First, my bias: I believe that government is evil, and that freedom is a good thing. That makes me a radical, militant, extremist, terrorist, wing-nut.
To clarify what they are talking about..when they say:
> Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to > block child pornography from reaching children.
"Child pornography" refers to anyone under the age of 18 nude. That means baby pictures, and porn that's legal in most of Europe (where the age of consent is 16,) and any pictures of topless or nude beaches.
This is supposedly reaching "children." That means anyone under the age of 18, like a 17 year old male surfing the 'net.
Does anyone else see the absurdity in preventing a 17 yr old from looking up his baby pictures?
Does anyone else see the absurdity in blocking a 17 year old from seeing another 17 year old naked over the internet? Go to Germany, and you can pay a few hundred bucks to screw that 16 or 17 year old "child" at a brothel?
Does anyone else see the absurdity in preventing a high school student who will spend a vacation in Australia from seeing the beeches?
> No, for many reasons. > First, because it uses a published plugin API that Microsoft provides > specifically for third parties to create Office plugins.
I don't know.
> Second, because the DMCA doesn't prohibit circumvention of file formats, > but of encryption implementations.
BULLSHIT!!! The DMCA prevents bypassing any electronic lock, of any kind. Anything, even gluing a flap on a disposable camera closed can be considered an "electronic lock."
> Third, because the DMCA only applies when circumvention is done for the > purpose of copyright violation, and since you own the copyright on > the documents you create, this would not apply.
BULLSHIT!!! The DMCA makes it a felony (25 year in prison!) for me to play a DVD I bought on Linux.
Frankly, it's fucking idiots like you that brought Hitler to power.
It just occurred to me...I often throw away a broken device (e.g., battery powered drill, cell phone, etc.) that still has a good battery. I can sometimes get more for a spare battery on eBay than a new device (especially a cordless drill) costs to replace.
What if they all took standard batteries?
Take a look at the cordless drills...they all have standard voltages (multiples of 1.2V, like 10.8V, 12V, 14.4V, 18V, etc.) Why don't they all take the same battery connection?
Industry has tried and failed to standardize (remeber the Duracell "standard" laptop batteries of the '90s?)
I've also see flashlights that used Nokia cell phone batteries (I built one myself, with half a dozen Hi-flux 200mW LEDs) but Nokia sues anyone who commerically produces them saying they are violating an (expired) patent on the battery's connectors. Of course, big money beats honesty in a court room. Imagine a cordless Dremel tool that took 3 or 4 Nokia cell phone batteries. Imagine if your pocket flashlight, digital multi meter, IPOD, and portable speakers all took the same battery.
I always like to leave these things to industry, but the US Congress does have the power to regulate interstate commerce (to promote interstate commerce.) They could demand that all cordless drills take battery packs with standard connectors. They could demand that all consumer electronics devices come with standard batteries.
Even if Congress just mandated that patents & other IP did not apply to battery connections; anyone can copy your battery connection, and plug in their own battery that works with your device. He he he...I could make flashlights that used Cell Phone batteries.
The thing that most annoys me is throwing away a wonderful laptop because of a project $3 part that Sony refuses to sell. I lost a perfectly good Vaio because the proprietary connector on the AC adapter died. A new AC adapter would have cost well over $300, so I still have it on a shelf, 3 years later. Can we please standardize on DC adapters with coaxial power connectors that are rated in volts and amps? We could have about 5 different connectors for different voltage ranges. (e.g., all 12V connectors are the same dang size.)
This would also help those of us on alternative power (solar & wind; 12V plugs) to charge our cordless Dremel tools. If all 6V plugs look the same, then expensive DC/DC converters can be used for several tools.
Now, instead of internal, non-removalbe Li-Ion batteries, all the IPODs will have to allow removable batteries, so that everyone can use disposable batteries in them. He he he....
I also restrivt my buying to players that use disposable batteries. I usually select more by battery type and battery life than by other features. I love anything that runs off a single e2 lithium AA, or a lithium 123A.
Andy Out!
Losses due to the DMCA, copy protection, etc???
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New Piracy Loss Estimate
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Have you ever seen anyone calculate the losses due to copy protection run amuck?
I had to delay my graduation from UTA with a MS in CSE due to the copy protection in Wolfram Publishing's Mathematica not allowing me to run their software over the weekend, when my thesis was due Sunday at 6pm. I lost tens of thousands of dollars due to this.
