Yes, but they don't hand out root access to the universities machines, and if they're wise they minimise the number of people with root access to any given machine. For example a computer lab will have a small team responsible for it but the people in that team won't have root access to the machines in the library. The central records database will have a dedicated admin and so on.
Why would non technical users have root access in a commercial environment. Not even management should have such access, beyond being able to get the password from a sealed package in a safe in an emergency, and then only with checks to ensure that no one can withdraw it without authority. No system is secure unless the root password is restricted to the admin that needs to use it, and ideally that should be a single person.
Notice I said personal emails, that means they are not business emails. If you worked for me I would fire you for lacking basic english comprehension skills. You'll also note, if you take the time to read the post, that the original submitter was talking about a personal email.
Because I want iTunes to fail, I resent people that are gullible enough to pay more than the price of a cd track for a lossy compressed drm crippled track, and fear where the success of such a product might lead. I also have nothing but contempt for people who believe that it is OK for a vendor to control the use of a product after they have sold it. Your behaviour threaten my aspirations, so don't expect any sympathy from me when mine threatens yours.
The type of memory being considered here is distinct from short term memory. Working memory is used for things like holding a phone number in your head while you dial it, or recognising the difference between two phrases in a tune. We can hold a small amount of one type of thing in working memory at a time, a number, a sentence, an image and so on. As soon as a new piece of data enters working memory the previous piece of data is lost.
Working memory is used in problem solving, hence the link with intelligence. For example, people who can hold nine digits in working memory will tend to be better at doing calculations than those that have a digit span of five. Short term memory holds a lot more than working memory and can be recalled, or in your case not.
This is definitely a good thing. As companies learn that they can't use GPL'ed code in violation of it terms, hopefully they will start to gravitate away from GPL'ed code in favor of code under Berkeley-style licenses.
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I disapprove of the FSF's goals and hope more people will join me. The FSF may "free" the software but at the expense of it's authors.
Spot on the authors would have been much more protected if they had used a BSD license. Oh wait...
The obvious culprit is anyone with means, motive and opportunity. Until such time as the person responsible is caught, (unlikely I know), speculation is pointless. I wasn't saying the RIAA did it. I was saying the are as likely to have done it as a random script kiddie, and the point of the troll was to get people to argue the toss about who they think is responsible, based on nothing more than private prejudices.
The post doesn't say it, but it definitely insinuates that the nefarious RIAA and possibly the BSA is behind this latest worm.
The post insinuates nothing of the sort, it just states what the trojan does. You jumped to that conclusion all by yourself.
Unfortunately, that kind of knee-jerk reaction is counterproductive to finding the real virus spreaders.
As is assuming that respectable business organisations are beyond suspicion. Especially when one of these organisations is on record as wanting immunity from prosecution if it does use such tactics. But then again you were just trolling weren't you.
Reusing your own code is stealing? You'd freak if you saw someone reusing their own code? You can be truly glad I don't work for you, as I can assure I wouldn't put up with your tantrums, and if you called me a theif for reusing my own code you'd be soon know the error of your ways.
However, as a psychologist, I know that punishment, by definition, reduces or eliminates the target behavior.
Nitpick time, the word punishment predates behaviourism and any domain specific definition of the word. Anyway, as you know positive reinforcement is a stronger conditioner of behaviour than negative reinforcement. A fine to Microsoft only reduces the extent they are rewarded for their bad bahaviour, and so has little or no effect.
The problem is that regulatory bodies take so long to act that by the time they do the behaviour is already determined. I wouldn't jail Gates, but I would remove his personal fortune. Further since he has shown himself to be an unfit person to run a company I would ban him from any such position.
You remember correctly but have been misinformed. The colonists were probably the least taxed people in history, even the infamous taxed tea cost less than smuggled tea. The tax issue was just a hook on which to hang unspecified grievances. The real issue of contention was the colonists wanted to expand westward and the British didn't want to go to war with the native peoples.
Looks like the moderators are on crack again, because when I first read that post my thought was: nonsense exporting data is usually trivial. Even when data is held in undocumented proprietary binary files there is usually an option to export to something that can be manipulated. The hard part is reimplementing databases, spreadsheets and so on, but that's mostly straight implementation as you already have a proven design.
Of course things may be harder if you use an esoteric 3D design package with its own format, so your question seemed spot on to me.
