""Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows."
See, printing stuff like that in an innocuous document is so rude. I was reading along, drinking my soda, and when I read that it was all I could do to keep from choking and spilling diet coke all over my keyboard. It left a nasty mark on the carpet instead.
You gotta love it. It's easy to find security holes in Linux, just read the source. It's hard to find holes in Microsoft software, because you need a nickel to buy a fucking clue.
Wonder if they'll have the software license run out based on variable conditions, like car warrantees. With cars, it's always something like 3 years or 30,000 miles... maybe with Windows it'll be 3 years or 3000 blue screens, whichever comes first.
I know, I know, you're thinking "of course the 3000 blue screens will come first!". But remember, many users often can't turn their computer on, let alone open Word. Those who can, of course, will get their blue screen on schedule. But those users need to pay more often.
You're going to have a harder time finding people who will stick up for Napster than people who will stick up for Gnutella or Freenet. It's harder to build a moral case for a venture-capital funded Server-to-Client architecture system that generates a profit by trading corporate music. Freenet, Gnutella, and the like aren't generating a profit for anyone, they're just a grass roots retaliation on the part of the consumer against the documented crimes of price fixing and collusion that the recording labels are committing against the American people.
Peer-to-peer is one thing. Peer to corporation to peer is another.
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So let's see... it's not a showstopper. A reset button that instead changed the pitch of the rotors and caused uneven acceleration (which the pilot could not have anticipated). That sounds like a showstopper to me.
Ground the planes, fix the bug, fly the planes. A "showstopper" is something bad enough to ditch funding for the project. If a single software glitch is enough for you to abandon an entire project, then you should stop reading slashdot, because at one point in its history, it has had a bug.
I'd try to change your mind, but hopefully you'll just take this to heart and do us all a favor.
The report said that the software had been tested in December 1996 but that those tests did not adequately check the reset system.
Speaking as an embedded real-time programmer, if I were designing software to control an aircraft full of servicemen, and I let my software get released into an aircraft without ever having tested pushing the "reset" button in flight, I'd take myself out in the back yard right now with a.357 and do the world a favor.
I write embedded communications software, and we spend weeks on cold and warm reboot scenarios per-blade and per-chassis.
The worst thing that happens if my software goes down is that somebody's pr0n gets cut off.
Ho-ly shit, folks. Can we all just go out, buy a clue, and mail it to these people?
NIST discovered the 5th state of matter!!! NIST scientists receieved a nobel for this discovery a few years ago!!
NIST runs MEP, one of the few government programs that generates a profit while aiding small business development in america.
NIST development created WAIS, Wide Area Information search, the precursor to WebCrawler and Lycos.
NIST invented the scanning tunneling microscope, without which the RAM your computer is running could never have been designed.
NIST research was the first to show that the universe has parity
NIST's Information Technology Laboratory has contributed open research to America about IT, including a lot of open source software. Sure, it doesn't show a profit, so Congress can call it "waste" - but I know that you know that we all use it.
getagoddamnCLUE!!!
NIST has a solid history of debunking junk science and provide nobel-level physics and science research. If you are reading this on a laptop, your screen's interface was designed at NIST. The sad part is that I can barely remember all their contributions to science in the 5 minutes i'm taking to write this.
But I shouldn't have to. Why don't we tear down the space shuttle and use it to build houses?
If Wind River is going to "integrate" FreeBSD the same way they "integrated" PSOS, then you can kiss it goodbye.
The BSD license allows for proprietary modules built on top of open software. When people at my workplace refer to "Microsoft embedded", they mean Wind River.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Go to their web site you'll see PSOS listed as a product. Then call them up and try to buy it without buying VxWorks.
Doug: - "Interoperability is a key competitive strength."
Anitcypher: - "That meant that any user with windoze 95 could only use the dial-up software with an ISP running a copy of NT behind each modem. "
- "Cisco approached M$ to put regular CHAP into win95, but M$ refused."
