Will it be as reliable as when they automated the baggage handling in Denver Airport. How will the driverless cabs respond to unplanned events like breakdowns or an obstruction. I once asked the conductor on the driverless docklands light rail what happens if there's an obstruction. He replied that well then we hit it.
"Asbestos keeps personal data secure by "tagging" it with information about which programs or users can access it.. and Kohler hopes that within a few years, Asbestos will be an alternative to server operating systems such as Linux and Windows."
"(NSA) worked with Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) to develop a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture based on Type Enforcement, a mechanism first developed for the LOCK system."
"AppArmor security policies, called "profiles", completely define what system resources individual applications can access, and with what privileges."
It was the ideal the show tried to put across. The idea of all the various ethnic groups working and living together as they brought peace and justice to the far flung corners of the Galaxy. Remember this was also the first inter-racial kiss on US television, Uhura and Kirk. Although they were under alien mind control at the time and the camera actually never registered the event. That episode was never shown in the South of course.
With hindsight the characters were a bit steriotypical. Scotty the Scotish engineer (what else). Nurse Christine Chapel and Spock as the token Alien.
And right in the middle of the cold war, there on the bridge was Sulu and Chekov, possibly the only Russian sounding name the viewer would be familiar with. Better that Svyatoslav Likhovtseva or that other guy perry stroika.
Ignoring the cardboard sets and the fact that all the alien planets looked the same it did make a huge impact. A number of scientists say they took their inspiration from it.
"students have digital lockers and teachers use interactive "smart boards" -- but also a learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques."
Don't you find it ironic that Microsoft is now in the business of showing the educational sector how to teach. A company who can't do the one thing right its supposed to that is making reliable software.
"Tramelle Hicks.. believes her daughter would benefit from learning strategic and organizational skills from Microsoft."
Lie, steal from another company, wait them out in court until they go broke. Else settle out of court and have the records sealed. If it looks like you are losing have the Judges competency questioned.
"Officials, teachers and students are to be trained in.. negotiating, dealing with ambiguity and managing relationships."
Does that mean teachers were lacking in such skills up to now?
Do we need to read his files to figure out what exactly was going on in his brain and did he get the inspiration from watching old movies. I would like a psychiatric opinion please.
Does anyone here know how to get it to install and run on SuSE 10.0. The instructions are a little confusing. If you can't use make install, what do you use.
From INSTALL..
"4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation."
Running./configure returns "error in line 1329" and "make install has not been implemented yet avoid using."
README has this to say "The executable must reside in the same directory as the tessdata directory The command line is: tesseract image.tif batch"
Trying to run it and a windows pops up briefly and then disappears.
It isn't a matter of honest vendors. It can generally assumed that most/all cryptography companies are owned and run by the various security services. For decades a US/Swiss/Israli firm Crypto AG sold a cryptology machine with a secret built in backdoor. At least until Pres. Reagan announced on television that they were reading Gaddafi's coded messages.
There has also been speculation why Windows requires three unique signing keys. The disengenious reason given being that in case the first one got lost in a fire.
if they are meaning in the BSD way, MS has less of a legitimate beef. But if they are thinking GPL way, then I think MS probably has a very legitimate beef.
Yea, their beef is they don't want anything but MS.innovation used in Education. For other software housed who's name don't start with the letter M there is no problem in using Open Source or even the dreaded GPL for instance.
'if a program "can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then the GPL does not apply to it"'
If public money is used to push certain products, outcomes are presented for public use but you are not allowed use it, even though they paid for a portion of it; I think lots of companies probably would have a beef with it.
What 'certain products' are you prevented from using that is paid out of 'public money'?
If it's adopting licenses that basically directly prevent them from doing something, I would very much expect them to have a problem with it and quash the recomendation. If it's truely a free license with no restrictions than I would expect them to have no problems with it.
What are 'they' prevented from doing by these licenses?
But let's give it up for a fine effort by James Duderstadt..
