so it makes sense to ensure that the new "CableTV/Telco style" version of the internet will only run on IE - and vice versa...
DRM and the end of public open networks is the sort of project all the major players are counting on the Microsoft monopoly to help achieve. It's why the monopoly (though illegal) is still allowed to continue. Microsoft is useful.
Keep your eye on it... like I said this research is going to be deep-sixed big time. You obviously don't understand how industry influence in government works. The US government supports open source software to the tune of several billion per year (in research contracts, etc).
The hydrogen and electrically powered car has already been delayed by over 20 years. 700 million over 5 years (versus 100billion subsidy to th oil industry) should keep this alternative energy in the labs where it belongs.
... he looks like a young (25) unknowledgeable person totally unversed in Unix or scientific research who has signed on for a cut of the spoils.
Job description:
- Create FUD - Delay adoptions - Harm IBM and Novell and Sun - Put genie back in bottle - Take % fee of the "avoid-court-and-shut-your-mouth" buyout of SCO by IBM - get hired into MS corporate sales division
the whole cabinet, the president and his dad are BIG OIL reps. bought and paid for... the CIA and various consultants helped the USA spend several 100s of billions of USD$ on wars designed to protect the profits of the powerful in oil industries and this government sponsored research on a "cheap modular" energy replacement for oil is going to go ahead??
Are you insane? This project will be buried and the researchers discredited, disappeared, or bought off...
... if there are no limits to the scope of the Amendment, then suitcase nuclear weapons are protected under the US constitution. Under the 2nd amendment the people have the right to store chemical weapons and nuclear materials and any others necessary for protection against the state...
As we have seen lately, Sadaam Hussein of course does not have these rights, but American citizens and corporations do have the right... under the constitution... to bear weapons of mass destruction. If the US signed a treaty to reduce nuclear weapons there's nothing stopping Lockheed (a private corporation) from continuing to produce, store and sell any weapons it wants. The right of Lockheed to do so is protected under the Constitution.
You may disagree, but the Constitution and the Bible are more important than world peace, safety in your neighborhood and the sniveling cry baby complaints of "liberals" so quit complaining and get a job...
ps: Please spell "Amendment" correctly and use capital letters when refering to the holy Constitution of the USA.:-)
all of it technology ideas and processes not invented by MS but repackaged and "decommoditized" (i.e. stolen).
Thieve on MS!!
linux has no features I see in the screenshots
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like:
* a convenient login widget * easy to use admin tools for login access * more convenient and innovative UI metaphors
Instead open source continously copies a 2-3 year out of date commercial UI. OS/X and Longhorn beat Linux hands down on the desktop - even if they didn't have applications the UI and much of the underlying technology is better for consumer use.
Now, granted, BSD and Linux will blow OS/X and Longhorn out of the water on serving static webpages, running MySQL, Zope and sending e-mail... most developers are content with those features. Until developpers of toyish things like SuperKaramba, and things like hacking advanced graphic features into XFree (which you need to be 45 years old to do in order to understand X and be allowed to commit code) are as important and paid as well as as apache developers and kernel hackers, the new OSS Unices (commericial Unix being mostly dead on the desktop) will be as ugly as the old ones. Yes I am in the camp that says OS/X is NOT Unix and it is NOT "a BSD" (it uses BSD userland that's about it). The engineering workstation market used to be Unix terrirtory but those days are long gone.
And re: on GUI elements of desktop dominance no one seems to consider advanced storage and filesystem features like ACL, EA, indexing and database features, etc. as all that important. ReiserFS might enable this sort of this 10 years in the future but it doesn't provide it at the user level.
and XRnR... make X capable of "recognizing" vectors scratched at any angle on *any screen* the server can communicate with.
SVG is the killer secret computing technology. 10 years in the making in W3C labs, perfected by Gnome, built in to Mozilla and waiting to be bundled into X and....
So, let's see... linux is not that important but a worm that infects a small proportion of a niche bit player OS has already infected 3500 or more servers.
Assuming that, say, 5% of Linux boxes are configured to have an HTTPS web server enabled and are also running the exploitable SSL (how many linux or unix/apache webservers do you know are setup to do https using OpenSSL?? - most https apache setups use Stronghold which costs extra and which one purchases because of bundled security services). Now, given that these same boxes are set up to be secure and to encrypt web communications what idiot would *also* install a *compiler* on such a system? Assume 50% of admins are that stupid (remember, everyone argues that Unix/Linux requries massive skill just to set up correctly so 50% stupidity rate may be high).
