Ignoring the fact that the spyware makers could just go offshore and avoid this, what is really needed is a new bill giving americans more privacy for personal details across the board. (not just for spyware)
For example, if collects personal details they should be required to tell you that they have those details. And allow you to change those details if they are wrong. And if they give those details to another company (e.g. credit agency, firm that is going to use the details to send you marketing crap etc etc) they should be required to tell you about that too.
Spyware companies would be required to notify you in advance what personal details their software collects (if any) and what is done with those details.
The problem with this proposal is that it would cost the big corporations money to implement. But more to the point it would prevent the corps from hiding what is going on (for example, I occasionally get letters from American Express asking if I want an American Express card even though I have never had any dealings with American Express in my life which means that some other company I deal with such as my bank must have given American Express my postal address and stuff)
Really, the 5 biggest problems with spyware are: 1.Spyware takes various levels of personal details and sends it to some company (with you not knowing what those details are or what is being done with them) 2.Spyware installs without it being clear that it is installing 3.Spyware messes with system files and settings 4.Spyware takes up memory/system resources (and often internet bandwidth to download ads etc) and 5.Spyware is almost always impossible to remove without tools like ad-aware, MS anti-spyware or Spybot.
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With more and more people putting in things like Home Theater Rooms (where having natural light comming in is actually undesirable), how come polititians and regulators wont change the building codes to allow you to have rooms without natural light?
Does the help from Realtek mean that open source operating systems (i.e. Linux/BSD/ReactOS etc) will be able to better support the RTL8180 WiFi chipset? (if so, thats GREAT because I own a RTL8180 board:)
If it stops being the (IMO) BEST search engine in the known universe.
I use google for all my search needs because its GOOD. And it clearly indicates paid links seperate from other search results (and it doesnt have intrusive banner ads either).
Plus, it gives (usually) good search results for whatever it is I am looking for.
The source code to the "IE integration" (so it can be used in gecko based browsers that DONT have all the AOL garbage) And more to the point, the list of sites and pages and stuff that are set to "automatically trigger the IE mode"
I would think that any company would need permission from nintendo to release any old games for nintendo hardware Although it depends on what was written in the licence aggreement for the games.
Now on the other hand, I can see some kind of arcade emulator being done for the 360 (with old games from companies like Namco, Atari, Capcom, Konami etc on it)
I think that if the companies made the devkits cheaper and easier to get, it would be a win-win situation.
I especially think this would work for the Gameboy Advance where the barriers to entry are much smaller than with other consoles (since you dont need full 3D everything etc).
There are already great homebrew devkits for the Gameboy Advance (with pretty much all the hardware known and with flashcarts used to play the games on the real hardware)
Nintendo could make the GBA devkit more accessable and yet still maintain the control over the platform that they have had since the days of the original B&W GameBoy by continuing their "seal of quality" program where only nintendo approved games could be released for the platform. The net result would be more games for the Gameboy Advance and possibly better games (especially if it results in more games that arent just remakes of existing games)
Pubs/bars/hotels (including pubs/bars/hotels that have take-away bottle shops and such attached to them) can open on a sunday. But bottle shops that are just bottle shops cant open on sunday.
One concern here is that if it were allowed, it would hurt the sales of the pubs. Also, if you allow a 7-day week, all the big chain stores (I dont know if you yanks have big chain bottle shops like we do but here in australia stores like Liquorland, Woolworths Liquor and others have a large chunk of the market) would open since the people that make the decisions to open dont need to go to work on a sunday. And thus, the big chains would get even more of the market.
Does the DRM that is being applied to movies, music, computer software etc actually result in more profits? (remember that you need to take into account the cost of the DRM)
There should be a list out there of all companies known to be violating the licence on so we know which products are in violation (and can avoid buying those) and which companies are in violation (and can avoid buying from them). This would be especially focused on hardware + software combos (e.g. routers, PVRs and other things that use OSS)
Mabie, to ballence it out, a list of the companies (hardware companies for example) that ARE in 100% complience with the GPL could be included.
The right answer is for the drive not to respond to the "Sync" command with "Done" untill it really is done (however long it takes) and for the OS to not continue untill it sees the "done" command from the drive.
Its likely that what will happen is that the chinese goverment will provide google a list of "prohibited" search terms (e.g. Taiwan Independence, Free Tibet etc etc) and if google doesnt block those terms from its chinese indexes and cache, google will loose the licence.
(which Gates himself has used: "I played around with it a bit, but it's just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better,")
Duh that Gates would say IE is better than firefox. Asking Gates that question is like asking the CEO of Coca-Cola if Coke is better than Pepsi. Or like asking the CEO of Adobe if Photoshop is better than GIMP.
Is why they cant/wont take code from one or more existing JVMs and libraries and use it as a base.
We have GNU classpath GNU GCJ And others
Why havent we seen anyone take the good bits from all the different Open Source java projects and work on ONE free JVM that will sucessfully pass the Sun J2SE compatibility test (and therefore be a 100% implementation of JAVA)
Personally, the fact that no Open Source program comes even close to being able to pass the J2SE compatibility test is why I dont write anything in JAVA.
