Myth. Everytime you buy a product, you are payng for everything that goes into making product, Including advertising costs.
Myth. Companies have to somehow let people know their product exists, so they have to advertise. If it wasn't on the web or on TV it would be on radio or billboards or personal (direct) sales.
Slashdot may stop makng money, and maybe go away if they didn't generate income with banner ads, but someone else would create something similiar. There have been boards like this longer then there has been advertising on the web
For any large scale site, someone will have to pay for it. I can only imagine what/. must pay monthly for bandwidth... but its certainly far beyond what most people could afford to do on their own as a hobby. Most major boards in the pre-web days (the well comes to mind) were subscription based.
In the end, it's a trade off. Somehow, someone has to pay -- and I prefer ads to subscriptions. If enough people object, eventually there will be pay boards and pay sites. But the failure of pay sites like Slate (now its free but it started pay) shows that people are still looking for free -- even if they have to view ads and are tracked.
Would you prefer to pay for content than to view ads? Because content-oriented sites including/.) rely on ads to make money. Otherwise they will have to charge money for subscriptions -- or fold up shop and go home! Advertisers (tv, web, etc) are doing you a favor by letting you view things for free
Just ignore the ads if you want, but don't ruin it for the rest of us by blocking out the advertisers that are paying for you to receive content for free -- because if too many start it will be the end of free content sites on the web. Or worse -- they will require special plugins to ensure ad views -- which will obviously be Windows only.
On a *nix system, the trojan still would not have been very effective since it would have to be executed as Root to have the same extensive and damaging effects as it's Windows counterpart.
but remember, this one targets.JPG and.MP3, etc, not anything important. So it could even affect non-root users who have those files.
And don't forget, the NT security model is different -- much better than 9X. Of course, the Arts faculty at my school (University of British Columbia) came up with a good system for clueless users -- they clone the computers each night to wipe out any changes somebody might make. Ha, thats why people switch to *nix or NT.
I got hit with the Melissa Virus quite easily because I opened the email. I am not a veteran Windows Outlook user (thank G-d) and didn't think that opening a file would cause the execution of an unknown script
Yeah, but we're not talking about Melissa right now -- that was an obviuos bug and MS was right to fix it (which they did before the virus came out, btw). That doesn't excuse them for it by any means... but its completely different than ILOVEYOU. If you don't open the attachment, it wont run, plain and simple.
I dunno about you folks... but I am not complaining that MS finally created a useful script format..BAT was insanely outmoded, and everybody knows how useful shell scripts are right? Well.VBS is the equivilent for the Windows world!
The virus could have easily been written to target UNIX users by attaching a virulant shell script that gathers adddress from the NN address book and fires them off via sendmail. It just doesn't happen because UNIX users are generally smart enough not to execute a shell script sent through a form letter without proper explanation or examining the source.
The problem here is that so many incompetant (and obviously love-starved) people use Outlook and just run whatever attachments are sent to them. As Linux builds in popularity, a trojan like this will start to affect us as well (well maybe not US, but UNIX systems).
The solution here, as always, is education of users. I don't want MS to disable.VBS or VBA macros in Word/Excel because they are extraordinarily useful to me, not to mention thousands (?) of other NT system administrators and Office power users.
I am certain that the Palm VII would not be allowed during take-off and landing, since they made me shut off my Palm V. Once in the air they probably don't mind, but I strongly doubt that it would work at high altitude (mebbe it would work in a prop plan or seaplane).
But we don't really know WHY/. goes down, whether it is misconfigured Apache or Linux, or if it is the/. code, lack of bandwidth, or if it truly the MySQL goes down. I have found that most often/. won't give me ANYTHING (not responding to pings, etc) when it goes down, which leads me to suspect something other than MySQL is at fault.
Perhaps the problem is with the number of articles you view at once. I'm connected at school (t3+) or at home (dsl) and usually/. works well. When I connect over dial-up I have to keep the # of articles displayed very low to keep the page size down.
The only time I see/. really slow is in a "big" article (MP3.com, hellmouth, MS vs. DOJ, popular interview, etc) with a lot of discussion.
