Yup, that CPU ID was certainly a good idea. It wasn't really about asset management or privacy at all... it was about screwing the competition when they least expected it!! Whoo-ya!
No, you probably couldn't because business doesn't want to sell you ownership at all. If it's digital in some way, shape, or form, then you've just rented it. Read your EULA.
We do have a line item veto... Bubba signed that into law. The hub-bub at the time was that it allowed the executive branch to legislate by changing the law as it was passed by the legislative branch, and the constitution expressly forbids any one branch from exercising the powers of the others.
But as long as the judicial branch gets to behave legislatively via judicial activism, I guess it's only equitable that the executive branch get in on the act.
Unfortunately, neither Bubba nor Dubya have exercised their brand spanking new line item veto powers yet.
Hmmm... SCO is certainly the kind of company that, as CEO, I'd stake my company's long term survival to.
NOT!
Oh, and Cindy Sheehan's son says that SCO will file bankruptcy and MySQL's check will bounce.
if it's their property, then i'm going to call my congresscritter and suggest that they tax the living shit out of it... a property tax, just like they do for my car... every year! Gotta pay to play, pal!
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Yup, that CPU ID was certainly a good idea. It wasn't really about asset management or privacy at all... it was about screwing the competition when they least expected it!! Whoo-ya!
No, you probably couldn't because business doesn't want to sell you ownership at all. If it's digital in some way, shape, or form, then you've just rented it. Read your EULA.
Any bug you document is a feature!
We do have a line item veto... Bubba signed that into law. The hub-bub at the time was that it allowed the executive branch to legislate by changing the law as it was passed by the legislative branch, and the constitution expressly forbids any one branch from exercising the powers of the others. But as long as the judicial branch gets to behave legislatively via judicial activism, I guess it's only equitable that the executive branch get in on the act. Unfortunately, neither Bubba nor Dubya have exercised their brand spanking new line item veto powers yet.
Hmmm... SCO is certainly the kind of company that, as CEO, I'd stake my company's long term survival to. NOT! Oh, and Cindy Sheehan's son says that SCO will file bankruptcy and MySQL's check will bounce.
if it's their property, then i'm going to call my congresscritter and suggest that they tax the living shit out of it... a property tax, just like they do for my car... every year! Gotta pay to play, pal!
"You'll pay for what you don't know."
Won't work unless episodes I and II are to be redone in sepia tone.