What are you on , Dude
Miller said the commission would go with Duderstadt's compromise language.. that "does not require and will not be put to a vote."
Let me spell it out, Elliott waited until the document was finalized precisely because she didn't want it going to a vote. In the process showing contempt for due process and her fellow commisioners.
This is clearly a PC (Politically Correct, not Personal Computer) attempt at slamming Microsoft by creating public outrage wherever possible. Now MS may deserve to be slammed over this.
No, this is clearly yet another attempt by MS to get a reversal is a democratically arrived at decision by a body on which it has a board member. Similar to what happened in Massachusetts when MS retrospectivly tried to get a reversal in the decision to move to the Open Document Format despite having a seat on the standards body.
I also find it disengenous that she claimed no prior knowlege of the paragraph. Sho sits on the board. She must read the reports. By doing it after the discussion is closed they figure it'll be difficult to undo their reversal.
I'm only pointing out the tactic used here of attempting to stir up public pressure through exposure on Slashdot of an activity that outranged the submitter.
In related news, Mr. Tony Soprano today slammed the media for attempting to stir up public pressure through exposure of his extortion racket.. er banking interests, by some outraged do-gooder...
What's extraordinary here is that the a number of UK officials give statements to the press that can't be shown in their own country. - quote -
Details Emerge in British Terror Case
John Reid, Britain's home secretary, took questions on Aug. 10 in London
during a news conference about the suspected plot by terrorists to blow up
passenger planes flying from Britain to the United States.
By DON VAN NATTA Jr., ELAINE SCIOLINO and STEPHEN GREY
Published: August 28, 2006
LONDON, Aug. 27 -- On Aug. 9, in a small second-floor apartment in East London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and its "accomplices," Britain and the Jews.
..
As it happened, the police had been monitoring the apartment with hidden video and audio equipment.. The ominous language of seven recovered martyrdom videotapes is among new details that emerged from interviews with high-ranking British, European and American officials last week,
.. five senior British officials said, the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately.. The suspects had been working for months out of an apartment that investigators called the "bomb factory," where the police watched as the suspects experimented with chemicals, according to British officials and others briefed on the evidence, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, citing British rules on confidentiality regarding criminal prosecutions.
..
Investigators say they believe that one of the leaders of the group, an unemployed man in his 20's who was living in a modest apartment on government benefits, kept the key to the alleged "bomb factory" and helped others record martyrdom videos, the officials said.
.. Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, described the suspected plot as "getting really quite close to the execution stage."
But British officials said the suspects still had a lot of work to do. Two of the suspects did not have passports, but had applied for expedited approval. One official said the people suspected of leading the plot were still recruiting and radicalizing would-be bombers.
..
Another British official stressed that martyrdom videos were often made well in advance of an attack. In fact, two and a half weeks since the inquiry became public, British investigators have still not determined whether there was a target date for the attacks or how many planes were to be involved. They say the estimate of 10 planes was speculative and exaggerated.
In his first public statement after the arrests, Peter Clarke, chief of counterterrorism for the Metropolitan Police, acknowledged that the police were still investigating the basics: "the number, destination and timing of the flights that might be attacked."
..
"In retrospect,'' said Michael A. Sheehan, the former deputy commissioner of counterterrorism in the New York Police Department, "there may have been too much hyperventilating going on."
..
.. One former British counterterrorism official.. said several people.. alerted the police in July 2005 about the intentions of a small group of angry young Muslim men.
..
Armed with the tips, MI5, Britain's domestic security services, began an around-the-clock surveillance operation of a dozen young men living in Walthamstow -- bugging their apartments, tapping their phones, monitoring their bank transactions, eavesdropping on their Internet traffic and e-mail messages, even watching where they traveled, shopped and took their laundry, according to senior British officials.
If these countries would just say "ok we don't want nukes or nuclear power and wish to just do business like peaceful countries" then everyone else including the US would back down and leave them alone.
A better solution would be for the US and the former Soviet block to stop selling nuclear technology to:
Argentina , Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Libya , Lithuania, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sweden , Switzerland , Taiwan...
