If they're going to avoid all the FPSs I've come to love on the Windows platform and concentrate on the "board-game style" games, the least they could do is throw in a Settlers of Catan clone.
Hang on, this solves the "random people can steal biometrics by wardriving" problem, but what about the "US Government now knows your fingerprint etc details" problem?
The exploit worked for me (FF1.0 win2k).
I clicked on the "with popup" link, FF blocked a popup, but a new window spawned with Citibank. I clicked on the link I was told to, and up came the 2nd hijacked popup.
I don't know about you, but i like wireless mice because they have no annoying wires, not because I feel constrained by having my mouse so close to the rest of my computer.
However, the downside of wireless mice is changing batteries. It's annoying to stop to replace the batteries, especially when you're in the middle of round of CounterStrike, trying to defuse a bomb at the same time as not get shot at by AK47s.
So, I'd love to buy this mouse, because otherwise, Terrorists Win!
This is interesting and I'd be especially interested to see which countries get this treatment.
If I were a cynical MS executive, I'd tolerate, heck, encourage widespread piracy of my products in developing markets such as Asia, but ruthlessly crack down on developed markets that already have high (monopolistic?) Windows penetration.
It maximises profits; those British will still have to pay the Microsoft Tax on new PCs, whereas PC retailers in asian countries, who don't do what MS tells them anyway, will still be spreading Windows throughout the region at the expense of every other OS. Eventually, MS will lean on those governments and say, "Do you know how much money our company is losing to piracy? Enforce your laws or else. By the way, your department's support contract for MS Longhorn is about to expire and we're raising prices by a lot. It's to cover lost sales due to piracy, doncherknow..."
LandLine reports that an Australian winery has developed wine that packs in twice the antioxidants that normal wines do. The winemaker's actually a biochemist, and he has added antioxidant-enriched coffee and other stuff to the range.
E-Talk Communications, trading as Comcen Internet Services, found itself in Federal Court in front of Justice Brian Tamberlin in Sydney, charged with making money from the provision of copyright-infringing music files. This is the first time the music industry has accused an ISP of being directly involved in piracy by allowing its infrastructure to be used for file-trading activities, according to Michael Speck, the manager of Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), who led the industry's investigation.
If it's a graphical MUD client and you're using KDE or Windows, might I suggest XPertMUD. It can be extended using Python or Perl, with multiple windows, triggers, macros and so forth.
However, I'm distressed by this court's decision. For example, if I were to post an entire album by $BAND along with a critique, everyone would agree that this was copyright infringement.
Everyone does (assuming you don't have permission from $BAND). However, the court upheld the right to post links to other sites, which is not the same thing.
The fact remains that the Federal Government won't be embarrassed at the large (wasteful?) sums of money it spends on IT infrastructure because it does not listen to the IT industry.
Even when the Australian IT Minister (Richard Luddite Alston) spent 4 million dollars on his website, the uproar was loud in the IT sector, but nonexistent elsewhere.
...and don't get me started on the shitful state of broadband in this country.
And it's even less funny when you consider that Australian police just instigated the world's first criminal proceedings against 3 students charged with music piracy.
Not civil proceedings; this is federal pound-me-in-the-arse prison we're talking about.
The Oz Copyright Council says otherwise. When it comes to fair use, we are teh suck.
choice quotes:
Using a CD burner to make a copy of material will "reproduce the work" for the purposes of copyright, as will making
a tape from a CD, or copying a tape or copying vinyl records onto tape or CD.
and:
There is no exception in the Copyright Act that allows copyright material to be reproduced for private purposes
without permission from the copyright owner.
There was at one stage an attempt to bring in a "blank tape levy" scheme in Australia, under which private taping of
recorded music would have been made legal, with copyright owners receiving compensation through a small
additional charge on blank tapes. The way the government at the time attempted to implement the scheme was,
however, found to be unconstitutional by the High Court, and Australian governments have not made any further
attempts to introduce a scheme which avoids the problems of the earlier attempt. Blank tape levy schemes operate
successfully in a number of other countries, particularly in Europe.
