Apple ships a HDMI (male) to DVI (female) dongle with every single Mac Mini they sell. So, what exactly will happen to those dongles? It's a male HDMI on one end but not the other (which breaks the spec).
Each person who buys the program downloads a *customized* download. It has their name, company name and address EMBEDDED in the program. No serial #'s, etc.. just a download that will install cleanly; but, with the contact info of the purchaser nicely embedded in the program. Look, no piracy.
vBulletin does something similar with their product BTW...
So, how long before/. gets hit with a Patent infringement lawsuit? I mean, someone HAD to have come up with a patent that described a method of communicating with other people...
How does someone get 33 months for 'stealing' digital bits. The unique pattern of 0's and 1's are still there for everyone else to have: he's just made an extra copy of them.
Isn't this the same as reading a book if you have a photographic memory? As you read, you memorize every letter and word in the book. So, has your brain committed copyright infringement? Isn't this about the same thing?
Besides, if he really did copy the software, isn't that just a civil claim for damages?? Why does he go to jail because of this vs. being sued because of this??
I had been doing general troubleshooting on-site in people's homes when I went to one genius' home to fix his modem problems. I did the usual check to make sure that the software has set to the right com port (this was Win3.1), right IRQ, etc.. based on what the default setting was. Nothing seemed to work. So, I determined that it was a hardware issue.
So, I start to open the computer (which is the FIRST thing I should have done, but, oh well..) to make sure that the modem was jumpered correctly, etc.. and the (l)user tells me that, "I can't believe how amazing computers are. You just place a modem board in the computer and it's supposed to work!" Needless to say, when I looked in the computer, the modem was just laying on the motherboard, not plugged in anywhere (but nicely screwed into the case) and shorting out god-knows-how-many traces.
With the door-knob standing over me, and me trying not to call him a moron to his face, I plug the modem into the mb and again attempt the software fix. Not surprisingly, the modem was fried: the computer was working (amazingly!). I told him to bring the modem back and get it replaced--and this time, don't try to install it yourself. I never heard back from him, but, I can only assume that the next-time round his computer blew up and killed him...
I can't believe that people still don't get it. If I want a song that I can download now and play on my computer, I go to P2P's.. If I want to pay for the music to listen in my car (without burning, or because I just want the pretty pictures with the CD) I buy a CD. The same goes for software downloads. Why should I pay $50 for a download when I can spend $5 more and get the damn CD for my archive?
Downloading music and buying the music are two different things: I may even download music I already own--because it's easier than ripping it myself.
The music industry should wake up and smell the coffee.
I was a tad concerned about the lack of drug-interaction information. I mean, I'd be concerned that if I used the blue pill at the same time as I used the yellow pill, that I'd get some sort of green-pill effect. Likewise, if I used the blue and red, would I get a purple pill?:)
I've done ethical hacking contracts for large colleges and universities before and know from experience that most of the time the easiest way to hack into a network is from social engineering. Send a message to a list of employees that you stole via. SMB from a hotmail account asking for the passwords to "Help make the network more secure" (ironic, no?) and the flood of passwords you get will keep you busy for days.
Until they make the USERS smarter, network admins face an uphill battle.
I honestly can't believe that these people thought they could hack in and then brag about their accomplishments and have no recouse?? What did they expect, a congressional medal of honor? I can see it now:
President: Thank God you boys broke into our computer systems and showed us how easily Osama Bin Laden could have done the same thing...
Hacker: No problemo Mr. Prez...
President: I'd like to give you guys EACH a congressional medal of honor--after all, the government just adores people who point out to the world how completely stupid we are!
Hacker: Gee, Thanks! And to think.. This was all because we bragged to the Media of our accomplishments!
I started University by wanting a degree in Political Science, and ended up with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. The funny part of this all, was that during my entire degree, I was working in computers, and did tons of contracting for networking/security for the University I was attending (and getting a psych degree at).
So, I guess the bottom line to this is that what the degree is in isn't as important as the degree itself.:)
I've downloaded and tried about a dozen or so titles from SourceForge that 'claim' to be CRM's. Some of them are close, but are lacking key features that I think all CRM's should have (that is, client records are related to appointments, to-do's and notes and comments).An awful lot claim to be CRM's, but are really PIM's in disguise (very much Outlook like).
With CRM's, I believe that the devils in the details. I need to be able to keep track of my customers and know what we spoke about 6 months ago, and plan for follow-ups - without having to retype their name and phone # each and every time I schedule a callback or an appointment. Most CRM's on Sourceforge missed the boat and became Groupware.