If I saw my IP address on their Wall of Shame after searching for
If you look at their site, they list only people who are downloading the files, not those who do searches for the files. While many of the files were named in confusing ways (I agree with you about "schoolgirl.jpg", "little girls.jpg", "younggirlxxx.jpg", "young-tits.jpg") but others were less ambigious, such as "preteensuckandfuck.jpg" and "incest12yrsold-forreal.jpg" were not. A person would have to be sick and confused to be looking up those types of files, and should be investigated. really
Does anyone else find it amusing that AOL owns Netscape yet uses IE in their software?
Perhaps that because IE5 is light years ahead of Netscape 4.7 in every conceivable way, except for the lack of OS compatibility. And since AOL does not care about that *right now*, they have to choose the superior browser. The Mozilla project will change that, and rumor (not to mention logic) has it the next version of AOL will be be based on Netscape 6, and an upcoming set-top box will be based on Linux.
I think it's a line that many spammers wouldn't cross.
Ha, that's funny... that's a joke eh?
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'Questionable' - not illegal. There is a real grey area here about to potential to be a 'proxy' for copywrited material. Since u have proved that u are a legal owner/licensee of the material, who is being deprived? and of what? We'll see what the courts have to say (please let this be an appealable ruling).
You were right yesterday... there was a gray area. But now theres not, the facts of law have come in. Sorry bub, I'm with you on the issue... but now its officially against the law! (Even though my bets are on $1 damages or something similar)
Even better... go read the boards over at raging bull or siliconinvestor... common post titles: "we're all doomed", or "MPPP is dead" or "another ones bites the dust".
My primary use for napster is to get bootlegs (recordings of live concerts) and albums that the label is holding back to build hype (for example, the new "A Perfect Cirle").
Does anyone know the copyright law regarding any of these examples??
I recall a recent survey of retail sales, and Corel is catching up quick. With RH/Mandrake and Debian/Corel, there are two viable "big-name" distros to compete with each other to prevent RH only stuff.
I know you said that local businesses aren't putting their stuff on the curb... but why don't you ask them? Find a medium-sized company in the area and call up their IT department and ask if they have any old junk lying around... odds are you'll eventually find a company like the one I work for! =)
Or better yet, why don't you find a friend that works for a large company and get him/her to ask the IT folks.. they'll likely respond even better. I've picked up old ISA ethernet cards, 486's & mobos, and old software.
Hmm... would it not make more sense for AOL go with the obvious choice: a set-top box based on Linux? TiVo has shown the multimedia possibilities, and Mozilla is much further along on Linux than on BeOS (the last time I checked BeOs was still on R11). Further, if AOL chooses Linux they don't have to pay a cent compared with the $275 Million + they would have to pay for Be.
No no no... that's certainly not true. The page you reference does imply that Intel owns ARM.. but it fact it just licenses the rights to manufacture the StrongARM processor from ARM.
A 'security' company that blasts that password around rather than saying 'there is a default password that can be cracked' is even more foolish.
Of course in general you are right, it would be best for ISS or any other company not to publish such passwords. But in this case, anyone who had enough knowledge to exploit the password could easily install Piranha and get the default password (considering that it's standard with RH6.2). Publishing the password didn't really put anyone at risk in this case.
Or maybe the 10% of sales figure is by $ value as opposed to # of units sold (AMD has undercut Intel's prices, so that would make sense).
My guess is that it's also probably value of total sales. The 5M K6-2's shipped last quarter were almost worthless in price... so that wouldn't reflect much. PLUS for retail sales, AMD's share is much higher.. and for retail notebook sales, AMD dominates with the Mobile K6-2-P.
... when I can hear the humming of my computer over the AM radio frequencies. And the movements of my RF mouse over my speakers. Anyone have similar experiences or a reason why this might be??
just one addendum: obviouslt their market share among high speed processors is much better than that. It's just the celery processors that go in computers that sell for $400 at the local Wal-Mart (or whatever) that Intel is managing to produce at such a low cost and in high volumes.
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you realize that the iBrators a joke right??
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Myth. Everytime you buy a product, you are payng for everything that goes into making product, Including advertising costs.
/. must pay monthly for bandwidth... but its certainly far beyond what most people could afford to do on their own as a hobby. Most major boards in the pre-web days (the well comes to mind) were subscription based.
