It wouldn't protect Sony. It's up to Sony to later get damages from whomever sold the software to them if Sony does indeed have a case. Which I doubt, if I were a Judge/Jury I would expect Sony to pay attention to what the hell they're doing.
NT *was* going to have executables that pretended to be files, i.e. when you opened the executable to get the contents it would run and return the output rather than the by bytes of the executable, with a special NT syscall to read the *real* contents. Kind of like a named pipe. I was looking forward to this but it didn't work out.
I guess they decided they already had enough security holes to start with. Didn't they end up implementing this in userspace?
Consumer puts a cd into their computer with the intention of playing the cd. The cd takes advantage of a feature in Windows and installs software in the background without your knowledge. No court would find Sony not liable for damagaes caused because the user didn't disable autorun. It's the same as an email viruses, just because the user never turned off macros doesn't let the person who runs the virus off the hook.
This isn't the first time Sony's had this idea. Years ago they asked someone to write a virus to subliminally provide marketing to people. This motivated the person they asked to write a book called Coercion.
Your right if what your looking at is software written only by volunteers. I don't consider FOSS to be a complete replacement for commercially developed(including open source) software. There's simply very little incentive and capability to put out a well rounded application. FOSS is great for smaller programs and fits into the unix paradigm perfectly as programs really only need to do a couple of things. The application is the sum of all the small programs. While this dosen't always work out too well I happen to find it much more flexible than simply designing an all inclusive application.
Now of course theirs no reason why volunteers can't create completely professional software without help from companies or other organizations. The Gimp is a very well rounded, stable and well written app. It may not have every feature of Photoshop but it does have all the basics you'd need from start to finish of a job. Photo capture, manipulation, supports many formats and decent printing support for what it is. While it lacks many features(some that some people would consider to be very basic) it has extremely few bugs(I haven't found any in the latest release), is able to multitask anything, and the interface is rather nice for it's intended use. Nothing compares to using the gimp with 3 or more monitors and virtual desktops, interfaces like photoshop simply don't give you the flexibilty to take full advantage of it. Not to mention it can handle ungodly amounts of data and have a huge number of pics open without flinching even on old >1Ghz machines with less than 500megs of ram. It dosen't have color correction, CMYK etc but it was just mean to be a raster image editor, not part of a desktop publishing suite or anything else. For it's goals it's very well done IMHO.
On the other hand most other linux software I see assumes the only print out option you'll ever need is when to schedule the printing. Or that one file format is more than enough, etc.
Those readers from Microsoft only work on Windows and maybe macs. If the specs Microsoft published where any good then OpenOffice would have 100% Microsoft compatibility by now but obviously that isn't the case. By 2007 there will be at least OpenOffice/StarOffice, Corel Office, Textmaker, and Koffice supporting OpenDocumnet, not to mention whatever comes out of IBM. Furthermore, Microsoft or a third part may add support for ODF. Standardizing on ODF gives you the most flexibility in moving and manipulating your documents around. Not only does it ensure that people will be able to read the documents on as many different systems as possible, but it makes all kinds of automation happening in the 'back office' easier when you have many tools do so with. Like automatically converting the documents to html. Don't come back and even tell me that works reliably for anything but the simplest of Word documents, I've seen the horrible results too many times.
Now don't confuse this meeting as anything other than Microsoft having bought off those senators to spread FUD. The switch is two years off but on Saturday a meeting is announced to discuss this the following Monday to discuss something that StarOffice has been capable of for quite some time? Not to mention the extremely few people that actually need all those features, if they must use Office I'm sure the IT staff could accommodate that handful that do.
My sentiments exactly. I was never much of a programmer but never made the switch from using qbasic/power c as a kid in dos to using VisualBasic or anything else. There were just too many different places to put code, too many reasons for code not to run when you wanted it too. Not to mention that every piece of code has to be tied to an event, I always felt like everything I wrote looked hacked together because of it. That and simple things like drawing on the screen was (or at least seemed) impossible.
Just get a Haynes manual from a parts store, it'll show you how to take apart the dash and have wiring schematics. You might need to buy a set of offset and small screwdrivers or other little tools depending on the model but any hardware store will have them. Also, depending on the kind of power you need you may want to run the power independantly of other things in the fuse box. Theres usually an empty spot on the fuse box, or you could just use an inline fuse and run it straight to the battery.
Just about every head unit radioshack sold(when they sold head units) had line in. The $30 tape player I got from there also had better reception than my $200 Alpine.
I've been think that Adobe would start porting their software to linux ever since the latest Reader came out. Completely ported to GTK and works beautifully. Why else would they bother doing that if they weren't thinking of porting other software to linux? I think sparkle and microsoft's pdf replacement have something to do with it. Also, the simple fact that people like Disney are willing to go through the effort of getting PS to run under wine shows that there is a demand to Adobe. If Adobe doesn't fill this demand it opens up a market for another company to make a linux compatibe PS replacement that also happens to run on Windows and OSX.
