So the example (sorry I forgot): You got all sorts of encrypted files which are only decryptable by Windows and Windows doesn't hand out keys to third party software developers who write apps that can then install themselves and decrypt your files so you are locked in product by MS. MS can then restrict what applications may run or not run on Windows, which is their current strategy... Later on you are locked in product by MS and can only do what MS decides you can do on Windows and therefore your computer.
Very simple... In the future when encryption becomes practically unbreakable for one individual without access to a university scale computer network and parties like MS holding the keys... you are fucked. Or do you know the internal working of Windows and TCPA-laden hardware in the future?
It was an example of how you could lose control because of DRM and it had nothing to do with copy protecting text and engaging in ilegal activity... You remind me of Moss from the British The IT Crowd show.
Your boss send you a DRM'd email in which he demands you do something illigal. When the activity has passed you are not given the key to use your email as evidence in court.
DRM give you control? Please instantly move your ass far away from/. and never come back.
Activate it over the phone. When that fails you can press a button to speak to someone at the MS support desk. Use social engenering and pretend to be an idiot and he or she will give you the key...
Plain wrong. A guy in my class had a 32bit version of Vista and that version was a lot slower than the 64bit version he installed later on... I guess it has something to do with encryption and decryption which Vista is full off...
... a wakeup call: nothing prevents Sun from copying code from the forks. The more places to test certain code that fits into it's own codebase the better MySQL gets.
Sun is currently only making money selling hardware anyway as they've become a FLOSS company (almost nobody buys StarOffice). Sun could greatly benefit from better software for their hardware.
If Sun would just not be so freaking ignorant of patches these superior databases wouldn't even exist. Sun could also make money with StarOffice by just including Microsoft stuff Sun could license from Microsoft. StarOffice is proprietary anyway and OpenOffice.org would not match that level of compatibility with Microsoft Office. Problems with extra functionality submissions for Sun ran FLOSS projects solved...
Let's asume I am a programmer who creates a backend for example. Like every employe I hate to fill in all sorts of documents simply for the fact that it harms my productivity.
However, by the end of the day typing some document that says:
"Daily status report of John Doe
I fixed several severe bugs that prevented us from making progress and I started working on the the plugin framework."
isn't really that hard to do. When someone gets whiney over some daily one minute work than they realy don't belong in your company. I don't know if you live in the USA but I thought that was a country with a "Shut up and work hard" aditude.
Ofcourse you purchase the movie you moron. When you put the disc in the player it shows you the movie, and not a piece of paper saying: "Hello John Doe. Thank you for putchasing a piece of legal paper!"
The difference here is that you HAVE purchased the movie, but DID NOT purchase the copyright.
You have been with your nose in proprietary shitland for too fscking long
Just make the copyright last as long as the life of the person who created something. Problem solved. In the end: copyright is meant to give the creator the only right to redistribute his creation.
When the creator is dead, there is no point for the copyright anymore.
Tell me about it! I was going to give a presentation. After finally completely dumping Windows for Linux I wasn't allowed to hook my EeePC with a VGA cable to the 'VGA box' between the 'beamer computer' and the beamer itself. I asked why because my presentation was made in the ODF presentation format and that VGA box wasn't sitting there for no reason. To which she replied: "You are not allowed to because you could break [...]" - yes... B-R-E-A-K "[...] the errrr thing"
Way to fuck up someones presentation! My god... There is no way to describe the feeling you get from stupid people in these kinds of situations.
Thanks for this information as I do not know a lot about the subject.
[...] and stop running Windows (strike)under an admin account(/strike) and you'll effectively eliminate the chances of being hit by something like this.
How do you even make a bug there, it's a CS students first year project to make a text editor?
It is a text editor but it can open Word 2002 files. Word files are binary executables, so Wordpad has to be able to launch an executable. The exploit here is a malicious, executable file that when launched, runs and infects the system.
Suppose my problem is to find another problem for which there is no solution. Does my problem have a solution, or not? And either way, how does that affect your claim?;-)
If your problem is to find problems than the solution to that is to stop having this problem by not looking for problems anymore. This doesn't affect my claim, just your psyche. If you found a problem that doesn't have a solution then the solution to that problem would not exist. This affects my claim as follows: it makes it wrong.
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So the example (sorry I forgot): You got all sorts of encrypted files which are only decryptable by Windows and Windows doesn't hand out keys to third party software developers who write apps that can then install themselves and decrypt your files so you are locked in product by MS. MS can then restrict what applications may run or not run on Windows, which is their current strategy... Later on you are locked in product by MS and can only do what MS decides you can do on Windows and therefore your computer.
Very simple... In the future when encryption becomes practically unbreakable for one individual without access to a university scale computer network and parties like MS holding the keys... you are fucked. Or do you know the internal working of Windows and TCPA-laden hardware in the future?
It was an example of how you could lose control because of DRM and it had nothing to do with copy protecting text and engaging in ilegal activity... You remind me of Moss from the British The IT Crowd show.
Because of all the third party software... And that argument was lost since Vista came along...
