Have you ever downloaded an app or library that was developed and tested under SableVM/Gnu-classpath but not Sun's SDK?
Free software will increasingly be developed with non SUN software. Who really wants to download and install a 50 MB file after installing a 5 GB distro? One of the advantages of a modern GNU/Linux distro is that you can be productive right away, compared to Windows which is quite bare to begin with.
Kaffe is a free java vm, why they did it? Because now, if you want free java on ipaq, kaffe is a good solution. Also because kaffe is open source so its chanches of porting are better. And sometimes is quite faster then sun vm.
Due to the SUN license, no distro would bundle the JDK in the Free version. Kaffe was/usr/bin/java for all of the GNU/Linux distros.
Tap your own phone line, record a few dozen sessions, and pretty soon you can have the player phoning YOUR DRM server instead of CC's.
There are a lot of protocols that are not vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. SSH2 comes to mind. Believe it or not, as the DRM gets more sophisticated, it will be nearly impossible to break. Remember the earliest cable "encryption"? It was a trivial matter to twist some wires to clean that up. The next version required a dedicated set top box to decode. I don't think anyone succeeded in breaking the digital cable transmission.
It could be anything from vt1 to vt12 (Ctrl-Alt-F1 to Ctrl-Alt-F12)--higher, actually, but there aren't simple key chords for those.
Most distros default to 8 ttys I think. (8 ttys ought to be enough for anyone:-))
If you're really interested, respond and I'll grab the exacts from one of the machines we have set up that way.
The multiple login feature was really impressive, especially to Windows users. Why not post the code here? Sounds like a nifty method. In Mandrake default security setting, however, anyone could execute startx.
DivX wasn't cracked because it was too unpopular to bother. If it had lasted longer in the market, it would've met the same fate as CSS.
I think that is highly unlikely. The machine running DivX had a phone line connection to CC. Why do you think no one has hacked ATMs? And AFAIK, there were no PC players, only hardware ones.
Privacy of the people should be considered a security measure rather than a risk. The number of officials who have access to Government surveillance data is ever increasing. For instance, in the UK, one measure to ease the load on a particular machine was to give virtually all employees access to the police database. Imagine how easy it would be for a terrorist organization to plan a crime in this situation. Anyone remember the movie where the robbers visited the bank managers the night before?
You have no privacy anyway. Anytime you pay for something with a credit card, make a local phone call, a long distance phone call, buy a plane ticket, sign online, apply for a loan, pay a utility bill late, turn on your cell phone, rent a video, use your frequent shopper card, get a ticket, goto the doctor, get health insurance, or buy anything online you're just adding yourself to a big database somewhere.
Scott McNealy would really like it everyone gave up their privacy. He wants people to get over it. However, privacy, like security is a process. You don't have to subject yourself to all this privacy invasion in the future if the laws/business methods are changed. In particular, how do the database maintainers verify the data they have? Unless privacy violations are backed by specific laws, the value of the databases would be small. To paraphrase a slashdot fortune, you will have zero privacy only when you accept zero privacy.
While I can't vouch for this information personally, a friend of mine who does microprocessor design once told me that slower processors are used because the faster the processor, the more random errors it generates.
Most of the transistor count increase in Prescott is attributed to added hardware tests. I think modern microprocessors would be much more reliable in that case.
Universal key (DeCSS anyone?) As soon as it's exposed somewhere it shouldn't be, its taken, and used on any media you'd like
It was the earliest of the DRM systems. No one is going to use something that naive today (except for the CD protection sharpie guys).
This could work, so long as the hardware is such that it cannot be accessed, but as we have seen time and time again, people are willing to take apart their boxes to see what makes them tick
Once XBOX moves to PS2 style single chip design, all this mod chip business will end. You don't even need encryption.
Any engineer (who isn't trying to part a fool from his venture capital) will tell you that, in the long run, "trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
DRM can work in current systems if there is contact with upstream, i.e., it will easily work on an internet connected PC. Some of the DRM systems which weren't cracked include DivX (from Circuit City) and Liquid Audio.
And some of you accused the BBC of making an unfounded claim when they said this:
Look at this website to see how the BBC operates. They have their own private force which they use to collect money from people by force, sending threatening letters and ransacking homes. I think they would fall under the RICO act in the US.
That's all they need. They then start charging your card for amounts just under $500. When you get your bill, you're unlikely to call the credit card company because you already know that they're on the case and that you'll receive a credit.
