Try using tabbed navigation, type ahead find, and the search mechanism. I shocked a co-worker yesterday when my mouse fell off the desk and I didn't slow down.
Of course not -.NET allows them to instantly reprioritize the supply chain - haven't you seen the "One degree of seperation" ads?:)
In reality, they can't step manfacturing up and down that quickly - the supply chain probably runs four months in each direction. Now, if we could find the actual period of that chain, and then buy in disruptive cycles out of sync... Then, you could cause some havoc.
In reality, buying a Xbox just adds to thier user count on the big chart - but we geeks won't even make a blip on the radar.
Actually, don't you *have* to register XP, due to activation? Forcing this group to upgrade might also force them to actually *buy* windows for the first time.
Did you actually read this? I got about 2.5 pages into his rambling, uneducated guesswork and when I realized he was trying to explain to me how the pyramids were *poured* into place with molds, based on the evidence that explorers found three junk fragments of rock and pottery in a pit.
I'm done. I'd rather read about aliens zapping them in place with antigravity. At least that's interesting fiction. This guy DRONES on and on...
a) I don't think anyone thinks the pyramids predated the egyptians (or at least people living in egypt). I've never even read about this hypothesis - ther than from "visiting martian" stories that I can't find any corroborative evidence of.
b) Hardly anyone believes the pyramids were built by slaves anymore. All indications are that the pyramids were built as a team sport by what were essentially an zealous, overfed, understimulated, well-populated civilization that had all of thier resources magically delivered to them every spring.
c) There are glyphs of how they built them. There are also glyphs left behind by the gangs, or teams that competed during construction. What is not documented is the specific "secret sauce" those teams used against one another. And why? Probably because it was a lot tougher to get an IP patent back then. Carving your secret into a wall is probably a bad way to conceal it.
According to AlexanderOgilvy, H-P's public relations firm for the Jornada handheld devices, an upgrade is simply not possible. (Jornada 420 owners will recall that last year H-P released a software upgrade to the device's display driver to increase resolution.) AlexanderOgilvy also confirmed that H-P would refund the full purchase price of any dissatisfied Jornada 540 series Pocket PC buyer.
It's unfortunate that my bad example seems to be making everyone ignore the first sentence - namely that it's already illegal to steal phone service - why invent new legislation that will only restrict law-abiding people?
I'm willing to bet it's a two-step process - make changing the numbers illegal, then make devices that change ids (Since they can now only be used for illegal activity) illegal. Then, go after id-changing hardware manufacturers, and try to starve the black market phone industry.
And to heck with whoever gets trampled in the process.
Why shouldn't something that only serves theives (as far as I can see) be illegal? Because it's already illegal to steal phone service. Removing freedoms without cause hurts everybody.
Also, a silly counter-example - I'm a hacker, and in my basement lab, I've set up my own shielded, isolated cell network, just for kicks. And I want to have phone# 000-000-0001 (Those not in the US, please translate into your own localized version). Just because I *want* to. Or as a scientific experiment, a science fair project, or to learn more about the world around me. Why should that be illegal?
In my experience, most people who deal with number theory/abstract mathematics play go... It may be one of the few technical details that Hollywood gets right...
Do you check the packages downloaded from sites that you usually do not have problems with? Like from redhat.com, debian.org and in this case openbsd.org?
Of course I do! You don't?
If this story is really true, how much safer is open-source programs, when compared with closed source programs? Notice that even with closed source programs, *some* people will eventually discover that they are trojan or not.
Well, this one was caught in 6 hours by someone who wasn't on the OpenSSH or the OpenBSD teams. I'd imagine if he was asleep at the switch, I believe someone else would have found it soon after.
This shows why I trust OS peer-reviewed code... It only takes one curious person to find an exploit, and OSS allows that person to be anyone. This one was found in 6 hours, by someone who wasn't on the OpenBSD team or the OpenSSH team.
