Are you kidding? First of all, Outlook is an MS product. (Note: I am over 14 and thus didn't say 'M$.') Secondly, it is bundled with the system, has an icon on the desktop, *and* is the default email handler for Windows. (Quick: launch IE on a fresh Win install. Go to a page and click a "mailto:" link. See what application launches itself and asks for your info.)
Secondly, the RPC stuff was a system-level Windows flaw, through and through.
I think it was him, and I think this was the quote: "Stanley Kubrik was smart enough to know that sound doesn't travel in space in 1968. In 1977, George Lucas showed us it *should*."
So let's RTFA and see if we can figure this out, OK?
"Most of Florida communications case law stems from the rotary dial era," saith the article. OK, so to my layman's brain, that sounds like "Our case law is old, so we need to do some crazy think to generate more court activity so we can update our case law." Kind of like "throw some shit at the wall and hope some sticks." Am I on the right track here?
"'The standard response is on the border between surprise and outrage,' says Arthur Simon, senior vice president of big-business lobby Associated Industries of Florida."
Aha, big business is against higher taxes. (Makes sense.) Finafuckingly, our Disney lobbyists will do something worthwhile by figting this. I'll bet the Mouse has a pretty big fscking LAN. Remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"'What did surprise the business community was the extent and reach of the rule,' says the lobbyist."
In 2003, a LAN tax is akin to a breathing tax. Like they said in the article, "Practically any office with two computers will have a local area network."
Oh well. I'll have to see how this one goes. As long as we don't have to vote on it, I think we'll come through OK.:-)
Evidently, not quite. There will be "enough" when AOL and MSN and Yahoo! and everyone else offer them and every person has (at least) one. Same as anything else: companies constantly feel the need to make barriers to entry lower and lower until everyone who could possibley want one, has one.
Can we *please* not end every Linux desktop submission with "[perhaps this] could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a bigger reality."?!?!?!
*If* it happens (and that's a big "if") it'll take years, and it's entirely likely that it won't. Assuming Microsoft has only 90% desktop marketshare, that's 10% split among Apple, Linux, etc. That means *no one* is even *close* to MS's dominance on the desktop. (Remember the Princess Bride? Think "land war in Asia") So why does anyone think Sun or Mandrake or anyone else is going to be the one who makes PHBs say "Well, gee, if Sun is behind it, I'll switch everything tomorrow!"?
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but this pie-eyed optimism is not getting anyone anywhere. Hell, headlines here oughtta read "Company X introduces Linux desktop that's nicer than last year's; world continues not to care."
Yes, and the proper thing to do would be to contact the system administrator and let him/her know that their system is vulnerable.
And how, exactly, do you contact the sysadmin for J. Random User's dialup-connected computer? Personally, I'm all for the worm-fixing-worm. Not perfect, more of a lesser-of-two-evils kind of thing. Vigilante justice is better than no justice at all. And remember, the only difference between vigilante justice and regular justice is the government condones one but not the other.* Both dole out punishment, both are fallable, both are better than nothing at all.
* Specifically, the US government. I'm sure there are plenty of places where what we consider vigilante justice is A-OK, and they'd be all for this worm-killing-worm. And isn't cyberspace a) international and b) a place in its own right?
The moral of this story is: keep your damn hands off something that ain't yours.
But what if someone, by their inaction, is damaging the Internet for the rest of us? They have the right to waltz onto the Internet, unprotected, becoming conduits for worms, and we aren't allowed to do anything? Remember, the Internet is very different from the real world in many ways. I can copy a file from my computer to yours. You now have a 100% perfect duplicate, yet I have lost nothing whatsoever. Copyright laws, property laws, etc. weren't written with this in mind. If someone steals your car and uses it to crash into other cars, you'll know. If someone hacks into your computer and uses it to attack other computers, you won't. Again, laws, rules, and customs from the physical world are not a perfect match. I'm not saying I have all the answers, but I do know that you can't just take a rule from the physical world and say "This is the rule, follow it here." "Keep your damn hands off something that ain't yours."? What if someone is causing you to put your hands on something that is mine and you're unaware of it? What do we do now? The old rules do not apply.
