Reminds me of the Simpsons epsisode Flaming Moes "He may have come up with the Recipe, but I came up with the idea of charging $6.95 for it."
Once you think you've got a possible GPL violator, how you can get a company to show you their source code? Is going to court the only way to defend your copyright? That would put the burden of proof on the original author who released their code under GPL. Does the FSF automatically jump in to defend GPL code?
I ask because I was considering releasing a project under a GPL/dual license for businesses, but I don't have the resources to pursue any violators when/if they occur.
It sounds great, but my guess is that bickering, patents and greed will stop something like that from happening. Microsoft, Sun, AOL, SCO... they are all benefiting from open standards that were created decades ago and refined over time. I think the new secure email would be evolve like the instant messenger market. A few big players that are all incompatible.
Maybe on Internet2 eh? Things were great till they let all the riff-raff in.;)
Yes, he's being treated. He's 14 now and about 6'1, 220 pounds. Bigger then anyone else in the family. Anyway the school has paid for a personal aid who goes to all of his classes with him, and instead of the normal school curriculum they are concentrating heavilty on life skills like paying bills, cooking, etc. Things we teach him too, but they do a much better job in school. He's doing good, except he is totally infatuated with comic books and cartoons.
You wouldn't know anything was wrong with him - until he tells you to "Stop Vile One! You have not powers here!" or something weird like that.
I consider it a theory. I haven't seen independent tests confirming or denying anything yet, but it seems possible. DDT and thaliomida used to be considered safe. When money is involved lots of things slip by.
A: If the call is really for the sole purpose of conducting a survey, it is not covered. Only telemarketing calls are covered - that is, calls that solicit sales of goods or services. Callers purporting to take a survey, but also offering to sell goods or services, must comply with the National Do Not Call Registry.
My brother has autism. Once we found out about it, we started researching and there has been a huge increase in children born with autism in recent years. Wired magazine even published an article trying to suggest that autism was on the rise in California relating autism to being smart. All hubris asside, there is something happening and we need to find out what it is.
One theory suggests that Thirmosal used in childhood inoculations may trigger autism in some children because it contains Mercury which is a known toxin being injected into most children. There is even a provision in the Homeland Security bill which prevents companies such as Eli Lilly from being sued by parents if thirmosal is found to be the cause of autism.
Even if it is not mercury in innoculations, autism is on the rise and for those of us with kids or planning on having them, this is a scary thing. I watched my brother revert from a normal 3 year old to... well himself now, but trapped by autism. Hard to explain, but scary as hell now that I'm having kids of my own.
The study mentioned in the article only included 9 people. Obviously not statistically relavant, but the findings found enough chemicals in the body that more studies analysis must be done to determine the effects on the body, and especially the developing young ones.
Well I am running my own software business and looking for any pointers. Where can I learn YOUR method? Seriously - do I email you or have you shared your wisdom online?
Personally I like the way my garage door open works. The only way to add a remote to the system is to open the box and push a few buttons to tell the system get ready for a new remote. Then you push the button on the remote and verify that the new remote was added.
Networking devices should create and change their own WEP keys automatically. I know my mother certainly isn't going to change it frequently if at all, and if so it will be her kids names or something.
The device would have MAC Address filtering on by default and would only be able to add devices by pushing a certain button on the device and putting it into "Add Network Device" mode. Then your new WiFi card would work on the system.
I think adding some physical requirement to the mix is the only way to have real security that's relatively easy to use.
As with most software or hardware, making it secure by default raises the bar required to use it. The company ends up fielding thousands of support calls from people who don't RTFM. Security out of the box is expensive to handle for general users. So everyone else ends up paying for it instead of the creators.
That's why windows has viruses, wifi is insecure and linux is "hard to use".
The only way to get performance out of XML would be to have IBM, Sun or Cray making XML cards. Like how graphics cards speed up 3D rendering to the point of almost real time ray tracing. Load your DTD and XLST into you XPU - XML Processor Unit and fire away.
I know it's just some weird delusion of the poster - the article mentions nothing about it. How hard would it be to create your own XML processing hardware? Would it be faster and what would it do?
In Microsoft's world, the only reasons to develop software are for your own personal needs, or to sell to make a profit.
True enough. Using their viewpoint, they have obtained billions and billions of dollars. They could make secure quality software, they certainly have the resources. Why bother though - it sells either way.
The same reason McDonalds is so big. People were raised on it and they've learned to accept it as the norm. McDonalds and Microsoft are very similar in a lot of ways. They both mass produce inferior goods, and make billions doing so. Lots of people say they hate them, but still swing by and give them more money every now and then.
They have just started losing money and they want to do as little as possible to get those customers back.
Trust is one issue, but this is a Good Thing. Put a disclaimer on it that says it's NOT part of the company, etc etc. The fact is that a simple code review pointed out very quickly that this code was buggy and had it's own exploits.
The same thing may be happening with Closed source patches and we will never know until the NEXT patch gets released and then we just "Trust Microsoft" to fix it again.
I hope that with all these people pointing out the flaws in the software at least one person will be able to fix them and release it again for public review.
