Authorities didn't want to tip their hand, but the signed text message wasn't the only information they were able to extract from the virus.
Through detailed analysis, investigators have been able to recover a JPEG image as well.
Based on this newly uncovered evidence in the case, apprehension of "Bad Andy" is expected sometime this morning; the suspect was last seen at a pizza parlor.
Now tell me if having to pay for postage has cut down on the level of unsoliceted mail arriving in you snailmail mailbox.
Excellent point.
I may be wrong, but from what I understand postage on that unsolicited bulk snail mail helps to keep the post office in business (even though they charge us mortals more for one-off mail).
The snail/digital analogy would be nicely completed if fees paid by spammers would be enough to help keep the Internet in business.
Always wait a few weeks into the semester to see if a textbook purchase is really worthwhile.
If the book looks useful to you personally, fine. But if it seems kind of dorky, and only gets used for the problem sets in it, consider your classmates copy, the library's reserve copy, and select photocopying as your friend.
I've really felt that arm-twisting should be hierarchal and delegated down through the chain of routers and ISPs.
If an ISP allows a subscriber to relay tons of UBE, then make them crack down on them or suffer the loss of all port 25 service at their own level. I think the policy scales nicely.
Before everyone gets all up in arms about this as a potential invasion of privacy I should point out that Utah's social homogeneity meant that only 4 actual dossiers had to be assembled -- everyone else's dossier was a symbolic link to one of those 4.
Given that the U.S Department of Justice wants VoIP technology to enable wiretaps for the purposes of criminal investigations and combatting terrorism, what prevents the government of the PRC from using that exact same technology to stamp out dissidents that advocate democracy, human rights, freedom of religion?
Really, what's a company to do in the worldwide marketplace?
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Microsoft is no competition in this area. Google wins by having a well-thought search system
As long as Google requires any money to keep up their well-thought search system they are vulnerable.
Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated that they are willing to suffer temporary financial losses in emerging markets as long as it takes; the margins on Windows and Office provide them with endurance that Google can not match.
God, I can't wait for that crazy motherfucker to go away.
Perhaps you could convince him that, to better drive home his point about the harmlessness of DDT, he could drink down a glass of water with a couple of teaspoonfuls of DDT in it:)
There's no question that much of the public can't distinguish rational analysis in an information space that is bounded on two sides.
One, by people who have a financial interest in externalizing some of their costs, be it leaky underground gasoline storage tanks, pesticide use, or cyanide leach-pit mining. If it's in someone's financial interest to convince you of something, then watch out.
Two, by people who stand to gain (power, influence, etc) by sensationalizing issues and making them emotional rather than rational. These are the peole responsible for widespread paranoia that accompanies mere mention of the world "nuclear".
It's unfortunate that rational analysis gets so little attention by the public. Probably it's gotten a lot less attention in the schools.
Meanwhile, we can sit back and get swayed by money and emotion.
A lot of artist prefer not to tour due to it making it virtually impossible to have a life.
I don't mean to sound hard-hearted, but most of the rest of us would prefer not to have to slug it out in the working world either because work obligations make it very difficult to have a life.
I encourage everyone to help cut out the middle-men that take more than they give; instead of buying an expensive CD go out and see music performed live the way it was meant to be.
Likewise, see a stage production with live actors instead of going to the big screen to see big explosions.
Otherwise they wouldn't have been forced to drastically lower the price of their offering.
That Microsoft is even able to change the price of their product so easily is a consequence of their monopoly control of the market.
Recall Thailand's Linux laptop project motivated MS to cut prices there. Needless to say, those kinds of prices were not available to buyers of Windows and Office in North America, Europe and Japan.
Probably one of the most overlooked aspects Microsoft's so-called Trusted Computing initiative (most people in this forum are afraid The Man will spy on them, erase their MP3's and make their old Word documents unreadable unless they keep current their Office subscription payments) is that by targeting contracts with defined individuals and machines, the commodity nature of its products is lessened (the software CD becomes non-transferrable)and it becomes even more feasible to discriminate in pricing than it is now.
