too bad it'll probably be wasted on the likes of advanced DRM.
IF it does find it's way in a microsoft operating system, I'm pretty sure someone will find a way around it, and eventually control it remotely. If someone remote has the ability to not allow a local user to run programs, then your petty antivirus techniques are useless.
I think those types of setups are familiar to just about anyone that was in the computer arena in the early to mid-nineties. Having random machine without cases, 10 keyboards that may or may not be plugged in, and horrible wiring is probably how many of the top technological companies started. I am sure now it's all properly racked up with labeled cables and a KVM switch, but before the funding, I bet most companies run on old workstations. I thought the lego disk array was appropriate. I wonder what a fire marshal would have to say about their setup.
I think the worst setup I have seen was a previous company I worked for. They had a satellite office that just contained hardware. Well, no one ever went there, and for good reason. It housed quite a bit of old dialup gear, analog dialup gear, complete with external serial 28.8 modems. they were just stacked up all over the place. good thing they thought ahead and got modems with volume knobs, or you would be able to hear each person dialing in. The plastic racks all of the gear was sitting on was so old, it had started cracking and was a hazard to be around. It all worked somehow though. ahh...the good old days.
duh. Of course he wants hardware to be almost free, but it'll always be easier to duplicate software. The definition of hardware requires a physical device. Until 3d printers can regenerate every device used in a computer and are cheap enough that every home will have one, I can't see it being price consious.
I would guess probably not. Most of the time I use the computer is late at night or early morning when the less noise the better. I don't want to have to be talking to my computer to get it to do anything. It would be nice to be able to turn on and off the lights in a room with a single word, or have the lights follow me from room to room. If that happens how will we know when it blue screens? Without a display, i'm sure it will not be telling me about a blue screen.
Hardware like that will need some bullet-proof software to run it. I don't think anyone that reads slashdot would choose ANY incarnation of Windows as bullet-proof software.
like it or not, most people have tvs. most of the people that have tvs also have cable. You're trying to say that around 66% of people are getting gouged by cable companies, and Congress should be worried about other "necessities". I'm sorry, but if you live in an area like tornado alley, it'd be nice to have the weather channel. If you live in a coastal region, it'd be nice to know if there was a hurricane on it's way. If you have kids, it's nice to have channels like the disney channel or Noggin. Is cable a necessity? no. Do most people have it? Yes.
Face it, most americans (remember, 65%) don't want to have to subsidize channels they don't ever watch. I'm part of the 66%, and I don't see how it's acceptable to pay for 300 channels when I only watch 10 of them. If you don't have cable, good for you, but I can hardly see how your input is needed in this conversation.
umm...the congress is in place for the good of the american people, but you say this, "Have we no bigger problems in the world..." What do the problems in the world have to do directly with america? Sure, we love to stick our nose in the doggy poo-poo, but we also have our own problems.
cable companies have a monopoly just like the phone companies used to. What happens when the cable companies start tacking on service fees for maintenance of their own network? They get regulated just like the phone companies did. If I buy cable, why do I also have to pay for 100 channels that I didn't want?
most cable companies already require a digital box. There was this law that says they have to be all digital by 2006 or something like that. I could be mistaken though, but comcast in my area requires a box on each tv, if you want to get any advanced programming.
...i should get a choice whether i want to pay it or not. forcing it upon me will only make me seek alternative methods of operating my system. I also don't see them giving a rebate when my operating system crashes. I guarantee you if my car had a defect that caused a malfunction in the operation of the car, the manufacturer would be held responsible for shotty craftsmanship.
I remember being in a friend's dorm room about 8 years ago and watching him show me how he floods people off of irc with a CTCP flood. This was the beginning of the DoSnets. His bot was linked up to about 400 others that would all send commands to a specific user at once. I can only imagine the technology change in the last 8 years. From the sounds of it though, it's the same old crap, just using different protocols.
I also remember when winnuke came out. It was nearly impossible to use the internet for about 6 weeks, until microsoft got a patch out. I put a linux machine up as a firewall and logged all of the attempts. It was like people were just winnuking all of the available ip space. After winnuke, it was teardrop, then smurf. I'd never seen a windows machine crash so fast.
ahh...the good old days. I'm suprised this is just now getting attention. It was no big deal when single computers would crash all over the internet, but when CNN.com or AOL.com gets attacked, it's a big deal all of the sudden.
