Don't worry, they can afford to shred their abundance of crack money and scan each individual piece, they'll be ok.
I thought we were allowed to reproduce the US dollar as long as it was 2x the original. Does this mean that the us dollar is copyrighted? I don't recall seeing a (C) on it.
Could we get -2 for offtopic and being a troll?;-)
As for the nerd comment. Find an average consumer who has TiVo. I have three kids. Rule #1 in our house, "Thou shal now watch Live TV". they don't get commericals, they don't get the violence. It allows me as a parent to censor what I want them to watch.
Nerd or not, raising kids is a world belief. I'm sad to hear that, as a nerd, my kids will be less prone to "smack up them bitches".
But, then again, us "nerds" rule Slashdot. Trolls like.. well.. I'll wait for my moderator points..:-)
720p gives you 60 frames per second.
1080 gives you 60 frames per second, but, interlaced (30 half frames, interlaces together to make 60 total frames).
You watch The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King at the theater. You sit in awe. 24 Frames Per Second.
Now, you think that the LotR is smoooooth. But you say that 1080i isn't? Your mind sees approximately 22-30 frames per second. This is why a 1080i is indistiguishable, frame rate wise, from 720p.
Very very very very few people can see the difference.
I have a Sony DirecTivo unit that I've loved for many a years now. I love it more now that I am a beta user and got dual tuners before most of the public. (About two years of Beta's now)
But, what is so special about the new Hughes DirecTivo? I checked the CES website and the link, and there is nothing about specs. Notta new, other than HDTV. Ooo.. A piture that the Sony Tivo still kicks ass over. I havn't looked into DirecTV's specs about their broadcast of HDTV, but, I'm guessing it's highly compressed, and if you were to freeze frame, you'll see the aweful MPEG compression more than the picture itself. How much more bandwidth can you get out of older comm. satelitte? HDTV has about 4x the number of pixels over normal broadcast. You can't support both without giving up something.
About three months ago I added another 80GB drive to my Tivo. If it wasn't for the mother in law, I would still have 3 months worth of programming! (Either that, or it's the NHL Season package recording the Sharks Games...) Strangely, I've ran out of space due to the recent influx of some MTV over TiVo exlusive to DirecTV crap programming/previews.
Oh well. I avoid live TV like the plague. I guess it's time to rebless my hda drive with something bigger.
Wasn't it nice that they opened the Ted Williams and the northbound lanes at about the same time, alieving all that congestion? Sure made the northbound commute a breeze. Fix two problems one way and leave the south bound screwed up.
The Ted Williams has been opened for a long time, they just screwed with the tax payers by making it commercial and taxi's only during the day for well over a year. Those of us having to get to the airport had to fight our way up 93 or take route 1. About 6 months back I suppose they opened it up for everyone.
Glad I don't have to fly to Boston every few months. Hated driving over there. Loved the college girls though.;-)
Do you think Eolas is going to stop at Microsoft? Say goodbye to all your alternate browsers after they get a big chunk-o-change from M$. They will go after AOL/Netscape next. Then they'll go after Opera. Then they'll go after every other browser on the market that has Java or plug-in support. THey'll probably go after Sun claiming that Sun knowingly pushed their Servlet technology in violation of the patents.
Heck, their definition of "external data" is so broad, that means that an or could be considered illegal. It's so broad, that if SVG files may be illegal if they access "external data".
If your browser architecture used internally "plug-ins" for each image type (gif, png, etc), and those plugins went and fetched via HTTP themselves, then they are also in violation. So, there goes supporting new image types dynamically!
People aren't behind Microsoft because they want M$ to win. They are behind them because there really is more to this patent. It's bound to undermind the integrity of the WWW for one man's fiscal gain.
I have yet to actually find a true Virus in quite some time. I feel like rambling tonight! WOO HOO!.
So, to save time: WINE+Outlook=YES. Outlook is COM based. The worms that Script Kiddies cut-and-paste together use COM to access the Outlook DB to pick addresses, and then most use COM (or Winsock which is interfaced to the Linux Socket environment) to send the e-mails outbound containing their script-kiddie payload. BUT, THESE ARE NOT VIRUSES! 1) They require other applications to be running. 2) They are not self-infecting. They require the second hand user to do something (click the.VBS file attached.. DUH! HELLO!?!?). 3) They are not native code, rather just scripts.
Back in the old days, we had true viruses on computers. These would make themselves TSR's (Terminate and Stay Resident for you Windows only script kiddies). They would them append the EXE their own startup code. Finally, they modify an EXE's header so that their startup code would execute them, and then execute the program.
Part of the virii's startup code was to "infect" all other EXE's on the computer. This meant that if you ran the program, everytime you had a INT21 executed (in the MSDOS/PCDOS days, this was a file access system interrupt), it would search for other EXE's to attach to, or possibly execute it's code.
This is where the term Virus came from. It could "spread" from one host to another. And each time, it could inflict more damage until it killed the host computer.
