actually it does because these guys have a legit license to use CSS.. they're not hacking it. They're just selling a "Tivo" for DVDs. Put the DVD in and it STAYS encrypted on their hardware. Their device keeps the discs internally under CSS so they can't be actually copied.
in short they're not breaking ANY rules!!! Like everybody says, this could be a huge win for companies like Apple... if they allowed you to backup your DVDs into iTunes with CSS + your iTunes account they shouldn't have any problem. Video Ipods would take off!!!
I think that would be good twist on the MMORPG idea. Doing Big stuff right could be interesting. Wargames have been left out because they're too complicated. How you'd manage a fleet of ships and planet/solar system/galaxy wide strategy would be neat. Blizzard is trying to push WoW into massive battles with hundreds of combatants where there's real armies on line and not just playing against scripts. There's definitely a lot of work to make such an idea practical but hard ideas make big profits!!!
The real question will be if the Ubuntu team/fans step up to address some of these issues!
One thing I see lacking is some one-up-man-ship from the Ubuntu side. 75% of the issues brought up as Ubuntu shortfalls are things that need only an hour or two of coding each and then quickly slipstreamed back upstream. That's where OSS falls down. Big projects like Ubuntu still can't react fast enough to these kind of "feature war" articles. I know the maintainers don't want to run their projects' schedules off the "press", but there is a need to address "eye candy" features more quickly in OSS.
The point is that this is a great, balanced article for using Ubuntu versus Vista. It's got solid, CONSTRUCTIVE criticism that has definable, executable answers. I think it would be great PR if the Ubuntu team could take these articles from the mainstream press and with Gusty (in 6 months) be able to say we implemented 75% of these now, the others are being worked on. THAT approach would be a HUGE coup for Ubuntu... that press writers would actually get something put into the OS and not just whine about it!!! It's easy and cheap marketing for everybody's good.
actually, they have a great point. Essentially, the RIAA pulled an HP. They are doing EXACTLY the same things Dunn did only they're hiding behind layer of court to keep the actual evidence out. These guys are trying to "pierce the veil" and get behind the RIAA's tactics. The goal is to force them to actually put an executive from MediaSentry or the Settlement Support Center on the stand and start grilling them over procedure. They DESPERATELY don't want that on the record because then nearly every letter they sent out could sue them for computer intrusion!!!! WOW, they're in S** creek if they get caught!!!
perhaps Kodak is trying to pickup as the new "Polaroid". They got nailed on instant photography 30 years ago and because of patents never got into the instant developing thing. In the other hand, they spent their time focusing on backroom photo developing.. most of the photo developing machines are Kodak or Fuji. The Kodak ones have been using digital correction for some time... so with the shift to personal photo printing, they need to make the money on PAPER and supplies. I think they see the push of inkjets against stores that develop film... and are adjusting accordingly. They have to win on paper, ink, and cameras to stay successful.
This is a good weekend topic.. think back to the old days... when Goatse.cx or tubgirl would get modded down in a heartbeat. But TODAY ONLY it's ON TOPIC!!!! Happens about once a year or so. Go with it!
but in practice they are not being rational and doing what you say. If the test can have false positives, especially in a product that could not be ingested or used to drug a person with, then it's downright negligent not to have the next level test available, or a person to call about the results available on short notice. Taking 3 days, bail and then doing more tests far away is silly and sloppy.
I agree that the point of screening is to quickly identify a threat.. but that comes with reason when you get a positive result... how many people are going to put an expensive and rare date rape drug into shampoo? It would probably be ruined at that point anyway. The reasonableness of the result and the suspect need to be taken into account... in this case they weren't. In your security case, if the person looked normal, you'd simply confiscate the material tested, search the person over and then send them on their way. This whole thing that the "line turned blue" so we have to investigate till the end of the case is wasteful and dangerous to citizens. Just like the "no-fly" list that doesn't have ACTUAL TERRORISTS on it because we might scare them into not flying??? So we harass normal citizens by the dozens.
But this is a field test with known false positive results... If it's in a commercial product like soap it would seem like authorities would know which items have chemicals that give false positives. At some point we have to stop allowing the "head in the sand" approach to this testing and force the officers to personally answer for things like this. It's REASONABLE to expect an officer to know the results of the test, or it should be criminally negligent to allow them to lock people up based on those results. Stuff like this is "legal" harassment by "due process" and should be dealt with by the law. It's two parts... first the cops are given poor training and outright lies about what the tests really do... they often have little to no training in actual chemistry... they administer the test per the instructions and are lied to about the actual effectiveness... The other part is the culture of "assumption of guilt" which has more to do with laziness and trying to "stretch" the fish they got when it's just not legal... they don't know when to let the case go. It's a sign we have too many police, trying to enforce too many laws... and "normal" police don't even deal with the actual crimes that are big... internet fraud, financial, id theft... they're nothing but stupid street goons.
