Yes, and MS has the $$ to pay the programers. His point was that there cannot be a duplication of efforts in open source projects because of the lack of programmers willing to help.
If only the FBI hired some/. geeks to do their investigations, then maybe there wouldn't even be a need to check out innocent people.
Also, it doesn't make sense that the FBI wipes all your data after they investigate. If it were a business and you had critical information on there (i.e. billing information, etc) couldn't you sue them for deleting it?
I didn't have to sign anything either. But, I did have to give my name and address like you do whenever you make a Radio Shack purchase. The scanned the package, like a normal purchase and I got a reciept that had the price of the CueCat as $0.00.
Also, I didn't even bother installing the software, so I didn't "agree" to any licensing.
OK, we all know this is bad for MS...but how does it effect the Linux community. I think it has both good and bad implications. Good in that maybe individuals and business will seek a more secure solution, thereby exploring Linux as a possibility. Bad in that it could give Linux bad press...any developments toward a more "windows like" OS could be blamed on using "stolen" code. That is, if they do indeed find that code was stolen. I'm sure their NT logs will be good enough to determine which files were acessed by who, and when.
Can we get a/. pole on the presidential candidates? I'm curiouse to see what how the geeks are voting. Also, no stupid options like CmdrTaco's mom for once, a serious pole, go figure.
Personally, I think they look kinda cool. It's pretty awesome to have a change in the way PC's look. I'm not big on the "jelly bean" look that the Mac's have gone with, but a change is definately nice.
Of other note, I thought the Nokia joystick, the phone/mp3 player and the waterproof "sportsman" phone were all pretty cool ideas. The label printer mouse, no that's a little wierd for me.
Actually, wouldn't it make better sense to concentrate some of our CFC's from the atmosphere and taking them there, rather than making them from scratch on the planet. I'm sure there's gotta be a way to solidify pure CFC gas and transport it. Maybe just launch these huge blocks of frozen CFC gas toward Mars and hope they hit the planet:)
What about archiving? Does this mean that when I delete my e-mail it is gone forever? I would assume that. If that's the case, the mail would have to be removed from the archives as well in order to make it completely gone. Would this mean that "legally" sysadmins couldn't make backup archives of e-mail and user space too? This would imply that a MORE redundant raid system is the only legal backup...no more tapes.
The article left out the part about NASDAQ's lawyers. I'm sure that by now their lawyers have given this hacker that "helped" them so much hell already.
NASDAQ Lawyer: "If we even catch your bits, two hops away from our closest server, your ass is going to jail."
I'm sure they consider him a threat right now and they're wondering, "what else does he know about our systems."
Really though, I wonder what heat he got from them.
This will be cool. It will change the face of the internet big time. Not everyone will want a.com anymore. Although it will make finding things more difficult. No more picking a random word dealing with the topic you're interested in and putting.com after it to get a site. I'll have to actually use search engines...Noooooo!
Just keep using your product until they start charging royalties. When that happens, hopefully you will have evidence to show that your product was available before theirs or is at least very different.
...it includes hundreds of packages utilities applications and so on tha would cost you many thousands of dollars to duplicate (if you could) on a Windows box.
Hmmm. Does it come with a web browser? Several if I'm correct. Somehow I see the MS antitrust case popping up in my head. Kinda scary to think that if Red Hat becomes more main stream it could have the same fate as MS.
Hmmm. I actually see an application for the CueCat here. Scan the UPC on the CD and send it to a site, say MP3.com which just happens to have a giant database of MP3's on hand. When you do this, it unlocks the MP3's on that CD for your account so that you have access to them via the net. This then somewhat proves that you have ownership of the CD.
Only one problem..."Can I borrow your 'Metallica' CD for just ONE second???"
Star Wars seems to be fresh on everyone's mind, but what ever happened to all the trekkers, or is it trekkies? Anyway, any news on upcoming trek movies? We need a Star Trek category on/. Sorry about the off topicness of this post.
I think its great that Sun spends a lot of time and puts out some quality hardware. It's rare to hear Sun coming out with a new chip, but it seems like Intel or AMD are putting out chips every other week. I guess its an entirely different market though.
It would be nice to see Sun produce mobo's for the new chip that support standard PC hardware. So you can build your own system type stuff instead of buying packaged Sun systems that cost an arm and a let.
Imagine building a microprocessor molecule by molecule, transistor by transistor. It would be possible to have complete control over the process. I see a big application for this in the semiconductor industry.
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Yes, and MS has the $$ to pay the programers. His point was that there cannot be a duplication of efforts in open source projects because of the lack of programmers willing to help.
If only the FBI hired some /. geeks to do their investigations, then maybe there wouldn't even be a need to check out innocent people.
Also, it doesn't make sense that the FBI wipes all your data after they investigate. If it were a business and you had critical information on there (i.e. billing information, etc) couldn't you sue them for deleting it?
