If buying a $200 xbox causes Microsoft to lose $100, not buying one forces a loss of $300. The second option is easier and does more harm. Someone looking for a cheap PC or a game should buy an honest one from an honest vendor.
That's what the internet is supposed to be. It's a shame you have to break your ISP's agreements to serve. Not one of their stupid repressive measures is going to prevent this sort of thing.
They put all that porn on my computer, and I don't even get to see it?
You will get to see it when they use it as evidence that you possed and traded in kiddie porn. Where does your computer want to go today? It's not funny.
but the thing is so slimy, no one really knows how it works yet, except that its another fine mess brought to you by Microsoft's crappy software. I did not think it would take long for credit to be given where credit is due.
You say, [nothing ever changes] So, the whole "people might start to understand" bit is, quite simply, B.S...
Kind of circular, ain't it? Nothing changes because nothing changes? Group 1, if it exists at all, just shrank. Group 3, likewise shrank. Group 2 just grew. They have to be hiding under a rock to not get this one, "Evil Hackers can turn your Microsft PC into a kiddie porn server and you won't know till the break down the doors, trash your house and drag you to jail!". That tends to get attention, and now it's being demonstrated. Oh, but XP must be worth it, right?
Can I lump you into group 1, people who like their computers controled by others so much they are willing to pay big bucks and suffer unreliable system performance? I don't recognize Microsoft's derivative garbage as anything like influential.
First of all, very few people would notice the article in the first place.
Nah, just people who look at the fron page of that little known newspaper, the New York Times. Get real,
Second, people who did notice wouldn't know what to do to protect themselves (not supporting MS isn't an option for 90% of the computer users in the world).
With enough momentum, that will change. All you need for people to know are the disavantages of sticking with M$ and that there are easy to use alternatives. Microsoft's power is based on the false perception that there are no alternatives. I'm not sure why you think 90% of the world needs Microsoft Word or any of their other junk. My house has been Microsoft free for years and I'm much happier that way. So,
Third, was the comment necessary?
Yes, the comment was useful. "sobig" was mentioned as a possible cause of this new rash, so we know it's yet another MicroSoft Transmitted Disease (MSTD). Credit should be given where credit is due.
What did you want to be excused for? Did you fart or something?
Most of the Linux hardware drivers are GPL. To use them SUN would need to change the license of their kernel to something GPL friendly.
Why don't they do this? They give you operating systems on demand anyway. Part of their support is that they do that just about forever. In any case, why would they be adverse to a few free modules that work with their closed kernels? You would think Sun would be happy to have people writing software for their hardware and OS, isn't that what the Sun Community License all about?
To use a cable for internet, assuming no TV is being broadcast, you can share that 400mb/s between all your users. Customers will have 4kb/s (thats kilobits) EACH (assuming its all shared equally). Not huge.
My upload speed is crimped to 30kB/s at the cable modem. It's not a shared resource problem, it's an intentional limitation designed to create an artificial scarcity over the small slice of bandwith the company gives to internet. Before they put that crimp in place, I routinely got three to four times that performance on routes that traversed half the country. It should also be obvious that not everyone is going to demand the bandwith at exacly the same time. The speed it there, it's just being alocated to crap people don't really want at times people don't want it.
This also has nothing to do with the practicality of moving movies by IP instead of digital broadcast. At your internet land speed record of 400MB/s I can download the average movie in 5 seconds. I'd be willing to wait a little longer than that, but once I've got exactly what I want, I'm good for a couple of hours if not the whole night. It's easier than driving to a video store and cable companies are implementing just this sort of service already. They just don't want you to have any sort of control of the storage.
Peer to peer services have beat them to it. They take advantage of the bandwith that's available on each little chunk of the cable net so that most trading is fast. Once a requested file hits the local node, everyone has it. It's a distribution system that's more than adequate for the limited number of movies you find at Blockbuster. It's this efficiancy, demonstrated in music offerings no traditional publisher can match, that has the movie moguls scared out of their witts. This is the reason your upload speeds are being crimped to something that would take 45 days to upload the average movie. I can remember when it only took weeks to get those movies too.
