1) MS investigated by the AG's of several states. 2) MS taken to court by the states. 3) Federal government takes case away from states claiming federal jurisdiction. Then drops antitrust case due to pressure from executive branch. 4) MS Profits!
I am going to correct you here. My Sister-inlaw is an ADA (Assistant District Attorney) and we have had this discussion.
First, rights are natural rights and not statutory rights.
You can sign away every right you have, Your right to free speech and freedom of the press(NDA), Your right to bear arms (Some rental agreements), your right to be secure in your persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures (Bail Bonds and some ISP agreements like the ones for Time Warner that give them the right to search your house and computer), Your right to a trial and a trial by jury (Many many contracts require arbitration), your rights ageist cruel and unusual punishments (Some people enter contracts and enjoy the punishments).
Now my response when finding this out was "So indentured servitude is still legal?" The response was both yes and no. Yes you can make a contract that creates indentured servitude (Slavery) and it may or may not be enforceable. It would depend on how the court ruled.
I can see it coming! You go to the store, pay 1$ and the system prints out a piece of paper. You fold it a few times and you have a set of headphones. Now you can listen to the song you just bought for 1$ and once it has played it is no good. Just crumple it up and throw the thing away.
What about printed cell phones? or printed greeting cards that deliver your message to the intended victim, I mean recipient?
I personally would love to see some one wall paper there living room with it. Touch here and the wall tells you where to stick it.
I believe a person's right to privacy ends when they're breaking the law -- adultery is still illegal last I checked, at least insofar as it's a violation of a marriage contract -- or when their actions are causing harm to an innocent third party.
From the statement, I guessed that you were female. Most females I know seem to think that adultery is illegal or if it is not, that it should be.
Sorry Jennifer, it is not illegal. I thought pagans enjoyed a verity of non-standard living arrangements... Polygamy, etc.
The problem is that there is little to no privacy and few really understand that.
The company I work for has a firewall is your site is blocked. It tells me "This site belongs to the XXXXXXXXXXXX defined Internet category "Tasteless" which has restrictions."
"The survey found that more than one-third of IT professionals admit they could still access their company's network once they'd left their current job,"
This is kind of funny, When the layoffs hit back in 2001 I know of lots of instances where this happened. They lay off the IT staff and expect the systems to magically run them selfs, or expect the janitor to be able to run it all.
But to see that today is a little of a surprise. Maybe they have not hired new IT staff and the equipment is just running on autopilot.
It is even funnier because of the trip last summer.
The family went to Canada for vacation. So we are up in the Quebec area and standing in line at a restaurant and the people in front of us are speaking French. My brother then says, loud enough for them to here, "They should speak the language before they come to this country." (Add a southern accent. We are from the south.)
I slapped him up side the head and said "You are in there country, now apologize to them in French!"
He just turned red and walked away. I then, in French, asked them to excuse l'idiot and apologized for his behavior. My French is bad but they understood and responded in English.
I will never forget it! I can only hope that it sticks in his mind and he NEVER does it again.
I go to www.dell.com and I do not see anywhere to select Linux. Can anyone even get to it from the main page?
It may be a bait and switch. "Here you can get a Linux desktop by following this link." Posts link on a few sites, "Look we only had 50 sales, no one wants linux."
Can anyone get to the page from the main dell.com site?
10. Women do not like to work 80 hours a week. 09. Women expect to be promoted and IT people do not get promoted. 08. Women expect benefits and maturity leave which is hard to do when on call 24/7/365 07. Women Like having family time, not getting called and having to run because the the company sees the server as more important than their kids. 06. Women know that guys NEVER listen when they give instructions, so telling some one how to fix a computer is pointless. 05. Most women meet their husbands at work, and the IT department is not as good as being an executive assistant. 04. Women like to have others to talk to and geeks only drool when they are around. 03. Women expect to be treated with respect and we all know that IT is never treated with respect. 02. Women like taking baths and showers and can not stand being around people who do not.
