This would be a solution. The "stealth mode" doesn't send back the real ip address. So, if we try their fake ip address when we do a verification packet, we will see it is fake. If they decide to actually send a their real ip address, then they you can then automatically have your client ignore any subsequent replies from their server. This would effectively mess up the stealth mode operation. Remember that stealth mode is used for the spam and it is supposed to hide the server so people won't get pissed off and crack their system and shut them down. _________________________
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Where are these bugs coming from? When you say there are 37 bugs in Win2000, it means that there are 37 bugs in the OS. They are usually security bugs. Did Moody both to find out what kind of bugs were seen in the 47 Linux bugs. Were they 47 security bugs or bugs that did other things? Everytime I get the stupid critical update message for Win98, it is a security bug. And, it is in IE which is not an optional install. Most of the security bugs that I have seen with Red Hat Linux deal with something like wu-ftpd or some weird apache module which I don't install anyway so my system doesn't have the bug.
And what the hell does the number of users compared to the number of bugs tell you anyway?
Metallica is stupid and so is anyone who tries to fight this. I think most users will understand that Napster's arm was twisted to make them ban users. And the users will just create new accounts. However, Metallica has just pissed off 300,000+ fans. Think those people will EVER buy a Metallica CD now. At least before, people could have liked the MP3 and then purchased a CD. Metallica has just shot themselves in the face and made their record sales worse.
NetPD is not too smart either. When the CTO was interviewed, he wouldn't even give a simple idea on how it worked other than the metaphor that it is like 5,000 humans in a room searching for the info. Which means his little plan will fail. I think most people know that if your algorithm is so secret that you can't tell anyone, then you are doomed. I give that software maybe a month (that's generous too) before someone gets a copy, disassembles it, and writes a patch for Napster. Then, I would like to see where NetPD sees it's sales. Get a clue guys, there is nothing any company can do to stop MP3 because there is a HUGE wave of millions of people behind it with a combined force that is greater than an company could ever mass. Look what happend to DVD and their secret algorithm. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
Why would you need to provide support for IT students. I could understand having to give support for other students but if an IT student can't sit down, have patience, and problem solve; then what in the hell are they doing in the IT field?!! _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
Palm is not the only PalmOS device out there. Handspring has the Visor which is exactly like a Pilot and even uses the same handwriting scheme. So will Xerox sue them too? _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
I think very little will happen. I have friends who will think all kinds of things but I realy still want to know why we haven't had Y2K problems in this century. How many people out there know a person who is at least 100 years old or older. Weren't they born in the 1800s? So, why doesn't the social security computers shut down everytime they spit out a check for someone born in '99 (1899)? Or why doesn't anything happen to the various other computers that have to deal with the birth dates of these older people. Think how many systems out there must have the birthdates of century old people yet they never break. As soon as someone can answer this, I will believe in a world apocalypse in 2000. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
The starting salary for coders is ~45K straight out of college. It's ~55K if you have a masters degree as well. The cost of living is actually quite low compared to the wage earnings which is why I would never want to live in California where you may make twice that money but never afford a good living condition because of the insane living expenses. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
I kinda wonder if the judge type up his big fat report on a Linux box. The way the media describes him makes him sound almost like a Microsoft basher himself. Then again, he probably had it typed up in MS Word. That actually would be a bit more ironic and funnier. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
No, but this is the #1 reason we should get rid of anonymous post. This and the post before it of course. Perhaps we would have less off topic posts.
Anyway, about the review. I've never read a book by Stephenson before. Sounds pretty cool. I just might have to go grab a copy and see if it's what everyone says it is. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
Perhaps you forgot the donation part. GPL does not have people go out and take other's rights away. If I write a cool piece of software, I can DONATE it to GPL if I wish. Or, I can sell it. Or, I can sell it and make the source available to others I wish. Tell me how that involves communism. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
The point of the matter here is the word freedom. Linus himself has even said that the Free in Free Software also means Freedom. Communism does not support freedom. All of the nice growing pools and stuff don't count for much against that. Perhaps people have forgotten what all of this is about. People volunteer for this. If Alax Cox writes a SCSI driver, I have the freedom to choose to help with that or go write something else, or even write my own SCSI driver. In communism, you are told what you will do. No freedom there. Just because people don't usually ask for money, that doesn't make it communism. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
I don't think so. Free sofware is about freedom. Many companies make a good bit of money off of free software in a totally democractic way. Free Software just makes sure that others have the freedom to do what they want with it. It is also the freedom of information that is sought by free software. If it wasn't for open source software, what would young computer scientists look to for real world examples. Freedom of information and freedom to customize what you own doesn't sound like a communistic ideal. In fact, the last I checked, freedom of information was something communism tried to suffocate. Plus, it is voluntary. When was the last time a communist dictator politely asked the people if he could volunteer to run their lives?
