I think its more than that. Middleware seems to mean all the apps that MS delivers and has been insisting are actually a part of Windows, like IE, WMP, Messenger, OE. The order says that the user has to have the ability to disable or remove it, within 3 months of today.
Does this mean that I can finally disable Messenger when Outlook Express is running? A way to prevent WMP from accessing the Internet whenever I played a CD would be nice, too.
I also find it odd that people think that they are allow privacy in a rented vehicle. It's their vehicle, they can do what they want. It is not your vehicle.
Remember to keep that in mind when your landlord installs cameras in your rented apartment or hotel room, just to make sure you're living up to the terms of the contract, which you probably won't even be given a copy of.
At what point do you expect privacy? Being alone using something you paid for doesn't count? Is it OK for them to continue to spy when you hop into the backseat?
Why does there have to be any legislation involved at all? Piracy is something the commercial software industry has been dealing with for over 20 years. I don't understand why MPAA & RIAA need hardware changes legislated to solve a problem that is not new. Especially a law that won't even solve the problem (wrt overseas pirates whose governments look the other way).
Being a Comcast@Home customer, I have been watching this quite closely, since it seemed that Comcast didn't have a backup plan. The math here though doesn't work out. Comcast has 850,000 customer according to various news reports. At $32/month, that's $27.2M in gross income, or $81.6M over three months. They paid double their gross income to keep us as customers for three months? When do my rates go up?
Check Wired again. Not only do they do this already with a frame at the bottom, they appear to have a 4 second delay builtin to force you to look at it. Every time I hit reload, 4 seconds after the banner appears, the main frame get populated. I can't see any network activity behind the scenes. I wanted to see how they do this, but 'View Source' and 'Save As' are greyed out in IE.
I doubt this will happen, since they do not appear to scan for any other services that violate their AUP (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, news). You aren't allowed to run any 'services' on a machine connected to the @Home network (at least with Comcast's agreement). Why would they start now, with VPNs? I think its just a customer service issue: "I can't connect to my company's fileserver" calls coming from a subscriber at 9pm, when they should really be contacting their company's IT department (who all went home at 5).
According to the article, they spent $162M "specifically to improve reliability". If so, how much did they spend on the entire R&D effort behind Win2k? I realize that not all copies will cost $500, but how many do they expect to sell in what, the next 5 years (tops!)? I think its time to sell my stock. How are they ever going to recoup those costs?
Dublin, I have to disagree with you completely, and I have small children.
I don't see this as Christian bashing (maybe some of the previous posts were, but I jumped from the main article to your post since someone moved it up, rather than being nuked).
The radical ideas in the constitution may be a result of protestantism, but were more a direct result of the lack of choice. To me, the fundamental values of this country are freedom. Freedom to choose. I resent people choosing for me, and deciding what is in my and my family's best interest, particularly when it comes to morals.
When I read the original post, the first thought that popped into my mind was the community meeting discussing book banning in "Field of Dreams". Censorship, in any form, is wrong.
I struggle with how best to introduce my girls to the Internet. Yes, I do not want them to see that kind of material. However, I think its inevitable that they will stumble on it. I would like to be there when they do, and explain to them why it is wrong. I definitely don't want someone trying to prevent my access to it at all.
Censorware is not the solution. The only question I have about is how severe will the mistake be. I write software for a living. I know better than to assume that its going to work as advertised.
I was at a client site this week, and needed some help with a problem. My first stop for programming problems is Deja. The network administrator has unilaterally decided that Deja is bad, and the HTTP proxy denies access to it. So, because 1% of Usenet is bad, noone in this company gets to access it at all.
I wasn't aware that Vanguard offered any services other than mutual fund investments. Yes, you can draw checks on some of the funds, but there's no credit cards, no insured deposits, no ATM access, no stock trading. I wouldn't call that one-stop shopping. -- a very satisfied Vanguard customer
This is yet another striking example of French juris prudence. Its easy to see why the Philadelphia district attorney is so upset with the French courts, for not returning a convicted murderer who fled the US over 20 years ago. http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/09_99a/printe d/us/na/na0809_1.htm "And I want the letter 'M' striken from the English alphabet." - Steve Martin
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I think its more than that. Middleware seems to mean all the apps that MS delivers and has been insisting are actually a part of Windows, like IE, WMP, Messenger, OE. The order says that the user has to have the ability to disable or remove it, within 3 months of today.
