as a moron... sitefinder was "smart"? so... the telephone analogy... you dial a number... misplaces a digit... instead of a message of "number non-existant" or even a busy signal your call wold be diverted to an answering machine saying that "the dialed number is for sale"... yeah... just what I need...
That is internal mail. You don't count that... and if a person sends a complain about his employer sending email... well, that moron won't keep his position for much time...
Im sorry that your business is going down the hole, but Internet piracy isn't affecting your sales...
kids download mainstream music, with a preference with music with profanities, sexism and cop-killer rap. Marylin Manson and the likes, you know?
by the way... treating your customers like you did is the way to go, man! grab all kids that talk about Internet, or say something that you don't wan't by the collar, your store will be the more popular in the neighborhood!
Maybe someday even the father of the "friend bitch" appears at your store to say a thank you for saving his daughter from the sin of her ways! This or beat the shit out of you...
The price is very attractive (here in Brazil you buy the DVD+CD edition for the price of a song CD)
I bought (without listening first)... thanks god that regrets don't kill... what a piece of shit... I listened to it just once, skimmed the DVD now it's on the dust bin...
I think that 2001 is really appropiate, since that was the year that the merger with Compaq was approved.
IMO 2006 will be the year that the company formely known as HP, still using the HP brand but recognized only as the producer of crappy compuers, shitty scanners and so-so printers (but losing market share since people already will know the HP's expensive printers don't have quality or features to justify it's tag price) will say "uncle" and will "reinvent itself" with another smiling CEO... in more 5 years they'll be completely forgotten...
" Yeah, exactly. Someone explain niave-me how this will stimulate the Brazilian economy."
The Brazilian government spend around US$1.000.000.000 (yeah, one billion... and yeah, dollars) with MS licensing. That amount will be spent somewhere else (health, education, training, etc) within Brazil and for Brazilian citizens.
One billion of dollars is an impressive amount here in Brazil that can make a difference.
By the way, the Brazilian government is the largest licensee of MS in Brazil.
In portuguese, an interview with the Science and Technology minister (favorable to adoption of open-source programs)
"She STILL thinks that if the police hadn't intervened she'd have her money back, with her profits. Her trust was earned, and they still have it unfortunately."
PLEASE TELL ME YOUR AUNT EMAIL ACCOUNT. I'M THE NEPHEW OF THE DECEASED PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO AND I HAVE A CHECK OF US$50000 (FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) IN AN ESCROW ACCOUNT AS A PROOF OF APPRECIATION OF HER CONFIDENCE IN ME AND MY ASSOCIATES. BUT DUE SOME US AGENTS THAT HAVE HARASSED OUR OPERATIONS IN THE PAST I HAVE TO ASK HER TO MAKE ANOTHER INVESTMENT OF US$10000 (TEN THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS) SO ANOTHER ASSOCIATE CAN PAY SOME INTERMEDIATES. IN THE TOTAL SHE WILL BE PAID US$60000 (SIXTY THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS) FOR HER INVESTMENTS!
NEW VIRUS AT LARGE! NO VACCIN YET! MICROSOFT AND MCAFEE SAY THAT IT CAN'T BE DETECTED! DONT EMAIL EMAIL WITH SUBJECT "CONGRATULATIONS!" AND WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
isn't fishy? With the frequency that virus appear today and the number of customers that these virus scanners labs have, if they weren't the first to warn users I'd say that they would doing a lousy job.
The thing seems more addictive than crack and gives more delusions than LSD. The side effect seems to be the destruction of the neurons, but I just want to profit, not smoke it:-)
I think that the DEA has great interest in this case:-)
The owner of the convenience store (or me, or you) has a general law and common resources protecting them. At least theoretically if I'm being robbed or someone else the resources that will protect us are the same and are shared by all, everybody has rights to it.
I donÂt think that is wrong steal an old lady in the street and is ok to steal a corporation. Theft is theft. But when somebody lends or copy a book (a whole book, not a few pages) it's no a crime (in Brazil it would be a "contravenÃão", a smaller misaction... I don't remenber the english equivalent to that word) it's a IP rights violation, with specific penalties.
