I haven't used either Navigator or Mozilla for quite some time. What does Navigator have that Mozilla doesn't for someone like me who doesn't
need another mail client or web design software?
All that added integration with Internet Shopping, courtesy of AOL, etc.
You can't win: the client won't appreciate knowing that they made the wrong choice and
the hosting company won't enjoy having their flaws pointed out to a customer. You'll catch shit from both sides and could well get sued out of the deal.
Heh - I know of one company that has two computer shops - one side that has running the business on some multidimensional DBMS since the dawn of time, and the other newer MS shop. The MS shop has several dozen people, and the old shop has a small handful.
The MS shop is terribly mad at the old small shop, because the MS shop is producing substantially less than the old new shop. - Of course the old shop is run with just a handful of gurus, where the MS shop has lots of (fill in the blank)
Bottom line - sometimes it pays to know what you are doing. And when You don't it costs you money.
Put up on your website a number of white papers that include security analysis of several "typical" obviously fictional companies, but which have some resemblence to the clients involved. The fictional companies could be in another country (all names, etc have been changed to protect the guilty). Include with this news stories from reral agencies and companies that hand security failures. Especially if some of these had systems similar to the clinet in question.
finally - [START JOKE] post the company name to a hacker newsgroup as vulnerable. do this some months after giving them the warning. Then send a reporter around to them after about a month, "I am doing a story on hackers, and I am interviewing typical companies about their internet security"
[END JOKE]
I do not, and I will never condone the abuse of a personal or corporate computer system for fun and or profit, etc.
Looking at the screen shots reminds me of Escher. All those wild angles. don't pan too fast it might make you sick! I think I would likely want to configure it so that the aspect ratio was a little wider. Maybe this would be suitable for the 3 panel Panasonic monitor that folks where going nuts over last year.
I belive that the SlashCode site itself is running 2.0
Slash hosting is in the process of setting up a new server with the 2.0 - so we'll need a utility to import from a slash 1.0 setup, not just in the same machine, but migration over a network.
You see, there's this thing called a thesaurus. You can find different words that mean the same thing... you make the connection.
Unfotunately, some people reading a thesarus do not know the words that are similar in meaning are not the same in meaning. Often something that is they primary meaning in one word is a secondary meaning someplace else.
For Example, you have a crusty old gentleman. One of the meanings of Crusty is Flakey, as in the crust of a pie.
You might not want to substitute the word flakey for crusty in this context. It wouldn't quite fit right.
Reading a paper written with this method gets really funny really fast.
The easiest tests to give as a teacher are multiple guess.
In a situation involving papers, as this one did, the easiest solution is to have the students sign up (put on a list) the topics that they are writing about, so that there are obviously no duplicates.
The best test is an open book type of test, although it is the hardest to correct, because you had to ask questions that really determine the studendts understanding.
In one math class I know of, the teacher had the final exam set up with a series of fiercely complex questions. But if you really understood what was going on, you got the correct answers, which were all very simple integers and fractions, etc.
You had to know enough to be able to cut through the BS.
This applies to computing very nicely. Did you fix it? Does it crash? etc.
Well, some people are going to start marketing special suits to protect themselves. I do not, however, recommend this example made from aluminum foil. (check out the poor dog!)
It of course depends on what is the most important body part to protect as far as you are concerned. These mostly focus on protecting the brain. (Not that is is being overused by some folks)
Other people may want to investigate protection for other body parts.
It now seems like a secret business plan method to have a patent on some process or product that gets used around the world, wherein you deliberately do not enforce it for many many years. When the market has developed sufficiently, you surprise everyone by enforcing the claims, and get huge buckets of money compared to the petty cash I would get if I had to enforce it all along, and if I had to actually develop the product and promote uses for the product in the first place.
I am going to patent that as a proprietary business method.
I have to use an analogy That I heard in a different context, that makes sense here.
If you have a democratically run (by the inmates) insane asylum, it would still be crazy. If you had a communistically [is that a word?] run (by the inmates) insane asylum, it would still be crazy.
In fact, it doesn't matter what form of government or political philosophy you use in an insane asylum run by the inmates, it would still be crazy. Most political philosophies make decent sense if you have bunch decent sane people to make it work, and to nullify the abuses. But when you cannot not tell the difference betewn the nuts and the flakes and the crackpots, and sanity, you have a problem.
