I'd be tempted to stick the thing in the microwave or otherwise nuke the tag, but for the fact that the bureaucracy that would then ensue would keep me stuck in some nasty little office for several hours whenever I tried to clear customs...
Then make you wait on line for a few hours and pay $100 to get a new one.
I wish that people spoke mathematically rather than poor and ambiguous languages that can now (supposedly) turn into (ambiguous) code.
Precise language might have its uses, but what happens when your gf asks "do I look fat in this dress?" There are times in when you need ambiguity in the language.
Robert DeNiro will rappel into your living room and install a Linux machine, then set up your internet connection, while discussing the problems with Microsoft. That would so rock.
Lol... but then you'd come home one night, and see computer parts scattered all over the house, cat 5 cable strewn across the furniture and out of the walls. You'll see Gates and Ballimer in coveralls, holding a Linux distro cd in a pair of tongs...
Yeah, I loved my PowerBook 140. I'd carry it around to meetings and to the coffee shop, it was awesome.
And what about 1984? The original Macs? They were the most portable and most functional computers around for a while. Before I got the powerbook I hauled my Classic to client offices when I wanted to show them designs I was working on, it was the best way to carry around a lot of info.
Is there that big of a market for mobile internet to have sites double design, one for PCs, one for 320x240 mobile internet devices? I know very few people that use things like that. Usually to check weather and the sports scores.
No, not yet, since cell phone companies charge an arm and a leg to use the web from a phone. If they ever drop the exorbitant fees, with the number of internet capable devices out there, there will be a huge market for double designed websites.
So, what's the problem? You negotiate your bill rate to allow you to pay your own insurance. Go to www.realrates.com. For example...Oracle DBA's and programmers...MAKING %55-$125.hr. If you can't pay your own insurance out of that kind of money...you've got serious budgeting problems...
Yeah, if you're making $55/hour and you have financial problems then that's your own doing. But we're talking normal people being fired and rehired as contract workers, people making much less money than the $55/hour you cited. Seriously, how many programmers make that much?
Is this any surprise? If the government makes you pay a higher tax for full-time employees, then this discourages hiring full-time employees. The same with imposition of benefits for such employees: it is the government providing a disincentive for hiring the kind of employees that would get these benefits.
Is it any surprise that the companies are responding to economic pressure from the government NOT to hire regular full-time workers?
No suprise at all. And of course, these are the number cited when the "unemployment" figures come out and it shows "unemployment" is down. Yeah, more people may be employed, but only because for each two people you fire, you can hire three contractors since you don't need to kick in for medical, pension, and benefits.
did you know that 5% is more than the market share of ferarri, bmw and mercedes combined? Might want to send the heads of those car companies an email warning them of their impending doom.
That's ok, they already know; Mercedes merged with Diamler Chrysler to survive. Ferrari was bought out by Fiat. BMW bought Cooper to attempt to draw new blood into their product line. So yeah, they've seen their impending doom and are doing everything they can to survive.
there exists a very real threat of data theft over the air, especially with the range of WiFi compared to existing Bluetooth devices. Forget spyware keyloggers on your machine, how about ones across the street!
No kidding. The FBI will no longer need a big white van filled with Tempest equipment, they'll be able to sit in their k-car with a laptop and directional antenna, and just log everything...
Can someone (an American) please explain to this Canadian what a cable box is?
cable just comes out of the wall straight into my TV i dont need a box. there is box on the outside of the house, but thats a junction box.
Yes, with standard analog cable, you can still do this in the states; just hook the cable to your TV or VCR. However, many areas have switched to digital cable; and since most TV sets don't have digital tuners, you need the box from the cable company to decode the signal. Which also means you need you have to rent a separate tuner for every TV.
When I see this, I will sure call my bank saying that this was an unauthorized transaction, and this transaction should be void, no?
Where's the proof that it was unauthorized? Only you had access to your account, and only you had rights to transfer the money. So, unless you can prove the account had be compromised, no, there's no recourse. And even if there's proof, the money is gone, there's no "voiding" the transaction. The only thing you might be able to do is sue the bank to try to recover the money.
Besides, the thief reveal himself by specifying the destination account, no?
Not really; the money usually gets transferred from a respectable bank to a smaller bank so it doesn't look too shady, then from the smaller bank overseas; once the money goes overseas to the shady bank it's gone.
1. Make it illegal. Sponsor bills over and over and over again until something sticks. This may or may not work. It at least can pollute the atmosphere enough to slow bittorrent adoption...a 'chilling' effect among users.
Yes, the RIAA has taken this approach, and p2p file sharing is still growing because the "chilling" effect can't overcome the "one in a million chance i'll get caught" effect.
