Accoding the the article, your first post can now be read by 143+ million people. It's your 15 seconds of fame, take a bow. To bad you hadn't thought of something more meaningful than a quote from Kenneth Lay, just before Duncan jumped up and down and screamed in his ear, "Shread, shread like mad, shread like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't, shread!"
I don't recall AOL being exclusively US. I've done a bit of eBay buying and selling and have found these people to be pretty much everywhere in the world.
Knowing how quickly our elected representatives recognise and take advantage of new technologies, how long before we get campaign ads as pop-under and flash ads, or spam? I realize there was some smearing going on in the last presidential primaries, via email, but I expect a bigger role for internet mediums in the upcoming presidential election, perhaps this years congressional elections. I can barely stand this stuff on the TV and radio, the deluge so relentless, how long before I'm hounded on the 'net, too?
>> I firmly believe that the military has to be the future of where all the power is centralized.
A quote, forget from whom, but seems poignantly relevant: The easiest way to get shot is to carry a gun.
Bush seems the stereotypical spaghetti western cowpoke, speaking softly and carrying a big gun, and, in the spirit of late Hollywood arrivals, lusting after a bigger gun. I wonder who (in the figurative and collective sense) among us will get shot as a result of this.
It depends what kind of IP you're talking about. As we all know, you don't have to have a coded implementation of a software concept in order to get a patent on it. As long as you can describe it to the level of detail required by a coder of ordinary skill to pick it up and make it real, you've "enabled" the invention in the eyes of the PTO. Any actual code conforming to your software spec is considered to be merely an embodiment of your invention, and not the invention itself. Coders do not win the pissing contest at the PTO.
Of course, this would be the very definition of "Bad Faith". Worse, if you're some kind of jerk or idiot, you intentionally direct the developer to include something which you know is covered by another's patent and don't reveal that.
"Hi, I'm from Macrostuff, and that idea of ours you put into your product, well, we applied for a patent before we gave you the spec and now we want all your base."
Ideas are a dime a dozen... everyone has an idea for a great game, TV show or book.. but how many people devote years of their life to actually make one happen?
Unfortunately, we've seen examples where someone comes out of the woodwork and sues for a stolen idea, after some large number of people and time have gone into bringing it to fruition.
On the other side of the coin, like the example of the weedwhacker, some little guy invented the thing and got robbed by big industry anyway.
Best to halt all work with the disputing party until everything is clear. If they don't want to benefit from the privilege of giving input into development of a product they use, I would drop them, particularly before lawyers show up.
Of the readership on slashdot, how many would love the opportunity to give constructive input to the design and development of games, utilities, movies, etc? Pretty much everyone, right? Before arriving at the quick answer how much thought did you put into 'hey, wait, then i'm a contributor and should get credit, money, babes, a cameo, etc.? Few, I betcha. Best to for would be beta tester and consultants to weigh their own expectations before involving themselves, not later. Much to messy when it come to later.
Even suggesting is pretty shaky, I mean, I could suggest you allow users to hit Escape and drop focus on a certain control, but actually coding it makes it real. I could suggest Slashdot change the meta-moderation system to include the context of moderation (not that this deserves +1 anything, but that it got +1 in the right category, i.e., does the moderator know how to actually moderate), but short of me trucking down to the USPTO and and requesting a patent on this feature, forget it, it's not mine.
IMHO the client is elbowing for some negotiating room later, i.e. we helped you get the bugs out, give us a better pricing. If they're expecting a cut of the pie, tell them thanks but no thanks and drop them as a tester. That sort of weasel mindedness belies something worse is behind it.
AI is vastly underestimated on the impact it will have in the future.
AI will most likely see first use in the phone-sex industry. Think about it. Adult entertainment is the first to embrace advancements in technology.
To see where AI is going you have to stop staring at the algorithms, take a step back, and see what mundane things you'd like someone else to look after for you.
"Hi, Honey, I'm home!"
