. . . but is later found incompetent to stand trial. The company is apparently suffering from an accute multiple personality disorder. The crucial competency test came when the company was unable to locate its ass with both hands and a flashlight.
"Pork bellies" is the term for the product on which a futures market is based. It is actual pork, from the actual belly of a pig, from which actual meat products are made:-). The futures market in question bids on whether or not more bacon and chops will be sold in the future, basically.
To add insult to injury, the RIAA is apparently now claiming that they're SUPPORTING free transfer of information, that they are in fact paying for it, as evidenced by this statement:
In theory, SDMI will return control of the music to the industry -- a necessary precondition, in Bronfman's view, for the "huge creative and industrial efforts" required to build the heavenly jukebox and the planetary sea of content that will follow it.
In other words, we built the Internet, we paid for all this infrastructure, and now we will help you use it to its fullest by forcing a standard on you that blocks the right of the purchaser to do what she wants with this information. Is it any wonder the word "arrogant" gets hurled at these assholes so often?
No. Fighting back is not protesting. Your battle isn't with the police, regardless of how good or how lax they are at their job. You're there to shout about the issues and get the issues on camera. If, somehow, everyone protesting was peaceful, then MAYBE the cameras would focus on the signs and the reasons for the protest rather than the morons trying to get a billy club to the neck. I don't care if you're there to legitimately protest or not, you don't fight back against the police. If they arrest you for just being there, so much the better - now you're a legitimate martyr. Gandhi didn't free India by kicking someone's ass.
Let's not forget to mention that RedHat DOES take responsibility for many bugs. They are one of the fastest vendors to fix any security holes in the software they support. Take a look at rpmfind.net some time and just count the number of Redhat-distributed packages that actually have RedHat code in them. They don't rely on the community to fix it; they get their own hands dirty. Mandrake is the same way, SuSE is the same way, and I imagine most distro vendors actually take responsibility for their code.
This is a pretty strong claim for 'prior art' on the @. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop when someone claims to have patented the 'name@host' email address format and sues every email client in the world.
Well, since Posix is a standard, and standards descibre rules about the way a system works and therefore dictate how someone should do something, I think it's a little disingenuous to make a crack about Microsoft when you're talking about Posix. Rules about how a system works are a good thing.
At some point in the recent past it was probably called simply 'JServ'. Since there was never a lawsuit over this issue, it means either (1) someone on their team noticed the other product named JServ and decided to be friendly or (2) Sun sent them an email with the request. While I wouldn't want to get an email from Sun's lawyers, it's a hell of a lot nicer than getting sued by Sun. So if Sun can play nice , so can !@#^T&#(^ SAMBA.
I couldn't look at Katz's last article, because I now filter him out of the homepage entirely. User Preferences, check the box next to Jon Troll^H^H^H^H^HKatz's name, click save.
First check out this entry in the Apache JServ FAQ. JServ has a RL namespace conflict too, and yet, no lawsuit. Why does this bank thing have to get all pissed off about Samba (which is not SAMBA)? These people must never have heard of the raw flaming power that is Slashdot when they decided to go after the good people of Samba. And they must not be into Latin dance.
No, there isn't a set number of people. There's no "secrets list" in Apple where if you're on the list they let you in the little room where they're growing the new product. Everyone involved in the product has access to this data - the developers, marketers, documenters, interns, everyone. The only protection against it is a little "Apple Proprietary and Confidential" tag at the end of some of the more important emails.
The (pretty unethical) people who are leaking this data are already afraid of being caught - Apple could ruin their careers for doing so, regardless of any lawsuit. The lawsuit is just Apple saying to its employees "Fuck you and your little morale. Our secrets regarding a product we've already begun marketing are more important than your confidence in us as a company. So go do your work."
One place where this debate has consistently taken a wrong turn is that people seem to believe or want to believe that there's a difference between ethics and the "ethics of self interest". There is not.
Ethics naturally arise as a consequence of society's self-interest, the desire of a civilization to keep itself coherent in the face of the wildly conflicting desires of its members. Ethics arise as a way to lay the groundwork, however implicitly, for people to interact with each other in the gray areas. But they don't come about in a vacuum. Ethics are defined by a consensus of the self-interests of the people who follow them.
The upshot is, whether or not you believe piracy is wrong, if nearly everyone does it (and your 20 million people, though less than 10% of the US population, would probably comprise a majority of those people interested in online music) then it's ethical. People are saying, in effect "We don't care if artists are getting what they consider a fair share, and we sure as hell don't care if the record industry does. We want this music online, and you'll give it to us."
