First: defragmenting. If you run any utility to defragment your drive, the data will (probably) be lost.
Second: Don't move that file! If you don't know what file space your "secret" data is stored in, then moving, adding, deleting, copying or otherwise altering (editing) any file may destroy some part of your hidden information. Remember that you only have 4k to work with at any given time. This isn't a huge amount of space. You start hiding data all over the place and you quickly start running into this risk.
Third: The govm't and spies aren't stupid. They will have thought of this possibility. In order to implement such file-hiding techniques you would almost certainly need to implement some type of disk partition and format management system on top of the existing one in order to avoid the problems mentioned above. It isn't very hard to search for direct-to-disk calls, and checking the kernel source for partion management against current versions to see if it has been altered is easy too. Unless you hide the source code for your (ext3.01?) filesystem somewhere else or in your hidden system area (pretty hard to do) then the person searching for your data has some pretty clear evidence of where to look for your stuff and how to get at it.
If you tag Legally acquired onto the end of each line then all the RIA and MPAA have to do is make it illegal to acquire the media without waving that right. Rights are waved all the time in agreements.
Also, all they have to do is make it illegal to acquire video via a recording device to defeat the space-shift/time-shift scenario.
I think the bill should make it illegal to require that a person give up any rights to consume media. Of course it would be ignored just like the fact that it is illegal to *require* a person to give you their SSN, but then the company isn't *required* to give you a loan unless you do either...
I would like to see a program and specification that dictates a formal data format for information in a mathematical schema. This could be the foundation for a universal translator and certainly a decent means of doing a search engine.
The idea is pretty simplistic, although the implementation is complex.
Any communication takes place by translating an idea into a sensory input form.
Examples: Sight (written language, video, sign-language), Touch (brail, texture), Sound (conversation, music), Taste (Like water for chocolate?), Smell (pheromones?).
Obviously, not all of these mediums are easy to work with, but we can certainly start with written language.
All languages use the same basic principle: convey relevant information about a central subject. How they go about doing it is different even between versions of the same language (British English vs. American English).
If we described an objective hierarchy of physical objects described by pure mathematics and implanted them into a central, world-wide database then open-source parsers for each language could handle the task of translating any written text, in any supported language, into this common language. If correctly implemented a search engine could enter into a short dialogue with a person performing a search and then return information very specifically relevant to what the user was searching for.
Example dialogue: [user]I want information on Mary Jane Carpenter. [google]There is a very famous person by that name. Her official website is [here]. [Here] is a list of fansites and [here] are some other sites which discuss her. That name is mentioned in [these] sites, but it is unclear if they are talking about the same person. [Here] is a list of other people with that name. [user]The person I am looking for isn't famous. [google]Then you are probably looking for one of [these] people. [user] Are any of those people from St. Lewis? [google] [Here] is a sight dedicated to a Mary Jane Carpenter from St. Lewis.
This may sound like an impossible streatch but it really isn't. The famous Mary Jane Carpenter has a unique id on her object and many thousands of attributes which uniquely identify it from any other Mary Jane Carpenters. Ambiguity is dictated by the same rules that govern conversation: context.
If I have a page that contains no content other than Mary Jane Carpenter sucks! then a simple fuzzy logic routine should be able to infer that the Mary Jane Carpenter I am talking about is probably the famous one. Other clues could be gained from other parts of my site or other documents which have me as a source.
I realize that I am talking about a HUGE database, but it sure would be handy...
One of those old PC turbo buttons in order to watch a DBZ movie. I need to be able to criple my brain down to about 1/3 of it's normal speed so that I don't notice that i've been staring at someone wimpering with sweat covering them and huge bulging eyes about to explode from their sockets for 3 seconds instead of 1.
I don't want to cause a scare and I really don't want the FBI, CIA or anyone else comming to grill me but this information needs to be added...
I used to work for a very large telecomm company and part of my job was to write software which helped to design networks for some of the largest companies in the US. I throw out the name AOL not because I worked on their network, but because they were one of the mid-sized networks, not the "big ones".
My points are these.
1.) It is very easy to get a map of ALL the major telecomm switching locations and backup generators.
2.) Security is pretty lax, so most dedicated hackers and any mailroom worker could get the information.
3.) Most POP locations are not even manned, much less guarded. A half-dozen backhoes and some cell phones would be enough to coordinate the destruction of about 90% of our telecomm system.
