These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention.
What the bleepin' hell does he think the Linux community's been doing all this time? Sitting down with our thumbs up our asses? He's been eating the FUD that SCO's feeding everyone and apparently enjoying it. So what if they won a judgement against MS for the DRDOS fiasco? That was a legit lawsuit and this one looks less viable everyday. Lyons doesn't give the Linux community it's due credit and obviously thinks of it as nothing more than a religiously fanatic cult.
If the judge who takes up this case is as stupid, gullible, and FUD-munching as Lyons then, yes, we do have a problem.
Often in college, my colleagues often joked about building a Porn OS. Many of the features they talked about resided strictly in the realm of the look and feel of course (X-rated buttons and sounds), so it could have been implemented in a window manager theme (making it truly X-windows) on top of an already-existing OS.
My web host runs IIS, but I got them to switch me to a server with PHP support quite easily. I felt learning a cross-platform tool instead of ASP was more beneficial for me, since I also have an apache server. Can I do ASP on apache? I'm not sure I care to try to find out. I also found PHP easier to pick up than perl for some odd reason. Then again, if I couldn't read perl in high school, should I be surprised?
Microsoft must âoeimprove business consistencyâ so that customers are not hit with unexpected â" and unwanted â" changes.
So long as they conduct monopolistic practices, they're going to be slow to understand what is and isn't acceptable with customers. In the mean time, as in the case here, they can only pay cursory lip service to what the consumer is demanding. It's just like Gates' security initiative - I'll believe it when I see it, and all I see now is either a half-assed attempt or a complete joke.
Record labels allege in the suit that in preparing to launch the radio service, Streamcast bought thousands of CDs with thousands of songs and then transferred the music onto a digital database on computer hard drives and other memory devices without the permission of the copyright owners.
If this is what they're complaining about then they won't win because copying CDs to hard drives isn't even nearly illegal unless you distribute the music.
the karma-whoring didn't even occur to me until just now...i was actually just trying make an observation in relation to tablet pcs which seem to be insanely priced...but indeed, my previous comment was indeed, even if unintentionally, karma-whorific:)
I'm no fan of Apple by an means of the imagination, but $1599's pretty decent and a heck of a lot more affordable than a tablet.
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Good point, but then they'd have to prove that IBM or any other group was the one who intergrated the offending code and that SCO didn't do it. They have to prove that SCO's programmers never knew about it. Many have theorized that linux programmers cut corners by using SCO code that they knew about, but what if those programmers were SCO employees?
confusing perhaps to a newbie...
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I cannot see that it helps anyone in any activity, including voting, to have their computers flooded with this often quite distasteful material.
Is he referring to unsolicited email or a canned, pork product? Either way, it's a problem.
My coworker was fuming after a full-screen ad took over his screen after while he was going to msn.com.
If he's any indication of whether or not these things work, well, I think this won't go over well with people at all. It may turn some people off of the advertised products. In any case, use mozilla or netscape with pop-up blockers...and don't set msn.com to be your homepage *sigh*.
PeopleSoft don't seem to know the first thing about security
If this is true, then I'm afraid. My university spent boat-loads of money on Peoplesoft to replace a bunch of systems, including student records,ID card access, and payroll IIRC. It's been slow and painful. There's always something wrong with the card access system and filling out timesheets online looked so confusing that a lot of people stayed with submitting them on paper despite what the payroll department demanded. But this has got to be better than the cobol and fortran systems we used to run, right?
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um...i was just kidding about that ascii screenshots
Maybe the screenshots should have been done in ascii instead of jpeg?
Beverly Garrard
Worldwide Trademark Manager
Legal Affairs
Judging by her title, and the fact that the company had allocated such a position, it looks like somone's trying to justify her existance.
What, has someone ported BSD to the X-Box?
that will depend on how long microsoft will continue bankrolling sco and for how much.
not the Linux community.
These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention.