"You're certainly home early!"
"Well, we had a change in staffing at work."
"Oh, no! Don't tell me you were replaced by a computer?!?"
"No, they replaced my computer with a cyborg, now my job is to have a deep philosophical discussion with it to boot it up each morning."
It's kinda funny, too, that he was slashdotted before and I couldn't get the finding to come up, probably slashdotted again.
It's an interesting read and a very professional job, aside from the shout outs, of assembling a track. Kudos to Chip for keeping people informed and placing the relevant information in an easy to read and access format. Others could learn from him, or heck, even hire him as a consultant, I expect he could do with some employ. *hint* *hint*
What a silly question. Even people without a leg (wooden, plastic or virtual) to stand on file suits every day just to see if the threat is enough to get another party to back down.
As for the suit, ok, the California part is over, but it's up to UnicomSI to decide if they want to pursue in the district of Western Texas. Until such time as they throw in the towel or Chip is victorious in Texas, it ain't really over.
Patience. Hacking new territory doesn't happen overnight^H^H^H^H^H well immediately anyway. Then I suppose it will have Gates spinning in his executive office chair.
"Bring me the head of Craig Mundie! He said it would never come to this!"
being licensed by a big corporation might lead them to become anal on us.. ie, charging fees?
Or in the name of proctecting someone's valuable content from villainous pirates (or any filth who actually believes in fair use) some company (like Microsoft) sells out big time, and even creates a fee structure for everyone, like some damn tariff. (See: Windows Media Player)
Once upon a mid-day dreary, while I plodded, weak and weary,
Through an informative article about a truly massive core,
While I nodded, the newsfeed was slashdotted, suddenly there came a tapping,
As if FedEx gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door,
"Prob'ly FedEx," I muttered, "with boxes of reminders;
reminders of the law of Gordon Moore."
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its capital investment.
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its EULA.
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its Memory Exception error.
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its BSOD.
Multi player has always been a bugbear, but I'd recommend setting up a merc or diku (if you really want to learn important lessons:) mud and cut your teeth there. Take the advantage of learning to manage other coders who pitch in and checkin/checkout code. FWIW I'd start in c and skip c++ unless I was convinced I needed it.
I'm a bit miffed that something as interesting to many/. readers isn't news but Stephenson is. Ok, it's subjective, the choices, but they did run articles earlier about the works possibly being recovered from his Adams' computer and eventually seeing print. Seemed natural to run the article, but I wonder if/. has an exclusive contract with fatbrain and won't run articles without links to them, so once fatbrain confirms they'll have the books then/. will run the story? That would certainly be a sell out.
That there is actually cover art and a look at Harmony Books bears this up, it's coming out, one year after his death.
In summary, this article seems to overlook that secure practices don't scale, particularly at M$. This error makes the article itself insecure be careful how you read it, it may infect your mind with lack of insight.
Typical Hollywood job, too much emphasis on wow star power and glitzy animation, not enough on a decent story.
Sloppy design, sloppy coding, sloppy enforcement
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The biggest problems I've seen in making code secure are the gaps between design, coding and code review.
Often the designer doesn't consider the bigger picture, how this piece fits it. It can be as simple as not requiring verification on input.
Coders if rushed, inexperienced, or simple bad (like rafts of people who suddenly became "programmers" in 1998-2000 when demand was extemely high, even though the only had a couple classes and were really english, anthropology, history, or other majors, just to fill positions) will fail to see the lapses left by designers and build porous code.
Lack of review or review that so anal it's focus is spelling errors in prompts or whether there's enough documentation lines, but fails to identify where secure practices are not followed. Well, don't get me started.;)
Last, Q/A, everyone knows Microsoft's Q/A is called ship it out and let customer support pick up the bug reports and then sometimes charge the people reporting for the fix. Q/A is often the first department cut in layoffs, because management underestimates its importance. To bad, like the Enron execs, they won't take a cut themselves to save the product and the company. Good Q/A needs to ask the unthought of questions, what happens if I do this instead of what's expected?