Most of my code is written in C and C++ with some stuff in Assembler of various kinds.
You can also use the Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime Library, that is cross-platform (on at least Windows and just about anything Unix). And, IIRC it is triple licenced GPL/LGPL/MPL so you can take it and use it in a GPL program no problems.
Firstly, when I opened my bank account I had to provide various pieces of ID to the bank. As for airplane travel, I recently went on a holiday and I wasnt issued a paper ticket, I had to to go to the check-in counter and show some form of ID before they would give me my seat. As for social security, here in australia, my payments go into my bank account automatically. If I need to talk to Centerlink about something, I need to provide my centerlink customer reference number. I imagine that if I was someone who collected payments directly instead of having them go into the bank, I would need to show ID (probobly including my Centerlink CRN) to get the payment.
Start small, pick a package that is smaller than the whole kernel and that is likely to be close to 100% sun code (e.g. a shell or a system utillity like ls or mv or something, or mabie the sun as or ld or cc) and open that. Opening these smaller-than-the-whole-box-and-dice-but-complete packages would show the community that Sun are genuinly committed to OpenSolaris.
Your bank gives you a little calculator-like thing preloaded with a secret key.
Then when you log in, the systems at the bank generate a random number (ways exist to ensure it is sufficantlly random). This number is sent to your machine. You then type it into the calculator where it is combined with the secret key. The result is typed back into the bank and is comared with the banks own hash of the random number and their copy of the secret key.
Even if the phisher gets the hash typed in, it is useless to them since it would expire after one use, expire after a small amount of time and would be internally linked by the bank machine to the IP address of the machine that the random nunber was given to in the first place.
Another option is a little USB device (simiar to those tiny flash drives) that holds the secret key, instead of typing it in, software hands the random number to the USB device and the hash back to the bank. Its still just as secure since again the random number would expire and be linked to the IP address it was given to.
Either solution would make it VERY difficult for a phisher to obtain a usable set of credentials that could be used to log in.
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Ignoring the fact that the spyware makers could just go offshore and avoid this, what is really needed is a new bill giving americans more privacy for personal details across the board. (not just for spyware)
For example, if collects personal details they should be required to tell you that they have those details.
And allow you to change those details if they are wrong.
And if they give those details to another company (e.g. credit agency, firm that is going to use the details to send you marketing crap etc etc) they should be required to tell you about that too.
Spyware companies would be required to notify you in advance what personal details their software collects (if any) and what is done with those details.
The problem with this proposal is that it would cost the big corporations money to implement. But more to the point it would prevent the corps from hiding what is going on (for example, I occasionally get letters from American Express asking if I want an American Express card even though I have never had any dealings with American Express in my life which means that some other company I deal with such as my bank must have given American Express my postal address and stuff)
Really, the 5 biggest problems with spyware are:
1.Spyware takes various levels of personal details and sends it to some company (with you not knowing what those details are or what is being done with them)
2.Spyware installs without it being clear that it is installing
3.Spyware messes with system files and settings
4.Spyware takes up memory/system resources (and often internet bandwidth to download ads etc)
and 5.Spyware is almost always impossible to remove without tools like ad-aware, MS anti-spyware or Spybot.
With more and more people putting in things like Home Theater Rooms (where having natural light comming in is actually undesirable), how come polititians and regulators wont change the building codes to allow you to have rooms without natural light?
Does the help from Realtek mean that open source operating systems (i.e. Linux/BSD/ReactOS etc) will be able to better support the RTL8180 WiFi chipset? (if so, thats GREAT because I own a RTL8180 board :)
If they do, I can see the single-core 3.2GHz PPC in the thing being great for things like MAME and other emulators.
Why not just put GPS into the VOIP box and use GPS to tell the emergency services where the box is?
If it stops being the (IMO) BEST search engine in the known universe.
I use google for all my search needs because its GOOD.
And it clearly indicates paid links seperate from other search results (and it doesnt have intrusive banner ads either).
Plus, it gives (usually) good search results for whatever it is I am looking for.
In any case, this article is pure FUD.
The source code to the "IE integration" (so it can be used in gecko based browsers that DONT have all the AOL garbage)
And more to the point, the list of sites and pages and stuff that are set to "automatically trigger the IE mode"
Or are they just the only company who gets said patents mentioned on Slashdot?
Do companies like IBM file these kinds of patents too (if not, why not or conversly why does MS do it?)
I would think that any company would need permission from nintendo to release any old games for nintendo hardware
Although it depends on what was written in the licence aggreement for the games.
Now on the other hand, I can see some kind of arcade emulator being done for the 360 (with old games from companies like Namco, Atari, Capcom, Konami etc on it)
I think that if the companies made the devkits cheaper and easier to get, it would be a win-win situation.
I especially think this would work for the Gameboy Advance where the barriers to entry are much smaller than with other consoles (since you dont need full 3D everything etc).
