I don't know any human "who is likely to even be able to conceive of 85 brontobytes" , but I think I know quite a few who can conceive of someone who could: AI
Don't forget what we don't know yet is probably much more than what we do know.
I do agree that it's a good compromise until we reach the singularity.
Didn't they pay for it when they bought the media ? I mean since there is tax to compensate artists losses
The current french president he tends to fire or harass people who don't agree with him. Add that he is a good friend of Martin Bouygues, his wife is a wannabe singer/actress/whatever and has connections all over the show biz having slept with half of them shake it and see what comes out :
- Ending of the most valuable publicity timeshare on public TV, TF1 stock rises 10% (Bouygue owns TF1)
- Hadopi paid with tax money earnings go to the copyright gangsters (includes Bouygues)
- Increase of the copyright tax on digital media (add €200 for 3TBytes yep you read that right anyone who lawfully buys a hard drive in France pays a tax to
copyright holders just in case that hard drive were used to store illegally obtained copyrighted materials)
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There is a reason why he is called the "bling-bling" president.
And since he is also a paranoid maniac France now considers a law so the police has the right to read all your electronic correspondence (protect the children against pedophiles) without having to ask a court (snail mail and telephone are supposedly protected).
At least free.fr already assigns a static IP for each of its "freebox" and an associated IPV6
However the news reports here say that at least one of the ISPs doesn't like to be asked about its clients. Since it must comply and provide the information because of the law it did so by printing the info to paper and sending the paper over.
Well unfortunately you don't get off the hook simply by saying that it wasn't you, you have to prove it wasn't you and if you do, you still get fined because you neglected the security of your network installation.
To "help" people with securing their network, the french government issued a 200+ pages specification for a software that would secure your computer and prevent it from being used to downlaod illegal content.
The specification requires the program to be one the best malware ever created, able to disrupt anti virus and anti spyware so it's not removed by error, hidden so the process can't be killed by the user, so the program can't be uninstalled, logs in both a crypted and an unencrypted files all network actions of the machine, etc etc
Basically the best spyware ever. This is on the market for a contractor to realize. Oh and obviously people will have to buy it to comply with the network security requirements.
I cant' wait for the first lawsuits.
Does it mean we can get cheap high resolution (better than 96dpi) screens for our computers within a forseeable future ? if so I am all for it !
And I was wondering where all the spam I get in my gmail inbox was coming from.
No operating system is perfect, until recently only windows was targetted because of its very high market share. What do you think is going to happen now that OSX is reaching a sizeable portion of the market ? (hint http://news.techworld.com/security/5392/worlds-first-os-x-virus-hits-apple/ )
Remember how the current iphone os is exploitable by simply visiting a website ? Don't worry your OSX is going to need an antivirus soon too (they already exist actually)
Oh, and guess what's going to happen to your shiny computer when you start installing third party software to try and fix the problem : http://www.google.com/search?&q=osx+antivirus
Sorry you can't say that OSX antivirus is "not getting viruses in the first place". You might be able to mitigate the problems by being careful about prompts asking for your administrator password, by setting a reasonably strong root password and being careful not running code with elevated priviledge when you can avoid it. Which works equally well on any computer OS I know of
(and for the sake of it : I have 3 computers running winXP, OSX, and Ubuntu10.04, so yes, I actually have tried OSX before and still do, even though my main OS has been linux for the past year)
They did not realize that today everyone has a favorite mean of communication, wether it's email, im, twitter, whatever. Wave was not integrated with anything.
Until fairly recently there was no mail notification, no twitter update, nothing that would allow you to know that something happened in wave. I got invited to waves and found out weeks or months later as I connected by chance to have a look at something else that someone had tried to talk to me.
The activity level was never high enough that I would log in every day, add little to no notifications and it quickly fell off my radar ie I got bored.
"How's that for a hobby ?"
"Dangerous"
The unofficial patch will be out within a few days after the game hits the shelves, I think it's safe for you to buy it
Among these e-mail providers is Gmail, and I hate websites that prevent me from using the + sign.
Don't worry, by the time you are able to do that, they will have implemented twice as much security holes directly in the browser. it might be slightly less bloated (more likely : much more bloated) and some of the holes will be advertised as "features" but they will be there nonetheless.
would a beowulf cluster of these be enough ?
all they need to worry about is the relatively small windowing, audio, and input code which shouldn't take a seasoned developer more than a week to hack up.
yeah try to tell that to the linux flash maintainer
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