Bill Gates said you will be able to turn it off and run whatever software you want. Yeah, right. You can see the clear intention in every move Micrsoft makes.
What we need is a good site for registering "prior art". Where peoplee in the open source communities (and everyone else with an interest) can submit their ideas along with proof of a working implementation to prevent patents to be applied.
The current SCO/IBM trials should be a stark warning for how well this will work. You will have lost with the first patent you fail to get. Your enemies will be taking your money to pay their lawyers to steal more or your ideas. That is what SCO is doing, now isn't it? It's not like they developed anything, ever. Is this what you want? In the end, you will be no better than your enemies or you will not exist.
Self preservation is not an ideological argument. If the EU does this, large US companies will crush EU software developers, free software will die and all EU governments will end up running M$. These beurcrats need to do a typical M$ install and push that "I submit" button a few times. There's no two ways about it, dipshits like Bezos will flood their system with junk just like they do the US system. This EU deal with the devil will leave the EU burnt.
it also means that if my interests tend more toward alt.suicide.holiday or thinking the Jews have taken over the government, I could quickly find other people to reinforce those tendencies. Friedman concentrates on the most devastating aspect of this, and just because it's one end of a bell curve doesn't mean his point is wrong.
That's total shit. Free press works to eliminate rumors and establish the truth. Lies fester in conditions of poor comunications and censorship, they are exposed in the light of freedom.
What people like Friedman fear is lossing the ability to bend people's minds to his limited perspective. My being able to read BBC news as easily as the NYT halfs the influence of the NYT because it halfs the time I have to read it. My being able to talk directly to impartial people about storries around the world eliminates the need for a big paper is far more informative than the NYT's former pulp and ink empire, which after all could only provide a man on the spot.
Note the last paragraph about the effectiveness of Osama bin Laden's recruiting videos, and the possibility of targeting them precisely via broadband video.
GW Bush: Get me some of that broadband video! I'm so sick of targeting Ossama Bin Laden only to hit a camel in the ass. That Google thing sucks. 2,900 answers but not one of them knows where I can find that asshole.
he has the famous statement: "Two nations with McDonald's have never gone to war with each other". Yes, that is true, but it... sounds like it is a magical formula.
The sum of Google, GE, AOL/TW, MSN/NBC, McDonalds and Disney, integrated from 1990 to the infinite future is GOD.
This is just more of the NYT's Harry Potter Hype Machine (TM). They have been pushing that serries forever and probably have a big product placement contract with TW. What could be more cynical than saying 5 million coppies of a $30 movie and fast food mechanise hyped book selling in a weekend shows that people are too smart to be sold a gimic? Were those sales real or just book sellers stocking up for the next wave of a prefabbed craze? How about his assertion that those sales show how smart youngsters are becasue it proves the book has "brough back reading"? What an ignorant insult to a generation whose primary media is the web, ie text, and has read more than any generation since boadcast TV started killing brains in the 1950s. Make no mistake, the whole article is a self serving advert for Harry Potter books.
The bit about piracy, seen from this perspective, is less surprising. It's just more self serving junk from the failing broadcast and mass publication industries.
Does the judge really think DirectTV will be around for 30,000 years? Does Mr. Frazier go free if they go bankrupt in the next five years? Who does he pay his absorbadent fine to? The 30,000 year payment is as silly as the $180 million fine and the law that it's based on, translating radio signals broacast through you own house. The DMCA must be repealed.
If he's lucky, family members will sell everything he owns and put it into interest bearing accounts. If he's got average luck, his parents are dead and his wife will divorce him. Hopefully, he gives her everything he owns and flees the country. This punishment is both unusual and cruel.
Criminalizing normal behavior is slavery for all of us, stupid. Decrypting radio signals passing through your house is only crime because we live under immoral laws that restrict your freedom. Telling you what you can listen to is the sister of telling you what you can say. The DMCA needs to be repealed for violating both free speech and reception.
The 1960s space race created institutions and bureaucracies that needed to be served after the race was over and warped expectations of what a realistic space program was for the worse.
