I hope Bush isn't teaching math, 'cuz it's fuzzier than ever.
It's better to compare the percentage of the prices are actually profits. Hardware, the profit margins are razor thin (or in some cases, at a loss to maintain market share; this is especially true in the hard drive business. Those in the hard drive business who are late to market with a specific new feature or capacity can't really sell at a profit as their competitors have drove the prices down already). Compare that to bloated software prices and ever increasing "restrictions" and fine-print. Just imagine what would happen to the auto industry if they imposed such restrictions as "not being able to sell it later" or restrictions on where and how you can drive it, or when you can drive (aka a curfew).
In other words, the RIAA and their army of lawyers would not even get a piece of the pie, let alone a majority of it.
The idea of collecting and giving it to the songwriters/artists themselves is beneficial to the artists as they would get more of the proverbial pie and they themselves don't have to do anything additional to get it; all they have to do is just concentrate on what they do best, write music.
now that concerns me more than terrorists getting access to nuclear materials and almost as bad as those who say "AVP" is a good movie.
great....instead of nails...
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instead of nails and screws laced with rat poisons, terrorists will soon be able to use nuke batteries.
of course, it doesn't mean that the terrorists can't lace those nuke batteries with rat poison (an anti-coagulant).
I still think fuel cells are safer. Hell, a methane fuel cell would be ideal especially when Cowboy Neal eats burritos or have one too many baked potatoes.
Sounds more like a death-wish (almost like a prelude to death). Maybe they should go see the late Charles Bronson. I'm sure Majestik Melons can help.
Anyways, they should really think about targetting RedHat and other enterprise linux companies not Linux itself. I'm sure they can make an uber-slimmed down version of linux that can work as a public internet terminal (like Knoppix, etc.) for libraries and still make some much needed money. Or they can also borrow/use the Harden Debian project and pre-config enterprise systems for their hardware (or sell hardware with HD config'ed).
It can help cut software development costs and be geek-friendly. Hell, look at Microsoft....the un-geek-friendly one...they are getting sued left and right by govt's and corporations.
Come to think of it, maybe this new "strategy" has to do with the $900mil and their new M$ overlords. Maybe I'll go buy an old sparc as a momento of what was once a great company.
I use bestcrypt...at least then u can write your own encryption module as well as the key-generation module yourself with the SDK (SDK is free but bestCrypt isn't).
www.jetico.com
speaking of which, does anyone know of an open source equivalent (maybe on sourceforge or something)?
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don't forget about using ur abacus for ur calc classes.
I think it's best to air it on PBS primarily because they aren't mandated to censor it.
Maybe even Comedy Central (this also depends on what side of the coin/river u are on) will air it; hell they did air the South Park movie uncensored once before.
Or if he really wants more ppl to see it, Michael Moore might as well release a bitTorrent of it (official one) or webcast (or both). It'll get/.'ed so fast; it'll make Superman look slow.
who cares? those who can't handle subs aren't movie buffs. Hell, I don't think they'll understand Fahrenheit 911 either.
besides, the true "pure way" is to watch it raw and uncut. Hell, I'd like to do that with the old Bruce Lee movies but I don't understand Cantonese, yet.
And thx to companies like 4Kids, Funimation, etc., many people are oblivious to the fact that a lot of butchering has been done. It makes Hollywood (and p0rn stars) look "all-natural".
then when u feel like punching the lights out of some a-hole who doesn't practice cell-phone ettiquette, u bust their lip and their phone....two birds with one punch.
what if terrorists use it to jam UWB (ultrawide band) scanners used by law-enforcement to see what's on the other side of the wall?
Or even if a normal wife-beater Joe lines his walls and then does something criminal. Or even a hostage situation at some office building with the lining (assuming it happens to use the frequencies that the UWB scanner relies on or something)?
maybe I should've went ahead and patented note taking years ago, then this to-do list can eliminated as it is a form of note taking.
O well, hopefully the FTC will do something about it. USPTO is way too overloaded and passing too many obvious patents. You never know, the next patent might be "to patent obvious ideas as a business model" or something like that. One way to help reform is to b*tch to ur local Congress-person and rep. Think of the slashdot-effect in a good way with politics. (The bad one is if u'r a website admin and ur server can't handle the load).
actually, with regard with buffer overruns, it has to do with the lack of index/range/etc. checking. They assumed that it wasn't necessary as they thought in an ideal world, it's not going to be an issue.
