Don't underestimate how lucrative it is to operate a closed network that no one has the option of not using. If they suddenly become required to police all other things, I am sure they will happily and incompetently do it for the tidy sum of another tax on your connectivity.
I don't understand how they have held off on doing it for this long. Seems like a frickin gold mine, especially if the fascists in Washington (the left wing hollywood fascists this time) get their way.
What do they get? They get to eliminate middle ware competition. The Orion (Oracle's Middleware "server") product SUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUCKS. I mean it's freakin awful. I don't know much about the BEA product, but I know that years ago their sales force and customer service was what turned us off of them and to Oracle. Oddly enough, we're just now getting done migrating off of WebLogic to Orion (OC4J/AS). I'd like to think that this will get us the best of both worlds (the support of oracle and the stability of a decent app server product), but I doubt they'll even bother switching WebLogic in. Especially with wedge layers (like Spring) that pretty much make new development for any j2ee container, vendor independant.
And be good consumers. Daddy'll tell you everything you need to know about the world. First of all, fear your genitals. For they are evil. Secondly, anything that makes you feel good or relieves a bad feeling, must be strictly regulated by Daddy (including your genitals and especially your womb). Thirdly, all elections are fair and binding. See? A trustworthy corporation stands behind every ballot cast. By questioning the integrity of a corporation you are questioning the integrity of God, Daddy and all of your betters with more money. That kind of thing can have unforseen consequences. Finally, freedom is slavery, and it's most certainly not a concept whereby "people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to daddy a great deal of discretion about what you do."
Now. Daddy's tired. He's gonna go gang rape someone who volunteered to protect him, cover up the crime and then give the medal of freedom to anyone who helped him.
They could give this service away for free and I still wouldn't touch it. These idiots have proven that their customers. They think their customers are criminals and so enforce laws that don't exist on behalf of the coprorate interests to whom they truly owe their allegiance. They have used every opportunity to bleed areas they monopolize dry. Their terms of service are draconian and impenetrable. They have fought tooth and nail against the establishment of any kind of competition (wonder why you can't get muni free wifi? ask the state senator enjoying a free houseboat payment on behalf of a comcast kickback).
I would rather not have internet at all than be involved with this company in any way.
That sure didn't cost 500 billion dollars (a staggering number, no matter the value of the American fiat peso these days). Nor were uncounted lives wasted on the deployment of this plan, or the occupation that followed its deployment.
Now that the war is over, and that I've won it, can we fucking stop now? Can we have our airports back? Can we travel freely amongst ourselves without being scrutinized by the sigmoid wielding high school dropouts? Can we speak freely about liberty and freedom of speech without being branded as 9/11 accomplices?
But back to the topic at hand. Taking your ball and going home is your decision to be sure. For those of us with ties to the living, compromise with society is not an option. Having children (even if YOU hate them) compels people to better things (usually).
Also, be aware that your line of reasoning closely follows that of those whom this administration has labeled terrorist. The bombings they commit are often on civillian targets for the purpose of punishing these poor souls for voting at all (let alone voting Democrat, or whatever your party of choice is). Attacking the people is rarely the most efficient way of effecting change.
You speak of reaping what is sewn. What ideas have you sewn? What fixes have you tried? Curious.
I've been begging for someone to integrate vi into eclipse. For years. viPlugin sucks. There are a couple other projects, one that integrates gvim via the eclipse modular editor framework stuff, but it is also useless. Anyone know of a good way to get vi stuff working in eclipse?
I hope this works out as well as the xbox linux stuff did. I sure would LOVE to have a 1080p capable hd-dvd playing media center for under $400.00. Are HD-DVD drives even available for that?
Shut your fud spreading mouth. A JSP to do hello world on tomcat is easy as pie. You don't need to modify any xml, you just drop an html file that says hello world into the right directory.
The step by step guide for setting up tomcat IS ON THE FRONT FREAKING PAGE.
I swear to god if I see another CMS that has "grown and matured" from a hello world app I'll shit in my hat and wear it. I am sick of unplanned, barely good enough, ad hoc crap.
I don't know who I'm more pissed at regarding this post. You for spreading FUD or the mods for buying it.
Would it be a violation of free expression to purposely commit non-violent acts that will trip the system? Would these previously legal actions now be restricted? Could I, every hour on the hour, commit a non-violent, non-illegal act that set off the alarm bells and caused cops to waste their time?
