I'm not totally up on the who situation here. I don't follow the various online security weenies (which you have to admit, most of them are self-serving...) But I do know that you get out of an interview is based on your answers, not on the questions asked. Even in cases where the question is the ever famous "have you stopped beating your wife yet?", the measure of the man is how he answers not what the question is. He just addressed whatever issues he desired to address and completely ignored the input from/.
Can you say software renderer? There's not a hardware solution on the planet that is suitable for photographic quality imaging. Each studio uses propriatary rendering software and often bakes their own clustering systems to churn out the actual frames. SGI has some limits on fillrate, but they do have some spectacular track records for putting the pipeline in hardware. It's pretty cool to hear about the 2048 bits per pixel of their top end reality engines.
MS got the IE codebase from the same place netscape got theirs: UIUC & NCSA. I still remember when Netscape was called Mosaic communications and their browser was called "Mosaic" and was comparatively kick ass. Apparently Netscape Corp. and their programmers could design and code their way out of a wet paper bag.
MS has 30,000 employees -- do you really think they're not voting on these polls?
Of course they aren't. They are either working (just like the rest of the tech world, they do work on saturdays and sundays) or out having a good time with their families.
You do realize that the G3 is not the worlds fastest home computer. Not even close. The G3's max out at 450 Mhz which is a good 266 Mhz slower than the P3 and 250 Mhz slower than the Athlon. You can, in fact, buy Athlon systems from Kryotech running at 800-900 Mhz. Systems that are cover by warranty and supported. The efficiency of the G3/G4 series processors is not such that they can overcome that large of a difference in core clock rate. So let's stop getting warm fuzzy from Apple's marketing and go hunting for a clue.
Nah, MS won the browser war by making a better product, and then kicking the stilts out from under Netscape. From the version 4 browsers on IE has been a substantially better product. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but NS just screwed themselves with their attitude and shoddy approach to their customers and products.
DVDs have a couple layers of protection. First DVD devices will not read arbitrary blocks off the disks until they have been properly frobbed to allow this. This is the unlock key. Then the data is encrypted so that you can't steal the data directly and have a perfect to the original copy of the movie. If they would have stuck with hardware implementation only, this would have been much more difficult to accomplish. Plus they could have applied for patents and such which would give them legal grounds to hunt down people who do reverse engineer the methodology anyway.
The fact that they did not release a linux version to begin with was foolish.
You do realize that the DeCSS code was originally written for Windows, right? It's not really a linux thing. Linux just found incorporated the functionality into the livid project.
No offense but the issue of public review of the CSS encryption methodology is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if they came up with an unbreakable encryption. Why you ask? Because the players have to have the ability to decrypt the information to playback the movies. Which means the keys are available, either built into the players or included on the discs themselves. Once the DVD consortium was stupid enough to allow software DVD players they lost any chance of keeping this secret. It doesn't matter if you try to disguise, hide, obfuscate, etc. the decoder. If it's there, it can be reverse engineered and there's nothing that can be done about it. They should have stuck to hardware.
To repeat: this is not an "openness" issue. Peer review wouldn't have resulted in better functionality.
Yup. Anything that can be done in software can be completely reverse engineered and understood. It doesn't matter how sneaky, misleading and underhanded the application is meant to be about protecting it's secrets. You just can't stop people who want the information.
Without the unlock key (which was the first step necessary to get around to breaking CSS) DVD-ROM drives will not deliver data from encrypted movies.
So at a minimum you still need to activate the unlock system in the DVD-ROM before you can make a disk-disk copy. But that came before the DeCSS showed up anyway.
CSS prevents me from making digital copies to another for of media that I can use (cd, hdd, tape.) And macrovision prevents me from recording it without signal filtering hardware.
So now that some folks have figured out how to STEAL DvD data, what next?
I can't speak for you, but I have a legally protected right to make backup duplicates of tapes, cds, vhs movies, dvd movies, etc. The industry putting CSS and Macrovision on the DVDs I legally own prevents me from getting my legally mandates rights. I don't own a console DVD player. I do have a small collection of DVDs that I'd like to transfer to VHS tape so that I can watch them when I please and not have to go over to a friends house.
The problem with trying to point your fingers at the troubles everybody encounters in growing up and in their day to day lives, is that it tells people that "it's not their fault." When in reality it is their fault. They need to realize that sometimes others are assholes and sometimes shit just happens and you can't just give up and start acting like you have no self control and decision making ability.
Sure it would be nice if we could solve the problem of some people not being "normal" but you can't define "normal" and it's really not our right to decide that someone or other needs to be "fixed." But it is our right to defend ourselves from others.
