Yes, I agree that this is a very important subject. Actually, the topic of "OSS: Legal Issues" should be a subject that a lot of universities contemplate taking up. There's a lot of people who don't really understand concepts like GPL and how it affects OSS projects.
One ongoing row: the Asterisk Open-source PBX project has just had some "competition", where a splinter group started a fork of the code and created the OpenPBX project. While it appears on the surface to be valid, in terms of the GPL, a lot of people who don't understand the rights etc. are blowing up and crying foul -- most of them commenting about "backstabbers" and "biters of the hand that feed"..
One possible feature for them to implement: one party can "flip the bird" to restart the whole session (as opposed to ALT-F4 or CTRL-C or whatever), thus giving new meaning to "Giving your co-worker the finger" for bad suggestions.
The projectionist must have had a good network connection in the projection room... oh, wait a minute... GOGGLES. For some reason I thought it was "Night Googles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger".
1) "Microsoft won't be offering this service patch to those who hold pirated copies of Windows XP"
Fair enough, but when you consider the millions of machines out there with pirated copies of Windows, who won't be able to "upgrade"... sorry Bill, but these are going to be the machines that will continue to be compromised and taken over. Why can't they just give the damn SP2 out for everyone, if they're SO CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY??
2) "I expect to hear screams of pain as people deploy SP2... but those are probably the same people who complain so loudly (and legitimately) that Microsoft doesn't deploy secure systems."
Like what another poster said, Microsoft's damned if they do it and damned if they don't. To be honest I'd really hate to be in their shoes...
I totally agree with you. I've also just finished an * install and waiting for the client to review it. The deployment is for an IVR system, with a possible future enhancement of accessing corporate data and relaying info like the caller's account information etc. Which speaks volume about the product because it's basically a PBX system.
Most of my experience with * is via trial-and-error, reading the newsgroup postings, posing questions for help etc a-la the normal open source way of doing things, and it should be noted that the article says "Zealous fans of the terrific open source PBX-plus software develop easy-to-follow installation and configuration menus". There exists some documentation on the web, with war stories and sample configuration. But, as noted in the Asterisk mailing list, the docs can be somewhat sparse and technically oriented, especially for users just wanting to "try it out".
I basically think the article about Asterisk should be read as "Zealous fans... need to develop easy-to-follow installation and configuration menus, and Asterisk takes off big-time". This, to me, is a key point in making Asterisk viable to the masses. People (the users anyway) tend to expect a PBX system to be something of a "plug-and-play" type of thing, but without concrete documentation, helpfiles etc it would be hard for the n00b installer to get things working in a short amount of time.
...the theory that perhaps whomever wrote the book as REALLY BAD HANDWRITING and wrote the book in dim yakmilk candlelight? to explain the nice drawings: he/she probably drew it in daylight sitting outside underneath a nice shady tree
The article mentions that "software companies were working with the authorities on the problem, but the police were more concerned about controlling pornography."
That's just like the job opening that says "C programming engineer - Fresh Graduates welcome... some working experience with C programming would be helpful"... haven't you come across one of those ads before? I think they just put that qualifier thing in there just for show.
The ISPs probably are being funded by the RIAA and somehow managed to get out of this; reason being the RIAA needs all those ISP's resources to snag pass, present and future "scum-sucking-miscreant" MP3 file sharers. Hah.
And do something about it, for god's sake. It's fine and dandy to sit here in the bully pullpit and scream obscenities, but it's another to go out there in the field and expressing your opinions where it matters.
1) Anyone written to their congressperson about this?
2) Anyone organized any rallies, flashmobs, etc outside the RIAA office?
3) Anyone did background checks on RIAA execs, staff etc to see if they or their 12-year olds are doing the same thing?
4) Anyone actually found out the artist whose music brianna downloaded, and perhaps wrote to them to ask how they felt about it?
5) Any more suggestions?
I don't know, but there's something... unamerican and unnatural about this whole thing. Going after a 12-yr old kid? That's just low, low, low.
By the way, it perhaps appears a DOS attack is underway on the RIAA's various websites. I tried getting there to see if the RIAA head has a contact point to push my views to him.
If you're unaware, you can also register cellphone numbers as telemarketers are increasingly targeting cell users.
On another note, there are a few loopholes to the DNC list: "Police can still mass dial people under the guise of crime awareness...Even telemarketers conceded that the new national "do not call" list doesn't mean you're off the hook..."
