I have an apple tree that is completly positioned on my property. A strong gust of wind send apples hurling to your yard. Apples start to decompose and fertilize your grass. You have used my property as way to benift you. You knew the apples were there, yet you made no effort to return said property.
Aside from being VERY creepy and a little stupid, I think at the very most this man deverse nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
In retrospect, a man paroled from a murder charge leaves town unnannounced. Thats a 3rd degree felony....
Imagine if somebody walked into an unlocked house (open connection) and started using their water or used their phone or DSL line, would this be behaviour where law enforcement is needed?
First off, my house isn't public property. The analogy would be more akin to me taking the waterhose from my house and placing on the sidewalk.
A house is private property, once you enter into public domain (this connection was availible outside thier office), it becomes your responsibility to protect your investment....
This guy did little more than put the $5 he found on the street in his pocket..
He could have kept his mouth shut... blamed his "connection" on Windows XP's "auto connect" feature for WiFi devices and sued Microsoft for incured losses.....
I'm resisting the urge to say.... Profit!!!
Who remembers firing up the CCGMS term program on a C64 and waiting 30 mins to see some chick deficate in some other dudes mouth?
Oh man, those were the days!!!
We have several computers lying around the house. Anytime I see a PIII or beter, at a garage sale or pawnshop I buy the damn thing. As well, I have several highend machines in the household.
With my daughters (9 and 4), they make very little distinction between the underlying OS. My 9 year old in particular loves wikipedia and chatting with her girl pals.... We have:
Windows XP : IE, Firefox and Trillian
Mac OS X : Safari, Firefox and Fire (multui client chat)
Linux : Firefoxand gaim.
guess which one shes uses the most? The one with the best looking monitor.. she could care less about the differences between the OS's.
I moved the 17 inch LCD she loved around to all flavors of OS and she followed the monitor not the OS. It was a unique experience.
She now have a little X-Terminal in her roow (with a modest 15 inch LCD she loves).
When I finally asked what OS she liked the best, her answer was somewhat amusing. She cose Mac OS X because the mac mini was cuter than the others.
Kids adapt as long as the apps are there, it's us adults that muck things up.
Ok, this is a "NO BRAINER".... get a Mac Mini ($499), and a AirPort Express with AirTunes ($129) for each room youd like to have music streamed to.
If you dont want wires, then purchase seperate wireless audio speakers (5.1 ch wireless audio packages can be had for $199).
So, $330 per room as clients with a $500 server.
Did I mention is looks great too.
Since when has the US government given a shit about treaties and guidelines? And although my foil hat is rather loose today, who doesn't believe that this hasn't already happened to some extent by either the US or other top countries around the nation?
Ok, first off, I write software for a living. So my main issues are deadlines, productivity and total cost of production. And guess what's gonna win over, when given the choice between picking a compiler that's 1.2 ms faster in "certain" "controlled" situations or having a nice elegant language that scale properly and is easy to maintain.
Imagine trying to tell a customer, well I can give you the app in 3 days for 10K that will run fine on you new $300 Celeron's or you can have it in 3 months for 100K and it'll implement (insert geeky mathematical function) in a more efficient manner.
I get the feeling that you guys bitching about the very minimal difference between these languages, are either A) Writing only low-level libraries. B) Regurgitating whatever tech website you read about earlier today. Or C) Have no "industry" experience and have nothing better to do than try to skew opinions one way or another.
Who fucking cares? Tell ya what, I'll use one of the highest-level language out there (Delphi or C#). You use your Java or C++ and we both start on an intensely complex and graphical database application on the same day. Not only am I going to be done days maybe even weeks before you, but the consumer is not going to know that your application runs slightly faster, more efficient, or even 5x better.
Ok, MS bashing aside, MSSQL is a fantastic product, light-years ahead of MYSQL, PostgreSQL and even Interbase (All of which I use and love). That being said, from a software developer's perspective, this is a good step forward. The cost to performance ratio of MSSQL is fantastic and the ease of use is unparalleled.
