Novell's unauthorized copying in its use and distribution of SuSE
Linux includes but is not limited to the appropriateion of the
following data structures and algorithms contained in or derived
from SCO's copyrighted material:
1. SuSE's implementation of the "Read/Copy/Update" algorithm
2. SuSE's implementation of NUMA Aware Locks
3. SuSE's implementation of the distributed lock manager
4. SuSE's implementation of reference counters
5. SuSE's implementation of asynchronous I/O
6. SuSE's implementation of the kmalloc data structure
7. SuSE's implementation of the console subsystem
8. SuSE's implementation of IRQs
9. SuSE's implementation of shared memory locking
10. SuSE's implementation of semaphores
11. SuSE's implementation of virtual memory
12. SuSE's implementation of IPC's
13. SuSE's implementation of load balancing
14. SuSE's implementation of PIDs
15. SuSE's implementation of numerous kernel internals and APIs
16. SuSE's implementation of ELF
17. SuSE's implementation of STREAMS
18. SuSE's implementation of dynamic linking
19. SuSE's implementation of kernel pre-emption
20. SuSE's implementation of memory mapping
21. SuSE's implementation of ESR
22. SuSE's implementation of buffer structures
23. SuSE's implementation of process blocking
24. SuSE's implementation of numerous header files
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No doubt what you speak of will come to pass. And it will be proper punishment for those who trust Microsoft to hold their sacred data secure. And it won't ever get fixed. Not in a month, not in a lifetime.
If Microsoft runs an online service, then the browser (modified, perhaps) will be all that will be required to run Office on any computer (with internet connection).
Any computer will have a browser (and connectivity), therefore MS Office will be omnipresent. You won't need to carry it around on a flash driver.
Hatch has advantages, one of which is his seniority. The fact that he has been in office so long means that he can bring home more bacon. The new guy, were he to win, wouldn't be able to bring home so much bacon.
Anyone who is getting bacon from Hatch would tend to not want the new guy, figuring that he'd be losing out.
The tech is a minor point -- the bacon hits people in the pocketbook.
"Bacon" here is political slang for "benefits that your politician brings to his community via the political process."
if you do threads in a library, you run into problems with semantics or performance. Semantic problems == compiler breaks your multithreaded program. Performance problmes == compiler does naive translation of program, terrible performance.
I can't run the games and stuff - but that's OK. I'm supposed to be working.
OpenBSD has "just worked" for me. Certain things are a bit irritating, so I'll probably switch to a more user-friendly BSD, or at least one that scales better under load.
All that being said, all you have to do for a remote exploit with windows is preview an image. That's too low of a bar. I can't believe that the whole world has decided to run Windows. E.g. if you just need a box for productivity, use something includes the stuff that comes with Knoppix. End of story.
"How many stories did you hear about Unix admins rushing in this weekend? All of last month? All of last year? So far this millennium? The latest unpatch{ed,able} Windows exploit is set to cause more work for the people who have to manage affected systems than the rest of us have had in the last five years."
The sad thing is, you could be running *BSD, Solaris, Linux, whatever -- and it is all nothing important. But every single Windows machine out there is a sitting duck.
Just this one incident should convince people that they have to do something different -- yet, fundamentally, there have been incidents like this before, and they didn't learn yet.
What is the calculation that Windows users -- esp. businesses -- make that allows them to keep on using Windows?
When I had to pick an OS, I did research and picked one that I felt was secure enough for my needs. Windows didn't make my cut.
Somehow the Windows folks keep on choosing to use Windows, even though after the WMF exploit is history, they'll just be waiting for yet another "shoe to drop".
I understand that legacy apps/data formats get you locked-in to Windows, but doesn't "remote exploit" concern you enough to make you think "must switch!"?
I'm impressed at the timing on this one -- it hits during the slowest time of the year.
I figure the exploiters, even if they aren't the fastest in the bunch, will have massive penetration by the time people start modifying their systems to protect themselves.
So I'm wondering if the bad guys knew about this one for a while and just waited until now to spring it, or did the Microsoft customers just get profoundly unlucky.
Steve Jobs is probably laughing away over this one.
The Chinese govt. can outlaw communication that they can't listen in on. That means they can enforce whatever policies they want. Also they can outlaw the use of proxies, and then spy on people to make sure they aren't using them.
So because the citizens don't have rights, the government can do whatever it takes to make sure that no illegal communication takes place.
