That's right: it's voluntary. In a country that can trace its origins in part to a dispute about taxes, does this man really think that people are going to voluntarily pay a tax?
Sounds like how Internet cigarette purchase taxes were handled in New York. It was supposed to be on the honor system, and then one day the state and city got a hold of the sales records.
This lays the groundwork for that state's citizens to get royally screwed in the future! The frog is in the cold water and someone has just lit the match.
the days of the rapidly adopted medium are nearing their end.
Only for movies I don't want to view more than once. At 4GB a wack, I'm not going to fill up a fragile hard drive with things I want to preserve for many future viewings yet.
He also said Mr. Bangoura didn't move to Ontario until 2000, long after the story appeared.
This is the part that really sucks about this. It wasn't even a crime in Ontario when they published this. He moved there afterwards, and then got upset. This should have been thrown out as ex post facto the moment it was filed. Instead some stupid judge ruled for him. This has got to be overturned, and hard. Otherwise the court is basically claiming that The Washington Post should have been able to see into the future and known he would someday move to Ontario and be libeled at that yet to be reached time.
If it was true libel, he should have been able to successfully sue them at the time of publication in their home city or state.
Don't these directives require implementing legislation in each individual country? If all the country's elected representatives have been against it, I'd expect it to just not be implemented.
This really ought to wave the red flag in front of the MPAA. A better, easier to use, BitTorrent. And all at a time when I would think they'd be better off keeping a low profile while the case is still in the courts.
relies entirely on your thumbs for input, which are harder to lose than a stylus.
That above is worth Insightful+1.
But what I want to know is, does it come with a settable thumbsize? All thumbs are not created equal. Given the many attributes of my mouse that I can reconfigure, does this let me set thumb-size, thumb-pressure, thumbprint...
Thumbprint. Now that would be a great security feature. It knows my thumbs from everyone elses. That alone would make it worth buying, but I didn't see that feature listed yet.
1: Mac hardware is great -- especially when its free. (I agree.)
2: Mac software sucks -- even when it's included for free. (And I always thought the myth was that it was the software, Stupid, that made Macs something special.)
3: If Apple ever finds out who gave Torvalds the hardware -- they're toast!
Until There's a Journalist's Certificate, who can say who qualifies and who doesn't?
This court thinks they can. I think they're wrong, and hope this is overturned on appeal.
To me a Journalist is someone who seeks out the news and broadcasts it in some form. New Apple products and upcoming price cuts are news of use to all computer buyers. The Internet is the finest, most unregulated (which is what makes it the finest), most affordable broadcast medium ever invented. They are Journalists.
Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information.
I would think the greatest difficulty, if you plan to use them to replace DVD's will be mass production. I doubt you can just stamp these out by the millions quickly and cheaply.
I like the thought however that you can increase storage linearly just by increasing the length.
if Microsoft wants WinFS to take off and be useful and adopted, then it has to be widely available--work everywhere I want to work with my files (my information)."
WinFS on my USB JumpDrive. Now there's a scary thought!
[VB.NET] I know the language well. However, it's not a language I am comfortable with: I find that whenever I use the language, I tend to swear a lot. It just doesn't work the way I expect it to...
You sound here like like all the C-language snobs I've ever met -- and I've met a lot of them since 1977 when both BASIC and C co-existed under different O/S on DEC-11 processors.
I could -- and often have -- said exactly the same things about C and its descendents over the decades. My comments don't make C++ a bad language, and yours don't make VB6/.NET bad languages.
The one difference between us is that I don't blame the langauge when I don't know how to use it properly. Instead I use languages I prefer, or learn how to use it properly, and shut up about it.
And I think you're an idiot for saying that. Now we've both had our equal say.
The argument that "VarX and "VARX" should refer to different variables makes no sense to me. I've used Unix since 1977, and to this day don't feel it improved anything be being so case sensitive. When a simple typo can create a programming bug, that's making software errors way too easy. To this day, modern databases know not to do case sensitive searches without special instruction. Perhaps they know something that programming languages don't.
I have yet to see one good argument for how case sensitivity improves the ability to write better code. I know many why it doesn't. And most early programming languages survived just fine without it, especially since keypunches didn't include it unless you multi-punched each column by hand. VB 6 and.NET get it right. It corrects your casing to match the initial declaration of the variable. That is not juvenile!
Leave the case sensitivity for the data, and keep it out of my programming languages. This is the one worst thing that Java didn't fix when they had the chance!
Ethic:
Microsoft was informed 7 days ago (25.02.2005, GMT +1, local time), NO answer received,
so I decided to share this info with security community.
Of course they didn't reply. They're under LAND attack, and your message is caught in the server. You must have sent them a proof-of-concept, so what did you expect?
There is nothing about the release of Apple's internal plans that was 'for the public good'
Liar! Or are you just stupid?
It is very much in the 'public good' to know about new products that are about to render old products over-priced or obsolete. How can you be an informed buyer without information? Companies pull all kinds of tricks to foist off discontinued, refurbished, and remanufactured merchandise as 'new' on uninformed consumers. If Apple is able to chill the discourse about their products, they are already a good way along the road to preventing any criticism of their behavior at all. And that would not be good for any of us who aren't named Steve Jobs.
The advanced features of network analyzers, Citron said, already allow administrators to look not only at what types of packets are traversing their networks, but into the actual content of the packets.
An excellent argument for encrypting packet contents. The Internet's function is to route digital data to its destination. That's all! Same for the telecom companies that provide Internet connections. I wish someone with more authority and a bigger stick than I have would remind them of this simple fact.
