That's actually an erroneous legal idea....if in fact you have shown due diligence in trying to secure your network, and someone gets in, you are less likely to be found at fault.
That's the problem, though, how do you show that someone got in? By making it apparently secure, you make it hard to believe that anyone got in.
I've got a better idea, if it's something you have to go to a store to get. They could put DRM-free lossless versions of the songs on small optical discs (they'd be cheap) that you buy at the counter, no codes or anything. They might even be able to get them to play in current portable music players. They'd be digital, of course. Maybe some other company has tried this before?
It's exactly the sort of problem any decent OS can solve. Untrusted code says "hey, I'd like to write this to the MBR", OS says "hell no!". Why is any special hardware needed, beyond basic memory protection?
Ironically, the 25-year-old cartoonist speculates people would rather read his arty comics in a book than on a computer screen, and warns that 'There's something wonderful, and soon-to-be mythic, about the printed page...'
'This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service,' said Whitten.
With all that influx of cash, couldn't you divert some of it to funding, you know, new servers and stuff like that?
Didn't you get the memo? Words have had their meaning notched down recently. So you can't just say cold, you have to say cold temperatures. And you can say "could care less" and mean "couldn't care less". Other things you may have missed are Randomly capitalizing Words without any reason and spelling lose "loose".
You're also supposed to write in lots of separate paragraphics.
I was wondering the same, how to verify that a router has the firmware I think is on it. It seems the only reliable way would be to
Place router in Faraday cage (or disconnect antennas and use a simpler equivalent)
Flash it with new firmware that is all highly compressed/uncompressible data and fills the entire flash chip
Power down unit for several minutes, to clear main memory
Power up and ask this new firmware to send a copy of itself back to you.
If it matches, then it would be extremely difficult for anything to still be hiding there (maybe you'd also have to fill the NVRAM with this technique as well)
And yes, I'm somewhat paranoid about any WiFi router I get nowadays, because I don't have the ability to do the above and don't fully trust its firmware.
A true scientist wouldn't make up such grand and unprovable reasons for things he couldn't yet explain. Reality is far more interesting than the silly things our minds make up as reasons for it.
Some manufacturers have voiced concerns that the requirement could leave important security or copyright protection features in their products open to tampering.
Translation: "Some manufacturers have voiced concerns that the requirement could leave important user-restriction features or copyright fair-use prevention features in their products open to rightful destruction."
They fail to grasp the most important aspect of GPL: every end-user is also the master of said software; it is not up to anyone else to decide what he can and can't do. Features which keep the end-user out are not part of (publicly distributed) GPL software, period.
YET SPAM KEEPS GROWING BIGGER EVERY DAY, AND NOTHING GETS DONE. [...]
My question is... WHY?
Isn't it obvious? With all those unsold member-enlargement pills laying around, the depressed SPAM has nothing better to do than chow those down while it wastes away the day. The solution? Give them some business and help them get out of the gutter!
Exactly. You can hit start to skip cutscenes you've already seen, and oddly you often get a black screen for several seconds if you do this, which makes it kind of pointless (I'm playing Metroid Prime 2 at the moment and noticing this often). They do a good job of hiding it, but it's still there for sure.
DVD is good enough for me, and will be for a long, long time. I do not have interest in paying one cent more for the better quality video.
Just wait until they start making crappier DVD releases of things, kind of like how CDs mastering today is inferior to that of a decade ago. Even current DVD picture quality varies greatly, with some being really sharp (component video on a 27" Trinitron TV) and others being lousy.
So remember, this is not unusual, and *every* non-impact event follows this pattern: Scientists find potential impact. Impact probability increases. Impact probability increases. (maybe a few more repetitions, too) Suddenly, they decide that it's not going to hit, and impact probability goes to zero.
What's funny is how they describe it as the probability changing, yet what's really changing is our (their) perception of the possibility. Hell, possibility itself is nothing more than a measure of our ignorance of what will happen. Flip a coin and let one person look. To that person, the outcome is 100% certain, yet to another person who doesn't know, it's still 50/50.
The most useful thing that could be done with this is to allow emulation of discs from a USB harddrive. That way I could put my originals away for protection.
