Except... Rails. Rails is a trademark, so in theory we now need to write Rails(tm). Now I can understand the Ruby on Rails(tm) logo being trademarked, if you don't want it appropriated, but Hansson has gone a bit further.
So I only grant promotional use for products I'm directly involved with. Such as books that I've been part of the development process for or conferences where I have a say in the execution.
This steps out of protection and into control, he's been refusing to allow books to use the logo on their covers. He's even trademarked "Ruby on Rails", taking the name of something he didn't invent or write and using that as part of his mark;
"Rails", "Ruby on Rails", and the Rails logo are trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson.
Want to have a Ruby on Rails(tm) conference? Better not include the name of the platform in your conference name then, that would be violating Hansson's trade mark. Even more "interesting" is the Ruby on Rails(tm) logo was a community effort (although the wiki pages for that are now gone. The original logo was even open source. The money to register the trademarks came from the community, but the marks are in the hands of Hansson alone.
It's not trademarks that are the problem, it's the person who controls them. If, for example, the Rails(tm) marks were overseen by a committee (made up, as a starting point, of everyone that helped pay for them) then that would be more acceptable than the current situation.
Take it further. If you look at the opt-out bits it talks about doubleclick cookies. So they've taken the evil bits of doubleclick and now widened it's scope to all those tiny little weblogs that have adsense embedded in them.
You don't just need backups. You need to TEST them. Having a backup run every night is nice and all; but if the tapes are unreadable and no error was reported, or if you're doing it wrong and the backup is corrupted and you only find out when you come to restore....
Nor is this a Microsoft issue; even if that's the only way to get it onto slashdot. Generally no contractual information like this is ever revealed; the UK government (for example) always refuses requests like this, even when people try to find out how much failed systems, or failed buildings cost.
Yes but we're ignoring the fact that the slashdot released currently running is a debug, limited release, unfinished product. Maybe when it's done the results will be different, just like the Windows 7, not even beta, version the lazy journalists tested.
You're using The Register as a measure of accuracy? Hey, I have some land I want to sell you.... and a bridge.... and I can transfer £6,000,000 into your bank account that was left on a train by a government employee if you'll just....
Actually Outlook, by default, when receiving and sending, attempts to negotiate secure channels. You can override it to choose SSL, TLS or none; but the default is "auto".
Oh indeed, not all messages will be sent or received encrypted; but Exchange, SendMail et al support it out of the box. My server talks to gmail encrypted, even hotmail.
It's still SMTP, but the first operation opens a TLS channel; it works in the same way that HTTPS does; it's still HTTP under the hood, just wrapped. The RFC is here if you want to have a read.
That is the fun part. My mail server has an SSL certificate; it supports TLS and SSMTP. So basically for a lot of emails they're just going to see encrypted traffic. What use is this again? (oh no, that's right, it's to stop terrorists, just like ID cards).
The comic it was "based" on was a celebration of anarchy over a fascist/totalitarian state, which used the UK as an example of democracy can be usurped. There's a little irony in how the politics of the US media companies couldn't bring themselves to show V as an anarchist or indeed to show him as the anti-hero he was intended to be; instead they bow to popular pressure to show heros.
You can't really tell. The iPhone 3g and the G1 comparison were on different networks. They also compared against a Windows Mobile phone on the same network as the G1; and the G1 turned out faster.
That doesn't stop them concluding
we believe that it's not a network factor, it's the G1's browser and processor being able to render pages much faster.
Interesting how you assume BitLocker doesn't support recovery/key management; if the machine is in an AD environment then you can enable key escrow to the AD which will allow for recovery of encrypted drives. As BitLocker encrypts whole volumes, like TrueCrypt and others then it won't matter where Windows writes data, because the entire volume will be encrypted. Your point about thumb drives still stands.
Utter balls. If you're an admin that doesn't know how to get the executables I fear for those systems.
As you appear to need severe help; here; but next time read the KB article, it tells you alternative locations to download from, including the Update Catalog Site which even uses a shopping basket metaphor. Errr. If you're using IE.
I guess it depends what they're targetting. Like it or not Linux is not making large leaps into desktop space. Now if we look at Mono for servers then 3.0 added Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow. WCF replaces the old ASP.NET way of doing web pages and added a bunch of important support for WS* standards. In 3.5 it introduced REST support and better federation bits and pieces. From the SOA work I've done I've been using WCF for 18 months now; and so without support for WCF those services cannot be moved.
Indeed; and there's a specific guarantee with Direct Debit, a phone call to the bank will get the money back immediately and it's up to the bank to chase the creditor not you. Creditors must warn you in advance if the payment amount changes, in writing, and you can cancel it at any time. Also creditors are vetted (a little) before they get the facility to allow you to setup direct debits.
