Ah yes, one step closer to my ultimate goal of never speaking to another human being again. Between this and the self-checkout lanes at King Soopers (you do the labor, we keep the wages!), I'm all set!
This license would appear to affect much more than just VNC. Any service installed on XP, for example-- including web, P2P, FTP, or SMB. After all, you're "accessing executable software" on the machine. For that matter, you could make a case that responding to ICMP pings is verboten by the EULA.
In essence, you are not allowed to use Windows XP Workstation on any network. This is good to know; I'll implement this policy at my home and office immediately.
Configure your middle mouse button to open links in a tab in the background. Click on any interesting links, such as/. stories, while you're scanning a page; when you're done with the first page, they're all loaded and you never lost focus from what you were reading. Well, unless you have a jealous cat...
And yes, Mozilla rocks my 'fro.
Hmm... I don't think that the DOJ/courts would invalidate a paying customer's IP in a million jillion years. In fact, the proposed remedy would create a whole new set of enemies to the party: from the RIAA to AOL/Time-Warner to Disney/ABC. But if you want a precedent, you might mention the US gov's threat to break the patent on Cipro... IP is only sacrosanct so long as it doesn't inconvenience the lawmakers. The problem is, quite simply, that the money the lawmakers are able to rake in from Microsoft's "supporters" is greater than the real costs to those lawmakers.
The fact is that the only time our current lawmakers have mounted a serious threat to patents is when their own lives are specifically threatened. This is quite disturbing to me, as it will be seen by some as legitimizing terrorist actions. Your opinion doesn't matter and your vote doesn't matter. If you can't afford the sort of influence that gets you early Christmas presents from the reigning kleptocracy (IBM $1.4 billion, Enron $300 million, etc.), then what are the alternatives?
I fear that we are quickly approaching the point at which there are only two means of communicating with our government and influencing the media: bribes and violence. And they said organized crime was dead...
If you change your useragent string to mimic IE, you increase the apparent market share of IE. This will encourage developers and businesses to target IE and further marginalize browsers based on open standards.
So if you must visit MSN (and I can't imagine why that would be), obfuscate your UA slightly. Of course, they might start checking for this... and by continuing to visit MSN, you are voting in favor of more dirty tricks.
Do any browsers have a per-site UserAgent setting? I bet Konqueror will be the first! Followed by mozilla, but mozilla won't have an interface for it for a year or so;)
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Ah yes, one step closer to my ultimate goal of never speaking to another human being again. Between this and the self-checkout lanes at King Soopers (you do the labor, we keep the wages!), I'm all set!
This license would appear to affect much more than just VNC. Any service installed on XP, for example-- including web, P2P, FTP, or SMB. After all, you're "accessing executable software" on the machine. For that matter, you could make a case that responding to ICMP pings is verboten by the EULA. In essence, you are not allowed to use Windows XP Workstation on any network. This is good to know; I'll implement this policy at my home and office immediately.
Configure your middle mouse button to open links in a tab in the background. Click on any interesting links, such as /. stories, while you're scanning a page; when you're done with the first page, they're all loaded and you never lost focus from what you were reading. Well, unless you have a jealous cat...
And yes, Mozilla rocks my 'fro.
Brownfinger?
The fact is that the only time our current lawmakers have mounted a serious threat to patents is when their own lives are specifically threatened. This is quite disturbing to me, as it will be seen by some as legitimizing terrorist actions. Your opinion doesn't matter and your vote doesn't matter. If you can't afford the sort of influence that gets you early Christmas presents from the reigning kleptocracy (IBM $1.4 billion, Enron $300 million, etc.), then what are the alternatives?
I fear that we are quickly approaching the point at which there are only two means of communicating with our government and influencing the media: bribes and violence. And they said organized crime was dead...
If you change your useragent string to mimic IE, you increase the apparent market share of IE. This will encourage developers and businesses to target IE and further marginalize browsers based on open standards.
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So if you must visit MSN (and I can't imagine why that would be), obfuscate your UA slightly. Of course, they might start checking for this... and by continuing to visit MSN, you are voting in favor of more dirty tricks.
Do any browsers have a per-site UserAgent setting? I bet Konqueror will be the first! Followed by mozilla, but mozilla won't have an interface for it for a year or so