"Great - more processor speed. Do we need it" Yes of COURSE WE DO!
Its this whole DRM thing, I thought they had just lost their marbles and were pushing something that could never sell - but no.
They WANT YOU TO CRACK DRM, because cracking the keys will take a lot of processing power, and that means more high-spec machines.
Think about it, what other reason would you need the juice for? Only code cracking really eats major cycles, so its all a cunning plan to sell hi-spec equipment. Damn they're clever:)
I've met 2 older programmers who left at that time, one guy became a fire place seller, another never worked again and retired (he was working on the European space program prior to that).
It sucks, but the IT market is deader than dead. I'm doing little projects here and there to keep up to speed and pay the bills myself. If you can and you're dedicated to getting back in, these little-jobs for friends of friends may be the way to do it, ask around, but don't expect big money (or in some cases any money).
Speaking of which, read my sig, try the site, if it breaks in your browser email me. (It was a small money project, but WTF).
"they wanted a secure sytem, the remote could query the opener for a current timestamp, and then it could use that timestamp to generate an appropriate code and send it. "
An easier way to do a rolling code system would be this:
When the garage gets a code it opens and changes to the next code.
When the key is pressed it generates a new code.
The garage accepts the code it expects plus the next 100 in the code sequence.
So now, if I press the key and I'm out of range it doesn't matter. The garage will accept the next code and the next 98. I can press it 100 times before I have to go manually into the garage and resync them.
Similarly if the garage is fooled somehow into thinking it has a legal code and advances to the next sequence, when I press the fob the first time it doesn't work, the next time it does because the fob advances until they are in sequence again.
Similar, but 4Gb space split into 32Mb chunks. The running process's 32Mb chunk is swapped into the bottom page, so every process thinks it runs in 0-32mb address space.
So your saying Ford would be illegal product dumping then? Selling a product below its cost is dumping and is specifically outlawed because it allows any company with a deap pocket to push profitable competitors out of business.
Toner is just ground up black plastic, the chip adds no value to the toner, it is just a mechanism to restrict where you buy your toner from. It is anti-competitive to add the chip and should be (and probably already is) illegal under consumer protection laws.
"Player software would detect the signature, and _WARN_ if it is not present. "
This will not work. P2P users know they are pirating movies, its just too easy compared to the legal means to get the movie that way.
The effort cost and delay is P2P is outweight by the effort cost and delay in buying a DVD through the post.
These schemes are called 'fingerprinting' these days.
The alternative for fingerprinting is to individually fingerprint the digital copy when its delivered. So the movie you just bought & downloaded on the internet would say "I was sold as transaction 294747592". That number would point back to you if pirated.
But it doesn't work if you give people a way of detecting the fingerprint. They will attempt to remove it, but will only know if they are successful if you also give them a tool to detect the fingerprint.
If you keep the tool in the hands of law enforcement, then even if they successfully break the fingerprint, you can just change the fingerprinting method and catch them next time.
The pirate can never really be sure if the copy he's pirating doesn't point to him.
"reading the article the information about condom use seems very accurate to me"
The 'condoms are not 100% safe' bit isn't the bit they were complaining about. It was the removal of information that says well 'yeh, actually statistically they are pretty safe':
"The studies found that even with repeated sexual contact, 98-100 percent of those people who used latex condoms correctly and consistently did not become infected."
If you can't trust what the government is telling you then you're in deep deep do do.
I think they're starting to twig to what they have to do.
It had no DRM, it came with 2 Audio CDs, an interactive VCD, a very thick insert with plenty of fan pictures and it was the same price as normal CDs here (about 19 Euros).
I still think its expensive, but I don't think it was a complete and utter rip off as before, so it seems like better value to me.
All the track ripped in MP3 format no problem, and the disks play on all devices, and the VCD worked in my VCD player aswell as my computer.
Read this review when she slags off a brand of laser paper (no kidding) and happened to have a technician on hand when 2 pages go through at once.
So she works in an office, but she uses Amazon bought copier paper (which she herself buys - so she knows that type it is).
How many offices do you know that are big enough to have laser repair technicians in, but small enough that the person buys their own copier paper.
Also how many companies do you know buy their office supplies from Amazon?
"1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
THE PAPER CHASE November 13, 2002 This was my first purchase of this brand of copy paper and, sorry to say, it was disappointing.
