I am sorry but I HATE this mentality in the Linux community, not the *nix community as it doesn't seem to be the same elsewhere. Linux users seem to think they are imune from exploits... It's just plain ignorant to say that there is nothing to patch, a quick look on the web gave me the following list of 10 security notices in the year 2003 for the vendors you mentioned above. God help you if you are using Redhat 9.0 and didn't lock it down and patch it, as it has 40+ security patches this year already.
This is in no way an attack on the vendors listed below, we are human, we make mistakes. But for a user to ignore those mistakes and not patch their systems just because SQL Slammer won't get them is asinine.
Samba ----- March 2003 (No exploit code needed): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7106/in fo/
March 2003: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7107
April 2003 (suspected worm code in the wild): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7295
April 2003 (With Exploit code): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7294/info /
OpenLDAP -------- May 2003: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7656/info/
Linux Kernel ------------ February 2003: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6763
April 2003 (Proof of concept code exists): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7279
May 2003 (proof of concept code exists): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7756
June 2003 (information disclosure): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/800 2
June 2003 (proof of concept code freely available): http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8042 /info/
People are getting a bit friendly with the DRM term. This is not DRM, this would be like calling apache not serving.htaccess files by default to the world DRM. It's not keeping you from moving the file around, burning it, modifying it, playing it into a recorder, etc... It's keeping you from turning the legitimate service of iTunes into yet another way to steal music.
It's not managing your rights... nowhere in fair use does it say, you the user are allowed to setup anonymous file shares and spread the joy that is your licensed copy to all those who wish to connect. If anything Apple has implemented a CYA (cover your ass) system to keep their music library, remember, you can't piss off the keepers of the cheese too much. Or they will stop serving allowing you to serve it up.
And I can damn near bet that 90% of the people bitching have restrictions in their home internet connectivity agreements that would prevent such use of their connection. Not to mention what your boss would think if you went to bitch to him that damnit, my 128k stream from the house doesn't work anymore. It will be about that time that he tells you never to do it again as you are using up a 1/12th of the bandwidth they have for non business purposes(basing that on companies having a T1 or lower.)
I was at Bell Labs for almost three years in the early 1980's (3 years)
until maybe five years later when I'd moved over to Wall Street. ( 5 years)
So we can do some simple math: 1980 + 3 + 5 = 1988
Last time I checked 1988 would be late eighties, thats working under the assumption he started in exactly 80. The later he started the later 80's we are talking about. I know you are AC but come on, 2nd grade math?!
I honestly find this far from Insightful, we need a +5 Blinders option. You my friend I believe have been drinking too freely from the Linux cool-aid. If there has ever been an OS that had less backwards compatability support I would have to say it would be linux. Let's pick what IMHO is the largest supported (commercially) distro, RedHat for example. If backwards compatability exists, why can't I take a RedHat 9 package and run it on a RedHat 5.2 box? Would that be because they revamed the compiler and dependant libraries several times over the years, changed the paths to where dependant files reside, totally reworked the package management, etc...
As another poster mentioned there are PLENTY of executables that will run from XP all the way back to 95, and hell who knows maybe even 3.1... The argument of Linux is great because even the crappy concepts will run forever seems a bit flawed to me. I don't know about you but I don't crappy depricated options taking up space in the kernel when they are probably not being properly maintained or used.
Ok, there is one important flaw in your statement. I don't believe a P2P network like the ones that the RIAA is attacking can be called a "competing media delivery form," unless to you that means "wide open intellectual property theft network." While I will never argue that there are important and good uses for P2P. Kazaa, Gnutella, etc... are mainly used for piracy. And before you say how do you know, thats just not true. Logon to one of said networks and in the case of GNUTella take a look at the queries that come across to you (be sure to ignore the child porn and illegal software requests and the rest will be mp3 traffic). In the case of Kazaa, retrieve a users file list and poke around. I see lots of mp3's waiting to be plucked, but very little information waiting to be freed.
I don't argue that there needs to be a better way to distribute the music, but change of a distribution method so engrained in our society takes a little time. Hell I am not that old but I still remember going down to the record/cd shop and getting advise from somebody working there on what I should pick up this week based on the stuff I had purchased previously. Going from that to a cold dead CRT that shows you neatly aligned search results with no bias or flair is a bit of culture shock that quite a few are not ready to welcome.
