A good implementation (as many terminals I've tried in Europe) lets you insert your card/enter the pin while you wait for the cashier to enter the things you bought into the cash register. That is, they do their things as fast as they can, you do your thing in parallel.
Once the cashier is done, you see the sum and press "accept" with barely a second waiting time until it asks you to remove the card. You don't even need to wait for the receipt to be printed unless you want the printed copy.
Old style "sign terminals" in the US (haven't been for a while) forced you to sign once the cashier was done which should actually be slower. Has that changed in the years since I've been there?
Seems computers is the only area where the "I didn't mean to, and it's so complicated to secure things with this newfangled technology that I shouldn't have to" defense works though.
Could just be so easy as Lodsys going after the small developers to force Apple to pay up. Going straight for Apple will probably drag out for ages in court, while going after the developers will have an immediate chilling effect and forces Apple to at least consider buying out the patent without much of a bargaining position.
I'm not sure how I became an astroturfer for someone not even mentioned in the thread before you just did.
I agree it's harder to violate the GPL than most commercial licenses, my point was that it's a bad idea to use _any_ license - FOSS or commercial - without knowing what you agree to by using it.
The limitations are usually there, just in different forms for different licenses.
However, you may be the target of SFLC instead. Harder to violate the licenses, but just saying using FOSS will just automatically solve everything isn't entirely true.
Indeed, not saying it's strange in that way. However, if you take a multi million users world wide system and basically shut down all marketing except in the US, you shouldn't be too surprised if your user base declines.
Not only that. AOL seems very US centric, the acquisitions they make (most striking example being ICQ) just seem to "stop existing" internationally.
ICQ was quite popular among the people I know (in Sweden), but since AOL bought them I've only ever heard of them in the context of being considered for sale or now being sold. The service works internationally for sure, but the little marketing I've seen for Live Messenger totally crushes anything I've heard about ICQ for years. In the context of the Internet, no news isn't good news. No news is abandonware.
I'm in Sweden and I have quite a few unsubbed and legal channels both on-air and over satellite. There are some "accessibility requirements" for SVT (the government owned commercial free channel that charges a TV license fee) but even they aren't required to subtitle everything and many channels that do subtitle do so in English since few channels are dedicated to Sweden and Swedes in general have little problems with English.
So what you're saying is that the license accompanying the code shouldn't be trusted, you should always call and ask the original author if he changed his mind?
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This also has the advantage that the hash of the entered password never travels over the wire (if your db server is on a different box)
Umm... and the actual correct password hash traveling over the wire as a result is better how?
"Autogiro" being, essentially, a blank check saying "take as much money as you like when you want to from my account." I just won't accept that.
E-mail billing is... well, maybe a bit better than a physical bill but still I prefer getting my bill to my bank with all bill payment, PDF printable copies and records in one place. I actually "threw out" all places that want to bill me in other ways a few months back and sorry, at this point I'm not going back even for what I consider being a good cause.
I don't actually fileshare, but Bahnhof, you have my support and the day you support e-faktura (electronic bills & payment) I'll support you with my business too./Actual Swede
3) You have to store encrypted data individually for each user. Most user won't fill their GDrive with their own unique data, most data will already be uploaded by someone else. This means the service can, if the checksum already exists on the server, skip both the upload and the storage of the file, it'll just add a reference to the existing one.
Money saved right there, and won't work with individually encrypted data.
(and yes, it can be "abused", a hacked client could add a reference to a file you don't actually have - yet - if you know the checksum, so perfect for distribution of your "photo collection")
Admittedly not getting lost/damaged/stolen as much, but I've had two desktops stolen and one damaged in a fire while my laptop never had problems like that, mostly because I carry it with me so I can keep it safe. Not saying you're wrong in general, just that your mileage may vary.
What operator/subscription is that? Sounds pretty good and I've only found "payment plan" deals on computers with the mobile broadband subscriptions in Sweden:-/
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A good implementation (as many terminals I've tried in Europe) lets you insert your card/enter the pin while you wait for the cashier to enter the things you bought into the cash register. That is, they do their things as fast as they can, you do your thing in parallel.
Once the cashier is done, you see the sum and press "accept" with barely a second waiting time until it asks you to remove the card. You don't even need to wait for the receipt to be printed unless you want the printed copy.