4.) The weak point of every single network is the location of the equipment, not the pipe itself. Some people may argue that there is backup equipment. BS. There is NO backup equipment to replace those locations. The demand to keep up with new technology (DWDM, WLCS, and other cramming technologies) always exceeds the networks' staff, time, and budget. If the equipment was taken out in even a small percentage of the major backbone locations the entire network would fail, and it would be down for a very long time.
You are forgetting that most of these LEDs are on the other side of a very small capacitor. Many hardware manufacturers chose this to fix the problem of dim LEDs because it was a cheep and dirty patch which was easier and cheaper than changing the chip design or redoing the whole circuit. The light shifts in intensity during the pulse but so slightly that the human eye cannot detect it.
The capacitor chosen is carefully chosen to be only strong enough to keep the LED from going dim between byte pulses, but the pause between packets is sufficient to let the LED go dim.
Look at a spectrum annalasys of a couple of the LEDs and you will see that I am right.
Really people, just 'cause you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Even Linksys, the most popular routers/hubs/switches out there, pules on bytes not on packets.
I had to disable MP 1.4 in my ASUS CUV model motherboard to ket the kernel to boot into SMP mode. This caused me to have similar IRQ problems which caused my internal on-board intel NIC not to work.
You can probably bypass the problem by passing the noapic flag to the kernel from grub or lilo. Keep in mind that this will make your PC environmentally unfriendly (they will have to deplete an extra atom or two to power your pc).
IMO Microsoft knows that linux is having problems with APIC and is making as much trouble as possible for the community by requiring MB manufac. to force this feature to be enabled. This means that when your average joe installs Linux or BSD and something doesn't work right the average joe blames the OS.
Really though, that problem deserves some serious attention.
Sure you can. Don't you know that a 1 in a pulse and a 0 is nothing. The light only flashes on a pulse (1).
The number 50 as it is seen in pulses: (| is a positive pulse and _ is no pulse).
||__|_
As seen in an led (keep in mind that your eye will only see two flashes (if that).
[flash][flash][pause][pause][flash][pause]
And this doesn't happen anywhere near as quickly as the light pulses in fiber optics. Another thing that makes it easy to read is that you only have to read one wavelength. This is like fiber technology from 10 years ago.
One thing the article doesn't mention is that many of the hubs/switches/routers out there don't actually pulse for every bite, just when a packet goes over the line. I think they will all quickly start flashing only for packets now, not bytes.
IANAL comment. This poster is probably just someone making this up (unless he works for the Mafia). Gimme a break: what you are talking about here is just plain scummy.
And what's the point anyhow? Take the GPL code and compile it as shared libraries. You don't have to open-source your project just because it links to open code.
It sounds like you just want to start a Llama lynching party.
"But unless the company actually sent goods to the US on its own, I fail to see how they're liable. "
They are sending goods to the US. There is information being distributed by their servers onto US soil.
"If the product was ordered online by an US citizen, this US citizen should be guilty for importing such a software."
This is true. But the US can also fine, tax, and sanction the company from doing business on US soil. It's the same problem as having a Russian owned chain of video stores selling bootleg copies of movies in the US. The US would put a stop (and rightly so) to that in a heartbeat. The difficulty of enforcing the closure or sanctioning of an electronic storefront is not the problem of the court, they just make the laws. The issue we (we=the majority of posters here) have with the whole thing is that we don't think Elcomsoft did anything wrong. That's what we should fight for. There is no question that they are doing business in the US.
"If the mere fact of offering a product online makes one liable to proesecution under US law, why then is yahoo for example not liable to prosecution under french law?"
If yahoo was selling goods to French people in France which are against French law then the company can and should be tried in a French court of law. Again, the court does not deal with enforcement of their laws, just judgement. If the US spanks Yahoo even though Yahoo broke no American laws then the US is just showing that it cares about the sovereignty of France's laws. It's just international politics at that point.
I want to point out that I oppose any judgement against Elcomsoft. I do , however, think it is the right of the American courts to judge the issue. I just think Elecomsofts argument is a bit over the top.
To concede this is to concede that the courts (of which the Judge is a representative) have no jurisdiction over companies doing business in the United States unless they have a physical presence in the US.
No sane educated person would even begin to believe the court would self-sacrifice like that.
Of course, we are talking about RMI (streaming remote methods and parameters over a network socket) over SSL (secure socket layers). There isn't really much magick involved.
