This case reminds me of Dracula, no matter how many stakes you drive through the heart of SCO, it keeps comming back to life.
"a judicial ruling comes down that's so wrong at such a basic level that you're just left scratching your head"
The ruling can't be wrong, that's why it's called a ruling. Parloffs' entire evidence consists of reinterpreting and sugesting that Judge Kimball made an error in law. Something that if true would render the ruling open to appeal. Something the SCO lawyers would have spotted, don't you think.
Regardless of Judge Kimballs ruling, SCO haven't produced a single shread of evidence that Linux violates their Intelluctual property. Where are the thousands of lines of code, where are the stolen derivative properties and methods.
"Bingo! MS isn't trying to destroy physical media anymore than Verizon is trying to destroy the POTS"
According to the article, MS is acting to supress physical media so people are impelled to use its own online offerings.
'Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail..this is primarily a stalling tactic while Microsoft refines its own online-only technology.
"if you can change the original program, then what's the point ?)"
Well, what it means is that an evil software megacorporation could publish a digitally signed app that could be replaced with another presumably nefarious prog later on..
"The FBI estimates that more than 1m computers have been infected"
What Operating System did these computers run on and is it possible to make a 'computer' that don't get infected by clicking on a URL or opening an attachment.
The advert above says 'See why the City of Indianapolis chose Windows Server over Linux'. Luckly clicking on the 'Compare' link does nothing on this Xubuntu with free-flash installed. Is curious as to why such adverts turn up in a review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC..
What the hack does software hackers have to do with Insurgent groups, answer.. nothing. Why is it when you set off an IED, you're a terrorist, while if you drop white phosphorus on a civilian area, your a war hero.
"During the past four and a half years, the United States and its allies in Iraq have fielded the most advanced and complex weaponry ever developed. But they are still not winning the war"
Haven't the US learned anything since the Vietnam war, a low tech highly motivated guerilla army can defeat a so called hi-tech modern army.
"What we are seeing is the empowerment of the individual to conduct war,"
No what you are seeing is a highly pissed off populations defending their own country against an illegal and immoral occupation.
'Robb calls this new type of conflict "open-source warfare," because the manner in which insurgent groups are organizing themselves.. bears a strong resemblance to the open-source movement in software development'
What a complete load of tripe, have you noticed that anywhere there is 'terrorost' activity, it usually follows a period of oppression by some government. Are we supposed to forget why the Islamists are so pissed off at the US, it's to do with the Palestinian issue, the second and third generation refugees being a prime source for next years 'terrorists'.
"The resurrection of al-Qaeda is a good example"
There IS no al-Qaeda, just a bunch of severely pissed off ethnic Islamists. Like you drive a tank down my street and then have me ejected and forced to live in some refugee camp, that's gonna make one pissed off Arab.
"Given the structural changes that were required of al-Qaeda to adapt to its loss of Afghanistan as a safe haven,"
Bin Laden was sent into Afghanistan by the US to create an insurgent group that later on become known as al-Qaeda to fight the Russions. The one thing the Taliban did was reduce Opium production to zero, it is now back at its highest level ever. The implication that Afghanistan is now somehow not safe for 'al-Qaeda' is totally bogus. The coalition forces have no control there. As well as large areas of north Packistan are virtually no-go-areas for the Packistan government. Is this Rand fella living on the same planet as the rest of us.
"Unfortunately, the traditional weapons acquisition process.. is simply not designed to operate on such a fleeting timescale"
No, it's because you can't put enough troops on the ground to effectivly engage the enemy. In vietnam all it took was a bunch of barefoot gooks, a kalashnikov and a bag of rice to defeat the most powerfull and technologically advanced nation on the planet. You see they were prepared to sacrifice a hundred as against your one. Robots aren't much good in a war, as they don't hate people enough to travel half way round the world to kill people they have never met.
'"Software firewall" is an oxymoron. A firewall is a physical box that sits between two networks, filtering the exchange of information between them'
And you only really need a firewall if you are running services on ports that you don't want visible on the Internet. And in this day and age a firewall is next to useless as so many services are being piggybacked over HTML, in order to bypass the firewall...
