Sorry, but with Microsoft being forced to support TCP/IP and HTML, they have lost the browser wars. The current domination of IE won't hold for long.
I think you have to look at it the other way around. At least for the moment, MS owns the desktop. They are working to make inroads on the server market. Already people are complaining about those sites that can only be viewed with IE. I'm sure Microsoft is aiming for the time when they have enough market share in the server market to make non-MS clients non-functional, or at least function poorly.
When it is NEWS that a single Windows machine got hacked, such an apology would be in order.
Well, in this case the single machine that got hacked means that all the gnu source for the past 5 months or so is suspect. Had a single server in Redmond that held all the Windows source been hacked under similar circumstances the outrage would be flowing like water.
It's definitely not overrated. The crime is easy to do, it takes years to recover from, and the victim as treated as a criminal. The daughter of a friend of mine was hit by this. She had to call companies and prove that she wasn't the one who had ordered items on credit, and of course these companies were very hostile and treated her as a thief.
I haven't been the victim of id theft but in recent years I've had my credit card # stolen twice while on trips. I'm sure the people who stole it were never prosecuted. I now check my credit statement online every couple of days looking for any weird charges.
If you aren't paranoid about this kind of stuff you are crazy;)
If the US did not join the allied forces, then it is save to say that Hitler could have send more force to the east and probably could have conquered Russia. I know it is all speculation, but so has the above quote.
Germany had very few divisions in the west to send eastward. I think something like 10-20 divisions in the west vs a couple of hundred in the east (and I'm sure some slashdotter will correct me if I'm wrong). I have heard that the allied bombing campaign diverted a lot of resources to protecting the Reich that could have been used against the Russians, but it's not clear that that made the difference.
Thinking about it, there was really no way to deny me access to that database, for without the ability to test against live data, there would be no way to verify that my code would not cause someone else huge headaches if it did not work properly.
It sounds like your code needed to run against the same database as existing production code. Is there any reason that this database couldn't have been sanitized / modified so it didn't contain actual user data?
When you could bet on baseball in the stands, it was enormously popular.
I don't think that betting had anything to do with the popularity of baseball (unless you are Pete Rose). When I was a kid, going to a double-header with the family was a relatively cheap form of entertainment. You brought a bag of sandwiches, cokes, and peanuts, paid a buck or two per person, and had a nice afternoon.
Now the games are ridiculously expensive and you have to shell out lots of $$$ to buy outrageously overpriced ballpark food. A generation of kids has grown up that probably never experience a ballgame, so they could care less which team wins.
That book is essentially worthless except for looking up random facts after you've been programming C for a few months.
I couldn't disagree more. I learned C from the original K&R book. It was well organized, clear, and consise. The Camel book, on the other hand, often seemed like concepts on page n relied on concepts introduced on page n+1. I found that no matter how much I programmed in Perl (about a year's worth of time) and no matter how much I used the Camel book, I could never find what I was looking for without a massive search.
You really think that the average music file trader is an expert in copyright law??? Somehow I think it's more likely that people see other people getting music for free and decide to get in on a good deal.
It's true that languages evolve. But at any given time there are one or two correct spellings. Perhaps someday we'll all be using 733t spelling. But for now if you want to pass you better spell it the way your teacher wants you to.
Anyway, every hour spent online is way better than any hour spent on TV. Being online keeps your brain working, I doubt TV does that very often.
Well this is the conventional wisdom, and I used to believe it. But having played Everquest off and on for a while, I'd have to say that a decent TV program is at least as stimulating and thought provoking is sitting in place, and occasionally pressing a button or two. And this isn't just true of EQ, many games may be "interactive" but they aren't requiring too many brain cells to fire.
Personally I put both sitting online and sitting in front of the tv in the same class. I'm glad that one displaces the other, but you'd still be better off getting up, getting outside, and moving around once in while.
"Shall not infringe" sure has come to mean "shall not entirely infringe" over the years.
As long as we are quoting *parts* of the 2nd amendment, lets not forget this part: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free
State"
In other words, the 2nd amendment is NOT in the constitution so homeowners can blow away intruders, or so a couple of guys can call themselves "the militia".
My view is that the Universe is *infinite* and as such it is *infinitely "expanding"*. And if it is infinite, then it was *always* infinite, and was never finite.
This is basically the "steady state" theory that was proposed by astronomer Fred Hoyle, I believe in the 1960's. He proposed that matter was constantly being created at a very low rate, and that the universe would always pretty much look the same, regardless of how far back in the past or how far into the future you went.
IANAA (...astronomer) but my understanding is that no one at this point takes the steady state theory seriously. The predictions that it makes simply don't match the observations. If you or anyone else has contrary information, I'd be curious to see it.
