Often from what I've seen with unionizing is nothing is done by the Unions in reality. Lets see what a typical Union would do when things are erratic.
Strike for more money for so called more benefits for the people. Strike for better working conditions for the people shorter hours, and the rights to ensure an employee doesn't get fired improperly.
Sounds good so far but at what price? So as a tech union member lets see what that gets me. Being I already make a lot of money, this week my paycheck just won't come to me since I'm on strike, and at the age of 27 I'm already making close to 6 figures so this missing paycheck may hurt my lifestyle and I don't know how long I'll be on strike for.
While I picket with my "brothers" a Union rep speaks with officials to get about a %.20 salary raise for me, but then he wants to raise my union dues for this, so that raise is now null. How thrilling. While I work I see lazy people who do nothing since their unionized and can't be fired. Oh yea I'm just dying to be unionized.
IMHO I don't think the tech industry needs to be unionized. Its done great on its own for years, and unions see how much money we often make and are simply trying to get rich quick off our sweat.
This whole "Holy War" against the people here at Slashdot has got to stop sometime soon. What ever happened to the older days of about 2 years ago (random link I found no significance to anything) when things were cooler and calmer, there were no goatsex posts, no little morons running around babbling on like idiots. When someone posted worthy information worth reading.
All I see nowadays are immature idiots posting goatsex, spork, bs music information which wastes so much time, and money via way of bandwidth to process that bs. Get a life no one wants to hear about what problems you may have with Jon Katz, Timothy, Michael, Rob Malda, or whomever else posts an article here.
They work here you don't and thats the bottom line, don't like it then type in another URL in your browser, and that will solve the problem.
Even if you have a pile of diamonds equal to the weight of this earth there is no way to compare the peace it provides to the peace afforded by inner development. The owner of the jewels is still beset by mental problems like anger, attachment and so forth. If someone insults him, anger starts to rise, followed by, thoughts to give harm, to insult, to hurt. The man of inner development reacts quite differently. He thinks: "If he got angry with me, insulted me and hurt MY mind, how upset I would be, how unhappy I would become; so I shouldn't do negative things to him. If I am angry with him and insult him, he will be terribly upset and unhappy. I become unhappy when he is negative with me so of course he will be very unhappy and his peace will be disturbed if I am negative with him. How dare I do this to him?"
When you think like this, the anger disappears like a popped water bubble. At first the bubble seems to be as solid as stone but suddenly it disappears. At first it seems to us that we can't change the mind; yet when we use the correct method, when we meditate like this, the anger goes like a water bubble. You don't see the point of getting angry. You simply practice patience, try not to let anger arise, try to remember that what disturbs your mind and destroys your happiness also disturbs the other's happiness and doesn't help at all. Then how beautiful your face becomes! Anger makes us completely ugly. When anger enters a beautiful face, no amount of make-up can hide the complete ugliness and terror that manifest.
We all love a good joke here and there, but attacking someone based on unfounded bs is annoying and downright immature, and can be construed into slander, and libel a crime nevertheless.
Put yourself in the Slashdot staffing position. Provide a neat tech site where information isn't as watered down as it is on sites such as MSNBC, or CNN, along with the opportunity to interact with others who have enough knowledge and talent to run a government if talents were combined and applied. All that for free to the people who browse here.
Wouldn't it be nice to just focus on a subject, and get insights into the way people see things while adding positive input, or providing someone with an answer to their question, or even correcting someone about something they may have taken out of perspective? Its not even a matter of becoming something of a tightwad ass site like FreeRepublic or a pencil pouch wearing stereotypical geek site.
Slashdot used to be fun, still is when we sort through a 300 post thread only to find about 75 posts even relevant to the actual article. Its saddening to see this is going to become a joke if things don't change. This isn't someone's Geocities, Tripod, Xoom, "h3ll0-1'm-4-h4x0r" site, we all know its a hell of a lot better than most of the other sites out there. Yet many idiots seem to think that its some fscking loser site to voice their stupid fish, spork, goatsex, and other oddities. Grow up already do something positive for yourself such as reading an RFC or something insightful.
Shit even I joke many times, but I won't dwell on posting the same redundant shit over and over and over its sickening as hell. Posting something as anonymous is even more moronic. Who gives a shit about karma? Say what you have to say what you feel is relevant if you get moderated down, who cares, it didn't take away a drop of blood from your body, or a dollar in your pocket did it?
So its all come down to this. Lawsuit announcements just about every other day from some company, who's likely losing money in the market, going after everyone they could all because they own the patents for some product. Sooner or later we'll all be able to fabricate some form of lawsuit in fact while I type write now, I am also drawing up a patent for typing into a monitor with the lights off.
I'm an innovator, and I hope my invention of typing into a terminal with the lights off while listening to music becomes a hit. In fact I'll promote it here on Slashdot. So to all the users here, make this a daily action of yours. Let it become a standard in life.
Well I figure within a year or two after I lose money with my other inventions, I can turn around and sue each and every one of you who has used my patented method of typing into your terminals. You honestly didn't think I would patent strictly to be innovative did you?
Secondly it's always really suspicious anytime a product is opensource/freeware for Linux/BSD/etc., but for the Windows world it's closed source/commercial. It's like "We believe in open source so long as it is only applicable to a tiny minority of the marketplace. Otherwise send your checks."
Ok I don't really follow you here. Many commercial products have an open source port to them for the Linux/BSD clients, so I wish you could've been more specific so I could try to provide some insightful answer for you.
