Perhaps I've missed something but isn't Yahoo usually not too fond of open source stuff? Perhaps they're changing their ways? Or maybe they just want to make Zimbra proprietary to kill any open souce competition? I guess time will only tell on this one... Yahoo exists thanks to Open Source.
It is still the poster child for FreeBSD. They started on FreeBSD and kept using it to this date.
I know it's pointless to ask things like this of the/. "editors", but the summary of this story is almost completely useless to anyone who is coming to the story cold (like me).
Would it have killed someone to have rewritten the submission so that it explained:
Who MediaDefender is
What the "leaked MediaDefender emails" are
What the "MiiVi story" is
Why I should care
?
I can go Google all that stuff and find out for myself, but why would I bother, if it's not clear to me why the story is important in the first place?
Slashdot is linking stories and inviting discussion on those stories.
You could click these showing up right under the "scoop":
Your Rights Online: MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusations 104 comments [+] IT: Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked 413 comments
So;
Who MediaDefender is ^^RIAA Attack Dog What the "leaked MediaDefender emails" are ^^Internal Emails of them What the "MiiVi story" is ^^^ Your Rights Online: MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusation Why I should care ^^^Besides obvious ethical reasons, this is "IT" aka Information Technology section of Slashdot.
You mean MediaDefender comes along and flags me as a suspect for downloading Linux? Fuck. Or do you mean downloading something illegal? If you install IP filters to your Torrent client and enable them, let your client logon to DHT while just sharing GNU/Linux, you will notice some very shadowy companies/IP Blocks trying to sneak your shares. Media Defender is just ONE of those companies.
I am downloading/sharing only legal and paid content and you should see the IP Filter circus I am looking at.
Is this a good time to mention that access to these internal emails was gained illegally? Sure, he was stupid enough to use the same password on different systems, but that doesn't mitigate the invasion of privacy. Those people were setting up thousands of ISP grade servers sneaking millions of downloaders private data. Based on common sense, sending trojan to child porn downloaders is completely ethical, why wouldn't be ethical to steal data from people who sneaks to kids computers and uses data to threaten them?
To this date, everything I shared was either given free (legaltorrents.com) or completely GNU (PowerPC linux stuff), it didn't stop them and checking my IP logs, doesn't stop them from sneaking in to DHT whatever and steal my private data served on good purposes.
I just noticed some another "anti" P2P company tried to sneak and check AmericasArmyOSX.dmg which is property of US Army and given for free. What they do with the data they get? For example, can't that data be used in some terrorist manners to figure which individuals are OK with US Army game? I don't think US Army hired someone to figure who downloads their game, it is already in their hands. Who hired them?
They may have invaded a single criminals privacy, what about the same company invading MILLIONS of peoples privacy? IMHO it is a criminal act to seed "decoys" and trap people. Is it OK to sell drugs on streets advertising them as individual/private company on purpose of giving the information to cops?
This story would mark the end of professional IT media. I have read some of mails randomly, it is some sort of Big media Watergate scandal of 2000s. All those large media companies show up either as customers or people who they demostrated their technology to. There is a media company asking their PIRACY data to decide which single they should release next.
Slashdot is not claiming to be a media site, it is a portal, it links to sites. If IT media is sold out, Slashdot can't setup IT sites just to link.
Check "The Register", there isn't a MENTION of "media defender" to this moment.
Does it have something to do with famous British record company which actively works/teams with leaked mail company?
MediaDefender Phone Call and Gnutella Tracking Database Leaked
The real news: People use Gnutella.
That is why you should always check "versiontracker.com", "download.com" top 10 for real life figures. They show the general population.
Limewire is a Gnutella client and always shows up.
I don't buy those "I hate MS Office" messages too, it always shows up on Amazon top selling software even Mac version.
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As an end user I went to Gimp channel and asked about the lack of 16bit colour support. All I got was "Because you didn't code it", I went furiously to adobe.com to order Photoshop Elements which, amateur thing supports 16bit.
I'm curious; what did you expect them to say? That it was a hidden option? That they would get working on it right away and have it for you tomorrow? Obviously if it's not there, it's because no-one coded it! I didn't use GIMP for a long time and I was seriously wondering if there is something like --enable-16bit-color while compiling etc, e.g. Mozilla's Apple Colorsync way.
If you download this, can you be trusted to be ethical with other data that's not yours ?
The bloom is on the fruit. I wonder if there are companies who are involved in posting stuff to Slashdot as AC or Digg.com with fake username just to change scope of discussion to something else.
