It's a well know procedure in German football for Bayern Munich to buy the best players from other teams and let them sit on their subsitutes bench, rather than allow then play well for other teams against them. It looks like Micrpsoft are simply learning the Munich way of doing things.
No she doesn't, she looks like Sue Woodward, Director of Programming for Granada TV, who is running Liverpool's European Capital of Culture programme, when she was around that age.
(Probably totally meaningless to non-UK people. but WTF)
If you are, as you claim to be, a "science oriented person" then maybe you should learn the meaning of the word theory in the scientific sense. Then you wouldn't write such absolute bollocks as you do:-)
After hearing what you report this guy said and having had a quick look at his web site, I'd say you had a pretty strong case for suing your school if they claim that they are selling you an "infosec" course.
I would ask him for evidence of where this stolen code is and could he please produce an example. Accusing someone of stealing is quite a serious allegation.
Claiming that "Linux has insurmountable legal trouble" is an opinion he is not qualified to give and he is expressing such an opinion in his professional capacity (unless his doctorate is in law which would help explain his ignorance about computer matters).
These two statements alone inidcate that he has pretty low professional standards.
..er.. you're not supposed to "read" log files, you're supposed to analyse them. You should be doing excatly that, e.g. looking for unusual patterns of usage etc.
I've no idea. What kinds of access is available for getting into these system and how are the data intgrity rules enforced ?
For your average RDBMS there are lots e.g. for Oracle there are SQLPLUS, Pro*C, ODBC, JDBV , ADO, etc etc. If anyone can get at your data through one of these methods and start twiddling with the data or data structures then you need to make sure that they can't twiddle things that they're not supposed to twiddle with and, if they are allowed to twiddle, then they musn't be able to break things. If you rely on implementing data rules in your client or middleware layer then someday someone will come along and build another client that twiddles around where ever it likes.
"Yet the usual database products are a disease in themselves. I think that relational databases are not the best for transaction processing. I prefer to use programming languages with built in database support."
I hope that I never have to book tickets using a credit card in any systems that you've been within ten miles of.
I also hope that your customers never trust you with business critical data.
If you can't see why, think about how you enforce data integrity and security if a customer asks you (or more likely someone else) to write, say, a new web interface to your data?
It's all very well if all you want to do is view the documents. Where I work we've taken a decision to move away from MS-Office as much as possible and use OpenOffice. The problem is that our main (almost only) customer uses MS-Office. We often need to exchange documents and add comments to each others work. This can cause a few problems. In particular, they have some home grown formatting for their word documents which makes it impossible for OpenOffice to import them correctly.
This means that we have to keep one version of word hanging about in order to re-export these documents in a format that OPenOffice has no problem with. Of course, the export from OpenOffice is always readable by them but exporting in a non-nroken format is what I'd expect from Open software.
I hate the EU as much as the next Daily Telegraph reader (but not as much as some Daily Mail readers:-) but the EU is no more protectionist than anyone else. Tariffs, subsidies, trade barriers etc. are the ways that governments keep powerful interest groups happy. I see no difference between the EU and the US on issues like this.
" Electronic voting has been used in parts of Belgium for over a decade, with little fuss or controversy."
Doesn't surpise me at all. Politicians, goverment officials and senior businesmen were raping little girls locked in cellars for decades with little fuss or controversy as well. I can't see anyone getting worked up over a crooked election system.
"putting a cross in a big box (like the UK and Europe) then having someone count the crosses is still the best solution."
Which is why Blair and his cronies are quite keen on replacing it with postal, electronic, mobile phone (for god's sake) or even some kind of things at supermarkets, voting
It may be a bit harder and longer counting the votes but it is for something quite important (not just who wins Pop Idol or something) so it doesn't matter if it takes a few days.
Strangely enough if Audi/VW suddenly goes bust my car doesn't stop running tomorrow and if it went wrong I could still get it fixed.
It would only be a strange distorted market dominated by a predatory monopoly that would allow something like that should happen. So why should Microsoft tanking..er..er... OK I see.
I'd better not take my old IBM keyboard abroad with me then, eh?
The UK second hand market (Sterling , Morgan etc) is full of laptops with US keyboards as well. It would be easy enough to fake a receipt from one of those companies.
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I have aeroplayer installed on my Tungsten E. That plays ogg files. It's free (as in beer) as well.
Sod the helicopters, it's the bulldozers that scare the shit out of me. I wish I had one to clear away the charvas* from my local Metro station.
* the UK peasant underclass, look it up on Google for more info.
It's a well know procedure in German football for Bayern Munich to buy the best players from other teams and let them sit on their subsitutes bench, rather than allow then play well for other teams against them. It looks like Micrpsoft are simply learning the Munich way of doing things.
That doesn't stop them spreading their wings though.
Who said anything about flying ?
No she doesn't, she looks like Sue Woodward, Director of Programming for Granada TV, who is running Liverpool's European Capital of Culture programme, when she was around that age.
