How does that work? I don't know how palladium works to prevent copying/forwarding of email but I see two possibilities.
1. Palladium must be installed on both sender and receiver hosts. Using microsoft's proprietery encryption mechanism that will not be available to non-pallabled OSes. A non-pallabled OS cannot read emails (legally, erm DMCA) since the encryption is protected by law. If this takes off, MS will have a strangle hold on email formats much like they have office formats by the balls.
2. If the above is not the case, your dad will be restricting only himself by using pallad. Since non-pallabled OSes can do whatever they want with his emails but he can't copy/paste emails from other pallabled hosts.
I don't know how'll they'll secure this baby. Maybe they've just given.
RTSs have been using p2p like systems for awhile.
In Total Annihilation each client transmits its own game data to other clients, other clients trusts its correct. That means one client can suddenly pull 100 units out of its ass and the others will be none the wiser. The advantages of this method is less data is transmitted and less system resources are used auditing the other clients.
In Starcraft you can't just pull 100 carriers out of your ass but since everything has to be synced there's more overhead and things like maphack are possible.
Security wise, starcraft has the better model but that would mean, instead of just a central server keeping track of game sync (like it does now), every client has to assume the role of server and do the auditing. In other words, why bother?
Ok, one cannot reach the speed of light but suppose one can. Now if someone were shot to earth at the speed of light from 1 light year away, that person will reach earth 1 year later and everyone will witness the death of the universe in a fiery fireball of energy.
Now the speed of light is constant for both the observers and the person travelling at light speed. So although time has stopped for our unlikely hero, he would still perceive 1 year passing in his time frame before he arrives. At which point he discovers eternity has passed and there is nothing left of the universe.
How can both these realities be reconciled???!!! huh? huh?
This ruling is soooo boneheaded that either Kaplan is one helluva stupid SOB or there was some money exchanged behind ppl;s backs.
Either way, this disqualifies Kaplan from being a judge and to prevent his stupidity or whatever from rearing its ugly head in the future, he should be removed.
Is there any mechanism in the US court system to review these things and where applicable take further action???
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Your reasoning about intellectual property is wrong in the sense that without the state, or to be more precise, without the law there is no such thing as property period. All property would belong to the strongest and only to the extent to where that strength can extend. When someone stronger comes along, there is no mechanism to stop him/her from taking your posessions.
This is where rights comes in. The law gives rights to the weak and lowly but your argument is correct in that it is a double edged sword. It also allows the opportunity for the strong to persecute the weak AND protect themselves against other juggernauts.
We have merely substituted anarchy with lawful oppression. The time tested method of keeping the populance ignorant while persecuting the fringe will always be the way... u can argue about public education and the like but we are painted as lunatics and villains by the powers that be.
We had a great chance with the internet to educate the populance and maybe there still is but the law is slowly turning the screws on free speech on the internet.
I have a grudging admiration for the ppl who can look at a situation and understand all its ramifications and also know how it can be prevented. The policy makers of big corporations such as MS deserve their high salaries in this regard. They may screw up with business decisions occationally but they got their politics dead on.
Only when living standards deteriorate substantially or when there is a great injustice perceived by the ppl do they wake up and smell the stench they have been rolling around in for all this time. Hence revolutions.
They shall hail their new king not realizing that he is merely their old master hiding behind a new mask.
hehe... sorry, got carried away there but u get my drift~~~
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Your reasoning about intellectual property is wrong in the sense that without the state, or to be more precise, without the law there is no such thing as property period. All property would belong to the strongest and only to the extent to where that strength can extend. When someone stronger comes along, there is no mechanism to stop him/her from taking your posessions. This is where rights comes in. The law gives rights to the weak and lowly but your argument is correct in that it is a double edged sword. It also allows the opportunity for the strong to persecute the weak AND protect themselves against other juggernauts. We have merely substituted anarchy with lawful oppression. The time tested method of keeping the populance ignorant while persecuting the fringe will always be the way... u can argue about public education and the like but we are painted as lunatics and villains by the powers that be. We had a great chance with the internet to educate the populance and maybe there still is but the law is slowly turning the screws on free speech on the internet. I have a grudging admiration for the ppl who can look at a situation and understand all its ramifications and also know how it can be prevented. The policy makers of big corporations such as MS deserve their high salaries in this regard. They may screw up with business decisions occationally but they got their politics dead on. Only when living standards deteriorate substantially or when there is a great injustice perceived by the ppl do they wake up and smell the stench they have been rolling around in for all this time. Hence revolutions. They shall hail their new king not realizing that he is merely their old master hiding behind a new mask. hehe... sorry, got carried away there but u get my drift~~~
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If this thing goes to court and this guy can nullify the GPL with that "firearms" argument then couldn't the same thing be said about commercial software?
