Existing encryption methods don't contain backdoors (as far as I know).
Anyone or any group who can program and has the determination can create their own algorhythims, and encryption tools that simply don't contain backdoors. OSS would easily facilitate such an undertaking. Even if it is illegal, I'd work on it because I use encryption for many things and want to be able to confidently use encryption free of backdoors.
The bulk of my post was about how our notion of 'free' wont be the same because of how our government will take this opportunity to ramp up 'anti-terrorism' efforts.
Yes people died, thank you for those statistics which OMG, I couldn't have found *anywhere else*.
Yes this is a tragedy, I'm not downplaying this at all.
This isn't the editorial area slashdot is typically in and I'm simply highlighting this fact. Yes its tragic, but so is any loss of life, people die on a daily basis, but we don't hear about that on slashdot,unless its someone in the technology field, but then, its technology related.....
I cannot stand stupid people like you. You're the stupid piece of shit.
I was under the impression/. was a site about computers and technology.... There hasn't been a non-terrorist posting all day!
While we are on the subject... I think this will hurt the rights of everyone, globally. With heightened threats come heightened security, and more sophisticated monitoring tools. I think this will detract from what we consider 'anonymity'. Everything will be more closely watched, including you and I.
The US and I'm sure other governments don't want something this horrid to happen again. I believe they will stop at nothing.
Think, facial recognition in public areas, carnivore efforts stepped up + greater public support. I really fear these enevidable results. The US government will use this to 'hijack' their way into our lives.
I think we can all agree that napster is going down in flames. I'm quite sure that if napster would charge, or be forced to block any material on their expansive network, they would see their memberships drop like a brick.
Clones and alternatives are going to take over now (or soon at least) simply because of these hindrances to getting free tunes. Do you honestly expect any more than ~1000 suckers to *pay* to use napster? I think everyone is going to jump ship like soon!
Look at OpenBSD. BR>
I will agree with you that bloat is majorly problematic. There are renegade groups out there though that do not succumb to this level. Don't forget that.
Have there been any specific reasons to switch to outlook/exchange? Or are people just saying it, and 'yes men' are jumping on board because it sounds professional?
Want more concrete examples? At LinuxWorld in San Jose only a few months ago, SGI
had to find a way to explain how Linux is great while they showed off their IRIX
technology. The magician they brought helped, I hear. Michael Dell can not stop
babbling about this exciting new Linux while meanwhile, Microsoft operating
systems power the computers that keep his company afloat. It is always good, in a
truely Machiavellian sense, to pay lip service to industry buzzwords like
"Linux", but most companies will not bet their payrolls on it when push comes to
shove. That's why we avoid future bad press in our standard manner; when we
announced that we would port Internet Explorer to Solaris, we always used the
term "Unix" in our press releases, to give Microsoft a safety buffer. I think
that's wiser in the long run.
LIP SERVICE??
Lets not forget that hotmail runs on BSD!
When push does come to shove, Microsoft does bet a portion of their payroll on the BSD Operating system.
Why is so much money being poured into such a money hole??
MIR has its large host of problems, and this $27 million could have been better invested in other areas of space development, say as a part of the international space station?
Seriously, MIR is not only a money trap, its a health hazard!
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THIS IS GOOD!!!
In some ways anyway.
See, one of the major points in the OJ Simpson case (he got off scot free for those who can't recall) was how easy it is to corrupt a DNA sample.
If anyone gets prosecuted with Carnivore as the main evidence remember: If anyone can forge a 'smoking-gun' letter, there is no way to prove that a suspect (in this case you) has actually produced this evidence! Use it as your argument with Jonny Cochran as your defense attorney, and there is little way you will serve any jail time.
Going through a case like this, where Carnivore evidence has been excluded from a trial due to ease of forgability, why would the FBI continue to use it to collect evidence? There wouldn't be any logical reason to! And I'm sure the CIA wouldn't mind taking over the Carnivore project.
Places like super-computing centers - especially those that use off the shelf parts and clustering software like beowulf will be able to both increase the total amount of memory available to their systems while still coming out cheaper than buying good memory.
I still don't have the money I'd need to build my dream beowulf system, but its getting more affordable everyday!
And I'm sure it was mainly just for education of the subject.
I think that the online mp3 swapping 'conspiricy' won't get any legitimacy until corporations and the very greedy congress are convinced that there is money to be made.
Because by god, there is no way that getting something for free will result into more revenue (even though this has been proven conclusively false)
They have a hilarious liscense agreement! While it is just a sample, I have no doubt a real one looks suspiciously similar.
