So now that I'm not usin Napster, I'm also not going to use Gracenote. Off to freedb I go. Of course, now that Graceland is in with Napster, they can just get all sorts of agreements with records companies to pass new CD info to them before it hits stores so they no longer really need us suckers now that we've done the work. And we didn't even get the $0.02 a day the kids in Indonesia get for making sneakers.
I wonder if I can get Winamp to use freedb or if I will be uninstalling that, too.
Now imagine how much this is all going to add to the cost of a house in the future to have every damn little thing blinking and beeping and beeping and blinking...
It doesn't *have* to be, just like someone's browser skin doesn't have to be blue. If they like it that way, and it makes them more productive, then viva la difference! If they're spending all their time being "eternal tweakers" instead of getting their job done, then slap them. Hard.
Even in Windows, I make sure I have the coolbars from IE4.0 loaded so that I can have the Address bar on my toolbar to use as a commandline. If I know the path, it's so much quicker if I just type it.
And that's *my* point. You use what's important for *you*. If granny needs to use a web browser to manage files instead of something else, then more power to the guys making it and may they make a decent living off of it.
Why do you need to customize the hell out of these window managers? Don't you realize you are getting ZERO work done? Get doing something useful with that window manager by actually running programs on it instead of being one of the "eternal tweakers".
The idea is that if you make the web browser ubiquitous, no one will care about the browser wars and MS anymore. I don't hear anyone warring over Norton File Manager anymore and how it can't be purchased because Win 9x/NT/2k comes with one, so that horse is dead and beaten and has long since mouldered away.
Everyone's writing browsers for Linux and I have yet to see a good web browser for Linux (sorry, Netscrape), so the race is still on for something decent that those moms and dads can use while I'm hacking away at the commandline.
My solution is not for 100% of the population, just like the other solution is also not for 100% of everyone, but if it works, let them have their alternate file manager.
Heck, you should even throw in file revisioning on user-selected files. If something like CVS is already set up on the machine, people are more likely to use it every day.
I know that the Tivo drive hack is very quick, so it's not that bnig a waste of time. In fact for the OS, I would try to go with Windows 2000 if I could, so make it $350.
By all means, post an alternative, if you like. That's what discussion forums are for. Heck, you might even convince me into building one and not going for the Tivo.
So if the sender and receiver can know it, then someone else can guess it. And if the system is open, then it is more likely to be studied on how it can be cracked. Truly a double-edged sword.
I think the likelihood of all of the above happening is laughably low as you describe a cracker doing all that. A crew of feds on a sting with a search warrant, however...
When a person first sends you a PGP signed mail, you verify the message by checking to make sure that the contents of the email have been signed correctly and not modified. That way they email you the key and you can verify.
Also, if their key is compromised, any *encrypted* messages after that should be unreadable by them at some point. They could alert you with a plain text that they can no longer read your mail, which should be a clear sign that something is wrong. Of course, there's always the status of that last email you sent before the key was compromised...
What we need is a system that will verify transparently each and every time. Since getting a PGP encrypted mail is a rare occurrence for me, I always verify when I see it come in. For those that get them all the time, I can see where they might miss verifying that one email. I believe the X.503 cert system in use on most commercial email systems does this.
Since we don't know Thawte's or Verisign's hiring policies compared to the NSA, we can't assume that there are no black hats altering certs there, so similar precautions should be taken. Sign the first few mails to establish the trust, and encrypt from then on to always be sure.
For everything in life, gaining convenience means losing some form of security. Getting pissed at having to type that long keyphrase in all day long? You can set PGP to memorize it, but then anyone can walk in and fire off an email when your screensaver doesn't kick in. It's a trade off.
The problem is that there is still one person who knows about the keyphrase or certificate...you. A better encryption system would make use of one-time keyphrases or certs that not even you know of. Recent announcements on/. sound like they're headed this way. The only question is will the public ever see it or will someone get kidnapped in the middle of the night a stuffed into the trunk of a car.
...that the feds should waste their time worrying about people who are using crypto for *good* purposes? Should we establish a billion dollar fund to help them track down people sending their grandmother a get well email with PGP?
Of course they're going to concentrate on kiddie porn and terrorists. For their intents and purposes the world of crypto might as well be comlpetely composed of that type of person. Just so long as they do not make absolute and blanket statements painting crypto users as such.
