I'm surprised that none of the other follow-ups mention mini-itx which have totally silent PCs apart from the ultra-quiet Baraccuda hard drive that goes in there. If you look at the Hush (amongst others), the CPU heatsink is connected to the case which dissapates the heat. If you put a Haupage PVR350 in which handles the MPEG2 encoding and decoding in hardware then you should have something that will comfortably sit underneath the TV and will also act as DVD player.
The problem is that your archetypical virus author is (from what I've seen anywayz) at least borderline sociopathic. They generally have no regard whatsoever for the consequences of their actions or the potential damage, and likewise are most likely not capable of even being affected by punishment...they can genuinely be *that* fucked up.
Doesn't the fact that the people being arrested tend to be aged 17-18 years old give you the clue that these are people who want attention, and are repackaging exploits NOT developed by themselves (but by black hats that are quite happy to publish anonymously but will keep a low profile themselves). We are talking about young kids messing around not knowing the full consequences of the actions and NOT Columbine style tragedies. Hence next response...
My own feeling with such people is that they should definitely be detained/locked up, but only so that they do not have the ability to reoffend. I would also advocate sending them to a psychiatric inpatient unit, rather than jail par se...because at least there they have some chance of treatment/rehabilitation. Putting them in the prison system would probably in actuality be less humane than killing them, at least as far as the American prison system is concerned.
You are insane in my opinion. Executing children because they experiment with computers? Absolutely starkers. Virus writers are learning the net isn't as anonymous as it used to be, and computer forensics are improving. The trend would have died down if it wasn't for Microsoft pretending their software was now 'secure', and launching the "Trustworthy computing initiative".
I've lost the past couple of days sorting out computers with viruses and trojans, and the next couple of days have to redo a site wiped out in a sad script kiddie 'defacement contest' where my friend had 4 years of work wiped out. Much as it pisses me off and costs me money, it's up to us to change what is cool and what isn't. Locking kids up for experimenting instead of trying to educate isn't the answer.
I find that my life is better when I beat my deadlines way ahead of time. I'd write papers as soon as they were assigned... I was taking a self-directed course where I was teaching myself some new (to me) programming languages. It was Spring semester, and in the first week I finished my entire semester's worth of work.
So you're the guy that everyone copies their homework off...
Oh, and I'm starting my own company so I won't have to put up with this shit anymore.
Then hire a damn good sales guy who will also act as account manager, otherwise you won't believe how much shit you will still get. Customers that repeatedly submit, "It won't work" as an error no matter how much you ask them for more details. Customers that will tie you up on the phone for a couple of hours wasting half a productive day. Chasing pitches wasting billable hours. Please learn from my mistake and make sure you partner with good sales. Just being a good geek won't cut it.
That is because grades should be a reflection of a student's mastery of the material, not how a student relates to their peers. There are classes where 70% is an A, not to get more students with A's but because that is the expected level of understanding. In fact, that class had less A's than most others with the typical 90% scale.
That is certainly only your own opinion. According to your theory there are dense generations followed by hyper-intelligent generations. This is, of course, not affected by the change in lecturers or course materials and difficulty. Otherwise how is a grade A one year compared to a grade A in the next?
In the UK they take a different stand. They assume that each year there isn't some hormone-induced genius-producing vitamin on the market and grade how a student relates to their peers. Mainly because that's what an employer wants to know. Unfortunately the government is pressed to increase results. When I was at college 3 A-levels was the norm and 4 exceptional, and an A was awarded on a bell curve to the top 20%. Now people regularly do 5 A-levels and grade A's are so common that years ago they invented the A+ and I hear about to introduce a new level (A++ I presume). It's degraded all the hard work of those before them.
The idea of grades isn't a self-congratulory pat on the back, it's for employers to determine the intellectual level of the student. Sadly politicians have been under-mining the system for years. You can't measure a benchmark unless you have a 'control'.
