or you get SIGN IN WITH SHIBBOLETH, which means you get to spend six years wading through XML and Tomcat stack traces.
That's after you spend seven years wading through Shibboleth install documentation. I gave up, personally. The more I look at SSO implementations available, the more I think the best implementation would be one I write myself - which by definition makes it incompatible with everything (hence not really "Single" Sign On).
Doesn't work so well though when the ones that should be highest tier (banks, etc) enforce such ridiculous restrictions as "no capital letters, no special characters. Lowercase letters and numbers only".
If you do have friends/relatives/coworkers who are getting infected from porn then point them to a safe source such as xhamster.com . As it is most infections now come from advertisements.
There's no such thing as a free porn site without dodgy advertisements, millions of popups and flash nuisances. That one is actually one of the worst.
Of course, then every web sites needs to set things up to support every single government's SSO service, and identify which government to forward your logon request to before knowing anything about you.
(That's ignoring the fact that at least some government SSO services, New Zealand's i.govt service for example, will not authenticate for non-government services).
Yubikeys are sort of like this. You have a usb key that has a button on it, and when you push the button it basically types in a long keyphrase which can be validated against a server running their software (they also have a free one for people who buy a key off them). Offline challenge/response is also implemented (though slightly differently).
And most of the stuff related to these things is open source too.
More power-draining devices can negotiate a higher power output if the bus is capable of supplying it. That's in spec.
However, Apple devices won't. They'll ask for a higher power output only if they see iTunes running on a Mac (ever wondered why iPads always report "Not Charging" when plugged into a PC?).
The story of Apple's life has been "they may not have invented (x) but they were one of the first to turn it into a desirable product and successfully market it..." where X includes the GUI and mouse, local area networking, the laser printer, PostScript - and hence desktop publishing, full motion video on PC (Quicktime was at the cutting edge of this) - and hence nonlinear video editing... some of us were around when these things were taking off and people sure as hell weren't using IBM PCs for them (Amigas and Acorns maybe).
Additionally new accounting laws are forcing companies to realize the cost of creating the software in the past, rather than allowing them to ammoritize it for the future -- which means that new features are verboten if they simply "sell it once". If they rent it, they can realize those revenue in shorter chunks, and keep making new features without having to wait for the next big release.
Those accounting laws only apply to Apple. Everyone else is able to include new features without any trouble with the tax-man.
Not really. Such gateways are only really prevalent for carriers who charge to receive messages. As an example, here in New Zealand none of our carriers have email to text gateways - because there'd be no-one to pay for the text.
Nope. Our law only considers it unlawful to make unauthorised copies - when you download it is the uploader that is making the copy and thus violates the law. Downloading via web sites is still an area the law hasn't addressed. That said, they could possibly hold that the instant you use that data (which requires copying it into RAM) without a license you are breaking the law.
Your second part about not having a clue is incorrect. I also work in Government, and I can say that the reason is that there is a mentality of "it's only money" which basically means they don't bat an eyelid at spending millions of dollars on pointless consultation and analysis, only to run out of money to implement recommendations.
And that's not all- to the procurement people, it's not just "only money" it's someone else's money. Plus they get brownie points for pushing down costs so vendors intentionally inflate their costs to cover it.
Simple answer? Plug a printer (preferably one of those copier monstrosities) into one of the data ports. Noone would bat an eyelid at sticking a $3000 printer on a "surge protector" so you'd probably get away with it.
I believe he's taking the tack that GPL and so forth are not free as they impose restrictions (the encumbrance he refers to) in which case he appears to be saying that the only true free open source is BSD/PD and so forth
Actually, the New Zealand government is also obliged to review the three-strikes law as well, and this is that review happening. Interestingly, although the music industry has been utilising their weapon quite frequently, the motion picture industry has flat out refused to, until the $25 fee is abolished (making it so ISPs have to foot the bill for enforcing their content - they claim that "ISPs make all of their profits from infringement of our copyrights, so they should pay"). Additionally, there have been a small number of people who have hit three strikes, and the music industry has not pursued disconnection for those people - presumably because pursuing it means taking it to a tribunal which might actually require evidence of infringement.
I find it drastically unlikely. If I'm not mistaken, almost all US ISPs are also rights-holders, or closely affiliated with them. It's more than likely just traffic management gone insane.
Unfortunately requiring a working model was a requirement which was too onerous for small inventors. For a company the size of GE as an example, building a working model of every tiny thought that crosses someone's mind is easy. And profitable. For Jim Bloggs though, building a working model is quite possibly beyond his resources without the assistance of a large corporation, whose terms for helping probably included patent assignment. I can see why it's no longer required.
But yes, software patents are an abomination. Where I live, they are not recognised. However, it looks like that may soon change as the USA requires recognising them as part of TPPA.
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I'd largely prefer my bank not allow homebrew authentication, personally.
or you get SIGN IN WITH SHIBBOLETH, which means you get to spend six years wading through XML and Tomcat stack traces.
That's after you spend seven years wading through Shibboleth install documentation. I gave up, personally. The more I look at SSO implementations available, the more I think the best implementation would be one I write myself - which by definition makes it incompatible with everything (hence not really "Single" Sign On).
Doesn't work so well though when the ones that should be highest tier (banks, etc) enforce such ridiculous restrictions as "no capital letters, no special characters. Lowercase letters and numbers only".
