Taylor says he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'"
Taylor is gonna have a pretty boring job...
FUD was so much easier, now MS is actually going to have to try for a decent product.
There is a Wherehouse music in my area that is going out of business. I was driving by when I noticed it and did a quick 180, excited about the prospect of paying reasonable prices for CD's (The sign outside advertised EVERYTHING AT LEAST 25% OFF ALREADY LOW PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.) However, I was sorely dissapointed when I went inside...
It appeared as though prices had been jacked up and then discounted back down to the same price I would pay anywhere else (CD's for 18 and 19.99? The hell?!?!)
The music industry doesn't get it, even when they fail.
Notice how baseball seems to be suffering the same problems as the RIAA and the MPAA... inflated salaries, and less and less return on their investments (Only one major league team turned a profit last year... one) but MLBA can't claim piracy is causing their losses, because... well, that would be retarded.
Interestingly, however, the reasons for baseballs, and the RIAA/MPAA decline are identical:
1. Overpriced... seats/cds are too expensive.
2. Salaries, stars seem to want more and more lately...
3. THE MAJOR REASON: Recession! People don't buy cds, movies, or go see baseball games because THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.
Baseball is adjusting, because it has to, RIAA/MPAA are fighting tooth and nail for legislation so they can retain their current business model....
"You also become a distribution source for illegal downloading of movies, music and more, which makes you just as responsible if you had downloaded the movie yourself."
Not according to the law.
While the MPAA is trying to scare you, this statement is untrue. If I loan my car to a friend and he gets drunk and runs someone over, am I at fault? No, the police will want to know where I was for purposes of proving I was not driving the car, but I am not going to be charged with murder. It's the same way with filesharing.... although it gets more interesting. If I install a program that puts a backdoor on my system... am I really at fault, or is the software manufacturer.
The music services, along with a representative from Universal Music Group, explained that difficulties in licensing would make a Kazaa-style service impossible, however.
And thus, it will fail. College Students tend to have the most diverse of music tastes, and from what I have read about the various music services, most of what is available is the more popular current music. Beatles and Rolling Stones tunes are next to impossible to come by.
We all want the best, not some half assed attempt at pretending this is better. If I can't get my music from their legitimate service, I'm going to get it elseware.
Also, from my understanding of state laws, State owned (and funded) schools would likely have a difficult time getting something like this started, "A mandatory fee for a commercial service not provided by a university" wouldn't look very good on a budget itinerary for a cash strapped (all) state.
if i did "stumble across" unauthorized linux desktops, they'd be formatted with extreme prejudice. they almost certainly would have no antivirus software, no agents for our desktop license management, and almost certainly wouldn't be keeping up with security updates.
Last time I checked, there weren't any imminent linux virus threats.
Desktop license management? I thought linux was free.
If you have the ability to install linux, you probably have the ability to install security updates. Plus, as we've seen time and time again, sysadmins often don't even update their windows boxes and when a malicious bug strikes, whole networks go down... even though a patch was released months before.
Also, unlike windows, linux is a bit more secure straight out of the box.... or rather, iso.
Allright SCO, I'm running SuSE 8.2, however, it's a special compile and I have removed all pirated SCO code. What that you say? I'm wrong? Come over and prove it. Show me the code and I'll gladly pay you a licsence.
Without SCO actually showing anyone the code that is supposedly theirs, how can they even tell me that it's in my compile. It's extortion, plain and simple.
What if someone sets up a WiFi LAN just for file trading on their block? It's an open network, but there's no ISP at all. What would the RIAA do then, if they even noticed?
I think you're safe, I really can't see the RIAA warddriving through peoples neighborhoods anytime soon. Although, who knows, maybe one day the RIAA will have a BSA type situation, "Neighbor not mowing his lawn? Report him to Ma RIAA!"
So now all I have to do is setup a Wireless basestation with anonymous acces in my house and I can claim that I don't know who was downloading music from my internet connection.
The ultimate legal shield!
The problem with this case, that makes it very unique, is that Lexmark isn't saying its copyright infringement, they're saying its the DMCA for breaking encryption. However, you do bring up a very interesting point.
Interviews with ghosts.... next thing you know, Slashdot will be reporting that some financially unsound software company will be suing... I dunno, IBM saying that they own Linux or something like that.
for "the first time in human history, we have the potential to protect ourselves from a catastrophe of truly cosmic proportions." A three phase program is urged that includes detection, exploration, and contingency planning.
This plan sounds suspiciously like an excuse to put lasers in space.... I can see it now,
"My fellow citizens, in the name of securing ourselves from evil celestial bodies hurtling towards the earth and thousands of miles per hour, we are beginning an expansive program to protect each and every citizen on this great planet. These lasers will be used for peaceful purposes... we wouldn't even think of aiming them at certain nations that have restarted nuclear programs or anything like that... noooooo."