"By downloading this software, u are agreeing to the new license stipulated in the release notes and any consequent copying of this software is subject to this new license."
Maybe some 8 yr old kid who cant be prosecuted would like to be the original "distributor".
Stranger licenses that state "by opening this shrinked wrapped package u are agreeing to the hidden license agreement inside" is getting passed through state houses...
Go figure...
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If GNUStep hits v1.0 would all the apps written for cocoa be able to run on linux with GNUStep?
I'm dying to have something like this on my desktop but don't want to go anywhere near apple's hardware for the same reason I can't get rid of windoze... GAMES!!!! oh and price... hehe
If any of u API gurus can answer me... thx in advance!!!
cheers~
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Given these microbes will be places in a flat panel tub like contraptions to maximize sunlit surface area, wouldn't it be the same as solar panels but with living things in them?
I don't see the significance of this one. Unless its 10x efficient in turning sunlight into energy, this thing only adds maintenance costs.
And who/how are they going to clean out the dead microbes while leaving the live ones alone...???
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As time goes by and more and more of the shit the corporations dish out hit the fan and splatter on the consumers faces, the more audacious these corporations get. The posts here marked as funny about encypted eye and ear implants are not funny at all but scary.
Here is an encryption device which is finally effective in defeating any attempts at preserving fair use rights by concerned citizens through software bypass and backdoor methods.
It may only be a 52bit encryption now but as in other such cases so far, there is no doubt that these corporations will lobby for further and further concessions and exemptions in the "consumer's" interest. Slowly gnawing away at our freedoms until non exists at all. This may seem far fetched now but as long as the normal run of the mill person doesn't understand what is at stake here... there is no mechanism to stop this.
And who will buy such a contraption? If people were presented with the option of buying a normal monitor or a monitor-video card set which is cheap because it is subsidized by the media incumbants who can afford to sacrifice a bit of profit now in exchange for market acceptance and consequent dominance in an industry worth zillions of dollars which one would u choose?
Repent!!! the end is near!!!
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If someone would make a python preprocessor that sets correct python indentations according to code blocks delimited with {}'s and;'s, this would eleminate all the complaints from the "other" side without having to rewrite the parser.
THe formatted code going in would always look the same to the compiler but the coder can look at and write the program which ever way that suites their style. With braces or no braces.
Anyone interested in making something like this? Or If there's something out there... plz point me in the right direction!!!
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Your congressmen are willing to suck anything corporations dish out to them, your media don't report it and your people don't care. I've seen a few posts here detailing how this law can be circumvented but slowly but surely the corporations behind this law will find ways to abuse this law... perhaps spend their big marketing dollars education the populance wat a wonderful innovation remote disabling of software is... noone can say otherwise cuz its against the law to say negative things about it. Believe me... the corporations behind this law didn't just do it on a whim. They prolly already mapped out their plans for introducing and executing this new *feature* into their next software release. Goodbye software innovation, goodbye productivity while this goes through the courts, costing who knows how many fscking billions of dollars b4 they realize wat a fscking stupid law this is. Good going america... u just shot yourselves in the foot. Here, in the southern colony of the US and the ass end of the computer world Australia... i guess its only a matter of time. Better start making plans to move somewhere soon.
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>At the time GNUstep started, OpenStep was >supposed to become a certified standard. >Since then Apple bought NeXT (who saw it coming?) >and is trying to take their existing >code base and justify the purchase. Whether they >actually ship it is another question
Does this mean that openstep and objective-C was going through the process of standardization(standards committee) and all that when Apple bought Next and is now trying to milk openstep's proprietory old code for all its worth? thus killing the standards process?
