the popularity of the Internet in China. My in-laws are Chinese, living in Beijing. A coupla years ago, my brother-in-law got a cheap computer and a dial-up connection. Now he's just as much a net addict as the average western user. He uses email constantly, P2P networks, chat, online purchases... you name it. He just an average kinda guy too, not a techie.
It would be foolish for any large (maybe even some small) business to ignore the Chinese market. Give'm too much of a head start and they'll have their own market locked up tight internally.
-- I'm robSlimo, the username is a product of frustration after losing the pwd to RatOmeter.
From the article, According to the company, a response could range from "profiling and blacklisting upstream providers" or it could be escalated to launch a "distributed denial of service counter-strike".
Given that blacklist maintainers have gotten such an unfriendly response from some quarter that they're starting to operate anonymously (google SPEWS for more), launching your own DDoS would put you in deep doo-doo, no matter how white you think your hat is.
Actually, I agree that shell scripting is a powerful tool and well worth understanding. But 'a loan calculator' script? Gee, once you know the formula, a coupla minutes in a spreadsheet will do the trick.
I guess all people, myself included, fall into the hammer/nail trap. I know C very well, so I use it for just about every little app. Hmm... maybe I oughta buy this book.
I agree. I posted the same above, should have looked down further and seen your post first. Heck, I'd have posted it anyway, Grub is funny sometimes, but I had to slap him down on this one.
I write controls software for automated test stands for fluid power component... testing things like valves, cylinders, pumps, motors and in one case, winches that can pull in excess of 150,000 Lbs force. I get chills thinking about the damage one little software fuck-up can do.
To re-iterate, the Therac 25 incidents should be required reading for all programmers.
It's a serious topic, even more so since the over-radiation shit in Panama happened so recently.
The infamous Therac-25 incidents happened between 1985 and 1987 and should be required reading... too bad the three Panamanian medical physicists cited in the article hadn't paid attention to it.
Since 'sued' can apparently mean both (1) a suit was filed and is still pending and (2) a suit was filed and won, I wish they'd improve the wording for clarity.
SCO sued International Business Machines Corp. [...] a year ago
Misleading use of the word 'sued' also.
I've seen this a lot, especially with regard to SCO's actions. Wouldn't the correct usage be SCO filed suit against IBM [...] a year ago?
As stated in the Forbes article, it could be taken to mean that SCO successfully sued IBM... or maybe I'm not as hot at my native language as I thought.
...but I don't want to see the guts of a web form. If I userstand correctly, they're talking about crawling into databases, actually parsing a Microsoft Access file, for instance. I see that as having dubious merit, and potentially pissing of web site owners. Web site designers go to a lot of trouble to provide the interface they want you to see to their data. This would just sidestep the interface and dump you into the data.
It the very least, it might require an overhaul or extension to the robots exclusion specification to keep spiders out of your data.
In my experience the wiki, there are usually enough conscientious contributors that wiki trolling and pure bullcrap get taken care of pretty quickly.
In this example I (RatOmeter) added a section to 'Batteries' and 16 whole minutes later, someone (Heron) came by and cleaned up some mis-abbreviations I used: Batteries
As Sun has already stated (in response to criticisms) that they have no problem with someone working up an Open Source version, as long as the spec is adhered to. Now someone with serious manpower is offering to do exactly that.
I'm not surprised at all. Quite pleased, actually.
I guess I haven't bothered to track back much of my incoming spam lately. A couple of years ago, I tried to find the origin for each spam I received and, at the time, they mostly came from China, Korea, and S. American countries from ill configured computers running as open relays.
I guess, with the 'spam mafia' installing these zombies on Grandma's computer, the countries with the largest population of lusers online will be the larger sources of spam.
I don't think this will be the Big Test (how much legal weight can Fyodor swing if SCO violates his decree?), but it may be the first of many similar actions that, collectively, might get something done.
Are there other popular open source products whose authors can agree to make a similar statement?
Searching news.google.com on "collective licensing" turned up this bit of news from yesterday:
Senators Ron Wyden and John Ensign... called a meeting in Washington today encouraging the music industry and a new trade group for file-swapping companies to find a resolution.
as with ASCAP, etc in the radio market, I'd say it wasn't possible. With that precedent in mind, I think it (or something similar) will happen, just not very quickly because of the politics involved.
1. RIAA is busy [over]reacting to file-sharing 2. RIAA will never be able to stop file-sharing 3. There's gotta be a compromise. Maybe this is it.
Normally, I don't case squat for these case mods, nor do I get too excited about Star Trek, but this time I've gotta hand it to them... that is a work of art!
