"intrusions were detected not by the companies in charge of the infrastructure"
but
"U.S. intelligence agencies"
Officials cautioned that the motivation of the cyberspies wasn't well understood
Officials are the ones making the accusations
China, for example, has little incentive to disrupt the U.S. economy because it relies on American consumers and holds U.S. government debt.
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Wang Baodong said..
"some people overseas with Cold War mentality are indulged in fabricating the sheer lies of the so-called cyberspies in China."
As Bruce Schneier said which one of these
power outages is by hackers
I just hope this isn't some cover for the US to do what their accusing others of, why else this line below...
Congress approved $17 billion in secret funds to protect government networks
Thanks but the idea was the easy part. How many would pay into such a fund, and how much would they be prepared to spend, do they even feel strongly enough to put their hand in their pocket. Would small and medium enterprises pay into this or would they not even bother. Can they be influenced to pay into for protection.
a single software patent infringement case could cost upwards of USD $5 Million to defend
so people will "license a patent that is likely to be invalid," just to avoid a court fees.
This means there is rarely justice for anyone but the very richest companies where software patents are concerned.
This is the only real way Microsoft can hurt us so we would do well to shut this avenue down. There are many motivated parties to work on this such as the FSF legal councils, OSF legal teams and the legal teams of individual open source companies as well as the eff.
considering Bruce Perens consults on avoiding licence issues for a living we can take his words seriously.
I know this is a bit vague, but as we already have initiatives for collecting of patents could there be a pool of cash collected from donors (as in small amounts of monthly donations from any interested individuals). Any company could then fight patent trolls by then putting in a nominal amount into the fund and getting support from the fund to protect its self against bodies trying to sue it. The threat of having to settle despite a week claim would then disappear, and Linux would be helped.
Integrated Command-Line - tools like vi and Emacs have demonstrated the power of integrating command-lines into editors; Bespin needs one, too
I use vim and really the only reason I do is so I don't have to install and learn another editor. What make emacs and vim so powerfull is not their command line tools, its their ability to be scripted. That way every language that has ever been used has its own mode. One editor for sql, c, python, lisp, html, css, JavaScript etc. Does this do that or not? If so with web based software (all the hype these days) this project could get lots of attention, and if its really useful it may convert enough programmers over to this new platform.
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Shut up!!!! the hurd will wipe the floor with this. Keith Bostic is also writing BSD for intel 386, a little bird is telling me.
There have been mounting concerns all decade that Microsoft's business is going to be hurt from open source and that has never materialized,
But then add
But McDonald says the numbers don't lie and investors are not fooled. Microsoft is losing market share on its high-margin products. Barnicle confirms this, "As for declining net operating revenues, that's part [of the reason the stock has underperformed]. Also declining margins. Investors are also frustrated with Microsoft's investments in its online business and entertainment devices."
why do these people not know MS is giving XP away on netbooks? (operating systems being the most lucrative revenue stream) that this the fastest growing part of the PC market? And their doing this because of open source? That they are in a tough market for entertainment devices? That they need to spend on this so in the future they are not reliant on operating systems and office software? That many of Microsoft successful ventures (office for one) were hard fought victories? why do these shareholders activists not no these (or care) simple
There are lots of activist shareholders â" and these are big, institutional investors.
banks in other words, not happy with mismanaging their own business they wish to control others as well.
I don't no about that. The market may be more a factor in Linux success. ARM (or MIPS) chips, China, Linux and flash means we don't need intel any more. People and business can't keep saying no so easily, and with the netbooks there is a proven market.
This could be true and MS could still loose. What no on this thread has got is that netbooks are very popular, the price is heading to £100 (roughly $200). Where is the room for Microsofts profit? can they still charge $50 to $25 per machine?
There has been a lot of talk of Moores law and how its effectively stopped (or slowed) in terms of speed, it is still in effect in memory size however. Are we going to see devices that can do what computers do but are much more mobile (such as the iPhone/Google phone) I think Apple sees it that way the company was called
"Apple Computer, Inc." for its first 30 years, but dropped the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007[6] to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the
consumer electronics market What's Microsoft like in the consumer electronics market? Can they beat Linux for flexibility (being able to support different architectures, being put on low powered devices). Can they beat Linux for price competitiveness? For high-end expensive systems can they be more alluring than Apple.
I am not saying Microsoft is dead and finished there not, but are they as competitive as they once were.