Tottally off topic but your sig... There is a reason that some places card for mixes like sweet and sour, daiquiri, etc... In stores that sell alcohol typically the mixes have 1% alcohol in them so they can get away with putting them in the same store with the liquor. In places like a Wal-Mart or Target the mixes will be alcohol free because that is what they are allowed to carry. It's just a workaround for the laws that are in place to make liquor stores only sell liquor.
Unfortunately I would like to say nobody but... that seems to be far from the truth. Spend a little time doing consulting for the medical industry and you will be VERY surprised what you find. Alot of hospitals doing upgrades from 95 to 98, while xp is already at SP1. I figure by 2010 they will be up to NT4.
And yes there are people still using dos. Hell there are pharmacy packages that run off dual floppy computers still. Medical industry is the king of legacy. Low IT budgets and the fear of messing with something that "works." In most other places the biggest fear you have is an assembly line stops for a few minutes, or a website goes down for a few minutes (God forbid.) But you screw up an upgrade or change out to something that doesn't have a feature needed in the medical industry.... you might start killing people. Stakes are a little high, so the idea of if it isn't broken don't fix it is rather common.
I want to know how to access this feature: Bookmarks can be downloaded at a certain schedule One can set bookmarks to be checked at various schedules and notify when the content has changed. At least, in theory.
I think this one may be BS due to the in theory part. And the title should be changed to things Mozilla hopes to do that IE can't. Either that or it's another case of me just missing a menu in the config, if anybody knows about this one please fill me in.
You are completely incorrect. Cable modems DO have mac addresses. Flip over your cable modem and look for the mac address label:) It's there on any cable modem I have ever owned. If you do a self install kit, thats how you activate it.... They have to tie that cable modem to you somehow, and MAC addresses ARE how they do it.
I can almost forgive reposting a story once... but 3+ times? It can be found herehere and here
I only know this off the top of my head because I am the developer of one of those sites:) So I have great interest in this topic... But it would have been as simple as reading the submitted story, clicking on the website and seeing the big PANIP banner at the top, then tabbing over to your browser that has slashdot in it, going to the bottom of the page and typing panip in the search box. No more difficult than that, you can take the extra minute to check the story out...
Sometimes I think the posters get caught up in the same FIRST POST mentality when they decide to promote a story submission to the front page.
Right... don't redistribute Lindows, they don't say, don't take the XFree86 binary we gave you and give it to your friends. They are talking about what makes Lindows, what it is... the customizations and custom software.
Close but no cigar, php globals fix inside.
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Close but no cigar. While this is probably the reason his scripts dont' work, register_globals is just turned off by default now. There hasn't been enough time between deciding it was bad and shutting it off to get rid of it. Script writers need some time to update their packages.
To "fix" this so that your scripts will work, (Not redhat 8 specific, should work for any platform) write a quick script that consists of <?php phpinfo() ?>
and hit it with your web browser and look the for "Configuration File (php.ini) Path" setting. Edit/Create the file, modify/create the following variable: register_globals = On
Restart your apache server and hopefully you will have better luck. One widely used example of a package that doesn't work is <a href="http://www.postnuke.com">PostNuke</a>.
NOW, this fixes the php issue:) As far as apache 2 issues. Any scripts you have that look like: <?
dosomething(); ?> will not work and need to be changed to: <?php
dosomething(); ?>
As for anything else you would like to do with apache 2, unfortunately... most maintaners have no interest or time at this point to rework their modules to work with apache 2:(
I am sure nVidia will come out with a card to rival the 9700... give them time, it just came out. They are always one upping eachother. The 8500 when it came out was greater than the nVidia complement, but that didn't stop people from buying nVidia. I will tell you why, stability. ATI can't make drivers that work well to save their lives. I owned an 8500 and gave it away, I couldn't use it for what I needed and felt too bad to sell that piece of crap.
The first round of drivers, crashed my machine at random times. The next few versions just crashed applications, not the whole machine, thanks ATI. The next set almost didn't crash but looked like absolute dog crap in any 3d game I enjoy playing, mainly Quake 3. But don't take my word on it, most around here seem to idolize John Carmack, here is a quote from his plan file "I didn't speak to ATI for months after they gave me a beta 8500 board last year with drivers that rendered the console incorrectly.:-)"
That is great if you don't mind paying the yearly fees and have a decent credit record. When I started out... I wanted the same security but didn't have any credit at all so American Express turned me down for a card... For others that have that problem, PayPal offers the same exact service. Say what you will about paypal, but I have been using them for years for making and spending money online and have yet to have a single problem. They have actually impressed me, compared to any other credit company I have dealt with since. I went hog wild with my paypal card one weekend. And while I was out on my spending spree, I got a call on my cellphone from PayPal, just checking to make sure it was me swiping the card:)
Are the posters on slashdot not allowed to have this block on their page? Because a quick glance over there would have kept this from happening and taking up one of the 14 story slots for today.
