IPV6 does not capture your MAC address - if you are using a DHCP server then you will probably get an adress ending with your MAC, yes. But nothing prevents you from adding a dozen IPv6 IPs to a single computer if you have your own subnet..
Would it really make any difference what the vendors offer? Vendors are stupid not to include OO and Firefox in their pre-installations as it does not cost them anything at all to bundle free software. But I do not see the big point for users. Users have the Internet. If they can not afford the Internet then they are not buying new computers (=whitetrash), and those who have the Internet can just download OO off da net.
xiando Corp plans to do the same in Norway. We wish to cable the whole country and sell cheap 100mbit connections for 99 NOK (about $12). We just need to find investors who are willing to invest ten million dollars in our company.
The new Ipv6 ready xiando Corp 100mbit European network is expected to be ready March 2010.
> 1) That's GNU/Linux to you, sir.
Who cares, JUST USE IT!!!
Xandros is a GNU/Linux, but it is alright to call it Xandros, GNU/Xandros, Xandros Linux and what ever else you feel like as long as you install it!
There are many good reasons to have a virus scanner installed on Linux systems: Viruses do pass by Linux boxes even if they are not infected: Linux boxes are involved in file transfers (a lot of mail servers run Linux..) and so on. It is important to be able to find Windows and other viruses for other operating systems even if they can not infect Linux.
1. Get customer to sign up and get a cheap computer
2. Get customer hooked on your service and *SUPPORT*
3. Years go by
4. ???
5. Profit !!!
Linux is not that easy to use and they will surely need to provide some support, but the profit in having the customer this hooked on your support is probably worth it.
..then the PC will again be a more cool thing to play games on than PSP and Xbox2! I suspect PSP and XBox2 will be more cool for a while now, until all computers have Quadruple or more GPU's..
And they will need it. They did get informed March 2004, so they had More Than A Year already to comply. Perhaps they forgot about it, perhaps $5/day isn't enough to get their attention on it's own?
I would definitively comply. Not only because I personally do not think I would be able to scrape together the daily penalty in my whole lifetime, but also because that is a significant amount even for a corporation like Microsoft.
I know many disagree with me on this, but personally I think that open WIFI networks is a very good thing. And I encourage all Wifi administrators to Open up their networks for all! This is quite safe if you secure the private services on the networks so random people only have access to the Internet. Think of it like this: You allow a few people to use the Internet from your home in exchange of being able to use the Internet when you are other places. If everybody with a Wifi does this then we will eventually have a global free Internet available everywhere for all. Again, having a Open Wifi is no threat to you IF you simply secure the services running on the Wifi! And this is, in fact, a much better approach than having a firewall and relying on that for security...
Linux is Open Source. So it does not matter what the dictator thinks. Because even if he is, like Colin childishly claims, a dictator, he does not have any real power over Linux users. There are, in fact, dozens of flavors of Linux kernels available on the market. And almost none of the major distributions today use the stock vanilla kernel, most of them ship with kernels who include numerous patches who are not part of the vanilla kernel. If Linus does not make a patch, someone else will. And chances are high the patches will be taken into the vanilla kernel. But even if such patches are not accepted into the vanilla kernel tree, they can still be applied to it. This is why Open Source wins. We have the source, the source is with us - And we are free to do what ever we like with it. I can apply a secure patch if one comes available regardless of what the dictator thinks of that, and that is obviously why it is totally wrong to call a person who is kind enough to use hours and hours of his time to develop something that greatly benefits mankind a dictator.
Actually, buying music from allofmp3 may equal stealing, depending on what country you are in. The fact that you are paying a Russian company money does not make it legal to download the songs from countries ruled by plutocracies (like the USA). If the download service you are using does not have the proper right to sell citizens of your country the music then you might as well be downloading it from any common peer to peer service.
The patents were filed March 18, 2004 and June 16, 2004. Obviously tons of prior art exists.
