> Microsoft bulletin detailing story of VeriSign issuing two Class 3 code-signing digital certificates to an individual fraudulently claiming to be a Microsoft employee: Erroneous VeriSign-Issued Digital Certificates Post Spoofing Hazard
Actually, in this case it is safer to actually always trust Microsoft. The reason is simple, if you always trust Microsoft and you get an executable signed with the fraud verisign signature, you will be asked if you want to run this file signed by Microsoft corporation. Now you should know that you always trust Microsoft, and therefore you shouldn't be asked if you want to run a file signed by Msoft. However, if you don't always trust msoft, it won't surprise you when you're asked if you want to run a file signed by them.
The concern, from what I understand, is that a user might be lead to believe that "readme.txt" will be opened and viewed as a text file by IE. This, when in fact the website has placed executable binary/script data in the file and changed the appropriate response headers so that IE is fooled in to executing it as a program if it is 'opened'.
This is wrong! IE is not fooled to do anything. IE will correctly open this file in the associated program for this file, which is (on most Windows computers) notepad. If it contains binary data, I guess you'll see some garbage. If you can tell me how this could ever be used in such a way that an MZ/PE file with the extension.txt will be executed as an executable file, then I'll believe you.
The problem here are files with the extension.scr,.ocx and.dll. These are all PE files. In other words, when choosing "open" in IE, after clicking on the filename, the file will be executed.
Personally, I don't consider this beeing a bug at all. If you choose open on a PE-file, you should expect it to execute.
I do however agree with the argument that most users have no idea what a PE file is... the question is though, does that make it a bug?
My opinion, this is overblown 1000 times in media.
The beauty of/. - everyone gets their say. I personally think that your post is pure crap! Beeing Swedish myself, I like the way you just turned about 22 million people into tree-huggers.
I think you should loose karma for you post. Not because of your opinions, but because you fail to understand that the entire population of Scandinavia isn't the ones that decide the nobel prize winner (nor are we all tree-huggers).
I have never agreed with all winners of the nobel prize. Still, I think the nobel prize is a great thing. It shows that your work is beeing noticed and that it means something.
I don't think any searchengines would list slashdot.org high on their lists when searching for "illegal music" or "free porn", which I correctly asume is the only thing new internet users (didn't call them newbies) search for.
In any case, I don't think the study meant to show who uses what searchengine, but who uses which portal!
I agree with you on some points. However, the problem that I see is the pollution caused by launching rockets.
I can accept this guy going up, because (hopefully) he will do some experiments that will be useful for people. However, people like the last guy that went up (I'm too lazy to look up his name) really bothers me! He simply polluted the planet ALOT for his own pleasure.
I hope that space tourism never grows big! The pollution would be soo big... it's not worth it!
Sorry, replied to the wrong thread... it was meant to be attached to the following post:
100$ of that is probably going to pay the salaries of the non-volunteer workers for the organisation. Another 100-150$ probably goes to pay for those 'adverts' you're putting so much faith in, and other 'operational costs.'...How much does that leave?
You want to do something to help, do something to help. You throw money at some org, they're just going to piss it down a hole. Or weren't you paying attention to recent stories about the Red Cross' misuse of the 11/9 funds?
Do you honestly believe that I would do better in going there and trying to help? Just as an FYI, I work as a developer. What should I be doing... write a program that calculates how many people are dying due to insufficient funds?
If I was a doctor, telecommunication specialist, farmer or any profession or skills needed down there, I'd go. However, currently I believe I am helping in the best way possible for me. I think that most programmers cannot do much more that donate.
First of all, by saying I work in a different country than the one I was born in does not mean I work in a thirdworld country. I am not taking the job for some poor person that can barely feed his family.
Second of all, you say you can accomplish the same as me, my question to you is... are you? Countless times have I heard this from people... most of whom have never given anything to anyone.
I was aware of the fact that some people may prefer other methods of helping, I was simply trying to put forward mine (which is the main reason I like/. , all ideas get heard and everyone has a say). For some odd reason it seemes that you don't like the fact that I donate some percent of my salary. I can asure you I never expected a reply like yours.
