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The new software also enhances the e-mail program, giving users, for instance, the power to decide whether their e-mails can be forwarded or not.
Am I still allowed to print the e-mail and forward it to someone else via the U.S. Postal Service? Or will I violate Micro$oft's End User License by doing so?
Hmmm...Digital Rights Management for e-mail...I don't know if I like that...
Lamar Smith, R-Texas; Howard Berman, D-Calif; and John Conyers, D-Mich are taking up arms against P2P networks with a bizarre new bill that would require (software) companies...to add a warning that (their software) 'could create a security and privacy risk.'
Let's post a similar warning in front of Capitol Hill.
MS: "But your honor, we are giving users a choice. They can use IE for shop for music online or just not shop."
This issue has been addressed by Microsoft, all you need to do is read about it.
To access the MS Word document that explains how M$ is complying with the law, simply access the "My Government" folder that was created automatically when you installed Windows XP.
In related news, Project Gluttenburger recently celebrated its 48th anniversary.
Project Gluttenburger was founded in 1955 by an underweight clown, with the aim of "[making] fatty, high cholesterol foods and other greasy materials available to the general public in quantities that will make a vast majority of the people obese, rotund and super-sized."
What a great way to exchange code that violates laws against decrypting encryption schemes...turn it into sound, post it on a website for downloading, and reconvert it back to code at the other end!
Technically, you're not distributing this code, are you?
...the weekly dead tree version of certain web sites, such as Slashdot.org. I read it in the bathroom at the +3 threshold. I begin at 8:00am Saturday and finish an hour later.
I won't describe what else happens during that time, other than to say I have another definition of the "Slashdot Effect".
(Technofiles') enthusiasm might cool off now that London Transport has admitted that not only can the card be used to track your journey across London -- they're actually going to keep the data for 'a number of years'.
We are not technophiles. We are not citizens. We are not even humans. We are consumers to corporations and governments, thus the old-fashioned notions of rights and privacy no longer apply. We are fodder for marketing departments and government committees.
Maybe an online petition to bring back the RS-232 is in order:)
Yes, and the same goes for the 1.44Mb floppy drive. Dell is trying to obsolete it, and Ford Motor Company went along with it and bought PCs from Dell without floppy drives.
Why do PC and PC part manufacturers keep pushing for changes that should in fact be demand (or lack thereof) driven?
However, with the single-gear Tzero's engine limited to just over 100 m.p.h. at 13,300 r.p.m.'s, it will never win an oval-track race against those supercars.
Unless of course you purchase the Scotty model, which comes with a guy in a red shirt (who surprisingly doesn't die) who rides shotgun, takes requests/orders from the driver to improve performance, whines about how the (di)lithium crystal batteries won't take the stress, then after a few tense seconds gets the car going 30 m.p.h. faster than it's rated to go.
Anyone Remember Telstar Game Machine?
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When I was a kid in the mid 1970s, I remember playing a game machine called "Telstar". You hooked it up to your TV like the Atari 2600, except that this had a triangular console: One side had a gun that you could aim at the TV and "shoot" a moving object, another side had "Pong"-like hockey and tennis with knob controllers, and the third side had a steering wheel that would move a "racing car" up or down while the "road" scrolled right to left.
The economy is improving for the super rich. After two years of declines, the total net worth of America's richest people rose 10 percent to $955 billion this year from 2002, according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the nation's 400 wealthiest individuals.
Thank God! I'm glad the super rich are doing better, because they've had a hell of a rough time.
I'd type more about this, but I'm off to the store to take back some pop bottles so I can buy some tripe to make a tripe sandwich with.
Had I read the story, I would say something like "It's about time somebody did something about this."
However, since I have not, I feel less agitated and think that hard drives are so large now relative to ordinary computer uses (surfing the web, e-mail, word processing, etc.) that only us nerds would quibble about a few megabytes. This is the year 2003--we live in a gigabyte age now, so what does it matter?
