Nope, that's not true. Even if you have a 1 way cipher for the credit card data, if you can break into the webserver, you can steal the credit card numbers before they even get encrypted.
depends on what you're buying, if you buy certain services, they don't have to be delivered. this all assumes that they're going to have vending machines where you can buy these cards with cash, of course.
Are you talking about refunding the bundled Windows OS? If so, why would I ever think that I have a right to do that? If I buy a box of Frosted Flakes, with a free matchbox car inside, I can't return the matchbox car for a refund. When I eat at McDonalds, and get a cheeseburger without onions, I don't expect to pay any less. That's just common sense.
I don't intend to buy a copy of Windows if I don't want it. So I will never have a need for a refund. It's really quite simple. If I don't want windows on a machine, I get the best deal I can get, regardless of whether it has windows on it. The best deal usually turns out to be a machine which doesn't have windows on it.
Instead, these users continue to agree to anything Microsoft
puts in the license and use the software.
Such apathy disgusts me. I do not long for the day that open source/free
software advocates no longer open their mouths.
Whatever. I don't read them, and I don't follow them. I'll use the software in the way it's intended for my own personal use. There is nothing at all that can be put in an EULA that can take that away from me, as it is my constitutional right. It disgusts me that people will so easily give up their constitutional rights just because an EULA tells them to.
I think the most interesting part of your post is that it has a Score of 2 when it is completely false.
VI. Object files or programs generated by the Software as output do
not fall under this licence at all, and may be placed under any
licence the author wishes. The authors explicitly lay no claim to,
and assert no rights over, any programs written by other people and
assembled into object form by the Software.
X. In addition to what this Licence otherwise provides, the Software
may be distributed in such a way as to be compliant with the GNU
General Public Licence, as published by the Free Software Foundation,
Cambridge, MA, USA; version 2, or, at your option, any later version;
incorporated herein by reference. You must include a copy of this
Licence with such distribution. Furthermore, patches sent to the
authors for the purpose of inclusion in the official release version
are considered cleared for release under the full terms of this
Licence.
XII. Should any part of this agreement be deemed unenforcable, it is
intended that the remainder of the agreement be held in force.
First of all, note that it says "In addition to what this Licence otherwise provides". So the rest of the Licence which I have not quoted cannot invalidate this.
1. "this Licence" could be interpreted to mean the GPL. In that case, we are 100% compliant. Since "this Licence" applying to the NASM licence would be a contradiction, this is a reasonable interpretation.
2. Even if "this Licence" does not refer to the GPL, that sentence would be deemed unenforcable (as it contradicts the earlier sentence), and the remainder of the agreement would remain in force.
3. You could take the sentence "In addition...reference" as a single statement, and the rest of the paragraph as part of "what this Licence otherwise provides".
4. The spirit of the licence is to be compatible.
I'd love to use Windows to administrate a large array of unix servers. Similarly to having checkpoint running on a freebsd box, with a windows administration tool, but wouldn't it be great to have a nice clean gui (no X-windows crap), which can add users, set file permissions, administrate webservers, etc. When I deploy my unix servers, X-windows isn't even installed on the boxes, for efficiency, security, and reliability. Now if we could get Windows and unix to work hand in hand... Ok, ok, I know it'll never happen.
I just set up software mirroring with Win2K server. Just click to make the disk dynamic, and then click again to add a mirror. I'd still never use Win2K as a real server though. I like to know everything that's running on a system, Windows has too much backdoor and hidden crap in it.
Windows 3.x abstracted the filesystem away from users through the use of "Program Groups", which had no relation to the filesystem whatsoever. For this reason, many Windows users never learned basic filesystem concepts, such as directory hierarchies. This model continued in Win9x through the use of the "start" button, even though explorer provided access to the filesystem. To this day I know many Windows users who have NO IDEA what the difference is between a directory and a file, and don't care. This means that when they lose files in the filesystem they have no way to find them again.
This of course, being one of the biggest superiorities of Windows as compared to Macintosh. Why should a physicist writing a paper have to know about files and directories? We don't ask programmers to know about Gauss's law when using a monitor.
distributed rendering of a film? it seems like the potential for abuse would be far too great for that (I'd love to add miniature subliminal messages to Star Wars 2)...
There is a proposal for net.sport.basketball, and this argument against its creation...
net.news.group
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!jon
Sun Apr 4 14:38:25 1982
basketball
Why start a basketball group now? The basketball season is already over.
Pro basketball is boring, and will remain so until they remove the shot clock
and allow zone defense. [guess it was boring for at least the next 20 years!]
If the amount of "gravity" applied to the object could be timed to counteract the effects of accelleration of the object, we could have "acceleration without whiplash," something that certainly exists on the starship enterprise.:)
The reason that this vulnerability in PGP is serious is that you can't fix it by updating your copy: you have to ensure that everybody who might send you encrypted messages has a copy of PGP without the ADK bug. This is difficult, especially when you don't know who your correspondants are going to be ahead of time.
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: 2.6.2
Can't you just look at the header information, to see what version it was encrypted with?
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get a lawyer, have him send a letter to them saying that all further communications should go to her.
IP over airplane banners... Read slashdot while you're sequestered in the CBS Big Brother house.
you steal the data before it's inserted into the database, not after.