The only problem I've had is with electronic DD where you don't need a signature to set it up. I've had a couple of direct debits setup for mobile phones because a cheque book was stolen a few years back; however my bank notifies me in writing every time a new direct debit or standing order is set up so I can check it (ok it's not a useful letter, they send me the reference number for the DD and the reference number for the organisation that set it up; I have to go on-line and review them where I can actually see the name of the organisation, but it's better than nothing.)
And that's a re-education hurdle for normal users that is never going to happen. Especially now EV certificates do validate the owner of the certificate.
Oh goodness no; think of the phishing problems. If you automatically accept without warning then phishing sites will look more legitimate. You may argue that the yellow will help but users don't pay attention to things like that; as long as it indicates there's some protection they'll accept that.
What utter twaddle. Lets extend that. Banks lend you money in a loan; but you took it, so it's yours, you don't have to pay it back. You pay petrol to drive into work every money, that's enough, no-one should ask any more. The terms and conditions were there for a reason; no-one forced them to download it. Simply because it's available doesn't mean there aren't terms attached. If you download GPL software does not mean no-one has a right to enforce the license? Of course not.
Oh and that's fine; when you pay for it. I don't like DRM on games because when I'm working away from home I don't want to have to bring the darned DVDs with me. However when you're getting something for free then the restrictions placed on you shouldn't be complained about as much as some of the "fans" did. And of course it's their computer; but then they didn't have to watch, or use Windows Media player. The site hosting it and the band were very upfront about it; there was even a "warning" that the streams were protected and ripping them wouldn't do any good; but there's always someone out there who believes they deserve something for nothing; it's just thankfully a minority of people.
7 years ago now I worked for a streaming media company in the UK who did pretty much all the promotional streaming for the labels. We'd put pre-release music on-line weeks before it was due for release; and, if the customer wanted it, made it available for download as well. All the tracks were free but DRMed to switch off on the day the record was released. Sometimes you'd have to enter some marketing details (although there was always an opt-out checkbox and we'd never pass details on if that was ticked).
One thing sticks in my mind. At the time Microsoft had just released the ability to DRM live streams and a particular heavy metal band wanted to play a charity concert with the proceeds going to a UK charity for a kids charity, I believe because one of them had a child afflicted by illness the charity was raise funds for. It was a small concert, tickets sold out partly because they have a huge following and partly because they were cheap, £5 if memory serves. The band knew there was a large audience for it; so they paid us (and we didn't take a profit on it) to stream the concert live. We discussed it with them and DRMed the live stream and made an archive of it available for a month afterwards. All at no cost to the viewer, not even marketing information, although at the end the band spoke about the charity for 5 minutes. When the month was up the band were going to release a DVD of the concert for sale; with all profit going to the charity. The DVD was pretty cheap too, I think around £8.50 including shipping.
The month expired and the streams were taken down, and the DRM kicked in (because stream rippers ripped the DRM as well *grin*). For the next month the band's official band bulletin board was filled with fans complaining that the streams they had ripped no-longer worked. It was pointed out the DVD was available, it was all for charity, and they'd had it free for a month, but no, lots of whining and sulking and demands that it should be free for ever.
Now you may argue that DRM is bad; and in a lot of cases I'd agree with you; but when it protects something that was free so after a while charities can make some money; well then frankly you can't complain and you're nothing but a freeloader.
Actually whilst £5 may not cover the fuel charges (and obviously taxes and everything else are on top of that) but by running a flight, even at a loss, the airline gets to keep its slot at those airports; slots are generally on a use them or loose them basis, which, coupled with the possibility of fines if they don't hit the passenger numbers agreed with the airports, is why some airlines have been hiring actors to pose as passengers.
As apparently it comes with a dupe detector built in. Well if "well respected" journalists can claim things based on supposition and hope then surely I can as well?
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Except ... Rails. Rails is a trademark, so in theory we now need to write Rails(tm). Now I can understand the Ruby on Rails(tm) logo being trademarked, if you don't want it appropriated, but Hansson has gone a bit further.
On the use of the logo he's said
So I only grant promotional use for products I'm directly involved with. Such as books that I've been part of the development process for or conferences where I have a say in the execution.
This steps out of protection and into control, he's been refusing to allow books to use the logo on their covers. He's even trademarked "Ruby on Rails", taking the name of something he didn't invent or write and using that as part of his mark;
"Rails", "Ruby on Rails", and the Rails logo are trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson.
Want to have a Ruby on Rails(tm) conference? Better not include the name of the platform in your conference name then, that would be violating Hansson's trade mark. Even more "interesting" is the Ruby on Rails(tm) logo was a community effort (although the wiki pages for that are now gone. The original logo was even open source. The money to register the trademarks came from the community, but the marks are in the hands of Hansson alone.
