Write letters to people at AOL, and other big software companies instead of to congress and senate, these big companies actually will listen because you are their source of income.
How utterly naive. AOL isn't some big software company. They are a rather huge MEDIA company that does some software development. Hmmm, you know there is another big software company out there that has patents on creating a DRM operating system. The biggest thing you forget is that these software companies aren't protesting against DRM. They are protesting against being forced by the government to implement a DRM that may not be one they control and thus get profit from.
You also seem to forget of how small and unorganized a demographic we are. Not to mention that we are the enemy in their eyes. We're the ones with the skills to circumvent their technology. This law is meant to make it difficult for Joe Average to easily start sending content to Jane Doe without giving somebody some quick cash. Do you really think we contribute enough to their bottom line that they would risk potential profits from a much larger consumer base? If so, I have some Enron stock to sell you.
People talk about how politicians are completely bought and paid for but they seem to forget that they can still work to vote their representative out of office. You simply can't say the same thing about corporations. What? I should buy some stock in every company I have an issue with and try to get my voice heard at a sharholders' meeting? Please.
The reason writing your congress-critter doesn't work is because most people are too apathetic and shirk their civic responsibility to get out and vote. Your vote is the one thing no corporation can buy and it the only thing that a politician requires to stay in office. As a voter you can try to recall your elected official if they break their campaign promises. Another thing no company can do.
The system may be broken in places but abandoning it only assures that we perpetuate the problem.
...I suggest you simply ask for more money - for instance, if you were expecting an 8 hour/day job and their contract asserts that they own what you do 24 hours/day, then you'll need at least three times as much salary to compensate.
You're forgetting weekends and holidays!! That's damn close to another 116 days. Ask for 4 times as much salary.
Maybe for the 507 exam. The 607 now has simulator exercises which test setting up and troubleshooting a Cisco router.
Will there still be people who pass and can claim they never touched a router? Probably. But it won't be as easy as it was before.
Also, fwiw, the beta period for the new CCNP exams ends this month. From what I heard they're more case study type questions now. Should be interesting to see what they're like.
I couldn't find -1 clueless. Then I looked for -1 uninformed. Nope. Not there. I puzzled this over in my mind and troll doesn't seem to fit, nor flamebait, and overrated is.. well over-rated.
It just doesn't tell the reader that you obviously know nothing about the Mozilla project. That it has been funded by AOL for years. That most of the initial "farting around" was done by paid, corporate programmers and that the OS community made a lot of useful contributions. Your entire assertation that now there is money behind it completely falls apart because there has always been money behind it.
The reason you see AOL jumping on the bandwagon now is because, imo, they couldn't get a deal done with MS. For years, they've kept waving the threat that they would move off of IE and it is time to put their money where their mouth is now that they are not being given any real estate on the XP desktop.
Next time do a little research. Just like that moderator who upped you should have done before wasting a point on your post.
How about why don't the parents of these kids raise a ruckus and get some prime-time coverage? Something these cases will never receive. Unless Johnny is uploading copies of the books for everyone to read a fan site is going to be mostly fair-use.
Harry Potter + Internet + Kids being treated badly = story.
And how is/. coming to the aid of anyone here? Somebody tossed this place a link with some pithy commentary that an "editor" liked and it got posted so a bunch of us can comment on the issue. For most of the readership, this story will be old news and forgotten by Monday and not a single victim listed in that article is going to get an ounce of love from/.
If the Harry Potter story is so dear to your heart, find a link, come up with some pithy commentary that will generate lots of discussion and post it. Take those recent stories about raisethefist.org (iirc.) That was about a kid not an adult.
What's new and more importantly what's new that is useful?
I just went and checked out some screenshots for Enlightment and WindowMaker. The default screen for E 0.16 looks completely unintuitive. There is obviously a window showing a desktop in the lower left but I have no clue what the window below it does and the window in the lower right is anybody's guess. After years of using Windows I had an easier time of figuring out the Mac and CDE interfaces.
Now let's look at 0.17 CVS screenshot. Without being able to do some test clicking, it looks like a varient of the traditional taskbar. Go here and there is very little to distinguish it from any other WIMP interface.
WindowMaker is different and I used to use it all the time under linux. The Dock is pretty nice. However, it is still just another WIMP interface.
The stuff that really differentiates< sp? > Gnome, E, Windowmaker and the rest from Windows is the ability to do multiple desktops, the abilty to roll-up windows and the like.
The problem is we now have a study which states that software patents are good for the industry the only problem being that the U.S. screwed up on a couple of issues. That study concludes that software patents help SMEs to grow and poo-poos the idea that weak patents are really a problem (note that this is the only place where they mention open source software.) What's really funny is they opine that the courts won't let a bad patent through and completely ignore the economic reality that if it is cheaper to license than to litigate most companies will bean-count.