Perspective is that no one's life is less important than company profits and you will get caught. When there's a clear problem, like hundreds of melted laptops a year, you need to act. The problem is not going to go away until it's fixed. When a third party does something as simple as taking an xray to identify your problem for you, you look very bad.
Well. That just doesn't make business sense.
Company profits are indeed far more important than your life. Shareholders will authorize anything to keep those profits rolling in. It truly is as basic as Tyler Durden lays it out in Fight Club. Cost analysis based on projected lawsuit costs and brand degredation effects are greater than the cost of a recall, ergo, a recall. With cigarettes, the formula did not produce the same answer. A third party was indeed able to do something as simple as take an (chest) xray to identify the problem with that product. Tobacco companies may have looked bad, but not bad enough to damage their bottom line.
Companies have no obligation to act. It's not their responsibility. It is the responsibility of the GOVERNMENT to protect its people. It is the responsibility of companies to extract the greatest amount of profit from the people for its shareholders. These interests are often in opposition (tobacco for instance).
It's good that the bean counters at dell believe that the cost of a recall is less than the cost of not acknolweding the problem, but make no mistake, it is a totally profit driven conclusion.
People using the word "fair" with respect to this phenomenon are probably people that have lost a covetted item to a sniper bidder, or were forced to sell something for less than they anticipated because interest in their auction was low and they felt that the practice of sniping cost them money. Basically, they got the short end of a monetary transaction because of their own ignorance and are now looking for a scapegoat. "Sniping" they call!
Fairness has nothing to do with this.
There are other policies of ebay's that I would call into question first.
All I have to say to the troll that posted this is BRAVO. You have successfully fomented hate and slathering knee-jerkery by re-posting (yeah, it's not even a NEW troll) an old canard.
I hope the herd got a kiss on the neck before they were lubelessly defiled. Tools.
Sony can bite me too. So can every one of their stock holders. (That's the new democracy you know)
The internet is going to crawl when someone writes a worm around this exploit. Any program that uses the vulnerable dll can cause the compromise. So, for example, Google's desktop search file indexer can trigger the payload without the user ever interacting with the file (as others have already pointed out).
Finally? The straw that breaks the camels back. When big companies become lawful targets (not ethical, just lawful) and are suddenly financially exposed, there will be reform.
If Microsoft loses, all bets are off. A loss here legitimizes patent barratry as a business model.
But, if Microsoft wins, their patent portfolio loses value.
I can't wait. Nuthin like a good petard hoisting to get the blood pumpin.
Why can't I just use my old wingman joystick? And why don't they make a keyboard that's broken in half (like where most ergos split, but hinged) so you can type with the pinky side of your palm on the table and your your thumbs up? It'd have to be a laptop layout (no number pad) . And ideally it would have a convenient thumb track ball for one thumb and clicker under the other. I'll pay a crapload for that.
I guess I don't understand what's so hard about clandestinely fashioning a big DU rod... Can you fill me in there? DU isn't rare, nor is its manufacture terribly complicated. I could be totally wrong about that, but I was under the impression that it was low grade, less radioactive than naturally abundant U, and just as dense and hard (the necessary quality for playing space darts).
Also, as has been noted, it doesn't need to go any further up than Rutan's vehicle, though I imagine that would make it easier to destroy.
As for counter measures. I mean. It's essentially a very small asteroid that you have no fore warning of. (what an awful way to end a sentence) What kind of counter measures can defend against that?
Certainly, launch systems would trigger alarm bells, but there're already many valid launch systems out there today, and many more commercial ones being planned. If the payload only has to be a few hundred kg, and space flight becomes cheaper, there isn't going to be much to stop it from happening short of sending up our own satbusters. Maybe? Maybe not. The last graf was pulled mostly from my ass.
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It's funny because it's pant shittingly terrifying.
Don't underestimate how lucrative it is to operate a closed network that no one has the option of not using. If they suddenly become required to police all other things, I am sure they will happily and incompetently do it for the tidy sum of another tax on your connectivity.
I don't understand how they have held off on doing it for this long. Seems like a frickin gold mine, especially if the fascists in Washington (the left wing hollywood fascists this time) get their way.
