This could also be very interesting for those who build DYI firewalls or routers. When I've wanted to make a firewall/router completely silent in the past, I've always had to disable as many reading/writing processes as possible, and use hdparm to send the drive to sleep after a few minutes of inactivity.
Pick up a lower-end Pentium system, one without a CPU or case fan. The only fan you'll have is the power supply, which is very quiet. A firewall/router doesn't even need the horsepower that a Pentium provides. And they should be pretty cheap these days.
As an added bonus, I don't think you'll find a more succinct (and utterly British) answer to overpopulation objections to life extension than the one at the end of this article!"
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A good friend of mine is a music studio middle-manager and I bounced this idea off him:
Imagine if you could go to a web site, select some tracks from various artists, click on: burn and send, and the whole CD was burned on high quality disc, and custom jacket with lyrics made, and the whole thing shipped to the customer's house, including shipping, for 3.99 (yes, the whole CD).
This has been my idea for a few years now. Music stores need to get asses in the door. Yeah, the internet is nice and all, but people love to shop.
Set up an in-store burning shop. You could use a kiosk to select songs you wanted. Choose from ALL the songs. I mean everything in the record company's dusty library.
Prices:
anything 1 year old or newer: $.50/song
anything 1 to 5 years old: $.25/song
anything 5 years old or older: $.10/song
You can either have an audio CD burned, or have them burned to CDs as MP3s. That's $10 for about 100 old songs. You add artwork, liner notes, etc and it costs a little more. Sell plain-jane sleeves to fancy "limited edition" jewel cases. Whatever. Have pre-made lists of songs for purchase: "employees hitlists", "top 100 songs of the 80's", "top 20 songs of every decade". Offer a free song for every 50 you buy. Something, anything creative.
Now you could have a website that people could order from, but the key here is to get people into the store. Get them in there, let them browse around while their CDs are being burned. Sell merchandise, movies, etc. Sell pre-loaded MP3 players or USB keyfobs. DVDs full of MP3s! Get people interested in music again! Make it so filesharing online isn't worth the hassle.
There already ARE a million monkeys hammering away on a million typewriters, and AOL is nothing like Shakespeare.
Ahh, but you have to realize that the monkeys don't JUST produce Shakespeare.:-)
By your logic, we can cure the ills of the Third World simply by throwing money at their problems. Oh wait...
In the words of Neo, when he saw an unbelievable jump - whoa.
I went to college, this will get used for warez, pr0n, and Kazaa, nothing more. One kid will keep saying things like "But imagine a Beowulf cluster, we could make a cluster out of the whole dorm!" and hand out Kloppix CDs, which the rest of the dorm will use as coasters under their bongs.
Sounds like a great school. I have no doubts that it will get used for those things, but it is quite a pessimistic view to think that nobody will figure out a novel and interesting use for it beyond that. You can only get so much pr0n, warez, and music before you have to wonder what else you can do with it.
Name one example of this. Everything I've seen that you state is in addition to several other modifications.
BMW is one example. Check out some of the numbers. Jim Conforti is THE man in BMW tuning, which is no small feat. Some engines get better gains than others, and some have quite impressive results with JUST a chip. Well, nowadays it is a flash upgrade, but it used to be a chip. And what he offers is safe upgrades. With some other makes you have the potential to significantly shorten the life of your engine/components by modding them. My 88 M3 has had a Conforti chip in it for about 10 years now, and has 136,000 miles on it. And it has been driven on the track a few times. Solid as a rock.
Whose HD can constantly suck up more than a 100 MB pipe? (Don't quote me some Sandra benchmark off a gamerz site, here) And if 100 people in a dorm are all "on fiber" and the dorm has "fiber" to the campus core router, which has "fiber" somewhere else, at what point does the bandwidth get divided down below 100 MBit anyway? You're not going to get more than that, why run expensive fiber when you can run cheapo Cat 5, and put the phones on the unused pairs as well? The math doesn't work here.
How do you innovate? You give fiber connections to a bunch of college kids with nothing better to do than to play with it in their spare time.
Now they probably really did this because they got a good deal on it, and because it is a good investment in the future. It might be overkill today, but it might lead to innovations. It is kind of like the monkeys/typewriters/Shakespeare thing.