The above is true, you use your hands all the time to write play instruments etc. If these things are designed correctly then I don't see a problem, they have
Here here
I suppose that in the early nineteen 60s's only techies would be interested in mini computers. What would a business do with them, PDP 1 etc weren't powerful enough to run proper usefull applications like payroll at a large organisation. Programmers liked mini computers (because they could get access to them) But no one else did, they then went on to find new applications for computers, to scratch their own itch. These new applications then became must haves. The same pattern can be seen in Microcomputers as well, the best thing is the incumbent never sees it coming, to busy with their own market. But its still good for Linux to provide a desktop. New types of computers (computing devices) should be a spur to entrepreneurs, this is where they will make the most money (and have the most fun coding original stuff).
The only problem I had with Obama was his vague speeches (hope, blah blah change etc) it seemed to say nice sounding things but not give any detail (lots of room for being weaselly letter on). change.gov
seemed 48 hours after Obama was elected to have (under the title agenda) a detailed policy list. This however disappeared quite quickly. Another site however seems to have all his policy details but is by a group called Obama for America, who are they, please post if you have any detail.
The only internal thing about extreme skill is that someone is so interested in something that they would spend many hours on something and still be interested in it.
When I was a kid 7-8 to 10 years of age I loved to copy cartoons. I spent many hours doing this for no reason other than love of it. When ever I was in art class I also seemed to be one of the best, the student the teacher always had the most respect for. I got an A at GCSE level (16 years of age), without even trying. Seeing as I never drew after the age of 10 in my own time this skill must have come from when I was young.
You have a point. However many companies (VIA, AMD) are developing a chip like Intel's atom. As these chips are to be put into lower cost computers (MID sub notebooks, netbooks) there is an advantage (in terms of cost) to linux in being able to run on other platforms other than x86.
If for instance I produced a POS till system based on Linux it would be advantageous if I could run this on an ARM processor.
As Linux can run on many different platforms it also frees device manufactures to think differently about what computers can be in the future, and how they will be used in society (later versions of the OLPC set for 2010 are ebooks for example).
Dear Mr Ballmer
Good day and compliments. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha. I can tell by the way jump about you are very intelligent man. In order secure the windows market in Africa you know what to do.
Your faithfully,
Dr (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha (M.O.N)
If Linux is free, and can support any platform x86 or otherwise (not using x86 can save even more money), it has a future on the sub notebook PC. I don't expect the companies in China and else where to care, not as long as they can charge less and tempt customers to buy their goods. Its still selling on dells etc (even after over a year) and if Asus don't satisfy the market some else will.
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I dont't know mike.rimov but the word anomaly in the English Oxford dictionary is defined as
so no its not an anomaly for Microsoft, if thats what you getting at. No news here move along
imagine a beo..... oh forget it
I tried but I couldn't resist. I reloaded three times and i was still first post
but
Officials cautioned that the motivation of the cyberspies wasn't well understood
Officials are the ones making the accusations
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Wang Baodong said..
As Bruce Schneier said which one of these power outages is by hackers
I just hope this isn't some cover for the US to do what their accusing others of, why else this line below...
what if these online people express a view that does not flatter one of your advertisers. Would you take them seriously then.
so people will "license a patent that is likely to be invalid," just to avoid a court fees.
This is the only real way Microsoft can hurt us so we would do well to shut this avenue down. There are many motivated parties to work on this such as the FSF legal councils, OSF legal teams and the legal teams of individual open source companies as well as the eff.
considering Bruce Perens consults on avoiding licence issues for a living we can take his words seriously.
I know this is a bit vague, but as we already have initiatives for collecting of patents could there be a pool of cash collected from donors (as in small amounts of monthly donations from any interested individuals). Any company could then fight patent trolls by then putting in a nominal amount into the fund and getting support from the fund to protect its self against bodies trying to sue it. The threat of having to settle despite a week claim would then disappear, and Linux would be helped.
I use vim and really the only reason I do is so I don't have to install and learn another editor. What make emacs and vim so powerfull is not their command line tools, its their ability to be scripted. That way every language that has ever been used has its own mode. One editor for sql, c, python, lisp, html, css, JavaScript etc. Does this do that or not? If so with web based software (all the hype these days) this project could get lots of attention, and if its really useful it may convert enough programmers over to this new platform.
Shut up!!!! the hurd will wipe the floor with this. Keith Bostic is also writing BSD for intel 386, a little bird is telling me.
