That Princess Bride quote was quite apt.
Check the subtlties of the definitions from Cringely's article
'
The word they are replacing is "invention."
Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own.
'
'
But there is another issue here, one that is hardly ever mentioned and that's the coining of the term "innovation." This word, which was hardly used at all until two or three years ago, feels to me like a propaganda campaign and a successful one at that, dominating discussion in the computer industry. I think Microsoft did this intentionally, for they are the ones who seem to continually use the word. But what does it mean? And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention."'
Perhaps Verisign will help the world see through this concept of "innovation" and let us get back to inventing things.
The full email integration is awesome. People (both requestors and IT people fielding the requests) who want to use a web interface can do everything through the web; and similarly people (both requestors and IT people fielding the requests) who want to do everything through email can do that as well.
I remember all sorts of tricks like that in college.
Back in the day when many mail servers with UUCP would only call each other every few hours, one could store lots of data in them. Especially if your network's quota system let you exceed your quota for short periods of time. The best were slow mailers where you could use long bang-paths like somewherefar!somewherelsefar!sun!sono!mayer
to explicitly target slow/big servers.
We were inspired by an article in the 80s proposing similar with mirrors on the moon.
But still neither are quite as cool as this
Trebuchet
from the
which launched a piano and a cow.
Re:This is somewhat typical(parent oversimplifies)
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Parent article wrote: "Under present laws, there are events a company can't tell employees about until it has told shareholders"
Depends, in many case how the company's structured. In some public comanies that value teamwork, a lot of information is shared. Of course the flip-side is that all employees have inside information so are more restricted in selling stock.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/02/team1.html
'
Whole Foods supports teamwork with a
wide-open financial system... Sensitive
figures on store sales, team sales,
profit margins, even salaries, are
available to every person in every
location. In fact, the company shares
so much information so widely that the
SEC has designated all 6,500
employees "insiders" for stock-trading
purposes.
Mackey (CEO)calls it a "no-secrets" management
philosophy. "In most companies," he says, "management
controls information and therefore controls people. By
sharing information, we stay aligned to the vision of
shared fate.
The curious team member at any level of the company has
access to nearly as much operating and financial data as
anyone in Austin. In Ron Megahan's Bread & Circus, for
example, a sheet posted next to the time clock lists the
previous day's sales broken down by team. Another sheet
lists the sales numbers for the same day last year. Once
a week, Megahan's store posts a fax that lists the sales
of every store in the New England region broken down by
team, with comparisons to the same week last year, as well
as year-to-date totals. Another weekly fax gives sales
information for every store in the company, although it
doesn't break down sales by team.
There's more. Once a month, stores get detailed
information on profitability. The report analyzes sales,
product costs, wages and salaries, and operating profits
for all 43 stores.
'
'The first prerequisite of effective teamwork is trust.
At Whole Foods, building trust starts with the hiring
vote. Another element involves salaries. How better to
promote trust (both among team members and between
members and leaders) than to eliminate a major
source of distrust -- misinformed conjecture about who
makes what? So every Whole Foods store has a book that
lists the previous year's salary and bonus for
all 6,500 employees --by name.
'
I think the main reason is that they don't want to become responsible for the content being sent over their lines.
What next... they have to help turn-over people involved in other questionable activity done on the phone?... people who called escort services just because some group wants those names?...identify people martha stewart connected with just because they might have talked about imclone?
Yeah, they can do that, but the process involves a warant. Just just a request from an industry group.
If they have to start monitoring for questionable activity from any group that requests it, the next step might be for them to be responsible for illegal activity.
chrysalis wrote:
" Especially to free software ? "
Best outcome for the free software guys would be a policy that "If you buy defective software (any SW with any bug), you can return it to your vendor and get your money back.".
Alexa, the guys who are behind Archive.org, one of the biggest internet archives, is an amazon company.
I've noticed more activity from their spider (useragent ia_archiver) than I have from google on my domains recently; so I tend to believe they have a more up-to-date and possibly larger index.
Large, highly visible donations of software and cash into open source community projects
This isn't as a charity act. They're doing this because open source advocates are influential in many large hardware and software purchases around the world
Because IBM thinks this community is influential, they guide their actions to appeal to them.
Defending the GPL is a great way to appeal to them -- even better than spraypainting grafiti on cities.
By HP saying they're indemnifying customers, they're betting that to the Legal departments (who manage risk) are the decision makers in companies.
By IBM saying they're defending the GPL, they're saying Technologists (who like the philosophy) and Finance (who like the price) are the decision makers.
A rival domain name registry to the official Internet registrar, InterNIC, redirected users from "www.internic.net" to its own site last weekend in what is being called a "protest."
"
Internic was administered by Network Solutions at the time.
This almost makes projects like AlterNIC a cool idea.
If I recall correctly, these were going to provide alternative root DNS services as alternative from the abuse that some of
the monopoly players were subjecting people to.
polyp2000 wrote:
"but dont most Radio transmission technologies use some form of magnetic induction...Whats new here?"
did you RTFA?
