IBM *still* has a boatload of software that SHOULD run on Windows only. What I'd like to see in Version is words saying the following software is NATIVELY supported on Linux:
* Lotus Notes
* Sametime
* SmartSuite
If you're going to support Linux, support it completely, fer cryin' out loud!
The $699 cost is only for binary releases of Linux. If you want to 'properly' license the source code (and most distributions carry the source code) then the cost is even more.
"This license only applies to the use of SCO IP in these compiled and linked object code versions of Linux. The license does not grant any rights to SCO IP in source code form either separately or as a component of a Linux source code distribution."
Voice recognition has been "two to five" years away since for the past twenty years. The reason it hasn't occurred because it is too hard. The "two to five" year quote are from overzealous marketing folks.
It won't happen for quite a while because the emphasis has been moved away from wide-scale voice recognition to having specific recognition requirements, such as, recognizing numbers, "yes" or "no," few verbs, or recognizing an individual's voice commands.
You would have to look to academia for answers, because the funds for the research dried up in the comercial market.
Apparently MovieLink wasn't first to the scene. intertainer had been doing something similar but felt they were being shut out by unfair competition -- Sony, AOL-Time-Warner apparently favored MovieLink.
Would the constituents be the people of the US, the businesses of the US, or both? The goals of businesses are different from people: businesses don't want individual privacy because it hinders their ability to market.
Since Congress has to answer to both, I wonder if they are the best group to answer Director Hayden's question. Perhaps this is an executive decision.
In a related, underpublicized story, Linksys's WET11, which has been getting a lot of buzz as a cheap wireless ethernet bridge, has a firmware flaw which allows a DoS. LinkSys has been slow to come out with a fix.
A new project created by Jason Hooper involves the counting and displaying of statistical information regarding the number of keys you have pressed since sign-up to this project.
Is this a hoax? Am I on Candid Camera?
Now why would someone want to perpetuate this when we just heard about keyboard wiretaps? Certainly not a SlashDot reader!
You buy from EMC a terabyte for maybe $300,000. That's just the storage for 1 TB. We can buy 100 TBs with 250 CPUs to work on it, all on a high-speed switch with redundancy built in. Interesting quote. Mr. Kahle addresses something I've been wondering for a while -- are storage area networks really worth it? Or is he ignoring the costs of maintenance and manpower to keep these things afloat?
The trouble with these kinds of interviews is that although I appreciate and enjoy Mr. Bloch's contributions to Java and Mr. Venners' forum, they are speaking academicly and not through the world of business. This is a very narrowly focused article and should not be taken as direction for designing software.
I'd like to hear someone write about how to make the trade-offs architects really face:
being forced to use lesser software products and tools due to cost or partnership arrangements;
having time-to-market be a larger issue than software reuse
attempting design and development when the skill set is diverse
These topics would be of greater value to the development community than articles which presume hypothetical arrangements.
I live outside Boston, MA where AT&T Cablevision and RCN compete for broadband and cable services. RCN, being #2, has been very competitive and they've provided me with great service.
Your town may not be able to have two cable wire systems running throughout, but there is an alternative: have your town own the wiring, and force your cable company to lease them on a yearly basis. This has worked for some MA communities.
I don't use JBuilder on the job, but if I was considering it, I'd check with my corporate lawyers to see if this license agreement could be honored. Seeing how (anal) compulsive the lawyers were in past projects, I bet they would say "choose another vendor."
My feelings exactly. Your boss should be the one handling this, perhaps with Personnel.
If your boss won't support you, then try to get a letter of recommendation from him and work on getting another job. As the poster of the parent note implies, once a Director has a mind to do things, like canning someone, they usually find a way to do it.
Good luck in your next job (and there will always be a next job).
Remember the names of the CEO, COO and CFO, and never work for them again. They do not deserve to be in business for being that casual about their customer's information.
Customer info, including credit card info, should be treated like gold.
Good question. The answer is that the company has to think about these things BEFORE the hacks occur. If these policies are not spelled out, then it may cost them more money (in terms of lost business) than the money they save by scrimping on security.
As an example, my company has a long, but readable security policy which insists they will prosecute inappropriate uses of the network (and it's spelled out what 'inappropriate' that means). There is a shorter version of this on the website, too, so that hackers can be warned, if they choose to read it.
Odd as it may seem, some companies cannot afford to pursue prosecution. They would have to pay several thousands of dollars of lawyer time and system administrator/security administrator time to preserve the evidence and litigate.
What I can recommend to each SlashDot reader is to ask for your company's policy towards hacks and intrusions. It should be concise, clear, and objective. This way there will be no suprises, and the System Admins will know what to expect and not be punished for misunderstanding the policy.
Don't confuse the Internet with the real world. The Internet is born of anarchy and the real world is having a tough time understanding that.
Everyone else in the real world has to use real age verification systems (be is visual "hmm, he looks like a 11 year old" or "ID please") when it comes to things that can be deemed "harmful" to minors, so why shouldn't online systems?
Yes, but what else on the Internet is real age verification used? Online pharmacies? Not really -- they seek a (forgable) doctor's RX.
Gambling? No. You just need a credit card for that.
So what precedent is there for "real age verification" on the Internet?
