Google is also supporting DRM Drink Rights Management with this new product. If you don't first swallow their brand name Blue Pill, then the gDrink renders your digestive system inoperable until you take it.
If I could have convinced my computer programming friend who had no posters on his walls in college residence, to have a slightly larger than lifesized cardboard cutout of himself made, and put it on his wall.
It would be creepy, funny, and decorating, all at the same time.
I've not shied away from installing OO though, I've used it since Star Office, and OO version 1.0. But only time will tell if having some form of Java integration in OO is going to be it's curse or blessing.
The only virus I've ever had infect my Windows computer was Java based, installed due to a flaw in 1.4.2 and some website I visited I suppose. I don't feel any better about Java being integrated in some way that I don't understand with Open Office, than I do with Word using Macro files, or offering VBS integration perhaps.
Criminals are not going to write their own webbrower ap, or file sharing program, they will use a common comercially available package that the Intelligence community can use against them, just as script kiddies use the fact that Windows XP is the primary OS against law abiding people.
And criminals, who are none-to-bright to begin with, aren't going to use a password like DSdfWe3421.
I consider myself a professional-amatuer computer repairman. Sure I've got a degree in computer science, but the field I'm working in isn't programming, and what I do on the job I learned 85% of at home before college even.
The other week a user had an Outlook Express printing problem. The body and page numbers of the emails were cut off on the left and right margins. It took me a few minutes to track down on google that Internet Explorer's page setup for margins were what was affecting the margins in Outlook Express, and after that had been changed back to.5 from the.2 it was set at then, everything was fine again.
Would it have been worth me taking a course in Outlook Express and Internet Explorer to have known this rather than look it up? Perhaps... maybe not.
"the mechanic won't send you back to the gas station (or restaurant, as may be the case) where you got the bad gas to get the bad gas fixed."
That's correct. If someone takes their computer back to Walmart in Canada, odds are they will be waiting weeks for it to be shipped off to a service center. That's scary, because these people will not likely have backups of their digital photo collection, I mean who in the right mind would trust Walmart with all of their photos... oh wait:-\.
And are you someone who thinks that upgrading the CPU means changing the case fans, because after all, they are part of the Unit Central to Processing;-P
The analogy is still sound, but your point is good. You don't have to modify your computer very much, or any at all, for a sales depot to tell you to find service elsewhere. It's definitely a different repair market than the auto industry has.
You bought software or your hardware from somewhere I would guess (if you built this stuff on your own you have enough knowledge to fix it on your own). Take it to them. Dell, Gateway, Apple, whoever. If you're talking about software issues, call the company of the software you installed, oooh, it's Spyware problems.
The difference between a computer repair and a car repair, is that the computer repair center can claim your computer broke from a software issue that isn't their doing, whereas a car mechanic isn't going to say, "take this car back to the station you got gas from, they gave you bad gas".
I know people, and am someone who learned back in the mid 1990s how to fix computers, and managed to keep up with current hardware trends to offer service superior or at least as good as a place like Staples, or a box-store repair center could provide.
In the world of computer repair though, you often get what you pay for. If you're outsourcing your computer repair to the kid down the street, you might get lucky if they're smart and read slashdot, or you could get someone who thinks you upgrade RAM by adding a hard drive.
This is probably due to two things: 1) Your friends are forwarding you fewer joke emails that you pass on so that your email address in stored in the computer of every "click everything" users in the world.
2) Malware is going to become better at hiding its precence, just as you see people willingly installing My Search Weatherbug and thinking it's so great.
Perhaps since nearly everyone who'd have a portable electronic device already has a cell phone that plays games, takes pictures, sends text messages, and makes phone calls, they didn't figure they needed to carry a PlayStationP too?
I know my days of carrying a machine for games are over, and I wouldn't want kids to have one over a book.
And there is of course the point made in the movie Men in Black, that space aliens consider english to be a primitive, infectious scourge of a language. Which I'm sure people in the Bloc Quebecois Party would agree with.
But seriously the biohazard in bringing back an ancient lifeform could be the resurection of an ancient bacteria, or virus, or something worse. It could literally unleash a plauge on plant or animal life on Earth.
The effects of blogs are taking their toll on slashdot. Slashdot used to be the ultimate blog, contributed to by geeks around the world. Now there are enough popular blogs that much of the news is posted there simultaneously.
So our octopi friends have probably showed up on more than just/. and NPR. They're everywhereeee.
"Radio is *not* the only way to hear no things, and is my experience, the *worst* way to hear anything new and fresh."
That's the case, but for times of extreme emergency. And event like 9/11 will go unheard by an MP3 player, but if you can tune in to ANY FM station, they'll cover the BIG stories of the day, and in some cases could alert you to incoming threats. Heaven knows Clear Channel would jump at the chance to scare Americans.
You don't even NEED a credit card for someone to commit credit card fraud in your name. If they steal your identifying information they can sign up for a credit card in your name on your credit record, and you won't know until you do a credit check on yourself. They are free in Canada if done by mail, you fill out a form and mail it in to Equifax or another place.
