These guys are going to fly rubber driven any day now (or so they think): www.rubberbandit.com.
I never forget reading about this for the first time, probably 6 years ago, and the comment the author made regarding what things _but_ the airplane would be launched into the lower atmosphere if that rubberband snapped.:o)
In the very beginning the RIAA has been totally underestimating the problem they had to face. When the power of the Internet was very obvious to a great number of people, the RIAA chose to NOT work actively with people who knew what they where talking about, to use this new medium in their and everyone elses favor.
Now they are trying to make up for that major fsck-up in the most rediculous way. Copy protection?! Give me a break,- as long as the decryption does not happen in my brain, I can _always_ make some sort of a copy. What a waste of resources...
The most important thing here is that the artist needs to be paid. Everyone realizes that. But the RIAA and distributors DON'T. They are obsolete and using everything within their power to keep that from happening.
This is the time for artist to back away from the RIAA. The RIAA is supposed to be there for the artists but instead has proven that they absolutely failed. The Internet could be a great way for artists to be paid, had the RIAA cooperated in an elegant solution.
Obviously I have lost all respect for the RIAA (did I ever have any??) and I will tell my musician friends to go indy. In fact one of my favorite artists (Tony Joe White) has released his latest CD independently it looks like. Good for him!
if someone is going to mention GPL one more time today, I'm going to scream.
Isn't there some important news, like PCI plugin cards that let you run Seti@home clients, or an 'Ask Slashdot' of someone wanting legal advice or just to know whether to get a CS at all?
btw. did anyone think that ESR's pre-speech analysis was a little, well early? It almost sounded like he was scared anyone was going to take this M$ dude seriously.
I don't quite understand why they ever endeavoured on their path, if they are not willing to pull it through, when the expected happens. I mean, the whole 'challenge' stank from the beginning. The RIAA's behaviour should not come as a surprise.
I don't know what legal ground the RIAA and companions have to threaten with a lawsuit, but it would have been extremely naive of these guys if they hadn't checked in advance what they could legally make public about their experience.
That the RIAA was going to threaten regardless was really a given, so I don't understand why this is a reason to hold back. These guys should have been prepared.
Of course on the other hand, the RIAA and friends literaly flooding everyone and their brother with legal threats is just a disgrace. I don't know the legal system well enough, but in my opinion, they had better have _very_ good legal grounds to do so, or otherwise I hope this behaviour will be punished. It can not be that orginizations will be able to control by shear abuse of power.
Or, the abuse of legal threats (especially from very powerful organizations) should be a very serious crime by itself.
Virtually every board they make has the crappy C&T 69000, as is the case with a lot of single boards.
If there's any chip that's more useless for gaming, I yet have to come across it.
Well you obviously did not look at anything because there are MANY places to discuss Multicasting. And I would be willing to bet that these places are visited by people that know a lot more on the subject than the average/. reader. (There goes my Karma)
I doubt that Steven Deering is gonna read, let alone comment here on/., but I know he is on several MBone/IP multicasting related mailing lists.
And yes, there's a lot of whinning, and it kinda sucks. I'm sorry. Just pisses me of when people want others to do their homework.
I don't like to complain man, but there is tons of information out there on the subject. Is 'Ask Slashdot' all of a sudden a 'luxury' version of a search engine??
In other words: google->multicast->first site: IP multicast initiative->couple of links down: startdust.com
Sheesj, why not? Is it so hard to imagine someone behaving a little different than you? This is exactly why this stupid ID thing sucks,- M$ would force you to behave the way they think you should.
But anyways, some things that change your MAC:
Let's say you have a notebook and because you keep loosing stubs you decide to leave one Cardbus Ethernet + stub at the office and one at home. (My boss does this)
Let's say you have a notebook and need to take a dump. Pull out the Ethernet and plug in the 802.11b. (I do this)
(And as a suggestion, change the ID to the computer's MAC address. These things change a lot less frequently [How often does a hardware hacker completely change his ethernet card? Not often.])
