The smartest reader of all suggested that companies be taxed on their market share so that a company like Microsoft with 90 percent share would pay 90 percent sales tax.
The simply response to the smartest reader, as an Economics major, is why in the hell would I even try to get market share in the first place since I now have a strong fiscal insentive NOT to try to.
Imagine a world where the better you get at something the more punished you are. Why would you get better? It's like smacking a child every time s/he tries to walk. Why would s/he walk?
Someone please explain why saying "bad" for being "good" at something is a Good Thing. Please! I want to know...
If you don't want to do that but you do want to use GPL code, you have to be very careful about keeping things seperate and not contaminating anything (simply putting them on a cd together doesn't contaminate anything though).
So if I want to distribute a commerical product using GPL code I must seperate the GPL code from the commerical code? Differentiate then at a function based level? Class Level? File Level? Logical Level? Can I re-write functions internal to the GPL project to get the output I need?
After these things do I have to release 'my' privately created code along w/ the GPL parts of my code?
Can someone more knowlegable about the legal issues of using open source (GPL specifically) briefly summarize what legal requirements one would have to meet if a company did the following and wanted to charge money for their final product
Used OSS in a final product (OSS libs, programs for data proceessing, etc)
Distrubutes an OSS project for profit? (modified or unmodifed)
Created a fork of the CVS for a distributed product?
Used core code base but, different GUI (output parameters)
Any other salient conditions I left out?
I wondering for this product and I'm sure there are many other products that use one form or another of OSS in their final versions?
What do they have to do to be legal under the GPL for us unenglightened on the full text of the license?
Yep... And there per capita/GDP really shows what those extra 5 weeks off does.
It's amazing that their not the technology leaders of the world. Maybe cause their always 5 weeks behind?
If I'm an innovative company, yeah employee moral is a high concern but, competing w/ my competitors is my highest.
BTW If your intrested...
capita/GPD
US: 33,935 FR: 25,767
Luxembourg is the only one higher because they have very little population and most of the permement population works proffessionally in finance. All of their lower income proffessions are actually imported labor from neighboring countries therefore even further lowering their actually GPD b/c the people that actually live in the country don't mop the floors.
I don't know how old you are or where your from but, let me explain a simple economic theory.
We don't "have" massive amounts of money just sitting around. It's not like there is a giant American money bowl where we just fish out money from.
We have the some of the greatest scientific research facilities here because people "give" (invest, donate, sell stock in) research companies. I "give" my money to a research company because my money buys them the best people and the best equipment so they can develop a new life-saving technique, medicine, process. And by this new innovative process can make my money back that I "gave" them by selling this technology.
We don't have money. We invest our money, we use the money to make a product, we sell the product.
You apparently have a connection to the webdesign industry (from your link in your title). Say you weren't in the budget website industry but, in high end custom cutting edge website design. You arn't successful in that industry because you have huge amounts of money, your successful because your skilled and talented in your field. These research companies make money and are the best because they are skilled and talented.
I'm an educator by nature and work in the tech industry as a trade so I really enjoy clearing up misconceptions (incorrect teachings) so if you have any questions simply reply to the post. I'll see it. Hopefully you'll see and read this.
Corporations will squeeze every last damn cent they can out of anyone. I'm all for corporations making profits
Now your first statement seems to be an opinion against the second statement. How can you be opposed to increasing profit margins (squeezing pennies) and for making profits. That's their job as put forward by the stockholders of the company to make money.
When will the government stop this capitalism run amok? the government helping protect this
Well.... First off I don't agree w/ the ideal of capitalism run amok. Thats a little bit of a misnomer. Once government begins to regulate and restrict capitalism itself it's loses one of it's most essential properties, equality. I have as much as a right to try to earn money as you do. When you introduce regulations, requirements, protections, whatever the flavor of the day wishes to call it you alter the playing field. In most cases the playing feild becomes skew'd to prefer those with the most lawyers (which you stated you dislike). So in turn since instead of simply competiting in business you must compete legally, which leads to the pissing contest my of "my lawfirm is bigger than yours".