Geez. I've got voicemail too, but I'm expected to check while on the road and while at home on weekends. I suspect my boss checks it too... can't afford to have "mailbox full." Also have a cell phone, a wireless phone (so you can reach me when I'm at work, but not at my desk). I've got 3 work email accounts for which I'm responsible.
Used to be I only had to deal with the phone when I was there to hear it ring. Now I've got interruptions every few minutes. Not being able to keep my train of thought is *very* stressing.
My first big hack was tearing into my radio shack scanning receiver and interfacing the serially programmed PLL tuner IC to the parallel printer port of a PC. Gave my cheapo 8 channel scanner an infinite channel memory and other features.
I've also interfaced a "radio controlled clock" to a PC to automagically set the exact time.
Itanium that they bought and rebranded from HP (formerly the PA-RISC)
It wasn't exactly that way. It was a joint venture, of sorts, that was supposed to take the best of HP's PA-RISC, expand upon it as a totally revamped approach. For various reasons, such as gelding the poor beast before it really hit silicon, it was a techno-flop. Just didn't work out like it was supposed to.
but micheal beat me to the punch. I'm not sure whether Torvalds was complaining about Intel not coming out with a ready admission "We had to follow AMD because they got there first" or complaining about programmers missing the (in hindsight, at least) obvious conclusion that Intel would make a Howitzer-size hole in their clean-room booties by not going with the AMD flow.
I probably would wind up getting sued. I guess you have to have a business plan to be able to jam signals without fear of prosecution (mostly kidding here).
It does seem like a reasonable application but, as the story says, isn't intended to address the broad range of objections. Still, protecting privacy of medical information is a step in the right direction... and what's to prevent me from applying it elsewise?
Slashdot Mirror
(1) search all webpages (all languages)
(2) search Chinese webpages
(3) search (simplified) Chinese webpages
I think the last one refers to the simplified written dialect.
the popularity of the Internet in China. My in-laws are Chinese, living in Beijing. A coupla years ago, my brother-in-law got a cheap computer and a dial-up connection. Now he's just as much a net addict as the average western user. He uses email constantly, P2P networks, chat, online purchases... you name it. He just an average kinda guy too, not a techie.
It would be foolish for any large (maybe even some small) business to ignore the Chinese market. Give'm too much of a head start and they'll have their own market locked up tight internally.
--
I'm robSlimo, the username is a product of frustration after losing the pwd to RatOmeter.
Agreed.
From the article, According to the company, a response could range from "profiling and blacklisting upstream providers" or it could be escalated to launch a "distributed denial of service counter-strike".
Given that blacklist maintainers have gotten such an unfriendly response from some quarter that they're starting to operate anonymously (google SPEWS for more), launching your own DDoS would put you in deep doo-doo, no matter how white you think your hat is.
-RatOmeter
...everything looks like a nail
Actually, I agree that shell scripting is a powerful tool and well worth understanding. But 'a loan calculator' script? Gee, once you know the formula, a coupla minutes in a spreadsheet will do the trick.
I guess all people, myself included, fall into the hammer/nail trap. I know C very well, so I use it for just about every little app. Hmm... maybe I oughta buy this book.
-RatOmeter
Sounds like they're taking heed of Google's success in attaining blazing search speeds by holding all the data in RAM.
See here.
I agree. I posted the same above, should have looked down further and seen your post first. Heck, I'd have posted it anyway, Grub is funny sometimes, but I had to slap him down on this one.
I write controls software for automated test stands for fluid power component... testing things like valves, cylinders, pumps, motors and in one case, winches that can pull in excess of 150,000 Lbs force. I get chills thinking about the damage one little software fuck-up can do.
To re-iterate, the Therac 25 incidents should be required reading for all programmers.
The Therac
Ha, ha.
It's a serious topic, even more so since the over-radiation shit in Panama happened so recently.
The infamous Therac-25 incidents happened between 1985 and 1987 and should be required reading... too bad the three Panamanian medical physicists cited in the article hadn't paid attention to it.
Point taken, thanks.
Since 'sued' can apparently mean both (1) a suit was filed and is still pending and (2) a suit was filed and won, I wish they'd improve the wording for clarity.
SCO sued International Business Machines Corp. [...] a year ago
Misleading use of the word 'sued' also.
I've seen this a lot, especially with regard to SCO's actions. Wouldn't the correct usage be SCO filed suit against IBM [...] a year ago?
As stated in the Forbes article, it could be taken to mean that SCO successfully sued IBM... or maybe I'm not as hot at my native language as I thought.
