How do the students feel assured you're not keeping their user IDs and passwords--since if I understand how Jabber works this magic correctly, it has to collect and pass login credentials to the "real" servers for each protocol?
(I know you wouldn't do anything like that--but has anyone even expressed concern?)
Works nicely for now. But what about in ten years, when the very act of paying cash is grounds for suspicion. Sound far-fetched? Try paying for a new car with a briefcase full of $100s. That wasn't always a "reportable" transaction.
You've obviously never tried to download a new.0 release of Red Hat the day of its release:).
And downloading ISOs from an unknown source can be hazardous--which is why you always check the MD5 checksum against the one posted on the official site. So you grab 600MB ISOs from multiple people who are (ideally) closer to you on the network than the official site, and grab a 1KB file of MD5 sums from the official site, and all is well.
Universities don't actually pay very much for these agreements.
Yet. But at some point after the schools are "addicted" and almost can't function without the products, they'll be presented with two options: erase all the rented copies or renew at an astronomically higher rental rate. Just you wait and see.
For $129 I can get an OS that runs Office (but doesn't include it, as far as I can see) and which possibly runs other Windows apps, and which definitely runs Linux apps.
And the government of the day considered them traitors worthy of the rope for treason against the Crown. Thus, you have given ammunition to the OP's statement that Freenet's use is primarily non-legitimate, since treason is illegal.
No reasonable man today would argue that the authors of the Federalist Papers were committing an immoral act, but it was definitely illegal. Unfortunately, governments aren't interested in diminishing their own power in favor of freedom.
Note also that Apple isn't on board. I'm as die-hard PC as they come, but am closely examining the TiBook as my next laptop because of MS's, Intel's, AMD's, and Dell's participation in these digital restrictions management shenanigans.
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You would think that given as many as seem to be being hired that the price of morons would have shot through the roof. Unfortunately, the supply seems to be limitless.
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But then someone who's blind will file suit against you for failing to make your auction accessible via a screen reader:). (If you put the text in the ALT tag, your auction'll still get canned.)
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I think that was the premise of capitalism as explained in elementary school:-).
I take it you attended Ayn Rand Elementary.
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That's because they aren't interested in protecting the intellectual property of anyone not big enough to sue them.
You can't just yank these programs and replace them with some home-grown FSF/GNU/OS replacement.
No, but I bet the businesses in question could form a consortium that could commission one, and provide for its maintenance as a not-for-profit benefiting all the members (and the license need not be GPL). Competition needn't be an issue when everyone's running similar software now, anyway.
At least one AMD NIC that I've used contains the MAC address in EEPROM, and it is user changeable with a utility available for download from AMD. This utility came in handy for AMD--they had inadvertently shipped a batch of NICs with the same MAC address.
Bwahaha! I like it. Of course, spammer's domain contact emails are usually routed to/dev/null. Better to use the Reply-To addresses (of the ones that request replies). This way, their business will be less likely to be interrupted by unwanted email after you opt them all out:).
It's a joke. You know. Gopher, root. Get it? Aw, never mind.
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And those Windows users that don't have full Acrobat can do this for free by creating a PostScript printer on FILE:. That's what I do when I want a copy of a web receipt but don't want to defeat the purpose of shopping electronically by generating ten sheets of paper in the process.
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BTW, cool sig--I actually remembered enough Latin to translate it, and got a chuckle!
(I know you wouldn't do anything like that--but has anyone even expressed concern?)
Works nicely for now. But what about in ten years, when the very act of paying cash is grounds for suspicion. Sound far-fetched? Try paying for a new car with a briefcase full of $100s. That wasn't always a "reportable" transaction.
And downloading ISOs from an unknown source can be hazardous--which is why you always check the MD5 checksum against the one posted on the official site. So you grab 600MB ISOs from multiple people who are (ideally) closer to you on the network than the official site, and grab a 1KB file of MD5 sums from the official site, and all is well.
So how about doing the prospective freshmen reading this story a service and naming the institution?
. . . remember that in America, even O.J. Simpson couldn't be retried criminally once acquitted.
It's a lose-lose situation. The customers and potential customers lose vital information about ISPs and the companies come off like jackbooted thugs.
Yet. But at some point after the schools are "addicted" and almost can't function without the products, they'll be presented with two options: erase all the rented copies or renew at an astronomically higher rental rate. Just you wait and see.
Where? (Excluding OEM bundles, NFR copies, demos, etc.)
No reasonable man today would argue that the authors of the Federalist Papers were committing an immoral act, but it was definitely illegal. Unfortunately, governments aren't interested in diminishing their own power in favor of freedom.
Note also that Apple isn't on board. I'm as die-hard PC as they come, but am closely examining the TiBook as my next laptop because of MS's, Intel's, AMD's, and Dell's participation in these digital restrictions management shenanigans.
You would think that given as many as seem to be being hired that the price of morons would have shot through the roof. Unfortunately, the supply seems to be limitless.
But then someone who's blind will file suit against you for failing to make your auction accessible via a screen reader :). (If you put the text in the ALT tag, your auction'll still get canned.)
I take it you attended Ayn Rand Elementary.
That's because they aren't interested in protecting the intellectual property of anyone not big enough to sue them.
Entering http://google.com from Germany gets you google.de.
No, but I bet the businesses in question could form a consortium that could commission one, and provide for its maintenance as a not-for-profit benefiting all the members (and the license need not be GPL). Competition needn't be an issue when everyone's running similar software now, anyway.
At least one AMD NIC that I've used contains the MAC address in EEPROM, and it is user changeable with a utility available for download from AMD. This utility came in handy for AMD--they had inadvertently shipped a batch of NICs with the same MAC address.
Wonder if the DRM plug-in runs in VMware.
VMware offers 30 day eval licenses for free. And they could be using an eval Win2K :).
Bwahaha! I like it. Of course, spammer's domain contact emails are usually routed to /dev/null. Better to use the Reply-To addresses (of the ones that request replies). This way, their business will be less likely to be interrupted by unwanted email after you opt them all out :).
The MicroChannel 32-bit bus architecture more than makes up for the slowness of the CPU for MP3 decoding :).
If you have to ask . . .
It's a joke. You know. Gopher, root. Get it? Aw, never mind.
And those Windows users that don't have full Acrobat can do this for free by creating a PostScript printer on FILE:. That's what I do when I want a copy of a web receipt but don't want to defeat the purpose of shopping electronically by generating ten sheets of paper in the process.