There is NOTHING int he Macrovision spec that prevents copying. Absolutely NOTHING. You can still stick them in your Unix box and copy those AIF's right off it. You can still do an EXACT copy of the CD with any off the shelf CD burner. Don't call it copy protection. Call it what it is, "Conversion Protection".
If anyone callsit "copy protection" stupid Joe Reporter will pick up on it, and use it as a buzzword.
"Part of the reason Microsoft has so many hackers and skr1pt k1ddi3s after them is because Windows is so wide spread."
As the previous writer clearly stated, and you clearly missed, this is just not the case with IIS. Since IIS has LESS marketshare then Apache one would expect Apache to have this kind of problem and not IIS, but it doesn't (All of which the previous poster stated).
Part of the reason Windows is so widespread is because Windows is stable (in an API sense, and in a reliability sense as far as W2K is concerned), and easy to write for
You mispelt "Part of the reason Windows virii are so widespread...."
Which you would have partially correct, but mostly wrong. W2K is MORE stable than previous Windows, yes, but no where near as stable as the traditional Unixes. Windows API could NEVER be described as stable since upgrading Windows almost always breaks something important (my CD burner, for example, which works in OS X, but not WinME). This is the reason many people are still on NT4 SP3/4. If they move up to SP6 or W2k, something important breaks. This is a big reason why Windows is taken down so much. The other part you addresses with the "easy to write for" comment. VB is easy to learn (compared to Unix scripting) and can be learned on a desktop machine before one begins coding for IIS. You can use VB for all sorts of things, including scripting the breaking into of systems, so that some 9 yr old on AOL can breaking into WIndows machines all day long...
"The general public, for the most part can do nothing to stop this. It is sysadmins and those running servers who need to pay attention."
I was talking to someone today, and they mentioned that one their web servers (IIS) was hax0r3d and defaced, to which I replied, "I hope the sys admin looses their job for that". The guy was astonished and actually asked why! Good Lord, has it really come to that? He thought it was ridiculous to fire someone over a hack, cause "that kind of thing can't be stopped". Is it really that hard to install publically available patches? Is it really that much of a pain to keep up with security bullitens?
The Navy (or Airforce?) actually turned off their servers to avoid this! If the sys-admins of our armed forces are so fucking stupid as to NOT apply patches immediatly, is there any hope?
You do a search and some ass sets up a page designed to be index within that search and it loads some pop-under and some pop-up instances of a porn site. Now image you are at a "cyber cafe", library, school, or at home with mom just a few feet away....
"No really, it just appeared on my screen"
"Son, I know better than that, now go to your room!"
"Reducing the period of the limited monopoly will have the desired effect, because artists/creators/publishers/RIAA/whoever will have to continue to invent new things to sustain a steady income."
Do you think they will make musicthatlasts or stupidrubbish that doesn't when they know they have a limited time to milk money from people?
"You've never received a document as a.DOC after you had multiply and explicitly demanded.RTF because of the totally unnecessary virus threat caused by their irresponsible security defaults, you've never had to install a Windoze partition on a machine just to run some app that is unavailable in non-Windoze version which turns out to be indespensible either to you or a coworker, you've never..."
I cannot speak for the previous poster, but I can
speak for myself. I have worked for about 7 years on MacOS without any MS products and YES i can read Office files and this tradition has continued with OS X....
The main advantage of consoles for users it the fact that they are really easy to use and reliable. They should not be marketed as hobbiest toys or computers, that makes them LESS appealing. Does that mean Linux for PSX2 is a bad idea? Well no. It does mean, be careful, you don't want to give consumers the impression that their little "black box" is a computer, they might become scared of it. In the end, all it does is hurt sales and not enhance them.
If Linux for PSX is to be sold, sell it on the web and don't avertise it.
