As others have already said, the Logitech Wireless Mouseman Pro is extremely good. I have 4 and swear by them. Battery life is extremely good (on the order of 2 months with heavy usage, I currently get about 3 months). Like the entire pro series, the rollers take a long time to crud up (despite my eating lunch at my desk).
If I draw a sketch of a painting, does the original artist own my sketch, too?
Yes. If you create a work of art which is primarily a reproduction or representation of a copyrighted work, and release it commercially, it is a copyright violation. The best example I am aware of is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posters. Someone took a photo of the Rock Hall in Cleveland, OH, made a poster of it, and distributed it commercially. I.M. Pei, the architect, successfully sued.
The limit is "fair use" which covers such things as reviews and satire. You can read more about fair use on Stanford's site at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
We chose CVS over VSS for stability and speed. Was on a project that used VSS for 9 months and lost the repository 4 times. Never heard the specific cause (could have been human error), but don't want to risk it. On speed, VSS takes roughly twice as long as CVS. Upside of VSS is NT integration (if you like that sort of thing) and nicer GUI, but source safety is paramount in my mind, with minimizing developer wait-states a close second.
To decide what is the fair level of punishment for the person or persons initiating such an attack, compare the punishment for similar actions performed in meatspace.
These actions have caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars, without any violence or risk of physical harm to the victim, and without any prior established relationship between the perpetrator and victim. Some good examples of meatspace crimes that fit this schema are grand theft (as distinguished from robbery) and forgery (as distinguished from embezzlement or fraud).
In both cases, out legal system suggests the jailing of the perpetrators. If you feel that the people that committed these DoS's should not be jailed, please take the time to reconcile this belief with your feelings about non-violent jewel thieves. It is reasonable (though I disagree) to believe that no non-violent criminal should face our terrifying rehabilitation system. It is not reasonable to say that computer criminals are less culpable than an equivalent meatspace criminal.
Regarding two common rebuttals: "Commercialization of the net" - There are more non commercial sites on the net every day. It is easier to find the commercial sites, but it is also easier to find the non-commercial sites than ever before. Do you remember 1994? You had to read magazines to find good sites. "It's their own fault for having poor security" - While I agree that Yahoo and company should learn a valuable lesson and hire more and better security specialists, that does not mitigate the wrongdoing. If you leave your car unlocked and it is stolen, the thief should be put in jail *and* your insurance premiums should be raised.
If you are using Netscape, scroll down to read the text on each page. Begs the question of how you hope to crack a high security system if you can't even work the scroll bar, haha.
Java is only the latest occurance. Microsoft deliberately killed Stac Electronics' Stacker during codevelopment for use with DOS 6.0 and marginalized IBM's OS/2 during codevelopment that lead to WinNT. I'm sure there are other examples I'm missing.
Java was not the first, and if MS has it's way, PERL will not be the last.
Microsoft does not play fair, they play to win and they are VERY good at it. This is not reason to hate Microsoft, it is reason to be wary.
While I have not had opportunity to install a high traffic server farm, my gut reaction would be that Linux would scale far better than MS if you increase the number of low end servers instead of the size of a single server. That is, let MS have their US$30K server, I'll take 6 US$5K Linux servers mirroring each other.
Again, I have never actually done this, but I'm wagering the 6 systems would be significantly faster, and would certainly be more fault tolerant (even if 5 of the machines catch fire the domain would survive)
1M Monkeys * 1M Years * 4 (4 apendages per monkey) * 100 words per minute * 6 letters per word *.5M minutes per year ------------------------------- ~ 1.2 X 10^21
26 distinct letters ^ 15 characters per phrase ------------------------------- ~ 1.6 X 10^21
That's not counting spaces, punctuation and numbers (forget about case sensitive)
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As others have already said, the Logitech Wireless Mouseman Pro is extremely good. I have 4 and swear by them. Battery life is extremely good (on the order of 2 months with heavy usage, I currently get about 3 months). Like the entire pro series, the rollers take a long time to crud up (despite my eating lunch at my desk).