CNet claims "Magnetic induction differs from Bluetooth and just about every other wireless technique now available, most of which use what's known as radio frequency, or RF, signals--bursts of electrical energy that waft out like ripples in a pond until they reach an antenna.
Magnetic fields also create waves, but the waves form a kind of bubble, which stops growing after four feet, making them more secure than waves wafting endlessly in every direction, Cui said."
I think the author of the article was shooting for 5-funny.
I think this whole "let's see how people put Linux on the XBox" is really just a way of MSFT getting free QA testing of their DRM technologies.
Everyone pretty much knows that they want to have solid DRM (Palladium, etc); so what better way to test it than to practically dare everyone to break it.
Once people stop breaking it, I bet they release their DRM.
The
press release
of ER Server becoming open source is quite informative (karma?) as well.
Marc of PostgreSQL Inc's an incredible resource on the postgresql mailinglists too; and PostgreSQL Inc has a really cool policy that allowed them to do donate their code to the community that way:
From their release:
" "DATELINE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2000
Open Source vs. Proprietary:
We advocate Open Source, BSD style:) We will consider and develop
short term (up to 24 month) proprietary applications and solutions
where there is a strong business and intellectual property case to
be made. *All" proprietary developments that we are involved in
*will* become open source within two years of implementation,
without exception."
".
Also cool, they provide hosting
http://www.pgsql.com/hosting/ which donates
"25% of all profit from these services... directly back into the PostgreSQL Project.
"
Ron
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just appreciative of Marc's contributions on the mailingslists and to postgresql as well.
IMHO, the default Operating System installation should close these ports.
If someone opens a port on the computer, it means he wants to be able to communicate; and at that point he/she should specify who/where connections will be accepted.
This actually works if you use "pine" as your email reader, because it has powerful and fast-enough search abilities... I frequently do something like
Search for emails with 'sony'
Broaden search with emails with 'dv camera'
Narrow search for dates in q3 2002
Narrow search for the term "mpeg"
I've never seen any other email clients with the ability to refine searches as well. Some are far too slow to work on a large folder. Others can't keep broadening and narrowing searches.
Interesting... This the same claim as some organic farmers make against large-scale farms replacing all of certain crops with identical strains. A specific bug can wipe cause much more damage.
Slashdot Mirror
' The word they are replacing is "invention." Only now we innovate, which is deliberately vague but seems to stop somewhere short of invention. Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. '
' But there is another issue here, one that is hardly ever mentioned and that's the coining of the term "innovation." This word, which was hardly used at all until two or three years ago, feels to me like a propaganda campaign and a successful one at that, dominating discussion in the computer industry. I think Microsoft did this intentionally, for they are the ones who seem to continually use the word. But what does it mean? And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention." '
Perhaps Verisign will help the world see through this concept of "innovation" and let us get back to inventing things.
The full email integration is awesome. People (both requestors and IT people fielding the requests) who want to use a web interface can do everything through the web; and similarly people (both requestors and IT people fielding the requests) who want to do everything through email can do that as well.
I remember all sorts of tricks like that in college. Back in the day when many mail servers with UUCP would only call each other every few hours, one could store lots of data in them. Especially if your network's quota system let you exceed your quota for short periods of time. The best were slow mailers where you could use long bang-paths like somewherefar!somewherelsefar!sun!sono!mayer to explicitly target slow/big servers. We were inspired by an article in the 80s proposing similar with mirrors on the moon.
But still neither are quite as cool as this Trebuchet from the which launched a piano and a cow.
Parent article wrote: "Under present laws, there are events a company can't tell employees about until it has told shareholders"
Depends, in many case how the company's structured. In some public comanies that value teamwork, a lot of information is shared. Of course the flip-side is that all employees have inside information so are more restricted in selling stock.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/02/team1.html
'
Whole Foods supports teamwork with a
wide-open financial system... Sensitive
figures on store sales, team sales,
profit margins, even salaries, are
available to every person in every
location. In fact, the company shares
so much information so widely that the
SEC has designated all 6,500
employees "insiders" for stock-trading
purposes.
Mackey (CEO)calls it a "no-secrets" management
philosophy. "In most companies," he says, "management
controls information and therefore controls people. By
sharing information, we stay aligned to the vision of
shared fate.
The curious team member at any level of the company has
access to nearly as much operating and financial data as
anyone in Austin. In Ron Megahan's Bread & Circus, for
example, a sheet posted next to the time clock lists the
previous day's sales broken down by team. Another sheet
lists the sales numbers for the same day last year. Once
a week, Megahan's store posts a fax that lists the sales
of every store in the New England region broken down by
team, with comparisons to the same week last year, as well
as year-to-date totals. Another weekly fax gives sales
information for every store in the company, although it
doesn't break down sales by team.
