The CBC is giving it pretty massive coverage also, and quite a few Canadians listen to them (probably with very little overlap from the Slashdot audience).
I'd like to know how exactly this worked out...."Yo, dude, I'm totally sorry, but I don't have the cash on me for tonight's eight-ball...would you take some classified nuclear secrets instead?"
If that's how it went down, I don't know what's funnier...that someone would try that or that the dealer accepted.
I'd hardly call what they've done 'sneaking it in'. When it finally got pushed down the normal Windows Update, my system popped up an additional dialog box, making it very obvious IE7 wanted to be installed, and giving me the option to not do it. When I put XP SP2 on my Eee this week, it did the same thing. You'd have to either be blind or pathologically incapable of reading to miss the box and have it installed against your will (it's not like one of those EULA boxes...the wording is very clear).
What would they gain from doing this? Sure, they may very well be legally in the right, but I just don't see the business advantage of withholding it here, especially now that its all public. As it is right now, anyone that wants to buy an Eee, but who wants to use a different distro, can't have the working madwifi. I doubt anyone would choose to buy because of the lack of driver source, and if even one person refuses to buy for this reason, it's a net loss (pun intended). I don't get it.
asus_acpi isn't even the worst of it. Their modified madwifi supports a chipset that the rest of the madwifi community has been wanting support for for months. I read something somewhere about madwifi being licensed in a way which allows this (which seems silly, on the surface, as the community now has to duplicate asus' efforts), but it still doesn't make sense to me. it's not a secret what the wifi chipset in the eee is, so I don't see what they gain by not allowing other linux distros to support it...it's not like they're making millions selling Xandros licenses.
A major ISP in my country includes a wireless access point with their DSL gear. Everyone has one, whether they use the wireless or not. The problem is, the access point defaults to broadcasting a completely unencrypted signal. Most people that have their internet connection plugged in physically don't ever bother to look at the 'Wireless' settings on their box (the ISP isn't kind enough to inform anyone of their poor choice of defaults), so they have no idea that their connection is wide open. It's easy to say "well, they should have secured it", but that's unreasonable...they bought a wired internet connection and weren't told it also had wireless, and they weren't told it'd be turned on whether they want it or not.
If we're willing to hold Microsoft at fault for their poor choices that allow malware to spread, I think we need to put some blame on the manufacturers here.
I saw it. I disagree, though...local cops have lots of resources. Maybe not in smaller towns with just a few people, but the cops in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver likely have facilities comparable to what the RCMP have.
You're forgetting municipal cops. Anyone who lives in almost any Canadian city would be arrested by the cops for that city, not the RCMP. This announcement really only affects the people who live in the boonies.
The board in the Wal-mart PC is mini-itx. This one is micro-atx. There's a difference. I got all excited when I started reading this article...a $60 mini-itx board would be very nice indeed.
The people who tried (but didn't succeed) to buy tickets have undoubtedly had their privacy violated. Those names should have been excluded, since they've not completed any transactions with the team. I don't see what business the Patriots have with their names.
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I'd have thought Sony would have a patent on this already...seems to be an integral part of their business.
The CBC is giving it pretty massive coverage also, and quite a few Canadians listen to them (probably with very little overlap from the Slashdot audience).
People are a part of the system, too.
I'd like to know how exactly this worked out...."Yo, dude, I'm totally sorry, but I don't have the cash on me for tonight's eight-ball...would you take some classified nuclear secrets instead?"
If that's how it went down, I don't know what's funnier...that someone would try that or that the dealer accepted.
I'd hardly call what they've done 'sneaking it in'. When it finally got pushed down the normal Windows Update, my system popped up an additional dialog box, making it very obvious IE7 wanted to be installed, and giving me the option to not do it. When I put XP SP2 on my Eee this week, it did the same thing. You'd have to either be blind or pathologically incapable of reading to miss the box and have it installed against your will (it's not like one of those EULA boxes...the wording is very clear).
That would require AT&T to be as stupid as Apple was smart. I doubt they'd leave such a gaping hole in an exclusivity agreement.
What would they gain from doing this? Sure, they may very well be legally in the right, but I just don't see the business advantage of withholding it here, especially now that its all public. As it is right now, anyone that wants to buy an Eee, but who wants to use a different distro, can't have the working madwifi. I doubt anyone would choose to buy because of the lack of driver source, and if even one person refuses to buy for this reason, it's a net loss (pun intended). I don't get it.
asus_acpi isn't even the worst of it. Their modified madwifi supports a chipset that the rest of the madwifi community has been wanting support for for months. I read something somewhere about madwifi being licensed in a way which allows this (which seems silly, on the surface, as the community now has to duplicate asus' efforts), but it still doesn't make sense to me. it's not a secret what the wifi chipset in the eee is, so I don't see what they gain by not allowing other linux distros to support it...it's not like they're making millions selling Xandros licenses.
You can't have your iPhone yet. Send thanks to Vodaphone.
Looks like a great PR move to me. I'm sure customers will flock to them for having saved them from getting the iPhones they wanted.
I was under the impression that the great things coming out of Intel lately have been from the Israeli R&D people.
I dunno who TDS is...this is Telus, a major national ISP up here. And I don't have their service, but eight people within range of me do.
A major ISP in my country includes a wireless access point with their DSL gear. Everyone has one, whether they use the wireless or not. The problem is, the access point defaults to broadcasting a completely unencrypted signal. Most people that have their internet connection plugged in physically don't ever bother to look at the 'Wireless' settings on their box (the ISP isn't kind enough to inform anyone of their poor choice of defaults), so they have no idea that their connection is wide open. It's easy to say "well, they should have secured it", but that's unreasonable...they bought a wired internet connection and weren't told it also had wireless, and they weren't told it'd be turned on whether they want it or not.
If we're willing to hold Microsoft at fault for their poor choices that allow malware to spread, I think we need to put some blame on the manufacturers here.
Apparently, it does not. The article I had read was recently updated to say the gPC has a micro-atx board.
One of these days, some troll is going to post up something like this, technical enough to get +5, but flawed enough to hose people.
I saw it. I disagree, though...local cops have lots of resources. Maybe not in smaller towns with just a few people, but the cops in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver likely have facilities comparable to what the RCMP have.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/0135258
Almost a month ago...just about time for a dupe.
You're forgetting municipal cops. Anyone who lives in almost any Canadian city would be arrested by the cops for that city, not the RCMP. This announcement really only affects the people who live in the boonies.
The board in the Wal-mart PC is mini-itx. This one is micro-atx. There's a difference. I got all excited when I started reading this article...a $60 mini-itx board would be very nice indeed.
Believe me, they will notice your letter and do something about it.
Really?
How about gesture-based passwords? In order to log onto your computer, you have to stand in front of your webcam and do the hokey-pokey?
Remove the trailing slash. http://www.hothardware.com/articles/AMD_DTX_Sneak_Peek/?page=3 should work ok.
I bet the sneaky idea behind this is to bust torrent users for evading this new tax.
The people who tried (but didn't succeed) to buy tickets have undoubtedly had their privacy violated. Those names should have been excluded, since they've not completed any transactions with the team. I don't see what business the Patriots have with their names.
I highly doubt lawyers produce enough radiation to harm a cockroach. Now, toxic fumes.....
is the final link in the summary.