How would microsoft's desktop OS possibly effect how people use low end servers running Linux or (???) Netware?
FileServer - If the desktop OS can no longer access the linux fileserver because there are no longer and "drives" or "folders" or even "files" -- this would possible affect the servers' use.
As long as the APIs retain backwards compatibility, most programs should adapt to the new file system just fine
Refer to the many, many posts that say that backward compatibility is not in the product design
FUD. Oracle is SQL 92 [oracle.com] compliant with the release of 9i that's been out for a while now.
I agree that both databases are fairly different, but from what I know about Oracle, it is SO much more resiliant to failure than SQL Server.
Examples available upon request.
How can you hire one person, give them God access, and trust they won't abuse it? you cannot, and you never will. Checks and balances -- hire a staff, not a person.
If co-admins can see the changes I've made and call me on them, my opportunity to screw with the company is dimished. Granted it's not completely gone, but it is less than if no one ever saw what I did.
You cannot keep one person happy forever. But with a staff you can attempt to control the unexpected life-events of your employees (which could cause someone to steal) with the decent salaries / work hours / conditions / respect / recognition that have been mentioned above.
"What can this case do?"... "As wrong as DMCA might be, it is a law at the moment."
If Elcomsoft is found negligent, they can appeal. The federal court could find that the DMCA is unconstitutional and render it inapplicable for the 7 or so states under which it has jurisdiction.
Aspirin was first sold as a powder. In 1915, the first Aspirin tablets were made. Interestingly, Aspirin ® and Heroin ® were once trademarks belonging to Bayer. After Germany lost World War I, Bayer was forced to give up both trademarks as part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
In theory, you can then have the RIAA arrested for violating the DMCA, or at least try to get your case thrown out. (The "evidence" that you had the MP3 is inadmissible if they obtain it illegally, is it not?)
This is an interesting legal argument, but it doesn't apply to non-US users as it's a DMCA provision. And I'm pretty sure the companies would choose to apply the US copyright law, but not the DMCA anti-reverse engineering laws.
Many have already commented on the claim of supposed security of not using C/C++. So following his "logic" - you shouldn't increase the length the length of code by 4-8 times by using C++ (my paraphrase) -- but you should write all of your own code?
avoid third party code whenever possible. Take the time and reinvent the damn wheel.
Sorry, but if I agree that one person can not make Oracle (by this I assume he means the database) secure - then wouldn't multiple people on the project at least help? Maybe they can see the things that I cannot see? AFAIK, the more that can find flaws in software the quicker it gets more secure (as in nothing will sever be completely secure)
Unless this Court grants an extension, this Final Judgment will expire on the fifth anniversary of the date on which it takes effect.
This lawsuit has taken four years. I think five years, even with the possiblity of an extension is way too short.
And just because I thought it was interesting, here's the definition of an OS:
"Operating System" means the software code that, inter alia, (i) controls the allocation
and usage of hardware resources (such as the microprocessor and various peripheral
devices) of a Personal Computer, (ii) provides a platform for developing applications by
exposing functionality to ISVs through APIs, and (iii) supplies a user interface that
enables users to access functionality of the operating system and in which they can run
applications.
It's probably too late for this to do any google, but here's google's take on Secret Websites and URL guessing (from their webmaster's FAQ)
6. Googlebot is downloading information from our "secret" web server.
It is almost impossible to keep a web server secret by not publishing any links to it. As soon as someone follows a link from your "secret" server to another web server, it is likely that your "secret" URL is in the referer tag, and it can be stored and possibly published by the other web server in its referer log. So, if there is a link to your "secret" web server or page on the web anywhere, it is likely that Googlebot and other "web crawlers" will find it.
IMHO, If you put something out there, and don't restrict anyonymous access, the information is freely accessible. Access is implicitly given - you can restrict access, not grant it.
Anybody know why mozzila 1.2 beta can't block the advertisement image on the cnet link?
When I right click on it, it says it is already blocked--but I'm seeing it?
