You cant walk into a library and get on the net in every country. Some governments will kill or torture you for trying to get access to different views and even once you have net access you have to worry about monitoring/censorship. In the end theres nothing any government can do people will get connections, but its not a walk in the park yet.
Depends if your audience are extremists who want to read that no-one was killed in the iraq war today, and that the marines are all happy and love it there.
Is there any way to actually uninstall IE or atleast make it absolutely not the default browser and ban its exicution or engine use by all other programs and perhaps replace that engine with something else? Considering that was part of a big law-suit surly theres a way? Infact i need IE installed for website testing so the second option would be best.. all i can think of is setting the permissions of the engine dll and IE exicutables but replacing it would be nice too..
The law is a massive collection of code - most of it is very very badly written code full of holes, or code that was written to patch over previous code. Lawyers are hackers that either find holes (good hackers) or use known holes/exploits (script kiddies) so they can break their client out of the system. Because of the nature of the system its not possible for everyone to use it at the same time, so some people can get away with not following the rules until they are caught. Once inside the system (court-room) you must follow the rules, find holes, or find a judge that can be 'persuaded' - since the code is run on a highly distributed system the code on some processors can be temporarily altered in your favour. The chief project manager/PHB is the president/prime-minister/royalty - in the case of the US the PHB is Bush and many coders that work for him or are his friends can have their input. Often code submitted to this massive open-source project isn't checked, or the checker is ignored. Updates can take years or hours depending on who is behind them. Sometimes large sections of code that have been operating for decades are ripped out or over-written (sometimes for the better sometimes for worse) We are all screwed.
Are there any real-world examples you can gain experience from? International terrorism works in a similar fashion - a sense of fear is created causing pressure on governing bodies which can be enough to sway political decisions. However, there are very few occaisions where this has led to a positive outcome for the terrorists and in most cases it leads to their death.
I think many countries round the world punish people for breaking the law.. often the law includes gems like "not smoking certain plants or else you get jail", "not saying anything bad about the leader or else you get your tounge cut out" and "not having sex outside marrage or you get stoned to death". Breaking the law is never ok..
In the UK we have a similar but different thing, every couple of weeks the police arrest about 100 people around the country under our wonderful new terrorism laws (thank you Blunkett) then about 6 months later 99 of them get released without any charges. oddly around the same time about 4 people are released from concentration camp x-ray and are flown back to the UK where they get questioned for about 24 hours and then released.. without charges.. maybe they're actually filesharing or something?
Sometimes you have a long to do list but you dont really want to do some of the things or you're more eager to do others. Ashcroft just thought "hey im supposed to help those 'cats at the RIAA, might as well do it today". Its similar to cops on the street - they think "hm should i take that call to the armed robbery in progress... nahhh ill just harrass these kids smoking dope" its obvious that some crimes hurt people allot less than others, and some crimes dont actually hurt anyone and they're only crimes because some facist christian nutcase has decided it is.
I dont think anyone is forcing you? time might not be free but commercial software isnt free either so open source coding is kinda like paying for software in a very round-about way where you're not under pressure to do anything, this is mainly due to software being infinitely copyable unlike most other types of work.
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no, i wouldnt describe the man as 'giving me the creeps'. I would describe him more as.. a total nutcase facist who should have been sent to the padded room years ago but instead infests the US government with no regard for the law. Against gay rights, womens rights, non-christian peoples rights, first amendment rights, infact any rights. his agenda is so large you wouldnt even be able to tell him to go shove it, it wouldnt fit up his ass!
Ok guys lets see, we've got a methlab, 3 gangs, 2 car shops, a money printing racket oh and some kid named 1337m4st0r with 200,000 songs on kazaa, ok lets move it!
What if your device is claimed to be compatable out of the box by several distros but when you try it takes 4 solid days of trying 4 different drivers and every combination of config you can think of and suggestions from 20 different forums/lists/newsgroups before the light even comes on and even then its touch and go? no but seriously saying x device is compatable and x device actually being compatable are two separate things.
Advertising is going to become the 21st century grafitti. forget all those futuristic films showing clean looking city-scapes, in the future every single bit of space will be sold off to advertisng, there wont be a blank wall or door, only the biggest/richest people/companies will be able to afford blank walls on their buildings and people might even start getting advertising indoors! grafitti will be a federal offence. Sure some things will be able to pay for themselves because of the adverts but its just going to be sickening - people will figure why pay money when you can just get some adverts and get whatever it is for free or cheaply. Its already happening...