Anyways to your other post about searching for an internal solution for your company, maybe one of the reasons why they probably don't have any pricing is because it is a free program. I'm sure if you needed a specially ported client they'd be willing to talk a price. It would be shooting yourself in the foot as a programmer to simply throw a price on a product you haven't created (should they need to create a specially written client) so thats a possibility.
A non routeable solution you could look into if you want is an IM client StarMedia uses for their network. Its something similar to ICQ except a company created it for them. They paid for the servers, and both programs and server software. I wish I could remember where I read the article about the company that did it for them but that was a while back.
Imagine a network solely to be used for say... College Students working on medical research who need to interact with each other but don't want to have to access the internet via the normal channels, email, forums, etc., they could have a client specifically created by Jabber to cater to their needs.
Imagine the Genome research companies all over the world sharing information via those same routes, they too could have a specially created client for them which could do things like fetch information via an XML add on for them. Example, CometSystems has a neat "smart cursor" based tool which allows any word in a page regardless if they have a hyperlink, and pull up information on whatever was selected. So imagine if Jabber did the same only it catered to no one but the Genome companies.
Thats where corporations would come in, to add revenue. There are many more instances of corporate uses I could think of for them to make money off the client. Make an SSL based secure transaction client to interact with Amazon and other vendors, so if someone sent their friend a URL for music, the user would be automatically be directed (should they clink a special link) to a vendor to purchase that record, or book, etc., there are plenty of ways to make cash with it.
Cool ass news especially when things looked a tad bit downhill for *things open sourced* (Slackware news/Indrema/etc) for a second or two. Now they focus on their own servers so no one can block them (which should be one of the top priorities for them). Its nice to know that things in dotcomland aren't as bad as we would make them to be.. Sure its a bit shitty but it goes to show things do get rosy.
Well now we have to sit back and see how AOL will react this since now in theory, the company is profitable which means AOL can pursue legal avenues to take against Jabber should their clients continue to use their services (bandwidth/servers let's not start a threadwar)
steganography has a problem with being easily detected
OutGuess 0.2 can not be detected by any test available. At least not the ones available to the guys at Univ of Michigan for one. Secondly even if you detect it, you still have to go about retrieving data.
Your also wrong on the filesizes as Outguess shrinks the filesize. You can verify this by looking at the pictures in my Ghost in the Shell where filesizes sometimes are decreased from 80k to about 16k.
The Germans didn't leak out anything their info was encrypted and cracked by the "Dayton Codebreakers" some employees of National Cash Register, and other in the NSA, and Navy:
And as part of the Manhattan Project, he was designing a high-speed electronic counter needed for developing the atom bomb. But all that work would be swept aside for the Navy's highest priority - breaking the Enigma Code.
In a tersely stated letter to the National Defense Research Committee on Aug. 17, 1942, Desch wrote: "We have other work of higher priority rating on which we can usefully place our engineers, but once they are started on such other work, they cannot be withdrawn . . . for some time to come." By mid-summer, two of the Navy's bright young theoreticians were in England learning all about the British bombe and sending reports back to the States. Desch received at least some of that information, enough to persuade him that he needed to take a direction different from both the British and the U.S. Navy if he were to turn out a machine in time. After weeks of agonizing, Desch decided on a major technological leap - backwards. H proposed an electromechanical device that wouldn't be pretty, wouldn't be elegant, but would accomplish the job through sheer brute force. "We never had any doubt about it. We knew what (the machine) had to do," Mumma said. "It was just matter of time, but time was of the essence."
In this paper we address the invertibility of invisible watermarking schemes for resolving rightful ownerships, and present attacks which can cause confusion to rightful claims. We shall show that non-invertibility is a necessary but not sufficient condition in resolving ownership disputes. We then define quasi-invertible watermarking schemes, and, present analysis that links invertibility and quasi-invertibility to some classes of watermarking techniqueswith different properties (which may or may not require original versions in watermark decoding), as well as to the different classes of attacks we have developed.
For those wanting more information on stego check out the following link which I found to be one of the most informative.Outguess is probably the top of the line Nix stego program I've found (FYI) and you could see its output here (Statue of Liberty pics)
Personally I think this will piss off Big Brother more than it would Corporations, since it'd be extremely hard on a system to encipher a 700mb video clip into a picture so the stego comment seems off the mark to me where Napster or SDMI is concerned Watermarking yes stego a music file... Sure and $AUTHORITY_FIGURES will believe that pr0n picture is supposed to be 500mb in file size.
As for digital watermarking... Please see this prior post on this subject.
In the portrait Microsoft is trying to paint, open source and free software are synonymous and they are bad news for software developers who want to succeed. In their world, the free software model is just as bad a business model as the dot.coms who just tanked on the stock market. Sure, the Linux community knows these facts are in error--but far too many people may take these erroneous conclusions as fact.
MS Rep: We've got the latest icons an paperclips assistants to help you point and click
Client: Well I was looking into Linu...
MS Rep: YOU DON'T WANT TO USE THAT TRUST ME! Nothing in this world would cripple your finances more than an OS environment who is willing to give you something for free when you could pay for exclusive licensing through a reputable source such as Microsoft. I mean have you ever heard of Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman. Who are these rejects Client: I don't follow how can free hurt me
MS Rep: Simple, see when you call tech support at least we put you on hold when you call, what are you gonna jump on IRC everytime your systems bluescreen?