I am currently unable to run MS' Visual Studio.NET 2005 due to sill copy protection issues, when I have the full, licensed copy.
I have suffered tremendous economic damage from people (e.g., IBM in 1998) saying that I was a pirate. You see, I was at a job interview, and was asked if I paid for my operating system. I said I did not; I ran Slackware Linux 3.4 I was physically thrown out; my $300 suit was ripped (it cost me $375 to repair) and the civil rights complaint went nowhere, due to a dept. of labor that screamed that I was a pirate and a felon.
I am currently unable to give out free Linux discs to high school students due to the BSA threatening the college that I teach at with lawsuits if I advertise that Linux is a free alternative to Windows on the college's web site. They call that advertisement an ad for pirated software.
I was unable to play "Test Drive 2: The Duel" from the time I purchased it a decade ago due to errant copy protection.
I am still unable to play "World War 2" "The Global Dillema: Guns or Butter" "Hero's Quest I" "Homeworld" and "Civilizations" due to copy protection BS. (These are about the only games I ever enjoyed, and I have lost the ability to play them due to absurd copyright stuff, like needing the original 360k disk in the drive plus the original manual for "Guns or Butter."
In my C#.NET class, I can not find a single student with a legitimate copy of VS.NET who can actually get the software to install.
I've said that Longhorn will be Microsoft's OS2 for months. It will be adopted by the businesses who are so incredibly stupid that they really thing they have to adopt everything MS puts out as "new."
I knew MS has jumped the shark in my C#.NET class. Every single student who had a pirate copy of VS.NET had it working. Every single one of us who had legit software had failed to get VS.NET to install. This is typical of MS' policies on piracy. I don't pirate MS' software - I run Knoppix.
From The Article : > "Microsoft has been unable to cope with Open Source except to complain about it."
You forget the hundreds of Linux users who are sitting in prison thanks to the BSA, not to mention the people who have been shot on both sides of this war. The BSA may kick in yoru door tonight. Are you ready to defend your right to run Linux? !!Lock & Load!
As soon as you say that some sites are not allowed as "type-oh" sites, you will prevent anyone who is not a big company from owning a domain name. Don't go there!
I was forced to choose one of 2 screen saver sites, not to list a site that I would feel comfortable downloading from. I would have never clicked on either one of them. What was this supposed to prove?
I was asked which file sharing program was "safe" from spyware? WTF? Have you seen the spyware infected files people get from eMule? Who cares if the package at that one site seems "free of spyware"?
This absurd test is the equivalent of asking someone to pick between 2 gay lovers in a San Fransicko gay sex club, then telling them that if they had asked, that only one was HIV positive. The fact that you are there, doing that, is what puts you at risk.
Anyone who downloads a file sharing program, screen saver, etc. knows they are taking a chance. They also know that they can protect themselves by going with Linux (e.g., a Knoppix live DVD) and well known programs.
To be clear, this is a full copy of Visual Studio.NET 2005, not a limited or crippled copy. (Unlike the copy of SQL Server MS gave me - that was a time limited demo, after I was promised in writing that if I attended their launch that they would give me a full copy.)
Frankly, the fact that I can recompile anything I want for Linux but I can not get a binay install to work on MS Windows was enough to get me to hand out Knoppix DVDs to all my students. We are not using Excel to teach the accountants, we are using Gnumeric, OpenOffice.org Calc, or Koffice.
Pirates will always find ways around this stuff, but licensed users who do not stay up on the latest copy protection BS will be screwed.
I'm a college professor, who teaches programming classes. Tuesday, I took a poll in my C# class the other day, and about 2/3rd of the students had gotten MS Visual Studio.NET to work, while 1/3rd did not have it working on their home PCs. Every one who had it working was running a bootlegged / pirate copy. Every one of us who paid for legitimate coppies (or, like me, got a free copy of VS.NET 2005 at the MS launch event) had run into insurmountable trouble.
I've heard from a friend that MS VS.NET does not run on OEM coppies of Windows. Frankly, I've given up. We're not teaching.NET next year.
The problem here is that for one person to build something, (s)he has to get the unanimous consent of everyone in the damn county.
There are 2 solutions:
(1) Build it anyway, and shoot anyone who complains (this seems to be working for me, and my hogs are well fed from the politicians, lawyers, cops, and neighborhood watch types.)