Just as an aside I personally have access to 8 machines. None of them are set up to have SSL enabled. None of the machines in production in publically accessible server roles have a COMPILER installed. A quick survey of friends (all told about 50 production boxes in total) reveals that *none* (out of 50) have SSL enabled in Apache. For personal machines most use web servers as "Intranet" systems for LAN's or as a convenient "file server" substitute on workstations/laptops.
If all the above conditions do exist on a small subset of linux machines, then 3500 = just what % of all linux machines I wonder? (Someone should sample and project and use C|Net figures to establish how many Linux systems there are out there). It sounds like about.5% of Linux machines are effected and that there exist several 10's of millions of Linux servers. Actually it sounds like FUD rubbish...
BTW if you are worried you might be affected here's how to fix it on Red Hat - Mandrake and SuSE will be similar... with Debian and Gentoo it's even easier. And then of course theres apt-get for RPM's now too so...
(damn idjits).... I will take Apache *any day*. On the security front the utter shoddiness of IIS in comparison to Apache makes it obvious where the "threat" lies.
The word bad should have been in scare quotes as: "bad". Some people love to hate RPM and I must admit BSD make/packages and Gentoo's emerge are easy to love by comparison. I still think RPM (which stands for RPM Package Manager - it's recursive) is superior to anything Windows has had and I don't mind it at all as a package system goes TTTT.
2 to 42 == for thee too... i.e. Red Hat shares the wealth
Everyone has their own history of Linux. For a long time where I lived all you could find in the stores was Slackware and Red Hat (fewer end users downloaded for personal use unless they had a dorm high speed connection because CD burners didn't exist).
My point (obscurred by sarcasm, sorry) was that Red Hat has not done anything evil and compared to MS (and Sun and Apple) they are lovable saints.
Over the years Red Hat has stifled the competition so effectively that the number of Linux distributions has "declined" from 2 (Red Hat and Slackware) to 42 with new distributions arriving on the scene every week (Gentoo, Lycoris). Now they are actively sabotaging other projects by *gasp* changing their color schemes and graphics and paying developpers to work on projects that are used in dozens of their competitors products.... Sheesh.... In other words: there is *no* evidence RH is "bad". They are an OSS company living by the GPL.
The only thing bad about RH is *.rpm (which is what's bad about SuSE and Mandrake etc. etc.). The weakness of RPM is why competitors like Gentoo, Debian and FreeBSD are so damn uhh... competitive...
The KDE project's leadership being all over the age of 25 and somewhat more mature don't to lose sleep over this: they distribute RPMs built for 7.3 and limbo: both official and "unofficial" builds.
And of course microsoft decided to come out with encryption in W2K...
Man, with an encryption layer NTFS must be even more blazing fast than the last time I checked....
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Outlawing DeCSS today, would be like outlawing the photocopier in the 1970's, or outlawing home movie projectors at the turn of the 19th/20th century.
Except that in the case of movie projectors there was no incumbent industry opposed to the technology. Movies may have displaced vaudeville or live stage performances (plays) but the writers and performers in the previous industry were able to move over and increase their markets etc.
In the case of photocopiers publishers were only mildly threatened due to the huge quality, distribution and production advantages of commercial publication vs. photocopying. Over time, using existing copyright law and fair use provisions, an agreement between libraries and publishers over photocopying was worked out.
The current situation is one in which there is a huge and bloated "incumbent" industry fed by tax payer subsidies, dodgy accounting and monopolistic distribution channels (just read up a bit about the fun history of *war* between movie theatre chains in the 40s... ), weighed down with a huge and inefficient management and production structure (unlike all other industries - from steel-making to the public sector - there has been no "downsizing" in Hollywood), awash in drugs, illegal money and scandal, It is an industry that is nonetheless IMMENSELY powerful, out of all proportion to its importance in the economy culture and society and with no concommitant sense of responsibilty. This is an industry where people snort coke to come up with a new twist on the "boy gets girl" story where psychos, bulemics, drug addicts, sexual predators (casting couch!), and alcoholics rule the roost and where vacuous idiots like Jack Valenti represent them in industry associations (what does Jack do and what does Jack know - he's a bag man with a rolodex with seemingly exclusive and special rights to determine public policy). They feel it is their god given right to STOP all innovation if need be - to shut down the Internet and prohibit the production of computers without copy management. In their own eyes they are GODS with the right to TOTALLY determine the development of technology and the very course of history itself.
