I would expect that, no matter what technology is used, a simple trivial change to the size of the file will negate the fingerprint technology employed. This appears to be another search for the Holy Grail that will probably be as unsuccessful as previous attempts.
I agree, but I was thinking of competition in a much wider sense. A power efficient chip will create some competition amongst the (few!) chip manufacturers. The fact that Ubuntu is being used could create competition between other linux distros and even other OS'. A power efficient device manufactured using this chip could also create something of a stir in the market place as it should have a battery life considerably in excess of other similar devices which use a different chip.
While I can agree with much of what you say, I have to disagree on the matter of software. It is not free software that is killing the 'commercial' OS, but the enforced tie in to one company's standards which change frequently thus necessitating another expensive upgrade. Open standards coupled with reasonable pricing and Microsoft will still be providing thousands of jobs in the USA for many years to come however, without such a change, then I fear that commonsense and costs will drive everyone other than Americans to look elsewhere. The world does not owe you a job.
The Falkland Islands are NOT in Argentina - try looking at a map. 'Wouldn't have been caught dead living on....'. The vast majority of the Falklands are descendants of Welsh farmers. The islands are British. Why wouldn't we fight to defend them? Would the US have left Americans to be subjugated if the FI had been US territory? In fact, you often seem to get involved in other countries wars when you have no clear justification for doing so, but I will leave that for another discussion.
As for the US ending both world wars. I agree that the US contributed greatly to WW2 and that success would not have been possible without US intervention and support. But Russia lost 25 million dead in WW2, far more than the US has ever lost in all the wars that it has ever taken part in. I think that you will find that Russia's contribution should perhaps be considered as more statistically important than that of the US, although perhaps your politics will never allow such a thought to be publically acknowledged.
I guess you must be an American.... Quite a few people outside the 'good 'ole US of A' visit this site. Many of them speak more than just one language. Just north of where you are is another country where quite a few people speak French. Then, ignoring France itself, quite a lot of the Middle East and Central Africa speak French also. I live in the UK, but I am quite happy to see links to articles in other languages (e.g. German, Croatian or Russian).
it is also being considered in Australia (getting closer to home yet?) - No
search engines will only (be forced to) index rated sites (effect you yet?) - No - the US cannot dictate what happens to search engines located outside the US (although many Americans think that they ought to be able to, but they are wrong!)
US will be able to use it's considerable clout to help get similar legislation passed around the world - Rubbish. At school this would be called bullying. If that is what you would like the world to think of you then continue with the arrogant belief that you have the right to tell everyone else what to do. It won't take long for the opinion to spread.
One of the big problems with the USA is that it 'thinks' that it has the right to be the world's policeman. It doesn't. The nice thing about democracy - no, not yours, real democracy - is that countries can decide for themselves what they want to do.
I would create an email account on a server that the US is unlikely to be able to control easily, lets say in China. Then I edit an email to contain the message that I want to send - but I don't send it. Then I pass the account name and password to the intended recipients using a letter, via a mutual friend, or a prepaid cell phone. Throw the phone away again! The intended recipient logs on to the account,reads the drafted email and then deletes it. No email was ever sent. The good ole USA cannot monitor the server sufficiently well to ensure that it can detect the recipient logging on. Message delivered and no trace.
You are quite wrong - it was a British Triumph... "And the sound of Moses' Triumph could be heard in the valleys". And Moses left it for JC to collect later.
Now I really must take issue with the 'charitable' bit - Open Source software - you know, Linux and that sort of thing - is very often FREE. People all over the world can use it, without having to pay any fees, and they can do what they want with it. To my mind, that knocks Microsoft's contribution for six. Many of the contributors to/. also write OS. They do a damn site more than you realise. However, we forgive you, as long as you keep paying for your updates from MS because you obviously don't know any better. Jan
OK, I'll bite.
The UN (which includes the rest of the world) is quite prepared to take the DNS management task on - it is the US that is saying 'no'. So the world is prepared to pay for the task from which it benefits. Hardly our problem if you want to keep them. And then lets ask ourselves why the US is saying no? Probably because there is some benefit to the US from doing so. One can only speculate - does management of the DNS servers give the US a useful lever to use when it might wish to do so? Or is there an intelligence benefit from knowing instantly who owns which domain and thus being able to target those of specific interest? Perhaps something more mundane - but all speculation and it will not be answered here in/.
