I wonder what this means for Linux/BSD FAT drivers. Microsoft's current licensing scheme seems to apply only to companies that sell pre-formatted storage devices/media with FAT, but surely this has implications for free software.
No, I think YOU'RE under the belief that you are somehow intellectually superior to anyone who would dare to have faith in something.
You would probably also be quick to point out that not all Muslims are terrorists (which I agree with). However you would probably be the first to call me a fundamentalist because I believe in my faith, instead of some bastardized politically correct version of it. Get over yourself.
Fundamentalists take religion to the extreme Palestinians blowing babies up on buses, Jim Jones giving Koolaid to a bunch of folks; These are examples of fundamentalism.
This is not just a belief of Fundamentalist Christians, but of many major Christian demoninations. Why? Well, it's state clearly in the Bible (little inference needed) that the Mark of the Beast will be on the back of the hand or the forehead and that everyone will be required to have one to participate in commerce.
I never said a word about tap water. I was making a point because water is the most abundant resource on Earth (other than gases in the Atmosphere, of course).
And besides, people don't get their MP3's free anyway (they buy a computer, subscribe to DSL/cable modem services, buy CD/RW's etc). Yes, the money isn't going to the holders of the 'rights' but it clearly illustrates that people will pay money to have access to music the way they, the consumers want it.
I can't believe the ignorance of the record companies. The average person in the US buys about 5 cd's a year. I would subscribe to an unlimited MP3 download site in a heartbeat, and I imagine that many other people would. That's a guaranteed, continuous revenue stream (you know, the kind preferred by the bean counters) that they don't currently have with their goofy marketing and pop-machine antics they're engaged in. The way you compete with competition (whether it is legitimate or not) is to outperform the competition. Microsoft has had to get on the ball because of Linux, FreeBSD and other competitors that give their stuff away for free. Likewise, the record companies should learn to compete by providing services similar to those that customers are now used to (Kazaa, etc) but outperfom those free services in order to provide incentive for people to pay. I would love to have nice, priority downloading of properly-named, 192K+ MP3 files for a reasonable price, maybe $15.00 a month (that's certainly more revenue than 5 cd's a year!). $29.00 / month with 10 tracks to burn is not incentive.
No, you have been able to study this for quite some time. To the best of my knowledge, when I graduated from university my institution offered at least 6 classes (two years of study) on Wireless engineering.
The change here is that you can actually make it your major (i.e. primary) area of study (I'm not sure if you have this concept in Finland).
I've thought of doing a Mozilla (I.E. too, maybe) plug-in that would do the following when loading images:
1) check for untrusted domains...e.g. doubleclick 2) check for images being loaded with some id being appended to the query string (e.g. embedded e-mail images that alert spammers when someone opens a mail.)
This plug-in would disect the number and generate a random number in a similar format and send that number in the cookie or the query string as the case may be.
This would ultimately render doubleclick's business model useless (well, assuming everyone would use such a plug-in). And as far as I see it, it's fair game since I *never* gave them (direct) permission to collect information on me in the first place.
Why does the USPS continually raise postage rates when they are announcing hundreds of millions of dollars NET at the end of each fiscal year? It seems to be the solution would be to raise bulk mail rates through the roof.
No, port scanning is not analogous to trying someone's locks...that would be running scripts, etc. that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in the software that's actually listening on a given port. Port scanning is more analogous to driving by a house and looking at the doors/windows...that's all. If you don't want to be scanned...DON'T PUT YOUR MACHINE ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET. It's going to happen.
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Yep, I love that logic too. It's like saying that McDonalds serves the best food because they are the largest restaurant chain in the world. :-)
I wonder what this means for Linux/BSD FAT drivers. Microsoft's current licensing scheme seems to apply only to companies that sell pre-formatted storage devices/media with FAT, but surely this has implications for free software.
No, I think YOU'RE under the belief that you are somehow intellectually superior to anyone who would dare to have faith in something.
You would probably also be quick to point out that not all Muslims are terrorists (which I agree with). However you would probably be the first to call me a fundamentalist because I believe in my faith, instead of some bastardized politically correct version of it. Get over yourself.
Fundamentalists take religion to the extreme Palestinians blowing babies up on buses, Jim Jones giving Koolaid to a bunch of folks; These are examples of fundamentalism.
Do a little reading and you will discover that Democrats received MUCH MORE funding from the media than the Republicans took in.
This is not just a belief of Fundamentalist Christians, but of many major Christian demoninations. Why? Well, it's state clearly in the Bible (little inference needed) that the Mark of the Beast will be on the back of the hand or the forehead and that everyone will be required to have one to participate in commerce.
Look:
I never said a word about tap water. I was making a point because water is the most abundant resource on Earth (other than gases in the Atmosphere, of course).
And besides, people don't get their MP3's free anyway (they buy a computer, subscribe to DSL/cable modem services, buy CD/RW's etc). Yes, the money isn't going to the holders of the 'rights' but it clearly illustrates that people will pay money to have access to music the way they, the consumers want it.
I can't believe the ignorance of the record companies. The average person in the US buys about 5 cd's a year. I would subscribe to an unlimited MP3 download site in a heartbeat, and I imagine that many other people would. That's a guaranteed, continuous revenue stream (you know, the kind preferred by the bean counters) that they don't currently have with their goofy marketing and pop-machine antics they're engaged in. The way you compete with competition (whether it is legitimate or not) is to outperform the competition. Microsoft has had to get on the ball because of Linux, FreeBSD and other competitors that give their stuff away for free. Likewise, the record companies should learn to compete by providing services similar to those that customers are now used to (Kazaa, etc) but outperfom those free services in order to provide incentive for people to pay. I would love to have nice, priority downloading of properly-named, 192K+ MP3 files for a reasonable price, maybe $15.00 a month (that's certainly more revenue than 5 cd's a year!). $29.00 / month with 10 tracks to burn is not incentive.
Ok, back to work..
For those out there (RIAA, MPAA, congress) that believe people refuse to pay for something they could otherwise get for free, I have but two words:
BOTTLED WATER
No, you have been able to study this for quite some time. To the best of my knowledge, when I graduated from university my institution offered at least 6 classes (two years of study) on Wireless engineering.
The change here is that you can actually make it your major (i.e. primary) area of study (I'm not sure if you have this concept in Finland).
I've thought of doing a Mozilla (I.E. too, maybe) plug-in that would do the following when loading images:
1) check for untrusted domains...e.g. doubleclick
2) check for images being loaded with some id being appended to the query string (e.g. embedded e-mail images that alert spammers when someone opens a mail.)
This plug-in would disect the number and generate a random number in a similar format and send that number in the cookie or the query string as the case may be.
This would ultimately render doubleclick's business model useless (well, assuming everyone would use such a plug-in). And as far as I see it, it's fair game since I *never* gave them (direct) permission to collect information on me in the first place.
Why does the USPS continually raise postage rates when they are announcing hundreds of millions of dollars NET at the end of each fiscal year? It seems to be the solution would be to raise bulk mail rates through the roof.
No, port scanning is not analogous to trying someone's locks...that would be running scripts, etc. that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in the software that's actually listening on a given port. Port scanning is more analogous to driving by a house and looking at the doors/windows...that's all. If you don't want to be scanned...DON'T PUT YOUR MACHINE ON THE PUBLIC INTERNET. It's going to happen.
- Mirio
Amen.