I like the Buddhist mulligan ability.. although if my/. karma had anything to do with it, I would level down to a camera lens in the goatse photography dept. Ugh -B
I didn't RTFA, but if it's a gas giant, I can compare it to my father in law and see which spews off the oldest hot air... -B
From the ruling - Interesting parrellels
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USL vs BSDI Documents
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I think we can expect to see more of this -
Indeed, ignoring header files and comments (see below), the overlap in the critical "kernel" region is but 56 lines out of 230,9995, and the overlap elsewhere is 130 lines out of 1.3 million. However, as both sides argue (but to different effect), the nature of the overlap is more significant than its size.
Comments have no role whatsoever in software performance. In summary, Professor Carson has examined the traits shared by Net2, BSD/386, and 32V, and detected a common lineage.
Defendants argue that virtually all of these traits reflect publicly available code, copied comments, or overlap dictated by compatibility with industry standards. Professor Carson disagrees, and has allegedly identified at least some overlapping files that are irrelevant to program interfacing. (Carson Reply Aff. at 6(d), 8-15.)
Plaintiff points to several different activities by the University of California that give this court specific jurisdiction over the Regents' alleged misdeeds. The first of these activities was the negotiation and execution of licensing agreements between Plaintiff and the University: "the University `reached out beyond' California and knowingly contracted to obtain and use . . . software developed in New Jersey"
Second, Plaintiff argues that "unlawful act" jurisdiction
is proper because Defendants have misappropriated trade secrets and infringed Plaintiff's copyright by licensing Net2 to UUNET. This act inevitably and foreseeably led to the downloading of Net2 by
tens of thousands of users, whose use of Net2 foreseeably eroded the value of Plaintiff's trade secrets.
Making things deliberatly incompatible with existing technologies, applications, and infrastructure in order to force the user to change.. I'd often made the remark that I was going to bring my department into the 21st century, kicking and screaming - little did I know that I would be kicking and screaming when Microsoft's !tarchitecture made my job more difficult and sometimes pure hell. Maybe change is good, but I have seen very few good changes in the past 2 years - at least nothing worth ripping every computer out and upgrading....
Keep up the good work and stay the course. When the management realizes that many open source projects build and keep a solid foundation, they'll be more likely to choose against the wrecking ball.
Okay I wanted to see what the windows tax was and the d220 didn't have Mandrake available in any of the customization options.. Searched for Mandrake and found the d330. Looking side by side.. there's no cdrom drive?
The price difference between the 3rd and 5th computer is only $56, but then you have to buy a damn cdrom (no optical drive). Where's the incentive when I'll just have to go buy my own CDRom and bump the price up to the Windows price - Where's the incentive to the end user (not me the gentoo user)? There's supposed to be some kind of price break here...
What gives? B
And if they make a pirate movie
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The Bug
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· Score: 3, Funny
with all of the programmers saying "shiver me timbers", it would be
You *KNOW* it's only a matter of time before Larry Flynt or the latest celebrity pr0n site manages to get someone hired at LAX. Have someone taping the scanner line in RL, have the backscatter on a second feed, and this is all you need for verification that the backscatter pr0n is legit. Most of the more dubious websites will probably bypass the rl feed and try to pass the images off as celebs.
I'm not sure about the 3dPoseur look of the images and they don't do anything for me, but I think it'd be interesting to see what kind of person applies for this job.. Voyeurs?
The name backscatter is completely wrong.. It sounds like a Peter North film andways...
Another thing - Ever seen Spinal Tap? The airport security gate/cucumber scene comes to mind here....
Basically it's use your existing connection, use MSN's "most advanced" spam filter (which I must disagree since I've turned on Earthlink's whitelist - that service rocks), use MS's virus protection for email (using Eudora on Windows is a good start), and contact import features.
Will they decrease the spam you get? No idea, but based on the amount that my hotmail account gets, I'd have to say no. What's the cost to upgrade? 2 months free then 9.95 a month.
There's their current anti-spam initiative. Pay $10 a month.
I'm looking at the green water on the diagram and I see the blackish smudge and I'm wondering if that's a plecostomos???
