Not supported does not mean that it will not run it.
Microsoft does not support the piracy of its software, but people still do it with out microsoft's support.
The fact taht they mention one distibution speaks wonders for them. At the same time they are saying you can run linux, but you didn't hear it from us.
If your running linux, support is something you do yourself most of the time anyway.
They are unlawfully scanning our computers looking for files. We give open access to people that want to download them, but if you are going to use that information for any other purpose it considered an invasion of our network. hacking if you will.
Why hasnt any thing been done about that? it is unauthorised computer access.
They are doing this backwards. instead of educating its members to turn the phone off. They instead go after the towers. If you shut the towers off, the phones are still on.
Now the US will drive in a moble cellphone tower. All the phones will connect to it because it is the only available tower in range. Now the US can easily fallow the signal or use more moble towers to pin point an exact location and just bomb it.
And because the towers are off, the people that would have turned the phone off dont.
This is the stupidest mistake they could make.
on the other hand, if the cellphone makes that tone indicating that it is roaming late at night something is up.
2) Take her favorite book or a poster on her wall and have her name say the character names. Use the name of the odd character. you know, the little one in the back. Parents know the main characters alot better than the secondary ones.
before your are done, talk with the parents.
My kids are not oldenough yet to get a computer. But once they do get one I will have root access to it. I am also considering running snort to packet sniff and report on the activity.
I know you don't have any people committed to different projects. I know you have your code at a stable point so its easy to slip in a change I know this only takes one guy 5 min to go change a few lines of code I know its ready to ship the moment its changed I know you coded it right and didn't break anything else
Remember this is open source. so you should be able to fix all security issues quickly. I bet someone else had already done it for you. Just ask someone for it.
Whats the point of being open source if you don't do what the community expects of you.
END RANT
OK, i bet the underlying issue is they expected to have a Little time. Emails went out to a few people that would look at and identify how big of an issue it was. Once they reported back, only the resources needed would be pulled off other projects to fix this.
The next day they see the advisory without warning and now they scramble to figure it out. Probably pulled a lot of people off other stuff that they didn't need to in order to rush out a minimally tested release.
The think with XML is that it so easily supports whatever design the developer can think of. Even the realy bad ones. Now that it is such a buzz word, the problem gets worse.
I had someone call me up to design them a simple web app. But he wanted it coded in XML because he thought that was the technology he wanted. His Access database was not web frendly enough.
I did correct him a little to put him in check and atleast gave him the right buzz words to use to the next guy.
I think XML is dead simple to use if used correctly. I do like it much better that ini files. That is about all I use it for now. Easy to use config files that others have to use.
If your server is hosted in a safe area but you (the owner/responcible operator) reside in the US. Can the FBI contact or require you to provide that info?
Having it hosted in a safe are only protects the hosting company. The FBI will not get anything from them, the next step is for them to contact you (if they can figure out who you are).
Atleast that way, you know when the FBI is trying to get info about you or your users.
People write the page with the markup and tags they know work today. People use the retarded work arounds to make the pages look correct in IE. The problem is when the newest and greatest renderer fixes the original bug, the hack fails to work because it uses some unsupported markup/feature.
You should be able to code a page once and have it work forever. That is what microsoft is trying to get back to. This is something people want.
But this is microsofts own fault. They are trying to fix thing now but they have already corupted the standards (by not fallowing them).
The issue was that one could pirate music very easily that just worked and was high quality.
DRM music was a hastle to buy, restricted how you could play it, was a pain to get on alternate computers/media, and was a predetermined quality. Not only that but you had to manage the license files and repurchase the media if it was ever corupted or lost.
Removing the DRM evens the playing field out. If the music is easy to purchase and has all the other benifits that pirated music has, it will work. People dont mind paying. You just have to offer the same product that consumers want.
If they offer a better service and experience than the pirates, they will get people to pay. The pirates would have to put more effort into service and quality. It will cost the pirates more, force them to become more visible and stable, and in the end they will be much easyer to convict and shut down.
As it stand the pirate have set the bar for what the consumer wants. The lables have to raise the bar with out charging too much.
The issue is that IE6 allowed people to use the strict rendering with out truly strictly rendering stuff. When IE7 was released that was more strict, it broke a lot of pages that assumed that strict worked because IE6 worked.
They already corupted the doctype tag. The logic behind the new tag is to indicate the renderer you want so future releases do not break the current page.
They dont want to break the web again (like IE7 did). So the web will work by default (as defined by IE 6) and new stuff that targets the new browser should not break when IE 9 is released.
They are attempting to end a cycle of new browsers breaking older pages.
