What next? Sueing companies if their programs can read MSWord or Excel files?
This has actually happened. When MSWord 97 came out some antivirus code had to be withdrawn initially under a threat of litigation. The reason for this was that none of the naso-anal interfacing agreements between antiVirus vendors and MS covered the new formats. So MS threatened to sue them for being able to read and write (desinfect) files. It's been a while since than, but sure one can find references for it.
Same has also happened with programs using the Mircosoft "proprietary" domain policy formats. *.POL files. There is no rocket science there, they are just simple windows registry dumps. But MS actually successfully stalled samba's wide usage for MS domains for about a year by targeting anyone documenting the files. In other words theretening to sue you for writing text files and giving them a *.POL extension. You can find some info on this if you take an older samba source, untar it and look in the documentation section.
And to conclude this is Jeff^WStef W. Merkey speaking.
He is a MS licensee and has signed NDAs and his development is not clean house. Microsoft is right to sue him for breach of contract.
He has distributed internal MS software for developer's usage only before on linux-kernel. This is more than sufficient to crash and burn legally
He does not feel good if he does not cause at least one flamefest a quater so that people hear about his greatest and latest B.S.
If he will be sued it will not be a loss to the community, It will a win.
1. network pipe over loopback under linux (memory to memry + some CPU).
2. standard mysql benchmark test
3. linux kernel compile for a reasonably populated.config
In btw: I do not want top notch performance as the laptop disks and IO will cripple it anyway. I just want to finally see what a hell are we talking about.
You do not understand do you? At least a few companies should get the Darwin award and go titsup.com as a lesson to the others. Comsumers have rights too...
Europe also has various data protection laws. Some of these marketing schemes are pretty much illegal in europe. The degrees of strictness vary with Germany being the most paranoid and UK being the most relaxed. But overall the DC idea is illegal outside the US.
Sorry kid. I think you got most of it wrong. There are valid reasons for the poor bastards to bitch. So let's see what is actually happening:
Most of the H1B and other slavery status visas that come to the US are nothing, but poor bastards that believe in the bullshit usually known as "american dream". It has been successfully sold by holliwood to the rest of the world for the last 95 years. They believe that they can succeed and their incredible "talent" will blossom only in the US. They believe that everything will be good at the end. Just like in an american movie (show me a one without a happy ending).
So they come and see reality which sucks for most of them. Real life does not get even close to the movies. And so they bitch. And they are right to. They have been cheated in every single of their dreams and good intentions.
P.S. As an interesting sideline the Australians have started marketing special movies oriented to the potential emigrants (Pakistani, Middle East, Indonesia, etc). They depict the actual beaties of some parts of Australia like big whites, crocodiles, poisonous spiders and other lovelies.
So maybe financing Holliwood to start making movies about American reality is the solution. There is plenty of space for that in Quins and upper Manhattan.
Even simpler. Stuff the unattended install script into the logon script that is executed on first luser logon. You will have to run some inventory checks by means different from SMS to determine that the machine has not been customized, though. But no rocket science here.
A dead looser company alsways blames someone.
This is part of the business. Hackers, Weather, Force Major, but never idiotic business plan and lack of clue. The reason is very simple. The concession that the business plan was idiotic means that the VCs were idiots. VCs do not like to be marked as stupid.
So having someone else to blame is to be expected.
I think you are too naive. So I will have to explain it at your intellectual level.
A loss leader is like spreading gold along a path. This usually leads to two options:
The idiots that start walking along the path get robbed. In the middleages thay used to get killed as well. Unfortunately now this does not always happen and the evolution does not take its due course so we have to have this idiotic conversation
The people who actually have some brains chose another path (or use armed escort). And they get away with their money and alive.
It is obvious that if two many people use an alternative path there will be an attempt to ambush that one as well (think of EULAs and similar measures), but until a company have not ambushed the other path it should not expect anything but a random idiot to fall in its traps. Evolution have taken its due course for thousands of years. So the avoidance of non-enforceable loss leader schemes is to be expected.
They are drawing the number from censorware distribution. Quite a lot of PCs and Internet offers recently come with censorware bundled, preloaded, installed (whatever).
It is usually unused. Reason is very simple - parents who actually know how to use it do not use it. But the overall figures of censorware distribution have reached insane values. Hence this statistic.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the boycott, but I wonder about what will happen when it is released and (inevitably) hacked.
Depends where is it published. In some countries reverse engineering for interoperability is legal.
So if someone with an overgrown ego publishes not his findings in an inappropriate country just in order to be famous and k3wl we have the DeCSS case again. If someone with brain passes it along to the other side of the globe than... Oh well we all know where Micro$ networking was reverse engineered.
I don't like what RAMBUS is doing, but
the fact that so many companies are reaching settlements seems to indicate that they have some reasonably strong legal footing for these suits.
Just a few reminders:
RamBUST memory is mostly oriented towards the PC marketplace (yeah, I do not forget game platforms, but they are a drop in the sea).
