Try to realize that there's usually more than one law to cover a particular topic.
For example, you quote 331, try reading 333 and you'll see how I'm NOT wrong.
Defacement of Currency
Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. Under this provision, currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Defacement of currency in such a way that it is made unfit for circulation comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service. Their mailing address is:
United States Secret Service 950 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20223.
My employment history is pretty solid for the first 3 years, then a patch of 3 companies in a year, and then a 3 year stint and then a 3 year stint at my current company.
A company I just interviewed with (in case the current one goes under) asked about that 1 year period and were satisfied with my responses (they made me an offer), but I don't think it will be an issue unless there is a preponderance of these "3 months on the job" additions to your resume. Not listing them could in fact be better than doing so.
They'll move to XP because M$ will push it as a temporary solution until Longhorn comes out. Hell, only moving to a (cough) "trusted computing" environment now lets M$ guarentee to stockholders that people will upgrade in droves. They'll probably become very outspoken about security in the near future, LOL!
This may sound crazy, but M$ would likely gain...
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...from the source leak if it has occurred at the proper time.
One of Microsoft's big problems when introducing a new operating system (felt especially strongly when they released XP) is that they often have difficulty moving corporations and smaller companies to the new platform right away.
Many people still run 2000 (because it was M$'s first decent operating system) instead of XP because they have NO REASON to move to XP.
All of a sudden, 2000, and NT4 (which are holding strong in their pie-slice of the M$ OS world) have been subjected to enormous security liabilities.
Obviously the only answer for companies stuck with M$, move to XP! LOL.
The article's author fails to realize that the very nature of OSS makes this less likely than with closed source software. Peer review is inevitable and constant in OSS and it would very likely require a serious conspiracy in order to bring the 'nefarious plan' described to fruition. Alternatively, with closed source I would very likely be the only person who ever saw my source code and believe me, beating a security audit would not be difficult.
Maybe his article should be re-written to say "prosecuting fraud in the OSS world is likely to be more difficult for Governments than if they have a big fat company to hammer..."
LOL, his arguments are ridiculously easy to deconstruct. Not even worthy of an attempt, especially since his article is entirely based upon opinoin (stupidly faulty at that.)
Mozilla is a GREAT example of OSS development. Gecko kicks absolute a**, and it is (and has been for a while now) at a stage where it doesn't really matter whether you view pages in IE or the Moz.
The war is not over by a loooong way. and to call Mozilla "simple" is a bit shy of reality. If it was simple, why is it taking so long...?;)
I'm not worried about Mozilla losing out to IE, and I believe that parity with IE on Windows systems is a realistic possibility (because M$ appears to be waiting for Longhorn to introduce fundamental changes in any thing [and because IE's internals are very likely so convoluted that they need the time]), but the scariest thing I have ever heard was that Microsoft was seriously considering publishing software for Linux.
I have worked for Microsoft as an Irix software engineer (I worked at SoftImage when M$ owned them) building XSi (known as Sumatra back then) and M$ pushed COM onto Irix with ease, MFC onto Irix with ease and COULD VERY EASILY DO IT FOR LINUX. Now, all of you are shuddering with revulsion as I am right now, but the sad reality is: "If M$ starts pushing tools and software into the Linux arena, a whole new group of engineers, enthusiasts, and ISVs are going to start producing product for the platform." Now, while that sounds great for Linux at first, consideration makes me think that Linux is an incredible OS, and has become so because of one thing most of all: Personal attachment and belief in its purpose. The second most likely reason, imho, is that money is not thrown around in Linux in the same manner as it is in the Windows (or other OS) world. Linux MAKES tons of money, but the majority of it is in implementation and deployment.
I am VERY leery of inviting the sharks, manipulators, kernel bribes (tm 2004 Assmasher), politics, and stupidly dangerous big businesses into our backyard. This is what will happen if M$ enters into Linux in the near future because we're not ready pschologically for that impact.
Starting to ramble now, sorry, I'll have to move these thoughts to my journal later. In a nutshell, I fear the loss of our 'rosebuds' when big business comes to Linux town in a big way.
So, basically, as I insinuated in my post: It is a more likely problem in OSS than on Win CE (which I also have to develop for.) It is, imho, the last great hurdle for *nix systems to all powerful technical world dominance (still need games to kill Windows.)
Desktop? Linux has them, excellent ones, in spades... Stability? LOL, no problem. File System performance? Ditto. Hardware support? No longer much of a problem, and if a problem, solved quickly.
