The quote from the article was taken out of context and that makes it unclear what they are labeling as theft. If you read the article, it become clear that the statement is saying that it is "theft" if a homeowner intentionally sets up an open WiFi so that people in the area can share his broadband connection. The homeowner is the "thief" because he is likely violating his/her TOS.
I'll be honest. I don't use free software because it's "better". I use free software mostly because it's free (as in "free beer"). I appreciate that so many people donate their time and effort in order to create tools and applications that anyone can use without paying an arm and a leg.
I'm not a corporation, and I can't afford thousands of dollars in license fees to run a web server + mail server + database server for my personal use at home.
Re:Is this a C# or a .NET problem?
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Keep in mind that there is not always a sandbox for.NET applications. The security policys being enforced are configurable, but by default, installed applications running off your hard drive essentially have no sandbox. On the other hand, applications running from the network or within a browser have a much more restrictive sandbox and these "hacking.NET" techniques would be caught (assuming the private code being called is inapproriate for the sandbox).
The.NET CLR does runtime checks to verify that code is not doing things it's not allowed to do (aka, code can't leave the "sandbox"). Accessing private methods using this technique does not circumvent these checks--the CLR will detect and prevent *inappropriate* accesses.
Re:So .Net is like C++?
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This.NET behavior is not a security hole.
The.NET CLR does runtime checks to verify that code is not doing things it's not allowed to do (aka, code can't leave the "sandbox"). Accessing private methods using this technique does not circumvent these checks--the CLR will detect and prevent *inappropriate* accesses.
The key point is that.NET applications can be running in many different security environments. Installed applications running off your hard drive essentially have no sandbox. Applications running from the network or within a browser have a much more restrictive sandbox and these "hacking.NET" techniques would be caught (assuming the private code being called is inapproriate for the sandbox).
Actually, there is at least one game out today that made the 9700 Pro worthwhile to me. Asheron's Call 2 crushes basically everything out there when set at it's "most pretty" settings. It happens that the 9700 Pro is crushed the least of current cards. As AC2 was designed to look best on cards/systems a year or more from now, I'm sure that it will work great with the Geforce FX, but for the next several months (or more), the 9700 Pro allows me to play with beautiful graphics today.
I'm surprised it has taken this long. Letting the studios and networks know what shows I watch and what shows I pass over will hopefully steer them towards more shows that I like.
I had a plan once to create a page that generated Jon Katz articles (fed by the existing pool of articles). Would be interesting to see how it turned out:)
The sanctity of the UL/CSA logos are based on the repulation of the organizations behind them that give out the license to use the logo.
As has been discussed several times previously, Philips seems to be willing to license the CD logo to anyone who has the required fee. The CD logo only means something if Philips enforces it, and they don't. It's meaningless.
Re:Doesn't update iPod playlists?
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iPod on Windows
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The straightforward solution I have is to use a mp3 manager/player that can organize and play songs based on artist/album/genre, etc. That way I don't have to bother creating and maintaining static playlists.
I'm not an electrical engineering expert, so I could have misinterpreted the story. However, as I read it, they claim that for cost saving reasons, the LEDs that just show status are internally electrically connected or at least influenced by the part of the circut that handles the data flow. In other words, the LED is not showing just generic activity, but is actually showing the bit flow.
Check the list of old stories for the details of the new adds that are being implemented and the subscription system you can use in order to avoid them.
The current poll is also related to these new adds.
I've had to call Microsoft a few times for Office re-installs because I had to reinstall my computer or because I changed the hardware enough to make it look like a new computer. In all cases, when they asked, I mentioned that I was reinstalling, and they gave me a new code without any grief.
In fact, I recently reinstalled Windows XP on a computer (same hardware) and it didn't even complain. Apparently, they now have things working such that you only have to call if you install on different hardware (reinstalling on the same hardware seems to automatically work).
I'm not a big fan of product activation, but it hasn't actually been much of a problem to this point.
I don't think the telephone operators will give you any problems unless your serial number has been used to "re-install" on dozens of computers...
We've never used thin client in a computer lab environment, but many of our customers use thin client. It's my understanding that it makes management of 1000s of computers a *lot* easier, but commonly does not save any $ on hardware investment. The cost of the Citrix licenses and hardware can make up for the savings in client hardware. The TCO can be lower if you do things right, though.
Most of the customers who have switched to thin client don't regret their choice.
I see your point, but as the admin of a small, uninteresting project, I appreciate the service they are providing. Yes, I have to maintain backups of everything "just in case", but those backups sit idle. The real commodity that sourceforge has generously given my product is bandwidth. I'm more than happy to not pay for the download bandwith used by my project even though it means I have to do daily backups (and even though I know it won't last forever).