RamBUST=Intel. Intel=RamBUST. You want to have favourable terms from Intel you go RamBUST. The alternative is to use non-Intel chipsets and then you suddenly realise that you are stuffed on CPU deliveries and pricing.
Hitachi, Toshiba and Nec all produce PC equipment. Or have extensive long-term contracts deals with PC manufacturers.
This is the situation. Fair and Square. You either go RamBUST or you lose your share of the PC market. By either selling unpopular non-branded non-Intel PCs or having to pay more for CPUs from Intel or not having them available.
Because of D.J.B.s habit to replace a number of O.S. library functions and includes with his own qmail versions prior to 1.0.3 can be used to deliver highly effective D.O.S.es to linux machines. The bug is Linux specific. Look through the qmail sources for an ifdef linux and you will find it. Or diff 1.0.2 vs 1.0.3. The type of attack is more or less standard resource exaustion. Or search on Bugtraq where the bug was published.
There are some problems revolving around WAP related patents. And some of them have yet to be questioned in court. I suggest you search the mailing list archives there was a lengthy (which is amazing in itself) explanation by Alan Cox on the topic.
t is slow, requires
java and is prone to crashes, which causes a 1000 calls to the help desk "Help I cant get my email". It sucks to have to
explain that it is Campus Pipline's fault. Why cant the school just set up a pop server?
Hold on, are you trying to say that they have access to your email? This is a whole new ball game
I thought from the headline they were organ-harvesting or something.
Depends on the point of view. Having a full personal record from your college years is almost as good as having your immunological footprint. They can do things almost as intrusive as selling your eyes.
You are assuming that the numbering scheme will stay the same. Which I think is wrong
I do not think that the numbering scheme will stay the same. So, along with Amex we will now have AMEX-One time or even AMEX-Electronic Traveller Cheque
I strongly suspect number reusal. Basically electronic money or to be more exact electronic traveler cheques.
I strongly suspect that the transaction in the finall version will not be anonymous. As if it is anonymous combined with number reusal the mixture will become outright explosive. It will simply be guranteed to be not reusable even if someone intercepts the numbers.
The primary problem is not language barrier unless you are trying to outsource something to a country like F... which prouds itself in making sure that its cittizens do not know a foreign language so that they do not pollute their native one.
The primary problem is cultural and woking style differences. Just a few examples:
US: Need of belief. Need of vision. trying to assign absolutes to anything. Example: We strongly believe in XML and Corba and our product IPC will rely only on this. Yeah right... Now I understand why it s 50MB in size and it crowls like a snail (it is usually called gnome). If you outsource something to US you need to keep a permanent edge on things that they do not get out of control on religious, fashion or buzzword grounds
Europe, especially some countries: Lack of belief in any absolute gones as far as allerfy to any absolute. To hell with all visions, give us justifications. Everything and eberyone should be questioned on general purposes. If a change in ideology gives performance advantage - use it. Example: Corba is a good idea in a network or distributed environment but its performance is crock of shit, so on a local machine we will bypass it for speed (usually known as KDE).
India, Pakistan, etc:strict subordination. What boss said that is what is done. No objections. May walk out though (this usually happens further east starting from Honkong). Results - have a look at apps all over the market. Especially "big vendor" ones. They are implemented strictly up to spec but they suck badly.
IMHO - outsourcing to 1 or 2 is a process that with proper management brings reasonable results. Outsourcing to 3 is the most idiotic idea of them all. You need a very high level of knowledge in house to make sure that the specification and project assignment is sane. At that level of knowledge it does not make sense to outsource to 3 at all. It is done by the same companies and people that run HB1B slave shops. Where the legal department takes care of the bugs and performance issues (so that they are never known and quality of the product is neve questioned).
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This has actually happened. When MSWord 97 came out some antivirus code had to be withdrawn initially under a threat of litigation. The reason for this was that none of the naso-anal interfacing agreements between antiVirus vendors and MS covered the new formats. So MS threatened to sue them for being able to read and write (desinfect) files. It's been a while since than, but sure one can find references for it.
Same has also happened with programs using the Mircosoft "proprietary" domain policy formats. *.POL files. There is no rocket science there, they are just simple windows registry dumps. But MS actually successfully stalled samba's wide usage for MS domains for about a year by targeting anyone documenting the files. In other words theretening to sue you for writing text files and giving them a *.POL extension. You can find some info on this if you take an older samba source, untar it and look in the documentation section.
And to conclude this is Jeff^WStef W. Merkey speaking.
You mean "I need numbers"?
.config
I want to see thee very very very simple things:
1. network pipe over loopback under linux (memory to memry + some CPU).
2. standard mysql benchmark test
3. linux kernel compile for a reasonably populated
In btw: I do not want top notch performance as the laptop disks and IO will cripple it anyway. I just want to finally see what a hell are we talking about.
You do not understand do you? At least a few companies should get the Darwin award and go titsup.com as a lesson to the others. Comsumers have rights too...
No, this is applies to the ones distributed with subscriptions. It does not apply if you have received it from your local radioshack store...
No, the icon should be dinosaur. Standing for company has won the Darwin award.