Some of these loopholes, to my understanding, allow non-profit and/or political organizations and companies conducting so-called surveys even if you're on the do not call list. So while the original article mentions 28 million phone numbers are already on the list, one wonders just how effective it will be...
working halfway across the globe, I regularly use yahoo messenger to hold meetings with the US office. we've once even hooked up a machine with a webcam and had an entire department meeting that way.
of course someone had to sit in front of the pc so they could voice out what i said, and sound quality was a bit lacking, but it was a fantastic way to have teleconferencing on the cheap.
plus enabling the messenger's sounds allowed me to generate an annoying "ding" whenever someone said something silly heheh
mayhaps someone wants to organize an online version of this, whereby people would converge in one chatroom or something like that, and randomly select one source of spam, and everyone sends a bunch of emails to that spamsource.
Well, if it's history you want, then this screen has got to be the granddaddy of them all. Now we all know where the BSOD get its start from... dang, it's been around since the 2.0 days!!!
I wonder if, once the technology becomes ubiquitious, this would cause a rise in PC-related thefts? Imagine a large fleet of Dell machines being hijacked and stripped for the diamond contents.
And what about recycling machines that use those chips? Would we see an increase in dumpster diving habits? There'd probably be a lot more people spending time in dump sites combing through the trash to look for things like these.
... deals with mainly how the ringtone phenomenon is set to rip apart profits of the music industry giants. It's the RIAA, MP3 and Napster issue all over again.
Envisional, a UK-based Internet monitoring company, even goes so far as to claim that "Illegal downloads of mobile ringtones costs music industry $1million per day". However, in all fairness, that article does mention that the estimates they talk about are rough, since "Reliable figures on the total ringtone market are very hard to come by...but there is no doubt as to the scale of the problem. This is another Napster in the making."
This is probably true in most asian as well as european countries: the cellphone market is dominated by a few major players: Nokia, Motorola, Siemens to name a few. Most of the phones released in the last two or three years already have the capability you're talking about. And yes, the ring-tone business is definitely big bucks in these parts of the woods.
For example, this site offers downloadable ringtones as well as screen savers and a bunch of other stuff. And this site provides "Free ringtones for Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony mobile phones".
What I'd like to see being picked up in the States is SMS (Short Messaging Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). Already, in parts of Asia, you can do bungloads of stuff via SMS like pay your bills, check on traffic fines... heck there's even SMS chain letters!
On the financial aspect, this article and this one sums it up. The latter talks about how, in 2001, "China's SMS revenues totalled $234 million...", and how it will triple this year to roughly $750 million; by 2007 it's expected to escalate to $16 billion!
I downloaded the firmware upgrade, it was a simple windows program where you had to specify the ip address of the router. So it's not "Flashing" per se, pretty simple and painless procedure (you don't even have to (gasp) reboot the unit) that i bet grammy could do it too.
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Yes, I agree that this is a very important subject. Actually, the topic of "OSS: Legal Issues" should be a subject that a lot of universities contemplate taking up. There's a lot of people who don't really understand concepts like GPL and how it affects OSS projects. One ongoing row: the Asterisk Open-source PBX project has just had some "competition", where a splinter group started a fork of the code and created the OpenPBX project. While it appears on the surface to be valid, in terms of the GPL, a lot of people who don't understand the rights etc. are blowing up and crying foul -- most of them commenting about "backstabbers" and "biters of the hand that feed"..
One possible feature for them to implement: one party can "flip the bird" to restart the whole session (as opposed to ALT-F4 or CTRL-C or whatever), thus giving new meaning to "Giving your co-worker the finger" for bad suggestions.
The projectionist must have had a good network connection in the projection room... oh, wait a minute... GOGGLES. For some reason I thought it was "Night Googles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger".
So much for googling in the dark...
1) "Microsoft won't be offering this service patch to those who hold pirated copies of Windows XP"
Fair enough, but when you consider the millions of machines out there with pirated copies of Windows, who won't be able to "upgrade"... sorry Bill, but these are going to be the machines that will continue to be compromised and taken over. Why can't they just give the damn SP2 out for everyone, if they're SO CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY??
2) "I expect to hear screams of pain as people deploy SP2... but those are probably the same people who complain so loudly (and legitimately) that Microsoft doesn't deploy secure systems."
Like what another poster said, Microsoft's damned if they do it and damned if they don't. To be honest I'd really hate to be in their shoes...
Most of my experience with * is via trial-and-error, reading the newsgroup postings, posing questions for help etc a-la the normal open source way of doing things, and it should be noted that the article says "Zealous fans of the terrific open source PBX-plus software develop easy-to-follow installation and configuration menus". There exists some documentation on the web, with war stories and sample configuration. But, as noted in the Asterisk mailing list, the docs can be somewhat sparse and technically oriented, especially for users just wanting to "try it out".
