Why would it be a suprise that Microsoft would buy g5s? I mean, what do you think they use to write Office for Mac and the other ports of their software? I mean, duh.
But seriously, it's not like he worked in the department that was using the machines and just mentioned it, he just saw something going on and took a picture and posted it on his blog. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
If I ran a multi-billion dollar company I wouldn't want ugly bastich going around snapping random photos of internal stuff and posting them on his blog.
Well, has microsoft ever used a patent offensively? I don't think they have, but then again they've never had to pay more then $500 million for one either (since the company is at least worth as much as the fine MS needs to pay).
If I were this guy, I'd collect my half billion dollars, put the patent in the public domain, and move on. Being greedy about it is only going to make things worse for him.
Since when do you need to be 'equitable' with enforcement of copyrights (which is all the GPL is)? Never!
A copyright is just like a patent, you can let it lapse as long as you want and enforce it the last year if you so please, and against whoever you want. That's what lets you keep profiles of 'defensive patents', that's what let Unisys try to collect on it's GIF patent 2 years before it was going to expire. That's what let some company claim copyright on the movie "it's a wonderful life" after everyone thought it was in the public domain for decades.
Okay, it makes the program faster, but the computer slower to boot. And even then, why do they need an icon It's entirely possible to startup without having a tray icon.
Interesting, new.net is an idealab company, which is sort of the archetypal silicon valley pipe dream. Oh, we can't change the world and become billionaires, let's just fuck over millions of peoples computers so we can keep making payments on the cars we thought we had paid for by stock options. Pathetic.
The T&C section is pretty standard fare, try to find some license that doesn't try to get the author off the hook. The GPL certainly tries, weather you pay for it or not (like buy disks from redhat)
I don't know what the hell it does, other then the fact that it claims to remove spyware, but in fact is spyware as detected by spybot. So now not only are these bastards praying on security holes on machines and less-then-attentive users, they're also praying on people who are actualy trying to remove there crap.
I sware to god these motherfuckers, spammers, Spyware authors, and low-lifes in general are responsible for an over-all decline of the internet into suckattude.
Someone smarter then me needs to figure out a way to create an internet that offers both anonymity and relative accountability (like the slashdot mod system, except something that actually works).
I've only been infected with Spyware once, something called "surfer bar" which replaced IE's display, and replaced my address bar with it's own. It put in three buttons. I don't remember one, but the other two were "gambling" and "porno". I swear to god it got installed by an IE hole or something, and I switched to mozilla right after that.
Oh yeah, and ad aware didn't even detect it, I had to manually remove it by going through the registry (thankfully it was simple, just a standard COM based extension to IE, except it called itself "win32.dll" and had no references whatsoever to "surferbar" in any text anywhere in any of it's files or registry keys...)
One girl's machine I tried to fix had some process that would reinstall Spyware after it was removed by add/remove programs. I ran spybot on her system and it found 30 different types. But there was still some weirdness when we rebooted : (
You can't really compare symetric key systems like AES with public key systems like ECC or RSA. With a symetric system you need keey your key secret, with public key you have two keys (encryption and decryption), and you only need to keep one of them secret. The other you can distribute far and wide.
A lot of times, people will create symetric keys and then use public key systems to distribute them.
Java announced Generics months ago. In all, it seems like the java stuff is more exciting, although the lambda-like stuff in C# seems interesting.
It's good to see commercial competition adding new features to commercial languages, although I hope they don't get so feature bloated they become like Perl.
What a shitty school. What the hell is the point of learning Pascal->C? Pascal and C are basically equivalent, except hat Pascal is much more Obsolete. And what's the point of learning C before C++? You can do anything in C++ that you could do in C, and you often have to do crappy things in C that would be much cleaner in C++.
lthough why they would go to Amazon instead of Google to find that information is beyond me.
The amount of usefull information in the world available to people on the internet, compared to whats available though, say, inter-library loan is actualy pretty small. Unless you're talking about a subject like Computer Sciance, or programming.
I mean, try to find a lot of relavent information on the history of Taiwanese Americans (for example). I had to actualy get up off my ass and to the library in order to write a paper about 'em.
Anything else non-technical, or, god forbid, written before the 90's is more in books then it is online.
Well, it will always be "easy" for a computer to figure out the 'optimal' path through terrain. (of course, by "easy" I mean "NP-hard", but a computer could figure out the best easily-findable paths that another computer would probably use)
This gets into game theory, i.e. choosing certain sub-optimal paths in order to reduce 'predictability'.
If you're using simulated annealing or genetic algorithms to find a path, then you will probably be pretty unpredictable already, wether or not someone else has the source code.
If it wasn't for the fact that the content of the Diebold memo's is something every American should know about, there would be no legal reason for allowing it to stay up.
Hosting the source to HL2 is totally illegal. Any responsible organization would take it down if they were liable.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would it be a suprise that Microsoft would buy g5s? I mean, what do you think they use to write Office for Mac and the other ports of their software? I mean, duh.
But seriously, it's not like he worked in the department that was using the machines and just mentioned it, he just saw something going on and took a picture and posted it on his blog. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
If I ran a multi-billion dollar company I wouldn't want ugly bastich going around snapping random photos of internal stuff and posting them on his blog.
Well, has microsoft ever used a patent offensively? I don't think they have, but then again they've never had to pay more then $500 million for one either (since the company is at least worth as much as the fine MS needs to pay).
If I were this guy, I'd collect my half billion dollars, put the patent in the public domain, and move on. Being greedy about it is only going to make things worse for him.