When did it become acceptable to just e-mail someone as a legal means to serve notice? I am suprised AOL's spam blocker didn't catch the guys e-mail address and filter it out as spam. You would think being served a DMCA notice would arrive with some sort of reply receipt, like in certified mail.
steps to abuse the process:
1. write a book or song 2. get it legally copyrighted 3. post it to usenet using a "Free 10 hours" account 4. send notices to all ISP's in the world that offer usenet access 5. sue the ones that don't respond.
if your box is "choking" on 90k e-mails/month, it's not setup correctly.
I have an old sparc that is handling bounces for a medium-sized isp right now and it takes in and processes about 10k messages per day and has no issues. sometimes it floods up to 3k or 4k per 5 minutes and will sit there for 30 minutes.
but some are, so those pesky reporters better keep their mouthes shut.
no really, people that think movies and video games spark violence act like there were no violence before tv and games. This isn't star trek. All animals have some sort of violence built in for survival. If anything, the violence from just watching the local or national news is the one doing the corrupting.
not being backwards compatible will just push everyone to playstation. Hopefully, the playstation 3 will still play playstation 1 games. sure, those games won't look as cool as the newest games, but being able to play them is the point in having a game system.
quality: This is a technological question that technology will quickly answer. In the last 5 years, i've seen the first 1Mpixel cameras come out, and now you can hardly buy one, since they've been replaced by much larger pixel sizes. it's common to see 5 pixel digital cameras, and they will only get better.
price: what kind of printed picture are you talking about? you can take your digital media down to wal-mart and for $.26 you can get a print out on the same Kodak paper that your 35MM pictures come on. After that, you can store the images in a digital format of your choice, and print it out again. What happens to analog film after about 10 years?
Different Formats: i guess you don't know you can get different pixel depth cameras. Want a large format digital camera? have you tried looking at sony? Sony makes a Sony DSC-F828 digital camera that is 8 megapixels. That plus a wide-angle lens should allow you to take a "large format" picture. most cameras have different qualities built in, so you can scale the image down and store more on a media stick.
Basically, you sound like you are living in 1990 when digital media was unknown. what kind of research have you done?
read this and you'll have more of an understanding of the differences.
...get a few colo spaces spread out over the physical country. Colo with big providers, they usually have the best, most redundant, [bullet,missile,nuclear] proof datacenters. Bandwidth will be an issue, but getting 1Mbit/sec would probably do fine, depending on how much you have to backup, and how often you want it backed up. Encrypt the data between the backup servers and the source servers for added data security.
Having your backups on your own machines ensures data integrity and physical security. If you give your data to someone else, don't be suprised if it ends up on the internet.
the poster also said something about 30-100GB. using 750MB zip disks would not be an option.
Your examples are the duct tape examples of someone that wants to (should) get fired from their job. The poster is obviously not going to cheap out and use a friend's hard drive.
i agree with some of your points, except for the one about burdening the other party. Do you think the FBI/CIA/NSA cares about tapping your calls to grandma or your babysitter? nope. They probably care more about tapping the calls from your hacker buddies that are going to go through the time and trouble to make sure their communications are encrypted. If we just assume most people will not use encryption, then we are missing the point in the tapping process anyways.
I don't see how technically they would be able to pull off the tapping process. Sure, you can tap all you want at the big providers, but if there's OSS software that can do it and encrypt the call, good luck big brother.
I have an IBM thinkpad 600c laptop that requires the laptop mouse to configure the bios. Of course, separating the mouse from the computer would be almost impossible without a dremel tool, but if the mouse is broken, i guess you're SOL.
that would work except most of the spam is one connection and multiple Bcc:'s. One connection every 10 seconds and you can fill up the Bcc: and Cc: headers until your eyes bleed.
i don't see how a setup where the remote mail server makes the local mail server do needless computational tasks for 10 seconds would scale in large system buildouts. I know a few of the mail servers i currently run would not be able to handle the additional cpu hit the MicroSoft solution would use. I think something that would check the links in each html e-mail before the e-mail is accepted for delivery would probably be the best solution. At the very least, it would DoS the website that was spamming if you got hundreds and hundreds of spam from the same host.
until then, spamcop and spamassassin are your friends.
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formatted or not, the mac address should not change.
off topic, but you're a crybaby.
you're basically saying scrap all that makes America America. If you wanted to live in Finland or Portugal, move there. No one's stopping you.
too bad it'll probably be wasted on the likes of advanced DRM.
