..terrorists never use basic things such as food and goods shipping, gold and silver markets, thievery, retail sales, or anything else of the sort.
This is someone sitting back in the headquarters of a firm which has lost its way with the world saying, "How can we shake Congress into action on these fronts?" With a snap of their fingers they say "Terrorism! Piracy supports terrorism!"
Is it true? Certainly! And again, it's just as true as every other occupation or activity in the world that can generate revenue - at some point that activity is used by terrorism.
We cannot lose sight of reality in our pursuit of justice.
Yea, that's great. Let's give employers access to that data too! Then they can screen folks who have diseases or "chronic problems" that they don't want to deal with.
Medical information in a database? Are you fucking nuts? Yea, if it was SECURE I'd be all for it. But it won't be. And guaran-goddamned-tee life insurance companies will want access to it as soon as it's available. "Mr. Schkerke we see here that you weighed 300 pounds in 1996. Even though you only currently weight 150 pounds now we're going to have to charge you the overweight rate." Don't think that won't happen? For Christ's sake look at the Finnish double taxxing radio broadcasts. Buy a record, pay taxes to listen! Look at the crazy bullshit the RIAA is trying.
Government is nothing more than a corporate whore. The sooner you people realize this the better. The government does NOTHING to help you personally. Everything they do is approved and endorsed by some corporation whose got their dick stuck up their reprsentatives' ass.
Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."
Holy shit! That alone may be worth my privacy and soul! No more X10 ads! WHOOOO!
I find your recent ruling and jailing of Mr. Paul Trummel to be misinformed and malicious to the extent that you cannot possibly be serving the interest of the public at large in your position. The freedom of speech is granted to all citizens, paid or not, in all venues, whether paper or electronic. I am using my right to freedom of speech right now to fairly criticize you and your actions.
I hope, for the sake of the Seattle Metropolitan area and the United States at large that your decision is overturned by a Superior Court. I believe it will be undoubtedly. The only injustice being done is the fact that you are capable of jailing an outspoken writer until your decisions are overturned. The legal system in the United States cannot stand such abuse sir.
Your position is precarious. Your decision is wrong. You have, by your stubborness to consider the larger view beyond your court room, contributed to the ever increasing rot in the United States Judicial System. I expect I would be jailed as well for this email if I were in your jurisdiction. Like the original founding fathers of this country that is a chance I take to fight oppression such as you represent.
[quote]Softimage signing a contract with Syn'x Relief to integrate the unique functions of Character into its own package, Softimage 3D. However, the integration was delayed until, at the start of 1994, a new agreement was put to Character's developers: They would have to sign over all their rights to Softimage if they wanted to continue.[/quote]
Contract was originally signed; coercion was tried to force Character developers to give up more rights; Character developers refused and walked away from the deal. In the middle of this MIcrosoft purchased SoftImage.
One function was removed; eight stayed. Microsoft was given plenty of notice and didn't act on it.
It wasn't "outright" code theft. There was a licensing agreement that was violated.
Microsoft has been known in the past to include BSD code. (It's TCP/IP stack is one example.) This "habit" is probably why they don't like GPL code - they prefer to quietly integrate the code.
Why another article? Oh ffs shut up. Why another article? Because Microsoft getting fined for this sort of thing will garner more attention than the Peruvian Senator. Although, truth be known, I want him as a US Senator.
Old post but I admire anyone who can say they're wrong.:)
On the plus side his post was informative to me. While I'm familiar with Interfaces I'm still fumbling about with the number of objects that MS has made available inside the.Net framework.
There literally is one for taking out the garbage.
Here's the catch about why snail mail spam is less bothersome than email:
Someone sat down and put that together. Then, they -paid- someone to send it out. We receive it, and chunk it. (Sometimes it's worthwhile and I check it out.) Snail mail spam does more marketing research and has a greater chance of hitting home. (I don't receive penis enlargement offers in snail mail.)
Email is different. First, people pay money to receive email. Whether that money is $20.00/month for your ISP or a per email charge (anywhere now?) - I PAY THAT CHARGE. And then some fucknut company wants to come and use what -I- paid for to advertise to me? Fuck you.
