I wish I knew the magic formula for getting a submission accepted
IANAMagician, but try this:
1. Google's inherently non-evil news aggregator confirms that BSD isn't dead
2. ????^H^H^H^HNetcraft confirms that Linus Torvalds has killed Roland Piquepaille
3. Constitution! As overlord! Profit!
[RANT] #3 is particularly important because many world citizens, both at home and abroad, are so
often appalled by the willingness of the people of the USA to see its government stomp all over the Constitution on behalf of paranoia, insularity, xenophobia and rampant corporatism.
This restoration of faith and hope may be as small as the proportion of renewable elements in that there
Patriot Act, but it means a lot. It's disappointing that it took a superannuated grunt like JackMurtha
to flip the switch in DC, but right now the world citizen will take what he/she can get. [/RANT]
Mathew Gilliat-Smith, F4i managing director, says [about his rootkit]:
"We have developed an effective solution that has earned us credibility with the major labels."
F4i also offers image composition analysis technology, which aims to filter illicit images such as pornography and offensive content on email, web sites, internet chat rooms and mobile phones
So that's what they've been working on. No wonder they've... lost focus.
Why does Sony not simply provide an update for their rootkit? Improved security, expanded DRM, and distinguished keylogging, get it all now with Sony's rootkit 2.0
And most of their music's rubbish, so let's not bother including any of that at all...
... unless, in an easily-overlooked part of the EULA for your shiny new rootkit, they sneak a Neil Diamond track onto your hard drive as one last act of revenge.
Not quite so nice: Amazon are in a much stronger position vis-a-vis content providers when they're selling physical product than when they're distributing downloads, so until they become a major digital distributor it's in their interests to protect the reputation of physical products, especially products that they themselves have sold....
but in a short-sighted attempt to keep their sales up and/or deny the overall problem, Amazon won't tell you if you're ordering a 'regular' crippled CD, and in my experience they won't accept that a crippled CD is refundable. That's why I don't buy CDs from Amazon anymore... whereas I can get a refund from certainother vendors if it turns out that I've been sent a crippled CD.
(And yes, they are also thinking about liability. Which does matter.)
It'd be great if Amazon and other big vendors refused to carry discs with
... any kind of DRM. And they're strong enough to do it, and for all the above reasons it should make sense to them to do it. And that really would be nice for everybody.
And studiesargue... that so many more people have died on the roads because they switched from flying due to the extra inconvenience, cost and sheer paranoia, that the number of extra road deaths in the USA alone may exceed the number of people killed at the World Trade Centre.
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Apart from the loss of civil liberties and the loss of billions of dollars, this is just another pointer to the fact that the so-called war on terror is costing many, many more lives than its ostensible targets. Up next, after two thousand dead American troops and literallycountless dead Iraqi civilians:... a civil war? ethnic cleansing? militant theocracy? more terror? all of the above?
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Not sinful, wicked infidels, but
[rant] i.e. pay tax dollars for health care and gay rights. Instead of bombs. D'oh. [/rant]
I wish I knew the magic formula for getting a submission accepted
IANAMagician, but try this:
1. Google's inherently non-evil news aggregator confirms that BSD isn't dead
2. ????^H^H^H^HNetcraft confirms that Linus Torvalds has killed Roland Piquepaille
3. Constitution! As overlord! Profit!
[RANT] #3 is particularly important because many world citizens, both at home and abroad, are so often appalled by the willingness of the people of the USA to see its government stomp all over the Constitution on behalf of paranoia, insularity, xenophobia and rampant corporatism. This restoration of faith and hope may be as small as the proportion of renewable elements in that there Patriot Act, but it means a lot. It's disappointing that it took a superannuated grunt like Jack Murtha to flip the switch in DC, but right now the world citizen will take what he/she can get. [/RANT]
the same idiots aim to block your porn.
From their stash of press fodder, July 2005:
So that's what they've been working on. No wonder they've
Let's run that up the corporate flagpole.
Oh.
Never mind.
but in a short-sighted attempt to keep their sales up and/or deny the overall problem, Amazon won't tell you if you're ordering a 'regular' crippled CD, and in my experience they won't accept that a crippled CD is refundable. That's why I don't buy CDs from Amazon anymore
(And yes, they are also thinking about liability. Which does matter.)
And studies argue
<rant>
Apart from the loss of civil liberties and the loss of billions of dollars, this is just another pointer to the fact that the so-called war on terror is costing many, many more lives than its ostensible targets. Up next, after two thousand dead American troops and literally countless dead Iraqi civilians:
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- Darl's Doublewides Inc:
If the French hadn't joined in the War Of Independence, you Americans would have surrendered to the British.