Also in a stand point of performance too as range checking does take some cycles. Of course, instead of using the typical "if x is greater than this, then do this" and "if x is less than this, then do this", you can implement it using just one check with a mask. For example, if your range is 0-15 (aka a nibble or 4 bits), you can mask out (0xfff0 for 16bit numbers or 0xfffffff0 for 32bit and so on) then check if the result is not 0 (which is very fast on modern computers, even those for game consoles as MIPS has a register that's always zero ($zero). (typically, most game consoles use a version of MIPS with the exception of the xbox, which is ~x86). And in some cases, you can do the checking out of the loop so it's only done once per whatever (as opposed to doing it many, many times per whatever).
Furthermore, a lot of buffer sizes are a power of 2 (or somewhere close to that; (2^x)-1, etc.) so implementing it isn't too hard.
Heck, in some cases, it can be implemented in hardware for security reasons. (of course, if that was the case with the xbox, then ppl wouldn't be able to use the 007 saved game exploit to run code to then reflash the xbox bios with a more linux friendly crom bios)
it still won't work (as ppl might just press the off button or go get a variant of linux, whatever). The underlying issue has yet to be resolved.
To me, Microsoft programmers make too many assumptions; like "naw, this code won't be exploited," etc. To quote a line from a movie: "Assumptions are the mother of all f*ck ups."
And besides, it's easier to make friends with honey than with sour milk.
maybe with all this outsourcing and open-source movements will do microsoft good and force them to use mozilla (firefox) and media player classic. (a large number of exploits deal with Windows Media player and its scripting and/or IE)
And there's more viruses and worms for windows because not only are there more users but also more less "informed" users as well as sloppy recycled coding. This is why a majority of exploits affect the whole windows line (9x/ME/NT/2k/XP).
I get my Windows for free (thx to a "partnership" with the university); but we all pay for it one way or another. Everything from taxes to costs on computer hardware like a tax.
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I hope Bush isn't teaching math, 'cuz it's fuzzier than ever.
It's better to compare the percentage of the prices are actually profits. Hardware, the profit margins are razor thin (or in some cases, at a loss to maintain market share; this is especially true in the hard drive business. Those in the hard drive business who are late to market with a specific new feature or capacity can't really sell at a profit as their competitors have drove the prices down already). Compare that to bloated software prices and ever increasing "restrictions" and fine-print. Just imagine what would happen to the auto industry if they imposed such restrictions as "not being able to sell it later" or restrictions on where and how you can drive it, or when you can drive (aka a curfew).
what if those third party apps use IE activeX controls to do web browsing and that's where there's a security issue?
of one word "middlemen"
In other words, the RIAA and their army of lawyers would not even get a piece of the pie, let alone a majority of it.
The idea of collecting and giving it to the songwriters/artists themselves is beneficial to the artists as they would get more of the proverbial pie and they themselves don't have to do anything additional to get it; all they have to do is just concentrate on what they do best, write music.
now that concerns me more than terrorists getting access to nuclear materials and almost as bad as those who say "AVP" is a good movie.
instead of nails and screws laced with rat poisons, terrorists will soon be able to use nuke batteries.
of course, it doesn't mean that the terrorists can't lace those nuke batteries with rat poison (an anti-coagulant).
I still think fuel cells are safer.
Hell, a methane fuel cell would be ideal especially when Cowboy Neal eats burritos or have one too many baked potatoes.
Sounds more like a death-wish (almost like a prelude to death). Maybe they should go see the late Charles Bronson. I'm sure Majestik Melons can help.
Anyways, they should really think about targetting RedHat and other enterprise linux companies not Linux itself. I'm sure they can make an uber-slimmed down version of linux that can work as a public internet terminal (like Knoppix, etc.) for libraries and still make some much needed money. Or they can also borrow/use the Harden Debian project and pre-config enterprise systems for their hardware (or sell hardware with HD config'ed).
It can help cut software development costs and be geek-friendly. Hell, look at Microsoft....the un-geek-friendly one...they are getting sued left and right by govt's and corporations.
Come to think of it, maybe this new "strategy" has to do with the $900mil and their new M$ overlords.
Maybe I'll go buy an old sparc as a momento of what was once a great company.
I use bestcrypt...at least then u can write your own encryption module as well as the key-generation module yourself with the SDK (SDK is free but bestCrypt isn't).
www.jetico.com
speaking of which, does anyone know of an open source equivalent (maybe on sourceforge or something)?
don't forget about using ur abacus for ur calc classes.
I think it's best to air it on PBS primarily because they aren't mandated to censor it.
/.'ed so fast; it'll make Superman look slow.
Maybe even Comedy Central (this also depends on what side of the coin/river u are on) will air it; hell they did air the South Park movie uncensored once before.
