NOTE; I haven't examined each of the posts in question. Copyright allows for "fair use" of material. I.e. I can quote a subsection of a copyright work without penalty, as long as I attibute the original work. Now these users may quote the article, if enough users quote seperate bits and pieces of it, the entire article may be quoted as long as the quoter add additional material not produced in the original work.
As far as the links go, it depends upon what is being linked to. If they are linking to an exact copy, then they may have a problem. If the are linking to a derivative work then Microshaft hasn't a leg to stand upon.
InforWorld does an annual salary survey. The 1999 survey is here. They do a decent job of surveys in various IT areas. They survey a wide variety of occupationas and locations from their readership so they survey isn't exactly perfect. You might find info for the US at the the Census Bureau.
Saturday a system I built at home got cracked. This was largely my fault as I had installed RedHat 5.1 (I left my other distros at the office). I was in the process of downloading 6.0 when a script kiddy came in through the inetd hole. I noticed the introsion when my system response went into the toilet. (He had started a port scanner on the class A subnet 209.0.0.0. I caught it shortly after it started) I had shadow passwords enabled, but they overwrote/bin/login to disable them. They also mucked up all of the system commands too. The stupid things is they didn't even touch my log files, which were in the default location as I had just finished building the system. I have a complete view of the intrusion since they didn't even delete.bash_history. Also the secure log has a complete view of the attack since it took them a couple of hours to crack the box.
Just goes to show that even after year of admin experience, anyone can get cracked when they do dumb things.
Clotho is a good idea as ideas go, unfortunately a lot of Katz articles would never see the light of day. Katz articles provide good foder for thought but a lot of the time they just really aren't all that important, to the majority of the populace.
I put this in perspective, I rate this Katz artile a 6, where the average american would probably rate it a 1, but they rate the importance of owning a car about a 7 where I rate it a 1.
What Jon misses is that everyone has a "Clotho". I have written band reviews in the past in oder to provide perspectives on what others could expect from them. I use/. to come up with information regarding technical issues and how they may apply to social issues, btw/. rates a 7 i.e. more important than a Guiness which I consider pretty indespensible.
Clotho is asking the questions that we all should be asking ourselves, Do we really need that? The answer is mostly no. What we need is limited to water,food and shelter in that order. The average American makes about $35K, but probably only needs about $8K to live.
A far more likely scenario will be advertisements embedded in a web based app. You will access some server providing the application you will, manipulate some data and the the results will probably be sent to a storage server. ( This is the method that my group is currently using for applications.) This allows users to access their data ( probably with ssl or ssh ) from anywhere the might be located. Currently we are collaborating with users from around the US with interest show up from around the world. This will mean that anyone will be capable of reading a document no matter what platform it was produced on.
Slashdot Mirror
NOTE; I haven't examined each of the posts in question. Copyright allows for "fair use" of material. I.e. I can quote a subsection of a copyright work without penalty, as long as I attibute the original work. Now these users may quote the article, if enough users quote seperate bits and pieces of it, the entire article may be quoted as long as the quoter add additional material not produced in the original work.
As far as the links go, it depends upon what is being linked to. If they are linking to an exact copy, then they may have a problem. If the are linking to a derivative work then Microshaft hasn't a leg to stand upon.
The Evil Dwarf from Hell
InforWorld does an annual salary survey. The 1999 survey is here. They do a decent job of surveys in various IT areas. They survey a wide variety of occupationas and locations from their readership so they survey isn't exactly perfect.
You might find info for the US at the the Census Bureau.
Saturday a system I built at home got cracked. This was largely my fault as I had installed RedHat 5.1 (I left my other distros at the office). I was in the process of downloading 6.0 when a script kiddy came in through the inetd hole. I noticed the introsion when my system response went into the toilet. (He had started a port scanner on the class A subnet 209.0.0.0. I caught it shortly after it started) /bin/login to disable them. They also mucked up all of the system commands too. The stupid things is they didn't even touch my log files, which were in the default location as I had just finished building the system. I have a complete view of the intrusion since they didn't even delete .bash_history. Also the secure log has a complete view of the attack since it took them a couple of hours to crack the box.
I had shadow passwords enabled, but they overwrote
Just goes to show that even after year of admin experience, anyone can get cracked when they do dumb things.
Clotho is a good idea as ideas go, unfortunately a lot of Katz articles would never see the light of day. Katz articles provide good foder for thought but a lot of the time they just really aren't all that important, to the majority of the populace.
/. to come up with information regarding technical issues and how they may apply to social issues, btw /. rates a 7 i.e. more important than a Guiness which I consider pretty indespensible.
I put this in perspective, I rate this Katz artile a 6, where the average american would probably rate it a 1, but they rate the importance of owning a car about a 7 where I rate it a 1.
What Jon misses is that everyone has a "Clotho". I have written band reviews in the past in oder to provide perspectives on what others could expect from them. I use
Clotho is asking the questions that we all should be asking ourselves, Do we really need that? The answer is mostly no. What we need is limited to water,food and shelter in that order. The average American makes about $35K, but probably only needs about $8K to live.
A far more likely scenario will be advertisements embedded in a web based app. You will access some server providing the application you will, manipulate some data and the the results will probably be sent to a storage server. ( This is the method that my group is currently using for applications.) This allows users to access their data ( probably with ssl or ssh ) from anywhere the might be located. Currently we are collaborating with users from around the US with interest show up from around the world.
This will mean that anyone will be capable of reading a document no matter what platform it was produced on.