Actually Diesel is no longer much of an option in Germany. While the prices for regular unleaded DEM 2.20/l ($3.85 / gallon) and premium gas DEM 2.45/l ($4.30 / gallon), are higher than DEM 1.70/l ($3.00 / gallon) for Diesel, whatever I save driving a Diesel car is taken away from me by environmental taxes. Heil Gaia! Heil Environment!
"Language is a tool. People use it to communicate with each other, and built upon that, the rest of society functions."
Maybe they just don't like new concepts, _changes_ to the way society functions. That's why they invented Newspeak in George Orwell's 1984.
Whoops.. That was a ++ungood crimethink.
If you were to say take a sizeable portion of Germany and turned that into US territory you'd
probably have to build a wall around it. The
difference in standard of living would just be
too great for such geographic proximity.
... that I am not a member of that cult and I do not practice or adhere to the teachings of one L. Ron Hubbard otherwise they could fire me at will, any time without severance pay.
Since I do not care so much for Freedom of Religion, as for Freedom FROM Religion I signed that one with a smile on my face!
That might work until the _individual_ pixel cells a future screen is composed of do the decrypting.
Each pixel or groups of pixels on such a display constitute a digital device that receives encrypted digital display values (color, luminance..). These are decrypted using a cryptographic process prior to the device driving the display element(s).
The description of this process is written prior work, Copyright 2001 gd23ka and therefore no longer patentable.
Good luck copying digitally from that because in the worst case you would have to connect to every single pixel on the display..
But while you're at it you should mention that especially in Germany most of the rubber laws passed by their "parliament" actually only refer to "Durchfuehrungsverordnungen" (Executive Regulations) for the specifics. Good luck obtaining these. While the "Polizeigesetz" (Police Law) is publically available, the "Polizeiliche Durchfuehrungsverordnung", in other word the regulations which governs what little the police can not do are not publically available. I tried to obtain one and was told that the PDV is only available to police officers. Go figure..
Come to think of it... Even what passes for their constitution ("Das Grundgesetz") is built on the very same scheme. While it guarantees Freedom of Speech it also says that "details" of what is or what is not acceptable Free Speech is defined in separate laws such as the penal code of course.
All in all the law over here in Germany is the same kind of fraud like it is everywhere else in the world.
Much to my sorrow we're planning a corporate rollout of Windows 2000 next year. Hopefully this is going to be a very, very painful experience. I hope the TCO is going to explode right into their agonized faces:-)
Even if they didn't leave that field editable there are ways to get around this..
What if I were to set you up with a proxy that has a form with exactly the same information they ask for? The proxy could then walk over all the links required to get to the download page (need to do that in case they check the referer header, cookies, "persistent data", or otherwise make sure you got there the way they wanted you to), submit the required information and then give you the download. I wonder if a terrorist weapon like that is covered by the DMCA?
BTW.. Some e-Commerce software checks the content of what you submit back to them when you checkout so you can't add anything new to your shopping cart or help yourself to a brand-new thinkpad for $10. Some doesn't but I'll leave that as an exercise for the tech-savvy criminal.
(Haha, I wonder if I could change the license agreement and charge them $100 bucks for customer referral!)
First off, I think you're talking about the driver for NVidia's family of GPUs or -- at least, Nvidia is doing pretty much the same thing you're describing. I know that their official excuse for not publishing the sources to their driver(s) is that some of it is covered by an NDA. So why don't they, and why don't you publish that which you can publish and ship only the NDA'd stuff binary? (which would also aid the reengineering effort because then there's a lot less to work on).
You of all people should know that a chip isn't done when the VHDL is done. Even if people get it to work on a FPGA (and they're sometimes more expensive than purchasing the device!) all they l get is an underpowered version of the real thing.
One more thing, I'm also aware that making the device available with only proprietary closed software to use it with also has the advantage of controlling what functionality/features of the device are available to the end-user. That way, you can keep people from exploiting the hardware of the device to the point that it prolongs the product's lifecycle and thus possible impedes sales of a successor device.
Get Ogg Vorbis here. Ogg Vorbis the file format and algorithms are fully documented and GPL. Ogg Vorbis the reference implementation is opensource and BSD license. _FREE_ opensource Ogg Vorbis players and encoders are available on that site for Linux, Windows, BeOS and Macintosh.
..Gold would be pretty worthless. But who cares.. being in power and calling the shots on "the economy" is enough. Silver bullets being so rare it's usual a lot of lead and iron that keep things that way.
The big deal being that a DMZ is already a trusted area on the network. I guess if your organization is hooked up to the internet and you allow access to (sensitive) appplications by encrypted VPN you could sandwich the access point between a firewall to the internet and a firewall to a DMZ. Treat AP traffic like you would treat traffic coming from the internet..
net ----|Internet FW|--|Wireless AP|--|DMZ FW|--
If you want to provide free access to the internet to the masses the fw on the internet side is optional of course:-).
The German ZKA (Central Committee of Credit Institutions) - a body that standardizes and certifies the electronic processing of financial transactions in Germany also specifically prohibits the use of Microsoft software in the security relevant aspects of EFT/POS (electronic fund transfer / point of sales). We don't do ATM machines but I know for a fact that most ATM machines run either a proprietary firmware or they're based on a ZKA certified version of OS/2.
