As an attorney I can tell you that lawyers tend to have a better grasp of technology than many other professional groups that I come in contact with.
You should really, really try to get in contact with intelligent people, leave that club of lawers and lobbyists. These guys only think that they are experts, but sadly they are wrong. Change your life and switch to a real job.
There is one thing which makes me wonder. The 'Geschäftsführer' (~CEO/CTO) of the VSI, those who initated the stuy, is from Microsoft.
see here (in German)
So, there might be some FUD in that study.
Nevertheless, the GPL is not as proof as it seems to be in the U.S. As one already said here, the 'Urheberrecht' cannot be given away. One can give away the right to use, to modify, to sell, but not that basic right 'Urheberrecht'.
Another thing is the so called 'Salvatorische Klausel' which is basically nothing more than a sentence which says 'When a part of this license is not valid due to laws, the other part is not affected. Now, without such a sentence in Germany the *whole* license may be void.
My machine (Linux, of course) reveived today only a few hundred such packets. I tried to resolve the IP-Adresses and I found, that ~75% of these packets come from machines which seem to have dynamic IP-Adresses.
I would say dynamic IP-Adresses are typically used from home users, not from companies.
According to various sources SQL server and it's children are the volunerable programs. Now, who needs SQL server at home? Actually no one, but it seems that those home users get this nifty piece of software as a present when installing other programs, they do not even know! [[ Some sources say, that eg. Visio installs a cut-down version of M$-SQL ]]
So lets identify problem #1: A USER WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS INSTALLED ON ITS MACHINE CANNOT IDENTIFY NEEDED PATCHES!
Of course, there are still ~25% machines affected which hold a name indicating that it is a professional machine in some company/university. So, I agree that these guys should do their work!
So, problem #2: AN ADMIN SHALL DO IT'S JOB AND READ SECURITY ALERTS AND INSTALL PATCHES **BEFORE** SOMETHING BREAKS.
One week before the warranty got void, my IBM 45Gig drive crashed. I lost a lot of object files, so no actual dataloss, just recompile everything:-) And two days before the warranty was over I got an RMA number... happy me:-)
But in general, all my hard disk drives crash after about 4-5 years of running 24/7.
Cheep drive --> early failure. I think this is not specific to drives, it is a general issue! A company that sells items which will work forever will go bankrupt soon, the life of some item just needs to be a little bit longer than that of the competitor. That's business:-(
This law is about forbidding the spread of ideas from this bad guy 'Adolf Hitler'. That's the background. That's all background. period.
You guys in the US did not have such a time, maybe therefore there is a couple of guys in your country who celebrate Hitler, celebrate Nazi's.
Now, this is one thing. The other one is free speech and freedom itself. I think that here in Europe we have a different understanding of freedom, it is not less freedom nor is it more freedom than in the US. It's just different.
Some examples:
My isp provider does not even log when I am online, does not log my dynamic address, so whatever page I visit, government cannot find out those web pages, even if they want.
I can hang aroung on the steet and drink alcohol, I can drink as much as I want, there is no such law that causes a need to but some dumb paperbag around.
In the netherlands there are so called coffee shops, where people can go and smoke Marihuana. Even in other countries you do not get punished when police finds a small (the daily use) amount of Marihuana.
Prostitution is allowed.
There is no death penalty.
But: We are not allowed to buy guns, as you can. In most countries in Europe we a not allowed to celebrate Hitler & the nazi's.
And something what is common to both regions and what could be interpreted as censorship too:
We all are not allowed to have sex with children.
Recently I did read an article about ?Yemen? being cut off from the internet. Why? Because of the wish of the USA. Isn't that a kind of censorship too?
So, keep in mind freedom is not to be allowed to say anything; this is anarchy. Freedom is to be allowed to think different, to talk different, to have different opinions.
And a last word. This so called censorship applies to Nazi pages, applies to celebrating Hitler, applies to sentences like 'The Holocaust never happened'. That's the reason. ANd those pages are as bad as having sex with little children.