You pay for TV and get adverts (except the BBC but then you dont really get a choice on that) same in the cinema and most public transport - the advertisement is helping to pay for it thus making the cost to you less. Well, you would think that right? infact the cost stays the same and you just get adverts so really you're being screwed over on all these things but the point is its already happened everywhere else, so gaming is the next logical place. It'll probably start out innocent enough - maybe some adverts on the loading screens, but then it gets worse - they start intentionally slowing down the loading so you can watch more ads, maybe stick a video advert in there. Then adverts will come into the game play, maybe pausing it or stuck on some wall, imagine multiplayer games where half-way through everything pauses and everyone is subjected to a server-wide advert to pay for the hosting - sick! Luckly patches/cracks will come out to get rid of all this crap, and the result will probably be that if you download the game from a filesharing network it will already have the adverts taken out so the developers will screw themeselves when people stop buying games. Multiplayer adverts could be the worst tho, its possible that it could happen to current games - the server just stops the game and starts sending server messages to all the clients with some stupid text advert - imagine the potential of regular MMORPG patches - you cant play without the latest patch (which contains all the graphics needed for the current adverts). This too could also drive people onto hacked servers. We can only hope.
Hell yeah, just remember - if [cost of lawsuit] [money made from actions] then its good! the negative publicity is nothing because only/. readers will findout and they already hate MS.
IBM runs linux server adverts, as lame as some advertising is you can't really ban it (they did say _probably_ the best beer right?) i say let them all fight it out, the OSS community is about producing good software which is why its not even on the same playing feild as microsoft (which is about selling software) - companies that sell linux are the ones that have to compete with MS not kernel.org so sit back and let them..
sounds like the sort of crap you hear down tottenham court rd - "ah yeah i've tried linux its not so good, but if you buy windows XP from here, for an extra 50 quid we'll give you a 10 year warrenty incase your urm OS er breaks down!" i've heard that windows 2003 server on a 2.4GHz pentium 4 runs 10 times faster than a top-of-the-range 1964 IBM mainframe!
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So what was the outcome of that law-suit that said Microsoft should make IE seperable from Windows?
You cant walk into a library and get on the net in every country. Some governments will kill or torture you for trying to get access to different views and even once you have net access you have to worry about monitoring/censorship. In the end theres nothing any government can do people will get connections, but its not a walk in the park yet.
Depends if your audience are extremists who want to read that no-one was killed in the iraq war today, and that the marines are all happy and love it there.
Sweet, now all we need is a simple utility for rapid deployment..
just change it.slashdot.org/whatever to shit.slashdot.org/whatever and it will load the same page with the original green...
Is there any way to actually uninstall IE or atleast make it absolutely not the default browser and ban its exicution or engine use by all other programs and perhaps replace that engine with something else? Considering that was part of a big law-suit surly theres a way? Infact i need IE installed for website testing so the second option would be best.. all i can think of is setting the permissions of the engine dll and IE exicutables but replacing it would be nice too..
no you're not.
The law is a massive collection of code - most of it is very very badly written code full of holes, or code that was written to patch over previous code. Lawyers are hackers that either find holes (good hackers) or use known holes/exploits (script kiddies) so they can break their client out of the system. Because of the nature of the system its not possible for everyone to use it at the same time, so some people can get away with not following the rules until they are caught. Once inside the system (court-room) you must follow the rules, find holes, or find a judge that can be 'persuaded' - since the code is run on a highly distributed system the code on some processors can be temporarily altered in your favour. The chief project manager/PHB is the president/prime-minister/royalty - in the case of the US the PHB is Bush and many coders that work for him or are his friends can have their input. Often code submitted to this massive open-source project isn't checked, or the checker is ignored. Updates can take years or hours depending on who is behind them. Sometimes large sections of code that have been operating for decades are ripped out or over-written (sometimes for the better sometimes for worse) We are all screwed.
Are there any real-world examples you can gain experience from? International terrorism works in a similar fashion - a sense of fear is created causing pressure on governing bodies which can be enough to sway political decisions. However, there are very few occaisions where this has led to a positive outcome for the terrorists and in most cases it leads to their death.
I think many countries round the world punish people for breaking the law.. often the law includes gems like "not smoking certain plants or else you get jail", "not saying anything bad about the leader or else you get your tounge cut out" and "not having sex outside marrage or you get stoned to death".
Breaking the law is never ok..
In the UK we have a similar but different thing, every couple of weeks the police arrest about 100 people around the country under our wonderful new terrorism laws (thank you Blunkett) then about 6 months later 99 of them get released without any charges. oddly around the same time about 4 people are released from concentration camp x-ray and are flown back to the UK where they get questioned for about 24 hours and then released.. without charges.. maybe they're actually filesharing or something?
