Yeah, I agree with you here. If I want to compromise the encryption on my browser by posting all of the keys it uses/used, I should be allowed to.
Course, I also understand that the copyright issue is a big one too. Just because a work has no physical form doesn't mean that everyone is entitled to a copy for free. Seriously, Napster has gotten out of hand. Downloading a "one-hit-wonder" or sampling a few tracks to see if you want to buy a cd makes sense to me. (espc the one-hit-wonder'ing, there is way to many of them now...) But people with gigs and gigs of MP3's are just abusing the system.
Same thing applies to other works. Soon enough it'll be movie "napstering" that'll hit the big time.
It's a tricky position, on one hand I agree that we should be allowed to break the encryption if we are able/want to, but I understand the artist's/author's desire to retain some control. (the MPAA, publishers, etc can bite me...they're just leaches).
Personally, I think it should be an open system. The artists/authors can encrypt as much as they want, and the users can decrypt as much as they want/are able. As long as they can prevent 80+% of the population from ripping them off, everyone should be okay (maybe...). We'll still have some l4m3r5 who feel they shouldn't have to pay for anything, but we're stuck with them till we can ship them to Mars. All we have to do is shoot the publishers to make this possible (they want 100% control...they won't settle for 80%)
Course, this is rather idealistic, with Peer2Peer sharing (eek...new acronym? P2P?) if anybody can break the encryption, anybody can get a copy...and people being people, they can rationalize ripping other people off. (an extension of free t-shirts being better than t-shirts).
Pandora's box is open. The only real resolution I can see to this one is for the music industry to move towards a TV-orientation. (ie commercials) Download a song, but it has a commercial in it. Easier to find that the rip off napster, so people'll do it. Some people would setup ways to edit out the commercials, but it'd still work for your 80+% margin. Realistically, I can't see any form of encryption holding up (not unless it's a complicated server/client transaction stream).
To fix my bloody eyesight... I wouldn't care if it took a year for it to kick in...I'd shell out for a little careful manipulation to reshape my eyeballs. How bout you?
"I would not be surprised if everyone has their own gene sequencer in 20 years, and they do all sorts of things with them that we can't even imagine now."
How about tinkering with your own genes to make subtle changes? (IANA Geneticist but...) Say somebody was going on a hike, they could tickle a gene or two to increase their stamina. Winter coming? Flip a gene and put on a little more fat for warmthm, we'll take it back off when summer comes so the bathing suit'll fit again. Job change? Moving from an active-job to a desk-job? Change genes so that more blood/energy goes to the brain and enhance that critical thinking without gaining weight.
Lotsa possibilities in there, but should we open Pandora's box? And if so, should we attempt to control genetic manipulation? And if so, how? S'gonna be tricky...
Yep. Somebody was serious screwing around with PShop on that one. Check the screw holes at the top of the backplate, they're nowhere even close to the right angle. Looks like somebody scanned in a series of 2-d images, skewed em to add 3d, and then matted em together. The CPU chips have no 3d shadowing or effect though...
Also mentions that the board runs at 6.5 x <PCI BUS Freq>. WTF? Seriously, why would you clock the board's CPUs of a PCI bus? Even cheap ass video cards have their own freq generators...
It's the exact same board for both photos!!! Check the blank spot in the bottom left, just behind the backplate (and note the symbols just below the blank spot). Also note the white square in the far right, it's slight lower on the 6cpu version, but the exact same.
The chips are way too close in the multiprocessor board. Yes, they could be expensive thru-board, but don't forget that the other components missing from the single board (the ram chip?/flash rom?) would have to be on the other side, (one for each cpu? at least ram...) and would take up a lot of room. Looking at those clearances, it seems a little too close...
Pictures: Right click and save the CA-01 picture as a bitmap, and open it in Paint. (eep, have to use IE and don't have PShop at work...sigh). If you zoom in, and look at the bottom of the backplate, you should be able to see a faint antialiasing artifact where the plate was cut using (presumably) the magic wand and moved. Ergo, it's a seriously edited photo, and I wouldn't trust it with my $0.25, let alone $89. (wait a sec, people earlier were quoting prices of $500, and now that I look at it, the prices are $89 for a single board, and $129 for the multi with one proc...plus $69 per extra cpu, that smells very fishy.)
