Been to New York? Times Square? Right around 42nd street there's a bunch of consumer electronics stores with huge banners in their windows that say "Everything must go!" "Going out of buisness".
The amazing thing is these stores and their signs have been there for years and a handfull of owners take turns selling the store to each other thus making it legal to have a propetual going out of buisness sale for the times square tourists who think they're getting a deal.
As users of the internet, we're like a bunch of tourists. We pull into town with our browsers, drop off a little peronal data, and zip off to the next site before we remember the name of the site.
This is why:
1) By law companies should have attain my informed consent before collecting information from me.
2) The copyright and distrobution rights to my digital biography should remain mine untill I relinquish that right to a 3rd party.
When it comes to colecting information, think of your digital biography like loading a progresively interlavced GIF or PNG file. With a little information, a vague outline the picture becomes clear. On the next pass, as more data is filled in, some smaller details become understandable. With all the data in place, a complete picture of the persona life comes on-line. It's a picture of your life. You should have at least a little distrobution control. ___
Re: Some of us know what happened when the 'net finally scaled up but didn't adopt a security model that was newer than ten years old. It resulted in the most prominent email platform being attacked because it was vulnerable and really only had security scaled to a workgroup level. That's a failure of the concept of a free and open Internet, dude. You can continue to blame Microsoft if you want to play chicken-little. Some of us won't buy your B.S. though.
It's the failure of the operating system giving every script root access while conected to a global network. Data has been moved around via for for decads before microsoft unleashed their VBS (virus building system) into the hands of clueless users.
Make no mistake, ms had every oportunity to make sure their operating system more secure but they failed to execute, opting instead to dump an unsecured OS and script interperater onto the net that caused billions in damages. ___
The words interoperability, security, uptime, connectivity, cross platform are phrases that never into the minds of anyone at microsoft. Anyone who takes their mono-platform view of the future seriously needs to take another look at the internet and it's goals.
As an example of this, I just used last nights build of Mozilla and attempted to load this page (http://www.microsoft.com/net/). I got the message " The connection was refused when connecting to www.microsoft.com." They can't even get a server side referer script right, how can any right minded IT professional not look at their vision as just more useless PR.
On the issue of microsoft going forward with this horific idea, the unresolved DOJ case has their hands tied. Yes, they are in a strong position to exert their will onto the market, but they are not as strong as they would be if this case was resolved.
We all know what happened when ms took an operating system with a terible security model and unleashed it in the hands of clueless users . . it resulted in Billions and Billions in lost revenue and time when the ILUVYOU VB Script rippled around the world.
.NET - yes it's a vision, but so was Mein Kamph ___
Doubleckick and all other parties collecting tracking data should be (hopefully, someday under US law) seeking the informed constnt of all the people it's tracking.
I know some of you might be saying "But that would be to expensive!" and that's exatly the point. It should be a little expensive to collect what amounts to a digital biography of a persons life. ___
Re:"Corporations (and everyone) should be required to release the modifications to their source code every six months to a year, if the modified versions are shared with more than, say, three people."
You state problems that are all theoretical and have yet to be a source of conflict in the community and then recommend slowing the distribution of the source. Let's not get the cart in front of the horse. I say that given a reasonable understanding of software engineering and it's design principals/practices a court could "draw the line" in a manner that's reasonable to all parties in a conflict. I would agree that there is no shortage of thought experiment examples that one could imagine, but they are just that, imagined.
You're trying to solve a problem that you've failed to properly define. ___
$22/mo for 36 months comes out to $792 (+ 36.33 cent stamps to pay the bills making the total $803.88, but we'll round it to 800 to be fair).
Microsoft is giving you a 3 year, $400 loan at ~ 33%? Credit card companies can only aspire to rape consumers that bad. the FTC should step in against microsoft. ___
Re:"Finally, the most important feature that Word has is -- Word compatibility. Face it; Word is the defacto industry standard document interchange format. The other suites are pathetic when it comes to compatibility."
defacto industry standard? This is just bunk.
Who does this compatibility feature benefit? Think about that for a moment. Does it benefit the user to be able to share documents with co-workers? Yes. Does msword offer this feature? Yes. Do other formats offer this feature? Yes. Can they be used in the place of.doc? Yes.
So, continued use of.doc format only benifits micros~1 to the detriment of the user base.
