So where do you draw the line?
Does Winamp infringe on Media Player (or some other similar app)?
Or how about telnet/ftp/whatever clients? Surely there's quite a bit of infringement going on there.
"Parallels had been drawn between appropriating the "functional structure" of a computer system and commandeering the plot of a book, the judge noted.' "
Yea? Is that supposed to be illegal or something? I sure wouldn't have noticed with TV shows and movies commandeering plots all the time.
Is MTV (I think they were the first with Real Life) going to start suing all of the other networks for their use of reality tv shows?
" I got all the way through the wizard and then they told me that these claims can be audited and that you could be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law."
I guess that CDR with a handwritten label of 'Office 2000' doesn't count then?
"and the fact we all live in igloos and have to hunt baby seals once the snow starts in August."
That could have something to do with item # 2 ("Toronto (much like NYC I think) allows women to walk around topless (not that any do, but the possibility is there)")
But if we send machines only, then they'll have the first chance to get on the martians' good side. Once that happens, it'll be like ID4 and the Matrix rolled into one for us silly humans.
"Of course, at least where I work, they use the SS# for more than just payroll purposes. I.e. it's my ID to get in the place in the morning (it's on my swipe card, or I can type it in). THAT is wrong."
Other than the fact that it's bad for you, that doesn't sound too secure for your company either. If you lose your ID (or someone steals it), then whoever picks it up can swipe it to get in. Even when you realize it's missing, they can't exactly print you a new ID with a different SSN and deactivate the old one.
One of my friends worked at a place where their cards were completely blank so if someone picked it up off the street, they wouldn't know where to use it.
Makers of the GEO Metro deserve credit for having reduced the proportion of successful car thefts perpetrated against GEO Metro owners. Makers of sports cars have a lot of catching up to do in this area.
"The article is dead right putting most of the blame on the sysadmins. Only two percent of bsd servers were breached but both linux and bsd run the same servers and software."
I think that's 2% of the hacked servers were BSD, not 2% of BSD servers were hacked. There's quite a difference there. I don't think the article mentioned the ratios of servers anywhere, making it kind of pointless.
Let's say for the sake of argument that there are 50,000 (12,892 hacked) Linux servers and 5,000 (4,626 hacked) Windows servers.
The total number of servers hacked is 17518. Then 73% of those would be Linux and only 27% would be Windows. That doesn't show Windows is more secure.
Maybe I missed something but I didn't see anything in the article that convinced me Windows servers are more or less secure than Linux servers. If they listed the number of unsuccessful hacking attempts for each, then they might have a case.
That was my initial though to the parent post as well. However, if you read this from The Tech Report, Valve may be somewhat biased towards ATI.
"Finally, Valve's top dog addressed potential accusations of bias head-on. The company recently signed a deal allowing ATI to distribute Half-Life 2 with its Radeon cards, but Newell made clear this was not a case of the tail wagging the dog."
Maybe ATI is really that much better than Nvidia now but I'll wait until I see some Doom3 benchmarks before I run out an upgrade my video card.
" All keyboard makers have products with silly add-on buttons for media, internet, etc but I've never noticed one needing to press a button to use an Fxx-key."
I've got one too. It's a pain in the ass IMO. The function keys have other functions assigned to them (like skip to next track) so if I actually want to use the function keys as function keys, I have to hit the F-Lock button first.
I guess someone at Logitech decided the average user has little need for a Function key compared to the other special functions they provide and I suppose they're probably right.
not to sound like a troll but..
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"How many people keep their computer on 24 hours a day simply because they can't stand to sit around for four or five minutes waiting for it to boot up?" he asked. "
If you wait 4-5 minutes for your computer to boot up, what's the chance that you're going to spend the money to upgrade to a system using MRAM. My computer at home isn't what I would consider top of the line and it boots up much quicker than that.
What if your doctor gets some important test results back and calls you at work to tell you. Is it ok for your employer to listen in on the conversation?
It seems to me that my boss should worry more about whether I'm getting my work done than if I'm reading slashdot.
"DVDs need to be shipped and that introduces more cost to the consumer in which that cost in not going to the creator of the intellectual property. I would much rather have indie films stick to download only and have all my money (at a lower price as well) go to the crew."
Where do you live? I'd like to move to a place where the bandwidth needed to distribute movies is free.
"Firefly, FarScape, John Doe are all recent casualties. I'm pissed. I've decided to drop back, and wait for a few seasons before I start watching any new program."
That wouldn't have helped you much with Farscape seeing how they cancelled it after the 4th season.
I'm pretty much done with TV since they cancelled Farscape. Why would I want to get interested in a show that may end with a cliff hanger because someone decided they didn't like it any more?
I'd much rather spend my cable money on a good game or movie which I know isn't going to end like Farscape did.
"Slashdot rarely, if ever, publishes security holes in non-MS software, so I have to read about them somewhere else."
That seems kind of silly doesn't it? I mean, assuming so many people on Slashdot use Linux, shouldn't Slashdot post Linux related security fixes?
I really don't need Slashdot to find out about patches in Windows. Automatic Update always tells me about those long before Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Can you point out the part of the article that says the parents of the killers are suing? I missed that.
Thanks to him, I think it's perfectly normal to have a secretary working 'under' me.
So where do you draw the line?
Does Winamp infringe on Media Player (or some other similar app)?
Or how about telnet/ftp/whatever clients? Surely there's quite a bit of infringement going on there.
"Parallels had been drawn between appropriating the "functional structure" of a computer system and commandeering the plot of a book, the judge noted.' "
Yea? Is that supposed to be illegal or something? I sure wouldn't have noticed with TV shows and movies commandeering plots all the time.
