I'm guessing here, but I think this is more to prevent projects like Wine from being able to use Windows DLL's. I suspect it could also be used to further deny people the ability to run Windows in VMWare and other virtualization technologies without a high end expensive license.
If a DLL is drm'd, Wine won't be able to use it. It also means developers for things like VMWare can't decompile DLL's to see what makes them tick, so they can't make their virtualization better, and possibly make virtualization of certain hardware impossible or impossible to bypass, like TPM hardware.
So I believe it's to keep Windows, and it's applications off of Linux, Mac, and any future competitor.
Ugh, here you go again, citing Wired. If you are going to do it, at least do it when the article is brand new, like *before* I've read it. Regurgitated news... nice.
Please stop posting Wired stories. We all already read Wired on a daily basis, just like we read Slashdot. Why post it here days after we've already read it?
Just please stop doing it already.
I come here to feed my need for new tech news. The same reason I read Wired. It's a little annoying when Slashdot has little news, like on weekends, the hunger for tech news growls. But when I've already read some tech news on Wired, and then find Slashdot pointing to the story a day or two later instead of giving me something new to feed on, it's even more disappointing. I get this, "Ooh! New news!" rush for a second, only to find, no... It's not new news. Slashdot is just pointing to that already old Wired story, again!
I rely on slashdot to point me to the news I won't find otherwise, not for it to spoon feed me the stuff I already found days ago on Wired. I would hazard a guess that most folks that read/. already check wired on their own. Give me something good to eat.
I) Someone tailgating you?
Step 1) Run your window sprayer... and let it run... and run. When they get tired of the spattering on their window, they finally move.
Step 2) That didn't work? Slam on your brakes for a split second and scare the hell out of them.
Step 3) Now they're mad? When they go to pass, swerve sharply to scare them again. Now follow them until they get so scared they drive 90 on a back road to get away.
2) Someone going slow in the left or left-most lane (NOT counting HOV, HOV is not the "Fast lane", it's the HOV lane!)?
Step 1) When you finally see they won't move, go around them on the right and then do the things above to them once in front.
Step 2) Once in front of them again, simply stop in front of them over and over. Not hard, do it slowly. But make them scared. They won't pass you for fear of chase.
Now, there are reasons some people don't drive the speed limit:
1) Freshly rebuilt engine, drive no faster than 50 for first 1000 miles. SO STAY IN THE RIGHT LANE!
2) Weather is nasty. Drive in a middle or right lane. Let the morons in their "invincible SUV's" fly by on the left and kill them selves up ahead.
3) Other technical difficulties.
But never ever ever ever drive slow because you are impared some how. If you are impared, stay off the dang road all together! This means you, you drunk! And you, you druggie! And the dork on cold meds. And the guy the Doctor told not to drive for (insert problem here). This means you, Grandma & Grandpa! etc etc.
If *YOU* aren't ready to be fully a god behind the wheel, don't get behind the wheel.
You need to be ready to swerve, brake, accelerate, dodge, down shift, e-brake, turn in the direction of the skid (Thanks Cosby!), basically be expecting people to try and kill you and avoid it. If you aren't ready for all that, call a cab, the wife, a friend, or hell, even ask a cop. The majority of cops, despicable as they may be, are going to respect a person who says, "I know I'm not up for driving home, can you help?"
Oh, one last thing... stay the hell out of my safety following distance. It's there for safety, to brake in time. You fill it up with your keister, I'm not going to move back to make you safe. You just ate the safety zone, so live with the danger until you give it back by moving out of my lane. It's a following distance, not a merging space.
Ahh, but some companies, like mine, require copies of encryption keys and their passphrases if used on company equipment or for company business. That way if you are hit by a bus, your data can be passed on to your successor. Now *if* the sys-admins also have access to that information, encryption won't prevent this.
Pay your SA's what what they are worth. Don't constantly threaten your IT department with outsourcing and constant benchmarking, especially annually. No one likes to have to keep competing for their job every year. Don't welch on their retirement package. Have bonuses or stock awards when the business is doing well. Don't let Microsoft dominate *all* your software solution choices... They do some things well, some not, so choose wisely for each task, as your SA's will have to support it. Pay for on-call support. If you make your SA's carry a pager, pay them for it, as it is disruptive to their outside lives and family.
Basically, you take care of them, they will take care of you.
AHAHAHAHA! That's okay, EFNet is use to taking other IRC networks refugees. Welcome back all you little run-aways. I just love anarchy!
This is why it's better to war over a nick than to have a NickServ.
Saw your story on Slashdot. I've looked up the school district and called them. Left a message for their public relations director, I'm not surprised she did not answer, I suppose many of us on Slashdot are doing the same thing.
I, and many others, are prepared to donate to your legal costs when you sue over the expulsion. I've told the district as much. I *politely* asked them to consider dropping the expulsion so as to avert a very well funded legal battle over it. Your first ammendment rights shall stand.
I applaud your sticking up for yourself. One by one, schools across America are waking up to the harsh reality that they are open to scrutiny, and that trying to silence it will only cost them financially. Hopefully enough to disuade schools from pulling this stunt again. If a school or two had to close, or teachers had to be laid off, to pay for your the damages you are awarded by a court, that will send a strong message. Go for millions, kid.
