There system was not slightly insecure, it might as well have been designed by a half drunk hobo!
If you're interested in saving some money and care that little about the quality of the job they do, just fire the entire MTBA bureaucracy and replace them with the more qualified of Boston's homeless population.
What these students did is more like saying..
".. you know, the government has this website they're listing your SSN on. We won't tell you what it is, but we've contacted everyone we can think of, and nobody cares to take it down.. they just told us to shut up."
Yes, they took full due diligence in reporting their findings. They also refrained from providing any dodgy information in their talk; either one of these would've been good enough, but both together make it pretty hard to hate on them.
These kids were just the first ones to figure it out. It's so blatantly obvious that anyone who wanted free fares and had basic knowledge in the relevant area could smack the system up.
MBTA was incredibly lucky to be contacted by individuals willing to help them fix things. That they responded with a gag order and lawsuit in order to cover up their incompetence is ridiculous.
Note that the judge in this case threw out the gag order. In our society, there is no functional way for the MTBA to stop others from saying they're full of crap.
You're reading verbatim the brief where the MTBA lies their butt off. The students were not only fully in the right, but 110% - they offered all relevant information, were not planning to provide any illegal or directly damaging info in their talk, etc etc.
The MBTA wasn't willing to listen, fix their problems, or even admit they had one - the bureaucrats running it were more interesting in covering things up, which is how this whole fuss got started.
That worked in Alaska. The Supreme Court of the state decided that the guys running the camera company were biased against defendants and they ended throwing the system out.
I originally set up KDE to switch desktops with 0 lag / delay by moving the mouse to the corner of the screen. I could also drag windows from desktop to desktop. That's what I'm looking for =) Haven't found it on Windows yet, and looking at Russinovich's tool, it doesn't offer the options I want. Doubt I'll find ever find it.
Preface: I've taken computer & monitor with me to LAN parties and such, and it's quite a pain.
This laptop isn't competing with other laptops - it's competing with carrying a 17" laptop *and* a monitor with you. When you think about all the pain that entails, it can add up..
This could mean being able to continue working in a hotel room, and with reasonable productivity, too.
Firstly, Windows just doesn't have anything to compete with Mac or Linux in that vein. I've tried a good ten or so different virtual desktop managers on Windows, and every single one had some sort of problem that kept me from using it.
Dual monitors are effective when you're trying to work with several apps *at once*, not just categorize all the stuff you're running. You can, say, work on photoshop while observing IM/MIRC, or you can have several difference office apps open and move data back and forth seamlessly.
It sounds like you're an Apple user - OSX is better geared towards one window not taking up the whole screen than Windows, but nothing can quite approach the real deal implemented in hardware. Not to mention the joy of running two screens with elegant window management software =)
This would not work. To protect yourself against a legal response, you'd have to vet everyone using the same level of care you would for a lawsuit, which would be unreasonably expensive. Even so, the number of targets needed for the process to be effective would give you lots of false positives, meaning that for all the money you'd already spent you would still get hit with defamation lawsuits.
A. Comes with no-CD crack (don't need to find and switch CDs to play, game loads faster)
B. Avoids region authentication (can play your game wherever you want)
C. No Securom/equivalent (avoids install limits, re-enables utilities Securom doesn't like such as Daemontools..)
D. Safer (no random DRM crap permanently embedded into your computer)
That's the sort of thinking that has gotten media corps the current waves of piracy (screw our customers every time we can get away with it). While this isn't the same as the exploding gas tank recall snafu, it's the same thinking behind it. However, it's a flawed policy for the following reason:
People who get screwed tell their friends. Hardcore anti-pirates have been slowly driven to support piracy, one by one. It's a bit hard to fight the pirates when most of geekdom supports them.
Like his reviews, but I usually disagree with his results.. (I loved Fear, hated HL2 and that other short orange box game everyone loves.. forgot the name.)
I bought Age of Empires 3. Looked AWESOME. Turned out to be a ripoff piece of crap. Bought C&C 3 (it was only $25 WITH all the other C&C games packaged in too), was still a ripoff piece of crap. Bought RA:3, and while the co-op is fun, it's still a piece of crap. Now I feel like a stooge.
Why are you listing communist rhetoric as part of the anti-copyright position's foundation?
To the best of my knowledge, the government giving certain individuals and companies temporary guaranteed monopolies over a product fits the Soviet Union more than it ever did the US.
This isn't about CPU utilization. All of this bandwidth-limited stuff never seems to apply to CPU benchmarks until you get to, say, eight or sixteen core systems (used to partially affect four-core systems, back before quads..) - which don't affect most consumer systems. (Not to say it's not important). Intel's design was pretty FUBAR in some ways, but they kept it nice and fast for desktops.
Sure, and neither is excerpting part of a movie for use in a school project. However, if that movie is on a DVD, the studio has chosen to disallow such an action, and that is why it is against the law to take advantage of fair use in this instance.
You can't just do whatever you want without regard to the consequences.
Considering this, I don't see anything out of the ordinary with common-sense limitations on pirates. Besides - people shouldn't be able to just type the name of the band in question without paying them anyway.
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I don't think you mentioned Netflix enough. What with bluray support and instant watching, they should've gotten at least another two points.
There system was not slightly insecure, it might as well have been designed by a half drunk hobo! If you're interested in saving some money and care that little about the quality of the job they do, just fire the entire MTBA bureaucracy and replace them with the more qualified of Boston's homeless population.