Now days, we have worms. Worms are the dreams of script kiddies (yes, you little @$#@# dorks who sit at home thinking your stuff is 31337). They use the underlying applications failures to infect something, rather than being native code that does the job. (For us techies, 8086 Assember vs. VB Script that the kiddies cut-and-paste today from newsgroups)
If your WINE implementation has the nessesary GUID's expose for COM/DCOM/ActiveX/.NET/your buzzword of the day, then, to answer your question... YES WINE IS HACKABLE. By implementing the Windows OS, it inherics the COM system, which all Microsoft products use heavilly.
Enough history lesson. I'm going to go script myself a web browser that isn't IE... it just uses Microsoft's IE Active X component for browsing.. I shall call it, Iesm... And it shall be grand...
If you disassemble it in order to figure out how to put it back together, that's reverse engineering. I believe that somebody will sue you for DMCA violations. Rather, they'll just send a supena to you and let you cry for a week before revoking your TemplateMaster license.
I had a local ISP bounce my mail on this "DHCP" exception. Even though my IP hasn't changed in about a year. I host a number of mail domains for friends, and use a dynamic DNS provider to take care of my updates. Their domains just MX to my dynamic host name.
This is a direct quote:
"We block mail from known dialup pools and other dynamic IP blocks, due to the ever present risk of "direct to MX" spam originating from spammers running bulkmailer software equipped with smtp engine capablities, and "remailer" virii such as Sircam and Klez, which have their own smtp engines to remail copies of themselves."
Geee.. Really... So looking at my headers in my e-mail, couldn't you tell it's not a Klez or some other worm? Grow up. Spam filtering needs to start at the content level, not at the IP level. That breaks everything that the Internet was founded on.
While I was a huge video game buff as a kid, I don't let my kids get into it as much. (I was master of the "Back Brain Kick" on Pro Wrestling on the NES, and once kicked out of a "Greasy Spoon" burger joint as a kid because I had about 15 kids cheering me on as I was beating Super Mario Brothers).
My kids are partially adapt to modern gaming. But, I've really tried to NOT let them play on our PS/2 or my game computers. They are very happy beating Legend of Zelda for the SNES. They thought that was the greatest game ever, and now they are trying to beat all of the N64 Zelda games.
Time consuming, and mind provoking compared ot 007 for the PS/2 in my mind.
Of course, I'm trying to get them into a good baseball or soccer game for their next step. Something that they just can't memorize and play over and over. They still get to play on the PS/2 and XBox, but, very very limited time. I'll let their logical minds develop and then let them blow $h!7 up.
I'm just glad that they also find most Atari 5200 qualify Flash games very entertaining. Unfortunately my oldest just learned his first slang phrase. AHHH!!!
Quote.com on the other hand started around the '94 timeframe. They were doing customized stock portfolios based on logging in, setting a cookie, HTML edit of your list, etc. in late 95. I believe in early '96 timeframe they moved to a cookie only (no login) for some of their OEM/partner businesses.
I stuck around with my company for 5 years and then moved to Oregon, so I never had to use her again. But, she was very good.
She was able to negociate my salery from the offer ($45k) to what I wanted ($65k). But the company decided to cut the signing bonuses of $5k out. (Hmm.. $20k a year extra vs a signing bonus.. duh). She went ahead and gave me a check after I was hired for a portion of her commision.
About 8 months later I had a new son. She sent a over a congrats card along with gifts for the baby.
Great employee support! She even had checked in with my company over the first few months to make sure it was going OK for them.
I believe she has her own recruiting firm in the Valley now. Kathi Lucas was her name if I recall (her card is at home).
Since it wasn't a commercial response, and was not an advertisement, I believe it's OK.
Also, since it's in response to your web site, by posting your website, and your e-mail, questions directly related to it would be considered solicitated.;-)
But, who cares! He'll settle out of court first and just pay you $500 to avoid the court case. No harm done, and you get off a little richer.;-)
Verisign, in essence, has registered every domain and is providing DNS services for those domains. They should be forced to pay the standard registration fee to ICANN for every domain which was served during this outrage.
If I were to make it so that every unique domain on the internet went to my server, I would have to pay a Google's worth of cash (well, maybe some pun intended. But, long live Google! The best search engine and popup blocked!).
Anybody up for making a wget script to fetch a bad host with a 32 bit integer on the end until the end of time? I'm a Software Architect but feel like playing script kiddie for a day.;-)
To the extent that Consensus Policies are adopted in conformance with Section 4 of this Agreement, the measures permissible under Section 3(A)(ii)(b) shall include, without limitation: prohibitions on warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registries or registrars
Does this mean that they are prohibited from doing this as a registar?
I have no problem with people publishing "publiC" records. That's what we are here for in the US. The right to know and undertand the governemtn, and how/why it does things. Even our laws protect our free speach (as an indivirual..)
But, in the world public communication comes free distrbution of identity.. What says you are me use to be knowing you. Then a signature.. Then it became a picture on a cardcard.. The it became a PIN #.. And then your thum prit.. after that, it becme a retinal skan. then we need your retinal + a thumb....
