And we can all tel Jon only had the Ghandi-esq views at heart by breaking this encryption.
I don't buy it. Maybe once with the DVD encryption to write a linux player, but what purpose does breaking DRM on a leagally purchased music file only to let it be played by anything (so to speak) get? It's not like you could take steps to be able to play it on a Linux machine to begin with.
But now, with broken encryption people like him have given congolomerants like the RIAA and MPAA something to fear, and since their fear = them destroying something, how long before iTMS get's pushed out or less artists sign up?
they will most certainly not support AMD's instructions. Their instructions set will have to be different otherwise they will license something from AMD which they will never do with their current market position.
This isn't 1980s. This is the 2000s. You don't have a vendor or two (IBM and Compaq in Dell's case) selling a 'home computer' upwards to $5000 without a $800 monitor.
Assembling your own white-box for $2000 with a $500 monitor in your apartment could be done pretty easily.
But now you have to build a white box system, offer 3 years of idiot level support & 3 years of parts warranty in order to begin to compete - and then you'd have to do it 20 - 30% less expensive than Dell who already has driven the bottom of the market low.
Unless there is something new out there that I don't see on Newegg.com or something, it'd be a lot harder than it was when Dell did it in the 80s.
Well in my house when it's 2AM and I'm still playing SWG or DAOC my wife yelling up the stairs would wake up our 2 yr old and 4 month old pretty quickly.
Also, as us geeks make money we tend to get bigger houses where yelling between floors isn't as easy as it used to be (at least that's the case at my place) and sometimes the IMs I get are along the lines of...
'Come Downstairs and start the grill please'
"Come downstairs and start the grill - i'm hungry'
'When are you going to come downstairs and start the grill'
'If you don't start the grill I'm going to cook the steaks on a broiler!'
She started it, and she's the normal person of the house.
Not necessarily, I paid more for both of my Audi's than any of the cars offered by GM, Ford or Dodge.
I bought Audi & paid more for them because I liked the way the cars look, ran, and the way the local dealer treated me when I needed help with my previous non-american car.
I was a strong american car buyer my first two, Pontiac, then the now gone Oldsmobile, but after driving a VW and then an Audi they just make a better, more expensive car.
Plus the never having to pay for service until you drive 50K in miles works.
Before I bought my second Audi I tried to buy a Lincoln LS. I mentioned about services and the coverages offered by the German automakers and they were happy to try and sell me a service plan. Service plans make me nervous, I'd rather it come from the manufacturer like when I moved from KS to NC I could still go to the NC Audi dealer and say 'change my oil' and they did - for free.
Wal-Mart screamed 'Buy American' until they could get stuff cheaper from China. Now if you go into a Wal-Mart everything is 'made in china'
And now Wal-Mart is putting huge stores into China.
The few times I've set off security scanners (ie stupid shoes got a metal arch in them) they let you point out your stuff and then they took it to where they searched you. If you voice your concern for leaving your belongings I've found that they usually will accomodate you.
You know, all the flights i've been on and all the crews I've spoken with to make polite 'god this is a long flight' conversation, a lot of them do not really like some of the things the TSA does either.
If I told a captain of the flight I was getting on that A) I've flown his airline 72 times this year so far and B) I don't want them to have access to company confidential information i'm betting the HUMAN that is the pilot would look at the crack smoking TSA guard and think he was insane as well.
I'm getting concerned at the number of people that are thinking like sheep. We aren't sheep, we are people that started a government where we had the right to do anything (including be stupid for that matter)
If a TSA wants me to prove my laptop boots, fine, I'll wake it up. If a TSA agent wants me to log in and show him something I'm going to question him. My whole point is that the person who started this topic said he decrypted company confidential files. *that* my friend is a huge no no and in my company the bare admission of doing something like that is instant termination and grounds for getting sued for violating trade secrets.
I call shenanigans. There is no way they can ban me from flying when I refuse them access to confidential company information. I can easily prove my laptop is a laptop by opening the lid and letting it wake from sleep to a nice login screen requiring a username and password, any more than that and they're on their own.
