Script kiddies will be able to turn off your fridge, lock your doors and get root on your toilet. That's assuming, of course, that The Home of the Future is as secure as current Microsoft products. If you ask me, having your entire home run on a network that will probably be accessable from the Internet is a Bad Idea. A very, very Bad Idea
Dare I ask why anybody would want to have their toilet on a publically accessible network? The only even remotely plausible reason I can come up with is a toilet that automatically checks what you leave in it for signs of disease (if I'm not mistaken, there are already toilets in Japan that do this) and can tell the doctor on their own. This isn't anywhere near a good enough reason for me to have my personal crapper wired up though. I don't want Joe Hacker to know about when I'm taking a shit, thank you very much....
If ($movie->{MPEG4Header}{isCopyProtected} = 0) {
$movie->play();
}
The bug here is not necessarily that you used = instead of ==. Your statement assigns the value 0 to isCopyProtected, true, but the assignment operator returns the value it assigned to the variable. In other words, if it successfully assigns the value 0 to isCopyProtected, its return value will be 0, and so using this code, your movie will not play. Another way of making this code "work" instead of using == would be to set isCopyProtected to 1.
The "recording industry" postures as the *source* of music, and as standing up for the musicians whose work ends up being filtered through it. That might be true of most individuals involved, too; I can't really believe that Satan himself secretly heads all the big record companies, and does it because he hates all musicians. But it's not a secret that the reason record companies, including their high-priced studios and high-priced studio engineers, marketeers, etc, exist is to, hopefully and eventually, make some money.
Reading this paragraph gave me an interesting thought -- The reason why today's music is declining in quality is the exact same reason why Microsoft OSs aren't always known for their top-notch quality: they're doing it for profit, not because they want a quality product. Microsoft's end goal is to profit, not necessarily to make a high quality OS; similarly, the recording industry's end goal is to turn a profit. The recording industry's primary goal is not to produce quality music.
grep? What good would a text-searching utility do here? "Hasn't anyone heard of dd" refers to the write-files-or-binary-patterns-here utility which can be used to overwrite the 'secret' data this article refers to.
Hell, I don't even know why I pay for cable TV and am forced to watch ads on top of it
You're paying for the delivery mechanism (the cable company's network and associated resources). Your bill does not pay for the actual content; this is obtained free through the use of advertising. It's like paying for an internet connection and having to view ads on a web site; you're paying for the delivery mechanism, but since you aren't paying for the actual content, you get to see some ads instead.
They do this, then artists not associated with the RIAA sue them for their fair share. Anybodny know the formula they decide for the payoffs for the CD-RW and R media?
This is the RIAA we're talking about, so...
Artist payout = $1
RIAA keeps for itself = [Total revenue from blank media tax] - $1
But seriously...hasn't Courtney Love shown righteous indignation at not receiving her 'fair share' from any of these taxes yet? As an insider, she is calling the RIAA's bluff -- she knows damn well that the RIAA isn't there for the artists, it's there for itself.
...entirely from 12AX7 tubes and individual capacitors, resistors, etc
Do you know how incredibly slow a processor would have to be if it was built out of discrete parts? Also, I'd like to see you wade through the ocean of wires to try and debug it. Debugging a digital circuit on a breadboard is painful enough...
Four years of experience with the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the DMCA demonstrate that the statute reaches too far, chilling a wide variety of legitimate activities in ways Congress did not intend
To make this more accurate, Congress didn't intend to stifle these activities at first. But then, the entertainment industry came along, started writing sizable checks to the Congresspeople for bri...err, "campaign contributions," and changed Congress's mind on this. Sure they intended to chill those.
P2P networks serve no legitimate purpose. They only exist to mask the identities of software pirates, and to make it easier for people to find whatever copyrighted warez/mp3s/videos/etc. they are trying to steal.
Bullshit.