Public ignorance is no reason to stay away from space. Knowledge is there for those who seek it and realistic programs can be made. What are we going to gain from sitting on our hands, drawing up slow and cautious nothings like he accuses NASA of? Blah!
Oh yeah, knocking NASA for all our space woes is pathetic. It's not NASA's fault hydrogen peroxide and even model rocket engines are hard to get your hands on. There are plenty of other large slow, careful offices making sure we sit on our hands so no one gets hurt.
A space race is a good thing. VonBraun got to live half of his dreams because we were afraid of the USSR. He and many others showed us a cheap way to the stars on top of mild steel rockets. It's not his or NASA's fault we terminated those programs and now have to rely on USSR boosters for heavy lifting. Did NASA kill Nerva? I don't think so. The blame lies squarely on those who want to take things slow and careful.
China has a hard time keeping it's submarine fleet from sinking, but that won't keep them from putting rockets up. They don't care as much as we might over a few heroic, and needless, deaths. Fine, bring it on.
Why do we need to go to space? Because the Earth is limited. People need the resources space , which is limitless, has to offer. We can go get those resources or we can sit on our hands and fight over petty differences, like who owns Jeruselem suburbs, and wait for the next large scale extintion event to settle everything for us.
the article makes it clear the hackers are using the threat of increased piracy as leverage over MS.
I think this is the message they want to get accross, "Linux on xbox==piracy". What crap. The whole issue only concerns me because Microsoft would like to criminalize modification of hardware and software. I'd never by one of those stupid boxes.
The same place I have proof the "xbox security expert" is genuine.
This kind of thing is typical M$. It's just another form of astroturf. When you do a thing again and again, you should not be surprised if people remember it.
Did you ever think the plan makes no sense because it's just another brilliant piece of M$ PR? This story has the same stench that the Apple to M$ switcher did. As you noticed, any normal group would have just released the code and trick. No one wanting to play ball with M$ would pull a stunt like this. No, calling people who mod xboxes, "pirates" was not enough for M$. It seems they have decided to make them look like mad bombers, "Do what I say or the xbox gets it!" What bullshit.
This way, they get to hype their crappy hardware and make those who would actually use it look bad. Pththth-fit, no sale.
Stuff like this is an embarrassment. I hope they get slapped silly with lawsuits.
Indeed it is. Who's really so hard up they need to fall for another M$ dumping exercise? Buying these gimped boxes just gives the M$ loudmouths numbers to claim they dominate console gaming and thereby bully game developers.
The lawsuit I'm waiting for is a DoJ anti-trust violation and dumping charge. Perhaps Bill Gates can find his reward
A group of Xbox security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox game console without a so-called mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader.
Slashdot summary:
"According to this article from CNet News, an anonymous X-Box security research team is threatening Microsoft: either release a digitally-signed official Linux bootloader or face the release of a new exploit that supposedly works without a modchip. While I doubt Microsoft 'negotiates with terrorists,' this should still turn out to be a good I-told-you-so if the exploit is verified."
So, the word exploit makes the differnce for you?
Feh, Microsoft can keep their crappy gimped up PC to themselves. My money goes to keeping honest hardware dealers in business. M$ can give them away and I would not want to go through all the hastle and DMCA shit storm it takes to make it useful. My idea of hacking does not include DRM nonsense while normal hardware is available.
I'll make a bet with you. You set up the daytime server on your desktop machine. Give me the name of your machine (not the IP). I will try to resolve your machines name and connect to the daytime server once a minute for the next 90 days. If I can hit your daytime server every single time, I will give you $100 cash. If I can not, you will give me $100 cash.
Take your "266 machine" and your script kiddie toys and play with these people. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, take your $100 bill, fold it till it's all sharp corners and shove it up your ass.
God made Eve and said, "You may now select your wife."
Gates made Palladium and said, "You may now select your software."
