Everone should know that if you put in scripting capabilities into a data file format, you will enable people to pass viruses through it (something that was impossible before).
That is just common snese.
It is also knowledge that people usually do not exchange executables that often (unless they are warez kids), but do exchange data files (such as emails and word documents) very often, so allowing viruses to infect data files greatly increases the risk of viruses.
So yeah the people at Ms should have known they were causing great security risks.
From the article: "The data contained a zero where it shouldn't have, and when the software attempted to divide by zero, a buffer overrun occurred -- crashing the entire network and causing the ship to lose control of its propulsion system."
now read carefuly "crashing the entire network".
Now are you saying that the network functionality was provided by a custom application and not by NT? Are you saying that the navy bought NT but did not use its network protocols, but instead developed a whole different network suite just for their 16 computer LAN?
Oh, and i dont appreciate being called a loser no matter how you spell it. Hopefully someone will see your post and moderate you down accordingly.
I am not talking about cruise missiles. They work very well, but they were not a result of the latest stage of military procurement.
I am talking about B-1s, B-2s, F-22s etc. The stealth bombers were taken out of combat (and have not been back) after the serbs shot down a couple. Nobody knows what the hell the B-1 is supposed to be used for. The airforce is trying to get rid of it quetly.
It turns out the only useful bomber we still have is the old b-52, which was supposed to be replaced by the b1 and then by the b2.
similarly we were supposed to get 800 f22s to replace 1600 existing planes. After several cost overruns, we are going to get for the same money a 100 F22s that are so fragile and maintainance intensive, they are only used for dicovery channel documantaries.
Oh and lets not forget that weird helicopter plane crossover, that has killed about 30 marines, last time i checked, without going into a single combat mission.
After severeal deals like these every pacifists dream will become true. The US military will have fully disarmed,and while being the most expensive military in the world it will not be able to hurt a fly.
If anyone has followed the most recent military programs, such as the last super-advanced bombers and fighters that have all proven absolutely useless, knows what i am talking about.
SCO has the most well regarded and feared lawyer of america on their side. This guy has been known to work wonders, nobody thought he would win the Microsoft case, in front of a conservative judge and during a time when antitrust law was considered dead.
It is true that Airbus has problems with corruption, but it is completely hypocritical to say "poor Boeing has trouble competing with corrupt Airbus".
Fact is Boeing is every bit as corrupt as Airbus. See for example this (http://www.pogo.org/p/contracts/ca-020509-bailout.html) where they tried lease some planes to the govt for 9 billion more than it would cost to buy them.
You think this is funny but it is not. I have good information from unspecified sources from the justice department, the DoD, the CIA and the FBI, that there are direct links between sewing pattern pirating grandmas and terrorism.
And how do you know that sewing pattern piracy does not fund terrorism? Can you prove that? I think not.
actually the patent is much more narrow than that even. it says that the user has to be able to adjust the rate of scrolling, which is not a terribly necesary feature imo.
Right... record companies are not in competition with each other.
If you want to see fierce competition, look at soft drinks or snack foods or beer -- notice how there is so much fierce advertising, and price wars going on. Also each company is always trying to come up with something new.
In the record industry there are no price wars. Prices are actually going up... and going up in unison. Whenever you see all the market participants raise their prices in unison without any apparent reason you dont have competition you have a cartel.
When he is asked why the letter is vague, he answers that the letter recepients should get an opinion of legal council.
And how does he propose that these legal council evaluate the claim without letting them know what their clients are accused of?
It is like a cop coming into your house and accusing you of stealing an unspecified thing... and then saying "well if i am being unclear then you should ask a lawyer". Well, that is not the kind of ambiguity a lawyer can resolve. It is the kind of ambiguity only the accuser can resolve.
Also, check out this quote:
"Q:Why should Linux users take your claim seriously?
A:Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand."
This is essentially an admission that the purpose of the whole thing is to make Linux appear to be "built on quicksand".
1. Following the gpl is not very hard. The companies that get sued would much rather prefer to publish the code, or take out the gpled code, than have a lawsuit on their hands.
2. The FSF is not out to get people and is not looking for a windfall. They just want to get companies to follow the GPL. Thus, they are happy to settle a case once they ensure the gpl will be followed, instead of holding out for financial windfall.
That being said, you are totally right that if the GPL turns out unenforceable it will be a disaster for the FSF.
For some reason it seems that the patent only covers querying 2 or more servers.
For example, when you type in "foo" in domain name lookup it checks foo.com, foo.net, foo.edu etc.
