Well, let's start with the almost complete destruction of Battleship Row and go from there. Let's try the fact that we never attacked Japan before Pearl Harbor, no state of war was announced, no nothing. Fortunately, the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, was away at the time of the attack.
I can't find the link now, but do you know why those cities were picked? Because they had manufacturing facilities. Heard of Mitsubishi? They built planes, and engines, and bombs. They had factories in/near those cities. Those were also military targets, as much so as Pearl Harbor. Or do you not know that a lot of civilians lived in Pearl Harbor as well?
3. Asia? Countries like Pakistan, India and China? Malaysia? Forget it. Pakistan or India would likely use the bioweapon against each other. China? Not the most friendly to human rights.
4. European countries? Well, maybe, but I'm not terribly happy with that idea.
5. Any country in Africa/South America? You must be joking, right?
Is this really a story? Okay people, here it is in a nutshell: Build something cool. Hollow it out. Shove in a few mini-itx components. Boom, you've got yourself a cool looking computer. But who cares? If you manage to run Linux on a toothbrush, then yes, I'm impressed. But if you're going to build models of everything in the universe, shove in a computer, and call it a case mod.
Do you really need a lawyer for a subpoena? Even if Linus was a US citizen, he's not being investigated or anything. Just answer a few stupid questions from SCO, and you're scot free.
Yeah, that's something I forgot to mention. I set my ZoneAlarm firewall to block all access to the net by WMP. The only problem is, this cuts off the radio functions, but I don't listen to internet radio anyway.
Nonsense, I use WMP for my music all the time. The trick is to disable the DRM feature. On my Win XP computer, open up Media Player, go to Tools, Options. On the Options window, go to the Copy Music tab, and make sure the "Protect content" box is unchecked.
Windows Media Player is stable, and it organizes my music nicely (Granted, I don't have a huge collection of music, so YMMV). I've had IE crash on me more times than WMP has (IE has crashed more in these last few days than since I got it; it's probably because the laptop isn't Suspending properly. Anyway, WMP has crashed maybe once or twice. Not too shabby), and WMP is constantly running in the background. Dell shipped MusicMatch Jukebox preloaded onto my laptop, but I haven't used it, nor do I intend to. Dell's branded version of Musicmatch is, in my opinion, buggy and bloated.
Not to mention, I downloaded MusicMatch onto my 5 yr old Compaq Armada, running Win 98, and it's as slow as molasses when loading and running MusicMatch. Interestingly enough, when I uninstalled MusicMatch and installed the latest version of WMP (keep in mind this is a 5yr old Win 98 Compaq Armada) it worked fine. So I left WMP on it.
Say what you like about MS software, but WMP is off limits. It's a good program. Besides, what is Joe Sixpack going to do without WMP? Search around for other solutions? No way. Joe probably doesn't know there are alternate programs for music playback.
I know MS is the villain we all love to hate around here, but remove Paint, Imaging and Wordpad? Isn't that a little... extreme? I look at Wordpad as just a slightly better version of Notepad, with RTF and.doc support. Paint? Imaging? Please. Yes, there are better programs, but these are meant as quick editors, just to save an image, do quick pixel touchups, etc...
..so long as it doesn't break any laws. Apple is the good guy here. We don't want the recording companies pissed at Apple. Unfortunately, my confidence in this program is vastly lowered by the "additional notes" section on the bottom of the MyTunes page:
If you plan on stealing music, do not download this software. If you plan on infringing upon copyrights, do not download this software. Only download this software if you plan on acting responsibly.
Warranty: There is absolutely no warranty of any kind whatsoever with this software. The software is provided to you "AS-IS", and all risks and losses associated with its use are assumed by you. In no event shall the author of this software, Bill Zeller, be held accountable for any damages or losses that may occur from use or misuse of the software. Use at your own risk.
And remember, copyright infringement is illegal. If you have any question whether what you're doing constitutes an infringement, visit the RIAA's great anti-piracy website.
Read that last line there. If that doesn't constitute butt-kissing, I don't know what does. (I preserved the link so just in case the page gets/.'ed, you can still visit the RIAA link.)
Better tech support gets hassled than the SPEWS list. The user is paying good money to Dell/Gateway/[insert fav computer manufacturer here], why not take advantage of those support contracts? At least it would guarantee some more jobs for the techs here....
Don't ask SCO's top execs. They don't know anything about this stuff, remember?
Classic, definitely classic. The mass media is finally catching one. SCO is really going to be backed into a corner now.
Although, I question if that's a good thing. The Chinese general Sun Tzu once said that you should always leave your enemy a way out, so he does not become desperate and do some lasting damage. Like a animal, it must be shown that it has been defeated fairly, and let go to nurse it's wounds.
Slightly OT, I know, but would anyone be interested in building an open-source website mocking SCO? I already regged two good domain names, registrations lasting for two years (Which should coincide with the end of this case). What stuff should I put on it?
Seriously, would it really be a bad thing if stupid people got off the net? Less DDOS zombies, for one thing. And as long as stupid people get off the net in the good ol' US of A, it's all good with me. I'll just ban all traffic from all IP's in the Asia/Africa/South American continents. China's pissed off because they can't email me? Too bad.
