So far, the damage has been mostly harmless. The most high-profile case so far came in mid-October when one Myspace.com user released a self-replicating computer worm that took advantage of Javascript flaws to add more than a million fellow users to his buddy list. A similar worm hit the online community Xanga on New Year's eve (there is also some strong language at this link.)
he used his worm to add people to his buddy list! that's really really funny! look how popular i am! i've got millions of friends! no one will laugh at me now!... er... i uh... yes... i wrote a worm to make friends for me....
I'd be searching for the TLAs relating to the technologies that I'd need writing on. If my product was a user-extensible CMS developed in PHP, my search would probably be for a tech writer with experience in CMS documentation, PHP and XHTML development, and CSS experience. Mostly, I'd expect that my techwriter was basically someone who had the skills to be on dev team, but who's talent is English prose, not code.
I think the article summary is a touch misleading. My reading was that the public performance of songs whose copyright the DJ doesn't hold is what's illegal, and the £200 is for a licsence that remedies the situation. Nobody is telling anybody they can't play music on their laptops, and I'm sure the submitter didn't intend this, but I think it's important to point out that this only relates to public performance. Additionally, DJs do not need to pay the liscence if they are playing from CD or vinyl.
Say you punch "Station SNAFU" on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an' whatever vision program SNAFU is telecastin' comes on your logic's screen. Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers youve got a vision-phone connection.
Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone^H^H^H^H^HPing Pong Ball Trick" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers youve got a vision-phone connection.
slightly OT, i guess, but i'm in a sharing kind of mood...
Context is everything. It's cruel to the snake to let it starve to death; it is not necessarily cruel to a researcher to not let him perform an experiment.
i'd go a step further. i used to have a ball python when i was in college... it wouldn't just be cruel to let him starve to death, it would also be cruel to deny him the stalk for food. sure, my observations hardly count as science, but... he was totally uninterested in pre-killed food... if i tried to offer him pre-kill, he'd sulk for days, and only eat it if he was *really* hungry... he wouldn't be very sociable either... however, with live food, he'd stalk it for *hours*, finding different spots in his habitat to observe from, and he'd watch it, and get all ready to strike, then change his mind and sneak off to another spot... after he'd eaten (a few days, those suckers don't digest too quickely), he'd be really friendly and sociable... whatever instictive cue told him to hunt, getting to do it kept him happy and well adjusted
He's unquestionably guilty, but not of anything that would justify this kind of heavy assault
you are 100% right about everything in your comment. nothing this kid did justifies ruining his life with a felony on his record... HOWEVER, just to play devil's advocate...
let's suppose hypothetically that he actually doesn't know his ass from his ear about technology, and it can be proven that he actually, really believed that getting 5 kids to hold down F5 would DOS the school's web server... then his intent is as bad as what he's getting charged with... what then?
i'm nost saying that's likely at all, and really, i totally agree with you... i'm just sain' what if...
reading this, my buddy and i chuckled over some web 2.0 parodies:
it's Car 2.0! not only does it drive places like it always did, but we wacked on an Ambient Climate User Interface, and a Personal Music Delivery Interface!
am just being dense, or does web 2.0 mean *anything* to non-marketing people?
ta for the interesting article. it leans a little heavily on inherintly biased language for my taste, but it with exception of a litteral interpretation of some of the more colorful metaphores, i reckon it's an accurate one, especialy the closing:
And when [they're gone], [the industry] will remember Jobs, but they'll cry for Woz.
one way to expand that repetoire is to expand the *parts* of the animals you have eaten... i once had a friend give me the full infoz on which of a cow's four stomachs is the tastiest and why... i tried beef uterus once (yuck!)... also, if you get the chance, horse is excelent (i've only had it raw - horse sashimi, but it's quite good)
1) For people who already bought an XBox 360 and cannot wait for MS to "fix the problem" 2) It's a cool thing to do.
3) Third parties can see that watercooling an XBox 360 is possible and will release kits that people can use.
i don't know why you'd even bother trying to argue with this clown (the GP)... some people get doing things cuz they're cool to do, and some people don't so much... some folks like to use stuff, and some folks would rather tinker a bit... the GP isn't likely to be a coder either, i'd guess (although i'm really curious if that guess is right or not)... i think this is mostly a personality-type thing
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how aobut the cotton gin? the winchester repeating rifle? your high school history text is probably chock-a-block with them
more recently, how about pdf? i assume that's pattented
Absolutely. The older powerbooks were pretty bullet proof. I had a Wallstreet G3 Powerbook from 1998 to 2002, and it had some problems: the hinges were just starting to go, and the power connector needed to be re-soldered to the daughterboard at one point, but other than those, it had zero issues.
Getting the power connector resoldered was a nightmare though. Apple was only willing to replace the entire daughterboard it sat on, and for about $300. An afternoon of telephone calls turned up the good folks at MacForce, a nice little shop under a bridge in portland. They took a day to resolder the connection for me for $40, a far sight less than what apple wanted. When I replaced the Wallstreet with a G3 iBook, I went straight to them without a second thought.
