Many people who were saying the DoJ should force microsoft to open the source code were not looking at the long term. We all realize the value of opensource but allowing the government to force a company to release its intellectual property like that sets a dangerous precedent. Forcing an opening of file format standards would be ok but not all the source. I have a feeling that the route to break them up would be the best thing for the consumer.
Breaking them up into an operating systems group and an applications group would be the best IMHO.
This of course would require a reevaluation in the future as the landscape of computing changes but for now it is the best solution. Fines don't mean jack shit to MS.
Rob, I think using the phrase "rip it" was probably a poor choice. My take on the whole DVD deal was that I just want to watch them under linux and not have to run a proprietary OS to do it. I don't want to have to buy 2 dvd players (one for the living room and one for the bedroom). Using phrases like "rip it" make you think of copyright violation via copying.
I think this flick is still in theaters and it's definatly worth a look. Kevin Spacey has to be one of my favorite actors in a long time. The movie was one of those that had me still sitting in the theater as the credits rolled because I had taken in so much. The Green Mile promises to be another movie in the same vein as American Beauty in that the movie leave's you in your seat at the end as you try to soak up the whole thing.
I agree that we need the contact information but that information is still available but not via the quick and easy whois as stated in the original post. I don't mind people contacting me about my domains with serious issues at all. I DO mind the fact that I need to beware of the Microsoft cookie recipe that will erase my harddrive if I don't send the message to a hundred people or that I might be interested in this fantastic offer on finding long lost pets fgor only 19.95;)
At least the email addresses aren't available now and I like that considering all the domains I host. I just recently made a ton of changes that stopped my contact email from being printed but this is hella better.
Actually that may have been a mistake on my part but this information is readilly available on the company website. I'm not approaching him in a negative light by any means. There would be no need for retribution.
I know all about the session-level cookies. I knew that it wouldn't be stored but I still found it entirely useless for viewing a single page. It is the comapnie's perogrative. The sad part is, the type of people who get concerned about cookies aren't the type of people they are interested in. heheh
Some kindly moderator moderate this highly informative post up. Great information for alot of people.
I just attempted to load cometzone's web site and it doesn't allow you to unless you allow cookies. God I love junkbuster. The sad thing is I find this to be more and more of an issue. Why do they need to store a cookie for me to load the page? Admittedly they can do whatever they want with the website but I find this just plain stupid.
On a positive note, I recently went to Axent's site to do some research on their products and foudn that I couldn't view any product information unless I allowed cookies. I thought this was plain stupid and I emailed the webmaster regarding it. Below is the QUICK response from the webmaster at Axent. He was honest and shared more information than he needed to share ( he didn't even have to redspond ). I wish more companies had this attitude. My response back was that since I couldn't find a privacy statement, I wasn't planning on allowing the cookies because I wasn't sure of their purpose. He was a nice guy none the less. Here's the email:
Subject: RE: Feedback Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:03:48 -0500 From: Tony Stephens To: "'jvincent@qa.butler.com'"
You will not receive any unsolicited information from us. Thanks for the heads-up on the feedback page. You are right, it shouldn't say "Submit Registration". As for the cookies, we have moved to a dynamic, data-driven site powered by Mainspan. I'm not 100% sure what the cookies are for (I'm real new at this job, still learning the site...no excuse, but a minor explanation for my lack of a real explanation) but I'm assuming that they are to allow the server to track (during the session only) your documents and allow faster access to the ones you access. It's a variable called "DocsActiveForUser". Again, I believe that this is what it is for. I will look into this further. I agree with you in the fact that for the public site, it shouldn't be cookies, but rather session variables. But I'm sure it's for the purpose of providing you the information you want faster...allowing you to kind-of 'keep track' of the documents you have accessed. I assure you its not for any tracking or informational gathering uses of ours.
Thanks. Tony Stephens Webmaster AXENT Technologies, Inc. 2400 Research Blvd. #200 p: 301.670.3644 e: tstephens@axent.com e: webmaster@axent.com w: www.axent.com
-----Original Message----- From: jvincent@qa.butler.com [mailto:jvincent@qa.butler.com] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 9:09 AM To: webmaster@axent.com Subject: Feedback
Name: John E. Vincent Phone: Email: jvincent@qa.butler.com PageLocation: Products Feedback: I was browsing your site and noticed that to get information, my browser has to accept cookies. Please provide me with a good reason that a security company requires a cookie with an invalid expiration date to allow me access to the most basic of information about your products. I notice your submit button says "Submit Registrion". This also serves to say that I am not registering for anything. I don not want any unsolicited email from your company other than a response to my question. John E. Vincent Network Administrator BTSQA
I honestly think ADD et. al are used entirely wrong most of the time. I have a feeling it is easier for parents and doctors to label kids this way instead of getting at the root of the problem.