This error message in the Windows NT Event log is telling us that the data bytes C6 04 00 00 are the error code. So how do we get the error code, and then what do we do with it when we have it? The 4 bytes that are listed are a LONG value this means that they can contain a value from 0 to 2147483647.
What we need to do is multiple the bytes to get the value in our case what we do is treat each byte as a different multiplier. * A=C6.. * B=04.. * C=00.. * D=00. We first convert from HEX to Decimal this means from base 16 to base 10. * A = C6 = 198.. * B = 04 = 4.. * C = 0 = 0.. * D = 0 = 0. The Windows Calculator is a good tool to convert from HEX to Decimal.
Load the Windows Calculator. On the View menu select the Scientific option. When this view is shown, select the HEX option and type in the value C6. To convert to Decimal simply click the Dec option
After the conversion we now have the following values. * A = 198.. * B = 4.. * C = 0.. * D = 0. What we do not is add A + (B * 256) + (C * 65536) + (D * 16777216). * 198 + (4 * 256).. * 198 + (4 * 256) + (0 * 65536).. * 198 + (4 * 256) + (0 * 65536) + (0 * 16777216)
This will produce the value: * 198 + 1024 + 0 + 0. For our sum of 1222. We now have 1222 but what does it mean? What we do next is load a command prompt by selecting the START Menu and select RUN and enter the filename CMD.EXE
At the command prompt we type in the following: NET HELPMSG 1222 Note: There is a space between NET and HELPMSG. So we see that the error message returned is The network is not present or not started.
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I'm glad Windows isn't as obscure as that command line driven Linux
I don't see why not, a firewall is a customized router with rules that block by source address/port. If you don't want people surfing block outgoing on port 80. Of course it's going to difficuly figuring out what is or is not legitimate traffic coming out of a Windows box as it has to open numerous high ports in order to function.
"Suppose I submit a firewall for testing that consists of a screening router with a default set of rules that block all traffic except outgoing WWW?"
"and can't do it on a per-program basis"
What you are refering to is an application-level firewall. Software or personal firewalls are no subsitute for embedded standalone solutions as when the users personal system is compromised, all bets are off.
"Whoever dreamed up this rationalization is gifted."
There's a whole department dedicated to dreaming up such apologia. It's called the get the facts site.
The holes are there by design. As in security wasn't a part of the overall design. I would argue that it still isn't."
Security was originally part of the Windows NT design. But was sucessively compromised by the co-mingling of application and OS functionality.
They weren't out to weaken security, what they were about was locking out third party apps and to speed up Windows. The best known being the welding of Internet Explorer to the OS and moving user graphic routines into kernel space. The first leads to the click and infect feeture and the second allows a user process to exploit a buggy gui routine to achieve account promotion.
"Like all the versions that have come before, "It's more secure" for about a week after launch and.."
"it always traces back to Microsoft's untenable policy of maintaining gaps in Windows security to avoid competing with 3rd party vendors and certified partners. Apple's taking a different approach:"
Sounds like a quote from the fastfud site. The 'gaps' in Windows security are because of a fundemental design flaw and not because of any 'policy' to avoid competing. Tacked on after the fact, third party security is never going to fix these gaps. Microsoft has actually entered the antivirus market with OneCare Live. I understand this is a subscription service. Presumably to access the annual $4bn dollar revenue stream spent on Windows security.
Anti-virus: Is only as good as the threats it knows about. It takes only one unknown virus to compromise your system. This is known as default permit, a bad idea as distinct from default deny.
anti-spam: Design an email system that has built in encryption and authentication.
"Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?"
Obviously OS X is more secure, the reasons being its roots in BSD Unix.
I would be suprised if they didn't try and bury the relevant exhibits in a massive pile of decoys. They are lawyers after all. It's up to the plaintiff to unbury them.
As for the patent it is of course totally uninventive, obvious, there is prior art and any skilled person would have come up the the same thing without reading the method.
