owever, this begs the more interesting questions....
"Raises", not "begs".
Anyway, there are a few reasons why there isn't any adware designed specifically to run on popular desktop *n?x systems. For one thing, there's no well-known ActiveX equivalent that lets a script on a visited web page download code and run it with the logged in user's full privileges. But the major difference is that no desktop *n?x system, not even Mac OS X, has nearly as much mindshare in residences as Microsoft Windows, so development efforts directed at Win32 have bigger results than development efforts directed at LSB or Carbon APIs. Businesses don't count because they can more strictly regulate what can be installed on a workstation, possibly through bigger budgets for licensing proprietary HTTP proxy software.
only by traversing at least 2 edge lengths could one achive something patentable
But if you require only two edge lengths of invention effort to produce something worthy of a patent, you get a patent after every two steps; thus, the average rate of growth of the traversed portion of the tree is half a patent lifecycle per step. Is information technology a mature enough field that taking two steps warrants stopping a branch's growth for twenty years?
If we are technologically progressing and are at vertex V, then only developments which are at least 2 edge-lengths away from vertex V can be considered potentially patentable. Any vertex (development) adjacent to V cannot.
Patents last twenty years. So are you really in favor of slowing the progress of useful arts to one development per ten years on a given path?
Do you network all the boxes and just broadcast a remove code?
I'm assuming that's the way to revoke a leaked key city-wide.
Or do you send out a tech every time someone hacks one box?
Perhaps something in the middle would work: local police and street techs already in the field would broadcast the past months' revocations, and any signal controller they drove by would catch the broadcast.
And what do you do when some l33t hax0r starts sending his, unofficial, broadcasts on that network?
The signal controllers would reject them because they aren't signed with the city street department's heavily guarded key.
Normally you'd need high-speed broadband for this kind of thing.
What really needs to be transmitted in a sexual intercourse simulation? The current number of millimeters of penetration at any given instant, sampled a couple dozen times a second? That wouldn't take too much bandwidth, but I can see where latency issues would come into play.
But someday someone is gonna figure out that the best way to share files is with people you know, which means people in your address book. Build a P2P system on that and you're sorted.
Want contact list based P2P file sharing? Try Madster.
1. http://linux.tucows.com/preview/8092.html 2. You haven't described your grandma's physical disabilities. 3. http://www.kde.org/ AND http://www.apple.com/macosx/ 4. http://support.daemonnews.org/ 5. True. FreeBSD and NetBSD split soon after 386BSD's release, and then OpenBSD split from NetBSD when the maintainers stopped tolerating Theo's eccentricity. 6. http://www.freebsd.org/ 7. Distros include binaries. 8. True on the desktop, apart from Mac OS X. Half credit. 9. POSIX conforming apps are source code compatible across Linux and BSD. 10. http://www.yahoo.com/
And bloat your executable size. And fill up RAM with various applications' competing libraries that do roughly the same thing. Not everybody can afford 512 MB of RAM, especially on a handheld, battery-powered device.
Ok on the left and Cancel on the right. This is the norm.
Norm who? On Microsoft Windows brand operating systems, [OK] [Cancel] is the norm. On Mac OS, [Cancel] [OK] is the norm.
Why is it the opposite way. I have clicked Cancel many times thinking it was OK.
If OK is anchored to the corner of a window, it's less likely to move around relative to the window edge (as in Windows) when other buttons are added. If OK is anchored to the bottom-left corner (as in OS/2), it's likely to "disappear" because people in Latin-alphabet countries tend to see the top left and bottom right stronger than anything else.
I hope somebody figures out a way to connect networking hardware to the Nintendo Entertainment System so that yet another old 8-bit platform's port of Contiki can get net support.
Emulation or virtualization is useful to kernel developers. It lets them test changes to a kernel without having to send it to a second machine all the time.
What about Canadian broadcast regulations that don't let DirecTV sell in Canada because Canada wants xx% of Canadian produced content on every channel? This is the excuse I've read about in most satellite TV service theft cases.
