Still the grandparents point stands... You had to go and dig for that option, not many people are willing to do that, or have the knowledge about it, or even know that their pc doesn't shutdown when you select 'shutdown', but instead go to sleep.
I, for one, know of no wifi hotspots in my neighbourhood (aside from the one at home) so, not everywhere is there wifi. Aside from that, at offices, if you use too much bandwidth you could get fired; hotspots like at mcdonalds are limited in bandwidth, detrimental for sound quality, if you even get SIPphone services running (some hotspots even outright forbid the use of VOIP). That only leaves home, and I already have a phone there. GSM and GPRS is much more prevalent here in Europe, almost blanket coverage. And most plans are quite cheap.
btw, do you happen to have open-source low-energy wifi-modules somewhere?
It would be fun if Rockstar would turn GTAIV into some peace-loving-hippy kind of game.:) Instead of shooting people, you hug them and give out flowers.:)
Set in the 60s, with typical 60s music blaring out of the speakers of those love-bugs and multi-coloured VW-vans. Putting flowers in the barrels of the guns. Real time 24hour sit-ins! More exciting than that road trip of that Penn and Teller game. Because every x minutes (random) you have to press a button, to make sure that your character doesn't fall asleep.
The goal of the game is to pick up a car, drive around, and pick up strangers and ultimately go to a Woodstock-like concert.
If that 'deemed illegal' website would use an intermediate service to process credit card requests, and said credit card company would block traffic from that intermediate service (that also processes such requests for countless other sites), the credit card company would soon find out that they are losing customers fast.
Visa and Mastercard removed support for Allofmp3 in 2006, and still Allofmp3 can use credit cards from those companies through a third party (I have forgotten the name). So you see, what you are proposing is already done, and it has solved nothing.
Please correct me if I understand you incorrectly, but are you actually saying that the only way forward is to add DRM? I hope you are joking.
DRM is most certainly NOT the future. We are seeing more and more companies adopt open source and open standards. If open source software developers start locking in their customers, they are guilty of exactly the same thing that we have been accusing Microsoft of. Microsoft has been locking in with their Office products for years now. And every time a lot of people complain about this. And many people still using older MSO products are left out, and have to buy an expensive upgrade.
We see in the music industry that they are now finally turning away from DRM (though there is still a long way to go), because it's cumbersome for the customer/consumer, and doesn't add any protection for the content providers. It only takes 1 person to crack whatever DRM scheme they are using, and their entire work is suddenly wide-open. It's security through obscurity, it doesn't solve anything. And the same will apply to whatever DRM scheme MS will conjure up for their entire line of products.
OOo should never (and I repeat NEVER) adopt any DRM scheme, unless they seriously want to shoot themselves in the foot.
It adds nothing to your perceived benefits of being anti-data theft. Besides the above reasons, most data theft are done from within a company, from people who already have access to the data. So adding DRM will solve nothing. All it takes is 1 person who has access to the documents, to send it in a non-drm'ed fashion to whoever requested it and your data is on the streets.
I thought that you couldn't release works that aren't copyrighted, into the public domain any more. Because of the way the law works. Everything you create is copyrighted. (btw, you are indeed correct, it's not everything you release, but everything you create) You can, however, release it under a less-restrictive licence (Creative Commons for instance), but I don't believe the work can enter public domain from the get-go.
And the work being "protected" has to actually be under copyright.
Everything you bring out nowadays is automatically copyrighted. Everything.
It used to be so that you had to register your copyright at an agency that kept a record of it, but that became expensive to maintain. So now every work that's put out, be that digitally, or on paper, on tape, on disk or any other means, is copyrighted.
You don't use copyright protection mechanisms to keep secrets, you use them to electronically enforce copyright
DMCA is also not an electronic protection means, that's DRM. Now, if DRM gets in the way of my fair use right (it is allowed to make 1 copy of a music disk for personal use, just to name one of the fair use terms that is hindered by DRM), then that DRM should be illegal, and I should be allowed to 'crack' it.
Do you really think that DRM and the DMCA stop the illegal sharing of copyrighted files?
If anything, DMCA is one of the most abused/misused law in the US. Just look for all those DMCA take-down notices on parody songs, or other legal uses of copyrighted works.
Why is this news? A software development company does what it's supposed to do...
It should be common practice to implement feedback that got back from beta-testers. (perhaps not all, but certainly vital findings such as the ones mentioned here)
In the corporate world, where testing is apparently better incorporated into software design, it's already done like that.
I am a software tester, and when I find problems in software, the developers'd better solve it, otherwise the client will be notified of the problems in the software. (Every finding will be a 'known' issue, and its severity is marked with it in the documentation that comes with the piece of software, for management and other decision-making people to consider, and decide following the set levels of acceptance)
I wonder why no book publisher has come forward to complain about this deal? They did when Google came out with it. Why not now? Is it because Google is a higher profile target for them?