MS Rep: Well you go ahead and use it, but when all those hackers who use that operating system infiltrate your networks, you'll see why closed source precompiled executables will outlast an OS who lets you tweak anything you want on the system
Client: Your right I keep reading all those horror stories about hackers using Unix
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This reminds me back to when Billy G was on trial and the judge asked him "Whats a box" and Billy G stated, its what's used to ship a PC. Ahh... MS obscurity through obscurity.
That this project doesn't go astray or become another one of the 10,546,673,132,895,345,923,566 neat sounding projects to bring the hopes of Linux users only to falter somewhere down the line due to ego's, vendor differences in opinion, lack of insight, etc.
Well not to be a troll or say something out of place to the Linux users out there, but I think at this point Corel can come off that page (you think) lets start things on the right foot with an up-to-date site.
FLUENT, enables an operator to search stored documents in a language s/he doesn't understand by using his or her own language for queries. (read on and here)
Funny how we Americans are such tightwads when it comes to sexual content. After visiting Europe last year I saw people were a slightly bit more laid back, even though pornography is shown on television just about every night. Wow I'm surprised Parents all over the USA aren't condemning Europeans for being sexually free.
Here's a suggestion for some parents: How about talking to your kids before placing mental handcuffs on them?
I wonder if AOL has taken the time to filter regular expressions such as pr0n/s3x/etc. Then I also wonder how are kids doing homework on "sexual reproduction" or "sexual organisms" are going to fair when using AOL. What I'm waiting to see, is who is going to be the first to open online "concentration camps" AOL-TW or MS
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Microsoft's moves are somewhat enigmatic these days, however they have a keen sense of how to make money off of fortune 500 companies who are willing to dish it out after "TRAPPING" themselves amidst an entire MS environment.
Whats sad though, is at this point it would be extremely expensive for companies to switch their entire company (think big companies like Ernst & Young, Citibank, etc.) to switch over to something else overnight. Even if they were to do so, they would also have to determine what other OS to use, and hope it would still have MS support, since many of their clients are likely to prefer *.doc, *.lxs, etc., files, so even if a company were planning a switch it could take years to "plow the road" from the bumps.
With newer companies starting up its a heck of a lot easier a task to do, and I'm sure many here see the recent changes with MS, so news like this is a plus for the Open Source community, who needs to lock down some standards for a change as well.
Define a standard for corporations like a corporate Linux or BSD distribution which doesn't contain 2-3 cd's full of Window Managers, MP3 players, useless and non business related packages. What does 10 Windows Manager have to do with fulfilling the daily tasks of someone like a secretary, or clerical worker? Absolutely none.
Make it a bit more GUI'er for unknowledgeable persons working with the OS.
Raise the documentation standards on the OS. Make a GUI based help system unskilled operators could use instead of `man something` .
Anyways enough swaying off topic many people (I hope) would understand the aura of where that was going. So will this affect sales of MS in the future? Probably minutely since many people like convenience, and are already trapped within an MS environment, and all this bickering amongst the BSD's/Linux users doesn't help, so for someone like a CEO looking in from the outside, they may see alternative OS' (Linux/BSD/other) as more of a problem than a solution.
Create a business like standard for crying out loud. If NASA can send rockets to west bubble fuck, surely someone can create a "Linux/BSD for Incompetent Workers too Lazy or Dumb to Learn"
IMO OpenBSD defines what security should be in all operating systems. Its OS is highly scrutinized prior to any version being released, and the team reacts quickly at the slightest whiff about a security issue.
After hanging out in #openbsd (/nick rwxr--r-- && sil) on the efnet for the past year or so, I've determined that most of the "hardcore" developers are extremely dedicated to making Open as secure as possible for the love of security strictly. I've met no troll developers looking to brag about getting OpenBSD to the level it is now.
Sadly however, many people tend to think that OpenBSD is a one man show (Theo) and turn their distaste for one person into an OpenBSD bashing session. Its ironic many will try to bash the OS for that "one" person, and fill a forum or email thread with useless words never once focusing on the fact that OpenBSD is unrootable on a default installation something which no other OS can claim.
greets to all the guys who work on the OS at their leisure their work is appreciated.
Things in that arena are bound to go the route that plagues the technology sector as well regarding patents, I can see it now. Why in the world is there a need to patent a gene, its not an invention, nor is it one person's creation. The ethics regarding this are scary.
Example, take the company who patented the Breast Cancer Gene (Bionomics), they've been charging scientist exhorbitant fees to allow the scientists wanting to study cures for breast cancer. Sure they should get recognition, maybe even cut a deal with the scientist who discovers the cure, but to halter research over patenting is silly as hell.
Other companies have taken that same approach towards gene research, which begs questioning by some committee whether its humane for these guys to play with life versus making a quick buck. Anyone here in North America notice how many people are going into Canada for medication as a cause by these companies and their outrageous prices for medicine? Or the Southern Americans crossing into Mexico.
So what's going to happen when "Open Source" biometrics companies start fighting against companies like Human Genome Sciences when they really start monopolizing research, by withholding very important research material? Are we going to suffer because of capitalism...
slightly off topic I know but I see no reasons why the whole area of genomic science shouldn't be "open sourced"
It'd be hard to find someone to sell you IP address blocks nowadays, (I know class A's are close to impossible) so that will be a big factor thats for sure.
Well I would say for the mail and DNS servers you wouldn't need anything fancy since they're not processing scientific stuff or crack rc5 or so. So for mail servers even a couple of pIII's would be good.