Specifically, movie studios get 100% of the box office for the first two weeks, then 80%, then 60%, and so on. (Not exactly, but more or less.) (Also, that's why discount passws are not accepted for the first two weeks.)
A movie that sucks but makes $80M in the first two weeks and $20M in the next two is better than a movie that makes $25M for four weeks straight, even though both "made" $100M. Worst of all is a small movie with great word of mouth that goes $10M, 20, 30, 40 in the first 4 weeks. A decade ago when I worked in a theater, Sister Act and Presumed Innocent did just that. I distinctly remember PI--it had a so-so opening weekend; after a month, we were selling out 4 shows per night.
That's why all movies suck: studios only care about buying big stars and getting two good weekends out of a movie.
The limit is, well, a limitation:-) but a firewire card is $30 and the upgrade to XP Pro is $70. I know this isn't quite the way things are in the Read World (tm) but I would think that it shouldn't be *that* hard to get your Dell rep to sell you a bunch of systems for a price *somewhere* near what they sell to consumers-on-the-street. After all, everything else being equal, they'd rather sell 100 machines at a time than 1--all that profit (!) with one phone call/invoice/etc. than 100. OTOH, if they're taking a loss on those, then I could see why they wouldn't offer them in quantity. Alternately, organize your PTA--have every parent orde 1 machine, then reimburse them!:-) (I know, not practical or realistic, just a pie-eyed thought.)
But I feel your pain. If you're arguing with your superiors for Macs, feel free *not* to pass along that dell.com/tv URL.:-)
Stock price is going up and SCO execs are selling stock, so someone out there *wants* SCO stock. WHO IN THE FUCK IS BUYING SCO STOCK?!?!? Is this another one of them tulip bulb/bigger idiot things?
...had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the article makes out.
No fscking way. I'll believe they weren't aware of anything as they forged headers and return addresses while looking for open relays, changing ISPs every 10 minutes, and paying ISPs 3x the going rate to look the other way for 24 hours as soon as someone believes that I didn't really mean to rob a bank, I just found a gun, happened to wave it around, didn't notice the teller giving me $600k in cash, and didn't realize that I was driving that fast and that all those lights and sirens were for me--I just figured they wanted someone else.
I like a nice elegant proof as much as the next geek, but brute-force answers are pretty much unarguable, where proofs require reasoning which may be flawed. Many "proofs" have stood for quite some time before someone else found an error in reasoning or logic.
That said, any problem involving an infinite series of numbers pretty much require a logical proof, but a problem constrained to a chessboard is more analagous to "prove the quadratic theory is correct when a, b, and c are integers from 1 to 10."
I'm not taking sides, just pointing out: dell.com/tv, get a 2.4 GHz P4 for $499 after rebate, and that's *with* a 15" flat panel--free upgrade special this week.
That is a factor, but the much bigger factor is the amount of people examining *nix code from a security standpoint, the way that application prics are set, running apps in user space vs. kernel space, etc. (that last one affects stability more than security, but if someone can crash your machine, isn't that almost as bad as taking control of it otherwise? down is down.)
OK, so free-as-in-free is the most important thing in the universe, and there is only one distro on the planet he recommends due to "ethical considerations"... but he runs Deb on his laptop because it was "the best at the time." what fucking bullshit. if it's so important to you, switch distros right-fucking-now. OTOH, why didn't you just go with LFS or something in the first place? c'mon, if absolute purity is your number one concern, why use a distro at all? oh, you're too busy? using a distro is more convenient, you say? so you're saying there are practical reasons for not being as pure as pure can be, and that real life must sometimes intrude? So it's OK for you to be impure for practical reasons, but not the rest of us? OK, now I see.
"When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on ethical considerations."
Given the same marketshare as Windows, Linux would be just as much targetted by the black hats and script kiddies alike as Windows is these days.
