since this is servers, of couse this leaves out the 100 million or so windows desktops that were compromised.....many on what seems to be a monthly basis.
also would be nice to get the count of windows desktops still trying to proliferate viruses and worm exploits that were patched 2 and 3 years ago.
of course I pulled the 100 mil number out of thin air, better to swag low.:-)
I admit I haven't investigated this properly...but hey this is slashdot!:-)
I don't expect IBM is using their patents against the Linux kernel. they are using it against SCO's Unixware. SCO property as everyone has been contesting is NOT in Linux, thus GPL'd. So a claim against SCO's unix is not in any way a claim against Linux or GPL software. right?
I just want to know what everyone else is wondering, what size bowl is used for his haircuts?
btw, MS didn't kill OS/2, IBM did to protect thier PC business and the Windows discounts that kept them competetive. It was IBM vs. IBM as much as it was MS vs. IBM. But I suppose it's the "victor" that gets to write history, no?
Rosen will be exponentially more valuable to RIAA interests as a "news commentator". Her valuable insight into the plight of the music industry will help illuminate to the viewers what a horrid menace to society P2P really is.
she will help bring truth to this simple good vs. evil story. plus she's always fought the good fight, so she's a patriot too.
what an inspirational piece of news. pass the tums please.
I guess now I can put a copyright notice on some "secret" and "not free" stuff on my website.
I could monitor/control the downloading of the "do not touch" stuff and if I get someone I don't like, I can invoke the "Hatch Doctrine" and blow the sucker's PC right out of the water!!! this ROCKS!
But what to filter my wrath on? (with obsfucated legalese clearly posted on the site that covers my ass)
1. IP: the IP range of a Utah and Fed government employees "stealing" my work?
2. User-Agent: the browser or OS (if it's not the right kind), anyone using this is "stealing" my work!
Imagine, if Linux sites could duke it out with Windows sites, the prize is number of melting boxes of the enemy!
within a few years, all computers connected to the net will only be hardened unix boxes (and IBM mainframes:) ! No more unwashed windows users hogging bandwidth. </huh>
what has this guy DONE? so he created some cheesy but lovable episodes like two decades ago... everything he's done lately is absolutely horrendous. beyond horrendous.
face it, he's embarrassing himself...
I guess on the positive side, maybe he'll hire some animation people that can create something of actual worth. alas he'll probably produce blatant (and stupendously inferior)pixar ripoffs....
so in mid 2004, the name will be changed, the feature set downsized, and new buzzwords will abound. when delivered late, the new product will somewhat resemble the initial promise and Ms will then present a modified version of history that makes the vastly changed deliverable be exactly what was promised way back in 03.
this is a great idea. put one in every room in Washington DC and State Gov't building that lobbyists exist in. if the lobbyist is making policy (like energy, etc) then we'd have a record without having to sue the VP's office.
I think that every elected official could have one in their office, this would help ensure that they are on the up and up.
I mean, if they aren't doing anything illegal, immoral or shameful they have nothing to hide, right? and if they are, they don't have a right to keep it under wraps...not on our nickel.
this is PUBLIC property, we taxpayers are the employer and employers have the right to monitor their employees, right?
we could also put them in the executive offices and board rooms of every company ever busted for wrongdoing of any kind. keep tabs on them while were at it.
William Shatner could could host a weekly show with submitted high(low)lights of the last weeks monitoring effort.
if AOL was serious about stopping spam, they'd catch it on the way out. I had 4 this morning that ANY decent filter would have caught (it's at work, so I am stuck with a krap filter).
if aol/msn seek legislation, better read the fine print, cause the real meat isn't in the title/stated intent.
Solved this problem using flat files long long ago, of couse it has to be re-invented using lots of extra data, aka "tags".
Wrote my first EDI parser in COBOL (110, 810, 850 btw, first production EDI program at boeing...1990), it wasn't that difficult. we had implementation docs that layed things out logically and you could grok the files without having to view tag hell. XML compared to X12, X12 wins.
XML isn't any better, but it's sold lots of new fancy parsing software, and it looks like html...cool
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since this is servers, of couse this leaves out the 100 million or so windows desktops that were compromised.....many on what seems to be a monthly basis.
:-)
also would be nice to get the count of windows desktops still trying to proliferate viruses and worm exploits that were patched 2 and 3 years ago.
of course I pulled the 100 mil number out of thin air, better to swag low.
