Ok, lets see. I am Japan Steel Company and as an act of charity I will donate free steel to any non profit organization in the US. Would this be allowed?
Unlike steel the real costs of providing software product to thousands of charities to M$ could be close to $0 (Register here for free Office download) while the industry (eg. M$ comtpetition) would feel the effects of this dumping as the group of potential customers for cheap and alternative software would shrink at no cost to M$.
Sounds like an anti-trust violation to me. Guess M$ will just have to make a few more "donations" in DC and on the hill.
I see this Apple comparison all the time but the big difference is Apple took a look at something that was totally new and dying. Xerox had or was about to pull the plug on the GUI and the Alto and the engineers were looking at layoffs.
The typical M$ plan is to wait for someone else to do all the ground work, establish a product and gain some market share then M$ will jump in and try to take over and rewrite history.
This should be brought up whenever M$ tries to use the word innovate.
The article also mentions that "While Microsoft has confirmed that the flaw does exist, it's important to note that actually exploiting it would be difficult, for several reasons... etc."
The security of your personal and financial information is of the utmost importance to us. Your access to Internet banking is secured through the use of firewalls, cryptographic techniques and stringent internal access procedures. In addition, we have regular and independent audits on our computer banking systems to ensure that security meets or exceeds banking standards.
As you may already know, we use secure 128-bit encryption - one of the highest forms of encryption technology available today. Encryption scrambles all information between your personal computer and our computers and guarantees one of the highest levels of security, privacy and confidentiality. There are literally thousands of millions of possible "passwords", or combinations of 128 bits. In order to unscramble the information, someone would need to find a digital "key", or a very large password. This requires months, or even years of calculations using sophisticated computers. It took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer time to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by author Simon Singh in his international bestseller ``The Code Book.'' Since the key changes with every connection (*session* encryption), the calculations would have to be performed all over again when unscrambling additional information.
As you know, the Internet banking service does not provide access to cash withdrawals. In the case of an account discrepancy, however, we would trace the details of the transaction using our complete audit trails. If your Internet Banking password does not work and requires a password reset in order to access the secure site, we must follow a stringent verification process to validate your identity. Once the password is reset, you are required to follow the registration process before gaining entry.
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I got my training in science and worked for a number of years supporting applications on industrial computers. What a joy it was to sit in a room full of industry specialist and PHD scientist solving problems intelligently. I must of learned something interesting every day. I was involved and challenged and being productive with productive people.
I left to join the.com revolution and learned fast how much it sucked to work under people who had absolutely no knowledge of the industry they thought they were working in. The company taught me to love Dilbert and start the day with a Guinness. I kept a pint glass next to my workstation like some demented coffee cup waiting for some unlucky suit to make a deal of it. It never happened, Somebody must of told them "don't put your fingers near the programmers or you could loose them".
Now I work mostly with advertising agency types and I have learned to take every thing with a grain of salt. While sitting in on a "high level" meeting watching adults act like children arguing over slight changes to stupid advertisements I sit back and relax and keep this thought in my mind "Its only ink on paper. Thank God they are not building bridges"
The really sorry part is that each of these morons is making more money then their counterparts in science. (Same is true for trained seals, I mean pro sports players.) Prepare to take a cut in salary if you want to do anything really important. Irony?
Cheers,
-Saying Windows has security problems is like running into a burning theater and yelling fire.
I agree, My clients save a lot of money by having me start with free software and using the "glue" approach build a custom system.
During development I communicate with the various free software authors and the improvements we create are put back into the projects. We have even hired these free software developers to add features and fix bugs in there own software.
My clients need to use software, they are not reselling it.
My definition of "Copyright pirates" are groups often media giants, who collect copyrights created by others often stealing them and when enough are collected they are used as a weapon against others often those who do or would actually create new material.
Pirates are not individuals but corporations, have you ever seen a pirate dingy? Have you ever seen an individual threaten to drag a court battle to infinity and convince the court to give up? Its time to get political or loose it all.
All big media wants you to have is a remote control with a buy button on it.
M$ should pay bug finders, but instead M$ will convince the Gov that talking about security holes is a crime and we will have corporate welfare enforced by laws protecting a monolopy.
