On the face of it, it would seem that configuring Windows XP to download patches that have been deemed "critical" (as in security) would be having the default settings be more secure rather than less secure.
Every version of windows up to now did not have any critical update service turned on by default, and millions of users didn't apply the code red patch. So Microsoft decided to try turning on the critical update notifications by default. Surely that would be more secure, right? Maybe, but still not secure enough (msblaster).
When designing a foolproof system, never underestimate the fools.
Moofie, I'm sure that the majority of Slashdot readers agree with you, but these farmers LOST these lawsuits! (at least the ones I heard about) I heard about it a few YEARS ago, and I can't beleive that no senator or anyone has done anything about it! I just hope that no company ever genetically develops a VIRUS that spreads among humans. With my luck, I will get the virus, and its DNA will be incorporated into some of my cells (like chicken pox or herpes) forever. Then the company will sue ME for inlicensed copying of its intellectual property. I hope the virus doesn't attack any part of my body that I hold especially dear. I hear that the court ordered that the farmers' unlicensed crops be destroyed!
I just got back from their website when I read your question. They won't replace the jig for free, but you might be surprised to find out that they will replace it for 1/2 the price of a new one. I was surprised by this.
Certainly it can't be if the only distinction of violating the copyright is geographical distance
The only distinction between what he described and internet file sharing isn't only geographical distance. Two main differences immediately spring to mind:
1) Digital file sharing can't even begin until the song or book or whatever is copied. What Card described (lending a CD to someone you know) doesn't necessarily include anyone copying the song. Just because you assume that each borrower would copy the CD doesn't mean everyone would, or that it's what Card meant.
2) The number of songs (movies, books, or whatever) I can obtain by borrowing a CD from an acquanitance is considerably less than the number of songs (books, movies, etc) that I can obtain a copy of via the internet. I guess that is why makes borrowing from acquaintances fair (as in fair use).
Dude, one thing at a time. Surely it is obvious that there is value in a commercial that teases people to make them hungry to learn more. Anyone who already wants to understand Linux can already learn about it any time they want to. The key here is convincing people who would not otherwise pay any attention to listen and become curious enough to want to learn more.
Most people automatically stop paying attention once they find out that the subject at hand is something that don't consider within their realm of interest. I am quite certain that Linux is one of those things
I personally feel that this commercial will do a pretty effective job of getting people who may benefit from the use of Linux (and who could also potentially contribute to the OS community), but who would otherwise change the channel to keep watching, while asking, "What could this be about?"
I would have to imagine that the only reason they (or any company, for that matter) would begin R&D for this (or any) new application of technology is because they either have customers asking for it, or because they have reason to beleive that there is a market for it (or will be by the time it matures).
We, of course, hope they are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Just a question about the terminology used in the headline there. I'm no walking dictionary, but I thought the word "hack" (translated as "crack" to technical folks- I don't even want to open that can of worms)-suggested someone somehow getting access to something that they do not legitimately have access to.
A room filled with melted dry ice (carbon dioxide) can smother a person inside the room. Yes, this could be compared with someone running a car with the garage door down, but it is not the same, because people who die from running the car with the garage door down are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, where the CO molecules actually grab ahold of their red blood cells with a tighter grip than oxygen does. CO2 doesn't poison, it just displaces the O2 in the air, smothering the person like a blanket.
Having said that, dead is dead. But someone who makes it out of a room of CO will be OK more often than a person making alive out of a room full of CO, taking molecules of CO with them, tightly bonded to their hemaglobin. This second person will need medical treatment ASAP.
I do see the potential contradiction there, but I also see another possibility that seems pretty reasonable: Perhaps the "useless 'real life' experiences" her refers to are, in fact, real-life experiences that just happen to be useless for the subject of whatever book they are found in.
The real-life experiences that the reviewer liked in this book may only differ from aforementioned useless real-life experiences he mentioned by usefulness.
Since this is for enterprose applications (which suggests an intranet setting), have you investigated using windows forms class libraries for your application, instead of web forms?
