This is a perfect case of a company bending to the demands of its customers. Intuit is probably not going to kill DRM though. Any idiot can tell that making a product naked before the world will make it much easier to pirate. Probably Intuit will come up with a different way to enforce the license on its software, perhaps something like Microsoft's Product Activation or something equally intrusive. At least they're not dancing in my boot sector any more.
This is actually an important development, considering that OS X has a BSD core. MS is developing products that will interface with that operating system. Maybe this could be a step in the direction of developing applications for the OSS community. Mod this down as a troll if you'd like, but despite the heavy anti-MS rhetoric here on slashdot, MS does employ some of the best coders around. Having such a heavy player develop applications for free OS's could only help them become more accepted and mainstream.
does this surprise anyone? Darwin's natural selection at work maybe? the obvrious answer's in the article anyway:
Developing new insecticides that can specifically inhibit the mutant form of the enzyme could be crucial in overcoming the spread of resistance, they added.
of course, that doesn't necessarily protect against a different mutation. it's a never ending battle. Perhaps a better solution: mutating humans so our blood is poison to the mosquito?
When you hire the person, make them sign something saying that any proprietary code they develop for the company becomes the property of the company. also, insert clauses with penalties for intentional security breaches, etc. it's all a matter of planning. when you hire someone, you want to bring them on, but you should also look at it from the perspective that they can do real damage to your company. you should have them sign something to the effect that they shouldn't do that damage, and if they do, they will be held responsible for any intentional damage. NDA's while not always enforceable if they are unreasonable are a good deterrent as well.
No, I mean, "not a lot". If "no one" were buying, I would have said "no one is buying." broadband may be cheap, but dialup is still cheaper for most. especially if you've been laid off!
So I hired myself and started Linux Screws , a web site selling linux distributions and services. And, like another poster, I post on slashdot. A lot. I get a great click through rate to my site, but unfortunately, not a lot of people seem to be buying. now if only I could afford the $400 for an OSDN ad...
and it's probably a strong contributing factor to Amazon's finally being profitable. I don't know how much I like there being a patent on this, but it isn't a bad idea, even if the author's guild is up in arms over it. Personally, one of my favorite stores is half price books.
Only through fair use provisions of law. that law could be easily amended by paid legislators. but, say that someone created an algorithm to listen for the increased volume of commercials and ignore the commercials and record only content. then they marketed this device. then the RIAA, ASCAP and various others would have pretty good grounds for a contributory infringement case. the device would be sold for the purpose of bypassing the commercial model, and I don't think they'd have much room to claim they don't have control over how customers utilize the device, as it was obviously designed for circumvention. Even if the hypothetical manufacturer won on the basis of a vcr analogy, they would still find it a *very* expensive task. the RIAA isn't going to balk at spending whatever amount necessary in order to win or spend an opponent out of the water.
The RIAA would of course attempt to outlaw this before it was released, but it is a good study in fair use. I don't have a tape player (haven't since I left home for college years ago), and plugging my radio into my line in port would be a great way to listen to public radio whenever I want to, instead of having to miss Car Talk every week. because NPR is supported by your donations (well, mine, anyway) it's not stealing to record it and listen later, and you won't be fast forwarding through the commercials, unless it's time for their annual donation drive, of course.:)
but maybe one the good senator wouldn't really like: Just ban all email from FL until the spammers' neighbors make them stop. (don't flame me, I'm just kidding)
About half those phones lack electrical power needed for the transmitters, he told a conference on wireless security hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology, his alma mater.
What they can do, instead of upgrading the phones, is install solar panels with battery packs. the only downside is they'd be subject to lighting conditions and vandalism, but it would probably be cheaper in the long run.
optimizing an operating system for a processor is probably a good thing. you can make apps go that much faster, and it would probably be more stable. the only downside is it may lead to a fragmentation of the operating system (countered by the upside of expanding the user base, though)
The third requirement, that agencies justify user of proprietary software over open source, needs to be challenged. why not force the agencies to provide justification for their decision, rather than justification for one branch of options? if you force the agencies to provide justification for acquiring proprietary software, the pencil pushers in the agency would be more likely to choose open source, but for the wrong reason. I don't know about other people here in Texas, but I don't want my state agencies to choose an open source solution that might be worse than a proprietary one if the reason is they would have to do more work justifying the proprietary software. If you're going to add more work, apply it evenly so the best decision gets made.
in popular press. while this is the IP equivalent of a presidential bj, it's not the kind of thing of which people will sit up and take notice. why? because most people in america don't know the difference between memory and a hard drive, call their computer cases modems (true story), and their monitors TVs (another true story)
instead of spending $500 or spending all your time building your own switch, just buy a tuner with multiple inputs. you get to have your switch (at the cost of having to push one more button, although if you use the remote it shouldn't be all that strenuous) and you could hook up some advanced (dolby, dts, whatever) audio to it if you'd like.
