The point you are missing is that eBay isnt allowing them to 'fish' in the database. They have an entire department, working for eBay, that does the fishing for them. You *did* read the article, didnt you?
This means that eBay retains complete oversight as to what the police are doing, and why they are doing it. It is working with the police, not against them, and I am sure they will no more allow a police officer to abuse their service than any other customer. In this essence, they guard the guards. At least, thats what I took out of the article.
I hardly think that Gates has any control over how the OS develops. From what I have read, he is a good leader- ie, somebody who hires experts and then expects them to make decisions in their field of expertise.
What is interesting is that this article has probably been posted on/. about 5 million times. One would wonder if the editors actually read this e-rag.
Privacy? What privacy are you sacraficing? You are basically saying the eBay has no right to actively pursue punishing people who use their service for theft. I dont see that the two are mutually exclusive.
Quite to the contrary, I think its responsible and good. Its like saying Best Buy shouldnt have security guards, or hidden cameras, because you should have the right to put CDs in your pockets. Hey, your hands got tired, right?
Go spend some time researching getting robbed, and tell me how fun it is.
Im sure the thousands of people who got ripped off with purchases on eBay would agree with this stuff. But I wouldnt expect a bunch of habitual complainers to understand.
wow, its nice to see someone working to help open-source without sounding like a zealot. I guess thats why he is out ther getting things done, and a lot of other people are typing baseless complaints into an internet forum.
Saying that Microsoft has illegal monopoly on XBox is like saying that Dell has illegal monopoly on Dell-brand computers:) Of course MS has 100% market share of XBox consoles:)
I believe this issue came up in the courts. If I remember correctly, Nintendo was suing somebody for making NES games without their blessing.
If anyone can find out about this, post a link; I would do it, but I have to get to work.
So basically, if eBay doesnt do this kind of thing, they become a place where people can go to get ripped off, and if they do they are somehow violating people's right to steal.
Quoted from article: September 1990, truly, was the turning point for Windows NT. Not coincidentally, that's also when Dave Thompson, previously heading Microsoft's LANMAN for OS/2 3.1 advanced development team, joined the NT team. "We threw the switch," Thompson told us, "and the team went from 28 to about 300 people. We had our first real product plan."
So this is why NetBIOS in NT (basically LANMAN) has a cobbled-on feel to it. Because it was.
the Netware port was strategic. Novell was ambivalent about the NT desktop - they didn't know if they wanted to build a client. We offered our assistance, but they kept messing around and... well. We did our own. And it just blew them away. Ours was the better Netware client, and customers used ours for years, even after they finally did one. That client enabled the NT desktop, because Netware was the prevalent server in the market. We wouldn't have been able to sell NT desktops otherwise."
This was how things worked (or didnt work, as the case may be) back then. Each company was jealously protecting their market share, their 'turf', if you will, any way they could.
MS was the only one who went in for interoperability, that that is why they won the desktop wars- because they were the only ones to fight that battle. While others, like OS2 and Apple, were working to protect their own market share and keep it running on their own hardware, MS was making an OS that had the potential to connect with anything else, on potentially any hardware.
"NT 3.51 was a very unrewarding release," Thompson said, contrasting it with Daytona. "After Daytona was completed, we basically sat around for 9 months fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware. But because of this, NT 3.51 was a solid release, and our customers loved it." NT 3.51 eventually shipped in May 1995.
most people today view NT3.51 as the first 'real' version of NT. In fact, you can still find it in use today. I remember years ago we experimented with IBM's new (at the time) "network PCs", which were the first real attempt at a PC thin-client. It ran on NT3.51 and could run MS Office 97; this was maybe a year or more before NT4 Terminal Server Edition came out. We never really went for it, because the costs of buying one big server and the thin client machines never worked out to a cost savings. It would have been cheaper in terms of support, however, but thats what happens when accountants run IT departments.
, Windows 2000 didn't have a codename "because Jim Allchin didn't like codenames," Thompson says.
LOL, I still occasionally call it NT5. Is that a codename?
Another major thing that people ignore when they bash NT is that, given the history of OSs, making a modular component OS was very new thinking at the time. The quote in part one, where he says why they didnt develop for 1386 and it would have hurt their longterm prospects for short term performance, was really what prevailing logic of the time was about. The OSs were very much tied to the architecture of the machine they were running on.
Unfortunately, for various reasone, they didnt end up making Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs, as they are called) for different OSs after a while, but the groundwork and ability to do so is still there. I would imagine the reason they dont make Alpha versions of current NT OSs is due to either legal difficulties in doing so, or because the support costs would outweigh the income gained.
There was an article on this elsewhere (I think news.com.com.com.com). It basically said that there was nothing really preventing another 9/11 from happening again, mainly because airlines for incoming flights are still very poorly secured.
Thus, instead of hijacking the plane from a US airport, just 'jack one from Honduras or wherever, and crash it into a building on the way into a US airport.
Very true. And not only that, but a lot of the legacy services, such as sendmail, have their security holes buried so deeply that the only recourse is to not use them. That is why there are many alternatives to sendmail, ssh, etc; when you need to replace something, many people put their own 'spin' on it.
For a really good look at how hacking had to be done back in the day, go rent "Wargames". While factually incorrect on several things, the scene where he was wardialing was very much correct.