(emphasis mine)
FAQ
Is it legal to copy albums onto CD if you own the albums?
Owning an album is not the same as owning copyright in the music, lyrics and sound recordings that are embedded in
the album. If you are not the owner of copyright you will need permission to copy music from an album to CD even if
you have bought the album you want to copy.
Am I allowed to make a copy or compilation of music on a CD for private use?
There is no special exception which allows copying of CDs or cassettes for private use. In most cases you will need
permission from the owners of copyright in the music & lyrics (usually the music publisher) and the owners of
copyright in the sound recording (usually the record company).
Can I download music from the Internet and copy it onto CD?
The fact that material is made available on the Internet (for example, as an MP3 file) does not mean that it may be
used freely. Material on the Internet may still be protected by copyright. If this is the case, and the copyright
owners have not given permission to download and record their work, you will infringe copyright by reproducing the
music, lyrics and sound recording onto CD. Sometimes, copyright owners grant express permission to use their work.
You should look for such permissions on the site from which you are downloading.
Can I make backup copies of my music CDs?
Making a backup copy of a CD will involve making a reproduction of the music, lyrics and sound recordings on that CD.
The right to reproduce the work is one of the exclusive rights of the owners of copyright in those items. You may not
legally make a back up copy of a CD when the CD contains material that is protected by copyright unless you have
permission from the owner of copyright or a special exception applies to your use.
I was at linx.conf.au 2002, and Rusty Russell mentioned that test. However, his talk was about the CPU task scheduler, not the disk I/O scheduler which is apparently* being benchmarked in the article.
I imagine that about now, a whole bunch of small Aussie ISPs are pooling some cash for legal advice on exactly what they are liable for. IANAL, but such things as "common carrier" provisions, "Fair Use" and so forth are not the same as in the US. For instance, you can't tape television shows on your VCR in Australia. (warning: PDF links abound).
I hope Gyford will deviate from Gutenberg's 1893 version to include some of Pepys's more outrageous sexual adventures, reduced by the 1893 version to "...."
Oh, I don't know. I browse at -1: it's amazing what images can be evoked using only punctuation.:-)
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If they're going to avoid all the FPSs I've come to love on the Windows platform and concentrate on the "board-game style" games, the least they could do is throw in a Settlers of Catan clone.
Hang on, this solves the "random people can steal biometrics by wardriving" problem, but what about the "US Government now knows your fingerprint etc details" problem?
The exploit worked for me (FF1.0 win2k). I clicked on the "with popup" link, FF blocked a popup, but a new window spawned with Citibank. I clicked on the link I was told to, and up came the 2nd hijacked popup.
I don't know about you, but i like wireless mice because they have no annoying wires, not because I feel constrained by having my mouse so close to the rest of my computer.
However, the downside of wireless mice is changing batteries. It's annoying to stop to replace the batteries, especially when you're in the middle of round of CounterStrike, trying to defuse a bomb at the same time as not get shot at by AK47s.
So, I'd love to buy this mouse, because otherwise, Terrorists Win!
This is interesting and I'd be especially interested to see which countries get this treatment.
If I were a cynical MS executive, I'd tolerate, heck, encourage widespread piracy of my products in developing markets such as Asia, but ruthlessly crack down on developed markets that already have high (monopolistic?) Windows penetration.
It maximises profits; those British will still have to pay the Microsoft Tax on new PCs, whereas PC retailers in asian countries, who don't do what MS tells them anyway, will still be spreading Windows throughout the region at the expense of every other OS. Eventually, MS will lean on those governments and say, "Do you know how much money our company is losing to piracy? Enforce your laws or else. By the way, your department's support contract for MS Longhorn is about to expire and we're raising prices by a lot. It's to cover lost sales due to piracy, doncherknow..."
There's a Free Trade Agreement in the pipeline.
