there's needs to be laws that ban those sort of things. Like a "no spyware bill" or something.
Oh, where does free speech come into all this? I would assume a programmer's right to express him or herself takes backseat to regulating problems that never existed. If you don't like spyware, don't use it!
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere travelling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
TivoWeb doesn't work on Series2.. also it requires you to add a tivonet or setup PPP over serial. Once 3.0 is rolled out, let's hope TivoWeb is made to work on 3.0 and Series2 units. Easy USB ethernet should increase demand for web-based tivo access. Maybe then we'll get a more in-depth and user friendly solution. Heck, I'll use AOL to program my Tivo if it is a good comprehensive interface.
You would really run outdated Microsoft software on any sort of network that was connected to anything?
Yes. I would put an NT4 box, properly secured, on the Internet exposed to the world. With no firewall. A fully patched NT4 installation has no known exploits. NT4 is supported by MS until June 2003, and they will continue to provide security updates after that. You know it's been rated C2 secure for years, right? What you wrote is pure FUD, and it's the reason why nobody listens to most Linux zealots.
OK, maybe if they are typing the data into an Excel spreadsheet (probably what they're doing) they are *ahem* misguided. But let's not jump to conclusions.. it didn't say what type of system they were going to. For all we know, they have a new system lined up with an SQL Server or Oracle back-end - which is fine. PC's make great front ends, really.
The 'computer specialist' who wrote that comment about eating people is a little out of line there. I wouldn't hire anyone who'd say "AS400 is always better than a PC network" without knowing any real specifics about the AS400.. the city had a 20 year old system, and their best bet is probably to get rid of it in favor of something based on less lucrative hardware.
I assume from your ignorance that you have never worked with AS/400 - if you had, you'd know that it's not Unix, it can be a pain in the ass, and IBM support is damn expensive. It's basically an outdated platform - look at the article, they were backing up to a REEL of tape! Unless you want to have a full-time AS/400 admin sitting around (just a little more expensive than an MCP), you're also locked into an IBM contract or per-incident support. Not cheap.
Why don't people get fired for this?
Because you shouldn't get fired for choosing a specific platform. There are crappy NT applications and there are good ones. It's the same for AS/400 - I have clients counting the days until they throw the AS/400 box out the window.
BSA audits, the MS support calls, the endless software licence upgrades
Audits, as in plural? Come on, one audit over the lifetime of an organization is rare. And AS400 / Red Hat / *nix support grows on trees? As for license upgrades, nobody's forcing you to upgrade.. if you bought the software it's yours to do whatever you like with it.
Being a software pirate, I'd love to see this used to store games.. wouldn't it be cool to have a 100GB drive hooked up to your Dreamcast and to be able to load games off the HD? Probably tough to do since I'm sure games read the CD directly.. but it'd be cool. Like those N64 copiers that read games off zip disk.
CAPTAINSUPERBOY: You appear to be one of the few who read and understand what I said.
Hey, you really shouldn't pay the slashdroids any mind. They just reload the stupid site all day, waiting for someone to say something that goes against party lines. Then they say some kind of/. cliche.. like "Those who would give up eternal freedom for temporary safety deserve neither," or "How can you buy DVD's while at the same time criticizing the MPAA?" Or the all-time favorite, "Lunix r00lz." You seem to have irritated the "information wants to be free" crowd by actually expressing a desire to not have your content stolen. Shame on you.
That doesn't work if someone is ripping images directly off the site and posting them on their own site.. someone who doesn't need bandwidth, they need to steal content from other sites. The problem is it's extremely hard to track or find stolen images. DRM (meaning watermarking) can help prove that content was stolen from you, even if they stripped out the meta-information from the file.
Also, who said anything about legislation? I think you've heard one too many CBDTPA arguments and it's spilling over into your other thoughts...:)
If you don't like hyperlinks, then take your page off the fucking world wide web. Linking is the very nature of the web. In my mind, posting a multipage web site is granting implicit permission for people to link to your site - don't these people understand Berners-Lee's intentions? Hypertext? An interconnected network of content? If they don't, they shouldn't HAVE a web site. You know, those of us who were around before the commercialization of the net realize how screwy this all is.
