Microsoft departments have to use their own beta products. Its internally called "dog fooding."
Do you find it just a little curious that the story contributor used that particular phrase? Methinks a Microsofty at work here. Nice job, cowmix.
why would RIAA care? why would "quality" suffer?
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You think the RIAA bandits wouldn't be getting a cut of the proceeds? They probably thought this up to stop the concert-pirating.
As for quality: this will come from the sound equipment straight to the recording device, and they will stamp out CDs. Much better than a crappy hand-held cassette-recorder can do. Yes, the quality will not be as good as a studio album, but you want the live album, right?
Because most (all?) of these appliances are loss leaders and they plan to make money off the service. They can still provide the service over the Internet, letting you come in any which way you can, but the logistics/infrastructure requirements of that probably is not cost effective. After all, these IA are targeted to newbies, and how many newbies do you know who can hook up such a box to their masq'd LAN (assuming they even know what it is)
I contacted VA Sales for an international ISP based in Asia. We were talking 100's of servers, system design, everything. If not THE largest single order, definitely one of the largest in VA's history.
Guess what? The (major accounts) sales guy missed appointments, never followed up, and in general, sent red alerts all over the place: if pre-sales was this bad, imagine how bad they would be after they got our money.
Even without reading this story, I was never going to buy from them, this is the final nail in the coffin.
Wake up, VA. Treating customers bad is a sure way to oblivion.
Do we really think that the FBI Lab is capable of developing something like this on their own? (after they hid the fact that total credit for id'ing MafiaBoy should go to outside consultants)?
Silentrunner has a matching feature-set.
And Tom Perrine says source code will be a snapshot in time.. ahem, how about reconstructing ALL the capabilities from the code; then we know what is the worst it can do. Is the man an idiot or just trying to get a promotion?
1. A (very) religious relative once commented that the TPV is actually the true face of god. Somehow I don't think you are a very religious person, but did you ever think the same thing? Did you ever even hear similar things from someone else?
2. What happened to the Shakespere play generated by the monkeys?
3. I read the story about how you saw 3 deaf/mute people in a row when you asked for directions.. do you think there was an infinite probability drive in action at that point? (aside from the convention)
Naturally, the first one was the worst, and this one is only slightly better. I've never read Jane's (except to see the pictures), but if this is the level they aim for in their readers who are allegedly heads of states and the intelligence community, the lunatics are indeed running the asylum.
Misquotes, bad graphics, errors, bad info: everything is there. I need perl/java to be a sophisticated hacker? I suppose I can write the buffer overflows without any idea about assembler.
But the thing that bugs me most is the underlined text at the top of the article.. I bet someone still uses a typewriter to write.
As what? He can't use a computer for 3 years after he gets out. And even if he could, AFIK, he was not much of a cracker or crypto person. His skill was social engineering; worming the password out of people and then getting in. The other Kevin was more of a cracker, IMO. BUt the ignorance of the Judge and the FUD spread by the prosecutors was astonishing--I hope someone in the media covers this in a bit more detail.
I remember reading a while back (20 yrs?) that Russia's first astronauts were convicts with death sentences: the space program offered them a pardon if they returned safely to earth..
Also, there was this movie called "The Capricorn (Factor?)" where NASA plans a manned landing on MARS, broadcasts doctored images on TV, keeps the austronauts locked up, and "kills" them in a "sad accident" on live TV as the landing module takes off from Mars. Of course, they had to kill the austronauts on Earth to hush this up as well, but they get out and reach Arlington Cemetary as the President was giving his sad speech.
I wonder what Nasa people thought who knew about the Lunar landing contigency plan and saw this movie?
Having said all that, it actually makes sense, and I am sure Armstrong & Aldrin knew about this. I don't know what the lunar launch window is, but I am sure a new one would not have come up before the air ran out.
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Microsoft departments have to use their own beta products. Its internally called "dog fooding."
