Go into iTunes, go to the Advanced menu, and click "Check for Purchased Music". If you've lost the original music file for any reason, iTunes will redownload it and authorize your computer again. In effect, they're doing the work of backing up the DRM and the music file itself. There's no need for the user to manually do any of it.
OK, so you let students that are interested in P2P research get exempted from the policy, and allow their computers to access the networks freely. Require them to show that they're actually working on something every month or two.
The rest of the people, downloading their Linkin Park MP3s, have no legitimate reason to slow down the networks for the rest of us (I'm at a university, so I know what it's like). Universities should not have to pay to provide Internet access to their students if they're just engaging in activities which are designed to consume fairly large amounts of bandwidth and are, by and large, illegal. Sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions just to help your network survive for all of the other academic research endeavours.
That's also assuming all 7 million downloaded 10.2.8 the night of its release. Obviously that's not true. Most Software Update runs are done weekly, so let's say 3 million people downloaded the update (the actual number is probably lower). That brings it down to 30,000 people with problems. That's.4% of all Mac users. While I certainly sympathize with that.4%, in the whole scheme of things it's really not all that much. An equal percentage of people likely have similar problems when Linux or Windows updates.
I think the point was not to trivialize or minimize the severity of these problems, but to show that this behavior is not widespread. Many news sites are acting as if this is some massive problem that a high percentage of users are experiencing, but in reality it's maybe a couple percent if that. That couple percent is too high, yes, but don't be mistaken about the relatively low percentage of users that this has actually happened to (as upsetting as it is to those users).
By transferring your domains to GoDaddy, you actually gave more money to Verisign. Every time a domain is registered or transferred, they get a good cut of the money. Had you stayed with Verisign until renewal time, you could've delayed giving them money.
Actually, this isn't a dupe. The previous article was simply saying that ICANN had issued a request to Verisign to take down SiteFinder until a committee was able to review the system. This article is saying that the committee made an official recommendation to ICANN to issue a request to Verisign to shut down SiteFinder permanently. A thin distinction, yes, but enough to warrant a new article.
When Verisign decided to assume control of the.com and.net registries at the time ICANN was formed (as they had done previously), they were making the conscious decision to do a certain number of DNS queries. It comes along with the job. Verisign gets a cut of all of the.com and.net domain registrations, and in return they provide certain DNS services as needed.
It's not as though Verisign didn't know what they were getting into. They knew perfectly well, and I assure you that they are not strapped for cash or bandwidth. Even if they were, blatantly going around destroying the DNS system and violating commonly-held standards of conduct is not the way to do it. Not asking ICANN's opinion in the first place was also somewhat foolish, in my opinion. I would fully expect ICANN to release some sort of order or advisory telling Verisign to stop this practice or lose their contract to run the.com and.net registries.
That's basically what the judges said. Their point was that a police force wouldn't be able to track someone for weeks 24 hours a day, and therefore it's collecting information in a way that the police wouldn't normally be able to. Therefore, a warrant is required.
Bad analogy. When you steal a Corvette, you deprive someone of tangible property. While you're using the Corvette, the owner can't use it.
Compare this to music. If I were to (theoretically) download a music file(*), I'm not depriving the record label of any tangible property. They are still able to sell that song to someone else. Stealing a car is a zero-sum game, stealing music is not.
(*) I use iTunes Music Store, so this situation is purely hypothetical.
Here at the University at Buffalo, our Student Association has created their own Book Exchange system in what appears to be ASP. This is probably the best solution, as each college can customize their own system to their specific needs. (I'm not too sure I'm big on ASP, being a PHP fan myself, but it seems to work out well.)
Well, actually, I was referring to bargain-basement PCs (Wintel machines). I happily use my Mac everyday and have no problem with it. My comment was directed toward such computers as Emachines, ultra-low-priced Dells, etc. I'm much more content with the performance of the lower-priced Apples, which tend to be a better value in my book.
Have you actually had to use one of those bargain-basement computer systems? They're torturously slow, plagued with instability problems, and in general are something I'd rather not have to deal with on a regular basis.
If you don't like using the one-button mouse, it's not all that difficult to merely unhook the standard one and plug in any USB mouse with as many buttons as you want. I use a Logitech Optical Cordless mouse on my iBook on a regular basis with no problem whatsoever. Mac OS X supports multiple-button mice out of the box. If you're still using OS9, you have a few more problems than having only one mouse button.
