Which leads me to believe that they can, like Amazon, change the terms at a whim to something more beneficial to them.
If they do in fact delete you from the database before you have ever scanned ANYTHING, then they have no data to sell and no way to collect the data. If they don't, you sue them for big bucks, or the FCC fines them for big bucks.
Just have yourself deleted BEFORE they change their policy. Otherwise, even if you have cut the wire, they may still have some data about you in their database, such as your IP address.
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Wouldn't this be easier than hacking the hardware? The FTC has been pretty good about holding websites to their privacy policies, so assuming DC provides a way it can be independently verified, this sounds like a simple option.
A task force established to assess the threat of so-called Near Earth Objects (Neo's) has concluded that the risk is not science fiction but something that should be taken seriously.
The three-member team called on ministers to seek international partners to build a new £15m telescope dedicated to sweeping the skies for threatening objects.
The three-metre (9.8 feet) survey telescope, based in the Southern Hemisphere, would be designed to detect objects down to a few hundred metres across.
A task force established to assess the threat of so-called Near Earth Objects (Neo's) has concluded that the risk is not science fiction but something that should be taken seriously.
The three-member team called on ministers to seek international partners to build a new £15m telescope dedicated to sweeping the skies for threatening objects.
The three-metre (9.8 feet) survey telescope, based in the Southern Hemisphere, would be designed to detect objects down to a few hundred metres across.
From this news.com article it sounds like you have to pay for a full extra copy of Windows if you want the Spanish Language version instead of the English version. If it were me, I'd just order the whole computer from CompUSA instead, since they are a Mexican owned comapny, and presumably would have PC's with the Spanish version pre-installed.
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I have a proposal. It's not a perfect solution, but it seems better than what I've seen so far. Right now there seems to be the option of no copy controls whatsoever, or these iron fisted copy controls. What I would propose is to apply an analog world concept to the digital realm, that of copy degradation.
Actually this is already essentially guaranteed, since the FCC has promised that before TV stations have to give up their analog TV frequencies, there will be affordable (~$200?) set-top boxes to let you convert HDTV signals to be played on your current analog NTSC TV. So you could just use one of these boxes to strip out any digital copy protection, but at the same time it would degrade the video quality to VHS. You could then take the NTSC stream and run it to your VCR, or to your PC, or pipe it over the net. The first two would still be legal under Fair Use, the latter would depend on the circumstances.
From 1998 to 1999, the Linux market overall grew by 89% (by units shipped), but Red Hat grew "only" 69%. This is in sharp contrast to the growth of SuSE (175%), Caldera (175%), and TurboLinux (450%).
I think the 1% figure they cite for Corel was their market share for an IDC survey conducted in 1999, after they had just released it. So it would be impossible to conclude the direction Corel was going from just the first survey they appeared on.
If I was Corel, I would be getting my lawyers on these guys right away. Hopefully with a press release indicating what their actually sales figures have been.
Extensive interview with Tim Paterson author of the Quick and Dirty OS for the 8086 (QDOS-86) the OS MS bought from Seattle Computer to use on the orginal IBM PC.
Previously, Paterson also had done the first port of MS-Basic to the 8086 platform.
The 1983 article is both amusing and sad since the guy went back to Seattle Computer after MS-DOS 1.1 was released, and says how happy he was to get a director position there. I expect he'd be worth Billions now had he stayed with MS.
I'd bring it up with Texas A&M as they probably have restrictions against using copyrighted material on the free webspace they provide to their students.
What activity on ResNet will get me in trouble? Students are subject to rules of responsible computing, as described in http://student-rules.tamu.edu/append5.htm . Activities including but not limited to the following will be considered violations:... unauthorized possession of copyright material;... use of any A&M resource for commercial use.
The site seems to potentially violate both of those.
Actually, its in Hampton, VA which is near Virginia Beach. I got the same vibe when I saw 'Langley', 'Virginia' and 'Government Research' all in the same article.
a member of the mammalian order Carnivora, literally "meat eaters." The order Carnivora is composed of 10 families of primarily predatory mammals: the dogs, foxes, wolves, and jackals (Canidae); bears (Ursidae); raccoons and pandas (Procyonidae); weasels, skunks, otters, and badgers (Mustelidae); genets, civets, and mongooses (Viverridae); hyenas (Hyaenidae); cats (Felidae); sea lions, or eared seals (Otariidae); earless seals (Phocidae); and the walrus (Odobenidae). Although the term carnivore can be applied broadly to any meat-eating animal, including mammals in other orders such as the otter shrews (Insectivora) and the Tasmanian devil (Marsupialia), mammalogists generally use the term in this more restricted sense. Most members of the order are in fact meat eaters, although some ursids, procyonids, and canids rely heavily on vegetation, and the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) lives almost entirely on bamboo shoots.
Marine carnivores (the three families of pinnipeds, or seal-like forms) are found in all oceanic waters and along the coasts of all the continents. Terrestrial carnivores are native to all continents but Antarctica and Australia, although the dingo (Canis dingo) was introduced to the latter during the early Aboriginal invasion.
PacketVideo has announced that with their PVPlatform 1.0 product you can view streaming MPEG-4 compliant video on you PocketPC (and soon other OS) handheld.
