Except that if you're skeptical of the government on this one, then a picture of a corpse won't help your skepticism one little bit, or at least it shouldn't...
That is true, however they had better have taken pictures and put them in the archives. If they are going to lie, we should at least ensure that their lies are recorded and available to historians. A FOIA request to verify that there are photos, and they look legit, is appropriate.
Imagine that, somebody might subpoena you for evidence relevant to a legal dispute! Shocker! A subpoena is a legal process and is not an invasion of your privacy. If you don't want it coming up in a court room, do not do it, say it, or write it down somewhere. Is this hard to grasp?
I see you're faith in lawyers and the legal system has yet to be tested in court.
you probably know this, but database copyright does exist in some countries. This probably doesn't help as any legal action would likely end up occurring in the US, which doesn't protect database rights. Usually database rights are stupid, and unnecessarily limit innovation. The problem with Bing's action is that Microsoft hasn't been telling the consumer that they are sending their Google search data to Microsoft.
Wikileaks doesn't do the journalism; they provide the inaccessible raw data and worldwide reader attention that allow journalists to do their job in an environment where their employers would prefer to see more articles about celebrities.
You do own it, in that your representatives can change the NASA policies about patents. NASA auctioning these patents means they put towards funding more R&D, which you will own and benefit from.
I sort of hope they do, because the way Apple plays things, you'd know at the next "big thing" event we'd get a less bloated, faster Photoshop clone. Honestly, Apple could probably merge Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign into one speedy app: iDesign.
If it was industrial sabotage, they would have intentionally used old published news stories to make it appear that one nation targeting another nation. Nothing influences government purchasing policies like national security.
As always, (anti-virus) protection companies have the most to gain from unprecedented attacks, so they get my vote. This attack gave them a whole new market begging for servitude. And the potentially infected installations are unlikely to publicly say that their billion dollar hardware was screwed up, if they can at all avoid it, and the payload sounds like it gives them a nice option: wear and tear.
If the source of the worm is a group or individual, they are either dead or set for life.
It is more like the difference between "I intend to kill you" and "Please kill yourself".
The difference is important given that this quote is being used to justify treating Iran as a sovereign nation run by a president capable of starting a nuclear war which would almost certainly result in its own annihilation.
I don't disagree that 'Unbreakable Linux' is the support program, and 'Enterprise Linux' may have been it's product name from the very beginning. However the GP is sort of correct too, because 'Unbreakable Linux' was a slogan used before distro was released (i.e. for their support commitment to fix any bugs in the database on Linux), and it was utilised liberally in the marketing of the distro, overshadowing any other name. The term 'Enterprise Linux' in the November 09 FAQ was always proceeded with 'Redhat'; an answer to this terminology problem is provided in the FAQ archived 6 days later.
No it's not. It's called "Oracle Enterprise Linux", which gets updates from the "Oracle Unbreakable Network" as part of "Oracle Unbreakable Support" contracts.
Governments can only do two things, tax or not-tax, offer a credit.
They can also invest heavily in research (like when they want to build a nuclear bomb, or put a man on the moon), and write laws to ban undesirable practises.
Does CERT publish all notices, eventually? I think they should have pre-determined release dates, which could be influenced on the vendors past history in resolving incidents promptly.
The flaw in this thinking is that it's not the developer who is ultimately harmed by a disclosure... and I rather doubt that the x-million users of the software will appreciate that you released the information for their own ultimate good.
The current users may not appreciate it, but then they may also decide to find a better vendor if they are more acutely aware of the time that the vendor has had to fix the problem.
"Not only the vehicles are unmanned, but they run on electrical power and the whole electronic pilot is powered by solar energy, making this trip unique in history: goods packed in Italy will be brought to Shanghai on an intercontinental route with no human intervention and without using traditional fuel for the first time in history."
Tavis Ormandy reported the bug to Microsoft on a Saturday and wanted Microsoft to commit to a 60 day timeframe.
On Tuesday (a patch tuesday, mind you) Microsoft told mr. Ormandy that they would be able to present a plan the upcoming Friday - i.e. 3 days later and 6 days after the bug had been reported.
Wednesday mr. Ormandy went public.
Microsoft *never* refused to commit to a timeline. They didn't commit to a timeline within 3 days, so 4 days after reporting the bug mr.
Ormandy went public. If he truly believed that 60days would be reasonable he could just have informed MS that he would go public exactly 60 days later...
That timeline doesnt look good. He should have waiting five days for a commitment, as recommended by the RFPolicy.
"Yeah hi, if you are creating your blueprints in a CAD program, it would save me time and effort if you sent me the blueprint in a vector format that I can import effortlessly into my workflow, and I can pass those savings on to you."
My customers sends a lot of blueprints as PDF files. I tried the alternatives because I think Acrobat is bloated, but the competitors had issues with printing. One printed everything as raster images and another one couldn't print anything at correct scale.
Have you tried asking your customers to send you their technical drawings in vector graphic formats? PDF can include vector graphics, but it is a horrendously complicated format that can include anything and everything, and usually does. EPS is a much more predictable interchange format that has quite a lot of software support.
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Perhaps the gibberish is created by a program he wrote?
Given the design of his OS, it may be unintentionally dumping crap into his online comments.
Except that if you're skeptical of the government on this one, then a picture of a corpse won't help your skepticism one little bit, or at least it shouldn't. ..
That is true, however they had better have taken pictures and put them in the archives. If they are going to lie, we should at least ensure that their lies are recorded and available to historians. A FOIA request to verify that there are photos, and they look legit, is appropriate.
Then only one company (at most) would have had Balmer as a CEO....
- a Microsoft shareholder
PS: and none of the mini-microsofts would have paid 8 BILLION for F'ing Skype!
