If you read the wired article and follow the link to the "dispute," AOL sued this company over their icq spam engine. It's important to notice, however, that they sued them over the *trademark* icq (which they infringed upon,) not the underlying spam problem.
Let me be the first of 100's to point out that when you write free software, people are free to do what they like with it. No one seems to get up in arms when Redhat enhances "ls" to make it more friendly for their users...what's got everybody up in arms is that Redhat is trying to enhance its *brand* by hacking KDE.
Real free software people would be against (or at least oblivious) to the branding in the first place.
There's been a lot of talk about DRM being built into Microsoft's next generation of operating systems. XP currently has the major annoyance (especially from a piracy perspective) of registration...do you think these new efforts will be able to significantly reduce the prevalance of Warez?
If I authored this virus, I would *not* think of this as a serious threat to anyone's life. Why? Because it is within Microsoft's power to avert the whole thing by having everybody unplug their boxen if it gets out of hand. This has the potential to be a *big headache* for MS, which could outweigh the outside chance that this would actually be allowed to get so out of hand as to cost lives.
Remember the people who made knock-off Nintendo games? When Nintendo started trying to ship consoles that wouldn't play those games, the government came down on them.
So, it's only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to make ps2 games (or ink cartridges). Or is that against the DMCA now? Is the smartchip on a printer cartridge an encryption device? Now here's a thought (for all you conspiracy lovers out there): Put a chip on every widget you sell, and make the widget communicate with the mother widget to function. Bam, you've got the DMCA in your ammo box.
You remind me of those Sprint PCS commercials...you're so far gone, you don't even remember what it's like to not have to deal with the crappy quality of cellular phones.
I did my undergrad. at U-Missouri - Rolla, which had mostly switched to Kerberos as I left. It was great, authenticate once, do what you want.
I'm now at U-Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and for being such a well regarded school in computer science, I can't believe how many different identities/passwords it takes to get by here...it's a really big hassle. I pray for Kerberos:)
Let's not forget that all the conspiracy bullshit also drives away potential paying customers. You should make some kind of log that records every super-power act that is made.
While I'm bitching, how 'bout skins, or a decent looking layout?
I think that the samba product can fall under the umbrella of "interoperability." IANAL, but it's more of a stretch for bnetd to claim that, because they're not making a bridge between an existing product (NFS) and the product in question (Windows/Starcraft.)
I think I'm feeding the trolls on this one, but I can't understand why you think a company would spend money on adding support for that format unless it would be a selling point. I grant that mp3 is worse than ogg, but can you honestly say that ogg is big enough in the "real world" for a company to go to the trouble of supporting it? The vast majority of my linux using friends still use mp3, and you can bet almost no one in the windows world uses ogg.
All I'm trying to point out is that there are more reasons than money to feel strongly about this issue. The idea that money pollutes an opinion on this topic actually means *less* to me than the threat of "religous" objection within the unix community.
Let me be clear, I am one of these objectors:) All I'm saying is that everybody has their biases.
Would you consider linux a major MS competator? Would having close ties to the linux community make you a biased opinion giver any less than having close ties to sun?
Could you get around all of these detection techniques if you used an ssh-tunnel to a box on the outside, and only used your comcast connection as an uplink to that?
True most people don't have 31337 friends who will help them out with access to their well-connected box, but most people wouldn't try to run a home-nat either.
You duped Michael? I thought dupe only worked on file descriptors! Why the hell didn't somebody tell me about this sooner...I've been putting up with a long-distance relationship for way too long, I'm duping my girlfriend!
Yeah this is real out of character for Slashdot: A first amendment issue involving Star Wars AND Anime.
Addressing your concern for the children; I grow so tired of people trying to define/. as a mainstream news source. Last time I checked,/. is a website run by some geeks in western Michigan, not cnn.com. You can say "I don't like this" but the attitude of "this is contrary to/.'s purpose" graits on me.
You're right. If you just look at it as a run-of-the-mill MS announcement, it isn't extraordinary at all: They are refocusing on the buzzword that makes them the most money. It just so happens that this buzzword has a negative connotation in relation to MS.
In my networking class last year, they talked about new protocols having to be "TCP fair," in that they don't gain their advantages over the standard TCP by just cutting in line in front of other TCP packets...I wonder if this new algorithm claims to keep that in mind. The scenario to avoid is everybody who's 31337 switching to this new stuff, thereby slowing down the other half to gain their speedup.
This reminds me of the the stuff on/. a while ago about the patenting of building codes. What if Microsoft is able to push through a law (sssca) that requires OSes to use DRM, and then they have the patent?
Yes this sounds silly, but 5 years ago a web browser built into the OS sounded silly. MS: Turning silly into reality.
Seriously, the point of the radio is to get exposed to new music. Call me a teenie-bopper, but I have discovered shit that I like by listening to the radio.
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If you read the wired article and follow the link to the "dispute," AOL sued this company over their icq spam engine. It's important to notice, however, that they sued them over the *trademark* icq (which they infringed upon,) not the underlying spam problem.
In toying with it, it seems like NYT is *not* checking the referring URL, they are putting hash keys in the google URLs and checking on that.
let the hacking begin!
