"US trained and funded death squads kill 1/3rd of population of East Timor to supress an independence movement that could damage the interests of US oil companies in nearby waters". I'm not sure whether they really killed 1/3rd of the population but it does remind me of the general business practices of big oil:
MARY HARRIS "MOTHER" JONES ON THE 1914 MINERS' STRIKE AGAINST THE ROCKEFELLER HOLDINGS (Colorado Fuel and Iron Company) IN SOUTHERN COLORADO:
The miners armed, armed as it is permitted every American citizen to do in defense of his home, his family; as he is permitted to do against invasion. The smoke of armed battle rose from the arroyos and ravines of the Rocky Mountains.
No one listened. No one cared. The tickers in the offices of 26 Broadway sounded louder than the sobs of women and children. Men in the steam heated luxury of Broadway offices could not feel the stinging cold of Colorado hillsides where families lived in tents.
Then came Ludlow and the nation heard. Little children roasted alive make a front page story. Dying by inches of starvation and exposure does not.
On the 19th of April, 1914, machine guns... were placed in position above the tent colony of Ludlow. Major Pat Hamrock and Lieutenant K. E. Linderfelt were in charge of the militia, the majority of whom were company gunmen sworn in as soldiers.
Early in the morning soldiers approached the colony with a demand from headquarters that Louis Tikas, leader of the Greeks, surrender two Italians. Tikas demanded a warrant for their arrest. They had none. Tikas refused to surrender them. The soldiers returned to headquarters. A signal bomb was fired. Then another. Immediately the machine guns began spraying the flimsy tent colony, the only home the wretched families of the miners had, spraying it with bullets. Like iron rain, bullets fell upon men, women and children.
The women and children fled to the hills. Others tarried. The men defended their homes with their guns. All day long the firing continued. Men fell dead, their faces to the ground. Women dropped. The little Snyder boy was shot through the head, trying to save his kitten. A child carrying water to his dying mother was killed.
By five o'clock in the afternoon, the miners had no more food, nor water, nor ammunition. They had to retreat with their wives and little ones into the hills. Louis Tikas was riddled with shots while he tried to lead women and children to safety. They perished with him.
Night came. A raw wind blew down the canyons where men, women and children shivered and wept. Then a blaze lighted the sky. The soldiers, drunk with blood and with the liquor they had looted from the saloon, set fire to the tents of Ludlow with oil-soaked torches. The tents, all the poor furnishings, the clothes and bedding of the miners' families burned. Coils of barbed wire were stuffed into the well, the miners' only water supply.
After it was over, the wretched people crept back to bury their dead. In a dugout under a burned tent, the charred bodies of eleven little children and two women were found -- unrecognizable. Everything lay in ruins. The wires of bed springs writhed on the ground as if they, too, had tried to flee the horror. Oil and fire and guns had robbed men and women and children of their homes and slaughtered tiny babies and defenseless women. Done by order of Lieutenant Linderfelt, a savage, brutal executor of the will of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
The Autobiography of Mother Jones, Chicago, 1977, pp. 191-193
If using D-VHS for computer backups really takes off, then they would probably fix it so that it would require authentication to use raw mode. Using the device both as a VCR and as a backup of computer data would mean that the drive manufacturers could potentially loose the sale of a backup drive for each VCR sold.
You just recapitulated the original document. Nice formatting:-)
Actually, most neo-fascist European UberISPs already log all the data requested in items 1-5 as most of them use (transparent) proxies for http and ftp. I wonder why the "last page visited" is so important to them, maybe they're trying to piece sessions together where a user disconnects and then logs on to another ISP.
I'm not so sure about 6. IRC whether they already monitor it, but it's good OPSEC to assume that they do. Incidentally, the UberISP I'm subscribing to, actively assisted a German Pay-TV company by redirecting http-requests for a website containing hacking information to the homepage of the national police.
I know that my telephone Ubercompany is logging all the data they ask for and in addition to that "legitimate interests" can connect at any time without having to present a warrant to their switches to listen in to all my calls. Same thing goes for my mobile phone, and say did you know that the austrian police requested and received all cell phone subscriber information of people who were either participating or just for being in the vicinity of a demonstration?
The best kind of OPSEC in telecommunication is and always has been keeping your mouth shut.
Most DRM solution I know of, rely on cryptography, where each chip authenticates itself to another. Just like certain smart cards authenticate to their terminals and vice versa. Every command and every reply sent to a device would have a cryptographic signature and the data transferred would be encrypted using a session key the chips negotiated during authentication.