It's the same principle as faxes. Since there is, directly or indirectly, an end user cost, it's not allowed. (Yes, spamming by fax is illegal in most states of the U. S. because it incurs cost on the receiver, not the sender.)
-shrug- I've been looking at using C# in the ASP.NET model as a backend for our application here (porting over to a thin client) and have been amazed at the level of effort that Microsoft put into making ASP.NET backwards compatible.
While ASP.NET does work better and faster when running under Internet Explorer than under Netscape Navigator the web pages when viewed using Netscape remain completely capable; there is no loss of functionality due to browser change.
As for C# itself it's a language that's meant to keep the system clean. By automating things such as garbage collection, ensuring that variables must be initialized before use, and making the passing of reference and value types more distinct, it does what it sets out to do - ensures that the programmer can concentrate on -high level- stuff rather than low level - and not worry about whether or not he's causing a buffer overrun because he's working at 2AM and 3 weeks behind a deadline.
C# is -not- Win32 specific. I can't wait for Miguel to get his port of the CLR done so I can start using it as a language under the Linux platform. I personally view C# as a -great- programming language. I viewed it with distaste when I began but now very much think of it in a positive manner.
As for why Microsoft - we run MS SQL 7 on the backend; we're not going to switch to Oracle just so our database server can move to a *nix variant, ASP.NET integrates (quite, quite nicely) with MS SQL. This move does alleviate our requirement to run Win32 desktops which was a goal of mine (whether or not our networking department makes that shift is up to -them- but I don't want to be blamed for locking us into a Microsoft shop) - only our backend needs to remain Microsoft.
Mod as a troll or flamebait as you like. This is just my opinion.:)
..begin to grasp. The human mind, IMHO, cannot truly appreciate the many paradoxes that come with the terms "infinite" and "eternal." Indeed, the very use of those terms is seen by some as negating many of the very scientific laws that we currently live our lives by.
Wrap your mind around it for a bit and try to appreciate what is being said here. The universe will expand and contract.. but what force is causing the expansion and contraction? Is it a natural extension of some force that we've yet to appropriately measure?
And no, I'm not spouting about God. I simply like to point out holes in the "scientific" world we live in.:)
Heh, it applies to every discussion on Slashdot because 99% of the users and readers here need a good English lesson.
:P
Who's idea was it to intermingle data with..
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..multimedia? Give me a DVD drive that only stores data then. I don't watch movies on my PC! What, because our processors are fast enough to decode movies you think we should?
Here's a hint: I don't give a fuck about movies. I don't want to watch them. I don't care whether or not they encode them. But I do NOT want to deal with more fucking hassle and incompatibilities when it comes to my hardware - it's a big enough issue at the moment. And this type of bullshit will cause just that - more harassment and problems. I can see tech support now: "We're sorry sir but that blue screen only comes up when you try and circumvent the protection and we won't help you fix that." Yea, right. Fsck off!
Like it'll help anyway. If Microsoft, who designs the operating system, can't make their security system safe, what makes you think that THIS will be safe?
Fact is that the Pentium Pro itself was a marketing failure. While you go on to state that the future lines of Intel chipsets were based on the Pentium Pro that is and isn't true. The PPro when considered alone, was a dismal retail failure.
Consider me an MBA if you'd like. I'm fairly close to that.
AMD's newest chip is supposedly fairly remarkable (don't have specifics, see Tom's Hardware's search engine). What about the Crusoe? VIA's purchase of (I believe) the M3? I wouldn't look at companies that are currently in the business only - I would tend to look at companies that might move into the business, either via investment, startup, or outright purchase.
I'm not too worried about Itaniums, and I don't see them becoming prevalent for quite a while. While the Pentium II, III, and IV moved through the marketplace fairly rapidly they all offered compatibility at some level. If I recall correctly 32 bit programs that are not rewritten for 64 bit run SLOWER on the Itanium than they do the equivalent Pentium line.
In essence consider this: it's like a brand new operating system attempting to break into the monopoly that Microsoft has. (Parallels drawn out of necessity.) While it may be better, faster, superior in every way it doesn't have 20+ years of legacy code behind it - and that will end up being what drags it down.
Does this mean that Linux devs and Microsoft agree that full disclosure is bad?
