The virus comes in via email, and sends passwords out via email. Voila, just the act of reading and sending email is a problem, no matter than medium over which the email travels.
Even easier: use an encryption program that their virus doesn't know how to sniff yet. Their virus doesn't sniff all keystrokes (yet), just for specific encyrption programs. You don't even necessary need to change encryption schemes, just use a different front-end for typing in your password.
Obviously. No software available today has 0 backdoors. But even so, the question is somewhat valid. They should have instead asked: "So, would running a really obscure OS avoid this problem?". And the answer is: depends on how obscure, and whether the FBI considers you important enough to spend time modifying their tools just for you and your OS.
If no option is provided, it should be a trivial hack to add a toggle switch to turn the speaker on and off, since the only time the user would want the speaker on is immediately after pressing the OnStar button to get assistance.
Anyway. Of course an overriding goal is to increase the company's bottom line. However, traditionally, companies have also followed the constraints of the particular nation's laws. If not follow them to the letter, than at least to not directly oppose them.
Seriously... usually advertising helps pay for something the user gets for free... eg. TV shows, access to mapquest, things like that.
Will the price of OnStar be lower because of this? Or will this end up being another thing like cable, where you pay an enourmous amount of money for something that used to be done for free to the enduser, but now you pay AND get commercials.
This isn't really that big of a deal, just play a soft but distinctive seris of tones before the ad starts playing, so the user knows what's coming. I do the same thing with my text-to-speech television show reminder, and I don't have a problem unless the music is turned up so loud that I miss the intro tones.
The software is a bit different too... enumeration is simpler or something. It won't support standard USB devices without writing a lot of extra code. (see here, search for "usb-like")
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It depends on how you define what a "basic right" is. In the US, some consider a free press to be a basic right... a cornerstone of democracy.
This is a further stretch, but... One could say that the internet is just part of freedom of the press. In that by allowing everyone to broadcast their opinion, freedom of press is more guaranteed.
One step better: Tie this to your reality-enhancing goggles so you can actually see the transparent virtual keyboard.
Another step better: Instead of something in the palm of your hand, use small transmitters glued to each of your fingernails, so you can quickly switch back and forth between typing and doing something else.
except when you smuggled the US-made SAM back into the country
If it were easy to smuggle these sorts of things in, presumably we'd have all sorts of things like suitcase nukes and other medium-size arms.
And you can do the shooting so fast, there might not even be any witnesses.
OTOH, if there are any witnesses at all, it's not like they're not going to notice, or write it off as something possibly legitimate. It would be a *very* memorable event.
I'm rather uninformed though. It may or may not also be possible to detect such an attack from a distance away, either visually or via radar.
it can be easily seen that it helps MS greatly if they have a competitor
They DO have an honest-to-god competitor though. IBM (someone not in bed with MS) is advertising Linux on TV. MS isn't exagerating the strength of Linux. OTOH, perhaps MS let linux get that way and has a plan to kill it after the hearings are over. But the conspiracy theories can go on forever, getting all the more improbable.
Also, the two OS's are not in separate spheres. MS produces several products (IIS, Exchange Server, SQL Server) that directly compete with some of unix's strong points. And Fortune 100 companies (eg. mine:( ) are replacing some of their unix servers with windows servers because management says to go that way. MS *is* a valid threat on the server side, if not technologically, then in some other way that god only knows.
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Many more quotes on Einstein's religious views are available here, with many citations.
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so you're still allowed to contribute the same material to other sites, and/or sell it to others.
On a side note, CRC promises that this boilerplate doesn't apply to copies sold in martian markets, so that just proves they're not being overzealous.
Not only that, but the settlement requires contributors to make the same mistake that Eric unknowingly made in the first place (contribution permission form here).
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The virus comes in via email, and sends passwords out via email. Voila, just the act of reading and sending email is a problem, no matter than medium over which the email travels.
Even easier: use an encryption program that their virus doesn't know how to sniff yet. Their virus doesn't sniff all keystrokes (yet), just for specific encyrption programs. You don't even necessary need to change encryption schemes, just use a different front-end for typing in your password.
Obviously. No software available today has 0 backdoors. But even so, the question is somewhat valid. They should have instead asked: "So, would running a really obscure OS avoid this problem?". And the answer is: depends on how obscure, and whether the FBI considers you important enough to spend time modifying their tools just for you and your OS.
If no option is provided, it should be a trivial hack to add a toggle switch to turn the speaker on and off, since the only time the user would want the speaker on is immediately after pressing the OnStar button to get assistance.
It's been decided in a court of law that MS is a monopoly under the legal definition of the word.
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Anyway. Of course an overriding goal is to increase the company's bottom line. However, traditionally, companies have also followed the constraints of the particular nation's laws. If not follow them to the letter, than at least to not directly oppose them.
Will the price of OnStar be lower because of this? Or will this end up being another thing like cable, where you pay an enourmous amount of money for something that used to be done for free to the enduser, but now you pay AND get commercials.
This isn't really that big of a deal, just play a soft but distinctive seris of tones before the ad starts playing, so the user knows what's coming. I do the same thing with my text-to-speech television show reminder, and I don't have a problem unless the music is turned up so loud that I miss the intro tones.
The software is a bit different too... enumeration is simpler or something. It won't support standard USB devices without writing a lot of extra code. (see here, search for "usb-like")
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*nudge nudge* Reviews of Halo are off the charts...
So, write your own cross-platform library since none available is taylored to your own needs. ?
This is a further stretch, but... One could say that the internet is just part of freedom of the press. In that by allowing everyone to broadcast their opinion, freedom of press is more guaranteed.
Another step better: Instead of something in the palm of your hand, use small transmitters glued to each of your fingernails, so you can quickly switch back and forth between typing and doing something else.
If it were easy to smuggle these sorts of things in, presumably we'd have all sorts of things like suitcase nukes and other medium-size arms.
And you can do the shooting so fast, there might not even be any witnesses.
OTOH, if there are any witnesses at all, it's not like they're not going to notice, or write it off as something possibly legitimate. It would be a *very* memorable event.
I'm rather uninformed though. It may or may not also be possible to detect such an attack from a distance away, either visually or via radar.
They DO have an honest-to-god competitor though. IBM (someone not in bed with MS) is advertising Linux on TV. MS isn't exagerating the strength of Linux. OTOH, perhaps MS let linux get that way and has a plan to kill it after the hearings are over. But the conspiracy theories can go on forever, getting all the more improbable.
Also, the two OS's are not in separate spheres. MS produces several products (IIS, Exchange Server, SQL Server) that directly compete with some of unix's strong points. And Fortune 100 companies (eg. mine :( ) are replacing some of their unix servers with windows servers because management says to go that way. MS *is* a valid threat on the server side, if not technologically, then in some other way that god only knows.
Many more quotes on Einstein's religious views are available here, with many citations.
*shrug*
Wasn't this also an argument this the same argument used by cotton growers to argue against the emancipation of slaves?
so you're still allowed to contribute the same material to other sites, and/or sell it to others.
On a side note, CRC promises that this boilerplate doesn't apply to copies sold in martian markets, so that just proves they're not being overzealous.
Not only that, but the settlement requires contributors to make the same mistake that Eric unknowingly made in the first place (contribution permission form here).
I'm at work too, but if someone can convert it to mpeg1, this will convert it from mpeg1 to ascii.
AnAndTech's review also indicated that XP was slower than 2000...
microsoft's list of XP reviews
my list of XP reviews