You obviously have not been blessed with a "Sharky" T-shirt. It's a ghastly shade of green only the Marine Corps could love. Oddly enough, though, it matches all my other clothes. Semper Fi!
I just got a direct mailing from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asking for special holiday donations. For a gift of $50US or more, they'll throw in a T-Shirt with their new logo. I couldn't find the offer on their website, so I suppose it's limited to members. Anyway, I need a different outfit for work; the boss gets visibly upset whenever I wear my Computerworld "Shark Tank" T-shirt.
So the EFF will be getting my fifty bucks, because I figure if free software gets made illegal, there won't be anybody left for the rest of you to donate to.
I had the opportunity to meet and listen to Jan Merlin (Roger Manning from 'Tom Corbett - Space Cadet') a few years back at a Wild West days festival. He's a very engaging speaker with a huge repertoire of tales of the Golden Age of Hollywood, some taller than others [grin].
If you get the chance, Jan's going to be appearing at the Williamsburg Film Festival 28-Feb thru 2-Mar next year. As the website notes, guest stars appear subject to their availability and health. Opportunities to meet people like Jan and have them share their memories with you are becoming more and more rare as the years go by, so if you can fit it into your schedule you should. I personally found it definitely worth my time and money to go when I did.
I think a lot of companies would care if they could afford to, they've just made a business decision not to go after this sort of thing. Investigations can take months, and prosecution can take years. What responsible CEO would be willing to commit those resources to a process that won't yield a cash return? How much money do you think Intel got back from Randall Schwartz?
I, for one, cannot afford to have my servers collecting dust in an evidence locker while I rearrange my business schedule around interviews, depositions, and testimony. Sorry folks, but yes, I'd bury it and forget it.
And still I think you miss the point--I don't believe the CEO was trying to save a person per se, instead he was defending the legality of his companies actions. If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd be glad to read it.
Every action by Mr. Katalov in this case has appeared to be nothing other than sincere personal concern for one of his employees. I doubt you have even a scrap of evidence to the contrary, so I won't waste my time asking you for any.
Everytime I read yet another update to this semingly never-ending ordeal, one thing that remains constant is what a wonderful employer Elcomsoft must be to work for. They've stood by Dmitry's side beginning with day one, they're still hanging in there fighting for him, and their CEO even offered himself up in a bizarre "hostage exchange" scenario.
I hope all of the employees of Adobe are truly embarrassed about this.
It almost brought tears to my eyes when I watched this week's news footage of Afghani citizens out in their back yards in Kabul, digging up old VCRs and TV sets that they had buried to keep them from being seized by the Taliban. One old gentleman had constructed a secret room in his house to hide thousands of books, magazines, and videotapes that would have been destroyed had they been discovered. People were lining the streets listening to music again after a decade long ban, and many were openly weeping for joy.
But what really choked me up was the whole time I was watching that story, I was thinking to myself "this is your future, this is you digging holes in your yard, in the U.S., to hide computer parts and copies of Linux from your oppressive government".
OSEF has a great article from a feature story the Arizona Daily Star ran on them. URL below, but here's some quickie quotes from the story....
"As such, they're entirely unimpressed that Corbett is among a mere handful of primary schools around the world with a computer network that runs Linux, the flagship of the fashionable free software movement. They probably can't appreciate the amount of money the school is saving, or the thousands of hours that Linux devotee Harry McGregor has donated to transform a collection of PCs past their prime into a Net-connected laboratory that's ahead of its time."
"A lab similar to Corbett's could cost the district $100,000 or more if it were set up with new computers and commercial software. Instead, the school spent just $12,000 to convert its donated PCs into a Linux network that offers similar access to the Net and educational programs. Moreover, Corbett's pupils will gain experience with an operating system that's becoming more popular every day."
Earlier studies showed that most web surfing is done while at work. This study shows that most web surfers use Microsoft browsers to visit primarily non-business sites.
Combine the two results and the only conclusion you can logically arrive at is that 98 percent of Microsoft users are fucking off at work.
