Well, if they now know that you're not going to buy it, it doesn't make much sense for SuSe to give it away for free, thereby cutting into sales to people who would otherwise pay for it.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the core reason that the record industry wants to shut down illegal file sharing of their copyrighted songs.
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They actually do this so that it is easily recognized as a video-game.
Not to mention the more quoted reason that those sounds from the 2600 are the only ones they don't have to pay someone for.
From 1930-1932, the Dow lost over 90% of its value. The Nikkei, from 1990 until now, has lost about 70%. This is not a good way to save for retirement.
The Dow has never lost value over any 20 year period. Ever. Short of bonds, it's just about the safest long-term investment you can get.
Plenty of people here claim that Linux is better than Windows, but that was trivially proven by Code Red and Nimda. Surely no computing professional would dispute that?
Oh I don't know, security problems in IIS hardly prove that Linux is better than Windows.... no more so than the remote root exploit in sendmail proves that Windows is better than Linux.
There are plenty of places a Windows machine can do the job better than a Linux machine can.
Absolutely. We run the little-known (and unsupported) ICQ Groupware server to provide IM capabilities for our office of 60 people. Unfortunately, we're starting to push it past its capabilities, and we'd be willing to pay for a good IM server.
I've looked briefly into Jabber, but none of the documentation seems very mature, jabberd doesn't appear to provide some of the user management features we want and makes only vague references to other jabber servers that might provide different features. As much as I'd love using an open source solution for the job, I can't justify spending my (expensive) time trying to track down how to get Jabber to do what we want when we can just buy an out-of-the-box solution for cheaper.
Nope, he's parsing it right. The BSA pretty much said that they're authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner of the files they asked to be taken down; namely OpenOffice.org.
I doubt the people at OpenOffice.org have authorized the BSA to act on their behalf. This amounts to perjury and barratry by the BSA. I would so love if someone managed to nail them on this.
The graphics seemed less polished, the controls seemed choppier, and, well, it just seemed a lot less fun than GTA3. Oh well.
They're unforunately constrained by the power of the PS2. They shoehorned some new features into GTA:VC (compared to GTA3), but as far as visually impressive features, there's not much they can do.
I wouldn't mind so much if the next GTA uses the same engine, but please for the love of god I hope for two things: 1) Las Vegas as the setting, and 2) a mission generator.
Linux (not Unix) has the lowest TCO on the planet. and you CAN hire a linux expert for the same as a windows expert.
The same Windows experts who keep attaching backend SQL servers directly to the internet and who leave their web servers unpatched for years at a time? You're right! I need one of those for my linux box! We'll see how secure it is when they start setting up CGIs to run as root because it's easier and they don't have to mess with permissions!
I'm looking forward to the insightful and unbiased discussion we will have about the relative merits of Windows and *nix.
Good thing Linuxworld is here to tell us *nix is better than Windows! I was just reading an equally unbiased comparison on MSDN the other day and I was getting worried that I was wasting my time with this whole Linux thing!
Yea a stupid error was made and several sites reported on it. I am supposed to feel bad to bill or do what Tim Mullen says and "Give Bill a Break"? No I won't be giving Bill G. a break. Maybe if more articles are written which say how bad MS software is MS might actually have to be accountable one day.
So you're all for more articles making a big deal out "security holes" that aren't "security holes" at all?
Ever heard the fable about the boy who cried wolf? You should not support Microsoft-bashing for the sake of Microsoft-bashing when there's nothing behind it, it only lowers your own credibility. Focus on Microsoft's real problems.
If those 30 developers can't decipher all of 10 lines of python (or any language) it's time to get some new developers.
I'm sure I could whip out 10 lines of Perl that would make any C/C++/Java-only programmer's head spin. Hell... I bet I could implement a flight simulator in 10 lines of Perl.
the plan of attack isn't all the clear and/or is going about things the wrong way
I'll admit it's strange that they're offering to fund a project without having a clear vision of it to start with (this reeks of something dreamt up by an MBA, not a programmer), but it's a good chance for any of those thousands of programmers out there with "the ultimate game idea" in their head to get it greenlighted.