Viewing the contents of my confidential encrypted databases with proprietary company information on it are not allowed unless we've suddenly gone Third Reich which there are days I wonder if we're not headed in that direction in the name of 'security'
You allowed someone to look at secure FILES on your system? What on earth made you think they had the right, or the authority for that matter, to look at FILES? They can physically inspect your system, but they do not have any right to search your laptops electronic contents.
I've flown about 85 - 90 times this year from a base out of either Kansas City International, or Raleigh Durham International.
I've flown to Dallas, San Francisco, Oakland, NYC Laguardia, Des Moines, IA, Orlando, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, and other cities and have carried even two laptops, a cell phone/pda, a iPod, and between 3 - 7 paper back books.
At the most I've had my bag physically searched because the x-ray guy couldn't see something quite right because a few of my chargers were laying weird. I've even been told what caught them up a few times.
I've carried a backpak full of camera equipment (digital SLR body, three lenses, battery charger, extra batteries, video camera, two microdrives, and a Powerbook G4) through multiple times on vacation and never had a single concern.
If a screener *ever* asked to see the contents of my laptop they'd get the verbal equivalent of a polite middle finger. There is *no* way any TSA screener needs to look at the contents of anything I have that is beyond a cursory physical examination.
I've had my 20GB iPod since August of 2002. Never had a battery problem other than it doesn' last longer than 4 - 5 hrs of flying in planes and I could use a bit more:)
I read the article start to finish prior to posting my comment. The guy is so stubborn and stupid to think that the government of the country is keeping him from his millions, not his friends.
He's an idiot, plain and simple. When given documentation showing it's a scam he won't admit it, and won't even file an official complaint. He's a moron.
He lost everything, yep. He's now a burden on society as a whole completely because he will loose his home, bankrupt off his debt and now the banking & mortgage industries will take the hit for it causing interest rates, and credit ratings to be just that much tighter for us non-greedy types to get a loan and/or credit card.
The banking industry let him get *21* credit cards and cash advance all of them and no one blinked. They started blinking when they didn't get their payments though. That could be the only thing that might need to be fixed, the ability for a person to get *that* many credit cards in such a short time, and for no one to notice.
Due to some oddities in the purchasing orders for new hardware this year, it ended up that some of us unix guys were tasked with hauling new windows boxes around the workplace for people. We weren't expected to set them up, just unpack, plug em in, and turn em on. Ignorant of how vulnerable windows boxen are, we did just that, doing the silly clicky crap that any OEM relase makes you do, and walked off.
Sorry, that's total BS. Not much of a unix guy if you have no idea of the most common worm that made every news outlet on the planet.
Also RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake, whatever ISOs that you can pick up at a store (you know, normal people, not the l33t people) don't have the latest patches on them either.
I remember a specific time when I was attempting to download the patches for RedHat 6.2 back when 7.0 was 'don't touch it's borked'.
Within the first 20 min of me downloading the up2date packages over the web my system was rooted do to a atd exploit.
Windows isn't the only system out there that doesn't get updated day after day when new patches come out. If you're a 'normal' person (not l33t) and go out and buy a distro (since downloading 3 - 5 600MB ISOs over the web isn't something every user would do - especially one with a new PC when as far as they're concenred their computer came with a perfectly good operating system.
Or, you could do what I did for the one person in my family that needed a computer for christmas. I bought them an eMac.
Is Mac OS X by default more secure? No. Is Mac OS X by default more stable? Debatable Did they have to call me 5 min into setup on how to get something to work? No Did they have to call me 5 min into setup on how to print a full color photo with the new printer they got? no
They did when they got a Windows machine. They'd never have gotten anything working with Linux. These are two 45+ yr olds we're talking about, one without a high school education.
That's the target market for home computers right now, all those that would run linux have 1 or 2 computers in their home already.
This is just simply greed run amuck. Not by the scammer - but by the idiot who fell for it.