Or if he really wants more ppl to see it, Michael Moore might as well release a bitTorrent of it (official one) or webcast (or both). It'll get
just maybe....the officer is a lil' annoyed that donut prices (krispy kreme) has been going up. Or maybe it's the low-carb donut craze?
looks like they are trying to cover all bases....so ppl can't have an excuse for not eating those military rations.
And u thought MRE's tasted bad.
I do too...in addition to Perfect 10 and Playboy Special Editions.
who cares? those who can't handle subs aren't movie buffs. Hell, I don't think they'll understand Fahrenheit 911 either.
besides, the true "pure way" is to watch it raw and uncut. Hell, I'd like to do that with the old Bruce Lee movies but I don't understand Cantonese, yet.
And thx to companies like 4Kids, Funimation, etc., many people are oblivious to the fact that a lot of butchering has been done. It makes Hollywood (and p0rn stars) look "all-natural".
in other words, good or neutered?
Or maybe I should just wait until the Japanese version is out on DVD, like Kill Bill.
then when u feel like punching the lights out of some a-hole who doesn't practice cell-phone ettiquette, u bust their lip and their phone....two birds with one punch.
what if terrorists use it to jam UWB (ultrawide band) scanners used by law-enforcement to see what's on the other side of the wall?
Or even if a normal wife-beater Joe lines his walls and then does something criminal. Or even a hostage situation at some office building with the lining (assuming it happens to use the frequencies that the UWB scanner relies on or something)?
Hell, CowboyNeal will finally have his privacy!
maybe I should've went ahead and patented note taking years ago, then this to-do list can eliminated as it is a form of note taking.
O well, hopefully the FTC will do something about it. USPTO is way too overloaded and passing too many obvious patents. You never know, the next patent might be "to patent obvious ideas as a business model" or something like that.
One way to help reform is to b*tch to ur local Congress-person and rep. Think of the slashdot-effect in a good way with politics. (The bad one is if u'r a website admin and ur server can't handle the load).
I agree...I can even block iframe ads and images with wildcards.
Plus with FlashBlock, it gives me the option to not run a flash, etc.
It's amazing.
Add that to IP and domain name based blocking I do on my router, I can block most intrusive ad servers that try to take over the system.
at least the linksys one can be patched with a non-official firmware to improve functionality as well as fill in some of those "holes"
nifty...but what if they have a really good IR filter on the camcorder?
sounds to me like we have a new cat and mouse game.
actually, with regard with buffer overruns, it has to do with the lack of index/range/etc. checking. They assumed that it wasn't necessary as they thought in an ideal world, it's not going to be an issue.
Also in a stand point of performance too as range checking does take some cycles.
Of course, instead of using the typical "if x is greater than this, then do this" and "if x is less than this, then do this", you can implement it using just one check with a mask. For example, if your range is 0-15 (aka a nibble or 4 bits), you can mask out (0xfff0 for 16bit numbers or 0xfffffff0 for 32bit and so on) then check if the result is not 0 (which is very fast on modern computers, even those for game consoles as MIPS has a register that's always zero ($zero). (typically, most game consoles use a version of MIPS with the exception of the xbox, which is ~x86).
And in some cases, you can do the checking out of the loop so it's only done once per whatever (as opposed to doing it many, many times per whatever).
Furthermore, a lot of buffer sizes are a power of 2 (or somewhere close to that; (2^x)-1, etc.) so implementing it isn't too hard.
Heck, in some cases, it can be implemented in hardware for security reasons. (of course, if that was the case with the xbox, then ppl wouldn't be able to use the 007 saved game exploit to run code to then reflash the xbox bios with a more linux friendly crom bios)
more like a billionaire
it still won't work (as ppl might just press the off button or go get a variant of linux, whatever). The underlying issue has yet to be resolved.
To me, Microsoft programmers make too many assumptions; like "naw, this code won't be exploited," etc. To quote a line from a movie: "Assumptions are the mother of all f*ck ups."
And besides, it's easier to make friends with honey than with sour milk.
maybe with all this outsourcing and open-source movements will do microsoft good and force them to use mozilla (firefox) and media player classic. (a large number of exploits deal with Windows Media player and its scripting and/or IE)
don't u remember the fiasco about the windowsupdate site exploits? The one where it could be taken over?
it is more work....as can require some downtime.
And there's more viruses and worms for windows because not only are there more users but also more less "informed" users as well as sloppy recycled coding. This is why a majority of exploits affect the whole windows line (9x/ME/NT/2k/XP).
I get my Windows for free (thx to a "partnership" with the university); but we all pay for it one way or another. Everything from taxes to costs on computer hardware like a tax.