Okay. Both Mandrake and SuSe use GPLed software, meaning that at anytime, Mandrake can take SuSE's work and integrate it into Mandrake. This leaves the question: What exactly is there for Mandrake to merge with or "buy"? Now I can understand someone like IBM buying a Linux company for the employees and experience, but in this case, Mandrake can merely hire more people and use SuSE's stuff.
"HOWEVER, let's look at this a bit closer. You can certainly re-use networking code, URL & URI parsers, font libraries, image handlers, XML, etc. But none of these constitute a "Web Browser", or web browsing capability. They are merely common functions."
This is quite true. Take MacOS X for example which supports more "Web buzzwords" than I even care to understand....but. Several applications can render HTML right out of the box, the Help systems is heavily based of HTML (and related technologies) and Flash. I get the impression that Apple supplies the ability render Web Documents, without having their own Browser. Something MS claimed was impossible to do (If you remove IE all sorts of things would break..Help, software update...)
To all those who think people won't buy Digital TV to replace their existing sets, I have something to say...
This is not going to happen over night. It will come in stages.
1. Start moving people to Digital Cable or Satellite.
2. Offer a compelling reason to upgrade your TV to those who have a digital channels (HDTV over the air, nice wide screen movies at hi res)
3. Once you have a threshhold of people, being moving the shows in #2 to a copy protected broadcast...(pay/view, HBO specials). This is a crucial step. If it fails, they will have to rethink things...
4. Slowly move all if not most show to copy protected status.
Problems:
1. Copy protection is impossible
2. It opens the market for no-aligned TV channels to jump into to offer royalty free non-copy protected programing. This may be twarted by having congress pass laws that to force everyone to join the alliance or protect alliance members from "foreign" competition.
3. People aren't stupid.
4. Some kid from Europe/Asia/Africa/wherever will crack this "protection" in a matter of hours and post a program that will let you take the DVI and/or Firewire signal, pipe it into your computer and recored shows all day long.
If we are to beleive MS about WinXP. It's copy protection is only there to stop "casual" infrigment (two copies on your two home computers). It does NOTHING to stop the "billions" of dollars lost to pirates who sell software in Asia on a CD for $2. The same can be said about Digital TV copy protection. Its only intenet is to make the home user keep paying for pay/view and other such stuff. It has nothing to do with stopping pirates...
I live in a college town were we get a LOT of bands coming though via the University. For every band that comes into town, the Student Government donates their most recent CD/LP (they keep both) to the public library. As we have one of the largest and most complete compilations of Punk/Pop/whatever that exists...
Those people are idiots. There is nothing like getting a honest to goodness hard copy of a great story, sitting down next to a fire and reading it to my children. The warm glow of my CRT nor the soft glow of a flat panel will never replicate that experience. Anything that promotes the idea of reading is good for the publishing industry, even distrubting there books in PDF.
"I't's just insane to say something like this, Windows XP is just a small step in terms of usability. And it's more about locking in the possibilities [for microsoft] than unlocking them.."
I've never been a MS fan. I'm a Mac user. I find Windows to be combersome and painful to use. It's a BIG glitzy piece of annoy ware. I do own a PC (and two Macs). I use it a fancy mp3 player combined with streamsicle...
Anyhow, I have used WinXP RC1. I can say the following about it....It's multitasking is far superior to WinME's, both in responsivness and speed. The IE shell used for browsing the harddrive actually gives more useful features. The individual control panels are far superior, GUI wise (most specifically the Networking setup). IE's tool is customizable in better ways... In general is a vast improvement over ME. It's still not a Mac, but's it better...
Now this doesn't mean the XP is any less nefarious...
IF MS thinks the only laws they broke were related to some icons on the desktop, they are just as stupid as everyone thinks they are.
Having control of the desktop is bigger than some icons. If IE, WMP, and other such things are still bundled with Windows, icon or no icon, developers will ASSUME they are there and when you need to connect to the web while interacting with an app, you know what that app is going to call up...IE....
This doesn't even mention thier bullying of Intel, Apple, Compaq, and others...
