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1) Microsoft issues patch for "serious" XP hole - Tech News

The flaws were discovered by Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based security company eEye Digital Security and reported to Microsoft about six weeks ago, said Marc Maiffret, eEye's chief hacking officer.

It's in the first fucking link on Google. Or was that too difficult?

You're thinking of the G4

If it's only worth 10k to me (and to all the other individuals/organizations), then the application will simply never get built in RMS' world.

Very interesting, and I'm not sure that I can refute it yet, or even that I want to. I don't hold the same views as RMS w.r.t. proprietary software. Still, I don't think it's fair to say that expensive software won't get built in RMS's world. Linux (or in RMS-speak GNU/Linux) got built despite the fact that it required >$1 billion in development costs. And cost Linus nearly nothing to get the whole thing started.

Now, if you personally want a custom OS, paying someone to tweak linux with your customizations is a *lot* more affordable than starting from scratch. You can even keep those changes to your self, and not give them to anyone else. The *only* thing you can't do is release the software in a proprietary format. And, surprise surprise, this is exactly what's being done, over and over again. Some suspect that this is a trend.

Also, we already have an example of a business model where legislated openness has created some monster organizations. The pharmaceutical industry, under the governance of the FDA, is required to publish their drugs before a very long and drawn out peer review. That doesn't keep them from pooling the resources necessary to develop hundreds of failed drugs for every 1 successful drug.

Of course, the pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on patents. I'm pretty sure that RMS doesn't like those either. If a purely RMS world includes prohibiting patents, the pharmaceutical industry would be in trouble in such a world. But if we limit the scope strictly to legislated openness, the pharmaceutical industry demonstrates that huge resources can be pooled even with legislated openness.

If it's only worth 10k to me (and to all the other individuals/organizations), then the application will simply never get built in RMS' world.

Very interesting, and I'm not sure that I can refute it yet, or even that I want to. I don't hold the same views as RMS w.r.t. proprietary software. Still, I don't think it's fair to say that expensive software won't get built in RMS's world. Linux (or in RMS-speak GNU/Linux) got built despite the fact that it required >$1 billion in development costs. And cost Linus nearly nothing to get the whole thing started.

Now, if you personally want a custom OS, paying someone to tweak linux with your customizations is a *lot* more affordable than starting from scratch. You can even keep those changes to your self, and not give them to anyone else. The *only* thing you can't do is release the software in a proprietary format. And, surprise surprise, this is exactly what's being done, over and over again. Some suspect that this is a trend.

Also, we already have an example of a business model where legislated openness has created some monster organizations. The pharmaceutical industry, under the governance of the FDA, is required to publish their drugs before a very long and drawn out peer review. That doesn't keep them from pooling the resources necessary to develop hundreds of failed drugs for every 1 successful drug.

Of course, the pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on patents. I'm pretty sure that RMS doesn't like those either. If a purely RMS world includes prohibiting patents, the pharmaceutical industry would be in trouble in such a world. But if we limit the scope strictly to legislated openness, the pharmaceutical industry demonstrates that huge resources can be pooled even with legislated openness.

If it's only worth 10k to me (and to all the other individuals/organizations), then the application will simply never get built in RMS' world.

Very interesting, and I'm not sure that I can refute it yet, or even that I want to. I don't hold the same views as RMS w.r.t. proprietary software. Still, I don't think it's fair to say that expensive software won't get built in RMS's world. Linux (or in RMS-speak GNU/Linux) got built despite the fact that it required >$1 billion in development costs. And cost Linus nearly nothing to get the whole thing started.

Now, if you personally want a custom OS, paying someone to tweak linux with your customizations is a *lot* more affordable than starting from scratch. You can even keep those changes to your self, and not give them to anyone else. The *only* thing you can't do is release the software in a proprietary format. And, surprise surprise, this is exactly what's being done, over and over again. Some suspect that this is a trend.

Also, we already have an example of a business model where legislated openness has created some monster organizations. The pharmaceutical industry, under the governance of the FDA, is required to publish their drugs before a very long and drawn out peer review. That doesn't keep them from pooling the resources necessary to develop hundreds of failed drugs for every 1 successful drug.

