Well apart from the much publicized link with Microsoft SCO is a dying company who have very little to lose. Their profits are heading south and they are about to go down under (Pun Intended). They have obtained pariah status sooner than you can say "litigious bastards". They know they have very little room to stand on legal-wise in the US, so it is pretty damn obvious they will try some other market, where things might just turn out more to their favour.
Justly or unjustly, rightly or wrongly, they have already paid a heavy price for their underhand techniques, in the form of the mydoom worm. This clearly shows how much anger and resentment the society has against this vulture of an organisation.
Under these circumstances, it is highly unlikely that their legal action will work anywhere in the world. Even if MS pumps more money into SCO to damage Linux, it will not save SCO.
SCO can't kill Linux. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.
A new top-level domain doesn't really exist on the Internet until it is added to the root servers, so that any system anywhere on the net that is seeking that domain can find out from the root where the specific DNS servers for that domain lie.....
the operators of the root servers have a great deal of political power over the domain name system. Presently, these servers are operated by Verisign, but their policies are determined by ICANN, the organization set up to administer Internet naming and numbering schemes. Since ICANN has attracted a great deal of criticism (much of it highly deserved) for its biases towards large impersonal bureaucracies and against individual Internet users, various people have come up with the idea of "fighting back" against ICANN by setting up alternate roots.....
Setting up an alternate root turns out to be a very simple matter. The Internet has always been sort of a "do-it-yourself" thing, not centrally controlled or administered like a proprietary online service.....
a naming or addressing system only makes sense if everybody uses it consistently. If every telephone company had a different idea of how the country and area codes ought to be allocated, so that if your long distance service was with AT&T, "1-212" would reach New York City, but with Sprint the same prefix would reach Los Angeles, then telephone numbers would be in a state of chaos....
Discovery flew safely 30 times with the defective actuator since its first launch August 30, 1984, and no one suspected a problem until the actuator was taken apart to check for corrosion.
I thought they even checked Airplanes more thoroughly
One proposal for the.mail domain has been put forward by anti-spam workers who want to use it for storing information about legitimate e-mail servers.
I have been trying to find more info. But I only managed to find one German site.
Excerpt:
Mail the anti-Spam Community Registry with the project, which is supported among other things bySpamhaus.org founder Steve Linford, dedicates itself to the fight against Spam. Enamels are in the future over for the Mailverkehr register sTLD to be dispatched: The Mailserver of the sender registers his address in sTLD and the receiver servers starts a DN S inquiry. With the in such a way won information the receiver can determine easily whether it concerns with the sender server around the correct server and not a Spam centrifuge. Domaininhaber would have to register for it additionally to the own Domain the appropriate mail TLD, thus about heise.de.mail.
Technical partner of the suggestion, whose technical load-carrying capacity must be only still proven however, is VeriSign. The confirmed Chuck Gomes, one of the VeriSign vices-president, opposite heise on-line. Like info. Registry Afilias has VeriSign several iron as bake end Provider in the fire: It is also still partner of job, which is gesponsert by the personnel mediator roof federation The Society for human resource management with. (Perhaps a kind German user can translate the original German text for us)
"One of the things we wanted to do was revisit the paradigm that's been around for a long time and unlock some of this [updated] capability of the hardware and create a more compelling and more useable experience for the desktop users. We believe the Linux desktop is a compelling desktop and there's no reason it should be standing still or following any other platform for features for the user, so we embarked on Looking Glass and we are rapidly working to formalize the implementation,"
-Juan Carlos Soto, the head of Project Looking Glass
Can anyone tell me in simple English what Mr Soto meant?
[This is probably going to get me in trouble Karma-wise but anyway]
Is this is a realistic investment considering most companies don't last 100 years? Given that the Internet is a recent phenomenom, is it realistic to expect it to be the same in 100 years? Will Verisign be around that long?
From the country that gave us LOTR and the All Blacks, comes something equally important: A piece of sensible legislation.
There is a lesson to be learned here. There's no economic loss to record companies when people copy their own CDs to MP3s or some other digital format. However, it will cost the government millions to enforce a law that prevents that.
Therefore, the sensible thing to do is, let the people copy their own music. As long as they don't pass it on illegitimately (which, actually happens even if you ban copying once own CDs), this should be a solution that makes both the companies, the people, and the the industry happy.
For a lack of a better word, I will call it pcfication. (Pronounce as you see fit).
What is it? To put it simply, there were the good old days when you had
Your washing machine that did the washing
Your toaster that did the toasting
Your VCR/VCD/DVD player that played the respective media
Your Mobile phone, which you used to make calls
Your PDA, you showed off to your friends
Your gaming console, you played games on
Your PC, you used to download porn
But today:
All the devices are more or less PCs. Okay, the washing machine and toaster are not really good examples, but all the devices in the list can be used as a PC.
