Re:Why not raise the spiders in seperate areas?
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AFAIK spiders are predators, so you would have to feed them with meat (read insects, unless they are happy with ground meat from larger animals). That's quite expensive compared to the plants the goats eat.
The milking of the spiders would be even more expensive, imagine a worker going round and taking a few drops of spidersilk fluid from every spider.
It would be sufficient to check the moves in hindsight and cancel the effects of illegal behavior.
Suppose someone modified his client and moved through a wall to attack his opponent. The server would not acknowledge the effect of the attack, and the cheater might find himself put back to a place before the wall (depending on implementation).
Thus, people with cheating clients would ruin only their own fun.
Today, the newsticker at www.heise.de had the news that the parliament of the EU will probably demand regulations against content protection logic that would undermine the european versions of fair use rights. If they have their way (the EU government does not 100% agree), we will get the opposite of your DMCA:
National governments would be obliged to make laws against content protection logic if it prohibits legal copying. Now take into account that german copyright law explicitly allows copying for personal use, and we might get one market where such copy protection is illegal.
Piece of shit? I don't think so. While I would agree that C++ is more powerful, Delphi is just fine for business applications that don't need exotic features.
IMHO, Visual Basic sucks.
Speaking of prices, it depends who you are. If you run a business and have to pay programmer's wages, the easy cross-platform development is probably worth the money (that is, if Borland keeps its promise of "write once, compile for both Linux and Windows").
For a hobbyist $999 _is_ steep, and the open source community will probably dislike it because it's closed source. We'll see...
IANAL, too, but in the appeal of the DeCSS case the lawyers of the defendands state that
the DMCA says "you cannot crack copyright protection schemes even if your purpose is to allow you to have fair use of the underlying material" and is therefore unconstitutional.
In the (german) C't magazine there is some speculation about use of the Crusoe for rack-mounted servers, because the performance/power-consumption ratio is a major issue for these machines. Lots of processors in a small space make for difficult cooling.
Speaking of laptops, the performance of the current CPUs is overkill for many applications. For someone who mainly uses an office suite, the extra battery life might be more important than another increase in performance. Actually, I see more and more talk about underclocking in online forums, with the goal of running your desktop without these noisy fans.
I agree - if something is fucked, don't buy it.
That stupid control mania is one of the reasons I don't have a DVD-ROM in my computer yet - without the region code/content scrambling crap I might buy one.
I don't even have a TV set and rarely miss it- the programs (in Germany) are not that good.
No need to worry about hearing problems - it takes a LOT of computers to bring the noise level up to 85 dB(A), which is AFAIK considered the maximum noise level one should work under without hearing protection.
Another thing is noise-induced stress as a psychological problem. There is an "ecological" quality label in Germany that actually specifies a maximum noise level (IIRC around 45 dB(a)). In a job several years ago, I was working on the noise measurements in QA, and boxes with cheap, lousy fans had problems meeting that limit.
The option to sue against a law is part of the checks and balances in a democracy. It provides a way to get rid of unconstitutional laws.
Of course the same lawmakers that made the law could try to change the constitution, but AFAIK that is a lot more difficult. In Germany (that's where I live) it certainly is, you need a much larger majority in the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
We also have a special court for constitutional issues, the Bundesverfassungsgericht. This court only deals with cases where somone's constitutional rights are infringed by a law or government's regulation (ore lack thereof). If the Bundesverfassungsgericht finds that a law is unconstitutional, it can throw it out. In that respect, it is the equivalent of the US Supreme court.
Right now, there is another way to do this: Take the signal S from a real noisy amplifier, and feed it (for instance) to a comparator that gives you a 1 for S>0 and a zero for S0.
Take a number of bits from the comparator#s output, line them up into an integer value (for instance) and you've got a true random number
You don't have many of those big servers in a company, definitely much less than workstations.
The price per unit is also MUCH higher than in a PC.
Thus, the cost of a license transferring scheme that might cause one hour of work per upgrade and machine (like calling your OS vendor and re-registering for the modified hardware) will be insignificant for the "big irons".
But if the same company upgrades hundreds or thousands of PCs, it _will_ hurt them.
No need to worry. Some of the more popular devices _will_ be successfully hacked, and then you can buy one of these for your Linux box.
