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Running the drive over with a car is at most going to be only 20-40 psi(pounds per square inche), the tire pressure. Maybe if the whole car was balanced on one wheel and then drove over it.
It is obvious, why a database enginner at a huge-to-mid sized business who is making ~$50k, would choose the database he know best. Keep in mide those database enginner are most likely 15 to 25 year out of college and have the power they do because of seniority. Guess what happens to a fresh out of college newbie, that suggest a "free" database, all you'd have to do is rewrite like a million lines of code, covert tarebytes of databases, etc... Suddandly your free database has a huge setup cost.
I don't see how anyone could use something like this to really controil people. Tracking where 300 million American are would be a huge waste of resoures (computers, readers, and physical people to install and maintain). I could see that used to track know criminals (sex offenders and the like), but if you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to worry about, unless you "accedentally" get marked as a pedophile or something.
Tweak UI has a option to stop another window stealing focus. Really annoying when I at work because I forget that they don't have it on the compters there.
I know some people just totally hate the idea of patents and DRM, but that's no reason to start driving a wedge between the fundamentalist and the average user. Simply put if you don't agree with a company's policies, don't buy or steal(as is more often the case) their product. DRM came about because people were stealing music and software. You can't argue that fact. If a new CD or DVD comes out that you just *must* have and it is DRM'ed then you have to make choose what is more important: your principles or getting that item. If the company can make money selling DRM then they will. If the public at large rebelled and refused to buy DRM then they won't sell it. But, I think everyone needs to stop fooling themselves in to believing that the root cause, the theft and copying of copyrighted materials, is not a problem. A true artist just wants to share his or her art, but you can't feed your kids on good feelings.
The problem is that a lot of websites will only work for some browsers. When they see an Opera browser they just give up and tell the person to download IE. If I had to guess this is the reason it is set to default that way.
Plausibly deniability will not hold up in court. If you are holding on to something illegal when they search you, or your computer, you are guilty. Anyone remember that little saying: Possession is 9/10th of the law! Doesn't matter if you know what it is. That said I doubt you could get criminally convicted, but you could get sued for damages.
Mainly because you can't remove it from Windows and even if the computer is not connected to the Iternet, it still runs IE. Hell, I run IE because that's what runs Windows Explorer. I use Firefox for all but the few sites that require IE. The feature I love the most is limiting what javescript can do(ie turning out the status bar mouseovers)
I don't fully understand how the hardware DRM will work, but my understanding of all hardware is that it needs software to control it. I'd assume that these chips would still require to OS to tell it to work. Without that it would do nothing. I really don't see linux adding support for this "feature"
As for me, I'll just not buy the chip, OS, Music, or Movies, with DRM.
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What we need is a EMP gun. It kill any electronic device. Cell Phones, TV, thumping radios, boomboxes, you name it. Aim and fire, Zaaappppp! I know I'd buy that. Though it really shouldn't be that hard to make. Might be hard to limit the affected area.
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Running the drive over with a car is at most going to be only 20-40 psi(pounds per square inche), the tire pressure. Maybe if the whole car was balanced on one wheel and then drove over it.
Of that bank commercal were they rivited the barcode on to the peoples foreheads.
~All hail our new ant overlords!
It is obvious, why a database enginner at a huge-to-mid sized business who is making ~$50k, would choose the database he know best. Keep in mide those database enginner are most likely 15 to 25 year out of college and have the power they do because of seniority. Guess what happens to a fresh out of college newbie, that suggest a "free" database, all you'd have to do is rewrite like a million lines of code, covert tarebytes of databases, etc... Suddandly your free database has a huge setup cost.
I don't see how anyone could use something like this to really controil people. Tracking where 300 million American are would be a huge waste of resoures (computers, readers, and physical people to install and maintain). I could see that used to track know criminals (sex offenders and the like), but if you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to worry about, unless you "accedentally" get marked as a pedophile or something.
Tweak UI has a option to stop another window stealing focus. Really annoying when I at work because I forget that they don't have it on the compters there.
Yahoo's Tweak UI page
I know some people just totally hate the idea of patents and DRM, but that's no reason to start driving a wedge between the fundamentalist and the average user. Simply put if you don't agree with a company's policies, don't buy or steal(as is more often the case) their product. DRM came about because people were stealing music and software. You can't argue that fact. If a new CD or DVD comes out that you just *must* have and it is DRM'ed then you have to make choose what is more important: your principles or getting that item. If the company can make money selling DRM then they will. If the public at large rebelled and refused to buy DRM then they won't sell it. But, I think everyone needs to stop fooling themselves in to believing that the root cause, the theft and copying of copyrighted materials, is not a problem. A true artist just wants to share his or her art, but you can't feed your kids on good feelings.
The problem is that a lot of websites will only work for some browsers. When they see an Opera browser they just give up and tell the person to download IE. If I had to guess this is the reason it is set to default that way.
Plausibly deniability will not hold up in court. If you are holding on to something illegal when they search you, or your computer, you are guilty. Anyone remember that little saying: Possession is 9/10th of the law! Doesn't matter if you know what it is. That said I doubt you could get criminally convicted, but you could get sued for damages.
Mainly because you can't remove it from Windows and even if the computer is not connected to the Iternet, it still runs IE. Hell, I run IE because that's what runs Windows Explorer. I use Firefox for all but the few sites that require IE. The feature I love the most is limiting what javescript can do(ie turning out the status bar mouseovers)
I don't fully understand how the hardware DRM will work, but my understanding of all hardware is that it needs software to control it. I'd assume that these chips would still require to OS to tell it to work. Without that it would do nothing. I really don't see linux adding support for this "feature"
As for me, I'll just not buy the chip, OS, Music, or Movies, with DRM.
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Check this page out. I was looking to make a cell phone jammer.
http://dafh.org/gbppr/mil/index.html
What we need is a EMP gun. It kill any electronic device. Cell Phones, TV, thumping radios, boomboxes, you name it. Aim and fire, Zaaappppp! I know I'd buy that. Though it really shouldn't be that hard to make. Might be hard to limit the affected area.