Justice will be served when the bankruptcy is complete. If SCO would have bothered to have evidence of the copying, they had a case. They never showed any evidence, just said they had it. They deserve everything they get.
I really really wish I could agree with you but I can't. For justice to be properly served this should move through the court system exactly according to the legal process and at every juncture SCO should be found to be presenting a case completely without merit. For them to essentially lose by default for going into bankruptcy isn't justice, it's the easy way out for them. They should have to stand before a judge and jury and try to prove their bull, preferably while being made to appear every bit as foolish as we all know them to be.
His hyperventilation amounts to ignoring SCO's inflated claims of ownership to everything, failure to prove they owned what they claimed -- which, by the way, they were never able to show in court what it was that they claimed they owned! This is legal wankery at its lowest, folks. Nothing to see here. Move on.
To be fair, he was criticizing an apparent failure to follow proper legal process in ruling against a trial jury for SCO, he never claimed they were or weren't guilty, just that from the evidence it probably should have gone to trial.
Of course as far as I'm concerned, we should just go find a nice tree and a bit of rope. I'd classify SCO as either terminally stupid, or patent/copyright trolls, either way we're better off without them.
Oh, that's easy: Bobby Flay will use it in an Iron Chef America episode (something with Ancho peppers is a good bet), where it will jump up and go on an apeshit rampage after a food critic downs it ("too salty").
Either that or Morimoto will feed it into an icecream maker along with some other decidedly un-icecream type food (such as anchovies, or maybe asparagus).
covered in greygoo created in someone's kitchen with toys from Matel?
Somehow that seems strangely appropriate...
Lets pull out the ol' doomsday checklist and see.
Invocation of advanced science... nanotech, check
Involvment of large corporation... I think Matel counts, check
Occurs on convenient round base ten number (or base 5 for the mayan, myst and discordian fans)... well, doesn't say, so that's kind of a wash
Only thing I don't see how to work in is the kitchen angle.
From TFA: "Think of the iPhone model: You get what Apple decides to give you, and if you try to hack your phone, they can disable it remotely. We techie geeks won't like it, but it's the future. The Internet is all about commerce, and commerce won't survive any other way."
Amen.
An incredibly creative approach.
CC.
That's taken out of context. He was saying that's the direction it's going to move in, not the ultimate end state. At one point they basically say that somewhere around 2017 after all this systems as a service stuff has been implemented and we still have problems with major infrastructure being cracked, then people will be ready to try to do it right.
From TFA:
That's the problem with any system that relies on control: Once you figure out how to hack the control system, you're pretty much golden. So instead of a zillion pesky worms, by 2017 we're going to see fewer but worse super worms that sail past our defenses.
By then, though, we'll be ready to start building real security. As you pointed out, networks will be so embedded into our critical infrastructure -- and there'll probably have been at least one real disaster by then -- that we'll have no choice. The question is how much we'll have to dismantle and build over to get it right.
Hell, I've never been to Arizona, as far as I know it could have a town called Mud Flaps. Wouldn't be any weirder than the names I've seen in some other states. Missed the Dr. Booble thing which in and of itself doesn't give it away, but what does is the mention of "oly Patriot!(TM) Bible University and Correspondence College of Claptrappe, Oklahoma" as someone else pointed out. So, looks like it's a joke story. After reading the about page for that site it looks like it's trying to be another the onion type site.
I clicked the link and half expected to be redirected to goatse or one of those, but was rather surprised to find a real site on the other end. Next question is, is that a crack pot news site run by ID proponents, a joke site like the onion, or a real news site that's just running a crackpot story?
Good to know, thanks for the tip. Would still be nice to see this implemented as a URL so the OSes standard URL handling behavior could be invoked from any e-mail client.
It's also nice to be able to eliminate Windows machines off your network that you're not really using for anything but hosting a few select applications that require it. Having to have an entire server running just to host exchange server is a pain in the butt when you already have plenty of Linux servers around that could do the job if there was a cross-platform alternative to Exchange open source or otherwise.