Oh wait! It is the US we are talking about, the country where tons of obvious prior art does not matter, the US patent office has time and time again demonstrated that it only cares who gives them the biggest pile of money.
At the end of the day we all know that local laws like this have no effect in a global place unless every country connected to the Internet agrees on such laws. Spyware software is a matter of education and choice. The best way to fight it is to educate people on software and the importance of knowing how it works so consumers can make choices based upon facts and information. Some operating systems allow spyware to be installed, others do not. People need to learn that they can choose operating systems that do not allow Spyware. And they also need to learn how to avoid the pitfalls in the operating systems that allow spyware to be installed easily by clicking on the wrong advertisement banner in the wrong browser if the wrong configuration is in use. Knowledge = power....
What you say is mostly so extremely true I am almost stunned. But you claim that profit is not their motive. This is wrong. Their goal is to make as much profit as possible in any given quarter. Controlling information and turning the human population into mindless consumers who do not question the information they are forced upon by these organizations is a means of reaching that goal: Profit. Profit is the goal and motive, control of the masses is just something they do in order to reach that goal.
It is, to me, obvious that the free promotion by TV torrent sites gave television shows excellent free promotion and gave them a huge increase in viewers, popularity and even DVD sales.
But the latest crap from MPAA will highly likely change that. Some torrent sites now encurage a boycott of the MPAA members.
I am probably not the only person out there who got majorly upset for being caled a thief for downloading TV shows. As if that is stealing.. Just like people stopped going to cinemas when the MPAA first attacked the torrent sites, people are now likely to stop buying DVDs of shows and also stop viewing the TV shows...
These are the faceless members of MPAA who are participating in suing sites for showing Internet users where and how they can get the TV shows they missed when they were aired on TV:
* Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (The Walt Disney Company)
* Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
* Paramount Pictures Corporation
* Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
* Universal City Studios LLLP
* Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
"A metal heat-treating company that normally trades between $3 and $4 per share, was briefly quoted at $951.47 Friday morning. It later traded at $4.10 per share." There IS money in the stock market. Invest $40, sell for $9510. Profit: $9470! Cheers and congratulations.
I get 1-4. But how in the world would that increase my shareholder value? (Unless you by friend mean provider who is payd for a customer to set it up, obviously). Explain 5, please, I'd like more of 6 (in every way that can be read).
These issues were announced on Monday, and now a security release is available. This shows how professional the Mozilla Foundation has become and how serious they take security issues. Good work! Security problems will inevitably appear from time to time in all kinds of software, how these issues are handled is to me just as important as the software itself. Good job!
Something tells me more money is lost every day on employees using their time to post on forums and talk about nothing on IRC than what will be lost the first two days of a movie series that is highly overrated, hyped and most importantly, lost it's glory and all my interest after the first (or last, depending on view) three movies.
This was a unusually well written, well-based article with a lot of good facts. The proof is overwhelming and is clearly accurate. Maui X-Stream, Inc. really got their pants pulled down like they deserve.
This may have changed, but last time I checked allofmp3.com did NOT have the legal right to export and sell music to non-russian customers. Basically, "buying" from that site gives you the same legal rights as downloading from any peer to peer service. This may have changed since last I checked, to find out I clicked legal info on their site -- and the legal info is not available in English... that may give a clue as to the legal status of the content from there in English-speaking countries...;-)
Regular CDs are very bad for the environment. They are pure pollution. Think of future generations, do not buy DVD or CD media! And please do not encurage other people to contribute to the destruction of our planet by telling them to buy such immoral things. And the user did not encurage to justify copyright infrinement, most BitTorrent users are mature and more evolved than you apparently are, BitTorrent users generally only download the broad range of LEGAL torrents with artists who are sensible enough to release their music under a creative commons license -- generally they also do not download copyrighted music because they do not want to justify the facist-like MPAAs attempts at gaining more power.