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This is a perfect case of a company bending to the demands of its customers. Intuit is probably not going to kill DRM though. Any idiot can tell that making a product naked before the world will make it much easier to pirate. Probably Intuit will come up with a different way to enforce the license on its software, perhaps something like Microsoft's Product Activation or something equally intrusive. At least they're not dancing in my boot sector any more.
This is actually an important development, considering that OS X has a BSD core. MS is developing products that will interface with that operating system. Maybe this could be a step in the direction of developing applications for the OSS community. Mod this down as a troll if you'd like, but despite the heavy anti-MS rhetoric here on slashdot, MS does employ some of the best coders around. Having such a heavy player develop applications for free OS's could only help them become more accepted and mainstream.
This is a link to gay porn that will spawn an infinite number of windows. click at your own peril
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Anyone else initiallly read the blurb as the scientologists trying to worm their fingers into yet another issue?
Be careful, you don't want to get sued
When you hire the person, make them sign something saying that any proprietary code they develop for the company becomes the property of the company. also, insert clauses with penalties for intentional security breaches, etc. it's all a matter of planning. when you hire someone, you want to bring them on, but you should also look at it from the perspective that they can do real damage to your company. you should have them sign something to the effect that they shouldn't do that damage, and if they do, they will be held responsible for any intentional damage. NDA's while not always enforceable if they are unreasonable are a good deterrent as well.
No, I mean, "not a lot". If "no one" were buying, I would have said "no one is buying." broadband may be cheap, but dialup is still cheaper for most. especially if you've been laid off!
So I hired myself and started Linux Screws , a web site selling linux distributions and services. And, like another poster, I post on slashdot. A lot. I get a great click through rate to my site, but unfortunately, not a lot of people seem to be buying. now if only I could afford the $400 for an OSDN ad...
and it's probably a strong contributing factor to Amazon's finally being profitable. I don't know how much I like there being a patent on this, but it isn't a bad idea, even if the author's guild is up in arms over it. Personally, one of my favorite stores is half price books.
great trailer. also a mirror at Linux-Screws
Here's to hoping the game release doesn't get pushed back...
You probably won't find a whole lot of comparable situations, even on slashdot, except maybe slashdot itself.
Only through fair use provisions of law. that law could be easily amended by paid legislators. but, say that someone created an algorithm to listen for the increased volume of commercials and ignore the commercials and record only content. then they marketed this device. then the RIAA, ASCAP and various others would have pretty good grounds for a contributory infringement case. the device would be sold for the purpose of bypassing the commercial model, and I don't think they'd have much room to claim they don't have control over how customers utilize the device, as it was obviously designed for circumvention. Even if the hypothetical manufacturer won on the basis of a vcr analogy, they would still find it a *very* expensive task. the RIAA isn't going to balk at spending whatever amount necessary in order to win or spend an opponent out of the water.
The RIAA would of course attempt to outlaw this before it was released, but it is a good study in fair use. I don't have a tape player (haven't since I left home for college years ago), and plugging my radio into my line in port would be a great way to listen to public radio whenever I want to, instead of having to miss Car Talk every week. because NPR is supported by your donations (well, mine, anyway) it's not stealing to record it and listen later, and you won't be fast forwarding through the commercials, unless it's time for their annual donation drive, of course. :)
but maybe one the good senator wouldn't really like: Just ban all email from FL until the spammers' neighbors make them stop. (don't flame me, I'm just kidding)
About half those phones lack electrical power needed for the transmitters, he told a conference on wireless security hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology, his alma mater.
What they can do, instead of upgrading the phones, is install solar panels with battery packs. the only downside is they'd be subject to lighting conditions and vandalism, but it would probably be cheaper in the long run.
Shouldn't this have been news about 2 years ago?
optimizing an operating system for a processor is probably a good thing. you can make apps go that much faster, and it would probably be more stable. the only downside is it may lead to a fragmentation of the operating system (countered by the upside of expanding the user base, though)
The third requirement, that agencies justify user of proprietary software over open source, needs to be challenged. why not force the agencies to provide justification for their decision, rather than justification for one branch of options? if you force the agencies to provide justification for acquiring proprietary software, the pencil pushers in the agency would be more likely to choose open source, but for the wrong reason. I don't know about other people here in Texas, but I don't want my state agencies to choose an open source solution that might be worse than a proprietary one if the reason is they would have to do more work justifying the proprietary software. If you're going to add more work, apply it evenly so the best decision gets made.
in popular press. while this is the IP equivalent of a presidential bj, it's not the kind of thing of which people will sit up and take notice. why? because most people in america don't know the difference between memory and a hard drive, call their computer cases modems (true story), and their monitors TVs (another true story)
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was I the only one who got ill navigating through that world?
instead of spending $500 or spending all your time building your own switch, just buy a tuner with multiple inputs. you get to have your switch (at the cost of having to push one more button, although if you use the remote it shouldn't be all that strenuous) and you could hook up some advanced (dolby, dts, whatever) audio to it if you'd like.