Then the company is trying to expand by putting this into other vehicles like humvees and helicopters. (why in a helicopter?)
Did/you/ RTFA?:) This is the helicopter bit from the article:
"Instead of having these bench seats, we'd have a light seat but have a battery pack like from a motorcycle, a squib, and an acceleration sensor. What would happen would be as the helicopter were falling out of the sky, and you sensed this high rate of acceleration, the squib would fire and . . . the seat would pre-position, be levitated, so that when you crashed, instead of having the instantaneous G-loading, the seat would have a more linear G-loading, to reduce the G's on the passengers or pilot."
Read it carefully - "you are protected from KNOWN MALWARE" that uses the vulnerability. Ie: standard AV response. They haven't fixed the flaw, but they are rolling out signatures to protect against known malware as and when it pops up.
Opening the door for truly wonderful joe jobs. This is really going to hurt - it's such a bad idea in so many ways that I don't know where to start. With the cost? The overhead? The abuse? The loopholes? Good grief.
Whats the incentive?
Do they pay me to listen to an ad? Or is this a way to add my number for a product I am interested on some website?
Er, no. Believe it or not, sometimes people really do see ads and want to know more right away or even *gasp* buy the product. That's kinda what advertising is for: its original purpose wasn't actually to annoy people, though that is a reasonable enough conclusion if you've only ever encountered web popups, I guess:>
For people like that, this is supposed to be a convenient and immediate way to contact the seller. Great. For people who aren't like that (ie: you) just ignore it the same way you can ignore the ad in the first place.
It'll happen, no question, and it will happen under the guise of national security. Photographing building sites==terrorist surveillance, you see - clearly you may be a terrorist who is looking for ways to sneak a bomb in, and photography must therefore be outlawed.
Even if you aren't a terrorist, the photos at your website may be used by one, so publication of, say, sketches or descriptions of the malpractice must also be outlawed.
With a bit of lobbying and some palm-greasing on the part of construction firms, can you seriously see that law/not/ passing? I can't.
Enjoy the rights while you've got 'em: you won't have them tomorrow.
It's not that surprising, really: an awful lot of geographic area is Arabic speaking. Arabic is one of the official languages of Interpol too, and has been for years.
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Correct. From TF..er...Map: "This map shows (in semi-realtime) ip addresses that are currently sending the most spam to Mailinator."
"Yes, Mr Sarbanes Oxley Auditor, I exposed my entire desktop computing infrastructure to a group of self-proclaimed hackers so they could uninstall spyware for me. Great idea, huh? Huh? Hey! Come back! I haven't told you about the foxes guarding the corporate henhouse yet."
I have a better idea. Swap some other commodity (like, say, money) for the same service, and call it an MSSP.
Well, no. You have to provide proof of purchase first. In other words, tell Microsoft where you bought the pirate copy (or PC with an unlicensed install). Having done that, you get the discount and MS gets to pursue a pirate.
Not the same thing: pharming DNS redirection so a valid URL goes to a fraud site, phishing attempts to get you to visit an/invalid/ site that/looks/ like the correct one. And keylogging is something entirely different.
Cute, but unfair - it doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't much methane, just that cows produce quite a bit.
How many terrestrial microbes would it take to create the same amount of methane as three cows? I have no idea, but I'm guessing the answer is in the ballpark of "a whole lot".
Not a whole lot in terms of earth's biosphere, but in Martian terms, anything is a lot more than nothing.
Your points are valid, and I do agree that more innovation would be welcome.
But I think there's room for valuable imitation too. Civ2 is a great classic game (superior to Civ3 IMO, but that's not relevant) and Freeciv has brought one of the real values of the OSS effort: extended it in new and interesting ways, with features that the original commercial version does not have.
So I agree that we need more new ideas, but I also think projects like Freeciv are valuable. One doesn't have to preclude the other.
I can get a legitimate copy of any top shelf PC game in Brazil now for about $10 US. The only difference is it comes with a Brazil manual and a huge sticker saying NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE OF THAILAND.
And what part of "not for sale outside Thailand" is not clear? It's not legitimate, it's a grey market import.
In Microsoft BSA-speke, it's a pirate copy. Bzzt. Thanks for playing.
...except that is completely misleading as an official statement, since Microsoft has just finished integrating the Windows and Office update facilities into "Microsoft Update". That "Office Update Web site" will no longer exist as a separate entity - that's been the MS strategy for months and months, something the spokesperson certainly would have known about.
