I find it interesting that someone gets the award for 2010 when we aren't even halfway through the year. What happens when someone in the second half of the year bests them?
In 2009 Canada also rejected software and business methods patents. As far as I know, this has not changed. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.
I don't think they've completely outlawed software patents. The way I read it is that anything tied to a business model is not allowed (hence Amazon's silly 1-click being tossed.) It appears you can still patent a computer-implemented process, but not the program itself.
From what I've read, Canada generally will not allow a patent on software unless it's been tied to hardware in some way. Almost all software patents currently in the US would be ruled as business methods here and thrown out as a result.
Or is a law a reasonable way to educate drivers that these things actually are dangerous and that they should not be done at pain of a hefty fine?
That depends. There's quite a few people I know that are too self-centered unless it costs them money. As an example, someone I know always drinks and drives. It's too much of an inconvenience to use transit/cabs to go drinking. Well, he caused an accident (thankfully no life was lost) and it cost him almost $15,000 through the legal system here. He doesn't do that anymore.
When I read the article summary, I thought to myself: "What's next, localized automotive cell phone jammers?" If the car thinks you're talking on the phone it just jams the signal.
A slightly more aggressive tact might be to drop the vehicle in low, which might blow the engine but would also severely limit your speed.
Most automatics won't gear down, especially in low gear/first gear, under those circumstances. They're speed-limited and will not change into low gear, as doing so can mean a serious loss of control.
At least in one case, the brakes failed, the accelerator stuck, and the person didn't know how to turn the car off because it was a rental and used a push-button ignition.
What I can't figure out is why they didn't have a proper fail-safe. Electronics do fail - on my previous car (before the drive-by-wire system) the throttle position sensor had long failed before I got it. You'd think that having a safety on the brake (for example, if the engine revs out of control and the driver steps on the brake, the ECU forces the engine to its idle position.)
Considering that it's very possible to have a sensor failure in its allowable signal limits, that type of safety should be built in!
DisplayPort seems like one of those technologies that have great mind share, as well as some advantages over the competing technology, but will never gain mainstream adoption (See: Firewire).
Firewire is not really an apples-to-apples comparison. Not only did firewire have a $0.25/device royalty, it also required hardware to implement it, costing a couple dollars per device. Those requirements aren't around for firewire now, but that had a large part in its lack of mainstream adoption.
DisplayPort is royalty-free and as such does not have this problem. Only time will tell.
or make the equipment stop working while the car is driving.
I know of one car that does this already. My brother has a 2009 Pontiac G8, and it has a ton of options for the car built into controls on the steering wheel with a display on the instrument cluster. If the car is moving it only lets you change between two modes (IIRC digital speed display and odometer) while the car is in motion, even if you use the controls on the steering wheel.
Once the car is stopped, it will allow you to go into the setup menus to change preferences.
I don't know what hole you've been hiding in, but VOIP operators have been registering addresses with 911 system for years.
Yes, but sometime in the last 12 months a major flaw has been pointed out in the system. If you move your new address may not be put in the VOIP system. It took 2 deaths around here before someone figured out that they were sending paramedics to the wrong address. I'm not aware of that type of issue with POTS. As far as I can tell, there's still no regulation on it.
If I moved, I sure as hell wouldn't want to wonder if that sort of information would be updated or not.
I second this. Although recently I found if you scroll to the bottom of the page the answers from experts-exchange are there. Given the replies I've seen because of that I'm glad I didn't give them any money. Bug on their website maybe?
It's mostly because Xbox hardware is a piece of crap that dies easily.
The PS3 is not immune to this. A friend of mine bought a PS3 on release day. It died some time ago and after looking around a bit it seems the heat is too high in the PS3 and thusly has problems with its solder connections, quite similar to the Xbox. The catch? Microsoft fixes it under warranty, where Sony told him to pay $150 to fix it. His PS3 has been collecting dust since then.
The PS3 failure rates are also in double digits (>10%) but not as high as the xbox.
Yahoo, Gmail, MSN/Hotmail, and AOL pretty much require that you have DomainKeys implemented if you want to email their users
I send mail to these services without DomainKeys. In fact, we started getting bounces from them saying we don't have a SPF record for our domain. I've added one for our domain and haven't had any issues since.