RMI works well!
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I have been a java developer for some time. I had the opportunity to use RMI in java to write a distributed client-server pricing solution for a large telecom company. (I'll keep it quiet; I don't want to be sued).
The problem: Run pricing routines on very large CDR (Call Detail Record) sets. This involved a very complicated process of aggregating calls into time slots and then pricing them according to very complicated long-distance contracts. Pricing very large amounts of data sometimes took as much as two days to price and discount.
Solution: The implementation (at least in Java) of the RMI standard is simple. In order to avoid purchasing an expensive CORBA implementation we extended our c++ client program with JNI. The client program then called a local wrapper class that used RMI to spin off the pricing call on the remote RMI server. We had big-iron machines running an in-house RMI application server. The application server really just worked as a multi-threaded container that loaded RMI servers from the disk and registered them, allowing a person to order servers to be loaded and/or dropped from the registry via a console.
The big difference between this device and most of the others being mentioned in a lot of the replies is that it is G3 network compliant. As far as the J2ME as an OS, I think that was a bad decision. Integrating the Palm OS gives you support for a lot of existing software AND the J2ME environment. J2ME is a virtual machine; it isn't intended to be a full-blown OS platform.
why can't it just be free? Look at the simple facts here: we came to/. because it provided a service: information. The information was free, but took a lot of time to assimilate. This made the/. service valuable in a time-saving kind of way. It wasn't built for profit, so it was popular.
Now people are trying to make money off of it. It's not going to happen. Don't kill the site just because you want to make money off of something you should never have payed million(s) for until you had a business model that worked. It's your fault. Don't look at us, the innocent readers.
This will kill/. and we (the readers and supporters) will simply move on. It will eventually catch up to kuro4hin.org too. It's not slashdot.org anymore it's slashdot.com.
Game over, this is just the drama after the final action scene.
About the use of this information by parties other than
marketing departments.
Harvesting lifestyle information allows psychiatrists to accurately predict how you
think.
Large applications written with
the help of psychiatrists can accurately predict public reaction to information, allowing government support agencies (read: political marketing firms) to tailor speeches to exactly what will get the best response from the
public.
We all know that political agenda is achieved not by simply
saying "We are going to rape you of all your rights" but by
gradually stripping each person of their rights by making it look like they are
protecting your rights.    For instance "Another instance of <anti-agenda-item/> has caused incredible problems and
suffering all because <relate any-unrelated-issue/> has not been dealt
with yet.    But if only someone <implied
hero-agenda-supporter-stuffing-our-pockets/> would do something <imply
agenda-item/> to miraculously save us all and bring us peace.  Unfortunately someone <imply
agenda-item-antagonist> stands in the way of <imply
word-peace-and-harmony/> by keeping <imply something-deserved warning="do
not mention it was taken away by gvmnt in first place"/>"
Well, enough of my <rant any-/.-rant>, back to
<work person-stuffing-my-pockets at the present/>
P.S. Yes, I used word to write the html because I was in a hurry. It dumps crap into my html that I hate, but it's faster than typing all theose tags.
What does "afford" have to do with anything?
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Isn't it false advertising if the search results aren't pure?
A search engine advertises searching services for my patronage. If I go there and perform a search that comes back altered but does not tell me what results are not part of the real result set then I have been cheated.
Not only that, but many other sites who did not pay for listings have been misrepresented.
There will always be someone who wants to control what you see and hear. The ones you know are trying to do it have already lost and are just making a fuss on the way out.
The ones who succeed are called "directors" or "producers" or "broadcasters" in today's society. The irony is, someone will outsmart them and they will be tied to the witch-stake of society and burned for their crimes while the one who defeated them takes their place commiting the same crime in new ways which are really just fresh paint on old ways.
It's the real-world. Let's stop worrying about it and just get on with our lives.
I was a windows developer before I even knew what linux was. I remember one day looking at a redhat sticker on someone's briefcase at work and asking what it meant.
Not long after that I started to look into what free software and linux were. I pawned an old version of RedHat off a friend and sat down to install. I grew up being the person to ask if you had a problem with your pc, but after 5 minutes of looking at a text-mode installation where I had to choose from 5,000 packages my blood pressure was going up and I was starting to panic. I was in a new world and it didn't like me very much. I managed to partition an ext2 disk, get a base install and get to a command prompt. After a while I figured out I needed to type in root as the username. I never did get X to work on that first install, even after I figured out how to set up my video card. It was pure hell.
