I completely agree. And for the paranoid, remember, that regular email is like sending postcard. Anybody on the route to destination can read it. If you don't want people reading/searching/printing your email, you should encrypt it. Period.
bend the known laws of physics and travel faster than the speed of light?
A particle cannot *accelerate* past the speed of light. A particle, like photon, can travel faster than the speed of light as they are already traveling at the speed of light to begin with. Speed of light is the acceleration barrier.
Don't they realize that before long users will figure out where it is coming from and then stop downloading and installing their software all together?
Take a look at the download.com list of popular software. KaZaA to date has 348,403,514 downloads. Average user doesn't know the crap that is bundled underneath.
A lot of people moved to IT in the 90s because it was the *biggest* thing. They didn't have to like the job as the pay package was usually better than a lot of other jobs out there and it was easier to pick up a couple of books, get HTML training and boom. You were in.
If plumbing, hairdressing or whatever becomes the next *big* thing, I am sure a lot of people would join the bandwagon without having to necessarily like it. And consequently, the percentage of people disliking this job would go up.
The cliche' goes again. Do what you like or you will forced to like what you do.
It works both ways. Its not simple to get a visa to get here too. A guy who sits next to me and has come here from China has a lot of interesting stories to tell about the hoops that you have to jump/go through to get the visa.
Without a visa you can't get hired.
You got it exactly the opposite way. You cannot get a visa if you are not hired. (Unless of course you want a visiting visa that would not allow you to work). For someone to start working in US, the first thing that they would need is for an employer to approve the hire part. You go about applying for the visa after you have the proof that you are eligible to work in the country.
Bruce Schneier wrote about this way back in Dec2002 cryptogram.
Counterattack
This must be an idea whose time has come, because I'm seeing it talked
about everywhere. The entertainment industry floated a bill that would
give it the ability to break into other people's computers if they are
suspected of copyright violation. Several articles have been written
on the notion of automated law enforcement, where both governments and
private companies use computers to automatically find and target
suspected criminals. And finally, Tim Mullen and other security
researchers start talking about "strike back," where the victim of a
computer assault automatically attacks back at the perpetrator.
The common theme here is vigilantism: citizens and companies taking the
law into their own hands and going after their assailants. Viscerally,
it's an appealing idea. But it's a horrible one, and one that society
after society has eschewed.
Our society does not give us the right of revenge, and wouldn't work
very well if it did. Our laws give us the right to justice, in either
the criminal or civil context. Justice is all we can expect if we want
to enjoy our constitutional freedoms, personal safety, and an orderly
society.
Anyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial. He deserves the right
to defend himself, the right to face his accused, the right to an
attorney, and the right to be held innocent until proven guilty.
Vigilantism flies in the face of these rights. It punishes people
before they have been found guilty. Angry mobs lynching someone
suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually
guilty. The MPAA disabling someone's computer because he's suspected
of copying a movie is wrong, even if the movie was copied. Revenge is
a basic human emotion, but revenge only becomes justice if carried out
by the State.
And the State has more motivation to be fair. The RIAA sent a
cease-and-desist letter to an ISP asking them to remove certain files
that were the copyrighted works of George Harrison. One of the files:
"Portrait of mrs. harrison Williams 1943.jpg." The RIAA simply Googled
for the string "harrison" and went after everyone who turned
up. Vigilantism is wrong because the vigilante could be wrong. The
goal of a State legal system is justice; the goal of the RIAA was
expediency.
Systems of strike back are much the same. The idea is that if a
computer is attacking you -- sending you viruses, acting as a DDoS
zombie, etc. -- you might be able to forcibly shut that computer down
or remotely install a patch. Again, a nice idea in theory but one
that's legally and morally wrong.
Imagine you're a homeowner, and your neighbor has some kind of device
on the outside of his house that makes noise. A lot of noise. All day
and all night. Enough noise that any reasonable person would claim it
to be a public nuisance. Even so, it is not legal for you to take
matters into your own hand and stop the noise.
Destroying property is not a recognized remedy for stopping a nuisance,
even if it is causing you real harm. Your remedies are to: 1) call the
police and ask them to turn it off, break it, or insist that the
neighbor turn it off; or 2) sue the neighbor and ask the court to
enjoin him from using that device unless it is repaired properly, and
to award you damages for your aggravation. Vigilante justice is simply
not an option, no matter how right you believe your cause to be.