"If you honestly believe in liberty, then you can not support socialism"
We tried this over 200 years ago before the Constitution was written, we almost degenerated into a bunch of little nations, all of which were bankrupt....
the ISS (I'm not totally sure what the benefit from this structure will be) and sending a old senator up into space (When will be benefit from this data? Far in the future).
Finally someone who isn't a troll responds...
Alright. You want a good reason for the ISS. With each passing day, the EU is growing more distant from the US. Russian is certainly not on good terms with the US. Closer cooperation between the US, EU, and Russion (among other nations) on even mundane projects is always a good thing. It wasn't long ago, the US sent people to the moon. All they did was pick of some rocks, snap some photos, and record some video. A robot could of done that. We were pround. Now, we are building a science lab in orbit around the Earth in cooperation with countries that are growing distant from the US with each passing day, and it's a waste of money? I don't think so.
Second, people like novelty. We were entertained by Tito. We were entertained by Sen Glenn. We are entertained with nice glossy shots of nebulas that "experts" use to talk about cosomology.
Third, curosity, in and of itself is one of the greatest attributes of Humans. We thirst to learn what appears to be useless information. That's not a bad thing. There is nothing like the sparkle in a childs eye when they figure out that yes, indeed, the square block goes in the square hole.
We, in the US, live in a constitutional federal representative republic where every issue (whether it be constitutional, budgetary, envriomental, et al) is decided on some form of majority (50%+1, 60%-Philibuster, 66%). In that that kind of system, at least one person will always be "forced" to spend their tax dollars on something they don't want. My opinion, no matter how stupid you may think it is, matters and if I belong to the majority then you, sir, are shit out of luck.
4 Billion through 2006...lets see thats what 800 Million over budget per year...there are about 280 Million people in the US..which means $2.85/person/year in taxes....
That just happends to be about how much more money I will see every 2 weeks in my pay check after the "tax break"
I can do without the money if it means human curosity can not be fullfilled....
I have had free access to the internet since 91. First with a local Freenet. Then with the University. Then with my work (which btw is the same University. I don't even know what you would pay for?
Think about this for a second, for every pay service on the internet there is someone some where who wants to ensure you have the right to get that service for free. If the Assocaited Press charged money and all the news organizations charged money, someone some where would just set up a web site that reworded the news off the AP wires so that it was "original" and give it away. This is the same for all sorts of servers and clients (Icecast, Apache, SQL, Perl, Free Unixes).
If ICQ began charing money, some kid would write a ICQ like IM client that would run off his Dorm room computer and give it away. He would in time make money off it by advertising through the client and ICQ would be forced to give their software away again, but by then its too late....
THe quality software/web services/content of Open Source, Freeware, shareware, and other like minded people has ruined the idea of paying for "content".
If Slashdot charged, someone would set up a Slash server and give away the same "content"....
Slashdot Mirror
There is NOTHING int he Macrovision spec that prevents copying. Absolutely NOTHING. You can still stick them in your Unix box and copy those AIF's right off it. You can still do an EXACT copy of the CD with any off the shelf CD burner. Don't call it copy protection. Call it what it is, "Conversion Protection".
If anyone callsit "copy protection" stupid Joe Reporter will pick up on it, and use it as a buzzword.
Saddam Hussein: Somebody set us up the bomb!
God help us all!
As the previous writer clearly stated, and you clearly missed, this is just not the case with IIS. Since IIS has LESS marketshare then Apache one would expect Apache to have this kind of problem and not IIS, but it doesn't (All of which the previous poster stated).
Part of the reason Windows is so widespread is because Windows is stable (in an API sense, and in a reliability sense as far as W2K is concerned), and easy to write for
You mispelt "Part of the reason Windows virii are so widespread...."
