He was planning to give a demo today at BlackHat in Vegas. Look at what they did to Skylarov for Adobe. You think they're going to sit idly by while some *gasp* foreigner shows them up? THOU SHALT NOT TAUNT THE HAPPY FUN BALL
Seriously, I'm waiting for word that he cancelled his presentation "voluntarily" or has been arrested.
Sveasoft third-party firmware for Linksys routers. They repackage OSS and sell it under the guise of a yearly fee required to access their support service and forums. They hem and haw and make every excuse in the book to avoid distributing the source code for any of it. They have for all practical purposes stolen the code and are re-selling it as their own.
If we had RFID aware gas pumps it would be possible to have a sliding scale of federal gasoline tax. Tax those Lincoln Navigators et al at $1.50 a gallon and let the efficient sippers off with $0.25 per. I guess that would make too much sense.
I am. You're right. Looking through some of the news stories about it there was apparently a 3rd grader who noticed the same thing 10 years ago. It takes a real nimrod to hang 3 ton concrete ceiling tiles off a framework that's been epoxied into place.
The real tragedy is that woman's family will never see justice. Everyone will point the finger at everyone else and no one, ultimately, will have to pay the price.
I can't think of any implementation of forums worse than SF. None. The format and organization is horrendous. Google groups is already a better solution and I haven't even tried it yet. The SF public forums could be improved upon by anybody by accident.
When the term became popular a couple of years ago the concept of "blogging" was seen as the online equivalent of daily journals, except that anyone could look in. Who says they all have to be journalists? Or, for that matter, why is the fact that "only 5% of bloggers are journalists" even noteworthy? Who cares? There's probably a percentage devoted to pets that the survey didn't uncover. What difference does it make? It's just another form of speech.
The best you can say about the AV industry is that we finally found out, more or less, that the AV companies themselves aren't behind the malware.
I wish I was a sleazy ruthless person. I could make millions off this idea: check your HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run registry keys. Know what should be in there. 90% of the time you can detect when a virus or spyware is installed by looking there for things that don't belong.
They shouldn't be using computers at all. No amount of rules and regulations is going to turn a computer-illiterate user into a savvy one. If someone is too dumb to figure it out or ask someone for a little help they deserve whatever they get. It really is that simple. All this "we need to protect people from themselves" stuff is nonsense. It won't work. Leave it alone. The threat of someone using your open wifi network to download kiddie porn is what, about 0.0000001? "Oh we need rules to protect unaware people from that risk!" Bull fucking shit.
First if you install Windows into a VM from a legit Windows XP CD and try to download any updates the Genuine Windows Advantage test fails. So MS already knows if you're running VMware. I think MS wants you to buy multiple copies of Windows if you're planning to run in a VM as well as on the real silicon.
Second, this is a licensing issue too, one thing I've used it for is for software I use too infrequently to purchase and has a trial period like 30 days or whatever. Create a VM, install XP in to it, and take a snapshot. Then install and run the software. You may, as I often do, only need to run it for a couple of hours and then not again for a couple of months. By then the trial period has expired. Simply restore the VM from the snapshot, re-install the trial software and you're good to go for another session. Unethical? Maybe. Flame away.
Lastly, despite the fact that I occasionally do #2, I mostly use VMware to run Fedora Core for development. I have Apache set up on it with all the bells and whistles and when I'm working on a website I use it as a test server. Runs quite well with 256 MB dedicated to it on my 1 GB main XP system.
and it's something companies rarely invest in any more. Today you need a battery of consultants and MBAs to do market research and decide whether or not a product is worth making. Google is investing here in R&D. They are amassing a ton of experience even with those products that aren't "hits". This sounds like Wall Street crying again because they don't like the way Google does business.
I saw one Google story here this past week I haven't read yet about Google starting a service to compete with PayPal. This has got to be a winner for them because nobody really trusts PayPal, PayPal is pretty sleazy in its little unregulated niche and they NEED some competition desperately. I'd trust Google (for the most part) any day of the week over PayPal. This is a service to keep an eye on.
When are OSS authors going to get off their asses and start suing on their own? There are a ton of companies out there distributing OSS software, mainly in Linux-embedded devices, who blatantly violate the GPL and thumb their noses at anyone who complains. When are OSS authors going to get off their asses and sue some of these bastards for copyright violation? Don't tell me about gpl-violations.org. Harald Welte (he of iptables fame) has done yeoman's work but has very little to show for his efforts. For every 10 complaints made to the GPL Violations mailing list Harald is able to resole maybe 1. Not good enough. There are many, many people who have a share of the copyright that goes into so many OSS projects such as (esp. in the embedded world) BusyBox and uClibc, not to mention all the other utility programs that are often included with such devices, such as wireless tool extensions, strace, tcpwrappers, crond and Linux itself. Companies are quite literally thumbing their noses at the authors of these programs and the authors are too happy to let somebody else worry about it.
