As a CS major myself, I blame our poor education system for the decrease in CS majors.
Surely, if one is really interested in learning, one would find ways to learn. Blaming the education system makes about as much sense as blaming violent video games for violence in school.
Apple has (in the early days you actually had to get a token) kept very tight control on who can develop on the Apple box. And third parties have to be "blessed" and pay homage to the alter of Steve Jobs.
Surely, Apple II was a wide open system (schematic of the II+ and boot ROM source were included in the reference manual.) That was largely the reason it was wildly popular and successful platform.
Whatever happened to all the old 8-bit systems from the 80's that permits entry of graphic characters via some weird combination of keystrokes? Don't they count as prior art?
Next up, a phone that connects to the internet, checks the number, than picks up without ringing and starts playing a tape of you acting interrested in what the telemarketeer says only to hang up after an hour. Either that or pick up and hang up immediately so the line stays clear. Whatever costs the telemarketeer most. All without the phone ever bothering you ofcourse.
Next Up: DDoS against websites hosting number list. We've already seen repeated DDoS against varies spammer/scammer list sites in the past, so it's not as far fetched as it seems. So the number listing sites go distributed... surely we all know where this is headed. The entire affair is a social problem. Technical measure can solve it no better than the spam problem. Now if we can have death penalty for spammers and telemarketers (surely everyone notice by now most are of the same douche bag breed...)
Also, note that the head of China's Food and Drug Administration was *executed* for this. They really took it seriously.
No, they really take getting caught seriously. His execution is all about putting up a good front, they are not in the least interested in fixing the problem. Everybody is in on the take, make no mistake. He got executed because he got caught.
Lawyers walk away with millions. Subscribers gets five dollars off their next bill. Comcast pass the cost to their subscribers. The douche bag decision makers in comcast are still employed, moving onto their next (evil) scheme. There is ZERO accountability here. Now if we start talking about PRISON term or heavy financial fines for the said douche...
Actually the company in question is Swedish, but it is likely that some of the components in the unit originated from China seeing how nearly everything today has something in it originated from that dark continent.
A customer with enough volume to demand such a 'feature' (myself I prefer to call it a bug) surely can justify the addition of a compilation flag as oppose to incorporating into general release. I am incline to think it's more likely to be brown nosing the current US administration.
Fair use generates some money to a lot of people. Copyright generates a lot of money to some people.
The difference, is those very same 'some people' contributes a lot to the congresscritters' re-election funds while the 'a lot of people' do not. Take a wild guess which way the IP laws tilt for.
And it used to work too, because the 'smart ones' would invoice for less than what would've otherwise cost the billed company to find out if the invoice is legitimate or not, so the company simply pay it just to 'make it go away.'
These days a lot of spam are being sent by bot-net. How does this in any way help to combat this? It does not. All it does is guarantee a revenue stream for them.
Despite what we all like to think of RIAA, they have on staff some of the best lawyers money can buy. Surely they have contingency plan layout just for this?
You do realize that the costs of spam mitigation are all passed on to you, in the form of higher prices for gadgets, for professional and financial services, and eventually for everything else? Or do you not care about that either?
There are a lot of people with vested interest to see that Spam and all manner of malware/spyware not go away. In addition to the douche that does things of this sort, all the landsharks, AV software people, net security people would all be out of a job if the problem disappears tomorrow.
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No one will buy into one of these if it isn't comfortable to wear.
Being a code monkey, I am deeply concerned how reliable the on board computer and firmware are for these vehicles.
Whatever happened to all the old 8-bit systems from the 80's that permits entry of graphic characters via some weird combination of keystrokes? Don't they count as prior art?
Wish this was the ancient Greece, where people can be sentenced to death for corrupting the mind of youths.
Lawyers walk away with millions. Subscribers gets five dollars off their next bill. Comcast pass the cost to their subscribers. The douche bag decision makers in comcast are still employed, moving onto their next (evil) scheme. There is ZERO accountability here. Now if we start talking about PRISON term or heavy financial fines for the said douche...
Actually the company in question is Swedish, but it is likely that some of the components in the unit originated from China seeing how nearly everything today has something in it originated from that dark continent.
Is why can't we buy tuner cards with CABLECARD support?
A customer with enough volume to demand such a 'feature' (myself I prefer to call it a bug) surely can justify the addition of a compilation flag as oppose to incorporating into general release. I am incline to think it's more likely to be brown nosing the current US administration.
Heh, I thought you said Neurotic Wimp.
The difference, is those very same 'some people' contributes a lot to the congresscritters' re-election funds while the 'a lot of people' do not. Take a wild guess which way the IP laws tilt for.
"road to hell is paved with good intentions."
And it used to work too, because the 'smart ones' would invoice for less than what would've otherwise cost the billed company to find out if the invoice is legitimate or not, so the company simply pay it just to 'make it go away.'
These days a lot of spam are being sent by bot-net. How does this in any way help to combat this? It does not. All it does is guarantee a revenue stream for them.
DiVX demands your e-mail address to receive "reg key," then immediately sells your e-mail address to douche bag spammers.