This whole thing about "XX amount of transistors" is bogus anyway. It should be stated as an "equivelent of XX transistors" or simply "XX NPN and PNP junctions". They did not shrink down a bunch of transistors and stick them on a single silicon wafer or add individual junctions one at a time. These junctions are created as a system by etching down or buiding up the product.
you can be sure after a few days or weeks of using it for emailing stuff back and forth (excel, word, ppt, whatever) with the other family members, they be begging to get Windows on their computer
Not until very recently (with XP), not many home users have MS Office available, maybe MS Works or Corel but not the full blown Office package. If so, I was not aware Office was a common package on OEM computers.
I have NEVER sent or recieved a MS Office document from a family member (or anyone for that matter). The only time I've needed MS Office was when I was sending out my resume. I used MS Word and AbiWord and sending it as an RTF or convert to PDF, after receiving a few complaints about it not being in the proper "Word" format, I would fax it out or rename it from resume.rtf to resume.doc and resend.
The only way I would send a MS Office file is someone specifically needed it to work on themselves but you would no what they had before hand.
I doubt that. It has a lot of different formats, supported by almost anything graphics related, and is used in many different ways, it's not the best for all things but a decent choice for most. Faxing, scanning, and archiving of documents is probably the most common use with BW 1 bit lossless compression. Color image storage at 24 bit raw or with lossless compression/LZW can provide a 'standard' format suitable for archiving also.
Getting off topic here but.. Ghostscript is a great tool for converting various inputs to TIFF, just specify the output device for what you need. Works great over the network for bulk conversion of PS print files to TIFF or PDF for scanless document storage.
The open source community is no better at getting patches deployed than the commercial vendors and is often worse.
HUH? You are comparing apples to oranges. So how many commercial vendors do you know that deploy and install patches on your systems? Deployment responsibility is the end users wether using open sourse or closed source. The scope of this article and the parent poster are about bug fix acknowledgement and patch creation by software creators. How these patches get installed on your specific systems is another topic.
Almost anyone that paid thier bill on time when under contract will be offered some type of deal if you call and get transferred to the retention department. Each carrier has thier common perks but updated phones and more minutes are very popular. Google groups can give you an overview but if you have some time to kill, it does not hurt to frequent alt.cellular.verizon and alt.cellular.sprintpcs on a regular basis.
They were not directly fighting for consumers with the RIAA. Some consumers would benefit but Verizon would benefit more. They did not want a precedent set where they would be responsible for the proper disclosure and required by law to respond to every Tom, Dick and Hillary that claimed a copyright violation by one of there users. They want a court to be involved to limit their liability from the customer and the requesting party.
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Yeah, just imagine if something like Apache gets popular, imagine the havoc people could cause with uptimes on those OS's.
Yes, the server community is different from userland and every piece of software will have its flaws, but popularity is not proportional to the amount of worms and viruses, lack of quality is.
Sorry, that reply was not specifically to you, I did not see this mentioned in any of the other posts.
Aside from the absent morals and dubious legality of your plan,
What is illegal about having a list of file names with filled with/dev/random available to anyone on the internet? That is the extreme but no more morally correct then the RIAA firing off cease and desist letters based on a poorly written grep of an ftp/http/KaZaa site contents. I'd hope that all it will take to shoot down the RIAA's shotgun approach to banning file sharing is one person with a good lawyer that asks the RIAA prove that this person actually had copyrighted files and they were actually all downloaded from that one person and that one person only. The method they are using now is not proving anything. A court should not just allow a screen shot of a KaZaalight_user that shows file names. That is not proof. Unless they download each specific file and only from that specific user they would not be able to prove anything. What's next? Should they be able to access credit card records to find if you've been buying an exceptional amount of blank cd's? The reason for the Verizon case was so they can use the very questionable method (or whatever method THEY consider reasonable now and in the future) of detecting files AND without a court involved, get the personal information and identity of specific users from another company. I am sorry that you feel there is nothing wrong with that..
