If this was always the case, People wouldn't be able to rip off ATM machines. But they can. From that take on things though, Maybe windows can help. Forget about break-ins etc., pure crashes alone will keep any would-be thief at bay.
They cite costs from more education, time developing, etc.
So... let me see here- they're saying windows programmers, on average, aren't as educated/knoweledgeable and don't take as much time to ensure quality before releasing? That doesn't sound like news to me.
Although it *does* beg the question: if a 12 year can't assume debt, then how exactly did they get her name in the first place?
People, please stop using the term "begs the question" to mean "brings up the issue of" or anything of that nature. To "beg the question" is essentially to have an argumant such that p->q, where p and q can be themeselve complex propositions, but all comes out true, i.e., it is a tautology. (for those with no discretion whatsoever, a tautology is basically a circular argument.)
So, please please please for the sake of the preservation of all subtelty in language, remember simply that "beg the question" is a statement of logical nature, and a negative one at that. To beg the question is to argue from a logically falacious posistion, to be inherently wrong in your thinking about an issue. It is not merely a "hey, if you're gonna talk about this, make sure you consider this other thing as well, 'cause they're related."
please.
Oh, and a +5 interesting? Are moderators insane? Yes! Why? becasue only insane people moderate. Now there is an example of begging-the-question.
Seems there are some problems getting even sales people at SCO to answer the phone.
The problem is with the magic-8-ball they use to make decisions and decide on business models. Right now it's "try again later" function is in an endless loop. Don't worry, someone will come along and reboot it soon (shake shake shake) and it will be back to "no", "maybe", and "file a lawsuit."
Anyone notice recently that, for all of these technologies that are supposed to keep moore's law running well into the future all by themsleves, if they were all added up, we'd be way beyond moore? Could moore be less that what's possible?
I work for unamed company and provide support for digital imaging products- scan, copy, print, etc. High end large-iron type stuff. (I'm in the networking/software training/troubleshooting end)
Service contracts are where they make their money, and promises of x-hour response time and qualified technicians are how a majority of the sales are made, and yet still the support often sucks, not enough techs, too many of those undertrained, overworked and undercompensated, and still it goes on- angry customers, long response times, unresolved issues... sad thing is, a lot of custromers come back to us because other companies are even worse.
I'm not so sure that this is anything too new, the placement of fake data to detect unauthorized use. This perrson is simply coining a term and solidifying the concept by relating it to existing terminology and concepts. (a good thing)
Otherwise though, I've been aware of these sorts of misuse/abuse detection schemes for some time- specifically in the area of email harvesting for spam. Place a fake or otherwise unused address in a list or directory, and if it ever receives mail, you know the sender was harvesting.
what you ask is either not possible or so impractical that we should not waste our energies on such a project.
You could be right- though I'd say "Not now does not mean not ever." As a programmer and (side business) artist, should I make something independant of salaried work, I would like the 800 lb. gorilla that redistributes to have some protection in place. As for a reasonable method of doing so, This is slashdot- why does what I what I want have to be possible?
Look at it this way, do you really want your computer telling you what you can and can't do?
It sure would have come in handy during my whole "I can fly... wait... I can't.... owwww" phase.
Yes, current and as yet forseable DRM systems are of laughable or at best questionable quality and even legality (consumers do have have rights to purchased material)But....
The bathwater should be carefully checked to make sure no baby is contained therein before throwing it out. DRM often being overly restrictive, easily bypassed, or otherwise inneficient does not mean that there should not be some _Rasonable_ system in place that prevents misuse, and only mis-use. In the slashdot crowd-- and I find myself, as part of it, falling victim to this at times-- DRM is often spoken of in a context of its being inherently bad and undesireable. Truthfully, and effective and fair DRM system just might be what is truly needed.
Interesting comments wanted; trolls need not reply
...was, in the same article cited above, written by Charlie D, the announcement of the latest piece of vaporware. Hundreds of developers have already not decided to lend a hand, while some handful have even vowed to begin and then abandon the project.
yet another patent for an obvious intuitive idea with plenty of prior art that comes to min-
oh....
wait...
::takes of cynic-colored classes (pattented)::
This looks original! What the hell is going on over there at the USPO, and when will::cynic-colored glasses back on:: someone pay off the inventor and squash the idea?
You must initialize variables of type deity prior to assignment.
I've seen this error before, common enough with slopy/newbie programmers. Equals symbol "=" is used for assigning a variable a value. Equals symbol "==" is what should be used for comparisons.
Why is everybody here always whining about giving poor countries food first, and then IT and stuff?
I believe in giving them a fishing rod instead of a few fish.
