If we really want to help these countries, we need to eliminate trade barriers and allow them to sell us low-cost goods.
Right, because there's nothing better for children than being forced to work in sweatshops to produce Nikes for practically no money, to help American companies make record profits.
Growing your economy does not require being a leech on other economies.
will allow users to pirate wholesale the music from the musicians except the musicians will have even less clout to protect their work.
"clout" doesn't protect your work. Nothing does. Your argument is pure bullshit.
Yes, artists' entire works can be made available on P2P, and that is something they will have to live with. However, even if your work is copied more, that ALSO means a lot more CD sales. Artists never wanted to be able to strong-arm their fans, forcing them to buy the CD or not listen at all, only the RECORD COMPANIES insist on doing that, only the RECORD COMPANIES' profits depend upon being able to do that. Musicans are more than happy to allow their music to be copied, because it ALSO results in more CD sales. They aren't stupid enough to insist that they are losing money because of P2P like the RIAA continues to do to mask their own failures.
So most statements about piracy or suckiness should be said in a sarcastic way,
Statements about money lost due to copyright infringement, yes. Statements about suckiness, no.
The highest grossing movie of all time (not star wars) is a very sucky movie to be sure.
There are many, many, many times that a terribly crappy movie makes lots of money. There are also many times that a very good movie makes practically no money. Since quality is not tied to profit, suckiness can't be dismissed so easily.
But the reverse is true, you could have people going through finding exploits and using them without reporting them. Closed source is safer.
Source makes life a bit easier for those looking for exploits, but it's certainly not required.
However, for someone to FIX those exploits, source certainly IS required.
Closed-source is not safer.
Besides, Microsoft is open-source for anyone that has a truck-load of money at their disposal (or someone who breaks-in to a company that has licensed it).
Warez jokes aside, most common non-corporate windows are OEM copies. OEM = no support from microsoft. You get your pile of bytes that might or might not work, and you get some patches at the whim of MS. You get no support unless you pay thru the nose per incident.
Okay, *MOST ARE* OEM copies, but these problems apply to ALL COPIES, including those non-OEM copies that were bought for the full retail price. You can't just screw them over.
Sure, you can call your OEM supplier - however, they have no access to the source, and generally just tell you to reinstall the thing
Good, then sue them. They will, in-turn, sue Microsoft. It all works out perfectly!
The fact that your OEM sold you a product they can't really support (to save money) does not relieve them from their legal responsibility to do so. Sure, they can tell you to reinstall, and you can say "Hell no! Fix it!". Or you can reinstall, call back in an hour when it's been re-infected, and THEN tell them it isn't possible for you to re-install constantly, and they damn well better come up with a solution....and shortly after would be a good time to sue.
I'm glad they are using 'illegal' in those cases at least. Despite the best efforts of the RIAA/MPAA, filesharing is still perfectly legal, and there is a significant ammount of legal filesharing going on. 'release' also doesn't suggest that anything illegal is happening.
Is this something normal for US papers? Do they write about "illegal murder", "illegal robbery" etc too? Or is this just sligtly modified PR?
Not the word illegal so much, but highly typified, subjective, emotional descriptions are all too common, in lieu of actual substance, I'm sory to say.
Don't be afraid of a name that is longer than "Bill Smith." Just because it has *gasp* more than 3 syllables, doesn't mean it's completely out of your league. You're probably just too stupid to try rather than too stupid to actually pronounce it.
You can't *just* pronounce names in a language you don't understand.
One of the very important things about knowing a language is knowing the syllable border. Let's use the word 'understand' as a simple example. If you don't know the language, you would be hard-pressed to realize that it is made-up of just two syllables. If you try to pronounce it as 1, 3, 7, etc. sounds, it will be completely unintelligable.
Do you unde rsta nd my point here?
I can hear a foreign name, and phonetically spell it out, and usually get very close. Going from a long string of letters on paper to the appropriate sounds is much more difficult.
And since I'm on the subject anyhow, I've always thought it extremely strange that proper country names are (sort-of) translated between languages, while names are not. And they aren't even translated to a useful degree... They aren't translated so that the name's meaning comes across (with the notable exceptions of the USA and CCCP). You can call your country "The Land of Milk and Honey", but every other language is just going to end up calling it "Uzbekistan" or whatever other moderately-pronouncable but completely meaninless set of syllables somebody comes up with.
