But of course. However, although you buy a Mac, you don't buy a copy of OSX at the same time; you buy a license to use a copy of OSX. It's a contract, and one that includes a clause saying that you won't install it on another machine.
Well, obviously the detail work of actually eating the liver would be left to Apples Special Projects (Canibalism) department, but he'd definitely be closely supervising the process.
It's OK, honestly, there's a lot of hype and so on but the simple fact is that if you buy a non-apple mouse there's only a small chance that Steve will creep into your house that night and eat your liver. Very small chance indeed.
Hmmm, the clue is rather in the name, isn't it. Copyright law is a law that explains who has the right to make copies of something; if it meant that no-one had that right it would surely be called copynoright law.
Analogy stretching here, but this gift has written on it in Braile the fact that anyone can give away a copy for free. (i.e. a legitimate Mozilla CD has the license on it)
For those who can't RTFA: 1) Less broken security than XP 2) Don't need that annoying 10 minute wait downloading Firefox to get a tabbed browser 3) Eye candy (if you buy a new high-end video card) 4) Don't need that annoying 5 minute wait downloading Google Desktop to get a search that finds stuff 5) Does security updates exactly the same way as XP does... er... 6) Don't need that annoying 10 minute wait downloading a useable media player and image organizer 7) New parental controls mean it will take your kids as long as 18 seconds to get to porn. 8) Built-in back-up software now easier for your mom to ignore. 9) Collaboration software the OS team found in the Office team's dumpster one night 10)Something that wasn't in the beta the reviewer saw, but MS said was positively, definitely going to be in there.
Whoopee. Now for the negatives:
1) You have to give Microsoft money 2) Less broken security than XP, but still broken. 3) Your PC is too slow to run it. 4) They've moved everything on the menus about at random again. 5) Windows Mail is Outlook Express with grep ran over the source code. Hey, I think renaming it is a positive, in a few years I won't have tpo explain that the bloody thing is not Outlook.
"We're going to test this vaccine on you, now there may be a few side effects." "What sort of thing, doc?" "Well, nausea, itching, your entire body melting, and there's a chance of drowsiness. So avoid using heavy machinery."
Are you sure that personal communication between lovers is critical to a healthy relationship between employee and employer? Because I don't fancy any of the people who work for me....
Because for this to be OK requires more than just me not doing anything wrong; it also requires the police not to do anything wrong. So the correct question should be:
"If you aren't going to do anything wrong, and the police aren't going to do anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"
To which the answer is "That's a pretty big if there, mate!"
If your Toshiba fell under a bus tomorrow, and you had the money to replace it, would you buy a Mac or a Windows machine? That is perhaps the true test. (Leave aside issues of waiting for a wider range of Intel MacBooks)
What else is the poor devil going to do apart from.NET coding? Imagine the interview if he went for a Linux job:
"Hi Daniel, so you're an expert Linux hacker, sounds great, just what we are looking for. Oh, by the way, where was your last job at?" "Well, I worked for Microsoft." "Hah, yeah, that's funny. A Linux hacker working for Microsoft! Seriously, where did you work?" "Microsoft! I was head of their Linux department! Steve Balmer recruited me!" "Oh, I see. Say, could you excuse me while I just make a quick call? Thanks. Security? Yeah, we got another code three here."
Same sort of thing happenned to me, I'm a brain surgeon and a few years back I took a job as a janitor at a hospital, just to get my foot in the door. I'd been working on my pet dog Skippy's brain for several years, but they just wouldn't let me do any operations, it was the most frustrating thing.
"will it be too late for PalmSource and it's parent company ACCESS to gain a foothold in the mobile phone market?"
Well, in my opinion the three best smartphones on the market right now are the Sony P910i, the Treo 650, and the HTC Magician, so they have some sort of a foothold.;-)
"Nor do I see advantage in a system of identity cards, which apart from creating difficulties for ordinary people would be extremely expensive and largely ineffective," wrote Labour Home Secretary Roy Jenkins in 1974, immediately after the IRA had killed 21 people in the Birmingham pub bombings.
I think the only way they can work in preventing terrorism is if they are deeply invasive. Suppose MI6 work out that CowboyNeal is a desperate desperado that they need to stop. For the ID card to be useful to them, it means they have to put a flag on his card and get a report every time the card is used. For this to work, they need to make everyone use their cards all the time. If he only uses it when he has to get on a plane, well, that's cutting it a little fine, isn't it?
Note that despite what some ministers imply they can't do this the other way round - put a flag on Biglig's card saying "good guy" and thus making people not scrutinize me - because of course this is insanely dangerous, as the terrorists will go to considerable lengths to get such a flag on their card.
And of course either way comes back to my earlier point that since biometric recognition is not perfect, it will generate a slew of false negatives (people whos biometrics don't confirm their identity) that will clog up the system.
