The navy is standing up a cyber-warfare group as well
Tenth Fleet will be reactivated in October 2009 as the U.S. Navy's Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet.[2] The command will be the Naval component of United States Cyber Command. Its first commander will be VADM Bernard J. McCullough III. [3]
I don't know if anyone actually read the kb article on the Microsoft website, but it appears that you don't lose the power saving features and what not with the hot fix installation, the loss of those features only occurs when you directly modify the registry to disable some of the c-states in the apci system as a quick fix. Either that or i'm reading the kb article wrong.
And the evil M$ has no obligation to let people copy games and then play them on their online marketplace.
They didn't disable their equipment, it still works just fine. Just not online via their servers.
Seems pretty reasonable considering that copying those games is considered illegal I believe and if M$ did support using pirated games on XBL they could be liable legally themselves.
This is also helping to protect the rest of the community from those that think it entertaining to cheat and exploit online.
I'd say it is due to the fact that people perceive Google and Yahoo as "Good" companies. While most perceive Microsoft to be evil. Or maybe Google has finally learned how to hypnotize people with.gif images...
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Only time will tell.
Wow,
Panic over the fact that the government is refusing to control private business's company policies. How this would hurt anyone is unstated (or at least unproved). If a manufacturer felt like raising their minimum prices to say 20% higher than normal market prices the only people that are going to be hurt is the manufacturers themselves.
In this competitive market there is always some other company (or country) that will produce and sell the item at the original, lower cost. Additionally, these manufacturers would have no real incentive to raise an artificial "floor price" when the only people that would potentially profit off of that would be the retailers that take that extra profit in the first place.
In reality this ban was non-effective in the first place because said manufacturers could simply raise their wholesale prices, effectively raising the floor prices as well as their bottom lines.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I sure as hell don't think so.
The fact that slashdot seems to think this is newsworthy is absolutely absurd. As many others said the candidates probably don't know anything about what servers their respective campaigns are running. Furthermore, this looks like an attempt at political influence based on this 'information'.
If as a voter you choose based on a small thing like server OS, you really don't deserve to vote IMO.
Maybe instead we could see more useful information on the candidate's respective views on OSS policy and DRM issues. Or even privacy records?
Try again,
Slashdot Mirror
Tenth Fleet will be reactivated in October 2009 as the U.S. Navy's Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet.[2] The command will be the Naval component of United States Cyber Command. Its first commander will be VADM Bernard J. McCullough III. [3]
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Tenth_Fleet#Fleet_Cyber_Command
That might actually be their current data pool right now though. Try hitting it again and see if it cuts that number in half.
I don't know if anyone actually read the kb article on the Microsoft website, but it appears that you don't lose the power saving features and what not with the hot fix installation, the loss of those features only occurs when you directly modify the registry to disable some of the c-states in the apci system as a quick fix. Either that or i'm reading the kb article wrong.
And the evil M$ has no obligation to let people copy games and then play them on their online marketplace.
They didn't disable their equipment, it still works just fine. Just not online via their servers.
Seems pretty reasonable considering that copying those games is considered illegal I believe and if M$ did support using pirated games on XBL they could be liable legally themselves.
This is also helping to protect the rest of the community from those that think it entertaining to cheat and exploit online.
I don't hear apple lock up modded apple tvs, and jailbraked iphones, and have m$ ever given free wi-fi in airports?
No, apple would never lock people out from violating their EULA! Never!
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1336200/OS-X-Update-Officially-Kills-Intel-Atom-Support
Never!
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/221238/Apple-Update-Means-Palm-Pre-Can-No-Longer-Sync-With-iTunes?art_pos=23
I'd say it is due to the fact that people perceive Google and Yahoo as "Good" companies. While most perceive Microsoft to be evil. Or maybe Google has finally learned how to hypnotize people with .gif images...
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Only time will tell.
Wow, Panic over the fact that the government is refusing to control private business's company policies. How this would hurt anyone is unstated (or at least unproved). If a manufacturer felt like raising their minimum prices to say 20% higher than normal market prices the only people that are going to be hurt is the manufacturers themselves. In this competitive market there is always some other company (or country) that will produce and sell the item at the original, lower cost. Additionally, these manufacturers would have no real incentive to raise an artificial "floor price" when the only people that would potentially profit off of that would be the retailers that take that extra profit in the first place. In reality this ban was non-effective in the first place because said manufacturers could simply raise their wholesale prices, effectively raising the floor prices as well as their bottom lines. Maybe I'm wrong, but I sure as hell don't think so.
The fact that slashdot seems to think this is newsworthy is absolutely absurd. As many others said the candidates probably don't know anything about what servers their respective campaigns are running. Furthermore, this looks like an attempt at political influence based on this 'information'. If as a voter you choose based on a small thing like server OS, you really don't deserve to vote IMO. Maybe instead we could see more useful information on the candidate's respective views on OSS policy and DRM issues. Or even privacy records? Try again,