It's got to be a joke (/hoax).
try entering '1' in their program which "checks if your phone number tones have been copyrighted", or '0913853598013598031579108357135' or 'ASDGFdakgfdakdfagj'.
Whatever you enter, it claims it's registered.
At least the mirror at 3DActionPlanet does, and I very much doubt the one they're hosting on their own site is any different.
FUD. I don't know about Red Alert, but Master of Orion uses DX3 and it ran just fine when I last tried it, with DX7a I believe.
In fact, from DirectX 3, they started adding a number to all of the functions in the API so that they didn't have to worry about backward compatability.
Datatilsynet are legitimately fighting *for* the privacy of the Norwegians.
Point 1: If you had bothered to check, you'd know that the registration is for validating your ID agains the national people register, thus making sure only legitimate people get access to the phone directory. You also have to explicitly allow redistribution of your e-mail.
Point 2: The government are also under the same video surveilance rules as everyone else. And you forgot to include that these are open registers that everyone has access to, so you can check where there are cameras and if you want to, avoid them.
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Full translation, the wording may not be perfect, but it's a long article and I'm not going to bother reading it yet another time. Stop the e-mail adds.
By: Jon Martin Larsen
From now on, in Norway, nobody are allowed to send advertisement to your e-mail, unless you let them. Of course, it requires more than an EU adjusted law to stop the flow advertisement on the internet.
RECIEVES SPAM: Jan Ingvoldstad (28) are a student doing his main subject in computer science, and he recieves between thirty and fifty spam mails per week. Last weekend he got 17 such messages.
Make sure you trust who you give your e-mail address to. If you participate in newsgroup, mailing lists or competitions og gaming sites, then you are specially vulnerable.
The unsolicited mail which are sent to your e-mail are refered to as Spam. It has gotten it's name from an old Monthy Python sketch, where a bunch of viking constantly interrupts and sings Spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam.
The spam is distributed by more or less unscrupulous businesspeople which hopes to sell services and product. And their way of doing it is to fill your e-mail.
In many countries this is allready illegal, and from the 1st of march will Norway have one of the strictest regulations in this area. Other countries are Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria and Italy. A new marketing law which is more suited to EU becomes operative and makes it illegal to send advertisments through e-mail or SMS (Short Messaging Service) unless the consumers has given their explicit permission up front.
Anyone that breaks the prohibition, will explain onesself to the consumers ombudsman. the sentences in the new marketing laws are also a lot stricter. You now risk getting large fines or up to six months in jail. Or both.
Norwegian companies and companies who markets themselves in Norway can be held responsible if they send you spam, provided you haven't explicitly requested it up front. "The consumer gets more power." concludes chief information officer Anne Nyeggen in the Data Inspectorate. "The new marketing law overlaps and surpasses the personal information law(NOTE: In Norway, it's hard getting personal information and you also need clearance for keeping databases) when it comes down to rights, and it results in a much stronger protection against advertisments and sales through e-mail and SMS."
"We think this is a kind of marketing that enters into the private areas, and thusly we think the recipients should give their permission in advance", says Harald Hilton. He is counceler in the consumer branch of the Children and family departement.
Some companies are allready following the lines of the new law. These are mainly compaines that operates partly or completely on the internet. One example is the new telephone directory on the net. You have to register to recieve information, and the e-mail address are your user name. The service is closed to accomodate the demands from the Data Inspectorate demands about protecting private information and to hinder abuse.
This means you have to identify yourself to get access. Telenor Media have been given permission to verify your identity by requesting your social security number and checking this against the national register. You are also explicitly asked if you want your e-mail to be available to others, both for private and for businesses. You are also specifically queried about if you wish to recieve unsolicited e-mails.
But Norwegian law does not govern the internet. When you are surfing the net, you have to watch out. If you find you are being massively spammed, it might be because you were careless.
When you are surfing on the net, you can easily be tempted by offers and links. You're surfing along, maybe downloading an image and you click on another link.
Don't be surprised if someone has a small data mining script on one of the pages. Such a program would attempt to gain access to your e-mail address through your browser. The address is stored, then sold, and sold and sold to everyone that wants it. And that's how you get offers from the strangest places about all kinds of weird things.
Maybe, but consider that the java compilers barely
do any kind of optimizing has quite a bit to do with that. C/C++ compilers OTOH are extremely optimized, squeezing every bit of speed from the CPU. In a few years, when java compilers has matured, we'll be able to see if it really is a viable language.
The reason for the "bad" web page is to stay backwards compatible, they want their pages to be viewed by as many as possible, and easily viewed in any browser, including text browsers such as lynx. If you check out the source, you'll notice that they are using HTML 2.0, which most of the existing browsers support.
W3C has some info about HTML 2 if anyone is interested.
Ever wondered why you never hit a mine on the first click in minesweeper? The board is generated when you click the first square, and thus, with your implementation, you'd always win.