The list will never end... we will always be forced into the world of private, yet personal identication. Because we choose to live "free", we assume the adept of anonyomous identification. But, because we live in a.. Communist is too political.. Democratic is to free (after all, they can "vote" on the DMCA?? er.. no.. we are a republic).. infact, all open governments are too free... lets say.. "Infactualistic"..
The world today is governed by the fact that they are right. And that the large corporations are right. Therefor, Patents are the holy book of thou-shall-not-steal. Somebody forgot to mention that being more creative and fiding a better way should not be against the law. On the otherhand, a concept create 40 years ago and then "adapted" after they watch what others do, that should be "ok".. NOT!!!
Lets face it.. we are stuck in the world of the "government" must know all.. After that, commercial companies feel that they "must know all". They feel free to sell this "know all" information because they need to "subsidize" revenue.
We all know on Slashdot that this is fark (pun intended). You need know nothing of me as I need to know who in a corporation/government has read my post. But, the right to post a semi(drunk)-inteligent post need not be censored nor prosecuted. Free speach meeans just that.
I can post a hate article in a news paper, but, I shall not be arrested. As such, I could post an article in support of Farktopia's claim of independance (we are 200+ seperate colonies within the US wishing to seperate but seek protection from the US...))
I hate free speach because its only free if you have money. Fark you. (did I mention I like Fark, but, it's all Farked now because it's censorship.. forgot that part).:-)
While AOL offers a package that gives "complete internet access", they forget to mention that if you post files online (and you are still online, thus, you should have COMPLETE access, which in my mind goes both ways. After all, FTP will connect back to you), they only go half way.
Come on. False advertising! They give you a proxied connection to the Internet. You don't have a public IP that somebody can call your BF1942 server from. Full access means you have a public IP address, people can go bi-directional.
Why call it complete when it's nothing more than proxied?!?
I once had to visit an AOL office up in the San Mateo hills in the Bay Area. They gave us an address, which we followed. It led to one office building that had an AOL logo as part of a common office space. But, we couldn't find the suite. So, we went to the "information desk", and asked the guy. "They are across the street at Suite XXXX". Come on! So we go across the street. Their offices look loked you were joining the Borg. Leather chairs that were 6" off the ground, all Halogen track lighting. Very secretive. Just plain wierd.
Screw lightbulbs, screw AMD processors, and screw your TiVo over-heat. Just hook up a bunch of NVidia video cards in parallel and play Battlefield till ya puke. Never the same lava twice!
Co-Lo's are a primary example, IMHO, of where the "lease" clause would come in. It's also probably the most identifiable way of assessing the tax.
I would be hesitent to say that leases might come in for T1's and other communication services, since those are already regulated. But, if they did, then assume dialup service will also be taxed, since you are leasing a dial-up service on a monthly basis with a contract.
I don't think it's required that in accounting, when you depreciate equipment, that you place every piece into the exact category of "LAN" vs "WAN" equipment. Too time consuming and labor intensive. People would just stop depricating it because it would save them money. Although with this law, it might be one of those "gotcha's" that they make ya do only in Florida. Wouldn't be the first time.
"Quick, we just had the core router go down because we ran out of UDP packet. Here's a signed P.O., run to Fry's an pick up a packet of them. It should cost around $100.00".
I thought sending our intern to Fry's Electronics to pick up UDP Packets was funny. They may actually tax for those now and we may have to actually buy them! AAHHHH! (Oh, best/worse part is his car broke down on the way there... Poor guy.. hehe)
Honestly though, what are they porting to? X11? Umm.. not really.. since most modern apps lend themselves to their WM/environment. Windows and OS X both have solid definitions about how to access the computers raw powers. With UNIX (and Linux, heaven forbid I mix the patents/copyrights/licences there) you have the issue of "What Windows Manager am I interfacing with"?!?) question.
While most are compatible, there is no substibute for the entire OS being dependant upon one... and only one.. window manager (lets face it, the XP GUI is a Windows Manager, running on an NT Kernel, with an NTFS file system... vs. a X11R6+KDE on Linux with UFS.)
If the Linux world could unite and bring together THE kick ass window manager (as Apple is trying to do with OS X.. Love the Aqua), then we have a real challenger, and more important, a reason to port to it. But, having everyone run in different directions doesn't help. The Kernel team atleast all moves in one direction. But, then we have all the distro's, each with their own install, their own GUI port (with extentions), etc.
No commercial company will want to port to that because the initial compatibility costs are too high, and now they have to hire all the Slashdot'ers to be in Tech Support, which breaks the projects bank.
I'm no lawyer, but, something is fishy here in SCO's grant of license. Something to talk about at the least.
The license does not grant any rights to use SCO IP in source format, nor does it grant any distribution rights. It is therefore inadequate to cure infringements for distributors, or any entity that uses, modifies or distributes Linux source code.
SCO openly admits that it is allowing the existing and future builds of Linux to be released with the said source code, available for download.
