As most westerns do we forgot the huns. There armor consited of a light but very well made silk undershirt and a heavy tunic. The tunic was very flexable and provided a large range a movement, mild protection.. but the real protection was that they were able to move on their own.. knights with metal straped to their bodies were anything but mobile. The silk shirt was used to capture an arrow head.. arrows could pierce the tunic, but not the silk.. the silk provided a package which would allow them to remove the arrow without extensive tissue damage. Light an nimble and avoiding the hit may be better then slapping on more armor and conseding the hit will occur. Worked for Atilla.. and a lesson we have yet to learn.
For the love of god man someone needs to put this down with prior art. While this is all referd to as DRM, really an secure OS will do preform most of these operations. As soons as someone jumps into any sort of debuging/trace mode the kernel falls into a insecure mode. I cant belive with all the secure OS resurch out there no such thing exists. Please dont let MS run away with this, we will have them suing us over secure Filesystems next.
I think we should all take this time to re-read the tanenbaum v. torvalds debate. It speaks more then anything else. Tanenbaum speaks like every CS professor I have ever had, "This new tech will change everything". In the end it changes nothing, the new tech gets pulled in to the old or is quickly discarded. The debate is classic, Infact I have seen this renacted in community theater (read: Univerity computer class) more then once. Each time the professor is dead set he's right, and proven wrong in history. I guess the old addage still holds true: "Those who can do, those who cant teach"
Where is the wireless card? This thing needs to have a wireless card so if someone brings their laptop along they can share mp3's and more. Also it would be kickass to write a discovery protocal across wifi, so as Im cruisin down the high way I can message the hot chick in the other lane. The other thing its missing is the built in cell phone and backup batteries. You need to be able to call into car no even if somone cuts the electrical and get fix via GPS, that way your smart bomb can target a car thief in seconds.
How long will it be before handpring and these morons start dukeing it out over the 'so cool' term Treo? They are booth personal electronic devices, looks like trademark overlap to me
but IANAL.
Why would Porno Stars want to quit screwing just to get screwed on salary while producing web pages? This doesnt make any sense, if your getting paid to have kinky sex, do they really dream about tooling around in DreamWeaver? Arnt they living their dream? They get paid to take drugs, hang out and bang hot chicks? In what world is web development a step up from that life ??
Yes the russians used this 'reactive armor' the the we armed our tank weapons with large sticks on the front, the idea is that the stick sets off the reactive charge thus leaving a clear and weaker surface for the shell to penetrate. This reactive armor has been sheleved. I mean how crazy do you have to be to think straping exlposives to the outside of your combat vehical is a good idea.
Is any one else getting flash backs to the Monty Python sketch about Joke Warfare. Remember the joke that won WWII, but was later baned becouse it was to effective. I think this 'scientist' has been watching BBC re-runs to much.
What about cdparanoia. It seems that that they are injecting errors on to the disk. cdparanoia seems to do a really good job of a digitial rip, but still doing intropolation on errors. So can we assume that any app that uses the cdparanoia library will cruise right over this protection? If so it seems that this scheme was broken before it got out the door. I guess all of the windows people will need to wait for libparanoia to be ported, but almost all my rippers under other OS's use cdparanoia if available.
Any one want to start a dedicated distribution around CD ripping/ burning?
Wow, now that sounds like fun. M$ dicides to break pop, why becouse standards dont matter. Well lets take them to task. Many of the.NET features(bugs)
will do this. The way I see it is we must crack/hack/document the M$ secrets, then write a compatibality layer. So a proxy that will talk M$ crap on one side and standard POP+SSL on the other side is a good start!
Im sure your proud you didnt need a another parent, but if we asked your kid I bet they would vote differnt. Maybe the wouldnt choose the person you decided to get drunk with that one night, but Im sure they have a mental picture of the person other person they would like to be related to. If they dont Im sorry you warped your kid that much. The only good thing is that your warped kid will have trouble having kids as well, and well we know where that goes, you loose, darwin wins ^H^H^H^H^H^H We win.
You can raise a kid with one parent but it shouldnt be done
You can drive a car with your feet but it shouldnt be done
You can fertalize you lawn with used motor oil but it shouldnt be done
And now you can build a DSL modem out of a soundcard but it shouldnt be done
Here is my favorite passage Although the raw data is user submitted, the storage, retrieval, categorization, and organization of the database, the access interface, and the matching and filtering methods are absolutely proprietary, and we will do what is necessary to defend this intellectual property.
