Its all over. Maybe those of you who had the choice of being a doctor or an engineer and picked engineer because there was less schooling required should now go line the litter box with your BS degrees and apply to McDonalds. If Mom and Dad will take you maybe you can move back with them.
The thing about trademarks are you MUST defend them or you will lose them. One instance where you could have reasonably known of the existance of trademark ingringement where you don't defend will strip you of your trademark. Its that simple.
So I figured that I could avoid this by just deleting the key in my registry for IE help so that the OCX would never load and the exploit wouldn't work. I did that and it solved the problem! But wait... Windows is now trying to "help" me by putting that registry key back the way it was! Thank you so much Windows for saving me from myself and reopening the door to my harddrive. What would I do without you?
Isn't sniffing a key component of a wireless network? Why is this something that needs monitoring? What needs monitoring is authentication on the wireless network, not looking for the network.
Kinda funny how most of us here (including myself) bitch and moan about these kind of patents held by crappy little companies that do little more then write patent applications on Computer Science 101 technologies. Wait! Now we can use this kind of thing to our advantage. Rah Rah Rah! Go idiotic patent!
One thing about NeXTStep and OSX was is was developed to be around for a long time. Design decisions were made based on what was best for the long term life of the product, not on the day's median technology. The thought always was that hardware will catch up. OSX is very snappy on most contemporary Mac hardware.
I don't really think that Mozilla could be much of an application development environment. There aren't enough engineers talented enough to use Mozilla as a platform. Sure, maybe a handful of companies/organizations can do something great with Mozilla but in order for it to be a real platform with a support network built around it, it needs to be brain-dead simple like Visual Basic or even MFC.
With such a small group using Mozilla its inevitable that the people using it will fork the entire code base making incorporation of fixes in the core arduous and any documentation on developing with Mozilla will become inaccurate quickly. Maybe if someone wrote an extraction layer for Mozilla that would shield the core with lowest common denominator APIs then there would be a chance.
Covad's Motto... If it don't work, sucks for you.
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I just moved and needed to have my DSL moved as well. After Covad did their thing, my DSL didn't work so I called Earthlink and they said that Covad won't do anything about it. They will install once, "test it" and if it works, great and if not, oh well, they won't fix it. That's how they're cutting costs and heading towards profitability. No support whatsoever. A call to Pac Bell got me working DSL in 5 days.
I can't really say I blame them though it does suck for the ISPs that rely on Covad.
I remember a project I worked on a few years ago while I worked for a consulting/contract company. It started out 8 to 10 hour days with everyone happy to work on the project. After a while it became 10 to 12 hour days with weekends and some grunting here and there but still happieness prevailed. After another while, the customer (who was in LA while we were in San Jose) demanded that we move our entire devlopment team down to LA until the project was complete. That started the downward spiral. I was the youngest member and was still new to California and didn't have any real ties to San Jose, i.e. family, lots of friends, a house, etc. so I didn't mind going but everyone else on the team had ties and minded bigtime. When we got there we were expected to work 14 to 18 hours a day and all-nighters were common. As "management" keep ramping up, the development the schedule kept getting pushed out farther and farther. The idiots never saw the correlation.
Because I was the young one I didn't really mind the whole thing. I loved coding and just went with the flow (sometimes working on stuff I should not have) but everyone else was more experienced and had lives and a bit more disipline. "Management" just counted bodies working at a given time, not code quality or unit deliverables, and complained about how we were way behind schedule. There was no one looking over my shoulder smacking the back of my head and telling me what I should be doing. The person who was charged with doing that also had to write tons of code and manage five other programmers and have constant meetings with "management" and hold his marrage together from 500 miles away. Soon everyone practically hated me (I would have hated me if I was in their situation now). One person quit, one was fired, one almost lost his marrage, one completely burned out and the rest just became plain ugly. We were pulled out after two months in order to prevent mass resignations or murder (seriously) and brought back home but the schedule remained the same (18 hour days with many all-nighters). This lasted for three more months.
