When they finally get this up and running, find a way to circumvent the digital rights. This is office we're talking about: It hasn't worked properly since its debut. I bet, that there will be some stupid thing a regular user could do to circumvent these rights.
Also, these docs are going to have to point to a valid server to get their rights lists from. You'll be given a starting point(address) for any "activities" you would want to do to a server running windows 2003.
So for instance, I can imagine worms based on possible future windows 2003 server bugs that will scan all your "protected documents" on the system that will point to the next 2003 server to go exploit possibly giving away addresses of other people that connected to it and so on.
Entirely hypothetical, but it would be a nice @#$% %^& MS and your half-written(i think) over-priced(i think) products.
Users know windows. That is what they learn in school. This is what they have at home. This is what their friends have. You may think that teaching them to use a mac would be easy/cheap. You are wrong and you are not an IT person.
Try to teach anything something related to computers. They will come up with questions like "why can't I click that?", "What does that mean?".
Users haven't a single clue when it comes to computers. Its the same thing with cars: relatively intelligent people can't fix a simple thing on a car? Why is this? Familiarity. If you are using something you aren't very familiar with you won't be comfortable dealing/using it.
People don't choose mac's because they aren't as common. How do you become more common? Look more like windows. Why is linux catching on? Because they are trying to make the desktop look/feel more like windows.
At least open source software you can point out parts that may have been misappropriated and remove them. Imagine how much misappropriated code could be in windows but no one will be able to prove that.
Imagine this: in 10 years, windows will be on sourceforge as a GPL'd project (heads of M$ were killed by an army of mechanical penguins and microsoft was forced to shutdown). Then each of you can pick out the code that they stole from your project.
why don't you just use white noise AND a lavalamp unpredictable characteristics. You might have to use key press timing to pseudorandomly chose a pseudorandom number from the two pseudorandom producers pseudorandomly. Then for performance, add several lava lamps of difference sizes and several input sources for white noise.
Actually, wait... This may be too predictable for you. You might hate to place the lavalamps on a water bed (with some fire proof sheeting, lavalamps are hot) and place the mics at various locations of the bed.
but if that isn't enough, maybe you should just get one of those new intel boards when the come out.
Block users for ridiculously long amounts of time when they troll. If they troll repeatedly after the ban(s) simply use a redirect statement to send them automatically to http://www.tubgirl.com or even better, www.slashdot.org.
If i were on this type of expidition i would, prior to visitting each region, contact some big businesses in the area and try to arrange a tour of their facilities.
I bet that you might be able to find alot of sweet server rooms and hardware that will bring a twinkle to your eye.
(you might even get some free lunch/software or something out of the deal: talk about cost effective.)
I think the fact that google returns shopping results first shows that google is doing its job. Alot of web content is people trying to make a buck. Goole shows the most popular stuff first. Make sense? Pagerank does work: It may have flaws but do you think MSN is gonna come up with anything better? Well even if they come up with something like google it will still have problems with all the proprietary gui crap ware they will put in it and infront of it. Google is fast and accurate something microsoft never gets right. Good luck MSN.
I write in-house.NET apps that get sent out to alot of locations. Can anyone offer some input on how a programmer can redistrubute updated code to the users. Mostlikely I would like this to be an auto web update feature: Alot of programs do it, but how? Also, I'm hoping to avoid any:.NET sucks, switch to Java, why not use Python, real programmers use C type of comments.
If SCO can't prove that IBM put the code there --> Lawsuit fails
I think that its important to mention this. SCO have only sued IBM in their belief that IBM as put this code into Linux. If IBM hasn't and SCO cannot prove it then this lawsuit is a done deal. Also, if SCO sues IBM and loses, I don't believe they have the right to sue someone else on the same terms. If they want to do this they have to sue IBM as well as any other potential entity with money that could of done it at the same time. (i'm not a lawyer, that was my understanding of the law though-in canada)
Also, If companies are running linux and IBM did put the code in the kernel and SCO proves this and wins then would SCO could be able to sue companies selling / distributing the offending kernel verions: I have my doubts. Cases like this set precedents in courts and any judge who wants to do that is going to have to come up with some colorful ruling so that companies who have an interest in slowing GPL distributed software could not easily & annonymously(to frame a competing body) ruin many GPL'd projects by entering in fraudulant code into the source. Meh.
Unfortunately SCO only has money to lose, money which they wouldn't have if this lawsuit didn't start: so they're ahead either way. Linux is already losing because of the uncertainties involved in this legal action. it is also scarey that IBM is allowing FUD to be spread. IBM should stand up and explicly deny the code copying instead of simply arguing that its AIX liscense is irrevocable. As fas as we can tell (the public) any programmer with access to a copy of the unix code in question could of submitted it. (is this right to assume, doesn't linus review the code and check off who submitted it?) IBM could easily deny its involvement and pass it off an anonymous source: the offending lines.
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When they finally get this up and running, find a way to circumvent the digital rights. This is office we're talking about: It hasn't worked properly since its debut. I bet, that there will be some stupid thing a regular user could do to circumvent these rights.
Also, these docs are going to have to point to a valid server to get their rights lists from. You'll be given a starting point(address) for any "activities" you would want to do to a server running windows 2003.
