Anybody up to the challenge of rewriting DeCSS as a stealthing encrypted polymorphic virus? It would be constantly changing, no one would need to link to it, it would reinstall itself on your machine automaticly.
Wonder if Norton and McAfee (or similar) would 'decide' not to include a fix for it?
Sinse Bill Gates has more money than the GNP of some small countries, I would think that this would be a good way to finally get in the good graces of us Linux Evangelists(tm)
Have BG/Microsoft buy out the MPAA and the RIAA and force them to stop this nonsense allready, and drop all the lawsuits. Then we will have just one currupt company to deal with, instead of several wanna-be's.
I was talking to a friend who was taking a assembly class on x86 architecture. The class included a MS assembler included in the price of his textbook for the class. He said that they used gcc as a interface (I assume to call the assembly generated code) A co-worker said they had to use Visual Basic tools in their class
paranoid mode on
My thoughts were 1) Is this another way for MS to gain student mindshare? 2) Why were they forced to buy a product for a single use in a class? 3) Are universities being co-opted to provide MS based programming tools instead of other alternatives? Eg. Linux/Gcc/as/Qt/Gnome?
Looks like finally other industries are finally jumping into the battle against the MPIA and RIAA against teh DCMA.
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This takes us one step closer to understanding how DNA works. I can't wait for self-modifying DNA. MS-DNA install anyone?
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*asbestos suit on*
So.... what is the conflict? we will just be better masters of animals here. Now we can create our own. The quote says nothing to the effect that cloning is forbidden.
The internet as a whole is doing just this. Companies like Sony, and AT&T are finding themselves in the middle of this buisness evolution. In a way Sony used to be our Internet. They would provide artists with a meas of exposing their music to more people than the group could do otherwise. Now the internet can do this. AT&T is finding that they are loosing buisness to the internet for their product - Long distance calling.
The difference is in how they are both dealing with that. Sony seems to be trying to re-insert themselves by litigation. AT&T seems to be doing it by re-investing into internet infrastructure - eg cable ISP.
Which would you rather be? the prospector or the general store?
The choice is ultimately with the people. Either a company is part of the solution or part of the problem. If they do not become part of the solution they will not survive. Nature as a whole expands and evolves, not contracts and stagnates.
When I see influential I read "Something that was worthwhile not if it made a lot of money or had cool special effects"
All these failed to MOVE me in anyway whatsoever - eg NO emotional reaction - when I saw these movies all I thought was "Why the hell did they make this crap?" Not "Gee that was some great special effects!"
I want a movie that has at least some substance to the story. Not just be a vehicle for making money
As far as the Lion king goes... all my nieces and nephews watched it once. Wallace and Grommet: The Wrong Trousers, and Mouse on a Motercycle they would ask to see over and over again. IMHO I thought Beauty and the Beast was MUCH better by far that LK could ever be.
BTW: Wallace and Grommet: the Wrong Trousers was THE most funny movie I have see in a long time. It even had a evil penquin in it (hehehe) The person who did this later went on to do 'Chicken Run'
That is my point. It was originally marketed at babies, not children 2 and up. The original makers of the show admitted that the audience it was aimed at was not even interested in the show at all (eg babies)
Forrest Gump - "life is NOT like a box of chocolates - it's written on the box whats inside"-not my quote
Face Off - To me the premise was totaly contrived - even if it was sorta scifi
Driving Miss Daisy. - Nuff said
Lion King - Its the one kids movie that was never watched more than once by any kid I know.
Barney - The song, the song... It won't laeve my head!
Teletubies - Aimed at babies, and failed utterly
IMHO Why is drama considered to be the highest form of movie? Seems that the critics are more likely to have a 5 star rating on a drama than any other movie type.
I am a gamer. I will remain one till they pry the gamepad from my cold dead fingers!
I think the genres will rotate eventually. I think right now the gaming hardware is at a point that you will start to see hybred games. Eg FPS/warcraft/flight combat, or FPS/Adventure/RPG.
