Actually I'd say 95% of them did, untill Warcraft 3. The interesting part about all this, was that someone else took BNets software and changed it to run Warcraft 3. Bnet itself hasn't touched that part of the code. Anyways the cats outta the bag, even if BNET is completly shut down the software is still out there and being moddified by other people. This suit will bring blizzard absolutly nothing. Another point, is that had they released the beta publically very few people would have even heard of BNET I know I didn't untill recently. And very few people would have been playing the cracked final game. Now thousands will, so I say blizzard shot themselves in the foot bigtime and is trying to sue the bullet factory.
Well verisign gave the guys a new key with MS's name on in, Windows update is set to look for a specific key, not just any key with MS as the owner. All that hack did was allow them to post code that would tell the user "This is owned by Microsoft" "Do you want to trust this key from now on?"
Oh trust me they made money, but now with prices so low the real crux is the price of buying windows. You can find cheap hardware and even buy it in bulk, but trying to get windows for the price that a real OEM buys it for, impossible. Not including the fact that no small shop would be willing to sell their soul to the licensing deals MS office (ie no dual boot etc.)
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Well I know from personal experience, that I have a hard time latly making any money building systems for people. With complete systems available from gateway for 600 its really hard to compete, I've got to be able to sell the same system for maybe 450 to be able to sell as I can't provide the same level of warrenty, putting together a complete system with monitor and a legal copy of windows at that price leaves me with no profit.
Under copywrite law you have NO rights to redistribute publically any software I create, If I give you source code you have to right to make changes and use those changes on the one copy you have the right to use. You still cannot redistribute the work I create. Now the GPL is giving you an extra right, saying you can distribute the code I give you, and make derivative works, you just can't close the code or put it under another license. So the GPL is GIVING the use extra rights, its not taking any away.
Well the treaty states that russia has a enforce any court US court discision as well as US would have to enforce a russian court descision. Unless of course, a person successfully claimed they were fleeing the other country to volations of their human rights and wanted protection. Which Elcomsoft employees could obviously do when they run to Russia.
If the court found in favor of elcomsoft for constitutional reasons, if it then got completly thrown out for jurisdiction reason, that would in no way make the court discision invalid, and it could still be used in future court cases as presidence. Or did you mean something else?
Yes, but doing so would drive away customers they can only do this if it wouldn't. A corperation can do a lot of things that arn't money making, if it makes customers think that the corp are the good guys, and want to buy from them. A good example is Ben and Jerry ice-cream, they are public corperation, and they give away a discusting amount of money to charities, but there are people suppositivly who buy the ice-cream because of this. I doupt that they would loose any money by this loosing this small amount of customers compared to the amount they give away. But the people who bought the stock understanded that this is the way the corperation was run. Same as with RedHat, nobody bought RedHat stocks with the notition that they would become a closed source company, so why should they expect it.
Definatly agree with this guy, one note, if your target audience is classrooms, and you expect this CD to be sold in a college bookstore, where the person might want to return it at the end of the year, having a CD is VERY frustrating, because if the CD is missing or damaged, most college bookstores won't give you any money when you return the book.
Ummetered? The best your ever gonna find is cellphone minute charges. But they might give you special web minutes at a slightly cheaper rate if you use it often enough. Or get free nights and weekends, to play your cellphone evercrack.
Because a computer can't truly think of a random number, if you have two identical computers and you ask them for a random number and give them the same "seed" they will produce the same number. If you feed them no seed at all if you boot the computer and ask for a list of numbers, it will be the same list everytime you reboot. The computer is just installed with a device to generate this sequence of numbers, it has no way to be original. When you need to create a truly random number, which is often important in encryption, you need a random seed, often things like keyboard input, mouse movements, and network traffic is used together to create this seed. Anyways, this program once it creates this random number has to send it back to the server for the server to be able to decrypt the messages. There is no secure way to do this except for using another encyption method, which makes this encyption method just as breakable as any other if you can get the random number, or the seed. But this company says that the encryption is absolutly secure, which it is, but the key for the encyption isn't secure. So effectivly they are hiding behind semantics
Well the markings on it are mozilla1.0 but not mozilla1.0+ meaning its not critical for mozilla1.0, but they were hoping to get it in. Now that the tree is closed, only critical bugs should be getting through. Luckly you will also notice it is marked nsbeta1+ meaning its critical for the NS 6.5 release and they are really wanting it fixed pre 6.5 beta1. So hopefully this should be fixed for 6.5 and whatever AOL ends up using.
