This is exactly like stealing a bike. In the UK most broadband is metered
I am not sure about "most" being metered now there are so many "unlimited" deals available at virtually no extra cost, but certainly a good proportion is metered.
We praise countries like Libya when they say that are going to stop supporting terrorism, even though they are a long way from being free democracies. This support and removing of embargoes encourages other countries to move in the same direction. At the same time we criticise our western democracies for removing freedoms, increasing surveillance, etc. This is not hypocritical, it is just that they are moving away from the ideal rather than towards it and we expect them to maintain the high standards.
Or as the CV writers would say: "extensive experience with HTML 4, XHTML, where he was responsible for delivering high quality web pages. Has studied the HTML5 standard and is confident that he will be able to maintain the same quality of delivery with this new technology."
They are not directly related but can work together. for example a USB driver would need to be a superuser driver to access the hardware, but a printer driver could run in user space and use normal security access rights to determine if it could access the USB device.
This seems like a good argument for user space drivers. That way only the device driver for the peripheral connection needs to be installed by root, and the printer-specific stuff can be safely installed by users.
I do want to make people use OpenOffice, and I use it myself, but I need to make sure that old documents will be translated with no page breaks problems and with no human interaction.
You are not guaranteed this even just with MS Office. If you pass an MS word document to another MS user with different fonts or a changed default template that you can get wrapping and page-break problems.
I hope I am wrong but I expect that they will have an import export functionality that has a deliberately crippled scope, for example not supporting all formats or only a certain level of table nesting. They will then state ambiguously that this is "unsupported with ODF", which along with marketing FUD will make it appear as a restriction of ODF rather than their implementation.
I think that what has happened is that they see a possibility that OOXML will not be ratified as a standard. By supporting ODF they will still be able to supply companies and oganisations with a policy of using standards based formats. Their hope is that once Office is in there, if the implementation is bad enough, people will either unofficially use OOXML or lobby for a rules change to allow it to be used.
.these things are being sold over here as a preventative measure against terrorists
That is a good point. I am convinced that the probability of getting caught means that London's camera system is a great deterrent to many types of crime. Obviously suicide bombers don't come into this category.
I wouldn't mind betting that 99% already could get it. Think private satellite uplinks, dedicated leased lines, etc. Now to be able to get it affordably would be something else.
I think the reason they are not refusing all these companies is because they know that if they refuse the companies will have no choice but to fight the patents. This would lead to disclosure and at the worst case the company concerned would go bust and the community would work round all the patents. In the best case they would all turn out to be obvious or have prior art.
It strikes me that if you wanted to destroy the economy of New York City, you'd do no better than to prevent [Illegal?] immigration. The same was said about the abolition of slavery and of child labour.
What exactly are parents supposed to do? Anytime their kids go online, to sit there, right next to them, for the entire time, watching them? Hell yes. And don't forget to listen in to them when they are on the phone. You should always take them to and from school, and refuse all permission requests for school trips or to go off site. Of course if the kid is under 18 you need to be even stricter than this.
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If you watch TV through a shop window or someone's window I would expect them to be able to ask you to move on, but not fine you £500
This is exactly like stealing a bike. In the UK most broadband is metered
I am not sure about "most" being metered now there are so many "unlimited" deals available at virtually no extra cost, but certainly a good proportion is metered.
Hell, and I'm not even a PC-nut. I thought you had to love PCs to post on slashodt!
Of course postal voting on demand has made things much worse. http://society.guardian.co.uk/localgovelections/st ory/0,,946291,00.html
And an Austrian destitute became head of state
It will just take one prick to mess the whole thing up.
We praise countries like Libya when they say that are going to stop supporting terrorism, even though they are a long way from being free democracies. This support and removing of embargoes encourages other countries to move in the same direction. At the same time we criticise our western democracies for removing freedoms, increasing surveillance, etc. This is not hypocritical, it is just that they are moving away from the ideal rather than towards it and we expect them to maintain the high standards.
Or as the CV writers would say: "extensive experience with HTML 4, XHTML, where he was responsible for delivering high quality web pages. Has studied the HTML5 standard and is confident that he will be able to maintain the same quality of delivery with this new technology."
That is a relief for those of us who still use XSLT.
It probably applies to your friend's dad's chastity belt supplier
They are not directly related but can work together. for example a USB driver would need to be a superuser driver to access the hardware, but a printer driver could run in user space and use normal security access rights to determine if it could access the USB device.
This seems like a good argument for user space drivers. That way only the device driver for the peripheral connection needs to be installed by root, and the printer-specific stuff can be safely installed by users.
I do want to make people use OpenOffice, and I use it myself, but I need to make sure that old documents will be translated with no page breaks problems and with no human interaction. You are not guaranteed this even just with MS Office. If you pass an MS word document to another MS user with different fonts or a changed default template that you can get wrapping and page-break problems.
I hope I am wrong but I expect that they will have an import export functionality that has a deliberately crippled scope, for example not supporting all formats or only a certain level of table nesting. They will then state ambiguously that this is "unsupported with ODF", which along with marketing FUD will make it appear as a restriction of ODF rather than their implementation. I think that what has happened is that they see a possibility that OOXML will not be ratified as a standard. By supporting ODF they will still be able to supply companies and oganisations with a policy of using standards based formats. Their hope is that once Office is in there, if the implementation is bad enough, people will either unofficially use OOXML or lobby for a rules change to allow it to be used.
I worked with a 55 year old who's mother actually worked in Bletchley park.
I don't know about sneezing but it could certainly save on tissues.
.these things are being sold over here as a preventative measure against terrorists That is a good point. I am convinced that the probability of getting caught means that London's camera system is a great deterrent to many types of crime. Obviously suicide bombers don't come into this category.
Slashdot is the ideal place to find snot nosed kids will EE degrees.
It is - it will replace her Commodore Pet.
I wouldn't mind betting that 99% already could get it. Think private satellite uplinks, dedicated leased lines, etc. Now to be able to get it affordably would be something else.
I think the reason they are not refusing all these companies is because they know that if they refuse the companies will have no choice but to fight the patents. This would lead to disclosure and at the worst case the company concerned would go bust and the community would work round all the patents. In the best case they would all turn out to be obvious or have prior art.
If its like the UK security services they will deny they had it even when the a public patent is applied for See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ#Public_key_encry ption
Working DRM is shown in Mission impossible. Listen once then the tape catches alight.