Do you find it just a little curious that the story contributor used that particular phrase? Methinks a Microsofty at work here. Nice job, cowmix.
As for quality: this will come from the sound equipment straight to the recording device, and they will stamp out CDs. Much better than a crappy hand-held cassette-recorder can do. Yes, the quality will not be as good as a studio album, but you want the live album, right?
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Can't remember exactly.. did Arroway see a blackhole at the center of Milkyway?
In case you don't know what tempest is.
May I suggest some other future "slow news day" stories:
Because most (all?) of these appliances are loss leaders and they plan to make money off the service. They can still provide the service over the Internet, letting you come in any which way you can, but the logistics/infrastructure requirements of that probably is not cost effective. After all, these IA are targeted to newbies, and how many newbies do you know who can hook up such a box to their masq'd LAN (assuming they even know what it is)
Guess what? The (major accounts) sales guy missed appointments, never followed up, and in general, sent red alerts all over the place: if pre-sales was this bad, imagine how bad they would be after they got our money.
Even without reading this story, I was never going to buy from them, this is the final nail in the coffin.
Wake up, VA. Treating customers bad is a sure way to oblivion.
1. Omnivore was EtherPeek from Ag Group
2. Carnivore is SilentRunner from Raytheon
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Do we really think that the FBI Lab is capable of developing something like this on their own? (after they hid the fact that total credit for id'ing MafiaBoy should go to outside consultants)?
Silentrunner has a matching feature-set.
And Tom Perrine says source code will be a snapshot in time.. ahem, how about reconstructing ALL the capabilities from the code; then we know what is the worst it can do. Is the man an idiot or just trying to get a promotion?
will be humankind's first planned venture outside our solar system
Was Gallileo's extra-solar journey an accident? How about Voyager?
Am I hugely wrong or this guy knows nothing about previous programs?
1. A (very) religious relative once commented that the TPV is actually the true face of god. Somehow I don't think you are a very religious person, but did you ever think the same thing? Did you ever even hear similar things from someone else?
2. What happened to the Shakespere play generated by the monkeys?
3. I read the story about how you saw 3 deaf/mute people in a row when you asked for directions.. do you think there was an infinite probability drive in action at that point? (aside from the convention)
Hmm. Did you know that bugtraq has been part of securityfocus.com for a while now? Or were you just trying to be buzzward compliant?
Naturally, the first one was the worst, and this one is only slightly better. I've never read Jane's (except to see the pictures), but if this is the level they aim for in their readers who are allegedly heads of states and the intelligence community, the lunatics are indeed running the asylum.
Misquotes, bad graphics, errors, bad info: everything is there. I need perl/java to be a sophisticated hacker? I suppose I can write the buffer overflows without any idea about assembler.
But the thing that bugs me most is the underlined text at the top of the article.. I bet someone still uses a typewriter to write.
As what? He can't use a computer for 3 years after he gets out. And even if he could, AFIK, he was not much of a cracker or crypto person. His skill was social engineering; worming the password out of people and then getting in. The other Kevin was more of a cracker, IMO. BUt the ignorance of the Judge and the FUD spread by the prosecutors was astonishing--I hope someone in the media covers this in a bit more detail.
I remember reading a while back (20 yrs?) that Russia's first astronauts were convicts with death sentences: the space program offered them a pardon if they returned safely to earth..
Also, there was this movie called "The Capricorn (Factor?)" where NASA plans a manned landing on MARS, broadcasts doctored images on TV, keeps the austronauts locked up, and "kills" them in a "sad accident" on live TV as the landing module takes off from Mars. Of course, they had to kill the austronauts on Earth to hush this up as well, but they get out and reach Arlington Cemetary as the President was giving his sad speech.
I wonder what Nasa people thought who knew about the Lunar landing contigency plan and saw this movie?
Having said all that, it actually makes sense, and I am sure Armstrong & Aldrin knew about this. I don't know what the lunar launch window is, but I am sure a new one would not have come up before the air ran out.