It's hard to fight against down-paid infrastructure, particularly since many people just aren't that heavy bandwidth users. But at least here in Norway the telcos that used to lay copper now lay fiber, the cable companies that used to lay coax now lay fiber and the power companies for the most part started with fiber, there's really nobody left that puts anything else in the ground except for maintenance and hooking up the odd new house to the old network. The places that are too distributed for fiber cell phones and 3G/4G broadband are cheaper than copper and coax. So if we just wait for the "natural" life span of buildings and networks it'll happen, but in order to go even faster the ROI must be there. But there's progress being made because the land-line service here in Norway has lost 70% of its customers since the peak.
Or Microsoft will come to their senses, Windows 8 was released almost exactly three years after Windows 7. Adoption figures from StatCounter:
Windows 7 in March 2010: 11.92% Windows 8 in March 2013: 3.90%
Money talks, I'm sure eventually Microsoft will listen. They want to push into the iPad/Android tablet market but once they accept it won't work I think they'll return to supporting the customers they already have.
Rarely do I need to know that it's 5:13:23pm, but seeing that it's 'quarter after five' is awesome."
Perhaps not in seconds, but I rather like to know how many minutes I've left to catch the bus since three and eight are quite different. I guess I really only look at the seconds if I'm trying to time something, which is rare but unless it's spoken I'd rather have it with numbers... how often do people really write "quarter past three" instead of 3:15 pm (or actually 15:15 around here)?
Probably not, but the people who don't see further than their nose saying "How will this make MY life better?" to everything will say no to all basic science and plenty other subjects that don't result in any direct, tangible returns. When finally you have graphene transistors to make the iPhone 23GS then he'll care to spend money on it, but not today on what might possibly emerge as a technology in a decade or three. I don't know, maybe we find out something useful about our own planet by studying others like it, maybe we won't. But either way it's probably not going to be fast enough for some people. They apply the same ideas to politics and taxes as the CEOs that are only looking on next quarter's figures, cutting costs now make the figures look good short term. Long term the jobs disappear to China and India because you stopped exploring and innovating.
Even if the US wanted a war with North Korea this would not be the time. A war like that takes months of planning and logistics if it's going to go well. The US and South Korea could defeat North Korea over the next couple of weeks if necessary, but at what cost?
If the US wanted a war with North Korea, the pretext would be far more important than the planning and logistics. North Korea would be able to do terrible damage to South Korea regardless of timing, so it'd look a lot better if the US came charging to the rescue against a North Korea that has gone bat shit insane than if the US was building up an invasion force that would be seen as another act of US aggression and backing Kim Jong-Il into a corner where he might as well strike first with all he's got.
I think someone should soon start to make a standard form for why microtransactions won't work like we have for SPAM, I mean I've heard this now for a decade now? Two? And it never materializes, I think most of all because each transaction is either a hassle or an invisible drain on my bank account. Pay-per-minute Internet died in favor of flat rate even though it'd probably be rational for those who use it little to have a metered connection, but the simplicity of just paying a fixed sum won out. Ads may be annoying, but I know they won't cost me anything. Broadly deployed microtransactions means you're back getting an "Internet bill" except now you have a zillion sites trying to bill you with all the crap that's going to lead to.
Besides, if you're going for paranoia the micropayment operator will have a spectacular history of your browsing habits since you probably won't bother to - or even have the opportunity to, if they compare personal info - to have independent micropayment accounts. If you block tracking cookies nobody has a clue that I'm the same guy visiting all these different sites (they could try doing it by IP but that's very weak) while if they all charge a cent in micropayments well then the micropayment operator must know that to bill me. And it'll all be tied to a much more real world identity than today. Is this really the privacy you were looking for?
Seriously. Whats the contract between the two firms say? Are they causing you harm? Are you just being uppity about log entries? The obvious answer to your question is that if you want to continue the relationship with the hospital, you will shut the fuck up and be happy they continue to outsource things to your firm.
