You are absolutely right about how almost anything can be characterized as terrorism anymore, but what I find interesting is how so many politicians want to have it both ways: harsher punishments for crimes like this (because they are terrorism), yet when talking about their accomplishments, those in power will point out that "there have been no terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11."
Samsung's new LCD. In layman's terms, expect significantly brighter, more detailed LCD displays, which will enable you to review your photography more thoroughly after you take an exposure. This innovation will make it easier to spot blurry images and ensure your photo is framed properly.
So, when we are explaining new tech to people who do not know better, we can just make stuff up, right? Okay, maybe I could buy that you can verify framing easire in some circumstances, but how does resolution have anything to do with brightness?
Meanwhile, I wonder if there's a market for pre-keyed windows installations? ie: purchase a windows disk, create a pre-keyed / slipstreamed / no question / extra utility (say, ClamAV and Spybot S&D, set to run silently at regular intervals at low prio)/ extra app (say, Openoffice, Firefox and Thunderbird preinstalled as well) DVD version, and sell both for slightly more than the purchase cost of the original. Since the license accompanies the disc, and since I'm not removing anything from the user, I think it would be a sweet thing to be able to buy. Microsoft's making their money, so they've no reason to bitch. Everything else is OSS...
The legality of that is questionable considering the recent CleanFlicks case. The argument that the original creator is still making their money was exactly the same on that issue, but it made no difference.
There is only a difference between the two scenarios if you buy into the idea that Hollywood is fighting to save their artistic vision... the same could not be said for Microsoft... surely.....
RealNames will not be the only victim - there's a whole ecosystem that stretches all around the world that Microsoft is turning off. CNNIC in China, Forval in Japan and other companies in Belgium, Holland, France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
oh wait, did I mention the company in Finland??
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You are absolutely right about how almost anything can be characterized as terrorism anymore, but what I find interesting is how so many politicians want to have it both ways: harsher punishments for crimes like this (because they are terrorism), yet when talking about their accomplishments, those in power will point out that "there have been no terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11."
Now which is it?
I agree.
So, when we are explaining new tech to people who do not know better, we can just make stuff up, right? Okay, maybe I could buy that you can verify framing easire in some circumstances, but how does resolution have anything to do with brightness?
The legality of that is questionable considering the recent CleanFlicks case. The argument that the original creator is still making their money was exactly the same on that issue, but it made no difference.
There is only a difference between the two scenarios if you buy into the idea that Hollywood is fighting to save their artistic vision... the same could not be said for Microsoft... surely.....
Gideon
That's rediculous.
RealNames will not be the only victim - there's a whole ecosystem that stretches all around the world that Microsoft is turning off. CNNIC in China, Forval in Japan and other companies in Belgium, Holland, France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. oh wait, did I mention the company in Finland??