A method and apparatus for securing software.. requiring.. a.. password obtained from the.. authorized representative of the software after exchanging registration information.
When are they going to fix that crock known as the US patent system?
"The Groklaw article does not say they have asked these things, but that they could - on the latter it seems to me Groklaw is likely wrong." - TekPolitik
"If you had any doubts about whether oddly personal questions were asked by SCO's attorney, which IBM complained to Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells about, read from page 117" - Groklaw
- quote -
Q. Are you married, sir?
A. Yes, I am.
Q. Is this your first marrage?
A. It's not.
Q. How long have you been married to your current wife?
A. Eleven years.
Q. And what's her name, please?
A. Linda
Q. What's her last name? Is it the same last name as you?
A. It is now. Yeah. Her - do you want her maiden name?
Q. I just want to know if she goes by something else?
A. No. No hypenated name. No. She - Linda R. Wilson.
Q. And how many times were you previously married?
A. Twice
Q. Could you tell me the names of your ex-wives and when you married and divorced each of them, please?
..
Q. Were you ever subject to any form of reprimand of discipline while in the Air Force?
A. No, not that I recall.
Q. Have you ever been declared bankruptcy?
A. I have not.
Q. HAve you ever been a defendant in a civil lawsuit?
A. No
..
Q. You mentioned earlier thet you were once arrested; is that correct?
A. That's correct.
Q. All right. And is it correct that that was the only time you were ever arrested?
A. Yes
Q. Okay. And were you charged?
A. I don't recall that I was charged. I was released the next morning.
..
Q. Have you ever had a lien or a judgment entered against you?
A. I'm not sure. I'm really not sure about that.
"We put in a small amount of mechanical energy and we get a large amount out... but until this thing is validated by science we won't be doing anything commercial with it,"
No the best validating would be to build a device that produced more energy than you put into it. That you ask the scientific community to prove it don't work leads me suspect that you are bogus.. entirely;)
Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
Show us a working model. Who are these independent laboratories and so on. Reminds me of around 2000 when someone was haulking 45MB bandwidth through a standard telephone line. You see they did this by eliminating the 'grass' or in other words the sidebands. A lot of people looked very stupid at the time and so will anyone who hooks up with Steorn.
I'd expect the "non-final core components" is a PR term for a bug..
Well yea, they couldn't just come out and say 'we prematurly released buggy software and had to recall it'. It's the willfull torture of the language I object to. Like when a nuclear power station experiences a non-scheduled core temperature transient or in other words it melted.
if the code was checked on the production line it should have been found within a week or so of the first copies of the media being sent out
I doubt any test on a 'production line' would have detected core components that were non-final. They mass produce bootable cds or boot from a master image server.
sounds like no end user organizations are using it yet' - dreamchaser
No it doesn't actually say *no* end users it says *most* and most does not equate to all. You should realize that most PR statements don't actually mean what the words mean.
"it basically said that in the part you left out:" - kjart
"None went to end users" - dreamchaser
The actual words are:
"Most of Microsoft's voluminous partner base did not have copies of SBS 2003 R2 in hand yet"
In other words some of Microsoft's voluminous partner base did have it. And seeing its a PR statement out of Redmond we can assume the reality is a lot more than a few got copies got out.
"Sounds more like someone made a build of SBS with one or more components from the dev branch instead of actual release versions"
Do you have any evidence that such a thing happened. Shurly there can only one dev branch what ever that is and wouldn't a newer component have less bugs than an earlier version. And finally are 'non-final core components' the same thing as bugs.
Slashdot Mirror
Will it be as reliable as when they automated the baggage handling in Denver Airport. How will the driverless cabs respond to unplanned events like breakdowns or an obstruction. I once asked the conductor on the driverless docklands light rail what happens if there's an obstruction. He replied that well then we hit it.
2006 Young Innovators Under 35 ..
.. and Kohler hopes that within a few years, Asbestos will be an alternative to server operating systems such as Linux and Windows."
