First, "the rest of the industry" is NOT telling them, "Tough shit, you worked for SCO...we still aren't going to hire you." Have you seen any other company with this position? It's quite a leap to say the entire programmnig industry will not hire someone from SCO.
Secondly, if you quit SCO when they first began making their claims, Damage Studio will accept your resume (which is irrevelant because they don't ahve any opening anyway).
If they were significantly concerned about SCO's (seemingly) false claims, they should have quit immediately. That's an individual judgement call. The bottom line is you have to take personal responsibility for who you work for.
I can understand why some people may be upset about Damage Studios refusing to hire anyone from SCO. SCO's pathetic actions are a result of executive management and not that of the common programmer.
However, you choose who you work for. By working for a company, you support its actions. You may not believe these actions are correct, but if you do nothing to change it, you are as guilty as those driving that bus. We each much take responsibility for who and what we support.
In this case, we have a company preying on innocent companies and individuals. This may change if SCO ever gets around to showing any evidence for the claims they have made. Similarily, if these claim turn out to be true (doubtful), I'm sure Damage Studio will change their policy.
I wouldn't work for Microsoft. Even though MS has some fantastic emgineers and great benefits. I simply don't agree with their business practices. Now...if they changed and perhaps opened a department to port their applications to linux or decided to open source their operating system, I might change my mind.
You missed the point. You are confusing the data with the method of aquiring the data. The RIAA has said that there is "no use" for p2p networks except copyright infringment (and porn). If they are using the networks to obtain marketing data, it's knid of hard for them to continue with this argument (which is kind of irrevelant anyways).
Not that anyone really cares if they are using p2p networks. As far as I'm concerned, maybe it will help them weed out the no-talent-ass-clowns that are making all of the crap records today.
Hatch, well-known as an outspoken critic of peer-to-peer trading of copyright music, warned that if file-swapping networks do not rein in illicit porn trafficking, lawmakers "might have to do something detrimental."
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Lawmakers said they intend to use information gleaned from the hearing to help gauge the need for new regulations to restrict file-trading activities or to increase liability of network operators to help eradicate downloading of illegal porn.
You missed the point. You are confusing the data with the method of aquiring the data. The RIAA has said that there is no use for p2p networks except copyright infringment (and porn). If they are using the networks to obtain marketing data, it's knid of hard for them to continue with this argument (which is kind of irrevelant anyways).
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Geeky? No. Try ignorant.
If you look at the total revenue brought in by Universities, you will find "science" funding brings in significantly more money than sporting activities (based on data from the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder).
Further,'science' usually gives back to the student body and surrounding communities by hiring students, engineers, and scientists. Sports does this as well, but not at the same level.
The Galileo project (via JPL and LASP) put me thru college, paid for my living expenses and gave me my first coding job. While this money didn't go directly to the University (expect my tuition), it provides opportunity and experience.
What's really interesting is that Microsoft allowed China access to the source code from Windows. Could the Chinese have used this information to aid in attacking Taiwan?
Once the school system is dependent on Microsoft-only IT systems, Microsoft's legal team will put the squeeze on them just like they did with the Seattle and Oreagon school systems.
This will end up costing the school system more money in the long run. To make this a real offer of generosity, Microsoft must give this school system a non-expiring license for their software.
It's clear she neither understands the recall process, electoral law, or how polotics "work."
She sates "...requiring 50% to keep Davis seems unfair, when a replacement candidate could be elected with only 15%.
Wrong. In both cases, a ***majority*** is needed. The recall question is binary: YES or NO. You need >50% one way or another....this is a majority. The election of a new governer also requires a majority. However, since there are moer that 2 candidates, a majoirty may only be 15%. Attempting to compare the "fairness" of these votes by using percentage of votes required to win show massive ignorance.
Unions gave approximately $31.1 million out of $450.3 million to the Democratic Party in 2002. That's less than 7%. I suggest you check opensecrets.org again and look more closely at who is funding the democratic party. You've missed quite a bit.
Secondly, the *unions* are funding democrats...NOT individuals themselves. Being a union member, I have no significant say in who my union funds are donated to. In fact, the president of my local union has basically ZERO influence in how *our* money is donated. None.
If anyone actually believes "the wealthy" are not funding the democrats as well, they have their eyes closed. Just look at the primary sources of donations...
She states in her 'open letter:'
"This week, the President of the United States will raise twenty million dollars for his re-election campaign. Almost all of this will come from the wealthy beneficiaries of his annual tax cuts."
Who does she think gave the Democrates almost $450 million last year? The poor? The blue collar workig class? *bzzzzt* wrong. Who gave Hillary Clinton $30 million? She's deluded...or incredibly ignorant.
You should include yourself in the list of "slashdot morons" because YOU missed the point.
This significant issue is that they only check the files they *expect* to be in their distribution.