Getting an app to run/build that you get off SF? PROBLEMS...;) Even for relatively experienced puke head geeks like myself. I find myself occasionally saying "Crap, I can run this app or that one, but not both..."
...breaks my other OSS all the time. Conflicting lib requirements/*.SOs, et al. I can't remember the last time some of my Windoze software broke because I installed something else or 'upgraded' or 'patched.'
Now, there's plenty of other reasons why you should use OSS over CSS, but 'breakage' usually isn't one of them unless you are running a machien that is dedicated to a particular task (i.e. web server)
...action lawsuit against all of the baby Bells insinuating their inherent responsibility for any telephone frauds/scams that were perpetrated through their services.
...stupidity that idiot posters on Slashdot do. This is a GREAT website and, quite obviously, garnering a reputation for being a *nix punk site.
Sadly, I can't help but think that people like Rob Limo and even the Cmdr himself give fertile ground to such idiocy through their unmitigating and constant presentation of all things M$ as inherently evil even though other companies (such as the 'giving OS products for free to schools' from earlier today) have done and continue to do the same things.
Let's keep Linux above the immorality and un-ethical behavior of other OSes and companies because the community that is Linux is beginning to get a bad name... God knows Linux is so much better in most cases that the facts are all one needs;).
I get tired of coming off as pro-M$, because I'm not. In fact, I can't stand their lack of morality/ethics; however, I dislike even more the lack of an objective approach to everything M$ on slashdot. We're smarter than that. Just like every other company, M$ does things wrong and does things right. Look how the OP asserts machiavellian over-tones into the practice of M$ giving away discounted software to schools. Apple has been doing this since their inception (why do you think most of us grew up with the Apple IIe at school?) Nobody bashes Intel for doing it with hardware.
There are PLENTY of legitimate and objective beefs about M$ we can harp on, let's try to avoid sounding displaying the subjectivity that is a business Windows user's last resort...
...if you've seen Tom Hanks' "The money pit", and you remember the two asshole brothers you'll remember that Joe Montegna (sp?) played the carpenter brother and that this guy played the plumber brother. Joe drove the corvette that played "I've got to be me" and this guy drove the big old cadillac that played the same thing.
You might remember him walking up to the house and asking Tom Hanks for a drink and Tom replies "Where are my manners, here it is... almost 9 o'clock in the morning..." they walk into the house and then you see Carmine come storming out of the house tossing back the drink and saying "Oh, so you're saving the good stuff..."
He looks a lot like an old version of the Simpson's "Fat Tony";)
I've never seen (personally) spam from Omaha Steaks, but now that I know they use spammers I will NEVER buy a product from them again unless I see a published apology from them.
I'd like to avoid other products as well. So, is there a website that lists the more well known companies that abuse e-mail in this manner?
Why do the zealots, without fail, paint any action involving M$ as stupid or incompetent. If the idiot poster had bothered to read the article (unless he is being intentionally deceptive), he'd have realized that someone in the patching group for FrontPage extensions simple reposted a patch that had been up in November.
Wow, what collosal stupidity that in a company of tens of thousands of people, somebody put a patch up when the PR flacks stated that no more would go up. Man, HOW LUCKY CAN MICROSOFT BE? They are so collosally stupid and yet they are incredibly rich and powerful. They are the luckiest people ever...
Stupid zealots make it hard for Linux lovers that actually CAN speak rationally to spread the word.
Do you want to visit 3000 years in the future? Get you ass up to relativistic speeds and then come back. You'll have aged slightly and the rest of the universe will be far into the future. Ergo, time travel in one direction is trivially simple in theory, yet difficult as an engineering feat. Oh, if you want to come back, sorry...
...a browser because it stifles competition, now they expect MS to ship a copy of 'Ghost' with the OS for free as well.
There are plenty of ways to EXACTLY copy your HDD with minimal effort. I suggest you learn one and stop proving Lincoln's axiom that keeping your mouth shut and being thought a fool is better than opening it and removing all doubt...
Re:Apple has been outright lying for 20 years....
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Some idiot marked the previous post as flamebait when its purpose is to open discussion as to the sordid history of Apple's false advertising. Piss off idiot...
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Try to realize that there's usually more than one law to cover a particular topic.
For example, you quote 331, try reading 333 and you'll see how I'm NOT wrong.
Defacement of Currency
Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. Under this provision, currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Defacement of currency in such a way that it is made unfit for circulation comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service. Their mailing address is:
United States Secret Service
950 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20223.
http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/18/104
...but they are openly admitting to committing a felony. It is highly illegal to damage or destroy money intentionally.