If you think it's easy to extract the authentication keys from the chips, then think again.
Secure microcontrollers store sensitive data such as authentication keys deep inside the chip where it is difficult or next to impossible to probe at. Chips like that have tamper protection sensors for example to measure the electrical capacity between chip layers or even whether the chip is being exposed to light. A number of oscillators would be on the chip to disparage attacks that attempt to derive information from the chip from it's electromagnetic radiation, Bus scrambling like in the ATMEL secure flash microcontrollers would make probing the chips signals even more difficult, if connecting to the chip's internal signals were possible due to very miniature scale of chip structures. I might also add that there is always a way to extract the data on any chip, no matter how secure. All you need is in the neighborhood of $1,500,000 in equipment and chip specialists.
System-wide keys (right after cheap and insecure microcontrollers) are the reason most Pay-TV schemes have so far failed miserably *. I could envision a system where each group of devices that are supposed to talk to each other are loaded with an mutual set of authentication and encryption keys during on-board testing that is totally random from the set of keys the next box on the assembly line will receive. So now, even though you've extracted the keys from your set of chips and can use that to get at the copy protected data, you still don't have a mod-chip solution that anyone could solder onto their own circuit board. What you could do is upload the unencypted media to the net, but the way things are developing right now, maybe there wont be any playback devices around that play unencrypted data, so you'd have to extract the keys from individual box to re-encrypt the data so it will play on that box.
Mod-chips are possible today because apparently not much effort goes into securing consumer devices. CSS was defeated because they were dumb enough to embed a player key in PC-software, the Irdeto ACS1.2 pay-tv cards only checked the first two byte of the 40-bit signature field for each command and Irdeto had many other bugs such as not checking field lengths on certain instructions that update or read the card's eeprom, same thing essentially goes for American pay-TV schemes like the H-Card.
* Broadcast systems such as digital television, however do have the inherent disadvantage that make it necessary to revert back to keys common to more than one set-top box, because as the number of subscribers rises, so does the computational load increase for calculating subscribers' decryption keys.
These links don't work. I doubt it very much that apple would publish their sources and even if they did they'd make you sign up for their "developer connection" site first before they'd let you have them. Oh and it's developer.apple.com, not developers.apple.com.
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Oh my, this is sooo bad, I sometimes just can't believe my eyes when I read Slashdot.. There's almost always a story on where people are violating the legitimate interests of businesses, governments or other important organizations. I wonder what's wrong with these people in the first place. Who in their right mind would even think of hooking up their cable modem line to a TV set? I just don't get it.
I am a responsible and law-abiding citizen. I take copyright and intellectual property rights issues seriously. Last time I was at Jack Valenti's house, I told Jack to please turn off the TV (it was tuned to HBO, and I don't have a subscription). Jack told me, it was alright for me to watch, but I wasn't so sure about that, so I just sat there, closed my eyes and covered my ears and shouted "Lalalalala...!" until he turned the TV off.
Such a configuration protocol would require authenticating access points across organizational boundaries to avoid Denial of Service attacks or one wireless user to maliciously exploit the protocol to gain more bandwidth over neighboring users.
No. But you may expect to be stopped on the street and have a police officer inspect your mp3 player. Also, as with narcotics, if somebody reports it, then you may expect your home entertainment equipment be seized for inspection. If it's homebrew, or modified then you will find yourself sprawled on the floor with a police officer holding a gun to your head.
Nobody forces them to work for a telemarketer and even if sheer hunger and desperation were to drive people to get on the phone for some sleazy telemarketing scam, that still makes stealing other people's time not right. I will call you, don't call me.
My C64 crashes when I turn the fluorescent lights on or during lightning. The board in that home computer is shielded only with an aluminum coated piece of cardboard and lightning and the ignition of fluorescent light tubes give off a strong blast of electromagnetic energy in a broad spectrum. I suspect that is what is hitting your Apple home computer
* Destruction of Death Star: WTC. Don't flame me for this, I am not trivializing this horrific tragedy or siding with the terrorists, but both the Death Star and the WTC were symbols of the supremacy of the US/the Empire.
why did you chicken out here?
