Yeah, I saw their homepage link to http://help.monster.com/besafe/email/, but I thought that was a general "don't respond to phishing email" warning. It doesn't give any indication that it's something they put up specifically to address this. Mind you, looking back at monster.com in the wayback machine, they don't appear to have had that link on their homepage back on 14 June.
The story's all over the media and the internet, Symantec has a blog post and a virus writeup, and what's on the front page of Monster? Not a damn thing. No "your personal info may have been stolen", "hey, yeah, that data breach thing, we're looking into it", no acknowledgement of any kind. Their press page contains bulletins about the Monster Employment Index and their top ten workplace etiquette tips. Looks like we're going to see another good example of how not to handle negative press related to a security issue.
I think that the writing was on the wall for SCO long, long before this lawsuit got under way. The company I was working at back in 2000 had a number of boxes running SCO, presumably because they needed a *nix that ran on Intel x86 hardware. I remember looking through the godawful tangle of symlinks that was SCO's/etc directory and wondering why anybody would pay for it when the Debian build on my desktop seemed a lot more robust and did a better job of meeting my needs, for free. Seems I wasn't the only person thinking this.
No, a discreet GPU is one that doesn't go around telling anybody that you've been using it to render porn. There's probably a substantial market for GPUs like that, as opposed to the ones that go blabbing about your browsing habits to all their friends.
Interestingly, the Supreme Court of Canada just released a
decision
that cuts the opposite way. The Court upheld the "binding arbitration" clauses that many companies put in their various contracts and agreements. This essentially shields them from class actions, since disputes have to go to arbitration instead of the courts.
Since the matters involved in these cases actually took place, two provinces (Ontario and Quebec) have passed consumer protection laws (probably similar to Washington's) that protect consumers' ability to sue as a class. More jurisdictions need to step up to the plate and do the same.
For what it is worth, most of the provisions of the Act require a specific order from the Attorney General. I found it interesting that the Helms-Burton Act is specifically mentioned, though:
Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996
7.1 Any judgment given under the law of the United States entitled Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 shall not be recognized or enforceable in any manner in Canada.
Your microcam/mike/earpiece setup idea is bang on. Ten years ago (ten years!) when I was in, a few arty batteries tried the microradio thing. They picked up a bunch of cheap-ass headset radios from Radio Shack, and used it for passing bearings, communicating during firefights...all the kind of stuff we'd usually be yelling back and forth for. The things weren't high-tech, weren't encrypted, in fact they weren't even waterproof as shipped, but almost everybody still thought they were the best things since sliced bread. They weighed next to nothing, were easy to use, and didn't require taking your hands or eyes off anything. That's what you call "appropriate technology".
One thing that was glossed over quite a bit in the article from the Beeb is that the US is actually launching two WTO complaints about China. The CBC article says
On Monday, the U.S. government said it would file two WTO cases contending that Beijing's lax enforcement of trademark and copyright rules violates WTO rules and that China is unfairly blocking sales of U.S. movies, music and books.
It figures -- first they complain that the Chinese aren't selling enough US movies, music, and books. Then when they find a way to start selling them by the truckload, the US complains about that too. =)
OK, so I don't own a Windoze box, but they have a web-based service called ThankBand -- you upload an MP3 file and it (supposedly) tells you where to buy the music. I've got some J-Pop tracks lying around that I've never been able to figure out the artists for, so I go and give it a shot -- the songs had filenames like f12dac3oiawj9ret.mp3 and I can't seem to get any search hits for the bits of the lyrics I can make out.
Uploaded file: (j-pop)unknown - unknown.mp3
Unknown Road
Mission Top Secret, Destination Unknown
Deep Unknown 2 - (10:45)
Hrmph. Well, no surprise, that one's a bit obscure. Let's try something slightly more widely known:
Uploaded file: (DDR)King Kong & D. Jungle Girls - Boom Boom Dollar.mp3
Yeah, that's what I figured. Come on, guys; the motive is laudable, but any dumbass can go and type a filename into Google. To get a mention on the front page of Slashdot, you should really have to do better than that.
