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c|net has an article on removing this stuff, and kazaa will still work afterwords. Not much info besides goto add/remove programs and remove b3d, but at least they list what files should be removed.

Most analysts are predicting that current price increases are reaching a plateau.... now is not necessarily the time to buy (unless you buy like today), as price increases are already happening througout the industry, as can be seen in this article.

The flat panels price increase is due almost entirely to a shortage of one of the key ingredients used in manufacture, which is supposedly only temporary.

"...help people realize that Microsoft is not the only option."

Yet when Microsoft moves Office XP to a subscription-based model (yes, yes, I know the XP subscription plan has been delayed in the USA [strange looking URL, but it does work], but it IS avaliable in other countries), like ThinkFree already uses, I'm sure Slashdot will be the first to proclaim it as the beginning of the end.

--jon

3) So what if they have $40 billion in the bank? What does that have to do with anything?

5) Despite your inflamed rhetoric the US government has never been for the people. Go read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and you'll quickly find that the government has been siding with business and industry over individuals for 200+ years. Yawn.

"Brilliant's brilliant plan is to use your computer to distribute their advertising, and give out Altnet resource dollars in exchange."

Assuming the poster is correct with linking Altnet to Flooz.com...

How are they going to give out rewards in exchange for using your computer if Flooz is bankrupt? Look at Flooz's website.

This stinks, man. Never trust these deceptive practices or those who practice them...

Knowing Microsoft, their next step will be to implement a completely new filesystem, encourage (force)
everyone to upgrade, and protect it with encryption (if they claim that the encryption is
for protection of a user's intellectual property, then perhaps the DMCA would have more teeth
in this situation), and/or patents (somewhat akin to what they did with ASF).

You sir have hit the nail right on the head!

Here it is:
MS to overhaul files for next Windows

-DF

No more screw-ups (as in early cracks) like last time.

Here's how to remove the "Brilliant" code.

I get the feeling this company has not seen Web marketers in the wild. There is no limit to what a failing dot.bomb will do to maintain its last few eyeballs. Have a look at the existing technologies (for example, IE with default settings) - a sleazy portal-potty can already hijack your homepage or add sites to your bookmarks. This is with *default* settings, which can even allow sites to install arbitrary code on your system.

How does a reasonable technology maker expect marketers to exercise restraint in the face of newer, more powerful, browser takeover technology?

The article doesn't say anything. There's a little more information in this CNet story though. Turns out they nailed a Florida based company, alleging that the company offered incentives for 3rd parties to transmit spam.

AOL victorious in porn-spam case

It actually gives details on who they sued and what the settlement is.

Here here, I tried to submit this yesterday (three times). Of course, expect the exact same damn thing to be successfully submitted by one of the mods today.

C|Net is reporting that the joint Microsoft and Unisys website attacking Unix has been experiencing problems all day. Now, normally I would venture an evil laugh, but in light of yesterdays revelation here on /. about the site being FreeBSD powered, could this merely reinforce Microsoft's point? Not likely, since it was quickly switched over to IIS running on Windows 2000.

There's nothing else happening?

....here FWIW.

They've already opensourced W2k in Russia, why don't they do the same in US?

HA!

Good job, whoever you were ;-)

Now, wouldn't it be a terrible thing if that site got hacked and then the story got onto Cnet and Yahoo news!

Done ;-)

Cnet article on it

Well, if you go to http://www.news.com/ itself you see the same stories.

Of course, it's http://news.com.com/ in a frame. So either C|Net got hacked, or that's how they're doing things now. Given that whois says CNET owns 'com.com', the latter is more probable.

CNet Networks owns the domain com.com and has been using it for some time to serve ZDNet News and CNet News. It's the same news, just with two different layouts.

Hope this helps.

Choosing the tools that really work, that's us!

I guess this has not appeared yet on /. because nobody would believe it. Or maybe it really is is a joke?

news.com article

http://www.wehavethewayout.com/

Netcraft results for site
The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.14 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on FreeBSD.

Corporations are already good enough at bashing themselves.

Oh, and for me posting this my personal information will be on file with the DoJ as a dangerous radical and enemy of the state. Time to go lie naked in the periwinkle.