The governmental regulations of copyright, liscensing, regulations (including 'saftey', not directed @ human rights but, you must have a Class B8C2 style light fixture in this office hurts small businesses trying to comply w/ thousands of such), and all sorts of crazy wacky laws and such put upon these businesses. It is these artifical laws that tend to skew the favor of the business world towards those who have the biggest pockets because they have the lawyers to attack their competitors on the legal playing feilds instead of trying to compete with them on the business field.
So if you dislike the way the current corporate/legal enviroment is looking don't go and try to create a new law to "protect" the little guy from them. Remember all your doing is feeding the monster by giving the law firms representing them more money because now these corporations have to find a new way around your new law (they weren't just gonna shut their doors because of your new law were they?). So now you've simply increased the coroprate dependency upon their legal leg.
Instead you should be fighting to remove all of these regulations (that most actually were lobbied for by the industries they regulate against) to increase competition and decrease their market share.
(As a quick support to the previous argument. Say I'm WalMart. I have 1000's of little competitors in 1000's of small towns across the US. I already have bad PR due to the fact that I'm crushing them when I move in but, I want to move in anyhow, I just don't want the bad press. So I lobby for a law requiring that all retail spaces that carry X products or X# of these and Y# of these to be required by Federal Law to have these certain safety devices or these special safety lights. Because ya know? We really need to protect the children and the consumers. Yeah WalMart will take a hit having to buy 1,000's of these lights/devices @ $1200 a peice. But, they get a discount and the 1000's of small business's now have to shell out $3000 or more for similar things. Now maybe 25% of these can't handle the cost (remember this wouldn't be an isolated regulation, get a congress that loves passing "protect the children" regulations and these start to pile up) and have to close up shop. Now WalMart is rescuing these communities because they are lacking a convient way to buy basic needs for their children. Now they saved the day.
Regulations arn't the answer because they merely skew the results to those who understand the regulations the best, those are the ones with the lawyers.
So please please please, give me capitalism run amok.
IDDWYDFAL (I don't do what you do for a living) but, couldn't it be possible for the flashed firmware have a option to refuse to allow a pushed firmware update? Since essentially they are overwriting almost all of the programable material on the boxes wouldn't this be simple task?
Although you'd run the risk of your ISP saying if (modem.firmware != current_version) {disconnect_service}, I'd say that'd effect their QoS if some of the customer boxes didn't accept the update.
Well.... yes the facts are missing but, I could think of the progam logic.
Load page to harvest captchas Save the captchas image to DB Maintain open page where captchas was harvested Serve captchas to real user on porn site Capture real user's response to captchas Re-input user's repsonse to the text field on the harvest page Voila.
Still the same session on the harvest page, just multi-tasked the captchas out. A script can maintain a session just like a user can.
Now... The band-aid (not the fix) comes by accepting all user information first (name, address, etc) then on the next page request the captchas input. Have that page have a cookie timeout of 30 seconds. If the user can't read 7 charecters in 30 seconds then redisplay another one. After x number of failures ban for 10 minutes etc...
Now this fails if the spam harvester has access to enough concurrent hits on his false verifier to maintain the 30 second window but, I'd hope at that point his profit margin has shrunk a great deal more due to the traffic requirements.
Re:Bring some sketch paper instead
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Why not bike? -- Smell the smells, hear the sounds.
Why not fly? -- Quicker way to get there
Why are these answers wrong? Because he didn't ask the question....
He said "I am about to do a long trip (1 year) in a VW Vanagon", he didn't say I'm driving around the US drawing big sketches of the people I meet and things I see what are some tablet PC's or good drawing tablets for my PC.
What is he's a traveling salesmen that needs to keep up w/ his email, or log his sales, create invoices, surf the web to keep up w/ news etc.
It's usually good when someone asks a question to answer it...
