I couldn't help but notice the 4 banner adds per page they have on their site. Could it be that it's a vapor service just using the idea for clicks/impressions? ___
From the article: " Unlike other search engines that index only web pages that are available in WML, Google brings more than 500 million web pages to the palm of a user's hand. When a wireless user requests a traditional HTML page, Google's innovative technology translates the requested HTML document on the fly into WML."
"Unlike other discussion groups that only index technical specifications, Slashdot.org brings more of the real spec into the palm of a programers hand. When a Slashdot user requests a traditional ZIP technical specification, Slashdots' innovative users translate the requested ZIP document on the fly into TXT." ___
Hp makes me ill. Big hitech company? Pahha! They're goal is to come up with new and inovative ways to deliver ink. They are in the ink delivery bizz.
Just one little tidbit to put this into perspective: more than 60% of HPs total company profit comes from one thing and one thing only. INK.
These printers are just one more distrobution method for the ink. How much do you want to bet that the replacement cartrages for these TV printers are incompatible with any other. ___
"The front line of defence against such sophisticated viruses is a continually evolving computer-operating system that attracts the efforts of eager software developers, Gates said.
coninually evolving? Open source software is released early and released often. Not to mention it's free!
attracting eager software developers? Since MSs stock price has gone down like a white house intern, open source it atracing more venture capitol and eager software developers. ___
A quote from the talk:" Cast your mind back to 1987, and try to remember graphical workstations of that era. A 1- MIPS machine was the state of the art and one was lucky to have color on the desktop. Color, of course, was 8 bits with a palette. Those hotheads over at SGI were making noises about true color hardware, but for most that was not even a dream. Hardware acceleration was available, but frequently no faster than software, and a huge pain to code for.
ahhh yes, those where the days. When 256 was "real color!"
Frankly I think that most of Xs problems today is that it knows it's own history to well. ___
Re:"Having typed this review from the comfort of my bathtub, I can also attest to the Flexboard's resistance to Freeman Botanicals Apple Nectar shampoo as well as Dove moisturizing soap. Better close before I find out what it can't shrug off and get myself into even more hot water."
Moments after posting this story our beloved timothy did the one thing that will trash any system.
What's more is, with so many people using this particular bedrock neiborhood, wouldn't the stork mailbox out on the curb have a lot of junk mail in his beak? ___
I've read a lot of post here on/. arguing for one side or the other in this LUVYOU matter. Some say it's a bug, some say it's a feature.
The bottom line is this has caused more than 2 Billion dollars worldwide in lost productivity in less than a week and microsoft should be made to pay some kind of reporation for their actions. ___
Microsoft is partly to blame for the bug because the company puts a priority on adding new features to its programs instead of security, said Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure Oyj, an Internet security company in Espoo, Finland. ``It's a Microsoft problem, and it's hurting them,'' he said. Microsoft's Windows operating system, used in 90 percent of personal computers worldwide, includes scripting software that allows anyone to rewrite programs. Hypponen advises most companies to get rid of the scripting software for their employees who don't need it. " ___
Re:" In this case, it's impossible for a "malicious hacker" to simply toss in a match: users have to receive the matchbox, open the matchbox, be warned by their gas tank that the matchbox may contain a virus, and then finally choose to ignore the warning and light the match themselves."
As other users have pointed out this is simply false. With default settings, none of these things happen. What's more is micros~1 has gone out of their way to hide the ILOVEYOU.TXT.VBS extention from the user.
Making a mail client that automaticly runs a script when the message is previewed is not a feature. The decision to implement this bug is anolgous to leaving your gas cap off the tank. Parts of the operating system are volitile when fucked with and should be treated that way.
The fact is, micros~1 used their monopoly position in operating systems to bundle explosive tools (Lookout+VBscript+windows-security) that, in the wrong hands, caused billions of dollars in lost productivity and they should be held acountable. ___
To use a car anology, if micros~1 made cars with "Active Gas 7.0" and had a gas tank with no gas cap, the contents of the gas tank would only "become unstable"(boom!) when a "mailicious hacker" tossed in a match or the owner of the car was given a match from an "untrusted source" and the "Active Gas 7.0" Atomagicly exploded the gas tank before the owner of the car could say or do anything.
The problem is that micros~1 has no regard for the security of their users and has no security model between their mail client and their scripting language. The lack of even the most basic due-diligence performed by microsoft in this regard is abhorable and they should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. ___
Re:"A bug would be if some kind of mail client feature allowed the script to be executed on just opening of the message."
