There's no business like SCO business like no business we know
everything about it is appealing stealing everything the traffic will allow nothing beats the pleasure they are feeling when they are stealing your linux code
"...unfortunately if you watch live TV around 1 or 2 in the morning..."
You have TiVo and you still watch live TV? I'm guessing you've only had your unit for a week or two and it's still getting to know you perhaps?
I've had three TiVos, two series ones (hacked), and a series two with a DVD burner. But if you don't watch the naked chicks on Spice TV live then you don't get to call in and talk to them.
What's next? Will the phone you buy occasionaly redirect your call to a telemarketer? Will your TV remote automatically switch channels to an infomercial?
My TV does change channels automatically to infomercials. I have a TiVo, and one of the "features" is that at the top level menu you'll often see ads that you can choose to watch. The TiVo grabs these late at night when it thinks nobody watches TV... unfortunately if you watch live TV around 1 or 2 in the morning you'll find yourself having to opt-out of a channel change to record "TiVo enhanced content" every ten minutes or so.
(annoying, and I wish there was a way to opt-out of this once and for all, but I'm still a big TiVo fan, and they gotta make money to stay afloat, so I put up with it)
Uh, just because the ACLU is anti-gun doesn't mean it doesn't support the free speech rights of pro-gun people. I mean, the ACLU supports neo-Nazis' free speech rights, but they're not Nazis.
The ACLU is unlikely to see anything wrong with what Symantec is doing. How would forcing Symantec to be more "fair and balanced" support free speech in any conceivable way? Symantec is not the government, and isn't required to support any particular viewpoint. In a free society, you fight back against something like this by providing a competing alternative choice. However, consider that in today's America reading pro-gun sites in school could make your teachers nervous and/or get you suspended or expelled. It's easy to see why there's a lot of paranoia over this issue, and with people getting expelled for writing fictional stories about school shootings, I understand why Symantec chose to block these sites. I don't even think it neccessarily represents their political agenda, but rather the expectations of the user base for this kind of blocking software.
I will never buy another Symantec product again, if this is true.
Because private handgun ownership is good for America, and is what this land is founded on, right? God forbid we'd be unable to protect ourselves, or we'd see shooting death statistics like those in, say, Sweden.
I was ready to boycott Symantec over the earlier article on product activation, but now I'm thinking that I'll happily hand them my money. The only thing private gun ownership would prove useful for is a revolution, and I've already given up on that, so I don't see having guns lurking everywhere as something that makes the U.S. a safer, happier, and more pleasant place.
They just legislated that I must pay, and pay dearly, for a device I, and the majority of Americans, will never use. These will ONLY be used for over the air decoding. The majority of Americans get their TV signals from cable or satellite, which do their own decoding.
Well, I had cable for years, and now I have a small dish. I mostly watch the big broadcast networks, and switched to cable to get better reception. Once the dish had my local channels I switched and got a better picture still.
If digital TV looks as good, I'm putting an antenna on the roof and saving some major cash.
>... and hope to be able to allow collections of managed RPM and.deb packages to coexist side-by-side...
I hope that all other distro creators work towards this too, so many packaging formats just confuse new Linux users, and make it even more difficult for Linux to take part in the desktop world.
While this sounds all wonderful, how's it going to work? At a binary level, you're going to find all kinds of compatibility issues that can't be addressed by dependencies or by ensuring that the package system can use any of the various package formats. For example, you've got Red Hat all but forking glibc by adding the NPTL stuff to it... people compile against that and then those binaries aren't going to work on systems that use a more standard glibc.
Furthermore, the idea of having the package system itself understand all package formats is very anti-UNIX. If anything, it should make a call to an external package translator such as alien. And given all the problems running binaries from one distro on another, this probably better not be a transparent process. Time to bring up the "big fat warning" dialog box...
Anyone who's ever worked with any of Eric's code (and there's a lot less of it than he usually lets on) knows that ESR is the world's LEAST qualified person to write a book about programming as an art. A nice example of ESR's code is fetchmail, one of the most security-hole ridden POP clients ever produced; so poorly coded that it should likely be thrown out since it can't be fixed. Well, it can be fixed about once or twice a month I guess, if history serves.
