Fink was asked what he thought about SCO's allegation... [that HP's actions reinforced SCO's position.] He called SCO's words, "An interesting spin," and carefully pointed out that HP has no official position on the validity of SCO's claims. "That's up to the courts to decide," he said.
After passing through the Timothy filter: "HP's Martin Fink roundly denies SCO's backhanded interpretation."
H-Dog, is that you? Baby, don't tell me you gone skipped out on Accounts Receivable and be hangin' with them tech support bitches, I could not believe that shit.
On the client side, "applets" are not a valid use of Java. Applets was a marketing ploy that grew wildly out of hand. Besides, there are ActiveX controls written in C/C++ that perform the same basic functionality of applets.
Meh... close. Applets weren't a marketing ploy. "Marketing ploy" implies that the designers knew full well it wasn't going to work, and pushed it anyway. I suspect that a lot of the applet evangelists, so to speak, really believed that they were going to deliver full fledged apps (okay - maybe a bit stripped down, but still full fledged applications) via applets. In other words, rather than a marketing ploy, it was just a bad idea. Sun, with Java, would provide the application environment, and Netscape would provide the delivery method.
Of course, it didn't happen that way, but it was a credible enough threat to scare the living piss out of Microsoft, who proceeded to make "crush Netscape and Java" mission number one. As long as either Netscape or Java failed, they won: as it turned out, they managed to badly wound both, and that was good enough.
For the record, I have nothing against Apple. In fact, I post from a 15" Ti PowerBook (no - not one of the swank new ones with the 802.11g, regrettably) which is my favorite computer to work on.
You have to admit, though, that pre OS X, telling your average/. reader that you were a huge fan of Apple was like saying that you really, really enjoyed weird fetish videos. The best you could hope for was a nervous grin and a "how nice for you," but inside you know the guy was thinking. "why does this loser get of on this?"
Reading the Fox writeup, I couldn't help but notice this:
Asked if the association knew Brianna was 12 when it decided to sue her, [RIAA spokesperson Amy Weiss] answered, "We don't have any personal information on any of the individuals."
"Oh, except for her name," Weiss then went on to say. "And her address. And phone number. And her Kazaa details, and who her ISP is, and a bunch of the stuff she downloaded. Nothing except for that."
...and yet, if you bring a child to a new school district, he will be forbidden from attending until you can furnish proof that he's had his vaccinations.
The musical episode was his baby, and I have to admit it was one of my favorites. Alyson Hannigan (Willow) begged Wheadon not to do it: she's not exactly a great singer, and if you watch the episode you'll notice that she only has about two lines. (Amber Benson, and Anthony Stewart Head, on the other hand, were surprisingly good).
Actually - I seem to recall that it was one of the actors who originally joked about doing a musical episode, which caused Wheadon's eyes to glaze over. He obsessed about it for a while, then shocked everyone by announcing that it was gonna happen.
Wheadon as involved in Angel by a long shot. But I have to agree with you that Charsima Carpenter is indeed very... talented.
The original was goofy, and somewhat likeable, but not exactly what I'd call "excellent".
Wheadon wrote the script for the original, and was pretty much horrified - or, at least, very disappointed - with the end result. When the opportunity came to turn the film into a series, he insisted on retaining ultimate creative control over the direction of the show. It was a smart move - he had great instincts, and the show rarely stumbled when he was responsible for the content. (Episodes written by others, on the other hand, didn't always turn out so well.)
If the guy responsible for both the movie and the series says that the series is much better than the original, I don't think it's so strange to agree with him.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the logo features a UK flag, the price is given in pounds, and mentions a VAT (value added tax), something that doesn't exist in the states.
Most of the remaining ten sections can be summed up in the following way:
Games are cool.
No, I don't mean, "way cool, dude." I mean, they're art, okay? And screw anyone who doesn't get that.
I am a very important person and you should care about what I have to say.
I have had sex.