This is just silly. I guess they are claming to own cddbp and I assume next they will file a patent on sql. Next they will be fileing a patent on hashing based on track information. This is completely silly and I hope Roxio fights them, it will turn out like the rambus suite, they will loose, waste a lot of money, hopefully pissing of the judge enough to allow the other side to counter sue, and for all of this to go away. My question is why are they suing roxio (a user) and not suing the competing service freedb? If they run a service so better then freedb, why dont they just compete, exactly like rambus. If they really were better they wouldnt need the courts they would win in the market. Its more and more obvoius that the courts are a second chance after loosing in the market place.
I can see it now, new spam email.
Quickly get your new "Digital Signal Stablizer"
As we all know the Signal Stablizers is the black market term for cable box hackers. So now we will need a new hacker to put between the Tivo and the cable box, Im over it. I suspect Tivo will make a new Digital version that just writes the raw digital to the disk( maybe some compression if they are smart). The truth is that we will win, there is no way any one is going to play by these rules, and if the courts feel that they were pissed on, I doubt they are going to be responsive as these TV companies would like. I hope this new system costs them a ton of money, that way when I hack it with radio shack parts they will loose a lot more and reliaze how lame they are.
"We Dont know WHY he did it"
Let me tell you why. You morons told a young boy who has been forced to achieve by his parents that he was going to jail. To increase the drama you threw him out of class for 10 days. Yes, school is nothing more then a job with alot of short whiners for you people, but for the whiners its everything. You have crushed this young man, and promised him it was going to be worse. We dont know why, lets start with the note, "I would rather die then go to jail" , I think that speaks for its self. The school didnt tie the rope, but they were the instrument of his death. If he hadnt been lied to about jail, and if he had recieved a more sane punishment he might have reliazied how useless the school is, and that their opinion didnt matter.
We are on the crest of a complete loss of control on our public schools. With zero tolerance, and uneducated educators, students will soon enough learn that the school only has its power becouse they yeild to it, but rather they cant throw the inter school into juvinal hall, they also cant suspend everyone. The students should stop regergitating facts and start to learn a thing or two, All they need to do is form a union. You see when the students strike, the schools ada falls to 0, and they dont get paid. 0 ada scares the teachers more then any thing else. The great thing is that ada is an average, so a few days of 0 attendance and they are screwed for months. If the stundent really want to remember their friend, they should stop crying about his death to school counlsers, and start striking until there is a studnet review/apeal board of all punishment.
If you read the entier article, you will see that he hasnt caught any cheaters in the next term. He belives the students have learned not to cheat.. He couldnt be farther from the trueth. The students have learned to cheat better. They have simply learned his algorithem, and now are makeing sure that it will never return true on their papers. UCBerkly has maintained a code scanner for some time, they scan code for similarites. But if you can code at all, you can tweek a peice of source code to not match in a few minutes. Search and Replace is a good tool, but not enough. Defeating these programs simply require a little bit of thought. As for "Files" the refer to, you do not need to look any furhter then the local greek system. All frats have a box FULL of files/test/papers.. yada yada. To be used as "Study Aids". While the article notices that tech is a doubled edged sword, it may be worse then that. As I have seen Many papers that have been submitted two or three or more times to the same professor for the exact same assignement in differnt terms. The funny thing is how much the grades seem to drift. You can expect to see any where from 1 to 2 full grade point drifts. I think this tends to prove that grades in higher education are more luck of the draw then a reflection of the students performance. I think the professors dont want to catch cheaters becouse of the trouble it will create for them. Any ways if they would adjust their assigments between terms they would remove the abililty to cheat.
Its a cold hard fact that networks go up and down. If you havnt seen one go down you either have to much money and over built the system Or you are working on such a small system that its never experince any real load. In the Real World, networks go down, while the network is down, I cant get to App Server, well might as well take the rest of the day off. I hope you dont play with the clue stick, you might get one, and then M$ wont be able to roll over you, I figure the more people that buy into the.NET (.HOAX) the louder the crash will be when M$ drops it. This time the
Buzzword2product devision ans M$ has out done them selfs, The more money M$ pour into this crap the better chance it will end up failing
.NET a good idea? Man you must have ate to many paint chips or something. Do you see any company trusting M$ to hold all of their documents, and data? Now when the network goes down, you dont check email, but can still work, with.net when the network goes down you take a nap, as none of your *needed* M$ apps will work. The only thing good about.NET is that it will fail worse then MS BOB and Will help to start unravel M$, this *stuble* is excatly what RedHat,IBM, and Other Linux supports need to really make a huge splash. We really need to focus to get KDE and GNOME stable enough to replace Winblows when everyone else notices.NET is such a bad idea and they start looking for alternatives.
