The article does mention sea water as a source of hydrogen, and if you had troubled yourself to take the time to read it before posting, you would have learned that it is a particularly expensive method of extracing hydrogen relative to getting it out of the ground.
There's no official Adobe press release yet, but there's a
VersionTracker page for it,
That's nice, but I was hoping for a Tracker-Tracker page for it. Since after the DMCA wielding bastards had Dmitri arrested, it'll be a cold day in hell before Adobe sees another thin dime of my cash.
The risk of a broken man with no place to go who can't find a job because he was blacklisted and coming in with an automatic weapon and spraying the executive suite is real and the prudent employer will deal with it as best he can.
. . . violate the EULA, Microsoft is free to modify the software on a running Windows installation. I'm sure that changes to the authentication code would be something Microsoft could easily "fix" with Windows Update, or some other more sneaky, nefarious means (now that they legally can) of "updating" the code on your box.
If I wanted to choose your authentication mechanism, I'd stick with OSS with no back-doors for "maintenance" or "updates."
. . . if you had control of some desktops in your organization, and would like to, say, replace the domain authentication for access to local files with a little something of your own, in case you, uh, needed access to those files later, like, say, uh, after you were terminated?
Which companies with experience in the arena know, would cause more litigious behavior. They'll just say "wouldn't rehire," if they even have the balls to say that. You've obviously never experienced the frustration of not being able to tell a prospective employer of some deadwood you fired the real story, but instead being forced to refer your colleague to HR, where they will spout something safe and politically correct.
But really, do you want a blacklist of anyone that sues an employer? Would you change your mind if you found yourself suing someday for a legitimate grievance?
While you may be right as to the lack of clue of the parent poster, you are equally ignorant if you think a United States Senator doesn't have any influence in the goings on of the government in the state he represents. The fiscal implications alone grant him substantial influence.
(Am I the only one here who believes that Gateway is giving the RIAA exactly what they deserve?)
You most certainly are not. And mainstream, memorable, humor pointed right up Rosen's ass is what's needed most. Now if only Michael Dell can work the "Dude" thing into an anti RIAA commercial . . .
Here's one of the offenders right here: chat.cnn.com.
This credit card theft, cracking, terrorism promoting menace of a protocol and its operational cells must be stamped out immediately! Somebody call John Ashcroft!
Man, you said it more eloquently than I ever could have. I know it's supposedly not right to think like this, but damn, I miss the days before everybody and his brother used computers and telecommunications. (And I know that the guys playing with ARPANET back in the day feel the same way about my generation.)
Knowing there are others out there thinking the same way gives me some hope in what could become a very dystopian future for mainstream computing.
As an alcoholic and consumer of the occasional pint of Mad Dog, I find the comparison to the RIAA, and in particular that shrew, Hilary Rosen, patently offensive and blatantly disrespectful to my fellow alcoholics everywhere.
I'll accept your apology here, or in lieu of that, a nice bottle of Night Train.
Fair enough. But the first one is more likely the correct one, while the second one was added as a concession to the fact that so few could get it right. It's like "data are" and "data is"--both are considered correct now, but literate people use the first.
partly because they figured people wouldn't attempt to install software from home on the machines
You have to hand it to them, that's intelligent thinking. Rather than buy Windows and spend a fortune in time and money trying to lock it down, just buy something that there's not much of a software market for that does the job.
Replying to your own troll is really bad form:). First, copyright infringement isn't stealing. Second, if the only way to purchase it is to allow it to call home, and I want to use it, damn right I'll use a cracked copy. Put that in your self-righteous, amateur-sarcasm pipe and smoke it.
2) For the products I've developed, it has become neccessary to build in "authentication" logic that registers the target computer with a server that looks for illegal copies. This is was Windows XP has done and I feel will become the norm for all software in the future. I wouldn't be suprised to see it exended to CD/DVD copy protection also.
I do pay for software, but refuse to pay for any that calls home like this, including Windows XP. If I use such software at all, I restrict myself to cracked and neutered copies. Of course, if you're marketing to non-technically-savvy people, it probably won't matter. But I and people like me won't buy it.
Dude, I don't know about you, but the last thing I would want to have on my machine when the Feds came and served a no-knock warrant at 3 AM is a program listed in Add/Remove programs called "Evidence Eliminator"--that alone would be enough to intimidate someone into copping a plea. Imagine the prosecutor telling about it to the jury: "The defendant, an obvious hacker|child molestor|software pirate|cracker, covered his tracks using this program (insert description of what it does." Instant conviction.
Call your users what you want, but that's their philosophy. The only things normal users can be bothered to download are god-awful spyware laden crap like RealPlayer, Webshots, and the Weather Bug. I hardly think they're going to take even more of their employers' time downloading and installing something that might enhance their privacy.
Re:i dont' think the "geek factor" is the real bar
on
Can GnuPG Deliver?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
PGP never caught on *DESPITE* having a slick user interface--or else NAI wouldn't have dropped it.
