> I LOVE this idea. Now how do I get ahold of a list for Microsoft, Amazon, and RIAA's lobbyists? Hmmm.
Well, a while back, Bill Gates's dad's company (Preston Gates & Ellis -- the guys infamous for employing Jack Abramoff) was a lobbying firm Microsoft used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Gates_%26_Ellis "The firm's Washington, DC office is known as Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP. When it was opened in 1973, partners included Emanuel Rouvelas, former counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee, and former Congressman Lloyd Meeds (D-WA).[3] Among its major clients is Microsoft, which paid PGE over $1,380,000 for lobbying various federal government institutions. During that time the chairman of the firm was William Neukom, who was employed by Microsoft as head of its legal department"
What I'd rather see on Slashdot is an analysis of the problem that leads to solutions.
In that direction - any recommended alternatives. I see plenty of person-to-person VOIP solutions; but none that worked as well with 5-10 person conference calls and ran on both windows and linux. Anyone know of any?
IMHO that's when they stuck some hollywood exec (Semel) in who knew nothing about the internet in 2001.
ISTM he was so enamored by AOL buying Time Warner he changed Yahoo from being the epitome fo the internet into a AOL-wanabe-clone.
This is the guy who turned down the chance to buy Google for one billion dollars; and then again for 3 billion; and the same guy who shared Yahoo confidential info with China's government.
Yahoo's Geocities could have been Facebook+MySpace. Yahoo Mail could have been gmail. Yahoo's Delicious could have been stumbleupon+twitter+digg. Yahoo's Overture could have been Google Adsense+Adwords Yahoo's Altavista could have been google search.
But instead Yahoo's turning into little more than a reseller of Bing search results.
This was one of the best password articles I've seen.
I think the worst advice I've seen is when people recommend using some algorithm to make long painful "good" passwords that are variations of each other.
Someone who uses:
mysecr1tword4gawker.com for fun and
mysecr1tword4mybank.com for their bank isn't that much safer than if they had just used the same password for both.
Much better to use throwaway ones for sites like gawker; and truly random ones for banking.
IMHO OpenID is the best idea. You only need to put your trust in 1 identity provider - where it's worth the effort to set up a good password and 2-factor auth (easy to do for $0 at myopenid.com, and for a few bucks at Verisign's openid provider); rather than needing to trust every site you come across.
Worth noting that Anonymous lost England the Colonies in North America, and they've probably been after them ever since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine "Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; signed "Written by an Englishman", the pamphlet became an immediate success."
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_name.html "Benevolus — While in England, Franklin penned a number of letters under the name of Benevolus. These letters tried to answer some of the negative assertions made by the British press about the American colonists. These letters were published in London newspapers and journals. "
Perhaps those are the Anonymous guys that England's really still mad at.
It's a classic example of Civil Disobedience ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience ) not unlike refusing to sit in the back of a bus - and when many people do it in large numbers, it changes policies.
This is a million geeks saying I AM ANONYMOUS just like the guys saying I AM SPARTACUS in that old movie.
IBM's success with Java pretty much proves that it was Sun's management of java rather than Java itself that was the problem.
On the same note, IBM's success with Linux pretty much proves that McNealey's whole rant makes little sense.
"shunt critical infrastructure into some cloud environment? Seriously?"
It's really no different than sticking your servers (especially if you lease or finance them) in any other third-party-managed data center.
In either case, the company can tap network connections; steal the hard drives with our data; etc.
The biggest difference between clouds and traditional data centers is really just that clouds tend to charge you hourly or daily or at longest monthly; while data centers like yearly, or at shortest daily contracts.
Considering their TCP/IP stack came from BSD, you could say that any network-aware application at Microsoft has its success due directly from open source.
So it's very fair to say that the most successful company in the world's most successful products (anything Win95+) has its success due to open source. (And if you think google's more successful than microsoft, they use open source too).
What will it have that is such an improvement over XP?
This is the real reason for the delay.
So long as Vista is still-in-the-future it will slow companies transitioning to Linux or Mac. As soon as it comes out and the deficiencies are known, organizations will have little reason not to move to Apples which are now superior in all ways except video games.
This has long been their strategy, as evidenced by this federal judge in 1995
Last month, the U.S. District Court jurist in Washington suggested barring Microsoft from making vaporware announcements because doing so can allegedly freeze the market and discourage buyers from purchasing competing products.