But, SCO is requiring that people "license" the product after knowingly allowing their code to be distributed under a completely different license (GPL). But, GPL Section 2 explicitely states that when you knowingly distribute "sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
So, is SCO violating the GPL license by knowingly distributing the source code with the Linux kernel (ie, a "part" of the Kernel), yet is not accepting the GPL license which states that you MUST accept the GPL license for that code which is distributed and that you may not charge a fee other than costs to recoup the transfering of media and/or warrenty?
While the license would allow them to distribute the SCO portions seperately (aka, not as a part of the kernel), and charge for those, it doesn't allow the SCO to knowingly distribute and then charge for that code.
This seems more like a racketeering case every time I read their own rules.
The license they are selling violates the GPL license in which the software is distributed.
They havn't attempted or shown attempt at this point to remove their IP as to not be in violation of the GPL license.
They are allowing the code to continue being distributed under GPL.
They are demanding money AFTER the fact for protection from their own claims.
By knowingly allowing the code to be distributed, allow somebody to accept that code under GPL, and then under the thread of a lawsuit, extort money to license the code after the fact would fall under Title 18, Chapt 95, Sec 1951.
I honestly find that this type of questioning to be very misleading. It's trying to compare "establishment" vs "knowledge".
I use to work for a computer store many years ago. I was 18, and I was the hot-shot PC repair kid. It wasn't because I had a job for 8 years, and dated back to mainframes (Ok, I had a TI-99-4a). I knew the modern technology.
Why would I want to go to some guy who doesn't understand what technical benefits you get from SCSI vs. IDE, or what the different levels of RAID. Does he/she really understand what an IRQ is, and what it is used for? What is DMA? The BIOS is beaping when it starts, but does he understand that's an old-school way of telling you you have no video, bad memory, etc?
We have licenses for hairdressers because of public safety concerns. We don't want them cutting us (health), or ruining our hair by cutting off the 18" pony tail I grew since I was 14 (Ok, I get a #2 on the sides, shortened on top and squared in the back every 5 weeks). Our cars, if repaired wrong, could cross over the center divider and kill 30 people on a bus. Thus, we have oversight. Same with doctors and dentists.
Government is very slow to react to new things. Does this mean that a person who got their certificate 5 years ago, and used Win 3.11 Workgroup Edition understands a Linux server, or a Win2k w/Active Directory? Are we going to have "Qualifitications" and a no-touchy touchy policy, until new certifications by the government are formed?
I thought I would answer the questions below from 9 years ago, when I did PC support, and today, as a Software Architecture Manager.
How long have you been doing this?
4 Years as a hobie, 2 months at my job here.
13 Years
Have you worked at and/or operated any other businesses recently?
I supported the XXXXXX XXXX School District and a number of small businesses around the area.
I have been a Software Engineering/Design manager for a number of top companies, including 5 years with the Internet company Lycos.
What do you know about Dell Poweredge?
Dell is a standard PC compatible. We can upgrade that hard drive or upgrade your OS for you.
Dell is a PC manufacturer who uses somewhat prioprietary hardware. Are you within your warranty? If not, I'll have a look at it. Otherwise, your best bet would be to call Dell and have them fix it. If you want it fixed now, I can do that, but, it might void your warranty. It also depends on what you want. Sometimes we have to get the parts from Dell, sometimes we can get them from other vendors.
What are your labour rates?
We are $60/hour
If you want me to go all out, it'll be $120/hr. But, I'll go flat rate for things. If you just want a new hard drive, I'll do it for $25. Memory $20 for my time.
How long have you been in this location?
(...........) Computers has been around for four years.
I just do contracting on the side, although I've been doing PC installs/repair for 13 years on the side, and do hands on purchasing, installation and support for the last 9 years on the job.
What steps would you take to ensure the
integrity of my data?
If we need to modify your data, we'll let you know. But, adding more memory just requires that we turn the PC on and make sure it sees the memory.
I can't guarantee anything. If you're worried, I would suggest backing it up. I can do a CD-ROM backup for you, but I I'll charge $30/cd. Depending on the data, that can get expensive.
What type of warranty do you offer?
We offer 30 day parts warranty, and free labor durnig that time.
After I install it, I can offer you the same warranty I'll get from wherever I purchase my supplies from. Normally 30 days. If it needs to go back to the manufacturer, normally a year, I'll be happy to do the work for you, but, I can't give you replacement parts.
Do you guarantee your labour? How?
We can only offer our warranty. If it's under that, we'll repair it.
I'll be here to support your needs. If it breaks, and it's something I did or bought for you, I'll get it fixed. But, I can only give you what the basic warranties for parts and hardware. After that, once it leaves the shop and you break it, it's a you buy it situation.
Now, in all of that, is there really that much difference that one person woudl say, "Oh my... he's much better". Looking back in time, I don't really think so.
Yes, I can tear apart a computer and probably find what's wrong with it. Infact, I'm the "Oh !@#$@#" guy for all my PC savvy friends. I always have been.