I worked in the embedded systems field (automated test equipment) some years ago, and it was not at all anything like the typical IT shop. For starters, the President and founder was an EE, as were most of the VPs, and the designers, and right on down the line to my little corner of the world. There were no gullible PHBs with liberal arts degrees masquerading as wannabe technologists; my managers ate, slept, and breathed silicon and clock rates. They didn't buy into anybody's slick and deceptive marketing practices back then, and I'll bet they don't fall for it now.
A colorful GUI with bundled streaming media is not going to send those guys flying through the air like in the commercials, but it's guaranteed to send the salesmen flying out the door.
I am a flight-sim junkie, and a former military pilot (before anybody asks, I am NPQ, not physically qualified to fly anymore). I have owned maybe two dozen different flight simulator programs over the past fifteen years.
My favourite for a long time has been Austin Meyer's X-Plane. X-Plane uses an engineering process called "blade element theory" to approximate the true behaviour of an aircraft in flight. And it does this fairly well; I think X-Plane does the best job of any of the PC-based sims at mimicing the actual feel of the aircraft.
X-Plane doesn't have the "eye candy" of MSFS-2002 or any of the Flight Unlimited series, but as far as accurately modeling flight physics, X-Plane is head and shoulders above the competetion.
I'm trying to figure out how this would work on me. Being a typical American male, I was born with my right thumb on the channel-up button of a remote. I watch every channel on TV for no more than five seconds at a time. It drives my wife crazy and she'll eventually leave the room and go watch the bedroom TV instead.
So how is this logging going to be useful to anybody when the database on my set-top has 3500 entries in it between 6:00 and 9:00 PM?
The attorneys for both sides came up with this stupid settlement because they figured that once they split up their enormous legal fees and court costs, the victims (us) would only get about ten dollars apiece, and they assumed that none of us would want that small an amount of money. They also made a second braindead assumption that the states would be able to reduce my school taxes because of this windfall. Yeah, right. When pigs can fly.
Well, nobody asked me. I want the ten bucks, damnit.
In our rapidly aging country, there are more than one in six who are over the age of sixty, and suffering the infirmities of old age. A major segment of that age group have enough loss of visual or auditory acuity to require assistive devices. Then there are those with age-related mobility problems, especially arthritis, that makes keyboarding a literal pain. The numbers grow rapidly if you look beyond wheelchairs and white canes to define disabilities.
The Disabled American Veterans has a million members all by itself. My state issued more than 200,000 handicapped parking permits last year. So why should I not believe those numbers?
From the time a copy of this "Magic Lantern" is first discovered in the wild until an exact copy of the FBI-approved (and consequently undetectable) version is available via alt.hackers.maliscious is going to take what, twenty minutes?
Malda might as well start composing (and spellchecking) the headline now, because it's a sure bet he'll get to use it.
When I first glanced at the title, I thought it said "methane" powered. I just had a bowl of chile beans, a pickled egg, and a beer for lunch. If you could power a computer with methane, then I'm ready to light up a server room full of IBM z390's.
I lied on my resume to get my first UNIX admin job. Every night when I went home I would read a hundred or more pages in the UNIX books I had, trying desperately to stay one small step ahead of impending disaster.
Twenty years later, I still go home every night and read a hundred or more pages in my UNIX books trying desperately to stay one small step ahead of impending disaster.
Slashdot Mirror
My favorite is still CPIP (Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol; RFC-1149).
Unfortunately, the problem with dropped packets is not nearly as bad as the problem with droppings.
Logging into my account at Playboy.com, now let's see if I can remember....
"Blonde frontal, Redhead reclining, Brunette upper body... oooohh, look at the zoomies on that new asian chick in the lower right corner, will ya?"
"# Password rejected: try again".
God damn, is that an ugly shirt!
You obviously have not been blessed with a "Sharky" T-shirt. It's a ghastly shade of green only the Marine Corps could love. Oddly enough, though, it matches all my other clothes. Semper Fi!
