I've gone so far as to email some of the CC lawyers about this issue, and there seems to be no clear answer.
The cynic in me says they provided no clear answers to you on purpose. If they laid out some clear guidelines that would keep you out of trouble, you would follow them and never need their services. They are much more interested in telling you what to do when it's too late and they're tracking billable hours on your dime.
Shady Guy: Psst. You want to buy organ? Fresh and cheap, ready for transplant. Fry: [points to the eyeball] Ooh, what's this? Shady Guy: S' X-Ray eye. See through anything. Fry: Wait a minute, this says "Z-ray!" Shady Guy: "Z" is just as good! In fact, it's better, it's two more than "X." Fry: Hmmm, I can see where that can be an advantage. Do you take cash?
McAfee and Symantec exist because of problems that exist in the Windows code. They are concerned b/c Microsoft is releasing its own "security" software, which I agree with to a point, but they are also pissed off because MSFT is locking them out of the kernel (as they have been since x64's XP).
They're backtracking on some of those kernal restrictions, actually.
No, it is because alot of drugs are subsidized in canada.
As the other replier pointed out, there are price controls as well. Something the government in the U.S. should do more of when they subsidize things. *cough*Haliburton*cough*
The point of globalization is to help corporate profit, not consumer savings. Nobody cares about consumers.
Globalization isn't a business plan, its a concept. A relationship concept. Corporations have always been rah-rah about globalization because they just looked at it as "wider audience for goods = larger customer base = more profit". My point is they can't protray themselves as a "company to the world" and then get pissy when people start trading their products across the world as well. It's just doesn't work in the 21st Century and the age of eBay and is another case of a company wanting to have its cake and eat it too.
Because the people who steal laptops are often the type of people who won't know about this, so it won't protect you from being robbed...
Yup, they'll still steal your laptop, the difference is you'll be just out a laptop, instead of having someone stealing your identity and ruining your credit or releasing confidential work information and getting you in trouble at work if you have the drive encrypted.
Encryption can also come in handy for getting around Windows limitations. I ran out of space on my internal drive on my home PC (running XP Home ed) and needed a way to add more storage space for myself. I had another HD installed in the machine, the probelm being this computer is shared with the rest of the family and that second HD would be easily accessable to everyone thanks to XP Home's lousy user account privacy (and yes, I'm aware even with account privacy in use your files are still accessable with enough digging). The solution was TrueCrypt. I encrypted the entire second HD and set the drive to auto-mount when I logged on. So when I log on I'm prompted for the password, and the drive is usable after that. As long as I'm not logged on at the same time as somebody else, they can't access it.
I'm dubious of any true safety concerns. Does Sony want it shouted that: Sony sells unsafe PS3's everywhere in the world except the UK, because only UK law won't allow it!
It's funny, this is the same thing happens with pharmaceuticals in the U.S. The industry doesn't want people importing Canadian drugs (which are much cheaper) and one thing mentioned is that they have concern the drugs do not meet U.S. quality standards.
I have yet to hear anyone ask if that's true doesn't that mean they are giving Candaians sub-quality prescription drugs. You think there would be a Canadian-consumer uproar with such simple logic.
This is another side to globalization. As the world as a whole becomes more interconnected thanks to the internet and cheap international shipping, the marketting notion of making products available in different contries at different times is not going to hold up.
It's the same issue you already see DVD region encoding, and with digital music services: people complaining about albums being available in some countries and not others when everyone is getting their tunes from a server on the Internet.
In the future corporations are going to need to stop thinking they can easily dictate the geographical spread of their goods and start thinking of their product launches as a worldwide event. The entertainment industries need to stop setting up distribution deals for invidual regions and make their deals for global availablity. If they don't they will only see their products pasisng through black-market channels and piracy rings more readily instead of generating more revenue for them.
Diebold Election Systems Inc. expressed alarm and state election officials contacted the FBI yesterday after a former legislator received an anonymous package containing what appears to be the computer code that ran Maryland's polls in 2004...
That was dumb. I mean I know he's a former legislator, but still if the suspicion is that the Diebold software is allowing vote switching, why send it to someone who has a history of being involved in government and depending on votes for his job? For all the sender knew his party is the one taking advantage of the flaws and they could have just distroyed the package!
