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  1. Re:Other Countries on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    defiantly did you really think that would deter anyone for one minuet (ok 0 minutes then)

  2. Re:We have to destroy property in order to save it on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    in effect, be illegal to own almost any computerized device(sure, you'll own the actual hardware; but the software and firmware will be licenced-revocable-at-will from dozens of different firms, all with the authority to poke at your device whenever they want) Not necessarily there will always be ways to stop this
    aka
    1. use open source software
    2. make your own software (come on this is /. isn't is)
  3. Re:Dumbasses, twice on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    Put another way, let's say I release an email client that is legal to use for non-commercial purposes. May I read all of your email to see that you're sticking to the EULA? May I delete the ones that are commercial?

    More importantly who decides with emails are commercial! 0_o
  4. Re:Some exceptions are necessary on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    here, here!

  5. Re:Some exceptions are necessary on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    NOT subjected to US law!
    how do you do that these days?
    YOU are using the internet to post this right....

  6. Re:According to this bill on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    Just curious. Would this mean that software companies would have to make different versions of their software for the Canadian market? Since the bill only applies to the spying on and infringing of the rights of Americans. I would assume that these sorts shenanigans would be fairly illegal here in Canada because of our privacy laws. If worse comes to worse you could start buying your software from Canada, or it might be as easy as ticking Canada as your country during the installation process... yeah write!
    those company just write sofware for the US if you don't like that go live on mars!
  7. Re:Does it mean on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    Let the hacking warS begin!

  8. Re:Screw 'em I say! on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    I used to perform disaster recovery testing for a very big company. There was one particular test where a critical application wouldn't run because it was registered to the CPU's serial number and the software was refusing to run on the hardware at the DR facility. I'm pretty sure that the majority of proprietary mainframe apps work this way. The data restoration couldn't begin until the vendor fixed the license issue, which took ~45 minutes. Since we had a 12 hour recovery limit that was a long time. We worked with the vendor to make sure that our DR process wouldn't be affected by this issue, and it never happened again. Ergo, many companies in their right minds trust their vendors, just like they trust their banks not to steal their money. The difference between Very Big Companies and you is that each VBC is worth millions of dollars to the vendor, and screwing one VBC can cause many other VBCs to defect to vendors they can trust. You, OTOH, are worth about $59.99 and if they screw you most of their other customers will never know about it. never know about it! if it happened to me i assure you many, many people will know about it including the company's telephone services :-)
  9. Re:Self-Help & Much To-Do About Nothing. on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    ....yes and the world is a cube. NOT plus pepole have to be able (finacialy) to go to cour first

  10. how dare they on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    The American senate has no right to do this. it will afect THE WHOLE (IT) WORLD they do not have juristiction

  11. Re:Oh great... on Clash of the Titans Over USB 3.0 Specification Process · · Score: 1

    No it is not the same they are all implemetning the same spec (USB 3.0)
    they are just doing it difrently it still has to be compatible to complie with the spec
    this is clearly just a slaming campaign.
    INTEL IS JUST IMPLEMENTING THE SPEC TO DESIGN A HOST CONTROLER THEY ARE NOT CRERATING A NEW SPEC!

  12. Just a slamming campaign on Clash of the Titans Over USB 3.0 Specification Process · · Score: 1

    the linked articles excluding the intel one are aimed at low level users. This is just Navida and others making intel look bad 1. No one needs to wait for intels Host controller specification it will be compatible with all the other Host controllers using the USB 3.0 spec 2. It sounds like intel is doing the industry a favor by showing over companys a reference on how to implement the spec

  13. Re:Most Likely to Not Use it and to Pay. on Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who uses a floppy. so sad :-(

  14. Re:Two words on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    The bible dose not reject or in any way claim that evolution is not true The bible says that A was created at time B it dose not say HOW A was created. And when pepole point to the 7-day thing maybe 7-days was mistranslated (very likley) it might be suposed to read 7 eons.