Who reports these expoits in the first place? If the answer is, "the wider user community", you have an obligation to repay that service in kind as soon as possible.
> Surely you can understand the need to patch critical pieces of
> infrastructure such as the root, gTLD and ccTLD name servers
> and to prepare patched binaries of BIND for various operating
> systems before the vulnerability becomes widely known.
This user does not understand any real delay and thinks the policy can be abusive.
The irony of the DeCSS case is that the subject matter that was labelled contraband was not written or conceived by the plaintiffs, but rather by the defendants! It was the original intellectual property of the defendants that was restrained. This is why the First Amendment is so clearly implicated in this case.
That sounds nice and all, but what does it mean? Let me try an awful analogy:
The irony of the Anit Piracy case is that the ships that were labelled contraband were not built or planned by shippers, but by the Pirates! It was pirate built ships that were restrained. That is why all ship builders must worry about this.
No, I don't morraly equate the copying of software or girl scouts singing "America the Beautitul" with murder and pillage. I simply want to know what goes on inside the head of a "strong-IP" guy.
It looks like you mean something like the DCMA goes above and beyond the power and intent of both copyright and patent laws. Copyright laws are intended to foster publishing and the expansion of the public domain by granting copy protection limited by the life of the contents creator. Patents are designed to encourage research and invention by granting a time limited protection on the invention's use. The DCMA combines the much stricter implementation rules of patents with the much longer, even infinite, time rules of copyright. This much too powerful device is now being used to prevent others from publishing original and useful material. In the end it may serve to reduce and eliminate the public domain which both patent and copyright laws seek to expand.
Ah, what do I know? I think that copyright protections are obsolete as the costs of publishing has been reduced to next to nothing, that Gilbert and Sullivan were Satan's minions, and that IP is BS. People will always publish, for the reasons they did before they were "protected", pride, philanthopy, and propaganda. Money is a byproduct.
There were MORE forms of music and more people making it before Gilbert and Sullivan's copyright BS attack, phonographs, radio and all that mass produced garbage culture.
What do you expect? It's the new media where paid content and editorial content are merged more strongly than ever.
A sysadmin in the article says,"I want wholehearted vendor endorsement and a couple of years of solid quality assurance testing by companies like Oracle [Corp.] before I allow Linux to take over my database server."
How you read this depends on your perspective. The sysadmin who said this thinks, "I want it in a box." Your experience is unimportant to him. The ZDNet reporter hears "vendor endorsment" and thinks of advert payments to ZDNet trumpeting some package.
It's all give and take. ZDNet convinces yet another group to sit contentedly, and their revenue continues to flow. Why would they advocate or even believe in anything else? It will go on until something else takes over. Insects do not believe in winter.
Sitting here on Slashdot, I wonder what that might be? Could it be peer reviewed, moderated, and modified content?
Honestly, I'm not into blaming-the-victim but how difficult is it to learn how to perform a good search? One screen of directions? Two minutes of time?
Yes you are blaming the victim. The basic concepts of searching take less time to learn than fancy terms like "boolean". Ideals are nice, but the devil is in the details. Search engine sites perform a difficult task and some do a first rate job. For that they should be thanked, but nothing is perfect.
What confounds the user mostly are all the syntaxes uses to express those concepts. They are different for every site and take some getting used to. It would be neat to see a search engine with more than one line for input. You could have a box for exact phrases, one for anyword matches, an exclusion box... It's not that command line syntax is ugly, it's that most people have better things to memorize.
Another thing that confronts the user is the effeciency of the search itself. Very clever people constantly seek to fool search engines, and ocasionaly do. The result is garbage to wade through until the search engine can recover. I remember a time when all search.com would retrieve was porn sites. Even Google has been beat a few times.
Let's not be so smug and negative. Look for the opertunities presented by user confusion. Be happy that these new search engines are comming.
G4s with a nice big box, power supply and what not go for $1700 . Go figure.
Bad Apple, Bad! Why don't you name your freaking gifs so people who don't surf with images can navigate your site? You gotta wonder how blind people navigate trash like that. Hate that site.
PowerPoint slides at industry conferences emphasize why the deluge is yet to come.
