The only shareware I ever registered back in the day was in the $10-$15 range. $20 or more is past the threshold of pain, and usually makes corporate software look reasonable. That said, I look for free alternatives rather than going through the effort to crack the shareware. And crippleware is a non-starter, no matter what the price.
They'd have to want you pretty damn bad. Even giving you that the government could own all the hops a TOR user is using, which would be necessary to trace activity to a particular user, the government or *AA would have to admit evidence of having done so in open court, ruining their hard-won subversion of TOR as an intelligence gathering tool.
Guess Linus will have to change to GPLv3 or there will be a fork. Fortunately, Linux itself doesn't depend on Linus--if Linus wants to go the way of DRM support, he can do that, but he'll lose contributors. And that would be the defensive nature of the GPL against attempts to proprietize Free Software working as designed.
The GPL doesn't prevent them from fixing it--it only comes into play if they want to distribute the modified software outside their company. Which in an "enterprise" situation would be helping their competitors and would be something they wouldn't want to do anyway. The bleating about GPLv3 is nothing but FUD, and we shouldn't be helping the anti-freedom DRM crowd that wants to subvert the purpose of Free Software repeat it.
I wonder whether he ever considered patenting his fingerings?
If he patented them, he'd have to disclose them. And there's probably not enough money in chasing after small-time artists that would then copy them to be worth losing the mysterious aura he's generating by keeping them secret.
There's not much to be gained in shutting down lyrics sites--the posting of lyrics would just become more distributed. So long as at least one person has keyed in the lyrics and posted them on a site indexed by Google, the public will be able to find the lyrics. And (as another poster already pointed out) lyrics being available is likely to increae the number of people buying (or renting, in the case of iTunes and similar digital restrictions systems) a copy of the song.
Here's one, for example. Can't just go to the root page via archive.org and start clicking links, though, as the links to the artists and tabs aren't modified, even though the tabs are in the archive. And if it hasn't happened already, I'm sure these small text files will be compressed into an archive and posted regularly to Usenet.
If security patches are released under GPLv3 Linux will find itself as unsuitable for the enterprise as Windows is.
What provision in GPLv3 makes you say that? Anti-DRM provisions wouldn't allow inspection or modification of an owner's machine by a third party. They wouldn't afford the licensor rights to do anything at all unless the "enterprise" modified and redistributed the GPL licensed software. So long as they don't try to tivoize the so licensed software, the enterprise has nothing to fear from GPLv3.
Because Apple isn't really all that, and the comparisons to cars are irrelevant, tiresome, and disingenuous. Apple is using the same Chinese commodity crap that all the other manufacturers are, and use a TPM chip to make what would otherwise be a WinTel PC in a pretty case into an expensive dongle for an improved version of BSD Unix/NextStep.
Exactly -- It's just like corporate taxes. Corporations don't pay them, they count them as part of the cost of doing business and recoup those expenses by raising prices on their products.
And in the case of the telecom industry, after they've recouped them by raising prices, they also add on a line item for "regulatory fees" or "universal service funds" or "taxes" and collect them again.
Everything can be argued to fall under interstate commerce (Involves a phone? interstate commerce. involves the Internet? Definitely interstate commerce. The mail? Same thing. Interstate highway? Yup.). That's why there are no states' rights anymore.
They won't say how they respond, or how many such requests and subpoenas they receive. And that's enough for me to assume the worst. Eventually, if they're complying, citations will start to leak into court records--but since those are behind sites not generally indexed by search engines, it'll take an involved lawyer or a layman who happens to read the docs on the case throwing a flag.
These won't keep your searches secret (your ISP can log every request sent in the clear, and you can't trust proxy operators who even if they're good guys are under tremendous pressure from the authorities to log and cooperate--you can be tracked on JAP/TOR if each hop is compromised--think gag order/honeypot/PATRIOT Act/RIP Act/), but they will help keep any one search engine from having enough data to create a comprehensive psychosocial dossier of you:
Use different search engines--spread the love.
Scrub the Google cookie, change IPs early and often if your ISP makes it easy.
Use TOR or JAP when possible. (Don't forget, fresh cookie every time.) They're not perfect, but makes it less likely you'll be in the dragnet unless you're a specific person of interest--good intel isn't exposed chasing small fry.
Don't vanity search or search on identifiers for people close to you on a machine you use regularly.
Salt your searches with misinformation. Interested in motorcycles? Search for flower gardening. Arabic? Search for German. Search for random stuff now and then.
Don't tip search engines off to your plans. Don't do searches containing the words "how" and "to" unless you're looking for HOWTOs. They're common words anyway, and don't really help.
Don't use services like Gmail and search at the same time. (The wisdom of providing Gmail with personally identifying information and using it at is questionable given Google's aggressive data gathering.)
Executive summary:
Don't assume anything you type into a search form isn't being logged with as much information, including your IP, that they can gather. Search accordingly.
Sounds like a great little honeypot to scrape and sell/provide to the authorities the searches of people who would like to keep their searches private.
And the bank only can if there's already a credit bureau report, or if they sight your card. They don't have any special ability to query the SSA database.