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Actually Diesel is no longer much of an option in Germany. While the prices for regular unleaded DEM 2.20/l ($3.85 / gallon) and premium gas DEM 2.45/l ($4.30 / gallon), are higher than DEM 1.70/l ($3.00 / gallon) for Diesel, whatever I save driving a Diesel car is taken away from me by environmental taxes. Heil Gaia! Heil Environment!
"Language is a tool. People use it to communicate with each other, and built upon that, the rest of society functions." Maybe they just don't like new concepts, _changes_ to the way society functions. That's why they invented Newspeak in George Orwell's 1984. Whoops.. That was a ++ungood crimethink.
If you were to say take a sizeable portion of Germany and turned that into US territory you'd probably have to build a wall around it. The difference in standard of living would just be too great for such geographic proximity.
... that I am not a member of that cult and I do not practice or adhere to the teachings of one L. Ron Hubbard otherwise they could fire me at will, any time without severance pay.
Since I do not care so much for Freedom of Religion, as for Freedom FROM Religion I signed that one with a smile on my face!
BTW.. Any Scientologists reading this: Heil!
That might work until the _individual_ pixel cells a future screen is composed of do the decrypting.
Each pixel or groups of pixels on such a display constitute a digital device that receives encrypted digital display values (color, luminance..). These are decrypted using a cryptographic process prior to the device driving the display element(s).
The description of this process is written prior work, Copyright 2001 gd23ka and therefore no longer patentable.
Good luck copying digitally from that because in the worst case you would have to connect to every single pixel on the display..
But while you're at it you should mention that especially in Germany most of the rubber laws passed by their "parliament" actually only refer to "Durchfuehrungsverordnungen" (Executive Regulations) for the specifics. Good luck obtaining these. While the "Polizeigesetz" (Police Law) is publically available, the "Polizeiliche Durchfuehrungsverordnung", in other word the regulations which governs what little the police can not do are not publically available. I tried to obtain one and was told that the PDV is only available to police officers. Go figure..
Come to think of it... Even what passes for their constitution ("Das Grundgesetz") is built on the very same scheme. While it guarantees Freedom of Speech it also says that "details" of what is or what is not acceptable Free Speech is defined in separate laws such as the penal code of course.
All in all the law over here in Germany is the same kind of fraud like it is everywhere else in the world.
The law commentary being vastly more important than the text of the laws themselves as they show how the court will interpret the law.
Much to my sorrow we're planning a corporate rollout of Windows 2000 next year. Hopefully this is going to be a very, very painful experience. I hope the TCO is going to explode right into their agonized faces :-)
Even if they didn't leave that field editable there are ways to get around this.. What if I were to set you up with a proxy that has a form with exactly the same information they ask for? The proxy could then walk over all the links required to get to the download page (need to do that in case they check the referer header, cookies, "persistent data", or otherwise make sure you got there the way they wanted you to), submit the required information and then give you the download. I wonder if a terrorist weapon like that is covered by the DMCA? BTW.. Some e-Commerce software checks the content of what you submit back to them when you checkout so you can't add anything new to your shopping cart or help yourself to a brand-new thinkpad for $10. Some doesn't but I'll leave that as an exercise for the tech-savvy criminal. (Haha, I wonder if I could change the license agreement and charge them $100 bucks for customer referral!)
You of all people should know that a chip isn't done when the VHDL is done. Even if people get it to work on a FPGA (and they're sometimes more expensive than purchasing the device!) all they l get is an underpowered version of the real thing.
One more thing, I'm also aware that making the device available with only proprietary closed software to use it with also has the advantage of controlling what functionality/features of the device are available to the end-user. That way, you can keep people from exploiting the hardware of the device to the point that it prolongs the product's lifecycle and thus possible impedes sales of a successor device.
Does it have a TCP/IP stack? If so, what's it's IP address? Let's slashdot this thing silly!
Get Ogg Vorbis here. Ogg Vorbis the file format and algorithms are fully documented and GPL. Ogg Vorbis the reference implementation is opensource and BSD license. _FREE_ opensource Ogg Vorbis players and encoders are available on that site for Linux, Windows, BeOS and Macintosh.
..Gold would be pretty worthless. But who cares.. being in power and calling the shots on "the economy" is enough. Silver bullets being so rare it's usual a lot of lead and iron that keep things that way.
This post was supposed to be a reply to the neutron-star gold article. Moderate it down into oblivion.
COM is not a Microsoft technology.. As usual if it's any good they got it from DEC!
The big deal being that a DMZ is already a trusted area on the network. I guess if your organization is hooked up to the internet and you allow access to (sensitive) appplications by encrypted VPN you could sandwich the access point between a firewall to the internet and a firewall to a DMZ. Treat AP traffic like you would treat traffic coming from the internet.. net ----|Internet FW|--|Wireless AP|--|DMZ FW|-- If you want to provide free access to the internet to the masses the fw on the internet side is optional of course :-).
Why don't you post something a little more interesting like the story I submitted yesterday?
The German ZKA (Central Committee of Credit Institutions) - a body that standardizes and certifies the electronic processing of financial transactions in Germany also specifically prohibits the use of Microsoft software in the security relevant aspects of EFT/POS (electronic fund transfer / point of sales). We don't do ATM machines but I know for a fact that most ATM machines run either a proprietary firmware or they're based on a ZKA certified version of OS/2.