Of course, the pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on patents. I'm pretty sure that RMS doesn't like those either. If a purely RMS world includes prohibiting patents, the pharmaceutical industry would be in trouble in such a world. But if we limit the scope strictly to legislated openness, the pharmaceutical industry demonstrates that huge resources can be pooled even with legislated openness.

If this were really true, how come the company that took these public resources and made them more widely available still was so summarily shut down?

Run Ad-Aware after installing it!

Home of Ad-Aware which is being held hostage in failing nameservers. . .

Ok, but that doesn't make sense in light of this and this.

If all PC's have license to at least old Win95, then why would "Microsoft release a statement saying it would provide 150 packs of Windows 95 and 10 refurbished computers worth a total of about $33,370 ($65,000 Australian) as a "gesture of good will" to Australian charity organizations--the Rotary Club of Geelong and the Geelong YMCA.

All the computers that were donated had windows on them. But the license was not transferrable.

--jeffk

Ok, but that doesn't make sense in light of this and this.

If all PC's have license to at least old Win95, then why would "Microsoft release a statement saying it would provide 150 packs of Windows 95 and 10 refurbished computers worth a total of about $33,370 ($65,000 Australian) as a "gesture of good will" to Australian charity organizations--the Rotary Club of Geelong and the Geelong YMCA.

All the computers that were donated had windows on them. But the license was not transferrable.

--jeffk

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It's not just Microsoft's own sites that have locked out non-Microsoft browsers--the UK government's Microsoft-commissioned site for electronic filing of tax returns was in the news earlier this year when non-MSIE users found themselves locked out. Fortunately, the British have shown some sense, and a recent report acknowledged that "Properly configured open source software can be at least as secure as proprietary systems, and open source software is currently subject to fewer Internet attacks."

The government is set to conform to an EU strategy to make more use of open source software.

Garfinkel's book is great for a guy like me. They take every subject from a level that is trivial to understand down to as much detail as you need.

One interesting aspect of the authors' overall approach is that they are so platform neutral. I didn't expect this from a team that wrote books on Unix

I believe there is only so much that this book (which I have not seen yet) can cover. If there were "levels" of detail regarding a book, this sounds like it covers the first three, and leave the bottom two to that of the reader to explore furthor.

As for being "platform neutral", it should be. The "web" was never designed to be used for a particular OS or browser (though Microsoft would like to believe otherwise).

The book covers "web" issues and not OS issues.

It's also discussed at news.com .

Back in July, BMG caused an uproar over the bugs in its copy-protect scheme which rendered many CDs unplayable. Even given Universal's generous promise of unquestioned returns, this latest attempt to copy-protect seems likely to generate a lot of resentment.

It would be interesting to know what kind of copy-protect they're devising that results in such profoundly "unplayable" CDs. Some of the major players attempting to win the early lead in the copy-protection tech field include TTR Technologies and Midbar Tech.

CD Media World discusses how to create a copy-protected CD. Personally I wouldn't want to, but I think it's interesting to see the business maneuverings and keep abreast of the technological tricks they're trying out on us.

literally just finished reading the cnet version of this story, which included a statement like the following:

"... does not address any new holes that might crop up"

can I be the first to tell cnet "DUH!"

Here's a CNET review that explains it pretty well.

I have had DishNetwork for a couple of years because it has better programming than DirectTv (which I had the year before that). I got a Tivo this summer, and have been so happy with it. I actually looked at the DishPVR, but the features that come with the Tivo subscription are really worth it (and there is little to no information on what you get with the DishPVR subscription).

Since the 2.5 update of Tivo, and the addition of variable bit rate encoding, I get about 14 - 16 hours on my "30 hr tivo" at Best quality. I find that any more TV than that and I don't watch it anyway. Also, Tivo is about to beta 4 digit support for those extra 9000 channels that DishNetwork has. I'm psyched to be able to get the Research Channel on Tivo over the next couple of weeks.

