Not exactly what you're asking for, but debian has a package named Deborphan. It's a simple script that checks for packages installed as dependencies, that are no longer being used due to upgrades or removals. It generates a simple list, and leaves it to you to remove anything, in case you have something built from source relying on it, or some other need for them. I run it once a month or so on my machines, just to clean up a bit.
And oddly enough she wasn't sued for downloading copyrighted material. She was sued for illegally sharing copyrighted content. While this lawsuit reeks of stupidity, I do find that the average user is unaware of what makes sharing applications like Kazaa illegal in the first place, and hopefully this idiotic lawsuit may bring some of that forward.
And...Not only will you not be able to drive it, but because of the contract you signed when you bought it, you are unable to resell it to someone else.
Looking at the video at the end he shows a device manager and shows it recognizing the hard drives and obviously the input devices. My question is what about the drivers like the network card and especially apples proprietary wireless? I know at one point even linux distros did not work with the airport cards. Until someone gets all the drivers available in windows, this is still only marginally useful.
Windows XP Pro: $146.95 (per license, no price break until you buy large quantities)
Apple OSX Tiger: $129.00
Apple OSX Tiger Family Pack: $199.00 (5 licenses)
And arguably the base load of Tiger comes with more software bundled as well. So I'd say that Microsoft already charges a premium for their software regardless of what features they are, or aren't including with it. I wouldn't worry too much about them "competing".
(IANAL yadda yadda)
The difference is that Microsoft is a convicted monopoly. The things they are, and aren't allowed to do, CHANGE because of their status as a monopoly. The day that Apple controls 90% (at least) market share, and then bundles the same software with their OS that they do now, is the day the'll be screamed at. When you're a monopoly you cannot bundle competitive products(ie a Browser or Media Player). More specifically you can't punish or threaten your distributors for adding or removing components from that bundle. Given that I don't think they have much of a case with Outlook, maybe with Active Directory, but even that is a bit of a stretch.
In other rural areas we did something similar, except it was called "Snipe hunting". You'd take some schmuck out into the middle of a field, or the woods late at night, to hunt for "snipes". Have them bring some random stuff like a pillow case, toothpaste, or whatever seems strange at the time. Get them out there, tell them to be real quiet, and then yell "Look there's one, GET IT". While they're distracted looking for the "snipe" run like hell the other way leaving them in the middle of nowhere with a pillow case, some tooth paste, and a squirt gun. Always made for some fun times:)
If they can patent individual genes then I'm going to go one step farther, and patent the element Carbon. That way I have a patent on all known life, and will be able to bring in licensing fees forever...brilliant!
Seriously though, how broken is the patent system when naturally occuring patterns of proteins, present in the majority of humans, can be patented?
I don't understand, I visit/. day in day out and all I hear about is how the great benefit of OSS is that anyone can read and improve the source code reducing the amount of vulnerabilities.
How long did it take for this vulnerability to be patched? How many of the reported vulnerability for Firefox have been found (and published) by white-hats inspecting the code base?
It's still a response to the problem that should not have been present to begin with if the zealots were to be believed.
You've either:
a) never programmed much
b) found a way to be infallable
Software is written by humans. It WILL contain bugs, it will contain security bugs, it will contain hard to find security bugs. But when those bugs pop-up, having a far greater number of people with access to the source code is certainly an advantage. Anyone telling you that OSS will prevent bugs is living in a dream world. But OSS definitely has a better track record at fixing bugs effectively, and in a timely manner. But please, continue living in the world where there are no advantages for security and bug fixing for OSS software.
How do you put an open source browser "out of business". If IE7 is all it's cracked up to be, and has some features Firefox doesn't, the Mozilla team can add them to Firefox fairly rapidly. But to say that a closed source, proprietary, bundled browser is going to "put out of business" an open source, cross platform browser is just plain dumb.
The answer to yoru first question is probably the result of some local school districts "think of the children" campaign.
The second one is that the first ammendment prevents the GOVERNMENT from censoring free speech. It does nothing to prevent private business from filtering/censoring whatever it pleases. If this weren't the case Google, and its part of the great firewall of china, would be in serious legal trouble.
At the time, UT issued a cease and desist order, but White Buffalo refused to comply. So UT blocked all the e-mail messages from White Buffalo's IP address.
So lets get this straight, UT issues a cease and desist which the company refused to comply with. In response, UT took care of the ceasing and desisting for them. Don't really see the problem here.
This is very unlikely to affect your standard PC monitor. I believe this is more of an effor to prevent you from using your non-windows media center edition PC, as a Media Center. By detecting the "monitor", and making sure it isn't a TV, it will allow them to restrict your ability from watching their content, on your TV without their consent.
