(Not all software is as unreliable as Microsoft's. For example, PCs running Linux often run for many months without need to reboot for any reason.)
While Linux is by far more reliable and stable than Windows on average, I've always found the second statement to be misleading. Maybe someone can correct me
I've used multiple Linux distribution and all Windows versions besides XP. Yes, Windows, even older versions, is usually in need of reboot every week with moderate usage. Yes, Linux machine has a longer *average* uptime. But months and months... no. If the machine is actually *used*, it will not last for months. Memory leaks, zombie processes, kernel panic, other strange events... I wouldn't claim more than a month on average...
Why I am sitting on an updated Debian machine and I don't think I have seen an uptime of a month even once (in last year or so).
lot of good that one does. what if this one isn't different?
I would guess more people might smoke if not for the warning. This bill is not meant as a solution to the problem. But it certainly is a minimal first step. You don't think these smoking warnings should be abolished, do you?
I also think that laws shouldn't be passed regarding this issue. It shouldn't be illegal to break DRM, but it also shouldn't be illegal to put DRM on a disk.
But I don't see anyone passing laws to make DRM illegal. Manufacturers are free to use any form of DRM that they desire. Problem is, 1) they can lie and pass it off as non-DRM product 2) It is is already illegal to break DRM in many cases (at least when DRM owner has enough lawyers).
Computing experts in academe often blame Microsoft for producing software that is vulnerable to viruses and hackers.
But, of late, the experts have been criticizing the company's sweeping plan to correct those very deficiencies.
How is Palladium a plan to thwart viruses and hackers? Right in the bottom of the very same article they say that Palladium will not eliminate software viruses. And I suspect that it will eliminate few hackers too, since the weakest link is the people, not computers.
Can someone explain to me any real, additional potential benefits of Palladium? We have encryption and security for protecting sensitive data already... I bet most of student records leak from the paper copy accessed by some unscrupulous employee rather than through smart hackers.
And on top of that, the mailer can elect to drop the mail into the mailstream closer to the delivery point. Mailers pay less if they're willing to drop the mail off in the destination zone themselves, and they even have the option of dropping the presorted mail off at the destination post office.
Finally, there is the option of delivering the mail yourself. And that has the cheapest rate of them all.
Well sorry, but I get a pile of junk mail every week on my doormat through my post and in my papers - and the senders have had to pay both to print AND send that...
Well, yes, but from what I understand this pile of junk mail supports the post office. Now spam supports no one and steals resources from everybody's networks.
Also, junk mailers tend to be pretty good about removing you from their lists precisely because it costs money to send junk mail. When it costs money, they will not send it to someone who resents them enough to call with removal request. Again, spam has no such insentive... your email becomes more valuable with "active" mark, that's all.
May I point out that this parent is possibly the ONLY insightful post in the whole thread. I find it unfortunate that browsing at filter set to 3, I only find one insigtful post...
Please at least mod it up to 5. The article might be trolling, but the problem exists. And trolling back ("it's capitalism! Deal!") does not help. It's the cases where free access to documents *IS NOT* available that are important. Even than those cases are very, very few. Anyways, read the parent post. Ignore everything else.
Except that they are. Ebay, Amazon, etc are licensing these patents.
As someone already pointed out: where is the proof? I was hoping for an explanation, an article or at least a (fake-looking) intercepted internal memo...
All I have seen so far was people building a war chest to go for Ebay. If someone is infact charging Ebay for a ridiculous patent, I need some proof and more details.
Of course...! Ask any of our customers who have increased their penis size by at least 3". And all the millionaires that made their money from the internet and have retired comfortably...
Act now and you may have the same licence that Ebay, Amazon and MSFT has at 1/2 the price they paid! This is not a scam!
This was my first reaction anyways. No proof and this claim sound suspiciously familiar to spam I regularly receive...
Finally the website of that registrar claims that john smith "may be available right now."
I would advise not to search for a name that you are interested in. The wiser thing would be to register if you are, or use a webbrowser. I have heard that some of these web-forms might register things that are searched for... So what they might mean is that "it may be available once we are prepared to resell it to you for 2x the price".
I think she might be entitled to far more than a puny refund if she wins the lawsuit... I don't think she yelled too much, since if she had gotten the refund, the lawsuit would look much less impressive.
But the EULA isn't binding on the retailer, so they aren't obligated to take it back if it's opened.
I am pretty sure people had attempted to bring Windows disks to MS for a refund. My general understanding is that few, if any were actually refunded. Doesn't seem like EULA was really meant to enforce any conditions on the manufacturer, just the end user...
Also, if you refused the EULA, is MS bound by it's rules? I mean the contract is not there... So the refund offer is more of a suggestion when a contractial obligation.
