I was interviewing for a small company several years back that made switchgear for audio equipment. The owner gave in to the owner of a patent that demanded 1% of all equipment he made. The patent described things that switch on sequentialy as to prevent the whole load switched on at one time to blow the circuit.
Patents are everywhere and are driven by money. Get used to it. They may not be right, but they offer "protection." The Mob offers protection too. Its because they can make money. The US can make money. And you will to just by playing this little game. Pay a small fee that you competitors do not and they will be denied entry.
So we would have the option of disabling it. But, how would I know there is not some kind of hidden back door to reactivate it? Should I take Intel's word on privacy? Didn't Microsoft do something like this to Ceaser's Palace with an SPA raid a few years back?
I can just picture some warez user or some executive opening an trojaned email. An exploit written by insiders to bypass the chip's protection and sneak the ID out onto the ethernet.
I went down to Walmart a few months ago and got some paint and glitter flake. It looks pretty good. Its the GM dark metalic purple, which is an exact match for the plastic on my gateway solo.
The metalic does not show like you would expect it too, so while the paint was very wet, I sprinkled a heavy dust storm from a small bag of that pearlescent powder. It sticks. And it stays after many months. The flake surface will wear the first few weeks over everything, but its stable now. It is very flashy and I would recommend adding stuff to paint for anyone who really wants to personalizing a laptop.
Laptops are heavy and perhaps it would be nice to have a discretely hidden link to the net. This would be a good during dull meetings that need some fresh ideas. People will wonder how this person all of a sudden got so smart.
I agree and want to sign, but it asks for my street address where I actually live to be distributed to that music association. Is this like giving your ID to the SPA for a license audit? Even though I live in the back woods, I do not want the hassle of being asked whats on my computer if a group shows up at my door and wait for a search warrant when I say no.
Damn, I'll sign anyway. This is war. If they want to fight on my doorstep, let them come on over and play!
This is what a monopoly can leverage. Since they will not allow choice, I would like to stick my copy of MS95/Office that came with my top of the line Gateway Solo up the asshole of Bill Gates.
If the DOJ keeps playing the wimp and does not use some muscle, the MS destiny will be complete.
You have no choice. You as a consumer will use what Bill Gates dictates you to use. Unless you are on the edge an use Linux or BSD or an Apple or Solaris or.... May times not be hard enough for them to be bought out by The Monopoly (tm).
Who (or address) was the knucklhead where this came from? I'm thankful for MD5's. May the infinite pings of a thousand sysadmins infest his dialup connection.
I try to avoid things that are patented, especialy software due to lack of quality. A member of my family who worked at a drug company stated half the payroll went to lawyers, not researchers. Imagine why medicine is so expensive and why drugs have so many side effects. Poor quality makes you buy more.
I wish there was a law that required that if something is patented, it would be stated on the product. This goes for software, too. Seems like some companies just have to have a patent on a product and that is a marketing point: "patented." Like that is supposed to make it great?
This site needs to be taken out of its misery. "Free trial version" of Linux? What the hell is this? I do not want Linux (tm) to become synonymous with demo software. Sad, and this has gone too far.
Is Intel preventing overclocking due to complaints and returns due to reliability and consumer warranty returns? If so, why not have a section of the CPU dedicated to performance management that has a PROM that records runtime conditions and averages? Things like runtime maximum and mean temperatures and clocking can be recorded. Adding the traces and the read only instructions to access these parameters that could prove any consumer abuse of a returned chip would take less than a thousand transistors.
That way, those of us who want to void the warranty and experiment with full performance can. I am using a Celeron 300A at 464MHz (504 was tried for a few minutes once...) It runs cool and I doubt ion migration will hapen at cool temperatures.
Not being able to copy and paste from Netscape sounds interesting. Are you using xfree? I am not aware of anything in a page's source that could trigger a bug like that. I say that is a bug, because if that feature does exist, it can be fixed!;)
A manufacturing line at work has been controlled by Warp for about 3 years and I have noticed that it has never crashed itself or the process program. It runs on an old dirt slow IBM "industrial" computer that controls a network of PLC's. It controls a machine that slowly makes a product that will be worth over a million dollars. I can imagine how long NT would last in that setting; however, what is remarkable, this setup has never crashed. Is OS/2 like this in all settings?
