Although it breaks mass production, if I put my Dr. Evil hat on and I wanted to track who was copying CD's I'd have them burned custom at the place of purchase.
In order to have this work. I envision the following system (as a brief thought experiment...there are holes probably)
1. CD's/DVD's are encrypted using public/private keypair.
2. When you buy your DVD player you stick a USB stick (which comes with the player) and a public/private keypair is generated (this is happening AT the store before you take the player home). The public portion of the key is sent via network to several sources (MPAA, RIAA, Store database, ect). The private key is written to write once rom in the player (that could only be removed by opening up the box and pulling it out of the socket).
3. When you want to buy media to play on that player the vendor with the content burns a custom CD/DVD for use on your player only.
Of course this would'nt work probably on PC's (once you decrypt it you can rip it). But it would certainly make playing stuff on your set top DVD player a lot harder to use and harder to use these DVD's on other units. But then again as Dr. Evil I could charge you to "enable" other devices with your private key.
It's comming to the point where you will have an OS you use (dual boot) for games (or through some hardware partitioning) and an OS you use for everything you hold dear to your heart that you don't want people knowing.
I appreciate the work these people are doing in trying to stop the botnets, but in order to fix something in many cases there needs to be a disaster. I say let the botnets do their thing. When 100,000 people get together for a class action lawsuit to sue an OS or application vendor for poor security that allowed their computer to get zombified and participate in illegal activity the world will wake up.
I find it funny that people regaurd today as unlucky when it's only the Aniversary of the sacking of the Knights Templar by the King of France and the Pope hundreds of years ago!
History that still effects people after so long is cool
From a support standpoint, Eudora is a nightmare. It's base design required them to take a "bolt on" approach to features you find in standard email clients today like.
- multiple SMTP servers different from incomming mail server - Different port numbers for SMTP servers - Bad SSL implementations (historically speaking)
On top of that add cryptic error messages and horrible debugging tools.
That's the beauty of open source. If Linus Torvalds were to die (Linus...not looking for you to kick the bucket!) the source code would still exist and people would continue to work with it.
I'm sure that even if the originator of the ReiserFS is convicted, if the software is good it will continue onward.
"Reportedly, YouTube will retain its brand and all its 67 employees, including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen."
yea..right..for about 6 months. It makes absolutely NO sense to have both video.google.com AND youtube at the same time under the same company. One of the two will get merged into the other.
Example, One could argue that many other important advances in computing probably would of been invented but were not because people did'nt invest in desktop operating systems other than Windows.
It's certainly a plausable theory, but one that cannot be proven because you can't prove what WOULD of happened.
"He was forced to spend his money on a new window, and therefore could not have spent it on something else. Perhaps he was going to buy bread, benefitting the baker, who would then have bought shoes, etc., but instead he was forced to buy a window. Instead of a window and bread, he had only a window. Or perhaps he would have bought a new shirt, benefitting the tailor; in that case the glazier's gain was the tailor's loss, and again the shopkeeper has only a window instead of a window and a shirt. The child did not bring any net benefit to the town. Instead, he made the town poorer by the value of one window."
"Perhapse" is the key word in the paragraph. Because it DID'NT happen that way you can never know for sure.
For all that Microsoft does to make our life harder, they create more jobs for everybody supporting windows. In a strange way, windoze sucking as bad over the years has spawned whole industries that would not be around probably if we had a rock solid OS.
How topical! I recently went through the whole "What to do about my Constanza wallet" issue. I think the best way to deal with it is to get something you CAN'T stuff to the hilt.
If I buy a door for my house and a thief gets through the door because the door was DEFECTIVE (...lock fell apart, materials problem) I can SUE the door manufacturer for selling me a product that failed (most likely).
If I buy a product from Microsoft (or most vendors) and I get hacked because of BAD code, I can't do a damn thing. And to top it off...Microsoft now wants me to buy MORE software to protect myself from future holes in their software!
I'm not just picking on Microsoft, its a problem in the entire commercial software industry. When the Federal Government get's hit by a virus that takes advantage of a hole, WHY did'nt they sue MS!? Has that EULA EVER been tested by REAL laywers?
They were all chummy chummy with Microsoft when Netscape was getting their asses handed to them back in the late 90's due to MS bundling IE. Now they are crying like little babies yelling about anti-trust.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but if you sleep with the black widow, expect that she'll eat you eventually.
Before taking everything in the article as fact, take a glance at the rest of the stories on the site. You will definitely see a pattern. And NO..I'm not going to suggest what that pattern is.
Slashdot Mirror
I refuse to take the author seriously because he/she used the following words together in one paragraph...
Forces
coalescing
repercussions
transformation
cliched
virtual
cinematic
compelling
and lastly but not in the paragraph but the title
Metaverse
I was surprised we didn't see paradigm thrown in there as well!
Millions of Koreans who have not played starcraft or WOW.....
Simply Amazing!
Joke over....
Their suffering is dismal and depressing.
If it keeps them in buisness long enough to one day come back INTO the graphics market then maybe it WILL be worth it.
Although it breaks mass production, if I put my Dr. Evil hat on and I wanted to track who was copying CD's I'd have them burned custom at the place of purchase.
