Umm... I'm 58. I think you can safely be ignored now. I should know better than to interact with ACs. Per capita, they're generally more stupid than the regular users. As such, you're dismissed. Have a nice day.
Umm... You know that there's more to history than America, right? It certainly predates the 1600s. I'm pretty sure we've been enslaving people for a lot longer than that. I'm gonna guess that we've been enslaving people since long before there was a concept of a central authority on a scale large enough to warrant calling it a lawful entity.
Today, it's hard to tell what to believe. Given the nature of the day, and all... Hmm... Is RedHat doing that? I'll have to play with that one - if it's true. I'll go clicking the links tomorrow.:/
Unfortunately, you are all SHEEP and do whatever people tell you to do. Instead of, you know, bothering to learn a little about the law of the land and about your rights. And then fighting stupid shit like NSLs. Quit giving your rights away. Dumbfucks.
Bold words. Bold words, more often than not, come from those who are not threatened nor have anything directly at stake.
So, tell me Mr. AC, how many NSLs have you declared illegal, wiped your ass with, and handed back to the FBI? 'Cause I'm betting that number is a number that is less than one.
And that's okay... We all think we're tough and will do the right thing when faced with adversity. Really, you won't. You don't. You haven't.
But, it's fun to talk big on the 'net, 'cause on the internet nobody knows you're a dog. However, your bold and noble speech means naught when we all know you'll cower, quivering and near tears, when/if you get such a letter. Me? I'd like to think I'd do the right thing. I'd like to think that I'd do the appropriate thing and tell anyone/everyone while refusing to comply. I've never been in that situation, thankfully.
There's not a whole lot they can do to me so maybe I'd do the right thing. Who knows? Probably not. I'm quite skeptical that you'd do the right thing - having no history of your actions on which to base it. Then again, I'm inclined to also believe you probably don't have anything for which they'd serve an NSL.
It is not always true but it is often true that you can tell a great deal about the person by their grasp of their native language.
Note: It is not always true, like I said. Sometimes they're brilliant but, in my experience, that is a rarity. Sometimes the opposite is true.
However, I'd not suggest taking legal advice from someone who lacks a basic grasp of the language. Language is ESSENTIAL to legal scholars and those who practice law. They are very attentive, not just to what they say but to how they say it -- with obvious variations in skill levels and aptitude. I think it's reasonable to conclude that they're not actually the legal expert they claim to be.
Note: That doesn't mean they're necessarily wrong. Even a blind dog finds a bone once in a while.
They could be right but it would appear that this is entirely untested. Thus, their speculation that it is illegal is (as far as I know) bogus. There's no precedent set to support their claim and the de facto stance is legal unless otherwise ruled or, if you'd prefer, the presumption of innocence. It may very well be ruled illegal in the future but, as of now, it's perfectly legal and will remain so until someone decides it is illegal. I humbly submit that that someone will not, in fact, be a random Slashdot poster.
I am not a lawyer but I know a lot of lawyers and have spent a great deal of time geeking out on the law. I even make it a point to go and observe the courts (even when I don't need to be there) and have defended myself (while retaining council) successfully on multiple occasions. Not only am I not a lawyer, I'm specifically not your lawyer. Consult a qualified legal assistant prior to deleting your favorite warrant canary.
Were I a more malicious person, I'd find my way into sites like Reddit and delete their warrant canary when I got there. What are they gonna do, put it back and claim it wasn't done by them? Fortunately, I'm not a malicious person and I've not broken into any computer (without permission) in a very long time.
In fact, it is in my favorites (for some reason?). No, I have no idea why that is. I don't recall putting it in my favorites but I started typing shadowbanned and that appeared in my address bar - I was just gonna go find it again for you guys.
I've never even posted to Reddit, in my life. There is, technically, a KGIII there. I looked. They're into basketball. They also write like a normal person. No, I have no idea who they really are. There's a few people out there who use the moniker and they are people who are not me. I've had one person (maybe two - I'm not positive if the second was intentional) actually try to impersonate me.
Alas, they don't write as poorly as I do. They even claimed to live in Maine but they got the area wrong. They had a PayPal link up for a while, for one or another thing, and the username inside of that was a female name. I have no idea... They weren't someone I know in real life - I don't think. Ah well, that was ages ago and I digress...