Is he still a Labour politician? After going begging cap in hand to Saddam Hussain to be a nice boy? I don't think so. Try his own web site which describes him as a former Labour MP.
I have two kids in elementary school and I was shocked to see how they teach math these days. Pleasantly shocked.
They spend a lot of time on grouping. For example What is 97 + 198? I was taught to add 8 and 7, carry the one etc...
They are taught to group the numbers, the instantly recognize that the answer is close to 300, then see how it differs from the 100s. 97 is 3 less, 198 is 2 less. Now add the 3 and 2, getting 5.
The answer is of course 300 - 5, or 295.
I find this method very intuitive.
I think they are showing the advantage of an early education. We did that at school (in uk) over 20 years ago. Didn't excuse us from having to be able to do it by rote as well. You learn the hard way and then you learn the short-cuts. The fact that your two kids at elementary school have advanced so quickly is something to be proud of. I wouldn't assume all the other kids in the class are as advanced though. I would also commend your teachers as these lateral thinking techniques will pay dividends in the future in all their subjects. On the other hand, if they advance too far in class they may end up computer scientists.
I actually thought about releasing some viruses, well trojans, would not of done anything on the massive scale as some of this virus, I was not that stupid. Hell, I could actually be in jail now and life screwed up over something like that.
Exploiting windows machines has never be challenging has not been for the past decade. The fact that some kid could wreck their life over a couple lines of VB code is kind of sad. I think it was genius on microsoft's part to get people to want hunt and track down those evil virus kiddies.
I'm going to skip my mod points and reply to this instead of a couple of other posts. Did he really realise the extent of the prank he was playing? You look at some of the unintentional emails that have swamped systems (eg Clare Swire 'your cum tastes yummy', etc) as well as satires that have swept the web in a few hours ('I kiiiiss you and invitate you to my home'). Or the more recent beheading hoax posted to the internet published on all the major news outlets including CNN. Something created as a lunch-time experiment has the potential to spiral well out of the creators control. I also hope that the court recognises teenages like to experiment and can't be held responsible for something I doubt they ever predicted would happen.
Fat language books are just, well, fat. I learned 98% of FORTRAN IV from a book about.75" thick, and my ALGOL 68 book is even thinner.
I learned all my C from the original K&R book, around the same thickness, and it also doubled as my only reference manual thereafter. It also appears to be the same price as it was 10 years ago.:-/ You won't get away with that so easily these days with languages containing huge amounts of built-in or standard libraries.
if they make it so I can sync with my P900 that'd be a big plus.
If someone could write a Sunbird plug-in for Multisync then you wouldn't only be able to sync with your P900 and many other devices, you would be able to seamlessly switch between Evolution and Sunbird.
I hope the OSS community can follow up in the ensuing media war that MS may unleash. It will be relatively easy for them to say "see, we had a solution for this but those non-IPR respecting open source zealots boycott it".
You are indeed a prophet. Three hours after your post, Slashdot post a story stating "'In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims,' warned Steve Ballmer. Very impressed.
Sendmail has to make money so supporting Sender ID is a good thing for them. They are packaging it as a seperate download so as to not encumber their main product with Sender ID's problems. This is how real vendors should deal with real problems.
Burying your head in the sand is how a real vendor should cope with problems? Perhaps you're right in this world where companies just want a quick buck, but a vendor with a long-term view to survival would be trying to forge an alliance to reject something that will inevitably ambush them later.
From the thread, if you import the image into Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel then the word FAKE appears in bold letters in the corner. Nice one.
If you get a domain wrong, the god damn browser should take you to google or whatever search engine you specified under some settings within your browser.
Its not like it would be that hard to do.
It is if Verisign returns a page which contains a code saying that the correct page has been found, but instead substitutes its own content (which is what it is doing).