I can't feel sorry for this guy in the slightest. This guy was a whole lot of stupid. Just insane to fall for something like that and need to spend $320K to get it.
There is a certain personaility type that has to fall for this no matter where it was from. It's not the internet that has caused this, it's just helped people find more idiots to suck in.
I have the 2nd generation 20GB and I have to hold a button down to get the backlight on, and no I didn't mess with the settings.
Not that I find myself having to look at my iPod very often. I mean I push play and off goes my list of music in an attempt to have the flight go by faster
How is that not true? It is a digital camera that uses a SLR lens sold in the last, oh, 5 years if not longer.
Sure the (key word) old F mount lenses and the (key word) old Canon FX mounts do not work. But they don't work on the latest film cameras, or in the case of canon any film camera produced in the last, oh, 10 - 15 years.
As for the field multiplication effect. I'm not a professional, I'm a Dad who got tired of developing film. Wih my D60's 1.6x crop I use my 28-135MM lens and have never *noticed* the difference.
I didn't know it was an issue until someone said something on a forum somewhere.
I do have the 16-35mm F/2.8L Lense for super wide shots, but still for me, and probably for 80- 90% of most people that buy SLRs non-professionally it's not a big deal.
Also Nikon has taken this stepping into effect with some of their newer DX line of lenses.
I would agree that the digital PRINTING process is flawed still and can't reproduce a lot things that a film print can, but the CAPTURE process is quite advanced.
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And we can all tel Jon only had the Ghandi-esq views at heart by breaking this encryption.
I don't buy it. Maybe once with the DVD encryption to write a linux player, but what purpose does breaking DRM on a leagally purchased music file only to let it be played by anything (so to speak) get? It's not like you could take steps to be able to play it on a Linux machine to begin with.
But now, with broken encryption people like him have given congolomerants like the RIAA and MPAA something to fear, and since their fear = them destroying something, how long before iTMS get's pushed out or less artists sign up?
they will most certainly not support AMD's instructions. Their instructions set will have to be different otherwise they will license something from AMD which they will never do with their current market position.
This isn't 1980s. This is the 2000s. You don't have a vendor or two (IBM and Compaq in Dell's case) selling a 'home computer' upwards to $5000 without a $800 monitor.
Assembling your own white-box for $2000 with a $500 monitor in your apartment could be done pretty easily.
But now you have to build a white box system, offer 3 years of idiot level support & 3 years of parts warranty in order to begin to compete - and then you'd have to do it 20 - 30% less expensive than Dell who already has driven the bottom of the market low.
Unless there is something new out there that I don't see on Newegg.com or something, it'd be a lot harder than it was when Dell did it in the 80s.
Of course not, I'm a True Geek (tm)
:)
I have a Powerbook G4 that I surf the web with and IM with while I'm playing games
Well in my house when it's 2AM and I'm still playing SWG or DAOC my wife yelling up the stairs would wake up our 2 yr old and 4 month old pretty quickly.
...
Also, as us geeks make money we tend to get bigger houses where yelling between floors isn't as easy as it used to be (at least that's the case at my place) and sometimes the IMs I get are along the lines of
'Come Downstairs and start the grill please'
"Come downstairs and start the grill - i'm hungry'
'When are you going to come downstairs and start the grill'
'If you don't start the grill I'm going to cook the steaks on a broiler!'
She started it, and she's the normal person of the house.
Yep, and Bentonville, AR went from a nice community to an extremely stuck up expensive community.
Someone needs to remind them they are in Arkansas.
Not necessarily, I paid more for both of my Audi's than any of the cars offered by GM, Ford or Dodge.
I bought Audi & paid more for them because I liked the way the cars look, ran, and the way the local dealer treated me when I needed help with my previous non-american car.
I was a strong american car buyer my first two, Pontiac, then the now gone Oldsmobile, but after driving a VW and then an Audi they just make a better, more expensive car.
Plus the never having to pay for service until you drive 50K in miles works.
