But that was a totally different kind of beast. The US-gov said "You can't export this 'cause we've labeled crypto that we can not decrypt as munitions" So it was exported as printed text instead, which was legal.
If they instead had contacted the author(s) of said software and said "Since we can not break your encryption, your software is a threat to national security. If you don't stop, you will be locked up without a trial. And you can not tell anyone about this, or you'll be locked up without a trial."
On that note, it would probably be better for a government agency to slam such a thing on a single or a group of employees instead of on an entire corporation. Especially a corporation with as much political and economical resources as Microsoft.
Well. If they want a system to use for military strikes that can't be proven to come from the US, they need to use computers that are: a. Not on the government networks b. Preferably not even inside the US
Why would they want this? A military "cyberattack" is still a military attack and is considered an act of war. They might not want to declare war with the nation that they want to attack.
You wouldn't want the US-military to have remote-control access of most cars so that they can take over active vehicles in proximity of the car used in the bank-robbery and crash into it in order to stop it.
You would want them to use their own vehicles for this.
Likewise, I would expect the military to use their own systems.
I don't know the ins and outs of US law, but these days their government seems able to sidestep many of the laws that regulate what it can and can not do by slamming a "national security"-badge on stuff.
So, if they where to order Microsoft to put a Military/NSA/DHS-rootkit in the next security update, in the name of "Homeland Security"/"National Security"/"Whatevertheywanttocallit", then slam a gag-order on anyone involved... Would this be legal? Would anyone revealing the fact that this has been done or, if MS refuses, that the government has tried to do it, be prosecuted for breaching "National security"/"Whatever"?
The problem isn't the cost of actually providing data-transfer in other networks. The problem is that all network-operators charge all the other network-operators ridiculous sums for roaming clients and thus no operator can afford to lower what they charge for roaming.
How often and for how long do you travel abroad? It might be best to get a local subscription if you mostly go to one country and do this a lot.
If you go to Europe and travel between countries, you must check to see that you get one that let you use the free data-rate while roaming though... Most don't and you still get the rape when roaming.
Examples of 7.2Mbit/s services from www.tele2.se in sweden: $16.24/month with a 1GB/month cap, then the service gets throttled to 30kbit/s $26.08/month with a 5GB/month cap, then the service gets throttled to 30kbit/s Not that bad, but if you where to roam in, say, Germany with this you'd be charged between $10 and $20/MB depending on the network... =P
I've done this but without the freezing part. My main drive at work eight years ago had bearings that was a bit worn. Enough that the drive wouldn't spin up after being powered down. Every time the power had been off, I had to remove the drive and give it a twist to get it running. Ran it like this for almost two years. ^_^ (I was to lazy to re-install my workstation.)
But still, did those Vista-customers choose Vista or was it chosen for them by whoever sold them the computer?
Vista is a bundle success (they've succeeded in bundling it with a lot of systems), not a sales success. It would be interesting to know how many Vista-licenses that's been chosen when there's been XP as an alternative.
Today I hear a lot of "I bought a new machine and it came with Vista. Can you help me get rid of it?". Fortunately we have a license that allows our personnel to use our site XP-license at home, so they aren't forced to go pirate to get rid of Vista. Many people who get Vista would have to try and buy an XP license because they don't know how to get, burn and install a pirate XP...
I'd say that it is rather obvious that the use of *any* mind-affecting drug while operating any kind of vehicle, power tool or weapon is an extremely
bad idea.
BTW, in my grandparent-post, I was being sarcastic. ^_^
But that's simply because you get drowsy by doing something monotone for a long time. You probably would be better at handling the traffic if you had a non-attention-requiring way of staying alert. Like amphetamine. =-D
The ones I've seen says that you can only run the license on the computer the license-sticker is on. If you move the sticker, you move the OEM-license. Same thing if you buy a retail license. There's a sticker that you must attach to your computer. If you don't, Balmer will come 'n throw a chair at you. =P
Apparently, this will make it harder to make a counterfeit-version of windows. =P
Rant: What the hell is a non-genuine windows anyway? In my mind, this is something like GNU/Linux with Wine and a windowmanager that looks like windows XP that someone is selling as "Windows XP" An unlicensed copy of Windows XP is still a genuine Windows XP. licensed != genuine unlicensed != counterfeit Someone needs to give the people at MS marketing department an english-course.
Well... Lots of people have at one point or another in their life bought a computer that came bundled with a windows license. If you have and that computer currently isn't running windows or maybe isn't running at all, you can use the windows files legally.
But if it interferes with the other navigation-systems, they will interfere with the Chinese one. So they have to make it non-interfering in order to make it work.
On the other hand, the biggest reason for China to develop their own navigation-system, apart from national pride (read: stupidity), is because their most likely opponent in an eventual conflict are in control of, or are allied/really friendly with those in control of current navigation-systems. Since this is the case, they would be rather stupid not to give their system the capability to interfere with the other systems in order to jam them...
