its awful nice of the mpaa to give us a scanning tool so that we can prove that our file obsfucation works correctly. We just have to obfuscat the files well enough to beat their tools and we dont have to wait to get cought to be sure the software is working correctly, thats GREAT. I cant wait until something like edonky grows to support file obfuscation and calls it 'encryption' and thus makes all of this p2p scanning by third parties a violation of the DMCA.
the inhabinates in the Red States might not be the brights and easily controlled via fear and religion. But can we really expect them to live on pennies on the dollar? When shopping at WalMart is shopping at the ritzy store I doubt it a community will be built in that cost/price/wage structor.
Sure they have built ppc mips axp versions of NT and they all worked. The problem is that as OS goes MS isnt that great. The only reason people stay with Windows is the APPS. How are they going to sell a 'Windows PC' that only runs 6 apps from MS ? Emulation? Wont cut it dog slow the only way this make sense is dual proc or System on Board something like the macs the old macs that shipped with a 386 on a PCI card, shared some io and memory and a little magic you got two computers in one box.
Theocracy? You have never left the US have you, most likly never stepped down out of your ivory towered blue state. You want to see a theocracy go to Iran, tell me then talk about how the US is so horriable. Basic human rights go to china and try speaking this ill of the governement, or better yet try being a neighbor to China who thinks they have some right to your land ala taiwan. No my friend you want to know why the left is loosing, its the exteramist view of america that the democrats are screaching about. When you cry the sky is falling, and I look up and see just a little rain but sunshine on the horizon I want to listen no more of your spiel. Sure I disagree with the evangielicals, I think their blief system is silly yet cute in how they subscribe blindly to a book written on behalf of king james, but are they the real problem? Their only real probem is the abortion issue, which slips into stem cell research and other issues. Take that out and its hard to find fault with them. Its rather like the morons whako cristian cult sure, but they arnt hurting me and arnt likly to. Bush one on the charecter issue, love him or hate him he belives one thing and generally sticks with it. Kerry had 'nuanced opionons' which not even people of his party or campanign could explain day to day. Sounding like you telling everyone what they want to hear makes you look like your full of bullshit. A east coast libreal hasnt been president since Kenndy, and he wasnt that liberal. Kerry was an also ran to replace Dean who would have lost several states and creatored the democratic party, kerry was someone to lose not so badly. Until the democrats can get canidate that can not be laughed out of the south and midwest they are going to conintue the loose.
Any one else wonder if SCO is just setting themselfs an easy out later? I mean when this doesnt go SCOs way and they hit the cap all Darl has to say is 'We would have won if we had more time and money' then he keeps the shadow over linux serving his Micky$oft masters. Since this was never about making money only hurting linux, I suspect this is a winning stratgy in the end. All MS has to say is point to some shlep that buys up the reminants of SCO and say they can sue you, this was never settled. Lets hope SCO implodes and someone like IBM or Novell buys them for pennies on the dollar and kills this lawsuit business.
The article and ruleing go into the fact they at defating the control for interopartion is legal. So if I need a mod chip to boot linux or play my home brew game doesnt that make the mod chip its self legal. INAL but the opionon appears to be opening the door and leading to that the DMCA is vulnerable on several other grounds. Can this be leveraged to for mod chips, tivo hacks, maybe even the broadcast flag it self. Look at me Im drunk with power in burning the DMCA
Newtionian mechanics, nothing is simpler, more straight forward or less correct. Sure all you hot shot kids with your Relativity or String theory think your cool. Newtonian mechanics, understood and tamed since the greeks, but not written down until Newton. With Newton we get the industrial revolution, had the church been raigned in during Galalio we might have been on the moon hundereds of years eariler. Fewer things can be less obvious yet hit with such impact then Newton.
