besides, most hackers are naive script kiddies or knowledgeable but naive *nix users. Sure there are some talented and gifted folks out there, but just look at the ones who get caught and become darlings of the press. If it cuts down on the number of script kiddies who pull off the amazing feat of bringing down a website, i say use it.
let me understand this, the band is down to one working machine, so you post the number on/.? Are you trying to see if the slashdot effect can destroy non-web related hardware?
seems like Bush's answers were cut and pasted from some giant file called "opinions" while the natural law party candidate actually sat down and wrote out and answer for us. just MHO
If benchmarks are intellectual property, does this mean that anything the software is even vaugely related to auctomatically becomes Microsoft intellectual property as well? is this reply MS-IP because i mention SQL server? How about the system that the Database is running on, does that become intellectual property too? To paraphrase fletch "It's all intellectual property these days"
How do you feel the government has handled privacy issues as they related to the internet in the past, and do you feel that any changes need to be made in the way these issues are handled?
So it's the marketing effect in action?
Marketing geek: "someone else just released a great new revolutionary product. As a result, we need you engineers to design, test and impliment our version of the product before their's ships. Oh, by the way, we already announced ours is coming out in two weeks. Good luck"
Concering the bit about microsoft and Cisco not paying any taxes.
When an employee exercises an option to buy stock, the difference between the strike price (what the employee pays) and the market price (which is almost always higher) becomes taxable income for the employee and a tax deduction for the employer
Do the figures given for each company, (i.e.) the 1.8 billion in taxes cisco didn't pay, represent the deduction Cisco claimed? Or does that figure
include the amount cisco claimed minus what the employee wound up paying? I'm sure both Cisco and Microsoft are royally shafting the government,
heck every big business does, but i wonder how represenative the figures really are.
That quote is much older than a simpsons episode. I actually used that as a search phrase in google. i got many a message board sig file as a response, as well as references to numerous books, and an alice cooper (or was it ozzy osbourne?) song.
Concering the bit about microsoft and Cisco not paying any taxes.
When an employee exercises an option to buy stock, the difference between the strike price (what the employee pays) and the market price (which is almost always higher) becomes taxable income for the employee and a tax deduction for the employer
Do the figures given for each company, (i.e.) the 1.8 billion in taxes cisco didn't pay, represent the deduction Cisco claimed? Or does that figure include the amount cisco claimed minus what the employee wound up paying? I'm sure both Cisco and Microsoft are royally shafting the government, heck every big business does, but i wonder how represenative the figures really are.
oh whew, for a minute there i thought we were all going to be ripped apart that the atomic level by a force we could niether understand nor control. i now realize that we will all simply boil alive in a horrible, galactic nuclear holocost. Man i was worried there for a second
For the love of god man! we're all going to be sucked into a black hole that will negate exsistance as we know it! Panic now! avoid the rush! we've only got a few billion years left!
abhorringly exaggerated is right. I've ben using M-net off and on for about 6 months now, and it wasn't just a matter of "go re-image the server(s)." If you haven't read rootprompt.org's "Cracked" section, please do so now as it mirrors what happened to m-net to a T. while the system was down the admins also decided that an upgrade was in order, so a new machine was purchased to add to the collective.
M-net is also all voulenteer, and the timing couldn't have been worse, as most of the admins were overloaded at their real jobs. Poor timing, a collection of ghod only know what kind of equipment, and admins who couldn't be pulled from their real jobs resulted in the month long downtime. fortunatly the community (grudgingly) understood and let the admins do their job when they could.
The author can re-hash all of the ideas behind the "open source is better than closed source" argument, while hinting that he worked for "a major software company." exactly what has the author written that is so earth shaking?
