I, Billco, jump into the blooming business of busting software pirates. I sign written agreements with local software houses and go on a witch hunt. I have no legal right to walk into anyone's offices and demand licenses. Not even the lead programmer of the infriged-upon software can do that. Just like you can't (legally) go to a thief's house and reclaim your goods. You have to let the cops do it.
BillCo writes a letter to CompCorp USA saying "We believe that you have Microsoft products for which you haven't paid, and Microsoft has authorized us to act on their behalf in this manner. Give us an audit, please."
CompCorp writes back 'Go stuff yourselves.'
BillCo goes to a judge, and says 'Your honor, Microsoft has authorized us to handle license compliance checks for them, as shown by these documents. We have reason to believe that CompCorp USA isn't in license compliance in regards to their Microsoft products; we got an 'anonymous' tip. We have reason to believe that if we show up at their door and ask politely to look around, not only will they erase all the evidence, they might hurt us, and we're scrawny.'
The judge says 'Ok, I'm authorizing a copyright infringement search raid. You'll be accompanied by US Marshalls, to prevent any attempt to destroy evidence.
BillCo shows up at CompCorp the next day. A US Marshall puts his hand on the butt of his holstered revolver, a big ivory-handled.357 magnum, and says "Everybody get up, walk away from your computers, and don't bother coming back for three days." Meanwhile, BillCo people are severing (literally) your phone, internet, and internal network connections "to prevent destruction of evidence by a remote user."
CompCorp guy says 'But we only use Open Source software!'
BillCo rep says 'We won't know that until we check, now will we.' He then points to an old Sun E250 and says 'Now how do I get that thing to a windows desktop?'
Running OSS won't stop them. Running obviously non-intel hardware won't stop them. They don't care, and due to the wonderful aegis of the 'anonymous tipster,' they don't need a legitimate reason.
Why do you need to shut down your database to back it up? Every decent DB software I've seen allows you to back it up live - you don't backup the DB files, your backup software does a query to dump the data (and optionally, the DB schema)
I'm aware.
Perhaps your backup strategy is flawed?
No, the demands of the application programming group were flawed. They were using MySQL, and wanted raw database tables that could simply be 'dropped into place' as a restore method. After explaing the pros and cons, and getting their preference, in writing, I did as they asked. They, after all, signed the cheques.
So, every morning at 4 am, the database was shut down, the files were copied out to a temp directory, the database was restarted, the database files, web app files, and everything else was zipped up, the file was archived on the server itself for a week, and a copy was FTP'd up to our main office, for offsite storage.
Every time I've mentioned this, I've been told that I'm either trolling, or my clock needs a new battery. But if's FUCKING ANNOYING when your backup script, which includes shutting down the database, is croned to run at 4 AM, runs at pretty much random times.
How does it handle recording? Does it do anything tivo-like; i.e. can you tell it to record a show, and it'll record any instance it finds, or figure out what you like and try to record similar things, or is it strictly a 'record channel at this time' sort of thing?
That's because it can upload back through the satellite.:-)
Incidentally, how is the equipment? I'm considering getting one, but I still wish Rogers would build a TiVo into their digital cable terminals.
And it was until very recently that most linux distributions installed every networking service under the sun, including wu-ftpd, for example, which is notorious for being full of holes.
And I'll point out that the 'how to secure IIS' lists and documents on Microsoft's website include steps for securing the IIS addons. The stupidity required to install ANY OS and put it live to a public network, without going through a security exercise yourself, is strictly user error.
When's the last time somebody exploited a hole in your IIS? Oh, wait. They didn't. They expolited add-ons that IIS happened to use.
I wonder what sort of vulnerabilities I can do with, say, mod_php or mod_perl?
Christ, I remember when PREY was going to be THE NEXT BIG THING. As I recall, there was a huge article in PC Gamer, the same issue as the one that claimed X-Wing vs TiE Fighter would have 16 player LAN games, with voice chat.
SQ4..I think. Can't remember. Anywho, gets my vote for best real PP, and best fake.
The real one was Sprint; all of the transporters in the game used Sprint as a carrier. It was funny.
The fake one was for Soylent Clear. Nice jingle. Look for it on google.
The fact that it's law, means it's not an artifical harm. You are doing something you've agreed not to do. That means your word is worthless. They should start posting the names of the people who attempt to pirate, so that the rest of us know not to deal with them.
Oh, and I could apply your theory to money theft. "They can just print more." Or, "It's just digital bits; they don't mean anything." But that's bullshit, because it affects future value. Well, if the software is good enough for you to use, maybe you should try paying for it, so they can make future software.
There is simply no argument that you can make that will refute the simple fact that they said 'anybody who gives us some little green pieces of paper may use this software.' and you use the software, but didn't give the green pieces of paper. That's illegal, and should be illegal. Pretty much every legal system recognizes that labour has just as much value as a physical item, and you're taking their labour for free.
