Development Team,
Thank you! I have been saying for years that Open Source is EVIL! Now we have even more proof. With this latest failure of open source code we can push even more people into using our products. We can even say that we "tried" to use open source, and look what it brought us. Once again, Thanks! Marketing and I appriciate it.
the article brings up some interesting points. although napster is currently pretty much dead in the water, it seems that the company may get some sort of compensation do to the anti-competative practices of the record lables.
"MusicNet did not suddenly appear full blown from the head of a fictitious entity. The evidence suggests that plaintiffs formed a joint venture to distribute digital music and simultaneously refused to enter into individual licenses with competitors, effectively requiring competitors to use MusicNet as their source for digital licensing."
granted, i am not a lawyer, but it would seem that napster would have some recourse if monopolistic/anit-competative practices could be proved, and napster may have a solid future (or others) in the pay-per-play area of online music...
from the letter....NTIA did not submit these legislative rules for notice and comment as required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and did not conduct a regulatory flexibility analysis as required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA).
As part of our statutory duty to monitor agency compliance with the RFA, Advocacy requests that the NTIA place the contract for administration of the Dot US Domain Space on hold and submit the legislative rulemaking provisions for notice and comment, and conduct a regulatory flexibility analysis. Alternatively, NTIA can strike the rulemaking provisions from the contract, and the contract would no longer be subject to the APA. Unless and until NTIA does so, the contract for the management of the Dot US domain is unlawful, as it violates both the APA and the RFA.
While I don't agree with the "sunrise" period mentioned in the letter, it really doesn't matter. According to the statement above NITA dropped the ball. They didn't do what they were supposed to do, didn't get the proper regulatatory "stamp of approval" and the contract should be considered invalid.
After they drop the contract, they should re-think the sunrise policies... but first they need to slap that thing with a big "illigeal" stamp and get it out of there;)
I would hope that the community and the possible "patent holders" allow for this to go forward. There really is a need for such a technology the XML/Web Services space.
Having the ability to sign a document, or even a fragment of a document, allows for customers to "trust" that document and its contents. Sure https/ssl is a good way to "secure" the data during transit. But how can you be sure (currently) that the document I am sending you contains the proper information?
Think of this in a b2b ecommerce setup. I can send you my pricing sheets, in xml format, you can be sure that they are really the proper pricing, and can be assured of the "current" availablity. In the same XML document, I can include reviews and any other pertanant infromation about a given product. Digitally signed and verified from a trusted third party source. My customers are now not worried that I am trying to push a product line by falsifing results, and I am providing them with content for there catalogs...
To me, if it makes it through any "patent problems" this could be a very good thing;)
After reading that article, it would seem to me that there would need to be considerable constraints put on the service providers and the frequencies that they use.
From the article @ gpsworld:
Of the six carriers with national operations, three -- Sprint, Verizon, and Nextel -- are incorporating network-assisted GPS (A-GPS) into their implementation of E911. [snip] Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz expressed the Department of Defense's "deep concern that, unless properly controlled, proliferation of UWB devices intended to be mass-marketed to the public could cause harmful interference" to GPS and other critical national security and safety-of-life systems.
I'm all for high speed wireless connections... but not at the cost of public safety. Using frequencies that are not going to interfere seems to be the best way, and I would hope that in the end, that is the way it ends up
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This time the bug isn't spreading an e-mail virus, but through a message on techie website Slashdot.
Rob Malda, better known as CmdrTaco, editor and founder of Slashdot, posted a marriage proposal to his long-time girlfriend, Kathleen Fent, on the front page of the techie website Thursday morning.
its ironic how ms can come out with a "brand new framework", a huge marketing blitz and get slammed by security vulerabilities... all at the same time im looking at an add for ms visual studio.net on Slashdot...
(click for all the bugs^H^H^H^Hinfo that won't fit in a nutshell.)
They can simply justify it because by installing the software you agree to the EULA. It doesn't mean that they are right in raiding your company, but it does mean that they are simply doing the bidding of the software company who "hired" them.
And lowering a truck to the point were the frame scrapes the ground everytime you go in and out of a parking lot is not a destructive mod? (I have a friend who has done this two his truck..)
This is a FUN THING TO DO... just as lowering his truck is a FUN THING TO DO... The HDD will crash... His truck gets messed up from all of the scraping and undercarraige damage.. BUT ITS FUN!
He has another car to drive... Do this on your swap drive or something... It will sure look kewl;)
-r
Slashdot Mirror
Development Team,
Thank you! I have been saying for years that Open Source is EVIL! Now we have even more proof. With this latest failure of open source code we can push even more people into using our products. We can even say that we "tried" to use open source, and look what it brought us. Once again, Thanks! Marketing and I appriciate it.