P2P serves many legitimate purposes, including:
* Finding non-copyrighted music from rare sources
* Finding music that has been specifically authorized to be shared
* Cheap, easy distribution for budding artists
* Better distribution for legally tradable software
* A more reliable way to download (free|share)ware because of the network model involved
* Others
Sure, there are many many people out there who are using P2P for "illegitimate" purposes, but there are also plenty of people who are using it for legitimate, legal purposes. Your post is mere FUD.
Plaintiffs' lawyers estimate consumers will recoup about one-third of what they spent for Microsoft products, including the Windows operating systems and popular Office and Word programs, between Feb. 18, 1995, and Dec. 15, 2001.
For example, consumers will receive a voucher for $29 for each copy of Microsoft Office purchased, $26 for each copy of Excel, $16 for each copy of the Windows operating system and $5 for each copy of the word-processing program Word, according to plaintiffs' lawyers
Since when have they been selling Windows for $48?
all the flack MS Media Player 9 has gotten, I'm still able to rip non-DRMd WMA files if I choose
But the default is to include DRM, no? Seeing how nearly all of the WMA files I have found on KazaaLite have DRM enabled, I find it hard to believe otherwise. And since most of what I download is non-copyrighted, this indicates that the people doing the ripping probably don't even know what DRM is; they just leave it turned on because it's the default.
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Script kiddies will be able to turn off your fridge, lock your doors and get root on your toilet. That's assuming, of course, that The Home of the Future is as secure as current Microsoft products. If you ask me, having your entire home run on a network that will probably be accessable from the Internet is a Bad Idea. A very, very Bad Idea
Dare I ask why anybody would want to have their toilet on a publically accessible network? The only even remotely plausible reason I can come up with is a toilet that automatically checks what you leave in it for signs of disease (if I'm not mistaken, there are already toilets in Japan that do this) and can tell the doctor on their own. This isn't anywhere near a good enough reason for me to have my personal crapper wired up though. I don't want Joe Hacker to know about when I'm taking a shit, thank you very much....
If ($movie->{MPEG4Header}{isCopyProtected} = 0) {
$movie->play();
}
The bug here is not necessarily that you used = instead of ==. Your statement assigns the value 0 to isCopyProtected, true, but the assignment operator returns the value it assigned to the variable. In other words, if it successfully assigns the value 0 to isCopyProtected, its return value will be 0, and so using this code, your movie will not play. Another way of making this code "work" instead of using == would be to set isCopyProtected to 1.
As a Russian all I can say is if your courts take this case its a sad thing.
The courts here took the McDonalds hot coffee case -- what will they not take?
The "recording industry" postures as the *source* of music, and as standing up for the musicians whose work ends up being filtered through it. That might be true of most individuals involved, too; I can't really believe that Satan himself secretly heads all the big record companies, and does it because he hates all musicians. But it's not a secret that the reason record companies, including their high-priced studios and high-priced studio engineers, marketeers, etc, exist is to, hopefully and eventually, make some money.
Reading this paragraph gave me an interesting thought -- The reason why today's music is declining in quality is the exact same reason why Microsoft OSs aren't always known for their top-notch quality: they're doing it for profit, not because they want a quality product. Microsoft's end goal is to profit, not necessarily to make a high quality OS; similarly, the recording industry's end goal is to turn a profit. The recording industry's primary goal is not to produce quality music.
This means we'll see Commander Clippy on the battlefield in StarCraft II
Look on the bright side...you'll get to blow him up.
Or "Second verse, same as the first!"
grep? What good would a text-searching utility do here? "Hasn't anyone heard of dd" refers to the write-files-or-binary-patterns-here utility which can be used to overwrite the 'secret' data this article refers to.
Hell, I don't even know why I pay for cable TV and am forced to watch ads on top of it
You're paying for the delivery mechanism (the cable company's network and associated resources). Your bill does not pay for the actual content; this is obtained free through the use of advertising. It's like paying for an internet connection and having to view ads on a web site; you're paying for the delivery mechanism, but since you aren't paying for the actual content, you get to see some ads instead.
