So presumably they'll also be sueing Panasonic over their range of DVD-RAM recorders that do *exactly* the same thing, only they save to a DVD-RAM disc rather than a hard disc.
Since the method in TiVo's patent specifically says hard disk, I doubt it.
And in the UK, they'll also be sueing Sky (AKA News Corporation... so rather a big hitter) over their Sky+ boxes, which basically do everything a Tivo does, except that Sky+ is still in business here and Tivo isn't.
Does TiVo have a UK patent? If not, you're wrong, again.
Claiming IP/patent rights over an *idea* rather than a *technique* is exactly the kind of bullshit thinking that is going to kill off innovation in the West...
TiVo is claiming that Echostar is violating TiVo's patent because Echostar copied their technique, or method as patent-speak calls it. Again, you're flaming away at a strawman.
... and allow countries like China and India to squash us in the future even as they laugh at our unbelievable stupidity in letting lawyers rule the roost.
You are using "us" rather loosely, since this is a US company suing a US company over alleged infrigement of a US patent. And now you're in a huff over this ranting about boycotting a product you already decided not to buy, that isn't even offered in your country anymore. Wow, what a crusader for patent reform and free market innovation you are. Where's my rolling eyes smiley when I need it?
Do they compand the signal before encoding it for digital transmission? They do that to the analog signal, to compress the dynamic range so the station always sounds loud. If they do that to the digital signal, what's the point? It isn't Hi Def by any stretch (no pun intended).
If you had RTFA that you linked to (thanks!), you'd have seen:
A rough landing on the sides of the crater - which could be as much as 700 metres deep - could have damaged the lander. A crater might also cast a shadow that would make it nearly impossible for Beagle to "power up" using its solar panels.
And:
Malin Space Science Systems, which operates the camera aboard Mars Global Surveyor, identified it (the crater) and sent the picture to the Beagle team late on Sunday.
Lastly, the crater walls might obstruct the line of sight to Earth at the times the lander is programmed to make attempts to establish contact.
So that the offending code, if present, can be removed from my systems and be replaced with something I have a license to. I can't do that without knowing what sections of code (if any) are infringing SCO's rights.
Contrast that with Network Appliance, whose machines may develop a fault overnight, but by the time you get into the office in the A.M., the machine has already emailed support and obtained the RMA # for its own faulty part, which is being shipped prioroty next day air to your location. If a engineer is needed for the service call, he has also been scheduled to arrive when the parts arrive.
NetApp got their shit in one sock, let me tell you.
It wasn't built (as UNIX and Linux systems were) to live in a hostile environment.
Except that they weren't. The 1980's ARPAnet was as benign an environment as any. UNIX security was built for that environment. All improvements are as "tacked-on" as you say Windows TCP/IP support was.
If the state failed to insist on a paper trail, how can you scream at Diebold for not providing one?
Because the state relied on Diebold to determine how to create a reliable e-voting system. Diebold not only failed to do so, but appears to have designed a system with deliberate or negligent security holes. The state relied on Diebold because Diebold and their lobbyists assured the state that Diebold could do it right.
A move to Opteron would allow them to be more competitve in cost and focus more on what they're good at, designing systems, not processors.
So what does the 20+ years' lineage of the SPARC architecture represent, if not Sun's ability to successfully design, implement, market and deploy processors? Hello? McFly?
However, Szulik expects Linux to be ready in a couple of years after it has had time to mature.
What is it, a fruit? It takes time to ripen? I think not. That's just stupid. RedHat Linux is not suitable for the home user desktop because RedHat has not made it so. Waiting will accomplish nothing.
The steel used to build your car's frame and body was produced in a supernova over 5 billion years ago. Only a tiny fraction of the energy generated by fusing at least 4 solar masses of hydrogen went into the production of the iron, chromium and carbon that was used to make the steel. A whole solar system was likely destroyed in the process.
Automobiles are far more inefficient than even this article implies.
Yeah, trying to install PHP on solaris is a freakin riot. Linux wins out just based on packages alone.
That PHP is too complex for a wanker to install without a prepared binary RPM is not the fault of Solaris or Sun, or even the PHP authors. Gee, who does that leave to blame?
Hmm, now a "Republican" named Schwarzenegger (who is actually slightly left of Diane Feinstein, but never mind that) will soon be appointing new members to Califorinia's election board, just in time for the 2004 election, where the E-voting machines will be used for the first time in the state.