I wonder if you're the one who needs a clue since if shit hits the fan because there was a real attack from someone on the hospital network that goes ignored because it's assumed to be an authorized pen test it's his ass on the line. From the summary:
The doctors want to maintain a relationship with the hospital and are worried that involving law enforcement would destroy the relationship.
I would assume that if they're even thinking about calling in law enforcement, they've done the obvious and checked if they gave permission somewhere. I think you're giving the hospital far too much benefit of the doubt here, just because corporate IT think they have permission to pen test anything connected to their network doesn't mean that it's been appropriately regulated in the agreement between the private practice and the hospital. Surely they have some from of legal representation I'd ask:
1) The hospital is doing penetration testing on us. Assuming they should succeed, is it acceptable that they may gain control of our systems or access our practice's data? If no, then take it up with the hospital's compliance officer 2) Even if this penetration testing is permitted, how can the private practice be sure this is authorized activity and not unauthorized activity. Again, get whatever legal council you have to take it up with the compliance officer.
Getting law enforcement involved is only useful if you want to punish someone for what has happened, what you want here is to find a solution going forward. Just because you're both in the health business, doesn't make you the same entity. If you can get your lawyer to say that these pen tests could be a HIPAA violation of the private practice, then their IT will listen to their legal telling them to stop. Or they might stonewall and say that if they can't do security testing, you can't be on the network. Either way you're raising the flag and saying if this happen again, we can't just ignore it.
Syaing "I've already got [whatever platform], how do I make it do what I want?" is often not a helpful approach.
That's why 1% use Linux and 99% use something else, but here on Slashdot I'd say it's almost implicit that the question is "I want to fit a square peg into a round hole, what's the best tool for the job?" and then we discuss the merits of various power tools and that getting a round peg is not a valid option. You should have been here long enough to notice...
If we take "passively reading news" to include other sources like forums, home pages, blogs etc. then most web browsing is excluded in general. If "tweeting out the occasional 140-character update" isn't computing then everything from IRC to e-mail to posting on Slashdot isn't either. Take away "watching videos" then I'm guessing that excludes listening til music, watching pictures or any other form of similar activity too, we've already excluded social activities and commenting as blabbering so all of Facebook and YouTube has nothing to do with computing. When you exclude things that are computationally hard for the computer but not for me, then I think you've excluded 95%+ of all I've ever used my computer for personally. Even compiling from source probably shouldn't count as "computation" then, if all you do is make && make install.
Let me try phrasing it it another way, what were the reasons I wanted to upgrade to a better PC in the past? Playing MP3s and MIDI was big in the 90s, better graphics modes in the 90s and HD video in the 2000s, games the 80s until present. In fact, I don't think I've ever wanted a new computer to make my spreadsheets go faster or to get my compilation times down. So since you've excluded all the reason I'd like to have or upgrade a computer, I guess it hasn't lost as a computing device only as a PC. Because I guess almost all the things I've used it for over the last decades haven't been computing, silly me. Oh and the really heavy computation you now do on a server or in the cloud, welcome to the new mainframes - on my desk at work is nothing but a thin client.
In 2008, the Little Tykes Cozy Coupe was the best selling car in the US. However I don't think Toyota was overly concerned about the competition. Apple devices include things like the iPod. Microsoft's big money maker has always been business licensing. When Apple makes double digit market share in the enterprise arena, this will be news.
Well that might be the cash cow but the castle guarding it is that "everyone" is on Windows. Netapplications now say 12% of all browsing happens on mobile+tablet and Macs+Linux has 8% on the desktop. together that means roughly one in five no longer surfs on Windows. That's pretty huge considering how recent tablets came along, if they lose the consumers their position would be very much weaker.
Both the US and Europe have large populations that live basically at the tax payer's expense and have tons of time to explore their "curiosity and creativity"; there doesn't seem to be a great deal of creating and inventing coming out of those populations. People become creative in response to need and pressure, not leisure.
I would object to that, many people have creative hobbies. The difference is that unless you need to make something commercially viable or even useful, it generally won't be - that's why we call them hobbies. There's a world of difference between making creative culinary dishes in your own kitchen and trying to - or even wanting to - being a chef at a restaurant. If I went on basic income for a year, I think I can with certainty say I'd return with no tangible external benefits and a slightly rusty skill set, it would probably be a huge opportunity for self-realization but that tends to matter only to myself.
