Very interesting thought indeed... This Stealware could be used against the RIAA! Think of it, if Kazza, etc. is one of the highest on the list of affiliates, doesn't that mean that more people purchase CDs after using something like it?
Could the X-Box be a prototype for Palladium/DRM-secure hardware?
They release a product that they consider secure(the v1.0 X-Box), let the public pry away at it for a while, knowing the hacking consoles(especially with one as tasty as the X-Box) is an already established industry.
Then, once it is hacked to a reasonable level, they revise the hardware to be more secure...
Shake well, repeat...
Basically, MS gets a free hacking team to test (fanatically) their security systems... The only negative point is that some of the hackers release how they did it to the public.
All of the knowledge/experience that they gain from this security cycle will go directly into their security model for DRM "secure" PC hardware...
If we as American citizens have but a SINGLE less right or freedom than we did on September 10, 2001 then the terrorists won not by blowing up planes and buildings but by forcing us to destroy our OWN way of life.
Thank you. I've been trying to find a good way to explain my feelings. This is perfect.
Well, as we see all of these patents flowing around that seem to be trivially easy to find prior art for, what about instituting a "Patent Duty" system, much like the "Jury Duty" system.
People, selected mostly at random, recieve a letter requesting their service in Patent duty. That person then selects the area(or areas) that they feel they are most competent in and is given a list of patent applications that are in those areas.
Each "Patent Duty" member is requested to only look at one or two patents.
This would be a pre-screening process. If the "Pantent Duty" person finds something that is prior art they get a bonus($).
All patents still go through a "normal" patent clerk afterwards... But they would have been pre-screened by someone semi-knowledgeable in the field.
Since patent applications are public anyway, it wouldn't get into any legal issues with having competitors viewing your applications... And it might encourage an increased technology race again.
The new sections should be "Work" and **AA, with the stars being The "Hear no Evil" and "See no Evil" monkeys (or CowboyNeals?). Perhaps even a "Self Improvement" section that would present exceptional resources for IT people to improve their skills...
Also, there seems to be a lot of posts for conventions and expos - perhaps a section for those?
The Art & Science of Programming
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· Score: 3, Interesting
After interacting with many programmers I fined that there are generally two different categories of programmers:
Artists - They may not be great at math, they may not be great at science, but when it comes to programming they have an intuitive nature about it - often making unique or "insightful" code. not necessarily the easiest to read... This would be the 50% that said that programming was like writing poetry.
Scientists - These are the sort that rely moreso on science and math. They tend to be slightly less intuitive in the code, but it is sometimes made up for by readability and correctness.
Of course, most programmers are a combination of the two, with one aspect slightly more dominant than the other.
The DMCA, among other things, can make it a crime to announce vulnerabilities in security code and devices [using free speech](if those are intended to protect copyright). Ergo, the DMCA is unconstitutional.
Perhaps HP is aware of this issue and is trying to press it in a manner that the DMCA can be declared unconstitutional and removed?
New York, Due to the advent of new short-range high speed Mesh Networking systems there has been a huge increase in the need for temp employees. Apparently, when CEOs discovered that their new high-speed UltraNet(R) connections would only work ten feet away from another UltraNet(R) based system they decided to hire UltraNet(R) Extenders(UE) - temporary employees that are specially trained to walk ten feet away from the CEO with an UltraNet(R) rebroadcaster.
Some UE chains - lines of UltraNet(R) Extenders - have been known to reach twenty or thirty UEs, with the record taking place between the law firm of Samuel, Johonson, & Dickie and the local courthouse three blocks away. When one of the UEs was asked about the experience his response was "I'm just glad I'm not one of them that needed to stand in the road." Of the two injuries incured during the record-breaking event both happened to UEs standing in the streets.
There are numerous issues with that, the most important being advertising revinue for the site we're slashdotting...
Perhaps if it could be scripted with a fail-over setting (once it stops accepting connections, or perhaps when it takes more than xxx milliseconds to reply), everyone would be happy.
He... claimed to have chosen to attack an airplane because he believed an airplane attack, especially during the holiday season, would cause the American public to lose confidence in airline security and stop traveling, leading to a substantial loss of revenue,
which would, in turn hurt the American economy
Now the MPAA wants to make a device that is used in MANY, MANY devices cost 3 or 4 times as much, including massive redesign efforts throughout the electronic components industry. Tell me that that won't cause our electronics industry to slow down... (after all, we were just surpassed significantly in supercomputer performance)
The increased cost of the ADCs will be presented to the consumer... EVERY CD player, EVERY VCR, EVERY other electronic component will increase in cost something like $5.