After the project ended everyone quit. The sad thing about that is, the company we worked for (the consulting company) had, in all honesty, one of THE best development teams in Silicon Valley. Two of the guys went on the Netscape and early retirment, three went on to start a sucessfull software company (me included) and the rest all ended up being sucessful in some way. The company soon after closed thier Silicon Valley office. If they just realized what they had and treated their people better they could have been a great company. Oh well, it worked out well for the Netscape boys and the others.
Once you're on the Internet you can never get out. Its simple fact. Someone will always have a copy of that e-mail you sent professing your love to Missy Gringlebach or the nntp post about how brilliant Hitler was or your web site dedicated to New Kids on The Block.
Trying to get that stuff off is futile at best. A professor of mine once said that there is not a nanosecond when some computer isn't processing or storing something about you somewhere. And that was in 1991. I've got to side with McNealy on this. There is no such thing as privacy anymore.
This has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. What if, for example (not real), when the rendering engine gets something like Hi it crashes or worse makes Mozilla think that its running in local mode (file://) with access to stuff that should not be accessable from a remote URL?.
Now I'm not saying that the hole will be that easy but the one that IS there will be easier to find and exploit with the source.
Its only a matter of time until someone in a shack in some third world Asian country finds a hole in Mozilla, and then using the available source code finds out how best to expolit it and reaks massive havic over the land of Mozilla users. At least with MS Exploder there's no available code to read and use to make your worm just that much better.
When the happens the whole open-source thing will be questioned in the media, MS will jump on that bandwagon, and see ya later Mozilla and watch out Linux.
This is because most OSS programmers are whiny little kids who don't work together well. Just look at the flame fests within the Linux community. Its only a matter of time before Linux forks dramatically with people (like JWZ (not JWZ, like JWZ)) taking their toys and going elsewhere.
OSS was doomed from the start. This is not utopia. Everyone is not "in it" for the common good. OSS depends on that and that is its biggest weakness.
I'm hoping for a brave new world where there are no networks, just content providers from which we will buy viewing rights to shows we want to see and those shows will be downloaded to our PVRs when then become available. Say $5 per episode for something like Sopranos and $.50 for Frasier. Let the market determine what they want and when they want it. No more unwelcomed advertising!
Please lets make this happen. OK?
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OK, before I get labeled a spammer and am run out of town. I write software for ISPs and Carriers and sometimes I need to test it in specific configurations. OK?
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Never ever go to the "place" in automated call routing hell for canceling your account. Go to the "place" for past dure bills. I've never had to wait on hold there, and they can cancel your account for you. My business requires that I open and close many ISP accounts and that's always worked.
Not to sound like a conspiracy nut... but I would bet that somewhere behond these studies are Proctor and Gamble as well as other companies who's stable of brands include some form of soap.
This kind of alarmist garbage sells anti-bacterial soap and in the end makes thing worse. We're creating super bacteria with our obsession with cleanliness. We need to be exposed to bactieria so that our immune system can learn to fight it off. If we keep in a sterile environment too much our immumne systems get weak and lazy. Ask anyone who puts in many hours in a clean room. They tend to get sick much more often.
Having worked at Apple and experienced their productization methodology, this looks like a failed iMac concept that had too much money dumped into it to just toss. Some smart product manager said "Hey lets refocus it!". The thing is though, back in the dark days, almost any R&D product hit the streets for fear of wasting money. That didn't work too well, but I think this repurposing will do fine.
I've always signed our company up for anti-piracy this or that, I signed us up for the MS Freedom to Innovate Network mailing list, I forward blatant "Windows 2000 for only $10!" e-mail to MS piracy police etc. etc. I've even shut down a fairly large pirate serial codes web site a while back because they were providing codes for our software. I don't read the FIN Flash e-mails I get nor do I care about the various other anti-piracy updates I get but I keep asking for them.