It's also why I spend (some say waste) a few idle cycles now and again just perusing code - it only takes one person to notice an anomaly. The more aggregate cycles spent reviewing code, the better the systems get.
How important is this fight? In the 60's, people got involved and forced real change. And I'm sure when that process was warming up, many activist group newsletters had articles just like this one: Outlining the fear that "Those embarrassing nuts are going to ruin our only chance at making a difference."
Of course those issues were much more obviously central to human need and survival than these are. It's not (quite) as hard to stand your ground and take a beating to keep your peers from dying. Or to give up personal liberties and face jail time to prevent the oppression of your society.
If people believed in the OSS/DMCA/Fair Use causes enough to step in front of harpoons, to march in force and risk beatings or jail time, I suspect they could force some significant change. There is a limit, after all, to the power of money - even the almost limitless amount that "the other camp" can muster against the causes of liberty...
The only question is: Is this fight important enough? Will it spawn an Abby Hoffman or a group like the Black Panthers? Is it enough to wake up the sheep that are most affected by it?
What's really being taken away from us? What are the chances that we won't be able to take it back?
What are we really fighting here? Is it corporate greed? Covernment control? Public laziness? Is there even a front line to hold here?
If the goal is to turn the MPAA/RIAA from thier current course, there's only one way to do it - get the public to see what they're losing, and make them care.
If the goal is to convince the government to support our freedoms in this issue, again - the decisions will fall to the largest group - get the public, the voters to side with you.
If it's to make the general public aware of what big media and the technology companies are doing to them, and get them to take action - That's what you need a real leader for. RMS is strong on ideals, and that's laudable, but he has no public presence, and without the charisma and drive to back up his ideals, he's only a footsoldier looking for a general. The EFF is stretching thier own wings lately, trying to use subversion as a tool to educate. A fantastic tactic, but once again, thier efforts lack charisma, and as a result, are ineffectual.
History has proven that "Merry Pranksters" are capable of bringing the message to the people, through public ridicule, shocking honesty, and downright ground-trembling spectacle. But they need organization, focus, control, and everyone needs to push behind the same arrowhead.
When unorganized efforts attempt this, they come off as purile whining, which is how the events detailled in this current article sound.
What if we had gotten 5 or 6 hundred people to arrive at this workshop - 400 of them lined up outside, chanting during the proceedings?
What if we had convinced educated, like-minded musicians, actors and directors to show up - would they dare to disallow the very people they claim to be trying to protect the right to speak?
What if we could get enough public awareness to get a 2-day boycott of cds, dvds, tv and movie theaters? Something heavy enough to show on the charts - to make advertisers and broadcasters take notice, and to make people everywhere wake up to the fact that they can take 100% control of this country anytime they really want to, no matter how long they've given thier power to the proxies in office... And then get those newly-empowered masses involved in a two-week boycott. During sweeps, the Superbowl, or the start of July.
How do these things happen? Once, there were people who could produce events like these - where are those people during this situation? Is it impossible for the 2000s to spawn a Martin Luther (King or t'other one), a Thomas Jefferson, or am Abey Hoffman?
Are they all dead, strangled by corporate greed, or are the problems we now face just not important enough to bring them to the forefront?
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Try using tabbed navigation, type ahead find, and the search mechanism. I shocked a co-worker yesterday when my mouse fell off the desk and I didn't slow down.
ActiveState's Komodo...
Of course not - .NET allows them to instantly reprioritize the supply chain - haven't you seen the "One degree of seperation" ads? :)
In reality, they can't step manfacturing up and down that quickly - the supply chain probably runs four months in each direction. Now, if we could find the actual period of that chain, and then buy in disruptive cycles out of sync... Then, you could cause some havoc.
In reality, buying a Xbox just adds to thier user count on the big chart - but we geeks won't even make a blip on the radar.
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Do you have a television at work?
Actually, don't you *have* to register XP, due to activation? Forcing this group to upgrade might also force them to actually *buy* windows for the first time.