I do change my network cards A LOT. It's a bad assumption.
In any case, a MAC address is not unique enough, and would make the algorithm easily crackable.
The solution to this problem is really simple though: just don't buy it. I know I wont.
If you haven't seen the beta of Windows XP, check it out - it is VERY cool.
Yeah, for a 3 year old, maybe.
WTF? Why don't you tell us the REAL story? Windows XP is just there to get everyone to buy a new Windows again. You can't really continue to sell these 'enhancements' that are new Windows versions (98, 98SE, ME). There's nothing so drastically different that people should pay for that.
So you come up with something 'new, fresh and kewl' and scream really loud how kewl and revolutionary it is. I hope this time it wont work for you, I hope people will use their common sense, and actually try before they buy.
If you want to improve your OS products, try to design one that has a device driver architecture that actually makes sense, for starters.
How secure are cables really? In a lot of cases its fairly easy to get access to cables (I think of the DSL connection running through my outdoor telephone closet, for example).
In office buildings it's often even easier.
The real solution is to use encryption at a higher (lower?) level: IPSec or so. I don't know why this is not becoming a common practice yet, but I suspect the difficulty of software setup is one of them.
When I complained to some (fairly intelligent) friends about the security of wireless LAN, and how I didn't trust it because the MAC addresses are always plaintext, they replied that if there where security issues, surely big companies like Lucent would have fixed it by now, right?
Kind of shows the average attitude towards security. Most people just don't give a shit.
Slashdot Mirror
The company's website: http://www.dti3d.com/.
;)
Pretty shitty, doesn't tell you much. But I can appreciate companies that put more effort in their product than their website.
It looks like Ford has just installed 'My First Web Server' (Win2K/IIS) and are still waiting on 'My First Web Server For Dummies' to arrive.
/., I must be desperate for some Karma.
After which they'll figure it out somehow.
In fact, they probably don't redirect because this looks a lot worse in court.
Oh no, what am I doing, flaming M$ and Ford on
These guys are going to fly rubber driven any day now (or so they think): www.rubberbandit.com.
:o)
I never forget reading about this for the first time, probably 6 years ago, and the comment the author made regarding what things _but_ the airplane would be launched into the lower atmosphere if that rubberband snapped.
Investors. Oh, not VC investors, at least not at first. VCs tend to be clueful.
Ohw, I would argue the exact oposite.
.com,- nuff said.
The RIAA's display of ignorance is mindblowing.
In the very beginning the RIAA has been totally underestimating the problem they had to face. When the power of the Internet was very obvious to a great number of people, the RIAA chose to NOT work actively with people who knew what they where talking about, to use this new medium in their and everyone elses favor.
Now they are trying to make up for that major fsck-up in the most rediculous way. Copy protection?! Give me a break,- as long as the decryption does not happen in my brain, I can _always_ make some sort of a copy. What a waste of resources...
The most important thing here is that the artist needs to be paid. Everyone realizes that. But the RIAA and distributors DON'T. They are obsolete and using everything within their power to keep that from happening.
This is the time for artist to back away from the RIAA. The RIAA is supposed to be there for the artists but instead has proven that they absolutely failed. The Internet could be a great way for artists to be paid, had the RIAA cooperated in an elegant solution.
Obviously I have lost all respect for the RIAA (did I ever have any??) and I will tell my musician friends to go indy. In fact one of my favorite artists (Tony Joe White) has released his latest CD independently it looks like. Good for him!
Thanks, Breace.
if someone is going to mention GPL one more time today, I'm going to scream.
Isn't there some important news, like PCI plugin cards that let you run Seti@home clients, or an 'Ask Slashdot' of someone wanting legal advice or just to know whether to get a CS at all?
btw. did anyone think that ESR's pre-speech analysis was a little, well early? It almost sounded like he was scared anyone was going to take this M$ dude seriously.
So, I'm intruiged, click on the link, and the first line I notice:
"Indentation sensitive syntax"
See if this still sounds like a good idea after you track a bug down to an editor expanding tabs into spaces or spaces into tabs.