IF it does find it's way in a microsoft operating system, I'm pretty sure someone will find a way around it, and eventually control it remotely. If someone remote has the ability to not allow a local user to run programs, then your petty antivirus techniques are useless.
I think those types of setups are familiar to just about anyone that was in the computer arena in the early to mid-nineties. Having random machine without cases, 10 keyboards that may or may not be plugged in, and horrible wiring is probably how many of the top technological companies started. I am sure now it's all properly racked up with labeled cables and a KVM switch, but before the funding, I bet most companies run on old workstations. I thought the lego disk array was appropriate. I wonder what a fire marshal would have to say about their setup.
I think the worst setup I have seen was a previous company I worked for. They had a satellite office that just contained hardware. Well, no one ever went there, and for good reason. It housed quite a bit of old dialup gear, analog dialup gear, complete with external serial 28.8 modems. they were just stacked up all over the place. good thing they thought ahead and got modems with volume knobs, or you would be able to hear each person dialing in. The plastic racks all of the gear was sitting on was so old, it had started cracking and was a hazard to be around. It all worked somehow though. ahh...the good old days.
which is easier:
1. duplicating software
2. duplicating hardware
duh. Of course he wants hardware to be almost free, but it'll always be easier to duplicate software. The definition of hardware requires a physical device. Until 3d printers can regenerate every device used in a computer and are cheap enough that every home will have one, I can't see it being price consious.
I would guess probably not. Most of the time I use the computer is late at night or early morning when the less noise the better. I don't want to have to be talking to my computer to get it to do anything. It would be nice to be able to turn on and off the lights in a room with a single word, or have the lights follow me from room to room. If that happens how will we know when it blue screens? Without a display, i'm sure it will not be telling me about a blue screen.
Hardware like that will need some bullet-proof software to run it. I don't think anyone that reads slashdot would choose ANY incarnation of Windows as bullet-proof software.
like it or not, most people have tvs. most of the people that have tvs also have cable. You're trying to say that around 66% of people are getting gouged by cable companies, and Congress should be worried about other "necessities". I'm sorry, but if you live in an area like tornado alley, it'd be nice to have the weather channel. If you live in a coastal region, it'd be nice to know if there was a hurricane on it's way. If you have kids, it's nice to have channels like the disney channel or Noggin. Is cable a necessity? no. Do most people have it? Yes.
Face it, most americans (remember, 65%) don't want to have to subsidize channels they don't ever watch. I'm part of the 66%, and I don't see how it's acceptable to pay for 300 channels when I only watch 10 of them. If you don't have cable, good for you, but I can hardly see how your input is needed in this conversation.
umm...the congress is in place for the good of the american people, but you say this, "Have we no bigger problems in the world..." What do the problems in the world have to do directly with america? Sure, we love to stick our nose in the doggy poo-poo, but we also have our own problems.
cable companies have a monopoly just like the phone companies used to. What happens when the cable companies start tacking on service fees for maintenance of their own network? They get regulated just like the phone companies did. If I buy cable, why do I also have to pay for 100 channels that I didn't want?
most cable companies already require a digital box. There was this law that says they have to be all digital by 2006 or something like that. I could be mistaken though, but comcast in my area requires a box on each tv, if you want to get any advanced programming.
it's already been done in a smaller package. the Archos av320 is already available and works pretty well.
come on, the NES had Barbie
...i should get a choice whether i want to pay it or not. forcing it upon me will only make me seek alternative methods of operating my system. I also don't see them giving a rebate when my operating system crashes. I guarantee you if my car had a defect that caused a malfunction in the operation of the car, the manufacturer would be held responsible for shotty craftsmanship.
I remember being in a friend's dorm room about 8 years ago and watching him show me how he floods people off of irc with a CTCP flood. This was the beginning of the DoSnets. His bot was linked up to about 400 others that would all send commands to a specific user at once. I can only imagine the technology change in the last 8 years. From the sounds of it though, it's the same old crap, just using different protocols.
I also remember when winnuke came out. It was nearly impossible to use the internet for about 6 weeks, until microsoft got a patch out. I put a linux machine up as a firewall and logged all of the attempts. It was like people were just winnuking all of the available ip space. After winnuke, it was teardrop, then smurf. I'd never seen a windows machine crash so fast.
ahh...the good old days. I'm suprised this is just now getting attention. It was no big deal when single computers would crash all over the internet, but when CNN.com or AOL.com gets attacked, it's a big deal all of the sudden.