Ah, but you posit the 'fatal flaw' in the logic of most pirates; 'If I'm not going to pay for it anyway, there's no harm in pirating it.'
They put out software, available for anybody willing to pay for it. Don't pay, don't use. Because of that, you are illegally using it if you pirate it. Maybe it's not the legal definition of 'theft' as nobody is being deprived of it, but you're still breaking laws.
Why would you EVER want to use all of those lovely filesystem utilities with a raw device filled with database data? You NEVER touch the database data directly. Want a backup? Have Oracle spit out a backup in your choice of lovely formats, from gigantic SQL statements to reconstruct everything up to your backup software of choice.
One uses RAW devices for the same reason one doesn't use SCSI cards with no battery backup; because when Oracle says 'write this to disk' it really really wants it written to disk; not to a disk cache, not to memory, not to a buffer that'll be flushed when the OS decides to flush it. It's all part of the ACID requirements.
It almost makes you wonder if Oracle is going to create a Linux distribution of their own, and then have THAT as the only thing that Oracle will run on; this would eventually result in Oracle, basically, being bootable; it becomes an 'appliance application,' as I call them. After all, anybody running Oracle anyway is running on dedicated hardware, and Oracle likes raw disks; filesystems just slow things down, after all.
Wonderful idea, if you ask me.
Who cares? The law says that the trial will be closed, unless there's a damn good reason for it to be open. 'Because it's Microsoft!' isn't a good reason.
I can see why SlashDot would feel the need to post this. It IS pretty newsworthy when The US of A decides to FOLLOW IT'S OWN LAWS.
Oh, wait, the laws don't apply to MS, do they? All are equal, some are just less equal, right? Or did they forfeit their rights somehow? If so, that just means that everybody else in the US can 'forfeit' their rights. Slippary slope.
The "Goldmember" flap is not the first between MGM and New Line over Austin Powers titles. MGM initially challenged the use of "The Spy Who Shagged Me," an obvious play on the 1977 Bond title "The Spy Who Loved Me." But that dispute was settled when New Line agreed to include trailer play for MGM movies on its Austin Powers sequel.
Får man lägga till nya headers i sina e-post-meddelanden som gör att de meddelanden som man skickar inte kan läsas av de som använder Outlook Express eller läser brev med WebTV?
Frågan har väckts i samband med att Nick Moffitt har skickat just sådana meddelanden på Tron-listan. Microsoft-användarna är inte nöjda med Moffitts beteende medan Moffitt hänvisar till att mottagarnas e-post-program är problemet och inte hans X-headers.
Ah, but 3:2 is constant and known, and can be fixed with a wide variety of methods.
And Pal winds up moving the pitch of the soundtrack up a semitone, I believe. Might only be a quartertone, but it's enough to notice. Of course, some things wind up getting pitch corrected.
Yup, much like you can put a data track onto a CD-Audio, getting an 'orange book,' I believe, CD.
My point is that if it's formatted for DVD-Video, i.e. if you put it in a set top, it's a Movie, not Software, even though it might have some extra stuff. If you put it in a set top, and it WILL NOT play, it's Software, that may just have a shitload of videos in it.
Or put another way, Are Wing Commanders 3, 4 and 5 (4, 7 and 3 CDs which are devoted to the video cutscenes) movies? Hell no. Is the Wing Commander 4 DVD version a movie? Hell no. Is the Wing Commander: The Movie DVD software? Hell no.
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Running OSS won't stop them. Running obviously non-intel hardware won't stop them. They don't care, and due to the wonderful aegis of the 'anonymous tipster,' they don't need a legitimate reason.
Because they're authorized by a bunch of major software companies to look for such things.
Then weep as they reformat your boxes, install Windows, and run their network software finders.
Christ, for 500 bucks, I'll write you one. Really. Contact me if you're interested.
Every time I've mentioned this, I've been told that I'm either trolling, or my clock needs a new battery. But if's FUCKING ANNOYING when your backup script, which includes shutting down the database, is croned to run at 4 AM, runs at pretty much random times.
How does it handle recording? Does it do anything tivo-like; i.e. can you tell it to record a show, and it'll record any instance it finds, or figure out what you like and try to record similar things, or is it strictly a 'record channel at this time' sort of thing?
That's because it can upload back through the satellite. :-)
Incidentally, how is the equipment? I'm considering getting one, but I still wish Rogers would build a TiVo into their digital cable terminals.
And it was until very recently that most linux distributions installed every networking service under the sun, including wu-ftpd, for example, which is notorious for being full of holes. And I'll point out that the 'how to secure IIS' lists and documents on Microsoft's website include steps for securing the IIS addons. The stupidity required to install ANY OS and put it live to a public network, without going through a security exercise yourself, is strictly user error.
When's the last time somebody exploited a hole in your IIS? Oh, wait. They didn't. They expolited add-ons that IIS happened to use. I wonder what sort of vulnerabilities I can do with, say, mod_php or mod_perl?
