I think we need a web site where you can pay an amount just over the 9% (or whatever it is that Artists get), for having downloaded music The fees would be independantly audited and paid directly to the artist according to the amount downloaded. The downloader would received a receipt to be used to mitigate potential lawsuits.
I've stopped buying CDs as that last one wouldn't play in a brand new standard CD player. The online music store in question claimed that they didn't know that the CD was nobbled as 'the publishers don't tell them'.
Even though it was trivial to bypass the protection on it* I won't support lawsuits against fans and legitimise the sale of defective CDs by buying them. Hence why I think we need a way of paying them directly.
* If you run Windows as an Admin and have autoplay enabled you deserve all you get:-)
It's caused by massive electron migration away from the blast which produces a huge current. The EMP effect is strongest at the edge of the atmosphere where there is space to the upper side of the weapon or at ground level where the earth prevents any movement of electrons. In the middle the movement of electrons is symmetrical and cancels itself out.
Since you ask, yes I have read a Microsoft EULA. It has pretty much a disclaimer about the thing being any use at all! My reaction was "people pay good money for this!"
Of course MS isn't alone and they probably licence software on such outrageous terms "because they can".
Since we're on the subject of outrageous terms here's another few notable examples.
From WMP: "If the security of the playback software is compromised, owners of secure content may request that Microsoft revoke the softwares right to copy, display and/or play secure content."
i.e. we can disable your DRM'd media anytime we choose.
From Hotmail: "You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms, conditions and notices, and any additional terms posted on any MSN Web Site. Your continued use of the MSN Web Sites after the effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to such changes."
If there any wonder people click through such agreements, "you agree to a nice licence today and we swap it for a b*tch tomorrow. Didn't notice? Too bad!"
In MSSQL you can control the behaviour of string truncation : SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF "data is truncated to the size of the column and the statement succeeds."
Read the documentation though as it affects other warnings.
It's probably best to explicitly control the size of strings though. If you were writing in C you might create a buffer overrun possibility.
(non-)free as in speech I assume. All of those components are available at no cost provided you agree to the licence.
I must admit I have a problem with a product that takes 95% of its functionality from open-source, adds a few proprietary components and sells it for $59. That's clearly diverting funds from open source to the propietary component providers IMO.
That was my first reaction, but then you've got to look ahead to what to do when you can't watch any films, listen to music play games any more.
We're screwed if this gets adopted and the average Joe is going to hand our asses to them on a plate by rushing to buy the latest Hi-Def Vista PCs and Consoles when they start appearing.
Get Firefox to turn ALL cookies into session cookies by deleting them "when I close Firefox" in options.
Then make exceptions for the sites you want to track you. I do this for/. so I don't have to log in everytime.
From the article;
This anticookie fervor also hurts the deleters, she says. For example, cookies help a computer limit how many times the user is exposed to annoying ads like a floating, animated message. Since when should you trust a site not to annoy you with ads, block popups and use Adblock and Flashblock.
"...So cookies are a really good thing for managing the user's experience," she said." If this was true, we'd all be installing adware on our computers to deliver 'interesting relevant and targetted' advertising to enrich our web experiences wouldn't we? Bah!
Could you or anyone with some more knowledge than me answer this one then?
Seeing Discovery land in pitch dark got me thinking about the unpowered landing bit. There is obviously quite a bit of hypergolic fuel still available for the RCS systems, why can't they use the OMS engines to 'go around' if they can't land on the first attempt?
What really gets me is that we all pay for this activity. Every time you but a new PC with Windows you are paying MS developers to lock you in and break competing applications.
Not to mention paying for the lawyers to defend them when it comes to court.
It probably can't but for those who get the NASA science newsletter they covered this a couple of weeks ago.
"the smallest things Hubble can distinguish are about 60 meters wide. The biggest piece of left-behind Apollo equipment is only 9 meters across and thus smaller than a single pixel in a Hubble image."
I particularly liked the first comment on the linked article from Spy Blog
These machines produce x-rays which can penetrate a thick leather jacket but just 'bounce off' your skin causing no ill effects whatsoever. It's fantastic!!
No they want to get rid of Google because they couldn't buy it.
They'll probably integrate MSN Search into *everything* including the XBox and then reserve a couple of million dollars for when they get sued for anti-competitive practices.
Much as I'd like an Insightful mod point I've only stated what M$ have done ever since they've had a dominant product to abuse.
From TFA "he's done something that will so seriously provoke Apple and the recording industry that he may have to go into hiding"
Why? It's no more provocative than DeCSS, both allow you to have access to your own paid for content on the platform of your choice. I expect the same defence will apply.
Firewall it off - along with all the other Windows programs that chatter incessantly to microsoft (search assistant anyone?). Sygate PF seems to let you do this.
I thought most fridges can only sink a couple of hundred watts of heat.
Don't forget you have to share the room with the computer and which ever method you use you will get hot instead.
Might be better to buy an AC unit.
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India is trying again...
e neric_flu_drug
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_bi_ge/g
That's right, this isn't even a DoS exploit as the service is not affected. It's just a browser crash.
Also, at least if you kill Firefox it doesn't take down Windows Explorer and all your filesystem browsing windows with it.
Please can someone develop the following:
:-)
I think we need a web site where you can pay an amount just over the 9% (or whatever it is that Artists get), for having downloaded music
The fees would be independantly audited and paid directly to the artist according to the amount downloaded.
The downloader would received a receipt to be used to mitigate potential lawsuits.