There are always technical solutions, too.. why not generate a session key on the home page and require it to be part of the request for any other pages? That'll stop that pesky Google too.. It will probably stop many users from browsing your site, but that's what they want to prevent, right?
They are free to use other protocols. May I suggest a raw telnet BBS? That way they can have people log in, enter their e-mail, sell their firstborn children, before they are allowed to access the precious content. Putting a page on the web (including internal hyperlinks of course), and then getting pissed when someone 'deep links' to that page, is like putting numbers on your door and getting pissed when someone sends you mail.
If I am evaluating software to purchase, I rarely fill out the download form. The longer the form is (and the more fields are required), the less likely I am to fill it out. IF I fill it out, I'll use a sneakemail address or a fake address..
I will simply skip your software if I need to wait for an e-mail from you for a download key. There is no software I'm looking for on the web that I'm willing to waste my time for like that. I was looking for upload components for IIS the other day.. It's for a product I'm developing, and it must be redistributable royalty-free. I found a good component, downloaded it.. but was really turned off by the licensing options. Basically they said, "We only license this per-server. There are no site licenses, no redistributable licenses. We used to have site licenses, but once yours expires you need to buy a new license for every server." So, licensing is a huge turn-off for some eval software.
Basically, if I'm looking for a software component on the web it can't be too important. I don't exactly hunt around for full-scale accounting packages from companies I've never heard of. Chances are, your software just isn't important enough to justify making users jump through hoops to download it.
Why do you need my information anyway? I don't want you to call me.. frequently there is no checkbox where you can say, don't bother me at the office. I just don't see a reason why companies need a complete database of everyone who has tried their software.
You should pay whatever price the market will bear. But, let's say Ford and GM gave millions to congress and pushed through a bill that guaranteed them a monopoly on producing cars, by only allowing 'certified' cars to be sold. Then, Ford and GM could fix their prices at whatever price they wanted, knowing that there wouldn't be any 'unfair' competition. Sound bad? It's called the CBDTPA.
Not really.. All Google's API does is generate the right XML for you, which you could do yourself with a third party XML library or an hour's hacking. They are using completely off-the-shelf components - SAX to do the XML, and Apache's SOAP library for Java.
Oh, come on. How many crying indians does it take before we're all huddled up in the woods eating rocks? The fact is, enviro-fascist luddites are destroying America. In order to have any progress we have to accept some degree of pollution, but many people want to have their cake and eat it too! Next time some tree hugger yells at you for not separating the plastic and paper, try slashing the tires on their VW microbus. That'll shut them up, the hypocrites!
Actually, recycling is just a tool of the enviro-fascists who would like us to go back to the stone age rather than pollute a little. It has been proven worthless, yet we are forced to recycle. Is this a free society?
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This is still insightful? Come on, someone says this on EVERY story that mentions DVD.. come up with an original idea, you karma whore!
This is great, except that fiber to the home just ain't happening. Last mile problem, stubborn telcos, competition between cable and telcos over infrastructure.. The only way this works is if there is a new player in the market willing to spend billions on new fiber to every home, and start a completely new service. There is NO WAY cable or telco gives up on their current technology and starts with this - and that's what it would take to get fiber into the home. We already have copper and coax in every home and this is good enough for the two big players right now. Their page says low deployment cost per home, but what do they mean? $2000? $4000? Compared to less than a thousand for a cable modem or DSL (including head-end equipment)?
Mmm.. cultural relativism (I am referring to your blatant characterization of 'the past was better') and misplaced blame all in one. Your statement that information was somehow 'less dangerous' in the past is a complete non sequitur. Actually, the lack of information enabled the church and the monarchies to control millions. The printing press is generally regarded as a good thing by historians.
Don't blame the tool, blame the person using the tool. It is impossible to have 'dangerous information' without someone to use that information. Scientific discovery and the spread of information are unstoppable, and trying to restrict them can only lead to disaster.
The unavailability of information has never kept people from doing horrible things to each other. Your belief that the world was somehow better or safer in the past illustrates how little you actually know about history.
Around here, Banknorth put up a billboard that said, "Banknorth. It's still the bank of Bob." There was a picture of an old dude, allegedly named Bob. Well, someone spraypainted a stencil of the real Bob onto the billboard.