While reading a lot (not all) of the postings here I wonder if only Microsoft implements such strong security I mean a company like Micrsosoft, is there any larger one? Or ist that Microsoft? What about other companies comparable, like Oracle, is their security as weak as the one of Micky Mouse^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrosoft? America, where are you going?
Inspired by this typo toliet I googled. And the astonishing thing is that google presents me 15500 hits!
They even sell toliet paper. Since selling that useful paper is sure a commercial issue, I wonder how professional that kind of tool gets sold? Is correct spelling and the internet a differnet thing?
But since even Microsoft does not know how to spell 'Software' (look at the last word in the title) I forgive the poster.
... Personally I find their lack of faith disturbing." And I find the fact that this is on CNN even more so;)
I think there is a real big difference between having whatever faith and saving my privacy. Personally I believe in <fill in here>. But whoever askes me, might or might not get an answer. The last time I was asked I simple filled in <refused>. I simple ignored the fact that the government could fine me. This is my absolute private area, there is nothing more private than this question.
So I totally refuse to say that lack of faith is the reason why I refused the answer, the reason was Loss of Privacy. And believe me, next time I will fill in Jedi too!
... Gillen said. "On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year)."
This will for sure be wrong in January 2005, at least here in Germany. For two reasons:
1st of January is a public holiday
2nd of January is a Sunday
Here in Germany all shops stay closed for both days, so M$ will need a few more days:-)
No my friend, I am reading the Boston Globe, here I read:
Currently, the government allows 195,000 workers with H1-B visas to enter the United States as guest employees.
No single statement about 250.000 IT-experts, just workers. And later I read:
''During the first few months of this year, the number was down to 40,000 and only half of those H1-B visas were used for IT jobs...
I agree that nobody is begging for a H1-B visa to be able to open a hot dog box somewhere, but I am still convinced that there are different kind on engineers going for those visa. Maybe 15-20% are IT-experts, even when you expect 100.000 people to come within this year, then maybe 15.000 to 25.000 are IT-experts, so we are still discussing about 1-2,5% and not about 25%.
As you can see from my use of dots and comma, I live in the German speaking part of the big ball. And we have this discussion here too. It is not helpful, it does not solve the problem, it is just a theme in times close before some election.
What is the difference between a person born in a country and a person living there?
There is almost none! Both spend most of their money where they live. Both pay their taxes where they live. So the money they earn stays in that country. Okay some people send money home, but others go for holidays to foreign countries. I see almost no difference.
The only difference is done by under educated people which can be found in higher concentration in the government, in trade unions and the like. And you hear them crying out loud only when the economy goes down.
Sadly the last paragraph is true on both sides of the Atlantic:-(
Hmm, we all hear a slogan 'Total Cost of Ownership'. Just one question:
Is the cost of removal of virus infection included in Total Cost of Ownership?
The news in Germany talked about a cost of 10 billions US$ caused by that virus, divide that by the number of Microsoft-ware installations and multiply it with the number of viruses.
It's up to you to compute the value!
I really wait for the first Linux virus, but I am afraid of not getting old enough:-)
All fans of babelfish will be able to read this. They report some problems with nuclear power plants and some problem with earthquake detecting systems.
I just found http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/gs-20.12.99-00 1/> saying that AMD demonstrated two version of their CPU running 900 MHz, one who aluminium and one with copper interconnections. Well, the article is in german, so ask some babelfish to translate!
It is neither memory nor CPU speed. On my virtual machine, NT runs fast until it begins to start swapping. So I configured VMware to provide NT enough memory and configured NT to have an extremly tiny swapfile. Now my AMD K6-233 runs with reasonable speed.
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You should really, really try to get in contact with intelligent people, leave that club of lawers and lobbyists. These guys only think that they are experts, but sadly they are wrong. Change your life and switch to a real job.
There is one thing which makes me wonder. The 'Geschäftsführer' (~CEO/CTO) of the VSI, those who initated the stuy, is from Microsoft.
...
see here (in German)
So, there might be some FUD in that study.
Nevertheless, the GPL is not as proof as it seems to be in the U.S. As one already said here, the 'Urheberrecht' cannot be given away. One can give away the right to use, to modify, to sell, but not that basic right 'Urheberrecht'.
