I know people keep posting stuff along the lines of "oh deary me... this might kill Google", but no. It doesn't have to. MSN Search may take market share away from Google, but the people using it will be the ones who haven't figured out how to change the default search in IE, or set the homepage to something other than MSN. So, Google will hopefully become a search engine for the clueful, whilst the AOLers and WebTV people use MSN search.
This can be problematic. I would like to be offered a coffee and lots of sympathy when the train has been delayed, and I turn up to work 20mins later than I should have been, having just ran for the last half mile.. But instead, being in tune with reality, I expect the PHB to make noises, and I've seen what can happen when manglement are a little too laissez-faire - people start taking the ****.
Of course, if all your neighbors are using ADSL with a 50:1 contention on the same local circuit, you're not going to get much more bandwidth in any case.
You can get it here. But be careful. Any spyware attempting to install itself on your machine will fail, and subsequently report you to the Department of Microsoft HomeLAN security as an unamerican, cancerouscommie who stifles innovation.
I wonder if that 'disclaimer' was written by the people who devised the study. When Copernicus published his works, suggesting that the Earth orbitted The Sun, rather than the generally-accepted vice-versa, a preface was added against his will, to the effect of "the present hypotheses are not proposed because they are in reality true, but because they are the most convenient to calculate the apparent composite motions".
I wonder if cracks for their software would be considered malicious. I can just imagine hundreds of people running this, and then finding out that Office doesn't work anymore and they only have another 28 days in which to activate Windows XP before it'll only boot in safe mode. Don't have a cracked machine to try it on, unfortunately, but I think maybe MS missed their chance by allowing everyone to bypass windows validation before downloading the anti-spyware. Perhaps this is another chance to rid the world of a few 1,000 pirates. Or perhaps I should get more sleep and/or consider Occam's Razor a little more..
From the article:In addition to improving our understanding of these beautiful planetary nebulae form, the detection of these magnetic fields allows science to take a step forward towards the clarification of the relationship between magnetic fields and stellar physics.
So, that's one step forwards for mankind, and, er.... tune in again; same time, same channel for the next bit of the puzzle.
$1,000 as the initial charge for such infections, with further costs/damages being added afterwards seems quite nice. The idea of having Marc Morganstern, Mitch Bainwol and Dan Glickman all fined $1,000 per compromised machine, plus inflated damages and incarcerated whilst waiting for an ever-delayed trial à la Mitnick seems quite amusing.
This cracks me up. If I steal a car, and the brakes don't work, so I get to sue the guy who made the car ?. Crime or no crime, you are D/L'ing a file "illegally", and you want to complain when it messes up your computer ?
I thought the crime was the 'uploading' of music, rather than 'downloading' of it? That seems to be who the RIAA are going after in the courts.
I wouldn't have thought that the makers of VNC are liable for it under this law. If I, however, install VNC on your machine without you knowing, and use it to do nasty things with your computer, then I would be liable.
Interestingly, Spybot S&D suggests removal of VNC on the PCs at work...
Just one more to add to the list.
Next up - they'll threaten people with $500 fines for detonating a nuclear device inside city limi.... oh, wait....
In other news, Arnie has decided that cancer is a bad thing, and has begun moves to make it illegal. Any malignant tissue found within the state will be subject to $5,000 fine and up to 10 years imprisonment...
We've had this over in the UK. Drivers can pay to use a toll section of the M6 motorway, or, as most of the lorry drivers have done, they can choose not to. I don't think Ambulances like using it either.
Since the Earth's rotation is slowing down, and will eventually reach an absolute stop, anything which keeps us spinning a little longer can only be a good thing.
Right, didn't lookup crippleware, but anyways...
I based the 50 years on nothing more solid than a quick google and the Berne Copyright Treaty
I've now found this.
Actually, Elvis was born on January 8th, 1935. So he'd be 70 if he hadn't croaked.
I believe the rule is that copyright still holds until 50 years after the artist's _death_.
With stuffbeingleakedearly all the time, there'll still be plenty of non-DRM'd copies of music and movies floating about the place. The trick will be to track them down and download them without the MPAA/RIAA detecting such things.
However, when this happens with IE, you have to terminate the browser process to get out of the "you must click yes" mousetrap.
I've seen these things come up all over the place, but haven't seen them in FireFox yet. I've never had a problem where I've had to kill iexplore.exe in order to get out of the 'You Must Press Yes' problem. Clicking no about 4-5 times usually keeps it quiet for long enough for me to surf elsewhere, or failing that, the little 'X' at the top right-hand corner of the MsgBox.
