This is the same thing as a couple of months ago where a company warned that keys could be found on a disk full of data. It made a Slashdot story somewhere, but since I have to go I won't look it up. NETSEC seems to want to get some high level attention. If you look at the data on this trojan on the Symantec siteyou can see that it is not a big threat.
Quite simple these guys want your money and they created a media hype to get it. No reason to flip. And now I am off.
Just for the record, the name is Hofstadter. The book is brilliant as far as I got now. Which is page 100 in the Dutch-version.
This link should get you to it: http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInqu iry.asp?userid=1LVTDTYNQK&mscssid=9S2XVG 9175SR2JLR00JP424CRB5K5JWC&srefer=&isbn=0465026567
So if the company is broken up, which one served Slashdot with a cease and desist?
Sorry Chris, though funny and rightly moderated as such, I would have to say that the OS division is quite clearly the one that would be heir to this cease and desist, since it is about a part of Windows 2000.:-)
I have some good news for you. The FCC has ordered that the billing system will be changed to the way the enlightened countries outside the US have it. You pay for the calls you make, not the ones you receive.:-) We always had that system here and it means that alot of people carry a cell phone only to be called on and hardly ever use it to call with. This keeps the monthly bill down alot.
I once heard a speech on this by the CEO of Ericsson in the Netherlands and he had been flabbergasted by the fact that somebody from Ericsson USA had been trying to play phone tag with him, while he naturally was carrying a cell phone. The american thought that the cell phone wouldn't be on anyways. Something which sounds completely rediculous to a European
You suggested the following sollutions: Either make cell phone useage unlimited... or keep the first incoming minute free at least, I mean geez. Both solutions wouldn't work. The first one, because you need a flat rate, but that would favour those calling the most. It might result also in everybody trying to get their money out of it and thereby overloading the phonesystem. The second one is only a stop gap. The idea of a mobile phone is that you can be reached anywhere, by anyone. The idea is not that you have to be afraid that your getting poor, because people can reach you.
Just imagine how handy these things could be, not just as a replacement to the PC, but as a sidekick to the PC. Everything that needs power/bandwith/big screen etc you do on the PC, but everythinig that can be done a bit more relaxed can be done at the screen. Or even nicer. Imagine your PC running like a server and then having it send the data to your luggable screen. With a nice wireless connection that would mean that I would the kick systemtower in a closet somewhere and have that screen lying around the house everywhere.
This has resulted in the USA subsidizing the telephone systems of many countries, the outflow was $5.4 billion in 1996. I wonder what the actual telecommunications balance of trade is between Australia and the USA is when both voice and IP are considered.
What you do forget is that the United States Telcos are actually getting the better deals. Because of their power and size they get the best deals (though alot of countries still rip them off) If you don't live in the United States, you really are screwed. Because your telco isn't as important as the US telcos, they have to pay even more for the connection to other (espescially third world) countries. This has had as a result that it was often cheaper to first call to the US and then to the country you really wanted to talk to. That is why companies like Callback have been growing so much.
I would figure that your question would have to be answered with the statement that the United States on balance is probably doing better then the rest of the world. Or to put it in your words: Other countries are more screwed then the US.
What I love about this site is that there is a list of all the errata in the book. As far as I can see they were not big ones, but I like the idea of being able to look up if there were any errors in it. Sometimes with non-fiction you know the subject quite well and then you see something that might be an error, this way you can look it up and/or notify the writer. A bit like bugtraq.
The could have done an even better job if they would have put a lot more of the technical stuff online. It is there, no reason to hold it back. Just imagine that in the future you read a textbook on 3d-modelling and you can go to a site to get the models yourself and fiddle with them. Or that you could find extra schematics for building something. Not nescessary to understand the book, or too expensive to include, but easily done on the Net.
you sure must be a Yank, because if it were beer they were after, they would have been in Belgium. No I am not Belgian, I am Dutch, but Belgian beer just rules. The Nehterlands is a good second, cause we import all the good Belgian beers, together with some of our own brews. (Unfortunately Grolsch, in my town, sustained heavy damages during an explosion). There are no other culinaire delights in Germany, that might make it worthwile to be there, so there must have been a technical economic reason.