The point, again, that I'm trying to bring out is the difference between establishment (it's a "long standing" company) vs knowledge (DMA is "Directy Memory Access". It allows things, such as your new sound card, to transfer memory between your applications, and the sound card, without needing to use your processor. This makes it much more efficient, and makes it so it doesn't slow down your computer while playing music or sounds).
A car comes out once a year. They are all identical. A hair cut, guys get the normal Roman cut, girls like a little fluff. Styles take many years to change. I've had the same hair cut for four years.
PC changes come every day. I don't even think my PC four years ago had an AGP slot, let alone an 8xAPG w/FireWire and USB 2.0 that I have today.
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Screw an MSN search page, mine comes up with Google.
Don't worry, they can afford to shred their abundance of crack money and scan each individual piece, they'll be ok.
I thought we were allowed to reproduce the US dollar as long as it was 2x the original. Does this mean that the us dollar is copyrighted? I don't recall seeing a (C) on it.
Do you have CES link or are you just spouting wanna be techno garb?
:-)
Do you REALLY need the RAID support for your PC? My TiVo is IDE and lets me store months of programs.
If you have 2GB of inexpensive ram (about $200 these days?) You'll just load everything into RAM and never hit the HD.
Of course, if you are doing digital video, then we can start a new Slashdot thread.
Could we get -2 for offtopic and being a troll? ;-)
:-)
As for the nerd comment. Find an average consumer who has TiVo. I have three kids. Rule #1 in our house, "Thou shal now watch Live TV". they don't get commericals, they don't get the violence. It allows me as a parent to censor what I want them to watch.
Nerd or not, raising kids is a world belief. I'm sad to hear that, as a nerd, my kids will be less prone to "smack up them bitches".
But, then again, us "nerds" rule Slashdot. Trolls like.. well.. I'll wait for my moderator points..
720p gives you 60 frames per second. 1080 gives you 60 frames per second, but, interlaced (30 half frames, interlaces together to make 60 total frames). You watch The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King at the theater. You sit in awe. 24 Frames Per Second. Now, you think that the LotR is smoooooth. But you say that 1080i isn't? Your mind sees approximately 22-30 frames per second. This is why a 1080i is indistiguishable, frame rate wise, from 720p. Very very very very few people can see the difference.
I have a Sony DirecTivo unit that I've loved for many a years now. I love it more now that I am a beta user and got dual tuners before most of the public. (About two years of Beta's now)
But, what is so special about the new Hughes DirecTivo? I checked the CES website and the link, and there is nothing about specs. Notta new, other than HDTV. Ooo.. A piture that the Sony Tivo still kicks ass over. I havn't looked into DirecTV's specs about their broadcast of HDTV, but, I'm guessing it's highly compressed, and if you were to freeze frame, you'll see the aweful MPEG compression more than the picture itself. How much more bandwidth can you get out of older comm. satelitte? HDTV has about 4x the number of pixels over normal broadcast. You can't support both without giving up something.
About three months ago I added another 80GB drive to my Tivo. If it wasn't for the mother in law, I would still have 3 months worth of programming! (Either that, or it's the NHL Season package recording the Sharks Games...) Strangely, I've ran out of space due to the recent influx of some MTV over TiVo exlusive to DirecTV crap programming/previews.
Oh well. I avoid live TV like the plague. I guess it's time to rebless my hda drive with something bigger.
Wasn't it nice that they opened the Ted Williams and the northbound lanes at about the same time, alieving all that congestion? Sure made the northbound commute a breeze. Fix two problems one way and leave the south bound screwed up.
;-)
The Ted Williams has been opened for a long time, they just screwed with the tax payers by making it commercial and taxi's only during the day for well over a year. Those of us having to get to the airport had to fight our way up 93 or take route 1. About 6 months back I suppose they opened it up for everyone.
Glad I don't have to fly to Boston every few months. Hated driving over there. Loved the college girls though.
Do you think Eolas is going to stop at Microsoft? Say goodbye to all your alternate browsers after they get a big chunk-o-change from M$. They will go after AOL/Netscape next. Then they'll go after Opera. Then they'll go after every other browser on the market that has Java or plug-in support. THey'll probably go after Sun claiming that Sun knowingly pushed their Servlet technology in violation of the patents.
Heck, their definition of "external data" is so broad, that means that an or could be considered illegal. It's so broad, that if SVG files may be illegal if they access "external data".
If your browser architecture used internally "plug-ins" for each image type (gif, png, etc), and those plugins went and fetched via HTTP themselves, then they are also in violation. So, there goes supporting new image types dynamically!
People aren't behind Microsoft because they want M$ to win. They are behind them because there really is more to this patent. It's bound to undermind the integrity of the WWW for one man's fiscal gain.
I have yet to actually find a true Virus in quite some time. I feel like rambling tonight! WOO HOO!.
.VBS file attached.. DUH! HELLO!?!?). 3) They are not native code, rather just scripts.