I'm an artist (a pianist and composer), and my skin crawls when the RIAA claims to be looking out for me.
My point is, that they are drumming up sympathy by championing your cause - "If piracy is allowed to run rampant, artists won't be compensated for their effort." They couldn't care less about your compensation however.. never believe them when they say they are in favor of artists. They are in favor of their profits. The real two sides in this fight? It's not consumers vs. artists, it's companies versus real people.
This is certainly a case of strange bedfellows.. you have the content industry and the US Senate in one corner. In the other corner, you have big tech corporations and.. the EFF? It's understandable that Gateway feels their profit margins are being threatened by this bill. The best way for them to fight it is to drum up public support, which means educating users about what they can do with digital music now (rip MP3s, burn CDs, download music) even if it means hinting to people that yes, you can do illegal stuff right now (but you won't be able to soon).
Basically, both sides are rallying around a cause in order to drum up support. The recording industry is chanting, "The artists! The artists!" At the same time, tech seems to be saying, "The consumer! The consumer!" But in the end, everyone's just looking out for their own threatened business model.
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there's needs to be laws that ban those sort of things. Like a "no spyware bill" or something.
Oh, where does free speech come into all this? I would assume a programmer's right to express him or herself takes backseat to regulating problems that never existed. If you don't like spyware, don't use it!
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere travelling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Does it count for lost productivity if your boss closes the company for the afternoon? I guess so. But I'm still looking forward to it...
TivoWeb doesn't work on Series2.. also it requires you to add a tivonet or setup PPP over serial. Once 3.0 is rolled out, let's hope TivoWeb is made to work on 3.0 and Series2 units. Easy USB ethernet should increase demand for web-based tivo access. Maybe then we'll get a more in-depth and user friendly solution. Heck, I'll use AOL to program my Tivo if it is a good comprehensive interface.
Yes. I would put an NT4 box, properly secured, on the Internet exposed to the world. With no firewall. A fully patched NT4 installation has no known exploits. NT4 is supported by MS until June 2003, and they will continue to provide security updates after that. You know it's been rated C2 secure for years, right? What you wrote is pure FUD, and it's the reason why nobody listens to most Linux zealots.
The 'computer specialist' who wrote that comment about eating people is a little out of line there. I wouldn't hire anyone who'd say "AS400 is always better than a PC network" without knowing any real specifics about the AS400.. the city had a 20 year old system, and their best bet is probably to get rid of it in favor of something based on less lucrative hardware.
Why don't people get fired for this?
Because you shouldn't get fired for choosing a specific platform. There are crappy NT applications and there are good ones. It's the same for AS/400 - I have clients counting the days until they throw the AS/400 box out the window.
BSA audits, the MS support calls, the endless software licence upgrades
Audits, as in plural? Come on, one audit over the lifetime of an organization is rare. And AS400 / Red Hat / *nix support grows on trees? As for license upgrades, nobody's forcing you to upgrade.. if you bought the software it's yours to do whatever you like with it.
Being a software pirate, I'd love to see this used to store games.. wouldn't it be cool to have a 100GB drive hooked up to your Dreamcast and to be able to load games off the HD? Probably tough to do since I'm sure games read the CD directly.. but it'd be cool. Like those N64 copiers that read games off zip disk.
Hey, you really shouldn't pay the slashdroids any mind. They just reload the stupid site all day, waiting for someone to say something that goes against party lines. Then they say some kind of /. cliche.. like "Those who would give up eternal freedom for temporary safety deserve neither," or "How can you buy DVD's while at the same time criticizing the MPAA?" Or the all-time favorite, "Lunix r00lz." You seem to have irritated the "information wants to be free" crowd by actually expressing a desire to not have your content stolen. Shame on you.
Also, who said anything about legislation? I think you've heard one too many CBDTPA arguments and it's spilling over into your other thoughts... :)
There are always technical solutions, too.. why not generate a session key on the home page and require it to be part of the request for any other pages? That'll stop that pesky Google too.. It will probably stop many users from browsing your site, but that's what they want to prevent, right?
