Yes, those 3rd party firewall programs are useless since even Windows can now closes ports by default (with their so called "firewall") since XP SP2 2 years ago. Older Windows versions don't have this feature but aren't sold anymore to consumers either. And it's quite rare that consumers buy utility software like this for older PCs anyways. Even if they buy it, the fact that the firewall giving the protection and the firewalled system receiving it are one and the same is not exactly secure. Running under the same account usually to boot. This makes the promised security a total farce in the end.
Kazaa is owned by Sharman Networks, based in Australia and some pacific island. Skype is owned by ebay.
Neither of those companies share any money with each other. Kazaa was originally programmed by the same people as skype. When the kazaa court troubles began, those programmers soldl azaa for a very small sum to Sharman Networks.
Not quite: Linksys reduced the memory from 16MB to 8MB and flash from 4MB to 2MB when they changed from v4 to v5 version. They then introduced a new model, the GL one which didn't exist before which has basically the old hardware, memory, flash and all at a higher cost. So yes it's a cash in. Simple greed to exploit the brand they created by cutting their costs and the capabilities of the hardware and pocketing the profits.
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There is a crucial difference between PS3 and the rest: PS3 aims to be a blu-ray disc player for your movies out of the box. This feature is a big part of the cost of a PS3 since it needs obviously a blu-ray drive. Which is expensive.
Now why would anyone buy a player which is not fully up to spec (no HDMI out) and could be cut off playing those movies anytime in the future on the whim of a paranoid movie industry?
As part of Windows Vista, BitLocker is installed automatically during OS install with Enterprise and Ultimate editions5. (Note that it is not automatically turned on.)
a) Is there any commercial insurance company which will insure a nuclear reactor? Here in Germany all reactors must be insured against meltdown, etc. Since no insurance company will write a police for a reactor, the government steps in and "insures" it. All of our reactors here are insured that way.
b) Is there a place in any western democracy (russia and china probably have less problems in that area) for finally depositing the resulting nuclear waste? A proper finaly resting place for the stuff?
So you're saying that soldiers in the american military are not citizens? You don't have freedom of speech? The first amendment didn't say "except for soldiers", does it?
I mean if spammers and dvertisers can gleam information to find potential targets, why can't the same technology be utilized by the defense department
Cause spammers and advertisers only spam you, government can use the data to imprison or even shoot you. The fact remains that a tool like this is readymade for a dictatorship that isn't even recognizable as one from the outside. Perfect to oppress people, anathema to a democracy
If the closed source you use infringes on coypright, you have to cease to use it IMMEDIATELY or face a lawsuit with punitive damages. If you infringe someones patent as a customer of $closed source company$ you still owe the patent holder royalties, even if you immediately stop using the software. Both of these scenarios are the same for Open Source as a user. So how do I gain anything when using closed source. I don't become a magical distributor of software either just by using Open Source. Very few people distribute open source as opposed to just using it unless they write the software themselves. Almost only distributions or services like sourceforge are purely distributors
GMail allows you to use it as your smarthost for your mailserver, so that mails sent from a dynamic IP range don't get rejected by AOL and the likes. Are they keeping that mail just like the inbound mail to your gmail account or not?
Google.co.uk is not a US site, neither is google.de. So unless google stops redirecting me always to google.de and unregister their.de domains, they better start adhering to our privacy laws. They are doing business here (many german Adsense adverts), so they have to follow the laws. And stop shitting on our (european) furniture.
Ever heard of taxes on inheritances? He created a 49 billion charity to make sure his 3 kids would continue to control that money and Microsoft itself in the future. What do you think, how many percent shares of MS would his children have to sell to satisfy the taxman when they inherit Microsoft?
A side effect is that he will seen as a philantropist in the future. I mean it's not as if he could spend 49billion anyways. And if he, or his foundation invests it somewhere: is there a difference?
If something isn't working as intended,it's buggy and defective. There is no way around that even if it's just a minor defect.
And yes, the GPL has a similar clause to the MS EULA, but with the GPL and my OS (Debian) I can be sure that the Debian devs don't withhold information about bugs affecting me (bugs.debian.org and Debain Social Contract clause 3).
The problem here is not that bugs in a driver/CPU combo exist. There are many of those: recently there was a bug with AMD dualcores and Cool'n'Quiet under Windows and Linux. There was no fix but it was disclosed. The problem here is that neither MS nor Intel told us about it, and for this they should get their well deserved bad press and a boot to the head
I am rather certain that before large corporations begin trying to manipulate the echo chamber, they do some research and compare the risks, rewards, and consequences of doing so.