Now I know where you get your viewpoints from and I know that you're an avid reader of ms rags (reads msBob power Dev monthly) and like a trained seal barking for food, you've been trained to spout the ms line whenever you can. What I'm asking you to review is who benifits from the continued use of.doc benifits and why. ___
You bring up some interesting points about anti-competitive practices and vigorous compitition. There's an old saying that "70% is enough" market share for a company to continue growth and if a company willfully and agreegesly seeks to exceed that number that it will invite monopolistic complaints. If I own a company and I have 10% share of the market and I use anti-competitive practices to grow that share to 20%, that's hardly "abusing a monopoly position".
Rambus does have a percieved lock on the market going forward but this perception does not translate into revenue streams untill they execute (which remains to be seen). As an example, in 1995 Netscape Comunications once had a percieved lock on the direction of internet technologies going forward. When they began to execute that percieved strong position, they drew the ire of a monopolist who pulled the rug out from under them.
Rambus could draw the ire of big Lou at Big Blue to enter into the RAM space and pull the rug out from under them. Anything is posible. ___
Re:Yeah but how come the price didn't go up in other parts of the country?
Because starting this May, the midwest was forced to change over to reformulated gas. It *will* happen around the rest of the country if Algore gets his way. Some of the price is due to pipeline maintenance, but more than 25 cents was directly atributed to RFG. ___
Acording to a research paper released by congress last week, 25 cents of the price increase here in the midwest was due to the requirement to use reformulated gasoline. ___
B) Every home in the comunity has a "open through licence" printed on the front door limiting the terms of use of that house.
C) When walking down the street, comunity residence are encouraged to give hail hitler salute while clicking their heals together and saying "Hail Balmer".
D) When residence of the comunity look out the windows of their homes, internitently the windows will turn blue with the text "this window has performed an illegal operation. Further use of this window will make windows unstable.".
When residence complain, microsoft insists that these new "variable tint windows" is an inovation of household engineering and nobody, not even the DOJ, can prevent them from inovating in this competitve window market.
E) At the comunity block party, Steve Balmer insists on drinking to much, and embarassing himself by pissing on Mr. Gates lawn. ___
CmdrTaco on 1:47 AM -- Tuesday June 4 2000 from the say it isn't so dept. CmdrTaco writes I've decided to change over to a Microsoft solution and deploy Win2k on all the web servers here. This is a very large investment, but I believe that this will lead to better security, better speed, and a better user experience for/.ers. In a related story, hell froze over and monkeys actually flew from RMSs ass. ___
To use a drug analogy, there is a difference between possession and possession with intent to distribute.
If I have 100 MP3s on a 28k dialup, I'm probably not worth the time and money to try and stop. If I had a 1000 MP3s on a 256k DSL line I might be a target, but if I had 10,000 MP3s on an OC3 line that may constitute "intent to distribute" and it would be worth the time and money to try and stop me.
The real question is, how to make yourself less of a target? If I was taking the same 10,000 MP3s and splitting them across 1000 IP numbers then, just perhaps, I might be less of target for this type of NetPD search. ___
Slashdot Mirror
The amazing thing is these stores and their signs have been there for years and a handfull of owners take turns selling the store to each other thus making it legal to have a propetual going out of buisness sale for the times square tourists who think they're getting a deal.
As users of the internet, we're like a bunch of tourists. We pull into town with our browsers, drop off a little peronal data, and zip off to the next site before we remember the name of the site.
This is why:
1) By law companies should have attain my informed consent before collecting information from me.
2) The copyright and distrobution rights to my digital biography should remain mine untill I relinquish that right to a 3rd party.
When it comes to colecting information, think of your digital biography like loading a progresively interlavced GIF or PNG file. With a little information, a vague outline the picture becomes clear. On the next pass, as more data is filled in, some smaller details become understandable. With all the data in place, a complete picture of the persona life comes on-line. It's a picture of your life. You should have at least a little distrobution control.
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That's a failure of the concept of a free and open Internet, dude. You can continue to blame Microsoft if you want to play chicken-little. Some of us won't buy your B.S. though.
It's the failure of the operating system giving every script root access while conected to a global network. Data has been moved around via for for decads before microsoft unleashed their VBS (virus building system) into the hands of clueless users.
Make no mistake, ms had every oportunity to make sure their operating system more secure but they failed to execute, opting instead to dump an unsecured OS and script interperater onto the net that caused billions in damages.
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this guy scares me
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As an example of this, I just used last nights build of Mozilla and attempted to load this page (http://www.microsoft.com/net/). I got the message " The connection was refused when connecting to www.microsoft.com." They can't even get a server side referer script right, how can any right minded IT professional not look at their vision as just more useless PR.
