Your disk drive has firmware that lets you talk to it in SCSI (or whatever). You don't get to play with the head stepper or the ECC directly. What is the difference between that and a video card? If the video drivers were moved onto the card and the interface was made OpenGL would that make it "Open Source"?
If you had sunk the development cost into making HD equipment and your big worry was getting people to switch, you would go out of your way to make sure that SD looked like crap. That gets people to notice the difference and want to switch.
You might just consider an O/S where users have specific defined capabilities. One account might be used for web browsing, but not have access to sensitive information, for example. That user's files could be read by another user with a higher level of access.
Worse yet. From the FTC report. The spammers made $2.4M but the fine is only $475,000. So they not only are still in business, but still profitable. The government just wanted to make sure that if people are being harassed, that they are in on it.
A friend of mine who works at MS told me that he was prohibited from installing OSS on his machine at work. I think there was some fear of GPL code contaminating his work.
"Hand-held e-mail device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs... In order to operate within the limited space available on a hand-held electronic device, the present invention optimizes the placement and shape of the keys, preferably using keys that are oval or oblong in shape, and that are placed at angles designed to facilitate thumb-typing. The angles at which keys on either side of the keyboard are placed is [sic] complimentary [sic]." -- The Register quoting the patent
At least they actually invented something. It also shows their consistency with respect to grammar.
The person transcribing this might not know the difference between assure, ensure and insure, any of which could have been used and sound pretty much alike.
A politician who has to run for re-election every two years uses a two-year horizon when making decisions. Why raise taxes now to forestall a problem 10-20 years away?
Look at what the media prints as news -- polls telling us what we believe. They put poll results on TV news because they are cheap and sound like facts, but don't provide any real information. Mental junk food.
Lowering thermostats and whatever is looking at 5% changes. Real improvement takes things like carpooling. 4 people riding together saves 75% of riding separately for long commutes. Finding carpools is what the internet is for. Telecommuting obviously saves even more. Keep your big car and save the energy used to make a new one. Just figure out a way to not drive it most of the time.
...that used a "skin tone filtering system" to determine that Robinson was viewing child porn from his office computer...
Here's an interesting use of technology. These NASA guys must be rocket scientists or something. I wonder what would happen if I put this detector on the firewall where I work? Also, to determine whether it was child porn wouldn't it need wrinkle detectors? Some kind of spatial filtering, I suppose.
This is one reason I don't use the ISP email service and used to run my own mail server. Since my ISP (RCN) blocks port 25 to dynamic addresses, I had to use a port redirector service to shift it to another port. I used the one at dyndns.org, which also handles my DNS, but I think there are less expensive services around. Now I have a new email service at a private company.
The protocol version number is probably different now. The hardware didn't care about the protocol on top. I worked on converting a system from 3MBit to the new 10MBit ethernet in 1980 but I never knew or cared about IP addresses.
Flash. When you rewrite the BIOS, there is no guarantee that you write to all of the bits since the software to do it is on the computer. A few K of code could hide out there easily. The only way to find it would be to take the chip off the motherboard.
In present usage, content controllers apply the term "pirate" to anyone who copies or makes available the content that they wish to control. They can't use the term "theft" since that implies tangible property. Likewise, copyright infringement doesn't cover the fair use and media conversion cases that the content controllers also wish to eliminate. So pirates seems to be the term we are stuck with.
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Let's see who agree with you.
Domestic Grosses from Box Office Mojo, not adjusted for inflation:
1. Wrath of Kahn $78M
2. Voyage Home $109M
3. Undiscovered Country $74M
4. Generations $75M
5. Search for Spock $76M
6. First Contact $92M
7. Motion Picture $82M
8. Nemesis $43M
9. Final Frontier $52M
10. Insurrection $70M
Given how little variation there is, I'd say its the same set of people seeing each movie (you know who you are).
What do you mean by "publicly owned". The FCC has been selling the "public" airwaves for quite a while. Its private, now.