With the first use two sheets of paper came out of my printer - one blank, and the other with the proper printing. Of course, I initially thought something had gone wrong with my printer. When a technician happened by I asked him to check it, and he assured me it was functioning properly.
Out of curiosity one day I loaded the printer with another brand of copy paper and presto! - No more double sheets.
I really don't know what the problem was - perhaps the copy paper is too thin and the printer "grabs" two or perhaps there is some sort of treatment on the paper that caused it to stick together. "
If they make you that statement in the EULA of Tablet PC XP then its on topic:
"You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the.NET framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval."
"You knew what you were getting, and you elected to pay for it. "
No, thats not true. That unpleasant EULA that Microsoft requires you to accept is never presented to you on the adverts for computers. The first time you get to see it is AFTER you've paid for your computer, but BEFORE you can use it.
Microsoft's argument is that "Sure the EULA is unpleasant, but the customer accepted it voluntarily, so its a contract".
However if the customer can't get the money back in full and with all their expenses for the purchase then they did not accept it willingly and it is not a voluntary accepted contract.
Your talking about their upload module. Curious 3 people modded you up, but its very obvious reading the picture that thats the software upload program.
"One of the many ways terrorists and their cells/hierarchy communicate is through the net "
You don't know who terrorists are until after they commit the crime.
Those 9/11 terrorists had access to telephones, internet and everything else, none of them needed to use open Wifi.
If anything, Arabs driving around with a scanner looking for an open WiFi connection would have alerted the authorities to a problem!
Notice they specifically go after Open WiFi, but they could have gone after free ISPs or Internet PayPhones. (In Europe there are Internet public payphones, so I assume the US has them too.)
Nobody (outside of China) has gone after Internet Cafe's, nobody has even mentioned public Internet Payphones, only WiFi. So this must be a commercial agenda aimed at closing Open WiFi connections.
Gotta be that COMETA consortium pushing this drivel.
"but it seems that anyone who opens their "pipe" to the "community" is in violation of many ISP's subscription agreements"
Absolutely, the ISPs have long tried to detect and ban NAT Servers from their network and even tried to change the NAT protocol so they can look behind and see what network they are driving.
However, thats a big difference between "you are in violation of your terms of use for your ISP" and "you are helping terrorists" - which is the nonsense line being pushed here.
It seems to be COMETA pushing this, exactly the right timing for them, exactly the right location (US Market) and Intel's+IBM's+ATNT presence in this consortium indicates that Turf/Fake PR/FUD and other stuff are likely:
If there are already several thousand free hotspots then they could not sell that service, so they push this nonsense as a way of getting laws to shut down the free competition.
Nobody needs to come to America, find an open WiFi connection then use it to attack a government website. All they have to do is to go into a cyber cafe and use that, or dial into one of the free ISP from whereever in the world they are use that. They don't even need to leave their living rooms. The story is just complete crud.
The companies that want to sell Wi-Fi connections. But if everyone gives it away how can they sell it?? So they claim open WiFi is a security hole for terrorists and bingo Government makes laws, people close their networks and IBM, Intel etc. can then sell those services.
Yeh, FUD is a $300 million business according to the last stats I read on this.
But then the sheer number of Slashdotters far outweighs the few Disney PR men. So I wouldn't worry, you can spot them easy and they quickly get picked apart.
They might be professional writers, but they don't believe the things they are writing and therefore haven't thought them through. Thats why when you argue with them, their ideas fall apart. That falling apart has far more weight than anything you can say on your own, so in effect the FUD'ers are their own worst enemy.
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"But the number of valid codes just went up from 1 to 100. "
Well yep, but then again if you made the code 7 bits longer that would fix that.
Yes, but if you have 2 transmitters, there's nothing stopping the door keeping 2 separate valid sequences!!
"Great - more processor speed. Do we need it"
:)
Yes of COURSE WE DO!
Its this whole DRM thing, I thought they had just lost their marbles and were pushing something that could never sell - but no.
They WANT YOU TO CRACK DRM, because cracking the keys will take a lot of processing power, and that means more high-spec machines.
Think about it, what other reason would you need the juice for? Only code cracking really eats major cycles, so its all a cunning plan to sell hi-spec equipment. Damn they're clever
IT industry tanked in 1990 aswell.
I've met 2 older programmers who left at that time, one guy became a fire place seller, another never worked again and retired (he was working on the European space program prior to that).
