Probably won't work on a lot of sites though, as quite a few require you to confirm that you own the email account by clicking a URL within the email they send you, or entering a code from it on their site.
Yes. You'd better register with something@mailinator.com.
What makes AMD so useful if they wouldn't support DRM, even for people hating it? It's not like not supporting DRM = ways to bypass DRM. To AMD boards not supporting this, a DRM'ed file will then just look like a blob of heavily encrypted and digitally signed material. Is that so much better than a blob of material you can do something with, although you wouldn't like the system?
Yes, from a "I don't support this because I don't like the philosophy" perspective, I can see your point, but can't see it'll matter much for how all this will evolve (DRM becoming even more mainstream than it already is). After all, MS + Intel isn't a minor player, and AMD all alone looks like peanuts in comparison to that force.
Is AMD planning to include DRM in their processors as well?
I'd put it this way: They have nothing to win on not doing it.
Not supporting DRM still won't enable bypassing DRM features, it'll just make their motherboards not support them. What good will that bring to AMD? It'll make them lack a feature vital for the end user's "media experience" according to Microsoft, and it'll make the users feel they bought a crappy motherboard that maybe won't work with e.g. iTunes in the end user's eyes. If they on the other hand do support DRM, at least one can still make use of locked down DRM'ed material. DRM itself may be a horribly stupid way to distribute media, but hey, it's AMD's choice of not letting the users do something or letting them do something (although in a restricted way).
One noble reason for them not doing it might be to make DRM'ed material less useful since they wouldn't support it, but come on, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread for many media companies, even without any hardware support. This'll now be their next wet dream with even Intel supporting them. And if AMD wouldn't do it, but the world's largest software company and the world's largest desktop CPU manufacturer doing it, I feel nothing will change in the DRM push, and AMD just have losses to look forward to if they don't join the bandwagon now. It'll probably just accelerate now, AMD with them or not.
So let me get this straight: it's foolish for Bill Gates to build important pieces on.Net, but it's smart for eveyone else?
Uh... yes?
Because these "important pieces" are generally not things that is suitable to run in a sandbox environment, like the NT microkernel.
However, for "everyone else" it's probably talking about regular application developers that neither need to, or even should access the kernel directly.
What do you mean with ".NET OS"? An entire OS running in a virtual machine?? Not sure if that would get much more successful than Sun's JavaOS which most people haven't even heard about.
However, if you mean an OS making use of lots of.NET technologies, that's exactly what Longhorn is supposed to be. Longhorn's UI is for example using the Avalon API, which is programmed in WinFX with your.NET language of choice.
A new platform designed to let developers easier achieve several common demands of computing such as security (managed code), communication (evolved, more abstract, communications API compared to Win32) and mobility (.NET Compact Framework).
That sounded like marketing, but regardless if MS do it right or not, that's the intention anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised if your chances of getting it through depends on if its just empty bottles, or actual liquor. If they start stopping bottle collectors, only the bottle collectors will care. If it becomes hard to get liquor through, there'll be a public outrage.
IPv6 is often simplified to one feature: increased address space. Then the matter with NAT is brought up, which is not a very good solution for reasons mentioned numerous times elsewhere in these comments. Here are some more features of it to consider:
- IPv4 has optional support for end-to-end encryption via IPSec. In IPv6 it's mandatory.
- IPv6 doesn't require manual configuration or DHCP.
- IPv6 support QoS by router.
- IPv6 routers doesn't fragment packets like in IPv4, for clearly more efficient (faster and less processing requirements) packet routing.
- IPv6 streamlines packet sizes by extension headers.
- IPv6 has enhanced neighbor discovery features by multicast instead of broadcasted ARP messages. ICMPv6 has new messages to find best default gateways, that aren't optional like the ICMPv4 Router Discovery. These features should give an enhanced ad hoc connectivity experience for the users.
- IPv6 doesn't necessarily send broadcast messages to all nodes on a subnet, but uses more intelligent local scopes.
Yes, MSXML 3.0 supports most of XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, XDR, and SAX2, and shipped with IE 6. MSXML 4.0 SP2 has since then been made available with some additional conformance improvements.
If I recall correctly, it was doing some non-standard stuff anyways.
Yes, and Gecko supports Mozilla-specific CSS extensions. So?
I'm not surprised it gets broken.
No, one app usually break when another overwrites files the former used, so it's to be expected.
