1> George Bush will be called a wanna be dictator who will take away your rights
Well isn't he?? Saying that he is above the law and can execute wiretaps as he chooses on any american?? And if you disagree you are either "unpatriotic" or "a terrorist"??
To make matters worse these are ball grid array parts so you can't unsolder one pin
BGAs are a bitch to work on, but not impossible. But you're right, some motherboards have bios ram and subsequent connections inside the chip as part of the chipset.
Evidently the whole idea is to use the ACPI interpreter code in the bios to run foreign code to overwite bios settings/program. Maybe install a keylogger (written in asm there would be enough room in many bioses). In which case the password settings for bios access would be meaningless. And your antivirus would not detect it. As others have pointed out, the only prevention is a hardware switch for the bios, and by any account those are few and far in between.
I do remember seeing a few high-end motherboards when the p4 first came out that had a dual bios restore utility on the board.
I suspect that the "bios switch" will rapidly return to new motherboards. And that the push for "trusted computing" will grow stronger, though the whole concept and ideas behind that are fallacies to try and push useless DRM. Just my off the cuff slashdot opinion. Do not take as legal advice.
Or plain stupidity^H^H^ignorance. I know someone (I hesitate to say family member) that seems to be a magnet for crapware.
I think he falls for a "click here for the joke of the day" or "I saw you online and want to have a date with you. Please click here" not realizing that it's an exe trojan.
The juxtaposition was not intentional and happens when someone makes a quick post on slashdot, along with a few grammer and spelling errors.
I think there is a very specific demographic that downloads volumes of music off the internet, and whose music tastes are transitory (i.e. a college student with a fantastic connection). So much so that universities are finding ways to provide legitimate downloading solutions. It's an entirely different experience from those of us who know what vinyl is.
I'm not going to spend the time to dig up the link on the Harvard study. But it was scientific, and taken all together my point remains, that heavy music downloaders represent a very specific and very small demographic apart from the vast majority that does not.
Even if the RIAA or more topically MPAA manages to sue 700 people every three months - out of a US population of 300 million - that makes the point for me, juxtaposition or not.
And to all the DVD ripping/sharing individuals, thanks for making it hard on the rest of us. Abuse of the system is what caused such strict policies and laws in the first place.
Actually not. The DMCA and copyright term extension act (CTEA) was passed in 1998, before the amount of filesharing we have today. I was tempted to say "widespread", but when you consider the demographics and the population of the US at 300 million I would make a safe bet that the number of filesharers is miniscule and that truly "most people" do not illegally download. Except if you are on a college campus.
Also, unbiased scientific studies at Harvard have been done that show that there is no economic harm caused by downloading. I suspect that the *AAs go after people to prevent it from becoming a normal, accepted practice by the populace even though there are strict as can be (short of the death penalty, maybe the *AAs can buy that law next) to prevent it. Thus having a digital "prohibition". This is the only reason I can think of, other than trying to justify their existence.
Downloading actually made "Battlestar Galactica" a TV hit and made it "appointment TV" after many dissed it before it ran because of having a female Starbuck.
I doubt that a grainy "Star Wars" prequel making it to the web stopped anybody (even those that downloaded it) from going to the movie or buying the DVD later. Nor will it stop people from taping it when it makes it to cable. Also, if you notice the content on the torrent sites is a very narrow genre of current movies (i.e. scifi). There are no old movies (older than a year) nore any lesser known movies. By any stretch of the imagination, it is no Netflix.
Also, the copyright term extension act (CTEA) does absolutely nothing to prevent the downloading of content (except a little bit of crap made in 1924) and was nothing but a congressional handout to a large corporation (Disney) by a senator that loves the entertainment biz (my very own Orrin Hatch - he has his own song and CDs out that the entertainment biz makes sure he receives $28,000 a year royalties for). In my opinion, this is the most egregious of the two (and I won't go into why here), though others may justifiably disagree,
So your original statement above is simplistic and inaccurate. "Abuse of the system" actually was started by congress when they lengthened copyright 11 times in recent history, and never provided any "balance" for the end user. Further abuses will shortly take place with hardwired DRM. "Abuse of the system" is when a copyright infringer is subject to worst penalty than rapists are. "Abuse of the system" is having a congress that whores themselves out at a drop of the hat (I hope Abrahamoff sings like a canary). I could go on.
