Only thing I would add is that even if you have to pay for software for a particular task, the price is typically cheap (under $50 most of the time, under $25 frequently). And of higher quality than equivalent Windows software (especially the spyware ridden crap that most Windows freeware is.)
Oh and ThinkFree Office is a decent Office replacement that doesn't need X11, but is resonable priced. NisusWriter is a good word processor as well, also pretty decently priced.
No, because the most common reason for stealing a car (other than joyrides) is to part the car out and sell the parts to autoshops. There are several cars (the Toyota Camray) that are worth more in pieces than as a whole car. A super custom stereo would just be an extra benefit.
And cars weren't so common in the days of Model T's. so stealing, hiding one, and getting rid of it was probably much more difficult (not to mention that you assume they weren't stolen very often, without statistics to back it up.) Also, Model T's were significantly louder than today's cars, perhaps merely starting one was enough of a car alarm.
Exactly. Everybody jumped on DRM as the problem, it is a problem but it isn't the problem with HDMI. HDCP is DRM on top of HDMI. And no, HDMI was NOT designed from the ground up with DRM in mind, DRM was hacked on in response to complaints from content owners. Proof of this? The damn signals are still just DVI in a new plug. This is why DVI to HDMI adapters are cheap.
And anyone that claims a particular digital solution prevents DRM from being used is full of crap, any digital signal can have DRM added to it, you just need manufacturers of equipment on each end of the signal to agree to it.
I like HDMI connectors because they're small and don't need to be screwed in like DVI. I dislike combining audio and video since I usually separate the two, but I've still separated the two on my devices so no loss to me that the cable can carry both. If I ever upgrade to an HDMI capable A/V receiver I may even like running the fewer cables.
I dislike having to buy cables off the internet to get cheap ones. All the brick and mortar stores seem to just carry crap cables for $90.
HDCP should be thrown away. It does nothing to protect content and just causes problems with poor implementations.
"Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' infringes an interface patent relating to the OS's nearly universal use of tabs."
What the heck? I sit here on a Mac mini running Tiger. Only Safari has tabs, and that only occured after a LOT of bitching from users. Where is the universal use of tabs at? I had to install Path Finder to get a tabbed finder interface.
Not one of the iLife applications uses tabs. iTunes, no tabs. Mail, no tabs. iCal, Address Book, no tabs. Even XCode, no tabs.
i typically use VPN to make one connection to the office, then open all the connections I need from there. I don't have to deal with 15 separate sessions across VPN so speed is better and if I lose my connection to the office I just have to reconnect one session to pick up where I left off.
Linux is a very large kernel, it's made usuable in an embedded environment by throwing out everything not needed. Linux is embedded in some very small devices. Same with OS X, just throw out all the bits not needed and it gets very small. Searching on embedded BSD turns up quite a bit showing. Why waste development effort on two operating systems instead of focusing on one?
No, if it were Linux it would be covered by GPL. Distribution on embedded devices still counts as distribution, they would have to make any kernel changes available. TiVo is required, and does, make it's kernel changes available for this reason.
copyright isn't media specific. Your rights to using audio clips is exactly the same as using printed lines. He used short audio clips highlighting his point and provided commentary on those audio snippets.
If the goal is to create a zombie machine used to send spam then this exploit is perfectly valid, OS X will allow a user level account to send e-mail without further modifications to the OS. If the goal is dump all a user's files looking for a document that might be chock full of social security numbers or back accounts (as several recently stolen laptops have been) this is also a valid exploit.
I have a blackberry and don't do a lot of this crap. I turned off all notifications for incoming mail, except true emergency messages (server outages). This pretty much keeps me from checking the thing all the time. Although I'm an e-mail junkie at work, i only check the blackberry outside of work a couple of times.
Because if they don't do this they lose their trademark, and once their trademark is gone anyone can use the term Google, for the name of another search engine even. At that point all that great publicity is worthless.
Ask the original makers of aspirin how all the great publicity for the word aspirin is working out for them now.
forms (comment or otherwise) shouldn't trust input from users, javascript & html should be filtered out.
RSS feeds shouldn't trust input from other systems, javascript & html should be filtered out.
or to simplify, no program should trust input of any type (user input, data from files, data from databases) validate and filter it before using it. If it isn't a cross-script problem it's a buffer overflow problem.
If engineers signed off on the use of the epoxy for the panel supports then those engineers are at fault. Engineers don't hand off designs to construction crews and wipe their hands of it from then on. They have to approve changes in the design and do their own inspections of the construction to make sure it meets the design.
