Why is this news? The software is doing exactly what it's supposed to. If you don't like that feature, turn it off. Be exposed to the risks.
In my humble opinion, the fault here lies with the script kiddies, not Symantec's software.
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Ah, should have qualified that's NZ dollars -- less than $5000 US.
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That's my problem exactly. Dropped $7400 on a 42" plasma 18 months ago -- component inputs only. 3 weeks later I read that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD would only output HD to HDCP compliant devices.
Well, fuck 'em - I'm just not going to buy either of the new discs.
As a well educated creationist, I would like to point out that the foundation of scientific enquiry is an open mind. My children will be taught evolution at school; they will have the opportunity to make up their own minds, rather than have someone make it up for them.
I'm open-minded enough to concede that, as I wasn't there to watch it happen, there's a chance I might be wrong. Sadly it seems most believers in evolution (science) don't share don't share this mind-set.
Personally I think that no matter what you believe, it requires a certain amount of faith. Either faith that blind chance can make all this, or faith that god did. Me... I'm an engineer. I'm pretty certain that no matter how long I shake it, a bag full of computer parts is never going to spontaneously become a computer. Likewise I don't believe that shaking up a bag of molecules will assemble a human.
But that's my opinion, and I don't try to force other people to think the same, nor do I resort to name-calling of anyone who does not.
Your company has a box (Blackberry Enterprise Server) which hooks into Exchange or Lotus Notes. All [configured] email is forwarded over an encrypted link over the Internet (a VPN of sorts, if you like) to RIMs headquarters in Waterloo, Canada. As I understand it, it is the local BES software that strips out attachements and formatting etc to shrink the message as much as possible.
Meanwhile your Blackberry device opens an encrypted connection over GPRS to RIM, through your cellular provider and out over a dedicated IP on Frame Relay link.
Email arrives in Waterloo, where they forward it back to your device.
I second that. I have an 18 month old 42" plasma TV. It's HD capable - but only has analog component inputs. The naysayers will cry 'But digital is better!' - well, in this case, it just means you get the same picture quality with a cheaper cable than you'll need for analog, so I didn't really care. (None of my other components had HDMI/DVI out anyway).
Until I read about HD-DVD & BluRay. My first reaction was 'doh!' and my second was, f*ck 'em if they can't take a joke: I'm NOT paying 10 times the price for a player that gets me less functionality than the one I currently have.
I think you need to draw the line at the point where Joe Sixpack would. I fyou knew nothing about technology, and you needed to make an emergency call, would your XYZ communications device look and work enough like a regular telephone to make Joe try to use it?
If the answer is, yes, then reliable emergency service (where 'reliable' is defined by the government in this case to mean positioning as well as a usable voice connection) is mandated.
I work for a cellular telecommunications company myself - believe me, I understand the frustration of compliance with glib but technically problematic requirements, but in this case I see why it needs to be done.
I think it could go either way, or even a third way. SCO, for example, has a theory that I owe it $699 for every Linux PCI run: even though I did not personally 'steal' their code, they feel I am still in violation of their copyright.
On the other hand we have the rather ludicrous, but essentially identical, situation where a newspaper plagiarises an author's material, and then tries to sue me for buying it.
And on the gripping hand, there's Sony, who bought software from a company that stole GPLed code, and then sold it to me.
Depending on how the lawyers look at it, it could be the end-user who should be sued for the GPL violations, or Sony, or F4I.
Personally I see no value in taking down F4I. For every one of these small fry destroyed by a litigation fireball, there will be five pop up. There's too much potential cash in it not to. What I'd really like to see is some lawyer with dollar signs in his eyes try to turn it around and sue end users for something. While it would really, really suck to be that poor bastard, it just might wake up the sleeping general public. Ultimately that's the ONLY way we can stop the likes of Sony et al from simply continuing down this path.
Sony doesn't give a damn about what you think. They will trot out a half-assed excuse about how it wasn't us, allow F4I to be obliterated, and turn to someone else who is slightly cleverer than F4I was.
