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MS to Implement Some DoJ Settlement Terms Preemptively
lysurgon writes: "The New York Times (free registration, blah blah blah) is reporting that Microsoft will today announce it is taking some steps in implementing parts of the original DoJ settlement, a settlement which is still under review and not yet official. It's seen as a tactic to influence Judge Kollar-Kotelly's deliberation on the more stringent restrictions asked for by nine states attorneys general. Looks like MS wants to get off making some cosmetic changes (no surprise there), but given their rather stormy relationship with the judge, it could backfire. The other interesting thing is that at this stage, without an official ruling, no matter what they do or why they say they're doing it it's legally voluntary." Update: 08/05 17:00 GMT by T : HeUnique adds a link to another story on ZDnet which tosses in a few numbers while remaining fairly vague on what exactly will be released and under what terms.
Looks like the US is moving towards the Japanese system where "loss of face" is the main punishment.
I remember a few years back a senior Japanese politician was caught red handed in some bribery scandal. He was a little put out that people wanted him dragged before the courts instead of slapping his wrists. Aiming to defuse the situation, he issued a press statement that he would undergo a voluntary period of 30 days house-arrest during which time he would not allow himself to go outside his house.
I think this ploy actually succeeded and after a suitable time he was back in public life.
Go and stand in the corner Bill, until breaktime!
We must increase funding for our Armed Forces' supplies of - BOOM - Tough Actin' Tinactin - or the terrorists have already won.
I think the USA can learn a lot from Italy's way of life ;).
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Kinda like how they take those naughty, evil, blaspheming web sites (who cares where they're hosted) and plaster the special police's logo over the welcome page?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/10/04502
Just another freak in the freak kingdom.
When do the slashdot troll stop saying BSD is dying and change their tune to "Microsoft is Dying"? /me runs
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
I do not understand the difficulty that some people have defining terrorism. Terrorism is the deliberate killing or injuring (or attempted killing or injuring) of non-combatants in order to further a political goal. (Note that all military goals are political.)
Bombing Dresden was an attempt to cow the German population into surrender. Bombing a bus in the West Bank is an attempt to cow the Israeli population into surrender.
Killing a German soldier or an Israeli policeman (or for that matter a Palestinian militant) is not terrorism. Killing civilians accidentally while trying to kill soldiers or government agents is not terrorism.
Levelling a city sheltering Palestinian militants, rather than trying to kill militants and in the action destroying some property and killing some innocents, would be terrorism. Killing school kids on a bus, or families driving to their homes, or even 1-year olds *in* their homes, in an attempt to make the Israelis tired of occupation is terrorism.
Attacking Afghanistan to destroy a regime sheltering our enemies is not terrorism, even if in the process some civilians die. Attacking civilians because you want them to change their government rather than die would be terrorism. Attacking US civilians in an attempt to change US foreign policy (support of Saudi monarchy, one presumes) is terrorism. Attacking a US warship in an attempt to change US foreign policy is not terrorism.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
ok there are a hell of a lot of soft devices out there.
1: I'm not asking for all the graphics rendering stuff in a printer driver &co to be relased just the basic IO stuff.
2:there are a hell of a lot of devices that arn't so soft, GFX cards, Mpeg decoders, many soundcards etc.... they do not have great implementations under linux, e.g. S3 video cards
3: There's a lot of old hardware out there that definatly isn't soft.
4: A lot of chipsets have linux development support from the hardware manufactures e.g. ADSL chipsets, but no-one makes a linux driver for them.
5: It ain't that hard to reverse enginere something if you want to make a clone. but it's not cost effective to have to reverse enginer something just to write a driver.
Have a look at the xbox reverse enginering that's gone on latley and the XBOX is a basterd to hack compaired to most hardware.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.