Answer: Whatever the customers want to buy because that's the only way they can make money.
BZZZZT! Wrong!
Not when there is a monopoly, it aint. Then they ram whatever they want down your throat. And we are talking about some BIG monopolies here, for starters, Micros~1 and the RIAA and the MPAA etc.
Look into the 'secure content stream' or whatever is is called in windows (there is a technote somewhere on msdn)
This could easily be coupled to such a hardware scheme, requiring only 'secured' content to be stored on these devices. Windows may only boot from such a hard-drive, movies may only play on a computer with one etc etc etc.
2000-12-21 13:13:13 Copy Protection on each and every harddrive. (articles,news) (rejected)
Nice numbers, huh...
But lately, I seriously wonder what is going on around here. I used to think ppl who criticised the editors should just fuck off, but now, I am starting to realise just how right they were.
Silly editors, you missed the real story. In "The Register", here.
Exclusive
Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in.
Technical committees of NCTIS, the ANSI-blessed standards body, have been discussing the incorporation of content protection currently used for removable media into industry-standard ATA drives, using proprietary technology originating from the 4C Entity. They're the people who brought you CSS2: IBM, Toshiba Intel and Matsushita.
Sphere 2: System Essentials-- Money, bandwidth, telco access, computers
Sphere 1: Leadership-- the SpamBoy himself, his partners and business associates
By alliances, we mean those reciprocal relationships the spammer has formed with:
news media (Cyber-Clueless First Amendment activist newbie journalists, for example)
other spammers
ISPs, whether rogue or non-rogue
hacker consultants
fringe associates (Meowers, Kook Cabal)
banks, business organizations, and other sources of economic power
politicians
We must then examine our assumptions. If our Spammer runs his own ISP, then attacking an AOL account he controls (by complaining to abuse@aol.com) will be of negative value-- a waste of our time and resources. If his ancillary server is somehow "taken down", but his primary SpamServers keep pumping out ECP spam via open NNTP ports worldwide, what will we have gained? If he is (like Gr*bor or our own deeply psychologically troubled Doktor Funway) only marginally rational, abuse and punishment that would persuade a reasonable Yeti to leave the field of battle may only enrage the Bull(shitter) like the pricking of a picador. Finally, if we do not have the necessary intelligence to pinpoint our enemy and her crucial Strategic systems exactly, our efforts will either be wasted entirely, or increased by orders of magnitude over what they could have been with accurate and timely information.
In our final strategic translation matrix, we shall endeavor to identify what we mean by a Spammer's Political, Economic and Military powers; as well as the proper role of the semi-tautological Net.War attribute of Information.
Political power: news media (online and traditional), lawmakers, friends and acquaintances, usenet Kooks
Economic power: cold hard cash earned both legitimately and by Spam; frivolous lawsuits (to tie up opponents' assets/time)
Military power: Net.war capabilities of spammer's own systems (mail bombs, Usenet binary bombs); hired gun hackers; open NNTP and mail servers ripe for exploitation
Information: Positive and Negative--> Positive: Spammer's ability to gather intel on foes; ability to adapt to changing laws, standards, and software affecting/enabling internet communication; ability to slander and defame enemies and thus provoke them to rash deeds;
Negative: the ability to cloak himself in anonymity, pseudonymity, and false faux-open identities, thus denying his enemies that first prerequisite of strategic analysis: identification.
He has done some good stuff, and a lot of bogus stuff, his 'nya nya nya nya' bullshite when his VA stock was "worth" about $40 million was basically unforgivable, as is this stupidity in the jargon file:
W2k Bug
Yeah, Eric, you got that one right!
Actually I agree with the initial poster. I run/. in the 'light' setting and can reduce it to quite small sizes before a horizontal scroll appears, and even smaller before I have to use the scroller.
HTML is markup, if you want absolute positioning, use PDF and spawn a plugin, as some sites do.
Man, this one is fairly old in the Life scene. I mean I saw it *months* ago... (brilliant hack tho... truly brilliant).
Anyway, I understand that one of Saint Turing of Computing's original papers written just before or during WWII is *still* classified. I believe it had to do with information theory and detecting 'signal from noise' if you will, or perhaps dealing with stego matters, or how to detect information others are trying to hide.
I wonder sometimes what its contents could possibly be, and if it was truly novel, or whether it is something known but its implications have been overlooked
By and large, I think that article is the biggest pile of shite I have ever read. If it were posted to/. it would quickly get moderated as "Troll", its that funny. But...
My m$ sources tell me that the recent 'stability' in IIS is due to analysis of Apache and copying the strategy, namely forking the process and periodically killing the children and restarting new processes.
