Actually it does make sense. A lot of young people in the UK don't care about politics or listen to politicians. Myspace is a way for politicians to try and reach those people as a lot of them use Myspace. Maybe they can influence some younger voters, maybe they can stir up interest in politics a bit. Either way I don't think it is dumb. People watch TV so politicians have Party Political Broadcasts. Lots of people visit Myspace - it makes sense to have a presence there!
I'm not from the US, but can he potentially be sued for this?
I would have thought it is HIS site so why should he care who is linking to HIS images... but I also know that the law does not always lean on the side of common sense.
It's obvious. By saying windows is more secure more people will buy it. Symantec then have more potential customers to sell anti-virus and firewall to:
1. Say Windows is secure.
2. Let people find out it's only secure WITH Symantec products.
3. Sell more Symantec products.
4. Profit!
You don't get an on the spot fine. You get a Penalty Charge Notice. If you don't want to pay it you can go to court - but the magistrate's can then give you a much larger fine.
Two Points 1.
It is also worth noting that under british law they are unable to fine you more money than you can afford to pay, so the several thousand pounds bit is crap too Under british law only a court may impose a fine, not a TV license inspector, not a police officer, not Tony Blair, no-one except a court may impose a fine. That dates back to 1689 and is still part of the law today (see the bit about "freedom from fines and forfeitures without trial").
2. During the last football world cup the TV licensing announced that anyone watching broadcast TV over the internet needed a license to do so as they were picking up a broadcast TV signal (albeit through a computer connected to the internet rather than through an aerial).
Hmm obvious patents, but they wont get the chance to because I've just finished patenting 'breathing' or as my patent is filed 'An internal organ which inflates and deflates in order to facilitate the exchange of gases into and out of the human body'... I can be very selective on who I license this patent out to.
Wrong. You don't have to keep the key in memory. Keep the bytes that make up the mey encrypted in memory - something simple should protect against the sort of casual inspection that revealed these keys - just flip the bits, rotate them by a specified amount - add a number to each of the stored bytes... you name it. The actual key could then be reconstructed within CPU registers without ever storing it in main memory where it can be probed. Yes debugging tools may allow access to the contents of CPU registers and a clever hacker may be able to spot the encrypted key and figure out how to decode it - but it would certainly make it a lot harder!
Even worse...
"if they want to legally install it on their systems Last time I checked in most countries the EULA included in software is about as legally binding as my farts. Not to mention that I left my computer at the EULA page and my cat walked across the keyboard, agreeing to it for me... or that script kiddie xyz writes a program that makes my PC skip the EULA or that..... the legality of EULAs has been debated many many times. (Although in fairness I think it probably varies from country to country, IANAL, etc. etc. etc).
Well, personally I don't care seeing as this restriction is in the EULA. If I have paid for the software then I'll bloody well install it on whatever I like. I own a Mac and I hate rebooting so I don't use Boot Camp - I use parallels.
If I have paid for my machine to run Vista Home and I install it in a VM (and only a VM) then I haven't pirated the software, however I may have neglected to read the EULA properly. Maybe my cat sat on the accept key on the keyboard before I had the chance - while I was making a cup of tea or something.
IANAL but I don't think EULA's count for much in most of the EU?
Interesting, but everytime someone says that serious climate change is going to happen in the next 100 years I start to doubt. They usually base this on an ever increasing consumption of fossil-fuels however everytime I read about our ever increasing use of fossil fuels people say they are about to run out (oil in about 50 years).
So if we are going to run out of oil to fuel our cars and planes (apparently the biggest polluters) surely man-affected climate change will slow down once that happens? Or at least not get any worse?
Anyway, I've been enjoying a warm November here in the UK, so keep rev'ing those cars people!
Not the same, but QuickSilver is an awesome search and run utility. Although I have started to think of it as Start -> Run on steroids rather than a search tool.
Use different graphics programs on a different operating system (although *most* major graphics apps run on Mac as well as PC).