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 02, @11:13AM
from the tightening-our-belts dept.

Well, folks, it started as an April fools joke, but we got such a positive response by companies such as Microsoft, eeger to spread FUD throughout the slashdot community, that we have decided to implement this new advertising strategy imediately. Thank you for your cooperation. Any converns should be addressed to me directly.

--CmdrTaco

The press has picked up on this. CNET is running the story today, so I imagine MS/Unisys will have to issue a press release in response by COB today since they "weren't immediately available for comment" at the time the story was posted. Unless they are hoping that the CNET story gets written off as an April Fools joke.

FYI, per Netcraft Unisys does run most of the webservers I checked on an NT/2k platform, but doesn't seem particularly loyal to MS when it comes to Web Server software, using IIS occasionally but also Netscape and Lotus webserver SW. Also, at least one of the Unisys sites I checked (weather.unisys.com) runs Apache on Red Hat Linux.

• There was a patch available months before CodeRed was even heard of, put people didn't install it, and now everyone points to CodeRed as the perfect example of MS vulnerability.

Yes! A perfect example. A perfect example of how difficult it is to keep up with the dizzying array of patches from Microsoft. Why, Microsoft can't even do it. Gartner advised customers to ditch IIS exactly because you can't patch fast enough.

Further, the Microsoft patches, available for a long time, cause other problems, and I quote:

Speaking of patches, I've read a couple of recent posts on the Bugtraq mailing list that indicate a problem might exist with the Microsoft patch listed in bulletin MS01-033. A few people have reported that after they installed the patch, their systems remain immune to Code Red infection. However, when an infected system attempts to connect to their system to infect it, several IIS services (e.g., FTP, the default Web site, the administrative Web site, and the proxy service) stop processing.

Here is an interesting article, describing how Microsoft is trying to get Java developers to write J# (java) code for the .NET platform. Unfortunately .NET only runs on the Windows platform, which has Sun a bit upset.

Yes, not to mention Intel.

CNET had an article on this yesterday. In brief, Yahoo! split their Marketing Preferences into a bunch of categories, and defaulted the new categories to opted-in. They are mailing out notices (a process that will take a few weeks) telling people about the new preferences. They then have 60 days to opt-out.

-Ed

See this NEWS.COM story. Looks like both companies are just fine, and it seems to make a considerable amount of sense.

I said I'm waiting for the 20GB iPod before I'll by one. And I'm sticking by that. In the same day that Toshiba announced (news.com) a 10GB drive they also annouced a 20GB drive. Where is my 20GB iPod? Would it be just too expensive? I know the nomad 3 is coming but it's still a little too big. A 20GB iPod would really be cool, but it seems they don't want me to have it...

My question is, are these really 32 processor machines running Windows or just multiple 4 way systems in the same box. Even the Unisys site isn't very clear.

My question is, are these really 32 processor machines running Windows or just multiple 4 way systems in the same box. Even the Unisys site isn't very clear.

There's an explanation of why stopping light could lead to advances in quantum computing here.

There's also some news about it here at Harvard's site. Also, there's an article here in Scientific American about this.

Didn't this all happen last year, too? Why is it just news now?

The man in question, pleading guilty under both Copyright law and the DMCA for illegally copying video tapes, faces the following sentances:

• Copyright law: 60 years imprisonment and $3,000,000 fine.
• DMCA: 5 year imprisonment and $500,000 fine.

What was so lacking in the punishment for violating the copyright laws that the DMCA was needed?

This and the Blizzard BNETD case show, IMHO, that the DMCA is nothing more than a legal weapon paid for the entertainment industry to chill any speech or action that they feel cuts into their profits. It does not impact the 'for-profit' pirates that actually cost the industry revenue, it tramples on the average consumer.

Copying copyrighted video tapes was illegal before the DMCA. There is no need for an additional law like the DMCA to put "fear" into the pirates like this guy. They face stricter punishments for violating copyright laws than they do the DMCA. The DMCA just broadens the scope to include that so-called gray area that is the average consumer wanting to time-shift/space-shift their belongings, which happens to cut into the entertainment industries profits.