Especially if you are interested in Open Source, where every one uses a different editor this is bound to haunt you at some point.
I don't quite understand why they ever endeavoured on their path, if they are not willing to pull it through, when the expected happens. I mean, the whole 'challenge' stank from the beginning. The RIAA's behaviour should not come as a surprise.
I don't know what legal ground the RIAA and companions have to threaten with a lawsuit, but it would have been extremely naive of these guys if they hadn't checked in advance what they could legally make public about their experience.
That the RIAA was going to threaten regardless was really a given, so I don't understand why this is a reason to hold back. These guys should have been prepared.
Of course on the other hand, the RIAA and friends literaly flooding everyone and their brother with legal threats is just a disgrace. I don't know the legal system well enough, but in my opinion, they had better have _very_ good legal grounds to do so, or otherwise I hope this behaviour will be punished. It can not be that orginizations will be able to control by shear abuse of power.
Or, the abuse of legal threats (especially from very powerful organizations) should be a very serious crime by itself.
Thank you.
Virtually every board they make has the crappy C&T 69000, as is the case with a lot of single boards. If there's any chip that's more useless for gaming, I yet have to come across it.
Well you obviously did not look at anything because there are MANY places to discuss Multicasting. And I would be willing to bet that these places are visited by people that know a lot more on the subject than the average /. reader. (There goes my Karma)
/., but I know he is on several MBone/IP multicasting related mailing lists.
I doubt that Steven Deering is gonna read, let alone comment here on
And yes, there's a lot of whinning, and it kinda sucks. I'm sorry. Just pisses me of when people want others to do their homework.
I don't like to complain man, but there is tons of information out there on the subject. Is 'Ask Slashdot' all of a sudden a 'luxury' version of a search engine??
In other words: google->multicast->first site: IP multicast initiative->couple of links down: startdust.com
This is just being lazy.
Sheesj, why not? Is it so hard to imagine someone behaving a little different than you? This is exactly why this stupid ID thing sucks,- M$ would force you to behave the way they think you should.
But anyways, some things that change your MAC:
Let's say you have a notebook and because you keep loosing stubs you decide to leave one Cardbus Ethernet + stub at the office and one at home. (My boss does this)
Let's say you have a notebook and need to take a dump. Pull out the Ethernet and plug in the 802.11b. (I do this)
See?
(And as a suggestion, change the ID to the computer's MAC address. These things change a lot less frequently [How often does a hardware hacker completely change his ethernet card? Not often.])
I do change my network cards A LOT. It's a bad assumption.
In any case, a MAC address is not unique enough, and would make the algorithm easily crackable.
The solution to this problem is really simple though: just don't buy it. I know I wont.
If you haven't seen the beta of Windows XP, check it out - it is VERY cool.
Yeah, for a 3 year old, maybe.
WTF? Why don't you tell us the REAL story? Windows XP is just there to get everyone to buy a new Windows again. You can't really continue to sell these 'enhancements' that are new Windows versions (98, 98SE, ME). There's nothing so drastically different that people should pay for that.
So you come up with something 'new, fresh and kewl' and scream really loud how kewl and revolutionary it is. I hope this time it wont work for you, I hope people will use their common sense, and actually try before they buy.
If you want to improve your OS products, try to design one that has a device driver architecture that actually makes sense, for starters.
How secure are cables really? In a lot of cases its fairly easy to get access to cables (I think of the DSL connection running through my outdoor telephone closet, for example).
In office buildings it's often even easier.
The real solution is to use encryption at a higher (lower?) level: IPSec or so. I don't know why this is not becoming a common practice yet, but I suspect the difficulty of software setup is one of them.
When I complained to some (fairly intelligent) friends about the security of wireless LAN, and how I didn't trust it because the MAC addresses are always plaintext, they replied that if there where security issues, surely big companies like Lucent would have fixed it by now, right?
Kind of shows the average attitude towards security. Most people just don't give a shit.