Is there similar regulation in EU? germany, france, UK, nordic? any plan to adopt it in all EU states?
We used to have this problem in my own country (i'm scandinavian) the "do not call" list was simply implemented by the relevant ministry and the Telecom's quietly removed anybody who signed up from the telephonebooks/databases. I find it amazing (as, I am sure, do many Americans) that the supreme court of the United States really has to be pestered with something as frivolous as deciding wheter freedom of speech and wasting people's time with useless advertisements is the same thing.
Personally I rather dislike touchpads in general, I prefer a mouse or failing that something like the IBM touch point. However the iPod scrollwheel is an exception. There may not be anything new about the touchpad or scrollwheel each on its own but implementing a scrollwheel using a touchpad is a very good idea. Sometimes genius lies in re-implementing an old device using new technology.
"It seems now though more and more of the stupid amateurs are trying to get in on the Hacking for Fun & Profit..."
And unfortunately it seems to be working. This little beast should be locked up, or at least made liable for damages. As is he will probably get a very lenient sentence which translates getting off more or less scot free. Let's just hope enough of his victims sign up to ensure that he will spend a long while paying off the price of his little joke. If the norm for virus authors becomes a slap on the wrist in court closely followed by a fat job offer and not having to pay any substantial damages we are in for a Noah's flood of these idiots.
You'd like to see the other person suffer? That's rather small of you. Personally, I'd like to think that the intent of the law is to reduce suffering...
The intent of the law is to set standards for behavior that we can all agree to. The law punishes those who violate those standards by making the violators give up something that is precious to them be it time, money, labor etc. At the same the law is intended to offer the transgressor a chance to reform, that is what jails were intended for, that is what community service is all about. Punishment has to fit the crime, there is no sense in going overboard. I don't think it matters how this blogger gets slapped on the wrists in court, it will never be an adequate punishment, people like this only find that funny. Sending him to jail would be overkill! Forcing him to make a public online apology where he reveals his identity to the publc would probably be an optimal punishment since it subjects him to an equal amount of humiliation. Failing that there is probably nothing that will make him or other equally tactless individuals think as quickly about repeating this stunt as a judge forcing this guy to give up a months pay for his fun. Having to go begging to the bank for a loan to pay off the fine/damages and then paying that loan off with interests will certainly make him wonder if the money had not been better spent on a vacation than an imbecilic plea for attention.
The difference is that when a security hole IS found (whether it be by the good guys or the bad guys), it gets patched VERY quickly compared to commercial software...
Yes and the reason the commercial software is slower to get patched is that unlike alot of OSS software vendors the commercial guys test their patch thoroughly. The OSS vendor can simply say, "Hey! Run our software at our own risk, its free after all" while the commercial developers will get lynched by their customers if they dont make DAMN sure their patch does not cause N applications/sercvices that rely on their product to crash. It is basically a question of whether you want trade stability for security or vice versa. In my experience the customer will usually put up with the annoyance of security workarounds while waiting for a patch to be tested if it means his software will remain be stable. One of the biggest annoyances of OSS developers working for commercial developers using OSS software is usually the reluctance of the people responsible for the smooth running of the company's systems to install bleeding edge OSS software on mission critical production machines so that they can use all the nifty new features. The maintenance people prefer to use older but more stable versions to the point of living without nifty features for months until they are stable because alot (but by no means all) OSS software is regression tested on the users.
... It's rumored that Microsoft has in the past hired actors to behave like really obnoxious Linux fanboys at trade shows, damaging Linux's image - if it's true, no doubt he'll have a hand in that, too.
Yeah!... a bunch of geeky guys in Linux T-shirts going from stall to stall hitting on the corporate executive's secretaries/mistresses and making penis extension jokes about the their Porches.
The major migrations in big corporations tend to be replacement of Solaris boxes, with I suppose HP and AIX getting a look in too.
Although I generally agree with you I think AIX gets more than just a look in. Where I work (Telecom company), for most smaller servers, the choice is SUSE's line of OS packages, in part because of the ease of administration as well as good support. For really big rock solid production systems the choice is AIX and to a lesser extent HP-Unix over Linux since our experience of AIX/HPUX vs Linux shows the former to be more stable if you need absolute reliability. We usually try to replace Sun OS with machines running Linux or AIX, and that is not just brand snobbery. We inherited some numbes of quite new Sun Machines in a recent merger so we have actually had a chance to make a balanced comparisons. Microsoft OS'es are only used for customers specifically requesting MS solutions, failing a specific request for an MS server the customer defaults to a UNIX or Linux system. Apart from that MS OS'es are only used on workstations and for proprietary measurement gear that does not run with anyting else. The general trend for Microsoft server systems has been to minimize their number as much as possible and fortify them heavily because of the disproportionate amount of work we have to sink into them. This has largely been due to security breaches even though we autopatch the MS boxes the moment the patches are posted by MS and generally make every effort to secure them. Incidentally the number of MS Workstation installs is on a (slow) downward spiral for the same reason. People are spending more time than they can spare dealing with adware, viruses, worms etc...
he'll probably have some other problems right now...