Let me be the first of 100's to point out that when you write free software, people are free to do what they like with it. No one seems to get up in arms when Redhat enhances "ls" to make it more friendly for their users...what's got everybody up in arms is that Redhat is trying to enhance its *brand* by hacking KDE.
Real free software people would be against (or at least oblivious) to the branding in the first place.
There's been a lot of talk about DRM being built into Microsoft's next generation of operating systems. XP currently has the major annoyance (especially from a piracy perspective) of registration...do you think these new efforts will be able to significantly reduce the prevalance of Warez?
If I authored this virus, I would *not* think of this as a serious threat to anyone's life. Why? Because it is within Microsoft's power to avert the whole thing by having everybody unplug their boxen if it gets out of hand. This has the potential to be a *big headache* for MS, which could outweigh the outside chance that this would actually be allowed to get so out of hand as to cost lives.
Remember the people who made knock-off Nintendo games? When Nintendo started trying to ship consoles that wouldn't play those games, the government came down on them.
So, it's only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to make ps2 games (or ink cartridges). Or is that against the DMCA now? Is the smartchip on a printer cartridge an encryption device? Now here's a thought (for all you conspiracy lovers out there): Put a chip on every widget you sell, and make the widget communicate with the mother widget to function. Bam, you've got the DMCA in your ammo box.
You remind me of those Sprint PCS commercials...you're so far gone, you don't even remember what it's like to not have to deal with the crappy quality of cellular phones.
I did my undergrad. at U-Missouri - Rolla, which had mostly switched to Kerberos as I left. It was great, authenticate once, do what you want.
:)
I'm now at U-Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and for being such a well regarded school in computer science, I can't believe how many different identities/passwords it takes to get by here...it's a really big hassle. I pray for Kerberos
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Let's not forget that all the conspiracy bullshit also drives away potential paying customers. You should make some kind of log that records every super-power act that is made.
While I'm bitching, how 'bout skins, or a decent looking layout?
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This is not a troll. I seriously think this issue should be addressed before anybody pours their money into slashdot. Money talks.
I think that the samba product can fall under the umbrella of "interoperability." IANAL, but it's more of a stretch for bnetd to claim that, because they're not making a bridge between an existing product (NFS) and the product in question (Windows/Starcraft.)
Especially in light of the google cache :)
"w00t!" was the thread I wanted to chime in with.
Congratulations.
I think I'm feeding the trolls on this one, but I can't understand why you think a company would spend money on adding support for that format unless it would be a selling point. I grant that mp3 is worse than ogg, but can you honestly say that ogg is big enough in the "real world" for a company to go to the trouble of supporting it? The vast majority of my linux using friends still use mp3, and you can bet almost no one in the windows world uses ogg.
All I'm trying to point out is that there are more reasons than money to feel strongly about this issue. The idea that money pollutes an opinion on this topic actually means *less* to me than the threat of "religous" objection within the unix community.
:) All I'm saying is that everybody has their biases.
Let me be clear, I am one of these objectors
Would you consider linux a major MS competator? Would having close ties to the linux community make you a biased opinion giver any less than having close ties to sun?
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Those are teh size of my actual balls.
Wow.
Oh and fp BITCHES.
This might mean that people could get to my private, copywritten mp3s against my will.
Could you get around all of these detection techniques if you used an ssh-tunnel to a box on the outside, and only used your comcast connection as an uplink to that?
True most people don't have 31337 friends who will help them out with access to their well-connected box, but most people wouldn't try to run a home-nat either.
You duped Michael? I thought dupe only worked on file descriptors! Why the hell didn't somebody tell me about this sooner...I've been putting up with a long-distance relationship for way too long, I'm duping my girlfriend!
Yeah this is real out of character for Slashdot: A first amendment issue involving Star Wars AND Anime.
/. as a mainstream news source. Last time I checked, /. is a website run by some geeks in western Michigan, not cnn.com. You can say "I don't like this" but the attitude of "this is contrary to /.'s purpose" graits on me.
Addressing your concern for the children; I grow so tired of people trying to define
You're right. If you just look at it as a run-of-the-mill MS announcement, it isn't extraordinary at all: They are refocusing on the buzzword that makes them the most money. It just so happens that this buzzword has a negative connotation in relation to MS.
In my networking class last year, they talked about new protocols having to be "TCP fair," in that they don't gain their advantages over the standard TCP by just cutting in line in front of other TCP packets...I wonder if this new algorithm claims to keep that in mind. The scenario to avoid is everybody who's 31337 switching to this new stuff, thereby slowing down the other half to gain their speedup.
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Conspiracy theory? Yes. But hey, this is
This reminds me of the the stuff on /. a while ago about the patenting of building codes. What if Microsoft is able to push through a law (sssca) that requires OSes to use DRM, and then they have the patent?
Yes this sounds silly, but 5 years ago a web browser built into the OS sounded silly. MS: Turning silly into reality.
Seriously, the point of the radio is to get exposed to new music. Call me a teenie-bopper, but I have discovered shit that I like by listening to the radio.