So in short, there really was nothing to "ruin for the rest of us". But rather it's an industry that is incapable of managing their product despite the strongest copyright laws ever.
More like a shot in the head, when more commercial apps start to be written for OSX/Linux platforms and show up on store shelves. "Windows compatibility" will become meaningless.
Congratulations Microsoft. Hope it was worth it selling out to the *AAs.
Riiight. The end user is going to pull out the kernel debugger when his driver for his hardware (cough *untrusted audio* *RIAA* cough) doesn't work??? It doesn't matter how much it costs.
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If I understand this correclty I am an artist when I burn the music I illegally downloaded?
And like an artist, you will be forced to sing and the RIAA will take all your money.
Requires a P3 800 or higher, just to run the operating system with no tangible benefit to the user
I would take this with a salt lick they use to feed cows. Microsoft has always understated the requirements everytime they release an OS.
It runs alright, but you'll wish you had some Pepto-Bismal.
Jeez, if it's alredy got windows on it, how much worse can it possibly get?? *ducks*
There could be new version of Internet Explorer.
1> George Bush will be called a wanna be dictator who will take away your rights
Well isn't he?? Saying that he is above the law and can execute wiretaps as he chooses on any american?? And if you disagree you are either "unpatriotic" or "a terrorist"??
To make matters worse these are ball grid array parts so you can't unsolder one pin
BGAs are a bitch to work on, but not impossible. But you're right, some motherboards have bios ram and subsequent connections inside the chip as part of the chipset.
Evidently the whole idea is to use the ACPI interpreter code in the bios to run foreign code to overwite bios settings/program. Maybe install a keylogger (written in asm there would be enough room in many bioses). In which case the password settings for bios access would be meaningless. And your antivirus would not detect it. As others have pointed out, the only prevention is a hardware switch for the bios, and by any account those are few and far in between.
I do remember seeing a few high-end motherboards when the p4 first came out that had a dual bios restore utility on the board.
I suspect that the "bios switch" will rapidly return to new motherboards. And that the push for "trusted computing" will grow stronger, though the whole concept and ideas behind that are fallacies to try and push useless DRM. Just my off the cuff slashdot opinion. Do not take as legal advice.
Or plain stupidity^H^H^ignorance. I know someone (I hesitate to say family member) that seems to be a magnet for crapware.
I think he falls for a "click here for the joke of the day" or "I saw you online and want to have a date with you. Please click here" not realizing that it's an exe trojan.
This weekend they're getting a linux box.
Reconcile with your players you must.
Somebody showing up in a princess lea outfit might do it for me.
Oh yeah, opposite sex please.
Is that the number of oversees programmers hired to fix the cpu's microcode??
Because everyone has one of those...
Hey, were all nerds here, many who have ham radio experience or enough of a technical background to find a radio/scanner easily.
Except you. Please turn in the nerd card that was sent to you by mistake as you leave. Thanks.
Are we going to see a story on the worlds smallest piece of sushi made from this fish tomarow?
No, but we will see a fishy story that's a dupe.
The juxtaposition was not intentional and happens when someone makes a quick post on slashdot, along with a few grammer and spelling errors.
I think there is a very specific demographic that downloads volumes of music off the internet, and whose music tastes are transitory (i.e. a college student with a fantastic connection). So much so that universities are finding ways to provide legitimate downloading solutions. It's an entirely different experience from those of us who know what vinyl is.
I'm not going to spend the time to dig up the link on the Harvard study. But it was scientific, and taken all together my point remains, that heavy music downloaders represent a very specific and very small demographic apart from the vast majority that does not.