So, to save time: WINE+Outlook=YES. Outlook is COM based. The worms that Script Kiddies cut-and-paste together use COM to access the Outlook DB to pick addresses, and then most use COM (or Winsock which is interfaced to the Linux Socket environment) to send the e-mails outbound containing their script-kiddie payload. BUT, THESE ARE NOT VIRUSES! 1) They require other applications to be running. 2) They are not self-infecting. They require the second hand user to do something (click the
Back in the old days, we had true viruses on computers. These would make themselves TSR's (Terminate and Stay Resident for you Windows only script kiddies). They would them append the EXE their own startup code. Finally, they modify an EXE's header so that their startup code would execute them, and then execute the program.
Part of the virii's startup code was to "infect" all other EXE's on the computer. This meant that if you ran the program, everytime you had a INT21 executed (in the MSDOS/PCDOS days, this was a file access system interrupt), it would search for other EXE's to attach to, or possibly execute it's code.
This is where the term Virus came from. It could "spread" from one host to another. And each time, it could inflict more damage until it killed the host computer.
Now days, we have worms. Worms are the dreams of script kiddies (yes, you little @$#@# dorks who sit at home thinking your stuff is 31337). They use the underlying applications failures to infect something, rather than being native code that does the job. (For us techies, 8086 Assember vs. VB Script that the kiddies cut-and-paste today from newsgroups)
If your WINE implementation has the nessesary GUID's expose for COM/DCOM/ActiveX/.NET/your buzzword of the day, then, to answer your question... YES WINE IS HACKABLE. By implementing the Windows OS, it inherics the COM system, which all Microsoft products use heavilly.
Enough history lesson. I'm going to go script myself a web browser that isn't IE... it just uses Microsoft's IE Active X component for browsing.. I shall call it, Iesm... And it shall be grand...
If you disassemble it in order to figure out how to put it back together, that's reverse engineering. I believe that somebody will sue you for DMCA violations. Rather, they'll just send a supena to you and let you cry for a week before revoking your TemplateMaster license.
I had a local ISP bounce my mail on this "DHCP" exception. Even though my IP hasn't changed in about a year. I host a number of mail domains for friends, and use a dynamic DNS provider to take care of my updates. Their domains just MX to my dynamic host name.
This is a direct quote:
"We block mail from known dialup pools and other dynamic IP blocks, due to the ever present risk of "direct to MX" spam originating from spammers running bulkmailer software equipped with smtp engine capablities, and "remailer" virii such as Sircam and Klez, which have their own smtp engines to remail copies of themselves."
Geee.. Really... So looking at my headers in my e-mail, couldn't you tell it's not a Klez or some other worm? Grow up. Spam filtering needs to start at the content level, not at the IP level. That breaks everything that the Internet was founded on.
While I was a huge video game buff as a kid, I don't let my kids get into it as much. (I was master of the "Back Brain Kick" on Pro Wrestling on the NES, and once kicked out of a "Greasy Spoon" burger joint as a kid because I had about 15 kids cheering me on as I was beating Super Mario Brothers).
My kids are partially adapt to modern gaming. But, I've really tried to NOT let them play on our PS/2 or my game computers. They are very happy beating Legend of Zelda for the SNES. They thought that was the greatest game ever, and now they are trying to beat all of the N64 Zelda games.
Time consuming, and mind provoking compared ot 007 for the PS/2 in my mind.
Of course, I'm trying to get them into a good baseball or soccer game for their next step. Something that they just can't memorize and play over and over. They still get to play on the PS/2 and XBox, but, very very limited time. I'll let their logical minds develop and then let them blow $h!7 up.
I'm just glad that they also find most Atari 5200 qualify Flash games very entertaining. Unfortunately my oldest just learned his first slang phrase. AHHH!!!
Quote.com on the other hand started around the '94 timeframe. They were doing customized stock portfolios based on logging in, setting a cookie, HTML edit of your list, etc. in late 95. I believe in early '96 timeframe they moved to a cookie only (no login) for some of their OEM/partner businesses.
Atleast stock quotes are safe.
I stuck around with my company for 5 years and then moved to Oregon, so I never had to use her again. But, she was very good.
She was able to negociate my salery from the offer ($45k) to what I wanted ($65k). But the company decided to cut the signing bonuses of $5k out. (Hmm.. $20k a year extra vs a signing bonus.. duh). She went ahead and gave me a check after I was hired for a portion of her commision.
About 8 months later I had a new son. She sent a over a congrats card along with gifts for the baby.
Great employee support! She even had checked in with my company over the first few months to make sure it was going OK for them.
I believe she has her own recruiting firm in the Valley now. Kathi Lucas was her name if I recall (her card is at home).
Since it wasn't a commercial response, and was not an advertisement, I believe it's OK.
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Also, since it's in response to your web site, by posting your website, and your e-mail, questions directly related to it would be considered solicitated.
But, who cares! He'll settle out of court first and just pay you $500 to avoid the court case. No harm done, and you get off a little richer.