I looked, expecting your post to have been moderated as "Funny", but it wasn't so I am taking it seriously for a second. What makes you think that the SEC would approve any of those purchases?
Also, why would Microsoft want to own a big, dying company like Sun? Big doesn't equal financially healthy. When.Net is doing just fine competing against Java, why would Microsoft feel threatened enough to have to buy Sun?
Orin Hatch and Big Media might want file sharing to be illegal, but I never saw anything that made me think that Microsoft wants file sharing outlawed. In fact, I heard something about Microsoft releasing a Windows XP Peer-to-Peer SDK soon. I guess we will have to wait and see.
Everybody buy this, I say. (And help get another money suck going, much like XBox.)
The XBox could be considered a 'Money Suck" in the light that, to the best that everyone in the industry could figure, it cost Microsoft more money to manufacture the XBox hardware than the console was actually priced.
I dare guess that it costs Microsoft less than $50.00 to manufacture an OEM copy of Windows XP. Although I doubt that there would be very much profit margin at that price, I also doubt that Tiger Direct can sell enough OEM copies of Windows XP to hurt Microsoft, while still following their agreement with Microsoft to only sell OEM copies with a new computer. At makeyourownpc.com, adding Windows XP Home Edition adds $89 to the cost of the system. But is this an OEM copy (which would be less expensive than a retail version)? I don't know. How much of that $89 goes to Microsoft, and how much goes to the reseller? I don't know.
I could be wrong, but my understanding was that the Happy Birthday copyright owners do more than just try to collect royalties.
At the same time, although it may no longer be sung by anyone who is getting paid to sing it, it is still sung at kiddie birthday parties, or anywhere that the participants are friends, not business associates. Where else is this song really important?
That's like saying a dozen red apples aren't comparable with six green ones. They aren't equal or even analogous, but they are comparable, as long as you take into consideration what you are getting with each package.
If you were to actually be stupid enough to do this, the first time you had a problem with your MS setup you would be thrown to the wolves, otherwise known as per-incident support and you would land there without a support budget.
Huh? Are you saying that it's the software developer's responsibility to make sure each of its customers budget properly for support? Instead of trying to impose a one-size-fits all support package on every customer, Microsoft is allowing customers to determine what level and how much support they need. That's bad?
The problem with buying that 5 pack of incidents is that it's only good for win2k3 incidents. Unlike the RH support which covers many products, each prepaid pack is only good for the covered product. The only pr
Sorry, but that's just not true. A microsoft Pro level support 5-pack is valid for any Microsoft product. The only exception I am aware of is the retail version of CRM, since MSFT decided to keep Great Plains support seperate from the rest of its support group. And even if you call for support of the CRM SDK you got from MSDN, you can even use the aforementioned 5-pack.
It certainly doesn't level the playing field, but it's not mentioned very often, so I will point out the fact that when you do shell out for any MSFT product, you get free access and support to fully-compiled hotfixes and service packs. Windows Update and Office Update make patch management for the OS and Office apps about as easy as anything in existence. IT level products can get similar automatic checking, with appropriate suggestions for patches with the Baseline Security Analyzer . If you have a problem applying a MSFT security-related patch, you get free assistance with that, too, if the policy hasn't changed recently.
Someone covered it earlier. Microsoft is trying to fill a market niche for the studios.
Before theaters will agree to release their movies using a system that delivers the entire movie as a digital file, they want some assurance that the kid working the projection booth isn't going to bring a USB hard drive to work on opening night and take a free, digital, perfect copy of the movie home with him to do with as he pleases.
Whether the audience is excited with the idea or not is irrelivent; The tech has been there for digital network movie delivery, but the studios never really utilized it. Now, assured by DRM, perhaps they will.
I am no expert on either HP or Dell, but seem to see what appears to be a fundamental difference in the nature of those two companies' business.