(2) All land must be sold in allodial title, which means the owner really owns it. The govt can not levy property taxes. Zoning regulations do not apply. There are no environmental concerns that anyone can force on the owner. Nothing can interfere with what I do on land that I own in allodial title. Unfortunately, only Texas allows this right now, and only half a dozen people actually have such a title to their land here in Texas.
Recall that if you use a HD-DVD and a non-DRM HDTV, you get a crippled picture. What moron wants to buy a HD-DVD and get 1/4 the resoltuion of Blu-Ray?
The author should be shot. Yes, I mean kill him. Yes, for writing that HD-DVD has some advantage he should be killed...preferably tortured to death.
The real barrier to Linux adoption is the BSA (business software alliance) that sues any high school that sets up a Linux lab. Microsoft recently announced that it was "dnagerous" to buy a PC without a licensed Microsoft OS.
The real solution is to shoot the bastards, but we have a temprorary fix: http://www.knopper.net/
Knoppix Linux allows us little people to demonstrate Linux to our students in (almost) complete safety. Microsoft and the BSA still get their protection money, and we get to boot off a DVD to demonstrate Linux. It recognized keychain drives, and saves your desktop settings to any decently sized secondary storage (e.g., 256mb keychain drive, CF card, or SD card.)
I'm a college professor, and I'm handing out hundreds of Knoppix DVDs every week to local high schools to spread cpomuter literacy amoung out incoming freshmen.
If we had free speech, we would be able to explain how tyrannical our govt was, then we would all listen to each other's copmlaints and realize that we are not alone, then we'd all get togeather and shoot the bastards.
So you see, it's impossible for them to allow free speech. Only terrorists want free speech.
I thought that by this time, OSX86 would be replacing XP as the client OS of choice, but then Apple shot itself...not in the foot, but in the balls by refusing to allow OSX86 to run on non-Apple-brand hardware.
IDIOTS!!!
I'll pay $200 per license for 500 licenses, but they don't care. So, XP goes and Knoppix stays.
MS put a system in place where you could be redirected from a domain they found unsavoury (a "type-oh" domain) to one they aprroved of.
As someone who was sued repeatedly by the BSA (business software alliance) for "piracy" because I did not pay a BSA company for my operating system (which was Slackware Linux 3.4)
I do not trust MS. They WILL use this to censor GPLed software and to promote their own software. They WILL use this to censor sucks sites. They WILL use this to shut down free speech. They WILL use this to censor their copmetitors.
As to your insane point that it is not turned on by default, you know that every encroachment on our freedom starts as "voluntary" and turns into "voluntary, but a PITA to turn off" and finally moves to "voluntary, with a gun to your head." See "voluntary copmliance" with the IRS. My compliance has never been voluntary, and never will be. It's just that they (the IRS) out gun me... for now.
The problem with EULAs is not the confusing legalese, it's the content. Would you buy a car from someone who demanded that you waive all rights to sue, even if he deliberately comitted fraud? Would you also agree that he still owned the car, and that he could grant you a license to drive it as long as you never benchmarked it (looked at the speedometer?) Would you agree that he could lock the wheels or take it back at any time for any reason?
And if you did agree to that with your boss'es money, would you expect to keep your job?
Anyone who agrees on behalf of a corporation to a typical commerical EULA is guilty of serious crimes, especially criminal negligence.
When I see the word "beginning" I think of the WROX press (red cover) books, but it seems all the "beginning" books reviews on/. are the yellow-and-black cover ones.
Can you please mention the publisher in future titles?
Also, are you getting a payoff from these guys? Do you write for them?
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First, my bias: I believe that government is evil, and that freedom is a good thing. That makes me a radical, militant, extremist, terrorist, wing-nut.
To clarify what they are talking about..when they say:
> Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to
> block child pornography from reaching children.
"Child pornography" refers to anyone under the age of 18 nude. That means baby pictures, and porn that's legal in most of Europe (where the age of consent is 16,) and any pictures of topless or nude beaches.
This is supposedly reaching "children." That means anyone under the age of 18, like a 17 year old male surfing the 'net.
Does anyone else see the absurdity in preventing a 17 yr old from looking up his baby pictures?
Does anyone else see the absurdity in blocking a 17 year old from seeing another 17 year old naked over the internet? Go to Germany, and you can pay a few hundred bucks to screw that 16 or 17 year old "child" at a brothel?
Does anyone else see the absurdity in preventing a high school student who will spend a vacation in Australia from seeing the beeches?
