Its likely that a group of hackers would crack it, and allow Linux to open the "secure" content, but that would be illegal, which kinda kills the idea of Linux as an OS for the masses.
It would only be illegal in the USA. The rights the DMCA tries to protect are intellectual rights in the binary realm. The approach avenue in this specific case is the access rights to the data.
Internationally, these rights are protected by treaties. Non of these treaties (yet!) works in a way the DMCA works. The treaties attempt to regulate using and copying (mainly) the works, not accessing the information.
One example is the regio coding of DVD's. Circumventing the regio encoded on a DVD probable is illegal in the US, but it most certainly isn't in most countries.
After it drops and floats, how are you going to find your camo green GPS in the morning mist between the tree roots at the slippery edge of the lake...?
I do believe that Open Source is better than proprietory. Faults per 1000 lines of code may seem like a valid scale, but I think it is indicatory at best, not proof.
* It does not take into account the design of the software. This is often as important as the actual quality of the code. * It does not take into account the kind of errors. This is related to the first, but a buffer overflow that allows root access is worse than a failed instruction. * It does not even take the length of lines into account. Shortening the lines could lower the number, without actually changing anything.
They wanted it to win. But we don't know if deep blue didn't take 'suggestions'.
To beat a grand master at chess, you'd need another grand master, of high level. That would have been too high profile. Deep blue was meant for promotion. If any fraud was considered, the risk would have been too great. It would definitely have backfired.
When I started reading, that was the first thing I thought. Then, as I was reading on, it occurred to me the guy was serious.
I mean, come on. How hard is it to replace a high tech item like a switch under a mouse button, with a switch that does not do *click*?
The sound has a function in most cases. It's a signal. Even using a mouse button is referred to as clicking. It also prevents arthritis. You do not need to apply more pressure than to make the click, thus preventing excessive wear the finger joints.
I once had a mouse where one of the mouse buttons had been repaired, and it was replaced with a silent switch (amiga mouses were expensive). I repaired it again, this time with a clicking switch. YMMV.
This move make well move progeny quite a bit forward in the linux market. But they have to be really carefull not to get burned.
They have to make it very clear to their customers what exactly they are offering. Support? How much support and in what way? Will they offer security updates? Bugfixes? Updates? Helpdesk? On site consultants?
Which of them does not really matter, just as long as they communicate clear and fair what their offer comprises. Otherwise they will get a bad rep, no matter their intentions to do things right. Customers have certain expectations, gained throught expectations with RH, and the perceived offers bu Progeny. Keeping that sane is not an easy task.
Perhaps now we'll see manufacturers adding [ext2/3/your favorite flavour of a fs] to their products.
Esp with camera's gaining support for the picture tranfer protocol (PTP), they are becomming more and more filesystem agnostic. Other devices may as well...
take a hash of the password (Ph1) as the passtoken.
now, on the client, hash the password -> Ph1 do Md5sum(Ph1 XOR SessionID) and send this. Compare on server, where you have the same two pieces of information. Now a replay attack wont work as often (only with the right session id, which is a very slim chance.
The MD5 in the last step is not a hash of a hash, which would yield no improvement. By introducing the SessionID you introduce new info. With the hash, you distribute this info evenly, making reversing it very hard.
Of course, it is a hack, but not everybody can use https, for practical or political reasons. No need to use plaintexts passwords in any case.
Your conclusions are absolutely right. In a corporate setting, this may be more of a hazard than it is now, because Debian can afford the downtime.
Yet you may have overlooked detail: development has not stopped. People keep working on updated packages, they just cannot submit them. If the problem can be solved, the productivity lost won't be that great.
This is actually one of the great benefits that open source offers, at least for succesful OS projects. It is not just a benefit of the excellent project management in this case.
If you look at the second graph, iis4.0 is gaining market share. This is obviously false, and also are not in accordance to their own numbers at the bottom.
If the whole survey is as "carefully" done as that, just write it off. It seems to me to be made up.
I use joker exclusively, and they don't mail only once. As I can tell from my email history, they send 2 mails: the first 8 weeks before a domain expires, another 4 weeks before it expires.
