The stats are from a company that does the following;
Connects to a P2P network and appears to have available whatever titles the record labels want tracked - usually new releases. It then counts the number of requests for each file. This will let you get some idea of which titles are in greatest demand. For an additional fee the company will appear to serve the requested file, but actually serve up garbage, and/or extremely slowly.
So it won't be precise but it will be better than a RSITDANTMUFG.
The point of not doing this through iTunes is to have a control group. Take two otherwise equivalent tracks, and do one through iTunes and the other DRM free elsewhere. What, if anything, is the difference in requests received by our P2P counter? This will provide at least part of the answer to the question of is this worth doing or not.
One thing i haven't seen in the comments is the difference between the Uk and US operation of their extradition treaty. The UK government seems to be happy to go along with the US and extradite people, but the reverse hasn't been true to date. I'm thinking of the suspected IRA members that the UK wanted, but the US wouldn't extradite, as I think the US considered them 'political activists' where the UK considered them to be terrorists.
I suspect a lot of folk here learnt some of their networking skills doing much what this guy did, albeit before it was illegal, and I for one think the massive fines/prison sentences the US metes out are way over the top. I think the worst he could get here is 5 years, more likely to be 2 or 3. So yes this is probably legal shenanningans to try and avoid extradition, but if it was me I know where I'd prefer to be tried.
I think where MS are going is to make Office the interface to business systems. You need to raise a purchase order? Fire up Word and open the purchase order form. Fill it out, and when you save, the details are saved into a database. It needs your managaers approval? Biztalk looks at the PO, finds your manager and sends a message with a link to the PO. Manager clicks link, Word opens and gets PO for manager to approve.
This is quite cool, and of course you now need the top-end version of Office, Biztalk server and probably Sharepoint as well. That's why Office is now referred to as Office Server System (or something like that).
I do agree that for anyone not in this sort of corporate setup, Office now and for ages has had way more functionality then most people need, and there is little or no business reason to upgrade.
At work I have the full suite installed and apart from Outlook, 90% of my use is to read docs, excel sheets and powerpoints, produced by other people. the rest I could do with the programs available in the early 1980s.
Actually what a lot of them did was to copy the tape, and then open up both the cassettes and swap the spools of tape over, returning the original shell and the copied tape. This you can tell, using an ordinary VCR, TV and the naked eye, if you what to look for. In time we added holographic stickers on the shell where the two parts met, and sometime later the screws were changed for the kind you need a special tool to undo - can't remember what they're called but I think Compaq used them on their PCs for a while.
Rubbish, one of the first virus' I ever heard of was for the Mac (late 70s -ish?). Certainly the first one I encountered at work was for the Mac. Back in the days when people exchanged files on floppy and boot-sector virii existed. And before the *nix mob get too smug, remember the first worm that bought the internet to its knees? Robert Morris? What OS did it run on? Oh yes, Unix.
The grand parent is using the legal definition of stealing, in the same way that piracy is a crime involving boats, that has nothing to do with copyright infringement.
It's the Piccadilly line. There is a Heathrow Express, and also a Gatwick Express and a Stanstead Express. The Heathrow Express was once reported to be the most expensive (to travel on) railway in the world. The choice looks like; Heathrow Express 15 minutes to C London 13GBP, or Piccadilly line 50 mins to C London at 6.5GBP. Also taxi to C London 25-30GBP (unless the driver think's you're foreign, a tourist, from up-north, not from London etc etc)
If someone is profitting from your copywritten work
But it's difficult to find anyone who is profitting here. I'll grant that the industry is losing possible sales (one download != -one sale) but who is profitting here?
At first I thought this was joke,suggesting that you wipe your arse with them but wikipedia tells me this means animal sacrifice, and now I'm really confused...
Tabbed browsing may not be necessary, but it is vastly better than the IE equivelent of opening a link in a new window. There are also a lot of very useful extensions available as well. I like the web developer toolbar a lot, but of course it depends what you do, they're not all aimed at techies. Also you don't need to re-install your browser, run both. I do, and I now find it irritating to encounter a site that requires IE.
I think in the Uk it might make a difference who paid for the tools / libraries / computer/etc used to produce the work. This would likely be used to identify the relationship (employer/employee or customer/supplier).
This would only come into play where there was either no contract or a very badly written one.
In the interests of balance, and consequent loss of karma, I'd like to point out that a RedHat box was rooted within about 15 minutes of being hooked up. I think it was someone at the honeypot project that reported it.
