is the tendency of record companies to promote crap. The idea that Sony BMG thinks I shouldn't be allowed to commit CD's I have purchased to a library on my hard drive for convenience is outrageous. The major labels should know stealing when they see it, they have ripped off enough artists over the years.
I think it would be nice to see the record cartel shrink even more as people spend more time listening to live music or playing it themselves instead of being passive consumers of recorded music. Folks might also consider patronizing independent artists.
Does it mean that bandwidth providers can charge more for high demand customers? Probably fair enough. Does it mean that they can charge end users more for extra speed. No complaints. What is not acceptable is that the owners of the backbone can make deals with "partners" and give them a special rate and stiff other customers. Or they can charge their customers more for bytes from one source than another. The concept of a "common carrier" has served will in the the fields of communication and transportation. Regulation is necessary. I don't want a top down controlled Internet where I am merely a content consumer.
than it needs to determine if you have a valid Office license. What other information do they collect that they don't have a right to? Did they deliberately plant the Excel multiplication bug to force people to need a patch? M$ is loosing friends fast, and I actually like XP.
The point of Dell selling Linux machines is not to replace Windows for neophytes, but to provide a choice for people who don't want to pay the M$ tax. I hope Dell does some of the work that will be needed to improve Linux. I like a lot of things about Ubuntu, but like other distributions it suffers from not easy to surmount problems with drivers, particularly for the newer video adapters. I am missing clumps of hair from trying to get ATI products to work right. Getting DVI monitors to work, or supporting non-standard sizes is not easy. The software to play MP3's and videos is not terribly hard to find.
Many technical aspects of Linux are quite good. The user interface for configuration needs some improvement. I have heard that Ubuntu is working on a fail-safe X feature and a more user friendly way to tinker with the config file. Booting up to a black void because the monitor isn't understood is not good.
I got a hundred of them. Of course a lot them are still on 5 1/4" diskettes. Most of the stoned viruses were comparatively harmless, Disk Killer was a real bastard, kiss bye bye to everything.
Remember the KAK worm. Shut down computers at 5:00 PM on Friday. Something like that. It was spread in an invisible executable signature in Outlook Express. I had a good deal of admiration for that one, and we made a lot of money cleaning it up. Now who would have thought about a script as a signature that copied itself to the drive? The same company that made word processors with executable text scripts that ordinary users don't understand. Made me want to swallow a couple of Vicodin ES.
At my precinct there was a single touch screen machine nobody used. The preference was for hand marked paper ballots read by an optical scanner. The can be verified by eye, and statistically sampled to verify the accuracy of automated counting.
The idea of touch screen machines, whether or not there is a paper trail that can be audited is dumb. It's expensive and very slow. Pencils and tables are cheap. Outside of the purpose of enabling handicapped voters, hand marked ballots are the most efficient.
In any case, the idea that such a pedestrian application of a mature technology should permit trade secrets by private companies defies all reason. These machines, if they are needed at all, should be designed by a consortium of academics within an open process. I include in this the communications and software than control optical scanning, collation and ballot preparation.
I don't know the UK laws, but it seems to me that a company has to have a have reasonable excuse for denying a warranty. A failure of the mechanical assembly is only eligible for the determination that it was a defect in manufacture, or damage from abuse.
I would respectfully point out that placement on a page in a newspaper is not a good analogy. Google generates pages dynamically. While I have searched for specific local business categories and do not become overly distracted by paid ads, I would be irritated if I owned a business for child portraiture, and there was a sponsored link that lead to child pornography.
This is an exaggeration and doesn't happen with Google, but illustrates the offense that the business expressed. The complaining business might have received free advertising from Google with the genuine results, but there is a legitimate question about whether businesses should be able to limit the kind of links that are sponsored from a direct search of their business names.
FTFA, one of the complaints generated involved searches that produced sponsored results that linked to a party with no commercial affiliation to the object of the search. Given that a user understood that the link was sponsored, they might wrongly assume a relationship with the business that does not exist. This could be benign, or damaging to the reputation of the business. It's more complex than whether users know whether a link is advertising or the genuine algorithmic results of the search.
I noticed with my home network that if I have a shortcut to a share on another computer on my desktop, and open a file on the desktop, that much network activity is created even though I am simply, say, looking at a JPEG. This doesn't make much sense to me and the time delay is significant. I would use Linux instead of just play with it if I could get decent video drivers to work.
I administer a very small shop, i.e. my home, but I am not willing to trust M$ about anything. Keep track of what is visited and flag what is a threat. Control incoming ports and educate users about email dangers and why visiting Pron sites is a bad idea, just because they are a lure, (notwithstanding the allure of the hot babe on babe action that you might find there along with the automatically installed malware).
If it says.08, there is a decent chance that it might be less. In the absence of other evidence, such as weaving or taking out somebody's mailbox, you should be able to require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. This is one area that invites the statistical definition of reasonable doubt. Of course some other countries have lower limits, as is the case in the US for commercial drivers.