It is still obvious imo. BTW they relied on a provisional filed aug 97, so finding prior art before that date would be best. An year before that date would be even better.
The rising cost of programming, especially rights fees that networks pay sports leagues to broadcast games, means that networks lose money by putting their shows on broadcast stations instead of cable, the networks say. "Sports content will be the first to go to cable," Karmazin warned, noting that CBS paid $6 billion to broadcast the NCAA men's basketball tournament for 11 years. "Then other [programming] will follow."
Typical circular argument from a large corporation trying to get government regulation. "Boo hoo the rising costs", what they dont mention is that the costs are rising because the networks themselves keep overbidding. If you bid 6 billion to show a bball tournament, then thats your own problem.
Most of the points of the parent post have been rebuked, but i want say this in addition.
There are much fewer people listening to clear channel stations, than used to be when the stations were owned by smaller companies.
Considering how radio is to a large extent an captive audience medium (ppl listen to radio when they are in their cars and dpnt have any good cds) that is a pretty significant sign that Clearchannel sucks.
Furthermore all these intelligence agencies would easily prefer the open formats (and open source software), because that is the only way you can be completely sure your data is not leaking.
Just look at clearchannel. They own almost every radio station in the US now and they have been a failure in all respects.
They were not succesfull in making money. Radio revenues went way down after their takeovers.
They were not succesfull in making interesting radio. My favourite hard rock station has become quite awfull after the takeover. Now i prefer playing any crappy CD over and over again instead of listening to radio.
They were not succesful in allowing different political views, informing the public, etc. Many controversial DJs were just fired. Of course Limbaugh reins supreme.
So, yes clearchannel proves consolidation is just bad news.
SOme people may say that the internet makes it ok... but consider this - many people do not have internet (about 50% of the us, i believe) and also the internet cannot fully replace TV as it could not fully replace my fave hard rock radio station. They are just different media.
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Everone should know that if you put in scripting capabilities into a data file format, you will enable people to pass viruses through it (something that was impossible before).
That is just common snese.
It is also knowledge that people usually do not exchange executables that often (unless they are warez kids), but do exchange data files (such as emails and word documents) very often, so allowing viruses to infect data files greatly increases the risk of viruses.
So yeah the people at Ms should have known they were causing great security risks.
From the article:
"The data contained a zero where it shouldn't have, and when the software attempted to divide by zero, a buffer overrun occurred -- crashing the entire network and causing the ship to lose control of its propulsion system."
now read carefuly "crashing the entire network".
Now are you saying that the network functionality was provided by a custom application and not by NT? Are you saying that the navy bought NT but did not use its network protocols, but instead developed a whole different network suite just for their 16 computer LAN?
Oh, and i dont appreciate being called a loser no matter how you spell it. Hopefully someone will see your post and moderate you down accordingly.
I am not talking about cruise missiles. They work very well, but they were not a result of the latest stage of military procurement.
I am talking about B-1s, B-2s, F-22s etc. The stealth bombers were taken out of combat (and have not been back) after the serbs shot down a couple. Nobody knows what the hell the B-1 is supposed to be used for. The airforce is trying to get rid of it quetly.
It turns out the only useful bomber we still have is the old b-52, which was supposed to be replaced by the b1 and then by the b2.
similarly we were supposed to get 800 f22s to replace 1600 existing planes. After several cost overruns, we are going to get for the same money a 100 F22s that are so fragile and maintainance intensive, they are only used for dicovery channel documantaries.
Oh and lets not forget that weird helicopter plane crossover, that has killed about 30 marines, last time i checked, without going into a single combat mission.
If an application crashes and brings down your whole damn network, then the problem is not with the application it is with the OS.
So the issue was quite clearly with the substandard OS.
After severeal deals like these every pacifists dream will become true. The US military will have fully disarmed,and while being the most expensive military in the world it will not be able to hurt a fly.
If anyone has followed the most recent military programs, such as the last super-advanced bombers and fighters that have all proven absolutely useless, knows what i am talking about.
is the word you are looking for.
SCO has the most well regarded and feared lawyer of america on their side. This guy has been known to work wonders, nobody thought he would win the Microsoft case, in front of a conservative judge and during a time when antitrust law was considered dead.
The airforce and some senators were trying to push the deal through without congressional approval.
Well it is such a bad deal that frankly corruption is the only explanation why it was supported by the air force.
It is true that Airbus has problems with corruption, but it is completely hypocritical to say "poor Boeing has trouble competing with corrupt Airbus".
t .html) where they tried lease some planes to the govt for 9 billion more than it would cost to buy them.
