Since DOJ has other things to take care of (Like hunting the terrorists) the borg will most likely escape for few days which is just enough for them to get WinXP out to shelves. In other words, they
will most likely steal way more money and so the donation of $10 mil. could be a bit bigger, maybe?
After all this tragedy is going to earn them way more in the long run.
I'd guess that proper would be to call all uses of their products in helping to recover from the
national disaster as legal no matter of having the
license purchased or not.
No, thats called minding your own business and its the smart thing to do. Of course, we would later retaliate for the attacks on US, but tell me one reason why shall we give to the terrorist a reason for these attacks. It would be much harder for bin Laden to say: "Lets give our lives to attack us because they fucked with me and killed my troopers." than it is now when he can say: "Lets give our lives for a freedom of our country and fight these who occupy its land and support current unjust and oppresive government."
Well, I think that get the fuck out of the Saudi Arabia and stop supporting their unjust government so bin Laden could fight them instead of bombing US targets could be a good start. No?
I guess you are on drugs. Do you even KNOW what it is API? It means APplication Interface. Its the part thats supposed to be used for interactions with others and interoperability. Thats the part that is SUPPOSED to be open! As long as it is not, all the claims of MS about interoperability support are just bullsh*t.
They keep them closed and describe just in part and just to someone so they would selectively decide, which ISV's products will work better on their OS and which will work slower or with more problems or won't be that much compatible through their line of OSes. Does in your opinion has Microsoft a right to decide on this? Do you think they have even right to artifically create such situation when different competing companies have uneven conditions?
In case they are abusing such closed API to enter other markets, like Web browser market, Multimedia Viewer Market, Office Suite market. (It ain't done if Lotus still works....) Then its from the legal stand point abuse of monopoly powers and this is illegal, not having the monopoly, but abusing it and leveraging the monopoly into further markets.
To make long story short, they are bloody thieves and ought to hang on next tree.
Hey, am I cheating when I pay to somebody to clean my room every week, just because you're lame and have to do it yourself? I have better things to do with my time and I can earn more money then I spend in the time I save by not doing it.
Trust me, I can do more, way more, than I spend on a virtual item than I would invest in my time to get it. Not that I would ever buy some, but I have played virtual games a lot and I know what kind of killer it is!
And to be honest, I rather pay $25 for a virtual sword that I for a DVD, because I will have way more fun with it. People have just no idea about what the real value of money is, when they complain about these purchases or sound like its any good living.
Oh, my so two skilled computer wizards got $2000 cash each in two weeks. Is this anything special? There are people paid way more for computer support and its as virtual as these items.:)
Isn't MIT a federally funded University? I always thought that university research should go in public domain, no copyrights, no patents, no nothin'... and here we have every week at least one case of some university suing whomever for patent violations... odd.
I read the article and its really excelent, go and read it NOW! What disappoints me is that most of the responses moded up are missing the point entirely!
Its not about if anybody wants it, its about the possibility, the option!
Now, lets give an example. One of things about communist countries was, that you could not travel to the western countries. Not that anybody would want to do it and after the iron curtain fell, nobody actually does since they have no money to do it, but thats not the point. Now people are FREE to do it. They have the OPTION and the RIGHT. Its about your freedoms. Microsoft restricts freedoms of the OEMs to use the competetive solutions! and thats why its bad. Its not about how many people would actually buy. You will never know when you never try. And you never try, because Microsoft said so!
You don't give up your freedoms and your rights only because you just don't happen to have the need to exercise them!
I am not sure how about you, but instead of buying Pentium 4 2GHz procesor and new respective motherboard, because it won't do without upgrade in my old one by no chance... I can as well get 4 processor AMD Athalon 1GHz SMP machine and most likely even save. Or what, the heck, lets get 2 or 4 machines and put them in cluster. I am still better than with this single P4 2GHz processor for oomparable prices. So where exactly is the benefit?
Intel had a great deal of lead because of their SMP capabilities. Thats no longer a problem with AMD and no longer a banefit of all the Intel processors. So I'd guess, put the money where the real benefit is and not just into sounding numbers.
Well, as I read her bio, she is teaching about mentally ill and law which seems to fit perfectly to this case, regarding the actions of Bill and Steve.
They even forgot to mention that the hardware is already there. Every single high school student has his own PDA to help him (and surprise, even her) to cheat on school tests. Actually these little machines help students immensely already.
So you no longer need a consent of one of the parties or a court order to intercept communication? Thats interesting news.
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It would take a minor miracle to guess a message number correctly.
Actually... not... there is only 86400 seconds in a day and you need to worry about aprox first 100 messege numbers which makes it under ten million hits required to read your whole day correspondence. And the effectivity can be increased with clever algorithm so I will have most of them after first million.
