It's not to do with rollovers per se; it's a patent on having "labels" which, when you point at them with your mouse, cause other information to be displayed.
I'm not sure that a rollover image would count as it removes the original "label" when you rollover it - I imagine a lot javascript/CSS menus would be far more likely to fall foul of it based on my reading of the patent.
At 10,000+ notices per day it's simply not practical to sue everyone, which was kind of the point behind this law in the first place; to make it cheaper and easier for rights holders to get people without having to do any of those annoying things like gather evidence.
Yes, and then Labour can come back into power, run up a massive debt, fuck things up just as much - but more subtly than the Tories so it takes longer for people to notice - while pretending to give a shit about poor people.
Specifically, BT are being investigated by the ICO after it turned out that they sent PlusNet subscriber data to ACS:Law in an unencrypted format; they're also technically in contempt of court as the court order requiring them to hand over said data explicitly required it to be encrypted.
Thing is, for a lot of tasks in Exchange the CLI is much more work than the GUI; yes, for batch operations it's unbeatable, but for making a single change to a single mailbox or server role you're almost always better off using the GUI.
It just needs one or more known nodes, similar to how eDonkey's serverless mode worked, so you just have to include a couple of node addresses with the.torrent.
Of course, this only really works well when you have a single bittorrent swarm (as with ED2K) otherwise you can end up with certain swarms becoming isolated because nobody "knows" about them any more so there aren't any known nodes to bootstrap from.
Yes, MicroSoft didn't have the resource's to backport it
I never said they didn't have it, I said that to them there was no incentive to invest said time and resources in backporting tech to XP that was never designed to work with it in the first place.
There's no doubt that backporting DX10 to XP would have required a substantial effort on Microsoft's part due to the significant changes to Vista's architecture and there's not really any incentive for them to invest the time and money in doing so. This is different, of course, to all the "DX10 Only" games that came out that weren't really DX10 only and just had stupid checks that were all bypassed by warez groups; whether that was a stupid Microsoft idea or a stupid games publisher idea, that *was* nothing more than a marketing ploy.
That's not really a fair comparison - you can't just tack Vista's numbers onto Windows 7's and then use that to claim that Win 7 isn't doing well; remember, people largely hated Vista (justified or not) and so its adoption was very poor whereas Win 7 has had a very rapid uptake amongst those who "choose" to upgrade (i.e geeks) and I suspect that over the next year or two will become the majority OS as people and businesses refesh their PCs.
Why though? If Joe User is dumb enough to run "JustinBieberNaked.exe" as root/admin/whatever then no amount of OS security will prevent the machine from being compromised. The weakest point of any system is always between the keyboard and the chair.
Now if you're talking clear negligence in not fixing known issues, etc. then perhaps you have a case, but then why drawn the line at big companies, surely everyone should be equally liable even if they're a one-man operation working out of their bedroom?
Virgin & Talk Talk did; almost all the others agreed in advance not to contest applications by ACS:Law for court orders compelling them to divulge user information, which made it trivial for them to operate their little extortion scam.
Technically, it's a DPA breach for ISPs to provide user information to a 3rd party *without* a court order (or the explicit permission of the user in question).
On that subject, everyone's favourite UK-based law firm ACS:Law are being investigated by the ICO over the data that was leaked when 4chan carried out their DDOS.
Turns out that in addition to all the internal documents, letters and other crap on their webserver they also had a load of Sky broadband subscriber information in plaintext on there; I quote "You rarely find an aspect where almost every aspect of the Data Protection Act (DPA) has been breached, but this is one of them," said Mr Davies [of Privacy International]".
It's because they've both publicly stated that they will challenge requests for subscriber information that don't come complete with a court order - see this Torrentfreak article from a few days ago.
"While we all know that an ISP must comply with a court order once it’s issued, Plusnet and virtually every other ISP in the UK are giving the likes of Gallant Macmillan and ACS:Law a free ride by agreeing not to contest in advance."
It is, as they always say in the lawsuits against P2P operators, all about how you advertise your services.
If you say "Here is my article, come read it" then you're not implying anything beyond that, but if you say "Here is my article, come read it and share it with all your friends" then the implication is that you're happy for people to take that article and spread it around.
Now there may be an issue of attribution, but that's an entirely separate issue from claiming that people are violating your copyrights by doing what you invited them to do.
Yes, it's just interfacing with the com object, which is a little cumbersome, but given the rate at which MS are adding service-specific Powershell modules, it wouldn't surprise me if there are some proper PS tools for working with the Windows firewall in the near future.
Any tech savvy user should be running AV on Windows - and that's not a slight on Windows per se - given the number of vulnerabilities in a wide range of software *cough*Adobe*cough*, exploitable in the browser from "trusted" sites that have been compromised, often with days or weeks without a patch or workaround, it's a very bad idea not to run some form of real-time AV scanner.
The days of "I know what I'm doing, I keep my stuff up-to-date, I don't open unknown attachments, boot from unknown media or visit dodgy sites" are sadly long gone.
And which of the internets has Obama been misunderestimating lately?
Like it or not, Bush's speech was a comedy goldmine, whereas someone just tripping over their words isn't that funny.
Obviously if you can provide clips of said comedy bloopers I'm happy to be proven wrong - I can't profess to having heard all, or indeed many of Obama's speaking engagements.
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It's not to do with rollovers per se; it's a patent on having "labels" which, when you point at them with your mouse, cause other information to be displayed.
I'm not sure that a rollover image would count as it removes the original "label" when you rollover it - I imagine a lot javascript/CSS menus would be far more likely to fall foul of it based on my reading of the patent.
At 10,000+ notices per day it's simply not practical to sue everyone, which was kind of the point behind this law in the first place; to make it cheaper and easier for rights holders to get people without having to do any of those annoying things like gather evidence.
