It hasn't happened because no one really knows what code is bad and SCO won't tell you unless you sign an NDA.
If you're a kernel developer signing the NDA probably prohibts you from actualy going about removing the code as that would "disclose" what code is in question.
I think I'm actaully beginning to hate SCO more than Saddam Hussein!
What I like about all this is that they own the copyrights to the CODE, but are choosing to license the BINARY implementation.
Convinent that, it will be awfully hard for Linux users to find the offending CODE in all those 0's and 1's.
Also if the code SCO owns is in the Linux kernel, and they sell it, aren't they required to distribute it under the GPL for free?
This is mindblowingly evil and an absolute anethma to everything open source stands for.
I can only hope to have a chance to soon view a press conference where IBM announces its takeover of SCO, and fires everyone who still "works" there. The only bad thing about this is how much money McBride will make on the deal.
So these companies would rather give people who bought their cards their money back, or would they rather they keep their cards _and_ broaden their market share?
Of course, in this business climate, the corporations in question will probably shut these hackers down and forbid product returns. It truly is amazing what companies will do to their customers these days.
This could be fixed by simply adding an other category and letting the writer specify. Actually this could be a pretty powerful feature as a like minded group could put in the same other category and get all their replies grouped together.
I know he doesn't read his e-mail, my point is how many staffers the task would take (even if said staff were constantly tweaking spam filters).
The new method allows for other people (you) to do content management and organization yourself vs. them having to pay staff to do it. I would guess the new system does better at registering your opinions on a subject than the straight e-mail system would.
Are you so naive to think that the staffers weren't just counting for/against messages that they read and promply forgetting the text of the message (if they read all of it anyway)?
This system is not better/worse than the old way, its just different. Actually it may generate better data for the president to see rather the anectdotal type of data he probably gets now (ie. "there seem to be a lot of messages for/against this").
Clinton isn't the one that killed president@whitehouse.gov. Bush is.
Did you ever stop to think that nowdays, perhaps president@whitehouse.gov has a spam problem many orders of magnitude greater than your e-mail does?
Its easy to find conspiricy theories in all of this, but just imagine how much staff time was probably being allocated to filtering spam out of this mailbox.
You will see the same issue in a word document if you open it on another Windows machine that is missing the fonts you used, it will make its best guess.
Font is a four letter word, and I don't mean that in just the literal sense.
Here the democrat party workers can register and vote for native american voters without ever bothering the actual voter. The worker in question was applying for absentee ballots for people and then filling them out.
The road to voter fraud goes both ways, and I must say I've heard of far more fraud from democrats than repubilicans in my lifetime.
If I had some mod points left you'd get them. This was utter drivel.
I remember watching a TV special by Friedman about the reason behind the 9/11 attacks. After about 30 minutes consisting of telling us that arab terrorists were poor (not exactly true for Bin Laden, though) and that they weren't treated well in EUROPE, I gave up and changed the channel.
This is just more of that America hating, self loating liberal crap, of course with a catchy title that mentions Google.
The 1GHz backplane is the real news. No processor benchmark test really takes into account the total real speed of the system when running applications.
The fast backplane will speed up IO, which is a common bottleneck. 1GHz for a PC backplane is huge. The only machine I had seen a 1GHz backplane in so far is a HP-UX server. It cost wayyy more than $2000 or even $3000.
I really believe that with this new chip alliance with IBM Apple will finally be able to put that "the OS is really cool, but PCs are always faster" stuff behind them.
Just last week one of the local columnists in my local paper in my small town wrote an opinion piece about the PATRIOT acts less desirable characteristics with respect to electronic communicationa and mentioned the EFF as well.
I just about fell out of my chair.
Its happening, the mainstream media will pick up on this stuff because the RIAAs rantings are getting more and ridiculous.
It really is a good idea. And while you're at it you could make all those extra representatives stay in their district and "telecommute" to cast votes and such. The balance of power would shift back to the people in the district who could just walk down to the representavies (or drive to even) office, whereas the lobbyists would have to fly all over the place at considerable cost.