Yeah, the problem is a 110kg weightlifter named 'Günter' who wants to be his boyfriend. But look on the bright side, when he has served his time, he will be offered a good job with some software firm in the States plus he will probably never again suffer from constipation.
Seriously though... I hope they do lock him up. Some day one of these virus writers is going to cause major loss of life with his imbecilic plea for attention
... that it is the various Govt. agencies who have the biggest reason to oppose Voip devices/software. Voip with integrated military grade encryption is already alot easyer and cheaper to obtain and to use than encryption options for traditional phone communications. If anything people opposing Voip are playing into the Intelligence agencies hands.
... Lets get a truly unbiased assessment by sponsoring slashdot's own outsorucing effects study, we would come off looking really trendy, especially if we outsource the work to India.
You know there is a direct correlation between the size of your pipe and the size of your penis, which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!
To quote that great moder philosopher Andrew Dice Clay:
Clay: "Say Moby? Why yo always holding your D***." Moby (aka. Clay): "Well it woldn't be right gentlemanly to have it dragging on the ground behind me now would it?!?"
You are presuming that $100 tennis shoes are not a cost effective investment. One could however make the argument that $100 tennis shoes are useful because of the social advantages gained by owning such a status symbol.
... because it is small handy and unlike the bigger model it is not so heavy that it pulls my jacket pocket down to my knee, I usually only listen to a few tracks on each CD so there is plenty of space for my favorite music, it is out-of-the-box compatable with OS.X/iTunes and... well... yes, I suppose it looks kinda cool. The only complaint is that that white belt clip that comes with it can not be trusted. On the positive side my iPod mini has fortunately survived two trips to the floor and is still ticking.
That is nice enough but you still have no guarantee they did not simply download it off the internet them selves. And you also have the same fundamental problem of not knowing head nor tail of the subject come exam time. Of all cheaters I pity the ones the most who are so dumb they copy some other guy's paper word for word as opposed to using several papers as roadmap for composing their own cartload of fresh, steaming and fragrant BS.
No not really, I just thought that "People on welfare live like kings" rhetoric sounded familiar.... Only a Republican would use the word "wealth" when talking about people on welfare.
"That sense of isolation and inadequacy is one reason the number of women earning computer science degrees in this country has plummeted over the past two decades..."
Ah, once again the talk turns to the legendary female computer nerd! Has anybody ever seen one of these elusive creatures in the wild?
...roamed the earth and I was still a university student 6-10 of us used to get to gether, buy one copy of each book and take them down to the local copy shop who's owner lived off such business and hence asked did not piss and moan about copyrights. The resultant stacks of A4 sheets were then fitted in a spiral bindings. It was clunky but lasted surprisingly well and with 10-12 books at $40-100 each you usually had enough saved up over every second semester or so to upgrade your PC to handle the latest video games, drawing software math suite etc. or to buy some other small luxury like a rusty old VW Golf.
I always felt that Duke Nuke'm was better than Quake 1 despite the psuedo-3D used in Duke because it was more fun to play. There were all sorts of cool details:
You could get healthpoints by taking a leak and drinking water.
You could pay the hookers to dance.
All the piggy cops had LAPD written on the uniform sleeve.
The list goes on...
But most of all I liked the way Duke lived up to his promise to rip off the Uberfiend's head and sh*t down his neck. When he sat down on the thing and unfolded the newspaper I fell of the chair laughing...
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Is there similar regulation in EU? germany, france, UK, nordic? any plan to adopt it in all EU states?
We used to have this problem in my own country (i'm scandinavian) the "do not call" list was simply implemented by the relevant ministry and the Telecom's quietly removed anybody who signed up from the telephonebooks/databases. I find it amazing (as, I am sure, do many Americans) that the supreme court of the United States really has to be pestered with something as frivolous as deciding wheter freedom of speech and wasting people's time with useless advertisements is the same thing.