That's at least part of the story. Note how the rare attempts at selling prebuilt Linux PCs, such as the early netbooks, have tended to have oddball custom Linux distros (Linpus? WTF?) instead of, let's say, Debian, Ubuntu, or even a RHEL clone. My cynical side says that this was done on purpose as a way of discrediting Linux in the eyes of the general population.
My cynical side says it was probably about making a low-ball deal since many of their customers would install pirated Windows on it anyway. They wanted a company to handle the software side, not just a distribution but support, testing and so on so Debian or making their own RHEL clone was out of the question. Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat etc. probably gave them a fair offer to do it properly, but Linpus Technologies Inc. probably gave them the "cheapest Indian outsourcing" rate and the results were as expected. Either that or they were overvaluing themselves as customers, even though it might be good for their hardware sales they wouldn't just give Canonical free customers - it's just not how business works, they probably some from of kickbacks that maybe Linpus gave and Canonical wouldn't.
The people who know absolutely nothing of course also have no preconceptions about Linux. But among the slightly more knowledgeable I've found quite a few stereotypes/myths about what Linux is and who uses it, YMMV. Particularly anyone who has heard of RMS, who doesn't do much to dispel any of them. And regardless of how much Linus and the other developers are the ones doing all the work, I've been invited to seminars with RMS twice and not once by any Linux developer I'd recognize.
Linux is seen as a geek OS, the only way to change that is to make them leave. If you want to release something that's entirely not geeky, don't call it Linux call it something like... Android? ChromeOS? Ubuntu? Because the command-line style Linux by code warriors for code warriors isn't going to go away. Why fight an uphill battle to change it to marketing bullshit that would be patently untrue? If somebody tries to use "it's Linux" as a negative, just say "so's an Android phone, if you want an easy, user-friendly device it can be that but for the geeks who want to tweak everything with cryptic commands it can be that too." Of course, it would help if any of the desktop GUIs actually lived up to the "easy, user-friendly" part...
Historically, browsers have relied on vendor prefixes (e.g., -webkit-feature) to ship experimental features to web developers. This approach can be harmful to compatibility because web content comes to rely upon these vendor-prefixed names. Going forward, instead of enabling a feature by default with a vendor prefix, we will instead keep the (unprefixed) feature behind the âoeenable experimental web platform featuresâ flag in about:flags until the feature is ready to be enabled by default. Mozilla has already embarked on a similar policy.
If they put their money where their mouth is, that will be less of a problem than today. Google can still pull a "don't be evil" when they want...
An RFP for a complicated consulting job can be 50 pages long or more with additional addendums and appendixes.
That's not even a complicated one, more like a medium size one. Big consulting jobs typically have a prequalifier where you only accept a handful of detailed submissions because they can run into hundreds or thousands of pages. It's good business for both parties because the cost of writing and losing offers are baked into the consulting price, being one in hundred means ninety-nine of them will walk away with a loss while if you're one in three everybody knows you have a good shot at winning. Likewise, time is money on the buyer's end too so you don't want to spend too much time evaluating offers.
This is the tricky part. Both transfers would have to be fair uses, both to avoid being infringing themselves, and also because only lawfully made copies are eligible for first sale.
When I "buy" an AAC from say iTunes, it becomes a rather ordinary file on my HDD - is there any reason to think moving it around should not be considered fair use? If I need the copyright holder's permission to use copy-paste, we're well and truly screwed.
so in short, security by obscurity according to you
According to me? So long as you have both the encrypted data and the key like a BluRay disc and a BluRay player then all DRM is clearly security by obscurity, but it won't stop AMD from getting punished for saying the emperor has no clothes on. They have to pay lip service to DRM no matter what the reality is on TPB.
