They at least had a case to bring to court in DeCSS, that the tool (in the MPAA's mind) was designed for piracy. Unless you can figure out how OSS WiFi drivers are piracy I think this is legal.
Do you mean host bittorrents in Freenet (easy) or implement the bittorrent protocol over Freenet? As far as the latter goes, Freenet has it's own downloading protocol that is similar to BT in a lot of ways.
MLDonkey is like the overlord of p2p networks, with access to Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap, supporting multiple downloads, a backend daemon with multiple frontends (web-based, gui, etc). Kind of a pain to get up and running though.
I thought these chips could only be tracked from a few feet away? Either they implement a tracking network of scanners every five feet in all the aisles, or put more expensive transmitters in the products. I don't see how either way would be a cost effective method of security.
Changing tire sizes does change the accuracy of your speedometer, that's why tires with shorter sidewalls are generally used when upgrading to bigger rims. The speedometer can be recalibrated, but it's a very expensive process from what I gather. I'm not sure about the malfunctioning gauge law, but lots of modded cars aren't street legal anyways.
This is where IP law gets confusing to me. After his resignation from Nullsoft, could he make a few small changes to the code and rerelease under the GPL, copyrighted under his name? AOL might own WASTE 1.0 (or whatever it is) which was developed under Nullsoft/AOL contract, but now that he is free could he just rerelease the code?
Linux is just plain fun. Sure, it's not great if you need to get a lot of work done, but it's an amazing teaching tool if you want to truly learn computers.
I only run Linux on my computer at home and I get things done at least as quickly/efficiently as with Windows. There's just a fairly steep learning curve if you are new to computers, and it's designed for programmers not end-users (not yet, at least).
As far as Gentoo goes, it's my favorite distribution by far. I use it on all my low-end servers for optimized performance, but my home computer runs Mandrake 9.1 because it installed without fuss and came with programs I would never dream of compiling (Gnome and all it's extensions and tools, OpenOffice, KDE libs, the countless random desktop tools I use).
Forget thinking about decent Linux drivers, they can't even get their Windows drivers straight. I laughed out of my chair when I read the news about ATI becoming a serious competitor with NVidia, and all the kids buying ATI Radeon cards. I've never seen so many driver incompatibility and random glitch/lockup problems at one LAN party in my life.
I'll keep my professionally developed accelerated X driver, thanks.
The DARPA project did not envision the Internet. They were creating a project to link military computers together long distances apart. This idea was expanded upon by researchers at universities to form what became "the Internet".
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Hoping for good ATI drivers for Linux? You must be living in a dream world. ATI hasn't written a single decent driver for ANY platform, let alone their secondary platform support. Every LAN party we have is cursed by the poor sap who read some review saying the new ATI Radeon has 3% faster performance and bought in to the worst supported cards ever made.
On a related note, does Age Of Mythology even support the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro? We messed with it for hours trying different patches, hacking the video card support files in the game, could NOT get it out of software mode. *Sigh*
I thought the rest of the majority was saying "the Mozilla team needs to think up a new name." From Phoenix to Firebird? Come on, that took about five minutes.
Actually it's more like Manufacturing: $0.25 -> Wholesale $4.50 -> Retail $5.95. I have 2002 pricebook listing the wholesale and suggested retail pricing from Games Workshop if you are interested. They are an evil evil corporation. Their main strong-arm tactic was to refuse sales to any business that also carried their main competitors product, cheaper knock-offs of the original GW figures. The local hobby stores were faced with discontinuing all GW products in favor of an alternative that only offered about half the product line. All the shops continued carrying the GW products and were met with a lot of confused looks when all the half-priced models that were so popular suddenly disappeared off the shelves.
Have you looked at the images of the soldering? There are two pairs of contacts to solder closed, with about a millimeter separating them. It's literally two drips of solder in the right spots; no wires. An infant (or even worse, your average consumer) could do this.
Why so focused on pirating games? I'm going to buy an XBox because of this, so I can turn my XBox in to a media center that plays DVDs, MP3s/OGGs/WAVs, DivX/Xvids/AVIs/MPEGs, view images and more with a nice remote to control it for $150. I can also work on the open source software myself and add my own changes in there.