They aren't giving you small limits cause they are afraid you will download videos. Don't be paranoid.
You are not paranoid when they really are out to get you. If anyone's paranoid it's the big publishers, telcos and software companies. The networks in place make them obsolete. Microsoft should be embarased to be moving data around by sneaker net, but they've always hated networks. Bill Gates accused 90% of his Basic customers of "stealing" his software at the beginning of his career. He did not even mention the internet in his 1995, "The road ahead" and his company still strives to make sure that no two people can use the same program at the same time. It's a completely backward mindset these people have. Why are you apologizing for them?
Netflix has made a business out of shipping data via snail mail, since the bandwidth isn't really there yet to do it over the internet.
What a great example you picked! Cable TV companies are pumping dozens of digital movies accross their system at once, live. Yet they crimp your upload speed to DSL rates or lower, 30KB/s, because they are afraid of people "stealing" movies. This is not a technological problem, it a social one. Big publishers and telcos are afraid of competition and are doing everything in their power to keep you from enjoying technology that's already in place. It's the same old fight Ma Bell used to wage back when they would not alow you to so much as plug a modem into your phoneline.
How long are people here in the US going to put up with this monkey business?
Tries to sell you service to something that's completely open and can be reproduced by anyone or
someone who tries to sell you a black box that's constantly changing and requires just as much or more service than 1.
Finally, you must trust yourself. Free software is easy to try out, though it may require more effort in the short run. If you feel like it's time to "upgrade" your operating system, try dropping a knoppix CD and judge what people are saying for youself.
the only thing that differentiates this 'game console' from a standard, Windows-running PC is that it has no way to get data on or off of it except through a dedicated connection to Infinium Labs' own servers..... Yet.
Did anyone else read this as, "soon there will be no way to get data on or off XP except through a dedicated connection to M$"? Who said the.NET "service" model is dead?
You do know that the US is where DARPAnet began, right? that little network that was the precursor of the internet?
And you remember that little thing called the www invented at CERN? The idea was to have a simple, human readable and specified interface that was manchine and nationality independent so that everyone in the world could use it.
Most small companies can't be bothered to grow that kind of capability,
Small, like IBM, Apple, Dell. I tried to buy IBM, but GW would not let me, the pig. My daddy is going to buy me the UK Socialist Party. Then I'll finish putting the bag over this internet thingy and continue to service (rape) my captive audience (fellow countrymen). We can't have all your money running abroad, now can we. Just give it to me instead.
Yes, I know there are barcode readers that work at a distance. They don't work THROUGH other boxes. How do you know what's inside a mixed pallet of boxes which is sealed with plastic wrap? How better to detect a discrepancy between shipping documents and the actual items than by non-invasively knowing AND COUNTING what's inside such a mixed pallet?
Gee, how does logistics work without RFIDs? Inventory management must be based on receipts and trust. Gosh, we should never trust anyone, so RFIDs must be good.
RFID and other non-invasive knowledge technologies don't automatically mean you are being spied on. It's far more likely a way to increase efficiency and lower costs. We DO live in a price-competitive society, don't we?
I don't need you to know who I am, where I go, what I read and buy from the tags in my shoes. Tell me again how replacing a piece of paper with thousands of little electronic devices saves money. Give me a break, this is not about saving money in the warehouse and the trials are likely to prove these cost more than bar codes.
On a related note, I work at a hospital that is starting a barcode initiative on drugs. We only just now had the power to convince the drug companies that they need to supply us their drugs in individual doses, prelabeled and barcoded.
I think I've received two mailings in the last four years that said: "Mr. Miller! Here are some wonderful coupons that are tailored to your unique shopping needs!"
Both times the results were laughable. Not a single coupon was for somethind I used, or wanted to use, or might have been persuaded to use, based on the data they've 'gathered'.