You need central computing. One (or few) big servers that kept clean and well managed. Then make the remote clients dumb, locked down, and netbooted if possible. So basically what you want is xterminals. That run a local citirix client to access winblows apps and your done. This doesnt fix the sales departement laptops, but then again nothing will, its best to put those on a rotating plan where sales guys drop off the laptop ever few weeks for prevenetive maintaince (wipe the machines, and install the latest updates). Also make sure you rotate the laptops, this prevents people sticking their own crap on them. USB keys can work well for storing local stuff, if vpn protected netshares are not available. In the end you will spend man years protecting invididual machines, while protecting one machine is much more feasable. In the 80s we ran away from network computing becouse networks were very unstable, slow. Now that ethernet is more reliable, and 100Mb or faster is the norm, network computing makes much more sense.
Looks like just another reason for offsite backups, kept away from the internal IT staff. I used to work for a place where VP of engineering and the CEO got daily backups and both were said to keep them in a undisclosed secure location, Maybe Cheney is running a side busienss.
Dont assume that if you buy a CD and got a deal on a concert it would have to be the same artist that recorded the original track. I mean if there was a kickass Led Zepplin coverband I would brush back my mullet and buy some of my old zep cd's if I got into a decent Zepplin Jimmy Page show, Or even a good coverband. Infact If I bought the new Bad Religion CD, but got a coupon for a NOFX show, that would be cool as well. Infact artist working toghter and sharing sales and rebates might one of the few things the record lables might be good at in such a world. Intead of a controling distribution channels tightly they would be more a union of collective of aritst sharing revenues.
When you look at pricing selling bits is a losing game. First lets just get past the whole DRM, no I repeat NO DRM has ever worked. Just look at the warez groups and software, every game comes out with DRM and within hours its down like panties. The next fact we need to look at is just the econmics of the music buisness. Albums will never avarge over $20, the current sweet spot is $9 - $15. The per track sweet spot is $.99 (pick your currancy its all.99). Now lets look at concert tickets and expendatures. A decent show will start at about $30 per person, (figure you need to shelp a girl that makes less then you along so your paying her way). Add in tshirt (gotta get the sweet brittny t) and maybe a few beers, and you can esisly kick that outing up to $100s. So we have a situation where the concerts are brining 10x what the album sells for, and we are talking about albums? Jebus, why not just take 10% of the gate and give the bits away for free? So this is how it should work. First encode all the albums in just about every decent format that someone might want, and give them away for free. Allow people to download them directly from your website, share them p2p, it doesnt matter its just bits. Now Sell albums with something that they dont get by downloading. Keep the CD at about $15, but include a head of line copuon for the next concert. Most people if they like the ablum and buy it, and get it gets them into the concert. Now whamo this is where you start to cash in as we have seen the concerts is where people spend real money. The mp3s, flacs, aac's are just marketing to sell more concert tickets, shirts, and beers. Hard Copy CD's stay at $15 so they break even, but again just push people into the concert. The scary thing is the same model works for movies. How many Starwars fanboys would preorder the DVD's if they got into the premier of the next episode a day early with the movie critics? This also fixes the DRM arms race as by not playing that game. I mean how can kazaa compete when I can get the album, for $15 but a $20 rebate for the concert? If I show up for the concert the 'album pays for its self' in my eyes, but since they jack up the price of the concert, add in the price of the tshirt and the 'CD of the concert' vendor the music industry, artist, and promoter makes back the cash hand over fist.
I see two ways we will get non bradcast flag cards. First will be from people selling for the non use market, and doing a gray market import. Some jackass in.ca will make a killing seeling drm free cards on ebay. Second way we will get drm free cards is the same way we get 'import and backup' support for Xbox and playstation. Who ever makes the best card will get it hacked. Most likly a hardware hack will come out to remove the broadcast flag, finally a software hack will comeout most likly in the form of either a new firmware flash (ala region free dvd drives) or a hacked driver that ignores the broadcast flag. At the speed the warez groups are able to hack throught copy protected binaires, I give it 2 months until just about ever decent card has a gray market driver. The broadcast flag will be flop just like every other DRM scheme before it, people dont want it, only one cracker needs to beat it, and its down like panties.