No, my previous post was directed at your attitude that if we don't like the US' decision then we should just sod off and build our own. Many of the things that we use today were invented outside of the country in which they are used. We are a caring, sharing species - we do things like that. But becoming petulant and saying 'Its my ball and now I want it back' is very reminiscent of young children. They have to learn to cope with such things and take part in life. The internet may have been based on a US invention but it does not belong to any country. The world-wide infrastructure that supports the WWW has been paid for by many nations and businesses. It belongs to them all and is not for any nation to 'own'.
And, although I haven't got the details at my fingertips, both the steam engine and aircraft were marvellous inventions which both benefitted from government funding of the day - one by direct sponsorship and the second by a reward for achieving a goal that had been set. So perhaps the type of government funding changed and the way in which money was allocated differed, but it was still the taxpayer who paid the bill.
Not wishing to cause anyone any offence, including yourself, but it seems that sometimes some nations forget that they share this world with other nations and we all have an equal say. If the rest of the world _want_ to have control over the DNS servers the US should at least explain why they will not let them have it. Its not your ball....
Oh, so its all yours now is it? By the way, the US of A didn't invent the steam engine, the aircraft, or a billion and one other things that they now use without financial compensation. Its just the way of the world. Get used to it. The USA only thinks it is the boss, we all know that the rest of the world has a say in matters, too.
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I would expect that, no matter what technology is used, a simple trivial change to the size of the file will negate the fingerprint technology employed. This appears to be another search for the Holy Grail that will probably be as unsuccessful as previous attempts.
I agree, but I was thinking of competition in a much wider sense. A power efficient chip will create some competition amongst the (few!) chip manufacturers. The fact that Ubuntu is being used could create competition between other linux distros and even other OS'. A power efficient device manufactured using this chip could also create something of a stir in the market place as it should have a battery life considerably in excess of other similar devices which use a different chip.
Surely, this will be good for competition?
Not necessarily so - what you say is correct for the USA but not for most of Europe.
While I can agree with much of what you say, I have to disagree on the matter of software. It is not free software that is killing the 'commercial' OS, but the enforced tie in to one company's standards which change frequently thus necessitating another expensive upgrade. Open standards coupled with reasonable pricing and Microsoft will still be providing thousands of jobs in the USA for many years to come however, without such a change, then I fear that commonsense and costs will drive everyone other than Americans to look elsewhere. The world does not owe you a job.
To convert .pst for linux, try this:
http://outport.sourceforge.net/ (sourceforge.net)
The Falkland Islands are NOT in Argentina - try looking at a map. 'Wouldn't have been caught dead living on....'. The vast majority of the Falklands are descendants of Welsh farmers. The islands are British. Why wouldn't we fight to defend them? Would the US have left Americans to be subjugated if the FI had been US territory? In fact, you often seem to get involved in other countries wars when you have no clear justification for doing so, but I will leave that for another discussion. As for the US ending both world wars. I agree that the US contributed greatly to WW2 and that success would not have been possible without US intervention and support. But Russia lost 25 million dead in WW2, far more than the US has ever lost in all the wars that it has ever taken part in. I think that you will find that Russia's contribution should perhaps be considered as more statistically important than that of the US, although perhaps your politics will never allow such a thought to be publically acknowledged.
No - they are not fixing their bugs, they are creating anti-virus software to prevent virii from exploiting the bugs. What the EU wants is:
1. The ability for any company to provide anti-virus software i.e. MS should open up the APIs so that all can compete from a level playing field.
2. The ability for the user to uninstall MS anti-virus software should (s)he choose to do so.
I would like them to start fixing their bugs so that ALL anti-virus producers become irrelevant. That would be a level playing field.
Perhaps if you used the spelling and grammar checks, you would know that the word is not "grammer".
there should be their gramar should be grammar Never follow a full stop with the word 'And'. Perhaps you could sign up for the same course....?