In the face of that kind of pressure, the only option is to change the way we do things. There's no value to arguing over it in the courts - the markets will out.
Is you spray a lot of shot everywhere. They seem to be making a point of pissing off a lot of people. I asked the question "Can they really be that arrogant?" a long time ago, and the answer came back (and remains) an empathic "Yes".
The more defendants they name, the more money they bring in for the defense's case, the more arguments the judge will hear against them. This move can't possibly help them - does the MPAA really need the T-shirt money??
While I agree with your psychological assessment for the most part, I don't agree that more fun = less cheating. Matt Pritchard and you both missed one of the most important reasons for someone to create a game exploit - the challenge of it. Hacking a game open to see the guts, and then figuring out how to attach the throat directly to the aorta and make it all work when you sew the game back up (to overstretch a metaphor) is as much fun in short bursts as writing the game was in the first place.
I believe that the people who produce cheats to games do so for different reasons than the people who use cheats use them. The person creating a cheat might want to see how a particular program works for knowledge's sake, might enjoy reverse-engineering for its own sake, might want to demonstrate his coding skill to others, might want to get a little advance knowledge about the game offline before he goes online and makes a tough decision. (Example: how to spend skill points in Diablo 2. This is a crucial decision that, due to poor documentation, must be made with relatively little information - unless you create a level 93 character of your class offline just to find out.) He might even want to abuse the system and cheat, but I speak from experience when I say that mostly, by the time you're done reverse-engineering the game structures you're interested in, it's no longer that interesting to play with the cheats.
And once you're done, you might want to distribute your cheat so you can get a little credit for your skill - but don't. It's the losers who download your cheat and use it to ruin the game for everyone else you have to be worried about.
Simple - IBM sells Big Iron. If Linux becomes everyone's OS, IBM's $200 million will be an investment in DISPOSING OF THEIR SOFTWARE BUDGET. And it will also take a big chunk out of their support budget. IBM makes money off hardware, period. AIX/390/other OS's are just something to put on the hardware.
a) You shouldn't have leaked it. If I hand a stranger a bag of money to hold, its academic whether or not it's his fault for running off with it. In the same sense, if you allow proprietary/confidential information to get out, it's pretty silly to blame the sites that received it for posting it. Some would argue that information ceases to be proprietary if you fail to take appropriate measures to protect it.
b) You should have patented/trademarked it earlier. See argument above. If you build your house on a fault, don't blame the earth for moving when an earthquake knocks it down - blame yourself for not buying insurance BEFORE it happens.
Nobody here likes doing the NYT registration. Are they the ONLY source for this information? I understand they run the occasional exclusive news-for-nerds story, but a story like this, it seems to me, could be found other places. Why do we keep getting stories with links to them when even the Slashdot editors agree their registration policy is "lame"?
You can do almost the same thing as ghost by imaging your 'master' workstation using 'dd', and running a 'netcat' (nc) server somewhere with the raw dd'ed image on it. Then you make a boot floppy that just runs nc connecting to the server and dumps the output directly to dd.
Disadvantage: requires a modicum of shell scripting knowledge.
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. . . but is later found incompetent to stand trial. The company is apparently suffering from an accute multiple personality disorder. The crucial competency test came when the company was unable to locate its ass with both hands and a flashlight.
"Pork bellies" is the term for the product on which a futures market is based. It is actual pork, from the actual belly of a pig, from which actual meat products are made :-). The futures market in question bids on whether or not more bacon and chops will be sold in the future, basically.
No. Fighting back is not protesting. Your battle isn't with the police, regardless of how good or how lax they are at their job. You're there to shout about the issues and get the issues on camera. If, somehow, everyone protesting was peaceful, then MAYBE the cameras would focus on the signs and the reasons for the protest rather than the morons trying to get a billy club to the neck. I don't care if you're there to legitimately protest or not, you don't fight back against the police. If they arrest you for just being there, so much the better - now you're a legitimate martyr. Gandhi didn't free India by kicking someone's ass.
Let's not forget to mention that RedHat DOES take responsibility for many bugs. They are one of the fastest vendors to fix any security holes in the software they support. Take a look at rpmfind.net some time and just count the number of Redhat-distributed packages that actually have RedHat code in them. They don't rely on the community to fix it; they get their own hands dirty. Mandrake is the same way, SuSE is the same way, and I imagine most distro vendors actually take responsibility for their code.
This is a pretty strong claim for 'prior art' on the @. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop when someone claims to have patented the 'name@host' email address format and sues every email client in the world.