Our office is in San Francisco, the city most effected by the BSA's tacticts. Lots of people I know got those letters. We did not. I attribute that to the above. Just a little plain old Sun-Tzu deception goes a long way.
For my zone I need:
An old style IBM clickety-clack keyboard without the stupid Windows key
Heavy Metal Blasting in my face
Lots of daylight during the day and dim light at night
Ample Floor and deskspace for notepad and books
More Heavy Metal blasting in my face
Lots of squishy things to play with
Lack of any quiet
Interuptions Include:
E-Mail
Slashdot
Junior Engineer's Questions
Senior Engineer's Questions
Dumb Questions from a sales guy
QA's Illusions
Picking a new Heavy Metal CD when the last one finished
Pointless Touchy Feely meetings
Unexpected INT3s
Windows XP trying to help me by asking if it can delete my desktop shortcuts
Ok everyone, buy a copy or two of my software and help me become so rich that I can afford such a thing. OK? Yeah lets do it! Everyone that buys 100 copies or more gets a free ride.
Goes to show you how many "tech" companies just don't get it. I wish these guys were public so I could short the hell out of them.
Who is going to download this crap? Advertisers will jump on this, of course, then after a few months realize that its not working and pull out and hopefull send these shmucks at United Crapola to the sidewalk where they should live, unable to find a jub due to their stupdity.
You're asking a bunch of people who can fix their computers while stoned, drunk, dieing, with only one working finger while hanging on the side of a burning bus flying down the highway at 100 mph in a snow storm while being shot at. Many of the responses will not help you when Grandma calls wondering why she can't see the pictures of her grandkids she just get in her e-mail.
Unless, of course, you only want geeks as customers.
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Its all over. Maybe those of you who had the choice of being a doctor or an engineer and picked engineer because there was less schooling required should now go line the litter box with your BS degrees and apply to McDonalds. If Mom and Dad will take you maybe you can move back with them.
While trying to, in any way to be a prick... Why is Eiffel cool? Where would it be an alternative to Java/C++? Serious replies (if any) please...
The thing about trademarks are you MUST defend them or you will lose them. One instance where you could have reasonably known of the existance of trademark ingringement where you don't defend will strip you of your trademark. Its that simple.
So I figured that I could avoid this by just deleting the key in my registry for IE help so that the OCX would never load and the exploit wouldn't work. I did that and it solved the problem! But wait... Windows is now trying to "help" me by putting that registry key back the way it was! Thank you so much Windows for saving me from myself and reopening the door to my harddrive. What would I do without you?
Isn't sniffing a key component of a wireless network? Why is this something that needs monitoring? What needs monitoring is authentication on the wireless network, not looking for the network.
Kinda funny how most of us here (including myself) bitch and moan about these kind of patents held by crappy little companies that do little more then write patent applications on Computer Science 101 technologies. Wait! Now we can use this kind of thing to our advantage. Rah Rah Rah! Go idiotic patent!
Can you say "hypocritical"? I know you can.
One thing about NeXTStep and OSX was is was developed to be around for a long time. Design decisions were made based on what was best for the long term life of the product, not on the day's median technology. The thought always was that hardware will catch up. OSX is very snappy on most contemporary Mac hardware.
I don't really think that Mozilla could be much of an application development environment. There aren't enough engineers talented enough to use Mozilla as a platform. Sure, maybe a handful of companies/organizations can do something great with Mozilla but in order for it to be a real platform with a support network built around it, it needs to be brain-dead simple like Visual Basic or even MFC.
With such a small group using Mozilla its inevitable that the people using it will fork the entire code base making incorporation of fixes in the core arduous and any documentation on developing with Mozilla will become inaccurate quickly. Maybe if someone wrote an extraction layer for Mozilla that would shield the core with lowest common denominator APIs then there would be a chance.
