Really, why does everyone assume that high resoloution needs to be tiny fonts, etc? Take what most people use today, 800x600 or up. Go back a few years. Pick up atari resoloution and put it in there. it'll be a tiny window up in a corner. A while back, then capabilities increased, people went "wow, now we can make things look better". Now, when capabilities increase, people go "wow, now we can make half-kinda-ugly things smaller!". Sure, some people need lots of workspace (I do...), but think about it im a few years:
"Hey check out my 4500x3375 display... you need a 36 inch monitor to even see the text..."
Now why not take advantage of the possibilities and make everything look nice? Text, for example looks pretty much pixelized on todays screens.
And there was that unfortunate "bug" in the first release of Win98, which sent a lot of info to Microsoft, about user activities. Scary.
Would be nice to think that such a thing would create some noise... do you have any facts to back that up (as in, reports/articles/more info on how and what was actually sent/etc) or is it just one of those i-dont-like-MS-rumours?
Now trust me, dont like M$ at all, which is why I'd be very interested in some hard facts on the subject.
Sooooooo, Maybe I'm just really stupid, but what the h*ll is the point? Just because there are *not* encryption standards in place at this point for this link i the chain means we need them? Perhaps someone, original poster, or otherwise could explain to me the practical applications of this and just how far this will extend? Are we just talking about satalite transmitions as mentioned in the article? or all data sent through my machine to the screen? Seems unnecasary, but hey, like I said before, I'm *really* dumb..... Please o please.... Someone give me a reason for the need...
It's really sooo simple. The practical application for this is for intel to earn some easy money.
The real question is: Will this effect my fps while playing Quake?
Probably not... might affect the price you pay if you wanna be able to play Quake IV: Master Bloodbath - Blood n Guts All Over Your Screen, though.
Well how does this stop me from putting a recording device between the input and the screen, recording the encrypted signal, and then sending exactly the same encrypted signal to the screen again? Seems to me like it's more access control, not copy control...
The answer to that is to stop avoiding alternate fuels and electric cars and such. Car makers have been foolish to stay with only one fuel type as it lets control out of their own hands. The consumer has been foolish for not forcing car makers to give us more choices. Luckily many solutions already exist and hopefully some executives someplace will get some nerve and change the balance of power. Choice is always power.
Actually, you're pretty much blaming the wrong people... why don't we have electric cars all over the place right now? Well, because whenever someone invented something to make alternative ways of powering cars better, the oil industries offered enough money for the inventor to sell, and then closed the project down, which means none of these devices ever got developed any further.
And from what we've heard about Windows 2000 I think it's clear that it's not all that unstable.
Uh, my Windows 2000 server (final release) bluescreens and dies belly up when you send it too big print jobs (note that too big in this case doesnt mean very big...). If a system is "stable", i'd like to think that it doesnt need a reboot when it's printer driver fails.
Windows 2000 is cute. Thats about it... it looks nice and it has so many features you could (and probably will) drown in them. Cute... nice features maybe... but not stable.
Breaking CSS isn't really the same as cutting the sellotape off a book either. You don't need any knowledge greater than the ability to use a knife to cut off the sellotape.
Well, that doesn't make the knife illegal either. I'd say that it'll be as easy to play dvds... I don't need to know exactly how the decryption works to use DeCSS, nor do i need to know how to make a knife in order to cut sellotape. And while we're at the metaphors... just because you can stab someone with the knife doesnt mean I can't use it legally to cut my sellotape!
I'm not saying that all trolls are 13-year-old-johnny-kids, I'm trying to say that 13-year-old-johnny would think again... and really with the hoardes of trolls invading lately, how many of these do you think uses proxies or anonymizing services of some other kind? 1%? The bulk of the trolls don't I bet... and the moderation can take care of the rest.
Well, track the accounts then. Lessee... this account has posted 165 spam posts the last two months. Send that to the guys ISP then or whatever... most ISPs have usage agreements dictating that people should not spam.