Strange this one seems to be used... grin ;-)
Europe also has various data protection laws. Some of these marketing schemes are pretty much illegal in europe. The degrees of strictness vary with Germany being the most paranoid and UK being the most relaxed. But overall the DC idea is illegal outside the US.
Yeah right, after they have sold the data to Spamlord Wallace and a whole bunch of other similar a**holes... How can you be so naive...
Sorry kid. I think you got most of it wrong. There are valid reasons for the poor bastards to bitch. So let's see what is actually happening:
Most of the H1B and other slavery status visas that come to the US are nothing, but poor bastards that believe in the bullshit usually known as "american dream". It has been successfully sold by holliwood to the rest of the world for the last 95 years. They believe that they can succeed and their incredible "talent" will blossom only in the US. They believe that everything will be good at the end. Just like in an american movie (show me a one without a happy ending).
So they come and see reality which sucks for most of them. Real life does not get even close to the movies. And so they bitch. And they are right to. They have been cheated in every single of their dreams and good intentions.
P.S. As an interesting sideline the Australians have started marketing special movies oriented to the potential emigrants (Pakistani, Middle East, Indonesia, etc). They depict the actual beaties of some parts of Australia like big whites, crocodiles, poisonous spiders and other lovelies.
So maybe financing Holliwood to start making movies about American reality is the solution. There is plenty of space for that in Quins and upper Manhattan.
Score is 1:1
When is the next fight^Wpoll?
Even simpler. Stuff the unattended install script into the logon script that is executed on first luser logon. You will have to run some inventory checks by means different from SMS to determine that the machine has not been customized, though. But no rocket science here.
A dead looser company alsways blames someone. This is part of the business. Hackers, Weather, Force Major, but never idiotic business plan and lack of clue. The reason is very simple. The concession that the business plan was idiotic means that the VCs were idiots. VCs do not like to be marked as stupid. So having someone else to blame is to be expected.
A loss leader is like spreading gold along a path. This usually leads to two options:
- The idiots that start walking along the path get robbed. In the middleages thay used to get killed as well. Unfortunately now this does not always happen and the evolution does not take its due course so we have to have this idiotic conversation
- The people who actually have some brains chose another path (or use armed escort). And they get away with their money and alive.
It is obvious that if two many people use an alternative path there will be an attempt to ambush that one as well (think of EULAs and similar measures), but until a company have not ambushed the other path it should not expect anything but a random idiot to fall in its traps. Evolution have taken its due course for thousands of years. So the avoidance of non-enforceable loss leader schemes is to be expected.On evolutionary grounds a company without a clue in their business plan deserves to die.
So just get go and get your CATs.
They are drawing the number from censorware distribution. Quite a lot of PCs and Internet offers recently come with censorware bundled, preloaded, installed (whatever).
It is usually unused. Reason is very simple - parents who actually know how to use it do not use it. But the overall figures of censorware distribution have reached insane values. Hence this statistic.
Depends where is it published. In some countries reverse engineering for interoperability is legal.
So if someone with an overgrown ego publishes not his findings in an inappropriate country just in order to be famous and k3wl we have the DeCSS case again. If someone with brain passes it along to the other side of the globe than... Oh well we all know where Micro$ networking was reverse engineered.
Just a few reminders:
This is the situation. Fair and Square. You either go RamBUST or you lose your share of the PC market. By either selling unpopular non-branded non-Intel PCs or having to pay more for CPUs from Intel or not having them available.
You mean tcp (or for some of these UDP) right?
Because of D.J.B.s habit to replace a number of O.S. library functions and includes with his own qmail versions prior to 1.0.3 can be used to deliver highly effective D.O.S.es to linux machines. The bug is Linux specific. Look through the qmail sources for an ifdef linux and you will find it. Or diff 1.0.2 vs 1.0.3. The type of attack is more or less standard resource exaustion. Or search on Bugtraq where the bug was published.
In the reverse order. Otherwise you are most likely violating the obligatory clause that you are supposed to do your company only good.
There are some problems revolving around WAP related patents. And some of them have yet to be questioned in court. I suggest you search the mailing list archives there was a lengthy (which is amazing in itself) explanation by Alan Cox on the topic.
Hold on, are you trying to say that they have access to your email? This is a whole new ball game
Depends on the point of view. Having a full personal record from your college years is almost as good as having your immunological footprint. They can do things almost as intrusive as selling your eyes.
The primary problem is not language barrier unless you are trying to outsource something to a country like F... which prouds itself in making sure that its cittizens do not know a foreign language so that they do not pollute their native one.
The primary problem is cultural and woking style differences. Just a few examples:
IMHO - outsourcing to 1 or 2 is a process that with proper management brings reasonable results. Outsourcing to 3 is the most idiotic idea of them all. You need a very high level of knowledge in house to make sure that the specification and project assignment is sane. At that level of knowledge it does not make sense to outsource to 3 at all. It is done by the same companies and people that run HB1B slave shops. Where the legal department takes care of the bugs and performance issues (so that they are never known and quality of the product is neve questioned).
You do have a point. I have the same feeling sometimes.