When someone comes after you for violating a patent you will wish you had sued to protect your copyrights. It might even have gained you a few dineros to defend yourself with against claims against you.
It just makes me sick that OSS authors don't stand up for themselves and their rights. It will be the death of OSS.
A small software writer who distributed model railroad software is taken to court by some outfit claiming he violated their patent despite the fact that there is prior art and substantial reason to believe the suit may be without merit. This poor guy is going to lost in court.
A large software firm distributes an Open Source operating system and is taken to court by some outfilt claiming they violated their inteleectual property despite the fact that there is prior art and substantial reason to believe the suit may be without merit. This company is going to prevail in court.
What's the difference? The first guy is one man devoting a lot of his time to something he loves. The second company is IBM fighting off SCO.
What's the lesson? A. Justice is for sale in the United States and $DEITY help you if you get sued and can't affod a full-time teal of lawyers.
The real tragedy here is that a gang of crooks are able to game the legal system and drag on a bogus lawsuit for years and years. How many small business owners or private individuals could afford to defend against a legal claim - any legal claim - where the opponene, even though his case had no basis in fact, was ready to litigate for YEARS.
So I applaud the Judge in this case (I think) and IBM for having the backbone to stand up to the SCO thugs. But we're all losers here.
SCO executives and possibly even the goddamned shareholders should do jail time for fraudulent use of the courts.
The best thing that could come from this is after a year or two of collecting child porn they suddenly realize there's not that much of it and the pervs who seek it out are an extremely tiny percentage of all internet users. At which point they will re-target the database for something else. They'll claim regular adult pr0n helps the terrorists or something.
Americans need an ammendment to their Constitution that guarantees them the Right To Privacy. Then, assumiung a Congress that actually follows the Constitution can be elected, in conjunction with the Right To Privacy there should be a law that prohibits the use or sale of my personal data without my prior consent. Better: it should be against the law to even collect and store that information in any database where the consumer - citizen, if you will - doesn't have the ability to "SQL DELETE FROM * WHERE NAME = ME".
The bean counters need to worry solely about the quality of the game, and not the overall frequency of purchase for gamers in general. The games industry
This quote is wrong. Bean counters need to do 1 thing: count beans. It's the other people in control of the company that need to realize quality is a supremely important factor.
Let the beancounters do what they do best. The problem happens all too often when the beancounters are the other people that control the company. At that point the quote is 100% correct.
Thanks for the tips. I'll keep that in mind since I have a couple of other domains I need to register in the next few months. I did search a little looking for an alternative but I guess I should have looked a little harder. I check news.admin.net-abuse.email for what the spam fighters are saying about reistrars and ISPs. The consensus seems to be that good-guy registrars are few and far between these days. The good ones aren't cheap. I really wanted to give my business to a good netizen company but in the end $35 was a little too steep for 1 domain for 1 year. Besides, I don't need free email accounts even if they are guaranteed to not be in any spam blocking lists. If I did I might have gone somewhere else.
I just renewed a domain for 2 yrs with them and I sort of regret it. GoDaddy used to be a top-notch outfit. Low prices and no nonsense. These days it's low prices and lots of nonsense. Between the GoDaddy spam, other spammers they support via special arrangements, and their incredibly convoluted ordering and pricing schemes it's no wonder they're starting to plumb the depths of sleaze.
The thing is their prices are so great it's really hard to justify going someplace else. You can pay up to $35 a year at some of the boutique registrars.
American elected officials take an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution which virtually none of them do and for which they pay no penalty. American citizens who value the Constitution can and should practice civil disobedience as concerns this law should it go into effect. Gotta start somewhere.
Disagree 100%. It's Microsoft's product and their responsible for it. I don't see this preview download being billed as a "find the bugs for us" release. Besides, MS has run plenty of betas over the years and all but ignored pleas to fix certain serious bugs by beta testers along the way. Visual Studio comes to mind immediately. They're floating this release for PR, is my guess, not serious beta testing.
In fact, I'll bet MS has already reached the stage with Vista where their response to many new bug reports is going to be "Wait for Service Pack 1".