And really, that's about it. When I read Tim Rodgers claiming that the line "For many years, there was a hole deep in my body. I tried to fill it, with booze, and countless women. Then, along came Final Fantasy III," was the one that opened his eyes to the possibilities of game journalism, I wanted to vomit. Any real jouranlist will tell you that making yourself the story isn't precisely the object, and to do so in such a pretentious way is to show a lack of respect for your readers, who don't give a rat's ass how many women you (claim to have) banged.
Right, becuase it's so much money to "fork out" for a decent mouse.
If you're the kind of person to whom a specific mouse is that important, you're probably the kind of person who would shell out the extra money for the mouse of your choosing anyway. I am, and I did.
I was about to name-check konfabulator, which is a pretty nifty little app.
The problem I have with it (and by extension, with every app like it), is that I like actually having a desktop - a sort of "zero area" of the screen where things aren't competing for my attention. That's why, after a week or two of messing around with various konfabulator widgets, I realized that the mostly the appplication was just irritating me. I uninstalled it, thankfully prior to having shelled out the shareware fee.
You make a good point in regard to data audit trails. I would say it's possible that something like that even happened here - I don't remember from the versions I looked at how the company managed to figure out exactly what the "hacker" did. I do remember, however, that they didn't know the access had occurred at first, so clearly that audit trail wasn't being monitored too closely.
I watched an interview with Douglas Adams once in which he boasted that he was listed first among British authors. A moment later, the punchline: "...because the list is alphabetical."
We use the word "first" in many occasions to imply primacy or importance: hence the phrase "first among equals," or the title "first place" for someone who wins a contest.
Saying "Acxiom was the first company listed in Microsoft's November 1998 parade of members..." could easily be interpreted as meaning that Acxiom was somehow the biggest or most important of those members listed. That's not the case - the fact that they were listed first is purely an accident of accidental order. That's all I wanted to point out.
You may want to try using the "in ear canal" type earbuds, as opposed to the "outer ear" type of earbuds. They have foam or silicon molds which you squeeze into your ear, which help prevent them from falling out.
You can see a list of a few of the higher end ones here
In addition to Microsoft, members of the Online Privacy Alliance include many other well-known names in electronic commerce, smaller start-up ventures and some companies that are new to the Internet: Acxiom Corp.; American Advertising Federation; American Electronics Association; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; America Online Inc.; Apple Computer Inc.; AT&T Corp.; Bank of America; Bell Atlantic Corp...
Acxiom wasn't listed first because they were the biggest or most important. They're listed first because that's alphabetical order for you.
I read three versions of the story (courtesy of the Google News link). None of them specified what the job description of the perpetrator was, although I'll infer that because he had "legitimate access" (wording per the SilconValley.com verison of the story) to the servers where the information was kept, he wasn't, say, a janitor. So why the histrionics on the submitter's part about how "such a company would have such lax security as to allow an insider to browse supposedly private data at will." Dude, the guy had access. I'm a systems administrator, I can read my co-workers' email at will. If I suddenly "went rogue" without warning, not a lot you could do about it, huh? At some level, you just have to trust your employees.
What's funnier is the universal use of the word "hacker" in the various writeups of this incident. The guy had access already. He didn't hack his way into anything. Back when I worked retail, if our credit card receipts didn't add up to what the system thought we should have at the end of the day, we'd have to do a "list print" - we'd go to our little VeriFone CC terminals and have it print a record of every transaction it could remember. It had a 255 transaction memory, if my own memory serves, complete with amount, timestamp, and - wait for it - credit card number. So, if I printed out a list of 255 credit card numbers and went on a buying spree with other people's money, would you say I was a "hacker" then?
I believe with Macs you can control iTunes with the phone (sounds cool) and others are working on getting Winzip to function.
The software you're referring to is called "Clicker," by Salling Software. It can be used not just to control iTunes, but also basically anything else which responds to AppleScript commands.
Note - there is a non-zero chance that this is completely useless. But it's hella cool. Make sure to watch their video (QuickTime required).
I have fond memories of Mr. Microphone ads. Especially when the kid crusing around in the car with his friend says, "I'll see you girls later," as if he was some kind of pre-pubescent stud.
(For those of you who were too young / don't remember, Mr. Microphone was a kids toy which attached a cheap mic to a low power radio transmitter, so you could talk and pick it up through your car radio.)