If little Johnny-13-year-old reallizes that his daddy's gonna get a letter from their ISP cause he spammed slashdot with a three-digit number of spam posts, he might think again.
This is a principle that has existed on Usenet and in MUU/MUDS for years. The idea is that you WATCH and LISTEN and LEARN before you participate
Yes, that's what I've done too. Now I just recently signed up, but before that I'd been reading/. for a few months. Now... how would I have felt if I when I signed up after reading/. for a few months find out that noone's gonna see my posts the coming 6 months? No thank you.
How about you? When you started posting as AC, would you have liked it if your post had been marked down because you were new, instead of your posting offtopic? Your +5 funny posts wouldve been marked ad -1 or 0, because you hadnt been on/. for 3 months yet.
If someone doesn't bother to WATCH, LISTEN and LEARN before they start posting, thats their loss, and they should be moderated down too. The soloution is not automaticly moderating everyone new down though...
PersonalNet... all the countless useless personal pages "I love my cat", "Hi I'm Eric and im 14 years", "Friendship page, send this on to 184612458 other people and you'll get a friend for life" and "Football-is-my-life" pages.
IIRC, there was some claim about a shrink-wrap license forbidding anyone who used a DVD player to reverse engineer using it, and that since whoever wrote the decryption code would have had to use the player to watch the decryption process and reverse-engineer it, he'd broken the contract.
Sounded very far out to me, but I don't remember exactly what context this was used in.
I don't think there's any exact formal method specified for it. Basicly, reverse engineering is copying the function of someting, but not the implementation of it.
This means, if you'd copied the actual code, it'd been theft, or at least a crime against copyright laws, but if you just write entirely new code, that does the same thing, it's reverse engineering. Also, I beleive, documenting the functions of something can fall under reverse engineering (as documenting the function of someting is needed in order to copy the function of something).
The sum of it all is: you'll still have to write the new code (/make the new chip/device/hardware) yourself.
Now IANAL but... sounds true to me. Usually (on software at least) it'll say, "by using this [software/player/whatever] you agree to x and y and z" etc, but if the license says by opening the box / tearing the wrapping, then you don't even have to get the clerk to do it, just get your brother to do it, or a friend, or whoever.
It all depends on how the license is written i guess.
Of course not. They had 750,000 testers. And a lot of feedback. Those 63,000 items are all things that could be improved. But I have been using Win2k for a month - and I've yet to encounter a (noticable) bug. The machine has yet to crash a single time.
Due to a bug in the printer driver, our Win2k server crashes when you send it too big print jobs. No, the printer driver doesnt crash, the entire server stops responding. Isn't that great?
No matter if there was 28k bugs or 65k bugs or not, a professional "reliable" server doesnt crash when a printer driver doesnt work.
Of course they could just all be in Index server etc, but since those are all on by default, we could count on meeting quite a few of them. If even a tenth of a percent is really serious, thats 65 really serious bugs, that we'll notice.
Also, Win2k is as a server OS directed towards people who want to run Index server etc on it. Basicly, the sum of it all means, everyone is going to find a really nasty bug or two.
As for the claim of one bug per hour, it was meaned as a comparision just to indicate the mass of the bugs. And really, I don't see why this is more rediculous than MS claims that people are dumping sun because its more unstable than NT.
But 28000 or something like that of these are serious problems. Not the majority, no, but more than I would care to have. Let's say we run into one new bug each hour, and use our computer for 10 hours each damn day... it'll still take more than 7 and a half year to run into all of them. No matter if theyre not showstopper, added up together, thats a showstopper.
Yes there are 65000 holes in the roof, but only 28000 go all the way through so we need to put buckets under them, and none of those are bigger than three inches. It's no big deal. *shrug*
IE also makes it a lot easier to make web pages do what you want them to when you're making them. I, usually, can get everything to look right in IE on the first try, but it sometimes takes me hours to get Netscape to make it look even half good.
This is what separates a good web designer from a bad one...