Andy Out!
> No, for many reasons.
> First, because it uses a published plugin API that Microsoft provides
> specifically for third parties to create Office plugins.
I don't know.
> Second, because the DMCA doesn't prohibit circumvention of file formats,
> but of encryption implementations.
BULLSHIT!!! The DMCA prevents bypassing any electronic lock, of any kind. Anything, even gluing a flap on a disposable camera closed can be considered an "electronic lock."
> Third, because the DMCA only applies when circumvention is done for the
> purpose of copyright violation, and since you own the copyright on
> the documents you create, this would not apply.
BULLSHIT!!! The DMCA makes it a felony (25 year in prison!) for me to play a DVD I bought on Linux.
Frankly, it's fucking idiots like you that brought Hitler to power.
Andy Out!
It just occurred to me...I often throw away a broken device (e.g., battery powered drill, cell phone, etc.) that still has a good battery. I can sometimes get more for a spare battery on eBay than a new device (especially a cordless drill) costs to replace.
What if they all took standard batteries?
Take a look at the cordless drills...they all have standard voltages (multiples of 1.2V, like 10.8V, 12V, 14.4V, 18V, etc.) Why don't they all take the same battery connection?
Industry has tried and failed to standardize (remeber the Duracell "standard" laptop batteries of the '90s?)
I've also see flashlights that used Nokia cell phone batteries (I built one myself, with half a dozen Hi-flux 200mW LEDs) but Nokia sues anyone who commerically produces them saying they are violating an (expired) patent on the battery's connectors. Of course, big money beats honesty in a court room. Imagine a cordless Dremel tool that took 3 or 4 Nokia cell phone batteries. Imagine if your pocket flashlight, digital multi meter, IPOD, and portable speakers all took the same battery.
I always like to leave these things to industry, but the US Congress does have the power to regulate interstate commerce (to promote interstate commerce.) They could demand that all cordless drills take battery packs with standard connectors. They could demand that all consumer electronics devices come with standard batteries.
Even if Congress just mandated that patents & other IP did not apply to battery connections; anyone can copy your battery connection, and plug in their own battery that works with your device. He he he...I could make flashlights that used Cell Phone batteries.
The thing that most annoys me is throwing away a wonderful laptop because of a project $3 part that Sony refuses to sell. I lost a perfectly good Vaio because the proprietary connector on the AC adapter died. A new AC adapter would have cost well over $300, so I still have it on a shelf, 3 years later. Can we please standardize on DC adapters with coaxial power connectors that are rated in volts and amps? We could have about 5 different connectors for different voltage ranges. (e.g., all 12V connectors are the same dang size.)
This would also help those of us on alternative power (solar & wind; 12V plugs) to charge our cordless Dremel tools. If all 6V plugs look the same, then expensive DC/DC converters can be used for several tools.
Andy Out!
Now, instead of internal, non-removalbe Li-Ion batteries, all the IPODs will have to allow removable batteries, so that everyone can use disposable batteries in them. He he he....
I also restrivt my buying to players that use disposable batteries. I usually select more by battery type and battery life than by other features. I love anything that runs off a single e2 lithium AA, or a lithium 123A.
Andy Out!
Have you ever seen anyone calculate the losses due to copy protection run amuck?
.NET 2005 due to sill copy protection issues, when I have the full, licensed copy.
I had to delay my graduation from UTA with a MS in CSE due to the copy protection in Wolfram Publishing's Mathematica not allowing me to run their software over the weekend, when my thesis was due Sunday at 6pm. I lost tens of thousands of dollars due to this.
I am currently unable to run MS' Visual Studio
I have suffered tremendous economic damage from people (e.g., IBM in 1998) saying that I was a pirate. You see, I was at a job interview, and was asked if I paid for my operating system. I said I did not; I ran Slackware Linux 3.4 I was physically thrown out; my $300 suit was ripped (it cost me $375 to repair) and the civil rights complaint went nowhere, due to a dept. of labor that screamed that I was a pirate and a felon.
I am currently unable to give out free Linux discs to high school students due to the BSA threatening the college that I teach at with lawsuits if I advertise that Linux is a free alternative to Windows on the college's web site. They call that advertisement an ad for pirated software.
I was unable to play "Test Drive 2: The Duel" from the time I purchased it a decade ago due to errant copy protection.
