Yes. I just built a terminal server at work. 5 legal remote desktop users = 450.00 - 500.00 dollars. And that is not counting the OS, which must be a Server OS, or the hardware. You are easily looking at 1500.00 - 2000.00 for a legal 5 user remote desktop.
Make a copy of Office available on the Remote Desktop...need a license for each user. You sneeze right, you need a license for that.
Now do a search to see if that product is legal. Well no, they are not. If you don't have a Remote Desktop User CAL for each user, it's in violation of Windows EULA. I just spent a lot of time researching this stuff.
You can even run thinstuff on XP. Works great. I tested it. Is it legal. No. On XP, you can't put in Remote Desktop CALs, so there is no way to make it legal, even if you used thingstuff and attempted to purchase legal CALs.
Being legal on windows is far too much hard work. It's only 1500-2000 if your time is free.
just use linux, it just works, there's no worries about whether you have a "license" to run it on the second Tuesday of the month etc.
The P in PC stands for personal. That means that it's in your control. These new devices are basically following the old mainframe model and the corporate managed IT model. They aren't PCs. They're PCs trying to pretend to be appliances.
The best comparison is to a Tivo.
Whether or not a piece of kit has a keyboard or monitor is really the least relevant thing. If you've got root, it's a PC. If you don't have root, then it's not a PC.
It's not the software that's important anymore, we have plenty of software like BSD and Linux that gives us freedom. The lockdown comes at the bootloader level on phones and tablets, and that's moving into the traditional desktop world. UEFI has the potential to signify the post-pc world.
Fortunately the Raspberry Pi has the potential to fix that.
Secure from what? The goal is not to secure you from a bootloader virus; I doubt that was discussed for more than five minutes while this system was being designed.
We had security from bootloader viruses in the 90s, every bios had an option to pop up a BIOS-level warning "Your boot sector is being re-written -- do you want to allow this (Y/N)"
So as a human out smart them. A buddy of mine did. he has a cover over his patio painted to look like his patio. you cant see what is going on from the sky and it looks as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Turn to military strategy to hide from your own government.
I agree with this completely. No matter how little you charge for something, some people will always pirate it. Hell, even if you give it away for free they'll still pirate it (if that makes sense).
What the MIAA needs to understand is that I want to be able to watch Game of Thrones at the same time as the US, without having to subscribe to 3 sports channels and 8 movie channels and I want to be able to download it from NetFlix, PSN, Love Film, Xbox etc.
I'm happy to rent the episode (as in, it expires after 24 hours), as long as it's reasonably priced (e.g. 1GBP for the SD version, 2GBP for the HD version.
They should just try it one day with something fairly popular just to see what happens.
Based on the.co.uk in your.sig and your use of GBP, I assume you're in the UK. You get Sky Atlantic as part of the basic "Sky Entertainment" package, no sport channels, no movie channels. I hold no sympathy.
Now, in the past, trying to keep up with Trek or Stargate, which lagged by 6-12 months in the UK, meant downloading was the only way to watch them. Sky have changed their policies, and the shows are now on a few hours/days after the u.s.
Futurama still suffers the same problem as U.S. tv in the late 90s, the dvd's for the second half of the first comedy-central version still wont be out for months.
Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.
With current day technology it's already possible to terraform Mars into a livable environment for humans.
In a 100 years or so, providing humanity survived that time, i'm fairly sure there will be permanent colonies there with a few hundred, maybe thousand people.
If we want to survive as a species, we need to go into space.
I'm fairly sure those colonies won't work on the western notions of captialism and democracy either, and they'll be mostly far-eastern. China is expanding it's colonial ambitions dramatically, look at how much of Africa they own, setting up military bases in the Indian ocean etc.
Space is an obvious extension. Unless China reaches the point of collapsing like America did towards the end of the 80s, I see them on Mars with a mostly self sufficient colony as soon as 2050.
For a moment I thought slashdot went passive-aggressive on Soviet cosmonautics.
The editors, and most contributors, are from a country that lacks a way to put a man in space and return him safely. Russia and China are the only players in the game at the moment, but this country (The USA -- just south of canada, used to be a great nation, now a snivelling shadow of it's former glory) used to be able to put people in space.
They've lost their former power and standing in the world, and some are bitter about it.
The UK's screwed up, but not half as much as the US.