Dell's fundamental business seems to be selling hardware. If they have any significant Services-oriented branch of the company, I am unaware of it. HP, on the other hand, seems to have a significantly larger service branch as well as making & selling hardware. Their service branch must be diverse, because they actually run the help desk at Microsoft, among other things!
Based the seeming differences in the two companies, it would seem to make business sense that HP would stand to make money on the service side supporting Linux, where Dell, concentrating on Hardware, doesn't gain a whole lot from going to the trouble to "support" Linux. People who want Linux on a Dell can still install & use Linux on that Dell without Dell having to be involved, and Dell doesn't stand to lose much revenue by not being the supplier of that free OS.
Joe Beancounter from the RIAA or the MPAA doesn't get the publicity shots shaking Senator Hatch's hand
And when Senator Hatch changes his position on the whole DMCA thing, it doesn't get the same attention, either. It's been years since this Register article . I have heard people express their doubt as to the senator's actual honesty regarding this issue, but I have not heard anything since then of actual substance (no one saying that he has gone on record one way or the other since then). Someone catch me up if there is anything newer.
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But the whole point of this portion of this thread is that these computers are soo true & tested that replacing them would be more trouble than it is worth.
It would seem that once you go making new parts for something when the parts are as intricate as a microchip, that you would be blowing the whole reliability thing out of the water.
Bush and his gang might have left California in a lurch just for "payback".
Or, Bush and his gang just might have left California "in a lurch" because if he bailed them out of their own mess, other states' crooked politicians may have thought they would have a similar safety net when making similar stupid decisions.
All Bush did was let California's leaders sleep in the bed they made themselves.
They deregulated the power companies in California...
No, they didn't . They just told you that they did.
If "deregulation" means less -- not more -- political control over an industry, then by no stretch of the imagination has the California electricity industry been "deregulated." First, the state forced the electricity companies to sell-off all their power plants to independent investors and become nothing but power distributors. Second, the state assumed total day-to-day control of the utilities' grid of wood and wire to make sure they couldn't abuse their market power. Third, the state required new owners of the divested power plants to sell their juice to a state managed "power pool," the sales price of which to be established by a daily spot market managed by -- you guessed it -- the state. Electricity companies that wished to compete for your business had to buy their electricity from this pool, and the price charged them was to equal the highest price received by any electricity generator in the daily state-managed spot market. Fourth, regardless of what they paid for the power in the wholesale market, no company can charge a consumer more than 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour until it has paid off its allotted share of the bailout the state gave the old incumbent electricity companies to embrace this new regulatory scheme...
I read a pretty balanced and well thought-out article article the other day, that you probably won't read with an open mind, but I will post it anyway. It is 5 pages long, and on page 3 it says: ...These numbers may surprise you because we've all seen a veritable blizzard of patches and updates issued from Redmond. But Microsoft currently has 157 software products under active support, and a typical PC may have not only a Microsoft operating system but also a Microsoft browser, mail program, media player, office suite, and more. In the aggregate, the total number of bugs and patches to keep up with for all this software is daunting. And some of the issues have indeed been severe. (For example, Outlook Express was for years the very worst security hole on most PCs.)
But, if it's unfair to lump all open source software together for bug-counting purposes, it's also unfair to do the same thing for all Microsoft software. (Otherwise, to get an accurate assessment for Linux systems, you'd have to include the bugs from open source browsers and all other normal system add-ins or add-ons, on top of Linux's own bugs.) Instead, to avoid an apples/oranges comparison, it's better to look at specific brands, types, and builds of products across similar amounts of time: That's the only accurate way to see how, say, operating systems compare, or browsers compare, or E-mail programs compare, and so on.
I am no business wiz, but if it turns out that the reviews for this game are good, then the lower the requirements, the more people who can buy & play the game without having to buy new hardware, right? So maybe it will be a best-seller.
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On the face of it, it would seem that configuring Windows XP to download patches that have been deemed "critical" (as in security) would be having the default settings be more secure rather than less secure.