Well, since Posix is a standard, and standards descibre rules about the way a system works and therefore dictate how someone should do something, I think it's a little disingenuous to make a crack about Microsoft when you're talking about Posix. Rules about how a system works are a good thing.
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Nobody would read something that long "just for curiosity". You might read something like that if you were intending to implement the spec.
At some point in the recent past it was probably called simply 'JServ'. Since there was never a lawsuit over this issue, it means either (1) someone on their team noticed the other product named JServ and decided to be friendly or (2) Sun sent them an email with the request. While I wouldn't want to get an email from Sun's lawyers, it's a hell of a lot nicer than getting sued by Sun. So if Sun can play nice , so can !@#^T&#(^ SAMBA.
I couldn't look at Katz's last article, because I now filter him out of the homepage entirely. User Preferences, check the box next to Jon Troll^H^H^H^H^HKatz's name, click save.
First check out this entry in the Apache JServ FAQ. JServ has a RL namespace conflict too, and yet, no lawsuit. Why does this bank thing have to get all pissed off about Samba (which is not SAMBA)? These people must never have heard of the raw flaming power that is Slashdot when they decided to go after the good people of Samba. And they must not be into Latin dance.
The (pretty unethical) people who are leaking this data are already afraid of being caught - Apple could ruin their careers for doing so, regardless of any lawsuit. The lawsuit is just Apple saying to its employees "Fuck you and your little morale. Our secrets regarding a product we've already begun marketing are more important than your confidence in us as a company. So go do your work."
Ethics naturally arise as a consequence of society's self-interest, the desire of a civilization to keep itself coherent in the face of the wildly conflicting desires of its members. Ethics arise as a way to lay the groundwork, however implicitly, for people to interact with each other in the gray areas. But they don't come about in a vacuum. Ethics are defined by a consensus of the self-interests of the people who follow them.
The upshot is, whether or not you believe piracy is wrong, if nearly everyone does it (and your 20 million people, though less than 10% of the US population, would probably comprise a majority of those people interested in online music) then it's ethical. People are saying, in effect "We don't care if artists are getting what they consider a fair share, and we sure as hell don't care if the record industry does. We want this music online, and you'll give it to us."
In the face of that kind of pressure, the only option is to change the way we do things. There's no value to arguing over it in the courts - the markets will out.
The more defendants they name, the more money they bring in for the defense's case, the more arguments the judge will hear against them. This move can't possibly help them - does the MPAA really need the T-shirt money??
What styles do these artists play?
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He was interesting the first couple of times I read his stories. Now I just think he's an alarmist troll.
I believe that the people who produce cheats to games do so for different reasons than the people who use cheats use them. The person creating a cheat might want to see how a particular program works for knowledge's sake, might enjoy reverse-engineering for its own sake, might want to demonstrate his coding skill to others, might want to get a little advance knowledge about the game offline before he goes online and makes a tough decision. (Example: how to spend skill points in Diablo 2. This is a crucial decision that, due to poor documentation, must be made with relatively little information - unless you create a level 93 character of your class offline just to find out.) He might even want to abuse the system and cheat, but I speak from experience when I say that mostly, by the time you're done reverse-engineering the game structures you're interested in, it's no longer that interesting to play with the cheats.
And once you're done, you might want to distribute your cheat so you can get a little credit for your skill - but don't. It's the losers who download your cheat and use it to ruin the game for everyone else you have to be worried about.
Simple - IBM sells Big Iron. If Linux becomes everyone's OS, IBM's $200 million will be an investment in DISPOSING OF THEIR SOFTWARE BUDGET. And it will also take a big chunk out of their support budget. IBM makes money off hardware, period. AIX/390/other OS's are just something to put on the hardware.
b) You should have patented/trademarked it earlier. See argument above. If you build your house on a fault, don't blame the earth for moving when an earthquake knocks it down - blame yourself for not buying insurance BEFORE it happens.
(The analogy engine is running hot tonight.)
Nobody here likes doing the NYT registration. Are they the ONLY source for this information? I understand they run the occasional exclusive news-for-nerds story, but a story like this, it seems to me, could be found other places. Why do we keep getting stories with links to them when even the Slashdot editors agree their registration policy is "lame"?
Yes, but the point is, as a bastion of security, the Bastille was UNsuccessful. Hence, a poor model for or symbol of network security.
Disadvantage: requires a modicum of shell scripting knowledge.
Advantage: free.
Jeez, even Slashdot is calling Katz a crank now.
As far as being more attractive, yes. Easier to use, no - it requires a window. Webmin just needs a browser. To me, that's more usable.