Expect this development.
Having essentially conquered the market for desktop software Microsoft has to look at other alternatives for growth, which is what their shareholders demand.
But it is hard for Microsoft to grow now! Entering new markets is difficult for them because their actions will be scrutinized for unfair leveraging of their monopoly position. The remaining alternative is to adjust pricing to maximize revenue; get from each user what they can.
Thus, they might well charge a few rupees for their OS in India and hundreds of dollars for the same product in a large corporate environment in the United States.
With TCPA Windows, there will be no danger of the Indian licensee re-selling their copy of Windows to someone in the United States. Not only will such resale be "illegal", but it will become technically much less feasible than it is now.
And if it just ends up being a layer on top of NTFS that lets people sort their music and vacation pictures
A system like that could be quite valuable, even though the description doesn't sound like much.
I've often thought the concept of VFolders from Evolution could be introduced into *NIX filesystems to great benefit. Something like systems of symbolic links you can create to get alternate views of your nested directory structures.
Thus, one organizational structure might look like "./project_A" "./project_B", while an alternative view might show "./today" "./yesterday" and another ".html_files", ".png_files", etc. The idea being that different views of the same data can help you find stuff more easily because your context changes.
Sure, you can roll your own by hand system using symbolic links, find and grep, but ways of viewing filesystems with user-decidable hierarchal tree views could be useful. I've often longed for alternate bookmark organizations than just the one I get, but to have them presented orders based on a mixture of content keywords and dates, instead of just by date of bookmarking plus manual rearrangment.
Maybe there's even room for users to be able to define their own space of "/usr/local" if they decided the local sysadmin screwed it up...
I once got bit by the using sequential plus signs (I think it was some stupid comment line) while logged in over a dial-up connection on an ADM terminal many moons ago.
+++ means goodbye, for those too young to have dealt with ATDT and all that.
Usually, about the time they start going off about how government should work more like private enterprise, so it can be more "efficient."
Yes, there's definitely room for improvement in government.
Typically, though, I find the same people that whine about taxes being too high are also the same people that whine about government services being shoddy.
In the private sector, that phenomenon is known as
What's interesting about this is the media's role given the high stakes and their dependency on Microsoft's expenditure of ad dollars, giving writers early glimpses of products, etc..
But on one level, I'd guess that computer magazine editors and publishers would be loath to offend a big spender like Microsoft by publishing articles about Linux growth in the enterprise, etc.
And that might be true some places, to some extent.
On a deeper level, a cynic might suggest that computer magazines and web sites that run pro-Linux articles actually increase the need for Microsoft to invest more heavily in its advertising budget to counter the ebb in public opinion.
In the case of the Seattle paper in Microsoft's own backyard, the article probably just helps to gain local readers who are intensely interested in anything having to do with Microsoft, but probably more interested in the bad news because good news is plentiful and boring (MSFT stock price up again, repeat for two decades).
5. And as E911 services come on-line and your complete trajectory becomes available, how much discount on your cell phone bill will you get if you elect (assuming you can elect) to let your wireless provider release your whereabouts to others (which sounds to me like a perfect time to copyright the information and get onerous misguided laws to work for individuals for a change).
can't get the word of mouth advertising that money can't buy....
Wish I could remember the link, but IIRC one of the cell phone manufacturers, Ericsson, I think, had some advertising campaign where to promote their new line of cell phones with interactive games they deployed pairs of good-looking women in bars using the phones to play games. You can see where male bar patrons would suddenly become interested in being able to play games on the new phones.
I have to say, though, that the tactic might have to be modified in Microsoft's case.
I'd have a real weird feeling if I met some good-looking girl in bar using her laptop and extolling how well MSDN supported Visual Something. "My mother warned me about girls like you..."
