That's again going to hurt the little guy though. The big corps can afford to have every single line of the patent challenged, but someone with less cash can't afford to do that. C'est la vie... C'est la vie...
What the submitter failed to mention is that the patent claim is validated only when the patent owner attempts to sue an alleged infringer of that patent. FTFA: "Should the patent owner try to sue an alleged infringer, an examination for novelty would be the initial step in any litigation." And goes on to claim that this is better because the alleged violator will have to provide prior art to invalidate the patent.
This seems to increase the amount of time developers will have to spend in courts, attacking and defending, while reducing the burden on the patent office. Less chance of mistakes, but probably not a viable option for smaller developers without the resources to spend on litigation.
Also, the other linked article claims that "Novelty could be challenged at any point by someone submitting prior art and paying a small fee." Anyone have any idea where this information comes from?
Visual Basic is definitely what you want to go for if you want a very simple way to get a half-decent GUI running. The only problem with VB is that, if you're coming from a C/C++ history, you're going to find it very messy. And you're going to feel "dirty" unless you spend a lot of time understanding the intricacies and see exactly how good/bad your app is.
If you want the power of RAD and the ease of C/C++ I'd suggest you look into MFC programming. Google for all you need to get started. You can continue to use C/C++ and familiar code to create nice, simple Windows GUIs.
Also, yes. You have definitely been very fortunate.
I haven't R'd TFA completely, but why only XSS? Why not put the bounty up on ANY vulnerability? Is there something special about XSS bugs that makes them more important than other vulnerabilities?
Besides, I think putting up a bounty makes it more "legal" and will bring out more of the more-experienced White Hats into the game and make LJ that much safer...
This may work in EU countries where most broadband users have uncapped links, but in countries like Australia (or India, but there are bigger problems in that case), where most connections have usage caps, this is not going to work. People are going to refuse to pay for the content and then pay for the data transfer.
That said, it's a nice change to see some positive developments as far as the ??AA and the internet go, and a very welcome change from banning all innovation, as they tried recently...
WTF is a Telco Provider? I think I know what a Telco is, and I'm pretty sure I know what a provider is, but the article is about "Network Equipment Providers" (FTFA).
Translated directly, that can mean only one thing... This is an alliance of companies that manufacture other companies! Maybe according to a request sheet too.
I remember reading that meetings are an ideal way to get some things done: 1)Pool expertise from different departments 2)"Gather" authority for cross-department tasks 3)Get feedback and progress reports from different departments 4)Discuss critical issues that require human interaction 5)Criticise new products and techniques from different points of view 6)Brainstorm
When used properly, meetings can be powerful tools... But the ONLY reason I see meetings being used anymore is POLITICS! To palm off responsibility, blame someone else, avoid work, act important, establish power ("I called a meeting because I can"), or just generally be a waste of organizational oxygen. No wonder people hate them... The last thing most techs and researchers want is to get mired in office politics.
A meeting conducted properly is a huge help. It can speed up things and make your goals and objectives a whole lot clearer than they ever were, but unfortunately some people just don't seem to get that.
Yes... that's because Novell has woken up and realised that just because a company is pro-OSS it doesn't make them good. Hopefully IBM will figure it out soon.
What does make a company good then? And, more importantly, why will what's good for one customer be good for another?
Goddamn it. Ignore the parent post. I meant to post this:
FOSS companies get a lot of their business from the goodwill of their users. e.g. See: Wikipedia.
A large number of MySQLAB's endusers are part-time web developers, and amateur coders who have an OpenSource streak.
Teaming up with SCO, a well-known anti-FOSS company that also happens to be MS's puppet is a statement. A statement that their users aren't the most important thing to them anymore. This isn't exactly the best way to foster goodwill.
FOSS companies get a lot of their business from the goodwill of their users. e.g. See: Wikipedia.
A large number of SCO's endusers are part-time web developers, and amateur coders who have an OpenSource streak.
Teaming up with SCO, a well-known anti-FOSS company that also happens to be MS's puppet is a statement. A statement that their users aren't the most important thing to them anymore. This isn't exactly the best way to foster goodwill.
Funniest thing I've read in a long time. I wish I had mod points, but I just blew 'em away:(
PS: If this is true, and the deal goes through completely, I will be switching my website over to Postgres. Thanks for all the fish MySQL AB. It was (somewhat) good while it lasted.
Heh, it says that right in the beginning of the SPACE.com article.
A new infrared survey that claims to be the most comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy confirms previous evidence for a central bar of stars.
You can't confirm somehing if you didn't already suspect it, right? It is just a small issue though. What actually is a new discovery (I think. IANAA) is this
The bar is embedded in the center of the galaxy's spiral arms and cuts across the heart of it all where a supermassive black hole resides. The survey found that the bar is longer than thought and sits at a sharp angle to the galaxy's main plane.
I'm not sure what the ramifications are, but it must make a huge difference to astrophyicists, astronomers and the like. Anyone care to educate the rest of/. on why this is significant?
converting an existing system over to those sort of speeds would be a massive engineering effort comparable to building an entirely new rail infrastructure.