Also, now that Echostar (DishNetwork) is trying to buy Hughes (DirectTv) (story here) I am really hoping for DishTivo.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8152978.html : Senate leaders skeptical of Microsoft deal

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r28941619 : "Senate Panel Skeptical of Microsoft" By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r28965467 : "Skepticism in Senate Panel Over Accord With Microsoft" By STEPHEN LABATON

Researchers announced the vulnerability before fixes were available because they had uncovered evidence in Internet chat rooms that hackers had already started developing tools to take advantage of the hole, according to Dan Ingevaldson, a team leader at ISS' X-Force research and development lab.

If John Ashcroft wants to read everyone's email, let him. I propose that, from now on, everyone put AskDOJ@usdoj.gov in the cc: field of all your personal emails. (That's John Ashcroft's "official" email address, as posted on the DOJ web site. Pretty lame, eh?)

Now, why is this a terrorist act, and why am I thus posting as AC? Because it could be construed as a denial of service attack on the DOJ mail server. DOS attacks "calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion...or to retaliate against government conduct." are among those "hacks" now considered terrorist acts.

If you live in the U.S.A. be afraid. Be very afraid.

'That means that C# and the CLI are now officially standards, administered by ECMA. But Microsoft will retain control over who gets to license the technology and how it will be distributed, a [Microsoft] company spokesman said.'

I wonder what they mean by "license" and just how will Microsoft limit the distribution of the technology? Bleh. Ximian better beware of it's bedfellows...

By the way, the article quoted above is from today, December 13...unlike the Icaza interview.

I already ranted about Ximian not using Java, so I won't bother with that again... ;-)

299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!

I watched the unveiling of Transmeta online and was holding off making a laptop purchase for a couple months after waiting to get a Crusoe...but I gave up (and the PictureBooks was not interesting in anyway). Out of sight out of mind.

So, now I'm starting to consider getting a new laptop and passing my current Toshiba 2805 to my dear wife. I have a lot of requirements -- 15" LCD, speed, harddrive, RAM, ... but I honestly could not care less about the processor manufacturer and would NOT buy a laptop just because of the processor.

Indeed.

Slashdot engages in massive copyright infringement every day - don't believe me? Go to SLASHDOT'S L33T WAREZ SECTION FOR GAMEZ AND APPZ

By the way, there are some programs that deserve to be pirated

(for the humor impaired, warez.slashdot.org resolves to 127.0.0.1)

For my money, it's hard to beat the new ATA RAID cards that are out. Most can be had for less than $100.

Couple that with two or four 80GB drives, for less than $150 each, and you've got yourself a pretty nice array that will keep your data safe against all but the most horrendous problems.

Even with this, you're probably wise to have some offline backup solution to go along with it.

What data would you really want back if your house was swallowed by a hole in the ground? In that situation, do you really need access to your 30GB of MP3 files?

If the anwers is that you really only need access to your Quicken files, then arranging to have those backed up online should be pretty cheap and easy.

Summary: cheap ATA RAID for hardware redundancy, online backup for truly life-critical files.

For my money, it's hard to beat the new ATA RAID cards that are out. Most can be had for less than $100.

Couple that with two or four 80GB drives, for less than $150 each, and you've got yourself a pretty nice array that will keep your data safe against all but the most horrendous problems.

Even with this, you're probably wise to have some offline backup solution to go along with it.

What data would you really want back if your house was swallowed by a hole in the ground? In that situation, do you really need access to your 30GB of MP3 files?

If the anwers is that you really only need access to your Quicken files, then arranging to have those backed up online should be pretty cheap and easy.

Summary: cheap ATA RAID for hardware redundancy, online backup for truly life-critical files.

Looks like the cheapest Kingston/StorCase offering (which supports ATA/100, bonus!) costs around $80 mail-order.

Are there any other reputable manufacturers that sell a cheaper solution for IDE?

Well, for one thing because I've certainly thought of being more cautious in my postings since realizing that Ashcroft likely has the NSA scanning this stuff like never before - and that under new laws and regulations some of my posts can probably be construed as giving aid and comfort to the "enemy."

If John Ashcroft wants to read everyone's email, let him. I propose that, from now on, everyone put AskDOJ@usdoj.gov in the cc: field of all your personal emails. (That's John Ashcroft's "official" email address, as posted on the DOJ web site. Pretty lame, eh?)