I can accomplish the same you are by donating without leaving These United States (tm), not to mention that working here possibly makes more money to donate.
... and right now you are doing what?
I think that IT people do best in donating. You can argue about this, no doubt about it!... but thinking that what I'm doing doesn't help?
I don't really understand why you need to work for a non-profit organisation abroad. I am currently living in my third country, and in a few months I moving to my fourth. I don't work for a non-profit organisation, instead, I work for a company that gives me a good salary.
How is this good and how does it help anyone in a third world country?
I give away approx. 300 dollars a month to two different organisations.
The amount of money I give away isn't really noticable to me (I mean, I can pay my rent and drink my beers), and if I believe the adverts from one of these organisation, I am getting clean water to 1500 or so children.
My suggestion to you, get a good job in the country of your choice (if your anything close to good in the IT field, this shouldn't be too hard), earn money and DONATE! I think you will help more this way.
North American GSM seems to be low priority for GSM phone builders.
That is because "North American GSM" doesn't follow the standard. GSM is supposed to be running on 900/1800MHz. However, for some reason, the US doesn't like it when they don't get standards set the way the want them.
Sometimes the rest of the worlds ends up suffering because of this... however... this time it is the US who has to suffer. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the US, it just annoys me that I have to swap my nokia 8210 to a big thing that I can hardly carry just so that I have a phone while I'm in the US.
Since the really big mobile producers are based in Scandinavia/Europe (Ericsson = Sweden, Nokia = Finland) and some in Japan (Toshiba, Sony etc etc), it is obvious that they will build mobile phones that can be used in their own countries. Also, by doing this, roughly 3 Billion (yes, I made this number up myself;))people "extra" can use them too... wow, aren't standards great?
As long as the US doesn't use the standard frequencies for broadcasting, you will never get any GSM phone at launch!
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I don't think they'd be allowed to release it.
Intresting...
What do you think will stop "them" from releasing it? Personally I don't see any problem at all with releasing it. Even the amazingly stupid DMCA that stops all fun things can't stop this one. I don't understand how it is any different to release a MAME port for the XBox than it is to release it for the PC or the DreamCast.
And reverse engineering such surely violates the DMCA You do know that there are other countries than the US where people do have PC knowledge. The DMCA does not apply to these countries. Also, how many reverse-engineer projects do you think has been discontinued or never started due to the DMCA??
I'm guessing zero!!
I wasn't suprised by this article. I don't understand how Microsoft can think that it is a good idea to have "normal" PC hardware in the Xbox. I think there must be millions of people out there who have in-depth knowledge about the PC hardware. This means that it is not going to take long before we start seeing hacked versions of the Xbox and hardware that can be connected to it that is not released by Microsoft.
I don't know what the copy protection looks like on the Xbox (if anyone knows anything about it... please post it), but I think it will be bypassed very shortly.
I remember the playstation, it took almost a year to get the first chip. The reason was that this was the first console where you needed to do a hardware modification in order to play pirated games combined with the fact that it was NOT standard PC hardware inside it.
With the Xbox, one don't have to worry about any of these things
On the box it said supported operating systems was Windows 95 or better... I therefore asumed Linux was supported
I used to think that the US was very much ahead when it came to free markets. When the Microsoft trial started, I was really happy that the US government was doing something about the monopoly.
However, lately, it seems like the US government are those who, indirectly, are creating monopoly situations for companies.
My biggest dream right now is that everyone in the world will refuse to buy a single CD for one week. That should put the RIAA back on the ground.
I've read some of the posts here, and my question is: why not?
Why not have an internet connection for a console if you can? The DC has always been cheap, and it is a good console too. The internet connection just makes it better.
I am a little sad that Sega didn't produce more broadband adapters. I think there is, still today, a market for them. I for sure would by one if I could, but I don't want to pay USD 200 for it (I have a european DC, so it has to be modified if I want to put in a japaneese or american broadband adapter).
