It wasn't lousy internal security, it was a company violating all terms on a server which is open to the public, which also got its customers to act illegally for it, scraping the content servers for documents, patches and updates which they would then diff and repackage as their own updates. And SAP knew that's what TomorrowNow was doing when they bought them.
The difference between what TomorrowNow did with Siebel software and what Larry did with Red Hat Linux is that RHEL is open; Siebel doesn't have a line of FOSS code in it.
Since the island itself is in the northwest the Conamara (or Connemara) accent is probably the one to use, so it would be OH-lun ree. However, most Irish Gaelic speakers would pronounce it OH-lun r(ue)-ee'. Fun, huh?
People are proud of a 1Mb connection? What's the latency? Even here in Germany a provider would be ashamed to show his face if he couldn't do at least four times that for a fucking rural area!
A year and a half ago, 100 times that speed was considered good and in a year and a half from now Korea expects to have ONE THOUSAND times that fucking speed. I know people in US states who can still only connect with a fucking 33.6Kbaud modem.
Sending multiple 50M aircraft into ash clouds to prove what we already knew: that even a brief encounter with volcanic ash will fuck your turbines up but good. And your surfaces. And your Plexiglass. And your ventilation system. And and and...
A company can require a cert as a condition of employment but if they require maintenance, they must foot the bill for time to learn/study and for the (passed) testing (no paybacks for the failed attempts). It's a matter of "reasonableness", "human rights", working hours laws and social justice, the latter being very important here.
Unless there's something in the contract explicitly putting all the burden on the guy needing certs (nearly impossible and unenforceable), the company pays to maintain. If you think that's bullshit, remember that the company itself profits from that maintenance and a n experienced worker.
No, it won't be more fun than any decent game. While Open Source is great, there are serious problems with the anarchy of it. Most coders seem to only want to code the sexy stuff; very few are willing to bash their heads against the wall for hours tying to figure out some bug that turns out to be an incorrect variable in a recursive 80-element formula which determines a cube map texture coordinate. So the routine is killed, the graphics quality drops and progress toward completion is made. Even Tux Racer still glitches reproducibly.
T. rex was equipped to attack and destroy animals its own size,
Yeah, and every woman is equipped to be a hooker. The facts on T-Rex show the animal very unlikely to have been a predator. The general concensus of the predation deissenters is that the T-Rex eyes were small and likely couldn't have seen and tracked prey; the arms were too small to hold prey, and its oversized legs would slow the beast too much to be a decent predator. This last point may not be as important considering some of the larger species couldn't move very fast themselves, but getting big is what species do to avoid predation and we have living examples in elephants, girraffes, rhinoceri, hippopotami and whales.
Furthermore no bones which display healed T-Rex tooth marks have ever been found, and T-Rex was around right up until the little rock slapped this big rock we live on now some 65M years ago.
Given that, I'm loathe to accept some conjecture about some other animal that supposedly lived and hunted in packs based on the spurious evidence of a group of bones comprising many species members and none of which comprise more than 80% of a single animal.
Many elephants go to "elephant graveyards" to die; will scientists in 60 million years stumble across one of these graveyards, see the tusks and the size of the animals and conclude the elephant was a vicious carnivore which hunted in packs? And will that era's Slashdot splash such spurious findings on the front page?
Just STFU. I've written about this before. The pilot -- Richard Ashby -- who flew into the damned cable didn't know it was there. It wasn't on the air chart. It's still not on the air chart. The Pentagon has still not updated its charts. When you're a pilot, everything that might be in your way is charted. The highest elevation of the ground and any known object is listed in the maps. Any odd objectis marked and if possible, an exact altitude given. No such marking appeared in the US charts.
Italy wanted a show trial for "justice". The US refused to allow it and militarily always has, both on foreign turf and at home. US civilian courts cannot try military cases. And te US extends the same privilege to the militaries of other countries. This policy has been recently abused to prevent foreigners designated "soldiers" from any access to civilian courts for but the general policy is sound.