2. Buy up as many ISPs and digital communication carriers as possible. Or merge. Or become acquired by these networking/communications companies and prove the merit (e.g. profit) of your media rights. After that you customise service offerings to filter bittorrent traffic. Bittorrent isn't very useful if you can't get out of your subnet. Nothing illegal here, just users can't use the tool.
Do you forget who owns Time Warner and AOL? Funny that until recently TWC cited downloading music and movies as a key reason to switch to high speed cable. As far as keeping traffic in, AOL has proven to many a network administrator that there's no way to block a smart program from getting onto the internet.
3. Continue the strategy of pummeling bittorent portals into oblivion with legal paperwork. Yes there will always be distribution lists, usenet, etc...but you can kill off 50-75% of the mainstream traffic pretty easily by eliminating the main portals of entry into bittorrent trading.
Until people discover they can easily share links between themselves and friends, that they don't need to advertise on a wide scale that might catch the eyes of the MPAA.
4. Buy anti-virus vendors, spyware vendors. Offer the product for free, but identify any bittorrent code as malware and remove it. This is the 'trojan horse' method... market to parents, OEMs for ready made systems, try to get Microsoft onboard.
No corporation would buy compromised software; the only way AV companies survive is by maintaining their integrity, no influences from any corporation. Besides, all AV software is written to take into account that people write their own software and thus can exclude programs and directories from searches.
5. Buy or sponsor bios code for retail/consumer highspeed modems, wireless cards, routers, etc. Get filters put in place on these devices.
You're talking application level firewalls and routers. No, won't happen, they're too slow for corporations, and too expensive for consumers, and as most have discovered too easily bypassed. Of course, they can try, but unless they get all vendors onboard, consumers will just by the one that the neighborhood geek says will allow movie downloads, as opposed to a more expensive box that has "MPAA Certified" stickers on the box.
I don't want to get dramatic but the real important news (like layoffs in an industry related to our own job e.g.) would spread without the big news sources and most of the rest is the same every day anyway.
You miss the point. Yes, like old times, the *news* will spread, by various methods. However, what was lacking then, and what would be lacking without big news media, is credibility. We, in general, trust that the NY Times or Washington Post is telling the truth. We trusted Dan Rather, and when we found the story was false he was forced to resign. That's how important credibility is to big media. If you can't trust the reporter, then who's going to listen?
Without big media, we'd be forced to get our news from "Jim Bob's Worldy News and Used Fishing Supply". Is he credible? Perhaps. Trustworthy? Maybe, but only if you really know him. And since most readers wouldn't personally know him, people would be skeptical with anything he posted. Which is the case for almost every blog and personal webite out there, you really don't know where they get their info and how reliable they are with checking facts.
What's the allure to the consumer of a "paper" paper? With an online newspaper, I can browse at work, for free, without getting ink on my hands.
The weight. The portability. The convenience. Yeah, I can pop open my laptop in bed, or at the kitchen table, but the physical paper is much easier to carry around from bed to kitchen. When on the subway, it's impossible to pop open a laptop to read the news. On the commuter train, you can use a laptop, but with the crowded seats the paper is still more convenient. During lunch if it's nice out I'll head to the park, maybe bring the paper with me. The actual paper is so much easier to carry around and to read than a full sized laptop. No, PDAs just don't work for reading news.
They simply say, yes we broke the law and we accept the penalty because the penalty doesn't even come close to the amount of money we've made from the illegal practice.
No, the legal system is not broken, the settlement shows that the law worked as it should. Microsoft saw that there was a good chance they would lose the case and face heavy fines and penalties, and thus they chose to offer a settlement. Burst could have declined the offer and allowed the law to work, but they chose to take the money and run. That doesn't mean the law is broken.
In accepting the settlement Burst dropped the claim of copyright infringement. Remember, copyrights are infringed only if it's unauthorized. If Burst accepts the settlement they're authorizing MS to use the code and thus there is no copyright infringement. This time the law worked as it should.
From the Google Translation: ... "a first breach in the field of the remote loading", declared to Me Joelle Glock, one of lawyers of prevented, estimating that the supreme court of appeal will have to decide in this business.
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Why not make it capable of controlling robotic limbs, etc...things that are more useful than the volume of your tv?
That's the whole f'n point of the article. Go read it instead of posting stupid questions.
I'd be tempted to stick the thing in the microwave or otherwise nuke the tag, but for the fact that the bureaucracy that would then ensue would keep me stuck in some nasty little office for several hours whenever I tried to clear customs...
Then make you wait on line for a few hours and pay $100 to get a new one.
You forgot the "God Bless the USA!" t-shirt...