I just moved and needed to have my DSL moved as well. After Covad did their thing, my DSL didn't work so I called Earthlink and they said that Covad won't do anything about it. They will install once, "test it" and if it works, great and if not, oh well, they won't fix it. That's how they're cutting costs and heading towards profitability. No support whatsoever. A call to Pac Bell got me working DSL in 5 days.
I can't really say I blame them though it does suck for the ISPs that rely on Covad.
I remember a project I worked on a few years ago while I worked for a consulting/contract company. It started out 8 to 10 hour days with everyone happy to work on the project. After a while it became 10 to 12 hour days with weekends and some grunting here and there but still happieness prevailed. After another while, the customer (who was in LA while we were in San Jose) demanded that we move our entire devlopment team down to LA until the project was complete. That started the downward spiral. I was the youngest member and was still new to California and didn't have any real ties to San Jose, i.e. family, lots of friends, a house, etc. so I didn't mind going but everyone else on the team had ties and minded bigtime. When we got there we were expected to work 14 to 18 hours a day and all-nighters were common. As "management" keep ramping up, the development the schedule kept getting pushed out farther and farther. The idiots never saw the correlation.
Because I was the young one I didn't really mind the whole thing. I loved coding and just went with the flow (sometimes working on stuff I should not have) but everyone else was more experienced and had lives and a bit more disipline. "Management" just counted bodies working at a given time, not code quality or unit deliverables, and complained about how we were way behind schedule. There was no one looking over my shoulder smacking the back of my head and telling me what I should be doing. The person who was charged with doing that also had to write tons of code and manage five other programmers and have constant meetings with "management" and hold his marrage together from 500 miles away. Soon everyone practically hated me (I would have hated me if I was in their situation now). One person quit, one was fired, one almost lost his marrage, one completely burned out and the rest just became plain ugly. We were pulled out after two months in order to prevent mass resignations or murder (seriously) and brought back home but the schedule remained the same (18 hour days with many all-nighters). This lasted for three more months.
After the project ended everyone quit. The sad thing about that is, the company we worked for (the consulting company) had, in all honesty, one of THE best development teams in Silicon Valley. Two of the guys went on the Netscape and early retirment, three went on to start a sucessfull software company (me included) and the rest all ended up being sucessful in some way. The company soon after closed thier Silicon Valley office. If they just realized what they had and treated their people better they could have been a great company. Oh well, it worked out well for the Netscape boys and the others.
Once you're on the Internet you can never get out. Its simple fact. Someone will always have a copy of that e-mail you sent professing your love to Missy Gringlebach or the nntp post about how brilliant Hitler was or your web site dedicated to New Kids on The Block.
Trying to get that stuff off is futile at best. A professor of mine once said that there is not a nanosecond when some computer isn't processing or storing something about you somewhere. And that was in 1991. I've got to side with McNealy on this. There is no such thing as privacy anymore.
This has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. What if, for example (not real), when the rendering engine gets something like Hi it crashes or worse makes Mozilla think that its running in local mode (file://) with access to stuff that should not be accessable from a remote URL?.
Now I'm not saying that the hole will be that easy but the one that IS there will be easier to find and exploit with the source.
Its only a matter of time until someone in a shack in some third world Asian country finds a hole in Mozilla, and then using the available source code finds out how best to expolit it and reaks massive havic over the land of Mozilla users. At least with MS Exploder there's no available code to read and use to make your worm just that much better.
When the happens the whole open-source thing will be questioned in the media, MS will jump on that bandwagon, and see ya later Mozilla and watch out Linux.
This is because most OSS programmers are whiny little kids who don't work together well. Just look at the flame fests within the Linux community. Its only a matter of time before Linux forks dramatically with people (like JWZ (not JWZ, like JWZ)) taking their toys and going elsewhere. OSS was doomed from the start. This is not utopia. Everyone is not "in it" for the common good. OSS depends on that and that is its biggest weakness.