Now you have a situation where you have to cope with the abuses imposed by the wackos so you can live in a decent world.
It is startling to think that the problems of figuring out who is a wacko (and who is not) and how to deal with them is a possible component of the problems we deal with in many arenas. The politically correct answer is that everyone is crazy, or everyone is sane. neither of which is true, although I wonder about this sometimes
Obviously commercial interests exist to take advantadge of the situation. There is no commercial profit obviously there in the long run, regardless of the idealism you may have to try to sort it all out. It is not politically correct to pursue this.
It is this quandry that brings us to trying to hide stuff
We will not loose to MS because of anything that MS does.
If we loose, it is because we become our own worst enemies.
Foaming at the mouth is ineffective marketing technology. Microsoft is a master of marketing, using their strength in marketing to sell what is considered by some to be inferior products. They market to the masses, people who follow opinion leaders, because those folks do not have the time, ambition, or wherewithal to do the legwork themselves.
This is most likely the correct target to go after.
If you go to page three of the article, there is this bit which sums is up nicely:
There's a lot Microsoft can do, because right now, more people will listen to them than they will to the average Linux über-hacker. If you believe otherwise, then you may need to check your ego at the door.
Because when presented with a calm, reasonable-sounding statement from a large corporation versus sarcastic rants and flames from a bunch of apparent malcontents who do nothing all day but argue why Microsoft is an evil entity instead of stipulating exactly why their product is better,
I will guarantee you that the average listener is going to give far more weight to the calm, reasonable-sounding statements every single time.
I am not proposing that everyone associated with Linux get haircuts, take manners lessons, and start wearing Tux-logoed polo shirts. But I am
advocating that we don't rest on our superior technological laurels and think that's all we need to fend off Microsoft's very carefully planned
attacks. Nor can we get so pleased with ourselves with how inventive we can get with hammering Microsoft with lofty insults. Because all of this is leading up to one inescapable conclusion: no one outside of our community is going to keep listening to this much longer.
And Microsoft knows this. Every time we fly off the collective handle when they do something threatening and they can just sit back and say "see how unreasonable those people are? See how derisive the keepers of this Linux technology can be?"
We have our own future in our hands.
We will not loose to MS because of anything that MS does.
If we loose, it is because we become our own worst enemies..
I wonder how they are going to enforce this. at the retail level.
The rental model is one thing, where you directly rent the software from MS.
But if I go into a sotore and buy something, is it going to time out on me in three years? it going to give me an error screen 3 years after activation? I can imagine all kinds of horror stories on this. Handled with hard ball tactics, this could for less rational folks into violence etc.
I for one, am glad I am getting up to speed on the *nix systems
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This would bet THE ideal thing to port slashdot to. Store the comments on freenet, and leave the metadata like mod points and such at a centrally controlled site. No more being forced to pull a comment due to lawyers babbling, and no more problems with old content that people still want going away, etc. etc.
Since it is under the GPL, and the source is available, have a crack at it. Note that Slashdot is based on apache, Mysql, mod_perl among other things. So this would tie in well with the original idea of SQL on Freenet in the first place.
but you would also have to deal with the original Cmdr Taco Spaghetti code as well.
Well, This reminds me of the case of France vs Yahoo last year.
This is where the Value of the Internet is wiped out because everyone gets offended by what is going on in the next country, then the next province, the next city, town, or county.
A case where people prefer to be safe in their ignorance.
on the other hand, jerking the other guys chain with a high voltage cattle prod doesn't help either. You know, there are guys who will act as insulting as possible just because the other person gets upset about something, instead of acting with compassion.
Sort of cutting off the nose to spite the face. Cutting themselves off might do more harm than good.
1) the Register had this on Friday 04/05/2001 at 16:03 GMT - which works out to be 9am in LA, I think.
I am sure folks submitted it before the weekend.
So what gives, is it news or not? Especially since MS rejected the plan. As the story said:
Microsoft was said to be uninterested in such a deal, which isn't entirely surprising - acquiring Napster would bring Microsoft a valuable
brand name, but one that wouldn't exactly endear it to the music industry. Far better to use Napster to promote its technology. If it works, and Napster's reputation is restored, Microsoft can buy the company then. If Napster dies the death - either because its fans reject the
subscription service or the recording industry kills it - Microsoft can shrug its shoulders and say it was only a technology provider.