HDCP was not the issue here, that is the link between the DVI/HDMI port and the monitor. This was about AACS/CSS that is used by BluRay/DVD and the Windows DRM requirements, under the license agreements AMD must protect the video between it is sent to the binary driver as compressed video and is output through the DVI/HDMI port as decoded video. By exposing the hardware API they feared you may be able to snoop on the binary driver on Windows and intercept protected data, worst case it couldn't be fixed in software and AMD would lose all their certifications, all licensed software would update to refuse to play on AMD hardware and it couldn't be used by OEMs that want the "Made for Windows" stickers plus some incredibly ugly contract penalties. So yeah DRM, but not that DRM.
Did AMD actually release any source as the title suggests? Where is it? Or did they just make using/redistributing their firmware legal?
There's three parts: 1. Microcode update (not open source, never was) 2. Kernel patches (open source) 3. Mesa patches (open source)
The first post leads to an email, but if you go to thread mode you'll see 10 kernel patches following it and the mesa patches are in the other link in the Phoronix article. This is a real open source driver, as open source as the rest of their driver. I must honestly say I'd given up hope that this would ever get released, but fantastic that it has. This has literally been years in the works, but now that the hurdles have been crossed hopefully this support is here to stay for future generations of cards as well.
New technology often makes things which were possible but impractical, practical.
But in this case more what would appear suspicious seem natural, if Google Glass is used by lots of people often for other things then you'll either go paranoid crazy by all the people who are not filming you or you'll learn to ignore it and miss the one that's actually filming. Nothing beats hiding something in plain sight, it's easy to claim you just wanted to check your email but it's pretty hard to explain away the hidden camera in your shirt button.
Small business may remain Microsoft's saving grace as end users defect to tablets and larger corporations migrate to platform independent solutions.
Don't you mean web applications and Java 1.0? Oh right it's not 1995 anymore, but if history doesn't repeat itself I do feel it rhyme. I predict that in another 10 years Slashdot will still be predicting the imminent doom of Microsoft....
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Actually with relativistic effects we've already figured out non-linear time, go faster and time will pass more slowly.
It's hard to fight against down-paid infrastructure, particularly since many people just aren't that heavy bandwidth users. But at least here in Norway the telcos that used to lay copper now lay fiber, the cable companies that used to lay coax now lay fiber and the power companies for the most part started with fiber, there's really nobody left that puts anything else in the ground except for maintenance and hooking up the odd new house to the old network. The places that are too distributed for fiber cell phones and 3G/4G broadband are cheaper than copper and coax. So if we just wait for the "natural" life span of buildings and networks it'll happen, but in order to go even faster the ROI must be there. But there's progress being made because the land-line service here in Norway has lost 70% of its customers since the peak.
Or Microsoft will come to their senses, Windows 8 was released almost exactly three years after Windows 7. Adoption figures from StatCounter:
Windows 7 in March 2010: 11.92%
Windows 8 in March 2013: 3.90%
Money talks, I'm sure eventually Microsoft will listen. They want to push into the iPad/Android tablet market but once they accept it won't work I think they'll return to supporting the customers they already have.
Rarely do I need to know that it's 5:13:23pm, but seeing that it's 'quarter after five' is awesome."
Perhaps not in seconds, but I rather like to know how many minutes I've left to catch the bus since three and eight are quite different. I guess I really only look at the seconds if I'm trying to time something, which is rare but unless it's spoken I'd rather have it with numbers... how often do people really write "quarter past three" instead of 3:15 pm (or actually 15:15 around here)?
Probably not, but the people who don't see further than their nose saying "How will this make MY life better?" to everything will say no to all basic science and plenty other subjects that don't result in any direct, tangible returns. When finally you have graphene transistors to make the iPhone 23GS then he'll care to spend money on it, but not today on what might possibly emerge as a technology in a decade or three. I don't know, maybe we find out something useful about our own planet by studying others like it, maybe we won't. But either way it's probably not going to be fast enough for some people. They apply the same ideas to politics and taxes as the CEOs that are only looking on next quarter's figures, cutting costs now make the figures look good short term. Long term the jobs disappear to China and India because you stopped exploring and innovating.
