Isnt there a data protection style act to let you view your own dossier? you have a right to view any data held on you (even internal memos) except in afew cases. Well atleast in the UK you do.
Given that most politicians are simply scum, would you really be surprised they would do this? im more surprised the information got out!
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The first rule of Super Bowl: You do not talk about 'Super Bowl'
The second rule of Super Bowl: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SUPER BOWL
The third rule of Super Bowl: The words: Super Bowl, Super Sunday, NFL, AFC and NFC are all trade marks of the National Football League. If you utter or taint them we WILL kick your fucking head in! OK?
No, (well actually that would probably be a Microsoft ISS issue but thats another story) but there are plenty of ways to get a link to someone - email? IM? if you can just get them to a website you own then you have a way to potentially get them to anything.
Id suggest Opera, i found firebird very slow and unresponsive on my old machine. Opera feels faster than IE, and opening tabs is pretty much instant. It also has a mail client which is fine and doesnt do stupid things involving VB scripts (not sure about exchange server tho). OpenOffice has now become much faster too!:)
Thats quite ironic, because this is the stupidest comment i have ever read in Slashdot.
HTML is a very simple format and there really should be no way for anyone to be able to abuse it. Designing a browser that can handle it and not allow any stupid loop-holes is pretty straight forward, unless you are Microsoft it seems.
Ofcourse the only way to fix things like this is too move to a locked down TCPA/DRM platform. Call this a troll, but thats exactly what Microsoft is trying to pull here "oh know those evil spammers, everyone lock up your childeren, the end of the world is here, unless! we could just use our little TCPA thing we have going here - it will solve all our^H^H^Hyour problems."
Which is similar to whats going on with terrorism - its hyped and FUD is spread about how America is under attack, that way people are more willing to accept patriot acts. Out-side America no-one gives a shit, and theres no "alert level red" flashing on the tv news channels all day.
Ok im going to patent my way of overthrowing an incompetent government. My 'invention' will include ways to decide who exactly to shoot if you have limited ammunition, how to get that evil laugh right just before you eject the president into space and how to scare your army into following your orders by offering death incentives to those who resist.
They probably got him on a dodgy copy of Windows or something - the settlement was to either make an example of him with a fine or make everything go away and give him some freebies.
There was some issues back when the Beatles got something (cant remember if it was a knight-hood) and many people on the list refused to accept theirs. I guess it pisses me off in a way, given what i know about Bill Gates that the general population doesnt read about, but i can just about deal with it - atleast he does give to charity, even if sometimes its to help his own product line. In reality though, all thats happening is that some old woman who lives in a big house (or 10) in my country is going to give some award i dont really care about to some guy i dont really care about. So its not really a biggy.
Maybe when shes doing that sword bit, she can chop his head off;)
Its kinda ironic that the purpose of copyright is to give incentive to create, when so many copyrighted works are so un-creative and themselves are dwarfed by the invention/idea they were created on. For example a book is just one book out of millions and unless you invented the written language, paper and the printing press your work relies on someone elses idea. The idea of your book itself however could be something independent and somewhat original but even that is based on the universe, earth, or the human race - something you certainly didnt invent. So given that no idea can be totally original, we shouldnt treat copyright holders as though they are the soul owners of some bit of the universe. Copyright law is about giving a reasonable incentive, and credit - everyone should be able to get credit were credit is due. But copyright is giving people a license to print money because if you are the only person who can legally do something for 100 years then you've pretty much got a monopoly.
I think its pretty safe to say, that if Microsoft cant make web browsers, then what chance do they have of making web servers? given that in the past few years they have managed to make countless cock-ups in the areas of allowing scripting languages to access more than they should, and not properly implementing formats including HTML, CSS, and PNG! Really guys, its not that difficult.
