Slashdot Mirror

You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-patte...
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
https://sdtimes.com/addiction/...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal? Oh, yeah, that's why. SHAME ON YOU DICE!

You've been spamming every single article today with a completely off topic comment. You're doing way more harm to your story's reputation than you are helping it - this belongs on a blog or something, not in the comments section of another story.

I wish I was professional ... no one wants to pay me. Certainly not Dice.


Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot? So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals! SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story

I know my friend...

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?
So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!
SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story

Why did Dice buy Slashdot? So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals! SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

The description match some of the crypto in the NSA museum. This is not new. I should ask them if the algorythm the KY-3 used is declassified now. They'd made the hardware FOYO before I got out in the 80s.

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=69025&page=1

Samsung has responded to us with an official comment on the story: check the story for their statement or read it via this link: http://www.sdtimes.com/l/61968

they make it so hard for you to do shit that if you want to get anything done you have to pay for Oracle support or consultants -- but you don't figure that out until you're already committed.

But as I said in the post you replied to there are other vendors, such as MS, who will help you migrate to their database offerings. How about IBM, despite a slide in relational database sells, IBM passed Oracle as the largest seller of new RDBMS licenses. As SD Times says Oracle's Lead Narrows in Relational Database Market.

There is now the complete article available http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34183 which has far more text than the above [google cached] article.

It seems to have expired, been deleted or disappeared in some way.Your search - cache:O6bmbLpdB1gJ:www.sdtimes.com/DOES_WINDOWS_COST_MICROSOFT_OPPORTUNITIES_/By_David_Worthington/About_NET_and_WINDOWS/34203 http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34203 - did not match any documents.

Oh I know they do write new code as well, all I was saying is that compared to red hat and the like, their contribution is just a drop in the bucket. (I'd consider 100X the the number of patches a significant difference)

So if google wanted to hire coders from another company, canonical would be an almost silly choice.

Seeing the number of folks that are calling shenanigans on the above post I'm taking the courtesy of proving my point.

It was even mentioned in a slashdot article.

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/28/0045229

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33641

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33641

Linux kernel driver team leader Greg Kroah-Hartman, who had been tipped off by Linux contributor Stephen Hemminger, informed Microsoft about the violation in March, according to Ramji.

Hemminger, a principal engineer with the open-source networking software maker Vyatta, wrote in his blog that he contacted Kroah-Hartman with the expectation that Kroah-Hartman could "could prod the right people to get the issue resolved."

But Ramji said Microsoft was going to release the code under the GPL anyway. "Hank Janssen [a Microsoft engineer] came up with the idea of submitting the code to the kernel months before Greg [Kroah-Hartman] contacted us," he said. "We built a plan based on the value of supporting as many Linux distros as possible. Hank proposed the GPLv2 as the vehicle."

Microsoft did not make its decision based on any perceived obligation, he said. "We considered a range of options, and GPLv2 was the best because it is the license the community used."

"It seems to me that Sam [Ramji] is likely correct when he says that talk inside Microsoft about releasing the source was under way before the Linux developers began their enforcement effort," said Bradley Kuhn, a policy analyst and tech director at the SFLC.

"However, that talk doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem. As soon as one distributes the binaries of a GPL'd work, one must provide the source for those binaries, so Microsoft's delay in this regard was a GPL violation.
______________________

So, you see, MS didn't approach Linux first. Instead, Linux approached MS to inform MS that there was a problem. Everyone gets to spin the story as they see fit, and MS is highly experienced with spinning stories. But, bottom line was, Linux community had to make the first move to protect GPL'd code. That cannot be disguised with anyone's spin. Note, especially, the first paragraph, near the end: "In March".

Works on all major browsers (Firefox, IE, Safari, Konqueror, Opera, Seamonkey, etc)

So does Silverlight, on all supported browsers. I happily use it in Opera and Chrome, for example.

Works on all the major operating systems, and natively (MS-Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris)

It depends on what you count as a major OS, I guess; especially if we rephrase it as a "major desktop OS". I'd say Solaris is right out then, though Linux should be counted if only because of netbooks (it's still miniscule, though, compared even to OSX - what was it last time, 1.5% overall?).

Is self-contained

This is true for Silverlight as well. It does not depend on .NET (it has its own cut-down version integrated).

So far, the only technology that's competing with Flash that's not self-contained is JavaFX. I think that will be what kills it fastest.

