IANAL, but happily employed by some... they'll still get their fees... just because they settled before trial doesn't mean the attorneys don't get paid
right. i work for a non-profit law firm that functions this way. our clients don't pay a dime. when we win, we charge the kind of rates that give attorneys a bad name, and the companies that should have known better and not gotting into the mess in the first place get six-to-seven figure bills
What is the likelihood that users won't patch their machines?
Well, it went up on the slashdot mainpage, so that likelihood for a great number of users is a lot lower than it would have been.
The 35 users I'm responsible for just got an email instructing them on how to to do the patch, with links to the patch execs that now live on our local file server.
This model -- (1) Microsoft announces it; (2) I hear about it on/. or security focus (usually both); (3) my users hear about it from me -- works well.
Sure, that's a drop in the bucket for windows PCs, but the point is that the communication chanels are open, and as long as people have the oportunity to hear about these things, we can reasonably expect them to be responsible for implementing them
Of course, that's not an excuse for making vulnerable software in the first place...
That's what they told me. Turned out useful in my experience too. Once in 7th grade (coincidentally, the same year I learned this stuff) I got mugged by another student on the way home. That poor kid learned about this the hard way!
I'm having dificulty googling anything as concise or relevant as we got in my 7th grade "you and the law" course. Basically, in loco parentis isn't going anywhere fast. It's been part of life in America for about 50 years, and the courts are happy to keep it that way.
this article is rather brief, but provides a little more insight on how the courts feel about it
first is that the school acts in loco parentis while the student is traveling to/from school. so, if a teacher sees a kid jaywalking on her way home, the school may legally respond to that
the other distinction has to do with published policies. if the school has a policy that says "you get suspended for violating city ordinances", and then the kid gets caught jay walking, that's that.
this case seems pretty cut and dried, doesn't it though? the kid was operating at home, so the school's traditional in loco parentis is inapplicable, and they wouldn't state a policy. it doesn't get clearer than that... of course, IANAL...
I reckon that in any anti-DMCA suit that tried to lean on this one, it would come down to the word "essential", where "rick-ass corporations protecting their proffit-making at the expense of fair use" is considered an "essential" aspect of the product.
Sure, it's funny. SCO is caught looking like fools. Ha ha. But maybe not such a big deal.
Document requests in discovery are governed by Rule 34. One of the provisions of this rule is that the respondant has 30 days to answer the document request.
IBM will say "sorry, we don't have any of the documents you've requested because they don't exist"
Sure SCO looks bad, but i don't think this is a case of everybody "laughing so hard we won't be able to hear you if you mumble" as TFA suggests.
Markov Chaining, as applied to language, is really interesting.
It involves taking a canon of text (for example, the complete works of shakespeare, or every example of written english you can get your hands on, or every example of transcripts of spoken english you can get your hands on) and subjecting them to a statistical analysis of what chucks (that is, words, phrases, what have you) are likely to follow which other chunks.
while the outputs tend to make little sense, it is "interesting" to see what kinds of "statistically probably" examples of language a computer can make based on the training (input) you've given it
Outside of geek circles and people who have a dedicated work machine at home, I don't know one single household with multiple operating systems.
I sat here trying to think of counter examples, and failed. I haven't been in a house that *hasn't* had multiple operating systems in memory... but every single one of those falls in to your "dedicated for work or geek circle" categories.
would you say its fair to say that the number (or relative percentage of the peoplation) of people who travel in "geek circles" is significantly higher than it was 5 or 10 years ago?
"If we assume that all of the growth in Mac shipments during the past three quarters resulted from Windows users purchasing a Mac, then purchases by Windows users exceeded one million," the analyst said. "Indeed, the number of Windows users purchasing Macs in 2005 could easily exceed our forecast of 1.3 million switchers in 2006."
TFA seems to be using "switched to" and "converted" interchangably with "purchased", implying that every Windows user who bought a Mac was turning his or her back on PCs. I don't think that has to be the case at all. If we assume that TFA is right about the reason for such good Mac sales (derriving from the strength of the ipod), then isn't it reasonable to assume that a fair number of those are people who are buying Macs not as their exclusive computer, but possibly in addition or in complement to their PCs?
