If I'm running a paper or a webpage and someone writes something the paper or whatnot doesn't agree with or violates a standard or is incorrect and it's changed, it's not censorship, it's editing or standards.
I can understand editing out a dull story, or a news item containing offensive content. But when a liberal paper decides to not publish reports of some democratic senators questionable activities, or a conservative news channel decides to not mention how a republican president is trashing Science, your saying this is just an "editorial cut" and not politicaly motivated censorship?
I knew a super geek. I worked with a super geek, A super geek was my friend. You're no super geek.
Such an individual would not only quote the movie but also point out that the amount of water pressure generated against a tank wall is not dependent upon its volume.
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I remember that during the trails that MS said IE could not be removed. The prosecution then bought up the fact that it "could be" removed from XPE. So why not put everything into XPE except explorer and then ship that.
So at the time of the trials, yes it could be removed.
Rambus, it was revealed during the trial, charges a 3.5 percent royalty on DDR DRAM and a 0.75 percent royalty on SDRAM, fairly high by industry standards. In the end, that means Rambus gets about $2 per PC with DDR DRAM and 17 to 20 cents of SDRAM-equipped PCs.
Virtually all major PC manufacturers find it necessary to
offer Microsoft operating systems on most of their PCs.
Microsoft's monopoly power allows it to induce these manu-
facturers to enter into anticompetitive, long-term licenses under
which they must pay royalties to Microsoft not only when they
sell PCs containing Microsoft's operating systems, but also when
they sell PCs containing non-Microsoft operating systems.
With Rambus it was all about the money.
But MS already has an incredible cash cow, so with microsoft, its all about control. Most of the shenanigins we see are just BG making sure no body screws with that cow. Tying future versions of a 100% standards compliant email server to windows would be one such way.
Try writing microsoft to get a license for an opensource, gpl'd, linux based email server compatible with "sendit-id".
There wont be a lawsuit. No theatrics, no RABMUS or SCO styled lawsuits. But there also wont be that license. Because by default, the new "standard" will not be compatible with GPL.
MS wins without a fight. Look to see alot more of MS tactics like this one.
Is that why you have to sign a restrictive license agreement with MS before you can write code compatible with these "little additions"? Note that this is not just a code license issue, the thing is also patented so even a clean room implementation would be restricted.
I quote from the "sender-id" page linked to from the SPF site:
If you are a software developer and are interested in
implementing this specification in software, please review the terms of
the Caller ID for E-Mail Implementation License
before you begin, as the patent license discusses the rights that
Microsoft would grant you or your organization. Please note that a
license agreement is not required for individuals, companies, or ISPs
who only wish to publish their Sender ID records.
I think SPF is the shiznit, So does MS, thats why they're tying themselves to the protocol. I just hope this is not going to be another Samba fiasco
Your bank will happily close your account.
Paypal wont care since your not using them anyway.
Big Media wont care for the same reason.
And your computer WILL boot linux, but it's utility will be limited.
TC will not stop an OS from running. It is used by the OS to verify that every layer of control is untampered with, from BIOS to OS to application. This verification also extends to remote parties.
Where this becomes dangerous is when enough machines are TC capable. Imagine its 2011 you try to connect to your bank with Firebird/Linux and the bank refuses to allow you to access your account because your platform may not be "trustworthy". No amount of emulation will be able to get around that. Its not a matter of protocol, its a matter of public key encryption. The key you need is in the TC hardware.
That key is the problem. Imagine future DVD's using public/key encryption instead of the lame CSS it's currently using. With TC, That decode key needed would be supplied by an MPAA server that ofcourse would only supply it a TC certified setup durring registration. The key would only need to be supplied once and stored in the TC hardware itself. From MPAA server through the net through the app through the OS through the BIOS straight to the TC hardware, it would all be highly encrypted and verified. No snooping or sniffing possible.
They could change their bussiness model and sell the DVD's for a dollar and charge $20 for activation. You could try to sell your registered DVD on ebay, but buyer would have to "register" it for $20 as well. No more lost sales to resold DVD's. Its would be a MPAA exec's wet dream.
It's not that you wont be able to RUN linux, its that you wont be able to do anthing with it in the future. You wont be able to play new DVD's, unable to connect to certain sites such as yoyur bank or paypal, you won't be able to register downloadable content such as itunes, etc. Linux users are just to small and disorganized (politically) to do anything about it.