Why is that? The office division of MS makes more than the OS division by a vast margin last I heard. They're still selling the same number of Office copies whether its on Windows or OS X. Remember, MS is in the business to sell software, and as long as they're still doing that, and turning a profit, they aren't going anywhere.
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Not exactly what you're asking for, but debian has a package named Deborphan. It's a simple script that checks for packages installed as dependencies, that are no longer being used due to upgrades or removals. It generates a simple list, and leaves it to you to remove anything, in case you have something built from source relying on it, or some other need for them. I run it once a month or so on my machines, just to clean up a bit.
And oddly enough she wasn't sued for downloading copyrighted material. She was sued for illegally sharing copyrighted content. While this lawsuit reeks of stupidity, I do find that the average user is unaware of what makes sharing applications like Kazaa illegal in the first place, and hopefully this idiotic lawsuit may bring some of that forward.
And...Not only will you not be able to drive it, but because of the contract you signed when you bought it, you are unable to resell it to someone else.
Here's a copy of the WHOIS data fro vonageipo.com. Certainly looks valid...
Registrant:
vonage holdings
23 Main Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733
US
Domain Name: VONAGEIPO.COM
Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
vonage holdings
itadmin@vonage.com
23 Main Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733
US
Phone: 732-365-2603
Record expires on 25-Apr-2012
Record created on 20-Feb-2006
Database last updated on 08-May-2006
Looking at the video at the end he shows a device manager and shows it recognizing the hard drives and obviously the input devices. My question is what about the drivers like the network card and especially apples proprietary wireless? I know at one point even linux distros did not work with the airport cards. Until someone gets all the drivers available in windows, this is still only marginally useful.
I don't believe it, has Netcraft confirmed it yet?
Windows XP Pro: $146.95 (per license, no price break until you buy large quantities)
Apple OSX Tiger: $129.00
Apple OSX Tiger Family Pack: $199.00 (5 licenses)
And arguably the base load of Tiger comes with more software bundled as well. So I'd say that Microsoft already charges a premium for their software regardless of what features they are, or aren't including with it. I wouldn't worry too much about them "competing".
(IANAL yadda yadda) The difference is that Microsoft is a convicted monopoly. The things they are, and aren't allowed to do, CHANGE because of their status as a monopoly. The day that Apple controls 90% (at least) market share, and then bundles the same software with their OS that they do now, is the day the'll be screamed at. When you're a monopoly you cannot bundle competitive products(ie a Browser or Media Player). More specifically you can't punish or threaten your distributors for adding or removing components from that bundle. Given that I don't think they have much of a case with Outlook, maybe with Active Directory, but even that is a bit of a stretch.
In other rural areas we did something similar, except it was called "Snipe hunting". You'd take some schmuck out into the middle of a field, or the woods late at night, to hunt for "snipes". Have them bring some random stuff like a pillow case, toothpaste, or whatever seems strange at the time. Get them out there, tell them to be real quiet, and then yell "Look there's one, GET IT". While they're distracted looking for the "snipe" run like hell the other way leaving them in the middle of nowhere with a pillow case, some tooth paste, and a squirt gun. Always made for some fun times :)
Well IPv4 is inerently broken. (Notice the 'n') :)
If they can patent individual genes then I'm going to go one step farther, and patent the element Carbon. That way I have a patent on all known life, and will be able to bring in licensing fees forever...brilliant! Seriously though, how broken is the patent system when naturally occuring patterns of proteins, present in the majority of humans, can be patented?
How do you put an open source browser "out of business". If IE7 is all it's cracked up to be, and has some features Firefox doesn't, the Mozilla team can add them to Firefox fairly rapidly. But to say that a closed source, proprietary, bundled browser is going to "put out of business" an open source, cross platform browser is just plain dumb.
So the reason there hasn't been a 3ghz G5, or a G5 powerbook is because of a compiler issue? Surely you aren't THAT dumb.
The answer to yoru first question is probably the result of some local school districts "think of the children" campaign. The second one is that the first ammendment prevents the GOVERNMENT from censoring free speech. It does nothing to prevent private business from filtering/censoring whatever it pleases. If this weren't the case Google, and its part of the great firewall of china, would be in serious legal trouble.
This is very unlikely to affect your standard PC monitor. I believe this is more of an effor to prevent you from using your non-windows media center edition PC, as a Media Center. By detecting the "monitor", and making sure it isn't a TV, it will allow them to restrict your ability from watching their content, on your TV without their consent.
Why is that? The office division of MS makes more than the OS division by a vast margin last I heard. They're still selling the same number of Office copies whether its on Windows or OS X. Remember, MS is in the business to sell software, and as long as they're still doing that, and turning a profit, they aren't going anywhere.