What the hell are you talking about? I pointed out the strange text from the article: "the studios' new operating system", and then asked why MS was so friendly to the studios. I didn't mention Apple once, or even seem to.
I don't think it does FOSS's image any good for Linux to be associated with virus writers.
An aside - it's interesting how most successful modern viruses aren't really as harmful as they could be on the machines they infect. Sure they often zombify the machine, but to the uneduacted user this just means the machine runs a little slower than before. If a virus were to successfully infect many machines and then format all of their harddrives on a designated day a couple of months later I think there would be a lot of pissed off users looking to change OS...
A Danish court recently ruled against a Danish ISP and ordered it to block all access to the site Allofmp3.com. According to the ruling, the ISP is willingly infringing copyright if it's customers use AllofMP3 to download music.
The verdict could have very strong implications for the future. It clearly states that an ISP can be held liable for temporarily (milliseconds) storing infringing data on their routers. This means that ISPs can be forced to block websites, if the court decides that these sites are mainly used to spread "illegal" content.
Time to roll out this classic quote from the man himself:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today. The solution... is patent exchanges... and patenting as much as we can.... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors." -- Bill Gates, 1991
I'm an Amiga fan, but gotta disagree. Lisa, 1983. Macintosh, 1984.
The Amiga was the first to have preemptive multitasking. the Mac had cooperative multitasking until Mac OS X. There's a big difference - if a Mac program crashed it would not pass control to the other programs.
Microsoft must take some of the blame for this. Windows' lack of security has led to these huge Windows botnets, and the only way to solve the problem is for these boxes to switch to a more secure OS. If Vista has really fixed the security issue as Microsoft claims, maybe they should be giving it away free to solve this problem which they caused...
I wish this had been released back when they originally said it would be. If they've improved the security as much as they say they have this should drive down the number of zombies that are responsible for spam and comment spam etc...
What the hell just happened to the "Reply to this" links - they were here a minute ago. Slashdot's best asset is the quality of the discussions, and that's only possible because of nested comments!
Yeah, I wish this had been released back when they originally said it would be. If they've improved the security as much as they say they have this should drive down the number of zombies that are responsible for spam and comment spam etc...
Wow, SCO still exists! I thought they'd have gone bankrupt by now - I can't inagine many people buying anything from them voluntarily and last time I heard that court case wasn't going too well...
The thing about ATMs is that you know how much cash you have in your account so you can see that the figures are correct. If your balance changes by the wrong amount or at times when you did not withdraw any cash you can easily see that there is a problem. Even so, in the early 90s the British banking system almost collapsed (although it was never disclosed to the public at the time) due to dodgy code being used in ATM systems (proof that mission critical secure systems have been cracked before but in the case of ATMs it was detectable).
With electronic voting you have no idea whether your vote was counted or whether the final results match the way people voted. Paper trails are pointless too, as all they do is prove that you voted, not who you voted for (for obvious reasons).
I live in Europe and used to have an imported Japanese PC Engine with Japanese versions of both Bomberman '93 and Bomberman '94. I'm wondering if Hudson Soft only made an English version of Bomberman '93 - that would explain why they would release that instead of Bomberman '94 in the US...
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What the hell are you talking about? I pointed out the strange text from the article: "the studios' new operating system", and then asked why MS was so friendly to the studios. I didn't mention Apple once, or even seem to.
I think that just about sums it up. Why is MS in the studios' pockets anyway?
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I don't think it does FOSS's image any good for Linux to be associated with virus writers.
An aside - it's interesting how most successful modern viruses aren't really as harmful as they could be on the machines they infect. Sure they often zombify the machine, but to the uneduacted user this just means the machine runs a little slower than before. If a virus were to successfully infect many machines and then format all of their harddrives on a designated day a couple of months later I think there would be a lot of pissed off users looking to change OS...
Damn :(
I wouldn't mind seeing those links so I can run a translation program on them. Also, do you know what's being done to appeal this stupid decision?
A Danish court recently ruled against a Danish ISP and ordered it to block all access to the site Allofmp3.com. According to the ruling, the ISP is willingly infringing copyright if it's customers use AllofMP3 to download music.
The verdict could have very strong implications for the future. It clearly states that an ISP can be held liable for temporarily (milliseconds) storing infringing data on their routers. This means that ISPs can be forced to block websites, if the court decides that these sites are mainly used to spread "illegal" content.
Read more here and here...
I didn't know that Munich's Linux/OSS deployment has been a "high-profile failure". Links please.
Time to roll out this classic quote from the man himself:
... is patent exchanges ... and patenting as much as we can. ... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors." -- Bill Gates, 1991
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today. The solution
> I say we're already in a dark age- an age where spirituality has been forgotten in favor of secularism
For someone with your username, you obviously don't know too much about Marxism!
"Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again". -- Karl Marx
And this too (requires sound).
How about the JVM, seriously?
Is this a new kind of troll? Either way it's annoying seeing this post pop up in every other discussion...
Microsoft must take some of the blame for this. Windows' lack of security has led to these huge Windows botnets, and the only way to solve the problem is for these boxes to switch to a more secure OS. If Vista has really fixed the security issue as Microsoft claims, maybe they should be giving it away free to solve this problem which they caused...
I wish this had been released back when they originally said it would be. If they've improved the security as much as they say they have this should drive down the number of zombies that are responsible for spam and comment spam etc...
What the hell just happened to the "Reply to this" links - they were here a minute ago. Slashdot's best asset is the quality of the discussions, and that's only possible because of nested comments!
Yeah, I wish this had been released back when they originally said it would be. If they've improved the security as much as they say they have this should drive down the number of zombies that are responsible for spam and comment spam etc...
Wow, SCO still exists! I thought they'd have gone bankrupt by now - I can't inagine many people buying anything from them voluntarily and last time I heard that court case wasn't going too well...
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The thing about ATMs is that you know how much cash you have in your account so you can see that the figures are correct. If your balance changes by the wrong amount or at times when you did not withdraw any cash you can easily see that there is a problem. Even so, in the early 90s the British banking system almost collapsed (although it was never disclosed to the public at the time) due to dodgy code being used in ATM systems (proof that mission critical secure systems have been cracked before but in the case of ATMs it was detectable).
With electronic voting you have no idea whether your vote was counted or whether the final results match the way people voted. Paper trails are pointless too, as all they do is prove that you voted, not who you voted for (for obvious reasons).
I live in Europe and used to have an imported Japanese PC Engine with Japanese versions of both Bomberman '93 and Bomberman '94. I'm wondering if Hudson Soft only made an English version of Bomberman '93 - that would explain why they would release that instead of Bomberman '94 in the US...
I'm really hoping that Microsoft manages to make Vista secure. Until we secure the majority of home PCs this problem will only get worse :(
Sorry, I should have said "home" platform - the PC Engine/TurboGrafx was co-developed by Hudson Soft and NEC...