If you translate the proper names of places, why not completely translate the names of individuals as well? If you're not going to translate people's names, why not pronounce country names as they are supposed to be, as well?
running up bills of hundreds of pounds or dollars and that is something I cannot afford to have and if TPM or DRM can prevent that, then Im willing to allow it
And when the DRM is in-place, you're being charged exhorbant fees for any little bit of code you might want to use (ringtones, backgrounds, programs, etc), and yet your phone isn't any more secure, even blocking you from installing a program to REMOVE the virus/worm... Then what?
This could of been avoided if everyone had got together at the begining and worked as one team
Bullshit. Design 'by committee' almost always results in crap. I would MUCH, MUCH rather have REAL competition.
Besides, BluRay is every bit as much of a standard as HD-DVD is. It's not propritary Sony technology as people continually insist. I hate Sony as much as anyone, but theirs is the far better technology.
you can bet your ass if the RIAA found a multi millionare on limewire swapping music the won't proceed, since he won't just fold.
My IP doesn't tell you if I'm a multi-millionare or not.
The RIAA has no way of knowing who they are filing suit against, until the case is proceeding. If they want to drop the charges after they've started the lawsuit, they're going to need to make-up a very good reason.
But you're the one who's pulling this windows requirement out of your ass.
What in the hell are you talking about. This thread is all about: "At Microsoft, the MD5 hash functions are banned." The subject of this thread is: "Banning MD5 is stupid and small minded" How is this NOT directly about Microsoft? Do you have some sort of memory impairment?
Many, if not most, of the uses of hash functions have nothing to do with security or cryptography.
I understand that very well. Most often it's used to verify the integrity of data. The more often there will be a collision, the more often it will be wrong, the less useful it is. If not, why bother with MD5 in the first place, just stick with CRC32 which is even faster and smaller! After all, banning CRC is stupid and small minded...
Nice try waiting until the story cycled off to try and get the last word in.
That's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Unless you are god or you wrote the book yourself, you are relying on a subjective interpretation of what the bible says.
It's not a subjective interpretation when it literally and directly says something. There's no room for interpretation in cases like that.
And the OP says that the the sex outside of marriage interpretation was due to a translation error and the evolution of the meaning of words over time.
Yes, the OP was trolling. The bible doesn't talk about sex outside of marriage in just one place, with one set of terms, where a single mis-translation could change the meaning of it. As I said, this is a theme in the bible that is repeated over and over again. It's overwhelmingly clear that you have NEVER read the bible, yet you feel you're qualified to argue about what it does and doesn't say. That is real ignorance. That is as bad of a case of blindly believing as I've ever seen, although the OPPOSITE of the kind of blind faith most people think of.
I suggest you either argue your position with reason or STFU.
I did. Quite clearly. You seem to be the one who clearly wants to make a name-calling match out of it.
You know, I really HATE the Google toolbar for Firefox. Well, actually, it's not that I hate it at all, I really don't want to use it in the slightest, but that it exists shouldn't bother me. The fact that I have to see a DAMMED AD for it at the bottom of EVERY SINGLE PAGE OF SEARCH RESULTS, EVERY SINGLE TIME is what I HATE.
I figured maybe there's be a preferences option to turn that god dammed repetitive ad off, but no. I either have to forge my user-agent, or switch to Clusty.com
Just know that Microsoft isn't as dumb as many people seem to think -- you better bet they're prepared to launch their next volley.
No, Microsoft is every bit as dumb as people think. They just happen to have truckloads of money and an OS monopoly they can use to catch-up when other companies are wiping the floor with them. Look at anything having to do with the internet. TCP/IP stack, Web Browser, Instant Messaging, etc. Microsoft is very dumb.
You act like your idea is revolutionary, but it's the prevailing theory on/. any time USA vs. Europe/Asia comes up about anything.
I have a completely different theory... Cities were so overwhelmingly designed for cars, that there's no other way to get around. Roads have no bike lanes, few cross-walks, dangerously high speed-limits even in dense urban/residential areas, etc. I've been thinking about getting out of my car, lately, but I can't come up with any routes that don't force me to ride for miles down a busy street with a curb, where traffic is going 45MPH or more, and usually lacks street lights to add insult to injury (literally!).
"No room for a sidewalk, we need to squeeze another lane in there to relieve congestion!"