OK, now, can someone explain what was so seriously Insightful up there?
"Secure" OSs just won't/can't get viruses & spyware.
Yes, they can if they grant enough user rights.
The problem with Windows is that the default user has admin rights and no one cares to create & use a regular user account instead. They can, and only use the admin account for special kinds of installs and system maintenance like on other operating systems.
Hopefully this default will finally change in Longhorn... The computer world would become a better place...
How many of the downloaders burned a copy for their friends?
How many of the downloaders burned dozens of copies and sold them on the streets of cities worldwide?
What the hell... Going through the trouble of burning shitty workprint copies for your friends that looks like a 10 year old VHS tape quality-wise, with a huge counter in the corner.
Or even worse, trying to sell those copies?
I truly believe the amount of people doing this was neglible compared to those going with their friends to the theaters and getting it in top notch quality with surround sound, despite the cost.
I personally believe what hurt sales more are the DVD rips since they compete much better with DVD's from stores.
Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results.
I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to say, but both IsoHunt and TorrentSpy deliver excellent results and definitely fulfilling their purpose, and they're fully functional today.
I've used it before with a VISA card, using a special service to generate temporary numbers with custom credit limits. A good free service my internet bank provides, and useful to trial "shady" sites. But I'm happy to say all transactions were just fine over a period of a few months of usage at least.
A lot of people seem to be passionate about Macs, Linux and some Unix variants. But I've never known anyone who is really passionate about windows, some people prefer it to other operating systems but nobody really seems to love it. I could understand apple doing this, but I think Microsoft might have difficulty finding people who really love windows.
What, are you kidding?:-) MS recently held WinHEC and people paid to get in there to get information about their upcoming technologies to praise on their websites. Neowin.net is among Internet's largest forum communities, and the majority are Windows users that explicitly write they prefer Windows.
I know it can be hard to grasp if you're mostly a Slashdot reader and/or mostly hang around in F/OSS communities, but Microsoft will have tons and tons of users praising Windows to choose from.
Yeah, I agree this sounds more like a dirty hack than anything else. I'm not even sure you save so much time either because of the possible weird bugs from a translated bytecode you talk about. I'd say: spend that time of ensuring your app still work as it should and solving any such bugs, instead with taking your source to Mono and fix up GUI code etc for GTK# or whatever. I'd feel much safer that way, for personally having worked with the code instead of an automated tool.
Just goes to show that maybe a source that ANYONE can stick any random crap into might not be the most reliable.
Not really, in this case it showed that an article that's out of date may not be correct. I mean, the new information was just now announced. To clarify, these articles now seem to be correct according to my source, and read:
- "Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab believe that Voyager entered the termination shock in February 2003." - "Evidence presented at the AGU meeting in New Orleans in May 2005 by Dr. Ed Stone suggests that the Voyager I spacecraft passed termination shock in December 2004."
Neither writing down your password or picking a simple password is clever, so I don't see why he even discuss this? Like saying you should really try start smoking sometime because it's worse to use heroin.
I think a good way to come up with non-dictionary passwords while keeping them reasonably easy to remember is to take the first letter in a sentence and somehow mix it up with numbers. Like "I Am A Geek And Like Slashdot" would become "iaagals". Then add some number from your social security number or something to make it truly alphanumeric and voila.
There are numerous other ways, and if I have to use a password somewhere, I really prefer to pick my own. If it's randomized and forced on me by some admin for "maximum security", I'll almost guaranteed write it down somewhere. Instead I'd prefer said admin to run my personally made password through an extensive dictionary to ensure it's not simply an easy victim for a dictionary attack, and maybe also check it's alphanumeric. I really dislike those enforced passwords like "3zq@q!02". Jee, thanks, let me get a pen and paper.:-p
If it works like now, you'll be able to read just a few pages out of the book so it's not exactly that a hacker could make a script to automatically grab entire books from their index or anything. They simply only have maybe 10-20 pages per book.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably won't work on a lot of sites though, as quite a few require you to confirm that you own the email account by clicking a URL within the email they send you, or entering a code from it on their site.
Yes. You'd better register with something@mailinator.com.
AMD++
What makes AMD so useful if they wouldn't support DRM, even for people hating it? It's not like not supporting DRM = ways to bypass DRM. To AMD boards not supporting this, a DRM'ed file will then just look like a blob of heavily encrypted and digitally signed material. Is that so much better than a blob of material you can do something with, although you wouldn't like the system?