They may send more, but I never let it come that far: either I canceled at that point, or I extended the contract.
There surely is a bit nostalgia about this all, but that is not the only reason. The cost of playing those games, both in money and in time, is often much lower than modern games.
Money: to play these older games, one doesn't need the latest greatest hardware. A lot of us have other priorities now (married, unemployed, children). That, and the fact we don't want (cannot) pay premium on the software itself.
Time: as I get older, spare time is my most sparse commodity. While I do enjoy games, I often don't have the time to spend weeks, or even days to get acquainted with a new game. Modern games tend to be more complex than older games. Older games are often finished in 15-30 minutes. I mean, you only have 3 lives.
These are the reasons for me to play mainly older games. It's not that I do not enjoy many newer games, but lack of time and unwillingness to participate in the 3d arms race left me behind. Do not pity me, for I still enjoy those older games...
I'm at the moment halfway through lawschool, and one thing I have learned is this: getting justice done is expensive.
To have knowledgable unbiased people say anything useful, they have to become familiar with the case. This costs a lot of time, thus money. Besides that, it costs you a lot of time.
So, if you think dispute resolution is more expensive than your loss, don't take that route, but take your loss. Learn from your experience.
Next time select a trustworthy hosting provider. Make sure you have a clause in your contract that prevents this kind of problems.
Last year, I bought a Nikon. I joined the several mailing lists.
One of the guys on one of these lists is an older professional photographer. He's patient and eloquent, always answers questions, even if the answers can be found anywhere. He knows a lot, and he's a great guy to have around.
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Microsoft must have realised this too, as Halo, one of their bestselling games seems to use vorbis.
Ah, well...
format /autotest c:
nuff said.
The pictured device at that link looks like a left-hand device though.
The photo isn't mirrored, cause the letters on the palm grip are normal...
Its likely that a group of hackers would crack it, and allow Linux to open the "secure" content, but that would be illegal, which kinda kills the idea of Linux as an OS for the masses.
It would only be illegal in the USA. The rights the DMCA tries to protect are intellectual rights in the binary realm. The approach avenue in this specific case is the access rights to the data.
Internationally, these rights are protected by treaties. Non of these treaties (yet!) works in a way the DMCA works. The treaties attempt to regulate using and copying (mainly) the works, not accessing the information.
One example is the regio coding of DVD's. Circumventing the regio encoded on a DVD probable is illegal in the US, but it most certainly isn't in most countries.
After it drops and floats, how are you going to find your camo green GPS in the morning mist between the tree roots at the slippery edge of the lake...?
I do believe that Open Source is better than proprietory. Faults per 1000 lines of code may seem like a valid scale, but I think it is indicatory at best, not proof.
* It does not take into account the design of the software. This is often as important as the actual quality of the code.
* It does not take into account the kind of errors. This is related to the first, but a buffer overflow that allows root access is worse than a failed instruction.
* It does not even take the length of lines into account. Shortening the lines could lower the number, without actually changing anything.
So, small victory, but the race goes on.
They wanted it to win. But we don't know if deep blue didn't take 'suggestions'.
To beat a grand master at chess, you'd need another grand master, of high level. That would have been too high profile. Deep blue was meant for promotion. If any fraud was considered, the risk would have been too great. It would definitely have backfired.
and darkness shall bind them.
only if your video card isn't supported. And even then you can just use the keyboard leds in the new HID subsystem...
When I started reading, that was the first thing I thought. Then, as I was reading on, it occurred to me the guy was serious.
I mean, come on. How hard is it to replace a high tech item like a switch under a mouse button, with a switch that does not do *click*?
The sound has a function in most cases. It's a signal. Even using a mouse button is referred to as clicking. It also prevents arthritis. You do not need to apply more pressure than to make the click, thus preventing excessive wear the finger joints.
I once had a mouse where one of the mouse buttons had been repaired, and it was replaced with a silent switch (amiga mouses were expensive). I repaired it again, this time with a clicking switch. YMMV.
One of the riddles in the dark from The Hobbit also has a reference to this: it comes first and follows after...
A tequila sunrise does not have ice in it...