As an worker bee I've been more in the camp of people who think
"What a brain-dead mail-bouncing program! This is the worst thing since the too conveniently placed Reply-to-all button."
but I always forget the intended audience these advertisements target; higher management with spending decision authority and little direct experience in today's trenches.
Of course, that always to leads to the inevitable awkward Dilbert moment:
Supervisor: "The CIO wants you to check into the feasibility of GlossyWare Pro for combatting MyDoom."
You: "Oh, yeah - right. I've, uh, seen some of their, uh, stuff going around."
Many Linux contributors are subsidized as students at a university or as employees of large corporations or governments who get paid to do things only tenuously related to their open source programming.
A demanding IT job where you're fighting brush fires 110% of the time is not conducive to being able to do programming on the side.
You need a source of livelihood that gives you enough slack time (and little to no family obligations) even to afford the time to invest in programming.
After you lose your job is not the time to decide to pour 12 months of effort into programming; you need a steady income, even if it's small, and a job and lifestyle that allows you to spend the tremendous time that successful projects require.
I want audio and video software as part of my OS, nicely bundled and integrated.
Microsoft is happy to provide that to you for a price.
Also, many people want telephone interfaces, cable TV recording management, and on-line bill-paying "as part of my OS, nicely bundled and integrated".
There's no question that a single dominant supplier can drive standards and do bundling and integration.
But it doesn't have to "be part of the OS", nor does it mean the price you pay will be efficient, nor that someone else might have been able to do a better job of bundling and integrating the software.
then you always end up with endless arguments about what constitutes a person or company's "net worth."
Now that tax preparation season is upon U.S. the CCR lyrics come to mind...
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, dont they help themselves
But when the tax man comes to the door,
Lord the house looks like a rummage sale
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Authorities didn't want to tip their hand, but the signed text message wasn't the only information they were able to extract from the virus.
Through detailed analysis, investigators have been able to recover a JPEG image as well.
Based on this newly uncovered evidence in the case, apprehension of "Bad Andy" is expected sometime this morning; the suspect was last seen at a pizza parlor.
Now tell me if having to pay for postage has cut down on the level of unsoliceted mail arriving in you snailmail mailbox.
Excellent point.
I may be wrong, but from what I understand postage on that unsolicited bulk snail mail helps to keep the post office in business (even though they charge us mortals more for one-off mail).
The snail/digital analogy would be nicely completed if fees paid by spammers would be enough to help keep the Internet in business.
Always wait a few weeks into the semester to see if a textbook purchase is really worthwhile.
If the book looks useful to you personally, fine. But if it seems kind of dorky, and only gets used for the problem sets in it, consider your classmates copy, the library's reserve copy, and select photocopying as your friend.
I've really felt that arm-twisting should be hierarchal and delegated down through the chain of routers and ISPs.
If an ISP allows a subscriber to relay tons of UBE, then make them crack down on them or suffer the loss of all port 25 service at their own level. I think the policy scales nicely.
Before everyone gets all up in arms about this as a potential invasion of privacy I should point out that Utah's social homogeneity meant that only 4 actual dossiers had to be assembled -- everyone else's dossier was a symbolic link to one of those 4.
Given that the U.S Department of Justice wants VoIP technology to enable wiretaps for the purposes of criminal investigations and combatting terrorism, what prevents the government of the PRC from using that exact same technology to stamp out dissidents that advocate democracy, human rights, freedom of religion?
Really, what's a company to do in the worldwide marketplace?
Microsoft is no competition in this area. Google wins by having a well-thought search system
As long as Google requires any money to keep up their well-thought search system they are vulnerable.
Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated that they are willing to suffer temporary financial losses in emerging markets as long as it takes; the margins on Windows and Office provide them with endurance that Google can not match.
God, I can't wait for that crazy motherfucker to go away.
