Write your Senators and Representatives, people. Call them. Fax them. Remember, they work FOR YOU. Not the other way around.
No they don't. They work for themselves. Hence their repeated attacks against term limits. We only elect the people that we think will benefit us the most in the course of helping themselves.
A ping is more analagous to knocking on doors. Port scanning is more like checking to see if the doors and windows are locked.
If you came home from work and someone was knocking on your door, you wouldn't think anything of it. However, if you came home from work and found someone checking to see if your doors and windows were unlocked, you would probably call the police.
Peter rejects the argument that, even if you eliminated piracy, software sales would not increase, at least in the business realm. "We believe that actually all of that number [of pirated copies] would have turned into [legally-bought] copies. Why would a copy be made and sitting on a computer if there was no intention to use it?"
Here are a list of reasons I have to answer that question, and it's for a lot of legally purchased software.
The software didn't live up to the hype.
Too buggy.
Didn't meet the needs for what it was intended for.
I've got software that been installed for 18 months that I haven't touched.
I've got a game I got last Christmas that still in a shrinkrapped box.
I don't advocate piracy, however, these guys really think if 2,000 people download a warez version of there software, that's 2,000 lost sales. In reality, 1,990 of them say to themselves "What a piece of shit." and delete it.
I read the "sodding article". Those pictures were not there when I read the "sodding article". But thank you for assuming I didn't read the "sodding article", and contributing with a condescending reply.
Anyone see how much it costs, or what it looks like? I didn't see anything on there site, but I could have missed it.
If the thing costs $2000, and is as big as a lunch box, and looks like a 50's style toaster, is it of any use?
While this company looks more legitimate than the airheads selling the "Delux DVD" mentioned a few articles back, with a name like "PalmPalm", how serious is this?
If this is about code written on company time, I can't see how it can be justified that the developer owns the IP.
However, if the software is being developed outside of the employer, on a machine not owned by the employer, with software not owned by the employer, then I could see how this might be useful. There are quite a few companies out there that have policies stating that any software developed by an employee is IP of the company. Personally, I have worked under three different policies:
While I was in the USAF, I took a part-time job with Computer City, a CompUSA clone owned by Tandy the parent company of Radio Shaft, to make ends meet. Computer City required employees to sign an agreement signing over IP rights to Tandy for anything developed while a Computer City employee. I explained to the store manager that I couldn't sign the agreement for 2 reasons: 1) I had philosophical problems with the agreement. 2) Tandy would have a few problems claiming IP rights on software developed for the Air Force, especially when it was classified as Top Secret. The manager waived the agreement, and I was able to continue working for the company without it.
My next job was with a bank that had the same policy as Tandy. As a condition of my employment, I demanded a signed waiver stating that the policy would not apply to me. I basically told them that unless I maintained IP rights for anything I developed on my own time, I would not work for them. They had no problem with with waiving the agreement, and I got it in writing.
My current employer has it written in the corporate policy that employees own IP rights to anything written on the employees time. It is also in the employment contract. My employer is enlightened enough to know that people have lives outside of the company, and has acknowledged it.
Basically it comes down to how much you want to work for a particular company. If it is important enough to you, demand you IP rights in writing, and be prepared to refuse to work for them unless you get them.
he's a fucking fascists holding the sad world records of capital punishment per capita in his state. Way to go!
Your right. We should just let murderers go, lamenting the fact these people really are just misunderstood.
I'm sorry, but murderers have it too easy as it is. They get 3 square meals a day, TV, exercise time, and room of there own. Then after living for free on taxpayer money for 15 - 20 years, they get a death that takes less then 10 seconds to administer. That's the real injustice.
Forcing users from around the company to switch from products that they know and are comfortable with to a product that they don't know and might not be comfortable with is only going to frustrate them and alienate them from management and especially the IT deparment, whose "fault" they'll percieve this as.
Using this logic, the 95% of business PC users who are using Windows should never switch to *NIX. Microsoft should be happy to hear this.
I have no interest in chess, however I always thought that the best cheat for an online chess game is to buy the chess game with the best computer AI use it's moves against your online opponent. I've never done this, but it always struck me as the easiest way to cheat at online chess. Granted the "very best" players could beat even the "very best" computer opponent, however, if you wanted to pass yourself off as a good player online, this would do it.