The main thing to remember is that the internet connection was put there so people could play multiplayer games, not just so they could browse the net. The web browser should be seen as an added bonus!
I saw some posts regarding linux on the DC. Check out DC-Emulation. You'll be amazed at the amount of emulators, OS'es and other stuff that is available for the DC.
If you want a console you can write programs for without spending USD 2000 on some devkit, get a DC.
In the beginning, there was silence. Then God made music. Man wanted to share music, so they converted it to mp3. RIAA didn't like the music, so they tried to stop man from sharing it.
Seriously speaking, we all knew that napster wasn't the end, but just the start.
I think that the CD protection that some companies are implementing on CD's are only going to be implemented so it becomes easier to sue people for the RIAA. They have realized they will never be able to stop the filesharing, so instead they are going to sue everyone that becomes so big they can afford the fines they are going to get.
This will be an interesting case though, considering the fact that FastTrack is based in the Netherlands. I just hope that some day, some judge will rule against the RIAA.
I think it is a great thing that he is going to trial. It is time for everyone to stop seeing people such as Jan de Wit as innocent. He created something that caused companies problems. The fact that he used a creationkit to create the worm is beside the point. Everyone are responisble for their own actions, and everyone should be prepared to take ALL consekvenses that their actions may have... always!
If you look at most "new" viruses that are added to the databases of Antivirus products, you can see that they aren't actually new. Most of them are modified versions of some existing virus. So, if we get another case where someone modifies an existing virus to avoid detection by AV products, is he the creator of it?
I say that he is the creator just as much as Jan de Wit is the creator of this worm.
I hope that he this guy gets a penalty. I hope that this will prevent some other people from creating viruses. Something else that is good about this case is that the creator of the kit, [K]alamar, stopped creating more kits (his name was in on Argentinan TV and this scared him).
Viruses are bad. Even though they fund an entire industri, I think everyone would be happier without them, even people in the industri. Bringing people that create or spread them to justice is a good start in the path toward a virusfree world.
Taken from the Washington Post:
"Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, an Internet civil liberties organization based in San Francisco".
I always thought that Electronic Frontier Foundation was defending him. Guess I was wrong:)
*Four game controller ports
*A front-loading DVD tray
*An Ethernet card
*An NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU)
*An Intel 733MHz processor
*An internal hard drive
(information taken from xbox.com)
How does Xbox compare to others? Well, it has a NIC in it. This is something that no other console has. I am sure that this will increase the popularity of the XBox alot, since it is going to be easy to connect it to the internet using high-speed internet such as xDSL and Cable.
The XBox will also have a Hardrive. I am not sure how this will work, but I asume you will have to "install" games. This does allow for faster loading times.
Finally, the console is made by MS. No matter how much people dislike MS, it is clear that they will be able to get a lot of game developers on their "side".
I just read through my post and realized how much pro-MS I sound:(. However, I do actually think that the XBox could end up being a really cool console.
Most European countries already do this. I know for a fact that France, Sweden, UK and the Netherlands have special tax on the CDR's that goes to the Record companies.
Personally I prefer putting the mp3's on my MiniDisc. Since I don't use CDRs to put music on them, it annoys me that I'm paying the record industry money by buying CDR's. But then again, MD's don't have this tax... so I guess it evens out.
I dont like the fact that some people (countries in this case) can do whatever they feel like breaking any rules they see fit.
The patent is there to protect intellectual property. I think it's time to start seeing the drugcompanies for what they are... companies. If people/countries can simply ignore patents, then drugcompanies will simply stop researching new medications.
The Brazil government should be sued for this, and Roche should win. I agree that people's lifes are important, but we have to understand that the rules exist because they have to.
In a perfect world, all medication should be free and no child should go hungry. Sounds really good, but we all know that this is not reality. Unfortunately, we will not reach the perfect world by ignoring rules. We will just end up making it worse. If the Brazil government can ignore patents, why can't the US do the same? The entire Africa is poor and they all have AIDS problems, why can't they ignore every single patent there is for AIDS medication?