So what did Sony compare and research when they stuck a rootkit on music CDs? Did they think about the negative reaction and the increased profits to counteract that reaction? Oh, there were no profits but a loss and a PR disaster to boot? My bad
Should one of them realize, like the cartoon character who runs off a cliff and doesn't fall until he looks down, that it is in a metaphysically untenable situation and decide to spin only one way, the rest would instantly fall in line, whether they were across a test tube or across the galaxy.
Do I read that right and they created entangled atoms, giving us possible faster than light communications? Or is this just the usual journalists misreporting of scientific facts?
Basically, you will have to configure the indicators to alert you when you receive an e-mail and/or an IM message from the person of your choice.
And the $100 question is: will Logitech give out the API of this new feature freely, or will it be only usable with their "special" drivers in the latest Windows version du jour? Probably only with Outlook Express and MSN too.
I have yet to see Logitech software that doesn't suck, and I never ever bought another mouse than a Logitech one. Good hardware, godawful software. Kinda like the stuff from MS come to think of it:)
One issue is that the company does not have great visibility outside its core markets. "Customers say, 'We wish you were better known,' and we have to address that," he said.
That's an easy request: just patent more popular graphics fileformats with submarine patents and then start enforcing them a few years down the line. Instant Press!
Have you ever heard of ccTLDs? They already are under the respective control of China for.cn, Brazil for.br, Germany for.de etc. Are there any taxes for DNS queries? for registrations (except the usual VAT for example). I don't think so.
The problem lies not with the missing implementation. Each of those PureIP companies could hire a contractor for 2 days and produce a sample application for any patent they wanted. They can even sell it to a single customer to make it a "commercial enterprise".
The first problem is the fact that your lawmakers allowed patents on business methods and software. The second one is that your PTO (and our european one too) doesn't review the patents for non-obviousness anymore. The PTO is also treated at a profit center while it really really shouldn't cause this will lead to shoddy examination by default which tremendously compounds the obviousness problem.
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promised us 8-10Ghz Pentium4 CPUs when they started with the P4 "Willamette"? Or how they promised us 5GHz Prescotts?
I'll rather wait and see what I can actually buy in 5 years. No need to trust a vendor so far in the future what they can do.
Yes, those 3rd party firewall programs are useless since even Windows can now closes ports by default (with their so called "firewall") since XP SP2 2 years ago. Older Windows versions don't have this feature but aren't sold anymore to consumers either. And it's quite rare that consumers buy utility software like this for older PCs anyways. Even if they buy it, the fact that the firewall giving the protection and the firewalled system receiving it are one and the same is not exactly secure. Running under the same account usually to boot. This makes the promised security a total farce in the end.
Kazaa is owned by Sharman Networks, based in Australia and some pacific island.
Skype is owned by ebay.
Neither of those companies share any money with each other. Kazaa was originally programmed by the same people as skype. When the kazaa court troubles began, those programmers soldl azaa for a very small sum to Sharman Networks.
CAn someone tell me why a mobo would whine? What that's soldered on there can make any sounds?
I've never even heard of any mobo making a whine. Certain types of LCD backlighting, sure, but not solid state electronics.
Not quite: Linksys reduced the memory from 16MB to 8MB and flash from 4MB to 2MB when they changed from v4 to v5 version. They then introduced a new model, the GL one which didn't exist before which has basically the old hardware, memory, flash and all at a higher cost. So yes it's a cash in. Simple greed to exploit the brand they created by cutting their costs and the capabilities of the hardware and pocketing the profits.
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There is a crucial difference between PS3 and the rest: PS3 aims to be a blu-ray disc player for your movies out of the box. This feature is a big part of the cost of a PS3 since it needs obviously a blu-ray drive. Which is expensive.
Now why would anyone buy a player which is not fully up to spec (no HDMI out) and could be cut off playing those movies anytime in the future on the whim of a paranoid movie industry?
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a) Is there any commercial insurance company which will insure a nuclear reactor? Here in Germany all reactors must be insured against meltdown, etc. Since no insurance company will write a police for a reactor, the government steps in and "insures" it. All of our reactors here are insured that way.
b) Is there a place in any western democracy (russia and china probably have less problems in that area) for finally depositing the resulting nuclear waste? A proper finaly resting place for the stuff?