In order to have this work. I envision the following system (as a brief thought experiment...there are holes probably)
1. CD's/DVD's are encrypted using public/private keypair.
2. When you buy your DVD player you stick a USB stick (which comes with the player) and a public/private keypair is generated (this is happening AT the store before you take the player home). The public portion of the key is sent via network to several sources (MPAA, RIAA, Store database, ect). The private key is written to write once rom in the player (that could only be removed by opening up the box and pulling it out of the socket).
3. When you want to buy media to play on that player the vendor with the content burns a custom CD/DVD for use on your player only.
Of course this would'nt work probably on PC's (once you decrypt it you can rip it). But it would certainly make playing stuff on your set top DVD player a lot harder to use and harder to use these DVD's on other units. But then again as Dr. Evil I could charge you to "enable" other devices with your private key.
It's comming to the point where you will have an OS you use (dual boot) for games (or through some hardware partitioning) and an OS you use for everything you hold dear to your heart that you don't want people knowing.
I appreciate the work these people are doing in trying to stop the botnets, but in order to fix something in many cases there needs to be a disaster. I say let the botnets do their thing. When 100,000 people get together for a class action lawsuit to sue an OS or application vendor for poor security that allowed their computer to get zombified and participate in illegal activity the world will wake up.
I find it funny that people regaurd today as unlucky when it's only the Aniversary of the sacking of the Knights Templar by the King of France and the Pope hundreds of years ago!
History that still effects people after so long is cool
The goal is not marketshare, it's to have a safe, secure browser that WORKS.
They should use SELinux extensions. Have targeted policies for the web browser and email client at a minimum.
Virutal machines will not work, the system is too underpowered for it.
All I can say is "YEA!"
From a support standpoint, Eudora is a nightmare. It's base design required them to take a "bolt on" approach to features you find in standard email clients today like.
- multiple SMTP servers different from incomming mail server
- Different port numbers for SMTP servers
- Bad SSL implementations (historically speaking)
On top of that add cryptic error messages and horrible debugging tools.
This makes me REALLY wonder how many more there are.....
That's the beauty of open source. If Linus Torvalds were to die (Linus...not looking for you to kick the bucket!) the source code would still exist and people would continue to work with it.
I'm sure that even if the originator of the ReiserFS is convicted, if the software is good it will continue onward.
"Reportedly, YouTube will retain its brand and all its 67 employees, including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen."
yea..right..for about 6 months. It makes absolutely NO sense to have both video.google.com AND youtube at the same time under the same company. One of the two will get merged into the other.
I disagree somewhat.
You can't measure that which is not.
Example, One could argue that many other important advances in computing probably would of been invented but were not because people did'nt invest in desktop operating systems other than Windows.
It's certainly a plausable theory, but one that cannot be proven because you can't prove what WOULD of happened.
"He was forced to spend his money on a new window, and therefore could not have spent it on something else. Perhaps he was going to buy bread, benefitting the baker, who would then have bought shoes, etc., but instead he was forced to buy a window. Instead of a window and bread, he had only a window. Or perhaps he would have bought a new shirt, benefitting the tailor; in that case the glazier's gain was the tailor's loss, and again the shopkeeper has only a window instead of a window and a shirt. The child did not bring any net benefit to the town. Instead, he made the town poorer by the value of one window."
"Perhapse" is the key word in the paragraph. Because it DID'NT happen that way you can never know for sure.
Web 2.0.
Convergence
Interactivity
Video!!
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I'm just all tinkled with excitement (yawn)
For all that Microsoft does to make our life harder, they create more jobs for everybody supporting windows. In a strange way, windoze sucking as bad over the years has spawned whole industries that would not be around probably if we had a rock solid OS.
How topical! I recently went through the whole "What to do about my Constanza wallet" issue. I think the best way to deal with it is to get something you CAN'T stuff to the hilt.
n .html
http://koyono.com/products/view_slimmy/descriptio
Any true geek who understands tight code should understand that slim is good! FAT bad!
What REALLY pisses me off is..
If I buy a door for my house and a thief gets through the door because the door was DEFECTIVE (...lock fell apart, materials problem) I can SUE the door manufacturer for selling me a product that failed (most likely).
If I buy a product from Microsoft (or most vendors) and I get hacked because of BAD code, I can't do a damn thing. And to top it off...Microsoft now wants me to buy MORE software to protect myself from future holes in their software!
I'm not just picking on Microsoft, its a problem in the entire commercial software industry. When the Federal Government get's hit by a virus that takes advantage of a hole, WHY did'nt they sue MS!? Has that EULA EVER been tested by REAL laywers?
They were all chummy chummy with Microsoft when Netscape was getting their asses handed to them back in the late 90's due to MS bundling IE. Now they are crying like little babies yelling about anti-trust.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but if you sleep with the black widow, expect that she'll eat you eventually.
Is it now? I was going to suggest that the color pattern of the background of most of the stories is white.....
Before taking everything in the article as fact, take a glance at the rest of the stories on the site. You will definitely see a pattern. And NO..I'm not going to suggest what that pattern is.
I'm curious, is there a policy for FireFox within SELinux and would it restrict what a hacker could do with this expoit if it were available?
Could they use "FyreFox"?
Then buy your ebooks as PDF's.
Can anybody tell if Red Flag is Linux Standard base compliant. If it is it would be interesting to see if helps LSB move along.
Would'nt it be strange if a communist party inspired Linux distro ended up influencing Linux developement?