I've seen a lot of spin on this thing, that tries to make Microsoft out to be the bad guy in this situation.
This is bad because Microsoft is starting a big brother campaign against people without applying the required resources to fact-checking. There is no way to tell if someone is truly selling EULA breaking copies, without government intervention from police agencies. EULA violation, however, is not necessarily a crime and therefore does not warrant police intervention. It's more of a tort, really, but again IANAL.
This scenario Microsoft has developed will generate too many false positives.
This just proves that Microsoft doesn't get it. You take a policing attitude over distribution, and you will never compete with Open Source. Freedom of distribution will always win out over punitive, restrictive distribution.
This little offer does not solve anything.
Imagine what a disgruntled ex-employee can do with this kind of power.
They could potentially file a bogus report, or a few dozen of them, with Microsoft to get their ex-employer's supply cut off. All the person would have to do is download a pirated copy of the software, and claim the company sold it to them.
Presumably, Microsoft is going to cut off supply to any distributor who sells EULA violating copies of their products. Perhaps in many cases, legal action is going to ensue. How much money would a store lose before Microsoft realizes it was a mistake?
This is too fishy.
Microsoft: you are not a government agency. Stop acting like one.
... what he's saying is that we need a space-based shipyard with a space elevator, to really reach new heights on space vessel designs. Putting a ship through launch stress hurts overall longevity and cost effectiveness of dollars invested.
Moving right along... Google reveals the exact prototype schematics on their image search for Falcon 1. Anyone else wondering if it's named that because of the Millenium Falcon?
SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten.
That said, is it feasible that we will see it reduced by a factor of 1000? That would allow us mere mortals to have access to other solar systems for vacations and deep space missions to find Eden, baby, hell yeah!:-)
FTA: At numerous tradeshows and computing conventions, analysts and media predicted the launch date of multi-core CPUs; some said Intel would be the first to bring its chips to the market while others stated the opposite.
And furthermore... since when is it whoever ships first wins? What about quality? Cost? Yes AMD beats Intel on both of those now, but that is what I mean when I say that changes at Intel could make them far more competative, far more agile.
Intel has not lost anything. They might be getting their asses handed to them by AMD -- but remember that it often takes huge losses before a company changes its approach to doing business. And that kind of change really is needed at Intel.
Your/. nick is now associated with a horrible blockbuster movie, so I'm not sure if that helps any or not. I would sue the filmmakers if I were you, and retire off *that*.:-)
Such a travesty -- what they've done to such a cool series of, mostly, books.
... people love discussing it's demise! Two "trek dead" stories in two days on/.
I still say they should do a trek reality series that follows Romulan assassins weeding their way into Romulan culture and the Federation. 24 in space type thing...
The ratings dropped because there just wasn't any excitement anymore. Trek used to be like a Christmas present you could open up each week.
Look at Battlestar Gallactica. Why couldn't Enterprise have been more like that?
Like I have always said: Trek needs a series that goes into political life on Romulus, just around the time of Picard, or slightly before then. Leave out the original cast and focus on new parts of space, with new actors. No BORG. No Cardassians. Just Romulan prison camps and their back room dealings. Sex, drugs and weapons being moved around Romulus. Assassins. Experiments gone horribly wrong. Etc...
Well I don't think they do. It's got so much crap to carry round to live up to that you just can't begin to know if you'll like it.
I saw it last nite and my immediate reaction to it is that it was Disney'd up and far too campy. The film could have been better, but it was still pretty spiffy.
I would have preferred the version with Hugh Laurie (killer funny as House MD) and Jim Carey.
I would love to see a console designed for this purpose. Imagine running a kind of SETI@HOME that searched in quadrants using random algorhythms generated by your button combinations!
Or... maybe each time you press the button, move the joystick, the energy you put into the game is recycled? Or maybe a keyboard that recycles energy used to press keys?
I agree with him. The other day I went to Future Shop to buy a game or just browse and I walked by every title thinking how uncreative the games industry has become. I don't pay for copycat games.
To fully implement the TCP/IP protocol in Windows XP would make creating denial of service attacks 'entirely too trivial'
This is because XP is not designed right, not because the TCP/IP protocol is wrong. (just to be clear)
The quote from Fyodor is: "Pick your poison: Install MS05-019 and cripple your OS, or ignore the hotfix and remain vulnerable to remote code execution and DoS."