And now, as always, the idea that companies should evaluate Vista before switching to mac or linux is a very compelling reason why Microsoft should keep the Vista launch 6-months-away forever.
He's the first Intel CEO with a non-tech background.
What did you expect would happen.
The results are just what I would have though - they lose their technical edge, but retain their strong position in the market.
My guess is that Intel's business model quickly changes from designing and building chips to buying other company's designs ---- just like the large drug companies mostly get drugs by investing in and eventually buying small drug research companies.
I think that was the plan when the put a MBA in charge, and I think this is the expected result.
It's also commonly called vaporware, and MSFT's gotten in trouble for it in the past
Vaporware
Last month, the U.S. District Court jurist in Washington suggested barring Microsoft from making vaporware announcements because doing so can allegedly freeze the market and discourage buyers from purchasing competing products.
Wikipedia still just as effective as normal encyclopedia.
I'd like to see a law stating that you get your money back or a free fixed edition if you buy an encyclopedia with an error.
That should make the damn overcharging industry start taking the accuracy of their material seriously and stop throwing stones at community efforts. If Wikipedia's wrong - well, I got what I paid for - but if I fork out hundreds of dollars for something it should be held to some sort of standard.
And the flip-side is how much does it cost compared to similar insurance to cover "up to $10 million in damages, including profit losses related to noncompliance with a *closed*-source software license."
Sounds like this is just people trying to prey on FUD surounding these licenses.
An open source license not that different from a closed source license, in that it gives you certain rights and restrictions with what you do with the software you license. It seems really odd that an insurance policy would protect against you illegally violating some licenses but not others - but if they're choosing to do so, I'd love to see how thier protection racket covering illegal activities around some licenses compares with their policies covering illegal activities around other licenses.
A great interview with
Dan Dobberpuhl and David Ditzel (Transmeta's CTO) back in 2003 where he basically pre-announced this startup.
Dobberpuhl has a nice record of creating awesome chips and selling them for a lot (IIRC he sold his last chip company to Broadcom for $2billion) - and has pretty much re-assembled many of the better parts of the StrongARM team for this one - so I bet it does well.
I predict IBM'll buy them for their answer to StrongARM.
For high-end computing - Mono runs on Sparc, S390, and Power support, Mono's really the only choice for high-end computing platforms.
For embedded designs - Mono runs on ARM with MIPS soon to come, which makes Mono really the only choice for embedded platforms.
For businesses - Many companies are able to provide support for the Mono engine, only one is able to support microsoft's implementaion. Any rational business will not allow any product that's sole-sourced from a single vendor, whether it's screws, bolts, gasoline, or software engines. With Microsoft's implemention your business is left at the whims of a single vendor who can pull the rug out from you whenever they feel like (remember Visual Basic 6, and the contempt MSFT showed business relying on that platform).
Basically, for any serious C# application, Mono is the only choice.
Oh, and since this article is specifically speaking of China, it's worth mentioning that the first Chinese born astronaut also holds the record for the female who spent the most time in space. (Shannon Lucid, born in China in 1943 was in space in 1979)
I assume you mean the spam-bot operators. They're the ones who benefit the most from this schedule because if they time their exploits right, every new crack can be used for a full month.
Any other "large corporate customer" would demand the publishing of workarounds AS SOON AS ANY WORKAROUND IS IDENTIFIED for a security issue - even if that workaround is "disable the XYZ service".
The best security is releasing the patch as soon as the first *WORKAROUND* is identified - for example, a windows update that turns off IIS or SQL Server or the entire OS or whatever the vulnerable package may be.
Later, when they fix the problem at their leisure, they're welcome to push out an update the re-enables this service.
Customers who care about security should have the option on which systems to enable these turn-off scripts (any app where security is more important than uptime); or as with any update, they should be free to ignore them.
This takes the reasonable time-to-disclosure down to hours, because the default disabling "shutdown now" update script that protects against any security hole already exists.
This page is the best document I've seen comparing each of the majordatabases (Oracle, Postgresql, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server) not directly against each other, but against the SQL Standard. In cases where at least one of the databases differs from the standard, this guy's article shows both the SQL called for by the standard, and how each of the implementations may either follow or deviate from the standard.