Every version of windows up to now did not have any critical update service turned on by default, and millions of users didn't apply the code red patch. So Microsoft decided to try turning on the critical update notifications by default. Surely that would be more secure, right? Maybe, but still not secure enough (msblaster).
When designing a foolproof system, never underestimate the fools.
Moofie, I'm sure that the majority of Slashdot readers agree with you, but these farmers LOST these lawsuits! (at least the ones I heard about)
I heard about it a few YEARS ago, and I can't beleive that no senator or anyone has done anything about it!
I just hope that no company ever genetically develops a VIRUS that spreads among humans. With my luck, I will get the virus, and its DNA will be incorporated into some of my cells (like chicken pox or herpes) forever. Then the company will sue ME for inlicensed copying of its intellectual property.
I hope the virus doesn't attack any part of my body that I hold especially dear. I hear that the court ordered that the farmers' unlicensed crops be destroyed!
I just got back from their website when I read your question. They won't replace the jig for free, but you might be surprised to find out that they will replace it for 1/2 the price of a new one. I was surprised by this.
to this kid's defense?
Certainly it can't be if the only distinction of violating the copyright is geographical distance
The only distinction between what he described and internet file sharing isn't only geographical distance. Two main differences immediately spring to mind:
1) Digital file sharing can't even begin until the song or book or whatever is copied. What Card described (lending a CD to someone you know) doesn't necessarily include anyone copying the song. Just because you assume that each borrower would copy the CD doesn't mean everyone would, or that it's what Card meant.
2) The number of songs (movies, books, or whatever) I can obtain by borrowing a CD from an acquanitance is considerably less than the number of songs (books, movies, etc) that I can obtain a copy of via the internet. I guess that is why makes borrowing from acquaintances fair (as in fair use).
Dude, one thing at a time. Surely it is obvious that there is value in a commercial that teases people to make them hungry to learn more. Anyone who already wants to understand Linux can already learn about it any time they want to. The key here is convincing people who would not otherwise pay any attention to listen and become curious enough to want to learn more.
Most people automatically stop paying attention once they find out that the subject at hand is something that don't consider within their realm of interest. I am quite certain that Linux is one of those things
I personally feel that this commercial will do a pretty effective job of getting people who may benefit from the use of Linux (and who could also potentially contribute to the OS community), but who would otherwise change the channel to keep watching, while asking, "What could this be about?"
I would have to imagine that the only reason they (or any company, for that matter) would begin R&D for this (or any) new application of technology is because they either have customers asking for it, or because they have reason to beleive that there is a market for it (or will be by the time it matures).
We, of course, hope they are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Just a question about the terminology used in the headline there.
I'm no walking dictionary, but I thought the word "hack" (translated as "crack" to technical folks- I don't even want to open that can of worms)-suggested someone somehow getting access to something that they do not legitimately have access to.
A room filled with melted dry ice (carbon dioxide) can smother a person inside the room. Yes, this could be compared with someone running a car with the garage door down, but it is not the same, because people who die from running the car with the garage door down are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, where the CO molecules actually grab ahold of their red blood cells with a tighter grip than oxygen does. CO2 doesn't poison, it just displaces the O2 in the air, smothering the person like a blanket.
Having said that, dead is dead. But someone who makes it out of a room of CO will be OK more often than a person making alive out of a room full of CO, taking molecules of CO with them, tightly bonded to their hemaglobin. This second person will need medical treatment ASAP.
I do see the potential contradiction there, but I also see another possibility that seems pretty reasonable:
Perhaps the "useless 'real life' experiences" her refers to are, in fact, real-life experiences that just happen to be useless for the subject of whatever book they are found in.
The real-life experiences that the reviewer liked in this book may only differ from aforementioned useless real-life experiences he mentioned by usefulness.
Since this is for enterprose applications (which suggests an intranet setting), have you investigated using windows forms class libraries for your application, instead of web forms?