Please write your MP on this matter. Use my letter below if you don't want to write your own.
Send your letter for free (no postage necessary), to your MP at the following address: [your MP's name] M.P. House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz
To summarize the issues in this letter: 1. Internet Service Providers should not be required to keep extensive logs of private and legal online communications.
2. The government must not stop Canadian citizens from making personal-use copies of their legally purchased software, music, and movie media.
Here is the reasoning:
The purpose of the Copyright Act is to support creativity and innovation in the arts and culture. To design a new Act on the failed and draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United States of America, would be a disaster for Canadian culture, and innovation. Also our court system could become clogged with law abiding citizens who make personal use copies of their music, software, and movie collections for no personal financial gain. An implementation of the proposed changes to the Copyright Act would unleash another "Gun Registry boondoggle" onto the Canadian people - creating criminals out of law abiding citizens at the expense of Canadian taxpayers.
Internet Service Providers like Sasktel should not be made to keep extensive client usage logs for possible future prosecution by various copyright-based industries. I don't want to pay for that system to be put into effect, and I don't think most people do. The phone companies are not forced by the government to record the content of phone conversations, only police can do that with a proper warrant. ISP logs are going to be equivalent to phone-taps, and that's a violation of my privacy. It's doing the job of the police, and is for the sole benefit of an industry basing its profits on an outdated business model that is no longer realistic for the Canadian government to protect.
It is completely unfair to be paying a levy to artists organizations for purchasing blank CD media to make home-use private copies of legal CD music, and now to also be unable to legally copy the music I've paid for off of Digital Rights Managed CDs. If copying CD music is going to be illegal, why is the government collecting money from the product for an illegal activity? I'm satisfied that the current levy is helping to compensate artists from illegitimate copying, and no new law is required to prevent me and other people from making sensible backups of our legal music, software, and movie collections.
Your representation in the House of Commons on this matter is greatly appreciated by me, and other supporters of personal liberty and innovation in the arts. I look forward to hearing from you.
Slashdot Mirror
Google is also supporting DRM Drink Rights Management with this new product. If you don't first swallow their brand name Blue Pill, then the gDrink renders your digestive system inoperable until you take it.
If I could have convinced my computer programming friend who had no posters on his walls in college residence, to have a slightly larger than lifesized cardboard cutout of himself made, and put it on his wall.
It would be creepy, funny, and decorating, all at the same time.
I've not shied away from installing OO though, I've used it since Star Office, and OO version 1.0. But only time will tell if having some form of Java integration in OO is going to be it's curse or blessing.
The only virus I've ever had infect my Windows computer was Java based, installed due to a flaw in 1.4.2 and some website I visited I suppose. I don't feel any better about Java being integrated in some way that I don't understand with Open Office, than I do with Word using Macro files, or offering VBS integration perhaps.
Criminals are not going to write their own webbrower ap, or file sharing program, they will use a common comercially available package that the Intelligence community can use against them, just as script kiddies use the fact that Windows XP is the primary OS against law abiding people.
And criminals, who are none-to-bright to begin with, aren't going to use a password like DSdfWe3421.
You mean that's your combination too?!
Oh wait, did I just press submit? D'oh!
I consider myself a professional-amatuer computer repairman. Sure I've got a degree in computer science, but the field I'm working in isn't programming, and what I do on the job I learned 85% of at home before college even.
.5 from the .2 it was set at then, everything was fine again.
The other week a user had an Outlook Express printing problem. The body and page numbers of the emails were cut off on the left and right margins. It took me a few minutes to track down on google that Internet Explorer's page setup for margins were what was affecting the margins in Outlook Express, and after that had been changed back to
Would it have been worth me taking a course in Outlook Express and Internet Explorer to have known this rather than look it up? Perhaps... maybe not.
I see you is trying to write a letter, would you like some helps?
"the mechanic won't send you back to the gas station (or restaurant, as may be the case) where you got the bad gas to get the bad gas fixed."
:-\.
That's correct. If someone takes their computer back to Walmart in Canada, odds are they will be waiting weeks for it to be shipped off to a service center. That's scary, because these people will not likely have backups of their digital photo collection, I mean who in the right mind would trust Walmart with all of their photos... oh wait
Touche.
;-P
And are you someone who thinks that upgrading the CPU means changing the case fans, because after all, they are part of the Unit Central to Processing
The analogy is still sound, but your point is good. You don't have to modify your computer very much, or any at all, for a sales depot to tell you to find service elsewhere. It's definitely a different repair market than the auto industry has.
Does this mean that Bones will be saying things like:
"She's HOT Jim!"
Scotty: [who unfortunately will be older and not in the series as a cadet with them]
"It's.... Green."
You bought software or your hardware from somewhere I would guess (if you built this stuff on your own you have enough knowledge to fix it on your own). Take it to them. Dell, Gateway, Apple, whoever. If you're talking about software issues, call the company of the software you installed, oooh, it's Spyware problems.