What the bleepin' hell does he think the Linux community's been doing all this time? Sitting down with our thumbs up our asses? He's been eating the FUD that SCO's feeding everyone and apparently enjoying it. So what if they won a judgement against MS for the DRDOS fiasco? That was a legit lawsuit and this one looks less viable everyday. Lyons doesn't give the Linux community it's due credit and obviously thinks of it as nothing more than a religiously fanatic cult.
If the judge who takes up this case is as stupid, gullible, and FUD-munching as Lyons then, yes, we do have a problem.
Often in college, my colleagues often joked about building a Porn OS. Many of the features they talked about resided strictly in the realm of the look and feel of course (X-rated buttons and sounds), so it could have been implemented in a window manager theme (making it truly X-windows) on top of an already-existing OS.
It's stable, doesn't cost a bundle, and isn't dependent on .rpm's
Debian =)
My web host runs IIS, but I got them to switch me to a server with PHP support quite easily. I felt learning a cross-platform tool instead of ASP was more beneficial for me, since I also have an apache server. Can I do ASP on apache? I'm not sure I care to try to find out. I also found PHP easier to pick up than perl for some odd reason. Then again, if I couldn't read perl in high school, should I be surprised?
not for RIAA but for the kid. He shouldn't have a problem getting a job with a company like google now.
Microsoft must âoeimprove business consistencyâ so that customers are not hit with unexpected â" and unwanted â" changes.
So long as they conduct monopolistic practices, they're going to be slow to understand what is and isn't acceptable with customers. In the mean time, as in the case here, they can only pay cursory lip service to what the consumer is demanding. It's just like Gates' security initiative - I'll believe it when I see it, and all I see now is either a half-assed attempt or a complete joke.
but the streaming internet radio station never came alive, so the RIAA shouldn't get a dime.
Record labels allege in the suit that in preparing to launch the radio service, Streamcast bought thousands of CDs with thousands of songs and then transferred the music onto a digital database on computer hard drives and other memory devices without the permission of the copyright owners.
If this is what they're complaining about then they won't win because copying CDs to hard drives isn't even nearly illegal unless you distribute the music.
the karma-whoring didn't even occur to me until just now...i was actually just trying make an observation in relation to tablet pcs which seem to be insanely priced...but indeed, my previous comment was indeed, even if unintentionally, karma-whorific :)
I'm no fan of Apple by an means of the imagination, but $1599's pretty decent and a heck of a lot more affordable than a tablet.
Good point, but then they'd have to prove that IBM or any other group was the one who intergrated the offending code and that SCO didn't do it. They have to prove that SCO's programmers never knew about it. Many have theorized that linux programmers cut corners by using SCO code that they knew about, but what if those programmers were SCO employees?
I cannot see that it helps anyone in any activity, including voting, to have their computers flooded with this often quite distasteful material.
Is he referring to unsolicited email or a canned, pork product? Either way, it's a problem.
imaginary:-2
You mean imaginary:i right?
Idiotic or loyal? ;-)
What's the difference?
My coworker was fuming after a full-screen ad took over his screen after while he was going to msn.com.
If he's any indication of whether or not these things work, well, I think this won't go over well with people at all. It may turn some people off of the advertised products. In any case, use mozilla or netscape with pop-up blockers...and don't set msn.com to be your homepage *sigh*.
What do you have against lettuce?
and we're not even talking about russia.
PeopleSoft don't seem to know the first thing about security
If this is true, then I'm afraid. My university spent boat-loads of money on Peoplesoft to replace a bunch of systems, including student records,ID card access, and payroll IIRC. It's been slow and painful. There's always something wrong with the card access system and filling out timesheets online looked so confusing that a lot of people stayed with submitting them on paper despite what the payroll department demanded. But this has got to be better than the cobol and fortran systems we used to run, right?
If I adjust my AM radio to a frequency that emits only static, I can put my TI-82 up to it to get sound effects when I play tetris.
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X
And When it is grown
Then my little clone
Will be of the opposite sex
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
---Issac Asimov