How the fuck did they cheat, they didn't interfere with the wheel, they didn't fix the result, they just found a way of predicting the result. Good on them, now if the casino wants to change their rules to take account of this that's their prerogative, but if they want to do so retrospectively or mid session then fuck them.
The cost of office license is simply not an issue; maybe we r lucky there; the 350 bucks per person once every three or four years is just not a biggie
But there is a lot of downside to open office swithc. For instance, I tried the word program last night, and it took me 5 minutes to figure out the dic feature for docs; multiply that by 200 features, over our company, we would probably go out of biz if we swithced to open office, due to loss of time.
5 * 200 = 1000, 1000 / 60 16 hours, i.e. about two working days or a one time cost of about 350 bucks. That means the switch would be cost free with future savings.
I tried OO a while ago, a few Word documents did not translate well, and it seemed too slow. At one point during testing it crashed on me. Since it was a while ago, I intend to try it again. However it will have to be very stable. It should also be noted that like PDF, MS Word documents are a bit of an industrial standard with everyone sending them in email attachments expecting you to be able to deal with them. This is another sticking point... can OO's compatibility be guaranteed with MS Word? I doubt the UI training will be an issue.
Since almost all compatability problems are in viewing MS O documents in OO the problem could be solved by keeping a few copies of MS O to deal with those occasions. (Plucking figures out the air) - say one in twenty documents have minor formatting problems and one in a hundred are garbled, such a strategy would solve the problem. If OO produced garbled MS O files then the problem would be far greater but AFAIK this is not the case.
Remember there are usually compatability problems between various versions of MS O and at some stage you will have to upgrade from a 2000 standard, so by sticking with MS O you at best delay migration problems, you can't avoid them. Just my 2c worth.
The GDP of the United States currently stands at just under 11 trillion dollars. So does the total, combined GDP of all the member states of the EU. Which of course does not include Sweden, Denmark or the UK
Actually these countries are EU, but not Eurozone. However the odd trillion dollars here or there is not my point. My point is that the US used to be so far ahead of other economies that it was dominant, but now the EU is integrated enough and big enough that it is a serious rival to the US economy. In recent years there have been a few trade disputes between the two and the EU have won more than they have lost. Instead of the US being the dominant world economy we now have two superpower economies, and that changes things.
If Windows XP sells for $300 in the US then it sells for E200 in Switzerland and that's the end of that.... So it's disingeniuos to claim that the EU is Microsoft's "biggest market" - that would mean that they sell 80% of all their stuff there, because you're conveniently ignoring Asia, Africa, Latin America and the US markets. I'd be willing to bet instead that the US market (consumer + corporate + government) alone probably represents more than 1/2 of Microsoft's total revenue.
The reason why Europe is so important to MS revenues is that their prices have been higher in Europe than in the States. The recent devaluation of the dollar is likely to increase that difference in the short term. Most other markets are either much smaller in volume or low prices mean low revenue. I don't know the exact proportion of its revenue that MS derives from the EU but I do remember it as being over 40%, and bigger than that from the US. It's not the majority of MS revenues but it is the biggest single slice.
You can bet that MS would be willing to go to such extreme's as pulling out of the EU market rather than supply the source.
This is the third time I've had to correct this piece of silliness, here we go again. If they pull out of Europe they lose nearly half of all their revenue. Europe is by far their biggest market. They would also at a stroke cease to have a monoploly on the world's desktops. It just aint gonna happen.
as soon as the EU tries to force their hand, it becomes an EU vs US thing (guess who will win that battle).
If recent form is any guide this would be a shoe in for the EU. The US may be the only military superpower, but they are no longer the dominant economy.
people want this software
Actually people use the software that the content provider determines that they do. If it's in Real they use Real if Quicktime they use Quicktime and so on. Most consumers just use the most heavily promoted product that works with the format they need to view.
Nearly half of all MS revenues come from Europe, and they only have a monopoly supply of their software as long as EU governments say so. An MS embargo of Europe is a non starter.
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You mean like John the Ripper?
Yes, but they don't hand out root access to the universities machines, and if they're wise they minimise the number of people with root access to any given machine. For example a computer lab will have a small team responsible for it but the people in that team won't have root access to the machines in the library. The central records database will have a dedicated admin and so on.