They don't want to sell more consoles - the consoles cost them money. They want to sell more games.
If people are running openoffice under linux on thier xboxes, MS has lost money.
Read it again. You're free to release as many versions as you want, and make any changes you wish, as long as you follow the GPL.
You just can't name your new creation Bluecurve (tm), because that's a marketing tool for RedHat.
You also can't create a new BSD-based operating system and name it Linux, without Mr. Torvald's permission. He owns the name "Linux (tm)".
Did you actually read this? I got about 2.5 pages into his rambling, uneducated guesswork and when I realized he was trying to explain to me how the pyramids were *poured* into place with molds, based on the evidence that explorers found three junk fragments of rock and pottery in a pit.
I'm done. I'd rather read about aliens zapping them in place with antigravity. At least that's interesting fiction. This guy DRONES on and on...
You may want to revisit your sources.
a) I don't think anyone thinks the pyramids predated the egyptians (or at least people living in egypt). I've never even read about this hypothesis - ther than from "visiting martian" stories that I can't find any corroborative evidence of.
b) Hardly anyone believes the pyramids were built by slaves anymore. All indications are that the pyramids were built as a team sport by what were essentially an zealous, overfed, understimulated, well-populated civilization that had all of thier resources magically delivered to them every spring.
c) There are glyphs of how they built them. There are also glyphs left behind by the gangs, or teams that competed during construction. What is not documented is the specific "secret sauce" those teams used against one another. And why? Probably because it was a lot tougher to get an IP patent back then. Carving your secret into a wall is probably a bad way to conceal it.
That might have been funny if I could do basic math. :)
Five years, and they still can't spell assimilated?
http://www.shop2000online.com/features.htm says that it's "Windows NT based"
http://www.shop2000online.com/ourproducts.htm says that it has "Real-time access via modem"
Google search for Windows NT DUN exploit turns up 787 results.
I wonder how up-to-date they would keep these things with service packs...
Most likely, we'll find carbon and steel wherever we go - that's what they used for the plate and "grease" in the tests...
Read the article - It does mention it.
According to AlexanderOgilvy, H-P's public relations firm for the Jornada handheld devices, an upgrade is simply not possible. (Jornada 420 owners will recall that last year H-P released a software upgrade to the device's display driver to increase resolution.) AlexanderOgilvy also confirmed that H-P would refund the full purchase price of any dissatisfied Jornada 540 series Pocket PC buyer.
They're talking about using DRM to take these solutions away. "Closing the analog hole" as it were.
New DVDs will only play on new dvd players which only connect to new tvs - all digital connections, all encrypted.
Read the article, and you'll see the FCC has already paved the way for them with the new TV mandates.
I agree with your point, from a technical perspective, but look at it from the management perspective...
$1.6MM and 1020 mins vs $120K and 11 mins.
What they see is the the price/performance going through the roof, at 1/10th the price.
Well, I *said* it was silly. :)
It's unfortunate that my bad example seems to be making everyone ignore the first sentence - namely that it's already illegal to steal phone service - why invent new legislation that will only restrict law-abiding people?
I'm willing to bet it's a two-step process - make changing the numbers illegal, then make devices that change ids (Since they can now only be used for illegal activity) illegal. Then, go after id-changing hardware manufacturers, and try to starve the black market phone industry.
And to heck with whoever gets trampled in the process.
Why shouldn't something that only serves theives (as far as I can see) be illegal?
Because it's already illegal to steal phone service. Removing freedoms without cause hurts everybody.
Also, a silly counter-example - I'm a hacker, and in my basement lab, I've set up my own shielded, isolated cell network, just for kicks. And I want to have phone# 000-000-0001 (Those not in the US, please translate into your own localized version). Just because I *want* to. Or as a scientific experiment, a science fair project, or to learn more about the world around me. Why should that be illegal?
In my experience, most people who deal with number theory/abstract mathematics play go... It may be one of the few technical details that Hollywood gets right...
