One hopes this will to for (or to) Price Rite what exposure on Slashdot has already done for Sony-BMG. I'm personally surprised that this company doesn't already change their name every few months just to shed their past image.
1: How do you handle contributors who can't tell fact from Urban Legend?
2: How do you keep the project from being taken over by those with a particular idealogical bent? (See the ongoing battle over entries dealing with 'Scientology'.)
The Sun rose and the Earth turned to meet a new day before anyone had a RIM Blackberry. The same will still happen if Blackberry goes away. A Blackberry is hardly essential to life.
That being said, I completely agree with previous posters who have said that if Blackberry service is shut down for all subscribers for a few weeks that some long overdue revision of the patent system will have a greater chance of happening. After all, Blackberry users are more likely to be Movers & Shakers than the average population. Getting them all angry at once might not be a bad thing.
From what I've heard, 7 of the 8 NTP patents have already been overturned, and the final one is in jeopardy. Would RIM get all their money back (plus damages is too much to expect) if all the patents are ruled invalid? They should!
It didn't take a computer scientist with a PhD to sniff out Sony BMG's software glitch. It was spotted by John Guarino, owner of TecAngels.com, a two-person PC-repair outfit in midtown Manhattan...After investigating, he discovered that it was Sony BMG's software. His "Aha!" moment came on Sept. 30 when he loaded a CD by pop singer Amerie onto his laptop computer and confirmed that the offending software came with it.
"This was really bad," he says. "The worst thing you can have on your computer right now is a rootkit, and Sony was installing it on people's computers."
That's when F-Secure got into the act. Guarino sent an e-mail to the Finnish company, since it makes the rootkit-detector software that he used to investigate. F-Secure did its own investigation and notified Sony DADC, which manufactures Sony BMG CDs, on Oct. 4.
Get the most highly inflated receipt you think you can get away with. Something like $75/hour for an entire day's diagnosis, reformat, reload operating system, reload all applications, fully test system, and give a new burn in. Since Sony's paying, let them pay for the deluxe treatment.
F-Secure was acting in the best interest of the people who had been infected by this rootkit.
Then why didn't F-Secure release a update to detect and remove the rootkit and the rest of the compromising software without waiting for Sony? Not what I call acting in the best interest of anybody except Sony.
And if they were ducking for cover from Sony's lawyers and legal threats, then they're even worse!
Its called proffesional courtesey. If they immediatly notified the public, there would have been an exploit that many days sooner, before ANY action could be taken to fix it.
Funny, with a month's quiet warning time themselves I didn't see F-Secure releasing a detect and remove solution to this infection. Are they really this slow in responding to all threats already out in the wild?
That gives the developers time to at least create a patch to prevent any further damage.
Oh really??? And how is this patch delivered? When your music CD phones home the next time, is it supposed to download Service Pack 1? And are you asked if you want to do this? And if your computer isn't even connected to the Internet, but you want to be able to rip and burn other CDs while not having your limited memory and processing resources continually sucked up by this permanently running program?
Face it, there was no way for Sony to fix this once they let it out on CD.
they were in violation of CA and TX's computer privacy laws
I'm glad it's a couple big states here with these laws. Sony might be able to ignore Delaware as a market if selling their DRM-infected crap broke that state's law, but together CA and TX are bigger than some countries.
And isn't the RIAA's home office in CA?:^) Interesting how I've yet to hear the RIAA staff saying we play DRM protected CDs on our home computers all the time. I mean, don't they use their own products?
Now I'm pissed (and I don't mean drunk). This suckes (and I don't mean vacuums up well). F-Secure knew a month earlier about this lying stinking RootKit and kept it to themselves. They have just lost my respect as someone who looks out for me. How many more computers were infected while F-Secure was playing footsie with Sony-BMG?
Not that the rest of the anti-virus/anti-spyware companies have been that much better here. Those that say we'll tell you its on your system, but don't expect us to safely remove it for you. The whole industry, music and computer protection, has come out looking pretty scummy over this one.
New Orleans will deploy a city wide wi-fi network with free public access.
Wow, this just makes me want to come back in live in a crime-ridden city with the worst police force and most corrupt politicians in the country, x-number of feet below sea level protected by dikes and levies constructed by the lowest bidder. Yup, free Wi-Fi will certainly make all the difference here.
