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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 08:26 AM EDT |
"It would have given companies like Oracle tSCOg the ability to
claim ownership over anything a developer does."
Where have we heard
about that sort of thing before? ;-)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
Article link.
The magic question is: who is Cameron
McKenzie?
So far, the primary individuals who keep claiming that us
programmers are so magical we (yes, I am a software developer) deserve stronger
IP protections than what currently exists are:
Lawyers - not
all
Paid Shills
Hired Legal Experts (not directly, but via
their evidence)
Industry Analysts (who've never actually worked in the
field they profess to be an expert analyst in)
So... is perhaps Mr.
McKenzie a software developer himself? Not surprisingly the "About Us" on the
TheServerSide.com doesn't appear to list any bios. I could easily be mistaken,
it wouldn't be the first time I missed something posted right in front of
me.
A Google indicates he's the Editor-In-Chief. And a followup a little
further down the list finds a bit of a bio. It
does indeed appear Mr. McKenzie is a software developer. This is - admittedly -
an assumption based on what is presented in the bio.
It's too bad Mr.
McKenzie doesn't see the inherent danger in making functional code that has
limited ways to be coded efficiently protectable by Copyright... especially
given such functionality has been done many, many times before and is generally
taught in your standard programming courses.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 12:48 PM EDT |
I "flipped the IPv6 switch" on my home network about two years ago and
it works very well. Everything on my home network, including Android smart
phone and tablet get an IPv6 address, if capable. Whenever possible, IPv6 is
used, rather than IPv4. My own personal IPv6 subnet is about a trillion times
the entire IPv4 address space. A couple of points about that article though.
Windows XP & SP3 has IPv6 support, as do recent versions of the Mac. Of
course, Linux has had it for years. Also, the regular Google sites have IPv6,
but you have to use a DNS that's on Google's white list. Otherwise, you have to
use ipv6.google.com. Other common sites with IPv6 include YouTube, CNN,
openSUSE and more. As time goes on, I see more & more sites running IPv6.
BTW, when will Groklaw be available via IPv6? :-)
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| Authored by: complex_number on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 02:49 PM EDT |
| [news.cnet.com]
This whole episode
shows a fundamental weakness of the signed certificate matra coming out of
Redmond.
Their plans for UEFI signed certificates is onlt as good at their
(or Verisign's) security. I get a nasty feeling that this will be a fantastic
target for the hackers to go after and in a big way.
THe advent of GPU APIs
etc makes the cracking of the core certificate that they are going to be used
for Windows on Arm a whole lot easier. It won't take a fortune to setup a hacker
equivalent of a Render Farm and go after them in a big way.
The prize at
the end of the rainbow is just so tempting I can't see them being able to resist
this opportunity to strike right at the heart of the Redmond regeime.
For
Certificates for be successful require trust on the party that is going to use
another persons cert that it is genuine. Look at all the issues Microsoft has
had with WGA over the years. This has IMHO all the markings of being a 1000
times worse. If the certs in all those millions of windows boxes are made
useless MS is going to have to foot the bill to correct it. Will the
shareholders accept this cost. I think that in the current climate, they
won't.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 03:15 PM EDT |
The one thing I never see in news accounts about these high visibility security
problems is that they only apply to MS products. That's not to say that Linux
systems cannot have a vulnerability, but the combination of multiple
vulnerabilities and automatic updates create a problem environment.
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| Authored by: pem on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 03:40 PM EDT |
| According to businessinsider, Oracle owes more to google in legal fees
for the Cockburn report debacle than they could possibly recover for copyright
infringement :-)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 04:01 PM EDT |
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