The owner of a work -- the copyright holder -- can license that work in any way he or she sees fit. This includes releasing new versions under new licenses.
"For instance, Microsoft's testing uncovered the fact that 80% of users never discovered the functionality of the right mouse button"
Hmmm... Apple's usability and interface people figured that out in... er... well, the early 80s. And they didn't make "a new menu system replicating this [right-click context menu] functionality". They just provided one-button mice and designed the interface accordingly.
Is it somehow better when they mandate the use of Windows? Because they've done that in the past as well.
Organizations need consistency in oreder to work smoothly and allow efficient support of their systems. Organizations routinely mandate a specific profile for the systems they will be using, whether it be all-Microsoft, IBM kit and kaboodle, mixed systems, all-Unix, or whatever.
What's wrong with a government making a policy decision to give preference to free software rather than give preference to commercial software? These governments had previously given preference to commercial, primarily Microsoft, software; were you complaining about the situation then?
Not quite right; the governments are just saying that the governments should use free software, not that the citizenry has to. It's like Walmart mandating the use of Windows 2000 on its systems.
There is no loss of freedom with these kinds of bills; the governments are just saying that the governments should use free software, not that the citizenry has to.
It's like Kmart mandating the use of Windows 2000 in its operations.
I can guaratnee you this: if a tax is levied on blank media to line the pockets of the "recording industry," then I will consider any and all music and video already paid for, and I will encourage everyone I come into contact with to adopt the same attitude.
If they're going to make me pay for theoretically stolen music or movies by taxing blank media, what will I be paying that money for if I haven't stolen any music or videos? How arrogant of them to assume that 100% of all blank media is used to steal their products.
If they're going to assume I'm stealing their shit, and charge me accordingly, then I'll simply consider their shit payed for and take what I want.
They're trying to make money off of my backups of stuff, copies of CDs I make for the car, and other LEGAL activities that have NOTHING to do with them.
If they pass a tax on blank media, they will have made stealing music and videos impossible, because they will have already forced payment out of us.
My parents use it, and love it. It works great! They've never complained about it. You can pre-order a queue of movies, and they send you this first three. Watch one, drop it in the mail, and when Netflix gets it, they send you another one out of your queue.
You watch. And if the service with the hole is non-critical, you turn it off.
For instance:
Code Red looked specifically for default.ida, which invoked index server. So, shut down index server if you don't need it. If you do, rename or delete default.ida and hope and watch until a patch comes out.
Considering telnet is essentially a security hole that you could drive a Ben-Hur chariot race through (user and root passwords passed in plaintext? yum!), and has been recognized as such since... well, forever, by Unix admins, and even is not installed by default on recent RedHat releases, I'd say that there's deeper problems than "telnetd has an exploit." Installing telnetd on a unix machine is about the same as shipping Windows boxes with back orifice and code red already installed.
most of the IIS sites infected were cases where MS installed IIS by default
Indeed. NT Server asks to install IIS during its installation, and it's "yes" by default. Then, Index Server is a component of IIS, also installed by default (default choice: yes).
It was Index Server, not IIS, that was attacked by Code Red.
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I doubt things will move along from "windows" to "rooms" by 2020, although MSFT might be as far as "walls," or perhaps even "doorframes."
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"Adobe applauds RosettaBooks for being the first to explore the opportunities that `timed' eBooks bring to the publishing market," said Susan Altman Prescott, Vice President of Marketing, Cross Media Publishing at Adobe. "Timed eBooks offered in Adobe PDF open a number of innovative ways for publishers to market and sell books. For example, they offer a cost-effective way to distribute review copies and bound galleys with the layout, fonts and graphics intact."
.. as opposed to printed books, which are constantly screwing up the layout and require expensive dedicated reading devices, such as eyeballs.
To hell with readers and that little Ruski turd," concluded Altman.
Slashdot Mirror
The owner of a work -- the copyright holder -- can license that work in any way he or she sees fit. This includes releasing new versions under new licenses.
Nothing fishy about it.
The mice just want to get the answer off the planet before the Vogons destroy it.
From that article:
"For instance, Microsoft's testing uncovered the fact that 80% of users never discovered the functionality of the right mouse button"
Hmmm... Apple's usability and interface people figured that out in... er... well, the early 80s. And they didn't make "a new menu system replicating this [right-click context menu] functionality". They just provided one-button mice and designed the interface accordingly.
Sigh. I wish Apple had gotten it together.
There once was. There's still an RDF feed that they set up for Slashdot:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf
Stallman alert!
woop! woop!
n-o s-h-i-t, s-h-e-r-l-o-c-k
Read the little "slashboxes" for Linux Today, ARS, the Register, etc.