Because the registration requirement is extremely annoying. It is justfied when one needs to confirm identity (post non-anonymously on./ or purchase things online)... but not for news.
Good. The only people who oppose this type of thing are the media leeches. I would much rather have a monthly/daily limitation on my usage, for the tradeoff of more consistant throughput and perhaps a cheaper price.
There are *other* people who oppose this sort of thing (like ones downloading iso images of linux, updates for linux, game demos, movie trailers, etc).
All that aside though, I did not see anything about lowering the price in the article... only limiting bandwidth. They have no incentive to lower prices as they are a monopoly (just like cable companies in US). Oh, yeah, and they still advertise it as unlimited access 7/24 which is false advertisement.
What are you doing people with your traffic that 4GB per month is not enough? Watching p0rn?
Actually 3 RedHat images == ~2GB right away. And pray that the download will not fail or you might use up even more of your quota.
I, personally, also like to download movie trailers... in highest resolution available. These are up to 60Mb each. And since fairly often I can't f**king download them, I have to stream them again for any of my friends that might be interested. And no, they don't look like they are cached on my machine...
Lesse... oh yeah, and I like to download game demos too. These tend to be 100Mb and more...
few customers now who take for granted the fact they can leech at 1Mbit 24/7
Why do you assume that anyone who downloads a 1M in a day is a leech? Mind you, 30Gig/month is (very arguably) above what a user might need... but 1Gig a day can be broken easily.
1. Linux install images (RedHat required 3)
2. Online movie rentals?
3. Music in non-lossy format (i.e. wav) -- 2nd albom will break the cap
4. I guess porn falls into #2:)
Cable services seem to be as much of a monopoly in UK as they are here in US (no DSL is rarely viable here, dunno about UK). So what is stopping them from this? NOTHING. So the customers get pissed and set up websites... but how many are going to pack up and move? None.
Now the best they could do is to sue for false advertising on "unlimited access". But once the cable company takes it out of the ads... everybody is screwd.
How's that any worse than when someone decides to be an ass and burn your cash?
I would say it is pretty difficult to burn my cash without burning me along with it. Not to mention that if I see a person with a flame-thrower, I am bound to take notice. Yet if someone walks around with a strong magnet, I might not.
The "Pit of Spikes Will Kill You!" sign is just there for good measure; any reasonably intelligent
child would avoid falling into the pit, sign or not.
As someone has already pointed out: "Hope Johnny did not piss anyone off today"
Why are you modding this troll up? Can the next moderation-happy person actually READ that this guy is suggesting to GET RID OF RETARDED CHILDREN (something about room with spikes in the follow up).
Would that include the US government for giving $43 million to the Taliban in May of 2001 for their "War on Drugs" efforts?
Remember, unless it's about copyright, the laws are never retroactive... Though maybe this one will be?
Anyways, I think you're missing the point of these additions to PATRIOT act. These are not to find the terrorist or punish the ones that avoided punishment. The existing laws are sufficient for that. These are to give the government more power.
My bad, they do address it:). Anyone out there knows who's right?? Ironically, I did not see a couple of last paragraphs because Netscape 4.72 which I generally use failed to render them properly (covering the paragraphs with screen shots).
I am too lazy to investigate it, but perhaps they are subotaging netscape4.72?:)
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While Linux is by far more reliable and stable than Windows on average, I've always found the second statement to be misleading. Maybe someone can correct me
I've used multiple Linux distribution and all Windows versions besides XP. Yes, Windows, even older versions, is usually in need of reboot every week with moderate usage. Yes, Linux machine has a longer *average* uptime. But months and months... no. If the machine is actually *used*, it will not last for months. Memory leaks, zombie processes, kernel panic, other strange events... I wouldn't claim more than a month on average...
Why I am sitting on an updated Debian machine and I don't think I have seen an uptime of a month even once (in last year or so).
I would guess more people might smoke if not for the warning. This bill is not meant as a solution to the problem. But it certainly is a minimal first step. You don't think these smoking warnings should be abolished, do you?
But I don't see anyone passing laws to make DRM illegal. Manufacturers are free to use any form of DRM that they desire. Problem is, 1) they can lie and pass it off as non-DRM product 2) It is is already illegal to break DRM in many cases (at least when DRM owner has enough lawyers).
Computing experts in academe often blame Microsoft for producing software that is vulnerable to viruses and hackers.
But, of late, the experts have been criticizing the company's sweeping plan to correct those very deficiencies.
How is Palladium a plan to thwart viruses and hackers? Right in the bottom of the very same article they say that Palladium will not eliminate software viruses. And I suspect that it will eliminate few hackers too, since the weakest link is the people, not computers.
Can someone explain to me any real, additional potential benefits of Palladium? We have encryption and security for protecting sensitive data already... I bet most of student records leak from the paper copy accessed by some unscrupulous employee rather than through smart hackers.