It sucks, but the IT market is deader than dead. I'm doing little projects here and there to keep up to speed and pay the bills myself.
If you can and you're dedicated to getting back in, these little-jobs for friends of friends may be the way to do it, ask around, but don't expect big money (or in some cases any money).
Speaking of which, read my sig, try the site, if it breaks in your browser email me. (It was a small money project, but WTF).
"they wanted a secure sytem, the remote could query the opener for a current timestamp, and then it could use that timestamp to generate an appropriate code and send it. "
An easier way to do a rolling code system would be this:
When the garage gets a code it opens and changes to the next code.
When the key is pressed it generates a new code.
The garage accepts the code it expects plus the next 100 in the code sequence.
So now, if I press the key and I'm out of range it doesn't matter. The garage will accept the next code and the next 98.
I can press it 100 times before I have to go manually into the garage and resync them.
Similarly if the garage is fooled somehow into thinking it has a legal code and advances to the next sequence, when I press the fob the first time it doesn't work, the next time it does because the fob advances until they are in sequence again.
Similar, but 4Gb space split into 32Mb chunks. The running process's 32Mb chunk is swapped into the bottom page, so every process thinks it runs in 0-32mb address space.
Why?
"Yeah, it's fair if you got the car for $1000."
So your saying Ford would be illegal product dumping then? Selling a product below its cost is dumping and is specifically outlawed because it allows any company with a deap pocket to push profitable competitors out of business.
Toner is just ground up black plastic, the chip adds no value to the toner, it is just a mechanism to restrict where you buy your toner from. It is anti-competitive to add the chip and should be (and probably already is) illegal under consumer protection laws.
"Player software would detect the signature, and _WARN_ if it is not present. "
This will not work.
P2P users know they are pirating movies, its just too easy compared to the legal means to get the movie that way.
The effort cost and delay is P2P is outweight by the effort cost and delay in buying a DVD through the post.
These schemes are called 'fingerprinting' these days.
The alternative for fingerprinting is to individually fingerprint the digital copy when its delivered. So the movie you just bought & downloaded on the internet would say "I was sold as transaction 294747592". That number would point back to you if pirated.
But it doesn't work if you give people a way of detecting the fingerprint.
They will attempt to remove it, but will only know if they are successful if you also give them a tool to detect the fingerprint.
If you keep the tool in the hands of law enforcement, then even if they successfully break the fingerprint, you can just change the fingerprinting method and catch them next time.
The pirate can never really be sure if the copy he's pirating doesn't point to him.
"reading the article the information about condom use seems very accurate to me"
The 'condoms are not 100% safe' bit isn't the bit they were complaining about. It was the removal of information that says well 'yeh, actually statistically they are pretty safe':
"The studies found that even with repeated sexual contact, 98-100 percent of those people who used latex condoms correctly and consistently did not become infected."
If you can't trust what the government is telling you then you're in deep deep do do.
Sony etc. want to make a linux Media PC - well here we have a chip thats ideal for it.
Same goes for PVRs, firewalls, net Connected Storage.....
I got the best of U2 1990-2000 for Xmas.
I think they're starting to twig to what they have to do.
It had no DRM, it came with 2 Audio CDs, an interactive VCD, a very thick insert with plenty of fan pictures and it was the same price as normal CDs here (about 19 Euros).
I still think its expensive, but I don't think it was a complete and utter rip off as before, so it seems like better value to me.
All the track ripped in MP3 format no problem, and the disks play on all devices, and the VCD worked in my VCD player aswell as my computer.
It was on Island records (Universal).
I take it back, her knickname (pagetopage) yields the National Library of Canada.
I.e. she has exactly the sort of job where laser printer technicians are on hand and she does nothing but read books.
So I don't deserve the "+1" mod I got.
Look here: Page by Page (her knickname) yields this:
National Library of Canada.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pagebypage/
That would explain the laser paper review.
Read this review when she slags off a brand of laser paper (no kidding) and happened to have a technician on hand when 2 pages go through at once.
So she works in an office, but she uses Amazon bought copier paper (which she herself buys - so she knows that type it is).
How many offices do you know that are big enough to have laser repair technicians in, but small enough that the person buys their own copier paper.
Also how many companies do you know buy their office supplies from Amazon?