The difference between a computer repair and a car repair, is that the computer repair center can claim your computer broke from a software issue that isn't their doing, whereas a car mechanic isn't going to say, "take this car back to the station you got gas from, they gave you bad gas".
I know people, and am someone who learned back in the mid 1990s how to fix computers, and managed to keep up with current hardware trends to offer service superior or at least as good as a place like Staples, or a box-store repair center could provide.
In the world of computer repair though, you often get what you pay for. If you're outsourcing your computer repair to the kid down the street, you might get lucky if they're smart and read slashdot, or you could get someone who thinks you upgrade RAM by adding a hard drive.
It really bugs me [pun intended] that /. has a catepillar as the icon for Worms.
Even if it's an "inchworm" that's still wrong, because inches aren't metric, and Slashdot should be using metric icons.
This is probably due to two things:
1) Your friends are forwarding you fewer joke emails that you pass on so that your email address in stored in the computer of every "click everything" users in the world.
2) Malware is going to become better at hiding its precence, just as you see people willingly installing My Search Weatherbug and thinking it's so great.
Perhaps since nearly everyone who'd have a portable electronic device already has a cell phone that plays games, takes pictures, sends text messages, and makes phone calls, they didn't figure they needed to carry a PlayStationP too?
I know my days of carrying a machine for games are over, and I wouldn't want kids to have one over a book.
And there is of course the point made in the movie Men in Black, that space aliens consider english to be a primitive, infectious scourge of a language. Which I'm sure people in the Bloc Quebecois Party would agree with.
"I don't care how thin you are, we'll still get a whole bunch of quarter pounders out of you..."
I wondered why the Golden Arch was introducing the McGeek next week.
But seriously the biohazard in bringing back an ancient lifeform could be the resurection of an ancient bacteria, or virus, or something worse. It could literally unleash a plauge on plant or animal life on Earth.
The effects of blogs are taking their toll on slashdot. Slashdot used to be the ultimate blog, contributed to by geeks around the world. Now there are enough popular blogs that much of the news is posted there simultaneously.
/. and NPR. They're everywhereeee.
So our octopi friends have probably showed up on more than just
"Radio is *not* the only way to hear no things, and is my experience, the *worst* way to hear anything new and fresh."
That's the case, but for times of extreme emergency. And event like 9/11 will go unheard by an MP3 player, but if you can tune in to ANY FM station, they'll cover the BIG stories of the day, and in some cases could alert you to incoming threats. Heaven knows Clear Channel would jump at the chance to scare Americans.
You don't even NEED a credit card for someone to commit credit card fraud in your name. If they steal your identifying information they can sign up for a credit card in your name on your credit record, and you won't know until you do a credit check on yourself. They are free in Canada if done by mail, you fill out a form and mail it in to Equifax or another place.
Innocent until proven guilty is a think of the past in the USA.
The University has commited libel, and this guy could now take them to the cleaners.
Please write your MP on this matter. Use my letter below if you don't want to write your own.
d a-cpb/reform/ statement_e.cfm
Send your letter for free (no postage necessary), to your MP at the following address:
[your MP's name] M.P.
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Find their email address, but write by paper mail too.
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz
To summarize the issues in this letter:
1. Internet Service Providers should not be required to keep extensive logs of private and legal online communications.
2. The government must not stop Canadian citizens from making personal-use copies of their legally purchased software, music, and movie media.
Background:
http://pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/p
Here is the reasoning:
The purpose of the Copyright Act is to support creativity and innovation in the arts and culture. To design a new Act on the failed and draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United States of America, would be a disaster for Canadian culture, and innovation. Also our court system could become clogged with law abiding citizens who make personal use copies of their music, software, and movie collections for no personal financial gain. An implementation of the proposed changes to the Copyright Act would unleash another "Gun Registry boondoggle" onto the Canadian people - creating criminals out of law abiding citizens at the expense of Canadian taxpayers.
Internet Service Providers like Sasktel should not be made to keep extensive client usage logs for possible future prosecution by various copyright-based industries. I don't want to pay for that system to be put into effect, and I don't think most people do. The phone companies are not forced by the government to record the content of phone conversations, only police can do that with a proper warrant. ISP logs are going to be equivalent to phone-taps, and that's a violation of my privacy. It's doing the job of the police, and is for the sole benefit of an industry basing its profits on an outdated business model that is no longer realistic for the Canadian government to protect.
It is completely unfair to be paying a levy to artists organizations for purchasing blank CD media to make home-use private copies of legal CD music, and now to also be unable to legally copy the music I've paid for off of Digital Rights Managed CDs. If copying CD music is going to be illegal, why is the government collecting money from the product for an illegal activity? I'm satisfied that the current levy is helping to compensate artists from illegitimate copying, and no new law is required to prevent me and other people from making sensible backups of our legal music, software, and movie collections.
Your representation in the House of Commons on this matter is greatly appreciated by me, and other supporters of personal liberty and innovation in the arts. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
my name