Why don't you grow a pony tail so you can pull your head out of your ass? It wouldn't matter what the the parent poster said, you simply don't like Americans and nothing is going to change your mind about us. Well guess what? We don't like you cock suckers either. The differnce being, if you piss us off enough, we can and will bomb the ever loving shit out of country, which probably isn't any bigger than the state of Texax. Piss off cock sucker. Go post on some other board where people actually give a rats ass about what you saying.
What would you have done if you were Microsoft? Are they supposed to totally re-invent the wheel here? The API were already written and they worked. Why in the world would they take the time to re-do everything when they are trying to get.NET out the door? Microsoft just can't win with you people.
Anyway, I think there's a way to fix it that would be simple and fair for everyone. We need to change the legal definition of what a copyright means. Simply put, a copyright should grant the creator of a work the sole ability to collect revenue based on any use of that work. That's it, that's what you get, and nothing more. You write a book, record a song, make a movie, and you're the only one allowed to make money from it.
I would ammend that proposal. I think there should be a limited amount of time where the author is the only person who is allowed to distribute or copy a work, for profit or otherwise. A fair period of time, IMHO, would be 5 - 10 years. After that period of time has expired, then others should be allowed to copy and distrubute the work, but only the copyright holder should be able to charge for it. After 10 - 20 years the work should then become public domain.
Of course this will never, ever happen. The RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and every other corporation that profits from our draconian copyright system will never let that happen. I predict that within a hundred years, copyrights held by corporations will never expire.
I was almost enthused until I read this "The film, which will star Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock)". The Rock couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. I'd rather be kicked repeatedly in the balls for an hour and a half then suffer through one of the Rock's "preformances".
Oh, and for those of you out there that actually like The Rock and really do watch and enjoy wrestling. Shouldn't you be spending more time fucking your sister instead of reading this post? I mean, come on, the bitch will be 15 before you know it. Then what fun will it be?
Raise your hand if your sick and fucking tired of all these stupid acronyms. I can't believe how much of our tax dollars are wasted by these fucking pricks that sit around and try to figure out how the hell they can phrase their next pet project so the first letter's of the words of the title sort of form some fucking word. I say sort of, because as in "PROTECT", half the damn time these ass hats just forget the fact that half of the words don't conform and the idiots just leave them out.
I have an idea for a wonderfull program. I'm going to track down the cocksuckers and make one thing clear."Either you Assholes stop wasting my Tax dollars or I'll hunt you down, take a baseball bat and Shove the Handle Into your fucking ass, remove it and shove it into your Throught. It's my new program... I call it EAT SHIT!.
The parent is dead on. While I can understand why a teacher would want to use something like this, grading an essay is, and should be for exactly the reason you stated, a subjective process in some respects. There are certain things a computer will probably never, at least in our lifetimes, be able to do and do effectively. This is one of them.
Teachers who use a program like this are just plain lazy. Teachers are paid to teach, grade work and give feedback. It's a tough job, we all understand that, but that's what you get paid to do.
A computer can not replicate certain aspects of the grading process. Sure they can grade spelling and grammar and probably certain aspects of your writing style but there is plenty of important aspects of writing that they can not grade you on.
For instance, does your essay really grab the reader? Anyone here who reads technical documents knows what I'm talking about. There are some writers that, no matter how dull the subject, can make their work interesting and fun to read. A computer can not possibly grade one on that. I have a good friend who's a high school English teacher and occasionally I'll read some of the things written by his students. I've come across plenty of papers that are grammatically correct, have perfect spelling and are fairly well written from a syntactic and stylistic point of view, but are just plain boring to read. Then I'll move on to another paper, about the same subject, which is interesting and actually fun to read.
That's just one example of something a computer can not possible take into account when grading an essay. The bottom line is that a computer will never be able to grade you on certain subjective things, which although they are subjective and therefore open to a certain amount of interpretation depending on the person doing the grading, are nevertheless still very important aspects of good writing.
With spelling and grammar check, almost any average student can churn out a paper that is going to be mostly correct; however it still takes a good writer to produce something interesting. In my opinion, an interesting paper with a few minor spelling, grammar or syntactic errors is just as good as a boring paper with no spelling, grammar or syntactic errors.