It just became a lot harder to justify patent reform imo.
This isn't feasible. You have a ton of different programs out there each with their own exploits and configuration to enable anti-relaying. For example, where I work port 25 hits anti-virus or content filtering software first before you hit the mail server.
Cleaning up CodeRed and Nimba was somewhat effective because it could be easily automated. It isn't the case here.
What happens when someone creates a work ahead of its time? Ignored for 20 years only to be rediscovered as a modern masterpiece. Are you saying that because society decided to give the author nothing then it is all right for them to get it for free now?
giving them herpes gives them the chance to breed and we don't want that now do we? Oh well, considering how many of them seem happy to peddle beastiality sites maybe they wouldn't breed anyway.
While what you say is true, the parent insinuates that it is Mozilla that is being closed which is patently false. There are quite a few browsers out there using Mozilla code which will always remain free. And the goal is to have all of Mozilla MPL'd and (L)GPL'd.
Perosnally, I don't see what the big deal is. If AOL wants to roll out a closed source product with a one-click shopping icon let them. I can stick with Mozilla 1.0 when it comes out.
Oh come on. If it's that bad then learn how to configure your client so you don't get the "pretty pictures."
As to what to tell your boss, tell him to look into getting some software that can do content filtering as the mail comes in. Where I work all incoming mail is virus checked then goes through the content filters before being delivered. We have a spam account where offensive mail can be forwarded and an admin then goes over it and updates the filters. If that isn't enough for people, they can call the helpdesk and get instructions on how to create a rule in Outlook to send the crap into the trash.
Comparing an open relay to child molestation is extreme and even more offensive than your boss' 'barn babes' issue. What is a greater pity is you seem possessed of a great deal of creativity (rhino stampede indeed) but are incapable of channeling it towards finding a solution to the threat of a "possible lawsuit."
First off, go to samspade.org, bookmark this page and then check to see if your server has been blacklisted. It doesn't check every list but it is a dang good start. samspade is a friend indeed.
After that, it's simply up to you to find out how to get off the lists. Some are incredibly easy and take less than half a day. Others require more work. It isn't fun but it is worthwhile. You will surely rue the day when a client is knocking on your cube trying to send this critical e-mail to someone and the best advice you can give them is to open a hotmail account.
Hey, that isn't exactly fair. When the old admin left I inherited the job of maintaining the mail server. I knew nothing about e-mail but did know Unix which few others in my department did.
Nobody told me the server had an open relay on it . Worse, nobody told me this was permitted to allow one department to relay off of us when they were at a customer site.
Needless to say, it wasn't long before we got listed and I got a quick education about smtp. Once I had a grasp of what was going on I immediately closed the relay and got us delisted.
Then after a sick day I came back to be informed that the relay was open again. The department in question had enough politcal clout to make it happen. Well, we got back on the lists and worse yet we got on Earthlink. I quoted RFCs, gave them alternatives to using our server as a relay (like configuring their e-mail client properly) and, in the end, I created a form letter and started turning other departments against the offender by basically telling it like it was. In a professional matter of course.
Getting off of ORBZ was easy and I'm happy to say I never landed on MAPS. But Earthlink was a chore. They run their own service and what made me unhappy is the technical contact listed in their whois entry is for desktop support. It took me a week of phone tag to find out I should be contacting a department called Corporate Escalates. Once I got to them it took less than an hour to be removed.
And fwiw, all lists are not equal. Strangely enough I did wind up on ORBZ again. It seems they changed the way they did their test and added one for name!domain_to_send_to@server2relay_from. The version of software I was using didn't stop this and I had to upgrade.
Now that I'm done with getting this off my chest (sorry, I had to.), the real issue isn't with admins who don't know anything. It's with admins who don't care enough to learn and do it right.
You exactly have my point. I don't want the idea behind spellchecking patented. The only thing I care about is that the owner's implementation is protected. IOW, you can't use their code if they do not permit it. This is of course my opinion which the courts don't agree with obviously. But, imo, I think there is enough incentive to produce code that copyright is sufficient protection. Patents for software, especially for stuff that doesn't even have a product to show for it, should not be allowed.
If the patent system is not designed to handle code (which the SC will disagree with you btw) then why is removing the ability to patent software a bad thing?
There is always copyright to fall back on. It's not as if there are no laws to protect software if you take the ability to patent it away. Personally, I'd rather see every company write closed code than have them patent the idea behind it.