...
1.3 MS grants COMPANY a non-exclusive right to distribute one complete unit of the enclosed MS product(s) ("Product(s)") inside COMPANY's Computer Hardware package.Like someone would go through and cut all of the restore/companion cds? COMPANY shall neither advertise nor price the Product separately from the Computer Hardware.Basically, if you sell Microsoft software, you can't sell product without including Microsoft's provided software! Who is dumb enough to consent to something like this!?!? Individual Product(s) and Product packaging may not be modified, repackaged, or reassembled. ...
2. PREINSTALLATION REQUIREMENT
If the Product is distributed with an assembled computer system, COMPANY shall preinstall one (1) copy of Product software. COMPANY shall comply Comply? A company is better off sending one of their represenatives over to Bill Gates' place and takin' it up the a**. with the preinstallation instructions, if any, provided with the Product or made available separately through the Microsoft OEM System Builder Program ("Preinstallation Instructions"). COMPANY shall not distribute the unit of Product used to perform preinstallations and shall not distribute the Preinstallation Instructions to end users. Uh, Oh... Microsoft, are you covering something up here?? - Why would something this illogical be in this contract otherwise?? Well, I guess that this could serve as a 'protection' against pirating operations. Nonetheless, the wording makes them sound really sneaky.
3. COMPANY PROVIDES END USER PRODUCT SUPPORT
COMPANY shall provide end user support service for the Product. COMPANY's support service to the end user shall be at least as favorable as the terms under which COMPANY provides end user support for the Computer Hardware. COMPANY's shall place it's support phone number conspicuously Like someone is going to make it so small its unreadable? Microsoft needs to be held more accountable for producing such shitty software!! I bet if they didn't have this barrier between the end user and them, they would constantly be swamped with this liability! in Computer Hardware documentation.
...
In conclusion, I couldn't imagine trying to run a business around this contract!
There's nothing to see here folks. Please it along.
The sale of copyrighted material and the free distribution of it are two entirely different realms.
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Unfortunatly, $.02 isn't the cost of producing a bag of mail to a legislator. If each letter costs $.33 and a lb. of letters is 20 individual letters (rough guess), thats $6.60 per lb. Now, lets say you've got a bag weighing in at 50 lbs. That's $330 of mail that may not even be worth anything because a legislator already has his mind made up because he has already been bough out by 'lobbiests.'
Democracy taxes the citizens. Literally. You must pay a tax on EVERYTHING. Including *attempts* to voice your opinion to lawmakers.
This seems to be a major area Microsoft hasn't seemed to touch with even a TFP (ten-foot-pole).
I haven't had any problems with open sourced software that related directly to the quality of the product. This 'issue' seems to be focused at pushing open sourced into a commercial space. If that be the case, commercialize it dad gummit! Or at least have some organization or corporation that is at the head of such a project. Like the posting stated, if a development group has a reputation their is less to worry about, so why don't software projects that could fit nicely into the commercial space go there? Most likely gumption - it takes skill for that.
Maybe this is the way things should stay. There could be *major* liabilities with doing something like this!
The University of Minnesota is threatening students with revocation of internet access if 'caught' using napster.
Whether they actively seek napster
users, or just wait until their habit is out of control (i.e. saturating the internet connectivity to a crawl), then revoke access, I haven't quite figured out. I haven't had my access banned, so I don't think they are doing either... yet!
I got it as an email. My roommate heard something about it on 9-20 as well (he just mentioned he say some paper or something). I tried digging through ADCS comp. facilities site, and haven't been able to find it, I'm really not too sure where these policies would be found.
This one doesn't explicitly state 'don't use napster' but it does say "no illegal content" which would include downloading mp3s from albums one doesn't own.
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Existing encryption methods don't contain backdoors (as far as I know).
Anyone or any group who can program and has the determination can create their own algorhythims, and encryption tools that simply don't contain backdoors. OSS would easily facilitate such an undertaking. Even if it is illegal, I'd work on it because I use encryption for many things and want to be able to confidently use encryption free of backdoors.
In addition....
The bulk of my post was about how our notion of 'free' wont be the same because of how our government will take this opportunity to ramp up 'anti-terrorism' efforts.
Maybe you didn't understand what I meant.
Yes people died, thank you for those statistics which OMG, I couldn't have found *anywhere else*.
Yes this is a tragedy, I'm not downplaying this at all.
