Don't forget that Oracle also likes to change the licensing requirements on a regular basis as a way of extorting/extracting, ever-increasing amounts of money from their victims/customers.
In a true enterprise installation, the amount of money is downright staggering.
Whatever happened to the 20% different dealy, whereby eBay isn't affected because its code (the way it works) is 20%(100%?) different from the subject of the patent?
I think you have no understanding of the nature of emergency services. At it's best, emergency services are controlled chaos. Under "other than normal" circumstances it's a complete crapshoot. Having the assistance of *trained* citizens is invaluable, and is a lot more common than you obviously think. The emergency services are there to help you, not wipe your ass for you.
And, quite frankly, all these ultra-high tech communications systems the emergency services use are really nice under normal circumstances, but are completely friggin useless when the main systems fail. Many modern vehicle radios *cannot* talk directly to another mobile unit (multi-frequency). The transmission is sent to a tower, and relayed to the other vehicle/handheld. If the tower fails, every radio in the field becomes a high-dollar piece of junk.
Yes, I do know what I'm talking about, I worked eight years in emergency services, and my wife has over 17 years, and is still working in in the field.
Instead, he should have reported the vulnerability through other channels. There ought to be some sort of equivalent to the "Better Buisiness Bureau," but concerning itself with IT companies that falsely advertise themselves as secure...
Yes that would be nice, but there isn't any such agency, is there?
So Einstein, what should he have done, other than walk away from it and let someone else get screwed? He'd already notified the mangement, and they didn't do anything about it.
I think you've never worked with a true professional. Certainly not someone who does commercial-grade work for a living.
I worked in a reprographics shop where equipment was always coming and going, and every piece had some new twist to how it wanted its power. One in particular wanted three-phase 220, 90 amps. We had a good electrical contractor on retainer who did all our work for us. Our building was a piece of crap, and our employees could screw up just about anything, but we *never* had issues with electricity. All runs were in metal conduit, pulled and grounded properly.
I'll add my voice to the swelling mass of reason. If this guy even *touches* that mains panel again, he's got rocks in his head.
The pay is too damn good. You only need a high school degree, and training is cake. Would you rather work at McDonalds for $5.50/hour or telemarketting for $10.00/hour?
I'd rather do piecework in the fields or orchards. (I have done it.)
How's that for making you feel slimy? A telemarketer calling up the only people worse than them, car salesmen. *shudder*
I'll take the car salesman any day. He may be slimy, but at least I only have to deal with him when I want a car. I haven't had any yet try to drag me out of my living room.
Pick-pockets and burglars rate far higher on my list than telemarketers. I can always replace material goods. My time is gone forever.
Frankly, I can't think of any *legal* profession worse than telemarketer. Even lawyers are a step up.
Oracle has has ODBC support for as long as I can remember.
And anyone who has ever touched them has always regretted it. Oracle's native drivers are good, and allow you to do some pretty cool things. But, their ODBC drivers are pure shite.
Mature databases (ie: Oracle as opposed to MySQL) has a very robust native programming language in which the code is compiled and cached in the database, making it often the best way to add business logic.
True, but Oracle's implementation still is a bit wonky. Oracle's stored procedures (until very recently) would not let you return entire result sets. I found Transact-SQL (Sybase and MS) to be a far more robust and flexible solution than PL/SQL.
Also, Oracle's SQL syntax is significantly non-standard in a few areas, especially WRT joins.
SCO looks not unlike a guy who knows he is going to die, but is trying to go with a some kind of a "bang" by standing under a few thousand tons of huge boulders and throwing rocks upwards to try to dislogde a few of them.
Actually, to me, it looks more like "suicide by cop". They're too cowardly to off themselves, so they're going to create a standoff with a better-armed opponent, then point a gun at them so they don't have any choice but to kill them.
It is easy to get wrong (who has setup their DNS server right the first time around?)
I just don't get this.
I've been setting up BIND servers for several years, and I've never had any trouble figuring it out. I had the first one up and running (properly) in under an hour.
We were brainstorming the other day, and came up with a system to make the Western US more habitable, as well as reduce global warming and air polution. It's an amazingly simple system, but people would get pissed off.. Imagine making even 10% of the Wester US more like usable farm land, rather than dry desert. There used to be a sea running through the middle of the US, known as the "Western Interior Seaway". Bringing that up to even 1% of what it used to be would bring serious life to the a rather sparsely inhabited part of the country..
Another friggin moron who thinks desert==lifeless void just waiting on a little extra water.
The deserts of the American Southwest are a perfectly viable, vibrant, and fragile ecosystem. There are hundreds of plants and animals here that do not exist (naturally) anywhere else in the world. Any significant environmental change would likely kill off a large chunk of the native flora and fauna.
So, please stop trying to do us folks out in the desert a favor. We really don't need your help in screwing up the local ecology, there's plenty of folks already working on it.
