Usually when someone on slashdot makes a claim like that, they provide a link. I hit Baystar and have yet to find anything about Paul Allen. That doesn't mean it's not there, but you could have provided proof of that claim fairly easily.
Paul Allen has long made it clear that he does his own thing, and MS doesn't not follow (nor vice versa). He has six foundations of his own, owns his own investment firm (Vulcan), is a lobbyist, and owns the Seahawks.
However, he left MS in 1983 (battling Hodgekins disease), and now owns Marcus Cable, Hollywood Entertainment, and Asymetrix Learning Systems.
Any other non MS employees you'd like to point out that invest in BayStar?
Yeah, BayStar's $50,000,000 compared to the $8,000,000 (which was MS exercising their option on UNIX code, although that may be just to help fund SCO) is pretty large. And there's no connection between BayStar and MS. Of course, if someone is a M$ hater, it's easy to ignore the BayStar funding and simply point out M$'s funding instead. Maybe they work for Fox News....
No, in this case you would have to sue the internetthingy because it allows all the traffic. Apache, IIS, WebSphere, they all fall to the DDoS attacks.
Ahhhh, finally a sane post. I grew up in a hunting family, and learned to shoot early in life. I also learned gun safety BEFORE I learned how to shoot. I was a member of the NRA so I could compete in their competitions, and I had classes held by them.
Strangely, as the liberals would have people believe, none of them ever included sales pitches for fully automatic weapons. The NRA's stance on ownership of them stands the same today as it did back then. Dealers permits (not easy to come by) should allow for ownership of any weapon. It's the responsibility of people to refrain from using firearms (or cars, or pencils, or dogs, or etc...) to harm other people.
My wife is a police officer, and we have 4 children aged 6-13. All of them have fired a gun before, and they fully understand the nature of these weapons. We have had exactly zero incidents with the kids misusing even toy guns. Why? Because they weren't shielded from them, only later to have exposure and an overwhelming desire to act like someone they saw in a movie.
I guess this will be the end of me using any Symantec product, as I don't wish to follow any commercial businesses political agenda.
p.s. only one item in that list above has anyone trying to ban them with laws. Can you guess which one it is?
It is possible to send light that is in a superposition of states down a fiber optic cable. Placing a wiretap in the middle of the cable which intercepts and retransmits the transmission will collapse the wavefunction (in the Copenhagen interpretation, "perform an observation") and cause the light to fall into one state or another.
Walkiry made a good point in the previous post regarding trucks already having to have log books, make extra stops along the way at weigh stations, etc... There are tighter regulations for HazMat trucks.
But think about it this way. Like any car alarm, any yahoo with a pair of wire cutters can disable hardware like this. There is no way the US Gubment is interested in trying to enforce something like this on every Bob and Tom's car.
That being said, we're populated enough anyway, enjoy your stay wherever it is you are.
The Pasadena Plastics Complex became Houston Chemical Complex after a huge explosion in that small town.
Same old story, and the sad thing is it works. Just when I finally have the family computer users able to remember that Gator is bad, I have to work on another name for them.
I'm going to thinkgeek.com and getting one of those No I will not fix your computer t-shirts.
I don't see how a VB programmer can speak with any authority about the security of servers since that is most likely not their primary job function
This is pretty late in the game, but here goes.
I write code for both Windows and Linux (very little Linux so far admittedly). On the Windows platform I write C, C++, Perl, and yes, VB. I'm not sure if you were saying that Windows developers are VB developers, but that's not what I have issue with. There are good VB developers out there. Granted, since VB made it easy for any yahoo to write what they would call an application, there are many more bad VB developers out there. VB uses security context like any other development platform. When I write an ASP app that uses a VB dll, I place many security checks along the way to make sure I'm running in the right context against the web server. And if something screwy has gone on, I give a 403.
The problem doesn't lie with VB itself, it lies with the implementation of VB programs. The same applies to Windows security. If you don't disallow extremely large strings/integers to pass through your code, you'll wind up allowing one of MS's numerous buffer overruns. That can be stopped at the UI. While it's true that developers shouldn't have to worry all the time about MS's failure to debug their own code, it's also true that security in applications starts with the developer, whatever platform they happen to be coding on.