Eddie Kohler
A better operating system
"Asbestos keeps personal data secure by "tagging" it with information about which programs or users can access it
"(NSA) worked with Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) to develop a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture based on Type Enforcement, a mechanism first developed for the LOCK system."
"AppArmor security policies, called "profiles", completely define what system resources individual applications can access, and with what privileges."
nuff said ...
It was the ideal the show tried to put across. The idea of all the various ethnic groups working and living together as they brought peace and justice to the far flung corners of the Galaxy. Remember this was also the first inter-racial kiss on US television, Uhura and Kirk. Although they were under alien mind control at the time and the camera actually never registered the event. That episode was never shown in the South of course.
With hindsight the characters were a bit steriotypical. Scotty the Scotish engineer (what else). Nurse Christine Chapel and Spock as the token Alien.
And right in the middle of the cold war, there on the bridge was Sulu and Chekov, possibly the only Russian sounding name the viewer would be familiar with. Better that Svyatoslav Likhovtseva or that other guy perry stroika.
Ignoring the cardboard sets and the fact that all the alien planets looked the same it did make a huge impact. A number of scientists say they took their inspiration from it.
Lie, steal from another company, wait them out in court until they go broke. Else settle out of court and have the records sealed. If it looks like you are losing have the Judges competency questioned.
Does that mean teachers were lacking in such skills up to now?
Do we need to read his files to figure out what exactly was going on in his brain and did he get the inspiration from watching old movies. I would like a psychiatric opinion please.
The Collector (1965)
"Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" Átame! (1990)
Boxing Helena (1993)
Does anyone here know how to get it to install and run on SuSE 10.0. The instructions are a little confusing. If you can't use make install, what do you use.
..
./configure returns "error in line 1329" and "make install has not been implemented yet avoid using."
From INSTALL
"4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation."
Running
README has this to say "The executable must reside in the same directory as the tessdata directory The command line is: tesseract image.tif batch"
Trying to run it and a windows pops up briefly and then disappears.
It isn't a matter of honest vendors. It can generally assumed that most/all cryptography companies are owned and run by the various security services. For decades a US/Swiss/Israli firm Crypto AG sold a cryptology machine with a secret built in backdoor. At least until Pres. Reagan announced on television that they were reading Gaddafi's coded messages.
There has also been speculation why Windows requires three unique signing keys. The disengenious reason given being that in case the first one got lost in a fire.
The program must include source code
The license must allow modifications and derived works
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution
The license must not place restrictions on other software
No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
The Open Source Definition
Yea, their beef is they don't want anything but MS.innovation used in Education. For other software housed who's name don't start with the letter M there is no problem in using Open Source or even the dreaded GPL for instance.
What 'certain products' are you prevented from using that is paid out of 'public money'?
What are 'they' prevented from doing by these licenses?
Let me spell it out, Elliott waited until the document was finalized precisely because she didn't want it going to a vote. In the process showing contempt for due process and her fellow commisioners.
I also find it disengenous that she claimed no prior knowlege of the paragraph. Sho sits on the board. She must read the reports. By doing it after the discussion is closed they figure it'll be difficult to undo their reversal.
In related news, Mr. Tony Soprano today slammed the media for attempting to stir up public pressure through exposure of his extortion racket
What's extraordinary here is that the a number of UK officials give statements to the press that can't be shown in their own country.
..
.. The ominous language of seven recovered martyrdom videotapes is among new details that emerged from interviews with high-ranking British, European and American officials last week,
.. five senior British officials said, the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately .. The suspects had been working for months out of an apartment that investigators called the "bomb factory," where the police watched as the suspects experimented with chemicals, according to British officials and others briefed on the evidence, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, citing British rules on confidentiality regarding criminal prosecutions.
..
.. Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, described the suspected plot as "getting really quite close to the execution stage."
..
..
..
.. One former British counterterrorism official .. said several people .. alerted the police in July 2005 about the intentions of a small group of angry young Muslim men.
..