Please put down any soft drinks or other beverage, unless you want to spray it all over the monitor and keyboard:
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:50:02 -0400 From: Matt Larson To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Removal of wildcard A records from.com and.net zones
VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5. We requested an extension from ICANN to give more notice to the community but were denied. We will be removing the wildcard A records from the.com and.net zones beginning at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4. The former behavior for these zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday, October.
Matt -- Matt Larson VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
It's a press release from VRSN, so naturally it is full of half-truths and lies, but the bottom line is that they are getting in line. I doubt SiteFinder or wildcards will be resurrected after this debacle.
Government steps in to take over.net,.com., and.org. Everyone's screwed. So much for the free, cooperative, works-of-our-own-free-will Internet.
You're posting from your AOL account, the one you just got with your first PC purchase. Am I right?
If I am not right, and you've been connected to the internet for more than six minutes, then how can you possibly not know that the dot-com and dot-net servers were run by the US government for over a decade prior to Verisign, and domains were free of charge, and none of this crap happened.
Far from everyone being screwed, the NSF ought to take it over again.
Because MS didn't foobar DNS to do it. They did it in the application, which is where this sort of service belongs. If you don't like the way IE does this, you can turn it off, or use a different browser. Can't turn off VRSN's fuckup.
I know I enjoy the added security of a NATed firewall, and without a really good reason, I won't be quick to give it up.
Well, if "it breaks worthwhile applications" isn't a good enough reason to dump NAT when it's no longer really needed, then there's not much hope, is there?
I saw that post on NANOG. But it isn't a valid US toll-free number. What is the US phone number to reach these Verisign engineers who can place you in their netblock blacklist?
And the most obnoxious feature of the law was that some authors outlived their copyright. Their most popular works would go into public domain while they were still alive and counting on the income. It's like revoking someone's Social Security at age 72, just because they had the temerity not to die when demographics predicted they would.
I sell a third of each of my living days, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. I don't get to take those 8 hours to another workplace and sell them there, again. Once sold, my hours are gone, forever. I get paid for them once, and once only.
Why should I sympathize with Card? Sounds to me like getting paid over and over again for a period of 52 years, just for one job done one time, seems like a sweet deal to me.
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Since the method in TiVo's patent specifically says hard disk, I doubt it.
And in the UK, they'll also be sueing Sky (AKA News Corporation... so rather a big hitter) over their Sky+ boxes, which basically do everything a Tivo does, except that Sky+ is still in business here and Tivo isn't.
Does TiVo have a UK patent? If not, you're wrong, again.
Claiming IP/patent rights over an *idea* rather than a *technique* is exactly the kind of bullshit thinking that is going to kill off innovation in the West
TiVo is claiming that Echostar is violating TiVo's patent because Echostar copied their technique, or method as patent-speak calls it. Again, you're flaming away at a strawman.
You are using "us" rather loosely, since this is a US company suing a US company over alleged infrigement of a US patent. And now you're in a huff over this ranting about boycotting a product you already decided not to buy, that isn't even offered in your country anymore. Wow, what a crusader for patent reform and free market innovation you are. Where's my rolling eyes smiley when I need it?
Do they compand the signal before encoding it for digital transmission? They do that to the analog signal, to compress the dynamic range so the station always sounds loud. If they do that to the digital signal, what's the point? It isn't Hi Def by any stretch (no pun intended).
If you had RTFA that you linked to (thanks!), you'd have seen:
A rough landing on the sides of the crater - which could be as much as 700 metres deep - could have damaged the lander. A crater might also cast a shadow that would make it nearly impossible for Beagle to "power up" using its solar panels.
And:
Malin Space Science Systems, which operates the camera aboard Mars Global Surveyor, identified it (the crater) and sent the picture to the Beagle team late on Sunday.
Lastly, the crater walls might obstruct the line of sight to Earth at the times the lander is programmed to make attempts to establish contact.
I ask this: WHY do you want to see it so badly?
So that the offending code, if present, can be removed from my systems and be replaced with something I have a license to. I can't do that without knowing what sections of code (if any) are infringing SCO's rights.
Contrast that with Network Appliance, whose machines may develop a fault overnight, but by the time you get into the office in the A.M., the machine has already emailed support and obtained the RMA # for its own faulty part, which is being shipped prioroty next day air to your location. If a engineer is needed for the service call, he has also been scheduled to arrive when the parts arrive.
NetApp got their shit in one sock, let me tell you.
It wasn't built (as UNIX and Linux systems were) to live in a hostile environment.
Except that they weren't. The 1980's ARPAnet was as benign an environment as any. UNIX security was built for that environment. All improvements are as "tacked-on" as you say Windows TCP/IP support was.
If the state failed to insist on a paper trail, how can you scream at Diebold for not providing one?
