For this article, shouldn't the accompanying US flag icon be flipped upside down, with the star field at the bottom? You know what I mean, the international distress symbol.
Don't fret the short battery life, folks. Any self-respecting geek is just going to strap an APC power supply to his ass and snake cabling down his shirtsleeve to run this.
I try to, oh how I try to imagine, every waking minute of my day, how beautiful life would be without e-mail. I hate e-mail, I'm chronically abused and assaulted by e-mail. I have a boss who wields e-mail as a weapon. When he's pissed, he buries me under e-mail, and then wants to know why I can't get anything done. I've had days where he's sent me two-hundred e-mails, some with seven or eight attachments, paragraphs and pages and volumes and books of e-mail.
This turd's office is only fifteen feet away from my cube, but I can't get a face-to-face with him. Because he's got e-mail. It's not a communications medium, it's an ass-covering medium.
When I quit this job (and I have an interview this week) I'm going to mass-print a copy of every e-mail he's ever sent me on every goddamned printer in the company. It'll make our NIMDA infection look benign.
In theory, a keylist will held in escrow by a division of the Supreme Court, and only released to investigators who can satisfy the same criteria needed for an ordinary wiretap.
In reality, the keylist will be posted on alt.hackers.malicious within 24 hours of being delivered under seal to the Supremes.
Don't post shit about the military's activities here! You've just told the world there's a plane over the Atlantic that needs to be shot down.
Look, folks, if somehow you stumble across privileged information regarding troop movements, please keep it to yourselves. You don't know who in the world is reading this.
Getting modded +5 for possibly putting lives in jeapordy is a travesty.
An unconfirmed report said that it appeared the pilot flew the jet into the ground, missing the target. So either the terrorist was unable to control the aircraft, or a very brave man at the controls tried to save as many lives as he could in his final moments. We may never know.
Very hard to type while wiping tears from one's eyes.
Well, Microsoft might have the first research center "started by a software company", but it's dwarfed by the depth and breadth of activities at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Established in 1961, the Watson Center is headquarters for the largest industrial research organization in the world. They've been doing software research four times as long as Microsoft.
Isn't MIT a federally funded University? I always thought that university research should go in public domain, no copyrights, no patents, no nothin'... and here we have every week at least one case of some university suing whomever for patent violations... odd
It hasn't been that way for a long time now. The sale and licensing of intellectual property can represent a significant source of income to a university, and those dollars can be used to offset tuition costs and operating expenses, which is a good thing.
It's no different than intercollegiate sports; the players aren't professionals, public funds help pay their tuitions, why shouldn't we get into the games for free? Because the ticket fees help support the program so my taxes don't have to.
If they take action against Microsoft then I think Gates should just run the business into the ground. Destroy the whole damn thing. Put tons of people out of work and help to destroy the economy.
I don't usually respond to zero-rated comments because nobody but you will probably ever get to see my reply. Or care to.
That aside, I've often wondered if Bill wouldn't do just exactly what you propose? I've dealt with bullies on the playground as a child, and I have a serial workplace bully for a boss now. Bill Gates is undeniably and provably a corporate bully. And a bully's behaviour is extremely predictable. As soon as they recognize they are in a lose-lose situation, they don't just exit the situation, they end it for all involved so that nobody can win. The classic "I'm going to take my ball and go home" maneuver. So, yes, I think there's a slight possibility he might do what you want him to do.
As far as ruining the economy, you've grossly overestimated Microsoft's contribution to the world economy. Statistically, they're a pimple on the ass of something the size of General Motors. They consume few manufactured goods, thus very few suppliers are wholly dependant on Microsoft as a customer for their survival. And if Bill closed the gates to Redmond tomorrow, all their 'old' software that's out in the wild today will just keep on running as it always has. If I can't buy a new release of Windows next year, my company will not go 'tits up'. In the meantime, those ex-Microsoft employees are going to get together and fund startup companies, or go to work for newly emboldened ex-rivals who are competitively hamstrung by today's monopoly controlled marketplace. If the demand for Microsoft-style products exists, then somebody will fill the void. It's always been that way in a free market economy, and I hope it always will.
Anyway, if Bill wants to burn the place to the ground, I'll be more than happy give him the match. And aside from a little more overtime for haggard Washington firefighters, it probably won't have that much of a financial impact on anybody else one way or the other.
Some of the headlines the wire services are running for this story are downright frightening... "Professor presents research paper in U.S. and DOESN'T get arrested".
I would've expected news like that out of the communist bloc just a few years ago, but not here and not now.
What if your beneficial virus has a coding flaw that you didn't catch when you were testing it? And it streams across the net and takes down thousands of websites unintentionally?
I can tell you what'll happen; your wardrobe the next day will be an orange jumpsuit and shower shoes.
If this new bugging critter from the FBI is not a violation of our constitutional rights, then they should be able to describe it to the judge in such a manner that they will be able to keep using it.
But I'm getting the impression that's not possible. Which should tell you a lot.
"Licenses are modeled on an adaptive basis relative to your business plan. Our goal is to provide inexpensive licensing arrangements to promote the use and adoption of AC-3 technology."