I would like to see a de-cetralllized system of game serverlists for games like quake and unreal. (maybe use irc but the 'users' would be links)
Maybe even a 'generic game engine' that could be modified on-the-fly depending on what site you hit (like a web link or 'modifiers' for the UT literate)
Don't forget the advantages of cable/dsl connections. You will NEED one!
I can see it now: A transition phase where x86 architecture is replaced by RISC. And leading the way? Linux of course! because you have the source and can recompile your OWN damn O/S, programs and games! Want to run win-blows software for that cool game you have? no prob - you just set up a portion of the multi-CPU transmeta to emulate the x86 dynamicly.
Hmm... I wonder if Intel would sue Transmeta/AMD for reverse enginering the x86 microcode and chipsets.
I thought slashdot was for REAL facts not just some rumors of facts. Many comments were generated on something that is just fluff. If I wanted to see this rumor I could have gone to one of the e-fanzines.
It's not for the performance the oc'ers do it, it's the chanlenge of 'what if'
In the case of one guy who was using liquid oxegen or nitrogen? and florinert and the transfer liquid. it would have been cheaper to BUY the board/memory etc for cost of doing the Overclocking. eg. $1000 for the florinert, $X for the LOX, $Y for the misc hardware and construction.
Anime is just my current diversion from the 'real' world' along with comp-games, movies whatever else is interesting at the time. While I am not a totatly dedicated anime-fan, I do have a large collection of movies. (1000+ at last count)
15 ysars ago it was books - LOTS of books - I could consume 400 pg. scifi/fantasy books in a hour - no kidding. I had special dispensation from the library at the time to check out as many books as I wanted.
Let's face it - the 'real world' is a boring repetitive place. We as a society are constantly trying to be less bored - some of us just happen to become bored faster than others.
To me the american TV/movie 'engines' seem to be spewing out the same stuff - and a lot of it is trying to moralize us into submission. Too many show seem to have an agenda to me. I prefer that which is mede to entertain only.
I tend to prefer the shows that jab fun at life's stupidities (simpsons, futurerama, comics like non-sequiter in newspapers), or shows that have a multi-leveled involved plot ('hill street blues', robotech), or just be silly. (ranma 1/2, red-dwarf, wallace and grommet). eg the extremes ends of the hyper-bell curve of entertainment.
Hm... one last thought - catagories to describe the whole - not possible - too mnay variations - accept it. Articles are done to generate response. Well this was mine.
I have to deal with MS exchange/Outlook(pained expression) - nuff said. What I found out was there is NO WAY to use exchange to block this message like a copy of sendmail for Linux could. So, we keep getting that damn thing over and over again. You need to get a third party piece of software to fix what m$ should have had in the first place eg. mail filtering at the SERVER level.
This is just one of the reasons I do not use MS anything to communicate with the world. I use Linux.
I am not either a 13 yr old or a script kiddie (as some comments would imply) and I can tell you that this is not a trivial task.
I actualy play about 3 games UT and Q2/3 and have a few more I would like to play. I also have a seriaous side. eg: a Firewall with a 24/7 server with a webserver/database sitting behind it for research/work.
Since some of the games are limited to a specific port range, I have to poke a hole in the firewall just to get the game to play. (a security risk) I have found some tools that will find the servers for me, but as of yet none that will create a Ipchains/etc. rulelist to poke the holes for me. (eg I found server a.b.c.d:z so create rule to handle) To complicate things some game master servers have this nasty habit of being encrypted or propritary so that only authorized clients can get this information. Furthermore; thats just for outgoing/clinet connections.
I would also like to handle incoming connections to a future Q3/UT server of my own for my clan.
I would also like to see ways to optimize this for performance. I have seen that connecting to a IRC chat with the FW in place is about 40x faster than without.
