You two are talking past each other. His card reader is USB. Linux talks USB Mass Storage to it and it handles talking to the SD card. The USB Mass Storage driver is definitely open source.
You are talking about drivers for an integrated SD/MCC slot. These use a completely different driver. The open source ones only talk MMC mode, but they can still read SD cards but not use the fancy features. There are companies which sell binary Linux drivers for SD and SDIO.
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Except that this doesn't stop the zombie sending spam AS THE VICTIM. The worm can impersonate the user whose machine it owns. It can send email through the victim's ISP using the username and password it has captured. The ISP will eventually shut them down but the only result is that the victim loses their email access and potentially gets on a blacklist.
Also, as has been demonstrated with Sender-ID, spammers will setup servers with MX records and all the authentication needed to send out email. They will eventually get added to blacklists but as long as the authentication isn't centralized and tightly controlled, they can keep setting up new servers.
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First, charge people a fee for the monitors. Recycling monitors is not profitable so the recyclers charge fees to take them. In Oregon and California, $10 seems to be the standard fee. If you are taking them as donations, then you will have to pay the costs to dispose of them.
Second, find local recyclers that will take the old computers or pieces. My impression is that recyclers specialize so you may need to disassemble them.
Third, there are programs like FreeGeek in Portland that take donated computers, rebuild them, and give them away. That would be another useful program.
Except this isn't spyware. It doesn't install itself when run. All it does is pop up a dialog box and call the website. A hyperlink to their web page would do the same thing.
DNS could be extended to support UTF-8. The protocol is 8-bit clean. The problem is with the applications, protocols, and formats that include domain names. They assume that domain names are composed of only letters, numbers, and hyphens. For example, putting UTF-8 domains in an email message would confuse mail servers, mail readers, and lots of other stuff.
The advantage of IDNs is that only software that understand the extra characters need to be changed. All the old pieces of software can keep working and treat the encoded IDNs as odd-looking but valid domain names.
Removing the root name servers will have absolutely no effects. The gtld-servers.net for the.com and.net domains are separate from the root-servers.net root servers. Five of gtld-servers.net servers are returning the wildcards.
VeriSign controls two of the root servers (A and J) but they are returning the same delegation for the COM and NET domains as all the other root servers.
Let's compare the music industry to the book industry to see why the music companies are so evil.
Book publishers takes financial risks publishing books. They pay out up front costs like production, printing, marketing, and advances. The author gets royalties from the first book sold. They won't get a check until they pay down the advance. But they can spend the advance on a new car (or more usually a used car). They don't have to pay any part of the production cost, and the marketing doesn't come out of their royalties. All except the biggest authors don't make a ton of money. But they make money. They get to keep the copyright to their book.
Why do they get to keep a pretty significant fraction of every record sold? Why do artists need to sell the copyright to their work to the company?
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You two are talking past each other. His card reader is USB. Linux talks USB Mass Storage to it and it handles talking to the SD card. The USB Mass Storage driver is definitely open source. You are talking about drivers for an integrated SD/MCC slot. These use a completely different driver. The open source ones only talk MMC mode, but they can still read SD cards but not use the fancy features. There are companies which sell binary Linux drivers for SD and SDIO.
Except that this doesn't stop the zombie sending spam AS THE VICTIM. The worm can impersonate the user whose machine it owns. It can send email through the victim's ISP using the username and password it has captured. The ISP will eventually shut them down but the only result is that the victim loses their email access and potentially gets on a blacklist. Also, as has been demonstrated with Sender-ID, spammers will setup servers with MX records and all the authentication needed to send out email. They will eventually get added to blacklists but as long as the authentication isn't centralized and tightly controlled, they can keep setting up new servers.
Second, find local recyclers that will take the old computers or pieces. My impression is that recyclers specialize so you may need to disassemble them.
Third, there are programs like FreeGeek in Portland that take donated computers, rebuild them, and give them away. That would be another useful program.
Except this isn't spyware. It doesn't install itself when run. All it does is pop up a dialog box and call the website. A hyperlink to their web page would do the same thing.
The advantage of IDNs is that only software that understand the extra characters need to be changed. All the old pieces of software can keep working and treat the encoded IDNs as odd-looking but valid domain names.
VeriSign controls two of the root servers (A and J) but they are returning the same delegation for the COM and NET domains as all the other root servers.
Let's compare the music industry to the book industry to see why the music companies are so evil. Book publishers takes financial risks publishing books. They pay out up front costs like production, printing, marketing, and advances. The author gets royalties from the first book sold. They won't get a check until they pay down the advance. But they can spend the advance on a new car (or more usually a used car). They don't have to pay any part of the production cost, and the marketing doesn't come out of their royalties. All except the biggest authors don't make a ton of money. But they make money. They get to keep the copyright to their book. Why do they get to keep a pretty significant fraction of every record sold? Why do artists need to sell the copyright to their work to the company?