Have 2 rooms in a library with internet terminals.
Anyone can go in the censored room.
To get into the uncensored room a person must have a photo id that indicates that they are old enough to drink. Subsidize the library with a bar in the uncensored room.
The only problem to be overcome is beer spills in the keyboards.
In this article in The Register It is mentioned that this is a one time registration. The OS is not going to regularly phone home to check the registration.
Once a cracker has gotten access to your Hard Disk he/she could probably change the registry to indicate that the product was unregistered, however, del *.* would save time. If anyone gets that far then you probably have bigger problems then the Product Activation feature.
By the way less than 24 hours after the release of WinXP 2446 the Product Activation has been cracked.
This is insane. How is a restaraunt owner going to stop the jamming signal at the door and walls of his premises. The guy next door with a cell phone store may not be pleased. If I'm on my cell phone calling my stock broker and my cell phone cuts out before he hears my frantic order to SELL VA Linux can I sue the restaraunteur for my losses? If I'm running from a georgous blond woman that want's to rape me and my 911 call doesn't go through...hmmm I might be able to live with that one. However, most women will be much more worried.
The only use for a jammer that I could justify is on stretches of the 400 series highways that are monitored by the COMPASS system. The RESCU cameras reduce the need for 911 calls and the reduction of idiots on the phone will save lives.
I guess the Chinese Communists are our only remaining viable hope for a space program that can prevent the human race from dying out the same way the dinosaurs did.
The U.S. Government is taking from the programs that would have saved the poor workers from meteoric destruction so that they can give money to the upper class and secure future campaign contributions.
Is it time for American Revolution 2.0
Actually a Gates is involved so that should probably be MS Americain Revolution XP
The scary thing is that although I am writing this drivel tounge in cheek, I'm not sure I'm that far off reality.
There, they are told specifically why they were kicked off Napster and offered copyright-protected versions of the Orbison songs, which cost less than a dollar. These specially encrypted versions can be sent to other users, but they can be played just twice, at which point a message invites them to buy a copy.
What is to prevent someone from creating a client that will save the original file in a backup. Play it once then restore from backup. How can they protect against a bitwise copy?
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Have 2 rooms in a library with internet terminals.
Anyone can go in the censored room.
To get into the uncensored room a person must have a photo id that indicates that they are old enough to drink. Subsidize the library with a bar in the uncensored room.
The only problem to be overcome is beer spills in the keyboards.
I thought you installed the batteries.
"Whatever happened to the right of the people to be secure in their ... papers..., against unreasonable searches and seizures?"
IP messages are not transmitted on paper unless you use RFC1149.
I'm thinking self cooling beer can's.
On second thought throw in the chips.
I want to play quake on a self cooling beer can.
Build a creature out of dead body parts.
Igor, get me the brains.
Microsoft is obviously holding this patent in reserve for the next time the results of a poll don't favor Microsoft.
For example when /. publishes the following poll:
Favorite OS:
Windows 2000 2%
CP/M 20%
Linux 50%
xxxBSD 50%
Cowboy Neal 75%
Microsoft could have the poll removed because it infringed on their patent.
Then they would embrace and extend Cowboy Neal
Modded this up as Insightful then later hit the moderate button to find to my suprise that I had modded it down.
In the next version of / I think a confirmation feature (i.e. Are you Sure or On crack? (S/O) would be an improvement)
Anyways I'm posting this comment to undo the mod.
I wan't a computer that I can beat at chess
I still haven't upgraded from my Vic 20
Once a cracker has gotten access to your Hard Disk he/she could probably change the registry to indicate that the product was unregistered, however, del *.* would save time. If anyone gets that far then you probably have bigger problems then the Product Activation feature.
By the way less than 24 hours after the release of WinXP 2446 the Product Activation has been cracked.
Everyone will be required by law to use only and MS/MPAA/RIAA approved device.
This device will be called the Xbox.
Might work; if you can figure out how to build a Faraday cage around a 100 year old theatre.
This is insane. How is a restaraunt owner going to stop the jamming signal at the door and walls of his premises. The guy next door with a cell phone store may not be pleased. If I'm on my cell phone calling my stock broker and my cell phone cuts out before he hears my frantic order to SELL VA Linux can I sue the restaraunteur for my losses? If I'm running from a georgous blond woman that want's to rape me and my 911 call doesn't go through ...hmmm I might be able to live with that one. However, most women will be much more worried.
The only use for a jammer that I could justify is on stretches of the 400 series highways that are monitored by the COMPASS system. The RESCU cameras reduce the need for 911 calls and the reduction of idiots on the phone will save lives.
I had planned to earn millions of $ by suing Anonymous Coward for emotional damage caused by goatse.cx posts.
could earn you a Darwin Award
4x4 SUV 's will be replaced by AT AT's
For those who miss blue screens.
Now you can get them while running linux applications.
You haven't tried my wife's baking.
By the way why is the FAA stupid enough to allow flight controls to be attached to the net?
How unoriginal is copying the privacy protection features of the Pentium III?
I guess the Chinese Communists are our only remaining viable hope for a space program that can prevent the human race from dying out the same way the dinosaurs did.
The U.S. Government is taking from the programs that would have saved the poor workers from meteoric destruction so that they can give money to the upper class and secure future campaign contributions.
Is it time for American Revolution 2.0
Actually a Gates is involved so that should probably be MS Americain Revolution XP
The scary thing is that although I am writing this drivel tounge in cheek, I'm not sure I'm that far off reality.
Let's see what happens when I try this liquid oxyge...
Ok so those people unlucky enough to live in the USA are SOL
Fortunately I am not one of those that have to live with th inane US Govt.
I only have to put up with the inane Government of Canada.
This idea just in:
Do they use encryption and a proprietary client?
There, they are told specifically why they were kicked off Napster and offered copyright-protected versions of the Orbison songs, which cost less than a dollar. These specially encrypted versions can be sent to other users, but they can be played just twice, at which point a message invites them to buy a copy.
What is to prevent someone from creating a client that will save the original file in a backup. Play it once then restore from backup. How can they protect against a bitwise copy?
Any Ideas?
That's still much better than:
2000 ---> XP
or
98 ---> ME ---> XP
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