I think he hit the nail on the head, considering my only PowerPoint effort yeilded a 75 megabyte monster. When you understand this, 'metacomputing', 'web agents' and IT will all make sense.
Pillsbury is not that sharp. I know someone who dumped a whole fast food chain on them. Not only did the doughboys pay too much, my friend opened a new and better chain across the street from all the high traffic stores.
Pillsbury could have done something nice instead aim to be Slashdotted for stupidity. It would have been cheaper to create something useful than it was to waste legal billing. If they wanted to be slashdotted, they might have made a GPL cookbook, calorie counter, anything.
If they wanted to make news in a self interested way, they could have decreed they want to use some kind of Free software in their daily operations.
Pillsbury is much more than dough. They own the jolly green giant, ice cream, fast food, and all sorts of things that have nothing to do with baking. Thinking morons are in charge of such massive capital and wealth is not comforting, but it's not new to me either.
In a California demonstration, beacons have been installed at a municipality's bus stops linking to transit vehicles so riders can find out how long they'll have to wait for the next bus.
HA! This is going to be used as an excuse to wire bus stops so that adverts can then be sent by IP instead of paper. Couple this to a camera and you have a strange mix if Brave New World and 1984, mostly 1984.
Reality: You point your PDA or java ring at the bus stop. It lies to you and tells you that the bus will come in two minutes. The programer figured the schedule is never kept so he'd tell you what you wanted to hear. The advert, aware of your presence starts. The police, aware of your presence might have a peek. So might anyone else. The flouescent light flickers and fails.
Every single component? Surely they have some of their less profitable activity shipped off to China, just like we have ours shipped to them. Bother me when someone somewhere can come close to the design power of Intel or AMD.
I've tried them before. The greed heads know I have money because I spend it at the grocery store. I have three mailmen. One carries real mail. His two "helpers" concentrate on crap.
The Direct Marketing Assiciation is run by Satan. The Post Office is his Nancy Boy.
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> Surely you can understand the need to patch critical pieces of
> infrastructure such as the root, gTLD and ccTLD name servers
> and to prepare patched binaries of BIND for various operating
> systems before the vulnerability becomes widely known.
This user does not understand any real delay and thinks the policy can be abusive.
That sounds nice and all, but what does it mean? Let me try an awful analogy:
The irony of the Anit Piracy case is that the ships that were labelled contraband were not built or planned by shippers, but by the Pirates! It was pirate built ships that were restrained. That is why all ship builders must worry about this.
No, I don't morraly equate the copying of software or girl scouts singing "America the Beautitul" with murder and pillage. I simply want to know what goes on inside the head of a "strong-IP" guy.
It looks like you mean something like the DCMA goes above and beyond the power and intent of both copyright and patent laws. Copyright laws are intended to foster publishing and the expansion of the public domain by granting copy protection limited by the life of the contents creator. Patents are designed to encourage research and invention by granting a time limited protection on the invention's use. The DCMA combines the much stricter implementation rules of patents with the much longer, even infinite, time rules of copyright. This much too powerful device is now being used to prevent others from publishing original and useful material. In the end it may serve to reduce and eliminate the public domain which both patent and copyright laws seek to expand.
Ah, what do I know? I think that copyright protections are obsolete as the costs of publishing has been reduced to next to nothing, that Gilbert and Sullivan were Satan's minions, and that IP is BS. People will always publish, for the reasons they did before they were "protected", pride, philanthopy, and propaganda. Money is a byproduct.
There were MORE forms of music and more people making it before Gilbert and Sullivan's copyright BS attack, phonographs, radio and all that mass produced garbage culture.
This aught to kill you:
One for gaming,
one for toughness,
one for boredom,
and there must be thousands for looks
Kind of cool to think the software can be just as custom. Nothings dead here.
OS....cracks.%share..cracks/%..normalized:
nt......4750...0.59...8050.84...0.9630
linux...1750...0.21...8333.33...0.9967
solaris..700...0.08...8750.00...1.0466
bsd......500...0.06...8333.33...0.9967
others...500...0.06...8333.33...0.9967
average: 8360.169492
It looks a little odd, but those are the numbers. No numbers, however could make me use MS junk. There's always more than numbers to think about.