This is nothing more than my personal opinion, with no empirical data whatsoever, so take it with a grain of salt.
I think OSS is hugely successful because it's handled bya community of software developers. There are no marketing middlemen to speak of, no project moochers, etc... What you have is several groups of above average intelligence people who see the bigger picture. These same people probably vote at a rate higher than the national average of 20(ish)%. They not only understand the long term goals, but also the market they're competing in, and why they're competing.
The unpopular opinion tied to that is we haven't seen any real long term use of OSS. Even a communist state could last a couple of decaded before it fell apart under the weight of human nature. I hope nothing like that happens in the OSS community, and given the type of people that contribute, it probably won't happen.
Maybe communism could work, under the same "standards" that OSS does. But how would one weed out the typical couch potato that says "I don't make any difference, so I'll just be lazy and reap the benefits of other people's hard work."
Try the doomed in any city project known as Light Rail. From downtown to the medical center no less. The cost overruns are astronomical, as they have been for other major cities, and the ultimate price is less protection from both the fire and police departments. Of course, this was his term limit year, so why should he care?
My reply earlier though was to the comment made about having too many policemen. That's usually not the case in large cities though.
I don't know where you live, but here in the Houston area the police are way understaffed, and thanks to a non-fiscally minded mayor, they're cutting staff.
I hope you're right. But when you say that we've made advances in human rights and liberties, you're really only speaking of law and order. Visit Vidor, TX where a black man was not-so-long-ago dragged behind a pickup until his head came off. Most of the town actually sees nothing wrong with that (I live not too far from there). Look at the numbers from the BLS regarding poverty level and a % of population. It's growing. The haves and havenots are increasingly separating with the havenots losing.
Where I hope you're right is when you say It doesn't mean we won't recover and rebuild. In my lifetime I've only seen a downward spiral.
That's a much handier device than a tv/video camera/phone. Your description of it makes quite a bit of sense. But I have yet to hear anyone say "Man, I wish I could have a tv in my hand that shoots video, and also rings in phone calls. I'd like nothing more than to pause video footage of my son's football game to answer a telemarketer." Maybe I'm Abby Normal, but I think I would prefer that those two stay as two seperate devices. I suppose watching Nokia's sales on this item could prove me wrong.
As for the corprate and the governmental merging, I don't see it happening in the US
I wouldn't suggest gubment and corps merging on paper or in any formal stance. However, you see it all the time in corporations influencing policy and law. Look at the RIAA, or the oil interests. What you have there is politicians on the "payroll" of PAC's. They're certainly not acting in the best interest of the people or evne their constituents, which is their job, but in the interest of the corporations/conglomerates. It doesn't happen all the time, maybe not even 50% of the time, but it does happen often enough that most people notice it.
Personally, I can't imagine wanting one of these. Once again, they try to stuff something into a technology that, to me, doesn't fit. Who wants a tv/phone? You already have digital video cameras that you can watch the output on a screen the size of this thing. Who wants to pause their viewing/recording to answer a call? There's already PDA phones to handle the rest of the applications that this will.
I just don't see this as any more than a toy, and not terribly useful.
Extremely insightful pointing out that communism has never been tried before (at least not on a scale large enough for anyone to notice). It's true, communism has been a red herring for the former Soviets, the Chinese, eastern block Europe, and any of the far eastern states that claim communism only to "hide" the fact that they're merely dictatorships.
I also agree that Marx was probably correct, in that capitalist society is doomed to merge larger and larger corporations with government, until they are one in the same. I honestly think we're seeing evidence of the early stages of that, considering the influence large corportations already have on policy/law making.
I don't agree, however, that communism would ever work on a large scale. I base this on human nature alone though. While everyone working toward the good of the state and sharing the fruits of their labor is a noble premise, it never takes long for society to divide itself. It's happened everywhere, and not by accident. People who think their work is more important want more for that work. People who don't think they're making a difference don't want to work as hard. It's also in human nature to eventually do as little as possible, as long as you're getting by or ahead. That's why we have such great inventions as the tractor/combine, telephone, even the tv remote. I will work to create something that will save me time and energy, so I can relax more, or sit around a bit, or get a little more sleep, or...