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IPV6 does not capture your MAC address - if you are using a DHCP server then you will probably get an adress ending with your MAC, yes. But nothing prevents you from adding a dozen IPv6 IPs to a single computer if you have your own subnet..
The Pirate Bay is down for a upgrade and will be back in a few hours. :-) The message currently on the site is a joke from anakata.
Would it really make any difference what the vendors offer? Vendors are stupid not to include OO and Firefox in their pre-installations as it does not cost them anything at all to bundle free software. But I do not see the big point for users. Users have the Internet. If they can not afford the Internet then they are not buying new computers (=whitetrash), and those who have the Internet can just download OO off da net.
xiando Corp plans to do the same in Norway. We wish to cable the whole country and sell cheap 100mbit connections for 99 NOK (about $12). We just need to find investors who are willing to invest ten million dollars in our company.
The new Ipv6 ready xiando Corp 100mbit European network is expected to be ready March 2010.
> 1) That's GNU/Linux to you, sir.
Who cares, JUST USE IT!!!
Xandros is a GNU/Linux, but it is alright to call it Xandros, GNU/Xandros, Xandros Linux and what ever else you feel like as long as you install it!
There are many good reasons to have a virus scanner installed on Linux systems: Viruses do pass by Linux boxes even if they are not infected: Linux boxes are involved in file transfers (a lot of mail servers run Linux..) and so on. It is important to be able to find Windows and other viruses for other operating systems even if they can not infect Linux.
1. Get customer to sign up and get a cheap computer
2. Get customer hooked on your service and *SUPPORT*
3. Years go by
4. ???
5. Profit !!!
Linux is not that easy to use and they will surely need to provide some support, but the profit in having the customer this hooked on your support is probably worth it.
..then the PC will again be a more cool thing to play games on than PSP and Xbox2! I suspect PSP and XBox2 will be more cool for a while now, until all computers have Quadruple or more GPU's..
And they will need it. They did get informed March 2004, so they had More Than A Year already to comply. Perhaps they forgot about it, perhaps $5/day isn't enough to get their attention on it's own?
I would definitively comply. Not only because I personally do not think I would be able to scrape together the daily penalty in my whole lifetime, but also because that is a significant amount even for a corporation like Microsoft.
I know many disagree with me on this, but personally I think that open WIFI networks is a very good thing. And I encourage all Wifi administrators to Open up their networks for all! This is quite safe if you secure the private services on the networks so random people only have access to the Internet. Think of it like this: You allow a few people to use the Internet from your home in exchange of being able to use the Internet when you are other places. If everybody with a Wifi does this then we will eventually have a global free Internet available everywhere for all. Again, having a Open Wifi is no threat to you IF you simply secure the services running on the Wifi! And this is, in fact, a much better approach than having a firewall and relying on that for security...
Linux is Open Source. So it does not matter what the dictator thinks. Because even if he is, like Colin childishly claims, a dictator, he does not have any real power over Linux users. There are, in fact, dozens of flavors of Linux kernels available on the market. And almost none of the major distributions today use the stock vanilla kernel, most of them ship with kernels who include numerous patches who are not part of the vanilla kernel. If Linus does not make a patch, someone else will. And chances are high the patches will be taken into the vanilla kernel. But even if such patches are not accepted into the vanilla kernel tree, they can still be applied to it. This is why Open Source wins. We have the source, the source is with us - And we are free to do what ever we like with it. I can apply a secure patch if one comes available regardless of what the dictator thinks of that, and that is obviously why it is totally wrong to call a person who is kind enough to use hours and hours of his time to develop something that greatly benefits mankind a dictator.
Actually, buying music from allofmp3 may equal stealing, depending on what country you are in. The fact that you are paying a Russian company money does not make it legal to download the songs from countries ruled by plutocracies (like the USA). If the download service you are using does not have the proper right to sell citizens of your country the music then you might as well be downloading it from any common peer to peer service.
