The key revocation lists are the scariest part of all of this for everyone involved, it seems. What does happen when Toshiba, for exmaple, makes a device with a flaw, or perhaps their product isn't flawed but it's broken due to a fundamentally flawed protection system? If Hollywood has an itchy trigger finger and decides to use the key revocation, I would suspect that Toshiba would be liable to consumers for all of the devices affected (if not they really should be.) This puts Toshiba in a very difficult position, particularly if the system is flawed, their liability (and potentially a very large one) is in the hands of Hollywood.
Would any such company be comfortable putting themselves in this position, particularly after someone's already taken a hit for it? Furthermore, without knowing the specifics of how the key revocation works, it's at least concievable that someone might figure out how to encode these lists in media of some type. You could find one day that you've put a disc into your DVD player that's added every key in existence to the player's list because someone thought it would be amusing. Or some media file on the internet did the so when you tried to watch it, and now your monitor doesn't work right anymore (though that's hardly out of the realm of possiblity now.)
I've personnally had a lot of luck installing asterisk in these sorts of situations, but you have got to design things properly and figure out your expectations. First of all, putting IP phones on every desk is probably not going to be of all that much benefit, your best bet in many cases is to buy a quad T1 card from Digium or from someone on eBay and get some channel banks. With this system you can use totally standard phones, and if you get phones that were designed for Centrex systems, you can get friendly buttons that Asterisk will mostly respond to. Cheap phones are a huge plus, and in any areas where the phones are likely to get broken, you can get some Cortelco phones which will really take a beating. As far as utilizing VOIP, it's great for calls between offices or buildings, and great for trunking between asterisk servers, but most VOIP providers that don't try to make things proprietary are really flaky. I had initially used VoicePulse because they supported IAX2 which is far more efficient and easy to route than SIP, but the call quality began to degrade as their systems probably became overloaded. In the end, I think you'll do a lot better getting a PRI, which asterisk can handle wonderfully. It takes a while to configure and can be a little frustrating, but the flexibility is unmatched, the equipment costs about a quarter of proprietary systems and once you get it going it's surprisingly reliable.
Apple should know better than anyone that it's quite possible to completely shatter the public's distaste for a specific class of products. For example, I think that before the iPod, the public at large was sort of vaguely interested in the whole idea of an mp3 player, but there weren't any that had people drooling (aside from folks like ourselves that drool over the concept in general.) The iPod changed all of that. Similiarly, if someone were else to come along with an amazing mp3 player/phone I think it would be quite possible to revitilize a supposedly soured market very quickly. So it either doesn't add up, or Apple has enough hubris to think that no one else can possibly design a product that gets peoples' attention.
I rarely like to deal in such absolute terms, but I think given the fact that death is suggested, it's justified. Death should never be seen as appropriate punishment for lost profits, income, income potential, or any other purely monetary idea. Anyone who would subscribe to the ideal that the severity of the punishment should fit the crime would certainly agree.
Come on man, keep an open mind about stuff, calling people losers just because they belong to a certain religion, that's just not cool. There's no better way to put that. Each to his own ok?
Reading this article has pretty much left me speechless, therefore I must be brief. This invention is evil, immoral, wrong, terrifying, and could well lead to the end of all privacy anywhere.
Why not simply email the admins of these sites and ask them if they would like (1 Slashdot to go ahead and link to them, (2 Slashdot to not link to them, mention them, etc. or (3 Slashdot to mirror them temporarily. Seems like that could be helpful in minimizing the obscene amount of traffic a simple mention of a site on Slashdot can produce.
I disagree. In, for example the US democracy, the constitution enforces a certain amount of moderation. There are measures in place to be sure that there is no radical amount of change all at once (example being the 6 year term for Senators, with elections every 2 years.) That sort of thing makes it impossible to have something as effective as a revolution with a simple trip to the ballot box. There is also the issue of if the people we delegate our power to are clever, they can slowly take away our freedoms without enough people realizing it. This, I believe, is what is happening in Australia (even though I doubt that this specifically is crossing too many polititians' minds.) There have been several/. articles involving Australia and taking away technological freedoms in the past month or so. In the US at least we have SOME protection of our privacy, so it is more likely to become more obvious if things are happening that will take away our freedoms on-line or elsewhere. We also have the benefit of groups like the ACLU to at least be screamng in our ears about such things even if we aren't paying full attention to them. Having a large group which does little else but sit around and read up and coming bills while viewing a constant feed of both CSPAN 1 and CSPAN 2, which then in turn lets us know about what it doesn't like and why has its advantages towards preserving the freedom of a nation.
