I doubt this was a goof, assuming SCO actually released its own code into linux then it was likely done out of laziness/expidence. SCO is about 'Unix', however the buzzword is 'Linux'. I'd be more likely to think that someone at SCO decided to take a shortcut and pasted some code in. and then the code was 'found again' in the Linux code.
Well then what happens next? Well like a good bureacrat SCO tries to CYA. Pulls out of Linux in order to see what elase is in the pipe that might be leaked, So where deos the suit come in? Thats a tought one. It could be possible deception trying to palce blame elsewhere. It could be that they cant find the real leak and thus are looking for likely targets.
There is going to be some percentage of these things that have broken seals. What happens whensomeone gets one of these home and doenst open it for a week and it dont work, and then another week goes by before you get to return it? (people have real lives and they *dont* revolve around DVDs). I can hear the backlash now abot stores not taking back these thigns as defective because the consumer has no way of proving it. "Well its past it 48 hour time period, you must have opened it"
Im not trying to be rude here, but in case you have been asleep for the past several years, let me remind you of the company ENRON. They had people that tried to go thru the chain of command. The chain of command was in fact full of corrupt criminals.
In fact companies will protect its employees from the law in direct proportion to their seniorit. In fact I was palced in a situation where federal law was being violated and my employer plain didnt care.
Ya know its worse than that. With all the people whining up a storm about changing the *color* of paper money, if you actually changed the denominations their heads would explode.
I came across this one asshat that equated US Currency with monopoly money because it looks 'exactly' like it, and becuase it not backed with gold it's of no value. Make sense? No? well me neither.
I recall that there was some problem with Stan Lee over the Spider-Man movie. I read taht he supopsedly got totally cheated out of his cut of the movie profits when the studio said they didnt make any money on it. That article says "The first movie grossed more than $820 million worldwide". Does anyone know what is going on with this?
well what a coinkydink... from the article: Shuster does have time on his side, Aharonian said. The pop-up patent was filed in 1998, and under patent law, challengers would have to show similar technology being used prior to 1997.
Just today i have an online acquaintence who said he was making poups ads for sites in 97. i'll be passing thisinfo along to him:)
according to this document. "Other AAC files that you find on the Internet or elsewhere will not play in iTunes." There is also some question is other things that will play AAC will play these files also.
Back in the day I read through all of the comp.sys.ibm.pc.* Faqs and I credit (blame?) my inital computer knowledge on that. It was a wonderful resource. If all the wannabe computer techs were just to go an search out such a reference there would be many fewer stupid questions on irc.
Speaking of which, Email, the 'web', usernet have all been basically co-opted by spammers or commercial intrests; IRC seems to be the last haven. It will be a sad then when some 'genius' thinks hes found a way to make money fast with it.
Mind you this is only the first step. Jus wait for the unholy alliance between spammers and vrius writers. You rember how bad nimda was? Its not going to be hard to make these thigns that report the IP via irc/http/email. Hell you could even setup a listener and just see how makes bad pop3 connections. This is gonna get really ugly. And just think.. these are gonna be zombies we know are being used. Zombies that spread at the speed of spam. Zombies that may be hijacked to do more than spam.
Anyone who thinks the cli on unix is easy to use is already a unix person. CLIs in general are *not* intuitive. I mean think about it the current metaphors that the GUIs use. You want to move a file in the real work.. you grab it and put it in another folder. You dont say "move this file to there". There is a reason why GUIs have devloped. Because typing in commands is not natural to humans that deal with actual objects.
That part said, I suggest for a moment you compare a man page to the help in VMS. Once you learn to read the VMS help you can realy get going right away, and nearly all the help is in consistent easy to read format and hierarchial. Man pages are spotty, confusing, overtechnical where it doesnt need to be, and inconsistent. Look at the man pages for cron(tab). good luck.
Well if as you say that he didnt have anythign to do with MS products, then as head of security one would think that MS should have tapped his knowledge of hackers. Perhaps some non-technological persepctive on the issues of security would have been useful.
While I am not into the gaming scene (anymore), this appearent action by GW seems to walk a well trodden road. Company isnt as successful as they used to be, starts to target resellers, customers, etc that they believe are misuing their whatever stuff. Decides to retake control of their whole market via dumbass maneuvers that piss people off or by legal action. i think most recently we can see this in SCO.
please, I hit the link on the conjecture and the first 10 words made my eyes glaze over. i was pretty fair in calculus backin the day, but manohman.. while this is intellectually intresting i have a hell of a time caring since its so seemingly esoteric to be... well over-nerdy.
Ok here is the disclaimer right off, I do not advocate spamming, and i think there needs to be a gulag that spammers are thrown into.
That much said, from the article, "filing the lawsuits gives AOL additional authority to subpoena service providers and others to try to track down the spammers"
I recall much derision when the RIAA sued Verizon for customer info of alleged music traders. Now AOL is suing to get spammer customer information. I think we need to seriously consider the possibility of situational ethics.
