what's wrong with Web Initial Signon (webiso nee` pubcookie)?
When I first saw the name "WebISO", I got the impression "download ISOz [i.e. ISO 9660 CD-ROM images that probably infringe a copyright] over the Web". I bet more than one suit will pick up a software copyright infringement connotation from that name.
The Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.0.
This is a free software license, not a strong copyleft, which is incompatible with the GNU GPL because of details rather than any major policy.
A popular free office suite is licensed under SISSL and Lesser GPL, similar to the way Mozilla is licensed (MPL/LGPL/GPL). Unlike the OpenOffice.org suite, this Liberty implementation doesn't seem to also be under a GNU license.
Look at the screenshots and imagine how immersive and beautiful it will be.
Look at the FAQ and imagine how expensive it will be, alienating many Blizzard fans who buy games with an allowance from their parents because they aren't yet old enough to circumvent somewhat oppressive child labor laws. Not only will it cost $60 for the software plus more for service^W expansion packs, it looks like at least $10 per month for an account.
It gets even worse for Final Fantasy XI, which (in addition to a PS2) effectively requires the Linux Kit (for the hard drive and broadband adapter), plus the game, plus a subscription for each character. Imagine paying real money for a Phoenix Down to revive your characters.
After all the Doom and Duke Nukem versions were just flat out pathetic.
Don't you disrespect Doom Advance. Even though it runs in 120x120 resolution, it preserves almost everything that was good about Doom for PC, and a GBA is much lighter (i'm talking mass not brightness), provides more battery power per charge (even with the Pelican cover/light turned on), and costs a lot less than a typical used late-486 laptop. And you don't have to play on a steenkin keyboard.
I'll agree that Duke Nukem 64 by 2D Realms was no fun (having to walk through a wall to beat the early "prison" level smacks of trolling for 1-900 hint line revenue), especially when put up against Rare's Goldeneye.
I think a 16 MHz ARM processor would only be in a "high end" smart phone, or a PDA and not your mass market average cell phone.
What would a "mass market average cell phone" need with fast public-key encryption? Can't it just authenticate with the cell tower, grab a symmetric key, and then just encrypt voice with AES[1] based on that, possibly grabbing new symmetric keys during non-talk time? Wouldn't the more advanced "Burning Cell Phones" that run apps other than voice and simple games be essentially PDAs with a fast processor anyway?
Think 8 or 16 bit, less than 12 MHz on average.
So you're talking half the power of a GBA. (The GBA is 32-bit with a 16-bit data bus, clocked at 16 MHz.) How does RSA computation scale with respect to keylength?
What?? What sense is there to that? What would who possibly have to gain by doing that?
The point of the TCPA and Palladium systems is that only the piece of code that created the data has access to the data. And in this case, that piece of code would be licensed copies of Microsoft Word.
Can I get you a lobotomy?
I hope your comment was a rhetorical question, because it seems obvious to me that Microsoft would have the most to gain by pushing an even more tightly restricted version of the Word document format on users.
Your comment uses the poetic device of parallelism to equate video game production in Russia with video game production in Japan. The difference here is that the North American console gaming population is much more familiar with Japanese video game culture than with Russian video game culture (excluding one particular Russian game).
If you take that into account, there is no reason not to do a Console game.
Except that you can't find a publisher. This late in the game, if you're developing for a DVD/miniDVD console system, you need to find a publisher to take your title even before you start developing your game, so that you can have access to development hardware.
Besides, it's being developed for MULTIPLE PLATFORMS.
By "multiple console platforms", do they mean "multiple DVD/miniDVD based console platforms, that is, only for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube" or do they include Game Boy Advance? Because if it's available on GBA, it's available on Windows and Linux: just buy the cartridge, plug it into your Visoly linker, and run it in VisualBoyAdvance.
my Cyrix 233 server can encrypt with blowfish 4MB/s... I have a 100Mbps full duplex switched network.
At that rate, you can fill 1/5 of your pipe (20 Mbps up and 20 Mbps down) with crypto. What is your site about that needs encryption on large transfers? Or do you just have a lot of pageviews per day?
And in any case, what *should* I bring for shaving, you don't particularily like razer-blades now do you ?
(assuming "you" refers to the government) If you don't need to shave on the plane, then don't carry your razor kit on your person. Take a Gillette Mach 3 Turbo razor (for women, Gillette Venus), pack it in your suitcase, and then check your suitcase. But be sure to read the ticket (it's a contract, you know) and understand the lost luggage policy.
(assuming "you" refers to the owner of a face being shaved) For some reason, my Gillette Mach 3 Turbo razor gives a closer shave than my Norelco Reflex Action electric razor that I just bought new blades for.
[Palladium] will be used to implement very strong oppresive DRM schemes.