So M$ supports code sharing, just limited.
They also support that each person should be able to choose the price point of their software. They Also agree that Person writing the code has the right to put it under any license they want.
So...
I choose to share my code with any being.
I choose to set the price of my code to $0
I choose to Allow any one to copy my code, So as Long as I can copy back any changes they make.
See M$ supports the GPL. They just dont know it. In the end M$ has to support the GPL, this is just marks on the scale, sure the GPL is an extream, but its definilty on the same scale.
I have a few points First remember the guy that claimed to be working for the FBI/CIA by stealing secrets from AMD. He brought a video recorder in and took movies of him scrolling throught internal data on his computer. That easily defeated all of their counter measures, in fact now they search for such devices.
As for 'new' or a 'innovation' of technology. Isnt they are talking about just another form of e-books, AKA key encrypted PDF. Also it seems that most of these encrypted books are able to be hacked the old fashion way of just editing the encrypted file, or hacking the reader. In the end this will only give a false sense of security, Of course if this sense is strong enough we might see more E-books ready to be traded on IRC. So, lets keep quite about how much of a lame idea this is, and just get the Hex Editors warmed up.
(M$ in a proper east german accent)
M$:Papers Please
user: uh.... uh.. here is my PassPort
M$:Your Papers are not in order
user: wha.. what?
M$:Your travels, say you started in Maryland
user:.. ya,.. so
M$:These are not Maryland Papers
user:..and
M$: You will have to come with us..
user:.. call my lawyer!!
M$: what do you think? this is a free country?
Back to reality, there was a time that I really belived that M$ was the enemy. That they must be stopped. Now with.NET, and this PassPort buisness, its is becomeing obvoius that M$ isnt an enemy, but rather a huge, bumbling, edit of a giant, and its only a matter of time before the giant trips over himeself, knocks his head on the ground, and sufficates on his own tongue. Really now its just sad. Its sort of like getting a fight with Ali, now that he has altimzers, its more sad, then intresting.
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As most westerns do we forgot the huns. There armor consited of a light but very well made silk undershirt and a heavy tunic. The tunic was very flexable and provided a large range a movement, mild protection.. but the real protection was that they were able to move on their own.. knights with metal straped to their bodies were anything but mobile. The silk shirt was used to capture an arrow head.. arrows could pierce the tunic, but not the silk.. the silk provided a package which would allow them to remove the arrow without extensive tissue damage. Light an nimble and avoiding the hit may be better then slapping on more armor and conseding the hit will occur. Worked for Atilla.. and a lesson we have yet to learn.
For the love of god man someone needs to put this down with prior art. While this is all referd to as DRM, really an secure OS will do preform most of these operations. As soons as someone jumps into any sort of debuging /trace mode the kernel falls into a insecure mode. I cant belive with all the secure OS resurch out there no such thing exists. Please dont let MS run away with this, we will have them suing us over secure Filesystems next.
I think we should all take this time to re-read the tanenbaum v. torvalds debate. It speaks more then anything else. Tanenbaum speaks like every CS professor I have ever had, "This new tech will change everything". In the end it changes nothing, the new tech gets pulled in to the old or is quickly discarded. The debate is classic, Infact I have seen this renacted in community theater (read: Univerity computer class) more then once. Each time the professor is dead set he's right, and proven wrong in history.
I guess the old addage still holds true: "Those who can do, those who cant teach"
Where is the wireless card? This thing needs to have a wireless card so if someone brings their laptop along they can share mp3's and more. Also it would be kickass to write a discovery protocal across wifi, so as Im cruisin down the high way I can message the hot chick in the other lane. The other thing its missing is the built in cell phone and backup batteries. You need to be able to call into car no even if somone cuts the electrical and get fix via GPS, that way your smart bomb can target a car thief in seconds.
How long will it be before handpring and these morons start dukeing it out over the 'so cool' term Treo? They are booth personal electronic devices, looks like trademark overlap to me
but IANAL.
Why would Porno Stars want to quit screwing just to get screwed on salary while producing web pages? This doesnt make any sense, if your getting paid to have kinky sex, do they really dream about tooling around in DreamWeaver? Arnt they living their dream? They get paid to take drugs, hang out and bang hot chicks? In what world is web development a step up from that life ??
Yes the russians used this 'reactive armor' the the we armed our tank weapons with large sticks on the front, the idea is that the stick sets off the reactive charge thus leaving a clear and weaker surface for the shell to penetrate. This reactive armor has been sheleved. I mean how crazy do you have to be to think straping exlposives to the outside of your combat vehical is a good idea.
