they go after corporate piracy because those people pay for other software. If they keep corporate users beaten into windows with complex licensing schemes and per PC licensing then it's easy to control developers. My company bosses figure they paid for windows and won't even bother asking about cross platform development because Windows development is so awful to maintain! Also, it keeps people from BUYING program that might work on Linux or Mac as they've paid for windows. I think the pressure is building, but it won't happen for another 5 years until linux fans get into management and have lots of experience doing it... after all it has to be Better than good enough... because it's Microsoft's "fault" if windows doesn't work, it's YOUR fault if Linux doesn't work.. isn't freedom a bitch.
it's the threat of "contributory" piracy by the company selling 1000 naked PCs that keeps them in line. Because after all, if windows is on 95% of PCs sold then the others are just waiting to pirate and companies should be good customers and help prevent that piracy by installing windows on everything. That's LEGALLY distorting the field.. they've got good lawyers.
The deal is that as long as the "tax" is not a line item the gig works. Microsoft will offer wild discounts to OEMS but still keep the retail price high. That way you buy a $500 PC with an OS valued at $300 on it!!! WOW what a deal! Then they can use that number in piracy figures to demonize piracy more. I though that Vista basic or starter would be keyed to motherboards but they didn't pull that yet. After all, M$ views every motherboard sold without an OS or valid RMA as "piracy"... I'd often expected them to take the OS out of retail shops and force motherboard vendors to bundle it.
Linux simply can't compete with that. No matter how bad windows is, it's "$300" worth of software. something free or even cheaper like Mac OSX just isn't as good. That's the game and they've played it well.
that would still be the point of the article. After all, nobody sees the BSA "stick it to the man" at your work for pirated software. As long as Microsoft allows it to be "borrowed" then nobody will care about the other stuff.
on the other hand, that is EXACTLY why Microsoft is attacking Linux on Patents now. The day is comming where "free as in dollars" will be here for home users. To keep companies from going to Linux they're trying to include and enforce patents (when they don't even enforce patent royalties on their pirated software!) to keep "free as in speech" from happening.
that's the problem, you should need to run anything as administrator, just make changes as administrator. the OS should have a function when a game doesn't work to authorize limited users to those folders as needed.. problem solved. Instead viruses run like wild because they want to make that feature "pro" instead of implementing it correctly. It's artificial, it's hogwash... and vista is worse.
but somebody breached confidentiality... it's not the "reporters" fault they have information and they shouldn't be harassed. On the other hand Companies sign contracts for big money with the stipulation they maintain secrets. If their employees don't keep the secrets, everybody suffers. That's the CONTRACT that was signed. We need to stop bending rules that used to be "immutable" simply because the proper course of action will hurt a bunch of people that didn't hold up their end of the deal. I can guarantee if RIAA, MPAA, etc started kicking big name artists and directors out of work because their housekeeper or assistant illegally put files on the internet or shut down DVD houses caught selling out the "back door" that most of the illegal online behavior would stop in a matter of months. But all these companies don't get it because it's HARD to do security right.
Heaven forbid, but Microsoft should be working with Google and Yahoo to pool their cash for some of that FCC spectrum being auctioned. Then they can simply put these devices on their own channels and be done with it, not having to play around with "unregulated" spectrum!
your confusing the issue. AMD Opteron processors ship with up to 3 HT buses on board plus dedicated ram. That is the physical limit. Intel processors only have 1 bus, then they play with different ways of connecting that to ram and other components. The board is an AMD-unique thing. HT sees processors or other components as "equals" not a "master-slave" relationship like in Intel-land. That makes the AMD available for trying out weird ways of connecting hardware and writing programs.
on a side note this arrangement would make a killer gaming rig! You can pull 2 16x PCI-E buses off each processor. Imagine the video power you could kick out! Or on a workgroup server you could pull out extra south bridge chips for adding User IO or disks. The usefulness of AMDs HT is only starting to be tapped.
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and M$$ has $40+ Gigabucks in the bank, that's almost as much as all of them combine!
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people with money do. It's easy money for pocket change to "real" investors. They can bet on a lot of horses. It does a service to keep companies almost under one last shot. If it pays off 1 in 20 times then the stock gets listed again and the investor has bought XX% of the company to sell for profit...even if the company only gains $2 per share, it's a huge return on investment.
it's even more confusing because microsoft payed off SCO and Baystar... but also paid off Novell. So did Novell use Microsoft money to win the SCO case Microsoft paid to start???
you hit on something that nobody is teaching stuff to know it and love it, merely to have the mark on their records that they took the class and the school offered it.