Mod me down if you wish, but ESR is a blundering fool, and his efforts to promote Linux only make the Linux community look like similar fools. After all, what kind of community would want THAT for its leader?
Customers who bought The Art of UNIX Programming also bought:
History of Classical Music by Britany Spears Gov't By The People by George W. Bush Improving Your Golf Swing by Stephen Hawking Interpreting Modern Dance" by Stevie Wonder
The W2 comes standard with a DVD/CD-RW drive. Unfortunately, it is only available in Japan, but can be imported, complete with an English version of the bundled software, from several companies, such as iCube.
512MB is no problem. The big problem is that it's not directly available outside of Japan, so it's essentially unsupported anywhere else, and you'd have a hard time getting any service or support.
It's one thing to buy a new grey market trinket that's only available in Japan (digital cameras, DAT, etc), but not many people I know would consider purchasing a laptop with no support or warranty when they can get one at the electronics store down the road.
This is insane. My company rolled out 802.11 a while ago, and they had a few statistics they sent out to address safety concerns.
Stuff like, "Since these run at low transmit power (.03 Watts), it's 1/10-1/20 the power of a cell phone." and "You'd have to hold a body part within 2cm of the antena for 30 minutes while the radio operated continuously at 100% capacity for that time."
You'd have to do that to cause WHAT? Seems like they leave out an important detail there... you do X, and Y happens.
I'm curious because there's an 802.11b antenna sticking out of the front of the machine under my desk (it has front PCMCIA slots, and I run a laptop card and Linux for an accesspoint+two way firewall). My leg is often right up against this antenna and I've been thinking nothing of it.
"there are too many lazy admins who won't spend the half-hour it takes to understand djbdns"
Oh please. Maybe if djb would put it under ANY acceptable license (BSD, MIT, GPL, *all* acceptable choices and there are others) then maybe more people would consider it, but there's no way I'll use something that prohibits me from distributing patched binaries.
Besides that, BIND 9 is exceptionally secure. They were really reaching to try to say that it's even an issue any more, and I'm not aware of any Linux distribution that actually starts BIND by default in a way that lets outside machines contact it. Sendmail is also much more secure than its detractors would have you think. Heard of anyone rooted through that lately (in spite of an advisory that required obscure config settings)? Didn't think so.
>> This is probably one of the very few times we'd want to see Microsoft win a case like this
>Not me ! I want Microsoft to loose this case. If microsoft loose this case, more and more people will become aware of the danger of software patents. Nobody is going to realise the danger of software patents when a handful of Free software projects are affected.
I thought the same thing at first, that it would be best for Microsoft to win this so that others do not get sued. But that would be justice, and hardly a shining example for the public to see if we want them to think that software patents are bad.
Now, it's a bit of a stretch (but maybe not too much). Remember how during the antitrust hearings Microsoft suddenly started using the word "innovation" about every ten seconds? Then it began appearing in all their advertising. Now they need to step up the propoganda campaign again with a message to the public that software patents stifle their ability to Innovate.
"...at Microsoft, it's about creativity and innovation. It's about people, not patents..."
By leveraging the immense Mircosoft lobbying and propaganda machine, we might actually get something done about software patents! What if everyone started writing to Microsoft with concern about what software patents might do to them? "We're worried about your business!" It might actually be a lot more effective than trying to complain directly to our reps in congress.
Although it can be draconian, these are problems that ISO-9001 quality assurance seeks to address. In the process of gettting certified for ISO-9001 your organization will have to create ways for request/complaint systems to evolve and correct themselves if they aren't working. It's a big stick, but something to consider.
If this is as cheap as Amazon sells the book, and it's cheaper than the other source, what exactly is the problem here? Is everyone on Slashdot so anti-sales, anti-profit?
I can't imagine getting so worked up over Jeff Bezos having to share his profit with someone.
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Hey, there's some potential here, methinks:
There's no business
like SCO business
like no business we know
everything about it is appealing
stealing everything the traffic will allow
nothing beats the pleasure they are feeling
when they are stealing
your linux code
No, maybe not.
"...unfortunately if you watch live TV around 1 or 2 in the morning..."