The patents were filed March 18, 2004 and June 16, 2004. Obviously tons of prior art exists. Oh wait! It is the US we are talking about, the country where tons of obvious prior art does not matter, the US patent office has time and time again demonstrated that it only cares who gives them the biggest pile of money.
At the end of the day we all know that local laws like this have no effect in a global place unless every country connected to the Internet agrees on such laws. Spyware software is a matter of education and choice. The best way to fight it is to educate people on software and the importance of knowing how it works so consumers can make choices based upon facts and information. Some operating systems allow spyware to be installed, others do not. People need to learn that they can choose operating systems that do not allow Spyware. And they also need to learn how to avoid the pitfalls in the operating systems that allow spyware to be installed easily by clicking on the wrong advertisement banner in the wrong browser if the wrong configuration is in use. Knowledge = power....
What you say is mostly so extremely true I am almost stunned. But you claim that profit is not their motive. This is wrong. Their goal is to make as much profit as possible in any given quarter. Controlling information and turning the human population into mindless consumers who do not question the information they are forced upon by these organizations is a means of reaching that goal: Profit. Profit is the goal and motive, control of the masses is just something they do in order to reach that goal.
It is, to me, obvious that the free promotion by TV torrent sites gave television shows excellent free promotion and gave them a huge increase in viewers, popularity and even DVD sales.
But the latest crap from MPAA will highly likely change that. Some torrent sites now encurage a boycott of the MPAA members.
I am probably not the only person out there who got majorly upset for being caled a thief for downloading TV shows. As if that is stealing.. Just like people stopped going to cinemas when the MPAA first attacked the torrent sites, people are now likely to stop buying DVDs of shows and also stop viewing the TV shows...
These are the faceless members of MPAA who are participating in suing sites for showing Internet users where and how they can get the TV shows they missed when they were aired on TV:
* Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (The Walt Disney Company) * Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. * Paramount Pictures Corporation * Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation * Universal City Studios LLLP * Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
"A metal heat-treating company that normally trades between $3 and $4 per share, was briefly quoted at $951.47 Friday morning. It later traded at $4.10 per share." There IS money in the stock market. Invest $40, sell for $9510. Profit: $9470! Cheers and congratulations.
I get 1-4. But how in the world would that increase my shareholder value? (Unless you by friend mean provider who is payd for a customer to set it up, obviously). Explain 5, please, I'd like more of 6 (in every way that can be read).
April 2005: 49.81% Nov 2004: 59.07%
These issues were announced on Monday, and now a security release is available. This shows how professional the Mozilla Foundation has become and how serious they take security issues. Good work! Security problems will inevitably appear from time to time in all kinds of software, how these issues are handled is to me just as important as the software itself. Good job!
Something tells me more money is lost every day on employees using their time to post on forums and talk about nothing on IRC than what will be lost the first two days of a movie series that is highly overrated, hyped and most importantly, lost it's glory and all my interest after the first (or last, depending on view) three movies.
This was a unusually well written, well-based article with a lot of good facts. The proof is overwhelming and is clearly accurate. Maui X-Stream, Inc. really got their pants pulled down like they deserve.
This may have changed, but last time I checked allofmp3.com did NOT have the legal right to export and sell music to non-russian customers. Basically, "buying" from that site gives you the same legal rights as downloading from any peer to peer service. This may have changed since last I checked, to find out I clicked legal info on their site -- and the legal info is not available in English... that may give a clue as to the legal status of the content from there in English-speaking countries... ;-)
Regular CDs are very bad for the environment. They are pure pollution. Think of future generations, do not buy DVD or CD media! And please do not encurage other people to contribute to the destruction of our planet by telling them to buy such immoral things. And the user did not encurage to justify copyright infrinement, most BitTorrent users are mature and more evolved than you apparently are, BitTorrent users generally only download the broad range of LEGAL torrents with artists who are sensible enough to release their music under a creative commons license -- generally they also do not download copyrighted music because they do not want to justify the facist-like MPAAs attempts at gaining more power.