... from one in a PC? What I mean is, a serial cable is just a way to interface with a port under a certain specification (in this case a serial protocol). The fact that the Dreamcast has a serial connector indicates that its use is legal. Why will anybody put a connector that you are NOT supposed to use??!! So now using the serial cable is illegal... does this make the use of the parallel port in my PC illegal? (If so, I am going to jail because I can't remember how many times I have used it;) Now seriously, the custom office does NOT know how the serial cable is going to be used, so they assumed that it was going to be used the "wrong" way. In that case very soon, custom should stop anybody ordering bricks from China (or somewhere else, for that matter), because killing people is illegal in the USA, and bricks can be used to kill people...
It is not just the DMCA: it is the whole idea, very popular these days in political talk, that if something can be used for harmful purposes, it needs to be banned inmediately because it will be used in that manner.
Making a system proprietary does not make it more secure (i.e. free from hacking). You do not need tons of people to hack a system. In fact you need just one person: later he distributes his hack and the ball starts rolling. No "embedded OS" is safe when confronted with the rigth tools, and someone with MOTIVATION...
One sentence: YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. where do you get your facts? since when is Macrovision "unbrekable"? do a search for cracks to Macrovision protection in DVD in google and you will be surprised... hacking is bad? And it is earsier to hack becuase it uses some form of *nix? so using, let's say some form of other OS will make it "harder" to hack? how many things how you hacked lately? (BTW, some of the hacks for removing the Macrovision protection are implemented in OSes other than *nix).
Gnome in.NET because MS is not _evil_ any more? Sure, and you can get in bed with a prostitute because she really wants your _hot_ body (even if you have to pay for it, you know she really likes you because she told you so). C'm, Miguel!! Wake the f#ck up!!!.NET is about making money for _MS_. Your gnome will be assimilated. Get out of drugs and continue coding, so far you have done very good. You do not like the tools at your disposal: _create_ new ones, do not go with a proprietary solution just because it makes everything so much "easier". Nobody is going to give you want you need, if you want it, you code it, get it?
I think this situation is SOOOOO stupid that we need to teach the big guys a lesson. Most of us know how to perform a DOS attack, overflow sendmail, etc. So I think is time we "unleash" hell on their servers until the situation is remedied. I know a lot of you are thinking that this is to much a radical approach, but has any of you consider how horrible is to be in jail? Would any of you think, if you were the one in jail, that collapsing network communications is too radical? C'on people, nobody is going to listen to us until we show them the power we have. I do not agree in performing electronic attacks as a way of changing the law. But I do believe in doing something when somebody is in jail for no reason (nobody has any proof that the "tool" created by this programmer was used to distribute pirate copies of ebooks; this whole argument is as silly as saying if a person buys a knife, he/she is for sure going to use it to kill somebody???!!!) Everybody here claims that they are "geeks". Ok, let's see if we can put into action a simultaneous electronic war against the companies and institutions that let an innocent man spend a single minute in jail.
Coding is just the best thing in the world. I work 60 h/w and wait at night after my wife is asleep to go to my computer and try to fix that piece of code that is not running the way I want it. Sometimes my wife wakes up and it is 3 AM and she tells to go to bed and get some rest (mostly because the next day I have to be at work at 6:30 AM) but I just continue "fixing" the code. I work as a "simulation engineer" (whatever that means), and I pass most of my day coding (Perl scripts, java, C, C++, Hercules, MatLab m files, etc.), but I do not have enough. My company does not allow me to use "free" tools but I have compiled a whole list staff that I use everyday from open source and installed it inside our server machines (after using some exploits to get root and installing in some really funky directory locations;^). Not long ago, the head manager of our group asked in a group meeting why I was so "productive" when compared to the rest of my coworkers, and in a moment of inspiration I told him that because I have study the manuals of ALL our software tools very, very carefully and I applied all the tricks (I just forgot to mention that some of those tricks involve not using the stupid "proprietary" software tools that the company pays for, but instead use open source staff). Free is good!! no matter what your boss says, release your code for free!!!
Who told you that!?? Nothing, NOTHING gets thrown away. Most memory companies SELL their faulty modules to other hardware companies. Then those modules are used in low (i.e cheap) household appliances and other non-critical electronic applications that do not require a stable system.