A good web designer realizes that no matter what OS/browser you're using, a page should render correctly.
As for my experience, this was up until just recently (IE 5), reversed. It was always easy to render stuff right in netscape, and then spend a week fixing it cause IE wouldnt get it.
Also, it still exists. You find IE easier because you make your pages and viewing in IE, and then check netscape. Netscape is easier for me because i use it during the development. Just a week ago I had to make a series of pages around 20k bigger, just because IE wouldnt render the table backgrounds right.
Because IE is a security disaster. "May i store your passwords somewhere and let anyone use your password to get in to any site just because they have acces to your harddrive?" And any ordinary user selects yes, thatd be a nice comfort to have.
Also, IE is a shell. Most people miss this... A shell with bugs is no good thing to browse the web with... a bit like telling bash to do anything http://www.meanbadsite.com tells it to.
No thanks... I'll wait for netscape 6 then. We're talking about netscape 6 here if you didnt notice, yes... so why compare ns 4 to ie 5? Last news i saw was that the new version of the rendering engine was faster than IE 5.
Last thing to say, as long as we have two (or more) browsers to choose from, we can retain the hope that the development will keep going in the right direction.
Of course you'll look like an idiot accepting software with 28k serious bugs in it, but lets face it, most people out there don't know of anything else than Microsoft, and Microsoft OS/Programs have always been very buggy.
To almost everyone that's not very nerdish, it's natural for software to have bugs, so noone said a word about it. But does it make them morons? I don't think so.
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"Hey check out my 4500x3375 display... you need a 36 inch monitor to even see the text..."
Now why not take advantage of the possibilities and make everything look nice? Text, for example looks pretty much pixelized on todays screens.
Would be nice to think that such a thing would create some noise... do you have any facts to back that up (as in, reports/articles/more info on how and what was actually sent/etc) or is it just one of those i-dont-like-MS-rumours?
Now trust me, dont like M$ at all, which is why I'd be very interested in some hard facts on the subject.
It's really sooo simple. The practical application for this is for intel to earn some easy money.
The real question is: Will this effect my fps while playing Quake?
Probably not... might affect the price you pay if you wanna be able to play Quake IV: Master Bloodbath - Blood n Guts All Over Your Screen, though.
Well how does this stop me from putting a recording device between the input and the screen, recording the encrypted signal, and then sending exactly the same encrypted signal to the screen again? Seems to me like it's more access control, not copy control...
No, but it can be stolen...
GenerateRandomCrash();
Actually, you're pretty much blaming the wrong people... why don't we have electric cars all over the place right now? Well, because whenever someone invented something to make alternative ways of powering cars better, the oil industries offered enough money for the inventor to sell, and then closed the project down, which means none of these devices ever got developed any further.
Uh, my Windows 2000 server (final release) bluescreens and dies belly up when you send it too big print jobs (note that too big in this case doesnt mean very big...). If a system is "stable", i'd like to think that it doesnt need a reboot when it's printer driver fails.
Windows 2000 is cute. Thats about it... it looks nice and it has so many features you could (and probably will) drown in them. Cute... nice features maybe... but not stable.
Well, that doesn't make the knife illegal either. I'd say that it'll be as easy to play dvds... I don't need to know exactly how the decryption works to use DeCSS, nor do i need to know how to make a knife in order to cut sellotape. And while we're at the metaphors... just because you can stab someone with the knife doesnt mean I can't use it legally to cut my sellotape!
I'm not saying that all trolls are 13-year-old-johnny-kids, I'm trying to say that 13-year-old-johnny would think again... and really with the hoardes of trolls invading lately, how many of these do you think uses proxies or anonymizing services of some other kind? 1%? The bulk of the trolls don't I bet... and the moderation can take care of the rest.
If little Johnny-13-year-old reallizes that his daddy's gonna get a letter from their ISP cause he spammed slashdot with a three-digit number of spam posts, he might think again.
