I think it would be just TOO great if the owners/operators of the mail server that was used to relay all this spam came in and sued the ass off of this guy for server theft, hacking, and whatever else they could think of. In this case (and this case ONLY!;) I'd love to see slimy ambulance-chasing lawyer go after him on their behalf.:)
I wonder if/.would be willing to post some results of how much is being paid? I know it's pretty personal information, but it would be interesting to see some stats...
They are tasteful, unobtrusive (no fscking pop-ups, etc.), and more importantly (hey, marketers, listen up!) they're about stuff I'm interested in!
I guess that's a novel concept, but hey, even as I sit here typing in this post I see the ad at the top for the Sharp Zaurus that I'll probably click on to because I'm a Geek and that looks interesting. And, if that helps Slashdot stick around, so much the better!
Even though they may have a case, I just don't like the fact that some major corporation can shut down your website based solely on their word.
You know, I agree, and I don't like that fact either, but at the end of the day, it was the site's actions that caused them to be shut down.
Some may call it intimidation, but the site WAS in the wrong (or at least a VERY shady area), and it wasn't the ISP's fight. And it speaks volumes that the site didn't pursue it legally, but rather just went looking for another ISP.
In some wierd way, I have a bit of respect for a company that doesn't just sick the lawyers on someone and get an injunction, but calls them up and says "hey, this isn't right, and if it doesn't stop, we'll have to do something about it".
Pshaw, I bet we could accelerate the Earth more effectively than that if we'd all get together on the first of every month, point all our cars West, and punch the accelerator simultaneously.
Until we all hit the brake, anyway.:)
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Microsoft is developing a version of the.NET runtime and classes for FreeBSD. I have talked with the lead engineer of this project over e-mail, and he said that it's due to be out in late Spring. I asked him about the Windows Forms stuff, and he said it will be based on Tk (could someone explain the implications of this?). He also said that there are going to be very few UNIX-specific classes, but they hope people will develop those on their own.
I wonder why Miscrosft is developing a FreeBSD implementation? Could it be because substantial portions of Hotmail still runs on FreeBSD? If I remember correctly, MS has yet to successfully port all of Hotmail over to Windows. That being the case, I'd hazard a guess that it's a REQUIREMENT for them to do the FreeBSD thing.
My guess is that the majority of Windows users were too busy running ScanDisk on their crashed systems, while the "angry Linux zealots" were unhampered by technical difficulties and thusly had a lot more free time.
Nawww... Microsoft was probably kind enough to insert a little outgoing email filter/redirector with it's last "Security" update.
After all, what could _possibly_ be more of a security concern than Microsoft's future?;)
...who don't get to watch the Superbowl commercials, be sure to check out ifilm.com's Superbowl Page where you can check them out.
I first found out about the since deceased AdCritic by looking for a place to check out the SB commercials, and it looks like these guys have filled that void for me.
For those of you who aren't aware, Canadian cable companies cut out the American commercials and insert our own, unique brand of crap in their place.
At least this year, there was a game worth watching!
Maybe AOL could inject enough motivation/cash/experience/exposure/whatever to Red Hat to make the final push to being a truly competing desktop OS.
If they did that, as much as I hate AOL, I'd applaud them and potentially support them by buying the product.
Let's face it, there seems to be a LOT of people out there who don't know any better and use AOL, so maybe AOL saying "use this OS instead of MS" to their subscriber base could be what it takes to turn the tide.
Who knows, maybe they're marketting to the parents of the college crowd. Maybe the folks will think "hey, MTV is cool, so this should be too... little Johnny will love it." After all, how many college kids can actually afford to buy themselves a computer? I can totally see this as being a high school graduation gift.
Let's face it, parents tend not to be at ALL clued into what they're kids like or don't like. There's a reason my folks give me music gift certificates for X'Mas.
That being said, I don't think it'll fly at all.
Unless there's a chance to win a kegger-date with Brittany Spears!
I know that Oracle licenses JBuilder for their JDeveloper product... anyone know if that means that the Borland license is automatically included within it?
Mind you, maybe I _COULD_ go and read the Oracle license myself...
Slashdot should make a "yeah right" or "believe it if you want to" category for these types of stories so that you know before going into it that it's going to be a merry slash-fest of "bullshit!"
What I don't fathom is why people release these game consoles where they lose money on the hardware to make up for it on the licensing. I mean heck, just release some VM for a broad base of PC hardware and charge people license fees to publish for it.