I've used Outlook before. I used it for over four years as it's the official corporate e-mail/scheduling client. The scheduling they did a pretty good job on, I'll give them that, but as an e-mail client I've never cared for it. I much prefer thunderbird or the web interface on gmail. Really the question people are looking for is, how do we replace the scheduling portion of Outlook and still retain all it's nice features while using the e-mail client of our choice?
This is particularly tricky because one of the nicer things with Outlook is the ability to send e-mails with meetings in them and receive feedback as people accept or reject the meeting request. My thoughts on it are that you could probably get around the problem by using a new URL scheme, something like schedule:schedulingserver.com/scheduleID109 or some such that you can associate to an external application that way you can embed it as a hyperlink inside en e-mail. Using something like that you can use whatever scheduling client you want (assuming it understands the protocol the scheduling server uses) and whatever e-mail client you want because it's just a hyperlink with a URL.
Tell that to Jon-Erik Hexum. Okay, so that gun had wadding in it, but it was mainly the force of the gas that did him in.
Yeah, that would be one of the exceptions to that probably. In addition to the wadding, it was also apparently stuck against his temple, and it was the fact that it shattered his skull that did him in. The fact that he fired a gun with a blank in it at his temple shows he didn't really understand that blanks can still be deadly at close range. It's possible to kill with one, just not likely. Had he instead held the gun a foot from his temple, or pointed it at something other than his head he would have most likely lived.
The fact they had to make a different "cleaned up" version just confirms my suspicions as to why they didn't release it to begin with; the actual source code has programming hacks and embarrassing comments in it, like some previous examples of closed-source code that has been forced in to public view by the courts.
[citation needed]
Seriously though, what are you basing this off of? I read TFA and I can't find any reference in that, or in the articles it links to that say ASUS released "cleaned up" versions of the code. Even the guy who originally discovered this and blogged about it, says he thinks it wasn't ASUS being malicious, just negligent and forgetting to publish the code.
Someone posted a picture of the guys shirt and the remains of the phone. It's mostly intact except for the battery compartment, which as someone else pointed out, in conjunction with your post, means the battery overheated and melted it's case, it did not explode, and all it's energy was released in a thermal reaction, not a kinetic one. So yeah, cell phone pretty much cleared of all charges at this point.
Mythbusters. Yeah. I can already see Jamie blowing up manikins. sweet. Wait, how is that different from every other episode of mythbusters?... poor buster, he never gets a break.
Yeah, it's a very common belief over there apparently. They even sell special fans that have timers to turn themselves off in case you fall asleep with them on. It's also been reported that the newspapers over there run stories fairly often blaming deaths on people who fell asleep with fans running.
Mythbusters did it. Busted. The gases from the cartridge melt the bullet before it leaves the barrel. All you end up with is the normal unburned powder and a bit of water vapor coming out of the barrel. Of course, the force of the gases leaving the barrel from close enough can still cause some damage, but probably not enough to kill you.
Or he could have bounced a couple times on the way down. Who's to say how many impacts he received. It may very well have impacted first on his back breaking his spine, then hit facing down cracking his ribs and smashing his cellphone.
Well, at this point I'm purely speculating, but from some of the things said in article this guy has done some analysis of a number of games (including the sequal to ICO, Shadow of the Colossus), and found no other uses of this code. I'm thinking this is probably an isolated case and from the sounds of it may not even be as cut and dry as it sounds because apparently one of the two files cited by the article is actually considered public domain as opposed to GPL. It's possible they may have been using public domain code originally but swapped out part of the code with the GPL code in order to fix a problem with the public domain one and either forgot that they used the GPL code, or believed such a small usage of code (one source file) would go un-noticed. Not that that makes it right of course, but it seems a likely scenario.
