No, someone isn't violating copyright by viewing your page, but the rule doesn't talk about *violating* copyright, it talks about *downloading copyrighted materials*.
Now that we've got that settled about mice, how about the widespread misuse in CSS style sheets of "body {font-size: 62.5%;}". I set my font size so that I can read the body text on pages which don't pull that crap, and now every blogger in the world has their body size set to 62.5% because that was the default that came with their TypePressBlogger thingy. So now I have to zoom the text on blog pages and Digg, and then un-zoom it when I go back to "normal" pages.
If you want your headline text bigger, then freaking set the headline font size to greater than 100%!
Admittedly, this wasn't such a problem until I got a MacBook Pro, with its higher DPI screen than the previous generation. But 62.5% also wasn't such a fad back then either.
"Hello? Microsoft? I have had one of our agents place a flaw in your Xbox 360 video game system. It is a simple flaw, easily fixed, but only if you know what it is. I shall give you this information if you give me ONE MILLION... What was that? Oh, really? That's good to know, thanks. (ahem) I shall give you this information if you give me ONE BIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLION DOLLARS! Muhahahahahaaaaa!"
I believe that in a few years to come, Sony's product will be superior in hardware
That doesn't make sense. Either the hardware is superior now or it isn't. The whole point of console systems is that the hardware platform is going to remain stable for 4-6 years.
It may take a while to use it to the fullest... but only if enough people buy PS3s to justify the extra work of pushing the hardware beyond just filling a Blu-Ray disc with more FMV cutscene crap.
Since 3.6 or so, it's really the only Linux I've used. But it helped that I was already a Mac user and had no interest in X Windows. In fact, Xfree86 setup was so much crap back then because it wanted to create custom modelines (instead of using VESA standard modes) which would never work right if you didn't have a big name brand monitor and video card, so I avoided using anything but text mode for Linux.
One of the reasons I used Slackware in the first place was that it was basically the last distribution which could still be installed from floppy disks. Of course the problem was that floppy disks in those days were made cheaply enough to be unreliable. A bad boot or root floppy was a real pain in the butt. But it worked until I could upgrade my cheap old PCs to ones with El Torito CD boot support.
OS X and cheap G3 Macs finally ended my daily use of Slackware, but I do still use it when I need a quick, lean install of Linux. I particularly like how it doesn't have dependency crap that installs a jillion library packages because of one app that you didn't want to install in the first place. Even Cygwin does that crap. With Slackware, it's just go into menu mode, and deselect everything but the few packages that I want.
Given that there are only about 12 Million units sold, and assuming that this guy was the least lucky person, but there were no enviromental hazards killing his 360s (which is a dangerous assumption), We can estimate a failure rate of about 23%.
In that case, I can very well believe a 25% failure rate among the RMA pool.
I understand that with so many people reporting problems, someone is surely going to have eleven bad units, and I don't doubt that he did.
But what is the probability of this happening to a given person, assuming, say, a 5% overall failure rate? (ignoring the "RMA pool effect" which makes you more likely to get a bad unit back)
And given the number sold so far, assuming people don't just give up and junk or sell the thing when the warranty runs out, what percentage of failure rate is needed for two or three people to have gone through 11 bad units?
(I slept through statistics in college, but I did learn enough to know that you can compute this kind of stuff, and compute the error factor too.)
Geez, people, turn off the stupid damn "smart quotes" in your Internet Exploder already. Or stop editing your message in Microsoft Weird and then pasting it into IE.
No, but "dependent on the chip" does, because then you don't have a monoculture. Even if you figure out something useful with one chip, it doesn't necessarily apply to any other chip.
It's also rather hard to reverse engineer without lots of special expensive hardware that probably doesn't exist outside of Intel's (or AMD's) labs. Remember, if you do something even a little wrong that locks up the CPU, you will have to hard reboot and try again.
And before you bring up the F00F bug as a denial of service, this is not something that the average user has access to run. The F00F bug worked in unprivileged user mode.
But then the problem would be if some of them escaped to Jupiter, where they sat around watching cartoon reruns until they found some Lost Technology[tm] that let them teleport giant robots around the solar system.
If there's one thing that 70's era Saturday morning children's entertainment taught me, it's that there's nothing that Marshall and Will can't do. That idiot Holly, on the other hand, would just fuck it up.
I'm more worried about Dr. Zachary Smith fucking everything up. "Oh, the pain!" Little Lennier and that robot are the only ones who can keep him under control.
If I had any financial motivation it would be toward MS winning since I can code games on their console using their open dev tools.
Wow, where did you get that definition of "open" from? From Ebay, where "mint" is a flavor?
You have to pay $99 a year, can't share with other people who don't also pay $99 a year, the tools themselves are certainly not open source, and no gnu-ware tools.
Are you an idiot or did you just fall off the turnip truck? You don't see MAC addresses unless you're on the same LAN.
That being said, is there any sort of signature by which content providers could identify requests from one of these poxy boxes and block or otherwise sabotage the unauthorized insertions?
Slashdot Mirror
Linux is copyrighted too. NO UNBUNTU FOR YOU!
Go into Firehose, find the article (it'll be a dark green bar), click on "-", then click on "dupe".
Pac-Man vs K.C. Munchkin
and the Death Race arcade game
Wow, what an ugly hunk of junk, and with 8GB Duo sticks already down to $150.
So these new suits look something like this?
Are they going to start using high school girls for astronauts too?
1) Place phone on ground behind rear tire.