But then add
why do these people not know MS is giving XP away on netbooks? (operating systems being the most lucrative revenue stream) that this the fastest growing part of the PC market? And their doing this because of open source? That they are in a tough market for entertainment devices? That they need to spend on this so in the future they are not reliant on operating systems and office software? That many of Microsoft successful ventures (office for one) were hard fought victories?
why do these shareholders activists not no these (or care) simple
banks in other words, not happy with mismanaging their own business they wish to control others as well.
10,000 patents are there to control MS competitors
I don't no about that. The market may be more a factor in Linux success. ARM (or MIPS) chips, China, Linux and flash means we don't need intel any more. People and business can't keep saying no so easily, and with the netbooks there is a proven market.
This could be true and MS could still loose. What no on this thread has got is that netbooks are very popular, the price is heading to £100 (roughly $200). Where is the room for Microsofts profit? can they still charge $50 to $25 per machine?
There has been a lot of talk of Moores law and how its effectively stopped (or slowed) in terms of speed, it is still in effect in memory size however. Are we going to see devices that can do what computers do but are much more mobile (such as the iPhone/Google phone) I think Apple sees it that way the company was called "Apple Computer, Inc." for its first 30 years, but dropped the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007[6] to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market What's Microsoft like in the consumer electronics market? Can they beat Linux for flexibility (being able to support different architectures, being put on low powered devices). Can they beat Linux for price competitiveness? For high-end expensive systems can they be more alluring than Apple.
I am not saying Microsoft is dead and finished there not, but are they as competitive as they once were.
I think many people want to turn their lives and life styles into some sort of political showdown. This smacks of Identity politics to me.
Facebook could handle this in a much more efficient maner, for example.
Yeh lets turn this into some kind of ask-slashdot thread. Any one else have any cooler projects than the article.
I didn't even read the the rest, dos not seem worth it. Why can't these list articles have sofware like this.
The above is true, you use your hands all the time to write play instruments etc. If these things are designed correctly then I don't see a problem, they have
Explain your self.
Here here
I suppose that in the early nineteen 60s's only techies would be interested in mini computers. What would a business do with them, PDP 1 etc weren't powerful enough to run proper usefull applications like payroll at a large organisation. Programmers liked mini computers (because they could get access to them) But no one else did, they then went on to find new applications for computers, to scratch their own itch. These new applications then became must haves. The same pattern can be seen in Microcomputers as well, the best thing is the incumbent never sees it coming, to busy with their own market. But its still good for Linux to provide a desktop.
New types of computers (computing devices) should be a spur to entrepreneurs, this is where they will make the most money (and have the most fun coding original stuff).
The only problem I had with Obama was his vague speeches (hope, blah blah change etc) it seemed to say nice sounding things but not give any detail (lots of room for being weaselly letter on).
change.gov seemed 48 hours after Obama was elected to have (under the title agenda) a detailed policy list. This however disappeared quite quickly. Another site however seems to have all his policy details but is by a group called Obama for America, who are they, please post if you have any detail.
The only internal thing about extreme skill is that someone is so interested in something that they would spend many hours on something and still be interested in it.
When I was a kid 7-8 to 10 years of age I loved to copy cartoons. I spent many hours doing this for no reason other than love of it. When ever I was in art class I also seemed to be one of the best, the student the teacher always had the most respect for. I got an A at GCSE level (16 years of age), without even trying. Seeing as I never drew after the age of 10 in my own time this skill must have come from when I was young.
You have a point. However many companies (VIA, AMD) are developing a chip like Intel's atom. As these chips are to be put into lower cost computers (MID sub notebooks, netbooks) there is an advantage (in terms of cost) to linux in being able to run on other platforms other than x86.
If for instance I produced a POS till system based on Linux it would be advantageous if I could run this on an ARM processor.
As Linux can run on many different platforms it also frees device manufactures to think differently about what computers can be in the future, and how they will be used in society (later versions of the OLPC set for 2010 are ebooks for example).
wah..Is slashdot getting racist or is this that GNAA fella. Perhaps rappers are at fault!!!!!!!!
Dear Mr Ballmer
Good day and compliments. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha. I can tell by the way jump about you are very intelligent man. In order secure the windows market in Africa you know what to do.
Your faithfully,
Dr (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha (M.O.N)
If Linux is free, and can support any platform x86 or otherwise (not using x86 can save even more money), it has a future on the sub notebook PC. I don't expect the companies in China and else where to care, not as long as they can charge less and tempt customers to buy their goods. Its still selling on dells etc (even after over a year) and if Asus don't satisfy the market some else will.