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Maybe this is why Motorola has delayed their iTunes Phone launch today. It couldn't compete with this.
Sounds like how Internet cigarette purchase taxes were handled in New York. It was supposed to be on the honor system, and then one day the state and city got a hold of the sales records.
This lays the groundwork for that state's citizens to get royally screwed in the future! The frog is in the cold water and someone has just lit the match.
Only for movies I don't want to view more than once. At 4GB a wack, I'm not going to fill up a fragile hard drive with things I want to preserve for many future viewings yet.
This is the part that really sucks about this. It wasn't even a crime in Ontario when they published this. He moved there afterwards, and then got upset. This should have been thrown out as ex post facto the moment it was filed. Instead some stupid judge ruled for him. This has got to be overturned, and hard. Otherwise the court is basically claiming that The Washington Post should have been able to see into the future and known he would someday move to Ontario and be libeled at that yet to be reached time.
If it was true libel, he should have been able to successfully sue them at the time of publication in their home city or state.
And where else can you get this data at even a hundred times this price?
Maybe some other country wants to receive this data.
Don't these directives require implementing legislation in each individual country? If all the country's elected representatives have been against it, I'd expect it to just not be implemented.
This really ought to wave the red flag in front of the MPAA. A better, easier to use, BitTorrent. And all at a time when I would think they'd be better off keeping a low profile while the case is still in the courts.
I forsee the day when TiVo is nothing more than a program listing provider to many brands of PVR that contain a TiVo plug-in.
Of course, I've also thought Apple should be an operating system provider to the most common hardware platform(s).
That above is worth Insightful+1.
But what I want to know is, does it come with a settable thumbsize? All thumbs are not created equal. Given the many attributes of my mouse that I can reconfigure, does this let me set thumb-size, thumb-pressure, thumbprint...
Thumbprint. Now that would be a great security feature. It knows my thumbs from everyone elses. That alone would make it worth buying, but I didn't see that feature listed yet.
2: Mac software sucks -- even when it's included for free. (And I always thought the myth was that it was the software, Stupid, that made Macs something special.)
3: If Apple ever finds out who gave Torvalds the hardware -- they're toast!
This court thinks they can. I think they're wrong, and hope this is overturned on appeal.
To me a Journalist is someone who seeks out the news and broadcasts it in some form. New Apple products and upcoming price cuts are news of use to all computer buyers. The Internet is the finest, most unregulated (which is what makes it the finest), most affordable broadcast medium ever invented. They are Journalists.
I also wonder how it compares to the Cell processor's dedicated units.
For a console, sounds like someone could really steal a march on the rest of them...
I thought all semiconductor chips operated according to physics -- except maybe quantum computer ones. So what am I missing?
It won't be /. worthy news until the first Linux port is up and running on it!
Excuse me, but one think I like about my CD-ROMs is that they not magnetic, and I don't have to worry about storing they away from magnetic fields.
I would think the greatest difficulty, if you plan to use them to replace DVD's will be mass production. I doubt you can just stamp these out by the millions quickly and cheaply.
I like the thought however that you can increase storage linearly just by increasing the length.
WinFS on my USB JumpDrive. Now there's a scary thought!
So is MS going to push everyone to Thunderbird?
You sound here like like all the C-language snobs I've ever met -- and I've met a lot of them since 1977 when both BASIC and C co-existed under different O/S on DEC-11 processors.
I could -- and often have -- said exactly the same things about C and its descendents over the decades. My comments don't make C++ a bad language, and yours don't make VB6/.NET bad languages.
The one difference between us is that I don't blame the langauge when I don't know how to use it properly. Instead I use languages I prefer, or learn how to use it properly, and shut up about it.
And I think you're an idiot for saying that. Now we've both had our equal say.
The argument that "VarX and "VARX" should refer to different variables makes no sense to me. I've used Unix since 1977, and to this day don't feel it improved anything be being so case sensitive. When a simple typo can create a programming bug, that's making software errors way too easy. To this day, modern databases know not to do case sensitive searches without special instruction. Perhaps they know something that programming languages don't.
I have yet to see one good argument for how case sensitivity improves the ability to write better code. I know many why it doesn't. And most early programming languages survived just fine without it, especially since keypunches didn't include it unless you multi-punched each column by hand. VB 6 and .NET get it right. It corrects your casing to match the initial declaration of the variable. That is not juvenile!
Leave the case sensitivity for the data, and keep it out of my programming languages. This is the one worst thing that Java didn't fix when they had the chance!
Microsoft was informed 7 days ago (25.02.2005, GMT +1, local time), NO answer received, so I decided to share this info with security community.
Of course they didn't reply. They're under LAND attack, and your message is caught in the server. You must have sent them a proof-of-concept, so what did you expect?
And everybody is surprised by this because...?
Liar! Or are you just stupid?
It is very much in the 'public good' to know about new products that are about to render old products over-priced or obsolete. How can you be an informed buyer without information? Companies pull all kinds of tricks to foist off discontinued, refurbished, and remanufactured merchandise as 'new' on uninformed consumers. If Apple is able to chill the discourse about their products, they are already a good way along the road to preventing any criticism of their behavior at all. And that would not be good for any of us who aren't named Steve Jobs.
As I said, are you stupid? Or a shill for Apple?
An excellent argument for encrypting packet contents. The Internet's function is to route digital data to its destination. That's all! Same for the telecom companies that provide Internet connections. I wish someone with more authority and a bigger stick than I have would remind them of this simple fact.
Or if it was just hype to add some drama to the flight and keep it at the top of the headlines. Wouldn't be the first time for an artificial crisis.