In other words, a nice perl script that will take me about 1-2 hours to write will every day fetch all your mail without even making my computer sweat.:)
What kind of miracle is that? And shall I be proclaimed saint for performing such miracles?
If an organization calls itself ??AA, it's gonna take away you freedom... MPAA, RIAA, FTAA... makes you wonder what comes next:-)
When you consider that AA stands for American Association in most cases, its very unfortunate that term 'American' is associated with anti-freedom efforts here.
What else proves it better that Microsoft is holding a monopoly than removing features users depend on? How comes that they can do some many anti-consumer steps without an eyebrow raised of the regulatory organizations?
Thats really cool. This is the first time I see the slashdot falling prey of its own weapons. Shortly after you posted the article, poor banjo was slashdotted into oblivion. *cheer slashdotters* We won again!
Well, if they would sell warez-like release of their games, just downloadable files and pdf manuals or even without manuals or with just a stripped version, they could charge half the cost since all the money would go to the company and wouldn't be lost in the supply chain. And it would be very good solution for these types who say that the cost is "just too high" so they better download it from warez. I guess this could be good marketing move, no?
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The real problem is that all the boxes that are vulnerable to this one specific exploit advertise themselves all over the net! Everyone knows what exploit it is. All you need to do is to read your apache logs and you own at average 400-500 windows boxes to do ANYTHING you want.
Well, at least I have lived over in communist block and now I live in US so I have some grounds for doing the comparison, definitely more than you for the strict answer.
The point is that for 99% of population, the life was actually easier and more free during most of the communist era. Yes, I agree, they could not travel to the west, but lets not fool ourselves. They still cannot do it now, since they cannot afford it anyway. So what exactly is the difference?
Yes, for the 1% among which I count myself too it was not that easy, but most people don't need most of the rights that they cannot exercise anyway. And they had some, which in US you would find hardly. Like to send their kids in school without fear to found them shot or on drugs. Or right to have sex in their own backyard without police interruption:) And the right to drink beer in pub as much as they want without paying extraordinary sums of money for overpriced sewage.
Well, they risk a lot. What if Supreme Court will think that Judge Jackson had actually pretty good idea and will order to uphold the former decision to break the company? They can still do it, right?
How many more cases like this do you need to find out that the proclaimed 'freedom' in US is just a dream and the same kind of brainwashing you could see during cold war on BOTH sides?
Your snail mail address is known. You can get a hate letter by USPS, what is so different on electronic communication that it has to be specially punished and protected against?
How much of junk a day you throw in near by garbage can next to your mailbox? Just delete the mail, it won't kill you:)
My apache logs show for today already more code red attempted attacks than for all the last month together. What about someone finally posting how to edit the apache config files to just discard and mainly do not LOG these attacks. Since if it will really grow out of proportion, it will trash a lot of partitions on disk of many unix servers...
Well, this is exactly the same sound I've been taught my grandmother to use to turn away birds. You easily drag their attention and when they notice you, they fly away. Knowing there is such a huge market for it, I could have been rich:)
Anyway, just wanted to say that it seems like another wheel reinvented.
When the viruses cause so much problems and economic damage, why not punish in first place the company that came with operating system that created the whole anti-virus business and keep most people using their wrecked OS in places where such virus can result in economic harm?
And why do not kill the admis that deploy such OS anywhere where its infection based on core insecurity of the operating system can cause economic harm?
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Since DOJ has other things to take care of (Like hunting the terrorists) the borg will most likely escape for few days which is just enough for them to get WinXP out to shelves. In other words, they
will most likely steal way more money and so the donation of $10 mil. could be a bit bigger, maybe?
After all this tragedy is going to earn them way more in the long run.
I'd guess that proper would be to call all uses of their products in helping to recover from the
national disaster as legal no matter of having the
license purchased or not.
No supporters, no money, no big scale terror.
Well, I think that get the fuck out of the Saudi Arabia and stop supporting their unjust government so bin Laden could fight them instead of bombing US targets could be a good start. No?
They keep them closed and describe just in part and just to someone so they would selectively decide, which ISV's products will work better on their OS and which will work slower or with more problems or won't be that much compatible through their line of OSes. Does in your opinion has Microsoft a right to decide on this? Do you think they have even right to artifically create such situation when different competing companies have uneven conditions?
In case they are abusing such closed API to enter other markets, like Web browser market, Multimedia Viewer Market, Office Suite market. (It ain't done if Lotus still works....) Then its from the legal stand point abuse of monopoly powers and this is illegal, not having the monopoly, but abusing it and leveraging the monopoly into further markets.
To make long story short, they are bloody thieves and ought to hang on next tree.