That said, if you have a machine that can put somebody in jail, the public has a right to know how it functions. You might extend that idea to include voting machines.
is that we have people at responsible levels in our government who are either stupid enough to get sucked in by this sort of fraud, or are just plain corrupt. I have a copper bracelet for them that just works wonders on arthritis.
Let's put video cameras in everybody's house while we're at it. Don't want anybody letting the kids watch the wrong shows on teevee. When our eighth graders are drafted to fight in Iraq, you damn sure don't want them to have ever seen any pr0n.
This does not make sense. What happens in the kernel should stay in the kernel. Enterprise is in user space. I want the prettiest, bestest, fastest "experience" I can have. I heart Linux, but use XP. (Go ahead, make my day and troll rate me.)
Some passwords are a nuisance, such as logging onto a free newspaper site. In the case where you are confident about the physical security of your computer, such as a home computer with trusted family members, it's a convenience so long as the system does not possibly provide your passwords to sites other than the true site for which they are used. Bank sites no longer permit authentication with stored passwords.
It doesn't seem difficult to me to just require an authenticated certificate before passwords are presented for SSL sites. This should at least be an option. You can't always protect against foolishness, such as doing business involving money with untrusted sites. I don't want cookies being revealed to any but the site that issued it. These appear to be solvable problems.
It has the apparent power to pauperize anybody that, without notice or any court intervention, is determined by executive fiat to threaten the "stability" or reconstruction of Iraq. That might be anyone who can argue persuasively that the US has no business in Iraq. This order should be taken in context with other orders, actions of the Administration and laws.
Of course it will be argued that this is only intended to affect terrorists, and I suppose anybody can just take their word for that. Like the Military Commissions Act, it doesn't threaten you or your family or buddies with being "disappeared," whether murdered or put in some hellhole and tortured. Couldn't happen.
Big surprise. I have been working on computers since Vicondin ES was displayed as the computer owner in Win9x because of a Word macro virus. Lets just put executable code in what suckers think is a passive document. Hooray!
A plug-in that supports Open Office formats in M$ Office. I would like to think that it works and that M$ cooperated in its development. I suppose it could have been reverse engineered. I would respect M$ a lot more if they just would stop breaking their previous products with so-called upgrades. Word processors are mature products, there is no reason that there should be any struggles over file formats.
This sounds like a great weapon, give soldiers a drug that will make them fearless in battle, or another drug that will get them over that pesky guilt about killing all those people they had nothing against. I guess you could get somebody back on the road after a scary auto accident.
Does anybody see something premature? Of course the/.'rs caught it early, because it was a big joke. I would have loved to not be afraid to go to school when I was bullied. I would have liked not to be afraid girls in my adolescence. I would like to continue being afraid of fire. I have to remain afraid of severe chronic pain in a country where I can't get opiates. I am no longer afraid of death. Wipe out fear, they we can fight like ants.
Not every case is a false claim of ownership or copyright. For example a photo or art historian might publish a book of public domain works. That book can be copyrighted. IANAL, and I don't know case law with respect to someone who publishes an image copied from that book. Unless it included some of the accompanying narrative, or many more than one were copied it might be hard to prove, but might also violate the compendium author's copyright.
Songs can be copyrighted, lyrics and music. Recordings can be copyrighted. But universal human idioms, such as the expressions of sadness you feel on account of your baby cheatin' on you, or the degree to which you resent your treatment by your employer or the Man, or standard chord progressions and blues riffs, should be hard to defend in copyright law. It should be a dicey prospect to legally rope off parts of popular culture for monopolistic profits when most of it was derivative to begin with.
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I think it would be nice to see the record cartel shrink even more as people spend more time listening to live music or playing it themselves instead of being passive consumers of recorded music. Folks might also consider patronizing independent artists.
Does it mean that bandwidth providers can charge more for high demand customers? Probably fair enough. Does it mean that they can charge end users more for extra speed. No complaints. What is not acceptable is that the owners of the backbone can make deals with "partners" and give them a special rate and stiff other customers. Or they can charge their customers more for bytes from one source than another. The concept of a "common carrier" has served will in the the fields of communication and transportation. Regulation is necessary. I don't want a top down controlled Internet where I am merely a content consumer.
than it needs to determine if you have a valid Office license. What other information do they collect that they don't have a right to? Did they deliberately plant the Excel multiplication bug to force people to need a patch? M$ is loosing friends fast, and I actually like XP.
Many technical aspects of Linux are quite good. The user interface for configuration needs some improvement. I have heard that Ubuntu is working on a fail-safe X feature and a more user friendly way to tinker with the config file. Booting up to a black void because the monitor isn't understood is not good.
