Yes, but as the article stated the will turn off any machine not running the LATEST version of WGA. If you havn't installed any of the most recently updates whatsoever and have been running a pirated version all long there is no way that MS will be able to shut off your machine. This feature simply wasn't built in originally. So they will only be hurting those who are legal and don't have the most recent WGA version, or those who are illigal and stupid.
Hell, your chances of getting sued in any one year are http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=769 1 in 1840. Damn this was initially supposed to be a counter argument but 200K/1840 is $108.
Essentially creating open source is work. One can do volunteer work or capitalistic work or work just for the fun of it. If I was to build a boat, couldn't somebody then take that boat and alter it, or simply use its plans to make another boat. No difference here, we just happily ignore stupid IP laws in the process.
Guess the difference is the supplier and the code vetting process. MANY people have inspected apaches code and many more have used it sucessfully. While some script you find on the web is about as trustworthy as some shareware program you found on the web, I wouldn't trust either on a production server.
What? Are you saying they have stopped? I'll have to check out a copy, used to read in the early 90s before their editors all starting dipping acid.
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What if eBay also had another auction type in addition to normal and Buy It Now ones: silent auctions. It tells you when it ends, the seller may optionally give a reccomended amount, and you get to put in your bid, without knowing what anyone else put down. Now you'd be more compelled to put your maximum bid down.
You know, that really is how ebay should work. Would totally get rid of sniping for good.
Ok yea, my mother-in-law got them free because she was double covered under medicare and some other program (she was a veterns widow, though he died from alcohol poisioning long after any wars).
I don't remember the legistics of it, exactly sorry.
That is actually a very sad story, I know people who cannot afford heart and blood pressure medication and Medicare won't cover it for one reason or another.
Simple answer is they have a list of what they will cover and what they don't. Their personal care is nill. You see those ads on TV offering to get your a free hoverround and I doupt anyone actually checks to see if you need one. They cover their list, and that is it. Of course this list is probably largly affected by lobbying and cutbacks.
Other note, blood pressure medine has been around a LONG time, arn't generics available now?
Ever looked at what the US is spending in Medicare alone? Its close to 20% of our budget. Amazingly this is similar to what other countries spend for Universal coverage. I really don't know why I'm guessing its a combination of the percent of our population that is older, as well as simple wasteful spending.
Personal example my mother-in-law was loading up on thousand+ dollars a month in prescriptions on Medicare (free to her) because her doctor would give her a pill that she barly needed then give her a pill to counter its negative reactions, then give her a pill to counter those reactions, ednasium. We she became under our care we found a competent doctor and had her removed from most of these medications and her health improved substatially. Sadly she moved away and found a doctor willing to load her up on medications again. The problem.. I don't blame the doctors there are simply too many doctors out there and one can always shop around for some willing to give you what you want. The problem is that the medicare system has very few safeguards meaning no person really checks on the payouts and monitors what medications are being given to these people. If they simply hired a case worker to monitor just 10 recipents each they could save billions. BUT you would have the older population (the ones that vote) up in arms about their privacy.
But then again, maybe we'd find that dolphins have the neccessary intelligence for toolmaking, if we just gave them some manipulators. That is to say hands. Many animals have the intelligence for making and using simple tools like sticks. The problem comes in the ability to use imagination. I've seen examples of simple puzzles that dolphins can't figure out and complex puzzles that they can. Case in point, you train a dolphin that they have to put two balls into a hole within 30 seconds of eachother in order to get a treat. They can do this fine as long as the balls are close enough, but put the second ball too far away and they will never solve the problem (obvious answer is to move the balls closer before you put the first one in). But given multiple switches and levers each of which have obvious logical visible outcomes they can figure out which order to apply the levers to get inside and receive their treat. Its the ability to think logically vs creativly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier you're right. Though I was thinking in terms of liability, as the DMCA and other laws do treat ISPs as common carrier and except them from liability for the content they are carrying. My original point was that they should be liable for content if its bandwidth is given special consideration.
The post to which I'd originally responded wanted a blanked QoS block on all telco lines.
I was the original post, and what I was saying is not to block QoS at all, but that if you implement QoS on THAT line, you can't at the same time claim that its a common carrier line and be except from XYZ regulation..
I think his ultimate issue is that its not testable. Its like having a physics theory based upon the existance of god. Yea sounds neat, but no possibly testable.
Hiring a specific person for a job is in no way illigal, the problem is that government agencies and even some companies policies require advertising even if you already have someone for the job. Its kinda silly really, but a simple fact.
Exactly, the telcoms are really shooting themselves it the foot. I can understand the arguments against net-neutrality.. simply that over regulating the internet could harm it, and that consumer choice will ultimatly be the best solution to any problems.
BUT they insist upon making statements like saying Google needs to be paying extra because its making money on its lines (when the telcoms are alreayd being paid for the bandwidth). Then spouting out these lies. They could EASILY make the entire debate go away by appologizing for the previous statements and promising to self regulate.
But they still try to claim they paid for the entire phone lines when we all know the government did, I don't see this going away anytime soon.
If they continue to pull this crap I say the government should insist upon being paid back or claim emminent domain over the lines it paid for.
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Yes, but as the article stated the will turn off any machine not running the LATEST version of WGA. If you havn't installed any of the most recently updates whatsoever and have been running a pirated version all long there is no way that MS will be able to shut off your machine. This feature simply wasn't built in originally. So they will only be hurting those who are legal and don't have the most recent WGA version, or those who are illigal and stupid.
Umm have you see the hot coffee mod? Its unfinished work. Obviously scraped from development early on.