Perhaps somewhere in the evoltion if IT that has lowered programmers from the status of mystical wizards to grunt code jokeys, management will recognize that code, even new products, aren't just some big patch and give it the attention and personnel it really deserves.
Depending upon the qualities of the copper laid at the time and how it was routed and whether or not rats or anything have chewed on it, it can do pretty well. I'm about 1/4 mile from the switch, but something has gotten into the copper in this relatively new building and it's not the best.
Oh, to be in a subdivision where they're laying the latest and greatest right now...
Slashdot Mirror
I wannit!
I wannit!
I wannit! (foaming at the mouth)
I wannit!
(Dear IBM, I do so much wannit, sincerly Ackthpt)
I wannit!
TV ads are much harder to deal with
Yeah, right. You think congress has gridlock, watch how fast they make DoS on campaign ad servers a capital offense.
Accoding the the article, your first post can now be read by 143+ million people. It's your 15 seconds of fame, take a bow. To bad you hadn't thought of something more meaningful than a quote from Kenneth Lay, just before Duncan jumped up and down and screamed in his ear, "Shread, shread like mad, shread like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't, shread!"
Though a good percentage would probably be US.
Knowing how quickly our elected representatives recognise and take advantage of new technologies, how long before we get campaign ads as pop-under and flash ads, or spam? I realize there was some smearing going on in the last presidential primaries, via email, but I expect a bigger role for internet mediums in the upcoming presidential election, perhaps this years congressional elections. I can barely stand this stuff on the TV and radio, the deluge so relentless, how long before I'm hounded on the 'net, too?
Doh! I should have known that, I just read it last year.
>> I firmly believe that the military has to be the future of where all the power is centralized.
A quote, forget from whom, but seems poignantly relevant: The easiest way to get shot is to carry a gun.
Bush seems the stereotypical spaghetti western cowpoke, speaking softly and carrying a big gun, and, in the spirit of late Hollywood arrivals, lusting after a bigger gun. I wonder who (in the figurative and collective sense) among us will get shot as a result of this.
Of course, this would be the very definition of "Bad Faith". Worse, if you're some kind of jerk or idiot, you intentionally direct the developer to include something which you know is covered by another's patent and don't reveal that.
"Hi, I'm from Macrostuff, and that idea of ours you put into your product, well, we applied for a patent before we gave you the spec and now we want all your base."
Unfortunately, we've seen examples where someone comes out of the woodwork and sues for a stolen idea, after some large number of people and time have gone into bringing it to fruition.
On the other side of the coin, like the example of the weedwhacker, some little guy invented the thing and got robbed by big industry anyway.
Best to halt all work with the disputing party until everything is clear. If they don't want to benefit from the privilege of giving input into development of a product they use, I would drop them, particularly before lawyers show up.
Of the readership on slashdot, how many would love the opportunity to give constructive input to the design and development of games, utilities, movies, etc? Pretty much everyone, right? Before arriving at the quick answer how much thought did you put into 'hey, wait, then i'm a contributor and should get credit, money, babes, a cameo, etc.? Few, I betcha. Best to for would be beta tester and consultants to weigh their own expectations before involving themselves, not later. Much to messy when it come to later.
IMHO the client is elbowing for some negotiating room later, i.e. we helped you get the bugs out, give us a better pricing. If they're expecting a cut of the pie, tell them thanks but no thanks and drop them as a tester. That sort of weasel mindedness belies something worse is behind it.
AI will most likely see first use in the phone-sex industry. Think about it. Adult entertainment is the first to embrace advancements in technology.
To see where AI is going you have to stop staring at the algorithms, take a step back, and see what mundane things you'd like someone else to look after for you.
"Hi, Honey, I'm home!"
"You're certainly home early!"
"Well, we had a change in staffing at work."