The problem is that due lobbing RIAA likes all over the world are passing (imposing?) laws that can cost a person more time in jail for downloading a CD than killing a person. Not mentioning the fines (fines in Brazil are up to one thousand times the value of the software and/or cd) I think that in US is something simmilar.
Simplifying: why some industry has more rights than you or any other industry? Why that blatant privilege?
In a broader (and stricter) sense: do the car makers have some law protecting them, so they can make cars that consume more fuel, so they can collect royalties from the oil industry? They can't impose when you can fuel your car, or your preferred fuel brand... want to open your motor? fine... new color? up to you...
My problem is the overextending of ip laws, yes.
The quote about terrorists is about resource allocation: why so much effort to protect one kind of industry when there are more things to be done that can benefit more people and are more important?
The music industry is being threatned? So the IT industry isn't? Cars? Commerce? People that don't have jobs don't buy superfluous things as music, go less times to movies, theaters, dance... eating and a roof are more important.
The answer to the entertaiment industry is in their face: in the online world, sharing, selling downloads, they have to adapt.
Or they can act like polaroid, that overuled the instant pictures market but didn't get a clue when the first digital cameras appeared. Polaroid isn't so strong as they were 3 or 4 years ago...
I think that the point is that the government is "paying" to protect assets of private companies.
Since the government don't "earn" money, so is the taxpayers money that is being diverted from one area to another area that is being said "more important" or "vital" or any other adjective.
The FBI now will start to eavesdrop and crack down on Joe Beer so he stops downloading N Sync and LOTR. Good...
Without that kind of distraction Bin Laden parked two boeings in manhatan, other at the pentagon and another didn't parked at white house or congress thanks to many courageous people that broke into the cabin.
But the entertaiment industrie is vital, canÂt afford a defense by itself (sueing peoples or companies that also have money to defend themselves, like google, not money extortion from students) and I've heard that the Show Bizz make generous contributions to politicians...
Way to go... letÂs do it right... crime and terrorists rampaging through the country while law officers run honey pots to convict downloaders...
"The only problem I do have with DRM is if it prevents me from using the media that I have acquired legally, that pisses me off."
And who said that part is of concern when some company starts to draw a DRM specification? Remember DIVX (the DVD-like standard from Circuit City, not the decoder)? Pay 10 to watch a movie for 48 hours, 30 to own it and watch ONLY in your DIVX player (good, heh? you own it but can't take it to your friends house to watch with them... just like your VHS, records and CD... ops... none are like this? well... bad for YOU)
And the best part that was never addressed... and when I buy a new DIVX player? What happens? Well.. YOUR problem...
Nobody is thinking in fair use or consumer rights... as a consumer you are either a drone that must always buy new media, no matter what crap is up in the moment, no matter if you have a job or not... if you don't buy you are a thief, since you don't buy music, or movies you must be thieving it... with some kind of p2p... you are not allowed not to buy, since it would lead to a sales decrease, and sales decrease only happens due thieves using some scheme to steal the music.
I was looking the website of the Brazilian equivalent of RIAA and guess what they discovered?
Every region of the world that CD sales decreased are pirate ridden! Latin America had a decrease of 20% in the last five years... who's the culprit? pirates! internet and p2p! vevermind that the region is going down the hole... 20% of unemployement rate in Brazil, that or more in Argentina, Venezuela 30%... and the list goes on... not a single moron in these RIAA-like institutes thought that maybe when people don't have jobs they don't buy cd's!
England had a sales increase... due what? a good campaign on piracy and lowered prices... Japan? the same... hmmmm maybe the higher prices have something with lower sales? We had campaigns against piracy all over the world... Naahhhh... to easy! Is the fucking pirates!
The Linus approach to IP is correct. If you know about a patent (or code) your new code based (based, not original, since you read the patent before, remember?) is "tainted".