Read the mails and see how they give a heck to your privacy.
real big. It is much more bigger if you get the mails yourself and check them. People are focusing on "funny" or "obvious" stuff, it is much more than that.
It is comparable to Watergate of Media in 2007. The entire large media industry.
There is a company asking for p2p data to choose next single of their artist. There are companies mentioned for "meetings", there are some DVD protection companies who are involved in this business... Anything you can imagine.
In fact people hating piracy and never pirated anything should check to choose what companies they should trust their privacy to, e.g. while buying online media.
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As an end user I went to Gimp channel and asked about the lack of 16bit colour support. All I got was "Because you didn't code it", I went furiously to adobe.com to order Photoshop Elements which, amateur thing supports 16bit.
What GIMP needs is also good treatment to people, especially on official channel. It is the problem of all open source apps, if someone treated like that, he/she won't even touch a byte of that code whether it is free or not. The focus should be people who can afford Photoshop but offering them something else so they choose to use/donate to project instead, not just because "it is free".
Part of the pain of using GIMP is having to load every module at start time, which can take ages. Highly annoying if all I wanted to actually do was view a JPEG image because GIMP has the file association.
It would be much better if the app tested to see if the module is loaded before proceeding with its operation and loading it if it's not present. Would no doubt save some RAM too.
As far as I know, every professional image tool does that. GIMP is not a viewer, e.g. people using Photoshop CS on OS X are also using/buying Graphic Converter to view and quick fix stuff such as EXIF.
Of course there could be a seperate GIMPView bundled with the distro.
Is the engine on GIMP seperate from GUI? If not, being Carbon on Leopard MAY MEAN (not essentially) 32bit,not 64 bit. On image manipulation programs it is big deal , one may need to work on 39 mpixel Leica image you know. The only maxed up (16GB) Quad G5 I saw was in use in professional photography.
There are lots of professional apps using WxWidgets so I bet they are working on it too. E.g. Vuescan, almost the standard on professional image scanning is using WxWidgets.
Also if you aren't on OS X developer scene, you might not know, Carbon vs Cocoa is almost a religious fight so there are lots of misinformation, e.g. Carbon isn't removed from Leopard, it is just lacking some features because of 64bit OS as far as I could understand as user.
"some patent disputes" as MS stole the technology from poor company, "embraced and extended" (since they know they will get sued) and bundled it to totally kill the inventor company.
That "embrace and extend" resulted in some horrible thing that today with 64 bit/multi core CPUs, filesystem/OS vendors/developers stay away from offering compress options... So, that text file which could be compressed in fraction of milisecond sits there and actually uses 100kb instead of 2 kb of space. The users are afraid to trust their data to compressed filesystem because of their horrible "embraced and extended" doublespace. I know people stays away from NTFS "compressed" flag because of their nightmares back in doublespace days.
Woah, looking like that time that IBM and Microsoft put together a team of the best and brightest to develop the next generation of operating systems: OS/2. They got all the way to when MS released Windows 3.0, with an API that didn't match with OS/2, and then IBM was maintaining the OS/2 2.x system while Microsoft was developing NT OS/2 3.0. Then Microsoft took all of that collaborative work, and made off with it, calling it simply Windows NT. There is more... As OS/2 had perfect, better than real Windows compatibility, nobody bothered to code natively for OS/2.
Same goes for its excellent DOS support which was ahead of any DOS that time. Its DOS support was doing amazing things. That 32bit shell even having Arexx scripting ended up being a DOS emulator.
Result? We all know it. That is why I am afraid of WINE, Cider stuff started to popup on Apple OS X. OS X deserves a lot better than Windows crap packaged in.app files. That is true even for games. It is years ahead just like Linux...
MS.NET 2.0 is not supported by Mono and actual real life applications using.NET framework needs 2.x.
I remember they (Mono guys) weren't even invited to a.NET conference by Microsoft and they begun porting Silverlight 1.x (which,2.x may do same tricks).
Redmond can do whatever they want, companies released "online office" stuff using open standards such as Java already. Also there is the unbelievable speed bump even on home networks and people have already started using stuff via VPN/VNC.
MS is late, their.doc/xls dictatorship is in danger and "almost chap 11 but saved" companies and people they bribe won't matter.
I started to wonder why open source community didn't start to boycott Novell/Suse? Suse before Novell was a highly prestigious, expensive but really serious enterprise/professional Linux. Their power didn't come from special "agreements" with Microsoft.