I looked, expecting your post to have been moderated as "Funny", but it wasn't so I am taking it seriously for a second. What makes you think that the SEC would approve any of those purchases?
.Net is doing just fine competing against Java, why would Microsoft feel threatened enough to have to buy Sun?
Also, why would Microsoft want to own a big, dying company like Sun? Big doesn't equal financially healthy. When
Orin Hatch and Big Media might want file sharing to be illegal, but I never saw anything that made me think that Microsoft wants file sharing outlawed. In fact, I heard something about Microsoft releasing a Windows XP Peer-to-Peer SDK soon. I guess we will have to wait and see.
Everybody buy this, I say. (And help get another money suck going, much like XBox.)
The XBox could be considered a 'Money Suck" in the light that, to the best that everyone in the industry could figure, it cost Microsoft more money to manufacture the XBox hardware than the console was actually priced.
I dare guess that it costs Microsoft less than $50.00 to manufacture an OEM copy of Windows XP. Although I doubt that there would be very much profit margin at that price, I also doubt that Tiger Direct can sell enough OEM copies of Windows XP to hurt Microsoft, while still following their agreement with Microsoft to only sell OEM copies with a new computer.
At makeyourownpc.com, adding Windows XP Home Edition adds $89 to the cost of the system. But is this an OEM copy (which would be less expensive than a retail version)? I don't know. How much of that $89 goes to Microsoft, and how much goes to the reseller? I don't know.
I could be wrong, but my understanding was that the Happy Birthday copyright owners do more than just try to collect royalties.
At the same time, although it may no longer be sung by anyone who is getting paid to sing it, it is still sung at kiddie birthday parties, or anywhere that the participants are friends, not business associates. Where else is this song really important?
The two offerings are not comparable.
That's like saying a dozen red apples aren't comparable with six green ones. They aren't equal or even analogous, but they are comparable, as long as you take into consideration what you are getting with each package.
If you were to actually be stupid enough to do this, the first time you had a problem with your MS setup you would be thrown to the wolves, otherwise known as per-incident support and you would land there without a support budget.
Huh? Are you saying that it's the software developer's responsibility to make sure each of its customers budget properly for support?
Instead of trying to impose a one-size-fits all support package on every customer, Microsoft is allowing customers to determine what level and how much support they need. That's bad?
The problem with buying that 5 pack of incidents is that it's only good for win2k3 incidents. Unlike the RH support which covers many products, each prepaid pack is only good for the covered product. The only pr
Sorry, but that's just not true. A microsoft Pro level support 5-pack is valid for any Microsoft product. The only exception I am aware of is the retail version of CRM, since MSFT decided to keep Great Plains support seperate from the rest of its support group. And even if you call for support of the CRM SDK you got from MSDN, you can even use the aforementioned 5-pack.
It certainly doesn't level the playing field, but it's not mentioned very often, so I will point out the fact that when you do shell out for any MSFT product, you get free access and support to fully-compiled hotfixes and service packs. Windows Update and Office Update make patch management for the OS and Office apps about as easy as anything in existence.
IT level products can get similar automatic checking, with appropriate suggestions for patches with the Baseline Security Analyzer . If you have a problem applying a MSFT security-related patch, you get free assistance with that, too, if the policy hasn't changed recently.
I am not sure what MS is trying to accomplish?
Someone covered it earlier. Microsoft is trying to fill a market niche for the studios.
Before theaters will agree to release their movies using a system that delivers the entire movie as a digital file, they want some assurance that the kid working the projection booth isn't going to bring a USB hard drive to work on opening night and take a free, digital, perfect copy of the movie home with him to do with as he pleases.
Whether the audience is excited with the idea or not is irrelivent; The tech has been there for digital network movie delivery, but the studios never really utilized it. Now, assured by DRM, perhaps they will.
I am no expert on either HP or Dell, but seem to see what appears to be a fundamental difference in the nature of those two companies' business.
Dell's fundamental business seems to be selling hardware. If they have any significant Services-oriented branch of the company, I am unaware of it.