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Your boss send you a DRM'd email in which he demands you do something illigal. When the activity has passed you are not given the key to use your email as evidence in court.
DRM give you control? Please instantly move your ass far away from /. and never come back.
Activate it over the phone. When that fails you can press a button to speak to someone at the MS support desk. Use social engenering and pretend to be an idiot and he or she will give you the key...
Please use your fucking head next time...
I have a computer with 8GB ram and I do not need 64bit Linux to use that 8GB as 32bit Linux can access 64GB if you want to...
Plain wrong. A guy in my class had a 32bit version of Vista and that version was a lot slower than the 64bit version he installed later on... I guess it has something to do with encryption and decryption which Vista is full off...
Because not all GNU/Linux software is converted and/or works with 64 bit software...
Actually the article is almost only about touch screens. It talks about the iphone(Touchscreen) then it talks about CNN's wall(touchscreen).
Sorry I didn't RTFA. I guess I am not new here ;)
Touch computing isn't even a defined concept. Neither wikipedia or google define: touch computing can find it.
Actually if you google for it, PC world(The article) and Slashdot(The summary) are almost the only ones using the concept.
Well my googling indicates otherwise, but Google is keeping records of it's users search behavior.
Wikipedia has an article on computing that says:
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and software.
I guess touch driven computing would be a better choice.
... a wakeup call: nothing prevents Sun from copying code from the forks. The more places to test certain code that fits into it's own codebase the better MySQL gets.
Sun is currently only making money selling hardware anyway as they've become a FLOSS company (almost nobody buys StarOffice). Sun could greatly benefit from better software for their hardware.
If Sun would just not be so freaking ignorant of patches these superior databases wouldn't even exist. Sun could also make money with StarOffice by just including Microsoft stuff Sun could license from Microsoft. StarOffice is proprietary anyway and OpenOffice.org would not match that level of compatibility with Microsoft Office. Problems with extra functionality submissions for Sun ran FLOSS projects solved...
I think we need a new /. acronym; RTFS (Read the fsckin summary)
It's about touch computing and not about touchscreens...
Quickly! Embrace, extend and extinguish!
What's so wrong with a daily status report?
Let's asume I am a programmer who creates a backend for example. Like every employe I hate to fill in all sorts of documents simply for the fact that it harms my productivity.
However, by the end of the day typing some document that says:
"Daily status report of John Doe
I fixed several severe bugs that prevented us from making progress and I started working on the the plugin framework."
isn't really that hard to do. When someone gets whiney over some daily one minute work than they realy don't belong in your company. I don't know if you live in the USA but I thought that was a country with a "Shut up and work hard" aditude.
Ofcourse you purchase the movie you moron. When you put the disc in the player it shows you the movie, and not a piece of paper saying: "Hello John Doe. Thank you for putchasing a piece of legal paper!"
The difference here is that you HAVE purchased the movie, but DID NOT purchase the copyright.
You have been with your nose in proprietary shitland for too fscking long
Just make the copyright last as long as the life of the person who created something. Problem solved. In the end: copyright is meant to give the creator the only right to redistribute his creation.
When the creator is dead, there is no point for the copyright anymore.
... what can be explained by stupidity.
Tell me about it! I was going to give a presentation. After finally completely dumping Windows for Linux I wasn't allowed to hook my EeePC with a VGA cable to the 'VGA box' between the 'beamer computer' and the beamer itself. I asked why because my presentation was made in the ODF presentation format and that VGA box wasn't sitting there for no reason. To which she replied: "You are not allowed to because you could break [...]" - yes... B-R-E-A-K "[...] the errrr thing"
Way to fuck up someones presentation! My god... There is no way to describe the feeling you get from stupid people in these kinds of situations.
Thanks for this information as I do not know a lot about the subject.
[...] and stop running Windows (strike)under an admin account(/strike) and you'll effectively eliminate the chances of being hit by something like this.
That was taken care of a long time ago ;-)
Maybe Wordpad uses the non-Win32 dlls or something? Could that make some not needed functions accessible by it?
My bad.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications:
By embedding the VBA IDE into their applications, developers can build custom solutions using Microsoft Visual Basic. It was also built into Office
Office documents can contain Visual Basic code, so when executed by Wordpad...
How do you even make a bug there, it's a CS students first year project to make a text editor?
It is a text editor but it can open Word 2002 files. Word files are binary executables, so Wordpad has to be able to launch an executable. The exploit here is a malicious, executable file that when launched, runs and infects the system.
How can code in the wordpad text editor leave a machine vulnerable?
It can be used to execute a malicious program that makes the system vulnerable. Wordpad just works as a launcher for the malicious program.
Suppose my problem is to find another problem for which there is no solution. Does my problem have a solution, or not? And either way, how does that affect your claim? ;-)
If your problem is to find problems than the solution to that is to stop having this problem by not looking for problems anymore. This doesn't affect my claim, just your psyche. If you found a problem that doesn't have a solution then the solution to that problem would not exist. This affects my claim as follows: it makes it wrong.
Wireless power is only suitable for everything that is portable
There is no point not to use wireless power.