How can you ever get/.'s cert if the ISP keeps switching it out with the ISP's cert? Just go without/. and all other secure sites while at home? That sucks!
What I thought was the most interesting paragraph:
The possibilities of this CPU and generator are... Fascinating. For instance, users players (see, lines are already blurring) can exchange programs, so you can expect a lively scene of people exchanging programs. There's a nefarious side to this as well - Notch will not stop anyone from making viruses, so even computer security becomes an element of play. A virus could, for instance, disable a ship's weaponry or shields.
Novell slams latest SCO claims SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More SCO CEO claims top spot on Forbes List of World's Most Hated Business Leaders
SCO doesn't have much longer to live. They've managed to get on not only techies' shit lists, but now the presses'
I'm suprised they don't strike up a deal with UPS, FedEx, and other companies that travel around alot that allows them to hook up receivers and use it to grab data that they can compare to their db.
That sounds like a good idea, except I'm guessing UPS and FedEx don't make their own maps.
For instance. Pizza Hut has to make a lot of deliveries around a town. In a city like mine, there is always new contruction going on, new streets and addresses being added. Now, while they can add new streets manually into a computer database, usually every 9 months or so (depending on the need) the manager of the store will call up a company, and order new maps and new street databases from them. Pizza Hut doesn't make their maps, they get them from another company.
I suspect the same goes for UPS or FedEx. They are in the business of getting packages delivered. They don't want to have to pay someone to go around and make maps of all the streets. There are other companies that do that. By hiring another company to take care of that, UPS or FedEx can worry about logistics.
If Navigation Technologies wanted to get a hold of UPS's maps, that would mean going to the map company UPS hires for that company's maps. Considering that Navigation Technologies and that company are direct competitors, I do not think that is likely to happen.
SCO might be able to do this, but they can't get away with it.
If you were accused and brought to trial by someone who said you stole some of his stuff, and his arguement was "Well, where did you put my stolen stuff??? What? You can't show it to me? You don't know what happened to my stuff? Your honor, that proves that he took it and sold it off on the black market."
It's basically what SCO's doing here. Accusing IBM of taking some source code it owned, and acting like IBM is already guilty, and must show the code. Most everyone's sure that IBM didn't do anything wrong, and thus, they can't show what code they stole from SCO!
SCO: Your honor, that shows that IBM is hiding something from us by not showing us the code!
He has also said that Oracle while they will still support PeopleSoft's current products, they won't be continuing PeopleSoft's line of products.
Any new features will only be in Oracle's own products. If customers want new features in their software, then they have to switch to Oracle.
Considering that many of PeopleSoft's customers ask for new features, and PeopleSoft generally tries to please their customers, I wouldn't really call Oracle's "support" the equivalent of PeopleSoft's support.
HP Compaq desktops are available with the latest operating systems from the industry leader, Microsoft, as well as a robust Linux offering from Mandrake. The HP Compaq d220 offers a choice of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Home or Mandrake's Linux v9.1,
providing customers with the versatility needed for today's mixed-use environments.
Emphasis mine. Isn't HP like in the top 3 PC sellers in the USA? And HP puts out a press release to businesses that pretty much makes it seem like OS's other than Windows in businesses are becoming pretty damn common.
I tell most my friends around me not to buy MS stock. Because once they lose their enormous marketshare, like dominos they'll lose their monopoly. HP just reinforced my belief that I'll get to see this happen within 5 years, easy.
Good luck to multiple OS's on computers! Go Apple! Go beOS!
At LAN sites, the rule is normally, if you want to play a game, and you own it, you can bring in your own CD and use your own CD-key, or whatever, and play.
However, if the LAN site has to provide the game for you, then it must own a copy of the game for every person it provides the game for.
If a LAN site has 15 copies of StarCraft, then 15 people can be playing StarCraft at a time. If someone wants to bring his own StarCraft CD from home, then that doesn't count towards the 15 CD limit.
It sounds reasonable to me. I hate to think what would happen if at one of these thousand man LAN's a single copy of a game got distributed to a thousand computers and ables everyone to play.
Okay, just clicked on my own link, and downloaded the program.