Any system designed and promoted specifically as a platform on top of which digital restrictions management can be easily implemented is itself a DRM system.
Palladium... does not... 3. Prevent you from doing anything to "untrusted" files.
Then what happens when Microsoft Word 2005 adopts a "trusted" default format and gives a Big Scary Ominous Dialog(tm) when you try to save in ascii, html, rtf, or previous Word formats?
[Palladium does not] 4. Run all the time.
Yes it does. Whenever you interact with a "trusted" file in Explorer.exe, Explorer.exe calls functions in Palladium.dll. Thus, Explorer.exe has to keep Palladium.dll loaded all the time.
The biggest problem with DRM in practice: If copyrighted works are available only in a form that prohibits all copying, then where is meaningful fair use?
Yes, I know it's the former, but I was making a joke.
How handwriting recognition is easier
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one would imagine that recognizing much more readable printed words would be easier than my inconsistent and messy handwriting.
However, with handwriting on a pda screen, the software gets additional information the order of the strokes. For instance, if you always write one letter clockwise and another counterclockwise, the software can use that to help distinguish the letters. Print can't do that.
If *you* can do *your* work *without* Microsoft Windows, then none of this stupidity about their service packs, EULAs, etc, etc, needs to bother you.
On the other hand, if Microsoft continues to expand its monopolies into new parts of the computer industry, that may jeopardize *my* ability to do *my* work *without* Microsoft Windows. For instance, if the CBDTPA (or whatever Hollings is calling it this week) passes, requiring all computers to have a digital restrictions management operating system (which, incidentally, M$ has a patent on), M$ will have a federally sponsored monopoly on computer operating systems. Moving out of the United States has its own drawbacks.
background: from anti-hydrogen to popular-science units to the mass of Pater
Have you seen any pictures of him?
Other than the picture on the front of cowboyneal.org, no. I'm welcome to corrections in my estimates of conversion factors. How much would you guess CowboyNeal weighs?
I'm sure if they make hardware, they'll make it compatiable to work with *other* operating systems. Right?
Remember: Microsoft still makes Office for Mac OS X. I don't think Microsoft would go to the trouble of requiring a copy of Connectix Virtual PC and Microsoft Windows for the Mac version of the product.
/home/tepples/music/Marilyn Manson/Antichrist Superstar/Marilyn Manson - 1996.txt
anti choice and anti girl I am the anti-flag unfurled anti white and anti man I got the anti-future plan anti fascist, anti mod I am the anti-music god anti sober, anti whore there will never be enough of anti more I can't believe in the things that don't believe in me now it's your turn to see misanthropy anti people now you've gone too far here's your antichrist superstar
anti money, anti hate anti things I f*cked and ate anti cop and anti fun here is my anti-president gun anti Satan, anti black anti world is on my back anti gay and anti dope I am the faggot antipope I can't believe in the things that don't believe in me now it's your turn to see what'll never be anti people now you've gone too far antichrist superstar anti people now you've gone too far here's your antichrist superstar
anti peace and anti life anti husband, anti wife anti song and anti me I don't deserve a chance to be
anti people now you've gone too far antichrist superstar anti people now you've gone too far here's your antichrist superstar
Equals 0.1 second. Yes, when you blink your eyes, you miss 10 whole frames of your precious Quake III. Would it be possible to detect closing of eyes and turn off rendering for a split second, giving those cycles to (e.g.) your niced distributed.net or Folding@home client?
handful
Depends on molar density (mol/L but not molarity because it isn't a solution). This is the only one I couldn't find a definite conversion factor for.
human hair
Close to 50 to 100 micrometers.
football field
Approximately 110 m, for both soccer and NFL football. Canadian fields are longer.
Given that a watt of power is a joule of energy per second, this equals 100 joules. A kilowatt-hour equals 3.6 megajoules. A horsepower is about 750 watts, so a horsepower-hour is 2.7 megajoules.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anybody care to write a Saturday Night Live style "Weekend Update" satire of this news story?
what's wrong with Web Initial Signon (webiso nee` pubcookie)?
When I first saw the name "WebISO", I got the impression "download ISOz [i.e. ISO 9660 CD-ROM images that probably infringe a copyright] over the Web". I bet more than one suit will pick up a software copyright infringement connotation from that name.
Also, would you care to point out where the SISSL is incompatible with the GPL?
From the License List at GNU.org:
A popular free office suite is licensed under SISSL and Lesser GPL, similar to the way Mozilla is licensed (MPL/LGPL/GPL). Unlike the OpenOffice.org suite, this Liberty implementation doesn't seem to also be under a GNU license.
i wonder if anyone has ever thought about using starcraft to represent sysadmin things like people have done with doom.
I'd bet people have, but Blizzard's parent Vivendi Universal is much more closed about its older game engines than id Software is.