Say what you want about Microsoft, but if it weren't for them Database programming would really suck.
It really is their best product.
The MyDoom variant that joined the original virus in wreaking havoc on the Internet last week contains a cryptic message in which the author appears to apologize for the malicious code, security experts say.
The creator of what anti-virus experts say is the fastest spreading virus ever on the Internet signed MyDoom and MyDoom.B with "andy," and left the following message in the latter version: "I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry."
"Our interpretation is that he's apologizing to the general public," Jimmy Kuo, research fellow at anti-virus software maker Network Associates Technology Inc., said Friday. "Our guess is that someone is paying him to write this thing."
Both MyDoom versions install a "back door" in infected PCs, enabling hackers to commandeer the machines to send spam, launch denial of service attacks, or perform other nefarious acts.
Some experts, however, doubted the sincerity of the apology. Many virus writers leave cryptic messages in their code to tease investigating authorities and to pat themselves on the back for their handiwork.
"If he's really sorry, then why did he release it," said Michele Morelock, technical support leader at anti-virus software maker Sophos Inc. "I would imagine it's much more tongue-in-cheek than saying I'm really sorry for releasing it."
The MyDoom virus launched a denial-of-service attack early Sunday that crippled SCO Group's Web site with hundreds of thousands of requests, an SCO spokesman said. The attack is programmed to continue on the company's Web site until Feb. 12, according to messages left inside the virus' code.
But the spokesman said SCO will unveil a contingency plan Monday for customers to access the site. He declined to discuss those plans, citing hackers.
MyDoom.B also prevents infected computers from accessing the Web sites of Microsoft and many anti-virus software makers, making it difficult for the owner of an infected machine to get help.
Microsoft and SCO have each offered a reward of $250,000 for the arrest and conviction of the MyDoom author. Both companies are also assisting in investigations by the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and Interpol, an international police organization.
Postini Inc., a security company that cleanses E-mail before it reaches corporate networks, said Friday it had intercepted more than 12.5 million copies of MyDoom and its variant since the original virus was launched last Monday. In the first 24 hours of the attack, Postini intercepted 3.5 million copies of the virus. On Friday, the company reported an infection rate of 1 in 24 E-mails.
Based on its own customer submissions, security vendor Symantec Corp. said MyDoom was spreading on Friday at a rate of 30% to 40% less than its peak earlier in the week. MyDoom.B wasn't even on the company's list of top 5 viruses.
Nevertheless, Symantec expects the viruses to continue be a threat for months. "These viruses tend to stick around for months and months," said Alfred Huger, Symantec's senior director of engineering. "The Internet is a very big place."
First off, I think MySQL is a fantastic product. Its the perfect mix of speed and ease of use well suited for small to medium sized datastores where speed and relaibility are a must. That being said, I think it's unfair to describe this product alongside others such as Oracle, MSSQL (blow me guys, its a great product) and even PostgreSQL and SAP DB (which is be best OpenSource option in my opinion). The codebase for MySQL will never acheive the magnitude of the aforementioned products so it should be used that way. Just my 2 cents.
Why do people always discount Delphi when discussing OOP. I know, I know... it's Object Pascal, but it's surely OO and is a fantastic alternative to atleast two of the languages mentioned in the artice (C# and ceartinly VB.NET)
Microsoft has this stigma because virii writers know what thier target audience is. If you wanted to make a statement would you do it for 10 people to see or 10000 people?
If 10 years from now linux becomes mainstream (yeah right), you'll soon see a rise in virii written for the audience that uses the most popular OS.Not to mention the fact that most virii rely on users stupidity (Moms, grandmothers, suit types etc etc etc) to click an attachment. This is something a well informed user would never do.
I'll admit OCX, COM and even OLE in MS is a horrible idea to have running about, but thats the stuff that makes MS easy to use and why they have the monopoly.
Microsoft has this stigma because virii writers know what thier target audience is. If you wanted to make a statement would you do it for 10 people to see or 10000 people?
