I dunno. My Linux box reports a number of attacks against the FTP server and Apache each day. Of course these attacks are Windows exploits, so they fail. Would they count as attacks against Windows or Linux in this survey?
Hey, we acquired all of ours "legally". Of course at the time the law said, the first European country to stick a flag on a piece of land and then defend it against other European countries, gets to keep it.
I'm not entirely sure what your point is - but I have no problem with US territories and dependancies. I was just making the point that Britain is not the only country to have territorial claims far away from its coast.
Except of course, the Falklands are British, and have been British since BEFORE Argentina existed as a country in it's own right. Argentina invaded the Falklands, and we kicked them back out, so actually they declared ware, and we defended ourselves. Bad PR for who?
I assume you are an American, in which case check which islands dotted around are claimed by your nation although they are other countries closer!
Yes, but with the likes of IBM partnering with SuSE and TurboLinux, this makes it both easier for IBM and for the customer - if IBM produce a download for SuSE, and my xyz Linux is part of the United Linux standard, then there is a good chance I will be able to use it. Also, if IBM can produce a RedHat Linux download and a United Linux download and cover the majority of Linux distributions, it makes Linux a better business case, and means more effort can go into products, and less into packaging.
If you are so worried about the MSFT tax don't buy prebuilt computers, duh.
That's like worrying about paying a "ford" tax and going to your ford dealer.
Not at all - this is a "Microsoft Tax" - the computer is not made by Microsoft. If when you bought your Ford you had to take out insurance from a particular insurance company (whether or not you already had insurance), then that would be a better comparison, and people would complain.
You ought to be able to buy a computer without a software vendor insisting you buy their product as well.
Actually, what they would do is refuse to help you if you are running a version of windows that is in any way modified.
This could create a huge secondary market for telephone technical support.
All the computers I've seen with pre-installed copies of Windows (which I would presume is the biggest potential market for customised versions) have support supplied by the computer manufacturer, not Microsoft anyway. In this case you'd expect their support department to be able to handle their own customisations.
You are mistaken. Libraries in the UK (and certain other countries we have reciprocal agreements with) pay what is called a PLR (Public Lending Right). Basically a record of which books have been borrowed is kept, and a small fee is paid for each one.
Certainly in the UK almost everyone who cares about such things gets a region-free player (most players sold over here require a simple instruction sequence to be entered via the remote, or a menu option changing).
But then, there is more incentive to, as the choice of movies for Region 1 is much wider than for Region 2
Good. The planet will cleanse itself of Islam one country at a time, and the world will be a better place for it. Who says evolution doesn't favor the stronger species?
Or, of course, the planet might cleanse itself of humanity in one go. You may be mistaken as to which species evolution favours, it doesn't have to be us (and unlike you, I don't consider someone from a different country or religion a different species).
Apple Studios, the scummsuckers that published the Beatles, kept going after Apple Computer after Apple Computer made it big and was a nice juicy target.
That's because Apple Studios gave Apple Computers permission to use the Apple name as long as they did not infringe on Apple Studios business. When Apple Computers moved into multimedia, Apple Studios decided a line had been crossed. They could have prevented Apple Computers using the name at all to begin with, but decided to play fair, just so long as there was no cross-over.
Certainly they were available in the UK. IIRC PD-Sig was one of the bigger shareware libraries over here. Catalogue used to list the formats they could support - you had to send in your own formatted disks though.
This isn't a computer course though. How useful do you think an article in a driving instructors magazine would be telling you where the steering wheel was?
Sorry, I fail to see how this is news (block sizes and slack space have been well known for years) or a useful technique - you'd need to have a large number of known unchanging files to store any sensible quantity of data. The obvious source would be binary executables. If you are able to store data in the slack space of binary executables, you're presumably root, in which case why not secure your data in a more sensible way.
I really hope you don't actually believe all this. In any case, I was pointing out legal systems not democratic systems (there is a difference). Finally, we've been fine tuning our democracy since the 13th century (arguably the 11th century), a while before the USA existed.
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I dunno. My Linux box reports a number of attacks against the FTP server and Apache each day. Of course these attacks are Windows exploits, so they fail. Would they count as attacks against Windows or Linux in this survey?
Hey, we acquired all of ours "legally". Of course at the time the law said, the first European country to stick a flag on a piece of land and then defend it against other European countries, gets to keep it.
I'm not entirely sure what your point is - but I have no problem with US territories and dependancies. I was just making the point that Britain is not the only country to have territorial claims far away from its coast.
A couple of warning shots from a battleship, and a "surrender or we open fire" would probably do the trick though.
