Maybe now people can start removing country code blocks. It's kind of sad having to block off countries due to spam and it would be nice to be able to turn this off.
MS won't stop until we actually PUNISH them... perhaps a $20 billion fine would help?
That's not going to help. Gates will just write a cheque for $20B and that would be it. Guess who is going to have to make up that $20B? It's going to be suckers like you and me who (have to) buy Microsoft software.
The only solution is to make Microsoft distribute enough information about their protocols and file formats to allow open source and commercial competition.
The EU could have done this but they got greedy and fucked it up.
I think the point here is implementing another complex protocol is going to be a security risk. If you can use an existing framework for distributing files then you have already removed a source of security problems.
Its good to see that someone sees the legal side of file-sharing comunities. Im getting fed up by people who say things like "Direct Connect/Kazaa/many other things is illegal!". No.... it depends on what you use it for. This may open people's eyes, and make them see the posibilities of filesharing networks. In my opinion, using it for distributing demos and such is a great way to take advantages of such technologies.
This story is just asking for a frosty piss joke to be made!
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I like to use a good, old fashioned cistern, a big bucket to collect rain water, for many uses that don't involve ingestion. Why buy "bottled water" to spray across your lawn/plants? Hell, your plants even like it if it's a bit, ummmm, shitty.
It's not such a good idea to use black water on your garden, especially on plants intended for human consumption and is probably illegal wherever you live.
I was talking with a neighbour about grey water and he pointed out that in general we take water quality for granted unless there is an outbreak of some horrible water-borne illness, which is the point behind the various planning laws to do with grey and black water usage.
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As an aside, there's one place in Melbourne (Aus) that has no water bill. None. Zero. Zip. They were actually investigated pretty thoroughly when this happened, because authorities assumed they were stealing water from their neighbours. Not so, though; they were just very efficient with their water use and recycling, and were able to fill their needs from stormwater.
That sounds very cool, although in Canberra at least you still have to pay a "network availability charge" even if your water supply is disconnected. )-:
Yeah and the audio-cock technology is just such a classic line to use when someone suggests something stupid.
Whenever a programmer thinks, "Hey, skins, what a cool idea", their computer's speakers should create some sort of cock-shaped soundwave and plunge it repeatedly through their skulls.
They weren't the Stock promoters yelling buy buy buy when a company couldn't possibly justify the price outside some "New Economy" voodoo. They weren't business school drop-out and two-bit hucksters who decided they wanted to get rich off the whole DotCom scam, who hired freinds into VP jobs they weren't qualified for, who took management off-sites to exotic locations so they could "think outside the box".
Er, that just about sums up the dot com boom for me!
The EULA seems to craftily say you can use 'SCO IP' without actually saying whether there is any SCO IP in the kernel or exactly what it is.
From the EULA:
"SCO IP" shall mean the SCO intellectual property included in its UNIX-based Code in Object Code format licensed by SCO under SCO's standard commercial license.
and a bit further down:
"UNIX-based Code" shall mean any Code or Method that: (i) in its literal or non-literal expression, structure, format, use, functionality or adaptation (ii) is based on, developed in, derived from or is similar to (iii) any Code contained in or Method devised or developed in (iv) UNIX System V or UnixWare(R), or (v) any modification or derivative work based on or licensed under UNIX System V or UnixWare.
finally:
Provided You comply fully with this Grant of Rights and Obligations, SCO will not consider such use of the SCO IP licensed by You under this Agreement to be in violation of SCO's intellectual property ownership or rights.
I sold a large number of my textbooks after finishing the course to someone in the year below me for 1/2 price. I was happy to get some cash back and the buyer was happy to save so much money.
What you have to remember is there is no way you are going to be using any of those books again so why keep them? Trust me - I have been working for 10 years and have had very little need to look at those compsci and engineering textbooks. If you do need to look at them go to the library, get work to buy it, or call up a friend you did the course with. Chances are their copies of the texts are taking up shelf space or in their garage.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Itanium is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Itanium community when IDC confirmed that Itanium market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Itanium has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Itanium is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Itanium's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Itanium faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Itanium because Itanium is dying. Things are looking very bad for Itanium. As many of us are already aware, Itanium continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Itanium 1 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Itanium 1 developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Itanium 1 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Hewlett-Packard, abysmal sales and so on, Itanium1 went out of business and was taken over by Itanium 2 who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Itanium has steadily declined in market share. Itanium is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Itanium is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Itanium continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Itanium is dead.
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Try reading at -1 more often.
You're new here aren't you?
Also read about stop -loss orders on how you can limit your losses.
"There is no such thing as a sure thing" is also a cool paradox. (-:
Poland has gun control.
Heh.
Maybe now people can start removing country code blocks. It's kind of sad having to block off countries due to spam and it would be nice to be able to turn this off.
See the recent slashdot story, Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail
The only solution is to make Microsoft distribute enough information about their protocols and file formats to allow open source and commercial competition.
The EU could have done this but they got greedy and fucked it up.
I think the point here is implementing another complex protocol is going to be a security risk. If you can use an existing framework for distributing files then you have already removed a source of security problems.
If only I had written my first post program with performance in mind I could have not failed it!
Its good to see that someone sees the legal side of file-sharing comunities. Im getting fed up by people who say things like "Direct Connect/Kazaa/many other things is illegal!". No.... it depends on what you use it for. This may open people's eyes, and make them see the posibilities of filesharing networks. In my opinion, using it for distributing demos and such is a great way to take advantages of such technologies.
This story is just asking for a frosty piss joke to be made!
It's not such a good idea to use black water on your garden, especially on plants intended for human consumption and is probably illegal wherever you live.
I was talking with a neighbour about grey water and he pointed out that in general we take water quality for granted unless there is an outbreak of some horrible water-borne illness, which is the point behind the various planning laws to do with grey and black water usage.
I'm bored - Episode I bored.
Insightful my arse. Do you even know what SELinux is?
I read this book.
Go back to fortran programming. You are obviously much better at it than GPL speculation and slashdot trolling.
You can't trust this!
I sold a large number of my textbooks after finishing the course to someone in the year below me for 1/2 price. I was happy to get some cash back and the buyer was happy to save so much money.
What you have to remember is there is no way you are going to be using any of those books again so why keep them? Trust me - I have been working for 10 years and have had very little need to look at those compsci and engineering textbooks. If you do need to look at them go to the library, get work to buy it, or call up a friend you did the course with. Chances are their copies of the texts are taking up shelf space or in their garage.
Yeah I have to say that is pretty suprising. (-:
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Itanium is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Itanium
community when IDC confirmed that Itanium market share has dropped yet
again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all
servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly
states that Itanium has lost more market share, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. Itanium is collapsing in
complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last
[samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Itanium's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: Itanium faces a bleak
future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Itanium because
Itanium is dying. Things are looking very bad for Itanium. As many of
us are already aware, Itanium continues to lose market share. Red ink
flows like a river of blood.
Itanium 1 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its
core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
Itanium 1 developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to
underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt:
Itanium 1 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Hewlett-Packard, abysmal sales and so on,
Itanium1 went out of business and was taken over by Itanium 2 who sell
another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to
yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Itanium has steadily declined in market
share. Itanium is very sick and its long term survival prospects are
very dim. If Itanium is to survive at all it will be among OS
dilettante dabblers. Itanium continues to decay. Nothing short of a
miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical
purposes, Itanium is dead.
Fact: Itanium is dying