Personally I rather dislike touchpads in general, I prefer a mouse or failing that something like the IBM touch point. However the iPod scrollwheel is an exception. There may not be anything new about the touchpad or scrollwheel each on its own but implementing a scrollwheel using a touchpad is a very good idea. Sometimes genius lies in re-implementing an old device using new technology.
"It seems now though more and more of the stupid amateurs are trying to get in on the Hacking for Fun & Profit ..."
And unfortunately it seems to be working. This little beast should be locked up, or at least made liable for damages. As is he will probably get a very lenient sentence which translates getting off more or less scot free. Let's just hope enough of his victims sign up to ensure that he will spend a long while paying off the price of his little joke. If the norm for virus authors becomes a slap on the wrist in court closely followed by a fat job offer and not having to pay any substantial damages we are in for a Noah's flood of these idiots.
.. 'Microsoft' is at a disturbing 4304 which puts this word ahead of 'Fuck' at 5589!
/. readers as a basis for working out their word collection.
This means that either:
1) That people at large think more about Microsoft than copulating. (Unlikely)
2) They used a bunch of
You'd like to see the other person suffer? That's rather small of you. Personally, I'd like to think that the intent of the law is to reduce suffering...
The intent of the law is to set standards for behavior that we can all agree to. The law punishes those who violate those standards by making the violators give up something that is precious to them be it time, money, labor etc. At the same the law is intended to offer the transgressor a chance to reform, that is what jails were intended for, that is what community service is all about. Punishment has to fit the crime, there is no sense in going overboard. I don't think it matters how this blogger gets slapped on the wrists in court, it will never be an adequate punishment, people like this only find that funny. Sending him to jail would be overkill! Forcing him to make a public online apology where he reveals his identity to the publc would probably be an optimal punishment since it subjects him to an equal amount of humiliation. Failing that there is probably nothing that will make him or other equally tactless individuals think as quickly about repeating this stunt as a judge forcing this guy to give up a months pay for his fun. Having to go begging to the bank for a loan to pay off the fine/damages and then paying that loan off with interests will certainly make him wonder if the money had not been better spent on a vacation than an imbecilic plea for attention.
The difference is that when a security hole IS found (whether it be by the good guys or the bad guys), it gets patched VERY quickly compared to commercial software...
Yes and the reason the commercial software is slower to get patched is that unlike alot of OSS software vendors the commercial guys test their patch thoroughly. The OSS vendor can simply say, "Hey! Run our software at our own risk, its free after all" while the commercial developers will get lynched by their customers if they dont make DAMN sure their patch does not cause N applications/sercvices that rely on their product to crash. It is basically a question of whether you want trade stability for security or vice versa. In my experience the customer will usually put up with the annoyance of security workarounds while waiting for a patch to be tested if it means his software will remain be stable. One of the biggest annoyances of OSS developers working for commercial developers using OSS software is usually the reluctance of the people responsible for the smooth running of the company's systems to install bleeding edge OSS software on mission critical production machines so that they can use all the nifty new features. The maintenance people prefer to use older but more stable versions to the point of living without nifty features for months until they are stable because alot (but by no means all) OSS software is regression tested on the users.
... It's rumored that Microsoft has in the past hired actors to behave like really obnoxious Linux fanboys at trade shows, damaging Linux's image - if it's true, no doubt he'll have a hand in that, too.
... a bunch of geeky guys in Linux T-shirts going from stall to stall hitting on the corporate executive's secretaries/mistresses and making penis extension jokes about the their Porches.
Yeah!
The major migrations in big corporations tend to be replacement of Solaris boxes, with I suppose HP and AIX getting a look in too.
Although I generally agree with you I think AIX gets more than just a look in. Where I work (Telecom company), for most smaller servers, the choice is SUSE's line of OS packages, in part because of the ease of administration as well as good support. For really big rock solid production systems the choice is AIX and to a lesser extent HP-Unix over Linux since our experience of AIX/HPUX vs Linux shows the former to be more stable if you need absolute reliability. We usually try to replace Sun OS with machines running Linux or AIX, and that is not just brand snobbery. We inherited some numbes of quite new Sun Machines in a recent merger so we have actually had a chance to make a balanced comparisons. Microsoft OS'es are only used for customers specifically requesting MS solutions, failing a specific request for an MS server the customer defaults to a UNIX or Linux system. Apart from that MS OS'es are only used on workstations and for proprietary measurement gear that does not run with anyting else. The general trend for Microsoft server systems has been to minimize their number as much as possible and fortify them heavily because of the disproportionate amount of work we have to sink into them. This has largely been due to security breaches even though we autopatch the MS boxes the moment the patches are posted by MS and generally make every effort to secure them. Incidentally the number of MS Workstation installs is on a (slow) downward spiral for the same reason. People are spending more time than they can spare dealing with adware, viruses, worms etc...
he'll probably have some other problems right now...