- quote -
Details Emerge in British Terror Case
John Reid, Britain's home secretary, took questions on Aug. 10 in London during a news conference about the suspected plot by terrorists to blow up passenger planes flying from Britain to the United States.
By DON VAN NATTA Jr., ELAINE SCIOLINO and STEPHEN GREY
Published: August 28, 2006
LONDON, Aug. 27 -- On Aug. 9, in a small second-floor apartment in East London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and its "accomplices," Britain and the Jews.
As it happened, the police had been monitoring the apartment with hidden video and audio equipment
Investigators say they believe that one of the leaders of the group, an unemployed man in his 20's who was living in a modest apartment on government benefits, kept the key to the alleged "bomb factory" and helped others record martyrdom videos, the officials said.
But British officials said the suspects still had a lot of work to do. Two of the suspects did not have passports, but had applied for expedited approval. One official said the people suspected of leading the plot were still recruiting and radicalizing would-be bombers.
Another British official stressed that martyrdom videos were often made well in advance of an attack. In fact, two and a half weeks since the inquiry became public, British investigators have still not determined whether there was a target date for the attacks or how many planes were to be involved. They say the estimate of 10 planes was speculative and exaggerated.
In his first public statement after the arrests, Peter Clarke, chief of counterterrorism for the Metropolitan Police, acknowledged that the police were still investigating the basics: "the number, destination and timing of the flights that might be attacked."
"In retrospect,'' said Michael A. Sheehan, the former deputy commissioner of counterterrorism in the New York Police Department, "there may have been too much hyperventilating going on."
Armed with the tips, MI5, Britain's domestic security services, began an around-the-clock surveillance operation of a dozen young men living in Walthamstow -- bugging their apartments, tapping their phones, monitoring their bank transactions, eavesdropping on their Internet traffic and e-mail messages, even watching where they traveled, shopped and took their laundry, according to senior British officials.
Argentina , Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Libya , Lithuania, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sweden , Switzerland , Taiwan
s/Global warming/Climate change/ ...
Decoding the Windows NT Event Log message "The Data Is The Error Code"
..
.. * B=04 .. * C=00 .. * D=00. We first convert from HEX to Decimal this means from base 16 to base 10. * A = C6 = 198 .. * B = 04 = 4 .. * C = 0 = 0 .. * D = 0 = 0. The Windows Calculator is a good tool to convert from HEX to Decimal.
.. * B = 4 .. * C = 0 .. * D = 0. What we do not is add A + (B * 256) + (C * 65536) + (D * 16777216). * 198 + (4 * 256) .. * 198 + (4 * 256) + (0 * 65536) .. * 198 + (4 * 256) + (0 * 65536) + (0 * 16777216)
The message The data is the error code is a very confusing term to most people and
Lets work with an example:
This error message in the Windows NT Event log is telling us that the data bytes C6 04 00 00 are the error code. So how do we get the error code, and then what do we do with it when we have it? The 4 bytes that are listed are a LONG value this means that they can contain a value from 0 to 2147483647.
What we need to do is multiple the bytes to get the value in our case what we do is treat each byte as a different multiplier. * A=C6
Load the Windows Calculator. On the View menu select the Scientific option. When this view is shown, select the HEX option and type in the value C6. To convert to Decimal simply click the Dec option
After the conversion we now have the following values. * A = 198
This will produce the value: * 198 + 1024 + 0 + 0. For our sum of 1222. We now have 1222 but what does it mean? What we do next is load a command prompt by selecting the START Menu and select RUN and enter the filename CMD.EXE
At the command prompt we type in the following: NET HELPMSG 1222 Note: There is a space between NET and HELPMSG. So we see that the error message returned is The network is not present or not started.
- unquote -
I'm glad Windows isn't as obscure as that command line driven Linux
was Re:Better Idea...
"Suppose I submit a firewall for testing that consists of a screening router with a default set of rules that block all traffic except outgoing WWW?"