Old style "sign terminals" in the US (haven't been for a while) forced you to sign once the cashier was done which should actually be slower. Has that changed in the years since I've been there?
Actually, it's one kilometer in 3 seconds, not 1/3.
Seems computers is the only area where the "I didn't mean to, and it's so complicated to secure things with this newfangled technology that I shouldn't have to" defense works though.
About 30 hours of reading with wifi on, a bit more with it turned off.
Available now in Sweden a few hours after Us availability, so may show up in a bit.
If you use ios 5 beta (3), the app will crash right away. Not that I can rightly complain with a beta service on a beta OS :)
Could just be so easy as Lodsys going after the small developers to force Apple to pay up. Going straight for Apple will probably drag out for ages in court, while going after the developers will have an immediate chilling effect and forces Apple to at least consider buying out the patent without much of a bargaining position.
I'm not sure how I became an astroturfer for someone not even mentioned in the thread before you just did.
I agree it's harder to violate the GPL than most commercial licenses, my point was that it's a bad idea to use _any_ license - FOSS or commercial - without knowing what you agree to by using it.
The limitations are usually there, just in different forms for different licenses.
However, you may be the target of SFLC instead. Harder to violate the licenses, but just saying using FOSS will just automatically solve everything isn't entirely true.
*phew* Until I saw that you were missing $, I was sure you meant Perl.
Not black at least, I've been roaming with various European model cell phones while visiting the US without any problems.
Indeed, not saying it's strange in that way. However, if you take a multi million users world wide system and basically shut down all marketing except in the US, you shouldn't be too surprised if your user base declines.
Not only that. AOL seems very US centric, the acquisitions they make (most striking example being ICQ) just seem to "stop existing" internationally.
ICQ was quite popular among the people I know (in Sweden), but since AOL bought them I've only ever heard of them in the context of being considered for sale or now being sold. The service works internationally for sure, but the little marketing I've seen for Live Messenger totally crushes anything I've heard about ICQ for years. In the context of the Internet, no news isn't good news. No news is abandonware.
Well, Virgin being involved, I'd not be so sure...
...and the moon landings never happened since you weren't there?
I'm in Sweden and I have quite a few unsubbed and legal channels both on-air and over satellite. There are some "accessibility requirements" for SVT (the government owned commercial free channel that charges a TV license fee) but even they aren't required to subtitle everything and many channels that do subtitle do so in English since few channels are dedicated to Sweden and Swedes in general have little problems with English.
So what you're saying is that the license accompanying the code shouldn't be trusted, you should always call and ask the original author if he changed his mind?
This also has the advantage that the hash of the entered password never travels over the wire (if your db server is on a different box)
Umm... and the actual correct password hash traveling over the wire as a result is better how?
"Autogiro" being, essentially, a blank check saying "take as much money as you like when you want to from my account." I just won't accept that.
E-mail billing is... well, maybe a bit better than a physical bill but still I prefer getting my bill to my bank with all bill payment, PDF printable copies and records in one place. I actually "threw out" all places that want to bill me in other ways a few months back and sorry, at this point I'm not going back even for what I consider being a good cause.
I don't actually fileshare, but Bahnhof, you have my support and the day you support e-faktura (electronic bills & payment) I'll support you with my business too. /Actual Swede
3) You have to store encrypted data individually for each user. Most user won't fill their GDrive with their own unique data, most data will already be uploaded by someone else. This means the service can, if the checksum already exists on the server, skip both the upload and the storage of the file, it'll just add a reference to the existing one.
Money saved right there, and won't work with individually encrypted data. (and yes, it can be "abused", a hacked client could add a reference to a file you don't actually have - yet - if you know the checksum, so perfect for distribution of your "photo collection")
Admittedly not getting lost/damaged/stolen as much, but I've had two desktops stolen and one damaged in a fire while my laptop never had problems like that, mostly because I carry it with me so I can keep it safe. Not saying you're wrong in general, just that your mileage may vary.
Heh, you can but I see I linked to a non LCD TV in this case... :-P I'll find a new link and return ;-)
You can pretty easily get a 32" LCD TV for around $250 in Sweden, and that's including 25% sales tax, so should be pretty easy over there too, no?
What operator/subscription is that? Sounds pretty good and I've only found "payment plan" deals on computers with the mobile broadband subscriptions in Sweden :-/