What they need to do is do it right the first time and fix rendering bugs quickly. force people to fallow the standard and it will work. Microsoft should be the most accurate implementers of the specs because they have such a huge install base.
The RIAA pulls people in to court instead of generating income. They attack our children and grandparents and threaten to take away our childrens college assistance. Yet the public dont care. Us slashdotters understand it, but the people that should care don't.
This implies that the advantage that open source offers is lost on the common man. The best arguments have little or no value. I might be missing something, but open source has no advantage to the common man that does not understand it. So you have to play the game and forget the fact that it's open source. Open source alone does not improve a product.
To win the common man, you need to provide the advantages that a company currently offers. You need a nicely boxed product that has a support number. You need an intuitive install and a polished GUI. You need good marketing that sells the product and not the fact that its open source.
My wife and I are from small towns. She grew up in a town of 5,472 thats 5 min away from the next town thats 27,000. And that town is 20 min away from Kansas City (447,306 people). She has a few hundred in her high school class.
To her that was a small town. She never realized what a small town was before she visted my hometown. I was giving a tour and pointed out the school and said "thats the school". What grades? All of them.
Some towns are that small that we only have one building for K-12. I had 28 in my graduating class. The school held about 360 student in a town of 2000. We drive 23 min to get to a town of 25,000 and 3.5 hours to get to a town of 225,000.
And alot of the towns away from the only interstate were smaller than that.
Not only did the teacher have the right to tell him what program to use, the detention is for not listening to the teacher. I dont care if he was looking at porn or wikipedia. He still has to fallow her instructions.
If the kid was smart, he would have alt + tab over to IE or just said "yes mam" and closed it.
The kid did load unauthorized software. But thats a different story in this situation.
Naw, make it an opt out that you have to update every 6 months. we will call it the do not release my info registry.
I can see alot of value it letting information like this released, but there should be some rules attached to it.
First, make it a by request instead of open access data. People requesting access should sign privacy contracts that only allow them to publish the results as long as the results dont identify anyone.
I dont mind the research saying "23 can be identified by name that searched for the RIAA and wet girls" instead of saying "Kevin, Joe, Bill, Smith searched for the RIAA and wet girls".
Treat it like HIPPA data. make the researchers fallow the same rules and regulations.
or we just accept that the internet is not private. Just know that our names and habbits are public. Just how long would it take someone to figure out im a tech guy and play World of Warcraft? Not long at all.
I like the sound of public domain. Its simple with out any complicated rules.
I saw Open Source as a free exchange of ideas and code that let you do what ever you wanted with it. Public Domain fits that better than a lot of others.
All the Gotchas and legal overhead built into some of them are just overhead that make the whole process fustrating.
At the same time, Open Source is becomming more of a buzz word than anything else. I hear even Microsoft does Open Source software now.
The company had no leverage. Even if they fought it to the end, they still would have lost.
Its not a brach of contract because you can not add illegal stipulations on a contract.
And the company is not allowed to inform the individual that they gave up the keys.
The law overides any right to privacy we think we have. We talk all we want, but when we step up to the law, we have nothing to stand on. The only way we can win is by chaning the law. Even if I do all the encryption myself, they can come to me and ask me for my keys. We just had a news item this week where that was threatened. We cant blame the companies, we have to fix the laws.
If the company breaks the laws, then do the public hanging.
You know what frustrates me more is that nobody is counter attacking the RIAA's methods. If I run a open wireless network and you connect to it and access my connection/file then you can get arrested.
But if the RIAA accesses my computer and records a list of files on it, they are just as guilty as the person access my wireless hub.
Or what about the fact that dorm rooms are shared rooms. So an IP address is not tied to an individual, but a pair of people. Or my personal IP at home is shared with my family. Or I might run a open access point that people can access. Why cant I pass the supena off to them as if I was an ISP or College. They are not the end point and how can you prove that I one as well. Just because I own the network, they do too.
If companies would learn to let some stuff slide under the rug, they would be much better off. How big did the Dimond Rio lawsuit make mp3s? How big did the Napster lawsuit make file sharing? Yes, it still would have been an issue. But all that news didn't help them as much as it hurt them.
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Not supported does not mean that it will not run it.
Microsoft does not support the piracy of its software, but people still do it with out microsoft's support.
The fact taht they mention one distibution speaks wonders for them. At the same time they are saying you can run linux, but you didn't hear it from us.
If your running linux, support is something you do yourself most of the time anyway.
Im all for it if the details of the purchase is added to the page.
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They are unlawfully scanning our computers looking for files. We give open access to people that want to download them, but if you are going to use that information for any other purpose it considered an invasion of our network. hacking if you will.