Hoax./. seems to be falling for a lot more of these of late...
Ditto. Three of us from a clan would meet at my place and jump into a game together, and cause we could talk to each other in the same room (even better than BFC), we did pretty good...lotta people gripped about "clanners" and the like...twas much fun.
Somebody made a good point up above. The Cube is designed to be fanless (and quiet). A Radeon would require active cooling; might not be able to dissapate heat quickly enough in the cube, and would add noise.
I dunno, I consider myself pretty technical (no wizzard, but I roll my own hardware), and I like the Cube. Currently I have 5 systems up and running. (1 linux router, Win 2K dual 550, W98 450 for my gf, 386 shell laptop, P200 linux workstation). You would not belive the freakin racket all this shit makes, espc the overclocked systems with extra fannage.
I really like the idea of a small, throw-it-under-the-desk system with no fans. I don't really need a lot of expandability (most of the peripherals get chained off the server), so I don't care about expandability beyond RAM, HD, and maybe swapping the vid card in the future. I still have yet to receive any software on DVD, let alone a new format that would require replacing the DVD drive. (CDR drives and DVD-R drives will get chained off the server, or I'll use firewire...)
I recall (I'm too lazy to search for it...) a poll recently concerning the number of fans in everybody's computer. (I had a paltry 8...) The consensus seemed to be that everyone was wishing for a quieter/fanless computer. Kudos to Apple for developing a mainstream, functional computer with this feature.
Now if only they could offer a cheaper version...(I'm broke right now...sigh)
Yeah, x-parent walls should be fairly easy to spot (at least their use by lam3 hax0r k1dd1es), but a clever user (they're the dangerous ones) would only toggle it on when reaching nasty corners/ambush points/blind spots, and then whip around the corner with a grenade/rocket to kill anybody they saw.
Never played CStrike, but I did play TFC, and I recall thinking that a lot of activity there was suspicious. Course, I did track down some of it (like people throwing grenades that blew up immediatly instead of after 4 sec delay; turns out that you should hold the key for 3 secs, then let go...duh). Course, a lot of people had so many scripts and stuff, it sorta irritated the purist gamer in me. Downloading a script that allows you to prime a grenade, run around, lob it at will, or have it automatically lob it if you hold onto it too long just seems so lame...but it seemed like most players were using them. Rocket jumping and conc-grenade jumping scripts can quickly unbalance a fun-level, and turn it into a frustrating "hunt-for-the-best-script" mentality. Not really cheating, but I believe that excessive scripting can be a problem in openly modifiable engines like Quake...
Actually, most people have no clue who is cheating and who isn't.
I went on a serious Unreal Tournament binge during the last year, and was doing pretty well (IMHO). Managed to stay in the top 99%-ile in both CTF and DM, for the 4 months or so that I was playing. I was accused of cheating several times, despite that fact that I wasn't (heck, I'm even too lazy to map most of the keys off the defaults...)
Additionally, because of my experience, I was able to watch players of similar or better skill levels, some of who were slightly suspicious. (wierd warping, etc). But, ordinary players accused them of cheating equally...
Therefore, I surmise that, at least to most players, cheaters are indistinguishable from the good players (the ones who know all the sneaky little strategies...)
CM: You'll never stop me Agent Campbell, it's too late...(discards cigarette and starts walking away) B: (with intent expression, and only glancing at writing on palm once...) "KLATUU.... BERATA... NICTU!!!" CM: (turning) What the fsck? B: Sigh, now that I remember the damn thing, it don't work no more. Oh well, (starts chainsaw...)
Laff, sounds like the Simpson's writers should get in on this one...
Yeah, its funny when Mulder does something amusing, but only cause he never normally does!!! I thought Bruce did a wicked job on Army of Darkness, and he's done well on all the little cameos and bit parts I've seen him in... Course, I'd expect them to sneak in at least a few passing AoD references or lines each season... B To Scully: "Gimme some ammo baby." Scully: "WHAT!" B: "Sorry, bad bag of cheetos..."