Nope, that's not true. Even if you have a 1 way cipher for the credit card data, if you can break into the webserver, you can steal the credit card numbers before they even get encrypted.
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depends on what you're buying, if you buy certain services, they don't have to be delivered. this all assumes that they're going to have vending machines where you can buy these cards with cash, of course.
Are you talking about refunding the bundled Windows OS? If so, why would I ever think that I have a right to do that? If I buy a box of Frosted Flakes, with a free matchbox car inside, I can't return the matchbox car for a refund. When I eat at McDonalds, and get a cheeseburger without onions, I don't expect to pay any less. That's just common sense.
I don't intend to buy a copy of Windows if I don't want it. So I will never have a need for a refund. It's really quite simple. If I don't want windows on a machine, I get the best deal I can get, regardless of whether it has windows on it. The best deal usually turns out to be a machine which doesn't have windows on it.
Instead, these users continue to agree to anything Microsoft puts in the license and use the software. Such apathy disgusts me. I do not long for the day that open source/free software advocates no longer open their mouths.
Whatever. I don't read them, and I don't follow them. I'll use the software in the way it's intended for my own personal use. There is nothing at all that can be put in an EULA that can take that away from me, as it is my constitutional right. It disgusts me that people will so easily give up their constitutional rights just because an EULA tells them to.
I think the most interesting part of your post is that it has a Score of 2 when it is completely false.
VI. Object files or programs generated by the Software as output do not fall under this licence at all, and may be placed under any licence the author wishes. The authors explicitly lay no claim to, and assert no rights over, any programs written by other people and assembled into object form by the Software.
First of all, note that it says "In addition to what this Licence otherwise provides". So the rest of the Licence which I have not quoted cannot invalidate this.
1. "this Licence" could be interpreted to mean the GPL. In that case, we are 100% compliant. Since "this Licence" applying to the NASM licence would be a contradiction, this is a reasonable interpretation.
2. Even if "this Licence" does not refer to the GPL, that sentence would be deemed unenforcable (as it contradicts the earlier sentence), and the remainder of the agreement would remain in force.
3. You could take the sentence "In addition...reference" as a single statement, and the rest of the paragraph as part of "what this Licence otherwise provides".
4. The spirit of the licence is to be compatible.
Just installed service pack 1... so far so good
I'd love to use Windows to administrate a large array of unix servers. Similarly to having checkpoint running on a freebsd box, with a windows administration tool, but wouldn't it be great to have a nice clean gui (no X-windows crap), which can add users, set file permissions, administrate webservers, etc. When I deploy my unix servers, X-windows isn't even installed on the boxes, for efficiency, security, and reliability. Now if we could get Windows and unix to work hand in hand... Ok, ok, I know it'll never happen.
I just set up software mirroring with Win2K server. Just click to make the disk dynamic, and then click again to add a mirror. I'd still never use Win2K as a real server though. I like to know everything that's running on a system, Windows has too much backdoor and hidden crap in it.
Windows 3.x abstracted the filesystem away from users through the use of "Program Groups", which had no relation to the filesystem whatsoever. For this reason, many Windows users never learned basic filesystem concepts, such as directory hierarchies. This model continued in Win9x through the use of the "start" button, even though explorer provided access to the filesystem. To this day I know many Windows users who have NO IDEA what the difference is between a directory and a file, and don't care. This means that when they lose files in the filesystem they have no way to find them again.
This of course, being one of the biggest superiorities of Windows as compared to Macintosh. Why should a physicist writing a paper have to know about files and directories? We don't ask programmers to know about Gauss's law when using a monitor.
Even better, if Mac were running on x86, you could use vmware to run both simultaneously.
distributed rendering of a film? it seems like the potential for abuse would be far too great for that (I'd love to add miniature subliminal messages to Star Wars 2)...
So instead Apple embarrasses every Apple employee with a common name. Err, something.
and then it's discovered, every Brittany Spears song has exactly the same fingerprint.
But Simon Moran of the Public Access Internet Advocacy Centre says the modifications would cost only between $30,000 and $40,000 to implement.
IBM should give $40,000 to Simon Moran, and let him do it.
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/NET.news.grou ps/82.04.04_uwvax.305_net.news. group.html
There is a proposal for net.sport.basketball, and this argument against its creation...
net.news.group
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!jon
Sun Apr 4 14:38:25 1982
basketball
Why start a basketball group now? The basketball season is already over. Pro basketball is boring, and will remain so until they remove the shot clock and allow zone defense. [guess it was boring for at least the next 20 years!]
just think of the test cheating potential... why wasn't this around when I was in high school?
Building a starship isn't a serious practical application?
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/13/1054225.shtm l
Caffeine helps ADHD, Videogames help ADHD... Damn, was my mother ever wrong...
If the amount of "gravity" applied to the object could be timed to counteract the effects of accelleration of the object, we could have "acceleration without whiplash," something that certainly exists on the starship enterprise. :)
The reason that this vulnerability in PGP is serious is that you can't fix it by updating your copy: you have to ensure that everybody who might send you encrypted messages has a copy of PGP without the ADK bug. This is difficult, especially when you don't know who your correspondants are going to be ahead of time.
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: 2.6.2
Can't you just look at the header information, to see what version it was encrypted with?