Maybe I'm naive, but I'd call that a minimum standard of intellectual honesty and fairness, not "exceptional."
Looking at the typical behavior around here, especially from the college crowd, odds are that this would qualify you for the top 5 percent of the population. Never mind those who are less "well educated".
37. For instance, under the first sale doctrine, an owner of a piece of software can transfer her program to whomever and for whatever she desires. The use of a license prevents this doctrine from applying, which allows computer programming firms to price-discriminate between customer characteristics. If Microsoft wants to
give Windows software to public schools at a cost blow the production cost and the transaction consummates a sale, the first sale doctrine would apply, and the school could resell the programs at a higher price to a corporation, retaining the difference. This would cause Microsoft to charge all customers one price, either by lowering its price, forcing it to run at a loss, or raising its price, thus making the program unavailable to schools and other meagerly funded organizations. This result is economically inefficient and would most assuredly be politically unpopular.
I am interested on the implications of the fact of Microsofts monopoly in as it applies to licensing. While it can be argued that the two issues are separate, and one is not relevant to the other, many people look at the practices of Microsoft in this regard and view it with horror and contempt. Are there instances where such licensing practices impose a non-legitimate enforcment of "rights", and in fact constitute improper maintenance of a monopoly? Or do people have these separate issues confused, when they should be treated separately?
Each container was labeled to indicate the destination of its contents. Special delivery letters were delivered within one hour; regular letters within three.
Thinking about this, I realized that this compares favorably with email, in that between meetings, and so on, the response times are similar. This puts a new light on the commerce of the early 20th century. However:
"the pneumatic service began to pale next to the new technology of the motor-wagon, which could deliver mail two to three times faster than a
horse-drawn cart with equal or greater volume and more than 10 times the volume of a pneumatic tube, while only slightly slower."
Now that has gone to hell in a handbasket since then.
I mean, a faked memo, is it really 'news for nerds'
Well, the question is if unverified memo is news, or should we presume unverified memos as fake until proven otherwise? Of course, presuming all unverified memos as true is lunacy as well.
I find that a lot of this is highly dependant on a person's choice of enemies, etc. Too often, if the unverified blurb is about someone that a person loves to hate, then it must be true. Of Course. and vice versa.
It takes exceptional qualities to step outside the box in this regard, and suspend judgement on someone you hate; and to get all the facts, despite the FUD. The memo itself seems to be semi reasonable from the viewpoint of AOL, and I would not hold anything against them if it was true. MS should expect some people to be working against them.
Still a problem an enemy K10 tanker is a high value target it's worthwhile your UAV taking down by any means possible a civilian DC10 you don't want to even go near. They are more or less the same type of aircraft and you can't trust the enemy to send out an "I am your enemy" transponder signal.
In combat situations, your friends send out an "I am your friend" signal in response to the correct query. Enemies presumably do not have your protocols. In a combat zone, guess which ones you shoot?
There was this story in the The Register citing A post on The Tech Report suggests that Microsoft just might be preparing to retro-fit XP's product activation to Win2k. According to the author, installation of the Internet Explorer 6 preview on a Win2k machine resulted in the addition of a new, suspicious-sounding registry key:
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All that added integration with Internet Shopping, courtesy of AOL, etc.
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Heh - I know of one company that has two computer shops - one side that has running the business on some multidimensional DBMS since the dawn of time, and the other newer MS shop. The MS shop has several dozen people, and the old shop has a small handful.
The MS shop is terribly mad at the old small shop, because the MS shop is producing substantially less than the old new shop. - Of course the old shop is run with just a handful of gurus, where the MS shop has lots of (fill in the blank)
Bottom line - sometimes it pays to know what you are doing. And when You don't it costs you money.
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finally - [START JOKE] post the company name to a hacker newsgroup as vulnerable. do this some months after giving them the warning. Then send a reporter around to them after about a month, "I am doing a story on hackers, and I am interviewing typical companies about their internet security" [END JOKE]
I do not, and I will never condone the abuse of a personal or corporate computer system for fun and or profit, etc.
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Slash hosting is in the process of setting up a new server with the 2.0 - so we'll need a utility to import from a slash 1.0 setup, not just in the same machine, but migration over a network.
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I haven't had time to find where it set in the new system yet.