You have TiVo and you still watch live TV? I'm guessing you've only had your unit for a week or two and it's still getting to know you perhaps?
I've had three TiVos, two series ones (hacked), and a series two with a DVD burner. But if you don't watch the naked chicks on Spice TV live then you don't get to call in and talk to them.
What's next? Will the phone you buy occasionaly redirect your call to a telemarketer? Will your TV remote automatically switch channels to an infomercial?
My TV does change channels automatically to infomercials. I have a TiVo, and one of the "features" is that at the top level menu you'll often see ads that you can choose to watch. The TiVo grabs these late at night when it thinks nobody watches TV... unfortunately if you watch live TV around 1 or 2 in the morning you'll find yourself having to opt-out of a channel change to record "TiVo enhanced content" every ten minutes or so.
(annoying, and I wish there was a way to opt-out of this once and for all, but I'm still a big TiVo fan, and they gotta make money to stay afloat, so I put up with it)
Uh, just because the ACLU is anti-gun doesn't mean it doesn't support the free speech rights of pro-gun people. I mean, the ACLU supports neo-Nazis' free speech rights, but they're not Nazis.
The ACLU is unlikely to see anything wrong with what Symantec is doing. How would forcing Symantec to be more "fair and balanced" support free speech in any conceivable way? Symantec is not the government, and isn't required to support any particular viewpoint. In a free society, you fight back against something like this by providing a competing alternative choice. However, consider that in today's America reading pro-gun sites in school could make your teachers nervous and/or get you suspended or expelled. It's easy to see why there's a lot of paranoia over this issue, and with people getting expelled for writing fictional stories about school shootings, I understand why Symantec chose to block these sites. I don't even think it neccessarily represents their political agenda, but rather the expectations of the user base for this kind of blocking software.
I think Symantec is going to find out real fast what it's like to be a defendant in a First Amendment lawsuit.
I think you're a typical fanboy who has never read the constitution.
I will never buy another Symantec product again, if this is true.
Because private handgun ownership is good for America, and is what this land is founded on, right? God forbid we'd be unable to protect ourselves, or we'd see shooting death statistics like those in, say, Sweden.
I was ready to boycott Symantec over the earlier article on product activation, but now I'm thinking that I'll happily hand them my money. The only thing private gun ownership would prove useful for is a revolution, and I've already given up on that, so I don't see having guns lurking everywhere as something that makes the U.S. a safer, happier, and more pleasant place.
Do you? Or, do you not care?
Or "Grimy", as he liked to be called.
They just legislated that I must pay, and pay dearly, for a device I, and the majority of Americans, will never use. These will ONLY be used for over the air decoding. The majority of Americans get their TV signals from cable or satellite, which do their own decoding.
Well, I had cable for years, and now I have a small dish. I mostly watch the big broadcast networks, and switched to cable to get better reception. Once the dish had my local channels I switched and got a better picture still.
If digital TV looks as good, I'm putting an antenna on the roof and saving some major cash.
>... and hope to be able to allow collections of managed RPM and .deb packages to coexist side-by-side ...
I hope that all other distro creators work towards this too, so many packaging formats just confuse new Linux users, and make it even more difficult for Linux to take part in the desktop world.
While this sounds all wonderful, how's it going to work? At a binary level, you're going to find all kinds of compatibility issues that can't be addressed by dependencies or by ensuring that the package system can use any of the various package formats. For example, you've got Red Hat all but forking glibc by adding the NPTL stuff to it... people compile against that and then those binaries aren't going to work on systems that use a more standard glibc.
Furthermore, the idea of having the package system itself understand all package formats is very anti-UNIX. If anything, it should make a call to an external package translator such as alien. And given all the problems running binaries from one distro on another, this probably better not be a transparent process. Time to bring up the "big fat warning" dialog box...
Anyone who's ever worked with any of Eric's code (and there's a lot less of it than he usually lets on) knows that ESR is the world's LEAST qualified person to write a book about programming as an art. A nice example of ESR's code is fetchmail, one of the most security-hole ridden POP clients ever produced; so poorly coded that it should likely be thrown out since it can't be fixed. Well, it can be fixed about once or twice a month I guess, if history serves.