LandLine reports that an Australian winery has developed wine that packs in twice the antioxidants that normal wines do. The winemaker's actually a biochemist, and he has added antioxidant-enriched coffee and other stuff to the range.
for those who haven't RTFA:
Read the rest online.
If it's a graphical MUD client and you're using KDE or Windows, might I suggest XPertMUD. It can be extended using Python or Perl, with multiple windows, triggers, macros and so forth.
Everyone does (assuming you don't have permission from $BAND). However, the court upheld the right to post links to other sites, which is not the same thing.
So, will these new chips be free as in speech, or free as in De Beers?
The fact remains that the Federal Government won't be embarrassed at the large (wasteful?) sums of money it spends on IT infrastructure because it does not listen to the IT industry.
Even when the Australian IT Minister (Richard Luddite Alston) spent 4 million dollars on his website, the uproar was loud in the IT sector, but nonexistent elsewhere.
...and don't get me started on the shitful state of broadband in this country.
Maybe this is the kick in the pants the US Government (through NASA) needs to make space colonisation a priority again.
And it's even less funny when you consider that Australian police just instigated the world's first criminal proceedings against 3 students charged with music piracy.
Not civil proceedings; this is federal pound-me-in-the-arse prison we're talking about.
The Oz Copyright Council says otherwise. When it comes to fair use, we are teh suck.
choice quotes:
and:
(emphasis mine)
FAQ
Is it legal to copy albums onto CD if you own the albums?
Owning an album is not the same as owning copyright in the music, lyrics and sound recordings that are embedded in the album. If you are not the owner of copyright you will need permission to copy music from an album to CD even if you have bought the album you want to copy.
Am I allowed to make a copy or compilation of music on a CD for private use?
There is no special exception which allows copying of CDs or cassettes for private use. In most cases you will need permission from the owners of copyright in the music & lyrics (usually the music publisher) and the owners of copyright in the sound recording (usually the record company).
Can I download music from the Internet and copy it onto CD?
The fact that material is made available on the Internet (for example, as an MP3 file) does not mean that it may be used freely. Material on the Internet may still be protected by copyright. If this is the case, and the copyright owners have not given permission to download and record their work, you will infringe copyright by reproducing the music, lyrics and sound recording onto CD. Sometimes, copyright owners grant express permission to use their work. You should look for such permissions on the site from which you are downloading.
Can I make backup copies of my music CDs?
Making a backup copy of a CD will involve making a reproduction of the music, lyrics and sound recordings on that CD. The right to reproduce the work is one of the exclusive rights of the owners of copyright in those items. You may not legally make a back up copy of a CD when the CD contains material that is protected by copyright unless you have permission from the owner of copyright or a special exception applies to your use.
* "apparently", since I can't view the article.
Doesn't this mean that cellphone congestion will now lead to degraded wifi performance?
I imagine that about now, a whole bunch of small Aussie ISPs are pooling some cash for legal advice on exactly what they are liable for. IANAL, but such things as "common carrier" provisions, "Fair Use" and so forth are not the same as in the US. For instance, you can't tape television shows on your VCR in Australia. (warning: PDF links abound).
More info on Australian copyright law is available from the Australian Copyright Council. Interesting links:
Oh, I don't know. I browse at -1: it's amazing what images can be evoked using only punctuation. :-)
"It looks like you're trying to take cover under enemy fire. Do you need some help taking cover?"
Call me a cynic, but this is a handy opportunity to:
So, Microsoft is offering show the Windows source to India, potentially tainting a 15% of the world's population with their intellectual property?
I can't think of a better way to manufacture thousands of Windows developers while at the same time denying Open Source access to a billion people.
In many countries (such as Australia), it's just as illegal to tape broadcast TV as it is to set up a camera in a movie theater.
Here's proof.
Do I detect an echo?
But seriously, this dupe is on the front page...
And remember: it's not realistic unless you make the chandelier so low that wizards bump their heads on it.