Yes, from a "I don't support this because I don't like the philosophy" perspective, I can see your point, but can't see it'll matter much for how all this will evolve (DRM becoming even more mainstream than it already is). After all, MS + Intel isn't a minor player, and AMD all alone looks like peanuts in comparison to that force.
Is AMD planning to include DRM in their processors as well?
I'd put it this way: They have nothing to win on not doing it.
Not supporting DRM still won't enable bypassing DRM features, it'll just make their motherboards not support them. What good will that bring to AMD? It'll make them lack a feature vital for the end user's "media experience" according to Microsoft, and it'll make the users feel they bought a crappy motherboard that maybe won't work with e.g. iTunes in the end user's eyes. If they on the other hand do support DRM, at least one can still make use of locked down DRM'ed material. DRM itself may be a horribly stupid way to distribute media, but hey, it's AMD's choice of not letting the users do something or letting them do something (although in a restricted way).
One noble reason for them not doing it might be to make DRM'ed material less useful since they wouldn't support it, but come on, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread for many media companies, even without any hardware support. This'll now be their next wet dream with even Intel supporting them. And if AMD wouldn't do it, but the world's largest software company and the world's largest desktop CPU manufacturer doing it, I feel nothing will change in the DRM push, and AMD just have losses to look forward to if they don't join the bandwagon now. It'll probably just accelerate now, AMD with them or not.
So let me get this straight: it's foolish for Bill Gates to build important pieces on .Net, but it's smart for eveyone else?
Uh... yes?
Because these "important pieces" are generally not things that is suitable to run in a sandbox environment, like the NT microkernel.
However, for "everyone else" it's probably talking about regular application developers that neither need to, or even should access the kernel directly.
The question was, if the .NET OS is vaporware
.NET technologies, that's exactly what Longhorn is supposed to be. Longhorn's UI is for example using the Avalon API, which is programmed in WinFX with your .NET language of choice.
What do you mean with ".NET OS"? An entire OS running in a virtual machine?? Not sure if that would get much more successful than Sun's JavaOS which most people haven't even heard about.
However, if you mean an OS making use of lots of
Is there such a one-liner for the .Net strategy?
A new platform designed to let developers easier achieve several common demands of computing such as security (managed code), communication (evolved, more abstract, communications API compared to Win32) and mobility (.NET Compact Framework).
That sounded like marketing, but regardless if MS do it right or not, that's the intention anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised if your chances of getting it through depends on if its just empty bottles, or actual liquor. If they start stopping bottle collectors, only the bottle collectors will care. If it becomes hard to get liquor through, there'll be a public outrage.
Hm, maybe finally people will start finding a use for that .aero domain.
Here's a sample of what they see:
http://www.freedomisslavery.info/index.php?p=1138
Wow, that just looks gross, I certainly don't envy them!
Is IPv6 a tool looking for a job to do?
IPv6 is often simplified to one feature: increased address space. Then the matter with NAT is brought up, which is not a very good solution for reasons mentioned numerous times elsewhere in these comments. Here are some more features of it to consider:
- IPv4 has optional support for end-to-end encryption via IPSec. In IPv6 it's mandatory.
- IPv6 doesn't require manual configuration or DHCP.
- IPv6 support QoS by router.
- IPv6 routers doesn't fragment packets like in IPv4, for clearly more efficient (faster and less processing requirements) packet routing.
- IPv6 streamlines packet sizes by extension headers.
- IPv6 has enhanced neighbor discovery features by multicast instead of broadcasted ARP messages. ICMPv6 has new messages to find best default gateways, that aren't optional like the ICMPv4 Router Discovery. These features should give an enhanced ad hoc connectivity experience for the users.
- IPv6 doesn't necessarily send broadcast messages to all nodes on a subnet, but uses more intelligent local scopes.
IE actually performed XML in a compliant way?
Yes, MSXML 3.0 supports most of XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, XDR, and SAX2, and shipped with IE 6.
MSXML 4.0 SP2 has since then been made available with some additional conformance improvements.
If I recall correctly, it was doing some non-standard stuff anyways.
Yes, and Gecko supports Mozilla-specific CSS extensions. So?
I'm not surprised it gets broken.
No, one app usually break when another overwrites files the former used, so it's to be expected.
OK, now, can someone explain what was so seriously Insightful up there?