Yeah, the fact that *nix/apache powers over half of all websites (meaning, more than Win/IIS _and_everyone_else_combined_) has nothing to do with anything. Accept it: *nix is inherently a more secure design. Neither is perfect, and yes, I'd rather have a well-admin'ed Windows box than a non-patched *nix box, but the fact is, out of the box and/or with standard settings, *nix is more secure, period. I won't go into how and why, that's well covered in other replies and anywhere on the Net you care to look. Just wanted to make sure someone poked a hole in your "marketshare" theory.
The machines are so good that people are able to file a lawsuit due to expecting X performance on a machine and not getting it, and expect to have a case.
They expected it because they were told that would be the case.
Personally, I doubt Apple deserves this...
They very rightly do. So do many, many other companies. It just so happens that cases, and especially victories, are rare.
It came out over five years ago. BeOS R3/Intel would go from POST to desktop in about 10 or 15 seconds on your average P233 with 32 MB and, once booted, returned search results instantly thanks to its database-like filesystem or played a dozen movies at once thanks to its awesome media IO subsystem. Pitch control mp3s +/- 400%? Done. 6 quicktime movies playing with rendered shadows on a rotating cube? Done. Cruft? None to be seen. It really was sweet, but a lack of apps killed it.
My friend was recently in an accident. He was doing about 40 50 mph on an open road near his home and a large dog jumped out of nowhere. Caused ~$2200 worth of damage. He hit the brakes and locked up his front wheels. The insurance paid for the bodywork (grille, headlight, fender, etc.) but not for his now severely flat-spotted tires because, quote, "They were not damaged in the impact."
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Remember: in Independence Day, the Mac OS *was* the virus.
Are you kidding? First of all, Outlook is an MS product. (Note: I am over 14 and thus didn't say 'M$.') Secondly, it is bundled with the system, has an icon on the desktop, *and* is the default email handler for Windows. (Quick: launch IE on a fresh Win install. Go to a page and click a "mailto:" link. See what application launches itself and asks for your info.)
Secondly, the RPC stuff was a system-level Windows flaw, through and through.
I think it was him, and I think this was the quote: "Stanley Kubrik was smart enough to know that sound doesn't travel in space in 1968. In 1977, George Lucas showed us it *should*."
So let's RTFA and see if we can figure this out, OK?
:-)
"Most of Florida communications case law stems from the rotary dial era," saith the article. OK, so to my layman's brain, that sounds like "Our case law is old, so we need to do some crazy think to generate more court activity so we can update our case law." Kind of like "throw some shit at the wall and hope some sticks." Am I on the right track here?
"'The standard response is on the border between surprise and outrage,' says Arthur Simon, senior vice president of big-business lobby Associated Industries of Florida."
Aha, big business is against higher taxes. (Makes sense.) Finafuckingly, our Disney lobbyists will do something worthwhile by figting this. I'll bet the Mouse has a pretty big fscking LAN. Remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"'What did surprise the business community was the extent and reach of the rule,' says the lobbyist."
In 2003, a LAN tax is akin to a breathing tax. Like they said in the article, "Practically any office with two computers will have a local area network."
Oh well. I'll have to see how this one goes. As long as we don't have to vote on it, I think we'll come through OK.
Evidently, not quite. There will be "enough" when AOL and MSN and Yahoo! and everyone else offer them and every person has (at least) one. Same as anything else: companies constantly feel the need to make barriers to entry lower and lower until everyone who could possibley want one, has one.
Can we *please* not end every Linux desktop submission with "[perhaps this] could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a bigger reality."?!?!?!
*If* it happens (and that's a big "if") it'll take years, and it's entirely likely that it won't. Assuming Microsoft has only 90% desktop marketshare, that's 10% split among Apple, Linux, etc. That means *no one* is even *close* to MS's dominance on the desktop. (Remember the Princess Bride? Think "land war in Asia") So why does anyone think Sun or Mandrake or anyone else is going to be the one who makes PHBs say "Well, gee, if Sun is behind it, I'll switch everything tomorrow!"?