I am the IT Administrator where I work. We have staff here of all types, computer-savvy ones to the completely clueless ones. We generally have more of the latter.
We did a trial using 2007. I determined that the cost of retraining the clueless staff was far higher than any perceived benefit the software might have. We purchase 2007 licenses and use our downgrade rights to install 2003 and make sure the compatibility pack is installed on all workstations.
Office 2007 for our agency is not even on the radar due to it's ribbon system. If we could turn it off or have a "classic" mode we might consider the move. We've not had any issues with the compatibility pack, even with Excel 2007 sheets with complex macros and formulas.
There would definitely be more, but I seriously doubt as much as Windows. Most of the drive-by exploits require root privileges to do anything serious to the machine. Almost everything is used without root privileges and so those types of attacks plain don't work. (I'm referring to Windows computers being infected just by being plugged into the internet.) I can't remember the last time I heard of something like this happening with linux.
Voluntarily installed malware by using social tactics and the like will still affect linux, but the amount of damage it can do to the local machine is still far less than the damage that can happen to Windows.
Well, on gentoo (which is what I'm using) getting codec support is easy. Mplayer has a bunch of USE flags available for all sorts of codecs (both audio and video), so I set this and the package manager pulled in all of the dependencies. The main reason I use gentoo is because of the package manager's flexibility.
I haven't come across an unplayable file in years now. 'Course I have built support for almost everything under the sun for mplayer, though...
I remember reading several articles regarding plasmas w.r.t. using as a computer display, and (back then) was suggested to get a LCD display as it has better viewable quality for use with a computer. It's quite possible that that has changed now.
I have a HTPC setup in my living room. I have an old TV (which underscans, unfortunately - both in Windows and Linux with no "easy" fix) and routed through my amplifier. I used MythTV from portage and tweaked everything with few issues. The biggest problem I had was getting lirc to recognize my HTPC IR receiver so I could use my Harmony remote with it. After a lot of head-scratching about that one (support for the iMon receiver in lirc was piss-poor at the time, must have changed by now, it's been over a year) I did manage to get it to work, and once that worked [surprisingly] MythTV used the LCD screen as well.
Basically had no issues with mplayer and sound. My old TV sucks, and I couldn't get it to overscan enough to fix the screen, but that was in Windows too, not just a linux issue (must be a fault of the tv-chip on the card.)
Using plasma TVs are sketch with a HTPC is sketchy anyhow quality-wise, so next time I need a TV I'll be getting a LCD panel that supports native resolution over the HDMI input.
I find it rather interesting that I just now found out about the mismanagement of SORBS and how hard it is to get off the list. I basically set up our spam filter and check it periodically; that's about it. I honestly never paid attention to the politics of the lists themselves...
SORBS simply ignores anybody who tries to get delisted.
I can say right now that this is untrue. I inherited a blacklisted IP address for one of my servers just last week and figured out the hard way that the IP was blacklisted by several lists. I've got proper DNS, rDNS and SPF records set up for the domain in question. SORBS happened to be one of the four major lists that had blacklisted the IP I inherited. I went to their site, and submitted our IP and the details as well as indicated the presence of the relevant DNS records for a domain. I got a message back in approximately five minutes saying it was received and was being checked for validity. Ten minutes after I submitted the request I got a notice saying it passed initial checks and has been submitted to a human to remove the block. The next morning (around 18 hours later) I received an email stating we have been removed from the list. I went and checked their database online and confirmed we were removed from the list.
Now if you want to talk about pigheaded lists, fiveten is one. I put in a request; I was ignored. I asked my ISP to act on my behalf, and after two days he messaged me back saying that they blacklisted the entire subnet and refuse to remove it. So, if you want to block most of the internet's legitimate servers, use fiveten. You'll never get any mail!;)
I generally agree with your post, and normally I don't like picking nits, but, in Canada, mobility rights are enshrined in the Constitution.
6. (1) Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada.
(2) Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the right
(a) to move to and take up residence in any province; and
(b) to pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province.
There are some qualifications to those rights that allow provinces to make laws that require a person to be resident in a province before they can collect social support, and there's protection for affirmative action laws, but otherwise, a Canadian is free to go where she wishes.