I am glad to see that space station funded. I am tired of hearing from ignorant people who think spending money on space programs is silly. I especially can stand some of the short range thinking folks that we seem to have in Congress these days who feel they need to eliminate the space program. Space exploration is our future, and I am sure many here will agree on that. It's just sad to see people trying to stop a wonderful part of our scientific community. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
Really people, as big as Microsoft likes to think they are, the NSA is bigger. The NSA wouldn't need anything sneaky. They could just seize the private keys from Microsoft. It would be easier and cheaper than having to make any silly deals with Microsoft. I don't see the NSA making deals with any other encryption based products. I don't think there are any back doors in PGP or GPG that allow them to break any cipher. The NSA will simply pick you up, take you to their place, and force the private key out of you. It is probably more fun that way anyway. I believe Bruce is right. The man knows what he is talking about. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
Oh you silly child of the evil empire. If you knew anything about the Microsoft software engineering process you would know that it is about how to come up with some stupid kludge that will work to get the product out the door. Microsoft isn't worried about compatibility, it's money they want. Which is why NT Alpha sucks and Win64 for the Merced sucks so much. _________________________ Words of Wisdom:
Actually, the visual difference is in the spacing between the number and the unit abbreviation. Meaning that 1MB and 1 MB is not the same thing. This is ALREADY an IEEE standard. However it is kind of a dumb standard because it is not very obvious and most people do not expect the difference to be in the spacing.
It seems like more than a dream though. IBM's got a buzz about Linux now. Our Infrastructure Group may be installing Linux for dual boot NT/Linux which I am very happy about. It seems that they will be porting most of their software, Lotus Notes/Domino, DB2, and the such, to Linux as well. I know one of these links was posted a while back, not sure which, but the other one is something I found a while ago. Both discuss Linux and IBM's plans for it which include hardware and software development. The second link even has a link to Slashdot....
Slashdot Mirror
Funny that the previous article on Slashdot (just 50 mins earlier) talks about India developing this PDA "Simputer" device:
Scientific American Reviews 'Simputer' PDA
This would be a solution. The "stealth mode" doesn't send back the real ip address. So, if we try their fake ip address when we do a verification packet, we will see it is fake. If they decide to actually send a their real ip address, then they you can then automatically have your client ignore any subsequent replies from their server. This would effectively mess up the stealth mode operation. Remember that stealth mode is used for the spam and it is supposed to hide the server so people won't get pissed off and crack their system and shut them down.
_________________________
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Where are these bugs coming from? When you say there are 37 bugs in Win2000, it means that there are 37 bugs in the OS. They are usually security bugs. Did Moody both to find out what kind of bugs were seen in the 47 Linux bugs. Were they 47 security bugs or bugs that did other things? Everytime I get the stupid critical update message for Win98, it is a security bug. And, it is in IE which is not an optional install. Most of the security bugs that I have seen with Red Hat Linux deal with something like wu-ftpd or some weird apache module which I don't install anyway so my system doesn't have the bug.
And what the hell does the number of users compared to the number of bugs tell you anyway?
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1) you can waste many man-hours of Napster Inc, especially when you deliver them 300,000 usernames on hard copy.
If you would have read the page, it said the info was delievered to Napster in electronic format.
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Metallica is stupid and so is anyone who tries to fight this. I think most users will understand that Napster's arm was twisted to make them ban users. And the users will just create new accounts. However, Metallica has just pissed off 300,000+ fans. Think those people will EVER buy a Metallica CD now. At least before, people could have liked the MP3 and then purchased a CD. Metallica has just shot themselves in the face and made their record sales worse.
NetPD is not too smart either. When the CTO was interviewed, he wouldn't even give a simple idea on how it worked other than the metaphor that it is like 5,000 humans in a room searching for the info. Which means his little plan will fail. I think most people know that if your algorithm is so secret that you can't tell anyone, then you are doomed. I give that software maybe a month (that's generous too) before someone gets a copy, disassembles it, and writes a patch for Napster. Then, I would like to see where NetPD sees it's sales. Get a clue guys, there is nothing any company can do to stop MP3 because there is a HUGE wave of millions of people behind it with a combined force that is greater than an company could ever mass. Look what happend to DVD and their secret algorithm.
_________________________
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Why would you need to provide support for IT students. I could understand having to give support for other students but if an IT student can't sit down, have patience, and problem solve; then what in the hell are they doing in the IT field?!!
