Either Microsoft has been withholding patches from their paying customers and has decided to let a small segment (the federal government) go ahead and have them once they're ready, or they're foisting incomplete and buggy code onto the government, including the IRS.
On the other hand it could also be viewed as requesting a copy and having it sent to you by the sharer -- which is what happens at a technical level (GET, not cp, so it's someone else's program on someone else's computer making the copy).
But on the other hand, I use Amazon and iTunes. Musicians who deserve to be listened to also generally deserve their nickel. Same goes for audio engineers, producers, and anyone else involved....yes, including the executives at the record company. They have a mortgage to pay and food to buy. Record companies lose a lot of money on flops; they owe it to their investors to break even.
It's "different" because Joe Trippi and a few other blowhards had the news media going hook, line, and sinker; it's the part of the Howard Dean mania that continued past the scream.
Gee, we've had opinion and news websites for years.
I have an account on a journal service and never update.
To be fair, ThinkSecret is more of a news site than what comes to mind when you think of a blog. Its format is not unlike http://www.csmonitor.com; would you call the Christian Science Monitor a blog? No, you call it a newspaper.
I wouldn't exactly call ThinkSecret a blog. It actually looks rather like the website that newspapers have.
But on the other hand, the leak was not of the whistleblower variety or anything like that, so I see no reason why Apple oughtn't know what employees are leaking to the press, in violation both of trade secret law and most likely of the employees' contracts, or if in fact a competitor has directly engaged in espionage.
Don't screw your employer (if an employee is indeed involved here) and expect to get away with it -- that is how business works.
Well, if they outright license the patent for use in free software, that constitutes a contract on which you cannot renege, unless the license agreement contains an escape clause for CA, which would lead no sensible open source developer to take advantage of it.
Unix vendors like Red Hat, Sun, and Apple design their operating systems so as to render theoretical viral infection pretty difficult -- note how nobody has unleashed a virus on all the Linux servers.
It's only a matter of time until Microsoft builds basic antivirus functionality into Windows, which along with better design would run a lot of security companies out of business.
Firstly, a lot of people have older telephones; old Bell System hardware is extremely reliable.
Secondly, the media. TV and movies still use mechanical ringer noises, and moreover the characters are often seen sporting not only mechanical ringers but vintage equipment.
I use a recording of a vintage telephone's mechanical ringer. It gets my attention, and isn't horribly aggravating -- it's quite obviously a telephone, making a sound to which most people are accustomed.
Ericofon.com doen't just have Ericsson phones -- they have all types of ringer recordings, which I have had good luck converting to AMR (once I change the WAV file a bit so my AMR converter will work) and USBing over to my Nokia phone.
The sound can be kind of surprising if you aren't expecting it, being as it sounds just like a regular telephone but is in someone's pocket, but it sounds kind of nice, and whoever said that a telephone's ringer should be a bloody iPod?
If you don't have oodles of bandwiddth and want to be able to talk and play network games at the same time, maybe you should stick with a telephone solution not using the public Internet, such as an RBOC land line or digital service from the cable company. Not as cheap as Vonage, I will admit, but if you have to buy more bandwidth from the ISP to do everything you did before, why change?
News blogs are, in my opinion, really just the crude predecessor to WikiNews, which aims for NPOV more than most any newsblog, and that is enforced through collaboration. Give me a newspaper over WIkiNews most any day, though.
I find the best of both worlds for news to be Fark or Slashdot -- the posts are mostly links to legitimate journalistic endeavours employing real journalists, but people can still ham it up on the comments -- de facto fora on Slashdot, streams of consciousness on Fark. Perhaps a bit of biased commentary leading up to the link, and of course there'll be some noticable bias from time to time in the articles, but the actual pieces are written
Now mind you, the entertainment or geeky bloggers can be a fun read, and the I-had-a-mediocre-day-today-and-I-like-Beethoven Livejournal users can communicate effectively with friends near and afar, but for the news, give me an assortment of as many real papers as I can get aroudn to reading, with the help perhaps of aggregator sites such as GoogleNews or Fark.