This thing is useless without biometerics to lock the key to a given user at this point in time. Supposed Johnny steals his dads credit card, dad is going to be pissed bout missing a card (like any good american he uses it on average 5 times a day). But now Johnny can get to pr0n. Now supposed Johnny steals the usb dongle, guess what the dad wont notice as he doesnt use it every day. Thus johnny is able to look at pr0n longer. Unless you tie the usb dongle to a biometerics this does nothing execpt allow verisign to charge new fees for encoding. In reality what we need is crypto usb keys, ones that have a private key and public cert installed in them. The private key should be locked compelty without the biometeric integrated thumb print scanner) then the private key is unlocked for crypto operations, but never allowed to be directly extracted. Then all we need to do is make sure its in a form factor that will destruct the key if tampered with and whamo we have a real way to identify people in real time. Of course such a system would be usefull for voting, credit applications, travel, picking up children, just about everything we hope bad people dont try do do as us today. Something with such wide use will never come to be. Good thing Verisign doenst know what they are doing, the might have ruled the world.
As someone that has had to work with SecurID more then once, I can tell you its a heaping pile from the 80s. The client librarys are crap, mostly written for winblows, and ported by some grad students via macros. Two factor authentication is usally charecterized by 'something you have and something you know' You know your password (pin in rsa parlance) and you have a token which has a value, toghter you get a passcode. Really AOL should have been smarter and just issued digitial certificates to their users. This would make the hardware not required (unless you used usb dongles to hold the cert) but also allows for much higher encryption, better managment, and its cheaper as all you need to do is create your own CA, and start issuing certs. Im rather surpised that verisign didnt try to win the aol deal.
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its awful nice of the mpaa to give us a scanning tool so that we can prove that our file obsfucation works correctly. We just have to obfuscat the files well enough to beat their tools and we dont have to wait to get cought to be sure the software is working correctly, thats GREAT. I cant wait until something like edonky grows to support file obfuscation and calls it 'encryption' and thus makes all of this p2p scanning by third parties a violation of the DMCA.
Im going to start filling out workers comp for weed money. Sweet I wonder if that will also cover the required hohos and ringdings!
the inhabinates in the Red States might not be the brights and easily controlled via fear and religion. But can we really expect them to live on pennies on the dollar? When shopping at WalMart is shopping at the ritzy store I doubt it a community will be built in that cost/price/wage structor.
So if tivo changes the name of their button to 'Break Skip' everyone would be happy?
I thought the correct term for a one minute episode was commercial. I cant belive people are going to pay for that.
Sure they have built ppc mips axp versions of NT and they all worked. The problem is that as OS goes MS isnt that great. The only reason people stay with Windows is the APPS. How are they going to sell a 'Windows PC' that only runs 6 apps from MS ? Emulation? Wont cut it dog slow the only way this make sense is dual proc or System on Board something like the macs the old macs that shipped with a 386 on a PCI card, shared some io and memory and a little magic you got two computers in one box.
Im just going to be poping 1gb of mail. No big deal jebus thats crazy.
Theocracy? You have never left the US have you, most likly never stepped down out of your ivory towered blue state. You want to see a theocracy go to Iran, tell me then talk about how the US is so horriable. Basic human rights go to china and try speaking this ill of the governement, or better yet try being a neighbor to China who thinks they have some right to your land ala taiwan. No my friend you want to know why the left is loosing, its the exteramist view of america that the democrats are screaching about. When you cry the sky is falling, and I look up and see just a little rain but sunshine on the horizon I want to listen no more of your spiel. Sure I disagree with the evangielicals, I think their blief system is silly yet cute in how they subscribe blindly to a book written on behalf of king james, but are they the real problem? Their only real probem is the abortion issue, which slips into stem cell research and other issues. Take that out and its hard to find fault with them. Its rather like the morons whako cristian cult sure, but they arnt hurting me and arnt likly to. Bush one on the charecter issue, love him or hate him he belives one thing and generally sticks with it. Kerry had 'nuanced opionons' which not even people of his party or campanign could explain day to day. Sounding like you telling everyone what they want to hear makes you look like your full of bullshit. A east coast libreal hasnt been president since Kenndy, and he wasnt that liberal. Kerry was an also ran to replace Dean who would have lost several states and creatored the democratic party, kerry was someone to lose not so badly. Until the democrats can get canidate that can not be laughed out of the south and midwest they are going to conintue the loose.