On the issue of microsoft going forward with this horific idea, the unresolved DOJ case has their hands tied. Yes, they are in a strong position to exert their will onto the market, but they are not as strong as they would be if this case was resolved.
We all know what happened when ms took an operating system with a terible security model and unleashed it in the hands of clueless users . . it resulted in Billions and Billions in lost revenue and time when the ILUVYOU VB Script rippled around the world.
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I know some of you might be saying "But that would be to expensive!" and that's exatly the point. It should be a little expensive to collect what amounts to a digital biography of a persons life.
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You state problems that are all theoretical and have yet to be a source of conflict in the community and then recommend slowing the distribution of the source. Let's not get the cart in front of the horse. I say that given a reasonable understanding of software engineering and it's design principals/practices a court could "draw the line" in a manner that's reasonable to all parties in a conflict. I would agree that there is no shortage of thought experiment examples that one could imagine, but they are just that, imagined.
You're trying to solve a problem that you've failed to properly define.
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o/~The girl with kaleidoscope eyes o/~
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$22/mo for 36 months comes out to $792 (+ 36 .33 cent stamps to pay the bills making the total $803.88, but we'll round it to 800 to be fair).
Microsoft is giving you a 3 year, $400 loan at ~ 33%? Credit card companies can only aspire to rape consumers that bad. the FTC should step in against microsoft.
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I heard the ms cans.net kicks ass
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defacto industry standard? This is just bunk.
Who does this compatibility feature benefit? Think about that for a moment. Does it benefit the user to be able to share documents with co-workers? Yes. Does msword offer this feature? Yes. Do other formats offer this feature? Yes. Can they be used in the place of .doc? Yes.
So, continued use of .doc format only benifits micros~1 to the detriment of the user base.
Now I know where you get your viewpoints from and I know that you're an avid reader of ms rags (reads msBob power Dev monthly) and like a trained seal barking for food, you've been trained to spout the ms line whenever you can. What I'm asking you to review is who benifits from the continued use of .doc benifits and why.
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Rambus does have a percieved lock on the market going forward but this perception does not translate into revenue streams untill they execute (which remains to be seen). As an example, in 1995 Netscape Comunications once had a percieved lock on the direction of internet technologies going forward. When they began to execute that percieved strong position, they drew the ire of a monopolist who pulled the rug out from under them.
Rambus could draw the ire of big Lou at Big Blue to enter into the RAM space and pull the rug out from under them. Anything is posible.
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maybe they should talk to Hemos?
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The new bride
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Because starting this May, the midwest was forced to change over to reformulated gas. It *will* happen around the rest of the country if Algore gets his way. Some of the price is due to pipeline maintenance, but more than 25 cents was directly atributed to RFG.
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Windows
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Because whiney treehugers like AlGore care about trees more than people.
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May all your little Hemoi grow up to be linux users.
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Acording to a research paper released by congress last week, 25 cents of the price increase here in the midwest was due to the requirement to use reformulated gasoline.
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"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the napster comunity?"
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B) Every home in the comunity has a "open through licence" printed on the front door limiting the terms of use of that house.
C) When walking down the street, comunity residence are encouraged to give hail hitler salute while clicking their heals together and saying "Hail Balmer".
D) When residence of the comunity look out the windows of their homes, internitently the windows will turn blue with the text "this window has performed an illegal operation. Further use of this window will make windows unstable.".
When residence complain, microsoft insists that these new "variable tint windows" is an inovation of household engineering and nobody, not even the DOJ, can prevent them from inovating in this competitve window market.
E) At the comunity block party, Steve Balmer insists on drinking to much, and embarassing himself by pissing on Mr. Gates lawn.
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So that's why the sky is blue.
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CmdrTaco on 1:47 AM -- Tuesday June 4 2000 /.ers. In a related story, hell froze over and monkeys actually flew from RMSs ass.
from the say it isn't so dept.
CmdrTaco writes I've decided to change over to a Microsoft solution and deploy Win2k on all the web servers here. This is a very large investment, but I believe that this will lead to better security, better speed, and a better user experience for
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I can use the apps for free. ;)
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If I have 100 MP3s on a 28k dialup, I'm probably not worth the time and money to try and stop. If I had a 1000 MP3s on a 256k DSL line I might be a target, but if I had 10,000 MP3s on an OC3 line that may constitute "intent to distribute" and it would be worth the time and money to try and stop me.
The real question is, how to make yourself less of a target? If I was taking the same 10,000 MP3s and splitting them across 1000 IP numbers then, just perhaps, I might be less of target for this type of NetPD search.
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