"Is this software under GPL, BSD, or any other OSI-approved licence?"
Yes; install -- No; don't install.
So far it's rarely been a problem. The NVidia drivers still bother me, I'd switch if there was an open alternative that worked but ATI isn't quite there for me yet.
IBM have enough on their plate already. I think Microsoft's lawyers should be more than sufficient for the task, and it'll give them something more productive to do than harassing Canadian teens and Desktop Linux distributions.
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iSearch does not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under the age of thirteen.
If iSearch becomes aware that it has inadvertently
received personally identifiable information and/or data
from a user under the age of thirteen, iSearch will delete
such past data from its records and will cease to collect
any new data from that computer, including any non-personally
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Just informing you in advance that my children are aged 8 and 10, and have access to a number of computers running Windows. I've checked (using SpyBot) that your 'toolbar' is not currently installed on any of my computers, but if by chance it gets accidentally installed in future I ask that you do not collect any personally identifiable information as laid out in your EULA. You can most reliably do this by blocking the following address ranges that my dynamic IP is allocated from; 210.54/15, 202.27/24, 202.53.180/24 and 222/8 (there's a few/24's in there allocated to my ISP, the rest is mostly China so you might as well block the whole thing)
I was about to make the same point; computing power that was not even available to the US Government 50 or more years ago is now on everyone's desktop. Many other things that only governments could do 50 years ago (satellite launches, cruse missiles, etc) are now within reach of any sufficiently funded and/or motivated hobbiest. There's certainly no lack of information (don't bother with a google search; the real information is in advanced physics textbooks)
I'll have to do a full writeup, but I'm partway through setting up a 4-camera system myself which sends images to my remote webserver via ssh (haven't got the camera switching set up, so on any particular day it records whichever camera I happen to have plugged in; usually the mailbox one)
http://zcat.wired.net.nz/gallery/album09
Photos of the cameras and warning sign are on the last page:)
I can't remember how they worked, it was about a hundred billion years ago man (in computer time anyhow)!! I think the point is that 'tabs' in any software are such an obvious idea they shouldn't be patentable, by Opera or anyone else..
Could there be anything less democratic than "Software By the People, For the People". Hell yes that's a communist ideal alright, right up there with the concept of a "Free Market".
Browsers can be configured not to send referer info.
But they usually aren't, and it's completely outside the control of a website designer. Just checking through my logs, about 2% of visitors to my page have their referer blocked. A little php script that bounced 'outside referers' back to the homepage would make deep links break for 98% of the people that try to follow them. No silly ToS required.
Not terribly long ago almost everyone was on dialup. Give it a few years and most people will have cable or ADSL or some other form of "big fat pipe" -- except that by then it won't seem so big and fat anymore (and the Longhorn services packs will be a gig or more each:)
The content of a CD is not entirely flat 2x16-bit audio data. It's slightly compressed, padded with some checksum bits (reed-solomon) and interleaved so that the loss of several consecutive bits will still be mostly recoverable.
The technology's at least 25 years old; what used to take a bunch of chips to do (when the first CD players came out) is now trivially handled by a single reader/decoder/converter IC. That's all done inside the drive, your soundcard doesn't do anything except pass the analog signal from the CD drive out to the speakers..
Do you have even the faintest idea how logic actually works? Or did I just mis-read what you wrote?
None of the gates have to reliably reproduce that actual voltage (+5, +3.3, +2.8, +/-12v, or whatever) that represents a "1" or "0", they just have to reliable recognise that it's "smallish" (less than halfway, logic 0), or "biggish" (more than halfway, logic 1) and in turn produce a voltage themselves that's reasonably close to whatever represents a "0" or "1". Binary is used for exactly this reason; it's very difficult to propigate an analog voltage through any number of circuits without losing accuracy. Digital circuits don't even try. And as I understand TFA, now they don't even have to get it right all the time either..
I think my point was that, as usual, any new technology is adopted by advertising and adult entertainment long before it hits the 'mainstream'. Or perhaps my point was that IMHO Yahoo toolbar is about as useful and wanted as xxxtoolbar.
The more laws like this you have the easier it becomes for the police to stop and arrest any person, any time, for some bullshit thing other than the prefectly legal behaviour that's actually bothering them...
People need to keep a close eye on the proliferation of unenforced or rarely enforced laws, they're the most dangerous kind!!
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I can save you the bother. Here's what I do;
"Is this software under GPL, BSD, or any other OSI-approved licence?"
Yes; install -- No; don't install.
So far it's rarely been a problem. The NVidia drivers still bother me, I'd switch if there was an open alternative that worked but ATI isn't quite there for me yet.
IBM have enough on their plate already. I think Microsoft's lawyers should be more than sufficient for the task, and it'll give them something more productive to do than harassing Canadian teens and Desktop Linux distributions.
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/24's in there allocated to my ISP, the rest is mostly China so you might as well block the whole thing)
To: <webmaster@isearch.com>
Subject: Notice in advance;
iSearch does not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under the age of thirteen.
If iSearch becomes aware that it has inadvertently
received personally identifiable information and/or data
from a user under the age of thirteen, iSearch will delete
such past data from its records and will cease to collect
any new data from that computer, including any non-personally
identifiable data.