But you have to define "good faith" effort. To me, that's at least installing a good firewall and antivirus. Hell, forget the antivirus. Just pop in a good firewall and tell the user not to open suspicious attachments.
How hard is it to use and configure a firewall? ZoneAlarm in learning mode is a good example. It prompts you every time a program wants to launch a connection or accept a connection to/from the internet. Simply allow all programs you know, disallow anything that you don't know about.
What we really need is a license to use the internet, or a Balkanization of the internet. Have one internet, all people can use, second internet, only people that give a damn can use, and the third, only computer professionals, universities, research orgs, etc can use.
I completely agree. At the very least, even if the home user wins the case, he'll he be saddled with huge legal fees. Win/Win Scenario. Just like the RIAA...
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Very nice. Is the Popeye thing permanent? Now that would be hilarious.
Well, let's start with the almost complete destruction of Battleship Row and go from there. Let's try the fact that we never attacked Japan before Pearl Harbor, no state of war was announced, no nothing. Fortunately, the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, was away at the time of the attack.
Let's also keep in mind that General Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command killed more people with firestorms than the nuclear weapons. Here's a quick timeline of firebombing in Europe, A good picture describing firebombing, Wiki of how Tokyo was firebombed, and the wonderful bomber that made this all possible.
I can't find the link now, but do you know why those cities were picked? Because they had manufacturing facilities. Heard of Mitsubishi? They built planes, and engines, and bombs. They had factories in/near those cities. Those were also military targets, as much so as Pearl Harbor. Or do you not know that a lot of civilians lived in Pearl Harbor as well?
Not to be a troll or flamebait, but look at Pearl Harbor.
If any country had to be in possession of these things, it should be the US. You don't want it to be the US? Well, let's look at the alternatives:
1. Middle Eastern countries? Yeah, right. Entire place is a hellhole.
2. Russia? If that place is secure, then a kid holding a slingshot and a stone is wielding a WMD.
3. Asia? Countries like Pakistan, India and China? Malaysia? Forget it. Pakistan or India would likely use the bioweapon against each other. China? Not the most friendly to human rights.
4. European countries? Well, maybe, but I'm not terribly happy with that idea.
5. Any country in Africa/South America? You must be joking, right?
Then we'll ban all IP's from foreign countries. I do it already with email.
Is this really a story? Okay people, here it is in a nutshell: Build something cool. Hollow it out. Shove in a few mini-itx components. Boom, you've got yourself a cool looking computer. But who cares? If you manage to run Linux on a toothbrush, then yes, I'm impressed. But if you're going to build models of everything in the universe, shove in a computer, and call it a case mod.
Do you really need a lawyer for a subpoena? Even if Linus was a US citizen, he's not being investigated or anything. Just answer a few stupid questions from SCO, and you're scot free.
There are 18 registered and 1494 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 1389.45 kbit/s November 14 09:34 EST
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Yeah, that's something I forgot to mention. I set my ZoneAlarm firewall to block all access to the net by WMP. The only problem is, this cuts off the radio functions, but I don't listen to internet radio anyway.
Kill the virus-writers before they write virii? We'd need some Minority Report type system in place, though....
And people are going to invest money in this hellhole? Forget it. They lost whatever moral high ground they had left with Forbes.
Nonsense, I use WMP for my music all the time. The trick is to disable the DRM feature. On my Win XP computer, open up Media Player, go to Tools, Options. On the Options window, go to the Copy Music tab, and make sure the "Protect content" box is unchecked.
Windows Media Player is stable, and it organizes my music nicely (Granted, I don't have a huge collection of music, so YMMV). I've had IE crash on me more times than WMP has (IE has crashed more in these last few days than since I got it; it's probably because the laptop isn't Suspending properly. Anyway, WMP has crashed maybe once or twice. Not too shabby), and WMP is constantly running in the background. Dell shipped MusicMatch Jukebox preloaded onto my laptop, but I haven't used it, nor do I intend to. Dell's branded version of Musicmatch is, in my opinion, buggy and bloated.
Not to mention, I downloaded MusicMatch onto my 5 yr old Compaq Armada, running Win 98, and it's as slow as molasses when loading and running MusicMatch. Interestingly enough, when I uninstalled MusicMatch and installed the latest version of WMP (keep in mind this is a 5yr old Win 98 Compaq Armada) it worked fine. So I left WMP on it.
Say what you like about MS software, but WMP is off limits. It's a good program. Besides, what is Joe Sixpack going to do without WMP? Search around for other solutions? No way. Joe probably doesn't know there are alternate programs for music playback.
I know MS is the villain we all love to hate around here, but remove Paint, Imaging and Wordpad? Isn't that a little... extreme? I look at Wordpad as just a slightly better version of Notepad, with RTF and .doc support. Paint? Imaging? Please. Yes, there are better programs, but these are meant as quick editors, just to save an image, do quick pixel touchups, etc...
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-You didn't buy from SCO
-Vendor didn't either
-They want $199
Sorry if this sounds dumb, but SCO wants $199 now? I thought it was $32 per embedded device, $699 per desktop?