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It's got to be a joke (/hoax).
try entering '1' in their program which "checks if your phone number tones have been copyrighted", or '0913853598013598031579108357135' or 'ASDGFdakgfdakdfagj'.
Whatever you enter, it claims it's registered.
At least the mirror at 3DActionPlanet does, and I very much doubt the one they're hosting on their own site is any different.
FUD. I don't know about Red Alert, but Master of Orion uses DX3 and it ran just fine when I last tried it, with DX7a I believe.
In fact, from DirectX 3, they started adding a number to all of the functions in the API so that they didn't have to worry about backward compatability.
Datatilsynet are legitimately fighting *for* the privacy of the Norwegians.
Point 1: If you had bothered to check, you'd know that the registration is for validating your ID agains the national people register, thus making sure only legitimate people get access to the phone directory. You also have to explicitly allow redistribution of your e-mail.
Point 2: The government are also under the same video surveilance rules as everyone else. And you forgot to include that these are open registers that everyone has access to, so you can check where there are cameras and if you want to, avoid them.
Full translation, the wording may not be perfect, but it's a long article and I'm not going to bother reading it yet another time.
Stop the e-mail adds.
By: Jon Martin Larsen
From now on, in Norway, nobody are allowed to send advertisement to your e-mail, unless you let them. Of course, it requires more than an EU adjusted law to stop the flow advertisement on the internet.
RECIEVES SPAM: Jan Ingvoldstad (28) are a student doing his main subject in computer science, and he recieves between thirty and fifty spam mails per week. Last weekend he got 17 such messages.
Make sure you trust who you give your e-mail address to. If you participate in newsgroup, mailing lists or competitions og gaming sites, then you are specially vulnerable.
The unsolicited mail which are sent to your e-mail are refered to as Spam. It has gotten it's name from an old Monthy Python sketch, where a bunch of viking constantly interrupts and sings Spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam.
The spam is distributed by more or less unscrupulous businesspeople which hopes to sell services and product. And their way of doing it is to fill your e-mail.
In many countries this is allready illegal, and from the 1st of march will Norway have one of the strictest regulations in this area. Other countries are Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria and Italy. A new marketing law which is more suited to EU becomes operative and makes it illegal to send advertisments through e-mail or SMS (Short Messaging Service) unless the consumers has given their explicit permission up front.
Anyone that breaks the prohibition, will explain onesself to the consumers ombudsman. the sentences in the new marketing laws are also a lot stricter. You now risk getting large fines or up to six months in jail. Or both.
Norwegian companies and companies who markets themselves in Norway can be held responsible if they send you spam, provided you haven't explicitly requested it up front. "The consumer gets more power." concludes chief information officer Anne Nyeggen in the Data Inspectorate. "The new marketing law overlaps and surpasses the personal information law(NOTE: In Norway, it's hard getting personal information and you also need clearance for keeping databases) when it comes down to rights, and it results in a much stronger protection against advertisments and sales through e-mail and SMS."
"We think this is a kind of marketing that enters into the private areas, and thusly we think the recipients should give their permission in advance", says Harald Hilton. He is counceler in the consumer branch of the Children and family departement.
Some companies are allready following the lines of the new law. These are mainly compaines that operates partly or completely on the internet. One example is the new telephone directory on the net. You have to register to recieve information, and the e-mail address are your user name. The service is closed to accomodate the demands from the Data Inspectorate demands about protecting private information and to hinder abuse.
This means you have to identify yourself to get access. Telenor Media have been given permission to verify your identity by requesting your social security number and checking this against the national register. You are also explicitly asked if you want your e-mail to be available to others, both for private and for businesses. You are also specifically queried about if you wish to recieve unsolicited e-mails.
But Norwegian law does not govern the internet. When you are surfing the net, you have to watch out. If you find you are being massively spammed, it might be because you were careless.
When you are surfing on the net, you can easily be tempted by offers and links. You're surfing along, maybe downloading an image and you click on another link.
Don't be surprised if someone has a small data mining script on one of the pages. Such a program would attempt to gain access to your e-mail address through your browser. The address is stored, then sold, and sold and sold to everyone that wants it. And that's how you get offers from the strangest places about all kinds of weird things.
3. The performance hit is not minor.
Maybe, but consider that the java compilers barely do any kind of optimizing has quite a bit to do with that. C/C++ compilers OTOH are extremely optimized, squeezing every bit of speed from the CPU. In a few years, when java compilers has matured, we'll be able to see if it really is a viable language.
Mmmm. what about an "in-depth review" of the published material?
The reason for the "bad" web page is to stay backwards compatible, they want their pages to be viewed by as many as possible, and easily viewed in any browser, including text browsers such as lynx. If you check out the source, you'll notice that they are using HTML 2.0, which most of the existing browsers support.
W3C has some info about HTML 2 if anyone is interested.
Ever wondered why you never hit a mine on the first click in minesweeper? The board is generated when you click the first square, and thus, with your implementation, you'd always win.