Well, what I've tried on a Mac is sudo/bin/bash - and it works fine. That's pretty all the "being root" I need. I avoid using the GUI as root for the most part anyway.
I'm sorry to bust your bubble - but really, should we just ignore these statistical indicators?
First off, How do you know Apple will still have 82 % marketshate in Online Music Download 5 - 10 years from now? Because they've dominated for 4 years running. Show me evidence that they're loosing marketshare and then you have an argument. That's just rhetoric.
What if Yahoo or Urge or MS Marketplace or emusic or MP3.com or a bunch of others take a few percent marketshare. It is within the realm of possibility. Because they've been loosing marketshare collectively(for years) and as a group account for less than 8% total internet sales in music. Again, rhetoric.
Next, One cannot treat a market leader like a monopoly coz you feel they might become one 10 years from now I don't feel anything - I'm simply giving a statement - the numbers STRONGLY suggest that trends will continue as is.
No, but they certainly a monopoly on the distribution of music online, n'est pas? Otherwise, why would France, Germany, Norway, Finland, and the greater part of the EU be so worried?
I can't speculate on your other arguments - as they're really just opinions. Personally I'm not a big fan of DRM - I'd rather have good quality, DRM free music. And, I'd rather that you were right...
As you can see, album sales are DOWN worldwide (4.9% decrease), and internet sales are UP(65% increase). Take that trend out 5 to 10 years. Statistically, you'll see that Compact Disc will quickly be overwhelmed by digital media sales. And of that growth - Apple has 82% of the market captured from Job's own mouth.
Monopolies are defined by sales in a MARKET.. In the online music market, it's a monopoly. If sales continue their current trend Apple will have a overall music monopoly in a few years time.
And stock prices are determined largely on growth. Now what are YOU smoking?
Could Jobs really influence Disney? The Movie business already has uniform DRM - it's AACS and CSS. There's very little chance at success in changing the movie business now - profits are down, but not nearly as threatened as Music. How do we know he hasn't tried this at Disney already?
Reguardless - Apple software is pretty DRM-free compared to Microsoft. I don't hear Apple users complaining about AGA (Apple Genuine Advantage) or changing their memory stick and having to re-validate their MacBook.
Your argument holds some, but in reality the places where Apple does have control - they pretty uniformly fall on the "fair use" side.
And no, I don't use Apple products. My wife does have an iPod though - and the drm still annoys me, even from a distance.
Agreed - but beyond that the music co's want to dictate DRM so that they can dictate the market prices by having a "level distribution" model. They could care less about the consumer as long as they get their money.
Apple has an 80-percent market share for online music sales - that means they dictate the price, delivery methods, and the DRM. The fact is that the music co's couldn't even compete (and they've tried) with Apple - because the DRM locks them out of the primary delivery method - the iPod.
For Music companies to continue their long-term profit margins - they can either burn Apple, buy Apple, open up to non-DRM'ed music, or develop their own DRM. All options lead to massive profit loss in the short term - so everybody is just sharpening the axes for the moment.
Now iTunes/Apple is a monopoly - the music companies can only get their product distributed profitably through a single channel online. They're seeing the writing on the wall - and the choice is open up or get squeezed by the monopoly.
Hell, they can't even sell their OWN music on their on website because... it's not compatible with iPod!!! And even if they could - the marketplace is Apple iTunes, pure and simple. The purported 4 cent per-song "Apple tax" is so low, that they couldn't even compete fairly with their own distributor because the scale of operations would be money-loosing.
What's interesting is the amount of code by corporate contributors such as Astaro, Tensilica, Secretlab, NetXen and others that we normally don't hear about. While certainly a bit of those are driver work - but I'm certainly happy to see the participation. And, yes.. even Sony dropped in some PS3 platform code.
I think I had the same problem - his Windows Media settings were wrong. In order to use the DRM you have to "Allow scripts" in the DRM settings. I bought and downloaded it on Linux, played it in Windows WMP10.
I would have been up in arms as well - but I noticed the yellow banner which told me to enable scripts.
The movie I tried (Broken Arrow) worked and the quality was fine. I consider it about the same as a movie ticket - but I do wish they'd allow more than 1 day to watch the movie after you start watching it(yes, I know you have 30 days to begin watching it - but I wanted to check to make sure it worked first). If I were buying the video I would have been much more annoyed with the DRM - but since it was a rental I wasn't too irked.
Download time was 1 hour (255 KBytes/second average download)
As someone cleverly pointed out, current "protections" involve distributing both lock and key in an obscured form, then using a proprietary technology to put the key in the lock.