What do they get? They get to eliminate middle ware competition. The Orion (Oracle's Middleware "server") product SUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUCKS. I mean it's freakin awful. I don't know much about the BEA product, but I know that years ago their sales force and customer service was what turned us off of them and to Oracle. Oddly enough, we're just now getting done migrating off of WebLogic to Orion (OC4J/AS). I'd like to think that this will get us the best of both worlds (the support of oracle and the stability of a decent app server product), but I doubt they'll even bother switching WebLogic in. Especially with wedge layers (like Spring) that pretty much make new development for any j2ee container, vendor independant.
And be good consumers. Daddy'll tell you everything you need to know about the world. First of all, fear your genitals. For they are evil. Secondly, anything that makes you feel good or relieves a bad feeling, must be strictly regulated by Daddy (including your genitals and especially your womb). Thirdly, all elections are fair and binding. See? A trustworthy corporation stands behind every ballot cast. By questioning the integrity of a corporation you are questioning the integrity of God, Daddy and all of your betters with more money. That kind of thing can have unforseen consequences. Finally, freedom is slavery, and it's most certainly not a concept whereby "people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to daddy a great deal of discretion about what you do."
Now. Daddy's tired. He's gonna go gang rape someone who volunteered to protect him, cover up the crime and then give the medal of freedom to anyone who helped him.
They could give this service away for free and I still wouldn't touch it. These idiots have proven that their customers. They think their customers are criminals and so enforce laws that don't exist on behalf of the coprorate interests to whom they truly owe their allegiance. They have used every opportunity to bleed areas they monopolize dry. Their terms of service are draconian and impenetrable. They have fought tooth and nail against the establishment of any kind of competition (wonder why you can't get muni free wifi? ask the state senator enjoying a free houseboat payment on behalf of a comcast kickback).
I would rather not have internet at all than be involved with this company in any way.
Stop being afraid.
There it is. Can't get much simpler than that.
That sure didn't cost 500 billion dollars (a staggering number, no matter the value of the American fiat peso these days). Nor were uncounted lives wasted on the deployment of this plan, or the occupation that followed its deployment.
Now that the war is over, and that I've won it, can we fucking stop now? Can we have our airports back? Can we travel freely amongst ourselves without being scrutinized by the sigmoid wielding high school dropouts? Can we speak freely about liberty and freedom of speech without being branded as 9/11 accomplices?
Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
Who didn't see this coming?
Both of the slashdot users that won't be voting Ron Paul can enjoy their own thread.
Am I the only one who read "stay lifted" and immediately took a bong rip?
Prepare to be buried by the moder-azi.
But back to the topic at hand. Taking your ball and going home is your decision to be sure. For those of us with ties to the living, compromise with society is not an option. Having children (even if YOU hate them) compels people to better things (usually).
Also, be aware that your line of reasoning closely follows that of those whom this administration has labeled terrorist. The bombings they commit are often on civillian targets for the purpose of punishing these poor souls for voting at all (let alone voting Democrat, or whatever your party of choice is). Attacking the people is rarely the most efficient way of effecting change.
You speak of reaping what is sewn. What ideas have you sewn? What fixes have you tried? Curious.
I've been begging for someone to integrate vi into eclipse. For years. viPlugin sucks. There are a couple other projects, one that integrates gvim via the eclipse modular editor framework stuff, but it is also useless. Anyone know of a good way to get vi stuff working in eclipse?
I hope this works out as well as the xbox linux stuff did. I sure would LOVE to have a 1080p capable hd-dvd playing media center for under $400.00. Are HD-DVD drives even available for that?
I hear the thing even plays games!
I don't care if I'm forced to wear one as long as EVERYONE else is also.
Shut your fud spreading mouth. A JSP to do hello world on tomcat is easy as pie. You don't need to modify any xml, you just drop an html file that says hello world into the right directory.
The step by step guide for setting up tomcat IS ON THE FRONT FREAKING PAGE.
I swear to god if I see another CMS that has "grown and matured" from a hello world app I'll shit in my hat and wear it. I am sick of unplanned, barely good enough, ad hoc crap.
I don't know who I'm more pissed at regarding this post. You for spreading FUD or the mods for buying it.
Would it be a violation of free expression to purposely commit non-violent acts that will trip the system? Would these previously legal actions now be restricted? Could I, every hour on the hour, commit a non-violent, non-illegal act that set off the alarm bells and caused cops to waste their time?
Perspective is that no one's life is less important than company profits and you will get caught. When there's a clear problem, like hundreds of melted laptops a year, you need to act. The problem is not going to go away until it's fixed. When a third party does something as simple as taking an xray to identify your problem for you, you look very bad.