Before I bought my second Audi I tried to buy a Lincoln LS. I mentioned about services and the coverages offered by the German automakers and they were happy to try and sell me a service plan. Service plans make me nervous, I'd rather it come from the manufacturer like when I moved from KS to NC I could still go to the NC Audi dealer and say 'change my oil' and they did - for free.
Wal-Mart screamed 'Buy American' until they could get stuff cheaper from China. Now if you go into a Wal-Mart everything is 'made in china'
And now Wal-Mart is putting huge stores into China.
The few times I've set off security scanners (ie stupid shoes got a metal arch in them) they let you point out your stuff and then they took it to where they searched you. If you voice your concern for leaving your belongings I've found that they usually will accomodate you.
You know, all the flights i've been on and all the crews I've spoken with to make polite 'god this is a long flight' conversation, a lot of them do not really like some of the things the TSA does either.
If I told a captain of the flight I was getting on that A) I've flown his airline 72 times this year so far and B) I don't want them to have access to company confidential information i'm betting the HUMAN that is the pilot would look at the crack smoking TSA guard and think he was insane as well.
I'm getting concerned at the number of people that are thinking like sheep. We aren't sheep, we are people that started a government where we had the right to do anything (including be stupid for that matter)
If a TSA wants me to prove my laptop boots, fine, I'll wake it up. If a TSA agent wants me to log in and show him something I'm going to question him. My whole point is that the person who started this topic said he decrypted company confidential files. *that* my friend is a huge no no and in my company the bare admission of doing something like that is instant termination and grounds for getting sued for violating trade secrets.
I call shenanigans. There is no way they can ban me from flying when I refuse them access to confidential company information. I can easily prove my laptop is a laptop by opening the lid and letting it wake from sleep to a nice login screen requiring a username and password, any more than that and they're on their own.
Viewing the contents of my confidential encrypted databases with proprietary company information on it are not allowed unless we've suddenly gone Third Reich which there are days I wonder if we're not headed in that direction in the name of 'security'
You allowed someone to look at secure FILES on your system? What on earth made you think they had the right, or the authority for that matter, to look at FILES? They can physically inspect your system, but they do not have any right to search your laptops electronic contents.
I've flown about 85 - 90 times this year from a base out of either Kansas City International, or Raleigh Durham International.
I've flown to Dallas, San Francisco, Oakland, NYC Laguardia, Des Moines, IA, Orlando, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, and other cities and have carried even two laptops, a cell phone/pda, a iPod, and between 3 - 7 paper back books.
At the most I've had my bag physically searched because the x-ray guy couldn't see something quite right because a few of my chargers were laying weird. I've even been told what caught them up a few times.
I've carried a backpak full of camera equipment (digital SLR body, three lenses, battery charger, extra batteries, video camera, two microdrives, and a Powerbook G4) through multiple times on vacation and never had a single concern.
If a screener *ever* asked to see the contents of my laptop they'd get the verbal equivalent of a polite middle finger. There is *no* way any TSA screener needs to look at the contents of anything I have that is beyond a cursory physical examination.
I've had my 20GB iPod since August of 2002. Never had a battery problem other than it doesn' last longer than 4 - 5 hrs of flying in planes and I could use a bit more :)
I don't buy it. hell the police TOLD him while he was being scammed it was a lie and he disagreed with them.
I read the article start to finish prior to posting my comment. The guy is so stubborn and stupid to think that the government of the country is keeping him from his millions, not his friends.
He's an idiot, plain and simple. When given documentation showing it's a scam he won't admit it, and won't even file an official complaint. He's a moron.
He lost everything, yep. He's now a burden on society as a whole completely because he will loose his home, bankrupt off his debt and now the banking & mortgage industries will take the hit for it causing interest rates, and credit ratings to be just that much tighter for us non-greedy types to get a loan and/or credit card.
The banking industry let him get *21* credit cards and cash advance all of them and no one blinked. They started blinking when they didn't get their payments though. That could be the only thing that might need to be fixed, the ability for a person to get *that* many credit cards in such a short time, and for no one to notice.