Get back to us when the UK has free speech, let alone the right that lets you keep it.
Free speech in free speech zones?
When was the last time anyone in the U.S. used the 2nd ammemdment to defend the first? I see in the news plenty of people shooting fellow citizens for the wrong reasons, and very occasionally for self defence. I'm not sure where the NRA was when Or when U.S. citizens were prevented from exercising their inalienable writes to free speech, or when U.S. citizens were held without trial, or when U.S. citizens were subject to arbitrary search and siezure without a court order, or when U.S. citizens were denied a trial by a jury of their peers.
I guess the gun nuts are doing a good job at defending the 3rd amendment though.
I've traveled a bit myself, 45 countries (but not Russia). The nearly universal advice I'm given in each country is to keep my passport locked up in the hotel safe during a stay. I have never had my papers checked except when entering or leaving a country or making a transaction that requires identification. In those cases, I knew enough to have my passport with me. I do carry a photocopy of the 1st two pages of my passport just in case I am stopped, but have never had to use it.
A photocopy is a very good idea, I [as a Brit] travel to a fair number of countries too, including Russia. Never been asked for my passport aside from when checking in to hotels (In Russia they take it away for a couple of hours to register you. In Israel I think it's just hotel policy to photocopy it. The U.S. seems to be hit and miss, some hotels want to see it, some don't)
I tend to carry my passport on me though. Passport, phone, wallet, and address + phone of our local office and the local embassy (even when I'm on holiday I know I, or any close family member, can pop into our local office and get help)
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
I await your response.
Future descendants of cats may or may not teach mathematics; intelligence is not a directed goal of evolution. Nice try, but your oversimplification didn't win me over to the "goddidit" side.
They'll only be interested in counting the number of suits they own
It's no different than companies tracking workers who drive company-owned vehicles. There are many legitimate reasons to do this. Companies that do repair household appliance repair, or telecom technicians are tracked in order to give customers updated time estimates of when the employee will arrive.
I was in Baghdad a few years ago, had an app on my blackberry which ran in the background and turned on the microphone and alerted the safety team immediately if my phone left a certain area.
This smells of the war against terror. There are actually very few pieces of malware out in circulation which rely on rootkits invoked by the bootloader. It's something which we haven't really seen much of since the viruses of the DOS days. I'd rather take my chances with the malware than have the liberties of doing what I want with my computer taken away.
Back in those days, you could set your bios to pop up a bios-level warning when the bootloader was overwritten. Updating lilo? Sure, up pops the message, and away you go. Running "funscreensaver.exe"? Press No.
Diplomatic immunity is not what it used to be. I am sure the UK is perfectly willing to risk a diplomatic "incident" with Ecuador in order to roll over some more for the US. After all when you're in so far, what does a little further matter?
The UK has no interest in rolling over to the US, otherwise it would have done so already.
The U.S want Wikileaks discredited and destoryed. They've damaged it with their apparently illegal financial blockade, and they're letting the Swedes discredit Assange, and wikileaks by proxy.
They won't risk the PR over a normal extradition attempt, let alone an Israeli-style kidnapping.
It makes him look guilty of the "not wearing a condom" charge. He should just go face the trial, especially since there's no way they can prove he's guilty (it's just her word vs. his).
Yep, it was a 50-year-old men. People in that demographic are infamous for avoiding medical treatment until it's too late.
That is because by the time we are that old, we know that most doctors don't actually know as much as they think (meaning they tend to guess alot), and don't want to pay the high price for that.
Why? What's wrong with Disney princesses? Did little boys who wanted/Miami Vice/ lunch boxes really want to be undercover narcotics agents with stupid clothing and bad hair?
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Yes. I just built a terminal server at work. 5 legal remote desktop users = 450.00 - 500.00 dollars. And that is not counting the OS, which must be a Server OS, or the hardware. You are easily looking at 1500.00 - 2000.00 for a legal 5 user remote desktop.
Make a copy of Office available on the Remote Desktop...need a license for each user. You sneeze right, you need a license for that.
There are several dirt cheap Citrix-like products: Check out http://www.thinstuff.com/
Now do a search to see if that product is legal. Well no, they are not. If you don't have a Remote Desktop User CAL for each user, it's in violation of Windows EULA. I just spent a lot of time researching this stuff.