They refer to the product as a codec, so it may require some form of Windows Media player to run.
I remember reading about this over a year ago when somebody realized that it should be possible and began snapping up all the tiger fetuses in jars he could find.
Two points:
- This story is at least a year old, I think it was originally in either New Scientist, or the Times of London.
- It is NOT a tiger, it is a striped, dog-like marsupial, that happens to have stripes. The reason it was called a tiger simply relates to it being striped and carnivorous, not a cat or carnivore at all.
More info is available from the Australian National Museum here, or from Sheffield Univerisity here.
A recent article in EDN Access says that a new technology will allow 90bps/Hz of bandwidth. First generation CDMA uses 1.5 Mhz of bandwidth which should provide 135Mbs!
Second generation CDMA uses 5 Mhz of bandwidth, which could theoretically provide 450Mbs of bandwidth using the new technology.
"second [in brightness] only to Venus" when finished -- that should be second to THE MOON
Not to mention they say it is the third brightes star. The ISS is not a star, neither are Venus or the moon.
But it seems that NASA's original page is partly to blame for this:
It is visible to the naked eye as a (not-so-faint-anymore) star, if the sky is without overcast and haze. As ISS assembly continues over the next four-five years, the light dot will grow to a brilliant star in the morning or evening skies, second only in brightness to the planet Venus, the brightest object (besides the moon) in the morning or evening.
Actually the vote links are split between the two serious answers, since when you try to vote for the same thing twice it just ignores it. You have to vote for a different to get the already voted error.
So they opposing votes should balance eachother out, assuming everyone clicks both links. Of course, the joke answer 'pater' might end up getting short changed.
If Akamai is actually caching the pages access this way, could it be used as a way to create an instant mirror to mitigate the SlashDot effect, or for peak download times of newly released distros without having to compensate Akamai?
Perhaps this is the reason Akamai is really fixing the bug, they don't want non-paying customers taking advantage of their service.
A significant percentage of people buy MS products because they trust them. They believe that MS has already done everything they can to provide the customer with the most perfect product (alot of) money can buy.
Therefore, if a MS product does something by default, a typical MS users feels its best left unchanged. After all, MS must know much more about computers than they do. That's why they're so successful, right?
MS even explains how the default blank password is a feature in that it facilitates 'Integrated Mode' i.e. letting NT manage access security. They say in their response to Bugtraq, that its only users who choose to run in 'Mixed Mode' (which they don't reccommend) that are at risk from the blank password. See http://www.microsoft.com/t echnet/SQL/Technote/secure.asp for more.
Of course they also say that there is a forced change of the password in SQL Server 2000.
Also note that Oracle has something four default usernames with default passwords, and that these are published in most books on Oracle. I think the real concern is that there is a known vulnerability in SQL Server that lets you gain control of the OS itself from within SQL Server, and I don't think MS response to Bugtraq has addressed this, other than to say you should have a firewall (like this will protect you from users within your own organization).
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Which leads me to believe that they can, like Amazon, change the terms at a whim to something more beneficial to them.
If they do in fact delete you from the database before you have ever scanned ANYTHING, then they have no data to sell and no way to collect the data. If they don't, you sue them for big bucks, or the FCC fines them for big bucks.
Just have yourself deleted BEFORE they change their policy. Otherwise, even if you have cut the wire, they may still have some data about you in their database, such as your IP address.
Detailed instructions are available from the Dissecting the CueCat page.
I'm not sure, but I think there is a way to just flash the eeprom so it no longer sends out the ID. At least I think that's what this does.
Wouldn't this be easier than hacking the hardware? The FTC has been pretty good about holding websites to their privacy policies, so assuming DC provides a way it can be independently verified, this sounds like a simple option.
Sure, here's a couple:
http://www.mexico-info.com/leadstor ies/slim.htm
http://www.hoovers.com/ uk/co/capsule/5/0,3042,56815,00.html
There's also a wire story on the study here.
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I have a proposal. It's not a perfect solution, but it seems better than what I've seen so far. Right now there seems to be the option of no copy controls whatsoever, or these iron fisted copy controls. What I would propose is to apply an analog world concept to the digital realm, that of copy degradation.
Actually this is already essentially guaranteed, since the FCC has promised that before TV stations have to give up their analog TV frequencies, there will be affordable (~$200?) set-top boxes to let you convert HDTV signals to be played on your current analog NTSC TV. So you could just use one of these boxes to strip out any digital copy protection, but at the same time it would degrade the video quality to VHS. You could then take the NTSC stream and run it to your VCR, or to your PC, or pipe it over the net. The first two would still be legal under Fair Use, the latter would depend on the circumstances.
Read the following paragraph from the TechEval article:
I think the 1% figure they cite for Corel was their market share for an IDC survey conducted in 1999, after they had just released it. So it would be impossible to conclude the direction Corel was going from just the first survey they appeared on.
If I was Corel, I would be getting my lawyers on these guys right away. Hopefully with a press release indicating what their actually sales figures have been.
So, BSOD=Banana Screen of Death???
This was doubly funny since I had a Choco-Banana shake for breakfast this morning.