At any rate, if anyone's curious if they're shadow-banned then the above URL will help you figure that out. It checks to see if your posts show at Reddit. It also checks Voat.
Nah, you can see a few of them (redacted, of course) on the 'net. I've seen a few of them pop up online - I'm pretty sure WikiLeaks has a couple of them. If you need me to, I'll go dig them up but Google works for you just as well as it does for me. Search for "released national security letter" or some such. I saw them when folks linked to them.
There are a lot of misleading things said about an NSL. One of them is that an NSL can make them take all sorts of strange actions. No, an NSL is about information that you already have or would already be collecting. An NSL doesn't enable them to demand you put additional tracking into your site or software. It doesn't mean that you're to entice folks into certain behavior. It's "just" about collecting of existing data and data that would be created in the future.
That should NOT be read to mean that I'm in support of it nor am I minimizing it. It's bad to do things like that in secret and no, I do not care that some bad people might be able to do bad things. That's a risk we take to live in a free society. Yes, I liken it to firearms. Bad shit happens. Oh well... That's the "problem" with free people. This shouldn't be done in secret. This shouldn't be done without meaningful oversight. There should be no such thing as secret courts nor secret letters. There shall be no law that does that infringing on speech thing. This absolutely tramples on that right.
Bad shit happens to good people. Punish those who do wrong, not those who do not. Do not take away my liberties because of someone's cowardice. Speaking of which, I should put up one of these canary critters on a couple of sites.:/ I've been meaning to do so for a while now. Hmm... I need to come up with a fun and creative way to do it.
I gave Whipslash a suggestion but he didn't follow up on it. I was hoping he'd announce that Slashdot was transferring to Facebook and would use a forum there and then he'd spend all day posting the stories to Facebook and have this site redirect to there.
I'm partially disappointed that he didn't do it. Gotta admit, it would have been very attention-getting.
I have friends who would do something like that. We've had an all-out war with April Fools in the past. Back when I was married (go way back to the early 1990s), my wife didn't mind and I was "on the run from the cops" for the three days leading up to it. It happily, and entirely by sheer luck, was timed with a man-hunt in the area.
I was not on the run. I was not in any trouble at all. This was payback for the year prior when one of our group died. Their funeral was scheduled and even printed up on fliers and handed out by his grieving wife. A few of his family members played along.
We're mostly grown up now but we did have a hell of an extended childhood and we've got the various scars, pictures, and burned bridges to prove it. Calling someone out of a meeting because they were in an accident would be considered tame by some of my friends and associates. Almost nothing is off-limits.
Shit, my accountant is a little old lady who used to work for the State's taxation department. Even SHE has some April Foolishness in her. It being conveniently close to tax time, she's given me a fake print-out. The number was rather high - I do mean high. It took a few minutes before I realized what was going on. She nearly pissed herself with laughter. Ah yes... Accountant humor...
At any rate, no... I don't have any important meetings to be called out of but I could still imagine ways for people to try that with me today. Except, today I'm kind of wise to it. If you called me today and said you had an accident then I'd say call the police and hang the phone up. If you told me your mom died in a parachute accident - and you had an announcement on the television, I'd call you a liar and not send flowers. If you told me my home burned down while I was away, I'd yawn and say I'll file the insurance papers when the authorities notify me.
So, I'm not sure if you have shitty or good friends but no... My friends would HAPPILY get me called out of a meeting. It's even better of it they can get me to fly across the country, drive across the State, or end up in mild legal trouble.
Hmm... Maybe I *do* have shitty friends, now that I think about it. But, they're what I've got and we have had some great times. We're all pretty old now, so we're pretty tame. I have only done one, just one, joke so far...
"Wow, you look great this morning." "Really? That's so sweet!" "Ha, no... April Fools! I did make you breakfast, though."
Yeah, she loves me. And we had morning nookie. Life *is* good.
> If you disagree with one there's no reason not to move on.