You can even run thinstuff on XP. Works great. I tested it. Is it legal. No. On XP, you can't put in Remote Desktop CALs, so there is no way to make it legal, even if you used thingstuff and attempted to purchase legal CALs.
Being legal on windows is far too much hard work. It's only 1500-2000 if your time is free.
just use linux, it just works, there's no worries about whether you have a "license" to run it on the second Tuesday of the month etc.
The P in PC stands for personal. That means that it's in your control. These new devices are basically following the old mainframe model and the corporate managed IT model. They aren't PCs. They're PCs trying to pretend to be appliances.
The best comparison is to a Tivo.
Whether or not a piece of kit has a keyboard or monitor is really the least relevant thing. If you've got root, it's a PC. If you don't have root, then it's not a PC.
It's not the software that's important anymore, we have plenty of software like BSD and Linux that gives us freedom. The lockdown comes at the bootloader level on phones and tablets, and that's moving into the traditional desktop world. UEFI has the potential to signify the post-pc world.
Fortunately the Raspberry Pi has the potential to fix that.
I bet Facebook IPO investors didn't know they were investing in this.
Yes, their money's being spent on something tangible, which has a good chance of ROI!
If the only thing keeping this secure
Secure from what? The goal is not to secure you from a bootloader virus; I doubt that was discussed for more than five minutes while this system was being designed.
We had security from bootloader viruses in the 90s, every bios had an option to pop up a BIOS-level warning "Your boot sector is being re-written -- do you want to allow this (Y/N)"
That went away for some reason.
So as a human out smart them. A buddy of mine did. he has a cover over his patio painted to look like his patio. you cant see what is going on from the sky and it looks as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Turn to military strategy to hide from your own government.
Is it made of tinfoil?
* Drop all swim tests and needed PE classes.
I thought we were talking about university? What kind of place (post-16) even offers "PE classes", let alone enforces them
I agree with this completely. No matter how little you charge for something, some people will always pirate it. Hell, even if you give it away for free they'll still pirate it (if that makes sense).
What the MIAA needs to understand is that I want to be able to watch Game of Thrones at the same time as the US, without having to subscribe to 3 sports channels and 8 movie channels and I want to be able to download it from NetFlix, PSN, Love Film, Xbox etc.
I'm happy to rent the episode (as in, it expires after 24 hours), as long as it's reasonably priced (e.g. 1GBP for the SD version, 2GBP for the HD version.
They should just try it one day with something fairly popular just to see what happens.
Based on the .co.uk in your .sig and your use of GBP, I assume you're in the UK. You get Sky Atlantic as part of the basic "Sky Entertainment" package, no sport channels, no movie channels. I hold no sympathy.
Now, in the past, trying to keep up with Trek or Stargate, which lagged by 6-12 months in the UK, meant downloading was the only way to watch them. Sky have changed their policies, and the shows are now on a few hours/days after the u.s.
Futurama still suffers the same problem as U.S. tv in the late 90s, the dvd's for the second half of the first comedy-central version still wont be out for months.
But yesterday I went out and there was lots of beautiful and cute girls and people spending time outside in the summer.
You obviously don't live in the southern hemisphere.
Or the UK.
The Supreme Court elected W as our president.
In 2004?
I for one would love a politician leather coat. Do I get to select the politician it is made from?
Far too slippery for my taste
The thing about smart people is that they're never 100% sure of anything. They think too much for that.
Are you sure about that?
Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
With current day technology it's already possible to terraform Mars into a livable environment for humans.
In a 100 years or so, providing humanity survived that time, i'm fairly sure there will be permanent colonies there with a few hundred, maybe thousand people.
If we want to survive as a species, we need to go into space.
I'm fairly sure those colonies won't work on the western notions of captialism and democracy either, and they'll be mostly far-eastern. China is expanding it's colonial ambitions dramatically, look at how much of Africa they own, setting up military bases in the Indian ocean etc.
Space is an obvious extension. Unless China reaches the point of collapsing like America did towards the end of the 80s, I see them on Mars with a mostly self sufficient colony as soon as 2050.
For a moment I thought slashdot went passive-aggressive on Soviet cosmonautics.