Ofcourse this is a while in the future, but you can bet its a future that greedy companies will hurry along as quickly as posible.
The only thing really saving our butts so far is the fact that a majority of windows users have older equipment and are going to stay that way. But it will not be this way forever.
The way TC will spread and take hold is to get itself established on new equipment and be as innocuous as possible. It will be in new equipment because MS will say it has to be there so as to be "PC Standard". Eventually you reach critical mass. This may take decades to occur, but it WILL happen. Government and big business will make sure of it.
I bought the WRT54G just 2 months ago with the expectation that I'd be able to download QOS firmware for free without any hassles
That article you mention has a link that pointed to Satori_v2_2.00.8.7sv-pre1.bin.zip as having QOS. Note that this is version 2.0 so I'm guessing QOS has been in the firmware for quite sometime.
On this page they list links for both binaries and source for Satori v.4.0
This is the PUBLIC version which sveasoft has realeased for FREE.
Are you saying that only the latest, pre-release firmware will satisfy your needs? Are you saying that they removed QOS in laster versions and are only releasing it to subscribers? Otherwise, I just don't understand why you are slamming Sveasoft when they have given you what you wanted for free.
Yeah! everyone knows english is the only language all people should be expected to know!
I know that your trying to be sarcastic, but I did find this to be true. I did an 11 country tour of Europe a while back and I never had any problems communicating in English. If one person couldn't understand me, a passerby would eventually over hear and graciously translate.
I doubt this would be the case if I spoke chinese, japanese, hindi, or in orkuts case, portugese.
Of South America, I've only traveled to Chile and Venezuala, but my experiences their were even more english friendly. People would insist on speaking English so as to brush up their skills. I speak far more Spanish here in Miami than I ever did in South America.
I'm not saying English 'should' be the most universaly accepted language, but it does seem to fit the role pretty good.
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I can understand editing out a dull story, or a news item containing offensive content. But when a liberal paper decides to not publish reports of some democratic senators questionable activities, or a conservative news channel decides to not mention how a republican president is trashing Science, your saying this is just an "editorial cut" and not politicaly motivated censorship?
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This is absolute sweetness!
Where are this mans Mod Points!!
So what happens when you're driving an all electric vehicle?
Maybe with computerized voting we can finaly institute a ranking system instead of a plain voting system. It would change everything for the better.
Well said! I wish I had mod points for you.
My most embarressed and sincere apologies!
Normally when I see Nukes, Vietnam, and giving weapons technology to Isreal, I naturally think of the US.
In any case heres info on France and Algeria
Yes, you are.
You complain that the French:
No, he didn't.
Please reread the parent post and pay particular attention to the phrase:
It's all the more hypocritical when it comes from the country that practically invented unilateralism
That list is a list of US actions, not french ones.
My apologies sir,
I knew a super geek.
I worked with a super geek,
A super geek was my friend.
You're no super geek.
Such an individual would not only quote the movie but also point out that the amount of water pressure generated against a tank wall is not dependent upon its volume.
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Besides I think its dead, Jim..
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Note: Microsoft employees do not monitor these public newsgroups.
Or, search the Microsoft Knowledge base.
I wouldn't mind watching all those "Python", "Boa", "Swarm" movies again, if they did it in this style. Would be quite cool actually..
I remember that during the trails that MS said IE could not be removed. The prosecution then bought up the fact that it "could be" removed from XPE. So why not put everything into XPE except explorer and then ship that.
So at the time of the trials, yes it could be removed.
Rambus, it was revealed during the trial, charges a 3.5 percent royalty on DDR DRAM and a 0.75 percent royalty on SDRAM, fairly high by industry standards. In the end, that means Rambus gets about $2 per PC with DDR DRAM and 17 to 20 cents of SDRAM-equipped PCs.
MS wants to get paid a cut for every PC sold.
Virtually all major PC manufacturers find it necessary to offer Microsoft operating systems on most of their PCs. Microsoft's monopoly power allows it to induce these manu- facturers to enter into anticompetitive, long-term licenses under which they must pay royalties to Microsoft not only when they sell PCs containing Microsoft's operating systems, but also when they sell PCs containing non-Microsoft operating systems.
With Rambus it was all about the money.
But MS already has an incredible cash cow, so with microsoft, its all about control. Most of the shenanigins we see are just BG making sure no body screws with that cow. Tying future versions of a 100% standards compliant email server to windows would be one such way.
