The sad reality of the situation is it is IMPOSSIBLE to run as a non-admin and actually get anything done.
As a savvy PC user I tried to setup my XP system following best practices. Only run as admin when necessary. However, the two applications I use everyday make this impossible. Quicken and NewsBin Pro. Both of these applicatons require write access to their respective program files directories which forces you to run the application with elevated priviliges.
Until either application developers create proper software that actually obeys the security model or Microsoft enforces this policy then Windows users will always be admins.
Actually, that's not entirely acurate according to this article from reporter Greg Palast. In it, he describes how the the voting boxes were setup to reject any ballots with a stray mark. In a predominantly white district, the voters were given the opportunity to correct their mistake, in a black district, 1 in 8 ballots were voided by the state.
It seems to be that as in the case of Gnutella, they had to know that their parent company wouldn't like this very much.
I don't think the provisions of the GPL say that you have to continue distributing the code, only that the code once freed remains free. There are already other WASTE mirrors so I think they achieved their objective.
You would think the NULLSoft crew would just leave AOL. I imagine that they are sticking around because of retainer contracts tied to $$ and when the time comes they all jump ship en masse.
I have files that I have ripped from CDs on my hard drive. I also use the file sharing mechanism in Windows to share the contents of my hard drive over a network. Now this search engine comes along and indexes all the files on my PC, including my legitimate MP3s. Am I liable? If so, I'm going to sue Microsoft for making a system that doesn't know how to filter out MP3s.
It's probably done using the same mentality as gas prices and as seen on TV crap. $.99 seems cheaper then $1.00. Plus you can say that your stuff is under a buck.
Now why they chose $.99 over say $.49 probably comes from the music industry.
Well I'm glad I was the first one to say this. My first impression of the site was what a god-awful color scheme. The logo is hard to make out and there seems to be too much contrast between then white text over purple background.
Actually he didn't write two or three. He developed the story and left the writing to others, Leigh Bracket and Lawrence Kasdan. Leigh Bracket was considered a mentor of Ray Bradbury. Not very bad credentials for writing sci-fi. With her passing due to cancer during the first draft of ESB the work was handed over to Lawrence Kasdan.
I do not discredit George Lucas's work and vision. While others may argue he copied/combined other ideas he certainly knew what made a good story. I remember saying to a co-worker before episode one, "it can't suck, he's had twenty years to come up with something." Man was I wrong.
First off I'm not a lawyer. That said, my understanding of the DMCA is that anyone who believes that there is a copyright violation merely needs to fill out a form in order to obtain a supboena. The problem with that is the lack of due process. It doesn't prevent something like a bot sitting on Kazaa sending out automate forms find out personal information from an ISP.
I don't really think that Verizon is protecting our privacy. It's really about the cost involved in processing these requests. I think the privacy protection is a side effect from them not wanting the exposure from every TD&H who want to find out information on an individual
Not to mention, the RIAA has been wrong in the past. Should Verizon bear the brunt of researching these violations? If they do, be prepared for a raise in the price of your DSL service.
We saw Star Wars:ATC in the Omnimax theater in Pittsburg. It sucked. I'm guessing that the problem stemmed from the fact that screen was curved and they didn't do anything to address it. Also, I've noticed alot of films that are Imax generally keep the focus on the center of the screen. A standard Hollywood film doesn't. We were sitting on the edge seats in the middle of the theater and you couldn't follow everything that was happening.
Or it could just be that Attack of the Clones was a LOUSY movie!
It's not so far fetched. I wanted to watch the Buffy season 1 DVD. Disc 1 was in my queue for 6 months! and status never changed from very long wait! I got fed up and downloaded the episodes.
I had a similar experience with Netflix. A bunch of current releases were listed as long wait or very long wait. I complained to Netflix and amazingly that day the status changed from long wait to short or available now. Coincidence? I thought so originally but this report sort of sheds new light on things.
I was discussing this very notion with a co-worker not to long ago as a way to get around the RIAA. If someone writes a virus that connects to P2P networks would you be liable for songs downloaded onto your machine if it was discovered that you were infected?
Instead of Mac users bitching about how Adobe is leaving them this should be a wakeup call to Apple. If their platform doesn't perform as well as an Intel platform then they need to change it. Holding onto their current architecture is hurting them and their customers.
I'm a little unclear on when you cross the line between fair-use and piracy.
If I've purchased CDs and make them available on a P2P network for the purpose of accessing them anywhere I please am I a pirate? If I've purchased a CD and then downloaded the files to my work PC from a P2P network am I also a pirate? If I download music in order to preview artists (which I regularly do) am I a pirate? Although this area is much murkier I still don't consider this pirating music since the music I listen to is never played on the radio.
Rep. Carter hopes that prosecuting individuals will cut down on pircay by 50%. If you really want to cut down on piracy give us a reasonably priced product that works better then the P2P networks.
The LA Times is running an article discussing why PVRs aren't in every home. The conclusion is the structure of cable monopolies is preventing rapid adoption.
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The sad reality of the situation is it is IMPOSSIBLE to run as a non-admin and actually get anything done.
As a savvy PC user I tried to setup my XP system following best practices. Only run as admin when necessary. However, the two applications I use everyday make this impossible. Quicken and NewsBin Pro. Both of these applicatons require write access to their respective program files directories which forces you to run the application with elevated priviliges.