I got bored with Quake 3 as a single player game after I beat it the first day. It's the multiplayer that keeps me coming back night after night... Some of the things you can do in the quake engine are insane and a wonderful escape from the world of physics we live in:)
Just out of curiosity... is there anything wrong with it not being open source. I can understand the need/want to get off as cheap as possible. But, I think people need to realize there are expenses related to running a business. I personally would not be opposed to paying for a mail solution that had as many features as Exchange but worked on multiple platforms. That is a piece of the puzzle that is important enough in most companies that having a support contract, or at least a company to get ahold of would be a requirement for most. Let it be based on open standards IMAP/LDAP/ and UCAP?? (universal calendar access protocol:) And close source the server. That way everybody and their mom can write a client or have tie-ins to different applications. And somebody can make enough money on the server to have a staff to support and extend the product. Just please don't go nuts like microsoft did on the pricing.
How would that make me proud? It's silver with a fan on the top?! AV gear is black with fans in the back that only turn on when the unit is overheating... that looks NOTHING like any av gear I have... the xbox does.. it's black...
The main reason for me is I want a cheap box that I can put in my entertainment center and not have it look like crap. When you start mentioning parts laying around the garage I get a mental image of a piece of plywood and duct tape for the case. Buying that board alone, sure it's cheaper... And if anybody out there can point me to a case that wouldn't look like waldo in an entertainment center + motherboard + proc + sound + nice quality video out + network + hard drive + dvd-rom for less than the Xbox, I will gladly purchase it. And your argument about money going back to Bill. If your intention is to hurt "Bill" you really should buy one and then use it for linux as they loose money on each system and try to make it back on the games. I personally own 3 of the games, so that is not my goal... And on top of all that I LOVE the Xbox because Taco Bell gave it to me free along with one of my games!
Several years ago *sarcasm* somebody came up with a device called a chimney and it did a revolutionary thing, carried gasses and unwanted heat off. Now one has to wonder why in the hell we would need to have roaming robots in a datacenter to find its cooling weakenesses...
Why not just design the datacenter to have proper airflow. This article discusses racks putting hot air into other racks intakes and overheating servers. why not have rows of racks that have closed backs and air ducts coming out the top which exaust to the outside world. And all the "fresh/cold" air comes in the front of the racks and cycles through the servers. No need for roaming robots, and if you want to get fancy, you put a temperature sensor or 3, and since network connectivity should be plentiful in a server room, just make them network attached snmp devices and monitor the temperature with MRTG.
If perl is used so extensively in OS X, mabey you guys should consider being the fix to the lack of funds the Perl Foundation is experiencing as noted in a previous slashdot article that I am too lazy to look up. It would be really cool in my oppinion if Apple donated some money to the projects that have made OS X what it is today.
How can you possibly blame Microsoft for this? #1 Companies are required to come forward with any technology within OpenGL that might step on the toes of some rights they might have on that technology. This is required by the ARB, Microsoft was only doing the "right thing" as many other companies have done in the past
#2 If you want to blame anybody for this Unisys would be the one to point the fingers at after the Gif fiasco they pulled.
While you may dislike Microsoft a great deal, you might want to turn off your skewed view on the world on occasion...
Actually... I think it could be much more automated than you are giving them credit for. All you would have to do is setup a computer that connects to the sharing networks and when a user is flagged for stealing a movie, record the external IP. Then do a quick lookup on http://www.arin.net/ and get the email address of the administrator for the ip in question, then send out a templated form letter. With a unique return e-mail address per sent threat. And a database driven system that logs all replys which can be reviewed at a later time.
Hello,
$contact_name we have logged theft of $movie_name from $ip on $date at $time, please smack them on the wrists or we will get really angry!