...but I don't want to see the guts of a web form. If I userstand correctly, they're talking about crawling into databases, actually parsing a Microsoft Access file, for instance. I see that as having dubious merit, and potentially pissing of web site owners. Web site designers go to a lot of trouble to provide the interface they want you to see to their data. This would just sidestep the interface and dump you into the data.
It the very least, it might require an overhaul or extension to the robots exclusion specification to keep spiders out of your data.
In my experience the wiki, there are usually enough conscientious contributors that wiki trolling and pure bullcrap get taken care of pretty quickly.
In this example I (RatOmeter) added a section to 'Batteries' and 16 whole minutes later, someone (Heron) came by and cleaned up some mis-abbreviations I used: Batteries
Given the quirks of babelfish and similar, I hope poor, mangled machine translations don't cause more negative incidents than they prevent.
As Sun has already stated (in response to criticisms) that they have no problem with someone working up an Open Source version, as long as the spec is adhered to. Now someone with serious manpower is offering to do exactly that.
I'm not surprised at all. Quite pleased, actually.
I guess I haven't bothered to track back much of my incoming spam lately. A couple of years ago, I tried to find the origin for each spam I received and, at the time, they mostly came from China, Korea, and S. American countries from ill configured computers running as open relays.
I guess, with the 'spam mafia' installing these zombies on Grandma's computer, the countries with the largest population of lusers online will be the larger sources of spam.
I don't think this will be the Big Test (how much legal weight can Fyodor swing if SCO violates his decree?), but it may be the first of many similar actions that, collectively, might get something done.
Are there other popular open source products whose authors can agree to make a similar statement?
[the RIAA]summarily dismissed the EFF's proposal as too "drastic"
Article here
Searching news.google.com on "collective licensing" turned up this bit of news from yesterday:
... called a meeting in Washington today encouraging the music industry and a new trade group for file-swapping companies to find a resolution.
Senators Ron Wyden and John Ensign
The article is here
Also found was this where the RIAA has responded to the EFF proposal, saying [the RIAA]summarily dismissed the EFF's proposal as too "drastic"
as with ASCAP, etc in the radio market, I'd say it wasn't possible. With that precedent in mind, I think it (or something similar) will happen, just not very quickly because of the politics involved.
1. RIAA is busy [over]reacting to file-sharing
2. RIAA will never be able to stop file-sharing
3. There's gotta be a compromise. Maybe this is it.
Normally, I don't case squat for these case mods, nor do I get too excited about Star Trek, but this time I've gotta hand it to them... that is a work of art!
Geez. I've got voicemail too, but I'm expected to check while on the road and while at home on weekends. I suspect my boss checks it too... can't afford to have "mailbox full." Also have a cell phone, a wireless phone (so you can reach me when I'm at work, but not at my desk). I've got 3 work email accounts for which I'm responsible.
Used to be I only had to deal with the phone when I was there to hear it ring. Now I've got interruptions every few minutes. Not being able to keep my train of thought is *very* stressing.
I bumbled the second URL in my earlier post. The URL works but it should read "convert a box fan motor into a permanent magnet alternator"
My first big hack was tearing into my radio shack scanning receiver and interfacing the serially programmed PLL tuner IC to the parallel printer port of a PC. Gave my cheapo 8 channel scanner an infinite channel memory and other features.
I've also interfaced a "radio controlled clock" to a PC to automagically set the exact time.
Turned an old CD-ROM drive into a hand-powered LED toy for my son.
Latest interesting project was to convert a box fan motor into a permanent magnet for use in a wind generator... that hasn't worked out too well so far.
Itanium that they bought and rebranded from HP (formerly the PA-RISC)
It wasn't exactly that way. It was a joint venture, of sorts, that was supposed to take the best of HP's PA-RISC, expand upon it as a totally revamped approach. For various reasons, such as gelding the poor beast before it really hit silicon, it was a techno-flop. Just didn't work out like it was supposed to.
but micheal beat me to the punch. I'm not sure whether Torvalds was complaining about Intel not coming out with a ready admission "We had to follow AMD because they got there first" or complaining about programmers missing the (in hindsight, at least) obvious conclusion that Intel would make a Howitzer-size hole in their clean-room booties by not going with the AMD flow.
I probably would wind up getting sued. I guess you have to have a business plan to be able to jam signals without fear of prosecution (mostly kidding here).
It does seem like a reasonable application but, as the story says, isn't intended to address the broad range of objections. Still, protecting privacy of medical information is a step in the right direction... and what's to prevent me from applying it elsewise?