Today they are a mixture of both. However, they are moving towards becoming a 'media company', where software will be a bit more unlikely to be given away.
Thats easy, most of it. And what isnt an outright fake is twisted around to fit the agenda of who is pushing the 'information'.
Personally i stopped trusting 'news sources' about 20 years ago when i witnessed a event * in person *, and not one 'news service' reported it properly. They *all* had their slant to it, none of it even close to factual. ( even the pictures were taken in a manner to support the lies )
So now, if you search under the word 'terrorist' or 'how to make a bomb' it will be released to the government ( and the world ) *willingly*, which will now suffice as probable cause for a warrant.
What if you searched for something legal today, but made illegal tomrrow, then the records released next week? Now you might have 'forbidden knoledge' and once again you get probable cause..
Not in the long run. As apple moves farther in to the 'PC market' and keeps pushing windows as an alternative for OSX its a matter of time before they exit the comptuer market totally and focus on the 'media' market ( ipods, etc ).
Its even more common then most, since most every laptop ( and many desktops ) come with wifi built in.
At least the courts are starting to come to their senses ( I hope ). But how does one prove you had open wifi during the time they think you did something wrong? I know personally i have mine wide open for my neighbors, but that still doesnt PROVE it.... ( i sit here now with my macmini with internet sharing going on the airport )
Now that a mac is running the same basic hardware that a 'pc' does, ( to the point of it even running windows now ), what is a mac?
From a long itme Apple fan, it looks like 'yet another expensive clone' to me, and except for brand loyalty i dont see a reason to choose one, at a higher price. I firmly believe in the end, this was a bad move.
Thankfully my G5 has many more years of life in it, and iwont be forced to make that decision anytime soon.
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Its nice that they are opening things back up, but how about us that are still on the PPC platform and plan on staying there as long as they can?
Today they are a mixture of both. However, they are moving towards becoming a 'media company', where software will be a bit more unlikely to be given away.
Thats easy, most of it. And what isnt an outright fake is twisted around to fit the agenda of who is pushing the 'information'.
Personally i stopped trusting 'news sources' about 20 years ago when i witnessed a event * in person *, and not one 'news service' reported it properly. They *all* had their slant to it, none of it even close to factual. ( even the pictures were taken in a manner to support the lies )
Encryption should be on EVERYTHING, be it legal or not.
So now, if you search under the word 'terrorist' or 'how to make a bomb' it will be released to the government ( and the world ) *willingly*, which will now suffice as probable cause for a warrant.
What if you searched for something legal today, but made illegal tomrrow, then the records released next week? Now you might have 'forbidden knoledge' and once again you get probable cause..
Lets hear it for freedom!
DH is why i went to FreeBSD long ago. Dependency bloat is why i have stayed there..
( ya, mod me down.. )
"One good war" could wipe out the valley too. . A couple of well placed H-bombs would obliterate it.
But you are right in principle. Perhaps we should send out backups to the moon.
We may even find the stargate in our lifetime.
Wont that be cool.
Isnt this some sort of 'intervention device' or some such nonsence and illegal ? ( or at least banned under some international treaty )
For one reason, it means you have to go out and buy more stuff... Its all about the money.
A practical might be to prevent you from shoving the wrong disk in the wrong machine.
You forget, that most ( if not all ) of the continent has been claimed by other countries around the world
Sure enforcement is sort of hard, but the law itself is still there.
Phfft.
Too bad there are few places you can go to to escape this 'melding' of the worlds governments to the least common denominator.
Between things like this and the WTO, a independent country will no longer h ave any sovereign rights at all.
And before you say anything about being hypocritical, i don't care who's law 'wins', Its wrong. just wrong, even if its mine.
No, really.
If you cant get the police to encforce their noise ordinance ( everyone has one ) take a brick and take care of the situation.
Not in the long run. As apple moves farther in to the 'PC market' and keeps pushing windows as an alternative for OSX its a matter of time before they exit the comptuer market totally and focus on the 'media' market ( ipods, etc ).
No, it already ended.. when voyager aired.. that was the end of star trek ' as we knew it' and morphed into something different.. a cash cow milking..
Its even more common then most, since most every laptop ( and many desktops ) come with wifi built in.
At least the courts are starting to come to their senses ( I hope ). But how does one prove you had open wifi during the time they think you did something wrong? I know personally i have mine wide open for my neighbors, but that still doesnt PROVE it.... ( i sit here now with my macmini with internet sharing going on the airport )
Thats today, once the new 'company' absorbs it, you wont get any new standards unless you pay up.
Your local burgerdoodle always needs people that can count and make change..
So few of their current employees can.
Now you wil have to be a member to even see the standard. Even more $ to be certified.
You are right, nothing has changed in the last 50 years or so.
The government ( as an institution ) is still as corrupt as ever, and hell bent on taking your rights in any way they can.
If you havent heard of it already, you must be the only one.
And people will do it anyway, thinking they are 'safe'.
If you go out and buy someting in good faith, you really didnt make a mistake. You were ripped off instead.
Now, id like to see what happens if one of us little people had that problem ' you got the error, screw you, go buy 10 copies or we sue you'.
People that can survive on their own are the exception. ( that was the point of my 'average joe' delimiter )
:)
I firmly believe society as a whole would collapse in on itsself. But with luck, we never find out
Now that a mac is running the same basic hardware that a 'pc' does, ( to the point of it even running windows now ), what is a mac?
From a long itme Apple fan, it looks like 'yet another expensive clone' to me, and except for brand loyalty i dont see a reason to choose one, at a higher price. I firmly believe in the end, this was a bad move.
Thankfully my G5 has many more years of life in it, and iwont be forced to make that decision anytime soon.