I agree. Although Vista will have far too much **AA-inspired DRM added, it isn't exactly mandatory to use with your own content, so I wouldn't be too worried yet. The day DRM becomes mandatory is the day Microsoft shoots itself in the foot with a rocket launcher (the one from Halo 2, and they're not host either).
Or maybe they already maxed out their sub-$400 credit limit on gas and food? Credit cards suck ass until you've used them long enough to be useful, and at that point, you avoid them because you know that debt is bad and paying it off sucks.
This is why I give a +3 bonus to Troll posts (with a +1 threshold). In my experience, most posts modded Troll aren't actually trolling, and that includes via M2 as well as just reading comments on stories.
The command line in Windows isn't optional if you want to remain secure while Microsoft sits on their asses waiting for Patch Tuesday to fix severe flaws...
Sony is also the company that made the UMD, Betamax (as you said), MiniDisc, many exploding batteries, the CD rootkit, ATRAC3, MemoryStick [Pro], Connect, and countless other failed formats, ideas and PR disasters. I can't say that I trust Sony to make anything marketable anymore, so I certainly would get rid of any stock in Sony if I had any. They haven't made any new, ubiquitous technology since their joint effort with Philips in creating the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard as far as I can tell. The PS2 was also their last hardware success up to date.
My grandma (well, if any of them used computers in the first place) would probably ask me or someone else in the family who is technologically knowledgeable. I seriously doubt "Grandma" would go tinkering around without knowing what she was doing.
Besides, OpenOffice is installed by default with most distros nowadays, and it's in the "Office" category in the applications.
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It doesn't matter how strong the crypto used in DRM is; the key has to be stored somewhere within reach of the user in order to decrypt the content. Even if this key is inside the CPU or other piece of hardware: it can still be found.
Ideas aren't physical and thus can't be considered "property". You put your idea in the wild, it isn't "yours" anymore. You can claim copyright control over that idea, but it ain't yours anymore.
Besides, if you want to protect your "intellectual property", don't put it out in the wild. Oh, but you wanted to do that? Tough shit; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
I don't think Apple was all that "pro DRM" at all.
Sure they are. They hardly make any money on iTunes, so they have it locked for use with iPods. They make tons of money on iPods. DRM is in their best interest, and it can't be compatible with other companies' hardware products.
Microsoft is one of the companies that hates software patents and only seems to get them in case someone tries to sue them over patent infringement (defencive patents).
Debian security has been quite fast to release fixes in my experience. That's one of the great things about Debian stable: you get a stable, secure system with security updates for quite a while after its release.
Dude, the patches on Firefox in Debian are completely insignificant to any web developer. It's not like they're swapping Gecko with gtkhtml or something.
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I agree. Although Vista will have far too much **AA-inspired DRM added, it isn't exactly mandatory to use with your own content, so I wouldn't be too worried yet. The day DRM becomes mandatory is the day Microsoft shoots itself in the foot with a rocket launcher (the one from Halo 2, and they're not host either).
Ever heard of bouncing a cheque? That induces penalty fees as well, so there's even more debt to be paid off at that point.
Or maybe they already maxed out their sub-$400 credit limit on gas and food? Credit cards suck ass until you've used them long enough to be useful, and at that point, you avoid them because you know that debt is bad and paying it off sucks.
This is why I give a +3 bonus to Troll posts (with a +1 threshold). In my experience, most posts modded Troll aren't actually trolling, and that includes via M2 as well as just reading comments on stories.
The command line in Windows isn't optional if you want to remain secure while Microsoft sits on their asses waiting for Patch Tuesday to fix severe flaws...
The worst offender is obviously GNU which stands for "GNU's Not Unix".
What's PCRCIA?
Now that's Microsoft-funded FUD, so I'd rather not see that report.
At least we know Wii won't overheat; it was designed with that goal in mind.
Sony is also the company that made the UMD, Betamax (as you said), MiniDisc, many exploding batteries, the CD rootkit, ATRAC3, MemoryStick [Pro], Connect, and countless other failed formats, ideas and PR disasters. I can't say that I trust Sony to make anything marketable anymore, so I certainly would get rid of any stock in Sony if I had any. They haven't made any new, ubiquitous technology since their joint effort with Philips in creating the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard as far as I can tell. The PS2 was also their last hardware success up to date.
My grandma (well, if any of them used computers in the first place) would probably ask me or someone else in the family who is technologically knowledgeable. I seriously doubt "Grandma" would go tinkering around without knowing what she was doing.
Besides, OpenOffice is installed by default with most distros nowadays, and it's in the "Office" category in the applications.
It doesn't matter how strong the crypto used in DRM is; the key has to be stored somewhere within reach of the user in order to decrypt the content. Even if this key is inside the CPU or other piece of hardware: it can still be found.
Ideas aren't physical and thus can't be considered "property". You put your idea in the wild, it isn't "yours" anymore. You can claim copyright control over that idea, but it ain't yours anymore.
Besides, if you want to protect your "intellectual property", don't put it out in the wild. Oh, but you wanted to do that? Tough shit; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
I don't think Apple was all that "pro DRM" at all.
Sure they are. They hardly make any money on iTunes, so they have it locked for use with iPods. They make tons of money on iPods. DRM is in their best interest, and it can't be compatible with other companies' hardware products.
Shared hosting probably.
I don't know about you, but I tend to use passwords larger than 8 characters for root... ;p
Hey, that's the trade-off for fundamental socialist services like medical.
Read the Fourth Amendment and get back to me on how that's bullshit. The US Constitution has the highest authority in the US, period.
Doesn't IBM still push their AIX version of Unix as well as Linux-based Unix?
Microsoft is one of the companies that hates software patents and only seems to get them in case someone tries to sue them over patent infringement (defencive patents).
She used to work for Microsoft y'know... ;p
I'm sure you could prevent even that by using SELinux and some finely tuned rules for Firefox.
Debian security has been quite fast to release fixes in my experience. That's one of the great things about Debian stable: you get a stable, secure system with security updates for quite a while after its release.
New Linux users don't use Debian, so your point fails.
Dude, the patches on Firefox in Debian are completely insignificant to any web developer. It's not like they're swapping Gecko with gtkhtml or something.