It should have been sent to several people, including the EFF and some open source gurus. People who, you know, might able to actually read the code and give a flip if there's an issue with it. Really, if the FBI has the only copy now they might as well have sent it direct to the White House. [rolleyes]
Lots of phones out there that have great specs as announced by the manufactures. And then the phone is crippled in software by the cell service companies, and it's a piece of trash that no one wants. Or, you can buy the uncrippled version for $499 (still with a 2-year contract).
Or you could by the uncrippled version for $499 from a retail seller and skip the 2-year contract extension...
Wow he really has evolved if he's now an online sentient being! Just like the AI's in Neromancer. I imagine his expectations for the rest of humanity will go something like "More cyborg technology study or die!"
Oh, no the cheese is there. There's just nothing to keep it cold now. Bet those astronauts are happy they have separate air supplies so they don't have to smell it when they're walking around.
I am not a historian, but wasn't the whole point of broadcast licenses to prevent frequency interference? Is that really relevant with the way things work on the Internet today?
Come now, you don't think this legislation has anything scientific reasoning behind it, do you? It's just a convienent way for the govenment to exercise control over free speech and raise revenue.
We effectively lost the war against the robots when we first invented computerization, thus creating the posibility for the future war against the robots.
No. We can stop this war from happening.
All we need to do is send a single person back in time to the year 1955 (perhaps powered by some combintaion of The Wayback Machine and Google's Solar Panels to assassinate Sara^H^H^H^HMary Gates before Bill is born, this will prevent the formation of Microsoft, stopping the PC timeline with Tim Paterson's QDOS and relegating Steve Baller to a life as CEO of a frozen yogurt chain. Windows will never get written and Botnet will never be able to replicate and come online!
I'm not complaining about NVidia. I thought the original reason the summary even mentioned the drivers being closed source was to point out that, had they been open source, the exploit might have been spotted and patched sooner. But because it is closed source installing the drivers is akin to putting a magic black box in your OS. It can do wonderful things, but since you have no idea how it works there might be something sinister is lurking as well. You take your chance on the hidden evil for the benefits.
I'm complaining about OSS zealots making NVidia out as the Devil because they won't release their drivers and going on about how much money the company is losing from them taking their business elsewhere, when the answer is "not much money" and ignoring that keeping the drivers closed source might actually be a requirement for the product to be a viable competitor in the marketplace. To hell with making a profit! We're trying to make all information free!
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The cynic in me says they provided no clear answers to you on purpose. If they laid out some clear guidelines that would keep you out of trouble, you would follow them and never need their services. They are much more interested in telling you what to do when it's too late and they're tracking billable hours on your dime.
Shady Guy: Psst. You want to buy organ? Fresh and cheap, ready for transplant.
Fry: [points to the eyeball] Ooh, what's this?
Shady Guy: S' X-Ray eye. See through anything.
Fry: Wait a minute, this says "Z-ray!"
Shady Guy: "Z" is just as good! In fact, it's better, it's two more than "X."
Fry: Hmmm, I can see where that can be an advantage. Do you take cash?
Our new child protecting, internet sanitizing overlords and their army of enslaved ISP admins?
Cheap C!@lis for President!
No money down m o r g a g e holds Senate majority!
And plenty of HOT! NUDE! GIRLS! in Congress!
They're backtracking on some of those kernal restrictions, actually.
As the other replier pointed out, there are price controls as well. Something the government in the U.S. should do more of when they subsidize things. *cough*Haliburton*cough*
Globalization isn't a business plan, its a concept. A relationship concept. Corporations have always been rah-rah about globalization because they just looked at it as "wider audience for goods = larger customer base = more profit". My point is they can't protray themselves as a "company to the world" and then get pissy when people start trading their products across the world as well. It's just doesn't work in the 21st Century and the age of eBay and is another case of a company wanting to have its cake and eat it too.
Did anyone else read that as "something that they can take to Pantera and do their work..."? I was wondering who does work during a rock concert.
Yup, they'll still steal your laptop, the difference is you'll be just out a laptop, instead of having someone stealing your identity and ruining your credit or releasing confidential work information and getting you in trouble at work if you have the drive encrypted.
