The article is short on details but it seems not to be very reliable. In corporations, the IT department usually has a master key so that even when the employee leaves, the company can still retrieve the data. What about this fingerprint-recognition system?
Second, this article makes me wonder if Slashdot will consider inserting text ads like Google by masquerading as submissions. I think it is a great way to get income to maintain this heavyly used site (banners at the top are no longer very effective), given the financial conditions of the parent company VA Linux.
Not even the creator remembered the exact day when this happened. It was only a vague "autumn of 1971". Can someone make a suggestion to Mr. Tomlinson to set a date so that people can celebrate more easily, when it turns 50?
OEMs of PCs will be forced to install Windows because Windows Media Player will be one of the few players with support from motion-picture industry due to its built-in "copy-protection" mechanisms. Linux will be BANNED from OEMs or face lawsuits for circumventing copyright. Or did I miss the real implications of this bill?
The problem lies in the technical hurdles that prevent normal people from taking "revenge". Either the spammers use fake addresses (in this case, they just wanted to promote the product and there is no feedback link) or use heavy redirection to make tracing difficult. Since it takes quite a long time to report and help the investigation to find the real culprit (all to stop only ONE particular spammer), many users chose only to delete the spam mail.
and this distribution seems to be quite strong in security, I think this will defeat the legislation to block terrorists from using strong encryption... Is NSA helping terrorists in this case to secure their communication channels?
Average Hold Time: 600 to 800 seconds. So you are wrong.
So, most people have to tolerate more than 10 minutes of music to get a reply? Brilliant service!
You are wrong again. Billing is listed item by item and any explanations are easy to give. If the bill says you owe $180 you probably do. There are very few mistakes made in that area. You probably got an install package, missed a bill, and god knows what else.
There are very few mistakes in that area doesn't mean there are none. It is irritating to find that companies tech support being in such an "arrogant" mode by considering that the customer is ALWAYS WRONG. It seems to me that the exception handling of your company are ill-defined.
If your statements are true, then a breakup of MS is not very desirable. Yeah, this beast sometimes deserves a spank, but making it go bankrupt will be harmful to consumers and breaks the "ecological balance" (you kill one and another even worse monster will come up eventually).
Excite@Home has a bad name. Anyone who is too Excited@Home cannot live for very long...
AT&T, the company that U.S. government broke into pieces due to antitrust, is gaining back gradually its monopoly position. Looking at the telecom market in the U.S., the breakup was not particularly effective and comparing to the mobile cellular phone technology of NTT's DoCoMo or of Europe, the U.S. technology in this area sucks.
The Internet phenomenon that was led by the U.S. was due to the invention of HTTP and web browser and the router and backbone explosion was simply a knee-jerk reaction to the growth of WWW -proving that the telecom market has not been very healthly.
This brings us the question: what is the best remedy for MS if breakup might not be successful?
downloads the ad anyway, but directs the browser to skip the image? The ad would still be useless, at the cost of bandwidth. I'm sure that no web server can detect this trick.
PayPal is a good service. Just like Google, it is not yet a good time to go IPO, in the current market situation. Everything looks dim and dimmer. Going IPO now will ruin one of the few "more successful" e-payment services after the dotcom gold rush.
They've got Compaq. When 64-bit computers become mainstream, they can either go the "Compaq" way and use Windows or TRU-64. Or go IBM's way and stick with Linux. There is really no need to have a third way which is a waste of time porting things in and out. I think R&D should be better spent in improving e-paper or faster scanners/printers.
The reason MS stopped those auctions is because most of them are pirated software. Or it is software licensed to OEM (you cannot separate the software bundled with the hardware) at a much lower price. If it is a shrink wrap package, I don't think you have a problem reselling.
I mean, it was just released less than two weeks ago. Usually, major versions of OSes should use versions that are more thoroughly tested (this is not some kind of critical patch). Why the rush?
Tje problem is that GPL cannot enforce people to pay you. Eventually, you end up acting like a charity, waiting for donations or weird investments from VC (virtually nonexistent now). Not that it is bad for consumers, but it is certainly bad for software developers.
True, but they also are bundling Office XP - pretty much requiring people to buy new Office licenses to even PARTICIPATE in the new OS license program - which is their right but as a monopoly, its an unfair practice. I mean seriously - how many of you out there think moving from Office 2K to Office XP is worth teh cost? Hell Office 97 to 2K wasn't much of an improvement. But to require Office purchases to participate in the OS volume license is borderlne criminal.
