If wordstar and typewriters are working, why spend $6b to replace them?
Sticks and stones were pretty reliable too, but it probably wouldn't be a good idea for our armed forces to still be using them.
Their current tools my not be broken, but that doesn't mean that something more modern won't work faster, better, or more efficiently. Hopefully they won't try to run any more of their fleet with NT though.
I would hate to sell like one cd and have 2 more unpaid for copies floating around.
If by "floating around" you mean that the original consumer keeps them for themselves, then I don't see how this hurts you. Are you saying that if I want to have one of your CDs at home, but also be able to listen to it in my car I should have to pay you twice for the same music?
If by "floating around" you mean that the original consumer gives the copies to other people, who are not compensating you for your music, then this has nothing to do with "fair use" and is a copyright violation. That is something that is still illegal, and there is nothing in any of these bills that would change that.
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Can I have some of what you're smoking? Sounds like it must be pretty good stuff.
By the way, DOA3 on the X-Box with an 80" HDTV is downright glorious.
I didn't even think anybody made an 80" HDTV, unless you're talking about a front projector on an 80" screen? The largest RPTV I've heard of is in the mid 70's.
You need to read the link to the older slashdot story about these voting machines in order to understand the closed vs open source part of the headline.
Basically, the voting machines are closed source in the sense that nobody knows how they work, although the company providing them "guarantees" their accuracy. There was mention of a candidate who recently sued the state demanding to know how the machines worked (I'm assuming there were allegations of inaccurate couting), but the state refused the suit because forcing the company to reveal how the machines work would void the warranty.
In other words, they're "closed" because the public is not allowed to know how the machines that count their votes are doing it.
I seem to recall at the time that/. thought it was the best argument ever, or does the strength of the argument depend only on if/.ers are getting free stolen music from the arguer? I'm just saying that you have to either accept or reject (IMHO reject) that line of argument, you can't accept if just for those you like and reject it for others.
How many hundred thousand people have/. accounts now? You do realize that not everyone on here has to have the exact same opinion. Some people on here could post that they thought it was the best argument ever during the Napster days, while others can post here now and say that it's a weak defense on the part of Paypal.
I'm not trying to flame you specifically, but I get tired of hearing this complaint. I don't remember signing away my freedom of thought when I signed up for/.
That's what I thought, but since www.davezilla.com was slashdotted I wasn't sure if he was involved in Mozilla any, or if it was a totaly unrelated case and people were just doing the "jumping to conclusions" thing with Mozilla being next in line.
How does Toho sending a cease and desist letter to someone named Davezilla about naming a character on his site "Godzilla" have anything to do with Mozilla the browser?
Where in any of this is Toho threatening Mozilla mentioned?
"The Linux operating system market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total operating system revenue each year" "On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year)."
You're kidding!
You mean that Linux, which is free, generates less revenue than a commercial OS, which costs money? Wow, how long did these guys spend figuring this one out?
A pair of coders are now suggesting that it is possible, with a modified... system... to sneek into an office building and stick it on a network drop.. then probe for ways to connect to the outside world.
You're kidding! Wow, how long did it take them to figure this out?
In other news... banks have now been found to be extremely insecure. All you have to do is break in, shoot all the guards, dynamite your way through the vault... and you have unlimited access to all their money!!
So if a member of the executive branch of the government publicly encourages you to break a law (DMCA), and you're then arrested, it would be considered entrapment right?
Do you eat or consume anything that comes from more than 2 miles from your domicile? Ok then you use roads. Fresh OJ from florida or california
But when you pay for that OJ, aren't the taxes that the OJ supplier pays built into the price per gallon of orange juice? In other words, you're paying the supplier's "road tax" for delivery of consumer goods every time you buy something at the store.
So let me get this straight. They're saying "download and install this software, which looks for security problems that are most commonly caused by users being too lazy to download and install software (updates)". Does anybody else find that amusing?
While I think this is a valid idea, I also think it is a bit strict. My problem is with a federal committee overseeing standard compliance. Remember a month ago the announcement [slashdot.org] that finally a C++ compiler existed that supported the entire language? There are hundreds of compilers and only one supports the full standard? Even my beloved Opera doesn't support every HTML standard perfectly (it's close, but not 100%).
I don't think the previous poster was arguing that MS should implement every standard. I think they were saying that when MS software implements a feature, they need to comply with any standards. In other words, they don't have to support everything, but what they do support can't break existing standards for interaction.
The way I understand the article, it replicates itself in someone's share directory and waits for other Kaaza users to download it. How is it executed on the remote user's computer then? Do they have to specifically run the virus program, or is there a security hole in the Kaaza client somewhere that automatically executes the virus?
I'm assuming users that download this file must specifically execute it. If this is true, then IMHO any person who downloads an unknown.exe from a P2P network and runs it without at least scanning it, deservers what they get.
I agree with you that consumers should be smart with their money and know who/what they're paying before they mail in a check.
However, this does not make it alright for companies to try and "trick" consumers. I think it's pretty obvious that Verisign is deliberately attempting to mislead competitor's customers. At best this is unethical, and it sounds like it should be illegal.
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If wordstar and typewriters are working, why spend $6b to replace them?
Sticks and stones were pretty reliable too, but it probably wouldn't be a good idea for our armed forces to still be using them.
Their current tools my not be broken, but that doesn't mean that something more modern won't work faster, better, or more efficiently. Hopefully they won't try to run any more of their fleet with NT though.
The difference is that Apple paid someone to lie on TV and Microsoft put their story in the mouth of an imaginary person. Now who's more honest?
How do you know they paid people to lie? Maybe they paid people to tell the truth?