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> I LOVE this idea. Now how do I get ahold of a list for Microsoft, Amazon, and RIAA's lobbyists? Hmmm.
Well, a while back, Bill Gates's dad's company (Preston Gates & Ellis -- the guys infamous for employing Jack Abramoff) was a lobbying firm Microsoft used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Gates_%26_Ellis
"The firm's Washington, DC office is known as Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP. When it was opened in 1973, partners included Emanuel Rouvelas, former counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee, and former Congressman Lloyd Meeds (D-WA).[3] Among its major clients is Microsoft, which paid PGE over $1,380,000 for lobbying various federal government institutions. During that time the chairman of the firm was William Neukom, who was employed by Microsoft as head of its legal department"
What I'd rather see on Slashdot is an analysis of the problem that leads to solutions.
In that direction - any recommended alternatives. I see plenty of person-to-person VOIP solutions; but none that worked as well with 5-10 person conference calls and ran on both windows and linux. Anyone know of any?
IMHO that's when they stuck some hollywood exec (Semel) in who knew nothing about the internet in 2001.
ISTM he was so enamored by AOL buying Time Warner he changed Yahoo from being the epitome fo the internet into a AOL-wanabe-clone.
This is the guy who turned down the chance to buy Google for one billion dollars; and then again for 3 billion; and the same guy who shared Yahoo confidential info with China's government.
Yahoo's Geocities could have been Facebook+MySpace.
Yahoo Mail could have been gmail.
Yahoo's Delicious could have been stumbleupon+twitter+digg.
Yahoo's Overture could have been Google Adsense+Adwords
Yahoo's Altavista could have been google search.
But instead Yahoo's turning into little more than a reseller of Bing search results.
This was one of the best password articles I've seen.
I think the worst advice I've seen is when people recommend using some algorithm to make long painful "good" passwords that are variations of each other.
Someone who uses:
mysecr1tword4gawker.com
for fun and
mysecr1tword4mybank.com
for their bank isn't that much safer than if they had just used the same password for both.
Much better to use throwaway ones for sites like gawker; and truly random ones for banking.
IMHO OpenID is the best idea. You only need to put your trust in 1 identity provider - where it's worth the effort to set up a good password and 2-factor auth (easy to do for $0 at myopenid.com, and for a few bucks at Verisign's openid provider); rather than needing to trust every site you come across.
Worth noting that Anonymous lost England the Colonies in North America, and they've probably been after them ever since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
"Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; signed "Written by an Englishman", the pamphlet became an immediate success."
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_name.html
"Benevolus — While in England, Franklin penned a number of letters under the name of Benevolus. These letters tried to answer some of the negative assertions made by the British press about the American colonists. These letters were published in London newspapers and journals. "
Perhaps those are the Anonymous guys that England's really still mad at.
It's not a case of being clueless noobs.
It's a classic example of Civil Disobedience ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience ) not unlike refusing to sit in the back of a bus - and when many people do it in large numbers, it changes policies.
This is a million geeks saying I AM ANONYMOUS just like the guys saying I AM SPARTACUS in that old movie.
IBM's success with Java pretty much proves that it was Sun's management of java rather than Java itself that was the problem. On the same note, IBM's success with Linux pretty much proves that McNealey's whole rant makes little sense.
"shunt critical infrastructure into some cloud environment? Seriously?" It's really no different than sticking your servers (especially if you lease or finance them) in any other third-party-managed data center. In either case, the company can tap network connections; steal the hard drives with our data; etc. The biggest difference between clouds and traditional data centers is really just that clouds tend to charge you hourly or daily or at longest monthly; while data centers like yearly, or at shortest daily contracts.
It's probably a more stable currency than the Fed-backed USD, though.
At least the guys running WoW have a vested interest in WoW having a sane economy.
With the USD, the Fed realizes that the government will bail them out if they screw up the economy enough.
Considering their TCP/IP stack came from BSD, you could say that any network-aware application at Microsoft has its success due directly from open source. So it's very fair to say that the most successful company in the world's most successful products (anything Win95+) has its success due to open source. (And if you think google's more successful than microsoft, they use open source too).
This is the real reason for the delay.
So long as Vista is still-in-the-future it will slow companies transitioning to Linux or Mac. As soon as it comes out and the deficiencies are known, organizations will have little reason not to move to Apples which are now superior in all ways except video games.