If you do have friends/relatives/coworkers who are getting infected from porn then point them to a safe source such as xhamster.com . As it is most infections now come from advertisements.
There's no such thing as a free porn site without dodgy advertisements, millions of popups and flash nuisances. That one is actually one of the worst.
Sounds like what Gizmodo (and the rest of the Gawker Media) network did.
Of course, then every web sites needs to set things up to support every single government's SSO service, and identify which government to forward your logon request to before knowing anything about you.
(That's ignoring the fact that at least some government SSO services, New Zealand's i.govt service for example, will not authenticate for non-government services).
Yubikeys are sort of like this. You have a usb key that has a button on it, and when you push the button it basically types in a long keyphrase which can be validated against a server running their software (they also have a free one for people who buy a key off them). Offline challenge/response is also implemented (though slightly differently).
And most of the stuff related to these things is open source too.
More power-draining devices can negotiate a higher power output if the bus is capable of supplying it. That's in spec.
However, Apple devices won't. They'll ask for a higher power output only if they see iTunes running on a Mac (ever wondered why iPads always report "Not Charging" when plugged into a PC?).
The story of Apple's life has been "they may not have invented (x) but they were one of the first to turn it into a desirable product and successfully market it..." where X includes the GUI and mouse, local area networking, the laser printer, PostScript - and hence desktop publishing, full motion video on PC (Quicktime was at the cutting edge of this) - and hence nonlinear video editing... some of us were around when these things were taking off and people sure as hell weren't using IBM PCs for them (Amigas and Acorns maybe).
PostScript was Adobe, not Apple.
Additionally new accounting laws are forcing companies to realize the cost of creating the software in the past, rather than allowing them to ammoritize it for the future -- which means that new features are verboten if they simply "sell it once". If they rent it, they can realize those revenue in shorter chunks, and keep making new features without having to wait for the next big release.
Those accounting laws only apply to Apple. Everyone else is able to include new features without any trouble with the tax-man.
No, it's different. That's some scumbags in New York buying AT&T burn phones and spamming with them until AT&T cuts them off (hint: AT&T doesn't).
So, are you Australia's Winner of the Day then? I've been New Zealand's Winner of the Day twice!
Not really. Such gateways are only really prevalent for carriers who charge to receive messages. As an example, here in New Zealand none of our carriers have email to text gateways - because there'd be no-one to pay for the text.
Nope. Our law only considers it unlawful to make unauthorised copies - when you download it is the uploader that is making the copy and thus violates the law. Downloading via web sites is still an area the law hasn't addressed. That said, they could possibly hold that the instant you use that data (which requires copying it into RAM) without a license you are breaking the law.
Your second part about not having a clue is incorrect. I also work in Government, and I can say that the reason is that there is a mentality of "it's only money" which basically means they don't bat an eyelid at spending millions of dollars on pointless consultation and analysis, only to run out of money to implement recommendations.
And that's not all- to the procurement people, it's not just "only money" it's someone else's money. Plus they get brownie points for pushing down costs so vendors intentionally inflate their costs to cover it.
Simple answer? Plug a printer (preferably one of those copier monstrosities) into one of the data ports. Noone would bat an eyelid at sticking a $3000 printer on a "surge protector" so you'd probably get away with it.
Depends on the mobile technology. Only GSM actually does that - WCDMA and CDMA do not. So if you have 3G inside, it fails.
I believe he's taking the tack that GPL and so forth are not free as they impose restrictions (the encumbrance he refers to) in which case he appears to be saying that the only true free open source is BSD/PD and so forth
I'm sure Melissa Lee could put it on a CD for you. It was all legally obtained after all!
Actually, the New Zealand government is also obliged to review the three-strikes law as well, and this is that review happening. Interestingly, although the music industry has been utilising their weapon quite frequently, the motion picture industry has flat out refused to, until the $25 fee is abolished (making it so ISPs have to foot the bill for enforcing their content - they claim that "ISPs make all of their profits from infringement of our copyrights, so they should pay"). Additionally, there have been a small number of people who have hit three strikes, and the music industry has not pursued disconnection for those people - presumably because pursuing it means taking it to a tribunal which might actually require evidence of infringement.
I find it drastically unlikely. If I'm not mistaken, almost all US ISPs are also rights-holders, or closely affiliated with them. It's more than likely just traffic management gone insane.
Who cares? On a technicality, downloading isn't illegal. Uploading is.
When governments start demanding that all interaction with them be online, it suddenly becomes a necessity that all citizens have internet.
Actually, Microsoft extracts royalties from FAT32 Long File Name extensions, which is an ugly hack on top of an ugly filesystem.
Google can't sue you for use of PageRank, as they don't own the patent on it. Stanford University does.
Unfortunately requiring a working model was a requirement which was too onerous for small inventors. For a company the size of GE as an example, building a working model of every tiny thought that crosses someone's mind is easy. And profitable. For Jim Bloggs though, building a working model is quite possibly beyond his resources without the assistance of a large corporation, whose terms for helping probably included patent assignment. I can see why it's no longer required.
But yes, software patents are an abomination. Where I live, they are not recognised. However, it looks like that may soon change as the USA requires recognising them as part of TPPA.