If 10 years from now linux becomes mainstream (yeah right), you'll soon see a rise in virii written for the audience that uses the most popular OS.
Not to mention the fact that most virii rely on users stupidity (Moms, grandmothers, suit types etc etc etc) to click an attachment. This is something a well informed user would never do.
I'll admit OCX, COM and even OLE in MS is a horrible idea to have running about, but thats the stuff that makes MS easy to use and why they have the monopoly.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that anyone who purchased a "smart card" writer from a source that specifically deals with information/tools for hacking DirectTv systems had the full intention of piracy.
Anyone that had a legitiment use for one would have gotten a better/cheaper product from a more reputable source.
I doubt DirectTv is going after companies like Dell,TigerDirect, etc etc that sell these things.
Given the magnitude of the invoilved companies, I think this is a great step toward linux. Of the companies listed I own atleast one product from each and think a standardized front end to a broad range of devices is a wonderful idea.
Given the fact that almost every CE device has a frontend nowadays, it would be great if these guys pooled thier resources and created a standardized UI/Widget set that was highly portable and robust enough to handle the demands that these devices would require.
I have worked in the software industry for 5 years now and I tend to disagree with this articles view.
Many closed source projects have horrid code that can be hidden by a "Closed" or "Proprietary" label. Open source is exactly that, "Open" therefore people who write the code automatically have "Big Brother" watching over them. Your coding practices is a direct view of your knowledge of the language and I know for personal experience that the open source code I have written was much better tested and reviewed then MOST of the code I have written for contractors.
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Ok, heres another anology for you.
I have an apple tree that is completly positioned on my property. A strong gust of wind send apples hurling to your yard. Apples start to decompose and fertilize your grass. You have used my property as way to benift you. You knew the apples were there, yet you made no effort to return said property.
Aside from being VERY creepy and a little stupid, I think at the very most this man deverse nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
In retrospect, a man paroled from a murder charge leaves town unnannounced. Thats a 3rd degree felony....
The punishent should fit the crime.
Imagine if somebody walked into an unlocked house (open connection) and started using their water or used their phone or DSL line, would this be behaviour where law enforcement is needed?
First off, my house isn't public property. The analogy would be more akin to me taking the waterhose from my house and placing on the sidewalk.
A house is private property, once you enter into public domain (this connection was availible outside thier office), it becomes your responsibility to protect your investment....
This guy did little more than put the $5 he found on the street in his pocket..
He could have kept his mouth shut... blamed his "connection" on Windows XP's "auto connect" feature for WiFi devices and sued Microsoft for incured losses..... I'm resisting the urge to say .... Profit!!!
welcome our ping pong ball riding cockroach overloards.
uhhh... Borland (formerly Inprise) makes quite a bit of money off of Delphi.NET. And there are hundreds of others.
Who remembers firing up the CCGMS term program on a C64 and waiting 30 mins to see some chick deficate in some other dudes mouth? Oh man, those were the days!!!
I'd pay the RIAA $5 a month just to piss them off. I think it's a bit of a utopian idea though.
I was only trying to install the latest windshield wiper drivers....
We have several computers lying around the house. Anytime I see a PIII or beter, at a garage sale or pawnshop I buy the damn thing. As well, I have several highend machines in the household. With my daughters (9 and 4), they make very little distinction between the underlying OS. My 9 year old in particular loves wikipedia and chatting with her girl pals.... We have: Windows XP : IE, Firefox and Trillian Mac OS X : Safari, Firefox and Fire (multui client chat) Linux : Firefoxand gaim. guess which one shes uses the most? The one with the best looking monitor.. she could care less about the differences between the OS's. I moved the 17 inch LCD she loved around to all flavors of OS and she followed the monitor not the OS. It was a unique experience. She now have a little X-Terminal in her roow (with a modest 15 inch LCD she loves). When I finally asked what OS she liked the best, her answer was somewhat amusing. She cose Mac OS X because the mac mini was cuter than the others. Kids adapt as long as the apps are there, it's us adults that muck things up.