I hate cars and consider them to be evil tools of the prince of lies!!
Why would I want to travel more than 15 km from home, when there's everything I want less than 10km from home!!! Cars are diabolical because they cause you to spend time and money traveling to nowhere.
Then of course there are those dumbass punks who have them because they think it's "cool". Yeah, you're impressing me with your stupidity by paying lots of money when you have a perfectly good pair of feet. Get a bicycle if you want to move around.
(The above poster forgot to mention radiation risks with cellphones, but here's the matching paragraph anyway...) And of course using a car increase your risk of dying due to severe body trauma. Doesn't anybody realize this? Sure, the car companies try to conceal the effects, but <conspiracy>I've seen</conspiracy> what a car can do to you, and you'll never catch me in one.
[mods: this is ironic, not fbait, mod accordingly]
Do you have Vibe turned on your phone when it rings (mine does by default), the EMF from the Vibe motor is more likely the cause of the shaking than the phone radiation...
My 14" monitor. My microwave. My gf's cheap computer speakers. Smacking the table. (they wouldn't have done something as disreputable as that in an add would they?:) Seems like my cell is one of the things that doesn't shake my monitor...
But targeting such a small market such as the consumer Linux market would net them almost nil profits. Most Linux users have enough knowledge to download/compile/install whatever Word Processor (suite?) they want, so I doubt many Linux users would spring for WP if it was open-source and downloadable for free.
Kudos from the OSS community can't be cashed at the bank. Corel needs a stable group of corporate clientele who are willing to regularly pay for upgrades, bug-fixes, enhancements, features, etc. Despite what many people think, OSS isn't the holy grail of software fixes...
The biggest problem is similar to the problem viruses face. If the viruses birth rate is not sufficiently high, it's death rate will catch up to it, and surpass it (as people learn to detect it and neutralize it). With this scheme, people will learn to check their files and delete the cuckoo'ed ones quickly, and the propagation will be minimal.
The only thing that could make this work would be a sufficiently large number of people, putting a lot of effort into creating songs (with appropriate additions into titles "B_Spears_Song_no_cuckoo.mp3", and creating new user accounts to prevent "kill/ban lists" I doubt anybody (well, save the RIAA) has the time and money to fight that way, and the RIAA seems to prefer litagation.
Radio Shack asks for you name and number every time you buy something. ("It's a freaking watch battery!") I'm not sure what they use this data for, since they don't have age/sex (so it's not customer demographics, except for perhaps a vague usage based on location profile. I do know that they use it to mail you a flyer if you've bought something recently.
On a side note, a terrorist was once caught in the US a number of years ago, because he used a very specific product (clock timer seems familiar) from Radio Shack (yay Tandy brand.:P), and the cops went around the local RS stores asking who had purchased that product along with the other common parts (wiring, batteries, etc). They managed to find someone whose purchases matched the bomb, and nicked him. Radio Shack and their logs, good? bad?
(K, this thread is heading OT, but I'm pointing out an alternative point to the above)
I dunno, I'd sure as hell get mad if somebody jiggle the locks on my house until he found a weak one, and then walked in and started poking "harmlessly" through my stuff just to see "if he could".
Invasion is invasion. Perhaps he could have worked a little more proactively at security (no numbers, so I don't think anybody should make presumptions), but even if he didn't, that doesn't give anybody the right or excuse to crack the system.
"If you don't know how, then what business do you have putting systems on the Internet anyway?" This is disturbing, I consider it akin to stating to a rape victim "You were wearing sexy clothes, so you were asking for it." Yes, people should take adequate precautions when exposing a system to any sort of connectivity, but hacking/cracking is still an unwanted invasion.
There still seems to be an underlying acceptance of hacking for curiosity with the geek community. I think this is partly the problem with the lack of success in tracking and prosecuting hackers/crackers. Until it is truly accepted that any attempted breakin should be punished, the situation will likely not improve. As an analogy, most of the locks on doors and windows in my last few apartments have been shit. Fortunatly, I have not had to install the latest and greatest dead-bolts, because B&E is actually recognized as a crime by all parties. Nobody blames the victim of a B&E and says "Well, if you don't know how to install a 6" Deadbolt, you have no business living in an apartment..."
