Virus writers and script kiddies alike are going to love this channel. It will provide an awesome trophy for these losers. Getting your virus or exploit mentioned on the security channel will serve as great incentive to make ever more newsworthy attacks on the net. The more airtime it gets, the more successful you are...
The reason the magic was dim this time around had nothing to do with piracy. The problem is entirely due to George Lucas' inability to make a movie with magic in it. And the same goes for most of Hollywood. Really excellent movies are rare and hard to come by any more. Piracy isn't to blame for that.
My grandma almost has more than that. That's only the equivalent of 300 half-terabyte drives. At my last job, I had a single system with 200 disks... For a company that makes movies, I sure hope they have a lot more storage than quoted here.
The title of this story, Wired Amends Stories With Fabricated Quotes, is disingenuous at best. I could find no statement anywhere that the quotes in these articles were indeed fabricated. They simply state that the sources could not be confirmed, because they are anonymous. Now, if you decide you want to read between the lines and treat "unconfirmed" as "fabricated", that's certainly your right. But to put such a statement into a story headline only adds to slashdot's reputation as inflammatory and of questionable accuracy and motive.
Perhaps we need to see a headline on some other "news" site entitled "Slashdot Headline About Unconfirmable Quotes Cannot Be Confirmed".
Rick, you are sorely mistaken. The fans of Star Trek are not burned out on the franchise. We can't get enough good Star Trek. The problem is, Star Trek is not good. It has nothing to do with viewer fatigue.
What is the problem with Enterprise, then? Bad writing, boring characters, awful stories, and absolutely no respect for continuity with previous series. Vulcans getting "STDs" from mind melding? A stigma against mind melding? Vulcans being aggressive, deceitful and shortsighted? The borg? Romulans? T'Pau a rebel? Give us a break! Stop fucking with things that are dear to viewers! Make up something new instead of rehashing and mangling old standards. This series had unlimited potential to do new and interesting things, and you squandered it.
Most importantly, get someone less tired than yourself to run things. And more talented.
IMHO, companies should not actively monitor, but they should keep a "paper" trail for a certain amount of time. I am against active monitoring, but if a problem arises it is crucial to have history to refer to. My company keeps email records for contractors only, but doesn't waste the resources (or ethical capital) to examine them. However, at least once it has proven invaluable. We once caught a contractor stealing trade secrets and transmitting them to a cohort via email. He probably would have gotten away with it otherwise.
The client will also be open to third party plug-ins.
Yay! More ways for spyware and viruses to take control of your computer! And propagate themselves to your friends' computers too. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
I have rows of Linux servers running for a fraction of the cost of comparable Windows servers (if such an apples/oranges comparison can be made) that say otherwise.
As a member of Apple's Developer Connection program I received a pre-release version of Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' software, which I promised to keep confidential, instead, I disseminated it over the Internet, and thousands of unauthorized copies of Apple's software were illegally distributed to the public
You know why 41% of people don't send in rebates? Because most of the time you never get your damn money. It's not worth the $10 or whatever to fight with customer service when your money never arrives. I even signed up for a recurring rebate for a drug prescription, and they sent me all the materials and a rebate card with my name on it; shortly thereafter came a letter saying that they had no record of me and couldn't issue my rebate. Then how did they issue my personalized rebate card?! This sort of fraud seems standard practice with rebates. It's no wonder nobody sends them in. I've given up.
According to the article, the storage capcity of the wire is one megabyte per centimeter length. A standard CD stores 640 megabytes, which is equivalent to 6.4 meters of wire storage. To be useful, it would have to be wrapped up on a spool, and unwound by a drive of some sort in order to be read. It would be similar to tape drives, such as DLT, except potentially much more compact. However, I don't see how something like this could ever replace CDs, because linear storage does not make a good replacement for good old random access media like CDs, regardless of capacity.
If anything, storage wire technology might replace current tape technology as smaller and maybe more durable (or maybe not). But this definitely doesn't pose a threat to CDs as a fast and convenient storage media.
Apple didn't invent the idea of high prices for both razors and blades. Those damn Mach whatever blades cost big bucks, and so do the blades. But they're the only ones that work for me without shredding flesh, so I pay the money gladly.
This is designed to stop googlebombing, which is not necessarily spam. It won't stop spammers, because they'll still get people following links who read the blog on their own. E.g. if you post a message to slashdot with a link to some site, you'll get thousands of people seeing/clicking on your link without google's help. This will only stop incidental visitors, and really won't act as a deterrent to spammers. It will only help search engines, not blogs. In fact, it will reduce the number of visitors to blogs, which may not be a good thing. Think of all the *good* links that will be missed...