Your right it was only a year (announced Feb 8th added UK in January), sorry. But remember in internet time thats like 20 years.
Umm yes, the point was that google maps existed for almost two years as US only. So if google checkout does the same it could be 2008. Probably not.
Hell, your chances of getting sued in any one year are http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=769
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1 in 1840. Damn this was initially supposed to be a counter argument but 200K/1840 is $108.
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Hu? Bush is the head of the federal branch. He is setting policy for his branch, thats his job.
Essentially creating open source is work. One can do volunteer work or capitalistic work or work just for the fun of it. If I was to build a boat, couldn't somebody then take that boat and alter it, or simply use its plans to make another boat. No difference here, we just happily ignore stupid IP laws in the process.
Guess the difference is the supplier and the code vetting process. MANY people have inspected apaches code and many more have used it sucessfully. While some script you find on the web is about as trustworthy as some shareware program you found on the web, I wouldn't trust either on a production server.
I don't know about you but all my capitalone emails link to email.capitalone.com your getting screwed :)
What? Are you saying they have stopped? I'll have to check out a copy, used to read in the early 90s before their editors all starting dipping acid.
What if eBay also had another auction type in addition to normal and Buy It Now ones: silent auctions. It tells you when it ends, the seller may optionally give a reccomended amount, and you get to put in your bid, without knowing what anyone else put down. Now you'd be more compelled to put your maximum bid down.
You know, that really is how ebay should work. Would totally get rid of sniping for good.
Good point, thank you. Guess my hard feelings about her family all around clouds my judgement, but your right.
Ok yea, my mother-in-law got them free because she was double covered under medicare and some other program (she was a veterns widow, though he died from alcohol poisioning long after any wars).
I don't remember the legistics of it, exactly sorry.
That is actually a very sad story, I know people who cannot afford heart and blood pressure medication and Medicare won't cover it for one reason or another.
Simple answer is they have a list of what they will cover and what they don't. Their personal care is nill. You see those ads on TV offering to get your a free hoverround and I doupt anyone actually checks to see if you need one. They cover their list, and that is it. Of course this list is probably largly affected by lobbying and cutbacks.
Other note, blood pressure medine has been around a LONG time, arn't generics available now?
Ever looked at what the US is spending in Medicare alone? Its close to 20% of our budget. Amazingly this is similar to what other countries spend for Universal coverage. I really don't know why I'm guessing its a combination of the percent of our population that is older, as well as simple wasteful spending.
Personal example my mother-in-law was loading up on thousand+ dollars a month in prescriptions on Medicare (free to her) because her doctor would give her a pill that she barly needed then give her a pill to counter its negative reactions, then give her a pill to counter those reactions, ednasium. We she became under our care we found a competent doctor and had her removed from most of these medications and her health improved substatially. Sadly she moved away and found a doctor willing to load her up on medications again. The problem.. I don't blame the doctors there are simply too many doctors out there and one can always shop around for some willing to give you what you want. The problem is that the medicare system has very few safeguards meaning no person really checks on the payouts and monitors what medications are being given to these people. If they simply hired a case worker to monitor just 10 recipents each they could save billions. BUT you would have the older population (the ones that vote) up in arms about their privacy.
Blah..
But then again, maybe we'd find that dolphins have the neccessary intelligence for toolmaking, if we just gave them some manipulators. That is to say hands. Many animals have the intelligence for making and using simple tools like sticks. The problem comes in the ability to use imagination. I've seen examples of simple puzzles that dolphins can't figure out and complex puzzles that they can.
Case in point, you train a dolphin that they have to put two balls into a hole within 30 seconds of eachother in order to get a treat. They can do this fine as long as the balls are close enough, but put the second ball too far away and they will never solve the problem (obvious answer is to move the balls closer before you put the first one in). But given multiple switches and levers each of which have obvious logical visible outcomes they can figure out which order to apply the levers to get inside and receive their treat. Its the ability to think logically vs creativly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier you're right. Though I was thinking in terms of liability, as the DMCA and other laws do treat ISPs as common carrier and except them from liability for the content they are carrying. My original point was that they should be liable for content if its bandwidth is given special consideration.
The post to which I'd originally responded wanted a blanked QoS block on all telco lines.
I was the original post, and what I was saying is not to block QoS at all, but that if you implement QoS on THAT line, you can't at the same time claim that its a common carrier line and be except from XYZ regulation..
I think his ultimate issue is that its not testable. Its like having a physics theory based upon the existance of god. Yea sounds neat, but no possibly testable.
THEY AREN'T COMMON CARRIERS.
Legally they are, it should be revoked, but they have it.
Hiring a specific person for a job is in no way illigal, the problem is that government agencies and even some companies policies require advertising even if you already have someone for the job. Its kinda silly really, but a simple fact.
I mean common carrier rules don't apply to that line anyways. Common carrier isn't so much about the company as it is to the lines.
Well duh, your not a common carrier for private lines anyways are you?
Exactly, the telcoms are really shooting themselves it the foot. I can understand the arguments against net-neutrality.. simply that over regulating the internet could harm it, and that consumer choice will ultimatly be the best solution to any problems.
BUT they insist upon making statements like saying Google needs to be paying extra because its making money on its lines (when the telcoms are alreayd being paid for the bandwidth). Then spouting out these lies. They could EASILY make the entire debate go away by appologizing for the previous statements and promising to self regulate.
But they still try to claim they paid for the entire phone lines when we all know the government did, I don't see this going away anytime soon.
If they continue to pull this crap I say the government should insist upon being paid back or claim emminent domain over the lines it paid for.
Simple regulation... You start offering special QOS options you loose common carrier status in regards to that traffic!