Myth. Companies have to somehow let people know their product exists, so they have to advertise. If it wasn't on the web or on TV it would be on radio or billboards or personal (direct) sales.
Slashdot may stop makng money, and maybe go away if they didn't generate income with banner ads, but someone else would create something similiar. There have been boards like this longer then there has been advertising on the web
For any large scale site, someone will have to pay for it. I can only imagine what
In the end, it's a trade off. Somehow, someone has to pay -- and I prefer ads to subscriptions. If enough people object, eventually there will be pay boards and pay sites. But the failure of pay sites like Slate (now its free but it started pay) shows that people are still looking for free -- even if they have to view ads and are tracked.
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Would you prefer to pay for content than to view ads? Because content-oriented sites including /.) rely on ads to make money. Otherwise they will have to charge money for subscriptions -- or fold up shop and go home! Advertisers (tv, web, etc) are doing you a favor by letting you view things for free
Just ignore the ads if you want, but don't ruin it for the rest of us by blocking out the advertisers that are paying for you to receive content for free -- because if too many start it will be the end of free content sites on the web. Or worse -- they will require special plugins to ensure ad views -- which will obviously be Windows only.
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On a *nix system, the trojan still would not have been very effective since it would have to be executed as Root to have the same extensive and damaging effects as it's Windows counterpart.
.JPG and .MP3, etc, not anything important. So it could even affect non-root users who have those files.
but remember, this one targets
And don't forget, the NT security model is different -- much better than 9X. Of course, the Arts faculty at my school (University of British Columbia) came up with a good system for clueless users -- they clone the computers each night to wipe out any changes somebody might make. Ha, thats why people switch to *nix or NT.
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I got hit with the Melissa Virus quite easily because I opened the email. I am not a veteran Windows Outlook user (thank G-d) and didn't think that opening a file would cause the execution of an unknown script
Yeah, but we're not talking about Melissa right now -- that was an obviuos bug and MS was right to fix it (which they did before the virus came out, btw). That doesn't excuse them for it by any means... but its completely different than ILOVEYOU. If you don't open the attachment, it wont run, plain and simple.
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I dunno about you folks... but I am not complaining that MS finally created a useful script format. .BAT was insanely outmoded, and everybody knows how useful shell scripts are right? Well .VBS is the equivilent for the Windows world!
.VBS or VBA macros in Word/Excel because they are extraordinarily useful to me, not to mention thousands (?) of other NT system administrators and Office power users.
The virus could have easily been written to target UNIX users by attaching a virulant shell script that gathers adddress from the NN address book and fires them off via sendmail. It just doesn't happen because UNIX users are generally smart enough not to execute a shell script sent through a form letter without proper explanation or examining the source.
The problem here is that so many incompetant (and obviously love-starved) people use Outlook and just run whatever attachments are sent to them. As Linux builds in popularity, a trojan like this will start to affect us as well (well maybe not US, but UNIX systems).
The solution here, as always, is education of users. I don't want MS to disable
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I am certain that the Palm VII would not be allowed during take-off and landing, since they made me shut off my Palm V. Once in the air they probably don't mind, but I strongly doubt that it would work at high altitude (mebbe it would work in a prop plan or seaplane).
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But we don't really know WHY /. goes down, whether it is misconfigured Apache or Linux, or if it is the /. code, lack of bandwidth, or if it truly the MySQL goes down. I have found that most often /. won't give me ANYTHING (not responding to pings, etc) when it goes down, which leads me to suspect something other than MySQL is at fault.
/. works well. When I connect over dial-up I have to keep the # of articles displayed very low to keep the page size down.
/. really slow is in a "big" article (MP3.com, hellmouth, MS vs. DOJ, popular interview, etc) with a lot of discussion.
Perhaps the problem is with the number of articles you view at once. I'm connected at school (t3+) or at home (dsl) and usually
The only time I see
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If I saw my IP address on their Wall of Shame after searching for
If you look at their site, they list only people who are downloading the files, not those who do searches for the files. While many of the files were named in confusing ways (I agree with you about "schoolgirl.jpg", "little girls.jpg", "younggirlxxx.jpg", "young-tits.jpg") but others were less ambigious, such as "preteensuckandfuck.jpg" and "incest12yrsold-forreal.jpg" were not. A person would have to be sick and confused to be looking up those types of files, and should be investigated. really
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Does anyone else find it amusing that AOL owns Netscape yet uses IE in their software?