>> And that hardware box you're talking about is most likely running some sort of firewall software, so it doesn't really make that much of a difference" G-News.ch
> And how do you think that physical box works? Hard-wired transistors between the ethernet ports?
I'll answer you both at the same time, it most certanly does matter, as it runs as firmware on embedded hardware and as such can not be disables by the next dot eXploit that comes running down the Internet tubes...
Don't be a bloody pedant, the work on cracking Enigma went into designing Colossus. Who's going to play Alan Turing in the movie, Jeff Goldblum, or no wait, Turing was a woofter, it would have to be Harvey Fierstein.
Incidentally, Goldblum got the part of Seth Brundle in the Fly because he once played James Watson in a BBC documtary, once a mad scientist always a mad scientist appariently..:)
These kind of prosecutions are a pretext for the police apparatus being used to shut down dissent, we've had a number of cases here where people were locked up merely for maintaining pro-Islamic web sites. It begs the question, can one oppose US/Israeli policy in the mid east and still not be a terr'rist.
I have a sneeking suspicion that the push for such legislation is coming from the other side of the Atlantic, the home of 'democracy'. Makes you wonder how you can defend 'freedom' by converting the place into a police state. People wonder why we need machine-gun-armed-police on the streets of London. Maybe it's to do with us bombing the heck out of johnny-A-rab.
What were the circumstances that led police to seize her computer in May 2007. Has this individual, engaged in or threatened violence against anyone, if not then this whole case is revealed as bogus. Insert suitable quote from George Orwell here..
"Mitnick served five years in prison, of which four and a half years were pre-trial, and eight months were in solitary confinement"
They also put him in with seriously violent crim-types, Mitnick got beat up on at least one occasion. It's the American way of justice appariently, lock someone up untill they 'confess' and then sentence them to the time already served.
"He didn't say that he never reboots the OS, just that he never cold-boots it or powers it off when it's not in use"
No, fuddie, he didn't say he never reboots, what he actually said was "I never shut off a laptop from the day I buy it until I dispose of it". Besides which what is the difference to the OS between a reboot and a cold-boot.
" I do the same with my desktop, but then it's running several web-facing services so I've got an excuse"
The same applies as to this magic machine that never needs rebooting, sorry cold-booting. Does cold-booting instead of re-booting mean I have to let the computer get cold between installing service packs..:)
'I never shut off a laptop from the day I buy it until I dispose of it'
Do you mind informing the rest of the IT world as to what secret sause you use, an OS that never requires a reboot during the lifetime of the laptop. The world would beat a path to your door..:)
'# Enter all my wifi access data again' etc...
Well if the app runs identically to a version running on the harddrive then that should be no problem. All the harddrive would be used for is storing data and none of those nasty virus type programs that are rampant on Windows..
Maybe if the BIOS did all this at boot time, then you wouldn't need a bloated OS just to email, browse or play media..
was: What is this 'booting'? (Score:5, Insightful)
Some time back, a company called Genesis Europe were going to rollout a VDSL network, what ever became of it I wonder. As for VDSL, this article has something interesting to say about it.
"Mr. Walker.. claims VMSK achieves spectral efficiencies of 90 bits/sec/Hz or more.. These claims are in direct violation of the mathematical principles of digital communications discovered by Harry Nyquist (1928), Claude Shannon (1948), and others"
Slashdot Mirror
"the presence of other people may enhance our movie-watching experiences"
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First prize for stateing the patently obvious
You're obviously taking the piss, aren't you .. :)
Re:PJ - mob leader
"TFA does raise a rather more interesting point: did the judge have legal authority to dismiss the case as he did in the ruling"
Why no ask the SCO lawyers, do you seriously think they wouldn't be aware of this.
Re:Well "mob justice" is rhetorically over the top
This case reminds me of Dracula, no matter how many stakes you drive through the heart of SCO, it keeps comming back to life.
"a judicial ruling comes down that's so wrong at such a basic level that you're just left scratching your head"
The ruling can't be wrong, that's why it's called a ruling. Parloffs' entire evidence consists of reinterpreting and sugesting that Judge Kimball made an error in law. Something that if true would render the ruling open to appeal. Something the SCO lawyers would have spotted, don't you think.