Thanks,
MPAA
Slashdot Mirror
I am sorry but I HATE this mentality in the Linux community, not the *nix community as it doesn't seem to be the same elsewhere. Linux users seem to think they are imune from exploits... It's just plain ignorant to say that there is nothing to patch, a quick look on the web gave me the following list of 10 security notices in the year 2003 for the vendors you mentioned above. God help you if you are using Redhat 9.0 and didn't lock it down and patch it, as it has 40+ security patches this year already.
n fo/
o /
/
0 2
2 /info/
This is in no way an attack on the vendors listed below, we are human, we make mistakes. But for a user to ignore those mistakes and not patch their systems just because SQL Slammer won't get them is asinine.
Samba
-----
March 2003 (No exploit code needed):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7106/i
March 2003:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7107
April 2003 (suspected worm code in the wild):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7295
April 2003 (With Exploit code):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7294/inf
OpenLDAP
--------
May 2003:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7656/info
Linux Kernel
------------
February 2003:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6763
April 2003 (Proof of concept code exists):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7279
May 2003 (proof of concept code exists):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7756
June 2003 (information disclosure):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80
June 2003 (proof of concept code freely available):
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/804
Ya but that one chick in the ATI booth was REALLY hot so I found plenty of reasons to go over there. Hope she is there again this year :)
People are getting a bit friendly with the DRM term. This is not DRM, this would be like calling apache not serving .htaccess files by default to the world DRM. It's not keeping you from moving the file around, burning it, modifying it, playing it into a recorder, etc... It's keeping you from turning the legitimate service of iTunes into yet another way to steal music.
It's not managing your rights... nowhere in fair use does it say, you the user are allowed to setup anonymous file shares and spread the joy that is your licensed copy to all those who wish to connect. If anything Apple has implemented a CYA (cover your ass) system to keep their music library, remember, you can't piss off the keepers of the cheese too much. Or they will stop serving allowing you to serve it up.
And I can damn near bet that 90% of the people bitching have restrictions in their home internet connectivity agreements that would prevent such use of their connection. Not to mention what your boss would think if you went to bitch to him that damnit, my 128k stream from the house doesn't work anymore. It will be about that time that he tells you never to do it again as you are using up a 1/12th of the bandwidth they have for non business purposes(basing that on companies having a T1 or lower.)
I was at Bell Labs for almost three years in the early 1980's (3 years)
until maybe five years later when I'd moved over to Wall Street. ( 5 years)
So we can do some simple math:
1980 + 3 + 5 = 1988
Last time I checked 1988 would be late eighties, thats working under the assumption he started in exactly 80. The later he started the later 80's we are talking about. I know you are AC but come on, 2nd grade math?!
I honestly find this far from Insightful, we need a +5 Blinders option. You my friend I believe have been drinking too freely from the Linux cool-aid. If there has ever been an OS that had less backwards compatability support I would have to say it would be linux. Let's pick what IMHO is the largest supported (commercially) distro, RedHat for example. If backwards compatability exists, why can't I take a RedHat 9 package and run it on a RedHat 5.2 box? Would that be because they revamed the compiler and dependant libraries several times over the years, changed the paths to where dependant files reside, totally reworked the package management, etc...
As another poster mentioned there are PLENTY of executables that will run from XP all the way back to 95, and hell who knows maybe even 3.1... The argument of Linux is great because even the crappy concepts will run forever seems a bit flawed to me. I don't know about you but I don't crappy depricated options taking up space in the kernel when they are probably not being properly maintained or used.
Ok, there is one important flaw in your statement. I don't believe a P2P network like the ones that the RIAA is attacking can be called a "competing media delivery form," unless to you that means "wide open intellectual property theft network." While I will never argue that there are important and good uses for P2P. Kazaa, Gnutella, etc... are mainly used for piracy. And before you say how do you know, thats just not true. Logon to one of said networks and in the case of GNUTella take a look at the queries that come across to you (be sure to ignore the child porn and illegal software requests and the rest will be mp3 traffic). In the case of Kazaa, retrieve a users file list and poke around. I see lots of mp3's waiting to be plucked, but very little information waiting to be freed.
I don't argue that there needs to be a better way to distribute the music, but change of a distribution method so engrained in our society takes a little time. Hell I am not that old but I still remember going down to the record/cd shop and getting advise from somebody working there on what I should pick up this week based on the stuff I had purchased previously. Going from that to a cold dead CRT that shows you neatly aligned search results with no bias or flair is a bit of culture shock that quite a few are not ready to welcome.
