the Chaos Computer Club in Germany and researchers from the University of Virginia have cracked the encryption scheme used in a common RFID chip, NXP's Mifare Classic. This could be American ignorance, but I don't know of any countries, provinces, or other geographical regions that have a "University of Virginia" that aren't in the United States.
Fourthly, the younger generation may have a hankering for downloadable music but please do not confuse this with them having a discerning music taste. The fact is that they are the "now" generation with short attention spans and a complete lack of interest in putting any effort into anything. The fact that the charts are filled with plastic manufactured music shows that the majority will buy anything that is put in front of them purely because it is deemed fashionable and is easy to obtain. Anyone who believes these same people will go searching the the Internet for new independent artists rather than just going to iTunes for the latest fad music has no understanding of the way marketing and hype works on the minds of the younger generation. Very true. Even today I can't bring myself to search around for new music out of fear that it will suck and because I'm used to it always being brought to me, yet I don't think twice when I fire up a Google search to find answers to, well, almost everything.
Yes, the major record labels are killing their own industry because they're not interested in anything new but the latest Leona Lewis clone. Personally, I don't care, there's a huge back catalogue of older stuff to go out and listen to which I suggest the "discerning youth" should also go and explore a little rather than whining about modern music. I can assure you that these youth have filled their computers with a vast array of music. I haven't bothered to do so, but I know many "discerning youth" who have libraries both thick and diverse.
But downloadable music is also contributing to that death because it's turning music into a disposable commodity - don't like it any more? Then just wipe your iPod's hard drive and start again... Music has always been marketed as a "disposable commodity." Don't believe me? Search back through the last few decades of music that was popular at the time and you'll find, among the stuff that had lasting value through the ages, a lot of crap that still sold really well. It seems your real concern is that those who purchase downloads have no way of recouping their investment because they sold away their right of first sale.
I originally thought that the whole reason the RIAA hated P2P was not because of money but because of a lack of control. Namely, the lack of an ability to measure success and popularity. Because the systems are inherently decentralized, they could no longer figure out what the latest "trends" were in music and so they no longer had any way to know what artists to sign and what music was profitable.
But then I found out about Big Champagne, and that much more reasonable rationale for their fight against the Internet went right out the window.
The Large Hadron Collider is designed to fire up protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts before banging them together. Nothing, indeed, will happen in the CERN collider that does not happen 100,000 times a day from cosmic rays in the atmosphere, said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a particle theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Yes, and it is only by the grace of God that these cosmic rays have not killed us yet.
I don't think this is so much a "boy genius" article as much as it is a "K-12 IT departments are boneheads" article. I remember my high school's computers getting fried by Sasser way back when (I think I was 16 at the time) because IT had so much confidence in Deep Freeze that they turned off Windows Update and the anti-virus updates while the computers were frozen. I found this out about a month earlier and in hindsight should have told someone. Of course, only about a fourth of our school's PCs were running 2000 or XP so it wasn't devastating, but Deep Freeze caused any CHKDSK/F sessions to constantly reset themselves over and over again until the disks were re-imaged over the summer. I took the opportunity to write them a letter of recommendations, including leaving updates on and installing anti-spyware solutions, and by the fall it seemed that they listened because Windows Updates were back on and Ad-Aware was installed.
Looking back I might have actually volunteered to help run their services after I graduated, but I cannot with good conscience filter someone's Internet access.
Many guys out there think she's pretty hot looking. If I meet someone who honestly thinks that Paris Hilton is hot, and isn't being influenced by the money, I will hit him over the head with an iron.
Amazon's Vision Statement: 'Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.' I thought that was eBay.
MySQL's model involves copyright, while this model involves patents.
Even so, it reminds me of promises by several other companies not to sue FOSS that use their patented technology. How can we be sure that they won't revoke their promise later?
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Tor exit nodes can still harvest your information.
Hey! You!
BUY STUFF!!!
Or, you know, use Adblock Plus.
That's marketing?
I always called it "bullshitting."
Slow down, hotshot. You don't even know what she looks like.
Now prepare to be sued under the DMCA.
The article's dated March 26th. No joke.
Seems to sum up the content industry as a whole quite succinctly.
Go ahead and throw most over-marketed software in that analogy as well.
I originally thought that the whole reason the RIAA hated P2P was not because of money but because of a lack of control. Namely, the lack of an ability to measure success and popularity. Because the systems are inherently decentralized, they could no longer figure out what the latest "trends" were in music and so they no longer had any way to know what artists to sign and what music was profitable.
But then I found out about Big Champagne, and that much more reasonable rationale for their fight against the Internet went right out the window.
What a shame they didn't mutate. That would be awesome.
Go ahead. Let me know how it turns out.
Office 2003 + Office 2007 converter.
There.
Xandros has patent agreements with Microsoft, so it's likely that you'll be paying Microsoft either way.
Damn. :(
I don't think this is so much a "boy genius" article as much as it is a "K-12 IT departments are boneheads" article. I remember my high school's computers getting fried by Sasser way back when (I think I was 16 at the time) because IT had so much confidence in Deep Freeze that they turned off Windows Update and the anti-virus updates while the computers were frozen. I found this out about a month earlier and in hindsight should have told someone. Of course, only about a fourth of our school's PCs were running 2000 or XP so it wasn't devastating, but Deep Freeze caused any CHKDSK /F sessions to constantly reset themselves over and over again until the disks were re-imaged over the summer. I took the opportunity to write them a letter of recommendations, including leaving updates on and installing anti-spyware solutions, and by the fall it seemed that they listened because Windows Updates were back on and Ad-Aware was installed.
Looking back I might have actually volunteered to help run their services after I graduated, but I cannot with good conscience filter someone's Internet access.
And if she's pretty and stupid he's still interested, but only to the extent that he gets to sleep with her.
That would be against the existing copyright license anyway, since you have to attribute the original developers of your software.
MySQL's model involves copyright, while this model involves patents.
Even so, it reminds me of promises by several other companies not to sue FOSS that use their patented technology. How can we be sure that they won't revoke their promise later?
If you can exploit a laptop in this contest you get to keep it? Why would you want a laptop that you know is insecure?