But to answer your question - yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be illegal. Although I don't remember if it used an FM or an AM signal.
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So in other words, Fink wanted to "call bullshit" on SCO, but couldn't? I'll buy that. That's still a far cry from "roundly denying," though.
From the article as written by Roblimo:
After passing through the Timothy filter: "HP's Martin Fink roundly denies SCO's backhanded interpretation."
C'mon, man. At least make an effort.
H-Dog, is that you? Baby, don't tell me you gone skipped out on Accounts Receivable and be hangin' with them tech support bitches, I could not believe that shit.
Meh... close. Applets weren't a marketing ploy. "Marketing ploy" implies that the designers knew full well it wasn't going to work, and pushed it anyway. I suspect that a lot of the applet evangelists, so to speak, really believed that they were going to deliver full fledged apps (okay - maybe a bit stripped down, but still full fledged applications) via applets. In other words, rather than a marketing ploy, it was just a bad idea. Sun, with Java, would provide the application environment, and Netscape would provide the delivery method.
Of course, it didn't happen that way, but it was a credible enough threat to scare the living piss out of Microsoft, who proceeded to make "crush Netscape and Java" mission number one. As long as either Netscape or Java failed, they won: as it turned out, they managed to badly wound both, and that was good enough.
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Thank you, I feel better now.
For the record, I have nothing against Apple. In fact, I post from a 15" Ti PowerBook (no - not one of the swank new ones with the 802.11g, regrettably) which is my favorite computer to work on.
/. reader that you were a huge fan of Apple was like saying that you really, really enjoyed weird fetish videos. The best you could hope for was a nervous grin and a "how nice for you," but inside you know the guy was thinking. "why does this loser get of on this?"
You have to admit, though, that pre OS X, telling your average
I'm pretty sure your Buffy/Faith/Willow slash fiction already qualifies as "very bad."
Because Apple is suddenly cool these days, and PowerBooks are very very pretty. And shiny. See? Ooh, shiny things.
(I'm pretty sure that's the logic, anyway.)
Or "Nalaite Poratmn, pertified," for that matter
"Oh, except for her name," Weiss then went on to say. "And her address. And phone number. And her Kazaa details, and who her ISP is, and a bunch of the stuff she downloaded. Nothing except for that."
...and yet, if you bring a child to a new school district, he will be forbidden from attending until you can furnish proof that he's had his vaccinations.
Kind of a bad analogy for you, don't you think?
The musical episode was his baby, and I have to admit it was one of my favorites. Alyson Hannigan (Willow) begged Wheadon not to do it: she's not exactly a great singer, and if you watch the episode you'll notice that she only has about two lines. (Amber Benson, and Anthony Stewart Head, on the other hand, were surprisingly good).
Actually - I seem to recall that it was one of the actors who originally joked about doing a musical episode, which caused Wheadon's eyes to glaze over. He obsessed about it for a while, then shocked everyone by announcing that it was gonna happen.
Wheadon as involved in Angel by a long shot. But I have to agree with you that Charsima Carpenter is indeed very... talented.
The original was goofy, and somewhat likeable, but not exactly what I'd call "excellent".
Wheadon wrote the script for the original, and was pretty much horrified - or, at least, very disappointed - with the end result. When the opportunity came to turn the film into a series, he insisted on retaining ultimate creative control over the direction of the show. It was a smart move - he had great instincts, and the show rarely stumbled when he was responsible for the content. (Episodes written by others, on the other hand, didn't always turn out so well.)
If the guy responsible for both the movie and the series says that the series is much better than the original, I don't think it's so strange to agree with him.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the logo features a UK flag, the price is given in pounds, and mentions a VAT (value added tax), something that doesn't exist in the states.
They're a Brit company, it's safe to say.
I'd be happy to. After all, how else can you explain people's obsession with a petrified, hot-grits covered Natalie Portman?
With that said: in my opinion, the only thing worth reading in the entire lot of it was WARNING SIGNS THAT YOU ARE A BAD VIDEO GAME JOURNALIST , the majority of which is applicable to most forms of journalism.