I don't see why they anyone interested in this wouldn't have just gone with Garage Games already though.
especially when some take it so seriously as to commit suicide over
If someone commits suicide in a situation like this, it is a problem with that person, not with anything else. There are few problems in the world that can only be escaped from by death, and being bullied at school is not one of them. I know it sounds cold, and I am upset it has to happen at all, but I'm not overly sympathetic to someone who took the easy way out of their current, temporary problems.
If you immediately deleted the database, and sent Visa an explanation of the vulnerability, you should certainly be less liable than if you posted it on your FTP site, or wrote a small shell script telling Amazon.com to send every Visa holder a copy of "Curious George Goes to the Potty." As things stand now, the prosecutor would just brew up an "analysis" showing that you cost Visa $500,000,000, point out that you're a terrorist, and sentence you to life in solitary (so that you don't manage to escape, gain access to a payphone, and start a nuclear war).
Right... Visa should take a hacker's word that they've deleted the database and that they didn't leave any backdoors to get back in again later, because we all know someone who'd break into your system is someone you should trust.
Visa would be extremely neglectful if they didn't take every action at their disposal to minimize damage in the wake of an intrusion. This means reissuing all the compromised cards, reinstalling every machine even remotely related to the one compromised, implementing new policies to detect a similar intrusion in the future. None of this is cheap.
You are not doing Visa a favor by breaking into their system because you're costing them almost as much as it would cost them if someone broke in and did exploit the hell out of those card numbers. Think about it.... do you want someone throwing rocks through your windows (breaking them in the process) just to show you the vulnerabilities in your house?
Troll me if ya gotta if you really wanna miss the point.
If disagreeing with you is "troll[ing] you", then prepare to be trolled.
They're specifically looking for creative programmers, not just people who can write code, but people who can also do the design work necessary for the project. No, it's probably not going to turn out something that you'd expect from Blizzard due to hiring designer-slash-programmers instead of professional designers and professional programmers, but it could possibly still turn out something decent, and having people who wear more than one hat makes sense given the budget for design and development ($0).
And don't give me this bullshit about those that pull through and "become stronger".
It's Darwinism at work. Believe it or not, social skills are just as important for survival in a human as intelligence, and physical strength is just as important as mental capabilities... engineers may design bridges, but they're not the ones that actually put the bridge up.
I was the school brainiac throughout my classroom days, the person everyone went to when they had a problem with anything relating to technology, and to a large extent, I still hold that honor in my current job at a 70-employee software company. I was never stuffed in a locker, nor any of that other crap. I was actually rather popular in school. It's not your big brain that makes you a target, it's your pathetically lacking social skills. When someone says "hi," do you look them in the eyes and say "hi" back, or do you look down and try to get away without saying a word? If, like the "Your Company's Computer Guy" skit on SNL, when someone asks you for help, do you go out of your way to make it apparent how stupid you think they are for having to ask about such an obvious problem? (And if so, why the hell are you surprised when they hold theirphysical abilities over your head much the same way you hold your mental abilities over theirs?) I'm seeing an awful lot of that in this thread... posters looking down their noses at "jocks" as inferior, not being able to think about anything past pummeling the weak and football. Respect is a two way street.
pfft, back in my day, we could generate as many valid credit card numbers as we wanted. of course, those usually got used fraudulently....
Pfff... I could even make them by hand, before they started cracking down on correlating expiration date to card number. Ended up having a nice interesting talk with the FBI about that a couple years later, unfortunately.
I have to agree with Microsoft that if the bad guys have physical access to your computer you have some serious problems. however, let's note this scenario.... Good ol', silly Microsoft.