All Open Source has to do is PUBLISH first. I've often thought that sourceforge should open up an idea warehouse for small code snippets or ideas for connecting existing projects. All it takes is One person to put the idea together and put it out there on a public forum and it can't be patented. If it was tied to something like Slashdot (hint, hint) where lots of people could comment then the group running the idea could tidy it all up. Once there is no more "secret period" then prior art also takes affect immediately!!! Even if people try to submarine the system, it won't work because by sharing the idea publicly without the patent, they lose the patent!
Well, novell has the better patents on Active directory.. from 15+ years ago. Sun is about to GPL Java... even better would be to submit it to ISO. At that point perhaps we can get the Mono guys to drop it already. It's a great idea to try to 'hijack' C# from Microsoft, but it's just playing into Microsoft's hands and wasting valuable OSS resources.
Estimates put Microsoft's cash and liquid assets at $40 Billion dollars... with a B! When the airlines were having trouble people were joking they had enough cash on hand to balance the books... of ALL the airlines! That's how they can loose $5 Billion dollars buying a spot in an industry.
The real deal is that if the stock price might drop because Microsoft's products aren't making 20% OVER the last version then investors will start looking at the ACTUAL books and wanting some of the cash Microsoft has. I'm sure that was part of the reason they did the big $3 share payout.. to keep the dogs out of the cash. The bane of Bill is that Microsoft will have to grow up and be a real company... that worries about the balance sheet and has to carefully pick where to spend cash instead of throwing it around like confetti. Right now Bill watches the money but nobody watches Bill.
I think Dell does have the upper hand though. They could get their fellow Texan onboard with the DOJ dogs just before they flip the Ubuntu switch. After all, if that "Chair"man of Microsoft makes the call to dell, I'm sure Michael Dell has enough dirt on them and their monopoly tactics. THAT would be nice dirt to have on Billy!!! After all Bush needs to make his federal attorneys look "honest" picking up that monopoly suit he dropped as a "buddy" would look really good!!!
Amaya is cute, but for surfing it's barely functional. It's got some neat features that you can edit documents and add some cool DTDs... but it's support for ACTUAL web pages isn't that great. And it doesn't support the "hard stuff" that real browsers do. It's a nice prototype what the W3C wants for a semantic browser, but not useful for actually browsing.
people will download Xvid xx codex or WMP updates 20 times if a page nags them, they'd download endless versions of Flash or Acrobat reader for minor features... and you're worried about nudging people to get Firefox. don't get started on IM, toolbars... and all the crap that people click on.
I understand the need to make checkout easy and I wouldn't do anything to affect the basic transaction part. But I'd bet if you could study your logs more closely, you'd see that people browse for a while, but don't actually create an account that lets you track them until right before they've created a cart and are ready to buy.... in reality you're probably taking 12 minutes just to take down CC and shipping info AFTER the product is already picked out.
Look at it this way, if you nudge for firefox you can also trim down some browser testing because it works on all the major platforms and almost all the minor ones... and compatibility between Firefox and opera or safari is a whole lot easier than IE.
you miss the point. Most politicians won't even bother showing up to a $5 per plate dinner of people that are the ACTUAL voter... we've go mortgages and can't give $1000 to everybody. My point is that if small fund raisers were made profitable to the candidate it could get more PEOPLE involved in the process. If the NUMBER of people could count for something other than votes it would help the situation.
exactly, my business makes us take ethics training and much of what we discuss on slashdot as "industry standard" behavior would get me fired at my job.... it's just not cool. Of course I work at a nice, cozy middle-sized company. We don't have to worry about things like "world domination" cause it will never happen.
but that's exactly what they're doing... they're hiding behind quid pro quo, but in reality that's just another name for "no bid contract". Fighting laws that require openness is stupid... We all know it's cronyism when DoD contractors do this and expect it to be fought. Why is Microsoft any different. THIS is the action that states should have taken years ago instead of crying about anti-trust. Think of it as software "equal opportunity". Almost all states disallow single-source contracts without renegotiation as a matter of rule.. Microsoft is a huge exception to these basic laws as they call "dual source" a choice between Dell or HP for PCs.