That made sense when people didn't had calculators
You ever seen a framer (wood working contractor), a plumber, a mason use a calculator?
Maybe when going over building plans or writing out orders but, when you have a nail gun in one hand an a 2x4 in the other most arn't reaching for their pocket calculator.
They simply know that this board is supposed to be 1/4 the length of that one and that one is 24ft so this one should be 6 feet.
So... For example your a builder w/ a board that is 7.3152 meters long and you want a board 1/4 the size of that one... How long do you cut it?
So every cut you make you need to throw it into your calulator when I can do simple math in my head.
The imperial system is still good for certain jobs.
As I recall... The/. groupthink was mostly in agreement that it's a bad idea to take away control of the aircraft from the trained pilot who has cognative reasoning.
Good idea, maybe a different implementation would work...
I think more of my point was to the effect that maybe their card sales are going to the people that couldn't tell you what kind of video card is in their system.
Re:Why buy mid-range?
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Why do people buy used cars? Why do people buy refurb'd computers? Why do people goto yard sales? Why do people goto dollar stores?
Maybe the secretary down the hall doesn't need a Radeon 9800? Maybe I don't want my kid to use 'this' PC for gaming and only for school work?
There is a market for mid-range cards...
Don't just assume everyone wants to buy the best of everything. (Why isn't Mercedes-Benz the largest car manufacturer in the world?)
Imagine how many video cards are purchased off the shelf at computer stores. Then imagine how many video cards are purchased in new computer sales. I would imagine more video cards are moved by unit in new/refurb(card replaced) sales than individual sales for LOW/MID range cards.
Now I know people purchase high-end cards from stores (I did) but, to sell mid-range cards you usually don't sell to the consumer you sell to the manfacturer.
I would rather spend 'x' amount of money to produce a cheaper and comparable card to the current market norm and get a contract providing Dell w/ cards for their mid-range systems then spending '3x' the amount of money making the "newest and the greatest" card then having to spend another '2x' just marketing the damn thing to a niche market..
I know where I work we recently (for an IT pat on the back) calculated our total network accessiable storage capacity and came in at a rough estimate of about 150TB. Now that is a giant swarth of data and a decent amount is in databases (MSSQL farm) but, scattered across 1000's of DB's.
It takes a truely amazing staff to maintain (backup, adminisister, maintence, sit and stare at screens) the servers and maintain the integrity of the data but, good lord...
A 94.3TB database? My upmost, and highest kudo's to those DBMA's and admins there. That is one gigantic task to operate. Being it's AT&T and assuming a great deal is billing and maintence functions these have to be up I'm sure a good 3 nines if not greater.
Regardless of the result of the study, which without actually reading the entire study the end results are simply a short-read of a geek pissing contest, I find it truely amazing how much work, man-hours, and midnight pager calls go into maintaining these databases. I know I don't want our DBMA's jobs and certainly wouldn't want to be a DBMA on a 94.3TB farm but, I know those that do and love doing it. It's a speciality skill and apparently these guys do it right...
"The attack caused the company's Web site (http://www.sco.com) and corporate operational traffic to be unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company intranet, and customer support operations,"
Can someone explain to me how the email (internal mailservers I'm guessing), intranet are effecting by a D/DoS?
You have a public webserver in your DMZ that has a public IP address (or share's one)..
EVERYTHING else should be behind firewall, router, big man w/ gun...
How in the holy hell love of GOD is there INTERNAL network effected by an outwardly created SYN flood?
Either they have horribly a misconfigured/monkey created network or their PR shoved his foot in his mouth... Either way someone should get fired....
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The smartest reader of all suggested that companies be taxed on their market share so that a company like Microsoft with 90 percent share would pay 90 percent sales tax.
The simply response to the smartest reader, as an Economics major, is why in the hell would I even try to get market share in the first place since I now have a strong fiscal insentive NOT to try to.
Imagine a world where the better you get at something the more punished you are. Why would you get better? It's like smacking a child every time s/he tries to walk. Why would s/he walk?