To really push this technology fast. If it is implemented correctly (securely, high-speed, long-range) out-of-the-box, it would probably be possible to convince radio/tv stations, and some other normal RF broadcasters to switch to wireless digital packets. This is sorta like how the phone systems are switching from analog lines to digital lines and trunks. Course, that's probably wishful thinking, but some real foresight would really save us trouble down the road when freqs get overused and we have to make a change then. (think of IPV4...ouch)
His point is that Open Source by itself does not make a trusted system. The problem is that many Open Source advocates tend to equate source code and trust, even if they themselves have never glanced at the code. Just because it requires a quick "make install" doesn't necessarily make it secure. Note that I'm not arguing that Open Source doesn't have it's merits...just that a "trusted" program must be built from the ground-up according to a rigid set of design principles and standards. (a moving target at the best of times).
An interesting point is that my experience in software development tends to suggest that standards are poor in both closed and open source dev'ment, but I have to wonder if it is inherently harder for an open source project to adhere to standards?
Decide if you want to search Napster, Gnutella, or both... Media Enforcer is just a front end to search the respective sharing utilities for certain bands and/or titles, and lists the IPs and Usernames of anybody sharing a file you're interested in. AFAI can tell, it doesn't "bobby trap" anybody...
Windows 95 (95A at least, possibly pre OSR2.5) has some known problems with corrupting BIOS during install, especially on Athlon motherboards. Personally, I don't think it's a case of an OS problem exactly, but a good demonstration of the "No matter how hard we try, we screw things up worse" principle.
E.g. PCI is an improvement over ISA in many respects, and so is Plug-n-Play, but when Plug-n-Play decides to introduce conflicts (especially when combined with shared IRQ slots, and on-board PCI devices), it all turns to hell, and I get a serious itch for jumpers to hard code the damn things exactly where I want!
Even though we managed to improve older problems like IO address management and the like, we've managed to introduce new problems like Bus-mastering slots vs non-bm, IRQ sharing drivers, Plug-n-Pray, etc. Sigh.
PS. A bios update is usually the fix, make sure you use the latest bios.
IANA Physicist, but isn't "If a satelite is going much faster than the other satelites, it will have a much higher orbit." slightly incorrect? IIRC, a satellite in a geosynch orbit is motionless with respect to earth, but one in a much lower orbit has to travel much faster to maintain orbital velocity. The shuttle and all garbage in its orbital height has to maintain a high speed (I think it orbits something like every 90 minutes in at least one common orbit height), along with everything else (and sometimes in opposite directions!!! So although there may be more sats in geo-synch orbits, the really fast moving garbage is in LEO/MEO, and this includes old rocket boosters, lost tools, disposable shrouding from rockets, etc. Stupid, huh?
I do recall seeing a picture of a couple inch thick observation window on one of the shuttles that got hit by a fleck of metal, it blasted a crater into the (plexi?) glass, about 10 inches wide, and it looked a couple of inches deep....and this was just a fleck of metal, let alone an actual object. Would really suck to lose a shuttle to a 1/4" lag bolt.
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Course, I also understand that the copyright issue is a big one too. Just because a work has no physical form doesn't mean that everyone is entitled to a copy for free. Seriously, Napster has gotten out of hand. Downloading a "one-hit-wonder" or sampling a few tracks to see if you want to buy a cd makes sense to me. (espc the one-hit-wonder'ing, there is way to many of them now...) But people with gigs and gigs of MP3's are just abusing the system.
Same thing applies to other works. Soon enough it'll be movie "napstering" that'll hit the big time.
It's a tricky position, on one hand I agree that we should be allowed to break the encryption if we are able/want to, but I understand the artist's/author's desire to retain some control. (the MPAA, publishers, etc can bite me...they're just leaches).