If you're worried about a rogue employee copying sensitive data off and taking it out the door, the number one rule is not to put that data on his machine in the first place. Even if there wasn't a simple way to override the local machine's security, it could always just physically be lugged out the door to be dissected at the thief's leisure.
You can compromise a local machine like this, but it's not going to help you compromise the secured file server that all that sensitive data should be stored on.
Read the thread from the last slashdot discussion. They were intentionally sending erroneious content based on the User String of the Opera browser.
Funny how that broken stylesheet was the same thing MSN served to Opera 6, and it worked just fine in that browser. So as a result, MSN fixed the stylesheet so it'd work in Opera 7, and now Opera 6 is broke (according to Opera's press release, I don't have O6 to check with).
Sounds like Microsoft put in the invalid CSS to compensate for a bug in O6 (which doesn't handle CSS on list elements properly), and that behavior changed in O7, leading to the clipped text.... which Opera whined loudly about not one week after their browser came out, probably before Microsoft was even informed O7 looked different than O6.
But of course it's more fun to blame it on Microsoft trying to make Opera look bad, rather than the actual reason that Opera fucked up.
I really hope Microsoft goes after Opera for this specific borking of msn.com. Opera's childish antics in this situation deserve it.
Because of the new lightweight VM strategy, plex86 is quite small in size, and thus there is big potential for auditability of the VM technology. This is important as the VM monitor runs as a device driver in the host kernel.
VMware doesn't need a device driver, if I'm not mistaken. Wasn't plex86 originally supposed to be a clone of VMware?
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Well, if they now know that you're not going to buy it, it doesn't make much sense for SuSe to give it away for free, thereby cutting into sales to people who would otherwise pay for it.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the core reason that the record industry wants to shut down illegal file sharing of their copyrighted songs.
They actually do this so that it is easily recognized as a video-game.
Not to mention the more quoted reason that those sounds from the 2600 are the only ones they don't have to pay someone for.
From 1930-1932, the Dow lost over 90% of its value. The Nikkei, from 1990 until now, has lost about 70%. This is not a good way to save for retirement.
The Dow has never lost value over any 20 year period. Ever. Short of bonds, it's just about the safest long-term investment you can get.
Plenty of people here claim that Linux is better than Windows, but that was trivially proven by Code Red and Nimda. Surely no computing professional would dispute that?
Oh I don't know, security problems in IIS hardly prove that Linux is better than Windows.... no more so than the remote root exploit in sendmail proves that Windows is better than Linux.
There are plenty of places a Windows machine can do the job better than a Linux machine can.
Of course, the reason Linux users actually want this feature is so that they can play their pirated MP3s in the background while using X-windows.
But from what I've read on Slashdot, Linux is already perfect! How could they possibly still be fixing problems with it?
Makes me wonder what other problems are lurking around the Linux experience that the zealots blatantly overlook until there's a patch for it....
Are people willing to pay for instant messaging?
Absolutely. We run the little-known (and unsupported) ICQ Groupware server to provide IM capabilities for our office of 60 people. Unfortunately, we're starting to push it past its capabilities, and we'd be willing to pay for a good IM server.
I've looked briefly into Jabber, but none of the documentation seems very mature, jabberd doesn't appear to provide some of the user management features we want and makes only vague references to other jabber servers that might provide different features. As much as I'd love using an open source solution for the job, I can't justify spending my (expensive) time trying to track down how to get Jabber to do what we want when we can just buy an out-of-the-box solution for cheaper.
Someone needs to tell the editors that people have been making crappy DOOM WADs for years now. This is hardly news.
I think you are parsing that wrong.
Nope, he's parsing it right. The BSA pretty much said that they're authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner of the files they asked to be taken down; namely OpenOffice.org.
I doubt the people at OpenOffice.org have authorized the BSA to act on their behalf. This amounts to perjury and barratry by the BSA. I would so love if someone managed to nail them on this.