Larry Rosen is blessing something that hasn't even happened, won't happen for awhile, may not happen as completely as people seem to think it will, can't be implemented by competitors effectively for a good while after that, and is still subject to the Microsoft E-E-E strategy if MS can figure out a way to make that happen.
Personally, if MS ever does fully release their current MSWord Document Format to to the public, my belief is that two things will happen:
1: It will become the default save format, and essentially require everyone back to the days of Word 95/97 to upgrade to the next Office suite giving MS lots of $$$ that the haven't been able to get otherwise with their bloatware releases of features almost nobody needs -- except to read documents from other people.
2: The moment XML Doc comes into use, MS will introduce Enhanced Document+ as their preferred format, complaining that they need to get new important features to the user as quickly as possible and that the standards process is too slow for this. Of course by the time that ED+ format is standardized and implmeneted by anyone besides MS (who didn't announce this to anyone until they had their fully debugged version rolling off the CD presses) MS will again be years ahead of the competition. They'll just wear down the other implementers on the basis of their larger bankroll to pay for new development, and this post will become an interesting historical curiosity under the I-Told-You-So department of Slashdot.
If you think, "Hey, take a chance in the lottery and sell it for six figures aftewards," forget it now. The big companies are beating out the small guy and the Internet ideal of First Come, First Served -- FIFO in Geek terms -- of rewarding the agile thinker doesn't exist any more. Corporate sluggishness and immense political contributions have squashed it.
How have they beaten you to the punch? For example, Yahoo has already trademarked "Y.COM". Even if you get www.y.com, they simply take it away for you for free as the "trademark owner," and brand you as a criminal cyber-squatter in the process.
Given the disaster that Superman II was, and let's not even mention Supergirl, my expectations couldn't be lower for anything in this franchise. Not having another movie in the last 10 years is a Good Thing. It gave us all a chance to forget what a mess Hollywood as made out of what is probably the top comic of all time.
you'd realise that the Royal Society uses the money it receives from publishing journals to fund other projects. They're not on a "monopoly gravy train", they're genuinely involved in the furtherence of science.
They use other people's money, gained from their monopoly position as the gatekeepers of scientific publicity, to fund projects that appeal to their own personal sense of worth. Isn't that about what you just said?
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One hopes this will to for (or to) Price Rite what exposure on Slashdot has already done for Sony-BMG. I'm personally surprised that this company doesn't already change their name every few months just to shed their past image.
1: How do you handle contributors who can't tell fact from Urban Legend?
2: How do you keep the project from being taken over by those with a particular idealogical bent? (See the ongoing battle over entries dealing with 'Scientology'.)
That being said, I completely agree with previous posters who have said that if Blackberry service is shut down for all subscribers for a few weeks that some long overdue revision of the patent system will have a greater chance of happening. After all, Blackberry users are more likely to be Movers & Shakers than the average population. Getting them all angry at once might not be a bad thing.
From what I've heard, 7 of the 8 NTP patents have already been overturned, and the final one is in jeopardy. Would RIM get all their money back (plus damages is too much to expect) if all the patents are ruled invalid? They should!
And useful later on when you need to fix your own code after plenty of time has passed allowing you to forget how clever you were in the first place.
1: Cheap
2: Reliable (e.g. RAID mirroring or 5)
3: Decent performance.
4: No special drivers required (unlike Netgear SC101)
5: Cheap.
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The terms should have been:
First4Inernet: We need a nondisclosure agreement that covers our arses (British company) in all this.
F-Secure: We don't need any nondisclosure agreement at all to just go public with what we already know.
First4Inernet: We'll sign whatever you want. Just please get our arses out of the sling before anyone else finds out about this!
"This was really bad," he says. "The worst thing you can have on your computer right now is a rootkit, and Sony was installing it on people's computers."
That's when F-Secure got into the act. Guarino sent an e-mail to the Finnish company, since it makes the rootkit-detector software that he used to investigate. F-Secure did its own investigation and notified Sony DADC, which manufactures Sony BMG CDs, on Oct. 4.
And why didn't Guario go public? I blame him too!
