You're not paying for privacy, you're paying to get the information they hold on you. It is reasonable that you pay them an administration fee for this.
I was thinking about this. I recently got one, and I was thinking that at the end of the month I would request all the data that London Underground holds on me. By law, under the Data Protection Act they have to give me all the info they hold for a small fee (capped at 10 if I recall correctly).
It will be interesting to see what they store..
(Also, they are not permitted to share that information with anyone else without my permission)
They're not going to turn on DRM by default, because it's really going to piss off their userbase. You can't just tick and checkbox saying 'DRM' - you have to make a whole load of decisions on what rights you want to give to which groups of people and for how long. I suppose they could set it to default to 'let me read this only', but it would cause such a huge amount of confusion I don't suppose they'd dare try.
DRM requires work from the user that most people are only ever going to bother with if they really have to.
Ja ist es immer wichtig, einen Spellingfehler in jedem moglichem "Spelling Nazi" Pfosten zu machen... Sowieso Gluckwunsche - Ihr Englisch ist gut genug zu uberschreiten, da ein Hochschulkursteilnehmer, dem zwischen 'loose' und 'lose'... Und es gibt Lose geburtige englische Lautsprecher, die diesen Fehler machen!
It says on the BIND site that 80% on the net's DNS servers - I wonder what runs on the remaining 20%? And are they likely to implement something similar?
Basically, I'm wondering how much of the net will end up bypassing Verisign's silly stunt...
There was no form of EULA that came with my Xbox at all. There was quite a big one that came with Xbox Live, however.
As long as the dashboard bug doesn't start turning up fixed in off-the-shelf Xboexes anytime soon, I won't be too worried. With the Xbox coming down to 99 next month, I'm tempted to get one just to pop Linux on and use as a small fileserver. It works out cheaper that mini-itx...
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Read the article - this isn't the case that you've got a whole bunch of traditional processors and you try and divide the work between them. They're talking about the CPU itself being split into several smaller general units, so that each instruction gets excecuted by several of these units. The instructions are grouped together and then sent to the CPU in blocks. All the work for that block is then split between the units, taking into account any interdependencies. I suppose the closest thing to it would be to have microcode being executed in parallel.
I have discovered a truly remarkable way for two users behind standard firewalls or NAT to establish a direct connection which this entry box is too small to contain.
I shall be purchasing some of these strips today and nicking my daughter's QX3...
ObDisgusting:
I saw the note about the Favicon.ico (Don't click - don't say I didn't warn you!), but it doesn't show up on mozilla. I knew what it was going to be but I was curious to see what it would look like when it was that small. I didn't realise that you could have these things at full size and the browser would scale them down. I was expecting a little 16x16 picture, but found myself to be looking in places where the sun ought not shine in full glorious detail. It's been a long time since I was tricked into seeing that image, and it was quite a shock to see it full size again. Oh, and I did all this at my work computer. Lovely.
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Say, why doesn't the sign for Pounds Sterling work on Slashdot?
You're not paying for privacy, you're paying to get the information they hold on you. It is reasonable that you pay them an administration fee for this.
I was thinking about this. I recently got one, and I was thinking that at the end of the month I would request all the data that London Underground holds on me. By law, under the Data Protection Act they have to give me all the info they hold for a small fee (capped at 10 if I recall correctly).
It will be interesting to see what they store..
(Also, they are not permitted to share that information with anyone else without my permission)
Well, it's fixed now, anyway.
Nyahhhhhh
Well,
a) PlanetTimmy is experiencing technical difficulties
and
b) Normal service will resume shortly.
Hey, nice proofreading, folks...
Doh.
Didn't even read the code...
I feel not unlike a fool.
He said reverse the order of the *words*, not the letters.
They're not going to turn on DRM by default, because it's really going to piss off their userbase. You can't just tick and checkbox saying 'DRM' - you have to make a whole load of decisions on what rights you want to give to which groups of people and for how long. I suppose they could set it to default to 'let me read this only', but it would cause such a huge amount of confusion I don't suppose they'd dare try.
DRM requires work from the user that most people are only ever going to bother with if they really have to.
Ja ist es immer wichtig, einen Spellingfehler in jedem moglichem "Spelling Nazi" Pfosten zu machen... Sowieso Gluckwunsche - Ihr Englisch ist gut genug zu uberschreiten, da ein Hochschulkursteilnehmer, dem zwischen 'loose' und 'lose'... Und es gibt Lose geburtige englische Lautsprecher, die diesen Fehler machen!
It's spelt 'losing'.
Why is it a pity?
They haven't written it for OS/2, either!
Or BeOS!
Or PalmOS!
There's not even a whiff of a C64 or Amiga version!
THE BASTARDS!
89% Say he's doing a bad job... Keep up the good work! ;-)
It says on the BIND site that 80% on the net's DNS servers - I wonder what runs on the remaining 20%? And are they likely to implement something similar?
Basically, I'm wondering how much of the net will end up bypassing Verisign's silly stunt...
There was no form of EULA that came with my Xbox at all. There was quite a big one that came with Xbox Live, however.
As long as the dashboard bug doesn't start turning up fixed in off-the-shelf Xboexes anytime soon, I won't be too worried. With the Xbox coming down to 99 next month, I'm tempted to get one just to pop Linux on and use as a small fileserver. It works out cheaper that mini-itx...
Read the article - this isn't the case that you've got a whole bunch of traditional processors and you try and divide the work between them. They're talking about the CPU itself being split into several smaller general units, so that each instruction gets excecuted by several of these units. The instructions are grouped together and then sent to the CPU in blocks. All the work for that block is then split between the units, taking into account any interdependencies. I suppose the closest thing to it would be to have microcode being executed in parallel.
I have discovered a truly remarkable way for two users behind standard firewalls or NAT to establish a direct connection which this entry box is too small to contain.
Hmmm...
Yes, but is the domain name legally theirs or legally yours?
Certainly it looks from their site like it would be theirs, with a contract with you to give you control of it.
That's all very well, but what happens if they go bust?
I use my work address as the contact for all my domains - sure, it's not exactly private, but a lot more so than listing my house.
Course, I'll have to think of something else if I decide to go freelance...
My work here is done!
I'm afraid I don't know the URLs of any more truly disguting pictures, sorry.
Damn, I did warn you!
And whatever you do DON'T CLICK ON THIS LINK!
I'm not fucking kidding, man!
The other damming fact is that McDonalds persistently sold coffee that was considerably hotter than it should have been.
Have you read any of the parent thread?
May I just say you rule.
I shall be purchasing some of these strips today and nicking my daughter's QX3...
ObDisgusting:
I saw the note about the Favicon.ico (Don't click - don't say I didn't warn you!), but it doesn't show up on mozilla. I knew what it was going to be but I was curious to see what it would look like when it was that small. I didn't realise that you could have these things at full size and the browser would scale them down. I was expecting a little 16x16 picture, but found myself to be looking in places where the sun ought not shine in full glorious detail. It's been a long time since I was tricked into seeing that image, and it was quite a shock to see it full size again. Oh, and I did all this at my work computer. Lovely.