In my mind there is a very clear distinction. A geek is a general term for the inteligent (usually refering to getting along well with technical devices.) All nerds are geeks, but they are the classic stereotype w/ glasses, out of style clothes (no intention to infer that they were ever in style), similar friends, little social interaction, the near bottom of the social ranking system.
I hate to credit an attempt to make money off of the paranoia of the masses, but I'll only do it a little. The movie actually did mention, in passing, that the millenium begins in 2001. This was when Nick's wife was sorta complaining about his not being there for New Years. Other than that I can think of little to credit it with. for whatever reason it seems like they just sorta threw that last explosion in there for the heck of it. I don't see how blowing up the pump-house (or whatever it was) will help water to flow!
I would probably shudder if I found out what the NSA's budget was; it is rather scary how much money we are giving them to take away our, and every one else's freedoms. Just think of the shear computing power behind this, and more importantly how fast it could calculate how much pi. International monitored information exchange conference on its way, and don't take this the wrong way, but these people are just asking for a car bomb or two (that's not to say that I am the one who will be involved at all with it, just that I can imagine it happening.) Hope I haven't made it onto too many lists!
I'm sure this one will score highly. Just a quick little story. I have found that repeat button in xmms to be deadly. I found myself listening to Sometimes for 1 hour solid. It just kept repeating and I just kept forgetting to change it.
I know in my expirience, people (esp. scientists) love to use the expression, "Time/Everything is relative so..." to prove just about any point they want in a conversation. Now I can correct them and say no what doesn't exist can't be relative. I have been trying to figure this one out for a while, it is a somewhat old idea, and it's just plain confusing. I guess someone was smart/bored enough to finally gave at least some proof to it. Oh, yes and that junkmail email address does work, its just the address I use if I post anything, anywhere.
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The key revocation lists are the scariest part of all of this for everyone involved, it seems. What does happen when Toshiba, for exmaple, makes a device with a flaw, or perhaps their product isn't flawed but it's broken due to a fundamentally flawed protection system? If Hollywood has an itchy trigger finger and decides to use the key revocation, I would suspect that Toshiba would be liable to consumers for all of the devices affected (if not they really should be.) This puts Toshiba in a very difficult position, particularly if the system is flawed, their liability (and potentially a very large one) is in the hands of Hollywood.
Would any such company be comfortable putting themselves in this position, particularly after someone's already taken a hit for it? Furthermore, without knowing the specifics of how the key revocation works, it's at least concievable that someone might figure out how to encode these lists in media of some type. You could find one day that you've put a disc into your DVD player that's added every key in existence to the player's list because someone thought it would be amusing. Or some media file on the internet did the so when you tried to watch it, and now your monitor doesn't work right anymore (though that's hardly out of the realm of possiblity now.)
I've personnally had a lot of luck installing asterisk in these sorts of situations, but you have got to design things properly and figure out your expectations. First of all, putting IP phones on every desk is probably not going to be of all that much benefit, your best bet in many cases is to buy a quad T1 card from Digium or from someone on eBay and get some channel banks. With this system you can use totally standard phones, and if you get phones that were designed for Centrex systems, you can get friendly buttons that Asterisk will mostly respond to. Cheap phones are a huge plus, and in any areas where the phones are likely to get broken, you can get some Cortelco phones which will really take a beating. As far as utilizing VOIP, it's great for calls between offices or buildings, and great for trunking between asterisk servers, but most VOIP providers that don't try to make things proprietary are really flaky. I had initially used VoicePulse because they supported IAX2 which is far more efficient and easy to route than SIP, but the call quality began to degrade as their systems probably became overloaded. In the end, I think you'll do a lot better getting a PRI, which asterisk can handle wonderfully. It takes a while to configure and can be a little frustrating, but the flexibility is unmatched, the equipment costs about a quarter of proprietary systems and once you get it going it's surprisingly reliable.
