My guess is a few years/months down the road, MS will be claiming that some GNU project uses code stolen from MS..
It only takes one rouge developer to willingly plant some MS code (it is possible that it could slip by other codevelopers), or simply just a group of lawyers to claim code was taken.
Did you ever see those small dents on the roofs of early 80's american cars? This was the result of computer aided design. The roof support and sheet metal is designed for a specific stress, when that stress is exceeded, the roof support bends. In the "old" days, engineers did not have exact specifications for stresses and materials and the material was overcompensated. Now they do have the technology and the result is things are built to exacting specifications and a specific design limit. Things are smaller, cheaper, and lighter but when that limit is exceeded, the system fails. There was an post on/. a few years ago that described this concept in detail with the earlier Mopar slant 6 design and the Dodge K cars of the early 80's. I searched everywhere but can not find the article or link anymore.
Imagine Carly in a bathing suit on the side of every HP/Compaq shipping box.. I don't think that would help sales much.
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Airlines do not need fat pipes. Most of the data needed for an airline operation is terminal text transmitted to and from the companies reservation system. This was typically handled over dedicated lines and modems but recently they are switching over to TCP/IP or at least wrapping it in TCP/IP. I can only speak for the airline I worked at but a small/med size airline presence only had a 128 and a 56 line. Large and mid sized airline hubs required only 2 T1's (mostly redundancy, not for load balancing). Different airlines do not share a common medium or use an "airport" provided medium for data, they provision their own circuits to their own data centers. I assume this would be equivelent to two banks in the same building, they are not going to share lines or resources either.
OSS often talks about such incredinly short fix times, but often it's because "Hacker0123" came up with a patch that is linked to on the SecurityFocus website.
Bottom line, problem was noted, problem was analyzed, a patch was produced, you or anyone acting as an administrator tested it and patched and the problem could be be verified to be fixed. Are you saying that is not true or that is a problem? When you know what you are doing and know how your systems work, you can take advantage of these things. If you don't know what you are doing, you'll have to wait for patch.exe to be released. With non OSS, you HAVE to hope and wait.
In your off time, create a bunch of viruses. If you get caught, you can tell them the real legal owner is your company and you created them under contract for your company. You'll see how quick that section of the contract is suddenly determined to mean something else. Same holds true for the services like Yahoo, MSN, Geocities etc.. that claim (or used to claim) to own all posts, pictures, and material you put on their servers and forums.
A contract is a TWO WAY agreement. This company must accept the good with the bad unless otherwise noted in the contrct.
Ask the petition signers how much they want to donate in cash to maintain the unit in a safe standing. If NASA gets enough money to maintain for a few more years then great. Problem though is a signature is easier to donate then actual cash to fund the project.
It seems to have worked well in your example but try a search for Mustang. There are far too many catagories that represent the same thing. Example
Ads, parts, vehicle, catalog, lights, motor and "other" all reference relatively the same subset of material. Quite honestly, I see those catagories as useless.
Same with a search for Linux, it does nice groupings but once you get into some of the sublevels, it makes no sense, like the Linux --> Running section, the first link is to Freshmeat and the rest are not much better.
Vivisimo seems like a nice concept but I'll stick to searching for what I actually desire to find, not single one word terms.
I pulled down Firebird from one of the mirrors in about 15 seconds. I understand supporting an open source cause, but isn't there a point where it just becomes useless?
I could not even get to the mirror site. The torrent worked fine and I got the whole thing in under 30 seconds from clicking the link. Seemed very useful to me.
people with an interest in Firebird the database are legitimately annoyed when an 800 pound gorilla of a browser invades their namespace. They don't want to have to trouble to weed out references to the browser every time they do the search.
Too bad..
A person should not EXPECT a search engine to magically know what they are looking for. If you only enter a single word in a search engine, you are going to get a wide range of results. That is not a fault or limit of the search engine but a limit of the person searching. Have you ever looked for a headlight for your car? Would any reasonable person simply grab the first thing they saw and hoped it worked? I assume they would break it down to headlight, low beam, 1995 Ford Mustang. Searching the internet is no different.
