Does it mean something that open source developers seem to like wild animals -penguin, fox...- while big companies usually like cold boring inanimated or abstract objects?
self-appointed dimwits who eventually get drunk with power and do something crazy like blocking a whole country worth of IP space.
That's a good definition. But I hope the market will put them in their place, which for AHBL is out of business.
The value of a blacklisting service resides on how selective and accurate their lists are. If they're not, they're worth nothing.
For now, nobody in Spain can use AHBL's service anymore -this would mean like blocking half of the national's emails- and I hope nobody in the world will trust them anymore.
Wouldn't be better, for instance, blocking hotmail?
Yes, I live in Spain, you guess, but I'm not Telefonica's client, though all ADSL operators in Spain are forced to use Telefonica's backbone, and maybe ip addresses assigned by them I think.
That's ill reasoning: "Windows is more usable, windows is less secure, thus usability means insecurity".
What really happens is that the lack of usability in Linux is the main cause of insecure setups.
I am sure most of you guys can manage the thousands of setup options and configuration files Linux has. Not me. And not some other thousands of users.
As I occasionally use Linux, I have to rely on the default setup most of the times for most of the programs. But what happens when you need to change the default setup? Yo crawl through lines and lines of text till you find the f**ing line that changes the f**ing option you need to change. Before this, you have changed a dozen of some other options you are not really sure what are there for, just to try...
So, my conclusion is: - Security problems in Windows are caused mainly by bad design. - Security problems in Linux are caused mainly by bad usability.
I think they're forgetting about software, which becomes more and more demanding, rendering hardware performance's increase nearly useless.
For most of the software I use, I'd love to have a trimmed down version providing only that 20% of the features that 80% of the users exclusively use. Yes, Pareto's Law !!.
Only it is not in the market anymore:-(
Or is it a plot between hardware and software vendors?
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
An Interview. CNN's Aaron Brown talking to Hafez Al-Miraz, the chief Washington correspondent for Al Jazeera.
HAFEZ AL-MIRAZ, AL-JAZEERA CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: Good evening.
BROWN: Look, I'll play this as directly as I can. Explain to me the rationale that your network had for displaying what can only be described as the most gruesome of pictures across the Arab world?
AL-MIRAZ: Thank you for the opportunity. I would like just to explain, first of all, that Al-Jazeera, as you know, an independent news media. We're not taking sides in that conflict or in any other conflict. We are reporting the news. And we are putting out footage that we feel it is newsworthy sometimes for our own audience. This is an Arabic language news network. We don't broadcast in English or at least not yet.
The Al-Jazeera for the last three days have been putting out footages of bodies of Iraqi dead Iraqis. They were both armies or civilians. And today, the -- we found that there are footages, or we have a chance to put out footages, although it was shot by the Iraqi TV or part of it by Iraqi TV, of the other side of the war. Also the -- that the human suffering on the American level, on the American side.
Some of the footages for your case or my case may be -- would be controversial. Do you need to put that much of the footage or the close-up? And it is a debate, even in our news room for a while. People who feel that it is the reality of war. And you cannot have just war as video games and just the very sensitized image of the war. But the main point...
(CROSSTALK)
BROWN: Mr. Al-Miraz.
AL-MIRAZ:...is the footage of people who are dead and bodies were put to Al-Jazeera for the last two days of Iraqis. Today it was put on for American victims. It is very -- it's a tragedy. It is very painful and emotional issue.
BROWN: All right, sir...
AL-MIRAZ:...on both sides.
BROWN:...respectfully, I understand that. And I, believe me, would be the first to argue and have many times in my professional life, that we are not in the business of sanitizing war or anything else. But is not -- is there not a line between sanitizing the news and simply putting something on TV because it is gruesome. You can show the horror or war without zooming in on the most gruesome -- I mean, I don't -- I'm reluctant to even describe...
AL-MIRAZ: Yes.
BROWN:...what that 6.5 minutes looked like, because honestly, sir, it is vile.
AL-MIRAZ: And that's what happened. Al-Jazeera, when we got the chance to edit these tapes, first it was rushed and put out as is or mostly as is. And I agree with you. Some of it is really terrible and horrible. Unfortunately, some European networks, including Sky News, that is also the owners of Sky News are the owners of other U.S. networks, put the pictures as is. And maybe they did not edit out, but Al-Jazeera did edit out after that the pictures. And we made sure that it doesn't show a description of faces or anything like that. That happened on -- later on.
