I think the prices for Europeans seem a bit steep. For Americans it's $69, for Europeans it's EUR 69. That is 30% more. I know that they might have to pay more taxes, but this is quite a lot. They don't even differentiate between EU and non-EU, but just 'Europe'.
I suppose the product may be fine, but from a German company I wouldn't expect these kind of things.
Just because you don't like the choice on the online store, it does not give you any right whatso-fucking-ever to steal the fucking music.
You might want to read up on Dutch law. The law gives me the right to download music.
I really wanted to do things legal and pay for all my downloads, so I started using iTunes. Where I live (Netherlands), 90% of the songs I was looking for just missed. I expected there to be few Dutch songs, and there were. But, also many international songs that are there in the US version just miss. New albums are often not available in the local version, but are in the US. I switched back to eMule a few weeks ago, I just missed too many songs.
At least P2P won't make stupid regional stores that lack almost everything, the sound quality is just as good, I don't have to jump through hoops to put the music on my MP3 player, and it's cheaper. Pretty hard to see why it's so hard for the publishers to get a decent music download system working. I'm completely willing to pay for downloads, they just don't offer the option.
The Internet was funded with US taxpayer dollars and has been open to the world to use without financial consideration
and
If the US Govt wants to run the root servers that is purely a domestic US issue.
I think it's fine that the US runs the root servers, but as you have stated yourself, this is in no way purely a domestic issue. International use is there, there is worldwide political sensitivity, and therefore, it's an international issue. The US isn't the only country that has invested billions into internet infrastructure, and the US has had very significant international investment because of the internet. So no matter what your point of view is on who should run these, this is an international issue. Diplomacy, and carefull consideration of all arguments are in place, before China, France or someone else decides to take this as a reason to start a trade war.
(ok, trade war is unlikely, but you get the point)
Would that really be a problem? Can't they just iptable everything except the bank out? In the event that a leak would be so serious that that they'd still be at risk, they could just let marketing add a few new graphics and push it out as a new release with better security.
India did *much* worse than the US here. In many of the top countries (like the Netherlands, where I live), programmable graphing calculators are the norm in high school. Perhaps it's the Indians who should realize that graphing calculators make it possible to make much harder math problems understandable to school-children.
What use is it for a 15 year old to have to calculate the square root of some high number on paper? The graphing calculators allow them to see multi-variate functions and see what they are trying to solve.
I use the user agent string Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html). It gives access to quite a few sites that only give full access to subscribers and Google...
Yes, these are facts, which means that they are either true or false. I'd say the last two are false, and the first is hard to prove. They just happened to increase the size this time, that they would only do it with a 50x competitor size seems a bit strange to conclude from this.
Please don't exegerate when you try to make a point.
Has it already been made clear wether that service is legal? Last time I checked it wasn't according to the labels. If you don't do it legal, you might as well just download it from your favorite P2P network, the assortment is much better there...
OD2 has sites in more countries. For instance you could already get this cheap streaming preview thing for months on the OD2 site of Planet Internet (in the Netherlands). I would give a link but I can't even enter the site now.
Belgium, Austria and Italy have OD2 sites too, and I'm sure there are others.
As control+C doesn't always work and sometimes shuts programs down, I tend to use control+insert to copy and shift+insert to paste. It works nearly everywhere (including Windows, DOS, and the Solaris machines at my university).
Not trying to offend, I'm genuinely interested. How do they know how far in time they can look with those telescopes? Have photons lost too much energy after that distance?
Sure, this is a well done cracking tool, but isn't "cracked" a bit sensationalistic considering it still requires brute forcing the password? The weakness remains the password here, hardly the authentication scheme... good luck dictionary attacking a good password!
I liked the last version much, even though it was far from complete. But IIRC it was based on Kylix, and there was no good way to run it on any other architecture than x86.
So can I run this completely rewritten version on our Sun boxes?
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I think the prices for Europeans seem a bit steep. For Americans it's $69, for Europeans it's EUR 69. That is 30% more. I know that they might have to pay more taxes, but this is quite a lot. They don't even differentiate between EU and non-EU, but just 'Europe'.
I suppose the product may be fine, but from a German company I wouldn't expect these kind of things.
At my ISP, there is even more spam in November.
What do you consider the greatest weakness of Firefox?
Let's forbid people to have children too! Iff you get children some might actually get hurt! Think of the children!
