Hmm, that's true it seems:/ My father was trying to connect through dialup on his laptop (our broadband had died at the time), and it kept saying that there was no dialtone, even though plugging a phone into the same socket he was trying to connect using and listening showed there was a dialtone. We replaced the cable and it still said there was no dialtone.
Moved the laptop to a different socket, and still no dialtone. Dialed up on my laptop using the socket he was trying to use, using the same cable he tried and it worked. Deleted his dialup settings and re-entered them and still no dialtone!
but it depends what he meant when he said people who are "serious about security" - if it means that the uninformed ignorant people running firewall-less Windows XP unpatched, service-pack less machines infested with various virii (virus, whatever!) and malware are booted off, then so be it. It would cut down on spam, and make the net a better place for those who are left, of course as long as governments don't take the opportunity to crack down on people who they don't want on the internet (indymedia could be an example of that).
Well, not really an IT company, but one of my college tutors thinks "Windows Server XP" and Windows Server 2003 are seperate products, Windows 3.11 was the first networking operating system, and MacOS, Linux, UNIX and Solaris all take their networking parts from it.
US patents don't directly affect us in the UK (or Europe for that matter), I think (hope), especially software ones as they're not legally recognised yet (see earlier story about Poland blocking that for the moment in the EU). However, you're right in that they will affect us (indirectly), as they can create legal issues with multinationals that do business in the US and the UK or Europe.
Probably will use it, but maybe just for high security stuff (storing classified documents, maybe use as central file server, running classified simulations etc), and give Windows AirForce Edition to the buracratic departments (accounting, for people writing up reports etc).
Could try report the name of the company here, however as you said you think neither are true, I dunno if it will do much good.
On a related note, since signing up to the UK telephone preference service (UK do not call list), I've had maybe three unsolicited phone calls in the last 6 months (was also a holiday company but was saying I'd won a holiday to florida all 3 times), compared to around 10 a day before that, so it seems to be working here.
The main problem with the Poll tax thing wasn't actaully the tax itself, but that the tories decided to "test" it on Scotland a year before the rest of the country, which just pissed them off even more (at the time the north end of the country wasn't too happy with the conservative party as it was). Then there was mass protests and riots over it's unfairness (it's not affected by wage, so someone on minumum wage pays the same amount as Richard Brandson), until eventually it was stopped in Scotland and never instated in the rest of the UK.
"Broadband in the US is not cheap. you can get a dialup for about $15-20 a month. broadband is no cheaper than $30-35 a month."
Compared to the UK that IS cheap. Here 512 down/256 up is the usual speed you get for around £20(about $37) a month.
Would like to upgrade to 1MB down but i'm too far away from the phone exchange to do that with DSL(even though its only 2-3 miles away...) and the alternative to that is NTL or Telewest cable (cost around the same), which I can't get because I'm not in a cabled area.
Not sure, but I don't think it means it is a monopoly, just that if two companies merge and their total marketshare after the merge is higher than 25% the merger can be stopped by the Monopolies Commission.
It is the default Firefox start page for Firefox 1.0 . I didn't have a home page set (well, set to a blank page) and after installing Firefox 1.0 on two machines it set to http://www.google.com/firefox. Maybe the 1.0 installer only changes the start page to http://www.google.com/firefox if you don't have a start page set.
A quick google for "false advertising" turns up this, and mentions:
"[False Advertising] also includes advertisements that make representations that the advertiser has no reasonable basis to believe, even if the representations turn out to be true. An example would be an advertisement for a photocopier machine which stated that the machine used less toner than any comparable machine. The advertiser would have committed false advertising if it had no reasonable basis to believe the truth of this claim (such as through comparative tests), even if it turned out to be true."
Sounds to me like MS's Windows Server 2k3 vs Linux TCO analysis definatly comes under this catagory.
"unless they were read a lot (1000+ times a day)."
Nice, all we need then is RFID readers build into home computers (aswell as people start getting them embedded in them of course) and I can write a trojan to give my enemies cancer remotely.
We shouldn't stop investigating e-voting just because the elections are "finished for now" - if theres controversy over it now theres a significant chance it'll happen again next time, whoever the voting machines decide wins then.
Yes but at least if there is any controversy over the result, a count of recipts would show that the voting machine isn't counting correctly.
Open sourcing voting software would help slightly, but its still difficult to show that the code running on the machine is the same code being displayed publically.
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Hmm, that's true it seems :/ My father was trying to connect through dialup on his laptop (our broadband had died at the time), and it kept saying that there was no dialtone, even though plugging a phone into the same socket he was trying to connect using and listening showed there was a dialtone. We replaced the cable and it still said there was no dialtone.
Moved the laptop to a different socket, and still no dialtone. Dialed up on my laptop using the socket he was trying to use, using the same cable he tried and it worked. Deleted his dialup settings and re-entered them and still no dialtone!
Rebooted laptop and it worked fine.