I want a single interface to watch all the DVDs I buy, all the amateur skateboarding/snowboarding movies I make, listen to all the music CDs I buy, and look at all the pictures I take with my digital camera. Corporate America isn't able to come up with a solution that isn't completely bogus, and certainly not for under $200, so I'll build it myself. Two soldering points and a single ROM flash doesn't seem like too much work.
Personally I think OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) is ready for the corporate market. I've replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice in the small business network here and things are running smoother than ever. If only I could change the behavior of the tab key in Calc....
I think you meant Quicken. GnuCash was not intended to be, and never will be, a competitor for QuickBooks. While personal finances are great, there is nothing in Linux that can even come close to business accounting software like QuickBooks.
If you claim there are charges made on your card that weren't yours, you file a fraud claim. The card-issuing bank takes the fraud claim and contacts the store where the item(s) were purchased. If it was rang up as a credit card charge, they ask the store for a receipt for the transaction with a signature on it. If the store cannot provide a receipt with a signature that matches the cardholders signature, the store is liable and their merchant account is debited. If the signature matches, the cardholder is liable. If the transaction was rang up as a debit, a PIN must be entered correctly, and in that case the cardholder is again liable. The exception to the cardholder's liability in these two cases is if the card is found to actually be stolen before the date of the charges, and then the issuing bank absorbs the charges minus a $50 cardholder liability (some banks now have no liability).
The above is true to the best of my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong. I used to work for a company that wrote merchant account/credit card fraud screening software.
I'm assuming you are talking about the sentences of distribution or intent to distribute, unless you can point out a possession sentence that warrants years in jail. Distribution is a black market that subverts the economy, hence the harsh sentences. Is it fair? No. Don't pay taxes on your income and get ready to feel the wrath of God--err... law enforcement.
Lots of statistics rely on political surveys. I'm not sure if this allows all types of political calls, or possibly just non-biased ones such as surveys.
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They at least had a case to bring to court in DeCSS, that the tool (in the MPAA's mind) was designed for piracy. Unless you can figure out how OSS WiFi drivers are piracy I think this is legal.
Does everyone who went through the military computer simulator know about the infantry kangaroos?
Do you mean host bittorrents in Freenet (easy) or implement the bittorrent protocol over Freenet? As far as the latter goes, Freenet has it's own downloading protocol that is similar to BT in a lot of ways.
MLDonkey is like the overlord of p2p networks, with access to Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap, supporting multiple downloads, a backend daemon with multiple frontends (web-based, gui, etc). Kind of a pain to get up and running though.
http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/
I thought these chips could only be tracked from a few feet away? Either they implement a tracking network of scanners every five feet in all the aisles, or put more expensive transmitters in the products. I don't see how either way would be a cost effective method of security.
But they can release a signed bootloader on DVD. Stick in the bootloader, then your Linux live CD, similar to bootloaders for the Dreamcast.
Not going to happen.
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Changing tire sizes does change the accuracy of your speedometer, that's why tires with shorter sidewalls are generally used when upgrading to bigger rims. The speedometer can be recalibrated, but it's a very expensive process from what I gather. I'm not sure about the malfunctioning gauge law, but lots of modded cars aren't street legal anyways.
This is where IP law gets confusing to me. After his resignation from Nullsoft, could he make a few small changes to the code and rerelease under the GPL, copyrighted under his name? AOL might own WASTE 1.0 (or whatever it is) which was developed under Nullsoft/AOL contract, but now that he is free could he just rerelease the code?
"The human genome is estimated to have as few as 30-45,000 functional genes" - Imperial College London (http://www.ic.ac.uk/P3509.htm)
Where did you get your "couple quadzillion" number from?
Linux is just plain fun. Sure, it's not great if you need to get a lot of work done, but it's an amazing teaching tool if you want to truly learn computers.
I only run Linux on my computer at home and I get things done at least as quickly/efficiently as with Windows. There's just a fairly steep learning curve if you are new to computers, and it's designed for programmers not end-users (not yet, at least).
As far as Gentoo goes, it's my favorite distribution by far. I use it on all my low-end servers for optimized performance, but my home computer runs Mandrake 9.1 because it installed without fuss and came with programs I would never dream of compiling (Gnome and all it's extensions and tools, OpenOffice, KDE libs, the countless random desktop tools I use).