Someone please explain why saying "bad" for being "good" at something is a Good Thing. Please! I want to know...
If you don't want to do that but you do want to use GPL code, you have to be very careful about keeping things seperate and not contaminating anything (simply putting them on a cd together doesn't contaminate anything though).
So if I want to distribute a commerical product using GPL code I must seperate the GPL code from the commerical code? Differentiate then at a function based level? Class Level? File Level? Logical Level? Can I re-write functions internal to the GPL project to get the output I need?
After these things do I have to release 'my' privately created code along w/ the GPL parts of my code?
Can someone more knowlegable about the legal issues of using open source (GPL specifically) briefly summarize what legal requirements one would have to meet if a company did the following and wanted to charge money for their final product
I wondering for this product and I'm sure there are many other products that use one form or another of OSS in their final versions?
What do they have to do to be legal under the GPL for us unenglightened on the full text of the license?
Yep... And there per capita/GDP really shows what those extra 5 weeks off does.
It's amazing that their not the technology leaders of the world. Maybe cause their always 5 weeks behind?
If I'm an innovative company, yeah employee moral is a high concern but, competing w/ my competitors is my highest.
BTW If your intrested...
capita/GPD
US: 33,935
FR: 25,767
Luxembourg is the only one higher because they have very little population and most of the permement population works proffessionally in finance. All of their lower income proffessions are actually imported labor from neighboring countries therefore even further lowering their actually GPD b/c the people that actually live in the country don't mop the floors.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp_cap
Which brings up the bigger question....
Who owns the rights to the infamous Larry Liesure series? The greatest RPG version of porn ever made...
Nothing like classic 256-bit color pr0n...
You forgot your tages when posting this....
If I'm not mistaken it has USB ports on the front
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/usb_data.htm
Just get the drivers...
I'm going to reply to this simple so you read it.
I don't know how old you are or where your from but, let me explain a simple economic theory.
We don't "have" massive amounts of money just sitting around.
It's not like there is a giant American money bowl where we just fish out money from.
We have the some of the greatest scientific research facilities here because people "give" (invest, donate, sell stock in) research companies. I "give" my money to a research company because my money buys them the best people and the best equipment so they can develop a new life-saving technique, medicine, process. And by this new innovative process can make my money back that I "gave" them by selling this technology.
We don't have money. We invest our money, we use the money to make a product, we sell the product.
You apparently have a connection to the webdesign industry (from your link in your title). Say you weren't in the budget website industry but, in high end custom cutting edge website design. You arn't successful in that industry because you have huge amounts of money, your successful because your skilled and talented in your field. These research companies make money and are the best because they are skilled and talented.
I'm an educator by nature and work in the tech industry as a trade so I really enjoy clearing up misconceptions (incorrect teachings) so if you have any questions simply reply to the post. I'll see it. Hopefully you'll see and read this.
You gotz your facts a little in a mess here.
Corporations will squeeze every last damn cent they can out of anyone.
I'm all for corporations making profits
Now your first statement seems to be an opinion against the second statement. How can you be opposed to increasing profit margins (squeezing pennies) and for making profits. That's their job as put forward by the stockholders of the company to make money.
When will the government stop this capitalism run amok?
the government helping protect this
Well.... First off I don't agree w/ the ideal of capitalism run amok. Thats a little bit of a misnomer. Once government begins to regulate and restrict capitalism itself it's loses one of it's most essential properties, equality. I have as much as a right to try to earn money as you do. When you introduce regulations, requirements, protections, whatever the flavor of the day wishes to call it you alter the playing field. In most cases the playing feild becomes skew'd to prefer those with the most lawyers (which you stated you dislike). So in turn since instead of simply competiting in business you must compete legally, which leads to the pissing contest my of "my lawfirm is bigger than yours".