Copyright is not what has been violated here.
Rather, there are two issues
* DMCA restrictions on copy protection circumvention
* Good old fashioned contract law -- when you download something from a music service, you agree to the terms set forth by said service. Don't like the contract? Don't sign it.
Also they no longer have to provide with every iPod what appear to be custom-built rounded white adapters for connecting 6-pin FireWire cables to 4-pin ports, like they did before iPods shipped with USB cables -- bear in mind that a lot of Windows PCs with FireWire have the camera-style 4-pin port.
It says he needs an IP lawyer -- but as I understand it, leaking a developer beta of OS X is first and foremost a breach of contract -- when you promise a company you won't do something damaging to said company, and then you do it anyway, a lawsuit is to be expected. Copyright and trade secret COULD be invoked but this looks more like a contract case.
Them and the Democrats both. The Dean presidential campaign was bribing bloggers with kickbacks -- commentators and amateur journalists are especially susceptible to this sort of stuff (back to the red side of things, Armstrong Williams makes a good example).
The reason the politicians are so big on blogs is that they provide an outlet for manipulable amateur journalists. Bribing the paper for an endorsement is the oldest political dirty trick in the book, and now it's a lot easier to do it, particularly if you can get a well-read blogger to start cooperating.
(p.s. I supported Kerry, and I haven't heard anything yet about his campaign bribing journos, though I wouldn't be extremely surprised)
Run RS-232 if you think there's a realistic chance you will use it.
Also I might suggest that if you are really electrically adept you might want to run some sort of cable with a lot of pins; then you could make up adapters for anything for which the resistance of the cable in question is appropriate, just be sure to remember which pins are which.
Don't forget telephone wiring, a jack in every room if you can.
I'd suggest, if you don't mind buying all these, a bundle of this composition for all rooms: * CAT6e RJ45-RJ45 8-pin for gigabit Ethernet. As nice as wireless is, if you're going to the trouble of wiring a house for everything else, it's worthwhile to run gigabit. You can still stick an Airport Express in a power outlet somewhere. * Good phone line, RJ11-RJ11, at least 4 pins, though 6 wouldn't be bad. This should be of good quality -- for good voice and for home automation if you are into that * RS232 serial -- if you might want to run two from one place, run two 9-pin (perhaps on one cable, if you feel like splicing two pairs of DB9s onto each end of a cable designed for DB25 serial) runs. Though you might just run one serial or two on different cables, it's not as big as it once was but it might be nice to have sometime. * 75-ohm coaxial cable for TV. You probably don't want to run this everywhere, but anywhere you might want to install a TV. Don't forget to have a cable drop at your headend if you have a cable modem. * Don't forget good electrical wiring, if you don't have it already!
Well, people just don't want to work at Microsoft like they used to. Or IBM. And I don't believe Apple is hiring anywhere near the degree that Google is.
Still, though, it does seem like Slashdot is acting almost like Monster.com or something.
Clarke was talking in thinly concealed terms about a Windows worm being theoretically put out by America's enemies, resulting in a shift towards open-source operating systems.
I wonder if some of the viruses that cause so much trouble are in fact backed by scumbags like bin Laden -- there have been a lot more dangerous Windows viruses since roundabouts 9/11, it seems to me, so I wonder if that's a function of an increase in terrorism, or just the suckage of Windows XP, which came out October 25, 2001. If 19-year-old Russians, the usual suspects, can do so much damage, imagine what people who will not hesitate at suicide can do -- it is frightening at best.
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Inexpensive, as compared to a truly massive disk.
Either Microsoft has been withholding patches from their paying customers and has decided to let a small segment (the federal government) go ahead and have them once they're ready, or they're foisting incomplete and buggy code onto the government, including the IRS.
If you get audited this year, blame Microsoft.
Jeez, take up a collection. I'm certain you could find that much a year for viable science.
It appears to me as if eBay is the auctioneer here; since when do property owners have to be licensed auctioneers to have something auctioned?