Hmm... True. Someone is supplying Russian-made hardware to people who can't buy their weapons officially, and the Russian maffia is probably one of the suppliers. But I'd rather say "Terrorism and spam finances the Russian maffia" than the other way around then. I doubt that the money earned by that organization find it's way into the pockets of terrorists anywhere in the world and I doubt that the maffia would go out of business, thus lessening the amount of black-market Russian weapons a little bit, if they didn't have any spam-income.
Start spreading the word: "Anyone who sends spam is a terrorist!" Add random bogus reason, like "spam finances terrorism" and tag a "think of the children" on at the end.
Sooner or later, someone in power is bound to fall for it.
then you get sued, end of story. Yes, you might be, but you shouldn't be. Why shouldn't I be allowed to create an original work about the content of someone else's original work?
This is an eternal debate, but wanting OSX and wanting upgradeable hardware do not exclude each other. Computers are tools, but they need to be the right tool for the job and you are the one that should decide the specifications needed, not a marketeer at Apple.
Since there has been a few incidents, like WW2, with fascists leaders wielding too much power over here, we europeans are a bit nervous when we start seeing the tools needed for this being handed to people in power. We'd rather the US people did something about the powers they give their government before a real fascist gets into the white house. The US have the worlds largest army, the US people are used to having it deployed outside US borders for whatever reason they're told and the US government get more power over and less accountability to their citizens all the time.
If I don't remember incorrectly, we should soon be moving towards the next periodical ice-age and so the temperature should gradually decrease over the next few hundred years. Maybe we can negate the next ice-age by releasing greenhouse gases. =-) But then we'll have one hell of a warm period afterward...;-)
Unless that spike is high and long enough to kickstart other processes. Melting permafrost releasing CO2 and more methane. Warmer oceans releasing more CO2, methane, water-vapor, etc. Less ice-covers leading to less reflection leading to more heat...
LoTR where intentionally made to make everything feel real. El Laberinto del fauno gives you an eerie, unreal feeling. I think this is intentional too...
Anyway, central characters like the Faun and the Pale man were costumes, not computer generated.
This won't work on an ordinary laptop, but if you've got a screen with really good vertical viewing-angles, you can rotate it 90degrees. Get 1050*1680 instead of 1680*1050 on your 8:5 aspect widescreen. =)
This is only true if the widescreen-format is achieved by increasing horizontal resolution. Usually though, the widescreen is achived by taking a regular screen and decrease it's vertical resolution. I'd rather have a 1280*1024 regular than 1280*800 wide.
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But that was a totally different kind of beast.
The US-gov said "You can't export this 'cause we've labeled crypto that we can not decrypt as munitions"
So it was exported as printed text instead, which was legal.
If they instead had contacted the author(s) of said software and said "Since we can not break your encryption, your software is a threat to national security. If you don't stop, you will be locked up without a trial. And you can not tell anyone about this, or you'll be locked up without a trial."
On that note, it would probably be better for a government agency to slam such a thing on a single or a group of employees instead of on an entire corporation.
Especially a corporation with as much political and economical resources as Microsoft.
Well. If they want a system to use for military strikes that can't be proven to come from the US, they need to use computers that are:
a. Not on the government networks
b. Preferably not even inside the US
Why would they want this? A military "cyberattack" is still a military attack and is considered an act of war.
They might not want to declare war with the nation that they want to attack.
You wouldn't want the US-military to have remote-control access of most cars so that they can take over active vehicles in proximity of the car used in the bank-robbery and crash into it in order to stop it.
You would want them to use their own vehicles for this.
Likewise, I would expect the military to use their own systems.
I don't know the ins and outs of US law, but these days their government seems able to sidestep many of the laws that regulate what it can and can not do by slamming a "national security"-badge on stuff.
So, if they where to order Microsoft to put a Military/NSA/DHS-rootkit in the next security update, in the name of "Homeland Security"/"National Security"/"Whatevertheywanttocallit", then slam a gag-order on anyone involved...
Would this be legal?
Would anyone revealing the fact that this has been done or, if MS refuses, that the government has tried to do it, be prosecuted for breaching "National security"/"Whatever"?
The problem isn't the cost of actually providing data-transfer in other networks.
The problem is that all network-operators charge all the other network-operators ridiculous sums for roaming clients and thus no operator can afford to lower what they charge for roaming.
It's ridiculous.
How often and for how long do you travel abroad?
It might be best to get a local subscription if you mostly go to one country and do this a lot.
If you go to Europe and travel between countries, you must check to see that you get one that let you use the free data-rate while roaming though...
Most don't and you still get the rape when roaming.
Examples of 7.2Mbit/s services from www.tele2.se in sweden:
$16.24/month with a 1GB/month cap, then the service gets throttled to 30kbit/s
$26.08/month with a 5GB/month cap, then the service gets throttled to 30kbit/s
Not that bad, but if you where to roam in, say, Germany with this you'd be charged between $10 and $20/MB depending on the network... =P
I've done this but without the freezing part.
My main drive at work eight years ago had bearings that was a bit worn.
Enough that the drive wouldn't spin up after being powered down.