Until either application developers create proper software that actually obeys the security model or Microsoft enforces this policy then Windows users will always be admins.
If you use eXeem, I've published the eXeem link on my website Coolcrap.
If you don't want to visit the site, here is the eXeem link.
ep3-trailer-640-360.mov
Actually, that's not entirely acurate according to this article from reporter Greg Palast. In it, he describes how the the voting boxes were setup to reject any ballots with a stray mark. In a predominantly white district, the voters were given the opportunity to correct their mistake, in a black district, 1 in 8 ballots were voided by the state.
I thought they took the GDI and USER subsystems out of Ring 3 and put it into the Ring 0 code in NT4.
This sounds suspiciously like a press release from the RIAA. Or at least a bit of cheesy testimonial that you would normally see in an infomercial.
Joe Cotellese
www.clearstatic.org
Music News - Consumer Bias
I'd like to use it to point at a CD and get it queued in Kazaa.
Whew! I was sweating that one out.
Not really. As the founder of Nullsoft he undoubtably had a retainer to keep him on for a period after the purchase.
Golden handcuffs, happens all the time.
It seems to be that as in the case of Gnutella, they had to know that their parent company wouldn't like this very much.
I don't think the provisions of the GPL say that you have to continue distributing the code, only that the code once freed remains free. There are already other WASTE mirrors so I think they achieved their objective.
You would think the NULLSoft crew would just leave AOL. I imagine that they are sticking around because of retainer contracts tied to $$ and when the time comes they all jump ship en masse.
Or they realize it's a futile effort since more and more jobs are moving to India.
I'm guessing that most here would let out a resounding NOOOOOOOOOOO.
I have files that I have ripped from CDs on my hard drive. I also use the file sharing mechanism in Windows to share the contents of my hard drive over a network. Now this search engine comes along and indexes all the files on my PC, including my legitimate MP3s. Am I liable? If so, I'm going to sue Microsoft for making a system that doesn't know how to filter out MP3s.
It's probably done using the same mentality as gas prices and as seen on TV crap. $.99 seems cheaper then $1.00. Plus you can say that your stuff is under a buck.
Now why they chose $.99 over say $.49 probably comes from the music industry.
Well I'm glad I was the first one to say this. My first impression of the site was what a god-awful color scheme. The logo is hard to make out and there seems to be too much contrast between then white text over purple background.
Actually he didn't write two or three. He developed the story and left the writing to others, Leigh Bracket and Lawrence Kasdan. Leigh Bracket was considered a mentor of Ray Bradbury. Not very bad credentials for writing sci-fi. With her passing due to cancer during the first draft of ESB the work was handed over to Lawrence Kasdan.
I do not discredit George Lucas's work and vision. While others may argue he copied/combined other ideas he certainly knew what made a good story. I remember saying to a co-worker before episode one, "it can't suck, he's had twenty years to come up with something." Man was I wrong.
First off I'm not a lawyer. That said, my understanding of the DMCA is that anyone who believes that there is a copyright violation merely needs to fill out a form in order to obtain a supboena. The problem with that is the lack of due process. It doesn't prevent something like a bot sitting on Kazaa sending out automate forms find out personal information from an ISP.
I don't really think that Verizon is protecting our privacy. It's really about the cost involved in processing these requests. I think the privacy protection is a side effect from them not wanting the exposure from every TD&H who want to find out information on an individual
Not to mention, the RIAA has been wrong in the past. Should Verizon bear the brunt of researching these violations? If they do, be prepared for a raise in the price of your DSL service.
We saw Star Wars:ATC in the Omnimax theater in Pittsburg. It sucked. I'm guessing that the problem stemmed from the fact that screen was curved and they didn't do anything to address it. Also, I've noticed alot of films that are Imax generally keep the focus on the center of the screen. A standard Hollywood film doesn't. We were sitting on the edge seats in the middle of the theater and you couldn't follow everything that was happening.
Or it could just be that Attack of the Clones was a LOUSY movie!
It's not so far fetched. I wanted to watch the Buffy season 1 DVD. Disc 1 was in my queue for 6 months! and status never changed from very long wait! I got fed up and downloaded the episodes.
I had a similar experience with Netflix. A bunch of current releases were listed as long wait or very long wait. I complained to Netflix and amazingly that day the status changed from long wait to short or available now. Coincidence? I thought so originally but this report sort of sheds new light on things.
I was discussing this very notion with a co-worker not to long ago as a way to get around the RIAA. If someone writes a virus that connects to P2P networks would you be liable for songs downloaded onto your machine if it was discovered that you were infected?
Today Apple responds to Adobe's claims. They are basically blaming poor application performance esp. when compared to FC Pro.
Clearstatic
P2P news from a consumer perspective
If I've purchased CDs and make them available on a P2P network for the purpose of accessing them anywhere I please am I a pirate? If I've purchased a CD and then downloaded the files to my work PC from a P2P network am I also a pirate? If I download music in order to preview artists (which I regularly do) am I a pirate? Although this area is much murkier I still don't consider this pirating music since the music I listen to is never played on the radio.
Rep. Carter hopes that prosecuting individuals will cut down on pircay by 50%. If you really want to cut down on piracy give us a reasonably priced product that works better then the P2P networks.
P2P news from a consumers perspective
The LA Times is running an article discussing why PVRs aren't in every home. The conclusion is the structure of cable monopolies is preventing rapid adoption.