Watch out for when they dump it like everything else in a few months. If folks at LNUX still have jobs, they still have a bit more room to fall. The shame will be if RedHat suffers from this and we no longer have a nice quality Linux distro left.
Tivo
A Tivo costs about $399 for the cheap model, into which you put a $100 drive to hack the Tivo into using and then buy a $200 lifetime subscription.
Computer equivalent
$100 Soundblaster Live (need the SPDIF)
$200 PIII 700
$25 Linksys ethernet card
$100 mobo for it
$30 case
$15 floppy
$100 hard drive
$300 ATI All In Wonder Radeon
no TV Guide show directory
Geekfactor - priceless
- And you're inevitably going to want to add a wireless keyboard and mouse, a DVD drive, CDROM drive etc etc
Seriously, the Tivo above is cheaper and I won't have to throw it into the project box after getting sick of it continually crashing. You might cheap out on a few of these parts, but then your just fudging the numbers, and not really by all that much. My time is worth too freaking much to play with these parts anymore. I want to watch the shows, not do work to get to watching them. I have stuff to do! Buy the Tivo and sit down. You'll be able to use the spare time to think about some real ground breaking projects instead of reinventing the wheel.
So if I have an office of 150 identical Dells that the company bought, then I have 150 free copies of Windows XP since they would all generate the same code?
Funnily enough, if the software stores that value in the registry, you can edit it every two weeks. Some time-limited demos have eternal lives this way.
But that is the basis of law. Some people will think that they are entitled to do anything they want to. What they don't understand is that then entitles the people who want to encarcerate them to the same right, only...their desire involves wanting to encarcerate them.
So if this bozo doesn't mind posting his home address, we can show him how much he's really against that sort of "fair use". Especially when he has to live in a box on the side of the highway because of it. I'm sure software piracy is the greatest contribution these morons can do to help the US economy get back on its feet. Let's hear it for the imbecils!
...if some people were to get together a break into cddb and destroy their database and make sure their site was down for a long time. They would see what else people on the Internet could do when they contribute to something.
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So now that I'm not usin Napster, I'm also not going to use Gracenote. Off to freedb I go. Of course, now that Graceland is in with Napster, they can just get all sorts of agreements with records companies to pass new CD info to them before it hits stores so they no longer really need us suckers now that we've done the work. And we didn't even get the $0.02 a day the kids in Indonesia get for making sneakers.
I wonder if I can get Winamp to use freedb or if I will be uninstalling that, too.
Now imagine how much this is all going to add to the cost of a house in the future to have every damn little thing blinking and beeping and beeping and blinking...
It doesn't *have* to be, just like someone's browser skin doesn't have to be blue. If they like it that way, and it makes them more productive, then viva la difference! If they're spending all their time being "eternal tweakers" instead of getting their job done, then slap them. Hard.
Even in Windows, I make sure I have the coolbars from IE4.0 loaded so that I can have the Address bar on my toolbar to use as a commandline. If I know the path, it's so much quicker if I just type it.
And that's *my* point. You use what's important for *you*. If granny needs to use a web browser to manage files instead of something else, then more power to the guys making it and may they make a decent living off of it.
Why do you need to customize the hell out of these window managers? Don't you realize you are getting ZERO work done? Get doing something useful with that window manager by actually running programs on it instead of being one of the "eternal tweakers".
All your Skins are belong to us.
The idea is that if you make the web browser ubiquitous, no one will care about the browser wars and MS anymore. I don't hear anyone warring over Norton File Manager anymore and how it can't be purchased because Win 9x/NT/2k comes with one, so that horse is dead and beaten and has long since mouldered away.
Everyone's writing browsers for Linux and I have yet to see a good web browser for Linux (sorry, Netscrape), so the race is still on for something decent that those moms and dads can use while I'm hacking away at the commandline.
My solution is not for 100% of the population, just like the other solution is also not for 100% of everyone, but if it works, let them have their alternate file manager.
Mozilla can be found at http://www.mozilla.org.
Heck, you should even throw in file revisioning on user-selected files. If something like CVS is already set up on the machine, people are more likely to use it every day.
I know that the Tivo drive hack is very quick, so it's not that bnig a waste of time. In fact for the OS, I would try to go with Windows 2000 if I could, so make it $350.
By all means, post an alternative, if you like. That's what discussion forums are for. Heck, you might even convince me into building one and not going for the Tivo.