In reference to the other bills this person has come up with... I thought a university was where your mind was opened to new ideas, not closed. Why do we have to fight the same battles over and over again. Remember freedom of the PRESS? The only thing that has changed is the method and the speed, not the content. What's next, censoring the theories of Darwin? Having access to porn is _not_ the samw as hosting a porn site. Sounds like someone is trying to enforce a moral code, not a ethical one. Besides students also put down serious money to go to college. does'nt that buy them some rights as far as the 'college equipment' I look at it as a rental/lease of resources while I am getting an education.
I see several forms of data ownership. 1) Data that you have created yourself (eg. a midi file of original work) 2) Personal Information - Information that is inherently yours (SSN, Name, bank records, medical records, court sealed records) 3) Data that is collected that cost time / $$ 4) Public information that is general knowledge or placed in the public domain
Newspapers currently charge for archive article searches and rights to use/republish original work (rule 1)
Private information should be kept Private and Confidential. This information should only be divulged to a third party with the written permission of the person or by a court order. (rule 2)
Dejanews does not own the articles it gathers from the newsgroups. They defer the the $cost$ of accessing it by advertizing. (rule 3)
If a publisher produced a book of public domain programs. You could not copy the book; however, you could re-type the program(s) into your computer and use it any way you wanted. They are charging you for the book and the effort it took to produce, and not the content(programs). (rule 4)
I buy DVD and CD-roms (audio and game) because they are more permenent. PERIOD. As media go they will last longer for me after multilple playing than say a magnetic tape/LP. I will hear no pop's, jitters etc. when I am using media in a digital format. I think that CD-ROM based tech is rated at about 30 year shelf life. Compare that to a magentic tape which maybe will last 6 months under hard usage. (I know this because I have lost games because of megnetic decay) On another note I think at last count I had over 300 video/DVD's, ~100 audio CD's/tapes, and over 100 games in my library. That represents over 1.5 TERABYTES of data. I _WISH_ I had that kind of spere hard drive space. The truth of the whole thing is this. I pay for movie, I want to keep movie and not rebuy move every 2 years because of decay/storage problems. The movie industry as well as the audio industry need to wake up. We are loosing good movies/soundtracks now at a terrifying rate. This frantic paranoia about somebody copying your stuff needs to put to better use.
Slashdot Mirror
Anybody up to the challenge of rewriting DeCSS as a stealthing encrypted polymorphic virus? It would be constantly changing, no one would need to link to it, it would reinstall itself on your machine automaticly.
Wonder if Norton and McAfee (or similar) would 'decide' not to include a fix for it?
Sinse Bill Gates has more money than the GNP of some small countries, I would think that this would be a good way to finally get in the good graces of us Linux Evangelists(tm)
Have BG/Microsoft buy out the MPAA and the RIAA and force them to stop this nonsense allready, and drop all the lawsuits. Then we will have just one currupt company to deal with, instead of several wanna-be's.
Sounds like those toys that suspend a ball with magnets. Would be a cool desk sculpture.
paranoid mode on
My thoughts were
1) Is this another way for MS to gain student mindshare?
2) Why were they forced to buy a product for a single use in a class?
3) Are universities being co-opted to provide MS based programming tools instead of other alternatives? Eg. Linux/Gcc/as/Qt/Gnome?
Looks like finally other industries are finally jumping into the battle against the MPIA and RIAA against teh DCMA.
This takes us one step closer to understanding how DNA works.
I can't wait for self-modifying DNA.
MS-DNA install anyone?
*asbestos suit on*
So.... what is the conflict? we will just be better masters of animals here. Now we can create our own. The quote says nothing to the effect that cloning is forbidden.
btw: "our image"? I thought God was singular
*asbestos suit off*
The great grandaddy was totally left out. I thought all variations of *Unix* stemmed from the reasearch of Multics.
Eliminating the middle man
The internet as a whole is doing just this. Companies like Sony, and AT&T are finding themselves in the middle of this buisness evolution. In a way Sony used to be our Internet. They would provide artists with a meas of exposing their music to more people than the group could do otherwise. Now the internet can do this. AT&T is finding that they are loosing buisness to the internet for their product - Long distance calling.