I'd like an alternative industry or an earthquake to utterly crush Hollywood and its hangers-on (like Vivendi) but short of that I will ignore them and their products.
Dumping the imported overtaxed tea in the harbor in Boston was a good idea... we need something with similar popular appeal.
This is very interesting. Does anyone have links to sites detailing Judge Kaplan's close links to the industry which he so eloquently defended in his court... err I mean that had the ruling upheld in their favor...
Movie studios have large amounts of money they could easily bribe a judge. According to Judge Kaplan's logic all of the money of the movie studios should be taken away in case they try to do something bad with it.
DeCSS can potentially be used for copying and redistributing digital content (this is often falsely and misleadingly called "piracy" - piracy is actually a form of murder and robbery). So can many other tools (like video cameras for example - we should note as well that cars are often used to murder and steal property). The judge chose to focus on DeCSS and its potential for illegal use.
Since I would never question Judge Kaplan's ethics (it's virtually a certainty that he was not bribed by the movie industry... really, it would be unfair to insinuate otherwise) it is the case that Judge Kaplan is old, out of it, and extremely *stupid*.
Commercial music draws on timeless shared traditions of musical knowledge, folk tunes, public of music education, etc. If access to their product is perfectly controlled (pay per listen, listen in one medium only etc., differentially pricing for multi-user licenses etc.) it will be ignored.
good ref: Jaques Attali, "Bruits" (older edition translated as "Noise").
"Unix is old and unreliable. If you can find a high-priced Unix expert to maintain your system you're in luck because thanks to our efforst there are practically *no Unix experts left*. Everyone has become expert in the low cost reliable and new systems offered by Microsoft. Have you ever seen an MCSE who konws anything about Unix?? Is there a USCE - no there isn't. And which is newer and has more graphics and buttons and stuff an MCSE manual or Unix expert manual? We rest our case...
We make server OSes and dominate several large hardware makers... if they support Unix we inflict financial pain on them. We also make applications and we are never going to make applications for Unix nor will we ever include Unix and mixed platform training in our certification programs. We own the future and our future does not include Unix. If you are not with us you are against us. Terrorists use Unix and we don't. We are an American corporation and not an un-American, piracy supporting, hacker terrorist, old-fashioned and expensive foreign command line corporation. And in conclusion:
YOU ARE EITHER FOR US OR AGAINST US (AND AGAINST AMERICA AND FREEDOM). Oh yeah we are monopolists and we have decided Unix is dead - what more evidence do you need that it *is* dead?"
Like me saying "I believe that Fluffy dinosaurs rule the world" it says more about the gullibility of the believer than the statement.
You can bet your ass taht if there *were* fluffy dinosaurs out there and they were smart enough they would rule the world. Maybe even if they weren't smart but there wre a lot of them and they were really hungry...
Slashdot Mirror
so it makes sense to ensure that the new "CableTV/Telco style" version of the internet will only run on IE - and vice versa ...
DRM and the end of public open networks is the sort of project all the major players are counting on the Microsoft monopoly to help achieve. It's why the monopoly (though illegal) is still allowed to continue. Microsoft is useful.
Keep your eye on it ... like I said this research is going to be deep-sixed big time. You obviously don't understand how industry influence in government works. The US government supports open source software to the tune of several billion per year (in research contracts, etc).
The hydrogen and electrically powered car has already been delayed by over 20 years. 700 million over 5 years (versus 100billion subsidy to th oil industry) should keep this alternative energy in the labs where it belongs.
... he looks like a young (25) unknowledgeable person totally unversed in Unix or scientific research who has signed on for a cut of the spoils.
Job description:
- Create FUD
- Delay adoptions
- Harm IBM and Novell and Sun
- Put genie back in bottle
- Take % fee of the "avoid-court-and-shut-your-mouth" buyout of SCO by IBM
- get hired into MS corporate sales division
* sugar
...)
...
* carbonated water
* brown die (burned "caramel" sugars - very bad for you but in small brown doses should be ok
* red can (shade of red is trademark)
Now bring it on "Coca-Cola"
the whole cabinet, the president and his dad are BIG OIL reps. bought and paid for ... the CIA and various consultants helped the USA spend several 100s of billions of USD$ on wars designed to protect the profits of the powerful in oil industries and this government sponsored research on a "cheap modular" energy replacement for oil is going to go ahead??
...