Mastery of material is not really something taught anymore. It doesn't fit in the neat little 13 week class to learn 500 pages of math concepts. Nothing about how to use them, what you might do with them, or how to pursue the field I have the typical "technical" round of 4-5 semesters of math in college and while I like it, none of it means anything. The really cool stuff is reserved for "math majors" and hobbyists aren't really welcome or encouraged. It's quite dismal really.
but these are basically news sites and would be "journalists". The leaks have to be coming from somebody with the info... they need to keep better track or be more "impromptu" with their deals. Their first order of business should be to clean their own house...not sue in court. Then take it out on advertising companies!!! Let them deal with their employees by laying off half a press crew when they loose work. Those are LEGAL tools to use, not suing for IP logs from a news site.
the point is why be Uberhackers when you can tailgate the cleaning crew and just flip over the users mousepad for their password! Or swipe that unencrypted CD or backup tape off their desk. Then you have all day to pick the network apart or maybe even not at all.
no, that's wrong.. Google is specifically asking for the FCC to bundle all the localities so they can buy one channel for Google. Otherwise Google has to pay for each geographic area separately which is how the cell phone era played out. All Google got from the FCC was some vague agreement that they might require devices to be interchangable.. useless for Google's purpose if they can't put them all on 1 channel. Google wants to bit on the "national" channel and the telcos want to play games because they can collude to outbid on the key channels to stop Google having enough channels in any important market to reach critical mass without making hardware too expensive. The rest (small towns) get auctioned for "fire sale" prices because there will be no network to connect your wireless to unless you play nice with the telcos. The telcos will automatically work together... heck there's rumor of AT&T and Verison talking merger AFTER the auction is done.
seriously, they could have had all sorts of fun, but real feds were there to keep it legal. After all, REAL law enforcement wouldn't let the show go on unless they cooperated with the feds to catch the really bad guys. They could have had her credit cards changed, SSN switched... is she even sure her name is still the same? Public humiliation is the smallest amount of fun they could have. They didn't even ask her to leave, they just wanted her to have a press badge so attendees would know... but again, it's not like anybody is going to brag because there are Feds there looking for trouble. She didn't even have the balls to stay and face up!!!
no, it's exactly a fair comparison. People want to be all bleeding-heart if an civilian embedded reporter gets hurt interfering with military ops, but see no problem when they pull these dateline stunts with people that could turn violent and then want to show the public how much "danger" they were in. In the dateline cases they are picking up the "guns" and shooting at the "bad guys" that makes them not journalists anymore. When will the govt crack down on those "stings".. when somebody gets hurt. Oh wait, when that chopper crashed they're trying to charge the guy being CHASED with murder because the copters were following... so we're already in the double-standard domain.
Great joke... of course the moles name, ssn, and credit would all be changed before he got out of the building! This poor guy's going to have identity theft problem for YEARS when all the people he tried to bust decide to hack him... don't forget many of them are honest blokes that probably WORK at the bank!! This should be fun.
why? I have eMusic songs on my iPod right now. This is about downloading songs "wirelessly" which Apple has said iPhone won't do for iTunes, as well as you can't add songs "live" to any ipod wihtout syncing to iTunes. Non-issue all the way around.
They mentioned that on Twit as well. If Google got what they wanted, universal, nation-wide wireless bands, then they'd make the Cellular monopolies obsolete in a matter of a few years. That's one BIG stick to beat AT&T with after the "threats" they made about Google "paying" it's way in the future. Also, that would go nicely with the "google on a truck" and dark fiber projects they already have!! Google almost has enough pieces for a true 3rd independant national internet! That alone would be worth the FCC taking a look, but they're too shallow to see beyond quarterly profits.
What will happen is AT&T and Version will only bid high on the major areas with population and let the rest go by the way. Look at the cell phone industry to see how that played out. Later, they buy up anybody gutsy enough to compete while forcing THEIR rules on the whole industry if you want to talk to their customers.