"1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
THE PAPER CHASE November 13, 2002
This was my first purchase of this brand of copy paper and, sorry to say, it was disappointing.
With the first use two sheets of paper came out of my printer - one blank, and the other with the proper printing. Of course, I initially thought something had gone wrong with my printer. When a technician happened by I asked him to check it, and he assured me it was functioning properly.
Out of curiosity one day I loaded the printer with another brand of copy paper and presto! - No more double sheets.
I really don't know what the problem was - perhaps the copy paper is too thin and the printer "grabs" two or perhaps there is some sort of treatment on the paper that caused it to stick together. "
Why was this guy modded down?
.NET framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval."
If they make you that statement in the EULA of Tablet PC XP then its on topic:
"You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,4158,00.asp
There are loads of these linux based things. But the above is the progear
"You knew what you were getting, and you elected to pay for it. "
No, thats not true. That unpleasant EULA that Microsoft requires you to accept is never presented to you on the adverts for computers.
The first time you get to see it is AFTER you've paid for your computer, but BEFORE you can use it.
Microsoft's argument is that "Sure the EULA is unpleasant, but the customer accepted it voluntarily, so its a contract".
However if the customer can't get the money back in full and with all their expenses for the purchase then they did not accept it willingly and it is not a voluntary accepted contract.
Thats not legal in many places.
Your talking about their upload module. Curious 3 people modded you up, but its very obvious reading the picture that thats the software upload program.
Its a Media PC in all but name. Better designed box for my AV rack too.
Seems to miss a hard disk (product spec talks about hard disk support not hard disk), so add 120 Euros for 80 gig.
They could blow Microsoft/HP media PC out of the water if they have the right software.
"One of the many ways terrorists and their cells/hierarchy communicate is through the net "
You don't know who terrorists are until after they commit the crime.
Those 9/11 terrorists had access to telephones, internet and everything else, none of them needed to use open Wifi.
If anything, Arabs driving around with a scanner looking for an open WiFi connection would have alerted the authorities to a problem!
Notice they specifically go after Open WiFi, but they could have gone after free ISPs or Internet PayPhones.
(In Europe there are Internet public payphones, so I assume the US has them too.)
Nobody (outside of China) has gone after Internet Cafe's, nobody has even mentioned public Internet Payphones, only WiFi.
So this must be a commercial agenda aimed at closing Open WiFi connections.
Gotta be that COMETA consortium pushing this drivel.
"but it seems that anyone who opens their "pipe" to the "community" is in violation of many ISP's subscription agreements"
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Absolutely, the ISPs have long tried to detect and ban NAT Servers from their network and even tried to change the NAT protocol so they can look behind and see what network they are driving.
However, thats a big difference between "you are in violation of your terms of use for your ISP" and "you are helping terrorists" - which is the nonsense line being pushed here.
It seems to be COMETA pushing this, exactly the right timing for them, exactly the right location (US Market) and Intel's+IBM's+ATNT presence in this consortium indicates that Turf/Fake PR/FUD and other stuff are likely:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/125
I thought this was BS being pushed by the 3G backers aswell, but I suspect now that it is the Cometa consortium to sell WiFi via 20,000 hot spots:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/125
If there are already several thousand free hotspots then they could not sell that service, so they push this nonsense as a way of getting laws to shut down the free competition.
Nobody needs to come to America, find an open WiFi connection then use it to attack a government website. All they have to do is to go into a cyber cafe and use that, or dial into one of the free ISP from whereever in the world they are use that. They don't even need to leave their living rooms.
The story is just complete crud.
There have been a spate of these stories coming out of the BSA for months.
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BSA is not a government organisation its a commercial on.
I think it is because of this:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/125
The companies that want to sell Wi-Fi connections. But if everyone gives it away how can they sell it??
So they claim open WiFi is a security hole for terrorists and bingo Government makes laws, people close their networks and IBM, Intel etc. can then sell those services.
Yeh, FUD is a $300 million business according to the last stats I read on this.
But then the sheer number of Slashdotters far outweighs the few Disney PR men.
So I wouldn't worry, you can spot them easy and they quickly get picked apart.
They might be professional writers, but they don't believe the things they are writing and therefore haven't thought them through.
Thats why when you argue with them, their ideas fall apart. That falling apart has far more weight than anything you can say on your own, so in effect the FUD'ers are their own worst enemy.