If the brethalizer is the tipping point in a DUI trial that means that there is no other evidence that they are drunk. If the defendant was stumbling around, slurring, etc than it's easy for them to be proven guilty without a breathalizer. This can only really be a factor in cases where the person is right around the legal limit and handling whatever they drank. If a machine is to be used to prove somebodies guilt than it deserves to be scrutinized. The fact that these can be serious crimes means that the evidence should be taken seriously as well.
Well I'm gonna have to talk to my cousin and my friends mother in law. I guess a lot depends on how good your are at it too. Being a lawyer can be hard depending on the kind of work you do and whether or not your actually trying to be a decent human being. Going up against departments that just want to prosecute as many criminals as possible, going up against corporations with unlimmited resources and contacts, etc. I don't really feel sorry for any lawyers either, they can always get into some lucrative part when they need to pay the bills. I definately respect the few that try to bring justice where it belongs.
Yes, a video game in which cops run into walls trying to get to an assailant on the other side is really effective at training people to kill cops. He's perfectly rational, I'm sure the judge will be amazed at the completeness of the AI in the video game. I'm sure he'll find plenty of cops willing to say that the characters in the game perform exactly the way they did while in training.
Just collect 30 or so different keys for all the different brands of locks put on houses and you'll be able to open just about any door out there. Seriously.
Who cares about Netscape? All it is now is a web portal and a brand name nobody really cares about. The Mozilla Foundation develops mozilla and firefox independantly of AOL.
Get a goddamned clue. Just because your cousin and neighbor are honest people (I'll assume so) does not mean the majority are.
No shit, my point was that to be a successful lawyer you DON'T have to be a shill for whoever pays you. Of course there's a ton of crap lawyers out there, but the fact that their lawyers doesn't somehow make it excusable(which is the way your original post made it sound). A lawyer nominated for the Supreme Court(or any judgeship) should be held to a much higher standard than the other lawyers.
Sorry for the flame, these things become touchy subjects for me.
Please place an emphasis on capitalized words. And for the ignorant folk among us, the BAR is the test given to lawyers.
OK SHITHEAD. My COUSIN who's a PUBLIC DEFENDER would take quite the offence to your reply. Not to mention the family friend who was my neighbor for over 10 years. He was a lawyer too. I'm sure he dosen't consider himself a shill for whoever has money. He want's to practice the law in a way that justifies those who are right. Just like my cousin. Money(including any form of material goods that can be given are only secondary). My neighbor literally lived off of stuff that was given to him as payment. Cash was simply not necessary. Just anything that could be considered payment.
Ok SHITHEAD that can't fucking read. Now that this article has fallen out of (slashdot's) voque.
I'm sure I can manage to PASS THE FUCKING BAR somehow. And I can argue like a motherfucker(not seen here). Does that make me qualified for the SUPREME COURT.?.?.?.?.?.?.?
THE MOST SACRED INSTITUTION OF THIS COUNTRY!.!.!.! THE CONSTITUTION'S LAST RESORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I can argue any stupid fucking point to death. That makes me qualified to serve on the SUPREME COURT.
I believe my check was about 10 dollars and no, I didn't need any reciepts. All you had to do was go to the web page for the plaintiffs attourney and fill you a simple form. I also didn't need to pay any postage:). It was great too, because they sent the checks out right when the RIAA started suing everybody, so everyone that saw the letter thought I was getting sued by them.
Am I the only one who sees a problem with people on the Supreme Court being nothing but hired guns? I thought judges and all were supposed to be held to higher standards than the normal lawyer.
So basically what your saying is that she's a shill for whoever has money, and that it's perfectly fine for someone like that to serve on the Supreme Court? No wonder this country is going to hell.
Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it top notch but it is easier to keep the UI and logic code separate than using visualstudio, especially considering when I used it you couldn't use it to write any actual code at all:). I've only used it a little bit and that was a while ago, but being designed to do cross platform work its gonna be somewhat limited. The main thing I liked about it was how it automaticlly lined up and sized controls for you, that must make things a lot easier when translating.
I honestly prefer simpler stuff for both generating code and doing ui design as I haven't done a whole lot of programming the last couple years. Big IDE's just get in my way when I'm trying to write a small app.
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It wouldn't protect Sony. It's up to Sony to later get damages from whomever sold the software to them if Sony does indeed have a case. Which I doubt, if I were a Judge/Jury I would expect Sony to pay attention to what the hell they're doing.
Sorry, last sentence should be let whoever wrote the virus of the hook.