True only if you never leave the cookbook. As with any art, a creative cook is trying to obtain an emotional experience; make the observer (i.e., diner) say "This is good." Since the buttons you're trying to push are deep within the brain's wiring, you're working with a complex system, so intuition often serves better than empirical knowledge. Will paprika work better here, or cinnamon? The answer is often not what would be expected by rational analysis.
I agree, but isn't that what he is saying by the statement "The only subjective part is when you eat it."? I mean, taste is subjective, and that is where the chef really puts the paint to the canvas, so to speak. I mean, if you have art, but you don't know the science, then you are producing pretty stuff that doesn't taste good. Well, I guess technically you don't need to know the science, but if something works well, it is based on science.
I love Alton's shows, because he tells the WHYs. I also love the book Cookwise for the same reasons. If you know why certain things work and why others don't, it gives you a building block for making better food. The chef really needs to be the gauge and the creator. They need to know their audience. They have to put all the "stuff" together in creative (or simple) ways. If you know why things work the way they do, even on a simple level, it helps. A lot. Sure, it may suffice to know things without knowing the science, but learning the WHYs is fun and interesting.
Feeds 2-3 billion what? Nice going, everything on land is dead. You're going to have to wait a few million years for the stuff still living in the ocean to figure out how to walk out. By then, the dinosaurs are going to be a little stale.
Oh really? You should have informed Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph Bard, who wrote to Truman about how there was absolutely no need to nuke Japan, since they were getting ready to surrender anyway. You probably should inform Truman, too, who wrote in his memoirs about how immoral it would be for us to nuke a city, and who, in his first speech after the bombing, referred to Hiroshima as "a military base".
I specifically did *NOT* say that the bomb saved lives - I said a prompt end to the war did. The vehicle to that prompt end was the bomb. You can't therefore (logically) assume that the bomb saved lives. I know some people have that opinion, I am not one of them.
Some tactics are immoral, though. Like surrounding your troops with civilians acting as human shields, or storing weapons in or basing operations out of hospitals or mosques. Why? Because both of those tactics put civilians in danger. If you make hospitals legitimate military targets, for example, then doctors, nurses, and patients are going to die. That's bad for everybody.
Yeah, because nuclear bombs are *real* selective about who they kill.
Since you implied that the US military has never acted immorally, I thought I would retort with one example. And I know that a prompt end to WWII in fact saved lives, but let's not get into a "they're more immoral than we are" kind of argument when talking about war, OK? If you need further evidence, pick up a newspaper.
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Did you realize that you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point? - standard Linux routing is enough to create your own access point, with a few other tools like Public IP's Zone CD or the Less Networks Hotspot server, you can freely create a hotspot and manage it all in minutes.
So what is the difference between an Access Point and an access point? This says I don't need one, all I need is Public IP's Zone CD. But one of the requirements of that is an access point.
I love standards. There are just so many to choose from. And now China is going to give us more.
While meant to be funny, I'd like to point out the fact that they can create their own standards and not give them to anyone. Of course, they could license them....
Actually, it's been said before, but they're not getting beat down here....they're settling all their open litigation. I'm not sure to what end this is progressing towards, but something tells me that Microsoft themselves is trying to clear all open cases against them so that they can gear up for something big.
I just can't put my finger on what they're up to...
If I had to venture a guess - they're going to buy a big media company. The only business that has more control than MS in their respective field is the entertainment industry. Once you have more money than you know what to do with, what do you go after? Controlling information. MS lost with controlling the internet, so they are going to go for the popular media.
I have been able to successfully remember randomly generated passwords, but once they slip your mind - you are screwed. My password method is this:
1. generate a password using some word algorithm: I was born on a Monday = "IwboaM"
2. come up with some kind of replacement strategy: w=m, a=1. IwboaM = Imbo1M
3. bookend it with the year you were born: Imbo1M = 19Imbo1M69.
It looks totally random, but there is a method to the madness. If you need to change it, you can just inc the year, or use some other rule on it. The strength is that you completely make up the rules, and they don't have to make any sense. All you have to do is remember the original phrase (easy) and your rules (easy to complex).
(and the example I gave is completely arbitrary)
You could also do one where your password is the answer to the question. Remember the question "What month was I born?" Answer: October
Password starting point = HalloweenMonth. Then apply crazy rules to it. In this way, you can write down your reminder phrase "Month born?" and it is nowhere near what your password is.
