Analysis: Microsoft, SCO have a lot more explaining to do

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Analysis: If Microsoft restructures
pricing, it could backfire

Analysis: If Microsoft restructures
pricing, it could backfire 04/23/2004 02:46 AM
Microsoft is considering major changes to its enterprise volume licensing program. The changes would allow large service providers and systems integrators and to license software on behalf of their own largest customers. Currently, enterprise customers need to negotiate volume agreements directly with Microsoft. This is the case even when the software is hosted and managed by a third party.

A Lot Of Explaining To Do...

A Lot Of Explaining To Do... 12/22/2004 01:13 AM

Dave Winer: At some point Microsoft is going to re-staff the IE team in response to Firefox. When they do it, how will they explain the seven years during which they invested nothing in the user experience of the browser?

Analysis: Apple, Microsoft in streaming
media battle

Analysis: Apple, Microsoft in streaming
media battle 06/14/2004 04:13 PM
With news that Apple Computer's QuickTime player surpassed 250 million downloads, analysts say Microsoft and Apple are both poised to take the lead in the streaming media battle.

Explaining my absence

Explaining my absence 12/30/2003 01:23 AM
Welcome loyal readers, as many of you have noticed and emailed about, I have been out of the normal routine for the past week and a half. I have been taking time off, due to an illness that currently has...

Analysis: Microsoft-Oracle deal just
another sumo IT wrestling match

Analysis: Microsoft-Oracle deal just
another sumo IT wrestling match 05/25/2004 01:14 PM
Microsoft Corp. appears to be on a campaign to repair relationships with some of its largest detractors and adversaries in Silicon Valley.

explaining margin of error

explaining margin of error 08/19/2004 07:18 PM
and debunking the myth of a "statistical tie"

I think Sandy Berger has some explaining
to do

I think Sandy Berger has some explaining
to do 07/20/2004 03:14 AM
Ooops again. Sandy Berger

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Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0
licenses

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0
licenses 05/25/2004 06:04 PM

Last night, after many months of gathering and processing great feedback from all of you, we turned on version 2.0 of the main Creative Commons licenses. The 2.0 licenses are very similar to the 1.0 licenses -- in aim, in structure, and, by and large, in the text itself. We've included, however, a few key improvements, thanks to your input. A quick list of new features follows. All section numbers refer to the Attr ibution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. (Corresponding section numbers may vary across licenses.)

Attribution comes standard

Our web stats indicate that 97-98% of you choose Attribution, so we decided to drop Attribution as a choice from our license menu -- it's now standard. This reduces the number of licenses from eleven possible to six and makes the license selection user interface that much simpler. Important to remember: Attribution can always be disavowed upon licensor request, and pseudonymous and anonymous authorship are always options for a licensor, as before. If we see a huge uprising against the attribution-as-stock-feature, we'll certainly consider bringing it back as an option.

Link-back attribution clarified

Version 1.0 licenses did not carry any requirements to add hyperlinks as attribution. Under the 2.0 licenses, a licensor may require that licensees, to fulfill their attribution requirement, provide a link back to the licensor's work. Three conditions must be satisfied, though, before a licensee faces the linkback requirement: (1) linking back must be "reasonably practicable" -- you can't string me up for failing to link to a dead page, for example; (2) the licensor must specify a URL -- if you don't provide one specifically, i have no linkback obligation; (3) the link licensor provides must point to the copyright and licensing notice of the CC'd work -- in other words, licensors who abuse the linkback as an engine for traffic to unrelated sites don't enjoy linkback rights.

Synch rights clarified

The new licenses clarify when licensees may or may not synchronize musical CC'd works in timed-relation with a moving image. Basically, if a license allows derivatives, it allows the synching of music to video. If no derivs, no synching allowed. (See Sect ion 1b.)

Other music-specific rights clarified

The default rules for music-related copyrights can be particularly complicated, and the 2.0 licenses go to greater length to clarify how various CC license options affect music rights. In a nutshell: If you pick the "noncommercial" provision, you retain the right to collect royalties from BMI, ASCAP, or the equivalent for performance royalties; from Harry Fox or the equivalent for mechanicals; and from SoundExchange or the equivalent from webcasting compulsories. If you allow commercial re-use, you waive the exclusive rights to collect these various revenue streams. This is not a departure from the policy embodied in the 1.0 licenses -- these same results would be extrapolated by any reasonable interpretation. But 2.0 just makes it all clearer, and using the language of the profession. (See Sect ions 4e and 4f.) Note: This music-specific language marks the first time we've referred to any specific statutes in the generic CC licenses. This means that future iCommons licenses will have to do the same somewhat complicated mapping exercise for each respective jurisdiction.

Warranties? Up to licensors

Unlike the 1.0 licenses, the 2.0 licenses include language that makes clear that licensors' disclaim warranties of title, merchantibility, fitness, etc. As readers of this blog know by now, the decision to drop warranties as a standard feature of the licenses was a source of much organizational soul-searching and analytical thinking for us. Ultimately we were swayed by a two key factors: (1) Our peers, most notably, Karl Lenz, Dan Bricklin, and MIT. (2) The realization that licensors could sell warranties to risk-averse, high-exposure licensees interested in the due diligence paper trial, thereby creating nice CC business model. (See the Prelinger Archive for a great example of this free/fee, as-is/warranty approach.) You can find extensive discussion of this issue in previous posts on this blog. (See Sect ion 5.)