Imagine if the next exploit code for some commercial not only included the exploit, but a "open source" type patch to detect such things were happening.
"As part of our settlement and license extension with Sun, we can only modify the Microsoft virtual machine until Sept. 30, 2004," Goodhew said. "After that date we will not be able to modify the virtual machine for any reason, including security. We will not ship products that include a piece of software we cannot provide security fixes for."
Interesting, that could be a valid point. What is the turn-around for SUN on security issues? I'm sure there must be some, but I've never heard of them. Certainly not the weekly holes and patches that seem to be released for your basic Microsoft applications.
What the judge said is that they had to use SUN's one-true-Java. Rather then change their applications to use the standard SUN Java, they decided to scrap them. Litigation took so long that some of these programs are close to their end of life anyway. How Childish.
I'm not one of those mad/. reader who refresh every 5 minutes. I mostly read during lunch or eventings, so I always end up with smoking ruins of an interesting website. I would appreciate it if the subscription gave you a full copy of the pages that were being discussed including images or other media.
Sounds like Haystack, Exchange and longhorn as well. A lot of the features shown are already present in Excange or Evolution. Slightly different, but very similar.
All the big players are working toward this same old information appliance concept. People use email, people use calendars, people use chat... Lets combine them all together.
And yet Mozilla is being broken apart into small modules. I think huge Exchange like programs are really nice in theory but a pain in the ass to actually create and maintain, not to mention keep secure.
The Wife doesn't seem to get that argument either. Labeling the porn is an interesting idea, but could set a bad precedent.
Here's some arguments I've tried that may work with your SO.
Fuzzy Logic - It sort of goes in this pile, but it could go a little bit into those other piles too. Chaos - It's actually a more advanced form of order she just doesn't understand yet. Shortest Path - I'm never more then a few feet from anything I need. Strange Attractor - Things just end up this way over as movements are iterated over time. (Couldn't refute it, but still didn't like it)
She's cleaned a few times, but might as well have thrown everything away for how much it helped me.:o)
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Reminds me of the Simpsons epsisode Flaming Moes
"He may have come up with the Recipe, but I came up with the idea of charging $6.95 for it."
Once you think you've got a possible GPL violator, how you can get a company to show you their source code? Is going to court the only way to defend your copyright? That would put the burden of proof on the original author who released their code under GPL. Does the FSF automatically jump in to defend GPL code?
I ask because I was considering releasing a project under a GPL/dual license for businesses, but I don't have the resources to pursue any violators when/if they occur.
It sounds great, but my guess is that bickering, patents and greed will stop something like that from happening. Microsoft, Sun, AOL, SCO... they are all benefiting from open standards that were created decades ago and refined over time. I think the new secure email would be evolve like the instant messenger market. A few big players that are all incompatible.
;)
Maybe on Internet2 eh? Things were great till they let all the riff-raff in.
One group got through the defenses and got to do their thing and it certainly changed everyone's opinions, but I don't think it was worth the cost.
Yes, he's being treated. He's 14 now and about 6'1, 220 pounds. Bigger then anyone else in the family. Anyway the school has paid for a personal aid who goes to all of his classes with him, and instead of the normal school curriculum they are concentrating heavilty on life skills like paying bills, cooking, etc. Things we teach him too, but they do a much better job in school. He's doing good, except he is totally infatuated with comic books and cartoons.
You wouldn't know anything was wrong with him - until he tells you to "Stop Vile One! You have not powers here!" or something weird like that.
I consider it a theory. I haven't seen independent tests confirming or denying anything yet, but it seems possible. DDT and thaliomida used to be considered safe. When money is involved lots of things slip by.
Protecting you from naked women in public. If guys can go topless, so can girls. Here that girls? :o)
Looks like geeks over at the Wired offices started drinking early.
From http://www.donotcall.gov/ FAQ
Q: What about telephone surveys?
A: If the call is really for the sole purpose of conducting a survey, it is not covered. Only telemarketing calls are covered - that is, calls that solicit sales of goods or services. Callers purporting to take a survey, but also offering to sell goods or services, must comply with the National Do Not Call Registry.
Wow, I got cold chills reading that. Thank goodness we can all laugh about it now.
Replace Microsoft Software with other Microsoft Software on Microsoft Hardware -
- Cool
- Why Bother
- How Dumb
- You Tool
- But.. That's not Linux!
But which will be most popular?
They're just resting.
That is funny, but it gets even better. If you click on the Dead Rat link it brings you to...
wait for it...
the Red Hat website!!
For those people who just didn't get it the first time.
My brother has autism. Once we found out about it, we started researching and there has been a huge increase in children born with autism in recent years. Wired magazine even published an article trying to suggest that autism was on the rise in California relating autism to being smart. All hubris asside, there is something happening and we need to find out what it is.
... well himself now, but trapped by autism. Hard to explain, but scary as hell now that I'm having kids of my own.
One theory suggests that Thirmosal used in childhood inoculations may trigger autism in some children because it contains Mercury which is a known toxin being injected into most children. There is even a provision in the Homeland Security bill which prevents companies such as Eli Lilly from being sued by parents if thirmosal is found to be the cause of autism.