Got about 30 people on my list, 4 girls, 26 guys, little less than half with pictures.
The list slowly gets bigger, as Trepia "finds" people close to me. Not a single one was in the same town as me, though a few were about 30-45 minute drives away.
Apparently, the program uses your ip address and prolly trace to figure out how "close" you are to someone. I got a few people who are all the way across the US from me.
It also claims that if you're on a 802.11b network, it'll automatically find other people on the same network as you, that might be running Trepia as well.
Seems like a cool idea, but so far there needs to be way more people using it if you want to find someone down the street with it.
Take the expected number of products that customers have that will fail and harm/kill someone, then multiply that by the average settlement. You end up with what your company can expect to pay from all the court cases from people dying with whatever product a company sells.
If this is cheaper than doing a recall, the company won't do a recall. Even when the company knows people will die from their shitty products
That's what Fight Club says, though I think most companies these days will do a recall anyway, in an effort to avoid bad PR as well.
Ford/Firestone didn't do too well by not doing a recall for a long time. Yeah, they might have expected to lose less money by not doing a recall, but the massive amout of bad PR that came around (people started noticing they were more likely to die on the things) ended up doing a lot worse damage to the bottom line than a recall.
Comic predicts Bush will declare war on Iraq via SMS messaging!!! Giving the recent story on SMS messaging, I don't know if that's a good idea.
Other headlines on that page:
Celebration of sole mates
Forget stilettos as the foot fetishist shoe of choice, a new Melbourne magazine is delving into the seductive world of joggers. The Sneaker Freaker centrefold includes provocative shots of consenting adults who love each other very much enjoying comfortable footwear together.
The magazine's creator, Simon Wood, aka Woody, said that sneakers were sexy.
Clothes ready for take-off
Seatbelts won't be the only things taken off once the pilot on Naked-Air switches off the sign.
Passengers aboard a May 3 chartered Boeing 727-200 flight from Miami to Cancun, Mexico, dubbed "Naked-Air", will be allowed to get their kit off and move around the cabin au naturel once the plane reaches cruising altitude, Reuters reports.
Man, sometimes America can seem quite boring in comparison...
You say that Sun's Java and Microsofts.NET should both enter the ring and duke it out, then let consumers pick the winner!
The problem is, Microsoft cheats. Microsoft is trying to guarentee their win before Sun even enters the ring. Microsoft has gone to court, and the courts have ruled that Microsoft has illegally used their monopoly to their advantage.
Once Java was created, Microsoft realized that if it took off, many programs would no longer require Windows anymore to run. Microsoft then attempted to hijack Java by creating their own incompatible Java VM. Microsoft was using their monopoly to force this incompatible VM onto consumers. Microsoft was trying to use their monopoly to beat out Sun's Java.
It is like telling AOL to ship MSN8 with their latest distro....
Well, AOL didn't try to ship their own version of MSN, try to pass it off as the real MSN, when in reality it wasn't approved by Microsoft. Microsoft tried to ship their own version of Java, pass it off as Java, when in reality it's not truely Java.
Microsoft only forced their incompatible Java VM long enough until they could get.NET developed, and now they want to use.NET to take over what's left of the computer industry, and to kill off any chance that Sun's Java ever had of surviving.
Sun just wants a fair fight. Microsoft wants to kill them before consumers can pick the winner for themselves. Microsoft's trying to set themselves up as the winner before the fight even starts. The justice system was right in saying that Microsoft cannot use their power to force Sun out of the marketplace.
What Microsoft is trying to do is illegal, unethical, unfair and bad for consumers. It's why using a monopoly unfairly is illegal. The government is supposed to help the people and be run BY the people. Microsoft isn't supposed to make choices for us, and it definately isn't run by the people.
I'm seeing a lot of "Why the hell would someone use a cell phone to message when they can just talk?!?"
Well, besides the giggle factor that comes into play the first time you message a friend who's staring at you from right across the room, my answer would be because IT QUIET!!!
In the movie theater and your mom/boss/significant other wants to know where you are, or why the hell you aren't someplace you're supposed to be? Your phone on vibrate can show you who's calling you, and you can quickly type in a message and reply back with information without disturbing those around you.