What are you talking about? My company has joined MS Select last year and I know more or less what is happening. MS is forcing people to either upgrade now to Office XP or you'll have to pay for the full price next time when you want to upgrade. The marketing folks at MS call this Software Assurance (SA) and you need to pay for about 25% of the full product each year but if any upgrade exists, you will be immediately eligible for it. However, you don't need to pay for this SA tax if Office 97/2000 is sufficient to you and I believe you will never need unless all in a sudden people move to a completely different paradigm.
Your statement is false because Office XP is neither bundled (except in those OEM cases) nor MS forces you to buy Office XP when you buy Windows XP. In fact, they allow you to separate buying SA for Office XP from buying SA for Windows XP. In any case, my company has decided not to buy join any SA program because we feel Office 2000 is OK for the next five years.
Notice that this is a major problem for MS. Little has improved since Office 95 (most of the menu items are the same, with the exception of much better Unicode support) and forcing people to upgrade seems the only viable and quick way of MS to get cash flow in.
It is amazing that MS has not yet bought Macromedia and grab instantly this market and also the market of webpage editors... Flash/Shockwave Player is bundled with XP, a rarity nowadays, given that MS tends to bundle its own stuff.
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Well, why isn't this configurable, requiring people to patch it? Windows NT/2000 has a similar setting (Optimize Performance for Foreground/Background) for quite a long time. It's time for the Linux kernel to add such a capability to gain more desktop accetance.
PC users can also use VMWare or VirtualPC to emulate a PC. But I don't think everybody should go that far, because we cannot have games or fun stuff inside a virtual machine. Or better, there are hardware solutions ("PCI restore cards") that allow you to rollback to the state before virus infections, but it slows down the IDE channel and there are compatibilities problems with busmastering or certain 40+GB hard disks.
By default, don't run any services! Windows 98 is more "secure" than Windows NT because it doesn't run services. A machine that is not explictly set up by the admin to be a server has no business running web, ftp, or ssh access.
This is FALSE. Win98 supports services just like WinNT and there is a RunServices key in the registry. You probably have never run PWS or SQL Server 7/2000 personal on Win98. Win98 is even poorer in protecting against these attacks.
You have deliberately failed to acknowledge that most of them were NOT bugs, but merely issues to follow up (and accumulated from NT3.51/4.0), just like many "bugs" reported at Bugzilla.
Terrorists are criminals. The high encryption software was already out and they are using it. What does make Congress think thay these guys will use only the crippled software with backdoors?
I am wondering... almost all real games available on Linux are ported (no, I do not mean those games like Tetris, Othello or GNU-chess). Only a few ones are Linux only. What are the chances of developing Linux games and hope that they will run fast and well on Windows, the main market? The problem is that if your games cannot be sold to a sufficient number of people, the game company cannot be sustained for very long.
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The article is short on details but it seems not to be very reliable. In corporations, the IT department usually has a master key so that even when the employee leaves, the company can still retrieve the data. What about this fingerprint-recognition system?
Second, this article makes me wonder if Slashdot will consider inserting text ads like Google by masquerading as submissions. I think it is a great way to get income to maintain this heavyly used site (banners at the top are no longer very effective), given the financial conditions of the parent company VA Linux.
Not even the creator remembered the exact day when this happened. It was only a vague "autumn of 1971". Can someone make a suggestion to Mr. Tomlinson to set a date so that people can celebrate more easily, when it turns 50?
OEMs of PCs will be forced to install Windows because Windows Media Player will be one of the few players with support from motion-picture industry due to its built-in "copy-protection" mechanisms. Linux will be BANNED from OEMs or face lawsuits for circumventing copyright. Or did I miss the real implications of this bill?
The problem lies in the technical hurdles that prevent normal people from taking "revenge". Either the spammers use fake addresses (in this case, they just wanted to promote the product and there is no feedback link) or use heavy redirection to make tracing difficult. Since it takes quite a long time to report and help the investigation to find the real culprit (all to stop only ONE particular spammer), many users chose only to delete the spam mail.
and this distribution seems to be quite strong in security, I think this will defeat the legislation to block terrorists from using strong encryption... Is NSA helping terrorists in this case to secure their communication channels?
Disclaimer: I do not use AT&T broadband.
So, most people have to tolerate more than 10 minutes of music to get a reply? Brilliant service!
There are very few mistakes in that area doesn't mean there are none. It is irritating to find that companies tech support being in such an "arrogant" mode by considering that the customer is ALWAYS WRONG. It seems to me that the exception handling of your company are ill-defined.
