If you read the EULA and ask a kid to press the Enter button, you are probably not off the hook (if you were on the hook in the first place, i.e., if the EULA was valid at all).
But if you just ask a kid to e.g. a piece of software and that kid just accepts everything without reading it, how can _you_ be bound by it.
Regarding the cat, you should build a device with two buttons, so that the cat can decide to accept or deny the EULA. That way you have not coerced it into pressing "yes".
No, but at least the people make "wipe" are paranoid too:
From the wipe man page == NOTE ABOUT JOURNALING FILESYSTEMS AND SOME RECOMMENDATIONS (JUNE 2004)
Journaling filesystems (such as Ext3 or ReiserFS) are now being used by default by most Linux distributions. No secure deletion program that
does filesystem-level calls can sanitize files on such filesystems, because sensitive data and metadata can be written to the journal, which can-
not be readily accessed. Per-file secure deletion is better implemented in the operating system.
Encrypting a whole partition with cryptoloop, for example, does not help very much either, since there is a single key for all the partition.
Therefore wipe is best used to sanitize a harddisk before giving it to untrusted parties (i.e. sending your laptop for repair, or selling your
disk). Wiping size issues have been hopefully fixed (I apologize for the long delay).
Be aware that harddisks are quite intelligent beasts those days. They transparently remap defective blocks. This means that the disk can keep
an albeit corrupted (maybe slightly) but inaccessible and unerasable copy of some of your data. Modern disks are said to have about 100% trans-
parent remapping capacity. You can have a look at recent discussions on Slashdot.
I hereby speculate that harddisks can use the spare remapping area to secretly make copies of your data. Rising totalitarianism makes this
almost a certitude. It is quite straightforward to implement some simple filtering schemes that would copy potentially interesting data. Bet-
ter, a harddisk can probably detect that a given file is being wiped, and silently make a copy of it, while wiping the original as instructed.
Recovering such data is probably easily done with secret IDE/SCSI commands. My guess is that there are agreements between harddisk manufacturers
and government agencies. Well-funded mafia hackers should then be able to find those secret commands too.
Don't trust your harddisk. Encrypt all your data.
Of course this shifts the trust to the computing system, the CPU, and so on. I guess there are also "traps" in the CPU and, in fact, in every
sufficiently advanced mass-marketed chip. Wealthy nations can find those. Therefore these are mainly used for criminal investigation and "con-
trol of public dissent".
People should better think of their computing devices as facilities lended by the DHS. ==
Except for mayby some TV games, there is no need for higher quality. TV is one-way so just buffer more. Preferably download it all before you start to watch it (that's what mimms is for).
Would you rather pay 10pount/year or watch the stream delayed an extra second?
When the referenced site says that even the staunchest critics are now happy with the law, it is just not true.
The problem is still that the Swedish authorities will not just get the permission from this new special court to investigate "issues".
The Swedish government require that all ISP's provide the Swedish state with a copy of every single packet that crosses the Swedish border. They will not need permission from the special court to collect our traffic.
I have not tried it. But e.g. k9copy uses mencoder. So if you just put something like "x264ops=threads=auto" in you mencoder.conf file it might work also from k9copy. k9copy also have a settings menu where you can tune options to mencoder for various codecs.
The original european verdict against Microsoft (not the resent appeal verdict) even mentioned the case against Swedish Tetra Pak as an example of a company that was using a monopoly in one area to gain an unfair advantage in another (septic/aseptic packaging). Tetra Pak got a Euro 75 million fine in 1991.
No it has nothing to do with rubbish access points.
It is a matter of the N770 WiFi not working when there is a couple of walls or >50 meters between the access points and the 770.
All my laptops works fine under these circumstances, I have perfect phone connections with my old P2000W WiFi phone. Even my Yopy pda works much better with it CF WiFi card.
Maybe your DS is just as bad. But the N770 have very poor WiFi.
Because it has no problem seing even very distant AP the antenna must be ok. I just cannot transmit. Maybe the effect is too low.
But up to 8GByte flash in *SD slots. I think it is fine that the flash can be replaced and upgraded.
But I hope the WiFi is good. I have a N770 and the WiFi is just horrible bad. It cannot "see" access-points just fine, but it cannot connect unless you stand right next to them. I does not work with networks that I can use just fine with my laptop or WiFi SIP phone.
The one paying for the connection should be allowed to prioritize packages on the connection he/she is paying for. Ie. The building where I live is paying an ISP for an ADSL connection and 16 IP-addresses. We use http://www.adsl-optimizer.dk/ for QoS and it works very well.