I was reading people's comments on the senate's comment listing, and one of the statements that I read was great:
snip 4. As a 30-year government employee, I find myself wondering why the government is even involved in what is clearly an industry problem. The only reasons I can come up with aren't very flattering to the politicians. We're talking about entertainment media here, not government security. Why should I have a problem getting a payroll out because some entertainment exec can't solve his own internal industry problems? snip
The initial comment was written by "Glenn Thompson" from Gold Beach , Oregon.
Adding a watermark to an analog signal will change the origional data. It is interesting how far the MPAA is willing to go to adulturate their own data so as to not allow others to access it.
When Windows goes to a blue screen and says "Press any key to continue" you can press the any-key.(emphasis mine)
Something is wrong when a new device is produced and they have to advertize a "feature" that allows the device to be recovered when it crashes, not if it crashes.
Sure, most devices have this feature, but when you look at palm's site, do you see a big bulleted "And there is a reset button on the back to fix it when it breaks!"... No, it's listed on the site, but it isn't a big deal.
I thought that this would be a rather interesting project to do, but never really got around to making one.
On Windows something like this is quite simple, as all of the information is available in HKEY_DYNAMIC_DATA (think that's the one). A driver for it would simply need to poll the value(s) of interest and output them to the serial port.
On the hardware side of things a simple D/A converter could be used to convert the data to a position for the gauge. Perhaps add some memory or a random function to it so that it would maintain a level or have a nice little "bounce" to it.
Note that ANY dynamic information could be displayed on it, not just processor usage. I thought about getting one of those old rotary switches and mounting it next to the guage, allowing me to select different things to watch on it. After all, processor useage on my system is rather unexciting - it's been pegged at 100% for over the last year. You could track disk useage, netword throughput(really useful), or any number of other values. For a listing of them look in the "Performance Monitor"(?) application on windows 9x/Me.
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When I submitted the article (yeah, little bit of bitterness), I added the following link:
Web Sources for NASA TV, or http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ntvweb.html for the link-fearing.
Very interesting thought indeed... This Stealware could be used against the RIAA! Think of it, if Kazza, etc. is one of the highest on the list of affiliates, doesn't that mean that more people purchase CDs after using something like it?
Could the X-Box be a prototype for Palladium/DRM-secure hardware?
... enough of conspiracy theories for one day...
They release a product that they consider secure(the v1.0 X-Box), let the public pry away at it for a while, knowing the hacking consoles(especially with one as tasty as the X-Box) is an already established industry.
Then, once it is hacked to a reasonable level, they revise the hardware to be more secure...
Shake well, repeat...
Basically, MS gets a free hacking team to test (fanatically) their security systems... The only negative point is that some of the hackers release how they did it to the public.
All of the knowledge/experience that they gain from this security cycle will go directly into their security model for DRM "secure" PC hardware...
Short movie... Once the bus reaches the ground it won't be travelling at 55 Mph anymore...
Very interesting idea...
Might have to use it.
Simply post a "By using this door you agree to the DULA posted inside the door." on the exterior of the door.
And for the kiddies...
The Baby Segway... (bottom image)
If we as American citizens have but a SINGLE less right or freedom than we did on September 10, 2001 then the terrorists won not by blowing up planes and buildings but by forcing us to destroy our OWN way of life.
Thank you. I've been trying to find a good way to explain my feelings. This is perfect.
Well, as we see all of these patents flowing around that seem to be trivially easy to find prior art for, what about instituting a "Patent Duty" system, much like the "Jury Duty" system.
People, selected mostly at random, recieve a letter requesting their service in Patent duty. That person then selects the area(or areas) that they feel they are most competent in and is given a list of patent applications that are in those areas.
Each "Patent Duty" member is requested to only look at one or two patents.
This would be a pre-screening process. If the "Pantent Duty" person finds something that is prior art they get a bonus($).
All patents still go through a "normal" patent clerk afterwards... But they would have been pre-screened by someone semi-knowledgeable in the field.
Since patent applications are public anyway, it wouldn't get into any legal issues with having competitors viewing your applications... And it might encourage an increased technology race again.
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Now how am I supposed to get a date?
The new sections should be "Work" and **AA, with the stars being The "Hear no Evil" and "See no Evil" monkeys (or CowboyNeals?). Perhaps even a "Self Improvement" section that would present exceptional resources for IT people to improve their skills...
