No, this is like suing someone for distributing an old book you've written withour the person having your permission.
Putting up an unprotected web site is akin to putting up a billboard. If I take a picture of the billboard and publish it in a textbook that kids read for the next 20 years, should I be expected to be sued by the billboard company? I'm really sick and tired of companies that have absolutely no clue how the Internet and the world wide web works putting up sites and then expecting you to never cache them anywhere. They have this old mentality that they control the flow of information and frankly, that's just not true anymore.
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why joe average user would want or need longhorn?
Because it will be bundled with every new computer they buy. Eventually the Windows XP update source will be shut down so you won't be able to get security patches. You'll either need to upgrade or risk having your machine be easily exploitable.
Oh oh oh!! I have an even better one... Microsoft could deactivate your copy of Windows XP or shut down their Windows XP activation process so you can't re-activate new installations once you upgrade your machine. That would be pretty devious of them and probably get them in trouble with the government again, but we're completely at the whim of Microsoft when it comes to installing XP on new machines (unless you have some corp licensed copy or a cracked copy of course).
my guess is that junxion box is really a soekris or wrap board with a custom case and a customized installation of bsd or linux. those systems are ~$200
It is. We looked at one when looking to build the same thing (1xRTT to ethernet router in our case) and just ended up buying a Soekris box and a Verizon wireless PC card and built a mini-linux distribution based on Debian to put on the system (about 38 meg cramfs image on a compactflash card). Works just fine. I think we spent about $350 on the whole project plus $80/month for service.
I think what people are forgetting is that Fedora Core was never designed to be a stable distribution. It's there to shake out the bugs before stuff moves into Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
It seems to me like somebody could come up with a similar system that perhaps used a small Java app running on cell phones and PDAs to replace the key fob.
Actually that sounds like a pretty good candidate for an open source project. Once you've created the RSA ACE/Server clone you could have someone mass fabricate cheap tokens with replaceable watch batteries. Maybe have them plug in via a USB interface to upload a new encryption seed should it get compromised.
Since when is DNS "the Internet"? NOBODY is stopping you from establishing your own root system. Good luck getting everyone to adopt it though unless you get the major DNS servers to switch over to it.
How exactly is this kind of thing affordable to build out? Is it subsidized by the government in any way? I just can't see what kind of incentive there is for a private company to give the average user that kind of bandwidth when it'll be so obviously abused. Unless they run HDTV video on demand over it in addition to VOIP, why would a company offer this?
Don't get me wrong, I'm highly jealous, but I can't see any private company in the United States rolling out this kind of thing unless it was capped at 1 Mbps upstream with tons of blocked ports (for your protection) and a dynamic IP that uses PPPoE for connectivity.
You could've just bought VirtualPC and been doing that years ago. I run WindowsXP Pro just fine on my PowerMac G5 under VirtualPC. Granted, you're not going to get the performance of a P4 2.8Ghz machine (or even a PIII-500), but it's usable for running Windows programs once in awhile.
Welcome Apple to the wonderful world of PCs where nobody respects your right to sell your software. I expect OS X and application software piracy to go through the roof. If PC users have shown anything, it's that if they're too cheap to spend an extra $500 on a Mac they're sure as hell not going to buy their software.
Most people wouldn't. The point is, why work from the office when you can work from the park?..or a coffee shop?..or _anywhere_ in the city of Orlando?
Easy. If I'm not at work my managers don't see me so they assume I'm not working. It all comes down to "out of sight, out of mind".
I never thought of Yahoo as the hot chat room spot. No matter how many Yahoo chats or Aol or whatever, the chat place to be will always be IRC
Naw, there are probably far more IM Chat users than IRC users these days. IRC is very complicated to use for a newbie compared to Yahoo Messenger or AIM. I know my mother uses Yahoo Chat for the voice messaging functionality in the chat rooms.. it's unfortunately one of the reasons I couldn't switch her to a Mac since the Yahoo for Macs supports neither voice chat or chat rooms! Switching her to iChat is out of the question since all her friends are on Yahoo Messenger in voice-enabled chat rooms playing music. She's unfortunately very addicted to it and gets downright depressed if she doesn't have access to it. I hope they get this resolved soon if it affects her chat rooms or I'm going to get a frantic call that her computer is broken. *sigh* You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Why cut it loose, let it complete the missions that it can, then retire it in a timely fashion, just because it can't do all that is necessary isn't a cause dismiss it entirely.
Why complete the space station at all? It's proved to be a multi-billion dollar boondoggle. We should just let the damn thing crash into the atmosphere and burn up and move on to a moon base instead. The ISS was designed by politicians rather than engineers.
Maybe they should give away a few hundred or so low-end servers. I wouldn't mind getting one. I'll even pay for the shipping.
That sounds like an excellent way to sell POWER systems. So you would give them a credit card to put a hold on while you're evaluating the system and if you like it you keep it and they charge you... if not you send it back with a modest 10% restocking fee. I like it.
Errant homonyms aside, this seems to make a lot of sense...after all, Apple is just a spreadsheet shy of an office suite..
They're missing a product to compete with Access though (no, MySQL compiled on a Mac is not an Access equivalent silly). I better go register the word "Data" judging by their past product names.