That being said, they must see the internet as a huge threat to stability. It has already been shown in other countries that when people are peeved, they'll use communication systems like the internet and text messaging to cause trouble for the unpopular regime. So the Chinese really need a way to keep a lid on things.
The article says the Chinese are producing and distributing their own porno. Is it true they produce it? I would figure they'd just copy western porn -- why spend money to produce porn when you can just get it from the gweilo for free?
If you read the article, you'll see that any DVD hardware you'd likely use would have the region-coding in it. Or you get a de-regionalized one from Sony.
This just doesn't look important for the vast majority of Slashdot readers.
That doesn't have anything to do with what I wrote.
The main point was that plants have already been naturally selected to survive these herbicides. It doesn't even take reshuffling of chromosomes between highly related species, only some of which are resistant.
Also, you don't know that they have other problems due to their mutations to survive the herbicides. Perhaps they are better in every regard.
"Farmers in Canada and Argentina growing GM soya beans have large problems with herbicide-resistant weeds, though these have arisen through natural selection and not gene flow through hybridisation. Experiments in Germany have shown sugar beets genetically modified to resist one herbicide accidentally acquired the genes to resist another - so called "gene stacking", which has also been observed in oilseed rape grown in Canada."
That's really something: even if there isn't gene transfer from related species to confer pesticide resistance, good ole evolution will take care of it.
The article includes neat things too, like superweeds causing trouble on farms (they require dirty, now heavily regulated herbicides to kill) and wildflowers (AKA "pretty weeds") picking up resistance.
"The two patents in question are not for inventions, but processes relating to using a regular telephone to make long distance calls. The patents focus on the use of a centralized database with pricing information for the purposes of determining the cheapest phone call carrier on the fly. The patents do not deal explicitly with the Internet, however, and do not even appear to have VoIP ventures in mind. (I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm not a patent lawyer, however, so my initial reading of the complaint could be incorrect.)"
In this case, Google may not be the best company to use. If the claims cover routing, then that is handled by a thing called the "internet", which uses some clever algorithms to dynamically route "packets" at the "lowest cost" (in a small-scale fashion). This "internet" doens't use a centralized database for this though, as their claim mentions.
NSA Cookies don't scare me. What scares me is the idea that the NSA could get my ISP's records, or Google's data. All of that would give them a lot more info than my NSA cookie.
All they need to get the data that Google has gathered is a court order.
If it is true that clusters are the future, won't it be Windows "Cluster Edition" that runs everything?
I'm just kidding. Clustermonkey looks like it has a lot of useful information. It is in the tradition of Linux -- lot's of info to make it easy-to-get-started. I'm looking forward to Windows Clusterfuck Edition bug reports.
From the Register Article:... Roberts, who runs his own Internet business as well as the Jersey and Guernsey country code domains, used his legal know-how to apply EU legislation to a UK company, Media Logistics.
It is believed to be the first time the legislation has been used in the UK, and could open the doors for thousands of other cases.
Back in August, Roberts received several marketing emails from Media Logistics. They were just a few of the many thousands that he and every Internet user receive each year, except that Mr Roberts tracked the email back to the company using its IP address.
Recognising that as a UK company it came under the EU law, he sent a letter demanding an apology, damages and the name of the company that had given Media Logistics his email address. The company apologised but refused his two other requests.
Unfortunately for the company, Roberts, 37, is a recognised internet expert and was studying for a law degree, which he has just been awarded...
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I think the neatest Lego thing I've ever seen are this guy's bible stories. He's sold 3 books of them.
The storytelling is great, and his sets are first class. It reminds me of a movie:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/
It isn't at all high-tech or technical. However, I'm guessing that digital cameras and the internet have allowed him to become very well known.
I guess with the robot version, you could make an animation involving robots, which would be cool.