Look at the screenshots and imagine how immersive and beautiful it will be.
Look at the FAQ and imagine how expensive it will be, alienating many Blizzard fans who buy games with an allowance from their parents because they aren't yet old enough to circumvent somewhat oppressive child labor laws. Not only will it cost $60 for the software plus more for service^W expansion packs, it looks like at least $10 per month for an account.
It gets even worse for Final Fantasy XI, which (in addition to a PS2) effectively requires the Linux Kit (for the hard drive and broadband adapter), plus the game, plus a subscription for each character. Imagine paying real money for a Phoenix Down to revive your characters.
After all the Doom and Duke Nukem versions were just flat out pathetic.
Don't you disrespect Doom Advance. Even though it runs in 120x120 resolution, it preserves almost everything that was good about Doom for PC, and a GBA is much lighter (i'm talking mass not brightness), provides more battery power per charge (even with the Pelican cover/light turned on), and costs a lot less than a typical used late-486 laptop. And you don't have to play on a steenkin keyboard.
I'll agree that Duke Nukem 64 by 2D Realms was no fun (having to walk through a wall to beat the early "prison" level smacks of trolling for 1-900 hint line revenue), especially when put up against Rare's Goldeneye.
I think a 16 MHz ARM processor would only be in a "high end" smart phone, or a PDA and not your mass market average cell phone.
What would a "mass market average cell phone" need with fast public-key encryption? Can't it just authenticate with the cell tower, grab a symmetric key, and then just encrypt voice with AES[1] based on that, possibly grabbing new symmetric keys during non-talk time? Wouldn't the more advanced "Burning Cell Phones" that run apps other than voice and simple games be essentially PDAs with a fast processor anyway?
Think 8 or 16 bit, less than 12 MHz on average.
So you're talking half the power of a GBA. (The GBA is 32-bit with a 16-bit data bus, clocked at 16 MHz.) How does RSA computation scale with respect to keylength?
[1] Yes, AES been theoretically attacked down to 96-bit, but 96-bit is still considered quite "strong" for symmetric encryption. It has taken nearly four years, and one of the world's biggest clusters still hasn't broken a 64-bit key.
What?? What sense is there to that? What would who possibly have to gain by doing that?
The point of the TCPA and Palladium systems is that only the piece of code that created the data has access to the data. And in this case, that piece of code would be licensed copies of Microsoft Word.
Can I get you a lobotomy?
I hope your comment was a rhetorical question, because it seems obvious to me that Microsoft would have the most to gain by pushing an even more tightly restricted version of the Word document format on users.
Your comment uses the poetic device of parallelism to equate video game production in Russia with video game production in Japan. The difference here is that the North American console gaming population is much more familiar with Japanese video game culture than with Russian video game culture (excluding one particular Russian game).
If you take that into account, there is no reason not to do a Console game.
Except that you can't find a publisher. This late in the game, if you're developing for a DVD/miniDVD console system, you need to find a publisher to take your title even before you start developing your game, so that you can have access to development hardware.
The GBA, on the other hand, is pretty much wide open by now.
Besides, it's being developed for MULTIPLE PLATFORMS.
By "multiple console platforms", do they mean "multiple DVD/miniDVD based console platforms, that is, only for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube" or do they include Game Boy Advance? Because if it's available on GBA, it's available on Windows and Linux: just buy the cartridge, plug it into your Visoly linker, and run it in VisualBoyAdvance.
Nintendo put out a lot more "risky" games then most companies.
Pikmin and Animal Crossing are Nintendo brand titles. Are there any "risky" licensed titles for GameCube?
my Cyrix 233 server can encrypt with blowfish 4MB/s ... I have a 100Mbps full duplex switched network.
At that rate, you can fill 1/5 of your pipe (20 Mbps up and 20 Mbps down) with crypto. What is your site about that needs encryption on large transfers? Or do you just have a lot of pageviews per day?
Applications like online wireless betting or online wireless reservations need better (read: quick) security in PDAs and mobile phones
But don't e-commerce apps typically have small data packets? Encrypting a tightly packed transaction on a 16 MHz ARM processor won't take very long.
Can't wait for the Supreme Court to get a case of somebody who is suing the government for destroying their fair use rights.
s/fair use/public domain/ and you get Eldred v. Ashcroft.
And in any case, what *should* I bring for shaving, you don't particularily like razer-blades now do you ?
(assuming "you" refers to the government) If you don't need to shave on the plane, then don't carry your razor kit on your person. Take a Gillette Mach 3 Turbo razor (for women, Gillette Venus), pack it in your suitcase, and then check your suitcase. But be sure to read the ticket (it's a contract, you know) and understand the lost luggage policy.