Tottally off topic but your sig... There is a reason that some places card for mixes like sweet and sour, daiquiri, etc... In stores that sell alcohol typically the mixes have 1% alcohol in them so they can get away with putting them in the same store with the liquor. In places like a Wal-Mart or Target the mixes will be alcohol free because that is what they are allowed to carry. It's just a workaround for the laws that are in place to make liquor stores only sell liquor.
Unfortunately I would like to say nobody but... that seems to be far from the truth. Spend a little time doing consulting for the medical industry and you will be VERY surprised what you find. Alot of hospitals doing upgrades from 95 to 98, while xp is already at SP1. I figure by 2010 they will be up to NT4.
And yes there are people still using dos. Hell there are pharmacy packages that run off dual floppy computers still. Medical industry is the king of legacy. Low IT budgets and the fear of messing with something that "works." In most other places the biggest fear you have is an assembly line stops for a few minutes, or a website goes down for a few minutes (God forbid.) But you screw up an upgrade or change out to something that doesn't have a feature needed in the medical industry.... you might start killing people. Stakes are a little high, so the idea of if it isn't broken don't fix it is rather common.
I want to know how to access this feature:
Bookmarks can be downloaded at a certain schedule
One can set bookmarks to be checked at various schedules and notify when the content has changed. At least, in theory.
I think this one may be BS due to the in theory part. And the title should be changed to things Mozilla hopes to do that IE can't. Either that or it's another case of me just missing a menu in the config, if anybody knows about this one please fill me in.
Thanks!
You are completely incorrect. Cable modems DO have mac addresses. Flip over your cable modem and look for the mac address label :) It's there on any cable modem I have ever owned. If you do a self install kit, thats how you activate it.... They have to tie that cable modem to you somehow, and MAC addresses ARE how they do it.
I can almost forgive reposting a story once... but 3+ times? It can be found here here and here
:) So I have great interest in this topic... But it would have been as simple as reading the submitted story, clicking on the website and seeing the big PANIP banner at the top, then tabbing over to your browser that has slashdot in it, going to the bottom of the page and typing panip in the search box. No more difficult than that, you can take the extra minute to check the story out...
I only know this off the top of my head because I am the developer of one of those sites
Sometimes I think the posters get caught up in the same FIRST POST mentality when they decide to promote a story submission to the front page.
blah.
The customizations I am thinking about mainly, are things like the artwork and the logos, which do truly belong to them.
Right... don't redistribute Lindows, they don't say, don't take the XFree86 binary we gave you and give it to your friends. They are talking about what makes Lindows, what it is... the customizations and custom software.
Close but no cigar. While this is probably the reason his scripts dont' work, register_globals is just turned off by default now. There hasn't been enough time between deciding it was bad and shutting it off to get rid of it. Script writers need some time to update their packages.
:) As far as apache 2 issues. Any scripts you have that look like:
:(
To "fix" this so that your scripts will work, (Not redhat 8 specific, should work for any platform) write a quick script that consists of
<?php phpinfo() ?>
and hit it with your web browser and look the for "Configuration File (php.ini) Path" setting. Edit/Create the file, modify/create the following variable:
register_globals = On
Restart your apache server and hopefully you will have better luck. One widely used example of a package that doesn't work is <a href="http://www.postnuke.com">PostNuke</a>.
NOW, this fixes the php issue
<?
dosomething();
?>
will not work and need to be changed to:
<?php
dosomething();
?>
As for anything else you would like to do with apache 2, unfortunately... most maintaners have no interest or time at this point to rework their modules to work with apache 2
I am sure nVidia will come out with a card to rival the 9700... give them time, it just came out. They are always one upping eachother. The 8500 when it came out was greater than the nVidia complement, but that didn't stop people from buying nVidia. I will tell you why, stability. ATI can't make drivers that work well to save their lives. I owned an 8500 and gave it away, I couldn't use it for what I needed and felt too bad to sell that piece of crap. :-)"
The first round of drivers, crashed my machine at random times. The next few versions just crashed applications, not the whole machine, thanks ATI. The next set almost didn't crash but looked like absolute dog crap in any 3d game I enjoy playing, mainly Quake 3. But don't take my word on it, most around here seem to idolize John Carmack, here is a quote from his plan file "I didn't speak to ATI for
months after they gave me a beta 8500 board last year with drivers that
rendered the console incorrectly.