My ex-employer LogicaCMG (nee Aethos, which was bought by Logica, which was bought by CMG... don't ya love these big company mergers) had prepaid wireless products on the market before the second one was filed. They were live here in NZ in 1998, presumably were in development for several years before that. Possibly some prior art there -- definitely for the later patent, anyway.
They do have US customers -- maybe they can sell some new boxes!
Hell yes. I don't quite have the money to pay the Apple hardware premium, but as long as a) the hardware support is there and b) so are the games I'd buy OSX on Intel in a second.
The only reason I keep Windows around at all is because I can't get the games I like to play on Linux. Yes, I know in many cases it can be done but hey, they're games, they're supposed to be fun, not a whole lot of work.
What's even more interesting is that pure water is a goog insulator. I have seen a very large (10MW range) generator cooled with pure water in contact with all the live machinery.
But tap water has all sorts of stuff disolved in it, so don't try this at home!
The optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist hopes to hell the optimist is right.
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I have two words for you: entertainment industry.
You don't need to be competitive to survive these days. Just big enough to afford expensive lawyers.
And as an aside, the big phone companies aren't going away. Not now, not ever. It costs money to run a network - yes, even a VoIP network. And if you actually want to be able to just pick up a phone and talk to anyone you please without needing to ensure that you (on tiny carrier A) can actually connect to you friend (on tiny carrier B) first.
Sorting out interconnection is a nightmare - trust me, I work for a phone company. Having a relatively few large companies is the only way you can ensure that they all connect to each other.
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I've already patented the use of obvious patents. Does that mean that my fellow cynics can have my patent struck down in an ironic twist of fate?
You are indeed correct, though about 70 years late. :( Alan Turing proved that theorem way back before the war.
Ever played Eve Online? http://www.eve-online.com/
Unfortunately, the problem is that most people are stupid. ...Sigh...
Why is this news? The software is doing exactly what it's supposed to. If you don't like that feature, turn it off. Be exposed to the risks.
In my humble opinion, the fault here lies with the script kiddies, not Symantec's software.
Ah, should have qualified that's NZ dollars -- less than $5000 US.
That's my problem exactly. Dropped $7400 on a 42" plasma 18 months ago -- component inputs only. 3 weeks later I read that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD would only output HD to HDCP compliant devices.
Well, fuck 'em - I'm just not going to buy either of the new discs.
As a well educated creationist, I would like to point out that the foundation of scientific enquiry is an open mind. My children will be taught evolution at school; they will have the opportunity to make up their own minds, rather than have someone make it up for them.
I'm open-minded enough to concede that, as I wasn't there to watch it happen, there's a chance I might be wrong. Sadly it seems most believers in evolution (science) don't share don't share this mind-set.
Personally I think that no matter what you believe, it requires a certain amount of faith. Either faith that blind chance can make all this, or faith that god did. Me... I'm an engineer. I'm pretty certain that no matter how long I shake it, a bag full of computer parts is never going to spontaneously become a computer. Likewise I don't believe that shaking up a bag of molecules will assemble a human.
But that's my opinion, and I don't try to force other people to think the same, nor do I resort to name-calling of anyone who does not.
OK, it works like this --
Your company has a box (Blackberry Enterprise Server) which hooks into Exchange or Lotus Notes. All [configured] email is forwarded over an encrypted link over the Internet (a VPN of sorts, if you like) to RIMs headquarters in Waterloo, Canada. As I understand it, it is the local BES software that strips out attachements and formatting etc to shrink the message as much as possible.
Meanwhile your Blackberry device opens an encrypted connection over GPRS to RIM, through your cellular provider and out over a dedicated IP on Frame Relay link.
Email arrives in Waterloo, where they forward it back to your device.
Voila!
Damn... Doesn't look like "Because it would be really geeky to own one" is going to cut it.
You have access to the moon rocks? Sweet! Can I have just a little one please?
I second that. I have an 18 month old 42" plasma TV. It's HD capable - but only has analog component inputs. The naysayers will cry 'But digital is better!' - well, in this case, it just means you get the same picture quality with a cheaper cable than you'll need for analog, so I didn't really care. (None of my other components had HDMI/DVI out anyway).
