In quite a few EU countries, there's a right to private copy, so basically if they such a 'trapped' file and also possess the legal content of it on a CD, RIAA will have to take care that their officials do not end up in jail, right next to a sexually-deprived bubba.
Hmmmm....why in the hell didn't Blizzard use public-key cryptography then so they could check the signature of a key wanting to access battle.net? Or having the dnetd servers register with Blizzard, and have them issued a public key which they could use to verify the authenticity of the game keys?
Ah, of course, they'd possibly export strong cryptography to Lybia.
A smarter thing to do is to encrypt any file saved with that application with key downloaded from internet (if it can't onto the internet, it doesn't save files).
Then if a user pirates the application, it still saves the files, but encrypts them. At the same time, the programmer turns over the decryption key to the authories, but at the same moment, also deposes a legal complaint against the person whose files will decrypt with that key. Since they committed software piracy, the pirate is still screwed. No extortion, just punishment. as it should be. And if the sinner really wants to decrypt his files, he as to answer the state attorney's questions.
...if the licenses would show real capabilities to nurse and maintain a relationship (akin to a driving licence for driving a car), divorce rates would arguably be much lower.
AFAIK, support for Virtual PC for Mac will cease sooner or later, so this is a moot point. But this goes into the same direction as Office versions for Mac.
Or are there any plans for long-term support of VirtualPC for Mac?
like hiring a gang of bikers to 'soften up' the will of the litigator in that case?
Sooner or later, some people will get killed in ugly ways over this type of crap. Maybe it will be the eye-opener to some politicians that something is wrong with the US (and increasingly European) patent law.
But if you seriously want to get rid of spam, start feeding into the military networks. Let them deal with it in their own simple direct and time-tested manner.
You mean sending the Marine corps with all guns blazing to hunt down a spammer, followed by the air force with an airstrike and DivArty with a MLRS strike to mop up things completely?
Gee, there are enough tools. Mandrake has RPMDrake, Fedora has yum and rpm, SuSe has RPM, Debian has.deb packages, and so on.
2. Standard interface?
My girl friend, not being particularly computer literate, has been able to manage all KDE applications so far, and her English ain't as good as mine.
3. Coordinate appearance?
Use KDE, or GNOME. Mozilla behaves the some on Windows anyway, and even in the good old Amiga days (where things were less complicated), there was a user interface style guide. I still remember vividly that nice little C= booklet.
KDE should get something like that, but being a comittee effort, it could take some time.
With 'normal' cross-breeding, at least, you can't pull the rug under your feet so quickly, and usually QA is much better than with genetic engineering.
The problem with genetically engineered stuff is that no one has a real clue what repercussions snipping around on a gene has until it rears it's ugly head. With cross-breeding, at least, you can see what's coming....
To me, the original website distributing this carp (http://www.news-depot.com/) was nuked off the internet.
I'd suggest looking for the owner and and the authors of that junk and nuke them off the world. Even if it doesn't bother me since I don't run Windows.
The Jim March story is presented here.
The debate show and their producers have lawyers all over now and will probably find out what happens you keep f*cking with people that have access to good laywers.
MTV degraded so badly in the last decade that they should go under. But then, not a whole lot of TV channels kept up with high standards on both sides of the big pond so I resolved to watching much less TV.
The PC is a 450 MHz Pentium-III with 386 megabytes of memory running FreeBSD 4.9. The serial cable operates at 115200 bits per second and the web server is able to push approximately 5 connections per second.
One suspects this won't hold up to the combined forces of./ readership.
Because we want to poke the PocketPC fans a bit more and have them use things like Linux Handhelds, OpenZaurus (and their successor OpenEmbedded instead of that freakin OS with mostly costly apps that few people use. Basically, that's what drove me away from Palm....
Now having DotGNU ported to OpenZaurus/OpenEmbedded would be very purty and with OpenEmbedded, it might even work with Linuxed iPaqs one day.
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And do they pay such an onerous tax on every computer in Sweden?
For the moment.
In quite a few EU countries, there's a right to private copy, so basically if they such a 'trapped' file and also possess the legal content of it on a CD, RIAA will have to take care that their officials do not end up in jail, right next to a sexually-deprived bubba.
The guy doesn't sell the shark that goes with this laser.....
yell "ack, ack".
Maybe if wanted to have clean windows, we should equip the probes with a CD player and Elvis CDs.
I suspect the main problem would be that we need a law with which we can sue the infringer into oblivion or submission.
Lacking that, it might become difficult to enforce.
Hmmm...maybe just have a really usable application builder in OOo would be a boon, but DBs...no.
If you need some sort of embedded DBs, take HSQL or DB4, else give that app access to an ODBC-connected DB so we can build our stuff on real RDBMS.