This move make well move progeny quite a bit forward in the linux market. But they have to be really carefull not to get burned.
They have to make it very clear to their customers what exactly they are offering. Support? How much support and in what way? Will they offer security updates? Bugfixes? Updates? Helpdesk? On site consultants?
Which of them does not really matter, just as long as they communicate clear and fair what their offer comprises. Otherwise they will get a bad rep, no matter their intentions to do things right. Customers have certain expectations, gained throught expectations with RH, and the perceived offers bu Progeny. Keeping that sane is not an easy task.
Perhaps now we'll see manufacturers adding [ext2/3/your favorite flavour of a fs] to their products.
Esp with camera's gaining support for the picture tranfer protocol (PTP), they are becomming more and more filesystem agnostic. Other devices may as well...
To prevent this:
take a hash of the password (Ph1) as the passtoken.
now, on the client, hash the password -> Ph1
do Md5sum(Ph1 XOR SessionID) and send this. Compare on server, where you have the same two pieces of information. Now a replay attack wont work as often (only with the right session id, which is a very slim chance.
The MD5 in the last step is not a hash of a hash, which would yield no improvement. By introducing the SessionID you introduce new info. With the hash, you distribute this info evenly, making reversing it very hard.
Of course, it is a hack, but not everybody can use https, for practical or political reasons. No need to use plaintexts passwords in any case.
Your conclusions are absolutely right. In a corporate setting, this may be more of a hazard than it is now, because Debian can afford the downtime.
Yet you may have overlooked detail: development has not stopped. People keep working on updated packages, they just cannot submit them. If the problem can be solved, the productivity lost won't be that great.
This is actually one of the great benefits that open source offers, at least for succesful OS projects. It is not just a benefit of the excellent project management in this case.
If you look at the second graph, iis4.0 is gaining market share. This is obviously false, and also are not in accordance to their own numbers at the bottom.
If the whole survey is as "carefully" done as that, just write it off. It seems to me to be made up.
Kinda like the ents in the lord of the rings against Saruman
:)
appletrees
I use joker exclusively, and they don't mail only once. As I can tell from my email history, they send 2 mails: the first 8 weeks before a domain expires, another 4 weeks before it expires.
They may send more, but I never let it come that far: either I canceled at that point, or I extended the contract.
There surely is a bit nostalgia about this all, but that is not the only reason. The cost of playing those games, both in money and in time, is often much lower than modern games.
Money: to play these older games, one doesn't need the latest greatest hardware. A lot of us have other priorities now (married, unemployed, children). That, and the fact we don't want (cannot) pay premium on the software itself.
Time: as I get older, spare time is my most sparse commodity. While I do enjoy games, I often don't have the time to spend weeks, or even days to get acquainted with a new game. Modern games tend to be more complex than older games. Older games are often finished in 15-30 minutes. I mean, you only have 3 lives.
These are the reasons for me to play mainly older games. It's not that I do not enjoy many newer games, but lack of time and unwillingness to participate in the 3d arms race left me behind. Do not pity me, for I still enjoy those older games...
I'm at the moment halfway through lawschool, and one thing I have learned is this: getting justice done is expensive.
To have knowledgable unbiased people say anything useful, they have to become familiar with the case. This costs a lot of time, thus money. Besides that, it costs you a lot of time.
So, if you think dispute resolution is more expensive than your loss, don't take that route, but take your loss. Learn from your experience.
Next time select a trustworthy hosting provider. Make sure you have a clause in your contract that prevents this kind of problems.
check!
I wasted at least a full year on my cbm64. That game was serious fun.
If this game is only half as good, it will be a hit.
Last year, I bought a Nikon. I joined the several mailing lists.
One of the guys on one of these lists is an older professional photographer. He's patient and eloquent, always answers questions, even if the answers can be found anywhere. He knows a lot, and he's a great guy to have around.
He also has a very informative website. It is found at http://www.larry-bolch.com/
Give it a look, it will help you greatly, as it did me.
spelled like that, it sounds like orangutan. Let's keep it at taikonaut, please.
Yeah, I agree. Emacs is a great integrated system. Too bad it's texts editor sucks so much.