And eliminate whatever load time there was before. A friend has the software that allows this on a PS2 with hard drive and it's great; load time is hardly noticeable.
Seriously, let's reserve the phrase "data theft" to refer to data that is lost due to someone taking the only copy of it. A basic test for theft is whether the owner still has the thing that was stolen. If he still has it, it wasn't stolen, though possibly copied.
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Yeah, unless you shake it.
That's the problem, though, how do you show that someone got in? By making it apparently secure, you make it hard to believe that anyone got in.
I've got a better idea, if it's something you have to go to a store to get. They could put DRM-free lossless versions of the songs on small optical discs (they'd be cheap) that you buy at the counter, no codes or anything. They might even be able to get them to play in current portable music players. They'd be digital, of course. Maybe some other company has tried this before?
It's exactly the sort of problem any decent OS can solve. Untrusted code says "hey, I'd like to write this to the MBR", OS says "hell no!". Why is any special hardware needed, beyond basic memory protection?
What's ironic about this?
Wait, don't we want one of the formats to die, so that there will be one HD format that everyone can support? Until then, it's a waiting game.
With all that influx of cash, couldn't you divert some of it to funding, you know, new servers and stuff like that?
Didn't you get the memo? Words have had their meaning notched down recently. So you can't just say cold, you have to say cold temperatures. And you can say "could care less" and mean "couldn't care less". Other things you may have missed are Randomly capitalizing Words without any reason and spelling lose "loose".
You're also supposed to write in lots of separate paragraphics.
Like this.
It's for emphasis.
(sorry, just sharing several pet peeves of mine)
I was wondering the same, how to verify that a router has the firmware I think is on it. It seems the only reliable way would be to
And yes, I'm somewhat paranoid about any WiFi router I get nowadays, because I don't have the ability to do the above and don't fully trust its firmware.
A true scientist wouldn't make up such grand and unprovable reasons for things he couldn't yet explain. Reality is far more interesting than the silly things our minds make up as reasons for it.
Translation: "Some manufacturers have voiced concerns that the requirement could leave important user-restriction features or copyright fair-use prevention features in their products open to rightful destruction."
They fail to grasp the most important aspect of GPL: every end-user is also the master of said software; it is not up to anyone else to decide what he can and can't do. Features which keep the end-user out are not part of (publicly distributed) GPL software, period.
Skynet couldn't be far behind...
Isn't it obvious? With all those unsold member-enlargement pills laying around, the depressed SPAM has nothing better to do than chow those down while it wastes away the day. The solution? Give them some business and help them get out of the gutter!
...some joker inserted a bunch of calls to rand()? Hey, it's periodic too!
After staring into a laser projector, extra commas are the least of one's problems.
Off-topic, just wondering why you "light pollution" is capitalized.
Dude, those Nigerians are way ahead of you. They always include how to pronounce those large amounts. For example, from one of my new partners:
"US$21,320,000.00(TWENTY ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS)"
Oh, and don't tell anyone, but I'm getting that much in a few days. Payola!
Exactly. You can hit start to skip cutscenes you've already seen, and oddly you often get a black screen for several seconds if you do this, which makes it kind of pointless (I'm playing Metroid Prime 2 at the moment and noticing this often). They do a good job of hiding it, but it's still there for sure.
Just wait until they start making crappier DVD releases of things, kind of like how CDs mastering today is inferior to that of a decade ago. Even current DVD picture quality varies greatly, with some being really sharp (component video on a 27" Trinitron TV) and others being lousy.
What's funny is how they describe it as the probability changing, yet what's really changing is our (their) perception of the possibility. Hell, possibility itself is nothing more than a measure of our ignorance of what will happen. Flip a coin and let one person look. To that person, the outcome is 100% certain, yet to another person who doesn't know, it's still 50/50.
They meant to say "one third as unlikely".
And eliminate whatever load time there was before. A friend has the software that allows this on a PS2 with hard drive and it's great; load time is hardly noticeable.
If one writes open-source software, how does one keep one's name private when it must be on the copyright notice in the source code?
Seriously, let's reserve the phrase "data theft" to refer to data that is lost due to someone taking the only copy of it. A basic test for theft is whether the owner still has the thing that was stolen. If he still has it, it wasn't stolen, though possibly copied.