Which you would have partially correct, but mostly wrong. W2K is MORE stable than previous Windows, yes, but no where near as stable as the traditional Unixes. Windows API could NEVER be described as stable since upgrading Windows almost always breaks something important (my CD burner, for example, which works in OS X, but not WinME). This is the reason many people are still on NT4 SP3/4. If they move up to SP6 or W2k, something important breaks. This is a big reason why Windows is taken down so much. The other part you addresses with the "easy to write for" comment. VB is easy to learn (compared to Unix scripting) and can be learned on a desktop machine before one begins coding for IIS. You can use VB for all sorts of things, including scripting the breaking into of systems, so that some 9 yr old on AOL can breaking into WIndows machines all day long...
I was talking to someone today, and they mentioned that one their web servers (IIS) was hax0r3d and defaced, to which I replied, "I hope the sys admin looses their job for that". The guy was astonished and actually asked why! Good Lord, has it really come to that? He thought it was ridiculous to fire someone over a hack, cause "that kind of thing can't be stopped". Is it really that hard to install publically available patches? Is it really that much of a pain to keep up with security bullitens?
The Navy (or Airforce?) actually turned off their servers to avoid this! If the sys-admins of our armed forces are so fucking stupid as to NOT apply patches immediatly, is there any hope?
"No really, it just appeared on my screen"
"Son, I know better than that, now go to your room!"
Do you think they will make music that lasts or stupid rubbish that doesn't when they know they have a limited time to milk money from people?
I cannot speak for the previous poster, but I can speak for myself. I have worked for about 7 years on MacOS without any MS products and YES i can read Office files and this tradition has continued with OS X....
MS's troll says in the article that AOL is "forcing people to select the most expensive service in the industry".
To that I say: 1. MacOS doesn't do that, and I'm sure some PC manufactures won't support AOL 2. You CAN actually say NO to AOL.
If Linux for PSX is to be sold, sell it on the web and don't avertise it.
Okay. Both Mandrake and SuSe use GPLed software, meaning that at anytime, Mandrake can take SuSE's work and integrate it into Mandrake. This leaves the question: What exactly is there for Mandrake to merge with or "buy"? Now I can understand someone like IBM buying a Linux company for the employees and experience, but in this case, Mandrake can merely hire more people and use SuSE's stuff.
This is quite true. Take MacOS X for example which supports more "Web buzzwords" than I even care to understand....but. Several applications can render HTML right out of the box, the Help systems is heavily based of HTML (and related technologies) and Flash. I get the impression that Apple supplies the ability render Web Documents, without having their own Browser. Something MS claimed was impossible to do (If you remove IE all sorts of things would break..Help, software update...)
This is not going to happen over night. It will come in stages.
1. Start moving people to Digital Cable or Satellite.
2. Offer a compelling reason to upgrade your TV to those who have a digital channels (HDTV over the air, nice wide screen movies at hi res)
3. Once you have a threshhold of people, being moving the shows in #2 to a copy protected broadcast...(pay/view, HBO specials). This is a crucial step. If it fails, they will have to rethink things...
4. Slowly move all if not most show to copy protected status.
Problems:
1. Copy protection is impossible
2. It opens the market for no-aligned TV channels to jump into to offer royalty free non-copy protected programing. This may be twarted by having congress pass laws that to force everyone to join the alliance or protect alliance members from "foreign" competition.
3. People aren't stupid.
4. Some kid from Europe/Asia/Africa/wherever will crack this "protection" in a matter of hours and post a program that will let you take the DVI and/or Firewire signal, pipe it into your computer and recored shows all day long.
If we are to beleive MS about WinXP. It's copy protection is only there to stop "casual" infrigment (two copies on your two home computers). It does NOTHING to stop the "billions" of dollars lost to pirates who sell software in Asia on a CD for $2. The same can be said about Digital TV copy protection. Its only intenet is to make the home user keep paying for pay/view and other such stuff. It has nothing to do with stopping pirates...
I live in a college town were we get a LOT of bands coming though via the University. For every band that comes into town, the Student Government donates their most recent CD/LP (they keep both) to the public library. As we have one of the largest and most complete compilations of Punk/Pop/whatever that exists...
