I'm european as well, from the same country. I wanted to go to vote for those elections, now this becomes even more evident to me. Please post your findings somewhere - I'm not sure they will put "software patent" on their papers / sites. Now getting some infos about those elections, as this is my first european one.
The yahoo issue was about internet not having borders.
Here it's about an US product being sold in france. In that case you have to follow the local laws, which include declaring your product at importation, adding local taxes and respecting extra local rules.
Totally different.
Now, I'd be pretty happy if apple have balls to challenge that as it's IMHO a pretty lame law blindlessly applies to most (every) digital media (DVD-/+r/w CD HD...) If they manage to pass over this in France, it would be a nice move to do the same in bigger countries (Canada ?)
Or maybe looks more like MS has a nice a vaporware to prevent you switching to whatever else you would like (be it OSX or linux or bsd or whatever non ms)
As I saw many peoples talking about vehicule consuption , I thought this should come to mind. No one ever wondered what will happen when oil reserves will be depleted ? After all, it's a natural reserve, and sometime this is gonna happen.
Well, I thought that sharing this could be interesting for everyone:
Link : http://www.peakoil.net/
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil
IASPO is a network of scientists, affiliated with European institutions and universities, having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas, due to resource constraints.
It presently has members in: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom
Mission:
1. To evaluate the world's endowment of oil and gas;
2. To model depletion, taking due account of economics, technology and politics;
3. To raise awareness of the serious consequences for Mankind.
Considering this updates the drive firmware, this means that we now have a prog to flash those matshita drives under OSX... Plus the firmware is inside the app:)
This could be a good path to start modifying that patch so it can change the RPC setting on the drive... (maybe also to remove restrictions, like enable RW dvds, stuffs like that)
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft's productivity applications. When the hardware receives an incoming call, the software automatically pulls up the caller's contact information and photo if the data are stored on the system."
This is already on MacOSX (as usual ?). You need to own a supported phone (there is not much for now as it's pretty new, only a few nokias and Sony Ericson phones) which works over bluetooth - but this is a really pleasant feature.
One of the reasons Mac have so few problems compared to MS is that hardware is often controled by Apple - which help them to have a stable os (BSD helps them even more here though - but I doubt MS will copy that anytime soon)
Moreover, it's a good time for them to do a such move, I don't see the bush administration push for another antitrust trial there - they have to do all their nasty stuffs before the next US elections...
The chips used in French credit card are made by Bull - French computing company (Chip is called CP8, program on it B0'). I supposed you guessed why we have those useless chips - well just to make bull exist I suppose.
Among other things, what happened is that the 512 bit des key used to sign the card datas have been broken, thus allowing anyone with good electronic/programming knowledge to make fake cards with authenticated datas - which were then accepted anywhere where the payment terminal was not dialing to the central bank network (that's one of the purpose of those chips)
Now to save their asses, they upgraded the encryption to 768 bits - which will be fine till the new key is broken. Anyway, cards can still be copied (data extracted and then put back to emulating cards) - which could be done with magnetic strip...
What they are selling as an added value (really selling, you have to pay more) is that you can use those cards as a virtual walet with limited money - which you can use without PIN and recharge. Just another way to use people's money.
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I'm european as well, from the same country.
I wanted to go to vote for those elections, now this becomes even more evident to me.
Please post your findings somewhere - I'm not sure they will put "software patent" on their papers / sites.
Now getting some infos about those elections, as this is my first european one.
The yahoo issue was about internet not having borders.
...)
Here it's about an US product being sold in france. In that case you have to follow the local laws, which include declaring your product at importation, adding local taxes and respecting extra local rules.
Totally different.
Now, I'd be pretty happy if apple have balls to challenge that as it's IMHO a pretty lame law blindlessly applies to most (every) digital media (DVD-/+r/w CD HD
If they manage to pass over this in France, it would be a nice move to do the same in bigger countries (Canada ?)
Or maybe looks more like MS has a nice a vaporware to prevent you switching to whatever else you would like (be it OSX or linux or bsd or whatever non ms)
No one ever wondered what will happen when oil reserves will be depleted ?
After all, it's a natural reserve, and sometime this is gonna happen.
Well, I thought that sharing this could be interesting for everyone
Link : http://www.peakoil.net/
Eh, we are now June 1st, not April 1st.
After dupe posts I'm wondering if there is no comspiracy to bring Slashdot reputation down !
Considering this updates the drive firmware, this means that we now have a prog to flash those matshita drives under OSX ... :)
...
Plus the firmware is inside the app
This could be a good path to start modifying that patch so it can change the RPC setting on the drive
(maybe also to remove restrictions, like enable RW dvds, stuffs like that)
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft's productivity applications. When the hardware receives an incoming call, the software automatically pulls up the caller's contact information and photo if the data are stored on the system."
...
This is already on MacOSX (as usual ?).
You need to own a supported phone (there is not much for now as it's pretty new, only a few nokias and Sony Ericson phones) which works over bluetooth - but this is a really pleasant feature.
One of the reasons Mac have so few problems compared to MS is that hardware is often controled by Apple - which help them to have a stable os (BSD helps them even more here though - but I doubt MS will copy that anytime soon)
Moreover, it's a good time for them to do a such move, I don't see the bush administration push for another antitrust trial there - they have to do all their nasty stuffs before the next US elections
The chips used in French credit card are made by Bull - French computing company (Chip is called CP8, program on it B0').
...
:)
I supposed you guessed why we have those useless chips - well just to make bull exist I suppose.
Among other things, what happened is that the 512 bit des key used to sign the card datas have been broken, thus allowing anyone with good electronic/programming knowledge to make fake cards with authenticated datas - which were then accepted anywhere where the payment terminal was not dialing to the central bank network (that's one of the purpose of those chips)
Now to save their asses, they upgraded the encryption to 768 bits - which will be fine till the new key is broken.
Anyway, cards can still be copied (data extracted and then put back to emulating cards) - which could be done with magnetic strip
What they are selling as an added value (really selling, you have to pay more) is that you can use those cards as a virtual walet with limited money - which you can use without PIN and recharge.
Just another way to use people's money.
Hope the explanation was clear