Lets see, I personally can't name a single product whose 1.0 release didn't have bugs. Windows 3.x IE 3.x and Netscape 3.x were buggy peices of crap, we generally try to ignore the fact that there was a 1.0 to these products. Anyways do yourself a favor, and atleast download the 1.0 of mozilla and check it out, you may be surprised.
That contact ended almsot 2 years ago I believe. The contract was basically that AOL got the AOL icons installed automatically with windows, and AOL agreed to use IE. With XP MS refused to resign the contact unless AOL agreed to not just use IE, but also WMP (instead of real), and many other microsoft technologies where AOL was using other products. AOL told MS to shove off, and thus the contact was not extended.
vacuum, its got atmosphere, I don't think its possible to have water on the surface without some atmophere, to hold it all together. Silly, so now why should I believe your first sentence?
Or we could make non computer cd players uncool. That way the girl is forced to return the CD while the salesperson is forced to listen to her yell in a very high piched voice when he tells her they won't take the return back.
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No he said Heterogeneous, not Homogeneous, dumbass.
Actually I'd say 95% of them did, untill Warcraft 3. The interesting part about all this, was that someone else took BNets software and changed it to run Warcraft 3. Bnet itself hasn't touched that part of the code. Anyways the cats outta the bag, even if BNET is completly shut down the software is still out there and being moddified by other people. This suit will bring blizzard absolutly nothing. Another point, is that had they released the beta publically very few people would have even heard of BNET I know I didn't untill recently. And very few people would have been playing the cracked final game. Now thousands will, so I say blizzard shot themselves in the foot bigtime and is trying to sue the bullet factory.
Well verisign gave the guys a new key with MS's name on in, Windows update is set to look for a specific key, not just any key with MS as the owner. All that hack did was allow them to post code that would tell the user "This is owned by Microsoft" "Do you want to trust this key from now on?"
Oh trust me they made money, but now with prices so low the real crux is the price of buying windows. You can find cheap hardware and even buy it in bulk, but trying to get windows for the price that a real OEM buys it for, impossible. Not including the fact that no small shop would be willing to sell their soul to the licensing deals MS office (ie no dual boot etc.)
Well I know from personal experience, that I have a hard time latly making any money building systems for people. With complete systems available from gateway for 600 its really hard to compete, I've got to be able to sell the same system for maybe 450 to be able to sell as I can't provide the same level of warrenty, putting together a complete system with monitor and a legal copy of windows at that price leaves me with no profit.
Under copywrite law you have NO rights to redistribute publically any software I create, If I give you source code you have to right to make changes and use those changes on the one copy you have the right to use. You still cannot redistribute the work I create. Now the GPL is giving you an extra right, saying you can distribute the code I give you, and make derivative works, you just can't close the code or put it under another license. So the GPL is GIVING the use extra rights, its not taking any away.
hmm spin bad, could cause random fluxuations in orbit, random movement of an object that might hit us.. hmm bad....
Well the treaty states that russia has a enforce any court US court discision as well as US would have to enforce a russian court descision. Unless of course, a person successfully claimed they were fleeing the other country to volations of their human rights and wanted protection. Which Elcomsoft employees could obviously do when they run to Russia.
If the court found in favor of elcomsoft for constitutional reasons, if it then got completly thrown out for jurisdiction reason, that would in no way make the court discision invalid, and it could still be used in future court cases as presidence. Or did you mean something else?