People have always wanted to control the personal thoughts of their subjects. Microsoft will give them the ability to know those thoughts. Once your thoughts are known, you will be punnished. Morality (good) will be redefined to conformity and obedience.
twitter@starbright:~ ispell
ERROR 1069 - dictonary is untrusted. Please only use Microsoft approved software on this computer for your iportant work.
done: ispell
Orwell predicted people would willing ebrace control. The only thing he got wrong was the requirement for nuclear warfare as a trigger. People, it seems, can be hyped up to pitch by blowing up a few buildings. Orwell only felt that would be usefull to keep the fevered pitch, not create it. Yet here we sit, filled with xenophobia, with the specialist warfare and readilly adopting all forms of spyware with less and less control. Gates has targeted the "obvious" groups, school teachers, union leaders, proffesional politicians, the military, like a true desciple of Orwell. The scary thing is not his intention, it's all the help he's getting.
It arrived in my mail box yesterday, the first such piece of shit that's gotten through Cox mail. It proported to come from another Cox user on the same machine and that might be how it snuck through. Unzipping and running strings on it showed a message box, and the word "Rich". If pretended to use Outlook Express if it actually used its own mailer. Cox blocks outbound port 25, so this might have been bright enough to use Cox's smpt server.
Terrorists can't beat a system like that. No matter what fake name they chose, they are on the list. That no one else can fly is just a small inconvenience. The terrorists will never win this one.
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Bill Gates said you will be able to turn it off and run whatever software you want. Yeah, right. You can see the clear intention in every move Micrsoft makes.
That's the point of the current EU Microsoft Anti-trust violation, isn't it? How much harm do you want?
The current SCO/IBM trials should be a stark warning for how well this will work. You will have lost with the first patent you fail to get. Your enemies will be taking your money to pay their lawyers to steal more or your ideas. That is what SCO is doing, now isn't it? It's not like they developed anything, ever. Is this what you want? In the end, you will be no better than your enemies or you will not exist.
Self preservation is not an ideological argument. If the EU does this, large US companies will crush EU software developers, free software will die and all EU governments will end up running M$. These beurcrats need to do a typical M$ install and push that "I submit" button a few times. There's no two ways about it, dipshits like Bezos will flood their system with junk just like they do the US system. This EU deal with the devil will leave the EU burnt.
That's exactly what he's afraid of. There are many things the US would do differently from if it's citizens were better informed.
That's total shit. Free press works to eliminate rumors and establish the truth. Lies fester in conditions of poor comunications and censorship, they are exposed in the light of freedom.
What people like Friedman fear is lossing the ability to bend people's minds to his limited perspective. My being able to read BBC news as easily as the NYT halfs the influence of the NYT because it halfs the time I have to read it. My being able to talk directly to impartial people about storries around the world eliminates the need for a big paper is far more informative than the NYT's former pulp and ink empire, which after all could only provide a man on the spot.
GW Bush: Get me some of that broadband video! I'm so sick of targeting Ossama Bin Laden only to hit a camel in the ass. That Google thing sucks. 2,900 answers but not one of them knows where I can find that asshole.
The sum of Google, GE, AOL/TW, MSN/NBC, McDonalds and Disney, integrated from 1990 to the infinite future is GOD.
Don't tell anyone!
The bit about piracy, seen from this perspective, is less surprising. It's just more self serving junk from the failing broadcast and mass publication industries.
If he's lucky, family members will sell everything he owns and put it into interest bearing accounts. If he's got average luck, his parents are dead and his wife will divorce him. Hopefully, he gives her everything he owns and flees the country. This punishment is both unusual and cruel.
Criminalizing normal behavior is slavery for all of us, stupid. Decrypting radio signals passing through your house is only crime because we live under immoral laws that restrict your freedom. Telling you what you can listen to is the sister of telling you what you can say. The DMCA needs to be repealed for violating both free speech and reception.
I don't know why people consider decrypting signals broadcast into their homes theft.
In any case, this supposed crime has been unusually punished. Confiscations, judicial extortion, banishments, these are the hallmarks of tyrany.
Public ignorance is no reason to stay away from space. Knowledge is there for those who seek it and realistic programs can be made. What are we going to gain from sitting on our hands, drawing up slow and cautious nothings like he accuses NASA of? Blah!
Oh yeah, knocking NASA for all our space woes is pathetic. It's not NASA's fault hydrogen peroxide and even model rocket engines are hard to get your hands on. There are plenty of other large slow, careful offices making sure we sit on our hands so no one gets hurt.