Right, blame the US because your representatives screwed you over. That's is the funnies thing I've heard in a long, long time. Like the EU doesn't have the power to stick it to the US if it feels so inclined. Just look at US tarrifs on steel imports. The EU didn't like it and threated to put tarrifs in place on US agricultural exports that would hit Bush where it hurts (which agricultural exporters in South who are Bush supports) and when push came to shove he backed down.
The US does a lot of bad things, but forcing software patents on the EU wasn't one of them. You people brought that one on yourselves.
hymn (the tool talked about in this walk through) is PlayFair. It's been renamed and a new author is working on it. Also, the latest release keeps your Apple ID in the file so if you have it on a P2P network your asking for trouble.
There's really nothing to be upset about. From the article:
In response, OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt said, "The Cisco/IETF recommendations contain numerous problems and issues. They should not be followed. We have better fixes in OpenBSD. Other vendors should be looking at these." For example, as mentioned in our earlier article about TCP reset attacks, with the IETF's/Cisco's recommendations in place it would be possible for an attacker to use one host to potentially flood another.
Basically, the implementation that Cisco is trying to patent is also flawed. OpenBSD's implementation contains better fixes. Who cares if Cisco tries to patent a flawed fix that no one will end up using? Let them waste their money. Let's face it, this move is upsetting on principal but there's really nothing to see here... move along.
How much TCO did YOUR company have to add to Windows from Sasser, anyway?
Exactly none. Same goes for any other company with a competent IT department that has the necessary tools. First we have a good firewall in place to protect our internal network. AV software is installed on all of the systems on our network and the definitions are updated on a daily basis. As soon as security patches are released they are tested in a production environment. We always wait a week and half before deploying said updates to make sure that there aren't serious issues being reported that our testing didn't uncover. After the testing is complete and the proper amount of time has passed we deploy the updates via SMS Server. In order to avoid the problems that can arise when laptops are taken out of the office we have firewall software installed on all laptops that is setup to operate when the systems are not connected to our internal network.
Basically there isn't a shop on the planet with a competent IT staff that had any trouble with Sasser. If your company got hit, it's either your IT departments fault or it's management's fault if they haven't provided your IT staff with the test systems and the software necessary to properly protect your network.
Now, would it be nice to run Linux on our servers and Linux on all of the corporate desktops so we wouldn't have to go to all of this trouble to protect our systems? Yes. Is that feasable right now or in the immediate future? No. Does the fact that a shop is mostly Microsoft automatically mean that is insecure? Not at all.
If Linux gained widespread adoption on the corporate desktop tomorrow, companies would still face a lot of the same issues they face with Microsoft. Namely, if you have an IT staff that doesn't know what the heck it's doing, your going to have problems no matter which OS your running. All the incompetent, paper tiger MCSE's out there would wind up becoming incompetent, paper tiger Linux admins. Virus and worm writers would begin targeting Linux just as they target Microsoft. Granted Linux is much more secure by design, but security would still be an issue. When security holes are found, patches would still need to be rapidly tested and deployed before they are reverse engineered by some script kiddy who subsequently releases a worm that exploits the issue on unpatched systems. Eventually, you would have to install some type of AV software. Even though a virus couldn't hose a system as is possible when running a Microsoft OS, it could still delete important documents that users have in the directories where they have the proper permissions to delete files.
I think I'm in love! On a serious note though folks, I think 7 tuners is totally overkill. I think 3 or 4 should be the most that almost anyone would need. A TB is probably overkill as well, unless we're talking about recording in high def. Then I guess I can see having it. It would be pretty cool to have that much space on a DVR. You could build up quite a collection of movies.
No one in my office is sick of viruses or worms because we never get any. Antivirus software is installed on all of our systems and the definitions are automatically updated on a daily basis. As soon as security patches are tested in a productions environment (usually less than a week after they are released) we can deploy them automatically via SUS.
Basically, if your a compatent IT manager your shop shouldn't have issues with viruses and worms unless management refuses to give you the tools necessary to be able to defend against them. If that's the case, when management bitches about down time, inform them there wouldn't be any if you had the tools you need.
Of course, blaming Microsoft is the easy way out for those IT mangers who have the tools but get caught with their pants down because they don't know what their doing.
If your working at a company that is that large, you probably have a volume license agreement with Microsoft. Simply use your Volume License Key with a copy of Windows XP Corporate (that doesn't require product activation when used in conjunction with a Volume License Key) and you all set. Problem solved.