Microsoft (if indeed that is who the author worked for) has no future in open source, as for the rest, i don't see a whole lot of people writing interesting articles about places they enjoyed working. Some context would have made the article a little more interesting, reading that was sorta like reading an Anonymous coward posting.
it seems a couple weeks ago slamming the RIAA was all the rage and every comment regarding the various copyright infringments napster was committing were shouted down with cries of "Music revolution!" Now all of us sudden the "well they do have a point.." crowd is being heard. I for one do not approve of the RIAA. Any group that is responable for churning out boy bands and britney spears clones by the dozen while thwarting attempts by smaller artists to make a strong name for themselves deserves whatever punishment it inflicts on itself. In this case, The RIAA is priming itself to be blindsided by one or two major artists saying "to hell with this" and releasing all of their music via the web in the same manner stephen king released his latest book. The only problems are still a. electronic music is easy to copy, it always will be and b. who will be big enough to stand up to the RIAA? Metallica, for all the guff they took, have decided to stay witth what works. That in itself is admirable, but I think the geek community would have embraced them more had they opted to ditch the major label stuff AND napster and sell all of their catalog via metallica.com. This whole napster debate seems like a drunken one night stand. While it's going on, you don't have a problem with it, but in the morning, you sober up and realize that maybe the choices you made weren't the best. Of course that won't keep me from snagging a few more MP3's before the jack booted thugs kick the door down.
Useful i would agree with, but common? As i would understand it, you do have to get the permission of a federal judge to set up a wiretap, and have it be admissable as evidance.
as for why criminals use the phone and what have you? i don't know, guess they're just trying to get on the next showing of "worlds dumbest criminals"
"The FBI could request information from the isp" that's exactly what they are trying to protect. imagine you, as an FBI agent, have a genuine need for information about a user. Instead of calling up the ISP, now you have to deal with international law, and if pushed far enough you could get held up under extradition laws, or national right to privacy issues. This is not a well defined area of the law right now, and unless we make great strides in the near future the quagmire of having a body like the suprime court decide what we can and can't do on the 'net is not a pretty thought
Slashdot Mirror
not a counter measure, just a tool.
besides, most hackers are naive script kiddies or knowledgeable but naive *nix users. Sure there are some talented and gifted folks out there, but just look at the ones who get caught and become darlings of the press. If it cuts down on the number of script kiddies who pull off the amazing feat of bringing down a website, i say use it.
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In a related story, the cluster has been named the "Outback cluster." the Corporate sponsorship people have struck again......
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let me understand this, the band is down to one working machine, so you post the number on /.? Are you trying to see if the slashdot effect can destroy non-web related hardware?
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seems like Bush's answers were cut and pasted from some giant file called "opinions" while the natural law party candidate actually sat down and wrote out and answer for us. just MHO
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Warning, this post contains code stolen directly from Microsoft.
include ifstream.h
please act accordingly.
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If benchmarks are intellectual property, does this mean that anything the software is even vaugely related to auctomatically becomes Microsoft intellectual property as well? is this reply MS-IP because i mention SQL server? How about the system that the Database is running on, does that become intellectual property too? To paraphrase fletch "It's all intellectual property these days"
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How do you feel the government has handled privacy issues as they related to the internet in the past, and do you feel that any changes need to be made in the way these issues are handled?
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So it's the marketing effect in action? Marketing geek: "someone else just released a great new revolutionary product. As a result, we need you engineers to design, test and impliment our version of the product before their's ships. Oh, by the way, we already announced ours is coming out in two weeks. Good luck"
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So if i buy all the components to build my own computer, should i be forced to buy a copy of windows as well?
What about if i buy a bigger hard drive? If i'm doing that i'll have to wipe that illegal copy of windows off the old one.
How about the people who are buying prepackaged systems to install (gasp) NT on them? Why should they pay for a copy of 95 (or 98 or ME)?
if i didn't know any better i'd say microsoft feels threatened by the sliver of competition that has sprung up
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Concering the bit about microsoft and Cisco not paying any taxes.
When an employee exercises an option to buy stock, the difference between the strike price (what the employee pays) and the market price (which is almost always higher) becomes taxable income for the employee and a tax deduction for the employer
Do the figures given for each company, (i.e.) the 1.8 billion in taxes cisco didn't pay, represent the deduction Cisco claimed? Or does that figure include the amount cisco claimed minus what the employee wound up paying? I'm sure both Cisco and Microsoft are royally shafting the government, heck every big business does, but i wonder how represenative the figures really are.
My head hurts now.
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I am a moron. I posted in the wrong thread, move along, nothing to see here.....
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That quote is much older than a simpsons episode. I actually used that as a search phrase in google. i got many a message board sig file as a response, as well as references to numerous books, and an alice cooper (or was it ozzy osbourne?) song.