Even if you discount that MPAA and RIAA use the same tactics to protect their monopolies, remember that three MPAA members (Sony, Warner, and Uni[1]) are also RIAA members, and those that aren't have exclusive soundtrack deals with a major label (e.g. Disney with Uni).
[1] Yes, I know Uni won't be both after Vivendi sells everything in Uni except the record label to NBC. But I'm guessing that NBC Pictures will keep its soundtrack contract with Universal Music Group.
I really wonder what it would take to get a law passed (even if just in my state) that bars the government from collecting and keeping, or even borrowing, data on citizens that have not broken the law.
It would never be applicable. Have you ever jaywalked? Have you ever exceeded a posted speed limit in a motor vehicle?
Nintendo licensed a video game invented by a Soviet Russian as the pack-in for its Game Boy handheld system. The simplicity of Tetris possibly accounted for much of the popularity of Game Boy (that, and the competitors ate batteries like Pac-Man).
how many adults would class playing those dancing/rhythm arcade games as immature?
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a DDR club whose members are adult students. Granted, they're in their early 20s, but they're still 18 or older. Most older people to whom I've showed DDR don't want to play it because of knee or back problems or merely fear of *FAILED* due to lack of a sense of rhythm.
You may as well try and argue that most adults sit down and watch cartoons all the time.
Not all cartoons are for kids. There exist Japanese animated films and series that if dubbed and released stateside would be related PG-13/TV-14 or R/TV-MA.
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install your iMesh kazaa, grokster or any other filesharing program. Then run adaware or spybot against it.
WinMX contains no adware or spyware. Neither does Gnucleus or eMule.
The problem with this "Micro Soft Window" spyware is that without it, the driver CDs included with many devices will not run.
owever, this begs the more interesting questions....
"Raises", not "begs".
Anyway, there are a few reasons why there isn't any adware designed specifically to run on popular desktop *n?x systems. For one thing, there's no well-known ActiveX equivalent that lets a script on a visited web page download code and run it with the logged in user's full privileges. But the major difference is that no desktop *n?x system, not even Mac OS X, has nearly as much mindshare in residences as Microsoft Windows, so development efforts directed at Win32 have bigger results than development efforts directed at LSB or Carbon APIs. Businesses don't count because they can more strictly regulate what can be installed on a workstation, possibly through bigger budgets for licensing proprietary HTTP proxy software.
the most evil form of spyware I am personally aware of is the infamous insidious Gator.
Gator is adware, and it may be evil adware according to some users, but but it's not spyware.
only by traversing at least 2 edge lengths could one achive something patentable
But if you require only two edge lengths of invention effort to produce something worthy of a patent, you get a patent after every two steps; thus, the average rate of growth of the traversed portion of the tree is half a patent lifecycle per step. Is information technology a mature enough field that taking two steps warrants stopping a branch's growth for twenty years?
Compuserve. Probably the only reason they didn't try to litigate .png off the face of the planet is because they can't afford to.
Compuserve's parent company. Come again?
If we are technologically progressing and are at vertex V, then only developments which are at least 2 edge-lengths away from vertex V can be considered potentially patentable. Any vertex (development) adjacent to V cannot.
Patents last twenty years. So are you really in favor of slowing the progress of useful arts to one development per ten years on a given path?
Every time you make that f*@!(%# joke, God kills a Domo-kun.
Please, think of the Domo-kuns.
Do you network all the boxes and just broadcast a remove code?
I'm assuming that's the way to revoke a leaked key city-wide.
Or do you send out a tech every time someone hacks one box?
Perhaps something in the middle would work: local police and street techs already in the field would broadcast the past months' revocations, and any signal controller they drove by would catch the broadcast.
And what do you do when some l33t hax0r starts sending his, unofficial, broadcasts on that network?
The signal controllers would reject them because they aren't signed with the city street department's heavily guarded key.
Normally you'd need high-speed broadband for this kind of thing.