I've stopped buying CDs as that last one wouldn't play in a brand new standard CD player. The online music store in question claimed that they didn't know that the CD was nobbled as 'the publishers don't tell them'.
Even though it was trivial to bypass the protection on it* I won't support lawsuits against fans and legitimise the sale of defective CDs by buying them. Hence why I think we need a way of paying them directly.
* If you run Windows as an Admin and have autoplay enabled you deserve all you get
It's caused by massive electron migration away from the blast which produces a huge current. The EMP effect is strongest at the edge of the atmosphere where there is space to the upper side of the weapon or at ground level where the earth prevents any movement of electrons. In the middle the movement of electrons is symmetrical and cancels itself out.
:-)
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/
It's in the High energy weapons FAQ somewhere (sorry working you'll have to find it
Since you ask, yes I have read a Microsoft EULA. It has pretty much a disclaimer about the thing being any use at all! My reaction was "people pay good money for this!"
Of course MS isn't alone and they probably licence software on such outrageous terms "because they can".
Since we're on the subject of outrageous terms here's another few notable examples.
From WMP: "If the security of the playback software is compromised, owners of secure content may request that Microsoft revoke the softwares right to copy, display and/or play secure content."
i.e. we can disable your DRM'd media anytime we choose.
From Hotmail: "You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms, conditions and notices, and any additional terms posted on any MSN Web Site. Your continued use of the MSN Web Sites after the effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to such changes."
If there any wonder people click through such agreements, "you agree to a nice licence today and we swap it for a b*tch tomorrow. Didn't notice? Too bad!"
In MSSQL you can control the behaviour of string truncation : SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF "data is truncated to the size of the column and the statement succeeds."
Read the documentation though as it affects other warnings.
It's probably best to explicitly control the size of strings though. If you were writing in C you might create a buffer overrun possibility.
several other non-free bits and pieces
(non-)free as in speech I assume. All of those components are available at no cost provided you agree to the licence.
I must admit I have a problem with a product that takes 95% of its functionality from open-source, adds a few proprietary components and sells it for $59. That's clearly diverting funds from open source to the propietary component providers IMO.
is the presence of a 'non-standard' browser or OS now going to be 'suspicious' to investigators
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You bet...
"Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx"
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/28/0
Well, i wont buy any of those DRM thingies
That was my first reaction, but then you've got to look ahead to what to do when you can't watch any films, listen to music play games any more.
We're screwed if this gets adopted and the average Joe is going to hand our asses to them on a plate by rushing to buy the latest Hi-Def Vista PCs and Consoles when they start appearing.
Here's what I do.
/. so I don't have to log in everytime.
Get Firefox to turn ALL cookies into session cookies by deleting them "when I close Firefox" in options.
Then make exceptions for the sites you want to track you. I do this for
From the article;
This anticookie fervor also hurts the deleters, she says. For example, cookies help a computer limit how many times the user is exposed to annoying ads like a floating, animated message. Since when should you trust a site not to annoy you with ads, block popups and use Adblock and Flashblock.
"...So cookies are a really good thing for managing the user's experience," she said." If this was true, we'd all be installing adware on our computers to deliver 'interesting relevant and targetted' advertising to enrich our web experiences wouldn't we? Bah!
Could you or anyone with some more knowledge than me answer this one then?
Seeing Discovery land in pitch dark got me thinking about the unpowered landing bit. There is obviously quite a bit of hypergolic fuel still available for the RCS systems, why can't they use the OMS engines to 'go around' if they can't land on the first attempt?
What really gets me is that we all pay for this activity. Every time you but a new PC with Windows you are paying MS developers to lock you in and break competing applications.
Not to mention paying for the lawyers to defend them when it comes to court.
It probably can't but for those who get the NASA science newsletter they covered this a couple of weeks ago.
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"the smallest things Hubble can distinguish are about 60 meters wide. The biggest piece of left-behind Apollo equipment is only 9 meters across and thus smaller than a single pixel in a Hubble image."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/11jul_lro
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon
Cool, tried it and Ctrl+tab in a MDI app switches window to the next document. Thanks, that's going to save me loads of time!
We've seen them in the UK already. The Reg has a great article on it.
s canner_pilot/
:-(
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/08/heathrow_
I particularly liked the first comment on the linked article from Spy Blog
These machines produce x-rays which can penetrate a thick leather jacket but just 'bounce off' your skin causing no ill effects whatsoever. It's fantastic!!
I'll be going for the pat-down every time
Ahh, all open source software is reverse engineered from others is it. That would be why IE7 is getting tabbed browsing then.
How do you mod the story -1 Flamebait ?
No they want to get rid of Google because they couldn't buy it.
They'll probably integrate MSN Search into *everything* including the XBox and then reserve a couple of million dollars for when they get sued for anti-competitive practices.
Much as I'd like an Insightful mod point I've only stated what M$ have done ever since they've had a dominant product to abuse.
Spare a thought for those of us 'lucky' enough to get mod points to try and use up on these stories!
From TFA "he's done something that will so seriously provoke Apple and the recording industry that he may have to go into hiding" Why? It's no more provocative than DeCSS, both allow you to have access to your own paid for content on the platform of your choice. I expect the same defence will apply.
Firewall it off - along with all the other Windows programs that chatter incessantly to microsoft (search assistant anyone?). Sygate PF seems to let you do this.
I thought most fridges can only sink a couple of hundred watts of heat. Don't forget you have to share the room with the computer and which ever method you use you will get hot instead. Might be better to buy an AC unit.