I think this quote really says it all about why this is a good idea:
"People who don't understand how I interact with the people I work with literally feel better just having it down more as a documented process," he [Linus] said.
Take my comments with a grain of salt, because I am up to my eyes in process development because we are trying to get CMM Level 2 certification where I work.
I don't see a problem at all with documenting the way things are done. I know a lot of people resist it, but think about it. How hard would it be for Linus to just write down how he does things. You'd be surprised how many times you uncover problems (or potential problems) when you have to write down your processes. Sometimes, you immediately see ways to improve things. If not, then at most you are out a little bit of effort.
But I really think that Linus wants to do this so that when he is on the stand and a SCO attorney asks him how code is added to the kernel, he can just say "RTFM!".
The 49-way joystick (12 gradations in four directions plus center) to me would've made it worth the price along with a rotary knob and trackball. As it stands, Sinistar had one of the most complicated joystick arrangements in terms of control points.
Trust me, if they had one of those on the X-arcade, you'd be paying a lot more. I have one of these, and it does fine for most games. Sure, there are going to be some exceptions. Heck, there is no Tron joystick or Star Wars flight yoke. But I know people who have those games, should I ever get the real itch to play them.
There were lots of games with weird controls, (think Ikari Warriors or Lunar Lander) but you can't just have it all. I mean, if you really love one of those old games, shell out the cash and buy one. They are out there. I collected them back in the days before eBay, where you had to either hook up with someone on rec.games.video.arcade.collecting, or had to travel to an auction and hope you found what you wanted. It took me a couple of years to find the boardset for the game I wanted (Bubble Bobble). And once you start down that collecting road, you'll be soldering up JAMMA harnesses, sticking your head in every Pizza Hut and crappy mall on the planet looking for games, calling up distributors seeing if they have any old, broken down games they want to sell. It is sad really. But you will never be able to replace the look, feel, smell, and playability of some of those games without getting a real arcade cabinet. You think a PC and some wussy controller can effectively simulate Tempest? You need the smell of hot light bulbs from behind the marquee. You need that steel control panel to SLAM your hand against when you get killed. You need a big sturdy cabinet that can take a good kicking. You need the phosphor burn in your retinas, and the loud, shrill sounds. You need 50 other games around you making their unique sounds and music.
Yeah, I'll fire up MAME with my X-Arcade to take me back, but it can never be like actually being there.
I'm sure all the tin-foil hats will come out of the woodworks about this. Seriously though, do you not expect the agency reponsible for anti-terrorism efforts to actually do its job well? If this could have stopped those planes from killing thousands of civilians, people would be screaming in outrage about how we didn't use it when we should have. The problem is this country (this world, really) is that everybody wants to be reactive and not proactive. This is especially true in the computer security field, as we all know.
Everyone bitches and moans about systems like this that can prevent terrorist attacks, but then they make a huge stink about some memo from Richard Clarke that had next to nothing useful in it. Go figure.
Of course we all want them to do their job well. But how can you say this is doing their job well? This sounds to me like a lazy, half-assed attempt at doing their job.
Identification means exactly jack. We knew EXACTLY who Bin Laden was, and what he was capable of. We didn't care. Where were the efforts in the YEARS leading up to 9/11 to track his ass down? What about all the ones we don't know about? Instead, we go after high profile targets like Saddam, who while still a ruthless prick deserving of being overthrown, was no direct threat to the United States. It is a smoke job that backfired.
How about rooting out the reasons behind terrorism, like intolerance and stomping on other countries necks? All of your suppositions mean nothing. How can you base an argument on "Hey, this might work, let's try it!"? Profiling does NOT WORK. Instead of attacking the known sources of terrorism, they are attacking the unknown sources. They are breeding fear by doing this, and by breeding fear they can keep us under control.
everyone said that episode I and II were not as good as they had hoped.
AFTER they went to the theatre to see the movie and bought the DVD and the special DVD with 5 seconds of extra footage.
BS. Yeah, I saw EPI in the theater. After that, I refused to go see EPII. I waited, and listened to the buzz about it. In essence - it sucked.
I did rent it, expecting it to be bad. I fast-forwarded through a lot of it, simply because it was painful to watch. I was severely disappointed.