What are the odds that this was done in secret agreement with MS in response to EU anti trust litigation?
i doubt that's the case, as microsoft and/or the eu would likely make some kind of announcement, since would pertain to litigation, and really, the question of browsers has nothing to do with the litigation at hand, BUT, it's not outside the realm of possibilities
(confidentiality, for example), but clauses like these in effect begin a new contract with the former employee upon their leaving the company, one that is beneficial ONLY to the company, and holds no consideration to the employee. This, by definition, is unenforceable (there must be a consideration in effect for both parties).
One may argue that the employment itself is the consideration, but in my view, once the employment ends, there shouldn't be any additional terms that come into effect.
my gut says disagree with you... i think of some of the NDAs i've been party to, like this one from a job i stopped doing like 10 years ago, and i feel like there are certainly valid concerns that my former employer has that suggest i should still be bound by the terms of those agreeements...
however, i'm trying to think of absurd examples that demonstrate my case, and i can't come up with anything convincing... lemme give you an example
say i hire you to work for me, and when we are a week away from releasing the Next Big Thing, you take off for my competior. without you there, i can't finish the project, and have to start hiring someone with your skills... at your competitor's shop, due to the combination of your having solved all the problems while working for me, and their own steps towards this Thing, they only need a month to scoop me on the project...
now i'd say that you violated your NDA, and are guilty of releasing trade secrets to my competitor... now by your logic, you aren't, because knowledge in your head (assuming you didn't steal documents when you went over) isn't anything that can be covered by an NDA after the end of employment... therfore, the onus was on me, as the employer, to retain you because you would be so valuable to the competition
we enfored RHDtool where i work, and it's really a must-have thing... i've mentioned this story in other comments, but it's so illustrative i'll share again:
this summer, we received some documents from DOJ that were meant to be put on our website... they included revision history data that showed different information about different drafts of the agreement we'd been working on... of course, not every schmo who looks at a document on our website is going to *find* this stuff at all, but it's still embarassing as all get-out to have it up there at all... and we couldn't fix it ourselves because DoJ had of course pw protected the documents... that was fun, trying to explain to DoJ folks what the problem was at all, and then convincing them to fix it
I nominate this for Slashdot Story of the Year: Microsoft to buy Opera... maybe... not yet, but it could happen someday.
AND! the editors apparently *did* something too! they telephoned Norway just to confirm that this is a rumor! after years and years of no fact checking, grammar/spelling checking, etc., they *called* *norway* to tell us "here's today's rumor!"
for all the winging and whining about VAT that you'll hear, it is the only kind of taxation system that makes sense for a large, convoluted modern economy
our current tax system is an artifact of federalism (which let's be honest, is basically in its death throws)... it's economical mayhem to try to apply local taxation schemes to business whose nature defines local borders
if we're going to tax online purchases, some kind of federal (maybe let's call it "interstate commerce tax", or some kind of VAT makes heaps more sense
not that i disagree at all, because i don't, but just to play devil's advocate, i'd like to point out that 2600 is not the most credible source one can site... (and how long has it been 2600.com?? i don't think i've even *thought* about those folks since it was 2600.org)
i can't claim any medical knoledge other than "i payed attention in school and read a lot on many subjects"... my question to those in the know:
do embryonic stem cells present any greater clinical bennefit versus non-embryonic ones? my gut feeling is "yes, because they are less developed and therefore more malleable", but that's coming straight out of my ass
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he used his worm to add people to his buddy list! that's really really funny! look how popular i am! i've got millions of friends! no one will laugh at me now!... er... i uh... yes... i wrote a worm to make friends for me....
it works for "worst president ever" too :)
I'd be searching for the TLAs relating to the technologies that I'd need writing on. If my product was a user-extensible CMS developed in PHP, my search would probably be for a tech writer with experience in CMS documentation, PHP and XHTML development, and CSS experience. Mostly, I'd expect that my techwriter was basically someone who had the skills to be on dev team, but who's talent is English prose, not code.
i don't know what you mean! ;)
we're *clearly* not talking about *my* POS toaster...
I think the article summary is a touch misleading. My reading was that the public performance of songs whose copyright the DJ doesn't hold is what's illegal, and the £200 is for a licsence that remedies the situation. Nobody is telling anybody they can't play music on their laptops, and I'm sure the submitter didn't intend this, but I think it's important to point out that this only relates to public performance. Additionally, DJs do not need to pay the liscence if they are playing from CD or vinyl.
