These guys were doomed once the cost of reproducting their product become insignicant compared to the price they were charging and means of reproducing that product became available to the masses.
Yes, why do you think all of those nations agreed to let us do what ever we want, wherever we want after 9/11. THEY (other countries) will be doing the SAME (snooping, imprisoning people they don't like, etc.) to THEIR citizens (or residents). After all, since we are doing it, it must be the right thing to do.
The Cybercrime Treaty is designed to keep people from doing very harmful things
NO. The Cybercrime Treaty is designed to prosecute/persecute/investigate you, when you have done very harmful things or when they think you have done very harmful things. It will not stop you.
I agree, but think of the customer trying to run your program on a non standard port.
1. There is no firewall so there is no problem.
2. There is a firewall with that port blocked. They have to track down their sysadmin and have that person turn it on.
In a perfect world #2 works as it should. In the real world, the sysadmin is offsite on a contract basis. You're program has now caused an additional expense for your customer. Never mind dealing with the sysadmin who can't configure the firewall correctly.
Remember all your customer wanted was for you program to run. They DIDN'T want to spend weeks debugging your program, which is were the blame will fall.
Microsoft isn't paying for the music
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Once again Micro$oft figures out a way to screw a new group of people. They convinced most of the bands to give them the music for free. The story is here (NYTIMES reg req.). The bands did it for the publicity but guess what, there are no credits and you can replace the music with your own.
No, you're not too old. You need to find someone (an employer) who doesn't care what age you are. I started my third career at 44 (in the software industry) after doing research for 10 years, and then teaching 11 years. It can be done. The hardest parts will be
1) overcoming the "English teacher" label,
2) and the current economy (it sucks).
One last piece of advice. Find a venue where you can show your skills in public. You teach in a school that has a network? Volunteer your time to be the admin of that network. That will look better on a resume than your "hobby".
Okay. Assuming in year 1, Microsoft publishes all of its proprietary protocols. This is a joke right? They will NEVER publish all of their proprietary protocols.
In case you haven't noticed, your vote no longer counts (re: Florida and the Supreme Court).
The computer manufacturers want things to stay the way they are today. They are afraid of change. Like most dinasours, they changed things when their companies were built, and they mistakenly believe that their way is the best and only way. How many computer manufacturing companies from 15 years ago are still around today (Apple, IBM and who else)?
Hollywood is afraid of a napster like program for their movies/videos. They will have a better chance of preventing that, if M$ is still in business and controlling the video/audio that appears on the majority of users desktop.
So what you're saying is, if I send a string of random characters, encrypted with their backdoor crypto software, this makes me a criminal when they can't decrypt it to some thing that is intelligible?
One more prediction: A way of tying your IP address to a physical locatation. After all if the government is going to come busting down your door because of your encrypted emails, don't they need to know whose door to bust down?
Oh wait a minute isn't there already a plan to tie them to your phone number? (Don't have the link though).
Yep, some stores insist on a phone # (Circuit City for one). Just give them 555-1212 and then look on the screen to see how many other people have the same phone #.
If that doesn't work, just walk away. They can't be the only store around that sells what you want.
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These guys were doomed once the cost of reproducting their product become insignicant compared to the price they were charging and means of reproducing that product became available to the masses.
is that we don't PAY for the privilege of having a secure OS.
Shouldn't that be Microsoft's concern and not the oversight committee?
802.11b (or it's descendants)
Pud you listening?
Yes, why do you think all of those nations agreed to let us do what ever we want, wherever we want after 9/11. THEY (other countries) will be doing the SAME (snooping, imprisoning people they don't like, etc.) to THEIR citizens (or residents). After all, since we are doing it, it must be the right thing to do.
Actually it was William Bourne in 1580 who first described a submarine. Then in 1623, Cornelius Drebbel built one.
NO. The Cybercrime Treaty is designed to prosecute/persecute/investigate you, when you have done very harmful things or when they think you have done very harmful things. It will not stop you.
I agree, but think of the customer trying to run your program on a non standard port.
1. There is no firewall so there is no problem.
2. There is a firewall with that port blocked. They have to track down their sysadmin and have that person turn it on.
In a perfect world #2 works as it should. In the real world, the sysadmin is offsite on a contract basis. You're program has now caused an additional expense for your customer. Never mind dealing with the sysadmin who can't configure the firewall correctly.
Remember all your customer wanted was for you program to run. They DIDN'T want to spend weeks debugging your program, which is were the blame will fall.
Once again Micro$oft figures out a way to screw a new group of people. They convinced most of the bands to give them the music for free. The story is here (NYTIMES reg req.). The bands did it for the publicity but guess what, there are no credits and you can replace the music with your own.
No, you're not too old. You need to find someone (an employer) who doesn't care what age you are. I started my third career at 44 (in the software industry) after doing research for 10 years, and then teaching 11 years. It can be done. The hardest parts will be
1) overcoming the "English teacher" label,
2) and the current economy (it sucks).
One last piece of advice. Find a venue where you can show your skills in public. You teach in a school that has a network? Volunteer your time to be the admin of that network. That will look better on a resume than your "hobby".
Nah, this is probably due to programming in VB where VB itself isn't quite sure whether 0 or 1 is the lower bound.
2. MS should not be allowed to buy any companies, patents, or technologies for at least 5 years.
3. MS should not be allowed to license any additional technologies, patents, source code or ideas for at least 5 years.
Yes, but how would they innovate?
Okay. Assuming in year 1, Microsoft publishes all of its proprietary protocols.
This is a joke right? They will NEVER publish all of their proprietary protocols.
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
the virus/worm or the patch?
someone was hosting a porn site under a domain name which was confusingly similar to the official one
No wonder Clinton was confused. He thought he was at Whitehouse.com
"frivolous spending"
let me guess. You're white.
In case you haven't noticed, your vote no longer counts (re: Florida and the Supreme Court).
The computer manufacturers want things to stay the way they are today. They are afraid of change. Like most dinasours, they changed things when their companies were built, and they mistakenly believe that their way is the best and only way. How many computer manufacturing companies from 15 years ago are still around today (Apple, IBM and who else)?
Hollywood is afraid of a napster like program for their movies/videos. They will have a better chance of preventing that, if M$ is still in business and controlling the video/audio that appears on the majority of users desktop.
So what you're saying is, if I send a string of random characters, encrypted with their backdoor crypto software, this makes me a criminal when they can't decrypt it to some thing that is intelligible?
Oh wait a minute isn't there already a plan to tie them to your phone number? (Don't have the link though).
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/09/11/news/wtc_crash/ This has a picture of the one tower still standing
If that doesn't work, just walk away. They can't be the only store around that sells what you want.
They did spend billions on new business ventures. Where do you think some of the money that fueled the internet bubble came from?