Yes, but this doesn't mean it's a right to drive a car. That's a privilege; nobody's stopping them from walking/biking/taking the bus/using some other means of transportation.
I would assume the horn button would have to go somewhere. It'd be best as a trigger on the joystick. Man, couple that with an old fashioned hood ornament shaped like a old fashioned aiming device and I'd buy one!
Perhaps the next generation will inherit
all of our Disney DVDs and there will be no reason
for him to buy his own copy. THIS is probably what
scares the bejezzus out of Disney.
I wish I inherited DVDs. I inherited a bunch of (Disney) VHS tapes, and I have no videocassette player!
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Yep. Maybe that's why they use "Think different" as a slogan? That could be what they're referring to.
I find it interesting that someone gets the award for 2010 when we aren't even halfway through the year. What happens when someone in the second half of the year bests them?
For those that don't know where that comes from, it's a bash quote.
I don't think they've completely outlawed software patents. The way I read it is that anything tied to a business model is not allowed (hence Amazon's silly 1-click being tossed.) It appears you can still patent a computer-implemented process, but not the program itself.
From what I've read, Canada generally will not allow a patent on software unless it's been tied to hardware in some way. Almost all software patents currently in the US would be ruled as business methods here and thrown out as a result.
Sources: Source 1 and Source 2.
That depends. There's quite a few people I know that are too self-centered unless it costs them money. As an example, someone I know always drinks and drives. It's too much of an inconvenience to use transit/cabs to go drinking. Well, he caused an accident (thankfully no life was lost) and it cost him almost $15,000 through the legal system here. He doesn't do that anymore.
When I read the article summary, I thought to myself: "What's next, localized automotive cell phone jammers?" If the car thinks you're talking on the phone it just jams the signal.
Most automatics won't gear down, especially in low gear/first gear, under those circumstances. They're speed-limited and will not change into low gear, as doing so can mean a serious loss of control.
What I can't figure out is why they didn't have a proper fail-safe. Electronics do fail - on my previous car (before the drive-by-wire system) the throttle position sensor had long failed before I got it. You'd think that having a safety on the brake (for example, if the engine revs out of control and the driver steps on the brake, the ECU forces the engine to its idle position.)
Considering that it's very possible to have a sensor failure in its allowable signal limits, that type of safety should be built in!
Firewire is not really an apples-to-apples comparison. Not only did firewire have a $0.25/device royalty, it also required hardware to implement it, costing a couple dollars per device. Those requirements aren't around for firewire now, but that had a large part in its lack of mainstream adoption.
DisplayPort is royalty-free and as such does not have this problem. Only time will tell.
I know of one car that does this already. My brother has a 2009 Pontiac G8, and it has a ton of options for the car built into controls on the steering wheel with a display on the instrument cluster. If the car is moving it only lets you change between two modes (IIRC digital speed display and odometer) while the car is in motion, even if you use the controls on the steering wheel.
Once the car is stopped, it will allow you to go into the setup menus to change preferences.
Yes, but sometime in the last 12 months a major flaw has been pointed out in the system. If you move your new address may not be put in the VOIP system. It took 2 deaths around here before someone figured out that they were sending paramedics to the wrong address. I'm not aware of that type of issue with POTS. As far as I can tell, there's still no regulation on it.
If I moved, I sure as hell wouldn't want to wonder if that sort of information would be updated or not.
I have DSL and I'm allowed to host services, even smtp. It's actually intended for businesses, but hosting a server is not an issue.
The upload is mediocre at about 1 mbit up. Makes for slow transfers over VPN. Synchronous services are still far too expensive here.
I second this. Although recently I found if you scroll to the bottom of the page the answers from experts-exchange are there. Given the replies I've seen because of that I'm glad I didn't give them any money. Bug on their website maybe?
The PS3 is not immune to this. A friend of mine bought a PS3 on release day. It died some time ago and after looking around a bit it seems the heat is too high in the PS3 and thusly has problems with its solder connections, quite similar to the Xbox. The catch? Microsoft fixes it under warranty, where Sony told him to pay $150 to fix it. His PS3 has been collecting dust since then. The PS3 failure rates are also in double digits (>10%) but not as high as the xbox.