IANAL, but I play on on the Internet: I really wonder if the how-to's will be seen as a circumvention. I don't read in this article that you cannot post a howto, just that you cannot have a technical device or offer a service, that would alow you to circumvent it. I therefore think that Slashdot should not remove those.
Not true. They are only obligated to remove access to it. Since they also have a legal requirement to restore it under certain circumstances, they can not just delete it. I disagree with you there, it would be like having an illegal copy of a cd or book. Still illegal..
The reason I named the signing of the document was, because I think it would be good if corporations would sign such e-mail. Spoofing is easily done.
A couple of thingies: If you do remove the actual text copies then at least make a note of it in the postings. Something like:
Because of a violation of copyrights, we were obliged under the DMCA to remove the information enclosed in this posting.
What I do find bad is that because this is a digital medium, there is no way of getting it back again. Slashdot is by the same law obliged to remove it of their servers, no back ups etc. Therefore it might also be nice to give posterity a general idea of what was in the posting.
I must say though that Microsoft seems a bit childish about it. These documents are quite easy to find elsewhere. And I don't see how they would seriously be harmed by this. Though they are probably in their right to ask this.
One last thingy that I noticed. There is no digital signature appended to the message, not any other way to identify the writer of this e-mail. Ofcourse you could make a phonecall. But coming from MS one would expect better use of Outlook (Or not):-)
And really as a final comment, shouldn't the phonenumber and e-mail adress have been remvoed of this e-mail? You never know what someone might do.
Revision of Step 7. Transmeta takes over the majority of the CPU biz. (I actually think that there is a chance of this happening. The technology is not as complicated.)
according to some rumors, Intel engineers are not a happy family anymore. The various departments are said to be pretty pissed at eachother.
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It bugs me to hear and read in Wired about the amount of flames that the various guys of Slashdot receive. If it was just Jon Katz, I could understand, but it seems all of them receive a large portion of flame mail. What they do is great for the community, if you read Slashdot regularly and for instance this article in Wired, you would know these guys are pretty sincere in what they are doing... So stop whining!:-)
No, that is not what I said.. What I said is that the concept is good and that you can do great things with it. What I also said is that I am glad that they cannot be hit by this kind of virus, because of the security policy. Contrary to what some here think, you don't need a 24/7 internet connection to do your job. At this place they implemented the policy not because of MS-products, but because they have to pay 49 billion dutch guilders a year. ($25billion) They don't want to jeopardize that by opening up their network to the internet. At least not now. As you can see, it makes it quite hard for script-kiddies/e-mail viruses/crackers etc to f*** up their business.
What I also said is that MS implementation sucks and that there should be a better way of doing this. Somebody suggested to use Lotus, i have no idea if it is better, but maybe somebody can think up an open source alternative.
You know, one essential part of internet security is that you determine why you want a certain part of the network connected to the Internet (or any network). If you don't know, then maybe you shouldn't.
What I said was not in defense of MS, but in defense of scripting in mail. I hope now you understand what you read.
Alot of people here are going on about how bad it is that people still use MS-Outlook etc. And how bad it is that they open attachments they don't know of.. That all being as it may, I would like to point out, that the ability to be able to run scripts etc in mail is not nescessarily a bad thing, but that this has just been poorly implemented by MS.
What I mean is this. I did my internship at a government agency which pays old age pension and child benefits in The Netherlands. They used alot of the VB possibilities you find in Office. The espescially build a very tight integration between their e-mail and the database that they have. Because they did this in this way, they were able to streamline the organisation in a great way. Alot of stuff could be streamlined through the organisation without the need for prints and reprints etc. Thankfully they had a security-officer that would refused to open up the network to the internet and decided to install one internet terminal per department. (I hope they still have that policy)
What I meant to say was that in stead of laughing at all those people using MS-products and having problems with this VB-script, we should come up with a solution that is alot safer and gives companies the same ease of use of integrating it into their organisation.