Regardless of Judge Kimballs ruling, SCO haven't produced a single shread of evidence that Linux violates their Intelluctual property. Where are the thousands of lines of code, where are the stolen derivative properties and methods.
"Bingo! MS isn't trying to destroy physical media anymore than Verizon is trying to destroy the POTS"
..this is primarily a stalling tactic while Microsoft refines its own online-only technology.
According to the article, MS is acting to supress physical media so people are impelled to use its own online offerings.
'Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail
"if you can change the original program, then what's the point ?)"
..
Well, what it means is that an evil software megacorporation could publish a digitally signed app that could be replaced with another presumably nefarious prog later on
Re:Not a real life scenario...
"NZ Teen Arrested as 'Spybot Mastermind'"
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.. :)
translation: Feds want to justify their huge budget
time for another terr'ist alert
"The FBI estimates that more than 1m computers have been infected"
What Operating System did these computers run on and is it possible to make a 'computer' that don't get infected by clicking on a URL or opening an attachment.
And Slashdot took their filthy lucre, for shame TacoMan ..
'He can't find the "log out" menu item...'
...
On this Xubuntu brings up a menu or press the power button and it goes into shutdown mode.
'He thought installing Gnome would fix a network problem'
Anyone here suceeded in getting the WMP54G card working on Ubuntu, perhaps you could help the man out
The advert above says 'See why the City of Indianapolis chose Windows Server over Linux'. Luckly clicking on the 'Compare' link does nothing on this Xubuntu with free-flash installed. Is curious as to why such adverts turn up in a review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC ..
What the hack does software hackers have to do with Insurgent groups, answer .. nothing. Why is it when you set off an IED, you're a terrorist, while if you drop white phosphorus on a civilian area, your a war hero.
.. bears a strong resemblance to the open-source movement in software development'
.. is simply not designed to operate on such a fleeting timescale"
...
"During the past four and a half years, the United States and its allies in Iraq have fielded the most advanced and complex weaponry ever developed. But they are still not winning the war"
Haven't the US learned anything since the Vietnam war, a low tech highly motivated guerilla army can defeat a so called hi-tech modern army.
"What we are seeing is the empowerment of the individual to conduct war,"
No what you are seeing is a highly pissed off populations defending their own country against an illegal and immoral occupation.
'Robb calls this new type of conflict "open-source warfare," because the manner in which insurgent groups are organizing themselves
What a complete load of tripe, have you noticed that anywhere there is 'terrorost' activity, it usually follows a period of oppression by some government. Are we supposed to forget why the Islamists are so pissed off at the US, it's to do with the Palestinian issue, the second and third generation refugees being a prime source for next years 'terrorists'.
"The resurrection of al-Qaeda is a good example"
There IS no al-Qaeda, just a bunch of severely pissed off ethnic Islamists. Like you drive a tank down my street and then have me ejected and forced to live in some refugee camp, that's gonna make one pissed off Arab.
"Given the structural changes that were required of al-Qaeda to adapt to its loss of Afghanistan as a safe haven,"
Bin Laden was sent into Afghanistan by the US to create an insurgent group that later on become known as al-Qaeda to fight the Russions. The one thing the Taliban did was reduce Opium production to zero, it is now back at its highest level ever. The implication that Afghanistan is now somehow not safe for 'al-Qaeda' is totally bogus. The coalition forces have no control there. As well as large areas of north Packistan are virtually no-go-areas for the Packistan government. Is this Rand fella living on the same planet as the rest of us.
"Unfortunately, the traditional weapons acquisition process
No, it's because you can't put enough troops on the ground to effectivly engage the enemy. In vietnam all it took was a bunch of barefoot gooks, a kalashnikov and a bag of rice to defeat the most powerfull and technologically advanced nation on the planet. You see they were prepared to sacrifice a hundred as against your one. Robots aren't much good in a war, as they don't hate people enough to travel half way round the world to kill people they have never met.
Who's gonna defend us against you
Never put in an email something you don't want your mother or the police reading ... :)
'"Software firewall" is an oxymoron. A firewall is a physical box that sits between two networks, filtering the exchange of information between them'
...