The editors, and most contributors, are from a country that lacks a way to put a man in space and return him safely. Russia and China are the only players in the game at the moment, but this country (The USA -- just south of canada, used to be a great nation, now a snivelling shadow of it's former glory) used to be able to put people in space.
They've lost their former power and standing in the world, and some are bitter about it.
The UK's screwed up, but not half as much as the US.
Get back to us when the UK has free speech, let alone the right that lets you keep it.
Free speech in free speech zones?
When was the last time anyone in the U.S. used the 2nd ammemdment to defend the first? I see in the news plenty of people shooting fellow citizens for the wrong reasons, and very occasionally for self defence. I'm not sure where the NRA was when Or when U.S. citizens were prevented from exercising their inalienable writes to free speech, or when U.S. citizens were held without trial, or when U.S. citizens were subject to arbitrary search and siezure without a court order, or when U.S. citizens were denied a trial by a jury of their peers.
I guess the gun nuts are doing a good job at defending the 3rd amendment though.
Would this mean it would be much easier for me (from the UK) to leave this screwed up country and move to the states?
The UK's screwed up, but not half as much as the US.
I've traveled a bit myself, 45 countries (but not Russia). The nearly universal advice I'm given in each country is to keep my passport locked up in the hotel safe during a stay. I have never had my papers checked except when entering or leaving a country or making a transaction that requires identification. In those cases, I knew enough to have my passport with me. I do carry a photocopy of the 1st two pages of my passport just in case I am stopped, but have never had to use it.
A photocopy is a very good idea, I [as a Brit] travel to a fair number of countries too, including Russia. Never been asked for my passport aside from when checking in to hotels (In Russia they take it away for a couple of hours to register you. In Israel I think it's just hotel policy to photocopy it. The U.S. seems to be hit and miss, some hotels want to see it, some don't)
I tend to carry my passport on me though. Passport, phone, wallet, and address + phone of our local office and the local embassy (even when I'm on holiday I know I, or any close family member, can pop into our local office and get help)
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
I await your response.
Future descendants of cats may or may not teach mathematics; intelligence is not a directed goal of evolution. Nice try, but your oversimplification didn't win me over to the "goddidit" side.
They'll only be interested in counting the number of suits they own
It's no different than companies tracking workers who drive company-owned vehicles. There are many legitimate reasons to do this. Companies that do repair household appliance repair, or telecom technicians are tracked in order to give customers updated time estimates of when the employee will arrive.
I was in Baghdad a few years ago, had an app on my blackberry which ran in the background and turned on the microphone and alerted the safety team immediately if my phone left a certain area.
All for that type of tracking.
This smells of the war against terror. There are actually very few pieces of malware out in circulation which rely on rootkits invoked by the bootloader. It's something which we haven't really seen much of since the viruses of the DOS days. I'd rather take my chances with the malware than have the liberties of doing what I want with my computer taken away.
Back in those days, you could set your bios to pop up a bios-level warning when the bootloader was overwritten. Updating lilo? Sure, up pops the message, and away you go. Running "funscreensaver.exe"? Press No.
You don't seem to get that any more.
Diplomatic immunity is not what it used to be. I am sure the UK is perfectly willing to risk a diplomatic "incident" with Ecuador in order to roll over some more for the US. After all when you're in so far, what does a little further matter?
The UK has no interest in rolling over to the US, otherwise it would have done so already.
The U.S want Wikileaks discredited and destoryed. They've damaged it with their apparently illegal financial blockade, and they're letting the Swedes discredit Assange, and wikileaks by proxy.
They won't risk the PR over a normal extradition attempt, let alone an Israeli-style kidnapping.
It makes him look guilty of the "not wearing a condom" charge. He should just go face the trial, especially since there's no way they can prove he's guilty (it's just her word vs. his).
What trial? He's not been charged with anything.
Yep, it was a 50-year-old men. People in that demographic are infamous for avoiding medical treatment until it's too late.
That is because by the time we are that old, we know that most doctors don't actually know as much as they think (meaning they tend to guess alot), and don't want to pay the high price for that.
What a strange country the U.S. is
TFA mentions Canada.
I say tomato, you say tomato
I say potato, you say potato
Why? What's wrong with Disney princesses? Did little boys who wanted /Miami Vice/ lunch boxes really want to be undercover narcotics agents with stupid clothing and bad hair?
Well I'm 2 out of 3