..so long as it doesn't break any laws. Apple is the good guy here. We don't want the recording companies pissed at Apple. Unfortunately, my confidence in this program is vastly lowered by the "additional notes" section on the bottom of the MyTunes page:
/.'ed, you can still visit the RIAA link.)
If you plan on stealing music, do not download this software. If you plan on infringing upon copyrights, do not download this software. Only download this software if you plan on acting responsibly.
Warranty: There is absolutely no warranty of any kind whatsoever with this software. The software is provided to you "AS-IS", and all risks and losses associated with its use are assumed by you. In no event shall the author of this software, Bill Zeller, be held accountable for any damages or losses that may occur from use or misuse of the software. Use at your own risk.
And remember, copyright infringement is illegal. If you have any question whether what you're doing constitutes an infringement, visit the RIAA's great anti-piracy website.
Read that last line there. If that doesn't constitute butt-kissing, I don't know what does. (I preserved the link so just in case the page gets
I don't get it; what's so bad about the original press release? Just going to have to wait for the revised one I guess....
OAP shares the same VIA Mini-ITX mainboard as the VIA-Roboteq "PC-bot" featured in an earlier Slashdot story
/. story required a $500 motor controller. Forget that. Just give me the text to speech components and any important access components (i.e. web parsers, etc) and I forgo the motors. I can actually carry the computer from place to place and let it read me the stories wherever. Or mount the computer on an rc car and drive it around.
But the robot in that
Specific project goals include:[of the robot, from the sourceforge page]
Design a coherent set of modular components (hardware and software) that conform to standards (where possible)
Minimize cost to $1,500 - $2,000, about the cost of a good PC
Develop a low-cost real-time vision system for use as the primary spatial sensor.
Thousand dollars for a robot? No thanks.
...thanks. I forgot to do my Constitutional duty:
Claria == Gator == SPYWARE!
Tell your friends!
Which part is wrong?
/. motto, we're all nerds, so it just stands to reason we're geeks too.
1. Nope, not the clueless end users. Lots of stuff about that here.
2. Nope, not the geeks. According to the
3. SCO is a bunch of sleazebags? Nope, no problem there. We've debated that point endlessly here.
4. Writing device drivers? I have to say, I haven't written a device driver in some time, but I have one or two stuck in the ol' code library. Next!
5. LARP games? Nope. Nerds and geeks (I'm repeating myself; see #2) play those.
6. Basements? Well, I'm on the second floor, if you must know, but it's close enough.
Final Analysis? Yup, the author's cool with me.
Better tech support gets hassled than the SPEWS list. The user is paying good money to Dell/Gateway/[insert fav computer manufacturer here], why not take advantage of those support contracts? At least it would guarantee some more jobs for the techs here....
If you need USB, audio and video, just build a mini-itx computer. Cheap, small, and it's a fully functioning computer. The VIA EPIA 5000 is only 7 by 7 inches, pretty small, while it's bigger counterpart is still only a few inches bigger. Plus, you can get small cases, fairly cheap memory, optical drives like CD burners, DVD, etc, thin versions of the optical drives, hard drives, and more. If you need so much functionality, then mini-itx is better.
If you're concerned about paying SCO's license fees ($32 for embedded devices, $699 for single CPU's), don't worry: that offer expired October 1. You're in the same boat as the rest of us, buddy!
Don't ask SCO's top execs. They don't know anything about this stuff, remember?
Classic, definitely classic. The mass media is finally catching one. SCO is really going to be backed into a corner now.
Although, I question if that's a good thing. The Chinese general Sun Tzu once said that you should always leave your enemy a way out, so he does not become desperate and do some lasting damage. Like a animal, it must be shown that it has been defeated fairly, and let go to nurse it's wounds.
Slightly OT, I know, but would anyone be interested in building an open-source website mocking SCO? I already regged two good domain names, registrations lasting for two years (Which should coincide with the end of this case). What stuff should I put on it?
I'm sorry, is that a bad thing?
Seriously, would it really be a bad thing if stupid people got off the net? Less DDOS zombies, for one thing. And as long as stupid people get off the net in the good ol' US of A, it's all good with me. I'll just ban all traffic from all IP's in the Asia/Africa/South American continents. China's pissed off because they can't email me? Too bad.
Gator too, along with Bonzi Buddy....
It's sad, almost, to see how many "legal" spyware garbage stuff gets downloaded onto people's PC's.
But you have to define "good faith" effort. To me, that's at least installing a good firewall and antivirus. Hell, forget the antivirus. Just pop in a good firewall and tell the user not to open suspicious attachments.
How hard is it to use and configure a firewall? ZoneAlarm in learning mode is a good example. It prompts you every time a program wants to launch a connection or accept a connection to/from the internet. Simply allow all programs you know, disallow anything that you don't know about.
What we really need is a license to use the internet, or a Balkanization of the internet. Have one internet, all people can use, second internet, only people that give a damn can use, and the third, only computer professionals, universities, research orgs, etc can use.
I completely agree. At the very least, even if the home user wins the case, he'll he be saddled with huge legal fees. Win/Win Scenario. Just like the RIAA...