I can do that. You can do that. They probably can't (easily) do that. They have a vested, emotional, interest in their "internet home." Me? I've been online, in one form or another, since the mid-1980s. I've seen communities come and go. I've left more sites than I can count. It's reached the point where I don't even bother to voice my displeasure, I just wander off and stop visiting entirely one day.
I, and probably you, grew up when our site, or even the internet, were't ubiquitous things or even consistent things. How many forums have you seen come and go? How many have you, yourself, owned? Me? Dozens... Hell, if we want to count the BBS' then... Wow... (I was leet, baby - not just one but TWO 40 MB HDDs, backups AND a spare system.)
I've got an address bar and I know how to use it. Them? They've set it as default and have spent eight hours a day there since they were 14. They've been molded by it and molded it in return. They have a sense of ownership. They have a sense of being.
Really, it's a transient thing (this internet) so they're foolish for doing so but it's how it is - I'm pretty sure.
I have never thought of it that way. The government almost always seems to think what they're doing is moral and just. But, the word crackdown means tyranny or oppression to me. For better or worse, every law is reducing someone's liberties - such as the liberty to own slaves. (It's probably a good idea to have that law. Don't get me wrong.)
Anyhow, whenever I hear a government crackdown is going on - it usually means they're going trampling on someone's liberties or, worse, freedoms.
I knew it was possible but I just tried it recently and for the low price of nothing you can get Yandex to host all the email (with your own domain - just change your mx records) you might need to send as a regular user. It actually seems to work rather well - I've been poking at it.
There are reprints and some originals to be had, if you're interested. The Boston School of Cookery made an excellent cookbook but it's quite a bit more than just a cookbook. It includes directions like "over a low fire" or "with a medium coal bed."
I have a full sized generator and an in-ground diesel tank. I did not write off my installation - there's no reason for me to reduce my tax burden any lower than it is already. I'm comfortable with the rate I pay with both property and capital gains. Care to try again?
You're already canceling so, to them, what do they have to lose by pissing you off? That's what I presume is their thought process. Never mind that you might have been willing to order from them again or anything. Never mind that they may have now made you angry enough to tell others. No, they want today's revenue - bugger the long-term.
> The things that I've discovered I'm allowed to opt-out of
Such as? What have you discovered that you can opt-out of?
I haven't checked lately but Slashdot lets you opt out of stuff - you just have to not visit. No, seriously... That's about the totality of what the opt-out was.
Opera Developer (a couple of versions ahead of stable) has native ad blocking. It works well, actually. It's based on Chromium but the Google stuff is ripped out.
Yeah, someone above mentions that a group (consortium) of lawyers own the "property" now. Man, I've seen some crappy distros out there. I'm not gonna pay $699 for Puppy or Damn Small either - I want a discount for those!
I really would give 'em $500 to go away, by the way. If we all chip a little in and offer it to them to go lay down next to their dish (selling us their "property") then... No, they still won't take that. Oh well, they can get nothing instead.
LOL I don't know what did it yet - but they've got logs showing the CPU spiked out of control so I've gotta figure that out. They'll let me back in tomorrow morning.;-)
It just so happens that I have a copy of the Linux kernel right here in front of me - oddly enough. As in, it's open in a folder and I've been looking at it. What, specifically, are these lines of code so that I might verify this for myself?
Some of the people here, some of the ones I communicate with off-list, have had in my home, and have visited in my travels - some of them, have children that are younger than these shenanigans from SCO.
At this point, I'll give SCO $500 just to go away. I don't want them getting any money but I'll give it to them if they promise to go away and never return. The suit certainly is no longer about being backed by Microsoft in order to discredit Linux or open source. That horse has already left the barn and Microsoft is doing "okay" at getting used to it. It can't be about money, they can't possibly think they're going to come out ahead after all of this.
So, what the hell is the point? I really can't think of a good reason for them to be even bothering with this - or any other suit. I can't think of anything to be gained from it - it's not like they're going to win this or any other suit they try to throw at anyone. Someone, somewhere, is urging them to continue. Why? I believe they were still facing a suit from one of the other players - just so it buries them deep enough that they should be dead.
Actually, shouldn't they be dead in the water already? Who is paying for the lawyers? I guess we'll have to wait for that to come out, just like we'll have to wait for the papers to come out that explain their next argument. Someone, somewhere, must think there's a chance of succeeding and is willing to foot the bill, at least for this? Maybe? Who? Why?