Add my vote for Brazil. As for posts below, Alien is at no.4 and is on a par with Aliens, and Matrix is at no.9 (not missed off as suggested). Brazil is especially relevant today with its themes of the "war on terror" and also beaurocracy taking over the rights of innocent civilians. Robert De Niro is superb as a commando renegade 'heating engineer', and the satire extends from the anti-terror squad to plastic surgery to petty minded office-politics. Class.
There are far more effective solutions available here and here. In fact, you could get ahead of the curve for when people start trying to write spyware for Linux. Do a front-end to LIDS. Install it with a restrictuve ruleset, and then the front-end monitors the warning logs. If it detects something then it pops up a box saying "blah just tried to write to directory foo, do you wish to authorise this?". If the user clicks yes then add a new rule and restart LIDS. Obviously this isn't perfect as you would then have to re-run the command. It would be better to write hooks into LIDs itself for this purpose.
Although this is a great new technology, for a business setting, I don't know if even missing one e-mail is acceptable...
It says 1/25,000 were misclassified... that means it is more likely spam classified as legitimate as opposed to a false positive. The article doesn't state anywhere the rate of false positives. Now if it misclassified one email as spam for every 25,000 legitimate emails then THAT would be acceptable to me. Email has never been totally reliable. Even ISPs have a habit of deleting tens of thousands of emails in accidents.
The restrictions on food and drink are intended to ensure that only items made by official sponsors such as McDonald's and two Greek dairy firms are consumed at Olympic venues.
ROTFL. So whilst the worlds top atheletes in the peak of human fitness compete, the audience is forced to eat McDonalds? Oh the irony...
There are just a few maps that are repeatedly played (dust, dust2 and aztec being the main ones), despite the hundreds of maps available for free download, and the moment someone changes to something more original instantly there will be a number of players clamouring (ie spamming) for one of the ones they know well.
People like maps they know well as they can concentrate on outwitting the enemy as opposed to running around randomly hoping they don't run past a hidden alcove where they will be killed by someone they didn't see. The main maps have evolved into very balanced maps, each side having it's own set of tactics.
The incremental changes to the game is great. Each time you get comfortable they (a) add something new, such as smoke grenades or a weapon, to add spice, or (b) change a physical characteristic to level the elite and the n00bs, eg by preventing bunny-hopping. I'm looking forwards to the new physics characteristics whilst knowing that the game will still be my favourite CS.
A couple of days ago I deleted CS of my hard drive as I am on holiday on the French Riviera and I wasn't getting enough sunshine. Despite years of playing, the game is still totally addictive. I've vowed not to re-install HL but will install HL2 and the new CS:Source when it comes out. Hope I last out. I paid about $20 for Half Life all those years ago and it has been the best value for money ever. I'm looking forwards to plunking down my cash for HL2 and rewarding Valve for severely damaging my social life all these years.
You don't see a difference between a degraded one-off versus hundreds of millions of 1:1 digital copies?
I don't think you're average kid has an Internet connection that could serve hundreds of millions of copies. In fact the upload even on DSL is extremely limited compared to download speed. Here in France my DSL provider gives 128kb/s upload, which is 16KB/s. You mention that 320kbps is an acceptable speed. Assuming the kid wants to share a three and a half minute single, that would be a 8.5MB song. This means 8.75 minutes to upload one song. Even with a saturated link and requests queued up indefinately, to upload a 100 million songs would take 1,664 years.
As technology advances I know that figure will drop, but as it is today that kid at the ice-skating ring isn't pumping out 100 million copies even using what-ever p2p application.
TThere is one major flaw with everyone getting really pissed at the RIAA. Although I think their tactics are low and they are targeting the wrong people, they all have one thing in common. They are all committing illegal activities, and they know it. Although we like to think that just because millions of people are doing it, it somehow makes the action not quite as wrong, stealing music isn't legal.
