This is 'life from scratch' in the same sense that writing a plugin for firefox is 'creating a browser from scratch'.
It would be interesting to try to argue your way around the GPL using that reasoning ('yes your honour I wrote it from scratch using two existing GPL programs that I put together, so the GPL doesn't apply').
Buying an individual senator is dirt cheap really...
For a small company though, buying enough senators to get the legislation you want is too expensive (which is why almost all legislation is dictated by large companies).
The first I heard about it was a local power company were running limited (2-3 user) trials. That was 10 years ago. Of course the press spun it as if it would be available retail the following week. I lost count of the number of people who asked where they could buy it from (this was before broadband.. anything over 56k was considered fast).
Every few month someone prints a 'next big thing' story about this... I'm surprised even slashdot would be lame enough to print yet another one, even with their dup history.
It *still* doesn't say that the government should build an interstate highway or deliver the mail.
It says they *can* open post offices.. which half answers the second half. Nowhere does it say they *should*. (I'd also dispute that the government opening post offices is the same as them delivering the mail.. in fact I'd rather they didn't, as I wouldn't trust them not to be reading it).
The third-party CA is not at all a requirement for encrypting and signing your email.
Except if you don't have a common CA, you can't verify that the message you received is actually the one that was sent.. it's trivial to fake a key without verification.
Even PGP has a CA of sorts (the public key repositories).
True enough, given the news in the UK at the moment (it was leaked that the guy they shot wasn't acting suspiciously at all.. had even stopped to get a paper, went for the tube then was wrestled to the ground by police who'd decided he was a terrorist, then *while restrained* was shot in the head 8 times.. the police then made up a story to make it look like his fault.. which is probably worse).
In a way I'm not to surprised if someone like CNN gets infected.. they probably have thousands of laptops out all over the world that need to VPN into their network.
Small companies I have little sympathy for (just as I wouldn't if they 'forgot' to fix the broken lock on their door and all their computers were stolen.. saving a few dollars by not securing their machines carries a risk, and this time it didn't pay off).
Banks.. well if a bank I was with got infected I'd close my account the very next day. They have *no* excuse.
I'm not MS fanboy (by any stretch of the imagination!) but the patch *is* out there, has been pushed by windows update for a couple of days, and the tech media at least including slashdot have made a noise about the threat. Why wait until you're actually affected?
Except if 'simple' (aka. broken) file sharing is enabled, as it is on XP Home, it'll let anyone in as guest. It's implemented at the NTLM auth level.. as I've found to my cost with SSPI based applications (the workaroud is to check the registry for the setting and warn the user they disabled their security...).
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This is 'life from scratch' in the same sense that writing a plugin for firefox is 'creating a browser from scratch'.
It would be interesting to try to argue your way around the GPL using that reasoning ('yes your honour I wrote it from scratch using two existing GPL programs that I put together, so the GPL doesn't apply').
The case might last, um... 15 seconds..?
I started reading hoping it was a joke.
Now I'm in a position I can't tell anyone that my software supports Linux(C)(R)(TM)(RIAA) without paying a fee.
Total bait and switch.
Uh, GPL is about the way the software is licenced and distributed. This is a completely different thing.
No it isn't.
You can no longer distribute Linux without paying a fee.
You *can* rename Linux to something else and avoid the fee.. which it what I expect most will do.
I'm kinda worried myself actually.
... gives us two options:
Most of what we produce is opensource, but not all of it. So we're not allowed to use the name linux any more
1. Pay up
2. Stop supporting Linux.
3. Say we support 'the alternative OS..ssh.. not allowed to mention the name'.
I'd hate to do (2) but we don't even make a profit (yet) on what we produce.. having to license linux would just kill us.
It would be easier to scrape from metweb I'd have thought..
t ml
http://www.meto.gov.uk/services/metweb/prodinfo.h
The met office do have FTP, Email and web data sources but they're not free (fairly cheap AFAIK).
Buying an individual senator is dirt cheap really...
For a small company though, buying enough senators to get the legislation you want is too expensive (which is why almost all legislation is dictated by large companies).
The first I heard about it was a local power company were running limited (2-3 user) trials. That was 10 years ago. Of course the press spun it as if it would be available retail the following week. I lost count of the number of people who asked where they could buy it from (this was before broadband.. anything over 56k was considered fast).
Every few month someone prints a 'next big thing' story about this... I'm surprised even slashdot would be lame enough to print yet another one, even with their dup history.
It *still* doesn't say that the government should build an interstate highway or deliver the mail.
It says they *can* open post offices.. which half answers the second half. Nowhere does it say they *should*. (I'd also dispute that the government opening post offices is the same as them delivering the mail.. in fact I'd rather they didn't, as I wouldn't trust them not to be reading it).
The third-party CA is not at all a requirement for encrypting and signing your email.
Except if you don't have a common CA, you can't verify that the message you received is actually the one that was sent.. it's trivial to fake a key without verification.
Even PGP has a CA of sorts (the public key repositories).
bzzt.
He didn't do it for a british telecom ad. It was a Pink Floyd song (actually about relationships) which BT then used as an advert.
carved off the sides of the big cube of meat
Ever been into a kebab shop?
Actually most consoles on sale come with one or two free games, and a lot of DVDs come with free DVDs (albeit crappy ones).
When the PSP is released next month, the deal I get for preordering comes with 2 free games for example.
True enough, given the news in the UK at the moment (it was leaked that the guy they shot wasn't acting suspiciously at all.. had even stopped to get a paper, went for the tube then was wrestled to the ground by police who'd decided he was a terrorist, then *while restrained* was shot in the head 8 times.. the police then made up a story to make it look like his fault.. which is probably worse).
Not to mention two large casios in Sydney and Melbourne.
A 200 foot high FX-82. Scary...
That's not his blog... it's a blog *about* branson.
2 rows of 4... 7 passengers plus a space for the flight attendant at the back.
New years eve is gonna be a bitch.
"Happy 2011 plus one!"
What will European kids call what they play?
XBOX.
They released the fix 2 days ago at least.. and pushed it as a priority update on Windows Update.
I'm not sure what more you're expecting them to do...
In a way I'm not to surprised if someone like CNN gets infected.. they probably have thousands of laptops out all over the world that need to VPN into their network.
Small companies I have little sympathy for (just as I wouldn't if they 'forgot' to fix the broken lock on their door and all their computers were stolen.. saving a few dollars by not securing their machines carries a risk, and this time it didn't pay off).
Banks.. well if a bank I was with got infected I'd close my account the very next day. They have *no* excuse.
There was a security patch for OSX just today..
You think they do it for fun???? No.. it's to avoid OSX exploits.
Any you didn't patch your systems because....??
I'm not MS fanboy (by any stretch of the imagination!) but the patch *is* out there, has been pushed by windows update for a couple of days, and the tech media at least including slashdot have made a noise about the threat. Why wait until you're actually affected?
Except if 'simple' (aka. broken) file sharing is enabled, as it is on XP Home, it'll let anyone in as guest. It's implemented at the NTLM auth level.. as I've found to my cost with SSPI based applications (the workaroud is to check the registry for the setting and warn the user they disabled their security...).
That solves nothing.. you haven't answered the two major problems:
1. Define porn.
2. Just try to enforce that... US!=World.
And also (slightly OT) why DRM won't work.