There are clearly no laws currently in effect which make open source applications/OSes illegal. Even if some comes into play, those laws can't be applied retroactively. So this really has little bearing on their current legal situation.
That is a great idea. I've always wondered that myself when I'm playing quake. It just seems so natural to be able to switch to a console with just one button. It shouldn't be hard to add such functionality to most window managers. I might try that one day when I have time, but who has time these days?
Define a valid linux box please. I thought you could do what you wish with something you buy assuming you're not harming other people with it. Who are you to say what a "real" computer user is? Bah.
Ironic that you use them as an example when their search tool you talk about isn't working.
"We are unable to perform your search at the moment. Please try again later."
Haha. =)
Apparently not many people have tried this....I have though...=) My experience is Windows won't let you format the C drive while it's in use. So nothing really happens when you do that.
And the card are bad. In the PROM (programmable read only memory) there are 8 bytes. They can only be written to once. Think of it as little fuses that can only be blown, and not rewired. Well, DirecTV blew all the bytes, and without an electron microscope and machinery capabile of depositing single atoms, you card is pretty much screwed. This value is check eary in the bootstrap of the IRD. If this value is bad, the card goes into an infinate loop. So, inorder for H cards to be usuable again, they have to make somesort of hardware add-on that bypasses the bootstrap or feeds it a bum value, sort of like a mod chip in a PSX. Just though you shoud know.
It sounds like DirecTV came up with this magnificent counterstrike on the satellite hacking community. Well, they had some help. An "organization" by the name of NorthSat wrote scripts that when applied with a smartcard programmer, would enable all the channels. DirecTV sued them, but they weren't after money or damages. They wanted some assistance. So, in order to avoid jailtime and massive fines, NorthSat assisted in this ECM (electronic countermeasure). NorthSat knew the cards better than DirecTV did. They knew all the holes that were open, where and why they changed the EEPROM, and how to finally take them down. So, give NorthSat some credit. Bad guys gone good, yes. But FREE good guys.
This wasn't a hack on DirecTV's part. They sued an "organization" named NorthSat that sold scripts that activated all the channels. Anyway, DirecTV made a pact with this "organization" to either help them or be punished to the fullest. So, NorthSat agreed (which I would have, also) and then help DirecTV put together this intelligent assault on the satellite pirates. So, please don't credit DirecTV, credit the bad guy gone good.
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Doesn't it though?
That comment alone made enduring all the other Beowulf cluster jokes worth it.
Aren't we already not purchasing any music? =)
Check there page for Amaya. It's their browser that is supposed to be completely(?) standards compliant. It looks like CRAP though.
They'll probably sue for that too. =)
There are clearly no laws currently in effect which make open source applications/OSes illegal. Even if some comes into play, those laws can't be applied retroactively. So this really has little bearing on their current legal situation.
Heh. So I should just stop using computers until one comes out that was written in this millenium? Ok, no problem.
That is a great idea. I've always wondered that myself when I'm playing quake. It just seems so natural to be able to switch to a console with just one button. It shouldn't be hard to add such functionality to most window managers. I might try that one day when I have time, but who has time these days?
Define a valid linux box please. I thought you could do what you wish with something you buy assuming you're not harming other people with it. Who are you to say what a "real" computer user is? Bah.
Ironic that you use them as an example when their search tool you talk about isn't working. "We are unable to perform your search at the moment. Please try again later." Haha. =)
I grew up on Windows 3.11. And I think I'm going to ride it out...
Apparently not many people have tried this....I have though...=) My experience is Windows won't let you format the C drive while it's in use. So nothing really happens when you do that.
And the card are bad. In the PROM (programmable read only memory) there are 8 bytes. They can only be written to once. Think of it as little fuses that can only be blown, and not rewired. Well, DirecTV blew all the bytes, and without an electron microscope and machinery capabile of depositing single atoms, you card is pretty much screwed. This value is check eary in the bootstrap of the IRD. If this value is bad, the card goes into an infinate loop. So, inorder for H cards to be usuable again, they have to make somesort of hardware add-on that bypasses the bootstrap or feeds it a bum value, sort of like a mod chip in a PSX. Just though you shoud know.
It sounds like DirecTV came up with this magnificent counterstrike on the satellite hacking community. Well, they had some help. An "organization" by the name of NorthSat wrote scripts that when applied with a smartcard programmer, would enable all the channels. DirecTV sued them, but they weren't after money or damages. They wanted some assistance. So, in order to avoid jailtime and massive fines, NorthSat assisted in this ECM (electronic countermeasure). NorthSat knew the cards better than DirecTV did. They knew all the holes that were open, where and why they changed the EEPROM, and how to finally take them down. So, give NorthSat some credit. Bad guys gone good, yes. But FREE good guys.
This wasn't a hack on DirecTV's part. They sued an "organization" named NorthSat that sold scripts that activated all the channels. Anyway, DirecTV made a pact with this "organization" to either help them or be punished to the fullest. So, NorthSat agreed (which I would have, also) and then help DirecTV put together this intelligent assault on the satellite pirates. So, please don't credit DirecTV, credit the bad guy gone good.