Write a hand-crafted JPG that exploits common image viewers. Photoshop, built-in image viewers in MSIE, ACDSee.. if you have the executable that hundreds of thousands of other people have on their own machines, then learn how to break a JPG file in such as way as to cause an exploitable condition.. well.. duh!
If you're that kind of manager who characterizes someone who is trying to get their fair share as a "whiner" and are going to flippantly replace them at the drop of a hat because you don't like their "whining" then I hope your employees figure this out one day and leave en-masse.
You don't deserve any loyalty with an attitude like that.
Toys are irrelevant and useless. Get him something he'll appreciate (and if he doesn't then he didn't deserve toys to begin with): Spend the day with him and go do something interesting--whatever gets your goat. Mini golf. Canoeing. Rebuilding that old engine sitting in the old rust bucket out on the lawn.
Buying him a toy is shallow and uncaring. It just demonstrates you couldn't take the time out of your busy schedule to do something with him yourself.
Worse, it promotes the idea that you are a consumer, and not anything more. At best, you'll keep him occupied with a few hours of novelty before it wears off and he puts it on a top shelf and forgets it.
But if you spend some time with him and it's meaningful, believe me he'll cherish it much, much longer.
They brought this on themselves. You have to carefully manage your domain-name or things like this just.. well.. happen. It's nobody's fault for actively filtering out spam email, it's Macslash's for not keping track of when they registered the domain to begin with, and for not paying either well in advance, or using automatic debiting on a credit card.
...technology into each and every consumer-grade VCR out there. It's called Macrovision people. When was the last time you tried to record a video cassette (that you bloody well BOUGHT, no less) onto a temporary copy so you could better preserve the original in an archive?
Uh huh. Thought so.
They just want to do the same thing to digital devices. It's just proving a lot harder to do. But for all your belly-aching and all your complaining about how information wants to be free, digital devices are too uncontrollable, too hackable, to maintain the threshold of expertise required to bypass them. (Witness DeCSS and descendants!)
Not everyone can double-click and magically cause a de-macrovision device to pop up so they can record from one VCR to another. They have to either fork out $$ to buy a device, or be advanced enough with analog devices and time-signals to build one themselves. Macrovision turned out to be an extremely effective form of copy protection. Unfortunately broadcast signals are so full of ads and trimmed to fit the schedules of the networks that there's not much point in using them as an alternative. Broadcast is not on-demand programming.
Now, anyone can rip and re-encode a DVD. Just go to http://www.doom9.net, it's all right there.
You're insane if you expect to come out of this with devices that are clean from the touch of the MPAA. But the fact that you're fighting for that means that the MPAA won't get away with true murder--just a relatively minor assault. The more outfield you go, the further towards your position the compromise will be.
"the proof of which lies on him" was not specified to be papers claiming to be a locksmith. Think deed to a house, think getting caught picking your own locks. Think an affidavit from upstanding citizens that claim you lost your keys and thus require the instruments. It's all proof of a lawful excuse. All you need to do is prove that you're using the tools in a lawful way and you're covered. Big f'in deal.
Uh.. let me ask you this, then: If the FSF is based on the whole idea that you can build a competitive product based on similar algorithms and ideas as a proprietary one, how can a RedHat, who will use these patents to ensure there are no competitors in the proprietary world possibly be anything but hypocritical?
If the corporate world took this view back when Stallman was writing his software we wouldn't have anything. This is idiocy, and quite frankly I'm never using or buying RedHat again until they comply with the GPL and license these patents for free use by anybody. Yes, that includes proprietary software.
'To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.'
Uh.. no. Try reading the criminal code of Canada. Allow me to quote:
351(1) Possession of break-in instrument
351. (1) Every one who, without lawful excuse, the proof of which lies on him, has in his possession any instrument suitable for the purpose of breaking into any place, motor vehicle, vault or safe under circumstances that give rise to a reasonable inference that the instrument has been used or is or was intended to be used for any such purpose, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
So there are perfectly reasonable circumstances that a private citizen might own lock-picks.:P
But the whole purpose of Free Software is to provide workable, high-quality alternatives to commercial software. Algorithms themselves mustn't be allowed to be proprietary--that's the whole point. Sure, modification of code and re-selling is bad. The thing is, what I was talking about was complete re-engineering from the ground up. In other words, the patents logically shouldn't be enforceable, unless RedHat uses them in non-GPL software that doesn't have any patent clauses in the license.
If the patents are used directly in GPL'd code, the GPL says they have to license the patent for free use by anybody--free use should include re-engineered clean-room type competitors.
..."Hey. Here's some really convenient stepping-stones to get you out into the rest of the solar system."
First, a satellite orbiting the earth rich in minerals and possibly water. It'd be a perfect staging point for in-system space travel at any rate. Then, another possibly human-habitable planet only a short few months travel away that could be covered with an ocean 500 meters deep. Then a giant asteroid belt, and to top it off, an ice moon orbiting Jupiter!
This is to say nothing of the ice rings around Saturn!