They've also committed arson, planted incendiary devices on cars, and stole a farmers dead mother from her grave. There are lots of more serious terrorists in the world, and clearly the vast majority of those who believe in Animal rights and Animal welfare activism want nothing to do with these types of acts, but I don't think that negates my argument.
Even if they were just putting bricks through windows, if they can get access to Govt. databases, surely those who are prepared to carry out suicide bombings will be able to!
1) We in the UK have a very long history of not having to "show our papers" to policemen. We did it in World War 2, but not during the IRA bombing campaigns. Is the "War on Terror" more like WW2 or more like a viscious terror campaign on UK soil? 2) Single database = Single point of attack for hackers/terrorists/infiltrators 3) Biometric identification reduces security. Suppose Iris recognition is 99% accurate. (it's nowhere near as good as that). Heathrow processes 185,000 people a day. That's 1,850 people who fail the recognition every day; almost one a minute. Each one of whom you have to take away and examine in detail. After a month or so how hard do you think they'll be looking at these people? 4) In any case, the terrorists will not be in those 1,850 people, because they'll have perfectly good ID, just like the Madrid bombers all had, and so will be waved through wothout extra scrutiny. First rule of using false ID properly (i.e. not to get into bars in the US at 19) is never travel with forged ID; use forged documents to apply for a real ID and use that. 5) How much will they pay clerks at the new National ID processing centre? How much money does Osama Bin Laden have? 6) What if someone has your NID with their biometiric information on it (see above about applying with flase information). How do you prove who you are? How hard will banks look at someone with a valid ID that matches their biometrics before giving them a credit card in your name? How much liability will the bank have for the money they spend with it?
Yes, and we stopped having them when the war ended, and we didn't need them when the IRA were blowing things up left right and centre. Explain again exactly what has changed since then?
Hack? Who needs to hack? Terrorists in the UK have already gained access to our driving license database for a period of years thru a symathizer in the DVLA (our version of the DMV) and used it to target victims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/3 951945.stm for more details.
But of course, dear boy, each employer in the UK is liable for staggering fines if they employ someone who is an illegla immigrant. So although it is not required that you produce an ID card, what employer will take the chance?
What interests me is that it seems there may be two competing forces acting against this technology. First, the hackers, trying to get round the technology so they can watch proper content on thier own computer; second, the crackers, trying to brick as many DVD players and TVs as possible.
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There are also conspiracy charges, perverting the course of justice, that sort of things. Plenty of things it's illegal to talk about.
But of course. However, although you buy a Mac, you don't buy a copy of OSX at the same time; you buy a license to use a copy of OSX. It's a contract, and one that includes a clause saying that you won't install it on another machine.
Well, obviously the detail work of actually eating the liver would be left to Apples Special Projects (Canibalism) department, but he'd definitely be closely supervising the process.
It's OK, honestly, there's a lot of hype and so on but the simple fact is that if you buy a non-apple mouse there's only a small chance that Steve will creep into your house that night and eat your liver. Very small chance indeed.
Oh, it's easy to get you PC to work better when it's turned off. Just install Windows.
Hmmm, the clue is rather in the name, isn't it. Copyright law is a law that explains who has the right to make copies of something; if it meant that no-one had that right it would surely be called copynoright law.
Analogy stretching here, but this gift has written on it in Braile the fact that anyone can give away a copy for free. (i.e. a legitimate Mozilla CD has the license on it)
For those who can't RTFA: ...
1) Less broken security than XP
2) Don't need that annoying 10 minute wait downloading Firefox to get a tabbed browser
3) Eye candy (if you buy a new high-end video card)
4) Don't need that annoying 5 minute wait downloading Google Desktop to get a search that finds stuff
5) Does security updates exactly the same way as XP does... er
6) Don't need that annoying 10 minute wait downloading a useable media player and image organizer
7) New parental controls mean it will take your kids as long as 18 seconds to get to porn.
8) Built-in back-up software now easier for your mom to ignore.
9) Collaboration software the OS team found in the Office team's dumpster one night
10)Something that wasn't in the beta the reviewer saw, but MS said was positively, definitely going to be in there.
Whoopee. Now for the negatives:
1) You have to give Microsoft money
2) Less broken security than XP, but still broken.
3) Your PC is too slow to run it.
4) They've moved everything on the menus about at random again.
5) Windows Mail is Outlook Express with grep ran over the source code. Hey, I think renaming it is a positive, in a few years I won't have tpo explain that the bloody thing is not Outlook.
"We're going to test this vaccine on you, now there may be a few side effects."
"What sort of thing, doc?"
"Well, nausea, itching, your entire body melting, and there's a chance of drowsiness. So avoid using heavy machinery."
I didn't realise you had state-level homeland security people. Sounds a bit confusing to me.
Are you sure that personal communication between lovers is critical to a healthy relationship between employee and employer? Because I don't fancy any of the people who work for me....