If you heat a block of magnesium to a nice color of a critical temperature, you will get a strong reaction. Also, fresh aluminum shavings are very explosive. Most metals that form a thin oxide layer in presence of oxegen can be a hazard when shaved.
Shave some aluminum down in a bench grinder some time. It can be a deadly hazard.
If they plan harm to some system, I would call that cracking the system, like a detective would crack a case. To fix something with a hack is what I call hacking. I looked at the semantics that they used and it looks like sensationalism. They ought to keep sabotage to themselves if they know any good. The difference as I understand it, is a hacker will do what it takes to get a system to work and a cracker will go beyond that even with destructive means to gain control of a system. Not cool if the system integrety is compromised to get it to work.
I work at a manufacturing plant as a senior technician on the night shift and electrically things go wrong. If I were to troubleshoot and repair a job, one might say I hacked. Now, if I were to cross some fine line and decided to compromise information or resources on the computer or telephone network, you could call that cracking.
I seem to remember when a hack was novel, something like a valuable shortcut. Like before surge protectors were popular, putting a MOV in the wall socket if computer equipment kept getting smoked was a hack. Now the media seems to call hacking a declaration of war. I call that sensationalism and unresponsible.
I bet compact, high quality players like this will soon be in demand. I just wish these would include a built in lithium battery charger. Up to 6 hours on a battery seems like a hassle. I'd rather recycle the electrons than dispose of hazmat chemicals in the dumpster.
Those stories made my day. Reminds me when I was a teenager and got in trouble enough that the too forgiving police did not think I was going to make it in life. I have great memories that I may never do again. Its nice to see stuff like this from others as it is funny.
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I was interviewing for a small company several years back that made switchgear for audio equipment. The owner gave in to the owner of a patent that demanded 1% of all equipment he made. The patent described things that switch on sequentialy as to prevent the whole load switched on at one time to blow the circuit.
Patents are everywhere and are driven by money. Get used to it. They may not be right, but they offer "protection." The Mob offers protection too. Its because they can make money. The US can make money. And you will to just by playing this little game. Pay a small fee that you competitors do not and they will be denied entry.
>All this technology, and for what?
Why, to catch those warez kids that distribute the dope that is pushed from Redmond. Watch them flee, only for so long. Nothing outruns a Motorola!
So we would have the option of disabling it. But, how would I know there is not some kind of hidden back door to reactivate it? Should I take Intel's word on privacy? Didn't Microsoft do something like this to Ceaser's Palace with an SPA raid a few years back?
I can just picture some warez user or some executive opening an trojaned email. An exploit written by insiders to bypass the chip's protection and sneak the ID out onto the ethernet.
I went down to Walmart a few months ago and got some paint and glitter flake. It looks pretty good. Its the GM dark metalic purple, which is an exact match for the plastic on my gateway solo.
The metalic does not show like you would expect it too, so while the paint was very wet, I sprinkled a heavy dust storm from a small bag of that pearlescent powder. It sticks. And it stays after many months. The flake surface will wear the first few weeks over everything, but its stable now. It is very flashy and I would recommend adding stuff to paint for anyone who really wants to personalizing a laptop.
Pictures of it? Certainly:
http://www.gtr-access.org/~dattaway/images/
solo1.jpg
solo2.jpg
solo3.jpg
solo4.jpg
Laptops are heavy and perhaps it would be nice to have a discretely hidden link to the net. This would be a good during dull meetings that need some fresh ideas. People will wonder how this person all of a sudden got so smart.
I agree and want to sign, but it asks for my street address where I actually live to be distributed to that music association. Is this like giving your ID to the SPA for a license audit? Even though I live in the back woods, I do not want the hassle of being asked whats on my computer if a group shows up at my door and wait for a search warrant when I say no.
Damn, I'll sign anyway. This is war. If they want to fight on my doorstep, let them come on over and play!
