Was there people between the supervisor and the CTO who should've gotten the sack?
Are you suggesting they should've just burned down the whole division and started from scratch? The person that released the data (for obvious reasons), the direct supervisor (for not catching the error before it made it out, and the CTO (for not catching wind of it and stopping it). Personally, I want to think it was overkill to can the CTO, as well, but whatever AOL thinks they need to do to save face. It's their call.
I can see it now: In the future there will only be one botnet, then the entire hacking community will just be a big game of RootThisBox (http://rootthisbox.org/) (hmm...RTBs website seems to be redirecting to HackThisSite for some reason).
Because it is unrated. What if the 17 year old is still under strict parental control for some reason? As an alternative answer: "Because it's Walmart."
Actually, I'm sure he'd like it to become another netscape; netscape was the final word in browsing back in the day (before msie was standard). The problem was it fell behind it's competitors and sort of lost focus.
References: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communi cations_Corporation]Wikipedia[/url]:"Netscape had a successful IPO on August 9, 1995. The stock was to be offered at $14 per share; a last-minute decision doubled the initial offering to $28 per share; the stock's value reached $75 on the first day of trading, which was nearly a record for a stock's first-day gain. The company's revenues doubled every quarter in 1995"
The article/summary should've focused less on that actual invention (it's a nice idea and it might be cool) and more on why the patent wasn't granted. The summary almost made it sound like "omgz s0ny haxxored lim3wire!!!11".
I agree someone needs to be held accountable. But it should be the government. No corporation can resist governmental pressure. Is this just the government trying to place blame elsewhere to protect itself?
Personally, I'd prefer the FBI not go paperless. Because (a) paper trails are nice in investigations and such (y'know, when the FBI finally goes up against the Supreme Court) and (b) stuff that doesn't have a hardcopy tends to get lost more often than physical objects...especially embarassing things...especially by government agencies.
FTFA:
"Moreover, all Linux drivers needed for the T60p will be downloadable directly from Lenovo's Web site. "
Awesome. My school is giving these laptops to students this coming year. Assuming Ubuntu doesn't have my drivers ready for me at that point, I'm glad the OEM has my back.
But I am curious: will Lenovo only support SuSE? Or will the support extend to basic question about any distro? I mean, it's kinda strange to support one OS that your laptops DON'T ship with, but not another one....
Hopefully, this will spur even more innovation from both camps than we've been seeing recently. If you thought the new processor offerings were impressive before, wait until you see Intel fighting back against this move to try to regain some market share.
I'm excited.
though I'm still not going to buy any computers from Dell)
May I suggest the Cowon iAudio X5 (http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/x5/)? Great sound quality, plays FLAC/Ogg/mp3/anything you want. It doesn't create an id3 database: you drag your files/folders on there and they keep their original heirarchy. It's great!
With any luck they'll be more ironically placed "Teen Sex Addict" ads that I see here every now and then. Those always give me a good chuckle, as they are on./...
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That link is pretty bad, too. I can't figure out which picture and description go to which title: http://www.next-gen.biz/images/stories/PCTop100/98 _slots2bboop.jpg probably doesn't go to 'Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone!', as it seems to indicate.
Everyone seems to be over-reacting. The teams aren't set and have to be kept when the game starts, people can join/leave/switch teams as they will.
Was there people between the supervisor and the CTO who should've gotten the sack?
Are you suggesting they should've just burned down the whole division and started from scratch? The person that released the data (for obvious reasons), the direct supervisor (for not catching the error before it made it out, and the CTO (for not catching wind of it and stopping it). Personally, I want to think it was overkill to can the CTO, as well, but whatever AOL thinks they need to do to save face. It's their call.
I can see it now: In the future there will only be one botnet, then the entire hacking community will just be a big game of RootThisBox (http://rootthisbox.org/) (hmm...RTBs website seems to be redirecting to HackThisSite for some reason).
FTFA: "Stewart successfully started spying on the control channel, but there was not much to see."
In other words: nothing to see here, just remember to patch your computers.
Seriously, I was hoping for some real news, because I find malware incredibly interesting. Alas, TFA was a let-down...
ESR? Why does it seem like everyone associated with FOSS gets their own acronym?
Because it is unrated. What if the 17 year old is still under strict parental control for some reason? As an alternative answer: "Because it's Walmart."
Walmart has always been on that side of the fence.
I don't understand the problem here.
"Hopefully it doesn't become another netscape."
i cations_Corporation]Wikipedia[/url]:"Netscape had a successful IPO on August 9, 1995. The stock was to be offered at $14 per share; a last-minute decision doubled the initial offering to $28 per share; the stock's value reached $75 on the first day of trading, which was nearly a record for a stock's first-day gain. The company's revenues doubled every quarter in 1995"
Actually, I'm sure he'd like it to become another netscape; netscape was the final word in browsing back in the day (before msie was standard). The problem was it fell behind it's competitors and sort of lost focus.
References: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Commun
The article/summary should've focused less on that actual invention (it's a nice idea and it might be cool) and more on why the patent wasn't granted. The summary almost made it sound like "omgz s0ny haxxored lim3wire!!!11".
I agree someone needs to be held accountable. But it should be the government. No corporation can resist governmental pressure. Is this just the government trying to place blame elsewhere to protect itself?
"Well, you LET me do it! It's your fault!"
All the unconstitutional stuff that we know about is being done by the NSA.
http://www.wit.edu/laptop/
It's part of the 24k-ish tuition. Computer/Engineering students get the T60p's and architecture students get slightly-dated G4 powerbooks.
Personally, I'd prefer the FBI not go paperless. Because (a) paper trails are nice in investigations and such (y'know, when the FBI finally goes up against the Supreme Court) and (b) stuff that doesn't have a hardcopy tends to get lost more often than physical objects...especially embarassing things...especially by government agencies.
Yes. I'm slightly paranoid.
FTFA:
"Moreover, all Linux drivers needed for the T60p will be downloadable directly from Lenovo's Web site. "
Awesome. My school is giving these laptops to students this coming year. Assuming Ubuntu doesn't have my drivers ready for me at that point, I'm glad the OEM has my back.
But I am curious: will Lenovo only support SuSE? Or will the support extend to basic question about any distro? I mean, it's kinda strange to support one OS that your laptops DON'T ship with, but not another one....
Hopefully, this will spur even more innovation from both camps than we've been seeing recently. If you thought the new processor offerings were impressive before, wait until you see Intel fighting back against this move to try to regain some market share.
I'm excited.
though I'm still not going to buy any computers from Dell)
For those of you who are kinda slow (like me). After a few minutes of thinking, it finally hit me that BG==Baldurs Gate.
...I think.
May I suggest the Cowon iAudio X5 (http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/x5/)? Great sound quality, plays FLAC/Ogg/mp3/anything you want. It doesn't create an id3 database: you drag your files/folders on there and they keep their original heirarchy. It's great!
Okay, since you asked for it, the government will only spend your tax money on itself from now on (i.e. the war, and brand new wiretapping tech).
Also, I'd be more apt to mod you "funny" because you your phrasing for keeping places like New Orleans "in the black". I thought it was funny.
You don't have to be their constituent. Do it anyway. Positive reinforcement and such.
I think that must've been a time-warp post coming from the 1980s...the dates make much more sense then.
No publicity is bad publicity. If RIAA shoots them down, they'll still have gotten all of the publicity from their bold claims.
I could've sworn that...oh, that's right: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/ 30/2124225
With any luck they'll be more ironically placed "Teen Sex Addict" ads that I see here every now and then. Those always give me a good chuckle, as they are on ./ ...