So we offer them the same deal Microsoft gave SpyGlass Technologies for their browser - a cut of the profits from all sales.
A bit off-topic, but an article in my local paper this morning tells of the sentencing of an attempted rapist who beat the living crap out of his would-be victim, knocking out several of her teeth and putting her in the hospital for a week. He got two-and-a-half years. He'll probably serve only half of that. But Dimitry could get five years for his e-book program.
The message our lawmakers are sending to hackers is clear; leave the copy protection alone and instead just beat the f*cking shit out of the copyright holder.
I hope Dimitry flees. There won't be any justice for him here.
Almost as quickly as Intel or AMD can release a faster CPU, Microsoft releases an OS that runs like shit on anything less. If the CPU designers don't keep pounding relentlessly away at Moore's law, we could theoritically have an OS from Redmond that won't run on anything.
OK, here's a tally of what I've actually spent on Linux in the last three years.
$0 - Caldera 2.2 (free with book)
$30 - Caldera 2.3 (boxed set)
$10 - Caldera 2.4 (upgrade with rebate)
$0 - RedHat 7.0 (preinstalled on new PC)
$80 - SuSe Professional (boxed set)
And also for my Linux bookshelf.
$40 - Special Edition Using Caldera (Que)
$40 - RedHat 7.0 Bible (IDG)
I've also bought boxed editions of Oracle 8i, WordPerfect 8, WordPerfect Office 2000, and a handful of books on HTML, PHP, MySQL and so on. But for just Linux, I've only shelled out just $200US in three years. Even including all the optional software and the other books, I doubt that it exceeds $400.
I shudder to think what I would have spent on Microsoft to do all the things I'm doing with Linux.
Let me offer an alternate, more realistic prediction.
Prediction
2001 - The U.S. government creates the Copyright Enforcement Administration (CEA), closely patterned after the hugely unsuccessful Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). President Bush appoints a copyright "czar" from the motion picture community to head up the new office.
2002 - The CEA is granted property siezure rights similar to the DEA. An elderly couple in Florida is the first to lose their home when an unauthorized copy of a Perry Como MP3 is found on their harddrive.
2003 - A federal appeals judge upholds a controversial law backed by Adobe that makes all open source software a "circumvention device". Linux advocates displace crack dealers on street corners in ghetto neighborhoods across the country.
2004 - Hackers now outnumber drug offenders in the prison ranks. Within two years, there will be more federal prisoners than there are state and local combined. Nearly one-third of the population of the US has spent time behind bars.
2005 - The median sentence for violent crimes sinks below two years, mostly to make room for copyright felons and software pirates.
2006 - Re-education camps spring up across the west, modeled after the successful Redmond tent farms created by entrepreneur Joe Arpaio.
2007 - The first "apt-get" three-time loser is executed in Texas. President Gates attends the execution with Minister of Re-Education Hilary Rosen.
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If fashion designers start making clothes out of this stuff, then my wife **WILL** have a Beowulf cluster of them, no doubt about it.
For this article, shouldn't the accompanying US flag icon be flipped upside down, with the star field at the bottom? You know what I mean, the international distress symbol.
Don't fret the short battery life, folks. Any self-respecting geek is just going to strap an APC power supply to his ass and snake cabling down his shirtsleeve to run this.
Can you imagine your life without e-mail now?
I try to, oh how I try to imagine, every waking minute of my day, how beautiful life would be without e-mail. I hate e-mail, I'm chronically abused and assaulted by e-mail. I have a boss who wields e-mail as a weapon. When he's pissed, he buries me under e-mail, and then wants to know why I can't get anything done. I've had days where he's sent me two-hundred e-mails, some with seven or eight attachments, paragraphs and pages and volumes and books of e-mail.
This turd's office is only fifteen feet away from my cube, but I can't get a face-to-face with him. Because he's got e-mail. It's not a communications medium, it's an ass-covering medium.
When I quit this job (and I have an interview this week) I'm going to mass-print a copy of every e-mail he's ever sent me on every goddamned printer in the company. It'll make our NIMDA infection look benign.
This is gonna really hurt the FreeBSD counts on next months Netcraft report.
Netcraft page for CWIE LLC
In theory, a keylist will held in escrow by a division of the Supreme Court, and only released to investigators who can satisfy the same criteria needed for an ordinary wiretap.
In reality, the keylist will be posted on alt.hackers.malicious within 24 hours of being delivered under seal to the Supremes.
Don't post shit about the military's activities here! You've just told the world there's a plane over the Atlantic that needs to be shot down.
Look, folks, if somehow you stumble across privileged information regarding troop movements, please keep it to yourselves. You don't know who in the world is reading this.
Getting modded +5 for possibly putting lives in jeapordy is a travesty.
Very hard to type while wiping tears from one's eyes.
Well, Microsoft might have the first research center "started by a software company", but it's dwarfed by the depth and breadth of activities at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Established in 1961, the Watson Center is headquarters for the largest industrial research organization in the world. They've been doing software research four times as long as Microsoft.
And it shows.