A sysadmin in the article says,"I want wholehearted vendor endorsement and a couple of years of solid quality assurance testing by companies like Oracle [Corp.] before I allow Linux to take over my database server."
How you read this depends on your perspective. The sysadmin who said this thinks, "I want it in a box." Your experience is unimportant to him. The ZDNet reporter hears "vendor endorsment" and thinks of advert payments to ZDNet trumpeting some package.
It's all give and take. ZDNet convinces yet another group to sit contentedly, and their revenue continues to flow. Why would they advocate or even believe in anything else? It will go on until something else takes over. Insects do not believe in winter.
Sitting here on Slashdot, I wonder what that might be? Could it be peer reviewed, moderated, and modified content?
You forgot /etc/hosts.
Never trust anyone who tells you not to trust people. 0
why bother to control that? Why should anyone care if I want to run this under /usr/share/boofer_lady if I feel like it?
What you are saying, is that the next MS Office will need a cluster of Crays to run?
Child porn certianly harms children. Images indistiguishable from real child porn allows real child porn to exist. Simulated child porn, therfore, harms children.
Yes you are blaming the victim. The basic concepts of searching take less time to learn than fancy terms like "boolean". Ideals are nice, but the devil is in the details. Search engine sites perform a difficult task and some do a first rate job. For that they should be thanked, but nothing is perfect.
What confounds the user mostly are all the syntaxes uses to express those concepts. They are different for every site and take some getting used to. It would be neat to see a search engine with more than one line for input. You could have a box for exact phrases, one for anyword matches, an exclusion box... It's not that command line syntax is ugly, it's that most people have better things to memorize.
Another thing that confronts the user is the effeciency of the search itself. Very clever people constantly seek to fool search engines, and ocasionaly do. The result is garbage to wade through until the search engine can recover. I remember a time when all search.com would retrieve was porn sites. Even Google has been beat a few times.
Let's not be so smug and negative. Look for the opertunities presented by user confusion. Be happy that these new search engines are comming.
Bad Apple, Bad! Why don't you name your freaking gifs so people who don't surf with images can navigate your site? You gotta wonder how blind people navigate trash like that. Hate that site.
The noise that I heard months ago was the hard drive. It was almost as noisy as a fan.
PowerPoint slides at industry conferences emphasize why the deluge is yet to come.
I think he hit the nail on the head, considering my only PowerPoint effort yeilded a 75 megabyte monster. When you understand this, 'metacomputing', 'web agents' and IT will all make sense.
Pillsbury could have done something nice instead aim to be Slashdotted for stupidity. It would have been cheaper to create something useful than it was to waste legal billing. If they wanted to be slashdotted, they might have made a GPL cookbook, calorie counter, anything. If they wanted to make news in a self interested way, they could have decreed they want to use some kind of Free software in their daily operations.
Pillsbury is much more than dough. They own the jolly green giant, ice cream, fast food, and all sorts of things that have nothing to do with baking. Thinking morons are in charge of such massive capital and wealth is not comforting, but it's not new to me either.
I'm not sure, but I think the Cube uses a power supply fan, like my 486.
Use a thermocouple to drive a small CPU cooling fan! Oh wait...
HA! This is going to be used as an excuse to wire bus stops so that adverts can then be sent by IP instead of paper. Couple this to a camera and you have a strange mix if Brave New World and 1984, mostly 1984.
Reality: You point your PDA or java ring at the bus stop. It lies to you and tells you that the bus will come in two minutes. The programer figured the schedule is never kept so he'd tell you what you wanted to hear. The advert, aware of your presence starts. The police, aware of your presence might have a peek. So might anyone else. The flouescent light flickers and fails.
Every single component? Surely they have some of their less profitable activity shipped off to China, just like we have ours shipped to them. Bother me when someone somewhere can come close to the design power of Intel or AMD.
Well, not really. Nothing could be worse than thinking around here.
"Don't know, Bubba, juss wipe it off your feet afore you go in."
Iron may not be renewable, but it's fairly common. If you don't try to make nails out of it, it's as cheap as dirt.
Picture this: Quit!
I have this fantasy about telephone solicitors that always starts with a junk emailing ....
The Direct Marketing Assiciation is run by Satan. The Post Office is his Nancy Boy.