Fact is Boeing is every bit as corrupt as Airbus. See for example this (http://www.pogo.org/p/contracts/ca-020509-bailou
He is perfectly right people usually are false. Most people are in denial about it, but it is true.
You think this is funny but it is not. I have good information from unspecified sources from the justice department, the DoD, the CIA and the FBI, that there are direct links between sewing pattern pirating grandmas and terrorism.
And how do you know that sewing pattern piracy does not fund terrorism? Can you prove that? I think not.
actually the patent is much more narrow than that even. it says that the user has to be able to adjust the rate of scrolling, which is not a terribly necesary feature imo.
... and petrified.
I feel the same way.
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Right ... record companies are not in competition with each other.
... and going up in unison. Whenever you see all the market participants raise their prices in unison without any apparent reason you dont have competition you have a cartel.
If you want to see fierce competition, look at soft drinks or snack foods or beer -- notice how there is so much fierce advertising, and price wars going on. Also each company is always trying to come up with something new.
In the record industry there are no price wars. Prices are actually going up
When he is asked why the letter is vague, he answers that the letter recepients should get an opinion of legal council.
... and then saying "well if i am being unclear then you should ask a lawyer". Well, that is not the kind of ambiguity a lawyer can resolve. It is the kind of ambiguity only the accuser can resolve.
And how does he propose that these legal council evaluate the claim without letting them know what their clients are accused of?
It is like a cop coming into your house and accusing you of stealing an unspecified thing
Also, check out this quote:
"Q:Why should Linux users take your claim seriously?
A:Think about if I was the CIO of a company and I'm going to be running my business on an operating system that has an intellectual property foundation that, by almost everyone's admission, is built on quicksand."
This is essentially an admission that the purpose of the whole thing is to make Linux appear to be "built on quicksand".
Wow that was fast. I bet even the BSA lawyers are jealous of FSF's ruthless efficiency. :)
I think the reason they settle is because:
1. Following the gpl is not very hard. The companies that get sued would much rather prefer to publish the code, or take out the gpled code, than have a lawsuit on their hands.
2. The FSF is not out to get people and is not looking for a windfall. They just want to get companies to follow the GPL. Thus, they are happy to settle a case once they ensure the gpl will be followed, instead of holding out for financial windfall.
That being said, you are totally right that if the GPL turns out unenforceable it will be a disaster for the FSF.
"It will only be used against evildoers." Whew ... what a relief ... now my worries are gone.
For some reason it seems that the patent only covers querying 2 or more servers.
For example, when you type in "foo" in domain name lookup it checks foo.com, foo.net, foo.edu etc.
It is still obvious imo. BTW they relied on a provisional filed aug 97, so finding prior art before that date would be best. An year before that date would be even better.
The rising cost of programming, especially rights fees that networks pay sports leagues to broadcast games, means that networks lose money by putting their shows on broadcast stations instead of cable, the networks say. "Sports content will be the first to go to cable," Karmazin warned, noting that CBS paid $6 billion to broadcast the NCAA men's basketball tournament for 11 years. "Then other [programming] will follow."
Typical circular argument from a large corporation trying to get government regulation. "Boo hoo the rising costs", what they dont mention is that the costs are rising because the networks themselves keep overbidding. If you bid 6 billion to show a bball tournament, then thats your own problem.
Most of the points of the parent post have been rebuked, but i want say this in addition.
There are much fewer people listening to clear channel stations, than used to be when the stations were owned by smaller companies.
Considering how radio is to a large extent an captive audience medium (ppl listen to radio when they are in their cars and dpnt have any good cds) that is a pretty significant sign that Clearchannel sucks.
Furthermore all these intelligence agencies would easily prefer the open formats (and open source software), because that is the only way you can be completely sure your data is not leaking.
Wow, thanks for pointing it out. It does give you a little glimpse into how big corporations operate doesnt it.
Just look at clearchannel. They own almost every radio station in the US now and they have been a failure in all respects.
They were not succesfull in making money. Radio revenues went way down after their takeovers.
They were not succesfull in making interesting radio. My favourite hard rock station has become quite awfull after the takeover. Now i prefer playing any crappy CD over and over again instead of listening to radio.
They were not succesful in allowing different political views, informing the public, etc. Many controversial DJs were just fired. Of course Limbaugh reins supreme.
So, yes clearchannel proves consolidation is just bad news.
SOme people may say that the internet makes it ok... but consider this - many people do not have internet (about 50% of the us, i believe) and also the internet cannot fully replace TV as it could not fully replace my fave hard rock radio station. They are just different media.