What will Culp have to say about grace period offenders? "It's like shouting fire in a burning theatre."
These "exploits" are being distributed to discredit TCP/IP to allow M$ to switch 95% of the worlds computers to a proprietary networking protocol that M$ owns and controls in the interest of "safety".
"Its the protocol that is weak, allow us to fix it" M$ will say. And in the eyes of the public they will save the day.
When ever you see a M$ exploit in the news that just says computer virus call the paper or write a letter and set the record straight. Lets put the FUD on our side.
Its the BSD license that has allowed M$ to steal TCP/IP and kebrose (to name only two that started on BSD) if Microsoft had incorporated this new ATA code into XP it would be ok because they don't redistribute the source code. Linux is being held to a higher standard because it includes the source. Funny how that works with BSD.
Has the time come to stop using the BSD license and support the GNU?
BSD=code for free and Bill Gates gets to keep it.
GNU=code for free and screw Bill Gates.
While I agree that if BSD code by Schmidt was used he should be credited but I would like to appeal to Schmidt to use the GNU and stop the bigger problem.
An embeded linux computer opens valves and reads sensors allowing automatic home brewing. Drop in malt, hops, yeast and water in one end of the device and connect a beer tap to the other. This could be a good project to get hosted on SourceForge.
The Wall Street Journal article says the proprietary software formats include"digital-rights management, which can "lock" copyright protected songs"
Do these "locks" turn off after copyright has expired? If not then I would call them "more-than-your-rights management". Assuming fair use counts for nothing with these proprietary software formats.
As you may have noticed new Sony audio CD players refuse to play home made CDs. This is the software equivalent of Windoze refusing to play MP3s.
Copyright is clearly not working as intended when artist have no chance of owning their own creative work and corporations who are unable to create own everything. The protection should be to the creator and should be lessened when the rights to a work passes to a second party. I don't think Sony and M$ were intended to be included in "We the People..."
My favorite photo on the site is the one where a hand is using a shoe horn to get the cat into the bottle. I am still chuckling. Hope this does not lead to banning everything funny. Wait, thats not funny;)...
This kind of stuff happens when large companies buy smaller fast rising ones. Some Sun manager is staking out territory by announcing a change to the product that would include his department thus increasing the number of people who work for him making him a "more imporntant manager".
The Cube although kinda cool, is no killer app. There is no need to create a new Solaris for it. A much easier plan would be to port over any Sun tools that were needed. And Sun porting Solaris to MIPS sounds pretty unlikely. The indended end users of the Cube would never see the OS anyway all the admin is done from web pages.
I think the reason the Cube uses MIPS is because there are fewer linux projects/software for Cobalt to have to deal with the service issues that would be created when people hack it. btw. the Cube does not even include a restore CD this must be purchased for $100.
I have a friend who buys sympathy greeting cards and crosses out the copy and writes in his own greeting. His reason, the card companies monitor the sales so closely the purchase of a couple of sympathy cards instead of birthday cards will modify what is being marketed, ipso facto one less sappy commercial for birthday cards.
A few years ago I filled in the cards for Neilson on TV habits. I don't watch a lot of TV but decided to have fun with the cards. I went through the cards and chose whatever I thought was the strangest combinations of shows. Monty Python followed by the Woman's Channel followed by Roller Derby followed by Martha Stewart. Great fun.
I always wanted to use those Air Miles cards everyone is using to get credits for stuff but I don't want to sell my consumer sole in the process. My idea is gain access to a mag stripe duplicator, dupe a few cards (I am not talking about credit cards) and give them to a few people who have very different buying patterns (send a couple across the country). The data collected wont represent anyone and will reduce the value of the entire database.
Sony has been very quiet about Linux. This jump by M$ into the game market hopefully will spark Sony into investing into Linux as an alternative. We all know the tech reasons how about the biz? Sony has to pay for every copy of M$ it installs but when a customer has a problem Sony gets the call. Sony has to maintain the call centers and pay the staff either way. How about Sony help to improve Linux on the desktop, give it away and use its giant powers to support it.
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Ok, lets see. I am Japan Steel Company and as an act of charity I will donate free steel to any non profit organization in the US. Would this be allowed?