The kernel is the one thing on my systems that I don't update all that regularly. Mostly because it tends to trash my systems out for whatever reason - so I can see where keeping the security changes out might obfuscate openings for people. But then again - if I know that someone can break into my system because I'm running 2.2.13 - I'm more likely to upgrade, fixing the problem.
I don't remember whether it was 43 days or not, but yes, there was a Windows 95 bug that was like this. (It was above 30 days as well.) I ran into it. (Yes, I ran Windows 95 for more than 30 days. No, the average user can't keep their system clean enough to do it for the most part. Yes, I did. Yes, I still think Windows 95 is a world better than 3.1.)
As for a memory leak, it's one of the most common errors you can have. 3 weeks is still a pretty good time frame; the fix was out very quickly; it was made public, the how and why of it. These are things you won't see with closed source companies. Bash RedHat all you want, truth is their internal programs just simply don't get the exposure the rest of Linux per se does, so some bugs slip by.
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..terrorists never use basic things such as food and goods shipping, gold and silver markets, thievery, retail sales, or anything else of the sort.
This is someone sitting back in the headquarters of a firm which has lost its way with the world saying, "How can we shake Congress into action on these fronts?" With a snap of their fingers they say "Terrorism! Piracy supports terrorism!"
Is it true? Certainly! And again, it's just as true as every other occupation or activity in the world that can generate revenue - at some point that activity is used by terrorism.
We cannot lose sight of reality in our pursuit of justice.
Don't you mean..
..the Spammish Inquisition?
Bork! Bork! Bork!
Yea, that's great. Let's give employers access to that data too! Then they can screen folks who have diseases or "chronic problems" that they don't want to deal with.
Medical information in a database? Are you fucking nuts? Yea, if it was SECURE I'd be all for it. But it won't be. And guaran-goddamned-tee life insurance companies will want access to it as soon as it's available. "Mr. Schkerke we see here that you weighed 300 pounds in 1996. Even though you only currently weight 150 pounds now we're going to have to charge you the overweight rate." Don't think that won't happen? For Christ's sake look at the Finnish double taxxing radio broadcasts. Buy a record, pay taxes to listen! Look at the crazy bullshit the RIAA is trying.
Government is nothing more than a corporate whore. The sooner you people realize this the better. The government does NOTHING to help you personally. Everything they do is approved and endorsed by some corporation whose got their dick stuck up their reprsentatives' ass.
And that's not just in the US either.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."
Holy shit! That alone may be worth my privacy and soul! No more X10 ads! WHOOOO!
Judge's Email: james.doerty@metrokc.govn derson.shtml
Reliable Link: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0212/news-a
Dear Sir:
I find your recent ruling and jailing of Mr. Paul Trummel to be misinformed and malicious to the extent that you cannot possibly be serving the interest of the public at large in your position. The freedom of speech is granted to all citizens, paid or not, in all venues, whether paper or electronic. I am using my right to freedom of speech right now to fairly criticize you and your actions.
I hope, for the sake of the Seattle Metropolitan area and the United States at large that your decision is overturned by a Superior Court. I believe it will be undoubtedly. The only injustice being done is the fact that you are capable of jailing an outspoken writer until your decisions are overturned. The legal system in the United States cannot stand such abuse sir.
Your position is precarious. Your decision is wrong. You have, by your stubborness to consider the larger view beyond your court room, contributed to the ever increasing rot in the United States Judicial System. I expect I would be jailed as well for this email if I were in your jurisdiction. Like the original founding fathers of this country that is a chance I take to fight oppression such as you represent.
A good day to you sir.
Registered Voter
United States Citizen
Why isn't this on the front page?
More support from mainstream companies like Intel means more recognizable brand names associated with Linux which means more "reputation."
:)
I still use gcc just because everything I have (theKompany's KSG, for instance) is presetup for gcc.
Maybe I'll play with the Intel compiler though I do nothing that "intensive." Most of my stuff waits on the user.
.:|T
Apparently not.
"The right to fair use is present but more difficult to use; that does not mean it isn't present."
Uh, yea. Okay.. when are our judges going to get their tongues off the corporate dicks and balls of America?