Even if the US wanted a war with North Korea this would not be the time. A war like that takes months of planning and logistics if it's going to go well. The US and South Korea could defeat North Korea over the next couple of weeks if necessary, but at what cost?
If the US wanted a war with North Korea, the pretext would be far more important than the planning and logistics. North Korea would be able to do terrible damage to South Korea regardless of timing, so it'd look a lot better if the US came charging to the rescue against a North Korea that has gone bat shit insane than if the US was building up an invasion force that would be seen as another act of US aggression and backing Kim Jong-Il into a corner where he might as well strike first with all he's got.
I think someone should soon start to make a standard form for why microtransactions won't work like we have for SPAM, I mean I've heard this now for a decade now? Two? And it never materializes, I think most of all because each transaction is either a hassle or an invisible drain on my bank account. Pay-per-minute Internet died in favor of flat rate even though it'd probably be rational for those who use it little to have a metered connection, but the simplicity of just paying a fixed sum won out. Ads may be annoying, but I know they won't cost me anything. Broadly deployed microtransactions means you're back getting an "Internet bill" except now you have a zillion sites trying to bill you with all the crap that's going to lead to.
Besides, if you're going for paranoia the micropayment operator will have a spectacular history of your browsing habits since you probably won't bother to - or even have the opportunity to, if they compare personal info - to have independent micropayment accounts. If you block tracking cookies nobody has a clue that I'm the same guy visiting all these different sites (they could try doing it by IP but that's very weak) while if they all charge a cent in micropayments well then the micropayment operator must know that to bill me. And it'll all be tied to a much more real world identity than today. Is this really the privacy you were looking for?
Seriously. Whats the contract between the two firms say? Are they causing you harm? Are you just being uppity about log entries? The obvious answer to your question is that if you want to continue the relationship with the hospital, you will shut the fuck up and be happy they continue to outsource things to your firm.
I wonder if you're the one who needs a clue since if shit hits the fan because there was a real attack from someone on the hospital network that goes ignored because it's assumed to be an authorized pen test it's his ass on the line. From the summary:
The doctors want to maintain a relationship with the hospital and are worried that involving law enforcement would destroy the relationship.
I would assume that if they're even thinking about calling in law enforcement, they've done the obvious and checked if they gave permission somewhere. I think you're giving the hospital far too much benefit of the doubt here, just because corporate IT think they have permission to pen test anything connected to their network doesn't mean that it's been appropriately regulated in the agreement between the private practice and the hospital. Surely they have some from of legal representation I'd ask:
1) The hospital is doing penetration testing on us. Assuming they should succeed, is it acceptable that they may gain control of our systems or access our practice's data? If no, then take it up with the hospital's compliance officer
2) Even if this penetration testing is permitted, how can the private practice be sure this is authorized activity and not unauthorized activity. Again, get whatever legal council you have to take it up with the compliance officer.
Getting law enforcement involved is only useful if you want to punish someone for what has happened, what you want here is to find a solution going forward. Just because you're both in the health business, doesn't make you the same entity. If you can get your lawyer to say that these pen tests could be a HIPAA violation of the private practice, then their IT will listen to their legal telling them to stop. Or they might stonewall and say that if they can't do security testing, you can't be on the network. Either way you're raising the flag and saying if this happen again, we can't just ignore it.
Syaing "I've already got [whatever platform], how do I make it do what I want?" is often not a helpful approach.
That's why 1% use Linux and 99% use something else, but here on Slashdot I'd say it's almost implicit that the question is "I want to fit a square peg into a round hole, what's the best tool for the job?" and then we discuss the merits of various power tools and that getting a round peg is not a valid option. You should have been here long enough to notice...
"Military intelligence", is that something analogical to "celibate Irish friar" or "honest politician"?
No. It is statistically possible to find examples of said friar and politician.
I think they called the last one "Honest Abe", I'm pretty sure the species is extinct.