Because it's just like a Drug Dealer's marketting plan... "the first one is free", or in this case, "almost free". I believe that MS is trying to get their hooks into the home/living-room electronics arena, where THEIR machine will (hopefully, from their POV) be the central device for more than just playing games... cd player, dvd player, internet phone, maybe central network device for home, pay per view device, TIVO, IP Phone/Video conferencing device, etc. Who knows what they're going to want to do with it?
By lowering the price of the hardware to the point of losing a TRIVIAL amount of money (in the big picture), they are ensuring themselves of getting a higher and QUICKER penetration into the market.
It's the same reason for them to go out and buy Bungie so that they could release HALO exclusively on the XBox. I know it worked in my case, as that was the ONLY reason why I bought an X-Box. I've been following HALO for over a year, watching Steve Jobs demo/highlight it at all the Apple PR events, and you better believe I was more than a little pissed to find out that it was bought/assimilated by MS.
To think I spent $500 (CDN) to play a video game. Sucks to be me.
While I'm too lazy to go look it up, it should also be noted that this story was also adapted to a 1 hour episode of the Outer Limits.
It was thoroughly enjoyable and was extremely well done. Quite frankly, I was rather skeptical about the chances of it making it as a full-on in-theatre movie.
Not at all the case. Having been Nettwerk's IT Manager for 2.5 years, I can tell you first hand that Nettwerk is owned by 3 people; Terry McBride, Ric Arboit, and Marc Jowett. Sarah doesn't own a bit of it. Marc used to be in a band called Moeve (sp?) that nobody would sign, so one of his best friends, Terry, gave it a shot. It went well, Skinny Puppy came along, and Nettwerk was off and running. Later on Terry was on a ferry and heard someone singing, absoultely loved it, and offered this girl a recording contract; it was Sarah. She said "sure, but I'm going to finish school first", and 2 years later her first album / super-single came out on the Nettwerk label.
That being said, Sarah DOES own 1/4 of Lilith Fair (25% each to her, Terry, her road manager Dan Fraser, and a NYC production guy) and 100% of her own publishing.
...but I really don't see much of a need and I don't have much of a desire to support an artist in their struggles against their personal or individual contracts/etc with their employers, the record companies. RIAA as it affects my rights to fair use of stuff I BUY? Nuke em from orbit, as far as I'm concerned.
But let's face it... nobody ever (well, maybe not EVER) put a gun to the head of a no-name, starving artist and forced them to sign away their rights in order to allow them to get a shot at being rich and famous; they made that choice themselves. I'm sick of the "woe is me" and "but that's unfair" attitudes of these people. Big Lou made N Sync what they are, and now that they're famous and seeing just how much money their band is making, they're whining about how they should be getting a bigger cut. Srew that. He put his industry contacts, know-how and money on the line, took most of the risk, and they agreed to it, so they should have to live with it. Do you think they'd pony up the huge bucks if it tanked? Yeah, and Brittany's tits are real, too.
The real problem is that there are WAY too many rock-star wannabes that are willing to sign away everything for life in order to take a shot at being on the cover of Rolling Stone, so there's not much forcing the record companies to offer something other than a "we take everything forever" contract. That'll only happen when there is someone with enough talent (and potential revenue generation) to make the record companies fight over them. Sarah Mclachlan is a case in point. She's got a great deal with Nettwerk Records in that she owns all of her own publishing. That's because she was smart in (a) hooking up with an excellent manager, Terry McBride, and (b) she was smart in assessing her options and making her choices.
In a way this is similar to what I'm going through right now in taking a software product public. We're getting LOTS of offers for VC funding, and most of it is Pirate money... "give us 80% of the company, and we'll give you a bit of cash". Lucky for us we've got investors that are willing to take a more reasonable stance with us. But if those "more reasonable" investors weren't there, and the only deal we had was a bad one, and we took it, should we be able to whine and complain about how we were taken advantage of and abused? Absolutely not. We were presented with an offer, and WE ACCEPTED IT. If we were stupid enough or desperate enough to accept a bad deal, then we'd have to live with the consequences.
I agree. I'm looking at it for my parents house for exactly the same reasons; the house is big, it's got Ghz phones, it's too dense for wireless to work effectively.
I'm also going to bet that the security concerns with wireless connectivity are not present with these powerline devices. Mind you, that doesn't preclude other security concerns that may be present.
Speaking of which...
Anyone have any clue as to potential security issues? How much of a power circuit "range" do these devices have? Does this mean that my breaker box is now a "hub"? Can other people in my power grid "see" me? What acts as a block for these; 3-phase to single-phase conversions, etc.?