Thank you! That's an excellent explanation - certainly one I'll "fair use" as well.
I think the JSF runs Linux, at least if the number of Linux avionics software engineering jobs I saw was a reflection of the program.
Reguardless - I highly doubt that the operating system was the fault here - with all the custom hardware - linux would simply be the boot for the applications.
Oh Please... it's worse in France and Germany... Even just hinting at possible indescretions can get you thrown before a Judge.
Example: Mitterand (former prez of France) "maybe" had a state-funded apartment "love nest" - "possibly" complete with mistress and child. In the US, that would have been fair game for a public personality during campaign season - but in France it's "non palpable."
This is actually quite common, IMHO. I've experienced it so much so - that I often get drafted into IT (I'm a developer/engineer) on a regular basis. As in, every job I've ever had I eventually become involved in IT and network services. Why?
The issue isn't that IT is incompetent (there are exceptions on BOTH sides) but that communication between IT and Development/Engineering/Product guys goes through the WEAKEST link - management.
That's right.. the manager has to understand BGP routing AND failover network configuration (examples here) to be able to effectively communicate issues between the two groups. And, what invariably happens, is one group is blamed for a mistake and they clam up. Thus leading to this organizational self-destruction where only big issues get effectively communicated. All the nagging inefficiences, slow-downs etc never get fixed.
How do you fix it? My personal solution is integrated meetings - where IT and developers sit down and do risk analysis together. Get a buy in from your manager whenever you're rolling out a product so that you can at least say we all understand our responsibilities.
Fraud is a bit harsh - assumung your speaking of his "PhD" here which he explains in the slashdot interview: I think he misrepresented the facts... when you're a PhD candidate often people assume PhD, and he didn't correct everyone he ran into. It's his fault of course - but nevertheless it's not as if he "bought" a degree online or something of that nature.
Cringely:
Of course this is a long story, but the compressed version is that I did every bit of my PhD including the paper and the defense. Coming out of the defense, my committee, chaired by Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, asked for some changes to the paper. All I had to do was make those changes and I'd be finished! Well it was a busy time in my life. I was writing my first book, soon to be followed by a job or two and, before I knew it, I had missed the five-year deadline. I was stupid, of course, not only for wasting all that time but especially for not asking for an official leave-of-absence, which would have frozen the clock. How the lie got started was that first book called me a PhD on the jacket.
The CueCat was a device to read barcodes out of printed materials into your machine - which then linked you up to the referenced website.
Fortunately it was a commercial failure - as the "free" devices cost a huge amount of cash. I'm sure this will fare better, of course, because it utilizes customers existing equipment. But who knows what wonderful websites it'll forward you too, hmm?
Additionally, it's not exactly a "true quantum computer"(tm) - but it utilizes quantum mechanics as a quantum computer would. So it quacks like a duck, etc.
That's true - but it's mostly to prove that the finite state diagram properly describes the module operation and that the key initialization, known answer tests and zeroization are properly implemented. It's not a complete source code review. Lastly, only the certifying lab (not NIST) checks the code.
FIPS 140-2 (and moreso -1) were designed for certifying what is commonly known as "black-box" hardware encryption modules. Some given assumptions on the security model include: 1. Physical security of the boxes 2. Prevention of attacks 3. Disclosure of usage, known-good protocols & keys (A Security policy) 4. Testing of (P)RNG's. 5. Known Answer tests of FIPS approved algorithms (AES, DES, etc...)
The movement towards software-only modules has brought a whole series of issues to head - meaning that some whole sections of the fips validation aren't even valid.
Also - there are (at most)4 levels for certain security aspects which validate - or at least disclose the robustness of the implementation being tested.
Now you can see why it was not originaly planned to have any validation on the security of the codebase (at least for overall level 1). OpenSSL pushed the envelope of what certification means FAR beyond it's original intention.
Yup, I've been there. I've been in the IT/Software business for a long time. I demand professionalism - and it's not because I want to be a cocky developer, because I'm not. I put it on my resume because I want to set the expectation that I go to work to do just that - work.
I want to get the job done right, and that's it.
The workplace is, limitedly, a totalitarian place - and the only way to rise above it is to not play the human games all the time and stick to the job you were hired to do. Most important of all is to document your work, be helpfull to your peers and take responsibility for your success and failures.
There may not have been any way to avoid what happened in your situation - but perhaps you can walk away knowing that you did your best.
Well, I think those are just symptoms of some nasty disease. If you've got people like that onboard - it's important to find out the causes and do what can be done to improve their workday.
