After the recent "Operation Fastlink", which only resulted in one arrest here in Sweden, I think there might be some more coming.
The people cannot be taken seriously. As one other poster noticed, all the people taking part are so young that they have most likely not left college yet. Wonder how they will earn money when all is for the taking as they want?
This is still the only spreadsheet I know that can handle more than 65,536 rows without any problem at all. This alone would be great to have on Linux.
I am not American. I could not care less about Stern or other broadcasters. The real problem here is how totally fucked up American society is. I know that at least half of all Americans would agree with this statement.
This man is a nutter, plain and simple. I guess his previous employers understood he was a loose cannon - that's why they gave him the push after his stupid "SUE ME RIAA" stunts.
I never understood what gave Eric the supposed right to stand up as an "Open Source Leader" in the first place.
This is not the first time that Eric has shot his mouth off, and it won't be the last. The only problem is that some people seem to take him seriously...
I've seen some relatively smart comments here so far, but most people don't seem to realise that the USA inherited the imperial system from the UK. (Imperial....)
It would be really good to see the USA abandon Imperial units, especially when they have changed some of them so that they are not the same...for example, how many of you know that a US gallon is 3.8 litres and a UK gallon is 4.5 litres?
You need approval for consumer hardware so that you don't kill people.
Bad software may have driven people to suicide but I don't imagine there is any precedent for changing the rules for software.
You can't (unless it's software that has a real 'life-or-death' aspect) compare the requirements to hardware certification.
Where such certification is required, the software is produced by companies with big bucks to invest and customers who are prepared to pay what is costs to produce certifiably good software.
Before anyone else jumps in; I know 'certifiably good software' may be a pipe dream, no matter what you pay for it, but that does not dismiss the argument!
> Also, anyone else noticed that Google itself is getting less effective lately?
For sure. Searching for anything remotely like warez, keys, crackz, etc leads to a load of bogus sites with non-us domain names!
But seriously, searching on Google is becoming less and less accurate as the months go by. Maybe they gave up the war against people stuffing the search engine so that the stuffers go and hit on Altavista's algorithms instead. Certainly now, Altavista seems to be returning to the excellent engine it was before Google came along.
Thinking about the last 10 years, Google's rise and (impending) fall is in many ways typical of the industry; start with a great idea and develop it until you feel you have to have an IPO. Result: profit! shortly followed by a small stock-exchange explosion, a lot of sad investors, and a bunch of less lucky employees out of a job.
OK, so maybe the Sinclair ZX-80 and its brother the ZX-81 did not sell so well in the US, but the ZX-80 was an amazing machine at the time that was also supplied in kit form. This allowed a poor 13 year old like me to get a computer complete with BASIC for one penny less than 80 UKP which was a real breakthrough at the time.
All the time I lusted after an Apple II, but at well over 300 UKP it was impossible. When the Sinclair machine arrived, I had to wait 10 weeks before it turned up, but after an evening's soldering I had a working machine. Sinclair's lovely quote that you could "Run a nuclear power station with the ZX-80" were well far-fetched with the 1K (!) of RAM, but thanks to tokenising the basic on input, you could actually squeeze a lot more program than you could imagine into it. Oh, did I say that your video RAM was also included in that 1K?
The fact that you could not display output on your TV when the program was running, only at an input prompt or program stop was the best reason in the world to learn assembler for the Sinclair's Z80 processor and this limitation was soon removed by the large user community.
There's still some really strange/dedicated (delete as applicable) Germans running a users club at the ZX-TEAM-Homepage
It was an influential machine and got a lot of young people interested in programming. It should really be somewhere there on the list.
Port 1433 and 1434 (MSSQL server and monitor default ports) have also been regularly registered as two of the most frequently scanned ports by the Internet Storm Center.
Interesting, the only ports that my firewall generally bitches about are 135/tcp and 137/udp. Seems like MS-Blaster is still alive and kicking!
Seriously though, this list is great, detailed information, but the top 20 is a flamebaiter's dream!
Slashdot Mirror
Beautifully put!
"Hopefully the spammers aren't that bright and the antispammers stick around long enough to bring them down."
Just because someone does something you don't like, since when did that make them more stupid (or less intelligent) than you?
Sounds like the same tired argument that anti-virus companies and virus writers use.
Slightly chilly feeling as a Brit when the software immediately matches my face with another Brit. (Brett Anderson)
However....clicking on "More likenesses" matches me next with Yasser Arafat!!!
Guess it's time for some extensive plastic surgery!
After the recent "Operation Fastlink", which only resulted in one arrest here in Sweden, I think there might be some more coming.
The people cannot be taken seriously. As one other poster noticed, all the people taking part are so young that they have most likely not left college yet. Wonder how they will earn money when all is for the taking as they want?
This is still the only spreadsheet I know that can handle more than 65,536 rows without any problem at all. This alone would be great to have on Linux.
I am not American. I could not care less about Stern or other broadcasters. The real problem here is how totally fucked up American society is. I know that at least half of all Americans would agree with this statement.
Stop making the entire country look like idiots!
Who the fuck modded this up????
Since when did PJ stop being the editor of Groklaw?
Eric is more than a primadonna, he's also a gun nut.