The difference is in how they are both dealing with that. Sony seems to be trying to re-insert themselves by litigation. AT&T seems to be doing it by re-investing into internet infrastructure - eg cable ISP.
Which would you rather be? the prospector or the general store?
The choice is ultimately with the people. Either a company is part of the solution or part of the problem. If they do not become part of the solution they will not survive. Nature as a whole expands and evolves, not contracts and stagnates.
Many, many bio-experiments in molds, spores and fungii running
I wonder if a computer can barf for me as well????
Order^Chaos - What if that is not enough to decribe it all?
All these failed to MOVE me in anyway whatsoever - eg NO emotional reaction - when I saw these movies all I thought was "Why the hell did they make this crap?" Not "Gee that was some great special effects!"
I want a movie that has at least some substance to the story. Not just be a vehicle for making money
As far as the Lion king goes ... all my nieces and nephews watched it once. Wallace and Grommet: The Wrong Trousers, and Mouse on a Motercycle they would ask to see over and over again. IMHO I thought Beauty and the Beast was MUCH better by far that LK could ever be.
BTW: Wallace and Grommet: the Wrong Trousers was THE most funny movie I have see in a long time. It even had a evil penquin in it (hehehe) The person who did this later went on to do 'Chicken Run'
That is my point. It was originally marketed at babies, not children 2 and up. The original makers of the show admitted that the audience it was aimed at was not even interested in the show at all (eg babies)
Forrest Gump - "life is NOT like a box of chocolates - it's written on the box whats inside"-not my quote
Face Off - To me the premise was totaly contrived - even if it was sorta scifi
Driving Miss Daisy. - Nuff said
Lion King - Its the one kids movie that was never watched more than once by any kid I know.
Barney - The song, the song
Teletubies - Aimed at babies, and failed utterly
IMHO Why is drama considered to be the highest form of movie? Seems that the critics are more likely to have a 5 star rating on a drama than any other movie type.
I think the genres will rotate eventually. I think right now the gaming hardware is at a point that you will start to see hybred games. Eg FPS/warcraft/flight combat, or FPS/Adventure/RPG.
I would like to see a de-cetralllized system of game serverlists for games like quake and unreal. (maybe use irc but the 'users' would be links)
Maybe even a 'generic game engine' that could be modified on-the-fly depending on what site you hit (like a web link or 'modifiers' for the UT literate)
Don't forget the advantages of cable/dsl connections. You will NEED one!
Hmm... I wonder if Intel would sue Transmeta/AMD for reverse enginering the x86 microcode and chipsets.
BTW. I WANT ONE NOW!
I thought slashdot was for REAL facts not just some rumors of facts. Many comments were generated on something that is just fluff. If I wanted to see this rumor I could have gone to one of the e-fanzines.
It's not for the performance the oc'ers do it, it's the chanlenge of 'what if'
In the case of one guy who was using liquid oxegen or nitrogen? and florinert and the transfer liquid. it would have been cheaper to BUY the board/memory etc for cost of doing the Overclocking. eg. $1000 for the florinert, $X for the LOX, $Y for the misc hardware and construction.
Why does every thing have to be 'happy and fuzzy'?
> They're just some sterotypical 'apathetic parents'.
First episodes on 'serious' anime never disclose the whole plot in the first 30 mins you know.
BTW. There was a reason -
Anime is just my current diversion from the 'real' world' along with comp-games, movies whatever else is interesting at the time. While I am not a totatly dedicated anime-fan, I do have a large collection of movies. (1000+ at last count)
15 ysars ago it was books - LOTS of books - I could consume 400 pg. scifi/fantasy books in a hour - no kidding. I had special dispensation from the library at the time to check out as many books as I wanted.
Let's face it - the 'real world' is a boring repetitive place. We as a society are constantly trying to be less bored - some of us just happen to become bored faster than others.
To me the american TV/movie 'engines' seem to be spewing out the same stuff - and a lot of it is trying to moralize us into submission. Too many show seem to have an agenda to me. I prefer that which is mede to entertain only.