Since Doug would never flat out lie in a public forum, we must conclude that:
- Doug means: "interoperability with our own products" is a key competitive strength.
- He leaves out the implied "non-interoperability with other people's products is a key competitive strength".
Doug writes: -", we need to be even more diligent about building solutions that customers want"
- "In the end, it all comes down to solving customers' problems"
- "we continue to proactively innovate and continue to be totally customer driven. "
Anticypher writes: "As a side note, M$'s implementation of MS-CHAP has some serious security problems, a google search can turn them up. The security holes are pretty difficult to exploit, but allow for session hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks"
Again, since we must assume Doug is telling the truth, then we must conclude that a large customer base has demanded security holes in this product
Our job is to find these customers, and kill them.
I disagree. You're funny. All the fucking losers who like you who bitch about/. are funny. This is slashdot's day to troll all the whining, bitching, can't-code IE5'ers who hang around here and play "devil's advocate" all day long. And boy have you boys come through.
The articles today weren't supposed to be amusing. The comments were. And you, my friend, in true Casey fashion, have stepped up to the tee and taken a mighty swing with your whiffle ball bat. I laughed at your post so hard I coughed soda through my nose.
Well I think that much has been obvious for a while. The question, really, is how much joint development? Are we just talking a blunt every weekend or so, or are these guys dropping a dime bag every day?
With all the recent heat from Microsoft above the top-secret R&D facility off the main campus, I am drawn to wonder if they are actually developing thermonuclear weaponry. You all know about how a massive infrared presence from satellite usually indicates a controlled test fission. I wonder what it was that they used as fissionable material...
mike -
just watched your whole webcast. i hate realplayer, but it was worth the effort to see your show.
i know that horrible, sinking feeling that comes from being in the midst of a whole company that can't possibly be producing anything, doing nothing, pissing money, surrounded by that horrible duo:
-impending doom
-clueless people who don't know you're doomed
your show is great. i think your talents are real, and they don't involve computers.
best of luck to you. hope you beat #5 at rogue someday.
Secondly, the females there are pretty awful - the average female uses the internet to affirm real life relationships, not to make new relationships. Females who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, desperate for some sort of attention.
Similarly, the males on slashdot are, by and large, sexist pieces of shit. Men who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, with 7 eyes and venomous tentacles.
Oh wait, maybe that's just you. Sorry, didn't mean to make a broad, uninformed, sweeping generalization about a bunch of people i don't know. I don't know what I was thinking. Only a complete idiot would do something like that in a public forum.
How do you get the Washington Post to write a 2-page spread about your life, times, and problems? For 2 days straight? Please choose only one answer:
1) Overcome testicular cancer to win the Tour de France 2 years running.
2) Win an Olympic gold medal
3) Launch a satellite
4) Invade a country
5) Go to school & shoot your friends
5) Hack a defense department web site
6) Get a perfect score on every test & a perfect attendance record for all of high school.
7) Become a high-school all-american in 3 sports.
What's the correct answer?
No peeking!
The correct answer is:
5) Go to school & shoot your friends.
Everyone is entitled to 15 minutes of fame, unless you're a total psychopathic fuckup, in which case you get at least a week.
"I think it's so overplayed, this issue of guns in schools," said Kathryn Pizzuto, a 17-year-old senior from Tucson. "Those shootings are about some kids trying to get their 15 minutes of fame."
What if high school shooters never had their names released? What if Newsweek didn't slobber over them?
Trevor,
Thank god somewhere out there there's still a responsible press system. You country's reaction to youth violence is sensible and will probably go a long way towards fixing it.
Here in America, we are surrounded by venomous hordes of finger pointers, half pointing at the internet and the other half pointing at guns. I don't know which is worse, the damage to our country that they are doing in crusading against symptoms rather than causes, or the neglect of our children that they are perpetuating by ignoring the real problem.