I'd think that there would be a couple of reasons; security requirements and performance. My Mom and Sister don't know what DES is, never mind how to crack it. Also, while 56 bit is probably secure enough for home use, anything higher than that will be more CPU intensive. Keeping it at a minimum "bittage" will probably increase network performance with less or the same hardware, making it cheaper.
I can't imagine too many people initially going to the site, or taking the content of the site too seriously; "oh, look honey, there's that toy that that web site said was bad, so we better not buy it for little Johnny"... yeah right.
Then enter Slashdot.:)
Now the webmaster is looking at the site stats of hundreds of thousands of hits and is thinking "man! what a difference I'm making!". Little does he/she know that the general reaction is "geesh... what next!". Spurred on by this "success", they're already planning the next project.
For that matter, they could probably take their web logs showing the hits they are getting to some politician *spit* and show what a "great job" they're doing protecting the children of society (after all, lots of hits means it's working, right?), and get some federal funding to carry on the torch.
The smart thief would save up and get himself a tow truck. The ONLY person who would pay any attention at all is the owner. The alarm could be going off and nobody would give it a second glance.
Working in the "high-tech" area of Vancouver, BC, where there are some pretty snobby dot.bombing CEO's driving leased Porches, etc., that don't think that they have to follow parking rules in our part of town, and as a result they cause a bunch of parking problems. I can tell you that a number of us actually ENJOY watching these guys getting parking meter tickets and getting towed. It's always good for a laugh. And you're right, we'd never know if it was just a scam and the guy's car was getting jacked.
I'm betting that while the software is "free", there's probably some condition that says Oracle Consulting will have to do the work.
As everybody in the Oracle Financials world knows, buying Financials is only a small percentage of it's cost. Just wait until you see how much it costs to get it installed and configured!
Larry is a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them.
Seriously, though...can anyone else see that this is a fairly desperate attempt at driving traffic to two VERY obscure websites?
I agree, and if it works, more power to them. The real trick will be to maintain that traffic, or even a small portion of it.
If people go check out the site, and it's crap, then they won't go back. If they decide to go back, then it was lucky for them to see it mentioned here.
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I think it would be just TOO great if the owners/operators of the mail server that was used to relay all this spam came in and sued the ass off of this guy for server theft, hacking, and whatever else they could think of. In this case (and this case ONLY! ;) I'd love to see slimy ambulance-chasing lawyer go after him on their behalf. :)
Just paid my $20.
/.would be willing to post some results of how much is being paid? I know it's pretty personal information, but it would be interesting to see some stats...
I wonder if
They are tasteful, unobtrusive (no fscking pop-ups, etc.), and more importantly (hey, marketers, listen up!) they're about stuff I'm interested in!
I guess that's a novel concept, but hey, even as I sit here typing in this post I see the ad at the top for the Sharp Zaurus that I'll probably click on to because I'm a Geek and that looks interesting. And, if that helps Slashdot stick around, so much the better!
Even though they may have a case, I just don't like the fact that some major corporation can shut down your website based solely on their word.
You know, I agree, and I don't like that fact either, but at the end of the day, it was the site's actions that caused them to be shut down.
Some may call it intimidation, but the site WAS in the wrong (or at least a VERY shady area), and it wasn't the ISP's fight. And it speaks volumes that the site didn't pursue it legally, but rather just went looking for another ISP.
In some wierd way, I have a bit of respect for a company that doesn't just sick the lawyers on someone and get an injunction, but calls them up and says "hey, this isn't right, and if it doesn't stop, we'll have to do something about it".
Pshaw, I bet we could accelerate the Earth more effectively than that if we'd all get together on the first of every month, point all our cars West, and punch the accelerator simultaneously.
:)
Until we all hit the brake, anyway.
Microsoft is developing a version of the .NET runtime and classes for FreeBSD. I have talked with the lead engineer of this project over e-mail, and he said that it's due to be out in late Spring. I asked him about the Windows Forms stuff, and he said it will be based on Tk (could someone explain the implications of this?). He also said that there are going to be very few UNIX-specific classes, but they hope people will develop those on their own.
I wonder why Miscrosft is developing a FreeBSD implementation? Could it be because substantial portions of Hotmail still runs on FreeBSD? If I remember correctly, MS has yet to successfully port all of Hotmail over to Windows. That being the case, I'd hazard a guess that it's a REQUIREMENT for them to do the FreeBSD thing.
I could be wrong, though. Anyone?
My guess is that the majority of Windows users were too busy running ScanDisk on their crashed systems, while the "angry Linux zealots" were unhampered by technical difficulties and thusly had a lot more free time.
;)
Nawww... Microsoft was probably kind enough to insert a little outgoing email filter/redirector with it's last "Security" update.