Did you see a car that resembles one you had stolen? Try calling your DMV with a plate number and see if the give you the persons phone number. Think you have a hunch which neighborhood kid knocked over your mailbox? Call the school and ask for his address. It won't work, you call the police and they investigate based on hearing your claim.
This whole RIAA/Verizon stint has been RIAA wanting to find the real people so it can file claims against them.
That is NOT the main issue with this case. The RIAA wants to get this user information without having to go to the courts first, they want to bypass the checks and balances of the court system via an interpetation of the DMCA and go directly to the ISP's and demand the information. This ability can have a very broad negative effect on any internet provider. With the recent history of the RIAA f**kups regarding file names and what is actually in those files, I would say this is a VERY bad trend. There is nothing that prevents me from creating hundreds of files with names to fool them, once noticed by the RIAA, I will have to spend my time and resources to prove that their system of determining illegal files is 100% garbage.
You know, I seem to remember the opposite. I was at Dulles airport (worked there at the time) and the only way I could contact my family was via our Cingular phones, although not perfect, it was much better then the regular phones. Maybe the saturation we had with the regular phones was limited to that area of VA.
Dude, the full serve bit is interesting but... The pump price will still need to be changed regardless of who is pumping the gas. They could have one pump for each but that would not be efficient use of space.
When I moved into my house, the phone service was off but I was still able to plug in a phone and dial 611 and get my service started, would 911 work also? I'm sure our tax dollars are already paying for it somehow. I assume every neighboorhood is wired and connected differently so YMMV. To bad you could not register a cell phone with your local 911 office, or E911 was not more widespread. Then they could assume you were home or pinpoint your location. Better to drive to your house looking for you then driving around in circles wasting thier time or worse for you, not doing anything because they do not have enough info.
If it is wireless then it is possible for anyone to pick up, and wired also but not for the casual listener. It does not matter wether it is illegal to "monitor" it or not. My point was if you know the risks involved, you can make a better decision on how and what you want to communicate with whom. I am familiar with tempest monitoring, I have weighed the risks and will continue using my CRT monitor, but I will NEVER own a 46-49Mhz or 900Mhz analog cordless phone. Same with my garbage which is legal for anyone to browse through, I know what to throw away and what to shred. I can make these decisions because I can assess the risks involved. Hiding the risks and attempting to legislate the methods used only mask the problem.
So you're OK with me putting all your cellphone conversations online?
Anyone talking on anything not hardwired SHOULD expect or at least understand that the transmissions can be intercepted. If you think it is secure then you have been fooled and/or misguided by the wireless service provider and the federal government. Instead of bringing this issue out in the open years ago, the FCC working with the wireless providers decided to mask the problem and attempt to create laws to prevent evesdropping instead of upgrading the technology and educating the consumers of the risk involved. It is a lot cheaper to pay a Senetor and hide the problem then to find a technical solution and lose potential customers.
Do you really believe that? I view it as MS always does what THEY want with a PR screen twisting it to appear to be to your advantage. The things they do strictly for the consumer are always an after thought and only implemented when the PR machine can't "fix" the problem, security being a major one. Wouldn't it be nice if IE had half the user controls and advanced features of every other browser made like cookie blocking, web bug identification, ability to block certain scripts. I'm sure the users would like these things. How about allowing Windows update from other browsers. Any reason they could not make a small standalone app to get updates like every other software maker has? Why is the MS Office file format not fully open and documented for compatibility? How about some more specs for SMB transactions? How about getting rid of the constant nagging with passport and Hotmail on XP? You may view people that complain or "trash" MS as trolls and winers but there are major issues with the way they do business (monopoly) that causes problems and frustration for computer users and IT folks everywhere.