So you're saying that soldiers in the american military are not citizens? You don't have freedom of speech? The first amendment didn't say "except for soldiers", does it?
I mean if spammers and dvertisers can gleam information to find potential targets, why can't the same technology be utilized by the defense department
Cause spammers and advertisers only spam you, government can use the data to imprison or even shoot you. The fact remains that a tool like this is readymade for a dictatorship that isn't even recognizable as one from the outside. Perfect to oppress people, anathema to a democracy
If the closed source you use infringes on coypright, you have to cease to use it IMMEDIATELY or face a lawsuit with punitive damages. If you infringe someones patent as a customer of $closed source company$ you still owe the patent holder royalties, even if you immediately stop using the software.
Both of these scenarios are the same for Open Source as a user. So how do I gain anything when using closed source. I don't become a magical distributor of software either just by using Open Source. Very few people distribute open source as opposed to just using it unless they write the software themselves. Almost only distributions or services like sourceforge are purely distributors
GMail allows you to use it as your smarthost for your mailserver, so that mails sent from a dynamic IP range don't get rejected by AOL and the likes. Are they keeping that mail just like the inbound mail to your gmail account or not?
Google.co.uk is not a US site, neither is google.de. So unless google stops redirecting me always to google.de and unregister their .de domains, they better start adhering to our privacy laws. They are doing business here (many german Adsense adverts), so they have to follow the laws. And stop shitting on our (european) furniture.
I'm not so sure of that. If you take away amazon, google and ebay and replace them with shitty telco-owned versions only. Who would want to sign up?
A side effect is that he will seen as a philantropist in the future. I mean it's not as if he could spend 49billion anyways. And if he, or his foundation invests it somewhere: is there a difference?
And yes, the GPL has a similar clause to the MS EULA, but with the GPL and my OS (Debian) I can be sure that the Debian devs don't withhold information about bugs affecting me (bugs.debian.org and Debain Social Contract clause 3).
The problem here is not that bugs in a driver/CPU combo exist. There are many of those: recently there was a bug with AMD dualcores and Cool'n'Quiet under Windows and Linux. There was no fix but it was disclosed. The problem here is that neither MS nor Intel told us about it, and for this they should get their well deserved bad press and a boot to the head
I am rather certain that before large corporations begin trying to manipulate the echo chamber, they do some research and compare the risks, rewards, and consequences of doing so.
So what did Sony compare and research when they stuck a rootkit on music CDs? Did they think about the negative reaction and the increased profits to counteract that reaction? Oh, there were no profits but a loss and a PR disaster to boot? My bad
Should one of them realize, like the cartoon character who runs off a cliff and doesn't fall until he looks down, that it is in a metaphysically untenable situation and decide to spin only one way, the rest would instantly fall in line, whether they were across a test tube or across the galaxy.
Do I read that right and they created entangled atoms, giving us possible faster than light communications? Or is this just the usual journalists misreporting of scientific facts?
Basically, you will have to configure the indicators to alert you when you receive an e-mail and/or an IM message from the person of your choice.
:)
And the $100 question is: will Logitech give out the API of this new feature freely, or will it be only usable with their "special" drivers in the latest Windows version du jour? Probably only with Outlook Express and MSN too.
I have yet to see Logitech software that doesn't suck, and I never ever bought another mouse than a Logitech one. Good hardware, godawful software. Kinda like the stuff from MS come to think of it
One issue is that the company does not have great visibility outside its core markets. "Customers say, 'We wish you were better known,' and we have to address that," he said.
That's an easy request: just patent more popular graphics fileformats with submarine patents and then start enforcing them a few years down the line. Instant Press!
Cause the NYT lost the last vestiges of decent journalism the last few years.
Cue all the "Microsoft doesn't remove the causes of bugs but only fixes symptoms" comments
Have you ever heard of ccTLDs? They already are under the respective control of China for .cn, Brazil for .br, Germany for .de etc. Are there any taxes for DNS queries? for registrations (except the usual VAT for example). I don't think so.
The problem lies not with the missing implementation. Each of those PureIP companies could hire a contractor for 2 days and produce a sample application for any patent they wanted. They can even sell it to a single customer to make it a "commercial enterprise".
The first problem is the fact that your lawmakers allowed patents on business methods and software. The second one is that your PTO (and our european one too) doesn't review the patents for non-obviousness anymore. The PTO is also treated at a profit center while it really really shouldn't cause this will lead to shoddy examination by default which tremendously compounds the obviousness problem.