You can get my code when you pry it from my cold dead hand.
Is any one else getting flash backs to the Monty Python sketch about Joke Warfare. Remember the joke that won WWII, but was later baned becouse it was to effective. I think this 'scientist' has been watching BBC re-runs to much.
What about cdparanoia. It seems that that they are injecting errors on to the disk. cdparanoia seems to do a really good job of a digitial rip, but still doing intropolation on errors. So can we assume that any app that uses the cdparanoia library will cruise right over this protection? If so it seems that this scheme was broken before it got out the door. I guess all of the windows people will need to wait for libparanoia to be ported, but almost all my rippers under other OS's use cdparanoia if available.
Any one want to start a dedicated distribution around CD ripping/ burning?
Wow, now that sounds like fun. M$ dicides to break pop, why becouse standards dont matter. Well lets take them to task. Many of the .NET features(bugs)
will do this. The way I see it is we must crack/hack/document the M$ secrets, then write a compatibality layer. So a proxy that will talk M$ crap on one side and standard POP+SSL on the other side is a good start!
Built the BOMB? So einstien and Oppenhimer were Hillibillies? man you really have been drinking to much SHINE
Im sure your proud you didnt need a another parent, but if we asked your kid I bet they would vote differnt. Maybe the wouldnt choose the person you decided to get drunk with that one night, but Im sure they have a mental picture of the person other person they would like to be related to. If they dont Im sorry you warped your kid that much. The only good thing is that your warped kid will have trouble having kids as well, and well we know where that goes, you loose, darwin wins ^H^H^H^H^H^H We win.
You can raise a kid with one parent but it shouldnt be done
You can drive a car with your feet but it shouldnt be done
You can fertalize you lawn with used motor oil but it shouldnt be done
And now you can build a DSL modem out of a soundcard but it shouldnt be done
Here is my favorite passage
Although the raw data is user submitted, the storage, retrieval, categorization, and organization of the database, the access interface, and the matching and filtering methods are absolutely proprietary, and we will do what is necessary to defend this intellectual property.
This is just silly. I guess they are claming to own cddbp and I assume next they will file a patent on sql. Next they will be fileing a patent on hashing based on track information. This is completely silly and I hope Roxio fights them, it will turn out like the rambus suite, they will loose, waste a lot of money, hopefully pissing of the judge enough to allow the other side to counter sue, and for all of this to go away. My question is why are they suing roxio (a user) and not suing the competing service freedb? If they run a service so better then freedb, why dont they just compete, exactly like rambus. If they really were better they wouldnt need the courts they would win in the market. Its more and more obvoius that the courts are a second chance after loosing in the market place.
I can see it now, new spam email.
Quickly get your new "Digital Signal Stablizer"
As we all know the Signal Stablizers is the black market term for cable box hackers. So now we will need a new hacker to put between the Tivo and the cable box, Im over it. I suspect Tivo will make a new Digital version that just writes the raw digital to the disk( maybe some compression if they are smart). The truth is that we will win, there is no way any one is going to play by these rules, and if the courts feel that they were pissed on, I doubt they are going to be responsive as these TV companies would like. I hope this new system costs them a ton of money, that way when I hack it with radio shack parts they will loose a lot more and reliaze how lame they are.
Might as well shoot your self now, that will never happen. Just to be on the safe side, take a jacket incase hell gets cold.
"We Dont know WHY he did it"
Let me tell you why. You morons told a young boy who has been forced to achieve by his parents that he was going to jail. To increase the drama you threw him out of class for 10 days. Yes, school is nothing more then a job with alot of short whiners for you people, but for the whiners its everything. You have crushed this young man, and promised him it was going to be worse. We dont know why, lets start with the note,
"I would rather die then go to jail" , I think that speaks for its self. The school didnt tie the rope, but they were the instrument of his death. If he hadnt been lied to about jail, and if he had recieved a more sane punishment he might have reliazied how useless the school is, and that their opinion didnt matter.
We are on the crest of a complete loss of control on our public schools. With zero tolerance, and uneducated educators, students will soon enough learn that the school only has its power becouse they yeild to it, but rather they cant throw the inter school into juvinal hall, they also cant suspend everyone. The students should stop regergitating facts and start to learn a thing or two, All they need to do is form a union. You see when the students strike, the schools ada falls to 0, and they dont get paid. 0 ada scares the teachers more then any thing else. The great thing is that ada is an average, so a few days of 0 attendance and they are screwed for months. If the stundent really want to remember their friend, they should stop crying about his death to school counlsers, and start striking until there is a studnet review/apeal board of all punishment.
