Ireland, as a member of the EU is granted "mere conduit" status by the EU.
COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (2007). Council directive of 21st June 2007 on Electronic Commerce (Terrorism Act 2006). (07/1550/EEC). Section 5 Paragraphs 1 & 2 read,
"(1) A service provider is not capable of being guilty of a relevant offence in respect of anything done in the course of providing so much of an information society service as consists in--
(a) the provision of access to a communication network; or
(b) the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service,
if the transmission condition is satisfied.
(2) The transmission condition is that the service provider does not--
(a) initiate the transmission;
(b) select the recipient of the transmission; or
(c) select or modify the information contained in the transmission."
Therefore as long as the ISPs stick to their guns and do not filter content on their networks then they will be ok, as they are protected by law as far as terrorism goes. However it would seem that this could be deemed to apply to other offences too, or at least thats my understanding of it, I should add that IANAL, so I may have misread what the EEC were getting at when they wrote that law.
In the COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (2000). Council directive of 9th June 2005 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (2005/1529/EEC) Part IV Art 18. Paragrahs 2 & 3 read,
(2) A person acts as a mere conduit for a communication if--
(a) he communicates it in the course of an activity carried on by him, the principal purpose of which is transmitting or receiving material provided to him by others;
(b) the content of the communication is wholly devised by another person; and
(c) the nature of the service provided by him in relation to the communication is such that he does not select, modify or otherwise exercise control over its content prior to its transmission or receipt.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c) a person does not select, modify or otherwise exercise control over the content of a communication merely by removing or having the power to remove material--
(a) which is, or is alleged to be, illegal, defamatory or in breach of copyright;
(b) in response to a request to a body which is empowered by or under any enactment to make such a request; or
(c) when otherwise required to do so by law.
This again would seem set out in law the fact that just because someone can alter the content of a communication doesn't mean they have to, and that even if they do remove content they don't have to exercise control over the content. This would pretty well seem to protect ISPs from whatever lawsuit may be brought against them by the IFPI.
All this talk of Polk audio and Bose, the really top end people have been forgotten. B&W make some truly fantastic speakers in the 800 series, in particular the 802D while the A.C.T. range that Wilson Benesch produce is phenomenal.
These two really should be a serious consideration in any high end audio setup.
Internet Explorer 1 did come bundled with Windows 95 PLUS pack, but it still wasn't a standard part of the OS since PLUS had to be purchased seperately. I think IE 2 shipped with Windows NT4.0 around November 1995 and then IE 3 shipped with Windows 95 OSR2 a year later in October 1996. IE 3 was the first version of the browser to ship with a consumer OS though as NT4.0 was targeted at businesses.
Also worth noting is that IE 2 shipped with NT4.0 only 3 months after Microsoft licenced the NCSA Mosaic code from Spyglass to create IE1.
IE 2 that shipped with NT4.0 was still a good way behind Netscape 2 though since Netscape 2 included features such as support for frames, javascript and plug-ins, IE had none of these features until IE 3 shipped with Windows 95 OSR2.
You are right in saying that netscape 4 was shit though. Version 4 of Netscape and IE demonstrated the first time IE overtook Netscape in terms of features.
I too work for a large PC retailer as a technician and I am seeing a massive increase in work due to this exploit too.
Again I'm seeing this slip past Norton, McAfee, AVG and Spysweeper. I'm not sure why the major AV vendors haven't got any definition in place to deal with this yet. It's causing me a large headache since at this time of year we're already at our busiest and the last thing I needed was dealing with this.
Another problem I've seen a large upsurge in customers with is a program called SpyAxe. It purports to rid your computer of spyware but it actually issues fake warnings about spyware infestations to con you into buying the full commercial version. My users are getting warnings in your task bar that look as though they are from Microsoft Security Center along the lines of "...you're infected click here to download app to remove it blah blah...". The program is brought onto the PC by the trojan "Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob". There is some infor regarding this from F-Secure http://www.f-secure.com/sw-desc/spyaxe.shtml
This too slips right past Internet security packages such as Norton and McAfee. For the money people pay for AV protection the vendors really need to get their act together in my opinion.
This is probably just going to be more of the same crap we're heard so often before coming from SCO. Another plug at theft of ideas but with very little actual evidence to back it up.
It's just another example of SCO trying hopelessly to save themselves
Doing this can cause major problems for a lot of software. For whatever reaon, be it Microsoft's or 3rd party software developers many applications seem to require admin access rights to run or install. Some of EA's games spring immediately to mind.
I'd been wonderng what to do with all my old parts lying around. Finally realising that I will never use that old 1Mb stick of DRAM again, turn it into jewelry for my beloved
99% of MacOS X software couldn't utilize a second processor if their sales depended upon it
Maybe this is due to the lack of mainstream dual processor systems. I know the Power Macs have dual processors, but not many of the standard "consumer" systems. Perhaps when dual processor or dual core "consumer" systems are available then developers will develop for them. Just as currently I believe there are few applications for x86 and Wintel systems that can efficiently utilise two cores, but being that that is a new development too I wouldn't write it off just yet. Give it time to permeate the market before judging these things.
To be fair on Windows I've seen the same kind of thing, I ran a win2K server which went for more than 200 days before it needed a reboot, and then the reboot was down to me, as for our workstations which were WinXP, in the year I was there I think I must have rebooted 3 at most due to O/S problems, the majority of reboots were due to the buggy nature of 3rd party (but critical) software that was run.