This is law, not technology, so there are all sorts of shades of gray
to this issue. The interests at stake in the original attack, the
nature of the property, liberty or personal safety taken away by the
counterattack, the risk of being wrong, and the availability and
effectiveness of other measures are all factors that go into the
assessment of whether something is morally or legally right. The RIAA
bill is at one extreme because copyright is a limited property
interest, and there is a great risk of wrongful deprivation of u
and I did listen to Dish Network CEO talking to customers on the off-air channels.
He makes a couple of good points. According to him, their situation is like 'a consumer who goes to the gas station that is selling gas at $1.50 a gallon but ask you to pay $2.00 a gallon and after you buy gas, they ask you to buy carwash and wiper fluids'. Also, if CBS is really intetersted in getting consumer confidence, then they would've allowed Dish Network to air the channel to its 1.6 million subscribers.
[Rant mode]
Am I annoyed as a consumer? Hell yes. If I pay for the service, it's operation should be fairly transparent. I DO NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK about companies bitching with each other. If you are running such a big corp, then its your responsibility to forsee and handle problems. I am not taking anybody's side when I say this but this is getting out of control. Companies there are more interested in making the buck without caring about consumer sentiment/service.
[/Rant mode]
From the article, The Islandia, N.Y., company, one of the biggest makers of corporate software, said that although it signed the licenses, it didn't pay for them -- and never would
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resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers
Duh. All our friends at Microsoft need it too.
*grin*
*grin*
The amendment will never leave the House
Famous last words
SF has an article regarding this.
Gates Defends Microsoft Patch Efforts
Found those links.
Story here
Story here
Story here
Jeez. I mean this is tin-foil to the max.
I am always sitting on > 80% on my yahoo account as I don't delete every email and don't use POP. Both my accounts have been upgraded.
They are doing it because gmail upped the ante. They must be definitely wanting to make money from it. But atleast give them a little credit.
I completely agree. And for the paranoid, remember, that regular email is like sending postcard. Anybody on the route to destination can read it. If you don't want people reading/searching/printing your email, you should encrypt it. Period.
How many times do we need to say this? Jeez
They already have office there.
ends with 'r0n'
:D
Not to be picky but it starts with r0n and ends with Jeremy
*ducks*
bend the known laws of physics and travel faster than the speed of light?
A particle cannot *accelerate* past the speed of light. A particle, like photon, can travel faster than the speed of light as they are already traveling at the speed of light to begin with. Speed of light is the acceleration barrier.
I agree completely. If google.com was a fly-by-night dot com, we would not even have known of this family's existence.
they want to become IPO insiders to put his soul to rest.
This statement is so repulsive that it would leave a bad taste for the rest of the day.
Don't they realize that before long users will figure out where it is coming from and then stop downloading and installing their software all together?
Take a look at the download.com list of popular software. KaZaA to date has 348,403,514 downloads. Average user doesn't know the crap that is bundled underneath.
SF carried an article a couple of months ago regarding software bug that contributed to the blackout.
I read your post and was amused. And then I looked at your id :D
No. The sarcasm is "our friendly software giant" !!
A lot of people moved to IT in the 90s because it was the *biggest* thing. They didn't have to like the job as the pay package was usually better than a lot of other jobs out there and it was easier to pick up a couple of books, get HTML training and boom. You were in.
If plumbing, hairdressing or whatever becomes the next *big* thing, I am sure a lot of people would join the bandwagon without having to necessarily like it. And consequently, the percentage of people disliking this job would go up.
The cliche' goes again. Do what you like or you will forced to like what you do.
Although, GW and Michael Moore are still planning their miserable failure lawsuits!
in San Francisco, California
Will the governor be taking part too?
Its not that simple to get a visa to India
It works both ways. Its not simple to get a visa to get here too. A guy who sits next to me and has come here from China has a lot of interesting stories to tell about the hoops that you have to jump/go through to get the visa.
Without a visa you can't get hired.
You got it exactly the opposite way. You cannot get a visa if you are not hired. (Unless of course you want a visiting visa that would not allow you to work). For someone to start working in US, the first thing that they would need is for an employer to approve the hire part. You go about applying for the visa after you have the proof that you are eligible to work in the country.
Unless you are going back to good old Windows98,ME,NT(pre SP 6a) days, stability is not that big a difference.
I have a Windows XP and Windows 2000 machine at work and haven't seen the BSOD in a looonnngggg time.
And guys at Google right now are wondering why are so many people interested in Gail Harris.