After all, what could _possibly_ be more of a security concern than Microsoft's future?
>> TiVo Watches the Super Bowl... ...and horny geeks watch Britney. :)
And to get the inside scoop on Britney, more specifically, her magically morphing chest, be sure to check out The Mystery of Britney Spears' Breasts! from our friends at Ifilm.com.
Let's see Katz do a review on that!
...who don't get to watch the Superbowl commercials, be sure to check out ifilm.com's Superbowl Page where you can check them out.
I first found out about the since deceased AdCritic by looking for a place to check out the SB commercials, and it looks like these guys have filled that void for me.
For those of you who aren't aware, Canadian cable companies cut out the American commercials and insert our own, unique brand of crap in their place.
At least this year, there was a game worth watching!
>> The office would then set it going and if it was still running a year later, they would consider the patent application.
>So why don't they do this with software patents?
They tried it, but after they couldn't get Windows (their only authorized OS) to run that long, they had to can the concept.
;)
Maybe AOL could inject enough motivation/cash/experience/exposure/whatever to Red Hat to make the final push to being a truly competing desktop OS.
If they did that, as much as I hate AOL, I'd applaud them and potentially support them by buying the product.
Let's face it, there seems to be a LOT of people out there who don't know any better and use AOL, so maybe AOL saying "use this OS instead of MS" to their subscriber base could be what it takes to turn the tide.
Who knows, maybe they're marketting to the parents of the college crowd. Maybe the folks will think "hey, MTV is cool, so this should be too... little Johnny will love it." After all, how many college kids can actually afford to buy themselves a computer? I can totally see this as being a high school graduation gift.
Let's face it, parents tend not to be at ALL clued into what they're kids like or don't like. There's a reason my folks give me music gift certificates for X'Mas.
That being said, I don't think it'll fly at all.
Unless there's a chance to win a kegger-date with Brittany Spears!
I know that Oracle licenses JBuilder for their JDeveloper product... anyone know if that means that the Borland license is automatically included within it?
Mind you, maybe I _COULD_ go and read the Oracle license myself...
Slashdot should make a "yeah right" or "believe it if you want to" category for these types of stories so that you know before going into it that it's going to be a merry slash-fest of "bullshit!"
What I don't fathom is why people release these game consoles where they lose money on the hardware to make up for it on the licensing. I mean heck, just release some VM for a broad base of PC hardware and charge people license fees to publish for it.
:)
Because it's just like a Drug Dealer's marketting plan... "the first one is free", or in this case, "almost free". I believe that MS is trying to get their hooks into the home/living-room electronics arena, where THEIR machine will (hopefully, from their POV) be the central device for more than just playing games... cd player, dvd player, internet phone, maybe central network device for home, pay per view device, TIVO, IP Phone/Video conferencing device, etc. Who knows what they're going to want to do with it?
By lowering the price of the hardware to the point of losing a TRIVIAL amount of money (in the big picture), they are ensuring themselves of getting a higher and QUICKER penetration into the market.
It's the same reason for them to go out and buy Bungie so that they could release HALO exclusively on the XBox. I know it worked in my case, as that was the ONLY reason why I bought an X-Box. I've been following HALO for over a year, watching Steve Jobs demo/highlight it at all the Apple PR events, and you better believe I was more than a little pissed to find out that it was bought/assimilated by MS.
To think I spent $500 (CDN) to play a video game. Sucks to be me.
While I'm too lazy to go look it up, it should also be noted that this story was also adapted to a 1 hour episode of the Outer Limits.
It was thoroughly enjoyable and was extremely well done. Quite frankly, I was rather skeptical about the chances of it making it as a full-on in-theatre movie.
Not at all the case. Having been Nettwerk's IT Manager for 2.5 years, I can tell you first hand that Nettwerk is owned by 3 people; Terry McBride, Ric Arboit, and Marc Jowett. Sarah doesn't own a bit of it. Marc used to be in a band called Moeve (sp?) that nobody would sign, so one of his best friends, Terry, gave it a shot. It went well, Skinny Puppy came along, and Nettwerk was off and running. Later on Terry was on a ferry and heard someone singing, absoultely loved it, and offered this girl a recording contract; it was Sarah. She said "sure, but I'm going to finish school first", and 2 years later her first album / super-single came out on the Nettwerk label.
That being said, Sarah DOES own 1/4 of Lilith Fair (25% each to her, Terry, her road manager Dan Fraser, and a NYC production guy) and 100% of her own publishing.
...but I really don't see much of a need and I don't have much of a desire to support an artist in their struggles against their personal or individual contracts/etc with their employers, the record companies. RIAA as it affects my rights to fair use of stuff I BUY? Nuke em from orbit, as far as I'm concerned.