Just because you don't like the choice on the online store, it does not give you any right whatso-fucking-ever to steal the fucking music. You might want to read up on Dutch law. The law gives me the right to download music.
I really wanted to do things legal and pay for all my downloads, so I started using iTunes. Where I live (Netherlands), 90% of the songs I was looking for just missed. I expected there to be few Dutch songs, and there were. But, also many international songs that are there in the US version just miss. New albums are often not available in the local version, but are in the US. I switched back to eMule a few weeks ago, I just missed too many songs.
At least P2P won't make stupid regional stores that lack almost everything, the sound quality is just as good, I don't have to jump through hoops to put the music on my MP3 player, and it's cheaper. Pretty hard to see why it's so hard for the publishers to get a decent music download system working. I'm completely willing to pay for downloads, they just don't offer the option.
The Internet was funded with US taxpayer dollars and has been open to the world to use without financial consideration
and
If the US Govt wants to run the root servers that is purely a domestic US issue.
I think it's fine that the US runs the root servers, but as you have stated yourself, this is in no way purely a domestic issue. International use is there, there is worldwide political sensitivity, and therefore, it's an international issue. The US isn't the only country that has invested billions into internet infrastructure, and the US has had very significant international investment because of the internet. So no matter what your point of view is on who should run these, this is an international issue. Diplomacy, and carefull consideration of all arguments are in place, before China, France or someone else decides to take this as a reason to start a trade war.
(ok, trade war is unlikely, but you get the point)
Oh, I don't know? Cisco? Microsoft? IBM? There are lots of people having interest in computer infrastructure investments.
that this investigation will end up with no results, or blame some 'hostile' third party that had nothing to do with it.
(By the way, what's up with the unreadable "show you're not a script" images? Give us an 'I can't read this' option...)
It would have been sweeter if Tanenbaum actually had something published there.
You, mean, like these?
I checked it out yesterday, and Tanenbaum's work is there too. This is a pretty sweet collection :-). I would give you a link if the site was up.
Any other IT Gods in there?
Would that really be a problem? Can't they just iptable everything except the bank out? In the event that a leak would be so serious that that they'd still be at risk, they could just let marketing add a few new graphics and push it out as a new release with better security.
India did *much* worse than the US here. In many of the top countries (like the Netherlands, where I live), programmable graphing calculators are the norm in high school. Perhaps it's the Indians who should realize that graphing calculators make it possible to make much harder math problems understandable to school-children.
What use is it for a 15 year old to have to calculate the square root of some high number on paper? The graphing calculators allow them to see multi-variate functions and see what they are trying to solve.
I use the user agent string Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html). It gives access to quite a few sites that only give full access to subscribers and Google...
Yes, these are facts, which means that they are either true or false. I'd say the last two are false, and the first is hard to prove. They just happened to increase the size this time, that they would only do it with a 50x competitor size seems a bit strange to conclude from this.
Please don't exegerate when you try to make a point.
Has it already been made clear wether that service is legal? Last time I checked it wasn't according to the labels. If you don't do it legal, you might as well just download it from your favorite P2P network, the assortment is much better there...
OD2 has sites in more countries. For instance you could already get this cheap streaming preview thing for months on the OD2 site of Planet Internet (in the Netherlands). I would give a link but I can't even enter the site now.
Belgium, Austria and Italy have OD2 sites too, and I'm sure there are others.
As control+C doesn't always work and sometimes shuts programs down, I tend to use control+insert to copy and shift+insert to paste. It works nearly everywhere (including Windows, DOS, and the Solaris machines at my university).
Hope that helps someone.
Yes and Bill Gates would be the father of Linus. Yuck.
Not trying to offend, I'm genuinely interested. How do they know how far in time they can look with those telescopes? Have photons lost too much energy after that distance?
Yes, it would be absolutely devastating for Apple if consumers are going to need and buy larger iPods later...
Slashdot was down so some geek finally had time to do the work necessary for this release. Thank you Slashdot for helping us out!
Sure, this is a well done cracking tool, but isn't "cracked" a bit sensationalistic considering it still requires brute forcing the password? The weakness remains the password here, hardly the authentication scheme... good luck dictionary attacking a good password!
I liked the last version much, even though it was far from complete. But IIRC it was based on Kylix, and there was no good way to run it on any other architecture than x86.
So can I run this completely rewritten version on our Sun boxes?