That is great if you don't mind paying the yearly fees and have a decent credit record. When I started out... I wanted the same security but didn't have any credit at all so American Express turned me down for a card... For others that have that problem, PayPal offers the same exact service. Say what you will about paypal, but I have been using them for years for making and spending money online and have yet to have a single problem. They have actually impressed me, compared to any other credit company I have dealt with since. I went hog wild with my paypal card one weekend. And while I was out on my spending spree, I got a call on my cellphone from PayPal, just checking to make sure it was me swiping the card :)
Are the posters on slashdot not allowed to have this block on their page? Because a quick glance over there would have kept this from happening and taking up one of the 14 story slots for today.
I got bored with Quake 3 as a single player game after I beat it the first day. It's the multiplayer that keeps me coming back night after night... Some of the things you can do in the quake engine are insane and a wonderful escape from the world of physics we live in :)
Just out of curiosity... is there anything wrong with it not being open source. I can understand the need/want to get off as cheap as possible. But, I think people need to realize there are expenses related to running a business. I personally would not be opposed to paying for a mail solution that had as many features as Exchange but worked on multiple platforms. That is a piece of the puzzle that is important enough in most companies that having a support contract, or at least a company to get ahold of would be a requirement for most. Let it be based on open standards IMAP/LDAP/ and UCAP?? (universal calendar access protocol :) And close source the server. That way everybody and their mom can write a client or have tie-ins to different applications. And somebody can make enough money on the server to have a staff to support and extend the product. Just please don't go nuts like microsoft did on the pricing.
How would that make me proud? It's silver with a fan on the top?! AV gear is black with fans in the back that only turn on when the unit is overheating... that looks NOTHING like any av gear I have... the xbox does.. it's black...
The main reason for me is I want a cheap box that I can put in my entertainment center and not have it look like crap. When you start mentioning parts laying around the garage I get a mental image of a piece of plywood and duct tape for the case. Buying that board alone, sure it's cheaper... And if anybody out there can point me to a case that wouldn't look like waldo in an entertainment center + motherboard + proc + sound + nice quality video out + network + hard drive + dvd-rom for less than the Xbox, I will gladly purchase it. And your argument about money going back to Bill. If your intention is to hurt "Bill" you really should buy one and then use it for linux as they loose money on each system and try to make it back on the games. I personally own 3 of the games, so that is not my goal... And on top of all that I LOVE the Xbox because Taco Bell gave it to me free along with one of my games!
Several years ago *sarcasm* somebody came up with a device called a chimney and it did a revolutionary thing, carried gasses and unwanted heat off. Now one has to wonder why in the hell we would need to have roaming robots in a datacenter to find its cooling weakenesses...
Why not just design the datacenter to have proper airflow. This article discusses racks putting hot air into other racks intakes and overheating servers. why not have rows of racks that have closed backs and air ducts coming out the top which exaust to the outside world. And all the "fresh/cold" air comes in the front of the racks and cycles through the servers. No need for roaming robots, and if you want to get fancy, you put a temperature sensor or 3, and since network connectivity should be plentiful in a server room, just make them network attached snmp devices and monitor the temperature with MRTG.
If perl is used so extensively in OS X, mabey you guys should consider being the fix to the lack of funds the Perl Foundation is experiencing as noted in a previous slashdot article that I am too lazy to look up. It would be really cool in my oppinion if Apple donated some money to the projects that have made OS X what it is today.
Just a suggestion.
How can you possibly blame Microsoft for this?
#1 Companies are required to come forward with any technology within OpenGL that might step on the toes of some rights they might have on that technology. This is required by the ARB, Microsoft was only doing the "right thing" as many other companies have done in the past
#2 If you want to blame anybody for this Unisys would be the one to point the fingers at after the Gif fiasco they pulled.
While you may dislike Microsoft a great deal, you might want to turn off your skewed view on the world on occasion...
Actually... I think it could be much more automated than you are giving them credit for. All you would have to do is setup a computer that connects to the sharing networks and when a user is flagged for stealing a movie, record the external IP. Then do a quick lookup on http://www.arin.net/ and get the email address of the administrator for the ip in question, then send out a templated form letter. With a unique return e-mail address per sent threat. And a database driven system that logs all replys which can be reviewed at a later time.
Hello,
$contact_name we have logged theft of $movie_name from $ip on $date at $time, please smack them on the wrists or we will get really angry!
Thanks,
MPAA