It's Dunkirk, Scbwachkopf, not Dunkurk. Duenkirchen is it's authentic German name. You may note that life in the 3rd Reich wasn't all that bad. They had clean boulevards, virtually no crime, no racial tension among citizens except of course for the lawful tensions between citizens and undesirables, free and unrestrained capitalism (this capitalism was so capitalist that they ended up with a lot of monopolies). If only they had invested more into their highly impressive technological advantage, chances would have been they had the first nukes. In which case, you would (if you qualify, of course;-) ) be able to enjoy all the benefits of a citizen of the 3rd Reich I listed above and more instead of having to put up with a Republic, which to put it into Senator Palpatine's words: "simply doesn't work!"
Fact is, you're full of it. BSD will always be there for firewalls, file+print servers and other network applicances. Hell, I've seen *BSD operating systems used nearly everywhere from large postscript printers to spectrum analyzers to factory floor automation.
Better get to like it, because BSD wont ever go away, it'll be laughing at you from within your company's phone system at work, it'll be lurking in the diagnostic system the car mechanic connects to your car, it'll be sneering at you from within a self-ticketing machine at the airport, it'll be all around you simply because it's a stable and mature operating system anybody can use it to base their products on, free and without license hassles!
Right. Which is also why people using an Intel or other non-gcc compiler should first replicate bugs they find in their 3rd party compiler builds with a build produced by the official gcc compiler.
I'd rather see more work done on increasing the performance of the already excellent code that GCC produces on a wide variety of platforms (The Gnu Compiler Collection doesn't just generate IA32 machine code, btw, there's Alpha, ARM, M68K, AMD's version of IA-64 and a hell of a lot more...). I for my part don't want to use a proprietary compiler that makes use of secret, undocumented chip specific tweaks to eke out another 10% of performance on chips made by a specific manufacturer. I want a compiler that produces robust, dependable and fast code and that compiler is GCC.
G'day matey! You should check out your grammar. There may be subtle differences between Australian and American English but I doubt that Australians are payed for flexable jobs while Americans are paid for flexible jobs.
You're right in a way. You do pay for it in taxes, and I'm not only talking about the VAT (which is incidentally 16% nowadays). If I add up all the HIDDEN taxes (Gas costs $4.20 a gallon! (1.07 EUR/liter)) and other mandatory expenses like "social security" and "unemployment insurance", over 80% of my salary goes to feed and fatten the state.
But... then again... I don't really work. I slack off and so should you.
Over here in Germany I get the pretty much standard 30 days paid time off which I can take in.5 day fragments. Last year I took four consecutive weeks off. What's more: I work 35 hours a week. Every hour of overtime on top of those 35 hours I get as paid time off or recompensated in cash at a substantially higher rate.
I suppose, with 2 weeks of vacation time a year, most employees in the US call in a lot more sick time and slack off at the workplace.
Access to local files after termination can be gained through using a ntfs filesystem driver such as is found in Linux.
Many Windows shops restrict users from admin rights on their NT boxes. Your own MSGINA DLL is useful to log you on as a *Localhost\Administrator on your machine during the time period _prior_ to your termination.
Get IIS and hire awfully cheap MCSE help? Let's see... that's $1500 in license fees, $36,000 salary and $13,000,000 lost profits - That'll be $13,037,500 on "your way out"!
Why...? As far as I see it, it isn't a discovery that leads to a cheap homebuilt zero-point generator to put in your garage. Instead it's a new portential power source which is extremely expensive to extract... and that is not necessarily a bad thing for Bush and associates.
Most likely they'll jump on it, take billions of dollars out of your pocket to find the most cost prohibitive approach to extracting the hydrogen (most expensive approach to keep the monopoly). Then, once they've switched from oil to hydrogen they'll charge you a helluva lot more, claiming a.) hydrogen extraction is an expensive process, b.) the research costs were extremely high, c.) water in the atmosphere contributes to global warming!
So you see, expensive, hard to get Hydrogen is a good thing for everyone involved. It preserves the status quo.
Actually it's not "wide open". RTSP is just a session protocol for getting the encoded bitstream to the player. They publish the RTSP/RTP spec here for developers of firewalls, proxies etc.
I don't see any documentation there that tells me how to decode their more "advanced" bitstreams that ride within RTSP/RTP. And even that were available, it is a safe assumption that it would come with a very restrictive license.
The XIPH.org Foundation is making Realnetworks offerings increasingly technologically irrelevant.