That approach was used by Compaq in the 80's to create a PC BIOS equivalent to the one used by IBM.
IBM BIOS was copyrighted AND published, so it was almost impossible to somebody say that had written a BIOS that wasn't violating IBM rights. And sure as hell you won't to violate IBM rights. The anger of Armonk is notorious.
To create a new BIOS Compaq hired programmers that had to sign a term stating that didn't read the work published by IBM nor tried to disassemble or reverse-engineer the BIOS.
These programmers received input from another team at Compaq that had access to the IBM code and that team told to the programmers how each function of BIOS should work and them compared the Compaq code with IBM code to see if they performed equally (equal performance doesn't mean that the code is the same).
More details at the book "Accidental Empires" by Robert Cringley.
The reason's aren't the same from Villanueva and I don't know why I thought it.
The problem is economical. And the Brazilian governemnt already have a troubled history with Microsoft. Until last year the only authorized dealer by MS to deal with the B government was TBA (a MS reseller from Brasilia - Brazil's capital). Due to territorial restrictions imposed by Microsoft TBA had a virtual monopoly to sell to the government, with higher prices than the general market in the software and services. TBA and MS were sued and fine by illegal and abusive commercial tactics. TBA lost it's "monopoly".
With a "partner" like MS/TBA is natural that the government wants to broadens it's software options.
OSS and Free Software had enough qualities to justify it's uses. They don't need "strong commitment". It's software, not religion.
The mandate for open-source is not religious... is economical!
The Brazilian government decision was very simple: OSS is cheaper than MS (90% or more from the computers in Brazil use a MS OS). The government needs is cutting costs from all areas to have more money to spend in social programs. The external debt from Brazil is enormous, it must be paid but people here need some assistance due a fantastic desintegration of all social areas in the last 20 years (social including education, health, habitation, infra-structure, eletricity generation, you name it...)
An added bonus: the largest MS supplier is TBA, a MS representant from Brasilia (Brazil's capital).
TBA is the largest MS distributor in Brazil, due a very curious clause among MS resellers in Brazil: TBA was the only distributor authorized to sell MS products to Brazil's government due to territorial restriction clauses that gave TBA a virtual monopoly to sell MS products to the government.
That clause was imposed by Microsoft itself to the others MS LARs (Large Account Resellers).
MS and TBA were sued by the Secretaria de Direito EconÃmico (a department of Brazil's Ministry of Justice) and were fined due to abusive prices, inclusion of services in the software price's, artificially high prices for government sellings.
With a problem like that, a strong lobby from MS to push it's products among schools, the "donation"programs were the software is given "for free" but an annual renovation license is needed and a financial problem to solve the mandate seems a logic way to go, since nobody wants to change to OSS due financial advantages for some involved parts.
From the article: "The following year, Pentagon adviser and Rand consultant John Arquilla concocted a fictional scenario, published in Wired magazine, of a global cyberwar engineered by -- whom else -- the North Koreans."
Later in the article: "Arquilla said highly automated U.S. military processes, such as the "air tasking order" of an air campaign, or time-phased deployment of troops and equipment, could be disrupted by a North Korean cyberattack."
"In such cases, the disruption of American combat operations and logistics could make a very substantial difference in the overall military campaign," said Arquilla.
So I can infere from what mr. Arquilla said that the US armed forces coordinate their logistics and operations using the open structure from the Internet and it's usual tools...
I almost can see general Schwarzkopf using ICQ group messages to coordinate an attack... the friendly fire? someone looking at some p0rn webcam get so excited and fires a full blast:-)
geez... how I would like to be a consultant... talking bullshit like this and getting attention... and if I really wanted to get media attention I would mention blinding comms sattelites and using EMP weapons in the war field... they would think "geez... this guy is Grand Moff Tarkin incarnated":-)
The greeks, egyptians, sumerians and all other people of the world believed, in their time, that their gods were real and their rulers. These civilizations passed and now we call their beliefs myth. Why can't someone call the stories in Bible as myths, if they suppose that these stories aren't backed by real/historical/archeological facts? People have different views from the world, and these views should be respected. The world that we live today is a proof that intolerance isn't the best path.
the article says: "For two hours, Perry tried to fix it, uninstalling and reinstalling antivirus software, but the system continued to malfunction. The next day, Perry gave the PC to Gross to back up, fearing it might crash and lose valuable data."