Has development tools for most platforms

They're working on it.

One thing where Silverlight is clearly superior to Flash is the docs. The format is not fully binary - the markup is XML (fully documented, as XAML spec + Silverlight XAML dictionary). Code is compiled to CLR assemblies, which are binary, but covered by ISO standards.

Microsoft donates to Apache
Microsoft donates to moonlight
Microsoft supports ODF
IE to be standards compliant by default
Microsoft assist SAMBA team with interop ...and of course, the "Windows 7 might actually be rather good" article in TFA.

Maybe; just maybe, Microsoft isn't the evil machine some slashdotters make out.

Check out this article:

For now, JavaFX is limited to Mac OS and Windows. Linux and Solaris support will roll out early next year, Tanase said, adding that the video codecs still have to be made compatible with those environments.

Or a plug in to eclipse

You mean, like this one (which is funded by Microsoft)?

So, M is for Microsoft.

No, M is for Modeling.

And Google is your friend:
Microsoft details Oslo's modeling language, tools
Microsoft To Release Oslo Modeling Software Preview

SD Times is the ONLY news organization that was able to see Microsoft's internal documents regarding the Midori effort. Its coverage was first, and has more detail than any of the other stories that have been picked up from this original coverage. You can read it here: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/32627 There also are stories on Microsoft's work to migrate people from Windows to Midori, and all about concurrency. It's all at www.sdtimes.com

This story has taken more twists and turns than the Longhorn release cycle. For the FIRST, ORIGINAL, MOST DETAILED story on the Midori release, how Microsoft has considered migrating folks from Windows and a lot on concurrency, here's the link to the SD Times story that broke all this news: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/32627

Maybe you should do some research about your claims.
1) Vista only support for DX10
This isn't availible on XP either, and since no one is buying Vista no developer will support it. They don't want to only sell to a small install base.
2) MS is actually helping Mono develop Silverlight for Linux Link
Now, since they are helping a community that is actually fluent in Linux development as apposed to getting their feet dirty and then eveyone blaming them for intentionally introducing bugs to the Linux version we're now yelling "They aren't supporting Linux?" I don't like them as much as the next guy, but at least attack them on some more valid claims (OOXML perhaps)

Check it out: Indeed, the collaboration has been ongoing. The Moonlight product team has made requests for resources; Microsoft has put them in touch with the "right people" inside and outside of Microsoft, according to Icaza.
The Mono team has been invited to participate in a roadmap presentation for Silverlight next week and will provide its recommendations for the platform. "Novell and Microsoft have an ongoing relationship," Icaza noted.

To Microsoft, an 'open standard' is one in which they get to hide certain details so that only their implementation works properly, of course.

ECMA standards are pretty transparent. And not run by Microsoft. Not to mention, they already have a working implementation working on Linux, did you not read the links I posted?

In Microsoft-speak 'cross-platform' (which is a term used on the Silverlight MSDN site) means that it runs on Windows XP and on Windows Vista.

Windows, Mac already officially supported on microsoft.com. Microsoft is in collaboration developing the Linux port. What more do you want?

In other related news today:

Microsoft Nurtures Linux Silverlight Port
http://www.sdtimes.com/article/LatestNews-20070801 -46.html

I have more faith in MS and Silverlight on cross platform than I do Flash anymore after the past few years. Not only is Silverlight already available on other platforms it even supports 64bit (gasp).

And this is just the Silverlight 1.0 RC and MS doesn't expect long range use or adoption until 1.1 is finalized as it adds in massive amounts of support for web interaction and more language support. (1.1 is already in developer circles, and will be out not long after 1.0)

Also for people worried about adoption, take a look at MLB.com. There are a lot things in Silverlight especially on the programming side that Flash just can't do easily. Silverlight not only builds on Vista XAML technology for the web but also does HD quality video and can also do single feed streaming unlike Flash.

You can read the Headlines of the story @ http://www.sdtimes.com/cols/index.html And the story is @ http://www.sdtimes.com/fullcolumn/column-20070501- 04.html

You can read the Headlines of the story @ http://www.sdtimes.com/cols/index.html And the story is @ http://www.sdtimes.com/fullcolumn/column-20070501- 04.html

Do you have any evidence for that? It certainly doesn't match my experience.

Though it doesn't appear to be a universal solution, it may bolster the PPC Linux effort by allowing it to run software compiled for the x86 platform.

While doing some background checking I found an interview from 2003.