Another thing is the so called 'Salvatorische Klausel' which is basically nothing more than a sentence which says 'When a part of this license is not valid due to laws, the other part is not affected. Now, without such a sentence in Germany the *whole* license may be void.
But I am sure RMS knows that all
For whatever reason, the german SCO page seems to have no content.
3 -0 03/
Maybe this articlke (in german, google is your friend) is the reason?
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-31.05.0
Or what else does it mean?
My machine (Linux, of course) reveived today only a few hundred such packets. I tried to resolve the IP-Adresses and I found, that ~75% of these packets come from machines which seem to have dynamic IP-Adresses.
I would say dynamic IP-Adresses are typically used from home users, not from companies.
According to various sources SQL server and it's children are the volunerable programs. Now, who needs SQL server at home? Actually no one, but it seems that those home users get this nifty piece of software as a present when installing other programs, they do not even know! [[ Some sources say, that eg. Visio installs a cut-down version of M$-SQL ]]
So lets identify problem #1:
A USER WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS INSTALLED ON ITS MACHINE CANNOT IDENTIFY NEEDED PATCHES!
Of course, there are still ~25% machines affected which hold a name indicating that it is a professional machine in some company/university. So, I agree that these guys should do their work!
So, problem #2:
AN ADMIN SHALL DO IT'S JOB AND READ SECURITY ALERTS AND INSTALL PATCHES **BEFORE** SOMETHING BREAKS.
Good news:
NOT EVEN ONE PACKET FROM *.MIL domain!
http://www.fu-fme.com/
:-)
Well, sure some extraordiary gift, but sure something that's not in every house
One week before the warranty got void, my IBM 45Gig drive crashed. I lost a lot of object files, so no actual dataloss, just recompile everything :-) ... happy me :-)
:-(
And two days before the warranty was over I got an RMA number
But in general, all my hard disk drives crash after about 4-5 years of running 24/7.
Cheep drive --> early failure.
I think this is not specific to drives, it is a general issue! A company that sells items which will work forever will go bankrupt soon, the life of some item just needs to be a little bit longer than that of the competitor. That's business
This law is about forbidding the spread of ideas from this bad guy 'Adolf Hitler'. That's the background. That's all background. period.
You guys in the US did not have such a time, maybe therefore there is a couple of guys in your country who celebrate Hitler, celebrate Nazi's.
Now, this is one thing. The other one is free speech and freedom itself. I think that here in Europe we have a different understanding of freedom, it is not less freedom nor is it more freedom than in the US. It's just different.
Some examples:
My isp provider does not even log when I am online, does not log my dynamic address, so whatever page I visit, government cannot find out those web pages, even if they want.
I can hang aroung on the steet and drink alcohol, I can drink as much as I want, there is no such law that causes a need to but some dumb paperbag around.
In the netherlands there are so called coffee shops, where people can go and smoke Marihuana. Even in other countries you do not get punished when police finds a small (the daily use) amount of Marihuana.
Prostitution is allowed.
There is no death penalty.
But:
We are not allowed to buy guns, as you can.
In most countries in Europe we a not allowed to celebrate Hitler & the nazi's.
And something what is common to both regions and what could be interpreted as censorship too:
We all are not allowed to have sex with children.
Recently I did read an article about ?Yemen? being cut off from the internet. Why? Because of the wish of the USA. Isn't that a kind of censorship too?
So, keep in mind freedom is not to be allowed to say anything; this is anarchy. Freedom is to be allowed to think different, to talk different, to have different opinions.
And a last word. This so called censorship applies to Nazi pages, applies to celebrating Hitler, applies to sentences like 'The Holocaust never happened'. That's the reason. ANd those pages are as bad as having sex with little children.
While reading a lot (not all) of the postings here I wonder if only Microsoft implements such strong security
I mean a company like Micrsosoft, is there any larger one? Or ist that Microsoft?
What about other companies comparable, like Oracle, is their security as weak as the one of Micky Mouse^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrosoft?