Yes! precisely! let them use the millions of dollars in wifi equipment to make fishing rods! Oh, that is the answer after all! They can use the wires from the wireless equipment as tackle, and perhaps some of the shiny internals as lures! Sily me for not seeing the alternate uses for technology to begin with-- this must be what the UN is really aiming for; a low-tech implementation of hi-tech equipment, to familiarize themselves with it while they use it to not starve! Great idea, UN, kudos, cheers, bravo! This is surely the first step to a well-rounded self-sustaining non-pariah corporate-independant non-corrupt highly-educated counrty!
A massive part of the U.S. is still on dial-up, if there is even a local number from any isp.
I'm not saying these places shouldn't gettech savy, but the U.S. and similar countries are those that should be looking to build a wifi infrastructure;
These other countries should be built up to _needing_ that. For now, how about they be able to _not starve_ before they die looking at a McDonalds web site? JMHO.
...only without the hassle of learning how to use a trojan... You should always use protection.
Not quite "Just Ariving!"
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About a year and a half ago I became obsessed with getting a linux handheld. Yopy, the VR3 and Zaurus were available as easy access for purchase. (The older Yopy- this one came out around Xmas) This story is hardly news. Just new-to-non-googling-for-cool-devices americans.
Maybe its an ad. Either way, I chose the Zaurus w/ no shipping from Staples at a discounted price due to their price-matching blah blah blah. I wanted the Yopy though, mostly because, for those wondering, it does run on X.
Sure, this will probably get modded down, but honestly:
What makes any of us think that in this particular case, even our collective legal knowledge will add anything to the massive corporate might of IBM? IBM is a big boy and can handle their own legal problems.
What we, in our position in the tech community and world itself, should be focusing on is disseminating knowledge to the effect that companies need not regard this legal issue as something to stop the adoption of linux or other GPL/OpenSource material.
Personally, I support high-end dedicated linux print servers, and am making sure that all customers current or potential don't make this a concern.
AT&T has patented looking up phone numbers in a phone book by "...purposefully opening up the phone book and turning pages with hands, feet, teeth, or any other human appendage or extension thereof..." (US patent no. 44829171710)
This would seem to not include throwing the phone book into the air and allowing it to fall open to a random page.
We've all been lied to. All these years apple has been telling us their products "just work" and here we find actual components- complicated components!- and in a simple device!
I don't know what's physically inside their full computer systems, but now for me they are filled only with lies.
of java? I just finished a few hours of searching about the web, and couldn't find a single place to buy even a pound of coffee from Sun. Maybe that's why they can't cut it in the market-- poor product distribution.
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If this was always the case, People wouldn't be able to rip off ATM machines. But they can. From that take on things though, Maybe windows can help. Forget about break-ins etc., pure crashes alone will keep any would-be thief at bay.
Hamsters. Very small ones on wheels. That's the problem with the treo 300. Only one hamster. The 600 has a dual hamster setup. Very sweet.
So... let me see here- they're saying windows programmers, on average, aren't as educated/knoweledgeable and don't take as much time to ensure quality before releasing? That doesn't sound like news to me.
People, please stop using the term "begs the question" to mean "brings up the issue of" or anything of that nature. To "beg the question" is essentially to have an argumant such that p->q, where p and q can be themeselve complex propositions, but all comes out true, i.e., it is a tautology. (for those with no discretion whatsoever, a tautology is basically a circular argument.)
So, please please please for the sake of the preservation of all subtelty in language, remember simply that "beg the question" is a statement of logical nature, and a negative one at that. To beg the question is to argue from a logically falacious posistion, to be inherently wrong in your thinking about an issue. It is not merely a "hey, if you're gonna talk about this, make sure you consider this other thing as well, 'cause they're related."
please.
Oh, and a +5 interesting? Are moderators insane? Yes! Why? becasue only insane people moderate. Now there is an example of begging-the-question.
The problem is with the magic-8-ball they use to make decisions and decide on business models. Right now it's "try again later" function is in an endless loop. Don't worry, someone will come along and reboot it soon (shake shake shake) and it will be back to "no", "maybe", and "file a lawsuit."
Anyone notice recently that, for all of these technologies that are supposed to keep moore's law running well into the future all by themsleves, if they were all added up, we'd be way beyond moore? Could moore be less that what's possible?
Service contracts are where they make their money, and promises of x-hour response time and qualified technicians are how a majority of the sales are made, and yet still the support often sucks, not enough techs, too many of those undertrained, overworked and undercompensated, and still it goes on- angry customers, long response times, unresolved issues... sad thing is, a lot of custromers come back to us because other companies are even worse.
Only 5% of their installed systems are "stable"?