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It may have bombed in Europe because of the incompetence of Nintendo Europe.
News has surfaced that the Wii Virtual Console in Europe will run in 50Hz, (most PAL TVs support 60Hz), which means that games will have borders around them, and the games will be a bit slower. And the chances of seeing previously Japanese-only or American-only games on the VC in Europe are very slim.
Nintendo Europe apparently hasn't learned from their past mistakes
No matter how long you make the chain. It's still as strong as the weakest link.
What is essentially the difference between the voting machine itself counting the tally, or that optical scanner? Do you trust the software inside that optical scanner? (even though that software can be hacked as well)
This paper trail should be used as means of checking the results of the voting machines, no matter what physically counted the votes (the voting machine or the optical scanner)
First off, at the end of the day AllofMP3 was not giving artists and production / media companies their required due, so what they were doing was immoral, if technically legal at the time. No matter how you cut it, these goods and services have a value set by the vendor; if the market doesn't want to pay the price demanded, the market can simply not purchase them. It doesn't give people laissez-faire to take other people's work without paying for it. Before I get jumped on by the million-boot slashdot hive mind, I am completely opposed to the RIAA and MPAA and thier ilk, and think they are dinosaurs that should be expunged from the bodies social and politic.
The problem is not whether Allofmp3 gave the required due to the artists and record labels.
It's the problem that ROMS (the Russian version of the **AA) does not have a standing agreement with the RIAA and the MPAA. Allofmp3 paid the required royalty fees to ROMS, which then failed to pay **AA. So where is it Allofmp3's fault?
But you've got to agree that for a new MS product, that will hit it's market peak at the time that only Vista is sold, doesn't support Vista, unless you set the installer to emulate Windows XP?
That's is counter intuitive, and almost impossible to explain to Joe Average, who are the main target consumers/customers for MS.
Microsoft won't assert rights over patents over software technology that may be incorporated into Suse Linux
But what about Fedora Core, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Mepis, Debian, Gentoo, and all those other distributions. Are they too exempt from possible prosecution? I doubt that.
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Still the grandparents point stands...
You had to go and dig for that option, not many people are willing to do that, or have the knowledge about it, or even know that their pc doesn't shutdown when you select 'shutdown', but instead go to sleep.
> Let's assume for a moment it supports at a minimum 900/1800/1900 (hopefully 850 too) - like most tri-band devices do.
If I'm not mistaken, it's actually quad-band.
I, for one, know of no wifi hotspots in my neighbourhood (aside from the one at home) so, not everywhere is there wifi.
Aside from that, at offices, if you use too much bandwidth you could get fired; hotspots like at mcdonalds are limited in bandwidth, detrimental for sound quality, if you even get SIPphone services running (some hotspots even outright forbid the use of VOIP). That only leaves home, and I already have a phone there.
GSM and GPRS is much more prevalent here in Europe, almost blanket coverage. And most plans are quite cheap.
btw, do you happen to have open-source low-energy wifi-modules somewhere?
According to the sources on the mailinglist, it will use a debian like package structure... namely ipkg
He was last overheard, shouting: "Ulla!"
It would be fun if Rockstar would turn GTAIV into some peace-loving-hippy kind of game. :) :)
Instead of shooting people, you hug them and give out flowers.
Set in the 60s, with typical 60s music blaring out of the speakers of those love-bugs and multi-coloured VW-vans.
Putting flowers in the barrels of the guns. Real time 24hour sit-ins! More exciting than that road trip of that Penn and Teller game. Because every x minutes (random) you have to press a button, to make sure that your character doesn't fall asleep.
The goal of the game is to pick up a car, drive around, and pick up strangers and ultimately go to a Woodstock-like concert.
Now what could possibly be offensive with that?
would there be snakes on his aircraft too?
These natives, they don't all look the same do they?
There is no way to administrate this well.
If that 'deemed illegal' website would use an intermediate service to process credit card requests, and said credit card company would block traffic from that intermediate service (that also processes such requests for countless other sites), the credit card company would soon find out that they are losing customers fast.
Visa and Mastercard removed support for Allofmp3 in 2006, and still Allofmp3 can use credit cards from those companies through a third party (I have forgotten the name).
So you see, what you are proposing is already done, and it has solved nothing.
Please correct me if I understand you incorrectly, but are you actually saying that the only way forward is to add DRM?
I hope you are joking.
DRM is most certainly NOT the future. We are seeing more and more companies adopt open source and open standards. If open source software developers start locking in their customers, they are guilty of exactly the same thing that we have been accusing Microsoft of. Microsoft has been locking in with their Office products for years now. And every time a lot of people complain about this. And many people still using older MSO products are left out, and have to buy an expensive upgrade.