So... whilst I would seriously doubt the existance of any GPL'd code in windows, there may be some analysis and subsequent adoption of sucessful stategies, but this should hardly come as a surprise to anyone.
When using the original code, a P4 system took a glacial 19 hours compared with just under 13 hours for a 933MHz PIII. But with code recompiled to use SSE2, the P4 galloped through the test in a shade over seven and a half hours.
and:
"A P4 at 1.5Ghz is now faster when running optimised code then our Alpha production boxes by a sizable margin, where those same Alpha boxes outperformed all our P3 based systems.
That when the optimising compilers come out supporting SSE2 that the P4 will kick arse?
As others have pointed out, these new chips are *usually* slower on 'legacy' code (cf original 5volt pentiums etc).
All this is a bit preliminary, ie P4 is certainly expensive and not that great Right Now, but almost certainly will rock when there is the code to support it (as there certainly will be).
I am a big AMD supporter, I think that they have done extremely well. But now, they are under the pump, just as they had Intel under the pump for the last 18 months.
All is well, just don't buy a P4 right now. Maybe the vapourware dual Athlon chipsets and motherboard will come out in time to toast the P4, but otherwise Athlon has some serious competition.
Actually, it may well be argued that the market price of software (at least operating systems and office suites) has been reduced to zero or less.
The software is now produced (mostly) by volunteers working in their spare time, donating their efforts.
Hence, the taxable value of the software is also zero.
Service charged around the software, such as consulting, installation, maintainence, perhaps even coding patches or improvements are of course taxable.
I think microsoft et al are the ones with the most to fear here, as their software is obviously *not* being priced at market value, and our Polish friends are quite out of order.
This paper describes a Perl module -- Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin. A plausible rationale for wanting to do such a thing is provided, along with a comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of Latinized Perl. The paper also explains the special source filtering and parsing techniques required to efficiently interpret a programming language in which the syntax is (largely) non-positional.
There is nothing really unfeasible about the tech. For a coupla million I reckon I could make it work quite well.
They are taking a psycho acoustic model of the track. This is going to filter out things like hiss and rumble in the track, and a noise gate will lose any prepended or appended crap on the file.
The only way to defeat it is to make the track unrecogzisable, and unfortunately, that would make it unlistenable.
The other way is to wrap it up steganographically, but... makes it hard to find, play etc.
Others have suggested zipping it etc, but that sorta amounts to the same thing, or lends itself to automated tools to unzip and run the softs.
Anyway, big deal... too little, too late... we have won, they have lost, they are just too stupid to recognize it yet. When they start offering something of value at a reasonable price, they will be back in the game, in the meantime, Napster et al will be where the action is.
Yep, this is obvious tech... but, the genie is out of the bottle.
How is this going to deal with gnutella, freenet, mojonation etc?
Me, I like the 'private networking' option in Gnotella and others. Me and my buddies setup private little sharing networks. I believe that Groove and others have taken this P2P thing to new heights also.
Sure, this may well work for all those geocities accounts and stuff, but at last count there were about, what? 20million+ Napster users...
When will these turkeys wake up and stop trying to prosecute their customers.
Man, there is a way to read it. Don't try to follow exactly the math stuff in the first third. Just read it, and pay attention to the dialogues, and the *implications* of the math stuff.
[I am assuming that this is the prob, I know many people who have put it down cos it was 'too hard'].
I guess the math stuff is there to kind of rigorously prove a few things, that the rest of the book relies on.
It is not that interesting to the 'layman' (lazyman?), but what comes after it is.
Man, I use googles 'safe search' to cut out the pr0n and limit my queries to english only pages.
It works bloody bagus maaate.
Basically, google rocks, especially on older computers, or in lynx.
In the old days, hotbot and altavista were great, but became filled with crud and altavista's 10 result limit peeved me.
When google came along it was a breath of fresh air, and the features it continues to add continue to add value, not subtract like the mess on other engines.
Raging is pretty good, but I don't see the point, since it is a shameless clone of google.
... *used* to go to the microsoft site. Now it just returns stories on how if you enter 'more evil than satan himself' into google, you get the microsoft homepage.
This is fascinating, because the story has invalidated itself.
Some weirdarse self-referential hoffstadteriam net.paradox has gone down.
I assume the next step is that stories on how 'more evil than satan himself' *used* to refer to the microsoft homepage get top billing, and so on ad infinitum...
Slashdot Mirror
Have fun!
Psst! Yes, they *really* are out to get you!
BZZZZT! Wrong!
Not when there is a monopoly, it aint. Then they ram whatever they want down your throat. And we are talking about some BIG monopolies here, for starters, Micros~1 and the RIAA and the MPAA etc.