I didn't go see the last Matrix movie in the theater either, kind of for the same reasons (but to a MUCH lesser degree). When I rented it, it was actually better than I expected. The original is still awesome though, and neither of the sequels can touch it. But I could watch them again. I can't ever watch EPI or II. EPI was worse the second time I watched it. It wasn't only Jar Jar. It was the small, bumbling kid who was supposed to be Darth Frickin Vader! It was the other stupid animated characters (Anakin's boss, the undersea dopes, the completely ineffective soldier robots).
Lucas is a joke. He can't redeem himself with EPIII. I won't see it in the theater. I'll probably just rent it, just to get a little closure on the whole thing. But I am not expecting much at all.
But if they make a movie that as many people as possible can go to, and sell a lot of tickets, they make a lot of money. And episode I and II made a lot of money.
But think of this - are there still people (kids) buying Star Wars stuff? Back in the day, Star Wars stuff was cool YEARS after the movies came out. People are still interested in it today. But how are the two prequels holding up? They have been forgotten, mainly because they are completely forgettable. They were made to push product fast and hard. Blech.
How does Cisco have no real incentive? Their incentive is to protect their customers and the equipment they use. If Cisco didn't give a shit about security in their products, then I think we would hear about alot more buffer overflows and other holes in their equipment. Unless you can cite some specific examples of them showing no incentive...
If they are like 99% of the companies out there, they have released their products with known issues in order to meet deadlines. And they don't have time to go back and fix anything but the critical ones. Of course, this is just the bugs that they know about, not the ones they haven't found. My definition of "bugs" also includes any backdoors or hardcoded values in their products.
That kind of stuff happens all the time, when you don't think anyone else is going to see your source code. THAT is what I meant by incentive. Most companies release code with a certain known risk in order to meet schedules. They make compromises that they would most likely not make if the source code was viewable by everyone. So the code gets leaked, and now they are probably going to have to scramble.
Even if they do perform strict code reviews, I am guessing that there are a few uncomfortable people over there now that the code is out in the wild.
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Pick up a lower-end Pentium system, one without a CPU or case fan. The only fan you'll have is the power supply, which is very quiet. A firewall/router doesn't even need the horsepower that a Pentium provides. And they should be pretty cheap these days.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Those crazy Brits!
This has been my idea for a few years now. Music stores need to get asses in the door. Yeah, the internet is nice and all, but people love to shop.
Set up an in-store burning shop. You could use a kiosk to select songs you wanted. Choose from ALL the songs. I mean everything in the record company's dusty library.
Prices:
anything 1 year old or newer: $.50/song
anything 1 to 5 years old: $.25/song
anything 5 years old or older: $.10/song
You can either have an audio CD burned, or have them burned to CDs as MP3s. That's $10 for about 100 old songs. You add artwork, liner notes, etc and it costs a little more. Sell plain-jane sleeves to fancy "limited edition" jewel cases. Whatever. Have pre-made lists of songs for purchase: "employees hitlists", "top 100 songs of the 80's", "top 20 songs of every decade". Offer a free song for every 50 you buy. Something, anything creative.
Now you could have a website that people could order from, but the key here is to get people into the store. Get them in there, let them browse around while their CDs are being burned. Sell merchandise, movies, etc. Sell pre-loaded MP3 players or USB keyfobs. DVDs full of MP3s! Get people interested in music again! Make it so filesharing online isn't worth the hassle.
Ahh, but you have to realize that the monkeys don't JUST produce Shakespeare. :-)
By your logic, we can cure the ills of the Third World simply by throwing money at their problems. Oh wait...
In the words of Neo, when he saw an unbelievable jump - whoa.
I went to college, this will get used for warez, pr0n, and Kazaa, nothing more. One kid will keep saying things like "But imagine a Beowulf cluster, we could make a cluster out of the whole dorm!" and hand out Kloppix CDs, which the rest of the dorm will use as coasters under their bongs.
Sounds like a great school. I have no doubts that it will get used for those things, but it is quite a pessimistic view to think that nobody will figure out a novel and interesting use for it beyond that. You can only get so much pr0n, warez, and music before you have to wonder what else you can do with it.
BMW is one example. Check out some of the numbers. Jim Conforti is THE man in BMW tuning, which is no small feat. Some engines get better gains than others, and some have quite impressive results with JUST a chip. Well, nowadays it is a flash upgrade, but it used to be a chip. And what he offers is safe upgrades. With some other makes you have the potential to significantly shorten the life of your engine/components by modding them. My 88 M3 has had a Conforti chip in it for about 10 years now, and has 136,000 miles on it. And it has been driven on the track a few times. Solid as a rock.
