Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents
Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Find New Ways to Extort the Competitors, Using Patents
Apr 3, 2011, 23 :02 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3317 reads)
(Other stories by Dr. Roy Schestowitz)
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"APPALLING. That?s what Microsoft appears to have given the world. First it put a tax on every computer sold, removing people?s ability to avoid this tax even if they want nothing to do with Microsoft. Now they want to force people to pay Microsoft a tax no matter which phone they buy. That?s right, and if it?s not Microsoft pulling those strings, then it?s the two co-founders of the company and their former CTO, who with funding from a Microsoft co-founder created the world?s largest patent troll, Intellectual Ventures. Watch how patent lawyer types try to white-wash the patent trolls? role in industry and cover the fact that Gates and his buddy Myhrvold are extorting RIM for its phones, just like HTC and Samsung (for Linux), allegedly after Myhrvold did his blackmail routines. Here is how patent lawyers put it (subscription required)."
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Tips for Securely Using Temporary Files in Linux Scripts
Tips for Securely Using Temporary Files in Linux Scripts
Dec 6, 2010, 23 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (718 reads)
(Other stories by Jamie Adams)
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"Over the years, I've written hundreds, if not thousands, of shell scripts. With the ease at which you can redirect input and output within a shell script, many sysadmins store data in temporary files for processing purposes. In some situations scripts become essential to the day-to-day operations of a system and as such, may end up running on a regular basis via crontab ? never to be looked at again."Unfortunately, some sysadmins who write scripts might store sensitive data in temporary files, don't restrict access to temporary files, and might forget to remove them from the system when they are no longer needed. In many cases, they use them when it isn't even necessary. The beauty of Linux and UNIX is that there are hundreds of ways to accomplish the same task. I will keep my Bash examples simple so you can focus on grasping the general concepts."
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