That's nice until they take it somewhere to get it fixed because they don't want to bother you. I setup my grandmas computer with netscape and removed the IE and outlook express icons from the desktop. She was so happy she wasn't getting 100+ spams a day anymore, but she said some settings changed or something for her e-mail provider and she took it in to get fixed, and they removed netscape told her it was only for businesses and put IE/OE back on there and then she was back getting all of her unwanted junk mail again and probably now has who-knows-how-many viruses/worms, etc. Sigh.
In all honesty it does. Not me personally, but I have yet to convince my coworkers that security through obscurity doesn't work, and I'm sure they would use this article as proof. To the layman, this makes perfect sense: If the hackers can't see the code or haven't heard of the vulnerability, they can't hack the system. It's as simple as that to them. I keep trying to explain that hackers are resourceful and can still find vulnerabilities without source code and before it's known to the public, but they deem that to be 'near impossible' and far too time consuming.
Sigh, it's a losing battle arguing with them, and I've pretty much given up.
According to their website it will be out March 31, 2004, so maybe we should hold off on calling it vaporware just yet since it's only about two months away. Now, if the release date was Q4 2004, then it would definitely be vaporware.
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Not sure if "fire breathing" is quit the right way to describe the IBM guys...
I was just refering to this article which used that term and since then, I've liked that term:). I'm not trying to say the IBM lawyers are evil, just that they are not to be messed with.
Your terabyte drive, measured in binary, once formatted with a file system, which will come amazingly close to the tera decimal size, when done.
Yes, but now it's still going to lose those ~100GB to formatting. Which will yield only 900 Marketing GB or about 800 Real GB. Instead of having 900 Real GB that it would have if it started with 1000 Real GB. Anyway you cut it, you're losing about 100GB which is bigger than any drive I have.
I'm sure every user of open source software has at least one itch or inconvinience they would like to get rid of and if all of these got fixed by them or someone else with the same issue, it would result in more streamlined and easier to use products.
Our PC GOD Torvalds, which art in Transmeta^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSDL Hallowed be thy skillz Thy kernel comes, in the US and all the earth Give us this day our daily updates. And forgive us our holes, as we apply thine patch. And lead us not into closed source, but deliver us from Microsoft. For thine is the kernel, the skillz, and the leetness for ever and ever. Amen.
It's called 'creative accounting'. After all the MPAA claims that Spiderman made no profit and it was one of the highest grossing movies in the past few years, but it didn't make a profit. Apple probably took some lessons from the ??AA on how to do the accounting so it doesn't make a profit.
However, I guess it's also possible they are still recovering their fixed expenses to setup the network so they aren't profitable _yet_.
If you're the recipient of money, you don't normally want to be the first person to call out a number, so ask the giver of the monies how much it's worth to them. This will also keep you in a reasonable 'ballpark' figures. For instance, if you answered back that it would cost them $150/hr, when they were only wanting to give $25/hr, that's quite a difference and the company may just give up and decide not to pay you alltogether. The same is true if you decide to do it based on features and you say 'Feature X will cost you $5000' and they were only thinking of maybe $500. If you're a busy college student it may be more difficult to keep track of individual hours, so you may want to consider a pay-per-feature plan. It may also be easier for the company to think of paying you by the feature and then they are basically donating lump sums of money to your project.
The moral is to try and get a number out of them first and then negotiate from there. If the number they throw out is completely unreasonable, let them know and (more importantly) let them know _why_ it's unreasonable.
Actually, just type the phone number into google. Try it, type in your number, I used the format ###-###-#### and it came up with my name, address and a link to a map (Yahoo! maps and Mapquest). As long as it's not unlisted, or a cell phone, there is a good chance it will come up.
I'm not sure if it requires the phone company to give the information to google, but my number, my parents number and my inlaws' numbers were in there, and we are all in different states with different phone companies.
The problem is that they are offering to file the claims for the user when the details of the settlement say the user must file the claim themselves. Also, the settlement says the user must also physically sign and mail in their claim, while the website is just collecting digital signitures which is not permitted by the settlement.
This is just to name a few of the obvious ones. Here is the full text of the letter on Newsforge.
Slashdot Mirror
If sender is not in address book, Delete
Simple as that. I can't seem to find out how to setup a similar rule in Outlook Express.
That's nice until they take it somewhere to get it fixed because they don't want to bother you. I setup my grandmas computer with netscape and removed the IE and outlook express icons from the desktop. She was so happy she wasn't getting 100+ spams a day anymore, but she said some settings changed or something for her e-mail provider and she took it in to get fixed, and they removed netscape told her it was only for businesses and put IE/OE back on there and then she was back getting all of her unwanted junk mail again and probably now has who-knows-how-many viruses/worms, etc. Sigh.
In all honesty it does. Not me personally, but I have yet to convince my coworkers that security through obscurity doesn't work, and I'm sure they would use this article as proof. To the layman, this makes perfect sense: If the hackers can't see the code or haven't heard of the vulnerability, they can't hack the system. It's as simple as that to them. I keep trying to explain that hackers are resourceful and can still find vulnerabilities without source code and before it's known to the public, but they deem that to be 'near impossible' and far too time consuming.