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He was planning to give a demo today at BlackHat in Vegas. Look at what they did to Skylarov for Adobe. You think they're going to sit idly by while some *gasp* foreigner shows them up? THOU SHALT NOT TAUNT THE HAPPY FUN BALL
Seriously, I'm waiting for word that he cancelled his presentation "voluntarily" or has been arrested.
Sveasoft third-party firmware for Linksys routers. They repackage OSS and sell it under the guise of a yearly fee required to access their support service and forums. They hem and haw and make every excuse in the book to avoid distributing the source code for any of it. They have for all practical purposes stolen the code and are re-selling it as their own.
Then it's a bad idea.
Otherwise it *might* be OK. Ben Affleck would definitely be a negative. Even as a redshirt who got killed in the first scene. Would ruin it.
If we had RFID aware gas pumps it would be possible to have a sliding scale of federal gasoline tax. Tax those Lincoln Navigators et al at $1.50 a gallon and let the efficient sippers off with $0.25 per. I guess that would make too much sense.
"No, i'm not an engineer."
I am. You're right. Looking through some of the news stories about it there was apparently a 3rd grader who noticed the same thing 10 years ago. It takes a real nimrod to hang 3 ton concrete ceiling tiles off a framework that's been epoxied into place.
The real tragedy is that woman's family will never see justice. Everyone will point the finger at everyone else and no one, ultimately, will have to pay the price.
I can't think of any implementation of forums worse than SF. None. The format and organization is horrendous. Google groups is already a better solution and I haven't even tried it yet. The SF public forums could be improved upon by anybody by accident.
When the term became popular a couple of years ago the concept of "blogging" was seen as the online equivalent of daily journals, except that anyone could look in. Who says they all have to be journalists? Or, for that matter, why is the fact that "only 5% of bloggers are journalists" even noteworthy? Who cares? There's probably a percentage devoted to pets that the survey didn't uncover. What difference does it make? It's just another form of speech.
The best you can say about the AV industry is that we finally found out, more or less, that the AV companies themselves aren't behind the malware.
n registry keys. Know what should be in there. 90% of the time you can detect when a virus or spyware is installed by looking there for things that don't belong.
I wish I was a sleazy ruthless person. I could make millions off this idea: check your HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Ru
I keep thinking of that old Wild Wild West dude.
They shouldn't be using computers at all. No amount of rules and regulations is going to turn a computer-illiterate user into a savvy one. If someone is too dumb to figure it out or ask someone for a little help they deserve whatever they get. It really is that simple. All this "we need to protect people from themselves" stuff is nonsense. It won't work. Leave it alone. The threat of someone using your open wifi network to download kiddie porn is what, about 0.0000001? "Oh we need rules to protect unaware people from that risk!" Bull fucking shit.
First if you install Windows into a VM from a legit Windows XP CD and try to download any updates the Genuine Windows Advantage test fails. So MS already knows if you're running VMware. I think MS wants you to buy multiple copies of Windows if you're planning to run in a VM as well as on the real silicon.
Second, this is a licensing issue too, one thing I've used it for is for software I use too infrequently to purchase and has a trial period like 30 days or whatever. Create a VM, install XP in to it, and take a snapshot. Then install and run the software. You may, as I often do, only need to run it for a couple of hours and then not again for a couple of months. By then the trial period has expired. Simply restore the VM from the snapshot, re-install the trial software and you're good to go for another session. Unethical? Maybe. Flame away.
Lastly, despite the fact that I occasionally do #2, I mostly use VMware to run Fedora Core for development. I have Apache set up on it with all the bells and whistles and when I'm working on a website I use it as a test server. Runs quite well with 256 MB dedicated to it on my 1 GB main XP system.
IOW American companies shipping jobs offshore to India is helping almost nobody there but hurting American workers a lot. Par for the course.
and it's something companies rarely invest in any more. Today you need a battery of consultants and MBAs to do market research and decide whether or not a product is worth making. Google is investing here in R&D. They are amassing a ton of experience even with those products that aren't "hits". This sounds like Wall Street crying again because they don't like the way Google does business.
I saw one Google story here this past week I haven't read yet about Google starting a service to compete with PayPal. This has got to be a winner for them because nobody really trusts PayPal, PayPal is pretty sleazy in its little unregulated niche and they NEED some competition desperately. I'd trust Google (for the most part) any day of the week over PayPal. This is a service to keep an eye on.