What these students did is more like saying.. ".. you know, the government has this website they're listing your SSN on. We won't tell you what it is, but we've contacted everyone we can think of, and nobody cares to take it down.. they just told us to shut up."
Yes, they took full due diligence in reporting their findings. They also refrained from providing any dodgy information in their talk; either one of these would've been good enough, but both together make it pretty hard to hate on them.
These kids were just the first ones to figure it out. It's so blatantly obvious that anyone who wanted free fares and had basic knowledge in the relevant area could smack the system up. MBTA was incredibly lucky to be contacted by individuals willing to help them fix things. That they responded with a gag order and lawsuit in order to cover up their incompetence is ridiculous. Note that the judge in this case threw out the gag order. In our society, there is no functional way for the MTBA to stop others from saying they're full of crap.
You're reading verbatim the brief where the MTBA lies their butt off. The students were not only fully in the right, but 110% - they offered all relevant information, were not planning to provide any illegal or directly damaging info in their talk, etc etc. The MBTA wasn't willing to listen, fix their problems, or even admit they had one - the bureaucrats running it were more interesting in covering things up, which is how this whole fuss got started.
That worked in Alaska. The Supreme Court of the state decided that the guys running the camera company were biased against defendants and they ended throwing the system out.
I originally set up KDE to switch desktops with 0 lag / delay by moving the mouse to the corner of the screen. I could also drag windows from desktop to desktop. That's what I'm looking for =) Haven't found it on Windows yet, and looking at Russinovich's tool, it doesn't offer the options I want. Doubt I'll find ever find it.
Preface: I've taken computer & monitor with me to LAN parties and such, and it's quite a pain. This laptop isn't competing with other laptops - it's competing with carrying a 17" laptop *and* a monitor with you. When you think about all the pain that entails, it can add up.. This could mean being able to continue working in a hotel room, and with reasonable productivity, too.
Firstly, Windows just doesn't have anything to compete with Mac or Linux in that vein. I've tried a good ten or so different virtual desktop managers on Windows, and every single one had some sort of problem that kept me from using it. Dual monitors are effective when you're trying to work with several apps *at once*, not just categorize all the stuff you're running. You can, say, work on photoshop while observing IM/MIRC, or you can have several difference office apps open and move data back and forth seamlessly. It sounds like you're an Apple user - OSX is better geared towards one window not taking up the whole screen than Windows, but nothing can quite approach the real deal implemented in hardware. Not to mention the joy of running two screens with elegant window management software =)
Okay, link us to the prettier example of the dual screen notebook with all the same features.
I think people like you are the reason software crashes all the time...
Man, I have no idea where that number came from.
This would not work. To protect yourself against a legal response, you'd have to vet everyone using the same level of care you would for a lawsuit, which would be unreasonably expensive. Even so, the number of targets needed for the process to be effective would give you lots of false positives, meaning that for all the money you'd already spent you would still get hit with defamation lawsuits.
Ah! I understand now. The whole millions of copies downloaded, that's just.. people who ended up giving up because they couldn't run the game?
One movie a week (8.5 gigs), times 53 weeks a year makes that a four year supply of movies. Two a week.. two years. That's with standard def, not HD.
A. Comes with no-CD crack (don't need to find and switch CDs to play, game loads faster) B. Avoids region authentication (can play your game wherever you want) C. No Securom/equivalent (avoids install limits, re-enables utilities Securom doesn't like such as Daemontools..) D. Safer (no random DRM crap permanently embedded into your computer)
That's the sort of thinking that has gotten media corps the current waves of piracy (screw our customers every time we can get away with it). While this isn't the same as the exploding gas tank recall snafu, it's the same thinking behind it. However, it's a flawed policy for the following reason: People who get screwed tell their friends. Hardcore anti-pirates have been slowly driven to support piracy, one by one. It's a bit hard to fight the pirates when most of geekdom supports them.
Like his reviews, but I usually disagree with his results.. (I loved Fear, hated HL2 and that other short orange box game everyone loves.. forgot the name.)
I bought Age of Empires 3. Looked AWESOME. Turned out to be a ripoff piece of crap. Bought C&C 3 (it was only $25 WITH all the other C&C games packaged in too), was still a ripoff piece of crap. Bought RA:3, and while the co-op is fun, it's still a piece of crap. Now I feel like a stooge.
Why are you listing communist rhetoric as part of the anti-copyright position's foundation? To the best of my knowledge, the government giving certain individuals and companies temporary guaranteed monopolies over a product fits the Soviet Union more than it ever did the US.
This isn't about CPU utilization. All of this bandwidth-limited stuff never seems to apply to CPU benchmarks until you get to, say, eight or sixteen core systems (used to partially affect four-core systems, back before quads..) - which don't affect most consumer systems. (Not to say it's not important). Intel's design was pretty FUBAR in some ways, but they kept it nice and fast for desktops.
That's racist! I, myself, have consumed so much caffeine that I am now Korean, and I therefore converse in the language "l337".
Change the law so this can't be used as precedent in cases not involving the death of "a 13 year old girl", and it's all good.
Sure, and neither is excerpting part of a movie for use in a school project. However, if that movie is on a DVD, the studio has chosen to disallow such an action, and that is why it is against the law to take advantage of fair use in this instance. You can't just do whatever you want without regard to the consequences. Considering this, I don't see anything out of the ordinary with common-sense limitations on pirates. Besides - people shouldn't be able to just type the name of the band in question without paying them anyway.