Even more recent is the incident at Three Mile Island. However, how does the threat of a rare meltdown compare with the problems and inefficiencies of burning fossil fuel to create electricity?
Protection of larger corporate umbrella
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CMP Acquires Black Hat
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Perhaps being part of a larger corporate community will come in handy
next time Black Hat tries to expose another vulnerability. A few
months back, Cisco got ticked off at the exposure they got courtesy of
Black Hat. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that they released the
fix. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/03/161 3226&tid=172&tid=218
The Anthrax attack after 9/11 is one of the oddest unsolved mysteries. Seems as if it would have been a slam-dunk given the clues. Here is one blogger's recent conclusion:
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/
. ..laid out in detail my analysis of the way the anthrax letter-writer wrote R's and P's. Looking at the examples, it seems almost certain that the writer was a child in the first weeks of first grade.
One odd element of this dispute is this: Canada has also filed amicus brief in the case.
http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2005/01/canada _challeng.html
Canada argues that essential part of their system, the email relay
operation, is located entirely in Canada. Therefore US government
is saying they have put a foreign corporation (Blackberry LTD) in the
critical path of essential government communication.
Configuration management obscurity. The format of the properties
and make file tend to "invite" programmers to click into a GUI
panel, and make a few keystrokes to change something. The make
file is often in an format that defies analysis. And upgraded
tools often cannot read the old version of the files accurately.
Binary resources. In a group setting, there is always somebody who
converts the resources to binary format, and makes some change.
Then, for the rest of the project, you are stuck with a large
binary file that defies source control.
Insistence on putting variables into rigid format lest the project
fails to load.
Raises expectation of managers, with the ease of demoing the
creation of "hello world" application. Then, dashes the hopes when
the Manager finds that the default behavior of generated code is
actually either brain-dead or must be completely re-factored to
fulfill requirements.
It boils down to a question: How much are you willing to pay to skip ads on your cellphone, like the slashdot subscriber system.
Three types of people:
1) Those with disposable income will opt to pay more to skip the ads and receive paid music and IP
2) Entry-level folks on a budget will see ads and have restrictions
3) Hackers will "adjust" their phone however well they please
I worked on the project as well, with Verity, Inc. We worked with Lockheed to make a search GUI for the Electronic Records. (I don't know why we weren't given acknowlegement as one of the Lockheed's partners.)
I understand this amount of data, when ERA is fully operational, will be many times larger than the data (the Internet) that Google tries to index.
This sound like a unpleasant invasion of privacy.
According to http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstech nology/2002210022_microsoftads17.html/news article from the Seattle Times,
"AdCenter uses information from customers who registered for
services such as Hotmail or who tailored the MSN home page to their
interests. It supplements that with data purchased from the Experian
credit bureau."
An article on ZDNet gives the reasoning behind Sun's actions here.
Having too many licenses can result in islands of incompatible software that can't be intermixed and complicates legal reviews for those thinking of using or contributing to open-source projects.
The article quotes Simon Phipps, director of Sun's Open Source Office.
This is a welcome simplification
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OpenOffice Goes LGPL
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· Score: 1, Interesting
This will clear up some legalese and speed adoption of OpenOffice.org. Bravo!
The LGPL means that perhaps other application can make use of some of the tasty spell check and spreadsheet functionality.
Management will know it's been discontinued, and the enterprise installation is at the mercy of whatever derivative Microsoft's Marketing department wants to release.
I pity the poor admins who had made SFU an integral part of their enterprise installation. Those ads run by Microsoft in Linux magazines for free SFU trials turned out to be "too good to be true," as many of us suspected.
It seems amazing that a government entity hasn't done this long ago.
MS Office formats are incompatible even between different versions of
MS Office. The Microsoft competitive model is to lock out competition
using undocumented binary file formats.
In the past, they gain a foothold with one or two in an organization
using a "new" Office format, and this forces dozens of upgrades. And
also ensures that competitor's compatibility features can't keep up
with Microsoft.
These same anti-competitive tactics also make it difficult for
different government agencies to communicate. Or even read their own
archived documents.
Most stores have liberal exchange policy, especially if you have
original receipt.
If you are sued and the Cause of Action is copyright infringement,
then of course you have the opportunity to offer a defense. But in
many cases these defendants are probably guilty of these charges.
As a nerd, I make my living selling Intellectual Property -- the
programs I write. I want my copyrights to be protected, and I want my
employer's copyrights also to be protected. Likewise, I want the
rights of recording artists and their distributors to be protected,
and I welcome these lawsuits by the RIAA.
Are they being effective? I would say yes, at least in my case. The
napster share in my house has been turned off for years now, ever since the first
lawsuits were filed.
A real universal translator (artificial intelligence) would have to have many thousands of words of text to use as examples, so a language could be learned. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~billw/mldict.html That is why many mechanical translation systems start with word lists and dictionaries to give the learning process a head start.
You're right. It was submitted by me without that last sentence. The Slashdot Editor added it before it appeared on the main page. And the quote mark was lost somehow.
