The only engagement here, is how Patty Murray engages the responsibility of the WHOLE US in this case, by her commenting on how Microsoft's criminal behaviour in the EU profits the economy of the US and creates jobs there.
... that Microsoft was eager to cast the lawsuits themselves, but had so much less useable "evidence" as SCO to do it ?
I wonder if, in a kind of "last resort" move, they could buy out SCO and pursue the legal actioins themselves, but then they'd need to really believe these could end in their favor, and I doubt it. Maybe that's why they went with such a trojan horse as SCO ? Less effective as press releases go (imagine the taglines: "MS sues Linux companies", "Linux plundered Windows code ?" etc...) but more "credible" on the legal side - as in, the case wasn't thrown out by the judge yet.
In any case, we should all watch out for the next attack. There's only one thing MS won't do to attack Linux, it is to try subverting the code base by "infecting" it with their own IP, because it'd backfire.
In my country the ISP loses its right to enforce reselling conditions on the access service (or any service or product, for that matter) the moment I buy it. It's called "first sale exception", I think. It allows people to resell whatever they have however they see fit, even electric power.
On the other hand, a lawyer might argue that I'd have to resell the entire service and not use it ever after...
Surprised nobody mentioned this as well!
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Archive of the PDF file where Wladi details how he changed his G5's power supply's support for one made of rubber.
And here is a photo of the thing before he put it back in the computer. No wonder it's a lot quieter now.
The way I understand the "original" Mehve, moving the pilot's body is most (if not all) of the way to control the craft. Moving aft and fore to move the CG accordingly and adjust AOA, moving left and right to both move the CG left or right for rolling, and move most of the drag left or right to conserve flight symmetry, etc...
The design looked quite brilliant, at least to me.
I would like to remind Mr Eminem that under his "work for hire" contract with his publisher he is not the author of the Eight Mile soundtrack and holds no copyright to it.
Without corporations, well, you don't exactly see a Mom and Pop Microchip fabrication facility, do you?
If Mom and Pop had the money and vision, why not ? In the 19th Century it was common for rich individuals to get involved in risky businesses that _could_ end up profitable. If there were more multimillionaires involved in businesses instead of corporations, how long before we'd have private space tourism ? I think that legal "virtual persons" such as corporations are an abomination, that there should only be real, physical persons at every level. We ended up in today's situation because a number of rich people wanted to profit from their money without the associated risks or efforts, hence the layers of responsibility protection offered for shareholders, and the layers of added decision-making between them and the company they own.
Corporations are tools of Greyface, they impose their view on their employees and promote cabbages disguised as humans to form committees to rule over each other.
... but discordians would limit the rights of corporations while expanding the rights of individuals. Committees and other forms of administrative organisations are an abomination in Eris' eyes.
Think about it. Anonymous corporations are virtual entities with little to no sense of responsibility or vision or ethics. Money power should always be associated to a real person, name and face, and personal responsibility.
Actually, we DO know how to grow plants on Mars. The best plant for Mars is the radish, but tomatoes and lettuce are pretty good contenders, too. Also, there seem to be an aquifer still active in the Tharsis region (the one that looks like the remnants of three huge rivers and a sea), and there's water in the atmosphere.
I foresee that "to pull a SCO" will be popular this winter and might replace "pump'n'dump", along with "screamin' an' kickin' like a rabid McBride" for 'making one hell of a fuss to grab attention'.
This is just SCO's lame attempt at trying to divert the public's attention from the fact that Novell has a firm grip on their balls (= 95% of their licensing revenues, which SCO don't have anymore, not even counting damages and interests) and that they failed to obey a direct court order to divulge all their proof of breach of contract.
The spam issue must be solved, whether by social, technological, legal or whatever else means, or a combination of these.
The sad truth is, there will always be jerks willing to engage in self-profitable activity at the expense of others, and to some extent this activity is what we call crime. There are three prerequisites for it, which are:
- intent (you know it's bad, but you don't care)
- gain (outweighing the cost / risk) - occasion
This last one you completely overlooked. Why do you think locks exist ? Why do you think most countries ban civilians from owning firearms ? Because that will reduce the number of occasions someone has to commit crime.
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Not quite... French for Smurf is "Schtroumpf". Sorry to ruin it.
Damn, and I can't mod you 10 - Insightful... Bah, RIAA's not reading anyway.
Software has yet to become a true commodity.
Running Gentoo, and "emerging" everything I need, I thought software already was a commodity...
I hope this one does a lot better than the last time, it has a lot of sentimental value!
You can be proud, it did.
The only engagement here, is how Patty Murray engages the responsibility of the WHOLE US in this case, by her commenting on how Microsoft's criminal behaviour in the EU profits the economy of the US and creates jobs there.