Replace the Emperor hologram in Empire with one done by the current actor, Ian somethingorother.
Redub the Storm Trooper voices (and maybe even Boba Fett) using the new Clone Trooper/Jango voice.
In ANH, add some Senate scenes including where Palpatine disbands the body.
IN ROTJ, CGI in some Nemodians in the Emperor's entourage
I'm hoping for a brave new world where there are no networks, just content providers from which we will buy viewing rights to shows we want to see and those shows will be downloaded to our PVRs when then become available. Say $5 per episode for something like Sopranos and $.50 for Frasier. Let the market determine what they want and when they want it. No more unwelcomed advertising! Please lets make this happen. OK?
OK, before I get labeled a spammer and am run out of town. I write software for ISPs and Carriers and sometimes I need to test it in specific configurations. OK?
Never ever go to the "place" in automated call routing hell for canceling your account. Go to the "place" for past dure bills. I've never had to wait on hold there, and they can cancel your account for you. My business requires that I open and close many ISP accounts and that's always worked.
Not to sound like a conspiracy nut... but I would bet that somewhere behond these studies are Proctor and Gamble as well as other companies who's stable of brands include some form of soap.
This kind of alarmist garbage sells anti-bacterial soap and in the end makes thing worse. We're creating super bacteria with our obsession with cleanliness. We need to be exposed to bactieria so that our immune system can learn to fight it off. If we keep in a sterile environment too much our immumne systems get weak and lazy. Ask anyone who puts in many hours in a clean room. They tend to get sick much more often.
Having worked at Apple and experienced their productization methodology, this looks like a failed iMac concept that had too much money dumped into it to just toss. Some smart product manager said "Hey lets refocus it!". The thing is though, back in the dark days, almost any R&D product hit the streets for fear of wasting money. That didn't work too well, but I think this repurposing will do fine.
I've always signed our company up for anti-piracy this or that, I signed us up for the MS Freedom to Innovate Network mailing list, I forward blatant "Windows 2000 for only $10!" e-mail to MS piracy police etc. etc. I've even shut down a fairly large pirate serial codes web site a while back because they were providing codes for our software. I don't read the FIN Flash e-mails I get nor do I care about the various other anti-piracy updates I get but I keep asking for them.
Our office is in San Francisco, the city most effected by the BSA's tacticts. Lots of people I know got those letters. We did not. I attribute that to the above. Just a little plain old Sun-Tzu deception goes a long way.
For my zone I need:
An old style IBM clickety-clack keyboard without the stupid Windows key
Heavy Metal Blasting in my face
Lots of daylight during the day and dim light at night
Ample Floor and deskspace for notepad and books
More Heavy Metal blasting in my face
Lots of squishy things to play with
Lack of any quiet
Interuptions Include:
E-Mail
Slashdot
Junior Engineer's Questions
Senior Engineer's Questions
Dumb Questions from a sales guy
QA's Illusions
Picking a new Heavy Metal CD when the last one finished
Pointless Touchy Feely meetings
Unexpected INT3s
Windows XP trying to help me by asking if it can delete my desktop shortcuts
Ok everyone, buy a copy or two of my software and help me become so rich that I can afford such a thing. OK? Yeah lets do it! Everyone that buys 100 copies or more gets a free ride.
Goes to show you how many "tech" companies just don't get it. I wish these guys were public so I could short the hell out of them. Who is going to download this crap? Advertisers will jump on this, of course, then after a few months realize that its not working and pull out and hopefull send these shmucks at United Crapola to the sidewalk where they should live, unable to find a jub due to their stupdity.
You're asking a bunch of people who can fix their computers while stoned, drunk, dieing, with only one working finger while hanging on the side of a burning bus flying down the highway at 100 mph in a snow storm while being shot at. Many of the responses will not help you when Grandma calls wondering why she can't see the pictures of her grandkids she just get in her e-mail.
Unless, of course, you only want geeks as customers.