Does this mean that I can finally disable Messenger when Outlook Express is running? A way to prevent WMP from accessing the Internet whenever I played a CD would be nice, too.
Remember to keep that in mind when your landlord installs cameras in your rented apartment or hotel room, just to make sure you're living up to the terms of the contract, which you probably won't even be given a copy of.
At what point do you expect privacy? Being alone using something you paid for doesn't count? Is it OK for them to continue to spy when you hop into the backseat?
Why does there have to be any legislation involved at all? Piracy is something the commercial software industry has been dealing with for over 20 years. I don't understand why MPAA & RIAA need hardware changes legislated to solve a problem that is not new. Especially a law that won't even solve the problem (wrt overseas pirates whose governments look the other way).
Being a Comcast@Home customer, I have been watching this quite closely, since it seemed that Comcast didn't have a backup plan. The math here though doesn't work out. Comcast has 850,000 customer according to various news reports. At $32/month, that's $27.2M in gross income, or $81.6M over three months. They paid double their gross income to keep us as customers for three months? When do my rates go up?
Check Wired again. Not only do they do this already with a frame at the bottom, they appear to have a 4 second delay builtin to force you to look at it. Every time I hit reload, 4 seconds after the banner appears, the main frame get populated. I can't see any network activity behind the scenes. I wanted to see how they do this, but 'View Source' and 'Save As' are greyed out in IE.
I doubt this will happen, since they do not appear to scan for any other services that violate their AUP (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, news). You aren't allowed to run any 'services' on a machine connected to the @Home network (at least with Comcast's agreement). Why would they start now, with VPNs?
I think its just a customer service issue: "I can't connect to my company's fileserver" calls coming from a subscriber at 9pm, when they should really be contacting their company's IT department (who all went home at 5).
According to the article, they spent $162M "specifically to improve reliability". If so, how much did they spend on the entire R&D effort behind Win2k? I realize that not all copies will cost $500, but how many do they expect to sell in what, the next 5 years (tops!)? I think its time to sell my stock. How are they ever going to recoup those costs?
Dublin, I have to disagree with you completely, and I have small children.
I don't see this as Christian bashing (maybe some of the previous posts were, but I jumped from the main article to your post since someone moved it up, rather than being nuked).
The radical ideas in the constitution may be a result of protestantism, but were more a direct result of the lack of choice. To me, the fundamental values of this country are freedom. Freedom to choose. I resent people choosing for me, and deciding what is in my and my family's best interest, particularly when it comes to morals.
When I read the original post, the first thought that popped into my mind was the community meeting discussing book banning in "Field of Dreams". Censorship, in any form, is wrong.
I struggle with how best to introduce my girls to the Internet. Yes, I do not want them to see that kind of material. However, I think its inevitable that they will stumble on it. I would like to be there when they do, and explain to them why it is wrong. I definitely don't want someone trying to prevent my access to it at all.
Censorware is not the solution. The only question I have about is how severe will the mistake be. I write software for a living. I know better than to assume that its going to work as advertised.
I was at a client site this week, and needed some help with a problem. My first stop for programming problems is Deja. The network administrator has unilaterally decided that Deja is bad, and the HTTP proxy denies access to it. So, because 1% of Usenet is bad, noone in this company gets to access it at all.
I wasn't aware that Vanguard offered any services other than mutual fund investments. Yes, you can draw checks on some of the funds, but there's no credit cards, no insured deposits, no ATM access, no stock trading. I wouldn't call that one-stop shopping.
-- a very satisfied Vanguard customer
This is yet another striking example of French juris prudence. Its easy to see why the Philadelphia district attorney is so upset with the French courts, for not returning a convicted murderer who fled the US over 20 years ago. http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/09_99a/printe d/us/na/na0809_1.htm "And I want the letter 'M' striken from the English alphabet." - Steve Martin