This has always been the case in the US. You need a receipt of purchase to prove licensing, not a COA or the original box or the CDs. Proof of purchase only.
>The minute some supposed "authority" decides whether something should be printed or not, it is censorship.
No. A publisher rejecting a manuscript is not censorship. A website deciding an article is inappropriate for it's particular site is not censorship.
An entity saying "this information should not appear anywhere" is censorship. An entity arresting someone for what they say is censorship.
The wiki software is available for download. Anyone unhappy with what appears on wikipedia can setup their own site. Wikipedia isn't saying no one can have info on these people on their own sites, they are saying they don't want it on their site.
they didn't request all e-mails from google. All emails for one account. If the person they're looking at had e-mails on yahoo or hotmail then they probably did request them.
mars warming seems to be mainly caused by a decrease in the huge dust storms it has. These storms typically reflect sunlight. If you have a year with few storms the temp can increase by a great deal.
you need encrypted transport. Encrypting the contents of an e-mail and using standard SMTP doesn't hide who the e-mail is going to (needed for envelope to ensure delivery) nor does it hide where it came from (IP's added to envelope headers by SMTP server, plus unencrypted from address)
Using SSL would prevent interception between endpoints, but if the ISP at the end offers the e-mail after the SSL connection then the sender/receiver would be known.
Note that the original only asks for header info anyway.
no, for reassurance the person should hold the paper receipt and drop it in the box themselves. That's the way most balloting systems (with paper) work these days. Even the punch cards we use here, we put the punch card in an paper folder and drop it in a container.
I'm assuming current counter-measures against ballot box stuffing are sufficient from someone printing up a couple of thousand fake votes and putting them in the box.
This doesn't seem to always be practical. For example I'd like to have an RFID card to open the locks on my door, but I don't want that bleeding out as I walk around. I can't leave the card at home. Credit cards are moving towards embedded RFID too. I guess you could forgo credit cards, but if you don't want to then it would be nice to block the chips.
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Only thing I would add is that even if you have to pay for software for a particular task, the price is typically cheap (under $50 most of the time, under $25 frequently). And of higher quality than equivalent Windows software (especially the spyware ridden crap that most Windows freeware is.)
Oh and ThinkFree Office is a decent Office replacement that doesn't need X11, but is resonable priced. NisusWriter is a good word processor as well, also pretty decently priced.
No, because the most common reason for stealing a car (other than joyrides) is to part the car out and sell the parts to autoshops. There are several cars (the Toyota Camray) that are worth more in pieces than as a whole car. A super custom stereo would just be an extra benefit.
And cars weren't so common in the days of Model T's. so stealing, hiding one, and getting rid of it was probably much more difficult (not to mention that you assume they weren't stolen very often, without statistics to back it up.) Also, Model T's were significantly louder than today's cars, perhaps merely starting one was enough of a car alarm.
Horse thieves were pretty common at one time.
Exactly. Everybody jumped on DRM as the problem, it is a problem but it isn't the problem with HDMI. HDCP is DRM on top of HDMI. And no, HDMI was NOT designed from the ground up with DRM in mind, DRM was hacked on in response to complaints from content owners. Proof of this? The damn signals are still just DVI in a new plug. This is why DVI to HDMI adapters are cheap.
And anyone that claims a particular digital solution prevents DRM from being used is full of crap, any digital signal can have DRM added to it, you just need manufacturers of equipment on each end of the signal to agree to it.
I like HDMI connectors because they're small and don't need to be screwed in like DVI. I dislike combining audio and video since I usually separate the two, but I've still separated the two on my devices so no loss to me that the cable can carry both. If I ever upgrade to an HDMI capable A/V receiver I may even like running the fewer cables.
I dislike having to buy cables off the internet to get cheap ones. All the brick and mortar stores seem to just carry crap cables for $90.
HDCP should be thrown away. It does nothing to protect content and just causes problems with poor implementations.
I've have 2 cablecards running in my Tivo Series 3, so clearly they do work with Linux. A cablelabs "blessed" box, but it is running Linux.
"Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' infringes an interface patent relating to the OS's nearly universal use of tabs."
What the heck? I sit here on a Mac mini running Tiger. Only Safari has tabs, and that only occured after a LOT of bitching from users. Where is the universal use of tabs at? I had to install Path Finder to get a tabbed finder interface.
Not one of the iLife applications uses tabs. iTunes, no tabs. Mail, no tabs. iCal, Address Book, no tabs. Even XCode, no tabs.
i typically use VPN to make one connection to the office, then open all the connections I need from there. I don't have to deal with 15 separate sessions across VPN so speed is better and if I lose my connection to the office I just have to reconnect one session to pick up where I left off.