The hardware manufacturers look at all the other things that run in a broken, half-assed way on Windows and think "Hell, our stuff works at least as well as all that junk; there's no reason we shouldn't be able to put the Windows logo on it as well."
I agree with you in that the prosecutor should be dismissed
When it comes to whether or not his statements should factor into the outcome of the deportation hearings, however, I beg to differ, and, at least in this country, so do the courts.
The defendants were accused of running a telemarketing scam, making phone calls from Canada and bilking people in the US. In a media interview, the US prosecutor said to the defendants, "You're going to be the boyfriend of a very bad man if you wait out your extradition." Further, the US judge sentencing a co-conspirator in the case said that defendants who didn't cooperate (ie, submit to extradition) would receive the "absolute maximum jail sentence". That was enough for the Supreme Court to refuse to extradite them, and IMHO, rightly so.
Looks like the market's already moving on that.
TFA says that their shares rose 35 cents yesterday to close at $19.23, but today they are already down to $18.31.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw "Project Red Stripe". You get to sit back, kick around ideas, and pound back lots of Jamaican beer? How sweet of a job is that?
The fact that threats against Google are being launched by Microsoft's legal team instead of their engineering department tells you all you need to know.
"A worldwide study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) concluded that in 2005 movie piracy cost the Canadian film industry and your government $225 million and $34 million, respectively, in lost revenues.
When any lapdog of the US media industry talks about "The Canadian Film Industry" or "The Canadian Music Industry", mentally substitute "The Canadian Subsidiaries of the US Media Industries". The vast majority of films shown in theatres up here belong to Hollywood and have little or nothing to do with Canada or the real Canadian film industry at all. You could give away DVDs of every big hit for free on street corners, and while the US media giants might suffer, the Canadian film industry would hardly even notice.
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Yeah, I saw their homepage link to http://help.monster.com/besafe/email/, but I thought that was a general "don't respond to phishing email" warning. It doesn't give any indication that it's something they put up specifically to address this. Mind you, looking back at monster.com in the wayback machine, they don't appear to have had that link on their homepage back on 14 June.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The story's all over the media and the internet, Symantec has a blog post and a virus writeup, and what's on the front page of Monster? Not a damn thing. No "your personal info may have been stolen", "hey, yeah, that data breach thing, we're looking into it", no acknowledgement of any kind. Their press page contains bulletins about the Monster Employment Index and their top ten workplace etiquette tips. Looks like we're going to see another good example of how not to handle negative press related to a security issue.
Either that, or there are no employees left there to answer them.
I think that the writing was on the wall for SCO long, long before this lawsuit got under way. The company I was working at back in 2000 had a number of boxes running SCO, presumably because they needed a *nix that ran on Intel x86 hardware. I remember looking through the godawful tangle of symlinks that was SCO's /etc directory and wondering why anybody would pay for it when the Debian build on my desktop seemed a lot more robust and did a better job of meeting my needs, for free. Seems I wasn't the only person thinking this.
Am I the only one who thought of messages like
when hearing that the US military uses emoticons?
No, a discreet GPU is one that doesn't go around telling anybody that you've been using it to render porn. There's probably a substantial market for GPUs like that, as opposed to the ones that go blabbing about your browsing habits to all their friends.
Interestingly, the Supreme Court of Canada just released a decision that cuts the opposite way. The Court upheld the "binding arbitration" clauses that many companies put in their various contracts and agreements. This essentially shields them from class actions, since disputes have to go to arbitration instead of the courts.
Since the matters involved in these cases actually took place, two provinces (Ontario and Quebec) have passed consumer protection laws (probably similar to Washington's) that protect consumers' ability to sue as a class. More jurisdictions need to step up to the plate and do the same.
Never mind, found it: the F-29, the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act.
For what it is worth, most of the provisions of the Act require a specific order from the Attorney General. I found it interesting that the Helms-Burton Act is specifically mentioned, though:
Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 19967.1 Any judgment given under the law of the United States entitled Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 shall not be recognized or enforceable in any manner in Canada.
What act says that? I looked but couldn't find any.
seeing the article
text, strangely familiar
where have I seen it?
the light bulb goes on
a haiku generator
can it truly be?