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So I guess I'll never win the Turner Prize with my 7337 combination of The GIMP/Script-Fu and GD/Freetype.
I know people keep posting stuff along the lines of "oh deary me... this might kill Google", but no. It doesn't have to. MSN Search may take market share away from Google, but the people using it will be the ones who haven't figured out how to change the default search in IE, or set the homepage to something other than MSN. So, Google will hopefully become a search engine for the clueful, whilst the AOLers and WebTV people use MSN search.
dir *.mp* /s
dir *.avi /s
dir *.qt /s
dir *.bmp /s
dir *.jpg /s
dir *.gif /s
echo The above files probably contain copyright material. Please delete them.
This can be problematic. I would like to be offered a coffee and lots of sympathy when the train has been delayed, and I turn up to work 20mins later than I should have been, having just ran for the last half mile.. But instead, being in tune with reality, I expect the PHB to make noises, and I've seen what can happen when manglement are a little too laissez-faire - people start taking the ****.
Am unamerican also...
Ob meme: All your APs are belong to us.
There I said it. I'll stop now.You can get it here. But be careful. Any spyware attempting to install itself on your machine will fail, and subsequently report you to the Department of Microsoft HomeLAN security as an unamerican, cancerous commie who stifles innovation.
I wonder if that 'disclaimer' was written by the people who devised the study. When Copernicus published his works, suggesting that the Earth orbitted The Sun, rather than the generally-accepted vice-versa, a preface was added against his will, to the effect of "the present hypotheses are not proposed because they are in reality true, but because they are the most convenient to calculate the apparent composite motions".
I wonder if cracks for their software would be considered malicious. I can just imagine hundreds of people running this, and then finding out that Office doesn't work anymore and they only have another 28 days in which to activate Windows XP before it'll only boot in safe mode. Don't have a cracked machine to try it on, unfortunately, but I think maybe MS missed their chance by allowing everyone to bypass windows validation before downloading the anti-spyware. Perhaps this is another chance to rid the world of a few 1,000 pirates. Or perhaps I should get more sleep and/or consider Occam's Razor a little more..
...I cannae change the laws'a'physics!
So, that's one step forwards for mankind, and, er.... tune in again; same time, same channel for the next bit of the puzzle.
I take it 2004 wasn't a good year for Guybrush Threepwood and Monkey Island? ;-)
$1,000 as the initial charge for such infections, with further costs/damages being added afterwards seems quite nice. The idea of having Marc Morganstern, Mitch Bainwol and Dan Glickman all fined $1,000 per compromised machine, plus inflated damages and incarcerated whilst waiting for an ever-delayed trial à la Mitnick seems quite amusing.
I thought the crime was the 'uploading' of music, rather than 'downloading' of it? That seems to be who the RIAA are going after in the courts.
I wouldn't have thought that the makers of VNC are liable for it under this law. If I, however, install VNC on your machine without you knowing, and use it to do nasty things with your computer, then I would be liable.
Interestingly, Spybot S&D suggests removal of VNC on the PCs at work...
Just one more to add to the list.
Next up - they'll threaten people with $500 fines for detonating a nuclear device inside city limi.... oh, wait....
In other news, Arnie has decided that cancer is a bad thing, and has begun moves to make it illegal. Any malignant tissue found within the state will be subject to $5,000 fine and up to 10 years imprisonment...
We've had this over in the UK. Drivers can pay to use a toll section of the M6 motorway, or, as most of the lorry drivers have done, they can choose not to. I don't think Ambulances like using it either.
Since the Earth's rotation is slowing down, and will eventually reach an absolute stop, anything which keeps us spinning a little longer can only be a good thing.
Right, didn't lookup crippleware, but anyways...
I based the 50 years on nothing more solid than a quick google and the Berne Copyright Treaty
I've now found this.
Actually, Elvis was born on January 8th, 1935. So he'd be 70 if he hadn't croaked.
I believe the rule is that copyright still holds until 50 years after the artist's _death_.
With stuff being leaked early all the time, there'll still be plenty of non-DRM'd copies of music and movies floating about the place. The trick will be to track them down and download them without the MPAA/RIAA detecting such things.
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
I've seen these things come up all over the place, but haven't seen them in FireFox yet. I've never had a problem where I've had to kill iexplore.exe in order to get out of the 'You Must Press Yes' problem. Clicking no about 4-5 times usually keeps it quiet for long enough for me to surf elsewhere, or failing that, the little 'X' at the top right-hand corner of the MsgBox.
Suddenly I find myself wondering if MRML is just a joke, or wether the author was truly ahead of his time...
XP Pro gives me:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
And 2003 Server:
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]