It is comforting to know that even microsoft shareholders can see Microsoft is paying a lot of money to fuck Skype.
Imagine that, somebody might subpoena you for evidence relevant to a legal dispute! Shocker! A subpoena is a legal process and is not an invasion of your privacy. If you don't want it coming up in a court room, do not do it, say it, or write it down somewhere. Is this hard to grasp?
I see you're faith in lawyers and the legal system has yet to be tested in court.
you probably know this, but database copyright does exist in some countries. This probably doesn't help as any legal action would likely end up occurring in the US, which doesn't protect database rights. Usually database rights are stupid, and unnecessarily limit innovation.
The problem with Bing's action is that Microsoft hasn't been telling the consumer that they are sending their Google search data to Microsoft.
Wikileaks doesn't do the journalism; they provide the inaccessible raw data and worldwide reader attention that allow journalists to do their job in an environment where their employers would prefer to see more articles about celebrities.
You do own it, in that your representatives can change the NASA policies about patents.
NASA auctioning these patents means they put towards funding more R&D, which you will own and benefit from.
I sort of hope they do, because the way Apple plays things, you'd know at the next "big thing" event we'd get a less bloated, faster Photoshop clone. Honestly, Apple could probably merge Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign into one speedy app: iDesign.
iDesign is trademarked, heavily.
Do you have any evidence that registrars are accepting soft hyphens in domain names?
soft hyphens supposed to be eliminated in the Name Preparation phase.
The soft hyphen is being used by spammers to obfuscate their URLs in order to get past anti-spam rules.
This slashdot story appears to be misinformation and a plug for Symantec.
If it was industrial sabotage, they would have intentionally used old published news stories to make it appear that one nation targeting another nation. Nothing influences government purchasing policies like national security.
As always, (anti-virus) protection companies have the most to gain from unprecedented attacks, so they get my vote. This attack gave them a whole new market begging for servitude. And the potentially infected installations are unlikely to publicly say that their billion dollar hardware was screwed up, if they can at all avoid it, and the payload sounds like it gives them a nice option: wear and tear.
If the source of the worm is a group or individual, they are either dead or set for life.
It is more like the difference between "I intend to kill you" and "Please kill yourself".
The difference is important given that this quote is being used to justify treating Iran as a sovereign nation run by a president capable of starting a nuclear war which would almost certainly result in its own annihilation.
I don't disagree that 'Unbreakable Linux' is the support program, and 'Enterprise Linux' may have been it's product name from the very beginning. However the GP is sort of correct too, because 'Unbreakable Linux' was a slogan used before distro was released (i.e. for their support commitment to fix any bugs in the database on Linux), and it was utilised liberally in the marketing of the distro, overshadowing any other name. The term 'Enterprise Linux' in the November 09 FAQ was always proceeded with 'Redhat'; an answer to this terminology problem is provided in the FAQ archived 6 days later.
Oracle's pet linux is branded "Unbreakable"...
No it's not.
It's called "Oracle Enterprise Linux", which gets updates from the "Oracle Unbreakable Network" as part of "Oracle Unbreakable Support" contracts.
And yet their website and press releases use "Unbreakable Linux".
Governments can only do two things, tax or not-tax, offer a credit.
They can also invest heavily in research (like when they want to build a nuclear bomb, or put a man on the moon), and write laws to ban undesirable practises.
Yes, but they aren't going to be able to actually execute them.
When human causes of global warming start to become unmistakable, and are blamed for catastrophes, executing polluters will become common place.
There's an xkcd reference here, but I can't check it at work to get the URL.
Your work lets you comment on slashdot, but they don't approve of xkcd?
Broadband is faster than dialup.
You'll go far with definitions like that.
Does CERT publish all notices, eventually? I think they should have pre-determined release dates, which could be influenced on the vendors past history in resolving incidents promptly.
You owe the developer nothing.
The flaw in this thinking is that it's not the developer who is ultimately harmed by a disclosure... and I rather doubt that the x-million users of the software will appreciate that you released the information for their own ultimate good.
The current users may not appreciate it, but then they may also decide to find a better vendor if they are more acutely aware of the time that the vendor has had to fix the problem.
"Not only the vehicles are unmanned, but they run on electrical power and the whole electronic pilot is powered by solar energy, making this trip unique in history: goods packed in Italy will be brought to Shanghai on an intercontinental route with no human intervention and without using traditional fuel for the first time in history."
Microsoft *never* refused to commit to a timeline. They didn't commit to a timeline within 3 days, so 4 days after reporting the bug mr.
Ormandy went public. If he truly believed that 60days would be reasonable he could just have informed MS that he would go public exactly 60 days later...
That timeline doesnt look good. He should have waiting five days for a commitment, as recommended by the RFPolicy.
.. the logical next step for the industry would be to put security vulnerability reports in escrow, with an automated time release. ..
This is an amazingly simple solution. I'm surprised nobody has implemented this already.
"Yeah hi, if you are creating your blueprints in a CAD program, it would save me time and effort if you sent me the blueprint in a vector format that I can import effortlessly into my workflow, and I can pass those savings on to you."
It was put on a diet back in 2007. Has anyone tried this recently?
This.
My customers sends a lot of blueprints as PDF files. I tried the alternatives because I think Acrobat is bloated, but the competitors had issues with printing. One printed everything as raster images and another one couldn't print anything at correct scale.
Have you tried asking your customers to send you their technical drawings in vector graphic formats? PDF can include vector graphics, but it is a horrendously complicated format that can include anything and everything, and usually does. EPS is a much more predictable interchange format that has quite a lot of software support.
Which PDF competitors did you try?