They will have to pay a lot of money (more then 500 million, at least), and then they will own the patent
Anyway, there are a lot of people and organizations in the world that are far more selfish and harmful them Microsoft.
Um, wouldn't that put their code into the public domain to? Their arguments are so asinine it doesn't even make sense.
Maybe it's all a pro-open source conspiracy to get the GPL proven and tested in court.
All virus writers have to do is 'secure' the system they just compromized. This could be as easy as shutting down a service.
That submitter wasn't biased or anything. Holy fuck.
Slashdot's "anonymous" IP hashes can be undone in 2^32 steps.
Since when do you need to be 'equitable' with enforcement of copyrights (which is all the GPL is)? Never!
A copyright is just like a patent, you can let it lapse as long as you want and enforce it the last year if you so please, and against whoever you want. That's what lets you keep profiles of 'defensive patents', that's what let Unisys try to collect on it's GIF patent 2 years before it was going to expire. That's what let some company claim copyright on the movie "it's a wonderful life" after everyone thought it was in the public domain for decades.
Spybot works a lot better then ad-aware. Or hell, get 'em both.
Okay, it makes the program faster, but the computer slower to boot. And even then, why do they need an icon It's entirely possible to startup without having a tray icon.
Interesting, new.net is an idealab company, which is sort of the archetypal silicon valley pipe dream. Oh, we can't change the world and become billionaires, let's just fuck over millions of peoples computers so we can keep making payments on the cars we thought we had paid for by stock options. Pathetic.
The T&C section is pretty standard fare, try to find some license that doesn't try to get the author off the hook. The GPL certainly tries, weather you pay for it or not (like buy disks from redhat)
Damn I just posted so I can't mod you up. Oh well, made me laugh :)
I don't know what the hell it does, other then the fact that it claims to remove spyware, but in fact is spyware as detected by spybot. So now not only are these bastards praying on security holes on machines and less-then-attentive users, they're also praying on people who are actualy trying to remove there crap.
I sware to god these motherfuckers, spammers, Spyware authors, and low-lifes in general are responsible for an over-all decline of the internet into suckattude.
Someone smarter then me needs to figure out a way to create an internet that offers both anonymity and relative accountability (like the slashdot mod system, except something that actually works).
I've only been infected with Spyware once, something called "surfer bar" which replaced IE's display, and replaced my address bar with it's own. It put in three buttons. I don't remember one, but the other two were "gambling" and "porno". I swear to god it got installed by an IE hole or something, and I switched to mozilla right after that.
Oh yeah, and ad aware didn't even detect it, I had to manually remove it by going through the registry (thankfully it was simple, just a standard COM based extension to IE, except it called itself "win32.dll" and had no references whatsoever to "surferbar" in any text anywhere in any of it's files or registry keys...)
One girl's machine I tried to fix had some process that would reinstall Spyware after it was removed by add/remove programs. I ran spybot on her system and it found 30 different types. But there was still some weirdness when we rebooted : (
Thanks to slashdot's idiotic comment nesting, I thought you were replying to something else.
What will all these people do when they actually have to code in C and suddenly discovered they don't actually know C, they know a subset of C++?
I dunno? The same thing they might do when they actualy have to code in VB, or COBOL or scheme or Python? Like Learn it? Or do something else?
You can't really compare symetric key systems like AES with public key systems like ECC or RSA. With a symetric system you need keey your key secret, with public key you have two keys (encryption and decryption), and you only need to keep one of them secret. The other you can distribute far and wide.
A lot of times, people will create symetric keys and then use public key systems to distribute them.
Java announced Generics months ago. In all, it seems like the java stuff is more exciting, although the lambda-like stuff in C# seems interesting.
It's good to see commercial competition adding new features to commercial languages, although I hope they don't get so feature bloated they become like Perl.
What a shitty school. What the hell is the point of learning Pascal->C? Pascal and C are basically equivalent, except hat Pascal is much more Obsolete. And what's the point of learning C before C++? You can do anything in C++ that you could do in C, and you often have to do crappy things in C that would be much cleaner in C++.
At our school C# is an elective.
lthough why they would go to Amazon instead of Google to find that information is beyond me.
The amount of usefull information in the world available to people on the internet, compared to whats available though, say, inter-library loan is actualy pretty small. Unless you're talking about a subject like Computer Sciance, or programming.
I mean, try to find a lot of relavent information on the history of Taiwanese Americans (for example). I had to actualy get up off my ass and to the library in order to write a paper about 'em.
Anything else non-technical, or, god forbid, written before the 90's is more in books then it is online.
There's no human in the car to keep safe. All they need to is provide an 'unflipping' mechanism, or put wheels on the roof.
Well, it will always be "easy" for a computer to figure out the 'optimal' path through terrain. (of course, by "easy" I mean "NP-hard", but a computer could figure out the best easily-findable paths that another computer would probably use)
This gets into game theory, i.e. choosing certain sub-optimal paths in order to reduce 'predictability'.
If you're using simulated annealing or genetic algorithms to find a path, then you will probably be pretty unpredictable already, wether or not someone else has the source code.
If it wasn't for the fact that the content of the Diebold memo's is something every American should know about, there would be no legal reason for allowing it to stay up.
Hosting the source to HL2 is totally illegal. Any responsible organization would take it down if they were liable.
Just fly over the desert :P
I don't think spammers care that much about getting AT&T employees while they are at work to try to hack this en masse.
Hopefully RMX will get off the ground soon, so we can all do this automaticaly.