I have a number of friends who I occasionally see in the really real world who I talk to online all the time, and who I got to know online before I ever met them. Their behavior online is well-representative of how they act in meatspace, as is mine
I just find that communication thru typing at the keyboard usually is not as full or informative as actually being face to face. Some stuff gets lost, jokes are treated to seriously, and shorthands like wtf and lol start substituting for meaningful conversation. I've met some folks that I like online, and chatted quite a bit with them off and on for years, but I wouldn't say that I know them until we've actually met in "the real world"
The only alternative is to obtain somehow a pirated DVD copy...
I never said anything about stealing.
I guess I'm just having a little trouble distinguishing between obtaining a "pirated DVD copy" and stealing. So I still think you should grow up. It's not a horrible crime against humanity that you have to wait a couple of months to get a dvd of a movie.
Let's say I want to see "The Two Towers". It is no longer in theatres, can't go there. It is a LONG time before they sell a DVD; so I can't pay them that way by buying a DVD. The only alternative is to obtain somehow a pirated DVD copy of "The Two Towers".
So if someone won't sell you something you want, it's ok to steal it? For God's sake, grow up! Learn to wait a couple of months for the dvd to come out.
I have bad news for you. The rocks from the moon will take a couple of days to get here. It would be way cheaper for them to build quiet, modern subs and do launches with low trajectories from close to our coasts. Maybe 10 minutes warning.
But I'm also having trouble picturing why people on the moon want to start a war against the US on earth. Unless, maybe, we are using the moon as a prison colony, and the bookkeeping computer suddenly developes consciousness and launches a revolution?
So apparently they went around checking people who like to play video games, and supprise, they are good at visual skills. Doesn't sound like much of a story here.
We all just pay attention to the stuff that affects us or that we are interested in. That's obvious. Equally obvious, a lot more people are interested in a major release of an MMORPG than in some mud that no one ever heard of 10 years ago.
Just a random guess that maybe the mud that got hacked 10 years didn't have a revenue stream of a million bucks a month or so. Of course in the big scheme of things there's no difference between someone sending me a virus and worm bringing down the Internet, right?
Details may be wrong, but it definitely did happen. I'm sure you can find it on a variety of EQ websites. As I recall the guide got off very lightly. I think I even saw some screenshots posted of "uber" players getting off one "WTF" before being snuffed.
As a non-uber player, I found it pretty amusing, but it's not the kind of behavoir I would want to encourage.
Would your opinion be different if it turns out that the makers of another multi-player game did the hacking in order to get rid of some competition? If so, what's the difference? The damage is the same, and it was clearly done deliberately.
Back in the pre-Dark Ages, a little before the invention of fire, I took an intro computing class at my high school. ONCE A WEEK, a guy took our card decks downtown and ran a batch job. You not only read and reread each card 5 times, you also often punched up a duplicate deck, just in case he lost it.
The parent should be modded up to the sky. This is the crux. Whether or not SCO ever GPL-ed UNIX code is irrelevant to whether IBM violated a different SCO license.
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I think you have to look at it the other way around. At least for the moment, MS owns the desktop. They are working to make inroads on the server market. Already people are complaining about those sites that can only be viewed with IE. I'm sure Microsoft is aiming for the time when they have enough market share in the server market to make non-MS clients non-functional, or at least function poorly.
Well, in this case the single machine that got hacked means that all the gnu source for the past 5 months or so is suspect. Had a single server in Redmond that held all the Windows source been hacked under similar circumstances the outrage would be flowing like water.
It's definitely not overrated. The crime is easy to do, it takes years to recover from, and the victim as treated as a criminal. The daughter of a friend of mine was hit by this. She had to call companies and prove that she wasn't the one who had ordered items on credit, and of course these companies were very hostile and treated her as a thief.
;)
I haven't been the victim of id theft but in recent years I've had my credit card # stolen twice while on trips. I'm sure the people who stole it were never prosecuted. I now check my credit statement online every couple of days looking for any weird charges.
If you aren't paranoid about this kind of stuff you are crazy
Germany had very few divisions in the west to send eastward. I think something like 10-20 divisions in the west vs a couple of hundred in the east (and I'm sure some slashdotter will correct me if I'm wrong). I have heard that the allied bombing campaign diverted a lot of resources to protecting the Reich that could have been used against the Russians, but it's not clear that that made the difference.
It sounds like your code needed to run against the same database as existing production code. Is there any reason that this database couldn't have been sanitized / modified so it didn't contain actual user data?
I don't think that betting had anything to do with the popularity of baseball (unless you are Pete Rose). When I was a kid, going to a double-header with the family was a relatively cheap form of entertainment. You brought a bag of sandwiches, cokes, and peanuts, paid a buck or two per person, and had a nice afternoon.