Now I suppose someone's gotta code Perl::FishFeed to make sure the algae prevention measures are in place....
-B
I'm not arguing that the guy is innocent... My contention is this - There are little or no commercial venues where these items can be purchased. Why in the hell are they CnD'ing people for stuff that they no longer sell, support, or make available.
Considering the number of incidents (1 million +), the age of the DMCA...I think this is another errant bot searching for certain codewords and generating form letters - similar to what happened to OpenOffice and the BSA.
-B
Just did a search and I'm seeing similar results -
c64 had a dmca notice for Diablo,Dig Dug,Donkey Kong,Frogger,Mario,Pac Man,Soldier Of Fortune, Spider-Man (Game),Tron 2.0 (game). Same with mame.net for Pac Man
They're even chasing dcc'seDonkey.. They're chasing eveything. The most interesting thing is the Incident #'s. Most agencies prefix their incident #'s with year, but this isn't the case.. their #'s are linear. Have they already submitted almost 1,000,000 ceast and decists?
-B
Looking at the manufacturers of the games in question - Dig Dug - Atari/Infogrames Donkey Kong - Nintendo Frogger - Konami Mario - Nintendo Pac Man - Midway SWAT - Sega Tron 2.0 (game)
Okay I think I may understand the Tron 2.0 given that a new PC game is soon to be released. The only other game that is still "current" with successful sequels is Mario. I can understand protecting all rights with those two. Frogger? Every sequel has sucked monkey nuts (Swampy's revenge anyone?). Dig Dug Deeper? The other games have found their way to the Best of Arcade CD's that retail for 9.95 at walmart and they don't even play as well as the cabinets.
In all reality they're going for the arcade game manuals though.. Not even the ROMs, so they're not even allowing the lawful owners of cabinets to get manuals without having to pay $9.95 to buy reproduction for a damn Frogger manual. I don't get it.
Has anyone tried to buy an original manual and then sue the IDSA for the difference between official/out-of-print price and the retail price?
I'm tired of the "corp/little people" thing. I'm tired of the corporate squeeze on the most asinine stuff.
-B
Trip down memory lane here....
Remember Steven and Peter Olsen the next time you decide to swing sideways on the swing and optionally give out a Tarzan like yell. At least they've told the media that they're not going to persue patent violations in court.
Wish all of the ludicrous patents would follow suit...
-B
Laura DiDio - Get your tin foil hats on
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Latest SCO News
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· Score: 1
Find out what 'Volume Licensing Options for 2003' really mean for your enterprise from industry expert, Laura DiDio. Laura's expertise in the industry has taken her from being a reporter in the high-tech trade press to covering the networking industry's top analyst firms. She is currently an analyst at Yankee Group where she covers Microsoft's initiatives.
Look's like she's still covering Microsoft's Initiatives. Anyone want to see a pic of this hottie?;)
She looks like she could have some credibility having as much press experience as she has, but I'm still concerned that she's just looking at the comments versus code.
-B
"A Microsoftie fresh back from vacation decided to try to find out the real story behind Microsoft's controversial SCO license. (If you don't know what we're talking about see story below.) This is the explanation he came back with. Note that it is second-hand. "
Look, I know Microsoft has it's NDA agreements, but too many of her stories are uncited, unsubstantiated, and just plain dumb.
Is this really Microsoft's attempt to extend Windows Services for Unix? 3 years ago Microsoft announced that Windows Services for Unix works with all Unix variants including SunSoft Solaris and Red Hat Linux 5.0, so why bother buying SCO licensing now? Did they pay Redhat as well (GPL yah yah I know), did they pay anyone else?
The timining of this is too coincidental, but c'mon no more Maureen O'Gara stories. Let me know if more get published, I know some tinfoil manufacturers that I need to invest in.
-B
This is one abberation of a major that should have never existed. Management or Comp Sci major? Quoting Mr Miyagi from karate kid - "You karate do yes, or karate do no. You karate do "guess so," [makes squish gesture] just like grape. Understand?"