I went on EBay scoping prices for a friend looking to sell his and make some quick cash. His thinking was that he could buy a pretty decent computer system and still have the $300 to save and purchase a new PS2 after X-Mas when availability was better. I saw several apparently legit bids in the $1500 - $2000 range. However, there was one asshole with an obvious newly created E-Bay ID of "nomoremoney4u" who was bidding $5000 plus on at least a half dozen PS2 autions. He already had negative feedback from one seller who said he reneged. Talk about frustrating for the sellers. Your sitting at your computer looking at an $1500 plus profit on your PS2 thinking about what you can buy with the money, and some asshole with no intention of paying bids a ridiculous price and ruins the whole auction.
A look through old Slashdot stories will give you ammunition.
I would love to be there for that conversation:)
Greg: Look, I've researched this and I've determined that Linux/Apache really is the way to go.
CIO: Dell is an industry leader with a multitude of highly qualified people that can produce these benchmarks. Do you have anything you can show me to corroborate you findings?
Greg: Sure. Here are some quotes I printed off Slashdot. Cmdr Taco says that...
CIO: Hold on. Commander who?
Greg: Commander Taco. He runs a website called Slashdot which is owned by VA Linux which is one of the largest Linux concerns.
CIO: So let me get this straight. You want me to rely on some quotes from a man who goes by the name "Commander Taco" who is employed by a company who's business relies solely on the success Linux instead of an established, industry leader like Dell. Let me think about this. No.
I hope the CBC is telling NBC to go prack themselves. It's bad enough that NBC is "black-holing" results in the USA, just to force people to watch their boring, insipid coverage, but to try and force a broadcasting company from another country to delay their coverage, because it might hurt NBC's ratings is an outrage.
Yes, but Mr. Matthews didn't say that they needed unique ID's to track distinct numbers of users. He said "There is a unique ID within the CueCat so that we can see that some Cats came from Forbes and some came from Wired," said Dave Mathews, vice president of new product development at DigitalConvergence."
From the CNet article:
"There is a unique ID within the CueCat so that we can see that some Cats came from Forbes and some came from Wired," said Dave Mathews, vice president of new product development at DigitalConvergence. "(But) individualized serial numbers are not designed to track individual behavior."
If all you want to track is whether a Cat came from Forbes/Wired/RadioShaft then you don't need a unique ID for each Cat. A simple (Forbes = 1 : Wired = 2 : RS = 3) ID is all that is necessary. All Forbes users would have an ID of 1, etc., and now there are no privacy concerns. I'm sorry, but these guys are inept from top to bottom: business model, data security, and PR. Everyone jump on FuckedCompany.com for this one, because DC probably won't last the year.
Per the article I wrote the code necessary to do this. I stepped away to get a Dew, and the next thing I know my 9 month old daughter got sucked into my monitor. I thought they meant simulator, but evidently it really is an emulator. I had to throw the circuit breakers because I couldn't get close enough to shut off the damn computer.
I wonder if I can sue O'Reilly for this. Hell, if that stupid woman got over a million bucks from McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself, I should be able to get something, right?
Hmmm, I wonder if this is where Jimmy Hoffa disappeared to? Does anyone know if the American mafia has been experimenting with black hole emulation?
Re:Er, no. They merged the products.
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Not conspiracy theories, just going by the information I have.
I agree with you here The way I remember it, Kiva/Netscape's app server, also acquired by Sun, had the more advanced and scalable backend but no good tools to speak of,...
And I agree with you here [Netdynamics had] a somewhat anemic and behind-the-curve backend
But this is hilarious. NetDynamics had the better development tools
I hated ND's development tools. They were buggy and not very intuitive. As I recall, most people I know used a third-party front-end for most of their development.
However, the former president of NetDynamics left his new VP post with Sun shortly after the ND death announcement. I was told by a few people I used to work with that it was partially over Sun's treatment of NetDynamics and it's developers. The people I heard this from went to work for a startup founded by several of the top developers of NetDynamics. Now granted this info is second-hand, however it's second-hand from people who should know.
BAD: Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, KDE, Bill Gates
GOOD: AMD, Linux(especially Debian), VA Linux, GNOME, Richard Stallman
You can not be 1337 without this philosophy.
