The original article is not quite right. The U.S. Department of Homeland security is sponsoring Cyber Storm. The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK are participating. The focus is on response procedures for a significant event.
> One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with
> her three times a week, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who
> had ten one-night stands.
You're not married, are you?:)
Given the smiley at the end of your reply, I'm guessing you're not either.
I strongly believe that Apple can sell whatever the heck they want from their app store. But the unfortunate thing is that there is apparently a market for these kinds of apps - and other kinds of "objectionable" apps as well, yet now there's no way to get them on people's phones legally. I suspect that those people who really want these apps will jailbreak their phones to get them.
Things are worse in Canada. My new car came with a built-in XM receiver and I immediately signed up. I actually thought that the merger was going to be a good thing in terms of selection.
The problem is that Sirius Canada and XM Canada are both separate companies than their U.S. counterparts. I'm guessing that they license the channels and add a few law-mandated French channels.
The end result is lack of choice for Canadian subscribers. I was very excited at the thought of being able to get Howard Stern and all the NFL channels. As it turns out none of them are available to Canadian subscribers. Furthermore, the blogs that I've read show that the chance of getting those channels in Canada are slim-to-none.
Gentoo is a lot of fun. I used it for about four years. But with Gentoo *I* paid for it in time. Time spent compiling, tweaking, debugging, and getting into the racer mindset that I needed to make everything as optimized as humanly possible.
No doubt I learned a lot from it. I don't know what its like now but I couldn't go back to that.
I stand corrected. You're right, I remember buying a copy of Mandrake 7 (I think) back in about 2000. But at that time, the only difference between the commercial and downloadable version was the inclusion of a printed manual in the commercial version. Subsequent versions were the same, except you might have received membership in the Mandrake Club if you bought it (it was optional if you downloaded - I know that much cuz I never had a reason to join)
Once upon a time this would have been big news on Slashdot. Now there is only about 45 comments. Mandrake/Mandriva really lost their mojo when they decided to go commercial.
That could be the worst article on copy protection I have ever read. Nothing like doing a "history of..." article and starting roughly 10 years late.
If I were a betting man I'd guess that copy protection started back on the Commodore 64 by cleverly placing errors on the media itself. The executable would force the drive head to go directly to the sector on the disk where the error was located for verification, and if it was there, the loading process continued. What was neat about this was that there were different [i]types[/i] of errors - I don't remember all of them, but the wrong kind of error would result in the program to halt loading.
Of course, C= owners hated this. The sound that the 1541 drive would make as it was forced to read the error was an awful grinding sound. Some people believed that this could physically harm the drive, however I myself never experienced that and I played a hell of a lot of games.
This was first circumvented by a Canadian - a man I have never met but was legendary in his home town. He's now a project manager at Microsoft I believe. His software - Super Hacker - was the first disk duplication software for the C= 64 that could copy the errors. Ha, I still get a laugh that it would take approximately 90 MINUTES to copy one 170K 5.25" disk using Super Hacker. Believe me, being a pirate in those days was a lesson in patience.
As technology evolved, so too did copy protection. Half tracks, extra sectors, etc. became common place. They were easily reproduced with a bit for bit disk copy programs that started to hit the market.
Copy protection has a fascinating history. From a pragmatic point of view, however, it has never made sense to me why vendors spend so much money on copy protection when it INEVITABLY will be broken. I would love to know the actual success rate of hackers vs. copy protection schemes.
The problem is, it doesn't give you any feedback as to [i]why[/i] it's not installing. It simply says, "Installation failed. Reverting to previous setup."
Plus, use your head for a second. It's not like these devices are brand spanking new. I have a DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS VISTA HP notebook with a Sigmatel sound card that the SP won't install on. So is the machine designed for Vista or isn't it? If it works now, why won't it work after the application of the SP? Why doesn't Microsoft give me any feedback as to why the installation is failing?
Make sure you know the facts about the problems people are experiencing before you jump on a soapbox. We're not all as dumb as you think we are.
So Canada is accused of being one the greatest violators of U.S. copyright law.
So what? We're Canada! As long as we're not breaking our own laws, I could care less what the U.S. thinks.
We're also guilty of not giving the people the right to bear arms. Are you going to criticize us in the press for that too?
What kind of self-respecting Linux user would be using Hotmail anyways? Serves the person right for not having an easy to maintain Postfix+Fetchmail+Cyrus+Courier+SpamAssassin setup!
It's a token victory. It just means that that if they do sell mp3 without paying royalties, US won't be able to use WTO to impose sanctions on them. But US doesn't need WTO to impose sanctions. It can just do it. I am not a lawyer.
"Can" implies legal right. But make no mistake, the US WILL just do it.
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Unless server/network operations are a part of your core business function, then no, it's almost *never* cheaper to in-source.
Soylent Green is people!
The original article is not quite right. The U.S. Department of Homeland security is sponsoring Cyber Storm. The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK are participating. The focus is on response procedures for a significant event.
You don't work in a large enterprise, do you?
> One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with > her three times a week, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who > had ten one-night stands.
You're not married, are you? :)
Given the smiley at the end of your reply, I'm guessing you're not either.
Ban animal testing!! Oh wait.