Your philosophy is similar to the ones that cause new software to be so bloated and unwieldy.
That's patently ridiculous. Software bloat does not come from using stronger cryptographic functions, or anything of that nature. Most people would be just FINE with that cause of slow-down... It's the pointless "didn't bother to remove the crap" code that causes real bloat. Switching from one (IO-bound) hash to another that is only slightly more computationally intense is not bloat in the slightest.
Some of them have gigabytes built in, some of them connect to storage networks with petabytes of storage attached to them.
And they're all running WinXP embedded, right? No? Some other Microsoft OS? How many of them run on CE or some such? Because we ARE talking about Microsoft.
Doubling or quadrupling overhead is still a 100% or 300% increase in network utilization whether your link is gigabit, or 300 baud.
300% increase in network utilization? Umm, no. Not unless all you're sending is a constant stream of hashes.
Even over the fastest of links there are people out there who's job it is to sqeeze out every last byte of overhead.
Once again, these links have Microsoft OSes at both ends, right?
People build special purpose processors into their machines to compute hashes and checksums faster and with less electricity for a reason.
They're especially important in datacenters or big research environments though.
Once again, these datacenters are running Windows on all their machines of course, otherwise this would have absolutely no point in this discussion...
And for some reason, in this specialized cluster of Windows system, they are apparently forced to use the built-in Windows cryptographic functions, and completely unable to code their own for their specific purposes.
More is not always better. Quite frequently it's worse.
Not in cryptography. A faster hash that has lots of collisions and can easily be 'fooled' is almost NEVER useful.
and i don't know why people still read the bible and follow blindlessly some random rules they are told
You're just assuming anyone who has any religous beliefs is blindly following. That's rarely the case. You just want to be morally superior, so thinking of everyone who disagrees with you as a "blind follower" makes you feel better about yourself, and allows you to discount others out of hand, not bothering to even CONSIDER what they have to say.
If you don't agree with his subjective interpretation, well then you must be Anti-conservative!
No, I'm not talking about subjective interpretations at all. The OP said it doesn't say in the bible that sex outside of marriage is wrong, and that is completely and totally factually incorrect.
A better approach would be to elect an opposition Congress, and have them pass laws and repeal laws that correct the situation. Want to end the war? Congress could do that before lunch. Just refuse to pay for it. It would be much easier than any notion of "impeachment".
I agree. You seem to be forgetting that YOU are the one who brought up the issue of crimes and impeachment, no-one else. I just supplied you with some info you requested.
And while I agree that most of those listed aren't imeachable offences, the fact is that Bush lied, falsified evidence, used known-false evidence, etc., to convince congress to support the war against Iraq. No downing-street memo is necessary, every educated person on the planet knew all the publicly supplied evidence was false before the first bomb fell. The major news media (CBS/NBC/ABC) all went through the list, and easily disproved all of them, one by one. That one, if nothing else, IS an impeachable offense by even the most strict terms.
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Right, because there's nothing better for children than being forced to work in sweatshops to produce Nikes for practically no money, to help American companies make record profits.
Growing your economy does not require being a leech on other economies.
"clout" doesn't protect your work. Nothing does. Your argument is pure bullshit.
Yes, artists' entire works can be made available on P2P, and that is something they will have to live with. However, even if your work is copied more, that ALSO means a lot more CD sales. Artists never wanted to be able to strong-arm their fans, forcing them to buy the CD or not listen at all, only the RECORD COMPANIES insist on doing that, only the RECORD COMPANIES' profits depend upon being able to do that. Musicans are more than happy to allow their music to be copied, because it ALSO results in more CD sales. They aren't stupid enough to insist that they are losing money because of P2P like the RIAA continues to do to mask their own failures.
Statements about money lost due to copyright infringement, yes. Statements about suckiness, no.
The highest grossing movie of all time (not star wars) is a very sucky movie to be sure.
There are many, many, many times that a terribly crappy movie makes lots of money. There are also many times that a very good movie makes practically no money. Since quality is not tied to profit, suckiness can't be dismissed so easily.
Source makes life a bit easier for those looking for exploits, but it's certainly not required.
However, for someone to FIX those exploits, source certainly IS required.
Closed-source is not safer.
Besides, Microsoft is open-source for anyone that has a truck-load of money at their disposal (or someone who breaks-in to a company that has licensed it).