Shoot the marketing department Bill, they didn't see the movie obviously.
I mean, everytime we've meddled with Mother Nature and the human condition in the past, we've always come out smelling of roses... LOL.
Will we ever learn? (It sure is cool from the Geek perspective though.)
My employment history is pretty solid for the first 3 years, then a patch of 3 companies in a year, and then a 3 year stint and then a 3 year stint at my current company.
A company I just interviewed with (in case the current one goes under) asked about that 1 year period and were satisfied with my responses (they made me an offer), but I don't think it will be an issue unless there is a preponderance of these "3 months on the job" additions to your resume. Not listing them could in fact be better than doing so.
I can claim that I can infect your PC w/o mentioning that you need to be running an obsolete OS...?
...world do not.
They'll move to XP because M$ will push it as a temporary solution until Longhorn comes out. Hell, only moving to a (cough) "trusted computing" environment now lets M$ guarentee to stockholders that people will upgrade in droves. They'll probably become very outspoken about security in the near future, LOL!
...from the source leak if it has occurred at the proper time.
One of Microsoft's big problems when introducing a new operating system (felt especially strongly when they released XP) is that they often have difficulty moving corporations and smaller companies to the new platform right away.
Many people still run 2000 (because it was M$'s first decent operating system) instead of XP because they have NO REASON to move to XP.
All of a sudden, 2000, and NT4 (which are holding strong in their pie-slice of the M$ OS world) have been subjected to enormous security liabilities.
Obviously the only answer for companies stuck with M$, move to XP! LOL.
Mighty convenient isn't it?
The article's author fails to realize that the very nature of OSS makes this less likely than with closed source software. Peer review is inevitable and constant in OSS and it would very likely require a serious conspiracy in order to bring the 'nefarious plan' described to fruition. Alternatively, with closed source I would very likely be the only person who ever saw my source code and believe me, beating a security audit would not be difficult.
Maybe his article should be re-written to say "prosecuting fraud in the OSS world is likely to be more difficult for Governments than if they have a big fat company to hammer..."
LOL, his arguments are ridiculously easy to deconstruct. Not even worthy of an attempt, especially since his article is entirely based upon opinoin (stupidly faulty at that.)
is...
;)
Mozilla is a GREAT example of OSS development. Gecko kicks absolute a**, and it is (and has been for a while now) at a stage where it doesn't really matter whether you view pages in IE or the Moz.
The war is not over by a loooong way. and to call Mozilla "simple" is a bit shy of reality. If it was simple, why is it taking so long...?
I'm not worried about Mozilla losing out to IE, and I believe that parity with IE on Windows systems is a realistic possibility (because M$ appears to be waiting for Longhorn to introduce fundamental changes in any thing [and because IE's internals are very likely so convoluted that they need the time]), but the scariest thing I have ever heard was that Microsoft was seriously considering publishing software for Linux.
I have worked for Microsoft as an Irix software engineer (I worked at SoftImage when M$ owned them) building XSi (known as Sumatra back then) and M$ pushed COM onto Irix with ease, MFC onto Irix with ease and COULD VERY EASILY DO IT FOR LINUX. Now, all of you are shuddering with revulsion as I am right now, but the sad reality is: "If M$ starts pushing tools and software into the Linux arena, a whole new group of engineers, enthusiasts, and ISVs are going to start producing product for the platform." Now, while that sounds great for Linux at first, consideration makes me think that Linux is an incredible OS, and has become so because of one thing most of all: Personal attachment and belief in its purpose. The second most likely reason, imho, is that money is not thrown around in Linux in the same manner as it is in the Windows (or other OS) world. Linux MAKES tons of money, but the majority of it is in implementation and deployment.
I am VERY leery of inviting the sharks, manipulators, kernel bribes (tm 2004 Assmasher), politics, and stupidly dangerous big businesses into our backyard. This is what will happen if M$ enters into Linux in the near future because we're not ready pschologically for that impact.
Starting to ramble now, sorry, I'll have to move these thoughts to my journal later. In a nutshell, I fear the loss of our 'rosebuds' when big business comes to Linux town in a big way.
So, basically, as I insinuated in my post: It is a more likely problem in OSS than on Win CE (which I also have to develop for.) It is, imho, the last great hurdle for *nix systems to all powerful technical world dominance (still need games to kill Windows.)
;) Even for relatively experienced puke head geeks like myself. I find myself occasionally saying "Crap, I can run this app or that one, but not both..."