Unfortunately what US citizens realize seems to have very little effect on US laws or military actions. In theory, US citizens should be able to vote for a candidate that supports their opinions on matters, but in practice virtually none do. The entire exercise of electing presidents and senators is essentially a giant gamble to find the lesser evil of the bunch, further complicated by inconsistent and indecisive voting among the public. I think that the close elections that have become all to prevalent recently are a strong indicator that politicians in general are becoming increasingly homogenized and any perceived difference between candidates is mostly an illusion sustained to convince people that their votes actually count for something.
libarc? That's an interesting library for them to be using. I guess for compressed storage on their game disk? According to the TFA that's exactly what it was used for. As a proof of concept (beyond the evidence in the disassembled code) the author of the article wrote a decompression utility using libarc that can decompress the contents of the game disc.
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I really really wish I could agree with you but I can't. For justice to be properly served this should move through the court system exactly according to the legal process and at every juncture SCO should be found to be presenting a case completely without merit. For them to essentially lose by default for going into bankruptcy isn't justice, it's the easy way out for them. They should have to stand before a judge and jury and try to prove their bull, preferably while being made to appear every bit as foolish as we all know them to be.
Groklaw? At least there there's pretty good odds of getting a post by someone who doesn't need to preface their statements with IANAL.
To be fair, he was criticizing an apparent failure to follow proper legal process in ruling against a trial jury for SCO, he never claimed they were or weren't guilty, just that from the evidence it probably should have gone to trial.
Of course as far as I'm concerned, we should just go find a nice tree and a bit of rope. I'd classify SCO as either terminally stupid, or patent/copyright trolls, either way we're better off without them.
Oh, that's easy: Bobby Flay will use it in an Iron Chef America episode (something with Ancho peppers is a good bet), where it will jump up and go on an apeshit rampage after a food critic downs it ("too salty").
Either that or Morimoto will feed it into an icecream maker along with some other decidedly un-icecream type food (such as anchovies, or maybe asparagus).Somehow that seems strangely appropriate...
Lets pull out the ol' doomsday checklist and see.
Invocation of advanced science... nanotech, check
Involvment of large corporation... I think Matel counts, check
Occurs on convenient round base ten number (or base 5 for the mayan, myst and discordian fans)... well, doesn't say, so that's kind of a wash
Only thing I don't see how to work in is the kitchen angle.
Amen.
An incredibly creative approach.
CC.
That's taken out of context. He was saying that's the direction it's going to move in, not the ultimate end state. At one point they basically say that somewhere around 2017 after all this systems as a service stuff has been implemented and we still have problems with major infrastructure being cracked, then people will be ready to try to do it right.
From TFA:
That's the problem with any system that relies on control: Once you figure out how to hack the control system, you're pretty much golden. So instead of a zillion pesky worms, by 2017 we're going to see fewer but worse super worms that sail past our defenses.By then, though, we'll be ready to start building real security. As you pointed out, networks will be so embedded into our critical infrastructure -- and there'll probably have been at least one real disaster by then -- that we'll have no choice. The question is how much we'll have to dismantle and build over to get it right.
Well, what do you think this part suggests?
Dr. Booble's colleague, Dr. D. Oxy RibonucleicHe was born for this type of work? Clearly intelligent design at work.
Hell, I've never been to Arizona, as far as I know it could have a town called Mud Flaps. Wouldn't be any weirder than the names I've seen in some other states. Missed the Dr. Booble thing which in and of itself doesn't give it away, but what does is the mention of "oly Patriot!(TM) Bible University and Correspondence College of Claptrappe, Oklahoma" as someone else pointed out. So, looks like it's a joke story. After reading the about page for that site it looks like it's trying to be another the onion type site.
I clicked the link and half expected to be redirected to goatse or one of those, but was rather surprised to find a real site on the other end. Next question is, is that a crack pot news site run by ID proponents, a joke site like the onion, or a real news site that's just running a crackpot story?
Is it an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator? Where's the kaboom? There was upposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
I always heard it as an Illudium Pu-236 explosive space modulator, a rather subtle joke.
Good to know, thanks for the tip. Would still be nice to see this implemented as a URL so the OSes standard URL handling behavior could be invoked from any e-mail client.