After a while (and after keeping my eyes open for some time) I discovered that there were other ways around the nightmare. Suse had a pretty good installer and it actualy detected my video card (even though the darned old thing wasn't accelerated so X ran about as smooth as dried-out oatmeal.)
The point of all this is that IMO (at that time) linux just plain sucked. I could definitely see it's use as a server system but I wouldn't dream of trying to use it to actually get stuff done. Now I can't go to a dos window without yearning for the ease of bash and I can't use a computer for 5 min. unless it has a copy of Vim installed. The single thing that got me to this point is a decent installer (anaconda) and a decent desktop environment (Gnome, believe it or not). Once I could get to a point where I could actually start experimenting I was able to start learning. I needed to be able to get to the internet and to IRC (#linuxhelp:)) just so that I could get help figuring things out.
So don't call Linux friendly until every distro gets even the most novice user to a desktop and the internet. Once you get them there consitently and without too much pain then you can expect Linux to be taken seriously on the desktop.
The real benefit here for me is that if the technology is adopted all around then most software will be written to take advantage of SMP. I have been running SMP for a long time, even though many people have tried to say it's not helping me. I can demonstrate the goodies though:
1.) While playing games that are not SMP enabled, I still benefit because the game can beat the crap outa one CPU while the OS (graphics, networking, system management, messaging, dlls/sos etc...) share the other processor.
2.) Most graphics software is SMP compliant, so I get the benefit of that when running an SMP compliant os (NT, 2K, XP, Linux, BSD, etc...)
But they [bnetd] didn't make a device to bypass copy protection, they wrote a device to serve network packets. The copy protection software was written with a configuration flaw which keeps it from working if the parameters of the software are changed (the server ip address).
So they didn't violate DMCA because they didn't bypass copy protection.
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There are several practical problems with this.
First: defragmenting. If you run any utility to defragment your drive, the data will (probably) be lost.
Second: Don't move that file! If you don't know what file space your "secret" data is stored in, then moving, adding, deleting, copying or otherwise altering (editing) any file may destroy some part of your hidden information. Remember that you only have 4k to work with at any given time. This isn't a huge amount of space. You start hiding data all over the place and you quickly start running into this risk.
Third: The govm't and spies aren't stupid. They will have thought of this possibility. In order to implement such file-hiding techniques you would almost certainly need to implement some type of disk partition and format management system on top of the existing one in order to avoid the problems mentioned above. It isn't very hard to search for direct-to-disk calls, and checking the kernel source for partion management against current versions to see if it has been altered is easy too. Unless you hide the source code for your (ext3.01?) filesystem somewhere else or in your hidden system area (pretty hard to do) then the person searching for your data has some pretty clear evidence of where to look for your stuff and how to get at it.
If you tag Legally acquired onto the end of each line then all the RIA and MPAA have to do is make it illegal to acquire the media without waving that right. Rights are waved all the time in agreements.
Also, all they have to do is make it illegal to acquire video via a recording device to defeat the space-shift/time-shift scenario.
I think the bill should make it illegal to require that a person give up any rights to consume media. Of course it would be ignored just like the fact that it is illegal to *require* a person to give you their SSN, but then the company isn't *required* to give you a loan unless you do either...
XML requires a DTD which isn't mathematical in nature and XML is inherantly bound to the english language.
What I am talking about is a mathematical DTD for every type of object in language. A truely universal language.
I would like to see a program and specification that dictates a formal data format for information in a mathematical schema. This could be the foundation for a universal translator and certainly a decent means of doing a search engine.
The idea is pretty simplistic, although the implementation is complex.
Any communication takes place by translating an idea into a sensory input form.
Examples: Sight (written language, video, sign-language), Touch (brail, texture), Sound (conversation, music), Taste (Like water for chocolate?), Smell (pheromones?).
Obviously, not all of these mediums are easy to work with, but we can certainly start with written language.
All languages use the same basic principle: convey relevant information about a central subject. How they go about doing it is different even between versions of the same language (British English vs. American English).
If we described an objective hierarchy of physical objects described by pure mathematics and implanted them into a central, world-wide database then open-source parsers for each language could handle the task of translating any written text, in any supported language, into this common language. If correctly implemented a search engine could enter into a short dialogue with a person performing a search and then return information very specifically relevant to what the user was searching for.