A lot of the response posts are centering on reasons as to why companies would not ship to other countries at all. However, this person has stated that many companies have localized (country-centric) sites, however, these sites only have a partial catalog when compared to the US version of the website. Why is that? What is stopping, say, Dell from selling Model A, B, and C in Hungary rather than just Model A and C.
Along the same lines.... why is it that Amazon will ship this person books, but nothing else? I can see region coded DVD's, but not CD's, or consumer electronics?
In this day and age, if a country is willing to ship some products overseas, there really isn't a reason why they can't ship all of them. They've already got the infastructure in place, yet they aren't fully using it.
You just don't live in the right neighboorhood... Kids with computers, and kids with cars... see them all the time. And we aren't talking shit box Honda's.... these are some nice cars.... and there's no way all of them are drug dealers.
Having worked in a big box wal-mart like store for several years, I can say that had I been unscrupulous and wanted to take something, I could have.... and I wouldn't have had to leave via the main entrance. Employee's can very easily slip out the back.... now, if these chips were tracking everyone inside of the store, I can see massive privacy problems with that.
It's the slippery slope, but I can picture some guy in a dark room watching little blips move around on a screen ala Enemy of the State. How long before this technology is required and we all have chips under our skin to track us in the name of national security?
This project has scant little information on the various politicians I searched for. John Ashcroft's entry merely has his position, and who appointed him to it. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but.... CONSPIRACY!
...
In all seriousness though, this actually seems like a good thing, but it needs more meat to fill up the information pages.
There's definitely a big risk of zdnet going down, as it's hosted by a 14 year old with a 333 running Apache in console mode (Win98sr2) on a dsl connection and all...
Welcome to the 5 oclock news, today is July 7, 2003. This morning, an estimated 9,000 teenage boys were arrested as part of a massive sting to capture the perpetrators of yesterday's massive computer related attack. Investigators have confiscated a record number of computers related to this attack.
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Taylor says he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'"
Taylor is gonna have a pretty boring job...
FUD was so much easier, now MS is actually going to have to try for a decent product.
There is a Wherehouse music in my area that is going out of business. I was driving by when I noticed it and did a quick 180, excited about the prospect of paying reasonable prices for CD's (The sign outside advertised EVERYTHING AT LEAST 25% OFF ALREADY LOW PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.) However, I was sorely dissapointed when I went inside...
It appeared as though prices had been jacked up and then discounted back down to the same price I would pay anywhere else (CD's for 18 and 19.99? The hell?!?!)
The music industry doesn't get it, even when they fail.
Notice how baseball seems to be suffering the same problems as the RIAA and the MPAA... inflated salaries, and less and less return on their investments (Only one major league team turned a profit last year... one) but MLBA can't claim piracy is causing their losses, because... well, that would be retarded.
Interestingly, however, the reasons for baseballs, and the RIAA/MPAA decline are identical:
1. Overpriced... seats/cds are too expensive.
2. Salaries, stars seem to want more and more lately...
3. THE MAJOR REASON: Recession! People don't buy cds, movies, or go see baseball games because THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.
Baseball is adjusting, because it has to, RIAA/MPAA are fighting tooth and nail for legislation so they can retain their current business model....
STFU RIAA/MPAA.
"You also become a distribution source for illegal downloading of movies, music and more, which makes you just as responsible if you had downloaded the movie yourself."
Not according to the law.
While the MPAA is trying to scare you, this statement is untrue. If I loan my car to a friend and he gets drunk and runs someone over, am I at fault? No, the police will want to know where I was for purposes of proving I was not driving the car, but I am not going to be charged with murder. It's the same way with filesharing.... although it gets more interesting. If I install a program that puts a backdoor on my system... am I really at fault, or is the software manufacturer.
According to Agg over at OCAU, this is probably the reason for all the Mars probes launched over the last few months."
But when are they going to probe Uranus?
The music services, along with a representative from Universal Music Group, explained that difficulties in licensing would make a Kazaa-style service impossible, however.
And thus, it will fail. College Students tend to have the most diverse of music tastes, and from what I have read about the various music services, most of what is available is the more popular current music. Beatles and Rolling Stones tunes are next to impossible to come by.
We all want the best, not some half assed attempt at pretending this is better. If I can't get my music from their legitimate service, I'm going to get it elseware.
Also, from my understanding of state laws, State owned (and funded) schools would likely have a difficult time getting something like this started, "A mandatory fee for a commercial service not provided by a university" wouldn't look very good on a budget itinerary for a cash strapped (all) state.
if i did "stumble across" unauthorized linux desktops, they'd be formatted with extreme prejudice. they almost certainly would have no antivirus software, no agents for our desktop license management, and almost certainly wouldn't be keeping up with security updates.