NT *was* going to have executables that pretended to be files, i.e. when you opened the executable to get the contents it would run and return the output rather than the by bytes of the executable, with a special NT syscall to read the *real* contents. Kind of like a named pipe. I was looking forward to this but it didn't work out.
I guess they decided they already had enough security holes to start with. Didn't they end up implementing this in userspace?
Consumer puts a cd into their computer with the intention of playing the cd. The cd takes advantage of a feature in Windows and installs software in the background without your knowledge. No court would find Sony not liable for damagaes caused because the user didn't disable autorun. It's the same as an email viruses, just because the user never turned off macros doesn't let the person who runs the virus off the hook.
This isn't the first time Sony's had this idea. Years ago they asked someone to write a virus to subliminally provide marketing to people. This motivated the person they asked to write a book called Coercion.
Your right if what your looking at is software written only by volunteers. I don't consider FOSS to be a complete replacement for commercially developed(including open source) software. There's simply very little incentive and capability to put out a well rounded application. FOSS is great for smaller programs and fits into the unix paradigm perfectly as programs really only need to do a couple of things. The application is the sum of all the small programs. While this dosen't always work out too well I happen to find it much more flexible than simply designing an all inclusive application.
Now of course theirs no reason why volunteers can't create completely professional software without help from companies or other organizations. The Gimp is a very well rounded, stable and well written app. It may not have every feature of Photoshop but it does have all the basics you'd need from start to finish of a job. Photo capture, manipulation, supports many formats and decent printing support for what it is. While it lacks many features(some that some people would consider to be very basic) it has extremely few bugs(I haven't found any in the latest release), is able to multitask anything, and the interface is rather nice for it's intended use. Nothing compares to using the gimp with 3 or more monitors and virtual desktops, interfaces like photoshop simply don't give you the flexibilty to take full advantage of it. Not to mention it can handle ungodly amounts of data and have a huge number of pics open without flinching even on old >1Ghz machines with less than 500megs of ram. It dosen't have color correction, CMYK etc but it was just mean to be a raster image editor, not part of a desktop publishing suite or anything else. For it's goals it's very well done IMHO.
On the other hand most other linux software I see assumes the only print out option you'll ever need is when to schedule the printing. Or that one file format is more than enough, etc.
Those readers from Microsoft only work on Windows and maybe macs. If the specs Microsoft published where any good then OpenOffice would have 100% Microsoft compatibility by now but obviously that isn't the case. By 2007 there will be at least OpenOffice/StarOffice, Corel Office, Textmaker, and Koffice supporting OpenDocumnet, not to mention whatever comes out of IBM. Furthermore, Microsoft or a third part may add support for ODF. Standardizing on ODF gives you the most flexibility in moving and manipulating your documents around. Not only does it ensure that people will be able to read the documents on as many different systems as possible, but it makes all kinds of automation happening in the 'back office' easier when you have many tools do so with. Like automatically converting the documents to html. Don't come back and even tell me that works reliably for anything but the simplest of Word documents, I've seen the horrible results too many times.
Now don't confuse this meeting as anything other than Microsoft having bought off those senators to spread FUD. The switch is two years off but on Saturday a meeting is announced to discuss this the following Monday to discuss something that StarOffice has been capable of for quite some time? Not to mention the extremely few people that actually need all those features, if they must use Office I'm sure the IT staff could accommodate that handful that do.
Sun added many accessability features to StarOffice, including support for blind users a while back:
e ssibility/index.xml
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/7/acc
Hopefully someone decides to talk to Sun and ask them if StarOffice has these types of features before their meeting.
My sentiments exactly. I was never much of a programmer but never made the switch from using qbasic/power c as a kid in dos to using VisualBasic or anything else. There were just too many different places to put code, too many reasons for code not to run when you wanted it too. Not to mention that every piece of code has to be tied to an event, I always felt like everything I wrote looked hacked together because of it. That and simple things like drawing on the screen was (or at least seemed) impossible.
No, but I think Adobe is going to announce the availability of Photoshop for the Amiga.
Just get a Haynes manual from a parts store, it'll show you how to take apart the dash and have wiring schematics. You might need to buy a set of offset and small screwdrivers or other little tools depending on the model but any hardware store will have them.
Also, depending on the kind of power you need you may want to run the power independantly of other things in the fuse box. Theres usually an empty spot on the fuse box, or you could just use an inline fuse and run it straight to the battery.
Just about every head unit radioshack sold(when they sold head units) had line in. The $30 tape player I got from there also had better reception than my $200 Alpine.