We can clearly see here that this is getting out of hand. This cannot and should not be allowed!!
If the Brazil government will get away with this, I should be able to copy MP3's legally. My reasoning for this?
Well, alot of artists I listen to have drugproblems and/or alcohol problems. The ones that don't... well... they are artists... so they will soon enough. By not buying their CD's and thereby not giving them any money, I'm saving their lives.
Let's just write a new worm that goes out and finds computers with this vunarbility. If it manages to get onto a computer, it will automaticly download the microsoft patch and apply it.
Problem solved... wasn't so hard now.. was it?
Will it ever be enough to stop Microsoft?
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I remember myself using Netscape 4,x. At that time, IE 3,x was out. I also remember thinking that I would never change to IE.
However, IE started coming as part of the OS, and I think that on my 150th reinstall of Windows 98, and the lack of energy to re-download Netscape with my modem made me (without me even realizing) switch to IE.
As it happened without me noticeing, I never really reflected over the fact that I was now an IE user. However, a few weeks ago I was talking to an old friend over IM. I asked if he had updated his IE. He's responce was:
"I remember that you told me never to use IE a few years back, so I am still using Netscape 4,x".
After I finished laughing, I realized that somehow I became an IE user. I guess this is what happens if you get stuck with Msoft OS'es:(
The fact that I am now using IE does not mean I want to use IE. It just means that currently, IE is working better then any other browser I know. The question is, will someone ever again produce a browser that will have a bigger marketshare than IE? I think not! This is kind of sad, but it does prove something. If ever Msoft enters a new area, and if they are not stopped quickly, they will get the whole market in that area.
I cannot understand how Amazon got this patent to start off with. It is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. I'm very happy to see that they are (hopefully, fingers crossed) not getting away with this!
Well... after getting rid of the doubleclick patent, it is time to get rid of the single click patent:)
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> Microsoft bulletin detailing story of VeriSign issuing two Class 3 code-signing digital certificates to an individual fraudulently claiming to be a Microsoft employee: Erroneous VeriSign-Issued Digital Certificates Post Spoofing Hazard
Actually, in this case it is safer to actually always trust Microsoft. The reason is simple, if you always trust Microsoft and you get an executable signed with the fraud verisign signature, you will be asked if you want to run this file signed by Microsoft corporation. Now you should know that you always trust Microsoft, and therefore you shouldn't be asked if you want to run a file signed by Msoft. However, if you don't always trust msoft, it won't surprise you when you're asked if you want to run a file signed by them.
The concern, from what I understand, is that a user might be lead to believe that "readme.txt" will be opened and viewed as a text file by IE. This, when in fact the website has placed executable binary/script data in the file and changed the appropriate response headers so that IE is fooled in to executing it as a program if it is 'opened'.
.txt will be executed as an executable file, then I'll believe you.
.scr, .ocx and .dll. These are all PE files. In other words, when choosing "open" in IE, after clicking on the filename, the file will be executed.
This is wrong! IE is not fooled to do anything. IE will correctly open this file in the associated program for this file, which is (on most Windows computers) notepad. If it contains binary data, I guess you'll see some garbage. If you can tell me how this could ever be used in such a way that an MZ/PE file with the extension
The problem here are files with the extension
Personally, I don't consider this beeing a bug at all. If you choose open on a PE-file, you should expect it to execute.
I do however agree with the argument that most users have no idea what a PE file is... the question is though, does that make it a bug?
My opinion, this is overblown 1000 times in media.
The beauty of /. - everyone gets their say. I personally think that your post is pure crap! Beeing Swedish myself, I like the way you just turned about 22 million people into tree-huggers.
I think you should loose karma for you post. Not because of your opinions, but because you fail to understand that the entire population of Scandinavia isn't the ones that decide the nobel prize winner (nor are we all tree-huggers).
I have never agreed with all winners of the nobel prize. Still, I think the nobel prize is a great thing. It shows that your work is beeing noticed and that it means something.