Of course that's the the same reason that it will never happen.
Oh yeah, he's not. DAMMIT, THIS IS NOT A PARTY ISSUE!!! If you want a political party to save you from this, vote Libertarian. Or if you want a political party to save you from this _and_ make SUVs illegal, vote Green (not my preference though).
Only problem. There is no mandate that I or anyone else follow the order to "Buy CDs". THEY HAVE NO POWER TO MAKE ME.
Even if I download music over the net and get a letter from the RIAA, the only thing I would really have to do is delete some files and destroy some burned CDs. I do not have to buy their stuff.
Only through the granting of the right to do so by the king could Sun Tzu kill the concubines. Sun also says that the king must grant his generals this type of control.
There is nothing in marketplace capitalism that grants the RIAA the right for their stuff to be purchased. They have the right to pursue people who steal their product, but not to make you buy it.
1. Label most of your customers as criminals. 2. Send them thretening letters. 3. Make Crappy Music. Release it on "crippled" CDs 4. ????? 5. Profit!!
What I know about this whole situation is if I were sent a letter I would probably oblige and never download another file ever again. But I already know I will never buy another CD again.
C'mon RIAA, keep it up, keep hitting the customer (not consumer, consumer assumes that your customers will actually buy your crap) with a bigger and bigger stick, I'm sure they'll come around and give you your money.
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It hasn't happened because no one really knows what code is bad and SCO won't tell you unless you sign an NDA.
If you're a kernel developer signing the NDA probably prohibts you from actualy going about removing the code as that would "disclose" what code is in question.
I think I'm actaully beginning to hate SCO more than Saddam Hussein!
What I like about all this is that they own the copyrights to the CODE, but are choosing to license the BINARY implementation.
Convinent that, it will be awfully hard for Linux users to find the offending CODE in all those 0's and 1's.
Also if the code SCO owns is in the Linux kernel, and they sell it, aren't they required to distribute it under the GPL for free?
This is mindblowingly evil and an absolute anethma to everything open source stands for.
I can only hope to have a chance to soon view a press conference where IBM announces its takeover of SCO, and fires everyone who still "works" there. The only bad thing about this is how much money McBride will make on the deal.
I of convinced of one thing I believe is absolutely certain to happen.
McBride will after all is said and done, win or lose or lose badly, be offered a cushy high paying VP job at Microsoft.
So these companies would rather give people who bought their cards their money back, or would they rather they keep their cards _and_ broaden their market share?
Of course, in this business climate, the corporations in question will probably shut these hackers down and forbid product returns. It truly is amazing what companies will do to their customers these days.
Try 13 billion, but thats just the astronmers best guess. Your're about right on age of the solar system, though.
This could be fixed by simply adding an other category and letting the writer specify. Actually this could be a pretty powerful feature as a like minded group could put in the same other category and get all their replies grouped together.
I know he doesn't read his e-mail, my point is how many staffers the task would take (even if said staff were constantly tweaking spam filters).
The new method allows for other people (you) to do content management and organization yourself vs. them having to pay staff to do it. I would guess the new system does better at registering your opinions on a subject than the straight e-mail system would.
Are you so naive to think that the staffers weren't just counting for/against messages that they read and promply forgetting the text of the message (if they read all of it anyway)?
This system is not better/worse than the old way, its just different. Actually it may generate better data for the president to see rather the anectdotal type of data he probably gets now (ie. "there seem to be a lot of messages for/against this").
Clinton isn't the one that killed president@whitehouse.gov. Bush is.
Did you ever stop to think that nowdays, perhaps president@whitehouse.gov has a spam problem many orders of magnitude greater than your e-mail does?
Its easy to find conspiricy theories in all of this, but just imagine how much staff time was probably being allocated to filtering spam out of this mailbox.
Don't feel bad man, the only thing you did is beat me to it.
You will see the same issue in a word document if you open it on another Windows machine that is missing the fonts you used, it will make its best guess.
Font is a four letter word, and I don't mean that in just the literal sense.
Ok, but how about South Dakota...