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"US trained and funded death squads kill 1/3rd of population of East Timor to supress an independence movement that could damage the interests of US oil companies in nearby waters". I'm not sure whether they really killed 1/3rd of the population but it does remind me of the general business practices of big oil:
MARY HARRIS "MOTHER" JONES ON THE 1914 MINERS' STRIKE AGAINST THE ROCKEFELLER HOLDINGS (Colorado Fuel and Iron Company) IN SOUTHERN COLORADO: The miners armed, armed as it is permitted every American citizen to do in defense of his home, his family; as he is permitted to do against invasion. The smoke of armed battle rose from the arroyos and ravines of the Rocky Mountains. No one listened. No one cared. The tickers in the offices of 26 Broadway sounded louder than the sobs of women and children. Men in the steam heated luxury of Broadway offices could not feel the stinging cold of Colorado hillsides where families lived in tents. Then came Ludlow and the nation heard. Little children roasted alive make a front page story. Dying by inches of starvation and exposure does not. On the 19th of April, 1914, machine guns... were placed in position above the tent colony of Ludlow. Major Pat Hamrock and Lieutenant K. E. Linderfelt were in charge of the militia, the majority of whom were company gunmen sworn in as soldiers. Early in the morning soldiers approached the colony with a demand from headquarters that Louis Tikas, leader of the Greeks, surrender two Italians. Tikas demanded a warrant for their arrest. They had none. Tikas refused to surrender them. The soldiers returned to headquarters. A signal bomb was fired. Then another. Immediately the machine guns began spraying the flimsy tent colony, the only home the wretched families of the miners had, spraying it with bullets. Like iron rain, bullets fell upon men, women and children. The women and children fled to the hills. Others tarried. The men defended their homes with their guns. All day long the firing continued. Men fell dead, their faces to the ground. Women dropped. The little Snyder boy was shot through the head, trying to save his kitten. A child carrying water to his dying mother was killed. By five o'clock in the afternoon, the miners had no more food, nor water, nor ammunition. They had to retreat with their wives and little ones into the hills. Louis Tikas was riddled with shots while he tried to lead women and children to safety. They perished with him. Night came. A raw wind blew down the canyons where men, women and children shivered and wept. Then a blaze lighted the sky. The soldiers, drunk with blood and with the liquor they had looted from the saloon, set fire to the tents of Ludlow with oil-soaked torches. The tents, all the poor furnishings, the clothes and bedding of the miners' families burned. Coils of barbed wire were stuffed into the well, the miners' only water supply. After it was over, the wretched people crept back to bury their dead. In a dugout under a burned tent, the charred bodies of eleven little children and two women were found -- unrecognizable. Everything lay in ruins. The wires of bed springs writhed on the ground as if they, too, had tried to flee the horror. Oil and fire and guns had robbed men and women and children of their homes and slaughtered tiny babies and defenseless women. Done by order of Lieutenant Linderfelt, a savage, brutal executor of the will of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, Chicago, 1977, pp. 191-193
As a matter of fact there is an easy way to prevent direct uplink satellite access in China. It's a death warrant.
If using D-VHS for computer backups really takes off, then they would probably fix it so that it would require authentication to use raw mode. Using the device both as a VCR and as a backup of computer data would mean that the drive manufacturers could potentially loose the sale of a backup drive for each VCR sold.
You just recapitulated the original document. Nice formatting :-)
Actually, most neo-fascist European UberISPs already log all the data requested in items 1-5 as most of them use (transparent) proxies for http and ftp. I wonder why the "last page visited" is so important to them, maybe they're trying to piece sessions together where a user disconnects and then logs on to another ISP. I'm not so sure about 6. IRC whether they already monitor it, but it's good OPSEC to assume that they do. Incidentally, the UberISP I'm subscribing to, actively assisted a German Pay-TV company by redirecting http-requests for a website containing hacking information to the homepage of the national police.
I know that my telephone Ubercompany is logging all the data they ask for and in addition to that "legitimate interests" can connect at any time without having to present a warrant to their switches to listen in to all my calls. Same thing goes for my mobile phone, and say did you know that the austrian police requested and received all cell phone subscriber information of people who were either participating or just for being in the vicinity of a demonstration?
The best kind of OPSEC in telecommunication is and always has been keeping your mouth shut.
Most DRM solution I know of, rely on cryptography, where each chip authenticates itself to another. Just like certain smart cards authenticate to their terminals and vice versa. Every command and every reply sent to a device would have a cryptographic signature and the data transferred would be encrypted using a session key the chips negotiated during authentication.
If you think it's easy to extract the authentication keys from the chips, then think again.