Are you insane? This project will be buried and the researchers discredited, disappeared, or bought off
... if there are no limits to the scope of the Amendment, then suitcase nuclear weapons are protected under the US constitution. Under the 2nd amendment the people have the right to store chemical weapons and nuclear materials and any others necessary for protection against the state ...
... under the constitution ... to bear weapons of mass destruction. If the US signed a treaty to reduce nuclear weapons there's nothing stopping Lockheed (a private corporation) from continuing to produce, store and sell any weapons it wants. The right of Lockheed to do so is protected under the Constitution.
...
:-)
As we have seen lately, Sadaam Hussein of course does not have these rights, but American citizens and corporations do have the right
You may disagree, but the Constitution and the Bible are more important than world peace, safety in your neighborhood and the sniveling cry baby complaints of "liberals" so quit complaining and get a job
ps: Please spell "Amendment" correctly and use capital letters when refering to the holy Constitution of the USA.
Let's see ... we have
... Winterminals heheh
Winmodems
Winprinters
WinLAN cards
WinWiFi cards
and now
all of it technology ideas and processes not invented by MS but repackaged and "decommoditized" (i.e. stolen).
Thieve on MS!!
like:
... most developers are content with those features. Until developpers of toyish things like SuperKaramba, and things like hacking advanced graphic features into XFree (which you need to be 45 years old to do in order to understand X and be allowed to commit code) are as important and paid as well as as apache developers and kernel hackers, the new OSS Unices (commericial Unix being mostly dead on the desktop) will be as ugly as the old ones. Yes I am in the camp that says OS/X is NOT Unix and it is NOT "a BSD" (it uses BSD userland that's about it). The engineering workstation market used to be Unix terrirtory but those days are long gone.
* a convenient login widget
* easy to use admin tools for login access
* more convenient and innovative UI metaphors
Instead open source continously copies a 2-3 year out of date commercial UI. OS/X and Longhorn beat Linux hands down on the desktop - even if they didn't have applications the UI and much of the underlying technology is better for consumer use.
Now, granted, BSD and Linux will blow OS/X and Longhorn out of the water on serving static webpages, running MySQL, Zope and sending e-mail
And re: on GUI elements of desktop dominance no one seems to consider advanced storage and filesystem features like ACL, EA, indexing and database features, etc. as all that important. ReiserFS might enable this sort of this 10 years in the future but it doesn't provide it at the user level.
and XRnR... make X capable of "recognizing" vectors scratched at any angle on *any screen* the server can communicate with.
....
SVG is the killer secret computing technology. 10 years in the making in W3C labs, perfected by Gnome, built in to Mozilla and waiting to be bundled into X and
BLOW EVERYTHING OUT OF THE WATER!
big wup...
soo to support yahoo ... hehehe
A blatant lie ... hmm. FUD meisters gardening on /. ... who is more pathetic?
Assuming that, say, 5% of Linux boxes are configured to have an HTTPS web server enabled and are also running the exploitable SSL (how many linux or unix/apache webservers do you know are setup to do https using OpenSSL?? - most https apache setups use Stronghold which costs extra and which one purchases because of bundled security services). Now, given that these same boxes are set up to be secure and to encrypt web communications what idiot would *also* install a *compiler* on such a system? Assume 50% of admins are that stupid (remember, everyone argues that Unix/Linux requries massive skill just to set up correctly so 50% stupidity rate may be high).
Just as an aside I personally have access to 8 machines. None of them are set up to have SSL enabled. None of the machines in production in publically accessible server roles have a COMPILER installed. A quick survey of friends (all told about 50 production boxes in total) reveals that *none* (out of 50) have SSL enabled in Apache. For personal machines most use web servers as "Intranet" systems for LAN's or as a convenient "file server" substitute on workstations/laptops.
If all the above conditions do exist on a small subset of linux machines, then 3500 = just what % of all linux machines I wonder? (Someone should sample and project and use C|Net figures to establish how many Linux systems there are out there). It sounds like about
BTW if you are worried you might be affected here's how to fix it on Red Hat - Mandrake and SuSE will be similar
[10/Sep/2002:11:06:42 -0400] "GET
(damn idjits)
Add to this that the exploit has to run gcc to compile the encoded file ...
... sheesh
Hmm hands up who installs a compiler on WEB SERVER?!
The word bad should have been in scare quotes as: "bad". Some people love to hate RPM and I must admit BSD make/packages and Gentoo's emerge are easy to love by comparison. I still think RPM (which stands for RPM Package Manager - it's recursive) is superior to anything Windows has had and I don't mind it at all as a package system goes TTTT.