Here the democrat party workers can register and vote for native american voters without ever bothering the actual voter. The worker in question was applying for absentee ballots for people and then filling them out.
The road to voter fraud goes both ways, and I must say I've heard of far more fraud from democrats than repubilicans in my lifetime.
I never said conservatives were intersted in liberty either.
;-)
You're of course very correct on libertarians, though.
Maybe you got my point after all.
You're kidding right?
Modern american liberals belive the government should control most aspects of our lives. Certainly doesn't sound like liberty to me.
The best thing that could happen to Federal Government spending on education would be for it to end.
They are throwing that money away. The problems with education in this country are not going to be fixed by burecrats in Washington.
Maybe IBM should buy SUN and then use there options to buy a large chunk of SCO at bargain basement prices.
/.ers terrified, and probably rightly so.
Yes, I know, the idea of IBM buying SUN should make many
It would be great if the patent holder stopped at the 3, (excluding zeroth), laws of robotics.
;-)
If they did that, finding prior art wouldn't exactly be difficult
If I had some mod points left you'd get them. This was utter drivel.
I remember watching a TV special by Friedman about the reason behind the 9/11 attacks. After about 30 minutes consisting of telling us that arab terrorists were poor (not exactly true for Bin Laden, though) and that they weren't treated well in EUROPE, I gave up and changed the channel.
This is just more of that America hating, self loating liberal crap, of course with a catchy title that mentions Google.
The 1GHz backplane is the real news. No processor benchmark test really takes into account the total real speed of the system when running applications.
The fast backplane will speed up IO, which is a common bottleneck. 1GHz for a PC backplane is huge. The only machine I had seen a 1GHz backplane in so far is a HP-UX server. It cost wayyy more than $2000 or even $3000.
I really believe that with this new chip alliance with IBM Apple will finally be able to put that "the OS is really cool, but PCs are always faster" stuff behind them.
Yesterday was a good day for apple.
Just last week one of the local columnists in my local paper in my small town wrote an opinion piece about the PATRIOT acts less desirable characteristics with respect to electronic communicationa and mentioned the EFF as well.
I just about fell out of my chair.
Its happening, the mainstream media will pick up on this stuff because the RIAAs rantings are getting more and ridiculous.
It really is a good idea. And while you're at it you could make all those extra representatives stay in their district and "telecommute" to cast votes and such. The balance of power would shift back to the people in the district who could just walk down to the representavies (or drive to even) office, whereas the lobbyists would have to fly all over the place at considerable cost.
Of course that's the the same reason that it will never happen.
And Berman is a ultra conservative Republican??
Howard Berman (D-CA)
Oh yeah, he's not. DAMMIT, THIS IS NOT A PARTY ISSUE!!! If you want a political party to save you from this, vote Libertarian. Or if you want a political party to save you from this _and_ make SUVs illegal, vote Green (not my preference though).
Actually almost all the songs I download are older music, which of course unlike other older merchandice never comes down in price.
Only problem. There is no mandate that I or anyone else follow the order to "Buy CDs". THEY HAVE NO POWER TO MAKE ME.
Even if I download music over the net and get a letter from the RIAA, the only thing I would really have to do is delete some files and destroy some burned CDs. I do not have to buy their stuff.
Only through the granting of the right to do so by the king could Sun Tzu kill the concubines. Sun also says that the king must grant his generals this type of control.
There is nothing in marketplace capitalism that grants the RIAA the right for their stuff to be purchased. They have the right to pursue people who steal their product, but not to make you buy it.
1. Label most of your customers as criminals.
2. Send them thretening letters.
3. Make Crappy Music. Release it on "crippled" CDs
4. ?????
5. Profit!!
What I know about this whole situation is if I were sent a letter I would probably oblige and never download another file ever again. But I already know I will never buy another CD again.
C'mon RIAA, keep it up, keep hitting the customer (not consumer, consumer assumes that your customers will actually buy your crap) with a bigger and bigger stick, I'm sure they'll come around and give you your money.
All I can think of is....
Curt Schilling: Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
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Curt Shcilling: Curt Schilling smash!!!