Except of course if they embed a public key into the software and have the activation encrypted with the private one.
You back to just hack binaries again, which they can resist a little by making it difficult to get at the files, cos you do not have a OS yet.
Your need a boot disk or a real OS to mount the drive to install the crack. We are getting to the stage where it is to hard for lamers to do, which probably covers 99% of users, so thats not to shabby a system in my view (from their point of view).
And VCD as lots of legitmate uses? I think not... but that is a supported standard, hmmm it looks very like DVD in file structure. The companies know people will not use the standard if its not available to the home burn market, if you look at the companies involved I doubt they want to shoot themselves again. The hardware companies never wanted CSS.
hell the layout of a DVD disk is open, just some of the files within the file system and noddy encrypted.
I find the quest for the holy grail of perfect encryption/perfect protocol rather odd.
Why do we put locks on doors? To stop people walking in an stealing our stuff, So lets lock the windows, fair enough better security, people are less likely to break in that good. Fit an alarm?
So why not fit better locks? etc etc every upgrade costs money, and as it gets more expensive I get less return on my money. However this is completely ignoring one factor, insurance!
My SSL connection to buy a porn flick via my credit card... Hmm, how much do I care about it being broken.. well a thief just wants my number, my gf might be interested in my buying porn.
My GF does not have the skills to break the encryption, so SSL is secure. A thief, well so long as the Credit Card company pays up if someone else uses it I really don't care.
A tool should be fit for the job, SSL with real world insurance is seccure for credit cards, the day they don;t pay out, SSL falls!
I think ebooks will take along time before they can replace paper books. They do not require a power source to start with. You can have multiple books open at the same time Only limited by desk top space, and can be annotated with a "pencil" non -perminant or "Pen" object. Yup you can do that with a computer but an extra monitor each book you want open to extend you desktop gets expensive. With Paper books I find the Black on fladed white interface quite pleasing on the eye and can be front rather than back lit.
The companies I have used were from oldest to newest... as I have moved arround the country and people got bought;-)
Cable Leicester (first experience and still had the best service, free locals..:-)
Diamond Cable (bought CL, really crap scraped free locals;-)
Videotron (Ok Service and free locals again)
Cable And Wireless (Bought Videotron, ans scrapped free locals so kept old contract)
Cable London ([NTL] No free locals however, 10 pounds for unlimited access ISP, no call charges.... also are installing my cable modem on 20th of December, time to install a winblows box to be "installed":-)
Normally I would defend my country, I do think the UK, and particulary London rocks, however internet technology wise government has no clue at all, we are falling behind we are nto a premiere place to go, if things are not change soon and fast, we will have fallen so far behind, it will too late.
We need to link this with the adaptive vision system the new Sciensist had an article about which adjusts lens in the same way they do mirrors in a telescope, this allows all inperfections in the eye to be fixed and allows you to see an object at 20 meters that someone with 20:20 vision can see at 6
I don't understand how the digital signature thing is going to work, Someone hi-hacks the domain (One the get a nice denal of service attack for up to 12 hours:-) The could change all the information on the domain. Whats to stop them generating a new digital signature? May be paying for verisol [heh they should merge] to do it for them. (The could claim they lost the old one....).
Clearly have the signature has to be registered on the root servers and half on the child. How is the root one populated? Surely it will be populated the same way the registry for.org or.net is! And they can be spoof attacked today.
All it seems to do is to add some delay into the process, ie it takes longer to get verisol to build you a signature, anyone can spoof a company letter head! It might protect IBM or Nike, but not the little guys, cos no one knows much about them letter head wise, company offices et al.
I hear you say it! But it will buy us time, well I had my domain jacked it took netsol 1.5 months and lots of phone calls, to return it to my possession, so it may by time, but netsol will squander it! My domain redirected to a nice p0rn site for a few days, (the guy wanted access to things for its quick return).
PS it was jacked that way, cos I was stupid enough to have other people register it for me, I hold my own keys now, that is lession one, may sure you have the keys to your domain not some domain name business!!!! (Plus if they go bust they might take your domain with them!)
OS is an operating system, that has a kernel and something on top of it. Your toast might have an OS on it, your moble phone has an OS on it, does not mean you want to use it for anything other than its dedicated purpose in life.
An OS does not have to have a GUI, there again you could say your CD player has a GUI, it has a screen on it after all.
It all does not matter in my book if iGeeks want to restrict the term who cares? I don't it will stop lots of companies buying there unix platforms. I felt the article, was another Mac are better. And personally I care not! Macs being largely irrelivent these days, let them think what they like. I doubt they will change their minds or me [we] ours.
Another non news debate in my book, its not going to change a thing.
