I think google should be paid just for being so damn cool. They deserve spontaneous income for things like the groups (with the history they now have), having a '1337-h4x0r' language you can use (http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/), changing their banner for special days (anyone else see the christmas thing?)...
There's a lot of companies right now that should be punished for doing stupid things, but Google is the complete opposite; I'd like to see Microsoft, the RIAA, and the MPAA have to donate 20% of their money to google:)
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As some people pointed out about the iPod, they aren't trying to sell this to every single person (like Microsoft always does). They know their market is small.
"There is just so much going on you need 3rd party utilities to see whats happening."
Third party utilites (generally shareware) that give you functionality that would be hard to remove from a UNIX-based system? Damn good argument you have there... I regularly use several programs in Linux that would have cost me hundreds of dollars in shareware to be able to do in Windows (For example, I always wanted to be able to use copies of CDs from the hard drive without buying a 30$ program. Where's your dd and mount -o loop?). That's not to mention the stuff that has no Windows equivalent at all. Stable or not, Linux is far more powerful than Windows and I doubt that will ever change. Microsoft will occasionally add a useful feature (I hear rumors their shell has tab completion; I wonder if it completes environment variables yet), but there are still hundreds more that give Linux and insurmountable advantage.
The most important part about Linux (to me) is the power, although any UNIX-like system has the same advantages. Even with cygwin, you can do a lot more in Linux.
In other words, you would like to make use of the slashdot preferences to ignore all stories from timothy? I've been ignoring JonKatz for a while now with this, it's nothing new.
Are some people complaining a bit too much?
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I understand all the complaints about privacy, but when was the last time you implmented a security measure on any computer that you expected to be invincible? Does that mean we should give up on computer security just because it occasionally inconveniences us?
"particularly not because of this recent contributution of some effects ripped from imagemagick"
Are you saying that he used Open-Source code in an Open-Source project? *gasp*
If he didn't credit the source that's understandable, but if this is brought to his attention and he fixes it, it could be a mistake (although since I'm sure you've never made any, you wouldn't understand).
Why can't everyone quit whining when two people decide to do the same thing without giving each other all their code? I bet if linux was started last year everyone would say "what a waste! why doesn't he go work on OpenBSD instead?". If you're really that worried about the success of these projects, why don't YOU go work on one of them instead of trying to dictate what other people should do (when they are already giving away their work, too)?
I can understand readers not reading the articles all the time, but shouldn't the editors look at it in case the submitter wasn't completely acurate? The inaccuracy is that Oracle 9i also has a buffer overflow that can allow the attacker to gain control of the system. The DoS is another issue that took eEye 4 hours to find:
Maiffret was more critical of Oracle. At the Comdex computer show last month, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison dared hackers to try to break into his company's software. Maiffret, a 21-year-old reformed hacker who has testified before Congress about computer security, said it took eEye programmers four hours to identify weaknesses in Oracle's programs that would have exposed users to a problem known as "denial of service" attack.
The buffer-overflow flaw in Oracle's 9i application server was found by David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software, based in Surrey in the United Kingdom.
I don't know how they do it, but my ISP (Sympatico - Bell Canada) seems to have a DSL service that is theoretically impossible from all the complaints people post here. The basic service is 45$ CDN/mo, it has 1.5Mbps/384Kps bandwidth, there is no port blocking and little IIS worm activity, there is no recent downtime (I think two years ago we were off for a few hours)... Do the american providers just have really bad management? The DSL here is the equivalent price of (and probably less than) the cheapest service in the US, and yet few US providers can come close to it. Maybe they could learn a lesson from the Canadian telcos...
Actually, my parents pay 59$ CDN per month including the 14$ extra for static IP and a small increase in upload speed - this is DSL (and canadian too), not a commercial service. Seriously, they get a potential of 864Gb (~100GB) and a limit of 150MB. IMHO, that really, really sucks. 1.5*60*60*24 is 15.8GB per day, and I can use all of it - I could download over 24 ISOs in 24 hours (and I have downloaded entire CDs in under an hour each), whereas the "10Mbps" service mentioned above would allow you to do that if you took a whole month. Not to mention that my server would break their upload cap a few times every day...
I don't know what he is paying, but it's probably equal to me or more. He gets 150MB per day, I get 16GB per day. In the end, he can probably download approximately as much as he could on dialup (considering that 56K*60*60*24 is 590MB, and 150MB is what you would get if you used full 56K bandwith for a few hours each day), but he gets it a lot faster - that's all. I'm not sure I can consider that broadband at all. (My current sig is, by some strange coincidence, applicable to this if you replace the OSes being compared there with the services being compared here.)