Example dialogue:
[user]I want information on Mary Jane Carpenter.
[google]There is a very famous person by that name. Her official website is [here]. [Here] is a list of fansites and [here] are some other sites which discuss her. That name is mentioned in [these] sites, but it is unclear if they are talking about the same person. [Here] is a list of other people with that name.
[user]The person I am looking for isn't famous.
[google]Then you are probably looking for one of [these] people.
[user] Are any of those people from St. Lewis?
[google] [Here] is a sight dedicated to a Mary Jane Carpenter from St. Lewis.
This may sound like an impossible streatch but it really isn't. The famous Mary Jane Carpenter has a unique id on her object and many thousands of attributes which uniquely identify it from any other Mary Jane Carpenters. Ambiguity is dictated by the same rules that govern conversation: context.
If I have a page that contains no content other than Mary Jane Carpenter sucks! then a simple fuzzy logic routine should be able to infer that the Mary Jane Carpenter I am talking about is probably the famous one. Other clues could be gained from other parts of my site or other documents which have me as a source.
I realize that I am talking about a HUGE database, but it sure would be handy...
One of those old PC turbo buttons in order to watch a DBZ movie. I need to be able to criple my brain down to about 1/3 of it's normal speed so that I don't notice that i've been staring at someone wimpering with sweat covering them and huge bulging eyes about to explode from their sockets for 3 seconds instead of 1.
I don't want to cause a scare and I really don't want the FBI, CIA or anyone else comming to grill me but this information needs to be added...
I used to work for a very large telecomm company and part of my job was to write software which helped to design networks for some of the largest companies in the US. I throw out the name AOL not because I worked on their network, but because they were one of the mid-sized networks, not the "big ones".
My points are these.
1.) It is very easy to get a map of ALL the major telecomm switching locations and backup generators.
2.) Security is pretty lax, so most dedicated hackers and any mailroom worker could get the information.
3.) Most POP locations are not even manned, much less guarded. A half-dozen backhoes and some cell phones would be enough to coordinate the destruction of about 90% of our telecomm system.
4.) The weak point of every single network is the location of the equipment, not the pipe itself. Some people may argue that there is backup equipment. BS. There is NO backup equipment to replace those locations. The demand to keep up with new technology (DWDM, WLCS, and other cramming technologies) always exceeds the networks' staff, time, and budget. If the equipment was taken out in even a small percentage of the major backbone locations the entire network would fail, and it would be down for a very long time.
You are forgetting that most of these LEDs are on the other side of a very small capacitor. Many hardware manufacturers chose this to fix the problem of dim LEDs because it was a cheep and dirty patch which was easier and cheaper than changing the chip design or redoing the whole circuit. The light shifts in intensity during the pulse but so slightly that the human eye cannot detect it.
The capacitor chosen is carefully chosen to be only strong enough to keep the LED from going dim between byte pulses, but the pause between packets is sufficient to let the LED go dim.
Look at a spectrum annalasys of a couple of the LEDs and you will see that I am right.
Really people, just 'cause you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Even Linksys, the most popular routers/hubs/switches out there, pules on bytes not on packets.
Ok, now build GCC on a plain vanilla install of Solaris from the cc compiler.
::evil laughter from sun::
I had to disable MP 1.4 in my ASUS CUV model motherboard to ket the kernel to boot into SMP mode. This caused me to have similar IRQ problems which caused my internal on-board intel NIC not to work.
You can probably bypass the problem by passing the noapic flag to the kernel from grub or lilo. Keep in mind that this will make your PC environmentally unfriendly (they will have to deplete an extra atom or two to power your pc).
IMO Microsoft knows that linux is having problems with APIC and is making as much trouble as possible for the community by requiring MB manufac. to force this feature to be enabled. This means that when your average joe installs Linux or BSD and something doesn't work right the average joe blames the OS.
Really though, that problem deserves some serious attention.
Sure you can. Don't you know that a 1 in a pulse and a 0 is nothing. The light only flashes on a pulse (1).
The number 50 as it is seen in pulses: (| is a positive pulse and _ is no pulse).
||__|_
As seen in an led (keep in mind that your eye will only see two flashes (if that).
[flash][flash][pause][pause][flash][pause]
And this doesn't happen anywhere near as quickly as the light pulses in fiber optics. Another thing that makes it easy to read is that you only have to read one wavelength. This is like fiber technology from 10 years ago.