Is MTV (I think they were the first with Real Life) going to start suing all of the other networks for their use of reality tv shows?
my vote would be with vim :)
it color codes/auto-indents most everything for me whether it's html or php
" I got all the way through the wizard and then they told me that these claims can be audited and that you could be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law."
I guess that CDR with a handwritten label of 'Office 2000' doesn't count then?
er, other way around.. guess I need a nap or something. :)
"and the fact we all live in igloos and have to hunt baby seals once the snow starts in August."
That could have something to do with item # 2 ("Toronto (much like NYC I think) allows women to walk around topless (not that any do, but the possibility is there)")
But if we send machines only, then they'll have the first chance to get on the martians' good side. Once that happens, it'll be like ID4 and the Matrix rolled into one for us silly humans.
"Of course, at least where I work, they use the SS# for more than just payroll purposes. I.e. it's my ID to get in the place in the morning (it's on my swipe card, or I can type it in). THAT is wrong."
Other than the fact that it's bad for you, that doesn't sound too secure for your company either. If you lose your ID (or someone steals it), then whoever picks it up can swipe it to get in. Even when you realize it's missing, they can't exactly print you a new ID with a different SSN and deactivate the old one.
One of my friends worked at a place where their cards were completely blank so if someone picked it up off the street, they wouldn't know where to use it.
Makers of the GEO Metro deserve credit for having reduced the proportion of successful car thefts perpetrated against GEO Metro owners. Makers of sports cars have a lot of catching up to do in this area.
"The article is dead right putting most of the blame on the sysadmins. Only two percent of bsd servers were breached but both linux and bsd run the same servers and software."
I think that's 2% of the hacked servers were BSD, not 2% of BSD servers were hacked. There's quite a difference there. I don't think the article mentioned the ratios of servers anywhere, making it kind of pointless.
Let's say for the sake of argument that there are 50,000 (12,892 hacked) Linux servers and 5,000 (4,626 hacked) Windows servers.
The total number of servers hacked is 17518. Then 73% of those would be Linux and only 27% would be Windows. That doesn't show Windows is more secure.
Maybe I missed something but I didn't see anything in the article that convinced me Windows servers are more or less secure than Linux servers. If they listed the number of unsuccessful hacking attempts for each, then they might have a case.
That was my initial though to the parent post as well. However, if you read this from The Tech Report, Valve may be somewhat biased towards ATI.
"Finally, Valve's top dog addressed potential accusations of bias head-on. The company recently signed a deal allowing ATI to distribute Half-Life 2 with its Radeon cards, but Newell made clear this was not a case of the tail wagging the dog."
Maybe ATI is really that much better than Nvidia now but I'll wait until I see some Doom3 benchmarks before I run out an upgrade my video card.
" Does this mean I have to remove all the blank lines from all my code to avoid being sued by SCO?"
Don't forget those pesky newlines and comments too.
I'd rather have a sticker that says 'Lamo'.
Ok, well disregard the first part of my comment. :) Looks like it may be time for me to switch to a new DNS company (mine charges $15/yr)
" wow, now you only need 4 more coupons and then what you have left is the average price of a DNS from a company that doesn't rip it's customers off."
:)
According to their web site, it's $35/year (or $30 if you register for 5+ years) to renew a domain so I think 4 more coupons may be a bit much.
On another note, maybe register.com can use the extra business generated from their $5 coupons to pay for the lawsuit.
" All keyboard makers have products with silly add-on buttons for media, internet, etc but I've never noticed one needing to press a button to use an Fxx-key."
I've got one too. It's a pain in the ass IMO. The function keys have other functions assigned to them (like skip to next track) so if I actually want to use the function keys as function keys, I have to hit the F-Lock button first.
I guess someone at Logitech decided the average user has little need for a Function key compared to the other special functions they provide and I suppose they're probably right.
"How many people keep their computer on 24 hours a day simply because they can't stand to sit around for four or five minutes waiting for it to boot up?" he asked. "
If you wait 4-5 minutes for your computer to boot up, what's the chance that you're going to spend the money to upgrade to a system using MRAM. My computer at home isn't what I would consider top of the line and it boots up much quicker than that.
What if your doctor gets some important test results back and calls you at work to tell you. Is it ok for your employer to listen in on the conversation?
It seems to me that my boss should worry more about whether I'm getting my work done than if I'm reading slashdot.
"DVDs need to be shipped and that introduces more cost to the consumer in which that cost in not going to the creator of the intellectual property. I would much rather have indie films stick to download only and have all my money (at a lower price as well) go to the crew."
Where do you live? I'd like to move to a place where the bandwidth needed to distribute movies is free.
I'm not sure what the topic would be though.
"Firefly, FarScape, John Doe are all recent casualties. I'm pissed. I've decided to drop back, and wait for a few seasons before I start watching any new program."
That wouldn't have helped you much with Farscape seeing how they cancelled it after the 4th season.
I'm pretty much done with TV since they cancelled Farscape. Why would I want to get interested in a show that may end with a cliff hanger because someone decided they didn't like it any more?
I'd much rather spend my cable money on a good game or movie which I know isn't going to end like Farscape did.
"Slashdot rarely, if ever, publishes security holes in non-MS software, so I have to read about them somewhere else."
That seems kind of silly doesn't it? I mean, assuming so many people on Slashdot use Linux, shouldn't Slashdot post Linux related security fixes?
I really don't need Slashdot to find out about patches in Windows. Automatic Update always tells me about those long before Slashdot.
I've installed it on 3 computers (XP and 2K). None of them required an installation disk or product key.