Sigh, it's a losing battle arguing with them, and I've pretty much given up.
I think it would be really interesting to see what (civilized) questions we could ask him
I'm sorry, you must be on the wrong website.
No, but I'm sure it could be replaced by a very small shell script/command:
/bin/true; do wget -r -l10 http://www.sco.com & ; done
while
Hey! My company still uses those on our products! Well, most of them have been replaced with USB anti-piracy dongles, but not all.
working on their next frivolous lawsuit
I believe you mean 'expanding their core business'.
According to their website it will be out March 31, 2004, so maybe we should hold off on calling it vaporware just yet since it's only about two months away. Now, if the release date was Q4 2004, then it would definitely be vaporware.
We're sorry, but Star Trek is a registered trademark of Paramount pictures. For your unauthorized use of 'Star Trek' you now owe us an additional $699 please make check payable to Darl McBrides Legal Team.
Not sure if "fire breathing" is quit the right way to describe the IBM guys...
:). I'm not trying to say the IBM lawyers are evil, just that they are not to be messed with.
I was just refering to this article which used that term and since then, I've liked that term
to see what IBM's Legion Of Firebreathing Laywers have to say about this.
[sits back and grabs some popcorn] This should be good...
Your terabyte drive, measured in binary, once formatted with a file system, which will come amazingly close to the tera decimal size, when done.
Yes, but now it's still going to lose those ~100GB to formatting. Which will yield only 900 Marketing GB or about 800 Real GB. Instead of having 900 Real GB that it would have if it started with 1000 Real GB. Anyway you cut it, you're losing about 100GB which is bigger than any drive I have.
What's with all this talk lately about linux distros and KDEs and such?
Probably just because there hasn't been any good SCO news lately.
I would propose Sauron/Orc.
In the case of many items controlled by one we just have one Sauron computer and lots of Orc computers.
Simple: Making it better.
I'm sure every user of open source software has at least one itch or inconvinience they would like to get rid of and if all of these got fixed by them or someone else with the same issue, it would result in more streamlined and easier to use products.
Our PC GOD Torvalds, which art in Transmeta^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSDL
Hallowed be thy skillz
Thy kernel comes, in the US and all the earth
Give us this day our daily updates.
And forgive us our holes, as we apply thine patch.
And lead us not into closed source, but deliver us from Microsoft.
For thine is the kernel, the skillz, and the leetness for ever and ever. Amen.
It would actually take quite a bit of extra work to make lawyers, after all, you would first have to figure out how to make creatures un-dead.
For the average person, RedHat _is_ Linux. Who do you believe will replace you as being the defacto Linux distribution for the average person?
It's called 'creative accounting'. After all the MPAA claims that Spiderman made no profit and it was one of the highest grossing movies in the past few years, but it didn't make a profit. Apple probably took some lessons from the ??AA on how to do the accounting so it doesn't make a profit.
However, I guess it's also possible they are still recovering their fixed expenses to setup the network so they aren't profitable _yet_.
If you're the recipient of money, you don't normally want to be the first person to call out a number, so ask the giver of the monies how much it's worth to them. This will also keep you in a reasonable 'ballpark' figures. For instance, if you answered back that it would cost them $150/hr, when they were only wanting to give $25/hr, that's quite a difference and the company may just give up and decide not to pay you alltogether. The same is true if you decide to do it based on features and you say 'Feature X will cost you $5000' and they were only thinking of maybe $500. If you're a busy college student it may be more difficult to keep track of individual hours, so you may want to consider a pay-per-feature plan. It may also be easier for the company to think of paying you by the feature and then they are basically donating lump sums of money to your project.
The moral is to try and get a number out of them first and then negotiate from there. If the number they throw out is completely unreasonable, let them know and (more importantly) let them know _why_ it's unreasonable.
I hope this helps, congragulations and good luck!
Actually, just type the phone number into google. Try it, type in your number, I used the format ###-###-#### and it came up with my name, address and a link to a map (Yahoo! maps and Mapquest). As long as it's not unlisted, or a cell phone, there is a good chance it will come up.
I'm not sure if it requires the phone company to give the information to google, but my number, my parents number and my inlaws' numbers were in there, and we are all in different states with different phone companies.
The problem is that they are offering to file the claims for the user when the details of the settlement say the user must file the claim themselves. Also, the settlement says the user must also physically sign and mail in their claim, while the website is just collecting digital signitures which is not permitted by the settlement.
This is just to name a few of the obvious ones. Here is the full text of the letter on Newsforge.
At least they made it in the top 5 of todays largest % losers on the NASDAQ. (as of this writing, markets don't close for another 10 minutes).
And just yesterday I was talking with a co-worker about shorting SCOX. I need to trust my instincts more.
I hope not. If someone showed up to my door and they looked like Darl McBride, I don't think I would be able to guarantee their safety.