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but this pie-eyed optimism is not getting anyone anywhere. Hell, headlines here oughtta read "Company X introduces Linux desktop that's nicer than last year's; world continues not to care."
Toast for Mac has verified ever since I first started using it, 1997-98.
No sense mentioning that 'intelligent' has 4 syllables and 'smart' has only 1. Longer word = better. Just ask any news bunny or 7th-grade essy writer.
:-)
OTOH, I've never heard anyone say "He's street-intelligent."
The only negative comment I have about this book is... it left me feeling sad to see such a powerful combination of talent break apart...
:-) Thanks for the review. Glad it got posted. I'll have to check the book out.
I feel the same way after most episodes of "Behind the Music."
Yes, and the proper thing to do would be to contact the system administrator and let him/her know that their system is vulnerable.
And how, exactly, do you contact the sysadmin for J. Random User's dialup-connected computer? Personally, I'm all for the worm-fixing-worm. Not perfect, more of a lesser-of-two-evils kind of thing. Vigilante justice is better than no justice at all. And remember, the only difference between vigilante justice and regular justice is the government condones one but not the other.* Both dole out punishment, both are fallable, both are better than nothing at all.
* Specifically, the US government. I'm sure there are plenty of places where what we consider vigilante justice is A-OK, and they'd be all for this worm-killing-worm. And isn't cyberspace a) international and b) a place in its own right?
The moral of this story is: keep your damn hands off something that ain't yours.
But what if someone, by their inaction, is damaging the Internet for the rest of us? They have the right to waltz onto the Internet, unprotected, becoming conduits for worms, and we aren't allowed to do anything? Remember, the Internet is very different from the real world in many ways. I can copy a file from my computer to yours. You now have a 100% perfect duplicate, yet I have lost nothing whatsoever. Copyright laws, property laws, etc. weren't written with this in mind. If someone steals your car and uses it to crash into other cars, you'll know. If someone hacks into your computer and uses it to attack other computers, you won't. Again, laws, rules, and customs from the physical world are not a perfect match. I'm not saying I have all the answers, but I do know that you can't just take a rule from the physical world and say "This is the rule, follow it here." "Keep your damn hands off something that ain't yours."? What if someone is causing you to put your hands on something that is mine and you're unaware of it? What do we do now? The old rules do not apply.
Specifically, movie studios get 100% of the box office for the first two weeks, then 80%, then 60%, and so on. (Not exactly, but more or less.) (Also, that's why discount passws are not accepted for the first two weeks.)
A movie that sucks but makes $80M in the first two weeks and $20M in the next two is better than a movie that makes $25M for four weeks straight, even though both "made" $100M. Worst of all is a small movie with great word of mouth that goes $10M, 20, 30, 40 in the first 4 weeks. A decade ago when I worked in a theater, Sister Act and Presumed Innocent did just that. I distinctly remember PI--it had a so-so opening weekend; after a month, we were selling out 4 shows per night.
That's why all movies suck: studios only care about buying big stars and getting two good weekends out of a movie.
The limit is, well, a limitation :-) but a firewire card is $30 and the upgrade to XP Pro is $70. I know this isn't quite the way things are in the Read World (tm) but I would think that it shouldn't be *that* hard to get your Dell rep to sell you a bunch of systems for a price *somewhere* near what they sell to consumers-on-the-street. After all, everything else being equal, they'd rather sell 100 machines at a time than 1--all that profit (!) with one phone call/invoice/etc. than 100. OTOH, if they're taking a loss on those, then I could see why they wouldn't offer them in quantity. Alternately, organize your PTA--have every parent orde 1 machine, then reimburse them! :-) (I know, not practical or realistic, just a pie-eyed thought.)
:-)
But I feel your pain. If you're arguing with your superiors for Macs, feel free *not* to pass along that dell.com/tv URL.
Stock price is going up and SCO execs are selling stock, so someone out there *wants* SCO stock. WHO IN THE FUCK IS BUYING SCO STOCK?!?!? Is this another one of them tulip bulb/bigger idiot things?