Very wise indeed. *clap* *clap*
Why is it funny and not insightful ? You know this is gonna be used first by the pr0n industry, like many new technologies.
And ?
Governments can seize IP rights or patents for the sake of "national interest".
Remember that monopolies don't abide by the same laws as their competitors.
You mean that ... *gasp* Windows users will need to install a media player ? Oh, the horror !
... isn't that the purpose of this court decision ? It'll force PC vendors to install a media suite. Any suite.
But
... that Microsoft was eager to cast the lawsuits themselves, but had so much less useable "evidence" as SCO to do it ?
I wonder if, in a kind of "last resort" move, they could buy out SCO and pursue the legal actioins themselves, but then they'd need to really believe these could end in their favor, and I doubt it. Maybe that's why they went with such a trojan horse as SCO ? Less effective as press releases go (imagine the taglines: "MS sues Linux companies", "Linux plundered Windows code ?" etc...) but more "credible" on the legal side - as in, the case wasn't thrown out by the judge yet.
In any case, we should all watch out for the next attack. There's only one thing MS won't do to attack Linux, it is to try subverting the code base by "infecting" it with their own IP, because it'd backfire.
In my country the ISP loses its right to enforce reselling conditions on the access service (or any service or product, for that matter) the moment I buy it. It's called "first sale exception", I think. It allows people to resell whatever they have however they see fit, even electric power.
On the other hand, a lawyer might argue that I'd have to resell the entire service and not use it ever after...
Archive of the PDF file where Wladi details how he changed his G5's power supply's support for one made of rubber.
And here is a photo of the thing before he put it back in the computer. No wonder it's a lot quieter now.
The way I understand the "original" Mehve, moving the pilot's body is most (if not all) of the way to control the craft. Moving aft and fore to move the CG accordingly and adjust AOA, moving left and right to both move the CG left or right for rolling, and move most of the drag left or right to conserve flight symmetry, etc...
The design looked quite brilliant, at least to me.
I updated this model yesterday morning. It's now true to the manga (not the anime). And it's surprisingly stable.
I would like to remind Mr Eminem that under his "work for hire" contract with his publisher he is not the author of the Eight Mile soundtrack and holds no copyright to it.
Without corporations, well, you don't exactly see a Mom and Pop Microchip fabrication facility, do you?
If Mom and Pop had the money and vision, why not ? In the 19th Century it was common for rich individuals to get involved in risky businesses that _could_ end up profitable. If there were more multimillionaires involved in businesses instead of corporations, how long before we'd have private space tourism ? I think that legal "virtual persons" such as corporations are an abomination, that there should only be real, physical persons at every level. We ended up in today's situation because a number of rich people wanted to profit from their money without the associated risks or efforts, hence the layers of responsibility protection offered for shareholders, and the layers of added decision-making between them and the company they own.
Corporations are tools of Greyface, they impose their view on their employees and promote cabbages disguised as humans to form committees to rule over each other.
But it's a good thing you disagree.
... but discordians would limit the rights of corporations while expanding the rights of individuals. Committees and other forms of administrative organisations are an abomination in Eris' eyes.
Think about it. Anonymous corporations are virtual entities with little to no sense of responsibility or vision or ethics. Money power should always be associated to a real person, name and face, and personal responsibility.
Actually, we DO know how to grow plants on Mars. The best plant for Mars is the radish, but tomatoes and lettuce are pretty good contenders, too. Also, there seem to be an aquifer still active in the Tharsis region (the one that looks like the remnants of three huge rivers and a sea), and there's water in the atmosphere.
I'll be glad to see you there. Sooner or later.
I foresee that "to pull a SCO" will be popular this winter and might replace "pump'n'dump", along with "screamin' an' kickin' like a rabid McBride" for 'making one hell of a fuss to grab attention'.
This is just SCO's lame attempt at trying to divert the public's attention from the fact that Novell has a firm grip on their balls (= 95% of their licensing revenues, which SCO don't have anymore, not even counting damages and interests) and that they failed to obey a direct court order to divulge all their proof of breach of contract.
Weren't these compilers supposed to bring automatic conversion of multiple 32bits arithmetic operations into Altivec-accelerated code ?
The spam issue must be solved, whether by social, technological, legal or whatever else means, or a combination of these.
The sad truth is, there will always be jerks willing to engage in self-profitable activity at the expense of others, and to some extent this activity is what we call crime. There are three prerequisites for it, which are:
- intent (you know it's bad, but you don't care)
- gain (outweighing the cost / risk)
- occasion
This last one you completely overlooked. Why do you think locks exist ? Why do you think most countries ban civilians from owning firearms ? Because that will reduce the number of occasions someone has to commit crime.
I wish I had this when younger, with all the late reading at night...