Slashdot has made subtle changes to the definitions of Patched and Unpatched.
Patched Open Source: A vulnerability has been identified and someone is thinking about fixing it. Because the time between discovery and fix is vanishingly small, there are no unpatched open source vulnerabilities.
Patched Windows/Proprietary: A patch has been available for not less than 12 months and is installed on not less than 99% of affected systems. It will be several months, if not years, before vulnerabilities fixed by Windows XP SP2 will be considered patched.
Don't waste your time; he's an ignorant, whining moron who has never made a positive contribution to anyone or anything. His major accomplishment in life is to collect a band of equally ignorant followers which mods up his posts.
The history here is very instructive. When we first included browser capabilities in Windows they did not get much use. Netscape continued to have over 80% share and there was no pressure on its price. Only when our browser won the overwhelming majority of all reviews did our share move up and Netscape have to come back down to a competitive price. It took a great deal of innovative work for us to not only catch up but move ahead in the browser business and we can be very proud of our contributions on behalf of consumers.
RFID as a way to track students' arrival and departure.
RFID is a way to track students' ID badge arrival and departure. Imagine the possibilities: Send security! The whole football team just walked into the girls' locker room. Again.
The XYZ Software Patent Company has a portfolio of mostly worthless software patents that may or may not apply to Microsoft products. They send a letter (cost, about $1.00 per letter) to one million Medium Size Companies saying that XYZ will file suit unless Medium Size Company licenses the patented software for $1,000. If Medium Size Company doesn't buy a license, XYZ will sue them.
Its going to cost Medium Size Company a couple of hundred bucks just to have their lawyer send a "F__k Y_u" letter and a few thousand to respond if XYZ actually files suit. Filing suit will cost XYZ about $12.95 since they already have all the docs in the word processor and just need to change the names.
Medium sends them a check for $1,000 and gets on with business. XYZ moves on to the next opportunity.
With MSFT indemnifying their customers, XYZ knows that any letter they send to Medium Size Company is going to trigger a Howitzer response from the big guy in Redmond. Kinda kills the plan before the first letter goes out.
Developing software is hard work. Developing products is hard work. Dealing with customers is hard work -- especially big ones like HP. Seeing the future, writing a spec and releasing a feature set requires time, talent, capital and a willingness to take a risk -- in this case, a big risk.
Linux got a leg up on Microsoft when HP released its Linux-based product. Then, no one cared enough to do the hard work needed to compete with MS. Don't complain about a bad decision at HP or another case of MS taking over a new market. Linux didn't lose the game. Linux never came out for the second inning.
The circuit senses capacitance. Do a Google search on "touch light switch" (no quotes) and among the first of 840,000 results will be our friends at X-10.
The old computers work as well as new ones because they work off of open-source servers. Photo caption. ... 8-year-old computers can run software just as quickly as newer ones using the open source servers. From body of article.
When the public learns that installing open source software on eight year old machines lets them work as well as new ones, Intel's business is gonna go down the toilet. Dell's gonna be circling the sewer with them.
Ever wonder what else the newspaper is getting wrong?
I just learned that the lock on the front door of my house has been broken since the house was built. Even though I turn the key when I leave, anyone can turn the knob, walk in and steal my computer. I've been lucky -- nobody's stolen my computer.
Should I fix the lock? Should I buy a another lock from the same vendor? Is my house secure because nobody's tried to break in? Based on results, the house is secure.
Lets make a rule that nothing gets posted until it has a part number, price and ship date. Next it'll be Personal Computers with hard drives. Electronic cameras. Carrying your entire eight track tape collection around in a little box called an iPod.
My point is that if you buy electricity for $0.01/kwh and it costs $0.05/kwh to generate, the $0.04/kwh difference has to come from somewhere (or someone). If all the generation and distribution is handled by the local electric utility, the rate payers are making up the difference. Alternatively, a government entity may be subsidizing the program directly (with our tax dollars).
New Belgium Brewery appears to be paying more of the cost (maybe all -- plus a profit?) of the wind power it uses. They are willing to put their money where their mouths are and should be commended.
The program referenced in the article allows people to put someone else's money where their mouths are.
As an aside, I was interested to see that one of the byproducts of beer production is CO2 which they considered supplying to greenhouses "for consumption by the growing plants." http://www.terrain.org/articles/9/wann.htm/ I never realized that greenhouse gas is a byproduct of beer production.
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Slashdot has made subtle changes to the definitions of Patched and Unpatched.
Patched Open Source: A vulnerability has been identified and someone is thinking about fixing it. Because the time between discovery and fix is vanishingly small, there are no unpatched open source vulnerabilities.
Patched Windows/Proprietary: A patch has been available for not less than 12 months and is installed on not less than 99% of affected systems. It will be several months, if not years, before vulnerabilities fixed by Windows XP SP2 will be considered patched.
This story points to the same Secunia Advisory (SA13483) as Slashdot's December 8th story "New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers" http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/005 3205&tid=172&tid=95&tid=8/
You had to replay it since Microsoft wasn't singled out in the first headline.
Don't waste your time; he's an ignorant, whining moron who has never made a positive contribution to anyone or anything. His major accomplishment in life is to collect a band of equally ignorant followers which mods up his posts.
Sad. Very sad.
So what's wrong with spending $139 for a student edition of "Wolfram's excellent Mathematica?" The kids will get years of learning from it.
Using inferior tools to save a few bucks on education is no bargain.