But let's face it... nobody ever (well, maybe not EVER) put a gun to the head of a no-name, starving artist and forced them to sign away their rights in order to allow them to get a shot at being rich and famous; they made that choice themselves. I'm sick of the "woe is me" and "but that's unfair" attitudes of these people. Big Lou made N Sync what they are, and now that they're famous and seeing just how much money their band is making, they're whining about how they should be getting a bigger cut. Srew that. He put his industry contacts, know-how and money on the line, took most of the risk, and they agreed to it, so they should have to live with it. Do you think they'd pony up the huge bucks if it tanked? Yeah, and Brittany's tits are real, too.
The real problem is that there are WAY too many rock-star wannabes that are willing to sign away everything for life in order to take a shot at being on the cover of Rolling Stone, so there's not much forcing the record companies to offer something other than a "we take everything forever" contract. That'll only happen when there is someone with enough talent (and potential revenue generation) to make the record companies fight over them. Sarah Mclachlan is a case in point. She's got a great deal with Nettwerk Records in that she owns all of her own publishing. That's because she was smart in (a) hooking up with an excellent manager, Terry McBride, and (b) she was smart in assessing her options and making her choices.
In a way this is similar to what I'm going through right now in taking a software product public. We're getting LOTS of offers for VC funding, and most of it is Pirate money... "give us 80% of the company, and we'll give you a bit of cash". Lucky for us we've got investors that are willing to take a more reasonable stance with us. But if those "more reasonable" investors weren't there, and the only deal we had was a bad one, and we took it, should we be able to whine and complain about how we were taken advantage of and abused? Absolutely not. We were presented with an offer, and WE ACCEPTED IT. If we were stupid enough or desperate enough to accept a bad deal, then we'd have to live with the consequences.
I agree. I'm looking at it for my parents house for exactly the same reasons; the house is big, it's got Ghz phones, it's too dense for wireless to work effectively.
I'm also going to bet that the security concerns with wireless connectivity are not present with these powerline devices. Mind you, that doesn't preclude other security concerns that may be present.
Speaking of which...
Anyone have any clue as to potential security issues? How much of a power circuit "range" do these devices have? Does this mean that my breaker box is now a "hub"? Can other people in my power grid "see" me? What acts as a block for these; 3-phase to single-phase conversions, etc.?
I'd think that there would be a couple of reasons; security requirements and performance. My Mom and Sister don't know what DES is, never mind how to crack it. Also, while 56 bit is probably secure enough for home use, anything higher than that will be more CPU intensive. Keeping it at a minimum "bittage" will probably increase network performance with less or the same hardware, making it cheaper.
I can't imagine too many people initially going to the site, or taking the content of the site too seriously; "oh, look honey, there's that toy that that web site said was bad, so we better not buy it for little Johnny"... yeah right.
:)
Then enter Slashdot.
Now the webmaster is looking at the site stats of hundreds of thousands of hits and is thinking "man! what a difference I'm making!". Little does he/she know that the general reaction is "geesh... what next!". Spurred on by this "success", they're already planning the next project.
For that matter, they could probably take their web logs showing the hits they are getting to some politician *spit* and show what a "great job" they're doing protecting the children of society (after all, lots of hits means it's working, right?), and get some federal funding to carry on the torch.
Oh joy.
The smart thief would save up and get himself a tow truck. The ONLY person who would pay any attention at all is the owner. The alarm could be going off and nobody would give it a second glance.
Working in the "high-tech" area of Vancouver, BC, where there are some pretty snobby dot.bombing CEO's driving leased Porches, etc., that don't think that they have to follow parking rules in our part of town, and as a result they cause a bunch of parking problems. I can tell you that a number of us actually ENJOY watching these guys getting parking meter tickets and getting towed. It's always good for a laugh. And you're right, we'd never know if it was just a scam and the guy's car was getting jacked.
I'm betting that while the software is "free", there's probably some condition that says Oracle Consulting will have to do the work.
As everybody in the Oracle Financials world knows, buying Financials is only a small percentage of it's cost. Just wait until you see how much it costs to get it installed and configured!
Larry is a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them.
Seriously, though...can anyone else see that this is a fairly desperate attempt at driving traffic to two VERY obscure websites?
I agree, and if it works, more power to them. The real trick will be to maintain that traffic, or even a small portion of it.
If people go check out the site, and it's crap, then they won't go back. If they decide to go back, then it was lucky for them to see it mentioned here.
Coke was "It"?
br.
My brain hurts.