The track record of scumminess of the RIAA is widely hated, so most don't like anything they do. Likewise spammers, also so widely hated so no one cares what happens to them (even me). When is getting a customer's info right, when is it wrong? I think this is a tough question we, as a community, have to think about and perhaps ultimately face in the future.
As many of us had suspected the DMCA was going to be used to quell free speech, and thus it has. If we recall sever people and group had toried to file 'pre-emptive' suits in order to get legal cover from the DMCA to discuss security topics. As I recall all the judges in those cases said there was no reasonable expectation that ther would be a legal problem and dismissed the cases. Well the fears of those people have come to pass. I hope those judges are taking a hard look at their missed oppertunity to sure up the constitutional right to free speech. The could have gone down in the law books as the first to take a proactive stand on this.. and they really failed to do their larger duty to justice.
Well..... everyone wanted some kinda of fast affordable internet link for thier business. ISDN was neither. It seemed that had to be next door to the telco office to get ISDN coverage. And the prices geez, rember seeing some things where ISDN was priced above a T1.
Besides ISDN was a stillborn. Then, as today, the Telcos woudlntknow what infrastructure investment was if space aliens fame down and gave them faster than light superconducting wire.
he first one relates to the article "Edelman had asked a Seattle company called N2H2 for a list of sites its software blocks, but was rebuffed."
Now supposedly the judge says that this list of blocked sites is copyrighted. Excuse me but I'm totally baffled as to how a 3rd party company has copyright on a list that contains domain names that belong to a 4th party. I really need someone to explain this. Does merely making a list of otherwise publicly available information make it copyrightable? Does the mere listing make it something new and special?
The second big problem here seem to go against (IIRC) previous case law on reverse engineering. If this ruling stands you might as well kiss RE good bye. Every company is the US is gonna whine DMCA and "invasive and destructive trespass".
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Here is the ironic part, i wonder how long its goign to take a whiz kid to lockout IE byt its its own DRM agaisnt it.
But think about the larger consequences here. Think about sitesyouwont be able to print.. or copy text out of or look at the source for.
I doubt this was a goof, assuming SCO actually released its own code into linux then it was likely done out of laziness/expidence. SCO is about 'Unix', however the buzzword is 'Linux'. I'd be more likely to think that someone at SCO decided to take a shortcut and pasted some code in. and then the code was 'found again' in the Linux code.
Well then what happens next? Well like a good bureacrat SCO tries to CYA. Pulls out of Linux in order to see what elase is in the pipe that might be leaked, So where deos the suit come in? Thats a tought one. It could be possible deception trying to palce blame elsewhere. It could be that they cant find the real leak and thus are looking for likely targets.
There is going to be some percentage of these things that have broken seals. What happens whensomeone gets one of these home and doenst open it for a week and it dont work, and then another week goes by before you get to return it? (people have real lives and they *dont* revolve around DVDs). I can hear the backlash now abot stores not taking back these thigns as defective because the consumer has no way of proving it. "Well its past it 48 hour time period, you must have opened it"
Im not trying to be rude here, but in case you have been asleep for the past several years, let me remind you of the company ENRON. They had people that tried to go thru the chain of command. The chain of command was in fact full of corrupt criminals.
In fact companies will protect its employees from the law in direct proportion to their seniorit. In fact I was palced in a situation where federal law was being violated and my employer plain didnt care.
Ya know its worse than that. With all the people whining up a storm about changing the *color* of paper money, if you actually changed the denominations their heads would explode.
I came across this one asshat that equated US Currency with monopoly money because it looks 'exactly' like it, and becuase it not backed with gold it's of no value. Make sense? No? well me neither.
why not just call it "browserone"
I recall that there was some problem with Stan Lee over the Spider-Man movie. I read taht he supopsedly got totally cheated out of his cut of the movie profits when the studio said they didnt make any money on it. That article says "The first movie grossed more than $820 million worldwide". Does anyone know what is going on with this?
And yet no one who knows 'unix' would ever ever confuse OpenVMS or MS windows for unix.
well what a coinkydink... from the article :
Shuster does have time on his side, Aharonian said. The pop-up patent was filed in 1998, and under patent law, challengers would have to show similar technology being used prior to 1997.
Just today i have an online acquaintence who said he was making poups ads for sites in 97. i'll be passing thisinfo along to him:)
according to this document. "Other AAC files that you find on the Internet or elsewhere will not play in iTunes." There is also some question is other things that will play AAC will play these files also.
"legitimate advertising" wont be using forged headers. Try reading the article and look at the criteria for actually being a felony.
A legitimate business should stop bothering you if you tell them to.
A legitimate business with legitimate advertising should be oneou have done business with that you haved opted into.
Spam is none of these things.
Back in the day I read through all of the comp.sys.ibm.pc.* Faqs and I credit (blame?) my inital computer knowledge on that. It was a wonderful resource. If all the wannabe computer techs were just to go an search out such a reference there would be many fewer stupid questions on irc.