Having said that...I have been diagnosed with ADD and believe it to be true myself. Even at 25. =)
"Your term 'geek profiling' is dead on," wrote one principal....., and who don't participate in 'mainstream' school activities.
Since when does lack of participation deem someone a target? I knew alot of people who didn't enjoy the mainstream school activities when I was in highschool. I participated in a few (french honors, prom committies) but hte rest I found to be uninteresting. Most people know I'm a network admin for a Quality Assurance Lab. Recently Rational (a testing tool company) came in and did a week long course on their products. At the end everyone got certificates. I was the only person in the entire office who didn't attend (other than the boss). My boss asked me if I wanted to go and I flat out said that I had nor will I ever have any interest in manual, automated or regression testing. I told him that I see no link between it and my job other than the performance testing that users were doing on our LAN. He agreed and I got some work-related (slashdot;>) tasks done that week because everyone was out of my hair.
Schools nowadays have a ton of tasks to keep students busy but face it, there are going to be people who aren't going to be interested. Quite possibly they just want to get the whole thing out of the way and focus on learning so they can move on.
Or who are seriously disenchanted with school or the structure of school.
Let's face it, people who dislike school..simply dislike school. It doesn't make them irrational or insane. They just don't like it.
Have experience with chronic bullying...
Does this mean THEY do the bullying or are bullied themselves? This actually goes against what most of the slashdot community has been saying in the wake of the hellmouth series. Most of the people who fit this profile are usually BEING bullied.
That's where the intro about the beads is. I actually pulled it out when I was making my original submission just to verify the depth of the hack;) "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
A simple text processing language gone haywire;) Seriously though, a simple hack that went from a tool to produce reports has become a driving force behind the web. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I payed 140 for my Wacom Intuos 4x5 graphics tablet from outpost.com. Serial interface. I use it in conjuction with my ps2 mouse all the time. Coolest thing is that the Xfree modules support the wacom product line. I love having a pen to use in gimp now. Makes things so much easier. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
in your $HOME/.q3a/demoq3/ dir you can edit the q3config.cfg and change seta r_smp "0" to seta r_smp "1" I would gather. I don't have an smp machine at home to test it on or I would. As far as the TNT (i have an stb velocity 4400), I can get it to run smashingly but everytime I restart it acts funny (sounds getting hung and what not). All I have to do is something silly like go into setup for graphics and slide the detail down a notch so it forces you to apply the changes, once it restarts to apply it works fine. go figure. Others have said that for the TNT make sure you lighting is set to lightmap instead of vertex but it works fine for me either way. Full screen and windowed. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I had no problem getting the mid wheel setup under the new demo. Works like a charm. Getting the demo to run as a whole was a tad bit more dificult but it runs none the less. and it sure is nice lookin;) "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
If you've used CDE before then you'll die for this. I have it running on the linux dev boxes in our lab and training room because most of the people at the office who have even seen a *nix, have used CDE and since it's what runs on our HPUX,AIX and sparcs, it's a nice way to keep em comfy so I don't have to explain another WM to them;) "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Read the man page for logging in from a particular ip without a password. Look for.shosts.
Or search google for RSAAuthentication. You should come across a.gov mailing list that discusses a bit about it. There were too many URL's to list here. The only reason I even mention it, is that I spent 2 hours last night trying to get it to work for this webcam software that I'm trying to get to replace ftp with sftp and didn't feel like putting the recompiling the damn thing everytime I changed the password on that account. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I don't have the URL handy but it showed how various contries rate in terms of encryption and what not. Can someone provide it? I want to see how Germany ranked inregards to other countries. This should definatly raise them a few points. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Check the Press Release on www.redhat.com about the whole deal. There is some good information as well as a nice FAQ on it. "We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Slashdot Mirror
Many people who were saying the DoJ should force microsoft to open the source code were not looking at the long term. We all realize the value of opensource but allowing the government to force a company to release its intellectual property like that sets a dangerous precedent. Forcing an opening of file format standards would be ok but not all the source. I have a feeling that the route to break them up would be the best thing for the consumer.
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Here is my original take on the whole thing.
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Breaking them up into an operating systems group and an applications group would be the best IMHO.