Fuck the DMCA and Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen.

at Yahoo

and CNET

even USAToday

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

That was fast. Nine comments and already the site is choking...
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-869796.html

Wacky domain name.

At the Visual Studio.Net launch, Merrill Lynch and Loreal chose to take our language and platform and use it. We are pretty darn successful.

[Hilary] Rosen, however, said the proposed bill [CBADTA] is "recognition that people who make entertainment products are a value driver for technology products." But she added later that the movie industry is running into the same problems as the recording industry, and Hollywood is not heeding past lessons.

"It's amazing that they're not paying attention to what happened with music," she said. The film studios are "clearly waiting for the ideal security. You have to get out there and change your business model, and that lesson hasn't been learned yet."

It is interesting to see the attention paid to policing these virtual worlds. Currently, they are trying to do most of that with volunteers. A few paid staffers or contractors (GMs) oversee a larger force of volunteer guides.

The upside to volunteer guides is enthusiasm and game knowledge. Downsides include poor training, spotty supervision and questionable legality. Game users regularly complain about the lack of guides online. These "Disneylands" certainly aren't patrolled 24/7.

Everquest is attempting to address this problem with the launch of their premium Legends server: where they promote a dedicated CS staff. Even they aren't promising 24/7 coverage, though!

This got printed on ZDNet as an article. It still rings true in the sense that I meant it.

Lauren Smith

I just poked through your Microsoft Lies webpage and found something rather interesting. This seems to work in mozilla, and probably in IE as well if my instinct is right..

There are several links on your page to cnet news regarding some of the wrong doings microsoft has committed, ie. this one and this one.

I think what you'll find interesting is, although not being very old (1999 articles), cnet has decided to "Expire" them... BUT the contents of the story seems to show up here in mozilla for less than a second, then mozilla redirects me to the expired page.

Now here is a much much much older article from 1996 that is microsoft-friendly in its nature..
But this one isn't expired :)

someone else try this because everytime i click those damn anti-microsoft articles, they get 'expired' ... hard to use that as a verb but thats what is happening.

Here's the real URL

The proper attribution is clearly written at the top of the article as seen on Yahoo. The story originated from John Borland at CNET News.com. That is who should be given credit for the story, not Yahoo. And you might have actually linked to the original article so that the originating site - a source of many /. discussions - could have realized a little revenue from the referrals. Nothing wrong with Yahoo, it's a very convenient place to find stuff from all over, but very little of the written content there is original to them.

Here is the article at the original publisher's site. Ironically, as I am looking at it right now, the accompanying advertisement is about a CD Burner sale at Gateway.

And of course, the article fails to mention that the LOTR and Ali bootlegs were videotaped in the theater, and that is why they were available before the movies were released on video or DVD. It always amazes me that the MPAA chicken-littles allow us to assume that most of the piracy problem is due to their own insiders bootlegging stuff before it is released. You'd think they'd want to make sure we all knew that this stuff was bootlegged with a camcorder in the movie theatre, not ripped off the production line by one of their own.

According to a Gartner report, transoceanic fiber capacity ballooned from 432.7 gigabits per second (Gbps) in the fourth quarter of 1999 to nearly 3,500 Gbps at the end of the fourth quarter of 2000. Gartner analyst Bill Hahn predicts that capacity will mushroom to about 13,400 Gbps by the end of this year.

http://news.com.com/2100-1033-254520.html?legacy=c net

You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.

I just searched for Scientology, and the first thing that came up was:

News: (CNET:Media - 12:03 21 Mar 2002)

- Cary

This is funny. First, xenu.net appeared on the search result. Second, news section above search results pointed to CNET article about google removing the xenu.net pages.

Nyri

I suspect you're a troll, but here goes anyway:

I suppose you've never heard of a forged header. Anything can be made to lie, if you try hard enough. Forging a header is not rocket science, and is (as the story linked to points out, just above the heading "Corporate headaches getting worse") a tactic already in widespread use by spammers.

I guess you're also shocked that Sarah Michelle Gellar and Gillian Anderson have posed for so many nude photos. Here's a tip: those are fake, too.