There's more. Once a month, stores get detailed
information on profitability. The report analyzes sales,
product costs, wages and salaries, and operating profits
for all 43 stores.
'
'The first prerequisite of effective teamwork is trust.
At Whole Foods, building trust starts with the hiring
vote. Another element involves salaries. How better to
promote trust (both among team members and between
members and leaders) than to eliminate a major
source of distrust -- misinformed conjecture about who
makes what? So every Whole Foods store has a book that
lists the previous year's salary and bonus for
all 6,500 employees --by name.
'
What next... they have to help turn-over people involved in other questionable activity done on the phone? ... people who called escort services just because some group wants those names? ...identify people martha stewart connected with just because they might have talked about imclone?
Yeah, they can do that, but the process involves a warant. Just just a request from an industry group.
If they have to start monitoring for questionable activity from any group that requests it, the next step might be for them to be responsible for illegal activity.
Best outcome for the free software guys would be a policy that "If you buy defective software (any SW with any bug), you can return it to your vendor and get your money back.".
Amazon already bought an e-commerce search company for over $100 Million.
Feels like a dup from '98. :-)
I've noticed more activity from their spider (useragent ia_archiver) than I have from google on my domains recently; so I tend to believe they have a more up-to-date and possibly larger index.
IBM has worked long and hard to prove it's a friend of the open-source community.
- Gang-like tagging of city property
- Large, highly visible donations of software and cash into open source community projects
This isn't as a charity act. They're doing this because open source advocates are influential in many large hardware and software purchases around the worldBecause IBM thinks this community is influential, they guide their actions to appeal to them.
Defending the GPL is a great way to appeal to them -- even better than spraypainting grafiti on cities.
By HP saying they're indemnifying customers, they're betting that to the Legal departments (who manage risk) are the decision makers in companies.
By IBM saying they're defending the GPL, they're saying Technologists (who like the philosophy) and Finance (who like the price) are the decision makers.
IBM: "Free software wants to be free."
HP: "Pay us because free software is scary."
"July 14, 1997
A rival domain name registry to the official Internet registrar, InterNIC, redirected users from "www.internic.net" to its own site last weekend in what is being called a "protest." "
Internic was administered by Network Solutions at the time.
If I recall correctly, these were going to provide alternative root DNS services as alternative from the abuse that some of the monopoly players were subjecting people to.
Any projects like that still in existance?
Of course you could always et up your own TLD :-)
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/MagneticDi pole.html
Quadrapoles drop off even faster.
Put a couple magnets like this:
N----S
S----N
and you won't see much magnetic field at any big distances.
That's why refrigerator magnets feel funny too, and they're only strong for a few millimeters. That makes them safe on computer cases toNO CARRIER...
Also looks like a useful feature for criminology software used by smaller law enforcement agencies.
did you RTFA?
CNet claims "Magnetic induction differs from Bluetooth and just about every other wireless technique now available, most of which use what's known as radio frequency, or RF, signals--bursts of electrical energy that waft out like ripples in a pond until they reach an antenna.
Magnetic fields also create waves, but the waves form a kind of bubble, which stops growing after four feet, making them more secure than waves wafting endlessly in every direction, Cui said."
I think the author of the article was shooting for 5-funny.
Everyone pretty much knows that they want to have solid DRM (Palladium, etc); so what better way to test it than to practically dare everyone to break it.
Once people stop breaking it, I bet they release their DRM.
The press release of ER Server becoming open source is quite informative (karma?) as well.
Marc of PostgreSQL Inc's an incredible resource on the postgresql mailinglists too; and PostgreSQL Inc has a really cool policy that allowed them to do donate their code to the community that way:
From their release: " "DATELINE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2000 Open Source vs. Proprietary: We advocate Open Source, BSD style :) We will consider and develop
short term (up to 24 month) proprietary applications and solutions
where there is a strong business and intellectual property case to
be made. *All" proprietary developments that we are involved in
*will* become open source within two years of implementation,
without exception."
".
Also cool, they provide hosting http://www.pgsql.com/hosting/ which donates "25% of all profit from these services ... directly back into the PostgreSQL Project.
"
Ron
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just appreciative of Marc's contributions on the mailingslists and to postgresql as well.
A. Let it run for a week, it'll crash by itself
Q. How do you do a root exploit on a windows box. A. Log in, everyone sets all the acounts to have admin privileges anyway.
If someone opens a port on the computer, it means he wants to be able to communicate; and at that point he/she should specify who/where connections will be accepted.
Search for emails with 'sony'
Broaden search with emails with 'dv camera'
Narrow search for dates in q3 2002
Narrow search for the term "mpeg"
I've never seen any other email clients with the ability to refine searches as well. Some are far too slow to work on a large folder. Others can't keep broadening and narrowing searches.
Interesting... This the same claim as some organic farmers make against large-scale farms replacing all of certain crops with identical strains. A specific bug can wipe cause much more damage.