*Brandon Darbro
Wait till it's selling to release the crack!
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OSx86 Cracked Again
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· Score: 3, Insightful
So you super hackers out there, you are only helping Apple secure the OS, helping them lock it tighter and tighter to their hardware. By releasing these cracks now, you give Apple an education, a lesson plan to learn from, so that they can do it better next time.
If you wait until after OS X for Intel is out and *then* release the crack for it, then Apple will have a hell of a time stopping it. Don't release your cracks now, for goodness sakes. Wait until it's for sale, on the shelves.
Please stop teaching Apple how to lock it down better.:)
I would think people renting and copying would be the biggest threat. Rent it, copy it and add it to your collection, return the rental. Then there is checking things out from the library and copying them. Wouldn't these actions be the ones that directly hinder sales more than other forms of piracy?
So let the school give your kid a laptop, tell him *not* to play with it...
Charge him with a felony for when he finally does...
You know what's next? The kid thinks, "If I'm going to get time and a fine for this, I'm going to do something WORTH being charged!"
And bam, there you have it, your school administrators have just created the next violent school attackers who shoot up the school.
Wake up school administrators! You are pushing your kids into being criminals, and likely endangering yourselves and your other students in the process! I can hear the story on CNN now, and this time you won't be able to blame their music or their video games.
*TheDarb
Needs to recognize ESC key to stop ad animations.
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The Return of GPLFlash
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· Score: 1
It would be an excellent feature if this plugin recognized the ESC key to stop all flash animation. Browsers today recognize that for stopping animated gif's, and if that applied flash animations as well, suddenly flash ads wouldn't be so horrible.
It must also correctly deliver all Strong Bad email content.:)
I wonder if this supposed Denial of Service attack was actually many Slashdot readers looking into the story and the company mentioned in the original post. Thoughts on this?
Would you be so kind as to pull Sys-Con's license to use the Linux trademark? I think other publishing companies could better represent your trademark.
You know, they may have discovered that their protocol(s) were insecure, putting your banking information at risk. They may simply be trying to protect you from having your bank accounts hijacked. I mean, it is within the realm of possibility.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm guessing here, but I think this is more to prevent projects like Wine from being able to use Windows DLL's. I suspect it could also be used to further deny people the ability to run Windows in VMWare and other virtualization technologies without a high end expensive license.
If a DLL is drm'd, Wine won't be able to use it. It also means developers for things like VMWare can't decompile DLL's to see what makes them tick, so they can't make their virtualization better, and possibly make virtualization of certain hardware impossible or impossible to bypass, like TPM hardware.
So I believe it's to keep Windows, and it's applications off of Linux, Mac, and any future competitor.
Ugh, here you go again, citing Wired. If you are going to do it, at least do it when the article is brand new, like *before* I've read it. Regurgitated news... nice.
Please stop posting Wired stories. We all already read Wired on a daily basis, just like we read Slashdot. Why post it here days after we've already read it? Just please stop doing it already.
I come here to feed my need for new tech news. The same reason I read Wired. It's a little annoying when Slashdot has little news, like on weekends, the hunger for tech news growls. But when I've already read some tech news on Wired, and then find Slashdot pointing to the story a day or two later instead of giving me something new to feed on, it's even more disappointing. I get this, "Ooh! New news!" rush for a second, only to find, no... It's not new news. Slashdot is just pointing to that already old Wired story, again!
/. already check wired on their own. Give me something good to eat.
I rely on slashdot to point me to the news I won't find otherwise, not for it to spoon feed me the stuff I already found days ago on Wired. I would hazard a guess that most folks that read
I) Someone tailgating you?
Step 1) Run your window sprayer... and let it run... and run. When they get tired of the spattering on their window, they finally move.
Step 2) That didn't work? Slam on your brakes for a split second and scare the hell out of them.
Step 3) Now they're mad? When they go to pass, swerve sharply to scare them again. Now follow them until they get so scared they drive 90 on a back road to get away.
2) Someone going slow in the left or left-most lane (NOT counting HOV, HOV is not the "Fast lane", it's the HOV lane!)?
Step 1) When you finally see they won't move, go around them on the right and then do the things above to them once in front.
Step 2) Once in front of them again, simply stop in front of them over and over. Not hard, do it slowly. But make them scared. They won't pass you for fear of chase.
Now, there are reasons some people don't drive the speed limit:
1) Freshly rebuilt engine, drive no faster than 50 for first 1000 miles. SO STAY IN THE RIGHT LANE!
2) Weather is nasty. Drive in a middle or right lane. Let the morons in their "invincible SUV's" fly by on the left and kill them selves up ahead.
3) Other technical difficulties.
But never ever ever ever drive slow because you are impared some how. If you are impared, stay off the dang road all together! This means you, you drunk! And you, you druggie! And the dork on cold meds. And the guy the Doctor told not to drive for (insert problem here). This means you, Grandma & Grandpa! etc etc.
If *YOU* aren't ready to be fully a god behind the wheel, don't get behind the wheel.