This technology prevents you from skipping the evens.
Your disk drive has firmware that lets you talk to it in SCSI (or whatever). You don't get to play with the head stepper or the ECC directly. What is the difference between that and a video card? If the video drivers were moved onto the card and the interface was made OpenGL would that make it "Open Source"?
If you had sunk the development cost into making HD equipment and your big worry was getting people to switch, you would go out of your way to make sure that SD looked like crap. That gets people to notice the difference and want to switch.
You might just consider an O/S where users have specific defined capabilities. One account might be used for web browsing, but not have access to sensitive information, for example. That user's files could be read by another user with a higher level of access.
Next thing you know, websites will be trying to prevent you from copying and pasting quotes into /. articles using hokey javascript.
All they need is for him to make one phone call.
All it would take would be hearing somebody say, "My battery is dead." AHA!
Worse yet. From the FTC report. The spammers made $2.4M but the fine is only $475,000. So they not only are still in business, but still profitable. The government just wanted to make sure that if people are being harassed, that they are in on it.
A friend of mine who works at MS told me that he was prohibited from installing OSS on his machine at work. I think there was some fear of GPL code contaminating his work.
"Hand-held e-mail device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs ... In order to operate within the limited space available on a hand-held electronic device, the present invention optimizes the placement and shape of the keys, preferably using keys that are oval or oblong in shape, and that are placed at angles designed to facilitate thumb-typing. The angles at which keys on either side of the keyboard are placed is [sic] complimentary [sic]." -- The Register quoting the patent
At least they actually invented something. It also shows their consistency with respect to grammar.
The person transcribing this might not know the difference between assure, ensure and insure, any of which could have been used and sound pretty much alike.
While you're up, get me a pack of Luckies and some Brilcream.
A politician who has to run for re-election every two years uses a two-year horizon when making decisions. Why raise taxes now to forestall a problem 10-20 years away?
Look at what the media prints as news -- polls telling us what we believe. They put poll results on TV news because they are cheap and sound like facts, but don't provide any real information. Mental junk food.
Lowering thermostats and whatever is looking at 5% changes. Real improvement takes things like carpooling. 4 people riding together saves 75% of riding separately for long commutes. Finding carpools is what the internet is for. Telecommuting obviously saves even more. Keep your big car and save the energy used to make a new one. Just figure out a way to not drive it most of the time.
They don't want to link to Newsforge and /. their own servers.
I think they should call it "Byoogle"
Its called "usenet"
Developing and testing a new drug costs nearly $1B. Copying one costs a few 100K.
...or one reader participating 100,000 times.
...that used a "skin tone filtering system" to determine that Robinson was viewing child porn from his office computer...
Here's an interesting use of technology. These NASA guys must be rocket scientists or something. I wonder what would happen if I put this detector on the firewall where I work? Also, to determine whether it was child porn wouldn't it need wrinkle detectors? Some kind of spatial filtering, I suppose.
This is one reason I don't use the ISP email service and used to run my own mail server. Since my ISP (RCN) blocks port 25 to dynamic addresses, I had to use a port redirector service to shift it to another port. I used the one at dyndns.org, which also handles my DNS, but I think there are less expensive services around. Now I have a new email service at a private company.
Look at RFC 675: 16 bits: Destination TCP address
The protocol version number is probably different now. The hardware didn't care about the protocol on top. I worked on converting a system from 3MBit to the new 10MBit ethernet in 1980 but I never knew or cared about IP addresses.
Flash. When you rewrite the BIOS, there is no guarantee that you write to all of the bits since the software to do it is on the computer. A few K of code could hide out there easily. The only way to find it would be to take the chip off the motherboard.
In present usage, content controllers apply the term "pirate" to anyone who copies or makes available the content that they wish to control. They can't use the term "theft" since that implies tangible property. Likewise, copyright infringement doesn't cover the fair use and media conversion cases that the content controllers also wish to eliminate. So pirates seems to be the term we are stuck with.