One thing the article doesn't mention is that many of the hubs/switches/routers out there don't actually pulse for every bite, just when a packet goes over the line. I think they will all quickly start flashing only for packets now, not bytes.
IANAL comment. This poster is probably just someone making this up (unless he works for the Mafia). Gimme a break: what you are talking about here is just plain scummy.
And what's the point anyhow? Take the GPL code and compile it as shared libraries. You don't have to open-source your project just because it links to open code.
It sounds like you just want to start a Llama lynching party.
"But unless the company actually sent goods to the US on its own, I fail to see how they're liable. "
They are sending goods to the US. There is information being distributed by their servers onto US soil.
"If the product was ordered online by an US citizen, this US citizen should be guilty for importing such a software."
This is true. But the US can also fine, tax, and sanction the company from doing business on US soil. It's the same problem as having a Russian owned chain of video stores selling bootleg copies of movies in the US. The US would put a stop (and rightly so) to that in a heartbeat. The difficulty of enforcing the closure or sanctioning of an electronic storefront is not the problem of the court, they just make the laws. The issue we (we=the majority of posters here) have with the whole thing is that we don't think Elcomsoft did anything wrong. That's what we should fight for. There is no question that they are doing business in the US.
"If the mere fact of offering a product online makes one liable to proesecution under US law, why then is yahoo for example not liable to prosecution under french law?"
If yahoo was selling goods to French people in France which are against French law then the company can and should be tried in a French court of law. Again, the court does not deal with enforcement of their laws, just judgement. If the US spanks Yahoo even though Yahoo broke no American laws then the US is just showing that it cares about the sovereignty of France's laws. It's just international politics at that point.
I want to point out that I oppose any judgement against Elcomsoft. I do , however, think it is the right of the American courts to judge the issue. I just think Elecomsofts argument is a bit over the top.
To concede this is to concede that the courts (of which the Judge is a representative) have no jurisdiction over companies doing business in the United States unless they have a physical presence in the US.
No sane educated person would even begin to believe the court would self-sacrifice like that.
Yes, from the table of contents...
...
2. Sockets
**--> Using SSL
Of course, we are talking about RMI (streaming remote methods and parameters over a network socket) over SSL (secure socket layers). There isn't really much magick involved.
I have been a java developer for some time. I had the opportunity to use RMI in java to write a distributed client-server pricing solution for a large telecom company. (I'll keep it quiet; I don't want to be sued).
The problem: Run pricing routines on very large CDR (Call Detail Record) sets. This involved a very complicated process of aggregating calls into time slots and then pricing them according to very complicated long-distance contracts. Pricing very large amounts of data sometimes took as much as two days to price and discount.
Solution: The implementation (at least in Java) of the RMI standard is simple. In order to avoid purchasing an expensive CORBA implementation we extended our c++ client program with JNI. The client program then called a local wrapper class that used RMI to spin off the pricing call on the remote RMI server. We had big-iron machines running an in-house RMI application server. The application server really just worked as a multi-threaded container that loaded RMI servers from the disk and registered them, allowing a person to order servers to be loaded and/or dropped from the registry via a console.
The solution was cheap and worked very well.
The big difference between this device and most of the others being mentioned in a lot of the replies is that it is G3 network compliant. As far as the J2ME as an OS, I think that was a bad decision. Integrating the Palm OS gives you support for a lot of existing software AND the J2ME environment. J2ME is a virtual machine; it isn't intended to be a full-blown OS platform.
why can't it just be free? Look at the simple facts here: we came to /. because it provided a service: information. The information was free, but took a lot of time to assimilate. This made the /. service valuable in a time-saving kind of way. It wasn't built for profit, so it was popular.
/. and we (the readers and supporters) will simply move on. It will eventually catch up to kuro4hin.org too. It's not slashdot.org anymore it's slashdot.com.
Now people are trying to make money off of it. It's not going to happen. Don't kill the site just because you want to make money off of something you should never have payed million(s) for until you had a business model that worked. It's your fault. Don't look at us, the innocent readers.
This will kill
Game over, this is just the drama after the final action scene.
About the use of this information by parties other than marketing departments.
Harvesting lifestyle information allows psychiatrists to accurately predict how you think.