Look into the 'secure content stream' or whatever is is called in windows (there is a technote somewhere on msdn)
This could easily be coupled to such a hardware scheme, requiring only 'secured' content to be stored on these devices. Windows may only boot from such a hard-drive, movies may only play on a computer with one etc etc etc.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
Errrr ,,, cos there's nothing else available in the shops ...
- 2000-12-21 13:13:13 Copy Protection on each and every harddrive. (articles,news) (rejected)
Nice numbers, huhBut lately, I seriously wonder what is going on around here. I used to think ppl who criticised the editors should just fuck off, but now, I am starting to realise just how right they were.
Oh, well ...
Exclusive
Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in.
Technical committees of NCTIS, the ANSI-blessed standards body, have been discussing the incorporation of content protection currently used for removable media into industry-standard ATA drives, using proprietary technology originating from the 4C Entity. They're the people who brought you CSS2: IBM, Toshiba Intel and Matsushita.
Your default may well be 3DES, try changing to Blowfish.
I seriously doubt it. I submitted this story TWICE yesterday.
The first time I submitted it, it was rejected so quickly that no editor could possibly have read the article.
Now, a day later someone else posts it and it gets in.
Standards, Standards ... /. is big on applying them to others, its a shame they don't have many for themselves.
First, we must translate the Five Spheres (or Rings) of the enemy system into modern Net.War counterparts:
- Sphere 5: Fielded forces-- throwaway AOL accounts, hired consultants, dedicated spam domains
- Sphere 4: Population-- Spam-related customers, support employees (secretaries, etc.)
- Sphere 3: Infrastructure-- Primary non-rogue ISPs, Websites, ftp sites, cgi scripts, mail relays, reputation
- Sphere 2: System Essentials-- Money, bandwidth, telco access, computers
- Sphere 1: Leadership-- the SpamBoy himself, his partners and business associates
By alliances, we mean those reciprocal relationships the spammer has formed with: news media (Cyber-Clueless First Amendment activist newbie journalists, for example)- other spammers
- ISPs, whether rogue or non-rogue
- hacker consultants
- fringe associates (Meowers, Kook Cabal)
- banks, business organizations, and other sources of economic power
- politicians
We must then examine our assumptions. If our Spammer runs his own ISP, then attacking an AOL account he controls (by complaining to abuse@aol.com) will be of negative value-- a waste of our time and resources. If his ancillary server is somehow "taken down", but his primary SpamServers keep pumping out ECP spam via open NNTP ports worldwide, what will we have gained? If he is (like Gr*bor or our own deeply psychologically troubled Doktor Funway) only marginally rational, abuse and punishment that would persuade a reasonable Yeti to leave the field of battle may only enrage the Bull(shitter) like the pricking of a picador. Finally, if we do not have the necessary intelligence to pinpoint our enemy and her crucial Strategic systems exactly, our efforts will either be wasted entirely, or increased by orders of magnitude over what they could have been with accurate and timely information. In our final strategic translation matrix, we shall endeavor to identify what we mean by a Spammer's Political, Economic and Military powers; as well as the proper role of the semi-tautological Net.War attribute of Information.- Political power: news media (online and traditional), lawmakers, friends and acquaintances, usenet Kooks
- Economic power: cold hard cash earned both legitimately and by Spam; frivolous lawsuits (to tie up opponents' assets/time)
- Military power: Net.war capabilities of spammer's own systems (mail bombs, Usenet binary bombs); hired gun hackers; open NNTP and mail servers ripe for exploitation
- Information: Positive and Negative--> Positive: Spammer's ability to gather intel on foes; ability to adapt to changing laws, standards, and software affecting/enabling internet communication; ability to slander and defame enemies and thus provoke them to rash deeds;
- Negative: the ability to cloak himself in anonymity, pseudonymity, and false faux-open identities, thus denying his enemies that first prerequisite of strategic analysis: identification.
Freely stolen from: http://www.radix.net/~revjack/snotwad/snotwad3.htHe has done some good stuff, and a lot of bogus stuff, his 'nya nya nya nya' bullshite when his VA stock was "worth" about $40 million was basically unforgivable, as is this stupidity in the jargon file:
W2k Bug
Yeah, Eric, you got that one right!
HTML is markup, if you want absolute positioning, use PDF and spawn a plugin, as some sites do.
From memory, they have had NetBSD running on dreamcast for a while, not to mention WinCE.
It is another market, another great place for an Open Source, Free, GPL'd operating system to be, uhhh, operating in.