Finally, there is the option of delivering the mail yourself. And that has the cheapest rate of them all.
Well, yes, but from what I understand this pile of junk mail supports the post office. Now spam supports no one and steals resources from everybody's networks.
Also, junk mailers tend to be pretty good about removing you from their lists precisely because it costs money to send junk mail. When it costs money, they will not send it to someone who resents them enough to call with removal request. Again, spam has no such insentive... your email becomes more valuable with "active" mark, that's all.
Please at least mod it up to 5. The article might be trolling, but the problem exists. And trolling back ("it's capitalism! Deal!") does not help.
It's the cases where free access to documents *IS NOT* available that are important. Even than those cases are very, very few. Anyways, read the parent post. Ignore everything else.
As someone already pointed out: where is the proof? I was hoping for an explanation, an article or at least a (fake-looking) intercepted internal memo...
All I have seen so far was people building a war chest to go for Ebay. If someone is infact charging Ebay for a ridiculous patent, I need some proof and more details.
Of course...! Ask any of our customers who have increased their penis size by at least 3". And all the millionaires that made their money from the internet and have retired comfortably...
Act now and you may have the same licence that Ebay, Amazon and MSFT has at 1/2 the price they paid! This is not a scam!
This was my first reaction anyways. No proof and this claim sound suspiciously familiar to spam I regularly receive...
I would advise not to search for a name that you are interested in. The wiser thing would be to register if you are, or use a webbrowser. I have heard that some of these web-forms might register things that are searched for... So what they might mean is that "it may be available once we are prepared to resell it to you for 2x the price".
I think she might be entitled to far more than a puny refund if she wins the lawsuit... I don't think she yelled too much, since if she had gotten the refund, the lawsuit would look much less impressive.
I am pretty sure people had attempted to bring Windows disks to MS for a refund. My general understanding is that few, if any were actually refunded. Doesn't seem like EULA was really meant to enforce any conditions on the manufacturer, just the end user...
Also, if you refused the EULA, is MS bound by it's rules? I mean the contract is not there... So the refund offer is more of a suggestion when a contractial obligation.
Because the registration requirement is extremely annoying. It is justfied when one needs to confirm identity (post non-anonymously on ./ or purchase things online)... but not for news.
... what is the purpose of a phone jack in this project?
Interesting... so the only reason that you are able to have Linux is due to having snail mail? ;)
There are *other* people who oppose this sort of thing (like ones downloading iso images of linux, updates for linux, game demos, movie trailers, etc).
All that aside though, I did not see anything about lowering the price in the article... only limiting bandwidth. They have no incentive to lower prices as they are a monopoly (just like cable companies in US). Oh, yeah, and they still advertise it as unlimited access 7/24 which is false advertisement.
Actually 3 RedHat images == ~2GB right away. And pray that the download will not fail or you might use up even more of your quota.
I, personally, also like to download movie trailers... in highest resolution available. These are up to 60Mb each. And since fairly often I can't f**king download them, I have to stream them again for any of my friends that might be interested. And no, they don't look like they are cached on my machine...
Lesse... oh yeah, and I like to download game demos too. These tend to be 100Mb and more...
Why do you assume that anyone who downloads a 1M in a day is a leech? Mind you, 30Gig/month is (very arguably) above what a user might need... but 1Gig a day can be broken easily. :)
1. Linux install images (RedHat required 3)
2. Online movie rentals?
3. Music in non-lossy format (i.e. wav) -- 2nd albom will break the cap
4. I guess porn falls into #2
Now the best they could do is to sue for false advertising on "unlimited access". But once the cable company takes it out of the ads... everybody is screwd.
I would say it is pretty difficult to burn my cash without burning me along with it. Not to mention that if I see a person with a flame-thrower, I am bound to take notice. Yet if someone walks around with a strong magnet, I might not.
As someone has already pointed out: "Hope Johnny did not piss anyone off today"
Why are you modding this troll up? Can the next moderation-happy person actually READ that this guy is suggesting to GET RID OF RETARDED CHILDREN (something about room with spikes in the follow up).
All I want to know is how NH managing to survive? The have 0% tax... (I am sure there is some catch, but I don't live in it, so I don't know).
Remember, unless it's about copyright, the laws are never retroactive... Though maybe this one will be?
Anyways, I think you're missing the point of these additions to PATRIOT act. These are not to find the terrorist or punish the ones that avoided punishment. The existing laws are sufficient for that. These are to give the government more power.
My bad, they do address it :). Anyone out there knows who's right??
Ironically, I did not see a couple of last paragraphs because Netscape 4.72 which I generally use failed to render them properly (covering the paragraphs with screen shots).
I am too lazy to investigate it, but perhaps they are subotaging netscape4.72? :)