It's not trademarks that are the problem, it's the person who controls them. If, for example, the Rails(tm) marks were overseen by a committee (made up, as a starting point, of everyone that helped pay for them) then that would be more acceptable than the current situation.
Controlling machines without permission? Against the computer misuse act.
They used the botnet to spam two email accounts, one at gmail and one at hotmail. That's against the computer misuse act.
And they changed the wallpaper on the machines on the botnet. Against the computer misuse act.
Their "justification" doesn't fly; not having criminal intent is not a defence against the law.
Take it further. If you look at the opt-out bits it talks about doubleclick cookies. So they've taken the evil bits of doubleclick and now widened it's scope to all those tiny little weblogs that have adsense embedded in them.
You don't just need backups. You need to TEST them. Having a backup run every night is nice and all; but if the tapes are unreadable and no error was reported, or if you're doing it wrong and the backup is corrupted and you only find out when you come to restore ....
Nor is this a Microsoft issue; even if that's the only way to get it onto slashdot. Generally no contractual information like this is ever revealed; the UK government (for example) always refuses requests like this, even when people try to find out how much failed systems, or failed buildings cost.
Yes but we're ignoring the fact that the slashdot released currently running is a debug, limited release, unfinished product. Maybe when it's done the results will be different, just like the Windows 7, not even beta, version the lazy journalists tested.
You're using The Register as a measure of accuracy? Hey, I have some land I want to sell you .... and a bridge .... and I can transfer £6,000,000 into your bank account that was left on a train by a government employee if you'll just ....
Actually Outlook, by default, when receiving and sending, attempts to negotiate secure channels. You can override it to choose SSL, TLS or none; but the default is "auto".
Oh indeed, not all messages will be sent or received encrypted; but Exchange, SendMail et al support it out of the box. My server talks to gmail encrypted, even hotmail.
It's still SMTP, but the first operation opens a TLS channel; it works in the same way that HTTPS does; it's still HTTP under the hood, just wrapped. The RFC is here if you want to have a read.
That is the fun part. My mail server has an SSL certificate; it supports TLS and SSMTP. So basically for a lot of emails they're just going to see encrypted traffic. What use is this again? (oh no, that's right, it's to stop terrorists, just like ID cards).
The comic it was "based" on was a celebration of anarchy over a fascist/totalitarian state, which used the UK as an example of democracy can be usurped. There's a little irony in how the politics of the US media companies couldn't bring themselves to show V as an anarchist or indeed to show him as the anti-hero he was intended to be; instead they bow to popular pressure to show heros.
Yea it does, at a minimum you need AD to be 2003, if you extend the AD schema (and scripts are supplied to do so)
That doesn't stop them concluding
Interesting how you assume BitLocker doesn't support recovery/key management; if the machine is in an AD environment then you can enable key escrow to the AD which will allow for recovery of encrypted drives. As BitLocker encrypts whole volumes, like TrueCrypt and others then it won't matter where Windows writes data, because the entire volume will be encrypted. Your point about thumb drives still stands.
You don't have to join the OpenID foundation to become an OpenID provider. Funnily enough Microsoft did join; but in Feburary.
But as I ranted on my blog, becoming a provider is useless these days; allowing authentication using OpenID would be far more impressive.
As you appear to need severe help; here; but next time read the KB article, it tells you alternative locations to download from, including the Update Catalog Site which even uses a shopping basket metaphor. Errr. If you're using IE.
Windows 2000 SP4: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=E22EB3AE-1295-4FE2-9775-6F43C5C2AED3
Windows XP SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0D5F9B6E-9265-44B9-A376-2067B73D6A03
Windows XP SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=0D5F9B6E-9265-44B9-A376-2067B73D6A03
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=4C16A372-7BF8-4571-B982-DAC6B2992B25
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=4C16A372-7BF8-4571-B982-DAC6B2992B25
Windows Server 2003 SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=F26D395D-2459-4E40-8C92-3DE1C52C390D
Windows Server 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=F26D395D-2459-4E40-8C92-3DE1C52C390D
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=C04D2AFB-F9D0-4E42-9E1F-4B944A2DE400
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=C04D2AFB-F9D0-4E42-9E1F-4B944A2DE400
Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=AB590756-F11F-43C9-9DCC-A85A43077ACF
Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=AB590756-F11F-43C9-9DCC-A85A43077ACF
Windows Vista (optionally with SP1): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=18FDFF67-C723-42BD-AC5C-CAC7D8713B21
Windows Vista x64 Edition (optionally with SP1): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=A976999D-264F-4E6A-9BD6-3AD9D214A4BD
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=25C17B07-1EFE-43D7-9B01-3DFDF1CE0BD7
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=7B12018E-0CC1-4136-A68C-BE4E1633C8DF
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...=2BCF89EF-6446-406C-9C53-222E0F0BAF7A
I guess it depends what they're targetting. Like it or not Linux is not making large leaps into desktop space. Now if we look at Mono for servers then 3.0 added Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow. WCF replaces the old ASP.NET way of doing web pages and added a bunch of important support for WS* standards. In 3.5 it introduced REST support and better federation bits and pieces. From the SOA work I've done I've been using WCF for 18 months now; and so without support for WCF those services cannot be moved.
