Palladium, internet filtering, access controls, NET Guard, TIPS...
Do you think it is a coincidence this chicken little was the Microsoft security chief and now works for the government? Would Bill really hire someone that stupid? He is doing his job in a much larger strategy.
In my day, we didn't have no inter-planetary sup-er high-way. We got to Triton O-45 the old fashioned way, and it was up a gravity well both ways!
Some scientists theorize that a killer asteroid traveled along the highway when it smacked into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Oh my gosh! Interplanetary superhighways facilitate terrorism! Tear it down! Think of the children!
Indeed, you should have the right to reedit the movies you buy, and sell them for a profit. I mean, you did all the work, right? You compensated the authors when you bought the original. $15 traded for an entire market in Southeast Asia, that sounds about right.
How dense does one have to be to not see the intent of that statement? When you buy a computer, you own the computer. When you buy a DVD, you own the DVD. You do not own the rights to redistribute the content the DVD. You do not have the rights to manufacture CPUs with identicial circuit layouts as the Pentium.
Someday, you won't be able to resell something like a DVD, because you won't own it, you will be licensed it, and it will be keyed to your player. The same will be done for the software / hardware combination you purchased. Though you may own the hardware, it will still refuse to boot unless it runs the operating system that came with it. And to sell the computer, the buyer must repurchase the operating system. This is what Moffitt is talking about. It has nothing to do with the whiny pissing war people have with the GPL.
"If [Paladium] works, it will be the first time in the history of computing that [this level of security is obtained.]"
Bruce Schneier
Cryptography expert
Ooh, a bold new step for Microsoft, a bold new step for mankind! Now read his actual statement, included in the same article:
"If this works, it will be the first time in the history of computing that it works," said Bruce Schneier, a cryptography expert and author of "Secrets & Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World."
"Lots and lots of encryption is broken all the time because it's done wrong," Schneier said. "The odds are actually zero this will be secure."
Now can anyone claim that the press isn't trying to spin this?
Everything here is in the details. With hardware enforced security, MS *could* use it to take complete control over your PC - allowing only MS tested and approved code. But that doesn't benefit them, and so, it won't ever happen.
Ok, CRACK ADDICT, here is a GUN, see, and I want you to guard my BIG ROOM FULL OF CRACK.
Palladium will essentially prevent you from rebuilding your kernel. It won't stop you from compiling it, but it will make your computer "untrusted", and therefore prevent you from running any program or accessing any DRM-encrypted file that requires the facilities that the "Fritz" chip will provide.
[Joseph H. Sommer] also fretted that the cyberbuffs are afflicted with "insufficient perspective, disdain for history, unnecessary futurology and technophilia."
Oh, ouch, like, that hurts. These lawyers are afflicted with insufficient perspective, historicism, lack of forethought, and technophobia.
I find it remarkable that they accuse us of elitism. As if we went to "ivy league" colleges, work for Wall Street firms, and weren't doing our damnedest to maintain the status quo. This article is sheer propoganda. It isn't that they want the Internet treated like every other technology, it is that they want the Internet treated like the things the law already has a handle on, and can therefore control.
Technologies aren't the same, they have different effects on society, and Internet has, and will continue to have, and enormous impact on social organiziation, free speech, intellectual property, and general enconomics.
No one can dipsute the fact that the automobile transformed American society. So why is it so futurology to suggest the same of the Internet?
WTF? The whole point of Slashdot is to make fun of Microsoft. There are better places for news; Slashdot is infotainment.
Microsoft is waging a propoganda war against their competition, so it's hardly unprofessional to stop and laugh when they end up with egg on their face. Pull that stick out of your butt, AC.
This event ranks up there with such notable favorites as
Getting caught astroturfing
Getting caught with a rigged demo in the anti-trust trail
So class envy causes the regulation of industry... cute.
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Seriously, the people you are working for are incompetent. If you said it would take four people six months, then they should believe it would take four people six months. Whatever immediate savings are to be had by laying off three developers and hiring Indian contractors are going to be lost in the loss of experience with your product and the overhead of managing developers on the opposite side of the world. Give up, now.
Oh wow, how novel. Someone made tabbed dialogs work like tearable menus. The original techniques are far more "innovative"; Adobe's combination of them is obvious, given the nature of the interface, and how trivial it is to implement. Perhaps they were the first, but one programmer's bright idea several years ago does not justify a patent, or holding the rest of us hostage for using it.
Though I have to admit, the degree to which Macromedia imitated the interface stylistically is pretty cheesy. They ripped them off like lazy hacks, but in art and industrial design that is hardly uncommon, and when illegal, falls under copyright law, not patent law.
I think you're missing the point. Privacy is one thing. Hiding your lawbreaking behavior from the government and your shareholders is a whole different ballgame.
The real dangerous thing is the way many people advocate privacy while their intent is to shield criminal activity. That is what causes "if you're not a criminal, you've got nothing to hide" mentality in law-n-order types.
Huh, I was under the impression that "fall out" is the radioactive dust left after a nuclear explosion. This would produce a lot of dust, but it wouldn't be dangerously radioactive.