Speaking of which, Email, the 'web', usernet have all been basically co-opted by spammers or commercial intrests; IRC seems to be the last haven. It will be a sad then when some 'genius' thinks hes found a way to make money fast with it.
let me know when someone figures out how to play all of those bootable only floppy games:)
Mind you this is only the first step. Jus wait for the unholy alliance between spammers and vrius writers. You rember how bad nimda was? Its not going to be hard to make these thigns that report the IP via irc/http/email. Hell you could even setup a listener and just see how makes bad pop3 connections. This is gonna get really ugly. And just think.. these are gonna be zombies we know are being used. Zombies that spread at the speed of spam. Zombies that may be hijacked to do more than spam.
Anyone who thinks the cli on unix is easy to use is already a unix person. CLIs in general are *not* intuitive. I mean think about it the current metaphors that the GUIs use. You want to move a file in the real work.. you grab it and put it in another folder. You dont say "move this file to there". There is a reason why GUIs have devloped. Because typing in commands is not natural to humans that deal with actual objects.
That part said, I suggest for a moment you compare a man page to the help in VMS. Once you learn to read the VMS help you can realy get going right away, and nearly all the help is in consistent easy to read format and hierarchial. Man pages are spotty, confusing, overtechnical where it doesnt need to be, and inconsistent. Look at the man pages for cron(tab). good luck.
Hmm bounties for spammers? I wonder if i can get a mesage off to the Bebop and get radcial edward on the case:)
Well if as you say that he didnt have anythign to do with MS products, then as head of security one would think that MS should have tapped his knowledge of hackers. Perhaps some non-technological persepctive on the issues of security would have been useful.
While I am not into the gaming scene (anymore), this appearent action by GW seems to walk a well trodden road. Company isnt as successful as they used to be, starts to target resellers, customers, etc that they believe are misuing their whatever stuff. Decides to retake control of their whole market via dumbass maneuvers that piss people off or by legal action. i think most recently we can see this in SCO.
please, I hit the link on the conjecture and the first 10 words made my eyes glaze over. i was pretty fair in calculus backin the day, but manohman.. while this is intellectually intresting i have a hell of a time caring since its so seemingly esoteric to be... well over-nerdy.
Ok here is the disclaimer right off, I do not advocate spamming, and i think there needs to be a gulag that spammers are thrown into. That much said, from the article, "filing the lawsuits gives AOL additional authority to subpoena service providers and others to try to track down the spammers" I recall much derision when the RIAA sued Verizon for customer info of alleged music traders. Now AOL is suing to get spammer customer information. I think we need to seriously consider the possibility of situational ethics. The track record of scumminess of the RIAA is widely hated, so most don't like anything they do. Likewise spammers, also so widely hated so no one cares what happens to them (even me). When is getting a customer's info right, when is it wrong? I think this is a tough question we, as a community, have to think about and perhaps ultimately face in the future.
As many of us had suspected the DMCA was going to be used to quell free speech, and thus it has. If we recall sever people and group had toried to file 'pre-emptive' suits in order to get legal cover from the DMCA to discuss security topics. As I recall all the judges in those cases said there was no reasonable expectation that ther would be a legal problem and dismissed the cases. Well the fears of those people have come to pass. I hope those judges are taking a hard look at their missed oppertunity to sure up the constitutional right to free speech. The could have gone down in the law books as the first to take a proactive stand on this.. and they really failed to do their larger duty to justice.
Of course sniping is way to eay here.. so i will,
For the love of B0B how hard is it to deploythe feature across the entire suite. What can we conclude here?
1) Its not really ready and the high end versions will ship later.
OR
2) its a cheap ploy to rake in more money later on.
*sigh*
Well as I cant see the site to know, but im sure if somsoen posted to JMS he woudl be able to give the designed sizes of all the ships
Well..... everyone wanted some kinda of fast affordable internet link for thier business. ISDN was neither. It seemed that had to be next door to the telco office to get ISDN coverage. And the prices geez, rember seeing some things where ISDN was priced above a T1.
Besides ISDN was a stillborn. Then, as today, the Telcos woudlntknow what infrastructure investment was if space aliens fame down and gave them faster than light superconducting wire.
he first one relates to the article "Edelman had asked a Seattle company called N2H2 for a list of sites its software blocks, but was rebuffed."
Now supposedly the judge says that this list of blocked sites is copyrighted. Excuse me but I'm totally baffled as to how a 3rd party company has copyright on a list that contains domain names that belong to a 4th party. I really need someone to explain this. Does merely making a list of otherwise publicly available information make it copyrightable? Does the mere listing make it something new and special?
The second big problem here seem to go against (IIRC) previous case law on reverse engineering. If this ruling stands you might as well kiss RE good bye. Every company is the US is gonna whine DMCA and "invasive and destructive trespass".
Why do I hear a huge sucking sound?