Also, we honor the request by the Pentagon to give them some time, not to play the footage -- not to play the video for the POWs until they identify them and notify the families. That happens around 12:00 noon today. And the -- my headquarters did really respond to that request for humanitarian consideration. And we honor this as of 12:00 noon, until like 8:00 p.m. today, Al-Jazeera did not put any of these footages or the POWs, while other networks in Europe, including U.S. allies like Spain state TV, Portugal, Belgium, others. They did put it out.
(CROSSTALK)
BROWN: And sir, and they have to -- sir, they have...
AL-MIRAZ: If I can finish, Aaron, on that.
BROWN: I'm sorry, but they have to answer for themselves.
AL-MIRAZ: That's true.
BROWN: In this case, sir, you have to answer for Al-Jazeer
If you have a site intended for a general audience, including also children, then you will have to move to the kids domain. And then you will have to remove all the external links !!
Why don't they let the external-links thing to be managed by the browser?. I mean creating some kind of toy-browsers for children that only display pages in the kids domain.
Otherwise, as kids may be a 'valuable audience' for most of non-adult websites, I see half of the Internet bottled in that kids domain that can only link to itself.
Will they music industry just stop these stupid efforts to play with their rules and finally addapt themselves to the new market?
Right now, because of copy protection systems, it is even more interesting for the users to buy a pirated CD. When they should be thinking of how to add value to their product -like including video images or extras with the cd- what they are doing is making their product lose value.
Have they ever thought of using new technologies - online distribution to retailers, CHEAP downloading services, online registration for cd owners to get some extras...- to make a better cheaper product?
How long does it take to any of us to get the songs through internet and then burn a CD? 15 min, half an hour? Don't they tell me they cant offer a competitive service given the massive economy of scale they are playing with...
Yes, this should be their way. Compete with file sharing networks.
I think we all should make them pay somewhere, not just deleting the e-mails. If it is not possible to sue them, there are other alternatives:
1. If they include a response e-mail address, send them an e-mail with a 1 Mb image that reads sth like "I don't want your shit. Stop mailing me".
2. If they include a web link, I would like to see some functionality added to my browser like "Slashdot spammer". This would do something like continuously send http requests to the servers in my black-list when my connection is iddle.
This way, spammers will be the ones who really need bayesian filtering:-)
- Stupid patents like this are reinforced. - MS are the only ones who can bundle their software into IE and claim it's not a plugin. - MS can afford to pay licensing fees for plugins included in Windows, which is not the case for Linux or Mozilla.
So, my question is: - Does Microsoft really want to win the case?
It's not that I think they didn't go to the Moon, but I find equally unreasonable both sides: the ones that say all the story is fake and the ones thay blindly believe NASA's story -most of us.
Hey guys, if you read about it, they may have a point: the flag, the shadows, the political context, etc... so maybe the book should be written.
The world is plenty of believers ready to buy into any theory they like.
the commercial products were more expensive for the first four to six years of lifetime costs, after which the Open Source product became more expensive.
And after 6 years. Does any vendor provides you any guarantee that they will be there supporting the product?
And if they're not there or they don't support the product anymore, will they open-source they code so you can find some kind of independent support?
I think the fact that the expected lifetime of the system is that long is just one more reason to go for open source !!!!
Step 1. Microsoft implements in Windows some kind of PDF reader. ("MS PDF Explorer?", Acrobat Reader gone!)
Step 2. Then, after giving "for free" their PDF editor, start adding new features to their PDF docs ("MS PDF Frontpage" or "save as pdf" option in word, Adobe Acrobat gone!)
Step 4. You have now "Adobe PDF" and "Microsoft PDF", guess who wins...
Step 5. Cry.
Though "Adobe PDF" may be some trademark, I don't think they can own ".pdf" file extension.
Slashdot Mirror
Same here.
And also because of the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox and because it's a paing to load and reload pages for testing without tabbed browsing.
And I think MS warning should be better: "Please, test your sites with Firefox to be sure they will work with IE7"
Does it mean something that open source developers seem to like wild animals -penguin, fox...- while big companies usually like cold boring inanimated or abstract objects?
Psychoanalyst wanted.
self-appointed dimwits who eventually get drunk with power and do something crazy like blocking a whole country worth of IP space.
That's a good definition. But I hope the market will put them in their place, which for AHBL is out of business.
The value of a blacklisting service resides on how selective and accurate their lists are. If they're not, they're worth nothing.
For now, nobody in Spain can use AHBL's service anymore -this would mean like blocking half of the national's emails- and I hope nobody in the world will trust them anymore.
Wouldn't be better, for instance, blocking hotmail?
Yes, I live in Spain, you guess, but I'm not Telefonica's client, though all ADSL operators in Spain are forced to use Telefonica's backbone, and maybe ip addresses assigned by them I think.