That's precisly what happens in the preview pane when this message is read. By your own definition, this is a bug and ms should be held acountable for their lack of security and using their monopoly position to force in complete software onto windows users. ___
To use a car anology, if micros~1 made cars with "Active Gas 7.0" and had a gas tank with no gas cap, the contents of the gas tank would only "become unstable"(boom!) when a "mailicious hacker" tossed in a match or the owner of the car was given a match from an "untrusted source" and the "Active Gas 7.0" Atomagicly exploded the gas tank before the owner of the car could say or do anything.
The problem is that micros~1 has no regard for the security of their users and has no security model between their mail client and their scripting language. The lack of even the most basic due-diligence performed by microsoft in this regard is abhorable and they should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. ___
Re:"Besides, with a backdoor, who's liable? If it's closed source, it's obvious. "
Is it so obvious? This/. story talks about who is responsible when closed source software fails. To quote:
"Kinda answers the old open source FUD question 'who you gonna sue if something goes wrong?'. According to the WA courts, nobody." The opinion is available here, and a dissenting opinion by two of the judges is also available. "
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT OR THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
So if it's closed source, you have nobody to sue. If it's open source you have nobody to sue, but you can fix it yourself!
I was just over at the yahoo site and got a new user ID for tonights chat session. If protest their decision to go after individual users and you'de like to create your own, here are a few sugestions:
I would agree that publicity is a wonderful tool, and should be one of the first choices in negotiations. If you're concerned about *bad* press, sign a non-disclose and make the results known public after the trial. Like tempered steel hardened by heat, the GPL needs to go through the fire storm of a legal battle to prove it's strength.
. ..and this is yet another reason (no legal action against nVidia) to bolster that opinion.
Listen to me Bruce. Get a VC friend of yours to set up a (very very small) startup company to compete with VALinux. Ask them to hire an engineer that intentionaly and knowingly violates the GPL repeatedly and take them to court. Think of it as an Alpha test for the GPL. Test it. Please. We beg you. ___
Thanks for the correction. wow, my spilling really sucks:) ___
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Just one small example to help put this into perspective. I'm sure you've all watched a progressivly interlaced jpg or gif image across the net. When you first start loading a progressive jpg, you can make out colors and perhaps a general theme, but no detail. As the image completes it's second pass, the theme becomes a little more clear and some of the detail becomes readable. On the last pass, the image becomes crisp and clear.
The density of the data being collected about you is similar. As the bariers to collection are lowered and the costs of maintenance keep falling, a complete picture of you and your life comes into being. Slowly, week by week, the density of data grows into a complete bio on you and the life that you thought was your own.
All I'm abdicating is a law that asks the keepers of this data to seek the informed consent of the people before adding the data to the picture. ___
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I'm sure no marketer set out to create such a detailed list and, I would agree that there's no mallice behind creating this kind of biography. They're not investigators, just advertisers.
But these lists do exist, and you and I are only one subpena away from having every little nook and crany of our lives exposed. That's wrong. The people seeking to keep a detailed profile/tracking data/marketing info/clickthrough should have to obtain my informed consent before doing it.
This would make it prohibitivly expensive to keep data in a random and ad-hoc way and give control back to the person who's life it tracks. ___
Slashdot Mirror
I couldn't help but notice the 4 banner adds per page they have on their site. Could it be that it's a vapor service just using the idea for clicks/impressions?
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From the article: " Unlike other search engines that index only web pages that are available in WML, Google brings more than 500 million web pages to the palm of a user's hand. When a wireless user requests a traditional HTML page, Google's innovative technology translates the requested HTML document on the fly into WML."
Given the recent concerns about redistribution of copyright materials, how does this contrast with the MS concern?
Could it not be said that:
"Unlike other discussion groups that only index technical specifications, Slashdot.org brings more of the real spec into the palm of a programers hand. When a Slashdot user requests a traditional ZIP technical specification, Slashdots' innovative users translate the requested ZIP document on the fly into TXT."
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I'm sure I'm not the only /.er looking forward to having the windows logo on toilet paper. ;)
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Big hitech company? Pahha!
They're goal is to come up with new and inovative ways to deliver ink. They are in the ink delivery bizz.
Just one little tidbit to put this into perspective: more than 60% of HPs total company profit comes from one thing and one thing only. INK.