It's like saying that you have to be a doctor or a nurse to go to the hospital.
You don't need the future tense. Without the Shuttle, when we send someone to the ISS, we already have to let the Russians do the transportation.
On the other hand it could also be viewed as requesting a copy and having it sent to you by the sharer -- which is what happens at a technical level (GET, not cp, so it's someone else's program on someone else's computer making the copy). But on the other hand, I use Amazon and iTunes. Musicians who deserve to be listened to also generally deserve their nickel. Same goes for audio engineers, producers, and anyone else involved....yes, including the executives at the record company. They have a mortgage to pay and food to buy. Record companies lose a lot of money on flops; they owe it to their investors to break even.
It's "different" because Joe Trippi and a few other blowhards had the news media going hook, line, and sinker; it's the part of the Howard Dean mania that continued past the scream.
Gee, we've had opinion and news websites for years.
I have an account on a journal service and never update.
To be fair, ThinkSecret is more of a news site than what comes to mind when you think of a blog. Its format is not unlike http://www.csmonitor.com; would you call the Christian Science Monitor a blog? No, you call it a newspaper.
I wouldn't exactly call ThinkSecret a blog. It actually looks rather like the website that newspapers have.
But on the other hand, the leak was not of the whistleblower variety or anything like that, so I see no reason why Apple oughtn't know what employees are leaking to the press, in violation both of trade secret law and most likely of the employees' contracts, or if in fact a competitor has directly engaged in espionage.
Don't screw your employer (if an employee is indeed involved here) and expect to get away with it -- that is how business works.
Well, if they outright license the patent for use in free software, that constitutes a contract on which you cannot renege, unless the license agreement contains an escape clause for CA, which would lead no sensible open source developer to take advantage of it.
Unix vendors like Red Hat, Sun, and Apple design their operating systems so as to render theoretical viral infection pretty difficult -- note how nobody has unleashed a virus on all the Linux servers.
It's only a matter of time until Microsoft builds basic antivirus functionality into Windows, which along with better design would run a lot of security companies out of business.
Mediums are palm readers -- and even they could be called psychic media and people would know what you mean.
And media are always plural. If you're looking for a singular noun to talk about the press, "press" is your word.
Firstly, a lot of people have older telephones; old Bell System hardware is extremely reliable. Secondly, the media. TV and movies still use mechanical ringer noises, and moreover the characters are often seen sporting not only mechanical ringers but vintage equipment.
I use a recording of a vintage telephone's mechanical ringer. It gets my attention, and isn't horribly aggravating -- it's quite obviously a telephone, making a sound to which most people are accustomed.
Ericofon.com doen't just have Ericsson phones -- they have all types of ringer recordings, which I have had good luck converting to AMR (once I change the WAV file a bit so my AMR converter will work) and USBing over to my Nokia phone.
The sound can be kind of surprising if you aren't expecting it, being as it sounds just like a regular telephone but is in someone's pocket, but it sounds kind of nice, and whoever said that a telephone's ringer should be a bloody iPod?
Would have sworn he was involved in UI -- must be because of his later exploits in interface design that got me mixed up. I stand corrected.
Because since Jef Raskin et alii's Mac GUI of 1984, a vast improvement over the Lisa and all other existing systems, nothing's changed much.
I'm using OS X right now; it's really the same thing plus the Dock, and maybe the finder's a bit better. It's time for another revolution.
If you don't have oodles of bandwiddth and want to be able to talk and play network games at the same time, maybe you should stick with a telephone solution not using the public Internet, such as an RBOC land line or digital service from the cable company. Not as cheap as Vonage, I will admit, but if you have to buy more bandwidth from the ISP to do everything you did before, why change?
News blogs are, in my opinion, really just the crude predecessor to WikiNews, which aims for NPOV more than most any newsblog, and that is enforced through collaboration. Give me a newspaper over WIkiNews most any day, though.