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Unfotunately, some people reading a thesarus do not know the words that are similar in meaning are not the same in meaning. Often something that is they primary meaning in one word is a secondary meaning someplace else.
For Example, you have a crusty old gentleman. One of the meanings of Crusty is Flakey, as in the crust of a pie.
You might not want to substitute the word flakey for crusty in this context. It wouldn't quite fit right.
Reading a paper written with this method gets really funny really fast.
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In a situation involving papers, as this one did, the easiest solution is to have the students sign up (put on a list) the topics that they are writing about, so that there are obviously no duplicates.
The best test is an open book type of test, although it is the hardest to correct, because you had to ask questions that really determine the studendts understanding.
In one math class I know of, the teacher had the final exam set up with a series of fiercely complex questions. But if you really understood what was going on, you got the correct answers, which were all very simple integers and fractions, etc.
You had to know enough to be able to cut through the BS.
This applies to computing very nicely. Did you fix it? Does it crash? etc.
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There is this very legit product from ShieldWorks. Check out their catalog
And there is the world famous Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
It of course depends on what is the most important body part to protect as far as you are concerned. These mostly focus on protecting the brain. (Not that is is being overused by some folks)
Other people may want to investigate protection for other body parts.
There is a business plan in here someplace folks.
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I am going to patent that as a proprietary business method.
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I have to use an analogy That I heard in a different context, that makes sense here.
If you have a democratically run (by the inmates) insane asylum, it would still be crazy. If you had a communistically [is that a word?] run (by the inmates) insane asylum, it would still be crazy.
In fact, it doesn't matter what form of government or political philosophy you use in an insane asylum run by the inmates, it would still be crazy. Most political philosophies make decent sense if you have bunch decent sane people to make it work, and to nullify the abuses. But when you cannot not tell the difference betewn the nuts and the flakes and the crackpots, and sanity, you have a problem.
Now you have a situation where you have to cope with the abuses imposed by the wackos so you can live in a decent world.
It is startling to think that the problems of figuring out who is a wacko (and who is not) and how to deal with them is a possible component of the problems we deal with in many arenas. The politically correct answer is that everyone is crazy, or everyone is sane. neither of which is true, although I wonder about this sometimes
Obviously commercial interests exist to take advantadge of the situation. There is no commercial profit obviously there in the long run, regardless of the idealism you may have to try to sort it all out. It is not politically correct to pursue this.
It is this quandry that brings us to trying to hide stuff
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
We have our own future in our hands.
We will not loose to MS because of anything that MS does.
If we loose, it is because we become our own worst enemies.
Foaming at the mouth is ineffective marketing technology. Microsoft is a master of marketing, using their strength in marketing to sell what is considered by some to be inferior products. They market to the masses, people who follow opinion leaders, because those folks do not have the time, ambition, or wherewithal to do the legwork themselves.
This is most likely the correct target to go after.
If you go to page three of the article, there is this bit which sums is up nicely:
There's a lot Microsoft can do, because right now, more people will listen to them than they will to the average Linux über-hacker. If you believe otherwise, then you may need to check your ego at the door.
Because when presented with a calm, reasonable-sounding statement from a large corporation versus sarcastic rants and flames from a bunch of apparent malcontents who do nothing all day but argue why Microsoft is an evil entity instead of stipulating exactly why their product is better, I will guarantee you that the average listener is going to give far more weight to the calm, reasonable-sounding statements every single time.
I am not proposing that everyone associated with Linux get haircuts, take manners lessons, and start wearing Tux-logoed polo shirts. But I am advocating that we don't rest on our superior technological laurels and think that's all we need to fend off Microsoft's very carefully planned attacks. Nor can we get so pleased with ourselves with how inventive we can get with hammering Microsoft with lofty insults. Because all of this is leading up to one inescapable conclusion: no one outside of our community is going to keep listening to this much longer.
And Microsoft knows this. Every time we fly off the collective handle when they do something threatening and they can just sit back and say "see how unreasonable those people are? See how derisive the keepers of this Linux technology can be?" We have our own future in our hands.
We will not loose to MS because of anything that MS does.
If we loose, it is because we become our own worst enemies..
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The rental model is one thing, where you directly rent the software from MS.
But if I go into a sotore and buy something, is it going to time out on me in three years? it going to give me an error screen 3 years after activation? I can imagine all kinds of horror stories on this. Handled with hard ball tactics, this could for less rational folks into violence etc.