Share Alike Across Borders

Version 2.0 licenses that feature the Share Alike requirement now clarify that derivatives may be re-published under one of three types of licenses: (1) the exact same license as the original work; (2) a later version of the same license as the original work; (3) an iCommons license that contains the same license elements as the original work (e.g. BY-SA-NC, as defined in Sect ion 1 of each license). The version 1.0 licenses required that derivative be published under the exact same license only. Our tweak means much better compatibility across future jurisdiction-specific licenses and going forward across versions. Less forking, more fun. (See Sect ion 4b.)

Otherwise, Share Alike Means Share Alike

After much very strong and eloquent argument from our readers and supporters, and notwithstanding the increased flexibility of Share Alike in the iCommons context, we decided not to make the BY-NC-SA and plain BY-SA licenses compatible. If you take a work under BY-NC-SA 2.0 and make something new from it, for example, you can re-publish under BY-NC-SA Japan, or BY-NC-SA 7.4 (when that comes), but you cannot republish it under any other license or combine it with BY-SA content. Similarly, a derivative made from a work under BY-SA 2.0 may be published only under BY-SA 2.0, BY-SA (iCommons license), or BY-SA 9.1, but it can't be mixed with BY-NC-SA or other noncommercial content and republished.

Nifty new Some Rights Reserved button

Check out the button at the bottom of this page. Wouldn't that look good on your site? Time for an upgrade, cosmetic as well as legal?

Explaining DDR Memory Bandwidth

Explaining DDR Memory Bandwidth 07/20/2004 07:57 AM

Explaining the 24-bit Base Registers

Explaining the 24-bit Base Registers 04/12/2004 11:13 PM
[Herewith an appearance by a guest author, name of John Fowler; explanation in the coda at the end].

I attended the IBM 360 40yr Anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountainview, California. I'm on their mailing list and went there for the sole purpose of finding out: what the heck were they thinking with the use of 24 bit addressing in base registers that were 32 bits wide?...

explaining trackback to journalists

explaining trackback to journalists 07/02/2004 03:08 PM
i'd love to see more newspapers enable trackback on non-blog pages

Explaining the URL-Based Mac OS X
Vulnerability (24-May-2004; 7.5K)

Explaining the URL-Based Mac OS X
Vulnerability (24-May-2004; 7.5K) 05/24/2004 09:58 PM

Announcing (and Explaining) Creative
Commons 2.0

Announcing (and Explaining) Creative
Commons 2.0 05/26/2004 07:38 PM
?Last night, after many months of gathering and processing great feedback from all of you, we turned on version 2.0 of the main Creative Commons licenses. The 2.0 licenses are very similar to the 1.0 licenses ? in aim, in structure, and, by and large, in the text itself. We?ve included, however, a few key improvements, thanks to your input. A quick list of new features follows.?

Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization

Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization 01/19/2004 09:34 AM

Explaining Open Source Software

Explaining Open Source Software 01/04/2004 02:20 PM
scubacuda writes "Mark Webbink, Red Hat's general counsel, has written an informative article explaining free and open source software. Geared towards ...

Explaining the importance of context in
ID mgmt.

Explaining the importance of context in
ID mgmt. 06/17/2005 04:49 PM
Last week, I asked if an identity needed to be unique, and answered that yes, it does, within a given context. That seems like an excellent segue to a discussion of context and how it relates to identity.

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0
licenses | Creative Commons

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0
licenses | Creative Commons 05/26/2004 07:25 AM
Creative Commons 2.0 licenses released .. the new versions

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explaining the selection of The Brent
Woodall Foundation

explaining the selection of The Brent
Woodall Foundation 09/14/2004 07:17 AM
Go here to learn about Tracy and strengthen the good .. This month's charity

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Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural
Divide

Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural
Divide 12/16/2003 07:47 AM

TCS: Tech Central Station - Explaining
Liberal Anger

TCS: Tech Central Station - Explaining
Liberal Anger 04/28/2004 04:36 AM
Keith Burgess-Jackson: A Former Liberal Explains Liberal Anger

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Reuters sees 30 fold performance
improvement in Microsoft Analysis
Services with Digital Aspects XMLA
provider.