The SCO Group Exchanges Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
They are refering to the $50 Million infusion they recieved in October 2003. Does this type of transaction play into the theory of pump and dump and lining pockets or is this a normal long term stategy that any company would benefit from?
a sleazy third party stole the picture of a friend of mine from her website
You mean they took it? Sounds like a copyright issue, not theft. Very big difference.
But when you take a permanant presence on the internet with a registered domain name, it becomes the closer to the equivalent of owning/renting/leasing property in the real world, and we don't allow that anonymously.
There is almost NOTHING in common between a domain name and a real world piece of property. Taxes, record keeping, surveys, deeds, environmental, zoning, etc.. That is why real property needs to indentify an owner and even then, it is not posted on a tree on the perimeter for all to see.
I think if you can't run SSH out in the open, you shouldn't run it thru an obscurity filter.
My firewall only allows port 22 connections from a few source addresses (an obscurity filter). Are you saying I should be as secure allowing connections from everywhere? I do not see the logic. This whole time, I thought security models were based on a series of layers.
Anyone can switch to another search engine at any time, Google does not tie you in, does not force you to use their site, the have no business connection to you, you do not license their software or have to reconfigure your PC to use them, you do not need any special software to use Google or any search engine, you do not have to purchase something different, re train users to use something else etc..
Anyone can switch to any search engine at any time. If in a users mind, Google quality starts to slip, they can go somewhere else in with a few key strokes and never go back. The thousands of internet startups that burned billions of dollars a few years back did not think about the concept either. Google got to where it is because it is good, if it changes, it will drop just as fast.
When searching for a site to buy from, I have found the paid links on the right of the Google results to be more useful then the actual search results.
Gator does specifically ask when it is installed directly through IE. If you say no, or have the activeX controls disabled for the internet zone, you are normally prompted for a direct.exe download you can run manually. You can try this yourself here. The Date Manager site (Gator) can give you some insight on how these things work across different browsers. I would not actually install it though and the above referenced link can show how they try to install it. Some spyware can use holes or provide a back door for futire spyware that does not need to ask and can bypass the normal IE zone restrictions. The third and most common form of spyware is installed as a piggyback in a distibution with a somewhat valid program like KaZaa, Date-Manager, Comit Cursor, etc..
Once on the machine, any form of spyware can contain ActiveX controls or backdoors that can download updates and basically install and run ANYTHING to your computer and bypass all Windows security zone settings.
Why do this on a shared medium, particularly one you have to share with your neighbors?
All bandwidth is a shared medium. DSL to your house is not shared between you and the CO but that unshared segment is useless. Everyone in your neighborhood uses that same CO and you all are sharing the pipe the CO has. Not much different then a CM. I'd imagine a T1 from that CO to your house would share the same upstream also. If your CO has a good pipe you may not notice it, if it is small, you all will suffer the same. I do not know under what conditions the responsible CO party decides that the CO bandwidth needed upgraded but I'm sure/dev/random plays a role.
If there is no market, I am sure they would stop developing the software for their own entertainment.
There is always a sucker out there. My wife recieved a junk fax at work for DirectTV installation. The secetary called the number and ordered the package for her new apartment. She has 5in B&W portable tv.
If you are getting hits in Spybot from advertisements, it is due to cookies. Spybot reports on any known spyware, malware, and privacy or tracking related items. It seems a little inefficient to use Spybot as a cookie blocker but it is an option and can be turned on or off if desired.
Which would you rather have: possible bursts of 3MB/sec or dependable 1.5MB/sec?
Service in my area has not been burstable, it has been constant, so far.. I can pull my full 3Mb/sec at any time during the day or night on any day of the week. I have never seen a time when the speed delivered to my house was less then 3Mb/sec (or roughly 350-380KB/sec of actual downloaded data). My speeds are noted when pulling from Giganews which averages about 5 ms away. Speed tests to other sites like CNet vary widely and are not consistant as is any ftp or web site.
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My guess is a few years/months down the road, MS will be claiming that some GNU project uses code stolen from MS..
It only takes one rouge developer to willingly plant some MS code (it is possible that it could slip by other codevelopers), or simply just a group of lawyers to claim code was taken.