(Probably totally meaningless to non-UK people. but WTF)
If you are, as you claim to be, a "science oriented person" then maybe you should learn the meaning of the word theory in the scientific sense. Then you wouldn't write such absolute bollocks as you do :-)
After hearing what you report this guy said and having had a quick look at his web site, I'd say you had a pretty strong case for suing your school if they claim that they are selling you an "infosec" course.
I would ask him for evidence of where this stolen code is and could he please produce an example. Accusing someone of stealing is quite a serious allegation.
Claiming that "Linux has insurmountable legal trouble" is an opinion he is not qualified to give and he is expressing such an opinion in his professional capacity (unless his doctorate is in law which would help explain his ignorance about computer matters).
These two statements alone inidcate that he has pretty low professional standards.
..er.. you're not supposed to "read" log files, you're supposed to analyse them. You should be doing excatly that, e.g. looking for unusual patterns of usage etc.
and you're an admin, doh !
I've worked on database transactional and MIS systems for quite a few years, I know how scary it can be under the covers.
:-)
I hope your system is selling something harmless like theatre tickets and not ariline tickets
I've no idea. What kinds of access is available for getting into these system and how are the data intgrity rules enforced ?
For your average RDBMS there are lots e.g. for Oracle there are SQLPLUS, Pro*C, ODBC, JDBV , ADO, etc etc. If anyone can get at your data through one of these methods and start twiddling with the data or data structures then you need to make sure that they can't twiddle things that they're not supposed to twiddle with and, if they are allowed to twiddle, then they musn't be able to break things. If you rely on implementing data rules in your client or middleware layer then someday someone will come along and build another client that twiddles around where ever it likes.
"Yet the usual database products are a disease in themselves. I think that relational databases are not the best for transaction processing. I prefer to use programming languages with built in database support."
I hope that I never have to book tickets using a credit card in any systems that you've been within ten miles of.
I also hope that your customers never trust you with business critical data.
If you can't see why, think about how you enforce data integrity and security if a customer asks you (or more likely someone else) to write, say, a new web interface to your data?
If you could give us an exact definition of "political speech" I'm sure someone could write a filter for you.
"Girl sees the same scene and...."
That's what you'd like to think isn't it?
Of course she could equally well be thinking "damn she's getting it good..."
Problem is, you'll never know.
It's all very well if all you want to do is view the documents. Where I work we've taken a decision to move away from MS-Office as much as possible and use OpenOffice. The problem is that our main (almost only) customer uses MS-Office. We often need to exchange documents and add comments to each others work. This can cause a few problems. In particular, they have some home grown formatting for their word documents which makes it impossible for OpenOffice to import them correctly.
This means that we have to keep one version of word hanging about in order to re-export these documents in a format that OPenOffice has no problem with. Of course, the export from OpenOffice is always readable by them but exporting in a non-nroken format is what I'd expect from Open software.
I hate the EU as much as the next Daily Telegraph reader (but not as much as some Daily Mail readers :-) but the EU is no more protectionist than anyone else. Tariffs, subsidies, trade barriers etc. are the ways that governments keep powerful interest groups happy. I see no difference between the EU and the US on issues like this.
" Electronic voting has been used in parts of Belgium for over a decade, with little fuss or controversy."
Doesn't surpise me at all. Politicians, goverment officials and senior businesmen were raping little girls locked in cellars for decades with little fuss or controversy as well. I can't see anyone getting worked up over a crooked election system.
"putting a cross in a big box (like the UK and Europe) then having someone count the crosses is still the best solution."
Which is why Blair and his cronies are quite keen on replacing it with postal, electronic, mobile phone (for god's sake) or even some kind of things at supermarkets, voting
It may be a bit harder and longer counting the votes but it is for something quite important (not just who wins Pop Idol or something) so it doesn't matter if it takes a few days.
Hey ! I'm on his side :-)
"From the country that gave us LOTR and the All Blacks"
Remind again who made LOTR, and who won the World Cup?
As George W. Bush has shown, Internatioanl Law is an interesting concept, but only that, a concept.
Strangely enough if Audi/VW suddenly goes bust my car doesn't stop running tomorrow and if it went wrong I could still get it fixed.
It would only be a strange distorted market dominated by a predatory monopoly that would allow something like that should happen. So why should Microsoft tanking..er..er... OK I see.
"So, it's not likely that we'll be invading Europe any time soon."
Funnily enough I come to the same conclusion myself withou all the pissing contest about military budgets and who's got the biggest nuclear arsenal.
Somedays I think that the majority of posters on Slashdot are seven years olds , sigh..., boys, I mean, girls would never be this stupid.
No I'm not
Don't be so stupid.
And the people who moderated you interesting shouldn't be so stupid either.
I'd better not take my old IBM keyboard abroad with me then, eh?
The UK second hand market (Sterling , Morgan etc) is full of laptops with US keyboards as well. It would be easy enough to fake a receipt from one of those companies.