On New Years Eve, I was at a Rave at the LA Sports Arena. Do you think I'll really be able to hear or talk to anybody next to a wall of subs blowing out my ear drums? Considering there were quite a few people there, I also get separated from my friends. Where's my buddies? When do I know when it's time to go? How far is Kenny getting with that Bree chick (seriously!)? There would be no way we could talk on our phones, but we were still able to communicate with our SMS text messages.
Now granted, SMS isn't nessecary, but then again, this is Slashdot. How often do we do things that are truely nessecary?
Yeah, sounds like Intertrust put a lot of work into their system...
But tell me again, how will this stop me from buying a quiality audio cord from RadioShack and running a line from "Line Out" on my CD player to "Audio In" on my SoundBlaster?
Seems like the record companies are just in denial about the fact that their songs WILL BE ripped and shared over P2P networks. Hell, with enough lawsuits, that small P2P problem should just go away, right? Right???
When Linux newbies have a lack of HOWTOs and sound support is diffuclt to implement, at best they are going to fool around with Linux for a day or two and then go back to their MP3 collection under Windows.
I know this first hand. I attempted to set up debian a number of months ago, and setting up my SB AWE 64 was the biggest pain I had. I managed to get an ftp server up and running, using my linux box as a router and sharing internet access between my roommates and I, even setting up a firewall. (I've never run any kind of unix or unix-like system before). GNOME and KDE weren't much of a hassle, and I managed to even get my Voodoo 2 card working so I could run low framerate UT.
The two things I could NOT get to work (and the two things that kept me from using debian fulltime) was getting a video player to work (for all the porn on my FTP server) and my sound! (for both the porn and MP3's on my FTP server, and games)
Had I gotten those to work, I would be writing this in debian now. Sound is very important when you're trying to gib your friends in Quake3. I've heard that gentoo makes it really simple, but alas, I am now restricted to a POTS 16.9 Kbps for my internet connection (No cable/DSL where I live...) and I don't want to take the time to download the distribution again...
You criticize for people not reading the article, how about not understanding it? The FDIC does not want to insure PayPal directly, but will insure PayPal's deposits into a third party bank, just like they will for anyone making a deposit.
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I was only refuting the parent post's comment that FDIC ruled that PayPal is not a bank just because it doesn't want to have to insure PayPal accounts. I was just stating that the FDIC knows that even though it rules PayPal is not a bank, that in the end they still are insuring some of the money that PayPal is holding and that idea had no bearing on the decision to state PayPal is not a bank.
You are right that the FDIC does not insure PayPal, just many of the individual bigger PayPal accounts.
Are you just one of those bitter cretins that are jealous that someone smarter than you made an observation?
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I was only refuting the parent post's comment that FDIC ruled that PayPal is not a bank just because it doesn't want to have to insure PayPal accounts. I was just stating that the FDIC knows that even though it rules PayPal is not a bank, that in the end they still are insuring some of the money that PayPal is holding and that idea had no bearing on the decision to state PayPal is not a bank.
You are right that the FDIC does not insure PayPal, just many of the bigger PayPal accounts.
Ah, so the FDIC doesn't want to have to insure them. I wouldn't, either!
This is a false statement by someone who did NOT read the article. PayPal IS insured by FDIC. In fact, PayPal even asked the FDIC their opinion on the matter.
From the article:
The company had asked for an opinion from the FDIC on whether it could pass the insurance protection on to its customers. In its advisory letter, the FDIC said the insurance protections--up to $100,000 per customer per bank--would extend to PayPal customers, even when PayPal deposited the funds for them, PayPal said.
"This would destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform,"
Microsoft has been charged guilty of being a monopoly. Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system dominance came about because of abuse of this monopoly. When will Microsoft understand that THEY HAVE NO RIGHT DEMANDING THE GOVERNMENT PROTECT THEIR PRODUCT? That's almost like a mob leader, who broke the law to get the power he has, demanding that the police let him alone or else his empire will colapse....
I've had to think a lot about stuff like this lately. Running a site like MT is expensive -
How DO you survive, pay hosting bills, make enough money to support yourself and others who help run the site?