Oh, please. Typical mentality. "Well it couldn't possibly be the fact that my product totally stunk. It was clearly something else, so I'll sue". Enough is enough. I'm sick and tired of this crap.
Update your systems to Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. Delpoy Software Update Services within your organization. When a patch is released, test it in a production environment, wait a week or so to see if there are wide spread problems with the patch reported. If all is clear deploy the patch via SUS.
Problem solved. Very little work required on your part other than the testing. Very little downtime for your users, perhaps a reboot.
Microsoft has made patching system very easy with SUS. If you don't have all 2000 or XP systems then there are plenty of other patch management systems out there compatible with all versions of Windows. Look into them.
What in hell is wrong with this site? Why in the world would this ever be posted as news? Is this site so blatently anti-Microsoft that when a stupid patent is accidently falsely attribtued to Microsoft it's worthy of a fucking news story? You don't honesty think stupid shit like this happens all the time? Oh no, some asshole in the patent office made a mistake, hurry, let's post a fucking story on Slashdot!
Mod me down all you want. This is totally fucking stupid. No wonder Slashdot is quickly becoming a fucking laughing stock. What a waste of time. You people and your anti-Microsoft, anti-Goverment, left wing bull shit! What a fucking crock. Who exactly do you think owns Slashdot anyway, huh? You're just as beholden to corporations as people who buy Windows. You fucking dolts just don't realize it. Take a quick look into who owns and funds this site if you think your shit doesn't stink. Trust me, if they ever found themselves in the position Microsoft was in, they would do exactly what Microsoft has done.
You fucking sheep make me laugh out loud. Say what you will about me, at least I know who and what I support. You fucking idoits are working for the man just like I am, the differnce being I know what I'm doing and you idoits think your on some crusade against "the man". Well I've got news for you tools, we both serve the same master. The differnce being I have no delusions about what I'm doing and you peope think your movement is the second coming. You delude yourselves.
You simply have to do what I do on my home PC. Use ZoneAlarm for a firewall and Moziall for the web browser and e-mail. If you're using Internet Explorer or Outlook Express and you don't have to then you're crazy. OE is full of holes and I wouldn't trust any web browser that's integrated with an operating system for exactly the reasons you've mentioned.
If you use ZoneAlarm at home, keep your system patched and don't use IE or OE then your perfectly safe.
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Why don't you grow a pony tail so you can pull your head out of your ass? It wouldn't matter what the the parent poster said, you simply don't like Americans and nothing is going to change your mind about us. Well guess what? We don't like you cock suckers either. The differnce being, if you piss us off enough, we can and will bomb the ever loving shit out of country, which probably isn't any bigger than the state of Texax. Piss off cock sucker. Go post on some other board where people actually give a rats ass about what you saying.
What would you have done if you were Microsoft? Are they supposed to totally re-invent the wheel here? The API were already written and they worked. Why in the world would they take the time to re-do everything when they are trying to get .NET out the door? Microsoft just can't win with you people.
Dude, it's called a joke, chill out. People like you suck all of the fun out life.
Another obvious solution is to find an SO that has similar interestes so you can spend time with the SO and still do the things that you like to do.
Hey, it worked wonderfully for the X-box ... er ... wait ....
I would ammend that proposal. I think there should be a limited amount of time where the author is the only person who is allowed to distribute or copy a work, for profit or otherwise. A fair period of time, IMHO, would be 5 - 10 years. After that period of time has expired, then others should be allowed to copy and distrubute the work, but only the copyright holder should be able to charge for it. After 10 - 20 years the work should then become public domain.
Of course this will never, ever happen. The RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and every other corporation that profits from our draconian copyright system will never let that happen. I predict that within a hundred years, copyrights held by corporations will never expire.
It was a joke your fucking dolt. Why don't you grow a pony tail so you can pull your head out of your ass.
I was almost enthused until I read this "The film, which will star Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock)". The Rock couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. I'd rather be kicked repeatedly in the balls for an hour and a half then suffer through one of the Rock's "preformances".
Oh, and for those of you out there that actually like The Rock and really do watch and enjoy wrestling. Shouldn't you be spending more time fucking your sister instead of reading this post? I mean, come on, the bitch will be 15 before you know it. Then what fun will it be?
Which makes you a better person then, say, about 75 - 80 percent of all slashdot posters
Raise your hand if your sick and fucking tired of all these stupid acronyms. I can't believe how much of our tax dollars are wasted by these fucking pricks that sit around and try to figure out how the hell they can phrase their next pet project so the first letter's of the words of the title sort of form some fucking word. I say sort of, because as in "PROTECT", half the damn time these ass hats just forget the fact that half of the words don't conform and the idiots just leave them out.