Reading further into the story, however, it becomes apparent that Dean's campaign was unaware of the tactics of their outsourced marketing company. As soon as they were alerted to the fact that spam was being sent out in their name, they immediately terminated their contract with the outsourcer.
The Dean campaign has been against spam heavily in the past. They do not support anyone who sends spam in their name. In this case, it was simply that the company that did their marketing misrepresented themselves as being an opt-in email list, but instead sent mass mailings to large numbers of people without Dean's consent. I can't really see how Dean can be blamed for something that was done without his knowledge or approval.
It hasn't been playing in that time slot for a week or two now. It's been Home Movies followed by Family Guy. I understand they might be bringing it back sometime in the near future in a different time slot, but that remains to be seen. (And it only played Monday-Thursday as far as I know; Sunday has a different lineup)
I did a little more research into the topic and it appears that the parent is correct. This yet again proves that IANAL. At least I can't say I didn't learn something today.
The Fifth Amendment only applies to testifying against yourself. If the judge issues a subpoena for the key, you're required to provide the evidence requested or you'll be thrown in jail for contempt of court, which I would assume probably isn't a good thing.
I think that's just different sources reporting the information in different ways. Some companies that track insider trading have different titles for people. One may call him a senior vice president, whereas any non-top-executive may be called an employee from another source. Whatever he is though, apparently he has quite a bit of money now.
Actually, Skylarov was arrested when he came to the United States for a conference. The government didn't have to go over to his home country, because he had the misfortune (and perhaps lack of foresight) to set foot on US land where he could be arrested freely.
Nope, you still get all of that (I'm not sure about OS9 anymore, probably is in there but not at home right now). Very convenient if you ever need to reinstall the OS again in the future.
What you get inside the box are these three little coupons that can later be redeemed if and when Apple decides to have a discount for previous OS owners. If Apple decides to charge full for it, the coupons are useless (on rare occasions they're also used for certain rebates). I have some of them from my new iBook purchase, and they're essentially scrap because they're charging for Panther. (Not that I necessarily have a problem with that; I'm more than willing to pay for an OS upgrade of this magnitude [not to mention I get educational pricing])
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Go into iTunes, go to the Advanced menu, and click "Check for Purchased Music". If you've lost the original music file for any reason, iTunes will redownload it and authorize your computer again. In effect, they're doing the work of backing up the DRM and the music file itself. There's no need for the user to manually do any of it.
OK, so you let students that are interested in P2P research get exempted from the policy, and allow their computers to access the networks freely. Require them to show that they're actually working on something every month or two.
The rest of the people, downloading their Linkin Park MP3s, have no legitimate reason to slow down the networks for the rest of us (I'm at a university, so I know what it's like). Universities should not have to pay to provide Internet access to their students if they're just engaging in activities which are designed to consume fairly large amounts of bandwidth and are, by and large, illegal. Sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions just to help your network survive for all of the other academic research endeavours.
That's also assuming all 7 million downloaded 10.2.8 the night of its release. Obviously that's not true. Most Software Update runs are done weekly, so let's say 3 million people downloaded the update (the actual number is probably lower). That brings it down to 30,000 people with problems. That's .4% of all Mac users. While I certainly sympathize with that .4%, in the whole scheme of things it's really not all that much. An equal percentage of people likely have similar problems when Linux or Windows updates.
I think the point was not to trivialize or minimize the severity of these problems, but to show that this behavior is not widespread. Many news sites are acting as if this is some massive problem that a high percentage of users are experiencing, but in reality it's maybe a couple percent if that. That couple percent is too high, yes, but don't be mistaken about the relatively low percentage of users that this has actually happened to (as upsetting as it is to those users).
By transferring your domains to GoDaddy, you actually gave more money to Verisign. Every time a domain is registered or transferred, they get a good cut of the money. Had you stayed with Verisign until renewal time, you could've delayed giving them money.
Actually, this isn't a dupe. The previous article was simply saying that ICANN had issued a request to Verisign to take down SiteFinder until a committee was able to review the system. This article is saying that the committee made an official recommendation to ICANN to issue a request to Verisign to shut down SiteFinder permanently. A thin distinction, yes, but enough to warrant a new article.
When Verisign decided to assume control of the .com and .net registries at the time ICANN was formed (as they had done previously), they were making the conscious decision to do a certain number of DNS queries. It comes along with the job. Verisign gets a cut of all of the .com and .net domain registrations, and in return they provide certain DNS services as needed.
.com and .net registries.