This of course would require a reevaluation in the future as the landscape of computing changes but for now it is the best solution. Fines don't mean jack shit to MS.
I take that back having read other posts about fair and legal use below.
If I'm not mistaken what you are doing is technically illegal. At least someone had made reference to that during the Canadian DJ discussion.
Rob,
I think using the phrase "rip it" was probably a poor choice. My take on the whole DVD deal was that I just want to watch them under linux and not have to run a proprietary OS to do it. I don't want to have to buy 2 dvd players (one for the living room and one for the bedroom). Using phrases like "rip it" make you think of copyright violation via copying.
just a thought. not a flame.
I think this flick is still in theaters and it's definatly worth a look. Kevin Spacey has to be one of my favorite actors in a long time. The movie was one of those that had me still sitting in the theater as the credits rolled because I had taken in so much.
The Green Mile promises to be another movie in the same vein as American Beauty in that the movie leave's you in your seat at the end as you try to soak up the whole thing.
See the above reply.
I agree that we need the contact information but that information is still available but not via the quick and easy whois as stated in the original post. I don't mind people contacting me about my domains with serious issues at all. I DO mind the fact that I need to beware of the Microsoft cookie recipe that will erase my harddrive if I don't send the message to a hundred people or that I might be interested in this fantastic offer on finding long lost pets fgor only 19.95 ;)
At least the email addresses aren't available now and I like that considering all the domains I host. I just recently made a ton of changes that stopped my contact email from being printed but this is hella better.
Actually that may have been a mistake on my part but this information is readilly available on the company website. I'm not approaching him in a negative light by any means. There would be no need for retribution.
I know all about the session-level cookies. I knew that it wouldn't be stored but I still found it entirely useless for viewing a single page. It is the comapnie's perogrative. The sad part is, the type of people who get concerned about cookies aren't the type of people they are interested in. heheh
Some kindly moderator moderate this highly informative post up. Great information for alot of people.
Great Post AC.
Hahahah notice the "Security Info" button as well.
"we value your security and privacy" =P BS
I just attempted to load cometzone's web site and it doesn't allow you to unless you allow cookies. God I love junkbuster. The sad thing is I find this to be more and more of an issue. Why do they need to store a cookie for me to load the page? Admittedly they can do whatever they want with the website but I find this just plain stupid.
On a positive note,
I recently went to Axent's site to do some research on their products and foudn that I couldn't view any product information unless I allowed cookies. I thought this was plain stupid and I emailed the webmaster regarding it. Below is the QUICK response from the webmaster at Axent. He was honest and shared more information than he needed to share ( he didn't even have to redspond ). I wish more companies had this attitude. My response back was that since I couldn't find a privacy statement, I wasn't planning on allowing the cookies because I wasn't sure of their purpose. He was a nice guy none the less.
Here's the email:
Subject:
RE: Feedback
Date:
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:03:48 -0500
From:
Tony Stephens
To:
"'jvincent@qa.butler.com'"
You will not receive any unsolicited information from us. Thanks for the
heads-up on the feedback page. You are right, it shouldn't say "Submit
Registration". As for the cookies, we have moved to a dynamic, data-driven
site powered by Mainspan. I'm not 100% sure what the cookies are for (I'm
real new at this job, still learning the site...no excuse, but a minor
explanation for my lack of a real explanation) but I'm assuming that they
are to allow the server to track (during the session only) your documents
and allow faster access to the ones you access. It's a variable called
"DocsActiveForUser". Again, I believe that this is what it is for. I will
look into this further. I agree with you in the fact that for the public
site, it shouldn't be cookies, but rather session variables. But I'm sure
it's for the purpose of providing you the information you want
faster...allowing you to kind-of 'keep track' of the documents you have
accessed. I assure you its not for any tracking or informational gathering
uses of ours.
Thanks.
Tony Stephens
Webmaster
AXENT Technologies, Inc.
2400 Research Blvd. #200
p: 301.670.3644
e: tstephens@axent.com
e: webmaster@axent.com
w: www.axent.com
-----Original Message-----
From: jvincent@qa.butler.com [mailto:jvincent@qa.butler.com]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 9:09 AM
To: webmaster@axent.com
Subject: Feedback
Name: John E. Vincent
Phone:
Email: jvincent@qa.butler.com
PageLocation: Products
Feedback: I was browsing your site and noticed that to get information, my
browser has to accept cookies. Please provide me with a good reason that a
security company requires a cookie with an invalid expiration date to allow
me access to the most basic of information about your products. I notice
your submit button says "Submit Registrion". This also serves to say that I
am not registering for anything. I don not want any unsolicited email from
your company other than a response to my question. John E. Vincent Network
Administrator BTSQA
DAMNIT...now my real name is out. I must change it yet again ;)
No more lily'ing from my box for you =)
I honestly think ADD et. al are used entirely wrong most of the time. I have a feeling it is easier for parents and doctors to label kids this way instead of getting at the root of the problem.