Most of the remaining ten sections can be summed up in the following way:
And really, that's about it. When I read Tim Rodgers claiming that the line "For many years, there was a hole deep in my body. I tried to fill it, with booze, and countless women. Then, along came Final Fantasy III," was the one that opened his eyes to the possibilities of game journalism, I wanted to vomit. Any real jouranlist will tell you that making yourself the story isn't precisely the object, and to do so in such a pretentious way is to show a lack of respect for your readers, who don't give a rat's ass how many women you (claim to have) banged.
Right, becuase it's so much money to "fork out" for a decent mouse.
If you're the kind of person to whom a specific mouse is that important, you're probably the kind of person who would shell out the extra money for the mouse of your choosing anyway. I am, and I did.
I was about to name-check konfabulator, which is a pretty nifty little app.
The problem I have with it (and by extension, with every app like it), is that I like actually having a desktop - a sort of "zero area" of the screen where things aren't competing for my attention. That's why, after a week or two of messing around with various konfabulator widgets, I realized that the mostly the appplication was just irritating me. I uninstalled it, thankfully prior to having shelled out the shareware fee.
You make a good point in regard to data audit trails. I would say it's possible that something like that even happened here - I don't remember from the versions I looked at how the company managed to figure out exactly what the "hacker" did. I do remember, however, that they didn't know the access had occurred at first, so clearly that audit trail wasn't being monitored too closely.
I watched an interview with Douglas Adams once in which he boasted that he was listed first among British authors. A moment later, the punchline: "...because the list is alphabetical."
We use the word "first" in many occasions to imply primacy or importance: hence the phrase "first among equals," or the title "first place" for someone who wins a contest.
Saying "Acxiom was the first company listed in Microsoft's November 1998 parade of members..." could easily be interpreted as meaning that Acxiom was somehow the biggest or most important of those members listed. That's not the case - the fact that they were listed first is purely an accident of accidental order. That's all I wanted to point out.
You may want to try using the "in ear canal" type earbuds, as opposed to the "outer ear" type of earbuds. They have foam or silicon molds which you squeeze into your ear, which help prevent them from falling out.
You can see a list of a few of the higher end ones here
Acxiom wasn't listed first because they were the biggest or most important. They're listed first because that's alphabetical order for you.
I read three versions of the story (courtesy of the Google News link). None of them specified what the job description of the perpetrator was, although I'll infer that because he had "legitimate access" (wording per the SilconValley.com verison of the story) to the servers where the information was kept, he wasn't, say, a janitor. So why the histrionics on the submitter's part about how "such a company would have such lax security as to allow an insider to browse supposedly private data at will." Dude, the guy had access. I'm a systems administrator, I can read my co-workers' email at will. If I suddenly "went rogue" without warning, not a lot you could do about it, huh? At some level, you just have to trust your employees.
What's funnier is the universal use of the word "hacker" in the various writeups of this incident. The guy had access already. He didn't hack his way into anything. Back when I worked retail, if our credit card receipts didn't add up to what the system thought we should have at the end of the day, we'd have to do a "list print" - we'd go to our little VeriFone CC terminals and have it print a record of every transaction it could remember. It had a 255 transaction memory, if my own memory serves, complete with amount, timestamp, and - wait for it - credit card number. So, if I printed out a list of 255 credit card numbers and went on a buying spree with other people's money, would you say I was a "hacker" then?
The software you're referring to is called "Clicker," by Salling Software. It can be used not just to control iTunes, but also basically anything else which responds to AppleScript commands.
Note - there is a non-zero chance that this is completely useless. But it's hella cool. Make sure to watch their video (QuickTime required).
Good god, it's even worse than I remembered!
:)
Thanks for correcting me.
I have fond memories of Mr. Microphone ads. Especially when the kid crusing around in the car with his friend says, "I'll see you girls later," as if he was some kind of pre-pubescent stud.
(For those of you who were too young / don't remember, Mr. Microphone was a kids toy which attached a cheap mic to a low power radio transmitter, so you could talk and pick it up through your car radio.)
But to answer your question - yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be illegal. Although I don't remember if it used an FM or an AM signal.