Indeed; and there's a specific guarantee with Direct Debit, a phone call to the bank will get the money back immediately and it's up to the bank to chase the creditor not you. Creditors must warn you in advance if the payment amount changes, in writing, and you can cancel it at any time. Also creditors are vetted (a little) before they get the facility to allow you to setup direct debits.
The only problem I've had is with electronic DD where you don't need a signature to set it up. I've had a couple of direct debits setup for mobile phones because a cheque book was stolen a few years back; however my bank notifies me in writing every time a new direct debit or standing order is set up so I can check it (ok it's not a useful letter, they send me the reference number for the DD and the reference number for the organisation that set it up; I have to go on-line and review them where I can actually see the name of the organisation, but it's better than nothing.)
And that's a re-education hurdle for normal users that is never going to happen. Especially now EV certificates do validate the owner of the certificate.
Oh goodness no; think of the phishing problems. If you automatically accept without warning then phishing sites will look more legitimate. You may argue that the yellow will help but users don't pay attention to things like that; as long as it indicates there's some protection they'll accept that.
What utter twaddle. Lets extend that. Banks lend you money in a loan; but you took it, so it's yours, you don't have to pay it back. You pay petrol to drive into work every money, that's enough, no-one should ask any more. The terms and conditions were there for a reason; no-one forced them to download it. Simply because it's available doesn't mean there aren't terms attached. If you download GPL software does not mean no-one has a right to enforce the license? Of course not.
Oh and that's fine; when you pay for it. I don't like DRM on games because when I'm working away from home I don't want to have to bring the darned DVDs with me. However when you're getting something for free then the restrictions placed on you shouldn't be complained about as much as some of the "fans" did. And of course it's their computer; but then they didn't have to watch, or use Windows Media player. The site hosting it and the band were very upfront about it; there was even a "warning" that the streams were protected and ripping them wouldn't do any good; but there's always someone out there who believes they deserve something for nothing; it's just thankfully a minority of people.
7 years ago now I worked for a streaming media company in the UK who did pretty much all the promotional streaming for the labels. We'd put pre-release music on-line weeks before it was due for release; and, if the customer wanted it, made it available for download as well. All the tracks were free but DRMed to switch off on the day the record was released. Sometimes you'd have to enter some marketing details (although there was always an opt-out checkbox and we'd never pass details on if that was ticked).
One thing sticks in my mind. At the time Microsoft had just released the ability to DRM live streams and a particular heavy metal band wanted to play a charity concert with the proceeds going to a UK charity for a kids charity, I believe because one of them had a child afflicted by illness the charity was raise funds for. It was a small concert, tickets sold out partly because they have a huge following and partly because they were cheap, £5 if memory serves. The band knew there was a large audience for it; so they paid us (and we didn't take a profit on it) to stream the concert live. We discussed it with them and DRMed the live stream and made an archive of it available for a month afterwards. All at no cost to the viewer, not even marketing information, although at the end the band spoke about the charity for 5 minutes. When the month was up the band were going to release a DVD of the concert for sale; with all profit going to the charity. The DVD was pretty cheap too, I think around £8.50 including shipping.
The month expired and the streams were taken down, and the DRM kicked in (because stream rippers ripped the DRM as well *grin*). For the next month the band's official band bulletin board was filled with fans complaining that the streams they had ripped no-longer worked. It was pointed out the DVD was available, it was all for charity, and they'd had it free for a month, but no, lots of whining and sulking and demands that it should be free for ever.
Now you may argue that DRM is bad; and in a lot of cases I'd agree with you; but when it protects something that was free so after a while charities can make some money; well then frankly you can't complain and you're nothing but a freeloader.
Still annoys me now.
Actually whilst £5 may not cover the fuel charges (and obviously taxes and everything else are on top of that) but by running a flight, even at a loss, the airline gets to keep its slot at those airports; slots are generally on a use them or loose them basis, which, coupled with the possibility of fines if they don't hit the passenger numbers agreed with the airports, is why some airlines have been hiring actors to pose as passengers.
As apparently it comes with a dupe detector built in. Well if "well respected" journalists can claim things based on supposition and hope then surely I can as well?