I don't agree with that TBH. A large part of the work (getting government approval for the areas, relocating people who live too close, creating tunnels and such) would already have been done. Laying down new tracks and wires is relatively simple, though expensive. And AFAIK these high speed trains do run on similar tracks to the lower speed freight trains. (But I suppose they won't be pulling them over steep turns.)
Even without that, relaying/reshaping tracks is possible, while building new, cheap airports in a crowded country may be fairly impossible.
What's the advantage of super-fast trains over airplanes? In many places in the world, the infrastructure for trains is already in place. Tracks are laid, stations are ready, power lines are set up, railway crossings are set up, and so on.
OTOH airport facilities may not be available, and I'm guessing that in Japan the space required to construct new small-town airports would be fairly tough to find. This is probably why they prefer speeding up their trains. Air travel may not be easily possible at all.
Interesting the the people that posted this don't point out any smoking guns. It's mildly interesting that they were able to thwart the ridiculously inane classified protections, but it's telling that they didn't find anything that further incriminated the U.S. service personnel.
It's better that the submitter didn't stuff his/her own opinions into the story. I, for one, don't really care for their views in the summary itself, that's what the comments are for.
Neither do I care for any BS political conclusions derived by the submitter. None of that belongs in the story, all this can stick in the discussion section. This summary makes the most sense I've seen in a long time:) It gives you the facts while leaving the opinions to the READERS.
I believe it is arrogant of man to think he is capable of damaging the earth to the point of it being uninhabitable, but that's just me.
We may not be able to make the earth unfit for life in general, but we sure can make it unfit for ourselves.
The earth can handle humans. We're insignificant on planetary timelines. Question is, can humans handle themselves? I don't want to go political, but give Dubya or Kim Jong enough reason, and they'll blow us off the planet in a second. Other life will go on though.
This "new" system is a generic method to block all pop-ups by any plugin. (I say "new" because the basic method seems to be available since 1.0.) It seems to be implemented at a lower level in the code.
Unless someone has found an entirely different method that uses neither client-side scripts nor plugins, I would say this system should be safe for a while at least. And as far as I can see, that takes care of almost anything around today. I couldn't find any specifics in TFA though. I wish there were a few more details available without having to look through the code. Oh well...
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Close.
MAC stands for Medium Access Control.
The Ethernet specification uses CSMA/CD for controlling access to it's shared medium.
Every network interface unit has an address. This is called a MAC address. Not just a MAC.
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Thanks, I missed that completely.
That's again going to hurt the little guy though. The big corps can afford to have every single line of the patent challenged, but someone with less cash can't afford to do that. C'est la vie... C'est la vie...
First off, a better view of the article(plaintext, one page).
What the submitter failed to mention is that the patent claim is validated only when the patent owner attempts to sue an alleged infringer of that patent. FTFA: "Should the patent owner try to sue an alleged infringer, an examination for novelty would be the initial step in any litigation." And goes on to claim that this is better because the alleged violator will have to provide prior art to invalidate the patent.
This seems to increase the amount of time developers will have to spend in courts, attacking and defending, while reducing the burden on the patent office. Less chance of mistakes, but probably not a viable option for smaller developers without the resources to spend on litigation.
Also, the other linked article claims that "Novelty could be challenged at any point by someone submitting prior art and paying a small fee." Anyone have any idea where this information comes from?
Visual Basic is definitely what you want to go for if you want a very simple way to get a half-decent GUI running. The only problem with VB is that, if you're coming from a C/C++ history, you're going to find it very messy. And you're going to feel "dirty" unless you spend a lot of time understanding the intricacies and see exactly how good/bad your app is.
If you want the power of RAD and the ease of C/C++ I'd suggest you look into MFC programming. Google for all you need to get started. You can continue to use C/C++ and familiar code to create nice, simple Windows GUIs.
Also, yes. You have definitely been very fortunate.
I haven't R'd TFA completely, but why only XSS? Why not put the bounty up on ANY vulnerability? Is there something special about XSS bugs that makes them more important than other vulnerabilities?
Besides, I think putting up a bounty makes it more "legal" and will bring out more of the more-experienced White Hats into the game and make LJ that much safer...
This may work in EU countries where most broadband users have uncapped links, but in countries like Australia (or India, but there are bigger problems in that case), where most connections have usage caps, this is not going to work. People are going to refuse to pay for the content and then pay for the data transfer.
That said, it's a nice change to see some positive developments as far as the ??AA and the internet go, and a very welcome change from banning all innovation, as they tried recently...
WTF is a Telco Provider? I think I know what a Telco is, and I'm pretty sure I know what a provider is, but the article is about "Network Equipment Providers" (FTFA).
Translated directly, that can mean only one thing... This is an alliance of companies that manufacture other companies! Maybe according to a request sheet too.
Employees:
[ ]5000-10000
[ ]10000-50000
[ ]50000-100000
[ ]100000+
CEO Characteristics:
[ ]Manageable
[ ]Hyperactive
[ ]Steve Ballmer
Marketing Department:
[ ]Too large
[ ]Overflowing
[ ]Largest ever
[ ]RIAA
and so on... that'd be fun! I wonder how much they charge per telco.
