Ebay? Far too large a target. It would be like boycotting youtube.. their normal traffic fluctuation would completely mask even the most massive internet boycott ever mustered.
It's outright stupid, period. Why does ebay give this power to anyone? What do they possibly stand to gain from it? And how on earth does the CoS, or anyone, restrict after-market resale of their products? It's called the free market and it's America. Licensing software is one thing, but a physical object? What?
Incidentally does anyone know how to get the crazy alpha-release Anjuta that's in the Gutsy repos to accept cin input during debugging? I have nowhere to enter input.. and the old, good Anjuta doesn't work with Gutsy.
I completely agree. When visual studio crapped up on me (no concievable fix works) and I was forced to switch to Anjuta/mingw32, my grades literally dropped.
It never really made sense to me how A) A student is supposed to afford these $9000 suites that we're supposed to be familiar with before we get a job that licenses it? B) I have to pay to develop for microsoft's OS..
Aaronson contends that any method for solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time may violate the laws of physics
Is this supposed to be informative in any way? Yes, that's one of the angles on the P=NP problem. No, you still haven't made any progress on it so it doesn't matter what you "contend".
Completely off topic, not to mention wrong. Nearly all of the malware on Windows is stuff that stupid users install willingly.. a stupid user could just as well download a deb/rpm/tarball for a linux smiley toolbar or something and run it (typing in their password at the sudo prompt like hitting OK at UAC).. it's mostly the user's fault, not the OS's.
It's amusing to see people exclaim "but the government can't control that!" Well why not? Hume wrote that the universe doesn't bend to ensure people's rights aren't violated- there's not really any such thing as human rights.. there's only how governments agree to protect their citizens. And if the US legislature wants to make IP laws, then there's nothing stopping them until the next election.
We can see who's who in academics- whether publishers will be willing to release work to third-world countries that could never possibly afford to buy it and desperately need it for their education. In America at least they can hoard journals and information and demand payment because that's how the industry works- but I'll be very impressed (and surprised) if they admit that that doesn't apply at all to donating to OLPC..
ActiveX controls are supposed to run in a sandboxed environment.. easily broken I know but Microsoft isn't going to break their own security, so I can be reasonably sure an activex silverlight will only touch IE, which I don't care about.
Yup. Microsoft signficantly overhauled for the better a lot of antiquated interfaces like the audio stack.. there's no way old drivers are going to just work. Hardware vendors are welcome to choose to not support vista at all, but they're going to have no OEM customers since a lot of the system builders are going Vista-only. But if a hardware vendor doesn't make vista drivers, it's their problem not microsoft's.
Wow, is it just me or does this just sound like a total waste of money? The attacks are surprises and random, how are they going to try to extrapolate patterns with computers? Why not just hire a psychologist?
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Ebay? Far too large a target. It would be like boycotting youtube.. their normal traffic fluctuation would completely mask even the most massive internet boycott ever mustered.
It's outright stupid, period. Why does ebay give this power to anyone? What do they possibly stand to gain from it? And how on earth does the CoS, or anyone, restrict after-market resale of their products? It's called the free market and it's America. Licensing software is one thing, but a physical object? What ?
Incidentally does anyone know how to get the crazy alpha-release Anjuta that's in the Gutsy repos to accept cin input during debugging? I have nowhere to enter input.. and the old, good Anjuta doesn't work with Gutsy.
I completely agree. When visual studio crapped up on me (no concievable fix works) and I was forced to switch to Anjuta/mingw32, my grades literally dropped.
Funny you should mention emacs.... :)
It never really made sense to me how
A) A student is supposed to afford these $9000 suites that we're supposed to be familiar with before we get a job that licenses it?
B) I have to pay to develop for microsoft's OS..
Is this battletoads?
The bold on video as if youtube hasn't been around for years..
Just those pesky relativisic effects.
Completely off topic, not to mention wrong. Nearly all of the malware on Windows is stuff that stupid users install willingly.. a stupid user could just as well download a deb/rpm/tarball for a linux smiley toolbar or something and run it (typing in their password at the sudo prompt like hitting OK at UAC).. it's mostly the user's fault, not the OS's.
It's amusing to see people exclaim "but the government can't control that!" Well why not? Hume wrote that the universe doesn't bend to ensure people's rights aren't violated- there's not really any such thing as human rights.. there's only how governments agree to protect their citizens. And if the US legislature wants to make IP laws, then there's nothing stopping them until the next election.
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Maybe it's related to the DDoS.. the routers just burst into flames :)
I'm sure there must be some American company that has as its sole asset a sleeper patent to the concept of copyright law..
Oh come on, with a sample size of 1, "slim" is not worth hundreds of billions for exploration and research.
The planet is a giant frozen dustball with a poisonous atmosphere.. also am I the only one who's seeing the "remote" pun here?
UID >1,100,000 thinking they're finding a glitch
Priceless
We can see who's who in academics- whether publishers will be willing to release work to third-world countries that could never possibly afford to buy it and desperately need it for their education. In America at least they can hoard journals and information and demand payment because that's how the industry works- but I'll be very impressed (and surprised) if they admit that that doesn't apply at all to donating to OLPC..
ActiveX controls are supposed to run in a sandboxed environment.. easily broken I know but Microsoft isn't going to break their own security, so I can be reasonably sure an activex silverlight will only touch IE, which I don't care about.
Yup. Microsoft signficantly overhauled for the better a lot of antiquated interfaces like the audio stack.. there's no way old drivers are going to just work. Hardware vendors are welcome to choose to not support vista at all, but they're going to have no OEM customers since a lot of the system builders are going Vista-only. But if a hardware vendor doesn't make vista drivers, it's their problem not microsoft's.
Is this some kind of bizarre poetry?
Wow, is it just me or does this just sound like a total waste of money? The attacks are surprises and random, how are they going to try to extrapolate patterns with computers? Why not just hire a psychologist?