When half the country is doing it, from politicians to lawyers to grannies to children, if the majority of people are now labelled criminals then possibly the law needs a rethink. After all the laws are there to serve the needs of the society it is protecting. Laws are not something handed down from God, they are a made-up set of rules which evolve to suit society. For instance, in the UK our society evolved and we decided to remove the law requiring the death penalty. The American economy didn't collapse when slavery was made illegal, despite the increased labour costs. It would be interesting if some people were to write a couple of theory articles on society in 5 years should P2P be made legal for all material today. The music industry wouldn't collapse, it would just adapt, but in which ways?
I think they hate lawyers more than most companies. They've been on the receiving end. [CEO Steve] Ballmer and [Chairman Bill] Gates have pride in the fact that their competition may have tried to crush them with legal wars, but they overcame.
I'm not sure being convicted by the highest court in their own country, and then by the EU, count as 'overcame'. More they thumbed their nose at the US government because they knew they were far more powerful, which isn't the same thing. In fact I don't remember them overcoming the Eolas plug-in patent either. Or Sun over their Java trademark. In fact the only things that threaten to crush Microsoft are superior products.
I think they would have a hard time using legal tactics. They would be ashamed.
The problem with large corporations is that "They would be ashamed" and "Acting in the interest of providing the maximum return to the shareholder" is often difficult to reconcile.
Take a Red Hat ISO. You insert an exploit in the kernel. Rank all RPMs from least used to most used. Take the current ISO as the initial random state. Start your 'randomiser' which progressively fills the ISO with random garbage. If you hit the hash with only breaking some never-used apps and obscure device drivers then distribute compromised CD. So I'd say 2 and 3 were the same thing.
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I'm surprised that none of the other follow-ups mention mini-itx which have totally silent PCs apart from the ultra-quiet Baraccuda hard drive that goes in there. If you look at the Hush (amongst others), the CPU heatsink is connected to the case which dissapates the heat. If you put a Haupage PVR350 in which handles the MPEG2 encoding and decoding in hardware then you should have something that will comfortably sit underneath the TV and will also act as DVD player.
Phillip.
The problem is that your archetypical virus author is (from what I've seen anywayz) at least borderline sociopathic. They generally have no regard whatsoever for the consequences of their actions or the potential damage, and likewise are most likely not capable of even being affected by punishment...they can genuinely be *that* fucked up.
Doesn't the fact that the people being arrested tend to be aged 17-18 years old give you the clue that these are people who want attention, and are repackaging exploits NOT developed by themselves (but by black hats that are quite happy to publish anonymously but will keep a low profile themselves). We are talking about young kids messing around not knowing the full consequences of the actions and NOT Columbine style tragedies. Hence next response...
My own feeling with such people is that they should definitely be detained/locked up, but only so that they do not have the ability to reoffend. I would also advocate sending them to a psychiatric inpatient unit, rather than jail par se...because at least there they have some chance of treatment/rehabilitation. Putting them in the prison system would probably in actuality be less humane than killing them, at least as far as the American prison system is concerned.
You are insane in my opinion. Executing children because they experiment with computers? Absolutely starkers. Virus writers are learning the net isn't as anonymous as it used to be, and computer forensics are improving. The trend would have died down if it wasn't for Microsoft pretending their software was now 'secure', and launching the "Trustworthy computing initiative".
I've lost the past couple of days sorting out computers with viruses and trojans, and the next couple of days have to redo a site wiped out in a sad script kiddie 'defacement contest' where my friend had 4 years of work wiped out. Much as it pisses me off and costs me money, it's up to us to change what is cool and what isn't. Locking kids up for experimenting instead of trying to educate isn't the answer.
Phillip.
I find that my life is better when I beat my deadlines way ahead of time. I'd write papers as soon as they were assigned... I was taking a self-directed course where I was teaching myself some new (to me) programming languages. It was Spring semester, and in the first week I finished my entire semester's worth of work.
So you're the guy that everyone copies their homework off...
Oh, and I'm starting my own company so I won't have to put up with this shit anymore.