Why hasnt any thing been done about that? it is unauthorised computer access.
Guns dont kill people, people kill people.
We should outlaw cars too, look at all the people they kill.
I know this has nothing to do about murder, but they are blaming the technology for the crimes. If you get rid of P2P, something new will replace it.
Thats assuming you can get rid of P2P. P2P will not go away any time soon.
They are doing this backwards. instead of educating its members to turn the phone off. They instead go after the towers. If you shut the towers off, the phones are still on.
Now the US will drive in a moble cellphone tower. All the phones will connect to it because it is the only available tower in range. Now the US can easily fallow the signal or use more moble towers to pin point an exact location and just bomb it.
And because the towers are off, the people that would have turned the phone off dont.
This is the stupidest mistake they could make.
on the other hand, if the cellphone makes that tone indicating that it is roaming late at night something is up.
1) Give her a password of 8 astrics: ********
2) Take her favorite book or a poster on her wall and have her name say the character names. Use the name of the odd character. you know, the little one in the back. Parents know the main characters alot better than the secondary ones.
before your are done, talk with the parents.
My kids are not oldenough yet to get a computer. But once they do get one I will have root access to it. I am also considering running snort to packet sniff and report on the activity.
Whats the big deal. Just go fix it.
I know you don't have any people committed to different projects.
I know you have your code at a stable point so its easy to slip in a change
I know this only takes one guy 5 min to go change a few lines of code
I know its ready to ship the moment its changed
I know you coded it right and didn't break anything else
Remember this is open source. so you should be able to fix all security issues quickly. I bet someone else had already done it for you. Just ask someone for it.
Whats the point of being open source if you don't do what the community expects of you.
END RANT
OK, i bet the underlying issue is they expected to have a Little time. Emails went out to a few people that would look at and identify how big of an issue it was. Once they reported back, only the resources needed would be pulled off other projects to fix this.
The next day they see the advisory without warning and now they scramble to figure it out. Probably pulled a lot of people off other stuff that they didn't need to in order to rush out a minimally tested release.
The think with XML is that it so easily supports whatever design the developer can think of. Even the realy bad ones. Now that it is such a buzz word, the problem gets worse.
I had someone call me up to design them a simple web app. But he wanted it coded in XML because he thought that was the technology he wanted. His Access database was not web frendly enough.
I did correct him a little to put him in check and atleast gave him the right buzz words to use to the next guy.
I think XML is dead simple to use if used correctly. I do like it much better that ini files. That is about all I use it for now. Easy to use config files that others have to use.
Just make the info public and we will see how long it lasts.
I bet we could create all kinds of nice thank you messages for them.
If your server is hosted in a safe area but you (the owner/responcible operator) reside in the US. Can the FBI contact or require you to provide that info?
Having it hosted in a safe are only protects the hosting company. The FBI will not get anything from them, the next step is for them to contact you (if they can figure out who you are).
Atleast that way, you know when the FBI is trying to get info about you or your users.
Another fine gentalman that they will not allow to partisipate in the olympics.
The whole point of the IPhone is to be dead simple with out clutter.
now people want to clutter it up.
This is the exact problem they have.
People write the page with the markup and tags they know work today. People use the retarded work arounds to make the pages look correct in IE. The problem is when the newest and greatest renderer fixes the original bug, the hack fails to work because it uses some unsupported markup/feature.
You should be able to code a page once and have it work forever. That is what microsoft is trying to get back to. This is something people want.
But this is microsofts own fault. They are trying to fix thing now but they have already corupted the standards (by not fallowing them).
The issue was that one could pirate music very easily that just worked and was high quality.
DRM music was a hastle to buy, restricted how you could play it, was a pain to get on alternate computers/media, and was a predetermined quality. Not only that but you had to manage the license files and repurchase the media if it was ever corupted or lost.
Removing the DRM evens the playing field out. If the music is easy to purchase and has all the other benifits that pirated music has, it will work. People dont mind paying. You just have to offer the same product that consumers want.
If they offer a better service and experience than the pirates, they will get people to pay. The pirates would have to put more effort into service and quality. It will cost the pirates more, force them to become more visible and stable, and in the end they will be much easyer to convict and shut down.
As it stand the pirate have set the bar for what the consumer wants. The lables have to raise the bar with out charging too much.
The issue is that IE6 allowed people to use the strict rendering with out truly strictly rendering stuff. When IE7 was released that was more strict, it broke a lot of pages that assumed that strict worked because IE6 worked.
They already corupted the doctype tag. The logic behind the new tag is to indicate the renderer you want so future releases do not break the current page.