If it is "enterprise"- there is Redhat there, they don't make patent agreements with Microsoft 24/7 and they don't spare their resources to port MS crap to Linux.
However MS's FUD campaign continues day after day unabated, still sloshing around concerns about patents and other IP. Don't know about you, but if an unstable individual who you know always carries around a loaded shotgun and has used it in the past on others, I think it's reasonable to be concerned when he is constantly pointing it at you and making threats. And we all know how unstable Balmer is... Especially when there are chairs in the room. Well there is a more "unstable" and really business wise company nick named "Big Blue" and while some slashdot idiots make racist remarks about Chinese developers, they have put their weight behind open office.
OS X, de facto standard on DTP is getting a native Open Office in months thanks to Sun, another credible giant on business scene.
GNU.org openly suggests people to some "say no to that format" poll (my URL)
Icaza/Suse against Sun, IBM and (possibly) Apple. Oh lets not forget Governments, they are completely sick about MS Office and its formats.
Yes, OOXML might not be great enough to be the end of all our problems; but look at it for what it is. More interoptability with Microsoft software than has ever been given to us before, if we destroy this we'll be back to looking at.xls files in a hex editor.
Take this one for the team, we can get a properly documented and designed spec to win the war later on when the depandancy on Microsoft has been weakened by OOXML. Can you open a.doc file on Linux without any kind of reverse engineered (and great) code such as antiword or openoffice/abiword?
Why? That $400 package shouldn't have "MS Word Viewer for Linux"? Why it sounds impossible? Because they HATE your OS. They don't even bother releasing a version for OS X. Now these guys claim they found the light or something and claim they are releasing open standard.
Do you really believe this?
Apologies to other OS users but if we speak about OS X, it is the king on DTP. It is _de facto_ standard. It doesn't have MS Word viewer. MS got a huge Mac department (largest SW company on Mac scene) and they can't be bothered to release Word Viewer, a stinky shell for their already written framework.
They were alarmed about open office/formats and they are releasing a so called open file format which people will still prefer the God damn Word 97 or 2k format. Why? Basic: The MS Office "Save As" dialogues will show it as default. Wanna bet?:)
So-called "open source leaders" are often experts only on the software they are developing; their opinions on anything other software, legal issues, politics are worth no more and no less than those of anybody else.
When they have a case of foot-in-mouth, unfortunately, they hurt not just themselves but also the projects they are responsible for. Miguel's silly statements about OOXML now add yet more suspicions to the Mono project and its relations to Microsoft and give other people and companies ammunition for FUD.
So, Miguel, Linus, etc.: please stick to using your name and reputation for talking about the projects you're responsible for and are clearly experts on. You do everybody a favor if you post other opinions or rants under a pseudonym. I credit "GNU" as a credible organisation who started the open source themselves (or got it back to life).
Their front page (gnu.org) says:
"Sign a petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard"
Miguel says it is "superb" standard.
I am wondering when will Gnome guys distance themselves from that guy since there are people who doesn't touch Gnome because of its "inventor". Some people started to expect.NET and Silverlight bindings in Gnome code, it is that serious.
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The interface and concept Zimbra and Thinkfree.com offers is the future of Office IMHO.
They just need more advanced web browsers and/or java.
It is still the poster child for FreeBSD. They started on FreeBSD and kept using it to this date.
They are offering free open source SDKs etc on http://developer.yahoo.com/
They certainly have a problem in PR department if a slashdot user thinks Yahoo is not fond of open source.
I wouldn't touch that junk format named WMA, horrible audio quality.
Yes, not even "free", no WMA can make into this computer or any of my devices.
AC's right. They block all of the major web e-mail providers.
Can you blame them after this story? Guy forwarded entire company communications to Gmail! God knows why...I know it's pointless to ask things like this of the /. "editors", but the summary of this story is almost completely useless to anyone who is coming to the story cold (like me).
Would it have killed someone to have rewritten the submission so that it explained:
?
I can go Google all that stuff and find out for myself, but why would I bother, if it's not clear to me why the story is important in the first place?
Slashdot is linking stories and inviting discussion on those stories.You could click these showing up right under the "scoop":
Your Rights Online: MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusations 104 comments
[+] IT: Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked 413 comments
So;
Who MediaDefender is
^^RIAA Attack Dog
What the "leaked MediaDefender emails" are
^^Internal Emails of them
What the "MiiVi story" is
^^^ Your Rights Online: MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusation
Why I should care
^^^Besides obvious ethical reasons, this is "IT" aka Information Technology section of Slashdot.