I had a boss at (insert large corporation) who disrespected me, never allowed me to be challenged, set me up on a doomed project on my second week of work with people who didn't understand the business - and generally pissed me off. I was cussed out by the CIO and his Italian mobster friend who claimed to be a business manager.
After the second month I would have fit into most of those categories - simply because of the experience I'd had. I decided that my boss didn't deserve anything other than what was in my job description. I proceeded to immerse myself in the codebase, business, and financials. After a couple of months I was answering questions in meetings which the original developers didn't even know.
There on out, I involved myself in other projects, got involved in design and generally worked my way past my boss - though he was still my boss until he was layed off.
In the end, I was one of the architects. All the people who made my life miserable were fired, left, or otherwise shown the door. They caused millions of dollars in losses - and I made the company millions.
In reality - translations ARE colored by the times.
Does that make the translation better? Yes and no... For example: we're now forced to think whether Achilles final battle was simply the failed revenge of a lover instead of looking towards a higher purpose. It both detracts and adds.
Well, there is still quite a bit of shareware in the commercial Mac/Windows world - just look at tucows. The GPL license and software-as-service income models have been devisive in the FOSS world, so that you don't see much shareware there anymore.
If consumers were given the choice between invasive DRM, Pirating, or a basic Sales Market - I think the open sales market would win. A good example of this was the original mp3.com - which I think did very well before they were bought and nuked.
I was sued for... one MILLION dollars (pinkey in mouth).
Seriously - and we settled with an "I'm sorry" letter because there was nothing, in actuality, they could do.
We quite after the CEO blew a consortium design win which we'd been working on for 6 months. The project died, and 4 of us quit to start our own company.
BUT - we were not going to compete - we had investors, a business plan, and our own market plan. We just wanted to get the hell out of there. Beyond that - many states won't even prevent you from competing because they can't prevent you from earning a living in your field.
Of course, this isn't legal advice - just my own experience.
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Well, what I've tried on a Mac is sudo /bin/bash - and it works fine. That's pretty all the "being root" I need. I avoid using the GUI as root for the most part anyway.
Yup, your dead-on right. I think it took the RIAA & company by surprise that Apple dominated the online marketplace so quickly.
And there really is no easy solution here for the music companies. And that makes me smile heheheh.
I'm sorry to bust your bubble - but really, should we just ignore these statistical indicators?
First off, How do you know Apple will still have 82 % marketshate in Online Music Download 5 - 10 years from now?
Because they've dominated for 4 years running. Show me evidence that they're loosing marketshare and then you have an argument. That's just rhetoric.
What if Yahoo or Urge or MS Marketplace or emusic or MP3.com or a bunch of others take a few percent marketshare. It is within the realm of possibility.
Because they've been loosing marketshare collectively(for years) and as a group account for less than 8% total internet sales in music. Again, rhetoric.
Next, One cannot treat a market leader like a monopoly coz you feel they might become one 10 years from now
I don't feel anything - I'm simply giving a statement - the numbers STRONGLY suggest that trends will continue as is.
No, but they certainly a monopoly on the distribution of music online, n'est pas? Otherwise, why would France, Germany, Norway, Finland, and the greater part of the EU be so worried?
I can't speculate on your other arguments - as they're really just opinions. Personally I'm not a big fan of DRM - I'd rather have good quality, DRM free music. And, I'd rather that you were right...
In total OVERALL music sales... for today only... you're right. Now sit down for a moment and think....
Look at Nielsen SoundScan.. here's some breakdown
As you can see, album sales are DOWN worldwide (4.9% decrease), and internet sales are UP(65% increase). Take that trend out 5 to 10 years. Statistically, you'll see that Compact Disc will quickly be overwhelmed by digital media sales. And of that growth - Apple has 82% of the market captured from Job's own mouth.
Monopolies are defined by sales in a MARKET.. In the online music market, it's a monopoly. If sales continue their current trend Apple will have a overall music monopoly in a few years time.
And stock prices are determined largely on growth. Now what are YOU smoking?
Could Jobs really influence Disney? The Movie business already has uniform DRM - it's AACS and CSS. There's very little chance at success in changing the movie business now - profits are down, but not nearly as threatened as Music. How do we know he hasn't tried this at Disney already?
Reguardless - Apple software is pretty DRM-free compared to Microsoft. I don't hear Apple users complaining about AGA (Apple Genuine Advantage) or changing their memory stick and having to re-validate their MacBook.
Your argument holds some, but in reality the places where Apple does have control - they pretty uniformly fall on the "fair use" side.
And no, I don't use Apple products. My wife does have an iPod though - and the drm still annoys me, even from a distance.