At first I thought your speeds looked impressive, but those caps would make it unusable. I could hit them within two hours easily. On one day I probably downloaded 6 full isos (and not just to be 1337), and I regularly transfer large files to people through my server. At the sustained transfer rate of 10Mbps, you could hit your download cap for the day in 2 minutes - I'd consider that service to have a very low availability. Even if they let you save unused transfers for other days, that service is next to useless for anyone who does more than read the news and email.
My DSL is only 1.5Mbps/384Kbps, but it's a much better deal because I can transfer as much as I want (of course, I haven't tried using the full bandwidth 24/7 for a month straight...). I can't remember the last downtime that was caused by something outside my network (the Linksys router being the main point of failure), and I haven't found any limits other than the basic bandwidth limitations. You may have a fast connection, but I don't see how that can be useable with the limits they put on it. I never knew using the bandwidth you bought was abuse... it may sound like a lot, but even the 10Mbps for "steady transfer" is just a rate for very short bursts according to your description.
I personally think my ISP has done something even better: they let you open any port, and yet the IIS worm attack rate from their subnet is very low - maybe they are smart enough to kick off people who have more worms than real software on their computers, but I haven't found out. That's real abuse of a service, not trying to use the bandwidth you think you have.
If slashdot editors should read slashdot, whiners should too. Dimitry Skylarov's freedom has already made it to slashdot (and the front page, no less), but I'm guessing that if you were an editor it would be up there again today..
My biggest problem with webrings was that the other sites were completely useless. Either the site I was at didn't have what I want and the others didn't either, or the site I was at had what I wanted and the others didn't.
That's a great suggestion, but I would propose punitive damages: Microsoft would have to develop the code to load and save Office documents for 5 open source office suites, release and Open Source library to read the file formats, and keep all future file formats open.
I can think of one problem with this immediately: emergencies. One advantage of this is that it can replace telcos entirely, so if you're using it you'll expect your phone to work as long as possible, even if a tornado took down a certain wireless transmitter. Wireless is broadcast anyways, so that seriously reduces it's bandwidth when there are many users.
This sounds like it could be very interesting...
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I'm not sure if they're all doing it, but in the article they mention using fiber optic cables, which would be an obvious advantage over copper. Aside from the competition aspect, I wonder if this will allow faster advancement in other areas, such as the speeds of home connections? These ADCos could allow cheaper upgrades (then again, upgrading any significant length of fiber must cost a lot in consumer terms, just for the price of the cabling).
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I think google should be paid just for being so damn cool. They deserve spontaneous income for things like the groups (with the history they now have), having a '1337-h4x0r' language you can use (http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/), changing their banner for special days (anyone else see the christmas thing?)...
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There's a lot of companies right now that should be punished for doing stupid things, but Google is the complete opposite; I'd like to see Microsoft, the RIAA, and the MPAA have to donate 20% of their money to google
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I tested it first, and it clearly shows the start and the end... maybe you have extra linebreaks or spacing.
This? It's just a random stream of characters; I discovered by accident that uudecode can convert it into the right image ;)
As some people pointed out about the iPod, they aren't trying to sell this to every single person (like Microsoft always does). They know their market is small.
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"There is just so much going on you need 3rd party utilities to see whats happening."
Third party utilites (generally shareware) that give you functionality that would be hard to remove from a UNIX-based system? Damn good argument you have there... I regularly use several programs in Linux that would have cost me hundreds of dollars in shareware to be able to do in Windows (For example, I always wanted to be able to use copies of CDs from the hard drive without buying a 30$ program. Where's your dd and mount -o loop?). That's not to mention the stuff that has no Windows equivalent at all. Stable or not, Linux is far more powerful than Windows and I doubt that will ever change. Microsoft will occasionally add a useful feature (I hear rumors their shell has tab completion; I wonder if it completes environment variables yet), but there are still hundreds more that give Linux and insurmountable advantage.
The most important part about Linux (to me) is the power, although any UNIX-like system has the same advantages. Even with cygwin, you can do a lot more in Linux.
Nor by the fact that this has been about the worst year in a decade for a lot of other industries, too.
Or does RIAA think themselves exempt from a recession?
I doubt they would be affected by such small ambissions - it's more likely that they believe they are the rightful rulers of the earth.
In other words, you would like to make use of the slashdot preferences to ignore all stories from timothy? I've been ignoring JonKatz for a while now with this, it's nothing new.
I understand all the complaints about privacy, but when was the last time you implmented a security measure on any computer that you expected to be invincible? Does that mean we should give up on computer security just because it occasionally inconveniences us?