Why can't anyone see this for what it is? Someone *wants* us to go out and explore beyond the boundaries of fantasi... er.. our Earth and possibly our solar system.:)
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
This means that if RedHat designs any software and puts it under the GPL, we all instantly get free access to the patents, forever. Even if we want to re-engineer the solution using proprietary software.
Best FPS mouse is.. a trackball. The Kensington Orbital is the best I've ever used, even though it's a crappy little piece of shit and after five years or so I've actually burned out the roller-holding mechanisms (little black melted plastic stuff.) Any larger and non-troglodytic fingers get tired during marathon matches.
Notice I specify FPS. If you're in a game of starcraft, the constant rolling and unit-selecting is annoying and there's no substitute for a mouse.
But in FPS, nobody beats a trackball player. All things equal, the trackball player moves more fluidly, spins around better, and can aim better.
What the hell are you talking about? You can't sign away basic rights and freedoms in any contract! If you could, people would be entering into slavery contracts left right and center, and quite frankly, that's not what's happening, or can happen. Either spill the references, re-define what you were saying, or alt.shut.the.hell.up.geek.
(Ie. What case? Who? What was the outcome? Where can I find more information?)
It's more likened to "eater of human flesh". Calling an inuit an Eskimo is like calling him a dirty cannibal. Eskimo is a term that caught on because the northern-most Indians were afraid of the Inuit and their bizarre practices because they thought Inuit ate Indians.
Inuit hate that it's caught on to the rest of the world.
There was a message I sent to him with a tailored from: address--I do this regularly in order to track down where my emails are being harvested from. And lo! The email address I used to send perfectly legitimate, polite inquiries to the guy is suddenly spammed with a load of email? What, is he whoring out his private address box/inbox now? Or is this guy--a self-described computer-savvy individual, going to claim he's been hacked? Give me a break.
Why would I want to travel anywhere with someone like that? Lame!
You're translating "must" into something completely out of context and not in agreement with what he wants at all. You know nothing, and you're trolling.
Didn't you pay attention in grade school? There would be no need for free software if we were allowed to do with "proprietary" software what we currently do with free software. The GPL is retaliation, not something that is being "shoved" down your throat like some kind of Rocco flick.
Get off your simpering pomposity and come back down to the real world, punk.
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Try learning how to handle it. Don't touch the contacts. Use the containers they came in. And don't dunk them in water.
Ya think?
Write a hand-crafted JPG that exploits common image viewers. Photoshop, built-in image viewers in MSIE, ACDSee.. if you have the executable that hundreds of thousands of other people have on their own machines, then learn how to break a JPG file in such as way as to cause an exploitable condition.. well.. duh!
Then you visit the man. If one is asking Slashdot for cool geek toys, one can afford to pick up a plane ticket for a weekend.
Bzzzt! Idiot.
If you're that kind of manager who characterizes someone who is trying to get their fair share as a "whiner" and are going to flippantly replace them at the drop of a hat because you don't like their "whining" then I hope your employees figure this out one day and leave en-masse.
You don't deserve any loyalty with an attitude like that.
Jerk.
Toys are irrelevant and useless. Get him something he'll appreciate (and if he doesn't then he didn't deserve toys to begin with): Spend the day with him and go do something interesting--whatever gets your goat. Mini golf. Canoeing. Rebuilding that old engine sitting in the old rust bucket out on the lawn.
Buying him a toy is shallow and uncaring. It just demonstrates you couldn't take the time out of your busy schedule to do something with him yourself.
Worse, it promotes the idea that you are a consumer, and not anything more. At best, you'll keep him occupied with a few hours of novelty before it wears off and he puts it on a top shelf and forgets it.
But if you spend some time with him and it's meaningful, believe me he'll cherish it much, much longer.
Go weather channel! My heros!
:) Screw this TNT/geForce crap.
That SO rocks. Soon as the drivers are released, I'm buying the card.
They brought this on themselves. You have to carefully manage your domain-name or things like this just.. well.. happen. It's nobody's fault for actively filtering out spam email, it's Macslash's for not keping track of when they registered the domain to begin with, and for not paying either well in advance, or using automatic debiting on a credit card.
...to bad rubbish. Napster was an ill-conceived, useless piece of tripe.
I suppose their one saving grace was that they demonstrated very completely how NOT to set up P2P services.
...technology into each and every consumer-grade VCR out there. It's called Macrovision people. When was the last time you tried to record a video cassette (that you bloody well BOUGHT, no less) onto a temporary copy so you could better preserve the original in an archive?
Uh huh. Thought so.
They just want to do the same thing to digital devices. It's just proving a lot harder to do. But for all your belly-aching and all your complaining about how information wants to be free, digital devices are too uncontrollable, too hackable, to maintain the threshold of expertise required to bypass them. (Witness DeCSS and descendants!)
Not everyone can double-click and magically cause a de-macrovision device to pop up so they can record from one VCR to another. They have to either fork out $$ to buy a device, or be advanced enough with analog devices and time-signals to build one themselves. Macrovision turned out to be an extremely effective form of copy protection. Unfortunately broadcast signals are so full of ads and trimmed to fit the schedules of the networks that there's not much point in using them as an alternative. Broadcast is not on-demand programming.