We see in the music industry that they are now finally turning away from DRM (though there is still a long way to go), because it's cumbersome for the customer/consumer, and doesn't add any protection for the content providers. It only takes 1 person to crack whatever DRM scheme they are using, and their entire work is suddenly wide-open.
It's security through obscurity, it doesn't solve anything.
And the same will apply to whatever DRM scheme MS will conjure up for their entire line of products.
OOo should never (and I repeat NEVER) adopt any DRM scheme, unless they seriously want to shoot themselves in the foot.
It adds nothing to your perceived benefits of being anti-data theft. Besides the above reasons, most data theft are done from within a company, from people who already have access to the data. So adding DRM will solve nothing. All it takes is 1 person who has access to the documents, to send it in a non-drm'ed fashion to whoever requested it and your data is on the streets.
I thought that you couldn't release works that aren't copyrighted, into the public domain any more. Because of the way the law works.
Everything you create is copyrighted. (btw, you are indeed correct, it's not everything you release, but everything you create)
You can, however, release it under a less-restrictive licence (Creative Commons for instance), but I don't believe the work can enter public domain from the get-go.
Everything you bring out nowadays is automatically copyrighted. Everything.
It used to be so that you had to register your copyright at an agency that kept a record of it, but that became expensive to maintain. So now every work that's put out, be that digitally, or on paper, on tape, on disk or any other means, is copyrighted.
DMCA is also not an electronic protection means, that's DRM. Now, if DRM gets in the way of my fair use right (it is allowed to make 1 copy of a music disk for personal use, just to name one of the fair use terms that is hindered by DRM), then that DRM should be illegal, and I should be allowed to 'crack' it.
Do you really think that DRM and the DMCA stop the illegal sharing of copyrighted files?
If anything, DMCA is one of the most abused/misused law in the US. Just look for all those DMCA take-down notices on parody songs, or other legal uses of copyrighted works.
Why is this news? A software development company does what it's supposed to do...
It should be common practice to implement feedback that got back from beta-testers. (perhaps not all, but certainly vital findings such as the ones mentioned here)
In the corporate world, where testing is apparently better incorporated into software design, it's already done like that.
I am a software tester, and when I find problems in software, the developers'd better solve it, otherwise the client will be notified of the problems in the software. (Every finding will be a 'known' issue, and its severity is marked with it in the documentation that comes with the piece of software, for management and other decision-making people to consider, and decide following the set levels of acceptance)
You mean "Oh thank Apophis"?
I wonder why no book publisher has come forward to complain about this deal?
They did when Google came out with it. Why not now? Is it because Google is a higher profile target for them?
It may have bombed in Europe because of the incompetence of Nintendo Europe.
News has surfaced that the Wii Virtual Console in Europe will run in 50Hz, (most PAL TVs support 60Hz), which means that games will have borders around them, and the games will be a bit slower. And the chances of seeing previously Japanese-only or American-only games on the VC in Europe are very slim.
Nintendo Europe apparently hasn't learned from their past mistakes
As long as we don't get the Bastard Son of Google. I don't think Lala of the Tikibar would like that.
How can you then promote a story which claims that scientists are able to remove the red color from apples? :)
No matter how long you make the chain. It's still as strong as the weakest link.
What is essentially the difference between the voting machine itself counting the tally, or that optical scanner?
Do you trust the software inside that optical scanner? (even though that software can be hacked as well)
This paper trail should be used as means of checking the results of the voting machines, no matter what physically counted the votes (the voting machine or the optical scanner)
First off, at the end of the day AllofMP3 was not giving artists and production / media companies their required due, so what they were doing was immoral, if technically legal at the time. No matter how you cut it, these goods and services have a value set by the vendor; if the market doesn't want to pay the price demanded, the market can simply not purchase them. It doesn't give people laissez-faire to take other people's work without paying for it. Before I get jumped on by the million-boot slashdot hive mind, I am completely opposed to the RIAA and MPAA and thier ilk, and think they are dinosaurs that should be expunged from the bodies social and politic.
The problem is not whether Allofmp3 gave the required due to the artists and record labels.
It's the problem that ROMS (the Russian version of the **AA) does not have a standing agreement with the RIAA and the MPAA. Allofmp3 paid the required royalty fees to ROMS, which then failed to pay **AA. So where is it Allofmp3's fault?
Didn't Paris Hilton hack into the Blackberry of Lindsey Lohan?
Unless I put up a SEP field around me....
...would they then stop trying to send it, because they know it will work?
But you've got to agree that for a new MS product, that will hit it's market peak at the time that only Vista is sold, doesn't support Vista, unless you set the installer to emulate Windows XP?
That's is counter intuitive, and almost impossible to explain to Joe Average, who are the main target consumers/customers for MS.
But what about Fedora Core, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Mepis, Debian, Gentoo, and all those other distributions. Are they too exempt from possible prosecution?
I doubt that.