Sorry, that's total BS. Not much of a unix guy if you have no idea of the most common worm that made every news outlet on the planet.
Also RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake, whatever ISOs that you can pick up at a store (you know, normal people, not the l33t people) don't have the latest patches on them either.
I remember a specific time when I was attempting to download the patches for RedHat 6.2 back when 7.0 was 'don't touch it's borked'.
Within the first 20 min of me downloading the up2date packages over the web my system was rooted do to a atd exploit.
Windows isn't the only system out there that doesn't get updated day after day when new patches come out. If you're a 'normal' person (not l33t) and go out and buy a distro (since downloading 3 - 5 600MB ISOs over the web isn't something every user would do - especially one with a new PC when as far as they're concenred their computer came with a perfectly good operating system.
Or, you could do what I did for the one person in my family that needed a computer for christmas. I bought them an eMac.
Is Mac OS X by default more secure? No.
Is Mac OS X by default more stable? Debatable
Did they have to call me 5 min into setup on how to get something to work? No
Did they have to call me 5 min into setup on how to print a full color photo with the new printer they got? no
They did when they got a Windows machine. They'd never have gotten anything working with Linux. These are two 45+ yr olds we're talking about, one without a high school education.
That's the target market for home computers right now, all those that would run linux have 1 or 2 computers in their home already.
This is just simply greed run amuck. Not by the scammer - but by the idiot who fell for it.
I can't feel sorry for this guy in the slightest. This guy was a whole lot of stupid. Just insane to fall for something like that and need to spend $320K to get it.
There is a certain personaility type that has to fall for this no matter where it was from. It's not the internet that has caused this, it's just helped people find more idiots to suck in.
You've obviously not been using Windows.
This at least had some bullets that backed up the statements.
The PC Mag article read as a 'neener neener neener I hate you' article vs. something with content.
I have the 2nd generation 20GB and I have to hold a button down to get the backlight on, and no I didn't mess with the settings.
Not that I find myself having to look at my iPod very often. I mean I push play and off goes my list of music in an attempt to have the flight go by faster
How is that not true? It is a digital camera that uses a SLR lens sold in the last, oh, 5 years if not longer.
Sure the (key word) old F mount lenses and the (key word) old Canon FX mounts do not work. But they don't work on the latest film cameras, or in the case of canon any film camera produced in the last, oh, 10 - 15 years.
As for the field multiplication effect. I'm not a professional, I'm a Dad who got tired of developing film. Wih my D60's 1.6x crop I use my 28-135MM lens and have never *noticed* the difference.
I didn't know it was an issue until someone said something on a forum somewhere.
I do have the 16-35mm F/2.8L Lense for super wide shots, but still for me, and probably for 80- 90% of most people that buy SLRs non-professionally it's not a big deal.
Also Nikon has taken this stepping into effect with some of their newer DX line of lenses.
I would agree that the digital PRINTING process is flawed still and can't reproduce a lot things that a film print can, but the CAPTURE process is quite advanced.
Yeah, uhm, Nikon.com and Canon.com would be good places to start.
From $900 to about $10k you can get a SLR digital camera. I've had my Canon D60 since March of 2002, it was $2199 when I bought it.
6MP, and uses Canon's entire EOS line of lenses.
Nikon has the D100 which is the D60's equiv, (now replaced by the 10D) and then th D1's from Nikon and 1D's (several models depending on your needs)
OK, I'll bite.
Please explain your P.S. I am on cold medication today and my brain is not working.
11MB/s. or 22MB/s if he had 802.11g working on a lot of them.
That's like saying 'Hey, I got 100 ethernet cables, since their all 100 MB i'm going super fast!'
Without etherchanneling or something aggergating said bandwidth with an equally large number of cards not much is going to happen.
On one hand, we have a few geeks with a laptop, a GPS, and an antennae.
On the other we got some redneck shooting at stuff from an airplane with real live bullets.