Ok, this is a "NO BRAINER".... get a Mac Mini ($499), and a AirPort Express with AirTunes ($129) for each room youd like to have music streamed to. If you dont want wires, then purchase seperate wireless audio speakers (5.1 ch wireless audio packages can be had for $199). So, $330 per room as clients with a $500 server. Did I mention is looks great too.
Since when has the US government given a shit about treaties and guidelines? And although my foil hat is rather loose today, who doesn't believe that this hasn't already happened to some extent by either the US or other top countries around the nation?
Ok, first off, I write software for a living. So my main issues are deadlines, productivity and total cost of production. And guess what's gonna win over, when given the choice between picking a compiler that's 1.2 ms faster in "certain" "controlled" situations or having a nice elegant language that scale properly and is easy to maintain.
Imagine trying to tell a customer, well I can give you the app in 3 days for 10K that will run fine on you new $300 Celeron's or you can have it in 3 months for 100K and it'll implement (insert geeky mathematical function) in a more efficient manner.
I get the feeling that you guys bitching about the very minimal difference between these languages, are either A) Writing only low-level libraries. B) Regurgitating whatever tech website you read about earlier today. Or C) Have no "industry" experience and have nothing better to do than try to skew opinions one way or another.
Who fucking cares? Tell ya what, I'll use one of the highest-level language out there (Delphi or C#). You use your Java or C++ and we both start on an intensely complex and graphical database application on the same day. Not only am I going to be done days maybe even weeks before you, but the consumer is not going to know that your application runs slightly faster, more efficient, or even 5x better.
Just my 2 cents.
Ok, MS bashing aside, MSSQL is a fantastic product, light-years ahead of MYSQL, PostgreSQL and even Interbase (All of which I use and love). That being said, from a software developer's perspective, this is a good step forward. The cost to performance ratio of MSSQL is fantastic and the ease of use is unparalleled. Say what you want about Microsoft, but if it weren't for them Database programming would really suck. It really is their best product.
The MyDoom variant that joined the original virus in wreaking havoc on the Internet last week contains a cryptic message in which the author appears to apologize for the malicious code, security experts say.
The creator of what anti-virus experts say is the fastest spreading virus ever on the Internet signed MyDoom and MyDoom.B with "andy," and left the following message in the latter version: "I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry."
"Our interpretation is that he's apologizing to the general public," Jimmy Kuo, research fellow at anti-virus software maker Network Associates Technology Inc., said Friday. "Our guess is that someone is paying him to write this thing."
Both MyDoom versions install a "back door" in infected PCs, enabling hackers to commandeer the machines to send spam, launch denial of service attacks, or perform other nefarious acts.
Some experts, however, doubted the sincerity of the apology. Many virus writers leave cryptic messages in their code to tease investigating authorities and to pat themselves on the back for their handiwork.
"If he's really sorry, then why did he release it," said Michele Morelock, technical support leader at anti-virus software maker Sophos Inc. "I would imagine it's much more tongue-in-cheek than saying I'm really sorry for releasing it."
The MyDoom virus launched a denial-of-service attack early Sunday that crippled SCO Group's Web site with hundreds of thousands of requests, an SCO spokesman said. The attack is programmed to continue on the company's Web site until Feb. 12, according to messages left inside the virus' code.
But the spokesman said SCO will unveil a contingency plan Monday for customers to access the site. He declined to discuss those plans, citing hackers.
MyDoom.B also prevents infected computers from accessing the Web sites of Microsoft and many anti-virus software makers, making it difficult for the owner of an infected machine to get help.
Microsoft and SCO have each offered a reward of $250,000 for the arrest and conviction of the MyDoom author. Both companies are also assisting in investigations by the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and Interpol, an international police organization.
Postini Inc., a security company that cleanses E-mail before it reaches corporate networks, said Friday it had intercepted more than 12.5 million copies of MyDoom and its variant since the original virus was launched last Monday. In the first 24 hours of the attack, Postini intercepted 3.5 million copies of the virus. On Friday, the company reported an infection rate of 1 in 24 E-mails.
