I've heard of patents for perpetual motion devices (and yes these are valid patents that actually get granted... or got granted)... Will Apple actually implement this item?
AFAICT this isn't a plugin, it's an extension, which has much more power over the browser than anything Adobe installs automagically. For example: Greasemonkey is an extension. NoScript is an extension. Adobe Reader is a plugin, which means it only does anything AFAIK when you view a PDF etc.
The scary thing is that in Vista they do "have the right over anything running there": They can kill any process if they decide that they want to call it malware AFAIK.
Well, just to play devil's advocate, my box running Ubuntu periodically prompts me for updates on all sorts of 3rd party software (some sort of outgrowth of synaptic/apt AFAICT). (Obviously Canonical Ltd. != M$)
If you install something (e.g. an extension) via apt or (I assume) rpm on Linux, Firefox can't uninstall it since it isn't running as root. In that scenario, the button is grayed out with no explanation. But, of course, you can always ask apt/rpm to remove the offending software, or not install it in the first place...
You mean like in the MS Word grammar checker? It applies a "loose" filter to catch everything which looks like an error, then a broken "strict" filter which removes the real errors and reports the false positives (due to a '!') (I assume, based on its quality).
I don't think many people would jump on Target for wanting to do this, rather, the assholes like you who actually do.
Yeah, because busting shoplifters to keep prices low (a benefit to you, the customer) is an activity that should be condemned. In other news, if you have a problem with it you should take it up with your elected officials and make sure that the technology's use is restricted only to activities you do not find morally objectionable. Or, you could blame the engineer, just like people blame gun manufacturers because people use them to commit crimes. But you should know that blaming others, like prayer, has a zero percent success rate in fixing the problem.
Give prayer some credit... at least it doesn't worsen/prolong the problem! (if everyone plays the blame game, nothing gets done)
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[snip] Oh and the technology is already there too, Apple just filed a patent that puts a camera _behind_ the screen on their notebooks. You don't see the camera and worse you can't just tape over it either.
Now suppose I construct an alternate server (doesn't matter how, only that it behaves similarly to the real thing), install WoW under XP VirtualBox (or any emulator/virtualizer) under Linux (any type). Then I change the/etc/resolv.conf to point everything relating to WoW to the alternate server instead (I have no idea if you really need the virtualization, but it prevents M$ from getting in the way). I even pipe the packets coming from VirtualBox through a packet sniffer and replace hardcoded IP addresses. The entire thing never touches any servers owned by Blizzard (because I ensure that connecting to said servers is physically impossible until someone implements packet over air), except maybe when I agree to the EULA (and maybe I could fake that too). A few more of these rulings, and that entire process is illegal (it might already be). But even if it wasn't, shouldn't I be able to decide whether users of my server can use bots, instead of being forced to do as Blizzard says? In fact, if I do fake the EULA acceptance (that is, ensure it never goes to an official server so Blizzard can't prove I accepted the EULA), what claims can Blizzard have against me? How can they prove there wasn't a bug in the EULA window that enabled me to bypass it without agreeing? And if I didn't agree, what did I do wrong?
IANAL, and anyone who tries any of this, or anything like this is likely to be sued, and might lose unexpectedly. This is not legal advice.
If you choose to do that, that's your problem. We can solve that via those "limitation of liability" statements (usually in ALL CAPS, somewhere in the EULA, even the GPL has one, and AFAIK Windows does also.). IANAL, this isn't legal advice, etc.
Then why do you need a lawsuit? Why not just ban anyone who is obviously behaving like a bot? (the EULA will obviously have a section saying "[We] [can] [ban people] for any reason or for no reason at all." (Words/phrases that I converted to common English are in brackets.) ) Sure that harms your revenue model, but if you really care about people who don't agree with the parent, you obviously don't either. Cheaters are assholes; depriving them of their bots only forces them to find another method of assholery.
I don't see why this is necessary, but: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. If you are using slashdot in hopes of acquiring legal advice, you're a cheap idiot.
IANAL, but unless the older EULAs say "you have to accept the new EULAs or uninstall", how can they force you to upgrade? And if they just make the servers newly incompatible with the older games, why can't you sue them for breach of contract (they promised you a game, you fulfilled your end, suddenly the game won't work unless you do more (i.e. agree to another EULA)...). But IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and I'm too lazy to go find and read ~7 EULAs to see whether I'm right.
Just use NoScript. Or better yet, use Lynx. That's not a circumvention even at a stretch; it's just old and doesn't support the protection in the first place.
Having said that, I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. If you do this and get sued, don't sue me.
Nonsense. The first world was NATO and its sphere of influence. The second world was the Warsaw Pact and its sphere of influence. The third world was everyone else. The terms ceased to be useful in the 90s when the Warsaw Pact fell apart.
In many countries, eating at international fast-food chain restaurants such as McDonald's is relatively expensive in comparison to eating at a local restaurant, and the demand for Big Macs is not as large in countries like India as in the United States. [snip][emphasis added]
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IIRC, M$ was funding $C0, which kind of makes the grand-parent wrong... and the great-grand-parent poorly worded.
IIRC most GE is copy-pasting from one species to another (not people usually).
Polymerase Chain Reaction + A virus or something
I've heard of patents for perpetual motion devices (and yes these are valid patents that actually get granted... or got granted)... Will Apple actually implement this item?
AFAICT this isn't a plugin, it's an extension, which has much more power over the browser than anything Adobe installs automagically. For example: Greasemonkey is an extension. NoScript is an extension. Adobe Reader is a plugin, which means it only does anything AFAIK when you view a PDF etc.