The story says it was caused by an infected laptop, so the firewall is irrelevant. If you read the security lists you know that some people have had their machines rendered unusable after applying this patch, and indeed previous MS patches. You don't just blindly run windows update on important machines, maybe they patched a test box and found problems? Where there is fault is allowing a laptop that wasn't patched up to be used externally and also on the internal network, but thats more a policy matter than a sysadmin one.
I think the dates example is good. If you have a package (Oracle) that does various date manipulations I don't see the harm in taking a copy with you. There are only so many ways to calculate working days, transform year/week/day (from a mainframe), calculate start date to meet a deadline and so on. It's not hard, just tedious, to re-write so why bother? OTOH if I was working on software that was to be sold then maybe that would be a different matter..
I agree it's a nice app, but it does cause problems in companies where an end-user creates a db. This then becomes relied upon. Said person leaves and no-one else knows how it works. The IT department are called upon for help, normally when it's urgent, so other projects are suddenly disrupted. Not to mention that all this valuable data was sitting on someones hard drive, not being backed up etc.
So where are the Sun and Microsoft licenses? Shouldn't they be listed in the SEC filing also?
If this money were treated as a license then SCO would have to pass it to Novell, who would then pay SCO their 5% collection fee. This is per the Novell / SCO Asset Purchase Agreement. Perhaps this is why the licenses aren't shown, at least as licenses?
Well after thinking about it, isn't Services for Unix (which is now free of charge) falling upon SCO's IP licensing program? If that's the case, could the 86M$ be licensing fee SCO charged Microsoft?
There is a very interesting document around on this subject. Basically, if this was UNIX licensing money then SCO has to pass it on to Novell, who subsequently give SCO their 5% collection fee. It appears in SCO's financial filings as a sort of loan, IIRC
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The stats are from a company that does the following;
Connects to a P2P network and appears to have available whatever titles the record labels want tracked - usually new releases. It then counts the number of requests for each file. This will let you get some idea of which titles are in greatest demand. For an additional fee the company will appear to serve the requested file, but actually serve up garbage, and/or extremely slowly.
So it won't be precise but it will be better than a RSITDANTMUFG.
The point of not doing this through iTunes is to have a control group. Take two otherwise equivalent tracks, and do one through iTunes and the other DRM free elsewhere. What, if anything, is the difference in requests received by our P2P counter? This will provide at least part of the answer to the question of is this worth doing or not.
being hoisted on ibiblio is admission of guilt
Sounds more like the punishment
One thing i haven't seen in the comments is the difference between the Uk and US operation of their extradition treaty. The UK government seems to be happy to go along with the US and extradite people, but the reverse hasn't been true to date. I'm thinking of the suspected IRA members that the UK wanted, but the US wouldn't extradite, as I think the US considered them 'political activists' where the UK considered them to be terrorists.
I suspect a lot of folk here learnt some of their networking skills doing much what this guy did, albeit before it was illegal, and I for one think the massive fines/prison sentences the US metes out are way over the top. I think the worst he could get here is 5 years, more likely to be 2 or 3. So yes this is probably legal shenanningans to try and avoid extradition, but if it was me I know where I'd prefer to be tried.
I think where MS are going is to make Office the interface to business systems. You need to raise a purchase order? Fire up Word and open the purchase order form. Fill it out, and when you save, the details are saved into a database. It needs your managaers approval? Biztalk looks at the PO, finds your manager and sends a message with a link to the PO. Manager clicks link, Word opens and gets PO for manager to approve.
This is quite cool, and of course you now need the top-end version of Office, Biztalk server and probably Sharepoint as well. That's why Office is now referred to as Office Server System (or something like that).
I do agree that for anyone not in this sort of corporate setup, Office now and for ages has had way more functionality then most people need, and there is little or no business reason to upgrade.
At work I have the full suite installed and apart from Outlook, 90% of my use is to read docs, excel sheets and powerpoints, produced by other people. the rest I could do with the programs available in the early 1980s.
Actually what a lot of them did was to copy the tape, and then open up both the cassettes and swap the spools of tape over, returning the original shell and the copied tape. This you can tell, using an ordinary VCR, TV and the naked eye, if you what to look for. In time we added holographic stickers on the shell where the two parts met, and sometime later the screws were changed for the kind you need a special tool to undo - can't remember what they're called but I think Compaq used them on their PCs for a while.