Righto, that may well be the original reference I remembered, time having passed it now being declassified. Danke
Anyway, I understand that one of Saint Turing of Computing's original papers written just before or during WWII is *still* classified. I believe it had to do with information theory and detecting 'signal from noise' if you will, or perhaps dealing with stego matters, or how to detect information others are trying to hide.
I wonder sometimes what its contents could possibly be, and if it was truly novel, or whether it is something known but its implications have been overlooked
My m$ sources tell me that the recent 'stability' in IIS is due to analysis of Apache and copying the strategy, namely forking the process and periodically killing the children and restarting new processes.
So ... whilst I would seriously doubt the existance of any GPL'd code in windows, there may be some analysis and subsequent adoption of sucessful stategies, but this should hardly come as a surprise to anyone.
When using the original code, a P4 system took a glacial 19 hours compared with just under 13 hours for a 933MHz PIII. But with code recompiled to use SSE2, the P4 galloped through the test in a shade over seven and a half hours.
and:
"A P4 at 1.5Ghz is now faster when running optimised code then our Alpha production boxes by a sizable margin, where those same Alpha boxes outperformed all our P3 based systems.
Will everybody now shutup?
As others have pointed out, these new chips are *usually* slower on 'legacy' code (cf original 5volt pentiums etc).
All this is a bit preliminary, ie P4 is certainly expensive and not that great Right Now, but almost certainly will rock when there is the code to support it (as there certainly will be).
I am a big AMD supporter, I think that they have done extremely well. But now, they are under the pump, just as they had Intel under the pump for the last 18 months.
All is well, just don't buy a P4 right now. Maybe the vapourware dual Athlon chipsets and motherboard will come out in time to toast the P4, but otherwise Athlon has some serious competition.
Many many companies Y have done X when it most certainly was *not* economically advantageous. Many went bankrupt, others recovered.
The software is now produced (mostly) by volunteers working in their spare time, donating their efforts.
Hence, the taxable value of the software is also zero.
Service charged around the software, such as consulting, installation, maintainence, perhaps even coding patches or improvements are of course taxable.
I think microsoft et al are the ones with the most to fear here, as their software is obviously *not* being priced at market value, and our Polish friends are quite out of order.
check it out here
Abstract
This paper describes a Perl module -- Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin. A plausible rationale for wanting to do such a thing is provided, along with a comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of Latinized Perl. The paper also explains the special source filtering and parsing techniques required to efficiently interpret a programming language in which the syntax is (largely) non-positional.
Such things exist, and you, Sir, are talking out of your hat.
Pray tell me your criteria for deciding that it was 'very badly designed', and how you would do better.
There is nothing really unfeasible about the tech. For a coupla million I reckon I could make it work quite well.
They are taking a psycho acoustic model of the track. This is going to filter out things like hiss and rumble in the track, and a noise gate will lose any prepended or appended crap on the file.
The only way to defeat it is to make the track unrecogzisable, and unfortunately, that would make it unlistenable.
The other way is to wrap it up steganographically, but ... makes it hard to find, play etc.
Others have suggested zipping it etc, but that sorta amounts to the same thing, or lends itself to automated tools to unzip and run the softs.
Anyway, big deal ... too little, too late ... we have won, they have lost, they are just too stupid to recognize it yet. When they start offering something of value at a reasonable price, they will be back in the game, in the meantime, Napster et al will be where the action is.
How is this going to deal with gnutella, freenet, mojonation etc?
Me, I like the 'private networking' option in Gnotella and others. Me and my buddies setup private little sharing networks. I believe that Groove and others have taken this P2P thing to new heights also.
Sure, this may well work for all those geocities accounts and stuff, but at last count there were about, what? 20million+ Napster users ...
When will these turkeys wake up and stop trying to prosecute their customers.
[I am assuming that this is the prob, I know many people who have put it down cos it was 'too hard'].
I guess the math stuff is there to kind of rigorously prove a few things, that the rest of the book relies on.
It is not that interesting to the 'layman' (lazyman?), but what comes after it is.
It works bloody bagus maaate.
Basically, google rocks, especially on older computers, or in lynx.
In the old days, hotbot and altavista were great, but became filled with crud and altavista's 10 result limit peeved me.
When google came along it was a breath of fresh air, and the features it continues to add continue to add value, not subtract like the mess on other engines.
Raging is pretty good, but I don't see the point, since it is a shameless clone of google.
This is fascinating, because the story has invalidated itself.
Some weirdarse self-referential hoffstadteriam net.paradox has gone down.
I assume the next step is that stories on how 'more evil than satan himself' *used* to refer to the microsoft homepage get top billing, and so on ad infinitum ...