GPS is free to use (once you've got a handset), and there really is no value in reproducing it except to protect ourselves when our interests do not align with those of Mr Bush or whoever Diebold elects in the future.
The issue is: Is this in line with other stealing/fraud offences or is this an example of a legal system tending to protect corporations to a greater extent than people?
Thief is sentenced to 3 years in prison Nov 19, 2004
McCue pleaded guilty to three counts of breaking and entering in the daytime, three counts of larceny of more than $250, five counts of credit card fraud of more than $250 and 14 counts of attempting to commit a crime of larceny of more than $250. Each of the 14 was an attempt to withdraw money using a stolen ATM card. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
Is 9 years a fair and reasonable punishment or does it mean that the legal systems protections are being moved away from the protection of the citizen like yourself?
Perhaps. A greater number of credit card frauds were attempted by Salcedo, but OTOH, attempted crimes usually get a lesser sentence than successful ones.
Disclaimer: This doesn't affect me so much, since I live in the rest of the world.
MS is in trouble if FireFox becomes capable of running all the other software you need (i.e. Java apps, HTML rendering, XML, e-mail, usenet, plug-ins). Then all you need is any CPU and any OS that runs FireFox.
Firefox / Thunderbird is capable of Java apps, HTML rendering, XML, e-mail and usenet. That still doesn't make it a threat to IE in the medium term, because Joe Public is not going to have any OS that runs Firefox, he's going to have Windows.
If Microsoft had a real concern with this, they'd be doing something to fix IE. In the mean time they don't. As soon as IE is fixed, Joe Public won't bother downloading Firefox, because he already has IE. He bought it with his computer because his computer retailer's (anti-competitive) agreement with microsoft doesn't said retailer to retail a computer without windows on it.
This is what needs to change before this monopoly is broken and the profit margin (currently 400% for a bug ridden, poor memory managed OS with a ridiculous EULA) on operating systems can be subject to market forces.
Since IE isn't sold alone, people switching to other browsers isn't hurting their income.
With IE bundled with the OS, IE dominance, and so therefore MS's own web standards are not ever going to be threatened by people obtaining and using other browsers now.
All that anti-trust stuff has accomplished exactly nothing unless Microsoft are forced to uncouple IE (and Media Player) from the operating system, and they are forced to stop pressuring PC retailers into not supplying other operating systems.
In fact there needs to be a 5 year period where it is illegal for anyone to sell a single-booting pre installed widows computer in order to counteract the last 20 years of anti-competitive behavior.
More likely, the NSA were only appearing to contribute to the Linux kernel, while they were actually introducing subtle and cleverly obfuscated bugs that will allow them to read Osama's email, and tell on him to his mother if he blows things up. Also it allows them root access to any Linux running hospital in Saudi Arabia, and they can overprescribe anaesthetics when he next goes in for dialysis treatment. /evil> MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA <evil>
So lets look at China. There's an up and coming info market. Ballmer could very well subsidize Windows for next to nothing to put on these machines knowing full well a generation of kids (and current adults) will be using Windows.
China is more interesting than that because it has no IP laws. So you can't police pirating, there is nearly no money in software or music until a corporate sponsor is involved. This operating system was brought to you by Tsingtao Beer!
Unless Steve reckons he's got the umph to change China's laws on this, the best he's going to get by dumping windows on them for free is stopping them working with Linux, which would provide Linux with another group of developers (developers!, developers!). Which is certainly worth the investment, or he'll have to keep up by increasing staffing levels of developers (developers!, developers!) by 20%.
However, it's tricky to make any money in that market with intellectual property, because you don't own it.
Unless microsoft are forced to stop bundling their browser with their operating system, it's all a passing phase.
IE will roll back up to 95% of the market as soon as the security flaws are jury rigged to the point that microsoft will recommend its use again.
"this is some proof that micro$oft isn't the only place in the world that puts out code with security holes"
This kind of comment disturbs me. I never know how far down the conspiracy theory line I should allow my paranoia to run. The statement is prima facie true, so what requirement is there for such proof except to Microsoft FUDrakers?