Sheesh. I got the press release about this on Feb 2. It made some highly suspect claims, so I queried it with the PR, got a weak answer and declined to follow up the story. Basically, it's a product pitch for software that blocks rar archives as spam, nothing more. No different to any other mail filter product, in fact - they all allow file-extension filters.
Here's the release: > Hello, > The latest virus to cripple networks is the.rar archive..rar files > are similar to.zip files and include invitations to view > pornography. These compressed files carrying viruses easily get past > most commercial anti-virus products. Since so many computer users > are unfamiliar with.rar files, they're easily mistaken for > legitimate email. > Once opened, the archive typically contains an executable file with a > double extension, such as "foto.jpg.exe." The viruses themselves are > new and install a Trojan or back door on the user's PC. A recent >.rar virus is disguised as a patch from Microsoft Corp. > While most anti-virus vendors are scrambling to find a solution to > this new virus, Lightspeed Systems (www.lightspeedsytems.com) already > offers one to its customers. The company's Total Traffic Control > v5.02 enables users to define spam patterns for email with > attachments with.rar file extensions or any other new virus. This > stops the virus at the gateway until virus signatures are available. > > To learn more about Total Traffic Control v5.02, please contact me at > xxx-xxx-xxxx.
One claim I queried was to define the 'most antivirus vendors' which fail to scan RARs. In reply, they could name only one.
And then we have other dubious claims like the suggestion that RAR files are the domain of pornography and have no legitimate use.
So I discarded the release and declined the offered interview, though one shouldn't come down too hard on the vendor in situations like this: this is not the first time I've seen someone get it in the neck because of lousy PR.
The same thinking which means the company no longer releases patches. It now releases updates.
"Patches" implies a hole. Something broken. "Update" sounds like something good got better.
To Joe User, "update" is a LOT more encouraging than "patch", in the same way that "Patriot Act" is easier to swallow than "Government May Spy On Its Citizens Act".
They're not "disabled" - it's a trivial CSS hack as you said. The image is a 1x1 clear placeholder in a "theimg" which has its background image set to the real thing. Cut and paste that URL and you'll have the page image to view, save, print whatever.
I'm not really opposed - it's enough to stop most casual (ab)users, and makes it a clear and decided act to infringe if you really want to save the image.
Which is lovely so long as you aren't using tools like nmap, in which case you're screwed.
But hey, SP2 was always going to breaks some apps - MS couldn't please everyone, and if tcp sends over raw sockets was being abused by lots of malware and a handful of useful tools, well...
I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing, and I'm usually pretty rabidly opposed to ad tracking.
But I play MMOGs like City of Heroes. I don't think the game would suffer from advertising in obvious places. If anything, it would add to the "city" feeling - freeways without billboards look odd:)
And if the publisher (NCSoft in this case) tracked how many players had seen the ad (ie: had a viewpoint on it from within x distance), that wouldn't worry me. More invasive than that and I might protest, but within reason I think it's OK.
Obviously I'd like to see some sort of benefit. A reduction on monthly fees, better support, perhaps the ability to opt out of seeing ads.
"Marginal"? Google is marginal? Apache's 67.7% marketshare is marginal? You may have also heard of sendmail. Or bind.
Outside of background infrastructure there are Linux deployment stories on nearly a daily basis in IT press. Open your eyes - I don't think OSS is remotely "marginal". Still some way from "widespread", never mind "commonplace" or "ubiquitous", but hardly "marginal". Unless you have some new and interesting definition of that term?
Your no-risk analysis of CA's move is correct, I think - it probably also applies to IBM+Cloudscape to a degree. But painting FOSS as only existing in "marginal projects here and there" is clearly bollocks.
Critical mass, to my mind, will come when vendors start offering Linux versions of their software by default. I've seen a steady trend away from "oh, you have to use Windows/IE/Exchange" in product announcements (I cover security products - so there's a server slant to what I see), but it's not yet commonplace to have Linux support. Growing, though, and I don't think Microsoft is ignorant of that.
And because PJ works for them, the entire company is comprised of saints?
For all I respect PJ and Groklaw, this does look like a pretty grimy attempt by OSRM to stir up business. Just the headline gives it away: "Results of First-Ever Linux Patent Review Announced, Patent Insurance Offered"
I mean yes, there may be patent issues with OSS. Yes, it's good that someone did the research. And yes, it is important that someone have answers ready for when the CIO raises the issue. But there are obvious vested-interest questions about OSRM's research.
I'd like to see it replicated outside OSRM. Or at least some disclosure, with right-of-reply to OSS developers. Spill the beans OSRM: what are those 283 patents?