So for instance, I can imagine worms based on possible future windows 2003 server bugs that will scan all your "protected documents" on the system that will point to the next 2003 server to go exploit possibly giving away addresses of other people that connected to it and so on.
Entirely hypothetical, but it would be a nice @#$% %^& MS and your half-written(i think) over-priced(i think) products.
And maybe they'll change Dr. Watson to Dr. Pat so they don't cross any feminist groups.
I wish I could get a board that supported an 80GHz RAM interface. :(
Users know windows. That is what they learn in school. This is what they have at home. This is what their friends have. You may think that teaching them to use a mac would be easy/cheap. You are wrong and you are not an IT person.
Try to teach anything something related to computers. They will come up with questions like "why can't I click that?", "What does that mean?".
Users haven't a single clue when it comes to computers. Its the same thing with cars: relatively intelligent people can't fix a simple thing on a car? Why is this? Familiarity. If you are using something you aren't very familiar with you won't be comfortable dealing/using it.
People don't choose mac's because they aren't as common. How do you become more common? Look more like windows. Why is linux catching on? Because they are trying to make the desktop look/feel more like windows.
PDF Producer: Acrobat PDFWriter 5.0 for Windows NT. :(
At least open source software you can point out parts that may have been misappropriated and remove them. Imagine how much misappropriated code could be in windows but no one will be able to prove that.
Imagine this: in 10 years, windows will be on sourceforge as a GPL'd project (heads of M$ were killed by an army of mechanical penguins and microsoft was forced to shutdown). Then each of you can pick out the code that they stole from your project.
why don't you just use white noise AND a lavalamp unpredictable characteristics. You might have to use key press timing to pseudorandomly chose a pseudorandom number from the two pseudorandom producers pseudorandomly. Then for performance, add several lava lamps of difference sizes and several input sources for white noise.
Actually, wait... This may be too predictable for you. You might hate to place the lavalamps on a water bed (with some fire proof sheeting, lavalamps are hot) and place the mics at various locations of the bed.
but if that isn't enough, maybe you should just get one of those new intel boards when the come out.
Block users for ridiculously long amounts of time when they troll. If they troll repeatedly after the ban(s) simply use a redirect statement to send them automatically to http://www.tubgirl.com or even better, www.slashdot.org.
If i were on this type of expidition i would, prior to visitting each region, contact some big businesses in the area and try to arrange a tour of their facilities.
I bet that you might be able to find alot of sweet server rooms and hardware that will bring a twinkle to your eye.
(you might even get some free lunch/software or something out of the deal: talk about cost effective.)
I think the fact that google returns shopping results first shows that google is doing its job. Alot of web content is people trying to make a buck. Goole shows the most popular stuff first. Make sense? Pagerank does work: It may have flaws but do you think MSN is gonna come up with anything better? Well even if they come up with something like google it will still have problems with all the proprietary gui crap ware they will put in it and infront of it. Google is fast and accurate something microsoft never gets right. Good luck MSN.
haha. awesome. thanks for that: now no one else has to.
Of course, by replying to this I'm bringing on a few more i'm sure.
I write in-house .NET apps that get sent out to alot of locations. Can anyone offer some input on how a programmer can redistrubute updated code to the users. Mostlikely I would like this to be an auto web update feature: Alot of programs do it, but how? Also, I'm hoping to avoid any: .NET sucks, switch to Java, why not use Python, real programmers use C type of comments.
thanks
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That that is not at all what I meant. Let me explain:
I lost some money for a unspecific reason.
steps:
The legal system, to my knowledge, doesn't allow this. foo.
I think that its important to mention this. SCO have only sued IBM in their belief that IBM as put this code into Linux. If IBM hasn't and SCO cannot prove it then this lawsuit is a done deal. Also, if SCO sues IBM and loses, I don't believe they have the right to sue someone else on the same terms. If they want to do this they have to sue IBM as well as any other potential entity with money that could of done it at the same time. (i'm not a lawyer, that was my understanding of the law though-in canada)
Also, If companies are running linux and IBM did put the code in the kernel and SCO proves this and wins then would SCO could be able to sue companies selling / distributing the offending kernel verions: I have my doubts. Cases like this set precedents in courts and any judge who wants to do that is going to have to come up with some colorful ruling so that companies who have an interest in slowing GPL distributed software could not easily & annonymously(to frame a competing body) ruin many GPL'd projects by entering in fraudulant code into the source. Meh.
Unfortunately SCO only has money to lose, money which they wouldn't have if this lawsuit didn't start: so they're ahead either way. Linux is already losing because of the uncertainties involved in this legal action. it is also scarey that IBM is allowing FUD to be spread. IBM should stand up and explicly deny the code copying instead of simply arguing that its AIX liscense is irrevocable. As fas as we can tell (the public) any programmer with access to a copy of the unix code in question could of submitted it. (is this right to assume, doesn't linus review the code and check off who submitted it?) IBM could easily deny its involvement and pass it off an anonymous source: the offending lines.
Cryptonomicon. dope book. 900 or so pages but a geek piece fo sho.
Some sectioning would be good. The "Error" links are nice.
:)
Good job
meh. i just found my old slashdot account. had to post to something.