I've been think that Adobe would start porting their software to linux ever since the latest Reader came out. Completely ported to GTK and works beautifully. Why else would they bother doing that if they weren't thinking of porting other software to linux? I think sparkle and microsoft's pdf replacement have something to do with it. Also, the simple fact that people like Disney are willing to go through the effort of getting PS to run under wine shows that there is a demand to Adobe. If Adobe doesn't fill this demand it opens up a market for another company to make a linux compatibe PS replacement that also happens to run on Windows and OSX.
If the brethalizer is the tipping point in a DUI trial that means that there is no other evidence that they are drunk. If the defendant was stumbling around, slurring, etc than it's easy for them to be proven guilty without a breathalizer. This can only really be a factor in cases where the person is right around the legal limit and handling whatever they drank. If a machine is to be used to prove somebodies guilt than it deserves to be scrutinized. The fact that these can be serious crimes means that the evidence should be taken seriously as well.
I hope the judges involved in these cases have as much common sense as you do.
Well I'm gonna have to talk to my cousin and my friends mother in law. I guess a lot depends on how good your are at it too. Being a lawyer can be hard depending on the kind of work you do and whether or not your actually trying to be a decent human being. Going up against departments that just want to prosecute as many criminals as possible, going up against corporations with unlimmited resources and contacts, etc. I don't really feel sorry for any lawyers either, they can always get into some lucrative part when they need to pay the bills. I definately respect the few that try to bring justice where it belongs.
Yes, a video game in which cops run into walls trying to get to an assailant on the other side is really effective at training people to kill cops. He's perfectly rational, I'm sure the judge will be amazed at the completeness of the AI in the video game. I'm sure he'll find plenty of cops willing to say that the characters in the game perform exactly the way they did while in training.
Prosecutors, and public defenders are not rich at all. Other lawyers are the ones that make the money hand over fist.
Just collect 30 or so different keys for all the different brands of locks put on houses and you'll be able to open just about any door out there. Seriously.
Who cares about Netscape? All it is now is a web portal and a brand name nobody really cares about. The Mozilla Foundation develops mozilla and firefox independantly of AOL.
I'm sure the first time it happens they will pay attention.
Get a goddamned clue. Just because your cousin and neighbor are honest people (I'll assume so) does not mean the majority are.
No shit, my point was that to be a successful lawyer you DON'T have to be a shill for whoever pays you. Of course there's a ton of crap lawyers out there, but the fact that their lawyers doesn't somehow make it excusable(which is the way your original post made it sound). A lawyer nominated for the Supreme Court(or any judgeship) should be held to a much higher standard than the other lawyers.
Sorry for the flame, these things become touchy subjects for me.
Please place an emphasis on capitalized words. And for the ignorant folk among us, the BAR is the test given to lawyers.
OK SHITHEAD. My COUSIN who's a PUBLIC DEFENDER would take quite the offence to your reply. Not to mention the family friend who was my neighbor for over 10 years. He was a lawyer too. I'm sure he dosen't consider himself a shill for whoever has money. He want's to practice the law in a way that justifies those who are right. Just like my cousin. Money(including any form of material goods that can be given are only secondary). My neighbor literally lived off of stuff that was given to him as payment. Cash was simply not necessary. Just anything that could be considered payment.
Ok SHITHEAD that can't fucking read. Now that this article has fallen out of (slashdot's) voque.
I'm sure I can manage to PASS THE FUCKING BAR somehow. And I can argue like a motherfucker(not seen here). Does that make me qualified for the SUPREME COURT.?.?.?.?.?.?.?
THE MOST SACRED INSTITUTION OF THIS COUNTRY!.!.!.! THE CONSTITUTION'S LAST RESORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I can argue any stupid fucking point to death. That makes me qualified to serve on the SUPREME COURT.
Like I said. THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO SHIT.
I believe my check was about 10 dollars and no, I didn't need any reciepts. All you had to do was go to the web page for the plaintiffs attourney and fill you a simple form. I also didn't need to pay any postage :). It was great too, because they sent the checks out right when the RIAA started suing everybody, so everyone that saw the letter thought I was getting sued by them.
Am I the only one who sees a problem with people on the Supreme Court being nothing but hired guns? I thought judges and all were supposed to be held to higher standards than the normal lawyer.
So basically what your saying is that she's a shill for whoever has money, and that it's perfectly fine for someone like that to serve on the Supreme Court? No wonder this country is going to hell.
Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it top notch but it is easier to keep the UI and logic code separate than using visualstudio, especially considering when I used it you couldn't use it to write any actual code at all :). I've only used it a little bit and that was a while ago, but being designed to do cross platform work its gonna be somewhat limited. The main thing I liked about it was how it automaticlly lined up and sized controls for you, that must make things a lot easier when translating.
I honestly prefer simpler stuff for both generating code and doing ui design as I haven't done a whole lot of programming the last couple years. Big IDE's just get in my way when I'm trying to write a small app.