Any technician that "fix things" repeatedly installing and uninstalling the same software doesn't deserve the job... but that's my opinion...
And to report the problem to police is wrong, there is an hierarchy in the company, if they thought that the company wasn't acting accordingly to the case, the should anonymously fill a complain with authorities...
Elite, on a MSX computer:-) Deadly, most of the time with a Fugitive status, but I wasn't a fugitive at all, when the Vipers appeared, I blasted them all:-) And Boas too, or whatever appeared on screen, if they were populating my radar when I was trying to get some especific target.
The relevant bit of HP marketing can't even remember that HP once ruled the calculators market, if not for profit margins, just to add finesse to that market... even the financial calculators ruled... the HP12c is 20 yrs old and couldn't be outdone even by other HP calculators (more powerful, like the 19b)... the 48 series was the dream of the engineering students (as the 28 eas before, and the 42, and the 41c...)
I think that these market droids think that the legal dept should sue that company that uses the HP logo in these handy calculators 'cause they are "diluting the HP's IP and brand value"
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still a rose...
as a moron... sitefinder was "smart"? so... the telephone analogy... you dial a number... misplaces a digit... instead of a message of "number non-existant" or even a busy signal your call wold be diverted to an answering machine saying that "the dialed number is for sale"... yeah... just what I need...
That is internal mail. You don't count that... and if a person sends a complain about his employer sending email... well, that moron won't keep his position for much time...
Im sorry that your business is going down the hole, but Internet piracy isn't affecting your sales...
... treating your customers like you did is the way to go, man! grab all kids that talk about Internet, or say something that you don't wan't by the collar, your store will be the more popular in the neighborhood!
kids download mainstream music, with a preference with music with profanities, sexism and cop-killer rap. Marylin Manson and the likes, you know?
by the way
Maybe someday even the father of the "friend bitch" appears at your store to say a thank you for saving his daughter from the sin of her ways! This or beat the shit out of you...
We used ACLs in the access servers of a Brazilian ISP, to filter some "abuse" ports.
The filtered ports were 135, 139 (you don't need windows share over the net) and the default ports for BO and Netbus.
It protected some clueless users, prevented some clueless script-kiddies of doing damage.
We aren't doing that filtering anymore (the new ISP doesn't use them), but I think that they are very usefull.
The price is very attractive (here in Brazil you buy the DVD+CD edition for the price of a song CD)
I bought (without listening first)... thanks god that regrets don't kill... what a piece of shit... I listened to it just once, skimmed the DVD now it's on the dust bin...
when I'll buy a metallica record again? never..
I think that 2001 is really appropiate, since that was the year that the merger with Compaq was approved.
IMO 2006 will be the year that the company formely known as HP, still using the HP brand but recognized only as the producer of crappy compuers, shitty scanners and so-so printers (but losing market share since people already will know the HP's expensive printers don't have quality or features to justify it's tag price) will say "uncle" and will "reinvent itself" with another smiling CEO... in more 5 years they'll be completely forgotten...
hail carly and her golden parachute!
" Yeah, exactly. Someone explain niave-me how this will stimulate the Brazilian economy."
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The Brazilian government spend around US$1.000.000.000 (yeah, one billion... and yeah, dollars) with MS licensing. That amount will be spent somewhere else (health, education, training, etc) within Brazil and for Brazilian citizens.
One billion of dollars is an impressive amount here in Brazil that can make a difference.
By the way, the Brazilian government is the largest licensee of MS in Brazil.