Now, why is this a terrorist act, and why am I thus posting as AC? Because it could be construed as a denial of service attack on the DOJ mail server. DOS attacks "calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion...or to retaliate against government conduct." are among those "hacks" now considered terrorist acts.

If you live in the U.S.A. be afraid. Be very afraid.

I believe that this is the one bundled in the PowerMacs.

Since it burns DVD-R at 2x, DVD-RW at 1x, CDR at 8x, and CD-RW at 4x, and is available for what looks like a relatively cheap price right now, it looks like what I'd put on my christmas list. :-)

Especially since Nero now supports burning VideoCD (mpeg1) and MPEG2 DVDs.

At $15.99 a disk, the cost they mention in this CNet article http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6909288.html from August 19, I don't think its all that affordable. With the drive costing $600, the total costs would just be too high. Sure you can record repeatedly for each $16, but you're going to want to have more than one thing on disk at any one time, requiring additional disks. I realize that's cheaper than competing DVD rewritables so far, but still too much.

hmm i dont know if i 100 percent agree. The article i think was more talkign abotu dual processor systems. i recently upgraded from my p4 1.4 to a dual athlon mp 1600 and i can say that gddamn win2k boots, runs and shutsdown faster than anything i have ever seen. sisoft sandra (which i dont particularly trust but needed somethign to test performance) ranks my configuration close to that of quad processor xeon 2ghz and about 1/3 the mflops of a 8 processor 2ghz xeon rig. yes this is probably more power than i need for playign wolfienstien and such but its really nice to know i have a system that will be powerful for at least another year, unless i loose a processor fan and my pc melts ;)

incedently, i have 16 fans and they keep it cool down to about 45*c no load. Dont skimp on fans with these athlons!

oh but on the issue of stability, i would have to say that the p4 just crashed differently. i think they are both very stable with win2k. Tyan however could have included a temp monitoring program in the os but noooo because they are cheap bitches and dont answer my calls or email.

Google's ads are clearly separate from the ranked search results. Hardly the same thing as, say, this.

Read the settlement: Settlement

And then Email your thoughts to the DOJ (Subject "Microsoft Settlement")

If EVERY single person who reading Slashdot tonight actually did this, we might have a chance to sway this settlement. (Well, probably not, but it's worth a shot.)

-Russ

Oh hey, I own a Philips Rush MP3 player. Anybody got a Linux distro for that?

According to CNET's Review, while you can use another ISP you still have to pay MSN a $9.95 monthly fee. I don't know if this still applies, but be forewarned.

It won't make much difference whatever the punishment. Anonymity is very easy with viruses and finding out who wrote and/or released is the exception rather than the rule. There are some notable cases - Christopher Pile and David Smith for example - but they don't act as a detererent and the amount of damage (real or perceived) is greater than can be recovered from the defendent if found guilty.

Responding to an attendee who complained about the intrusiveness of recent Yahoo ads, Coleman said that touched on one thing companies must balance: consumers' desires and advertisers' needs.

Yahoo did get started with a cool thing that allowed (consumers) to go anywhere. There was an internal zealot-like attitude where everything was consumer-driven, but the fact of the matter is, it's a business,

On a scale of one to ten, Coleman said he thought the ads on Yahoo are a three in terms of intrusiveness, but he thinks they should be a six to make the model work.

previous reports, although i did not find anything at verizon.com or verizonwireless.com...

internetnews.com

news.cnet.com

allnetdevices.com

I hope this guy did not buy his xbox from CompUSA because I think he may have voided his
$30 two-year warranty

In 1997, there was a legal case about how the Shetland Times was unhappy about the Shetland News linking to its site. I believe that KPMG is a UK-registered company (my browser doesn't render their site either), and although Scottish law has significant differences to English law, I'd be surprised if a court would find in KPMG's favour (should KPMG push the point). The Shetland case was considered a landmark case at the time, and revolved around our old friend, copyright law. As such, it may be that KPMG are trying to make a different point, but I think they're going to have difficulties if they push this one.

The Queen of England chooses the superior Microsoft solution for web services.

The Sun never sets on the Microsoft empire.

See this CNET article for details.