-Bill
Check out the article over at zdnet. It has a bit more content that the Rueters article...
the article brings up some interesting points. although napster is currently pretty much dead in the water, it seems that the company may get some sort of compensation do to the anti-competative practices of the record lables.
"MusicNet did not suddenly appear full blown from the head of a fictitious entity. The evidence suggests that plaintiffs formed a joint venture to distribute digital music and simultaneously refused to enter into individual licenses with competitors, effectively requiring competitors to use MusicNet as their source for digital licensing."
granted, i am not a lawyer, but it would seem that napster would have some recourse if monopolistic/anit-competative practices could be proved, and napster may have a solid future (or others) in the pay-per-play area of online music...
-ryan
from the letter....NTIA did not submit these legislative rules for notice and comment as required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and did not conduct a regulatory flexibility analysis as required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA).
As part of our statutory duty to monitor agency compliance with the RFA, Advocacy requests that the NTIA place the contract for administration of the Dot US Domain Space on hold and submit the legislative rulemaking provisions for notice and comment, and conduct a regulatory flexibility analysis. Alternatively, NTIA can strike the rulemaking provisions from the contract, and the contract would no longer be subject to the APA. Unless and until NTIA does so, the contract for the management of the Dot US domain is unlawful, as it violates both the APA and the RFA.
While I don't agree with the "sunrise" period mentioned in the letter, it really doesn't matter. According to the statement above NITA dropped the ball. They didn't do what they were supposed to do, didn't get the proper regulatatory "stamp of approval" and the contract should be considered invalid.
After they drop the contract, they should re-think the sunrise policies... but first they need to slap that thing with a big "illigeal" stamp and get it out of there ;)
just my 2cents... -ryanI would hope that the community and the possible "patent holders" allow for this to go forward. There really is a need for such a technology the XML/Web Services space.
Having the ability to sign a document, or even a fragment of a document, allows for customers to "trust" that document and its contents. Sure https/ssl is a good way to "secure" the data during transit. But how can you be sure (currently) that the document I am sending you contains the proper information?
Think of this in a b2b ecommerce setup. I can send you my pricing sheets, in xml format, you can be sure that they are really the proper pricing, and can be assured of the "current" availablity. In the same XML document, I can include reviews and any other pertanant infromation about a given product. Digitally signed and verified from a trusted third party source. My customers are now not worried that I am trying to push a product line by falsifing results, and I am providing them with content for there catalogs...
To me, if it makes it through any "patent problems" this could be a very good thing ;)
-ryanAfter reading that article, it would seem to me that there would need to be considerable constraints put on the service providers and the frequencies that they use.
From the article @ gpsworld: Of the six carriers with national operations, three -- Sprint, Verizon, and Nextel -- are incorporating network-assisted GPS (A-GPS) into their implementation of E911. [snip]
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz expressed the Department of Defense's "deep concern that, unless properly controlled, proliferation of UWB devices intended to be mass-marketed to the public could cause harmful interference" to GPS and other critical national security and safety-of-life systems.
I'm all for high speed wireless connections... but not at the cost of public safety. Using frequencies that are not going to interfere seems to be the best way, and I would hope that in the end, that is the way it ends up
Cupid's Bull's-Eye on Nerd Site ;)
now your really famous
Thousands of geeks were hit hard by the Love Bug on Valentine's Day morning. This time the bug isn't spreading an e-mail virus, but through a message on techie website Slashdot. Rob Malda, better known as CmdrTaco, editor and founder of Slashdot, posted a marriage proposal to his long-time girlfriend, Kathleen Fent, on the front page of the techie website Thursday morning.
Congrats!
its ironic how ms can come out with a "brand new framework", a huge marketing blitz and get slammed by security vulerabilities... all at the same time im looking at an add for ms visual studio.net on Slashdot ...
(click for all the bugs^H^H^H^Hinfo that won't fit in a nutshell.)
They can simply justify it because by installing the software you agree to the EULA. It doesn't mean that they are right in raiding your company, but it does mean that they are simply doing the bidding of the software company who "hired" them.
And lowering a truck to the point were the frame scrapes the ground everytime you go in and out of a parking lot is not a destructive mod? (I have a friend who has done this two his truck..) This is a FUN THING TO DO... just as lowering his truck is a FUN THING TO DO... The HDD will crash... His truck gets messed up from all of the scraping and undercarraige damage.. BUT ITS FUN! He has another car to drive... Do this on your swap drive or something... It will sure look kewl ;)
-r