In portuguese, an interview with the Science and Technology minister (favorable to adoption of open-source programs)
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96
from the article: "and provide better compatibility with Microsoft Windows through version 3 of Samba, which is developed by an open-source group."
Can't the developers of Samba restrict a company that is attacking free software from using it?
"She STILL thinks that if the police hadn't intervened she'd have her money back, with her profits. Her trust was earned, and they still have it unfortunately."
:-)
PLEASE TELL ME YOUR AUNT EMAIL ACCOUNT. I'M THE NEPHEW OF THE DECEASED PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO AND I HAVE A CHECK OF US$50000 (FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) IN AN ESCROW ACCOUNT AS A PROOF OF APPRECIATION OF HER CONFIDENCE IN ME AND MY ASSOCIATES. BUT DUE SOME US AGENTS THAT HAVE HARASSED OUR OPERATIONS IN THE PAST I HAVE TO ASK HER TO MAKE ANOTHER INVESTMENT OF US$10000 (TEN THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS) SO ANOTHER ASSOCIATE CAN PAY SOME INTERMEDIATES. IN THE TOTAL SHE WILL BE PAID US$60000 (SIXTY THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS) FOR HER INVESTMENTS!
I SWEAR! REALLY! I MEAN IT
So a email that says:
NEW VIRUS AT LARGE! NO VACCIN YET! MICROSOFT AND MCAFEE SAY THAT IT CAN'T BE DETECTED! DONT EMAIL EMAIL WITH SUBJECT "CONGRATULATIONS!" AND WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
isn't fishy? With the frequency that virus appear today and the number of customers that these virus scanners labs have, if they weren't the first to warn users I'd say that they would doing a lousy job.
The thing seems more addictive than crack and gives more delusions than LSD. The side effect seems to be the destruction of the neurons, but I just want to profit, not smoke it :-)
:-)
I think that the DEA has great interest in this case
The owner of the convenience store (or me, or you) has a general law and common resources protecting them. At least theoretically if I'm being robbed or someone else the resources that will protect us are the same and are shared by all, everybody has rights to it.
I donÂt think that is wrong steal an old lady in the street and is ok to steal a corporation. Theft is theft. But when somebody lends or copy a book (a whole book, not a few pages) it's no a crime (in Brazil it would be a "contravenÃão", a smaller misaction... I don't remenber the english equivalent to that word) it's a IP rights violation, with specific penalties.
The problem is that due lobbing RIAA likes all over the world are passing (imposing?) laws that can cost a person more time in jail for downloading a CD than killing a person. Not mentioning the fines (fines in Brazil are up to one thousand times the value of the software and/or cd) I think that in US is something simmilar.
Simplifying: why some industry has more rights than you or any other industry? Why that blatant privilege?
In a broader (and stricter) sense: do the car makers have some law protecting them, so they can make cars that consume more fuel, so they can collect royalties from the oil industry? They can't impose when you can fuel your car, or your preferred fuel brand... want to open your motor? fine... new color? up to you...
My problem is the overextending of ip laws, yes.
The quote about terrorists is about resource allocation: why so much effort to protect one kind of industry when there are more things to be done that can benefit more people and are more important?
The music industry is being threatned? So the IT industry isn't? Cars? Commerce? People that don't have jobs don't buy superfluous things as music, go less times to movies, theaters, dance... eating and a roof are more important.
The answer to the entertaiment industry is in their face: in the online world, sharing, selling downloads, they have to adapt.
Or they can act like polaroid, that overuled the instant pictures market but didn't get a clue when the first digital cameras appeared. Polaroid isn't so strong as they were 3 or 4 years ago...
I think that the point is that the government is "paying" to protect assets of private companies.
Since the government don't "earn" money, so is the taxpayers money that is being diverted from one area to another area that is being said "more important" or "vital" or any other adjective.
The FBI now will start to eavesdrop and crack down on Joe Beer so he stops downloading N Sync and LOTR. Good...
Without that kind of distraction Bin Laden parked two boeings in manhatan, other at the pentagon and another didn't parked at white house or congress thanks to many courageous people that broke into the cabin.