Remember the KAK worm. Shut down computers at 5:00 PM on Friday. Something like that. It was spread in an invisible executable signature in Outlook Express. I had a good deal of admiration for that one, and we made a lot of money cleaning it up. Now who would have thought about a script as a signature that copied itself to the drive? The same company that made word processors with executable text scripts that ordinary users don't understand. Made me want to swallow a couple of Vicodin ES.
The idea of touch screen machines, whether or not there is a paper trail that can be audited is dumb. It's expensive and very slow. Pencils and tables are cheap. Outside of the purpose of enabling handicapped voters, hand marked ballots are the most efficient.
In any case, the idea that such a pedestrian application of a mature technology should permit trade secrets by private companies defies all reason. These machines, if they are needed at all, should be designed by a consortium of academics within an open process. I include in this the communications and software than control optical scanning, collation and ballot preparation.
I don't know the UK laws, but it seems to me that a company has to have a have reasonable excuse for denying a warranty. A failure of the mechanical assembly is only eligible for the determination that it was a defect in manufacture, or damage from abuse.
This is an exaggeration and doesn't happen with Google, but illustrates the offense that the business expressed. The complaining business might have received free advertising from Google with the genuine results, but there is a legitimate question about whether businesses should be able to limit the kind of links that are sponsored from a direct search of their business names.
FTFA, one of the complaints generated involved searches that produced sponsored results that linked to a party with no commercial affiliation to the object of the search. Given that a user understood that the link was sponsored, they might wrongly assume a relationship with the business that does not exist. This could be benign, or damaging to the reputation of the business. It's more complex than whether users know whether a link is advertising or the genuine algorithmic results of the search.
I think it means something like Too bad fool, shucks.
I noticed with my home network that if I have a shortcut to a share on another computer on my desktop, and open a file on the desktop, that much network activity is created even though I am simply, say, looking at a JPEG. This doesn't make much sense to me and the time delay is significant. I would use Linux instead of just play with it if I could get decent video drivers to work.
I administer a very small shop, i.e. my home, but I am not willing to trust M$ about anything. Keep track of what is visited and flag what is a threat. Control incoming ports and educate users about email dangers and why visiting Pron sites is a bad idea, just because they are a lure, (notwithstanding the allure of the hot babe on babe action that you might find there along with the automatically installed malware).
That said, if you have a machine that can put somebody in jail, the public has a right to know how it functions. You might extend that idea to include voting machines.
is that we have people at responsible levels in our government who are either stupid enough to get sucked in by this sort of fraud, or are just plain corrupt. I have a copper bracelet for them that just works wonders on arthritis.
Just think of a men's Federal prison as a bunch of tubes.
Let's put video cameras in everybody's house while we're at it. Don't want anybody letting the kids watch the wrong shows on teevee. When our eighth graders are drafted to fight in Iraq, you damn sure don't want them to have ever seen any pr0n.
This does not make sense. What happens in the kernel should stay in the kernel. Enterprise is in user space. I want the prettiest, bestest, fastest "experience" I can have. I heart Linux, but use XP. (Go ahead, make my day and troll rate me.)
Darn, you add it all up, and I figure my odds of dying are almost 100%.
It doesn't seem difficult to me to just require an authenticated certificate before passwords are presented for SSL sites. This should at least be an option. You can't always protect against foolishness, such as doing business involving money with untrusted sites. I don't want cookies being revealed to any but the site that issued it. These appear to be solvable problems.
Of course it will be argued that this is only intended to affect terrorists, and I suppose anybody can just take their word for that. Like the Military Commissions Act, it doesn't threaten you or your family or buddies with being "disappeared," whether murdered or put in some hellhole and tortured. Couldn't happen.
Holy crap. I guess local disk searching and indexing is the Trojan horse, to use an unsavory term. Now Google, don't you be evil, y'all.
Big surprise. I have been working on computers since Vicondin ES was displayed as the computer owner in Win9x because of a Word macro virus. Lets just put executable code in what suckers think is a passive document. Hooray!
A plug-in that supports Open Office formats in M$ Office. I would like to think that it works and that M$ cooperated in its development. I suppose it could have been reverse engineered. I would respect M$ a lot more if they just would stop breaking their previous products with so-called upgrades. Word processors are mature products, there is no reason that there should be any struggles over file formats.
Does anybody see something premature? Of course the /.'rs caught it early, because it was a big joke. I would have loved to not be afraid to go to school when I was bullied. I would have liked not to be afraid girls in my adolescence. I would like to continue being afraid of fire. I have to remain afraid of severe chronic pain in a country where I can't get opiates. I am no longer afraid of death. Wipe out fear, they we can fight like ants.
Songs can be copyrighted, lyrics and music. Recordings can be copyrighted. But universal human idioms, such as the expressions of sadness you feel on account of your baby cheatin' on you, or the degree to which you resent your treatment by your employer or the Man, or standard chord progressions and blues riffs, should be hard to defend in copyright law. It should be a dicey prospect to legally rope off parts of popular culture for monopolistic profits when most of it was derivative to begin with.