But I do know that for once, I envy Canada. I can't convey to you the peace of mind I would feel if America would grow up & buy a clue from your country.
Maybe one of these kids will bomb his school with propane instead of using a gun, and once the "Anti-Propane" movement starts, America will awaken to the insanity...
This case just outlines the need for a Privacy Bill of Rights. The Court is absolutely right - this speech is protected by the First Amendment.
But it should be absolutely banned under a Privacy Bill of Rights. Those people should be able to rant and rave about how Planned Parenthood is Hitler all they want, but they should not be able to violate the privacy rights of these doctors. Best Buy and Safeway shouldn't be able to sell my purchase profile from my "Safeway Club Card" to direct marketers and my health insurance company. Digital consumer profiles and personal profiles should be identified as tradeable items that are the intellectual property of the identified person.
If ever there was intellectual property, it's your own name, address, and SSN. And publishing people's names against their will along with other identifying information, for the purpose of having them executed or any other malicious reason (even calling them at dinner to sell them life insurance) should be explicitly prohibited.
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""Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows."
See, printing stuff like that in an innocuous document is so rude. I was reading along, drinking my soda, and when I read that it was all I could do to keep from choking and spilling diet coke all over my keyboard. It left a nasty mark on the carpet instead.
You gotta love it. It's easy to find security holes in Linux, just read the source. It's hard to find holes in Microsoft software, because you need a nickel to buy a fucking clue.
Wonder if they'll have the software license run out based on variable conditions, like car warrantees. With cars, it's always something like 3 years or 30,000 miles... maybe with Windows it'll be 3 years or 3000 blue screens, whichever comes first.
I know, I know, you're thinking "of course the 3000 blue screens will come first!". But remember, many users often can't turn their computer on, let alone open Word. Those who can, of course, will get their blue screen on schedule. But those users need to pay more often.
You're going to have a harder time finding people who will stick up for Napster than people who will stick up for Gnutella or Freenet. It's harder to build a moral case for a venture-capital funded Server-to-Client architecture system that generates a profit by trading corporate music. Freenet, Gnutella, and the like aren't generating a profit for anyone, they're just a grass roots retaliation on the part of the consumer against the documented crimes of price fixing and collusion that the recording labels are committing against the American people.
Peer-to-peer is one thing. Peer to corporation to peer is another.
Yes, this post is offtopic.
/. reader since 1999,
And no, no user is going to moderate me offtopic.
This is because approximately 3 days ago, someone at Slashdot turned off moderation. This is probably obvious to those who pay close attention to the moderation system, but I hoped to bring this issue before a larger audience. The facts so far are:
There are far, far less moderations going on. The ones that are being applied are mainly negative. This leads any reasonable person to believe that the Slashdot editors are moderating the stories by hand (this post, for instance, will probably be buried in short order).
I am posting this message for two reasons:
1) I believe that we, the readers of Slashdot, deserve some sort of explanation, no matter how cryptic, of what is going on.
2) I would like to promote feedback from other readers.
How you can help:
This post will probably be either erased or marked -1 rather quickly. Please copy it and repost it as necessary.
- a dedicated
-mwalker.
my bad.
sorry for the flame.
i think we're in agreement that it's time to ground the planes.
So let's see... it's not a showstopper. A reset button that instead changed the pitch of the rotors and caused uneven acceleration (which the pilot could not have anticipated). That sounds like a showstopper to me.
Ground the planes, fix the bug, fly the planes. A "showstopper" is something bad enough to ditch funding for the project. If a single software glitch is enough for you to abandon an entire project, then you should stop reading slashdot, because at one point in its history, it has had a bug.
I'd try to change your mind, but hopefully you'll just take this to heart and do us all a favor.
The report said that the software had been tested in December 1996 but that those tests did not adequately check the reset system.
.357 and do the world a favor.