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Then the company is trying to expand by putting this into other vehicles like humvees and helicopters. (why in a helicopter?)
Did /you/ RTFA? :) This is the helicopter bit from the article:
"Instead of having these bench seats, we'd have a light seat but have a battery pack like from a motorcycle, a squib, and an acceleration sensor. What would happen would be as the helicopter were falling out of the sky, and you sensed this high rate of acceleration, the squib would fire and . . . the seat would pre-position, be levitated, so that when you crashed, instead of having the instantaneous G-loading, the seat would have a more linear G-loading, to reduce the G's on the passengers or pilot."
Read it carefully - "you are protected from KNOWN MALWARE" that uses the vulnerability. Ie: standard AV response. They haven't fixed the flaw, but they are rolling out signatures to protect against known malware as and when it pops up.
Opening the door for truly wonderful joe jobs. This is really going to hurt - it's such a bad idea in so many ways that I don't know where to start. With the cost? The overhead? The abuse? The loopholes? Good grief.
Illegal? Not at all. This is what the media does, and why a free and independent media is a valuable thing.
Whats the incentive? Do they pay me to listen to an ad? Or is this a way to add my number for a product I am interested on some website?
Er, no. Believe it or not, sometimes people really do see ads and want to know more right away or even *gasp* buy the product. That's kinda what advertising is for: its original purpose wasn't actually to annoy people, though that is a reasonable enough conclusion if you've only ever encountered web popups, I guess :>
For people like that, this is supposed to be a convenient and immediate way to contact the seller. Great. For people who aren't like that (ie: you) just ignore it the same way you can ignore the ad in the first place.
It'll happen, no question, and it will happen under the guise of national security. Photographing building sites==terrorist surveillance, you see - clearly you may be a terrorist who is looking for ways to sneak a bomb in, and photography must therefore be outlawed.
/not/ passing? I can't.
Even if you aren't a terrorist, the photos at your website may be used by one, so publication of, say, sketches or descriptions of the malpractice must also be outlawed.
With a bit of lobbying and some palm-greasing on the part of construction firms, can you seriously see that law
Enjoy the rights while you've got 'em: you won't have them tomorrow.
It's not that surprising, really: an awful lot of geographic area is Arabic speaking. Arabic is one of the official languages of Interpol too, and has been for years.
Correct. From TF..er...Map: "This map shows (in semi-realtime) ip addresses that are currently sending the most spam to Mailinator."
"Yes, Mr Sarbanes Oxley Auditor, I exposed my entire desktop computing infrastructure to a group of self-proclaimed hackers so they could uninstall spyware for me. Great idea, huh? Huh? Hey! Come back! I haven't told you about the foxes guarding the corporate henhouse yet."
I have a better idea. Swap some other commodity (like, say, money) for the same service, and call it an MSSP.
Well, no. You have to provide proof of purchase first. In other words, tell Microsoft where you bought the pirate copy (or PC with an unlicensed install). Having done that, you get the discount and MS gets to pursue a pirate.
> For example, Bounds checking gcc (that website is down right now
w ww-ala.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html
Archive.org has a mirror:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040611220045/http://
Not the same thing: pharming DNS redirection so a valid URL goes to a fraud site, phishing attempts to get you to visit an /invalid/ site that /looks/ like the correct one. And keylogging is something entirely different.
More here.
All fraud/identity theft, but different in practice.
Trend's had some cross-product bugs in virus software before
But then so has McAfee and CA, (though the last was a licensing component at fault).
There definitely does seem to be an increasing trend in vulnerable AV software at the moment.
Cute, but unfair - it doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't much methane, just that cows produce quite a bit.
How many terrestrial microbes would it take to create the same amount of methane as three cows? I have no idea, but I'm guessing the answer is in the ballpark of "a whole lot".
Not a whole lot in terms of earth's biosphere, but in Martian terms, anything is a lot more than nothing.
Your points are valid, and I do agree that more innovation would be welcome.
But I think there's room for valuable imitation too. Civ2 is a great classic game (superior to Civ3 IMO, but that's not relevant) and Freeciv has brought one of the real values of the OSS effort: extended it in new and interesting ways, with features that the original commercial version does not have.
So I agree that we need more new ideas, but I also think projects like Freeciv are valuable. One doesn't have to preclude the other.
And what part of "not for sale outside Thailand" is not clear? It's not legitimate, it's a grey market import.
In Microsoft BSA-speke, it's a pirate copy. Bzzt. Thanks for playing.