Routing equipment... Having tinkered with only BayNetworks, Cisco, and Juniper, I would say stick with Juniper Networks (possible an M160) for large BGP networking (OSPF is a pain), for internal you could use like a BayNetworks Centillion. Cisco is overrated to me. Or if you really want to cut corners then get a Sun Ultra10 and slap on Zebra (but thats rather ghetto)
If your going to be doing VoIP stuff, PBX's are rather expensive, but I would look into the Merlin's from Lucent which was a fairly good experience for an older company I worked at, and it was the cheapest. However timeframes to get PBX's involved out here suck so if your local telco is in the same market as a vendor your looking at, prepare for a wait.
I don't know the prices of everything entirely (since my co is partnered with many we see discount prices on all this crap) but it can go into low-mid 6 figure digits.
As for the negativity with everyone stating its a losing venture, you fail to see that not all countries have the same availability as we do so it may be a winning venture there.
It'd be hard to find someone to sell you IP address blocks nowadays, (I know class A's are close to impossible) so that will be a big factor thats for sure.
Well I would say for the mail and DNS servers you wouldn't need anything fancy since they're not processing scientific stuff or crack rc5 or so. So for mail servers even a couple of pIII's would be good.
Routing equipment... Having tinkered with only BayNetworks, Cisco, and Juniper, I would say stick with Juniper Networks (possible an M160) for large BGP networking (OSPF is a pain), for internal you could use like a BayNetworks Centillion. Cisco is overrated to me. Or if you really want to cut corners then get a Sun Ultra10 and slap on Zebra (but thats rather ghetto)
If your going to be doing VoIP stuff, PBX's are rather expensive, but I would look into the Merlin's from Lucent which was a fairly good experience for an older company I worked at, and it was the cheapest. However timeframes to get PBX's involved out here suck so if your local telco is in the same market as a vendor your looking at, prepare for a wait.
I don't know the prices of everything entirely (since my co is partnered with many we see discount prices on all this crap) but it can go into low-mid 6 figure digits.
Nemesis allows for all types of injection meaning you create the packet(s) you want to send. So if you start with sequence 1927364.. 19*365 then 19*400 it still accomplishes the same thing for one.
Secondly many firewalls would filter most of the garbage that program would send whereas using Nemesis along with Fragrouter would allow you to cimrcumvent both IDS, and Firewall as well
Anyone ever seen the movie boiler room? The story was funny and somewhat similar, but whats scary is, it happens in the real world although its rare when tech based, however whats ironic IMHO is that most VC firms who invested in companies that went under for lack of having products never attempted to seek injuctions against those companies. Also noteworthy to me is the mentioning of hiring friends, and lack of management due to age constraints.
I worked at a content provider like Yahoo that catered to Latin America, except 90% of the staff weren't Latin (get worse). Well no one was ever allowed input during weekly meetings (where much money was spent on catering) into what the company should look to for future revenue, or methods to cut costs (e.g. option for cheaper servers, etc.) not because no one had a clue, but because management between the departments were mostly 20 something'ers.
I remember a few people had ordered (no bullshit) Sun E450's for personal mp3 storage servers, the company brought just about everyone top of the line IBM Thinkpads, Motorola i1000 pagers, Nextel phones, you name it they brought it.
Now the management team used to all work together in prior companies, some were college buddies, and when they had disagreements with each other, they would act out like brats who didn't get their way and disrupt the company by not allowing needed change, not because it was or wasn't good, but simply because they didn't like each other. Weird place I ended up leaving after about 6 months.
I barely trust companies where management is some skateboarder looking reject who thinks its hip to interview me with a little dog running around the office. Sure one would like to go to their jobs and enjoy the environment they work in, but management (although most times are hated) is a very important part of any company, and not many 20something'ers have that edge yet in my opinion, mind you I'm in my upper 20's.
Out here on the east coast of the United States the market is monopolized by Verizon who owns the lines other companies have to use in order to provide DSL services.
Problem with this, Verizon offers DSL services at the same time so it seems according to most (as well as common sense) that Verizon would be reluctant to lease lines to provide the service at a fast pace (if even they do without giving them the runaround).
What happens when you call Verizon for DSL services is horrendous, you're often told you would have to wait upteen weeks or months before they can get to you, or it turns out they haven't wired your neighborhood yet.
Well logically cable is almost in every single neighborhood so its easier for people to just call up their cable companies and have it added on to their bills without hassle. No waits, etc.
Doesn't mean cable is better than DSL could just mean DSL isn't available in an area, or people just don't want to wait too long for it to be installed.
For that just download some DDoS tools and do it on your own along with a packet sniffer. Or head over to Packet Ninja and download nemesis and inject yourself with crap until your network begs for mercy all at the cool low price of $0,000,000.00
But I tried to contact the people at Steve Jackson Games but hey still haven't gotten their shit back from Big Bro' who's analyzing it over 5 year old jelly donuts.
Besides all I can add to this project would be a crapload of Jolly Roger files
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They are starting to face consumer resistence to change versions, as they offer nothing the consumer wants.
This is opinionated as if it were true MS wouldn't make as much money yearly as they currently do. Sure many may want change, and may bitch about leaving, but the facts remain little do nothing more than talk trash.
What could be the reason for an exising Office user to buy a Office XP? Difficult question.