So then, one must ask the question: Is there any point in trying to make specific devices to do specific things (other than washing machines and toasters), or do we just go for one handheld PC that doubles as your mobile, PDA, game console, DVD player, and whatnot, depending on how you use it?
I envision a future where you just have ONE device to rule them all.
1. Many still prefer human face to face (or any other body part to any other body part;) ) contact to the virtual impersonal environment of cyberspace.
2. Identity theft. You can register yourself as Bill Gates, with BG's photo, on Friendster. Chances are, you'll get away with it.
3. Abuse by trolls. Need I say more?
I keep my personal life well off the internet. I do it mainly for privacy and security reasons.
Friendster, in my eyes, is a vast spam engine. I get dozens of emails from people I barely know as acquiantances trying to be my "friends" on Friendster. No thanks. I know who my friends are. I don't want a website to remind me.
By looking at the boxes in turn a frog-like virtual character in the game, called Mawg, balances and walks across a tight-rope.
This is indeed remarkable technology. I can see many great uses for this. Using the method quoted above could be used to create a kind of a communication or control device for disabled people.
However, the serious threat lies in the sheer ability of computer games to make people addicted to them. I once saw a television program about full-time gamers, who spend almost 16 hours a day gaming. They sleep on bunkbeds in the same building as where they play games. Even now, some 3D games are so realistic, that it is only the control devices that give the game away (no pun intended).
However, once even that reality is broken, people might start confusing real world with the virtual game world. The next logical step would be to do away with displays and attach the output units directly to nerve endings. Then you can have a person who's completely hooked to the game world. This reminds me of a film I once watched...
Fraunhofer reproduces surround sound by adding to MP3 encoding extra information that describes the spatial characteristics of the main audio track.
I don't quite get this. Okay, you can give direction to the main 'channel', but how can we have 6 simultaneous channels?
One could argue that most of these viruses appeal to the base elements of the human psyche. For example, how likely are you to open an email with a topic like:
Re: My Photo by Cindi
Re: Hi Sweetheart by Melissa
Re: From you Secret Admirer by Linda Lovelace
Here is the pocket multimedia player we have heard so much about recently. Sporting an 80 GB hard drive, this beauty can store and play all your pictures, music files and video files, (in Windows WMV format).
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Diebold: I quote: fraud-prone, blackbox, proprietary, expensive, idiosyncratic, unreliable
OVC: I quote:technically sound, accurate, secure, inexpensive, uniform and open voting system
That really sums it up.
If you don't believe me try a demo of the Diebold voting system
DIEBOLD: Boldling rigging where no man's rigged before
(Well... Let's not talk about the presidential election 2004)
Justly or unjustly, rightly or wrongly, they have already paid a heavy price for their underhand techniques, in the form of the mydoom worm. This clearly shows how much anger and resentment the society has against this vulture of an organisation.
Under these circumstances, it is highly unlikely that their legal action will work anywhere in the world. Even if MS pumps more money into SCO to damage Linux, it will not save SCO.
SCO can't kill Linux. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.
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A new top-level domain doesn't really exist on the Internet until it is added to the root servers, so that any system anywhere on the net that is seeking that domain can find out from the root where the specific DNS servers for that domain lie.....
the operators of the root servers have a great deal of political power over the domain name system. Presently, these servers are operated by Verisign, but their policies are determined by ICANN, the organization set up to administer Internet naming and numbering schemes. Since ICANN has attracted a great deal of criticism (much of it highly deserved) for its biases towards large impersonal bureaucracies and against individual Internet users, various people have come up with the idea of "fighting back" against ICANN by setting up alternate roots.....
Setting up an alternate root turns out to be a very simple matter. The Internet has always been sort of a "do-it-yourself" thing, not centrally controlled or administered like a proprietary online service.....
a naming or addressing system only makes sense if everybody uses it consistently. If every telephone company had a different idea of how the country and area codes ought to be allocated, so that if your long distance service was with AT&T, "1-212" would reach New York City, but with Sprint the same prefix would reach Los Angeles, then telephone numbers would be in a state of chaos....
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Unfortunately, they don't have GIMP 2.0 yet :(
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The screenshots look simply awsome.
Going to install that now.
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I thought they even checked Airplanes more thoroughly
I have been trying to find more info. But I only managed to find one German site.