Yes, that's what I've done too. Now I just recently signed up, but before that I'd been reading /. for a few months. Now... how would I have felt if I when I signed up after reading /. for a few months find out that noone's gonna see my posts the coming 6 months? No thank you.
How about you? When you started posting as AC, would you have liked it if your post had been marked down because you were new, instead of your posting offtopic? Your +5 funny posts wouldve been marked ad -1 or 0, because you hadnt been on /. for 3 months yet.
If someone doesn't bother to WATCH, LISTEN and LEARN before they start posting, thats their loss, and they should be moderated down too. The soloution is not automaticly moderating everyone new down though...
PersonalNet... all the countless useless personal pages "I love my cat", "Hi I'm Eric and im 14 years", "Friendship page, send this on to 184612458 other people and you'll get a friend for life" and "Football-is-my-life" pages.
Sounded very far out to me, but I don't remember exactly what context this was used in.
This means, if you'd copied the actual code, it'd been theft, or at least a crime against copyright laws, but if you just write entirely new code, that does the same thing, it's reverse engineering. Also, I beleive, documenting the functions of something can fall under reverse engineering (as documenting the function of someting is needed in order to copy the function of something).
The sum of it all is: you'll still have to write the new code (/make the new chip/device/hardware) yourself.
It all depends on how the license is written i guess.
Due to a bug in the printer driver, our Win2k server crashes when you send it too big print jobs. No, the printer driver doesnt crash, the entire server stops responding. Isn't that great?
No matter if there was 28k bugs or 65k bugs or not, a professional "reliable" server doesnt crash when a printer driver doesnt work.
Also, Win2k is as a server OS directed towards people who want to run Index server etc on it. Basicly, the sum of it all means, everyone is going to find a really nasty bug or two.
As for the claim of one bug per hour, it was meaned as a comparision just to indicate the mass of the bugs. And really, I don't see why this is more rediculous than MS claims that people are dumping sun because its more unstable than NT.
Does anyone know what the two states that obstained where?
Yes there are 65000 holes in the roof, but only 28000 go all the way through so we need to put buckets under them, and none of those are bigger than three inches. It's no big deal. *shrug*
Also, lets say the attacs originated in say... Israel... the scenario doesnt change. The important part of the post was how, not from where.
This is what separates a good web designer from a bad one...
A good web designer realizes that no matter what OS/browser you're using, a page should render correctly.
As for my experience, this was up until just recently (IE 5), reversed. It was always easy to render stuff right in netscape, and then spend a week fixing it cause IE wouldnt get it.
Also, it still exists. You find IE easier because you make your pages and viewing in IE, and then check netscape. Netscape is easier for me because i use it during the development. Just a week ago I had to make a series of pages around 20k bigger, just because IE wouldnt render the table backgrounds right.
Because IE is a security disaster. "May i store your passwords somewhere and let anyone use your password to get in to any site just because they have acces to your harddrive?" And any ordinary user selects yes, thatd be a nice comfort to have.
Also, IE is a shell. Most people miss this... A shell with bugs is no good thing to browse the web with... a bit like telling bash to do anything http://www.meanbadsite.com tells it to.
No thanks... I'll wait for netscape 6 then. We're talking about netscape 6 here if you didnt notice, yes... so why compare ns 4 to ie 5? Last news i saw was that the new version of the rendering engine was faster than IE 5.
Last thing to say, as long as we have two (or more) browsers to choose from, we can retain the hope that the development will keep going in the right direction.
1. Take rat.
2. Open with knife or otherwise suitable object.
3. Insert small cancer-tissue.
4. Close rat.
5. Cancer breeds inside of rat.
Isn't it marvelous what they figure out for science?
Of course you'll look like an idiot accepting software with 28k serious bugs in it, but lets face it, most people out there don't know of anything else than Microsoft, and Microsoft OS/Programs have always been very buggy.
To almost everyone that's not very nerdish, it's natural for software to have bugs, so noone said a word about it. But does it make them morons? I don't think so.