And the number one reason is
01. Women never let guys know how smart they are, this would put them at a disadvantage when arguing.
Take the first 8 digits of a standard 16-digit credit card number. Search for them on Google in "nnnn nnnn" form. Since the 8-digit prefix of a given card number is often shared with many other cards, about 1/4 of credit card numbers in my random test, turned up pages that included other credit card numbers, and about 1 in 10 turned up a "treasure trove" of card numbers that were exposed through someone's sloppily written Web app.
The first 6 digits ID the issuer, They are common because you were looking for cards that came from the same issuing company and branch. The next 9 are the number and the last digit is the checksum.
This is based on a mathematical calculation. The checksum is based on a "Luhn" or "Mod 10 check.
Once you have the formula, you can easily write a program to check the validity of a card or (with a starting card number) generate lots of card numbers that are mathematically valid.
Now, to get a good working number just call some one out of the phone book. Tell them you are with their bank and have seen 1000$ charges coming through on their card. You know the charges are fraudulent and would like to remove them but you must validate that the card is still in their possession, then ask them to read you the card number and CVV number from the back of the card.
80% of the people out there do it with out a question.
You can try to fix the internet but lets face the truth, YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
I remember when I paid $150 for a 10meg MFM drive! (poke c800:50;) I remember paying $1000 for my first 1gig drive! I remember paying $500 for my first 1TB of drive space (6x300gb drives ok 1.8TB unformatted) I remember paying $350 for my second 1.1TB of drive space (4x320gb Just last week)
I can not wait to get to my first 6TB system! I may have said, many years ago, that I would never fill 1gig, but I know I can fill 6TB It should not take me more than a couple of months.
Man how things have changed!
Then 8mhz, 640k ram and 10megs. Now 2.4Ghz dual core, 2gig ram, 1.1TB HD
Sounds like the old days of the C64 boards. It started with 1day warez, soon there were 0day warez, before it was all done there were boards that only accepted -7day warez. That was warez (Cracked software) that were released no later than 7 days before the program was to hit the market!
Give up now and stop waisting money on something that will never work!
It's a game of numbers. There are only approximately 17000 people at Stanford. Assuming they're all law students (they're not) that might put them on even numbers with the Goons. However the students have to go to class, and pay bills, not so with the other side.
I am calling BullShit! 17,000 lawyers assuming they each only made $60,000 a year comes to $1.2 billion in legal fees. according to the www.riaa.com website the member companies only shipped 634 million retail units last year for a total value of $10,477,000,000. They would have given up 10% of there gorse. I would venture to guess that they have no more than 200 lawyers and maybe (I stress maybe) have 400 legal aides (The people that do the paperwork and filings) With those numbers the Stanford legal class with the professors could have a lot of fun and put up one hell of a fight! Win or loose becomes less important as the students could file individually with the professors helping them as need. Make it all part of the class work and give a grade based on the outcome. A+ if you win and the RIAA is ordered to pay! If they loose it is doubtful that the RIAA lawyers would push for legal fees as they DO NOT want that precedent set!
The reconnect fee is a great idea but it needs to go both ways. Charge the student if he really is in violation, Charge the MPAA/RIAA if they submit a disconnect that turns out to be wrong or bogus!
Why don't the schools charge a processing fee to the MPAA/RIAA for each disconnect as well. They might as well make money both ways and I am sure the MPAA/RIAA would not mind paying to have the request processed.:)
Many have said and ill repeat it, every system ships with a Vista license. So the question is what else are they counting? If they need to count anything else.
How about the MSDN Subscriptions? That would be the total number of MSDN sales X 5 as there are 5 licenses for each product in the MSDN. Nice and easy number padding.