I just sent back a Maxtor 80GB that I bought in January, it was one of the last ones with a 3 year warranty. Probably not related to the factory issue quoted in the article. They sent me a 120GB in return and I assume this factory issue was why (unless the 120 uses the same platters DOH!!). It worked out pretty good. Hopefully the warranty will extend to the date of my original drive. The down time sucks when my home server drives fail but now I make full use of rsync,tgz, and cron to backup my important stuff to other drives. If they all fail at once I'm screwed!
Yeah, just like that WinXP EULA I just negotiated. The pressed CD and I agreed that I could install it on as many workstations as I wanted and I could change the terms later at my choice. I backed it up with an email to support@microsoft.com (the only contact email contained in the EULA) with a clause that if they disgreed with the new terms, to respond in 15 business days. I never got a response. It is a contract and contracts are amendable and the new language I added is consistant with existing terms so nothing out of the ordinary was added.
Not so cut and dry there. I am in no way shape or form standing up for cracking but.. Had they took more care with security in this server, this may not have been possible. This shows commitment to the customers data and a better product overall. With security, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. NOW they see that spending a little more on security initally will save money in the end. This expense is hard to justify before you get hacked, not so hard after the fact.
Blaming thousands of random hackers and crackers around the globe for exploiting IE zone setting jumping and improper Mime handling in Outlook does not fix the problem of why they are there in the first place. Bottom line is that it is an overly complex poor design that allows others to find what MS does not want to spend the money looking for. With poor customer service and standards, people look elsewhere. This specific event should be no different.
Just imagine if you could do the same with Linux desktops and OpenOffice..
IMHO, MS may be offering an option like this to silence the user front that may be asking IT for cheaper/free/open source alternatives that are compatible with what they use at work. OEM MS Works was not worth the HD space it took up and now that Open Office is looking pretty decent the MS fishing expedition has changed.
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This whole thing about "XX amount of transistors" is bogus anyway. It should be stated as an "equivelent of XX transistors" or simply "XX NPN and PNP junctions". They did not shrink down a bunch of transistors and stick them on a single silicon wafer or add individual junctions one at a time. These junctions are created as a system by etching down or buiding up the product.
I disagree
you can be sure after a few days or weeks of using it for emailing stuff back and forth (excel, word, ppt, whatever) with the other family members, they be begging to get Windows on their computer
Not until very recently (with XP), not many home users have MS Office available, maybe MS Works or Corel but not the full blown Office package. If so, I was not aware Office was a common package on OEM computers.
I have NEVER sent or recieved a MS Office document from a family member (or anyone for that matter). The only time I've needed MS Office was when I was sending out my resume. I used MS Word and AbiWord and sending it as an RTF or convert to PDF, after receiving a few complaints about it not being in the proper "Word" format, I would fax it out or rename it from resume.rtf to resume.doc and resend.
The only way I would send a MS Office file is someone specifically needed it to work on themselves but you would no what they had before hand.
think TIFF may be dead too.
I doubt that. It has a lot of different formats, supported by almost anything graphics related, and is used in many different ways, it's not the best for all things but a decent choice for most. Faxing, scanning, and archiving of documents is probably the most common use with BW 1 bit lossless compression.
Color image storage at 24 bit raw or with lossless compression/LZW can provide a 'standard' format suitable for archiving also.
Getting off topic here but..
Ghostscript is a great tool for converting various inputs to TIFF, just specify the output device for what you need. Works great over the network for bulk conversion of PS print files to TIFF or PDF for scanless document storage.
The open source community is no better at getting patches deployed than the commercial vendors and is often worse.
HUH? You are comparing apples to oranges. So how many commercial vendors do you know that deploy and install patches on your systems?
Deployment responsibility is the end users wether using open sourse or closed source. The scope of this article and the parent poster are about bug fix acknowledgement and patch creation by software creators. How these patches get installed on your specific systems is another topic.
Almost anyone that paid thier bill on time when under contract will be offered some type of deal if you call and get transferred to the retention department. Each carrier has thier common perks but updated phones and more minutes are very popular.