The only thing Capt. Ashby (and his navigator, Capt. Schweitzer) are guilty of is obstruction of justice for the disappearance of the video tape. Why did they ditch it? Probably because of the barrel rolls that Ashby did -- not dangerous in themselves nor in any way the cause of the mishap but banned by the US Air Force as dangerous and unnecesasry manoeuvres except during a dogfight or practice for one. They probably also bad-mouthed a few colonels or generals. An obstruction of justice charge beats the hell out of a Court Martial for showing disrespect for superior officers.
Electricity, sewage and oil only work efficiently in huge, centralised systems and aren't feasible in small scale. Likewise subsistance farming (there's not enough land for each person to farm enough for himself).
There are few apps which can't run locally. They might run faster on the massive centralised hardware but if you can't connect, you're fucked. Anyone who can't afford to be fucked by the loss of a connection to any centralised system (like, say, a hospital) has a localised back-up already in place. It's not efficient but it keeps things working.
And you're also ignoring the cost. You'll pay for usage, either flat rate per time period or per-minute. Microsoft's been talking about working Office into this sort of model for more than five years now. Clearly they believe it would earn them more money.
We gave up on the idea of centralised systems a long time ago with good reason. I remember coding COBOL on 3270s which had to connect to some computer center elsewhere. Can't connect? Can't work.
Local apps give us a lot of freedom. It might be nice to be able to also have such a centralised system available, but even with access on planes, there are always times and places you'll be cut off.
Funding for this study was provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation (via the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, or MSREC)
I'm not a raging anti-patent looney screaming about the need for a free utopioan society, but if funding for this was provided by the public, surely the results belong to the public and the methods belong in the public domain rather than to MIT for the next 17-34 years.
You've obviously forgotten (or more likely, never heard of) Ken Thompson. He was the guy that put the self-replicating backdoor in the UNIX compiler which, even if you removed from source, would be re-inserted if the compiler saw that you were compiling kernel or compiler.
He did it to show that the further down you go, the harder it gets to detect such things. So you wrote a new compiler to get around that? Great. How're you planning on compiling it?
Never forget that Open Source is no guarantee of security in and of itself.
Additionally, JupiterResearch make their money by selling their reports and their consulting services to other businesses. Their opinions are hardly unbiased, as the selective "study" of only the first five years of running the network shows.
I'd mod you down if I could. It's "Munich" or "München" but not "Münich".
Yes, I live here (in MUC -- the city, not the airport). I'm not from here. See some of my earlier posts or the "journal".
Anyway, German courts are really screwy. A decision in one court does not necessarily influence another court at the same, higher or even lower level. Just because the high court in the state of Sachsen finds A, B and C, it doesn't mean that the Bavarian high court is bound to accept that as precedent.
Precedent don't mean dick here. Not even when the Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, similar to SCOTUS) hands down a decision. It's kind of freaky, really.
You would think he might've learned the lesson that Scientology did about a decade ago. I reverted the page once after he cleared it. It's locked right no since the/.ers are being especially stupid today ("Sollog eats his nuts." -- yes, rapier wit).
He'll keep trying to edit the page and the rest of the Net will point out what a lying sack of shit he is, just as we've been doing with Scientology.
woof.
Why would you want to write messages when you can simply speak them?
SMS messages. Handwriting is faster than input using the often poorly-implemented T9 method. And don't rant about SMS -- it's cheaper than a call, doesn't have to be received immediately, will go out even with the spottiest link, can be stored, and it allows communication when you can't hear or use a telephone (hospital, lecture, concert).
Text entry is also necessary for storing numbers and personal information in the phone.
I don't have time to translate it. Basically, it says that Munich's project is being watched worldwide and that there are a lot of attacks against Linux right now. It lists some examples of infringement threats should the EU accept software patents (currently about 30,000 submissions, 10-20% of which directly affect client software).
The list of example patent claims (most of which would be easy to fight but we aren't really rolling in dough here in Munich at the moment) should be clear enough and translation sites don't mangle them too much.
Note that this is mostly based on patent applications, not accepted patents. The majority of concerns become moot if the EU denies software patents.
Cheers,
woof.
How about some non-fiction, from the source?
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Try Albert Hofmann's own book, LSD - My Problem Child, which has been available on the Web -- for free -- for about a decade already. It's also available here as a single text file.
don't understand how anyone is paying "twice". Please explain?