This isn't the editorial area slashdot is typically in and I'm simply highlighting this fact. Yes its tragic, but so is any loss of life, people die on a daily basis, but we don't hear about that on slashdot,unless its someone in the technology field, but then, its technology related.....
I cannot stand stupid people like you. You're the stupid piece of shit.
I was under the impression /. was a site about computers and technology.... There hasn't been a non-terrorist posting all day!
While we are on the subject... I think this will hurt the rights of everyone, globally. With heightened threats come heightened security, and more sophisticated monitoring tools. I think this will detract from what we consider 'anonymity'. Everything will be more closely watched, including you and I.
The US and I'm sure other governments don't want something this horrid to happen again. I believe they will stop at nothing.
Think, facial recognition in public areas, carnivore efforts stepped up + greater public support. I really fear these enevidable results. The US government will use this to 'hijack' their way into our lives.
Ouch... very ouch.
I think we can all agree that napster is going down in flames. I'm quite sure that if napster would charge, or be forced to block any material on their expansive network, they would see their memberships drop like a brick.
Clones and alternatives are going to take over now (or soon at least) simply because of these hindrances to getting free tunes. Do you honestly expect any more than ~1000 suckers to *pay* to use napster? I think everyone is going to jump ship like soon!
Look at OpenBSD.
BR> I will agree with you that bloat is majorly problematic. There are renegade groups out there though that do not succumb to this level. Don't forget that.
The trademark in question must be used in commerce.
Do whatever you can to associate your name with money somehow.
A support contract would be my reccomendation; it could even be a start at generating revenues from this project.
>>Some engineers must be awfully proud right about now. If this was me, I'd be passed out on the office floor! Party on!
Red Hat's innovations are being used at Microsoft now?
Why does the lack of honor by Microsoft never cease to amaze me?
Have there been any specific reasons to switch to outlook/exchange? Or are people just saying it, and 'yes men' are jumping on board because it sounds professional?
Want more concrete examples? At LinuxWorld in San Jose only a few months ago, SGI had to find a way to explain how Linux is great while they showed off their IRIX technology. The magician they brought helped, I hear. Michael Dell can not stop babbling about this exciting new Linux while meanwhile, Microsoft operating systems power the computers that keep his company afloat. It is always good, in a truely Machiavellian sense, to pay lip service to industry buzzwords like "Linux", but most companies will not bet their payrolls on it when push comes to shove. That's why we avoid future bad press in our standard manner; when we announced that we would port Internet Explorer to Solaris, we always used the term "Unix" in our press releases, to give Microsoft a safety buffer. I think that's wiser in the long run.
LIP SERVICE??
Lets not forget that hotmail runs on BSD!
When push does come to shove, Microsoft does bet a portion of their payroll on the BSD Operating system.
Gore winning means Bush LOSING.
If Bush wins, say bye, bye to our freedoms.
You think Beaucracy is bad... wait till bush has his way!
Bush did the same thing.
Remember Bush buying up domains like:
Bushsucks.com
???
I sure do.
Why is so much money being poured into such a money hole??
MIR has its large host of problems, and this $27 million could have been better invested in other areas of space development, say as a part of the international space station?
Seriously, MIR is not only a money trap, its a health hazard!
THIS IS GOOD!!!
In some ways anyway.
See, one of the major points in the OJ Simpson case (he got off scot free for those who can't recall) was how easy it is to corrupt a DNA sample.
If anyone gets prosecuted with Carnivore as the main evidence remember: If anyone can forge a 'smoking-gun' letter, there is no way to prove that a suspect (in this case you) has actually produced this evidence! Use it as your argument with Jonny Cochran as your defense attorney, and there is little way you will serve any jail time.
Going through a case like this, where Carnivore evidence has been excluded from a trial due to ease of forgability, why would the FBI continue to use it to collect evidence? There wouldn't be any logical reason to! And I'm sure the CIA wouldn't mind taking over the Carnivore project.
I saw this in my college's newspaper (University of Minnesota's MN DAILY) YESTERDAY.
This cartoon summarizes the posting for those that don't wish to read it!
Places like super-computing centers - especially those that use off the shelf parts and clustering software like beowulf will be able to both increase the total amount of memory available to their systems while still coming out cheaper than buying good memory.
I still don't have the money I'd need to build my dream beowulf system, but its getting more affordable everyday!
And I'm sure it was mainly just for education of the subject.
