Obvious there are all the users that use VPN's to connect to their office networks and the arguments that only public VPN users are pirates, but what about gamers? There are a lot of gamers that use VPN's to run games that either don't work well through a NAT situation or only support LAN play and so need a VPN to make that work across a LAN.
Why the hell the BBC don't just drop the geo-location detection and switch to having an access code system that has an unlock key linked to your TV license I don't know
Actually you are buying it in Europe...
The European Court of Justice ruled on July 3, 2012, that it is indeed permissible to resell software licenses even if the digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, and that the first-sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an unlimited amount of time, as such sale involves a transfer of ownership, thus prohibiting any software maker from preventing the resale of their software by any of their legitimate owners.
When the Doom source was released people used it to create a new update to date engine that required the original assets to play. This generates increased sales in the original.
strcpy works by reading the source string and copying to the destination until it encounters a null character.
If the source string is longer than the allocated destination buffer then data can overflow into your program code. This could be exploited to execute arbitary code.
strncpy should be used instead as it allows you to specify the maximum number of chars to copy.
By your arguement how can someone make a living writing fictional stories? Are you saying that Agatha Christie should be able to patent the idea of a dective story where all the suspects are gathered together in the room at the end by a solo detective and the murderer is revealed?
Poirot, Miss Marple etc are protected by Copyright not Patents. The same is true of software. Someone can't directly copy your software but they can produce their own implementation aslong as they don't directly copy your code.
Actually it is not theft. Theft is defined as "dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving them"
Because you are not actually removing the property simply copying it software piracy doesn't actually come under the heading of theft, it comes under breach of copyright.
I also disagree with all the complaints of lost revenue from software houses. Every pirate copy is not necessarily lost revenue. The person may not have ever considered buying the copy in the first place. The company hasn't lost the revenue because they haven't been deprived of something to sell. Again not Theft!
It doesn't even come under Criminal Law in the UK, (unless you hit Fraud) Its a Civil matter.
INAL, this is a combinition of what I understood from helping my wife revise for her Bar exams and also from something that happened to me:-
I went on EBay to see if I could get a replacement cd for a game I own, I had the box, manuals everything was just missing the CD. When the CD arrived it was obviously a burned copy. I contacted the police and was told that it wasn't a criminal matter, it was civil and down to the copyright owner to persue and that I should inform FAST.
BTW this doesn't mean I condone piracy its just that I disagree with the use of the term Theft.
Maxathon is a wrapper round IE which provides tabbed browsing - plus a few security fixes.
When I open up the secure site and click on the link AD Hunter blocks the popup so city bank works fine!
But exchange uses single instance storage, and windows 2000 now as the concept of SIS (using nightly trolls to find identical files) so even if you do make a copy of a file the drive space used is nominal.
The user base for Linux is not necessarily more systems-savvy. With distributions like Redhat the so called "Windows muppet" could easily get a linux box up and running on the net.
The problem then lies that these people then cannot workout how to keep the box up to date (or just believe the myth that linux is unbreakable).
In my job I quite often find people who think they know what they are doing and then setup a linux box that is never updated and wide open to attack.
It's not the bugs/flaws in the operating system that allow these virii/worms to spread - its sysadmins who cannot keep their systems up to date date and sensibly firewalled. Slammer came out 6 MONTHS after Microsoft released the patch, plenty of time to test the patch on your backup system and then bring it on line.
If you use Windows Blinds (www.stardock.com) you can choose a skin that supports the little pin icon for pinning windows ontop.
Virtual Desktop is also supported in parts of object desktop, or get an NVidia video card and use the NView feature!
Locally displaying a single application is not part of kde or gnome it is part of X and there are patches to VNC to support single application sharing, also netmeeting supports single application sharing. Microsoft have the technologies is place, they're just not fully utilising them.
I've not had to reboot XP that often when running windows update.
Take a look at Nortels BCM
Provides PRI, Nortel Handsets like a normal Nortel but also ties in Hard and Soft IP phones and can (for additional cost) allow H323 clients
Erm squid can be configured with rules to determine which upstream cache to use or to fetch direct based on regex url matches. so it can select from multiple caches.
Squid can also be used as a transparent proxy, so it does seem to fit all the criteria of this patent...
How about, as it states they've already got windows, they just install the.NET framework (which is available on Windows Update)
NotePad to edit then just run the command compiler. Manual is available on MSDN (or you could download then entire SDK!).
Failing that download #Develop (www.icsharpcode.net) if you want an IDE.
Erm it doesn't say that the Microsoft Operating system is not vulnarable it says that their network cards are.
The fault doesn't have to exist in software either, some vendors have the nic hardware constructing the packets and so no matter what os you are running you would be vulnerable.
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Obvious there are all the users that use VPN's to connect to their office networks and the arguments that only public VPN users are pirates, but what about gamers? There are a lot of gamers that use VPN's to run games that either don't work well through a NAT situation or only support LAN play and so need a VPN to make that work across a LAN.