Marketing is the reasoning behind it. As soon as a certain number of companies make that switch to a standardized format many others will follow, and you have to keep in mind companies will not reinvent their whole network at the expense of someone's distaste for MS products. It would be rather costly for one, secondly again think about when X amounts of companies make that switch to standardized formats, how will other OS' play with Office XP? Will StarOffice support.XPXLS or.XPDOC files should MS throw a wrench in the wheel. Its simpler for companies to dish out, than the heartaches of doing otherwise.
They face also a maturing PC market, with declining sales.
"Maturing market" means to me, many may get tired of gcc'ing files and configuring everything and its parent as opposed to the lazy point and click world.
It is not based on customer demand. If you ask
customers what do they want of Microsoft, a subscription based service is unlikely to make to the top-10.
Microsoft is far from a "what the people want" type of OS yet they do well in fact better than anyone out there in terms of sales regardless of what people want. Its more or less +90% a standard in the business world.
That can work, as I say, with a perfect monopoly. I was really looking forward to this subscription idea. To me it looked like the moment we were going to test how strong is Microsoft monopoly, and how much it's based on not having irritated to date their lazy customers too much.
I'm so tired of hearing monopoly its just so "un-chic" a word. Its business everyone does it. Cisco has brought out many networking companies no one bitched, AOL same thing, GE owns just about 40% of everything you could think of whether people know it or not, and is the only company to literally make up what they want to post as sales at the end of year (trust me they post whatever looks good to themselves)
So MS has screwed up down the line, all businesses do somehow, and I'm so tired of seeing the old monopoly argument when it comes to MS along with an Open Source aura of comments surrounding it. Its just outdated and rather lame at this point.
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Often from what I've seen with unionizing is nothing is done by the Unions in reality. Lets see what a typical Union would do when things are erratic.
Strike for more money for so called more benefits for the people. Strike for better working conditions for the people shorter hours, and the rights to ensure an employee doesn't get fired improperly.
Sounds good so far but at what price? So as a tech union member lets see what that gets me. Being I already make a lot of money, this week my paycheck just won't come to me since I'm on strike, and at the age of 27 I'm already making close to 6 figures so this missing paycheck may hurt my lifestyle and I don't know how long I'll be on strike for.
While I picket with my "brothers" a Union rep speaks with officials to get about a %.20 salary raise for me, but then he wants to raise my union dues for this, so that raise is now null. How thrilling. While I work I see lazy people who do nothing since their unionized and can't be fired. Oh yea I'm just dying to be unionized.
IMHO I don't think the tech industry needs to be unionized. Its done great on its own for years, and unions see how much money we often make and are simply trying to get rich quick off our sweat.
This whole "Holy War" against the people here at Slashdot has got to stop sometime soon. What ever happened to the older days of about 2 years ago (random link I found no significance to anything) when things were cooler and calmer, there were no goatsex posts, no little morons running around babbling on like idiots. When someone posted worthy information worth reading.
All I see nowadays are immature idiots posting goatsex, spork, bs music information which wastes so much time, and money via way of bandwidth to process that bs. Get a life no one wants to hear about what problems you may have with Jon Katz, Timothy, Michael, Rob Malda, or whomever else posts an article here.
They work here you don't and thats the bottom line, don't like it then type in another URL in your browser, and that will solve the problem.
We all love a good joke here and there, but attacking someone based on unfounded bs is annoying and downright immature, and can be construed into slander, and libel a crime nevertheless.
Put yourself in the Slashdot staffing position. Provide a neat tech site where information isn't as watered down as it is on sites such as MSNBC, or CNN, along with the opportunity to interact with others who have enough knowledge and talent to run a government if talents were combined and applied. All that for free to the people who browse here.
Wouldn't it be nice to just focus on a subject, and get insights into the way people see things while adding positive input, or providing someone with an answer to their question, or even correcting someone about something they may have taken out of perspective? Its not even a matter of becoming something of a tightwad ass site like FreeRepublic or a pencil pouch wearing stereotypical geek site.
Slashdot used to be fun, still is when we sort through a 300 post thread only to find about 75 posts even relevant to the actual article. Its saddening to see this is going to become a joke if things don't change. This isn't someone's Geocities, Tripod, Xoom, "h3ll0-1'm-4-h4x0r" site, we all know its a hell of a lot better than most of the other sites out there. Yet many idiots seem to think that its some fscking loser site to voice their stupid fish, spork, goatsex, and other oddities. Grow up already do something positive for yourself such as reading an RFC or something insightful.
Shit even I joke many times, but I won't dwell on posting the same redundant shit over and over and over its sickening as hell. Posting something as anonymous is even more moronic. Who gives a shit about karma? Say what you have to say what you feel is relevant if you get moderated down, who cares, it didn't take away a drop of blood from your body, or a dollar in your pocket did it?
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So its all come down to this. Lawsuit announcements just about every other day from some company, who's likely losing money in the market, going after everyone they could all because they own the patents for some product. Sooner or later we'll all be able to fabricate some form of lawsuit in fact while I type write now, I am also drawing up a patent for typing into a monitor with the lights off.
I'm an innovator, and I hope my invention of typing into a terminal with the lights off while listening to music becomes a hit. In fact I'll promote it here on Slashdot. So to all the users here, make this a daily action of yours. Let it become a standard in life.
Well I figure within a year or two after I lose money with my other inventions, I can turn around and sue each and every one of you who has used my patented method of typing into your terminals. You honestly didn't think I would patent strictly to be innovative did you?
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Secondly it's always really suspicious anytime a product is opensource/freeware for Linux/BSD/etc., but for the Windows world it's closed source/commercial. It's like "We believe in open source so long as it is only applicable to a tiny minority of the marketplace. Otherwise send your checks."