Do you check the packages downloaded from sites that you usually do not have problems with? Like from redhat.com, debian.org and in this case openbsd.org?
Of course I do! You don't?
If this story is really true, how much safer is open-source programs, when compared with closed source programs? Notice that even with closed source programs, *some* people will eventually discover that they are trojan or not.
Well, this one was caught in 6 hours by someone who wasn't on the OpenSSH or the OpenBSD teams. I'd imagine if he was asleep at the switch, I believe someone else would have found it soon after.
This shows why I trust OS peer-reviewed code... It only takes one curious person to find an exploit, and OSS allows that person to be anyone. This one was found in 6 hours, by someone who wasn't on the OpenBSD team or the OpenSSH team.
It's also why I spend (some say waste) a few idle cycles now and again just perusing code - it only takes one person to notice an anomaly. The more aggregate cycles spent reviewing code, the better the systems get.
Could you guys please stop this? Thanks.
How important is this fight? In the 60's, people got involved and forced real change. And I'm sure when that process was warming up, many activist group newsletters had articles just like this one: Outlining the fear that "Those embarrassing nuts are going to ruin our only chance at making a difference."
Of course those issues were much more obviously central to human need and survival than these are. It's not (quite) as hard to stand your ground and take a beating to keep your peers from dying. Or to give up personal liberties and face jail time to prevent the oppression of your society.
If people believed in the OSS/DMCA/Fair Use causes enough to step in front of harpoons, to march in force and risk beatings or jail time, I suspect they could force some significant change. There is a limit, after all, to the power of money - even the almost limitless amount that "the other camp" can muster against the causes of liberty...
The only question is: Is this fight important enough? Will it spawn an Abby Hoffman or a group like the Black Panthers? Is it enough to wake up the sheep that are most affected by it?
What's really being taken away from us? What are the chances that we won't be able to take it back?
What are we really fighting here? Is it corporate greed? Covernment control? Public laziness? Is there even a front line to hold here?
If the goal is to turn the MPAA/RIAA from thier current course, there's only one way to do it - get the public to see what they're losing, and make them care.
If the goal is to convince the government to support our freedoms in this issue, again - the decisions will fall to the largest group - get the public, the voters to side with you.
If it's to make the general public aware of what big media and the technology companies are doing to them, and get them to take action - That's what you need a real leader for. RMS is strong on ideals, and that's laudable, but he has no public presence, and without the charisma and drive to back up his ideals, he's only a footsoldier looking for a general. The EFF is stretching thier own wings lately, trying to use subversion as a tool to educate. A fantastic tactic, but once again, thier efforts lack charisma, and as a result, are ineffectual.
History has proven that "Merry Pranksters" are capable of bringing the message to the people, through public ridicule, shocking honesty, and downright ground-trembling spectacle. But they need organization, focus, control, and everyone needs to push behind the same arrowhead.
When unorganized efforts attempt this, they come off as purile whining, which is how the events detailled in this current article sound.
What if we had gotten 5 or 6 hundred people to arrive at this workshop - 400 of them lined up outside, chanting during the proceedings?
What if we had convinced educated, like-minded musicians, actors and directors to show up - would they dare to disallow the very people they claim to be trying to protect the right to speak?
What if we could get enough public awareness to get a 2-day boycott of cds, dvds, tv and movie theaters? Something heavy enough to show on the charts - to make advertisers and broadcasters take notice, and to make people everywhere wake up to the fact that they can take 100% control of this country anytime they really want to, no matter how long they've given thier power to the proxies in office... And then get those newly-empowered masses involved in a two-week boycott. During sweeps, the Superbowl, or the start of July.
How do these things happen? Once, there were people who could produce events like these - where are those people during this situation? Is it impossible for the 2000s to spawn a Martin Luther (King or t'other one), a Thomas Jefferson, or am Abey Hoffman?
Are they all dead, strangled by corporate greed, or are the problems we now face just not important enough to bring them to the forefront?