America, where are you going?
No no!
Leave out + 3! Go ahead with 4.0!
No one will be willing to test 3.11!
This is bad number, a very bad number!
Inspired by this typo toliet I googled. And the astonishing thing is that google presents me 15500 hits!
They even sell toliet paper. Since selling that useful paper is sure a commercial issue, I wonder how professional that kind of tool gets sold?
Is correct spelling and the internet a differnet thing?
But since even Microsoft does not know how to spell 'Software' (look at the last word in the title) I forgive the poster.
I agree!
:-(
And my reply was ment to address this quote. That such a theme is on CNN is not so interesting.
Sorry, my native language is not English, so I have no chance to know the exact words of any actor in whatever movie
However, when this cite was just ment to make it more interesting, okay! Good idea! It made the story interesting for me!
I think there is a real big difference between having whatever faith and saving my privacy. Personally I believe in <fill in here>. But whoever askes me, might or might not get an answer. The last time I was asked I simple filled in <refused>. I simple ignored the fact that the government could fine me. This is my absolute private area, there is nothing more private than this question.
So I totally refuse to say that lack of faith is the reason why I refused the answer, the reason was Loss of Privacy.
And believe me, next time I will fill in Jedi too!
- 1st of January is a public holiday
- 2nd of January is a Sunday
Here in Germany all shops stay closed for both days, so M$ will need a few more daysBeing a real nerd, Joe Smith logs into Linux (MADE IN FINLAND) and starts the browser Opera (MADE IN NORWAY)
Could not resist
As you can see from my use of dots and comma, I live in the German speaking part of the big ball. And we have this discussion here too. It is not helpful, it does not solve the problem, it is just a theme in times close before some election.
What is the difference between a person born in a country and a person living there?
There is almost none! Both spend most of their money where they live. Both pay their taxes where they live. So the money they earn stays in that country. Okay some people send money home, but others go for holidays to foreign countries. I see almost no difference.
The only difference is done by under educated people which can be found in higher concentration in the government, in trade unions and the like. And you hear them crying out loud only when the economy goes down.
Sadly the last paragraph is true on both sides of the Atlantic
Does anybody really believe that a country with more than 250 million people has problems with less than 0.1% of foreign workers?
This is one H1-B worker for every 1000 own persons?
How much would this decrease the unemployeed rate? Maybe from 5.7 to 5.65%
... next time they will forbid too eat McDonalds in front of the display
Happy Germany, we can safely ignore this!
This EULA violates a lot of German laws!
Hmm, we all hear a slogan 'Total Cost of Ownership'. Just one question:
:-)
Is the cost of removal of virus infection included in Total Cost of Ownership?
The news in Germany talked about a cost of 10 billions US$ caused by that virus, divide that by the number of Microsoft-ware installations and multiply it with the number of viruses.
It's up to you to compute the value!
I really wait for the first Linux virus, but I am afraid of not getting old enough
All fans of babelfish will be able to read this. They report some problems with nuclear power plants and some problem with earthquake detecting systems.
It is fixed! Seems there are really some people who have to work.
To prove that you can take a look at http ://www.pbs.org/whatson/stations/calendar.html?date =2038-01-19&station=KHET which works right and shows the calendar for January 2038. Now compare it with the next day at http ://www.pbs.org/whatson/stations/calendar.html?date =2038-01-20&station=KHET which as expected shows December 1901!
:-)
But I do not care, in 2038 I will sure wear my wooden suit
Just take a look at TV TODAY - tv program and have a big smile.
Until now I did not know that we germans had TV's since about 1900 years?
This one is especially for all those who cannot wait until midnight!
I just found http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/gs-20.12.99-00 1/> saying that AMD demonstrated two version of their CPU running 900 MHz, one who aluminium and one with copper interconnections. Well, the article is in german, so ask some babelfish to translate!
It is neither memory nor CPU speed. On my virtual machine, NT runs fast until it begins to start swapping. So I configured VMware to provide NT enough memory and configured NT to have an extremly tiny swapfile. Now my AMD K6-233 runs with reasonable speed.