Actually, the last time I checked, no firm was even willing to provide you with SCO shares to short. They know they'll probably never see them again.:)
Any little thing could wake up SCO investers and spike the stock into the dirt. The "greater fool" theory that's been driving investors is gonna leave somebody holding the bag real soon.
Cold Fusion was thoroughly beaten up in the old Compuserve Science & Math forum at the time.
Seems there were a lot of complex things interacting, electrical, chemical, thermal and *mechanical*. The palladium electode absorbing hydrogen gets visibly larger as it pulls the ions in - there was speculation that a lot of energy was being stored this way via a spring-loading effect, but nobody on the forum knew or cared to calculate how much. Spontaneous collapse of many microscopic internal structures in the electrode could account for episodes of heat release IF enough energy is stored this way.
The CFers also claimed elevated radiation near the experiments once. It turned out they were measuring radon levels in the basement where the experiment was being conducted.
Wish I'd saved my Compuserve logs of this stuff, but I couldn't afford the floppies, $5 each at the time.:-)
Anyway, once it became apparent the experiments had many possible flaws and were failing to produce any clear positive results, researchers who valued their career would have been crazy to waste the time.
Anybody here participate in the Science & Math forum back then? I've always wondered what happened to the moderator, Emory Kimbrough.
Cringely had his name taken (legally) by Infoworld. Their "Robert X. Cringely (R) Infoworld" column is a mark of shame on their publications. I refuse to subscribe, visit their website or link their articles.
If I were Cringely, I'd be pretty pissed at the world too.
Here in the US, I'm afraid to release some stuff I've done. My lack of proof of when and where I got my ideas could lead to a) someone "reinventing" my ideas and patenting them (as in M$ vs. Burst.com, even though Burst actually has patents and ducumentation, as well as decent lawyers) or b) being sued because I've unwittingly created something that resembles someone's patent.
And don't forget we have a sleazy outfit suing businesses too small to fight back basically for using FRAMES on their web sites. There is plenty of similar nonsense going on.
How could this not be affecting innovation and holding back the US software industry? Isn't this at least partly why M$'s toy software is now running virtually all US businesses, and not at a bargain price, might I add? Re the economy, there are other forces at work here, but the M$ monopoly absolutely is not helping things.
These would be internal (MS-employee to MS-employee) emails Burst would not have seen, possibly riddled with gems like "Those Burst guys have lousy haircuts" and "Let's dupe their technology so we don't have to pay them anything."
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Also, how on Earth can you relate MS's closed code to "full disclosure"?
I'm sure you are correct, but the popular press is probably going to put a sensational spin on this.
Actually, the last time I checked, no firm was even willing to provide you with SCO shares to short. They know they'll probably never see them again. :)
Any little thing could wake up SCO investers and spike the stock into the dirt. The "greater fool" theory that's been driving investors is gonna leave somebody holding the bag real soon.
Seems there were a lot of complex things interacting, electrical, chemical, thermal and *mechanical*. The palladium electode absorbing hydrogen gets visibly larger as it pulls the ions in - there was speculation that a lot of energy was being stored this way via a spring-loading effect, but nobody on the forum knew or cared to calculate how much. Spontaneous collapse of many microscopic internal structures in the electrode could account for episodes of heat release IF enough energy is stored this way.
The CFers also claimed elevated radiation near the experiments once. It turned out they were measuring radon levels in the basement where the experiment was being conducted.
Wish I'd saved my Compuserve logs of this stuff, but I couldn't afford the floppies, $5 each at the time. :-)
Anyway, once it became apparent the experiments had many possible flaws and were failing to produce any clear positive results, researchers who valued their career would have been crazy to waste the time.
Anybody here participate in the Science & Math forum back then? I've always wondered what happened to the moderator, Emory Kimbrough.
If I were Cringely, I'd be pretty pissed at the world too.
And don't forget we have a sleazy outfit suing businesses too small to fight back basically for using FRAMES on their web sites. There is plenty of similar nonsense going on.
How could this not be affecting innovation and holding back the US software industry? Isn't this at least partly why M$'s toy software is now running virtually all US businesses, and not at a bargain price, might I add? Re the economy, there are other forces at work here, but the M$ monopoly absolutely is not helping things.
These would be internal (MS-employee to MS-employee) emails Burst would not have seen, possibly riddled with gems like "Those Burst guys have lousy haircuts" and "Let's dupe their technology so we don't have to pay them anything."