I wonder which force drives customers stronger: the simple convenience of plugging the thumb drive in and having Winderz read it immediately, or the lowest price. Any thumb drive that has to pay royalties for the convenience, which requires a filesystem, is going to lose the price advantage by having to pay for that filesystem.
Yeah, that's great except you might use several different machines on a particular day (home computer, work computer, cell phone). You might also have to replace your machine one day.
Unless you carry around an implanted chip, how is the bank going to know it's the "real you?" Maybe they have a whitelist, or maybe you have to go through some verification process the first time to tie the machine to your account or something, but it sounds a bit hokey.
One other thing that gets me is how does the bank know your computer has a TPM chip. It can ask, but it has to trust that the computer will answer truthfully. If you set up an intervening program that says, "Sure, I have a TPM chip. You can trust me!" and then emulate the TPM, with a fake ID of course, I don't see how the bank can tell the difference. If I can think of that there's already a bunch of hackers who have, and they are all saying "Excellent" in their best Mr. Burns voices.
Specifically, TFA says 180Solutions is, in fact, spyware, even though 180Solutions are suing ZoneLabs for saying exactly that.
180Solutions claims that ZoneLabs is scaring off their clients. Oddly enough, most companies don't want to associated with "High risk" spyware.
Personally, I would like to see an option in ZoneAlarm where I can have the offending spyware company's officers hunted down and shot while their building is burned to the foundation. I would pay extra for that.
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Well, this has to be one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Fix News and the Washington Times are basically GOP-controlled party news, and they are not above making stuff up (and not firing somebody for doing it).
Just because the NY Times, CNN, the LA Times, and the Washington Post dare to print something other than Undying Praise for the Fatherland does not make them left-leaning. It makes them journalists doing their jobs. I think the non-U.S. news coverage of the same events is more aggressive, such as the CBC, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the BBC. I take the truth as an average of these sources, along with some help from FAIR and the Columbia Journalism Review.
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I see someone modded you -1, Troll, but I have to agree with you. The Washington Times is a right-wing tabloid owned by the Unification Church. It is like Fix News, but less respectable. Why anyone here would take them seriously is beyond me.
RIAA is an association - a front for Recording industry
Much like the Mob is an association of "legitimate businessmen from New Jersey."
The RIAA treats customers and artists as adversaries. In its mind, coercion and extortion are the best ways to ensure future earnings, not better product and lower prices. The recording industry (the entertainment industry in general) has a low ethical standard that would make the crooks from Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia proud. That the RIAA continues to thrive while the crooks who stole millions from those companies are in prison speaks to the silliness of our system of justice.
Actually, the driver is positioned such that the passengers can get out at the curb instead of the middle of the street. It probably goes back to the horse-and-buggy days, when you wanted to keep you passengers from stepping in the mud (and other stuff) in the middle of the street. This reminds me of the tale about the diameter of the SRB's on the shuttle being determined by the width of a horse's ass, but that's another campfire.
Wow. What's that word for when we blow the budget to overseas and wipe out the Taliban, while we put the American Taliban in power here? Is it IRONY? I think so!
I wonder if, at the speeds of matter orbiting a black hole, there wouldn't be some sort of vortex process because of the radical difference in rotational energy between layers close to the black hole and layers farther from a black hole. It would be similat to hurricanes forming near the equator because of differences in angular momentum. Such votices at such high energies might compress gas enough to start a reaction.
This system would be separate from the OnStar assistance/phone service thingy. In fact this sounds a lot like the proposed OBD-III standard that the EPA came up with (I don't think it's madatory yet). The telemetry will be used to more quickly determine if your car is out of emmisions calibration.
I know a GM employee who had this happen on a GM-owned vehicle that had this system. He got a voice mail from a GM engineer, saying that the car had set a code for the part of the powertrain that was under his responsibility. It was cool, but a little scary.
From an actual US TV commercial for a drug (the one with Mandy Patinkin, which is probably the most important thing to most of the audience:
"[the drug] reduced symptoms in 52% of the people studied. That's about half."
I think that pretty much sums up the state of science and technology in America.
This only an "alternative" until publishers think the can get away with not making paper books anymore.
This yet another example of consumers being snookered into believing that it is a better deal to rent than to own. Unless you completely sure that the book is only temporarily useful, it's a bad idea to rent, just like with houses or cars.
The key here is to make sure people understand the long-term loss (100% loss of value in the textbook after five months vs. reusable reference that lasts forever) that comes with the short-term gain (33% discount for book).
Darn new-fangled charts. You kids have it too easy these days with all these elements just lying around. Back in *my* day, we had one element: hydrogen. If we wanted anything else, we had to make it ourselves! It was kind of dark back then, and a little hard to breathe, but we liked it! We loved it! Now get off my lawn!
If you encrypt the content and send it over SSL, then the ISP doesn't know what you have, just where it came from. If you use tunnelling and anonymous proxies, then they don't even know that.
The issue here is that if do take advantage of your right to release your code under multiple licenses, you are no longer allowed to disribute the code *at all* if it is covered by Sun's patents. Thus the CDDL is binding.
Unless something has changed, only cellular telephone conversations are illegal to receive. Cordless telephones, which have a land-line base, do not fall under the same rules. Since both cordless and cellular calls are now (usually) digitally transmitted over the air, it's a bit harder to surreptitiously listen in. Not impossible, of course.
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I wonder which force drives customers stronger: the simple convenience of plugging the thumb drive in and having Winderz read it immediately, or the lowest price. Any thumb drive that has to pay royalties for the convenience, which requires a filesystem, is going to lose the price advantage by having to pay for that filesystem.