Fucking disgusts me.
Ergh, okay, you're right from what I can tell.
:)
[quote]Softimage signing a contract with Syn'x Relief to integrate the unique functions of Character into its own package, Softimage 3D. However, the integration was delayed until, at the start of 1994, a new agreement was put to Character's developers: They would have to sign over all their rights to Softimage if they wanted to continue.[/quote]
Contract was originally signed; coercion was tried to force Character developers to give up more rights; Character developers refused and walked away from the deal. In the middle of this MIcrosoft purchased SoftImage.
One function was removed; eight stayed. Microsoft was given plenty of notice and didn't act on it.
I stand corrected.
Ah, thank you.
:)
I had genuinely wondered what statute spamming by fax was covered under. Now I know.
.:|T
It wasn't "outright" code theft. There was a licensing agreement that was violated.
Microsoft has been known in the past to include BSD code. (It's TCP/IP stack is one example.) This "habit" is probably why they don't like GPL code - they prefer to quietly integrate the code.
Why another article? Oh ffs shut up. Why another article? Because Microsoft getting fined for this sort of thing will garner more attention than the Peruvian Senator. Although, truth be known, I want him as a US Senator.
Old post but I admire anyone who can say they're wrong. :)
.Net framework.
On the plus side his post was informative to me. While I'm familiar with Interfaces I'm still fumbling about with the number of objects that MS has made available inside the
There literally is one for taking out the garbage.
.:|T
Here's the catch about why snail mail spam is less bothersome than email:
Someone sat down and put that together. Then, they -paid- someone to send it out. We receive it, and chunk it. (Sometimes it's worthwhile and I check it out.) Snail mail spam does more marketing research and has a greater chance of hitting home. (I don't receive penis enlargement offers in snail mail.)
Email is different. First, people pay money to receive email. Whether that money is $20.00/month for your ISP or a per email charge (anywhere now?) - I PAY THAT CHARGE. And then some fucknut company wants to come and use what -I- paid for to advertise to me? Fuck you.
It's the same principle as faxes. Since there is, directly or indirectly, an end user cost, it's not allowed. (Yes, spamming by fax is illegal in most states of the U. S. because it incurs cost on the receiver, not the sender.)
.:|Talonius|:.
And hey, at least it's not C#. : )
:)
-shrug- I've been looking at using C# in the ASP.NET model as a backend for our application here (porting over to a thin client) and have been amazed at the level of effort that Microsoft put into making ASP.NET backwards compatible.
While ASP.NET does work better and faster when running under Internet Explorer than under Netscape Navigator the web pages when viewed using Netscape remain completely capable; there is no loss of functionality due to browser change.
As for C# itself it's a language that's meant to keep the system clean. By automating things such as garbage collection, ensuring that variables must be initialized before use, and making the passing of reference and value types more distinct, it does what it sets out to do - ensures that the programmer can concentrate on -high level- stuff rather than low level - and not worry about whether or not he's causing a buffer overrun because he's working at 2AM and 3 weeks behind a deadline.
C# is -not- Win32 specific. I can't wait for Miguel to get his port of the CLR done so I can start using it as a language under the Linux platform. I personally view C# as a -great- programming language. I viewed it with distaste when I began but now very much think of it in a positive manner.
As for why Microsoft - we run MS SQL 7 on the backend; we're not going to switch to Oracle just so our database server can move to a *nix variant, ASP.NET integrates (quite, quite nicely) with MS SQL. This move does alleviate our requirement to run Win32 desktops which was a goal of mine (whether or not our networking department makes that shift is up to -them- but I don't want to be blamed for locking us into a Microsoft shop) - only our backend needs to remain Microsoft.
Mod as a troll or flamebait as you like. This is just my opinion.
At my work (not an ISP or any sort of Internet provisioning company - we aren't even that big) we have a DS3, full, unmetered, $12k a month.
;P
Not bad considering each T1 was costing us $1250/month. (28 T1s = $28k, one DS3 is less than 50% of the cost.)
At least I can host controversial content.
..begin to grasp. The human mind, IMHO, cannot truly appreciate the many paradoxes that come with the terms "infinite" and "eternal." Indeed, the very use of those terms is seen by some as negating many of the very scientific laws that we currently live our lives by.