It's also nice to be able to eliminate Windows machines off your network that you're not really using for anything but hosting a few select applications that require it. Having to have an entire server running just to host exchange server is a pain in the butt when you already have plenty of Linux servers around that could do the job if there was a cross-platform alternative to Exchange open source or otherwise.
I've used Outlook before. I used it for over four years as it's the official corporate e-mail/scheduling client. The scheduling they did a pretty good job on, I'll give them that, but as an e-mail client I've never cared for it. I much prefer thunderbird or the web interface on gmail. Really the question people are looking for is, how do we replace the scheduling portion of Outlook and still retain all it's nice features while using the e-mail client of our choice?
This is particularly tricky because one of the nicer things with Outlook is the ability to send e-mails with meetings in them and receive feedback as people accept or reject the meeting request. My thoughts on it are that you could probably get around the problem by using a new URL scheme, something like schedule:schedulingserver.com/scheduleID109 or some such that you can associate to an external application that way you can embed it as a hyperlink inside en e-mail. Using something like that you can use whatever scheduling client you want (assuming it understands the protocol the scheduling server uses) and whatever e-mail client you want because it's just a hyperlink with a URL.
Yeah, that would be one of the exceptions to that probably. In addition to the wadding, it was also apparently stuck against his temple, and it was the fact that it shattered his skull that did him in. The fact that he fired a gun with a blank in it at his temple shows he didn't really understand that blanks can still be deadly at close range. It's possible to kill with one, just not likely. Had he instead held the gun a foot from his temple, or pointed it at something other than his head he would have most likely lived.
[citation needed]
Seriously though, what are you basing this off of? I read TFA and I can't find any reference in that, or in the articles it links to that say ASUS released "cleaned up" versions of the code. Even the guy who originally discovered this and blogged about it, says he thinks it wasn't ASUS being malicious, just negligent and forgetting to publish the code.
Someone posted a picture of the guys shirt and the remains of the phone. It's mostly intact except for the battery compartment, which as someone else pointed out, in conjunction with your post, means the battery overheated and melted it's case, it did not explode, and all it's energy was released in a thermal reaction, not a kinetic one. So yeah, cell phone pretty much cleared of all charges at this point.
Try getting one of those through airport security.
Yeah, it's a very common belief over there apparently. They even sell special fans that have timers to turn themselves off in case you fall asleep with them on. It's also been reported that the newspapers over there run stories fairly often blaming deaths on people who fell asleep with fans running.
Mythbusters did it. Busted. The gases from the cartridge melt the bullet before it leaves the barrel. All you end up with is the normal unburned powder and a bit of water vapor coming out of the barrel. Of course, the force of the gases leaving the barrel from close enough can still cause some damage, but probably not enough to kill you.
e) all of the above.
Or he could have bounced a couple times on the way down. Who's to say how many impacts he received. It may very well have impacted first on his back breaking his spine, then hit facing down cracking his ribs and smashing his cellphone.
Well, at this point I'm purely speculating, but from some of the things said in article this guy has done some analysis of a number of games (including the sequal to ICO, Shadow of the Colossus), and found no other uses of this code. I'm thinking this is probably an isolated case and from the sounds of it may not even be as cut and dry as it sounds because apparently one of the two files cited by the article is actually considered public domain as opposed to GPL. It's possible they may have been using public domain code originally but swapped out part of the code with the GPL code in order to fix a problem with the public domain one and either forgot that they used the GPL code, or believed such a small usage of code (one source file) would go un-noticed. Not that that makes it right of course, but it seems a likely scenario.
Unfortunately what US citizens realize seems to have very little effect on US laws or military actions. In theory, US citizens should be able to vote for a candidate that supports their opinions on matters, but in practice virtually none do. The entire exercise of electing presidents and senators is essentially a giant gamble to find the lesser evil of the bunch, further complicated by inconsistent and indecisive voting among the public. I think that the close elections that have become all to prevalent recently are a strong indicator that politicians in general are becoming increasingly homogenized and any perceived difference between candidates is mostly an illusion sustained to convince people that their votes actually count for something.