Anyone remember NetDynamics?
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They were a small startup that had an application server and development tool that allowed developers to utilize Java to create a "web application" that ran server-side sort of like Microsoft's ASP, or IBM's WebSphere, or BEA WebLogic. It was more or less the industry leader in this type of development and directly competed with some of the things Sun was trying to do. Around the time NetDynamics 4.0 came out, Sun bought NetDynamics. Before NetDynamics 5.0 could be released, AOL bought Netscape and Sun licensed Netscape Application Server from AOL. Shortly after NetDynamics 5.0 was released Sun anounced that the NetDynamics line would no longer be developed, and instead they would be doing something new using Netscape Application Server. Most of the NetDynamics 5.0 code had been written before Sun aquired the company, so they never really invested anything into the product. Basically they acquired their biggest competitor in a paticular strategic line and stuffed them in a closet.
Why do people keep saying USENet is dead? Is it because they don't use it anymore, so therefore it must be dead? Are people so self-centered that they think once they stop using a service it no longer can survive without their participation? They do? Oh, well that explains it then.
Silicon Valley: A place where two bedroom homes on lots so small you could cut the grass with toe-nail clippers in 5 minutes that go for $500,000? Where homeowners literally get 100 - 125 bids when they sell them, usually site un-seen?
I make more than 70K in OHIO. I wouldn't work there unless someone paid me > $200K and a house
Lucifer was seen giving ice water to the denizens of Hell today.
More related news: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Scott McNealy held a press conference today. The Big 3 have apparently decided that in best interest of the computer industry, they will be releasing all current and future software as Open-Source.
And finally: In startling turn of events, the Gnome and KDE development teams have reconciled their differences and have decided to merge and concentrate their efforts on a single GUI utilizing the best-of-show components from both of the existing desktops.
I was more or less implying this in my post. To get on a soapbox and publicly decry the shortcomings of others without first giving them the opportunity to correct them, is tool of a self-aggrandizing personality.
Slashdot Mirror
Write your Senators and Representatives, people. Call them. Fax them. Remember, they work FOR YOU. Not the other way around.
No they don't. They work for themselves. Hence their repeated attacks against term limits. We only elect the people that we think will benefit us the most in the course of helping themselves.
and the police would propably tell you that all they can do is charge him with trespass
Which is exactly my point. I didn't say it was a felony, but there are consequences. There are no consequences for port scanning.
I disagree.
A ping is more analagous to knocking on doors. Port scanning is more like checking to see if the doors and windows are locked.
If you came home from work and someone was knocking on your door, you wouldn't think anything of it. However, if you came home from work and found someone checking to see if your doors and windows were unlocked, you would probably call the police.
Here are a list of reasons I have to answer that question, and it's for a lot of legally purchased software.
The software didn't live up to the hype.
Too buggy.
Didn't meet the needs for what it was intended for.
I've got software that been installed for 18 months that I haven't touched.
I've got a game I got last Christmas that still in a shrinkrapped box.
I don't advocate piracy, however, these guys really think if 2,000 people download a warez version of there software, that's 2,000 lost sales. In reality, 1,990 of them say to themselves "What a piece of shit." and delete it.
I read the "sodding article". Those pictures were not there when I read the "sodding article". But thank you for assuming I didn't read the "sodding article", and contributing with a condescending reply.
Anyone see how much it costs, or what it looks like? I didn't see anything on there site, but I could have missed it.
If the thing costs $2000, and is as big as a lunch box, and looks like a 50's style toaster, is it of any use?
While this company looks more legitimate than the airheads selling the "Delux DVD" mentioned a few articles back, with a name like "PalmPalm", how serious is this?
Oh well, I guess only time will tell.
If this is about code written on company time, I can't see how it can be justified that the developer owns the IP.
However, if the software is being developed outside of the employer, on a machine not owned by the employer, with software not owned by the employer, then I could see how this might be useful. There are quite a few companies out there that have policies stating that any software developed by an employee is IP of the company. Personally, I have worked under three different policies:
While I was in the USAF, I took a part-time job with Computer City, a CompUSA clone owned by Tandy the parent company of Radio Shaft, to make ends meet. Computer City required employees to sign an agreement signing over IP rights to Tandy for anything developed while a Computer City employee. I explained to the store manager that I couldn't sign the agreement for 2 reasons: 1) I had philosophical problems with the agreement. 2) Tandy would have a few problems claiming IP rights on software developed for the Air Force, especially when it was classified as Top Secret. The manager waived the agreement, and I was able to continue working for the company without it.