If we take "passively reading news" to include other sources like forums, home pages, blogs etc. then most web browsing is excluded in general. If "tweeting out the occasional 140-character update" isn't computing then everything from IRC to e-mail to posting on Slashdot isn't either. Take away "watching videos" then I'm guessing that excludes listening til music, watching pictures or any other form of similar activity too, we've already excluded social activities and commenting as blabbering so all of Facebook and YouTube has nothing to do with computing. When you exclude things that are computationally hard for the computer but not for me, then I think you've excluded 95%+ of all I've ever used my computer for personally. Even compiling from source probably shouldn't count as "computation" then, if all you do is make && make install.
Let me try phrasing it it another way, what were the reasons I wanted to upgrade to a better PC in the past? Playing MP3s and MIDI was big in the 90s, better graphics modes in the 90s and HD video in the 2000s, games the 80s until present. In fact, I don't think I've ever wanted a new computer to make my spreadsheets go faster or to get my compilation times down. So since you've excluded all the reason I'd like to have or upgrade a computer, I guess it hasn't lost as a computing device only as a PC. Because I guess almost all the things I've used it for over the last decades haven't been computing, silly me. Oh and the really heavy computation you now do on a server or in the cloud, welcome to the new mainframes - on my desk at work is nothing but a thin client.
In 2008, the Little Tykes Cozy Coupe was the best selling car in the US. However I don't think Toyota was overly concerned about the competition. Apple devices include things like the iPod. Microsoft's big money maker has always been business licensing. When Apple makes double digit market share in the enterprise arena, this will be news.
Well that might be the cash cow but the castle guarding it is that "everyone" is on Windows. Netapplications now say 12% of all browsing happens on mobile+tablet and Macs+Linux has 8% on the desktop. together that means roughly one in five no longer surfs on Windows. That's pretty huge considering how recent tablets came along, if they lose the consumers their position would be very much weaker.
Both the US and Europe have large populations that live basically at the tax payer's expense and have tons of time to explore their "curiosity and creativity"; there doesn't seem to be a great deal of creating and inventing coming out of those populations. People become creative in response to need and pressure, not leisure.
I would object to that, many people have creative hobbies. The difference is that unless you need to make something commercially viable or even useful, it generally won't be - that's why we call them hobbies. There's a world of difference between making creative culinary dishes in your own kitchen and trying to - or even wanting to - being a chef at a restaurant. If I went on basic income for a year, I think I can with certainty say I'd return with no tangible external benefits and a slightly rusty skill set, it would probably be a huge opportunity for self-realization but that tends to matter only to myself.
That's at least part of the story. Note how the rare attempts at selling prebuilt Linux PCs, such as the early netbooks, have tended to have oddball custom Linux distros (Linpus? WTF?) instead of, let's say, Debian, Ubuntu, or even a RHEL clone. My cynical side says that this was done on purpose as a way of discrediting Linux in the eyes of the general population.
My cynical side says it was probably about making a low-ball deal since many of their customers would install pirated Windows on it anyway. They wanted a company to handle the software side, not just a distribution but support, testing and so on so Debian or making their own RHEL clone was out of the question. Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat etc. probably gave them a fair offer to do it properly, but Linpus Technologies Inc. probably gave them the "cheapest Indian outsourcing" rate and the results were as expected. Either that or they were overvaluing themselves as customers, even though it might be good for their hardware sales they wouldn't just give Canonical free customers - it's just not how business works, they probably some from of kickbacks that maybe Linpus gave and Canonical wouldn't.
The people who know absolutely nothing of course also have no preconceptions about Linux. But among the slightly more knowledgeable I've found quite a few stereotypes/myths about what Linux is and who uses it, YMMV. Particularly anyone who has heard of RMS, who doesn't do much to dispel any of them. And regardless of how much Linus and the other developers are the ones doing all the work, I've been invited to seminars with RMS twice and not once by any Linux developer I'd recognize.
Linux is seen as a geek OS, the only way to change that is to make them leave. If you want to release something that's entirely not geeky, don't call it Linux call it something like... Android? ChromeOS? Ubuntu? Because the command-line style Linux by code warriors for code warriors isn't going to go away. Why fight an uphill battle to change it to marketing bullshit that would be patently untrue? If somebody tries to use "it's Linux" as a negative, just say "so's an Android phone, if you want an easy, user-friendly device it can be that but for the geeks who want to tweak everything with cryptic commands it can be that too." Of course, it would help if any of the desktop GUIs actually lived up to the "easy, user-friendly" part...