:
This is Eric
Photo
He admits he's a gun nut. Please read what Eric says about his guns; especially the second sentence:
Rig
This man is a nutter, plain and simple. I guess his previous employers understood he was a loose cannon - that's why they gave him the push after his stupid "SUE ME RIAA" stunts.
I never understood what gave Eric the supposed right to stand up as an "Open Source Leader" in the first place.
This is not the first time that Eric has shot his mouth off, and it won't be the last. The only problem is that some people seem to take him seriously...
Wow, just as I finish reading another thread...I click 'refresh' and behold: too !!!
So quoth he: "the threat these two worms pose shouldn't be to big,"
Hey Mr. Taco! Maybe you should proofread your submissions.
At least you got shouldn't right!
I know some of the jokes are funny, but did everyone miss this bit:
"Ironically, the people waiting in the Presidential anteroom for the interaction to end were people from Microsoft. "
So, who wins? Is it better to go first or last?
I've seen some relatively smart comments here so far, but most people don't seem to realise that the USA inherited the imperial system from the UK. (Imperial....)
It would be really good to see the USA abandon Imperial units, especially when they have changed some of them so that they are not the same...for example, how many of you know that a US gallon is 3.8 litres and a UK gallon is 4.5 litres?
Who's being cheated in petrol price comparisons?
Gates will get an honorary knighthood. As he is not a British citizen he will, thankfully, not be able to call himself "Sir Bill".
As others here have said, SCO have only made themselves look stupid with the twisted comments made by their executives.
IBM has said nothing in public apart from refuting all of SCO's allegations and launching a return legal action.
If Linus really is going to start sticking his neck out, I hope that OSDL and the FSF have very deep pockets to support him with.
I'm quite surprised by how smart Steve Jobs is again.
His analysis is straightforward, honest and right on the mark.
Also, his reluctance to argue, while still answering the question was admirable.
A prediction...(hereby archived on Slashdot
until it embarasses me)...
Apple will rise from the embers of what they
once were and reduce Microsoft to a shadow of
its former monopoly.
You need approval for consumer hardware so that you don't kill people.
Bad software may have driven people to suicide
but I don't imagine there is any precedent for
changing the rules for software.
You can't (unless it's software that has a
real 'life-or-death' aspect) compare the
requirements to hardware certification.
Where such certification is required, the
software is produced by companies with big
bucks to invest and customers who are prepared
to pay what is costs to produce certifiably
good software.
Before anyone else jumps in; I know 'certifiably
good software' may be a pipe dream, no matter
what you pay for it, but that does not dismiss
the argument!
Look, I'm sorry, but if it's OK with you, I've had enough groping team mates, not to mention one manager.
That was really dumb...reading McBride's blackmail letter while drinking a glass of
wine...
Oh well, now I get to see how tough this 20" flat panel really is!
> Also, anyone else noticed that Google itself is getting less effective lately?
For sure. Searching for anything remotely like warez, keys, crackz, etc leads to a load of bogus sites with non-us domain names!
But seriously, searching on Google is becoming less and less accurate as the months go by. Maybe they gave up the war against people stuffing the search engine so that the stuffers go and hit on Altavista's algorithms instead. Certainly now, Altavista seems to be returning to the excellent engine it was before Google came along.
Thinking about the last 10 years, Google's rise and (impending) fall is in many ways typical of the industry; start with a great idea and develop it until you feel you have to have an IPO. Result: profit! shortly followed by a small stock-exchange explosion, a lot of sad investors, and a bunch of less lucky employees out of a job.
Hey...! Maybe that's SCO's idea? *boink*
OK, so maybe the Sinclair ZX-80 and its brother the ZX-81 did not sell so well in the US, but the ZX-80 was an amazing machine at the time that was also supplied in kit form. This allowed a poor 13 year old like me to get a computer complete with BASIC for one penny less than 80 UKP which was a real breakthrough at the time.
All the time I lusted after an Apple II, but at well over 300 UKP it was impossible. When the Sinclair machine arrived, I had to wait 10 weeks before it turned up, but after an evening's soldering I had a working machine. Sinclair's lovely quote that you could "Run a nuclear power station with the ZX-80" were well far-fetched with the 1K (!) of RAM, but thanks to tokenising the basic on input, you could actually squeeze a lot more program than you could imagine into it. Oh, did I say that your video RAM was also included in that 1K?
The fact that you could not display output on your TV when the program was running, only at an input prompt or program stop was the best reason in the world to learn assembler for the Sinclair's Z80 processor and this limitation was soon removed by the large user community.
There's still some really strange/dedicated (delete as applicable) Germans running a users club at the ZX-TEAM-Homepage
It was an influential machine and got a lot of young people interested in programming. It should really be somewhere there on the list.
Looks like SunnComm have seen the light:
Daily Princetonian
Interesting, the only ports that my firewall generally bitches about are 135/tcp and 137/udp.
Seems like MS-Blaster is still alive and kicking!
Seriously though, this list is great, detailed information, but the top 20 is a flamebaiter's dream!
I predict a mass of -1 posts.
Ho Ho Ho.....never say mythical eh?
These guys are on drugs! Or is there something more basic wrong with them?