or so, outsourcing has been a reversable trend. For a while, companies think that outsouring everything will make them more profitable. Then they realize certain things cost more to outsource and they bring them back in house. The current trend has already started to reverse itself in some ways and will continue to do so. I think the cause of this cycle is when executives have success with outsourcing in some aspect of the company and think the same cost savings will result when they outsource other things. Perhaps they rely on the outsouring vendor's sales staff to tell them how much they will save, and as we know, vendors never lie, right? Recently, it was announced that Best Buy outsourced their entire IT operations to Accenture. I'll bet my retirement account that they bring at least some of their operations back in house within 3 years, since outsouring of this nature rarely saves as much money as predicted.
is a substantial contributor to the issues behind the "War on Terror."
How so? Unless you're referring to Western countries purchasing Middle Eastern oil, I don't see how a rise in productivity of American and European companies fuels the terrorists.