Maybe the real signficance of this (assuming the numbers are correct) is that it's no longer uncool to own more than one computer!
"There are plenty of services where you can download music and movies legally. This is not one of them."
It's one thing to shut them down. It's another thing entirely to require them to say something that sounds like a scolded child. I can't *prove* sounding like a scolded child was part of the deal, but i don't think i'm out of line assuming that that statement is less than 100% voluntary
that's 100% true. it may or may not be a result, but that's totally a phenomenon that we live with. the coverage of the sony drm rootkit is a perfect example of this weird relationship between between "stuff" and "talking about stuff"
since when did relativity throw out newtonian laws of motion? i took elementary school science classes in the 1980s, a good 70 years (give or take) since the publications of theories of relativity...
we still demonstrated f=ma by rolling a ball down a ramp and measuring its force... we still demonstrated inertia and measured friction... to say that einstein "threw out" newton is rediculous
did anyone check out the "papers" section? while i'll certainly try to keep an open mind and judge the final project on its merits, it's hard to take something seriously when its website is gussied-up with a bunch of papers, pretending to lend an air of accademic support for this project
all those papers were either given at microsoft headquarts, or the HotOS conference, which was an invitation-only do sponosored by Microsoft's reasearch department.
i really want to be open minded. microsoft *has* been responsible for some real innovation, and *does* have a few products that work really well. hell, singularity might even be cool. i just get a little doubtful, and certainly turned off, when i see that it's leaning on a pile of pseudo-academic support for credibility.
"I'm horribly disappointed that this important measure failed to pass," said Rep. Mark Kennedy, R-Minn. "This bill was designed to protect the free-speech rights of Americans whose only alleged crime is wanting to use the Internet to express their opinions."
is my understanding of u.s. politics so backwards? i would have expected the party breakdown to be 180degrees opoistite this...
Small business owners tend to have a case of megalomania. If they can pet the box, they "own" it. Thus, they'll spend $2,000 on a server rather than $25/mo on a managed solution because they can pet the box, even as they explain about the increased downtime because they don't have a dedicated admin, like their ISP.
I know this is offtopic, but this post gave me thought... I'm thinking back to the first MacWorld expo I went to in 1995, roughly around the time apple was playing around with liscencing for powermac clones...
if you'd told me then apple was going to start kicking ass with a portable music player, i would have laughed *really* hard
didn't you get that memo? all bets are off for DC... no congressional representation (you know what i mean), and your rinky-dink underemployeed population can pay for the landscaping, roads, and sewage/waste removal for tens of thousands of daily visitors... face it, DC is america's *real* armpit
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IANAL, but happily employed by some... they'll still get their fees... just because they settled before trial doesn't mean the attorneys don't get paid
right. i work for a non-profit law firm that functions this way. our clients don't pay a dime. when we win, we charge the kind of rates that give attorneys a bad name, and the companies that should have known better and not gotting into the mess in the first place get six-to-seven figure bills
Well, it went up on the slashdot mainpage, so that likelihood for a great number of users is a lot lower than it would have been.
The 35 users I'm responsible for just got an email instructing them on how to to do the patch, with links to the patch execs that now live on our local file server.
This model -- (1) Microsoft announces it; (2) I hear about it on /. or security focus (usually both); (3) my users hear about it from me -- works well.
Sure, that's a drop in the bucket for windows PCs, but the point is that the communication chanels are open, and as long as people have the oportunity to hear about these things, we can reasonably expect them to be responsible for implementing them
Of course, that's not an excuse for making vulnerable software in the first place...
