The problem is, it's the internet. Somehow folks keep mistaking it for something that all falls under U.S. law. There are many countries out there with very different cultural sexual morays. Some things that are 'taboo' in the U.S., are normal for other cultures.
You can't regulate what's normal in those other cultures, sorry. This is the internet we are talking about, not the U.S.net. They can post things 'normal' for their culture on their websites.
You can, however, monitor what your kids access if you want to. And I suggest you do if you want to be a good parent.
He did inform them. Many months ago. They've had a fix out for 3 months for part of the problem he pinted out. They haven't fixed the rest yet. He went through the right channels. They haven't fixed it yet. There have been many many examples with them, Microsoft, and even recently mozilla, where bugs were reported and the vendor took over a year to finally getting around to fix the problem. And that was only after the problem had been 'leaked' to the public.
The hole exists. Sometimes it takes shouting about it to get it fixed. He gave them time. If you think 3+ months is enough time or not is a debatable point. But he DID notify them through channels.
Well, there is this thing called a 'radio' It lets you play music for free. Sweet eh? Oh, and your local library also probably has an interesting collection of music available for loan, also for free. There is no need for piracy to listen to music.
"The whole point of a music career is to make a living producing and performing music." I thought it was to make good music?
Perhaps you missed the word 'career' which is generally taken as one's a profession or occupation. You know, a job to make money. Lots of people can be musians on the side for fun. When you make it your career, you want to make a living at it.
That was certainly true at the time of the Xbox launch. But it's been a while since. Prices on the cpu's hard drives, etc, etc, used in it have all dropped significantly since. I wonder how much of a loss the sale of a new one actually costs them these days.
What if the person buying it has no knowledge that the copy isn't legitimate? For example, Joe Sixpack goes down to his local mom-and-pop computer store and buys a new computer. Unbeknownst to him, the shop installs a pirated copy of Windows XP. Joe has no actual knowledge that the copy isn't legit, and indeed would be hard pressed to determine as such unless he educates himself as to how to tell.
In which case, they should have a proof of purchase from the mom-and-pop store. If you'd bother to read the article, you'd know that MS will provide them with a REAL copy of windows after they get a copy of the proof of purchase. You are still trolling.
However, there is another possibility: people with less-than-legit copies of Windows will turn off the automatic updates for fear of being busted. It's possible they might make the same mistake I did, by assuming all downloads are subject to this ban. Either way, the result is the same: unpatched Windows boxes.
People with legitimate copies can turn off automatic updates as well if they are paranoid about it breaking something. What's your point? This is MS's fault again? More trolling.
I wouldn't classify security patches as "new features", I would classify them as "we made a broken product, here's the fix". See my "exploding battery" analogy above.
They are providing security patches. It's other non-security updates (new features) that they aren't providing for pirated copies. Please stop trolling.
What the hell are you talking about? MS is refusing to provide updates if you don't have a real copy. That's not "coming after you".
It's exactly equivalent as the grandparent suggested to not getting tech or warrent support from DeWalt on a drill that is a knock-off, and not a real DeWalt.
Hell, MS is still giving you security patches to for your 'knock-off drill'. That's far more thand DeWalt would bother to do.
MS does plenty of crappy things. There are a lot of things to complain about. This is NOT one of them.
MS is still going to provide security patchs to everyone, even those with pirated copies. Gee, you don't get other non security updates with your pirated OS? Too bad.
And, jokes aside, "proof of purchase" of what?
MS is asking for proof of purchase of the computer bundled with the OS or OS alone so that they can identify and then close down shady shops that sell pirated software to the unsuspecting public. You know "working to target the entities they believe to be illegally selling Windows", which is exactly what you say they should be doing. They aren't blaming the user. Where exactly do you see MS blaming the user? If the person has the proof of purchase that they were ripped off, MS will give them a real copy of windows. They just won't give a legitimate copy to some user who downloaded it off some 'leet' website, etc.
They should be offering amnesty and/or discounts to people who are running straight-up pirated versions of Windows with no "proof of purchase" at all, if this is any attempt to reach out to people running unlicensed copies!
As I said, they have no intention of shelling out for free copies for losers who downloaded a copy of windows off of some warez site. They ARE offering free copies to people who were actually ripped off by bad dealers. Sounds damn reasonable to me.
So instead you will keep from joining their group the only folks who would be opposed to trusted computing?