These printers are just one more distrobution method for the ink. How much do you want to bet that the replacement cartrages for these TV printers are incompatible with any other.
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coninually evolving?
Open source software is released early and released often. Not to mention it's free!
attracting eager software developers?
Since MSs stock price has gone down like a white house intern, open source it atracing more venture capitol and eager software developers.
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ahhh yes, those where the days. When 256 was "real color!"
Frankly I think that most of Xs problems today is that it knows it's own history to well.
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Moments after posting this story our beloved timothy did the one thing that will trash any system.
Opened an email in Outlook. ;)
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121 Bedrock way
What's more is, with so many people using this particular bedrock neiborhood, wouldn't the stork mailbox out on the curb have a lot of junk mail in his beak?
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. .would companies fight so hard to sell to so many dummies.
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lol ok it's all yours .
Barney Rubble
124 Bedrock way
Bedrock IL 53012
Barney@Bedrock.com
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Iee-yiiee-yiiee
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Fred Flinstone
123 Bedrock way
Bedrock IL 12345
Fred@Bedrock.com
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The bottom line is this has caused more than 2 Billion dollars worldwide in lost productivity in less than a week and microsoft should be made to pay some kind of reporation for their actions.
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One of the quotes from the article:
Microsoft is partly to blame for the bug because the company puts a priority on adding new features to its programs instead of security, said Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure Oyj, an Internet security company in Espoo, Finland. ``It's a Microsoft problem, and it's hurting them,'' he said. Microsoft's Windows operating system, used in 90 percent of personal computers worldwide, includes scripting software that allows anyone to rewrite programs. Hypponen advises most companies to get rid of the scripting software for their employees who don't need it. "
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As other users have pointed out this is simply false. With default settings, none of these things happen. What's more is micros~1 has gone out of their way to hide the ILOVEYOU.TXT.VBS extention from the user.
Making a mail client that automaticly runs a script when the message is previewed is not a feature. The decision to implement this bug is anolgous to leaving your gas cap off the tank. Parts of the operating system are volitile when fucked with and should be treated that way.
The fact is, micros~1 used their monopoly position in operating systems to bundle explosive tools (Lookout+VBscript+windows-security) that, in the wrong hands, caused billions of dollars in lost productivity and they should be held acountable.
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The problem is that micros~1 has no regard for the security of their users and has no security model between their mail client and their scripting language. The lack of even the most basic due-diligence performed by microsoft in this regard is abhorable and they should be punished to the maximum extent of the law.
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That's precisly what happens in the preview pane when this message is read. By your own definition, this is a bug and ms should be held acountable for their lack of security and using their monopoly position to force in complete software onto windows users.
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The problem is that micros~1 has no regard for the security of their users and has no security model between their mail client and their scripting language. The lack of even the most basic due-diligence performed by microsoft in this regard is abhorable and they should be punished to the maximum extent of the law.
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Is it so obvious? /. story talks about who is responsible when closed source software fails. To quote:
This
"Kinda answers the old open source FUD question 'who you gonna sue if something goes wrong?'. According to the WA courts, nobody." The opinion is available here, and a dissenting opinion by two of the judges is also available. "
To clarify the issue, allow me to quote from: http://nl.linux.org/geldterug/license.ht ml
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT OR THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
So if it's closed source, you have nobody to sue.
If it's open source you have nobody to sue, but you can fix it yourself!
The choice seems obvious.
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. . .and this is yet another reason (no legal action against nVidia) to bolster that opinion.
Listen to me Bruce. Get a VC friend of yours to set up a (very very small) startup company to compete with VALinux. Ask them to hire an engineer that intentionaly and knowingly violates the GPL repeatedly and take them to court. Think of it as an Alpha test for the GPL. Test it. Please. We beg you.
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Thanks for the correction. wow, my spilling really sucks :)
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The density of the data being collected about you is similar. As the bariers to collection are lowered and the costs of maintenance keep falling, a complete picture of you and your life comes into being. Slowly, week by week, the density of data grows into a complete bio on you and the life that you thought was your own.
All I'm abdicating is a law that asks the keepers of this data to seek the informed consent of the people before adding the data to the picture.
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But these lists do exist, and you and I are only one subpena away from having every little nook and crany of our lives exposed. That's wrong. The people seeking to keep a detailed profile/tracking data/marketing info/clickthrough should have to obtain my informed consent before doing it.
This would make it prohibitivly expensive to keep data in a random and ad-hoc way and give control back to the person who's life it tracks.
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