IF the GNUstep guys are trying to reverse engineer Openstep... wouldn't they be in the same boat as the WINE ppl and never quite be able to get there? I dont know much about the state of openstep and its documentation but if it were standardized and had all the specs available then i guess it would be possible.
was thinking of learning objective-c (objective-c==openstep?) but if i gotta buy some devkit from apple to get the full functionality and only be able to run stuff on OSX then i guess i wouldn't be bothered...
Everytime I hear about these security bugs, i often wonder about the bugs that don't go reported but are exploited amongst a small group of script kiddies or distributed through the underground. DOes finding these bugs require considerable skill that the script kiddies lack and responsible security analyst who will report it have? Admittedly, I dont know much about security issues and how they work... maybe everything goes into a log so that its impossible to keep something secret but I'm just curious. But if it were possible then which OSes would be more vulnurable? OSS OSes which have the source there to be seen by everyone or OSes like win2k which many ppl have something against it?
not only is this a chance to see if these stupid patents are enforcible, if the media picks up on this and makes it a big deal ala OJ Simpson, we might actually get something done about them as a whole. on second thought... its improbable... no teary eyed witnesses crying out "YOU KILLED HER!!!", no DNA evidence, not even a shrunk glove... nah, definately not something worthy of 24 hour coverage that joe normal at home would watch. Its merely the future of software thats at stake here. yup, its just one greedy company going after another...
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THANK FUCKING RIDDANCE. Go back to your FUCKING MAC. Oh and go suck somemore Steve Jobs ASS and the gunk dribbling out of it
Hi and thanks for the reply.
:)
Well, I tried again with ep1 and at least now it installs.
But when I click on the game icon, I get sent to the "store" tab in steam.
If would be greatly appreciated if you would make it work with ep1.
Thanks in advance!
I've heard many good things about this mod. Good job.
One question to you though Ford. I couldn't play this because I purchased the multiplayer pack which doens't include hl2.
Now that I've bought ep1, will minerva work on my machine?
Hi,
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Interesting...
How does this work again??? I knew I should have taken economics101
the world's future would not depend on a man that watches Korea through closed binoculars !
Hehe... Do you have a pix of this? I have one of him reading a book upside down but I can't find it right now.
How does that work? I don't know how palladium works to prevent copying/forwarding of email but I see two possibilities.
1. Palladium must be installed on both sender and receiver hosts. Using microsoft's proprietery encryption mechanism that will not be available to non-pallabled OSes. A non-pallabled OS cannot read emails (legally, erm DMCA) since the encryption is protected by law. If this takes off, MS will have a strangle hold on email formats much like they have office formats by the balls.
2. If the above is not the case, your dad will be restricting only himself by using pallad. Since non-pallabled OSes can do whatever they want with his emails but he can't copy/paste emails from other pallabled hosts.
I don't know how'll they'll secure this baby. Maybe they've just given.
RTSs have been using p2p like systems for awhile.
In Total Annihilation each client transmits its own game data to other clients, other clients trusts its correct. That means one client can suddenly pull 100 units out of its ass and the others will be none the wiser. The advantages of this method is less data is transmitted and less system resources are used auditing the other clients.
In Starcraft you can't just pull 100 carriers out of your ass but since everything has to be synced there's more overhead and things like maphack are possible.
Security wise, starcraft has the better model but that would mean, instead of just a central server keeping track of game sync (like it does now), every client has to assume the role of server and do the auditing. In other words, why bother?
Anyone know some other way this could be done?
Also, Halflife... another great single player game topped the charts for how many years?
I like multiplayer but sometimes the competition and stress is too much for me :P
Ok, one cannot reach the speed of light but suppose one can. Now if someone were shot to earth at the speed of light from 1 light year away, that person will reach earth 1 year later and everyone will witness the death of the universe in a fiery fireball of energy.
Now the speed of light is constant for both the observers and the person travelling at light speed. So although time has stopped for our unlikely hero, he would still perceive 1 year passing in his time frame before he arrives. At which point he discovers eternity has passed and there is nothing left of the universe.