I think most people here qualify as 'old-timers'.
I don't think any searchengines would list slashdot.org high on their lists when searching for "illegal music" or "free porn", which I correctly asume is the only thing new internet users (didn't call them newbies) search for.
In any case, I don't think the study meant to show who uses what searchengine, but who uses which portal!
I agree with you on some points. However, the problem that I see is the pollution caused by launching rockets.
I can accept this guy going up, because (hopefully) he will do some experiments that will be useful for people. However, people like the last guy that went up (I'm too lazy to look up his name) really bothers me! He simply polluted the planet ALOT for his own pleasure.
I hope that space tourism never grows big! The pollution would be soo big... it's not worth it!
Sorry, replied to the wrong thread... it was meant to be attached to the following post: 100$ of that is probably going to pay the salaries of the non-volunteer workers for the organisation. Another 100-150$ probably goes to pay for those 'adverts' you're putting so much faith in, and other 'operational costs.' ...How much does that leave?
You want to do something to help, do something to help. You throw money at some org, they're just going to piss it down a hole. Or weren't you paying attention to recent stories about the Red Cross' misuse of the 11/9 funds?
...How much does that leave?
Even though you are dead wrong, I can tell you this much: If it leaves one dollar and saves one kids life each month, I'm happy!
Do you honestly believe that I would do better in going there and trying to help? Just as an FYI, I work as a developer. What should I be doing... write a program that calculates how many people are dying due to insufficient funds?
If I was a doctor, telecommunication specialist, farmer or any profession or skills needed down there, I'd go. However, currently I believe I am helping in the best way possible for me. I think that most programmers cannot do much more that donate.
First of all, by saying I work in a different country than the one I was born in does not mean I work in a thirdworld country. I am not taking the job for some poor person that can barely feed his family.
/. , all ideas get heard and everyone has a say). For some odd reason it seemes that you don't like the fact that I donate some percent of my salary. I can asure you I never expected a reply like yours.
... and right now you are doing what?
... but thinking that what I'm doing doesn't help?
Second of all, you say you can accomplish the same as me, my question to you is... are you? Countless times have I heard this from people... most of whom have never given anything to anyone.
I was aware of the fact that some people may prefer other methods of helping, I was simply trying to put forward mine (which is the main reason I like
I can accomplish the same you are by donating without leaving These United States (tm), not to mention that working here possibly makes more money to donate.
I think that IT people do best in donating. You can argue about this, no doubt about it!
I don't really understand why you need to work for a non-profit organisation abroad. I am currently living in my third country, and in a few months I moving to my fourth. I don't work for a non-profit organisation, instead, I work for a company that gives me a good salary.
How is this good and how does it help anyone in a third world country?
I give away approx. 300 dollars a month to two different organisations.
The amount of money I give away isn't really noticable to me (I mean, I can pay my rent and drink my beers), and if I believe the adverts from one of these organisation, I am getting clean water to 1500 or so children.
My suggestion to you, get a good job in the country of your choice (if your anything close to good in the IT field, this shouldn't be too hard), earn money and DONATE! I think you will help more this way.
North American GSM seems to be low priority for GSM phone builders.
;))people "extra" can use them too... wow, aren't standards great?
That is because "North American GSM" doesn't follow the standard. GSM is supposed to be running on 900/1800MHz. However, for some reason, the US doesn't like it when they don't get standards set the way the want them.
Sometimes the rest of the worlds ends up suffering because of this... however... this time it is the US who has to suffer. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the US, it just annoys me that I have to swap my nokia 8210 to a big thing that I can hardly carry just so that I have a phone while I'm in the US.
Since the really big mobile producers are based in Scandinavia/Europe (Ericsson = Sweden, Nokia = Finland) and some in Japan (Toshiba, Sony etc etc), it is obvious that they will build mobile phones that can be used in their own countries. Also, by doing this, roughly 3 Billion (yes, I made this number up myself
As long as the US doesn't use the standard frequencies for broadcasting, you will never get any GSM phone at launch!