Based on its own customer submissions, security vendor Symantec Corp. said MyDoom was spreading on Friday at a rate of 30% to 40% less than its peak earlier in the week. MyDoom.B wasn't even on the company's list of top 5 viruses.
Nevertheless, Symantec expects the viruses to continue be a threat for months. "These viruses tend to stick around for months and months," said Alfred Huger, Symantec's senior director of engineering. "The Internet is a very big place."
First off, I think MySQL is a fantastic product. Its the perfect mix of speed and ease of use well suited for small to medium sized datastores where speed and relaibility are a must. That being said, I think it's unfair to describe this product alongside others such as Oracle, MSSQL (blow me guys, its a great product) and even PostgreSQL and SAP DB (which is be best OpenSource option in my opinion). The codebase for MySQL will never acheive the magnitude of the aforementioned products so it should be used that way. Just my 2 cents.
Why do people always discount Delphi when discussing OOP. I know, I know... it's Object Pascal, but it's surely OO and is a fantastic alternative to atleast two of the languages mentioned in the artice (C# and ceartinly VB.NET)
Why not steal your music the old fashioned way, IRC baby, YEAH!!!
Microsoft has this stigma because virii writers know what thier target audience is. If you wanted to make a statement would you do it for 10 people to see or 10000 people? If 10 years from now linux becomes mainstream (yeah right), you'll soon see a rise in virii written for the audience that uses the most popular OS.Not to mention the fact that most virii rely on users stupidity (Moms, grandmothers, suit types etc etc etc) to click an attachment. This is something a well informed user would never do. I'll admit OCX, COM and even OLE in MS is a horrible idea to have running about, but thats the stuff that makes MS easy to use and why they have the monopoly.
Microsoft has this stigma because virii writers know what thier target audience is. If you wanted to make a statement would you do it for 10 people to see or 10000 people?
If 10 years from now linux becomes mainstream (yeah right), you'll soon see a rise in virii written for the audience that uses the most popular OS.
Not to mention the fact that most virii rely on users stupidity (Moms, grandmothers, suit types etc etc etc) to click an attachment. This is something a well informed user would never do.
I'll admit OCX, COM and even OLE in MS is a horrible idea to have running about, but thats the stuff that makes MS easy to use and why they have the monopoly.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that anyone who purchased a "smart card" writer from a source that specifically deals with information/tools for hacking DirectTv systems had the full intention of piracy.
Anyone that had a legitiment use for one would have gotten a better/cheaper product from a more reputable source.
I doubt DirectTv is going after companies like Dell,TigerDirect, etc etc that sell these things.
I personally would love to see an office suite that put the old and tired MS Office interface to rest.
I wonder if anyone has done any research on the most efficent/user friendly ways to manage a software office suite.
Is it just the developers choice on how we access these things via the UI?
The company I work for (a small software development outfit with 10 peopke) uses Netscape/Mozilla exclusivly for mail and web.
But it's not because it's a better browser per say but because it's basic policy has much more restricted mime intergration on a default install.
IE has forever hurt our business model and we will continue you use other tools (ie. non-microsoft) untill they address those issues.
Our main issuse, is not "What Browser Do You Use" but, this is the browser you "CANT" use.
This is the true spirit of linux.
Given the magnitude of the invoilved companies, I think this is a great step toward linux. Of the companies listed I own atleast one product from each and think a standardized front end to a broad range of devices is a wonderful idea.
Given the fact that almost every CE device has a frontend nowadays, it would be great if these guys pooled thier resources and created a standardized UI/Widget set that was highly portable and robust enough to handle the demands that these devices would require.
I have worked in the software industry for 5 years now and I tend to disagree with this articles view. Many closed source projects have horrid code that can be hidden by a "Closed" or "Proprietary" label. Open source is exactly that, "Open" therefore people who write the code automatically have "Big Brother" watching over them. Your coding practices is a direct view of your knowledge of the language and I know for personal experience that the open source code I have written was much better tested and reviewed then MOST of the code I have written for contractors.