Mod me down if you wish, but ESR is a blundering fool, and his efforts to promote Linux only make the Linux community look like similar fools. After all, what kind of community would want THAT for its leader?
Customers who bought The Art of UNIX Programming also bought:
History of Classical Music by Britany Spears
Gov't By The People by George W. Bush
Improving Your Golf Swing by Stephen Hawking
Interpreting Modern Dance" by Stevie Wonder
The article says it's only available in Japan:
The W2 comes standard with a DVD/CD-RW drive. Unfortunately, it is only available in Japan, but can be imported, complete with an English version of the bundled software, from several companies, such as iCube.
512MB is no problem. The big problem is that it's not directly available outside of Japan, so it's essentially unsupported anywhere else, and you'd have a hard time getting any service or support.
It's one thing to buy a new grey market trinket that's only available in Japan (digital cameras, DAT, etc), but not many people I know would consider purchasing a laptop with no support or warranty when they can get one at the electronics store down the road.
400 Hours.
a brand new Tivo does 4800 minutes, stock, out of the box.
D'oh! Yes, that's what I meant (just a rough estimate anyway).
Assuming the TiVo BIOS can handle it (or even has to... maybe that's a kernel function), this will easily exceed 400 minutes in "basic" resolution!
And spinning at 5400 is a big plus. It's plenty fast for a Tivo, and will run cooler on less power.
This is insane. My company rolled out 802.11 a while ago, and they had a few statistics they sent out to address safety concerns.
Stuff like, "Since these run at low transmit power (.03 Watts), it's 1/10-1/20 the power of a cell phone." and "You'd have to hold a body part within 2cm of the antena for 30 minutes while the radio operated continuously at 100% capacity for that time."
You'd have to do that to cause WHAT? Seems like they leave out an important detail there... you do X, and Y happens.
I'm curious because there's an 802.11b antenna sticking out of the front of the machine under my desk (it has front PCMCIA slots, and I run a laptop card and Linux for an accesspoint+two way firewall). My leg is often right up against this antenna and I've been thinking nothing of it.
Oh please. Maybe if djb would put it under ANY acceptable license (BSD, MIT, GPL, *all* acceptable choices and there are others) then maybe more people would consider it, but there's no way I'll use something that prohibits me from distributing patched binaries.
Besides that, BIND 9 is exceptionally secure. They were really reaching to try to say that it's even an issue any more, and I'm not aware of any Linux distribution that actually starts BIND by default in a way that lets outside machines contact it. Sendmail is also much more secure than its detractors would have you think. Heard of anyone rooted through that lately (in spite of an advisory that required obscure config settings)? Didn't think so.
>Not me ! I want Microsoft to loose this case. If microsoft loose this case, more and more people will become aware of the danger of software patents. Nobody is going to realise the danger of software patents when a handful of Free software projects are affected.
I thought the same thing at first, that it would be best for Microsoft to win this so that others do not get sued. But that would be justice, and hardly a shining example for the public to see if we want them to think that software patents are bad.
Now, it's a bit of a stretch (but maybe not too much). Remember how during the antitrust hearings Microsoft suddenly started using the word "innovation" about every ten seconds? Then it began appearing in all their advertising. Now they need to step up the propoganda campaign again with a message to the public that software patents stifle their ability to Innovate.
"...at Microsoft, it's about creativity and innovation. It's about people, not patents..."
By leveraging the immense Mircosoft lobbying and propaganda machine, we might actually get something done about software patents! What if everyone started writing to Microsoft with concern about what software patents might do to them? "We're worried about your business!" It might actually be a lot more effective than trying to complain directly to our reps in congress.
Try Linux International's Linux Counter.
Although it can be draconian, these are problems that ISO-9001 quality assurance seeks to address. In the process of gettting certified for ISO-9001 your organization will have to create ways for request/complaint systems to evolve and correct themselves if they aren't working. It's a big stick, but something to consider.
I hope we see more DRM like this. Who would have thought turning off autorun would be a DMCA violation?
If this is as cheap as Amazon sells the book, and it's cheaper than the other source, what exactly is the problem here? Is everyone on Slashdot so anti-sales, anti-profit? I can't imagine getting so worked up over Jeff Bezos having to share his profit with someone.