Just because they don't have a general electrical grid doesn't mean that they can't keep electricity going to their "hacker compound".
Quite true. Something as important as training their own l33t hax0rs for international cyberwars might just warrant their own electricity generator, perhaps.
If you had a generic optical disc, and a CDRW burner, why would you have spent the extra money on 'generic' optical discs if you're only going to use them in your CDRW burner?
Point taken though - the differences either exist due to there being an opening in the markey for more potential revenue, or because there are inherent unavoidable differences between formats. Maybe somebody can take over from me there, as I don't know the details.
Kazaa's central server doesn't store a comprehensive list of the files transferred across its entire network, however. So it really can't keep track of what's being shared. That's the main difference that the courts are concerned with.
Fine for a lot of people here, but what will happen is businesses will still want windows and office, so they'll buy into this
Surely even the most PH of PHBs have realised by now that this isn't always (and hardly ever these days it seems) the best business solution?
And from the article:
Secure documents created in Microsoft Office, for instance, could be unusable on other operating systems or with other office productivity suites.
How convenient. But yet, at the same time, how is this, say, any more secure than a PGP'ed open format document, for instance? Our 'secure' solutions are already here, and all we need is an initiatve to use them in a positive way, and not an anti-competitive manner, such as that M$ is employing.
As the well-informed geeks that we are, we are quite aware of the fact that it's perfectly possible to run a secure operating system and maintain it in a good way without DRM in the manner advertised.
However, I can predict that M$ will make a valiant effort to try to persuade the public into thinking that not being part of their Next Generation Secure Computing Base will put them at some kind of immediate risk. The only real risk I can think of here will be the credit given to you if you choose not to run a trusted operating system.
"Hello, I'd like support for M$ Cock-In-Yo-Ass V6 please" "Are you using NGSCB?" "No" "We need you to be running a trusted operating system so that we can remotely assist you, sir." *Dial tone*
The movie you're playing pauses automatically when you go to the bathroom
I'm sure that would piss off the other people watching it..
Solution? Add a 52" Plasma TV and surround sound system to the toilet.. Extra points for connecting the subwoofer directly to the seat. You also wouldn't have to worry about those scary movies making you shit yourself..
Or at least turn them inside-out.. Another 20 years more good use there?
Unless of course, they're your permanent asbestos pants.. in which case you would probably find it rather difficult to turn them inside-out. Hmm, point taken.
I believe you mean 'quotation' rather than 'quote. See here for further information.</pedantic>
Apparently the general public have been abusing quote/quotation for nearly 250 years.. One would think that they might have worked it out by then.
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Just because they don't have a general electrical grid doesn't mean that they can't keep electricity going to their "hacker compound".
Quite true. Something as important as training their own l33t hax0rs for international cyberwars might just warrant their own electricity generator, perhaps.
*Spies a headline with no comments*
*Clicks headline*
and within that timeframe there's *ALREADY* somebody complaining about the lack of comments.
Sheesh you people!
If you had a generic optical disc, and a CDRW burner, why would you have spent the extra money on 'generic' optical discs if you're only going to use them in your CDRW burner?
Point taken though - the differences either exist due to there being an opening in the markey for more potential revenue, or because there are inherent unavoidable differences between formats. Maybe somebody can take over from me there, as I don't know the details.
Kazaa's central server doesn't store a comprehensive list of the files transferred across its entire network, however. So it really can't keep track of what's being shared. That's the main difference that the courts are concerned with.
Fine for a lot of people here, but what will happen is businesses will still want windows and office, so they'll buy into this
Surely even the most PH of PHBs have realised by now that this isn't always (and hardly ever these days it seems) the best business solution?
And from the article:
Secure documents created in Microsoft Office, for instance, could be unusable on other operating systems or with other office productivity suites.
How convenient. But yet, at the same time, how is this, say, any more secure than a PGP'ed open format document, for instance? Our 'secure' solutions are already here, and all we need is an initiatve to use them in a positive way, and not an anti-competitive manner, such as that M$ is employing.
As the well-informed geeks that we are, we are quite aware of the fact that it's perfectly possible to run a secure operating system and maintain it in a good way without DRM in the manner advertised.
However, I can predict that M$ will make a valiant effort to try to persuade the public into thinking that not being part of their Next Generation Secure Computing Base will put them at some kind of immediate risk. The only real risk I can think of here will be the credit given to you if you choose not to run a trusted operating system.
"Hello, I'd like support for M$ Cock-In-Yo-Ass V6 please"
"Are you using NGSCB?"
"No"
"We need you to be running a trusted operating system so that we can remotely assist you, sir."
*Dial tone*
This movement won't be a good thing.
The movie you're playing pauses automatically when you go to the bathroom I'm sure that would piss off the other people watching it.. Solution? Add a 52" Plasma TV and surround sound system to the toilet.. Extra points for connecting the subwoofer directly to the seat. You also wouldn't have to worry about those scary movies making you shit yourself..
Or at least turn them inside-out.. Another 20 years more good use there?
Unless of course, they're your permanent asbestos pants.. in which case you would probably find it rather difficult to turn them inside-out. Hmm, point taken.
I believe you mean 'quotation' rather than 'quote. See here for further information.</pedantic> Apparently the general public have been abusing quote/quotation for nearly 250 years.. One would think that they might have worked it out by then.