If you are using Opera, the "educators" link displays this message:
Incompatible Web Browser
You appear to be using the Opera browser, which is trying to disguise itself as Microsoft Internet Explorer. Contrary to its claims, Opera is NOT a qualified substitute for Microsoft Internet Explorer because it is incapable of properly employing the scripting and Active-X® Technology used on this Web site.
It then kicks you to the Microsoft IE download page.
Funny - I think Opera IS a qualified substitute for the very reasons they think it is not.
What MS is saying is that it is illegal to buy a PC with, say, Windows 2000 pre-installed, then later give the PC away but keep the copy of Windows 2000.
No. That is not what they are saying. They are saying that you must include the OS that was originally installed on the machine, per this statement on the page: make sure that the hardware donation includes the original operating system software.... it is a legal requirement.
This is a gross overstatement and misleading. If there is a legal burden when selling a computer, it applies to the seller, not the buyer. The buyer has NO idea what was originally on the computer and cannot be expected to know. The buyer never saw the original agreement, let alone clicked on the Accept button. In addition, if the original OS is Linux, BSD or other Free OS, there is no such agreement.
This would have been a very short post except for the stinking lameness filter which has forced me to add this text in an effort to overcome the stinking lameness filter. I thought that was what moderators were for.
A practical demonstration of the value of testing:
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I highly doubt that there is much of, if any, marginal return on every dollar they spend trying to defeat pirates.
There is one huge return: they get to keep broadcasting high demand content.
The contracts that they sign with their content providers no doubt stipulate that DirecTV has to make every effort to keep the signal from being viewed by anyone who is not paying the subscription fee.
If they don't try to stop the hackers (and succeded every once in a while), one of two things will happen - CNN won't license the feed to them anymore (reducing the quality of the service they offer, losing them subscribers and reducing their profits) or CNN will charge them more to make up for the extra viewers who aren't paying the fee, (reducing their profits outright, or losing them future subscribers who go to a cheaper system).
Should you have the right to decode radio waves that come through your property? IMO, yes. But there's nothing that says that they have to make it easy.
I don't understand what the big deal is. You've put your comments in a public forum. Anyone with an internet connection can see them. And anyone who wants to report them may do so, regardless of what permissions you give. They are in the public record.
/. is, in effect, a town hall meeting. Anything you say is on the record. You have the right to speak up or to keep your mouth shut and just read to what's being written.
And it isn't about whether or not money is going to be made on a magazine article or book./. isn't a charity (even though it is a.org). It's a business. If it wasn't, it wouldn't have sold for the money that it sold for. Those banner ads up at the top are the reason the site is allowed to exist. They pay for the bandwidth and the boxes.
If you don't want people to associate you with what you've said, post as an AC. If you don't trust the journalists that run the site, don't post at all.
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It then kicks you to the Microsoft IE download page.
Funny - I think Opera IS a qualified substitute for the very reasons they think it is not.
What MS is saying is that it is illegal to buy a PC with, say, Windows 2000 pre-installed, then later give the PC away but keep the copy of Windows 2000.
No. That is not what they are saying. They are saying that you must include the OS that was originally installed on the machine, per this statement on the page: make sure that the hardware donation includes the original operating system software.... it is a legal requirement.
This is a gross overstatement and misleading. If there is a legal burden when selling a computer, it applies to the seller, not the buyer. The buyer has NO idea what was originally on the computer and cannot be expected to know. The buyer never saw the original agreement, let alone clicked on the Accept button. In addition, if the original OS is Linux, BSD or other Free OS, there is no such agreement.
You can read your own motives into this.
Maybe not, but here is the google cached printable version.
The byline is dated April 2002, so it's the right article.
Not valid. "ambivoulous" isn't linked in the blue bar.
It's an Urban legend. See snopes.com.
Sure it's only 680x0, but it's still a Mac. And it will run Linux!
I am never eating a Necco Wafer again.
If everyone was obsessive about checking /. in the morning, things might have been different.
Maybe Timothy knows.
And that he put more thought into the racks than he did into his server/bandwidth before submitting to /.
Try floppyfw also.
This would have been a very short post except for the stinking lameness filter which has forced me to add this text in an effort to overcome the stinking lameness filter. I thought that was what moderators were for.
Crap. My bad.
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At least it did in 1977.
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As long as Word 2006 still opens ASCII file, I think I'll be ok.
Of course they are. If they weren't, they'd be drummers.
African or European?
There is one huge return: they get to keep broadcasting high demand content.
The contracts that they sign with their content providers no doubt stipulate that DirecTV has to make every effort to keep the signal from being viewed by anyone who is not paying the subscription fee.
If they don't try to stop the hackers (and succeded every once in a while), one of two things will happen - CNN won't license the feed to them anymore (reducing the quality of the service they offer, losing them subscribers and reducing their profits) or CNN will charge them more to make up for the extra viewers who aren't paying the fee, (reducing their profits outright, or losing them future subscribers who go to a cheaper system).
Should you have the right to decode radio waves that come through your property? IMO, yes. But there's nothing that says that they have to make it easy.
They forgot to disable the serial number in the :CueCat. That's how they tracked them.
Try floppyfw. It's free, easy, works on a cheap box with no hard drive and is available here.
I'll bet you can't name an innocent man who did, either.
Just subsititute 'politician' wherever you see 'Republican' and you'll do fine.
And it isn't about whether or not money is going to be made on a magazine article or book. /. isn't a charity (even though it is a .org). It's a business. If it wasn't, it wouldn't have sold for the money that it sold for. Those banner ads up at the top are the reason the site is allowed to exist. They pay for the bandwidth and the boxes.
If you don't want people to associate you with what you've said, post as an AC. If you don't trust the journalists that run the site, don't post at all.