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Concering the bit about microsoft and Cisco not paying any taxes.
When an employee exercises an option to buy stock, the difference between the strike price (what the employee pays) and the market price (which is almost always higher) becomes taxable income for the employee and a tax deduction for the employer
Do the figures given for each company, (i.e.) the 1.8 billion in taxes cisco didn't pay, represent the deduction Cisco claimed? Or does that figure include the amount cisco claimed minus what the employee wound up paying? I'm sure both Cisco and Microsoft are royally shafting the government, heck every big business does, but i wonder how represenative the figures really are.
My head hurts now.
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oh whew, for a minute there i thought we were all going to be ripped apart that the atomic level by a force we could niether understand nor control. i now realize that we will all simply boil alive in a horrible, galactic nuclear holocost. Man i was worried there for a second
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oh man, thats so bad it hurts. thats an intergallactic groaner
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For the love of god man! we're all going to be sucked into a black hole that will negate exsistance as we know it! Panic now! avoid the rush! we've only got a few billion years left!
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abhorringly exaggerated is right. I've ben using M-net off and on for about 6 months now, and it wasn't just a matter of "go re-image the server(s)." If you haven't read rootprompt.org's "Cracked" section, please do so now as it mirrors what happened to m-net to a T. while the system was down the admins also decided that an upgrade was in order, so a new machine was purchased to add to the collective.
M-net is also all voulenteer, and the timing couldn't have been worse, as most of the admins were overloaded at their real jobs. Poor timing, a collection of ghod only know what kind of equipment, and admins who couldn't be pulled from their real jobs resulted in the month long downtime. fortunatly the community (grudgingly) understood and let the admins do their job when they could.
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The author can re-hash all of the ideas behind the "open source is better than closed source" argument, while hinting that he worked for "a major software company." exactly what has the author written that is so earth shaking?
Microsoft (if indeed that is who the author worked for) has no future in open source, as for the rest, i don't see a whole lot of people writing interesting articles about places they enjoyed working. Some context would have made the article a little more interesting, reading that was sorta like reading an Anonymous coward posting.
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If nothing else somebody will set the record there for loudest obscenity uttered after stepping on said longest legop train with bare feet......
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Could the author have fit any more corporate buzzwords in the title?
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it seems a couple weeks ago slamming the RIAA was all the rage and every comment regarding the various copyright infringments napster was committing were shouted down with cries of "Music revolution!" Now all of us sudden the "well they do have a point.." crowd is being heard. I for one do not approve of the RIAA. Any group that is responable for churning out boy bands and britney spears clones by the dozen while thwarting attempts by smaller artists to make a strong name for themselves deserves whatever punishment it inflicts on itself. In this case, The RIAA is priming itself to be blindsided by one or two major artists saying "to hell with this" and releasing all of their music via the web in the same manner stephen king released his latest book. The only problems are still a. electronic music is easy to copy, it always will be and b. who will be big enough to stand up to the RIAA? Metallica, for all the guff they took, have decided to stay witth what works. That in itself is admirable, but I think the geek community would have embraced them more had they opted to ditch the major label stuff AND napster and sell all of their catalog via metallica.com. This whole napster debate seems like a drunken one night stand. While it's going on, you don't have a problem with it, but in the morning, you sober up and realize that maybe the choices you made weren't the best. Of course that won't keep me from snagging a few more MP3's before the jack booted thugs kick the door down.
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How many copies of the DeCSS can dance on the head of a pin? Would the MPAA the Subpoena the pin?
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I used Kiddie porn as a glaring example, i couldn't think of much else on such short notice.
Useful i would agree with, but common? As i would understand it, you do have to get the permission of a federal judge to set up a wiretap, and have it be admissable as evidance.
as for why criminals use the phone and what have you? i don't know, guess they're just trying to get on the next showing of "worlds dumbest criminals"
"The FBI could request information from the isp" that's exactly what they are trying to protect. imagine you, as an FBI agent, have a genuine need for information about a user. Instead of calling up the ISP, now you have to deal with international law, and if pushed far enough you could get held up under extradition laws, or national right to privacy issues.
This is not a well defined area of the law right now, and unless we make great strides in the near future the quagmire of having a body like the suprime court decide what we can and can't do on the 'net is not a pretty thought