Well, in Canada our postal codes are 6 characters long, and in the USA you have ZIP+4 which is 9 long. Like phone numbers, 7 is a good length for memorization for the average person, 10 is a bit too long.
Actually, the full US zip code is 12 digits. 5 digits to specify the local post office, 4 digits to bring it to the carrier route level, 2 digits for the "delivery point" and one checksum digit.
In truth, the US Post office's system makes hella lotta sense. If the full delivery point barcode is on the envelope (most business mail), that piece of mail can be completely routed all the way to a mail carrier's bag without doing any database lookups along the way. The only person who will read any other part of the address is the mail carrier, and then, technically only as a double-check.
Some bikes CAN be beaten by little 4cyls, too, so don't get too cocky.
Forget it, there isn't a stock, street-legal car that I'd even take notice of. And the only modified car I ever saw that gave me doubts was an NSX with an aftermarket turbo system.
What all those four-wheel jockeys forget is that 90% of the game is about acceleration, and for that, less weight wins. It doesn't matter if I can't corner as fast, if they can't match me getting to the corner. I mean sure, you've (maybe)* got twice my horsepower, but I've got 1/4 your weight. Effectively, I've got double the power/weight ratio.
The other thing is about experience. I've got eight years experience pushing that bike through hard maneuvers. I know its limitations, and I know mine. The average kid in one of these hopped-up econo-boxes barely has a two years total driving experience, and has likely never spent any serious time practicing hard maneuvers under controlled conditions.
Let's not even get into those ridiculous near-zero profile tires that are completely useless under real world conditions. A good pot-hole will shatter the rim (seen it happen several times). And on uneven pavement, traction is severely degraded.
Oh, and don't forget that a recent model superbike weighs up to 70 pounds less, and generates 20-30 more horses. If my old warhorse can still toss those things, they don't have a prayer in the world against the newer models.
* Automobile horsepower is usually estimated by the manufacturer (high), and is usually measured at the crankshaft. Motorcycle horsepower is usually not published by the manufacturer, and is thus measured by third-parties on rear-wheel dynamometers. In my own case, I've had my bike run on a rear-wheel dynamometer measureing 122hp at approx 11,000 rpm (12,500 red-line, 13,000rpm rev-limiter)
"Insurance".
Heh, I bet I pay less for full-coverage on my bike than most folks do on their cars.
I love to irk people with big V8s - they are silly in the age of forged engine internals, ECU control, and modern design. You haven't lived until you've seen the expression on a Z06 corvette owner's face when he gets is ass handed to him by a built and tuned 1.8L Acura Integra.
Yeah, and those Accura owners nearly have strokes when I toss them into the weeds with my 8 year old motorcycle. No computer control, just a 15+ year old block, piston and head design so refined and advanced that I can run 85 octane fuel at 12:1 compression, in 110 degree temperatures, up to 13,000rpm, without it even thinking of pinging.
Can you say "1005cc generating 122 hp measured at the rear wheel"?
What if you are the only sobber person in the car and have no drivers licence?
I've actually seen this. Some years ago, I was a police officer working on a sobriety checkpoint. Of course, the first thing we ask for is driver's license and registration. In this case, the kid didn't have one. But, he was also the only one in a car of four people who was sober.
I can't remember exactly what we did in this case, but I know for sure that we didn't even come close to throwing the book at him. The kid was trying to do the right thing. If memory serves, we held them at the checkpoint until a responsible driver could come get them.
Ummm, they said they are prepared to present examples in court.
Actually, if they really plan on going to court, they're going to have to reveal their evidence to IBM long before it actually makes it to the courtroom.
See, there's this little thing called "discovery", where both parties in a court action are entitled to request any information from the other party even slightly pertinent to the case. And the other side must comply unless they can get a judge to agree that it's not relevant.
I really don't know the answer to your question. I was just pointing out that GPL software shouldn't have anything in it whose distribution is incompatable with GPL terms. Thus the patent debate should (theoretically) be moot as no patent with restrictive/monetary distribution terms should be included.
No, the debate is entirely appropriate, and nowhere near "theoretically moot".
With the sheer volume of patents being granted, it is just not possible to know whether the software you are writing is encumbered by patent. Add to that the fact that patents applied for, but not yet granted are not available for public scrutiny, but once granted are valid from the time of application, and the whole system gets even more impossible for small developers.
I've got several small bits of code running around under GPL or BSD type licenses. To my knowledge, none are encumbered by patent. However, I really don't know for sure. I've got a larger piece of code I'm currently developing, and quite frankly I may never release it to the public. Again, I don't know that any patents apply to it, however, it's large enough and complex enough to increase the probability. I don't have the time, or the money to deal with such issues.
You are right. Most criminals out there do not want to waste time with this. But I would think the "smart" ones would actually want it to appear as if nothing is wrong.