Speaking as an embedded real-time programmer, if I were designing software to control an aircraft full of servicemen, and I let my software get released into an aircraft without ever having tested pushing the "reset" button in flight, I'd take myself out in the back yard right now with a
I write embedded communications software, and we spend weeks on cold and warm reboot scenarios per-blade and per-chassis.
The worst thing that happens if my software goes down is that somebody's pr0n gets cut off.
Ho-ly shit, folks. Can we all just go out, buy a clue, and mail it to these people?
WHY do game publishers hate europe?
Because France is in Europe.
Next question?
IMHO, this is how MS will die
Hemos, how are you going to kill what's already dead?
mwuahahahahahaha!!!
NIST discovered the 5th state of matter!!! NIST scientists receieved a nobel for this discovery a few years ago!!
NIST runs MEP, one of the few government programs that generates a profit while aiding small business development in america.
NIST development created WAIS, Wide Area Information search, the precursor to WebCrawler and Lycos.
NIST invented the scanning tunneling microscope, without which the RAM your computer is running could never have been designed.
NIST research was the first to show that the universe has parity
NIST's Information Technology Laboratory has contributed open research to America about IT, including a lot of open source software. Sure, it doesn't show a profit, so Congress can call it "waste" - but I know that you know that we all use it.
get a goddamn CLUE!!!
Or someone will beat you with the clue stick.
NIST has a solid history of debunking junk science and provide nobel-level physics and science research. If you are reading this on a laptop, your screen's interface was designed at NIST. The sad part is that I can barely remember all their contributions to science in the 5 minutes i'm taking to write this.
But I shouldn't have to. Why don't we tear down the space shuttle and use it to build houses?
Get your stupid troll out of my face.
If Wind River is going to "integrate" FreeBSD the same way they "integrated" PSOS, then you can kiss it goodbye.
The BSD license allows for proprietary modules built on top of open software. When people at my workplace refer to "Microsoft embedded", they mean Wind River.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Go to their web site you'll see PSOS listed as a product. Then call them up and try to buy it without buying VxWorks.
Good luck!
Let's put 2 and 2 together:
Doug: - "Interoperability is a key competitive strength."
Anitcypher: - "That meant that any user with windoze 95 could only use the dial-up software with an ISP running a copy of NT behind each modem. "
- "Cisco approached M$ to put regular CHAP into win95, but M$ refused."
Since Doug would never flat out lie in a public forum, we must conclude that:
- Doug means: "interoperability with our own products" is a key competitive strength.
- He leaves out the implied "non-interoperability with other people's products is a key competitive strength".
Doug writes: -", we need to be even more diligent about building solutions that customers want"
- "In the end, it all comes down to solving customers' problems"
- "we continue to proactively innovate and continue to be totally customer driven. "
Anticypher writes: "As a side note, M$'s implementation of MS-CHAP has some serious security problems, a google search can turn them up. The security holes are pretty difficult to exploit, but allow for session hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks"
Again, since we must assume Doug is telling the truth, then we must conclude that a large customer base has demanded security holes in this product
Our job is to find these customers, and kill them.
Their web page now reads:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open user default database ''. Using master database instead.
/includes/connection.inc, line 4
Pretty sweet server they've got there.
I GUESS I AM!!
I wanted to reply in all caps, but I couldn't. Some censorware thingy blocked me.
So just pretend I'm posting in all caps.
glad i could be of assistance.
now clean that shit up.
None of this stuff is funny.
/. are funny. This is slashdot's day to troll all the whining, bitching, can't-code IE5'ers who hang around here and play "devil's advocate" all day long. And boy have you boys come through.
I disagree. You're funny. All the fucking losers who like you who bitch about
The articles today weren't supposed to be amusing. The comments were. And you, my friend, in true Casey fashion, have stepped up to the tee and taken a mighty swing with your whiffle ball bat. I laughed at your post so hard I coughed soda through my nose.
I salute you.