I don't know anyone that is running Vista, the ones that I know that upgraded to it have gone back to XP, changed to Linux, or installed both on the PC. I am curious as to how they came up with the numbers. Maybe they are including all the Linux installs that they got paid for from Novel. Think about it, with all there patents involved, Linux really is there OS and it should be counted on Micro$ofts books. With out an option for Linux they just had to select the closest thing they could and Vista (in Micro$ofts opinion) is close enough.;)
Man, I understand that! The worst is when you are talking to some one and then hear them flush the toilet! Come on, You could not excuse your self from the phone to go to the toilet? I sure as hell did not want to talk to you while you were taking a dump!
They claim "Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them."
Well, Here is a list of Microsoft patents, Lets "start filing challenges to them." Not just the 200+ they think we are violating, Lets challenge ALL OF THEM!!!
A friend was in law school for Copyright law and used to call and ask me to come up with real world copyright questions that they could use for study/research. One of the questions I asked was "Can the activation code for windows be copyrighted?"
The answer (After research) was "NO it can not!"
The reason is that you can not copyright a word, string of numbers, random alphanumeric string, or semi-random alphanumeric string. So to answer the copyright question, it would not qualify as something that could be copyrighted.
As to the trade secret question, If memory serves me right, the trade secret looses it's intellectual protection the moment it becomes public. The only one that is liable for the loss is the person that originally released it and after than the information is no-longer a trade secret.
Personally, with it being a set of hex numbers and computers being what they are, we can convert it to anything and nullify any claim that they have to it.
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1) MS investigated by the AG's of several states.
2) MS taken to court by the states.
3) Federal government takes case away from states claiming federal jurisdiction. Then drops antitrust case due to pressure from executive branch.
4) MS Profits!
I guess we can drop the ??? on this one.
I am going to correct you here. My Sister-inlaw is an ADA (Assistant District Attorney) and we have had this discussion.
First, rights are natural rights and not statutory rights.
You can sign away every right you have, Your right to free speech and freedom of the press(NDA), Your right to bear arms (Some rental agreements), your right to be secure in your persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures (Bail Bonds and some ISP agreements like the ones for Time Warner that give them the right to search your house and computer), Your right to a trial and a trial by jury (Many many contracts require arbitration), your rights ageist cruel and unusual punishments (Some people enter contracts and enjoy the punishments).
Now my response when finding this out was "So indentured servitude is still legal?" The response was both yes and no. Yes you can make a contract that creates indentured servitude (Slavery) and it may or may not be enforceable. It would depend on how the court ruled.
So anyone want to be may slave???
I can see it coming! You go to the store, pay 1$ and the system prints out a piece of paper. You fold it a few times and you have a set of headphones. Now you can listen to the song you just bought for 1$ and once it has played it is no good. Just crumple it up and throw the thing away.
What about printed cell phones? or printed greeting cards that deliver your message to the intended victim, I mean recipient?
I personally would love to see some one wall paper there living room with it. Touch here and the wall tells you where to stick it.
I believe a person's right to privacy ends when they're breaking the law -- adultery is still illegal last I checked, at least insofar as it's a violation of a marriage contract -- or when their actions are causing harm to an innocent third party.
From the statement, I guessed that you were female. Most females I know seem to think that adultery is illegal or if it is not, that it should be.
Sorry Jennifer, it is not illegal. I thought pagans enjoyed a verity of non-standard living arrangements... Polygamy, etc.
The problem is that there is little to no privacy and few really understand that.
The company I work for has a firewall is your site is blocked. It tells me "This site belongs to the XXXXXXXXXXXX defined Internet category "Tasteless" which has restrictions."
:)
I guess Ill have to look at it when I get home.
"The survey found that more than one-third of IT professionals admit they could still access their company's network once they'd left their current job,"
This is kind of funny, When the layoffs hit back in 2001 I know of lots of instances where this happened. They lay off the IT staff and expect the systems to magically run them selfs, or expect the janitor to be able to run it all.
But to see that today is a little of a surprise. Maybe they have not hired new IT staff and the equipment is just running on autopilot.