I find the best of both worlds for news to be Fark or Slashdot -- the posts are mostly links to legitimate journalistic endeavours employing real journalists, but people can still ham it up on the comments -- de facto fora on Slashdot, streams of consciousness on Fark. Perhaps a bit of biased commentary leading up to the link, and of course there'll be some noticable bias from time to time in the articles, but the actual pieces are written
Now mind you, the entertainment or geeky bloggers can be a fun read, and the I-had-a-mediocre-day-today-and-I-like-Beethoven Livejournal users can communicate effectively with friends near and afar, but for the news, give me an assortment of as many real papers as I can get aroudn to reading, with the help perhaps of aggregator sites such as GoogleNews or Fark.
Copyright is not what has been violated here. Rather, there are two issues * DMCA restrictions on copy protection circumvention * Good old fashioned contract law -- when you download something from a music service, you agree to the terms set forth by said service. Don't like the contract? Don't sign it.
Also they no longer have to provide with every iPod what appear to be custom-built rounded white adapters for connecting 6-pin FireWire cables to 4-pin ports, like they did before iPods shipped with USB cables -- bear in mind that a lot of Windows PCs with FireWire have the camera-style 4-pin port.
It says he needs an IP lawyer -- but as I understand it, leaking a developer beta of OS X is first and foremost a breach of contract -- when you promise a company you won't do something damaging to said company, and then you do it anyway, a lawsuit is to be expected. Copyright and trade secret COULD be invoked but this looks more like a contract case.
Them and the Democrats both. The Dean presidential campaign was bribing bloggers with kickbacks -- commentators and amateur journalists are especially susceptible to this sort of stuff (back to the red side of things, Armstrong Williams makes a good example). The reason the politicians are so big on blogs is that they provide an outlet for manipulable amateur journalists. Bribing the paper for an endorsement is the oldest political dirty trick in the book, and now it's a lot easier to do it, particularly if you can get a well-read blogger to start cooperating. (p.s. I supported Kerry, and I haven't heard anything yet about his campaign bribing journos, though I wouldn't be extremely surprised)
Run RS-232 if you think there's a realistic chance you will use it.
Also I might suggest that if you are really electrically adept you might want to run some sort of cable with a lot of pins; then you could make up adapters for anything for which the resistance of the cable in question is appropriate, just be sure to remember which pins are which.
Don't forget telephone wiring, a jack in every room if you can.
I'd suggest, if you don't mind buying all these, a bundle of this composition for all rooms:
* CAT6e RJ45-RJ45 8-pin for gigabit Ethernet. As nice as wireless is, if you're going to the trouble of wiring a house for everything else, it's worthwhile to run gigabit. You can still stick an Airport Express in a power outlet somewhere.
* Good phone line, RJ11-RJ11, at least 4 pins, though 6 wouldn't be bad. This should be of good quality -- for good voice and for home automation if you are into that
* RS232 serial -- if you might want to run two from one place, run two 9-pin (perhaps on one cable, if you feel like splicing two pairs of DB9s onto each end of a cable designed for DB25 serial) runs. Though you might just run one serial or two on different cables, it's not as big as it once was but it might be nice to have sometime.
* 75-ohm coaxial cable for TV. You probably don't want to run this everywhere, but anywhere you might want to install a TV. Don't forget to have a cable drop at your headend if you have a cable modem.
* Don't forget good electrical wiring, if you don't have it already!
Well, people just don't want to work at Microsoft like they used to. Or IBM. And I don't believe Apple is hiring anywhere near the degree that Google is. Still, though, it does seem like Slashdot is acting almost like Monster.com or something.
Clarke was talking in thinly concealed terms about a Windows worm being theoretically put out by America's enemies, resulting in a shift towards open-source operating systems.
I wonder if some of the viruses that cause so much trouble are in fact backed by scumbags like bin Laden -- there have been a lot more dangerous Windows viruses since roundabouts 9/11, it seems to me, so I wonder if that's a function of an increase in terrorism, or just the suckage of Windows XP, which came out October 25, 2001. If 19-year-old Russians, the usual suspects, can do so much damage, imagine what people who will not hesitate at suicide can do -- it is frightening at best.