It's not as though Verisign didn't know what they were getting into. They knew perfectly well, and I assure you that they are not strapped for cash or bandwidth. Even if they were, blatantly going around destroying the DNS system and violating commonly-held standards of conduct is not the way to do it. Not asking ICANN's opinion in the first place was also somewhat foolish, in my opinion. I would fully expect ICANN to release some sort of order or advisory telling Verisign to stop this practice or lose their contract to run the
That's basically what the judges said. Their point was that a police force wouldn't be able to track someone for weeks 24 hours a day, and therefore it's collecting information in a way that the police wouldn't normally be able to. Therefore, a warrant is required.
Nobody uses them? Wow, someone forgot to send me the memo. Maybe I was too busy working on my iBook.
Bad analogy. When you steal a Corvette, you deprive someone of tangible property. While you're using the Corvette, the owner can't use it. Compare this to music. If I were to (theoretically) download a music file(*), I'm not depriving the record label of any tangible property. They are still able to sell that song to someone else. Stealing a car is a zero-sum game, stealing music is not. (*) I use iTunes Music Store, so this situation is purely hypothetical.
Actually, it's "We are the knights who say ni".
You're thinking of Corbis, not GettyImages.
Here at the University at Buffalo, our Student Association has created their own Book Exchange system in what appears to be ASP. This is probably the best solution, as each college can customize their own system to their specific needs. (I'm not too sure I'm big on ASP, being a PHP fan myself, but it seems to work out well.)
Well, actually, I was referring to bargain-basement PCs (Wintel machines). I happily use my Mac everyday and have no problem with it. My comment was directed toward such computers as Emachines, ultra-low-priced Dells, etc. I'm much more content with the performance of the lower-priced Apples, which tend to be a better value in my book.
Have you actually had to use one of those bargain-basement computer systems? They're torturously slow, plagued with instability problems, and in general are something I'd rather not have to deal with on a regular basis.
If you don't like using the one-button mouse, it's not all that difficult to merely unhook the standard one and plug in any USB mouse with as many buttons as you want. I use a Logitech Optical Cordless mouse on my iBook on a regular basis with no problem whatsoever. Mac OS X supports multiple-button mice out of the box. If you're still using OS9, you have a few more problems than having only one mouse button.
Reading further into the story, however, it becomes apparent that Dean's campaign was unaware of the tactics of their outsourced marketing company. As soon as they were alerted to the fact that spam was being sent out in their name, they immediately terminated their contract with the outsourcer.
The Dean campaign has been against spam heavily in the past. They do not support anyone who sends spam in their name. In this case, it was simply that the company that did their marketing misrepresented themselves as being an opt-in email list, but instead sent mass mailings to large numbers of people without Dean's consent. I can't really see how Dean can be blamed for something that was done without his knowledge or approval.
It hasn't been playing in that time slot for a week or two now. It's been Home Movies followed by Family Guy. I understand they might be bringing it back sometime in the near future in a different time slot, but that remains to be seen. (And it only played Monday-Thursday as far as I know; Sunday has a different lineup)
I did a little more research into the topic and it appears that the parent is correct. This yet again proves that IANAL. At least I can't say I didn't learn something today.
The Fifth Amendment only applies to testifying against yourself. If the judge issues a subpoena for the key, you're required to provide the evidence requested or you'll be thrown in jail for contempt of court, which I would assume probably isn't a good thing.
I think that's just different sources reporting the information in different ways. Some companies that track insider trading have different titles for people. One may call him a senior vice president, whereas any non-top-executive may be called an employee from another source. Whatever he is though, apparently he has quite a bit of money now.
Actually, Skylarov was arrested when he came to the United States for a conference. The government didn't have to go over to his home country, because he had the misfortune (and perhaps lack of foresight) to set foot on US land where he could be arrested freely.
Nope, you still get all of that (I'm not sure about OS9 anymore, probably is in there but not at home right now). Very convenient if you ever need to reinstall the OS again in the future.
Nope, you can get the MSN Messenger client for Mac OS X as well. So, you're not required to actually buy any Microsoft program at all.
What you get inside the box are these three little coupons that can later be redeemed if and when Apple decides to have a discount for previous OS owners. If Apple decides to charge full for it, the coupons are useless (on rare occasions they're also used for certain rebates). I have some of them from my new iBook purchase, and they're essentially scrap because they're charging for Panther. (Not that I necessarily have a problem with that; I'm more than willing to pay for an OS upgrade of this magnitude [not to mention I get educational pricing])