This is what a monopoly can leverage. Since they will not allow choice, I would like to stick my copy of MS95/Office that came with my top of the line Gateway Solo up the asshole of Bill Gates.
.... May times not be hard enough for them to be bought out by The Monopoly (tm).
If the DOJ keeps playing the wimp and does not use some muscle, the MS destiny will be complete.
You have no choice. You as a consumer will use what Bill Gates dictates you to use. Unless you are on the edge an use Linux or BSD or an Apple or Solaris or
Who (or address) was the knucklhead where this came from? I'm thankful for MD5's. May the infinite pings of a thousand sysadmins infest his dialup connection.
I try to avoid things that are patented, especialy software due to lack of quality. A member of my family who worked at a drug company stated half the payroll went to lawyers, not researchers. Imagine why medicine is so expensive and why drugs have so many side effects. Poor quality makes you buy more.
I wish there was a law that required that if something is patented, it would be stated on the product. This goes for software, too. Seems like some companies just have to have a patent on a product and that is a marketing point: "patented." Like that is supposed to make it great?
When I loaded the page, Tux looked like he was stretched on the rack and looked like a beanpole. What's going on here?
This site needs to be taken out of its misery. "Free trial version" of Linux? What the hell is this? I do not want Linux (tm) to become synonymous with demo software. Sad, and this has gone too far.
Is Intel preventing overclocking due to complaints and returns due to reliability and consumer warranty returns? If so, why not have a section of the CPU dedicated to performance management that has a PROM that records runtime conditions and averages? Things like runtime maximum and mean temperatures and clocking can be recorded. Adding the traces and the read only instructions to access these parameters that could prove any consumer abuse of a returned chip would take less than a thousand transistors.
That way, those of us who want to void the warranty and experiment with full performance can. I am using a Celeron 300A at 464MHz (504 was tried for a few minutes once...) It runs cool and I doubt ion migration will hapen at cool temperatures.
Not being able to copy and paste from Netscape sounds interesting. Are you using xfree? I am not aware of anything in a page's source that could trigger a bug like that. I say that is a bug, because if that feature does exist, it can be fixed! ;)
A manufacturing line at work has been controlled by Warp for about 3 years and I have noticed that it has never crashed itself or the process program. It runs on an old dirt slow IBM "industrial" computer that controls a network of PLC's. It controls a machine that slowly makes a product that will be worth over a million dollars. I can imagine how long NT would last in that setting; however, what is remarkable, this setup has never crashed. Is OS/2 like this in all settings?
If you heat a block of magnesium to a nice color of a critical temperature, you will get a strong reaction. Also, fresh aluminum shavings are very explosive. Most metals that form a thin oxide layer in presence of oxegen can be a hazard when shaved.
Shave some aluminum down in a bench grinder some time. It can be a deadly hazard.
If they plan harm to some system, I would call that cracking the system, like a detective would crack a case. To fix something with a hack is what I call hacking. I looked at the semantics that they used and it looks like sensationalism. They ought to keep sabotage to themselves if they know any good. The difference as I understand it, is a hacker will do what it takes to get a system to work and a cracker will go beyond that even with destructive means to gain control of a system. Not cool if the system integrety is compromised to get it to work.
I work at a manufacturing plant as a senior technician on the night shift and electrically things go wrong. If I were to troubleshoot and repair a job, one might say I hacked. Now, if I were to cross some fine line and decided to compromise information or resources on the computer or telephone network, you could call that cracking.
I seem to remember when a hack was novel, something like a valuable shortcut. Like before surge protectors were popular, putting a MOV in the wall socket if computer equipment kept getting smoked was a hack. Now the media seems to call hacking a declaration of war. I call that sensationalism and unresponsible.
I bet compact, high quality players like this will soon be in demand. I just wish these would include a built in lithium battery charger. Up to 6 hours on a battery seems like a hassle. I'd rather recycle the electrons than dispose of hazmat chemicals in the dumpster.
Needless to say I want one. One for my car, too!
Those stories made my day. Reminds me when I was a teenager and got in trouble enough that the too forgiving police did not think I was going to make it in life. I have great memories that I may never do again. Its nice to see stuff like this from others as it is funny.