Now the games are ridiculously expensive and you have to shell out lots of $$$ to buy outrageously overpriced ballpark food. A generation of kids has grown up that probably never experience a ballgame, so they could care less which team wins.
I couldn't disagree more. I learned C from the original K&R book. It was well organized, clear, and consise. The Camel book, on the other hand, often seemed like concepts on page n relied on concepts introduced on page n+1. I found that no matter how much I programmed in Perl (about a year's worth of time) and no matter how much I used the Camel book, I could never find what I was looking for without a massive search.
You really think that the average music file trader is an expert in copyright law??? Somehow I think it's more likely that people see other people getting music for free and decide to get in on a good deal.
It's true that languages evolve. But at any given time there are one or two correct spellings. Perhaps someday we'll all be using 733t spelling. But for now if you want to pass you better spell it the way your teacher wants you to.
Well this is the conventional wisdom, and I used to believe it. But having played Everquest off and on for a while, I'd have to say that a decent TV program is at least as stimulating and thought provoking is sitting in place, and occasionally pressing a button or two. And this isn't just true of EQ, many games may be "interactive" but they aren't requiring too many brain cells to fire.
Personally I put both sitting online and sitting in front of the tv in the same class. I'm glad that one displaces the other, but you'd still be better off getting up, getting outside, and moving around once in while.
As long as we are quoting *parts* of the 2nd amendment, lets not forget this part: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State"
In other words, the 2nd amendment is NOT in the constitution so homeowners can blow away intruders, or so a couple of guys can call themselves "the militia".
Now that's a strong password!
True... which is why I'm sure that Reagan just happened to be in office during the collapse of the Soviet empire.
This is basically the "steady state" theory that was proposed by astronomer Fred Hoyle, I believe in the 1960's. He proposed that matter was constantly being created at a very low rate, and that the universe would always pretty much look the same, regardless of how far back in the past or how far into the future you went.
IANAA (...astronomer) but my understanding is that no one at this point takes the steady state theory seriously. The predictions that it makes simply don't match the observations. If you or anyone else has contrary information, I'd be curious to see it.
I just find that communication thru typing at the keyboard usually is not as full or informative as actually being face to face. Some stuff gets lost, jokes are treated to seriously, and shorthands like wtf and lol start substituting for meaningful conversation. I've met some folks that I like online, and chatted quite a bit with them off and on for years, but I wouldn't say that I know them until we've actually met in "the real world"
I guess I'm just having a little trouble distinguishing between obtaining a "pirated DVD copy" and stealing. So I still think you should grow up. It's not a horrible crime against humanity that you have to wait a couple of months to get a dvd of a movie.
So if someone won't sell you something you want, it's ok to steal it? For God's sake, grow up! Learn to wait a couple of months for the dvd to come out.
I have bad news for you. The rocks from the moon will take a couple of days to get here. It would be way cheaper for them to build quiet, modern subs and do launches with low trajectories from close to our coasts. Maybe 10 minutes warning.
But I'm also having trouble picturing why people on the moon want to start a war against the US on earth. Unless, maybe, we are using the moon as a prison colony, and the bookkeeping computer suddenly developes consciousness and launches a revolution?
So apparently they went around checking people who like to play video games, and supprise, they are good at visual skills. Doesn't sound like much of a story here.
We all just pay attention to the stuff that affects us or that we are interested in. That's obvious. Equally obvious, a lot more people are interested in a major release of an MMORPG than in some mud that no one ever heard of 10 years ago.
Just a random guess that maybe the mud that got hacked 10 years didn't have a revenue stream of a million bucks a month or so. Of course in the big scheme of things there's no difference between someone sending me a virus and worm bringing down the Internet, right?
Details may be wrong, but it definitely did happen. I'm sure you can find it on a variety of EQ websites. As I recall the guide got off very lightly. I think I even saw some screenshots posted of "uber" players getting off one "WTF" before being snuffed.
As a non-uber player, I found it pretty amusing, but it's not the kind of behavoir I would want to encourage.
Would your opinion be different if it turns out that the makers of another multi-player game did the hacking in order to get rid of some competition? If so, what's the difference? The damage is the same, and it was clearly done deliberately.
Back in the pre-Dark Ages, a little before the invention of fire, I took an intro computing class at my high school. ONCE A WEEK, a guy took our card decks downtown and ran a batch job. You not only read and reread each card 5 times, you also often punched up a duplicate deck, just in case he lost it.
The parent should be modded up to the sky. This is the crux. Whether or not SCO ever GPL-ed UNIX code is irrelevant to whether IBM violated a different SCO license.