Google groups can give you an overview but if you have some time to kill, it does not hurt to frequent alt.cellular.verizon and alt.cellular.sprintpcs on a regular basis.
They were not directly fighting for consumers with the RIAA. Some consumers would benefit but Verizon would benefit more. They did not want a precedent set where they would be responsible for the proper disclosure and required by law to respond to every Tom, Dick and Hillary that claimed a copyright violation by one of there users. They want a court to be involved to limit their liability from the customer and the requesting party.
Yeah, just imagine if something like Apache gets popular, imagine the havoc people could cause with uptimes on those OS's.
Yes, the server community is different from userland and every piece of software will have its flaws, but popularity is not proportional to the amount of worms and viruses, lack of quality is.
It already has more comments then the C&W Bails Out article that was posted earlier today..
I didn't say it was.
/dev/random available to anyone on the internet? That is the extreme but no more morally correct then the RIAA firing off cease and desist letters based on a poorly written grep of an ftp/http/KaZaa site contents. I'd hope that all it will take to shoot down the RIAA's shotgun approach to banning file sharing is one person with a good lawyer that asks the RIAA prove that this person actually had copyrighted files and they were actually all downloaded from that one person and that one person only. The method they are using now is not proving anything. A court should not just allow a screen shot of a KaZaalight_user that shows file names. That is not proof. Unless they download each specific file and only from that specific user they would not be able to prove anything. What's next? Should they be able to access credit card records to find if you've been buying an exceptional amount of blank cd's? The reason for the Verizon case was so they can use the very questionable method (or whatever method THEY consider reasonable now and in the future) of detecting files AND without a court involved, get the personal information and identity of specific users from another company. I am sorry that you feel there is nothing wrong with that..
Sorry, that reply was not specifically to you, I did not see this mentioned in any of the other posts.
Aside from the absent morals and dubious legality of your plan,
What is illegal about having a list of file names with filled with
Did you see a car that resembles one you had stolen? Try calling your DMV with a plate number and see if the give you the persons phone number. Think you have a hunch which neighborhood kid knocked over your mailbox? Call the school and ask for his address. It won't work, you call the police and they investigate based on hearing your claim.
This whole RIAA/Verizon stint has been RIAA wanting to find the real people so it can file claims against them.
That is NOT the main issue with this case. The RIAA wants to get this user information without having to go to the courts first, they want to bypass the checks and balances of the court system via an interpetation of the DMCA and go directly to the ISP's and demand the information. This ability can have a very broad negative effect on any internet provider. With the recent history of the RIAA f**kups regarding file names and what is actually in those files, I would say this is a VERY bad trend. There is nothing that prevents me from creating hundreds of files with names to fool them, once noticed by the RIAA, I will have to spend my time and resources to prove that their system of determining illegal files is 100% garbage.
You know, I seem to remember the opposite. I was at Dulles airport (worked there at the time) and the only way I could contact my family was via our Cingular phones, although not perfect, it was much better then the regular phones. Maybe the saturation we had with the regular phones was limited to that area of VA.
Dude, the full serve bit is interesting but...
The pump price will still need to be changed regardless of who is pumping the gas. They could have one pump for each but that would not be efficient use of space.
When I moved into my house, the phone service was off but I was still able to plug in a phone and dial 611 and get my service started, would 911 work also? I'm sure our tax dollars are already paying for it somehow.
I assume every neighboorhood is wired and connected differently so YMMV.
To bad you could not register a cell phone with your local 911 office, or E911 was not more widespread. Then they could assume you were home or pinpoint your location. Better to drive to your house looking for you then driving around in circles wasting thier time or worse for you, not doing anything because they do not have enough info.
Just like car dealers.
who really needs a 3+ GHz machine?
640K is more memory than anyone will ever need.