Yeah we sure are gonna laugh at how stupid the world was! Can you believe we suffered from VB script worms! we could have fixed that in 5 minutes but no, it took 5 years! Some of us paid good money for software that was about as effective and usefull as a house with no doors! We even used software that told _US_ what _WE_ could do in our own homes!! There were really good, usefull standards that were proposed, they could have saved us so much time and made the computing world so easy, but they were all implemented so badly that there was just no point! every company and their dog thought they could do better by re-inventing the wheel until we had over 30000 of the damn things, all totally incompatable and adding nothing useful!
If someone copyrights some of their code, they didnt invent the language (eg c) and they didnt invent many of the functions that the program does (eg printing to the screen) and they certainly didnt invent the compiler or the CPU that the program runs under and they had nothing to do even with the storage medium their program is on (hd/cdrom/paper)! Now i can kind of understand the ownership of ideas eg a method of selecting some information which causes relevent information to be revealed, but even that is based on the idea of "information" and human thought so you cant say thats something original. So what exactly denotes something original? and why should you be able to copyright something thats not original for far longer than is needed to create incentive? (eg 70 years after your death!)
XML is a public format: it is not a proprietary development of any company. The v1.0 specification was accepted by the W3C as Recommendation on Feb 10, 1998.
Should read:
XML is a private format: it is a proprietary development of Microsoft Inc. The v1.0 specification was designed for Microsoft Office 2003 by the Office 2003 Team as a way of allowing information exchange between Microsoft products and select projects on Feb 10, 1998. [it took 5 years to roll out Office 2003]
XML-based capabilities have been one of the main selling points for Office 2003, the new version of the market-leading software package. By saving documents as XML files, the new Office will allow back-end computing systems such as corporate databases to retrieve and reuse data from documents. XML support also allows Office to become a client for viewing and manipulating data from Web services and complex enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management software.
So now they are going to patent something to stop this major selling point? Either they have decided they actually dont want people to be able to use corporate databases to retrieve and reuse data from documents, or they have just decided they want everyone to pay them more money first. Either way they think they are the inventors, owners and sole developers of XML and they're using stupid loop-holes and copyright laws to get whatever they want.
some of the poorer candidates may complain that it puts the country in the hands of the rich, but it's better than what we have now
Er thats the whole point - the country is in the hands of the rich, it shouldnt be. It should be in the hands of whoever is fairly and democratically elected in a way that represents the best interests of everyone and not just big corporations that have the money and 'power' to push things around - for example the DMCA is in the interests of only a very few people and is totally not in the interests of the masses (which doesnt matter because its unconstitutional anyway).
Maybe im missing something big here but why not just ban all donations and have strict and dire consequences for anyone caught taking money? You do not want money being passed around when running the country is involved because ofcourse people are going to push their own interests and politicians are going to follow their own financial gain! Its a bad idea, you wouldnt have a jury taking donations from people involved in a case so why would you allow it in an election? Surely you dont need that much money to fund an election campagain (im thinking most of those baby-kissing photo ops are pointless) so maybe the government could finance _equally_ everyone and make sure that election campagains are all done on an equal stand and that no-ones policies are being 'swayed' in any way by money, threats, or a few the fact that they play golf with the head of global-cheap-labor-mega-corp.
I was all ready to go and buy pepsi instead of coke, and then i got half way down the article and read "iTunes giveaway" - i thought for a minute they were trying to target young people saying "hey, we got sued, we dont give a fuck and neither should you! screw the RIAA, download music for free, and drink pepsi to the max" which would have been a great ad. Now i realise all they're doing is promoting some iTunes thing, big deal.
You can do _very_ well advertising to the younger end of the spectrum (0-30) with bad-taste advertising, the more complaints you get and advertising standards violations you make the better! I would have put that 12 year old and the 70 year old together and got them to say "fuck you RIAA!" and the next day i might have 5000 complaints and 3 subpoenas from the RIAA, but im telling you - everyone would be buying my product.