Also, Google does not have the monopoly status to write checks they don't have money for. Google's founders are wise-beyond-their-years financially, and are running the company in a manner to keep it free of debt and owing to the bankers. The telcos know they won't win all the channels, but they'll bet big on the important ones, cut illegal deals once the dust settles, and let the little ones go for cheap. Google needs to pay careful attention to the little markets that will be cheap and buy them anyway. Google's "mistake" is that they expect government and banks to play fair...They wanted to make a fair offer knowing what the actual outcomes will probably be in terms of cash. They miss that the whole point of auctions like this is for the big players to always win.. if they want to. this situation really calls for Gates or Jobs that are good at whipping up the business players and making the "stab in the back" deals behind closed doors... The Google founders are too much of "nice guys" for this type of deal.
this is somebody's bright idea to go for the "little guy". And what about Microsoft and Toshiba, both working with IBM. MS on processors, and Toshiba is a partner to build Cell? Talk about the wrong mark here. You'd think legal council would do more work that what the average Slashdotter knows in the first 10 posts.
we know we're burning so much fuel it's crazy... it would be best to curb the use anyway to make our fuel last longer. Like the other poster said, we know the building is probably in trouble, start doing something about the problem. Rules never cut numbers fast enough anyway. It's better to start sooner than later because we don't know what damage we are doing right now.
running the program is the "0" right of all users of free software. nobody should be able to prevent that. Remember, GPL recognizes SOURCE code.. not binary. All software follows that rule, but the FSF is about the actual code first, if you can't get the code, by definition the program is NEVER free.
What GPL3 changed is that first, using GPL3 code to reprogram your hardware can never be claimed as "reverse engineering" or breaking the DMCA no matter how they encrypt the system. Second, the code the manufacturer provides must be able to run on the system. If there are keys to hardware locks, they must be provided. (note, it may not be the SAME keys, they could offer a public and private key to the hardware, but it has to use ALL the hardware features) One thing I thought was written poorly was the part about encrypted data and services. Those are outside the hardware and shouldn't be accessible if that's the contract. But the system itself should function. on a PVR, think that YOU should be able to reprogram the device to watch whatever you want record, skip, move to devices, etc.. but they're not necessary to unlock your cable card or PPV recorded shows, or allow you onto their channel guides because they can't prove you paid and are following rules for the content you agreed to with the other parties.
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they go after corporate piracy because those people pay for other software. If they keep corporate users beaten into windows with complex licensing schemes and per PC licensing then it's easy to control developers. My company bosses figure they paid for windows and won't even bother asking about cross platform development because Windows development is so awful to maintain! Also, it keeps people from BUYING program that might work on Linux or Mac as they've paid for windows. I think the pressure is building, but it won't happen for another 5 years until linux fans get into management and have lots of experience doing it... after all it has to be Better than good enough... because it's Microsoft's "fault" if windows doesn't work, it's YOUR fault if Linux doesn't work.. isn't freedom a bitch.
it's the threat of "contributory" piracy by the company selling 1000 naked PCs that keeps them in line. Because after all, if windows is on 95% of PCs sold then the others are just waiting to pirate and companies should be good customers and help prevent that piracy by installing windows on everything. That's LEGALLY distorting the field.. they've got good lawyers.
The deal is that as long as the "tax" is not a line item the gig works. Microsoft will offer wild discounts to OEMS but still keep the retail price high. That way you buy a $500 PC with an OS valued at $300 on it!!! WOW what a deal! Then they can use that number in piracy figures to demonize piracy more. I though that Vista basic or starter would be keyed to motherboards but they didn't pull that yet. After all, M$ views every motherboard sold without an OS or valid RMA as "piracy"... I'd often expected them to take the OS out of retail shops and force motherboard vendors to bundle it.
Linux simply can't compete with that. No matter how bad windows is, it's "$300" worth of software. something free or even cheaper like Mac OSX just isn't as good. That's the game and they've played it well.
that would still be the point of the article. After all, nobody sees the BSA "stick it to the man" at your work for pirated software. As long as Microsoft allows it to be "borrowed" then nobody will care about the other stuff.
on the other hand, that is EXACTLY why Microsoft is attacking Linux on Patents now. The day is comming where "free as in dollars" will be here for home users. To keep companies from going to Linux they're trying to include and enforce patents (when they don't even enforce patent royalties on their pirated software!) to keep "free as in speech" from happening.
that's the problem, you should need to run anything as administrator, just make changes as administrator. the OS should have a function when a game doesn't work to authorize limited users to those folders as needed.. problem solved. Instead viruses run like wild because they want to make that feature "pro" instead of implementing it correctly. It's artificial, it's hogwash... and vista is worse.