Is microsoft paying people to post their marketing crap like this, or is it merely that trolling is its own reward?
The figures look nice, until your eyes stray to the R-square (goodness of fit) results for their regressions - it's about.5 for all of them, which means there's quite a bit to do before their models are actually believable and worth using as "evidence" of voter fraud.
Erwos, R-Squared of 0.5 means that half the variation is attributable to whether electronic voting machines were used, leaving only half the variation attributable to all other factors such as who voters wanted to vote for.
The R-Squared should be precisely Zero - Any significant difference for that is cause for alarm. (And if and election cannot change the government surely you are obliged to exercise your rights under the 2nd amendment, and hold an armed uprising):-p
As the article says that 0.5 is more that 99% certain to be different from 0.
There are some aspects of the French power program in which the USA has already followed their lead.
For instance the high density of power plants near the eastern border of France. A meltdown will affect Germany, Belgium and Switzerland more than France, showing that currently American phenomenon, the inability to recognize the rights, lives, welfare or even sovereignty of the citizens of any foreign nation.
Personally, I'd rather have my leaders taking orders from Haliburton than Sadaam any day. We are pretty sure that the board of Haliburton has never used chemical warfare to suppress the competition.
Where civilian casualties are concerned, it is sufficiently damning to use conventional warfare to suppress the competition.
It disturbs me that some people still think that that war is either about the removal of Sadam or is about the betterment of the Iraqi people.
Would you really prefer to take orders from a regime that has put nothing in the the redevelopment of infrastructure excepting those assets that allow the riches of your country to be piped out and stolen?
Would you prefer to live in a society where muggings, theft and rape are common because the police force cannot go onto the street because the coalition forces shoot them for carrying weapons?
Do you have something against living with working sewage system? clean water? medicines? food? petrol? consistent electricity? education? the presence of aid agencies?
If the Iraqi people have risen up and forced the coalition out of Fallujah until the recent assualt, you should not conclude that you would not have - people are not that different: You should ask: What do I not understand about the situation that these people are in?
These compilers are not free, because to use them you have to invest in a windows operating system.
Then there are the hidden cost of insecurity. Furthermore there is a very real cost to everyone of purchasing from a (convicted) monopolist.
Coding in a free (as in speech) environment is more cost effective, because you can find why something is not working. If you go with Microsoft you often lose days trying to find a work-around for a bug, because your only tools are trial and error.
So choosing the.NET development environment has many other costs. A responsible manager considers the Total Cost of Ownership when choosing a development language and environment.
"Traditional" probably only describes the Characters that have always been used.
"Peking" is the Wades-Giles rendering of the characters into the English Alphabet (Wades-Giles is still generally used in Taiwan I believe). Beijing has gone with Pinyin rendering, which spells it "Beijing".
Moon work is very pretty, and makes for both nice media events (even if some of the publicity shots were faked), impressive golfing drives and much applause... however space station work, (and consequently man hours in space experience), is a more valuable field if you're planning to go anywhere that will take more that a couple of weeks.
Notice that of the ten space stations that humanity has lifted into orbit, the ruskies put up eight (Salyut 1 through 7 and Mir), and one was put up jointly by an international consortium that including the Ruskies.
(Not to diss Skylab, but there was only ever one of it, and the USAsians seemed to think a couple of months was a long stay)
So, "We haven't yet caught up in the space race" could also be argued.
I think that it surprises most people how much life goes on in a war zone.
Sure the US troops are shooting into crowds of people who are protesting the arrest of Sadam, however in a country of 26 million, 20 deaths or so per day, doesn't really affect that you try to make a living and buy the things that you need for your family, so 99.8% of your time is spent as it would be in any other political environment.
This is a good time to push OS, or at least to provide what support we can. The only issue is that we are probably pushing mud uphill with the wrong end of a rake, because of the power and position of the commercial interests involved.