Oh, the horror! The horror!!
:-)
You had to bring it up didn't you... Just when I was forgetting the whole event, you had to dredge it up again... Bastard.
I remember reading that meetings are an ideal way to get some things done:
1)Pool expertise from different departments
2)"Gather" authority for cross-department tasks
3)Get feedback and progress reports from different departments
4)Discuss critical issues that require human interaction
5)Criticise new products and techniques from different points of view
6)Brainstorm
When used properly, meetings can be powerful tools... But the ONLY reason I see meetings being used anymore is POLITICS! To palm off responsibility, blame someone else, avoid work, act important, establish power ("I called a meeting because I can"), or just generally be a waste of organizational oxygen. No wonder people hate them... The last thing most techs and researchers want is to get mired in office politics.
A meeting conducted properly is a huge help. It can speed up things and make your goals and objectives a whole lot clearer than they ever were, but unfortunately some people just don't seem to get that.
1440 pictures?
:-)
Can someone summarize this summary of the event, please?
PS: Slashdotted.
Goddamn it. Ignore the parent post. I meant to post this:
FOSS companies get a lot of their business from the goodwill of their users. e.g. See: Wikipedia.
A large number of MySQLAB's endusers are part-time web developers, and amateur coders who have an OpenSource streak.
Teaming up with SCO, a well-known anti-FOSS company that also happens to be MS's puppet is a statement. A statement that their users aren't the most important thing to them anymore. This isn't exactly the best way to foster goodwill.
FOSS companies get a lot of their business from the goodwill of their users. e.g. See: Wikipedia. A large number of SCO's endusers are part-time web developers, and amateur coders who have an OpenSource streak. Teaming up with SCO, a well-known anti-FOSS company that also happens to be MS's puppet is a statement. A statement that their users aren't the most important thing to them anymore. This isn't exactly the best way to foster goodwill.
Funniest thing I've read in a long time. I wish I had mod points, but I just blew 'em away :(
PS: If this is true, and the deal goes through completely, I will be switching my website over to Postgres. Thanks for all the fish MySQL AB. It was (somewhat) good while it lasted.
You can't confirm somehing if you didn't already suspect it, right? It is just a small issue though. What actually is a new discovery (I think. IANAA) is this
I'm not sure what the ramifications are, but it must make a huge difference to astrophyicists, astronomers and the like. Anyone care to educate the rest of
converting an existing system over to those sort of speeds would be a massive engineering effort comparable to building an entirely new rail infrastructure.
I don't agree with that TBH. A large part of the work (getting government approval for the areas, relocating people who live too close, creating tunnels and such) would already have been done. Laying down new tracks and wires is relatively simple, though expensive. And AFAIK these high speed trains do run on similar tracks to the lower speed freight trains. (But I suppose they won't be pulling them over steep turns.)
Even without that, relaying/reshaping tracks is possible, while building new, cheap airports in a crowded country may be fairly impossible.
What's the advantage of super-fast trains over airplanes?
In many places in the world, the infrastructure for trains is already in place. Tracks are laid, stations are ready, power lines are set up, railway crossings are set up, and so on.
OTOH airport facilities may not be available, and I'm guessing that in Japan the space required to construct new small-town airports would be fairly tough to find. This is probably why they prefer speeding up their trains. Air travel may not be easily possible at all.
It's better that the submitter didn't stuff his/her own opinions into the story. I, for one, don't really care for their views in the summary itself, that's what the comments are for.
Neither do I care for any BS political conclusions derived by the submitter. None of that belongs in the story, all this can stick in the discussion section. This summary makes the most sense I've seen in a long time
Where do you think the original source for those DVDs comes from?
We may not be able to make the earth unfit for life in general, but we sure can make it unfit for ourselves.
The earth can handle humans. We're insignificant on planetary timelines. Question is, can humans handle themselves? I don't want to go political, but give Dubya or Kim Jong enough reason, and they'll blow us off the planet in a second. Other life will go on though.Comforting thought in a very odd way.
This "new" system is a generic method to block all pop-ups by any plugin. (I say "new" because the basic method seems to be available since 1.0.) It seems to be implemented at a lower level in the code.
Unless someone has found an entirely different method that uses neither client-side scripts nor plugins, I would say this system should be safe for a while at least. And as far as I can see, that takes care of almost anything around today. I couldn't find any specifics in TFA though. I wish there were a few more details available without having to look through the code. Oh well...
Defrag it. Works every time :)
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"In what has become increasingly obvious to many, Slashdot has been completely infiltrated by spies from Stupidity Inc. Many readers suspected that Stupidity, Inc. was trying to takeover Slashdot. Today, rumours were finally confirmed and Slashdot was officialy and completely bought out by stupidity"
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Close. MAC stands for Medium Access Control. The Ethernet specification uses CSMA/CD for controlling access to it's shared medium. Every network interface unit has an address. This is called a MAC address. Not just a MAC.