but you "buy" the license from Dell or HP, not from Microsoft so it's not THEIR problem if you can't reinstall it!
but somebody breached confidentiality... it's not the "reporters" fault they have information and they shouldn't be harassed. On the other hand Companies sign contracts for big money with the stipulation they maintain secrets. If their employees don't keep the secrets, everybody suffers. That's the CONTRACT that was signed. We need to stop bending rules that used to be "immutable" simply because the proper course of action will hurt a bunch of people that didn't hold up their end of the deal. I can guarantee if RIAA, MPAA, etc started kicking big name artists and directors out of work because their housekeeper or assistant illegally put files on the internet or shut down DVD houses caught selling out the "back door" that most of the illegal online behavior would stop in a matter of months. But all these companies don't get it because it's HARD to do security right.
OK, they've also got it on MP3 at emusic!!
Heaven forbid, but Microsoft should be working with Google and Yahoo to pool their cash for some of that FCC spectrum being auctioned. Then they can simply put these devices on their own channels and be done with it, not having to play around with "unregulated" spectrum!
your confusing the issue. AMD Opteron processors ship with up to 3 HT buses on board plus dedicated ram. That is the physical limit. Intel processors only have 1 bus, then they play with different ways of connecting that to ram and other components. The board is an AMD-unique thing. HT sees processors or other components as "equals" not a "master-slave" relationship like in Intel-land. That makes the AMD available for trying out weird ways of connecting hardware and writing programs.
on a side note this arrangement would make a killer gaming rig! You can pull 2 16x PCI-E buses off each processor. Imagine the video power you could kick out! Or on a workgroup server you could pull out extra south bridge chips for adding User IO or disks. The usefulness of AMDs HT is only starting to be tapped.
and M$$ has $40+ Gigabucks in the bank, that's almost as much as all of them combine!
people with money do. It's easy money for pocket change to "real" investors. They can bet on a lot of horses. It does a service to keep companies almost under one last shot. If it pays off 1 in 20 times then the stock gets listed again and the investor has bought XX% of the company to sell for profit...even if the company only gains $2 per share, it's a huge return on investment.
it's even more confusing because microsoft payed off SCO and Baystar... but also paid off Novell. So did Novell use Microsoft money to win the SCO case Microsoft paid to start???
head exploded!!
you hit on something that nobody is teaching stuff to know it and love it, merely to have the mark on their records that they took the class and the school offered it. Mastery of material is not really something taught anymore. It doesn't fit in the neat little 13 week class to learn 500 pages of math concepts. Nothing about how to use them, what you might do with them, or how to pursue the field I have the typical "technical" round of 4-5 semesters of math in college and while I like it, none of it means anything. The really cool stuff is reserved for "math majors" and hobbyists aren't really welcome or encouraged. It's quite dismal really.
but these are basically news sites and would be "journalists". The leaks have to be coming from somebody with the info... they need to keep better track or be more "impromptu" with their deals. Their first order of business should be to clean their own house...not sue in court. Then take it out on advertising companies!!! Let them deal with their employees by laying off half a press crew when they loose work. Those are LEGAL tools to use, not suing for IP logs from a news site.
the point is why be Uberhackers when you can tailgate the cleaning crew and just flip over the users mousepad for their password! Or swipe that unencrypted CD or backup tape off their desk. Then you have all day to pick the network apart or maybe even not at all.
no, that's wrong.. Google is specifically asking for the FCC to bundle all the localities so they can buy one channel for Google. Otherwise Google has to pay for each geographic area separately which is how the cell phone era played out. All Google got from the FCC was some vague agreement that they might require devices to be interchangable.. useless for Google's purpose if they can't put them all on 1 channel. Google wants to bit on the "national" channel and the telcos want to play games because they can collude to outbid on the key channels to stop Google having enough channels in any important market to reach critical mass without making hardware too expensive. The rest (small towns) get auctioned for "fire sale" prices because there will be no network to connect your wireless to unless you play nice with the telcos. The telcos will automatically work together... heck there's rumor of AT&T and Verison talking merger AFTER the auction is done.