My next job was with a bank that had the same policy as Tandy. As a condition of my employment, I demanded a signed waiver stating that the policy would not apply to me. I basically told them that unless I maintained IP rights for anything I developed on my own time, I would not work for them. They had no problem with with waiving the agreement, and I got it in writing.
My current employer has it written in the corporate policy that employees own IP rights to anything written on the employees time. It is also in the employment contract. My employer is enlightened enough to know that people have lives outside of the company, and has acknowledged it.
Basically it comes down to how much you want to work for a particular company. If it is important enough to you, demand you IP rights in writing, and be prepared to refuse to work for them unless you get them.
he's a fucking fascists holding the sad world records of capital punishment per capita in his state. Way to go!
Your right. We should just let murderers go, lamenting the fact these people really are just misunderstood.
I'm sorry, but murderers have it too easy as it is. They get 3 square meals a day, TV, exercise time, and room of there own. Then after living for free on taxpayer money for 15 - 20 years, they get a death that takes less then 10 seconds to administer. That's the real injustice.
Godzilla vs. Rodan
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Forcing users from around the company to switch from products that they know and are comfortable with to a product that they don't know and might not be comfortable with is only going to frustrate them and alienate them from management and especially the IT deparment, whose "fault" they'll percieve this as.
Using this logic, the 95% of business PC users who are using Windows should never switch to *NIX. Microsoft should be happy to hear this.
I have no interest in chess, however I always thought that the best cheat for an online chess game is to buy the chess game with the best computer AI use it's moves against your online opponent. I've never done this, but it always struck me as the easiest way to cheat at online chess. Granted the "very best" players could beat even the "very best" computer opponent, however, if you wanted to pass yourself off as a good player online, this would do it.
I went on EBay scoping prices for a friend looking to sell his and make some quick cash. His thinking was that he could buy a pretty decent computer system and still have the $300 to save and purchase a new PS2 after X-Mas when availability was better. I saw several apparently legit bids in the $1500 - $2000 range. However, there was one asshole with an obvious newly created E-Bay ID of "nomoremoney4u" who was bidding $5000 plus on at least a half dozen PS2 autions. He already had negative feedback from one seller who said he reneged. Talk about frustrating for the sellers. Your sitting at your computer looking at an $1500 plus profit on your PS2 thinking about what you can buy with the money, and some asshole with no intention of paying bids a ridiculous price and ruins the whole auction.
A look through old Slashdot stories will give you ammunition.
:)
I would love to be there for that conversation
Greg: Look, I've researched this and I've determined that Linux/Apache really is the way to go.
CIO: Dell is an industry leader with a multitude of highly qualified people that can produce these benchmarks. Do you have anything you can show me to corroborate you findings?
Greg: Sure. Here are some quotes I printed off Slashdot. Cmdr Taco says that...
CIO: Hold on. Commander who?
Greg: Commander Taco. He runs a website called Slashdot which is owned by VA Linux which is one of the largest Linux concerns.
CIO: So let me get this straight. You want me to rely on some quotes from a man who goes by the name "Commander Taco" who is employed by a company who's business relies solely on the success Linux instead of an established, industry leader like Dell. Let me think about this. No.
I hope the CBC is telling NBC to go prack themselves. It's bad enough that NBC is "black-holing" results in the USA, just to force people to watch their boring, insipid coverage, but to try and force a broadcasting company from another country to delay their coverage, because it might hurt NBC's ratings is an outrage.
Did I mention that I am an American?
I agree. What they say doesn't jibe with what they are doing. But it's what they are not saying is what people need to worry about.
Yes, but Mr. Matthews didn't say that they needed unique ID's to track distinct numbers of users. He said "There is a unique ID within the CueCat so that we can see that some Cats came from Forbes and some came from Wired," said Dave Mathews, vice president of new product development at DigitalConvergence."