Reuters sees 30 fold performance
improvement in Microsoft Analysis
Services with Digital Aspects XMLA
provider. 07/09/2004 03:03 AM
Digital Aspects has tuned their XMLA Provider to create a optimal communications layer for Microsoft Analysis Services. The results are impressive, initial connection times have been reduced by a factor of 10, enquiries are up to 5 times faster over a LAN and 30 times faster over WAN, and bandwidth utilisation is reduced by a factor of 4. [PRWEB Jul 9, 2004]

BROWSER SECURITY TEST (free):
Automatically checks your browser for
various security problems. When the test
is finished you get a complete report
explaining the discovered
vulnerabilities, their impact and how to
eliminate them

BROWSER SECURITY TEST (free):
Automatically checks your browser for
various security problems. When the test
is finished you get a complete report
explaining the discovered
vulnerabilities, their impact and how to
eliminate them 03/13/2003 10:26 AM

SCO analysis

SCO analysis 12/04/2003 09:37 AM
eWeek (dec. 1) has an excellent article by Peter Galli that summarizes a paper by Eben Moglen, a professor at Columbia U Law School, that describes the logical cleft stick SCO's law suit has placed the company in. I'm sure not to get this right, but the basic contradiction Moglen sees in SCO's position stems from (1) SCO's proclaiming that Linux contains material copyrighted by SCO while (2) simultaneously suing IBM for donating to the Linux kernel materials covered by non-disclosure agreements with SCO. Further (3) SCO distributes Linux under the GPL. According to Moglen, (3) means that SCO has...

Analysis of SCO vs. IBM

Analysis of SCO vs. IBM 03/14/2003 12:56 PM

An Analysis of .NET by Sun

An Analysis of .NET by Sun 06/11/2004 11:17 AM
"The Java platform is an excellent technology that enjoys tremendous success. Rather than embracing the cross-platform, vendor neutral solution which is the Java platform, like most of the industry, Microsoft is still pushing a single platform, vendor specific solution. "

Bit Torrent : An Analysis

Bit Torrent : An Analysis 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2 peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file sharing networks like Kazaa.

Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent. Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction in data integrity at the user end.

The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent protocol.

[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down. The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users downloading files through the site.

Download: The Paper (pdf) | The Register

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Cooking by analysis

Cooking by analysis 04/11/2005 11:12 AM
Cooking for Engineers - "Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!"

Other: Stock Analysis

Other: Stock Analysis 02/05/2005 09:01 PM
Robert Barker calculates values for Apple stock.

PPI-Analysis-Compare-0.01

PPI-Analysis-Compare-0.01 06/30/2004 06:01 AM

Information Needs Analysis

Information Needs Analysis 12/04/2002 10:10 AM

News & Analysis

News & Analysis 09/03/2004 07:55 PM
not a lost cause .. cold fusion?

spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep04/0904nfus.html
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Analysis: How bad for Blair?

Analysis: How bad for Blair? 07/14/2004 01:52 PM
BBC News Online's Nick Assinder examines how bad the Butler Report is for Tony Blair.

Analysis: What's new for the PC of 2005?

Analysis: What's new for the PC of 2005? 12/22/2004 12:59 AM
With few major changes in PC hardware or software expected over the next year, the PC of 2005 is likely to look an awful lot like the PC of today.

Log Analysis on the Desktop

Log Analysis on the Desktop 02/08/2003 08:23 AM
"I've a need to analyze extended log files (2 years worth) and would like to do it on my local machine. "

DeltaStat for 2D Gel Analysis

DeltaStat for 2D Gel Analysis 06/25/2004 10:07 AM
DeltaStat/Delta2D Methods Added to Home Page

PPI-Analysis-Compare-0.03

PPI-Analysis-Compare-0.03 07/04/2004 11:45 PM

Analysis of Spyware

Analysis of Spyware 08/07/2004 11:58 AM

gartenberg's analysis of the DS

gartenberg's analysis of the DS 05/12/2004 02:28 PM
a dual screen device that could let me play Mario Kart 64 anywhere would be the best thing ever

Forensic analysis

Forensic analysis 03/14/2005 06:21 PM
Well, most of the stuff is up and running (apart from all mailing lists). The Finnish blog awards are now back up and running, and even my normal email works now!

Here's a quick rundown on what happened:

• On Saturday, at about 23:25 person A using a machine from Brazil executed a series of commands using an awstats vulnerability (yes, we had it patched to the latest stable; no, apparently it was not enough).
• He was quiet for about 20 minutes, but at about 23:35 two other attackers B and C (or the same) from Italy and UK almost simultaneously launched a similar attack on the server.
• Person B was able to run "adduser" at 23:45 and add himself an account, logging in and promply downloading a rootkit which allowed him to have root privileges
• Person B then attempted to deface the site, but failed (thanks to the pretty hairy configuration we have over here)
• Person A returned at this point, and tried to execute a new attack, suggesting that he was not able to gain access before
• Person B ran "rm -rf /" on the server, starting to delete everything at about 23:55, presumably to cover his traces. Our logs end at 0:06, when the final daemons failed.
• I received first warning at 0:15. Luckily memory-resident processes kept running for some time, so I was able to inspect the situation and the machine was physically disconnected at about 1 am.

Sunday was mostly used to reinstall a completely new system and do a forensics analysis on the deleted partitions. Sleuthkit turned to be invaluable in reconstructing the deleted local log files (so yes, we have the exact times, methods, and IP addresses). Yes, it works on ext3 as well.

I have backed up most of the necessary stuff daily, so there is little that was lost permanently. Unfortunately I had not stored all the necessary config files, which is why system recovery took longer than expected. Also, due to an oversight none of the mailing lists were backed up, so once we have them established again, ya'll have to resubscribe. Very sorry about that :-/

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Analysis: Microsoft, SCO have a lot more explaining to do