The graphics seemed less polished, the controls seemed choppier, and, well, it just seemed a lot less fun than GTA3. Oh well.
They're unforunately constrained by the power of the PS2. They shoehorned some new features into GTA:VC (compared to GTA3), but as far as visually impressive features, there's not much they can do.
I wouldn't mind so much if the next GTA uses the same engine, but please for the love of god I hope for two things: 1) Las Vegas as the setting, and 2) a mission generator.
We get PalmOS converts daily signing up.
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Sweet! I want to get a brand-new, top of the line Newton and join in! Unfortunately I can't seem to find any for sale at Best Buy.
Linux (not Unix) has the lowest TCO on the planet. and you CAN hire a linux expert for the same as a windows expert.
The same Windows experts who keep attaching backend SQL servers directly to the internet and who leave their web servers unpatched for years at a time? You're right! I need one of those for my linux box! We'll see how secure it is when they start setting up CGIs to run as root because it's easier and they don't have to mess with permissions!
I'm looking forward to the insightful and unbiased discussion we will have about the relative merits of Windows and *nix.
Good thing Linuxworld is here to tell us *nix is better than Windows! I was just reading an equally unbiased comparison on MSDN the other day and I was getting worried that I was wasting my time with this whole Linux thing!
Yea a stupid error was made and several sites reported on it. I am supposed to feel bad to bill or do what Tim Mullen says and "Give Bill a Break"? No I won't be giving Bill G. a break. Maybe if more articles are written which say how bad MS software is MS might actually have to be accountable one day.
So you're all for more articles making a big deal out "security holes" that aren't "security holes" at all?
Ever heard the fable about the boy who cried wolf? You should not support Microsoft-bashing for the sake of Microsoft-bashing when there's nothing behind it, it only lowers your own credibility. Focus on Microsoft's real problems.
Of course, the linked to story seems to be a 'viral' advertisement for a product that fixes this
You guys need to fact check a bit. I didn't see anywhere that mentioned that the story was under the GPL.
If those 30 developers can't decipher all of 10 lines of python (or any language) it's time to get some new developers.
I'm sure I could whip out 10 lines of Perl that would make any C/C++/Java-only programmer's head spin. Hell... I bet I could implement a flight simulator in 10 lines of Perl.
the plan of attack isn't all the clear and/or is going about things the wrong way
I'll admit it's strange that they're offering to fund a project without having a clear vision of it to start with (this reeks of something dreamt up by an MBA, not a programmer), but it's a good chance for any of those thousands of programmers out there with "the ultimate game idea" in their head to get it greenlighted.
I don't see why they anyone interested in this wouldn't have just gone with Garage Games already though.
especially when some take it so seriously as to commit suicide over
If someone commits suicide in a situation like this, it is a problem with that person, not with anything else. There are few problems in the world that can only be escaped from by death, and being bullied at school is not one of them. I know it sounds cold, and I am upset it has to happen at all, but I'm not overly sympathetic to someone who took the easy way out of their current, temporary problems.
If you immediately deleted the database, and sent Visa an explanation of the vulnerability, you should certainly be less liable than if you posted it on your FTP site, or wrote a small shell script telling Amazon.com to send every Visa holder a copy of "Curious George Goes to the Potty." As things stand now, the prosecutor would just brew up an "analysis" showing that you cost Visa $500,000,000, point out that you're a terrorist, and sentence you to life in solitary (so that you don't manage to escape, gain access to a payphone, and start a nuclear war).
Right... Visa should take a hacker's word that they've deleted the database and that they didn't leave any backdoors to get back in again later, because we all know someone who'd break into your system is someone you should trust.
Visa would be extremely neglectful if they didn't take every action at their disposal to minimize damage in the wake of an intrusion. This means reissuing all the compromised cards, reinstalling every machine even remotely related to the one compromised, implementing new policies to detect a similar intrusion in the future. None of this is cheap.