Okay, *MOST ARE* OEM copies, but these problems apply to ALL COPIES, including those non-OEM copies that were bought for the full retail price. You can't just screw them over.
Good, then sue them. They will, in-turn, sue Microsoft. It all works out perfectly!
The fact that your OEM sold you a product they can't really support (to save money) does not relieve them from their legal responsibility to do so. Sure, they can tell you to reinstall, and you can say "Hell no! Fix it!". Or you can reinstall, call back in an hour when it's been re-infected, and THEN tell them it isn't possible for you to re-install constantly, and they damn well better come up with a solution.
UBCD4WIN now comes with RootKitty (freeware).= 2424
http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic
As for shareware rootkit removers, it took about 30 seconds for me to find these:
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/processguard/
http://www.greatis.com/unhackme/
http://www.wenpoint.com/product/product.html (HiddenFinder)
I'm glad they are using 'illegal' in those cases at least. Despite the best efforts of the RIAA/MPAA, filesharing is still perfectly legal, and there is a significant ammount of legal filesharing going on. 'release' also doesn't suggest that anything illegal is happening.
Not the word illegal so much, but highly typified, subjective, emotional descriptions are all too common, in lieu of actual substance, I'm sory to say.
The only place I've ever heard anyone actually calling them on it, is in this very good piece: http://www.suck.com/daily/97/11/24/daily.html
One of the few good things to come out of suck.com IMHO.
You can't *just* pronounce names in a language you don't understand.
One of the very important things about knowing a language is knowing the syllable border. Let's use the word 'understand' as a simple example. If you don't know the language, you would be hard-pressed to realize that it is made-up of just two syllables. If you try to pronounce it as 1, 3, 7, etc. sounds, it will be completely unintelligable.
Do you unde rsta nd my point here?
I can hear a foreign name, and phonetically spell it out, and usually get very close. Going from a long string of letters on paper to the appropriate sounds is much more difficult.
And since I'm on the subject anyhow, I've always thought it extremely strange that proper country names are (sort-of) translated between languages, while names are not. And they aren't even translated to a useful degree... They aren't translated so that the name's meaning comes across (with the notable exceptions of the USA and CCCP). You can call your country "The Land of Milk and Honey", but every other language is just going to end up calling it "Uzbekistan" or whatever other moderately-pronouncable but completely meaninless set of syllables somebody comes up with.
If you translate the proper names of places, why not completely translate the names of individuals as well? If you're not going to translate people's names, why not pronounce country names as they are supposed to be, as well?
Right! 503 errors...
And when the DRM is in-place, you're being charged exhorbant fees for any little bit of code you might want to use (ringtones, backgrounds, programs, etc), and yet your phone isn't any more secure, even blocking you from installing a program to REMOVE the virus/worm... Then what?
This guy must have been TRYING to get it wrong. How could anyone be so incredibly ignorant that they get absolutely everything wrong?
/. already. CmdrTaco, are you listening?
Please stop these moderators in M2. We're getting way too much crap moderation on
That's not even close to the actual definiton of a patriot.
When he gave his life, he did so not in an effort that could possibly have helped his 'country', but in anger, seeking only vengance.
Bullshit. Design 'by committee' almost always results in crap. I would MUCH, MUCH rather have REAL competition.
Besides, BluRay is every bit as much of a standard as HD-DVD is. It's not propritary Sony technology as people continually insist. I hate Sony as much as anyone, but theirs is the far better technology.
Posting from cellphone?
Oh the agony!
What's a haiku?
My IP doesn't tell you if I'm a multi-millionare or not.
The RIAA has no way of knowing who they are filing suit against, until the case is proceeding. If they want to drop the charges after they've started the lawsuit, they're going to need to make-up a very good reason.
What in the hell are you talking about. This thread is all about: "At Microsoft, the MD5 hash functions are banned." The subject of this thread is: "Banning MD5 is stupid and small minded" How is this NOT directly about Microsoft? Do you have some sort of memory impairment?
I understand that very well. Most often it's used to verify the integrity of data. The more often there will be a collision, the more often it will be wrong, the less useful it is. If not, why bother with MD5 in the first place, just stick with CRC32 which is even faster and smaller! After all, banning CRC is stupid and small minded...
No, I'm seeing blatantly factually incorrect information getting positive moderation, clearly BECAUSE it is anti-conservative.