But we would love to be able to tell the ISP to eg. prioritize incoming packages from the ISP to four of our IP-adresses.
GPL does not magically make closed source into open source. If you copy code (open or closed) into your own code without having the right to do it you will have to remove it again and possibly face consequences such as not selling you product for a while.
If you for some reason prohibit yourself from reading source code that you did not write yourself, you will just have to count on others to study the implentations of ODF software implementations. Or pay them to do it.
I am not arguing against the BSD licences. That is the choice of copyright holder. And not a bad choice. I am just saying that since you picked a license that lets your code be used everywhere, in Mac OSX, Windows, etc, then don't complain if it is used in a GPL project.
== Careful there. GPL leaners (ie. developers who prefer the GPL) do that kind of thing all the time. Sometimes they completely rewrite the source material, sometimes they don't. Additionally they take code that they call "compatibly licensed" and appropriate it into their own projects. Then distribute the whole thing with a file called "LICENSE" that says "This is under the GPL." ==
But that is not the same kind of thing at all.
I do not understand why you would choose a license that is characterized by allowing everyone to use your code as they want, and then somehow think it is wrong if someone use the code in a GPL project. It you do not want people to change the license of your code, you should use a copyleft licence.
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If you read the EULA and ask a kid to press the Enter button, you are probably not off the hook (if you were on the hook in the first place, i.e., if the EULA was valid at all).
But if you just ask a kid to e.g. a piece of software and that kid just accepts everything without reading it, how can _you_ be bound by it.
Regarding the cat, you should build a device with two buttons, so that the cat can decide to accept or deny the EULA. That way you have not coerced it into pressing "yes".
No, but at least the people make "wipe" are paranoid too:
From the wipe man page
==
NOTE ABOUT JOURNALING FILESYSTEMS AND SOME RECOMMENDATIONS (JUNE 2004)
Journaling filesystems (such as Ext3 or ReiserFS) are now being used by default by most Linux distributions. No secure deletion program that
does filesystem-level calls can sanitize files on such filesystems, because sensitive data and metadata can be written to the journal, which can-
not be readily accessed. Per-file secure deletion is better implemented in the operating system.
Encrypting a whole partition with cryptoloop, for example, does not help very much either, since there is a single key for all the partition.
Therefore wipe is best used to sanitize a harddisk before giving it to untrusted parties (i.e. sending your laptop for repair, or selling your
disk). Wiping size issues have been hopefully fixed (I apologize for the long delay).
Be aware that harddisks are quite intelligent beasts those days. They transparently remap defective blocks. This means that the disk can keep
an albeit corrupted (maybe slightly) but inaccessible and unerasable copy of some of your data. Modern disks are said to have about 100% trans-
parent remapping capacity. You can have a look at recent discussions on Slashdot.
I hereby speculate that harddisks can use the spare remapping area to secretly make copies of your data. Rising totalitarianism makes this
almost a certitude. It is quite straightforward to implement some simple filtering schemes that would copy potentially interesting data. Bet-
ter, a harddisk can probably detect that a given file is being wiped, and silently make a copy of it, while wiping the original as instructed.
Recovering such data is probably easily done with secret IDE/SCSI commands. My guess is that there are agreements between harddisk manufacturers
and government agencies. Well-funded mafia hackers should then be able to find those secret commands too.
Don't trust your harddisk. Encrypt all your data.
Of course this shifts the trust to the computing system, the CPU, and so on. I guess there are also "traps" in the CPU and, in fact, in every
sufficiently advanced mass-marketed chip. Wealthy nations can find those. Therefore these are mainly used for criminal investigation and "con-
trol of public dissent".
People should better think of their computing devices as facilities lended by the DHS.
==
Except for mayby some TV games, there is no need for higher quality.
TV is one-way so just buffer more.
Preferably download it all before you start to watch it (that's what mimms is for).
Would you rather pay 10pount/year or watch the stream delayed an extra second?
When the referenced site says that even the staunchest critics are now happy with the law, it is just not true.
The problem is still that the Swedish authorities will not just get the permission from this new special court to investigate "issues".
The Swedish government require that all ISP's provide the Swedish state with a copy of every single packet that crosses the Swedish border. They will not need permission from the special court to collect our traffic.
It it not just the markup.
On usenet you can specialize your own scoring, filters, sorting, etc.
E.g. /. have a karma-system, but it does not work on other forums.
How do I score posts about e.g. lisp and mips?
Right,
I could use this my OpenWrt Access Point that have USB but no VGA/DVI.
E.g. for new emails, missed calls on my SIP-phoneø,
It was not before VoIP.