Is it somehow better when they mandate the use of Windows? Because they've done that in the past as well.
Organizations need consistency in oreder to work smoothly and allow efficient support of their systems. Organizations routinely mandate a specific profile for the systems they will be using, whether it be all-Microsoft, IBM kit and kaboodle, mixed systems, all-Unix, or whatever.
What's wrong with a government making a policy decision to give preference to free software rather than give preference to commercial software? These governments had previously given preference to commercial, primarily Microsoft, software; were you complaining about the situation then?
Not quite right; the governments are just saying that the governments should use free software, not that the citizenry has to. It's like Walmart mandating the use of Windows 2000 on its systems.
There is no loss of freedom with these kinds of bills; the governments are just saying that the governments should use free software, not that the citizenry has to.
It's like Kmart mandating the use of Windows 2000 in its operations.
I can guaratnee you this: if a tax is levied on blank media to line the pockets of the "recording industry," then I will consider any and all music and video already paid for, and I will encourage everyone I come into contact with to adopt the same attitude.
If they're going to make me pay for theoretically stolen music or movies by taxing blank media, what will I be paying that money for if I haven't stolen any music or videos? How arrogant of them to assume that 100% of all blank media is used to steal their products.
If they're going to assume I'm stealing their shit, and charge me accordingly, then I'll simply consider their shit payed for and take what I want.
They're trying to make money off of my backups of stuff, copies of CDs I make for the car, and other LEGAL activities that have NOTHING to do with them.
If they pass a tax on blank media, they will have made stealing music and videos impossible, because they will have already forced payment out of us.
So... require IPSec over WIFI.
Maybe someone will come out with "wireless usb" to confuse things further...
My parents use it, and love it. It works great! They've never complained about it. You can pre-order a queue of movies, and they send you this first three. Watch one, drop it in the mail, and when Netflix gets it, they send you another one out of your queue.
It worked!
You watch. And if the service with the hole is non-critical, you turn it off.
For instance:
Code Red looked specifically for default.ida, which invoked index server. So, shut down index server if you don't need it. If you do, rename or delete default.ida and hope and watch until a patch comes out.
Considering telnet is essentially a security hole that you could drive a Ben-Hur chariot race through (user and root passwords passed in plaintext? yum!), and has been recognized as such since... well, forever, by Unix admins, and even is not installed by default on recent RedHat releases, I'd say that there's deeper problems than "telnetd has an exploit." Installing telnetd on a unix machine is about the same as shipping Windows boxes with back orifice and code red already installed.
most of the IIS sites infected were cases where MS installed IIS by default
Indeed. NT Server asks to install IIS during its installation, and it's "yes" by default. Then, Index Server is a component of IIS, also installed by default (default choice: yes).
It was Index Server, not IIS, that was attacked by Code Red.
I doubt things will move along from "windows" to "rooms" by 2020, although MSFT might be as far as "walls," or perhaps even "doorframes."
you forgot to sort, dumbass.
/var/log/httpd/access_log | cut -d " " -f 1 | uniq | wc -l
/var/log/httpd/access_log | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort | uniq | wc -l
Indeed. I suppose uniq doesn't use a has table.
[root@gateway rothwell]# grep default.ida
1677
[root@gateway rothwell]# grep default.ida
630
"Adobe applauds RosettaBooks for being the first to explore the opportunities that `timed' eBooks bring to the publishing market," said Susan Altman Prescott, Vice President of Marketing, Cross Media Publishing at Adobe. "Timed eBooks offered in Adobe PDF open a number of innovative ways for publishers to market and sell books. For example, they offer a cost-effective way to distribute review copies and bound galleys with the layout, fonts and graphics intact."
.. as opposed to printed books, which are constantly screwing up the layout and require expensive dedicated reading devices, such as eyeballs.
To hell with readers and that little Ruski turd," concluded Altman.
They were destributing CDs.
But I still think the real reason was that he gave his talk. Otherwise, why arrest him and not the company president, who was also there?
The DMCA is an amendment of the First Amendment...
I ran a test on the 1597 unique hosts that have attempted to infect my web server recently.
321- 20.1% - "Under Construction" default blank page
0- 00.0% - "too busy"
1093- 69.4% - cannot connect
183- 11.4% - some web page
[root@gateway rothwell]# grep default.ida /var/log/httpd/access_log | cut -f1 -d" " | uniq | wc -l
1595
Actually, U.S. law applies only in U.S. territory, even in Dmitry's case. The thing he was arrested for he did on U.S. soil.
Just like Americans can be and are arrested in foreign countries for breaking the laws of those countries.
The DMCA is stupid, there's no two ways about it. But don't get excited about U.S. law being applied to Russians in their homeland, because it's not.