Yeah, my grocery receipts and direct mailings are always trying to get me to buy brands I think suck. So, like you, I get nothing out of them knowing my credit card and checking account numbers, prefered method of birth control, medications, brand and literature preferences. All RFID will add to this is the imposiblitiy of concealing private problems, habits and thougts. When the RFID's in my shoes link me to my cahs purchase of condoms and my wife's pill purchases, I'll have no idea why my insurance premiums have gone up. I don't even want to think of what drugstors will do with RU-84 purchase information.
No alarm here, I lead an open and honest life. I love Big Brother and know he will take care of me in the place that knows no darkness.
To eliminate anonymous transactions they would first have to ask for ID before either giving change, or accepting cash
Your credit card, shoes, belt, wallet, wedding ring, gold tooth, driver's license and PDA might all be singing at the same time. If all of them are linked to you, so is the cash. Don't think cash with or without RFIDs will give you privacy if RFIDs become widespread.
Why is it "Unfortunate" that they're using a new tool for their warehousing?
Because the tool is invasive, silly. Using it in the warehouse first, where you get no use out of it, won't lessen your loss of privacy. It won't keep them from putting an ID machine under the counter or any other place where your ID can be matched with stuff on your body, like your shoes, wallet and belt. Hell, your new "smart" credit card could sing out too. By gradual phasing in, they are making the technology seem "inevitable".
In public they admit smoking causes cancer. When you sue them, they change their tune. In court they say all your other evil habits caused it. One example I was given was oral sex. The company said the plaintif could have gotten cancer from oral sex because, they asserted without proof, he was covered in herpes from head to toe. The ignorant jurry bought it and hundreds of other things like common vegtables.
In public SCO will say you should never use Linux . In court, sued for defamation, they will say their advice had no effect.
Yeah, you could pay cash, but the RFIDs already on your clothes give you away. Don't forget that this means you can be tracked everywhere you go. That makes meeting people confidentially impossible. If they get down to the level of paper and thumbtacks, you will have to roll your own to send or publically post an anonymous letter and that component of free speech goes down the tubes.
But why worry, these folks do a good job of keeping their secrets, surely they won't sell yours.
They're replacing mainframes, not Windows servers.
Had it been Windoze, they could have expected to drop 5 billion dollars. If they were moving to Windoze, they can expect their costs to drop to zero as no one will ever get paid again.
Adobe is selling a lie. You can't promise a "secure" digital format. If you give me a buch of bytes, I can change it. Hell, if you give me a piece of paper, I can change it. All you can do about it is offer a reference and detect the change. Even then, someone might sneak in and change your reference. The whole secure digital thing is bullshit.
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If buying a $200 xbox causes Microsoft to lose $100, not buying one forces a loss of $300. The second option is easier and does more harm. Someone looking for a cheap PC or a game should buy an honest one from an honest vendor.
That's what the internet is supposed to be. It's a shame you have to break your ISP's agreements to serve. Not one of their stupid repressive measures is going to prevent this sort of thing.
You will get to see it when they use it as evidence that you possed and traded in kiddie porn. Where does your computer want to go today? It's not funny.
Why don't you go back to your intersts, Interests: Space, music, psychological warfare and put up a firewall or something to protect your fine FrontPage work from evil hackers? I see your host runs Red Hat for you, but do you know what your home computer is doing for you?
Someone else has provide technical details. This is not run of the mill.
exploit a common hole in Windows, but to indicate that this is a symptom of Windows insecurity with insufficent evidence is unethical.
You can say that wihout laughing? I love you too!
You say, [nothing ever changes] So, the whole "people might start to understand" bit is, quite simply, B.S...
Kind of circular, ain't it? Nothing changes because nothing changes? Group 1, if it exists at all, just shrank. Group 3, likewise shrank. Group 2 just grew. They have to be hiding under a rock to not get this one, "Evil Hackers can turn your Microsft PC into a kiddie porn server and you won't know till the break down the doors, trash your house and drag you to jail!". That tends to get attention, and now it's being demonstrated. Oh, but XP must be worth it, right?