Except of course, the Falklands are British, and have been British since BEFORE Argentina existed as a country in it's own right. Argentina invaded the Falklands, and we kicked them back out, so actually they declared ware, and we defended ourselves. Bad PR for who?
I assume you are an American, in which case check which islands dotted around are claimed by your nation although they are other countries closer!
There's a reason nobody buys cheap shoes and has somebody paint on the swoosh
Except Nike themselves of course
Not prison camps. MSCE Reeducation Centers.
There's a difference?
And detain all known contributors to any "terrorist" operating systems in military prison camp. Don't forget to do that.
Think about the children
Yes, but with the likes of IBM partnering with SuSE and TurboLinux, this makes it both easier for IBM and for the customer - if IBM produce a download for SuSE, and my xyz Linux is part of the United Linux standard, then there is a good chance I will be able to use it. Also, if IBM can produce a RedHat Linux download and a United Linux download and cover the majority of Linux distributions, it makes Linux a better business case, and means more effort can go into products, and less into packaging.
If you are so worried about the MSFT tax don't buy prebuilt computers, duh.
That's like worrying about paying a "ford" tax and going to your ford dealer.
Not at all - this is a "Microsoft Tax" - the computer is not made by Microsoft. If when you bought your Ford you had to take out insurance from a particular insurance company (whether or not you already had insurance), then that would be a better comparison, and people would complain.
You ought to be able to buy a computer without a software vendor insisting you buy their product as well.
Actually, what they would do is refuse to help you if you are running a version of windows that is in any way modified.
This could create a huge secondary market for telephone technical support.
All the computers I've seen with pre-installed copies of Windows (which I would presume is the biggest potential market for customised versions) have support supplied by the computer manufacturer, not Microsoft anyway. In this case you'd expect their support department to be able to handle their own customisations.
Except, of course, Rolls-Royce cars are still coach-built, and there is still an active swordsmith in Spain (Toledo?).
For the record, my Spectrum was better than your C64. Now that's started a flame war (at least, for all the British posters to /.)...
You can't start a flame war by stating irrefutable facts!
They may well pay extra for the books as well, I know a bit about PLR, not about the entire library system. :-)
You are mistaken. Libraries in the UK (and certain other countries we have reciprocal agreements with) pay what is called a PLR (Public Lending Right). Basically a record of which books have been borrowed is kept, and a small fee is paid for each one.
Certainly in the UK almost everyone who cares about such things gets a region-free player (most players sold over here require a simple instruction sequence to be entered via the remote, or a menu option changing).
But then, there is more incentive to, as the choice of movies for Region 1 is much wider than for Region 2
Good. The planet will cleanse itself of Islam one country at a time, and the world will be a better place for it. Who says evolution doesn't favor the stronger species?
Or, of course, the planet might cleanse itself of humanity in one go. You may be mistaken as to which species evolution favours, it doesn't have to be us (and unlike you, I don't consider someone from a different country or religion a different species).
Islam is a lie.
And Christianity isn't?
Well, that *would* be ironic to the people who planned and made the change then, wouldn't it?
Apple Studios, the scummsuckers that published the Beatles, kept going after Apple Computer after Apple Computer made it big and was a nice juicy target.
That's because Apple Studios gave Apple Computers permission to use the Apple name as long as they did not infringe on Apple Studios business. When Apple Computers moved into multimedia, Apple Studios decided a line had been crossed. They could have prevented Apple Computers using the name at all to begin with, but decided to play fair, just so long as there was no cross-over.
Figure BillG would be flipping burgers if his pre-18 coding wasn't legally accepted by IBM?
With the million dollars he was given by his family on turning 18? I don't think so.
Certainly they were available in the UK. IIRC PD-Sig was one of the bigger shareware libraries over here. Catalogue used to list the formats they could support - you had to send in your own formatted disks though.
This isn't a computer course though. How useful do you think an article in a driving instructors magazine would be telling you where the steering wheel was?
Sorry, I fail to see how this is news (block sizes and slack space have been well known for years) or a useful technique - you'd need to have a large number of known unchanging files to store any sensible quantity of data. The obvious source would be binary executables. If you are able to store data in the slack space of binary executables, you're presumably root, in which case why not secure your data in a more sensible way.
The most searched topics are adult oriented.
Basically, everyone is usually searching for porn.
Wish I had a link to some of the studies. Does anyone have any links to back me up?
I tried to search for a link to back you up, but the damn search bar kept looking for porn.
I really hope you don't actually believe all this. In any case, I was pointing out legal systems not democratic systems (there is a difference). Finally, we've been fine tuning our democracy since the 13th century (arguably the 11th century), a while before the USA existed.