Agreed - but beyond that the music co's want to dictate DRM so that they can dictate the market prices by having a "level distribution" model. They could care less about the consumer as long as they get their money.
Apple has an 80-percent market share for online music sales - that means they dictate the price, delivery methods, and the DRM. The fact is that the music co's couldn't even compete (and they've tried) with Apple - because the DRM locks them out of the primary delivery method - the iPod.
For Music companies to continue their long-term profit margins - they can either burn Apple, buy Apple, open up to non-DRM'ed music, or develop their own DRM. All options lead to massive profit loss in the short term - so everybody is just sharpening the axes for the moment.
Ohh, it's much worse than that.
Now iTunes/Apple is a monopoly - the music companies can only get their product distributed profitably through a single channel online. They're seeing the writing on the wall - and the choice is open up or get squeezed by the monopoly.
Hell, they can't even sell their OWN music on their on website because... it's not compatible with iPod!!! And even if they could - the marketplace is Apple iTunes, pure and simple. The purported 4 cent per-song "Apple tax" is so low, that they couldn't even compete fairly with their own distributor because the scale of operations would be money-loosing.
I don't think anybody saw this reaming coming...
What's interesting is the amount of code by corporate contributors such as Astaro, Tensilica, Secretlab, NetXen and others that we normally don't hear about. While certainly a bit of those are driver work - but I'm certainly happy to see the participation. And, yes.. even Sony dropped in some PS3 platform code.
I think I had the same problem - his Windows Media settings were wrong. In order to use the DRM you have to "Allow scripts" in the DRM settings. I bought and downloaded it on Linux, played it in Windows WMP10.
I would have been up in arms as well - but I noticed the yellow banner which told me to enable scripts.
The movie I tried (Broken Arrow) worked and the quality was fine. I consider it about the same as a movie ticket - but I do wish they'd allow more than 1 day to watch the movie after you start watching it(yes, I know you have 30 days to begin watching it - but I wanted to check to make sure it worked first). If I were buying the video I would have been much more annoyed with the DRM - but since it was a rental I wasn't too irked.
Download time was 1 hour (255 KBytes/second average download)
As someone cleverly pointed out, current "protections" involve distributing both lock and key in an obscured form, then using a proprietary technology to put the key in the lock.
Thank you! That's an excellent explanation - certainly one I'll "fair use" as well.
I think the JSF runs Linux, at least if the number of Linux avionics software engineering jobs I saw was a reflection of the program.
Reguardless - I highly doubt that the operating system was the fault here - with all the custom hardware - linux would simply be the boot for the applications.
Oh Please... it's worse in France and Germany... Even just hinting at possible indescretions can get you thrown before a Judge.
Example: Mitterand (former prez of France) "maybe" had a state-funded apartment "love nest" - "possibly" complete with mistress and child. In the US, that would have been fair game for a public personality during campaign season - but in France it's "non palpable."
Fun article here
This is actually quite common, IMHO. I've experienced it so much so - that I often get drafted into IT (I'm a developer/engineer) on a regular basis. As in, every job I've ever had I eventually become involved in IT and network services. Why?
The issue isn't that IT is incompetent (there are exceptions on BOTH sides) but that communication between IT and Development/Engineering/Product guys goes through the WEAKEST link - management.
That's right.. the manager has to understand BGP routing AND failover network configuration (examples here) to be able to effectively communicate issues between the two groups. And, what invariably happens, is one group is blamed for a mistake and they clam up. Thus leading to this organizational self-destruction where only big issues get effectively communicated. All the nagging inefficiences, slow-downs etc never get fixed.
How do you fix it? My personal solution is integrated meetings - where IT and developers sit down and do risk analysis together. Get a buy in from your manager whenever you're rolling out a product so that you can at least say we all understand our responsibilities.
It's actually simpler than that - just tax on the electricity used per square foot. That way you encourage everyone to lower their kWh.
Fraud is a bit harsh - assumung your speaking of his "PhD" here which he explains in the slashdot interview: I think he misrepresented the facts... when you're a PhD candidate often people assume PhD, and he didn't correct everyone he ran into. It's his fault of course - but nevertheless it's not as if he "bought" a degree online or something of that nature.
Cringely:
Of course this is a long story, but the compressed version is that I did every bit of my PhD including the paper and the defense. Coming out of the defense, my committee, chaired by Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, asked for some changes to the paper. All I had to do was make those changes and I'd be finished! Well it was a busy time in my life. I was writing my first book, soon to be followed by a job or two and, before I knew it, I had missed the five-year deadline. I was stupid, of course, not only for wasting all that time but especially for not asking for an official leave-of-absence, which would have frozen the clock. How the lie got started was that first book called me a PhD on the jacket.
