Then the lists of addresses they most likely sell to advertisers through some shell company wouldn't be worth nearly as much money. Gotta pay for those BSD servers somehow.
In the land of Taco, where the shadows lie. One topic to rule them all, One topic to find them, One topic to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Those people most likely gave the "software update server" the authority to act as their agent in agreeing to whatever EULAs might apply. Thus, installing the "software update server" would be a meta-agreement to any condition MS might subsequently impose.
And not one whit of that fancy-schmancy James Bond/Mission Impossible self-destructing message crap is going to resist a non-DRM movie camera sitting on a tripod pointing at the screen. Lot of trouble? Yeah, but if the information's so hot the sender wants to go through that much trouble to stop you keeping it, it's probably worth it.
It is with no small amount of jubliation that I report to you that Miss Manners has in no way "kicked the bucket." For future reference, Miss Manners generally thinks it more considerate to use "gone to her reward," "met her maker," or the old chestnut "gone to a better place." Doing so will tell those around you that you are a caring human being with class.
I just heard some sad news on the radio - Ann Landers the advice columnist was found dead in her Chicago home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her column, there's no denying her contributions to the pathetic everywhere. Truly an American icon.
If they want to act like a commercial organization, they can quit suckling at the teat of the taxpayer and begging patrons for money. Until then, they are a public asset and damn well should start acting like one.
. . . until it costs them some money or they get DMCA'd. They have been playing it cool so far, but that'll turn on a dime once the money starts leaving.
What will the parts of the tape that were previously "erased" say played backward? Will we hear what we've suspected all along, Nixon and Schlesinger celebrating black masses and sacrificing goats?
to travel to a country where they enforce their unjust laws against people who 'broke' them in a country where their actions weren't illegal . . . uh, never mind.
One word: forensics. Between Enronesque corporate investigations, the kiddie porn scares, and the emphasis on "cyber security," there's lots of opportunity there. But don't do it unless you have the stomach to be the guy that helps put some teenager playing with a website in prison, because at the end of the day, that's what the computer crime "units" seem to enjoy most.
To Nintendo, emulation outside Nintendo is the same thing. Of course, the emulator guys have beat them to it--there've been NES game packs for the GBA (if you're fortunate enough to have a flash cart) on various P2P networks for some time.
This reminds me of the phoenix.net crap that came on EPoX and other motherboards about two years ago that force-installed some "helpful" utilities that an objective eye would consider spyware upon detecting a Windows installation. Thankfully, at least EPoX removed it, but this looks like an attempt to reincarnate the idea. I wouldn't trust them.
Three words: public key cryptography. The two sides of the conversation could each be transmitted encrypted on the other side's public key. The private key could be contained in the phone, or on a SIM.
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Then the lists of addresses they most likely sell to advertisers through some shell company wouldn't be worth nearly as much money. Gotta pay for those BSD servers somehow.
In the land of Taco, where the shadows lie.
One topic to rule them all, One topic to find them,
One topic to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
I thought they were more partial to nutria!
mention exactly where in the bayou, like, say, an address?
Those people most likely gave the "software update server" the authority to act as their agent in agreeing to whatever EULAs might apply. Thus, installing the "software update server" would be a meta-agreement to any condition MS might subsequently impose.
Yep. Nothing at all to do with it. XP stands for, uh, eXtreme Processing. Yeah, right.
And not one whit of that fancy-schmancy James Bond/Mission Impossible self-destructing message crap is going to resist a non-DRM movie camera sitting on a tripod pointing at the screen. Lot of trouble? Yeah, but if the information's so hot the sender wants to go through that much trouble to stop you keeping it, it's probably worth it.
It is with no small amount of jubliation that I report to you that Miss Manners has in no way "kicked the bucket." For future reference, Miss Manners generally thinks it more considerate to use "gone to her reward," "met her maker," or the old chestnut "gone to a better place." Doing so will tell those around you that you are a caring human being with class.
I just heard some sad news on the radio - Ann Landers the advice columnist was found dead in her Chicago home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her column, there's no denying her contributions to the pathetic everywhere. Truly an American icon.
If they want to act like a commercial organization, they can quit suckling at the teat of the taxpayer and begging patrons for money. Until then, they are a public asset and damn well should start acting like one.
. . . until it costs them some money or they get DMCA'd. They have been playing it cool so far, but that'll turn on a dime once the money starts leaving.
My volume of spam dropped precipitously today.
What will the parts of the tape that were previously "erased" say played backward? Will we hear what we've suspected all along, Nixon and Schlesinger celebrating black masses and sacrificing goats?
So your not being able to afford it means it's OK to steal it? Quite a change in attitude from your posts in the WC3 story.
Thanks for the pointer--backronym is now added to my vocabulary :).
I guess that was to make it look more like Pascal :).
I don't know which is worse. That you posted it, or that I can read it.
to travel to a country where they enforce their unjust laws against people who 'broke' them in a country where their actions weren't illegal . . . uh, never mind.
The same reason the computing press, which should know better, spells FORTRAN Fortran, BASIC Basic, and COBOL Cobol.
One word: forensics. Between Enronesque corporate investigations, the kiddie porn scares, and the emphasis on "cyber security," there's lots of opportunity there. But don't do it unless you have the stomach to be the guy that helps put some teenager playing with a website in prison, because at the end of the day, that's what the computer crime "units" seem to enjoy most.
Nintendo can bite my shiny metal ass.
This reminds me of the phoenix.net crap that came on EPoX and other motherboards about two years ago that force-installed some "helpful" utilities that an objective eye would consider spyware upon detecting a Windows installation. Thankfully, at least EPoX removed it, but this looks like an attempt to reincarnate the idea. I wouldn't trust them.
Three words: public key cryptography. The two sides of the conversation could each be transmitted encrypted on the other side's public key. The private key could be contained in the phone, or on a SIM.
It's just Metallica. He doesn't know what it means.
It might have a better chance without IBM's OS/2 marketing team behind it.