The governmental regulations of copyright, liscensing, regulations (including 'saftey', not directed @ human rights but, you must have a Class B8C2 style light fixture in this office hurts small businesses trying to comply w/ thousands of such), and all sorts of crazy wacky laws and such put upon these businesses. It is these artifical laws that tend to skew the favor of the business world towards those who have the biggest pockets because they have the lawyers to attack their competitors on the legal playing feilds instead of trying to compete with them on the business field.
So if you dislike the way the current corporate/legal enviroment is looking don't go and try to create a new law to "protect" the little guy from them. Remember all your doing is feeding the monster by giving the law firms representing them more money because now these corporations have to find a new way around your new law (they weren't just gonna shut their doors because of your new law were they?). So now you've simply increased the coroprate dependency upon their legal leg.
Instead you should be fighting to remove all of these regulations (that most actually were lobbied for by the industries they regulate against) to increase competition and decrease their market share.
(As a quick support to the previous argument. Say I'm WalMart. I have 1000's of little competitors in 1000's of small towns across the US. I already have bad PR due to the fact that I'm crushing them when I move in but, I want to move in anyhow, I just don't want the bad press. So I lobby for a law requiring that all retail spaces that carry X products or X# of these and Y# of these to be required by Federal Law to have these certain safety devices or these special safety lights. Because ya know? We really need to protect the children and the consumers. Yeah WalMart will take a hit having to buy 1,000's of these lights/devices @ $1200 a peice. But, they get a discount and the 1000's of small business's now have to shell out $3000 or more for similar things. Now maybe 25% of these can't handle the cost (remember this wouldn't be an isolated regulation, get a congress that loves passing "protect the children" regulations and these start to pile up) and have to close up shop. Now WalMart is rescuing these communities because they are lacking a convient way to buy basic needs for their children. Now they saved the day.
Regulations arn't the answer because they merely skew the results to those who understand the regulations the best, those are the ones with the lawyers.
So please please please, give me capitalism run amok.
IDDWYDFAL (I don't do what you do for a living) but, couldn't it be possible for the flashed firmware have a option to refuse to allow a pushed firmware update?
Since essentially they are overwriting almost all of the programable material on the boxes wouldn't this be simple task?
Although you'd run the risk of your ISP saying if (modem.firmware != current_version) {disconnect_service}, I'd say that'd effect their QoS if some of the customer boxes didn't accept the update.
Well.... yes the facts are missing but, I could think of the progam logic.
Load page to harvest captchas
Save the captchas image to DB
Maintain open page where captchas was harvested
Serve captchas to real user on porn site
Capture real user's response to captchas
Re-input user's repsonse to the text field on the harvest page
Voila.
Still the same session on the harvest page, just multi-tasked the captchas out. A script can maintain a session just like a user can.
Now... The band-aid (not the fix) comes by accepting all user information first (name, address, etc) then on the next page request the captchas input. Have that page have a cookie timeout of 30 seconds. If the user can't read 7 charecters in 30 seconds then redisplay another one. After x number of failures ban for 10 minutes etc...
Now this fails if the spam harvester has access to enough concurrent hits on his false verifier to maintain the 30 second window but, I'd hope at that point his profit margin has shrunk a great deal more due to the traffic requirements.
Why not bike?
-- Smell the smells, hear the sounds.
Why not fly?
-- Quicker way to get there
Why are these answers wrong? Because he didn't ask the question....
He said "I am about to do a long trip (1 year) in a VW Vanagon", he didn't say I'm driving around the US drawing big sketches of the people I meet and things I see what are some tablet PC's or good drawing tablets for my PC.
What is he's a traveling salesmen that needs to keep up w/ his email, or log his sales, create invoices, surf the web to keep up w/ news etc.
It's usually good when someone asks a question to answer it...
That made sense when people didn't had calculators
You ever seen a framer (wood working contractor), a plumber, a mason use a calculator?
Maybe when going over building plans or writing out orders but, when you have a nail gun in one hand an a 2x4 in the other most arn't reaching for their pocket calculator.
They simply know that this board is supposed to be 1/4 the length of that one and that one is 24ft so this one should be 6 feet.