Having said that...I have been diagnosed with ADD and believe it to be true myself. Even at 25. =)
On a few points:
...., and who don't participate in 'mainstream' school activities.
;>) tasks done that week because everyone was out of my hair.
"Your term 'geek profiling' is dead on," wrote one principal.
Since when does lack of participation deem someone a target? I knew alot of people who didn't enjoy the mainstream school activities when I was in highschool. I participated in a few (french honors, prom committies) but hte rest I found to be uninteresting. Most people know I'm a network admin for a Quality Assurance Lab. Recently Rational (a testing tool company) came in and did a week long course on their products. At the end everyone got certificates. I was the only person in the entire office who didn't attend (other than the boss). My boss asked me if I wanted to go and I flat out said that I had nor will I ever have any interest in manual, automated or regression testing. I told him that I see no link between it and my job other than the performance testing that users were doing on our LAN. He agreed and I got some work-related (slashdot
Schools nowadays have a ton of tasks to keep students busy but face it, there are going to be people who aren't going to be interested. Quite possibly they just want to get the whole thing out of the way and focus on learning so they can move on.
Or who are seriously disenchanted with school or the structure of school.
Let's face it, people who dislike school..simply dislike school. It doesn't make them irrational or insane. They just don't like it.
Have experience with chronic bullying...
Does this mean THEY do the bullying or are bullied themselves? This actually goes against what most of the slashdot community has been saying in the wake of the hellmouth series. Most of the people who fit this profile are usually BEING bullied.
That's where the intro about the beads is. I actually pulled it out when I was making my original submission just to verify the depth of the hack ;)
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Perl.
;)
A simple text processing language gone haywire
Seriously though, a simple hack that went from a tool to produce reports has become a driving force behind the web.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I payed 140 for my Wacom Intuos 4x5 graphics tablet from outpost.com. Serial interface. I use it in conjuction with my ps2 mouse all the time. Coolest thing is that the Xfree modules support the wacom product line. I love having a pen to use in gimp now. Makes things so much easier.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
in your $HOME/.q3a/demoq3/ dir you can edit the
q3config.cfg and change seta r_smp "0" to seta r_smp "1" I would gather. I don't have an smp machine at home to test it on or I would. As far as the TNT (i have an stb velocity 4400), I can get it to run smashingly but everytime I restart it acts funny (sounds getting hung and what not). All I have to do is something silly like go into setup for graphics and slide the detail down a notch so it forces you to apply the changes, once it restarts to apply it works fine. go figure. Others have said that for the TNT make sure you lighting is set to lightmap instead of vertex but it works fine for me either way. Full screen and windowed.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I had no problem getting the mid wheel setup under the new demo. Works like a charm. Getting the demo to run as a whole was a tad bit more dificult but it runs none the less. and it sure is nice lookin ;)
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
If you've used CDE before then you'll die for this. I have it running on the linux dev boxes in our lab and training room because most of the people at the office who have even seen a *nix, have used CDE and since it's what runs on our HPUX,AIX and sparcs, it's a nice way to keep em comfy so I don't have to explain another WM to them ;)
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Read the man page for logging in from a particular ip without a password. Look for .shosts.
.gov mailing list that discusses a bit about it. There were too many URL's to list here. The only reason I even mention it, is that I spent 2 hours last night trying to get it to work for this webcam software that I'm trying to get to replace ftp with sftp and didn't feel like putting the recompiling the damn thing everytime I changed the password on that account.
Or search google for RSAAuthentication. You should come across a
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
I don't have the URL handy but it showed how various contries rate in terms of encryption and what not. Can someone provide it? I want to see how Germany ranked inregards to other countries. This should definatly raise them a few points.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Who the hell plays quake with a controller? It's all about mouse power baby. =) I mean all of this in good natured fun of course.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece
Check the Press Release on www.redhat.com about the whole deal. There is some good information as well as a nice FAQ on it.
"We hope you find fun and laughter in the new millenium" - Top half of fastfood gamepiece