They are free to use other protocols. May I suggest a raw telnet BBS? That way they can have people log in, enter their e-mail, sell their firstborn children, before they are allowed to access the precious content. Putting a page on the web (including internal hyperlinks of course), and then getting pissed when someone 'deep links' to that page, is like putting numbers on your door and getting pissed when someone sends you mail.
I will simply skip your software if I need to wait for an e-mail from you for a download key. There is no software I'm looking for on the web that I'm willing to waste my time for like that. I was looking for upload components for IIS the other day.. It's for a product I'm developing, and it must be redistributable royalty-free. I found a good component, downloaded it.. but was really turned off by the licensing options. Basically they said, "We only license this per-server. There are no site licenses, no redistributable licenses. We used to have site licenses, but once yours expires you need to buy a new license for every server." So, licensing is a huge turn-off for some eval software.
Basically, if I'm looking for a software component on the web it can't be too important. I don't exactly hunt around for full-scale accounting packages from companies I've never heard of. Chances are, your software just isn't important enough to justify making users jump through hoops to download it.
Why do you need my information anyway? I don't want you to call me.. frequently there is no checkbox where you can say, don't bother me at the office. I just don't see a reason why companies need a complete database of everyone who has tried their software.
You should pay whatever price the market will bear. But, let's say Ford and GM gave millions to congress and pushed through a bill that guaranteed them a monopoly on producing cars, by only allowing 'certified' cars to be sold. Then, Ford and GM could fix their prices at whatever price they wanted, knowing that there wouldn't be any 'unfair' competition. Sound bad? It's called the CBDTPA.
Yeah but if you use J#.Net.... :)
Not really.. All Google's API does is generate the right XML for you, which you could do yourself with a third party XML library or an hour's hacking. They are using completely off-the-shelf components - SAX to do the XML, and Apache's SOAP library for Java.
How long will it take the Java developer?
About five minutes, using the Java classes that Google included with their API. RTFM, man.
Oh, come on. How many crying indians does it take before we're all huddled up in the woods eating rocks? The fact is, enviro-fascist luddites are destroying America. In order to have any progress we have to accept some degree of pollution, but many people want to have their cake and eat it too! Next time some tree hugger yells at you for not separating the plastic and paper, try slashing the tires on their VW microbus. That'll shut them up, the hypocrites!
Actually, recycling is just a tool of the enviro-fascists who would like us to go back to the stone age rather than pollute a little. It has been proven worthless, yet we are forced to recycle. Is this a free society?
This is still insightful? Come on, someone says this on EVERY story that mentions DVD.. come up with an original idea, you karma whore!
This is great, except that fiber to the home just ain't happening. Last mile problem, stubborn telcos, competition between cable and telcos over infrastructure.. The only way this works is if there is a new player in the market willing to spend billions on new fiber to every home, and start a completely new service. There is NO WAY cable or telco gives up on their current technology and starts with this - and that's what it would take to get fiber into the home. We already have copper and coax in every home and this is good enough for the two big players right now. Their page says low deployment cost per home, but what do they mean? $2000? $4000? Compared to less than a thousand for a cable modem or DSL (including head-end equipment)?
Don't blame the tool, blame the person using the tool. It is impossible to have 'dangerous information' without someone to use that information. Scientific discovery and the spread of information are unstoppable, and trying to restrict them can only lead to disaster.
The unavailability of information has never kept people from doing horrible things to each other. Your belief that the world was somehow better or safer in the past illustrates how little you actually know about history.
Around here, Banknorth put up a billboard that said, "Banknorth. It's still the bank of Bob." There was a picture of an old dude, allegedly named Bob. Well, someone spraypainted a stencil of the real Bob onto the billboard.
My point is, that they are drumming up sympathy by championing your cause - "If piracy is allowed to run rampant, artists won't be compensated for their effort." They couldn't care less about your compensation however.. never believe them when they say they are in favor of artists. They are in favor of their profits. The real two sides in this fight? It's not consumers vs. artists, it's companies versus real people.
I own you all.
Basically, both sides are rallying around a cause in order to drum up support. The recording industry is chanting, "The artists! The artists!" At the same time, tech seems to be saying, "The consumer! The consumer!" But in the end, everyone's just looking out for their own threatened business model.