I send mail to these services without DomainKeys. In fact, we started getting bounces from them saying we don't have a SPF record for our domain. I've added one for our domain and haven't had any issues since.
I am the IT Administrator where I work. We have staff here of all types, computer-savvy ones to the completely clueless ones. We generally have more of the latter.
We did a trial using 2007. I determined that the cost of retraining the clueless staff was far higher than any perceived benefit the software might have. We purchase 2007 licenses and use our downgrade rights to install 2003 and make sure the compatibility pack is installed on all workstations.
Office 2007 for our agency is not even on the radar due to it's ribbon system. If we could turn it off or have a "classic" mode we might consider the move. We've not had any issues with the compatibility pack, even with Excel 2007 sheets with complex macros and formulas.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
They probably do tracking by IP address. You'd likely have to change that too.
There would definitely be more, but I seriously doubt as much as Windows. Most of the drive-by exploits require root privileges to do anything serious to the machine. Almost everything is used without root privileges and so those types of attacks plain don't work. (I'm referring to Windows computers being infected just by being plugged into the internet.) I can't remember the last time I heard of something like this happening with linux.
Voluntarily installed malware by using social tactics and the like will still affect linux, but the amount of damage it can do to the local machine is still far less than the damage that can happen to Windows.
Well, on gentoo (which is what I'm using) getting codec support is easy. Mplayer has a bunch of USE flags available for all sorts of codecs (both audio and video), so I set this and the package manager pulled in all of the dependencies. The main reason I use gentoo is because of the package manager's flexibility.
I haven't come across an unplayable file in years now. 'Course I have built support for almost everything under the sun for mplayer, though...
I remember reading several articles regarding plasmas w.r.t. using as a computer display, and (back then) was suggested to get a LCD display as it has better viewable quality for use with a computer. It's quite possible that that has changed now.
It just dawned on me that this story is about Ubuntu, which I don't use. Whoops!
I have a HTPC setup in my living room. I have an old TV (which underscans, unfortunately - both in Windows and Linux with no "easy" fix) and routed through my amplifier. I used MythTV from portage and tweaked everything with few issues. The biggest problem I had was getting lirc to recognize my HTPC IR receiver so I could use my Harmony remote with it. After a lot of head-scratching about that one (support for the iMon receiver in lirc was piss-poor at the time, must have changed by now, it's been over a year) I did manage to get it to work, and once that worked [surprisingly] MythTV used the LCD screen as well. Basically had no issues with mplayer and sound. My old TV sucks, and I couldn't get it to overscan enough to fix the screen, but that was in Windows too, not just a linux issue (must be a fault of the tv-chip on the card.) Using plasma TVs are sketch with a HTPC is sketchy anyhow quality-wise, so next time I need a TV I'll be getting a LCD panel that supports native resolution over the HDMI input.
I can say right now that this is untrue. I inherited a blacklisted IP address for one of my servers just last week and figured out the hard way that the IP was blacklisted by several lists. I've got proper DNS, rDNS and SPF records set up for the domain in question. SORBS happened to be one of the four major lists that had blacklisted the IP I inherited. I went to their site, and submitted our IP and the details as well as indicated the presence of the relevant DNS records for a domain. I got a message back in approximately five minutes saying it was received and was being checked for validity. Ten minutes after I submitted the request I got a notice saying it passed initial checks and has been submitted to a human to remove the block. The next morning (around 18 hours later) I received an email stating we have been removed from the list. I went and checked their database online and confirmed we were removed from the list.
;)
Now if you want to talk about pigheaded lists, fiveten is one. I put in a request; I was ignored. I asked my ISP to act on my behalf, and after two days he messaged me back saying that they blacklisted the entire subnet and refuse to remove it. So, if you want to block most of the internet's legitimate servers, use fiveten. You'll never get any mail!
Yes, but this doesn't mean it's a right to drive a car. That's a privilege; nobody's stopping them from walking/biking/taking the bus/using some other means of transportation.
I would assume the horn button would have to go somewhere. It'd be best as a trigger on the joystick. Man, couple that with an old fashioned hood ornament shaped like a old fashioned aiming device and I'd buy one!
I wish I inherited DVDs. I inherited a bunch of (Disney) VHS tapes, and I have no videocassette player!