The GNU Free Documentation License is not about restrictions, but about giving the viewers of your post the same rights that Wikipedia gave you, thereby allowing anyone to continue to spread your "joke."
I think give is the operative word there. Intuit could easily decide to give Omniture the right to use your personal information, as the article notes:
"We could capture your name, your Social Security number or any other information that you willingly pass to a Web site," acknowledged Matt Belkin, who serves as vice president of best practices for Utah marketing giant Omniture, which tracks the online activities of people using Intuit's TurboTax.
But he said Omniture doesn't do this. The reason, he said, is that client companies don't authorize Omniture to do it.
What would happen if Intuit decided to change this policy? Would FreeFile help you? No. That is the point of the article.
Last I looked, Google was not an Internet provider. Even more damning to your case, none of the three companies you mentioned seem to be included in the alliance.
"It seems like Netscape 8 has hit blogland, with generally positive review at blogspot.com...
Technically, the review is at the blog "Smiler's Scribbles," which is hosted on Blogspot. The post makes it sounds as if the Blogspot staff got together and reviewed the browser themselves, which they did not.
If you clicked on the link to the article, or even looked at the status bar, you would realize that this post was talking about a PC World interview, while the previous post was about one of Cuban's blog posts. While the interview is dated September 2, the blog post is dated August 21. Yes, he talks about DVDs and hard drives in both, but it is not a dupe.
Apparently not true. Ztrace claims that a reformat won't remove their program; sounds like they did something back on the boot sector.
Actually, in its official product literature, zTrace never actually claims that it will survive a reformat, simply that it is "is undetectable and unerasable on a laptop's hard drive." This would seem to rule out the boot sector. Their ridiculous claims of undetectability, the inability to uninstall the software from your computer, and the fact that zTrace Gold is only compatible with later versions of Windows makes me wonder whether they have just used the notifications features of some "remote administration tool."
Since most thieves plan on *selling* the laptops they steal (as opposed to creating a beowulf cluster of them, like most software engineeering students would), reformatting the computer makes it just another used laptop. It's the computerized equivalent of changing the plates on a car - nothing fancy, but it makes it less obvious that the goods are stolen. Reformatting is as simple as putting in a Windows CD and clicking several times.
Suppose you buy a used laptop. If it contains various personal data from some college student, aren't you going to get slightly suspicious?
For those who have not read the book, the plot includes a data haven in Southeast Asia and a FBI raid on an crypto-friendly ISP. It is only tangentially relatedd to the post, as the book's haven was to be used as an electronic bank rather than an information repository and the main character hacks into the server immediately before the raid in order to delete (rather than save) his company's secret information.
Still, it's a cool book, so please do not rate the parent Offtopic (besides, information is the new money, right?)
XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling which comes with a robust feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and an uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly.
Incidentally, the Handbook is very pro-ReiserFS (although it also says ext3 is "an excellent filesystem," reiserfs is used as the default filesystem in all of the examples). If you spend time on the Gentoo Forums, you will find a number of people who claimed reiserfs tried to kill their computer, and an equal number who swear by it.
If the paper was distributed in Word document format, you might have a point, but there is an OpenOffice version of the paper. He could have use OO to convert it to HTML.
Update: I've finally updated the hydan code, after a long time off.
The encoding rate has been improved to 1/110 (thanks to a tip from
sandeep!), and the code is now much cleaner too. In the mean time,
hydan has been presented at:
Slashdot Mirror
YaST is part of SUSE. Ubuntu is Debian-based, so it uses apt.
If you deselect the track in iTunes, it should never play it unless you double-click on it.
Mirrordot only mirrored the first two links, both of which point at the iRiver site.
The GNU Free Documentation License is not about restrictions, but about giving the viewers of your post the same rights that Wikipedia gave you, thereby allowing anyone to continue to spread your "joke."
I fail to see how one game became "some of the newer arcade video games."
Felons have no right to vote.
Depends on where you live.
It's not for free if they sell your personal data to Omniture.
Last I looked, Google was not an Internet provider. Even more damning to your case, none of the three companies you mentioned seem to be included in the alliance.
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To get Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 to start faster, you can disable some of the plugins it loads on startup. You can also disable the browser plugin.
Even better, it is not only part of the title of the ABC News article, but it also appears in the titles of the BBC and National Geographic articles also.
Google for "Gavin Newsom" and see what the guy stands for, and what's he's done for San Francisco. He's pretty cool.
Too bad he's a replicant.
But for anyone doing more than storing recipes, you need a proper desktop search engine, or even just an email search engine.
And of course, your endorsement of aforementioned products would not have anything to do with being the CEO of the company that makes them, right?
In that case, you should have created a new thread, and not replied to the first post, since your comments were not in response to it.
If you clicked on the link to the article, or even looked at the status bar, you would realize that this post was talking about a PC World interview, while the previous post was about one of Cuban's blog posts. While the interview is dated September 2, the blog post is dated August 21. Yes, he talks about DVDs and hard drives in both, but it is not a dupe.
Since most thieves plan on *selling* the laptops they steal (as opposed to creating a beowulf cluster of them, like most software engineeering students would), reformatting the computer makes it just another used laptop. It's the computerized equivalent of changing the plates on a car - nothing fancy, but it makes it less obvious that the goods are stolen. Reformatting is as simple as putting in a Windows CD and clicking several times.
Suppose you buy a used laptop. If it contains various personal data from some college student, aren't you going to get slightly suspicious?
Alas, neither of these will be of any use if the thief simply reformats the hard drive in order to resell it.
For those who have not read the book, the plot includes a data haven in Southeast Asia and a FBI raid on an crypto-friendly ISP. It is only tangentially relatedd to the post, as the book's haven was to be used as an electronic bank rather than an information repository and the main character hacks into the server immediately before the raid in order to delete (rather than save) his company's secret information.
Still, it's a cool book, so please do not rate the parent Offtopic (besides, information is the new money, right?)
If the paper was distributed in Word document format, you might have a point, but there is an OpenOffice version of the paper. He could have use OO to convert it to HTML.