Unlike steel the real costs of providing software product to thousands of charities to M$ could be close to $0 (Register here for free Office download) while the industry (eg. M$ comtpetition) would feel the effects of this dumping as the group of potential customers for cheap and alternative software would shrink at no cost to M$.
Sounds like an anti-trust violation to me.
Guess M$ will just have to make a few more "donations" in DC and on the hill.
Hey, this worm can't exist. I just searched MicroSoft.
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That sure is a bad one, thanks for pointing it out I will add it to my list of "why we don't use M$ products".
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-Saying Windows has security problems is like running into a burning theater and yelling fire.
I see this Apple comparison all the time but the big difference is Apple took a look at something that was totally new and dying. Xerox had or was about to pull the plug on the GUI and the Alto and the engineers were looking at layoffs.
The typical M$ plan is to wait for someone else to do all the ground work, establish a product and gain some market share then M$ will jump in and try to take over and rewrite history.
This should be brought up whenever M$ tries to use the word innovate.
Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
The article also mentions that "While Microsoft has confirmed that the flaw
does exist, it's important to note that actually exploiting it would be
difficult, for several reasons... etc."
The security of your personal and financial information is of the utmost
importance to us. Your access to Internet banking is secured through the use
of firewalls, cryptographic techniques and stringent internal access
procedures. In addition, we have regular and independent audits on our
computer banking systems to ensure that security meets or exceeds banking
standards.
As you may already know, we use secure 128-bit encryption - one of the
highest forms of encryption technology available today. Encryption scrambles
all information between your personal computer and our computers and
guarantees one of the highest levels of security, privacy and
confidentiality. There are literally thousands of millions of possible
"passwords", or combinations of 128 bits. In order to unscramble the
information, someone would need to find a digital "key", or a very large
password. This requires months, or even years of calculations using
sophisticated computers. It took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of
computer time to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by author
Simon Singh in his international bestseller ``The Code Book.'' Since the key
changes with every connection (*session* encryption), the calculations would
have to be performed all over again when unscrambling additional
information.
As you know, the Internet banking service does not provide access to cash
withdrawals. In the case of an account discrepancy, however, we would trace
the details of the transaction using our complete audit trails. If your
Internet Banking password does not work and requires a password reset in
order to access the secure site, we must follow a stringent verification
process to validate your identity. Once the password is reset, you are
required to follow the registration process before gaining entry.
We welcome comments and suggestions about the content of future upgrades to
our on-line services. Your remarks have been noted for review with the PC
and Internet Banking team.
I got my training in science and worked for a number of years supporting applications on industrial computers. What a joy it was to sit in a room full of industry specialist and PHD scientist solving problems intelligently. I must of learned something interesting every day. I was involved and challenged and being productive with productive people.
.com revolution and learned fast how much it sucked to work under people who had absolutely no knowledge of the industry they thought they were working in. The company taught me to love Dilbert and start the day with a Guinness. I kept a pint glass next to my workstation like some demented coffee cup waiting for some unlucky suit to make a deal of it. It never happened, Somebody must of told them "don't put your fingers near the programmers or you could loose them".
I left to join the
Now I work mostly with advertising agency types and I have learned to take every thing with a grain of salt. While sitting in on a "high level" meeting watching adults act like children arguing over slight changes to stupid advertisements I sit back and relax and keep this thought in my mind "Its only ink on paper. Thank God they are not building bridges"
The really sorry part is that each of these morons is making more money then their counterparts in science. (Same is true for trained seals, I mean pro sports players.) Prepare to take a cut in salary if you want to do anything really important. Irony?
Cheers,
-Saying Windows has security problems is like running into a burning theater and yelling fire.
If the vulnerability was reported to M$ and is only becoming public now then it must be fixed.
I agree, My clients save a lot of money by having me start with free software and using the "glue" approach build a custom system.
During development I communicate with the various free software authors and the improvements we create are put back into the projects. We have even hired these free software developers to add features and fix bugs in there own software.
My clients need to use software, they are not reselling it.
My definition of "Copyright pirates" are groups often media giants, who collect copyrights created by others often stealing them and when enough are collected they are used as a weapon against others often those who do or would actually create new material.