I just got a direct mailing from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asking for special holiday donations. For a gift of $50US or more, they'll throw in a T-Shirt with their new logo. I couldn't find the offer on their website, so I suppose it's limited to members. Anyway, I need a different outfit for work; the boss gets visibly upset whenever I wear my Computerworld "Shark Tank" T-shirt.
So the EFF will be getting my fifty bucks, because I figure if free software gets made illegal, there won't be anybody left for the rest of you to donate to.
Thats all we need, a reason to make sequel to Pirates of Silicone Valley.
I've never seen "Pirates of Silicone Valley". Would it by any chance be an adult video featuring women with artificially enhanced bosoms?
Or maybe you meant "Silicon Valley", but I'd really rather see the other one.
I had the opportunity to meet and listen to Jan Merlin (Roger Manning from 'Tom Corbett - Space Cadet') a few years back at a Wild West days festival. He's a very engaging speaker with a huge repertoire of tales of the Golden Age of Hollywood, some taller than others [grin].
If you get the chance, Jan's going to be appearing at the Williamsburg Film Festival 28-Feb thru 2-Mar next year. As the website notes, guest stars appear subject to their availability and health. Opportunities to meet people like Jan and have them share their memories with you are becoming more and more rare as the years go by, so if you can fit it into your schedule you should. I personally found it definitely worth my time and money to go when I did.
"Williamsburg Film Festival"
I think a lot of companies would care if they could afford to, they've just made a business decision not to go after this sort of thing. Investigations can take months, and prosecution can take years. What responsible CEO would be willing to commit those resources to a process that won't yield a cash return? How much money do you think Intel got back from Randall Schwartz?
I, for one, cannot afford to have my servers collecting dust in an evidence locker while I rearrange my business schedule around interviews, depositions, and testimony. Sorry folks, but yes, I'd bury it and forget it.
The only time I worry is when 127.0.0.1 becomes unreachable.
And still I think you miss the point--I don't believe the CEO was trying to save a person per se, instead he was defending the legality of his companies actions. If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd be glad to read it.
Every action by Mr. Katalov in this case has appeared to be nothing other than sincere personal concern for one of his employees. I doubt you have even a scrap of evidence to the contrary, so I won't waste my time asking you for any.
I hope I never become as cynical as you.
Everytime I read yet another update to this semingly never-ending ordeal, one thing that remains constant is what a wonderful employer Elcomsoft must be to work for. They've stood by Dmitry's side beginning with day one, they're still hanging in there fighting for him, and their CEO even offered himself up in a bizarre "hostage exchange" scenario.
I hope all of the employees of Adobe are truly embarrassed about this.
It almost brought tears to my eyes when I watched this week's news footage of Afghani citizens out in their back yards in Kabul, digging up old VCRs and TV sets that they had buried to keep them from being seized by the Taliban. One old gentleman had constructed a secret room in his house to hide thousands of books, magazines, and videotapes that would have been destroyed had they been discovered. People were lining the streets listening to music again after a decade long ban, and many were openly weeping for joy.
But what really choked me up was the whole time I was watching that story, I was thinking to myself "this is your future, this is you digging holes in your yard, in the U.S., to hide computer parts and copies of Linux from your oppressive government".
OSEF has a great article from a feature story the Arizona Daily Star ran on them. URL below, but here's some quickie quotes from the story....
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"As such, they're entirely unimpressed that Corbett is among a mere handful of primary schools around the world with a computer network that runs Linux, the flagship of the fashionable free software movement. They probably can't appreciate the amount of money the school is saving, or the thousands of hours that Linux devotee Harry McGregor has donated to transform a collection of PCs past their prime into a Net-connected laboratory that's ahead of its time."
"A lab similar to Corbett's could cost the district $100,000 or more if it were set up with new computers and commercial software. Instead, the school spent just $12,000 to convert its donated PCs into a Linux network that offers similar access to the Net and educational programs. Moreover, Corbett's pupils will gain experience with an operating system that's becoming more popular every day."
http://www.osef.orgarticles_and_letters/azstar/wh
Earlier studies showed that most web surfing is done while at work. This study shows that most web surfers use Microsoft browsers to visit primarily non-business sites.