...except that is completely misleading as an official statement, since Microsoft has just finished integrating the Windows and Office update facilities into "Microsoft Update". That "Office Update Web site" will no longer exist as a separate entity - that's been the MS strategy for months and months, something the spokesperson certainly would have known about.
Sheesh. I got the press release about this on Feb 2. It made some highly suspect claims, so I queried it with the PR, got a weak answer and declined to follow up the story. Basically, it's a product pitch for software that blocks rar archives as spam, nothing more. No different to any other mail filter product, in fact - they all allow file-extension filters.
.rar archive. .rar files .zip files and include invitations to view .rar files, they're easily mistaken for .rar virus is disguised as a patch from Microsoft Corp. .rar file extensions or any other new virus. This
Here's the release:
> Hello,
> The latest virus to cripple networks is the
> are similar to
> pornography. These compressed files carrying viruses easily get past
> most commercial anti-virus products. Since so many computer users
> are unfamiliar with
> legitimate email.
> Once opened, the archive typically contains an executable file with a
> double extension, such as "foto.jpg.exe." The viruses themselves are
> new and install a Trojan or back door on the user's PC. A recent
>
> While most anti-virus vendors are scrambling to find a solution to
> this new virus, Lightspeed Systems (www.lightspeedsytems.com) already
> offers one to its customers. The company's Total Traffic Control
> v5.02 enables users to define spam patterns for email with
> attachments with
> stops the virus at the gateway until virus signatures are available.
>
> To learn more about Total Traffic Control v5.02, please contact me at
> xxx-xxx-xxxx.
One claim I queried was to define the 'most antivirus vendors' which fail to scan RARs. In reply, they could name only one.
And then we have other dubious claims like the suggestion that RAR files are the domain of pornography and have no legitimate use.
So I discarded the release and declined the offered interview, though one shouldn't come down too hard on the vendor in situations like this: this is not the first time I've seen someone get it in the neck because of lousy PR.
Welcome to Microsoft Goodspeak.
The same thinking which means the company no longer releases patches. It now releases updates.
"Patches" implies a hole. Something broken. "Update" sounds like something good got better.
To Joe User, "update" is a LOT more encouraging than "patch", in the same way that "Patriot Act" is easier to swallow than "Government May Spy On Its Citizens Act".
Orwell was right again.
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I'm not really opposed - it's enough to stop most casual (ab)users, and makes it a clear and decided act to infringe if you really want to save the image.
Which is lovely so long as you aren't using tools like nmap, in which case you're screwed.
But hey, SP2 was always going to breaks some apps - MS couldn't please everyone, and if tcp sends over raw sockets was being abused by lots of malware and a handful of useful tools, well...
I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing, and I'm usually pretty rabidly opposed to ad tracking.
:)
But I play MMOGs like City of Heroes. I don't think the game would suffer from advertising in obvious places. If anything, it would add to the "city" feeling - freeways without billboards look odd
And if the publisher (NCSoft in this case) tracked how many players had seen the ad (ie: had a viewpoint on it from within x distance), that wouldn't worry me. More invasive than that and I might protest, but within reason I think it's OK.
Obviously I'd like to see some sort of benefit. A reduction on monthly fees, better support, perhaps the ability to opt out of seeing ads.
Outside of background infrastructure there are Linux deployment stories on nearly a daily basis in IT press. Open your eyes - I don't think OSS is remotely "marginal". Still some way from "widespread", never mind "commonplace" or "ubiquitous", but hardly "marginal". Unless you have some new and interesting definition of that term?
Your no-risk analysis of CA's move is correct, I think - it probably also applies to IBM+Cloudscape to a degree. But painting FOSS as only existing in "marginal projects here and there" is clearly bollocks.
Critical mass, to my mind, will come when vendors start offering Linux versions of their software by default. I've seen a steady trend away from "oh, you have to use Windows/IE/Exchange" in product announcements (I cover security products - so there's a server slant to what I see), but it's not yet commonplace to have Linux support. Growing, though, and I don't think Microsoft is ignorant of that.
And because PJ works for them, the entire company is comprised of saints?
For all I respect PJ and Groklaw, this does look like a pretty grimy attempt by OSRM to stir up business. Just the headline gives it away: "Results of First-Ever Linux Patent Review Announced, Patent Insurance Offered"
I mean yes, there may be patent issues with OSS. Yes, it's good that someone did the research. And yes, it is important that someone have answers ready for when the CIO raises the issue. But there are obvious vested-interest questions about OSRM's research.
I'd like to see it replicated outside OSRM. Or at least some disclosure, with right-of-reply to OSS developers. Spill the beans OSRM: what are those 283 patents?
Yeah?
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