They didn't join your group. Get over it. Staying pure in your group might make you feel good, but it's the group made of major manufacturers who will decide what's actually produced and out there for consumers to use. Not trying to join up with them and make the voice of reason present within that grou might be much much more unwise.
Also most laptops don't come with upgradable video cards. Plus the video cards they do come with generally aren't nearly as good as similarly priced desktop video cards.
Nope. It's directly set in the clock setting of the TV. Same with the VCR. You turn on/off the DST setting there, as well as set the time.
Why would it use the code in the TV broadcast? What if you lived on the border of a time code/switch area and could recieve signals from stations on different sides of the border? Which time should the TV use? It uses whatever time you use, and set it to.
Few devices adjust for DST. To my knowledge, only computers do this.
Let me just look around my room here... My TV does. So does my VCR. There are lots of things out there besides 'computers' that adjust for DST. Certainly my TV and VCR aren't 'patchable' to changes to when the time changes occur.
Why is it funny? Those are two entirely different types of jobs.
One is the persuit of scientific knowledge, where the experiments, results and interpetations will be reviewed/critiqed by peers for it's scientific correctness, and the experiments repeated by multiple different groups. All aimed at expanding human knowledge.
The other is where they are managing a business, trying to satisfy several different aims, many of which directly conflict with others (making a product customers want, for a price they want, to make lots of money now keep the owner/shareholders happy, to do good things for long term growth of the company, keeping their employees working/happy, and pleasing the P.H.B above them).
It's hardly shocking that one could be well done and well respected, while the results from other would be often joke worthy.
Apparently you have no clue how science is done. Other scientists WILL question the research. That's what peer review in publishing is all about. And other researchers in the field will try to reproduce/corroborate those studies. Others will try to take the science further based on those studies. If there is a problem with the science, it will eventually be pointed out by other scientists. That's how science works.
You can always plug in a phone, but turn off the ringer. You can make local calls to your hearts content, but ignore incoming calls. At least you get half the use out of it that way.
Mod parent up. If you do this with OSS or any OS in a corporate production environment, you shouldn't be in the job you have. Every good amin I know has test machines of whatever flavor OS they run, for just that purpose.
He was a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery during the D-Day landing. He was a pilot observer later in the war. Do your research on the guy before claiming what he didn't do in WWII. He did a lot. He was quite a guy.
and when you live near a time zone switch.. dealing with what time stores are open.. it is crazy
And how exactly does this get easier with only one time? Right now, wherever you go, you know the local Best Buy will probably close at ~9 pm on weekdays. If you know roughly what time it is where you are (within an hour at least) you know if the stores will be open or not.
With one time zone, one place you are at, the stores might close at 8 PM. A thousand miles east of there most places would probably close at 5 pm. Now you have to ask 'what time do the stores close around here' wherever you go. That sounds a hell of a lot more confusing to me.
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You can't regulate what's normal in those other cultures, sorry. This is the internet we are talking about, not the U.S.net. They can post things 'normal' for their culture on their websites.
You can, however, monitor what your kids access if you want to. And I suggest you do if you want to be a good parent.
And who the hell mod'ed a racist insightful?
The hole exists. Sometimes it takes shouting about it to get it fixed. He gave them time. If you think 3+ months is enough time or not is a debatable point. But he DID notify them through channels.
And a DoS attack is bad. But a bad guy routing your packets to someplace he wants in instead of their intended target is much much worse.
Cisco was notified many months ago, and released a patch for part of it 3 months ago.
That's also in the article.
Well, there is this thing called a 'radio' It lets you play music for free. Sweet eh? Oh, and your local library also probably has an interesting collection of music available for loan, also for free. There is no need for piracy to listen to music.
Perhaps you missed the word 'career' which is generally taken as one's a profession or occupation. You know, a job to make money. Lots of people can be musians on the side for fun. When you make it your career, you want to make a living at it.
That was certainly true at the time of the Xbox launch. But it's been a while since. Prices on the cpu's hard drives, etc, etc, used in it have all dropped significantly since. I wonder how much of a loss the sale of a new one actually costs them these days.
With one way there is some small hope. With the other there is none.
In which case, they should have a proof of purchase from the mom-and-pop store. If you'd bother to read the article, you'd know that MS will provide them with a REAL copy of windows after they get a copy of the proof of purchase. You are still trolling.
However, there is another possibility: people with less-than-legit copies of Windows will turn off the automatic updates for fear of being busted. It's possible they might make the same mistake I did, by assuming all downloads are subject to this ban. Either way, the result is the same: unpatched Windows boxes.