Combine the two results and the only conclusion you can logically arrive at is that 98 percent of Microsoft users are fucking off at work.
You're going to hit the 50 point karma cap with three off-topic posts in a row.
Splendid, man, splendid.
I worked in the embedded systems field (automated test equipment) some years ago, and it was not at all anything like the typical IT shop. For starters, the President and founder was an EE, as were most of the VPs, and the designers, and right on down the line to my little corner of the world. There were no gullible PHBs with liberal arts degrees masquerading as wannabe technologists; my managers ate, slept, and breathed silicon and clock rates. They didn't buy into anybody's slick and deceptive marketing practices back then, and I'll bet they don't fall for it now.
A colorful GUI with bundled streaming media is not going to send those guys flying through the air like in the commercials, but it's guaranteed to send the salesmen flying out the door.
I am a flight-sim junkie, and a former military pilot (before anybody asks, I am NPQ, not physically qualified to fly anymore). I have owned maybe two dozen different flight simulator programs over the past fifteen years.
My favourite for a long time has been Austin Meyer's X-Plane. X-Plane uses an engineering process called "blade element theory" to approximate the true behaviour of an aircraft in flight. And it does this fairly well; I think X-Plane does the best job of any of the PC-based sims at mimicing the actual feel of the aircraft.
X-Plane doesn't have the "eye candy" of MSFS-2002 or any of the Flight Unlimited series, but as far as accurately modeling flight physics, X-Plane is head and shoulders above the competetion.
...and also in the market for large quantities of AAA batteries for my remotes.
I'm trying to figure out how this would work on me. Being a typical American male, I was born with my right thumb on the channel-up button of a remote. I watch every channel on TV for no more than five seconds at a time. It drives my wife crazy and she'll eventually leave the room and go watch the bedroom TV instead.
So how is this logging going to be useful to anybody when the database on my set-top has 3500 entries in it between 6:00 and 9:00 PM?
The attorneys for both sides came up with this stupid settlement because they figured that once they split up their enormous legal fees and court costs, the victims (us) would only get about ten dollars apiece, and they assumed that none of us would want that small an amount of money. They also made a second braindead assumption that the states would be able to reduce my school taxes because of this windfall. Yeah, right. When pigs can fly.
Well, nobody asked me. I want the ten bucks, damnit.
Stand up right now, peer over the top of your cubicle, and wave your hand. I want to see where you sit because obviously we work at the same place.
Somebody should tell him its spelled p-r-o-g-r-e-s-s and NOT p-r-o-c-e-s-s.
In our rapidly aging country, there are more than one in six who are over the age of sixty, and suffering the infirmities of old age. A major segment of that age group have enough loss of visual or auditory acuity to require assistive devices. Then there are those with age-related mobility problems, especially arthritis, that makes keyboarding a literal pain. The numbers grow rapidly if you look beyond wheelchairs and white canes to define disabilities.
The Disabled American Veterans has a million members all by itself. My state issued more than 200,000 handicapped parking permits last year. So why should I not believe those numbers?
From the time a copy of this "Magic Lantern" is first discovered in the wild until an exact copy of the FBI-approved (and consequently undetectable) version is available via alt.hackers.maliscious is going to take what, twenty minutes?
Malda might as well start composing (and spellchecking) the headline now, because it's a sure bet he'll get to use it.
You omitted a few critical variables...
double vision;
float vomit;
static struct urinal;
When I first glanced at the title, I thought it said "methane" powered. I just had a bowl of chile beans, a pickled egg, and a beer for lunch. If you could power a computer with methane, then I'm ready to light up a server room full of IBM z390's.
I lied on my resume to get my first UNIX admin job. Every night when I went home I would read a hundred or more pages in the UNIX books I had, trying desperately to stay one small step ahead of impending disaster.
Twenty years later, I still go home every night and read a hundred or more pages in my UNIX books trying desperately to stay one small step ahead of impending disaster.