Secure microcontrollers store sensitive data such as authentication keys deep inside the chip where it is difficult or next to impossible to probe at. Chips like that have tamper protection sensors for example to measure the electrical capacity between chip layers or even whether the chip is being exposed to light. A number of oscillators would be on the chip to disparage attacks that attempt to derive information from the chip from it's electromagnetic radiation, Bus scrambling like in the ATMEL secure flash microcontrollers would make probing the chips signals even more difficult, if connecting to the chip's internal signals were possible due to very miniature scale of chip structures. I might also add that there is always a way to extract the data on any chip, no matter how secure. All you need is in the neighborhood of $1,500,000 in equipment and chip specialists.
System-wide keys (right after cheap and insecure microcontrollers) are the reason most Pay-TV schemes have so far failed miserably *. I could envision a system where each group of devices that are supposed to talk to each other are loaded with an mutual set of authentication and encryption keys during on-board testing that is totally random from the set of keys the next box on the assembly line will receive. So now, even though you've extracted the keys from your set of chips and can use that to get at the copy protected data, you still don't have a mod-chip solution that anyone could solder onto their own circuit board. What you could do is upload the unencypted media to the net, but the way things are developing right now, maybe there wont be any playback devices around that play unencrypted data, so you'd have to extract the keys from individual box to re-encrypt the data so it will play on that box.
Mod-chips are possible today because apparently not much effort goes into securing consumer devices. CSS was defeated because they were dumb enough to embed a player key in PC-software, the Irdeto ACS1.2 pay-tv cards only checked the first two byte of the 40-bit signature field for each command and Irdeto had many other bugs such as not checking field lengths on certain instructions that update or read the card's eeprom, same thing essentially goes for American pay-TV schemes like the H-Card.
* Broadcast systems such as digital television, however do have the inherent disadvantage that make it necessary to revert back to keys common to more than one set-top box, because as the number of subscribers rises, so does the computational load increase for calculating subscribers' decryption keys.
One very real hazard a sub like the Jimmy Carter might encounter when "inspecting" such a cable could be a live weapon test gone awry.
"Sir! I am tracking two target drones! According to the briefing there should only be one!"
"Never mind, Leftenant. They just deployed two drones to make things a little more interesting."
"Sir, one of the contacts is a little too close to some communications infrastructure listed in this area"
"Leftenant, we're looking at a maritime hazard here, so we'll take that one out first! Ready tubes 1-4, await my firing command!"
These links don't work. I doubt it very much that apple would publish their sources and even if they did they'd make you sign up for their "developer connection" site first before they'd let you have them. Oh and it's developer.apple.com, not developers.apple.com.
Oh my, this is sooo bad, I sometimes just can't believe my eyes when I read Slashdot.. There's almost always a story on where people are violating the legitimate interests of businesses, governments or other important organizations. I wonder what's wrong with these people in the first place. Who in their right mind would even think of hooking up their cable modem line to a TV set? I just don't get it.
I am a responsible and law-abiding citizen. I take copyright and intellectual property rights issues seriously. Last time I was at Jack Valenti's house, I told Jack to please turn off the TV (it was tuned to HBO, and I don't have a subscription). Jack told me, it was alright for me to watch, but I wasn't so sure about that, so I just sat there, closed my eyes and covered my ears and shouted "Lalalalala...!" until he turned the TV off.
Such a configuration protocol would require authenticating access points across organizational boundaries to avoid Denial of Service attacks or one wireless user to maliciously exploit the protocol to gain more bandwidth over neighboring users.
No. But you may expect to be stopped on the street and have a police officer inspect your mp3 player. Also, as with narcotics, if somebody reports it, then you may expect your home entertainment equipment be seized for inspection. If it's homebrew, or modified then you will find yourself sprawled on the floor with a police officer holding a gun to your head.
Nobody forces them to work for a telemarketer and even if sheer hunger and desperation were to drive people to get on the phone for some sleazy telemarketing scam, that still makes stealing other people's time not right. I will call you, don't call me.
My C64 crashes when I turn the fluorescent lights on or during lightning. The board in that home computer is shielded only with an aluminum coated piece of cardboard and lightning and the ignition of fluorescent light tubes give off a strong blast of electromagnetic energy in a broad spectrum. I suspect that is what is hitting your Apple home computer
Why not call it WinOS? The operating system that turns you into an alcoholic.
* Destruction of Death Star: WTC. Don't flame me for this, I am not trivializing this horrific tragedy or siding with the terrorists, but both the Death Star and the WTC were symbols of the supremacy of the US/the Empire. why did you chicken out here?