Or sit your windows PC behind a hardware / linux firewall (or both).
Or run those graphics applications inside a VM running on your windows PC. If the PC is compromised, the VM should still be relatively safe (especially if running with networking disabled - you can usually still copy files in and out of the VM).
Or combine all of the above and use e.g. Mac OS X behind a hardware firewall, with the Mac OS X software firewall enabled and run your graphics apps on windows running inside a Parallels VM (which runs at near full speed). This is the approach I use.
This is actually quite cool news. I use Macs to develop websites and I also use RoR so to see that Leopard (Server) will come with RoR pre-installed (from the APpl e Leopard overview) is really cool news for me.
Google are damned if they do and damned if they don't. They are evil for supporting racism or evil for censoring free speech.
Conversley their PR machine can say they are supporting free speech or acting against racism. Ultimately they are in a no-win situation and choosing to let the courts decide is (IMHO) probably the least damaging route.
I live in the UK and I for one know that I HATE seeing my tax money being spent on M$ Windows in local government and in schools when they could be using Linux for free.
MS Paint. Seriously it's like Ronseal. It does exactly what it says in the tin.
Need to cut a picture in half? Resize it? Just convert soemthing to JPEG. Need to chop something out of a screenshot?
My biggest complaint with Mac OS is there is no Paint equivalent bundled with the OS.
When the State decides to censor people, it comes in two ways: direct censorship ("You can't talk about subject A") and indirect censorship ("You can't talk about subject B that someone else already talked about"). Subject A is the type of censorship that China and now India are doing. Subject B covers copyright and patents -- both are censorships against words and actions a person wants to perform with his own time, on his own property, using his own body and tools.
There is only one reason for either type of censorship: to protect the interests of an elite individual or group. Subject B censorship (copyright and patents) protects distribution cartels -- the few who control the distribution of content or specific items. Subject A censorship (direct prevention of talking about a certain subject) protects the State itself -- giving major power that is usually used against "enemies" of the State. Both States are corrupt -- if you go to jail because of a corrupt system, there is little that can be done to protect your interests.
You know that the copyright laws are what give GPL legal footing right?
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So a macro of something like #define SOFTWARE_BREAK asm { int 3; } which I have been using for years is now patented? That's laughable.
£500 isn't a lot of money for the state to be grabbing. As this was a fine not a compensation award the 'victim' will not see any of the money.
Actually it does make sense. A lot of young people in the UK don't care about politics or listen to politicians. Myspace is a way for politicians to try and reach those people as a lot of them use Myspace. Maybe they can influence some younger voters, maybe they can stir up interest in politics a bit. Either way I don't think it is dumb. People watch TV so politicians have Party Political Broadcasts. Lots of people visit Myspace - it makes sense to have a presence there!
I'm not from the US, but can he potentially be sued for this?
... but I also know that the law does not always lean on the side of common sense.
I would have thought it is HIS site so why should he care who is linking to HIS images
1. Say Windows is secure.
2. Let people find out it's only secure WITH Symantec products.
3. Sell more Symantec products.
4. Profit!
Note the lack of a ???
You don't get an on the spot fine. You get a Penalty Charge Notice. If you don't want to pay it you can go to court - but the magistrate's can then give you a much larger fine.
1. It is also worth noting that under british law they are unable to fine you more money than you can afford to pay, so the several thousand pounds bit is crap too Under british law only a court may impose a fine, not a TV license inspector, not a police officer, not Tony Blair, no-one except a court may impose a fine. That dates back to 1689 and is still part of the law today (see the bit about "freedom from fines and forfeitures without trial").
2. During the last football world cup the TV licensing announced that anyone watching broadcast TV over the internet needed a license to do so as they were picking up a broadcast TV signal (albeit through a computer connected to the internet rather than through an aerial).
What was the original sig?
I agree. My girlfriend bought her phone because it was pink. 'Nuff said.
