What will be good for open source software is that when companies and regular consumers are forced to pay for the software they use they will look for less expensive software solutions, something that will benefit open source development.
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I actually saw some program on TV where they asked the producers that very question and they said they'd love to do it, but the problem was that it wouldn't be exciting. The CEO type criminals aren't very likely to start running away being chased by the cops, instead they'd just ask to make a call to their lawyer which doesn't make for very exciting TV.
Step 1: License programmers and make commerial use of unlicensed code illegal (to protect national security from "cyber terrorists" and to "save the children" from the big bad interweb) That wouldn't surprise me one bit. Very similar to requiring a license to write software and sell it. Again, US can do it and the rest of the world will ignore us since it would drive the prices up even higher.
Step 2: Refuse to allow import of "non-licensed" code from other countries... force "compatibility" on other countries like was done with software patents. Due to the cost of US software in the rest of the world I don't find this very likely. What we consider to be moderately priced software here is outrageously high pricing in many other countries around the globe. I don't think shutting ourselves out from a global software market will do us any good. Obviously they could go for the solution that the pharmaceutical companies are using, charege people a lot of money for medicines within US and charge much less in the rest of the world.
Step 3: ??? Yet to be revealed but we we're already shaking in fear!;-)
Further, 'Microsoft has lobbied particularly hard against open source, helping kill state bills that advocate for open source in Oregon and Texas. Microsoft argues that open source freezes innovation, and Krumholtz says that commercial software alone spurs economic growth and creates jobs.'"
The simple reason Microsoft can't stop open source development is because it's not only done here in US alone, instead OSS development is a global phenomenon. There are other countries that directly benefits from usage of OSS or commercial software built on OSS due to the cost savings and they will move forward with OSS integration regardless of what Microsoft think about OSS.
There are several American companies that already build commercial software applications on top of OSS, or uses OSS to create their products. I can see how Microsoft trying to stop OSS usage in the US through political lobbying will only make things worse for said companies because it becomes even harder for them to compete on a global market where usage of OSS is becoming more and more of common practice.
The rest of the world will move forward regardless of what Microsoft think about OSS. I can understand that Microsoft believe that its in their best interest to slow down this process as much as possible because they probably think that their business model can still be salvaged, however I think they are just doing the rest of the country a big disservice.
"According to BusinessWeek Online's article, Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam."
Was the lower volume in spam reported by people living in Florida? That would... explain it!
The track record of consumer unfriendly products/services that have succeeded is very impressive. I'm sure Microsoft will be able to add this new "feature" to that list as well.
I know a guy that had two pumas for a while (he worked as a animal trainer) and I see how they could work out as good "guard cats", he however pointed out that they not only didn't like strangers they didn't like him either. He couldn't let his eyes of them when they were in the same room.
One company that I provided technical expertise for collected information from sites on the web. The retrieved the information using a web spider, they cleaned the data, they ran some statistical analysis on it, where after they sold it for a nice profit a.k.a. screen scraping.
A competitor of theirs that were doing the same thing got sued by a company whose website they had retrieved information from and they lost in court.
The law that the court said had broken was a land trespassing law from the 1800's and the court decided that it didn't matter that the law had been written way before computers or that the web spider had accessed a public information on the web server in question because the license agreement clearly stated that web spiders were not allowed to retrieve any information.
It seems clear to me that if you setup a website or ftp server and you have a license agreement that forbids automated spiders from reading any data that you should be able to use the very same trespassing law even against MPAA's web spiders and be able to successfully sue them in court.
<sarcasm>Now MPAA has a whole army of lawyers and experts on their side but I'm sure that wont help them in court.</sarcasm>
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Out of curiousity and not being an avid user of wireless laptops. Is it possible that you would pay to access one wireless network but accidently get connected to different one and through this you could potentially end up being charged for accidential theft?
Working for a small telecom company having the same technologies available to us to do what this guy is doing (there's no magic involved) I decided to ask my boss what he thought about the news article. He said it was interesting and so illegal....
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I use DB Visualizer here at work, we run Oracle, mySQL, Postgres, and MS-SQL and it's nice to have a tool that will work the same way across these databases.
Its written in Java and works pretty well. Its a little bit heavy on the memory side, but it will connect to just about any database over standard JDBC connections.
Installing a local firewall is one way to deal with spyware. I recently discovered that some freeware that all my co-workers had installed tried to dial out. Since I was running Sygate Personal Firewall (there are others) I was notified that the application wanted to dial home. After some research regarding this software I discovered that it was only trying to send out my registry file and my IP address.:-\ There's a lot of software out there that tries to dial home and any local firewall that is application aware is helpful when it comes to notify you about what's going on on your computer.
does this mean that if i want to type sentences in upper case that i have to use the "caps lock" key instead of the shift key in order to not violate dmca?
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What will be good for open source software is that when companies and regular consumers are forced to pay for the software they use they will look for less expensive software solutions, something that will benefit open source development.
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Do they shoot the CEO's lawyers too?
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I actually saw some program on TV where they asked the producers that very question and they said they'd love to do it, but the problem was that it wouldn't be exciting. The CEO type criminals aren't very likely to start running away being chased by the cops, instead they'd just ask to make a call to their lawyer which doesn't make for very exciting TV.
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Step 1: License programmers and make commerial use of unlicensed code illegal (to protect national security from "cyber terrorists" and to "save the children" from the big bad interweb)
;-)
That wouldn't surprise me one bit. Very similar to requiring a license to write software and sell it. Again, US can do it and the rest of the world will ignore us since it would drive the prices up even higher.