Even the smart ones don't always care. Here in the Phoenix area, we've got a crew nicknamed the Rock Burglars who have been robbing upscale homes for ten years. They're called the rock burglars, because that's how they get into the house, they throw a rock through a back window.
However, they do meet your other criteria. They are very selective about what they take, just the jewelry.
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Don't forget that Oracle also likes to change the licensing requirements on a regular basis as a way of extorting/extracting, ever-increasing amounts of money from their victims/customers.
In a true enterprise installation, the amount of money is downright staggering.
Granted, I still don't trust MS to be secure, so I never let it be internet facing.
One should not trust ANY database to be secure. There's really no good reason to let your database be exposed to the outside world.
A company I used to work for got rooted through Oracle...
I've done dozens of Oracle installs. In about 1 of 8 or so, the Java installer causes trouble, and in 25% of thoses cases, won't run at all.
The Java installer is the worst piece of crap they ever came up with.
Whatever happened to the 20% different dealy, whereby eBay isn't affected because its code (the way it works) is 20%(100%?) different from the subject of the patent?
Never existed. This is pure myth.
Baked beans are off.
Actually, where did the idea come from that Hams *run* things in an emergency?
They don't call the shots, they relay communications. It's dispatchers, scene commanders and such that run the show.
I think you have no understanding of the nature of emergency services. At it's best, emergency services are controlled chaos. Under "other than normal" circumstances it's a complete crapshoot. Having the assistance of *trained* citizens is invaluable, and is a lot more common than you obviously think. The emergency services are there to help you, not wipe your ass for you.
And, quite frankly, all these ultra-high tech communications systems the emergency services use are really nice under normal circumstances, but are completely friggin useless when the main systems fail. Many modern vehicle radios *cannot* talk directly to another mobile unit (multi-frequency). The transmission is sent to a tower, and relayed to the other vehicle/handheld. If the tower fails, every radio in the field becomes a high-dollar piece of junk.
Yes, I do know what I'm talking about, I worked eight years in emergency services, and my wife has over 17 years, and is still working in in the field.
Yes that would be nice, but there isn't any such agency, is there?
So Einstein, what should he have done, other than walk away from it and let someone else get screwed? He'd already notified the mangement, and they didn't do anything about it.
I think you've never worked with a true professional. Certainly not someone who does commercial-grade work for a living.
I worked in a reprographics shop where equipment was always coming and going, and every piece had some new twist to how it wanted its power. One in particular wanted three-phase 220, 90 amps. We had a good electrical contractor on retainer who did all our work for us. Our building was a piece of crap, and our employees could screw up just about anything, but we *never* had issues with electricity. All runs were in metal conduit, pulled and grounded properly.
I'll add my voice to the swelling mass of reason. If this guy even *touches* that mains panel again, he's got rocks in his head.
Get some popcorn and watch the show?
I'd rather do piecework in the fields or orchards. (I have done it.)
But then, I have a nasty handicap called morals.
I'll take the car salesman any day. He may be slimy, but at least I only have to deal with him when I want a car. I haven't had any yet try to drag me out of my living room.
Pick-pockets and burglars rate far higher on my list than telemarketers. I can always replace material goods. My time is gone forever.
Frankly, I can't think of any *legal* profession worse than telemarketer. Even lawyers are a step up.
And anyone who has ever touched them has always regretted it. Oracle's native drivers are good, and allow you to do some pretty cool things. But, their ODBC drivers are pure shite.
True, but Oracle's implementation still is a bit wonky. Oracle's stored procedures (until very recently) would not let you return entire result sets. I found Transact-SQL (Sybase and MS) to be a far more robust and flexible solution than PL/SQL.
Also, Oracle's SQL syntax is significantly non-standard in a few areas, especially WRT joins.
IETF: Now this is called ADDING. If I take two IPs, and I add two more IPs, how many IPs do I have ?
...and that one.
ICANN: Some IPs.
IETF: ICANN, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. One..two..three..
ICANN: four!
IETF: So how many are there?
ICANN: Three.
IETF: What?
ICANN:
IETF: Three and that one. So if I add that one to the three what will I have?
ICANN: Oh! Some IPs.
Sorry, couldn't help myself... Apologies to Blackadder fans.
Actually, to me, it looks more like "suicide by cop". They're too cowardly to off themselves, so they're going to create a standoff with a better-armed opponent, then point a gun at them so they don't have any choice but to kill them.
Pathetic, really.
It is easy to get wrong (who has setup their DNS server right the first time around?)
I just don't get this.
I've been setting up BIND servers for several years, and I've never had any trouble figuring it out. I had the first one up and running (properly) in under an hour.
Are geeks really that much dumber today?
Another friggin moron who thinks desert==lifeless void just waiting on a little extra water.
