It'll cost you a little bit more, but I can get you a class A. I think 10.0.0.0 is still available, if you hurry. The networks in 169.254.0.0 are available at a substantial discount for those on a budget.
Or, in the next build of OSX pushed out through software update, they'll make it check for an Apple SSL certificate. Now that can be patched, but they'd use the DMCA to quash it.
before the author's served with a DMCA complaint (q.v. the threat against the dealer that provided a patch to allow Mac users to use the iDVD software they paid for with an external burner). Get the information while you can.
d|i|g|i|t|a|l was a company that still had technical merit, before it was swallowed up by the vermin at Compaq that set out to destroy all vestiges of the former great computer maker, such as ftp.digital.com.
This month, they'll trot out the "the fault is in your player" line like the loyal little appendages that they are and stonewall you, because of two things.
An alternate followup scenerio: the (U.S.--similar laws may exist in other countries) customer then calls his credit card company, invokes the Fair Credit Billing Act (having tried to solve the problem in good faith with the merchant who is within 50 miles of his/her home). The customer gets a refund, and the scummy retailer eats the refund plus a stiff chargeback fee. The retailer gets tired of this, and tells BMG to cut it out or to sell their crap somewhere else.
. . . to compete by announcing vaporware. But I have mixed feelings about this, because anything that helps the stock price of the DMCA wielding jackbooted thugs at Adobe fall is good in my book.
And remember--this sort of "content protection" is exactly what the intellectual "property" industry would be doing right here at home, if they wouldn't have its collective head handed to them for trying it.
The DMCA was just the first toe in the water, the CBDTPA is the next.
. . . that since these numbers are long distance, a landline user must dial the access code "1" before the number? Otherwise, the customer could place a toll call without knowing it, which I imagine would result in lots of indignant letters to public utilities commissions, and we know how much the telco's love that.
Thanks for the pointer. I've forwarded it to a few colleagues to whom I've been ranting about this stuff. I wasn't previously aware of the idea of *document revocation list*. They shouldn't be able to patent that; Orwell has prior art.
since the article is no longer in its cache. Fortunately, there's a mirror at scripting.com for those who haven't already grabbed this for desktop wallpaper.
. . . oops! We got caught! Why, this was one rouge contractor who didn't meet our standards of conduct. We'll see that s/he is appropriately flogged in the public square. Then we'll go on doing the same things, only being more careful not to be so obvious about it.
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What pirated software are you referring to? The software Apple *sold* me as a part of OSX? Or something else?
It'll cost you a little bit more, but I can get you a class A. I think 10.0.0.0 is still available, if you hurry. The networks in 169.254.0.0 are available at a substantial discount for those on a budget.
Or, in the next build of OSX pushed out through software update, they'll make it check for an Apple SSL certificate. Now that can be patched, but they'd use the DMCA to quash it.
before the author's served with a DMCA complaint (q.v. the threat against the dealer that provided a patch to allow Mac users to use the iDVD software they paid for with an external burner). Get the information while you can.
Q. Why are the politics in higher education so dirty and cutthroat?
A. Because the stakes are so small.
Today, astalavista.com is the best!
Nuff said.
was the name of their ill-fated BIOS based spyware product. It was ahead of its time, apparently.
Rosebud.
An alternate followup scenerio: the (U.S.--similar laws may exist in other countries) customer then calls his credit card company, invokes the Fair Credit Billing Act (having tried to solve the problem in good faith with the merchant who is within 50 miles of his/her home). The customer gets a refund, and the scummy retailer eats the refund plus a stiff chargeback fee. The retailer gets tired of this, and tells BMG to cut it out or to sell their crap somewhere else.
. . . like the Scramblepad, except in a a full size keyboard?
Releasing a binary only driver is not "supporting Linux." If I need a device, I'll buy one that has source drivers available, thank you very much.
. . . to compete by announcing vaporware. But I have mixed feelings about this, because anything that helps the stock price of the DMCA wielding jackbooted thugs at Adobe fall is good in my book.
That's right. I'm a god at sea! (props to Vinnie Vingara)
Buy Sony! Help fund the war on freedom!
Easy: Know your enemy.
How about making an open solution that isn't subject to feature disablement and removal with every "upgrade" of the software?
The DMCA was just the first toe in the water, the CBDTPA is the next.
. . . that since these numbers are long distance, a landline user must dial the access code "1" before the number? Otherwise, the customer could place a toll call without knowing it, which I imagine would result in lots of indignant letters to public utilities commissions, and we know how much the telco's love that.
Sounds like a copout to me. That still doesn't imply that first class mail subsidizes bulk mail monetarily.
Thanks for the pointer. I've forwarded it to a few colleagues to whom I've been ranting about this stuff. I wasn't previously aware of the idea of *document revocation list*. They shouldn't be able to patent that; Orwell has prior art.
since the article is no longer in its cache. Fortunately, there's a mirror at scripting.com for those who haven't already grabbed this for desktop wallpaper.
. . . oops! We got caught! Why, this was one rouge contractor who didn't meet our standards of conduct. We'll see that s/he is appropriately flogged in the public square. Then we'll go on doing the same things, only being more careful not to be so obvious about it.
It could have been a Marine Corps 2LT. But that would just be pedantic :).
I bet you'd be surprised at how many technical people used to be in the Navy.