(assuming "you" refers to the owner of a face being shaved) For some reason, my Gillette Mach 3 Turbo razor gives a closer shave than my Norelco Reflex Action electric razor that I just bought new blades for.
Do you hire a law firm to fix your computer?
Yes. Questioning the constitutionality of MPAA-bought legislation in court would have an effect of "fixing my computer," would it not?
[Palladium] is not DRM at all
But you also wrote:
[Palladium] will be used to implement very strong oppresive DRM schemes.
Any system designed and promoted specifically as a platform on top of which digital restrictions management can be easily implemented is itself a DRM system.
Palladium ... does not ... 3. Prevent you from doing anything to "untrusted" files.
Then what happens when Microsoft Word 2005 adopts a "trusted" default format and gives a Big Scary Ominous Dialog(tm) when you try to save in ascii, html, rtf, or previous Word formats?
[Palladium does not] 4. Run all the time.
Yes it does. Whenever you interact with a "trusted" file in Explorer.exe, Explorer.exe calls functions in Palladium.dll. Thus, Explorer.exe has to keep Palladium.dll loaded all the time.
The biggest problem with DRM in practice: If copyrighted works are available only in a form that prohibits all copying, then where is meaningful fair use?
with built in scan to MP3 conversion!
Do you mean through text-to-speech, or through bitmap-to-Aphex-Twin's-face?
Yes, I know it's the former, but I was making a joke.one would imagine that recognizing much more readable printed words would be easier than my inconsistent and messy handwriting.
However, with handwriting on a pda screen, the software gets additional information the order of the strokes. For instance, if you always write one letter clockwise and another counterclockwise, the software can use that to help distinguish the letters. Print can't do that.
If *you* can do *your* work *without* Microsoft Windows, then none of this stupidity about their service packs, EULAs, etc, etc, needs to bother you.
On the other hand, if Microsoft continues to expand its monopolies into new parts of the computer industry, that may jeopardize *my* ability to do *my* work *without* Microsoft Windows. For instance, if the CBDTPA (or whatever Hollings is calling it this week) passes, requiring all computers to have a digital restrictions management operating system (which, incidentally, M$ has a patent on), M$ will have a federally sponsored monopoly on computer operating systems. Moving out of the United States has its own drawbacks.
background: from anti-hydrogen to popular-science units to the mass of Pater
Have you seen any pictures of him?
Other than the picture on the front of cowboyneal.org, no. I'm welcome to corrections in my estimates of conversion factors. How much would you guess CowboyNeal weighs?
I'm sure if they make hardware, they'll make it compatiable to work with *other* operating systems. Right?
Remember: Microsoft still makes Office for Mac OS X. I don't think Microsoft would go to the trouble of requiring a copy of Connectix Virtual PC and Microsoft Windows for the Mac version of the product.
But can the antimatter physicists top this?
/home/tepples/music/Marilyn Manson/Antichrist Superstar/Marilyn Manson - 1996.txt
anti choice and anti girl
I am the anti-flag unfurled
anti white and anti man
I got the anti-future plan
anti fascist, anti mod
I am the anti-music god
anti sober, anti whore
there will never be enough of anti more
I can't believe in the things
that don't believe in me
now it's your turn to see misanthropy
anti people now you've gone too far
here's your antichrist superstar
anti money, anti hate
anti things I f*cked and ate
anti cop and anti fun
here is my anti-president gun
anti Satan, anti black
anti world is on my back
anti gay and anti dope
I am the faggot antipope
I can't believe in the things
that don't believe in me
now it's your turn to see what'll never be
anti people now you've gone too far
antichrist superstar
anti people now you've gone too far
here's your antichrist superstar
anti peace and anti life
anti husband, anti wife
anti song and anti me
I don't deserve a chance to be
anti people now you've gone too far
antichrist superstar
anti people now you've gone too far
here's your antichrist superstar
Library of Congress
Close to 80 terabits.
eye-blink
Equals 0.1 second. Yes, when you blink your eyes, you miss 10 whole frames of your precious Quake III. Would it be possible to detect closing of eyes and turn off rendering for a split second, giving those cycles to (e.g.) your niced distributed.net or Folding@home client?
handful
Depends on molar density (mol/L but not molarity because it isn't a solution). This is the only one I couldn't find a definite conversion factor for.
human hair
Close to 50 to 100 micrometers.
football field
Approximately 110 m, for both soccer and NFL football. Canadian fields are longer.
football stadium
NFL's Cleveland Browns play in a stadium with a volume of about 3 million cubic meters.
100-watt-lightbulb-second
Given that a watt of power is a joule of energy per second, this equals 100 joules. A kilowatt-hour equals 3.6 megajoules. A horsepower is about 750 watts, so a horsepower-hour is 2.7 megajoules.
CowboyNeal
Assume 90 kg.