I realize that communism isn't completely about the sharing of work in the state. It's about sharing power as well. In that light, human nature also takes it's run. Those with more influence eventually start exercising it (we've seen this happen throughout history many times). What you have at that point is something resembling an ologopoly.
Communism might work if you can remove human nature, and most/. readers are probably a bit outside the norm when it comes to that human nature. Then again, most/.ers are a minority when compared to the masses that don't think a little extra effort can go a long way in society.
Looks like someone has the case of the Mondays! Oh, wait, it's Friday.
I agree that this article was incorrectly described by michael. It has nothing to do with proprietary software, and everything to do with a bad business decision. There are tons of escrow services out there and they should have either been aware of that, or have been ready for the idea that they were pissing away $2k per license.
That being said, there are quite a few aticles posted here by the editors that I don't think are worth reading..... so I don't read them.
It's pretty difficult to register a complaint with a group that provides a service for the low price of... nothing.
Maybe currently, but at least as recently as 1997, through the entire history of the S&P 500, it was 16. The reason I know that is I was a quantitative analyst for AIM at the time and did the study for Lipper Analytical, who reports to Russell, Wilshire, Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, and a multitude of other brokerage houses.
This is not my study, but it pretty well lines up with it.
Yeah. I work for a large chemical who makes olefins/polyolefins, but some fuels as well. We happen to have two plants in the middle east because it's awfully cheap labor, and we get to pollute someone elses air. No matter what the fuel source, it will likely be made in larger quantity overseas, although possibly owned by US corporations.
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Ah... yeah.. and ah... you do know Paul Allen hasn't worked for MS since 1983.. right?
Usually when someone on slashdot makes a claim like that, they provide a link. I hit Baystar and have yet to find anything about Paul Allen. That doesn't mean it's not there, but you could have provided proof of that claim fairly easily.
Paul Allen has long made it clear that he does his own thing, and MS doesn't not follow (nor vice versa). He has six foundations of his own, owns his own investment firm (Vulcan), is a lobbyist, and owns the Seahawks.
However, he left MS in 1983 (battling Hodgekins disease), and now owns Marcus Cable, Hollywood Entertainment, and Asymetrix Learning Systems.
Any other non MS employees you'd like to point out that invest in BayStar?
Yeah, BayStar's $50,000,000 compared to the $8,000,000 (which was MS exercising their option on UNIX code, although that may be just to help fund SCO) is pretty large. And there's no connection between BayStar and MS. Of course, if someone is a M$ hater, it's easy to ignore the BayStar funding and simply point out M$'s funding instead. Maybe they work for Fox News....
No, in this case you would have to sue the internetthingy because it allows all the traffic. Apache, IIS, WebSphere, they all fall to the DDoS attacks.
Ahhhh, finally a sane post. I grew up in a hunting family, and learned to shoot early in life. I also learned gun safety BEFORE I learned how to shoot. I was a member of the NRA so I could compete in their competitions, and I had classes held by them.
Strangely, as the liberals would have people believe, none of them ever included sales pitches for fully automatic weapons. The NRA's stance on ownership of them stands the same today as it did back then. Dealers permits (not easy to come by) should allow for ownership of any weapon. It's the responsibility of people to refrain from using firearms (or cars, or pencils, or dogs, or etc...) to harm other people.
My wife is a police officer, and we have 4 children aged 6-13. All of them have fired a gun before, and they fully understand the nature of these weapons. We have had exactly zero incidents with the kids misusing even toy guns. Why? Because they weren't shielded from them, only later to have exposure and an overwhelming desire to act like someone they saw in a movie.
I guess this will be the end of me using any Symantec product, as I don't wish to follow any commercial businesses political agenda.
p.s. only one item in that list above has anyone trying to ban them with laws. Can you guess which one it is?
From Wikipedia.
It is possible to send light that is in a superposition of states down a fiber optic cable. Placing a wiretap in the middle of the cable which intercepts and retransmits the transmission will collapse the wavefunction (in the Copenhagen interpretation, "perform an observation") and cause the light to fall into one state or another.