The scary thing is that in Vista they do "have the right over anything running there": They can kill any process if they decide that they want to call it malware AFAIK.
Classic move. People noticed. Two steps forward 10 steps back, eh? [emphasis added]
I can't tell if that's binary or decimal or what.
I hope someone, preferably the U.S. or E.U., sues them for anticompetitive practices (again).
Well, just to play devil's advocate, my box running Ubuntu periodically prompts me for updates on all sorts of 3rd party software (some sort of outgrowth of synaptic/apt AFAICT). (Obviously Canonical Ltd. != M$)
If you install something (e.g. an extension) via apt or (I assume) rpm on Linux, Firefox can't uninstall it since it isn't running as root. In that scenario, the button is grayed out with no explanation. But, of course, you can always ask apt/rpm to remove the offending software, or not install it in the first place...
You mean like in the MS Word grammar checker? It applies a "loose" filter to catch everything which looks like an error, then a broken "strict" filter which removes the real errors and reports the false positives (due to a '!') (I assume, based on its quality).
I can see the average mom and pop user now. "Copy and paste the Wha?"
...and said average mom and pop are reading Slashdot? Despite not knowing how to c&p??
1. Shrink Vista to the size of Win95
2. Displace Linux as the dominant netbook OS
3. ??? (well duh!)
4. Profit!
I don't think many people would jump on Target for wanting to do this, rather, the assholes like you who actually do.
Yeah, because busting shoplifters to keep prices low (a benefit to you, the customer) is an activity that should be condemned. In other news, if you have a problem with it you should take it up with your elected officials and make sure that the technology's use is restricted only to activities you do not find morally objectionable. Or, you could blame the engineer, just like people blame gun manufacturers because people use them to commit crimes. But you should know that blaming others, like prayer, has a zero percent success rate in fixing the problem.
Give prayer some credit... at least it doesn't worsen/prolong the problem! (if everyone plays the blame game, nothing gets done)
[snip] Oh and the technology is already there too,
Apple just filed a patent that puts a camera _behind_ the screen on their
notebooks. You don't see the camera and worse you can't just tape over it
either.
[citation needed]
Now suppose I construct an alternate server (doesn't matter how, only that it behaves similarly to the real thing), install WoW under XP VirtualBox (or any emulator/virtualizer) under Linux (any type). Then I change the /etc/resolv.conf to point everything relating to WoW to the alternate server instead (I have no idea if you really need the virtualization, but it prevents M$ from getting in the way). I even pipe the packets coming from VirtualBox through a packet sniffer and replace hardcoded IP addresses. The entire thing never touches any servers owned by Blizzard (because I ensure that connecting to said servers is physically impossible until someone implements packet over air), except maybe when I agree to the EULA (and maybe I could fake that too). A few more of these rulings, and that entire process is illegal (it might already be). But even if it wasn't, shouldn't I be able to decide whether users of my server can use bots, instead of being forced to do as Blizzard says? In fact, if I do fake the EULA acceptance (that is, ensure it never goes to an official server so Blizzard can't prove I accepted the EULA), what claims can Blizzard have against me? How can they prove there wasn't a bug in the EULA window that enabled me to bypass it without agreeing? And if I didn't agree, what did I do wrong?
IANAL, and anyone who tries any of this, or anything like this is likely to be sued, and might lose unexpectedly. This is not legal advice.
If you choose to do that, that's your problem. We can solve that via those "limitation of liability" statements (usually in ALL CAPS, somewhere in the EULA, even the GPL has one, and AFAIK Windows does also.). IANAL, this isn't legal advice, etc.
Then why do you need a lawsuit? Why not just ban anyone who is obviously behaving like a bot? (the EULA will obviously have a section saying "[We] [can] [ban people] for any reason or for no reason at all." (Words/phrases that I converted to common English are in brackets.) ) Sure that harms your revenue model, but if you really care about people who don't agree with the parent, you obviously don't either. Cheaters are assholes; depriving them of their bots only forces them to find another method of assholery.
I don't see why this is necessary, but: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
If you are using slashdot in hopes of acquiring legal advice, you're a cheap idiot.
IANAL, but unless the older EULAs say "you have to accept the new EULAs or uninstall", how can they force you to upgrade? And if they just make the servers newly incompatible with the older games, why can't you sue them for breach of contract (they promised you a game, you fulfilled your end, suddenly the game won't work unless you do more (i.e. agree to another EULA)...). But IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and I'm too lazy to go find and read ~7 EULAs to see whether I'm right.
Apple attempts to force you to use their hardware as it is. (and by "attempts" I mean they try to brick anything that doesn't use their hardware)
Just use NoScript. Or better yet, use Lynx. That's not a circumvention even at a stretch; it's just old and doesn't support the protection in the first place.
Having said that, I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. If you do this and get sued, don't sue me.
Because they can! (it doesn't make any more sense than the *AA's)
Is there even any point to the game if you can't even be buggered to play it yourself?
[citation found]
Nonsense. The first world was NATO and its sphere of influence. The second world was the Warsaw Pact and its sphere of influence. The third world was everyone else. The terms ceased to be useful in the 90s when the Warsaw Pact fell apart.
[citation needed]
RTFA: (from that last link (before the sig))
In many countries, eating at international fast-food chain restaurants such as McDonald's is relatively expensive in comparison to eating at a local restaurant, and the demand for Big Macs is not as large in countries like India as in the United States. [snip][emphasis added]