This looked the most meaty and techy from TFA:
EXHIBIT B
Novell's unauthorized copying in its use and distribution of SuSE
Linux includes but is not limited to the appropriateion of the
following data structures and algorithms contained in or derived
from SCO's copyrighted material:
1. SuSE's implementation of the "Read/Copy/Update" algorithm
2. SuSE's implementation of NUMA Aware Locks
3. SuSE's implementation of the distributed lock manager
4. SuSE's implementation of reference counters
5. SuSE's implementation of asynchronous I/O
6. SuSE's implementation of the kmalloc data structure
7. SuSE's implementation of the console subsystem
8. SuSE's implementation of IRQs
9. SuSE's implementation of shared memory locking
10. SuSE's implementation of semaphores
11. SuSE's implementation of virtual memory
12. SuSE's implementation of IPC's
13. SuSE's implementation of load balancing
14. SuSE's implementation of PIDs
15. SuSE's implementation of numerous kernel internals and APIs
16. SuSE's implementation of ELF
17. SuSE's implementation of STREAMS
18. SuSE's implementation of dynamic linking
19. SuSE's implementation of kernel pre-emption
20. SuSE's implementation of memory mapping
21. SuSE's implementation of ESR
22. SuSE's implementation of buffer structures
23. SuSE's implementation of process blocking
24. SuSE's implementation of numerous header files
These folks have a formal semantics of C#:
http://www.ti.ethz.ch/rs/
For those who don't see the point in having a computer language if you can't say, precisely what statements in the language mean.
No doubt what you speak of will come to pass. And it will be proper punishment for those who trust Microsoft to hold their sacred data secure. And it won't ever get fixed. Not in a month, not in a lifetime.
If Microsoft runs an online service, then the browser (modified, perhaps) will be all that will be required to run Office on any computer (with internet connection).
Any computer will have a browser (and connectivity), therefore MS Office will be omnipresent. You won't need to carry it around on a flash driver.
Hatch has advantages, one of which is his seniority. The fact that he has been in office so long means that he can bring home more bacon. The new guy, were he to win, wouldn't be able to bring home so much bacon.
Anyone who is getting bacon from Hatch would tend to not want the new guy, figuring that he'd be losing out.
The tech is a minor point -- the bacon hits people in the pocketbook.
"Bacon" here is political slang for "benefits that your politician brings to his community via the political process."
It is good for a language to have threads "built in". As mentioned in this paper, "Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library": http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-20 9.pdf
if you do threads in a library, you run into problems with semantics or performance. Semantic problems == compiler breaks your multithreaded program. Performance problmes == compiler does naive translation of program, terrible performance.
Is there any connection between grokster and groklaw?
I got confused by this story. What is/was grokster, anyway?
Linux didn't make my cut either. I use a BSD.
I can't run the games and stuff - but that's OK. I'm supposed to be working.
OpenBSD has "just worked" for me. Certain things are a bit irritating, so I'll probably switch to a more user-friendly BSD, or at least one that scales better under load.
All that being said, all you have to do for a remote exploit with windows is preview an image. That's too low of a bar. I can't believe that the whole world has decided to run Windows. E.g. if you just need a box for productivity, use something includes the stuff that comes with Knoppix. End of story.
Your response is really good.
Not only informative, but funny as hell! E.g.
"How many stories did you hear about Unix admins rushing in this weekend? All of last month? All of last year? So far this millennium? The latest unpatch{ed,able} Windows exploit is set to cause more work for the people who have to manage affected systems than the rest of us have had in the last five years."
The sad thing is, you could be running *BSD, Solaris, Linux, whatever -- and it is all nothing important. But every single Windows machine out there is a sitting duck.
Just this one incident should convince people that they have to do something different -- yet, fundamentally, there have been incidents like this before, and they didn't learn yet.
So I guess they never will learn.
What is the calculation that Windows users -- esp. businesses -- make that allows them to keep on using Windows?
When I had to pick an OS, I did research and picked one that I felt was secure enough for my needs. Windows didn't make my cut.
Somehow the Windows folks keep on choosing to use Windows, even though after the WMF exploit is history, they'll just be waiting for yet another "shoe to drop".
I understand that legacy apps/data formats get you locked-in to Windows, but doesn't "remote exploit" concern you enough to make you think "must switch!"?
I'm impressed at the timing on this one -- it hits during the slowest time of the year.
I figure the exploiters, even if they aren't the fastest in the bunch, will have massive penetration by the time people start modifying their systems to protect themselves.
So I'm wondering if the bad guys knew about this one for a while and just waited until now to spring it, or did the Microsoft customers just get profoundly unlucky.
Steve Jobs is probably laughing away over this one.
The Chinese govt. can outlaw communication that they can't listen in on. That means they can enforce whatever policies they want. Also they can outlaw the use of proxies, and then spy on people to make sure they aren't using them.
So because the citizens don't have rights, the government can do whatever it takes to make sure that no illegal communication takes place.
That being said, they must see the internet as a huge threat to stability. It has already been shown in other countries that when people are peeved, they'll use communication systems like the internet and text messaging to cause trouble for the unpopular regime. So the Chinese really need a way to keep a lid on things.