Step 2: Refuse to allow import of "non-licensed" code from other countries... force "compatibility" on other countries like was done with software patents.
Due to the cost of US software in the rest of the world I don't find this very likely. What we consider to be moderately priced software here is outrageously high pricing in many other countries around the globe. I don't think shutting ourselves out from a global software market will do us any good. Obviously they could go for the solution that the pharmaceutical companies are using, charege people a lot of money for medicines within US and charge much less in the rest of the world.
Step 3: ???
Yet to be revealed but we we're already shaking in fear!
Step 4: All your base are belong to us.
Amen...
Further, 'Microsoft has lobbied particularly hard against open source, helping kill state bills that advocate for open source in Oregon and Texas. Microsoft argues that open source freezes innovation, and Krumholtz says that commercial software alone spurs economic growth and creates jobs.'"
The simple reason Microsoft can't stop open source development is because it's not only done here in US alone, instead OSS development is a global phenomenon. There are other countries that directly benefits from usage of OSS or commercial software built on OSS due to the cost savings and they will move forward with OSS integration regardless of what Microsoft think about OSS.
There are several American companies that already build commercial software applications on top of OSS, or uses OSS to create their products. I can see how Microsoft trying to stop OSS usage in the US through political lobbying will only make things worse for said companies because it becomes even harder for them to compete on a global market where usage of OSS is becoming more and more of common practice.
The rest of the world will move forward regardless of what Microsoft think about OSS. I can understand that Microsoft believe that its in their best interest to slow down this process as much as possible because they probably think that their business model can still be salvaged, however I think they are just doing the rest of the country a big disservice.
"According to BusinessWeek Online's article, Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam."
... explain it!
Was the lower volume in spam reported by people living in Florida? That would
The track record of consumer unfriendly products/services that have succeeded is very impressive. I'm sure Microsoft will be able to add this new "feature" to that list as well.
Don't worry, the subscribers will pay for the new card. It won't cost more than a few dollars anyway, assembled somewhere in China.
Probably made in the same factory producing the hardware that will allow you to circumvent the said anti-copying device.
I know a guy that had two pumas for a while (he worked as a animal trainer) and I see how they could work out as good "guard cats", he however pointed out that they not only didn't like strangers they didn't like him either. He couldn't let his eyes of them when they were in the same room.
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- Step 1: allow solar wind particles to slam into polished slabs of metal
- Step 2: allow polished slabs of metal to slam into earth
Smacking into the ground at 109mph should at least have made some of the Utah desert sand to stick to it.
You have to understand that in order to defend our open society we have to have secrets!
One company that I provided technical expertise for collected information from sites on the web.
The retrieved the information using a web spider, they cleaned the data, they ran some statistical analysis on it, where after they sold it for a nice profit a.k.a. screen scraping.
A competitor of theirs that were doing the same thing got sued by a company whose website they had retrieved information from and they lost in court.
The law that the court said had broken was a land trespassing law from the 1800's and the court decided that it didn't matter that the law had been written way before computers or that the web spider had accessed a public information on the web server in question because the license agreement clearly stated that web spiders were not allowed to retrieve any information.
It seems clear to me that if you setup a website or ftp server and you have a license agreement that forbids automated spiders from reading any data that you should be able to use the very same trespassing law even against MPAA's web spiders and be able to successfully sue them in court.
<sarcasm>Now MPAA has a whole army of lawyers and experts on their side but I'm sure that wont help them in court.</sarcasm>
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Out of curiousity and not being an avid user of wireless laptops.
Is it possible that you would pay to access one wireless network but accidently get connected to different one and through this you could potentially end up being charged for accidential theft?
Working for a small telecom company having the same technologies available to us to do what this guy is doing (there's no magic involved) I decided to ask my boss what he thought about the news article. He said it was interesting and so illegal....
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Give away code including bugs and all for free but charge for those bug fix/patch releases. ;-)
I use DB Visualizer here at work, we run Oracle, mySQL, Postgres, and MS-SQL and it's nice to have a tool that will work the same way across these databases.
Its written in Java and works pretty well.
Its a little bit heavy on the memory side, but it will connect to just about any database over standard JDBC connections.
They do have a free version.
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/
I'm sure that human history will repeat itself and that these issues will be resolved through military power as usual.
I thought outsourcing did? ;-)
Or maybe Bill is just afraid of losing HIS job.
It wouldn't surprise me that in the end they will force people running web servers to keep a copy of every page served.
Just wait....
So is this article trying to tell me that the relationship between x-box and x-wife could be closer than we thought?
The companies trying to sell these type of products will go blank pretty fast as well. :-)
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seems to have thrown the case out the "window"
I guess Microsoft could always start using the word "Windoze" instead.
Installing a local firewall is one way to deal with spyware. I recently discovered that some freeware that all my co-workers had installed tried to dial out. Since I was running Sygate Personal Firewall (there are others) I was notified that the application wanted to dial home. After some research regarding this software I discovered that it was only trying to send out my registry file and my IP address. :-\
There's a lot of software out there that tries to dial home and any local firewall that is application aware is helpful when it comes to notify you about what's going on on your computer.
I think it's funny how the actors position the labels on bottles in movies/TV to ensure that you can clearly identify the brand.
does this mean that if i want to type sentences in upper case that i have to use the "caps lock" key instead of the shift key in order to not violate dmca?