Doing this, and especially being very successful at it, will make business decision makers aware that by using open source products, they are placing their company at risk of the whims of young individuals who sit at home in their underwear everyday. We want adoption of the free software foundation's ethics and more players to the OSS table, not fear of young punks.
Try explaining that support for any OS is going to cost a decent chunk of change. Or if you don't go with paid support, that some servers may be down an unacceptably long amount of time, possibly to the extent where the rest of your engineers are being paid to sit on their hands.
There are other costs than initial purchase, most people should have run into the term "TCO" by now.
Well, at least in this economy (or at least in the near past), groups got cut in half even if they were overburdened before. Apparently the company feels that nobody can have enough to do...
The actual assembly code that comprises the initial infection vector didn't change I don't think, the actual buffer overflow is generally more complex than the rest of the worms, and other apps wouldn't have that kind of signature in them, so fingerprints based on that would have survived.
Nothing really changed other than the exe filenames and registry keys as far as I know. It doesn't even look like updated functionality from the author, just copycats.
what does this have to do with SCO declaring the GPL invalid? What the HELL does it have to do with their lawsuit against IBM. I do not understand.
But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a man's life is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must acquit.
Unfortunately the law is set up so that you're nearly as likely to get in trouble for reporting a problem as you are using it for personal gain, so from a cost-benefit perspective, one might argue that it's better to keep the secret for your own uses.
Err, the original poster was correct.
His search warrant says in the summary at the bottom (sections 49 and 50) that he's charged both with distributing explosive info as well as website defacement.
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Distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction with the intent that such information be used in furtherance of a federal crime of violence.
Yes, it's the marketplace of ideas, finally becoming a two-way street. For a long time, sellers of a particular product have an interest in reducing the amount of information a consumer has. Eg. Tricks to get people to impulse buy so they don't compare prices of competitors... Highlighting positive product reviews while not mentioning negative product reviews... Sometimes (eg. car dealers) lying if they think they can get away with it.
Sure, sellers always had credit reports, but that was usually used for finance rates and (I believe) is illegal to explicitely insert false info into the credit report. But now we're getting into greyer areas that are possibly more prone to fudging and obscuring and outright lying.
Motorola chargers are the same way... one charger should work for a number of phones, but there are different classes of phones... the new 3G phones with cameras and big LCDs require a lot more power to run than GSM small-lcd screens (old RF tech = more optimized battery usage, to a point, just because engineers have had time to figure out how to save power). And you don't want to give a more expensive charger to a low-power phone user, so you have different sets of chargers.
Natural Selection is still an RTS for everyone in that there's a general economy that everyone participates in... every individual has the job of protecting resource gatherers, and has the job of alerting resource harvester builders where there's open resources.
Didn't my.mp3.com get in trouble even though they owned one CD of all the albums they were electronically distributing? And the judge still declared that illegal...
That was a bit of hyperbole. I don't think he would have spent time collecting all this info and putting up various mirrors if he didn't want the truth to get out and save people $100.
Here's most of the paragraph that you quoted from
I offered to take down evidence-eliminator-sucks.com for free. All they had to do was take all mention of me off their site. I mean, what do I care about what Windows losers get scammed out of? But no, they had to go off and hire a solicitor to spew out a cart00ney, and now it's too late for that: the site is now hosted on several servers scattered around the Internet, and I couldn't make the site go away now even if I wanted to.
What he's refering to is this page on evidence eliminator's page that twists the truth a lot about Eric Green.
Anyway, if he wanted to be more accurate, he probably would have said "I care a great deal about evidence-eliminator removing untruths on their website about me, more than I necessarily care about getting the truth out."
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Doing this, and especially being very successful at it, will make business decision makers aware that by using open source products, they are placing their company at risk of the whims of young individuals who sit at home in their underwear everyday. We want adoption of the free software foundation's ethics and more players to the OSS table, not fear of young punks.
There are other costs than initial purchase, most people should have run into the term "TCO" by now.
Interesting how software lock-in prevents hardware lock-in...
Well, at least in this economy (or at least in the near past), groups got cut in half even if they were overburdened before. Apparently the company feels that nobody can have enough to do...
...and I'll say it again. No, I don't want to go there today.
The actual assembly code that comprises the initial infection vector didn't change I don't think, the actual buffer overflow is generally more complex than the rest of the worms, and other apps wouldn't have that kind of signature in them, so fingerprints based on that would have survived.
Maybe I'm confused, but how does "no real end in sight" indicate that the worm is dying?
Nothing really changed other than the exe filenames and registry keys as far as I know. It doesn't even look like updated functionality from the author, just copycats.
- what does this have to do with SCO declaring the GPL invalid? What the HELL does it have to do with their lawsuit against IBM. I do not understand.
But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a man's life is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must acquit.Unfortunately the law is set up so that you're nearly as likely to get in trouble for reporting a problem as you are using it for personal gain, so from a cost-benefit perspective, one might argue that it's better to keep the secret for your own uses.
Err, the original poster was correct. His search warrant says in the summary at the bottom (sections 49 and 50) that he's charged both with distributing explosive info as well as website defacement.
That's over the past 5 days. Now try over the past 3 months or 2 years. You have to
- And when you're a professional (or semi-professional), which is what this product is aimed at, you're probably not shooting
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There's really no reason to use raws over jpegs.Here's one that appears to work.
Sure, sellers always had credit reports, but that was usually used for finance rates and (I believe) is illegal to explicitely insert false info into the credit report. But now we're getting into greyer areas that are possibly more prone to fudging and obscuring and outright lying.
Motorola chargers are the same way... one charger should work for a number of phones, but there are different classes of phones... the new 3G phones with cameras and big LCDs require a lot more power to run than GSM small-lcd screens (old RF tech = more optimized battery usage, to a point, just because engineers have had time to figure out how to save power). And you don't want to give a more expensive charger to a low-power phone user, so you have different sets of chargers.
You have to sound weird to catch a slashdot editor's eye. They have a lot of submissions to reject...
A more appropriate question would be: What are you wearing under your kilt? And the answer: shoes!
Natural Selection is still an RTS for everyone in that there's a general economy that everyone participates in... every individual has the job of protecting resource gatherers, and has the job of alerting resource harvester builders where there's open resources.
Interesting how some dying companies spawn off their stuff as open source, and some put 100% of their efforts on suing others for IP infringement.
The replacement for pkzip should be gzip. Not only is it specified in the open via rfc but it's implemented in internet explorer and friends.
Didn't my.mp3.com get in trouble even though they owned one CD of all the albums they were electronically distributing? And the judge still declared that illegal...
Yup. Laptop + svideo out + wifi + bittorrent = instant set-top box with free movies.
Here's most of the paragraph that you quoted from
- I offered to take down evidence-eliminator-sucks.com for free. All they had to do was take all mention of me off their site. I mean, what do I care about what Windows losers get scammed out of? But no, they had to go off and hire a solicitor to spew out a cart00ney, and now it's too late for that: the site is now hosted on several servers scattered around the Internet, and I couldn't make the site go away now even if I wanted to.
What he's refering to is this page on evidence eliminator's page that twists the truth a lot about Eric Green.Anyway, if he wanted to be more accurate, he probably would have said "I care a great deal about evidence-eliminator removing untruths on their website about me, more than I necessarily care about getting the truth out."