Walkiry made a good point in the previous post regarding trucks already having to have log books, make extra stops along the way at weigh stations, etc... There are tighter regulations for HazMat trucks.
But think about it this way. Like any car alarm, any yahoo with a pair of wire cutters can disable hardware like this. There is no way the US Gubment is interested in trying to enforce something like this on every Bob and Tom's car.
That being said, we're populated enough anyway, enjoy your stay wherever it is you are.
You certainly should have been modded up. The response I got was...
Jeffrey
Thank you for this notofication
Regards
Neil
Nothing terribly exciting, but at least they made an effort, and obviously got the message.
I did exactly the same, and in less than 20 minutes I got a response that wasn't automated. I didn't realize corpoglomerates did that any more.
The Pasadena Plastics Complex became Houston Chemical Complex after a huge explosion in that small town.
Same old story, and the sad thing is it works. Just when I finally have the family computer users able to remember that Gator is bad, I have to work on another name for them.
I'm going to thinkgeek.com and getting one of those No I will not fix your computer t-shirts.
I don't see how a VB programmer can speak with any authority about the security of servers since that is most likely not their primary job function
This is pretty late in the game, but here goes.
I write code for both Windows and Linux (very little Linux so far admittedly). On the Windows platform I write C, C++, Perl, and yes, VB. I'm not sure if you were saying that Windows developers are VB developers, but that's not what I have issue with. There are good VB developers out there. Granted, since VB made it easy for any yahoo to write what they would call an application, there are many more bad VB developers out there. VB uses security context like any other development platform. When I write an ASP app that uses a VB dll, I place many security checks along the way to make sure I'm running in the right context against the web server. And if something screwy has gone on, I give a 403.
The problem doesn't lie with VB itself, it lies with the implementation of VB programs. The same applies to Windows security. If you don't disallow extremely large strings/integers to pass through your code, you'll wind up allowing one of MS's numerous buffer overruns. That can be stopped at the UI. While it's true that developers shouldn't have to worry all the time about MS's failure to debug their own code, it's also true that security in applications starts with the developer, whatever platform they happen to be coding on.
This is nothing more than my personal opinion, with no empirical data whatsoever, so take it with a grain of salt.
I think OSS is hugely successful because it's handled bya community of software developers. There are no marketing middlemen to speak of, no project moochers, etc... What you have is several groups of above average intelligence people who see the bigger picture. These same people probably vote at a rate higher than the national average of 20(ish)%. They not only understand the long term goals, but also the market they're competing in, and why they're competing.
The unpopular opinion tied to that is we haven't seen any real long term use of OSS. Even a communist state could last a couple of decaded before it fell apart under the weight of human nature. I hope nothing like that happens in the OSS community, and given the type of people that contribute, it probably won't happen.
Maybe communism could work, under the same "standards" that OSS does. But how would one weed out the typical couch potato that says "I don't make any difference, so I'll just be lazy and reap the benefits of other people's hard work."
Again, just my $.02.
Try the doomed in any city project known as Light Rail. From downtown to the medical center no less. The cost overruns are astronomical, as they have been for other major cities, and the ultimate price is less protection from both the fire and police departments. Of course, this was his term limit year, so why should he care?
My reply earlier though was to the comment made about having too many policemen. That's usually not the case in large cities though.
I don't know where you live, but here in the Houston area the police are way understaffed, and thanks to a non-fiscally minded mayor, they're cutting staff.
I hope you're right. But when you say that we've made advances in human rights and liberties, you're really only speaking of law and order. Visit Vidor, TX where a black man was not-so-long-ago dragged behind a pickup until his head came off. Most of the town actually sees nothing wrong with that (I live not too far from there). Look at the numbers from the BLS regarding poverty level and a % of population. It's growing. The haves and havenots are increasingly separating with the havenots losing.
Where I hope you're right is when you say It doesn't mean we won't recover and rebuild. In my lifetime I've only seen a downward spiral.
