Well, at least this statement is more accurate then the crap the press is spewing. The press is saying SCO won on appeal. There did these guys go to school. They didn't win, they're just getting a new trial because Kimball didn't bring in a jury.
In the next trial, sco, if they still exist after bankruptcy will get creamed again.
I'm a power user, and I use add-ons... Especially noscript. It's really helpful on IE... No wait... Nevermind on the IE part. I haven't used wine to load IE yet.
Hey, in the late 80's when the first spammers showed up, if the administrators/ISP's didn't close they're account, they'd get kping/attacked and taken off line. Then the 90's came, with the STUPID aol metoo'rs. All the sudden, money became more important then integrity. Spammers' had a heyday, and everyone was afraid of the lawyers. The Internet started to really SUCK (is there anyone left out there that remembers archie and ftp?).
Now, all the sudden some security researchers are working with the press to publish the sites that are the worst, and someone out there is screaming AHHHH Vigilantes! HIDE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN!!
I read the first page, and concluded that the article writer is a bonehead. On to the next stupid slashdot article. This one didn't rate getting out of the firehosed.
This clueless clown doesn't know what he's talking about. Anyway, if someone is un-employed, has free time and want's to keep his skills up, he will be more likely to help out with open source projects.
I don't want to disappoint you, but stupidity is shared by both republicans and democrats these days. But then, so is greed which is part of the cause of the stupidity.
"Withdrawing OOOXML is not the only option... In theory, OOOXML could be turned into a reasonable standard so that is the other option. In theory."
Yes, but the problem is that the 6000+ page OOXML is so riddled with problems that it would take years to clean it up. Also, Standards are supposed to be open. OOXML is dependent on proprietary technology. So anyone that tries to implement anything from this standard can be sued by $M. If you trust $M, then you deserve to be sued.
My opinion..... Some religious fantic's are the ones dragging the anchors. 3 cable in this timeframe? I don't think it's a coincedence. Someone is pushing the press to put a good light on it. We don't want to impair anyone wanting to take there call centers overseas. To many corporations are saving all that money for the stockholders, so why should they care if they can't get those service calls for a day or two.
They are flush with cash, but yes, they'd end up working with other companies. It would be under true open device terms though. I don't know that they would be re-licensing, there would be joint development agreements, etc. The licenses are worth to much. they wouldn't be dumb enough to give up the license in any way. Joint Development agreements would be the way to go. Google's got enough money to make it work, and this spectrum is the right one for cell/data wireless. Other companies will jump at the chance to get access to these bands. Joint development agreements with guaranteed long term access are the way for Google to go.
There's actually a bunch of blocks up for bid here. The most expensive is something like $$$4.7B Thats the one that google wants, and the one they bludgened the FCC to put the open device requirement on. I hope google gets it, because they will do it right. The telcos will try to do everything they can to mess up the open device requirement. If google gets it, we will actually be able to use the phones without half the features turned off or mangled. GO GOOGLE
But there are some CEO's and CTO's that will read this, and cut more funding from IT departments, making life even worse for people going into and working in IT. More skilled people will leave, and then with less manpower, more crackers will be breaking into the companies that are stupid enough to listen to this moron, causing more tort lawsuits, more credit card and personal financial profiles will be stolen by russians, thereby causing the total collapse of western civilization as we know it.
David Lichfield has been a Database Security consultant, and is most likely responsible for forcing Oracle to actually fix a good chunk of there sloppy code. He's respected by a good chunk of the Security professionals, and probably considered to be a royal thorn for most the Database vendors out there. One thing he isn't is a clueless researcher. He's found and exposed (responsibly) many Oracle holes.
The security of any database, and application/front end be it web, financial or otherwise is a function of who sets it up. You can get away with putting a database in front of a firewall, if you lock the system down tight enough. I'm not recommending it, but it can be done using host based firewalls. The big question here is how many are out there that have been locked down??? If you can open a connection to the database from a anonymous remote host, it's not locked down!!!
Software is protected by copyrights. Because of the nature and how software and applications build upon each other, all patents do is lock the little guy that doesn't have a patent portfolio to protect himself. The whole idea of patents was to protect designs long enough for the original inventor to get a chance to build his business before some bigger fish could come along and copy what he designed. Because the way software interacts, and is used, all patents do is stifle innovation. This is the opposite effect that patents are supposed to have. We would be better off scrapping software patents, and tweak copyright code to better protect Software designs, but still let innovation while limiting software snitching. Keeping software patents will only help Microsoft, and patent trolls. You are dead wrong.