It's like... we just... can't... win.
Fyodor goes on to say...
"Nmap has not supported dialup nor any other non-ethernet connections on Windows since this silly limitation was added. The new TCP connection limit also substantially degrades connect() scan. Nmap users should avoid thinking that all platforms are supported equally. If you have any choice, run Nmap on Linux, Mac OS X, Open/FreeBSD, or Solaris rather than Windows. Nmap will run faster and more reliably. Or you can try convincing MS to fix their TCP stack. Good luck with that."
As many have reported, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (S.167/H.R. 357), recently passed the House, which also issued a committee report about the bill. Since the identical language had already passed the Senate in February, the measure now goes to President Bush for signature.
There has been some alarmist reporting about the bill. While it's decidedly a mixed bag, I think the bill should be marked as more victory than a defeat for the public interest side in the copyfight.
...And the bottom line from the EFF:
The real silver lining here emerges when you consider where the entertainment industry started back in 2003, and where they've ended up in 2005. After two years of heavy investments in lobbying Congress for a host of outrageous changes to copyright laws (like the Induce Act), the entertainment moguls managed to enact only a tiny sliver of their agenda, and only by granting concessions to ClearPlay.
Gates is doing this to try and save money. It's a pretty smart move considering the average salary in the US for coders is over $90k. In Canada it's more like $35k and that's CAD! I would love to go to the US and earn $65k USD per year. But I'm pretty sure I would have a hard time in Redmond, considering I am a PHP geek.
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I've seen a lot of spin on this thing, that tries to make Microsoft out to be the bad guy in this situation.
This is bad because Microsoft is starting a big brother campaign against people without applying the required resources to fact-checking. There is no way to tell if someone is truly selling EULA breaking copies, without government intervention from police agencies. EULA violation, however, is not necessarily a crime and therefore does not warrant police intervention. It's more of a tort, really, but again IANAL.
This scenario Microsoft has developed will generate too many false positives.
This just proves that Microsoft doesn't get it. You take a policing attitude over distribution, and you will never compete with Open Source. Freedom of distribution will always win out over punitive, restrictive distribution.
This little offer does not solve anything.
Imagine what a disgruntled ex-employee can do with this kind of power.
They could potentially file a bogus report, or a few dozen of them, with Microsoft to get their ex-employer's supply cut off. All the person would have to do is download a pirated copy of the software, and claim the company sold it to them.
Presumably, Microsoft is going to cut off supply to any distributor who sells EULA violating copies of their products. Perhaps in many cases, legal action is going to ensue. How much money would a store lose before Microsoft realizes it was a mistake?
This is too fishy.
Microsoft: you are not a government agency. Stop acting like one.
... what he's saying is that we need a space-based shipyard with a space elevator, to really reach new heights on space vessel designs. Putting a ship through launch stress hurts overall longevity and cost effectiveness of dollars invested.
FTA Responsive Small Spacelift (RSS)
:-)
We need a standards compliant group for acronyms.
Moving right along... Google reveals the exact prototype schematics on their image search for Falcon 1. Anyone else wondering if it's named that because of the Millenium Falcon?
SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten.
That said, is it feasible that we will see it reduced by a factor of 1000? That would allow us mere mortals to have access to other solar systems for vacations and deep space missions to find Eden, baby, hell yeah!
FTA: At numerous tradeshows and computing conventions, analysts and media predicted the launch date of multi-core CPUs; some said Intel would be the first to bring its chips to the market while others stated the opposite.
And furthermore... since when is it whoever ships first wins? What about quality? Cost? Yes AMD beats Intel on both of those now, but that is what I mean when I say that changes at Intel could make them far more competative, far more agile.
Intel has not lost anything. They might be getting their asses handed to them by AMD -- but remember that it often takes huge losses before a company changes its approach to doing business. And that kind of change really is needed at Intel.
... before the Americans blow it up.
Your /. nick is now associated with a horrible blockbuster movie, so I'm not sure if that helps any or not. I would sue the filmmakers if I were you, and retire off *that*. :-)
Such a travesty -- what they've done to such a cool series of, mostly, books.