Large applications written with the help of psychiatrists can accurately predict public reaction to information, allowing government support agencies (read: political marketing firms) to tailor speeches to exactly what will get the best response from the public.
We all know that political agenda is achieved not by simply saying "We are going to rape you of all your rights" but by gradually stripping each person of their rights by making it look like they are protecting your rights.    For instance "Another instance of <anti-agenda-item/> has caused incredible problems and suffering all because <relate any-unrelated-issue/> has not been dealt with yet.    But if only someone <implied hero-agenda-supporter-stuffing-our-pockets/> would do something <imply agenda-item/> to miraculously save us all and bring us peace.  Unfortunately someone <imply agenda-item-antagonist> stands in the way of <imply word-peace-and-harmony/> by keeping <imply something-deserved warning="do not mention it was taken away by gvmnt in first place"/>"
Well, enough of my <rant any-/.-rant>, back to <work person-stuffing-my-pockets at the present/>
P.S. Yes, I used word to write the html because I was in a hurry. It dumps crap into my html that I hate, but it's faster than typing all theose tags.Isn't it false advertising if the search results aren't pure?
A search engine advertises searching services for my patronage. If I go there and perform a search that comes back altered but does not tell me what results are not part of the real result set then I have been cheated.
Not only that, but many other sites who did not pay for listings have been misrepresented.
God - the ultimate copyright holder.
You either do what he says with His code or He tries you in His court and the punative damages are Hot as Hell.
of microsoft loosing their grip?
One can only hope...
There will always be someone who wants to control what you see and hear. The ones you know are trying to do it have already lost and are just making a fuss on the way out.
The ones who succeed are called "directors" or "producers" or "broadcasters" in today's society. The irony is, someone will outsmart them and they will be tied to the witch-stake of society and burned for their crimes while the one who defeated them takes their place commiting the same crime in new ways which are really just fresh paint on old ways.
It's the real-world. Let's stop worrying about it and just get on with our lives.
I was a windows developer before I even knew what linux was. I remember one day looking at a redhat sticker on someone's briefcase at work and asking what it meant.
:)) just so that I could get help figuring things out.
:)
Not long after that I started to look into what free software and linux were. I pawned an old version of RedHat off a friend and sat down to install. I grew up being the person to ask if you had a problem with your pc, but after 5 minutes of looking at a text-mode installation where I had to choose from 5,000 packages my blood pressure was going up and I was starting to panic. I was in a new world and it didn't like me very much. I managed to partition an ext2 disk, get a base install and get to a command prompt. After a while I figured out I needed to type in root as the username. I never did get X to work on that first install, even after I figured out how to set up my video card. It was pure hell.
After a while (and after keeping my eyes open for some time) I discovered that there were other ways around the nightmare. Suse had a pretty good installer and it actualy detected my video card (even though the darned old thing wasn't accelerated so X ran about as smooth as dried-out oatmeal.)
The point of all this is that IMO (at that time) linux just plain sucked. I could definitely see it's use as a server system but I wouldn't dream of trying to use it to actually get stuff done. Now I can't go to a dos window without yearning for the ease of bash and I can't use a computer for 5 min. unless it has a copy of Vim installed. The single thing that got me to this point is a decent installer (anaconda) and a decent desktop environment (Gnome, believe it or not). Once I could get to a point where I could actually start experimenting I was able to start learning. I needed to be able to get to the internet and to IRC (#linuxhelp
So don't call Linux friendly until every distro gets even the most novice user to a desktop and the internet. Once you get them there consitently and without too much pain then you can expect Linux to be taken seriously on the desktop.
And to think I almost gave up...
The real benefit here for me is that if the technology is adopted all around then most software will be written to take advantage of SMP. I have been running SMP for a long time, even though many people have tried to say it's not helping me. I can demonstrate the goodies though:
1.) While playing games that are not SMP enabled, I still benefit because the game can beat the crap outa one CPU while the OS (graphics, networking, system management, messaging, dlls/sos etc...) share the other processor.
2.) Most graphics software is SMP compliant, so I get the benefit of that when running an SMP compliant os (NT, 2K, XP, Linux, BSD, etc...)
So for us SMP geeks this is a win-win situation.
But they [bnetd] didn't make a device to bypass copy protection, they wrote a device to serve network packets. The copy protection software was written with a configuration flaw which keeps it from working if the parameters of the software are changed (the server ip address).
So they didn't violate DMCA because they didn't bypass copy protection.