_________________________
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Palm is not the only PalmOS device out there. Handspring has the Visor which is exactly like a Pilot and even uses the same handwriting scheme. So will Xerox sue them too?
_________________________
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I think very little will happen. I have friends who will think all kinds of things but I realy still want to know why we haven't had Y2K problems in this century. How many people out there know a person who is at least 100 years old or older. Weren't they born in the 1800s? So, why doesn't the social security computers shut down everytime they spit out a check for someone born in '99 (1899)? Or why doesn't anything happen to the various other computers that have to deal with the birth dates of these older people. Think how many systems out there must have the birthdates of century old people yet they never break. As soon as someone can answer this, I will believe in a world apocalypse in 2000.
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The starting salary for coders is ~45K straight out of college. It's ~55K if you have a masters degree as well. The cost of living is actually quite low compared to the wage earnings which is why I would never want to live in California where you may make twice that money but never afford a good living condition because of the insane living expenses.
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I kinda wonder if the judge type up his big fat report on a Linux box. The way the media describes him makes him sound almost like a Microsoft basher himself. Then again, he probably had it typed up in MS Word. That actually would be a bit more ironic and funnier.
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Now that's what I call Slashdotting!
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Party At Rob's Place!!!
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No, but this is the #1 reason we should get rid of anonymous post. This and the post before it of course. Perhaps we would have less off topic posts.
Anyway, about the review. I've never read a book by Stephenson before. Sounds pretty cool. I just might have to go grab a copy and see if it's what everyone says it is.
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Perhaps you forgot the donation part. GPL does not have people go out and take other's rights away. If I write a cool piece of software, I can DONATE it to GPL if I wish. Or, I can sell it. Or, I can sell it and make the source available to others I wish. Tell me how that involves communism.
_________________________
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The point of the matter here is the word freedom. Linus himself has even said that the Free in Free Software also means Freedom. Communism does not support freedom. All of the nice growing pools and stuff don't count for much against that. Perhaps people have forgotten what all of this is about. People volunteer for this. If Alax Cox writes a SCSI driver, I have the freedom to choose to help with that or go write something else, or even write my own SCSI driver. In communism, you are told what you will do. No freedom there. Just because people don't usually ask for money, that doesn't make it communism.
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I don't think so. Free sofware is about freedom. Many companies make a good bit of money off of free software in a totally democractic way. Free Software just makes sure that others have the freedom to do what they want with it. It is also the freedom of information that is sought by free software. If it wasn't for open source software, what would young computer scientists look to for real world examples. Freedom of information and freedom to customize what you own doesn't sound like a communistic ideal. In fact, the last I checked, freedom of information was something communism tried to suffocate. Plus, it is voluntary. When was the last time a communist dictator politely asked the people if he could volunteer to run their lives?
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I am glad to see that space station funded. I am tired of hearing from ignorant people who think spending money on space programs is silly. I especially can stand some of the short range thinking folks that we seem to have in Congress these days who feel they need to eliminate the space program. Space exploration is our future, and I am sure many here will agree on that. It's just sad to see people trying to stop a wonderful part of our scientific community.
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Really people, as big as Microsoft likes to think they are, the NSA is bigger. The NSA wouldn't need anything sneaky. They could just seize the private keys from Microsoft. It would be easier and cheaper than having to make any silly deals with Microsoft. I don't see the NSA making deals with any other encryption based products. I don't think there are any back doors in PGP or GPG that allow them to break any cipher. The NSA will simply pick you up, take you to their place, and force the private key out of you. It is probably more fun that way anyway. I believe Bruce is right. The man knows what he is talking about.
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Oh you silly child of the evil empire. If you knew anything about the Microsoft software engineering process you would know that it is about how to come up with some stupid kludge that will work to get the product out the door. Microsoft isn't worried about compatibility, it's money they want. Which is why NT Alpha sucks and Win64 for the Merced sucks so much.
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Actually, the visual difference is in the spacing between the number and the unit abbreviation. Meaning that
1MB and
1 MB
is not the same thing. This is ALREADY an IEEE standard. However it is kind of a dumb standard because it is not very obvious and most people do not expect the difference to be in the spacing.
It seems like more than a dream though. IBM's got a buzz about Linux now. Our Infrastructure Group may be installing Linux for dual boot NT/Linux which I am very happy about. It seems that they will be porting most of their software, Lotus Notes/Domino, DB2, and the such, to Linux as well. I know one of these links was posted a while back, not sure which, but the other one is something I found a while ago. Both discuss Linux and IBM's plans for it which include hardware and software development. The second link even has a link to Slashdot....
developerWorks: Linux
Linux at IBM