Recent Windows attacks (...notably and demonstrably Blaster...) have been because of the business model of (the criminal organisation) Micro$oft. There is a not insignificant reservoir of bad feeling about both their illegal use of monopolies, and the cost to business of finding solutions and workarounds to their bugs.
On the other hand the recent attacks on Debian and Gentoo, follow a very different pattern.
The break-ins were very sophisticated (in the sense that the venerability exploited was largely unknown), but then having broken in the behaviour was code-bunny - install sucKIT
Why would a hacker who had presumably discovered the exploit one day when perusing the kernel, follow up with such an unintriguing response? and then, not completely bored yet, keep doing the same thing?
This is a professional bounty job to backdoor open source development servers.
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GPS is free to use (once you've got a handset), and there really is no value in reproducing it except to protect ourselves when our interests do not align with those of Mr Bush or whoever Diebold elects in the future.
What are people getting from standard breaking-and-entering/Larceny compared to in conjunction with hacking?t ering.html):
Is 9 years a fair and reasonable punishment or does it mean that the legal systems protections are being moved away from the protection of the citizen like yourself?for example, elsewhere in the country, (from http://news.surfwax.com/law/files/Breaking_And_En
Perhaps. A greater number of credit card frauds were attempted by Salcedo, but OTOH, attempted crimes usually get a lesser sentence than successful ones.
Disclaimer: This doesn't affect me so much, since I live in the rest of the world.
Firefox / Thunderbird is capable of Java apps, HTML rendering, XML, e-mail and usenet. That still doesn't make it a threat to IE in the medium term, because Joe Public is not going to have any OS that runs Firefox, he's going to have Windows.
If Microsoft had a real concern with this, they'd be doing something to fix IE. In the mean time they don't. As soon as IE is fixed, Joe Public won't bother downloading Firefox, because he already has IE. He bought it with his computer because his computer retailer's (anti-competitive) agreement with microsoft doesn't said retailer to retail a computer without windows on it.
This is what needs to change before this monopoly is broken and the profit margin (currently 400% for a bug ridden, poor memory managed OS with a ridiculous EULA) on operating systems can be subject to market forces.
Since IE isn't sold alone, people switching to other browsers isn't hurting their income.
With IE bundled with the OS, IE dominance, and so therefore MS's own web standards are not ever going to be threatened by people obtaining and using other browsers now.
All that anti-trust stuff has accomplished exactly nothing unless Microsoft are forced to uncouple IE (and Media Player) from the operating system, and they are forced to stop pressuring PC retailers into not supplying other operating systems.
In fact there needs to be a 5 year period where it is illegal for anyone to sell a single-booting pre installed widows computer in order to counteract the last 20 years of anti-competitive behavior.
More likely, the NSA were only appearing to contribute to the Linux kernel, while they were actually introducing subtle and cleverly obfuscated bugs that will allow them to read Osama's email, and tell on him to his mother if he blows things up.
/evil> MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA <evil>
Also it allows them root access to any Linux running hospital in Saudi Arabia, and they can overprescribe anaesthetics when he next goes in for dialysis treatment.
Oh Really?
Unless microsoft are forced to stop bundling their browser with their operating system, it's all a passing phase.
IE will roll back up to 95% of the market as soon as the security flaws are jury rigged to the point that microsoft will recommend its use again.
This kind of comment disturbs me. I never know how far down the conspiracy theory line I should allow my paranoia to run. The statement is prima facie true, so what requirement is there for such proof except to Microsoft FUDrakers?
Is microsoft paying people to post their marketing crap like this, or is it merely that trolling is its own reward?
Erwos, R-Squared of 0.5 means that half the variation is attributable to whether electronic voting machines were used, leaving only half the variation attributable to all other factors such as who voters wanted to vote for.
The R-Squared should be precisely Zero - Any significant difference for that is cause for alarm. (And if and election cannot change the government surely you are obliged to exercise your rights under the 2nd amendment, and hold an armed uprising) :-p
As the article says that 0.5 is more that 99% certain to be different from 0.
The other reason you might want to put on a few more wheels is to increase the longevity of your tyres.