Personally, I think it should be an open system. The artists/authors can encrypt as much as they want, and the users can decrypt as much as they want/are able. As long as they can prevent 80+% of the population from ripping them off, everyone should be okay (maybe...). We'll still have some l4m3r5 who feel they shouldn't have to pay for anything, but we're stuck with them till we can ship them to Mars. All we have to do is shoot the publishers to make this possible (they want 100% control...they won't settle for 80%)
Course, this is rather idealistic, with Peer2Peer sharing (eek...new acronym? P2P?) if anybody can break the encryption, anybody can get a copy...and people being people, they can rationalize ripping other people off. (an extension of free t-shirts being better than t-shirts).
Pandora's box is open. The only real resolution I can see to this one is for the music industry to move towards a TV-orientation. (ie commercials) Download a song, but it has a commercial in it. Easier to find that the rip off napster, so people'll do it. Some people would setup ways to edit out the commercials, but it'd still work for your 80+% margin. Realistically, I can't see any form of encryption holding up (not unless it's a complicated server/client transaction stream).
Ramble, ramble, man I'm incoherent this morning.
To fix my bloody eyesight...
I wouldn't care if it took a year for it to kick in...I'd shell out for a little careful manipulation to reshape my eyeballs. How bout you?
How about tinkering with your own genes to make subtle changes? (IANA Geneticist but...) Say somebody was going on a hike, they could tickle a gene or two to increase their stamina. Winter coming? Flip a gene and put on a little more fat for warmthm, we'll take it back off when summer comes so the bathing suit'll fit again.
Job change? Moving from an active-job to a desk-job? Change genes so that more blood/energy goes to the brain and enhance that critical thinking without gaining weight.
Lotsa possibilities in there, but should we open Pandora's box? And if so, should we attempt to control genetic manipulation? And if so, how? S'gonna be tricky...
It's the traces that are the problem...there's not enough room to pull out that many traces from each chip.
Also mentions that the board runs at 6.5 x <PCI BUS Freq>. WTF? Seriously, why would you clock the board's CPUs of a PCI bus? Even cheap ass video cards have their own freq generators...
It's the exact same board for both photos!!! Check the blank spot in the bottom left, just behind the backplate (and note the symbols just below the blank spot). Also note the white square in the far right, it's slight lower on the 6cpu version, but the exact same.
The chips are way too close in the multiprocessor board. Yes, they could be expensive thru-board, but don't forget that the other components missing from the single board (the ram chip?/flash rom?) would have to be on the other side, (one for each cpu? at least ram...) and would take up a lot of room. Looking at those clearances, it seems a little too close...
Pictures: Right click and save the CA-01 picture as a bitmap, and open it in Paint. (eep, have to use IE and don't have PShop at work...sigh). If you zoom in, and look at the bottom of the backplate, you should be able to see a faint antialiasing artifact where the plate was cut using (presumably) the magic wand and moved. Ergo, it's a seriously edited photo, and I wouldn't trust it with my $0.25, let alone $89. (wait a sec, people earlier were quoting prices of $500, and now that I look at it, the prices are $89 for a single board, and $129 for the multi with one proc...plus $69 per extra cpu, that smells very fishy.)
Hoax. /. seems to be falling for a lot more of these of late...
Ditto.
Three of us from a clan would meet at my place and jump into a game together, and cause we could talk to each other in the same room (even better than BFC), we did pretty good...lotta people gripped about "clanners" and the like...twas much fun.
Somebody made a good point up above. The Cube is designed to be fanless (and quiet). A Radeon would require active cooling; might not be able to dissapate heat quickly enough in the cube, and would add noise.
I really like the idea of a small, throw-it-under-the-desk system with no fans. I don't really need a lot of expandability (most of the peripherals get chained off the server), so I don't care about expandability beyond RAM, HD, and maybe swapping the vid card in the future. I still have yet to receive any software on DVD, let alone a new format that would require replacing the DVD drive. (CDR drives and DVD-R drives will get chained off the server, or I'll use firewire...)
I recall (I'm too lazy to search for it...) a poll recently concerning the number of fans in everybody's computer. (I had a paltry 8...) The consensus seemed to be that everyone was wishing for a quieter/fanless computer. Kudos to Apple for developing a mainstream, functional computer with this feature.