Since day one it has looked, at least to a layman, like it was not going to go anywhere. I still haven't been billed my $699 for my copy of Linux. In fact, at last count, I was streaming more than 140 different versions (some are older versions - older LTS and things like that). Boy am I gonna owe 'em a hefty sum of money when they win! *snickers*
It seems like they might have to - if this catches on. If Microsoft does this well, and it is as good as it sounds it might be, then I'd guess that the rest of them would want to follow suit. That might mean a good thing for independent studios or just creative people.
I am not, by any means, a gamer - not even remotely. However, this kind of makes me want one now. Why? Just so I can try to build a game. I'm really bad at graphics and game play methods would be awkward as hell because I'm about a great a designer as Corky. But, I've got the perfect video game in my head and would love to try to lay it out there.
There are bound to be free and open source engines and frameworks, if there aren't already. I have no idea if they are available. I'd be willing to learn, perhaps. I just might see how it shakes out and pick one up just to play with it. Is there any special media required to make disks - for those who want to use/offer physical installation media? Are they still on DVD or are they on Blu-Ray or something proprietary?
Literally, I've no idea how modern consoles work. I've not been a gamer in years but being able to access one as a developer just might be enough to make me want to own one. Of course, by the time I got done diagramming my game and getting a framework up - it'd be several console generations behind. But, I'd still enjoy playing with it. And, by "it" I mean the developer part.
Anyhow, if you put Linux on your PS3 wouldn't that limit its ability to play PS3 games or are you wanting it to be able to still do both? I thought one of the PS' could run Linux and that the latest one was running BSD? Would you not just be better of using a SoC/SBC and making a media center from that? Or is this a, "It's there, it needs doing." Type of thing?
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Umm... I'm 58. I think you can safely be ignored now. I should know better than to interact with ACs. Per capita, they're generally more stupid than the regular users. As such, you're dismissed. Have a nice day.
Umm... You know that there's more to history than America, right? It certainly predates the 1600s. I'm pretty sure we've been enslaving people for a lot longer than that. I'm gonna guess that we've been enslaving people since long before there was a concept of a central authority on a scale large enough to warrant calling it a lawful entity.
You're usually a bit sharper than this.
Yup. As in those same people. Putin's reading my WP confirmation emails!
Today, it's hard to tell what to believe. Given the nature of the day, and all... Hmm... Is RedHat doing that? I'll have to play with that one - if it's true. I'll go clicking the links tomorrow. :/
Unfortunately, you are all SHEEP and do whatever people tell you to do.
Instead of, you know, bothering to learn a little about the law of the land and about your rights.
And then fighting stupid shit like NSLs.
Quit giving your rights away.
Dumbfucks.
Bold words. Bold words, more often than not, come from those who are not threatened nor have anything directly at stake.
So, tell me Mr. AC, how many NSLs have you declared illegal, wiped your ass with, and handed back to the FBI? 'Cause I'm betting that number is a number that is less than one.
And that's okay... We all think we're tough and will do the right thing when faced with adversity. Really, you won't. You don't. You haven't.
But, it's fun to talk big on the 'net, 'cause on the internet nobody knows you're a dog. However, your bold and noble speech means naught when we all know you'll cower, quivering and near tears, when/if you get such a letter. Me? I'd like to think I'd do the right thing. I'd like to think that I'd do the appropriate thing and tell anyone/everyone while refusing to comply. I've never been in that situation, thankfully.
There's not a whole lot they can do to me so maybe I'd do the right thing. Who knows? Probably not. I'm quite skeptical that you'd do the right thing - having no history of your actions on which to base it. Then again, I'm inclined to also believe you probably don't have anything for which they'd serve an NSL.
It is not always true but it is often true that you can tell a great deal about the person by their grasp of their native language.
Note: It is not always true, like I said. Sometimes they're brilliant but, in my experience, that is a rarity. Sometimes the opposite is true.