If your statements are true, then a breakup of MS is not very desirable. Yeah, this beast sometimes deserves a spank, but making it go bankrupt will be harmful to consumers and breaks the "ecological balance" (you kill one and another even worse monster will come up eventually).
Excite@Home has a bad name. Anyone who is too Excited@Home cannot live for very long...
AT&T, the company that U.S. government broke into pieces due to antitrust, is gaining back gradually its monopoly position. Looking at the telecom market in the U.S., the breakup was not particularly effective and comparing to the mobile cellular phone technology of NTT's DoCoMo or of Europe, the U.S. technology in this area sucks.
The Internet phenomenon that was led by the U.S. was due to the invention of HTTP and web browser and the router and backbone explosion was simply a knee-jerk reaction to the growth of WWW -proving that the telecom market has not been very healthly.
This brings us the question: what is the best remedy for MS if breakup might not be successful?
downloads the ad anyway, but directs the browser to skip the image? The ad would still be useless, at the cost of bandwidth. I'm sure that no web server can detect this trick.
PayPal is a good service. Just like Google, it is not yet a good time to go IPO, in the current market situation. Everything looks dim and dimmer. Going IPO now will ruin one of the few "more successful" e-payment services after the dotcom gold rush.
They've got Compaq. When 64-bit computers become mainstream, they can either go the "Compaq" way and use Windows or TRU-64. Or go IBM's way and stick with Linux. There is really no need to have a third way which is a waste of time porting things in and out. I think R&D should be better spent in improving e-paper or faster scanners/printers.
The worms produce just a kind of DDOS and routers are expected to take a hit. If there are a lot of IRCbots attacking randomly, you'll see the same.
The reason MS stopped those auctions is because most of them are pirated software. Or it is software licensed to OEM (you cannot separate the software bundled with the hardware) at a much lower price. If it is a shrink wrap package, I don't think you have a problem reselling.
I mean, it was just released less than two weeks ago. Usually, major versions of OSes should use versions that are more thoroughly tested (this is not some kind of critical patch). Why the rush?
Tje problem is that GPL cannot enforce people to pay you. Eventually, you end up acting like a charity, waiting for donations or weird investments from VC (virtually nonexistent now). Not that it is bad for consumers, but it is certainly bad for software developers.
Your statement is false because Office XP is neither bundled (except in those OEM cases) nor MS forces you to buy Office XP when you buy Windows XP. In fact, they allow you to separate buying SA for Office XP from buying SA for Windows XP. In any case, my company has decided not to buy join any SA program because we feel Office 2000 is OK for the next five years.
Notice that this is a major problem for MS. Little has improved since Office 95 (most of the menu items are the same, with the exception of much better Unicode support) and forcing people to upgrade seems the only viable and quick way of MS to get cash flow in.
It is amazing that MS has not yet bought Macromedia and grab instantly this market and also the market of webpage editors... Flash/Shockwave Player is bundled with XP, a rarity nowadays, given that MS tends to bundle its own stuff.
Well, why isn't this configurable, requiring people to patch it? Windows NT/2000 has a similar setting (Optimize Performance for Foreground/Background) for quite a long time. It's time for the Linux kernel to add such a capability to gain more desktop accetance.
PC users can also use VMWare or VirtualPC to emulate a PC. But I don't think everybody should go that far, because we cannot have games or fun stuff inside a virtual machine. Or better, there are hardware solutions ("PCI restore cards") that allow you to rollback to the state before virus infections, but it slows down the IDE channel and there are compatibilities problems with busmastering or certain 40+GB hard disks.
This is FALSE. Win98 supports services just like WinNT and there is a RunServices key in the registry. You probably have never run PWS or SQL Server 7/2000 personal on Win98. Win98 is even poorer in protecting against these attacks.
You have deliberately failed to acknowledge that most of them were NOT bugs, but merely issues to follow up (and accumulated from NT3.51/4.0), just like many "bugs" reported at Bugzilla.
Many slashdotters kept criticizing that Windows 2000 had 65000+ bugs. And now it is time to celebrate Bugzilla Mozilla's 100000th bug?
Come on, how can be people be promoting double standard so blatantly?
Terrorists are criminals. The high encryption software was already out and they are using it. What does make Congress think thay these guys will use only the crippled software with backdoors?
I am wondering... almost all real games available on Linux are ported (no, I do not mean those games like Tetris, Othello or GNU-chess). Only a few ones are Linux only. What are the chances of developing Linux games and hope that they will run fast and well on Windows, the main market? The problem is that if your games cannot be sold to a sufficient number of people, the game company cannot be sustained for very long.
teach you to commit suicide to save your neighbors.