2 to 42 == for thee too
Everyone has their own history of Linux. For a long time where I lived all you could find in the stores was Slackware and Red Hat (fewer end users downloaded for personal use unless they had a dorm high speed connection because CD burners didn't exist).
My point (obscurred by sarcasm, sorry) was that Red Hat has not done anything evil and compared to MS (and Sun and Apple) they are lovable saints.
The only thing bad about RH is *.rpm (which is what's bad about SuSE and Mandrake etc. etc.). The weakness of RPM is why competitors like Gentoo, Debian and FreeBSD are so damn uhh
The KDE project's leadership being all over the age of 25 and somewhat more mature don't to lose sleep over this: they distribute RPMs built for 7.3 and limbo: both official and "unofficial" builds.
Man, with an encryption layer NTFS must be even more blazing fast than the last time I checked. ...
Except that in the case of movie projectors there was no incumbent industry opposed to the technology. Movies may have displaced vaudeville or live stage performances (plays) but the writers and performers in the previous industry were able to move over and increase their markets etc.
In the case of photocopiers publishers were only mildly threatened due to the huge quality, distribution and production advantages of commercial publication vs. photocopying. Over time, using existing copyright law and fair use provisions, an agreement between libraries and publishers over photocopying was worked out.
The current situation is one in which there is a huge and bloated "incumbent" industry fed by tax payer subsidies, dodgy accounting and monopolistic distribution channels (just read up a bit about the fun history of *war* between movie theatre chains in the 40s
I'd like an alternative industry or an earthquake to utterly crush Hollywood and its hangers-on (like Vivendi) but short of that I will ignore them and their products.
Dumping the imported overtaxed tea in the harbor in Boston was a good idea
This is very interesting. Does anyone have links to sites detailing Judge Kaplan's close links to the industry which he so eloquently defended in his court ... err I mean that had the ruling upheld in their favor ...
"What's so special about the internet that my free speech rights don't apply?"
Good one mate!
Movie studios have large amounts of money they could easily bribe a judge. According to Judge Kaplan's logic all of the money of the movie studios should be taken away in case they try to do something bad with it.
... really, it would be unfair to insinuate otherwise) it is the case that Judge Kaplan is old, out of it, and extremely *stupid*.
DeCSS can potentially be used for copying and redistributing digital content (this is often falsely and misleadingly called "piracy" - piracy is actually a form of murder and robbery). So can many other tools (like video cameras for example - we should note as well that cars are often used to murder and steal property). The judge chose to focus on DeCSS and its potential for illegal use.
Since I would never question Judge Kaplan's ethics (it's virtually a certainty that he was not bribed by the movie industry
Commercial music draws on timeless shared traditions of musical knowledge, folk tunes, public of music education, etc. If access to their product is perfectly controlled (pay per listen, listen in one medium only etc., differentially pricing for multi-user licenses etc.) it will be ignored.
good ref: Jaques Attali, "Bruits" (older edition translated as "Noise").
.... but now we've all reformed and learned to love the bomb.
...
Especially on April 1
... here's the way to kill off Unix:
...
... if they support Unix we inflict financial pain on them. We also make applications and we are never going to make applications for Unix nor will we ever include Unix and mixed platform training in our certification programs. We own the future and our future does not include Unix. If you are not with us you are against us. Terrorists use Unix and we don't. We are an American corporation and not an un-American, piracy supporting, hacker terrorist, old-fashioned and expensive foreign command line corporation. And in conclusion:
"Unix is old and unreliable. If you can find a high-priced Unix expert to maintain your system you're in luck because thanks to our efforst there are practically *no Unix experts left*. Everyone has become expert in the low cost reliable and new systems offered by Microsoft. Have you ever seen an MCSE who konws anything about Unix?? Is there a USCE - no there isn't. And which is newer and has more graphics and buttons and stuff an MCSE manual or Unix expert manual? We rest our case
We make server OSes and dominate several large hardware makers
YOU ARE EITHER FOR US OR AGAINST US (AND AGAINST AMERICA AND FREEDOM). Oh yeah we are monopolists and we have decided Unix is dead - what more evidence do you need that it *is* dead?"
Thank you.
Like me saying "I believe that Fluffy dinosaurs rule the world" it says more about the gullibility of the believer than the statement.
...
You can bet your ass taht if there *were* fluffy dinosaurs out there and they were smart enough they would rule the world. Maybe even if they weren't smart but there wre a lot of them and they were really hungry