This is an extremely simple patch for the 2.4 kernel. It creates a read/writable entry/proc/sys/kernel/jiffies, where you can get and set the current jiffies. To fake your systems uptime, write the required number of jiffies to this file :
# echo 100000 >/proc/sys/kernel/jiffies
Nice way to solve this problem. You really must have a refined sense of good taste, because only choosy mothers choose jiffies.
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Get your facts straight, michael.
Am I still allowed to print the e-mail and forward it to someone else via the U.S. Postal Service? Or will I violate Micro$oft's End User License by doing so?
Hmmm...Digital Rights Management for e-mail...I don't know if I like that...
Let's post a similar warning in front of Capitol Hill.
Why should anyone in the world buy bottled water for $1.00 each if they can get water for pennies at home?
Govt: MS, you are not giving users a choice here.
MS: "But your honor, we are giving users a choice. They can use IE for shop for music online or just not shop."
This issue has been addressed by Microsoft, all you need to do is read about it.
To access the MS Word document that explains how M$ is complying with the law, simply access the "My Government" folder that was created automatically when you installed Windows XP.
And also as a result, goods and services cost many, many times what they cost a worker in the Phillipines.
Project Gluttenburger was founded in 1955 by an underweight clown, with the aim of "[making] fatty, high cholesterol foods and other greasy materials available to the general public in quantities that will make a vast majority of the people obese, rotund and super-sized."
The costs will be a lot higher if we don't detect and defeat the alien hordes through SETI.
I hate penny-pinching accountant types.
But think of how useful the EULA would be while reading your paperback on the toilet, especially if you run out of toilet paper.
Perhaps, though, it should be called an UELA (User's End Lavatory Aid).
Technically, you're not distributing this code, are you?
Yes, but just remember, it's not the size of the song that counts. Even a short song like this could deeply penetrate P2P networks.
It's obviously just Digital Rights Management code!
I won't describe what else happens during that time, other than to say I have another definition of the "Slashdot Effect".
How clever: Get people to be excited about being "tracked" with technology!
Check out this site for more information on how your privacy is being invaded today...
We are not technophiles. We are not citizens. We are not even humans. We are consumers to corporations and governments, thus the old-fashioned notions of rights and privacy no longer apply. We are fodder for marketing departments and government committees.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Yes, and the same goes for the 1.44Mb floppy drive. Dell is trying to obsolete it, and Ford Motor Company went along with it and bought PCs from Dell without floppy drives.
Why do PC and PC part manufacturers keep pushing for changes that should in fact be demand (or lack thereof) driven?
So that's where Sodimm Hussein has been hiding! It's now the mother of all boards!
The message I got was:
Slashdot geek error: Call to overworked function: website_die() in db/db.php on line 88
I'm not sure what this is in binary.
Great...let's make the gas giant even gassier...
Unless of course you purchase the Scotty model, which comes with a guy in a red shirt (who surprisingly doesn't die) who rides shotgun, takes requests/orders from the driver to improve performance, whines about how the (di)lithium crystal batteries won't take the stress, then after a few tense seconds gets the car going 30 m.p.h. faster than it's rated to go.
Any old geezers out there remember this?
Thank God! I'm glad the super rich are doing better, because they've had a hell of a rough time.
I'd type more about this, but I'm off to the store to take back some pop bottles so I can buy some tripe to make a tripe sandwich with.
Had I read the story, I would say something like "It's about time somebody did something about this."
However, since I have not, I feel less agitated and think that hard drives are so large now relative to ordinary computer uses (surfing the web, e-mail, word processing, etc.) that only us nerds would quibble about a few megabytes. This is the year 2003--we live in a gigabyte age now, so what does it matter?
JIFFIES
This is an extremely simple patch for the 2.4 kernel. It creates a read/writable entry /proc/sys/kernel/jiffies, where you can get and set the current jiffies. To fake your systems uptime, write the required number of jiffies to this file :
# echo 100000 > /proc/sys/kernel/jiffies
Nice way to solve this problem. You really must have a refined sense of good taste, because only choosy mothers choose jiffies.
Reminds me of my first car.