Before you ship code, you had better know *exactly* what you were shipping. What if the 3rd party localizers added a nice trojan program? It's *trivial* to execute code on a remote Windows machine. There are several exploitable holes to accomplish this.
The included virus is trivial. Microsoft's shoddy QA is the problem. Unfortunately, this isn't only a MS issue. It's an industry wide problem.// End rant
Bullshit. What planet do you live on? Name one country that has avoided (using your words) "third-world" slums on some scale? Please. Name one.
I'm by no means defending America's *many* problems, but if you can find a better model that has been implemented successfully, I'd love to hear about it.
But..since all societies contain greed, materialism, etc., none of the shiny-happy concepts seem to work. Socialism, communism, etc are interesting and tempting ideaologies, but they, so far, have NEVER been implemented successfully.
The same "American greed" and "success" is found on EVERY society in EVERY country. If this type of behavior is found outside american societies, perhaps this is a HUMAN trait? Hmmmm?
No...you/your family/your society/your country must be well above those Americans.
Get off your pathetic, moral high-chair. You're guilty of the same sins that you critisize.
What *exactly* did this article contribute to the topic of "globalism" that hasn't been said 1000s of time before? Eh? Anything. Nope. Didn't think so. Same shit differnt article.
It would be so refreashing to have someone say something original on the topic.
This in NOT news. The US has had nuclear contingency plans since WWII.
The only significant story here is that an "official" document was "leaked." My guess is that it was 'leaked' purposely.
This is the only way Microsoft's illegal activities will be "reduced." MS *owns* far too many politicials. They have greased the goverment at every level. The DoJ is owned. Lawsuits filed by stong, private industry (Sun, Intel, Sony, etc) are the only effective way to break MS's illegal monopoly.
Give the FreeBSD or OpenBSD kernel a try. I jumped right in with these. They have tons of documentation, are friendly and relatively forgiving (if you can call a kernel 'forgiving').
My first attempts involved a simple "undelete" feature. This is a nice starting point as it requires not only knowledge of the kernel, but of the file system as well. A great learning tool.
But BEWARE: you first attempts shouldn't be on a machine with your PhD thesis or 36 GB mp3 collection. Set up a new, raw machine and start hacking away.
Have fun!
The University of Colorado, Boulder, had/has a similar grading/"cheating" program that has been in use for several years. Ask any CS student about DORA and their Intro. to Programming or Data Structure's class. The usual reply is, "...that bitch.":-)
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First, "the rest of the industry" is NOT telling them, "Tough shit, you worked for SCO...we still aren't going to hire you." Have you seen any other company with this position? It's quite a leap to say the entire programmnig industry will not hire someone from SCO.
Secondly, if you quit SCO when they first began making their claims, Damage Studio will accept your resume (which is irrevelant because they don't ahve any opening anyway).
If they were significantly concerned about SCO's (seemingly) false claims, they should have quit immediately. That's an individual judgement call. The bottom line is you have to take personal responsibility for who you work for.
However, you choose who you work for. By working for a company, you support its actions. You may not believe these actions are correct, but if you do nothing to change it, you are as guilty as those driving that bus. We each much take responsibility for who and what we support.
In this case, we have a company preying on innocent companies and individuals. This may change if SCO ever gets around to showing any evidence for the claims they have made. Similarily, if these claim turn out to be true (doubtful), I'm sure Damage Studio will change their policy.
I wouldn't work for Microsoft. Even though MS has some fantastic emgineers and great benefits. I simply don't agree with their business practices. Now...if they changed and perhaps opened a department to port their applications to linux or decided to open source their operating system, I might change my mind.
Not that anyone really cares if they are using p2p networks. As far as I'm concerned, maybe it will help them weed out the no-talent-ass-clowns that are making all of the crap records today.
From another Wired article:
Hatch, well-known as an outspoken critic of peer-to-peer trading of copyright music, warned that if file-swapping networks do not rein in illicit porn trafficking, lawmakers "might have to do something detrimental."
and
Lawmakers said they intend to use information gleaned from the hearing to help gauge the need for new regulations to restrict file-trading activities or to increase liability of network operators to help eradicate downloading of illegal porn.
You missed the point. You are confusing the data with the method of aquiring the data. The RIAA has said that there is no use for p2p networks except copyright infringment (and porn). If they are using the networks to obtain marketing data, it's knid of hard for them to continue with this argument (which is kind of irrevelant anyways).
If you look at the total revenue brought in by Universities, you will find "science" funding brings in significantly more money than sporting activities (based on data from the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder).
Further,'science' usually gives back to the student body and surrounding communities by hiring students, engineers, and scientists. Sports does this as well, but not at the same level.
The Galileo project (via JPL and LASP) put me thru college, paid for my living expenses and gave me my first coding job. While this money didn't go directly to the University (expect my tuition), it provides opportunity and experience.