You need to be ready to swerve, brake, accelerate, dodge, down shift, e-brake, turn in the direction of the skid (Thanks Cosby!), basically be expecting people to try and kill you and avoid it. If you aren't ready for all that, call a cab, the wife, a friend, or hell, even ask a cop. The majority of cops, despicable as they may be, are going to respect a person who says, "I know I'm not up for driving home, can you help?"
Oh, one last thing... stay the hell out of my safety following distance. It's there for safety, to brake in time. You fill it up with your keister, I'm not going to move back to make you safe. You just ate the safety zone, so live with the danger until you give it back by moving out of my lane. It's a following distance, not a merging space.
Ahhh, much better.
How about good music on the entire album for once.
If I can't make myself a backup copy, I won't buy it. Period.
Ahh, but some companies, like mine, require copies of encryption keys and their passphrases if used on company equipment or for company business. That way if you are hit by a bus, your data can be passed on to your successor. Now *if* the sys-admins also have access to that information, encryption won't prevent this.
Pay your SA's what what they are worth. Don't constantly threaten your IT department with outsourcing and constant benchmarking, especially annually. No one likes to have to keep competing for their job every year. Don't welch on their retirement package. Have bonuses or stock awards when the business is doing well. Don't let Microsoft dominate *all* your software solution choices... They do some things well, some not, so choose wisely for each task, as your SA's will have to support it. Pay for on-call support. If you make your SA's carry a pager, pay them for it, as it is disruptive to their outside lives and family.
Basically, you take care of them, they will take care of you.
*Darb
AHAHAHAHA! That's okay, EFNet is use to taking other IRC networks refugees. Welcome back all you little run-aways. I just love anarchy! This is why it's better to war over a nick than to have a NickServ.
Saw your story on Slashdot. I've looked up the school district and called them. Left a message for their public relations director, I'm not surprised she did not answer, I suppose many of us on Slashdot are doing the same thing.
I, and many others, are prepared to donate to your legal costs when you sue over the expulsion. I've told the district as much. I *politely* asked them to consider dropping the expulsion so as to avert a very well funded legal battle over it. Your first ammendment rights shall stand.
I applaud your sticking up for yourself. One by one, schools across America are waking up to the harsh reality that they are open to scrutiny, and that trying to silence it will only cost them financially. Hopefully enough to disuade schools from pulling this stunt again. If a school or two had to close, or teachers had to be laid off, to pay for your the damages you are awarded by a court, that will send a strong message. Go for millions, kid.
*Brandon Darbro
So you super hackers out there, you are only helping Apple secure the OS, helping them lock it tighter and tighter to their hardware. By releasing these cracks now, you give Apple an education, a lesson plan to learn from, so that they can do it better next time. If you wait until after OS X for Intel is out and *then* release the crack for it, then Apple will have a hell of a time stopping it. Don't release your cracks now, for goodness sakes. Wait until it's for sale, on the shelves. Please stop teaching Apple how to lock it down better. :)
Booyah, Grandma! Booyah!
Any way we can help?!?
I would think people renting and copying would be the biggest threat. Rent it, copy it and add it to your collection, return the rental. Then there is checking things out from the library and copying them. Wouldn't these actions be the ones that directly hinder sales more than other forms of piracy?
Damn, it's busy!
Damn reactionary bastards! Don't you law makers get it?!? You just let the terrorists win! AGAIN!
"Oh we won't let them change how we live our lives..."
What do you think you just did?
Terrorists are horrible unspeakable evil, but sometimes stupid people in office due just as much damage.
*sigh*
So let the school give your kid a laptop, tell him *not* to play with it...
Charge him with a felony for when he finally does...
You know what's next? The kid thinks, "If I'm going to get time and a fine for this, I'm going to do something WORTH being charged!"
And bam, there you have it, your school administrators have just created the next violent school attackers who shoot up the school.
Wake up school administrators! You are pushing your kids into being criminals, and likely endangering yourselves and your other students in the process! I can hear the story on CNN now, and this time you won't be able to blame their music or their video games.
*TheDarb
It would be an excellent feature if this plugin recognized the ESC key to stop all flash animation. Browsers today recognize that for stopping animated gif's, and if that applied flash animations as well, suddenly flash ads wouldn't be so horrible.
:)
It must also correctly deliver all Strong Bad email content.
*TheDarb
Well thanks for the education, but did you need to insult me while delivering it?
I wonder if this supposed Denial of Service attack was actually many Slashdot readers looking into the story and the company mentioned in the original post. Thoughts on this?
*TheDarb
Dear Mr. Linus Torvalds,
Would you be so kind as to pull Sys-Con's license to use the Linux trademark? I think other publishing companies could better represent your trademark.
Thank you,
Brandon Darbro
You know, they may have discovered that their protocol(s) were insecure, putting your banking information at risk. They may simply be trying to protect you from having your bank accounts hijacked. I mean, it is within the realm of possibility.
*Darb
Arse Eater Linux 9.0 - The scent of release.
The Linux that bites...
I'm quite partial to this one.
Details at:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html
I just knew 8-track would make a come back!
*TheDarb