Encryption can also come in handy for getting around Windows limitations. I ran out of space on my internal drive on my home PC (running XP Home ed) and needed a way to add more storage space for myself. I had another HD installed in the machine, the probelm being this computer is shared with the rest of the family and that second HD would be easily accessable to everyone thanks to XP Home's lousy user account privacy (and yes, I'm aware even with account privacy in use your files are still accessable with enough digging). The solution was TrueCrypt. I encrypted the entire second HD and set the drive to auto-mount when I logged on. So when I log on I'm prompted for the password, and the drive is usable after that. As long as I'm not logged on at the same time as somebody else, they can't access it.
It's funny, this is the same thing happens with pharmaceuticals in the U.S. The industry doesn't want people importing Canadian drugs (which are much cheaper) and one thing mentioned is that they have concern the drugs do not meet U.S. quality standards.
I have yet to hear anyone ask if that's true doesn't that mean they are giving Candaians sub-quality prescription drugs. You think there would be a Canadian-consumer uproar with such simple logic.
This is another side to globalization. As the world as a whole becomes more interconnected thanks to the internet and cheap international shipping, the marketting notion of making products available in different contries at different times is not going to hold up.
It's the same issue you already see DVD region encoding, and with digital music services: people complaining about albums being available in some countries and not others when everyone is getting their tunes from a server on the Internet.
In the future corporations are going to need to stop thinking they can easily dictate the geographical spread of their goods and start thinking of their product launches as a worldwide event. The entertainment industries need to stop setting up distribution deals for invidual regions and make their deals for global availablity. If they don't they will only see their products pasisng through black-market channels and piracy rings more readily instead of generating more revenue for them.
That was dumb. I mean I know he's a former legislator, but still if the suspicion is that the Diebold software is allowing vote switching, why send it to someone who has a history of being involved in government and depending on votes for his job? For all the sender knew his party is the one taking advantage of the flaws and they could have just distroyed the package!
It should have been sent to several people, including the EFF and some open source gurus. People who, you know, might able to actually read the code and give a flip if there's an issue with it. Really, if the FBI has the only copy now they might as well have sent it direct to the White House. [rolleyes]
Agent Smith? Is that you?
You know in Soviet Russia, Microsoft burns YOU!
Oh, wait, that happens in America too if you bought a PlaysForSure compatable audio device.
1. Berate parent posters for ignoring cliche Slashdot joke oppertunites. ...
2. Have thread distroyed for violations.
3.
4. Profit!
Or you could by the uncrippled version for $499 from a retail seller and skip the 2-year contract extension...
It was on TechTV.
What good will that do? In both cases the bullet will just fly through a big empty space.
Wow he really has evolved if he's now an online sentient being! Just like the AI's in Neromancer. I imagine his expectations for the rest of humanity will go something like "More cyborg technology study or die!"
Oh, no the cheese is there. There's just nothing to keep it cold now. Bet those astronauts are happy they have separate air supplies so they don't have to smell it when they're walking around.
No, that's called I should have used Coral cache. It was the first photo on this Google image search.
This is their next project.
Come now, you don't think this legislation has anything scientific reasoning behind it, do you? It's just a convienent way for the govenment to exercise control over free speech and raise revenue.
No. We can stop this war from happening.
All we need to do is send a single person back in time to the year 1955 (perhaps powered by some combintaion of The Wayback Machine and Google's Solar Panels to assassinate Sara^H^H^H^HMary Gates before Bill is born, this will prevent the formation of Microsoft, stopping the PC timeline with Tim Paterson's QDOS and relegating Steve Baller to a life as CEO of a frozen yogurt chain. Windows will never get written and Botnet will never be able to replicate and come online!
I'm not complaining about NVidia. I thought the original reason the summary even mentioned the drivers being closed source was to point out that, had they been open source, the exploit might have been spotted and patched sooner. But because it is closed source installing the drivers is akin to putting a magic black box in your OS. It can do wonderful things, but since you have no idea how it works there might be something sinister is lurking as well. You take your chance on the hidden evil for the benefits.
I'm complaining about OSS zealots making NVidia out as the Devil because they won't release their drivers and going on about how much money the company is losing from them taking their business elsewhere, when the answer is "not much money" and ignoring that keeping the drivers closed source might actually be a requirement for the product to be a viable competitor in the marketplace. To hell with making a profit! We're trying to make all information free!