PDF is an open standard. It is NOT controlled by a single company/interest. That's one of the reasons it's so great. While Adobe tends to make some pretty kick-butt software for the PDF format, there's lots of free Linux/UNIX/etc utils that do the same thing as the Adobe products.
Slightly off-topic, but, in response to the.sig of the parent post: It's funny though, I took a look at your website. "Is linux right for you and your business". Considering the lack of insightful and documented ideas on the site, the fact that you thought PDF to be proprietary to be understandable.
Let's see. Suspend the downloading of the program from KaZaa, stop the spread of the software on KaZaa and Morpheus. That'll work for what, zero seconds? So, instead of Kazaa, all the kids in need of their next MP3 fix just go to Morpheus and grap that software. Voila! Access to Morpheus AND KaZaa.
When will everyone realize that you can't put the cat back into the bag. Once the technology is out, telling someone, "Don't use it, or you'll be sorry" becomes an invitation to flaut its use.
It's really too bad that a Judge doesn't order Windows banned--because most people who pirate MP3's, etc. use Windows to do it. Hey, there's a good idea in there somewhere..
When I was a lad, and my brother had a C64, and I bought an Apple//c, he laughed at me because my Apple only went 'beep, beep, beep' while his C64 played music, and had better graphics. Well, the jokes on him now! I can still use my Apple to play Asteroid--now with 64MB!! Geeze, I can load Appleworks into memory like 500 times, and still have room left over!
I think most people, even if they could, simply wouldn't bother recompiling the kernel. Many people barely know how to send an email: and asking questions like, "Would you like the USB to allow for IEEE support through your firewire hub?" (or, whatever) would only confuse people.
Besides, most people still think kernels are those things that you pop to get popcorn!
Make it simple, make it intuitive, make it make sense: and you have a product that people will use. Forget recompiling the kernel: have the kernel poll the hardware and reconfigure itself based on the hardware it's run on.
I submitted a GOOD question to Ask Slashdot the other day. Turned down flat. I wanted to know if anyone had found a 'real' CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) like Act! or GoldMine for Linux. A lot of business people (who would put Linux on their computers) don't because they are missing certain tools (like a CRM).
Guess what I *SHOULD* have submitted to Ask Slashdot was: "Uh, I have a computer, and a keyboard came with it, but, the keyboard wouldn't fit in the keyboard holder that pops out when I push a button on the front of the computer. Keyboard it seems isn't small/round enough to fit in the circle-like indentation. How do I get it to fit?"
Please don't mod me down.. It's funny! Really!:)
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I still can't ever figure out.. How did Napster MAKE MONEY? Or did they operate like the "Change Bank" from SNL (Saturday Night Live)..
Customer: I was in a rush. I needed to change a $50. I wanted a twenty and two tens...
Bank Rep: Well, our computers caught the mistake RIGHT AWAY! We made sure he got the right change.
Customer: They helped me out when I needed change for the payphone. Thanks Change Bank!
Bank Rep: We are asked how we make money. Volume. We simply do it on volume.
With essentially indistructable services like Gnutella and Kazaa (etc) out there and working just fine (thank-you-very-much), why would anyone in their right mind pay Napster a monthly fee? Those who are going to pirate music are *STILL* going to pirate music. They'll just ditch the Napster client in favour of Napster and Napigator or Kazaa or Gnutella. So, it's 5 seconds longer to find that song you really want? Big deal.
Besides, I've often downloaded a great song and said, "hey, I want more!" And bought the CD.. If I can't find good/new music, buying CD's is something that really wouldn't enter my mind.
So, when the white paper innevitably comes out showing that the majority uses.NET, and hence, that's the reason to buy M$'s products, perhaps ZDNet could post a rebuttal with how Microsoft tampered with the results.
But, it kinda strikes me as amusing that someone tried 228 times to vote: obviously not reading the, "No duplicate votes" message. Must have been one of their head programmers (so quick on their toes!)
But, this really doesn't suprise me. Microsoft has done things like this before. Their TCP/IP stack is borrowed from *BSD, they go out of their way to break Samba compatability, etc, etc.etc.. The bottom line though, if you don't like Microsoft, just don't buy their products. Any of them! Vote with your dollars.
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Apple ships a HDMI (male) to DVI (female) dongle with every single Mac Mini they sell. So, what exactly will happen to those dongles? It's a male HDMI on one end but not the other (which breaks the spec).