Even if it is not mercury in innoculations, autism is on the rise and for those of us with kids or planning on having them, this is a scary thing. I watched my brother revert from a normal 3 year old to
The study mentioned in the article only included 9 people. Obviously not statistically relavant, but the findings found enough chemicals in the body that more studies analysis must be done to determine the effects on the body, and especially the developing young ones.
Well I am running my own software business and looking for any pointers. Where can I learn YOUR method? Seriously - do I email you or have you shared your wisdom online?
Personally I like the way my garage door open works. The only way to add a remote to the system is to open the box and push a few buttons to tell the system get ready for a new remote. Then you push the button on the remote and verify that the new remote was added.
Networking devices should create and change their own WEP keys automatically. I know my mother certainly isn't going to change it frequently if at all, and if so it will be her kids names or something.
The device would have MAC Address filtering on by default and would only be able to add devices by pushing a certain button on the device and putting it into "Add Network Device" mode. Then your new WiFi card would work on the system.
I think adding some physical requirement to the mix is the only way to have real security that's relatively easy to use.
As with most software or hardware, making it secure by default raises the bar required to use it. The company ends up fielding thousands of support calls from people who don't RTFM. Security out of the box is expensive to handle for general users. So everyone else ends up paying for it instead of the creators.
That's why windows has viruses, wifi is insecure and linux is "hard to use".
Hey - Maybe it does.
The only way to get performance out of XML would be to have IBM, Sun or Cray making XML cards. Like how graphics cards speed up 3D rendering to the point of almost real time ray tracing. Load your DTD and XLST into you XPU - XML Processor Unit and fire away.
I know it's just some weird delusion of the poster - the article mentions nothing about it. How hard would it be to create your own XML processing hardware? Would it be faster and what would it do?
In Microsoft's world, the only reasons to develop software are for your own personal needs, or to sell to make a profit.
True enough. Using their viewpoint, they have obtained billions and billions of dollars. They could make secure quality software, they certainly have the resources. Why bother though - it sells either way.
The same reason McDonalds is so big. People were raised on it and they've learned to accept it as the norm. McDonalds and Microsoft are very similar in a lot of ways. They both mass produce inferior goods, and make billions doing so. Lots of people say they hate them, but still swing by and give them more money every now and then.
They have just started losing money and they want to do as little as possible to get those customers back.
is my own T-3, my own T-3, my own T-3....
So I can have a Merry Christmas.
*sigh*
Trust is one issue, but this is a Good Thing. Put a disclaimer on it that says it's NOT part of the company, etc etc. The fact is that a simple code review pointed out very quickly that this code was buggy and had it's own exploits.
The same thing may be happening with Closed source patches and we will never know until the NEXT patch gets released and then we just "Trust Microsoft" to fix it again.
I hope that with all these people pointing out the flaws in the software at least one person will be able to fix them and release it again for public review.
Imagine if the next exploit code for some commercial not only included the exploit, but a "open source" type patch to detect such things were happening.
Wake me up when there is a Low COST mini-server for the Masses.
The author of the article is named Stoner :)
"As part of our settlement and license extension with Sun, we can only modify the Microsoft virtual machine until Sept. 30, 2004," Goodhew said. "After that date we will not be able to modify the virtual machine for any reason, including security. We will not ship products that include a piece of software we cannot provide security fixes for."
Interesting, that could be a valid point. What is the turn-around for SUN on security issues? I'm sure there must be some, but I've never heard of them. Certainly not the weekly holes and patches that seem to be released for your basic Microsoft applications.
What the judge said is that they had to use SUN's one-true-Java. Rather then change their applications to use the standard SUN Java, they decided to scrap them. Litigation took so long that some of these programs are close to their end of life anyway. How Childish.
I'm not one of those mad /. reader who refresh every 5 minutes. I mostly read during lunch or eventings, so I always end up with smoking ruins of an interesting website. I would appreciate it if the subscription gave you a full copy of the pages that were being discussed including images or other media.
Any chance of that happening?
Sounds like Haystack, Exchange and longhorn as well. A lot of the features shown are already present in Excange or Evolution. Slightly different, but very similar.
All the big players are working toward this same old information appliance concept. People use email, people use calendars, people use chat... Lets combine them all together.
And yet Mozilla is being broken apart into small modules. I think huge Exchange like programs are really nice in theory but a pain in the ass to actually create and maintain, not to mention keep secure.
The Wife doesn't seem to get that argument either. Labeling the porn is an interesting idea, but could set a bad precedent.
:o)
Here's some arguments I've tried that may work with your SO.
Fuzzy Logic - It sort of goes in this pile, but it could go a little bit into those other piles too.
Chaos - It's actually a more advanced form of order she just doesn't understand yet.
Shortest Path - I'm never more then a few feet from anything I need.
Strange Attractor - Things just end up this way over as movements are iterated over time. (Couldn't refute it, but still didn't like it)
She's cleaned a few times, but might as well have thrown everything away for how much it helped me.