The difference is actually that most sun's hardware is server, not PERSONAL computers. Hence the host-id is shared among dozens of users, thus diluting the privacy loss...
A few years ago, it was a quite clear: a Work Station is a powerful personal computer that does not run MS-DOS, Windows or MacOS. That's to say, it would run Unix or VMS. Now, they started calling big PCs workstation. Hence commenting on the growing market size of NT in the workstation market does not make _any_ sense...
I think they're basically lying. This thing (the unique ID) is USELESS and NOT ANY MORE SECURE THAN HAVING A RANDOM NUMBER-FILLED FILE ON YOUR HARD DISK. Whoever (hacker?) has access to your hard disk can as well have access to your processor, and it would be trivial to alter whatever "e-commerce" program to return a fake (someone else's?) ID instead of the hardware one! I'm not a "conspiracy theory" fan, and by a huge margin, but who are they trying to kid???
Looks like is not rumours anymore. They now have to submit it to the parliament, but that should pose no problem.
The second document is interesting, it covers a different topic. Translated excerpt:
1. To clarify the problem of author's right and multimedia
Note that "droit d'auteur" is slightly different from Intellectual Th^H^HProperty. It recognizes the role of the author as opposed to that of the owner of patents / copyright. Here, the author of an art work as a right (not necessarily monetary) even if he sold the work to someone else.
3. To accelerate free access to essential cultural data (...) priority to the needs of the public(...) A cultural "portal" will be created(...) It will be proposed as a free hosting service for cultural organizations under partnership with the govt.(...)
All of this seems extremely interesting as it sounds like it does not carry anything like it would have been influenced by commercial lobbies.
2) You Linux guys have to learn something: The Mac OS is not made for user-made programs. It's a commercial system, designed for commercial apps. It's made to be easy for users to use and leave the code to professionals.
Honey, you failed to fail to suck. Most Linux users, like myself, are professional programmers. Remember: Apache, Perl, qmail, whatever, though not 'commercial' software, have NO match in the commercial world in terms of reliability and standards compliance.
So go masturbate yourself, and don't comment on a (good) programmer's ability if you don't know anything to programming.
If you downloaded Swindler's Lust MP4 today (1/7) between 3 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. EST, it may be infected with a virus. A new copy has been uploaded. P.E. apologizes for the oversight.
The more I read stuff from libertarians, the more I think they have a lot in common with talibans, ayatollahs, scientologists, and hard-core animal rights activists.
Anyway, let's see what's it you just said:
As for the projects that only government can fund, none of your examples really apply. Arpanet was not really all that expensive,
Not that expensive? Wow, that's an argument.
... and chances are Universities would have come up with something similar anyway.
I don't know much about the american university system, but most of their research money comes from the government, does'nt it? It's the case in most other countries anyway.
Web browsers aren't even created by government. Neither Netscape or Explorer are, and I believe Mosaic was a University product.
Mosaic was created at NCSA, which is a government agency, you dumb-ass. Taxpayers money. Plain and simple, idiot. Then the web, and the first web browsers, were invented at the CERN, which is funded by 15 european govts.
I don't. With the greatest respect to the Wine team, their project is a waste of time.
YAMM. Yet Another Moralizing Moron. You loser, Wine will be extremely useful as a porting aid; it will allow to port 'doze software, like Corel will do.
Anyway, it's been months since I heard about the Itsy for the first time. The only 'new' thing about it is that it's now branded Compaq(TM) instead of D.E.C....
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That's the difference.
The difference is actually that most sun's hardware is server, not PERSONAL computers. Hence the host-id is shared among dozens of users, thus diluting the privacy loss ...
A few years ago, it was a quite clear: a Work Station is a powerful personal computer that does not run MS-DOS, Windows or MacOS. That's to say, it would run Unix or VMS. ...
Now, they started calling big PCs workstation. Hence commenting on the growing market size of NT in the workstation market does not make _any_ sense
The greedy thwarts operating the music business are about to be fucked in the butt badly. They know it. Just observe their last movements of agony.
Yeah, I know, I'm being too optimistic, but it's going to happen, slowly, as surely as Free Software will dominate the world!
FUCK THE POWERFUL.
I think they're basically lying. This thing (the unique ID) is USELESS and NOT ANY MORE SECURE THAN HAVING A RANDOM NUMBER-FILLED FILE ON YOUR HARD DISK.
Whoever (hacker?) has access to your hard disk can as well have access to your processor, and it would be trivial to alter whatever "e-commerce" program to return a fake (someone else's?) ID instead of the hardware one!
I'm not a "conspiracy theory" fan, and by a huge margin, but who are they trying to kid???
Looks like is not rumours anymore. They now have to submit it to the parliament, but that should pose no problem.
The second document is interesting, it covers a different topic. Translated excerpt:
1. To clarify the problem of author's right and multimedia
Note that "droit d'auteur" is slightly different from Intellectual Th^H^HProperty. It recognizes the role of the author as opposed to that of the owner of patents / copyright. Here, the author of an art work as a right (not necessarily monetary) even if he sold the work to someone else.
3. To accelerate free access to essential cultural data
(...) priority to the needs of the public(...)
A cultural "portal" will be created(...) It will be proposed as a free hosting service for cultural organizations under partnership with the govt.(...)
All of this seems extremely interesting as it sounds like it does not carry anything like it would have been influenced by commercial lobbies.
... and thanks to procmail I get my girlfriends' email directly thru SMS (Short Messages).
2) You Linux guys have to learn
something: The Mac OS is not made for user-made
programs. It's a commercial system, designed for
commercial apps. It's made to be easy for users
to use and leave the code to professionals.
Honey, you failed to fail to suck. Most Linux users, like myself, are professional programmers. Remember: Apache, Perl, qmail, whatever, though not 'commercial' software, have NO match in the commercial world in terms of reliability and standards compliance.
So go masturbate yourself, and don't comment on a (good) programmer's ability if you don't know anything to programming.
Maybe it's just me, but i think that the
programmer should probably try to write his code
so that his applications don't cause memory
errors.
HEY! I'm a computer programmer, and I never thought about this! Let's just write code that does not crash! Whaou! What a breakthrough in C.S.!
If you downloaded Swindler's Lust MP4 today (1/7)
between 3 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. EST, it may be infected
with a virus. A new copy has been uploaded. P.E.
apologizes for the oversight.
Arf ...
The more I read stuff from libertarians, the more I think they have a lot in common with talibans, ayatollahs, scientologists, and hard-core animal rights activists.
Anyway, let's see what's it you just said:
As for the projects that only government can fund, none of your examples really apply. Arpanet was not really all that
expensive,
Not that expensive? Wow, that's an argument.
and chances are Universities would have come up with something similar anyway.
I don't know much about the american university system, but most of their research money comes from the government, does'nt it? It's the case in most other countries anyway.
Web browsers aren't
even created by government. Neither Netscape or Explorer are, and I believe Mosaic was a University product.
Mosaic was created at NCSA, which is a government agency, you dumb-ass. Taxpayers money. Plain and simple, idiot. Then the web, and the first web browsers, were invented at the CERN, which is funded by 15 european govts.
Conclusion: you're a liar
I guess... RSA does'nt have any record of supporting free software at all ... they're an evil software patent company, AFAIK.
I don't. With the greatest respect to the Wine team, their project is a waste of time.
YAMM. Yet Another Moralizing Moron. You loser, Wine will be extremely useful as a porting aid; it will allow to port 'doze software, like Corel will do.
Anyway, it's been months since I heard about the Itsy for the first time. The only 'new' thing about it is that it's now branded Compaq(TM) instead of D.E.C.