There are already great homebrew devkits for the Gameboy Advance (with pretty much all the hardware known and with flashcarts used to play the games on the real hardware)
Nintendo could make the GBA devkit more accessable and yet still maintain the control over the platform that they have had since the days of the original B&W GameBoy by continuing their "seal of quality" program where only nintendo approved games could be released for the platform.
The net result would be more games for the Gameboy Advance and possibly better games (especially if it results in more games that arent just remakes of existing games)
Here in Perth, Australia we have a similar thing.
Pubs/bars/hotels (including pubs/bars/hotels that have take-away bottle shops and such attached to them) can open on a sunday.
But bottle shops that are just bottle shops cant open on sunday.
One concern here is that if it were allowed, it would hurt the sales of the pubs. Also, if you allow a 7-day week, all the big chain stores (I dont know if you yanks have big chain bottle shops like we do but here in australia stores like Liquorland, Woolworths Liquor and others have a large chunk of the market) would open since the people that make the decisions to open dont need to go to work on a sunday. And thus, the big chains would get even more of the market.
Does the DRM that is being applied to movies, music, computer software etc actually result in more profits? (remember that you need to take into account the cost of the DRM)
There should be a list out there of all companies known to be violating the licence on so we know which products are in violation (and can avoid buying those) and which companies are in violation (and can avoid buying from them). This would be especially focused on hardware + software combos (e.g. routers, PVRs and other things that use OSS)
Mabie, to ballence it out, a list of the companies (hardware companies for example) that ARE in 100% complience with the GPL could be included.
The right answer is for the drive not to respond to the "Sync" command with "Done" untill it really is done (however long it takes) and for the OS to not continue untill it sees the "done" command from the drive.
Its likely that what will happen is that the chinese goverment will provide google a list of "prohibited" search terms (e.g. Taiwan Independence, Free Tibet etc etc) and if google doesnt block those terms from its chinese indexes and cache, google will loose the licence.
I seem to remember an arcade machine based on the Ridge Racer arcade game with a full size sports car of some kind.
(which Gates himself has used: "I played around with it a bit, but it's just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better,")
Duh that Gates would say IE is better than firefox.
Asking Gates that question is like asking the CEO of Coca-Cola if Coke is better than Pepsi.
Or like asking the CEO of Adobe if Photoshop is better than GIMP.
Is why they cant/wont take code from one or more existing JVMs and libraries and use it as a base.
We have GNU classpath
GNU GCJ
And others
Why havent we seen anyone take the good bits from all the different Open Source java projects and work on ONE free JVM that will sucessfully pass the Sun J2SE compatibility test (and therefore be a 100% implementation of JAVA)
Personally, the fact that no Open Source program comes even close to being able to pass the J2SE compatibility test is why I dont write anything in JAVA.
Most of my code is written in C and C++ with some stuff in Assembler of various kinds.
You can also use the Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime Library, that is cross-platform (on at least Windows and just about anything Unix). And, IIRC it is triple licenced GPL/LGPL/MPL so you can take it and use it in a GPL program no problems.
Firstly, when I opened my bank account I had to provide various pieces of ID to the bank.
As for airplane travel, I recently went on a holiday and I wasnt issued a paper ticket, I had to to go to the check-in counter and show some form of ID before they would give me my seat.
As for social security, here in australia, my payments go into my bank account automatically.
If I need to talk to Centerlink about something, I need to provide my centerlink customer reference number. I imagine that if I was someone who collected payments directly instead of having them go into the bank, I would need to show ID (probobly including my Centerlink CRN) to get the payment.
Thats good and all but its not something that is useable directly (AFAIK) in that its only part of a larger whole (the kernel)
Start small, pick a package that is smaller than the whole kernel and that is likely to be close to 100% sun code (e.g. a shell or a system utillity like ls or mv or something, or mabie the sun as or ld or cc)
and open that.
Opening these smaller-than-the-whole-box-and-dice-but-complete packages would show the community that Sun are genuinly committed to OpenSolaris.
Not if you use the calculator idea instead of the USB key.
Your bank gives you a little calculator-like thing preloaded with a secret key.
Then when you log in, the systems at the bank generate a random number (ways exist to ensure it is sufficantlly random). This number is sent to your machine.
You then type it into the calculator where it is combined with the secret key. The result is typed back into the bank and is comared with the banks own hash of the random number and their copy of the secret key.
Even if the phisher gets the hash typed in, it is useless to them since it would expire after one use, expire after a small amount of time and would be internally linked by the bank machine to the IP address of the machine that the random nunber was given to in the first place.
Another option is a little USB device (simiar to those tiny flash drives) that holds the secret key, instead of typing it in, software hands the random number to the USB device and the hash back to the bank.
Its still just as secure since again the random number would expire and be linked to the IP address it was given to.
Either solution would make it VERY difficult for a phisher to obtain a usable set of credentials that could be used to log in.
PopCap games are VERY good short games.