I have an idea for a wonderfull program. I'm going to track down the cocksuckers and make one thing clear."Either you Assholes stop wasting my Tax dollars or I'll hunt you down, take a baseball bat and Shove the Handle Into your fucking ass, remove it and shove it into your Throught. It's my new program ... I call it EAT SHIT!.
The parent is dead on. While I can understand why a teacher would want to use something like this, grading an essay is, and should be for exactly the reason you stated, a subjective process in some respects. There are certain things a computer will probably never, at least in our lifetimes, be able to do and do effectively. This is one of them.
Teachers who use a program like this are just plain lazy. Teachers are paid to teach, grade work and give feedback. It's a tough job, we all understand that, but that's what you get paid to do.
A computer can not replicate certain aspects of the grading process. Sure they can grade spelling and grammar and probably certain aspects of your writing style but there is plenty of important aspects of writing that they can not grade you on.
For instance, does your essay really grab the reader? Anyone here who reads technical documents knows what I'm talking about. There are some writers that, no matter how dull the subject, can make their work interesting and fun to read. A computer can not possibly grade one on that. I have a good friend who's a high school English teacher and occasionally I'll read some of the things written by his students. I've come across plenty of papers that are grammatically correct, have perfect spelling and are fairly well written from a syntactic and stylistic point of view, but are just plain boring to read. Then I'll move on to another paper, about the same subject, which is interesting and actually fun to read.
That's just one example of something a computer can not possible take into account when grading an essay. The bottom line is that a computer will never be able to grade you on certain subjective things, which although they are subjective and therefore open to a certain amount of interpretation depending on the person doing the grading, are nevertheless still very important aspects of good writing.
With spelling and grammar check, almost any average student can churn out a paper that is going to be mostly correct; however it still takes a good writer to produce something interesting. In my opinion, an interesting paper with a few minor spelling, grammar or syntactic errors is just as good as a boring paper with no spelling, grammar or syntactic errors.
Right, blame the US because your representatives screwed you over. That's is the funnies thing I've heard in a long, long time. Like the EU doesn't have the power to stick it to the US if it feels so inclined. Just look at US tarrifs on steel imports. The EU didn't like it and threated to put tarrifs in place on US agricultural exports that would hit Bush where it hurts (which agricultural exporters in South who are Bush supports) and when push came to shove he backed down.
The US does a lot of bad things, but forcing software patents on the EU wasn't one of them. You people brought that one on yourselves.
hymn (the tool talked about in this walk through) is PlayFair. It's been renamed and a new author is working on it. Also, the latest release keeps your Apple ID in the file so if you have it on a P2P network your asking for trouble.
From the story:
I call bullshit! Yeah, right .. he thought it was a beta. If you guys buy that, I have some real nice property on the moon I'd like to sell you.
There's really nothing to be upset about. From the article:
Basically, the implementation that Cisco is trying to patent is also flawed. OpenBSD's implementation contains better fixes. Who cares if Cisco tries to patent a flawed fix that no one will end up using? Let them waste their money. Let's face it, this move is upsetting on principal but there's really nothing to see here ... move along.
Exactly none. Same goes for any other company with a competent IT department that has the necessary tools. First we have a good firewall in place to protect our internal network. AV software is installed on all of the systems on our network and the definitions are updated on a daily basis. As soon as security patches are released they are tested in a production environment. We always wait a week and half before deploying said updates to make sure that there aren't serious issues being reported that our testing didn't uncover. After the testing is complete and the proper amount of time has passed we deploy the updates via SMS Server. In order to avoid the problems that can arise when laptops are taken out of the office we have firewall software installed on all laptops that is setup to operate when the systems are not connected to our internal network.
Basically there isn't a shop on the planet with a competent IT staff that had any trouble with Sasser. If your company got hit, it's either your IT departments fault or it's management's fault if they haven't provided your IT staff with the test systems and the software necessary to properly protect your network.
Now, would it be nice to run Linux on our servers and Linux on all of the corporate desktops so we wouldn't have to go to all of this trouble to protect our systems? Yes. Is that feasable right now or in the immediate future? No. Does the fact that a shop is mostly Microsoft automatically mean that is insecure? Not at all.