I was using SpeakFreely on Linux back then (http://speakfreely.org/)
But i do not thing SpeakFreely was ported to OS/2.
Dialpad was a bit later (ca 1999)
I have not tried it. But e.g. k9copy uses mencoder.
So if you just put something like "x264ops=threads=auto" in you mencoder.conf file it might work also from k9copy.
k9copy also have a settings menu where you can tune options to mencoder for various codecs.
Yes, but you would only need one keyframe per cpu/core.
E.g. on a dualcore let one core encode the first half and the other core the second half.
It is also a Wikipedia without database dumps.
Even if much of the material will be under a creative-commons, no one but Google can control Knol in the future.
So no forks.
Being a chemist you will know to apply conditional probabilites
I.e. did they find the defendant only by searching the database for a DNA-match?
Or is he/she also one of a small group of people that can be linked to the crimescene?
If they search the database and find one match, what are the probabilty
that someone not in the database also have a matching profile?
There is an expired RFC draft for cryptographically signed web-content:
http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-jbendtsen-writing-rfcs-00.txt
(I was Jons adviser on the project, creating the draft)
--
Niels
Not possible with OOo
But Kword have been able to import and edit PDF for years.
So who forces you to boy all those 150 SKK CD's
If you do not like being abused by the record companies, then just don't support them by buying their products.
Exactly.
The original european verdict against Microsoft (not the resent appeal verdict)
even mentioned the case against Swedish Tetra Pak as an example of a company that was using a monopoly in one area to gain an unfair advantage in another (septic/aseptic packaging).
Tetra Pak got a Euro 75 million fine in 1991.
No it has nothing to do with rubbish access points.
It is a matter of the N770 WiFi not working when there is a couple of walls or >50 meters between the access points and the 770.
All my laptops works fine under these circumstances, I have perfect phone connections with my old P2000W WiFi phone. Even my Yopy pda works much better with it CF WiFi card.
Maybe your DS is just as bad. But the N770 have very poor WiFi.
Because it has no problem seing even very distant AP the antenna must be ok.
I just cannot transmit. Maybe the effect is too low.
Yes, it is fast enough.
But how far can you go from your access point and still be online?
It is OK at home and at work.
But not when I travel and want to connect to a network at my hotel, a cafe, etc.
But up to 8GByte flash in *SD slots.
I think it is fine that the flash can be replaced and upgraded.
But I hope the WiFi is good. I have a N770 and the WiFi is just horrible bad.
It cannot "see" access-points just fine, but it cannot connect unless you stand right next to them.
I does not work with networks that I can use just fine with my laptop or WiFi SIP phone.
--
Niels
No I do not.
I also do not think many of them will be running new versions of Microsoft Office in the future.
I think the people that talked Cuba and Syria into voting for MS OOXML should have some kind of award.
"Please vote for our standard. BTW we make the only software can use it properly and we wont sell it to you".
http://www.microsoft.com/exporting/faq.htm
The one paying for the connection should be allowed to prioritize packages on the connection he/she is paying for.
Ie. The building where I live is paying an ISP for an ADSL connection and 16 IP-addresses.
We use http://www.adsl-optimizer.dk/ for QoS and it works very well.
But we would love to be able to tell the ISP to eg. prioritize incoming packages from the ISP to four of our IP-adresses.
GPL does not magically make closed source into open source. If you copy code (open or closed) into your own code without having the right to do it you will have to remove it again and possibly face consequences such as not selling you product for a while.
If you for some reason prohibit yourself from reading source code that you did not write yourself, you will just have to count on others to study the implentations of ODF software implementations. Or pay them to do it.
I am not arguing against the BSD licences. That is the choice of copyright holder. And not a bad choice.
I am just saying that since you picked a license that lets your code be used everywhere, in Mac OSX, Windows, etc, then don't complain if it is used in a GPL project.
==
Careful there. GPL leaners (ie. developers who prefer the GPL) do that kind of thing all the time. Sometimes they completely rewrite the source material, sometimes they don't.
Additionally they take code that they call "compatibly licensed" and appropriate it into their own projects. Then distribute the whole thing with a file called "LICENSE" that says "This is under the GPL."
==
But that is not the same kind of thing at all.
I do not understand why you would choose a license that is characterized by allowing everyone to use your code as they want, and then somehow think it is wrong if someone use the code in a GPL project. It you do not want people to change the license of your code, you should use a copyleft licence.
All DRM systems are closed.
And their only purpose is to hinder interoperability.
DRM systems are closed towards content creators and distributors.
DRM media are closed towards users.
I do not care if iPod and Zune Restrictions systems are "interoperable"
because there will be no interoperability with my Linux computer.