Just make sure it is "inofficially supported" _before_ you dish out the money
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AFAIK spiders are predators, so you would have to feed them with meat (read insects, unless they are happy with ground meat from larger animals). That's quite expensive compared to the plants the goats eat.
The milking of the spiders would be even more expensive, imagine a worker going round and taking a few drops of spidersilk fluid from every spider.
It would be sufficient to check the moves in hindsight and cancel the effects of illegal behavior.
Suppose someone modified his client and moved through a wall to attack his opponent. The server would not acknowledge the effect of the attack, and the cheater might find himself put back to a place before the wall (depending on implementation).
Thus, people with cheating clients would ruin only their own fun.
Today, the newsticker at www.heise.de had the news that the parliament of the EU will probably demand regulations against content protection logic that would undermine the european versions of fair use rights.
If they have their way (the EU government does not 100% agree), we will get the opposite of your DMCA:
National governments would be obliged to make laws against content protection logic if it prohibits legal copying. Now take into account that german copyright law explicitly allows copying for personal use, and we might get one market where such copy protection is illegal.
Piece of shit? I don't think so. While I would agree that C++ is more powerful, Delphi is just fine for business applications that don't need exotic features. IMHO, Visual Basic sucks.
Speaking of prices, it depends who you are. If you run a business and have to pay programmer's wages, the easy cross-platform development is probably worth the money (that is, if Borland keeps its promise of "write once, compile for both Linux and Windows").
For a hobbyist $999 _is_ steep, and the open source community will probably dislike it because it's closed source. We'll see...
IANAL, too, but in the appeal of the DeCSS case the lawyers of the defendands state that the DMCA says
"you cannot crack copyright protection schemes even if your purpose is to allow you to have fair use of the underlying material" and is therefore unconstitutional.
In the (german) C't magazine there is some speculation about use of the Crusoe for rack-mounted servers, because the performance/power-consumption ratio is a major issue for these machines. Lots of processors in a small space make for difficult cooling.
Speaking of laptops, the performance of the current CPUs is overkill for many applications. For someone who mainly uses an office suite, the extra battery life might be more important than another increase in performance. Actually, I see more and more talk about underclocking in online forums, with the goal of running your desktop without these noisy fans.
I agree - if something is fucked, don't buy it.
That stupid control mania is one of the reasons I don't have a DVD-ROM in my computer yet - without the region code/content scrambling crap I might buy one. I don't even have a TV set and rarely miss it- the programs (in Germany) are not that good.
No need to worry about hearing problems - it takes a LOT of computers to bring the noise level up to 85 dB(A), which is AFAIK considered the maximum noise level one should work under without hearing protection.
Another thing is noise-induced stress as a psychological problem. There is an "ecological" quality label in Germany that actually specifies a maximum noise level (IIRC around 45 dB(a)).
In a job several years ago, I was working on the noise measurements in QA, and boxes with cheap, lousy fans had problems meeting that limit.
The option to sue against a law is part of the checks and balances in a democracy. It provides a way to get rid of unconstitutional laws.
Of course the same lawmakers that made the law could try to change the constitution, but AFAIK that is a lot more difficult. In Germany (that's where I live) it certainly is, you need a much larger majority in the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
We also have a special court for constitutional issues, the Bundesverfassungsgericht. This court only deals with cases where somone's constitutional rights are infringed by a law or government's regulation (ore lack thereof). If the Bundesverfassungsgericht finds that a law is unconstitutional, it can throw it out. In that respect, it is the equivalent of the US Supreme court.
Right now, there is another way to do this: Take the signal S from a real noisy amplifier, and feed it (for instance) to a comparator that gives you a 1 for S>0 and a zero for S0. Take a number of bits from the comparator#s output, line them up into an integer value (for instance) and you've got a true random number
You don't have many of those big servers in a company, definitely much less than workstations. The price per unit is also MUCH higher than in a PC.
Thus, the cost of a license transferring scheme that might cause one hour of work per upgrade and machine (like calling your OS vendor and re-registering for the modified hardware) will be insignificant for the "big irons".
But if the same company upgrades hundreds or thousands of PCs, it _will_ hurt them.
No need to worry. Some of the more popular devices _will_ be successfully hacked, and then you can buy one of these for your Linux box. Just make sure it is "inofficially supported" _before_ you dish out the money
That's exactly what the DVD consortium tried to do with the CSS cotent scrambling system. It worked until some guys developed DeCSS...