Hmm obvious patents, but they wont get the chance to because I've just finished patenting 'breathing' or as my patent is filed 'An internal organ which inflates and deflates in order to facilitate the exchange of gases into and out of the human body' ... I can be very selective on who I license this patent out to.
Wrong. You don't have to keep the key in memory. Keep the bytes that make up the mey encrypted in memory - something simple should protect against the sort of casual inspection that revealed these keys - just flip the bits, rotate them by a specified amount - add a number to each of the stored bytes ... you name it. The actual key could then be reconstructed within CPU registers without ever storing it in main memory where it can be probed. Yes debugging tools may allow access to the contents of CPU registers and a clever hacker may be able to spot the encrypted key and figure out how to decode it - but it would certainly make it a lot harder!
"if they want to legally install it on their systems
Last time I checked in most countries the EULA included in software is about as legally binding as my farts. Not to mention that I left my computer at the EULA page and my cat walked across the keyboard, agreeing to it for me
Well, personally I don't care seeing as this restriction is in the EULA. If I have paid for the software then I'll bloody well install it on whatever I like. I own a Mac and I hate rebooting so I don't use Boot Camp - I use parallels.
If I have paid for my machine to run Vista Home and I install it in a VM (and only a VM) then I haven't pirated the software, however I may have neglected to read the EULA properly. Maybe my cat sat on the accept key on the keyboard before I had the chance - while I was making a cup of tea or something.
IANAL but I don't think EULA's count for much in most of the EU?
Interesting, but everytime someone says that serious climate change is going to happen in the next 100 years I start to doubt. They usually base this on an ever increasing consumption of fossil-fuels however everytime I read about our ever increasing use of fossil fuels people say they are about to run out (oil in about 50 years). So if we are going to run out of oil to fuel our cars and planes (apparently the biggest polluters) surely man-affected climate change will slow down once that happens? Or at least not get any worse? Anyway, I've been enjoying a warm November here in the UK, so keep rev'ing those cars people!
How about Mac OS X? Would that be possible as it runs on PPC, could it be hacked like it was hacked to run on non Apple intel machines?
Not the same, but QuickSilver is an awesome search and run utility. Although I have started to think of it as Start -> Run on steroids rather than a search tool.
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
Use different graphics programs on a different operating system (although *most* major graphics apps run on Mac as well as PC).
Or sit your windows PC behind a hardware / linux firewall (or both).
Or run those graphics applications inside a VM running on your windows PC. If the PC is compromised, the VM should still be relatively safe (especially if running with networking disabled - you can usually still copy files in and out of the VM).
Or combine all of the above and use e.g. Mac OS X behind a hardware firewall, with the Mac OS X software firewall enabled and run your graphics apps on windows running inside a Parallels VM (which runs at near full speed). This is the approach I use.
This is actually quite cool news. I use Macs to develop websites and I also use RoR so to see that Leopard (Server) will come with RoR pre-installed (from the APpl e Leopard overview) is really cool news for me.
Conversley their PR machine can say they are supporting free speech or acting against racism. Ultimately they are in a no-win situation and choosing to let the courts decide is (IMHO) probably the least damaging route.
We had to mark everything down in potato print, tie it to the back of a dog and hope it got there!
Wait a minute I think we called that system dial-up.
I live in the UK and I for one know that I HATE seeing my tax money being spent on M$ Windows in local government and in schools when they could be using Linux for free.
maybe this downgrade will affect the PS3 price to make it more competetive compared to Wii and 360?
MS Paint. Seriously it's like Ronseal. It does exactly what it says in the tin. Need to cut a picture in half? Resize it? Just convert soemthing to JPEG. Need to chop something out of a screenshot? My biggest complaint with Mac OS is there is no Paint equivalent bundled with the OS.
We.ve had 3/4/5 but in the next few years we have a few more of the nice triangle numbers coming up. Not really computer related, but geeky.
You know that the copyright laws are what give GPL legal footing right?