What's really interesting is that Microsoft allowed China access to the source code from Windows. Could the Chinese have used this information to aid in attacking Taiwan?
This will end up costing the school system more money in the long run. To make this a real offer of generosity, Microsoft must give this school system a non-expiring license for their software.
It's clear she neither understands the recall process, electoral law, or how polotics "work." She sates "...requiring 50% to keep Davis seems unfair, when a replacement candidate could be elected with only 15%. Wrong. In both cases, a ***majority*** is needed. The recall question is binary: YES or NO. You need >50% one way or another....this is a majority. The election of a new governer also requires a majority. However, since there are moer that 2 candidates, a majoirty may only be 15%. Attempting to compare the "fairness" of these votes by using percentage of votes required to win show massive ignorance.
Unions gave approximately $31.1 million out of $450.3 million to the Democratic Party in 2002. That's less than 7%. I suggest you check opensecrets.org again and look more closely at who is funding the democratic party. You've missed quite a bit. Secondly, the *unions* are funding democrats...NOT individuals themselves. Being a union member, I have no significant say in who my union funds are donated to. In fact, the president of my local union has basically ZERO influence in how *our* money is donated. None. If anyone actually believes "the wealthy" are not funding the democrats as well, they have their eyes closed. Just look at the primary sources of donations...
She states in her 'open letter:'
"This week, the President of the United States will raise twenty million dollars for his re-election campaign. Almost all of this will come from the wealthy beneficiaries of his annual tax cuts."
Who does she think gave the Democrates almost $450 million last year? The poor? The blue collar workig class? *bzzzzt* wrong. Who gave Hillary Clinton $30 million? She's deluded...or incredibly ignorant.
Bug Free != Secure.
I can write a perfectly correct (i.e. "bug free") piece of software, and it can be wide to compromise.
You should include yourself in the list of "slashdot morons" because YOU missed the point.
// End rant
This significant issue is that they only check the files they *expect* to be in their distribution.
Before you ship code, you had better know *exactly* what you were shipping. What if the 3rd party localizers added a nice trojan program? It's *trivial* to execute code on a remote Windows machine. There are several exploitable holes to accomplish this.
The included virus is trivial. Microsoft's shoddy QA is the problem. Unfortunately, this isn't only a MS issue. It's an industry wide problem.
Been there, done that, nearly got sued.
Block the ports. Clearly (and simply) explain the problem. Tell them that your supervisor must make that kind of (legal) call.
Talk to your supervisor/Dean/Principle. Make *them* sign off on any open ports/applications.
Bullshit. What planet do you live on? Name one country that has avoided (using your words) "third-world" slums on some scale? Please. Name one.
I'm by no means defending America's *many* problems, but if you can find a better model that has been implemented successfully, I'd love to hear about it.
But..since all societies contain greed, materialism, etc., none of the shiny-happy concepts seem to work. Socialism, communism, etc are interesting and tempting ideaologies, but they, so far, have NEVER been implemented successfully.
The same "American greed" and "success" is found on EVERY society in EVERY country. If this type of behavior is found outside american societies, perhaps this is a HUMAN trait? Hmmmm?
No...you/your family/your society/your country must be well above those Americans.
Get off your pathetic, moral high-chair. You're guilty of the same sins that you critisize.
Your reply had even less.
But..since you seem to be an expert...
What *exactly* did this article contribute to the topic of "globalism" that hasn't been said 1000s of time before? Eh? Anything. Nope. Didn't think so. Same shit differnt article.
It would be so refreashing to have someone say something original on the topic.
Zzzzzz....*cough* Sorry...you were saying something?
How about some CONTENT next time?
This in NOT news. The US has had nuclear contingency plans since WWII. The only significant story here is that an "official" document was "leaked." My guess is that it was 'leaked' purposely.
This is the only way Microsoft's illegal activities will be "reduced." MS *owns* far too many politicials. They have greased the goverment at every level. The DoJ is owned. Lawsuits filed by stong, private industry (Sun, Intel, Sony, etc) are the only effective way to break MS's illegal monopoly.
Give the FreeBSD or OpenBSD kernel a try. I jumped right in with these. They have tons of documentation, are friendly and relatively forgiving (if you can call a kernel 'forgiving'). My first attempts involved a simple "undelete" feature. This is a nice starting point as it requires not only knowledge of the kernel, but of the file system as well. A great learning tool. But BEWARE: you first attempts shouldn't be on a machine with your PhD thesis or 36 GB mp3 collection. Set up a new, raw machine and start hacking away. Have fun!
1. Go out and buy as many UMG copy protected CDs as possible. 2. Unwrap the CDs. 3. Return your non-playable CDs to the retailer. 4. Rinse and Repeat.
The University of Colorado, Boulder, had/has a similar grading/"cheating" program that has been in use for several years. Ask any CS student about DORA and their Intro. to Programming or Data Structure's class. The usual reply is, "...that bitch." :-)