"particularly not because of this recent contributution of some effects ripped from imagemagick"
Are you saying that he used Open-Source code in an Open-Source project? *gasp*
If he didn't credit the source that's understandable, but if this is brought to his attention and he fixes it, it could be a mistake (although since I'm sure you've never made any, you wouldn't understand).
Why can't everyone quit whining when two people decide to do the same thing without giving each other all their code? I bet if linux was started last year everyone would say "what a waste! why doesn't he go work on OpenBSD instead?". If you're really that worried about the success of these projects, why don't YOU go work on one of them instead of trying to dictate what other people should do (when they are already giving away their work, too)?
Aparently the MPAA agrees with your last statement: the movie is rated "14A for epic battles" according to the IMDB :)
I don't know how they do it, but my ISP (Sympatico - Bell Canada) seems to have a DSL service that is theoretically impossible from all the complaints people post here. The basic service is 45$ CDN/mo, it has 1.5Mbps/384Kps bandwidth, there is no port blocking and little IIS worm activity, there is no recent downtime (I think two years ago we were off for a few hours)... Do the american providers just have really bad management? The DSL here is the equivalent price of (and probably less than) the cheapest service in the US, and yet few US providers can come close to it. Maybe they could learn a lesson from the Canadian telcos...
Actually, my parents pay 59$ CDN per month including the 14$ extra for static IP and a small increase in upload speed - this is DSL (and canadian too), not a commercial service. Seriously, they get a potential of 864Gb (~100GB) and a limit of 150MB. IMHO, that really, really sucks. 1.5*60*60*24 is 15.8GB per day, and I can use all of it - I could download over 24 ISOs in 24 hours (and I have downloaded entire CDs in under an hour each), whereas the "10Mbps" service mentioned above would allow you to do that if you took a whole month. Not to mention that my server would break their upload cap a few times every day...
I don't know what he is paying, but it's probably equal to me or more. He gets 150MB per day, I get 16GB per day. In the end, he can probably download approximately as much as he could on dialup (considering that 56K*60*60*24 is 590MB, and 150MB is what you would get if you used full 56K bandwith for a few hours each day), but he gets it a lot faster - that's all. I'm not sure I can consider that broadband at all. (My current sig is, by some strange coincidence, applicable to this if you replace the OSes being compared there with the services being compared here.)
At first I thought your speeds looked impressive, but those caps would make it unusable. I could hit them within two hours easily. On one day I probably downloaded 6 full isos (and not just to be 1337), and I regularly transfer large files to people through my server. At the sustained transfer rate of 10Mbps, you could hit your download cap for the day in 2 minutes - I'd consider that service to have a very low availability. Even if they let you save unused transfers for other days, that service is next to useless for anyone who does more than read the news and email.
My DSL is only 1.5Mbps/384Kbps, but it's a much better deal because I can transfer as much as I want (of course, I haven't tried using the full bandwidth 24/7 for a month straight...). I can't remember the last downtime that was caused by something outside my network (the Linksys router being the main point of failure), and I haven't found any limits other than the basic bandwidth limitations. You may have a fast connection, but I don't see how that can be useable with the limits they put on it. I never knew using the bandwidth you bought was abuse... it may sound like a lot, but even the 10Mbps for "steady transfer" is just a rate for very short bursts according to your description.
I personally think my ISP has done something even better: they let you open any port, and yet the IIS worm attack rate from their subnet is very low - maybe they are smart enough to kick off people who have more worms than real software on their computers, but I haven't found out. That's real abuse of a service, not trying to use the bandwidth you think you have.
If slashdot editors should read slashdot, whiners should too. Dimitry Skylarov's freedom has already made it to slashdot (and the front page, no less), but I'm guessing that if you were an editor it would be up there again today..
My biggest problem with webrings was that the other sites were completely useless. Either the site I was at didn't have what I want and the others didn't either, or the site I was at had what I wanted and the others didn't.
A BSD-licensed library would do that... (Maybe Microsoft would be repaying what they took advantage of too...)
That's a great suggestion, but I would propose punitive damages: Microsoft would have to develop the code to load and save Office documents for 5 open source office suites, release and Open Source library to read the file formats, and keep all future file formats open.
I can think of one problem with this immediately: emergencies. One advantage of this is that it can replace telcos entirely, so if you're using it you'll expect your phone to work as long as possible, even if a tornado took down a certain wireless transmitter. Wireless is broadcast anyways, so that seriously reduces it's bandwidth when there are many users.
I'm not sure if they're all doing it, but in the article they mention using fiber optic cables, which would be an obvious advantage over copper. Aside from the competition aspect, I wonder if this will allow faster advancement in other areas, such as the speeds of home connections? These ADCos could allow cheaper upgrades (then again, upgrading any significant length of fiber must cost a lot in consumer terms, just for the price of the cabling).