Or you punch "Sally Hancock's Phone^H^H^H^H^HPing Pong Ball Trick" an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers youve got a vision-phone connection.
now *that*'s an accurate predictioni'd go a step further. i used to have a ball python when i was in college... it wouldn't just be cruel to let him starve to death, it would also be cruel to deny him the stalk for food. sure, my observations hardly count as science, but... he was totally uninterested in pre-killed food... if i tried to offer him pre-kill, he'd sulk for days, and only eat it if he was *really* hungry... he wouldn't be very sociable either... however, with live food, he'd stalk it for *hours*, finding different spots in his habitat to observe from, and he'd watch it, and get all ready to strike, then change his mind and sneak off to another spot... after he'd eaten (a few days, those suckers don't digest too quickely), he'd be really friendly and sociable... whatever instictive cue told him to hunt, getting to do it kept him happy and well adjusted
you are 100% right about everything in your comment. nothing this kid did justifies ruining his life with a felony on his record... HOWEVER, just to play devil's advocate...
let's suppose hypothetically that he actually doesn't know his ass from his ear about technology, and it can be proven that he actually, really believed that getting 5 kids to hold down F5 would DOS the school's web server... then his intent is as bad as what he's getting charged with... what then?
i'm nost saying that's likely at all, and really, i totally agree with you... i'm just sain' what if...
it's Car 2.0! not only does it drive places like it always did, but we wacked on an Ambient Climate User Interface, and a Personal Music Delivery Interface!
am just being dense, or does web 2.0 mean *anything* to non-marketing people?
one way to expand that repetoire is to expand the *parts* of the animals you have eaten... i once had a friend give me the full infoz on which of a cow's four stomachs is the tastiest and why... i tried beef uterus once (yuck!)... also, if you get the chance, horse is excelent (i've only had it raw - horse sashimi, but it's quite good)
'nuff said, yo
i don't know why you'd even bother trying to argue with this clown (the GP)... some people get doing things cuz they're cool to do, and some people don't so much... some folks like to use stuff, and some folks would rather tinker a bit... the GP isn't likely to be a coder either, i'd guess (although i'm really curious if that guess is right or not)... i think this is mostly a personality-type thing
more recently, how about pdf? i assume that's pattented
Getting the power connector resoldered was a nightmare though. Apple was only willing to replace the entire daughterboard it sat on, and for about $300. An afternoon of telephone calls turned up the good folks at MacForce, a nice little shop under a bridge in portland. They took a day to resolder the connection for me for $40, a far sight less than what apple wanted. When I replaced the Wallstreet with a G3 iBook, I went straight to them without a second thought.
i don't know my oceanic history too well... what happened in 1780?
i doubt that's the case, as microsoft and/or the eu would likely make some kind of announcement, since would pertain to litigation, and really, the question of browsers has nothing to do with the litigation at hand, BUT, it's not outside the realm of possibilities
my gut says disagree with you... i think of some of the NDAs i've been party to, like this one from a job i stopped doing like 10 years ago, and i feel like there are certainly valid concerns that my former employer has that suggest i should still be bound by the terms of those agreeements...
however, i'm trying to think of absurd examples that demonstrate my case, and i can't come up with anything convincing... lemme give you an example
say i hire you to work for me, and when we are a week away from releasing the Next Big Thing, you take off for my competior. without you there, i can't finish the project, and have to start hiring someone with your skills... at your competitor's shop, due to the combination of your having solved all the problems while working for me, and their own steps towards this Thing, they only need a month to scoop me on the project...
now i'd say that you violated your NDA, and are guilty of releasing trade secrets to my competitor... now by your logic, you aren't, because knowledge in your head (assuming you didn't steal documents when you went over) isn't anything that can be covered by an NDA after the end of employment... therfore, the onus was on me, as the employer, to retain you because you would be so valuable to the competition
it feels sketchy to me, but maybe you're right
much like spam!
we enfored RHDtool where i work, and it's really a must-have thing... i've mentioned this story in other comments, but it's so illustrative i'll share again:
this summer, we received some documents from DOJ that were meant to be put on our website... they included revision history data that showed different information about different drafts of the agreement we'd been working on... of course, not every schmo who looks at a document on our website is going to *find* this stuff at all, but it's still embarassing as all get-out to have it up there at all... and we couldn't fix it ourselves because DoJ had of course pw protected the documents... that was fun, trying to explain to DoJ folks what the problem was at all, and then convincing them to fix it
AND! the editors apparently *did* something too! they telephoned Norway just to confirm that this is a rumor! after years and years of no fact checking, grammar/spelling checking, etc., they *called* *norway* to tell us "here's today's rumor!"
</jerk> sorry... couldn't resist
for all the winging and whining about VAT that you'll hear, it is the only kind of taxation system that makes sense for a large, convoluted modern economy
our current tax system is an artifact of federalism (which let's be honest, is basically in its death throws)... it's economical mayhem to try to apply local taxation schemes to business whose nature defines local borders
if we're going to tax online purchases, some kind of federal (maybe let's call it "interstate commerce tax", or some kind of VAT makes heaps more sense
not that i disagree at all, because i don't, but just to play devil's advocate, i'd like to point out that 2600 is not the most credible source one can site... (and how long has it been 2600.com?? i don't think i've even *thought* about those folks since it was 2600.org)
do embryonic stem cells present any greater clinical bennefit versus non-embryonic ones? my gut feeling is "yes, because they are less developed and therefore more malleable", but that's coming straight out of my ass
anyone who knows, please share; thanks