Perhaps that because IE5 is light years ahead of Netscape 4.7 in every conceivable way, except for the lack of OS compatibility. And since AOL does not care about that *right now*, they have to choose the superior browser. The Mozilla project will change that, and rumor (not to mention logic) has it the next version of AOL will be be based on Netscape 6, and an upcoming set-top box will be based on Linux.
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I think it's a line that many spammers wouldn't cross.
Ha, that's funny... that's a joke eh?
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'Questionable' - not illegal. There is a real grey area here about to potential to be a 'proxy' for copywrited material. Since u have proved that u are a legal owner/licensee of the material, who is being deprived? and of what? We'll see what the courts have to say (please let this be an appealable ruling).
You were right yesterday... there was a gray area. But now theres not, the facts of law have come in. Sorry bub, I'm with you on the issue... but now its officially against the law! (Even though my bets are on $1 damages or something similar)
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Even better... go read the boards over at raging bull or siliconinvestor... common post titles: "we're all doomed", or "MPPP is dead" or "another ones bites the dust".
It's quite funny if you don't own any! =)
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My primary use for napster is to get bootlegs (recordings of live concerts) and albums that the label is holding back to build hype (for example, the new "A Perfect Cirle").
Does anyone know the copyright law regarding any of these examples??
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I recall a recent survey of retail sales, and Corel is catching up quick. With RH/Mandrake and Debian/Corel, there are two viable "big-name" distros to compete with each other to prevent RH only stuff.
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Yeah, I usally hit the /. "preview" then hit the "back" button instead of resubmitting from the preview.
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I know you said that local businesses aren't putting their stuff on the curb... but why don't you ask them? Find a medium-sized company in the area and call up their IT department and ask if they have any old junk lying around... odds are you'll eventually find a company like the one I work for! =)
Or better yet, why don't you find a friend that works for a large company and get him/her to ask the IT folks.. they'll likely respond even better. I've picked up old ISA ethernet cards, 486's & mobos, and old software.
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Hmm... would it not make more sense for AOL go with the obvious choice: a set-top box based on Linux? TiVo has shown the multimedia possibilities, and Mozilla is much further along on Linux than on BeOS (the last time I checked BeOs was still on R11). Further, if AOL chooses Linux they don't have to pay a cent compared with the $275 Million + they would have to pay for Be.
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No no no... that's certainly not true. The page you reference does imply that Intel owns ARM.. but it fact it just licenses the rights to manufacture the StrongARM processor from ARM.
Check out Hoovers company report on ARM Holdings on Microsoft Investor and CNBC
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Wow... looks like ARM has captured the majority of the handheld market. Wince devices use the StrongARM processors as well. Is ARM the next Intel??
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A 'security' company that blasts that password around rather than saying 'there is a default password that can be cracked' is even more foolish.
Of course in general you are right, it would be best for ISS or any other company not to publish such passwords. But in this case, anyone who had enough knowledge to exploit the password could easily install Piranha and get the default password (considering that it's standard with RH6.2). Publishing the password didn't really put anyone at risk in this case.
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Or maybe the 10% of sales figure is by $ value as opposed to # of units sold (AMD has undercut Intel's prices, so that would make sense).
My guess is that it's also probably value of total sales. The 5M K6-2's shipped last quarter were almost worthless in price... so that wouldn't reflect much. PLUS for retail sales, AMD's share is much higher.. and for retail notebook sales, AMD dominates with the Mobile K6-2-P.
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Thanks for the advice bud. Logitech was much less helpful after many many emails. =)
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... when I can hear the humming of my computer over the AM radio frequencies. And the movements of my RF mouse over my speakers. Anyone have similar experiences or a reason why this might be??
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just one addendum: obviouslt their market share among high speed processors is much better than that. It's just the celery processors that go in computers that sell for $400 at the local Wal-Mart (or whatever) that Intel is managing to produce at such a low cost and in high volumes.
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