What's the difference?
The frog isn't warm enough.
Vendor Prefixes
Historically, browsers have relied on vendor prefixes (e.g., -webkit-feature) to ship experimental features to web developers. This approach can be harmful to compatibility because web content comes to rely upon these vendor-prefixed names. Going forward, instead of enabling a feature by default with a vendor prefix, we will instead keep the (unprefixed) feature behind the âoeenable experimental web platform featuresâ flag in about:flags until the feature is ready to be enabled by default. Mozilla has already embarked on a similar policy.
If they put their money where their mouth is, that will be less of a problem than today. Google can still pull a "don't be evil" when they want...
An RFP for a complicated consulting job can be 50 pages long or more with additional addendums and appendixes.
That's not even a complicated one, more like a medium size one. Big consulting jobs typically have a prequalifier where you only accept a handful of detailed submissions because they can run into hundreds or thousands of pages. It's good business for both parties because the cost of writing and losing offers are baked into the consulting price, being one in hundred means ninety-nine of them will walk away with a loss while if you're one in three everybody knows you have a good shot at winning. Likewise, time is money on the buyer's end too so you don't want to spend too much time evaluating offers.
This is the tricky part. Both transfers would have to be fair uses, both to avoid being infringing themselves, and also because only lawfully made copies are eligible for first sale.
When I "buy" an AAC from say iTunes, it becomes a rather ordinary file on my HDD - is there any reason to think moving it around should not be considered fair use? If I need the copyright holder's permission to use copy-paste, we're well and truly screwed.
so in short, security by obscurity according to you
According to me? So long as you have both the encrypted data and the key like a BluRay disc and a BluRay player then all DRM is clearly security by obscurity, but it won't stop AMD from getting punished for saying the emperor has no clothes on. They have to pay lip service to DRM no matter what the reality is on TPB.
HDCP was not the issue here, that is the link between the DVI/HDMI port and the monitor. This was about AACS/CSS that is used by BluRay/DVD and the Windows DRM requirements, under the license agreements AMD must protect the video between it is sent to the binary driver as compressed video and is output through the DVI/HDMI port as decoded video. By exposing the hardware API they feared you may be able to snoop on the binary driver on Windows and intercept protected data, worst case it couldn't be fixed in software and AMD would lose all their certifications, all licensed software would update to refuse to play on AMD hardware and it couldn't be used by OEMs that want the "Made for Windows" stickers plus some incredibly ugly contract penalties. So yeah DRM, but not that DRM.
Did AMD actually release any source as the title suggests? Where is it? Or did they just make using/redistributing their firmware legal?
There's three parts:
1. Microcode update (not open source, never was)
2. Kernel patches (open source)
3. Mesa patches (open source)
The first post leads to an email, but if you go to thread mode you'll see 10 kernel patches following it and the mesa patches are in the other link in the Phoronix article. This is a real open source driver, as open source as the rest of their driver. I must honestly say I'd given up hope that this would ever get released, but fantastic that it has. This has literally been years in the works, but now that the hurdles have been crossed hopefully this support is here to stay for future generations of cards as well.
New technology often makes things which were possible but impractical, practical.
But in this case more what would appear suspicious seem natural, if Google Glass is used by lots of people often for other things then you'll either go paranoid crazy by all the people who are not filming you or you'll learn to ignore it and miss the one that's actually filming. Nothing beats hiding something in plain sight, it's easy to claim you just wanted to check your email but it's pretty hard to explain away the hidden camera in your shirt button.
Small business may remain Microsoft's saving grace as end users defect to tablets and larger corporations migrate to platform independent solutions.
Don't you mean web applications and Java 1.0? Oh right it's not 1995 anymore, but if history doesn't repeat itself I do feel it rhyme. I predict that in another 10 years Slashdot will still be predicting the imminent doom of Microsoft....