Did you ever see those small dents on the roofs of early 80's american cars? This was the result of computer aided design. The roof support and sheet metal is designed for a specific stress, when that stress is exceeded, the roof support bends. In the "old" days, engineers did not have exact specifications for stresses and materials and the material was overcompensated. Now they do have the technology and the result is things are built to exacting specifications and a specific design limit. Things are smaller, cheaper, and lighter but when that limit is exceeded, the system fails. There was an post on /. a few years ago that described this concept in detail with the earlier Mopar slant 6 design and the Dodge K cars of the early 80's. I searched everywhere but can not find the article or link anymore.
Imagine Carly in a bathing suit on the side of every HP/Compaq shipping box.. I don't think that would help sales much.
Airlines do not need fat pipes. Most of the data needed for an airline operation is terminal text transmitted to and from the companies reservation system. This was typically handled over dedicated lines and modems but recently they are switching over to TCP/IP or at least wrapping it in TCP/IP. I can only speak for the airline I worked at but a small/med size airline presence only had a 128 and a 56 line. Large and mid sized airline hubs required only 2 T1's (mostly redundancy, not for load balancing). Different airlines do not share a common medium or use an "airport" provided medium for data, they provision their own circuits to their own data centers. I assume this would be equivelent to two banks in the same building, they are not going to share lines or resources either.
OSS often talks about such incredinly short fix times, but often it's because "Hacker0123" came up with a patch that is linked to on the SecurityFocus website.
Bottom line, problem was noted, problem was analyzed, a patch was produced, you or anyone acting as an administrator tested it and patched and the problem could be be verified to be fixed. Are you saying that is not true or that is a problem? When you know what you are doing and know how your systems work, you can take advantage of these things. If you don't know what you are doing, you'll have to wait for patch.exe to be released. With non OSS, you HAVE to hope and wait.
In your off time, create a bunch of viruses. If you get caught, you can tell them the real legal owner is your company and you created them under contract for your company. You'll see how quick that section of the contract is suddenly determined to mean something else. Same holds true for the services like Yahoo, MSN, Geocities etc.. that claim (or used to claim) to own all posts, pictures, and material you put on their servers and forums.
A contract is a TWO WAY agreement. This company must accept the good with the bad unless otherwise noted in the contrct.
Ask the petition signers how much they want to donate in cash to maintain the unit in a safe standing. If NASA gets enough money to maintain for a few more years then great.
Problem though is a signature is easier to donate then actual cash to fund the project.
It seems to have worked well in your example but try a search for Mustang. There are far too many catagories that represent the same thing. Example
Ads, parts, vehicle, catalog, lights, motor and "other" all reference relatively the same subset of material. Quite honestly, I see those catagories as useless.
Same with a search for Linux, it does nice groupings but once you get into some of the sublevels, it makes no sense, like the Linux --> Running section, the first link is to Freshmeat and the rest are not much better.
Vivisimo seems like a nice concept but I'll stick to searching for what I actually desire to find, not single one word terms.
I pulled down Firebird from one of the mirrors in about 15 seconds. I understand supporting an open source cause, but isn't there a point where it just becomes useless?
I could not even get to the mirror site. The torrent worked fine and I got the whole thing in under 30 seconds from clicking the link. Seemed very useful to me.
people with an interest in Firebird the database are legitimately annoyed when an 800 pound gorilla of a browser invades their namespace. They don't want to have to trouble to weed out references to the browser every time they do the search.
Too bad..
A person should not EXPECT a search engine to magically know what they are looking for. If you only enter a single word in a search engine, you are going to get a wide range of results. That is not a fault or limit of the search engine but a limit of the person searching. Have you ever looked for a headlight for your car? Would any reasonable person simply grab the first thing they saw and hoped it worked? I assume they would break it down to headlight, low beam, 1995 Ford Mustang. Searching the internet is no different.
Google can already do a good job of finding wedding photos.. They may not be yours but they are wedding photos ;)
A SCO press release from today states:
The SCO Group Exchanges Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
They are refering to the $50 Million infusion they recieved in October 2003. Does this type of transaction play into the theory of pump and dump and lining pockets or is this a normal long term stategy that any company would benefit from?