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There is already a perfect strategy for each player in noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe); AFAIK it leads to a draw. (Some people say that the first player can always win, but this seems to be an urban myth.)
It is an urban myth and it can be easily demonstrated by an 11 year old kid that it is impossible to win. Actually that is what is being done in classrooms all over the world. I still remember the tic-tac-toe sessions in primary school. There is one course of action with a higher likelihood of winning and that is starting in one of the corners. If the other player is inexperienced or stubborn, that might give a chance of winning.
Chess would probably be subject to the same problem, since both players would know all possible outcomes and the paths leading to them, they would try to steer it such that their chances of winning are the highest. Problem is that both want to win and that they will therefore in the end settle for a draw, because that is the highest either one will be able to get. Ofcourse this carries the assumption that the game cannot be determined from the outset by the first move that has been done.
Actually I think you might be quite wrong there.. Just from the top of my head and not having verified it again, my memory sais that the man who developed looked for a grammar which was very uncommon. Only a couple of tribes seem to have a similar grammar to Klingon. Also the words that Klingon uses seem to be very difficult. I am sure the Klingon Language Institute has something on this.
It seems like CoS is upto its usual tactics of intimidation again. I still remember the days of the Fishmann avidavit and the stirr that it caused.:-) I don't like them at all, but in this case I wonder if it is worth to start a religious war about. The devices that they have patented, are pretty well known and the schematics can be found in the IBM-patent database, so the information is freely available. I am not an electrical engineer, but the schematics probably let you build one yourself.
I feel sorry for the dude who is not making some money on those things, though he could do what it sais in the ebay reply and go to court over it. But, why would he? He can still advertise it in newspapers etc.
The only thing this shows is, as Declan McCullagh commented, that the DMCA is flawed and that it needs reparations, but we knew that allready. (didn't we?):-)
"I guess I would consider this news significant. It's not like we have much else to offer Alzheimer's patients in the way of hope."
First let me express the hope never to see anything of this disease. What struck me in this quote was the fact that so often Alzheimer patients don't know anymore what is wrong with them. Espescially in the latter stages. The pain on the family is the thing that I find the most gruesome thing. To see your loved one change into a mental wreck, not a shadow of the person he/she used to be is a torture. To offer them hope is something I pray for. As long as it doesn't result in prolonged suffering. To the guys of Slashdot I want to say that it is good that you also show this, next to all the upbeat stories.
Sharon: Should we blame the government? Liane: Or blame society? Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV? Sheila: No, blame Canada Everyone: Blame Canada (full text)
It all fits in our present society where nobody ever bears fault. Everything is the result of somebody else and that somebody else should pay. Good to see that the judge had some common sense. Alot of these weird cases don't need the wisdom of Salomon, just some plain old common sense.
Na deze babylonische spraakverwarring ben ik blij dat Slashdot weer gewoon Nederlands spreekt, zoals het hoort. Alle hete grutten en sterre oorlog vrouwtjes nog aan toe, het is de dag der dwazen en zelfs dit rustpunt in de maatschappij is gek geworden. Ik moet wel zeggen dat ik genoten heb van de manier waarop de Anonieme Lafaards reageerden. Maar goed, zoals gezegd, blij weer Nederlands te spreken.
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Quite simple these guys want your money and they created a media hype to get it. No reason to flip. And now I am off.
Being dutch I have to differ with you on that. Brand, Grolsch (pre-disaster), US Heit, La Trappe and some others do the trick quite well
This link should get you to it:u iry.asp?userid=1LVTDTYNQK&mscssid=9S2XVG 9175SR2JLR00JP424CRB5K5JWC&srefer=&isbn=0465026567
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInq
Sorry Chris, though funny and rightly moderated as such, I would have to say that the OS division is quite clearly the one that would be heir to this cease and desist, since it is about a part of Windows 2000. :-)
I once heard a speech on this by the CEO of Ericsson in the Netherlands and he had been flabbergasted by the fact that somebody from Ericsson USA had been trying to play phone tag with him, while he naturally was carrying a cell phone. The american thought that the cell phone wouldn't be on anyways. Something which sounds completely rediculous to a European
You suggested the following sollutions:
Either make cell phone useage unlimited... or keep the first incoming minute free at least, I mean geez.
