I remember being told 'that will never take place, we are a passive monitoring service' early on when i asked about 'can you shut my car down remtotely'.
Next step is discounts on car insurance if you have one. Then you get penalized by higher rates, then it just becomes required by law, ' for your protection' of course.
Anyone remember how the seat belt laws did the same thing? "They are for your safety".. " cant build a car without one".. "you gotta wear one or you violate the law"..."well, we can only charge you if we stop you for something else nad notice it".. Now they have roadblocks..
Isn't that for the courts to decide? It seems to me that they are now starting to notify people of infringements.
Sure not everyone knows yet, but if they are making an attempt i bet the judge will give them a free pass for a while since they are 'trying'.
What it will take to ether prove its a farce and end the nonsense threats, ( or its the end OSS if we lose. remember there is always that risk ) is for one 'company' to refuse to deal and take them to court to force them prove it and let the judge decide.
Wasn't it about a year or so ago that Microsoft claimed their patents were just for 'defensive reasons' and they promised that they wouldn't on the offensive with them and start suing linux vendors? 'not to worry' they said...
So who here actually believed them anyway?
Time to start hoarding source code people. Phase 2 of the war has started.
It really does sound like one of their episodes.. An implausible urban legend, a pending lawsuit.. splashed with a tiny amount of questionable science..
While i use it all the time since it is smaller and ligher ( acrobat reader is free too btw, so that isnt a good selling point ), i have noticed that somethings do NOT render properly.
Dont forget everyone that has ever served in the military. Once released they now have 'forbidden knowledge'
The idea is that this is an easy book to go after due to its 'persona'. One step closer to state control of information. ( that isnt an attainable goal anylonger, but wont stop them from thinking its still the 50's and trying anyway )
So cant let your citizens have knowledge. Regardless of their intent. So book burning has effectivly started again. The world is screwed.
Just for the record that particular book is pretty lame anyway.. It was mostly propaganda fluff to get sales. There are a lot "worse" out there, like the 'chemical abstracts'.. Guess they need to ban science too? Oh, and i guess they stopped teaching people in their army too? You know they get out of the forces eventually, and they dont just forget what they learned.
But we ( Microsoft ) read everythign else on your pc. And we see that license key for works 2.0 is invalid so we are going to disable it for you " for your protection, since you need to upgrade anyway".
Interesting how ford has a class A but GM doesnt. ( i remember years ago Ford actually used those valid 19x external addresses even on workstations. Not sure of the network guys were clueless about NAT type devices or just didn't care as it wasnt the same dangerous net as it is today ).
I wont get into how i know thats what they were doing:)
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I remember being told 'that will never take place, we are a passive monitoring service' early on when i asked about 'can you shut my car down remtotely'.
Next step is discounts on car insurance if you have one. Then you get penalized by higher rates, then it just becomes required by law, ' for your protection' of course.
Anyone remember how the seat belt laws did the same thing? "They are for your safety".. " cant build a car without one".. "you gotta wear one or you violate the law"..."well, we can only charge you if we stop you for something else nad notice it".. Now they have roadblocks..
How on earth is this even patentable material.
Thats about the same as patenting putting a tent in my trunk " flexable location short term housing shipping device ".
Isn't that for the courts to decide? It seems to me that they are now starting to notify people of infringements.
Sure not everyone knows yet, but if they are making an attempt i bet the judge will give them a free pass for a while since they are 'trying'.
What it will take to ether prove its a farce and end the nonsense threats, ( or its the end OSS if we lose. remember there is always that risk ) is for one 'company' to refuse to deal and take them to court to force them prove it and let the judge decide.
Wasn't it about a year or so ago that Microsoft claimed their patents were just for 'defensive reasons' and they promised that they wouldn't on the offensive with them and start suing linux vendors? 'not to worry' they said...
So who here actually believed them anyway?
Time to start hoarding source code people. Phase 2 of the war has started.
.info is also 4letters. ( and is also wrong )
I realize that this isn't the *first* but i bet its the first widely used one, especially to designate a region as apposed to a function.
That isn't a good precedent. Soon it will be total chaos.. 3 letters is bad enough.
Whats next 5? How about an entire sentence..
If you trust the bear, dont bitch when it bites your hand off.
In their country, they are patriots. Remember, history is written by the victors.
It really does sound like one of their episodes.. An implausible urban legend, a pending lawsuit.. splashed with a tiny amount of questionable science..
Now, all repeat after me ' BUSTED '.
How do they figure that?
its a phone, it has applications, it has internet access.. Of course its competition..
Some people's migranes are triggered by extra heat in the head, so it might help them ( us ) as well
Everyone else wins these stupid lawsuits or gets out of court settlements. Or at least it seems that way.
Besides, its the american way now apparently.
That also isnt 100% compliant.
While i use it all the time since it is smaller and ligher ( acrobat reader is free too btw, so that isnt a good selling point ), i have noticed that somethings do NOT render properly.
Have they fixed the weblink bug yet?
Dont forget everyone that has ever served in the military. Once released they now have 'forbidden knowledge'
The idea is that this is an easy book to go after due to its 'persona'. One step closer to state control of information. ( that isnt an attainable goal anylonger, but wont stop them from thinking its still the 50's and trying anyway )
So cant let your citizens have knowledge. Regardless of their intent. So book burning has effectivly started again. The world is screwed.
Just for the record that particular book is pretty lame anyway.. It was mostly propaganda fluff to get sales. There are a lot "worse" out there, like the 'chemical abstracts'.. Guess they need to ban science too? Oh, and i guess they stopped teaching people in their army too? You know they get out of the forces eventually, and they dont just forget what they learned.
But we ( Microsoft ) read everythign else on your pc. And we see that license key for works 2.0 is invalid so we are going to disable it for you " for your protection, since you need to upgrade anyway".
He was willing to give his life, and did.
Will you?
That should have been in the summary as that wasnt the impression it was giving.
Well, my wifi is still wide open.
Never saw that list before now.
:)
Interesting how ford has a class A but GM doesnt. ( i remember years ago Ford actually used those valid 19x external addresses even on workstations. Not sure of the network guys were clueless about NAT type devices or just didn't care as it wasnt the same dangerous net as it is today ).
I wont get into how i know thats what they were doing
Must be screaming in pain now.. Even less of a way to determine who downloaded/uploaded something that is *isp sponsored*.
Cool.
Didnt they once say that it wasnt even possible to backport things since the vista kernel was 'so revolutionary' ?
True, and they always have the lawsuit business model to fall back on if times get rough.
its still NOT entertaining.. Its more bizzare then anything else.
So you want a built in root kit? :)
Are easier to sue.
They learned from the mistakes of the 'war on drugs', if you curtail the market, the sources dry up.