Until I read about HD-DVD & BluRay. My first reaction was 'doh!' and my second was, f*ck 'em if they can't take a joke: I'm NOT paying 10 times the price for a player that gets me less functionality than the one I currently have.
I think you need to draw the line at the point where Joe Sixpack would. I fyou knew nothing about technology, and you needed to make an emergency call, would your XYZ communications device look and work enough like a regular telephone to make Joe try to use it?
If the answer is, yes, then reliable emergency service (where 'reliable' is defined by the government in this case to mean positioning as well as a usable voice connection) is mandated.
I work for a cellular telecommunications company myself - believe me, I understand the frustration of compliance with glib but technically problematic requirements, but in this case I see why it needs to be done.
No G-Spot?
I think it could go either way, or even a third way. SCO, for example, has a theory that I owe it $699 for every Linux PCI run: even though I did not personally 'steal' their code, they feel I am still in violation of their copyright.
On the other hand we have the rather ludicrous, but essentially identical, situation where a newspaper plagiarises an author's material, and then tries to sue me for buying it.
And on the gripping hand, there's Sony, who bought software from a company that stole GPLed code, and then sold it to me.
Depending on how the lawyers look at it, it could be the end-user who should be sued for the GPL violations, or Sony, or F4I.
Personally I see no value in taking down F4I. For every one of these small fry destroyed by a litigation fireball, there will be five pop up. There's too much potential cash in it not to. What I'd really like to see is some lawyer with dollar signs in his eyes try to turn it around and sue end users for something. While it would really, really suck to be that poor bastard, it just might wake up the sleeping general public. Ultimately that's the ONLY way we can stop the likes of Sony et al from simply continuing down this path.
Sony doesn't give a damn about what you think. They will trot out a half-assed excuse about how it wasn't us, allow F4I to be obliterated, and turn to someone else who is slightly cleverer than F4I was.
Simon
My ex-employer LogicaCMG (nee Aethos, which was bought by Logica, which was bought by CMG... don't ya love these big company mergers) had prepaid wireless products on the market before the second one was filed. They were live here in NZ in 1998, presumably were in development for several years before that. Possibly some prior art there -- definitely for the later patent, anyway.
They do have US customers -- maybe they can sell some new boxes!
Recon - anonymously.
University researcher gets large grant to prove that if you know a person well, you can often predict what they will do.
Coming soon to a research institution near you: cigarettes are bad for you, having sex causes children, and dogs make good pets.
In my day we called them "politicians".
I work for their competitor. Most people in operations here had nothing but sympathy - that kind of coincidence is nothing short of one in a million.
And it just goes to show: Murphy rules, stuff breaks. At least in this country most people are willing to accept that...
Hell yes. I don't quite have the money to pay the Apple hardware premium, but as long as a) the hardware support is there and b) so are the games I'd buy OSX on Intel in a second.
The only reason I keep Windows around at all is because I can't get the games I like to play on Linux. Yes, I know in many cases it can be done but hey, they're games, they're supposed to be fun, not a whole lot of work.
I've so much always wanted to say this:
> I work at Microsoft as do several of my friends...
Oh, I'm terribly sorry!
Simon
What's even more interesting is that pure water is a goog insulator. I have seen a very large (10MW range) generator cooled with pure water in contact with all the live machinery.
But tap water has all sorts of stuff disolved in it, so don't try this at home!
I always thought it was:
The optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist hopes to hell the optimist is right.
I have two words for you: entertainment industry.
You don't need to be competitive to survive these days. Just big enough to afford expensive lawyers.
And as an aside, the big phone companies aren't going away. Not now, not ever. It costs money to run a network - yes, even a VoIP network. And if you actually want to be able to just pick up a phone and talk to anyone you please without needing to ensure that you (on tiny carrier A) can actually connect to you friend (on tiny carrier B) first.
Sorting out interconnection is a nightmare - trust me, I work for a phone company. Having a relatively few large companies is the only way you can ensure that they all connect to each other.