Just informing you in advance that my children are aged 8 and 10, and have access to a number of computers running Windows. I've checked (using SpyBot) that your 'toolbar' is not currently installed on any of my computers, but if by chance it gets accidentally installed in future I ask that you do not collect any personally identifiable information as laid out in your EULA. You can most reliably do this by blocking the following address ranges that my dynamic IP is allocated from; 210.54/15, 202.27/24, 202.53.180/24 and 222/8 (there's a few
Thanks heaps,
zcat. (Bruce Kingsbury )
Yep, those sanctions are really killing us here. Suck it up and grow a backbone.
Must've been a virgin moderator (and I don't mean someone who's never had mod points before :)
I was about to make the same point; computing power that was not even available to the US Government 50 or more years ago is now on everyone's desktop. Many other things that only governments could do 50 years ago (satellite launches, cruse missiles, etc) are now within reach of any sufficiently funded and/or motivated hobbiest. There's certainly no lack of information (don't bother with a google search; the real information is in advanced physics textbooks)
roses are #FF0000 violets are #0000FF
That was on a Thinkgeek banner about a month ago...
The Brits are natives (plural) of Britain
The Brit's court system (posessive) is the court system owned by the Brits.
The apostrophie was inappropriate.
I'll have to do a full writeup, but I'm partway through setting up a 4-camera system myself which sends images to my remote webserver via ssh (haven't got the camera switching set up, so on any particular day it records whichever camera I happen to have plugged in; usually the mailbox one)
:)
http://zcat.wired.net.nz/gallery/album09
Photos of the cameras and warning sign are on the last page
I can't remember how they worked, it was about a hundred billion years ago man (in computer time anyhow)!! I think the point is that 'tabs' in any software are such an obvious idea they shouldn't be patentable, by Opera or anyone else ..
Could there be anything less democratic than "Software By the People, For the People". Hell yes that's a communist ideal alright, right up there with the concept of a "Free Market".
AppleWorks had tabs to switch between multiple open documents. This was way back in the text-only Apple//c days, drawn in ascii art!!!
:)
They may have been used even before then. I wouldn't know
Ahh fuck, screwed it up..
/ en force_copyright/"
"here_springs_an_idea/make_your_addresses_haiku
And thanks slashdot for the manditory space!!
http://www.example.com/Here_springs_an_idea/make_y our_address_haiku/enforce_copyright/
Browsers can be configured not to send referer info.
But they usually aren't, and it's completely outside the control of a website designer. Just checking through my logs, about 2% of visitors to my page have their referer blocked. A little php script that bounced 'outside referers' back to the homepage would make deep links break for 98% of the people that try to follow them. No silly ToS required.
Not terribly long ago almost everyone was on dialup. Give it a few years and most people will have cable or ADSL or some other form of "big fat pipe" -- except that by then it won't seem so big and fat anymore (and the Longhorn services packs will be a gig or more each :)
My understanding is that 32 bits of audio somehow ends up being 24 bits before it gets further mangled, but it doesn't really matter that much..
One thing I am sure of, there's some processing required before you get the raw 2 channel, 16 bit adpcm..
real broadband; you only need about 5Mbps and you can start streaming lossless CD-quality audio.
"very little", not quite none..
The content of a CD is not entirely flat 2x16-bit audio data. It's slightly compressed, padded with some checksum bits (reed-solomon) and interleaved so that the loss of several consecutive bits will still be mostly recoverable.
The technology's at least 25 years old; what used to take a bunch of chips to do (when the first CD players came out) is now trivially handled by a single reader/decoder/converter IC. That's all done inside the drive, your soundcard doesn't do anything except pass the analog signal from the CD drive out to the speakers..
Free Sound's even better..
1) make black box
2) buy lottery ticket
3) ???
4) Profit!
"informative" ?!!
Do you have even the faintest idea how logic actually works? Or did I just mis-read what you wrote?
None of the gates have to reliably reproduce that actual voltage (+5, +3.3, +2.8, +/-12v, or whatever) that represents a "1" or "0", they just have to reliable recognise that it's "smallish" (less than halfway, logic 0), or "biggish" (more than halfway, logic 1) and in turn produce a voltage themselves that's reasonably close to whatever represents a "0" or "1". Binary is used for exactly this reason; it's very difficult to propigate an analog voltage through any number of circuits without losing accuracy. Digital circuits don't even try. And as I understand TFA, now they don't even have to get it right all the time either..
"I need a Sino-Logic 60, Sogo 7 data gloves, a GPL'd stealth module" - Johnny Mnemonic
I think my point was that, as usual, any new technology is adopted by advertising and adult entertainment long before it hits the 'mainstream'. Or perhaps my point was that IMHO Yahoo toolbar is about as useful and wanted as xxxtoolbar.
"Selective enforcement"
The more laws like this you have the easier it becomes for the police to stop and arrest any person, any time, for some bullshit thing other than the prefectly legal behaviour that's actually bothering them...
People need to keep a close eye on the proliferation of unenforced or rarely enforced laws, they're the most dangerous kind!!