It wasn't a weak password, it was from a sniffed password. But then again no matter how good your password is, if your not encrypted (and in some cases even if) your password is weak.
"So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process." "
Yeah and the food pyramid poster I have helps remind me that the beer and junk food I eat and drink are going to kill me.
"Hopefully the first of a long line of lawsuits that will eventually see the Supreme Court finding the DMCA unconstitutional."
No that would me the courts were concerned with individual rights and not big business. They will make the DMCA more open and make it so they can sue anyone for anything.
"Seems the utility is already utilizing the system to control traffic lights and such"
I may be wrong, but wouldn't this be a really bad idea? Controling an entire system like your traffic system with a medimum that is, well pretty open to many attacks seems like a pretty bad idea.
" (One clue is that they are not in perfect English, as interview responses or articles that are 'laundered' by PR or media relations departments almost always are.) "
Any good PR Person knows when talking to computer people, to throw in bad english, random swear words, and to ramble on for no reason on subjects that dont really matter, (or have nothing to do with the topic).
One thing I haven't heard much on yet, is what will happen to the current SCO customers when SCO goes bankrupt, because that's exactly what is going to happen.
It seems like SCO has given up on their current customer base, and finding existing customers as well.
I dont know why they even submit fixes/patches to bugtrack anymore, what's the point.
I understand that by having media player built into the OS it will give people who are not bright enough to install a real media player onto their computer access to media. But what should they do? Have QuickTime installed as well? Maybe real audio?
Its simple, stupid people don't like to think, and by having media player installed, they don't need to think. And another media player will just confuse them.
I prefer media player built into windows, it's one less thing to download to play my divx movies.
"until the site is redirected on December 2, 2003. Please note, however, that promptly following the removal of the MP3.com website, all content will be deleted from our servers and all previously submitted tapes, CD-ROMs and other media in our possession will be destroyed. We recommend that you make alternative content hosting arrangements as soon as practicable. "
I guess theirs another player in the music distribution scene, but really, there going to piss off the people that matter the most, the people making the music.
This will fail, and its because the hundreds of thousands of people who have accounts on mp3.com will not support them after this.
Companies have been doing this for years. This isn't new or even an Invention.
From the way it sounds they are leading in the technology, and have found the best ways to distribute music, but that doesn't mean this style of business is original.
Good for Apple, but Time really needs to pull their head out of their asses if this was the best invention they could find.
How many years did amazon go before they made a profit? Just because Itunes is not making Apple a profit, it does not mean itunes will not make them money from other products (such as Ipod sales).
Wait one minute. You're telling me. That if I "happen" go get paralyzed I can sit in a bed the rest of my life, be cleaned by someone else, free room and board, crap yourself, and have no worries.
Well when you think about the #1 application people use to download music, and the fact that they "monitor your computer to enhance the ad's you will see" makes you think just what they might be monitoring.
Makes me think if brillant (they own kazaa right?) is giving this information out freely or against their will to RIAA..... Or someone else.
I have a few sites that have advertisements. Not banners, but links and content that I have for people to advertise their sites.
What I am working on is a system that will check if people are blocking the advertisements, if they are, they access a page that requires them to turn off the ad blocking software.
In my opinion, if people want to view my site, and view my content/code/software that I don't charge for, they should help me out with a few nickels and dimes here and there.
If they don't want to see the banners that buy me beer, then I really have no need to give them access to my resources.
In many situations, it wont matter, because the software is installed on new PC's. They will see the license agreement, but they will not see this option.
Good point, I guess if that would be the case we stripe them down, grease them up, and let them go, Who ever is the last one to get caught wins.
Or even better, the elections last for 1 month. Take all the canidates, seal them inside a cave, 1 month later open the entrance, who ever comes out alive wins, if theres more then one alive... Back in the cave with them.
Its great, Apple does bad business practices and people look away, a company like Microsoft does something simular and people start whining about how their evil and mean.
Apple should not have done this, and I hope affects them in a bad way, either loss of revenue, or loss of customers.
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It wasn't a weak password, it was from a sniffed password. But then again no matter how good your password is, if your not encrypted (and in some cases even if) your password is weak.
Shes cute, I wounder if she can solve blanks first problem.....
"So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process." "
Yeah and the food pyramid poster I have helps remind me that the beer and junk food I eat and drink are going to kill me.
Time for another beer.
"Hopefully the first of a long line of lawsuits that will eventually see the Supreme Court finding the DMCA unconstitutional."
No that would me the courts were concerned with individual rights and not big business. They will make the DMCA more open and make it so they can sue anyone for anything.
It will only get worse.
"Seems the utility is already utilizing the system to control traffic lights and such"
I may be wrong, but wouldn't this be a really bad idea? Controling an entire system like your traffic system with a medimum that is, well pretty open to many attacks seems like a pretty bad idea.