Essentially that is what's been happening so far - previously it was smart users on dumb terminals - now its dumb users on smart(er) machines :P.
but it depends what he meant when he said people who are "serious about security" - if it means that the uninformed ignorant people running firewall-less Windows XP unpatched, service-pack less machines infested with various virii (virus, whatever!) and malware are booted off, then so be it. It would cut down on spam, and make the net a better place for those who are left, of course as long as governments don't take the opportunity to crack down on people who they don't want on the internet (indymedia could be an example of that).
Well, not really an IT company, but one of my college tutors thinks "Windows Server XP" and Windows Server 2003 are seperate products, Windows 3.11 was the first networking operating system, and MacOS, Linux, UNIX and Solaris all take their networking parts from it.
Well.... bugger.
*writes my MP*
US patents don't directly affect us in the UK (or Europe for that matter), I think (hope), especially software ones as they're not legally recognised yet (see earlier story about Poland blocking that for the moment in the EU). However, you're right in that they will affect us (indirectly), as they can create legal issues with multinationals that do business in the US and the UK or Europe.
Probably will use it, but maybe just for high security stuff (storing classified documents, maybe use as central file server, running classified simulations etc), and give Windows AirForce Edition to the buracratic departments (accounting, for people writing up reports etc).
Could try report the name of the company here, however as you said you think neither are true, I dunno if it will do much good.
On a related note, since signing up to the UK telephone preference service (UK do not call list), I've had maybe three unsolicited phone calls in the last 6 months (was also a holiday company but was saying I'd won a holiday to florida all 3 times), compared to around 10 a day before that, so it seems to be working here.
Your address book being bigger than 128MB is the problem they're trying to fix :P.
Aha, yup, was applied 1990 to rest of UK and repealed ~1992.
The main problem with the Poll tax thing wasn't actaully the tax itself, but that the tories decided to "test" it on Scotland a year before the rest of the country, which just pissed them off even more (at the time the north end of the country wasn't too happy with the conservative party as it was). Then there was mass protests and riots over it's unfairness (it's not affected by wage, so someone on minumum wage pays the same amount as Richard Brandson), until eventually it was stopped in Scotland and never instated in the rest of the UK.
"Broadband in the US is not cheap. you can get a dialup for about $15-20 a month. broadband is no cheaper than $30-35 a month."
Compared to the UK that IS cheap. Here 512 down/256 up is the usual speed you get for around £20(about $37) a month.
Would like to upgrade to 1MB down but i'm too far away from the phone exchange to do that with DSL(even though its only 2-3 miles away...) and the alternative to that is NTL or Telewest cable (cost around the same), which I can't get because I'm not in a cabled area.
Not sure, but I don't think it means it is a monopoly, just that if two companies merge and their total marketshare after the merge is higher than 25% the merger can be stopped by the Monopolies Commission.
"If your name is Bill Gates, Daryl McBride or Orrin Hatch you cannot use this software.
If this software is being used in a company whose name ends in AA (like in MPAA, RIAA), you cannot use this software."
No, he didn't:
"If you are a huge asshole, you cannot use the software"
laws != law document.
It is the default Firefox start page for Firefox 1.0 . I didn't have a home page set (well, set to a blank page) and after installing Firefox 1.0 on two machines it set to http://www.google.com/firefox. Maybe the 1.0 installer only changes the start page to http://www.google.com/firefox if you don't have a start page set.
Lineage and Lineage 2 are Korean in origin.
A quick google for "false advertising" turns up this, and mentions:
"[False Advertising] also includes advertisements that make representations that the advertiser has no reasonable basis to believe, even if the representations turn out to be true. An example would be an advertisement for a photocopier machine which stated that the machine used less toner than any comparable machine. The advertiser would have committed false advertising if it had no reasonable basis to believe the truth of this claim (such as through comparative tests), even if it turned out to be true."
Sounds to me like MS's Windows Server 2k3 vs Linux TCO analysis definatly comes under this catagory.
"unless they were read a lot (1000+ times a day)."
Nice, all we need then is RFID readers build into home computers (aswell as people start getting them embedded in them of course) and I can write a trojan to give my enemies cancer remotely.
*evil laugh*
Exactly. Advertisers pay X amount to get their advertisement in the newspaper, whether or not people read it.
Advertisers pay Y amount to get their advertisement shown on TV, whether or not people watch it.
Whats the difference, and why should people be forced to watch advertisements rather than skim past them, like someone reading a newspaper would do?
EU + FSU population is ~450 million, and US population is ~300 million.
Yup. Mac client available at launch.
Nobody asked that question because the "Ask City of Heroes Lead Designer Jack Emmert" story was posted before the Marvel lawsuit story.
We shouldn't stop investigating e-voting just because the elections are "finished for now" - if theres controversy over it now theres a significant chance it'll happen again next time, whoever the voting machines decide wins then.
Yes but at least if there is any controversy over the result, a count of recipts would show that the voting machine isn't counting correctly. Open sourcing voting software would help slightly, but its still difficult to show that the code running on the machine is the same code being displayed publically.