Quinn was acting on the results of a year long, cross agency research into options for long term archiving and the requirements of the Govt to be as open as possible and remove barriers to communication.. Handicap, language, financial, etc. They NEVER said they'd BAN MS Office, just that the REQUIRED formats for state business had to be ODF, PDF, etc. That meant every agency had to make available to all the people that were legally required, documents in those formats. In short, it was to STOP the state bureaucrats from using personal preference to push business to one particular company with expensive software and an monopoly. Microsoft was entirely free to implement the formats.. hell, several agencies have already done this.
In short, we claim to be a country of laws and free trade, but when the govt passes laws requiring at least the govt to make "free trade" of information, they drag the guy though the mud. What happened is a travesty, the guy basicly quit because of Microsoft's harassment, and was found 100% without any wrongdoing or hint of wrongdoing. I'm sure some open source company will pick him up.
And that would be the point of matching. Perhaps I'm a candidate from poor or middle class areas where people can only afford $5 a plate spaghetti dinner put on by volunteers instead of the $1000 a plate designed to "weed out" the "riff-raff". I think we'd see many more interesting candidates if they could know they'd get extra credit for their $5 patrons to make up for other candidates getting $1000 per person. That would let lesser candidates have meaningful grass roots efforts.
exactly, they're still an illegal monopoly... the judge was just "unfairly" harsh. Unfair being repeatedly lied to on the stand, publicly defamed by the same lawyers on multiple occasions. In other words Microsoft's lawyers attacked the judge and not the case... very uncool. If the political winds change, it's entirely possible for the DOJ to put Judge Jackson on the stand in another ruling and wipe Microsoft off the map. This is why the judge in the SCO case is allowing boarderline illegal conduct from SCO... They are being SO AWFUL that the judge is trying to maintain absolute fairness... so that when she brings the hammer down, unlike judge Jackson, her ruling will stick and hurt really bad... and get increased on appeal!!!
the findings were upheld, only the punishment was recinded. It's been said before, Judge Jackson was publicly baited into those comments and the court said it "looked" like he was unduly harsh because of the comments... they upheld ALL of his actual legal findings, but it delayed punishment long enough for the administration to change and the DOJ to get packed with suckers. Microsoft's lawyers were publicly commenting on the judges "handling" of the case outside court.. they were directly attacking the judges character outside court.. it was very bad form for the lawyers involved. Remember, the current panel overseeing Microsoft is less than happy with their performance of the recinded judgment and asked for more years... if the winds of politics changed all the cards are still on the table to break Microsoft up. It's a matter of Will not Law...very sad.
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considering 75% of the tech headquarters are in southern California it has precedent for a good chunk of the tech industry!
in short they're not breaking ANY rules!!! Like everybody says, this could be a huge win for companies like Apple... if they allowed you to backup your DVDs into iTunes with CSS + your iTunes account they shouldn't have any problem. Video Ipods would take off!!!
I think that would be good twist on the MMORPG idea. Doing Big stuff right could be interesting. Wargames have been left out because they're too complicated. How you'd manage a fleet of ships and planet/solar system/galaxy wide strategy would be neat. Blizzard is trying to push WoW into massive battles with hundreds of combatants where there's real armies on line and not just playing against scripts. There's definitely a lot of work to make such an idea practical but hard ideas make big profits!!!
One thing I see lacking is some one-up-man-ship from the Ubuntu side. 75% of the issues brought up as Ubuntu shortfalls are things that need only an hour or two of coding each and then quickly slipstreamed back upstream. That's where OSS falls down. Big projects like Ubuntu still can't react fast enough to these kind of "feature war" articles. I know the maintainers don't want to run their projects' schedules off the "press", but there is a need to address "eye candy" features more quickly in OSS.