Id agree with that and add Blender - its a great start to a program but it just does not have vital features yet (like an effects/transform stack). GIMP is also lacking this, while Photoshop has a useable one (im talking about the effects settings that can be stacked and modified at _any_ time and the adjustment layers). These features are pretty much going to be the 'dynamic linking' of the graphics world. However POV-ray is absolutely amazing and has been invaluable several times and im really hoping GIMP 2 will cut it and that blender will get those few extra features that will make it easily as good as anything else. I think everything is getting very close and proprietry software often stagnates and goes for years without adding anything useful so its a good idea to hold in there and atleast begin to learn these programs because they will become very useful soon. (Especially if your trying to forge some money and photoshop is being a bitch)
I hate the car (well any vehicle like that) more - its such a bad design, just the idea of a clutch were bits of metal grind against eachother is bad engineering enough for me, but to see lots of them stuck in traffic is the worst. Sometimes you just want to get out and walk it seems so pointless to lug half a ton of metal around at an average of 2mph.
I think ladbrookes should start taking bets on this, they could fill the shop with geeks staring at stock screens instead of horse punters etc! SCO must have something big after all this, even if its the revelation that they had nothing but the lawyers figured it was a good and legal idea that would make money from licensing and give them advertising!?
1. Everyone, yes absolutely everyone who uses Outlook and is affected by this must be connected somehow to the internet right? without exception right? so lets just get it straight - theres no poor dude in the middle of the rain forrest who has been stuck with a bug because he cant fix it/get a patch from MS/get help or be told how to fix it because at least has someway to get emails across. (Ok im ignoring anyone on an internal network not connected to the net cos they are not going to get this). So the fact is that there is no excuse to be running Outlook that has VB-script on or otherwise allow random VB-scripts access to the address book and the ability to mail!
2. This is a 'worm' thats only means of propagation is to spread to an Outlook inbox that has VB-script turned on, or gives VB-script said permissions!
3. The worm can be stopped simply by stopping what i said above!
So why the fuck is it still happening!?!?! and why the fuck are people blaming the creators of these things when the solution is so fucking simple it could have been fixed once and for all 5 years ago?!!? Why has no-one blamed Microsoft?? why are big organizations loosing their mail servers because of this??!? Why do people keep going on about how bad these scripts are when one setting could disable them for good!?!? Why do people continuously not understand the simple premise: If you let a scripting language have access to something and let random scripts run then everyone on the net has access to the same thing? I mean this is on the level of "don't talk to strangers" except its adults who cant understand it!? I just don't understand how this can happen!?! someone please explain before my '?' and '!' keys wear out!?
Heres a simple test: 1. If you run across a very busy fast 4 lane road without looking you will probably get run over, there is a foot-bridge 20 yards away. Do you: a) ban all cars, b) use the bridge?
2. You have decided to leave your car unlocked with the doors open and the keys in the ignition and the alarm disabled. You come back to find some kids have been riding it around and now its out of gas. What should you do to stop this happening in the future? a) cut their hands off so they cant drive, b) close the door and take the keys with you, and put the alarm on.
3.You stab yourself with a knife to see what its like, for some reason you fall to the ground in pain. Waking up in a hospital you decide that: a) you should sue the guy who sold you the knife, the manufacturer and also the national knife association. b) its best if you don't stab yourself again.
Mostly a's: You should probably stay away from Outlook Mostly b's: Welcome aboard! new security adviser to Microsoft Inc!
This is not only a precurser, but if certain people/banks etc start putting pressure on then it might become mandatory - like key escrow in encryption was thought about. The music and film industry will want in too. And what will this mean for open source software such as the gimp?? it could go 3 ways - 1. nothing happens (we hope), 2. it gets mandated and open source gets into trouble (bad), and 3. Hardware based DRM gets mandated and i dont know which is worse!
One of my friends cant really handle forward parking! let alone reverse it takes about 10-20 backwards and forwards cycles to get in and im not exagerating! (or spell checking) I think slowly bit by bit these minor things will get replaced by automatic systems until it all pretty much goes auto.
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Isnt there a data protection style act to let you view your own dossier? you have a right to view any data held on you (even internal memos) except in afew cases. Well atleast in the UK you do.