Rubbish, one of the first virus' I ever heard of was for the Mac (late 70s -ish?). Certainly the first one I encountered at work was for the Mac. Back in the days when people exchanged files on floppy and boot-sector virii existed. And before the *nix mob get too smug, remember the first worm that bought the internet to its knees? Robert Morris? What OS did it run on? Oh yes, Unix.
Shame I don't have any mod points, the first 3/4 paragraphs of this are by far the most insightful I've read so far in this thread!
Try here for an article that mentions the US govt over-riding the Wright brothers aircraft patents during WW1.
Doesn't work. I use apples daily and the amount of spam I get from 'doctors', or people trying to sell me pills, has not gone down.
The grand parent is using the legal definition of stealing, in the same way that piracy is a crime involving boats, that has nothing to do with copyright infringement.
It's the Piccadilly line. There is a Heathrow Express, and also a Gatwick Express and a Stanstead Express. The Heathrow Express was once reported to be the most expensive (to travel on) railway in the world. The choice looks like; Heathrow Express 15 minutes to C London 13GBP, or Piccadilly line 50 mins to C London at 6.5GBP. Also taxi to C London 25-30GBP (unless the driver think's you're foreign, a tourist, from up-north, not from London etc etc)
But it's difficult to find anyone who is profitting here. I'll grant that the industry is losing possible sales (one download != -one sale) but who is profitting here?
At first I thought this was joke,suggesting that you wipe your arse with them but wikipedia tells me this means animal sacrifice, and now I'm really confused...
My biggest hurdle is remembering to make a note of the dns server addy, _before_ booting off the floppy for an ftp install...
Tabbed browsing may not be necessary, but it is vastly better than the IE equivelent of opening a link in a new window. There are also a lot of very useful extensions available as well. I like the web developer toolbar a lot, but of course it depends what you do, they're not all aimed at techies.
Also you don't need to re-install your browser, run both. I do, and I now find it irritating to encounter a site that requires IE.
I think in the Uk it might make a difference who paid for the tools / libraries / computer /etc used to produce the work. This would likely be used to identify the relationship (employer/employee or customer/supplier).
This would only come into play where there was either no contract or a very badly written one.
In the interests of balance, and consequent loss of karma, I'd like to point out that a RedHat box was rooted within about 15 minutes of being hooked up. I think it was someone at the honeypot project that reported it.
This is not insightful.
The story says it was caused by an infected laptop, so the firewall is irrelevant. If you read the security lists you know that some people have had their machines rendered unusable after applying this patch, and indeed previous MS patches. You don't just blindly run windows update on important machines, maybe they patched a test box and found problems?
Where there is fault is allowing a laptop that wasn't patched up to be used externally and also on the internal network, but thats more a policy matter than a sysadmin one.
I think the dates example is good. If you have a package (Oracle) that does various date manipulations I don't see the harm in taking a copy with you. There are only so many ways to calculate working days, transform year/week/day (from a mainframe), calculate start date to meet a deadline and so on. It's not hard, just tedious, to re-write so why bother? OTOH if I was working on software that was to be sold then maybe that would be a different matter..
I agree it's a nice app, but it does cause problems in companies where an end-user creates a db. This then becomes relied upon. Said person leaves and no-one else knows how it works. The IT department are called upon for help, normally when it's urgent, so other projects are suddenly disrupted. Not to mention that all this valuable data was sitting on someones hard drive, not being backed up etc.
Mod this up. It's the funniest comment I've read today! Shame it's AC..
So where are the Sun and Microsoft licenses? Shouldn't they be listed in the SEC filing also?
If this money were treated as a license then SCO would have to pass it to Novell, who would then pay SCO their 5% collection fee. This is per the Novell / SCO Asset Purchase Agreement. Perhaps this is why the licenses aren't shown, at least as licenses?
Well after thinking about it, isn't Services for Unix (which is now free of charge) falling upon SCO's IP licensing program? If that's the case, could the 86M$ be licensing fee SCO charged Microsoft?
There is a very interesting document around on this subject. Basically, if this was UNIX licensing money then SCO has to pass it on to Novell, who subsequently give SCO their 5% collection fee. It appears in SCO's financial filings as a sort of loan, IIRC
Do I lose Karma for STILL not knowing how to start a new thread on /.?
Probably... See that button marked 'Reply' near where your options are? Wonder what it does? ;)
I found this pretty disturbing someone even thought about doing that.
But not as disturbing as discovering your new employee posts links to http://www.goatse.cx perhaps?