Verisign, in essence, has registered every domain and is providing DNS services for those domains. They should be forced to pay the standard registration fee to ICANN for every domain which was served during this outrage.
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If I were to make it so that every unique domain on the internet went to my server, I would have to pay a Google's worth of cash (well, maybe some pun intended. But, long live Google! The best search engine and popup blocked!).
Anybody up for making a wget script to fetch a bad host with a 32 bit integer on the end until the end of time? I'm a Software Architect but feel like playing script kiddie for a day.
Here is the agreement that Versign operates the .COM and .NET TLD's.
http://www.icann.org/nsi/nsi-registry-agreement-0Section 3.C.ii says:
Does this mean that they are prohibited from doing this as a registar?
I have no problem with people publishing "publiC" records. That's what we are here for in the US. The right to know and undertand the governemtn, and how/why it does things. Even our laws protect our free speach (as an indivirual..)
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But, in the world public communication comes free distrbution of identity.. What says you are me use to be knowing you. Then a signature.. Then it became a picture on a cardcard.. The it became a PIN #.. And then your thum prit.. after that, it becme a retinal skan. then we need your retinal + a thumb....
The list will never end... we will always be forced into the world of private, yet personal identication. Because we choose to live "free", we assume the adept of anonyomous identification. But, because we live in a.. Communist is too political.. Democratic is to free (after all, they can "vote" on the DMCA?? er.. no.. we are a republic).. infact, all open governments are too free... lets say.. "Infactualistic"..
The world today is governed by the fact that they are right. And that the large corporations are right. Therefor, Patents are the holy book of thou-shall-not-steal. Somebody forgot to mention that being more creative and fiding a better way should not be against the law. On the otherhand, a concept create 40 years ago and then "adapted" after they watch what others do, that should be "ok".. NOT!!!
Lets face it.. we are stuck in the world of the "government" must know all.. After that, commercial companies feel that they "must know all". They feel free to sell this "know all" information because they need to "subsidize" revenue.
We all know on Slashdot that this is fark (pun intended). You need know nothing of me as I need to know who in a corporation/government has read my post. But, the right to post a semi(drunk)-inteligent post need not be censored nor prosecuted. Free speach meeans just that.
I can post a hate article in a news paper, but, I shall not be arrested. As such, I could post an article in support of Farktopia's claim of independance (we are 200+ seperate colonies within the US wishing to seperate but seek protection from the US...))
I hate free speach because its only free if you have money. Fark you. (did I mention I like Fark, but, it's all Farked now because it's censorship.. forgot that part).
While AOL offers a package that gives "complete internet access", they forget to mention that if you post files online (and you are still online, thus, you should have COMPLETE access, which in my mind goes both ways. After all, FTP will connect back to you), they only go half way.
Come on. False advertising! They give you a proxied connection to the Internet. You don't have a public IP that somebody can call your BF1942 server from. Full access means you have a public IP address, people can go bi-directional.
Why call it complete when it's nothing more than proxied?!?
I once had to visit an AOL office up in the San Mateo hills in the Bay Area. They gave us an address, which we followed. It led to one office building that had an AOL logo as part of a common office space. But, we couldn't find the suite. So, we went to the "information desk", and asked the guy. "They are across the street at Suite XXXX". Come on! So we go across the street. Their offices look loked you were joining the Borg. Leather chairs that were 6" off the ground, all Halogen track lighting. Very secretive. Just plain wierd.
Screw lightbulbs, screw AMD processors, and screw your TiVo over-heat. Just hook up a bunch of NVidia video cards in parallel and play Battlefield till ya puke. Never the same lava twice!
Co-Lo's are a primary example, IMHO, of where the "lease" clause would come in. It's also probably the most identifiable way of assessing the tax.
I would be hesitent to say that leases might come in for T1's and other communication services, since those are already regulated. But, if they did, then assume dialup service will also be taxed, since you are leasing a dial-up service on a monthly basis with a contract.
I don't think it's required that in accounting, when you depreciate equipment, that you place every piece into the exact category of "LAN" vs "WAN" equipment. Too time consuming and labor intensive. People would just stop depricating it because it would save them money. Although with this law, it might be one of those "gotcha's" that they make ya do only in Florida. Wouldn't be the first time.
I thought sending our intern to Fry's Electronics to pick up UDP Packets was funny. They may actually tax for those now and we may have to actually buy them! AAHHHH! (Oh, best/worse part is his car broke down on the way there... Poor guy.. hehe)
Honestly though, what are they porting to? X11? Umm.. not really.. since most modern apps lend themselves to their WM/environment. Windows and OS X both have solid definitions about how to access the computers raw powers. With UNIX (and Linux, heaven forbid I mix the patents/copyrights/licences there) you have the issue of "What Windows Manager am I interfacing with"?!?) question.
While most are compatible, there is no substibute for the entire OS being dependant upon one... and only one.. window manager (lets face it, the XP GUI is a Windows Manager, running on an NT Kernel, with an NTFS file system... vs. a X11R6+KDE on Linux with UFS.)