Looks like it will run under Mono, since Mono has the required library, ADO.NET: "ORM.NET takes advantage of one of the key features of Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects .NET (ADO.NET)--its data sets. In ADO.NET, he said, data sets can be used to hold hierarchical data tables, such as a customer, the customer's orders and fulfilled orders. What ORM.NET does is abstract out the data layer, generate a SQL statement, and commit all changes back to the database with a single call, he said."

Then tey had the stupid idea and buddies decided to kick out Hewlett (who at least knew that the employee loyalty went both ways, and recognised the strength in their printers), and decided to , support Carly's silly idea of

1(HP) + 1(Compaq) + 1/2(Dec) = 0.95(HPQ)

which made them #1 for a very brief moment until they decimated themselves with the first major layoffs in cocmpany history making themselves #2 or worse in most things within a quarter or two after they were #1. Amazing that they try that hard to become #1 (which for some reason they pitched to investors as being more important than having a sustainable business), only to then trim themselves down to be #2 to save costs.

Turns out Hewlett was right in the ind. They were a great printer company, and if they ditch the Compaq crap and the random software that they bought and never used (remeber the "$470 million mistake in buying Bluestone"), they might become a great printercompany again.

Between Compaq&HP this should be a case study of how stupid executive decisions can kill a company. They had the best CPUs (Alpha, and PA-RISC), the best search engine (Alta Vista), etc. They could dhave been Intel+Google.

Now what the hell have they become? A more expensive(at least til they finish their layoffs)-than-Dell reseller of Wintel. God what an embarassment.

Bring back Walter Hwelett!!!! At least he rememberd and understood what HP once stood for.

Didn't you mean:

Now, Solaris on an XServe [apple.com]... That makes NO sense... Server class hardware that doesn't suck [AMD/Sun serrvers]], yet doesn't cost an arm and a leg [apple.com], running perhaps the best multiprocessor Unix ever [BSD]... Mmmmm.

I'd take BSD running on an Ultrasparc any day over Solaris running on a xserv.

Ya da da da da da da
Secret Smurf!
Astroturf!

The thing that really makes me laugh is that the last slashdot article featuring SCO getting an award for FUDdism also has some nice comments about JBoss.

Don't be evil, please.

McBride is at a Loss for Words

Maybe he shouldn't have used them all up before.

This is probably a good thing. In fact, as it presently stands Darl could teach a thing or two about not running your mouth off unnecessarily to a certain other proprietary Unix company.

Here is another link for a proposed Mars Calendar:
http://mars.complete-isp.com/time/zubrin.html

NASA has an Applet showing the current time on Mars.

Offtopic - NASA is really embracing Java lately. At least parts of the control and visualising software for the current mission uses Java, including Java 3D. Java not ready for user interfaces eh?
They also certainly seem to be considering Java and Linux for future missions and have built a concept vehicle using it. The SD times article is very preachy, and I'm sure people sceptical of Java can argue over many of the points, but it is interesting still.

Dot Net doesn't look like a developer panacea just yet. If Sun keeps the enhancements coming and works to bring the development environment up to Visual Studio's standards (Yes, VS has its problems, but it has a lot of unique tools, like compile-and-continue, which save hours!), Java may well survive.

Dot Net is also anything but small. It's possible to create ROMmable Java applications in just a couple megs of flash memory. On the other hand, there's no such thing as embedded dot Net just yet. And if they continue with the execution model they've currently got, any piece of code is going to net a ROM many times larger than what's possible with Java. Either way, I'll want $699 for my fp, beeyotch.

In other news "SCO has amended its complaint so that it no longer compares Linux to a bicycle and Unix to a luxury car" so I'm happy.

Yes.

I wish they'd spend more money on auditing Windows too.

Of course, crash on "division by zero" is a feature, not a bug. :)

Too bad I'm stuck with clearcase, which is only tolerable if you have less than 50 local developers and someone full time to mind the CM system. Yuck.

-dB

There's another great article on similar themes here

They hint that SourceDepot might be perforce's code management system. I saw a talk by a Microsoft guy that hinted that their code revision system was "very similar" to Perforce's... so I think the article is right!

Here is an interview with David Nagel discussing some of Palm's plans for the Be assets. This second story is from OSOpinion, and is more speculation about a BeOS based 32-bit OS for Palm due in 2002.

Found these links through BeGroovy.

http://www.sdtimes.com/news/015/story1.htm