So if the sender and receiver can know it, then someone else can guess it. And if the system is open, then it is more likely to be studied on how it can be cracked. Truly a double-edged sword.
I think the likelihood of all of the above happening is laughably low as you describe a cracker doing all that. A crew of feds on a sting with a search warrant, however...
Sounds like a lot of other things in life get past you besides U.S. law.
"Sending meet me at the movies at 8" in plain text is a good way to let that sniper who's been tracking you to know where to park. =)
Gotta run! They're at the door!
When a person first sends you a PGP signed mail, you verify the message by checking to make sure that the contents of the email have been signed correctly and not modified. That way they email you the key and you can verify.
Also, if their key is compromised, any *encrypted* messages after that should be unreadable by them at some point. They could alert you with a plain text that they can no longer read your mail, which should be a clear sign that something is wrong. Of course, there's always the status of that last email you sent before the key was compromised...
What we need is a system that will verify transparently each and every time. Since getting a PGP encrypted mail is a rare occurrence for me, I always verify when I see it come in. For those that get them all the time, I can see where they might miss verifying that one email. I believe the X.503 cert system in use on most commercial email systems does this.
Since we don't know Thawte's or Verisign's hiring policies compared to the NSA, we can't assume that there are no black hats altering certs there, so similar precautions should be taken. Sign the first few mails to establish the trust, and encrypt from then on to always be sure.
For everything in life, gaining convenience means losing some form of security. Getting pissed at having to type that long keyphrase in all day long? You can set PGP to memorize it, but then anyone can walk in and fire off an email when your screensaver doesn't kick in. It's a trade off.
The problem is that there is still one person who knows about the keyphrase or certificate...you. A better encryption system would make use of one-time keyphrases or certs that not even you know of. Recent announcements on /. sound like they're headed this way. The only question is will the public ever see it or will someone get kidnapped in the middle of the night a stuffed into the trunk of a car.
...that the feds should waste their time worrying about people who are using crypto for *good* purposes? Should we establish a billion dollar fund to help them track down people sending their grandmother a get well email with PGP?
Of course they're going to concentrate on kiddie porn and terrorists. For their intents and purposes the world of crypto might as well be comlpetely composed of that type of person. Just so long as they do not make absolute and blanket statements painting crypto users as such.
Watch out for when they dump it like everything else in a few months. If folks at LNUX still have jobs, they still have a bit more room to fall. The shame will be if RedHat suffers from this and we no longer have a nice quality Linux distro left.
Tivo
A Tivo costs about $399 for the cheap model, into which you put a $100 drive to hack the Tivo into using and then buy a $200 lifetime subscription.
Computer equivalent
$100 Soundblaster Live (need the SPDIF)
$200 PIII 700
$25 Linksys ethernet card
$100 mobo for it
$30 case
$15 floppy
$100 hard drive
$300 ATI All In Wonder Radeon
no TV Guide show directory
Geekfactor - priceless
- And you're inevitably going to want to add a wireless keyboard and mouse, a DVD drive, CDROM drive etc etc
Seriously, the Tivo above is cheaper and I won't have to throw it into the project box after getting sick of it continually crashing. You might cheap out on a few of these parts, but then your just fudging the numbers, and not really by all that much. My time is worth too freaking much to play with these parts anymore. I want to watch the shows, not do work to get to watching them. I have stuff to do! Buy the Tivo and sit down. You'll be able to use the spare time to think about some real ground breaking projects instead of reinventing the wheel.
So if I have an office of 150 identical Dells that the company bought, then I have 150 free copies of Windows XP since they would all generate the same code?
Funnily enough, if the software stores that value in the registry, you can edit it every two weeks. Some time-limited demos have eternal lives this way.
The point is that it sounds like that's no longer going to be the case.
But that is the basis of law. Some people will think that they are entitled to do anything they want to. What they don't understand is that then entitles the people who want to encarcerate them to the same right, only...their desire involves wanting to encarcerate them.
So if this bozo doesn't mind posting his home address, we can show him how much he's really against that sort of "fair use". Especially when he has to live in a box on the side of the highway because of it. I'm sure software piracy is the greatest contribution these morons can do to help the US economy get back on its feet. Let's hear it for the imbecils!
...if some people were to get together a break into cddb and destroy their database and make sure their site was down for a long time. They would see what else people on the Internet could do when they contribute to something.