So what social punishment lays in store for this guy if he is lying.
Who's the bigger ass here? This guy for perpetrating a sham on the Web ( For shame! Inaccuracy and fraud on the Web? Who would have ever thought! ), or Slashdot for once again falling for some bogus story because it had all the right toilet paper thin anti-establishment shit smeared all over it?
I'm reminded of the time I saw this lady in a warehouse store give her baby in her cart her cell phone, she thought is was sooooooo cute, the baby would put it up to its ear... Than the baby threw it as hard as it could on the concrete floor...
If you yourself find it hard to avoid calling 911, your 2 or 10 year old will do better? If your kidd is calling 911 5 and 10 times fiddling with your phone, they should give you a big fat ticket for letting him / her. I mean, come on.
t may seem like with three actions required (press, roll, press), it wouldn't be that easy to accidentally make a call, but my two year old son disagrees. He has made at least ten 911 calls over the last week on mine and my wifes phones combined...
The solution here is to not let your 10 year old son play with your Blackberry. You don't leave your double-edged razor blades out too, do you?
However, this is a regular enough linguistic phenomenon - see "Irangate" "workaholic" etc. There's no Irangate hotel, nor is there a lot of workahol going around, but we get it.
No, you hit the nail on the head with your first sentence. It's not Open Source. It's way cool, very neat, but it's not Open Source. Typical Slashdot rocket trajectory, high on fumes.
...more people/organizations will consider alternatives to their products (i.e. Postgres or MySQL).
I like Postgres and MySQL as much as the next guy, they both have a lot going for them, but come on. Are they really as solid as Oracle for "mission critical" 100% up-time applications? I think they have the potential to reach that point, but maybe not yet there.
Most shops simply cannot afford to run an unsupported configuration, so they will likely migrate their existing SuSE and Red Hat installations to Unbreakable Linux.
Not a lawyer, not even a pompous Slashdot-Talk-Like-A-Yale-Grad-But-Have-No-Real-Cl ue-Lawyer... But... Are there anti-trust issues with this idea of Oracle only on Oracle Linux?
agreed, i lost interest in redhat when they released fedora.
If you're running CentOS, how can you possibly say you've "lost interest in Red Hat"? The two are not compatible, CentOS for all practical purposes is Red Hat without the support contract. Same OS under the hood.
We had an issue where I work with e-mail BACKING UP for a few months... I happen to work for a largeish ISP in Pennsylvania.
And...
Actually we handle close to 50,000 e-mails per minute....
So... It took the ISP you work for a "few months" to install new mail servers and work out the kinks? Whay ISP is that? I'd like to avoid doing business with you...
Because aas far as I can tell it's the game operator that actually owns them since they can always take those assets away from the player (for example by cancelling their account).
Gamers can't have it both ways, try to monetize their virtual assets, and then say it's not really worth anything. We know very well than many people make lots of money on this useless crap, so obviously, it's worth something. One way or the other, people. Taxes are a bitch, but they too exist.
Where I work, what the machine comes with is irrelevent, we reimage them all with our "standard image". I don't expect to have to deal with Vista until at least SP2.
Our general is Eban Moglen -- he's the guy who will lead the fight, and he has more influence over the success or failure of linux than Linus or any other geek.
Well, he needs to get agressive. Thus far, I'm not impressed. "pretty please" and reasonable arguments don't work in this situation. If Moglen doesn't have what it takes to get nasty, he needs to give up the seat.
SCO may be a Microsoft stooge, but they where never their baby. Microsoft gave them some cash and said "go for it", and moved on. I don't think they where stupid enough to think that SCO had much of a chance, the best they could have hoped for was a short term FUD gain. IBM probably fought a little harder than they expected.
With Novell, it's totally different. The Novel "situation" is a peek at where Microsoft wants to go with Linux, an IP war. In today's IP law and court system, they have a good chance of gaining ground. This will get very ugly.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it does check to see if you are running pirated Windows.
Doesn't look the same anymore... http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7/
Stargate Enterprise
Is this story "viral marketing"? Is Slashdot the PRWeb for trendy techy businesses?
Who's the bigger ass here? This guy for perpetrating a sham on the Web ( For shame! Inaccuracy and fraud on the Web? Who would have ever thought! ), or Slashdot for once again falling for some bogus story because it had all the right toilet paper thin anti-establishment shit smeared all over it?
I'm reminded of the time I saw this lady in a warehouse store give her baby in her cart her cell phone, she thought is was sooooooo cute, the baby would put it up to its ear... Than the baby threw it as hard as it could on the concrete floor...
If you yourself find it hard to avoid calling 911, your 2 or 10 year old will do better? If your kidd is calling 911 5 and 10 times fiddling with your phone, they should give you a big fat ticket for letting him / her. I mean, come on.
The solution here is to not let your 10 year old son play with your Blackberry. You don't leave your double-edged razor blades out too, do you?
No, you hit the nail on the head with your first sentence. It's not Open Source. It's way cool, very neat, but it's not Open Source. Typical Slashdot rocket trajectory, high on fumes.
And certainly not for the cost per CPU that Oracal will want to charge them for Unbreakable Linux...
It's not quite the same situation. SQL Server has never ran on any other platform. Currently, Oracal does run on a variety of platforms.
I like Postgres and MySQL as much as the next guy, they both have a lot going for them, but come on. Are they really as solid as Oracle for "mission critical" 100% up-time applications? I think they have the potential to reach that point, but maybe not yet there.
Not a lawyer, not even a pompous Slashdot-Talk-Like-A-Yale-Grad-But-Have-No-Real-Cl ue-Lawyer... But... Are there anti-trust issues with this idea of Oracle only on Oracle Linux?
And...
If you're running CentOS, how can you possibly say you've "lost interest in Red Hat"? The two are not compatible, CentOS for all practical purposes is Red Hat without the support contract. Same OS under the hood.
The Air Force's new-ish GDSS2 is all VB6...
So... It took the ISP you work for a "few months" to install new mail servers and work out the kinks? Whay ISP is that? I'd like to avoid doing business with you...
That's a lot of work just to something to work that should work by default.
Gamers can't have it both ways, try to monetize their virtual assets, and then say it's not really worth anything. We know very well than many people make lots of money on this useless crap, so obviously, it's worth something. One way or the other, people. Taxes are a bitch, but they too exist.
The point is, not some random hacker from the UK or Romania who calls themselves a "security researcher". Honestly, this guys story is lame.
On the street?
Where I work, what the machine comes with is irrelevent, we reimage them all with our "standard image". I don't expect to have to deal with Vista until at least SP2.
Well, he needs to get agressive. Thus far, I'm not impressed. "pretty please" and reasonable arguments don't work in this situation. If Moglen doesn't have what it takes to get nasty, he needs to give up the seat.
SCO may be a Microsoft stooge, but they where never their baby. Microsoft gave them some cash and said "go for it", and moved on. I don't think they where stupid enough to think that SCO had much of a chance, the best they could have hoped for was a short term FUD gain. IBM probably fought a little harder than they expected. With Novell, it's totally different. The Novel "situation" is a peek at where Microsoft wants to go with Linux, an IP war. In today's IP law and court system, they have a good chance of gaining ground. This will get very ugly.
Less than 100 miles difference a year is insignificant.