Now if only they could offer a cheaper version...(I'm broke right now...sigh)
Never played CStrike, but I did play TFC, and I recall thinking that a lot of activity there was suspicious. Course, I did track down some of it (like people throwing grenades that blew up immediatly instead of after 4 sec delay; turns out that you should hold the key for 3 secs, then let go...duh). Course, a lot of people had so many scripts and stuff, it sorta irritated the purist gamer in me.
Downloading a script that allows you to prime a grenade, run around, lob it at will, or have it automatically lob it if you hold onto it too long just seems so lame...but it seemed like most players were using them. Rocket jumping and conc-grenade jumping scripts can quickly unbalance a fun-level, and turn it into a frustrating "hunt-for-the-best-script" mentality.
Not really cheating, but I believe that excessive scripting can be a problem in openly modifiable engines like Quake...
I went on a serious Unreal Tournament binge during the last year, and was doing pretty well (IMHO). Managed to stay in the top 99%-ile in both CTF and DM, for the 4 months or so that I was playing. I was accused of cheating several times, despite that fact that I wasn't (heck, I'm even too lazy to map most of the keys off the defaults...)
Additionally, because of my experience, I was able to watch players of similar or better skill levels, some of who were slightly suspicious. (wierd warping, etc).
But, ordinary players accused them of cheating equally...
Therefore, I surmise that, at least to most players, cheaters are indistinguishable from the good players (the ones who know all the sneaky little strategies...)
'scuse the repitition but:
CM: You'll never stop me Agent Campbell, it's too late...(discards cigarette and starts walking away)
B: (with intent expression, and only glancing at writing on palm once...) "KLATUU.... BERATA... NICTU!!!"
CM: (turning) What the fsck?
B: Sigh, now that I remember the damn thing, it don't work no more. Oh well, (starts chainsaw...)
Laff, sounds like the Simpson's writers should get in on this one...
Yeah, its funny when Mulder does something amusing, but only cause he never normally does!!!
I thought Bruce did a wicked job on Army of Darkness, and he's done well on all the little cameos and bit parts I've seen him in...
Course, I'd expect them to sneak in at least a few passing AoD references or lines each season...
B To Scully: "Gimme some ammo baby."
Scully: "WHAT!"
B: "Sorry, bad bag of cheetos..."
OR:
"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the badge"
Why would I want to travel more than 15 km from home, when there's everything I want less than 10km from home!!! Cars are diabolical because they cause you to spend time and money traveling to nowhere.
Then of course there are those dumbass punks who have them because they think it's "cool". Yeah, you're impressing me with your stupidity by paying lots of money when you have a perfectly good pair of feet. Get a bicycle if you want to move around.
(The above poster forgot to mention radiation risks with cellphones, but here's the matching paragraph anyway...) And of course using a car increase your risk of dying due to severe body trauma. Doesn't anybody realize this? Sure, the car companies try to conceal the effects, but <conspiracy>I've seen</conspiracy> what a car can do to you, and you'll never catch me in one.
[mods: this is ironic, not fbait, mod accordingly]
Do you have Vibe turned on your phone when it rings (mine does by default), the EMF from the Vibe motor is more likely the cause of the shaking than the phone radiation...
My 14" monitor. :)
My microwave.
My gf's cheap computer speakers.
Smacking the table. (they wouldn't have done something as disreputable as that in an add would they?
Seems like my cell is one of the things that doesn't shake my monitor...
Kudos from the OSS community can't be cashed at the bank. Corel needs a stable group of corporate clientele who are willing to regularly pay for upgrades, bug-fixes, enhancements, features, etc. Despite what many people think, OSS isn't the holy grail of software fixes...
With this scheme, people will learn to check their files and delete the cuckoo'ed ones quickly, and the propagation will be minimal.
The only thing that could make this work would be a sufficiently large number of people, putting a lot of effort into creating songs (with appropriate additions into titles "B_Spears_Song_no_cuckoo.mp3", and creating new user accounts to prevent "kill/ban lists" I doubt anybody (well, save the RIAA) has the time and money to fight that way, and the RIAA seems to prefer litagation.