Then hire a damn good sales guy who will also act as account manager, otherwise you won't believe how much shit you will still get. Customers that repeatedly submit, "It won't work" as an error no matter how much you ask them for more details. Customers that will tie you up on the phone for a couple of hours wasting half a productive day. Chasing pitches wasting billable hours. Please learn from my mistake and make sure you partner with good sales. Just being a good geek won't cut it.
Phillip.
That is because grades should be a reflection of a student's mastery of the material, not how a student relates to their peers. There are classes where 70% is an A, not to get more students with A's but because that is the expected level of understanding. In fact, that class had less A's than most others with the typical 90% scale.
That is certainly only your own opinion. According to your theory there are dense generations followed by hyper-intelligent generations. This is, of course, not affected by the change in lecturers or course materials and difficulty. Otherwise how is a grade A one year compared to a grade A in the next?
In the UK they take a different stand. They assume that each year there isn't some hormone-induced genius-producing vitamin on the market and grade how a student relates to their peers. Mainly because that's what an employer wants to know. Unfortunately the government is pressed to increase results. When I was at college 3 A-levels was the norm and 4 exceptional, and an A was awarded on a bell curve to the top 20%. Now people regularly do 5 A-levels and grade A's are so common that years ago they invented the A+ and I hear about to introduce a new level (A++ I presume). It's degraded all the hard work of those before them.
The idea of grades isn't a self-congratulory pat on the back, it's for employers to determine the intellectual level of the student. Sadly politicians have been under-mining the system for years. You can't measure a benchmark unless you have a 'control'.
Phillip.
Tony Benn is a Labour politician in the UK.
Is he still a Labour politician? After going begging cap in hand to Saddam Hussain to be a nice boy? I don't think so. Try his own web site which describes him as a former Labour MP.
Phillip.
I have two kids in elementary school and I was shocked to see how they teach math these days. Pleasantly shocked.
They spend a lot of time on grouping. For example What is 97 + 198? I was taught to add 8 and 7, carry the one etc...
They are taught to group the numbers, the instantly recognize that the answer is close to 300, then see how it differs from the 100s. 97 is 3 less, 198 is 2 less. Now add the 3 and 2, getting 5.
The answer is of course 300 - 5, or 295.
I find this method very intuitive.
I think they are showing the advantage of an early education. We did that at school (in uk) over 20 years ago. Didn't excuse us from having to be able to do it by rote as well. You learn the hard way and then you learn the short-cuts. The fact that your two kids at elementary school have advanced so quickly is something to be proud of. I wouldn't assume all the other kids in the class are as advanced though. I would also commend your teachers as these lateral thinking techniques will pay dividends in the future in all their subjects. On the other hand, if they advance too far in class they may end up computer scientists.
Phillip.
I actually thought about releasing some viruses, well trojans, would not of done anything on the massive scale as some of this virus, I was not that stupid. Hell, I could actually be in jail now and life screwed up over something like that.
Exploiting windows machines has never be challenging has not been for the past decade. The fact that some kid could wreck their life over a couple lines of VB code is kind of sad. I think it was genius on microsoft's part to get people to want hunt and track down those evil virus kiddies.
I'm going to skip my mod points and reply to this instead of a couple of other posts. Did he really realise the extent of the prank he was playing? You look at some of the unintentional emails that have swamped systems (eg Clare Swire 'your cum tastes yummy', etc) as well as satires that have swept the web in a few hours ('I kiiiiss you and invitate you to my home'). Or the more recent beheading hoax posted to the internet published on all the major news outlets including CNN. Something created as a lunch-time experiment has the potential to spiral well out of the creators control. I also hope that the court recognises teenages like to experiment and can't be held responsible for something I doubt they ever predicted would happen.
Phillip.
Fat language books are just, well, fat. I learned 98% of FORTRAN IV from a book about .75" thick, and my ALGOL 68 book is even thinner.