That's ill reasoning: "Windows is more usable, windows is less secure, thus usability means insecurity".
What really happens is that the lack of usability in Linux is the main cause of insecure setups.
I am sure most of you guys can manage the thousands of setup options and configuration files Linux has.
Not me. And not some other thousands of users.
As I occasionally use Linux, I have to rely on the default setup most of the times for most of the programs. But what happens when you need to change the default setup? Yo crawl through lines and lines of text till you find the f**ing line that changes the f**ing option you need to change. Before this, you have changed a dozen of some other options you are not really sure what are there for, just to try...
So, my conclusion is:
- Security problems in Windows are caused mainly by bad design.
- Security problems in Linux are caused mainly by bad usability.
I think they're forgetting about software, which becomes more and more demanding, rendering hardware performance's increase nearly useless.
:-(
;-)
For most of the software I use, I'd love to have a trimmed down version providing only that 20% of the features that 80% of the users exclusively use. Yes, Pareto's Law !!.
Only it is not in the market anymore
Or is it a plot between hardware and software vendors?
No, I really didn't want to talk about Windows
Passing a law that forbids governments and public institutions to buy products from convicted companies would be much better and a real punishment.
I find it as reasonable as software patents, so why shouldn't he try to cash in on it?
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Kristian Wilson, Nintendo VP, 1989
An Interview. CNN's Aaron Brown talking to Hafez Al-Miraz, the chief Washington correspondent for Al Jazeera.
...is the footage of people who are dead and bodies were put to Al-Jazeera for the last two days of Iraqis. Today it was put on for American victims. It is very -- it's a tragedy. It is very painful and emotional issue.
...on both sides.
...respectfully, I understand that. And I, believe me, would be the first to argue and have many times in my professional life, that we are not in the business of sanitizing war or anything else. But is not -- is there not a line between sanitizing the news and simply putting something on TV because it is gruesome. You can show the horror or war without zooming in on the most gruesome -- I mean, I don't -- I'm reluctant to even describe...
...what that 6.5 minutes looked like, because honestly, sir, it is vile.
HAFEZ AL-MIRAZ, AL-JAZEERA CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: Good evening.
BROWN: Look, I'll play this as directly as I can. Explain to me the rationale that your network had for displaying what can only be described as the most gruesome of pictures across the Arab world?
AL-MIRAZ: Thank you for the opportunity. I would like just to explain, first of all, that Al-Jazeera, as you know, an independent news media. We're not taking sides in that conflict or in any other conflict. We are reporting the news. And we are putting out footage that we feel it is newsworthy sometimes for our own audience. This is an Arabic language news network. We don't broadcast in English or at least not yet.
The Al-Jazeera for the last three days have been putting out footages of bodies of Iraqi dead Iraqis. They were both armies or civilians. And today, the -- we found that there are footages, or we have a chance to put out footages, although it was shot by the Iraqi TV or part of it by Iraqi TV, of the other side of the war. Also the -- that the human suffering on the American level, on the American side.
Some of the footages for your case or my case may be -- would be controversial. Do you need to put that much of the footage or the close-up? And it is a debate, even in our news room for a while. People who feel that it is the reality of war. And you cannot have just war as video games and just the very sensitized image of the war. But the main point...
(CROSSTALK)
BROWN: Mr. Al-Miraz.
AL-MIRAZ:
BROWN: All right, sir...
AL-MIRAZ:
BROWN:
AL-MIRAZ: Yes.
BROWN:
AL-MIRAZ: And that's what happened. Al-Jazeera, when we got the chance to edit these tapes, first it was rushed and put out as is or mostly as is. And I agree with you. Some of it is really terrible and horrible. Unfortunately, some European networks, including Sky News, that is also the owners of Sky News are the owners of other U.S. networks, put the pictures as is. And maybe they did not edit out, but Al-Jazeera did edit out after that the pictures. And we made sure that it doesn't show a description of faces or anything like that. That happened on -- later on.
Also, we honor the request by the Pentagon to give them some time, not to play the footage -- not to play the video for the POWs until they identify them and notify the families. That happens around 12:00 noon today. And the -- my headquarters did really respond to that request for humanitarian consideration. And we honor this as of 12:00 noon, until like 8:00 p.m. today, Al-Jazeera did not put any of these footages or the POWs, while other networks in Europe, including U.S. allies like Spain state TV, Portugal, Belgium, others. They did put it out.
(CROSSTALK)
BROWN: And sir, and they have to -- sir, they have...