The good thing is that the CowBoy Neal jokes can't get any worse in 10 years. So that's one part of/. that can't get worse, and won't be sold out to corporate look interests.
You hit the nail on the head with this comment. I was downloading an occasional tune to check out new music, and stopped. I found pandora and some other online streaming sites to help me discover new music. Now when I find someone I like, I can go find a used cd, or if they're an indy artist, I'll gladly buy there album outright. I won't support the RIAA companies though. They screw the artists, and then turn around and screw the customers. And to make sure they stay in power, they're doing everything they can to shut down the outlets they don't control, including sueing their customers for hundereds of thousands of bucks. The only way to shut them down is for us to no longer support them. I don't, but I still buy the music I want through used outlets, and by finding and listening to indy artists.
When I signed up for the Colorado no call a few years before the national one, I did the *whatever to file a complaint with the phone company. I never got charged for the complaint reports, and I harrassed and logged all my do not call requests. I filed 3 complaints for outfits that called a second time, and now I don't get calls. I ask charities to not call back, (I consider them solicitors also). They honor the requests.
The only scum that don't honor the requests to not call are political dirtbags now. I suspect they never will.
To distribute the executables and use them with your program is fine. But, you need to declare it with your license and EULA crappola, and make the source for the GPL code available upon request.
It's that simple. Did these guys do this? I didn't bother to look. Using a DLL to call the programs in my view isn't much different then having a front end script to do the same. Worst case, the FSF should remind them to display the license for the GPL'd programs, and offer up a link to the Source.
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Well, at least this statement is more accurate then the crap the press is spewing. The press is saying SCO won on appeal. There did these guys go to school. They didn't win, they're just getting a new trial because Kimball didn't bring in a jury.
In the next trial, sco, if they still exist after bankruptcy will get creamed again.
50% of the patents are invalid for one reason or another, the other 50% where just useless;
Your numbers are wrong. 50% of the patents are invalid, and 49% are useless. The other 1% are not software patents. :)
We're all gonna die from Swine Flu anyway.......
I'm a power user, and I use add-ons ... Especially noscript. It's really helpful on IE... No wait ... Nevermind on the IE part. I haven't used wine to load IE yet.
Hey, in the late 80's when the first spammers showed up, if the administrators/ISP's didn't close they're account, they'd get kping/attacked and taken off line.
Then the 90's came, with the STUPID aol metoo'rs. All the sudden, money became more important then integrity. Spammers' had a heyday, and everyone was afraid of the lawyers. The Internet started to really SUCK (is there anyone left out there that remembers archie and ftp?).
Now, all the sudden some security researchers are working with the press to publish the sites that are the worst, and someone out there is screaming AHHHH Vigilantes! HIDE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN!!
I read the first page, and concluded that the article writer is a bonehead. On to the next stupid slashdot article. This one didn't rate getting out of the firehosed.
This clueless clown doesn't know what he's talking about. Anyway, if someone is un-employed, has free time and want's to keep his skills up, he will be more likely to help out with open source projects.
Subject line says it all.
I'm sure they've taken hurricane winds into account when designing the turbines. How could they not.
I don't want to disappoint you, but stupidity is shared by both republicans and democrats these days. But then, so is greed which is part of the cause of the stupidity.
"Withdrawing OOOXML is not the only option... In theory, OOOXML could be turned into a reasonable standard so that is the other option. In theory."
Yes, but the problem is that the 6000+ page OOXML is so riddled with problems that it would take years to clean it up. Also, Standards are supposed to be open. OOXML is dependent on proprietary technology. So anyone that tries to implement anything from this standard can be sued by $M. If you trust $M, then you deserve to be sued.
Great idea, accept to have any effect on this class of scum you'd have to have at least a 480V 3 phase circuit.
My opinion..... Some religious fantic's are the ones dragging the anchors. 3 cable in this timeframe? I don't think it's a coincedence. Someone is pushing the press to put a good light on it. We don't want to impair anyone wanting to take there call centers overseas. To many corporations are saving all that money for the stockholders, so why should they care if they can't get those service calls for a day or two.
