It says 'system' directories and setting this would would be like users having access to/etc/* (in a unix system) as opposed/home/luser/* This is a problem for two reasons. 1) No you cant trust local users not to break/sabatoge soemthing if they have a chance. 2)When users have incorrect permissions it gives an outside 'crackers' more chances to compromise an account that has right to do real damage in this case 1100 chances.
I do agree that an explanation of the grading system would be useful.
Actually this has been discussed on the Perl sites. When it is said that Perl is hard to maintian they are not refering to programs written in Perl. Any program that is not properly documented is hard to maintian regardless of what it is written in. What is being referred to is the internals of the perl program (/usr/bin/perl or perl.exe depending on your platform). It is hard for the people who develop perl to add new features ect. It has nothing to do with the people who use perl to develop programs. It is the same distinction as comparing writting a c program and maintianing gcc.
http://www.cuecat.com/faq.html
Has a link to their privacy policy. There they admit they collect 'demographic' data and makers of the decode program acknoledge that your 'id' number is sent and can be replaced witha generic code.
They dont care about the scanner or the software. They property they are protecting is thier ability to track your internet usage.
This is an email i sent to Amazon's cust srv. dept. at terms@amazon.com.
It speaks softly but i have found that being 'nice' tends to get a better response.
Dear Amazon,
I noticed the change in your privacy policy specificly allowing that you
will sell customer information as a part of a sale of a buisness unit.
While i respect you for at least posting this information I would like to
ask that you make some accomodations for those who have used your service
prior to this change. Ideally it would be good if you purged the info ans
started collecting fresh. At very least offer people a oppertunity to
opt-out now that what we can expect from your company has changed.
============
I dont see why this counts for a full story. There is no info of any impact to anyone but the unnamed employee and I'm sure he didnt have to find it on Slashdot to hear about it. We really should save the updates for information tha has some kind of use.
Well considering the precedent set here how about this..
Software is a tool.. DeCSS is a tool that *can* be used to break the law.. posting DeCSS is a crime.
Hammers are tools.. Hammers *can* be used to hit people which is against the law... So...
I am now filing suit against all makers and sellers of hammers for the damages that I *could* recieve if someone uses a hammer to hit me. I think i know just the judge to bring this case to.
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SOurce Page http://developer.agendacomputing.com/source.html
Has instrustions for getting to their CVS server if you are really intrested in how it works. It is part of thier developers site..
Did anyone else notice that if you want to sync with a PC using the 'included' software the PC has to be running Windows and Outlook. I mean this meant to appeal to the Linux users out there but they cant come up with a linux version of thier sync software??
Read the article. They are not shutting down rambus and taking it all off the market. They are just not shipping mainstream systems with it. the chips will still be around even if they are overpriced.
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Something i thought of when i was reading the original article is this... Often when i do a traceroute i notice the ISP routers will often be named with geographic names.. perhaps they are gathering a database that will allow banner ads with regional flavor and maybe even different languages. It wont be a perfect system but it will be 'better' to adverstisers than the data they have now. IMHO i dont think its a big deal. They are running ping and traceroute only which is not at all invasive and quite easy to block, and not very intrusive from a security standpoint. If they were port scanning then i might be worried about it but this really seems like a lot of hype over nothing.. I bet it wouldn't have made it to slashdot if they weren't associated with marekting technology..
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It says 'system' directories and setting this would would be like users having access to /etc/* (in a unix system) as opposed /home/luser/* This is a problem for two reasons. 1) No you cant trust local users not to break/sabatoge soemthing if they have a chance. 2)When users have incorrect permissions it gives an outside 'crackers' more chances to compromise an account that has right to do real damage in this case 1100 chances.
I do agree that an explanation of the grading system would be useful.
mmm my guess is that logo is copyrighted.
Actually this has been discussed on the Perl sites. When it is said that Perl is hard to maintian they are not refering to programs written in Perl. Any program that is not properly documented is hard to maintian regardless of what it is written in. What is being referred to is the internals of the perl program (/usr/bin/perl or perl.exe depending on your platform). It is hard for the people who develop perl to add new features ect. It has nothing to do with the people who use perl to develop programs. It is the same distinction as comparing writting a c program and maintianing gcc.
I heard it estimated 'early September'
http://www.cuecat.com/faq.html Has a link to their privacy policy. There they admit they collect 'demographic' data and makers of the decode program acknoledge that your 'id' number is sent and can be replaced witha generic code. They dont care about the scanner or the software. They property they are protecting is thier ability to track your internet usage.
This is an email i sent to Amazon's cust srv. dept. at terms@amazon.com. It speaks softly but i have found that being 'nice' tends to get a better response. Dear Amazon, I noticed the change in your privacy policy specificly allowing that you will sell customer information as a part of a sale of a buisness unit. While i respect you for at least posting this information I would like to ask that you make some accomodations for those who have used your service prior to this change. Ideally it would be good if you purged the info ans started collecting fresh. At very least offer people a oppertunity to opt-out now that what we can expect from your company has changed. ============
I dont see why this counts for a full story. There is no info of any impact to anyone but the unnamed employee and I'm sure he didnt have to find it on Slashdot to hear about it. We really should save the updates for information tha has some kind of use.
I remeber from school that AS/400 had a RDBMS from the start. Anyone know of any apps that used lX windows on a frontend and an AS/400 on the back?
The orginal articles about the chips at Toms' hardware mentioned that when the chips were underclocked to 850MHz they worked flawlessly
The USB works pretty well. I have a USB ZIP drive that i use with and the USB cradle for Hnadspring works.
This may be why they are doing an IPO.. To bring the product to market.
Not to fear.. if that is the title the WIPO will just hand it over to Lucus when the time comes
Well considering the precedent set here how about this.. Software is a tool.. DeCSS is a tool that *can* be used to break the law.. posting DeCSS is a crime. Hammers are tools.. Hammers *can* be used to hit people which is against the law... So... I am now filing suit against all makers and sellers of hammers for the damages that I *could* recieve if someone uses a hammer to hit me. I think i know just the judge to bring this case to.
SOurce Page http://developer.agendacomputing.com/source.html Has instrustions for getting to their CVS server if you are really intrested in how it works. It is part of thier developers site..
Did anyone else notice that if you want to sync with a PC using the 'included' software the PC has to be running Windows and Outlook. I mean this meant to appeal to the Linux users out there but they cant come up with a linux version of thier sync software??
I bet we would have gotten unicode support a lot quicker...
Read the article. They are not shutting down rambus and taking it all off the market. They are just not shipping mainstream systems with it. the chips will still be around even if they are overpriced.
The handspring as a MP3 player module availble
Since you are not using the OEM copy in that case could you get it refunded?
The thing with PGP had more to do with a definition in a goverment regulation. It is not a clear cut matter of law. AFAIK anyway
Something i thought of when i was reading the original article is this... Often when i do a traceroute i notice the ISP routers will often be named with geographic names.. perhaps they are gathering a database that will allow banner ads with regional flavor and maybe even different languages. It wont be a perfect system but it will be 'better' to adverstisers than the data they have now. IMHO i dont think its a big deal. They are running ping and traceroute only which is not at all invasive and quite easy to block, and not very intrusive from a security standpoint. If they were port scanning then i might be worried about it but this really seems like a lot of hype over nothing.. I bet it wouldn't have made it to slashdot if they weren't associated with marekting technology..