How about a cell phone that works instead? I wish cell phone manufacturers and service providers would produce cell phone service that actually functioned correctly, without static, cruddy audio quality, dropoffs, dead zones, inexplicable signal loss, and so on. Why can't they focus on that before adding more crap that doesn't actually work? I'd pay a lot for cell service that was reliable (i.e. didn't drop my calls at least 50% of the time) and had decent sound quality (i.e. so I can tell what the other person is saying).
use judges and special masters rather than uninformed juries.
I can tell you, from personal experience, that judges are quite often at least as clueless as juries. There are some judges that specialize in patent law, but it's a long legal road to travel before you get to one. By then, it's often been so long that the problem at hand becomes academic.
Is there? Claire Giordano of Sun's CDDL team said , in the submission, that it was of particular note that the license is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, and you think she meant to imply there was something wrong with that?
I wasn't referring to her. I was referring to the slashbot who posted the article. I'm not sure this story is really newsworthy in the first place, but by choosing that statement out of many possible ones, I believe the poster is pushing the GPL agenda over Sun's. At the very least, the poster knows it will get attention here.
From the open source definition:
I don't really care what opensource.org says. I'm just stating what I think Sun will do. I could be wrong, of course. But I don't think Sun will feel obliged to go with someone else's definition of open source if it conflicts with their agenda. I don't think that Sun defines "open source" according to anyone's agenda other than their own. Else, I'm not sure why they would balk at using the GPL.
The implication here is that there's something bad about them not wanting to GPL their source. Why should they? Simply making it open source of some kind seems good enough. That way we get to see it and potentially modify it for our own benefit. Not having read their proposed license, I'm assuming it won't allow anyone to resell the code. And why should they? It's their family jewels, and I see no reason they should allow competitors to take it and run.
He eventually committed suicide, though it's unclear if it had anything to do with the amount of ridicule he received as a result of the lawnchair incident. All he needed to do was to make it look like he flew away on purpose, and nobody would be any wiser. Kind of like the guy in this article.:)
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Virus writers and script kiddies alike are going to love this channel. It will provide an awesome trophy for these losers. Getting your virus or exploit mentioned on the security channel will serve as great incentive to make ever more newsworthy attacks on the net. The more airtime it gets, the more successful you are...
How is he going to get the thing out of the room?
The reason the magic was dim this time around had nothing to do with piracy. The problem is entirely due to George Lucas' inability to make a movie with magic in it. And the same goes for most of Hollywood. Really excellent movies are rare and hard to come by any more. Piracy isn't to blame for that.
...for April Fools Day stories?
My grandma almost has more than that. That's only the equivalent of 300 half-terabyte drives. At my last job, I had a single system with 200 disks... For a company that makes movies, I sure hope they have a lot more storage than quoted here.
The title of this story, Wired Amends Stories With Fabricated Quotes, is disingenuous at best. I could find no statement anywhere that the quotes in these articles were indeed fabricated. They simply state that the sources could not be confirmed, because they are anonymous. Now, if you decide you want to read between the lines and treat "unconfirmed" as "fabricated", that's certainly your right. But to put such a statement into a story headline only adds to slashdot's reputation as inflammatory and of questionable accuracy and motive.
Perhaps we need to see a headline on some other "news" site entitled "Slashdot Headline About Unconfirmable Quotes Cannot Be Confirmed".
Rick, you are sorely mistaken. The fans of Star Trek are not burned out on the franchise. We can't get enough good Star Trek. The problem is, Star Trek is not good. It has nothing to do with viewer fatigue.
What is the problem with Enterprise, then? Bad writing, boring characters, awful stories, and absolutely no respect for continuity with previous series. Vulcans getting "STDs" from mind melding? A stigma against mind melding? Vulcans being aggressive, deceitful and shortsighted? The borg? Romulans? T'Pau a rebel? Give us a break! Stop fucking with things that are dear to viewers! Make up something new instead of rehashing and mangling old standards. This series had unlimited potential to do new and interesting things, and you squandered it.
Most importantly, get someone less tired than yourself to run things. And more talented.
IMHO, companies should not actively monitor, but they should keep a "paper" trail for a certain amount of time. I am against active monitoring, but if a problem arises it is crucial to have history to refer to. My company keeps email records for contractors only, but doesn't waste the resources (or ethical capital) to examine them. However, at least once it has proven invaluable. We once caught a contractor stealing trade secrets and transmitting them to a cohort via email. He probably would have gotten away with it otherwise.