The deserts of the American Southwest are a perfectly viable, vibrant, and fragile ecosystem. There are hundreds of plants and animals here that do not exist (naturally) anywhere else in the world. Any significant environmental change would likely kill off a large chunk of the native flora and fauna.
So, please stop trying to do us folks out in the desert a favor. We really don't need your help in screwing up the local ecology, there's plenty of folks already working on it.
Actually, the full US zip code is 12 digits. 5 digits to specify the local post office, 4 digits to bring it to the carrier route level, 2 digits for the "delivery point" and one checksum digit.
In truth, the US Post office's system makes hella lotta sense. If the full delivery point barcode is on the envelope (most business mail), that piece of mail can be completely routed all the way to a mail carrier's bag without doing any database lookups along the way. The only person who will read any other part of the address is the mail carrier, and then, technically only as a double-check.
Forget it, there isn't a stock, street-legal car that I'd even take notice of. And the only modified car I ever saw that gave me doubts was an NSX with an aftermarket turbo system.
What all those four-wheel jockeys forget is that 90% of the game is about acceleration, and for that, less weight wins. It doesn't matter if I can't corner as fast, if they can't match me getting to the corner. I mean sure, you've (maybe)* got twice my horsepower, but I've got 1/4 your weight. Effectively, I've got double the power/weight ratio.
The other thing is about experience. I've got eight years experience pushing that bike through hard maneuvers. I know its limitations, and I know mine. The average kid in one of these hopped-up econo-boxes barely has a two years total driving experience, and has likely never spent any serious time practicing hard maneuvers under controlled conditions.
Let's not even get into those ridiculous near-zero profile tires that are completely useless under real world conditions. A good pot-hole will shatter the rim (seen it happen several times). And on uneven pavement, traction is severely degraded.
Oh, and don't forget that a recent model superbike weighs up to 70 pounds less, and generates 20-30 more horses. If my old warhorse can still toss those things, they don't have a prayer in the world against the newer models.
* Automobile horsepower is usually estimated by the manufacturer (high), and is usually measured at the crankshaft. Motorcycle horsepower is usually not published by the manufacturer, and is thus measured by third-parties on rear-wheel dynamometers. In my own case, I've had my bike run on a rear-wheel dynamometer measureing 122hp at approx 11,000 rpm (12,500 red-line, 13,000rpm rev-limiter)
Heh, I bet I pay less for full-coverage on my bike than most folks do on their cars.
Yamaha FZR-1000, 5 valves per cylinder, EXUP exhaust power valve.
Yeah, and those Accura owners nearly have strokes when I toss them into the weeds with my 8 year old motorcycle. No computer control, just a 15+ year old block, piston and head design so refined and advanced that I can run 85 octane fuel at 12:1 compression, in 110 degree temperatures, up to 13,000rpm, without it even thinking of pinging.
Can you say "1005cc generating 122 hp measured at the rear wheel"?
Can you say "absolutely bone-stock"?
Can you say "53 miles per gallon"?
I thought you could.
I've actually seen this. Some years ago, I was a police officer working on a sobriety checkpoint. Of course, the first thing we ask for is driver's license and registration. In this case, the kid didn't have one. But, he was also the only one in a car of four people who was sober.
I can't remember exactly what we did in this case, but I know for sure that we didn't even come close to throwing the book at him. The kid was trying to do the right thing. If memory serves, we held them at the checkpoint until a responsible driver could come get them.
Actually, if they really plan on going to court, they're going to have to reveal their evidence to IBM long before it actually makes it to the courtroom.
See, there's this little thing called "discovery", where both parties in a court action are entitled to request any information from the other party even slightly pertinent to the case. And the other side must comply unless they can get a judge to agree that it's not relevant.
No, the debate is entirely appropriate, and nowhere near "theoretically moot".
With the sheer volume of patents being granted, it is just not possible to know whether the software you are writing is encumbered by patent. Add to that the fact that patents applied for, but not yet granted are not available for public scrutiny, but once granted are valid from the time of application, and the whole system gets even more impossible for small developers.
I've got several small bits of code running around under GPL or BSD type licenses. To my knowledge, none are encumbered by patent. However, I really don't know for sure. I've got a larger piece of code I'm currently developing, and quite frankly I may never release it to the public. Again, I don't know that any patents apply to it, however, it's large enough and complex enough to increase the probability. I don't have the time, or the money to deal with such issues.
You are right. Most criminals out there do not want to waste time with this. But I would think the "smart" ones would actually want it to appear as if nothing is wrong.
Even the smart ones don't always care. Here in the Phoenix area, we've got a crew nicknamed the Rock Burglars who have been robbing upscale homes for ten years. They're called the rock burglars, because that's how they get into the house, they throw a rock through a back window.
However, they do meet your other criteria. They are very selective about what they take, just the jewelry.