Here's my recipe in case you don't want to risk the Banana Screen of Death.
1 Banana, peeled
5-7 Ice Cubes
5 oz, Soy Chocolate Milk
2 oz, Liquid Non-Dairy Creamer
1-1/2 scoops Soy Protein Powder
Blend Ice & liquids until ice fully crushed.
Add Banana & Protein Powder and blend and still smooth.
Drink within 12-15.4 seconds to avoid 'brain freeze'.
Don't forget transparent, that makes three colors.
By the way, viewing at 256 colors, the 22 color pallette looks more like 11 different colors with a bunch of duplicates.
Extensive interview with Tim Paterson author of the Quick and Dirty OS for the 8086 (QDOS-86) the OS MS bought from Seattle Computer to use on the orginal IBM PC.
Previously, Paterson also had done the first port of MS-Basic to the 8086 platform.
The 1983 article is both amusing and sad since the guy went back to Seattle Computer after MS-DOS 1.1 was released, and says how happy he was to get a director position there. I expect he'd be worth Billions now had he stayed with MS.
Specifical, read this FAQ:
The site seems to potentially violate both of those.
Actually, its in Hampton, VA which is near Virginia Beach. I got the same vibe when I saw 'Langley', 'Virginia' and 'Government Research' all in the same article.
You can learn more about the research center through this nifty Shockwave-based Interface.
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PacketVideo has announced that with their PVPlatform 1.0 product you can view streaming MPEG-4 compliant video on you PocketPC (and soon other OS) handheld.
They refer to the product as a codec, so it may require some form of Windows Media player to run.
I remember reading about this over a year ago when somebody realized that it should be possible and began snapping up all the tiger fetuses in jars he could find.
Two points:
- This story is at least a year old, I think it was originally in either New Scientist, or the Times of London.
- It is NOT a tiger, it is a striped, dog-like marsupial, that happens to have stripes. The reason it was called a tiger simply relates to it being striped and carnivorous, not a cat or carnivore at all.
More info is available from the Australian National Museum here, or from Sheffield Univerisity here.
The Washington Post is re/pre-printing this glowing review of CLOS2 in today's edition.
So maybe the DoD will find room for Linux on the desktop if not in the server room.
A recent article in EDN Access says that a new technology will allow 90bps/Hz of bandwidth. First generation CDMA uses 1.5 Mhz of bandwidth which should provide 135Mbs!
Second generation CDMA uses 5 Mhz of bandwidth, which could theoretically provide 450Mbs of bandwidth using the new technology.
"second [in brightness] only to Venus" when finished -- that should be second to THE MOON
Not to mention they say it is the third brightes star. The ISS is not a star, neither are Venus or the moon.
But it seems that NASA's original page is partly to blame for this:
It is visible to the naked eye as a (not-so-faint-anymore) star, if the sky is without overcast and haze. As ISS assembly continues over the next four-five years, the light dot will grow to a brilliant star in the morning or evening skies, second only in brightness to the planet Venus, the brightest object (besides the moon) in the morning or evening.
Hey! Stop trying to rig the poll!
Actually the vote links are split between the two serious answers, since when you try to vote for the same thing twice it just ignores it. You have to vote for a different to get the already voted error.
So they opposing votes should balance eachother out, assuming everyone clicks both links. Of course, the joke answer 'pater' might end up getting short changed.
If Akamai is actually caching the pages access this way, could it be used as a way to create an instant mirror to mitigate the SlashDot effect, or for peak download times of newly released distros without having to compensate Akamai?
Perhaps this is the reason Akamai is really fixing the bug, they don't want non-paying customers taking advantage of their service.
The Anonymizer deletes any personally identifiable information from your http requests (such as your IP) but using Akamai doesn't.
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You can give it try but accessing the Slashdot poll page Her e. (aid=1
The second time you vote, it identifies your proxy's IP as well as your actual IP.
The review indicates that there is an edition for COREL, why wasn't it reviewed?
Personally, my favorite intro book was The No B.S. Guide to Red Hat Linux 6. But I actually had the First Edition which came with Slackware. Ahhhh, you never forget your first distro!
A significant percentage of people buy MS products because they trust them. They believe that MS has already done everything they can to provide the customer with the most perfect product (alot of) money can buy.
Therefore, if a MS product does something by default, a typical MS users feels its best left unchanged. After all, MS must know much more about computers than they do. That's why they're so successful, right?
MS even explains how the default blank password is a feature in that it facilitates 'Integrated Mode' i.e. letting NT manage access security. They say in their response to Bugtraq, that its only users who choose to run in 'Mixed Mode' (which they don't reccommend) that are at risk from the blank password. See http://www.microsoft.com/t echnet/SQL/Technote/secure.asp for more.
Of course they also say that there is a forced change of the password in SQL Server 2000.
Also note that Oracle has something four default usernames with default passwords, and that these are published in most books on Oracle. I think the real concern is that there is a known vulnerability in SQL Server that lets you gain control of the OS itself from within SQL Server, and I don't think MS response to Bugtraq has addressed this, other than to say you should have a firewall (like this will protect you from users within your own organization).