"and can't do it on a per-program basis"
What you are refering to is an application-level firewall. Software or personal firewalls are no subsitute for embedded standalone solutions as when the users personal system is compromised, all bets are off.
Security was originally part of the Windows NT design. But was sucessively compromised by the co-mingling of application and OS functionality.
They weren't out to weaken security, what they were about was locking out third party apps and to speed up Windows. The best known being the welding of Internet Explorer to the OS and moving user graphic routines into kernel space. The first leads to the click and infect feeture and the second allows a user process to exploit a buggy gui routine to achieve account promotion.
Welcome to the trenches
Anti-virus: Is only as good as the threats it knows about. It takes only one unknown virus to compromise your system. This is known as default permit, a bad idea as distinct from default deny.
anti-spam: Design an email system that has built in encryption and authentication.
Obviously OS X is more secure, the reasons being its roots in BSD Unix.
As for the patent it is of course totally uninventive, obvious, there is prior art and any skilled person would have come up the the same thing without reading the method.
When are they going to fix that crock known as the US patent system?
"If you had any doubts about whether oddly personal questions were asked by SCO's attorney, which IBM complained to Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells about, read from page 117" - Groklaw
- quote -
Q. Are you married, sir?
A. Yes, I am.
Q. Is this your first marrage?
A. It's not.
Q. How long have you been married to your current wife?
A. Eleven years.
Q. And what's her name, please?
A. Linda
Q. What's her last name? Is it the same last name as you?
A. It is now. Yeah. Her - do you want her maiden name?
Q. I just want to know if she goes by something else?
A. No. No hypenated name. No. She - Linda R. Wilson.
Q. And how many times were you previously married?
A. Twice
Q. Could you tell me the names of your ex-wives and when you married and divorced each of them, please?
Q. Were you ever subject to any form of reprimand of discipline while in the Air Force?
A. No, not that I recall.
Q. Have you ever been declared bankruptcy?
A. I have not.
Q. HAve you ever been a defendant in a civil lawsuit?
A. No
Q. You mentioned earlier thet you were once arrested; is that correct?
A. That's correct.
Q. All right. And is it correct that that was the only time you were ever arrested?
A. Yes
Q. Okay. And were you charged?
A. I don't recall that I was charged. I was released the next morning.
Q. Have you ever had a lien or a judgment entered against you?
A. I'm not sure. I'm really not sure about that.
from Otis Wilson's 2004 Deposition Transcript
was: Re:I sense some exaggeration
Show us a working model. Who are these independent laboratories and so on. Reminds me of around 2000 when someone was haulking 45MB bandwidth through a standard telephone line. You see they did this by eliminating the 'grass' or in other words the sidebands. A lot of people looked very stupid at the time and so will anyone who hooks up with Steorn.
Where are they now
http://web.archive.org/web/20010518000925/http://
I doubt any test on a 'production line' would have detected core components that were non-final. They mass produce bootable cds or boot from a master image server.
sounds like no end user organizations are using it yet' - dreamchaser
i ndows.server.active_directory/msg/f797472b226c029d ?dmode=source&hl=en
No it doesn't actually say *no* end users it says *most* and most does not equate to all. You should realize that most PR statements don't actually mean what the words mean.
"it basically said that in the part you left out:" - kjart
"None went to end users" - dreamchaser
The actual words are:
"Most of Microsoft's voluminous partner base did not have copies of SBS 2003 R2 in hand yet"
In other words some of Microsoft's voluminous partner base did have it. And seeing its a PR statement out of Redmond we can assume the reality is a lot more than a few got copies got out.
This fella seems to think he bought a new server that has the R2 edition on it.
http://snipurl.com/v9i1
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.w
No one has still replied to my request for an explanation of what non-final core components mean. Is this the same as bugs?
"Sounds more like someone made a build of SBS with one or more components from the dev branch instead of actual release versions"
Do you have any evidence that such a thing happened. Shurly there can only one dev branch what ever that is and wouldn't a newer component have less bugs than an earlier version. And finally are 'non-final core components' the same thing as bugs.