Make it not profitable(or illegal). That's the simple solution
The illegality here would scare the pants off of all the spammers in Asia, I'm sure...
They do this, then artists not associated with the RIAA sue them for their fair share. Anybodny know the formula they decide for the payoffs for the CD-RW and R media?
This is the RIAA we're talking about, so...
Artist payout = $1
RIAA keeps for itself = [Total revenue from blank media tax] - $1
But seriously...hasn't Courtney Love shown righteous indignation at not receiving her 'fair share' from any of these taxes yet? As an insider, she is calling the RIAA's bluff -- she knows damn well that the RIAA isn't there for the artists, it's there for itself.
PCI-SIG is a not-for-profit corporation
So is the RIAA.
Actually it sounds like they will be required to put it into XP SP2
It's in SP1 already.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table again.
Wealth in and of itself is not something worth politically "attacking" anybody over. Purchasing legislation, however, is.
non-alpha characters (C#, .NET, 1.5" all stump google)
These searches work just fine. It has some trouble with ", but that's because it sees it as quotation marks.
...entirely from 12AX7 tubes and individual capacitors, resistors, etc
Do you know how incredibly slow a processor would have to be if it was built out of discrete parts? Also, I'd like to see you wade through the ocean of wires to try and debug it. Debugging a digital circuit on a breadboard is painful enough...
Make them do 1st level phone support for an AOL for a few hundred hours, that will teach them ...
Or restrict them so that they will only be allowed to have internet access through AOL...
It'll be really cool after it shorts
And after the fire goes out...
The article makes no mention of using a non-conductive fluid
Use distilled water. It's non-conductive.
Four years of experience with the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the DMCA demonstrate that the statute reaches too far, chilling a wide variety of legitimate activities in ways Congress did not intend
To make this more accurate, Congress didn't intend to stifle these activities at first. But then, the entertainment industry came along, started writing sizable checks to the Congresspeople for bri...err, "campaign contributions," and changed Congress's mind on this. Sure they intended to chill those.
"Great Firewall of the USA"
Makes our government sound like the government of China, doesn't it?
P2P networks serve no legitimate purpose. They only exist to mask the identities of software pirates, and to make it easier for people to find whatever copyrighted warez/mp3s/videos/etc. they are trying to steal.
Bullshit.
P2P serves many legitimate purposes, including:
* Finding non-copyrighted music from rare sources
* Finding music that has been specifically authorized to be shared
* Cheap, easy distribution for budding artists
* Better distribution for legally tradable software
* A more reliable way to download (free|share)ware because of the network model involved
* Others
Sure, there are many many people out there who are using P2P for "illegitimate" purposes, but there are also plenty of people who are using it for legitimate, legal purposes. Your post is mere FUD.
Plaintiffs' lawyers estimate consumers will recoup about one-third of what they spent for Microsoft products, including the Windows operating systems and popular Office and Word programs, between Feb. 18, 1995, and Dec. 15, 2001.
For example, consumers will receive a voucher for $29 for each copy of Microsoft Office purchased, $26 for each copy of Excel, $16 for each copy of the Windows operating system and $5 for each copy of the word-processing program Word, according to plaintiffs' lawyers
Since when have they been selling Windows for $48?
520 feet??? Bleah! First puke!
Being a skydiver, 520 feet is way too low an altitude for me to be freefalling from. Higher please!
all the flack MS Media Player 9 has gotten, I'm still able to rip non-DRMd WMA files if I choose
But the default is to include DRM, no? Seeing how nearly all of the WMA files I have found on KazaaLite have DRM enabled, I find it hard to believe otherwise. And since most of what I download is non-copyrighted, this indicates that the people doing the ripping probably don't even know what DRM is; they just leave it turned on because it's the default.
Professional telemarketers are trained to respect people's right to say "no," hang up, or be permanently taken off of a calling list
Don't you ever say 'professional' and 'telemarketer' in the same sentence.