It's not a MAC emulator.
Pear PC does emulate a network card, so yes, it is a MAC emulator as well.
I wish that people spoke mathematically rather than poor and ambiguous languages that can now (supposedly) turn into (ambiguous) code.
Precise language might have its uses, but what happens when your gf asks "do I look fat in this dress?" There are times in when you need ambiguity in the language.
Robert DeNiro will rappel into your living room and install a Linux machine, then set up your internet connection, while discussing the problems with Microsoft. That would so rock.
Lol... but then you'd come home one night, and see computer parts scattered all over the house, cat 5 cable strewn across the furniture and out of the walls. You'll see Gates and Ballimer in coveralls, holding a Linux distro cd in a pair of tongs...
... for people who are not overly blessed with RAM.
You mean those who's PHBs said the "minimum" requirements were good enough.
Did Fermilab find Eddie's couch?
Yeah, I loved my PowerBook 140. I'd carry it around to meetings and to the coffee shop, it was awesome.
And what about 1984? The original Macs? They were the most portable and most functional computers around for a while. Before I got the powerbook I hauled my Classic to client offices when I wanted to show them designs I was working on, it was the best way to carry around a lot of info.
Is there that big of a market for mobile internet to have sites double design, one for PCs, one for 320x240 mobile internet devices? I know very few people that use things like that. Usually to check weather and the sports scores.
No, not yet, since cell phone companies charge an arm and a leg to use the web from a phone. If they ever drop the exorbitant fees, with the number of internet capable devices out there, there will be a huge market for double designed websites.
So, what's the problem? You negotiate your bill rate to allow you to pay your own insurance. Go to www.realrates.com. For example...Oracle DBA's and programmers...MAKING %55-$125.hr. If you can't pay your own insurance out of that kind of money...you've got serious budgeting problems...
Yeah, if you're making $55/hour and you have financial problems then that's your own doing. But we're talking normal people being fired and rehired as contract workers, people making much less money than the $55/hour you cited. Seriously, how many programmers make that much?
Is this any surprise? If the government makes you pay a higher tax for full-time employees, then this discourages hiring full-time employees. The same with imposition of benefits for such employees: it is the government providing a disincentive for hiring the kind of employees that would get these benefits. Is it any surprise that the companies are responding to economic pressure from the government NOT to hire regular full-time workers?
No suprise at all. And of course, these are the number cited when the "unemployment" figures come out and it shows "unemployment" is down. Yeah, more people may be employed, but only because for each two people you fire, you can hire three contractors since you don't need to kick in for medical, pension, and benefits.
did you know that 5% is more than the market share of ferarri, bmw and mercedes combined? Might want to send the heads of those car companies an email warning them of their impending doom.
That's ok, they already know; Mercedes merged with Diamler Chrysler to survive. Ferrari was bought out by Fiat. BMW bought Cooper to attempt to draw new blood into their product line. So yeah, they've seen their impending doom and are doing everything they can to survive.
Hmm... guess some PHBs have been clicking those X10 pop-ups.
there exists a very real threat of data theft over the air, especially with the range of WiFi compared to existing Bluetooth devices. Forget spyware keyloggers on your machine, how about ones across the street!
No kidding. The FBI will no longer need a big white van filled with Tempest equipment, they'll be able to sit in their k-car with a laptop and directional antenna, and just log everything...
Four words: Jar-Jar in 3D
Naked, petrified, covered grits
Can someone (an American) please explain to this Canadian what a cable box is? cable just comes out of the wall straight into my TV i dont need a box. there is box on the outside of the house, but thats a junction box.
Yes, with standard analog cable, you can still do this in the states; just hook the cable to your TV or VCR. However, many areas have switched to digital cable; and since most TV sets don't have digital tuners, you need the box from the cable company to decode the signal. Which also means you need you have to rent a separate tuner for every TV.
So it's probably this, but on the other hand it's most likely something else? My faith in anything the article might say was lost.
/. article a week about it until the end of 2005, but most likely even in 2006...
Either way, we're still going to see one
well, is it a broken standard or is the standard 'flawed' in that way that they don't know how to easily support it in their codebase?
Well, it's really only "flawed" because MS doesn't control it...
When I see this, I will sure call my bank saying that this was an unauthorized transaction, and this transaction should be void, no?
Where's the proof that it was unauthorized? Only you had access to your account, and only you had rights to transfer the money. So, unless you can prove the account had be compromised, no, there's no recourse. And even if there's proof, the money is gone, there's no "voiding" the transaction. The only thing you might be able to do is sue the bank to try to recover the money.
Besides, the thief reveal himself by specifying the destination account, no?