:-/ You won't get away with that so easily these days with languages containing huge amounts of built-in or standard libraries.
I learned all my C from the original K&R book, around the same thickness, and it also doubled as my only reference manual thereafter. It also appears to be the same price as it was 10 years ago.
Phillip.
if they make it so I can sync with my P900 that'd be a big plus.
If someone could write a Sunbird plug-in for Multisync then you wouldn't only be able to sync with your P900 and many other devices, you would be able to seamlessly switch between Evolution and Sunbird.
Phillip.
I hope the OSS community can follow up in the ensuing media war that MS may unleash. It will be relatively easy for them to say "see, we had a solution for this but those non-IPR respecting open source zealots boycott it".
You are indeed a prophet. Three hours after your post, Slashdot post a story stating "'In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims,' warned Steve Ballmer. Very impressed.
Phillip.
Sendmail has to make money so supporting Sender ID is a good thing for them. They are packaging it as a seperate download so as to not encumber their main product with Sender ID's problems. This is how real vendors should deal with real problems.
Burying your head in the sand is how a real vendor should cope with problems? Perhaps you're right in this world where companies just want a quick buck, but a vendor with a long-term view to survival would be trying to forge an alliance to reject something that will inevitably ambush them later.
Phillip.
From the thread, if you import the image into Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel then the word FAKE appears in bold letters in the corner. Nice one.
Phillip.
If you get a domain wrong, the god damn browser should take you to google or whatever search engine you specified under some settings within your browser.
Its not like it would be that hard to do.
It is if Verisign returns a page which contains a code saying that the correct page has been found, but instead substitutes its own content (which is what it is doing).
Phillip.
Add my vote for Brazil. As for posts below, Alien is at no.4 and is on a par with Aliens, and Matrix is at no.9 (not missed off as suggested). Brazil is especially relevant today with its themes of the "war on terror" and also beaurocracy taking over the rights of innocent civilians. Robert De Niro is superb as a commando renegade 'heating engineer', and the satire extends from the anti-terror squad to plastic surgery to petty minded office-politics. Class.
Phillip.
There are far more effective solutions available here and here. In fact, you could get ahead of the curve for when people start trying to write spyware for Linux. Do a front-end to LIDS. Install it with a restrictuve ruleset, and then the front-end monitors the warning logs. If it detects something then it pops up a box saying "blah just tried to write to directory foo, do you wish to authorise this?". If the user clicks yes then add a new rule and restart LIDS. Obviously this isn't perfect as you would then have to re-run the command. It would be better to write hooks into LIDs itself for this purpose.
Phillip.
Although this is a great new technology, for a business setting, I don't know if even missing one e-mail is acceptable...
It says 1/25,000 were misclassified... that means it is more likely spam classified as legitimate as opposed to a false positive. The article doesn't state anywhere the rate of false positives. Now if it misclassified one email as spam for every 25,000 legitimate emails then THAT would be acceptable to me. Email has never been totally reliable. Even ISPs have a habit of deleting tens of thousands of emails in accidents.
Phillip.
The restrictions on food and drink are intended to ensure that only items made by official sponsors such as McDonald's and two Greek dairy firms are consumed at Olympic venues.
ROTFL. So whilst the worlds top atheletes in the peak of human fitness compete, the audience is forced to eat McDonalds? Oh the irony...
Phillip.
Uhh? "demonstrating..reusable..engines for missiles" ?
Are we talking 'homing nuke' ?
I don't think anything attached to a nuke could be termed reusable.
Phillip.
There are just a few maps that are repeatedly played (dust, dust2 and aztec being the main ones), despite the hundreds of maps available for free download, and the moment someone changes to something more original instantly there will be a number of players clamouring (ie spamming) for one of the ones they know well.
People like maps they know well as they can concentrate on outwitting the enemy as opposed to running around randomly hoping they don't run past a hidden alcove where they will be killed by someone they didn't see. The main maps have evolved into very balanced maps, each side having it's own set of tactics.