I strongly believe that Apple can sell whatever the heck they want from their app store. But the unfortunate thing is that there is apparently a market for these kinds of apps - and other kinds of "objectionable" apps as well, yet now there's no way to get them on people's phones legally. I suspect that those people who really want these apps will jailbreak their phones to get them.
White space network, eh? I wonder if the security architect implemented true network segregation?
I abhor the "church" of Scientology,> I abhor the "church" of Christianity. Take your arrogance and go away.
Things are worse in Canada. My new car came with a built-in XM receiver and I immediately signed up. I actually thought that the merger was going to be a good thing in terms of selection. The problem is that Sirius Canada and XM Canada are both separate companies than their U.S. counterparts. I'm guessing that they license the channels and add a few law-mandated French channels. The end result is lack of choice for Canadian subscribers. I was very excited at the thought of being able to get Howard Stern and all the NFL channels. As it turns out none of them are available to Canadian subscribers. Furthermore, the blogs that I've read show that the chance of getting those channels in Canada are slim-to-none.
If it wasn't already "fixed" he wouldn't have been elected President.
Gentoo is a lot of fun. I used it for about four years. But with Gentoo *I* paid for it in time. Time spent compiling, tweaking, debugging, and getting into the racer mindset that I needed to make everything as optimized as humanly possible. No doubt I learned a lot from it. I don't know what its like now but I couldn't go back to that.
I stand corrected. You're right, I remember buying a copy of Mandrake 7 (I think) back in about 2000. But at that time, the only difference between the commercial and downloadable version was the inclusion of a printed manual in the commercial version. Subsequent versions were the same, except you might have received membership in the Mandrake Club if you bought it (it was optional if you downloaded - I know that much cuz I never had a reason to join)
Once upon a time this would have been big news on Slashdot. Now there is only about 45 comments. Mandrake/Mandriva really lost their mojo when they decided to go commercial.
Non-IT graduates think a job in IT would be "boring," despite its good career prospects, according to the Career Development Organisation (CDO).
Good thing they're not IT graduates then. Yeesh.
That could be the worst article on copy protection I have ever read. Nothing like doing a "history of..." article and starting roughly 10 years late. If I were a betting man I'd guess that copy protection started back on the Commodore 64 by cleverly placing errors on the media itself. The executable would force the drive head to go directly to the sector on the disk where the error was located for verification, and if it was there, the loading process continued. What was neat about this was that there were different [i]types[/i] of errors - I don't remember all of them, but the wrong kind of error would result in the program to halt loading. Of course, C= owners hated this. The sound that the 1541 drive would make as it was forced to read the error was an awful grinding sound. Some people believed that this could physically harm the drive, however I myself never experienced that and I played a hell of a lot of games. This was first circumvented by a Canadian - a man I have never met but was legendary in his home town. He's now a project manager at Microsoft I believe. His software - Super Hacker - was the first disk duplication software for the C= 64 that could copy the errors. Ha, I still get a laugh that it would take approximately 90 MINUTES to copy one 170K 5.25" disk using Super Hacker. Believe me, being a pirate in those days was a lesson in patience. As technology evolved, so too did copy protection. Half tracks, extra sectors, etc. became common place. They were easily reproduced with a bit for bit disk copy programs that started to hit the market. Copy protection has a fascinating history. From a pragmatic point of view, however, it has never made sense to me why vendors spend so much money on copy protection when it INEVITABLY will be broken. I would love to know the actual success rate of hackers vs. copy protection schemes.
The sad thing is I woke up lying in my own bed Better than waking up in a tent.
Unfortunately, the energy lobby in the United States will ensure that this never happens.
The problem is, it doesn't give you any feedback as to [i]why[/i] it's not installing. It simply says, "Installation failed. Reverting to previous setup."
Plus, use your head for a second. It's not like these devices are brand spanking new. I have a DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS VISTA HP notebook with a Sigmatel sound card that the SP won't install on. So is the machine designed for Vista or isn't it? If it works now, why won't it work after the application of the SP? Why doesn't Microsoft give me any feedback as to why the installation is failing?
Make sure you know the facts about the problems people are experiencing before you jump on a soapbox. We're not all as dumb as you think we are.
So Canada is accused of being one the greatest violators of U.S. copyright law. So what? We're Canada! As long as we're not breaking our own laws, I could care less what the U.S. thinks. We're also guilty of not giving the people the right to bear arms. Are you going to criticize us in the press for that too?
What kind of self-respecting Linux user would be using Hotmail anyways? Serves the person right for not having an easy to maintain Postfix+Fetchmail+Cyrus+Courier+SpamAssassin setup!
It's a token victory. It just means that that if they do sell mp3 without paying royalties, US won't be able to use WTO to impose sanctions on them. But US doesn't need WTO to impose sanctions. It can just do it. I am not a lawyer.
"Can" implies legal right. But make no mistake, the US WILL just do it.
Most users don't care about the license. Users give far more weight to driver support and performance than licensing details.
The problem as reported is that the Vista DHCP client fails to obtain an address from Linux servers running (I'd presume) ISC dhcpd.
I have ISC dhcpd running on a FreeBSD server and have never had a problem obtaining an IP address.
Linux will not support gaming, for the same reasons AIX or Solaris are not chock full of gaming goodness. It isn't required or desired
That's an arrogant presumption and couldn't be further from the truth if Linux is to be successful on the desktop.