"Secure" OSs just won't/can't get viruses & spyware.
Yes, they can if they grant enough user rights.
The problem with Windows is that the default user has admin rights and no one cares to create & use a regular user account instead. They can, and only use the admin account for special kinds of installs and system maintenance like on other operating systems.
Hopefully this default will finally change in Longhorn... The computer world would become a better place...
How many of the downloaders burned a copy for their friends?
How many of the downloaders burned dozens of copies and sold them on the streets of cities worldwide?
What the hell... Going through the trouble of burning shitty workprint copies for your friends that looks like a 10 year old VHS tape quality-wise, with a huge counter in the corner.
Or even worse, trying to sell those copies?
I truly believe the amount of people doing this was neglible compared to those going with their friends to the theaters and getting it in top notch quality with surround sound, despite the cost.
I personally believe what hurt sales more are the DVD rips since they compete much better with DVD's from stores.
It actually worked once for me, and I can report that searching for "sith" gives the expected results. :-p
Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results.
I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to say, but both IsoHunt and TorrentSpy deliver excellent results and definitely fulfilling their purpose, and they're fully functional today.
I've used it before with a VISA card, using a special service to generate temporary numbers with custom credit limits. A good free service my internet bank provides, and useful to trial "shady" sites. But I'm happy to say all transactions were just fine over a period of a few months of usage at least.
A lot of people seem to be passionate about Macs, Linux and some Unix variants. But I've never known anyone who is really passionate about windows, some people prefer it to other operating systems but nobody really seems to love it. I could understand apple doing this, but I think Microsoft might have difficulty finding people who really love windows.
:-) MS recently held WinHEC and people paid to get in there to get information about their upcoming technologies to praise on their websites. Neowin.net is among Internet's largest forum communities, and the majority are Windows users that explicitly write they prefer Windows.
What, are you kidding?
I know it can be hard to grasp if you're mostly a Slashdot reader and/or mostly hang around in F/OSS communities, but Microsoft will have tons and tons of users praising Windows to choose from.
OK, I thought he was talking of Java the Language, as that's what the article is all about (Java bytecode).
Yeah, I agree this sounds more like a dirty hack than anything else. I'm not even sure you save so much time either because of the possible weird bugs from a translated bytecode you talk about. I'd say: spend that time of ensuring your app still work as it should and solving any such bugs, instead with taking your source to Mono and fix up GUI code etc for GTK# or whatever. I'd feel much safer that way, for personally having worked with the code instead of an automated tool.
You compare a development platform with a programming language? Yikes!
Just goes to show that maybe a source that ANYONE can stick any random crap into might not be the most reliable.
Not really, in this case it showed that an article that's out of date may not be correct. I mean, the new information was just now announced. To clarify, these articles now seem to be correct according to my source, and read:
- "Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab believe that Voyager entered the termination shock in February 2003."
- "Evidence presented at the AGU meeting in New Orleans in May 2005 by Dr. Ed Stone suggests that the Voyager I spacecraft passed termination shock in December 2004."
However, don't pick an easy password for its master password, and don't write it down. ;-)
Neither writing down your password or picking a simple password is clever, so I don't see why he even discuss this?
:-p
Like saying you should really try start smoking sometime because it's worse to use heroin.
I think a good way to come up with non-dictionary passwords while keeping them reasonably easy to remember is to take the first letter in a sentence and somehow mix it up with numbers. Like "I Am A Geek And Like Slashdot" would become "iaagals". Then add some number from your social security number or something to make it truly alphanumeric and voila.
There are numerous other ways, and if I have to use a password somewhere, I really prefer to pick my own. If it's randomized and forced on me by some admin for "maximum security", I'll almost guaranteed write it down somewhere. Instead I'd prefer said admin to run my personally made password through an extensive dictionary to ensure it's not simply an easy victim for a dictionary attack, and maybe also check it's alphanumeric. I really dislike those enforced passwords like "3zq@q!02". Jee, thanks, let me get a pen and paper.
As I don't see "prove you're not a script", I suspect it is limited to AC postings
Yes, AC postings under no account.
If you have an account and are logged in, you can still post as AC without having to type that in.
violate copyrights and stifle future sales
If it works like now, you'll be able to read just a few pages out of the book so it's not exactly that a hacker could make a script to automatically grab entire books from their index or anything. They simply only have maybe 10-20 pages per book.