The percentage of companies allowing any kind of outside access to their system was much less than 1%, and it was mainly used for inter-site communication.
Email? largely unknown at the time.
Message bases? We would call up the local BBS and use their message base; essentially a forum like any other, but a much smaller user base. A really successful BBS would have a whopping hundred or so members!
Anyway, I could continue on the 'back in my day' speach, but I need to save material for future posts =)
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A. Tank badly and never be made, or
B. Be released, but suck really bad
On the good side, it will probably be free. I'll go back to playing WC3, a game with really good production values.
I heard if an atom reaches absolute zero, its electrons will fall off
Even venture capital runs out, eventally.
This means that eBay retains complete oversight as to what the police are doing, and why they are doing it. It is working with the police, not against them, and I am sure they will no more allow a police officer to abuse their service than any other customer. In this essence, they guard the guards. At least, thats what I took out of the article.
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Too bad I have no mod points. I laughed like hell at that one
Im still waiting for a slashdot post to try and roast Gates for not creating Internet Explorer in Windows 2.0
you are partially correct. Nobody reads anything except the headlines, and figures out how to bash microsoft according in their posts.
What is interesting is that this article has probably been posted on /. about 5 million times. One would wonder if the editors actually read this e-rag.
choose the Inspiron 6250C
My cat's breath smells like cat food
Quite to the contrary, I think its responsible and good. Its like saying Best Buy shouldnt have security guards, or hidden cameras, because you should have the right to put CDs in your pockets. Hey, your hands got tired, right?
Go spend some time researching getting robbed, and tell me how fun it is. Im sure the thousands of people who got ripped off with purchases on eBay would agree with this stuff. But I wouldnt expect a bunch of habitual complainers to understand.
for the money you save on the Dell, go join a gym
The only thing is, you have to pay Micro$oft tax on the less expensive, more powerful computer. Oh, the pain! You get a better computer for less!
So it looks like now Linux is joining Apple in making weak, overpriced machines. Now Linus should focus on getting a hardware platorm to monopolize.
Dell Inspiron 2650C 1.6Ghz Laptop with 14.1" TFT and 256MB RAM for $594.15 Shipped Free
wow, its nice to see someone working to help open-source without sounding like a zealot. I guess thats why he is out ther getting things done, and a lot of other people are typing baseless complaints into an internet forum.
I believe this issue came up in the courts. If I remember correctly, Nintendo was suing somebody for making NES games without their blessing.
If anyone can find out about this, post a link; I would do it, but I have to get to work.
Im all for letting the guilty get punished.
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Either that, or Rush Limbaugh is plugging his website.
So this is why NetBIOS in NT (basically LANMAN) has a cobbled-on feel to it. Because it was.
the Netware port was strategic. Novell was ambivalent about the NT desktop - they didn't know if they wanted to build a client. We offered our assistance, but they kept messing around and ... well. We did our own. And it just blew them away. Ours was the better Netware client, and customers used ours for years, even after they finally did one. That client enabled the NT desktop, because Netware was the prevalent server in the market. We wouldn't have been able to sell NT desktops otherwise."
This was how things worked (or didnt work, as the case may be) back then. Each company was jealously protecting their market share, their 'turf', if you will, any way they could.
MS was the only one who went in for interoperability, that that is why they won the desktop wars- because they were the only ones to fight that battle. While others, like OS2 and Apple, were working to protect their own market share and keep it running on their own hardware, MS was making an OS that had the potential to connect with anything else, on potentially any hardware.
"NT 3.51 was a very unrewarding release," Thompson said, contrasting it with Daytona. "After Daytona was completed, we basically sat around for 9 months fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware. But because of this, NT 3.51 was a solid release, and our customers loved it." NT 3.51 eventually shipped in May 1995.
most people today view NT3.51 as the first 'real' version of NT. In fact, you can still find it in use today. I remember years ago we experimented with IBM's new (at the time) "network PCs", which were the first real attempt at a PC thin-client. It ran on NT3.51 and could run MS Office 97; this was maybe a year or more before NT4 Terminal Server Edition came out. We never really went for it, because the costs of buying one big server and the thin client machines never worked out to a cost savings. It would have been cheaper in terms of support, however, but thats what happens when accountants run IT departments.
, Windows 2000 didn't have a codename "because Jim Allchin didn't like codenames," Thompson says.
LOL, I still occasionally call it NT5. Is that a codename?
Unfortunately, for various reasone, they didnt end up making Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs, as they are called) for different OSs after a while, but the groundwork and ability to do so is still there. I would imagine the reason they dont make Alpha versions of current NT OSs is due to either legal difficulties in doing so, or because the support costs would outweigh the income gained.
Thus, instead of hijacking the plane from a US airport, just 'jack one from Honduras or wherever, and crash it into a building on the way into a US airport.
For a really good look at how hacking had to be done back in the day, go rent "Wargames". While factually incorrect on several things, the scene where he was wardialing was very much correct.
The percentage of companies allowing any kind of outside access to their system was much less than 1%, and it was mainly used for inter-site communication.
Email? largely unknown at the time.
Message bases? We would call up the local BBS and use their message base; essentially a forum like any other, but a much smaller user base. A really successful BBS would have a whopping hundred or so members!
Anyway, I could continue on the 'back in my day' speach, but I need to save material for future posts =)