I didn't have to sign anything either. But, I did have to give my name and address like you do whenever you make a Radio Shack purchase. The scanned the package, like a normal purchase and I got a reciept that had the price of the CueCat as $0.00.
Also, I didn't even bother installing the software, so I didn't "agree" to any licensing.
Maybe this is just an obvious point, but isn't the whole patent system contradictory to anti-trust laws?
OK, we all know this is bad for MS...but how does it effect the Linux community. I think it has both good and bad implications. Good in that maybe individuals and business will seek a more secure solution, thereby exploring Linux as a possibility. Bad in that it could give Linux bad press...any developments toward a more "windows like" OS could be blamed on using "stolen" code. That is, if they do indeed find that code was stolen. I'm sure their NT logs will be good enough to determine which files were acessed by who, and when.
Can we get a /. pole on the presidential candidates? I'm curiouse to see what how the geeks are voting. Also, no stupid options like CmdrTaco's mom for once, a serious pole, go figure.
Personally, I think they look kinda cool. It's pretty awesome to have a change in the way PC's look. I'm not big on the "jelly bean" look that the Mac's have gone with, but a change is definately nice. Of other note, I thought the Nokia joystick, the phone/mp3 player and the waterproof "sportsman" phone were all pretty cool ideas. The label printer mouse, no that's a little wierd for me.
Actually, wouldn't it make better sense to concentrate some of our CFC's from the atmosphere and taking them there, rather than making them from scratch on the planet. I'm sure there's gotta be a way to solidify pure CFC gas and transport it. Maybe just launch these huge blocks of frozen CFC gas toward Mars and hope they hit the planet :)
Maybe the editors should actually read their own site/a&g t;.
cool sig :p
What about archiving? Does this mean that when I delete my e-mail it is gone forever? I would assume that. If that's the case, the mail would have to be removed from the archives as well in order to make it completely gone. Would this mean that "legally" sysadmins couldn't make backup archives of e-mail and user space too? This would imply that a MORE redundant raid system is the only legal backup...no more tapes.
The article left out the part about NASDAQ's lawyers. I'm sure that by now their lawyers have given this hacker that "helped" them so much hell already. NASDAQ Lawyer: "If we even catch your bits, two hops away from our closest server, your ass is going to jail." I'm sure they consider him a threat right now and they're wondering, "what else does he know about our systems." Really though, I wonder what heat he got from them.
I think its a great idea! I think it would be great for everyone with a device that uses wap to have a place that they can definately go.
This will be cool. It will change the face of the internet big time. Not everyone will want a .com anymore. Although it will make finding things more difficult. No more picking a random word dealing with the topic you're interested in and putting .com after it to get a site. I'll have to actually use search engines...Noooooo!
Whoa! Cool! h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-dot. Say that 3 times fast!
Just keep using your product until they start charging royalties. When that happens, hopefully you will have evidence to show that your product was available before theirs or is at least very different.
...it includes hundreds of packages utilities applications and so on tha would cost you many thousands of dollars to duplicate (if you could) on a Windows box. Hmmm. Does it come with a web browser? Several if I'm correct. Somehow I see the MS antitrust case popping up in my head. Kinda scary to think that if Red Hat becomes more main stream it could have the same fate as MS.
All I want is DVD for linux, legally.
Hmmm. I actually see an application for the CueCat here. Scan the UPC on the CD and send it to a site, say MP3.com which just happens to have a giant database of MP3's on hand. When you do this, it unlocks the MP3's on that CD for your account so that you have access to them via the net. This then somewhat proves that you have ownership of the CD.
Only one problem..."Can I borrow your 'Metallica' CD for just ONE second???"
Star Wars seems to be fresh on everyone's mind, but what ever happened to all the trekkers, or is it trekkies? Anyway, any news on upcoming trek movies? We need a Star Trek category on /. Sorry about the off topicness of this post.
I'm just posting so that I'm archived as part of /. history.
Anonymous Coward=Anonymous Hacker or not-so-anonymous prehaps.
A somewhat related topic...here is a Wired article about 3D LCD's, pretty cool if you ask me.
Note: This wasn't cool enough to make the main page so I thought I would share it here.
I think its great that Sun spends a lot of time and puts out some quality hardware. It's rare to hear Sun coming out with a new chip, but it seems like Intel or AMD are putting out chips every other week. I guess its an entirely different market though.
It would be nice to see Sun produce mobo's for the new chip that support standard PC hardware. So you can build your own system type stuff instead of buying packaged Sun systems that cost an arm and a let.
Imagine building a microprocessor molecule by molecule, transistor by transistor. It would be possible to have complete control over the process. I see a big application for this in the semiconductor industry.
Sounds like a great idea but reengineering TCP/IP and updating every computer on the net with the new protocol is just not very feasible.
There's gotta be a way to implement hardware that can detect a DoS, and ignore it. In other words DoS proof NIC's or Routers even.