Well a lot of people will learn that there is a choice. It's a start. People will switch away from IE and/or Microsoft will have to actually compete for market share, and quality goes up. It's really win win.
This is utterly absurd. The verification on freenet is based on asymmetric crypto. If they haven't broken that, the most they can do is flood the network with corrupt chunks, in which case the software will just start dropping peers who send too many corrupt packets at too high a rate. Translation: you need # of bad guys >> # of good guys to have much of an impact on network quality. And of course it's complete trash against a darknet, but I doubt these guys know what that is.
Given the subject matter, weasel words, and shoddy methodology, I'm about as worried about this as I am about the zombie communist terrorist invasion predicted for 2012.
Blind trust is not necessary for this to be an issue. NO ONE has time to write all their code in assembly, not even for the kernel. This is arguably more of an issue in the compiler than in the kernel, and if you honestly claim you can write a C compiler without learning assembly...yeah.
...you mean the direct rendering module or proprietary modules that some evil vender installs? I don't know of any digital restrictions management kernel modules but wouldn't be that surprised if they existed.
I remember freaking out the first time I noticed the DRM module loading when I came over the Tux's loving embrace years ago.
This happens all the time (the Major Leage Baseball deletions, Microsoft's older DRM, etc). The difference here is that Amazon was generous enough to refund the price; usually the company just keeps it because "all sales are final".
Personally I think they should be banned from using the word sale; indefinite rental is more accurate.
In the near future, we design artificial intelligence and put it to work for us. In fifty years, biodegradable robots packaged in ecofriendly human hide take over. This'll just make it easier for them to recycle their dead while we work in their plastic mines.
If they can crack 256 bit AES and/or fake SSH hostkeys, well, then I guess they've probably got my data either way. If not, there's nothing stupid about it.
They installed software via illegal hacking into users computers, not to mention they hacked into servers and did stuff.
There are a lot of laws that could bone them here, and I doubt juries would take kindly to having their computers modified without their consent unless it was by big media or Microsoft.
Troubleshooting hardware was my biggest timesink until I switched to linux. Then things just started owrking.
That's just my experience but no more hunting for drivers, dependency hell (well not since I left Windows & Fedora 4), no more installing this and that just to lockdown a system to barely usuable.
I don't claim to speak for all users, but linux has given me far fewer problems over the years.
I'm sure the magic of monopolistic bundling with hardware will solve this problem. After all, it's why Vista sold. Seriously, why does the EU care about browsers, the tying to hardware crap is so much worse from an anti-competitive standpoint.
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Well a lot of people will learn that there is a choice. It's a start. People will switch away from IE and/or Microsoft will have to actually compete for market share, and quality goes up. It's really win win.
And the rivers flowed green with grant money.
This is utterly absurd. The verification on freenet is based on asymmetric crypto. If they haven't broken that, the most they can do is flood the network with corrupt chunks, in which case the software will just start dropping peers who send too many corrupt packets at too high a rate. Translation: you need # of bad guys >> # of good guys to have much of an impact on network quality. And of course it's complete trash against a darknet, but I doubt these guys know what that is.
Given the subject matter, weasel words, and shoddy methodology, I'm about as worried about this as I am about the zombie communist terrorist invasion predicted for 2012.
Blind trust is not necessary for this to be an issue. NO ONE has time to write all their code in assembly, not even for the kernel. This is arguably more of an issue in the compiler than in the kernel, and if you honestly claim you can write a C compiler without learning assembly...yeah.
Better retort: Which dialect?
...you mean the direct rendering module or proprietary modules that some evil vender installs? I don't know of any digital restrictions management kernel modules but wouldn't be that surprised if they existed.
I remember freaking out the first time I noticed the DRM module loading when I came over the Tux's loving embrace years ago.
This happens all the time (the Major Leage Baseball deletions, Microsoft's older DRM, etc). The difference here is that Amazon was generous enough to refund the price; usually the company just keeps it because "all sales are final".
Personally I think they should be banned from using the word sale; indefinite rental is more accurate.
Operating system: Kernel and base userland. e.g., GNU-Linux
Distribution: Operating system and software library
Pennies on the dollar is still far, far more than anyone can afford here.
In the near future, we design artificial intelligence and put it to work for us. In fifty years, biodegradable robots packaged in ecofriendly human hide take over. This'll just make it easier for them to recycle their dead while we work in their plastic mines.
Fixed that for you.
You're technically wrong, but I'm not sure that invalidates your point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence
If they can crack 256 bit AES and/or fake SSH hostkeys, well, then I guess they've probably got my data either way. If not, there's nothing stupid about it.
I care because their compromised machines mess with mine.
Wouldn't a white hat just destruct the trojan instead of the hard drive?
Don't forget child porn and cyberterrorism. They have those there too.
We'll have to pay them $50 million.
They installed software via illegal hacking into users computers, not to mention they hacked into servers and did stuff.
There are a lot of laws that could bone them here, and I doubt juries would take kindly to having their computers modified without their consent unless it was by big media or Microsoft.
Well, it's not directly harmful, but any malware on a machine is going to open up security vulnerabilities because it will usually:
1) Act as a rootkit to hide itself
2) Provide backdoor access
Either of these can be exploited by a third party. Remember Sony's DRM rootkit? China's Green Dam Youth Escort?
Which is why linux sysadmins are higher paid than MSCE ones. Yep, makes perfect sense.
Weee, flame war!
Troubleshooting hardware was my biggest timesink until I switched to linux. Then things just started owrking.
That's just my experience but no more hunting for drivers, dependency hell (well not since I left Windows & Fedora 4), no more installing this and that just to lockdown a system to barely usuable.
I don't claim to speak for all users, but linux has given me far fewer problems over the years.
I'm done tinkering with Windows and am ready for something easier that makes more sense.
Linux - Because your time isn't free.
I'm sure the magic of monopolistic bundling with hardware will solve this problem. After all, it's why Vista sold. Seriously, why does the EU care about browsers, the tying to hardware crap is so much worse from an anti-competitive standpoint.
But yeah, a dock does make life easier, no?
So does linux. Unetbootin, pxe, etc. Also I figured that win7 would have usb install in an attempt to get netbook users, so it wouldn't be an issue.
Apparently windows installer does support pxe boot, but you need some business server thingimie. I didn't look into it too carefully.
I'm pretty sure we have that here too.
who had only ever heard of this guy in the context of pedophilia and absurd paranoid claims?
So...it's crazy if I write "jews did wtc you are Muslim, not American" but if I say it on a camera it becomes sane?