Yes, but GPL doesn't allow me to build a closed road off of your open road. Replace GPL in your comment with BSD now, and maybe it would make sence.
Yes, but doing so would drive away customers they can only do this if it wouldn't. A corperation can do a lot of things that arn't money making, if it makes customers think that the corp are the good guys, and want to buy from them. A good example is Ben and Jerry ice-cream, they are public corperation, and they give away a discusting amount of money to charities, but there are people suppositivly who buy the ice-cream because of this. I doupt that they would loose any money by this loosing this small amount of customers compared to the amount they give away. But the people who bought the stock understanded that this is the way the corperation was run. Same as with RedHat, nobody bought RedHat stocks with the notition that they would become a closed source company, so why should they expect it.
Wow, I just made that one ungodly long runon sentence. I obviously need to get myself back in english class! :)
Definatly agree with this guy, one note, if your target audience is classrooms, and you expect this CD to be sold in a college bookstore, where the person might want to return it at the end of the year, having a CD is VERY frustrating, because if the CD is missing or damaged, most college bookstores won't give you any money when you return the book.
Ummetered? The best your ever gonna find is cellphone minute charges. But they might give you special web minutes at a slightly cheaper rate if you use it often enough. Or get free nights and weekends, to play your cellphone evercrack.
Nope, the anonymous posting hasn't returned. So nothing can be real yet!
Because a computer can't truly think of a random number, if you have two identical computers and you ask them for a random number and give them the same "seed" they will produce the same number. If you feed them no seed at all if you boot the computer and ask for a list of numbers, it will be the same list everytime you reboot. The computer is just installed with a device to generate this sequence of numbers, it has no way to be original. When you need to create a truly random number, which is often important in encryption, you need a random seed, often things like keyboard input, mouse movements, and network traffic is used together to create this seed. Anyways, this program once it creates this random number has to send it back to the server for the server to be able to decrypt the messages. There is no secure way to do this except for using another encyption method, which makes this encyption method just as breakable as any other if you can get the random number, or the seed. But this company says that the encryption is absolutly secure, which it is, but the key for the encyption isn't secure. So effectivly they are hiding behind semantics
Well the markings on it are mozilla1.0 but not mozilla1.0+ meaning its not critical for mozilla1.0, but they were hoping to get it in. Now that the tree is closed, only critical bugs should be getting through. Luckly you will also notice it is marked nsbeta1+ meaning its critical for the NS 6.5 release and they are really wanting it fixed pre 6.5 beta1. So hopefully this should be fixed for 6.5 and whatever AOL ends up using.
Yes, and the same people seem to be saying that goatse is a great site, so you know.
Lets see, I personally can't name a single product whose 1.0 release didn't have bugs. Windows 3.x IE 3.x and Netscape 3.x were buggy peices of crap, we generally try to ignore the fact that there was a 1.0 to these products. Anyways do yourself a favor, and atleast download the 1.0 of mozilla and check it out, you may be surprised.
He was talking about tab browsing not gestures. Hell if your handy with the right mouse button you can do gestures too without any addon.
That contact ended almsot 2 years ago I believe. The contract was basically that AOL got the AOL icons installed automatically with windows, and AOL agreed to use IE. With XP MS refused to resign the contact unless AOL agreed to not just use IE, but also WMP (instead of real), and many other microsoft technologies where AOL was using other products. AOL told MS to shove off, and thus the contact was not extended.
You may be a conciencious karma objector but its kinda hard to get your message out when most people don't see you at auto -1. Or was that the point?
this is what he was talking about I believe.
vacuum, its got atmosphere, I don't think its possible to have water on the surface without some atmophere, to hold it all together. Silly, so now why should I believe your first sentence?
Or we could make non computer cd players uncool. That way the girl is forced to return the CD while the salesperson is forced to listen to her yell in a very high piched voice when he tells her they won't take the return back.