Otherwise though, I've been aware of these sorts of misuse/abuse detection schemes for some time- specifically in the area of email harvesting for spam. Place a fake or otherwise unused address in a list or directory, and if it ever receives mail, you know the sender was harvesting.
You could be right- though I'd say "Not now does not mean not ever." As a programmer and (side business) artist, should I make something independant of salaried work, I would like the 800 lb. gorilla that redistributes to have some protection in place. As for a reasonable method of doing so, This is slashdot- why does what I what I want have to be possible?
Look at it this way, do you really want your computer telling you what you can and can't do?
It sure would have come in handy during my whole "I can fly... wait... I can't.... owwww" phase.
The bathwater should be carefully checked to make sure no baby is contained therein before throwing it out. DRM often being overly restrictive, easily bypassed, or otherwise inneficient does not mean that there should not be some _Rasonable_ system in place that prevents misuse, and only mis-use. In the slashdot crowd-- and I find myself, as part of it, falling victim to this at times-- DRM is often spoken of in a context of its being inherently bad and undesireable. Truthfully, and effective and fair DRM system just might be what is truly needed.
Interesting comments wanted; trolls need not reply
...was, in the same article cited above, written by Charlie D, the announcement of the latest piece of vaporware. Hundreds of developers have already not decided to lend a hand, while some handful have even vowed to begin and then abandon the project.
oh....
wait...
::takes of cynic-colored classes (pattented)::
This looks original! What the hell is going on over there at the USPO, and when will
[~]% telnet linuxforums.co.nz 80
Trying 202.49.94.189...
Connected to server.02net.co.nz.
Escape character is '^]'
I've seen this error before, common enough with slopy/newbie programmers. Equals symbol "=" is used for assigning a variable a value. Equals symbol "==" is what should be used for comparisons.
Proper code should be written as follows:
#include stdio.h
#include supreme_beings.h
main(){
deity god = extern POWER; deity google;
google = god;
if(google == god){
printf("Google is dead");
}
Yes! precisely! let them use the millions of dollars in wifi equipment to make fishing rods! Oh, that is the answer after all! They can use the wires from the wireless equipment as tackle, and perhaps some of the shiny internals as lures! Sily me for not seeing the alternate uses for technology to begin with-- this must be what the UN is really aiming for; a low-tech implementation of hi-tech equipment, to familiarize themselves with it while they use it to not starve! Great idea, UN, kudos, cheers, bravo! This is surely the first step to a well-rounded self-sustaining non-pariah corporate-independant non-corrupt highly-educated counrty!
Let them starve to death while looking at a McDonalds web site... wouldn't that be ironic?
I'm not saying these places shouldn't gettech savy, but the U.S. and similar countries are those that should be looking to build a wifi infrastructure;
These other countries should be built up to _needing_ that. For now, how about they be able to _not starve_ before they die looking at a McDonalds web site? JMHO.
...only without the hassle of learning how to use a trojan...
You should always use protection.
About a year and a half ago I became obsessed with getting a linux handheld. Yopy, the VR3 and Zaurus were available as easy access for purchase. (The older Yopy- this one came out around Xmas) This story is hardly news. Just new-to-non-googling-for-cool-devices americans.
Maybe its an ad. Either way, I chose the Zaurus w/ no shipping from Staples at a discounted price due to their price-matching blah blah blah. I wanted the Yopy though, mostly because, for those wondering, it does run on X.
Ebay for them. They're there, and $250 now.
Sure, this will probably get modded down, but honestly:
What makes any of us think that in this particular case, even our collective legal knowledge will add anything to the massive corporate might of IBM? IBM is a big boy and can handle their own legal problems.
What we, in our position in the tech community and world itself, should be focusing on is disseminating knowledge to the effect that companies need not regard this legal issue as something to stop the adoption of linux or other GPL/OpenSource material.
Personally, I support high-end dedicated linux print servers, and am making sure that all customers current or potential don't make this a concern.
AT&T has patented looking up phone numbers in a phone book by "...purposefully opening up the phone book and turning pages with hands, feet, teeth, or any other human appendage or extension thereof..." (US patent no. 44829171710)
This would seem to not include throwing the phone book into the air and allowing it to fall open to a random page.
SCO has been shown to be a Microsoft subsidiary.
When reached for comment on this, Gates and Ballmer both stated:
"All your linux boxes are belong to us"
We've all been lied to. All these years apple has been telling us their products "just work" and here we find actual components- complicated components!- and in a simple device!
I don't know what's physically inside their full computer systems, but now for me they are filled only with lies.
of java? I just finished a few hours of searching about the web, and couldn't find a single place to buy even a pound of coffee from Sun. Maybe that's why they can't cut it in the market-- poor product distribution.