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SMB and .doc are not standards, because they are based on secret information and are subject to change at Microsoft's whim. Talk about cheerleading...
You seem to believe cynicism makes you insightful, and I suppose many moderators agree. Oh well, moderators are clueless fuckwits anyway.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!
What is the second half of this? The SOLUTION!
Palladium, internet filtering, access controls, NET Guard, TIPS...
Do you think it is a coincidence this chicken little was the Microsoft security chief and now works for the government? Would Bill really hire someone that stupid? He is doing his job in a much larger strategy.
They've posted a little demo running on Windows, but in the real world the server would run on a low-power device.
So this was a real-world test? I'm confused...
In my day, we didn't have no inter-planetary sup-er high-way. We got to Triton O-45 the old fashioned way, and it was up a gravity well both ways!
Some scientists theorize that a killer asteroid traveled along the highway when it smacked into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Oh my gosh! Interplanetary superhighways facilitate terrorism! Tear it down! Think of the children!
Indeed, you should have the right to reedit the movies you buy, and sell them for a profit. I mean, you did all the work, right? You compensated the authors when you bought the original. $15 traded for an entire market in Southeast Asia, that sounds about right.
How dense does one have to be to not see the intent of that statement? When you buy a computer, you own the computer. When you buy a DVD, you own the DVD. You do not own the rights to redistribute the content the DVD. You do not have the rights to manufacture CPUs with identicial circuit layouts as the Pentium.
Someday, you won't be able to resell something like a DVD, because you won't own it, you will be licensed it, and it will be keyed to your player. The same will be done for the software / hardware combination you purchased. Though you may own the hardware, it will still refuse to boot unless it runs the operating system that came with it. And to sell the computer, the buyer must repurchase the operating system. This is what Moffitt is talking about. It has nothing to do with the whiny pissing war people have with the GPL.
I want to play Tempest on the side of Stone Mountain.
Yea, right. Hawking would put a cap in yo' ass.
Scandalous!
That reminds me, I must drive to another county to buy beer on Sunday, but even there I can't buy a decent chicken sandwich.
What more proof do you need? Capitalism fails worse than Democracy!
Microsoft Tackles Cyber-Security.
Notice the highlighed quote: Ooh, a bold new step for Microsoft, a bold new step for mankind! Now read his actual statement, included in the same article: Now can anyone claim that the press isn't trying to spin this?
MS to eradicate GPL, hence Linux
Palladium will essentially prevent you from rebuilding your kernel. It won't stop you from compiling it, but it will make your computer "untrusted", and therefore prevent you from running any program or accessing any DRM-encrypted file that requires the facilities that the "Fritz" chip will provide.
[Joseph H. Sommer] also fretted that the cyberbuffs are afflicted with "insufficient perspective, disdain for history, unnecessary futurology and technophilia."
Oh, ouch, like, that hurts. These lawyers are afflicted with insufficient perspective, historicism, lack of forethought, and technophobia.
I find it remarkable that they accuse us of elitism. As if we went to "ivy league" colleges, work for Wall Street firms, and weren't doing our damnedest to maintain the status quo. This article is sheer propoganda. It isn't that they want the Internet treated like every other technology, it is that they want the Internet treated like the things the law already has a handle on, and can therefore control.
Technologies aren't the same, they have different effects on society, and Internet has, and will continue to have, and enormous impact on social organiziation, free speech, intellectual property, and general enconomics.
No one can dipsute the fact that the automobile transformed American society. So why is it so futurology to suggest the same of the Internet?
MS will offer you no support at all.
In other words, there are no consequences to chipping an X-Box?
Drop me a line sometime...
A bass player? Pshaw, as if.
Microsoft is waging a propoganda war against their competition, so it's hardly unprofessional to stop and laugh when they end up with egg on their face. Pull that stick out of your butt, AC.
This event ranks up there with such notable favorites as
So class envy causes the regulation of industry... cute.
Seriously, the people you are working for are incompetent. If you said it would take four people six months, then they should believe it would take four people six months. Whatever immediate savings are to be had by laying off three developers and hiring Indian contractors are going to be lost in the loss of experience with your product and the overhead of managing developers on the opposite side of the world. Give up, now.
Though I have to admit, the degree to which Macromedia imitated the interface stylistically is pretty cheesy. They ripped them off like lazy hacks, but in art and industrial design that is hardly uncommon, and when illegal, falls under copyright law, not patent law.
Undoubtedly. And it won't be funny then, either.
He's talking about a cat, stupid... sheesh.
I think you're missing the point. Privacy is one thing. Hiding your lawbreaking behavior from the government and your shareholders is a whole different ballgame.
The real dangerous thing is the way many people advocate privacy while their intent is to shield criminal activity. That is what causes "if you're not a criminal, you've got nothing to hide" mentality in law-n-order types.
Opps, though it probably derives from misuse.
Huh, I was under the impression that "fall out" is the radioactive dust left after a nuclear explosion. This would produce a lot of dust, but it wouldn't be dangerously radioactive.