Keep a spare set of AAA's handy.
If I draw a sketch of a painting, does the original artist own my sketch, too?
Yes. If you create a work of art which is primarily a reproduction or representation of a copyrighted work, and release it commercially, it is a copyright violation. The best example I am aware of is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posters. Someone took a photo of the Rock Hall in Cleveland, OH, made a poster of it, and distributed it commercially. I.M. Pei, the architect, successfully sued.
The limit is "fair use" which covers such things as reviews and satire. You can read more about fair use on Stanford's site at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Bob
We chose CVS over VSS for stability and speed. Was on a project that used VSS for 9 months and lost the repository 4 times. Never heard the specific cause (could have been human error), but don't want to risk it. On speed, VSS takes roughly twice as long as CVS. Upside of VSS is NT integration (if you like that sort of thing) and nicer GUI, but source safety is paramount in my mind, with minimizing developer wait-states a close second.
To decide what is the fair level of punishment for the person or persons initiating such an attack, compare the punishment for similar actions performed in meatspace.
These actions have caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars, without any violence or risk of physical harm to the victim, and without any prior established relationship between the perpetrator and victim. Some good examples of meatspace crimes that fit this schema are grand theft (as distinguished from robbery) and forgery (as distinguished from embezzlement or fraud).
In both cases, out legal system suggests the jailing of the perpetrators. If you feel that the people that committed these DoS's should not be jailed, please take the time to reconcile this belief with your feelings about non-violent jewel thieves. It is reasonable (though I disagree) to believe that no non-violent criminal should face our terrifying rehabilitation system. It is not reasonable to say that computer criminals are less culpable than an equivalent meatspace criminal.
Regarding two common rebuttals:
"Commercialization of the net" - There are more non commercial sites on the net every day. It is easier to find the commercial sites, but it is also easier to find the non-commercial sites than ever before. Do you remember 1994? You had to read magazines to find good sites.
"It's their own fault for having poor security" - While I agree that Yahoo and company should learn a valuable lesson and hire more and better security specialists, that does not mitigate the wrongdoing. If you leave your car unlocked and it is stolen, the thief should be put in jail *and* your insurance premiums should be raised.
If you are using Netscape, scroll down to read the text on each page. Begs the question of how you hope to crack a high security system if you can't even work the scroll bar, haha.
yup, is not Netscape compatible.
Funny $hit.
Java is only the latest occurance.
Microsoft deliberately killed
Stac Electronics' Stacker during
codevelopment for use with DOS 6.0
and marginalized IBM's OS/2 during
codevelopment that lead to WinNT.
I'm sure there are other examples
I'm missing.
Java was not the first, and if MS
has it's way, PERL will not be the
last.
Microsoft does not play fair, they
play to win and they are VERY good
at it. This is not reason to hate
Microsoft, it is reason to be wary.
Bob
Many poosts have already said this,
I gotta repeat the obvious.
Microsoft intentionally killed Java.
Keep them away from my language.
Bob
While I have not had opportunity to install a high traffic server farm, my gut reaction would be that Linux would scale far better than MS if you increase the number of low end servers instead of the size of a single server. That is, let MS have their US$30K server, I'll take 6 US$5K Linux servers mirroring each other.
Again, I have never actually done this, but I'm wagering the 6 systems would be significantly faster, and would certainly be more fault tolerant (even if 5 of the machines catch fire the domain would survive)
Agreed. My copy rarely exceeds 6"
from the left side of my keyboard.
1M Monkeys .5M minutes per year
* 1M Years
* 4 (4 apendages per monkey)
* 100 words per minute
* 6 letters per word
*
-------------------------------
~ 1.2 X 10^21
26 distinct letters
^ 15 characters per phrase
-------------------------------
~ 1.6 X 10^21
That's not counting spaces, punctuation and numbers (forget about case sensitive)
Tekhne