The point is that this is a great, balanced article for using Ubuntu versus Vista. It's got solid, CONSTRUCTIVE criticism that has definable, executable answers. I think it would be great PR if the Ubuntu team could take these articles from the mainstream press and with Gusty (in 6 months) be able to say we implemented 75% of these now, the others are being worked on. THAT approach would be a HUGE coup for Ubuntu... that press writers would actually get something put into the OS and not just whine about it!!! It's easy and cheap marketing for everybody's good.
actually, they have a great point. Essentially, the RIAA pulled an HP. They are doing EXACTLY the same things Dunn did only they're hiding behind layer of court to keep the actual evidence out. These guys are trying to "pierce the veil" and get behind the RIAA's tactics. The goal is to force them to actually put an executive from MediaSentry or the Settlement Support Center on the stand and start grilling them over procedure. They DESPERATELY don't want that on the record because then nearly every letter they sent out could sue them for computer intrusion!!!! WOW, they're in S** creek if they get caught!!!
perhaps Kodak is trying to pickup as the new "Polaroid". They got nailed on instant photography 30 years ago and because of patents never got into the instant developing thing. In the other hand, they spent their time focusing on backroom photo developing.. most of the photo developing machines are Kodak or Fuji. The Kodak ones have been using digital correction for some time... so with the shift to personal photo printing, they need to make the money on PAPER and supplies. I think they see the push of inkjets against stores that develop film... and are adjusting accordingly. They have to win on paper, ink, and cameras to stay successful.
This is a good weekend topic.. think back to the old days... when Goatse.cx or tubgirl would get modded down in a heartbeat. But TODAY ONLY it's ON TOPIC!!!! Happens about once a year or so. Go with it!
I agree that the point of screening is to quickly identify a threat.. but that comes with reason when you get a positive result... how many people are going to put an expensive and rare date rape drug into shampoo? It would probably be ruined at that point anyway. The reasonableness of the result and the suspect need to be taken into account... in this case they weren't. In your security case, if the person looked normal, you'd simply confiscate the material tested, search the person over and then send them on their way. This whole thing that the "line turned blue" so we have to investigate till the end of the case is wasteful and dangerous to citizens. Just like the "no-fly" list that doesn't have ACTUAL TERRORISTS on it because we might scare them into not flying??? So we harass normal citizens by the dozens.
But this is a field test with known false positive results... If it's in a commercial product like soap it would seem like authorities would know which items have chemicals that give false positives. At some point we have to stop allowing the "head in the sand" approach to this testing and force the officers to personally answer for things like this. It's REASONABLE to expect an officer to know the results of the test, or it should be criminally negligent to allow them to lock people up based on those results. Stuff like this is "legal" harassment by "due process" and should be dealt with by the law. It's two parts... first the cops are given poor training and outright lies about what the tests really do... they often have little to no training in actual chemistry... they administer the test per the instructions and are lied to about the actual effectiveness... The other part is the culture of "assumption of guilt" which has more to do with laziness and trying to "stretch" the fish they got when it's just not legal... they don't know when to let the case go. It's a sign we have too many police, trying to enforce too many laws... and "normal" police don't even deal with the actual crimes that are big... internet fraud, financial, id theft... they're nothing but stupid street goons.
All Open Source has to do is PUBLISH first. I've often thought that sourceforge should open up an idea warehouse for small code snippets or ideas for connecting existing projects. All it takes is One person to put the idea together and put it out there on a public forum and it can't be patented. If it was tied to something like Slashdot (hint, hint) where lots of people could comment then the group running the idea could tidy it all up. Once there is no more "secret period" then prior art also takes affect immediately!!! Even if people try to submarine the system, it won't work because by sharing the idea publicly without the patent, they lose the patent!
Well, novell has the better patents on Active directory.. from 15+ years ago. Sun is about to GPL Java... even better would be to submit it to ISO. At that point perhaps we can get the Mono guys to drop it already. It's a great idea to try to 'hijack' C# from Microsoft, but it's just playing into Microsoft's hands and wasting valuable OSS resources.
The real deal is that if the stock price might drop because Microsoft's products aren't making 20% OVER the last version then investors will start looking at the ACTUAL books and wanting some of the cash Microsoft has. I'm sure that was part of the reason they did the big $3 share payout.. to keep the dogs out of the cash. The bane of Bill is that Microsoft will have to grow up and be a real company... that worries about the balance sheet and has to carefully pick where to spend cash instead of throwing it around like confetti. Right now Bill watches the money but nobody watches Bill.
I think Dell does have the upper hand though. They could get their fellow Texan onboard with the DOJ dogs just before they flip the Ubuntu switch. After all, if that "Chair"man of Microsoft makes the call to dell, I'm sure Michael Dell has enough dirt on them and their monopoly tactics. THAT would be nice dirt to have on Billy!!! After all Bush needs to make his federal attorneys look "honest" picking up that monopoly suit he dropped as a "buddy" would look really good!!!
nothing to sue for here....it's not specific enough to be liable and most definately True as an opinion with plenty of examples.