Can I lump you into group 1, people who like their computers controled by others so much they are willing to pay big bucks and suffer unreliable system performance? I don't recognize Microsoft's derivative garbage as anything like influential.
Nah, just people who look at the fron page of that little known newspaper, the New York Times. Get real,
Second, people who did notice wouldn't know what to do to protect themselves (not supporting MS isn't an option for 90% of the computer users in the world).
With enough momentum, that will change. All you need for people to know are the disavantages of sticking with M$ and that there are easy to use alternatives. Microsoft's power is based on the false perception that there are no alternatives. I'm not sure why you think 90% of the world needs Microsoft Word or any of their other junk. My house has been Microsoft free for years and I'm much happier that way. So,
Third, was the comment necessary?
Yes, the comment was useful. "sobig" was mentioned as a possible cause of this new rash, so we know it's yet another MicroSoft Transmitted Disease (MSTD). Credit should be given where credit is due.
What did you want to be excused for? Did you fart or something?
Why don't they do this? They give you operating systems on demand anyway. Part of their support is that they do that just about forever. In any case, why would they be adverse to a few free modules that work with their closed kernels? You would think Sun would be happy to have people writing software for their hardware and OS, isn't that what the Sun Community License all about?
My upload speed is crimped to 30kB/s at the cable modem. It's not a shared resource problem, it's an intentional limitation designed to create an artificial scarcity over the small slice of bandwith the company gives to internet. Before they put that crimp in place, I routinely got three to four times that performance on routes that traversed half the country. It should also be obvious that not everyone is going to demand the bandwith at exacly the same time. The speed it there, it's just being alocated to crap people don't really want at times people don't want it.
This also has nothing to do with the practicality of moving movies by IP instead of digital broadcast. At your internet land speed record of 400MB/s I can download the average movie in 5 seconds. I'd be willing to wait a little longer than that, but once I've got exactly what I want, I'm good for a couple of hours if not the whole night. It's easier than driving to a video store and cable companies are implementing just this sort of service already. They just don't want you to have any sort of control of the storage.
Peer to peer services have beat them to it. They take advantage of the bandwith that's available on each little chunk of the cable net so that most trading is fast. Once a requested file hits the local node, everyone has it. It's a distribution system that's more than adequate for the limited number of movies you find at Blockbuster. It's this efficiancy, demonstrated in music offerings no traditional publisher can match, that has the movie moguls scared out of their witts. This is the reason your upload speeds are being crimped to something that would take 45 days to upload the average movie. I can remember when it only took weeks to get those movies too.
They aren't giving you small limits cause they are afraid you will download videos. Don't be paranoid.
You are not paranoid when they really are out to get you. If anyone's paranoid it's the big publishers, telcos and software companies. The networks in place make them obsolete. Microsoft should be embarased to be moving data around by sneaker net, but they've always hated networks. Bill Gates accused 90% of his Basic customers of "stealing" his software at the beginning of his career. He did not even mention the internet in his 1995, "The road ahead" and his company still strives to make sure that no two people can use the same program at the same time. It's a completely backward mindset these people have. Why are you apologizing for them?
What a great example you picked! Cable TV companies are pumping dozens of digital movies accross their system at once, live. Yet they crimp your upload speed to DSL rates or lower, 30KB/s, because they are afraid of people "stealing" movies. This is not a technological problem, it a social one. Big publishers and telcos are afraid of competition and are doing everything in their power to keep you from enjoying technology that's already in place. It's the same old fight Ma Bell used to wage back when they would not alow you to so much as plug a modem into your phoneline.
How long are people here in the US going to put up with this monkey business?
Finally, you must trust yourself. Free software is easy to try out, though it may require more effort in the short run. If you feel like it's time to "upgrade" your operating system, try dropping a knoppix CD and judge what people are saying for youself.