Also, there seems to be a lot of posts for conventions and expos - perhaps a section for those?
Awesome Sig! Very funny.
After interacting with many programmers I fined that there are generally two different categories of programmers:
Artists - They may not be great at math, they may not be great at science, but when it comes to programming they have an intuitive nature about it - often making unique or "insightful" code. not necessarily the easiest to read... This would be the 50% that said that programming was like writing poetry.
Scientists - These are the sort that rely moreso on science and math. They tend to be slightly less intuitive in the code, but it is sometimes made up for by readability and correctness.
Of course, most programmers are a combination of the two, with one aspect slightly more dominant than the other.
I've found that I tend more towards the artist...
Another words... "Profits are too low here, society isn't interested in a new technology, so we'll force it on them with a law."
Did I miss anything?
I can only take so much of this.
as commented by dillon_rinker
The DMCA, among other things, can make it a crime to announce vulnerabilities in security code and devices [using free speech](if those are intended to protect copyright). Ergo, the DMCA is unconstitutional.
Perhaps HP is aware of this issue and is trying to press it in a manner that the DMCA can be declared unconstitutional and removed?
If we can associate the *AA with hackers, it'd be a good PR win.
Excellent idea!
(Mods, mod parent up... Way Up!!!)
I can see it now...
The New Corporate Structure
June 21, 2002
New York, Due to the advent of new short-range high speed Mesh Networking systems there has been a huge increase in the need for temp employees. Apparently, when CEOs discovered that their new high-speed UltraNet(R) connections would only work ten feet away from another UltraNet(R) based system they decided to hire UltraNet(R) Extenders(UE) - temporary employees that are specially trained to walk ten feet away from the CEO with an UltraNet(R) rebroadcaster.
Some UE chains - lines of UltraNet(R) Extenders - have been known to reach twenty or thirty UEs, with the record taking place between the law firm of Samuel, Johonson, & Dickie and the local courthouse three blocks away. When one of the UEs was asked about the experience his response was "I'm just glad I'm not one of them that needed to stand in the road." Of the two injuries incured during the record-breaking event both happened to UEs standing in the streets.
There are numerous issues with that, the most important being advertising revinue for the site we're slashdotting...
Perhaps if it could be scripted with a fail-over setting (once it stops accepting connections, or perhaps when it takes more than xxx milliseconds to reply), everyone would be happy.
There is a reason that my friends and I call MTV and VH1 the "Shiny Things Network".
Now the MPAA wants to make a device that is used in MANY, MANY devices cost 3 or 4 times as much, including massive redesign efforts throughout the electronic components industry. Tell me that that won't cause our electronics industry to slow down... (after all, we were just surpassed significantly in supercomputer performance)
The increased cost of the ADCs will be presented to the consumer... EVERY CD player, EVERY VCR, EVERY other electronic component will increase in cost something like $5.
The initial comment was written by "Glenn Thompson" from Gold Beach , Oregon.
Adding a watermark to an analog signal will change the origional data. It is interesting how far the MPAA is willing to go to adulturate their own data so as to not allow others to access it.
When Windows goes to a blue screen and says "Press any key to continue" you can press the any-key.(emphasis mine)
Something is wrong when a new device is produced and they have to advertize a "feature" that allows the device to be recovered when it crashes, not if it crashes.
Sure, most devices have this feature, but when you look at palm's site, do you see a big bulleted "And there is a reset button on the back to fix it when it breaks!"... No, it's listed on the site, but it isn't a big deal.
Would that include the old Mac case that the network admin changed into a fish bowl too?
RAIN fills lakes and streams, providing for a place for CARP to live in... It's a conspiracy!
I thought that this would be a rather interesting project to do, but never really got around to making one.
On Windows something like this is quite simple, as all of the information is available in HKEY_DYNAMIC_DATA (think that's the one). A driver for it would simply need to poll the value(s) of interest and output them to the serial port.
On the hardware side of things a simple D/A converter could be used to convert the data to a position for the gauge. Perhaps add some memory or a random function to it so that it would maintain a level or have a nice little "bounce" to it.
Note that ANY dynamic information could be displayed on it, not just processor usage. I thought about getting one of those old rotary switches and mounting it next to the guage, allowing me to select different things to watch on it. After all, processor useage on my system is rather unexciting - it's been pegged at 100% for over the last year. You could track disk useage, netword throughput(really useful), or any number of other values. For a listing of them look in the "Performance Monitor"(?) application on windows 9x/Me.