Step 2: Go 5 years into past, buy domain names, set up sites with lots of soft porn images
Step 3: Return to present, stopping off each year on the way to renew domains. Step 4: Sell to spammers etc.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just register the domain for 7 years initially?
WinXP is laid out all screwy too, makes it really hard to configure or use.
So just switch the interface to Classic Mode and it looks just like Windows 2000. I don't like the "Fisher Price"-inspired interface better than you do, but it is easy to shut off.
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Putting up an unprotected web site is akin to putting up a billboard. If I take a picture of the billboard and publish it in a textbook that kids read for the next 20 years, should I be expected to be sued by the billboard company? I'm really sick and tired of companies that have absolutely no clue how the Internet and the world wide web works putting up sites and then expecting you to never cache them anywhere. They have this old mentality that they control the flow of information and frankly, that's just not true anymore.
Because it will be bundled with every new computer they buy. Eventually the Windows XP update source will be shut down so you won't be able to get security patches. You'll either need to upgrade or risk having your machine be easily exploitable.
Oh oh oh!! I have an even better one... Microsoft could deactivate your copy of Windows XP or shut down their Windows XP activation process so you can't re-activate new installations once you upgrade your machine. That would be pretty devious of them and probably get them in trouble with the government again, but we're completely at the whim of Microsoft when it comes to installing XP on new machines (unless you have some corp licensed copy or a cracked copy of course).
It is. We looked at one when looking to build the same thing (1xRTT to ethernet router in our case) and just ended up buying a Soekris box and a Verizon wireless PC card and built a mini-linux distribution based on Debian to put on the system (about 38 meg cramfs image on a compactflash card). Works just fine. I think we spent about $350 on the whole project plus $80/month for service.
I think what people are forgetting is that Fedora Core was never designed to be a stable distribution. It's there to shake out the bugs before stuff moves into Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Actually that sounds like a pretty good candidate for an open source project. Once you've created the RSA ACE/Server clone you could have someone mass fabricate cheap tokens with replaceable watch batteries. Maybe have them plug in via a USB interface to upload a new encryption seed should it get compromised.
GNUCash doesn't support direct web connect like Quicken though. You have to download and organize QIF files which is a pain in the ass.
I think the more important question is whether or not IE5 will be ported to the OSX/Intel platform.
Since when is DNS "the Internet"? NOBODY is stopping you from establishing your own root system. Good luck getting everyone to adopt it though unless you get the major DNS servers to switch over to it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm highly jealous, but I can't see any private company in the United States rolling out this kind of thing unless it was capped at 1 Mbps upstream with tons of blocked ports (for your protection) and a dynamic IP that uses PPPoE for connectivity.
I wonder how many lines of code that works out to.
No, they mean AT&T. Since when does SBC own AT&T?
You could've just bought VirtualPC and been doing that years ago. I run WindowsXP Pro just fine on my PowerMac G5 under VirtualPC. Granted, you're not going to get the performance of a P4 2.8Ghz machine (or even a PIII-500), but it's usable for running Windows programs once in awhile.
Welcome Apple to the wonderful world of PCs where nobody respects your right to sell your software. I expect OS X and application software piracy to go through the roof. If PC users have shown anything, it's that if they're too cheap to spend an extra $500 on a Mac they're sure as hell not going to buy their software.
What if Aqua won't start without talking to a hardware chip on the motherboard? You might be able to fake it, but that would be violating the DMCA.
Easy. If I'm not at work my managers don't see me so they assume I'm not working. It all comes down to "out of sight, out of mind".
Put down your hash pipe for a second. If you compress the data before encrypting it you shouldn't have a problem.
It's spelled "you're", not "your".
Maybe where you're from what I said doesn't make sense, but my grammar is perfectly good, especially on Slashdot.
Naw, there are probably far more IM Chat users than IRC users these days. IRC is very complicated to use for a newbie compared to Yahoo Messenger or AIM. I know my mother uses Yahoo Chat for the voice messaging functionality in the chat rooms.. it's unfortunately one of the reasons I couldn't switch her to a Mac since the Yahoo for Macs supports neither voice chat or chat rooms! Switching her to iChat is out of the question since all her friends are on Yahoo Messenger in voice-enabled chat rooms playing music. She's unfortunately very addicted to it and gets downright depressed if she doesn't have access to it. I hope they get this resolved soon if it affects her chat rooms or I'm going to get a frantic call that her computer is broken. *sigh* You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Why complete the space station at all? It's proved to be a multi-billion dollar boondoggle. We should just let the damn thing crash into the atmosphere and burn up and move on to a moon base instead. The ISS was designed by politicians rather than engineers.
Dell has a Chief Medical Officer?
That sounds like an excellent way to sell POWER systems. So you would give them a credit card to put a hold on while you're evaluating the system and if you like it you keep it and they charge you... if not you send it back with a modest 10% restocking fee. I like it.
They're missing a product to compete with Access though (no, MySQL compiled on a Mac is not an Access equivalent silly). I better go register the word "Data" judging by their past product names.
Step 3: Return to present, stopping off each year on the way to renew domains. Step 4: Sell to spammers etc.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just register the domain for 7 years initially?
So just switch the interface to Classic Mode and it looks just like Windows 2000. I don't like the "Fisher Price"-inspired interface better than you do, but it is easy to shut off.