Well. That just doesn't make business sense.
Company profits are indeed far more important than your life. Shareholders will authorize anything to keep those profits rolling in. It truly is as basic as Tyler Durden lays it out in Fight Club. Cost analysis based on projected lawsuit costs and brand degredation effects are greater than the cost of a recall, ergo, a recall. With cigarettes, the formula did not produce the same answer. A third party was indeed able to do something as simple as take an (chest) xray to identify the problem with that product. Tobacco companies may have looked bad, but not bad enough to damage their bottom line.
Companies have no obligation to act. It's not their responsibility. It is the responsibility of the GOVERNMENT to protect its people. It is the responsibility of companies to extract the greatest amount of profit from the people for its shareholders. These interests are often in opposition (tobacco for instance).
It's good that the bean counters at dell believe that the cost of a recall is less than the cost of not acknolweding the problem, but make no mistake, it is a totally profit driven conclusion.
BP and Shell are in the same boat in my mind.
officer: Where do you live? Where do you live? You have to tell me where you live, what your name is, or anything like that.
tester: For a complaint? I mean, like, if I have --
officer: Are you on medications?
tester: Why would you ask me something like that?
officer: Because you're not answering any of my questions.
tester: Am I on medications?
officer: I asked you. It's a free country. I can ask you that.
tester: Okay, you're right.
officer: So you're not going to tell me who you are, you're not going to tell me what the problem is.You're not going to identify yourself.
tester: All I asked you was, like, how do I contact --
officer: You said you have a complaint. You say my officers are acting in an inappropriate manner.
People using the word "fair" with respect to this phenomenon are probably people that have lost a covetted item to a sniper bidder, or were forced to sell something for less than they anticipated because interest in their auction was low and they felt that the practice of sniping cost them money. Basically, they got the short end of a monetary transaction because of their own ignorance and are now looking for a scapegoat. "Sniping" they call!
Fairness has nothing to do with this.
There are other policies of ebay's that I would call into question first.
All I have to say to the troll that posted this is BRAVO. You have successfully fomented hate and slathering knee-jerkery by re-posting (yeah, it's not even a NEW troll) an old canard.
I hope the herd got a kiss on the neck before they were lubelessly defiled. Tools.
Sony can bite me too. So can every one of their stock holders. (That's the new democracy you know)
The internet is going to crawl when someone writes a worm around this exploit. Any program that uses the vulnerable dll can cause the compromise. So, for example, Google's desktop search file indexer can trigger the payload without the user ever interacting with the file (as others have already pointed out).
Soon, there won't be a chip manufacturer left that won't be able to make the same claim.
Finally? The straw that breaks the camels back. When big companies become lawful targets (not ethical, just lawful) and are suddenly financially exposed, there will be reform.
If Microsoft loses, all bets are off. A loss here legitimizes patent barratry as a business model.
But, if Microsoft wins, their patent portfolio loses value.
I can't wait. Nuthin like a good petard hoisting to get the blood pumpin.
A refactor?
Does this mean my (now utterly obsolete) ATI 9600 Pro will soon work as it was supposed to?
Why can't I just use my old wingman joystick? And why don't they make a keyboard that's broken in half (like where most ergos split, but hinged) so you can type with the pinky side of your palm on the table and your your thumbs up? It'd have to be a laptop layout (no number pad) . And ideally it would have a convenient thumb track ball for one thumb and clicker under the other. I'll pay a crapload for that.
I guess I don't understand what's so hard about clandestinely fashioning a big DU rod... Can you fill me in there? DU isn't rare, nor is its manufacture terribly complicated. I could be totally wrong about that, but I was under the impression that it was low grade, less radioactive than naturally abundant U, and just as dense and hard (the necessary quality for playing space darts).
Also, as has been noted, it doesn't need to go any further up than Rutan's vehicle, though I imagine that would make it easier to destroy.
As for counter measures. I mean. It's essentially a very small asteroid that you have no fore warning of. (what an awful way to end a sentence) What kind of counter measures can defend against that?
Certainly, launch systems would trigger alarm bells, but there're already many valid launch systems out there today, and many more commercial ones being planned. If the payload only has to be a few hundred kg, and space flight becomes cheaper, there isn't going to be much to stop it from happening short of sending up our own satbusters. Maybe? Maybe not. The last graf was pulled mostly from my ass.