I predict that one of the other two server products is an Intel based router/firewall. What if a HP built a new form factor box with six gig-ethernet interfaces on the mainbaord? Say, 64-bit PCI 66MHz with 3Com's bus-mastering interrupt-bundling cards and an encryption engine built in each. Designed to compete with Cisco.:-)
We should have a Linux alternative ready.
Re:If it's not free it must be.... EVIL MUHAHAHAHA
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Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it. The real question is repeat which historical analogy. Will WiFi become like drinking fountains?
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It not just "copy protection" but also "anti-competitve control". I wish journalists would list both reasons if they must list one.
Otherwise they make mod chips sound completely immoral.
Soon Microsoft's operating system will be free,
not just from Linux competition, but because of media management revinue. Thier digital restrictions management (DRM) will collect viewing fees from which Microsoft will keep a cut. Can you say, "Blockbuster Video on steroids"?
It is a fairly simple business plan. They become a regular utility bill.
Normal CD data is written as a single long spiral.
The protected disks have a big spiral too, but somewhere (or in multiple places) there is a short extra spiral along the big one. A normal read or ISO image would not discover the short spirals, but they can be uncovered by repeatedly seeking to the sector and getting lucky. Traditional CD drives & drivers work fine provided you can avoid the disk cache.
Even if you trick the API and discover the short spirals, they would not be writeable to a CDR.
We would get this all the time when I worked at a Motorola video research lab. Everyone and his brother invented a new compression scheme they wanted to license.
My boss was smart, he made them sign a reverse-NDA so anything they said was public.
Sadly, the ideas were always worthless, and
the demos had such deliberate deception.
Somebody must be buying because there were so many, but I found that hard to believe.
I use OpenBSD. My biggest complaint is that binary updates are not provided, even though the initial installtion was from binaries. No, we need to manually patch, build, install, and configure. For this reason, unless you are a skilled and determined software developer, OpenBSD could easily be less secure for you. Theo you suck.
Does Theo realize this behavior will make unpached openbsd system more likely, thus encouraging greater deveopment of root kits?
Yeah, addictive...all the way to a career. As a kid I only pursued computers to feed my interest in games. Along the way I inadvertantly picked up a few computer skills, and am now a happy computer professional.
Excactly! In Ultimate Frisbee we have fun watching newbies relearn their instincts. Chasing and diving are futile when a football goes past you or drops below you, but not a frisbee because the airfoil will linger. If a newbie is smart he will understand the problem on his first game, when after giving up, a defender runs from behind to catch the disk. Even still it will take several games to eliminate the parabolic-path ball hesitation of "I can't catch that". Read the disk.
I have already written my senators with a check and am a longtime member of the EFF. I feel my next most useful defense is to start a petition and collect signatures in a public place or door to door. When I have a full sheet of signatures (with addresses) I will fax it to my senators. Does anyone have a proposed wording?
"I, a residents of Illinois, am opposed to Senator Hollings CBDTPA (formerly SSSCA). I insist on preserving my fair use rights and first sale doctrine. Playing CD music I puchased on my MP3 player should not be a crime. We object to our government enabling industry controlled censoring. The Inernet has given people true freedom of the press by owning a one. I insist on being able to post and email my own home videos and future multimedia email without government approval. I do not want more regulations to stiffle and delay advances in computer technology."
This is not easy. The document must be accurate, or the bill's advocates will contend the bill won't do it.
The petition must be worded such that people intrinsicly agree. In my small sampling so far, too many people are like, "yes we should stop those criminal copiers." without contemplating the impications. For this reason I am deathly afraid the bill will pass.
These problems have another type of solution which is mandatory licensing rates, such as the government had to do for radio played music. The industry cannot stop the playing and has a maximum royalty they can collect. If prices were low enough volume would make up for it. I believe AM radio patents had a similar history. It could bring Napster back.
Merely including the text of the GPL license does not mean an offer to provide the source, as it says nothing about what license the provider obtained the source code under.
China, North Korea, Iraq, et al. are going to love this DRM thing. They will use it to silence political speech.
In the West one centralized authority will be responsible for RSA signing all the approved works with their copying instructions. This centralized authority will have the only private key, and every electronic device will deny media not signed with it. Let us call the committee the Politburo. Hopefully the certificates will not be too expensive, possibly $5 provided the MPAA has not filed a unfounded cease and desist letter against you.
Other nations will not be content with our
DRM authority (and tax), so their servers, routers, and PC's will be installed with a different master key. This will create "regionalization" which the copyright owners also like. The media being copyright owners will
avoid printing critical stories, and regional DRM will be law.
Yes, it will succeed. Every computer component will be responsible for enforcing it. That means hard drives, network cards, CPU (look the size of itandiam's and carusoes microcode), and video cards, and router.
Like my gun collecting friend, I should stockpile modern day computers. Every year when the DRM laws become more strict, I can sell my computers for a higher profit. The trick will be not to wait too long to sell when the grandfather clauses are revoked.
Actually, just like today's emulation of old arcade games, someday these DRM crippled computers will be able to emulate old DRM free computers faster than my old stockpile. The DRM schemes will not be smart enought to look inside the emulation, and see the emulation as an approved process.
You would think you are free, but the ISP
will screen transmissions, and by this time the filters will recofigured to block anything it cannot understand and verify. So the contraband computer will be useless without communication.
Naive people say, "Stealing is bad we should stop it." but at what price? Shoplifting has not yet been stopped, so should laws require stores to keep all muchandise behind glass?... or should we cut off the fingers of people?