Forget thinking about decent Linux drivers, they can't even get their Windows drivers straight. I laughed out of my chair when I read the news about ATI becoming a serious competitor with NVidia, and all the kids buying ATI Radeon cards. I've never seen so many driver incompatibility and random glitch/lockup problems at one LAN party in my life.
I'll keep my professionally developed accelerated X driver, thanks.
The DARPA project did not envision the Internet. They were creating a project to link military computers together long distances apart. This idea was expanded upon by researchers at universities to form what became "the Internet".
Hoping for good ATI drivers for Linux? You must be living in a dream world. ATI hasn't written a single decent driver for ANY platform, let alone their secondary platform support. Every LAN party we have is cursed by the poor sap who read some review saying the new ATI Radeon has 3% faster performance and bought in to the worst supported cards ever made.
On a related note, does Age Of Mythology even support the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro? We messed with it for hours trying different patches, hacking the video card support files in the game, could NOT get it out of software mode. *Sigh*
I thought the rest of the majority was saying "the Mozilla team needs to think up a new name." From Phoenix to Firebird? Come on, that took about five minutes.
Actually it's more like Manufacturing: $0.25 -> Wholesale $4.50 -> Retail $5.95. I have 2002 pricebook listing the wholesale and suggested retail pricing from Games Workshop if you are interested. They are an evil evil corporation. Their main strong-arm tactic was to refuse sales to any business that also carried their main competitors product, cheaper knock-offs of the original GW figures. The local hobby stores were faced with discontinuing all GW products in favor of an alternative that only offered about half the product line. All the shops continued carrying the GW products and were met with a lot of confused looks when all the half-priced models that were so popular suddenly disappeared off the shelves.
Have you looked at the images of the soldering? There are two pairs of contacts to solder closed, with about a millimeter separating them. It's literally two drips of solder in the right spots; no wires. An infant (or even worse, your average consumer) could do this.
Why so focused on pirating games? I'm going to buy an XBox because of this, so I can turn my XBox in to a media center that plays DVDs, MP3s/OGGs/WAVs, DivX/Xvids/AVIs/MPEGs, view images and more with a nice remote to control it for $150. I can also work on the open source software myself and add my own changes in there.
I want a single interface to watch all the DVDs I buy, all the amateur skateboarding/snowboarding movies I make, listen to all the music CDs I buy, and look at all the pictures I take with my digital camera. Corporate America isn't able to come up with a solution that isn't completely bogus, and certainly not for under $200, so I'll build it myself. Two soldering points and a single ROM flash doesn't seem like too much work.
Personally I think OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) is ready for the corporate market. I've replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice in the small business network here and things are running smoother than ever. If only I could change the behavior of the tab key in Calc....
I think you meant Quicken. GnuCash was not intended to be, and never will be, a competitor for QuickBooks. While personal finances are great, there is nothing in Linux that can even come close to business accounting software like QuickBooks.
If you claim there are charges made on your card that weren't yours, you file a fraud claim. The card-issuing bank takes the fraud claim and contacts the store where the item(s) were purchased. If it was rang up as a credit card charge, they ask the store for a receipt for the transaction with a signature on it. If the store cannot provide a receipt with a signature that matches the cardholders signature, the store is liable and their merchant account is debited. If the signature matches, the cardholder is liable. If the transaction was rang up as a debit, a PIN must be entered correctly, and in that case the cardholder is again liable. The exception to the cardholder's liability in these two cases is if the card is found to actually be stolen before the date of the charges, and then the issuing bank absorbs the charges minus a $50 cardholder liability (some banks now have no liability). The above is true to the best of my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong. I used to work for a company that wrote merchant account/credit card fraud screening software.
I'm assuming you are talking about the sentences of distribution or intent to distribute, unless you can point out a possession sentence that warrants years in jail. Distribution is a black market that subverts the economy, hence the harsh sentences. Is it fair? No. Don't pay taxes on your income and get ready to feel the wrath of God--err... law enforcement.
Lots of statistics rely on political surveys. I'm not sure if this allows all types of political calls, or possibly just non-biased ones such as surveys.
Remote Laos villages get broadband before my suburbs. Come on I don't live THAT far out of town. :(
Yes, but you can buy a good paper shredder (the kind that dices it up into little squares) for pretty cheap these days.