Not necissarily. Most companies actually require that employees not say anything publically that could be construed as being "from the company", even though they're just from an employee. Basically only marketting shmoes "trained in the process" can speak to the public.
Most all statements "from the company" are passed through PR people and lawyers to make sure the company doesn't get in trouble for liabelous comments made by an employee.
That's what more likely happened, just more sue-fearing rather than business manipulation.
It is a piracy tool. It's also a tool with legitimate usage. The question is wether the law still counts when the tool has a reasonably legitimate use.
Congrats to the Norwegians for taking the time for a fair trial by a competant judge.
Right, and IIRC this requires the Exchange server to be running the web app version of Outlook, which requies IIS, which isn't exactly a rock tight web server......And it's not ALL the functionality and...
Exchange should never be used. There's no excuse for it.
The problem is of course that any business large enough to have enough machines where $300 a machine is a costly amount, also likely has some "Enterprise level" crap ass software that only works with windows (Exchange, most any CRM package, most any financial package)
Anti-spam laws are quite definately in favor of 1st amendment rights. The supreme court has, multiple times, upheld that commercial speech is "less free" than personal speech, especially with regards to speech that is not directed (TV,radio).
Spam prevents personal speech by forcing the recipient to deal with it instead of communicating with an individual's email send to the recipient.
Technological methods of stopping spam will only require spammers to get better technological methods themselves. This is quite similar to copyprotection mechanisms, if you can hear the song, you can copy it. If you want to allow arbitrary people to send you email, they will.
While I concur that bureaucracy runs amok, this is perhaps a case where the government should give people legal recourse against something that is near universally abhored.
And hopefully countries will do the same thing. They will make the laws in such a way that living in a country is like choosing a certain OS over another. This (should) promote laws to be more lawful, or beneficial so people *want* to live there.
Actually, the question is how many firings this leads to.
More common than not is deploying the honeypot internally as something like "finance server 1" or something similarly obvious. Usually it's not someone breaking in to get the credit card file, it's someone already in who's digruntled, or perhaps a little too curious for their own good.
Why is that an incorrect assessment? In the majority of cases, all of the points are technically correct, especially 4 years ago.
Security issues: Yup. Fixed alot, but they still exist. They're still less than most others though.
Reliability: Yup. This is probably due to hardware rather than anything else as Solaris on Sun was significantly more solid 4 years ago. The gap has closed greatly since, but is probably still not (usually) closed yet.
Support: Most developers are not available to call in case of breakage. The hardware vendors don't support it, people are SOL. IBM fixed that for big iron, others try to support it for smaller machines, but it's not there yet.
Open source = bugs: Yup. Sorry, prerelease QA isn't exactly OSS's strong point. OSS guarantees the bugs will be found, and closed more quickly though.
Licensing issues: Maybe. This is possibly true in certain corner cases.
The thing that will help the government the most is actual deployment and acceptance of Linux. If they can be shown that these things are fixed or irrelevant, they'll be more inclined to look.
Indeed. I made a comment about.plan files as well somewhere (time based "what I'm doing that everyone can read").
I mainly dislike that people do not have enough technical knowledge to realise that any 8th grader should have the know how to do the same EXACT thing using simple html, or even, God forbid, a "web page creation tool" that isn't stripped down so terribly far to the lowest common denominator like blogging software.
I don't dislike blogs, or journals, or people posting garrish websites. I dislike that people are so technically inept to require the tool to post things to a web site.
I agree, though I'm just saying that you could do the same thing (much better) by "doing it yourself" so that it takes on a more personalized and/or stylistic touch.
And they certainly aren't bad. I enjoy reading through blogs, and it's a great way to keep abreast with someone's life. But imo there's far too much attention given to them as though they are a monstrous achievement. Despite their great following and popularity, they aren't exactly new or revolutionary. Hell.plan files have existed longer than the web...
Furthermore IRC chat is imo more "unedited and raw" as far as people's unchecked thoughts and feelings go. It's a place without retribution, thus allowing only conscience to interviene...
Certainly, but why limit the form and stylization that your written word may take? Certainly the poster was looking for something that wasn't just a book or ordinary novel, where the written word is by far enough.
Why are people facinated with blogs? They simply offer a more limited subset of the creativity allowed by vanilla html, in exchange for added ease of use and "structure". Why not just use web pages, or better yet flash, or another multimedia form to create unique arts?
2 floppy disks work great for installing NetBSD over the net too. Saves me $$$ on thin servers when no CD drive is needed to install them (or Hard drive to run them depending on the server)
Furthermore, what're most airstrikes these days? One laser guided bomb. One Maverick into a tank. One Phoenix from a few dozen nm away.
Except for B-52 carpet bombing, airstrikes these days are meant for "surgical strikes", Meaning 2 shots every 30 seconds or so should be sufficient assuming good aiming assistance.
I actually have no cell phone, and am actively opposed to having one. There's no need for everyone in the world be able to bother me whenever they want to.
There's a difference between free sharing of information and unwanted information being shoved at you or your information that you DON'T share being taken.
Wouldn't that truly be one of the travisties of humanity? Ending the Information Revolution by returning to where we were before it... Let us just hope and act in such a way that this does not come to pass.
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Not necissarily. Most companies actually require that employees not say anything publically that could be construed as being "from the company", even though they're just from an employee. Basically only marketting shmoes "trained in the process" can speak to the public.
Most all statements "from the company" are passed through PR people and lawyers to make sure the company doesn't get in trouble for liabelous comments made by an employee.
That's what more likely happened, just more sue-fearing rather than business manipulation.
It is a piracy tool.
It's also a tool with legitimate usage.