I think that the online mp3 swapping 'conspiricy' won't get any legitimacy until corporations and the very greedy congress are convinced that there is money to be made.
Because by god, there is no way that getting something for free will result into more revenue (even though this has been proven conclusively false)
I was just poking through the Microsoft OEM System Builder Web Site (the sub-site that this article was published).
...
...
They have a hilarious liscense agreement! While it is just a sample, I have no doubt a real one looks suspiciously similar.
1.3 MS grants COMPANY a non-exclusive right to distribute one complete unit of the enclosed MS product(s) ("Product(s)") inside COMPANY's Computer Hardware package. Like someone would go through and cut all of the restore/companion cds? COMPANY shall neither advertise nor price the Product separately from the Computer Hardware. Basically, if you sell Microsoft software, you can't sell product without including Microsoft's provided software! Who is dumb enough to consent to something like this!?!? Individual Product(s) and Product packaging may not be modified, repackaged, or reassembled.
2. PREINSTALLATION REQUIREMENT
If the Product is distributed with an assembled computer system, COMPANY shall preinstall one (1) copy of Product software. COMPANY shall comply Comply? A company is better off sending one of their represenatives over to Bill Gates' place and takin' it up the a**. with the preinstallation instructions, if any, provided with the Product or made available separately through the Microsoft OEM System Builder Program ("Preinstallation Instructions"). COMPANY shall not distribute the unit of Product used to perform preinstallations and shall not distribute the Preinstallation Instructions to end users. Uh, Oh... Microsoft, are you covering something up here?? - Why would something this illogical be in this contract otherwise?? Well, I guess that this could serve as a 'protection' against pirating operations. Nonetheless, the wording makes them sound really sneaky.
3. COMPANY PROVIDES END USER PRODUCT SUPPORT COMPANY shall provide end user support service for the Product. COMPANY's support service to the end user shall be at least as favorable as the terms under which COMPANY provides end user support for the Computer Hardware. COMPANY's shall place it's support phone number conspicuously Like someone is going to make it so small its unreadable? Microsoft needs to be held more accountable for producing such shitty software!! I bet if they didn't have this barrier between the end user and them, they would constantly be swamped with this liability! in Computer Hardware documentation.
...
In conclusion, I couldn't imagine trying to run a business around this contract!
There's nothing to see here folks. Please it along.
The sale of copyrighted material and the free distribution of it are two entirely different realms.
Unfortunatly, $.02 isn't the cost of producing a bag of mail to a legislator. If each letter costs $.33 and a lb. of letters is 20 individual letters (rough guess), thats $6.60 per lb. Now, lets say you've got a bag weighing in at 50 lbs. That's $330 of mail that may not even be worth anything because a legislator already has his mind made up because he has already been bough out by 'lobbiests.'
Democracy taxes the citizens. Literally. You must pay a tax on EVERYTHING. Including *attempts* to voice your opinion to lawmakers.
Email is a very easy way to communicate - its far easier than every other way.
If politicians get letters, emails, phone calls or faxes (anything) about an issue, they will listen. Spamming legislators may be a good idea.
"Oh, we're getting a lot of action from the voting public via email - maybe we should listen."
While politicians are very selfish and greedy, they listen. They will be forced to listen!
Quality Assurance??
This seems to be a major area Microsoft hasn't seemed to touch with even a TFP (ten-foot-pole).
I haven't had any problems with open sourced software that related directly to the quality of the product. This 'issue' seems to be focused at pushing open sourced into a commercial space. If that be the case, commercialize it dad gummit! Or at least have some organization or corporation that is at the head of such a project. Like the posting stated, if a development group has a reputation their is less to worry about, so why don't software projects that could fit nicely into the commercial space go there? Most likely gumption - it takes skill for that.
Maybe this is the way things should stay. There could be *major* liabilities with doing something like this!
The University of Minnesota is threatening students with revocation of internet access if 'caught' using napster.
Whether they actively seek napster users, or just wait until their habit is out of control (i.e. saturating the internet connectivity to a crawl), then revoke access, I haven't quite figured out. I haven't had my access banned, so I don't think they are doing either... yet!
I got it as an email. My roommate heard something about it on 9-20 as well (he just mentioned he say some paper or something). I tried digging through ADCS comp. facilities site, and haven't been able to find it, I'm really not too sure where these policies would be found.
http://www.resnet.umn.edu/html/policy.ht ml
This one doesn't explicitly state 'don't use napster' but it does say "no illegal content" which would include downloading mp3s from albums one doesn't own.