Sometimes you have a long to do list but you dont really want to do some of the things or you're more eager to do others. Ashcroft just thought "hey im supposed to help those 'cats at the RIAA, might as well do it today". Its similar to cops on the street - they think "hm should i take that call to the armed robbery in progress... nahhh ill just harrass these kids smoking dope" its obvious that some crimes hurt people allot less than others, and some crimes dont actually hurt anyone and they're only crimes because some facist christian nutcase has decided it is.
I dont think anyone is forcing you? time might not be free but commercial software isnt free either so open source coding is kinda like paying for software in a very round-about way where you're not under pressure to do anything, this is mainly due to software being infinitely copyable unlike most other types of work.
lame belt
people point and laugh
"girls who just want to look at your PDA"
windows media encoder weak
real geeks decompile swf
record xml datastream
chicks dig xml
another idea
search engine hikus
no, i wouldnt describe the man as 'giving me the creeps'. I would describe him more as.. a total nutcase facist who should have been sent to the padded room years ago but instead infests the US government with no regard for the law. Against gay rights, womens rights, non-christian peoples rights, first amendment rights, infact any rights. his agenda is so large you wouldnt even be able to tell him to go shove it, it wouldnt fit up his ass!
er duh! the guy has 8000 movies on his share!
Is that the warden guy in shawshank redemption??
Ok guys lets see, we've got a methlab, 3 gangs, 2 car shops, a money printing racket oh and some kid named 1337m4st0r with 200,000 songs on kazaa, ok lets move it!
What if your device is claimed to be compatable out of the box by several distros but when you try it takes 4 solid days of trying 4 different drivers and every combination of config you can think of and suggestions from 20 different forums/lists/newsgroups before the light even comes on and even then its touch and go? no but seriously saying x device is compatable and x device actually being compatable are two separate things.
Advertising is going to become the 21st century grafitti. forget all those futuristic films showing clean looking city-scapes, in the future every single bit of space will be sold off to advertisng, there wont be a blank wall or door, only the biggest/richest people/companies will be able to afford blank walls on their buildings and people might even start getting advertising indoors! grafitti will be a federal offence. Sure some things will be able to pay for themselves because of the adverts but its just going to be sickening - people will figure why pay money when you can just get some adverts and get whatever it is for free or cheaply. Its already happening...
You pay for TV and get adverts (except the BBC but then you dont really get a choice on that) same in the cinema and most public transport - the advertisement is helping to pay for it thus making the cost to you less. Well, you would think that right? infact the cost stays the same and you just get adverts so really you're being screwed over on all these things but the point is its already happened everywhere else, so gaming is the next logical place. It'll probably start out innocent enough - maybe some adverts on the loading screens, but then it gets worse - they start intentionally slowing down the loading so you can watch more ads, maybe stick a video advert in there. Then adverts will come into the game play, maybe pausing it or stuck on some wall, imagine multiplayer games where half-way through everything pauses and everyone is subjected to a server-wide advert to pay for the hosting - sick! Luckly patches/cracks will come out to get rid of all this crap, and the result will probably be that if you download the game from a filesharing network it will already have the adverts taken out so the developers will screw themeselves when people stop buying games. Multiplayer adverts could be the worst tho, its possible that it could happen to current games - the server just stops the game and starts sending server messages to all the clients with some stupid text advert - imagine the potential of regular MMORPG patches - you cant play without the latest patch (which contains all the graphics needed for the current adverts). This too could also drive people onto hacked servers.
We can only hope.
Hell yeah, just remember - if [cost of lawsuit] [money made from actions] then its good! the negative publicity is nothing because only /. readers will findout and they already hate MS.
IBM runs linux server adverts, as lame as some advertising is you can't really ban it (they did say _probably_ the best beer right?) i say let them all fight it out, the OSS community is about producing good software which is why its not even on the same playing feild as microsoft (which is about selling software) - companies that sell linux are the ones that have to compete with MS not kernel.org so sit back and let them..
sounds like the sort of crap you hear down tottenham court rd - "ah yeah i've tried linux its not so good, but if you buy windows XP from here, for an extra 50 quid we'll give you a 10 year warrenty incase your urm OS er breaks down!" i've heard that windows 2003 server on a 2.4GHz pentium 4 runs 10 times faster than a top-of-the-range 1964 IBM mainframe!
wow, imagine netbios in use on a global scale - would the internet even survive that?