Why the hell the BBC don't just drop the geo-location detection and switch to having an access code system that has an unlock key linked to your TV license I don't know
Actually you are buying it in Europe... The European Court of Justice ruled on July 3, 2012, that it is indeed permissible to resell software licenses even if the digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, and that the first-sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an unlimited amount of time, as such sale involves a transfer of ownership, thus prohibiting any software maker from preventing the resale of their software by any of their legitimate owners.
When the Doom source was released people used it to create a new update to date engine that required the original assets to play. This generates increased sales in the original.
steam....
Whats wrong with DOS it can boot up in under 20 seconds and get you into edit?
Also the quote "That's why money is the root of all evil." is incorrect!
The correct quote is "The love of money is the root of all evil." It is a subtle change but it makes a big difference.
strcpy works by reading the source string and copying to the destination until it encounters a null character.
If the source string is longer than the allocated destination buffer then data can overflow into your program code. This could be exploited to execute arbitary code.
strncpy should be used instead as it allows you to specify the maximum number of chars to copy.
By your arguement how can someone make a living writing fictional stories? Are you saying that Agatha Christie should be able to patent the idea of a dective story where all the suspects are gathered together in the room at the end by a solo detective and the murderer is revealed?
Poirot, Miss Marple etc are protected by Copyright not Patents. The same is true of software. Someone can't directly copy your software but they can produce their own implementation aslong as they don't directly copy your code.
Actually it is not theft. Theft is defined as "dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving them"
Because you are not actually removing the property simply copying it software piracy doesn't actually come under the heading of theft, it comes under breach of copyright.
I also disagree with all the complaints of lost revenue from software houses. Every pirate copy is not necessarily lost revenue. The person may not have ever considered buying the copy in the first place. The company hasn't lost the revenue because they haven't been deprived of something to sell. Again not Theft!
It doesn't even come under Criminal Law in the UK, (unless you hit Fraud) Its a Civil matter.
INAL, this is a combinition of what I understood from helping my wife revise for her Bar exams and also from something that happened to me:-
I went on EBay to see if I could get a replacement cd for a game I own, I had the box, manuals everything was just missing the CD. When the CD arrived it was obviously a burned copy. I contacted the police and was told that it wasn't a criminal matter, it was civil and down to the copyright owner to persue and that I should inform FAST.
BTW this doesn't mean I condone piracy its just that I disagree with the use of the term Theft.
If you check http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/ it contains how to update your web.config to better detect other browsers and send out richer content.
Maxathon is a wrapper round IE which provides tabbed browsing - plus a few security fixes. When I open up the secure site and click on the link AD Hunter blocks the popup so city bank works fine!
Try Asterisk - www.asteriskpbx.com
Doesn't this just mean that legitimate email addresses get published publicly for any spammer to collect?
But exchange uses single instance storage, and windows 2000 now as the concept of SIS (using nightly trolls to find identical files) so even if you do make a copy of a file the drive space used is nominal.
The user base for Linux is not necessarily more systems-savvy. With distributions like Redhat the so called "Windows muppet" could easily get a linux box up and running on the net. The problem then lies that these people then cannot workout how to keep the box up to date (or just believe the myth that linux is unbreakable). In my job I quite often find people who think they know what they are doing and then setup a linux box that is never updated and wide open to attack. It's not the bugs/flaws in the operating system that allow these virii/worms to spread - its sysadmins who cannot keep their systems up to date date and sensibly firewalled. Slammer came out 6 MONTHS after Microsoft released the patch, plenty of time to test the patch on your backup system and then bring it on line.
If you use Windows Blinds (www.stardock.com) you can choose a skin that supports the little pin icon for pinning windows ontop. Virtual Desktop is also supported in parts of object desktop, or get an NVidia video card and use the NView feature! Locally displaying a single application is not part of kde or gnome it is part of X and there are patches to VNC to support single application sharing, also netmeeting supports single application sharing. Microsoft have the technologies is place, they're just not fully utilising them. I've not had to reboot XP that often when running windows update.
Take a look at Nortels BCM Provides PRI, Nortel Handsets like a normal Nortel but also ties in Hard and Soft IP phones and can (for additional cost) allow H323 clients
Erm squid can be configured with rules to determine which upstream cache to use or to fetch direct based on regex url matches. so it can select from multiple caches. Squid can also be used as a transparent proxy, so it does seem to fit all the criteria of this patent...
How about, as it states they've already got windows, they just install the .NET framework (which is available on Windows Update)
NotePad to edit then just run the command compiler. Manual is available on MSDN (or you could download then entire SDK!).
Failing that download #Develop (www.icsharpcode.net) if you want an IDE.
Erm it doesn't say that the Microsoft Operating system is not vulnarable it says that their network cards are. The fault doesn't have to exist in software either, some vendors have the nic hardware constructing the packets and so no matter what os you are running you would be vulnerable.