Why would non technical users have root access in a commercial environment. Not even management should have such access, beyond being able to get the password from a sealed package in a safe in an emergency, and then only with checks to ensure that no one can withdraw it without authority. No system is secure unless the root password is restricted to the admin that needs to use it, and ideally that should be a single person.
Would you trust the oil supply for your armed forces to a foreign country?
Interesting question, I wonder how an iraqi would answer it.
I'd also suspect that corporations have a moral sense that freeloading is not a viable long-term plan.
Thankyou for your unique perspective of corporate morality.
How else can you take the term 'raised from the dead'?
Dug up.
Notice I said personal emails, that means they are not business emails. If you worked for me I would fire you for lacking basic english comprehension skills. You'll also note, if you take the time to read the post, that the original submitter was talking about a personal email.
For personal emails I accept plain text emails only, any thing else I just delete. If it is important enough they'll get back to me.
Because I want iTunes to fail, I resent people that are gullible enough to pay more than the price of a cd track for a lossy compressed drm crippled track, and fear where the success of such a product might lead. I also have nothing but contempt for people who believe that it is OK for a vendor to control the use of a product after they have sold it. Your behaviour threaten my aspirations, so don't expect any sympathy from me when mine threatens yours.
The type of memory being considered here is distinct from short term memory. Working memory is used for things like holding a phone number in your head while you dial it, or recognising the difference between two phrases in a tune. We can hold a small amount of one type of thing in working memory at a time, a number, a sentence, an image and so on. As soon as a new piece of data enters working memory the previous piece of data is lost.
Working memory is used in problem solving, hence the link with intelligence. For example, people who can hold nine digits in working memory will tend to be better at doing calculations than those that have a digit span of five. Short term memory holds a lot more than working memory and can be recalled, or in your case not.
This is definitely a good thing. As companies learn that they can't use GPL'ed code in violation of it terms, hopefully they will start to gravitate away from GPL'ed code in favor of code under Berkeley-style licenses.
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I disapprove of the FSF's goals and hope more people will join me. The FSF may "free" the software but at the expense of it's authors.
Spot on the authors would have been much more protected if they had used a BSD license. Oh wait ...
The obvious culprit is anyone with means, motive and opportunity. Until such time as the person responsible is caught, (unlikely I know), speculation is pointless. I wasn't saying the RIAA did it. I was saying the are as likely to have done it as a random script kiddie, and the point of the troll was to get people to argue the toss about who they think is responsible, based on nothing more than private prejudices.
The post doesn't say it, but it definitely insinuates that the nefarious RIAA and possibly the BSA is behind this latest worm.
The post insinuates nothing of the sort, it just states what the trojan does. You jumped to that conclusion all by yourself.
Unfortunately, that kind of knee-jerk reaction is counterproductive to finding the real virus spreaders.
As is assuming that respectable business organisations are beyond suspicion. Especially when one of these organisations is on record as wanting immunity from prosecution if it does use such tactics. But then again you were just trolling weren't you.
Reusing your own code is stealing? You'd freak if you saw someone reusing their own code? You can be truly glad I don't work for you, as I can assure I wouldn't put up with your tantrums, and if you called me a theif for reusing my own code you'd be soon know the error of your ways.
However, as a psychologist, I know that punishment, by definition, reduces or eliminates the target behavior.
Nitpick time, the word punishment predates behaviourism and any domain specific definition of the word. Anyway, as you know positive reinforcement is a stronger conditioner of behaviour than negative reinforcement. A fine to Microsoft only reduces the extent they are rewarded for their bad bahaviour, and so has little or no effect.
The problem is that regulatory bodies take so long to act that by the time they do the behaviour is already determined. I wouldn't jail Gates, but I would remove his personal fortune. Further since he has shown himself to be an unfit person to run a company I would ban him from any such position.
Nicely put, I stand corrected.
You remember correctly but have been misinformed. The colonists were probably the least taxed people in history, even the infamous taxed tea cost less than smuggled tea. The tax issue was just a hook on which to hang unspecified grievances. The real issue of contention was the colonists wanted to expand westward and the British didn't want to go to war with the native peoples.
Looks like the moderators are on crack again, because when I first read that post my thought was: nonsense exporting data is usually trivial. Even when data is held in undocumented proprietary binary files there is usually an option to export to something that can be manipulated. The hard part is reimplementing databases, spreadsheets and so on, but that's mostly straight implementation as you already have a proven design.