Try writing microsoft to get a license for an opensource, gpl'd, linux based email server compatible with "sendit-id".
There wont be a lawsuit. No theatrics, no RABMUS or SCO styled lawsuits. But there also wont be that license. Because by default, the new "standard" will not be compatible with GPL.
MS wins without a fight. Look to see alot more of MS tactics like this one.
try here.
I quote from the "sender-id" page linked to from the SPF site:
If you are a software developer and are interested in implementing this specification in software, please review the terms of the Caller ID for E-Mail Implementation License before you begin, as the patent license discusses the rights that Microsoft would grant you or your organization. Please note that a license agreement is not required for individuals, companies, or ISPs who only wish to publish their Sender ID records.
I think SPF is the shiznit, So does MS, thats why they're tying themselves to the protocol. I just hope this is not going to be another Samba fiascoPaypal wont care since your not using them anyway.
Big Media wont care for the same reason.
And your computer WILL boot linux, but it's utility will be limited.
And for all your efforts, TC will still be there.
TC will not stop an OS from running. It is used by the OS to verify that every layer of control is untampered with, from BIOS to OS to application. This verification also extends to remote parties.
Where this becomes dangerous is when enough machines are TC capable. Imagine its 2011 you try to connect to your bank with Firebird/Linux and the bank refuses to allow you to access your account because your platform may not be "trustworthy". No amount of emulation will be able to get around that. Its not a matter of protocol, its a matter of public key encryption. The key you need is in the TC hardware.
That key is the problem. Imagine future DVD's using public/key encryption instead of the lame CSS it's currently using. With TC, That decode key needed would be supplied by an MPAA server that ofcourse would only supply it a TC certified setup durring registration. The key would only need to be supplied once and stored in the TC hardware itself. From MPAA server through the net through the app through the OS through the BIOS straight to the TC hardware, it would all be highly encrypted and verified. No snooping or sniffing possible.
They could change their bussiness model and sell the DVD's for a dollar and charge $20 for activation. You could try to sell your registered DVD on ebay, but buyer would have to "register" it for $20 as well. No more lost sales to resold DVD's. Its would be a MPAA exec's wet dream.
It's not that you wont be able to RUN linux, its that you wont be able to do anthing with it in the future. You wont be able to play new DVD's, unable to connect to certain sites such as yoyur bank or paypal, you won't be able to register downloadable content such as itunes, etc. Linux users are just to small and disorganized (politically) to do anything about it.
Ofcourse this is a while in the future, but you can bet its a future that greedy companies will hurry along as quickly as posible.
The only thing really saving our butts so far is the fact that a majority of windows users have older equipment and are going to stay that way. But it will not be this way forever.
The way TC will spread and take hold is to get itself established on new equipment and be as innocuous as possible. It will be in new equipment because MS will say it has to be there so as to be "PC Standard". Eventually you reach critical mass. This may take decades to occur, but it WILL happen. Government and big business will make sure of it.
It's already happening.
I'd like to know this as well. I'm used to MS strongarming the industry, but this is even more disturbing.
That article you mention has a link that pointed to Satori_v2_2.00.8.7sv-pre1.bin.zip as having QOS. Note that this is version 2.0 so I'm guessing QOS has been in the firmware for quite sometime.
On this page they list links for both binaries and source for Satori v.4.0
http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Downlo ads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=8
This is the PUBLIC version which sveasoft has realeased for FREE.
Are you saying that only the latest, pre-release firmware will satisfy your needs? Are you saying that they removed QOS in laster versions and are only releasing it to subscribers? Otherwise, I just don't understand why you are slamming Sveasoft when they have given you what you wanted for free.
I shamed to say, I didn't get this at first.
Very apropos!
He probably meant "prejudiced", but that doesn't sound as negative as "racist".
I know that your trying to be sarcastic, but I did find this to be true. I did an 11 country tour of Europe a while back and I never had any problems communicating in English. If one person couldn't understand me, a passerby would eventually over hear and graciously translate.
I doubt this would be the case if I spoke chinese, japanese, hindi, or in orkuts case, portugese.
Of South America, I've only traveled to Chile and Venezuala, but my experiences their were even more english friendly. People would insist on speaking English so as to brush up their skills. I speak far more Spanish here in Miami than I ever did in South America.
I'm not saying English 'should' be the most universaly accepted language, but it does seem to fit the role pretty good.