I made my first purchase from them with a brand new email account, and within 2 hours I had gotten spam at that address. The timing was suspicious, so I sent an email to their customer service and complained.
They apologized and sent me some goodies as well. The kicker is that it wasn't their fault, but a spammer with a dictionary attack (got the identical spam at another addr -- with headers showing the dictionary attack this time). I emailed them back, apologized in my turn, and thanked them.
I am a happy NewEgg customer, and have no compunctions about recommending them to anyone at all.
However, 17 USC 1201(f) explicity allows reverse engineering for interoperability:
(f) Reverse Engineering. -
(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b), a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure, in order to enable the identification and analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.
(3)
The information acquired through the acts permitted under paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2), may be made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means solely for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title or violate applicable law other than this section.
(4)
For purposes of this subsection, the term ''interoperability'' means the ability of computer programs to exchange information, and of such programs mutually to use the information which has been exchanged.
Their HQ is just down the street from my house. I guess I'll go buy something from them (or maybe convince my softball team to buy their uniforms from them -- we're looking into new jerseys).
Except that this Friday is Judgement Day #1. If IBM isn't happy with SCO's discovery replies (and based on what I've seen -- see Declaration of Ryan Tibbets -- they won't be), SCO will be in very hot water, because it could be seen as a violation of a court order.
No. SCO had until 12 Jan to comply with IBM's interrogatories. There is to be a hearing on 23 Jan to determine compliance.
SCO did file stuff, but some of it was "You told us we couldn't ask for anything from IBM, but we won't give IBM what it wants until we get what we want", and more of it was "Oh, gee, our executives don't give a damn about a $3billion lawsuit -- they went away for Xmas, and we couldn't reach them. Too bad."
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In the final showdown for Olympic gold, between Kurt's Americans and those nasty Russians,
Except the final showdown for Olympic gold was between the Americans and the Finns!
I made my first purchase from them with a brand new email account, and within 2 hours I had gotten spam at that address. The timing was suspicious, so I sent an email to their customer service and complained.
They apologized and sent me some goodies as well. The kicker is that it wasn't their fault, but a spammer with a dictionary attack (got the identical spam at another addr -- with headers showing the dictionary attack this time). I emailed them back, apologized in my turn, and thanked them.
I am a happy NewEgg customer, and have no compunctions about recommending them to anyone at all.
The Windows GDI is actually pretty stable. Features have been added, but the basics are fundamentally the same as they were 20 years ago.
Just to be pedantic, there was no Windows GDI 20 years ago. Hell, the Mac had just been born.
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Or course, the OP might be saying that the basics are "no stable graphics platform"....
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Win2K is the best OS MS ever released, and based on the preview snapshots of Longhorn... ever will release.
And while the 9x series sucked in general, 98SE sucked the least.
Maybe MDK has the "don't buy the point two releases".
ISTR that 8.2 had problems, and we all know about 9.2...
Disclaimer: Satisfied MDK 9.1 user.
Nope. 17 USC 1201 IS the DMCA.
It's not just an "apparent" diatribe. Stowell confirmed it.
Their HQ is just down the street from my house. I guess I'll go buy something from them (or maybe convince my softball team to buy their uniforms from them -- we're looking into new jerseys).
No, it requires circumvention of an "access control" mechanism.
"GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password".
DMCA Violation!!!!!
Excuse me, but isn't cracking into computers considered terrorism under the PATRIOT act? Why aren't these guys being shipped off to Gitmo?
Try changing the spark plugs in some older Chevy V-8's (The '75 Monza comes to mind). You had to dismount the engine to get at one of them!
Weren't the 30pin x 9bit sticks SIMMs and not DIMMs?
Forgot about that one! Thanks.
See, Darl *OWNS* all secure Linux. Maybe he'll sue the NSA over SELinux?
Well SCO OpenDesktop 2, OpenDesktop 3 and OpenServer 5 were C2 certified. Maybe Darl actually will use Sarojin's argument?
And what about... Naomi?
How's the dog doing, White? I haven't seen little Plaid in quite a while.
And how exactly is a fax machine owner supposed to filter?
Except that this Friday is Judgement Day #1. If IBM isn't happy with SCO's discovery replies (and based on what I've seen -- see Declaration of Ryan Tibbets -- they won't be), SCO will be in very hot water, because it could be seen as a violation of a court order.
Disclaimer: IANAL, nor do I play one on TV.
No. SCO had until 12 Jan to comply with IBM's interrogatories. There is to be a hearing on 23 Jan to determine compliance.
SCO did file stuff, but some of it was "You told us we couldn't ask for anything from IBM, but we won't give IBM what it wants until we get what we want", and more of it was "Oh, gee, our executives don't give a damn about a $3billion lawsuit -- they went away for Xmas, and we couldn't reach them. Too bad."
The hearing on Friday should be very interesting.
Hope you don't mind... I just lifted that for my new sig.
It's a pre-emptive step to avoid government mandated DRM in scanners, CD drives, and output devices.
Why would any attempts to prevent currency counterfeiting require DRM in CD drives?
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Unless the RIAA has taken over the Treasury Dept. as well as Congress and the FBI...
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Any JonKatz article on SlashDot?
Of course, of late, that falls into the real vaporware section as well.
I thought A/UX was a SysV port?