Trust me, I can do more, way more, than I spend on a virtual item than I would invest in my time to get it. Not that I would ever buy some, but I have played virtual games a lot and I know what kind of killer it is!
And to be honest, I rather pay $25 for a virtual sword that I for a DVD, because I will have way more fun with it. People have just no idea about what the real value of money is, when they complain about these purchases or sound like its any good living.
Oh, my so two skilled computer wizards got $2000 cash each in two weeks. Is this anything special? There are people paid way more for computer support and its as virtual as these items. :)
Isn't MIT a federally funded University? I always thought that university research should go in public domain, no copyrights, no patents, no nothin' ... and here we have every week at least one case of some university suing whomever for patent violations... odd.
Did they have any option not to sign them? Thats a question :)
Its not about if anybody wants it, its about the possibility, the option!
Now, lets give an example. One of things about communist countries was, that you could not travel to the western countries. Not that anybody would want to do it and after the iron curtain fell, nobody actually does since they have no money to do it, but thats not the point. Now people are FREE to do it. They have the OPTION and the RIGHT. Its about your freedoms. Microsoft restricts freedoms of the OEMs to use the competetive solutions! and thats why its bad. Its not about how many people would actually buy. You will never know when you never try. And you never try, because Microsoft said so!
You don't give up your freedoms and your rights only because you just don't happen to have the need to exercise them!
Intel had a great deal of lead because of their SMP capabilities. Thats no longer a problem with AMD and no longer a banefit of all the Intel processors. So I'd guess, put the money where the real benefit is and not just into sounding numbers.
Well, as I read her bio, she is teaching about mentally ill and law which seems to fit perfectly to this case, regarding the actions of Bill and Steve.
They even forgot to mention that the hardware is already there. Every single high school student has his own PDA to help him (and surprise, even her) to cheat on school tests. Actually these little machines help students immensely already.
So you no longer need a consent of one of the parties or a court order to intercept communication? Thats interesting news.
Actually... not... there is only 86400 seconds in a day and you need to worry about aprox first 100 messege numbers which makes it under ten million hits required to read your whole day correspondence. And the effectivity can be increased with clever algorithm so I will have most of them after first million.
In other words, a nice perl script that will take me about 1-2 hours to write will every day fetch all your mail without even making my computer sweat. :)
What kind of miracle is that? And shall I be proclaimed saint for performing such miracles?
If an organization calls itself ??AA, it's gonna take away you freedom... MPAA, RIAA, FTAA... makes you wonder what comes next :-)
When you consider that AA stands for American Association in most cases, its very unfortunate that term 'American' is associated with anti-freedom efforts here.
What else proves it better that Microsoft is holding a monopoly than removing features users depend on? How comes that they can do some many anti-consumer steps without an eyebrow raised of the regulatory organizations?
Thats really cool. This is the first time I see the slashdot falling prey of its own weapons. Shortly after you posted the article, poor banjo was slashdotted into oblivion. *cheer slashdotters* We won again!
Well, if they would sell warez-like release of their games, just downloadable files and pdf manuals or even without manuals or with just a stripped version, they could charge half the cost since all the money would go to the company and wouldn't be lost in the supply chain. And it would be very good solution for these types who say that the cost is "just too high" so they better download it from warez. I guess this could be good marketing move, no?
Remote Linux install, anyone?
The point is that for 99% of population, the life was actually easier and more free during most of the communist era. Yes, I agree, they could not travel to the west, but lets not fool ourselves. They still cannot do it now, since they cannot afford it anyway. So what exactly is the difference?
Yes, for the 1% among which I count myself too it was not that easy, but most people don't need most of the rights that they cannot exercise anyway. And they had some, which in US you would find hardly. Like to send their kids in school without fear to found them shot or on drugs. Or right to have sex in their own backyard without police interruption :) And the right to drink beer in pub as much as they want without paying extraordinary sums of money for overpriced sewage.
Well, they risk a lot. What if Supreme Court will think that Judge Jackson had actually pretty good idea and will order to uphold the former decision to break the company? They can still do it, right?
How many more cases like this do you need to find out that the proclaimed 'freedom' in US is just a dream and the same kind of brainwashing you could see during cold war on BOTH sides?
How much of junk a day you throw in near by garbage can next to your mailbox? Just delete the mail, it won't kill you :)
My apache logs show for today already more code red attempted attacks than for all the last month together. What about someone finally posting how to edit the apache config files to just discard and mainly do not LOG these attacks. Since if it will really grow out of proportion, it will trash a lot of partitions on disk of many unix servers...
Anyway, just wanted to say that it seems like another wheel reinvented.
And why do not kill the admis that deploy such OS anywhere where its infection based on core insecurity of the operating system can cause economic harm?