Last time I checked, there weren't any imminent linux virus threats.
Desktop license management? I thought linux was free.
If you have the ability to install linux, you probably have the ability to install security updates. Plus, as we've seen time and time again, sysadmins often don't even update their windows boxes and when a malicious bug strikes, whole networks go down... even though a patch was released months before.
Also, unlike windows, linux is a bit more secure straight out of the box.... or rather, iso.
KSpread will open it just fine.... I don't know what you're trying to use.
Did anyone know that slashdot has a filter to prevent me from posting in morse code??!?! The irony is striking.
Bainwol said in a statement. "What could be more rewarding than helping to promote two great American traditions: music and property rights?"
Damnit... And all along I thought it was baseball and barbeques.
Allright SCO, I'm running SuSE 8.2, however, it's a special compile and I have removed all pirated SCO code. What that you say? I'm wrong? Come over and prove it. Show me the code and I'll gladly pay you a licsence.
Without SCO actually showing anyone the code that is supposedly theirs, how can they even tell me that it's in my compile. It's extortion, plain and simple.
What if someone sets up a WiFi LAN just for file trading on their block? It's an open network, but there's no ISP at all. What would the RIAA do then, if they even noticed?
I think you're safe, I really can't see the RIAA warddriving through peoples neighborhoods anytime soon. Although, who knows, maybe one day the RIAA will have a BSA type situation, "Neighbor not mowing his lawn? Report him to Ma RIAA!"
So now all I have to do is setup a Wireless basestation with anonymous acces in my house and I can claim that I don't know who was downloading music from my internet connection.
The ultimate legal shield!
The problem with this case, that makes it very unique, is that Lexmark isn't saying its copyright infringement, they're saying its the DMCA for breaking encryption. However, you do bring up a very interesting point.
Interviews with ghosts.... next thing you know, Slashdot will be reporting that some financially unsound software company will be suing... I dunno, IBM saying that they own Linux or something like that.
>with programs like soundforge and others, anyone with a moderate pc plus musical instruments can record music.
Although some would argue this is not necessarily a good thing.
for "the first time in human history, we have the potential to protect ourselves from a catastrophe of truly cosmic proportions." A three phase program is urged that includes detection, exploration, and contingency planning.
This plan sounds suspiciously like an excuse to put lasers in space.... I can see it now,
"My fellow citizens, in the name of securing ourselves from evil celestial bodies hurtling towards the earth and thousands of miles per hour, we are beginning an expansive program to protect each and every citizen on this great planet. These lasers will be used for peaceful purposes... we wouldn't even think of aiming them at certain nations that have restarted nuclear programs or anything like that... noooooo."
A lot of the response posts are centering on reasons as to why companies would not ship to other countries at all. However, this person has stated that many companies have localized (country-centric) sites, however, these sites only have a partial catalog when compared to the US version of the website. Why is that? What is stopping, say, Dell from selling Model A, B, and C in Hungary rather than just Model A and C.
Along the same lines.... why is it that Amazon will ship this person books, but nothing else? I can see region coded DVD's, but not CD's, or consumer electronics?
In this day and age, if a country is willing to ship some products overseas, there really isn't a reason why they can't ship all of them. They've already got the infastructure in place, yet they aren't fully using it.
You just don't live in the right neighboorhood... Kids with computers, and kids with cars... see them all the time. And we aren't talking shit box Honda's.... these are some nice cars.... and there's no way all of them are drug dealers.
Having worked in a big box wal-mart like store for several years, I can say that had I been unscrupulous and wanted to take something, I could have.... and I wouldn't have had to leave via the main entrance. Employee's can very easily slip out the back.... now, if these chips were tracking everyone inside of the store, I can see massive privacy problems with that.
It's the slippery slope, but I can picture some guy in a dark room watching little blips move around on a screen ala Enemy of the State. How long before this technology is required and we all have chips under our skin to track us in the name of national security?
Man.....
Somebody's got an overactive imagination.
This project has scant little information on the various politicians I searched for. John Ashcroft's entry merely has his position, and who appointed him to it. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but.... CONSPIRACY!
...
In all seriousness though, this actually seems like a good thing, but it needs more meat to fill up the information pages.
There's definitely a big risk of zdnet going down, as it's hosted by a 14 year old with a 333 running Apache in console mode (Win98sr2) on a dsl connection and all...
Welcome to the 5 oclock news, today is July 7, 2003. This morning, an estimated 9,000 teenage boys were arrested as part of a massive sting to capture the perpetrators of yesterday's massive computer related attack. Investigators have confiscated a record number of computers related to this attack.
Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch
Because lets face it, if you're not building a serious home network, then what are you building?