Perl and Python to begin joint development
Well I think that much has been obvious for a while. The question, really, is how much joint development? Are we just talking a blunt every weekend or so, or are these guys dropping a dime bag every day?
That would at least explain the name of $_
With all the recent heat from Microsoft above the top-secret R&D facility off the main campus, I am drawn to wonder if they are actually developing thermonuclear weaponry. You all know about how a massive infrared presence from satellite usually indicates a controlled test fission. I wonder what it was that they used as fissionable material...
mike -
just watched your whole webcast. i hate realplayer, but it was worth the effort to see your show.
i know that horrible, sinking feeling that comes from being in the midst of a whole company that can't possibly be producing anything, doing nothing, pissing money, surrounded by that horrible duo:
-impending doom
-clueless people who don't know you're doomed
your show is great. i think your talents are real, and they don't involve computers.
best of luck to you. hope you beat #5 at rogue someday.
Secondly, the females there are pretty awful - the average female uses the internet to affirm real life relationships, not to make new relationships. Females who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, desperate for some sort of attention.
Similarly, the males on slashdot are, by and large, sexist pieces of shit. Men who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, with 7 eyes and venomous tentacles.
Oh wait, maybe that's just you. Sorry, didn't mean to make a broad, uninformed, sweeping generalization about a bunch of people i don't know. I don't know what I was thinking. Only a complete idiot would do something like that in a public forum.
My apologies.
you can't trademark your SSN, it's number. plus if you trademark your name, now ANYONE can get it, so you've defeated the purpose.
How do you get the Washington Post to write a 2-page spread about your life, times, and problems? For 2 days straight? Please choose only one answer:
1) Overcome testicular cancer to win the Tour de France 2 years running.
2) Win an Olympic gold medal
3) Launch a satellite
4) Invade a country
5) Go to school & shoot your friends
5) Hack a defense department web site
6) Get a perfect score on every test & a perfect attendance record for all of high school.
7) Become a high-school all-american in 3 sports.
What's the correct answer?
No peeking!
The correct answer is:
5) Go to school & shoot your friends.
Everyone is entitled to 15 minutes of fame, unless you're a total psychopathic fuckup, in which case you get at least a week.
Think about it. Our villians are our heros.
But the kids aren't fooled
"I think it's so overplayed, this issue of guns in schools," said Kathryn Pizzuto, a 17-year-old senior from Tucson. "Those shootings are about some kids trying to get their 15 minutes of fame."
What if high school shooters never had their names released? What if Newsweek didn't slobber over them?
Trevor,
Thank god somewhere out there there's still a responsible press system. You country's reaction to youth violence is sensible and will probably go a long way towards fixing it.
Here in America, we are surrounded by venomous hordes of finger pointers, half pointing at the internet and the other half pointing at guns. I don't know which is worse, the damage to our country that they are doing in crusading against symptoms rather than causes, or the neglect of our children that they are perpetuating by ignoring the real problem.
But I do know that for once, I envy Canada. I can't convey to you the peace of mind I would feel if America would grow up & buy a clue from your country.
Maybe one of these kids will bomb his school with propane instead of using a gun, and once the "Anti-Propane" movement starts, America will awaken to the insanity...
This case just outlines the need for a Privacy Bill of Rights. The Court is absolutely right - this speech is protected by the First Amendment.
But it should be absolutely banned under a Privacy Bill of Rights. Those people should be able to rant and rave about how Planned Parenthood is Hitler all they want, but they should not be able to violate the privacy rights of these doctors. Best Buy and Safeway shouldn't be able to sell my purchase profile from my "Safeway Club Card" to direct marketers and my health insurance company. Digital consumer profiles and personal profiles should be identified as tradeable items that are the intellectual property of the identified person.
If ever there was intellectual property, it's your own name, address, and SSN. And publishing people's names against their will along with other identifying information, for the purpose of having them executed or any other malicious reason (even calling them at dinner to sell them life insurance) should be explicitly prohibited.
at least, that's what i think.