Your microcam/mike/earpiece setup idea is bang on. Ten years ago (ten years!) when I was in, a few arty batteries tried the microradio thing. They picked up a bunch of cheap-ass headset radios from Radio Shack, and used it for passing bearings, communicating during firefights...all the kind of stuff we'd usually be yelling back and forth for. The things weren't high-tech, weren't encrypted, in fact they weren't even waterproof as shipped, but almost everybody still thought they were the best things since sliced bread. They weighed next to nothing, were easy to use, and didn't require taking your hands or eyes off anything. That's what you call "appropriate technology".
One thing that was glossed over quite a bit in the article from the Beeb is that the US is actually launching two WTO complaints about China. The CBC article says
It figures -- first they complain that the Chinese aren't selling enough US movies, music, and books. Then when they find a way to start selling them by the truckload, the US complains about that too. =)
OK, so I don't own a Windoze box, but they have a web-based service called ThankBand -- you upload an MP3 file and it (supposedly) tells you where to buy the music. I've got some J-Pop tracks lying around that I've never been able to figure out the artists for, so I go and give it a shot -- the songs had filenames like f12dac3oiawj9ret.mp3 and I can't seem to get any search hits for the bits of the lyrics I can make out.
Hrmph. Well, no surprise, that one's a bit obscure. Let's try something slightly more widely known:
Heeey, not bad! I wonder...
What? Oh, don't tell me...
Yeah, that's what I figured. Come on, guys; the motive is laudable, but any dumbass can go and type a filename into Google. To get a mention on the front page of Slashdot, you should really have to do better than that.
Microsoft is undead? That sounds about right to me. At any rate, it would explain a lot.
The hardware manufacturers look at all the other things that run in a broken, half-assed way on Windows and think "Hell, our stuff works at least as well as all that junk; there's no reason we shouldn't be able to put the Windows logo on it as well."
For anybody else who was as curious as me when they read the comment above -- you can find the song here:
Yang Chengang - Laoshu Ai Dami
It's not bad, by the way! Thanks for turning me on to some new music. =)
Does the title seriously mean "Mice like rice"?
The US tortures people. That alone should be enough reason not to extradite anybody there.
I agree with you in that the prosecutor should be dismissed When it comes to whether or not his statements should factor into the outcome of the deportation hearings, however, I beg to differ, and, at least in this country, so do the courts.
United States of America v. Cobb, [2001] 1 S.C.R. 587, 2001 SCC 19
The defendants were accused of running a telemarketing scam, making phone calls from Canada and bilking people in the US. In a media interview, the US prosecutor said to the defendants, "You're going to be the boyfriend of a very bad man if you wait out your extradition." Further, the US judge sentencing a co-conspirator in the case said that defendants who didn't cooperate (ie, submit to extradition) would receive the "absolute maximum jail sentence". That was enough for the Supreme Court to refuse to extradite them, and IMHO, rightly so.
Larry Wall once said:
I'm glad to know that somebody is now hard at work trying to remedy that deficiency.
Looks like the market's already moving on that. TFA says that their shares rose 35 cents yesterday to close at $19.23, but today they are already down to $18.31.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw "Project Red Stripe". You get to sit back, kick around ideas, and pound back lots of Jamaican beer? How sweet of a job is that?
(Red Stripe -- It's beer! Hooray beer!)
The fact that threats against Google are being launched by Microsoft's legal team instead of their engineering department tells you all you need to know.
A choice quote from Senator Feinstein:
When any lapdog of the US media industry talks about "The Canadian Film Industry" or "The Canadian Music Industry", mentally substitute "The Canadian Subsidiaries of the US Media Industries". The vast majority of films shown in theatres up here belong to Hollywood and have little or nothing to do with Canada or the real Canadian film industry at all. You could give away DVDs of every big hit for free on street corners, and while the US media giants might suffer, the Canadian film industry would hardly even notice.
No, it should have been said in both official languages: "Fuck off! / Va te faire foutre!"
Best part of the whole article: the Microsoft Visual Studio ad at the bottom of the first page links to the URL
Now if that's not truth in advertising, I don't know what is.