This is Micro$oft, No KY allowed!
Any one else wonder if SCO is just setting themselfs an easy out later? I mean when this doesnt go SCOs way and they hit the cap all Darl has to say is 'We would have won if we had more time and money' then he keeps the shadow over linux serving his Micky$oft masters. Since this was never about making money only hurting linux, I suspect this is a winning stratgy in the end. All MS has to say is point to some shlep that buys up the reminants of SCO and say they can sue you, this was never settled. Lets hope SCO implodes and someone like IBM or Novell buys them for pennies on the dollar and kills this lawsuit business.
The article and ruleing go into the fact they at defating the control for interopartion is legal. So if I need a mod chip to boot linux or play my home brew game doesnt that make the mod chip its self legal. INAL but the opionon appears to be opening the door and leading to that the DMCA is vulnerable on several other grounds. Can this be leveraged to for mod chips, tivo hacks, maybe even the broadcast flag it self. Look at me Im drunk with power in burning the DMCA
Newtionian mechanics, nothing is simpler, more straight forward or less correct. Sure all you hot shot kids with your Relativity or String theory think your cool. Newtonian mechanics, understood and tamed since the greeks, but not written down until Newton. With Newton we get the industrial revolution, had the church been raigned in during Galalio we might have been on the moon hundereds of years eariler. Fewer things can be less obvious yet hit with such impact then Newton.
You need central computing. One (or few) big servers that kept clean and well managed. Then make the remote clients dumb, locked down, and netbooted if possible. So basically what you want is xterminals. That run a local citirix client to access winblows apps and your done. This doesnt fix the sales departement laptops, but then again nothing will, its best to put those on a rotating plan where sales guys drop off the laptop ever few weeks for prevenetive maintaince (wipe the machines, and install the latest updates). Also make sure you rotate the laptops, this prevents people sticking their own crap on them. USB keys can work well for storing local stuff, if vpn protected netshares are not available. In the end you will spend man years protecting invididual machines, while protecting one machine is much more feasable. In the 80s we ran away from network computing becouse networks were very unstable, slow. Now that ethernet is more reliable, and 100Mb or faster is the norm, network computing makes much more sense.
Looks like just another reason for offsite backups, kept away from the internal IT staff. I used to work for a place where VP of engineering and the CEO got daily backups and both were said to keep them in a undisclosed secure location, Maybe Cheney is running a side busienss.
If you make the fraggets sign a waiver do you need insurance? Just do what the MicroSoft does, make it 'Not your problem'.
Remeber the great Chirstmas Special!
Dont assume that if you buy a CD and got a deal on a concert it would have to be the same artist that recorded the original track. I mean if there was a kickass Led Zepplin coverband I would brush back my mullet and buy some of my old zep cd's if I got into a decent Zepplin Jimmy Page show, Or even a good coverband. Infact If I bought the new Bad Religion CD, but got a coupon for a NOFX show, that would be cool as well. Infact artist working toghter and sharing sales and rebates might one of the few things the record lables might be good at in such a world. Intead of a controling distribution channels tightly they would be more a union of collective of aritst sharing revenues.