For giving out for free what I consider the best web comic out there, GETTING SLASHDOTTED IS NOT THE ANSWER.
Heh, if anyone's been following Piro's rants lately, you know that he switched web hosts, and that he spent many days trimming down the site, all the graphics, trying to get file sizes as small as possible to LOWER his bandwidth costs. I think you guys just blew all his hard work!
Now, there have been people who have requested that he set up a PayPal account or something so that we readers could donate to the MegaTokyo cost, but Piro won't have any of it. In his rant today, he explains why. He feels that if people PAY for his comic, that people tend to feel like they DESERVE the comic, as if they bought a service, instead of RESPECTING the work that Piro gives out for free. If you want to support MegaTokyo, buy some stuff from the MegaTokyo store. You get cool swag, Piro and Largo get some cash to help run MegaTokyo, and we're all happy!
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Here's what the MPAA is really after:
FTFY
How can you ever get /.'s cert if the ISP keeps switching it out with the ISP's cert? Just go without /. and all other secure sites while at home? That sucks!
What I thought was the most interesting paragraph:
The possibilities of this CPU and generator are... Fascinating. For instance, users players (see, lines are already blurring) can exchange programs, so you can expect a lively scene of people exchanging programs. There's a nefarious side to this as well - Notch will not stop anyone from making viruses, so even computer security becomes an element of play. A virus could, for instance, disable a ship's weaponry or shields.
Just opened news.google.com.
Under technology's top stories:
Novell slams latest SCO claims
SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More
SCO CEO claims top spot on Forbes List of World's Most Hated Business Leaders
SCO doesn't have much longer to live. They've managed to get on not only techies' shit lists, but now the presses'
That sounds like a good idea, except I'm guessing UPS and FedEx don't make their own maps.
For instance. Pizza Hut has to make a lot of deliveries around a town. In a city like mine, there is always new contruction going on, new streets and addresses being added. Now, while they can add new streets manually into a computer database, usually every 9 months or so (depending on the need) the manager of the store will call up a company, and order new maps and new street databases from them. Pizza Hut doesn't make their maps, they get them from another company.
I suspect the same goes for UPS or FedEx. They are in the business of getting packages delivered. They don't want to have to pay someone to go around and make maps of all the streets. There are other companies that do that. By hiring another company to take care of that, UPS or FedEx can worry about logistics.
If Navigation Technologies wanted to get a hold of UPS's maps, that would mean going to the map company UPS hires for that company's maps. Considering that Navigation Technologies and that company are direct competitors, I do not think that is likely to happen.
SCO might be able to do this, but they can't get away with it.
If you were accused and brought to trial by someone who said you stole some of his stuff, and his arguement was "Well, where did you put my stolen stuff??? What? You can't show it to me? You don't know what happened to my stuff? Your honor, that proves that he took it and sold it off on the black market."
It's basically what SCO's doing here. Accusing IBM of taking some source code it owned, and acting like IBM is already guilty, and must show the code. Most everyone's sure that IBM didn't do anything wrong, and thus, they can't show what code they stole from SCO!
SCO: Your honor, that shows that IBM is hiding something from us by not showing us the code!
(I'm utterly speechless at SCO's tactics...)
He has also said that Oracle while they will still support PeopleSoft's current products, they won't be continuing PeopleSoft's line of products.
Any new features will only be in Oracle's own products. If customers want new features in their software, then they have to switch to Oracle.
Considering that many of PeopleSoft's customers ask for new features, and PeopleSoft generally tries to please their customers, I wouldn't really call Oracle's "support" the equivalent of PeopleSoft's support.
Emphasis mine. Isn't HP like in the top 3 PC sellers in the USA? And HP puts out a press release to businesses that pretty much makes it seem like OS's other than Windows in businesses are becoming pretty damn common.
I tell most my friends around me not to buy MS stock. Because once they lose their enormous marketshare, like dominos they'll lose their monopoly. HP just reinforced my belief that I'll get to see this happen within 5 years, easy.
Good luck to multiple OS's on computers! Go Apple! Go beOS!
Bill Roper is also the voice of the infamous "Zug zug" Orc Peon from the original WarCraft.