Of course things may be harder if you use an esoteric 3D design package with its own format, so your question seemed spot on to me.
How the fuck did they cheat, they didn't interfere with the wheel, they didn't fix the result, they just found a way of predicting the result. Good on them, now if the casino wants to change their rules to take account of this that's their prerogative, but if they want to do so retrospectively or mid session then fuck them.
The cost of office license is simply not an issue; maybe we r lucky there; the 350 bucks per person once every three or four years is just not a biggie But there is a lot of downside to open office swithc. For instance, I tried the word program last night, and it took me 5 minutes to figure out the dic feature for docs; multiply that by 200 features, over our company, we would probably go out of biz if we swithced to open office, due to loss of time.
5 * 200 = 1000, 1000 / 60 16 hours, i.e. about two working days or a one time cost of about 350 bucks. That means the switch would be cost free with future savings.
I tried OO a while ago, a few Word documents did not translate well, and it seemed too slow. At one point during testing it crashed on me. Since it was a while ago, I intend to try it again. However it will have to be very stable. It should also be noted that like PDF, MS Word documents are a bit of an industrial standard with everyone sending them in email attachments expecting you to be able to deal with them. This is another sticking point... can OO's compatibility be guaranteed with MS Word? I doubt the UI training will be an issue.
Since almost all compatability problems are in viewing MS O documents in OO the problem could be solved by keeping a few copies of MS O to deal with those occasions. (Plucking figures out the air) - say one in twenty documents have minor formatting problems and one in a hundred are garbled, such a strategy would solve the problem. If OO produced garbled MS O files then the problem would be far greater but AFAIK this is not the case.
Remember there are usually compatability problems between various versions of MS O and at some stage you will have to upgrade from a 2000 standard, so by sticking with MS O you at best delay migration problems, you can't avoid them. Just my 2c worth.
Computers are a mechanical device and require maintenance to keep running properly.
You have a clockwork computer?
The GDP of the United States currently stands at just under 11 trillion dollars. So does the total, combined GDP of all the member states of the EU. Which of course does not include Sweden, Denmark or the UK
Actually these countries are EU, but not Eurozone. However the odd trillion dollars here or there is not my point. My point is that the US used to be so far ahead of other economies that it was dominant, but now the EU is integrated enough and big enough that it is a serious rival to the US economy. In recent years there have been a few trade disputes between the two and the EU have won more than they have lost. Instead of the US being the dominant world economy we now have two superpower economies, and that changes things.
If Windows XP sells for $300 in the US then it sells for E200 in Switzerland and that's the end of that. ... So it's disingeniuos to claim that the EU is Microsoft's "biggest market" - that would mean that they sell 80% of all their stuff there, because you're conveniently ignoring Asia, Africa, Latin America and the US markets. I'd be willing to bet instead that the US market (consumer + corporate + government) alone probably represents more than 1/2 of Microsoft's total revenue.
The reason why Europe is so important to MS revenues is that their prices have been higher in Europe than in the States. The recent devaluation of the dollar is likely to increase that difference in the short term. Most other markets are either much smaller in volume or low prices mean low revenue. I don't know the exact proportion of its revenue that MS derives from the EU but I do remember it as being over 40%, and bigger than that from the US. It's not the majority of MS revenues but it is the biggest single slice.
You can bet that MS would be willing to go to such extreme's as pulling out of the EU market rather than supply the source.
This is the third time I've had to correct this piece of silliness, here we go again. If they pull out of Europe they lose nearly half of all their revenue. Europe is by far their biggest market. They would also at a stroke cease to have a monoploly on the world's desktops. It just aint gonna happen.
as soon as the EU tries to force their hand, it becomes an EU vs US thing (guess who will win that battle).
If recent form is any guide this would be a shoe in for the EU. The US may be the only military superpower, but they are no longer the dominant economy.
people want this software
Actually people use the software that the content provider determines that they do. If it's in Real they use Real if Quicktime they use Quicktime and so on. Most consumers just use the most heavily promoted product that works with the format they need to view.
Nearly half of all MS revenues come from Europe, and they only have a monopoly supply of their software as long as EU governments say so. An MS embargo of Europe is a non starter.