They should rather have the spammers flogged to the tune of one million whiplashes.
Much more effective. They can't pay the fine anyway, but they still feel the pain until they're a bloody mess.
Ever thought about the Sharp Zaurus? The SL-6000 works pretty well, and the old 5500 can be had for little money. It's just not a phone.
Hmmmm....why in the hell didn't Blizzard use public-key cryptography then so they could check the signature of a key wanting to access battle.net? Or having the dnetd servers register with Blizzard, and have them issued a public key which they could use to verify the authenticity of the game keys?
Ah, of course, they'd possibly export strong cryptography to Lybia.
A smarter thing to do is to encrypt any file saved with that application with key downloaded from internet (if it can't onto the internet, it doesn't save files).
Then if a user pirates the application, it still saves the files, but encrypts them. At the same time, the programmer turns over the decryption key to the authories, but at the same moment, also deposes a legal complaint against the person whose files will decrypt with that key. Since they committed software piracy, the pirate is still screwed. No extortion, just punishment. as it should be. And if the sinner really wants to decrypt his files, he as to answer the state attorney's questions.
If you want to get rid of the scent, you could think about sending it to some poor moslem country that cannot afford to throw away the equipment.
Sooner or later, it won't smell like dead pigs anymore. And you'll help in the war against terror.
...if the licenses would show real capabilities to nurse and maintain a relationship (akin to a driving licence for driving a car), divorce rates would arguably be much lower.
AFAIK, support for Virtual PC for Mac will cease sooner or later, so this is a moot point. But this goes into the same direction as Office versions for Mac.
Or are there any plans for long-term support of VirtualPC for Mac?
"The System"?
like hiring a gang of bikers to 'soften up' the will of the litigator in that case?
Sooner or later, some people will get killed in ugly ways over this type of crap. Maybe it will be the eye-opener to some politicians that something is wrong with the US (and increasingly European) patent law.
...and would you like, if you were MS, to have it run your competitor's OS, or even, your (possibly) worst nemesys, Linux?
Not likely, if you ask me. And I doubt there will be a successor version of VirtualPC for MacOS X.
Wrong. The police is not there to protect the commoner, but to protect the powerful.
If it really were a way to defeat crime, there would be lots more big mafia bosses in jail, and those who embezzle funds.
But if you seriously want to get rid of spam, start feeding into the military networks. Let them deal with it in their own simple direct and time-tested manner.
You mean sending the Marine corps with all guns blazing to hunt down a spammer, followed by the air force with an airstrike and DivArty with a MLRS strike to mop up things completely?
1. Installing not easy enough?
.deb packages, and so on.
Gee, there are enough tools. Mandrake has RPMDrake, Fedora has yum and rpm, SuSe has RPM, Debian has
2. Standard interface?
My girl friend, not being particularly computer literate, has been able to manage all KDE applications so far, and her English ain't as good as mine.
3. Coordinate appearance?
Use KDE, or GNOME. Mozilla behaves the some on Windows anyway, and even in the good old Amiga days (where things were less complicated), there was a user interface style guide. I still remember vividly that nice little C= booklet.
KDE should get something like that, but being a comittee effort, it could take some time.
to get infected.
Gee, this is really a viral license. I mean, try to download it and catch a virus.
With 'normal' cross-breeding, at least, you can't pull the rug under your feet so quickly, and usually QA is much better than with genetic engineering.
The problem with genetically engineered stuff is that no one has a real clue what repercussions snipping around on a gene has until it rears it's ugly head. With cross-breeding, at least, you can see what's coming....
To me, the original website distributing this carp (http://www.news-depot.com/) was nuked off the internet.
I'd suggest looking for the owner and and the authors of that junk and nuke them off the world. Even if it doesn't bother me since I don't run Windows.
The Jim March story is presented here. The debate show and their producers have lawyers all over now and will probably find out what happens you keep f*cking with people that have access to good laywers.
MTV degraded so badly in the last decade that they should go under. But then, not a whole lot of TV channels kept up with high standards on both sides of the big pond so I resolved to watching much less TV.
I still have a 6310i.
Seems like I've been stuck in medieval times, cell-phone-wise.
(but then, it can do GPRS, it has IRDA and can send SMS after being able to mangage a voice-to-voice communication). Maybe I'm just a bit outdated....
One suspects this won't hold up to the combined forces of
Because we want to poke the PocketPC fans a bit more and have them use things like Linux Handhelds, OpenZaurus (and their successor OpenEmbedded instead of that freakin OS with mostly costly apps that few people use. Basically, that's what drove me away from Palm....
Now having DotGNU ported to OpenZaurus/OpenEmbedded would be very purty and with OpenEmbedded, it might even work with Linuxed iPaqs one day.