How can both these realities be reconciled???!!! huh? huh?
This ruling is soooo boneheaded that either Kaplan is one helluva stupid SOB or there was some money exchanged behind ppl;s backs. Either way, this disqualifies Kaplan from being a judge and to prevent his stupidity or whatever from rearing its ugly head in the future, he should be removed. Is there any mechanism in the US court system to review these things and where applicable take further action???
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Your reasoning about intellectual property is wrong in the sense that without the state, or to be more precise, without the law there is no such thing as property period. All property would belong to the strongest and only to the extent to where that strength can extend. When someone stronger comes along, there is no mechanism to stop him/her from taking your posessions.
This is where rights comes in. The law gives rights to the weak and lowly but your argument is correct in that it is a double edged sword. It also allows the opportunity for the strong to persecute the weak AND protect themselves against other juggernauts.
We have merely substituted anarchy with lawful oppression. The time tested method of keeping the populance ignorant while persecuting the fringe will always be the way... u can argue about public education and the like but we are painted as lunatics and villains by the powers that be.
We had a great chance with the internet to educate the populance and maybe there still is but the law is slowly turning the screws on free speech on the internet.
I have a grudging admiration for the ppl who can look at a situation and understand all its ramifications and also know how it can be prevented. The policy makers of big corporations such as MS deserve their high salaries in this regard. They may screw up with business decisions occationally but they got their politics dead on.
Only when living standards deteriorate substantially or when there is a great injustice perceived by the ppl do they wake up and smell the stench they have been rolling around in for all this time. Hence revolutions.
They shall hail their new king not realizing that he is merely their old master hiding behind a new mask.
hehe... sorry, got carried away there but u get my drift~~~
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Your reasoning about intellectual property is wrong in the sense that without the state, or to be more precise, without the law there is no such thing as property period. All property would belong to the strongest and only to the extent to where that strength can extend. When someone stronger comes along, there is no mechanism to stop him/her from taking your posessions.
This is where rights comes in. The law gives rights to the weak and lowly but your argument is correct in that it is a double edged sword. It also allows the opportunity for the strong to persecute the weak AND protect themselves against other juggernauts.
We have merely substituted anarchy with lawful oppression. The time tested method of keeping the populance ignorant while persecuting the fringe will always be the way... u can argue about public education and the like but we are painted as lunatics and villains by the powers that be.
We had a great chance with the internet to educate the populance and maybe there still is but the law is slowly turning the screws on free speech on the internet.
I have a grudging admiration for the ppl who can look at a situation and understand all its ramifications and also know how it can be prevented. The policy makers of big corporations such as MS deserve their high salaries in this regard. They may screw up with business decisions occationally but they got their politics dead on.
Only when living standards deteriorate substantially or when there is a great injustice perceived by the ppl do they wake up and smell the stench they have been rolling around in for all this time. Hence revolutions.
They shall hail their new king not realizing that he is merely their old master hiding behind a new mask.
hehe... sorry, got carried away there but u get my drift~~~
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Whoa... has anyone considered this?
If this thing goes to court and this guy can nullify the GPL with that "firearms" argument then couldn't the same thing be said about commercial software?
"By downloading this software, u are agreeing to the new license stipulated in the release notes and any consequent copying of this software is subject to this new license."
Maybe some 8 yr old kid who cant be prosecuted would like to be the original "distributor".
Stranger licenses that state "by opening this shrinked wrapped package u are agreeing to the hidden license agreement inside" is getting passed through state houses...
Go figure...
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If GNUStep hits v1.0 would all the apps written for cocoa be able to run on linux with GNUStep?
I'm dying to have something like this on my desktop but don't want to go anywhere near apple's hardware for the same reason I can't get rid of windoze... GAMES!!!! oh and price... hehe
If any of u API gurus can answer me... thx in advance!!!
cheers~
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Given these microbes will be places in a flat panel tub like contraptions to maximize sunlit surface area, wouldn't it be the same as solar panels but with living things in them?
I don't see the significance of this one. Unless its 10x efficient in turning sunlight into energy, this thing only adds maintenance costs.