I don't think they'd be allowed to release it.
Intresting...
What do you think will stop "them" from releasing it? Personally I don't see any problem at all with releasing it. Even the amazingly stupid DMCA that stops all fun things can't stop this one. I don't understand how it is any different to release a MAME port for the XBox than it is to release it for the PC or the DreamCast.
Ballmers Monkey-Boy Dance
And reverse engineering such surely violates the DMCA
You do know that there are other countries than the US where people do have PC knowledge. The DMCA does not apply to these countries. Also, how many reverse-engineer projects do you think has been discontinued or never started due to the DMCA??
I'm guessing zero!!
I wasn't suprised by this article. I don't understand how Microsoft can think that it is a good idea to have "normal" PC hardware in the Xbox. I think there must be millions of people out there who have in-depth knowledge about the PC hardware. This means that it is not going to take long before we start seeing hacked versions of the Xbox and hardware that can be connected to it that is not released by Microsoft.
I don't know what the copy protection looks like on the Xbox (if anyone knows anything about it... please post it), but I think it will be bypassed very shortly.
I remember the playstation, it took almost a year to get the first chip. The reason was that this was the first console where you needed to do a hardware modification in order to play pirated games combined with the fact that it was NOT standard PC hardware inside it.
With the Xbox, one don't have to worry about any of these things
On the box it said supported operating systems was Windows 95 or better... I therefore asumed Linux was supported
I totally Agree.
I used to think that the US was very much ahead when it came to free markets. When the Microsoft trial started, I was really happy that the US government was doing something about the monopoly.
However, lately, it seems like the US government are those who, indirectly, are creating monopoly situations for companies.
My biggest dream right now is that everyone in the world will refuse to buy a single CD for one week. That should put the RIAA back on the ground.
I've read some of the posts here, and my question is: why not?
Why not have an internet connection for a console if you can? The DC has always been cheap, and it is a good console too. The internet connection just makes it better.
I am a little sad that Sega didn't produce more broadband adapters. I think there is, still today, a market for them. I for sure would by one if I could, but I don't want to pay USD 200 for it (I have a european DC, so it has to be modified if I want to put in a japaneese or american broadband adapter).
The main thing to remember is that the internet connection was put there so people could play multiplayer games, not just so they could browse the net. The web browser should be seen as an added bonus!
I saw some posts regarding linux on the DC. Check out DC-Emulation. You'll be amazed at the amount of emulators, OS'es and other stuff that is available for the DC.
If you want a console you can write programs for without spending USD 2000 on some devkit, get a DC.
In the beginning, there was silence. Then God made music. Man wanted to share music, so they converted it to mp3. RIAA didn't like the music, so they tried to stop man from sharing it.
Seriously speaking, we all knew that napster wasn't the end, but just the start.
I think that the CD protection that some companies are implementing on CD's are only going to be implemented so it becomes easier to sue people for the RIAA. They have realized they will never be able to stop the filesharing, so instead they are going to sue everyone that becomes so big they can afford the fines they are going to get.
This will be an interesting case though, considering the fact that FastTrack is based in the Netherlands. I just hope that some day, some judge will rule against the RIAA.
Man, am I getting drunk that day...
I think it is a great thing that he is going to trial. It is time for everyone to stop seeing people such as Jan de Wit as innocent. He created something that caused companies problems. The fact that he used a creationkit to create the worm is beside the point. Everyone are responisble for their own actions, and everyone should be prepared to take ALL consekvenses that their actions may have... always!
If you look at most "new" viruses that are added to the databases of Antivirus products, you can see that they aren't actually new. Most of them are modified versions of some existing virus. So, if we get another case where someone modifies an existing virus to avoid detection by AV products, is he the creator of it? I say that he is the creator just as much as Jan de Wit is the creator of this worm.
I hope that he this guy gets a penalty. I hope that this will prevent some other people from creating viruses. Something else that is good about this case is that the creator of the kit, [K]alamar, stopped creating more kits (his name was in on Argentinan TV and this scared him).
