"because I can" isnt a good enough reason for going way out of your way to make your photo album of your last vacation to disneyland super super encrypted. If you have that worried about it that much, then you are up to something. Period.
How do you figure that? If I want to strongly encrypt my laundry list, what business is it of yours? How is my laundry list illegal, or pointing to illegal activities? What you're basically saying is, since I sometimes correspond by snail mail, I must show my good intentions by corresponding by postcard rather than sealing my letters inside envelopes.
I send them to Burger King. With luck, one of them might fill out an employment application and I might get better service from them than the kids working there now.
If the police are asking you questions, it is because they either think you are a criminal, or think you know something about a criminal, which makes you an accomplice, and therefore a criminal. They are looking for any reason to arrest you and throw you in jail. Don't give them one. Be polite, be respectful to them as you would any other human being, but for your own sake do not answer any questions.
Does 'attempted obstruction of justice' by refusing to answer their questions until you can obtain legal counsel count?
And since police are allowed to lie to you, what's to keep them from lying that the undercover policeman that just entered the room is in fact an attorney, a public defender, and is there to help advise you on your rights? The police could lie at that point and say this 'attorney' can fill in for your attorney until yours actually gets there. Of course, anything said in confidence to this 'attorney' probably wouldn't be covered by any attorney-client priviledge since the 'attorney' is really a cop. Are you paranoid enough yet?
Depends on the application you need to use the wheel for. Example: a camshaft, an object with wheel-like shaped lobes on it to raise and lower valves in an engine. The lobes themselves are out of round, necessary for this application, otherwise the valves wouldn't open and close. Had someone had a patent on the wheel and all applications, inventing the camshaft would have been illegal until the patents ran out. Likewise, if somebody could have invented the stick, the pushrods that a camshaft actuates would be illegal as well.
So, only stupid devices like flash drives and hard drives would be safe...cameras, MP3 players, GPS, PDAs, cellphones, etc., would all need a patent license.
That was basically what I was trying to say. Damn that coffee deficiency of mine...
i love how/. proclaim win7 dead, when it will sell more copies in it's first day than the entire market share of the linux desktop.
Probably because it'll hit the OEMs first, and be shipped on every new piece of x86 gear that comes off the line. As for individual sales, it'll be because it's really Vista SP2, and upgrading to it from Vista will make the machine run marginally better. Doesn't mean it'll get the most out of the machines, though...
With open source libraries, you generally have to find the wheel before you can reuse it.
At least the wheel is findable and useable, and if it needs fixing, you can at least get it fixed. With closed source, the wheel is patent-pending, heavily encumbered, and if you write something that works just like a wheel, you can get called into court for infringing on said patents. Closed source isn't the end all and be all that you seem to think it is, either. There's advantages to both sides, as well as disadvantages.
Actually, it just takes being in the right place at the right time on the ground floor. Balmer was practically on food stamps when he left college. Balmer didn't build Microsoft, Gates and his lawyers did.
Microsoft isn't suing for providing any cards, they're suing because the TomTom device can read the FAT32 cards everybody uses. Doesn't matter that the driver was cleanroom written from published API specs, Microsoft saw a way to stomp on them and took it.
Probably licensed ages ago. Besides, digital cameras, USB flash drives, portable HDDs and such don't need an operating system, but they do need to be able to talk with Windows. And besides, if you wanna use them strictly on a Linux box, you can always reformat flash drives and portable HDDs to ext 3 or something.
True, but for a limited time. They're supposed to expire someday. The point of them expiring is so that somebody can take this prior knowledge, build on it, and come up with something better, not keep us stuck in the Stone Age.
FAT's been around since DOS, FAT32 since what, 1998? Shouldn't its patent be expiring Real Soon Now?
Consider the case of loaning a car to your long term SO for many years, then the relationship goes south and you show up with the cops to take back the car she's had for several years. Yes, you can get it back, but the cops will tell you to get a judgment first and won't just let you take it.
If the title & registration of the car is in your name, yeah, they will just let you go take it. It's proveably your property.
Like AT&T trying to show that they had to buy a spendy mainframe for the exlusive use of one tech writer and then a supervisor for said tech writer so they could pad the 'damages' in a trial by the cost of the mainframe, 6 weeks 'work' by the tech writer at 40 hrs/week & the same for the supervisor, when the very same manual that was 'stolen' was for sale for like 10 bucks?
I never understood why the left in the first place
Because they know that Linux will be never a serious alternative on the desktop. You see, that's why every company that is producing a distribution is trying to get the server market: becuase Linux was and is designed to be a SO for the servers.
Wish you woulda told me that before I installed the then-new Redhat 3.0.3 back in '96. I stuck with them til I went Ubuntu with Hoary in mid-'05. Been daily using Linux as a desktop since '96, nice to know I've been wasting my time on an impossible goal.