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The shaft is an air passage used during pyramid construction. Torches make bad smoke. Behind the door is nothing.
The RIAA/MPAA are naive for thinking Microsoft won't screw them once Microsoft's DRM becomes established.
I predict that one of the other two server products is an Intel based router/firewall. What if a HP built a new form factor box with six gig-ethernet interfaces on the mainbaord? Say, 64-bit PCI 66MHz with 3Com's bus-mastering interrupt-bundling cards and an encryption engine built in each. Designed to compete with Cisco. :-)
We should have a Linux alternative ready.
Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it. The real question is repeat which historical analogy. Will WiFi become like drinking fountains?
It not just "copy protection" but also "anti-competitve control". I wish journalists would list both reasons if they must list one. Otherwise they make mod chips sound completely immoral.
Soon Microsoft's operating system will be free, not just from Linux competition, but because of media management revinue. Thier digital restrictions management (DRM) will collect viewing fees from which Microsoft will keep a cut. Can you say, "Blockbuster Video on steroids"?
It is a fairly simple business plan. They become a regular utility bill.
Even if you trick the API and discover the short spirals, they would not be writeable to a CDR.
Yeah, so is all government funded research. Have you heard of The Genome Project vs. Celera?
Yes, and would this switch be motivated by MS owning more patented IPR in it?
My boss was smart, he made them sign a reverse-NDA so anything they said was public. Sadly, the ideas were always worthless, and the demos had such deliberate deception. Somebody must be buying because there were so many, but I found that hard to believe.
Can't he claim he was spoofing mozilla, not godzilla? The dinasaur was red.
If you do build one, an Axis board would be a perfect. Boots from flash, has dual serial, has ethernet, and runs Linux!
I use OpenBSD. My biggest complaint is that binary updates are not provided, even though the initial installtion was from binaries. No, we need to manually patch, build, install, and configure. For this reason, unless you are a skilled and determined software developer, OpenBSD could easily be less secure for you. Theo you suck.
Does Theo realize this behavior will make unpached openbsd system more likely, thus encouraging greater deveopment of root kits?
Like he would work over dialup from one of the highest bandwidth offices in the world?!? They must have been at a hotel together. :-)
Yeah, addictive...all the way to a career. As a kid I only pursued computers to feed my interest in games. Along the way I inadvertantly picked up a few computer skills, and am now a happy computer professional.
Ultimate: Great exercise, fewer injuries.
I have already written my senators with a check and am a longtime member of the EFF. I feel my next most useful defense is to start a petition and collect signatures in a public place or door to door. When I have a full sheet of signatures (with addresses) I will fax it to my senators. Does anyone have a proposed wording?
"I, a residents of Illinois, am opposed to Senator Hollings CBDTPA (formerly SSSCA). I insist on preserving my fair use rights and first sale doctrine. Playing CD music I puchased on my MP3 player should not be a crime. We object to our government enabling industry controlled censoring. The Inernet has given people true freedom of the press by owning a one. I insist on being able to post and email my own home videos and future multimedia email without government approval. I do not want more regulations to stiffle and delay advances in computer technology."
This is not easy. The document must be accurate, or the bill's advocates will contend the bill won't do it.
The petition must be worded such that people intrinsicly agree. In my small sampling so far, too many people are like, "yes we should stop those criminal copiers." without contemplating the impications. For this reason I am deathly afraid the bill will pass.
These problems have another type of solution which is mandatory licensing rates, such as the government had to do for radio played music. The industry cannot stop the playing and has a maximum royalty they can collect. If prices were low enough volume would make up for it. I believe AM radio patents had a similar history. It could bring Napster back.
How about a law to prosecute senders of baseless cease and desist letters for parody websites which are clearly permitted within the law.
Merely including the text of the GPL license does not mean an offer to provide the source, as it says nothing about what license the provider obtained the source code under.
China, North Korea, Iraq, et al. are going to love this DRM thing. They will use it to silence political speech.
In the West one centralized authority will be responsible for RSA signing all the approved works with their copying instructions. This centralized authority will have the only private key, and every electronic device will deny media not signed with it. Let us call the committee the Politburo. Hopefully the certificates will not be too expensive, possibly $5 provided the MPAA has not filed a unfounded cease and desist letter against you.
Other nations will not be content with our DRM authority (and tax), so their servers, routers, and PC's will be installed with a different master key. This will create "regionalization" which the copyright owners also like. The media being copyright owners will avoid printing critical stories, and regional DRM will be law.
Yes, it will succeed. Every computer component will be responsible for enforcing it. That means hard drives, network cards, CPU (look the size of itandiam's and carusoes microcode), and video cards, and router.
Like my gun collecting friend, I should stockpile modern day computers. Every year when the DRM laws become more strict, I can sell my computers for a higher profit. The trick will be not to wait too long to sell when the grandfather clauses are revoked.
Actually, just like today's emulation of old arcade games, someday these DRM crippled computers will be able to emulate old DRM free computers faster than my old stockpile. The DRM schemes will not be smart enought to look inside the emulation, and see the emulation as an approved process.
You would think you are free, but the ISP will screen transmissions, and by this time the filters will recofigured to block anything it cannot understand and verify. So the contraband computer will be useless without communication.
Naive people say, "Stealing is bad we should stop it." but at what price? Shoplifting has not yet been stopped, so should laws require stores to keep all muchandise behind glass? ... or should we cut off the fingers of people?