The National Weather Service, a part of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), is funded by taxes. It's already been paid for. The need for accurate weather information is extremely important for the military. Because it's almost as important for civilian use, the information is made available to the public.
Pilots, farmers, businesses and municipalities need this weather information, and in the U.S., weather is almost an obsession (Weather Channel, anyone?) There is no national or continental weather service in Europe; private pilots have to pay for information, usually in the form of two daily faxes. This means that European pilots have to know even more about weather than their American counterparts because they must be able to predict conditions, whereas U.S. pilots can get up-to-the-minute information.
In a nutshell, the Private Weather Sector want to be a middleman, themselves continuing to get the information for free and then charging others for what they (the public) have already paid for.
Pay government (taxes) for weather information.
Only one private group has access to this information
Pay private group to give you this information
Neat, huh?
If you still don't see it, imagine "EduCorp". EduCorp cuts a deal with the local government to provide schooling for children. The locality stil pays for everything, but EduCorp acts as a middleman. Only EduCorp subscribers can send their kids to these public schools. You pay taxes for schools and then pay EuCorp for th right to send your kids there. All clear?
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The difference between what TomorrowNow did with Siebel software and what Larry did with Red Hat Linux is that RHEL is open; Siebel doesn't have a line of FOSS code in it.
Since the island itself is in the northwest the Conamara (or Connemara) accent is probably the one to use, so it would be OH-lun ree. However, most Irish Gaelic speakers would pronounce it OH-lun r(ue)-ee'. Fun, huh?
A year and a half ago, 100 times that speed was considered good and in a year and a half from now Korea expects to have ONE THOUSAND times that fucking speed. I know people in US states who can still only connect with a fucking 33.6Kbaud modem.
Sending multiple 50M aircraft into ash clouds to prove what we already knew: that even a brief encounter with volcanic ash will fuck your turbines up but good. And your surfaces. And your Plexiglass. And your ventilation system. And and and...
Unless there's something in the contract explicitly putting all the burden on the guy needing certs (nearly impossible and unenforceable), the company pays to maintain. If you think that's bullshit, remember that the company itself profits from that maintenance and a n experienced worker.
I see a commenter who's never been tased.
I meant óramat, not kimchee which I also like (although I prefer kadokee -- same shit but with daikon radish instead of cabbage.
And it's not a "comfort food" by any stretch of the imagination. It's pretty much eaten only out of respect for one's ancestors.
woof.
Actually, what it tells you is to stay in school, kids. This mook dropped out when he was 8.
woof.
Yeah, and every woman is equipped to be a hooker. The facts on T-Rex show the animal very unlikely to have been a predator. The general concensus of the predation deissenters is that the T-Rex eyes were small and likely couldn't have seen and tracked prey; the arms were too small to hold prey, and its oversized legs would slow the beast too much to be a decent predator. This last point may not be as important considering some of the larger species couldn't move very fast themselves, but getting big is what species do to avoid predation and we have living examples in elephants, girraffes, rhinoceri, hippopotami and whales.
Furthermore no bones which display healed T-Rex tooth marks have ever been found, and T-Rex was around right up until the little rock slapped this big rock we live on now some 65M years ago.
Given that, I'm loathe to accept some conjecture about some other animal that supposedly lived and hunted in packs based on the spurious evidence of a group of bones comprising many species members and none of which comprise more than 80% of a single animal.
Many elephants go to "elephant graveyards" to die; will scientists in 60 million years stumble across one of these graveyards, see the tusks and the size of the animals and conclude the elephant was a vicious carnivore which hunted in packs? And will that era's Slashdot splash such spurious findings on the front page?
woof.
Italy wanted a show trial for "justice". The US refused to allow it and militarily always has, both on foreign turf and at home. US civilian courts cannot try military cases. And te US extends the same privilege to the militaries of other countries. This policy has been recently abused to prevent foreigners designated "soldiers" from any access to civilian courts for but the general policy is sound.
The only thing Capt. Ashby (and his navigator, Capt. Schweitzer) are guilty of is obstruction of justice for the disappearance of the video tape. Why did they ditch it? Probably because of the barrel rolls that Ashby did -- not dangerous in themselves nor in any way the cause of the mishap but banned by the US Air Force as dangerous and unnecesasry manoeuvres except during a dogfight or practice for one. They probably also bad-mouthed a few colonels or generals. An obstruction of justice charge beats the hell out of a Court Martial for showing disrespect for superior officers.
woof.