Now, anyone can rip and re-encode a DVD. Just go to http://www.doom9.net, it's all right there.
You're insane if you expect to come out of this with devices that are clean from the touch of the MPAA. But the fact that you're fighting for that means that the MPAA won't get away with true murder--just a relatively minor assault. The more outfield you go, the further towards your position the compromise will be.
"the proof of which lies on him" was not specified to be papers claiming to be a locksmith. Think deed to a house, think getting caught picking your own locks. Think an affidavit from upstanding citizens that claim you lost your keys and thus require the instruments. It's all proof of a lawful excuse. All you need to do is prove that you're using the tools in a lawful way and you're covered. Big f'in deal.
Uh.. let me ask you this, then: If the FSF is based on the whole idea that you can build a competitive product based on similar algorithms and ideas as a proprietary one, how can a RedHat, who will use these patents to ensure there are no competitors in the proprietary world possibly be anything but hypocritical?
If the corporate world took this view back when Stallman was writing his software we wouldn't have anything. This is idiocy, and quite frankly I'm never using or buying RedHat again until they comply with the GPL and license these patents for free use by anybody. Yes, that includes proprietary software.
'To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.'
But the whole purpose of Free Software is to provide workable, high-quality alternatives to commercial software. Algorithms themselves mustn't be allowed to be proprietary--that's the whole point. Sure, modification of code and re-selling is bad. The thing is, what I was talking about was complete re-engineering from the ground up. In other words, the patents logically shouldn't be enforceable, unless RedHat uses them in non-GPL software that doesn't have any patent clauses in the license.
If the patents are used directly in GPL'd code, the GPL says they have to license the patent for free use by anybody--free use should include re-engineered clean-room type competitors.
..."Hey. Here's some really convenient stepping-stones to get you out into the rest of the solar system."
:)
First, a satellite orbiting the earth rich in minerals and possibly water. It'd be a perfect staging point for in-system space travel at any rate. Then, another possibly human-habitable planet only a short few months travel away that could be covered with an ocean 500 meters deep. Then a giant asteroid belt, and to top it off, an ice moon orbiting Jupiter!
This is to say nothing of the ice rings around Saturn!
Why can't anyone see this for what it is? Someone *wants* us to go out and explore beyond the boundaries of fantasi... er.. our Earth and possibly our solar system.
This means that if RedHat designs any software and puts it under the GPL, we all instantly get free access to the patents, forever. Even if we want to re-engineer the solution using proprietary software.
They have until June before the final rejection happens. It's up in the air until then.
Sheesh.
Best FPS mouse is.. a trackball. The Kensington Orbital is the best I've ever used, even though it's a crappy little piece of shit and after five years or so I've actually burned out the roller-holding mechanisms (little black melted plastic stuff.) Any larger and non-troglodytic fingers get tired during marathon matches.
Notice I specify FPS. If you're in a game of starcraft, the constant rolling and unit-selecting is annoying and there's no substitute for a mouse.
But in FPS, nobody beats a trackball player. All things equal, the trackball player moves more fluidly, spins around better, and can aim better.
What the hell are you talking about? You can't sign away basic rights and freedoms in any contract! If you could, people would be entering into slavery contracts left right and center, and quite frankly, that's not what's happening, or can happen. Either spill the references, re-define what you were saying, or alt.shut.the.hell.up.geek.
(Ie. What case? Who? What was the outcome? Where can I find more information?)
I doubt if it's binary compatible..
Spoofed attacks could be stopped if more ISPs did simple ingress filtering. Most don't.
Try this: It's a winnebago. You ever drive a house on wheels? It's not an SUV, buddy and you can't take it offroading.
Well, the guy did sell one of my email addresses. So however rich he thinks he is, he's obviously "not rich enough."
It's more likened to "eater of human flesh". Calling an inuit an Eskimo is like calling him a dirty cannibal. Eskimo is a term that caught on because the northern-most Indians were afraid of the Inuit and their bizarre practices because they thought Inuit ate Indians.
Inuit hate that it's caught on to the rest of the world.
There was a message I sent to him with a tailored from: address--I do this regularly in order to track down where my emails are being harvested from. And lo! The email address I used to send perfectly legitimate, polite inquiries to the guy is suddenly spammed with a load of email? What, is he whoring out his private address box/inbox now? Or is this guy--a self-described computer-savvy individual, going to claim he's been hacked? Give me a break.
Why would I want to travel anywhere with someone like that? Lame!
You're translating "must" into something completely out of context and not in agreement with what he wants at all. You know nothing, and you're trolling.
Didn't you pay attention in grade school? There would be no need for free software if we were allowed to do with "proprietary" software what we currently do with free software. The GPL is retaliation, not something that is being "shoved" down your throat like some kind of Rocco flick.
Get off your simpering pomposity and come back down to the real world, punk.