They probably paid people to read a script. That's how commercials usually work, even endorcements.
I would hate to sell like one cd and have 2 more unpaid for copies floating around.
If by "floating around" you mean that the original consumer keeps them for themselves, then I don't see how this hurts you. Are you saying that if I want to have one of your CDs at home, but also be able to listen to it in my car I should have to pay you twice for the same music?
If by "floating around" you mean that the original consumer gives the copies to other people, who are not compensating you for your music, then this has nothing to do with "fair use" and is a copyright violation. That is something that is still illegal, and there is nothing in any of these bills that would change that.
Can I have some of what you're smoking? Sounds like it must be pretty good stuff.
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By the way, DOA3 on the X-Box with an 80" HDTV is downright glorious.
I didn't even think anybody made an 80" HDTV, unless you're talking about a front projector on an 80" screen? The largest RPTV I've heard of is in the mid 70's.
I've only got a puny 65" HDTV set.
No, I need to read the older slashdot story to see why voting machines should be open sourced as opposed to closed source.
But that issue has nothing to do with this story.
Sure it does, it explains why the headline calls this a "closed source" voting machine, which it is.
You need to read the link to the older slashdot story about these voting machines in order to understand the closed vs open source part of the headline.
Basically, the voting machines are closed source in the sense that nobody knows how they work, although the company providing them "guarantees" their accuracy. There was mention of a candidate who recently sued the state demanding to know how the machines worked (I'm assuming there were allegations of inaccurate couting), but the state refused the suit because forcing the company to reveal how the machines work would void the warranty.
In other words, they're "closed" because the public is not allowed to know how the machines that count their votes are doing it.
I seem to recall at the time that /. thought it was the best argument ever, or does the strength of the argument depend only on if /.ers are getting free stolen music from the arguer?
/. accounts now? You do realize that not everyone on here has to have the exact same opinion. Some people on here could post that they thought it was the best argument ever during the Napster days, while others can post here now and say that it's a weak defense on the part of Paypal.
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I'm just saying that you have to either accept or reject (IMHO reject) that line of argument, you can't accept if just for those you like and reject it for others.
How many hundred thousand people have
I'm not trying to flame you specifically, but I get tired of hearing this complaint. I don't remember signing away my freedom of thought when I signed up for
welcome to slashdot, you must be new here.
Well, not really.
Wild Speculation.
That's what I thought, but since www.davezilla.com was slashdotted I wasn't sure if he was involved in Mozilla any, or if it was a totaly unrelated case and people were just doing the "jumping to conclusions" thing with Mozilla being next in line.
How does Toho sending a cease and desist letter to someone named Davezilla about naming a character on his site "Godzilla" have anything to do with Mozilla the browser?
Where in any of this is Toho threatening Mozilla mentioned?
"The Linux operating system market, from a revenue perspective, accounts for one half of 1 percent of the total operating system revenue each year"
"On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year)."
You're kidding!
You mean that Linux, which is free, generates less revenue than a commercial OS, which costs money? Wow, how long did these guys spend figuring this one out?
You mean the broadcasters won't produce content for free? ;)
It's the same link. Read the whole article.
A pair of coders are now suggesting that it is possible, with a modified ... system ... to sneek into an office building and stick it on a network drop .. then probe for ways to connect to the outside world.
You're kidding! Wow, how long did it take them to figure this out?
In other news... banks have now been found to be extremely insecure. All you have to do is break in, shoot all the guards, dynamite your way through the vault... and you have unlimited access to all their money!!
So if a member of the executive branch of the government publicly encourages you to break a law (DMCA), and you're then arrested, it would be considered entrapment right?
Do you eat or consume anything that comes from more than 2 miles from your domicile? Ok then you use roads. Fresh OJ from florida or california
But when you pay for that OJ, aren't the taxes that the OJ supplier pays built into the price per gallon of orange juice? In other words, you're paying the supplier's "road tax" for delivery of consumer goods every time you buy something at the store.
So let me get this straight. They're saying "download and install this software, which looks for security problems that are most commonly caused by users being too lazy to download and install software (updates)". Does anybody else find that amusing?
Not to burst your bubble, but if BitchX was closed source, I doubt a third party would have access to the source code to inject the trojaned backdoor
;)
I guess the only backdoors in MS software are the ones the developers put there
What I found funny was:
BitchX backdoored
While I think this is a valid idea, I also think it is a bit strict. My problem is with a federal committee overseeing standard compliance. Remember a month ago the announcement [slashdot.org] that finally a C++ compiler existed that supported the entire language? There are hundreds of compilers and only one supports the full standard? Even my beloved Opera doesn't support every HTML standard perfectly (it's close, but not 100%).
I don't think the previous poster was arguing that MS should implement every standard. I think they were saying that when MS software implements a feature, they need to comply with any standards. In other words, they don't have to support everything, but what they do support can't break existing standards for interaction.
I think we need a new topic icon. The MP foot squashing the MS Borg.
The way I understand the article, it replicates itself in someone's share directory and waits for other Kaaza users to download it. How is it executed on the remote user's computer then? Do they have to specifically run the virus program, or is there a security hole in the Kaaza client somewhere that automatically executes the virus?
.exe from a P2P network and runs it without at least scanning it, deservers what they get.
I'm assuming users that download this file must specifically execute it. If this is true, then IMHO any person who downloads an unknown
Obviously, the next step is for Congress to outlaw gloves.
I agree with you that consumers should be smart with their money and know who/what they're paying before they mail in a check.
However, this does not make it alright for companies to try and "trick" consumers. I think it's pretty obvious that Verisign is deliberately attempting to mislead competitor's customers. At best this is unethical, and it sounds like it should be illegal.