...had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the article makes out.
No fscking way. I'll believe they weren't aware of anything as they forged headers and return addresses while looking for open relays, changing ISPs every 10 minutes, and paying ISPs 3x the going rate to look the other way for 24 hours as soon as someone believes that I didn't really mean to rob a bank, I just found a gun, happened to wave it around, didn't notice the teller giving me $600k in cash, and didn't realize that I was driving that fast and that all those lights and sirens were for me--I just figured they wanted someone else.
I like a nice elegant proof as much as the next geek, but brute-force answers are pretty much unarguable, where proofs require reasoning which may be flawed. Many "proofs" have stood for quite some time before someone else found an error in reasoning or logic.
That said, any problem involving an infinite series of numbers pretty much require a logical proof, but a problem constrained to a chessboard is more analagous to "prove the quadratic theory is correct when a, b, and c are integers from 1 to 10."
I'm not taking sides, just pointing out: dell.com/tv, get a 2.4 GHz P4 for $499 after rebate, and that's *with* a 15" flat panel--free upgrade special this week.
That is a factor, but the much bigger factor is the amount of people examining *nix code from a security standpoint, the way that application prics are set, running apps in user space vs. kernel space, etc. (that last one affects stability more than security, but if someone can crash your machine, isn't that almost as bad as taking control of it otherwise? down is down.)
OK, so free-as-in-free is the most important thing in the universe, and there is only one distro on the planet he recommends due to "ethical considerations"... but he runs Deb on his laptop because it was "the best at the time." what fucking bullshit. if it's so important to you, switch distros right-fucking-now. OTOH, why didn't you just go with LFS or something in the first place? c'mon, if absolute purity is your number one concern, why use a distro at all? oh, you're too busy? using a distro is more convenient, you say? so you're saying there are practical reasons for not being as pure as pure can be, and that real life must sometimes intrude? So it's OK for you to be impure for practical reasons, but not the rest of us? OK, now I see.
"When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on ethical considerations."
Practice what you preach, brother.
Given the same marketshare as Windows, Linux would be just as much targetted by the black hats and script kiddies alike as Windows is these days.
Yeah, the fact that *nix/apache powers over half of all websites (meaning, more than Win/IIS _and_everyone_else_combined_) has nothing to do with anything. Accept it: *nix is inherently a more secure design. Neither is perfect, and yes, I'd rather have a well-admin'ed Windows box than a non-patched *nix box, but the fact is, out of the box and/or with standard settings, *nix is more secure, period. I won't go into how and why, that's well covered in other replies and anywhere on the Net you care to look. Just wanted to make sure someone poked a hole in your "marketshare" theory.
The machines are so good that people are able to file a lawsuit due to expecting X performance on a machine and not getting it, and expect to have a case.
They expected it because they were told that would be the case.
Personally, I doubt Apple deserves this...
They very rightly do. So do many, many other companies. It just so happens that cases, and especially victories, are rare.
Sleep rox in OS X. Decent in XP, too.
It came out over five years ago. BeOS R3/Intel would go from POST to desktop in about 10 or 15 seconds on your average P233 with 32 MB and, once booted, returned search results instantly thanks to its database-like filesystem or played a dozen movies at once thanks to its awesome media IO subsystem. Pitch control mp3s +/- 400%? Done. 6 quicktime movies playing with rendered shadows on a rotating cube? Done. Cruft? None to be seen. It really was sweet, but a lack of apps killed it.
when I first read the headline, I thought "three snort" was a rating of how funny something was.
:-)
for example, this post is about a half-snort.
My friend was recently in an accident. He was doing about 40 50 mph on an open road near his home and a large dog jumped out of nowhere. Caused ~$2200 worth of damage. He hit the brakes and locked up his front wheels. The insurance paid for the bodywork (grille, headlight, fender, etc.) but not for his now severely flat-spotted tires because, quote, "They were not damaged in the impact."
...they also point out that half of all car accidents involve sober drivers.