Tuesday, August 05, 2003

The Scumbags At SCO OK. Here's what the scumbags at SCO think you ought to pay them for running Linux: $699 per server. Apparently, desktop and embedded Linux users will get a "discount." Better jump now because after October 15th the vig goes up to $1,399. Fuck these greedy scumbags. They've got real balls considering how they distributed Linux under the form of Caldera under the GPL. But don't worry, and don't ask any questions like, "please show us the code you claim is subject to your 'intellectual property rights'." And we complain about Microsoft? Why not tell them what you think? 10:07:42 PM

More Stuff To Worry About No wonder I'm never on time anymore: But nobody knows what time it is. The Earth's diverging timescales -- GMT, atomic, GPS, and Coordinated Universal -- are the subject of increased scrutiny as the possibility of catastrophic temporal reconciliation events increases: Unbeknown to most people there is not a single accepted way of telling the time, but several different scales running concurrently. The differences are usually small, but the scales can be as much as 30 seconds apart and the gap between them is growing steadily. Aircraft navigation systems tell a different time from the watches of passengers, pilots and air traffic controllers. Experts are warning that this could spell disaster... "We should only have one type of timescale throughout the world," says Bill Klepczynski, a time expert who advises the federal aviation administration. "There's a possibility for danger..." The problem arises because the Earth cannot keep time as accurately as modern atomic clocks, which count the steady shaking of atoms. These atomic clocks replaced the motion of the Earth as the world's official timekeeper in 1967. The pull of the moon is gradually slowing our planet down, so every now and then our clocks are halted for a second to let it catch up. Thanks to Boing Boing Blog. 8:21:30 AM