Now, getting spammers to think would be a good first step. THEN we can worry about trying to get them to think for ten whole seconds.
At LAN sites, the rule is normally, if you want to play a game, and you own it, you can bring in your own CD and use your own CD-key, or whatever, and play.
However, if the LAN site has to provide the game for you, then it must own a copy of the game for every person it provides the game for.
If a LAN site has 15 copies of StarCraft, then 15 people can be playing StarCraft at a time. If someone wants to bring his own StarCraft CD from home, then that doesn't count towards the 15 CD limit.
It sounds reasonable to me. I hate to think what would happen if at one of these thousand man LAN's a single copy of a game got distributed to a thousand computers and ables everyone to play.
Okay, just clicked on my own link, and downloaded the program.
Got about 30 people on my list, 4 girls, 26 guys, little less than half with pictures.
The list slowly gets bigger, as Trepia "finds" people close to me. Not a single one was in the same town as me, though a few were about 30-45 minute drives away.
Apparently, the program uses your ip address and prolly trace to figure out how "close" you are to someone. I got a few people who are all the way across the US from me.
It also claims that if you're on a 802.11b network, it'll automatically find other people on the same network as you, that might be running Trepia as well.
Seems like a cool idea, but so far there needs to be way more people using it if you want to find someone down the street with it.
Trepia link missing from article
http://www.trepia.com/
Or click here
-Kefabi
Companies are out to make money.
Take the expected number of products that customers have that will fail and harm/kill someone, then multiply that by the average settlement. You end up with what your company can expect to pay from all the court cases from people dying with whatever product a company sells.
If this is cheaper than doing a recall, the company won't do a recall. Even when the company knows people will die from their shitty products
That's what Fight Club says, though I think most companies these days will do a recall anyway, in an effort to avoid bad PR as well.
Ford/Firestone didn't do too well by not doing a recall for a long time. Yeah, they might have expected to lose less money by not doing a recall, but the massive amout of bad PR that came around (people started noticing they were more likely to die on the things) ended up doing a lot worse damage to the bottom line than a recall.
Comic predicts Bush will declare war on Iraq via SMS messaging!!! Giving the recent story on SMS messaging, I don't know if that's a good idea.
Other headlines on that page:
Man, sometimes America can seem quite boring in comparison...
You say that Sun's Java and Microsofts
The problem is, Microsoft cheats. Microsoft is trying to guarentee their win before Sun even enters the ring. Microsoft has gone to court, and the courts have ruled that Microsoft has illegally used their monopoly to their advantage.
Once Java was created, Microsoft realized that if it took off, many programs would no longer require Windows anymore to run. Microsoft then attempted to hijack Java by creating their own incompatible Java VM. Microsoft was using their monopoly to force this incompatible VM onto consumers. Microsoft was trying to use their monopoly to beat out Sun's Java.
Well, AOL didn't try to ship their own version of MSN, try to pass it off as the real MSN, when in reality it wasn't approved by Microsoft. Microsoft tried to ship their own version of Java, pass it off as Java, when in reality it's not truely Java.
Microsoft only forced their incompatible Java VM long enough until they could get
Sun just wants a fair fight. Microsoft wants to kill them before consumers can pick the winner for themselves. Microsoft's trying to set themselves up as the winner before the fight even starts. The justice system was right in saying that Microsoft cannot use their power to force Sun out of the marketplace.
What Microsoft is trying to do is illegal, unethical, unfair and bad for consumers. It's why using a monopoly unfairly is illegal. The government is supposed to help the people and be run BY the people. Microsoft isn't supposed to make choices for us, and it definately isn't run by the people.
I'm seeing a lot of "Why the hell would someone use a cell phone to message when they can just talk?!?"
Well, besides the giggle factor that comes into play the first time you message a friend who's staring at you from right across the room, my answer would be because IT QUIET!!!
In the movie theater and your mom/boss/significant other wants to know where you are, or why the hell you aren't someplace you're supposed to be? Your phone on vibrate can show you who's calling you, and you can quickly type in a message and reply back with information without disturbing those around you.