A space race is a good thing. VonBraun got to live half of his dreams because we were afraid of the USSR. He and many others showed us a cheap way to the stars on top of mild steel rockets. It's not his or NASA's fault we terminated those programs and now have to rely on USSR boosters for heavy lifting. Did NASA kill Nerva? I don't think so. The blame lies squarely on those who want to take things slow and careful.
China has a hard time keeping it's submarine fleet from sinking, but that won't keep them from putting rockets up. They don't care as much as we might over a few heroic, and needless, deaths. Fine, bring it on.
Why do we need to go to space? Because the Earth is limited. People need the resources space , which is limitless, has to offer. We can go get those resources or we can sit on our hands and fight over petty differences, like who owns Jeruselem suburbs, and wait for the next large scale extintion event to settle everything for us.
I think this is the message they want to get accross, "Linux on xbox==piracy". What crap. The whole issue only concerns me because Microsoft would like to criminalize modification of hardware and software. I'd never by one of those stupid boxes.
The same place I have proof the "xbox security expert" is genuine.
This kind of thing is typical M$. It's just another form of astroturf. When you do a thing again and again, you should not be surprised if people remember it.
This way, they get to hype their crappy hardware and make those who would actually use it look bad. Pththth-fit, no sale.
Indeed it is. Who's really so hard up they need to fall for another M$ dumping exercise? Buying these gimped boxes just gives the M$ loudmouths numbers to claim they dominate console gaming and thereby bully game developers.
The lawsuit I'm waiting for is a DoJ anti-trust violation and dumping charge. Perhaps Bill Gates can find his reward
A group of Xbox security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox game console without a so-called mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader.
Slashdot summary: "According to this article from CNet News, an anonymous X-Box security research team is threatening Microsoft: either release a digitally-signed official Linux bootloader or face the release of a new exploit that supposedly works without a modchip. While I doubt Microsoft 'negotiates with terrorists,' this should still turn out to be a good I-told-you-so if the exploit is verified."
So, the word exploit makes the differnce for you?
Feh, Microsoft can keep their crappy gimped up PC to themselves. My money goes to keeping honest hardware dealers in business. M$ can give them away and I would not want to go through all the hastle and DMCA shit storm it takes to make it useful. My idea of hacking does not include DRM nonsense while normal hardware is available.
You will have to DoS them all. When they put you in jail, you will wish it was only a pointy $100 bill.
Take your "266 machine" and your script kiddie toys and play with these people. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, take your $100 bill, fold it till it's all sharp corners and shove it up your ass.
Gates made Palladium and said, "You may now select your software."
People have always wanted to control the personal thoughts of their subjects. Microsoft will give them the ability to know those thoughts. Once your thoughts are known, you will be punnished. Morality (good) will be redefined to conformity and obedience.
twitter@starbright:~ ispell
ERROR 1069 - dictonary is untrusted. Please only use Microsoft approved software on this computer for your iportant work.
done: ispell
Orwell predicted people would willing ebrace control. The only thing he got wrong was the requirement for nuclear warfare as a trigger. People, it seems, can be hyped up to pitch by blowing up a few buildings. Orwell only felt that would be usefull to keep the fevered pitch, not create it. Yet here we sit, filled with xenophobia, with the specialist warfare and readilly adopting all forms of spyware with less and less control. Gates has targeted the "obvious" groups, school teachers, union leaders, proffesional politicians, the military, like a true desciple of Orwell. The scary thing is not his intention, it's all the help he's getting.
It arrived in my mail box yesterday, the first such piece of shit that's gotten through Cox mail. It proported to come from another Cox user on the same machine and that might be how it snuck through. Unzipping and running strings on it showed a message box, and the word "Rich". If pretended to use Outlook Express if it actually used its own mailer. Cox blocks outbound port 25, so this might have been bright enough to use Cox's smpt server.
M$ blows
90 day uptimes, brags the NT dude, ha ha ha.
Terrorists can't beat a system like that. No matter what fake name they chose, they are on the list. That no one else can fly is just a small inconvenience. The terrorists will never win this one.