Perhaps you could convince him that, to better drive home his point about the harmlessness of DDT, he could drink down a glass of water with a couple of teaspoonfuls of DDT in it:)
There's no question that much of the public can't distinguish rational analysis in an information space that is bounded on two sides.
One, by people who have a financial interest in externalizing some of their costs, be it leaky underground gasoline storage tanks, pesticide use, or cyanide leach-pit mining. If it's in someone's financial interest to convince you of something, then watch out.
Two, by people who stand to gain (power, influence, etc) by sensationalizing issues and making them emotional rather than rational. These are the peole responsible for widespread paranoia that accompanies mere mention of the world "nuclear".
It's unfortunate that rational analysis gets so little attention by the public. Probably it's gotten a lot less attention in the schools.
Meanwhile, we can sit back and get swayed by money and emotion.
A lot of artist prefer not to tour due to it making it virtually impossible to have a life.
I don't mean to sound hard-hearted, but most of the rest of us would prefer not to have to slug it out in the working world either because work obligations make it very difficult to have a life.
I encourage everyone to help cut out the middle-men that take more than they give; instead of buying an expensive CD go out and see music performed live the way it was meant to be.
Likewise, see a stage production with live actors instead of going to the big screen to see big explosions.
Otherwise they wouldn't have been forced to drastically lower the price of their offering.
That Microsoft is even able to change the price of their product so easily is a consequence of their monopoly control of the market.
Recall Thailand's Linux laptop project motivated MS to cut prices there. Needless to say, those kinds of prices were not available to buyers of Windows and Office in North America, Europe and Japan.
Probably one of the most overlooked aspects Microsoft's so-called Trusted Computing initiative (most people in this forum are afraid The Man will spy on them, erase their MP3's and make their old Word documents unreadable unless they keep current their Office subscription payments) is that by targeting contracts with defined individuals and machines, the commodity nature of its products is lessened (the software CD becomes non-transferrable)and it becomes even more feasible to discriminate in pricing than it is now.
Expect this development.
Having essentially conquered the market for desktop software Microsoft has to look at other alternatives for growth, which is what their shareholders demand.
But it is hard for Microsoft to grow now! Entering new markets is difficult for them because their actions will be scrutinized for unfair leveraging of their monopoly position. The remaining alternative is to adjust pricing to maximize revenue; get from each user what they can.
Thus, they might well charge a few rupees for their OS in India and hundreds of dollars for the same product in a large corporate environment in the United States.
With TCPA Windows, there will be no danger of the Indian licensee re-selling their copy of Windows to someone in the United States. Not only will such resale be "illegal", but it will become technically much less feasible than it is now.
And if it just ends up being a layer on top of NTFS that lets people sort their music and vacation pictures
A system like that could be quite valuable, even though the description doesn't sound like much.
I've often thought the concept of VFolders from Evolution could be introduced into *NIX filesystems to great benefit. Something like systems of symbolic links you can create to get alternate views of your nested directory structures.
Thus, one organizational structure might look like "./project_A" "./project_B", while an alternative view might show "./today" "./yesterday" and another ".html_files", ".png_files", etc. The idea being that different views of the same data can help you find stuff more easily because your context changes.
Sure, you can roll your own by hand system using symbolic links, find and grep, but ways of viewing filesystems with user-decidable hierarchal tree views could be useful. I've often longed for alternate bookmark organizations than just the one I get, but to have them presented orders based on a mixture of content keywords and dates, instead of just by date of bookmarking plus manual rearrangment.
Maybe there's even room for users to be able to define their own space of "/usr/local" if they decided the local sysadmin screwed it up...
I've never had a problem with the binaries either.
I have.
Perhaps I'm a corner case use with 1920x1200 DVI and using OpenGL, but earlier drivers would crash X on me.
Recent nVidia binary drivers, like 4496, have not crashed in months of use.
Any moron who works at a company and opens said attachment
A while back some admin here on /. mentioned that he saved emails from users that had opened attachments that they should not have.
He said it gave him valuable insight as to where cluelessness was distributed in the company.