They make a tarball of the actual CVS repository available for all projects, and backing that up ought to be part of the things that you backup "daily."
They have several documents detailing how you can backup the various parts of your project, and in several places urge you to make these backups on a regular basis.
It's my opinion that these steps are enough, and they have already made a "reasonable effort" to inform project admins of their backup responsibilities.
I feel your pain. Are you, by chance, running IIS on NT (vs 2K)? The worm hit my workplace wednesday as well, and all of the computers in my hallway (web developers) were infected except mine. Mine was not because I was fully patched on both IIS and IE. Lucky me, but guess what, it wasn't that hard!
Yes, I hear you when you say NT sucks for service packs. I strongly recommend moving to Win2K. It's been out for a while now. In fact, supposedly Microsoft is no longer willing to sell new NT licensed to corporate customers. Assuming that's true, your new customers may not be able to use NT anyway. My point is that I was not infected because I went to Windows Update and accepted the critical and recommended updates. It does take 10-15 minutes on a new machine because the windows service pack has to be installed seperately from the rest and has a reboot at the end, but it's not "hard". Just my advice...
Re:Another case of too little, too late?
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XML and Soap parsing are not in the win2k kernel. MSXML.DLL parses XML and comes with IE 5. MSXML2.DLL can be downloaded separately. the.Net framework and a seperate standalone SOAP toolkit are also individual downloads.
You, in fact may not have the right to post that card. You may not scan a card you recieved and post it on your web site. Something does not have to be a trade secret for you to be prohibited from distributing it (or copies of it) without permission.
See these links for additional examples:
http://www.patents.com/weblaw.sht#scan
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#wc i
In particular, copyright protection "generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others...to reproduce the work"
Memos, Email messages, instruction manuals, and even your post are copyrighted materials. It doesn't have to be a novel to be protected by copyright, nor does the copyright have to be explicitly stated.
Fair use does not allow you to publish something that is 99% copywrited material except for the sentance, "Hey, look what I found..." inserted at the beginning.
This is essencially what this guy did. He did not write an article that contained quotes from the document, etc. He published the actual copyrighted document...
Reporting on a subject and distributing copyrighted material. The first amendment does not give journalists the right to break copywrite laws. Fair use arguments don't apply when the centent is mostly copywrited material either.
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The quote from the article was taken out of context and that makes it unclear what they are labeling as theft. If you read the article, it become clear that the statement is saying that it is "theft" if a homeowner intentionally sets up an open WiFi so that people in the area can share his broadband connection. The homeowner is the "thief" because he is likely violating his/her TOS.
I'll be honest. I don't use free software because it's "better". I use free software mostly because it's free (as in "free beer"). I appreciate that so many people donate their time and effort in order to create tools and applications that anyone can use without paying an arm and a leg.
I'm not a corporation, and I can't afford thousands of dollars in license fees to run a web server + mail server + database server for my personal use at home.
Keep in mind that there is not always a sandbox for .NET applications. The security policys being enforced are configurable, but by default, installed applications running off your hard drive essentially have no sandbox. On the other hand, applications running from the network or within a browser have a much more restrictive sandbox and these "hacking .NET" techniques would be caught (assuming the private code being called is inapproriate for the sandbox).
.NET CLR does runtime checks to verify that code is not doing things it's not allowed to do (aka, code can't leave the "sandbox"). Accessing private methods using this technique does not circumvent these checks--the CLR will detect and prevent *inappropriate* accesses.
The
This .NET behavior is not a security hole.
.NET CLR does runtime checks to verify that code is not doing things it's not allowed to do (aka, code can't leave the "sandbox"). Accessing private methods using this technique does not circumvent these checks--the CLR will detect and prevent *inappropriate* accesses.
.NET applications can be running in many different security environments. Installed applications running off your hard drive essentially have no sandbox. Applications running from the network or within a browser have a much more restrictive sandbox and these "hacking .NET" techniques would be caught (assuming the private code being called is inapproriate for the sandbox).
The
The key point is that
Actually, there is at least one game out today that made the 9700 Pro worthwhile to me. Asheron's Call 2 crushes basically everything out there when set at it's "most pretty" settings. It happens that the 9700 Pro is crushed the least of current cards. As AC2 was designed to look best on cards/systems a year or more from now, I'm sure that it will work great with the Geforce FX, but for the next several months (or more), the 9700 Pro allows me to play with beautiful graphics today.
The Firewire is likely intended to allow you to easily transfer video from a digital video camera to DVD using DV.
But do the masses enthralled by the World Wrestling Federation and the Jerry Springer Show have TiVos?