The CueCat was a device to read barcodes out of printed materials into your machine - which then linked you up to the referenced website.
Fortunately it was a commercial failure - as the "free" devices cost a huge amount of cash. I'm sure this will fare better, of course, because it utilizes customers existing equipment. But who knows what wonderful websites it'll forward you too, hmm?
Some more videos...
High level explanation
Protein matching
Sudoku
Also, here's some slightly older talk at Stanford with a higher-level audience
Additionally, it's not exactly a "true quantum computer"(tm) - but it utilizes quantum mechanics as a quantum computer would. So it quacks like a duck, etc.
Algae is the answer - they eat it up. Then you enzyme the algae into biodiesel to run your plant.
http://www.greenfuelonline.com/
That's true - but it's mostly to prove that the finite state diagram properly describes the module operation and that the key initialization, known answer tests and zeroization are properly implemented. It's not a complete source code review. Lastly, only the certifying lab (not NIST) checks the code.
FIPS 140-2 (and moreso -1) were designed for certifying what is commonly known as "black-box" hardware encryption modules. Some given assumptions on the security model include:
1. Physical security of the boxes
2. Prevention of attacks
3. Disclosure of usage, known-good protocols & keys (A Security policy)
4. Testing of (P)RNG's.
5. Known Answer tests of FIPS approved algorithms (AES, DES, etc...)
The movement towards software-only modules has brought a whole series of issues to head - meaning that some whole sections of the fips validation aren't even valid.
Also - there are (at most)4 levels for certain security aspects which validate - or at least disclose the robustness of the implementation being tested.
Now you can see why it was not originaly planned to have any validation on the security of the codebase (at least for overall level 1). OpenSSL pushed the envelope of what certification means FAR beyond it's original intention.
Yup, I've been there. I've been in the IT/Software business for a long time. I demand professionalism - and it's not because I want to be a cocky developer, because I'm not. I put it on my resume because I want to set the expectation that I go to work to do just that - work.
I want to get the job done right, and that's it.
The workplace is, limitedly, a totalitarian place - and the only way to rise above it is to not play the human games all the time and stick to the job you were hired to do. Most important of all is to document your work, be helpfull to your peers and take responsibility for your success and failures.
There may not have been any way to avoid what happened in your situation - but perhaps you can walk away knowing that you did your best.
I've found this out the hard way.
Well, I think those are just symptoms of some nasty disease. If you've got people like that onboard - it's important to find out the causes and do what can be done to improve their workday.
I had a boss at (insert large corporation) who disrespected me, never allowed me to be challenged, set me up on a doomed project on my second week of work with people who didn't understand the business - and generally pissed me off. I was cussed out by the CIO and his Italian mobster friend who claimed to be a business manager.
After the second month I would have fit into most of those categories - simply because of the experience I'd had. I decided that my boss didn't deserve anything other than what was in my job description. I proceeded to immerse myself in the codebase, business, and financials. After a couple of months I was answering questions in meetings which the original developers didn't even know.
There on out, I involved myself in other projects, got involved in design and generally worked my way past my boss - though he was still my boss until he was layed off.
In the end, I was one of the architects. All the people who made my life miserable were fired, left, or otherwise shown the door. They caused millions of dollars in losses - and I made the company millions.
Moral of the story: Sometimes it's management.
In reality - translations ARE colored by the times.
Does that make the translation better? Yes and no... For example: we're now forced to think whether Achilles final battle was simply the failed revenge of a lover instead of looking towards a higher purpose. It both detracts and adds.
Well, there is still quite a bit of shareware in the commercial Mac/Windows world - just look at tucows. The GPL license and software-as-service income models have been devisive in the FOSS world, so that you don't see much shareware there anymore.
If consumers were given the choice between invasive DRM, Pirating, or a basic Sales Market - I think the open sales market would win. A good example of this was the original mp3.com - which I think did very well before they were bought and nuked.
I was sued for... one MILLION dollars (pinkey in mouth).
Seriously - and we settled with an "I'm sorry" letter because there was nothing, in actuality, they could do.
We quite after the CEO blew a consortium design win which we'd been working on for 6 months. The project died, and 4 of us quit to start our own company.
BUT - we were not going to compete - we had investors, a business plan, and our own market plan. We just wanted to get the hell out of there. Beyond that - many states won't even prevent you from competing because they can't prevent you from earning a living in your field.
Of course, this isn't legal advice - just my own experience.