It's Dunkirk, Scbwachkopf, not Dunkurk. Duenkirchen is it's authentic German name. You may note that life in the 3rd Reich wasn't all that bad. They had clean boulevards, virtually no crime, no racial tension among citizens except of course for the lawful tensions between citizens and undesirables, free and unrestrained capitalism (this capitalism was so capitalist that they ended up with a lot of monopolies). If only they had invested more into their highly impressive technological advantage, chances would have been they had the first nukes. In which case, you would (if you qualify, of course ;-) ) be able to enjoy all the benefits of a citizen of the 3rd Reich I listed above and more instead of having to put up with a Republic, which to put it into Senator Palpatine's words: "simply doesn't work!"
Don't ask me why, but somehow I've got a hunch that Castrophe Hedging 2.5 runs on FreeBSD.
Fact is, you're full of it. BSD will always be there for firewalls, file+print servers and other network applicances. Hell, I've seen *BSD operating systems used nearly everywhere from large postscript printers to spectrum analyzers to factory floor automation.
Better get to like it, because BSD wont ever go away, it'll be laughing at you from within your company's phone system at work, it'll be lurking in the diagnostic system the car mechanic connects to your car, it'll be sneering at you from within a self-ticketing machine at the airport, it'll be all around you simply because it's a stable and mature operating system anybody can use it to base their products on, free and without license hassles!
Right. Which is also why people using an Intel or other non-gcc compiler should first replicate bugs they find in their 3rd party compiler builds with a build produced by the official gcc compiler.
I'd rather see more work done on increasing the performance of the already excellent code that GCC produces on a wide variety of platforms (The Gnu Compiler Collection doesn't just generate IA32 machine code, btw, there's Alpha, ARM, M68K, AMD's version of IA-64 and a hell of a lot more...). I for my part don't want to use a proprietary compiler that makes use of secret, undocumented chip specific tweaks to eke out another 10% of performance on chips made by a specific manufacturer. I want a compiler that produces robust, dependable and fast code and that compiler is GCC.
G'day matey! You should check out your grammar. There may be subtle differences between Australian and American English but I doubt that Australians are payed for flexable jobs while Americans are paid for flexible jobs.
You're right in a way. You do pay for it in taxes, and I'm not only talking about the VAT (which is incidentally 16% nowadays). If I add up all the HIDDEN taxes (Gas costs $4.20 a gallon! (1.07 EUR/liter)) and other mandatory expenses like "social security" and "unemployment insurance", over 80% of my salary goes to feed and fatten the state.
But... then again... I don't really work. I slack off and so should you.
Over here in Germany I get the pretty much standard 30 days paid time off which I can take in .5 day fragments. Last year I took four consecutive weeks off. What's more: I work 35 hours a week. Every hour of overtime on top of those 35 hours I get as paid time off or recompensated in cash at a substantially higher rate.
I suppose, with 2 weeks of vacation time a year, most employees in the US call in a lot more sick time and slack off at the workplace.
Access to local files after termination can be gained through using a ntfs filesystem driver such as is found in Linux.
Many Windows shops restrict users from admin rights on their NT boxes. Your own MSGINA DLL is useful to log you on as a *Localhost\Administrator on your machine during the time period _prior_ to your termination.
Get IIS and hire awfully cheap MCSE help? Let's see... that's $1500 in license fees, $36,000 salary and $13,000,000 lost profits - That'll be $13,037,500 on "your way out"!
Why...? As far as I see it, it isn't a discovery that leads to a cheap homebuilt zero-point generator to put in your garage. Instead it's a new portential power source which is extremely expensive to extract... and that is not necessarily a bad thing for Bush and associates.
Most likely they'll jump on it, take billions of dollars out of your pocket to find the most cost prohibitive approach to extracting the hydrogen (most expensive approach to keep the monopoly). Then, once they've switched from oil to hydrogen they'll charge you a helluva lot more, claiming a.) hydrogen extraction is an expensive process, b.) the research costs were extremely high, c.) water in the atmosphere contributes to global warming!
So you see, expensive, hard to get Hydrogen is a good thing for everyone involved. It preserves the status quo.
Actually it's not "wide open". RTSP is just a session protocol for getting the encoded bitstream to the player. They publish the RTSP/RTP spec here for developers of firewalls, proxies etc.
I don't see any documentation there that tells me how to decode their more "advanced" bitstreams that ride within RTSP/RTP. And even that were available, it is a safe assumption that it would come with a very restrictive license.
The XIPH.org Foundation is making Realnetworks offerings increasingly technologically irrelevant.