Desktop? Linux has them, excellent ones, in spades... Stability? LOL, no problem. File System performance? Ditto. Hardware support? No longer much of a problem, and if a problem, solved quickly.
Getting an app to run/build that you get off SF? PROBLEMS...
...breaks my other OSS all the time. Conflicting lib requirements/*.SOs, et al. I can't remember the last time some of my Windoze software broke because I installed something else or 'upgraded' or 'patched.'
Now, there's plenty of other reasons why you should use OSS over CSS, but 'breakage' usually isn't one of them unless you are running a machien that is dedicated to a particular task (i.e. web server)
...action lawsuit against all of the baby Bells insinuating their inherent responsibility for any telephone frauds/scams that were perpetrated through their services.
Dirty colluding phone companies!
.up a huge can of worms for the Open Source community and an open source operating system.
People in glass houses should not throw bulldozers...
...stupidity that idiot posters on Slashdot do. This is a GREAT website and, quite obviously, garnering a reputation for being a *nix punk site.
;).
Sadly, I can't help but think that people like Rob Limo and even the Cmdr himself give fertile ground to such idiocy through their unmitigating and constant presentation of all things M$ as inherently evil even though other companies (such as the 'giving OS products for free to schools' from earlier today) have done and continue to do the same things.
Let's keep Linux above the immorality and un-ethical behavior of other OSes and companies because the community that is Linux is beginning to get a bad name... God knows Linux is so much better in most cases that the facts are all one needs
I get tired of coming off as pro-M$, because I'm not. In fact, I can't stand their lack of morality/ethics; however, I dislike even more the lack of an objective approach to everything M$ on slashdot. We're smarter than that. Just like every other company, M$ does things wrong and does things right. Look how the OP asserts machiavellian over-tones into the practice of M$ giving away discounted software to schools. Apple has been doing this since their inception (why do you think most of us grew up with the Apple IIe at school?) Nobody bashes Intel for doing it with hardware.
There are PLENTY of legitimate and objective beefs about M$ we can harp on, let's try to avoid sounding displaying the subjectivity that is a business Windows user's last resort...
...if you've seen Tom Hanks' "The money pit", and you remember the two asshole brothers you'll remember that Joe Montegna (sp?) played the carpenter brother and that this guy played the plumber brother. Joe drove the corvette that played "I've got to be me" and this guy drove the big old cadillac that played the same thing.
;)
You might remember him walking up to the house and asking Tom Hanks for a drink and Tom replies "Where are my manners, here it is... almost 9 o'clock in the morning..." they walk into the house and then you see Carmine come storming out of the house tossing back the drink and saying "Oh, so you're saving the good stuff..."
He looks a lot like an old version of the Simpson's "Fat Tony"
...companies that make use of spammers?
I've never seen (personally) spam from Omaha Steaks, but now that I know they use spammers I will NEVER buy a product from them again unless I see a published apology from them.
I'd like to avoid other products as well. So, is there a website that lists the more well known companies that abuse e-mail in this manner?
Sort of like calling "Chariots of the Gods" a good history book.
...the hottie little rich girls there. Now he needs to park a fake Escalade just outside the door...
Why do the zealots, without fail, paint any action involving M$ as stupid or incompetent. If the idiot poster had bothered to read the article (unless he is being intentionally deceptive), he'd have realized that someone in the patching group for FrontPage extensions simple reposted a patch that had been up in November.
Wow, what collosal stupidity that in a company of tens of thousands of people, somebody put a patch up when the PR flacks stated that no more would go up. Man, HOW LUCKY CAN MICROSOFT BE? They are so collosally stupid and yet they are incredibly rich and powerful. They are the luckiest people ever...
Stupid zealots make it hard for Linux lovers that actually CAN speak rationally to spread the word.
. a different story altogether.
Do you want to visit 3000 years in the future? Get you ass up to relativistic speeds and then come back. You'll have aged slightly and the rest of the universe will be far into the future. Ergo, time travel in one direction is trivially simple in theory, yet difficult as an engineering feat. Oh, if you want to come back, sorry...
...a browser because it stifles competition, now they expect MS to ship a copy of 'Ghost' with the OS for free as well.
There are plenty of ways to EXACTLY copy your HDD with minimal effort. I suggest you learn one and stop proving Lincoln's axiom that keeping your mouth shut and being thought a fool is better than opening it and removing all doubt...
Some idiot marked the previous post as flamebait when its purpose is to open discussion as to the sordid history of Apple's false advertising. Piss off idiot...
Something else isn't the fastest either...