I won't buy one -- because it's discontinued. (support is important, or we'd still have TI/994As running Parsec between meetings)
Next story.
By frozen, I'm guessing you mean poor Sarge was cryogenically frozen, right? What's the prognosis?
... people love discussing it's demise! Two "trek dead" stories in two days on /.
I still say they should do a trek reality series that follows Romulan assassins weeding their way into Romulan culture and the Federation. 24 in space type thing...
It never pays off. Instead, imagine you are somewhere really keen -- instead of boxoffice hell.
Movies like this we all *MUST* see, no matter how disappointed we'll be.
The ratings dropped because there just wasn't any excitement anymore. Trek used to be like a Christmas present you could open up each week.
Look at Battlestar Gallactica. Why couldn't Enterprise have been more like that?
Like I have always said: Trek needs a series that goes into political life on Romulus, just around the time of Picard, or slightly before then. Leave out the original cast and focus on new parts of space, with new actors. No BORG. No Cardassians. Just Romulan prison camps and their back room dealings. Sex, drugs and weapons being moved around Romulus. Assassins. Experiments gone horribly wrong. Etc...
Well I don't think they do. It's got so much crap to carry round to live up to that you just can't begin to know if you'll like it.
I saw it last nite and my immediate reaction to it is that it was Disney'd up and far too campy. The film could have been better, but it was still pretty spiffy.
I would have preferred the version with Hugh Laurie (killer funny as House MD) and Jim Carey.
But this is the kid's version, really.
Too often lately it seems that low expectations are the key to good movies.
Let's just hope the director doesn't agree!
Haven't seen it yet, but will tomorrow or likely Monday.
but do you play them?
I always pay whenever I want a new game. The last game I bought was God of War and now that's collecting dust due to the fact that I finished it.
I want a game I can't finish.
Excellent ideas, torpor.
... maybe each time you press the button, move the joystick, the energy you put into the game is recycled? Or maybe a keyboard that recycles energy used to press keys?
I would love to see a console designed for this purpose. Imagine running a kind of SETI@HOME that searched in quadrants using random algorhythms generated by your button combinations!
Or
I agree with him. The other day I went to Future Shop to buy a game or just browse and I walked by every title thinking how uncreative the games industry has become. I don't pay for copycat games.
Make something original.
The director wanted everything in this movie to be believable and realistic. It's going to be darker and more real than even the first Batman in 1989.
Is this the same movie Kevin Smith was talking about with the big frickin' spider?
Yes Wall Mart is a charitable non-profit. All of their profit goes to helping little old ladies retire better.
To fully implement the TCP/IP protocol in Windows XP would make creating denial of service attacks 'entirely too trivial'
This is because XP is not designed right, not because the TCP/IP protocol is wrong. (just to be clear)
The quote from Fyodor is:
"Pick your poison: Install MS05-019 and cripple your OS, or ignore the hotfix and remain vulnerable to remote code execution and DoS."
It's like... we just... can't... win.
Fyodor goes on to say...
"Nmap has not supported dialup nor any other non-ethernet connections
on Windows since this silly limitation was added. The new TCP
connection limit also substantially degrades connect() scan. Nmap
users should avoid thinking that all platforms are supported equally.
If you have any choice, run Nmap on Linux, Mac OS X, Open/FreeBSD, or
Solaris rather than Windows. Nmap will run faster and more reliably.
Or you can try convincing MS to fix their TCP stack. Good luck with
that."
The answer, my friend, is to drop Microsoft.
Baby, meet bathwater.
Straight from the EFF's Fred von Lohmann:...And the bottom line from the EFF:
Gates is doing this to try and save money. It's a pretty smart move considering the average salary in the US for coders is over $90k. In Canada it's more like $35k and that's CAD! I would love to go to the US and earn $65k USD per year. But I'm pretty sure I would have a hard time in Redmond, considering I am a PHP geek.
Maybe now it takes more power than it uses, but alternative energy takes research and development in order to reach the break even point.
:-)
That is the whole point of this breaktrhough. It's a step in the right direction.
A UCLA collaboration ... this technology could be used for things like microthrusters...etc
I can see this being of use with solar sail vessels. But how close are we to fusion power stations?