I basically think the article about Asterisk should be read as "Zealous fans... need to develop easy-to-follow installation and configuration menus, and Asterisk takes off big-time". This, to me, is a key point in making Asterisk viable to the masses. People (the users anyway) tend to expect a PBX system to be something of a "plug-and-play" type of thing, but without concrete documentation, helpfiles etc it would be hard for the n00b installer to get things working in a short amount of time.
...the theory that perhaps whomever wrote the book as REALLY BAD HANDWRITING and wrote the book in dim yakmilk candlelight? to explain the nice drawings: he/she probably drew it in daylight sitting outside underneath a nice shady tree
Nuff said.
ahem.
The ISPs probably are being funded by the RIAA and somehow managed to get out of this; reason being the RIAA needs all those ISP's resources to snag pass, present and future "scum-sucking-miscreant" MP3 file sharers. Hah.
And do something about it, for god's sake. It's fine and dandy to sit here in the bully pullpit and scream obscenities, but it's another to go out there in the field and expressing your opinions where it matters.
1) Anyone written to their congressperson about this?
2) Anyone organized any rallies, flashmobs, etc outside the RIAA office?
3) Anyone did background checks on RIAA execs, staff etc to see if they or their 12-year olds are doing the same thing?
4) Anyone actually found out the artist whose music brianna downloaded, and perhaps wrote to them to ask how they felt about it?
5) Any more suggestions?
I don't know, but there's something... unamerican and unnatural about this whole thing. Going after a 12-yr old kid? That's just low, low, low.
By the way, it perhaps appears a DOS attack is underway on the RIAA's various websites. I tried getting there to see if the RIAA head has a contact point to push my views to him.
Yes, and he comes pre-programmed to bark, snarf and generally heckle any SCO execs in the general vicinity.
..that you posted on the kernel mailing list (http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2000 /Dec/0309.html).
Heheh.. i wonder if mr. bruckheimer will get his scripters to put this into some episode of CSI...
On another note, there are a few loopholes to the DNC list: "Police can still mass dial people under the guise of crime awareness...Even telemarketers conceded that the new national "do not call" list doesn't mean you're off the hook..."
Some of these loopholes, to my understanding, allow non-profit and/or political organizations and companies conducting so-called surveys even if you're on the do not call list. So while the original article mentions 28 million phone numbers are already on the list, one wonders just how effective it will be...
working halfway across the globe, I regularly use yahoo messenger to hold meetings with the US office. we've once even hooked up a machine with a webcam and had an entire department meeting that way.
of course someone had to sit in front of the pc so they could voice out what i said, and sound quality was a bit lacking, but it was a fantastic way to have teleconferencing on the cheap.
plus enabling the messenger's sounds allowed me to generate an annoying "ding" whenever someone said something silly heheh
mayhaps someone wants to organize an online version of this, whereby people would converge in one chatroom or something like that, and randomly select one source of spam, and everyone sends a bunch of emails to that spamsource.
The Omidyar Foundation was brought to you by The Omigod Consortium. Hmm... the names are kind of.. strange..
Well, if it's history you want, then this screen has got to be the granddaddy of them all. Now we all know where the BSOD get its start from... dang, it's been around since the 2.0 days!!!
And what about recycling machines that use those chips? Would we see an increase in dumpster diving habits? There'd probably be a lot more people spending time in dump sites combing through the trash to look for things like these.
Envisional, a UK-based Internet monitoring company, even goes so far as to claim that "Illegal downloads of mobile ringtones costs music industry $1million per day ". However, in all fairness, that article does mention that the estimates they talk about are rough, since "Reliable figures on the total ringtone market are very hard to come by...but there is no doubt as to the scale of the problem. This is another Napster in the making."
For example, this site offers downloadable ringtones as well as screen savers and a bunch of other stuff. And this site provides "Free ringtones for Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony mobile phones".
What I'd like to see being picked up in the States is SMS (Short Messaging Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). Already, in parts of Asia, you can do bungloads of stuff via SMS like pay your bills, check on traffic fines... heck there's even SMS chain letters!
On the financial aspect, this article and this one sums it up. The latter talks about how, in 2001, "China's SMS revenues totalled $234 million...", and how it will triple this year to roughly $750 million; by 2007 it's expected to escalate to $16 billion!
I downloaded the firmware upgrade, it was a simple windows program where you had to specify the ip address of the router. So it's not "Flashing" per se, pretty simple and painless procedure (you don't even have to (gasp) reboot the unit) that i bet grammy could do it too.
Actually, I bet the plan is really to create a DDOS attack somewhere...