CNET refuses to handle this story? Fine, I got the original mails in hand, I make my own story and post it some blog site.
I am downloading/sharing only legal and paid content and you should see the IP Filter circus I am looking at.
To this date, everything I shared was either given free (legaltorrents.com) or completely GNU (PowerPC linux stuff), it didn't stop them and checking my IP logs, doesn't stop them from sneaking in to DHT whatever and steal my private data served on good purposes.
I just noticed some another "anti" P2P company tried to sneak and check AmericasArmyOSX.dmg which is property of US Army and given for free. What they do with the data they get? For example, can't that data be used in some terrorist manners to figure which individuals are OK with US Army game? I don't think US Army hired someone to figure who downloads their game, it is already in their hands. Who hired them?
They may have invaded a single criminals privacy, what about the same company invading MILLIONS of peoples privacy? IMHO it is a criminal act to seed "decoys" and trap people. Is it OK to sell drugs on streets advertising them as individual/private company on purpose of giving the information to cops?
This story would mark the end of professional IT media. I have read some of mails randomly, it is some sort of Big media Watergate scandal of 2000s. All those large media companies show up either as customers or people who they demostrated their technology to. There is a media company asking their PIRACY data to decide which single they should release next.
Slashdot is not claiming to be a media site, it is a portal, it links to sites. If IT media is sold out, Slashdot can't setup IT sites just to link.
Check "The Register", there isn't a MENTION of "media defender" to this moment.
Does it have something to do with famous British record company which actively works/teams with leaked mail company?
This is much more than Anti-P2P.
The real news: People use Gnutella.
That is why you should always check "versiontracker.com", "download.com" top 10 for real life figures. They show the general population.Limewire is a Gnutella client and always shows up.
I don't buy those "I hate MS Office" messages too, it always shows up on Amazon top selling software even Mac version.
So I was really expecting a hidden option
The bloom is on the fruit. I wonder if there are companies who are involved in posting stuff to Slashdot as AC or Digg.com with fake username just to change scope of discussion to something else.
Read the mails and see how they give a heck to your privacy.
real big. It is much more bigger if you get the mails yourself and check them. People are focusing on "funny" or "obvious" stuff, it is much more than that.
It is comparable to Watergate of Media in 2007. The entire large media industry.
There is a company asking for p2p data to choose next single of their artist. There are companies mentioned for "meetings", there are some DVD protection companies who are involved in this business... Anything you can imagine.
In fact people hating piracy and never pirated anything should check to choose what companies they should trust their privacy to, e.g. while buying online media.
As an end user I went to Gimp channel and asked about the lack of 16bit colour support. All I got was "Because you didn't code it", I went furiously to adobe.com to order Photoshop Elements which, amateur thing supports 16bit.
What GIMP needs is also good treatment to people, especially on official channel. It is the problem of all open source apps, if someone treated like that, he/she won't even touch a byte of that code whether it is free or not. The focus should be people who can afford Photoshop but offering them something else so they choose to use/donate to project instead, not just because "it is free".
Part of the pain of using GIMP is having to load every module at start time, which can take ages. Highly annoying if all I wanted to actually do was view a JPEG image because GIMP has the file association.
It would be much better if the app tested to see if the module is loaded before proceeding with its operation and loading it if it's not present. Would no doubt save some RAM too.
As far as I know, every professional image tool does that. GIMP is not a viewer, e.g. people using Photoshop CS on OS X are also using/buying Graphic Converter to view and quick fix stuff such as EXIF.Of course there could be a seperate GIMPView bundled with the distro.
Is the engine on GIMP seperate from GUI? If not, being Carbon on Leopard MAY MEAN (not essentially) 32bit,not 64 bit. On image manipulation programs it is big deal , one may need to work on 39 mpixel Leica image you know. The only maxed up (16GB) Quad G5 I saw was in use in professional photography.
http://www.carbondev.com/site/?page=64-bit+Carbon
Trolltech (Qt) is rewriting Qt in Cocoa for that reason.
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-06-19.6756913411
There are lots of professional apps using WxWidgets so I bet they are working on it too. E.g. Vuescan, almost the standard on professional image scanning is using WxWidgets.
Also if you aren't on OS X developer scene, you might not know, Carbon vs Cocoa is almost a religious fight so there are lots of misinformation, e.g. Carbon isn't removed from Leopard, it is just lacking some features because of 64bit OS as far as I could understand as user.