It hasn't been that way for a long time now. The sale and licensing of intellectual property can represent a significant source of income to a university, and those dollars can be used to offset tuition costs and operating expenses, which is a good thing.
It's no different than intercollegiate sports; the players aren't professionals, public funds help pay their tuitions, why shouldn't we get into the games for free? Because the ticket fees help support the program so my taxes don't have to.
The not guilty plea is stupid nonsense.
No. The "not guilty" plea is how he gets a trial in the matter. He's perfectly within his rights to do that.
A guilty plea would have been stupid.
If they take action against Microsoft then I think Gates should just run the business into the ground. Destroy the whole damn thing. Put tons of people out of work and help to destroy the economy.
I don't usually respond to zero-rated comments because nobody but you will probably ever get to see my reply. Or care to.
That aside, I've often wondered if Bill wouldn't do just exactly what you propose? I've dealt with bullies on the playground as a child, and I have a serial workplace bully for a boss now. Bill Gates is undeniably and provably a corporate bully. And a bully's behaviour is extremely predictable. As soon as they recognize they are in a lose-lose situation, they don't just exit the situation, they end it for all involved so that nobody can win. The classic "I'm going to take my ball and go home" maneuver. So, yes, I think there's a slight possibility he might do what you want him to do.
As far as ruining the economy, you've grossly overestimated Microsoft's contribution to the world economy. Statistically, they're a pimple on the ass of something the size of General Motors. They consume few manufactured goods, thus very few suppliers are wholly dependant on Microsoft as a customer for their survival. And if Bill closed the gates to Redmond tomorrow, all their 'old' software that's out in the wild today will just keep on running as it always has. If I can't buy a new release of Windows next year, my company will not go 'tits up'. In the meantime, those ex-Microsoft employees are going to get together and fund startup companies, or go to work for newly emboldened ex-rivals who are competitively hamstrung by today's monopoly controlled marketplace. If the demand for Microsoft-style products exists, then somebody will fill the void. It's always been that way in a free market economy, and I hope it always will.
Anyway, if Bill wants to burn the place to the ground, I'll be more than happy give him the match. And aside from a little more overtime for haggard Washington firefighters, it probably won't have that much of a financial impact on anybody else one way or the other.
I would've expected news like that out of the communist bloc just a few years ago, but not here and not now.
AltaVista found no documents matching your query.
The details of how he did it are in PDF format. Doesn't that make Adobe a party to the crime of distributing a circumvention device?
I can tell you what'll happen; your wardrobe the next day will be an orange jumpsuit and shower shoes.
Big fuckin' deal. I compressed an entire Microsoft Operating System into a single byte once. HALT 0
Next thing you know, it will cost you money to view the EULA for a MSFT product and you'll be out 300 quid just to disagree with the license.
But I'm getting the impression that's not possible. Which should tell you a lot.
So we offer them the same deal Microsoft gave SpyGlass Technologies for their browser - a cut of the profits from all sales.
The message our lawmakers are sending to hackers is clear; leave the copy protection alone and instead just beat the f*cking shit out of the copyright holder.
I hope Dimitry flees. There won't be any justice for him here.
Wouldn't that be nice.
$0 - Caldera 2.2 (free with book)
$30 - Caldera 2.3 (boxed set)
$10 - Caldera 2.4 (upgrade with rebate)
$0 - RedHat 7.0 (preinstalled on new PC)
$80 - SuSe Professional (boxed set)
And also for my Linux bookshelf.
$40 - Special Edition Using Caldera (Que)
$40 - RedHat 7.0 Bible (IDG)
I've also bought boxed editions of Oracle 8i, WordPerfect 8, WordPerfect Office 2000, and a handful of books on HTML, PHP, MySQL and so on. But for just Linux, I've only shelled out just $200US in three years. Even including all the optional software and the other books, I doubt that it exceeds $400.
I shudder to think what I would have spent on Microsoft to do all the things I'm doing with Linux.
Prediction
2001 - The U.S. government creates the Copyright Enforcement Administration (CEA), closely patterned after the hugely unsuccessful Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). President Bush appoints a copyright "czar" from the motion picture community to head up the new office.
2002 - The CEA is granted property siezure rights similar to the DEA. An elderly couple in Florida is the first to lose their home when an unauthorized copy of a Perry Como MP3 is found on their harddrive.
2003 - A federal appeals judge upholds a controversial law backed by Adobe that makes all open source software a "circumvention device". Linux advocates displace crack dealers on street corners in ghetto neighborhoods across the country.
2004 - Hackers now outnumber drug offenders in the prison ranks. Within two years, there will be more federal prisoners than there are state and local combined. Nearly one-third of the population of the US has spent time behind bars.
2005 - The median sentence for violent crimes sinks below two years, mostly to make room for copyright felons and software pirates.
2006 - Re-education camps spring up across the west, modeled after the successful Redmond tent farms created by entrepreneur Joe Arpaio.
2007 - The first "apt-get" three-time loser is executed in Texas. President Gates attends the execution with Minister of Re-Education Hilary Rosen.
I see boom times ahead for f---edcompany.com with turds like these in charge of the economy.