I'm surprised it has taken this long. Letting the studios and networks know what shows I watch and what shows I pass over will hopefully steer them towards more shows that I like.
I had a plan once to create a page that generated Jon Katz articles (fed by the existing pool of articles). Would be interesting to see how it turned out :)
Another option is EphPod.
For example:
http://www.dinkumware.com/libdace.html
It's pretty decent although it can get expensive if you need to license it for a large development team.
The sanctity of the UL/CSA logos are based on the repulation of the organizations behind them that give out the license to use the logo.
As has been discussed several times previously, Philips seems to be willing to license the CD logo to anyone who has the required fee. The CD logo only means something if Philips enforces it, and they don't. It's meaningless.
The straightforward solution I have is to use a mp3 manager/player that can organize and play songs based on artist/album/genre, etc. That way I don't have to bother creating and maintaining static playlists.
Erv
I'm not an electrical engineering expert, so I could have misinterpreted the story. However, as I read it, they claim that for cost saving reasons, the LEDs that just show status are internally electrically connected or at least influenced by the part of the circut that handles the data flow. In other words, the LED is not showing just generic activity, but is actually showing the bit flow.
I'm not sure I believe them though.
Check the list of old stories for the details of the new adds that are being implemented and the subscription system you can use in order to avoid them.
The current poll is also related to these new adds.
I've had to call Microsoft a few times for Office re-installs because I had to reinstall my computer or because I changed the hardware enough to make it look like a new computer. In all cases, when they asked, I mentioned that I was reinstalling, and they gave me a new code without any grief.
In fact, I recently reinstalled Windows XP on a computer (same hardware) and it didn't even complain. Apparently, they now have things working such that you only have to call if you install on different hardware (reinstalling on the same hardware seems to automatically work).
I'm not a big fan of product activation, but it hasn't actually been much of a problem to this point.
I don't think the telephone operators will give you any problems unless your serial number has been used to "re-install" on dozens of computers...
We've never used thin client in a computer lab environment, but many of our customers use thin client. It's my understanding that it makes management of 1000s of computers a *lot* easier, but commonly does not save any $ on hardware investment. The cost of the Citrix licenses and hardware can make up for the savings in client hardware. The TCO can be lower if you do things right, though.
Most of the customers who have switched to thin client don't regret their choice.
I see your point, but as the admin of a small, uninteresting project, I appreciate the service they are providing. Yes, I have to maintain backups of everything "just in case", but those backups sit idle. The real commodity that sourceforge has generously given my product is bandwidth. I'm more than happy to not pay for the download bandwith used by my project even though it means I have to do daily backups (and even though I know it won't last forever).
For example, see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/hmdj-cvsroo t.tar.gz
They have several documents detailing how you can backup the various parts of your project, and in several places urge you to make these backups on a regular basis.
It's my opinion that these steps are enough, and they have already made a "reasonable effort" to inform project admins of their backup responsibilities.
I feel your pain. Are you, by chance, running IIS on NT (vs 2K)? The worm hit my workplace wednesday as well, and all of the computers in my hallway (web developers) were infected except mine. Mine was not because I was fully patched on both IIS and IE. Lucky me, but guess what, it wasn't that hard!
Yes, I hear you when you say NT sucks for service packs. I strongly recommend moving to Win2K. It's been out for a while now. In fact, supposedly Microsoft is no longer willing to sell new NT licensed to corporate customers. Assuming that's true, your new customers may not be able to use NT anyway. My point is that I was not infected because I went to Windows Update and accepted the critical and recommended updates. It does take 10-15 minutes on a new machine because the windows service pack has to be installed seperately from the rest and has a reboot at the end, but it's not "hard". Just my advice...
XML and Soap parsing are not in the win2k kernel. MSXML.DLL parses XML and comes with IE 5. MSXML2.DLL can be downloaded separately. the .Net framework and a seperate standalone SOAP toolkit are also individual downloads.
You, in fact may not have the right to post that card. You may not scan a card you recieved and post it on your web site. Something does not have to be a trade secret for you to be prohibited from distributing it (or copies of it) without permission.
c i
See these links for additional examples:
http://www.patents.com/weblaw.sht#scan
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#w
In particular, copyright protection "generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others...to reproduce the work"
See this document from the Copyright Office for furthur information: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/c irc s/circ1.html#wwp.
Fair use does not allow you to publish something that is 99% copywrited material except for the sentance, "Hey, look what I found..." inserted at the beginning.
This is essencially what this guy did. He did not write an article that contained quotes from the document, etc. He published the actual copyrighted document...
Reporting on a subject and distributing copyrighted material. The first amendment does not give journalists the right to break copywrite laws. Fair use arguments don't apply when the centent is mostly copywrited material either.