The incremental changes to the game is great. Each time you get comfortable they (a) add something new, such as smoke grenades or a weapon, to add spice, or (b) change a physical characteristic to level the elite and the n00bs, eg by preventing bunny-hopping. I'm looking forwards to the new physics characteristics whilst knowing that the game will still be my favourite CS.
A couple of days ago I deleted CS of my hard drive as I am on holiday on the French Riviera and I wasn't getting enough sunshine. Despite years of playing, the game is still totally addictive. I've vowed not to re-install HL but will install HL2 and the new CS:Source when it comes out. Hope I last out. I paid about $20 for Half Life all those years ago and it has been the best value for money ever. I'm looking forwards to plunking down my cash for HL2 and rewarding Valve for severely damaging my social life all these years.
Phillip.
You don't see a difference between a degraded one-off versus hundreds of millions of 1:1 digital copies?
I don't think you're average kid has an Internet connection that could serve hundreds of millions of copies. In fact the upload even on DSL is extremely limited compared to download speed. Here in France my DSL provider gives 128kb/s upload, which is 16KB/s. You mention that 320kbps is an acceptable speed. Assuming the kid wants to share a three and a half minute single, that would be a 8.5MB song. This means 8.75 minutes to upload one song. Even with a saturated link and requests queued up indefinately, to upload a 100 million songs would take 1,664 years.
As technology advances I know that figure will drop, but as it is today that kid at the ice-skating ring isn't pumping out 100 million copies even using what-ever p2p application.
Phillip.
TThere is one major flaw with everyone getting really pissed at the RIAA. Although I think their tactics are low and they are targeting the wrong people, they all have one thing in common. They are all committing illegal activities, and they know it. Although we like to think that just because millions of people are doing it, it somehow makes the action not quite as wrong, stealing music isn't legal.
When half the country is doing it, from politicians to lawyers to grannies to children, if the majority of people are now labelled criminals then possibly the law needs a rethink. After all the laws are there to serve the needs of the society it is protecting. Laws are not something handed down from God, they are a made-up set of rules which evolve to suit society. For instance, in the UK our society evolved and we decided to remove the law requiring the death penalty. The American economy didn't collapse when slavery was made illegal, despite the increased labour costs. It would be interesting if some people were to write a couple of theory articles on society in 5 years should P2P be made legal for all material today. The music industry wouldn't collapse, it would just adapt, but in which ways?
Phillip.
Investigate suspicious groups before they get to the airport.
You mean run the passenger list through Google? Personally I would start with this guy, he seems to protest a little too much.
Phillip.
Ximian Evolution is the Managerial, Outlook-esque product for Linux that you seem to be missing.
:-(
Not cross-platform
Phillip.
I think they hate lawyers more than most companies. They've been on the receiving end. [CEO Steve] Ballmer and [Chairman Bill] Gates have pride in the fact that their competition may have tried to crush them with legal wars, but they overcame.
I'm not sure being convicted by the highest court in their own country, and then by the EU, count as 'overcame'. More they thumbed their nose at the US government because they knew they were far more powerful, which isn't the same thing. In fact I don't remember them overcoming the Eolas plug-in patent either. Or Sun over their Java trademark. In fact the only things that threaten to crush Microsoft are superior products.
I think they would have a hard time using legal tactics. They would be ashamed.
The problem with large corporations is that "They would be ashamed" and "Acting in the interest of providing the maximum return to the shareholder" is often difficult to reconcile.
Phillip.
Take a Red Hat ISO. You insert an exploit in the kernel. Rank all RPMs from least used to most used. Take the current ISO as the initial random state. Start your 'randomiser' which progressively fills the ISO with random garbage. If you hit the hash with only breaking some never-used apps and obscure device drivers then distribute compromised CD. So I'd say 2 and 3 were the same thing.
Phillip.