I don't know of what happend in the US, but to get a broader view here is how mobile phones developed in Germany... Note that all the analog networks where still under the monopoly of state-owned "Deutsche Bundespost", the introduction of GSM was the first time they got some competition...
1958-1977: "A-Netz" ("Netz" = net[work]) about a 100 cells, analog at 160MHz FM, calls by operator, ca. 10,000 subscribers at most
1972-1994: "B-Netz", analog, same frequency as A, but fully automated dialing, but to call a mobile from a fixed line you had to know where it was. Also still no handover support, so not a real "cellular" network. 158 cells with 50-150km radius, 25,000 subscribers
1981-2000: "C-Netz", still analog, 450MHz FM, first "real" cellular network. Digital signalling for dialing.
since 1993 in public use: "D-Netz" (several networks), GSM 900MHz and "E-Netz" (several, since 1997), GSM 1800MHz.
Now this is crap. What possible reason could there be to base the pricing on crypto strength ? There is absolutely no difference in trust or work for them.
That's like going to a notary and paying more if you like his signature readable...
Funny...
The above article got it right, as some others. Score 0. I have seen my article modded both as "insightful" (which it really isn't) and "troll", due to people not being able to lookup an MX record and reacting funny to everything which reminds them of "Signal 11" (No, sorry, pure coincidence, I have nothing to do with him.)
Anyhow, I really don't know why every little Linux problem gets so much attention. What do you think ? Artificial intelligence in the kernel that automagically adapts to new hardware ?
In the faq about the eBook it is mentioned that they support the Open eBook format, which seems to be mostly XML with well-formed HTML. The specification is at http://www.openebook.org/specification.htm.
So it should be quite easy to convert documents...
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Hewlett-Packard has become the first company to be snagged by a German law requiring firms to pay fees for making CD burners that are being used to illegally lift the latest hits off the World Wide Web
Never trust what you read in the newspapers... The fee is actually not for illegally copied music, but for legally copied music. Any music privately copied and given to friends is legal. So this is a general fee that is required for all manufacturers of equipment capable of making copies of copyrighted works (audio, video, photocopiers). I think the law is from 1965 or so. It assumed that there was no practical way to control private copies of media works, so it was allowed and this general reimbursement was introduced (fee on copying equipment and media).
The problem is obviously with computer equipment that is not just used for media, but also for data storage.
HPs defense strategie is to say that with CD roms the manufacturer is able to prevent making private copies or at least control the copying, so the fees for their equipment should be less. I am not shure if I like the thoughts behind that more than the general fee.
To put in into perspective: After all HP pays about $6 per CD burner to the GEMA. They announced starting work on better copy-protection schemes now.
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Perhaps with a.sig - just changed it. But on another thought, maybe I should let everyone guess;-)
The spammers try to filter out invalid addresses, so all you need is a real address that seems to be invalid.
I discovered this by accident: I wanted to track which companies give my email address out, so I created a subdomain with throw-away addresses: "nospam.sig11.net", and gave out unique identifiers for the username. (See my email in the header - it is a valid address - do not remove "nospam".)
But the funny thing is: I never received any spam to these addresses. (And for the other addresses I see about 5-10 spam mails a day rejected by my spam filters...) It seems the address gets sorted out because of the "nospam" part.
So the solution is: Get yourself a valid email address with "nospam" or the like in it - The spammers will do the work for you and exclude you from their lists.
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I don't know of what happend in the US, but to get a broader view here is how mobile phones developed in Germany... Note that all the analog networks where still under the monopoly of state-owned "Deutsche Bundespost", the introduction of GSM was the first time they got some competition...
Now this is crap. What possible reason could there be to base the pricing on crypto strength ? There is absolutely no difference in trust or work for them.
That's like going to a notary and paying more if you like his signature readable...
Funny... The above article got it right, as some others. Score 0. I have seen my article modded both as "insightful" (which it really isn't) and "troll", due to people not being able to lookup an MX record and reacting funny to everything which reminds them of "Signal 11" (No, sorry, pure coincidence, I have nothing to do with him.)
Anyhow, I really don't know why every little Linux problem gets so much attention. What do you think ? Artificial intelligence in the kernel that automagically adapts to new hardware ?
According to c't (german magazine), the problem is just with SMP-Kernels, that have problems to identify the IO-APIC to know the number of CPUs.
Quickfix: Boot with kernel parameter "noapic".
or get a new install disk. (SuSE: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/kernel /pentium4/)
In the faq about the eBook it is mentioned that they support the Open eBook format, which seems to be mostly XML with well-formed HTML. The specification is at http://www.openebook.org/specification.htm.
So it should be quite easy to convert documents...
Never trust what you read in the newspapers... The fee is actually not for illegally copied music, but for legally copied music. Any music privately copied and given to friends is legal. So this is a general fee that is required for all manufacturers of equipment capable of making copies of copyrighted works (audio, video, photocopiers). I think the law is from 1965 or so. It assumed that there was no practical way to control private copies of media works, so it was allowed and this general reimbursement was introduced (fee on copying equipment and media).
The problem is obviously with computer equipment that is not just used for media, but also for data storage.
HPs defense strategie is to say that with CD roms the manufacturer is able to prevent making private copies or at least control the copying, so the fees for their equipment should be less. I am not shure if I like the thoughts behind that more than the general fee.
To put in into perspective: After all HP pays about $6 per CD burner to the GEMA. They announced starting work on better copy-protection schemes now.
Perhaps with a .sig - just changed it. But on another thought, maybe I should let everyone guess ;-)
The spammers try to filter out invalid addresses, so all you need is a real address that seems to be invalid.
I discovered this by accident: I wanted to track which companies give my email address out, so I created a subdomain with throw-away addresses: "nospam.sig11.net", and gave out unique identifiers for the username. (See my email in the header - it is a valid address - do not remove "nospam".)
But the funny thing is: I never received any spam to these addresses. (And for the other addresses I see about 5-10 spam mails a day rejected by my spam filters...) It seems the address gets sorted out because of the "nospam" part.
So the solution is: Get yourself a valid email address with "nospam" or the like in it - The spammers will do the work for you and exclude you from their lists.