If you read the entier article, you will see that he hasnt caught any cheaters in the next term. He belives the students have learned not to cheat.. He couldnt be farther from the trueth. The students have learned to cheat better. They have simply learned his algorithem, and now are makeing sure that it will never return true on their papers. UCBerkly has maintained a code scanner for some time, they scan code for similarites. But if you can code at all, you can tweek a peice of source code to not match in a few minutes. Search and Replace is a good tool, but not enough. Defeating these programs simply require a little bit of thought. As for "Files" the refer to, you do not need to look any furhter then the local greek system. All frats have a box FULL of files/test/papers.. yada yada. To be used as "Study Aids". While the article notices that tech is a doubled edged sword, it may be worse then that. As I have seen Many papers that have been submitted two or three or more times to the same professor for the exact same assignement in differnt terms. The funny thing is how much the grades seem to drift. You can expect to see any where from 1 to 2 full grade point drifts. I think this tends to prove that grades in higher education are more luck of the draw then a reflection of the students performance. I think the professors dont want to catch cheaters becouse of the trouble it will create for them. Any ways if they would adjust their assigments between terms they would remove the abililty to cheat.
Its a cold hard fact that networks go up and down. If you havnt seen one go down you either have to much money and over built the system Or you are working on such a small system that its never experince any real load. In the Real World, networks go down, while the network is down, I cant get to App Server, well might as well take the rest of the day off. I hope you dont play with the clue stick, you might get one, and then M$ wont be able to roll over you, I figure the more people that buy into the .NET (.HOAX) the louder the crash will be when M$ drops it. This time the
Buzzword2product devision ans M$ has out done them selfs, The more money M$ pour into this crap the better chance it will end up failing
.NET a good idea? Man you must have ate to many paint chips or something. Do you see any company trusting M$ to hold all of their documents, and data? Now when the network goes down, you dont check email, but can still work, with .net when the network goes down you take a nap, as none of your *needed* M$ apps will work. The only thing good about .NET is that it will fail worse then MS BOB and Will help to start unravel M$, this *stuble* is excatly what RedHat,IBM, and Other Linux supports need to really make a huge splash. We really need to focus to get KDE and GNOME stable enough to replace Winblows when everyone else notices .NET is such a bad idea and they start looking for alternatives.
I have 3 machines running linux. Do I Get to choose the 3 employes to loose a job?
First Ill take Steve Ballmer, Pat, And for my friends, Ill take Alichin, And Finally Pat, Ill take Bill Gates, to round out the set, thanks.
So M$ supports code sharing, just limited. They also support that each person should be able to choose the price point of their software. They Also agree that Person writing the code has the right to put it under any license they want.
So...
I choose to share my code with any being.
I choose to set the price of my code to $0
I choose to Allow any one to copy my code, So as Long as I can copy back any changes they make.
See M$ supports the GPL. They just dont know it.
In the end M$ has to support the GPL, this is just marks on the scale, sure the GPL is an extream, but its definilty on the same scale.
I have a few points
First remember the guy that claimed to be working for the FBI/CIA by stealing secrets from AMD. He brought a video recorder in and took movies of him scrolling throught internal data on his computer. That easily defeated all of their counter measures, in fact now they search for such devices.
As for 'new' or a 'innovation' of technology. Isnt they are talking about just another form of e-books, AKA key encrypted PDF. Also it seems that most of these encrypted books are able to be hacked the old fashion way of just editing the encrypted file, or hacking the reader. In the end this will only give a false sense of security, Of course if this sense is strong enough we might see more E-books ready to be traded on IRC. So, lets keep quite about how much of a lame idea this is, and just get the Hex Editors warmed up.
(M$ in a proper east german accent) .. ya,.. so
.NET, and this PassPort buisness, its is becomeing obvoius that M$ isnt an enemy, but rather a huge, bumbling, edit of a giant, and its only a matter of time before the giant trips over himeself, knocks his head on the ground, and sufficates on his own tongue. Really now its just sad. Its sort of like getting a fight with Ali, now that he has altimzers, its more sad, then intresting.
M$:Papers Please
user: uh.... uh.. here is my PassPort
M$:Your Papers are not in order
user: wha.. what?
M$:Your travels, say you started in Maryland
user:
M$:These are not Maryland Papers
user:..and
M$: You will have to come with us..
user:.. call my lawyer!!
M$: what do you think? this is a free country?
Back to reality, there was a time that I really belived that M$ was the enemy. That they must be stopped. Now with