You should always initiate the call if you are going to give out information. Unless the scammers are able to reroute your calls, in which case all bets are off. If you are answering your call in front of your computer, a simple google search will expose most scams (they will be in the first page).
there ARE actually a few writers of fiction who dedicate alot of time to great research on REAL technologies, then apply it to ifcitonal scenerios.
One thing that bothers me with Crichton is that he loses the science about a third into the book. BTW, there was a program in Discovery channel about nanotechnology and they asked the experts about the intelligent nanobots theory from the book (they didn't mention Crichton by name though, probably didn't want to get sued). The scientists laughed at it (what would you expect them to do, anyway?), and said that the bots would only do what we designed them to do.
Another issue is the rate of learning for these bots. I suppose that the rate will have to be pretty rapid for a book or a three hour movie, but does anyone have evidence of ants or thermites learning something new in a few hours. If you model something on nature, wouldn't the timescales be the same? How can you have rapid evolution?
its too expensive for students to buy music in the regular market so now its just included as a tax in their tuition???
The music industry is very good at taxing the citizens. They have taxes on blank CDs, hard drives (in Canada and Europe), and now in Internet streaming. I would suggest that people boycott solely on this tactic. This is should've been dealt with under the RICO statutes. Not to mention all the extra stuff you have to pay for in the electronics and computer goods you buy (DRM chips, signal degradation (Macrovision) etc.)
The fee will be added to your tuition. You don't really get a say in this.
Linux is dead in the DRM future. The open web is dead in the DRM future.
I don't think anyone would notice. If you see what people really want, you will undertand why a $40 billion dollar industry controls a $400 billion one.
It has attacked a company based in Utah called SCO, bringing down its website with a barrage of data sent from countless computers into which the worm had been insinuated, unbeknownst to the users.
The SCO website was taken down by SCO before the attack (see all the posts about DNS changes).
There seems little doubt that SCO was targeted - illegally and unacceptably, lest anyone be in any doubt - because it has enraged many people devoted to the Linux operating system.
And later...
There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.
Which is it, Mr. Evans?
For good measure, SCO is seeking at least a billion dollars from IBM.
Why can't we just all get along? I'm serious. The actions of the MyDoom creators are not indicitive of the actions or opinions of the rest of the community. To say otherwise would be the same as being what you're against.
Rest of the community? What makes you assume that whoever wrote this is part of the community?
I would have expected better from the BBC, but whatever.
BBC has lost all credibility with me after this story. Unless they publish a retraction/clarification, there is no reason to believe anything else they say.
The BBC employ hacks to write dumbed down pseudo-news just the same as all the other news providers do. It's just a shame they sometimes elevate this speculation and filler material to the front page of their website along with the real news.
This is guy is their "North America Business Correspondent". Instead of brushing it off as an anomaly, this should go towards evaluating the credibility of everything BBC puts forth.
If you search for referer on that page, it will tell you how to use the -auto_referer option.
That will not work in all situations. A lot of servers just check to see that you come from on of its pages. A correct implementation would be to allow only the clients with referer from pages pointing to it, which is why I suspect no one has added it to curl or wget.
Wget has an --referer=URL option, but I find that it doesn't work.
Which version of wget are you using? The referrer option works fine for me--for one website when I don't use it, I get redirected to the main page. With the referrer option I can download the file. Although something that sets the referrer automatically would be best.
Word is a word processor, and my Word 98 (not to mention Excel and PPT) reads newer version docs from both platforms just fine. Ease of use would literally mean learning to type, so I'm not sure I understand your argument.
I was talking about file formats. MS hasn't changed the format since Office 97, so you haven't experienced any problems. What happens when they start with the whole XML office and DRM thing?
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Free software will increasingly be developed with non SUN software. Who really wants to download and install a 50 MB file after installing a 5 GB distro? One of the advantages of a modern GNU/Linux distro is that you can be productive right away, compared to Windows which is quite bare to begin with.
Due to the SUN license, no distro would bundle the JDK in the Free version. Kaffe was /usr/bin/java for all of the GNU/Linux distros.
There are a lot of protocols that are not vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. SSH2 comes to mind. Believe it or not, as the DRM gets more sophisticated, it will be nearly impossible to break. Remember the earliest cable "encryption"? It was a trivial matter to twist some wires to clean that up. The next version required a dedicated set top box to decode. I don't think anyone succeeded in breaking the digital cable transmission.