Lucas now struggles with how to reinvent himself.
He's struggling now? He should have started that struggle a long time ago, like before making Phantom Menace.
The client will also be open to third party plug-ins.
Yay! More ways for spyware and viruses to take control of your computer! And propagate themselves to your friends' computers too. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
Yankee Group Survey Says Windows, Linux TCO Equal
I have rows of Linux servers running for a fraction of the cost of comparable Windows servers (if such an apples/oranges comparison can be made) that say otherwise.
As a member of Apple's Developer Connection program I received a pre-release version of Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' software, which I promised to keep confidential, instead, I disseminated it over the Internet, and thousands of unauthorized copies of Apple's software were illegally distributed to the public
...and I purposefully contracted syphillis...
You know why 41% of people don't send in rebates? Because most of the time you never get your damn money. It's not worth the $10 or whatever to fight with customer service when your money never arrives. I even signed up for a recurring rebate for a drug prescription, and they sent me all the materials and a rebate card with my name on it; shortly thereafter came a letter saying that they had no record of me and couldn't issue my rebate. Then how did they issue my personalized rebate card?! This sort of fraud seems standard practice with rebates. It's no wonder nobody sends them in. I've given up.
If anything, storage wire technology might replace current tape technology as smaller and maybe more durable (or maybe not). But this definitely doesn't pose a threat to CDs as a fast and convenient storage media.
Now we just need to implement TCP clock skew randomization to make this go away.
Didn't this guy write his blog-bash in a blog?
Apple didn't invent the idea of high prices for both razors and blades. Those damn Mach whatever blades cost big bucks, and so do the blades. But they're the only ones that work for me without shredding flesh, so I pay the money gladly.
This is designed to stop googlebombing, which is not necessarily spam. It won't stop spammers, because they'll still get people following links who read the blog on their own. E.g. if you post a message to slashdot with a link to some site, you'll get thousands of people seeing/clicking on your link without google's help. This will only stop incidental visitors, and really won't act as a deterrent to spammers. It will only help search engines, not blogs. In fact, it will reduce the number of visitors to blogs, which may not be a good thing. Think of all the *good* links that will be missed...
Verizon promises cell phone TV
How about a cell phone that works instead? I wish cell phone manufacturers and service providers would produce cell phone service that actually functioned correctly, without static, cruddy audio quality, dropoffs, dead zones, inexplicable signal loss, and so on. Why can't they focus on that before adding more crap that doesn't actually work? I'd pay a lot for cell service that was reliable (i.e. didn't drop my calls at least 50% of the time) and had decent sound quality (i.e. so I can tell what the other person is saying).
use judges and special masters rather than uninformed juries.
I can tell you, from personal experience, that judges are quite often at least as clueless as juries. There are some judges that specialize in patent law, but it's a long legal road to travel before you get to one. By then, it's often been so long that the problem at hand becomes academic.
The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail
Shouldn't that be "illiteracy in corporate", not "of"? It's not the mail that's illiterate, it's the people who write the email.
Is there? Claire Giordano of Sun's CDDL team said , in the submission, that it was of particular note that the license is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, and you think she meant to imply there was something wrong with that?
I wasn't referring to her. I was referring to the slashbot who posted the article. I'm not sure this story is really newsworthy in the first place, but by choosing that statement out of many possible ones, I believe the poster is pushing the GPL agenda over Sun's. At the very least, the poster knows it will get attention here.
From the open source definition:
I don't really care what opensource.org says. I'm just stating what I think Sun will do. I could be wrong, of course. But I don't think Sun will feel obliged to go with someone else's definition of open source if it conflicts with their agenda. I don't think that Sun defines "open source" according to anyone's agenda other than their own. Else, I'm not sure why they would balk at using the GPL.
The implication here is that there's something bad about them not wanting to GPL their source. Why should they? Simply making it open source of some kind seems good enough. That way we get to see it and potentially modify it for our own benefit. Not having read their proposed license, I'm assuming it won't allow anyone to resell the code. And why should they? It's their family jewels, and I see no reason they should allow competitors to take it and run.
He eventually committed suicide, though it's unclear if it had anything to do with the amount of ridicule he received as a result of the lawnchair incident. All he needed to do was to make it look like he flew away on purpose, and nobody would be any wiser. Kind of like the guy in this article. :)