How do you innovate? You give fiber connections to a bunch of college kids with nothing better to do than to play with it in their spare time.
Now they probably really did this because they got a good deal on it, and because it is a good investment in the future. It might be overkill today, but it might lead to innovations. It is kind of like the monkeys/typewriters/Shakespeare thing.
I agree, but isn't that what he is saying by the statement "The only subjective part is when you eat it."? I mean, taste is subjective, and that is where the chef really puts the paint to the canvas, so to speak. I mean, if you have art, but you don't know the science, then you are producing pretty stuff that doesn't taste good. Well, I guess technically you don't need to know the science, but if something works well, it is based on science.
I love Alton's shows, because he tells the WHYs. I also love the book Cookwise for the same reasons. If you know why certain things work and why others don't, it gives you a building block for making better food. The chef really needs to be the gauge and the creator. They need to know their audience. They have to put all the "stuff" together in creative (or simple) ways. If you know why things work the way they do, even on a simple level, it helps. A lot. Sure, it may suffice to know things without knowing the science, but learning the WHYs is fun and interesting.
Umm, Generally I would say that statement is closer to true than false.
Feeds 2-3 billion what? Nice going, everything on land is dead. You're going to have to wait a few million years for the stuff still living in the ocean to figure out how to walk out. By then, the dinosaurs are going to be a little stale.
Or you could snap the pic and send it here.
If it comes back with Salma Hayek, take her home now. Abe Vagoda, run.
I specifically did *NOT* say that the bomb saved lives - I said a prompt end to the war did. The vehicle to that prompt end was the bomb. You can't therefore (logically) assume that the bomb saved lives. I know some people have that opinion, I am not one of them.
Yeah, because nuclear bombs are *real* selective about who they kill.
Since you implied that the US military has never acted immorally, I thought I would retort with one example. And I know that a prompt end to WWII in fact saved lives, but let's not get into a "they're more immoral than we are" kind of argument when talking about war, OK? If you need further evidence, pick up a newspaper.
So what is the difference between an Access Point and an access point? This says I don't need one, all I need is Public IP's Zone CD. But one of the requirements of that is an access point.
I guess in short - huh?
While meant to be funny, I'd like to point out the fact that they can create their own standards and not give them to anyone. Of course, they could license them....
If I had to venture a guess - they're going to buy a big media company. The only business that has more control than MS in their respective field is the entertainment industry. Once you have more money than you know what to do with, what do you go after? Controlling information. MS lost with controlling the internet, so they are going to go for the popular media.
Phbbt. I still only play Quake MegaTF.
1. generate a password using some word algorithm: I was born on a Monday = "IwboaM"
2. come up with some kind of replacement strategy: w=m, a=1. IwboaM = Imbo1M
3. bookend it with the year you were born: Imbo1M = 19Imbo1M69.
It looks totally random, but there is a method to the madness. If you need to change it, you can just inc the year, or use some other rule on it. The strength is that you completely make up the rules, and they don't have to make any sense. All you have to do is remember the original phrase (easy) and your rules (easy to complex).
(and the example I gave is completely arbitrary)
You could also do one where your password is the answer to the question. Remember the question "What month was I born?" Answer: October
Password starting point = HalloweenMonth. Then apply crazy rules to it. In this way, you can write down your reminder phrase "Month born?" and it is nowhere near what your password is.
Take my comments with a grain of salt, because I am up to my eyes in process development because we are trying to get CMM Level 2 certification where I work.
I don't see a problem at all with documenting the way things are done. I know a lot of people resist it, but think about it. How hard would it be for Linus to just write down how he does things. You'd be surprised how many times you uncover problems (or potential problems) when you have to write down your processes. Sometimes, you immediately see ways to improve things. If not, then at most you are out a little bit of effort.
But I really think that Linus wants to do this so that when he is on the stand and a SCO attorney asks him how code is added to the kernel, he can just say "RTFM!".
Trust me, if they had one of those on the X-arcade, you'd be paying a lot more. I have one of these, and it does fine for most games. Sure, there are going to be some exceptions. Heck, there is no Tron joystick or Star Wars flight yoke. But I know people who have those games, should I ever get the real itch to play them.