HP, on the other hand, seems to have a significantly larger service branch as well as making & selling hardware. Their service branch must be diverse, because they actually run the help desk at Microsoft, among other things!
Based the seeming differences in the two companies, it would seem to make business sense that HP would stand to make money on the service side supporting Linux, where Dell, concentrating on Hardware, doesn't gain a whole lot from going to the trouble to "support" Linux. People who want Linux on a Dell can still install & use Linux on that Dell without Dell having to be involved, and Dell doesn't stand to lose much revenue by not being the supplier of that free OS.
Where, in the month of March, nearly 300 men have been put to death in Texas alone.
nearly 300 in the month of March!
I doubt it.
Joe Beancounter from the RIAA or the MPAA doesn't get the publicity shots shaking Senator Hatch's hand
And when Senator Hatch changes his position on the whole DMCA thing, it doesn't get the same attention, either. It's been years since this Register article . I have heard people express their doubt as to the senator's actual honesty regarding this issue, but I have not heard anything since then of actual substance (no one saying that he has gone on record one way or the other since then). Someone catch me up if there is anything newer.
But the whole point of this portion of this thread is that these computers are soo true & tested that replacing them would be more trouble than it is worth.
It would seem that once you go making new parts for something when the parts are as intricate as a microchip, that you would be blowing the whole reliability thing out of the water.
Bush and his gang might have left California in a lurch just for "payback".
Or, Bush and his gang just might have left California "in a lurch" because if he bailed them out of their own mess, other states' crooked politicians may have thought they would have a similar safety net when making similar stupid decisions.
All Bush did was let California's leaders sleep in the bed they made themselves.
At what point will the current supply of reliable, spare, obsolete computer parts run low?
They deregulated the power companies in California...
No, they didn't . They just told you that they did.
If "deregulation" means less -- not more -- political control over an industry, then by no stretch of the imagination has the California electricity industry been "deregulated." First, the state forced the electricity companies to sell-off all their power plants to independent investors and become nothing but power distributors. Second, the state assumed total day-to-day control of the utilities' grid of wood and wire to make sure they couldn't abuse their market power. Third, the state required new owners of the divested power plants to sell their juice to a state managed "power pool," the sales price of which to be established by a daily spot market managed by -- you guessed it -- the state. Electricity companies that wished to compete for your business had to buy their electricity from this pool, and the price charged them was to equal the highest price received by any electricity generator in the daily state-managed spot market. Fourth, regardless of what they paid for the power in the wholesale market, no company can charge a consumer more than 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour until it has paid off its allotted share of the bailout the state gave the old incumbent electricity companies to embrace this new regulatory scheme...
I read a pretty balanced and well thought-out article article the other day, that you probably won't read with an open mind, but I will post it anyway. It is 5 pages long, and on page 3 it says:
...These numbers may surprise you because we've all seen a veritable blizzard of patches and updates issued from Redmond. But Microsoft currently has 157 software products under active support, and a typical PC may have not only a Microsoft operating system but also a Microsoft browser, mail program, media player, office suite, and more. In the aggregate, the total number of bugs and patches to keep up with for all this software is daunting. And some of the issues have indeed been severe. (For example, Outlook Express was for years the very worst security hole on most PCs.)
But, if it's unfair to lump all open source software together for bug-counting purposes, it's also unfair to do the same thing for all Microsoft software. (Otherwise, to get an accurate assessment for Linux systems, you'd have to include the bugs from open source browsers and all other normal system add-ins or add-ons, on top of Linux's own bugs.) Instead, to avoid an apples/oranges comparison, it's better to look at specific brands, types, and builds of products across similar amounts of time: That's the only accurate way to see how, say, operating systems compare, or browsers compare, or E-mail programs compare, and so on.
I am no business wiz, but if it turns out that the reviews for this game are good, then the lower the requirements, the more people who can buy & play the game without having to buy new hardware, right? So maybe it will be a best-seller.