Sorry, but this is BS. Being the outsider has been a situation all throughout human history. And going on a killing rampage, etc. has never been the proper answer in a proper society. Sitting there and calling someone a victim because they are assholes and nobody likes them, or blaming video games or other forms of media is just screwed. People have free will and the ability to make choices. They aren't forced to behave in certain ways or take particular actions.
The difference between people and animals is that people aren't totally reactionary. If someone really has not free will to make decisions based on their own and societies moral standards that's when they become no different than any other tool or object. I don't know about the rest of you, but when my screwdrivers have been stripped down to being an icepick they go in the garbage and to put it bluntly that's how I think we should treat anybody who isn't willing to stand up and take responsibility for their actions.
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Re:BSD's deserve a look...
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I am not certain if masquerading is available on either of the BSDs, but I intend to investigate.
It is available. Look at the natd and ipfw programs (and appropriate kernel options.)
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FreeBSD, though, will let me use Communicator with KDE, and on top that, I have never had Navigator die on me.
You lucky bastard. As much as I hate to say it, I've found IE 4.x/5 under NT and 98 to be more stable and functional than any version of netscape on any OS.
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Re:Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?
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Linux is the "WinTel hardware world"?!?
I don't think he was denigrating Linux in anyway. Just distinguishing what he meant by "covering the hardware world." Linux has a lot of device driver support on Intel, more than any other x86 unix in fact. But his point was to clarify that NetBSD runs on more different architectures than any other unix.
Of course Linux runs on a lot of platforms, just not as many as NetBSD. You arguing against this fact by listing some of the platforms that Linux runs on would be like me arguing that CowBSD has just as many/as good device drivers as Linux by listing:
Well, I'm going to have to kill you after you read this, but what the hell. See the Feds keep track of all telescopes that are powerful enough to see the "landing" site. They then ensure that they are fitted with a special lens that contains a compound that chemically reacts to light reflected from the moon. This reaction causes people to think that the distortion in the lens is actually an image of the landing site.
So now I'm going to need to know your address so I can mail you the home version of the "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" kit.
Well you're right. But the various pieces of #ifdef-ed code are only to glue in the differing kerneldevice driver and device driverhardware interfaces. Not really a lot different than the necessary interfaces to support, for example, both x86 and Alpha architectures in the same code tree. Any USB related changes, such as adding support for new devices or fixing bugs in the current devices, will go to the other camp automatically.
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I'm not totally up on the who situation here. I don't follow the various online security weenies (which you have to admit, most of them are self-serving...) But I do know that you get out of an interview is based on your answers, not on the questions asked. Even in cases where the question is the ever famous "have you stopped beating your wife yet?", the measure of the man is how he answers not what the question is. He just addressed whatever issues he desired to address and completely ignored the input from /.
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I'd seriously be SOL with my ISDN TA without Whistle making their code available. MPD works like a charm for multi channel PPP.
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Can you say software renderer? There's not a hardware solution on the planet that is suitable for photographic quality imaging. Each studio uses propriatary rendering software and often bakes their own clustering systems to churn out the actual frames. SGI has some limits on fillrate, but they do have some spectacular track records for putting the pipeline in hardware. It's pretty cool to hear about the 2048 bits per pixel of their top end reality engines.
But I do agree. SGI is sinking.
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Additionally there are... extensions? to IE5 that include the feature of a toolbar image on/off button.
MS got the IE codebase from the same place netscape got theirs: UIUC & NCSA. I still remember when Netscape was called Mosaic communications and their browser was called "Mosaic" and was comparatively kick ass. Apparently Netscape Corp. and their programmers could design and code their way out of a wet paper bag.
*Offtopic*
Come to my house buddy, my cat's litter box needs cleaning.
Of course they aren't. They are either working (just like the rest of the tech world, they do work on saturdays and sundays) or out having a good time with their families.
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You do realize that the G3 is not the worlds fastest home computer. Not even close. The G3's max out at 450 Mhz which is a good 266 Mhz slower than the P3 and 250 Mhz slower than the Athlon. You can, in fact, buy Athlon systems from Kryotech running at 800-900 Mhz. Systems that are cover by warranty and supported. The efficiency of the G3/G4 series processors is not such that they can overcome that large of a difference in core clock rate. So let's stop getting warm fuzzy from Apple's marketing and go hunting for a clue.
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Nah, MS won the browser war by making a better product, and then kicking the stilts out from under Netscape. From the version 4 browsers on IE has been a substantially better product. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but NS just screwed themselves with their attitude and shoddy approach to their customers and products.
-sw
DVDs have a couple layers of protection. First DVD devices will not read arbitrary blocks off the disks until they have been properly frobbed to allow this. This is the unlock key. Then the data is encrypted so that you can't steal the data directly and have a perfect to the original copy of the movie. If they would have stuck with hardware implementation only, this would have been much more difficult to accomplish. Plus they could have applied for patents and such which would give them legal grounds to hunt down people who do reverse engineer the methodology anyway.