Viruses are bad. Even though they fund an entire industri, I think everyone would be happier without them, even people in the industri. Bringing people that create or spread them to justice is a good start in the path toward a virusfree world.
Taken from the Washington Post: "Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, an Internet civil liberties organization based in San Francisco". I always thought that Electronic Frontier Foundation was defending him. Guess I was wrong :)
*Four game controller ports
:(. However, I do actually think that the XBox could end up being a really cool console.
*A front-loading DVD tray
*An Ethernet card
*An NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU)
*An Intel 733MHz processor
*An internal hard drive
(information taken from xbox.com)
How does Xbox compare to others? Well, it has a NIC in it. This is something that no other console has. I am sure that this will increase the popularity of the XBox alot, since it is going to be easy to connect it to the internet using high-speed internet such as xDSL and Cable.
The XBox will also have a Hardrive. I am not sure how this will work, but I asume you will have to "install" games. This does allow for faster loading times.
Finally, the console is made by MS. No matter how much people dislike MS, it is clear that they will be able to get a lot of game developers on their "side".
I just read through my post and realized how much pro-MS I sound
Most European countries already do this. I know for a fact that France, Sweden, UK and the Netherlands have special tax on the CDR's that goes to the Record companies.
Personally I prefer putting the mp3's on my MiniDisc. Since I don't use CDRs to put music on them, it annoys me that I'm paying the record industry money by buying CDR's. But then again, MD's don't have this tax... so I guess it evens out.
I dont like the fact that some people (countries in this case) can do whatever they feel like breaking any rules they see fit.
The patent is there to protect intellectual property. I think it's time to start seeing the drugcompanies for what they are... companies. If people/countries can simply ignore patents, then drugcompanies will simply stop researching new medications.
The Brazil government should be sued for this, and Roche should win. I agree that people's lifes are important, but we have to understand that the rules exist because they have to.
In a perfect world, all medication should be free and no child should go hungry. Sounds really good, but we all know that this is not reality. Unfortunately, we will not reach the perfect world by ignoring rules. We will just end up making it worse. If the Brazil government can ignore patents, why can't the US do the same? The entire Africa is poor and they all have AIDS problems, why can't they ignore every single patent there is for AIDS medication?
We can clearly see here that this is getting out of hand. This cannot and should not be allowed!!
If the Brazil government will get away with this, I should be able to copy MP3's legally. My reasoning for this?
Well, alot of artists I listen to have drugproblems and/or alcohol problems. The ones that don't... well... they are artists... so they will soon enough. By not buying their CD's and thereby not giving them any money, I'm saving their lives.
Let's just write a new worm that goes out and finds computers with this vunarbility. If it manages to get onto a computer, it will automaticly download the microsoft patch and apply it. Problem solved... wasn't so hard now.. was it?
I remember myself using Netscape 4,x. At that time, IE 3,x was out. I also remember thinking that I would never change to IE. However, IE started coming as part of the OS, and I think that on my 150th reinstall of Windows 98, and the lack of energy to re-download Netscape with my modem made me (without me even realizing) switch to IE. :(
As it happened without me noticeing, I never really reflected over the fact that I was now an IE user. However, a few weeks ago I was talking to an old friend over IM. I asked if he had updated his IE. He's responce was:
"I remember that you told me never to use IE a few years back, so I am still using Netscape 4,x".
After I finished laughing, I realized that somehow I became an IE user. I guess this is what happens if you get stuck with Msoft OS'es
The fact that I am now using IE does not mean I want to use IE. It just means that currently, IE is working better then any other browser I know. The question is, will someone ever again produce a browser that will have a bigger marketshare than IE? I think not! This is kind of sad, but it does prove something. If ever Msoft enters a new area, and if they are not stopped quickly, they will get the whole market in that area.
I cannot understand how Amazon got this patent to start off with. It is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. I'm very happy to see that they are (hopefully, fingers crossed) not getting away with this!
:)
Well... after getting rid of the doubleclick patent, it is time to get rid of the single click patent