"Oh, no! Don't tell me you were replaced by a computer?!?"
"No, they replaced my computer with a cyborg, now my job is to have a deep philosophical discussion with it to boot it up each morning."
It's an interesting read and a very professional job, aside from the shout outs, of assembling a track. Kudos to Chip for keeping people informed and placing the relevant information in an easy to read and access format. Others could learn from him, or heck, even hire him as a consultant, I expect he could do with some employ. *hint* *hint*
As for the suit, ok, the California part is over, but it's up to UnicomSI to decide if they want to pursue in the district of Western Texas. Until such time as they throw in the towel or Chip is victorious in Texas, it ain't really over.
"Bring me the head of Craig Mundie! He said it would never come to this!"
Or in the name of proctecting someone's valuable content from villainous pirates (or any filth who actually believes in fair use) some company (like Microsoft) sells out big time, and even creates a fee structure for everyone, like some damn tariff. (See: Windows Media Player)
Once upon a mid-day dreary, while I plodded, weak and weary,
Through an informative article about a truly massive core,
While I nodded, the newsfeed was slashdotted, suddenly there came a tapping,
As if FedEx gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door,
"Prob'ly FedEx," I muttered, "with boxes of reminders;
reminders of the law of Gordon Moore."
That's it, I'm abandoning all this and going back to CP/M!
Don't get me start on VB's variant type... sheesh. there's a car wreck waiting to happen.
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its EULA.
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its Memory Exception error.
Microsoft massacres you to small fragments with its BSOD.
Your server is DEAD!!
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Multi player has always been a bugbear, but I'd recommend setting up a merc or diku (if you really want to learn important lessons :) mud and cut your teeth there. Take the advantage of learning to manage other coders who pitch in and checkin/checkout code. FWIW I'd start in c and skip c++ unless I was convinced I needed it.
The big Sell Outs:
Amazon.com (book) (tape)
Amazon.co.uk(book)
I'm a bit miffed that something as interesting to many /. readers isn't news but Stephenson is. Ok, it's subjective, the choices, but they did run articles earlier about the works possibly being recovered from his Adams' computer and eventually seeing print. Seemed natural to run the article, but I wonder if /. has an exclusive contract with fatbrain and won't run articles without links to them, so once fatbrain confirms they'll have the books then /. will run the story? That would certainly be a sell out.
That there is actually cover art and a look at Harmony Books bears this up, it's coming out, one year after his death.
In summary, this article seems to overlook that secure practices don't scale, particularly at M$. This error makes the article itself insecure be careful how you read it, it may infect your mind with lack of insight.
Typical Hollywood job, too much emphasis on wow star power and glitzy animation, not enough on a decent story.
Often the designer doesn't consider the bigger picture, how this piece fits it. It can be as simple as not requiring verification on input.
Coders if rushed, inexperienced, or simple bad (like rafts of people who suddenly became "programmers" in 1998-2000 when demand was extemely high, even though the only had a couple classes and were really english, anthropology, history, or other majors, just to fill positions) will fail to see the lapses left by designers and build porous code.
Lack of review or review that so anal it's focus is spelling errors in prompts or whether there's enough documentation lines, but fails to identify where secure practices are not followed. Well, don't get me started. ;)
Last, Q/A, everyone knows Microsoft's Q/A is called ship it out and let customer support pick up the bug reports and then sometimes charge the people reporting for the fix. Q/A is often the first department cut in layoffs, because management underestimates its importance. To bad, like the Enron execs, they won't take a cut themselves to save the product and the company. Good Q/A needs to ask the unthought of questions, what happens if I do this instead of what's expected?
Perhaps somewhere in the evoltion if IT that has lowered programmers from the status of mystical wizards to grunt code jokeys, management will recognize that code, even new products, aren't just some big patch and give it the attention and personnel it really deserves.
Oh, to be in a subdivision where they're laying the latest and greatest right now...