Most distros default to 8 ttys I think. (8 ttys ought to be enough for anyone :-))
The multiple login feature was really impressive, especially to Windows users. Why not post the code here? Sounds like a nifty method. In Mandrake default security setting, however, anyone could execute startx.
I think that is highly unlikely. The machine running DivX had a phone line connection to CC. Why do you think no one has hacked ATMs? And AFAIK, there were no PC players, only hardware ones.
Privacy of the people should be considered a security measure rather than a risk. The number of officials who have access to Government surveillance data is ever increasing. For instance, in the UK, one measure to ease the load on a particular machine was to give virtually all employees access to the police database. Imagine how easy it would be for a terrorist organization to plan a crime in this situation. Anyone remember the movie where the robbers visited the bank managers the night before?
Scott McNealy would really like it everyone gave up their privacy. He wants people to get over it. However, privacy, like security is a process. You don't have to subject yourself to all this privacy invasion in the future if the laws/business methods are changed. In particular, how do the database maintainers verify the data they have? Unless privacy violations are backed by specific laws, the value of the databases would be small. To paraphrase a slashdot fortune, you will have zero privacy only when you accept zero privacy.
Most of the transistor count increase in Prescott is attributed to added hardware tests. I think modern microprocessors would be much more reliable in that case.
It was the earliest of the DRM systems. No one is going to use something that naive today (except for the CD protection sharpie guys).
Once XBOX moves to PS2 style single chip design, all this mod chip business will end. You don't even need encryption.
DRM can work in current systems if there is contact with upstream, i.e., it will easily work on an internet connected PC. Some of the DRM systems which weren't cracked include DivX (from Circuit City) and Liquid Audio.
That would be Ctrl-Alt-F[1-7]. You will have to do another startx after logging in console mode though.
Possibly. glimpse is a program that will create a database so that you can quickly search through all of your files, in UN*X.
Look at this website to see how the BBC operates. They have their own private force which they use to collect money from people by force, sending threatening letters and ransacking homes. I think they would fall under the RICO act in the US.
You should always initiate the call if you are going to give out information. Unless the scammers are able to reroute your calls, in which case all bets are off. If you are answering your call in front of your computer, a simple google search will expose most scams (they will be in the first page).
One thing that bothers me with Crichton is that he loses the science about a third into the book. BTW, there was a program in Discovery channel about nanotechnology and they asked the experts about the intelligent nanobots theory from the book (they didn't mention Crichton by name though, probably didn't want to get sued). The scientists laughed at it (what would you expect them to do, anyway?), and said that the bots would only do what we designed them to do.
Another issue is the rate of learning for these bots. I suppose that the rate will have to be pretty rapid for a book or a three hour movie, but does anyone have evidence of ants or thermites learning something new in a few hours. If you model something on nature, wouldn't the timescales be the same? How can you have rapid evolution?
The music industry is very good at taxing the citizens. They have taxes on blank CDs, hard drives (in Canada and Europe), and now in Internet streaming. I would suggest that people boycott solely on this tactic. This is should've been dealt with under the RICO statutes. Not to mention all the extra stuff you have to pay for in the electronics and computer goods you buy (DRM chips, signal degradation (Macrovision) etc.)
The fee will be added to your tuition. You don't really get a say in this.
I don't think anyone would notice. If you see what people really want, you will undertand why a $40 billion dollar industry controls a $400 billion one.
The SCO website was taken down by SCO before the attack (see all the posts about DNS changes).
And later ...
Which is it, Mr. Evans?
The sum is three billion dollars Stephen.
Rest of the community? What makes you assume that whoever wrote this is part of the community?
BBC has lost all credibility with me after this story. Unless they publish a retraction/clarification, there is no reason to believe anything else they say.
This is guy is their "North America Business Correspondent". Instead of brushing it off as an anomaly, this should go towards evaluating the credibility of everything BBC puts forth.
Nice straw man. FSF believes in Free software. They don't advocate "liberating" software like some warez d00ds do.
That will not work in all situations. A lot of servers just check to see that you come from on of its pages. A correct implementation would be to allow only the clients with referer from pages pointing to it, which is why I suspect no one has added it to curl or wget.
Unless you have servers which look at the client and then exhort you to get the "supported" browser (read IE).
Which version of wget are you using? The referrer option works fine for me--for one website when I don't use it, I get redirected to the main page. With the referrer option I can download the file. Although something that sets the referrer automatically would be best.
I was talking about file formats. MS hasn't changed the format since Office 97, so you haven't experienced any problems. What happens when they start with the whole XML office and DRM thing?
No arguments there.