Unless you carry around an implanted chip, how is the bank going to know it's the "real you?" Maybe they have a whitelist, or maybe you have to go through some verification process the first time to tie the machine to your account or something, but it sounds a bit hokey.
One other thing that gets me is how does the bank know your computer has a TPM chip. It can ask, but it has to trust that the computer will answer truthfully. If you set up an intervening program that says, "Sure, I have a TPM chip. You can trust me!" and then emulate the TPM, with a fake ID of course, I don't see how the bank can tell the difference. If I can think of that there's already a bunch of hackers who have, and they are all saying "Excellent" in their best Mr. Burns voices.
180Solutions claims that ZoneLabs is scaring off their clients. Oddly enough, most companies don't want to associated with "High risk" spyware.
Personally, I would like to see an option in ZoneAlarm where I can have the offending spyware company's officers hunted down and shot while their building is burned to the foundation. I would pay extra for that.
Just because the NY Times, CNN, the LA Times, and the Washington Post dare to print something other than Undying Praise for the Fatherland does not make them left-leaning. It makes them journalists doing their jobs. I think the non-U.S. news coverage of the same events is more aggressive, such as the CBC, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the BBC. I take the truth as an average of these sources, along with some help from FAIR and the Columbia Journalism Review.
If I want left-leaning, I can go to the Independent Media Center, the Alternative News Network, The Raw Story, or the Fifth Estate.
I see someone modded you -1, Troll, but I have to agree with you. The Washington Times is a right-wing tabloid owned by the Unification Church. It is like Fix News, but less respectable. Why anyone here would take them seriously is beyond me.
Much like the Mob is an association of "legitimate businessmen from New Jersey."
The RIAA treats customers and artists as adversaries. In its mind, coercion and extortion are the best ways to ensure future earnings, not better product and lower prices. The recording industry (the entertainment industry in general) has a low ethical standard that would make the crooks from Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia proud. That the RIAA continues to thrive while the crooks who stole millions from those companies are in prison speaks to the silliness of our system of justice.
Actually, the driver is positioned such that the passengers can get out at the curb instead of the middle of the street. It probably goes back to the horse-and-buggy days, when you wanted to keep you passengers from stepping in the mud (and other stuff) in the middle of the street. This reminds me of the tale about the diameter of the SRB's on the shuttle being determined by the width of a horse's ass, but that's another campfire.
It's like the time that the Knights of the Round Table had to go looking for Castle Aaaaaah.
OK. I give. What is so amazing about Ubuntu? Do they compile thier stuff with special options or have some whiz-bang installation program?
Wow. What's that word for when we blow the budget to overseas and wipe out the Taliban, while we put the American Taliban in power here? Is it IRONY? I think so!
I wonder if, at the speeds of matter orbiting a black hole, there wouldn't be some sort of vortex process because of the radical difference in rotational energy between layers close to the black hole and layers farther from a black hole. It would be similat to hurricanes forming near the equator because of differences in angular momentum. Such votices at such high energies might compress gas enough to start a reaction.
You can also try SlAMD64, a Slackware-based distro compiled for AMD64. They just updated for Slackware 10.2.
This system would be separate from the OnStar assistance/phone service thingy. In fact this sounds a lot like the proposed OBD-III standard that the EPA came up with (I don't think it's madatory yet). The telemetry will be used to more quickly determine if your car is out of emmisions calibration. I know a GM employee who had this happen on a GM-owned vehicle that had this system. He got a voice mail from a GM engineer, saying that the car had set a code for the part of the powertrain that was under his responsibility. It was cool, but a little scary.
No, no, no. The Christians were just "opening a dialogue with the world of Islam" when they went on their Crusades. Really.
Drug dealers also embraced the metric system (well, except for weed).
From an actual US TV commercial for a drug (the one with Mandy Patinkin, which is probably the most important thing to most of the audience: "[the drug] reduced symptoms in 52% of the people studied. That's about half." I think that pretty much sums up the state of science and technology in America.
A man-in-the-middle attack should take care of getting the key, unless the computer has to be running in Trusted Mode.
This only an "alternative" until publishers think the can get away with not making paper books anymore. This yet another example of consumers being snookered into believing that it is a better deal to rent than to own. Unless you completely sure that the book is only temporarily useful, it's a bad idea to rent, just like with houses or cars. The key here is to make sure people understand the long-term loss (100% loss of value in the textbook after five months vs. reusable reference that lasts forever) that comes with the short-term gain (33% discount for book).
Darn new-fangled charts. You kids have it too easy these days with all these elements just lying around. Back in *my* day, we had one element: hydrogen. If we wanted anything else, we had to make it ourselves! It was kind of dark back then, and a little hard to breathe, but we liked it! We loved it! Now get off my lawn!
SCO is dying...
If you encrypt the content and send it over SSL, then the ISP doesn't know what you have, just where it came from. If you use tunnelling and anonymous proxies, then they don't even know that.
The issue here is that if do take advantage of your right to release your code under multiple licenses, you are no longer allowed to disribute the code *at all* if it is covered by Sun's patents. Thus the CDDL is binding.
This kind of thing has happened before, and the site publishing the trade secrets was not liable, because they did not steal the secrets themselves.
Unless something has changed, only cellular telephone conversations are illegal to receive. Cordless telephones, which have a land-line base, do not fall under the same rules. Since both cordless and cellular calls are now (usually) digitally transmitted over the air, it's a bit harder to surreptitiously listen in. Not impossible, of course.
Apparently, you seen the documentary about this. It's the most important movie of the year!