. . . that.comk isn't a valid TLD. I hit that one all the time, but almost never.cm. I figure by the time Google notices they've been typosquatted, Cameroon won't be doing this much longer, or every major browser will just filter the typos.
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The only shareware I ever registered back in the day was in the $10-$15 range. $20 or more is past the threshold of pain, and usually makes corporate software look reasonable. That said, I look for free alternatives rather than going through the effort to crack the shareware. And crippleware is a non-starter, no matter what the price.
They'd have to want you pretty damn bad. Even giving you that the government could own all the hops a TOR user is using, which would be necessary to trace activity to a particular user, the government or *AA would have to admit evidence of having done so in open court, ruining their hard-won subversion of TOR as an intelligence gathering tool.
Nope, wasn't me, but I agree with him totally.
A good start would be for Microsoft to stop attaching new EULA conditions or spyware (e.g. WGA) as a prerequsite to getting patches conveniently.
Guess Linus will have to change to GPLv3 or there will be a fork. Fortunately, Linux itself doesn't depend on Linus--if Linus wants to go the way of DRM support, he can do that, but he'll lose contributors. And that would be the defensive nature of the GPL against attempts to proprietize Free Software working as designed.
The GPL doesn't prevent them from fixing it--it only comes into play if they want to distribute the modified software outside their company. Which in an "enterprise" situation would be helping their competitors and would be something they wouldn't want to do anyway. The bleating about GPLv3 is nothing but FUD, and we shouldn't be helping the anti-freedom DRM crowd that wants to subvert the purpose of Free Software repeat it.
I wonder whether he ever considered patenting his fingerings?
If he patented them, he'd have to disclose them. And there's probably not enough money in chasing after small-time artists that would then copy them to be worth losing the mysterious aura he's generating by keeping them secret.
There's not much to be gained in shutting down lyrics sites--the posting of lyrics would just become more distributed. So long as at least one person has keyed in the lyrics and posted them on a site indexed by Google, the public will be able to find the lyrics. And (as another poster already pointed out) lyrics being available is likely to increae the number of people buying (or renting, in the case of iTunes and similar digital restrictions systems) a copy of the song.
Here's one, for example. Can't just go to the root page via archive.org and start clicking links, though, as the links to the artists and tabs aren't modified, even though the tabs are in the archive. And if it hasn't happened already, I'm sure these small text files will be compressed into an archive and posted regularly to Usenet.
If security patches are released under GPLv3 Linux will find itself as unsuitable for the enterprise as Windows is.
What provision in GPLv3 makes you say that? Anti-DRM provisions wouldn't allow inspection or modification of an owner's machine by a third party. They wouldn't afford the licensor rights to do anything at all unless the "enterprise" modified and redistributed the GPL licensed software. So long as they don't try to tivoize the so licensed software, the enterprise has nothing to fear from GPLv3.
That, and I imagine that trying to extort the people who use firmware with gambling applications would be a good way to get your legs broken :).
That would be scary though if people had to pay for a service pack.
Seems to work for Apple--every 10.x release is another $139.
Because Apple isn't really all that, and the comparisons to cars are irrelevant, tiresome, and disingenuous. Apple is using the same Chinese commodity crap that all the other manufacturers are, and use a TPM chip to make what would otherwise be a WinTel PC in a pretty case into an expensive dongle for an improved version of BSD Unix/NextStep.
We're using our new police state powers for good, honest! I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing had been staged.
Exactly -- It's just like corporate taxes. Corporations don't pay them, they count them as part of the cost of doing business and recoup those expenses by raising prices on their products.
And in the case of the telecom industry, after they've recouped them by raising prices, they also add on a line item for "regulatory fees" or "universal service funds" or "taxes" and collect them again.
Everything can be argued to fall under interstate commerce (Involves a phone? interstate commerce. involves the Internet? Definitely interstate commerce. The mail? Same thing. Interstate highway? Yup.). That's why there are no states' rights anymore.
I won't, thanks for the pointer.
You're wasting your toner. She's bought and paid for.
I'm sure that same argument made the officers of the company that sold Zyklon-B sleep better at night, too.
They won't say how they respond, or how many such requests and subpoenas they receive. And that's enough for me to assume the worst. Eventually, if they're complying, citations will start to leak into court records--but since those are behind sites not generally indexed by search engines, it'll take an involved lawyer or a layman who happens to read the docs on the case throwing a flag.
Executive summary:
Don't assume anything you type into a search form isn't being logged with as much information, including your IP, that they can gather. Search accordingly.
Sounds like a great little honeypot to scrape and sell/provide to the authorities the searches of people who would like to keep their searches private.
Has VMware been made so I can change the OUI of the virtual Ethernet adapter without patching around the code that enforces the VMware OUI?
And the bank only can if there's already a credit bureau report, or if they sight your card. They don't have any special ability to query the SSA database.
. . . that .comk isn't a valid TLD. I hit that one all the time, but almost never .cm. I figure by the time Google notices they've been typosquatted, Cameroon won't be doing this much longer, or every major browser will just filter the typos.