Ok I don't really follow you here. Many commercial products have an open source port to them for the Linux/BSD clients, so I wish you could've been more specific so I could try to provide some insightful answer for you.
Anyways to your other post about searching for an internal solution for your company, maybe one of the reasons why they probably don't have any pricing is because it is a free program. I'm sure if you needed a specially ported client they'd be willing to talk a price. It would be shooting yourself in the foot as a programmer to simply throw a price on a product you haven't created (should they need to create a specially written client) so thats a possibility.
A non routeable solution you could look into if you want is an IM client StarMedia uses for their network. Its something similar to ICQ except a company created it for them. They paid for the servers, and both programs and server software. I wish I could remember where I read the article about the company that did it for them but that was a while back.
Imagine a network solely to be used for say... College Students working on medical research who need to interact with each other but don't want to have to access the internet via the normal channels, email, forums, etc., they could have a client specifically created by Jabber to cater to their needs.
Imagine the Genome research companies all over the world sharing information via those same routes, they too could have a specially created client for them which could do things like fetch information via an XML add on for them. Example, CometSystems has a neat "smart cursor" based tool which allows any word in a page regardless if they have a hyperlink, and pull up information on whatever was selected. So imagine if Jabber did the same only it catered to no one but the Genome companies.
Thats where corporations would come in, to add revenue. There are many more instances of corporate uses I could think of for them to make money off the client. Make an SSL based secure transaction client to interact with Amazon and other vendors, so if someone sent their friend a URL for music, the user would be automatically be directed (should they clink a special link) to a vendor to purchase that record, or book, etc., there are plenty of ways to make cash with it.
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Cool ass news especially when things looked a tad bit downhill for *things open sourced* (Slackware news/Indrema/etc) for a second or two. Now they focus on their own servers so no one can block them (which should be one of the top priorities for them). Its nice to know that things in dotcomland aren't as bad as we would make them to be.. Sure its a bit shitty but it goes to show things do get rosy.
Well now we have to sit back and see how AOL will react this since now in theory, the company is profitable which means AOL can pursue legal avenues to take against Jabber should their clients continue to use their services (bandwidth/servers let's not start a threadwar)
steganography has a problem with being easily detected
OutGuess 0.2 can not be detected by any test available. At least not the ones available to the guys at Univ of Michigan for one. Secondly even if you detect it, you still have to go about retrieving data.
Your also wrong on the filesizes as Outguess shrinks the filesize. You can verify this by looking at the pictures in my Ghost in the Shell where filesizes sometimes are decreased from 80k to about 16k.
Advertisers use subliminal messages in commercials...
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In this paper we address the invertibility of invisible watermarking schemes for resolving rightful ownerships, and present attacks which can cause confusion to rightful claims. We shall show that non-invertibility is a necessary but not sufficient condition in resolving ownership disputes. We then define quasi-invertible watermarking schemes, and, present analysis that links invertibility and quasi-invertibility to some classes of watermarking techniqueswith different properties (which may or may not require original versions in watermark decoding), as well as to the different classes of attacks we have developed.
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For those wanting more information on stego check out the following link which I found to be one of the most informative. Outguess is probably the top of the line Nix stego program I've found (FYI) and you could see its output here (Statue of Liberty pics)
Personally I think this will piss off Big Brother more than it would Corporations, since it'd be extremely hard on a system to encipher a 700mb video clip into a picture so the stego comment seems off the mark to me where Napster or SDMI is concerned Watermarking yes stego a music file... Sure and $AUTHORITY_FIGURES will believe that pr0n picture is supposed to be 500mb in file size.
As for digital watermarking... Please see this prior post on this subject.
MS Rep: We've got the latest icons an paperclips assistants to help you point and click
Client: Well I was looking into Linu...
MS Rep: YOU DON'T WANT TO USE THAT TRUST ME! Nothing in this world would cripple your finances more than an OS environment who is willing to give you something for free when you could pay for exclusive licensing through a reputable source such as Microsoft. I mean have you ever heard of Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman. Who are these rejects
Client: I don't follow how can free hurt me
MS Rep: Simple, see when you call tech support at least we put you on hold when you call, what are you gonna jump on IRC everytime your systems bluescreen?
MS Rep: Well you go ahead and use it, but when all those hackers who use that operating system infiltrate your networks, you'll see why closed source precompiled executables will outlast an OS who lets you tweak anything you want on the system
Client: Your right I keep reading all those horror stories about hackers using Unix
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This reminds me back to when Billy G was on trial and the judge asked him "Whats a box" and Billy G stated, its what's used to ship a PC. Ahh... MS obscurity through obscurity.
That this project doesn't go astray or become another one of the 10,546,673,132,895,345,923,566 neat sounding projects to bring the hopes of Linux users only to falter somewhere down the line due to ego's, vendor differences in opinion, lack of insight, etc.
Well not to be a troll or say something out of place to the Linux users out there, but I think at this point Corel can come off that page (you think) lets start things on the right foot with an up-to-date site.
Funny how we Americans are such tightwads when it comes to sexual content. After visiting Europe last year I saw people were a slightly bit more laid back, even though pornography is shown on television just about every night. Wow I'm surprised Parents all over the USA aren't condemning Europeans for being sexually free.
Here's a suggestion for some parents: How about talking to your kids before placing mental handcuffs on them?