As for my home machine which runs XP and gets a lot more stuff thrown at it, in terms of development and always has to test all the latest beta software I really can't fault it. I have to reboot infrequently if at all, again most of the reboots are down to me.
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Ireland, as a member of the EU is granted "mere conduit" status by the EU.
COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (2007). Council directive of 21st June 2007 on Electronic Commerce (Terrorism Act 2006). (07/1550/EEC). Section 5 Paragraphs 1 & 2 read,
"(1) A service provider is not capable of being guilty of a relevant offence in respect of anything done in the course of providing so much of an information society service as consists in--
(a) the provision of access to a communication network; or
(b) the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service,
if the transmission condition is satisfied.
(2) The transmission condition is that the service provider does not--
(a) initiate the transmission;
(b) select the recipient of the transmission; or
(c) select or modify the information contained in the transmission."
Therefore as long as the ISPs stick to their guns and do not filter content on their networks then they will be ok, as they are protected by law as far as terrorism goes. However it would seem that this could be deemed to apply to other offences too, or at least thats my understanding of it, I should add that IANAL, so I may have misread what the EEC were getting at when they wrote that law.
In the COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (2000). Council directive of 9th June 2005 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (2005/1529/EEC) Part IV Art 18. Paragrahs 2 & 3 read,
(2) A person acts as a mere conduit for a communication if--
(a) he communicates it in the course of an activity carried on by him, the principal purpose of which is transmitting or receiving material provided to him by others;
(b) the content of the communication is wholly devised by another person; and
(c) the nature of the service provided by him in relation to the communication is such that he does not select, modify or otherwise exercise control over its content prior to its transmission or receipt.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c) a person does not select, modify or otherwise exercise control over the content of a communication merely by removing or having the power to remove material--
(a) which is, or is alleged to be, illegal, defamatory or in breach of copyright;
(b) in response to a request to a body which is empowered by or under any enactment to make such a request; or
(c) when otherwise required to do so by law.
This again would seem set out in law the fact that just because someone can alter the content of a communication doesn't mean they have to, and that even if they do remove content they don't have to exercise control over the content. This would pretty well seem to protect ISPs from whatever lawsuit may be brought against them by the IFPI.
All this talk of hi-fi audio and home cinema systems no one has mentioned B&W http://www.bowers-wilkins.co.uk/ or Wilson Benesch http://www.wilson-benesch.com./
All this talk of Polk audio and Bose, the really top end people have been forgotten. B&W make some truly fantastic speakers in the 800 series, in particular the 802D while the A.C.T. range that Wilson Benesch produce is phenomenal.
These two really should be a serious consideration in any high end audio setup.
and popcorn, it's just not the cinema without popcorn
Also worth noting is that IE 2 shipped with NT4.0 only 3 months after Microsoft licenced the NCSA Mosaic code from Spyglass to create IE1. IE 2 that shipped with NT4.0 was still a good way behind Netscape 2 though since Netscape 2 included features such as support for frames, javascript and plug-ins, IE had none of these features until IE 3 shipped with Windows 95 OSR2.
You are right in saying that netscape 4 was shit though. Version 4 of Netscape and IE demonstrated the first time IE overtook Netscape in terms of features.
I too work for a large PC retailer as a technician and I am seeing a massive increase in work due to this exploit too.
Again I'm seeing this slip past Norton, McAfee, AVG and Spysweeper. I'm not sure why the major AV vendors haven't got any definition in place to deal with this yet. It's causing me a large headache since at this time of year we're already at our busiest and the last thing I needed was dealing with this.
Another problem I've seen a large upsurge in customers with is a program called SpyAxe. It purports to rid your computer of spyware but it actually issues fake warnings about spyware infestations to con you into buying the full commercial version. My users are getting warnings in your task bar that look as though they are from Microsoft Security Center along the lines of "...you're infected click here to download app to remove it blah blah...". The program is brought onto the PC by the trojan "Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob". There is some infor regarding this from F-Secure http://www.f-secure.com/sw-desc/spyaxe.shtml
This too slips right past Internet security packages such as Norton and McAfee. For the money people pay for AV protection the vendors really need to get their act together in my opinion.
This is probably just going to be more of the same crap we're heard so often before coming from SCO. Another plug at theft of ideas but with very little actual evidence to back it up. It's just another example of SCO trying hopelessly to save themselves
Doing this can cause major problems for a lot of software. For whatever reaon, be it Microsoft's or 3rd party software developers many applications seem to require admin access rights to run or install. Some of EA's games spring immediately to mind.
I'd been wonderng what to do with all my old parts lying around. Finally realising that I will never use that old 1Mb stick of DRAM again, turn it into jewelry for my beloved
99% of MacOS X software couldn't utilize a second processor if their sales depended upon it
Maybe this is due to the lack of mainstream dual processor systems. I know the Power Macs have dual processors, but not many of the standard "consumer" systems. Perhaps when dual processor or dual core "consumer" systems are available then developers will develop for them. Just as currently I believe there are few applications for x86 and Wintel systems that can efficiently utilise two cores, but being that that is a new development too I wouldn't write it off just yet. Give it time to permeate the market before judging these things.
As for my home machine which runs XP and gets a lot more stuff thrown at it, in terms of development and always has to test all the latest beta software I really can't fault it. I have to reboot infrequently if at all, again most of the reboots are down to me.