That's what they told me. Turned out useful in my experience too. Once in 7th grade (coincidentally, the same year I learned this stuff) I got mugged by another student on the way home. That poor kid learned about this the hard way!
this article is rather brief, but provides a little more insight on how the courts feel about it
first is that the school acts in loco parentis while the student is traveling to/from school. so, if a teacher sees a kid jaywalking on her way home, the school may legally respond to that
the other distinction has to do with published policies. if the school has a policy that says "you get suspended for violating city ordinances", and then the kid gets caught jay walking, that's that.
this case seems pretty cut and dried, doesn't it though? the kid was operating at home, so the school's traditional in loco parentis is inapplicable, and they wouldn't state a policy. it doesn't get clearer than that... of course, IANAL...
I reckon that in any anti-DMCA suit that tried to lean on this one, it would come down to the word "essential", where "rick-ass corporations protecting their proffit-making at the expense of fair use" is considered an "essential" aspect of the product.
Have you looked at the foxIE suite? The browser plugin is so-so, but the "sweeper" - its spyware seek/destroy widget is pretty impressive
Document requests in discovery are governed by Rule 34. One of the provisions of this rule is that the respondant has 30 days to answer the document request.
IBM will say "sorry, we don't have any of the documents you've requested because they don't exist"
Sure SCO looks bad, but i don't think this is a case of everybody "laughing so hard we won't be able to hear you if you mumble" as TFA suggests.
It involves taking a canon of text (for example, the complete works of shakespeare, or every example of written english you can get your hands on, or every example of transcripts of spoken english you can get your hands on) and subjecting them to a statistical analysis of what chucks (that is, words, phrases, what have you) are likely to follow which other chunks.
while the outputs tend to make little sense, it is "interesting" to see what kinds of "statistically probably" examples of language a computer can make based on the training (input) you've given it
you already can
sorry... sorry...
I sat here trying to think of counter examples, and failed. I haven't been in a house that *hasn't* had multiple operating systems in memory... but every single one of those falls in to your "dedicated for work or geek circle" categories.
would you say its fair to say that the number (or relative percentage of the peoplation) of people who travel in "geek circles" is significantly higher than it was 5 or 10 years ago?
TFA:
TFA seems to be using "switched to" and "converted" interchangably with "purchased", implying that every Windows user who bought a Mac was turning his or her back on PCs. I don't think that has to be the case at all. If we assume that TFA is right about the reason for such good Mac sales (derriving from the strength of the ipod), then isn't it reasonable to assume that a fair number of those are people who are buying Macs not as their exclusive computer, but possibly in addition or in complement to their PCs?
Maybe the real signficance of this (assuming the numbers are correct) is that it's no longer uncool to own more than one computer!
It's one thing to shut them down. It's another thing entirely to require them to say something that sounds like a scolded child. I can't *prove* sounding like a scolded child was part of the deal, but i don't think i'm out of line assuming that that statement is less than 100% voluntary
that's 100% true. it may or may not be a result, but that's totally a phenomenon that we live with. the coverage of the sony drm rootkit is a perfect example of this weird relationship between between "stuff" and "talking about stuff"
we still demonstrated f=ma by rolling a ball down a ramp and measuring its force... we still demonstrated inertia and measured friction... to say that einstein "threw out" newton is rediculous
eh? how about a +1 Good Use of the Here-Comes-the-Letter-S-! character!
did anyone check out the "papers" section? while i'll certainly try to keep an open mind and judge the final project on its merits, it's hard to take something seriously when its website is gussied-up with a bunch of papers, pretending to lend an air of accademic support for this project
all those papers were either given at microsoft headquarts, or the HotOS conference, which was an invitation-only do sponosored by Microsoft's reasearch department.
i really want to be open minded. microsoft *has* been responsible for some real innovation, and *does* have a few products that work really well. hell, singularity might even be cool. i just get a little doubtful, and certainly turned off, when i see that it's leaning on a pile of pseudo-academic support for credibility.
is my understanding of u.s. politics so backwards? i would have expected the party breakdown to be 180degrees opoistite this...
can someone explain?
sure... we call these people "victims"
if you'd told me then apple was going to start kicking ass with a portable music player, i would have laughed *really* hard
(is it a troll if it's true?)
nothing quite like a vi/emacs flame fight to cap off the afternoon, eh? thanks y'all!
well yes, but... i won't be sweating until the day they ban soldering irons