If the Linux world could unite and bring together THE kick ass window manager (as Apple is trying to do with OS X.. Love the Aqua), then we have a real challenger, and more important, a reason to port to it. But, having everyone run in different directions doesn't help. The Kernel team atleast all moves in one direction. But, then we have all the distro's, each with their own install, their own GUI port (with extentions), etc.
No commercial company will want to port to that because the initial compatibility costs are too high, and now they have to hire all the Slashdot'ers to be in Tech Support, which breaks the projects bank.
The license does not grant any rights to use SCO IP in source format, nor does it grant any distribution rights. It is therefore inadequate to cure infringements for distributors, or any entity that uses, modifies or distributes Linux source code.
SCO openly admits that it is allowing the existing and future builds of Linux to be released with the said source code, available for download. But, SCO is requiring that people "license" the product after knowingly allowing their code to be distributed under a completely different license (GPL). But, GPL Section 2 explicitely states that when you knowingly distribute "sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
So, is SCO violating the GPL license by knowingly distributing the source code with the Linux kernel (ie, a "part" of the Kernel), yet is not accepting the GPL license which states that you MUST accept the GPL license for that code which is distributed and that you may not charge a fee other than costs to recoup the transfering of media and/or warrenty?
While the license would allow them to distribute the SCO portions seperately (aka, not as a part of the kernel), and charge for those, it doesn't allow the SCO to knowingly distribute and then charge for that code.
This seems more like a racketeering case every time I read their own rules.
- The license they are selling violates the GPL license in which the software is distributed.
- They havn't attempted or shown attempt at this point to remove their IP as to not be in violation of the GPL license.
- They are allowing the code to continue being distributed under GPL.
- They are demanding money AFTER the fact for protection from their own claims.
By knowingly allowing the code to be distributed, allow somebody to accept that code under GPL, and then under the thread of a lawsuit, extort money to license the code after the fact would fall under Title 18, Chapt 95, Sec 1951.Any views on this?
I use to work for a computer store many years ago. I was 18, and I was the hot-shot PC repair kid. It wasn't because I had a job for 8 years, and dated back to mainframes (Ok, I had a TI-99-4a). I knew the modern technology.
Why would I want to go to some guy who doesn't understand what technical benefits you get from SCSI vs. IDE, or what the different levels of RAID. Does he/she really understand what an IRQ is, and what it is used for? What is DMA? The BIOS is beaping when it starts, but does he understand that's an old-school way of telling you you have no video, bad memory, etc?
We have licenses for hairdressers because of public safety concerns. We don't want them cutting us (health), or ruining our hair by cutting off the 18" pony tail I grew since I was 14 (Ok, I get a #2 on the sides, shortened on top and squared in the back every 5 weeks). Our cars, if repaired wrong, could cross over the center divider and kill 30 people on a bus. Thus, we have oversight. Same with doctors and dentists.
Government is very slow to react to new things. Does this mean that a person who got their certificate 5 years ago, and used Win 3.11 Workgroup Edition understands a Linux server, or a Win2k w/Active Directory? Are we going to have "Qualifitications" and a no-touchy touchy policy, until new certifications by the government are formed?
I thought I would answer the questions below from 9 years ago, when I did PC support, and today, as a Software Architecture Manager.
How long have you been doing this?
Have you worked at and/or operated any other businesses recently?
What do you know about Dell Poweredge?
What are your labour rates?
How long have you been in this location?
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......) Computers has been around for four years.
- I just do contracting on the side, although I've been doing PC installs/repair for 13 years on the side, and do hands on purchasing, installation and support for the last 9 years on the job.
What steps would you take to ensure the integrity of my data?- If we need to modify your data, we'll let you know. But, adding more memory just requires that we turn the PC on and make sure it sees the memory.
- I can't guarantee anything. If you're worried, I would suggest backing it up. I can do a CD-ROM backup for you, but I I'll charge $30/cd. Depending on the data, that can get expensive.
What type of warranty do you offer?Do you guarantee your labour? How?
Now, in all of that, is there really that much difference that one person woudl say, "Oh my... he's much better". Looking back in time, I don't really think so.
Yes, I can tear apart a computer and probably find what's wrong with it. Infact, I'm the "Oh !@#$@#" guy for all my PC savvy friends. I always have been.
The point, again, that I'm trying to bring out is the difference between establishment (it's a "long standing" company) vs knowledge (DMA is "Directy Memory Access". It allows things, such as your new sound card, to transfer memory between your applications, and the sound card, without needing to use your processor. This makes it much more efficient, and makes it so it doesn't slow down your computer while playing music or sounds).
A car comes out once a year. They are all identical. A hair cut, guys get the normal Roman cut, girls like a little fluff. Styles take many years to change. I've had the same hair cut for four years.
PC changes come every day. I don't even think my PC four years ago had an AGP slot, let alone an 8xAPG w/FireWire and USB 2.0 that I have today.
All in all, Fun Stuff!