For those complaining about somebody controlling their temperature... my former school had a system where some idiot in the central office, 30 minutes away, got to control our temperature. Its 110 outside and the heat is still on. Our janitor illegaly installed bypass switches.
It's even worse in that aspect than Linux. If I recall correctly, the window manager is kernel mode. But it doesn't mean its superior, though. Its UNIX history leaves a bad taste.
I think AIX's SMIT system is better than/etc too.
The U.S. version is called the Audio Home Recording Act. It specifically exempts hard drives and computers, but there is a fee of several dollars for Minidisc, Audio-only CDR, and DAT devices. There is a fee of several cents on the media for these devices. This is why there's those "Music" CD-R discs that cost more.
I think HP had to pay such a fee a year or so ago for one of their CD-R drives that only had audio software bundled with it.
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The free Fraunhofer MP3 encoder in Windows already limits you to 64 kbps or something. If you want more, get LAME or something.
For those complaining about somebody controlling their temperature... my former school had a system where some idiot in the central office, 30 minutes away, got to control our temperature. Its 110 outside and the heat is still on. Our janitor illegaly installed bypass switches.
Wow. You must be bored.
It's even worse in that aspect than Linux. If I recall correctly, the window manager is kernel mode. But it doesn't mean its superior, though. Its UNIX history leaves a bad taste. I think AIX's SMIT system is better than /etc too.
The U.S. version is called the Audio Home Recording Act. It specifically exempts hard drives and computers, but there is a fee of several dollars for Minidisc, Audio-only CDR, and DAT devices. There is a fee of several cents on the media for these devices. This is why there's those "Music" CD-R discs that cost more. I think HP had to pay such a fee a year or so ago for one of their CD-R drives that only had audio software bundled with it.
RSA is very simple to implement. I know 13 year olds who have studied it in a number theory class through Johns Hopkin's CTY.
I'm sure somebody at Slashdot knows about it (Timothy)...