I recently bought the new iPod with 40GB
;)
40GB with no access to legal music. Not that's gotta hurt. iPod mini might have been a good start
Bruce Schneier wrote about this way back in Dec2002 cryptogram.
Counterattack
This must be an idea whose time has come, because I'm seeing it talked about everywhere. The entertainment industry floated a bill that would give it the ability to break into other people's computers if they are suspected of copyright violation. Several articles have been written on the notion of automated law enforcement, where both governments and private companies use computers to automatically find and target suspected criminals. And finally, Tim Mullen and other security researchers start talking about "strike back," where the victim of a computer assault automatically attacks back at the perpetrator.
The common theme here is vigilantism: citizens and companies taking the law into their own hands and going after their assailants. Viscerally, it's an appealing idea. But it's a horrible one, and one that society after society has eschewed.
Our society does not give us the right of revenge, and wouldn't work very well if it did. Our laws give us the right to justice, in either the criminal or civil context. Justice is all we can expect if we want to enjoy our constitutional freedoms, personal safety, and an orderly society.
Anyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial. He deserves the right to defend himself, the right to face his accused, the right to an attorney, and the right to be held innocent until proven guilty.
Vigilantism flies in the face of these rights. It punishes people before they have been found guilty. Angry mobs lynching someone suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually guilty. The MPAA disabling someone's computer because he's suspected of copying a movie is wrong, even if the movie was copied. Revenge is a basic human emotion, but revenge only becomes justice if carried out by the State.
And the State has more motivation to be fair. The RIAA sent a cease-and-desist letter to an ISP asking them to remove certain files that were the copyrighted works of George Harrison. One of the files: "Portrait of mrs. harrison Williams 1943.jpg." The RIAA simply Googled for the string "harrison" and went after everyone who turned up. Vigilantism is wrong because the vigilante could be wrong. The goal of a State legal system is justice; the goal of the RIAA was expediency.
Systems of strike back are much the same. The idea is that if a computer is attacking you -- sending you viruses, acting as a DDoS zombie, etc. -- you might be able to forcibly shut that computer down or remotely install a patch. Again, a nice idea in theory but one that's legally and morally wrong.
Imagine you're a homeowner, and your neighbor has some kind of device on the outside of his house that makes noise. A lot of noise. All day and all night. Enough noise that any reasonable person would claim it to be a public nuisance. Even so, it is not legal for you to take matters into your own hand and stop the noise.
Destroying property is not a recognized remedy for stopping a nuisance, even if it is causing you real harm. Your remedies are to: 1) call the police and ask them to turn it off, break it, or insist that the neighbor turn it off; or 2) sue the neighbor and ask the court to enjoin him from using that device unless it is repaired properly, and to award you damages for your aggravation. Vigilante justice is simply not an option, no matter how right you believe your cause to be.
This is law, not technology, so there are all sorts of shades of gray to this issue. The interests at stake in the original attack, the nature of the property, liberty or personal safety taken away by the counterattack, the risk of being wrong, and the availability and effectiveness of other measures are all factors that go into the assessment of whether something is morally or legally right. The RIAA bill is at one extreme because copyright is a limited property interest, and there is a great risk of wrongful deprivation of u
and I did listen to Dish Network CEO talking to customers on the off-air channels.
He makes a couple of good points. According to him, their situation is like 'a consumer who goes to the gas station that is selling gas at $1.50 a gallon but ask you to pay $2.00 a gallon and after you buy gas, they ask you to buy carwash and wiper fluids'. Also, if CBS is really intetersted in getting consumer confidence, then they would've allowed Dish Network to air the channel to its 1.6 million subscribers.
[Rant mode]
Am I annoyed as a consumer? Hell yes. If I pay for the service, it's operation should be fairly transparent. I DO NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK about companies bitching with each other. If you are running such a big corp, then its your responsibility to forsee and handle problems. I am not taking anybody's side when I say this but this is getting out of control. Companies there are more interested in making the buck without caring about consumer sentiment/service.
[/Rant mode]
how it was able to raise so much money for a company that has had serious trouble selling its bread-and-butter products for months
to be backing completely away from the little Utah company as the heat in the kitchen gets hotter
What you smell cooking in the kitchen is usually what is served
Thank God. Finally a non-SCO story. Phew.
*wipes brow*
Check out the update at Yahoo.
From the article, The Islandia, N.Y., company, one of the biggest makers of corporate software, said that although it signed the licenses, it didn't pay for them -- and never would
Signed but not paid???