But the entertaiment industrie is vital, canÂt afford a defense by itself (sueing peoples or companies that also have money to defend themselves, like google, not money extortion from students) and I've heard that the Show Bizz make generous contributions to politicians...
Way to go... letÂs do it right... crime and terrorists rampaging through the country while law officers run honey pots to convict downloaders...
"The only problem I do have with DRM is if it prevents me from using the media that I have acquired legally, that pisses me off."
And who said that part is of concern when some company starts to draw a DRM specification? Remember DIVX (the DVD-like standard from Circuit City, not the decoder)? Pay 10 to watch a movie for 48 hours, 30 to own it and watch ONLY in your DIVX player (good, heh? you own it but can't take it to your friends house to watch with them... just like your VHS, records and CD... ops... none are like this? well... bad for YOU)
And the best part that was never addressed... and when I buy a new DIVX player? What happens? Well.. YOUR problem...
Nobody is thinking in fair use or consumer rights... as a consumer you are either a drone that must always buy new media, no matter what crap is up in the moment, no matter if you have a job or not... if you don't buy you are a thief, since you don't buy music, or movies you must be thieving it... with some kind of p2p... you are not allowed not to buy, since it would lead to a sales decrease, and sales decrease only happens due thieves using some scheme to steal the music.
I was looking the website of the Brazilian equivalent of RIAA and guess what they discovered?
Every region of the world that CD sales decreased are pirate ridden! Latin America had a decrease of 20% in the last five years... who's the culprit? pirates! internet and p2p! vevermind that the region is going down the hole... 20% of unemployement rate in Brazil, that or more in Argentina, Venezuela 30%... and the list goes on... not a single moron in these RIAA-like institutes thought that maybe when people don't have jobs they don't buy cd's!
England had a sales increase... due what? a good campaign on piracy and lowered prices... Japan? the same... hmmmm maybe the higher prices have something with lower sales? We had campaigns against piracy all over the world... Naahhhh... to easy! Is the fucking pirates!
The Linus approach to IP is correct. If you know about a patent (or code) your new code based (based, not original, since you read the patent before, remember?) is "tainted".
That approach was used by Compaq in the 80's to create a PC BIOS equivalent to the one used by IBM.
IBM BIOS was copyrighted AND published, so it was almost impossible to somebody say that had written a BIOS that wasn't violating IBM rights. And sure as hell you won't to violate IBM rights. The anger of Armonk is notorious.
To create a new BIOS Compaq hired programmers that had to sign a term stating that didn't read the work published by IBM nor tried to disassemble or reverse-engineer the BIOS.
These programmers received input from another team at Compaq that had access to the IBM code and that team told to the programmers how each function of BIOS should work and them compared the Compaq code with IBM code to see if they performed equally (equal performance doesn't mean that the code is the same).
More details at the book "Accidental Empires" by Robert Cringley.
probably because the parent's question is more adequated at some QNX support forum than at slashdot.
The reason's aren't the same from Villanueva and I don't know why I thought it.
The problem is economical. And the Brazilian governemnt already have a troubled history with Microsoft. Until last year the only authorized dealer by MS to deal with the B government was TBA (a MS reseller from Brasilia - Brazil's capital). Due to territorial restrictions imposed by Microsoft TBA had a virtual monopoly to sell to the government, with higher prices than the general market in the software and services. TBA and MS were sued and fine by illegal and abusive commercial tactics. TBA lost it's "monopoly".
With a "partner" like MS/TBA is natural that the government wants to broadens it's software options.
OSS and Free Software had enough qualities to justify it's uses. They don't need "strong commitment". It's software, not religion.
The mandate for open-source is not religious... is economical!
The Brazilian government decision was very simple: OSS is cheaper than MS (90% or more from the computers in Brazil use a MS OS). The government needs is cutting costs from all areas to have more money to spend in social programs. The external debt from Brazil is enormous, it must be paid but people here need some assistance due a fantastic desintegration of all social areas in the last 20 years (social including education, health, habitation, infra-structure, eletricity generation, you name it...)