In my experience, MIS majors are not very good at management or CS, but are often put in positions that force their ineptitude on others. One of the PHB's tried to get 2 MIS majors (they went along right with it and never presented a different solution) to code VB forms on the exchange server in order to do documentation tracking. WTF? Need to have a new software package, or new technology used? The group that evaluates software (no CS majors in the group) does nothing but cut and copy gartner reports, never really tries the software, and then makes the corporate recommendation.
Either be a management major, or be a CS major, but those MIS majors have got to go. I don't think I could ever trust a MIS major unless they actually hod some solid experience in coding or networking.
CS majors on the decline? Bah. I'm in it for the love of databases - Just don't ever put a person with a g*ddamn MIS major inbetween me and my work.
You'd laugh/cry if you saw my company's policy on Open Source. I'm fighting it.
"Scelson said he currently has 22 clients and sends out as many as 18 million e-mails a day, but never more than one e-mail per person, per day "
I hate Mindspring [Earthlink] for this - Some bright spammer found out that you can prepend the region in the hostname and come up with 30+ iterations of my email address and bulk up the lists myemail@atl.mindspring.com, myemail@bmtc.mindspring.com etc... So not only do I get spam I get it 30 fscking times more than anyone else
Yeah I want to hit 301 people with my dick. My wife's the only one not forging her headers tho..
I don't know if it's just my side. I get a DNS error and then I go to techfocus.org, get redirected to https and just another click is the domain administration page.
The next best thing is to place an ad in the sunday paper for a yard sale for the mark's place, make sure you mention that a lot of collectibles/antiques are up for sale, and that early birds are welcome.
I'm not sure which collectibles/antiques have the most rabid followers, but I'm sure some research will maximize your fun.
It would be nice if we could expect that our programmers would act more like airline pilots than fighter pilots: that they acknowledge, and accept, the responsibility that they take for the well-being of others.
And if you're on a Windows 2k box, your plane's a DC-10. Guarenteed to go down.......
Slashdot Mirror
I like the Buddhist mulligan ability.. although if my /. karma had anything to do with it, I would level down to a camera lens in the goatse photography dept. Ugh
-B
I didn't RTFA, but if it's a gas giant, I can compare it to my father in law and see which spews off the oldest hot air...
-B
I think we can expect to see more of this -
Indeed, ignoring header files and comments (see below), the overlap in the critical "kernel" region is but 56 lines out of 230,9995, and the overlap elsewhere is 130 lines out of 1.3 million. However, as both sides argue (but to different effect), the nature of the overlap is more significant than its size.
Comments have no role whatsoever in software performance. In summary, Professor Carson has examined the traits shared by Net2, BSD/386, and 32V, and detected a common lineage. Defendants argue that virtually all of these traits reflect publicly available code, copied comments, or overlap dictated by compatibility with industry standards. Professor Carson disagrees, and has allegedly identified at least some overlapping files that are irrelevant to program interfacing. (Carson Reply Aff. at 6(d), 8-15.)
Plaintiff points to several different activities by the University of California that give this court specific jurisdiction over the Regents' alleged misdeeds. The first of these activities was the negotiation and execution of licensing agreements between Plaintiff and the University: "the University `reached out beyond' California and knowingly contracted to obtain and use . . . software developed in New Jersey"
Second, Plaintiff argues that "unlawful act" jurisdiction is proper because Defendants have misappropriated trade secrets and infringed Plaintiff's copyright by licensing Net2 to UUNET. This act inevitably and foreseeably led to the downloading of Net2 by tens of thousands of users, whose use of Net2 foreseeably eroded the value of Plaintiff's trade secrets.
Reading on.....
-b
Here's your all of the OEM Training that the sales force needs, courtesy of Microsoft's chief sales executive Orlando Ayala.
-B
as far as UO goes it was Systran, and it slowed your down when you were getting ganked by AZN's..
Kekekeke
They need to have STFU OMG and all the rest in there too....
B
Making things deliberatly incompatible with existing technologies, applications, and infrastructure in order to force the user to change..
I'd often made the remark that I was going to bring my department into the 21st century, kicking and screaming - little did I know that I would be kicking and screaming when Microsoft's !tarchitecture made my job more difficult and sometimes pure hell.
Maybe change is good, but I have seen very few good changes in the past 2 years - at least nothing worth ripping every computer out and upgrading....