The article says the Chinese are producing and distributing their own porno. Is it true they produce it? I would figure they'd just copy western porn -- why spend money to produce porn when you can just get it from the gweilo for free?
If you read the article, you'll see that any DVD hardware you'd likely use would have the region-coding in it. Or you get a de-regionalized one from Sony.
This just doesn't look important for the vast majority of Slashdot readers.
That doesn't have anything to do with what I wrote.
The main point was that plants have already been naturally selected to survive these herbicides. It doesn't even take reshuffling of chromosomes between highly related species, only some of which are resistant.
Also, you don't know that they have other problems due to their mutations to survive the herbicides. Perhaps they are better in every regard.
Thanks for the tip. It is important to be precise.
FTA:
"Farmers in Canada and Argentina growing GM soya beans have large problems with herbicide-resistant weeds, though these have arisen through natural selection and not gene flow through hybridisation. Experiments in Germany have shown sugar beets genetically modified to resist one herbicide accidentally acquired the genes to resist another - so called "gene stacking", which has also been observed in oilseed rape grown in Canada."
That's really something: even if there isn't gene transfer from related species to confer pesticide resistance, good ole evolution will take care of it.
The article includes neat things too, like superweeds causing trouble on farms (they require dirty, now heavily regulated herbicides to kill) and wildflowers (AKA "pretty weeds") picking up resistance.
FTFA:
"The two patents in question are not for inventions, but processes relating to using a regular telephone to make long distance calls. The patents focus on the use of a centralized database with pricing information for the purposes of determining the cheapest phone call carrier on the fly. The patents do not deal explicitly with the Internet, however, and do not even appear to have VoIP ventures in mind. (I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm not a patent lawyer, however, so my initial reading of the complaint could be incorrect.)"
In this case, Google may not be the best company to use. If the claims cover routing, then that is handled by a thing called the "internet", which uses some clever algorithms to dynamically route "packets" at the "lowest cost" (in a small-scale fashion). This "internet" doens't use a centralized database for this though, as their claim mentions.
Why not make an "open" API that allows one to move data (of various forms) over the communication channel?
E.g. Google builds a system that works to move data -- and end users make their own voice/text/video adapters?
It would seem that that would be better, all-around, and would move all infringing behavior -- if it happened -- to the clients.
You can construct such a system so that Google doesn't know what is being transferred, and hence isn't liable for the infringement.
Then the company with the patents can, if it wants, try to sue the huge pool of potential violators -- but that's its problem, not Google's.
Doens't Google have the same setup: a team of enmployees and a team of disposable contractors?
Are the contractors treated better at one place or the other?
The problem seems to be that Windows handles these files (WMFs) in the OS.
What other files get interpreted in "Ring 0" by the OS, besides these WMFs?
E.g. I know that ".doc" and ".xls" files don't -- but if they did, a bad spreadsheet would allow an attacker to root the box.
I'm looking for an encyclopedic description of all windows files that are interpreted with highest priviledge.
Thanks.
You really have to wonder what else it could have been.
E.g. ICANN will ignore the wishes of all governments but the USA? How would that make sense.
I cna't imagine any other policy they would encode, except to ignore governments completely (except for the USA, of course).
NSA Cookies don't scare me. What scares me is the idea that the NSA could get my ISP's records, or Google's data. All of that would give them a lot more info than my NSA cookie.
All they need to get the data that Google has gathered is a court order.
Warning -- clustermonkey is for Beowulf admirers.
If it is true that clusters are the future, won't it be Windows "Cluster Edition" that runs everything?
I'm just kidding. Clustermonkey looks like it has a lot of useful information. It is in the tradition of Linux -- lot's of info to make it easy-to-get-started. I'm looking forward to Windows Clusterfuck Edition bug reports.
From the Register Article: ...
Roberts, who runs his own Internet business as well as the Jersey and Guernsey country code domains, used his legal know-how to apply EU legislation to a UK company, Media Logistics.
It is believed to be the first time the legislation has been used in the UK, and could open the doors for thousands of other cases.
Back in August, Roberts received several marketing emails from Media Logistics. They were just a few of the many thousands that he and every Internet user receive each year, except that Mr Roberts tracked the email back to the company using its IP address.
Recognising that as a UK company it came under the EU law, he sent a letter demanding an apology, damages and the name of the company that had given Media Logistics his email address. The company apologised but refused his two other requests.
Unfortunately for the company, Roberts, 37, is a recognised internet expert and was studying for a law degree, which he has just been awarded...