However, I'd not suggest taking legal advice from someone who lacks a basic grasp of the language. Language is ESSENTIAL to legal scholars and those who practice law. They are very attentive, not just to what they say but to how they say it -- with obvious variations in skill levels and aptitude. I think it's reasonable to conclude that they're not actually the legal expert they claim to be.
Note: That doesn't mean they're necessarily wrong. Even a blind dog finds a bone once in a while.
They could be right but it would appear that this is entirely untested. Thus, their speculation that it is illegal is (as far as I know) bogus. There's no precedent set to support their claim and the de facto stance is legal unless otherwise ruled or, if you'd prefer, the presumption of innocence. It may very well be ruled illegal in the future but, as of now, it's perfectly legal and will remain so until someone decides it is illegal. I humbly submit that that someone will not, in fact, be a random Slashdot poster.
I am not a lawyer but I know a lot of lawyers and have spent a great deal of time geeking out on the law. I even make it a point to go and observe the courts (even when I don't need to be there) and have defended myself (while retaining council) successfully on multiple occasions. Not only am I not a lawyer, I'm specifically not your lawyer. Consult a qualified legal assistant prior to deleting your favorite warrant canary.
Were I a more malicious person, I'd find my way into sites like Reddit and delete their warrant canary when I got there. What are they gonna do, put it back and claim it wasn't done by them? Fortunately, I'm not a malicious person and I've not broken into any computer (without permission) in a very long time.
I don't even HAVE a Reddit account but even I know about this:
http://nullprogram.com/am-i-sh...
In fact, it is in my favorites (for some reason?). No, I have no idea why that is. I don't recall putting it in my favorites but I started typing shadowbanned and that appeared in my address bar - I was just gonna go find it again for you guys.
I've never even posted to Reddit, in my life. There is, technically, a KGIII there. I looked. They're into basketball. They also write like a normal person. No, I have no idea who they really are. There's a few people out there who use the moniker and they are people who are not me. I've had one person (maybe two - I'm not positive if the second was intentional) actually try to impersonate me.
Alas, they don't write as poorly as I do. They even claimed to live in Maine but they got the area wrong. They had a PayPal link up for a while, for one or another thing, and the username inside of that was a female name. I have no idea... They weren't someone I know in real life - I don't think. Ah well, that was ages ago and I digress...
At any rate, if anyone's curious if they're shadow-banned then the above URL will help you figure that out. It checks to see if your posts show at Reddit. It also checks Voat.
Nah, you can see a few of them (redacted, of course) on the 'net. I've seen a few of them pop up online - I'm pretty sure WikiLeaks has a couple of them. If you need me to, I'll go dig them up but Google works for you just as well as it does for me. Search for "released national security letter" or some such. I saw them when folks linked to them.
There are a lot of misleading things said about an NSL. One of them is that an NSL can make them take all sorts of strange actions. No, an NSL is about information that you already have or would already be collecting. An NSL doesn't enable them to demand you put additional tracking into your site or software. It doesn't mean that you're to entice folks into certain behavior. It's "just" about collecting of existing data and data that would be created in the future.
That should NOT be read to mean that I'm in support of it nor am I minimizing it. It's bad to do things like that in secret and no, I do not care that some bad people might be able to do bad things. That's a risk we take to live in a free society. Yes, I liken it to firearms. Bad shit happens. Oh well... That's the "problem" with free people. This shouldn't be done in secret. This shouldn't be done without meaningful oversight. There should be no such thing as secret courts nor secret letters. There shall be no law that does that infringing on speech thing. This absolutely tramples on that right.
Bad shit happens to good people. Punish those who do wrong, not those who do not. Do not take away my liberties because of someone's cowardice. Speaking of which, I should put up one of these canary critters on a couple of sites. :/ I've been meaning to do so for a while now. Hmm... I need to come up with a fun and creative way to do it.
I gave Whipslash a suggestion but he didn't follow up on it. I was hoping he'd announce that Slashdot was transferring to Facebook and would use a forum there and then he'd spend all day posting the stories to Facebook and have this site redirect to there.
I'm partially disappointed that he didn't do it. Gotta admit, it would have been very attention-getting.
I have friends who would do something like that. We've had an all-out war with April Fools in the past. Back when I was married (go way back to the early 1990s), my wife didn't mind and I was "on the run from the cops" for the three days leading up to it. It happily, and entirely by sheer luck, was timed with a man-hunt in the area.