If it is wireless then it is possible for anyone to pick up, and wired also but not for the casual listener. It does not matter wether it is illegal to "monitor" it or not. My point was if you know the risks involved, you can make a better decision on how and what you want to communicate with whom. I am familiar with tempest monitoring, I have weighed the risks and will continue using my CRT monitor, but I will NEVER own a 46-49Mhz or 900Mhz analog cordless phone. Same with my garbage which is legal for anyone to browse through, I know what to throw away and what to shred. I can make these decisions because I can assess the risks involved. Hiding the risks and attempting to legislate the methods used only mask the problem.
So you're OK with me putting all your cellphone conversations online?
Anyone talking on anything not hardwired SHOULD expect or at least understand that the transmissions can be intercepted. If you think it is secure then you have been fooled and/or misguided by the wireless service provider and the federal government. Instead of bringing this issue out in the open years ago, the FCC working with the wireless providers decided to mask the problem and attempt to create laws to prevent evesdropping instead of upgrading the technology and educating the consumers of the risk involved. It is a lot cheaper to pay a Senetor and hide the problem then to find a technical solution and lose potential customers.
Google still has a cache of the original pages..
MS has always given users what they want
Do you really believe that? I view it as MS always does what THEY want with a PR screen twisting it to appear to be to your advantage. The things they do strictly for the consumer are always an after thought and only implemented when the PR machine can't "fix" the problem, security being a major one. Wouldn't it be nice if IE had half the user controls and advanced features of every other browser made like cookie blocking, web bug identification, ability to block certain scripts. I'm sure the users would like these things. How about allowing Windows update from other browsers. Any reason they could not make a small standalone app to get updates like every other software maker has? Why is the MS Office file format not fully open and documented for compatibility? How about some more specs for SMB transactions? How about getting rid of the constant nagging with passport and Hotmail on XP?
You may view people that complain or "trash" MS as trolls and winers but there are major issues with the way they do business (monopoly) that causes problems and frustration for computer users and IT folks everywhere.
I just sent back a Maxtor 80GB that I bought in January, it was one of the last ones with a 3 year warranty. Probably not related to the factory issue quoted in the article. They sent me a 120GB in return and I assume this factory issue was why (unless the 120 uses the same platters DOH!!). It worked out pretty good. Hopefully the warranty will extend to the date of my original drive.
The down time sucks when my home server drives fail but now I make full use of rsync,tgz, and cron to backup my important stuff to other drives. If they all fail at once I'm screwed!
Yeah, just like that WinXP EULA I just negotiated. The pressed CD and I agreed that I could install it on as many workstations as I wanted and I could change the terms later at my choice. I backed it up with an email to support@microsoft.com (the only contact email contained in the EULA) with a clause that if they disgreed with the new terms, to respond in 15 business days. I never got a response. It is a contract and contracts are amendable and the new language I added is consistant with existing terms so nothing out of the ordinary was added.
I tried as Cowboy Neal and they said, "Nice try but Mr. Neal is already registered as one of the SCO reps and will be taking questions soon".
Not so cut and dry there. I am in no way shape or form standing up for cracking but..
Had they took more care with security in this server, this may not have been possible. This shows commitment to the customers data and a better product overall. With security, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. NOW they see that spending a little more on security initally will save money in the end. This expense is hard to justify before you get hacked, not so hard after the fact.
Blaming thousands of random hackers and crackers around the globe for exploiting IE zone setting jumping and improper Mime handling in Outlook does not fix the problem of why they are there in the first place. Bottom line is that it is an overly complex poor design that allows others to find what MS does not want to spend the money looking for. With poor customer service and standards, people look elsewhere. This specific event should be no different.
Do you also not think that anyone hacking Amazon should get prosecuted?
;)
Not if it takes more then one click to do it
Just imagine if you could do the same with Linux desktops and OpenOffice..
IMHO, MS may be offering an option like this to silence the user front that may be asking IT for cheaper/free/open source alternatives that are compatible with what they use at work. OEM MS Works was not worth the HD space it took up and now that Open Office is looking pretty decent the MS fishing expedition has changed.