" . . . though Microsoft says a document it found in the recycle bin of one of Lee's computers indicates Google anticipated a possible lawsuit in hiring Lee."
Which is worse?
1. Reading over competitor's job offers using company equipment? Or
2. forgetting to empty recycle bin and wiping disk before returning company computer?
Slashdot Mirror
Even more recent is the incident at Three Mile Island. However, how does the threat of a rare meltdown compare with the problems and inefficiencies of burning fossil fuel to create electricity?
Perhaps being part of a larger corporate community will come in handy next time Black Hat tries to expose another vulnerability. A few months back, Cisco got ticked off at the exposure they got courtesy of Black Hat. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that they released the fix. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/03/161 3226&tid=172&tid=218
The link doesn't seem to work.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote04 .htm Ben Franklin
One odd element of this dispute is this: Canada has also filed amicus brief in the case. http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2005/01/canada _challeng.html
Canada argues that essential part of their system, the email relay
operation, is located entirely in Canada. Therefore US government
is saying they have put a foreign corporation (Blackberry LTD) in the
critical path of essential government communication.
There are dishonest people in every profession. The academic community is no exception.
It boils down to a question: How much are you willing to pay to skip ads on your cellphone, like the slashdot subscriber system. Three types of people: 1) Those with disposable income will opt to pay more to skip the ads and receive paid music and IP 2) Entry-level folks on a budget will see ads and have restrictions 3) Hackers will "adjust" their phone however well they please
I worked on the project as well, with Verity, Inc. We worked with Lockheed to make a search GUI for the Electronic Records. (I don't know why we weren't given acknowlegement as one of the Lockheed's partners.) I understand this amount of data, when ERA is fully operational, will be many times larger than the data (the Internet) that Google tries to index.
What is it about us humans that keep us rooted in the same place. Why don't the starving desert-dwelling folks move out of the desert?
The link seems to lead to a registration page when referrer is Slashdot. Sorry. Here is a link to an interesting blog entry where I originally found the link to the Seattle Times article: http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/archives/2005/03 /17/microsoft_adcenter_ignores_90s_lessons.php/
This sound like a unpleasant invasion of privacy.h nology/2002210022_microsoftads17.html/news article from the Seattle Times,
According to http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstec
"AdCenter uses information from customers who registered for services such as Hotmail or who tailored the MSN home page to their interests. It supplements that with data purchased from the Experian credit bureau."
An article on ZDNet gives the reasoning behind Sun's actions here.
Having too many licenses can result in islands of incompatible software that can't be intermixed and complicates legal reviews for those thinking of using or contributing to open-source projects.
The article quotes Simon Phipps, director of Sun's Open Source Office.
This will clear up some legalese and speed adoption of OpenOffice.org. Bravo! The LGPL means that perhaps other application can make use of some of the tasty spell check and spreadsheet functionality.
Oh, OK, but the Enterprise may wish to upgrade their Windows machines at some point.
Management will know it's been discontinued, and the enterprise installation is at the mercy of whatever derivative Microsoft's Marketing department wants to release.
I pity the poor admins who had made SFU an integral part of their enterprise installation. Those ads run by Microsoft in Linux magazines for free SFU trials turned out to be "too good to be true," as many of us suspected.
MS Office formats are incompatible even between different versions of MS Office. The Microsoft competitive model is to lock out competition using undocumented binary file formats.
In the past, they gain a foothold with one or two in an organization using a "new" Office format, and this forces dozens of upgrades. And also ensures that competitor's compatibility features can't keep up with Microsoft.
These same anti-competitive tactics also make it difficult for different government agencies to communicate. Or even read their own archived documents.
Most stores have liberal exchange policy, especially if you have original receipt.
If you are sued and the Cause of Action is copyright infringement, then of course you have the opportunity to offer a defense. But in many cases these defendants are probably guilty of these charges.
As a nerd, I make my living selling Intellectual Property -- the programs I write. I want my copyrights to be protected, and I want my employer's copyrights also to be protected. Likewise, I want the rights of recording artists and their distributors to be protected, and I welcome these lawsuits by the RIAA.
Are they being effective? I would say yes, at least in my case. The napster share in my house has been turned off for years now, ever since the first lawsuits were filed.
A real universal translator (artificial intelligence) would have to have many thousands of words of text to use as examples, so a language could be learned. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~billw/mldict.html That is why many mechanical translation systems start with word lists and dictionaries to give the learning process a head start.
You're right. It was submitted by me without that last sentence. The Slashdot Editor added it before it appeared on the main page. And the quote mark was lost somehow.
" . . . though Microsoft says a document it found in the recycle bin of one of Lee's computers indicates Google anticipated a possible lawsuit in hiring Lee."
Which is worse?
1. Reading over competitor's job offers using company equipment? Or
2. forgetting to empty recycle bin and wiping disk before returning company computer?
Yes, a necessary article! These details can be valuable if/when a hard drive crashes and the boot sector gets damaged.
Red Hat's secondary offering was successful, and they are still enjoying the cash reserve move than 5 years later.