-sw
You do realize that the DeCSS code was originally written for Windows, right? It's not really a linux thing. Linux just found incorporated the functionality into the livid project.
No offense but the issue of public review of the CSS encryption methodology is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if they came up with an unbreakable encryption. Why you ask? Because the players have to have the ability to decrypt the information to playback the movies. Which means the keys are available, either built into the players or included on the discs themselves. Once the DVD consortium was stupid enough to allow software DVD players they lost any chance of keeping this secret. It doesn't matter if you try to disguise, hide, obfuscate, etc. the decoder. If it's there, it can be reverse engineered and there's nothing that can be done about it. They should have stuck to hardware.
To repeat: this is not an "openness" issue. Peer review wouldn't have resulted in better functionality.
-sw
Yup. Anything that can be done in software can be completely reverse engineered and understood. It doesn't matter how sneaky, misleading and underhanded the application is meant to be about protecting it's secrets. You just can't stop people who want the information.
-sw
Without the unlock key (which was the first step necessary to get around to breaking CSS) DVD-ROM drives will not deliver data from encrypted movies.
So at a minimum you still need to activate the unlock system in the DVD-ROM before you can make a disk-disk copy. But that came before the DeCSS showed up anyway.
-sw
CSS prevents me from making digital copies to another for of media that I can use (cd, hdd, tape.) And macrovision prevents me from recording it without signal filtering hardware.
-sw
I can't speak for you, but I have a legally protected right to make backup duplicates of tapes, cds, vhs movies, dvd movies, etc. The industry putting CSS and Macrovision on the DVDs I legally own prevents me from getting my legally mandates rights. I don't own a console DVD player. I do have a small collection of DVDs that I'd like to transfer to VHS tape so that I can watch them when I please and not have to go over to a friends house.
-sw
The problem with trying to point your fingers at the troubles everybody encounters in growing up and in their day to day lives, is that it tells people that "it's not their fault." When in reality it is their fault. They need to realize that sometimes others are assholes and sometimes shit just happens and you can't just give up and start acting like you have no self control and decision making ability.
Sure it would be nice if we could solve the problem of some people not being "normal" but you can't define "normal" and it's really not our right to decide that someone or other needs to be "fixed." But it is our right to defend ourselves from others.
-sw
Sorry, but this is BS. Being the outsider has been a situation all throughout human history. And going on a killing rampage, etc. has never been the proper answer in a proper society. Sitting there and calling someone a victim because they are assholes and nobody likes them, or blaming video games or other forms of media is just screwed. People have free will and the ability to make choices. They aren't forced to behave in certain ways or take particular actions.
The difference between people and animals is that people aren't totally reactionary. If someone really has not free will to make decisions based on their own and societies moral standards that's when they become no different than any other tool or object. I don't know about the rest of you, but when my screwdrivers have been stripped down to being an icepick they go in the garbage and to put it bluntly that's how I think we should treat anybody who isn't willing to stand up and take responsibility for their actions.
-sw
It is available. Look at the natd and ipfw programs (and appropriate kernel options.)
I don't think he was denigrating Linux in anyway. Just distinguishing what he meant by "covering the hardware world." Linux has a lot of device driver support on Intel, more than any other x86 unix in fact. But his point was to clarify that NetBSD runs on more different architectures than any other unix.
Of course Linux runs on a lot of platforms, just not as many as NetBSD. You arguing against this fact by listing some of the platforms that Linux runs on would be like me arguing that CowBSD has just as many/as good device drivers as Linux by listing:
It's just not a valid argument.
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Well, I'm going to have to kill you after you read this, but what the hell. See the Feds keep track of all telescopes that are powerful enough to see the "landing" site. They then ensure that they are fitted with a special lens that contains a compound that chemically reacts to light reflected from the moon. This reaction causes people to think that the distortion in the lens is actually an image of the landing site.
So now I'm going to need to know your address so I can mail you the home version of the "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" kit.
-sw
There were, like, dashes and greater than and less than signs in there where it looks run together.
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Well you're right. But the various pieces of #ifdef-ed code are only to glue in the differing kerneldevice driver and device driverhardware interfaces. Not really a lot different than the necessary interfaces to support, for example, both x86 and Alpha architectures in the same code tree. Any USB related changes, such as adding support for new devices or fixing bugs in the current devices, will go to the other camp automatically.
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Some drivers are fully interchangable between the various BSDs. The one that comes to mind right off the bat is the USB support.
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*why is it that every thread you want to moderate is the same ones you want to post to?*