What really needs to be transmitted in a sexual intercourse simulation? The current number of millimeters of penetration at any given instant, sampled a couple dozen times a second? That wouldn't take too much bandwidth, but I can see where latency issues would come into play.
Teledildonics? You mean like F__kU-F__kMe? That'd be an interesting P2P application.
But someday someone is gonna figure out that the best way to share files is with people you know, which means people in your address book. Build a P2P system on that and you're sorted.
Want contact list based P2P file sharing? Try Madster.
Feeling pain helps a being learn how to avoid damage to its body.
I'll bite...
...your head off.
1. http://linux.tucows.com/preview/8092.html
2. You haven't described your grandma's physical disabilities.
3. http://www.kde.org/ AND http://www.apple.com/macosx/
4. http://support.daemonnews.org/
5. True. FreeBSD and NetBSD split soon after 386BSD's release, and then OpenBSD split from NetBSD when the maintainers stopped tolerating Theo's eccentricity.
6. http://www.freebsd.org/
7. Distros include binaries.
8. True on the desktop, apart from Mac OS X. Half credit.
9. POSIX conforming apps are source code compatible across Linux and BSD.
10. http://www.yahoo.com/
Score: 85% troll
The UK doesn't have a Copyright Office. Neither does Australia. I guess they'd have to use their traditional notary channels.
Don't like a library? Download another.
And bloat your executable size. And fill up RAM with various applications' competing libraries that do roughly the same thing. Not everybody can afford 512 MB of RAM, especially on a handheld, battery-powered device.
Ok on the left and Cancel on the right. This is the norm.
Norm who? On Microsoft Windows brand operating systems, [OK] [Cancel] is the norm. On Mac OS, [Cancel] [OK] is the norm.
Why is it the opposite way. I have clicked Cancel many times thinking it was OK.
If OK is anchored to the corner of a window, it's less likely to move around relative to the window edge (as in Windows) when other buttons are added. If OK is anchored to the bottom-left corner (as in OS/2), it's likely to "disappear" because people in Latin-alphabet countries tend to see the top left and bottom right stronger than anything else.
I hope somebody figures out a way to connect networking hardware to the Nintendo Entertainment System so that yet another old 8-bit platform's port of Contiki can get net support.
Emulation or virtualization is useful to kernel developers. It lets them test changes to a kernel without having to send it to a second machine all the time.
Things Wrong with Satellite: Well, nothing
What about Canadian broadcast regulations that don't let DirecTV sell in Canada because Canada wants xx% of Canadian produced content on every channel? This is the excuse I've read about in most satellite TV service theft cases.
Even if you discount that MPAA and RIAA use the same tactics to protect their monopolies, remember that three MPAA members (Sony, Warner, and Uni[1]) are also RIAA members, and those that aren't have exclusive soundtrack deals with a major label (e.g. Disney with Uni).
[1] Yes, I know Uni won't be both after Vivendi sells everything in Uni except the record label to NBC. But I'm guessing that NBC Pictures will keep its soundtrack contract with Universal Music Group.
I really wonder what it would take to get a law passed (even if just in my state) that bars the government from collecting and keeping, or even borrowing, data on citizens that have not broken the law.
It would never be applicable. Have you ever jaywalked? Have you ever exceeded a posted speed limit in a motor vehicle?
Nintendo licensed a video game invented by a Soviet Russian as the pack-in for its Game Boy handheld system. The simplicity of Tetris possibly accounted for much of the popularity of Game Boy (that, and the competitors ate batteries like Pac-Man).
how many adults would class playing those dancing/rhythm arcade games as immature?
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a DDR club whose members are adult students. Granted, they're in their early 20s, but they're still 18 or older. Most older people to whom I've showed DDR don't want to play it because of knee or back problems or merely fear of *FAILED* due to lack of a sense of rhythm.
You may as well try and argue that most adults sit down and watch cartoons all the time.
Not all cartoons are for kids. There exist Japanese animated films and series that if dubbed and released stateside would be related PG-13/TV-14 or R/TV-MA.