I was not on the run. I was not in any trouble at all. This was payback for the year prior when one of our group died. Their funeral was scheduled and even printed up on fliers and handed out by his grieving wife. A few of his family members played along.
We're mostly grown up now but we did have a hell of an extended childhood and we've got the various scars, pictures, and burned bridges to prove it. Calling someone out of a meeting because they were in an accident would be considered tame by some of my friends and associates. Almost nothing is off-limits.
Shit, my accountant is a little old lady who used to work for the State's taxation department. Even SHE has some April Foolishness in her. It being conveniently close to tax time, she's given me a fake print-out. The number was rather high - I do mean high. It took a few minutes before I realized what was going on. She nearly pissed herself with laughter. Ah yes... Accountant humor...
At any rate, no... I don't have any important meetings to be called out of but I could still imagine ways for people to try that with me today. Except, today I'm kind of wise to it. If you called me today and said you had an accident then I'd say call the police and hang the phone up. If you told me your mom died in a parachute accident - and you had an announcement on the television, I'd call you a liar and not send flowers. If you told me my home burned down while I was away, I'd yawn and say I'll file the insurance papers when the authorities notify me.
So, I'm not sure if you have shitty or good friends but no... My friends would HAPPILY get me called out of a meeting. It's even better of it they can get me to fly across the country, drive across the State, or end up in mild legal trouble.
Hmm... Maybe I *do* have shitty friends, now that I think about it. But, they're what I've got and we have had some great times. We're all pretty old now, so we're pretty tame. I have only done one, just one, joke so far...
"Wow, you look great this morning."
"Really? That's so sweet!"
"Ha, no... April Fools! I did make you breakfast, though."
Yeah, she loves me. And we had morning nookie. Life *is* good.
> If you disagree with one there's no reason not to move on.
I can do that. You can do that. They probably can't (easily) do that. They have a vested, emotional, interest in their "internet home." Me? I've been online, in one form or another, since the mid-1980s. I've seen communities come and go. I've left more sites than I can count. It's reached the point where I don't even bother to voice my displeasure, I just wander off and stop visiting entirely one day.
I, and probably you, grew up when our site, or even the internet, were't ubiquitous things or even consistent things. How many forums have you seen come and go? How many have you, yourself, owned? Me? Dozens... Hell, if we want to count the BBS' then... Wow... (I was leet, baby - not just one but TWO 40 MB HDDs, backups AND a spare system.)
I've got an address bar and I know how to use it. Them? They've set it as default and have spent eight hours a day there since they were 14. They've been molded by it and molded it in return. They have a sense of ownership. They have a sense of being.
Really, it's a transient thing (this internet) so they're foolish for doing so but it's how it is - I'm pretty sure.
I have never thought of it that way. The government almost always seems to think what they're doing is moral and just. But, the word crackdown means tyranny or oppression to me. For better or worse, every law is reducing someone's liberties - such as the liberty to own slaves. (It's probably a good idea to have that law. Don't get me wrong.)
Anyhow, whenever I hear a government crackdown is going on - it usually means they're going trampling on someone's liberties or, worse, freedoms.
I knew it was possible but I just tried it recently and for the low price of nothing you can get Yandex to host all the email (with your own domain - just change your mx records) you might need to send as a regular user. It actually seems to work rather well - I've been poking at it.
There are reprints and some originals to be had, if you're interested. The Boston School of Cookery made an excellent cookbook but it's quite a bit more than just a cookbook. It includes directions like "over a low fire" or "with a medium coal bed."
I have a full sized generator and an in-ground diesel tank. I did not write off my installation - there's no reason for me to reduce my tax burden any lower than it is already. I'm comfortable with the rate I pay with both property and capital gains. Care to try again?
You're already canceling so, to them, what do they have to lose by pissing you off? That's what I presume is their thought process. Never mind that you might have been willing to order from them again or anything. Never mind that they may have now made you angry enough to tell others. No, they want today's revenue - bugger the long-term.
> The things that I've discovered I'm allowed to opt-out of
Such as? What have you discovered that you can opt-out of?