2.4 tonnes of car going from 0 to 100 in four seconds is going to put a fair strain on the rubber.
For instance the high density of power plants near the eastern border of France. A meltdown will affect Germany, Belgium and Switzerland more than France, showing that currently American phenomenon, the inability to recognize the rights, lives, welfare or even sovereignty of the citizens of any foreign nation.
Where civilian casualties are concerned, it is sufficiently damning to use conventional warfare to suppress the competition.
It disturbs me that some people still think that that war is either about the removal of Sadam or is about the betterment of the Iraqi people.
Would you really prefer to take orders from a regime that has put nothing in the the redevelopment of infrastructure excepting those assets that allow the riches of your country to be piped out and stolen?
Would you prefer to live in a society where muggings, theft and rape are common because the police force cannot go onto the street because the coalition forces shoot them for carrying weapons?
Do you have something against living with working sewage system? clean water? medicines? food? petrol? consistent electricity? education? the presence of aid agencies?
If the Iraqi people have risen up and forced the coalition out of Fallujah until the recent assualt, you should not conclude that you would not have - people are not that different: You should ask: What do I not understand about the situation that these people are in?
These compilers are not free, because to use them you have to invest in a windows operating system.
.NET development environment has many other costs. A responsible manager considers the Total Cost of Ownership when choosing a development language and environment.
Then there are the hidden cost of insecurity. Furthermore there is a very real cost to everyone of purchasing from a (convicted) monopolist.
Coding in a free (as in speech) environment is more cost effective, because you can find why something is not working. If you go with Microsoft you often lose days trying to find a work-around for a bug, because your only tools are trial and error.
So choosing the
All cats are black at night. </deep>
"Traditional" probably only describes the Characters that have always been used.
"Peking" is the Wades-Giles rendering of the characters into the English Alphabet (Wades-Giles is still generally used in Taiwan I believe). Beijing has gone with Pinyin rendering, which spells it "Beijing".
Sheesh!
Did you guys come down in the last shower?
Lumberjack Song
Moon work is very pretty, and makes for both nice media events (even if some of the publicity shots were faked), impressive golfing drives and much applause ... however space station work, (and consequently man hours in space experience), is a more valuable field if you're planning to go anywhere that will take more that a couple of weeks.
Notice that of the ten space stations that humanity has lifted into orbit, the ruskies put up eight (Salyut 1 through 7 and Mir), and one was put up jointly by an international consortium that including the Ruskies.
(Not to diss Skylab, but there was only ever one of it, and the USAsians seemed to think a couple of months was a long stay)
So, "We haven't yet caught up in the space race" could also be argued.
I think that it surprises most people how much life goes on in a war zone.
Sure the US troops are shooting into crowds of people who are protesting the arrest of Sadam, however in a country of 26 million, 20 deaths or so per day, doesn't really affect that you try to make a living and buy the things that you need for your family, so 99.8% of your time is spent as it would be in any other political environment.
This is a good time to push OS, or at least to provide what support we can.
The only issue is that we are probably pushing mud uphill with the wrong end of a rake, because of the power and position of the commercial interests involved.
Especially considering the relationship between Microsoft and the NSA.
(Remember the "revealing our source code would threaten National Security" line?)
I would be very surprised if Microsoft lose this one.
Windows is attacked FAR more than OSS. Why?
Recent Windows attacks (...notably and demonstrably Blaster...) have been because of the business model of (the criminal organisation) Micro$oft. There is a not insignificant reservoir of bad feeling about both their illegal use of monopolies, and the cost to business of finding solutions and workarounds to their bugs.
On the other hand the recent attacks on Debian and Gentoo, follow a very different pattern.
The break-ins were very sophisticated (in the sense that the venerability exploited was largely unknown), but then having broken in the behaviour was code-bunny - install sucKIT
Why would a hacker who had presumably discovered the exploit one day when perusing the kernel, follow up with such an unintriguing response?
and then, not completely bored yet, keep doing the same thing?
This is a professional bounty job to backdoor open source development servers.
You know it
I know it
Mr Gates and Mr Bush know it