Never mind.. I found a that info already posted further down in the article.
there are *lots* of "spyware removal" apps that come bundled with spyware of their own--I see this crap every day.
Any specifics? It would be ontopic with this article and be of interest to others.
a sleazy third party stole the picture of a friend of mine from her website
You mean they took it? Sounds like a copyright issue, not theft. Very big difference.
But when you take a permanant presence on the internet with a registered domain name, it becomes the closer to the equivalent of owning/renting/leasing property in the real world, and we don't allow that anonymously.
There is almost NOTHING in common between a domain name and a real world piece of property. Taxes, record keeping, surveys, deeds, environmental, zoning, etc.. That is why real property needs to indentify an owner and even then, it is not posted on a tree on the perimeter for all to see.
I think if you can't run SSH out in the open, you shouldn't run it thru an obscurity filter.
My firewall only allows port 22 connections from a few source addresses (an obscurity filter). Are you saying I should be as secure allowing connections from everywhere? I do not see the logic. This whole time, I thought security models were based on a series of layers.
One of us must be smoking something because your post makes absolutely no sense.
Anyone can switch to another search engine at any time, Google does not tie you in, does not force you to use their site, the have no business connection to you, you do not license their software or have to reconfigure your PC to use them, you do not need any special software to use Google or any search engine, you do not have to purchase something different, re train users to use something else etc..
Anyone can switch to any search engine at any time. If in a users mind, Google quality starts to slip, they can go somewhere else in with a few key strokes and never go back. The thousands of internet startups that burned billions of dollars a few years back did not think about the concept either. Google got to where it is because it is good, if it changes, it will drop just as fast.
What about Google Groups?
When searching for a site to buy from, I have found the paid links on the right of the Google results to be more useful then the actual search results.
Gator does specifically ask when it is installed directly through IE. If you say no, or have the activeX controls disabled for the internet zone, you are normally prompted for a direct .exe download you can run manually. You can try this yourself here. The Date Manager site (Gator) can give you some insight on how these things work across different browsers. I would not actually install it though and the above referenced link can show how they try to install it. Some spyware can use holes or provide a back door for futire spyware that does not need to ask and can bypass the normal IE zone restrictions. The third and most common form of spyware is installed as a piggyback in a distibution with a somewhat valid program like KaZaa, Date-Manager, Comit Cursor, etc..
Once on the machine, any form of spyware can contain ActiveX controls or backdoors that can download updates and basically install and run ANYTHING to your computer and bypass all Windows security zone settings.
Why do this on a shared medium, particularly one you have to share with your neighbors?
/dev/random plays a role.
All bandwidth is a shared medium. DSL to your house is not shared between you and the CO but that unshared segment is useless. Everyone in your neighborhood uses that same CO and you all are sharing the pipe the CO has. Not much different then a CM. I'd imagine a T1 from that CO to your house would share the same upstream also. If your CO has a good pipe you may not notice it, if it is small, you all will suffer the same. I do not know under what conditions the responsible CO party decides that the CO bandwidth needed upgraded but I'm sure
If there is no market, I am sure they would stop developing the software for their own entertainment.
There is always a sucker out there. My wife recieved a junk fax at work for DirectTV installation. The secetary called the number and ordered the package for her new apartment. She has 5in B&W portable tv.
If you are getting hits in Spybot from advertisements, it is due to cookies. Spybot reports on any known spyware, malware, and privacy or tracking related items. It seems a little inefficient to use Spybot as a cookie blocker but it is an option and can be turned on or off if desired.
Which would you rather have: possible bursts of 3MB/sec or dependable 1.5MB/sec?
Service in my area has not been burstable, it has been constant, so far..
I can pull my full 3Mb/sec at any time during the day or night on any day of the week. I have never seen a time when the speed delivered to my house was less then 3Mb/sec (or roughly 350-380KB/sec of actual downloaded data). My speeds are noted when pulling from Giganews which averages about 5 ms away. Speed tests to other sites like CNet vary widely and are not consistant as is any ftp or web site.