Same thing happened to me (in 1.1). the image was coming from adlog.com.com -- I blocked, refreshed and another ad took its place from adlog.com.com.. Block, refresh, and this time no ads.
ok, so XM is expensive, that's true. And all things being equal, it's very tough to make it up on volume when you're loosing money on each transaction. I currently have XM, and to be honest, I don't know if I'd buy it again, but I do love having it
That being said, here are three reasons to get it:
XM Unsigned - radio play for independent, nonsigned bands
Commercial Free - XM has a mix of commercial free stations with 24 hour music, and commercial stations (VH1, MTV, etc)
Seeing the name of the band and song you're listening to is very cool
So, reasons not to get it?
You might be throwing money away on technology that doesn't see a long life (of course, some people got $100 back on their DIVX players)
$10.95 per month, per device
$500 setup - new cd player, new receiver, new antennae
"Yes, IP is more important than DNS. But is Ethernet more important than TCP?" Yes, and electricity is more important than TCP.
ok, I concede that without DNS, the internet would be useless to most users. But I maintain this is only because of a reliance on usability (domain names vs. IP addresses), which is not in and of itself a bad thing. The internet would function perfectly fine without a higher-power translating a string into a number.
Earthlink has 207.217.120.109, and even the smallest local ISP has its own DNS server.
You're correct in that there are more than 13 DNS servers.I've got my own, which may or my not lie - it's these 13 that are "trusted"... so to speak.
Now, when you're configuring your network stack, in fact, when you described to me the various DNS servers, what is the important part- the name or the IP number? the number - which helps to prove my point that IP is more important than DNS.
Article: "The Domain Name System (DNS), which converts complex Internet protocol addressing codes into the words and names that form e-mail and Web addresses, relies on the servers to tell computers around the world how to reach key Internet domains."
The "IP system" should have been fine. The DNS system, which has become an integral part of the "internet" is not decentralized as regular internet infrastructure is. Yes it is supposed to withstand a nuclear war, and yes, it would have. btw, the system worked yesterday. only 4 of 13 may have survided, but the system still ran.
We can have the internet without dns, but we cannot have dns without the internet
So, even if we have 20,000 liberals move here, that still won't change our conservative state!
Since when does liberty-oriented necessarily mean liberally-oriented? Opting out of federal programs doesn't sound liberal to me.
But don't take my word for it. From the article: "What do we mean by liberty? We believe that being free and independent is a great way to live, and that government's only role should be to help individuals defend themselves from force and fraud."
"I have a web app that works on Netscape 6.x and higher as well as the Mozilla's that spawned them and other Gecko based browsers. However, it only works on IE 5.5. It won't work on 5.0 because the JavaScript and DOM are incomplete and 6.0 renders pages horribly."
If you're able, would you post a link to this app? I'm interested to see for myself a site that works in Mozilla, but not in IE -- as opposed to the cliche that we see.
Slashdot Mirror
just a small detail, but Office XP is already out -- that's what Office 10 / Office 2002 was.
It's pretty standard for employees to rack up the frequent-flyer miles. I've actually never heard of a case where the employee had to give them back.
FileServer - If the desktop OS can no longer access the linux fileserver because there are no longer and "drives" or "folders" or even "files" -- this would possible affect the servers' use.
Refer to the many, many posts that say that backward compatibility is not in the product design
Epinions was founded in May 1999 by executives from leading Internet companies including Yahoo!, Netscape, and Excite@Home. http://www.epinions.com/about/show_~corporate
How can you hire one person, give them God access, and trust they won't abuse it? you cannot, and you never will. Checks and balances -- hire a staff, not a person.
If co-admins can see the changes I've made and call me on them, my opportunity to screw with the company is dimished. Granted it's not completely gone, but it is less than if no one ever saw what I did.
You cannot keep one person happy forever. But with a staff you can attempt to control the unexpected life-events of your employees (which could cause someone to steal) with the decent salaries / work hours / conditions / respect / recognition that have been mentioned above.