... I hope they do lock him up. Some day one of these virus writers is going to cause major loss of life with his imbecilic plea for attention
Yeah, the problem is a 110kg weightlifter named 'Günter' who wants to be his boyfriend. But look on the bright side, when he has served his time, he will be offered a good job with some software firm in the States plus he will probably never again suffer from constipation.
Seriously though
Isn't it mostly a distinction between Avarice and Idealism for IP?
It seems to me there is plenty of both kinds of people on either side of the political spectrum.
... but not as we know it!
Sorry, had to.... Now mod me down.
... that it is the various Govt. agencies who have the biggest reason to oppose Voip devices/software. Voip with integrated military grade encryption is already alot easyer and cheaper to obtain and to use than encryption options for traditional phone communications. If anything people opposing Voip are playing into the Intelligence agencies hands.
WGF=Windows Gone Funky
WGF=Windows Graphical Frustrater
WGF=Windows Gore Functionality
WGF=Windows Glitch Factory
WGF=Windows!!! Go Figure?!?!
Excersize your imagination:
WGF=______________________
Sigh! If only they had called it WTF!
... Lets get a truly unbiased assessment by sponsoring slashdot's own outsorucing effects study, we would come off looking really trendy, especially if we outsource the work to India.
I think there is a bigger picture here of what is going on and things are not good in the scope of a long term development.
Unfortunately most people seem to be incapable of thinking further ahead than the next fiscal quarter.
You know there is a direct correlation between the size of your pipe and the size of your penis, which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!
To quote that great moder philosopher Andrew Dice Clay:
Clay: "Say Moby? Why yo always holding your D***."
Moby (aka. Clay): "Well it woldn't be right gentlemanly to have it dragging on the ground behind me now would it?!?"
You are presuming that $100 tennis shoes are not a cost effective investment. One could however make the argument that $100 tennis shoes are useful because of the social advantages gained by owning such a status symbol.
... because it is small handy and unlike the bigger model it is not so heavy that it pulls my jacket pocket down to my knee, I usually only listen to a few tracks on each CD so there is plenty of space for my favorite music, it is out-of-the-box compatable with OS.X/iTunes and ... well ... yes, I suppose it looks kinda cool. The only complaint is that that white belt clip that comes with it can not be trusted. On the positive side my iPod mini has fortunately survived two trips to the floor and is still ticking.
That is nice enough but you still have no guarantee they did not simply download it off the internet them selves. And you also have the same fundamental problem of not knowing head nor tail of the subject come exam time. Of all cheaters I pity the ones the most who are so dumb they copy some other guy's paper word for word as opposed to using several papers as roadmap for composing their own cartload of fresh, steaming and fragrant BS.
"There is a sucker born every minute"
However I think you're trying to insult me...
No not really, I just thought that "People on welfare live like kings" rhetoric sounded familiar.... Only a Republican would use the word "wealth" when talking about people on welfare.
even our citizens on welfare tend to be wealthier than many in smaller european countries!"
You vote Republican don't you?
"That sense of isolation and inadequacy is one reason the number of women earning computer science degrees in this country has plummeted over the past two decades..."
Ah, once again the talk turns to the legendary female computer nerd! Has anybody ever seen one of these elusive creatures in the wild?
...roamed the earth and I was still a university student 6-10 of us used to get to gether, buy one copy of each book and take them down to the local copy shop who's owner lived off such business and hence asked did not piss and moan about copyrights. The resultant stacks of A4 sheets were then fitted in a spiral bindings. It was clunky but lasted surprisingly well and with 10-12 books at $40-100 each you usually had enough saved up over every second semester or so to upgrade your PC to handle the latest video games, drawing software math suite etc. or to buy some other small luxury like a rusty old VW Golf.
... one of the Republican games???
You could get healthpoints by taking a leak and drinking water.
You could pay the hookers to dance.
All the piggy cops had LAPD written on the uniform sleeve.
The list goes on...
But most of all I liked the way Duke lived up to his promise to rip off the Uberfiend's head and sh*t down his neck. When he sat down on the thing and unfolded the newspaper I fell of the chair laughing...