I'm not arguing religon at all, the OP was posting a factually incorrect troll.
You have also shown yourself to be nothing more than a loud-mouthed troll spreading complete nonsense, so I'll be ignoring you in the future as well.
That's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
It's not a subjective interpretation when it literally and directly says something. There's no room for interpretation in cases like that.
Yes, the OP was trolling. The bible doesn't talk about sex outside of marriage in just one place, with one set of terms, where a single mis-translation could change the meaning of it. As I said, this is a theme in the bible that is repeated over and over again. It's overwhelmingly clear that you have NEVER read the bible, yet you feel you're qualified to argue about what it does and doesn't say. That is real ignorance. That is as bad of a case of blindly believing as I've ever seen, although the OPPOSITE of the kind of blind faith most people think of.
I did. Quite clearly. You seem to be the one who clearly wants to make a name-calling match out of it.
You know, I really HATE the Google toolbar for Firefox. Well, actually, it's not that I hate it at all, I really don't want to use it in the slightest, but that it exists shouldn't bother me. The fact that I have to see a DAMMED AD for it at the bottom of EVERY SINGLE PAGE OF SEARCH RESULTS, EVERY SINGLE TIME is what I HATE.
I figured maybe there's be a preferences option to turn that god dammed repetitive ad off, but no. I either have to forge my user-agent, or switch to Clusty.com
No, Microsoft is every bit as dumb as people think. They just happen to have truckloads of money and an OS monopoly they can use to catch-up when other companies are wiping the floor with them. Look at anything having to do with the internet. TCP/IP stack, Web Browser, Instant Messaging, etc. Microsoft is very dumb.
You act like your idea is revolutionary, but it's the prevailing theory on /. any time USA vs. Europe/Asia comes up about anything.
I have a completely different theory... Cities were so overwhelmingly designed for cars, that there's no other way to get around. Roads have no bike lanes, few cross-walks, dangerously high speed-limits even in dense urban/residential areas, etc. I've been thinking about getting out of my car, lately, but I can't come up with any routes that don't force me to ride for miles down a busy street with a curb, where traffic is going 45MPH or more, and usually lacks street lights to add insult to injury (literally!).
"No room for a sidewalk, we need to squeeze another lane in there to relieve congestion!"
That's patently ridiculous. Software bloat does not come from using stronger cryptographic functions, or anything of that nature. Most people would be just FINE with that cause of slow-down... It's the pointless "didn't bother to remove the crap" code that causes real bloat. Switching from one (IO-bound) hash to another that is only slightly more computationally intense is not bloat in the slightest.
And they're all running WinXP embedded, right? No? Some other Microsoft OS? How many of them run on CE or some such? Because we ARE talking about Microsoft.
300% increase in network utilization? Umm, no. Not unless all you're sending is a constant stream of hashes.
Once again, these links have Microsoft OSes at both ends, right?
Once again, these datacenters are running Windows on all their machines of course, otherwise this would have absolutely no point in this discussion...
And for some reason, in this specialized cluster of Windows system, they are apparently forced to use the built-in Windows cryptographic functions, and completely unable to code their own for their specific purposes.
Not in cryptography. A faster hash that has lots of collisions and can easily be 'fooled' is almost NEVER useful.
You're just assuming anyone who has any religous beliefs is blindly following. That's rarely the case. You just want to be morally superior, so thinking of everyone who disagrees with you as a "blind follower" makes you feel better about yourself, and allows you to discount others out of hand, not bothering to even CONSIDER what they have to say.
No, I'm not talking about subjective interpretations at all. The OP said it doesn't say in the bible that sex outside of marriage is wrong, and that is completely and totally factually incorrect.
Don't let that stop your trolling though.
I agree. You seem to be forgetting that YOU are the one who brought up the issue of crimes and impeachment, no-one else. I just supplied you with some info you requested.
And while I agree that most of those listed aren't imeachable offences, the fact is that Bush lied, falsified evidence, used known-false evidence, etc., to convince congress to support the war against Iraq. No downing-street memo is necessary, every educated person on the planet knew all the publicly supplied evidence was false before the first bomb fell. The major news media (CBS/NBC/ABC) all went through the list, and easily disproved all of them, one by one. That one, if nothing else, IS an impeachable offense by even the most strict terms.