Help! My LPT port is on fire, and I wasn't even keeping any logs around!
On a side note, a terrorist was once caught in the US a number of years ago, because he used a very specific product (clock timer seems familiar) from Radio Shack (yay Tandy brand. :P), and the cops went around the local RS stores asking who had purchased that product along with the other common parts (wiring, batteries, etc). They managed to find someone whose purchases matched the bomb, and nicked him.
Radio Shack and their logs, good? bad?
(K, this thread is heading OT, but I'm pointing out an alternative point to the above)
Invasion is invasion. Perhaps he could have worked a little more proactively at security (no numbers, so I don't think anybody should make presumptions), but even if he didn't, that doesn't give anybody the right or excuse to crack the system.
"If you don't know how, then what business do you have putting systems on the Internet anyway?"
This is disturbing, I consider it akin to stating to a rape victim "You were wearing sexy clothes, so you were asking for it."
Yes, people should take adequate precautions when exposing a system to any sort of connectivity, but hacking/cracking is still an unwanted invasion.
There still seems to be an underlying acceptance of hacking for curiosity with the geek community. I think this is partly the problem with the lack of success in tracking and prosecuting hackers/crackers. Until it is truly accepted that any attempted breakin should be punished, the situation will likely not improve. As an analogy, most of the locks on doors and windows in my last few apartments have been shit. Fortunatly, I have not had to install the latest and greatest dead-bolts, because B&E is actually recognized as a crime by all parties. Nobody blames the victim of a B&E and says "Well, if you don't know how to install a 6" Deadbolt, you have no business living in an apartment..."
To really push this technology fast. If it is implemented correctly (securely, high-speed, long-range) out-of-the-box, it would probably be possible to convince radio/tv stations, and some other normal RF broadcasters to switch to wireless digital packets. This is sorta like how the phone systems are switching from analog lines to digital lines and trunks.
Course, that's probably wishful thinking, but some real foresight would really save us trouble down the road when freqs get overused and we have to make a change then. (think of IPV4...ouch)
Just because it requires a quick "make install" doesn't necessarily make it secure. Note that I'm not arguing that Open Source doesn't have it's merits...just that a "trusted" program must be built from the ground-up according to a rigid set of design principles and standards. (a moving target at the best of times).
An interesting point is that my experience in software development tends to suggest that standards are poor in both closed and open source dev'ment, but I have to wonder if it is inherently harder for an open source project to adhere to standards?
Decide if you want to search Napster, Gnutella, or both...
Media Enforcer is just a front end to search the respective sharing utilities for certain bands and/or titles, and lists the IPs and Usernames of anybody sharing a file you're interested in.
AFAI can tell, it doesn't "bobby trap" anybody...
E.g. PCI is an improvement over ISA in many respects, and so is Plug-n-Play, but when Plug-n-Play decides to introduce conflicts (especially when combined with shared IRQ slots, and on-board PCI devices), it all turns to hell, and I get a serious itch for jumpers to hard code the damn things exactly where I want!
Even though we managed to improve older problems like IO address management and the like, we've managed to introduce new problems like Bus-mastering slots vs non-bm, IRQ sharing drivers, Plug-n-Pray, etc. Sigh.
PS. A bios update is usually the fix, make sure you use the latest bios.
IIRC, a satellite in a geosynch orbit is motionless with respect to earth, but one in a much lower orbit has to travel much faster to maintain orbital velocity. The shuttle and all garbage in its orbital height has to maintain a high speed (I think it orbits something like every 90 minutes in at least one common orbit height), along with everything else (and sometimes in opposite directions!!! So although there may be more sats in geo-synch orbits, the really fast moving garbage is in LEO/MEO, and this includes old rocket boosters, lost tools, disposable shrouding from rockets, etc. Stupid, huh?
I do recall seeing a picture of a couple inch thick observation window on one of the shuttles that got hit by a fleck of metal, it blasted a crater into the (plexi?) glass, about 10 inches wide, and it looked a couple of inches deep....and this was just a fleck of metal, let alone an actual object. Would really suck to lose a shuttle to a 1/4" lag bolt.