Sounds like they're doing just that.. slap them on the wrist then give them more big contracts without even demanding they stop doing what was bad!
Amaya is cute, but for surfing it's barely functional. It's got some neat features that you can edit documents and add some cool DTDs... but it's support for ACTUAL web pages isn't that great. And it doesn't support the "hard stuff" that real browsers do. It's a nice prototype what the W3C wants for a semantic browser, but not useful for actually browsing.
WOW, I can't believe the markup between a p5 520 and the i5 520 my company uses (nearly identical hardware).... OS400 costs A LOT!!!
people will download Xvid xx codex or WMP updates 20 times if a page nags them, they'd download endless versions of Flash or Acrobat reader for minor features... and you're worried about nudging people to get Firefox. don't get started on IM, toolbars... and all the crap that people click on.
I understand the need to make checkout easy and I wouldn't do anything to affect the basic transaction part. But I'd bet if you could study your logs more closely, you'd see that people browse for a while, but don't actually create an account that lets you track them until right before they've created a cart and are ready to buy.... in reality you're probably taking 12 minutes just to take down CC and shipping info AFTER the product is already picked out.
Look at it this way, if you nudge for firefox you can also trim down some browser testing because it works on all the major platforms and almost all the minor ones... and compatibility between Firefox and opera or safari is a whole lot easier than IE.
you miss the point. Most politicians won't even bother showing up to a $5 per plate dinner of people that are the ACTUAL voter... we've go mortgages and can't give $1000 to everybody. My point is that if small fund raisers were made profitable to the candidate it could get more PEOPLE involved in the process. If the NUMBER of people could count for something other than votes it would help the situation.
exactly, my business makes us take ethics training and much of what we discuss on slashdot as "industry standard" behavior would get me fired at my job.... it's just not cool. Of course I work at a nice, cozy middle-sized company. We don't have to worry about things like "world domination" cause it will never happen.
but that's exactly what they're doing... they're hiding behind quid pro quo, but in reality that's just another name for "no bid contract". Fighting laws that require openness is stupid... We all know it's cronyism when DoD contractors do this and expect it to be fought. Why is Microsoft any different. THIS is the action that states should have taken years ago instead of crying about anti-trust. Think of it as software "equal opportunity". Almost all states disallow single-source contracts without renegotiation as a matter of rule.. Microsoft is a huge exception to these basic laws as they call "dual source" a choice between Dell or HP for PCs.
In short, we claim to be a country of laws and free trade, but when the govt passes laws requiring at least the govt to make "free trade" of information, they drag the guy though the mud. What happened is a travesty, the guy basicly quit because of Microsoft's harassment, and was found 100% without any wrongdoing or hint of wrongdoing. I'm sure some open source company will pick him up.
And that would be the point of matching. Perhaps I'm a candidate from poor or middle class areas where people can only afford $5 a plate spaghetti dinner put on by volunteers instead of the $1000 a plate designed to "weed out" the "riff-raff". I think we'd see many more interesting candidates if they could know they'd get extra credit for their $5 patrons to make up for other candidates getting $1000 per person. That would let lesser candidates have meaningful grass roots efforts.
exactly, they're still an illegal monopoly... the judge was just "unfairly" harsh. Unfair being repeatedly lied to on the stand, publicly defamed by the same lawyers on multiple occasions. In other words Microsoft's lawyers attacked the judge and not the case... very uncool. If the political winds change, it's entirely possible for the DOJ to put Judge Jackson on the stand in another ruling and wipe Microsoft off the map. This is why the judge in the SCO case is allowing boarderline illegal conduct from SCO... They are being SO AWFUL that the judge is trying to maintain absolute fairness... so that when she brings the hammer down, unlike judge Jackson, her ruling will stick and hurt really bad... and get increased on appeal!!!
the findings were upheld, only the punishment was recinded. It's been said before, Judge Jackson was publicly baited into those comments and the court said it "looked" like he was unduly harsh because of the comments... they upheld ALL of his actual legal findings, but it delayed punishment long enough for the administration to change and the DOJ to get packed with suckers. Microsoft's lawyers were publicly commenting on the judges "handling" of the case outside court.. they were directly attacking the judges character outside court.. it was very bad form for the lawyers involved. Remember, the current panel overseeing Microsoft is less than happy with their performance of the recinded judgment and asked for more years... if the winds of politics changed all the cards are still on the table to break Microsoft up. It's a matter of Will not Law...very sad.