Keep up the good work and stay the course. When the management realizes that many open source projects build and keep a solid foundation, they'll be more likely to choose against the wrecking ball.
-B
Okay I wanted to see what the windows tax was and the d220 didn't have Mandrake available in any of the customization options.. Searched for Mandrake and found the d330. Looking side by side.. there's no cdrom drive?
The price difference between the 3rd and 5th computer is only $56, but then you have to buy a damn cdrom (no optical drive). Where's the incentive when I'll just have to go buy my own CDRom and bump the price up to the Windows price - Where's the incentive to the end user (not me the gentoo user)? There's supposed to be some kind of price break here...
What gives?
B
with all of the programmers saying "shiver me timbers", it would be
Rated Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
-B
Is that 180 Million Canadian? If so, that's like $50US.
Quit yer bitchin n pay!
-B
You *KNOW* it's only a matter of time before Larry Flynt or the latest celebrity pr0n site manages to get someone hired at LAX. Have someone taping the scanner line in RL, have the backscatter on a second feed, and this is all you need for verification that the backscatter pr0n is legit. Most of the more dubious websites will probably bypass the rl feed and try to pass the images off as celebs.
I'm not sure about the 3dPoseur look of the images and they don't do anything for me, but I think it'd be interesting to see what kind of person applies for this job.. Voyeurs?
The name backscatter is completely wrong.. It sounds like a Peter North film andways...
Another thing - Ever seen Spinal Tap? The airport security gate/cucumber scene comes to mind here....
B
FYI: Wired says that the amount of radiation
Basically it's use your existing connection, use MSN's "most advanced" spam filter (which I must disagree since I've turned on Earthlink's whitelist - that service rocks), use MS's virus protection for email (using Eudora on Windows is a good start), and contact import features.
Will they decrease the spam you get? No idea, but based on the amount that my hotmail account gets, I'd have to say no. What's the cost to upgrade? 2 months free then 9.95 a month.
There's their current anti-spam initiative. Pay $10 a month.
Ugh.
B
I'm looking at the green water on the diagram and I see the blackish smudge and I'm wondering if that's a plecostomos???
Now I suppose someone's gotta code Perl::FishFeed to make sure the algae prevention measures are in place....
-B
I'm not arguing that the guy is innocent... My contention is this - There are little or no commercial venues where these items can be purchased. Why in the hell are they CnD'ing people for stuff that they no longer sell, support, or make available.
Considering the number of incidents (1 million +), the age of the DMCA...I think this is another errant bot searching for certain codewords and generating form letters - similar to what happened to OpenOffice and the BSA.
-B
Just did a search and I'm seeing similar results - c64 had a dmca notice for Diablo,Dig Dug,Donkey Kong,Frogger,Mario,Pac Man,Soldier Of Fortune, Spider-Man (Game),Tron 2.0 (game). Same with mame.net for Pac Man They're even chasing dcc's eDonkey .. They're chasing eveything. The most interesting thing is the Incident #'s. Most agencies prefix their incident #'s with year, but this isn't the case.. their #'s are linear. Have they already submitted almost 1,000,000 ceast and decists?
-B
Looking at the manufacturers of the games in question -
Dig Dug - Atari/Infogrames
Donkey Kong - Nintendo
Frogger - Konami
Mario - Nintendo
Pac Man - Midway
SWAT - Sega
Tron 2.0 (game)
Okay I think I may understand the Tron 2.0 given that a new PC game is soon to be released. The only other game that is still "current" with successful sequels is Mario. I can understand protecting all rights with those two. Frogger? Every sequel has sucked monkey nuts (Swampy's revenge anyone?). Dig Dug Deeper? The other games have found their way to the Best of Arcade CD's that retail for 9.95 at walmart and they don't even play as well as the cabinets.
In all reality they're going for the arcade game manuals though.. Not even the ROMs, so they're not even allowing the lawful owners of cabinets to get manuals without having to pay $9.95 to buy reproduction for a damn Frogger manual. I don't get it.