When did it become acceptable to just e-mail someone as a legal means to serve notice? I am suprised AOL's spam blocker didn't catch the guys e-mail address and filter it out as spam. You would think being served a DMCA notice would arrive with some sort of reply receipt, like in certified mail.
steps to abuse the process:
1. write a book or song
2. get it legally copyrighted
3. post it to usenet using a "Free 10 hours" account
4. send notices to all ISP's in the world that offer usenet access
5. sue the ones that don't respond.
*clap clap clap*
/sarcasm
Win one for those crappy flash animations.
if your box is "choking" on 90k e-mails/month, it's not setup correctly.
I have an old sparc that is handling bounces for a medium-sized isp right now and it takes in and processes about 10k messages per day and has no issues. sometimes it floods up to 3k or 4k per 5 minutes and will sit there for 30 minutes.
...all killing machines lying in wait
but some are, so those pesky reporters better keep their mouthes shut.
no really, people that think movies and video games spark violence act like there were no violence before tv and games. This isn't star trek. All animals have some sort of violence built in for survival. If anything, the violence from just watching the local or national news is the one doing the corrupting.
not being backwards compatible will just push everyone to playstation. Hopefully, the playstation 3 will still play playstation 1 games. sure, those games won't look as cool as the newest games, but being able to play them is the point in having a game system.
I think you're full of crap.
quality: This is a technological question that technology will quickly answer. In the last 5 years, i've seen the first 1Mpixel cameras come out, and now you can hardly buy one, since they've been replaced by much larger pixel sizes. it's common to see 5 pixel digital cameras, and they will only get better.
price: what kind of printed picture are you talking about? you can take your digital media down to wal-mart and for $.26 you can get a print out on the same Kodak paper that your 35MM pictures come on. After that, you can store the images in a digital format of your choice, and print it out again. What happens to analog film after about 10 years?
Different Formats: i guess you don't know you can get different pixel depth cameras. Want a large format digital camera? have you tried looking at sony? Sony makes a Sony DSC-F828 digital camera that is 8 megapixels. That plus a wide-angle lens should allow you to take a "large format" picture. most cameras have different qualities built in, so you can scale the image down and store more on a media stick.
Basically, you sound like you are living in 1990 when digital media was unknown. what kind of research have you done?
read this and you'll have more of an understanding of the differences.
...get a few colo spaces spread out over the physical country. Colo with big providers, they usually have the best, most redundant, [bullet,missile,nuclear] proof datacenters. Bandwidth will be an issue, but getting 1Mbit/sec would probably do fine, depending on how much you have to backup, and how often you want it backed up. Encrypt the data between the backup servers and the source servers for added data security.
Having your backups on your own machines ensures data integrity and physical security. If you give your data to someone else, don't be suprised if it ends up on the internet.
the poster also said something about 30-100GB. using 750MB zip disks would not be an option.
Your examples are the duct tape examples of someone that wants to (should) get fired from their job. The poster is obviously not going to cheap out and use a friend's hard drive.
i agree with some of your points, except for the one about burdening the other party. Do you think the FBI/CIA/NSA cares about tapping your calls to grandma or your babysitter? nope. They probably care more about tapping the calls from your hacker buddies that are going to go through the time and trouble to make sure their communications are encrypted. If we just assume most people will not use encryption, then we are missing the point in the tapping process anyways.
I don't see how technically they would be able to pull off the tapping process. Sure, you can tap all you want at the big providers, but if there's OSS software that can do it and encrypt the call, good luck big brother.
I have an IBM thinkpad 600c laptop that requires the laptop mouse to configure the bios. Of course, separating the mouse from the computer would be almost impossible without a dremel tool, but if the mouse is broken, i guess you're SOL.
cheaper? i bet the price will creep up over a few years (when older machines start dying).
If MicroSoft has total control over the hardware also, seems like happy days for Apple and OSX.
that would work except most of the spam is one connection and multiple Bcc:'s. One connection every 10 seconds and you can fill up the Bcc: and Cc: headers until your eyes bleed.
i don't see how a setup where the remote mail server makes the local mail server do needless computational tasks for 10 seconds would scale in large system buildouts. I know a few of the mail servers i currently run would not be able to handle the additional cpu hit the MicroSoft solution would use. I think something that would check the links in each html e-mail before the e-mail is accepted for delivery would probably be the best solution. At the very least, it would DoS the website that was spamming if you got hundreds and hundreds of spam from the same host.
until then, spamcop and spamassassin are your friends.