seriously, they could have had all sorts of fun, but real feds were there to keep it legal. After all, REAL law enforcement wouldn't let the show go on unless they cooperated with the feds to catch the really bad guys. They could have had her credit cards changed, SSN switched... is she even sure her name is still the same? Public humiliation is the smallest amount of fun they could have. They didn't even ask her to leave, they just wanted her to have a press badge so attendees would know... but again, it's not like anybody is going to brag because there are Feds there looking for trouble. She didn't even have the balls to stay and face up!!!
no, it's exactly a fair comparison. People want to be all bleeding-heart if an civilian embedded reporter gets hurt interfering with military ops, but see no problem when they pull these dateline stunts with people that could turn violent and then want to show the public how much "danger" they were in. In the dateline cases they are picking up the "guns" and shooting at the "bad guys" that makes them not journalists anymore. When will the govt crack down on those "stings".. when somebody gets hurt. Oh wait, when that chopper crashed they're trying to charge the guy being CHASED with murder because the copters were following... so we're already in the double-standard domain.
Great joke... of course the moles name, ssn, and credit would all be changed before he got out of the building! This poor guy's going to have identity theft problem for YEARS when all the people he tried to bust decide to hack him... don't forget many of them are honest blokes that probably WORK at the bank!! This should be fun.
why? I have eMusic songs on my iPod right now. This is about downloading songs "wirelessly" which Apple has said iPhone won't do for iTunes, as well as you can't add songs "live" to any ipod wihtout syncing to iTunes. Non-issue all the way around.
They mentioned that on Twit as well. If Google got what they wanted, universal, nation-wide wireless bands, then they'd make the Cellular monopolies obsolete in a matter of a few years. That's one BIG stick to beat AT&T with after the "threats" they made about Google "paying" it's way in the future. Also, that would go nicely with the "google on a truck" and dark fiber projects they already have!! Google almost has enough pieces for a true 3rd independant national internet! That alone would be worth the FCC taking a look, but they're too shallow to see beyond quarterly profits.
What will happen is AT&T and Version will only bid high on the major areas with population and let the rest go by the way. Look at the cell phone industry to see how that played out. Later, they buy up anybody gutsy enough to compete while forcing THEIR rules on the whole industry if you want to talk to their customers.
Also, Google does not have the monopoly status to write checks they don't have money for. Google's founders are wise-beyond-their-years financially, and are running the company in a manner to keep it free of debt and owing to the bankers. The telcos know they won't win all the channels, but they'll bet big on the important ones, cut illegal deals once the dust settles, and let the little ones go for cheap. Google needs to pay careful attention to the little markets that will be cheap and buy them anyway. Google's "mistake" is that they expect government and banks to play fair...They wanted to make a fair offer knowing what the actual outcomes will probably be in terms of cash. They miss that the whole point of auctions like this is for the big players to always win.. if they want to. this situation really calls for Gates or Jobs that are good at whipping up the business players and making the "stab in the back" deals behind closed doors... The Google founders are too much of "nice guys" for this type of deal.
this is somebody's bright idea to go for the "little guy". And what about Microsoft and Toshiba, both working with IBM. MS on processors, and Toshiba is a partner to build Cell? Talk about the wrong mark here. You'd think legal council would do more work that what the average Slashdotter knows in the first 10 posts.
we know we're burning so much fuel it's crazy... it would be best to curb the use anyway to make our fuel last longer. Like the other poster said, we know the building is probably in trouble, start doing something about the problem. Rules never cut numbers fast enough anyway. It's better to start sooner than later because we don't know what damage we are doing right now.
running the program is the "0" right of all users of free software. nobody should be able to prevent that. Remember, GPL recognizes SOURCE code.. not binary. All software follows that rule, but the FSF is about the actual code first, if you can't get the code, by definition the program is NEVER free. What GPL3 changed is that first, using GPL3 code to reprogram your hardware can never be claimed as "reverse engineering" or breaking the DMCA no matter how they encrypt the system. Second, the code the manufacturer provides must be able to run on the system. If there are keys to hardware locks, they must be provided. (note, it may not be the SAME keys, they could offer a public and private key to the hardware, but it has to use ALL the hardware features) One thing I thought was written poorly was the part about encrypted data and services. Those are outside the hardware and shouldn't be accessible if that's the contract. But the system itself should function. on a PVR, think that YOU should be able to reprogram the device to watch whatever you want record, skip, move to devices, etc.. but they're not necessary to unlock your cable card or PPV recorded shows, or allow you onto their channel guides because they can't prove you paid and are following rules for the content you agreed to with the other parties.