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IBM *still* has a boatload of software that SHOULD run on Windows only. What I'd like to see in Version is words saying the following software is NATIVELY supported on Linux:
* Lotus Notes
* Sametime
* SmartSuite
If you're going to support Linux, support it completely, fer cryin' out loud!
The $699 cost is only for binary releases of Linux. If you want to 'properly' license the source code (and most distributions carry the source code) then the cost is even more.
From the IP License for Linux FAQ:
"This license only applies to the use of SCO IP in these compiled and linked object code versions of Linux. The license does not grant any rights to SCO IP in source code form either separately or as a component of a Linux source code distribution."
Is there a Dia plugin for RHEA applications called 'Dia-rhea'?
The Boston Globe reports Five years from now you'll see virtually no CD stores
Why hasn't it occurred yet?
Voice recognition has been "two to five" years away since for the past twenty years. The reason it hasn't occurred because it is too hard. The "two to five" year quote are from overzealous marketing folks.
It won't happen for quite a while because the emphasis has been moved away from wide-scale voice recognition to having specific recognition requirements, such as, recognizing numbers, "yes" or "no," few verbs, or recognizing an individual's voice commands.
You would have to look to academia for answers, because the funds for the research dried up in the comercial market.
Apparently MovieLink wasn't first to the scene. intertainer had been doing something similar but felt they were being shut out by unfair competition -- Sony, AOL-Time-Warner apparently favored MovieLink.
Would the constituents be the people of the US, the businesses of the US, or both? The goals of businesses are different from people: businesses don't want individual privacy because it hinders their ability to market.
Since Congress has to answer to both, I wonder if they are the best group to answer Director Hayden's question. Perhaps this is an executive decision.
In a related, underpublicized story, Linksys's WET11, which has been getting a lot of buzz as a cheap wireless ethernet bridge, has a firmware flaw which allows a DoS. LinkSys has been slow to come out with a fix.
Have you tried this?
... should be enough to write a dissertation on the thoughtless computing leading to serious problems.
... sounds like a new way of cheating on exams.
Is this a hoax? Am I on Candid Camera?
Now why would someone want to perpetuate this when we just heard about keyboard wiretaps? Certainly not a SlashDot reader!
You buy from EMC a terabyte for maybe $300,000. That's just the storage for 1 TB. We can buy 100 TBs with 250 CPUs to work on it, all on a high-speed switch with redundancy built in.
Interesting quote. Mr. Kahle addresses something I've been wondering for a while -- are storage area networks really worth it? Or is he ignoring the costs of maintenance and manpower to keep these things afloat?
I'd like to hear someone write about how to make the trade-offs architects really face:
These topics would be of greater value to the development community than articles which presume hypothetical arrangements.
Think about it: an independent developer would HAVE to employ a lawyer to deal with licensing schemes like Borland's Enterprise license.
This is not industry standard boilerplate, but lazyness: they're avoid working with customers to figure out better licensing terms.
I live outside Boston, MA where AT&T Cablevision and RCN compete for broadband and cable services. RCN, being #2, has been very competitive and they've provided me with great service.
Your town may not be able to have two cable wire systems running throughout, but there is an alternative: have your town own the wiring, and force your cable company to lease them on a yearly basis. This has worked for some MA communities.
I don't use JBuilder on the job, but if I was considering it, I'd check with my corporate lawyers to see if this license agreement could be honored. Seeing how (anal) compulsive the lawyers were in past projects, I bet they would say "choose another vendor."
Bad license agreements are bad business.
You're in luck -- soon you'll be able to get a wireless monitor.
My feelings exactly. Your boss should be the one handling this, perhaps with Personnel.
If your boss won't support you, then try to get a letter of recommendation from him and work on getting another job. As the poster of the parent note implies, once a Director has a mind to do things, like canning someone, they usually find a way to do it.
Good luck in your next job (and there will always be a next job).
Remember the names of the CEO, COO and CFO, and never work for them again. They do not deserve to be in business for being that casual about their customer's information.
Customer info, including credit card info, should be treated like gold.
Good question. The answer is that the company has to think about these things BEFORE the hacks occur. If these policies are not spelled out, then it may cost them more money (in terms of lost business) than the money they save by scrimping on security.
As an example, my company has a long, but readable security policy which insists they will prosecute inappropriate uses of the network (and it's spelled out what 'inappropriate' that means). There is a shorter version of this on the website, too, so that hackers can be warned, if they choose to read it.
What I can recommend to each SlashDot reader is to ask for your company's policy towards hacks and intrusions. It should be concise, clear, and objective. This way there will be no suprises, and the System Admins will know what to expect and not be punished for misunderstanding the policy.
Here's another Java style guide
Don't confuse the Internet with the real world. The Internet is born of anarchy and the real world is having a tough time understanding that.
Everyone else in the real world has to use real age verification systems (be is visual "hmm, he looks like a 11 year old" or "ID please") when it comes to things that can be deemed "harmful" to minors, so why shouldn't online systems?
Yes, but what else on the Internet is real age verification used? Online pharmacies? Not really -- they seek a (forgable) doctor's RX.
Gambling? No. You just need a credit card for that.
So what precedent is there for "real age verification" on the Internet?
For those with a Palm Pilot, OmniRemote is an excellent universal remote application. It makes Palm IIs with the 2MB upgrade card useful again.