And you only really need a firewall if you are running services on ports that you don't want visible on the Internet. And in this day and age a firewall is next to useless as so many services are being piggybacked over HTML, in order to bypass the firewall
was Re:Oxymoron
>> And that hardware box you're talking about is most likely running some sort of firewall software, so it doesn't really make that much of a difference" G-News.ch
...
> And how do you think that physical box works? Hard-wired transistors between the ethernet ports?
I'll answer you both at the same time, it most certanly does matter, as it runs as firmware on embedded hardware and as such can not be disables by the next dot eXploit that comes running down the Internet tubes
"Colossus wasn't used against Enigma"
.. :)
Don't be a bloody pedant, the work on cracking Enigma went into designing Colossus. Who's going to play Alan Turing in the movie, Jeff Goldblum, or no wait, Turing was a woofter, it would have to be Harvey Fierstein.
Incidentally, Goldblum got the part of Seth Brundle in the Fly because he once played James Watson in a BBC documtary, once a mad scientist always a mad scientist appariently
was Re:didn't Harvey Keitel crack Enigma
It's also interesting to note that Baggabes machine didn't work either ..
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"Bill Gates funded the construction of the display model on the condition that afterwards, they build him one too"
Do you have a citation for this interesting recollection
I thought Harvey Keitel captured an enigma machine from U-571 2000 .. :)
These kind of prosecutions are a pretext for the police apparatus being used to shut down dissent, we've had a number of cases here where people were locked up merely for maintaining pro-Islamic web sites. It begs the question, can one oppose US/Israeli policy in the mid east and still not be a terr'rist.
..
I have a sneeking suspicion that the push for such legislation is coming from the other side of the Atlantic, the home of 'democracy'. Makes you wonder how you can defend 'freedom' by converting the place into a police state. People wonder why we need machine-gun-armed-police on the streets of London. Maybe it's to do with us bombing the heck out of johnny-A-rab.
What were the circumstances that led police to seize her computer in May 2007. Has this individual, engaged in or threatened violence against anyone, if not then this whole case is revealed as bogus. Insert suitable quote from George Orwell here
"Mitnick served five years in prison, of which four and a half years were pre-trial, and eight months were in solitary confinement"
They also put him in with seriously violent crim-types, Mitnick got beat up on at least one occasion. It's the American way of justice appariently, lock someone up untill they 'confess' and then sentence them to the time already served.
she should take the fifth and claim she can't remember the keys as she was smoking a lot of dope at the time ...
Maybe they wanted to play submarines ... :)
"He didn't say that he never reboots the OS, just that he never cold-boots it or powers it off when it's not in use"
.. :)
No, fuddie, he didn't say he never reboots, what he actually said was "I never shut off a laptop from the day I buy it until I dispose of it". Besides which what is the difference to the OS between a reboot and a cold-boot.
" I do the same with my desktop, but then it's running several web-facing services so I've got an excuse"
The same applies as to this magic machine that never needs rebooting, sorry cold-booting. Does cold-booting instead of re-booting mean I have to let the computer get cold between installing service packs
'I never shut off a laptop from the day I buy it until I dispose of it'
.. :)
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..
Do you mind informing the rest of the IT world as to what secret sause you use, an OS that never requires a reboot during the lifetime of the laptop. The world would beat a path to your door
'# Enter all my wifi access data again' etc
Well if the app runs identically to a version running on the harddrive then that should be no problem. All the harddrive would be used for is storing data and none of those nasty virus type programs that are rampant on Windows..
Maybe if the BIOS did all this at boot time, then you wouldn't need a bloated OS just to email, browse or play media
was: What is this 'booting'? (Score:5, Insightful)
Some time back, a company called Genesis Europe were going to rollout a VDSL network, what ever became of it I wonder. As for VDSL, this article has something interesting to say about it.
.. claims VMSK achieves spectral efficiencies of 90 bits/sec/Hz or more .. These claims are in direct violation of the mathematical principles of digital communications discovered by Harry Nyquist (1928), Claude Shannon (1948), and others"
"Mr. Walker
The VMSK Delusion
was: Re:UpZide Labs