MS claims that Vista is the cure for everything from Global Warming to the common cold.
Sometimes you just have to hold a company to its promises. If the OS is released, it is being installed on computers that will be sold for this Christmas. If there are bugs that affect simple operations it is a serious problem.
Copyright is on the non-physical aspect _because_ it is non-physical. It's an added extra that rewards craftsmen who do not work with stuff you can kick.
I think it was Tony Hoare who said that a specification should be short enough so that it was obvious there were no omissions, not so big that there were no obvious omissions.
IBM has done an excellent job destroying The SCO Groups land grab attempt but we can't expect them to be the open source white knight every time.
If Microsoft does take the nuclear option and attack major users of Linux over patents, who will take up arms against a company with sufficient money in the bank to buy every lawyer in the western world?
It's really no different to washing power. Every 6 months washing powder is "NEW AND IMPROVED" and can whiten your whites beyond white... just like they claimed last year.
It's the same old 10% active ingredient and 90% inert filler.
This could be the first step in a Microsoft claim that Unix on Intel is Microsoft IP. Microsoft paid the orginal SCO to port Unix to x86 and create Xenix which was a Microsoft product. Later, MS sold Xenix to SCO, SCO sold the Unix business to Caldera, SCO became Tarentalla and was bought by Sun, Caldera became The SCO Group and sued IBM over "Unix IP" (or contracts or the colour of the sky - it changes on a whim of the lawyers.) The SCO Group is about to lose very badly against IBM at which point MS might try to claim that as they paid for Unix on Intel, any IP developed was really theirs and all they sold SCO was a "right to use and develop" but not ownership.
Both IBM and Intel will have a different view of course:-)
The dumb thing is that the personal information is SUPPOSED to be unencrypted - it's part of the spec. Thus, the 3DES (Ha Ha) encryption of the "hello" connection is irrelevant; though if the key really is based on public information it looks like someone really has lost the plot.
In any case, isn't 3DES being phased out because the cost of cracking it has fallen dramatically recently?
Despite all the concern over the years, who would have guessed that Microsoft would, rather than competing in an open market, would just BUY the marketplace.
Get rid of the complex rules about who is allowed to vote. That stops officials arbirarily omitting names from the electorial role. So long as you are over 16 and not in jail you should be able to vote (even crazy people.)
It doesn't matter how good the automatic recognition is, the false positive problem will always dominate the performance. Suppose it is 100% accurate at recognising bad guys, but generates a false positive 1 out 10,000 faces? In a busy airport that may mean 20 or 30 false recognitions a day and each may require a full security alert.
Exactly how does this increase security? Terrorists are very rare. Tourists are both very common and very stupid. The only result will be security running around fishing tags out of toilets and vending machines.
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I wrote a shell script that did that years ago. Where can I pick up my Nobel Prize?
MS claims that Vista is the cure for everything from Global Warming to the common cold.
Sometimes you just have to hold a company to its promises. If the OS is released, it is being installed on computers that will be sold for this Christmas. If there are bugs that affect simple operations it is a serious problem.
The amendment means exactly what it says, who'd a thunk it?
Most people are wondering how long their VHS tape player will last and if they can transfer all their tapes to DVD or hard disk.
Asking them to buy a DVD replacement when they've only just bought a boxed set of Friends DVDs is asking a bit too much of the marketplace.
The object doesn't, the copyright does.
Copyright is on the non-physical aspect _because_ it is non-physical. It's an added extra that rewards craftsmen who do not work with stuff you can kick.
I think it was Tony Hoare who said that a specification should be short enough so that it was obvious there were no omissions, not so big that there were no obvious omissions.
Always remember as far as a lawyer is concerned, if it's not illegal it's a legitimate business process.
This would explain why it seems to be a bit of a Bob.
Is this really a case of Microsoft wanting a "me too" product, not with the intention of capturing a market but rather as a Christmas iPod spoiler.
If Microsoft does take the nuclear option and attack major users of Linux over patents, who will take up arms against a company with sufficient money in the bank to buy every lawyer in the western world?
It's really no different to washing power. Every 6 months washing powder is "NEW AND IMPROVED" and can whiten your whites beyond white... just like they claimed last year.
It's the same old 10% active ingredient and 90% inert filler.
Both IBM and Intel will have a different view of course :-)
The dumb thing is that the personal information is SUPPOSED to be unencrypted - it's part of the spec. Thus, the 3DES (Ha Ha) encryption of the "hello" connection is irrelevant; though if the key really is based on public information it looks like someone really has lost the plot.
In any case, isn't 3DES being phased out because the cost of cracking it has fallen dramatically recently?
We could have just stayed in a cave and howled against the full moon.
It's pretty cheap getting to the moon and there are always hyperspace bypasses to worry about.
Despite all the concern over the years, who would have guessed that Microsoft would, rather than competing in an open market, would just BUY the marketplace.
Winning the battle is the easy bit. It's the years that follow that are important. Dismissing the Iraqi army and police was a fatal error.
See here.
What a wonderful way to distract the police while the rest of the gang does something really evil.
Yet another example of the fallacy that better knowledge can lead to a better society.
While people insist on confusing free (unrestricted) with free (zero cost) they will never understand a word than that RMS is saying.
Get rid of the complex rules about who is allowed to vote. That stops officials arbirarily omitting names from the electorial role. So long as you are over 16 and not in jail you should be able to vote (even crazy people.)
It doesn't matter how good the automatic recognition is, the false positive problem will always dominate the performance. Suppose it is 100% accurate at recognising bad guys, but generates a false positive 1 out 10,000 faces? In a busy airport that may mean 20 or 30 false recognitions a day and each may require a full security alert.
Exactly how does this increase security? Terrorists are very rare. Tourists are both very common and very stupid. The only result will be security running around fishing tags out of toilets and vending machines.
Do you have people ripping pages out of library books to prevent students seeing "bad" information?
Hey, let's break the format to stop pirates!!
Why not give each disk a good going over with some sandpaper?
There's not a lot of difference.
What is the cost of 500 tons of explosive and a few pounds of radioactive dust?
Isn't that exactly what the CIA was set up to do?
I wonder if they are doing anything more than searching Google News each morning.