Right now there is a choice as to which company you give you information to. Therefore a choice to what is done with the information you provide.
Also, as far as I know, there are some companies that do not sell your information. But generally, the larger companies always like to, and those are the only people that might be running these free services.
Does this mean that other free services will soon be dropping like flies as well?
Since the main requirement for providing a free service is that you ALREADY have money to work with, I can see some of the larger companies taking over providing free services.
We all know what most large companies like to do with personal information these days. Sell Sell Sell.
Read the article - "Now MP3.com has negotiated licenses with each of the five major record companies and the group that represents most music publishers. To pay the royalties under those licenses, MP3.com will not only charge its users but will also sell the data it compiles on their musical tastes."
That doesn't say that mp3.com is having trouble paying for the bandwidth and server space, it says they have to PAY the RECORDING INDUSTRY.
Do you have any more info on this?
It would be cool to print a bill like that and show it to the people who complain to me that making cds out of mp3s is illegal.;)
As with alot of windows security features, it is probably bug laden enough so that someone could easily bypass the protection.
Even more so if it's an option that you can enable and disable.
If microsoft will be the only entity signing applications, don't they have to perform they're own security auditing to make sure the program doesn't have a back door? Or will you just have to pay microsoft enough money and they will sign anything?
Lets start a fund to get the most common windows trojans signed by microsoft.
It is the same case here, in Victoria, BC. For adsl we are forced to use one of two companies, both of which limit up stream bandwidth.
With cable there is only one choice (shaw) who have alot of uptime problems.
Same things, but not by the same entity.
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About 2/3 of the way through he lists 7 reasons why Mac OS X is an operating system. All these reasons are that apple had taken the time to create their own programs, whether or not the programs are any good, just the fact that apple created them and included them with Mac OS X makes it an operating system.
Unix and its variants have the same programs that he is talking about, and AFAIK they are bundled with the kernel as well. The only difference is that the utilitys are not created by a single entity, and according to the author, if everything was not created by a single company or group of people, then it is not an operating system.
Operating System is just that, a system that operates, it does not have anything to do with who made the software.
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GLV: Turning that 60 inch inch projection tv into something more than a floor space eating monster.
Right now there is a choice as to which company you give you information to. Therefore a choice to what is done with the information you provide.
Also, as far as I know, there are some companies that do not sell your information. But generally, the larger companies always like to, and those are the only people that might be running these free services.
Does this mean that other free services will soon be dropping like flies as well?
Since the main requirement for providing a free service is that you ALREADY have money to work with, I can see some of the larger companies taking over providing free services.
We all know what most large companies like to do with personal information these days. Sell Sell Sell.
Read the article - "Now MP3.com has negotiated licenses with each of the five major record companies and the group that represents most music publishers. To pay the royalties under those licenses, MP3.com will not only charge its users but will also sell the data it compiles on their musical tastes."
That doesn't say that mp3.com is having trouble paying for the bandwidth and server space, it says they have to PAY the RECORDING INDUSTRY.
Do you have any more info on this? ;)
It would be cool to print a bill like that and show it to the people who complain to me that making cds out of mp3s is illegal.
I miss it.
I think there should be a campaign to put ads in popular magazines and other forms of media telling people about their rights.
The companies have been very succesful in keeping the public from knowing about their rights. I think it's time to educate.
I wonder if his family knows about his contributions, if they don't, someone should tell them, so they know that his work is still in use today.
Although, I feel a bit creepy using something coded by a man that is now dead.
Anyone know how many other programs we use daily that were developed by people that are now dead?
As with alot of windows security features, it is probably bug laden enough so that someone could easily bypass the protection.
Even more so if it's an option that you can enable and disable.
If microsoft will be the only entity signing applications, don't they have to perform they're own security auditing to make sure the program doesn't have a back door? Or will you just have to pay microsoft enough money and they will sign anything?
Lets start a fund to get the most common windows trojans signed by microsoft.
It is the same case here, in Victoria, BC. For adsl we are forced to use one of two companies, both of which limit up stream bandwidth.
With cable there is only one choice (shaw) who have alot of uptime problems.
About 2/3 of the way through he lists 7 reasons why Mac OS X is an operating system. All these reasons are that apple had taken the time to create their own programs, whether or not the programs are any good, just the fact that apple created them and included them with Mac OS X makes it an operating system. Unix and its variants have the same programs that he is talking about, and AFAIK they are bundled with the kernel as well. The only difference is that the utilitys are not created by a single entity, and according to the author, if everything was not created by a single company or group of people, then it is not an operating system. Operating System is just that, a system that operates, it does not have anything to do with who made the software.