You are not doing Visa a favor by breaking into their system because you're costing them almost as much as it would cost them if someone broke in and did exploit the hell out of those card numbers. Think about it.... do you want someone throwing rocks through your windows (breaking them in the process) just to show you the vulnerabilities in your house?
Troll me if ya gotta if you really wanna miss the point.
If disagreeing with you is "troll[ing] you", then prepare to be trolled.
They're specifically looking for creative programmers, not just people who can write code, but people who can also do the design work necessary for the project. No, it's probably not going to turn out something that you'd expect from Blizzard due to hiring designer-slash-programmers instead of professional designers and professional programmers, but it could possibly still turn out something decent, and having people who wear more than one hat makes sense given the budget for design and development ($0).
And don't give me this bullshit about those that pull through and "become stronger".
It's Darwinism at work. Believe it or not, social skills are just as important for survival in a human as intelligence, and physical strength is just as important as mental capabilities... engineers may design bridges, but they're not the ones that actually put the bridge up.
I was the school brainiac throughout my classroom days, the person everyone went to when they had a problem with anything relating to technology, and to a large extent, I still hold that honor in my current job at a 70-employee software company. I was never stuffed in a locker, nor any of that other crap. I was actually rather popular in school. It's not your big brain that makes you a target, it's your pathetically lacking social skills. When someone says "hi," do you look them in the eyes and say "hi" back, or do you look down and try to get away without saying a word? If, like the "Your Company's Computer Guy" skit on SNL, when someone asks you for help, do you go out of your way to make it apparent how stupid you think they are for having to ask about such an obvious problem? (And if so, why the hell are you surprised when they hold their physical abilities over your head much the same way you hold your mental abilities over theirs?) I'm seeing an awful lot of that in this thread... posters looking down their noses at "jocks" as inferior, not being able to think about anything past pummeling the weak and football. Respect is a two way street.
pfft, back in my day, we could generate as many valid credit card numbers as we wanted. of course, those usually got used fraudulently....
Pfff... I could even make them by hand, before they started cracking down on correlating expiration date to card number. Ended up having a nice interesting talk with the FBI about that a couple years later, unfortunately.
...and you thought a virus made your computer act strange now.... just wait!
I have to agree with Microsoft that if the bad guys have physical access to your computer you have some serious problems. however, let's note this scenario. ... Good ol', silly Microsoft.
If you're worried about a rogue employee copying sensitive data off and taking it out the door, the number one rule is not to put that data on his machine in the first place. Even if there wasn't a simple way to override the local machine's security, it could always just physically be lugged out the door to be dissected at the thief's leisure.
You can compromise a local machine like this, but it's not going to help you compromise the secured file server that all that sensitive data should be stored on.
Read the thread from the last slashdot discussion. They were intentionally sending erroneious content based on the User String of the Opera browser.
Funny how that broken stylesheet was the same thing MSN served to Opera 6, and it worked just fine in that browser. So as a result, MSN fixed the stylesheet so it'd work in Opera 7, and now Opera 6 is broke (according to Opera's press release, I don't have O6 to check with).
Sounds like Microsoft put in the invalid CSS to compensate for a bug in O6 (which doesn't handle CSS on list elements properly), and that behavior changed in O7, leading to the clipped text.... which Opera whined loudly about not one week after their browser came out, probably before Microsoft was even informed O7 looked different than O6.
But of course it's more fun to blame it on Microsoft trying to make Opera look bad, rather than the actual reason that Opera fucked up.
I really hope Microsoft goes after Opera for this specific borking of msn.com. Opera's childish antics in this situation deserve it.
Because of the new lightweight VM strategy, plex86 is quite small in size, and thus there is big potential for auditability of the VM technology. This is important as the VM monitor runs as a device driver in the host kernel.
VMware doesn't need a device driver, if I'm not mistaken. Wasn't plex86 originally supposed to be a clone of VMware?