They are flush with cash, but yes, they'd end up working with other companies. It would be under true open device terms though. I don't know that they would be re-licensing, there would be joint development agreements, etc. The licenses are worth to much. they wouldn't be dumb enough to give up the license in any way. Joint Development agreements would be the way to go. Google's got enough money to make it work, and this spectrum is the right one for cell/data wireless. Other companies will jump at the chance to get access to these bands. Joint development agreements with guaranteed long term access are the way for Google to go.
There's actually a bunch of blocks up for bid here. The most expensive is something like $$$4.7B Thats the one that google wants, and the one they bludgened the FCC to put the open device requirement on. I hope google gets it, because they will do it right. The telcos will try to do everything they can to mess up the open device requirement. If google gets it, we will actually be able to use the phones without half the features turned off or mangled. GO GOOGLE
But there are some CEO's and CTO's that will read this, and cut more funding from IT departments, making life even worse for people going into and working in IT. More skilled people will leave, and then with less manpower, more crackers will be breaking into the companies that are stupid enough to listen to this moron, causing more tort lawsuits, more credit card and personal financial profiles will be stolen by russians, thereby causing the total collapse of western civilization as we know it.
Or maybe not.
David Lichfield has been a Database Security consultant, and is most likely responsible for forcing Oracle to actually fix a good chunk of there sloppy code. He's respected by a good chunk of the Security professionals, and probably considered to be a royal thorn for most the Database vendors out there. One thing he isn't is a clueless researcher. He's found and exposed (responsibly) many Oracle holes.
The security of any database, and application/front end be it web, financial or otherwise is a function of who sets it up. You can get away with putting a database in front of a firewall, if you lock the system down tight enough. I'm not recommending it, but it can be done using host based firewalls. The big question here is how many are out there that have been locked down??? If you can open a connection to the database from a anonymous remote host, it's not locked down!!!
GO AUSSIES!!
Software is protected by copyrights. Because of the nature and how software and applications build upon each other, all patents do is lock the little guy that doesn't have a patent portfolio to protect himself. The whole idea of patents was to protect designs long enough for the original inventor to get a chance to build his business before some bigger fish could come along and copy what he designed. Because the way software interacts, and is used, all patents do is stifle innovation. This is the opposite effect that patents are supposed to have.
We would be better off scrapping software patents, and tweak copyright code to better protect Software designs, but still let innovation while limiting software snitching. Keeping software patents will only help Microsoft, and patent trolls. You are dead wrong.
The good thing is that the CowBoy Neal jokes can't get any worse in 10 years. So that's one part of
Don't blame me! I went to the site and it was SLASHDOT'ED
Bummer!
You hit the nail on the head with this comment. I was downloading an occasional tune to check out new music, and stopped. I found pandora and some other online streaming sites to help me discover new music. Now when I find someone I like, I can go find a used cd, or if they're an indy artist, I'll gladly buy there album outright. I won't support the RIAA companies though. They screw the artists, and then turn around and screw the customers. And to make sure they stay in power, they're doing everything they can to shut down the outlets they don't control, including sueing their customers for hundereds of thousands of bucks. The only way to shut them down is for us to no longer support them. I don't, but I still buy the music I want through used outlets, and by finding and listening to indy artists.
When I signed up for the Colorado no call a few years before the national one, I did the *whatever to file a complaint with the phone company. I never got charged for the complaint reports, and I harrassed and logged all my do not call requests. I filed 3 complaints for outfits that called a second time, and now I don't get calls. I ask charities to not call back, (I consider them solicitors also). They honor the requests.
The only scum that don't honor the requests to not call are political dirtbags now. I suspect they never will.
To distribute the executables and use them with your program is fine. But, you need to declare it with your license and EULA crappola, and make the source for the GPL code available upon request.
It's that simple. Did these guys do this? I didn't bother to look. Using a DLL to call the programs in my view isn't much different then having a front end script to do the same. Worst case, the FSF should remind them to display the license for the GPL'd programs, and offer up a link to the Source.
Nothing to see here
Hmmm, my windows box seems to be working fine also (X-windows that is LoL).
Last week it was sick though. Gentoo changed a library that killt lots of boxes. All the faint-hearted Gentoo'rs had real problems this week.
I won't be updating my one win-puke box this week it looks like LoL