And what is the FTC going to do anyway? To paraphrase, I think, "Everything under the sun, made by man, can be patented." That is the current legal view regarding patents. As long as it isn't obvious to a person with average skill in the field you can patent it. Let's not forget to add that it is the USPTO's assumption that disputes will be handled by the courts. After all it is why they created a court just to handle those cases. And while it is possible for somebody to pay the USPTO to re-review a patent whose fault is it that so few use that option?
So what should they do? Validate patents through a slashdot poll?
Amazon spent a million and got some goodwill for the company by pacifying a loud but small demographics and blindsiding them with some busy work on a shiny windmill.
BountyQuest has already given fruit if you ask me.
Ok, I'm confused. If you check under FreeBSD they say it is ucd-snmp any version prior to 4.2.3 and that FBSD 4.5 isn't vulnerable. I double checked your info and sure enough you're correct. Then I checked the listing for OpenBSD and, while they say it doesn't ship with SNMP, ucd-snmp v.4.2.2 is on the OpenBSD ftp site as a package.
So what info is correct here and what am I misinterpreting? TIA
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Write letters to people at AOL, and other big software companies instead of to congress and senate, these big companies actually will listen because you are their source of income.
How utterly naive. AOL isn't some big software company. They are a rather huge MEDIA company that does some software development. Hmmm, you know there is another big software company out there that has patents on creating a DRM operating system. The biggest thing you forget is that these software companies aren't protesting against DRM. They are protesting against being forced by the government to implement a DRM that may not be one they control and thus get profit from.
You also seem to forget of how small and unorganized a demographic we are. Not to mention that we are the enemy in their eyes. We're the ones with the skills to circumvent their technology. This law is meant to make it difficult for Joe Average to easily start sending content to Jane Doe without giving somebody some quick cash. Do you really think we contribute enough to their bottom line that they would risk potential profits from a much larger consumer base? If so, I have some Enron stock to sell you.
People talk about how politicians are completely bought and paid for but they seem to forget that they can still work to vote their representative out of office. You simply can't say the same thing about corporations. What? I should buy some stock in every company I have an issue with and try to get my voice heard at a sharholders' meeting? Please.
The reason writing your congress-critter doesn't work is because most people are too apathetic and shirk their civic responsibility to get out and vote. Your vote is the one thing no corporation can buy and it the only thing that a politician requires to stay in office. As a voter you can try to recall your elected official if they break their campaign promises. Another thing no company can do.
The system may be broken in places but abandoning it only assures that we perpetuate the problem.
You're forgetting weekends and holidays!! That's damn close to another 116 days. Ask for 4 times as much salary.
Will there still be people who pass and can claim they never touched a router? Probably. But it won't be as easy as it was before.
Also, fwiw, the beta period for the new CCNP exams ends this month. From what I heard they're more case study type questions now. Should be interesting to see what they're like.
I couldn't find -1 clueless. Then I looked for -1 uninformed. Nope. Not there. I puzzled this over in my mind and troll doesn't seem to fit, nor flamebait, and overrated is.. well over-rated.
It just doesn't tell the reader that you obviously know nothing about the Mozilla project. That it has been funded by AOL for years. That most of the initial "farting around" was done by paid, corporate programmers and that the OS community made a lot of useful contributions. Your entire assertation that now there is money behind it completely falls apart because there has always been money behind it.
The reason you see AOL jumping on the bandwagon now is because, imo, they couldn't get a deal done with MS. For years, they've kept waving the threat that they would move off of IE and it is time to put their money where their mouth is now that they are not being given any real estate on the XP desktop.
Next time do a little research. Just like that moderator who upped you should have done before wasting a point on your post.
Harry Potter + Internet + Kids being treated badly = story.
And how is /. coming to the aid of anyone here? Somebody tossed this place a link with some pithy commentary that an "editor" liked and it got posted so a bunch of us can comment on the issue. For most of the readership, this story will be old news and forgotten by Monday and not a single victim listed in that article is going to get an ounce of love from /.
If the Harry Potter story is so dear to your heart, find a link, come up with some pithy commentary that will generate lots of discussion and post it. Take those recent stories about raisethefist.org (iirc.) That was about a kid not an adult.
Yes.
SPEWS meet Doubleclick.
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I just went and checked out some screenshots for Enlightment and WindowMaker. The default screen for E 0.16 looks completely unintuitive. There is obviously a window showing a desktop in the lower left but I have no clue what the window below it does and the window in the lower right is anybody's guess. After years of using Windows I had an easier time of figuring out the Mac and CDE interfaces.
Now let's look at 0.17 CVS screenshot. Without being able to do some test clicking, it looks like a varient of the traditional taskbar. Go here and there is very little to distinguish it from any other WIMP interface.