According to Cnet, Compaq will be offering Proliant BL series of bladed servers soon as well. According to the article, HP was able to beat Compaq and others to market with their bladed offerings because HP went with an existing CompactPCI architecture, whereas Compaq believes CompactPCI doesn't offer high enough data transfer rates for bladed servers.

While the reported component order gives the rumor slightly stronger legs, don't forget that Apple already buys lots of 15" LCDs for their 15" Studio Display. It would be very interesting to know how many of these monitors Apple currently sells per month. Perhaps the additional 100kmonitors/month is simply forecasting additional demand?

Joel's memory seems a bit selective to me.

In fact, Microsoft employed two of the very tactics that Joel blames for Borland's demise to enter and conquer the database arena, thereby hastening Borland's fall.

After Borland paid $440 million for dBase, Microsoft picked up Foxpro - essentially a rewrite of dBase - for a mere $137 million to gain a foothold in the database market and underpriced the competition with the introduction of Access at $99!

I've read several e-mail comments from people involved in the online music industry in one way or another, that tried the service today. Based on their experiences I wont even waste the time to give it a look. I'm hearing things like 1 1/2 hours in to the download, install and start it up and still not able to get music. Search function for another didn't work. Another on tech support line for close to an hour and still holding. Thats what the American consumer really wants: lack of usability, non portable music, lousy customer service, and a catalog of music that at best, is terrible. Thats why almost every automobile sold has a radio, why we live at drive throughs at the local resturants, don't return broken items to the store where we bought them, and are overjoyed with automated pre-recorded responses.

The overall impression from the people I've talked to, who have tried it, is VERY negative. The interesting part many wanted it to work and work well. Needless to say they are disappointed. This article on CNET talks about the The Recording industies last chance.

So far it looks like they blew it..

I agree with you, Alsta. This is really cool.

should indeed bear testimony to a truly portable and well designed operating system.

I'm not entirely sure that the fact linux is available on a bunch of different hardware platforms is due solely to it's design and portability. It could be, but there are other factors that prohibit many proprietary OS's from getting ported.

If the owner of the OS doesn't see a financial incentive to dedicate programmers to the task of porting to XYZ hardware, it's unlikely to happen. Remember, NT used to be available on the PPC platform until it was realized that the market for NT servers was heading X86.

If the owner of a proprietary platform is looking for an OS for a boondoggle project, it can be cheaper in the long run to use a non-proprietary OS rather than get into a huge agreement with some OS vendor that's going to take a chunk of the boondoggle's profits in licensing fees.

Linux has armies of developers willing to dedicate jillions of hours of work towards some technical challenge just to 'do it' whereas BeOS, Mac OS (save for Darwin), and Windows have no open source developers working to port them.

So what I'm saying is that because Linux is all over the hardware map doesn't mean it is necessarily more portable or better designed. That may actually be the case. But if you're speaking relative to other operating systems, you've got to admit that they've got some non-design-related hobbles affecting their portability.

Some other poster said that Xbox has linux and it's more powerful, etc. etc. That's interesting. I'd like to see some info on that. I had assumed that Gates had demanded that all kinds of hardware-level encryption / proprietary protocols were built into the thing to prevent third parties from releasing unlicensed devices / software for the thing (not to mention a repeat of the eyeopener catastrophe).

Cnet is also running a story on the new music pay service started by RealNetworks.

Bottom line, Windows has an ungodly more amount of software out there. That fact was used against them in their lawsuit. Take a look at download.com's Windows > Audio > Music Creation category, 182 downloads. Then check out the Linux > Multimedia & Design, note the 2 broad categories mixed, 94 downloads. Download.com isn't very open source orientated, but check out freshmeat's Multimedia
> Sound/Audio > Sound Synthesis category, 37 projects. More than half of those 37 are below version 1.

Bottom line, Windows has an ungodly more amount of software out there. That fact was used against them in their lawsuit. Take a look at download.com's Windows > Audio > Music Creation category, 182 downloads. Then check out the Linux > Multimedia & Design, note the 2 broad categories mixed, 94 downloads. Download.com isn't very open source orientated, but check out freshmeat's Multimedia
> Sound/Audio > Sound Synthesis category, 37 projects. More than half of those 37 are below version 1.