Because the state relied on Diebold to determine how to create a reliable e-voting system. Diebold not only failed to do so, but appears to have designed a system with deliberate or negligent security holes. The state relied on Diebold because Diebold and their lobbyists assured the state that Diebold could do it right.
Any other questions?
A move to Opteron would allow them to be more competitve in cost and focus more on what they're good at, designing systems, not processors.
So what does the 20+ years' lineage of the SPARC architecture represent, if not Sun's ability to successfully design, implement, market and deploy processors? Hello? McFly?
However, Szulik expects Linux to be ready in a couple of years after it has had time to mature.
What is it, a fruit? It takes time to ripen? I think not. That's just stupid. RedHat Linux is not suitable for the home user desktop because RedHat has not made it so. Waiting will accomplish nothing.
I had no idea there was a decline in TV ratings. I guess they only talk about it on TV or something?
The steel used to build your car's frame and body was produced in a supernova over 5 billion years ago. Only a tiny fraction of the energy generated by fusing at least 4 solar masses of hydrogen went into the production of the iron, chromium and carbon that was used to make the steel. A whole solar system was likely destroyed in the process.
Automobiles are far more inefficient than even this article implies.
I got one word for you: mailertable.
If you're running qmail, the word is: smtproutes
Yeah, trying to install PHP on solaris is a freakin riot. Linux wins out just based on packages alone.
That PHP is too complex for a wanker to install without a prepared binary RPM is not the fault of Solaris or Sun, or even the PHP authors. Gee, who does that leave to blame?
... and it doesn't ship with perl (last time I checked).
Then you must have last checked around 1999 or so. Perl has been standard since Solaris 8. Several new system utilities require it.
But you need California to win by a landslide.
Hmm, now a "Republican" named Schwarzenegger (who is actually slightly left of Diane Feinstein, but never mind that) will soon be appointing new members to Califorinia's election board, just in time for the 2004 election, where the E-voting machines will be used for the first time in the state.
Things to make you go "Hmmmmm....."
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Go easy on Matt, he's just the messenger.
VeriSign Will Temporarily Suspend Web Navigation Service in Order to Continue To Work With Internet Community Towards a Long-Term Implementation
Good for them. Even better for us.
It's a press release from VRSN, so naturally it is full of half-truths and lies, but the bottom line is that they are getting in line. I doubt SiteFinder or wildcards will be resurrected after this debacle.
Government steps in to take over .net, .com., and .org. Everyone's screwed. So much for the free, cooperative, works-of-our-own-free-will Internet.
You're posting from your AOL account, the one you just got with your first PC purchase. Am I right?
If I am not right, and you've been connected to the internet for more than six minutes, then how can you possibly not know that the dot-com and dot-net servers were run by the US government for over a decade prior to Verisign, and domains were free of charge, and none of this crap happened.
Far from everyone being screwed, the NSF ought to take it over again.
Because MS didn't foobar DNS to do it. They did it in the application, which is where this sort of service belongs. If you don't like the way IE does this, you can turn it off, or use a different browser. Can't turn off VRSN's fuckup.
And they *still* use a native compiler that is fast on Sun's, but is non-ANSI compliant,
Just like gcc.
can't deal with cross-platform compatible code,
Meaning it can't deal with GCC-isms that no other compiler supports, including older versions of gcc.
And they still use "compress" instead of "gzip",
No, they use gzip now, and have been doing so for over four years. Guess that shows how little you've been paying attention to Solaris.
And have you ever tried to *use* pkginfo to manage packages?
Yep. And RPM. They both suck, but they both work well enough if you understand them.
I know I enjoy the added security of a NATed firewall, and without a really good reason, I won't be quick to give it up.
Well, if "it breaks worthwhile applications" isn't a good enough reason to dump NAT when it's no longer really needed, then there's not much hope, is there?
I saw that post on NANOG. But it isn't a valid US toll-free number. What is the US phone number to reach these Verisign engineers who can place you in their netblock blacklist?
And the most obnoxious feature of the law was that some authors outlived their copyright. Their most popular works would go into public domain while they were still alive and counting on the income. It's like revoking someone's Social Security at age 72, just because they had the temerity not to die when demographics predicted they would.
I sell a third of each of my living days, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. I don't get to take those 8 hours to another workplace and sell them there, again. Once sold, my hours are gone, forever. I get paid for them once, and once only.
Why should I sympathize with Card? Sounds to me like getting paid over and over again for a period of 52 years, just for one job done one time, seems like a sweet deal to me.
"Ford, you're turning into a pengiun. Stop it."