Both solutions wouldn't work. The first one, because you need a flat rate, but that would favour those calling the most. It might result also in everybody trying to get their money out of it and thereby overloading the phonesystem. The second one is only a stop gap. The idea of a mobile phone is that you can be reached anywhere, by anyone. The idea is not that you have to be afraid that your getting poor, because people can reach you.
Just imagine how handy these things could be, not just as a replacement to the PC, but as a sidekick to the PC. Everything that needs power/bandwith/big screen etc you do on the PC, but everythinig that can be done a bit more relaxed can be done at the screen. Or even nicer. Imagine your PC running like a server and then having it send the data to your luggable screen. With a nice wireless connection that would mean that I would the kick systemtower in a closet somewhere and have that screen lying around the house everywhere.
What you do forget is that the United States Telcos are actually getting the better deals. Because of their power and size they get the best deals (though alot of countries still rip them off) If you don't live in the United States, you really are screwed. Because your telco isn't as important as the US telcos, they have to pay even more for the connection to other (espescially third world) countries. This has had as a result that it was often cheaper to first call to the US and then to the country you really wanted to talk to. That is why companies like Callback have been growing so much.
I would figure that your question would have to be answered with the statement that the United States on balance is probably doing better then the rest of the world. Or to put it in your words: Other countries are more screwed then the US.
The could have done an even better job if they would have put a lot more of the technical stuff online. It is there, no reason to hold it back. Just imagine that in the future you read a textbook on 3d-modelling and you can go to a site to get the models yourself and fiddle with them. Or that you could find extra schematics for building something. Not nescessary to understand the book, or too expensive to include, but easily done on the Net.
you sure must be a Yank, because if it were beer they were after, they would have been in Belgium. No I am not Belgian, I am Dutch, but Belgian beer just rules. The Nehterlands is a good second, cause we import all the good Belgian beers, together with some of our own brews. (Unfortunately Grolsch, in my town, sustained heavy damages during an explosion). There are no other culinaire delights in Germany, that might make it worthwile to be there, so there must have been a technical economic reason.
IANAL, but I play on on the Internet: I really wonder if the how-to's will be seen as a circumvention. I don't read in this article that you cannot post a howto, just that you cannot have a technical device or offer a service, that would alow you to circumvent it. I therefore think that Slashdot should not remove those.
The reason I named the signing of the document was, because I think it would be good if corporations would sign such e-mail. Spoofing is easily done.
Because of a violation of copyrights, we were obliged under the DMCA to remove the information enclosed in this posting.
What I do find bad is that because this is a digital medium, there is no way of getting it back again. Slashdot is by the same law obliged to remove it of their servers, no back ups etc. Therefore it might also be nice to give posterity a general idea of what was in the posting.
I must say though that Microsoft seems a bit childish about it. These documents are quite easy to find elsewhere. And I don't see how they would seriously be harmed by this. Though they are probably in their right to ask this.
One last thingy that I noticed. There is no digital signature appended to the message, not any other way to identify the writer of this e-mail. Ofcourse you could make a phonecall. But coming from MS one would expect better use of Outlook (Or not) :-)
And really as a final comment, shouldn't the phonenumber and e-mail adress have been remvoed of this e-mail? You never know what someone might do.
Revision of Step 7. Transmeta takes over the majority of the CPU biz. (I actually think that there is a chance of this happening. The technology is not as complicated.)
according to some rumors, Intel engineers are not a happy family anymore. The various departments are said to be pretty pissed at eachother.
It bugs me to hear and read in Wired about the amount of flames that the various guys of Slashdot receive. If it was just Jon Katz, I could understand, but it seems all of them receive a large portion of flame mail. What they do is great for the community, if you read Slashdot regularly and for instance this article in Wired, you would know these guys are pretty sincere in what they are doing... So stop whining! :-)
What I also said is that MS implementation sucks and that there should be a better way of doing this. Somebody suggested to use Lotus, i have no idea if it is better, but maybe somebody can think up an open source alternative.