Apple should know better than anyone that it's quite possible to completely shatter the public's distaste for a specific class of products. For example, I think that before the iPod, the public at large was sort of vaguely interested in the whole idea of an mp3 player, but there weren't any that had people drooling (aside from folks like ourselves that drool over the concept in general.) The iPod changed all of that. Similiarly, if someone were else to come along with an amazing mp3 player/phone I think it would be quite possible to revitilize a supposedly soured market very quickly. So it either doesn't add up, or Apple has enough hubris to think that no one else can possibly design a product that gets peoples' attention.
I rarely like to deal in such absolute terms, but I think given the fact that death is suggested, it's justified. Death should never be seen as appropriate punishment for lost profits, income, income potential, or any other purely monetary idea. Anyone who would subscribe to the ideal that the severity of the punishment should fit the crime would certainly agree.
Come on man, keep an open mind about stuff, calling people losers just because they belong to a certain religion, that's just not cool. There's no better way to put that. Each to his own ok?
We "Linux lusers" are not particularly against the idea of knowing why it is we are wrong, could you kindly inform us, I know I'm curious.
Reading this article has pretty much left me speechless, therefore I must be brief. This invention is evil, immoral, wrong, terrifying, and could well lead to the end of all privacy anywhere.
Why not simply email the admins of these sites and ask them if they would like (1 Slashdot to go ahead and link to them, (2 Slashdot to not link to them, mention them, etc. or (3 Slashdot to mirror them temporarily. Seems like that could be helpful in minimizing the obscene amount of traffic a simple mention of a site on Slashdot can produce.
I disagree. In, for example the US democracy, the constitution enforces a certain amount of moderation. There are measures in place to be sure that there is no radical amount of change all at once (example being the 6 year term for Senators, with elections every 2 years.) That sort of thing makes it impossible to have something as effective as a revolution with a simple trip to the ballot box. There is also the issue of if the people we delegate our power to are clever, they can slowly take away our freedoms without enough people realizing it. This, I believe, is what is happening in Australia (even though I doubt that this specifically is crossing too many polititians' minds.) There have been several /. articles involving Australia and taking away technological freedoms in the past month or so. In the US at least we have SOME protection of our privacy, so it is more likely to become more obvious if things are happening that will take away our freedoms on-line or elsewhere. We also have the benefit of groups like the ACLU to at least be screamng in our ears about such things even if we aren't paying full attention to them. Having a large group which does little else but sit around and read up and coming bills while viewing a constant feed of both CSPAN 1 and CSPAN 2, which then in turn lets us know about what it doesn't like and why has its advantages towards preserving the freedom of a nation.
In my mind there is a very clear distinction. A geek is a general term for the inteligent (usually refering to getting along well with technical devices.) All nerds are geeks, but they are the classic stereotype w/ glasses, out of style clothes (no intention to infer that they were ever in style), similar friends, little social interaction, the near bottom of the social ranking system.
I hate to credit an attempt to make money off of the paranoia of the masses, but I'll only do it a little. The movie actually did mention, in passing, that the millenium begins in 2001. This was when Nick's wife was sorta complaining about his not being there for New Years. Other than that I can think of little to credit it with. for whatever reason it seems like they just sorta threw that last explosion in there for the heck of it. I don't see how blowing up the pump-house (or whatever it was) will help water to flow!
Very simple, the entirety of China flood pings a rather important backbone in the U.S. Or the other direction, of course hehehe.
I would probably shudder if I found out what the NSA's budget was; it is rather scary how much money we are giving them to take away our, and every one else's freedoms. Just think of the shear computing power behind this, and more importantly how fast it could calculate how much pi. International monitored information exchange conference on its way, and don't take this the wrong way, but these people are just asking for a car bomb or two (that's not to say that I am the one who will be involved at all with it, just that I can imagine it happening.) Hope I haven't made it onto too many lists!
Isn't this pretty much the same thing as Van Eck Phreaking as mentioned in Cryptonomicon?
I'm sure this one will score highly. Just a quick little story. I have found that repeat button in xmms to be deadly. I found myself listening to Sometimes for 1 hour solid. It just kept repeating and I just kept forgetting to change it.
I know in my expirience, people (esp. scientists) love to use the expression, "Time/Everything is relative so..." to prove just about any point they want in a conversation. Now I can correct them and say no what doesn't exist can't be relative. I have been trying to figure this one out for a while, it is a somewhat old idea, and it's just plain confusing. I guess someone was smart/bored enough to finally gave at least some proof to it. Oh, yes and that junkmail email address does work, its just the address I use if I post anything, anywhere.