When you look at pricing selling bits is a losing game. First lets just get past the whole DRM, no I repeat NO DRM has ever worked. Just look at the warez groups and software, every game comes out with DRM and within hours its down like panties. The next fact we need to look at is just the econmics of the music buisness. Albums will never avarge over $20, the current sweet spot is $9 - $15. The per track sweet spot is $.99 (pick your currancy its all .99). Now lets look at concert tickets and expendatures. A decent show will start at about $30 per person, (figure you need to shelp a girl that makes less then you along so your paying her way). Add in tshirt (gotta get the sweet brittny t) and maybe a few beers, and you can esisly kick that outing up to $100s. So we have a situation where the concerts are brining 10x what the album sells for, and we are talking about albums? Jebus, why not just take 10% of the gate and give the bits away for free? So this is how it should work. First encode all the albums in just about every decent format that someone might want, and give them away for free. Allow people to download them directly from your website, share them p2p, it doesnt matter its just bits. Now Sell albums with something that they dont get by downloading. Keep the CD at about $15, but include a head of line copuon for the next concert. Most people if they like the ablum and buy it, and get it gets them into the concert. Now whamo this is where you start to cash in as we have seen the concerts is where people spend real money. The mp3s, flacs, aac's are just marketing to sell more concert tickets, shirts, and beers. Hard Copy CD's stay at $15 so they break even, but again just push people into the concert. The scary thing is the same model works for movies. How many Starwars fanboys would preorder the DVD's if they got into the premier of the next episode a day early with the movie critics? This also fixes the DRM arms race as by not playing that game. I mean how can kazaa compete when I can get the album, for $15 but a $20 rebate for the concert? If I show up for the concert the 'album pays for its self' in my eyes, but since they jack up the price of the concert, add in the price of the tshirt and the 'CD of the concert' vendor the music industry, artist, and promoter makes back the cash hand over fist.
I see two ways we will get non bradcast flag cards. First will be from people selling for the non use market, and doing a gray market import. Some jackass in .ca will make a killing seeling drm free cards on ebay. Second way we will get drm free cards is the same way we get 'import and backup' support for Xbox and playstation. Who ever makes the best card will get it hacked. Most likly a hardware hack will come out to remove the broadcast flag, finally a software hack will comeout most likly in the form of either a new firmware flash (ala region free dvd drives) or a hacked driver that ignores the broadcast flag. At the speed the warez groups are able to hack throught copy protected binaires, I give it 2 months until just about ever decent card has a gray market driver. The broadcast flag will be flop just like every other DRM scheme before it, people dont want it, only one cracker needs to beat it, and its down like panties.
This thing is useless without biometerics to lock the key to a given user at this point in time. Supposed Johnny steals his dads credit card, dad is going to be pissed bout missing a card (like any good american he uses it on average 5 times a day). But now Johnny can get to pr0n. Now supposed Johnny steals the usb dongle, guess what the dad wont notice as he doesnt use it every day. Thus johnny is able to look at pr0n longer. Unless you tie the usb dongle to a biometerics this does nothing execpt allow verisign to charge new fees for encoding. In reality what we need is crypto usb keys, ones that have a private key and public cert installed in them. The private key should be locked compelty without the biometeric integrated thumb print scanner) then the private key is unlocked for crypto operations, but never allowed to be directly extracted. Then all we need to do is make sure its in a form factor that will destruct the key if tampered with and whamo we have a real way to identify people in real time. Of course such a system would be usefull for voting, credit applications, travel, picking up children, just about everything we hope bad people dont try do do as us today. Something with such wide use will never come to be. Good thing Verisign doenst know what they are doing, the might have ruled the world.
Is that GPRS with EDGE so its 128K? 384K? Hmm, I might need to scream at sprintpcs.
Run voip over the data plan and get cheaper unlimited minutes?
There are a ton of these pcmcia wireless cards floating around. Now if they had a unlimited data plan that didnt break the bank that would be NEWS!
Wholly Jeez I cant wait till we get medical equipment thats built on windows xp embedded!
Nurse: Uh the resperator shut down
Tech: reboot it, everything should be fine
Nurse: ok, resperator is working again, what about the patient?
Tech: hmm... cant reboot him huh..?
Nurse: nope, hes cold
Tech: well at least the embedded web browser is working, maybe we can find him a family plot.. or email john edwards!
As someone that has had to work with SecurID more then once, I can tell you its a heaping pile from the 80s. The client librarys are crap, mostly written for winblows, and ported by some grad students via macros. Two factor authentication is usally charecterized by 'something you have and something you know' You know your password (pin in rsa parlance) and you have a token which has a value, toghter you get a passcode. Really AOL should have been smarter and just issued digitial certificates to their users. This would make the hardware not required (unless you used usb dongles to hold the cert) but also allows for much higher encryption, better managment, and its cheaper as all you need to do is create your own CA, and start issuing certs. Im rather surpised that verisign didnt try to win the aol deal.