Given that most politicians are simply scum, would you really be surprised they would do this? im more surprised the information got out!
from the PDF:
The first rule of Super Bowl: You do not talk about 'Super Bowl'
The second rule of Super Bowl: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SUPER BOWL
The third rule of Super Bowl: The words: Super Bowl, Super Sunday, NFL, AFC and NFC are all trade marks of the National Football League. If you utter or taint them we WILL kick your fucking head in! OK?
Actually is more like the sales clerk stuffing the cookies in there themselves when the shopper isnt looking and then shouting "thief"
No, (well actually that would probably be a Microsoft ISS issue but thats another story) but there are plenty of ways to get a link to someone - email? IM? if you can just get them to a website you own then you have a way to potentially get them to anything.
Id suggest Opera, i found firebird very slow and unresponsive on my old machine. Opera feels faster than IE, and opening tabs is pretty much instant. It also has a mail client which is fine and doesnt do stupid things involving VB scripts (not sure about exchange server tho). OpenOffice has now become much faster too! :)
Thats quite ironic, because this is the stupidest comment i have ever read in Slashdot.
HTML is a very simple format and there really should be no way for anyone to be able to abuse it. Designing a browser that can handle it and not allow any stupid loop-holes is pretty straight forward, unless you are Microsoft it seems.
Ofcourse the only way to fix things like this is too move to a locked down TCPA/DRM platform. Call this a troll, but thats exactly what Microsoft is trying to pull here "oh know those evil spammers, everyone lock up your childeren, the end of the world is here, unless! we could just use our little TCPA thing we have going here - it will solve all our^H^H^Hyour problems."
Which is similar to whats going on with terrorism - its hyped and FUD is spread about how America is under attack, that way people are more willing to accept patriot acts. Out-side America no-one gives a shit, and theres no "alert level red" flashing on the tv news channels all day.
Ok im going to patent my way of overthrowing an incompetent government. My 'invention' will include ways to decide who exactly to shoot if you have limited ammunition, how to get that evil laugh right just before you eject the president into space and how to scare your army into following your orders by offering death incentives to those who resist.
They probably got him on a dodgy copy of Windows or something - the settlement was to either make an example of him with a fine or make everything go away and give him some freebies.
There was some issues back when the Beatles got something (cant remember if it was a knight-hood) and many people on the list refused to accept theirs. I guess it pisses me off in a way, given what i know about Bill Gates that the general population doesnt read about, but i can just about deal with it - atleast he does give to charity, even if sometimes its to help his own product line. In reality though, all thats happening is that some old woman who lives in a big house (or 10) in my country is going to give some award i dont really care about to some guy i dont really care about. So its not really a biggy.
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Maybe when shes doing that sword bit, she can chop his head off
Its kinda ironic that the purpose of copyright is to give incentive to create, when so many copyrighted works are so un-creative and themselves are dwarfed by the invention/idea they were created on. For example a book is just one book out of millions and unless you invented the written language, paper and the printing press your work relies on someone elses idea. The idea of your book itself however could be something independent and somewhat original but even that is based on the universe, earth, or the human race - something you certainly didnt invent. So given that no idea can be totally original, we shouldnt treat copyright holders as though they are the soul owners of some bit of the universe. Copyright law is about giving a reasonable incentive, and credit - everyone should be able to get credit were credit is due. But copyright is giving people a license to print money because if you are the only person who can legally do something for 100 years then you've pretty much got a monopoly.
I think its pretty safe to say, that if Microsoft cant make web browsers, then what chance do they have of making web servers? given that in the past few years they have managed to make countless cock-ups in the areas of allowing scripting languages to access more than they should, and not properly implementing formats including HTML, CSS, and PNG! Really guys, its not that difficult.