I guess you must be an American.... Quite a few people outside the 'good 'ole US of A' visit this site. Many of them speak more than just one language. Just north of where you are is another country where quite a few people speak French. Then, ignoring France itself, quite a lot of the Middle East and Central Africa speak French also. I live in the UK, but I am quite happy to see links to articles in other languages (e.g. German, Croatian or Russian).
it is also being considered in Australia (getting closer to home yet?) - No search engines will only (be forced to) index rated sites (effect you yet?) - No - the US cannot dictate what happens to search engines located outside the US (although many Americans think that they ought to be able to, but they are wrong!) US will be able to use it's considerable clout to help get similar legislation passed around the world - Rubbish. At school this would be called bullying. If that is what you would like the world to think of you then continue with the arrogant belief that you have the right to tell everyone else what to do. It won't take long for the opinion to spread. One of the big problems with the USA is that it 'thinks' that it has the right to be the world's policeman. It doesn't. The nice thing about democracy - no, not yours, real democracy - is that countries can decide for themselves what they want to do.
Really? I notice that the US is pretty quick to use the WTO when it thinks that we Europeans should all do what George W would like us to do.
You are thinking like a geek, not a terrorist.
I would create an email account on a server that the US is unlikely to be able to control easily, lets say in China. Then I edit an email to contain the message that I want to send - but I don't send it. Then I pass the account name and password to the intended recipients using a letter, via a mutual friend, or a prepaid cell phone. Throw the phone away again!
The intended recipient logs on to the account,reads the drafted email and then deletes it.
No email was ever sent. The good ole USA cannot monitor the server sufficiently well to ensure that it can detect the recipient logging on. Message delivered and no trace.
Of course it does - Microsoft is a US company but when dealing in Europe it has to comply with OUR laws. Google is no different!
Er, no, we don't all live in the USA. Look around, there is a big world out there....
You are quite wrong - it was a British Triumph... "And the sound of Moses' Triumph could be heard in the valleys". And Moses left it for JC to collect later.
Now I really must take issue with the 'charitable' bit - Open Source software - you know, Linux and that sort of thing - is very often FREE. People all over the world can use it, without having to pay any fees, and they can do what they want with it. To my mind, that knocks Microsoft's contribution for six. Many of the contributors to /. also write OS. They do a damn site more than you realise. However, we forgive you, as long as you keep paying for your updates from MS because you obviously don't know any better. Jan
OK, I'll bite. The UN (which includes the rest of the world) is quite prepared to take the DNS management task on - it is the US that is saying 'no'. So the world is prepared to pay for the task from which it benefits. Hardly our problem if you want to keep them. And then lets ask ourselves why the US is saying no? Probably because there is some benefit to the US from doing so. One can only speculate - does management of the DNS servers give the US a useful lever to use when it might wish to do so? Or is there an intelligence benefit from knowing instantly who owns which domain and thus being able to target those of specific interest? Perhaps something more mundane - but all speculation and it will not be answered here in /.
No, my previous post was directed at your attitude that if we don't like the US' decision then we should just sod off and build our own. Many of the things that we use today were invented outside of the country in which they are used. We are a caring, sharing species - we do things like that. But becoming petulant and saying 'Its my ball and now I want it back' is very reminiscent of young children. They have to learn to cope with such things and take part in life. The internet may have been based on a US invention but it does not belong to any country. The world-wide infrastructure that supports the WWW has been paid for by many nations and businesses. It belongs to them all and is not for any nation to 'own'.
And, although I haven't got the details at my fingertips, both the steam engine and aircraft were marvellous inventions which both benefitted from government funding of the day - one by direct sponsorship and the second by a reward for achieving a goal that had been set. So perhaps the type of government funding changed and the way in which money was allocated differed, but it was still the taxpayer who paid the bill.
Not wishing to cause anyone any offence, including yourself, but it seems that sometimes some nations forget that they share this world with other nations and we all have an equal say. If the rest of the world _want_ to have control over the DNS servers the US should at least explain why they will not let them have it. Its not your ball....
Oh, so its all yours now is it? By the way, the US of A didn't invent the steam engine, the aircraft, or a billion and one other things that they now use without financial compensation. Its just the way of the world. Get used to it. The USA only thinks it is the boss, we all know that the rest of the world has a say in matters, too.