You know, one essential part of internet security is that you determine why you want a certain part of the network connected to the Internet (or any network). If you don't know, then maybe you shouldn't.
What I said was not in defense of MS, but in defense of scripting in mail. I hope now you understand what you read.
What I mean is this. I did my internship at a government agency which pays old age pension and child benefits in The Netherlands. They used alot of the VB possibilities you find in Office. The espescially build a very tight integration between their e-mail and the database that they have. Because they did this in this way, they were able to streamline the organisation in a great way. Alot of stuff could be streamlined through the organisation without the need for prints and reprints etc. Thankfully they had a security-officer that would refused to open up the network to the internet and decided to install one internet terminal per department. (I hope they still have that policy)
What I meant to say was that in stead of laughing at all those people using MS-products and having problems with this VB-script, we should come up with a solution that is alot safer and gives companies the same ease of use of integrating it into their organisation.
It is an urban myth and it can be easily demonstrated by an 11 year old kid that it is impossible to win. Actually that is what is being done in classrooms all over the world. I still remember the tic-tac-toe sessions in primary school. There is one course of action with a higher likelihood of winning and that is starting in one of the corners. If the other player is inexperienced or stubborn, that might give a chance of winning.
Chess would probably be subject to the same problem, since both players would know all possible outcomes and the paths leading to them, they would try to steer it such that their chances of winning are the highest. Problem is that both want to win and that they will therefore in the end settle for a draw, because that is the highest either one will be able to get. Ofcourse this carries the assumption that the game cannot be determined from the outset by the first move that has been done.
Actually I think you might be quite wrong there.. Just from the top of my head and not having verified it again, my memory sais that the man who developed looked for a grammar which was very uncommon. Only a couple of tribes seem to have a similar grammar to Klingon. Also the words that Klingon uses seem to be very difficult. I am sure the Klingon Language Institute has something on this.
It seems like CoS is upto its usual tactics of intimidation again. I still remember the days of the Fishmann avidavit and the stirr that it caused. :-) I don't like them at all, but in this case I wonder if it is worth to start a religious war about. The devices that they have patented, are pretty well known and the schematics can be found in the IBM-patent database, so the information is freely available. I am not an electrical engineer, but the schematics probably let you build one yourself.
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I feel sorry for the dude who is not making some money on those things, though he could do what it sais in the ebay reply and go to court over it. But, why would he? He can still advertise it in newspapers etc.
The only thing this shows is, as Declan McCullagh commented, that the DMCA is flawed and that it needs reparations, but we knew that allready. (didn't we?)
If you can delete the file dvwssr.dll this easily, without any repercussions, I wonder what it did there in the first place.
"I guess I would consider this news significant. It's not like we have much else to offer Alzheimer's patients in the way of hope."
First let me express the hope never to see anything of this disease. What struck me in this quote was the fact that so often Alzheimer patients don't know anymore what is wrong with them. Espescially in the latter stages. The pain on the family is the thing that I find the most gruesome thing. To see your loved one change into a mental wreck, not a shadow of the person he/she used to be is a torture. To offer them hope is something I pray for. As long as it doesn't result in prolonged suffering. To the guys of Slashdot I want to say that it is good that you also show this, next to all the upbeat stories.
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
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It all fits in our present society where nobody ever bears fault. Everything is the result of somebody else and that somebody else should pay. Good to see that the judge had some common sense. Alot of these weird cases don't need the wisdom of Salomon, just some plain old common sense.
No he didn't. He still owns a large chunk of the company. do some researching and you can probably find out how much he still owns.
Na deze babylonische spraakverwarring ben ik blij dat Slashdot weer gewoon Nederlands spreekt, zoals het hoort. Alle hete grutten en sterre oorlog vrouwtjes nog aan toe, het is de dag der dwazen en zelfs dit rustpunt in de maatschappij is gek geworden. Ik moet wel zeggen dat ik genoten heb van de manier waarop de Anonieme Lafaards reageerden. Maar goed, zoals gezegd, blij weer Nederlands te spreken.