If Linux gained widespread adoption on the corporate desktop tomorrow, companies would still face a lot of the same issues they face with Microsoft. Namely, if you have an IT staff that doesn't know what the heck it's doing, your going to have problems no matter which OS your running. All the incompetent, paper tiger MCSE's out there would wind up becoming incompetent, paper tiger Linux admins. Virus and worm writers would begin targeting Linux just as they target Microsoft. Granted Linux is much more secure by design, but security would still be an issue. When security holes are found, patches would still need to be rapidly tested and deployed before they are reverse engineered by some script kiddy who subsequently releases a worm that exploits the issue on unpatched systems. Eventually, you would have to install some type of AV software. Even though a virus couldn't hose a system as is possible when running a Microsoft OS, it could still delete important documents that users have in the directories where they have the proper permissions to delete files.
I think I'm in love! On a serious note though folks, I think 7 tuners is totally overkill. I think 3 or 4 should be the most that almost anyone would need. A TB is probably overkill as well, unless we're talking about recording in high def. Then I guess I can see having it. It would be pretty cool to have that much space on a DVR. You could build up quite a collection of movies.
No one in my office is sick of viruses or worms because we never get any. Antivirus software is installed on all of our systems and the definitions are automatically updated on a daily basis. As soon as security patches are tested in a productions environment (usually less than a week after they are released) we can deploy them automatically via SUS. Basically, if your a compatent IT manager your shop shouldn't have issues with viruses and worms unless management refuses to give you the tools necessary to be able to defend against them. If that's the case, when management bitches about down time, inform them there wouldn't be any if you had the tools you need. Of course, blaming Microsoft is the easy way out for those IT mangers who have the tools but get caught with their pants down because they don't know what their doing.
If your working at a company that is that large, you probably have a volume license agreement with Microsoft. Simply use your Volume License Key with a copy of Windows XP Corporate (that doesn't require product activation when used in conjunction with a Volume License Key) and you all set. Problem solved.
Hey, another CD rot story. Any one else getting a little tired of the crap that passes for news on slashdot lately?
Oh, please. Typical mentality. "Well it couldn't possibly be the fact that my product totally stunk. It was clearly something else, so I'll sue". Enough is enough. I'm sick and tired of this crap.
Update your systems to Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. Delpoy Software Update Services within your organization. When a patch is released, test it in a production environment, wait a week or so to see if there are wide spread problems with the patch reported. If all is clear deploy the patch via SUS. Problem solved. Very little work required on your part other than the testing. Very little downtime for your users, perhaps a reboot. Microsoft has made patching system very easy with SUS. If you don't have all 2000 or XP systems then there are plenty of other patch management systems out there compatible with all versions of Windows. Look into them.
What in hell is wrong with this site? Why in the world would this ever be posted as news? Is this site so blatently anti-Microsoft that when a stupid patent is accidently falsely attribtued to Microsoft it's worthy of a fucking news story? You don't honesty think stupid shit like this happens all the time? Oh no, some asshole in the patent office made a mistake, hurry, let's post a fucking story on Slashdot!
Mod me down all you want. This is totally fucking stupid. No wonder Slashdot is quickly becoming a fucking laughing stock. What a waste of time. You people and your anti-Microsoft, anti-Goverment, left wing bull shit! What a fucking crock. Who exactly do you think owns Slashdot anyway, huh? You're just as beholden to corporations as people who buy Windows. You fucking dolts just don't realize it. Take a quick look into who owns and funds this site if you think your shit doesn't stink. Trust me, if they ever found themselves in the position Microsoft was in, they would do exactly what Microsoft has done.
You fucking sheep make me laugh out loud. Say what you will about me, at least I know who and what I support. You fucking idoits are working for the man just like I am, the differnce being I know what I'm doing and you idoits think your on some crusade against "the man". Well I've got news for you tools, we both serve the same master. The differnce being I have no delusions about what I'm doing and you peope think your movement is the second coming. You delude yourselves.
You simply have to do what I do on my home PC. Use ZoneAlarm for a firewall and Moziall for the web browser and e-mail. If you're using Internet Explorer or Outlook Express and you don't have to then you're crazy. OE is full of holes and I wouldn't trust any web browser that's integrated with an operating system for exactly the reasons you've mentioned. If you use ZoneAlarm at home, keep your system patched and don't use IE or OE then your perfectly safe.