I am still unable to play "World War 2" "The Global Dillema: Guns or Butter" "Hero's Quest I" "Homeworld" and "Civilizations" due to copy protection BS. (These are about the only games I ever enjoyed, and I have lost the ability to play them due to absurd copyright stuff, like needing the original 360k disk in the drive plus the original manual for "Guns or Butter."
In my C#.NET class, I can not find a single student with a legitimate copy of VS.NET who can actually get the software to install.
Andy Out!
The internet is not gaining trust, the mainstream media (MSM) is loosing trust. I'd Rather not have my news from a biased, lying SOB.
The FCC makes things worse by censoring all but a few negative reports about the govt.
Andy Out!
I've said that Longhorn will be Microsoft's OS2 for months. It will be adopted by the businesses who are so incredibly stupid that they really thing they have to adopt everything MS puts out as "new."
I knew MS has jumped the shark in my C#.NET class. Every single student who had a pirate copy of VS.NET had it working. Every single one of us who had legit software had failed to get VS.NET to install. This is typical of MS' policies on piracy. I don't pirate MS' software - I run Knoppix.
From The Article :
> "Microsoft has been unable to cope with Open Source except to complain about it."
You forget the hundreds of Linux users who are sitting in prison thanks to the BSA, not to mention the people who have been shot on both sides of this war. The BSA may kick in yoru door tonight. Are you ready to defend your right to run Linux? !!Lock & Load!
Andy Out!
The question is: Who make the major decisions?
I've known a programmer who asked his 3 year old daughter what a child's game should look like.
In FOSS, it's the programmers who make the decisions, so we get things like "don't download a binary, download the code and compile it."
At Microsoft, it's the marketing department, so we get things like "DirectDraw3D Start Menus."
You decide who you want making the decisions.
Andy Out!
P.S. Knoppix went a LONG way towards removing the hassles, now we just need a dual layer version that includes the help files.
As soon as you say that some sites are not allowed as "type-oh" sites, you will prevent anyone who is not a big company from owning a domain name. Don't go there!
Andy Out!
I'm calling BS on their site!
I was forced to choose one of 2 screen saver sites, not to list a site that I would feel comfortable downloading from. I would have never clicked on either one of them. What was this supposed to prove?
I was asked which file sharing program was "safe" from spyware? WTF? Have you seen the spyware infected files people get from eMule? Who cares if the package at that one site seems "free of spyware"?
This absurd test is the equivalent of asking someone to pick between 2 gay lovers in a San Fransicko gay sex club, then telling them that if they had asked, that only one was HIV positive. The fact that you are there, doing that, is what puts you at risk.
Anyone who downloads a file sharing program, screen saver, etc. knows they are taking a chance. They also know that they can protect themselves by going with Linux (e.g., a Knoppix live DVD) and well known programs.
Andy Out!
To be clear, this is a full copy of Visual Studio .NET 2005, not a limited or crippled copy. (Unlike the copy of SQL Server MS gave me - that was a time limited demo, after I was promised in writing that if I attended their launch that they would give me a full copy.)
Frankly, the fact that I can recompile anything I want for Linux but I can not get a binay install to work on MS Windows was enough to get me to hand out Knoppix DVDs to all my students. We are not using Excel to teach the accountants, we are using Gnumeric, OpenOffice.org Calc, or Koffice.
Andy Out!
Pirates will always find ways around this stuff, but licensed users who do not stay up on the latest copy protection BS will be screwed.
.NET next year.
I'm a college professor, who teaches programming classes. Tuesday, I took a poll in my C# class the other day, and about 2/3rd of the students had gotten MS Visual Studio.NET to work, while 1/3rd did not have it working on their home PCs. Every one who had it working was running a bootlegged / pirate copy. Every one of us who paid for legitimate coppies (or, like me, got a free copy of VS.NET 2005 at the MS launch event) had run into insurmountable trouble.
I've heard from a friend that MS VS.NET does not run on OEM coppies of Windows. Frankly, I've given up. We're not teaching
Andy Out!
The problem here is that for one person to build something, (s)he has to get the unanimous consent of everyone in the damn county.
There are 2 solutions:
(1) Build it anyway, and shoot anyone who complains (this seems to be working for me, and my hogs are well fed from the politicians, lawyers, cops, and neighborhood watch types.)