Here's what I'd do..
Each person who buys the program downloads a *customized* download. It has their name, company name and address EMBEDDED in the program. No serial #'s, etc.. just a download that will install cleanly; but, with the contact info of the purchaser nicely embedded in the program. Look, no piracy.
vBulletin does something similar with their product BTW...
Technically, it should be ????ball or *ball.. ****ball is redundant as * matches any number of characters already. The "?" matches a single character.
Wasn't this tried already? Like, uhm, the Civil War? States rights supreme. Freedom from the Federalists. etc...
Jeeze, go out and rent 'Civil War' (it's only like 10 hours of documentary)...
Mod parent up! Informative!!
So, how long before /. gets hit with a Patent infringement lawsuit? I mean, someone HAD to have come up with a patent that described a method of communicating with other people...
And pretty soon, it'll be able to run XBox GAMES TOO!! What progress!
How does someone get 33 months for 'stealing' digital bits. The unique pattern of 0's and 1's are still there for everyone else to have: he's just made an extra copy of them.
Isn't this the same as reading a book if you have a photographic memory? As you read, you memorize every letter and word in the book. So, has your brain committed copyright infringement? Isn't this about the same thing?
Besides, if he really did copy the software, isn't that just a civil claim for damages?? Why does he go to jail because of this vs. being sued because of this??
I had been doing general troubleshooting on-site in people's homes when I went to one genius' home to fix his modem problems. I did the usual check to make sure that the software has set to the right com port (this was Win3.1), right IRQ, etc.. based on what the default setting was. Nothing seemed to work. So, I determined that it was a hardware issue.
So, I start to open the computer (which is the FIRST thing I should have done, but, oh well..) to make sure that the modem was jumpered correctly, etc.. and the (l)user tells me that, "I can't believe how amazing computers are. You just place a modem board in the computer and it's supposed to work!" Needless to say, when I looked in the computer, the modem was just laying on the motherboard, not plugged in anywhere (but nicely screwed into the case) and shorting out god-knows-how-many traces.
With the door-knob standing over me, and me trying not to call him a moron to his face, I plug the modem into the mb and again attempt the software fix. Not surprisingly, the modem was fried: the computer was working (amazingly!). I told him to bring the modem back and get it replaced--and this time, don't try to install it yourself. I never heard back from him, but, I can only assume that the next-time round his computer blew up and killed him...
I can't believe that people still don't get it. If I want a song that I can download now and play on my computer, I go to P2P's.. If I want to pay for the music to listen in my car (without burning, or because I just want the pretty pictures with the CD) I buy a CD. The same goes for software downloads. Why should I pay $50 for a download when I can spend $5 more and get the damn CD for my archive?
Downloading music and buying the music are two different things: I may even download music I already own--because it's easier than ripping it myself.
The music industry should wake up and smell the coffee.
I was a tad concerned about the lack of drug-interaction information. I mean, I'd be concerned that if I used the blue pill at the same time as I used the yellow pill, that I'd get some sort of green-pill effect. Likewise, if I used the blue and red, would I get a purple pill? :)
I've done ethical hacking contracts for large colleges and universities before and know from experience that most of the time the easiest way to hack into a network is from social engineering. Send a message to a list of employees that you stole via. SMB from a hotmail account asking for the passwords to "Help make the network more secure" (ironic, no?) and the flood of passwords you get will keep you busy for days.
Until they make the USERS smarter, network admins face an uphill battle.
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I honestly can't believe that these people thought they could hack in and then brag about their accomplishments and have no recouse?? What did they expect, a congressional medal of honor? I can see it now:
President: Thank God you boys broke into our computer systems and showed us how easily Osama Bin Laden could have done the same thing...
Hacker: No problemo Mr. Prez...
President: I'd like to give you guys EACH a congressional medal of honor--after all, the government just adores people who point out to the world how completely stupid we are!
Hacker: Gee, Thanks! And to think.. This was all because we bragged to the Media of our accomplishments!
uhm, yeah....
I started University by wanting a degree in Political Science, and ended up with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. The funny part of this all, was that during my entire degree, I was working in computers, and did tons of contracting for networking/security for the University I was attending (and getting a psych degree at).
:)
So, I guess the bottom line to this is that what the degree is in isn't as important as the degree itself.
I've downloaded and tried about a dozen or so titles from SourceForge that 'claim' to be CRM's. Some of them are close, but are lacking key features that I think all CRM's should have (that is, client records are related to appointments, to-do's and notes and comments).An awful lot claim to be CRM's, but are really PIM's in disguise (very much Outlook like).