Excerpt:
Mail the anti-Spam Community Registry with the project, which is supported among other things bySpamhaus.org founder Steve Linford, dedicates itself to the fight against Spam. Enamels are in the future over for the Mailverkehr register sTLD to be dispatched: The Mailserver of the sender registers his address in sTLD and the receiver servers starts a DN S inquiry. With the in such a way won information the receiver can determine easily whether it concerns with the sender server around the correct server and not a Spam centrifuge. Domaininhaber would have to register for it additionally to the own Domain the appropriate mail TLD, thus about heise.de.mail.
Technical partner of the suggestion, whose technical load-carrying capacity must be only still proven however, is VeriSign. The confirmed Chuck Gomes, one of the VeriSign vices-president, opposite heise on-line. Like info. Registry Afilias has VeriSign several iron as bake end Provider in the fire: It is also still partner of job, which is gesponsert by the personnel mediator roof federation The Society for human resource management with.
(Perhaps a kind German user can translate the original German text for us)
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not being chained to a desk (59 percent)
I thought chaining IT people to the desk was done at every office. So they do let some of you work without shackles, huh?
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-Juan Carlos Soto, the head of Project Looking Glass
Can anyone tell me in simple English what Mr Soto meant?
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Is this is a realistic investment considering most companies don't last 100 years? Given that the Internet is a recent phenomenom, is it realistic to expect it to be the same in 100 years? Will Verisign be around that long?
Is the human race going to last that long?
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There is a lesson to be learned here. There's no economic loss to record companies when people copy their own CDs to MP3s or some other digital format. However, it will cost the government millions to enforce a law that prevents that.
Therefore, the sensible thing to do is, let the people copy their own music. As long as they don't pass it on illegitimately (which, actually happens even if you ban copying once own CDs), this should be a solution that makes both the companies, the people, and the the industry happy.
It's high time other countries followed soot.
Three cheers to the Kiwis!!!
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Novell to Drop Standalone NetWare
./ headline
Novell Makes More Open Source Moves
I think that is the crux of the story. I feel this is a damage limitation excercise on the part of Novell.
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What is it? To put it simply, there were the good old days when you had
Your washing machine that did the washing
Your toaster that did the toasting
Your VCR/VCD/DVD player that played the respective media
Your Mobile phone, which you used to make calls
Your PDA, you showed off to your friends
Your gaming console, you played games on
Your PC, you used to download porn
But today:
All the devices are more or less PCs. Okay, the washing machine and toaster are not really good examples, but all the devices in the list can be used as a PC.
So then, one must ask the question: Is there any point in trying to make specific devices to do specific things (other than washing machines and toasters), or do we just go for one handheld PC that doubles as your mobile, PDA, game console, DVD player, and whatnot, depending on how you use it?
I envision a future where you just have ONE device to rule them all.
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But then... considering the percentage of waking time people spend reading and writing comments on /. I wonder....
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1. Many still prefer human face to face (or any other body part to any other body part
2. Identity theft. You can register yourself as Bill Gates, with BG's photo, on Friendster. Chances are, you'll get away with it.
3. Abuse by trolls. Need I say more?
I keep my personal life well off the internet. I do it mainly for privacy and security reasons.
Friendster, in my eyes, is a vast spam engine. I get dozens of emails from people I barely know as acquiantances trying to be my "friends" on Friendster. No thanks. I know who my friends are. I don't want a website to remind me.
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Does that answer your question?
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This is indeed remarkable technology. I can see many great uses for this. Using the method quoted above could be used to create a kind of a communication or control device for disabled people.
However, the serious threat lies in the sheer ability of computer games to make people addicted to them. I once saw a television program about full-time gamers, who spend almost 16 hours a day gaming. They sleep on bunkbeds in the same building as where they play games. Even now, some 3D games are so realistic, that it is only the control devices that give the game away (no pun intended).
However, once even that reality is broken, people might start confusing real world with the virtual game world. The next logical step would be to do away with displays and attach the output units directly to nerve endings. Then you can have a person who's completely hooked to the game world. This reminds me of a film I once watched...
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I don't quite get this. Okay, you can give direction to the main 'channel', but how can we have 6 simultaneous channels?
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After all, tomorrow never comes, especially in the Computing world.
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Clyde W. Tombaugh 1906-1997
An Interview with Dr. Tombaugh
Status of Pluto
Image s of Pluto
The New Planet(oid)
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Who knows... maybe she's related to Ada. Remember, Ada is Lord Byron's daughter, and he had his fair share of scandals in his day.
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Re: My Photo by Cindi
Re: Hi Sweetheart by Melissa
Re: From you Secret Admirer by Linda Lovelace
etc.
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Here is the pocket multimedia player we have heard so much about recently. Sporting an 80 GB hard drive, this beauty can store and play all your pictures, music files and video files, (in Windows WMV format).
Nuff Said.
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