Yeah we sure are gonna laugh at how stupid the world was! Can you believe we suffered from VB script worms! we could have fixed that in 5 minutes but no, it took 5 years! Some of us paid good money for software that was about as effective and usefull as a house with no doors! We even used software that told _US_ what _WE_ could do in our own homes!! There were really good, usefull standards that were proposed, they could have saved us so much time and made the computing world so easy, but they were all implemented so badly that there was just no point! every company and their dog thought they could do better by re-inventing the wheel until we had over 30000 of the damn things, all totally incompatable and adding nothing useful!
If someone copyrights some of their code, they didnt invent the language (eg c) and they didnt invent many of the functions that the program does (eg printing to the screen) and they certainly didnt invent the compiler or the CPU that the program runs under and they had nothing to do even with the storage medium their program is on (hd/cdrom/paper)! Now i can kind of understand the ownership of ideas eg a method of selecting some information which causes relevent information to be revealed, but even that is based on the idea of "information" and human thought so you cant say thats something original. So what exactly denotes something original? and why should you be able to copyright something thats not original for far longer than is needed to create incentive? (eg 70 years after your death!)
Actually
XML is a public format: it is not a proprietary development of any company. The v1.0 specification was accepted by the W3C as Recommendation on Feb 10, 1998.
Should read:
XML is a private format: it is a proprietary development of Microsoft Inc. The v1.0 specification was designed for Microsoft Office 2003 by the Office 2003 Team as a way of allowing information exchange between Microsoft products and select projects on Feb 10, 1998. [it took 5 years to roll out Office 2003]
XML-based capabilities have been one of the main selling points for Office 2003, the new version of the market-leading software package. By saving documents as XML files, the new Office will allow back-end computing systems such as corporate databases to retrieve and reuse data from documents. XML support also allows Office to become a client for viewing and manipulating data from Web services and complex enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management software.
So now they are going to patent something to stop this major selling point? Either they have decided they actually dont want people to be able to use corporate databases to retrieve and reuse data from documents, or they have just decided they want everyone to pay them more money first. Either way they think they are the inventors, owners and sole developers of XML and they're using stupid loop-holes and copyright laws to get whatever they want.
some of the poorer candidates may complain that it puts the country in the hands of the rich, but it's better than what we have now
Er thats the whole point - the country is in the hands of the rich, it shouldnt be. It should be in the hands of whoever is fairly and democratically elected in a way that represents the best interests of everyone and not just big corporations that have the money and 'power' to push things around - for example the DMCA is in the interests of only a very few people and is totally not in the interests of the masses (which doesnt matter because its unconstitutional anyway).
Maybe im missing something big here but why not just ban all donations and have strict and dire consequences for anyone caught taking money? You do not want money being passed around when running the country is involved because ofcourse people are going to push their own interests and politicians are going to follow their own financial gain! Its a bad idea, you wouldnt have a jury taking donations from people involved in a case so why would you allow it in an election? Surely you dont need that much money to fund an election campagain (im thinking most of those baby-kissing photo ops are pointless) so maybe the government could finance _equally_ everyone and make sure that election campagains are all done on an equal stand and that no-ones policies are being 'swayed' in any way by money, threats, or a few the fact that they play golf with the head of global-cheap-labor-mega-corp.
I was all ready to go and buy pepsi instead of coke, and then i got half way down the article and read "iTunes giveaway" - i thought for a minute they were trying to target young people saying "hey, we got sued, we dont give a fuck and neither should you! screw the RIAA, download music for free, and drink pepsi to the max" which would have been a great ad. Now i realise all they're doing is promoting some iTunes thing, big deal.
You can do _very_ well advertising to the younger end of the spectrum (0-30) with bad-taste advertising, the more complaints you get and advertising standards violations you make the better! I would have put that 12 year old and the 70 year old together and got them to say "fuck you RIAA!" and the next day i might have 5000 complaints and 3 subpoenas from the RIAA, but im telling you - everyone would be buying my product.
