My program can give the square root of every other number, but if you give it 4, it says -7. It's not the program, it's the input.
The DVD player should not nick the disc. There may very well be something wrong with the disc, but if the DVD player is physically damaging it, there is something wrong with the DVD player.
How do you know what the app does? Do they provide source code? Can you compile it yourself and run it? If not, you do not know.
His concern that this application may read local files, sniff network traffic, or log keystrokes is completely valid.
What is wrong with Internet Connection Sharing? Maybe he has two computers and wants one to act as a firewall for the other. Or maybe he is developing clustered applications and wants to use his own high-speed switch behind one computer acting as a router.
The RIAA is not dumb. Its members are making a ton of money, despite pushing lousy products. They also know that if they can get people to accept lousy products, lock people in, and convince easily-bought elected officials that they need protection, then they will be able to make amounts of money in the future that would not be possible by simply competing on product quality.
Why do they not make the software such that the blocks of code than handle the rights restriction parts of the protocols are nested in an 'if' statement that checks for a BE_EVIL flag? By default the flag would be unset. The flag would be undocumented. But anybody who happened to open a header file and change it before compiling would bypass the rights restrictions.
They will have plenty of customers left. There are millions of people who are willing to pay money to watch movies; which took a lot of time and money to create.
Right. And the codes are often useless. I had a car that was running rich. I could tell by the response, decreased mileage, and smell of the exhaust. I had somebody read the codes. I got a nice little printout that said . . .
Make the road test difficult to pass. If more than 75% of people pass, it is too easy.
Get rid of the system that forces companies to give insurance to the highest-risk drivers. If you are so bad that nobody wants to insure you, I sure do not want you on the road with me.
Especially because I spend more time on the road on a bicycle than in a car.
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If I admit that I cannot prove that god exists, will you admit that you cannot prove that god does not exist?
They are not going to kill the WAN if they are blocked by the firewall.
You should not be running your browser as a user that has access to update it anyway.
Oracle is gonna be pissed.
I am paying my ISP for routing to the Internet. They had better not mess with that. If some web site wants to block me, that is their prerogative.
My program can give the square root of every other number, but if you give it 4, it says -7. It's not the program, it's the input.
The DVD player should not nick the disc. There may very well be something wrong with the disc, but if the DVD player is physically damaging it, there is something wrong with the DVD player.
What kind of DVD player is it?
Your DVD player is nicking up your DVDs? How is that the DRM's fault?
Here's the entire code for Bind 10:
wget http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
It does if you want to turn.
Or if you want to not look like a redneck.
How do you know what the app does? Do they provide source code? Can you compile it yourself and run it? If not, you do not know.
His concern that this application may read local files, sniff network traffic, or log keystrokes is completely valid.
What is wrong with Internet Connection Sharing? Maybe he has two computers and wants one to act as a firewall for the other. Or maybe he is developing clustered applications and wants to use his own high-speed switch behind one computer acting as a router.
I would go to a different college.
The RIAA is not dumb. Its members are making a ton of money, despite pushing lousy products. They also know that if they can get people to accept lousy products, lock people in, and convince easily-bought elected officials that they need protection, then they will be able to make amounts of money in the future that would not be possible by simply competing on product quality.
Do you think Bill Gates cares about Windows people?
Good analogy, if the Internet is analogous to Pine Knot, Kentucky.
What if you are a US citizen?
The same people who would invest in a company about to be ass raped by IBM's lawyers?
The problem is that people really really want to buy stuff with low profit margins.
Why do they not make the software such that the blocks of code than handle the rights restriction parts of the protocols are nested in an 'if' statement that checks for a BE_EVIL flag? By default the flag would be unset. The flag would be undocumented. But anybody who happened to open a header file and change it before compiling would bypass the rights restrictions.
They will have plenty of customers left. There are millions of people who are willing to pay money to watch movies; which took a lot of time and money to create.
Being able to determine the first four bytes is what makes it 2^-18 instead of something much much smaller.
Does 5.1 include the countermeasures?
It sounds like many versions of many implementations are vulnerable. OpenSSH 4.7 in Debian was just the one they used to test it.
Did you read the article?
It indicates that it effects SSH in general, not only one particular implementation.
Right. And the codes are often useless. I had a car that was running rich. I could tell by the response, decreased mileage, and smell of the exhaust. I had somebody read the codes. I got a nice little printout that said . . .
"fuel mixture rich"
Cars don't kill people, people kill people.
A few solutions:
Make the road test difficult to pass. If more than 75% of people pass, it is too easy.
Get rid of the system that forces companies to give insurance to the highest-risk drivers. If you are so bad that nobody wants to insure you, I sure do not want you on the road with me.
Especially because I spend more time on the road on a bicycle than in a car.
Why was that moderated Troll?
Maybe we should look at limiting size and weight of vehicles. Most people do not need cars nearly as big as they think they do.
Also, that 20 year old Civic released way more emissions than a new one, despite getting better mileage.