When are OSS authors going to get off their asses and start suing on their own? There are a ton of companies out there distributing OSS software, mainly in Linux-embedded devices, who blatantly violate the GPL and thumb their noses at anyone who complains. When are OSS authors going to get off their asses and sue some of these bastards for copyright violation? Don't tell me about gpl-violations.org. Harald Welte (he of iptables fame) has done yeoman's work but has very little to show for his efforts. For every 10 complaints made to the GPL Violations mailing list Harald is able to resole maybe 1. Not good enough. There are many, many people who have a share of the copyright that goes into so many OSS projects such as (esp. in the embedded world) BusyBox and uClibc, not to mention all the other utility programs that are often included with such devices, such as wireless tool extensions, strace, tcpwrappers, crond and Linux itself. Companies are quite literally thumbing their noses at the authors of these programs and the authors are too happy to let somebody else worry about it.
When someone comes after you for violating a patent you will wish you had sued to protect your copyrights. It might even have gained you a few dineros to defend yourself with against claims against you.
It just makes me sick that OSS authors don't stand up for themselves and their rights. It will be the death of OSS.
A small software writer who distributed model railroad software is taken to court by some outfit claiming he violated their patent despite the fact that there is prior art and substantial reason to believe the suit may be without merit. This poor guy is going to lost in court.
A large software firm distributes an Open Source operating system and is taken to court by some outfilt claiming they violated their inteleectual property despite the fact that there is prior art and substantial reason to believe the suit may be without merit. This company is going to prevail in court.
What's the difference? The first guy is one man devoting a lot of his time to something he loves. The second company is IBM fighting off SCO.
What's the lesson? A. Justice is for sale in the United States and $DEITY help you if you get sued and can't affod a full-time teal of lawyers.
The real tragedy here is that a gang of crooks are able to game the legal system and drag on a bogus lawsuit for years and years. How many small business owners or private individuals could afford to defend against a legal claim - any legal claim - where the opponene, even though his case had no basis in fact, was ready to litigate for YEARS.
So I applaud the Judge in this case (I think) and IBM for having the backbone to stand up to the SCO thugs. But we're all losers here.
SCO executives and possibly even the goddamned shareholders should do jail time for fraudulent use of the courts.
The best thing that could come from this is after a year or two of collecting child porn they suddenly realize there's not that much of it and the pervs who seek it out are an extremely tiny percentage of all internet users. At which point they will re-target the database for something else. They'll claim regular adult pr0n helps the terrorists or something.
Americans need an ammendment to their Constitution that guarantees them the Right To Privacy. Then, assumiung a Congress that actually follows the Constitution can be elected, in conjunction with the Right To Privacy there should be a law that prohibits the use or sale of my personal data without my prior consent. Better: it should be against the law to even collect and store that information in any database where the consumer - citizen, if you will - doesn't have the ability to "SQL DELETE FROM * WHERE NAME = ME".
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Let the beancounters do what they do best. The problem happens all too often when the beancounters are the other people that control the company. At that point the quote is 100% correct.
Thanks for the tips. I'll keep that in mind since I have a couple of other domains I need to register in the next few months. I did search a little looking for an alternative but I guess I should have looked a little harder. I check news.admin.net-abuse.email for what the spam fighters are saying about reistrars and ISPs. The consensus seems to be that good-guy registrars are few and far between these days. The good ones aren't cheap. I really wanted to give my business to a good netizen company but in the end $35 was a little too steep for 1 domain for 1 year. Besides, I don't need free email accounts even if they are guaranteed to not be in any spam blocking lists. If I did I might have gone somewhere else.
I just renewed a domain for 2 yrs with them and I sort of regret it. GoDaddy used to be a top-notch outfit. Low prices and no nonsense. These days it's low prices and lots of nonsense. Between the GoDaddy spam, other spammers they support via special arrangements, and their incredibly convoluted ordering and pricing schemes it's no wonder they're starting to plumb the depths of sleaze.
The thing is their prices are so great it's really hard to justify going someplace else. You can pay up to $35 a year at some of the boutique registrars.
American elected officials take an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution which virtually none of them do and for which they pay no penalty. American citizens who value the Constitution can and should practice civil disobedience as concerns this law should it go into effect. Gotta start somewhere.
Disagree 100%. It's Microsoft's product and their responsible for it. I don't see this preview download being billed as a "find the bugs for us" release. Besides, MS has run plenty of betas over the years and all but ignored pleas to fix certain serious bugs by beta testers along the way. Visual Studio comes to mind immediately. They're floating this release for PR, is my guess, not serious beta testing.
In fact, I'll bet MS has already reached the stage with Vista where their response to many new bug reports is going to be "Wait for Service Pack 1".
Your comment is at 5 already so it doesn't matter that I have no mod points today.
Your comment deserves to be rated +50 for "hit the nail on the fucking head".