LOL and I am an American...
It is even funnier because of the trip last summer.
The family went to Canada for vacation. So we are up in the Quebec area and standing in line at a restaurant and the people in front of us are speaking French. My brother then says, loud enough for them to here, "They should speak the language before they come to this country." (Add a southern accent. We are from the south.)
I slapped him up side the head and said "You are in there country, now apologize to them in French!"
He just turned red and walked away. I then, in French, asked them to excuse l'idiot and apologized for his behavior. My French is bad but they understood and responded in English.
I will never forget it! I can only hope that it sticks in his mind and he NEVER does it again.
I go to www.dell.com and I do not see anywhere to select Linux. Can anyone even get to it from the main page?
It may be a bait and switch. "Here you can get a Linux desktop by following this link." Posts link on a few sites, "Look we only had 50 sales, no one wants linux."
Can anyone get to the page from the main dell.com site?
10. Women do not like to work 80 hours a week.
09. Women expect to be promoted and IT people do not get promoted.
08. Women expect benefits and maturity leave which is hard to do when on call 24/7/365
07. Women Like having family time, not getting called and having to run because the the company sees the server as more important than their kids.
06. Women know that guys NEVER listen when they give instructions, so telling some one how to fix a computer is pointless.
05. Most women meet their husbands at work, and the IT department is not as good as being an executive assistant.
04. Women like to have others to talk to and geeks only drool when they are around.
03. Women expect to be treated with respect and we all know that IT is never treated with respect.
02. Women like taking baths and showers and can not stand being around people who do not.
And the number one reason is
01. Women never let guys know how smart they are, this would put them at a disadvantage when arguing.
I should have caught that. I guess I spent too much time checking the there and their context.
lol
Take the first 8 digits of a standard 16-digit credit card number. Search for them on Google in "nnnn nnnn" form. Since the 8-digit prefix of a given card number is often shared with many other cards, about 1/4 of credit card numbers in my random test, turned up pages that included other credit card numbers, and about 1 in 10 turned up a "treasure trove" of card numbers that were exposed through someone's sloppily written Web app.
The first 6 digits ID the issuer, They are common because you were looking for cards that came from the same issuing company and branch. The next 9 are the number and the last digit is the checksum.
This is based on a mathematical calculation. The checksum is based on a "Luhn" or "Mod 10 check.
Once you have the formula, you can easily write a program to check the validity of a card or (with a starting card number) generate lots of card numbers that are mathematically valid.
Now, to get a good working number just call some one out of the phone book. Tell them you are with their bank and have seen 1000$ charges coming through on their card. You know the charges are fraudulent and would like to remove them but you must validate that the card is still in their possession, then ask them to read you the card number and CVV number from the back of the card.
80% of the people out there do it with out a question.
You can try to fix the internet but lets face the truth, YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...
Yep, Just more videos and MP3's /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-storage 1346115664 1309200460 19333536 97% /video
I remember when I paid $150 for a 10meg MFM drive! (poke c800:50 ;)
I remember paying $1000 for my first 1gig drive!
I remember paying $500 for my first 1TB of drive space (6x300gb drives ok 1.8TB unformatted)
I remember paying $350 for my second 1.1TB of drive space (4x320gb Just last week)
I can not wait to get to my first 6TB system! I may have said, many years ago, that I would never fill 1gig, but I know I can fill 6TB It should not take me more than a couple of months.
Man how things have changed!
Then 8mhz, 640k ram and 10megs.
Now 2.4Ghz dual core, 2gig ram, 1.1TB HD
I wonder what we will say in another 16 years.
Sounds like the old days of the C64 boards. It started with 1day warez, soon there were 0day warez, before it was all done there were boards that only accepted -7day warez. That was warez (Cracked software) that were released no later than 7 days before the program was to hit the market!
Give up now and stop waisting money on something that will never work!