And who/how are they going to clean out the dead microbes while leaving the live ones alone...???
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As time goes by and more and more of the shit the corporations dish out hit the fan and splatter on the consumers faces, the more audacious these corporations get. The posts here marked as funny about encypted eye and ear implants are not funny at all but scary.
Here is an encryption device which is finally effective in defeating any attempts at preserving fair use rights by concerned citizens through software bypass and backdoor methods.
It may only be a 52bit encryption now but as in other such cases so far, there is no doubt that these corporations will lobby for further and further concessions and exemptions in the "consumer's" interest. Slowly gnawing away at our freedoms until non exists at all. This may seem far fetched now but as long as the normal run of the mill person doesn't understand what is at stake here... there is no mechanism to stop this.
And who will buy such a contraption? If people were presented with the option of buying a normal monitor or a monitor-video card set which is cheap because it is subsidized by the media incumbants who can afford to sacrifice a bit of profit now in exchange for market acceptance and consequent dominance in an industry worth zillions of dollars which one would u choose?
Repent!!! the end is near!!!
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If someone would make a python preprocessor that sets correct python indentations according to code blocks delimited with {}'s and ;'s, this would eleminate all the complaints from the "other" side without having to rewrite the parser.
THe formatted code going in would always look the same to the compiler but the coder can look at and write the program which ever way that suites their style. With braces or no braces.
Anyone interested in making something like this?
Or If there's something out there... plz point me in the right direction!!!
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Your congressmen are willing to suck anything corporations dish out to them, your media don't report it and your people don't care. I've seen a few posts here detailing how this law can be circumvented but slowly but surely the corporations behind this law will find ways to abuse this law... perhaps spend their big marketing dollars education the populance wat a wonderful innovation remote disabling of software is... noone can say otherwise cuz its against the law to say negative things about it. Believe me... the corporations behind this law didn't just do it on a whim. They prolly already mapped out their plans for introducing and executing this new *feature* into their next software release. Goodbye software innovation, goodbye productivity while this goes through the courts, costing who knows how many fscking billions of dollars b4 they realize wat a fscking stupid law this is. Good going america... u just shot yourselves in the foot. Here, in the southern colony of the US and the ass end of the computer world Australia... i guess its only a matter of time. Better start making plans to move somewhere soon.
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oh yeah baby!!!
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>At the time GNUstep started, OpenStep was >supposed to become a certified standard.
>Since then Apple bought NeXT (who saw it coming?) >and is trying to take their existing
>code base and justify the purchase. Whether they >actually ship it is another question
Does this mean that openstep and objective-C was going through the process of standardization(standards committee) and all that when Apple bought Next and is now trying to milk openstep's proprietory old code for all its worth? thus killing the standards process?
IF the GNUstep guys are trying to reverse engineer Openstep... wouldn't they be in the same boat as the WINE ppl and never quite be able to get there? I dont know much about the state of openstep and its documentation but if it were standardized and had all the specs available then i guess it would be possible.
was thinking of learning objective-c (objective-c==openstep?) but if i gotta buy some devkit from apple to get the full functionality and only be able to run stuff on OSX then i guess i wouldn't be bothered...
Everytime I hear about these security bugs, i often wonder about the bugs that don't go reported but are exploited amongst a small group of script kiddies or distributed through the underground. DOes finding these bugs require considerable skill that the script kiddies lack and responsible security analyst who will report it have? Admittedly, I dont know much about security issues and how they work... maybe everything goes into a log so that its impossible to keep something secret but I'm just curious. But if it were possible then which OSes would be more vulnurable? OSS OSes which have the source there to be seen by everyone or OSes like win2k which many ppl have something against it?
not only is this a chance to see if these stupid patents are enforcible, if the media picks up on this and makes it a big deal ala OJ Simpson, we might actually get something done about them as a whole. on second thought... its improbable... no teary eyed witnesses crying out "YOU KILLED HER!!!", no DNA evidence, not even a shrunk glove... nah, definately not something worthy of 24 hour coverage that joe normal at home would watch. Its merely the future of software thats at stake here. yup, its just one greedy company going after another...