Why the assumption that an encrypted 'personal' folder would be used for private rather than work related purposes? In some jobs, there is data which is personal, confidential or sensitive and which would benefit from being encrypted. For example, lawyers handing confidential matter relating to clients.
Surely that is the very sort of company which should be using encryption, strong passwords, file audit trails (where every change to 'important' files are logged, together with who made the change) etc.
As long as each instance of the licence is only 'invoked'/activated once, what difference does it make to the licenser who actually uses the licence? In the case of the banks, Microsoft have been paid for a licence to run Windows for each computer delivered, so if the banks do not need the licences and sell them then the transaction has no effect on the relationship between the number of licences issued and the number of systems running Windows. On the other hand, if they do not sell on the unwanted licences it does affect that relationship - it makes it that there are more licences issued (for which Microsoft have been paid) than systems running Windows.
Here is an exception, not only that but the fastest DSL is faster than the fastest cable. There are 2 providers (Bulldog and Be) who have 24Mbps ADSL2+ service, but this is not available in all exchanges and only those with short lines can get the full speed. 8M/800k rate-adaptive ADSL is generally available from most exchanges country wide, but again not everyone can get the maximum speed. The slowest cable modem service is 1M and the fastest 10M.
Live performances of music are nothing to with the Recording Industry associations. Live performances are licensed by organisations such as the Performing Rights Society.
You're right. SpamCop is generally lazy about removing people's IP addresses. Does SpamCop not have automatic removal when no spam further has been reported for a few days? This is unlike some RBLs where once on the list it is very hard to get removed.
What would be the state of the recorded music business now if vinyl (and 78s before that) from each label had only played on certain brands of record player? I suspect that it would never have taken off. Vinyl, cassettes and CDs (at least until the recent 'copy protected' ones) are universal and can be played on any player. So surely it would be best to keep the neutrality between the music publishers and hardware suppliers and not tie digital music sales to particular hardware.
Yes but.. What you say about tools like calculators and using APL for matrix manipulation is true. However, the student should be taught the 'manual' way first. When I was taught maths in the '70s (before the days of calculators, simple 4 function calculators were becoming affordable at about the time I left school), we were taught trig and calculus from first principles. Only when we had learnt that were we told "You will probably never have to do that again, you use books of tables etc where someone else has done the hard part for you, but you need to understand how the 'everyday working methods' work".
With IDEs, the same applies. The student should be taught how to do things manually before being introduced to the tool which will do all the "behind the scenes" work for them.
Do not forget that the speed of connection and latency are completely different things. It is possible to have very high speed links with large latency and slow links with very low latency.
Interesting that your ISP defines peak as 6pm to 11pm. Mine (also in the UK) defines peak as 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, and yes it is a home ADSL service not a business one. Usage outside of the peak period is totally unlimited as is uploading at all times. They have different tarrifs for various download limits, ranging from 1Gb to 8Gb per month, during the peak period.
I am not in the USA and therefore do not know the minute details of the DMCA, but from what I have seen it states that it is an offence to circumvent protection without the permission of the copyright owner. In the case of the photographer, the photographer him or her self is the owner of the copyright of the protected work (the photograph) so any circumvention of the protection implemented by the camera manufacturer is by definition being done with the consent and permission of the copyright owner. As I have seen it quoted, the DMCA does not say that the permission of the author/owner of the protection mechanism is required but that of the owner of the copyright.
Even if having waterless urinals in the mens room helps with water conservation, next door in the ladies room the women are still using more water to flush the toilet after urinating than is used by flushing a conventional male urinal. So it would aid water conservation even more if a waterless female urinal were to be developed and deployed.
It is interesting that one of the songs which is tipped for the number 1 slot in this weeks UK singles chart is only available for download. This shows that internet distribution is already changing the music landscape.
Yet the banks and other institutions could send their key signature/digest, by snail mail, as part of the account opening process. Or even have it either on display or available on CD from the branches. That way the user could be confident of the key used to sign the email.
And it does not help that many financial institutions use third parties for mailshots. Even having the institutions always send email from their own domains and using SPF and DKIM would help. I know that not many mail (receiver) programs check these but if the financial institutions started using them for outgoing mail then I am sure that this would accelerate the implementation in user mailers.
To be spam it has to be, under Florida law, defined as being deceptive. In that case political email would fit the definition, as when did any politician ever say anything that was not deceptive?
But the ISPs can be very slow to react. One of my colleagues got infected by a virus which caused his PC to act as a spam relay. It was more than 1 week after the infection was removed before the ISP sent a (snail mail) letter informing him of the 'problem'.
WinNT 4.0 had a government security certification, too. Did that not apply only to a very specific configuration, a standalone system with no network card.
How do you implement anti-music/movie piracy at processor or chipset level? At that level surely music and movies are just bit patterns and data to be moved and processed. So how, at that level, do you distinguish between music/movies and any other data?
Why, unlike Last.fm, is it only available to residents of the USA? The internet is global, so should such a good idea not be usable wherever you happen to live?
I suppose it also needs to be asked why they started off with such an old version of glibc. In July 2004, glibc 2.3.2 was the latest version and that been released for 15 months. Would it not have been reasonable to start the trial with at least semi-up-to-date software?
Is it really a tradition that freedom of the press only applies to the wealthy corporations? Going back to the days when the first amendment was drafted, was the "press" then more likely to be a local 'mom and pop' operation than a large conglomerate. So, I believe that blogging, posting web pages, etc is more the modern equivalent of the 'press' at the time than are the modern media conglomerates.
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Why the assumption that an encrypted 'personal' folder would be used for private rather than work related purposes? In some jobs, there is data which is personal, confidential or sensitive and which would benefit from being encrypted. For example, lawyers handing confidential matter relating to clients.