My question is, though, how do you stay off the terrorist/person of interest/'enemy combatant'/etc list and still have some reasonable freedoms left? And how thick will the tinfoil need to be to keep that 15 MW laser from toasting your brains?
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Willing to bet your freedom on that?
How do you figure that? If I want to strongly encrypt my laundry list, what business is it of yours? How is my laundry list illegal, or pointing to illegal activities? What you're basically saying is, since I sometimes correspond by snail mail, I must show my good intentions by corresponding by postcard rather than sealing my letters inside envelopes.
I send them to Burger King. With luck, one of them might fill out an employment application and I might get better service from them than the kids working there now.
Does 'attempted obstruction of justice' by refusing to answer their questions until you can obtain legal counsel count?
And since police are allowed to lie to you, what's to keep them from lying that the undercover policeman that just entered the room is in fact an attorney, a public defender, and is there to help advise you on your rights? The police could lie at that point and say this 'attorney' can fill in for your attorney until yours actually gets there. Of course, anything said in confidence to this 'attorney' probably wouldn't be covered by any attorney-client priviledge since the 'attorney' is really a cop. Are you paranoid enough yet?
Fixed that for you.
Just keep in mind that 'Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men' is not a US policy...
Depends on the application you need to use the wheel for. Example: a camshaft, an object with wheel-like shaped lobes on it to raise and lower valves in an engine. The lobes themselves are out of round, necessary for this application, otherwise the valves wouldn't open and close. Had someone had a patent on the wheel and all applications, inventing the camshaft would have been illegal until the patents ran out. Likewise, if somebody could have invented the stick, the pushrods that a camshaft actuates would be illegal as well.
That was basically what I was trying to say. Damn that coffee deficiency of mine...
Probably because it'll hit the OEMs first, and be shipped on every new piece of x86 gear that comes off the line. As for individual sales, it'll be because it's really Vista SP2, and upgrading to it from Vista will make the machine run marginally better. Doesn't mean it'll get the most out of the machines, though...
At least the wheel is findable and useable, and if it needs fixing, you can at least get it fixed. With closed source, the wheel is patent-pending, heavily encumbered, and if you write something that works just like a wheel, you can get called into court for infringing on said patents. Closed source isn't the end all and be all that you seem to think it is, either. There's advantages to both sides, as well as disadvantages.
Actually, it just takes being in the right place at the right time on the ground floor. Balmer was practically on food stamps when he left college. Balmer didn't build Microsoft, Gates and his lawyers did.
Microsoft isn't suing for providing any cards, they're suing because the TomTom device can read the FAT32 cards everybody uses. Doesn't matter that the driver was cleanroom written from published API specs, Microsoft saw a way to stomp on them and took it.
Coulda swore Microsoft still owned a chunk of Apple...
Probably licensed ages ago. Besides, digital cameras, USB flash drives, portable HDDs and such don't need an operating system, but they do need to be able to talk with Windows. And besides, if you wanna use them strictly on a Linux box, you can always reformat flash drives and portable HDDs to ext 3 or something.
FAT's been around since DOS, FAT32 since what, 1998? Shouldn't its patent be expiring Real Soon Now?
If the title & registration of the car is in your name, yeah, they will just let you go take it. It's proveably your property.
Like AT&T trying to show that they had to buy a spendy mainframe for the exlusive use of one tech writer and then a supervisor for said tech writer so they could pad the 'damages' in a trial by the cost of the mainframe, 6 weeks 'work' by the tech writer at 40 hrs/week & the same for the supervisor, when the very same manual that was 'stolen' was for sale for like 10 bucks?
Wish you woulda told me that before I installed the then-new Redhat 3.0.3 back in '96. I stuck with them til I went Ubuntu with Hoary in mid-'05. Been daily using Linux as a desktop since '96, nice to know I've been wasting my time on an impossible goal.
Dood, in Soviet Russia, lame repetitive meme uses YOU, covered in hot grits from a statue of Natalie Portman...
When's it going to declare itself Comrade Adam Selene and help us plan the Revolution?
Fixed that for you. 'Modern politics' has become such a media circus, I'm surprised they haven't turned it into a reality show yet.
Oh, wait...
Or watch Startrek/BSG/Charlie Jade marathons...
Remember, in Soviet Russia, TV watches you, covered in Natalie Portman's hot grits...
My question is, though, how do you stay off the terrorist/person of interest/'enemy combatant'/etc list and still have some reasonable freedoms left? And how thick will the tinfoil need to be to keep that 15 MW laser from toasting your brains?
She can has cheeseburger?
No, those are the $5,000,000 fleas. The $3,000,000 moths are just prototypes.