Not really; the money usually gets transferred from a respectable bank to a smaller bank so it doesn't look too shady, then from the smaller bank overseas; once the money goes overseas to the shady bank it's gone.
1. Make it illegal. Sponsor bills over and over and over again until something sticks. This may or may not work. It at least can pollute the atmosphere enough to slow bittorrent adoption...a 'chilling' effect among users.
Yes, the RIAA has taken this approach, and p2p file sharing is still growing because the "chilling" effect can't overcome the "one in a million chance i'll get caught" effect.
2. Buy up as many ISPs and digital communication carriers as possible. Or merge. Or become acquired by these networking/communications companies and prove the merit (e.g. profit) of your media rights. After that you customise service offerings to filter bittorrent traffic. Bittorrent isn't very useful if you can't get out of your subnet. Nothing illegal here, just users can't use the tool.
Do you forget who owns Time Warner and AOL? Funny that until recently TWC cited downloading music and movies as a key reason to switch to high speed cable. As far as keeping traffic in, AOL has proven to many a network administrator that there's no way to block a smart program from getting onto the internet.
3. Continue the strategy of pummeling bittorent portals into oblivion with legal paperwork. Yes there will always be distribution lists, usenet, etc...but you can kill off 50-75% of the mainstream traffic pretty easily by eliminating the main portals of entry into bittorrent trading.
Until people discover they can easily share links between themselves and friends, that they don't need to advertise on a wide scale that might catch the eyes of the MPAA.
4. Buy anti-virus vendors, spyware vendors. Offer the product for free, but identify any bittorrent code as malware and remove it. This is the 'trojan horse' method... market to parents, OEMs for ready made systems, try to get Microsoft onboard.
No corporation would buy compromised software; the only way AV companies survive is by maintaining their integrity, no influences from any corporation. Besides, all AV software is written to take into account that people write their own software and thus can exclude programs and directories from searches.
5. Buy or sponsor bios code for retail/consumer highspeed modems, wireless cards, routers, etc. Get filters put in place on these devices.
You're talking application level firewalls and routers. No, won't happen, they're too slow for corporations, and too expensive for consumers, and as most have discovered too easily bypassed. Of course, they can try, but unless they get all vendors onboard, consumers will just by the one that the neighborhood geek says will allow movie downloads, as opposed to a more expensive box that has "MPAA Certified" stickers on the box.
I don't want to get dramatic but the real important news (like layoffs in an industry related to our own job e.g.) would spread without the big news sources and most of the rest is the same every day anyway.
You miss the point. Yes, like old times, the *news* will spread, by various methods. However, what was lacking then, and what would be lacking without big news media, is credibility. We, in general, trust that the NY Times or Washington Post is telling the truth. We trusted Dan Rather, and when we found the story was false he was forced to resign. That's how important credibility is to big media. If you can't trust the reporter, then who's going to listen?
Without big media, we'd be forced to get our news from "Jim Bob's Worldy News and Used Fishing Supply". Is he credible? Perhaps. Trustworthy? Maybe, but only if you really know him. And since most readers wouldn't personally know him, people would be skeptical with anything he posted. Which is the case for almost every blog and personal webite out there, you really don't know where they get their info and how reliable they are with checking facts.
What's the allure to the consumer of a "paper" paper? With an online newspaper, I can browse at work, for free, without getting ink on my hands.
The weight. The portability. The convenience. Yeah, I can pop open my laptop in bed, or at the kitchen table, but the physical paper is much easier to carry around from bed to kitchen. When on the subway, it's impossible to pop open a laptop to read the news. On the commuter train, you can use a laptop, but with the crowded seats the paper is still more convenient. During lunch if it's nice out I'll head to the park, maybe bring the paper with me. The actual paper is so much easier to carry around and to read than a full sized laptop. No, PDAs just don't work for reading news.
They simply say, yes we broke the law and we accept the penalty because the penalty doesn't even come close to the amount of money we've made from the illegal practice.
No, the legal system is not broken, the settlement shows that the law worked as it should. Microsoft saw that there was a good chance they would lose the case and face heavy fines and penalties, and thus they chose to offer a settlement. Burst could have declined the offer and allowed the law to work, but they chose to take the money and run. That doesn't mean the law is broken.
In accepting the settlement Burst dropped the claim of copyright infringement. Remember, copyrights are infringed only if it's unauthorized. If Burst accepts the settlement they're authorizing MS to use the code and thus there is no copyright infringement. This time the law worked as it should.
From the Google Translation:
... "a first breach in the field of the remote loading", declared to Me Joelle Glock, one of lawyers of prevented, estimating that the supreme court of appeal will have to decide in this business.
I think I was better off reading the French...