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If Microsoft use biometric user ID ...
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They'd store the information in an insecure online database where they would combine it with all of your financial and medical records that they had "collected" from machines whose security they were "adjusting", and they'd use the information at your trial when they proved that you illegally listened to content for which you were not authorized.
Bare Bones has a secure Personal Analog Device
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Bare Bones re-released their announcement about their entry into the PDA market with their new Personal Analog Device, or PAD. The Bare Bones PAD uses the strong content encryption algorithm known as "Chicken Scratch" which renders the input unreadable to all except the PAD's rightful owner, without relying on the cumbersome key-and-passphrase systems of existing encryption technologies. There are two configurations available, the PAD 150 and the PAD 300. The PAD 150 has storage for 150 pages of data. The 300 doubles that.
I am adjusting 1 photoshop doc at a time. The fink programs, however, are simultaneously updating in the background, and the browsers are at sites that actively update them.
Things are slow when I'm simultaneously adjusting 50 3MB Photoshop docs, fink updating 5 applications, and running Chimera, Mozilla, Omniweb and IE at the same time. Oh, and going over a bunch of files with BBEdit.
I'm so ashamed.
Course, it's still faster then the Optiplex NT 4.0 box I use at work.
Then there is every possibility that Microsoft might try and stop the sale of your car because you can't transfer the license to the software. They'd need the buyer to buy a new Microsoft Windows CE for Automotive license. They've done it before.
It seems like for the last 3 days or so, the NYTimes site has been phenomenally slow (all the time, not just when being/.'d). I can't count how many timeouts I've suffered when trying to access them.
Microsoft is trying to hook it's claws into all things digital (including phones, appliances and cars). The fact that their programs are unqualified for such activities is irrelevant to them. This is, fortunately, a setback. Hopefully, a big one.
As the ZDNet article says, the Series 60 user interface from Nokia uses open standards and technologies, such as MMS (Multimedia Message Service) and Java.
It doesn't say anything directly about Linux.
So the editors would be blithering idiot OSS/Java fanboys.
The problem with copy protection is that it discourages consumers from following the "rules set down by the copyright holders".
I want to buy the music of an artist, but find that the music is on a copy-protected disc. So, instead of paying for the music that I can't play on my computer (my primary CD listening place) and can't rip (to enable me to use it with an iPod), I go online and download the tracks, because I know that there are clever people who know the ways around the technology, even if I don't.
And the rules set down by the copyright holders via copy-protection violate the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the consumer.
And announce you'd like to set up a long term 24x7 support contract on the project and ask for bids. Vet them properly and I'm sure you'd come away with a more reasonably priced TCO then you've calculated.
"The technical fault arose when we were installing new software," a spokesman for the mobile phone company O2 said.
They should have read that SP3 EULA more carefully.
"...GIVES US THE RIGHT TO BLOW ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS"
'Shared source' legal death-trap
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After reading this, I'm surprised that I haven't seen more about the lawsuit risks from the NDAs and IPR restrictions involved in gaining access to 'shared source' if Microsoft interprets your actions as a competitive threat. Has anyone done a more in depth analysis of this?
Let's see: I've got issues with the trustworthiness of a large corporation and their fairly ubiquitous software. Why don't I install and use the not nearly as ubiquitous software of a large convicted monopolist company that has time and time again shown explicitly that they can't be trusted with anything, ever. Logic like that will lead straight to upper management.
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They'd store the information in an insecure online database where they would combine it with all of your financial and medical records that they had "collected" from machines whose security they were "adjusting", and they'd use the information at your trial when they proved that you illegally listened to content for which you were not authorized.
Bare Bones re-released their announcement about their entry into the PDA market with their new Personal Analog Device, or PAD. The Bare Bones PAD uses the strong content encryption algorithm known as "Chicken Scratch" which renders the input unreadable to all except the PAD's rightful owner, without relying on the cumbersome key-and-passphrase systems of existing encryption technologies. There are two configurations available, the PAD 150 and the PAD 300. The PAD 150 has storage for 150 pages of data. The 300 doubles that.
It is faster then the Optiplex NT 4.0 box I use at work
This is just like that time that the phone police were sending me those messages through the rings, man. Exactly the same, except different. Man.
I am adjusting 1 photoshop doc at a time. The fink programs, however, are simultaneously updating in the background, and the browsers are at sites that actively update them.
I'm so ashamed.
Course, it's still faster then the Optiplex NT 4.0 box I use at work.
Then there is every possibility that Microsoft might try and stop the sale of your car because you can't transfer the license to the software. They'd need the buyer to buy a new Microsoft Windows CE for Automotive license. They've done it before.
Seriously, though, proper presentation of content ensures that the content is being accurately conveyed and is comprehensible.
Garbled content is the Man in the Iron Mask, rightfully king but hidden away.
It seems like for the last 3 days or so, the NYTimes site has been phenomenally slow (all the time, not just when being /.'d). I can't count how many timeouts I've suffered when trying to access them.
The press release from Microsoft and a discussion at news.com.
Book description of "Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS" here
Microsoft is trying to hook it's claws into all things digital (including phones, appliances and cars). The fact that their programs are unqualified for such activities is irrelevant to them. This is, fortunately, a setback. Hopefully, a big one.
It doesn't say anything directly about Linux.
So the editors would be blithering idiot OSS/Java fanboys.
Sendo was listed as one of the first SmartPhone (what a misnomer) partners: who else joined? Have they put anything out yet?
However, it wasn't cracked open. There wasn't a shortcut, a tragic flaw in the algorithm. Just time and computer power tossed at it.
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I want to buy the music of an artist, but find that the music is on a copy-protected disc. So, instead of paying for the music that I can't play on my computer (my primary CD listening place) and can't rip (to enable me to use it with an iPod), I go online and download the tracks, because I know that there are clever people who know the ways around the technology, even if I don't.
And the rules set down by the copyright holders via copy-protection violate the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the consumer.
will his report on how the hardware/software can be updated to read the correct TOC fall under the aegis of the DCMA?
And announce you'd like to set up a long term 24x7 support contract on the project and ask for bids. Vet them properly and I'm sure you'd come away with a more reasonably priced TCO then you've calculated.
They should have read that SP3 EULA more carefully.
"...GIVES US THE RIGHT TO BLOW ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS"
After reading this, I'm surprised that I haven't seen more about the lawsuit risks from the NDAs and IPR restrictions involved in gaining access to 'shared source' if Microsoft interprets your actions as a competitive threat. Has anyone done a more in depth analysis of this?
"Jim, you don't ask the Almight for his I.D.."
One thing, though: Before I've completed my studies, am I a barbie?
Let's see: I've got issues with the trustworthiness of a large corporation and their fairly ubiquitous software. Why don't I install and use the not nearly as ubiquitous software of a large convicted monopolist company that has time and time again shown explicitly that they can't be trusted with anything, ever. Logic like that will lead straight to upper management.