I wonder if AOL has taken the time to filter regular expressions such as pr0n/s3x/etc. Then I also wonder how are kids doing homework on "sexual reproduction" or "sexual organisms" are going to fair when using AOL. What I'm waiting to see, is who is going to be the first to open online "concentration camps" AOL-TW or MS
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Microsoft's moves are somewhat enigmatic these days, however they have a keen sense of how to make money off of fortune 500 companies who are willing to dish it out after "TRAPPING" themselves amidst an entire MS environment.
Whats sad though, is at this point it would be extremely expensive for companies to switch their entire company (think big companies like Ernst & Young, Citibank, etc.) to switch over to something else overnight. Even if they were to do so, they would also have to determine what other OS to use, and hope it would still have MS support, since many of their clients are likely to prefer *.doc, *.lxs, etc., files, so even if a company were planning a switch it could take years to "plow the road" from the bumps.
With newer companies starting up its a heck of a lot easier a task to do, and I'm sure many here see the recent changes with MS, so news like this is a plus for the Open Source community, who needs to lock down some standards for a change as well.
Define a standard for corporations like a corporate Linux or BSD distribution which doesn't contain 2-3 cd's full of Window Managers, MP3 players, useless and non business related packages. What does 10 Windows Manager have to do with fulfilling the daily tasks of someone like a secretary, or clerical worker? Absolutely none.
Make it a bit more GUI'er for unknowledgeable persons working with the OS.
Raise the documentation standards on the OS. Make a GUI based help system unskilled operators could use instead of `man something` .
Anyways enough swaying off topic many people (I hope) would understand the aura of where that was going. So will this affect sales of MS in the future? Probably minutely since many people like convenience, and are already trapped within an MS environment, and all this bickering amongst the BSD's/Linux users doesn't help, so for someone like a CEO looking in from the outside, they may see alternative OS' (Linux/BSD/other) as more of a problem than a solution.
Create a business like standard for crying out loud. If NASA can send rockets to west bubble fuck, surely someone can create a "Linux/BSD for Incompetent Workers too Lazy or Dumb to Learn"
IMO OpenBSD defines what security should be in all operating systems. Its OS is highly scrutinized prior to any version being released, and the team reacts quickly at the slightest whiff about a security issue.
After hanging out in #openbsd (/nick rwxr--r-- && sil) on the efnet for the past year or so, I've determined that most of the "hardcore" developers are extremely dedicated to making Open as secure as possible for the love of security strictly. I've met no troll developers looking to brag about getting OpenBSD to the level it is now.
Sadly however, many people tend to think that OpenBSD is a one man show (Theo) and turn their distaste for one person into an OpenBSD bashing session. Its ironic many will try to bash the OS for that "one" person, and fill a forum or email thread with useless words never once focusing on the fact that OpenBSD is unrootable on a default installation something which no other OS can claim.
greets to all the guys who work on the OS at their leisure their work is appreciated.
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Things in that arena are bound to go the route that plagues the technology sector as well regarding patents, I can see it now. Why in the world is there a need to patent a gene, its not an invention, nor is it one person's creation. The ethics regarding this are scary.
Example, take the company who patented the Breast Cancer Gene (Bionomics), they've been charging scientist exhorbitant fees to allow the scientists wanting to study cures for breast cancer. Sure they should get recognition, maybe even cut a deal with the scientist who discovers the cure, but to halter research over patenting is silly as hell.
Other companies have taken that same approach towards gene research, which begs questioning by some committee whether its humane for these guys to play with life versus making a quick buck. Anyone here in North America notice how many people are going into Canada for medication as a cause by these companies and their outrageous prices for medicine? Or the Southern Americans crossing into Mexico.
So what's going to happen when "Open Source" biometrics companies start fighting against companies like Human Genome Sciences when they really start monopolizing research, by withholding very important research material? Are we going to suffer because of capitalism...
slightly off topic I know but I see no reasons why the whole area of genomic science shouldn't be "open sourced"
It'd be hard to find someone to sell you IP address blocks nowadays, (I know class A's are close to impossible) so that will be a big factor thats for sure.
Well I would say for the mail and DNS servers you wouldn't need anything fancy since they're not processing scientific stuff or crack rc5 or so. So for mail servers even a couple of pIII's would be good.
Routing equipment... Having tinkered with only BayNetworks, Cisco, and Juniper, I would say stick with Juniper Networks (possible an M160) for large BGP networking (OSPF is a pain), for internal you could use like a BayNetworks Centillion. Cisco is overrated to me. Or if you really want to cut corners then get a Sun Ultra10 and slap on Zebra (but thats rather ghetto)
If your going to be doing VoIP stuff, PBX's are rather expensive, but I would look into the Merlin's from Lucent which was a fairly good experience for an older company I worked at, and it was the cheapest. However timeframes to get PBX's involved out here suck so if your local telco is in the same market as a vendor your looking at, prepare for a wait.
I don't know the prices of everything entirely (since my co is partnered with many we see discount prices on all this crap) but it can go into low-mid 6 figure digits.
As for the negativity with everyone stating its a losing venture, you fail to see that not all countries have the same availability as we do so it may be a winning venture there.
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It'd be hard to find someone to sell you IP address blocks nowadays, (I know class A's are close to impossible) so that will be a big factor thats for sure.
Well I would say for the mail and DNS servers you wouldn't need anything fancy since they're not processing scientific stuff or crack rc5 or so. So for mail servers even a couple of pIII's would be good.