Every time the power had been off, I had to remove the drive and give it a twist to get it running.
Ran it like this for almost two years. ^_^ (I was to lazy to re-install my workstation.)
But still, did those Vista-customers choose Vista or was it chosen for them by whoever sold them the computer?
Vista is a bundle success (they've succeeded in bundling it with a lot of systems), not a sales success.
It would be interesting to know how many Vista-licenses that's been chosen when there's been XP as an alternative.
Today I hear a lot of "I bought a new machine and it came with Vista. Can you help me get rid of it?".
Fortunately we have a license that allows our personnel to use our site XP-license at home, so they aren't forced to go pirate to get rid of Vista.
Many people who get Vista would have to try and buy an XP license because they don't know how to get, burn and install a pirate XP...
I'd say that it is rather obvious that the use of *any* mind-affecting drug while operating any kind of vehicle, power tool or weapon is an extremely
bad idea.
BTW, in my grandparent-post, I was being sarcastic. ^_^
But that's simply because you get drowsy by doing something monotone for a long time.
You probably would be better at handling the traffic if you had a non-attention-requiring way of staying alert. Like amphetamine. =-D
The ones I've seen says that you can only run the license on the computer the license-sticker is on.
If you move the sticker, you move the OEM-license.
Same thing if you buy a retail license. There's a sticker that you must attach to your computer. If you don't, Balmer will come 'n throw a chair at you. =P
Apparently, this will make it harder to make a counterfeit-version of windows. =P
Rant:
What the hell is a non-genuine windows anyway?
In my mind, this is something like GNU/Linux with Wine and a windowmanager that looks like windows XP that someone is selling as "Windows XP"
An unlicensed copy of Windows XP is still a genuine Windows XP.
licensed != genuine
unlicensed != counterfeit
Someone needs to give the people at MS marketing department an english-course.
Well... Lots of people have at one point or another in their life bought a computer that came bundled with a windows license. If you have and that computer currently isn't running windows or maybe isn't running at all, you can use the windows files legally.
But if it interferes with the other navigation-systems, they will interfere with the Chinese one. So they have to make it non-interfering in order to make it work.
On the other hand, the biggest reason for China to develop their own navigation-system, apart from national pride (read: stupidity), is because their most likely opponent in an eventual conflict are in control of, or are allied/really friendly with those in control of current navigation-systems.
Since this is the case, they would be rather stupid not to give their system the capability to interfere with the other systems in order to jam them...
Hmm... True. Someone is supplying Russian-made hardware to people who can't buy their weapons officially, and the Russian maffia is probably one of the suppliers.
But I'd rather say "Terrorism and spam finances the Russian maffia" than the other way around then.
I doubt that the money earned by that organization find it's way into the pockets of terrorists anywhere in the world and I doubt that the maffia would go out of business, thus lessening the amount of black-market Russian weapons a little bit, if they didn't have any spam-income.
Start spreading the word:
"Anyone who sends spam is a terrorist!"
Add random bogus reason, like "spam finances terrorism" and tag a "think of the children" on at the end.
Sooner or later, someone in power is bound to fall for it.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to create an original work about the content of someone else's original work?
This is an eternal debate, but wanting OSX and wanting upgradeable hardware do not exclude each other.
Computers are tools, but they need to be the right tool for the job and you are the one that should decide the specifications needed, not a marketeer at Apple.
Since there has been a few incidents, like WW2, with fascists leaders wielding too much power over here, we europeans are a bit nervous when we start seeing the tools needed for this being handed to people in power.
We'd rather the US people did something about the powers they give their government before a real fascist gets into the white house.
The US have the worlds largest army, the US people are used to having it deployed outside US borders for whatever reason they're told and the US government get more power over and less accountability to their citizens all the time.
Magic.
It involves throwing of bones and spherical crystals.
If I don't remember incorrectly, we should soon be moving towards the next periodical ice-age and so the temperature should gradually decrease over the next few hundred years. ;-)
Maybe we can negate the next ice-age by releasing greenhouse gases. =-)
But then we'll have one hell of a warm period afterward...
Unless that spike is high and long enough to kickstart other processes.
Melting permafrost releasing CO2 and more methane.
Warmer oceans releasing more CO2, methane, water-vapor, etc.
Less ice-covers leading to less reflection leading to more heat...
Problem is, we don't know what will happen.
The problem is that things aren't linear, nor instant, since we have gigantic temporary buffers.
LoTR where intentionally made to make everything feel real.
El Laberinto del fauno gives you an eerie, unreal feeling. I think this is intentional too...
Anyway, central characters like the Faun and the Pale man were costumes, not computer generated.
This won't work on an ordinary laptop, but if you've got a screen with really good vertical viewing-angles, you can rotate it 90degrees.
Get 1050*1680 instead of 1680*1050 on your 8:5 aspect widescreen. =)
This is only true if the widescreen-format is achieved by increasing horizontal resolution.
Usually though, the widescreen is achived by taking a regular screen and decrease it's vertical resolution.
I'd rather have a 1280*1024 regular than 1280*800 wide.