Actually it is not distributing copyrighted files that is illegal, it is distributing copyrighted files THAT THE LICENSOR HAS NOT ALLOWED YOU TO DISTRIBUTE that is illegal, there is a difference.
Not that that applies in these cases, but the distinction should be made.
Here is a link to the Sunday Times which confirms this information, include government confirmation. The Times is probably the most non-tabloid newpaper in the UK!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-79051 2,00.html
Actually a firewall on a keyboard makes some sense, already keyboards use a general purpose communications link (USB), so might not some future system have ports that if not closed could allow attack?
Especially if Micro$oft are still building O/Ses!
As to the 2.4Ghz HD, perhaps a crystal based storage system, where the standard system is at a different frquency and that standard system has been found to be vulnerable to being wiped/corrupted by application of an external input at a certain frequency? And still often called a hard disk due to the inertia of language changes?
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I could have sworn that IBM was responsible for the standardisation (by making the "IBM-PC" standard open) that produced economy of scale in computer components?
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Actually it is not distributing copyrighted files that is illegal, it is distributing copyrighted files THAT THE LICENSOR HAS NOT ALLOWED YOU TO DISTRIBUTE that is illegal, there is a difference. Not that that applies in these cases, but the distinction should be made.
But saving money IS one of the benefits that open source provides.
Here is a link to the Sunday Times which confirms this information, include government confirmation. The Times is probably the most non-tabloid newpaper in the UK! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-79051 2,00.html
Actually a firewall on a keyboard makes some sense, already keyboards use a general purpose communications link (USB), so might not some future system have ports that if not closed could allow attack? Especially if Micro$oft are still building O/Ses! As to the 2.4Ghz HD, perhaps a crystal based storage system, where the standard system is at a different frquency and that standard system has been found to be vulnerable to being wiped/corrupted by application of an external input at a certain frequency? And still often called a hard disk due to the inertia of language changes?
I could have sworn that IBM was responsible for the standardisation (by making the "IBM-PC" standard open) that produced economy of scale in computer components?