I know this has been said by many people, many times, but if you think privacy is only for people doing the wrong thing, please post your social security number, address, telephone numbers, driver licence numbers, and bank account numbers, as well as all username-password pairs you use.
Actually, not to be pedantic, but "The Skype Group is headquartered in Luxembourg with offices also in London and Tallinn.", according to their website. Not the US.
Once, in high school, my CS teacher got some computers in his classroom which came out of the library. The problem was that they were locked down my a program called Fortress, and were therefore useless as instructional tools in a computer science class.
I hacked the machines for my teacher. All it took was rebooting with a DOS boot disk, and taking a couple of lines out of CONFIG.SYS.
The ironic thing was that I gleaned the information I needed to disable Fortress from Fortress's own HELP FILE! Isn't it wonderful how IE works as a file browser too?
Gotta love stupidity...
I happened to acquire an original set of DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 floppies (11 in all) a couple weeks ago. I decided to install them in bochs. It took a while...
It was also the first time I had ever used the floppy drive in my machine, incidentally.
Granted, automobile technology isn't as sexy as fancy silicon microchips, but consider that the risks of a cooling system failure in an engine are a lot bigger than in a computer.
Except for the fact that if your car's cooling system gets a minor leak, it generally doesn't have the potential to instantaneously destroy most of your engine...
Yes, I'll imagine an IDE driver in Python. Do you realize how crappy it would run?
Hey, let's code the memory manager in Java! That'll make it run real good...
No, I think a dictator would have to be elected. Perhaps via loopholes and corruption, but elected nonetheless. Unfortunately, what the common man doesn't realize is that you can un-elect (by electing someone else in four years) a president, but not a dictator.
WCS 5: The RIAA forces legislation through Congress requiring encryption on all digital media files with the RIAA being the sole owner of the decryption keys. Bye Bye Music.
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I'd probably pee my pants and run to Canada
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I don't see how it can recieve information. CD-ROM drives are a read-only tool. The laser does not blink. The laser is constant. That translates, as far as I know into all 1 bits. Which means that the only thing it can receive is 0xFF over and over and over and over and... and over again.
You forgot the box that says "Please wait while the entire contents of your hard drive, including all data deleted in the last year, is uploaded to the Microsoft marketing and enforcement server..."
No, actually, it doesn't meam they can read _files_ at will. It means that they can ask your Windows system for that information. If Windows only sends them that information, M$ can't get other information too.
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I know this has been said by many people, many times, but if you think privacy is only for people doing the wrong thing, please post your social security number, address, telephone numbers, driver licence numbers, and bank account numbers, as well as all username-password pairs you use.
Actually, not to be pedantic, but "The Skype Group is headquartered in Luxembourg with offices also in London and Tallinn.", according to their website. Not the US.
Once, in high school, my CS teacher got some computers in his classroom which came out of the library. The problem was that they were locked down my a program called Fortress, and were therefore useless as instructional tools in a computer science class. I hacked the machines for my teacher. All it took was rebooting with a DOS boot disk, and taking a couple of lines out of CONFIG.SYS. The ironic thing was that I gleaned the information I needed to disable Fortress from Fortress's own HELP FILE! Isn't it wonderful how IE works as a file browser too? Gotta love stupidity...
I happened to acquire an original set of DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 floppies (11 in all) a couple weeks ago. I decided to install them in bochs. It took a while...
It was also the first time I had ever used the floppy drive in my machine, incidentally.
actually, they're all two-way microwave radios...
Yes, I'll imagine an IDE driver in Python. Do you realize how crappy it would run? Hey, let's code the memory manager in Java! That'll make it run real good...
no, no. the Control, Alt, and Delete keys.
No, I think a dictator would have to be elected. Perhaps via loopholes and corruption, but elected nonetheless. Unfortunately, what the common man doesn't realize is that you can un-elect (by electing someone else in four years) a president, but not a dictator.
And likely neither has AmericaWest...
the USA PATRIOT Act makes me feel less safe. It makes me afraid of Big Brother. In case you haven't figured it out yet, Big Brother is a bad thing.
It runs on Windows and Unix/Linux so you can stick it on anything So does PHP
WCS 5: The RIAA forces legislation through Congress requiring encryption on all digital media files with the RIAA being the sole owner of the decryption keys. Bye Bye Music.
I'd probably pee my pants and run to Canada
I don't see how it can recieve information. CD-ROM drives are a read-only tool. The laser does not blink. The laser is constant. That translates, as far as I know into all 1 bits. Which means that the only thing it can receive is 0xFF over and over and over and over and ... and over again.
Don't we all wish?
Sorry, The United States of America is not a democracy. It is a democratic republic
I don't know if you are in Britain or the US, but the USA ain't a democracy. It's a democratic republic.
You forgot the box that says "Please wait while the entire contents of your hard drive, including all data deleted in the last year, is uploaded to the Microsoft marketing and enforcement server..."
Yes, but, are stories #2, 8, and 10 _praising_ M$?
No, actually, it doesn't meam they can read _files_ at will. It means that they can ask your Windows system for that information. If Windows only sends them that information, M$ can't get other information too.
no, If you have NT (including XP), you can use 'at'. There is no 'after' command. I use Windows a lot. I also use Linux a lot.
Oh, well. It won't matter soon anyway, once the boneheads in Washington ban the 'copy' command on computers for information of any type.