On New Years Eve, I was at a Rave at the LA Sports Arena. Do you think I'll really be able to hear or talk to anybody next to a wall of subs blowing out my ear drums? Considering there were quite a few people there, I also get separated from my friends. Where's my buddies? When do I know when it's time to go? How far is Kenny getting with that Bree chick (seriously!)? There would be no way we could talk on our phones, but we were still able to communicate with our SMS text messages.
Now granted, SMS isn't nessecary, but then again, this is Slashdot. How often do we do things that are truely nessecary?
-Kefabi
Yeah, sounds like Intertrust put a lot of work into their system...
But tell me again, how will this stop me from buying a quiality audio cord from RadioShack and running a line from "Line Out" on my CD player to "Audio In" on my SoundBlaster?
Seems like the record companies are just in denial about the fact that their songs WILL BE ripped and shared over P2P networks. Hell, with enough lawsuits, that small P2P problem should just go away, right? Right???
I know this first hand. I attempted to set up debian a number of months ago, and setting up my SB AWE 64 was the biggest pain I had. I managed to get an ftp server up and running, using my linux box as a router and sharing internet access between my roommates and I, even setting up a firewall. (I've never run any kind of unix or unix-like system before). GNOME and KDE weren't much of a hassle, and I managed to even get my Voodoo 2 card working so I could run low framerate UT.
The two things I could NOT get to work (and the two things that kept me from using debian fulltime) was getting a video player to work (for all the porn on my FTP server) and my sound! (for both the porn and MP3's on my FTP server, and games)
Had I gotten those to work, I would be writing this in debian now. Sound is very important when you're trying to gib your friends in Quake3. I've heard that gentoo makes it really simple, but alas, I am now restricted to a POTS 16.9 Kbps for my internet connection (No cable/DSL where I live...) and I don't want to take the time to download the distribution again...
I checked the webpage, it said it's hosted by FUNET. Is that Fun Net or Fuck You Net?
-Josh
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I was only refuting the parent post's comment that FDIC ruled that PayPal is not a bank just because it doesn't want to have to insure PayPal accounts. I was just stating that the FDIC knows that even though it rules PayPal is not a bank, that in the end they still are insuring some of the money that PayPal is holding and that idea had no bearing on the decision to state PayPal is not a bank.
You are right that the FDIC does not insure PayPal, just many of the individual bigger PayPal accounts.
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I was only refuting the parent post's comment that FDIC ruled that PayPal is not a bank just because it doesn't want to have to insure PayPal accounts. I was just stating that the FDIC knows that even though it rules PayPal is not a bank, that in the end they still are insuring some of the money that PayPal is holding and that idea had no bearing on the decision to state PayPal is not a bank.
You are right that the FDIC does not insure PayPal, just many of the bigger PayPal accounts.
This is a false statement by someone who did NOT read the article. PayPal IS insured by FDIC. In fact, PayPal even asked the FDIC their opinion on the matter.
From the article:
Microsoft has been charged guilty of being a monopoly. Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system dominance came about because of abuse of this monopoly. When will Microsoft understand that THEY HAVE NO RIGHT DEMANDING THE GOVERNMENT PROTECT THEIR PRODUCT? That's almost like a mob leader, who broke the law to get the power he has, demanding that the police let him alone or else his empire will colapse....
-Kefabi
For giving out for free what I consider the best web comic out there, GETTING SLASHDOTTED IS NOT THE ANSWER.
Heh, if anyone's been following Piro's rants lately, you know that he switched web hosts, and that he spent many days trimming down the site, all the graphics, trying to get file sizes as small as possible to LOWER his bandwidth costs. I think you guys just blew all his hard work!
Now, there have been people who have requested that he set up a PayPal account or something so that we readers could donate to the MegaTokyo cost, but Piro won't have any of it. In his rant today, he explains why. He feels that if people PAY for his comic, that people tend to feel like they DESERVE the comic, as if they bought a service, instead of RESPECTING the work that Piro gives out for free. If you want to support MegaTokyo, buy some stuff from the MegaTokyo store. You get cool swag, Piro and Largo get some cash to help run MegaTokyo, and we're all happy!
-Kefabi