With CRM's, I believe that the devils in the details. I need to be able to keep track of my customers and know what we spoke about 6 months ago, and plan for follow-ups - without having to retype their name and phone # each and every time I schedule a callback or an appointment. Most CRM's on Sourceforge missed the boat and became Groupware.
PDF is an open standard. It is NOT controlled by a single company/interest. That's one of the reasons it's so great. While Adobe tends to make some pretty kick-butt software for the PDF format, there's lots of free Linux/UNIX/etc utils that do the same thing as the Adobe products.
.sig of the parent post: It's funny though, I took a look at your website. "Is linux right for you and your business". Considering the lack of insightful and documented ideas on the site, the fact that you thought PDF to be proprietary to be understandable.
Slightly off-topic, but, in response to the
When will everyone realize that you can't put the cat back into the bag. Once the technology is out, telling someone, "Don't use it, or you'll be sorry" becomes an invitation to flaut its use.
It's really too bad that a Judge doesn't order Windows banned--because most people who pirate MP3's, etc. use Windows to do it. Hey, there's a good idea in there somewhere..
When I was a lad, and my brother had a C64, and I bought an Apple //c, he laughed at me because my Apple only went 'beep, beep, beep' while his C64 played music, and had better graphics. Well, the jokes on him now! I can still use my Apple to play Asteroid--now with 64MB!! Geeze, I can load Appleworks into memory like 500 times, and still have room left over!
Boy, technology sure has come a LONG way!
I think most people, even if they could, simply wouldn't bother recompiling the kernel. Many people barely know how to send an email: and asking questions like, "Would you like the USB to allow for IEEE support through your firewire hub?" (or, whatever) would only confuse people.
Besides, most people still think kernels are those things that you pop to get popcorn!
Make it simple, make it intuitive, make it make sense: and you have a product that people will use. Forget recompiling the kernel: have the kernel poll the hardware and reconfigure itself based on the hardware it's run on.
I submitted a GOOD question to Ask Slashdot the other day. Turned down flat. I wanted to know if anyone had found a 'real' CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) like Act! or GoldMine for Linux. A lot of business people (who would put Linux on their computers) don't because they are missing certain tools (like a CRM).
:)
Guess what I *SHOULD* have submitted to Ask Slashdot was: "Uh, I have a computer, and a keyboard came with it, but, the keyboard wouldn't fit in the keyboard holder that pops out when I push a button on the front of the computer. Keyboard it seems isn't small/round enough to fit in the circle-like indentation. How do I get it to fit?"
Please don't mod me down.. It's funny! Really!
I still can't ever figure out.. How did Napster MAKE MONEY? Or did they operate like the "Change Bank" from SNL (Saturday Night Live)..
Customer: I was in a rush. I needed to change a $50. I wanted a twenty and two tens...
Bank Rep: Well, our computers caught the mistake RIGHT AWAY! We made sure he got the right change.
Customer: They helped me out when I needed change for the payphone. Thanks Change Bank!
Bank Rep: We are asked how we make money. Volume. We simply do it on volume.
With essentially indistructable services like Gnutella and Kazaa (etc) out there and working just fine (thank-you-very-much), why would anyone in their right mind pay Napster a monthly fee? Those who are going to pirate music are *STILL* going to pirate music. They'll just ditch the Napster client in favour of Napster and Napigator or Kazaa or Gnutella. So, it's 5 seconds longer to find that song you really want? Big deal.
Besides, I've often downloaded a great song and said, "hey, I want more!" And bought the CD.. If I can't find good/new music, buying CD's is something that really wouldn't enter my mind.
So, when the white paper innevitably comes out showing that the majority uses .NET, and hence, that's the reason to buy M$'s products, perhaps ZDNet could post a rebuttal with how Microsoft tampered with the results.
But, it kinda strikes me as amusing that someone tried 228 times to vote: obviously not reading the, "No duplicate votes" message. Must have been one of their head programmers (so quick on their toes!)
But, this really doesn't suprise me. Microsoft has done things like this before. Their TCP/IP stack is borrowed from *BSD, they go out of their way to break Samba compatability, etc, etc.etc.. The bottom line though, if you don't like Microsoft, just don't buy their products. Any of them! Vote with your dollars.
I'm not surprised that MS has crappy support. This isn't news..
I bought a program that said, "Windows 95 or better". I naturally assumed it would run on my Linux box...