Even if the RIAA or more topically MPAA manages to sue 700 people every three months - out of a US population of 300 million - that makes the point for me, juxtaposition or not.
And to all the DVD ripping/sharing individuals, thanks for making it hard on the rest of us. Abuse of the system is what caused such strict policies and laws in the first place.
Actually not. The DMCA and copyright term extension act (CTEA) was passed in 1998, before the amount of filesharing we have today. I was tempted to say "widespread", but when you consider the demographics and the population of the US at 300 million I would make a safe bet that the number of filesharers is miniscule and that truly "most people" do not illegally download. Except if you are on a college campus.
Also, unbiased scientific studies at Harvard have been done that show that there is no economic harm caused by downloading. I suspect that the *AAs go after people to prevent it from becoming a normal, accepted practice by the populace even though there are strict as can be (short of the death penalty, maybe the *AAs can buy that law next) to prevent it. Thus having a digital "prohibition". This is the only reason I can think of, other than trying to justify their existence.
Downloading actually made "Battlestar Galactica" a TV hit and made it "appointment TV" after many dissed it before it ran because of having a female Starbuck.
I doubt that a grainy "Star Wars" prequel making it to the web stopped anybody (even those that downloaded it) from going to the movie or buying the DVD later. Nor will it stop people from taping it when it makes it to cable. Also, if you notice the content on the torrent sites is a very narrow genre of current movies (i.e. scifi). There are no old movies (older than a year) nore any lesser known movies. By any stretch of the imagination, it is no Netflix.
Also, the copyright term extension act (CTEA) does absolutely nothing to prevent the downloading of content (except a little bit of crap made in 1924) and was nothing but a congressional handout to a large corporation (Disney) by a senator that loves the entertainment biz (my very own Orrin Hatch - he has his own song and CDs out that the entertainment biz makes sure he receives $28,000 a year royalties for). In my opinion, this is the most egregious of the two (and I won't go into why here), though others may justifiably disagree,
So your original statement above is simplistic and inaccurate. "Abuse of the system" actually was started by congress when they lengthened copyright 11 times in recent history, and never provided any "balance" for the end user. Further abuses will shortly take place with hardwired DRM. "Abuse of the system" is when a copyright infringer is subject to worst penalty than rapists are. "Abuse of the system" is having a congress that whores themselves out at a drop of the hat (I hope Abrahamoff sings like a canary). I could go on.
So in short, there really was nothing to "ruin for the rest of us". But rather it's an industry that is incapable of managing their product despite the strongest copyright laws ever.
Photoshopping germs to look better for journals couldn't be any worse than photoshopping models to look better for magazine covers.
Yes, but I like using my pc as a space heater.
But will the blu-ray DVD's have a root kit?
It won't be needed, because it'll stop playing when you scratch it.
Unless their (or their friends) Dell craps out because of another yet-to-be-seen zero day virus.
It's still a pretty arrogant gamble by Microsoft.
It should also help to save the "special purpose".
More like a shot in the head, when more commercial apps start to be written for OSX/Linux platforms and show up on store shelves. "Windows compatibility" will become meaningless.
Congratulations Microsoft. Hope it was worth it selling out to the *AAs.
Riiight. The end user is going to pull out the kernel debugger when his driver for his hardware (cough *untrusted audio* *RIAA* cough) doesn't work??? It doesn't matter how much it costs.
People will switch to macs or linux first.
I can tell that it is time to resubmit my "Morse code is faster than SMS messaging" story.
bird that runs and pack hunts on the African plains even now. I'm sure that one of you will know the name of it, as it escapes me at the moment
The Chicken Hawk???
I thought it was Linus that floated one inch above the ground.
Now -- With the cleaning power of Slime!!!
Were you to be a glass is half empty kind of person, clearly the system is racist.
Or to put it another way, if the banana is half eaten.