AL-MIRAZ: If I can finish, Aaron, on that.
BROWN: I'm sorry, but they have to answer for themselves.
AL-MIRAZ: That's true.
BROWN: In this case, sir, you have to answer for Al-Jazeer
If it were only about selling Xboxes, they would do it for sure.
But, do they really want a -cheap- machine that can run Linux and not Windows ?
So, if they do allow it, Windows for Xbox will have to be next. And...then... What about the PC market?
?
...is very bad.
If you have a site intended for a general audience, including also children, then you will have to move to the kids domain. And then you will have to remove all the external links !!
Why don't they let the external-links thing to be managed by the browser?. I mean creating some kind of toy-browsers for children that only display pages in the kids domain.
Otherwise, as kids may be a 'valuable audience' for most of non-adult websites, I see half of the Internet bottled in that kids domain that can only link to itself.
Don't block pop-ups. Block sites that use pop-ups.
:-)
That's the option I was missing in Mozilla.
So they're blocking themselves now?
Fine!
Will they music industry just stop these stupid efforts to play with their rules and finally addapt themselves to the new market?
Right now, because of copy protection systems, it is even more interesting for the users to buy a pirated CD. When they should be thinking of how to add value to their product -like including video images or extras with the cd- what they are doing is making their product lose value.
Have they ever thought of using new technologies - online distribution to retailers, CHEAP downloading services, online registration for cd owners to get some extras...- to make a better cheaper product?
How long does it take to any of us to get the songs through internet and then burn a CD? 15 min, half an hour? Don't they tell me they cant offer a competitive service given the massive economy of scale they are playing with...
Yes, this should be their way. Compete with file sharing networks.
I think we all should make them pay somewhere, not just deleting the e-mails. If it is not possible to sue them, there are other alternatives:
:-)
1. If they include a response e-mail address, send them an e-mail with a 1 Mb image that reads sth like "I don't want your shit. Stop mailing me".
2. If they include a web link, I would like to see some functionality added to my browser like "Slashdot spammer". This would do something like continuously send http requests to the servers in my black-list when my connection is iddle.
This way, spammers will be the ones who really need bayesian filtering
Yes, it's possible. I think takeoff speed for one of this is about 150 mph.
But there's a trick: the flaps.
So, providing they're still operational and there's a hurricane, you could try........
The Australian government is planning to block websites used to organize violent protests against their policy.
Which is quite different, isn't it?
What if Eola wins?
- Stupid patents like this are reinforced.
- MS are the only ones who can bundle their software into IE and claim it's not a plugin.
- MS can afford to pay licensing fees for plugins included in Windows, which is not the case for Linux or Mozilla.
So, my question is:
- Does Microsoft really want to win the case?
It's not that I think they didn't go to the Moon, but I find equally unreasonable both sides: the ones that say all the story is fake and the ones thay blindly believe NASA's story -most of us.
Hey guys, if you read about it, they may have a point: the flag, the shadows, the political context, etc... so maybe the book should be written.
The world is plenty of believers ready to buy into any theory they like.
As I see it from outside, liberty is making progress in the US in the last times.
I mean President Bush's liberty to screw his own people and the rest of the world.
the commercial products were more expensive for the first four to six years of lifetime costs, after which the Open Source product became more expensive.
And after 6 years. Does any vendor provides you any guarantee that they will be there supporting the product?
And if they're not there or they don't support the product anymore, will they open-source they code so you can find some kind of independent support?
I think the fact that the expected lifetime of the system is that long is just one more reason to go for open source !!!!
"Our case is quite different from a factual point of view," (Quoted from the article)
Yes, it is.
For Europe the question is more like:
Do we want an american company to control nearly all desktops in Europe (in the world) ?
The answer in the US might be "yes, that's fine". But I hope we'll do better in Europe.
Remember Echelon?
Good one :-)
But I don't live in the US!
Oh, wait, I might have to travel to the US some day...
PDF is a documented, established format
That's right for the moment but what if...
Step 1. Microsoft implements in Windows some kind of PDF reader. ("MS PDF Explorer?", Acrobat Reader gone!)
Step 2. Then, after giving "for free" their PDF editor, start adding new features to their PDF docs ("MS PDF Frontpage" or "save as pdf" option in word, Adobe Acrobat gone!)
Step 4. You have now "Adobe PDF" and "Microsoft PDF", guess who wins...
Step 5. Cry.
Though "Adobe PDF" may be some trademark, I don't think they can own ".pdf" file extension.
can anyone remember the last time they actually came up with something innovative ?
Yes, when they took on HTML adding lots of "innovative features".
No, MS LinuX