From the CNet article:
"There is a unique ID within the CueCat so that we can see that some Cats came from Forbes and some came from Wired," said Dave Mathews, vice president of new product development at DigitalConvergence. "(But) individualized serial numbers are not designed to track individual behavior."
If all you want to track is whether a Cat came from Forbes/Wired/RadioShaft then you don't need a unique ID for each Cat. A simple (Forbes = 1 : Wired = 2 : RS = 3) ID is all that is necessary. All Forbes users would have an ID of 1, etc., and now there are no privacy concerns. I'm sorry, but these guys are inept from top to bottom: business model, data security, and PR. Everyone jump on FuckedCompany.com for this one, because DC probably won't last the year.
Per the article I wrote the code necessary to do this. I stepped away to get a Dew, and the next thing I know my 9 month old daughter got sucked into my monitor. I thought they meant simulator, but evidently it really is an emulator. I had to throw the circuit breakers because I couldn't get close enough to shut off the damn computer.
I wonder if I can sue O'Reilly for this. Hell, if that stupid woman got over a million bucks from McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself, I should be able to get something, right?
Hmmm, I wonder if this is where Jimmy Hoffa disappeared to? Does anyone know if the American mafia has been experimenting with black hole emulation?
Not conspiracy theories, just going by the information I have.
I agree with you here
The way I remember it, Kiva/Netscape's app server, also acquired by Sun, had the more advanced and scalable backend but no good tools to speak of,...
And I agree with you here
[Netdynamics had] a somewhat anemic and behind-the-curve backend
But this is hilarious.
NetDynamics had the better development tools
I hated ND's development tools. They were buggy and not very intuitive. As I recall, most people I know used a third-party front-end for most of their development.
However, the former president of NetDynamics left his new VP post with Sun shortly after the ND death announcement. I was told by a few people I used to work with that it was partially over Sun's treatment of NetDynamics and it's developers. The people I heard this from went to work for a startup founded by several of the top developers of NetDynamics. Now granted this info is second-hand, however it's second-hand from people who should know.
BAD: Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, KDE, Bill Gates
GOOD: AMD, Linux(especially Debian), VA Linux, GNOME, Richard Stallman
You can not be 1337 without this philosophy.
They were a small startup that had an application server and development tool that allowed developers to utilize Java to create a "web application" that ran server-side sort of like Microsoft's ASP, or IBM's WebSphere, or BEA WebLogic. It was more or less the industry leader in this type of development and directly competed with some of the things Sun was trying to do. Around the time NetDynamics 4.0 came out, Sun bought NetDynamics. Before NetDynamics 5.0 could be released, AOL bought Netscape and Sun licensed Netscape Application Server from AOL. Shortly after NetDynamics 5.0 was released Sun anounced that the NetDynamics line would no longer be developed, and instead they would be doing something new using Netscape Application Server. Most of the NetDynamics 5.0 code had been written before Sun aquired the company, so they never really invested anything into the product. Basically they acquired their biggest competitor in a paticular strategic line and stuffed them in a closet.
Could the same thing happen here? Stay tuned.
... my opinion is that it'll die like Usenet did.
Why do people keep saying USENet is dead? Is it because they don't use it anymore, so therefore it must be dead? Are people so self-centered that they think once they stop using a service it no longer can survive without their participation? They do? Oh, well that explains it then.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
$60 - $70K?
Silicon Valley: A place where two bedroom homes on lots so small you could cut the grass with toe-nail clippers in 5 minutes that go for $500,000? Where homeowners literally get 100 - 125 bids when they sell them, usually site un-seen?
I make more than 70K in OHIO. I wouldn't work there unless someone paid me > $200K and a house
Lucifer was seen giving ice water to the denizens of Hell today.
More related news: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Scott McNealy held a press conference today. The Big 3 have apparently decided that in best interest of the computer industry, they will be releasing all current and future software as Open-Source.
And finally: In startling turn of events, the Gnome and KDE development teams have reconciled their differences and have decided to merge and concentrate their efforts on a single GUI utilizing the best-of-show components from both of the existing desktops.
I was more or less implying this in my post. To get on a soapbox and publicly decry the shortcomings of others without first giving them the opportunity to correct them, is tool of a self-aggrandizing personality.