Routing equipment... Having tinkered with only BayNetworks, Cisco, and Juniper, I would say stick with Juniper Networks (possible an M160) for large BGP networking (OSPF is a pain), for internal you could use like a BayNetworks Centillion. Cisco is overrated to me. Or if you really want to cut corners then get a Sun Ultra10 and slap on Zebra (but thats rather ghetto)
If your going to be doing VoIP stuff, PBX's are rather expensive, but I would look into the Merlin's from Lucent which was a fairly good experience for an older company I worked at, and it was the cheapest. However timeframes to get PBX's involved out here suck so if your local telco is in the same market as a vendor your looking at, prepare for a wait.
I don't know the prices of everything entirely (since my co is partnered with many we see discount prices on all this crap) but it can go into low-mid 6 figure digits.
Nemesis allows for all types of injection meaning you create the packet(s) you want to send. So if you start with sequence 1927364 .. 19*365 then 19*400 it still accomplishes the same thing for one.
Secondly many firewalls would filter most of the garbage that program would send whereas using Nemesis along with Fragrouter would allow you to cimrcumvent both IDS, and Firewall as well
Again its still free so STFU clown
Anyone ever seen the movie boiler room? The story was funny and somewhat similar, but whats scary is, it happens in the real world although its rare when tech based, however whats ironic IMHO is that most VC firms who invested in companies that went under for lack of having products never attempted to seek injuctions against those companies. Also noteworthy to me is the mentioning of hiring friends, and lack of management due to age constraints.
I worked at a content provider like Yahoo that catered to Latin America, except 90% of the staff weren't Latin (get worse). Well no one was ever allowed input during weekly meetings (where much money was spent on catering) into what the company should look to for future revenue, or methods to cut costs (e.g. option for cheaper servers, etc.) not because no one had a clue, but because management between the departments were mostly 20 something'ers.
I remember a few people had ordered (no bullshit) Sun E450's for personal mp3 storage servers, the company brought just about everyone top of the line IBM Thinkpads, Motorola i1000 pagers, Nextel phones, you name it they brought it.
Now the management team used to all work together in prior companies, some were college buddies, and when they had disagreements with each other, they would act out like brats who didn't get their way and disrupt the company by not allowing needed change, not because it was or wasn't good, but simply because they didn't like each other. Weird place I ended up leaving after about 6 months.
I barely trust companies where management is some skateboarder looking reject who thinks its hip to interview me with a little dog running around the office. Sure one would like to go to their jobs and enjoy the environment they work in, but management (although most times are hated) is a very important part of any company, and not many 20something'ers have that edge yet in my opinion, mind you I'm in my upper 20's.
Out here on the east coast of the United States the market is monopolized by Verizon who owns the lines other companies have to use in order to provide DSL services.
Problem with this, Verizon offers DSL services at the same time so it seems according to most (as well as common sense) that Verizon would be reluctant to lease lines to provide the service at a fast pace (if even they do without giving them the runaround).
What happens when you call Verizon for DSL services is horrendous, you're often told you would have to wait upteen weeks or months before they can get to you, or it turns out they haven't wired your neighborhood yet.
Well logically cable is almost in every single neighborhood so its easier for people to just call up their cable companies and have it added on to their bills without hassle. No waits, etc.
Doesn't mean cable is better than DSL could just mean DSL isn't available in an area, or people just don't want to wait too long for it to be installed.
For that just download some DDoS tools and do it on your own along with a packet sniffer. Or head over to Packet Ninja and download nemesis and inject yourself with crap until your network begs for mercy all at the cool low price of $0,000,000.00
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Besides all I can add to this project would be a crapload of Jolly Roger files
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They are starting to face consumer resistence to change versions, as they offer nothing the consumer wants.
This is opinionated as if it were true MS wouldn't make as much money yearly as they currently do. Sure many may want change, and may bitch about leaving, but the facts remain little do nothing more than talk trash.
What could be the reason for an exising Office user to buy a Office XP? Difficult question.
Marketing is the reasoning behind it. As soon as a certain number of companies make that switch to a standardized format many others will follow, and you have to keep in mind companies will not reinvent their whole network at the expense of someone's distaste for MS products. It would be rather costly for one, secondly again think about when X amounts of companies make that switch to standardized formats, how will other OS' play with Office XP? Will StarOffice support
They face also a maturing PC market, with declining sales.
"Maturing market" means to me, many may get tired of gcc'ing files and configuring everything and its parent as opposed to the lazy point and click world.
It is not based on customer demand. If you ask
customers what do they want of Microsoft, a subscription based service is unlikely to make to the top-10.
Microsoft is far from a "what the people want" type of OS yet they do well in fact better than anyone out there in terms of sales regardless of what people want. Its more or less +90% a standard in the business world.
That can work, as I say, with a perfect monopoly. I was really looking forward to this subscription idea. To me it looked like the moment we were going to test how strong is Microsoft monopoly, and how much it's based on not having irritated to date their lazy customers too much.
I'm so tired of hearing monopoly its just so "un-chic" a word. Its business everyone does it. Cisco has brought out many networking companies no one bitched, AOL same thing, GE owns just about 40% of everything you could think of whether people know it or not, and is the only company to literally make up what they want to post as sales at the end of year (trust me they post whatever looks good to themselves)
So MS has screwed up down the line, all businesses do somehow, and I'm so tired of seeing the old monopoly argument when it comes to MS along with an Open Source aura of comments surrounding it. Its just outdated and rather lame at this point.