They dont want to break the web again (like IE7 did). So the web will work by default (as defined by IE 6) and new stuff that targets the new browser should not break when IE 9 is released.
They are attempting to end a cycle of new browsers breaking older pages.
What they need to do is do it right the first time and fix rendering bugs quickly. force people to fallow the standard and it will work. Microsoft should be the most accurate implementers of the specs because they have such a huge install base.
Where is the public out cry against the RIAA?
The RIAA pulls people in to court instead of generating income. They attack our children and grandparents and threaten to take away our childrens college assistance. Yet the public dont care. Us slashdotters understand it, but the people that should care don't.
This implies that the advantage that open source offers is lost on the common man. The best arguments have little or no value. I might be missing something, but open source has no advantage to the common man that does not understand it. So you have to play the game and forget the fact that it's open source. Open source alone does not improve a product.
To win the common man, you need to provide the advantages that a company currently offers. You need a nicely boxed product that has a support number. You need an intuitive install and a polished GUI. You need good marketing that sells the product and not the fact that its open source.
Im in the dark on how silverlight works, but for some reason I was underthe impresion that its more XML based than compiled.
If thats the case, then it can be indexed. if not, forget i said anything.
My wife and I are from small towns. She grew up in a town of 5,472 thats 5 min away from the next town thats 27,000. And that town is 20 min away from Kansas City (447,306 people). She has a few hundred in her high school class.
To her that was a small town. She never realized what a small town was before she visted my hometown. I was giving a tour and pointed out the school and said "thats the school". What grades? All of them.
Some towns are that small that we only have one building for K-12. I had 28 in my graduating class. The school held about 360 student in a town of 2000. We drive 23 min to get to a town of 25,000 and 3.5 hours to get to a town of 225,000.
And alot of the towns away from the only interstate were smaller than that.
Not only did the teacher have the right to tell him what program to use, the detention is for not listening to the teacher. I dont care if he was looking at porn or wikipedia. He still has to fallow her instructions.
If the kid was smart, he would have alt + tab over to IE or just said "yes mam" and closed it.
The kid did load unauthorized software. But thats a different story in this situation.
Naw, make it an opt out that you have to update every 6 months. we will call it the do not release my info registry.
I can see alot of value it letting information like this released, but there should be some rules attached to it.
First, make it a by request instead of open access data. People requesting access should sign privacy contracts that only allow them to publish the results as long as the results dont identify anyone.
I dont mind the research saying "23 can be identified by name that searched for the RIAA and wet girls" instead of saying "Kevin, Joe, Bill, Smith searched for the RIAA and wet girls".
Treat it like HIPPA data. make the researchers fallow the same rules and regulations.
or we just accept that the internet is not private. Just know that our names and habbits are public. Just how long would it take someone to figure out im a tech guy and play World of Warcraft? Not long at all.
I like the sound of public domain. Its simple with out any complicated rules.
I saw Open Source as a free exchange of ideas and code that let you do what ever you wanted with it. Public Domain fits that better than a lot of others.
All the Gotchas and legal overhead built into some of them are just overhead that make the whole process fustrating.
At the same time, Open Source is becomming more of a buzz word than anything else. I hear even Microsoft does Open Source software now.
The company had no leverage. Even if they fought it to the end, they still would have lost.
Its not a brach of contract because you can not add illegal stipulations on a contract.
And the company is not allowed to inform the individual that they gave up the keys.
The law overides any right to privacy we think we have. We talk all we want, but when we step up to the law, we have nothing to stand on. The only way we can win is by chaning the law. Even if I do all the encryption myself, they can come to me and ask me for my keys. We just had a news item this week where that was threatened. We cant blame the companies, we have to fix the laws.
If the company breaks the laws, then do the public hanging.
No mater how secure a company claims to be, you can't expect them to not fallow the law.
Its about time.
You know what frustrates me more is that nobody is counter attacking the RIAA's methods. If I run a open wireless network and you connect to it and access my connection/file then you can get arrested.
But if the RIAA accesses my computer and records a list of files on it, they are just as guilty as the person access my wireless hub.
Or what about the fact that dorm rooms are shared rooms. So an IP address is not tied to an individual, but a pair of people. Or my personal IP at home is shared with my family. Or I might run a open access point that people can access. Why cant I pass the supena off to them as if I was an ISP or College. They are not the end point and how can you prove that I one as well. Just because I own the network, they do too.
If companies would learn to let some stuff slide under the rug, they would be much better off. How big did the Dimond Rio lawsuit make mp3s? How big did the Napster lawsuit make file sharing? Yes, it still would have been an issue. But all that news didn't help them as much as it hurt them.