:)
Wrap your mind around it for a bit and try to appreciate what is being said here. The universe will expand and contract.. but what force is causing the expansion and contraction? Is it a natural extension of some force that we've yet to appropriately measure?
And no, I'm not spouting about God. I simply like to point out holes in the "scientific" world we live in.
.:|T|:.
Heh, it applies to every discussion on Slashdot because 99% of the users and readers here need a good English lesson.
:P
..multimedia? Give me a DVD drive that only stores data then. I don't watch movies on my PC! What, because our processors are fast enough to decode movies you think we should?
Here's a hint: I don't give a fuck about movies. I don't want to watch them. I don't care whether or not they encode them. But I do NOT want to deal with more fucking hassle and incompatibilities when it comes to my hardware - it's a big enough issue at the moment. And this type of bullshit will cause just that - more harassment and problems. I can see tech support now: "We're sorry sir but that blue screen only comes up when you try and circumvent the protection and we won't help you fix that." Yea, right. Fsck off!
Like it'll help anyway. If Microsoft, who designs the operating system, can't make their security system safe, what makes you think that THIS will be safe?
Obvious you can read.
I didn't say the PPro was a technical failure. I said it was a MARKETING failure.
Before you spout off at the mouth with random insults - READ.
I have a Pentium Pro 200 x 2 running in my office right now and I do like it. IT WAS NOT SUCCESSFULLY RECEIVED AT THE RETAIL LEVEL.
End of story.
Fact is that the Pentium Pro itself was a marketing failure. While you go on to state that the future lines of Intel chipsets were based on the Pentium Pro that is and isn't true. The PPro when considered alone, was a dismal retail failure.
Consider me an MBA if you'd like. I'm fairly close to that.
AMD's newest chip is supposedly fairly remarkable (don't have specifics, see Tom's Hardware's search engine). What about the Crusoe? VIA's purchase of (I believe) the M3? I wouldn't look at companies that are currently in the business only - I would tend to look at companies that might move into the business, either via investment, startup, or outright purchase.
I'm not too worried about Itaniums, and I don't see them becoming prevalent for quite a while. While the Pentium II, III, and IV moved through the marketplace fairly rapidly they all offered compatibility at some level. If I recall correctly 32 bit programs that are not rewritten for 64 bit run SLOWER on the Itanium than they do the equivalent Pentium line.
In essence consider this: it's like a brand new operating system attempting to break into the monopoly that Microsoft has. (Parallels drawn out of necessity.) While it may be better, faster, superior in every way it doesn't have 20+ years of legacy code behind it - and that will end up being what drags it down.
Only time will tell. Remember the Pentium Pros..
Talonius
Does this mean that Linux devs and Microsoft agree that full disclosure is bad?
The kernel is the one thing on my systems that I don't update all that regularly. Mostly because it tends to trash my systems out for whatever reason - so I can see where keeping the security changes out might obfuscate openings for people. But then again - if I know that someone can break into my system because I'm running 2.2.13 - I'm more likely to upgrade, fixing the problem.
-T
Worry about where it's going. :-) (I can see this happening in ten or twenty years btw..)
http://www.malepregnancy.com
http://www.genochoice.com
(I thought the links were pretty funny. :-))
-- Talonius
Heh, doesn't matter, it's back on the front page. ;-)
It was suggested that Slashdot rethink the posting of this piece, and apparently someone *DID.* Now you guys want excuses?
:-)
Pahlease.
-- Talonius
I don't remember whether it was 43 days or not, but yes, there was a Windows 95 bug that was like this. (It was above 30 days as well.) I ran into it. (Yes, I ran Windows 95 for more than 30 days. No, the average user can't keep their system clean enough to do it for the most part. Yes, I did. Yes, I still think Windows 95 is a world better than 3.1.)
As for a memory leak, it's one of the most common errors you can have. 3 weeks is still a pretty good time frame; the fix was out very quickly; it was made public, the how and why of it. These are things you won't see with closed source companies. Bash RedHat all you want, truth is their internal programs just simply don't get the exposure the rest of Linux per se does, so some bugs slip by.
-- Talonius