Uh, think 9/11. Think "encryption is only used for terrorism and illegal pornography." Think "there's a ph@t defense contract in it for you if you make that product go away."
write our own guis to interface with the command-line
While this is all well and good, it didn't seem to help in the face of Microsoft and Netscape going with S/MIME. Possible reasons for this choice are left as an exercise for the reader.
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The article does mention sea water as a source of hydrogen, and if you had troubled yourself to take the time to read it before posting, you would have learned that it is a particularly expensive method of extracing hydrogen relative to getting it out of the ground.
Nonsense. Ctrl-[.
Good touch typists can be much faster in an editor which doesn't require removing one's hands from the home row, like VI.
That's nice, but I was hoping for a Tracker-Tracker page for it. Since after the DMCA wielding bastards had Dmitri arrested, it'll be a cold day in hell before Adobe sees another thin dime of my cash.
People with nothing to lose and who are willing to die have nothing to fear--maybe it'd be best to outlaw things like blacklists that create them.
The risk of a broken man with no place to go who can't find a job because he was blacklisted and coming in with an automatic weapon and spraying the executive suite is real and the prudent employer will deal with it as best he can.
If I wanted to choose your authentication mechanism, I'd stick with OSS with no back-doors for "maintenance" or "updates."
. . . if you had control of some desktops in your organization, and would like to, say, replace the domain authentication for access to local files with a little something of your own, in case you, uh, needed access to those files later, like, say, uh, after you were terminated?
Which companies with experience in the arena know, would cause more litigious behavior. They'll just say "wouldn't rehire," if they even have the balls to say that. You've obviously never experienced the frustration of not being able to tell a prospective employer of some deadwood you fired the real story, but instead being forced to refer your colleague to HR, where they will spout something safe and politically correct.
But really, do you want a blacklist of anyone that sues an employer? Would you change your mind if you found yourself suing someday for a legitimate grievance?
While you may be right as to the lack of clue of the parent poster, you are equally ignorant if you think a United States Senator doesn't have any influence in the goings on of the government in the state he represents. The fiscal implications alone grant him substantial influence.
No, hopefully, this moron won't reproduce.
You most certainly are not. And mainstream, memorable, humor pointed right up Rosen's ass is what's needed most. Now if only Michael Dell can work the "Dude" thing into an anti RIAA commercial . . .
BTW, love the Devo!
This credit card theft, cracking, terrorism promoting menace of a protocol and its operational cells must be stamped out immediately! Somebody call John Ashcroft!
I'll take irony for 500, Alex.
Knowing there are others out there thinking the same way gives me some hope in what could become a very dystopian future for mainstream computing.
I'll accept your apology here, or in lieu of that, a nice bottle of Night Train.
And this would be bad, how?
But the first one is more likely the correct one
Which, I see now, is the one that had been used. Sorry.
Fair enough. But the first one is more likely the correct one, while the second one was added as a concession to the fact that so few could get it right. It's like "data are" and "data is"--both are considered correct now, but literate people use the first.
You have to hand it to them, that's intelligent thinking. Rather than buy Windows and spend a fortune in time and money trying to lock it down, just buy something that there's not much of a software market for that does the job.
Replying to your own troll is really bad form :). First, copyright infringement isn't stealing. Second, if the only way to purchase it is to allow it to call home, and I want to use it, damn right I'll use a cracked copy. Put that in your self-righteous, amateur-sarcasm pipe and smoke it.
I do pay for software, but refuse to pay for any that calls home like this, including Windows XP. If I use such software at all, I restrict myself to cracked and neutered copies. Of course, if you're marketing to non-technically-savvy people, it probably won't matter. But I and people like me won't buy it.
Minor nit. You don't say "Fire" on a submarine unless there's something burning. The command to launch a torpedo is "Shoot."
Dude, I don't know about you, but the last thing I would want to have on my machine when the Feds came and served a no-knock warrant at 3 AM is a program listed in Add/Remove programs called "Evidence Eliminator"--that alone would be enough to intimidate someone into copping a plea. Imagine the prosecutor telling about it to the jury: "The defendant, an obvious hacker|child molestor|software pirate|cracker, covered his tracks using this program (insert description of what it does." Instant conviction.
Call your users what you want, but that's their philosophy. The only things normal users can be bothered to download are god-awful spyware laden crap like RealPlayer, Webshots, and the Weather Bug. I hardly think they're going to take even more of their employers' time downloading and installing something that might enhance their privacy.
Uh, think 9/11. Think "encryption is only used for terrorism and illegal pornography." Think "there's a ph@t defense contract in it for you if you make that product go away."
write our own guis to interface with the command-line
While this is all well and good, it didn't seem to help in the face of Microsoft and Netscape going with S/MIME. Possible reasons for this choice are left as an exercise for the reader.