I don't believe that this necessary will lead to censorship of other "offensive" or politically incorrect material. Here in Norway, we've had a similar filter[1] in place for a few years now, and it hasn't been extended in any degree to include anything other than what has been deemed as child porn. It's efficiency in combating the distribution of child porn can be questioned, but I don't think you'll ever find it being used for other purposes.
[1] http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Norwegian_secret_internet_censorship_blacklist%2C_3518_domains%2C_18_Mar_2009
The moment I realized that there would be no final year of Linux was the moment I discovered that my beloved stage piano(!) actually ran some version of Linux. While the debate has raged over what year will be "the year of Linux on the desktop", people has assumed that being ready for the desktop is somehow equated with being successful. At the same time, Linux has snuck in the back door into surprisingly many homes, into appliances Microsoft never ever dreamed of supporting, and that is a good a measure of Linux' success as a win on the desktop. I believe the day Linux has more installs (appliances/computers running its code) than any Microsoft product will come a long time before Linux matches the user share of Windows on the desktop.
I wouldn't say nobody is doing anything.. Just because Apple doesn't get the treatment MS has gotten, doesn't mean nobody cares or does anything.;)
The Ombudsman of Norway has since sometime 2006 been in a legal battle against Apple for locking music on iTunes to their iPod's, demanding that it either only sell music playable on other players or open up iTunes to be able to export music to a format playable by other players (eg. DRM-free MP3). The latest development is that the case has going to be brought up for Markedsrådet (eng: The marketing council, a court for marketing related cases), which basically has the authority to set requirements for what Apple may sell/market in Norway. This may just lead to Apple stopping all sales of non-iTunes Plus music in Norway, solving the problem but leaving us with only a subset of the available music on iTunes..
I've had an ATM machine die on me once. It suddenly popped up with an segfault in Norman Cat's Claw (an old antivirus scanner), and it turns out it was running NT 4.0. Luckily the bank had an engineer working with another machine at the time, so he quickly rebooted it. Logged in without passwords, and just started the executable "Minibank" from the desktop.. When I got home, it turned out it hadn't made a withdrawal from my account, the first time ever a Windows malfunction actually has been a good thing.:)
Also, I don't understand why more or less all the bus terminal info screens run a full Windows XP. And at least 50% of the time, it just shows a BSOD or a Internet Explorer DNS error message. For simple "show a semi-dynamic information screen with no user input" uses, why run a full desktop OS, with all the trouble that comes with it? I would think a small think running some form of embedded linux would do a much better job, and cost a lot less.
WinAmp, has probably beaten this record, possibly more than once. I bet MSN Live beat it (when they forced the upgrade over MSN 7.5) iTunes, probably has, and probably a lot of other software that has notifications for new versions.
I don't think forced upgrades should count, as that doesn't necessarily involve users participating. Any product with a sufficiently large userbase (Windows, Office, iTunes, etc) could force an upgrade and easily break the record. Certain Microsoft security upgrades have probably been downloaded (probably without the user knowing) a lot more than Firefox 3, although probabl not within the same timeframe.
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I don't believe that this necessary will lead to censorship of other "offensive" or politically incorrect material. Here in Norway, we've had a similar filter[1] in place for a few years now, and it hasn't been extended in any degree to include anything other than what has been deemed as child porn. It's efficiency in combating the distribution of child porn can be questioned, but I don't think you'll ever find it being used for other purposes. [1] http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Norwegian_secret_internet_censorship_blacklist%2C_3518_domains%2C_18_Mar_2009
Well, now you can get that AND the occasional BSoD! :D
The moment I realized that there would be no final year of Linux was the moment I discovered that my beloved stage piano(!) actually ran some version of Linux. While the debate has raged over what year will be "the year of Linux on the desktop", people has assumed that being ready for the desktop is somehow equated with being successful. At the same time, Linux has snuck in the back door into surprisingly many homes, into appliances Microsoft never ever dreamed of supporting, and that is a good a measure of Linux' success as a win on the desktop. I believe the day Linux has more installs (appliances/computers running its code) than any Microsoft product will come a long time before Linux matches the user share of Windows on the desktop.
I wouldn't say nobody is doing anything.. Just because Apple doesn't get the treatment MS has gotten, doesn't mean nobody cares or does anything. ;)
The Ombudsman of Norway has since sometime 2006 been in a legal battle against Apple for locking music on iTunes to their iPod's, demanding that it either only sell music playable on other players or open up iTunes to be able to export music to a format playable by other players (eg. DRM-free MP3). The latest development is that the case has going to be brought up for Markedsrådet (eng: The marketing council, a court for marketing related cases), which basically has the authority to set requirements for what Apple may sell/market in Norway. This may just lead to Apple stopping all sales of non-iTunes Plus music in Norway, solving the problem but leaving us with only a subset of the available music on iTunes..
I've had an ATM machine die on me once. It suddenly popped up with an segfault in Norman Cat's Claw (an old antivirus scanner), and it turns out it was running NT 4.0. Luckily the bank had an engineer working with another machine at the time, so he quickly rebooted it. Logged in without passwords, and just started the executable "Minibank" from the desktop.. When I got home, it turned out it hadn't made a withdrawal from my account, the first time ever a Windows malfunction actually has been a good thing. :)
Also, I don't understand why more or less all the bus terminal info screens run a full Windows XP. And at least 50% of the time, it just shows a BSOD or a Internet Explorer DNS error message. For simple "show a semi-dynamic information screen with no user input" uses, why run a full desktop OS, with all the trouble that comes with it? I would think a small think running some form of embedded linux would do a much better job, and cost a lot less.
WinAmp, has probably beaten this record, possibly more than once. I bet MSN Live beat it (when they forced the upgrade over MSN 7.5) iTunes, probably has, and probably a lot of other software that has notifications for new versions.
I don't think forced upgrades should count, as that doesn't necessarily involve users participating. Any product with a sufficiently large userbase (Windows, Office, iTunes, etc) could force an upgrade and easily break the record. Certain Microsoft security upgrades have probably been downloaded (probably without the user knowing) a lot more than Firefox 3, although probabl not within the same timeframe.