There were lots of games with weird controls, (think Ikari Warriors or Lunar Lander) but you can't just have it all. I mean, if you really love one of those old games, shell out the cash and buy one. They are out there. I collected them back in the days before eBay, where you had to either hook up with someone on rec.games.video.arcade.collecting, or had to travel to an auction and hope you found what you wanted. It took me a couple of years to find the boardset for the game I wanted (Bubble Bobble). And once you start down that collecting road, you'll be soldering up JAMMA harnesses, sticking your head in every Pizza Hut and crappy mall on the planet looking for games, calling up distributors seeing if they have any old, broken down games they want to sell. It is sad really. But you will never be able to replace the look, feel, smell, and playability of some of those games without getting a real arcade cabinet. You think a PC and some wussy controller can effectively simulate Tempest? You need the smell of hot light bulbs from behind the marquee. You need that steel control panel to SLAM your hand against when you get killed. You need a big sturdy cabinet that can take a good kicking. You need the phosphor burn in your retinas, and the loud, shrill sounds. You need 50 other games around you making their unique sounds and music.
Yeah, I'll fire up MAME with my X-Arcade to take me back, but it can never be like actually being there.
Of course we all want them to do their job well. But how can you say this is doing their job well? This sounds to me like a lazy, half-assed attempt at doing their job.
Identification means exactly jack. We knew EXACTLY who Bin Laden was, and what he was capable of. We didn't care. Where were the efforts in the YEARS leading up to 9/11 to track his ass down? What about all the ones we don't know about? Instead, we go after high profile targets like Saddam, who while still a ruthless prick deserving of being overthrown, was no direct threat to the United States. It is a smoke job that backfired.
How about rooting out the reasons behind terrorism, like intolerance and stomping on other countries necks? All of your suppositions mean nothing. How can you base an argument on "Hey, this might work, let's try it!"? Profiling does NOT WORK. Instead of attacking the known sources of terrorism, they are attacking the unknown sources. They are breeding fear by doing this, and by breeding fear they can keep us under control.
As well as some guy named Goatse, for, uhhhh, smuggling.
You just unwittingly described the movie industry too.
BS. Yeah, I saw EPI in the theater. After that, I refused to go see EPII. I waited, and listened to the buzz about it. In essence - it sucked.
I did rent it, expecting it to be bad. I fast-forwarded through a lot of it, simply because it was painful to watch. I was severely disappointed.
I didn't go see the last Matrix movie in the theater either, kind of for the same reasons (but to a MUCH lesser degree). When I rented it, it was actually better than I expected. The original is still awesome though, and neither of the sequels can touch it. But I could watch them again. I can't ever watch EPI or II. EPI was worse the second time I watched it. It wasn't only Jar Jar. It was the small, bumbling kid who was supposed to be Darth Frickin Vader! It was the other stupid animated characters (Anakin's boss, the undersea dopes, the completely ineffective soldier robots).
Lucas is a joke. He can't redeem himself with EPIII. I won't see it in the theater. I'll probably just rent it, just to get a little closure on the whole thing. But I am not expecting much at all.
But if they make a movie that as many people as possible can go to, and sell a lot of tickets, they make a lot of money. And episode I and II made a lot of money.
But think of this - are there still people (kids) buying Star Wars stuff? Back in the day, Star Wars stuff was cool YEARS after the movies came out. People are still interested in it today. But how are the two prequels holding up? They have been forgotten, mainly because they are completely forgettable. They were made to push product fast and hard. Blech.
If they are like 99% of the companies out there, they have released their products with known issues in order to meet deadlines. And they don't have time to go back and fix anything but the critical ones. Of course, this is just the bugs that they know about, not the ones they haven't found. My definition of "bugs" also includes any backdoors or hardcoded values in their products.
That kind of stuff happens all the time, when you don't think anyone else is going to see your source code. THAT is what I meant by incentive. Most companies release code with a certain known risk in order to meet schedules. They make compromises that they would most likely not make if the source code was viewable by everyone. So the code gets leaked, and now they are probably going to have to scramble.
Even if they do perform strict code reviews, I am guessing that there are a few uncomfortable people over there now that the code is out in the wild.
Well, since those weren't Open Source projects, chances are that they were developed by more than one guy. ;-)