An added bonus: the largest MS supplier is TBA, a MS representant from Brasilia (Brazil's capital).
TBA is the largest MS distributor in Brazil, due a very curious clause among MS resellers in Brazil: TBA was the only distributor authorized to sell MS products to Brazil's government due to territorial restriction clauses that gave TBA a virtual monopoly to sell MS products to the government.
That clause was imposed by Microsoft itself to the others MS LARs (Large Account Resellers).
MS and TBA were sued by the Secretaria de Direito EconÃmico (a department of Brazil's Ministry of Justice) and were fined due to abusive prices, inclusion of services in the software price's, artificially high prices for government sellings.
With a problem like that, a strong lobby from MS to push it's products among schools, the "donation"programs were the software is given "for free" but an annual renovation license is needed and a financial problem to solve the mandate seems a logic way to go, since nobody wants to change to OSS due financial advantages for some involved parts.
From the article:
:-)
:-)
"The following year, Pentagon adviser and Rand consultant John Arquilla concocted a fictional scenario, published in Wired magazine, of a global cyberwar engineered by -- whom else -- the North Koreans."
Later in the article:
"Arquilla said highly automated U.S. military processes, such as the "air tasking order" of an air campaign, or time-phased deployment of troops and equipment, could be disrupted by a North Korean cyberattack."
"In such cases, the disruption of American combat operations and logistics could make a very substantial difference in the overall military campaign," said Arquilla.
So I can infere from what mr. Arquilla said that the US armed forces coordinate their logistics and operations using the open structure from the Internet and it's usual tools...
I almost can see general Schwarzkopf using ICQ group messages to coordinate an attack... the friendly fire? someone looking at some p0rn webcam get so excited and fires a full blast
geez... how I would like to be a consultant... talking bullshit like this and getting attention... and if I really wanted to get media attention I would mention blinding comms sattelites and using EMP weapons in the war field... they would think "geez... this guy is Grand Moff Tarkin incarnated"
The greeks, egyptians, sumerians and all other people of the world believed, in their time, that their gods were real and their rulers. These civilizations passed and now we call their beliefs myth. Why can't someone call the stories in Bible as myths, if they suppose that these stories aren't backed by real/historical/archeological facts? People have different views from the world, and these views should be respected. The world that we live today is a proof that intolerance isn't the best path.
the article says:
"For two hours, Perry tried to fix it, uninstalling and reinstalling antivirus software, but the system continued to malfunction. The next day, Perry gave the PC to Gross to back up, fearing it might crash and lose valuable data."
Any technician that "fix things" repeatedly installing and uninstalling the same software doesn't deserve the job... but that's my opinion...
And to report the problem to police is wrong, there is an hierarchy in the company, if they thought that the company wasn't acting accordingly to the case, the should anonymously fill a complain with authorities...
Elite, on a MSX computer :-) :-) And Boas too, or whatever appeared on screen, if they were populating my radar when I was trying to get some especific target.
:-)
Deadly, most of the time with a Fugitive status, but I wasn't a fugitive at all, when the Vipers appeared, I blasted them all
But Elite wasn't a game, it was a lifestyle
just ask Scully and Mulder... the Kryczek guy is the culprit!
I think that you can't get any better than hpcalc. Perhaps the news groups like comp.calculators.hp48 (or something like this).
But as a repository I doubt that anybody surpassed hpcalc.org.
The relevant bit of HP marketing can't even remember that HP once ruled the calculators market, if not for profit margins, just to add finesse to that market... even the financial calculators ruled... the HP12c is 20 yrs old and couldn't be outdone even by other HP calculators (more powerful, like the 19b)... the 48 series was the dream of the engineering students (as the 28 eas before, and the 42, and the 41c...)
I think that these market droids think that the legal dept should sue that company that uses the HP logo in these handy calculators 'cause they are "diluting the HP's IP and brand value"