2) Shift car into reverse
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Now that we've got that settled about mice, how about the widespread misuse in CSS style sheets of "body {font-size: 62.5%;}". I set my font size so that I can read the body text on pages which don't pull that crap, and now every blogger in the world has their body size set to 62.5% because that was the default that came with their TypePressBlogger thingy. So now I have to zoom the text on blog pages and Digg, and then un-zoom it when I go back to "normal" pages.
If you want your headline text bigger, then freaking set the headline font size to greater than 100%!
Admittedly, this wasn't such a problem until I got a MacBook Pro, with its higher DPI screen than the previous generation. But 62.5% also wasn't such a fad back then either.
Is Mike Rowe in that one? Because I'm not watching if he isn't.
I have my OS X Terminal set to 30 x 100, which works most of the time. But when I'm using an RS-232 terminal window, I usually set it to 60 x 100.
"Hello? Microsoft? I have had one of our agents place a flaw in your Xbox 360 video game system. It is a simple flaw, easily fixed, but only if you know what it is. I shall give you this information if you give me ONE MILLION... What was that? Oh, really? That's good to know, thanks. (ahem) I shall give you this information if you give me ONE BIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLION DOLLARS! Muhahahahahaaaaa!"
So all I have to do is set up a NetInfo server on my MacBook, go to Starbucks waiting for suckers with iPhones, and then I can r00t them?
Yeah, it costs as much as a PS3!
Oh wait, I don't have a PS3 or an iPhone.
That doesn't make sense. Either the hardware is superior now or it isn't. The whole point of console systems is that the hardware platform is going to remain stable for 4-6 years.
It may take a while to use it to the fullest... but only if enough people buy PS3s to justify the extra work of pushing the hardware beyond just filling a Blu-Ray disc with more FMV cutscene crap.
Since 3.6 or so, it's really the only Linux I've used. But it helped that I was already a Mac user and had no interest in X Windows. In fact, Xfree86 setup was so much crap back then because it wanted to create custom modelines (instead of using VESA standard modes) which would never work right if you didn't have a big name brand monitor and video card, so I avoided using anything but text mode for Linux.
One of the reasons I used Slackware in the first place was that it was basically the last distribution which could still be installed from floppy disks. Of course the problem was that floppy disks in those days were made cheaply enough to be unreliable. A bad boot or root floppy was a real pain in the butt. But it worked until I could upgrade my cheap old PCs to ones with El Torito CD boot support.
OS X and cheap G3 Macs finally ended my daily use of Slackware, but I do still use it when I need a quick, lean install of Linux. I particularly like how it doesn't have dependency crap that installs a jillion library packages because of one app that you didn't want to install in the first place. Even Cygwin does that crap. With Slackware, it's just go into menu mode, and deselect everything but the few packages that I want.
In that case, I can very well believe a 25% failure rate among the RMA pool.
I understand that with so many people reporting problems, someone is surely going to have eleven bad units, and I don't doubt that he did.
But what is the probability of this happening to a given person, assuming, say, a 5% overall failure rate? (ignoring the "RMA pool effect" which makes you more likely to get a bad unit back)
And given the number sold so far, assuming people don't just give up and junk or sell the thing when the warranty runs out, what percentage of failure rate is needed for two or three people to have gone through 11 bad units?
(I slept through statistics in college, but I did learn enough to know that you can compute this kind of stuff, and compute the error factor too.)
Geez, people, turn off the stupid damn "smart quotes" in your Internet Exploder already. Or stop editing your message in Microsoft Weird and then pasting it into IE.
All operating systems at the time quickly implemented a workaround for the bug.
Wikipedia link
More than you ever wanted to know about the F00F bug
No, but "dependent on the chip" does, because then you don't have a monoculture. Even if you figure out something useful with one chip, it doesn't necessarily apply to any other chip.
It's also rather hard to reverse engineer without lots of special expensive hardware that probably doesn't exist outside of Intel's (or AMD's) labs. Remember, if you do something even a little wrong that locks up the CPU, you will have to hard reboot and try again.
And before you bring up the F00F bug as a denial of service, this is not something that the average user has access to run. The F00F bug worked in unprivileged user mode.
GPO Official: Ankwat i odr inkerat Gobi Desert dot com...
SUBTITLE: 'THIS NEW SERVER COMPLETES THE ENCIRCLEMENT OF THE GOBI DESERT'
GPO Official: Ik artwar, hyaddin... (etc.)
SUBTITLE: 'GOOGLE.COM IS NOW IN A POSITION TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE WORLD DOMINATION'
You mean like the people who are terraforming Mars with comets and asteroids, and who could simply aim one of them at your colony?
"It'd be a shame if your colony was to get... scratched."
But then the problem would be if some of them escaped to Jupiter, where they sat around watching cartoon reruns until they found some Lost Technology[tm] that let them teleport giant robots around the solar system.
I'm more worried about Dr. Zachary Smith fucking everything up. "Oh, the pain!" Little Lennier and that robot are the only ones who can keep him under control.
Wow, where did you get that definition of "open" from? From Ebay, where "mint" is a flavor?
You have to pay $99 a year, can't share with other people who don't also pay $99 a year, the tools themselves are certainly not open source, and no gnu-ware tools.
Are you an idiot or did you just fall off the turnip truck? You don't see MAC addresses unless you're on the same LAN.
That being said, is there any sort of signature by which content providers could identify requests from one of these poxy boxes and block or otherwise sabotage the unauthorized insertions?