Electricity, sewage and oil only work efficiently in huge, centralised systems and aren't feasible in small scale. Likewise subsistance farming (there's not enough land for each person to farm enough for himself).
There are few apps which can't run locally. They might run faster on the massive centralised hardware but if you can't connect, you're fucked. Anyone who can't afford to be fucked by the loss of a connection to any centralised system (like, say, a hospital) has a localised back-up already in place. It's not efficient but it keeps things working.
And you're also ignoring the cost. You'll pay for usage, either flat rate per time period or per-minute. Microsoft's been talking about working Office into this sort of model for more than five years now. Clearly they believe it would earn them more money.
woof.
We gave up on the idea of centralised systems a long time ago with good reason. I remember coding COBOL on 3270s which had to connect to some computer center elsewhere. Can't connect? Can't work.
Local apps give us a lot of freedom. It might be nice to be able to also have such a centralised system available, but even with access on planes, there are always times and places you'll be cut off.
woof.
I'm not a raging anti-patent looney screaming about the need for a free utopioan society, but if funding for this was provided by the public, surely the results belong to the public and the methods belong in the public domain rather than to MIT for the next 17-34 years.
woof.
He did it to show that the further down you go, the harder it gets to detect such things. So you wrote a new compiler to get around that? Great. How're you planning on compiling it?
Never forget that Open Source is no guarantee of security in and of itself.
woof.
Additionally, JupiterResearch make their money by selling their reports and their consulting services to other businesses. Their opinions are hardly unbiased, as the selective "study" of only the first five years of running the network shows.
woof.
Yes, I live here (in MUC -- the city, not the airport). I'm not from here. See some of my earlier posts or the "journal".
Anyway, German courts are really screwy. A decision in one court does not necessarily influence another court at the same, higher or even lower level. Just because the high court in the state of Sachsen finds A, B and C, it doesn't mean that the Bavarian high court is bound to accept that as precedent.
Precedent don't mean dick here. Not even when the Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, similar to SCOTUS) hands down a decision. It's kind of freaky, really.
woof.
woof.
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woof.
He'll keep trying to edit the page and the rest of the Net will point out what a lying sack of shit he is, just as we've been doing with Scientology. woof.
SMS messages. Handwriting is faster than input using the often poorly-implemented T9 method. And don't rant about SMS -- it's cheaper than a call, doesn't have to be received immediately, will go out even with the spottiest link, can be stored, and it allows communication when you can't hear or use a telephone (hospital, lecture, concert).
Text entry is also necessary for storing numbers and personal information in the phone.
woof.
The list of example patent claims (most of which would be easy to fight but we aren't really rolling in dough here in Munich at the moment) should be clear enough and translation sites don't mangle them too much.
Note that this is mostly based on patent applications, not accepted patents. The majority of concerns become moot if the EU denies software patents.
Cheers,
woof.
Much more interesting, exciting and enlightening.
The National Weather Service, a part of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), is funded by taxes. It's already been paid for. The need for accurate weather information is extremely important for the military. Because it's almost as important for civilian use, the information is made available to the public.
Pilots, farmers, businesses and municipalities need this weather information, and in the U.S., weather is almost an obsession (Weather Channel, anyone?) There is no national or continental weather service in Europe; private pilots have to pay for information, usually in the form of two daily faxes. This means that European pilots have to know even more about weather than their American counterparts because they must be able to predict conditions, whereas U.S. pilots can get up-to-the-minute information.
In a nutshell, the Private Weather Sector want to be a middleman, themselves continuing to get the information for free and then charging others for what they (the public) have already paid for.
- Pay government (taxes) for weather information.
- Only one private group has access to this information
- Pay private group to give you this information
Neat, huh?If you still don't see it, imagine "EduCorp". EduCorp cuts a deal with the local government to provide schooling for children. The locality stil pays for everything, but EduCorp acts as a middleman. Only EduCorp subscribers can send their kids to these public schools. You pay taxes for schools and then pay EuCorp for th right to send your kids there. All clear?