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... from one in a PC? What I mean is, a serial cable is just a way to interface with a port under a certain specification (in this case a serial protocol). The fact that the Dreamcast has a serial connector indicates that its use is legal. ;)
Why will anybody put a connector that you are NOT supposed to use??!! So now using the serial cable is illegal... does this make the use of the parallel port in my PC illegal? (If so, I am going to jail because I can't remember how many times I have used it
Now seriously, the custom office does NOT know how the serial cable is going to be used, so they assumed that it was going to be used the "wrong" way. In that case very soon, custom should stop anybody ordering bricks from China (or somewhere else, for that matter), because killing people is illegal in the USA, and bricks can be used to kill people...
It is not just the DMCA: it is the whole idea, very popular these days in political talk, that if something can be used for harmful purposes, it needs to be banned inmediately because it will be used in that manner.
Making a system proprietary does not make it more secure (i.e. free from hacking). You do not need tons of people to hack a system. In fact you need just one person: later he distributes his hack and the ball starts rolling.
No "embedded OS" is safe when confronted with the rigth tools, and someone with MOTIVATION...
One sentence: YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
where do you get your facts? since when is Macrovision "unbrekable"? do a search for cracks to Macrovision protection in DVD in google and you will be surprised...
hacking is bad? And it is earsier to hack becuase it uses some form of *nix? so using, let's say some form of other OS will make it "harder" to hack? how many things how you hacked lately? (BTW, some of the hacks for removing the Macrovision protection are implemented in OSes other than *nix).
Try first THINKING before you post....
Gnome in .NET because MS is not _evil_ any more? .NET is about making money for _MS_. Your gnome will be assimilated. Get out of drugs and continue coding, so far you have done very good. You do not like the tools at your disposal: _create_ new ones, do not go with a proprietary solution just because it makes everything so much "easier". Nobody is going to give you want you need, if you want it, you code it, get it?
Sure, and you can get in bed with a prostitute because she really wants your _hot_ body (even if you have to pay for it, you know she really likes you because she told you so).
C'm, Miguel!! Wake the f#ck up!!!
I think this situation is SOOOOO stupid that we need to teach the big guys a lesson. Most of us know how to perform a DOS attack, overflow sendmail, etc. So I think is time we "unleash" hell on their servers until the situation is remedied. I know a lot of you are thinking that this is to much a radical approach, but has any of you consider how horrible is to be in jail? Would any of you think, if you were the one in jail, that collapsing network communications is too radical? C'on people, nobody is going to listen to us until we show them the power we have. I do not agree in performing electronic attacks as a way of changing the law. But I do believe in doing something when somebody is in jail for no reason (nobody has any proof that the "tool" created by this programmer was used to distribute pirate copies of ebooks; this whole argument is as silly as saying if a person buys a knife, he/she is for sure going to use it to kill somebody???!!!) Everybody here claims that they are "geeks". Ok, let's see if we can put into action a simultaneous electronic war against the companies and institutions that let an innocent man spend a single minute in jail.
Coding is just the best thing in the world. I work 60 h/w and wait at night after my wife is asleep to go to my computer and try to fix that piece of code that is not running the way I want it. Sometimes my wife wakes up and it is 3 AM and she tells to go to bed and get some rest (mostly because the next day I have to be at work at 6:30 AM) but I just continue "fixing" the code. I work as a "simulation engineer" (whatever that means), and I pass most of my day coding (Perl scripts, java, C, C++, Hercules, MatLab m files, etc.), but I do not have enough. My company does not allow me to use "free" tools but I have compiled a whole list staff that I use everyday from open source and installed it inside our server machines (after using some exploits to get root and installing in some really funky directory locations ;^). Not long ago, the head manager of our group asked in a group meeting why I was so "productive" when compared to the rest of my coworkers, and in a moment of inspiration I told him that because I have study the manuals of ALL our software tools very, very carefully and I applied all the tricks (I just forgot to mention that some of those tricks involve not using the stupid "proprietary" software tools that the company pays for, but instead use open source staff). Free is good!! no matter what your boss says, release your code for free!!!
Who told you that!?? Nothing, NOTHING gets thrown away. Most memory companies SELL their faulty modules to other hardware companies. Then those modules are used in low (i.e cheap) household appliances and other non-critical electronic applications that do not require a stable system.