I believe you mean Richard P. Feynman. Author of the must read book: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character).
And while I have you here, what exactly is orthogonal/ scientific work?
Make sure you get a receipt.
Get the most highly inflated receipt you think you can get away with. Something like $75/hour for an entire day's diagnosis, reformat, reload operating system, reload all applications, fully test system, and give a new burn in. Since Sony's paying, let them pay for the deluxe treatment.
Then why didn't F-Secure release a update to detect and remove the rootkit and the rest of the compromising software without waiting for Sony? Not what I call acting in the best interest of anybody except Sony.
And if they were ducking for cover from Sony's lawyers and legal threats, then they're even worse!
Funny, with a month's quiet warning time themselves I didn't see F-Secure releasing a detect and remove solution to this infection. Are they really this slow in responding to all threats already out in the wild?
That gives the developers time to at least create a patch to prevent any further damage.
Oh really??? And how is this patch delivered? When your music CD phones home the next time, is it supposed to download Service Pack 1? And are you asked if you want to do this? And if your computer isn't even connected to the Internet, but you want to be able to rip and burn other CDs while not having your limited memory and processing resources continually sucked up by this permanently running program?
Face it, there was no way for Sony to fix this once they let it out on CD.
I'm glad it's a couple big states here with these laws. Sony might be able to ignore Delaware as a market if selling their DRM-infected crap broke that state's law, but together CA and TX are bigger than some countries.
And isn't the RIAA's home office in CA? :^) Interesting how I've yet to hear the RIAA staff saying we play DRM protected CDs on our home computers all the time. I mean, don't they use their own products?
Now I'm pissed (and I don't mean drunk). This suckes (and I don't mean vacuums up well). F-Secure knew a month earlier about this lying stinking RootKit and kept it to themselves. They have just lost my respect as someone who looks out for me. How many more computers were infected while F-Secure was playing footsie with Sony-BMG?
Not that the rest of the anti-virus/anti-spyware companies have been that much better here. Those that say we'll tell you its on your system, but don't expect us to safely remove it for you. The whole industry, music and computer protection, has come out looking pretty scummy over this one.
Wow, this just makes me want to come back in live in a crime-ridden city with the worst police force and most corrupt politicians in the country, x-number of feet below sea level protected by dikes and levies constructed by the lowest bidder. Yup, free Wi-Fi will certainly make all the difference here.
Next, an imaginary audience that actually applauds.
Not it's not, and I'd like to think you'd know better. Applying for a trademark is not applying for a web domain name. It's more like pre-emptive Foo.
Personally, if MS ever does fully release their current MSWord Document Format to to the public, my belief is that two things will happen:
1: It will become the default save format, and essentially require everyone back to the days of Word 95/97 to upgrade to the next Office suite giving MS lots of $$$ that the haven't been able to get otherwise with their bloatware releases of features almost nobody needs -- except to read documents from other people.
2: The moment XML Doc comes into use, MS will introduce Enhanced Document+ as their preferred format, complaining that they need to get new important features to the user as quickly as possible and that the standards process is too slow for this. Of course by the time that ED+ format is standardized and implmeneted by anyone besides MS (who didn't announce this to anyone until they had their fully debugged version rolling off the CD presses) MS will again be years ahead of the competition. They'll just wear down the other implementers on the basis of their larger bankroll to pay for new development, and this post will become an interesting historical curiosity under the I-Told-You-So department of Slashdot.
How have they beaten you to the punch? For example, Yahoo has already trademarked "Y.COM". Even if you get www.y.com, they simply take it away for you for free as the "trademark owner," and brand you as a criminal cyber-squatter in the process.
Oh, and btw, have a nice day!
Given the disaster that Superman II was, and let's not even mention Supergirl, my expectations couldn't be lower for anything in this franchise. Not having another movie in the last 10 years is a Good Thing. It gave us all a chance to forget what a mess Hollywood as made out of what is probably the top comic of all time.
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Let's see you beat that!
Obviously he's the GoTo Guy.
They use other people's money, gained from their monopoly position as the gatekeepers of scientific publicity, to fund projects that appeal to their own personal sense of worth. Isn't that about what you just said?
And the phrase, "Say what you like about him, but at least he's human," comes into common usage on this planet.