People with legitimate copies can turn off automatic updates as well if they are paranoid about it breaking something. What's your point? This is MS's fault again? More trolling.
I wouldn't classify security patches as "new features", I would classify them as "we made a broken product, here's the fix". See my "exploding battery" analogy above.
They are providing security patches. It's other non-security updates (new features) that they aren't providing for pirated copies. Please stop trolling.
What the hell are you talking about? MS is refusing to provide updates if you don't have a real copy. That's not "coming after you".
It's exactly equivalent as the grandparent suggested to not getting tech or warrent support from DeWalt on a drill that is a knock-off, and not a real DeWalt.
Hell, MS is still giving you security patches to for your 'knock-off drill'. That's far more thand DeWalt would bother to do.
MS does plenty of crappy things. There are a lot of things to complain about. This is NOT one of them.
And, jokes aside, "proof of purchase" of what?
MS is asking for proof of purchase of the computer bundled with the OS or OS alone so that they can identify and then close down shady shops that sell pirated software to the unsuspecting public. You know "working to target the entities they believe to be illegally selling Windows", which is exactly what you say they should be doing. They aren't blaming the user. Where exactly do you see MS blaming the user? If the person has the proof of purchase that they were ripped off, MS will give them a real copy of windows. They just won't give a legitimate copy to some user who downloaded it off some 'leet' website, etc.
They should be offering amnesty and/or discounts to people who are running straight-up pirated versions of Windows with no "proof of purchase" at all, if this is any attempt to reach out to people running unlicensed copies!
As I said, they have no intention of shelling out for free copies for losers who downloaded a copy of windows off of some warez site. They ARE offering free copies to people who were actually ripped off by bad dealers. Sounds damn reasonable to me.
They didn't join your group. Get over it. Staying pure in your group might make you feel good, but it's the group made of major manufacturers who will decide what's actually produced and out there for consumers to use. Not trying to join up with them and make the voice of reason present within that grou might be much much more unwise.
Also most laptops don't come with upgradable video cards. Plus the video cards they do come with generally aren't nearly as good as similarly priced desktop video cards.
That's a nice feature. Unfortunately, not all TVs have it.
Why would it use the code in the TV broadcast? What if you lived on the border of a time code/switch area and could recieve signals from stations on different sides of the border? Which time should the TV use? It uses whatever time you use, and set it to.
Turn off the DST setting. But there is no way to adjust it for states that use it, but at different dates that are hardwired into it.
Let me just look around my room here... My TV does. So does my VCR. There are lots of things out there besides 'computers' that adjust for DST. Certainly my TV and VCR aren't 'patchable' to changes to when the time changes occur.
One is the persuit of scientific knowledge, where the experiments, results and interpetations will be reviewed/critiqed by peers for it's scientific correctness, and the experiments repeated by multiple different groups. All aimed at expanding human knowledge.
The other is where they are managing a business, trying to satisfy several different aims, many of which directly conflict with others (making a product customers want, for a price they want, to make lots of money now keep the owner/shareholders happy, to do good things for long term growth of the company, keeping their employees working/happy, and pleasing the P.H.B above them).
It's hardly shocking that one could be well done and well respected, while the results from other would be often joke worthy.
Apparently you have no clue how science is done. Other scientists WILL question the research. That's what peer review in publishing is all about. And other researchers in the field will try to reproduce/corroborate those studies. Others will try to take the science further based on those studies. If there is a problem with the science, it will eventually be pointed out by other scientists. That's how science works.
If it's focus is set at the same as Hubble's the moom will still be too close for it to focus on.
You can always plug in a phone, but turn off the ringer. You can make local calls to your hearts content, but ignore incoming calls. At least you get half the use out of it that way.
Mod parent up. If you do this with OSS or any OS in a corporate production environment, you shouldn't be in the job you have. Every good amin I know has test machines of whatever flavor OS they run, for just that purpose.
He was a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery during the D-Day landing. He was a pilot observer later in the war. Do your research on the guy before claiming what he didn't do in WWII. He did a lot. He was quite a guy.
And how exactly does this get easier with only one time? Right now, wherever you go, you know the local Best Buy will probably close at ~9 pm on weekdays. If you know roughly what time it is where you are (within an hour at least) you know if the stores will be open or not.
With one time zone, one place you are at, the stores might close at 8 PM. A thousand miles east of there most places would probably close at 5 pm. Now you have to ask 'what time do the stores close around here' wherever you go. That sounds a hell of a lot more confusing to me.