I haven't checked lately but Slashdot lets you opt out of stuff - you just have to not visit. No, seriously... That's about the totality of what the opt-out was.
Opera Developer (a couple of versions ahead of stable) has native ad blocking. It works well, actually. It's based on Chromium but the Google stuff is ripped out.
Yeah, someone above mentions that a group (consortium) of lawyers own the "property" now. Man, I've seen some crappy distros out there. I'm not gonna pay $699 for Puppy or Damn Small either - I want a discount for those!
I really would give 'em $500 to go away, by the way. If we all chip a little in and offer it to them to go lay down next to their dish (selling us their "property") then... No, they still won't take that. Oh well, they can get nothing instead.
So they wrote off a business expense and you're mad? :/ Solar would write off more if they could. As it is, they'll give you tax breaks to install it.
But yes, what you're calling a subsidy is just normal taxes. They, like every other company, pay the least amount possible.
LOL I don't know what did it yet - but they've got logs showing the CPU spiked out of control so I've gotta figure that out. They'll let me back in tomorrow morning. ;-)
It just so happens that I have a copy of the Linux kernel right here in front of me - oddly enough. As in, it's open in a folder and I've been looking at it. What, specifically, are these lines of code so that I might verify this for myself?
It's not 1995 any more. You can just load it up in HTOP and use a mouse!
Some of the people here, some of the ones I communicate with off-list, have had in my home, and have visited in my travels - some of them, have children that are younger than these shenanigans from SCO.
At this point, I'll give SCO $500 just to go away. I don't want them getting any money but I'll give it to them if they promise to go away and never return. The suit certainly is no longer about being backed by Microsoft in order to discredit Linux or open source. That horse has already left the barn and Microsoft is doing "okay" at getting used to it. It can't be about money, they can't possibly think they're going to come out ahead after all of this.
So, what the hell is the point? I really can't think of a good reason for them to be even bothering with this - or any other suit. I can't think of anything to be gained from it - it's not like they're going to win this or any other suit they try to throw at anyone. Someone, somewhere, is urging them to continue. Why? I believe they were still facing a suit from one of the other players - just so it buries them deep enough that they should be dead.
Actually, shouldn't they be dead in the water already? Who is paying for the lawyers? I guess we'll have to wait for that to come out, just like we'll have to wait for the papers to come out that explain their next argument. Someone, somewhere, must think there's a chance of succeeding and is willing to foot the bill, at least for this? Maybe? Who? Why?
Since day one it has looked, at least to a layman, like it was not going to go anywhere. I still haven't been billed my $699 for my copy of Linux. In fact, at last count, I was streaming more than 140 different versions (some are older versions - older LTS and things like that). Boy am I gonna owe 'em a hefty sum of money when they win! *snickers*
It seems like they might have to - if this catches on. If Microsoft does this well, and it is as good as it sounds it might be, then I'd guess that the rest of them would want to follow suit. That might mean a good thing for independent studios or just creative people.
I am not, by any means, a gamer - not even remotely. However, this kind of makes me want one now. Why? Just so I can try to build a game. I'm really bad at graphics and game play methods would be awkward as hell because I'm about a great a designer as Corky. But, I've got the perfect video game in my head and would love to try to lay it out there.
There are bound to be free and open source engines and frameworks, if there aren't already. I have no idea if they are available. I'd be willing to learn, perhaps. I just might see how it shakes out and pick one up just to play with it. Is there any special media required to make disks - for those who want to use/offer physical installation media? Are they still on DVD or are they on Blu-Ray or something proprietary?
Literally, I've no idea how modern consoles work. I've not been a gamer in years but being able to access one as a developer just might be enough to make me want to own one. Of course, by the time I got done diagramming my game and getting a framework up - it'd be several console generations behind. But, I'd still enjoy playing with it. And, by "it" I mean the developer part.
Anyhow, if you put Linux on your PS3 wouldn't that limit its ability to play PS3 games or are you wanting it to be able to still do both? I thought one of the PS' could run Linux and that the latest one was running BSD? Would you not just be better of using a SoC/SBC and making a media center from that? Or is this a, "It's there, it needs doing." Type of thing?