It's a game of numbers. There are only approximately 17000 people at Stanford. Assuming they're all law students (they're not) that might put them on even numbers with the Goons. However the students have to go to class, and pay bills, not so with the other side.
I am calling BullShit! 17,000 lawyers assuming they each only made $60,000 a year comes to $1.2 billion in legal fees. according to the www.riaa.com website the member companies only shipped 634 million retail units last year for a total value of $10,477,000,000. They would have given up 10% of there gorse. I would venture to guess that they have no more than 200 lawyers and maybe (I stress maybe) have 400 legal aides (The people that do the paperwork and filings) With those numbers the Stanford legal class with the professors could have a lot of fun and put up one hell of a fight! Win or loose becomes less important as the students could file individually with the professors helping them as need. Make it all part of the class work and give a grade based on the outcome. A+ if you win and the RIAA is ordered to pay! If they loose it is doubtful that the RIAA lawyers would push for legal fees as they DO NOT want that precedent set!
Are you saying that Stanford (A Law School) does not have enough budding lawyers and pre-grad law students to berry the RIAA in legal paperwork?
:)
What a wonderful learning opportunity the students would have.
The reconnect fee is a great idea but it needs to go both ways. Charge the student if he really is in violation, Charge the MPAA/RIAA if they submit a disconnect that turns out to be wrong or bogus!
:)
Why don't the schools charge a processing fee to the MPAA/RIAA for each disconnect as well. They might as well make money both ways and I am sure the MPAA/RIAA would not mind paying to have the request processed.
Many have said and ill repeat it, every system ships with a Vista license. So the question is what else are they counting? If they need to count anything else.
;)
How about the MSDN Subscriptions? That would be the total number of MSDN sales X 5 as there are 5 licenses for each product in the MSDN. Nice and easy number padding.
I don't know anyone that is running Vista, the ones that I know that upgraded to it have gone back to XP, changed to Linux, or installed both on the PC. I am curious as to how they came up with the numbers. Maybe they are including all the Linux installs that they got paid for from Novel. Think about it, with all there patents involved, Linux really is there OS and it should be counted on Micro$ofts books. With out an option for Linux they just had to select the closest thing they could and Vista (in Micro$ofts opinion) is close enough.
Were you referring to the seen in TNG , DS9 , or Babylon 5?
Man, I understand that! The worst is when you are talking to some one and then hear them flush the toilet! Come on, You could not excuse your self from the phone to go to the toilet? I sure as hell did not want to talk to you while you were taking a dump!
No there are only 3 lights. /me presses button to apply shock.
They claim "Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them."
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Well, Here is a list of Microsoft patents, Lets "start filing challenges to them." Not just the 200+ they think we are violating, Lets challenge ALL OF THEM!!!
http://www.google.com/patents?q=Microsoft&lr=&sa=
I can answer this!!
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A friend was in law school for Copyright law and used to call and ask me to come up with real world copyright questions that they could use for study/research. One of the questions I asked was "Can the activation code for windows be copyrighted?"
The answer (After research) was "NO it can not!"
The reason is that you can not copyright a word, string of numbers, random alphanumeric string, or semi-random alphanumeric string. So to answer the copyright question, it would not qualify as something that could be copyrighted.
As to the trade secret question, If memory serves me right, the trade secret looses it's intellectual protection the moment it becomes public. The only one that is liable for the loss is the person that originally released it and after than the information is no-longer a trade secret.
Personally, with it being a set of hex numbers and computers being what they are, we can convert it to anything and nullify any claim that they have to it.
For example How about UNICODE
09 f9 1&#
We could convert it from HEX to extended ASCII, DEC, BIN, etc.
Or what about this
Zero Nine Eff nine eleven zero two nine dee seven four eee three five bee dee eight four one five six see five six three five six eight eight see zero
They have lost, they need only admit it.
There 9.06Gbps is a speed record???
Ummm, OC-192 is 9.6Gbps I think they are a little shy of the speed record. Maybe I missed something.