So... For example your a builder w/ a board that is 7.3152 meters long and you want a board 1/4 the size of that one... How long do you cut it?
So every cut you make you need to throw it into your calulator when I can do simple math in my head.
The imperial system is still good for certain jobs.
As I recall... The /. groupthink was mostly in agreement that it's a bad idea to take away control of the aircraft from the trained pilot who has cognative reasoning.
Good idea, maybe a different implementation would work...
Have sex then when your not talking...
Not like your keeping her around for her 'fab' shoe collection are you?
OK... Lets just discount the previous 2 billion and make extrapolations from the end of the curve without knowing it's origin.
.000000125 of the data...
Pfft... Global weather prediction with only
I think more of my point was to the effect that maybe their card sales are going to the people that couldn't tell you what kind of video card is in their system.
Why do people buy used cars?
Why do people buy refurb'd computers?
Why do people goto yard sales?
Why do people goto dollar stores?
Maybe the secretary down the hall doesn't need a Radeon 9800?
Maybe I don't want my kid to use 'this' PC for gaming and only for school work?
There is a market for mid-range cards...
Don't just assume everyone wants to buy the best of everything. (Why isn't Mercedes-Benz the largest car manufacturer in the world?)
Maybe their not aiming for the high-end market.
Imagine how many video cards are purchased off the shelf at computer stores. Then imagine how many video cards are purchased in new computer sales. I would imagine more video cards are moved by unit in new/refurb(card replaced) sales than individual sales for LOW/MID range cards.
Now I know people purchase high-end cards from stores (I did) but, to sell mid-range cards you usually don't sell to the consumer you sell to the manfacturer.
I would rather spend 'x' amount of money to produce a cheaper and comparable card to the current market norm and get a contract providing Dell w/ cards for their mid-range systems then spending '3x' the amount of money making the "newest and the greatest" card then having to spend another '2x' just marketing the damn thing to a niche market..
I'd rather sell mid-range and more units.
I guess the old problem solving technique
1) Reboot
2) Technical Tap (kick)
Probably won't work in that case either
pong **** CARRIER LOST
wow.... That phrase has a great deal more irony now.
You can find the link to the article yourself but
I know where I work we recently (for an IT pat on the back) calculated our total network accessiable storage capacity and came in at a rough estimate of about 150TB. Now that is a giant swarth of data and a decent amount is in databases (MSSQL farm) but, scattered across 1000's of DB's.
It takes a truely amazing staff to maintain (backup, adminisister, maintence, sit and stare at screens) the servers and maintain the integrity of the data but, good lord...
A 94.3TB database? My upmost, and highest kudo's to those DBMA's and admins there. That is one gigantic task to operate. Being it's AT&T and assuming a great deal is billing and maintence functions these have to be up I'm sure a good 3 nines if not greater.
Regardless of the result of the study, which without actually reading the entire study the end results are simply a short-read of a geek pissing contest, I find it truely amazing how much work, man-hours, and midnight pager calls go into maintaining these databases. I know I don't want our DBMA's jobs and certainly wouldn't want to be a DBMA on a 94.3TB farm but, I know those that do and love doing it. It's a speciality skill and apparently these guys do it right...
Kudos...
"The attack caused the company's Web site (http://www.sco.com) and corporate operational traffic to be unavailable during the morning hours including e-mail, the company intranet, and customer support operations,"
Can someone explain to me how the email (internal mailservers I'm guessing), intranet are effecting by a D/DoS?
You have a public webserver in your DMZ that has a public IP address (or share's one)..
EVERYTHING else should be behind firewall, router, big man w/ gun...
How in the holy hell love of GOD is there INTERNAL network effected by an outwardly created SYN flood?
Either they have horribly a misconfigured/monkey created network or their PR shoved his foot in his mouth...
Either way someone should get fired....
Because I'm a Republican and I don't want a pay cut because you already take too many taxes from me.
I can't afford any less...