Pirates are not individuals but corporations, have you ever seen a pirate dingy? Have you ever seen an individual threaten to drag a court battle to infinity and convince the court to give up? Its time to get political or loose it all.
All big media wants you to have is a remote control with a buy button on it.
You could build a fire safe vault in the basement to put the backup drive into.
This would also be useful to prevent theft of your precious home data.
M$ should pay bug finders, but instead M$ will convince the Gov that talking about security holes is a crime and we will have corporate welfare enforced by laws protecting a monolopy.
What will Culp have to say about grace period offenders? "It's like shouting fire in a burning theatre."
These "exploits" are being distributed to discredit TCP/IP to allow M$ to switch 95% of the worlds computers to a proprietary networking protocol that M$ owns and controls in the interest of "safety".
"Its the protocol that is weak, allow us to fix it" M$ will say. And in the eyes of the public they will save the day.
When ever you see a M$ exploit in the news that just says computer virus call the paper or write a letter and set the record straight. Lets put the FUD on our side.
GNU or get out.
Its the BSD license that has allowed M$ to steal TCP/IP and kebrose (to name only two that started on BSD) if Microsoft had incorporated this new ATA code into XP it would be ok because they don't redistribute the source code. Linux is being held to a higher standard because it includes the source. Funny how that works with BSD.
Has the time come to stop using the BSD license and support the GNU?
BSD=code for free and Bill Gates gets to keep it.
GNU=code for free and screw Bill Gates.
While I agree that if BSD code by Schmidt was used he should be credited but I would like to appeal to Schmidt to use the GNU and stop the bigger problem.
Even wired networks should be built this way, all it takes is one workstation to have a 802.11 card and the network is wireless.
Free beer software. Even RMS likes it.
This car has a 1000cc engine that makes 100hp
Do these "locks" turn off after copyright has expired? If not then I would call them "more-than-your-rights management". Assuming fair use counts for nothing with these proprietary software formats.
As you may have noticed new Sony audio CD players refuse to play home made CDs. This is the software equivalent of Windoze refusing to play MP3s.
Copyright is clearly not working as intended when artist have no chance of owning their own creative work and corporations who are unable to create own everything. The protection should be to the creator and should be lessened when the rights to a work passes to a second party. I don't think Sony and M$ were intended to be included in "We the People..."
"There are no such things as Windows experts as they have all signed a NDA and don't talk about such things"
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT, INC. of Michigan ownes the trade mark. Can they sue the FBI?
My favorite photo on the site is the one where a hand is using a shoe horn to get the cat into the bottle. I am still chuckling. Hope this does not lead to banning everything funny. Wait, thats not funny ;)...
http://technocrat.net/968215914/index_html
The Cube although kinda cool, is no killer app. There is no need to create a new Solaris for it. A much easier plan would be to port over any Sun tools that were needed. And Sun porting Solaris to MIPS sounds pretty unlikely. The indended end users of the Cube would never see the OS anyway all the admin is done from web pages.
I think the reason the Cube uses MIPS is because there are fewer linux projects/software for Cobalt to have to deal with the service issues that would be created when people hack it. btw. the Cube does not even include a restore CD this must be purchased for $100.
A few years ago I filled in the cards for Neilson on TV habits. I don't watch a lot of TV but decided to have fun with the cards. I went through the cards and chose whatever I thought was the strangest combinations of shows. Monty Python followed by the Woman's Channel followed by Roller Derby followed by Martha Stewart. Great fun.
I always wanted to use those Air Miles cards everyone is using to get credits for stuff but I don't want to sell my consumer sole in the process. My idea is gain access to a mag stripe duplicator, dupe a few cards (I am not talking about credit cards) and give them to a few people who have very different buying patterns (send a couple across the country). The data collected wont represent anyone and will reduce the value of the entire database.
Sony has been very quiet about Linux. This jump by M$ into the game market hopefully will spark Sony into investing into Linux as an alternative. We all know the tech reasons how about the biz? Sony has to pay for every copy of M$ it installs but when a customer has a problem Sony gets the call. Sony has to maintain the call centers and pay the staff either way. How about Sony help to improve Linux on the desktop, give it away and use its giant powers to support it.