WindowMaker is different and I used to use it all the time under linux. The Dock is pretty nice. However, it is still just another WIMP interface.
The stuff that really differentiates< sp? > Gnome, E, Windowmaker and the rest from Windows is the ability to do multiple desktops, the abilty to roll-up windows and the like.
A screenshot is only going to tell you so much.
Just because RFC2505 says you should close your SMTP relay doesn't mean the government is going to pass a law requiring its enforcement.
It just became a lot harder to justify patent reform imo.
Cleaning up CodeRed and Nimba was somewhat effective because it could be easily automated. It isn't the case here.
What happens when someone creates a work ahead of its time? Ignored for 20 years only to be rediscovered as a modern masterpiece. Are you saying that because society decided to give the author nothing then it is all right for them to get it for free now?
Can herpes be passed through a goat?
Perosnally, I don't see what the big deal is. If AOL wants to roll out a closed source product with a one-click shopping icon let them. I can stick with Mozilla 1.0 when it comes out.
Interesting my ass.
As to what to tell your boss, tell him to look into getting some software that can do content filtering as the mail comes in. Where I work all incoming mail is virus checked then goes through the content filters before being delivered. We have a spam account where offensive mail can be forwarded and an admin then goes over it and updates the filters. If that isn't enough for people, they can call the helpdesk and get instructions on how to create a rule in Outlook to send the crap into the trash.
Comparing an open relay to child molestation is extreme and even more offensive than your boss' 'barn babes' issue. What is a greater pity is you seem possessed of a great deal of creativity (rhino stampede indeed) but are incapable of channeling it towards finding a solution to the threat of a "possible lawsuit."
After that, it's simply up to you to find out how to get off the lists. Some are incredibly easy and take less than half a day. Others require more work. It isn't fun but it is worthwhile. You will surely rue the day when a client is knocking on your cube trying to send this critical e-mail to someone and the best advice you can give them is to open a hotmail account.
'nuf said.
Nobody told me the server had an open relay on it . Worse, nobody told me this was permitted to allow one department to relay off of us when they were at a customer site.
Needless to say, it wasn't long before we got listed and I got a quick education about smtp. Once I had a grasp of what was going on I immediately closed the relay and got us delisted.
Then after a sick day I came back to be informed that the relay was open again. The department in question had enough politcal clout to make it happen. Well, we got back on the lists and worse yet we got on Earthlink. I quoted RFCs, gave them alternatives to using our server as a relay (like configuring their e-mail client properly) and, in the end, I created a form letter and started turning other departments against the offender by basically telling it like it was. In a professional matter of course.
Getting off of ORBZ was easy and I'm happy to say I never landed on MAPS. But Earthlink was a chore. They run their own service and what made me unhappy is the technical contact listed in their whois entry is for desktop support. It took me a week of phone tag to find out I should be contacting a department called Corporate Escalates. Once I got to them it took less than an hour to be removed.
And fwiw, all lists are not equal. Strangely enough I did wind up on ORBZ again. It seems they changed the way they did their test and added one for name!domain_to_send_to@server2relay_from. The version of software I was using didn't stop this and I had to upgrade.
Now that I'm done with getting this off my chest (sorry, I had to.), the real issue isn't with admins who don't know anything. It's with admins who don't care enough to learn and do it right.
You exactly have my point. I don't want the idea behind spellchecking patented. The only thing I care about is that the owner's implementation is protected. IOW, you can't use their code if they do not permit it. This is of course my opinion which the courts don't agree with obviously. But, imo, I think there is enough incentive to produce code that copyright is sufficient protection. Patents for software, especially for stuff that doesn't even have a product to show for it, should not be allowed.
And yes, my commentary is "ha, ha only serious." Sad to say.
There is always copyright to fall back on. It's not as if there are no laws to protect software if you take the ability to patent it away. Personally, I'd rather see every company write closed code than have them patent the idea behind it.
And what is the FTC going to do anyway? To paraphrase, I think, "Everything under the sun, made by man, can be patented." That is the current legal view regarding patents. As long as it isn't obvious to a person with average skill in the field you can patent it. Let's not forget to add that it is the USPTO's assumption that disputes will be handled by the courts. After all it is why they created a court just to handle those cases. And while it is possible for somebody to pay the USPTO to re-review a patent whose fault is it that so few use that option?
So what should they do? Validate patents through a slashdot poll?
BountyQuest has already given fruit if you ask me.
As long as you don't want to sleep with my wife (or me for that matter) we can talk. Especially if you look like Robert Redford.
So what info is correct here and what am I misinterpreting? TIA