I would bank that people would be using the phone, it would crash due to the "phone virus of the week" or some other "OEM-reposnsible" reason.
many users would then of course say in an exastperated tone (you guessed it): "dumb phone!"
not so sure I want my grid connected to this new york grid. at least right now I just get to read about the blackout, not participate. ;-)
Gee, when do us Mac OS X/Linux/BSD users get in on the worm/virus fun? I feel so neglected.
well, yes I suppose the comment above is "redundant"
but then so is this stupid repeating cycle of amateur software bringing down 1/3 of the worlds computing infrastucture every month
this will NEVER stop until Microsoft is held liable $$-wise for their slipshod money-extraction approach to software design
In other breaking news, the crew at DOSBeta.org have created a fully bootable DOS 5 system on a single 3.5 inch floppy.
I admit I haven't investigated this properly...but hey this is slashdot! :-)
I don't expect IBM is using their patents against the Linux kernel. they are using it against SCO's Unixware. SCO property as everyone has been contesting is NOT in Linux, thus GPL'd. So a claim against SCO's unix is not in any way a claim against Linux or GPL software. right?
I just want to know what everyone else is wondering, what size bowl is used for his haircuts?
btw, MS didn't kill OS/2, IBM did to protect thier PC business and the Windows discounts that kept them competetive. It was IBM vs. IBM as much as it was MS vs. IBM. But I suppose it's the "victor" that gets to write history, no?
Rosen will be exponentially more valuable to RIAA interests as a "news commentator". Her valuable insight into the plight of the music industry will help illuminate to the viewers what a horrid menace to society P2P really is.
she will help bring truth to this simple good vs. evil story. plus she's always fought the good fight, so she's a patriot too.
what an inspirational piece of news. pass the tums please.
this is COOL!!
I guess now I can put a copyright notice on some "secret" and "not free" stuff on my website.
I could monitor/control the downloading of the "do not touch" stuff and if I get someone I don't like, I can invoke the "Hatch Doctrine" and blow the sucker's PC right out of the water!!! this ROCKS!
But what to filter my wrath on? (with obsfucated legalese clearly posted on the site that covers my ass)
1. IP: the IP range of a Utah and Fed government employees "stealing" my work?
2. User-Agent: the browser or OS (if it's not the right kind), anyone using this is "stealing" my work!
Imagine, if Linux sites could duke it out with Windows sites, the prize is number of melting boxes of the enemy!
within a few years, all computers connected to the net will only be hardened unix boxes (and IBM mainframes
No more unwashed windows users hogging bandwidth.
</huh>
you know you need it
but holey smokes, the last two star wars were legacy killers....
face it, he's embarrassing himself...
I guess on the positive side, maybe he'll hire some animation people that can create something of actual worth. alas he'll probably produce blatant (and stupendously inferior)pixar ripoffs....
yaaawwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn
ok, flame away
so in mid 2004, the name will be changed, the feature set downsized, and new buzzwords will abound. when delivered late, the new product will somewhat resemble the initial promise and Ms will then present a modified version of history that makes the vastly changed deliverable be exactly what was promised way back in 03.
ho hum. next story
this is a great idea. put one in every room in Washington DC and State Gov't building that lobbyists exist in. if the lobbyist is making policy (like energy, etc) then we'd have a record without having to sue the VP's office.
I think that every elected official could have one in their office, this would help ensure that they are on the up and up.
I mean, if they aren't doing anything illegal, immoral or shameful they have nothing to hide, right? and if they are, they don't have a right to keep it under wraps...not on our nickel.
this is PUBLIC property, we taxpayers are the employer and employers have the right to monitor their employees, right?
we could also put them in the executive offices and board rooms of every company ever busted for wrongdoing of any kind. keep tabs on them while were at it.
William Shatner could could host a weekly show with submitted high(low)lights of the last weeks monitoring effort.
IMHO
ulterior motives are at work...
if AOL was serious about stopping spam, they'd catch it on the way out. I had 4 this morning that ANY decent filter would have caught (it's at work, so I am stuck with a krap filter).
if aol/msn seek legislation, better read the fine print, cause the real meat isn't in the title/stated intent.
but they already have "sheer awefulness" to "tie" all the episodes together, so why sully chewbacca ?
If Paul sneezes, you can be assured it will be "in the P-I".
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I personally feel that it's only redundant if I actually read the other responses before posting. I forgive you.
...all of which would be improvements over the original
the dmca gets "fixed" sometime after hell freezes over
IMHO
Solved this problem using flat files long long ago, of couse it has to be re-invented using lots of extra data, aka "tags".
Wrote my first EDI parser in COBOL (110, 810, 850 btw, first production EDI program at boeing...1990), it wasn't that difficult. we had implementation docs that layed things out logically and you could grok the files without having to view tag hell. XML compared to X12, X12 wins.
XML isn't any better, but it's sold lots of new fancy parsing software, and it looks like html...cool
I could go on, but the waters boiling....
anyone have a link or the phone number to this thing?
http://www.boeing.com/employment/college/
It's the Linux Experience Project
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all the buttons are on the wrong side!