Christ, I remember when PREY was going to be THE NEXT BIG THING. As I recall, there was a huge article in PC Gamer, the same issue as the one that claimed X-Wing vs TiE Fighter would have 16 player LAN games, with voice chat.
And Gunship, which was, if I recall correctly, the first polygonal flight sim.
SQ4..I think. Can't remember. Anywho, gets my vote for best real PP, and best fake. The real one was Sprint; all of the transporters in the game used Sprint as a carrier. It was funny. The fake one was for Soylent Clear. Nice jingle. Look for it on google.
The fact that it's law, means it's not an artifical harm. You are doing something you've agreed not to do. That means your word is worthless. They should start posting the names of the people who attempt to pirate, so that the rest of us know not to deal with them. Oh, and I could apply your theory to money theft. "They can just print more." Or, "It's just digital bits; they don't mean anything." But that's bullshit, because it affects future value. Well, if the software is good enough for you to use, maybe you should try paying for it, so they can make future software. There is simply no argument that you can make that will refute the simple fact that they said 'anybody who gives us some little green pieces of paper may use this software.' and you use the software, but didn't give the green pieces of paper. That's illegal, and should be illegal. Pretty much every legal system recognizes that labour has just as much value as a physical item, and you're taking their labour for free.
Ah, but you posit the 'fatal flaw' in the logic of most pirates; 'If I'm not going to pay for it anyway, there's no harm in pirating it.' They put out software, available for anybody willing to pay for it. Don't pay, don't use. Because of that, you are illegally using it if you pirate it. Maybe it's not the legal definition of 'theft' as nobody is being deprived of it, but you're still breaking laws.
Why would you EVER want to use all of those lovely filesystem utilities with a raw device filled with database data? You NEVER touch the database data directly. Want a backup? Have Oracle spit out a backup in your choice of lovely formats, from gigantic SQL statements to reconstruct everything up to your backup software of choice. One uses RAW devices for the same reason one doesn't use SCSI cards with no battery backup; because when Oracle says 'write this to disk' it really really wants it written to disk; not to a disk cache, not to memory, not to a buffer that'll be flushed when the OS decides to flush it. It's all part of the ACID requirements.
It almost makes you wonder if Oracle is going to create a Linux distribution of their own, and then have THAT as the only thing that Oracle will run on; this would eventually result in Oracle, basically, being bootable; it becomes an 'appliance application,' as I call them. After all, anybody running Oracle anyway is running on dedicated hardware, and Oracle likes raw disks; filesystems just slow things down, after all. Wonderful idea, if you ask me.
Who cares? The law says that the trial will be closed, unless there's a damn good reason for it to be open. 'Because it's Microsoft!' isn't a good reason.
I can see why SlashDot would feel the need to post this. It IS pretty newsworthy when The US of A decides to FOLLOW IT'S OWN LAWS. Oh, wait, the laws don't apply to MS, do they? All are equal, some are just less equal, right? Or did they forfeit their rights somehow? If so, that just means that everybody else in the US can 'forfeit' their rights. Slippary slope.
Cut and paste, then.
Får man lägga till nya headers i sina e-post-meddelanden som gör att de meddelanden som man skickar inte kan läsas av de som använder Outlook Express eller läser brev med WebTV?
Frågan har väckts i samband med att Nick Moffitt har skickat just sådana meddelanden på Tron-listan. Microsoft-användarna är inte nöjda med Moffitts beteende medan Moffitt hänvisar till att mottagarnas e-post-program är problemet och inte hans X-headers.
De headers som är omdebatterade:
X-Fnord: +++ath
X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black
X-Message-Flag: Message text blocked: ADULT LANGUAGE/SITUATIONS
X-BeenThere: crackmonkey@crackmonkey.org
Läs Nick Moffitts brev på Crackmonkey-listan.
Debattera sedan gärna vidare på Gnuheter.
You ever see a 'Reader's Digest Condensed Novel?'
Ah, but 3:2 is constant and known, and can be fixed with a wide variety of methods. And Pal winds up moving the pitch of the soundtrack up a semitone, I believe. Might only be a quartertone, but it's enough to notice. Of course, some things wind up getting pitch corrected.
Yup, much like you can put a data track onto a CD-Audio, getting an 'orange book,' I believe, CD. My point is that if it's formatted for DVD-Video, i.e. if you put it in a set top, it's a Movie, not Software, even though it might have some extra stuff. If you put it in a set top, and it WILL NOT play, it's Software, that may just have a shitload of videos in it. Or put another way, Are Wing Commanders 3, 4 and 5 (4, 7 and 3 CDs which are devoted to the video cutscenes) movies? Hell no. Is the Wing Commander 4 DVD version a movie? Hell no. Is the Wing Commander: The Movie DVD software? Hell no.