I tend to prefer the shows that jab fun at life's stupidities (simpsons, futurerama, comics like non-sequiter in newspapers), or shows that have a multi-leveled involved plot ('hill street blues', robotech), or just be silly. (ranma 1/2, red-dwarf, wallace and grommet). eg the extremes ends of the hyper-bell curve of entertainment.
Hm... one last thought - catagories to describe the whole - not possible - too mnay variations - accept it. Articles are done to generate response. Well this was mine.
This is just one of the reasons I do not use MS anything to communicate with the world. I use Linux.
Linux - the ultimate virus protection program
I actualy play about 3 games UT and Q2/3 and have a few more I would like to play. I also have a seriaous side. eg: a Firewall with a 24/7 server with a webserver/database sitting behind it for research/work.
Since some of the games are limited to a specific port range, I have to poke a hole in the firewall just to get the game to play. (a security risk) I have found some tools that will find the servers for me, but as of yet none that will create a Ipchains/etc. rulelist to poke the holes for me. (eg I found server a.b.c.d:z so create rule to handle) To complicate things some game master servers have this nasty habit of being encrypted or propritary so that only authorized clients can get this information. Furthermore; thats just for outgoing/clinet connections.
I would also like to handle incoming connections to a future Q3/UT server of my own for my clan.
I would also like to see ways to optimize this for performance. I have seen that connecting to a IRC chat with the FW in place is about 40x faster than without.
In reference to the other bills this person has come up with... I thought a university was where your mind was opened to new ideas, not closed. Why do we have to fight the same battles over and over again. Remember freedom of the PRESS? The only thing that has changed is the method and the speed, not the content. What's next, censoring the theories of Darwin? Having access to porn is _not_ the samw as hosting a porn site. Sounds like someone is trying to enforce a moral code, not a ethical one. Besides students also put down serious money to go to college. does'nt that buy them some rights as far as the 'college equipment' I look at it as a rental/lease of resources while I am getting an education.
My thoughts on a inverse profession-IQ law.
Given that:
So. as the profession goes to Lawer, stupidity goes to inifinity.
I see several forms of data ownership.
1) Data that you have created yourself (eg. a midi file of original work)
2) Personal Information - Information that is inherently yours (SSN,
Name, bank records, medical records, court sealed records)
3) Data that is collected that cost time / $$
4) Public information that is general knowledge or placed in the public
domain
Newspapers currently charge for archive article searches and rights to
use/republish original work (rule 1)
Private information should be kept Private and Confidential.
This information should only be divulged to a third party with the written
permission of the person or by a court order. (rule 2)
Dejanews does not own the articles it gathers from the newsgroups.
They defer the the $cost$ of accessing it by advertizing. (rule 3)
If a publisher produced a book of public domain programs. You could not
copy the book; however, you could re-type the program(s) into your
computer and use it any way you wanted. They are charging you for the book
and the effort it took to produce, and not the content(programs). (rule 4)
And that is my 2 cents worth for now.
I buy DVD and CD-roms (audio and game) because they are more permenent. PERIOD. As media go they will last longer for me after multilple playing than say a magnetic tape/LP. I will hear no pop's, jitters etc. when I am using media in a digital format. I think that CD-ROM based tech is rated at about 30 year shelf life. Compare that to a magentic tape which maybe will last 6 months under hard usage. (I know this because I have lost games because of megnetic decay) On another note I think at last count I had over 300 video/DVD's, ~100 audio CD's/tapes, and over 100 games in my library. That represents over 1.5 TERABYTES of data. I _WISH_ I had that kind of spere hard drive space. The truth of the whole thing is this. I pay for movie, I want to keep movie and not rebuy move every 2 years because of decay/storage problems. The movie industry as well as the audio industry need to wake up. We are loosing good movies/soundtracks now at a terrifying rate. This frantic paranoia about somebody copying your stuff needs to put to better use.