Surely that is the very sort of company which should be using encryption, strong passwords, file audit trails (where every change to 'important' files are logged, together with who made the change) etc.
As long as each instance of the licence is only 'invoked'/activated once, what difference does it make to the licenser who actually uses the licence? In the case of the banks, Microsoft have been paid for a licence to run Windows for each computer delivered, so if the banks do not need the licences and sell them then the transaction has no effect on the relationship between the number of licences issued and the number of systems running Windows. On the other hand, if they do not sell on the unwanted licences it does affect that relationship - it makes it that there are more licences issued (for which Microsoft have been paid) than systems running Windows.
Here is an exception, not only that but the fastest DSL is faster than the fastest cable. There are 2 providers (Bulldog and Be) who have 24Mbps ADSL2+ service, but this is not available in all exchanges and only those with short lines can get the full speed. 8M/800k rate-adaptive ADSL is generally available from most exchanges country wide, but again not everyone can get the maximum speed. The slowest cable modem service is 1M and the fastest 10M.
What about Honeywell's Multics and ICL's VME/B? These were designed with security in mind.
Live performances of music are nothing to with the Recording Industry associations. Live performances are licensed by organisations such as the Performing Rights Society.
You're right. SpamCop is generally lazy about removing people's IP addresses.
Does SpamCop not have automatic removal when no spam further has been reported for a few days? This is unlike some RBLs where once on the list it is very hard to get removed.
What would be the state of the recorded music business now if vinyl (and 78s before that) from each label had only played on certain brands of record player? I suspect that it would never have taken off. Vinyl, cassettes and CDs (at least until the recent 'copy protected' ones) are universal and can be played on any player. So surely it would be best to keep the neutrality between the music publishers and hardware suppliers and not tie digital music sales to particular hardware.
Yes but.. What you say about tools like calculators and using APL for matrix manipulation is true. However, the student should be taught the 'manual' way first. When I was taught maths in the '70s (before the days of calculators, simple 4 function calculators were becoming affordable at about the time I left school), we were taught trig and calculus from first principles. Only when we had learnt that were we told "You will probably never have to do that again, you use books of tables etc where someone else has done the hard part for you, but you need to understand how the 'everyday working methods' work".
With IDEs, the same applies. The student should be taught how to do things manually before being introduced to the tool which will do all the "behind the scenes" work for them.
Do not forget that the speed of connection and latency are completely different things. It is possible to have very high speed links with large latency and slow links with very low latency.
Interesting that your ISP defines peak as 6pm to 11pm. Mine (also in the UK) defines peak as 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, and yes it is a home ADSL service not a business one. Usage outside of the peak period is totally unlimited as is uploading at all times. They have different tarrifs for various download limits, ranging from 1Gb to 8Gb per month, during the peak period.
Well, it just means you need to order DVD's from wherever you came from.
The problem comes when the DVD you want is only released in a different region.
I am not in the USA and therefore do not know the minute details of the DMCA, but from what I have seen it states that it is an offence to circumvent protection without the permission of the copyright owner. In the case of the photographer, the photographer him or her self is the owner of the copyright of the protected work (the photograph) so any circumvention of the protection implemented by the camera manufacturer is by definition being done with the consent and permission of the copyright owner. As I have seen it quoted, the DMCA does not say that the permission of the author/owner of the protection mechanism is required but that of the owner of the copyright.
Even if having waterless urinals in the mens room helps with water conservation, next door in the ladies room the women are still using more water to flush the toilet after urinating than is used by flushing a conventional male urinal. So it would aid water conservation even more if a waterless female urinal were to be developed and deployed.
It is interesting that one of the songs which is tipped for the number 1 slot in this weeks UK singles chart is only available for download. This shows that internet distribution is already changing the music landscape.
Yet the banks and other institutions could send their key signature/digest, by snail mail, as part of the account opening process. Or even have it either on display or available on CD from the branches. That way the user could be confident of the key used to sign the email.
And it does not help that many financial institutions use third parties for mailshots. Even having the institutions always send email from their own domains and using SPF and DKIM would help. I know that not many mail (receiver) programs check these but if the financial institutions started using them for outgoing mail then I am sure that this would accelerate the implementation in user mailers.
To be spam it has to be, under Florida law, defined as being deceptive.
In that case political email would fit the definition, as when did any politician ever say anything that was not deceptive?
I have never heard of Westinghouse blenders or TVs. To me the name Westinghouse means railway brake systems.
But the ISPs can be very slow to react. One of my colleagues got infected by a virus which caused his PC to act as a spam relay. It was more than 1 week after the infection was removed before the ISP sent a (snail mail) letter informing him of the 'problem'.
WinNT 4.0 had a government security certification, too.
Did that not apply only to a very specific configuration, a standalone system with no network card.
How do you implement anti-music/movie piracy at processor or chipset level? At that level surely music and movies are just bit patterns and data to be moved and processed. So how, at that level, do you distinguish between music/movies and any other data?
Why, unlike Last.fm, is it only available to residents of the USA? The internet is global, so should such a good idea not be usable wherever you happen to live?
I suppose it also needs to be asked why they started off with such an old version of glibc. In July 2004, glibc 2.3.2 was the latest version and that been released for 15 months. Would it not have been reasonable to start the trial with at least semi-up-to-date software?
Is it really a tradition that freedom of the press only applies to the wealthy corporations? Going back to the days when the first amendment was drafted, was the "press" then more likely to be a local 'mom and pop' operation than a large conglomerate. So, I believe that blogging, posting web pages, etc is more the modern equivalent of the 'press' at the time than are the modern media conglomerates.