Anyone else get bit
I once got bit by the using sequential plus signs (I think it was some stupid comment line) while logged in over a dial-up connection on an ADM terminal many moons ago.
+++ means goodbye, for those too young to have dealt with ATDT and all that.
Usually, about the time they start going off about how government should work more like private enterprise, so it can be more "efficient."
Yes, there's definitely room for improvement in government.
Typically, though, I find the same people that whine about taxes being too high are also the same people that whine about government services being shoddy.
In the private sector, that phenomenon is known as
What's interesting about this is the media's role given the high stakes and their dependency on Microsoft's expenditure of ad dollars, giving writers early glimpses of products, etc..
But on one level, I'd guess that computer magazine editors and publishers would be loath to offend a big spender like Microsoft by publishing articles about Linux growth in the enterprise, etc.
And that might be true some places, to some extent.
On a deeper level, a cynic might suggest that computer magazines and web sites that run pro-Linux articles actually increase the need for Microsoft to invest more heavily in its advertising budget to counter the ebb in public opinion.
In the case of the Seattle paper in Microsoft's own backyard, the article probably just helps to gain local readers who are intensely interested in anything having to do with Microsoft, but probably more interested in the bad news because good news is plentiful and boring (MSFT stock price up again, repeat for two decades).
I'd be curious to know how buildbuddy compares to other tools like autoconf, automake, and gentoo's portage system.
If people aren't convinced
that attacks by Evil Hackers are a nuisance and that Palladium is just what is needed to put an end to this.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will tell us so and most of us will believe it.
5. And as E911 services come on-line and your complete trajectory becomes available, how much discount on your cell phone bill will you get if you elect (assuming you can elect) to let your wireless provider release your whereabouts to others (which sounds to me like a perfect time to copyright the information and get onerous misguided laws to work for individuals for a change).
value of privacy in monetary terms.
Good point.
It motivates a few follow-on questions:
can't get the word of mouth advertising that money can't buy....
Wish I could remember the link, but IIRC one of the cell phone manufacturers, Ericsson, I think, had some advertising campaign where to promote their new line of cell phones with interactive games they deployed pairs of good-looking women in bars using the phones to play games. You can see where male bar patrons would suddenly become interested in being able to play games on the new phones.
I have to say, though, that the tactic might have to be modified in Microsoft's case.
I'd have a real weird feeling if I met some good-looking girl in bar using her laptop and extolling how well MSDN supported Visual Something. "My mother warned me about girls like you..."
Interesting.
As an worker bee I've been more in the camp of people who think
but I always forget the intended audience these advertisements target; higher management with spending decision authority and little direct experience in today's trenches.Of course, that always to leads to the inevitable awkward Dilbert moment:
Uhhh, creating Linux took years.
And money.
Many Linux contributors are subsidized as students at a university or as employees of large corporations or governments who get paid to do things only tenuously related to their open source programming.
A demanding IT job where you're fighting brush fires 110% of the time is not conducive to being able to do programming on the side.
You need a source of livelihood that gives you enough slack time (and little to no family obligations) even to afford the time to invest in programming.
After you lose your job is not the time to decide to pour 12 months of effort into programming; you need a steady income, even if it's small, and a job and lifestyle that allows you to spend the tremendous time that successful projects require.
I want audio and video software as part of my OS, nicely bundled and integrated.
Microsoft is happy to provide that to you for a price.
Also, many people want telephone interfaces, cable TV recording management, and on-line bill-paying "as part of my OS, nicely bundled and integrated".
There's no question that a single dominant supplier can drive standards and do bundling and integration.
But it doesn't have to "be part of the OS", nor does it mean the price you pay will be efficient, nor that someone else might have been able to do a better job of bundling and integrating the software.
then you always end up with endless arguments about what constitutes a person or company's "net worth."
Now that tax preparation season is upon U.S. the CCR lyrics come to mind...