That's a much handier device than a tv/video camera/phone. Your description of it makes quite a bit of sense. But I have yet to hear anyone say "Man, I wish I could have a tv in my hand that shoots video, and also rings in phone calls. I'd like nothing more than to pause video footage of my son's football game to answer a telemarketer." Maybe I'm Abby Normal, but I think I would prefer that those two stay as two seperate devices. I suppose watching Nokia's sales on this item could prove me wrong.
As for the corprate and the governmental merging, I don't see it happening in the US
I wouldn't suggest gubment and corps merging on paper or in any formal stance. However, you see it all the time in corporations influencing policy and law. Look at the RIAA, or the oil interests. What you have there is politicians on the "payroll" of PAC's. They're certainly not acting in the best interest of the people or evne their constituents, which is their job, but in the interest of the corporations/conglomerates. It doesn't happen all the time, maybe not even 50% of the time, but it does happen often enough that most people notice it.
Interesting stuff there. I wonder about this comment...
markets with enough regulation to keep the markets fair for new entrants is the wisest course
Isn't that close to the definition of socialism?
Personally, I can't imagine wanting one of these. Once again, they try to stuff something into a technology that, to me, doesn't fit. Who wants a tv/phone? You already have digital video cameras that you can watch the output on a screen the size of this thing. Who wants to pause their viewing/recording to answer a call? There's already PDA phones to handle the rest of the applications that this will.
I just don't see this as any more than a toy, and not terribly useful.
Extremely insightful pointing out that communism has never been tried before (at least not on a scale large enough for anyone to notice). It's true, communism has been a red herring for the former Soviets, the Chinese, eastern block Europe, and any of the far eastern states that claim communism only to "hide" the fact that they're merely dictatorships.
/. readers are probably a bit outside the norm when it comes to that human nature. Then again, most /.ers are a minority when compared to the masses that don't think a little extra effort can go a long way in society.
I also agree that Marx was probably correct, in that capitalist society is doomed to merge larger and larger corporations with government, until they are one in the same. I honestly think we're seeing evidence of the early stages of that, considering the influence large corportations already have on policy/law making.
I don't agree, however, that communism would ever work on a large scale. I base this on human nature alone though. While everyone working toward the good of the state and sharing the fruits of their labor is a noble premise, it never takes long for society to divide itself. It's happened everywhere, and not by accident. People who think their work is more important want more for that work. People who don't think they're making a difference don't want to work as hard. It's also in human nature to eventually do as little as possible, as long as you're getting by or ahead. That's why we have such great inventions as the tractor/combine, telephone, even the tv remote. I will work to create something that will save me time and energy, so I can relax more, or sit around a bit, or get a little more sleep, or...
I realize that communism isn't completely about the sharing of work in the state. It's about sharing power as well. In that light, human nature also takes it's run. Those with more influence eventually start exercising it (we've seen this happen throughout history many times). What you have at that point is something resembling an ologopoly.
Communism might work if you can remove human nature, and most
As both selling drugs and copying (copyrighted) music without purchasing it are illegal, how are these two all that different?
Looks like someone has the case of the Mondays! Oh, wait, it's Friday.
I agree that this article was incorrectly described by michael. It has nothing to do with proprietary software, and everything to do with a bad business decision. There are tons of escrow services out there and they should have either been aware of that, or have been ready for the idea that they were pissing away $2k per license.
That being said, there are quite a few aticles posted here by the editors that I don't think are worth reading..... so I don't read them.
It's pretty difficult to register a complaint with a group that provides a service for the low price of... nothing.
Because RFID gets around the aluminum foil hats.
Maybe currently, but at least as recently as 1997, through the entire history of the S&P 500, it was 16. The reason I know that is I was a quantitative analyst for AIM at the time and did the study for Lipper Analytical, who reports to Russell, Wilshire, Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, and a multitude of other brokerage houses.
This is not my study, but it pretty well lines up with it.
Yeah. I work for a large chemical who makes olefins/polyolefins, but some fuels as well. We happen to have two plants in the middle east because it's awfully cheap labor, and we get to pollute someone elses air. No matter what the fuel source, it will likely be made in larger quantity overseas, although possibly owned by US corporations.