Because for this to be OK requires more than just me not doing anything wrong; it also requires the police not to do anything wrong. So the correct question should be:
"If you aren't going to do anything wrong, and the police aren't going to do anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"
To which the answer is "That's a pretty big if there, mate!"
If your Toshiba fell under a bus tomorrow, and you had the money to replace it, would you buy a Mac or a Windows machine? That is perhaps the true test. (Leave aside issues of waiting for a wider range of Intel MacBooks)
The direct attack on my ability to enjoy my copyrights - the right to make a fair use copy of material.
What else is the poor devil going to do apart from .NET coding? Imagine the interview if he went for a Linux job:
"Hi Daniel, so you're an expert Linux hacker, sounds great, just what we are looking for. Oh, by the way, where was your last job at?"
"Well, I worked for Microsoft."
"Hah, yeah, that's funny. A Linux hacker working for Microsoft! Seriously, where did you work?"
"Microsoft! I was head of their Linux department! Steve Balmer recruited me!"
"Oh, I see. Say, could you excuse me while I just make a quick call? Thanks. Security? Yeah, we got another code three here."
Same sort of thing happenned to me, I'm a brain surgeon and a few years back I took a job as a janitor at a hospital, just to get my foot in the door. I'd been working on my pet dog Skippy's brain for several years, but they just wouldn't let me do any operations, it was the most frustrating thing.
"will it be too late for PalmSource and it's parent company ACCESS to gain a foothold in the mobile phone market?"
;-)
Well, in my opinion the three best smartphones on the market right now are the Sony P910i, the Treo 650, and the HTC Magician, so they have some sort of a foothold.
"Nor do I see advantage in a system of identity cards, which apart from creating difficulties for ordinary people would be extremely expensive and largely ineffective," wrote Labour Home Secretary Roy Jenkins in 1974, immediately after the IRA had killed 21 people in the Birmingham pub bombings.
I think the only way they can work in preventing terrorism is if they are deeply invasive. Suppose MI6 work out that CowboyNeal is a desperate desperado that they need to stop. For the ID card to be useful to them, it means they have to put a flag on his card and get a report every time the card is used. For this to work, they need to make everyone use their cards all the time. If he only uses it when he has to get on a plane, well, that's cutting it a little fine, isn't it?
Note that despite what some ministers imply they can't do this the other way round - put a flag on Biglig's card saying "good guy" and thus making people not scrutinize me - because of course this is insanely dangerous, as the terrorists will go to considerable lengths to get such a flag on their card.
And of course either way comes back to my earlier point that since biometric recognition is not perfect, it will generate a slew of false negatives (people whos biometrics don't confirm their identity) that will clog up the system.
They've also committed arson, planted incendiary devices on cars, and stole a farmers dead mother from her grave. There are lots of more serious terrorists in the world, and clearly the vast majority of those who believe in Animal rights and Animal welfare activism want nothing to do with these types of acts, but I don't think that negates my argument.
Even if they were just putting bricks through windows, if they can get access to Govt. databases, surely those who are prepared to carry out suicide bombings will be able to!
Some points to think about:
1) We in the UK have a very long history of not having to "show our papers" to policemen. We did it in World War 2, but not during the IRA bombing campaigns. Is the "War on Terror" more like WW2 or more like a viscious terror campaign on UK soil?
2) Single database = Single point of attack for hackers/terrorists/infiltrators
3) Biometric identification reduces security. Suppose Iris recognition is 99% accurate. (it's nowhere near as good as that). Heathrow processes 185,000 people a day. That's 1,850 people who fail the recognition every day; almost one a minute. Each one of whom you have to take away and examine in detail. After a month or so how hard do you think they'll be looking at these people?
4) In any case, the terrorists will not be in those 1,850 people, because they'll have perfectly good ID, just like the Madrid bombers all had, and so will be waved through wothout extra scrutiny. First rule of using false ID properly (i.e. not to get into bars in the US at 19) is never travel with forged ID; use forged documents to apply for a real ID and use that.
5) How much will they pay clerks at the new National ID processing centre? How much money does Osama Bin Laden have?
6) What if someone has your NID with their biometiric information on it (see above about applying with flase information). How do you prove who you are? How hard will banks look at someone with a valid ID that matches their biometrics before giving them a credit card in your name? How much liability will the bank have for the money they spend with it?
Yes, and we stopped having them when the war ended, and we didn't need them when the IRA were blowing things up left right and centre. Explain again exactly what has changed since then?
Hack? Who needs to hack? Terrorists in the UK have already gained access to our driving license database for a period of years thru a symathizer in the DVLA (our version of the DMV) and used it to target victims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/3 951945.stm for more details.
But of course, dear boy, each employer in the UK is liable for staggering fines if they employ someone who is an illegla immigrant. So although it is not required that you produce an ID card, what employer will take the chance?
What interests me is that it seems there may be two competing forces acting against this technology. First, the hackers, trying to get round the technology so they can watch proper content on thier own computer; second, the crackers, trying to brick as many DVD players and TVs as possible.