And some people still don't see where XP is taking them.
Did anyone else read this as, "soon there will be no way to get data on or off XP except through a dedicated connection to M$"? Who said the .NET "service" model is dead?
And you remember that little thing called the www invented at CERN? The idea was to have a simple, human readable and specified interface that was manchine and nationality independent so that everyone in the world could use it.
Small, like IBM, Apple, Dell. I tried to buy IBM, but GW would not let me, the pig. My daddy is going to buy me the UK Socialist Party. Then I'll finish putting the bag over this internet thingy and continue to service (rape) my captive audience (fellow countrymen). We can't have all your money running abroad, now can we. Just give it to me instead.
Gee, how does logistics work without RFIDs? Inventory management must be based on receipts and trust. Gosh, we should never trust anyone, so RFIDs must be good.
RFID and other non-invasive knowledge technologies don't automatically mean you are being spied on. It's far more likely a way to increase efficiency and lower costs. We DO live in a price-competitive society, don't we?
I don't need you to know who I am, where I go, what I read and buy from the tags in my shoes. Tell me again how replacing a piece of paper with thousands of little electronic devices saves money. Give me a break, this is not about saving money in the warehouse and the trials are likely to prove these cost more than bar codes.
Fan-fucking-tastic, just stick them in an autodepsenser on the corner of my insurance company's building. Be sure to keep the data confidential
Both times the results were laughable. Not a single coupon was for somethind I used, or wanted to use, or might have been persuaded to use, based on the data they've 'gathered'.
Yeah, my grocery receipts and direct mailings are always trying to get me to buy brands I think suck. So, like you, I get nothing out of them knowing my credit card and checking account numbers, prefered method of birth control, medications, brand and literature preferences. All RFID will add to this is the imposiblitiy of concealing private problems, habits and thougts. When the RFID's in my shoes link me to my cahs purchase of condoms and my wife's pill purchases, I'll have no idea why my insurance premiums have gone up. I don't even want to think of what drugstors will do with RU-84 purchase information.
No alarm here, I lead an open and honest life. I love Big Brother and know he will take care of me in the place that knows no darkness.
Your credit card, shoes, belt, wallet, wedding ring, gold tooth, driver's license and PDA might all be singing at the same time. If all of them are linked to you, so is the cash. Don't think cash with or without RFIDs will give you privacy if RFIDs become widespread.
Because the tool is invasive, silly. Using it in the warehouse first, where you get no use out of it, won't lessen your loss of privacy. It won't keep them from putting an ID machine under the counter or any other place where your ID can be matched with stuff on your body, like your shoes, wallet and belt. Hell, your new "smart" credit card could sing out too. By gradual phasing in, they are making the technology seem "inevitable".
Here are a few things I thought of you might not want others to know about. When you see concerns like that addressed in a meaningful way, such a system can be trusted. You won't, so it should not.
It's not inevitable. You can outlaw the practice and we should.
In public SCO will say you should never use Linux . In court, sued for defamation, they will say their advice had no effect.
Yeah, you could pay cash, but the RFIDs already on your clothes give you away. Don't forget that this means you can be tracked everywhere you go. That makes meeting people confidentially impossible. If they get down to the level of paper and thumbtacks, you will have to roll your own to send or publically post an anonymous letter and that component of free speech goes down the tubes.
But why worry, these folks do a good job of keeping their secrets, surely they won't sell yours.
also, Linux development is now on Japan's payroll.
Had it been Windoze, they could have expected to drop 5 billion dollars. If they were moving to Windoze, they can expect their costs to drop to zero as no one will ever get paid again.
Adobe is selling a lie. You can't promise a "secure" digital format. If you give me a buch of bytes, I can change it. Hell, if you give me a piece of paper, I can change it. All you can do about it is offer a reference and detect the change. Even then, someone might sneak in and change your reference. The whole secure digital thing is bullshit.