Id agree with that and add Blender - its a great start to a program but it just does not have vital features yet (like an effects/transform stack). GIMP is also lacking this, while Photoshop has a useable one (im talking about the effects settings that can be stacked and modified at _any_ time and the adjustment layers). These features are pretty much going to be the 'dynamic linking' of the graphics world. However POV-ray is absolutely amazing and has been invaluable several times and im really hoping GIMP 2 will cut it and that blender will get those few extra features that will make it easily as good as anything else. I think everything is getting very close and proprietry software often stagnates and goes for years without adding anything useful so its a good idea to hold in there and atleast begin to learn these programs because they will become very useful soon. (Especially if your trying to forge some money and photoshop is being a bitch)
I hate the car (well any vehicle like that) more - its such a bad design, just the idea of a clutch were bits of metal grind against eachother is bad engineering enough for me, but to see lots of them stuck in traffic is the worst. Sometimes you just want to get out and walk it seems so pointless to lug half a ton of metal around at an average of 2mph.
I think ladbrookes should start taking bets on this, they could fill the shop with geeks staring at stock screens instead of horse punters etc! SCO must have something big after all this, even if its the revelation that they had nothing but the lawyers figured it was a good and legal idea that would make money from licensing and give them advertising!?
Ok here are the facts:
1. Everyone, yes absolutely everyone who uses Outlook and is affected by this must be connected somehow to the internet right? without exception right? so lets just get it straight - theres no poor dude in the middle of the rain forrest who has been stuck with a bug because he cant fix it/get a patch from MS/get help or be told how to fix it because at least has someway to get emails across. (Ok im ignoring anyone on an internal network not connected to the net cos they are not going to get this). So the fact is that there is no excuse to be running Outlook that has VB-script on or otherwise allow random VB-scripts access to the address book and the ability to mail!
2. This is a 'worm' thats only means of propagation is to spread to an Outlook inbox that has VB-script turned on, or gives VB-script said permissions!
3. The worm can be stopped simply by stopping what i said above!
So why the fuck is it still happening!?!?! and why the fuck are people blaming the creators of these things when the solution is so fucking simple it could have been fixed once and for all 5 years ago?!!? Why has no-one blamed Microsoft?? why are big organizations loosing their mail servers because of this??!? Why do people keep going on about how bad these scripts are when one setting could disable them for good!?!? Why do people continuously not understand the simple premise: If you let a scripting language have access to something and let random scripts run then everyone on the net has access to the same thing? I mean this is on the level of "don't talk to strangers" except its adults who cant understand it!? I just don't understand how this can happen!?! someone please explain before my '?' and '!' keys wear out!?
Heres a simple test:
1. If you run across a very busy fast 4 lane road without looking you will probably get run over, there is a foot-bridge 20 yards away. Do you: a) ban all cars, b) use the bridge?
2. You have decided to leave your car unlocked with the doors open and the keys in the ignition and the alarm disabled. You come back to find some kids have been riding it around and now its out of gas. What should you do to stop this happening in the future? a) cut their hands off so they cant drive, b) close the door and take the keys with you, and put the alarm on.
3.You stab yourself with a knife to see what its like, for some reason you fall to the ground in pain. Waking up in a hospital you decide that: a) you should sue the guy who sold you the knife, the manufacturer and also the national knife association. b) its best if you don't stab yourself again.
Mostly a's: You should probably stay away from Outlook
Mostly b's: Welcome aboard! new security adviser to Microsoft Inc!
This is not only a precurser, but if certain people/banks etc start putting pressure on then it might become mandatory - like key escrow in encryption was thought about. The music and film industry will want in too. And what will this mean for open source software such as the gimp?? it could go 3 ways - 1. nothing happens (we hope), 2. it gets mandated and open source gets into trouble (bad), and 3. Hardware based DRM gets mandated and i dont know which is worse!
One of my friends cant really handle forward parking! let alone reverse it takes about 10-20 backwards and forwards cycles to get in and im not exagerating! (or spell checking) I think slowly bit by bit these minor things will get replaced by automatic systems until it all pretty much goes auto.