"What can this case do?" ... "As wrong as DMCA might be, it is a law at the moment."
If Elcomsoft is found negligent, they can appeal. The federal court could find that the DMCA is unconstitutional and render it inapplicable for the 7 or so states under which it has jurisdiction.
True, but you also said "because people begun calling those types of products by their trademark"
My point was solely that Aspirin was no longer a trademark because of a treaty, not because they didn't defend their trademark.
This is an interesting legal argument, but it doesn't apply to non-US users as it's a DMCA provision. And I'm pretty sure the companies would choose to apply the US copyright law, but not the DMCA anti-reverse engineering laws.
Many have already commented on the claim of supposed security of not using C/C++. So following his "logic" - you shouldn't increase the length the length of code by 4-8 times by using C++ (my paraphrase) -- but you should write all of your own code?
Sorry, but if I agree that one person can not make Oracle (by this I assume he means the database) secure - then wouldn't multiple people on the project at least help? Maybe they can see the things that I cannot see? AFAIK, the more that can find flaws in software the quicker it gets more secure (as in nothing will sever be completely secure)
MIT's The Tech is actually located at http://www-tech.mit.edu/... way to check those links.
This lawsuit has taken four years. I think five years, even with the possiblity of an extension is way too short.
And just because I thought it was interesting, here's the definition of an OS:It's probably too late for this to do any google
Uh, yeah, I mean do any good.
It's probably too late for this to do any google, but here's google's take on Secret Websites and URL guessing (from their webmaster's FAQ)
IMHO, If you put something out there, and don't restrict anyonymous access, the information is freely accessible. Access is implicitly given - you can restrict access, not grant it.Anybody know why mozzila 1.2 beta can't block the advertisement image on the cnet link? When I right click on it, it says it is already blocked--but I'm seeing it?
Same thing happened to me (in 1.1). the image was coming from adlog.com.com -- I blocked, refreshed and another ad took its place from adlog.com.com.. Block, refresh, and this time no ads.Do not attempt to reverse engineer or theorize about this encryption. They say it's encrypted, that's enough for you.
/. = slash dot = the website you are currently reading.
I have no excuse. none.ok, so XM is expensive, that's true. And all things being equal, it's very tough to make it up on volume when you're loosing money on each transaction. I currently have XM, and to be honest, I don't know if I'd buy it again, but I do love having it
That being said, here are three reasons to get it:
So, reasons not to get it?
"Yes, IP is more important than DNS. But is Ethernet more important than TCP?" Yes, and electricity is more important than TCP.
ok, I concede that without DNS, the internet would be useless to most users. But I maintain this is only because of a reliance on usability (domain names vs. IP addresses), which is not in and of itself a bad thing. The internet would function perfectly fine without a higher-power translating a string into a number.
You're correct in that there are more than 13 DNS servers.I've got my own, which may or my not lie - it's these 13 that are "trusted" ... so to speak.
Now, when you're configuring your network stack, in fact, when you described to me the various DNS servers, what is the important part- the name or the IP number? the number - which helps to prove my point that IP is more important than DNS.
Article: "The Domain Name System (DNS), which converts complex Internet protocol addressing codes into the words and names that form e-mail and Web addresses, relies on the servers to tell computers around the world how to reach key Internet domains."
The "IP system" should have been fine. The DNS system, which has become an integral part of the "internet" is not decentralized as regular internet infrastructure is. Yes it is supposed to withstand a nuclear war, and yes, it would have. btw, the system worked yesterday. only 4 of 13 may have survided, but the system still ran.
We can have the internet without dns, but we cannot have dns without the internet
Since when does liberty-oriented necessarily mean liberally-oriented? Opting out of federal programs doesn't sound liberal to me.
But don't take my word for it. From the article: "What do we mean by liberty? We believe that being free and independent is a great way to live, and that government's only role should be to help individuals defend themselves from force and fraud."
If you're able, would you post a link to this app? I'm interested to see for myself a site that works in Mozilla, but not in IE -- as opposed to the cliche that we see.