"some patent disputes" as MS stole the technology from poor company, "embraced and extended" (since they know they will get sued) and bundled it to totally kill the inventor company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics
That "embrace and extend" resulted in some horrible thing that today with 64 bit/multi core CPUs, filesystem/OS vendors/developers stay away from offering compress options... So, that text file which could be compressed in fraction of milisecond sits there and actually uses 100kb instead of 2 kb of space. The users are afraid to trust their data to compressed filesystem because of their horrible "embraced and extended" doublespace. I know people stays away from NTFS "compressed" flag because of their nightmares back in doublespace days.
I laughed at that video but when I checked the other offerings when that junk making mouse big deal shipped, I got plain sad....
DOS 5 released in 1991...
First of all- Amiga 3000 exists (1 year old) and 1200/4000 ships 1 year later.
Apple already shipped System 7 featuring these:
Cooperative multitasking, virtual memory, personal file sharing, QuickTime, and QuickDraw 3D.
People have actually chosen that backwards junk over these offerings and technologies.
Same goes for its excellent DOS support which was ahead of any DOS that time. Its DOS support was doing amazing things. That 32bit shell even having Arexx scripting ended up being a DOS emulator.
Result? We all know it. That is why I am afraid of WINE, Cider stuff started to popup on Apple OS X. OS X deserves a lot better than Windows crap packaged in
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.msdn.com%2Fbrian_jones%2Farchive%2F2007%2F01%2F25%2Foffice-xml-formats-1998-2006.aspx&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0
Result: Failed validation, 132 Errors . That is how much they care about standards.
That is a "Blog", text/graphics only, coming from Microsoft they don't have to put ads all over the place.
That really shows MS attitude.
MS .NET 2.0 is not supported by Mono and actual real life applications using .NET framework needs 2.x.
.NET conference by Microsoft and they begun porting Silverlight 1.x (which,2.x may do same tricks).
.doc/xls dictatorship is in danger and "almost chap 11 but saved" companies and people they bribe won't matter.
I remember they (Mono guys) weren't even invited to a
Redmond can do whatever they want, companies released "online office" stuff using open standards such as Java already. Also there is the unbelievable speed bump even on home networks and people have already started using stuff via VPN/VNC.
MS is late, their
I started to wonder why open source community didn't start to boycott Novell/Suse? Suse before Novell was a highly prestigious, expensive but really serious enterprise/professional Linux. Their power didn't come from special "agreements" with Microsoft.
If it is "enterprise"- there is Redhat there, they don't make patent agreements with Microsoft 24/7 and they don't spare their resources to port MS crap to Linux.
OS X, de facto standard on DTP is getting a native Open Office in months thanks to Sun, another credible giant on business scene.
GNU.org openly suggests people to some "say no to that format" poll (my URL)
Icaza/Suse against Sun, IBM and (possibly) Apple. Oh lets not forget Governments, they are completely sick about MS Office and its formats.
I think I know the winner.
Take this one for the team, we can get a properly documented and designed spec to win the war later on when the depandancy on Microsoft has been weakened by OOXML. Can you open a
Why? That $400 package shouldn't have "MS Word Viewer for Linux"? Why it sounds impossible? Because they HATE your OS. They don't even bother releasing a version for OS X. Now these guys claim they found the light or something and claim they are releasing open standard.
Do you really believe this?
Apologies to other OS users but if we speak about OS X, it is the king on DTP. It is _de facto_ standard. It doesn't have MS Word viewer. MS got a huge Mac department (largest SW company on Mac scene) and they can't be bothered to release Word Viewer, a stinky shell for their already written framework.
They were alarmed about open office/formats and they are releasing a so called open file format which people will still prefer the God damn Word 97 or 2k format. Why? Basic: The MS Office "Save As" dialogues will show it as default. Wanna bet?
When they have a case of foot-in-mouth, unfortunately, they hurt not just themselves but also the projects they are responsible for. Miguel's silly statements about OOXML now add yet more suspicions to the Mono project and its relations to Microsoft and give other people and companies ammunition for FUD.
So, Miguel, Linus, etc.: please stick to using your name and reputation for talking about the projects you're responsible for and are clearly experts on. You do everybody a favor if you post other opinions or rants under a pseudonym. I credit "GNU" as a credible organisation who started the open source themselves (or got it back to life).
Their front page (gnu.org) says:
"Sign a petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard"
Miguel says it is "superb" standard.
I am wondering when will Gnome guys distance themselves from that guy since there are people who doesn't touch Gnome because of its "inventor". Some people started to expect