Has anyone tried to buy an original manual and then sue the IDSA for the difference between official/out-of-print price and the retail price? I'm tired of the "corp/little people" thing. I'm tired of the corporate squeeze on the most asinine stuff.
-B
Whoever he is, he's got a LOT of bandwidth. Ping/trace it and see. They even had the audacity to create a server with MY username!!!
warez.texas.net
B
Trip down memory lane here....
Remember Steven and Peter Olsen the next time you decide to swing sideways on the swing and optionally give out a Tarzan like yell. At least they've told the media that they're not going to persue patent violations in court.
Wish all of the ludicrous patents would follow suit...
-B
Lifted from here -
;)
Find out what 'Volume Licensing Options for 2003' really mean for your enterprise from industry expert, Laura DiDio. Laura's expertise in the industry has taken her from being a reporter in the high-tech trade press to covering the networking industry's top analyst firms. She is currently an analyst at Yankee Group where she covers Microsoft's initiatives.
Look's like she's still covering Microsoft's Initiatives. Anyone want to see a pic of this hottie?
She looks like she could have some credibility having as much press experience as she has, but I'm still concerned that she's just looking at the comments versus code. -B
"A Microsoftie fresh back from vacation decided to try to find out the real story behind Microsoft's controversial SCO license. (If you don't know what we're talking about see story below.) This is the explanation he came back with. Note that it is second-hand. "
Look, I know Microsoft has it's NDA agreements, but too many of her stories are uncited, unsubstantiated, and just plain dumb.
Is this really Microsoft's attempt to extend Windows Services for Unix? 3 years ago Microsoft announced that Windows Services for Unix works with all Unix variants including SunSoft Solaris and Red Hat Linux 5.0, so why bother buying SCO licensing now? Did they pay Redhat as well (GPL yah yah I know), did they pay anyone else?
The timining of this is too coincidental, but c'mon no more Maureen O'Gara stories. Let me know if more get published, I know some tinfoil manufacturers that I need to invest in. -B
This is one abberation of a major that should have never existed. Management or Comp Sci major? Quoting Mr Miyagi from karate kid - "You karate do yes, or karate do no. You karate do "guess so," [makes squish gesture] just like grape. Understand?"
In my experience, MIS majors are not very good at management or CS, but are often put in positions that force their ineptitude on others. One of the PHB's tried to get 2 MIS majors (they went along right with it and never presented a different solution) to code VB forms on the exchange server in order to do documentation tracking. WTF? Need to have a new software package, or new technology used? The group that evaluates software (no CS majors in the group) does nothing but cut and copy gartner reports, never really tries the software, and then makes the corporate recommendation.
Either be a management major, or be a CS major, but those MIS majors have got to go. I don't think I could ever trust a MIS major unless they actually hod some solid experience in coding or networking.
CS majors on the decline? Bah. I'm in it for the love of databases - Just don't ever put a person with a g*ddamn MIS major inbetween me and my work.
You'd laugh/cry if you saw my company's policy on Open Source. I'm fighting it.
B
"Scelson said he currently has 22 clients and sends out as many as 18 million e-mails a day, but never more than one e-mail per person, per day "
... So not only do I get spam I get it 30 fscking times more than anyone else
I hate Mindspring [Earthlink] for this -
Some bright spammer found out that you can prepend the region in the hostname and come up with 30+ iterations of my email address and bulk up the lists
myemail@atl.mindspring.com, myemail@bmtc.mindspring.com etc
Yeah I want to hit 301 people with my dick. My wife's the only one not forging her headers tho..
B
I don't know if it's just my side. I get a DNS error and then I go to techfocus.org, get redirected to https and just another click is the domain administration page.
Strange.
B
The next best thing is to place an ad in the sunday paper for a yard sale for the mark's place, make sure you mention that a lot of collectibles/antiques are up for sale, and that early birds are welcome.
I'm not sure which collectibles/antiques have the most rabid followers, but I'm sure some research will maximize your fun.
-B
Lie
B
It would be nice if we could expect that our programmers would act more like airline pilots than fighter pilots: that they acknowledge, and accept, the responsibility that they take for the well-being of others.
And if you're on a Windows 2k box, your plane's a DC-10. Guarenteed to go down.......
--beacher