"3 out of 54 respondents were women"
I don't like those odds.
" (One clue is that they are not in perfect English, as interview responses or articles that are 'laundered' by PR or media relations departments almost always are.) "
Any good PR Person knows when talking to computer people, to throw in bad english, random swear words, and to ramble on for no reason on subjects that dont really matter, (or have nothing to do with the topic).
"What's left in this company are concepts and ideas" (meaning SCO).
He is right. SCO is doing a good job of losing vendors, customers, market share etc.
I allways woundered what it would be like to blow 1 Billion dollars, I wonder how Darl feels.
'People freak out about Ebola.'
I don't know about the rest of the readers, but when my skin starts to sweat blood, I tend to go Freaking crazy, not just freak out.
IN/NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient.
Queries using the explicit JOIN syntax are now better optimized.
New multikey hash join capability.
Cursors conform more closely to the SQL standard.
Sounds like they pushed closer to the SQL standards, good job guys.
Does anyone here know more about this "New client-to-server protocol" they speak of?
One thing I haven't heard much on yet, is what will happen to the current SCO customers when SCO goes bankrupt, because that's exactly what is going to happen.
It seems like SCO has given up on their current customer base, and finding existing customers as well.
I dont know why they even submit fixes/patches to bugtrack anymore, what's the point.
I understand that by having media player built into the OS it will give people who are not bright enough to install a real media player onto their computer access to media. But what should they do? Have QuickTime installed as well? Maybe real audio?
Its simple, stupid people don't like to think, and by having media player installed, they don't need to think. And another media player will just confuse them.
I prefer media player built into windows, it's one less thing to download to play my divx movies.
Your right, but when your record label tells you that you can't say "insert lyrics here" because Wal-Mart will not carry it, what is going to happen?
Wal-Mart does not censor artists; artists have to censor them selves to get their music into Wal-Mart.
"until the site is redirected on December 2, 2003. Please note, however, that promptly following the removal of the MP3.com website, all content will be deleted from our servers and all previously submitted tapes, CD-ROMs and other media in our possession will be destroyed. We recommend that you make alternative content hosting arrangements as soon as practicable. "
I guess theirs another player in the music distribution scene, but really, there going to piss off the people that matter the most, the people making the music.
This will fail, and its because the hundreds of thousands of people who have accounts on mp3.com will not support them after this.
Companies have been doing this for years. This isn't new or even an Invention.
From the way it sounds they are leading in the technology, and have found the best ways to distribute music, but that doesn't mean this style of business is original.
Good for Apple, but Time really needs to pull their head out of their asses if this was the best invention they could find.
Not so, look at what happened with IBM and Microsoft.
IBM: Theres no real money in software, its in hardware.
Microsoft: Great well use our windows program.
Good example of how software sales were better because of hardware.
How many years did amazon go before they made a profit? Just because Itunes is not making Apple a profit, it does not mean itunes will not make them money from other products (such as Ipod sales).
Wait one minute. You're telling me. That if I "happen" go get paralyzed I can sit in a bed the rest of my life, be cleaned by someone else, free room and board, crap yourself, and have no worries.
And play video games?
Sounds pretty tempting.
Well when you think about the #1 application people use to download music, and the fact that they "monitor your computer to enhance the ad's you will see" makes you think just what they might be monitoring.
Makes me think if brillant (they own kazaa right?) is giving this information out freely or against their will to RIAA..... Or someone else.
Yeah, and with longhorn Microsoft will release a new version of MSPaint that will take away allmost all of Adobes market share.
Graphic designers around the world will switch in mass. Still does not support Layers, but new light flares and cloud filter added.
Look out Adobe.
I have a few sites that have advertisements. Not banners, but links and content that I have for people to advertise their sites.
What I am working on is a system that will check if people are blocking the advertisements, if they are, they access a page that requires them to turn off the ad blocking software.
In my opinion, if people want to view my site, and view my content/code/software that I don't charge for, they should help me out with a few nickels and dimes here and there.
If they don't want to see the banners that buy me beer, then I really have no need to give them access to my resources.
That's my thoughts on the matter.
In many situations, it wont matter, because the software is installed on new PC's. They will see the license agreement, but they will not see this option.
Good point, I guess if that would be the case we stripe them down, grease them up, and let them go, Who ever is the last one to get caught wins.
Or even better, the elections last for 1 month. Take all the canidates, seal them inside a cave, 1 month later open the entrance, who ever comes out alive wins, if theres more then one alive... Back in the cave with them.
Line the two (or more) candidates next to one another, voters stand in line.
Each voter gets to walk up and hit the person they are against winning to, aka the one they do not want to win. Last man standing wins the election.
Its great, Apple does bad business practices and people look away, a company like Microsoft does something simular and people start whining about how their evil and mean.
Apple should not have done this, and I hope affects them in a bad way, either loss of revenue, or loss of customers.