* Patents are written in legalese, not in english. Unless you are a patent lawyer, I don't think you can really judge them. That's why you see stories like Microsoft patenting the double-click or Apple patenting alpha compositing.
I guess we should be going for a law degree instead of a CS to be qualified programmers, then.
I don't feel comfortable referencing this report in any research, primarily because it doesn't state how many respondents there were. This is a big flaw in statistical analysis (I also assume the target group was self-selecting).
Routers have already been compromised because of weak or default passwords. You could already do some temporary damage by messing with the setup. Add to that the fact that they are firmware upgradeable in most cases... you do the math...
I wonder how the data retention^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h deletion policies corporations such as Microsoft have put in place on e-mail would fare in that regard....
At this week's hearing, Dudas said that the patent law should be changed to award a patent to the first person to file a claim. The current rules allow patents to be granted to the first person who devised the invention. IPIX, anyone?
On second thought.... maybe I should start trawling Windows and M$ Office....
put a single 'copy of a film, software program or music file in a...in a shared folder...
With the current proliferation of wireless Access Points, I'm thinking of investing in the prison construction business... man we're heading for a boom!
"Son? Son, there's guys here from the, uh, RAAA or something they want to have a 'talk' with you - did you put that movie you're watching in the TV room into your computer's shared folder?"
Not only that, by putting maximums they're further ensuring other more affluent markets won't be tempted to try it.
Predatory pricing:
Pricing tactics employed by a dominant firm to drive competitors out of business, such as temporally selling below cost and dropping the price only in certain markets.
Subject: A service for which a P.O. can milk both patent holder and alleged patent infringer.
A method by which a alleged patent infringer can apply to the Patent Office for patent invalidation, pursuant to disbursement of a modest application fee for said invalidation application.
Why only sell weapons to one side when you can sell to both?
Part of the brokenness stems from the fact that concerned parties (e.g. Open Source developers) may not have vested interests or be aware until after the patent has been granted and the owning company goes after those developers.
Shouldn't the patent office be involve and look at claims of prior art from defendants in patent cases, especially when the claims haven't been tested before?
What IBM's proposing is more akin to a polling architecture and I think it sounds rather inefficient.
Guess which list is longer?
SELinux, Novell's SUSE Linux CC EAL4+ certification (where's XP's/2003's EAL4+ cert?).
Not to mention that the French government is putting 7 million euros into creating a Linux derivative with a CC EAL5+ certification.
Windows ahead? Pah.
Being Novell they have street cred. Netware gives them a wedge into big businesses which no other Linux distro has. And I think they know and understand the businesses' needs better than any of the others, and have the tools to complement Linux to cater to those companies (Zen, identy management and such).
I think Novell and SUSE make a good fit. SUSE now has a desktop platform which they can work WITH, and not AGAINST.
They're clearly aware of it, and their CC EAL4+ certification was part of their plan, a certification which I think only SUSE still holds (among the Linux distros).
You also want to make sure the users get some training to get them off to a good start and ease the transition pain.
If you don't prepare the users adequately, there's a good likelihood that an negative attitude may work against the change.
I think Google are being quite pragmatic and realise there are areas where web apps make sense and they are tackling that one piece at a time. They also want their technologies to complement each other.
Sure, we may never have a web-access-only platform, but who cares? Running word processors or graphics applications might never be realistic(although they might make great backup apps in cases of emergency). Already combining mail, search, (global) maps and (hopefully) scheduling already is a very nice and useful package.
It's not about the technology, it's about getting things done.
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true. And here's an article on AOL's plight in today's broadband market.
I suspect the discovered exploits won't turn up in exploit-patch statistics - a critical patch could well fix other vulnerabilities behind the scenes.
I guess we should be going for a law degree instead of a CS to be qualified programmers, then.
I don't feel comfortable referencing this report in any research, primarily because it doesn't state how many respondents there were. This is a big flaw in statistical analysis (I also assume the target group was self-selecting).
Bad, bad, bad.
Today's diesel engines run a lot cleaner than before, but a serious issue is the emission of carcinogens.
Routers have already been compromised because of weak or default passwords. You could already do some temporary damage by messing with the setup. Add to that the fact that they are firmware upgradeable in most cases ... you do the math ...
err ... you mean you've got an exploit on your site...?