Yes, and then Labour can come back into power, run up a massive debt, fuck things up just as much - but more subtly than the Tories so it takes longer for people to notice - while pretending to give a shit about poor people.
Same shit, different colour.
So it's like chatroulette with fewer penises?
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Specifically, BT are being investigated by the ICO after it turned out that they sent PlusNet subscriber data to ACS:Law in an unencrypted format; they're also technically in contempt of court as the court order requiring them to hand over said data explicitly required it to be encrypted.
How many of you know where to change the DPI in Windows 7?
Well I've never had to find it in Win 7 before, but just typing "dpi" into the start menu search box bought it up straight away.
Thing is, for a lot of tasks in Exchange the CLI is much more work than the GUI; yes, for batch operations it's unbeatable, but for making a single change to a single mailbox or server role you're almost always better off using the GUI.
It just needs one or more known nodes, similar to how eDonkey's serverless mode worked, so you just have to include a couple of node addresses with the .torrent.
Of course, this only really works well when you have a single bittorrent swarm (as with ED2K) otherwise you can end up with certain swarms becoming isolated because nobody "knows" about them any more so there aren't any known nodes to bootstrap from.
Yes, MicroSoft didn't have the resource's to backport it
I never said they didn't have it, I said that to them there was no incentive to invest said time and resources in backporting tech to XP that was never designed to work with it in the first place.
Yes and no.
There's no doubt that backporting DX10 to XP would have required a substantial effort on Microsoft's part due to the significant changes to Vista's architecture and there's not really any incentive for them to invest the time and money in doing so. This is different, of course, to all the "DX10 Only" games that came out that weren't really DX10 only and just had stupid checks that were all bypassed by warez groups; whether that was a stupid Microsoft idea or a stupid games publisher idea, that *was* nothing more than a marketing ploy.
That's not really a fair comparison - you can't just tack Vista's numbers onto Windows 7's and then use that to claim that Win 7 isn't doing well; remember, people largely hated Vista (justified or not) and so its adoption was very poor whereas Win 7 has had a very rapid uptake amongst those who "choose" to upgrade (i.e geeks) and I suspect that over the next year or two will become the majority OS as people and businesses refesh their PCs.
Well they don't seem capable of passing laws on anything significant these days so I guess you just have to take what you can get.
People with nefarious goals target massively popular services with shitty security and largely uninformed users. Film at 11.
Why though? If Joe User is dumb enough to run "JustinBieberNaked.exe" as root/admin/whatever then no amount of OS security will prevent the machine from being compromised. The weakest point of any system is always between the keyboard and the chair.
Now if you're talking clear negligence in not fixing known issues, etc. then perhaps you have a case, but then why drawn the line at big companies, surely everyone should be equally liable even if they're a one-man operation working out of their bedroom?
Virgin & Talk Talk did; almost all the others agreed in advance not to contest applications by ACS:Law for court orders compelling them to divulge user information, which made it trivial for them to operate their little extortion scam.
Technically, it's a DPA breach for ISPs to provide user information to a 3rd party *without* a court order (or the explicit permission of the user in question).
On that subject, everyone's favourite UK-based law firm ACS:Law are being investigated by the ICO over the data that was leaked when 4chan carried out their DDOS.
Turns out that in addition to all the internal documents, letters and other crap on their webserver they also had a load of Sky broadband subscriber information in plaintext on there; I quote "You rarely find an aspect where almost every aspect of the Data Protection Act (DPA) has been breached, but this is one of them," said Mr Davies [of Privacy International]".
It's because they've both publicly stated that they will challenge requests for subscriber information that don't come complete with a court order - see this Torrentfreak article from a few days ago.
"While we all know that an ISP must comply with a court order once it’s issued, Plusnet and virtually every other ISP in the UK are giving the likes of Gallant Macmillan and ACS:Law a free ride by agreeing not to contest in advance."
Well, it's between 18 & 55 million names - it's a 3 strikes law after all so not every request will be a new name.
It is, as they always say in the lawsuits against P2P operators, all about how you advertise your services.
If you say "Here is my article, come read it" then you're not implying anything beyond that, but if you say "Here is my article, come read it and share it with all your friends" then the implication is that you're happy for people to take that article and spread it around.
Now there may be an issue of attribution, but that's an entirely separate issue from claiming that people are violating your copyrights by doing what you invited them to do.
Nonsense, Civ is turn-based so you can play it during the SC2 cut scenes and loading screens.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jamesone/archive/2009/02/18/how-to-manage-the-windows-firewall-settings-with-powershell.aspx
Yes, it's just interfacing with the com object, which is a little cumbersome, but given the rate at which MS are adding service-specific Powershell modules, it wouldn't surprise me if there are some proper PS tools for working with the Windows firewall in the near future.
Any tech savvy user should be running AV on Windows - and that's not a slight on Windows per se - given the number of vulnerabilities in a wide range of software *cough*Adobe*cough*, exploitable in the browser from "trusted" sites that have been compromised, often with days or weeks without a patch or workaround, it's a very bad idea not to run some form of real-time AV scanner.
The days of "I know what I'm doing, I keep my stuff up-to-date, I don't open unknown attachments, boot from unknown media or visit dodgy sites" are sadly long gone.
Which, given the 4 years since the Wii was released, is pretty poor.
By all accounts, the Move should blow the basic Wii controller out of the water and be at least par with the Motion Plus.
And which of the internets has Obama been misunderestimating lately?
Like it or not, Bush's speech was a comedy goldmine, whereas someone just tripping over their words isn't that funny.
Obviously if you can provide clips of said comedy bloopers I'm happy to be proven wrong - I can't profess to having heard all, or indeed many of Obama's speaking engagements.