(2) All land must be sold in allodial title, which means the owner really owns it. The govt can not levy property taxes. Zoning regulations do not apply. There are no environmental concerns that anyone can force on the owner. Nothing can interfere with what I do on land that I own in allodial title. Unfortunately, only Texas allows this right now, and only half a dozen people actually have such a title to their land here in Texas.
Andy Out!
> I'm in the top 3% worldwide.. and so are the 18,055 people above me.
> And I don't believe I'll ever see top 1%
I also doubt that you'll ever see the top 1%.
If there are six billion (6,000,000,000) people in this world, then the top 3% is one-hundred-and-eighty-million (180,000,000.)
Andy Out!
Recall that if you use a HD-DVD and a non-DRM HDTV, you get a crippled picture. What moron wants to buy a HD-DVD and get 1/4 the resoltuion of Blu-Ray?
The author should be shot. Yes, I mean kill him. Yes, for writing that HD-DVD has some advantage he should be killed...preferably tortured to death.
Andy Out!
Their system sounds like what MULTIX was supposed to be, before we gave up and switched over to UNIX.
Andy Out!
The real barrier to Linux adoption is the BSA (business software alliance) that sues any high school that sets up a Linux lab. Microsoft recently announced that it was "dnagerous" to buy a PC without a licensed Microsoft OS.
The real solution is to shoot the bastards, but we have a temprorary fix: http://www.knopper.net/
Knoppix Linux allows us little people to demonstrate Linux to our students in (almost) complete safety. Microsoft and the BSA still get their protection money, and we get to boot off a DVD to demonstrate Linux. It recognized keychain drives, and saves your desktop settings to any decently sized secondary storage (e.g., 256mb keychain drive, CF card, or SD card.)
I'm a college professor, and I'm handing out hundreds of Knoppix DVDs every week to local high schools to spread cpomuter literacy amoung out incoming freshmen.
Andy Out!
If we had free speech, we would be able to explain how tyrannical our govt was, then we would all listen to each other's copmlaints and realize that we are not alone, then we'd all get togeather and shoot the bastards.
So you see, it's impossible for them to allow free speech. Only terrorists want free speech.
lockin' & loadin',
Andy Out!
I thought that by this time, OSX86 would be replacing XP as the client OS of choice, but then Apple shot itself...not in the foot, but in the balls by refusing to allow OSX86 to run on non-Apple-brand hardware.
IDIOTS!!!
I'll pay $200 per license for 500 licenses, but they don't care. So, XP goes and Knoppix stays.
Andy Out!
Jorgie,
... for now.
I wish you would read my reply before posting.
MS put a system in place where you could be redirected from a domain they found unsavoury (a "type-oh" domain) to one they aprroved of.
As someone who was sued repeatedly by the BSA (business software alliance) for "piracy" because I did not pay a BSA company for my operating system (which was Slackware Linux 3.4)
I do not trust MS. They WILL use this to censor GPLed software and to promote their own software. They WILL use this to censor sucks sites. They WILL use this to shut down free speech. They WILL use this to censor their copmetitors.
As to your insane point that it is not turned on by default, you know that every encroachment on our freedom starts as "voluntary" and turns into "voluntary, but a PITA to turn off" and finally moves to "voluntary, with a gun to your head." See "voluntary copmliance" with the IRS. My compliance has never been voluntary, and never will be. It's just that they (the IRS) out gun me
Andy Out!
The problem with EULAs is not the confusing legalese, it's the content. Would you buy a car from someone who demanded that you waive all rights to sue, even if he deliberately comitted fraud? Would you also agree that he still owned the car, and that he could grant you a license to drive it as long as you never benchmarked it (looked at the speedometer?) Would you agree that he could lock the wheels or take it back at any time for any reason?
And if you did agree to that with your boss'es money, would you expect to keep your job?
Anyone who agrees on behalf of a corporation to a typical commerical EULA is guilty of serious crimes, especially criminal negligence.
Andy Out!
If you type in www.Knopper.Net, you go to www.Windows.com right?
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
When I see the word "beginning" I think of the WROX press (red cover) books, but it seems all the "beginning" books reviews on /. are the yellow-and-black cover ones.
Can you please mention the publisher in future titles?
Also, are you getting a payoff from these guys? Do you write for them?
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot up a few stock holders' meetings.
Andy Out!
They're the Government - they are ABOVE the law.
Now shut up before they send Bush's SS after you. (or lock and load...your decision. I'm already cocked, locked, and ready to rock.)
Andy Out!