The question is wether the law still counts when the tool has a reasonably legitimate use.
Congrats to the Norwegians for taking the time for a fair trial by a competant judge.
Right, and IIRC this requires the Exchange server to be running the web app version of Outlook, which requies IIS, which isn't exactly a rock tight web server... ...And it's not ALL the functionality and...
Exchange should never be used. There's no excuse for it.
I'd add that the ID3 tags, or ogg equivalent would need to be already completed.
The problem is of course that any business large enough to have enough machines where $300 a machine is a costly amount, also likely has some "Enterprise level" crap ass software that only works with windows (Exchange, most any CRM package, most any financial package)
Anti-spam laws are quite definately in favor of 1st amendment rights. The supreme court has, multiple times, upheld that commercial speech is "less free" than personal speech, especially with regards to speech that is not directed (TV,radio).
Spam prevents personal speech by forcing the recipient to deal with it instead of communicating with an individual's email send to the recipient.
Technological methods of stopping spam will only require spammers to get better technological methods themselves. This is quite similar to copyprotection mechanisms, if you can hear the song, you can copy it. If you want to allow arbitrary people to send you email, they will.
While I concur that bureaucracy runs amok, this is perhaps a case where the government should give people legal recourse against something that is near universally abhored.
And hopefully countries will do the same thing. They will make the laws in such a way that living in a country is like choosing a certain OS over another. This (should) promote laws to be more lawful, or beneficial so people *want* to live there.
Actually, the question is how many firings this leads to.
More common than not is deploying the honeypot internally as something like "finance server 1" or something similarly obvious. Usually it's not someone breaking in to get the credit card file, it's someone already in who's digruntled, or perhaps a little too curious for their own good.
Why is that an incorrect assessment? In the majority of cases, all of the points are technically correct, especially 4 years ago.
Security issues: Yup. Fixed alot, but they still exist. They're still less than most others though.
Reliability: Yup. This is probably due to hardware rather than anything else as Solaris on Sun was significantly more solid 4 years ago. The gap has closed greatly since, but is probably still not (usually) closed yet.
Support: Most developers are not available to call in case of breakage. The hardware vendors don't support it, people are SOL. IBM fixed that for big iron, others try to support it for smaller machines, but it's not there yet.
Open source = bugs: Yup. Sorry, prerelease QA isn't exactly OSS's strong point. OSS guarantees the bugs will be found, and closed more quickly though.
Licensing issues: Maybe. This is possibly true in certain corner cases.
The thing that will help the government the most is actual deployment and acceptance of Linux. If they can be shown that these things are fixed or irrelevant, they'll be more inclined to look.
Indeed, given the percentage of blogs that are livejournals, I fear that the common man is likely to not differentiate the two.
Indeed. I made a comment about .plan files as well somewhere (time based "what I'm doing that everyone can read").
I mainly dislike that people do not have enough technical knowledge to realise that any 8th grader should have the know how to do the same EXACT thing using simple html, or even, God forbid, a "web page creation tool" that isn't stripped down so terribly far to the lowest common denominator like blogging software.
I don't dislike blogs, or journals, or people posting garrish websites. I dislike that people are so technically inept to require the tool to post things to a web site.
I agree, though I'm just saying that you could do the same thing (much better) by "doing it yourself" so that it takes on a more personalized and/or stylistic touch.
.plan files have existed longer than the web...
And they certainly aren't bad. I enjoy reading through blogs, and it's a great way to keep abreast with someone's life. But imo there's far too much attention given to them as though they are a monstrous achievement. Despite their great following and popularity, they aren't exactly new or revolutionary. Hell
Furthermore IRC chat is imo more "unedited and raw" as far as people's unchecked thoughts and feelings go. It's a place without retribution, thus allowing only conscience to interviene...
Though that is another debate...
Certainly, but why limit the form and stylization that your written word may take? Certainly the poster was looking for something that wasn't just a book or ordinary novel, where the written word is by far enough.
Why are people facinated with blogs? They simply offer a more limited subset of the creativity allowed by vanilla html, in exchange for added ease of use and "structure". Why not just use web pages, or better yet flash, or another multimedia form to create unique arts?
*bump* me too.
2 floppy disks work great for installing NetBSD over the net too. Saves me $$$ on thin servers when no CD drive is needed to install them (or Hard drive to run them depending on the server)
CD burners are extremely cheap, but until I can get one for $20 that works everywhere, floppies should probably stay on something as diverse as PC's.
(Apples and Sun machines can do without as their OS/hardware is not diverse)
Probably the same way that the Government endorses law-breaking events... "You shouldn't do that" *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Wouldn't it be great if these two companies put their heads together and made great selling, rock solid products?
Now THAT would be a monopoly.
heh, sorry, nautical miles, not nanometers.
Furthermore, what're most airstrikes these days? One laser guided bomb. One Maverick into a tank. One Phoenix from a few dozen nm away.
Except for B-52 carpet bombing, airstrikes these days are meant for "surgical strikes", Meaning 2 shots every 30 seconds or so should be sufficient assuming good aiming assistance.
I actually have no cell phone, and am actively opposed to having one. There's no need for everyone in the world be able to bother me whenever they want to.
There's a difference between free sharing of information and unwanted information being shoved at you or your information that you DON'T share being taken.
Wouldn't that truly be one of the travisties of humanity? Ending the Information Revolution by returning to where we were before it... Let us just hope and act in such a way that this does not come to pass.
*bump* and the such.
Good program. Behaves correctly, reads and saves unix style newlines, good enough to register.
Oddly enough I heard nearly the same exact thing about mp3's 6-7 years ago...