Those people are idiots. There is nothing like getting a honest to goodness hard copy of a great story, sitting down next to a fire and reading it to my children. The warm glow of my CRT nor the soft glow of a flat panel will never replicate that experience. Anything that promotes the idea of reading is good for the publishing industry, even distrubting there books in PDF.
I didn't fall for anything...I know the Win 95 line is crippled...I was just rebuffing the previous post...
I've never been a MS fan. I'm a Mac user. I find Windows to be combersome and painful to use. It's a BIG glitzy piece of annoy ware. I do own a PC (and two Macs). I use it a fancy mp3 player combined with streamsicle...
Anyhow, I have used WinXP RC1. I can say the following about it....It's multitasking is far superior to WinME's, both in responsivness and speed. The IE shell used for browsing the harddrive actually gives more useful features. The individual control panels are far superior, GUI wise (most specifically the Networking setup). IE's tool is customizable in better ways... In general is a vast improvement over ME. It's still not a Mac, but's it better...
Now this doesn't mean the XP is any less nefarious...
Now that I think about it, it wasn't Compaq who was bullied, it was HP....
Having control of the desktop is bigger than some icons. If IE, WMP, and other such things are still bundled with Windows, icon or no icon, developers will ASSUME they are there and when you need to connect to the web while interacting with an app, you know what that app is going to call up...IE....
This doesn't even mention thier bullying of Intel, Apple, Compaq, and others...
You know what happens when you press that button? It doesn't send the info and moves along its way...
Tell that to Roselvelt...
We tried this over 200 years ago before the Constitution was written, we almost degenerated into a bunch of little nations, all of which were bankrupt....
Finally someone who isn't a troll responds...
Alright. You want a good reason for the ISS. With each passing day, the EU is growing more distant from the US. Russian is certainly not on good terms with the US. Closer cooperation between the US, EU, and Russion (among other nations) on even mundane projects is always a good thing. It wasn't long ago, the US sent people to the moon. All they did was pick of some rocks, snap some photos, and record some video. A robot could of done that. We were pround. Now, we are building a science lab in orbit around the Earth in cooperation with countries that are growing distant from the US with each passing day, and it's a waste of money? I don't think so.
Second, people like novelty. We were entertained by Tito. We were entertained by Sen Glenn. We are entertained with nice glossy shots of nebulas that "experts" use to talk about cosomology.
Third, curosity, in and of itself is one of the greatest attributes of Humans. We thirst to learn what appears to be useless information. That's not a bad thing. There is nothing like the sparkle in a childs eye when they figure out that yes, indeed, the square block goes in the square hole.
We, in the US, live in a constitutional federal representative republic where every issue (whether it be constitutional, budgetary, envriomental, et al) is decided on some form of majority (50%+1, 60%-Philibuster, 66%). In that that kind of system, at least one person will always be "forced" to spend their tax dollars on something they don't want. My opinion, no matter how stupid you may think it is, matters and if I belong to the majority then you, sir, are shit out of luck.
That just happends to be about how much more money I will see every 2 weeks in my pay check after the "tax break"
I can do without the money if it means human curosity can not be fullfilled....
Think about this for a second, for every pay service on the internet there is someone some where who wants to ensure you have the right to get that service for free. If the Assocaited Press charged money and all the news organizations charged money, someone some where would just set up a web site that reworded the news off the AP wires so that it was "original" and give it away. This is the same for all sorts of servers and clients (Icecast, Apache, SQL, Perl, Free Unixes).
If ICQ began charing money, some kid would write a ICQ like IM client that would run off his Dorm room computer and give it away. He would in time make money off it by advertising through the client and ICQ would be forced to give their software away again, but by then its too late....
THe quality software/web services/content of Open Source, Freeware, shareware, and other like minded people has ruined the idea of paying for "content".
If Slashdot charged, someone would set up a Slash server and give away the same "content"....