This has long been their strategy, as evidenced by this federal judge in 1995
And now, as always, the idea that companies should evaluate Vista before switching to mac or linux is a very compelling reason why Microsoft should keep the Vista launch 6-months-away forever.
The results are just what I would have though - they lose their technical edge, but retain their strong position in the market.
My guess is that Intel's business model quickly changes from designing and building chips to buying other company's designs ---- just like the large drug companies mostly get drugs by investing in and eventually buying small drug research companies.
I think that was the plan when the put a MBA in charge, and I think this is the expected result.
In a monopoly, you're best off using
- fear (if I catch you using Google I'll throw a chair at you)
- and uncertainty (but can you really trust Google? It runs some free OS which can never scale as much as our expensive one) and
- doubt (but a small company like Google, will they be around next year?)
to keep your users.Balmer knows this, and he's practicing it on his kids.
I'd like to see a law stating that you get your money back or a free fixed edition if you buy an encyclopedia with an error.
That should make the damn overcharging industry start taking the accuracy of their material seriously and stop throwing stones at community efforts. If Wikipedia's wrong - well, I got what I paid for - but if I fork out hundreds of dollars for something it should be held to some sort of standard.
If not, what is it I'm paying for?
In addition to the team, you also get whatever parts of that project are relevant to yours.
Sounds like this is just people trying to prey on FUD surounding these licenses.
An open source license not that different from a closed source license, in that it gives you certain rights and restrictions with what you do with the software you license. It seems really odd that an insurance policy would protect against you illegally violating some licenses but not others - but if they're choosing to do so, I'd love to see how thier protection racket covering illegal activities around some licenses compares with their policies covering illegal activities around other licenses.
Dobberpuhl has a nice record of creating awesome chips and selling them for a lot (IIRC he sold his last chip company to Broadcom for $2billion) - and has pretty much re-assembled many of the better parts of the StrongARM team for this one - so I bet it does well.
I predict IBM'll buy them for their answer to StrongARM.
- For high-end computing - Mono runs on Sparc, S390, and Power support, Mono's really the only choice for high-end computing platforms.
- For embedded designs - Mono runs on ARM with MIPS soon to come, which makes Mono really the only choice for embedded platforms.
- For businesses - Many companies are able to provide support for the Mono engine, only one is able to support microsoft's implementaion. Any rational business will not allow any product that's sole-sourced from a single vendor, whether it's screws, bolts, gasoline, or software engines. With Microsoft's implemention your business is left at the whims of a single vendor who can pull the rug out from you whenever they feel like (remember Visual Basic 6, and the contempt MSFT showed business relying on that platform).
Basically, for any serious C# application, Mono is the only choice.Oh, and since this article is specifically speaking of China, it's worth mentioning that the first Chinese born astronaut also holds the record for the female who spent the most time in space. (Shannon Lucid, born in China in 1943 was in space in 1979)
Of course we also remember that the first asian astronaut flew in space over 25 years ago. ( July 23, 1980 Pham Tuan)
I assume you mean the spam-bot operators. They're the ones who benefit the most from this schedule because if they time their exploits right, every new crack can be used for a full month.
Any other "large corporate customer" would demand the publishing of workarounds AS SOON AS ANY WORKAROUND IS IDENTIFIED for a security issue - even if that workaround is "disable the XYZ service".
The best security is releasing the patch as soon as the first *WORKAROUND* is identified - for example, a windows update that turns off IIS or SQL Server or the entire OS or whatever the vulnerable package may be. Later, when they fix the problem at their leisure, they're welcome to push out an update the re-enables this service. Customers who care about security should have the option on which systems to enable these turn-off scripts (any app where security is more important than uptime); or as with any update, they should be free to ignore them. This takes the reasonable time-to-disclosure down to hours, because the default disabling "shutdown now" update script that protects against any security hole already exists.
This page is the best document I've seen comparing each of the majordatabases (Oracle, Postgresql, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server) not directly against each other, but against the SQL Standard. In cases where at least one of the databases differs from the standard, this guy's article shows both the SQL called for by the standard, and how each of the implementations may either follow or deviate from the standard.
That's just begging for a virus/trojan that might infect a PC to steal confidential data.