<nit-picky> not only US regulators were involved but also the Bundeskartellamt, pushed by the lobbying efforts of the FSFE (see press release). </nit-picky>
The president of the German agency stated that "in individual cases, the acquisition of patents can also result in significant anticompetitive effects" (source).
OSS came a long way - the decision was not based on some ethical "free software is a value itself" reasons but showed the commercial impact and relevance of open source. Great!
even if=/dev/zero should be enough, I don't believe the rumours of restoring data with AFMs and such. The magnetic pits on modern HDDs are too small to stable store more than one state (correct me if I'm wrong)
You do realize that a majority of UN Troops are from the US right?
no, mostly Bangladesh and Pakistan (if I remember correctly the UN payments are high enough to finance 2-3 soldiers for every one send on a peace-keeping mission)
Define 'enemies', please. From the rest of the world's POV, Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemy with equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Define "rest of the world" please. Iran and many European countries were trading partners up until 200x.
as a side note: I used this product as of company policies. If you're free to choose other vendors take a look at F-Secure and Kaspersky, too. I never had them running in real-world environments but both are nice (CAVE: I installed them only on test systems) and widely used.
I see this claim all the time, and I always have to wonder: what evidence is there for this claim?
okay, according to Shadowserver somewhere in the middle
If one need's an antivirus tool (it would be a fair point to call all of them snake oil) use a package with a higher detection rate.
Really? Please name a few, or even just one, that a) are open source, b) don't consume resources like the machine is some dedicated virus scanning box and c) can easily be integrated to any mail server (at a minimum they have to not require a GUI and run on Linux/BSD).
a) only clam, I wasn't aware that open source is a prerequisite for using software b)/c) I used trendmicro on mail gateways, usable without X11 and with a quite small resource foot print
But ClamAV is one of the worst engines out there. If one need's an antivirus tool (it would be a fair point to call all of them snake oil) use a package with a higher detection rate.
from what I understand the developing world continues to build 1960's car designs from both GM and VW
no idea about GM but at least VW designs are built in China by FAW-Volkswagen, a joint-venture. Production started in 1991 with the Jetta, a derivative of the 1984 VW Jetta II.
"IP theft" may be a problem but your example is a bit fishy...
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not only US regulators were involved but also the Bundeskartellamt, pushed by the lobbying efforts of the FSFE (see press release).
</nit-picky>
The president of the German agency stated that "in individual cases, the acquisition of patents can also result in significant anticompetitive effects" (source).
OSS came a long way - the decision was not based on some ethical "free software is a value itself" reasons but showed the commercial impact and relevance of open source. Great!
if I understood the terms correctly nowadays games (especially downloaded one's) are licensed (=rented), not selled...
you forgot to write something like "REST in peace", no idea why you missed this one
supporting Linux is a longtime company policy - remember the Sony rootkit: did it infect Linux machines?
a solid, logical and stringent solution. no chance this will ever implemented
nah, the drivers can only coded in whitespace. I'm looking forward for color spaces APs!
Fuck you, asshole, who the fuck are you to call us divisive?
Fair and balanced - and well within the 140 character limit.
No idea why Tim Berners-Lee sees problems in the Twitter discussion culture.
One interesting problem might be finding test subjects...
if they pay me and allow me to read a book and mute the TV - I volunteer
even if=/dev/zero should be enough, I don't believe the rumours of restoring data with AFMs and such. The magnetic pits on modern HDDs are too small to stable store more than one state (correct me if I'm wrong)
Maybe if everyone 'stars' the bug?
I thought one 'plusones' in the Googleverse?
please add "good" between "a" and "beer"...
From TFP(df): "The most common difficulties faced [..] were [...] busy phone lines."
uh, what? They should defend us from The Evil(tm) and can't even get other stake holders on the fscking phone?
You do realize that a majority of UN Troops are from the US right?
no, mostly Bangladesh and Pakistan (if I remember correctly the UN payments are high enough to finance 2-3 soldiers for every one send on a peace-keeping mission)
Hmmm........ I wonder what countries didn't sign that agreement
only a few (and someone should nuke Western Sahara, the only unknown quantitiy in the NPT)
should I mod this funny, flamebait or insightful?
Define 'enemies', please. From the rest of the world's POV, Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemy with equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Define "rest of the world" please. Iran and many European countries were trading partners up until 200x.
this guy? ;)
as a side note: I used this product as of company policies. If you're free to choose other vendors take a look at F-Secure and Kaspersky, too. I never had them running in real-world environments but both are nice (CAVE: I installed them only on test systems) and widely used.
I see this claim all the time, and I always have to wonder: what evidence is there for this claim?
okay, according to Shadowserver somewhere in the middle
If one need's an antivirus tool (it would be a fair point to call all of them snake oil) use a package with a higher detection rate.
Really? Please name a few, or even just one, that a) are open source, b) don't consume resources like the machine is some dedicated virus scanning box and c) can easily be integrated to any mail server (at a minimum they have to not require a GUI and run on Linux/BSD).
a) only clam, I wasn't aware that open source is a prerequisite for using software
b)/c) I used trendmicro on mail gateways, usable without X11 and with a quite small resource foot print
What about false positives?
do you remember 9/1?
But ClamAV is one of the worst engines out there. If one need's an antivirus tool (it would be a fair point to call all of them snake oil) use a package with a higher detection rate.
from what I understand the developing world continues to build 1960's car designs from both GM and VW
no idea about GM but at least VW designs are built in China by FAW-Volkswagen, a joint-venture. Production started in 1991 with the Jetta, a derivative of the 1984 VW Jetta II.
"IP theft" may be a problem but your example is a bit fishy...
probably robots are more expansive than throw-away workers.... (monday morning, not enough coffee - I'm cynical at the moment)
I understand the judge's ruling, everyone is treated identical so everything is fine.
But is there a rationale for accepting only candidates in a specific IQ range?
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