I for one, am glad I am getting up to speed on the *nix systems
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Since it is under the GPL, and the source is available, have a crack at it. Note that Slashdot is based on apache, Mysql, mod_perl among other things. So this would tie in well with the original idea of SQL on Freenet in the first place.
but you would also have to deal with the original Cmdr Taco Spaghetti code as well.
;-)
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This is where the Value of the Internet is wiped out because everyone gets offended by what is going on in the next country, then the next province, the next city, town, or county.
A case where people prefer to be safe in their ignorance.
on the other hand, jerking the other guys chain with a high voltage cattle prod doesn't help either. You know, there are guys who will act as insulting as possible just because the other person gets upset about something, instead of acting with compassion.
Sort of cutting off the nose to spite the face. Cutting themselves off might do more harm than good.
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I have mixed feeling on this one.
But I do not know how viable it will be as a laptop replacement.
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I am sure folks submitted it before the weekend.
So what gives, is it news or not? Especially since MS rejected the plan. As the story said:
Microsoft was said to be uninterested in such a deal, which isn't entirely surprising - acquiring Napster would bring Microsoft a valuable brand name, but one that wouldn't exactly endear it to the music industry. Far better to use Napster to promote its technology. If it works, and Napster's reputation is restored, Microsoft can buy the company then. If Napster dies the death - either because its fans reject the subscription service or the recording industry kills it - Microsoft can shrug its shoulders and say it was only a technology provider.
This is news? Look at the surprise on my face.
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Looking at the typical behavior around here, especially from the college crowd, odds are that this would qualify you for the top 5 percent of the population. Never mind those who are less "well educated".
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37. For instance, under the first sale doctrine, an owner of a piece of software can transfer her program to whomever and for whatever she desires. The use of a license prevents this doctrine from applying, which allows computer programming firms to price-discriminate between customer characteristics. If Microsoft wants to give Windows software to public schools at a cost blow the production cost and the transaction consummates a sale, the first sale doctrine would apply, and the school could resell the programs at a higher price to a corporation, retaining the difference. This would cause Microsoft to charge all customers one price, either by lowering its price, forcing it to run at a loss, or raising its price, thus making the program unavailable to schools and other meagerly funded organizations. This result is economically inefficient and would most assuredly be politically unpopular.
I am interested on the implications of the fact of Microsofts monopoly in as it applies to licensing. While it can be argued that the two issues are separate, and one is not relevant to the other, many people look at the practices of Microsoft in this regard and view it with horror and contempt. Are there instances where such licensing practices impose a non-legitimate enforcment of "rights", and in fact constitute improper maintenance of a monopoly? Or do people have these separate issues confused, when they should be treated separately?
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That's what I get for posting about five minutes before the morning caffiene kicks in.
[shrug]
Foot in mouth tastes good on monday morning. Now all I got to do is learn to whistle.
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Thinking about this, I realized that this compares favorably with email, in that between meetings, and so on, the response times are similar. This puts a new light on the commerce of the early 20th century. However:
"the pneumatic service began to pale next to the new technology of the motor-wagon, which could deliver mail two to three times faster than a horse-drawn cart with equal or greater volume and more than 10 times the volume of a pneumatic tube, while only slightly slower."
Now that has gone to hell in a handbasket since then.
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Well, the question is if unverified memo is news, or should we presume unverified memos as fake until proven otherwise? Of course, presuming all unverified memos as true is lunacy as well.
I find that a lot of this is highly dependant on a person's choice of enemies, etc. Too often, if the unverified blurb is about someone that a person loves to hate, then it must be true. Of Course. and vice versa.
It takes exceptional qualities to step outside the box in this regard, and suspend judgement on someone you hate; and to get all the facts, despite the FUD. The memo itself seems to be semi reasonable from the viewpoint of AOL, and I would not hold anything against them if it was true. MS should expect some people to be working against them.
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Which is nice if Beta News gets Slashed. (all your hits are belong to us!)
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In combat situations, your friends send out an "I am your friend" signal in response to the correct query. Enemies presumably do not have your protocols. In a combat zone, guess which ones you shoot?
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\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
(The original Tech Report article is here, and has some more interesting tech data.)
Bottom line, they are going to try to get you any way they can.
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