MS will have difficulties to sue them in Europe. In European jurisdiction, it is allowed to modify and reverse-engineer your software to allow interoperability with your system, any part of a license that forbids this is void.
Lady burned her legs with hot coffee - 2 million $ (was at a McD*nalds shop)
Guy got lung cancer by voluntarily incorporating toxic substances (cigarettes) - 7 billion $
Ten year old boy got inprisoned for helping his sister doing pee-pee
You can always get jailed for having an old empty beer can in the back of your car, even if you're completely sober and it was left by your brother you picked up after a party
Foreigners who got charged aren't allowed to contact their embassies for legal assistence
You invented legal nonsense like software patents or the DMCA.
You are the last of the industrialized countries which still has the death penalty.
and now *this*
Dear Americans,
don't tell your living in a country which is still a modern democracy. It ain't. From the european viewpoint, you're getting closer and closer to countries like China or Iran.
Sorry I have to say this...
According to fact that the police is completely overwhelmed by the number of people ignoring the speed limits (at least here in Germany), this seems like a good idea to me in the first place. Take into consideration that driving a car and using the autobahn is not be a right, it's a privilege.
The problem I see is the amount of data which has to be stored in the car if you only rely on GPS data. But this can be solved if you extend the system by some components:
The system makes the decision if it is in a rural area or not based on GPS data and an onboard map. City limits don't change so fast, so this seems sensible, and the amount of data needed is limited.
Information about other zones with speed limits are transmitted locally by low-power transmitters, something like a GSM cell broadcast. So there's always up-to-date map data for the GPS to find out if the car is in a local speed limit zone or not.
For temporary or small speed limit zones, like roads under construction or a village's kindergarten, an induction loop transmitting the data is placed in the road's surface. A position check via GPS is not needed in this case.
Microsoft certainly doesn't like Waibel too much for that move, so are there any obstacles in offerings various other operating systems with their hardware?
They do offer! According to their order pages (just grep for Linux or SuSE in the right frame), they're also offering you a brand-new copy of SuSE 7.0 as well as sending them your own Linux installation CDs, and they will do a standard install of your OS on your new hardware.
Disclaimer: I do not use Windows nor SuSE Linux nor do I endorse their use - I use Debian. Consider doing the same.
It has nothing to do with size. The Canadian system scales very well to Britain with twice the population.
To top that: AFAIK all european countries use a system similar to the canadian one on the elections for the European Parliament.
And in the EP elections, there are more than 300 million voters, so size ain't an argument.
I do not like the idea of using fake adresses to poison a spammers database, because of the obvious reason of perhaps (likely?) harrassing someone completely innocent, namely the admins of your faked domain and the faked domained the spammer used in his sender address. If you use faked addresses, you reduce the usefullness of mail by an amount that's not appropriate in regard to the gain you get from the use of faked adresses.
I think except the approach mentioned in another posting to use several of my own subdomains to delay a spammer (30 MX x 30 A x 70 sec), there are the following legitimate targets to use as spam targets in your web pages:
real addresses of known spammers (not the faked From: addresses!)
addresses taken from the web sites advertised in spam
Administrative contacts of well-known spammer domains
Adresses from politicians or economic leaders promoting spam and pro-spam laws
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MS will have difficulties to sue them in Europe. In European jurisdiction, it is allowed to modify and reverse-engineer your software to allow interoperability with your system, any part of a license that forbids this is void.
- Lady burned her legs with hot coffee - 2 million $ (was at a McD*nalds shop)
- Guy got lung cancer by voluntarily incorporating toxic substances (cigarettes) - 7 billion $
- Ten year old boy got inprisoned for helping his sister doing pee-pee
- You can always get jailed for having an old empty beer can in the back of your car, even if you're completely sober and it was left by your brother you picked up after a party
- Foreigners who got charged aren't allowed to contact their embassies for legal assistence
- You invented legal nonsense like software patents or the DMCA.
- You are the last of the industrialized countries which still has the death penalty.
- and now *this*
Dear Americans,don't tell your living in a country which is still a modern democracy. It ain't. From the european viewpoint, you're getting closer and closer to countries like China or Iran.
Sorry I have to say this...
The problem I see is the amount of data which has to be stored in the car if you only rely on GPS data. But this can be solved if you extend the system by some components:
Microsoft certainly doesn't like Waibel too much for that move, so are there any obstacles in offerings various other operating systems with their hardware?
They do offer! According to their order pages (just grep for Linux or SuSE in the right frame), they're also offering you a brand-new copy of SuSE 7.0 as well as sending them your own Linux installation CDs, and they will do a standard install of your OS on your new hardware.
Disclaimer: I do not use Windows nor SuSE Linux nor do I endorse their use - I use Debian. Consider doing the same.
It has nothing to do with size. The Canadian system scales very well to Britain with twice the population.
To top that: AFAIK all european countries use a system similar to the canadian one on the elections for the European Parliament.
And in the EP elections, there are more than 300 million voters, so size ain't an argument.
apt-get remove xmcd
That's all. cddb.com pleased us, like amazon did, to ignore their existence, so let us do them this favor.
I think except the approach mentioned in another posting to use several of my own subdomains to delay a spammer (30 MX x 30 A x 70 sec), there are the following legitimate targets to use as spam targets in your web pages:
He who is not able to type shall not be worth to get to the correct side.
Be serious.