I wonder how the data retention^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h deletion policies corporations such as Microsoft have put in place on e-mail would fare in that regard....
Hmm. That must mean those produce more CO2, then.
What a relief the Kyoto protocol doesn't address *that*...
At this week's hearing, Dudas said that the patent law should be changed to award a patent to the first person to file a claim. The current rules allow patents to be granted to the first person who devised the invention.
.... maybe I should start trawling Windows and M$ Office....
IPIX, anyone?
On second thought
OpenOffice 2 and KOffice already uses it.
Some of the info may be superfluous for view files, but then a subset of it might be in order.
Royalty free and open and a contender as a EU official standard.
Last post!
put a single 'copy of a film, software program or music file in a ...in a shared folder...
With the current proliferation of wireless Access Points, I'm thinking of investing in the prison construction business ... man we're heading for a boom!
"Son? Son, there's guys here from the, uh, RAAA or something they want to have a 'talk' with you - did you put that movie you're watching in the TV room into your computer's shared folder?"
Not only that, by putting maximums they're further ensuring other more affluent markets won't be tempted to try it.
Predatory pricing:
Pricing tactics employed by a dominant firm to drive competitors out of business, such as temporally selling below cost and dropping the price only in certain markets.
Subject: A service for which a P.O. can milk both patent holder and alleged patent infringer.
A method by which a alleged patent infringer can apply to the Patent Office for patent invalidation, pursuant to disbursement of a modest application fee for said invalidation application.
Why only sell weapons to one side when you can sell to both?
Part of the brokenness stems from the fact that concerned parties (e.g. Open Source developers) may not have vested interests or be aware until after the patent has been granted and the owning company goes after those developers.
Shouldn't the patent office be involve and look at claims of prior art from defendants in patent cases, especially when the claims haven't been tested before?
What IBM's proposing is more akin to a polling architecture and I think it sounds rather inefficient.
Best of all, throw software patents away.
As an encore, these domains come with a TWO DOLLAR internet tax, courtesy of ICANN:
c k_fee/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/31/icann_2bu
Clowns are the ones who read books upside down
I suppose Americans would rather be entertained by a clown than having a good albeit dull president. TV. Gotta love it.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/211325 3
Maybe you should take a look at those CERT advisories again:
u ery=red*hat&searchorder=4&count=100 u ery=microsoft&searchorder=4&count=100
Red Hat:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/bymetric?searchview&q
Microsoft:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/bymetric?searchview&q
Guess which list is longer?
SELinux, Novell's SUSE Linux CC EAL4+ certification (where's XP's/2003's EAL4+ cert?).
Not to mention that the French government is putting 7 million euros into creating a Linux derivative with a CC EAL5+ certification. Windows ahead? Pah.
SUSE now has a desktop platform which they can work WITH, and not AGAINST.
....
Dang, I meant Novell
Agreed.
1 755222). Here's another interesting link http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;16020781 22;fp;16;fpid;0
Being Novell they have street cred. Netware gives them a wedge into big businesses which no other Linux distro has. And I think they know and understand the businesses' needs better than any of the others, and have the tools to complement Linux to cater to those companies (Zen, identy management and such).
I think Novell and SUSE make a good fit. SUSE now has a desktop platform which they can work WITH, and not AGAINST.
They're clearly aware of it, and their CC EAL4+ certification was part of their plan, a certification which I think only SUSE still holds (among the Linux distros).
What the article could have mentioned is that Novell is proving to their customer that they can do without Windows, migrating internally to Linux desktops (see Joe Barr's http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/23/
You also want to make sure the users get some training to get them off to a good start and ease the transition pain. If you don't prepare the users adequately, there's a good likelihood that an negative attitude may work against the change.
The news is along what I've suspected too, and fits nicely with this /. article http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/03/185023 0.
I think Google are being quite pragmatic and realise there are areas where web apps make sense and they are tackling that one piece at a time. They also want their technologies to complement each other.
Sure, we may never have a web-access-only platform, but who cares? Running word processors or graphics applications might never be realistic(although they might make great backup apps in cases of emergency). Already combining mail, search, (global) maps and (hopefully) scheduling already is a very nice and useful package.
It's not about the technology, it's about getting things done.