The history here is very instructive. When we first included browser capabilities in Windows they did not get much use. Netscape continued to have over 80% share and there was no pressure on its price. Only when our browser won the overwhelming majority of all reviews did our share move up and Netscape have to come back down to a competitive price. It took a great deal of innovative work for us to not only catch up but move ahead in the browser business and we can be very proud of our contributions on behalf of consumers.
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From Bill Gates' memo to his executive staff on the AOL/Netscape merger
http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/microsoft/l
Time to get back to work.
If you read the whole memo, you'll see that the "competitive price" is zero.
The Google-Microsoft competition is good news for consumers because it means more choices and better products.
Everything else in the story is just fill.
Chris Pratley, a Microsoft insider, recently wrote about the competitive environment, product development and MS Word vs WordPerfect ca. 1995. Take a few minutes to read his http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/0 4/27/120944.aspx/ blog entry for background.
RFID as a way to track students' arrival and departure.
RFID is a way to track students' ID badge arrival and departure. Imagine the possibilities: Send security! The whole football team just walked into the girls' locker room. Again.
Stop being rational, it confuses the readers. And if it catches on, there won't be more than three or four comments per story.
The XYZ Software Patent Company has a portfolio of mostly worthless software patents that may or may not apply to Microsoft products. They send a letter (cost, about $1.00 per letter) to one million Medium Size Companies saying that XYZ will file suit unless Medium Size Company licenses the patented software for $1,000. If Medium Size Company doesn't buy a license, XYZ will sue them.
Its going to cost Medium Size Company a couple of hundred bucks just to have their lawyer send a "F__k Y_u" letter and a few thousand to respond if XYZ actually files suit. Filing suit will cost XYZ about $12.95 since they already have all the docs in the word processor and just need to change the names.
Medium sends them a check for $1,000 and gets on with business. XYZ moves on to the next opportunity.
With MSFT indemnifying their customers, XYZ knows that any letter they send to Medium Size Company is going to trigger a Howitzer response from the big guy in Redmond. Kinda kills the plan before the first letter goes out.
Or maybe its because their 300 million customers feel threatened by SCO and their ilk. MSFT knows the source of their "source." Does Linux?
IT: Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw
should read
IT: Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits Old IE Flaw, Which Has Been Patched
or
IT: Latest Version of MyDoom Infects Machines of Morons Who Failed to Install SP2
Developing software is hard work. Developing products is hard work. Dealing with customers is hard work -- especially big ones like HP. Seeing the future, writing a spec and releasing a feature set requires time, talent, capital and a willingness to take a risk -- in this case, a big risk.
Linux got a leg up on Microsoft when HP released its Linux-based product. Then, no one cared enough to do the hard work needed to compete with MS. Don't complain about a bad decision at HP or another case of MS taking over a new market. Linux didn't lose the game. Linux never came out for the second inning.
Google rules out becoming a net portal.
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3d077db6-25ff-11d9-81d9-
Nothing worse than ruining the speculation wars with facts.
Uses: 27 words, two consultants and a speechwriter.
Says: "Dunno."
The circuit senses capacitance. Do a Google search on "touch light switch" (no quotes) and among the first of 840,000 results will be our friends at X-10.
Just tried it. IE 6.0, SP2. No crash. Works fine.
Or if a few hundred thousand people each contributed a buck ...
How much did you send them? Before you ask, I haven't sent them anything either. But I've never heard of them before today.
The decision to replace the legacy system was made the same week RadioShack quit selling vacuum tubes. Coincidence? I think not.
The old computers work as well as new ones because they work off of open-source servers.
... 8-year-old computers can run software just as quickly as newer ones using the open source servers.
Photo caption.
From body of article.
When the public learns that installing open source software on eight year old machines lets them work as well as new ones, Intel's business is gonna go down the toilet. Dell's gonna be circling the sewer with them.
Ever wonder what else the newspaper is getting wrong?
At my bank, we trust all our employees, especially the tellers. But we still lock the vaults and count the money.
I just learned that the lock on the front door of my house has been broken since the house was built. Even though I turn the key when I leave, anyone can turn the knob, walk in and steal my computer. I've been lucky -- nobody's stolen my computer.
Should I fix the lock? Should I buy a another lock from the same vendor? Is my house secure because nobody's tried to break in? Based on results, the house is secure.
I'm getting a new lock.
The knees have jerked and posted. Both sides.
The truth is that software engineering is hard. Good software engineering is very hard. Good secure software engineering is really hard.
If the open source community wants to write good secure software, they'll have to work really hard.
Lets make a rule that nothing gets posted until it has a part number, price and ship date. Next it'll be Personal Computers with hard drives. Electronic cameras. Carrying your entire eight track tape collection around in a little box called an iPod.
A little reality here.
My point is that if you buy electricity for $0.01/kwh and it costs $0.05/kwh to generate, the $0.04/kwh difference has to come from somewhere (or someone). If all the generation and distribution is handled by the local electric utility, the rate payers are making up the difference. Alternatively, a government entity may be subsidizing the program directly (with our tax dollars).
New Belgium Brewery appears to be paying more of the cost (maybe all -- plus a profit?) of the wind power it uses. They are willing to put their money where their mouths are and should be commended.
The program referenced in the article allows people to put someone else's money where their mouths are.
As an aside, I was interested to see that one of the byproducts of beer production is CO2 which they considered supplying to greenhouses "for consumption by the growing plants."
http://www.terrain.org/articles/9/wann.htm/
I never realized that greenhouse gas is a byproduct of beer production.