Linux is a very large kernel, it's made usuable in an embedded environment by throwing out everything not needed. Linux is embedded in some very small devices. Same with OS X, just throw out all the bits not needed and it gets very small. Searching on embedded BSD turns up quite a bit showing. Why waste development effort on two operating systems instead of focusing on one?
No, if it were Linux it would be covered by GPL. Distribution on embedded devices still counts as distribution, they would have to make any kernel changes available. TiVo is required, and does, make it's kernel changes available for this reason.
copyright isn't media specific. Your rights to using audio clips is exactly the same as using printed lines. He used short audio clips highlighting his point and provided commentary on those audio snippets.
If the goal is to create a zombie machine used to send spam then this exploit is perfectly valid, OS X will allow a user level account to send e-mail without further modifications to the OS. If the goal is dump all a user's files looking for a document that might be chock full of social security numbers or back accounts (as several recently stolen laptops have been) this is also a valid exploit.
Why do only OS level exploits count?
I have a blackberry and don't do a lot of this crap. I turned off all notifications for incoming mail, except true emergency messages (server outages). This pretty much keeps me from checking the thing all the time. Although I'm an e-mail junkie at work, i only check the blackberry outside of work a couple of times.
Because if they don't do this they lose their trademark, and once their trademark is gone anyone can use the term Google, for the name of another search engine even. At that point all that great publicity is worthless.
Ask the original makers of aspirin how all the great publicity for the word aspirin is working out for them now.
forms (comment or otherwise) shouldn't trust input from users, javascript & html should be filtered out.
RSS feeds shouldn't trust input from other systems, javascript & html should be filtered out.
or to simplify, no program should trust input of any type (user input, data from files, data from databases) validate and filter it before using it. If it isn't a cross-script problem it's a buffer overflow problem.
The big dig is still open and operating. That's hardly a failure.
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Even if it eventually is a failure, the Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse in Kansas City killed more people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkwa
If engineers signed off on the use of the epoxy for the panel supports then those engineers are at fault. Engineers don't hand off designs to construction crews and wipe their hands of it from then on. They have to approve changes in the design and do their own inspections of the construction to make sure it meets the design.
This has always been the case in the US. You need a receipt of purchase to prove licensing, not a COA or the original box or the CDs. Proof of purchase only.
>The minute some supposed "authority" decides whether something should be printed or not, it is censorship.
No. A publisher rejecting a manuscript is not censorship. A website deciding an article is inappropriate for it's particular site is not censorship.
An entity saying "this information should not appear anywhere" is censorship. An entity arresting someone for what they say is censorship.
The wiki software is available for download. Anyone unhappy with what appears on wikipedia can setup their own site. Wikipedia isn't saying no one can have info on these people on their own sites, they are saying they don't want it on their site.
phone line is not needed for initial setup anymore, however I don't think you can use a wireless connection from the initial install.
I set mine up without a phone line (but with a wired ethernet connection) just fine.
Tivo removed confirmation for deleting shows when they added the recently deleted folder that lets you recover shows.
they didn't request all e-mails from google. All emails for one account. If the person they're looking at had e-mails on yahoo or hotmail then they probably did request them.
Actually according to snopes, this one is true.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp
mars is not undergoing global warming.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
mars warming seems to be mainly caused by a decrease in the huge dust storms it has. These storms typically reflect sunlight. If you have a year with few storms the temp can increase by a great deal.
you need encrypted transport. Encrypting the contents of an e-mail and using standard SMTP doesn't hide who the e-mail is going to (needed for envelope to ensure delivery) nor does it hide where it came from (IP's added to envelope headers by SMTP server, plus unencrypted from address)
Using SSL would prevent interception between endpoints, but if the ISP at the end offers the e-mail after the SSL connection then the sender/receiver would be known.
Note that the original only asks for header info anyway.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=180
no, for reassurance the person should hold the paper receipt and drop it in the box themselves. That's the way most balloting systems (with paper) work these days. Even the punch cards we use here, we put the punch card in an paper folder and drop it in a container.
I'm assuming current counter-measures against ballot box stuffing are sufficient from someone printing up a couple of thousand fake votes and putting them in the box.
This doesn't seem to always be practical. For example I'd like to have an RFID card to open the locks on my door, but I don't want that bleeding out as I walk around. I can't leave the card at home. Credit cards are moving towards embedded RFID too. I guess you could forgo credit cards, but if you don't want to then it would be nice to block the chips.
A wallet like this seems great.