Ok so how come there has been a petition for an mwave modem driver (Built in modem on Thinkpads) or specs for it for the last year or more and IBM COMPLETELY refuses to do anything. The might release some of there source code, they might put linux on some of there "cool" hardware, but I doubt they will give us anything we ask for. Cos they have not in the past! And we have asked repeatedly, There are over 900 people on it! Check for yourself here
When mindstorms came out, some lego executives were worried about people hacking the bricks, and wondered if they should stop it. However they decided if people have bought it they can do what they like with it! and this would only increase demand for it. They were correct and now lego mindstorms I believe is more than 50% of their revenue stream. GO LEGO! Shame DC did not have the forsight of looking at things that have already happen!
I am a europian, so reading the list of people I get to choose from...
Looking at the pool of people we get to pick from One professor, 2 telecoms people, 1 leader of a chamber of commerce (seems to specialise of being on advisory boards) and 1 domain name registar.
And there was me thinging this was to stop big businesses having complete control...! France and Deutsche Telecom hmmm...! I think the tables are stacked enough already...!
I guess Oliver Popov (professor) and Maria Livanos Cattaui (chamber of commerce and only woman canidate have my vote). As the look the most independant of a bad bunch.
I WANT A VETO VOTE! At university we had a canidate called RON, Re Open Nominations..... very useful...
I guess though we only have ourselves to blaim, just who can possibily afford to go to the meetings if you do not have outside backing to cover the costs and a flexible work to allow you the time.. Answer pretty much companies with visted interests! Fortunately the other Zones seem to have a better spread of acedemics who are the other group of people with the time....
Solar panels even though they do produce less energy than that used to manufacture them do come into there own when you have to transmit the power to remote locations, as building the infrastructure to transmit it and the loses in transmission must also be factored in, everything is not black and white...
Another thing that supprised me when I read the New Scientist, was the fact that DAMs (which some people would consider good for the environment) produce 2 times more green house gases in the earily years then, as much as a coal fired powerstation in later years. The roting vegitation in stagant water produced alot of methane.
That article did not answer the one question I wanted to know. WHO will own the UNIX name. If Caldera got it we might get linux and BSD using the UNIX name. That would be boost to corportate credibility.
Now the paper clip will know which bit of the screen I am paying attention to. As plant itself in the middle of my field of vision. Right over my Xceeed xterm. Or perhaps the paper clip could move with your field of attention so you see it everywhere you look! AGh! the maddness of it all....
Well in the UK I know some newpapers go to great lengths to protect their sources. I have a friend who works for the Guardian newspaper. The police got into a habit of asking for all photos of demonstrations/riots. So now they develope the film, digitally encode the stuff and burn all the footage onto a CD. Then courieer it immediatly to Amsterdam! and destroy the film. When there the pictures can be browsed remotely by journalists and photographic quality images sent back if requied.
This was when the police ask for footage they have non but what was in the paper.. Sorry guys;-)
Yup I got mine perhaps/. could have interviews with all the candiates so we could decide who is the best then all use our votes wisely.
James
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So has everyone heard the Shashdot Emergancy Broadcast Addendum?
The story about a young hacker gaining entry to the "linux underground", I heard this yesterday thought I would share, not sure how long its been up as it has not been announced!
There is a GUI builder shiped into DT/Motif on solaris, called dtbuilder, its not particularly wonderful, but is fine for throwing a quick user interface together.
It compiles on any version of Dt, I used it to write a quick tool, which works on both HP-UX and Solaris.
I have been playing my DVDs using my DXR2 card from Creative Labs, for months now. Though the software (The version I have is very basic, no forward and back, there may be a better version now) it works like a dream. No problems with CSS as the card handles that....
I play directly via the AC3 output to my widescreen TV. Not sure if graphics overlay works yet, though I don't like that mode. The software as is suits my needs perfectly. (Though I have been good and not bought any new DVDs).
Though the linux cache is quite amusing at times, with up to 15 minutes of my DVD in the cache...!
They may say the embrase Linux, but they refuse to share ideas with us. Such as the Mwave specs, they are still locked into the it has to be done our way deal rather than the Some way any way lets get it done approach.
I am not sure what the big deal is and why this is ment to be the death of linux. For a long time I user Solaris 2 X86, Orginally I used it because the developement environment was nice, ie. include files worked etc. Tailoring my hardware to fit that they supported.
The I got a laptop, solaris would talk pcmcia to it, which is a pain if you want to do anything useful, like talk on a network! so it got linux
Next my mailserver network card kept stopping working under solaris (it was a supported 3com card) so I put linux on it the problem with the card went away!
So, its free whats the big deal? I do see IBM or SGI racing to make sun there OS vendor, why enhance someone elses OS with support for there hardware? Sun mainly sell hardware, the core OS is nothing compared to the price of that.
So Solaris 2 X86 may be free Driver support is nothing like as good as linux! Who is going to write drivers for that? When sun could snatch your work as they did to blackdown. What happens if they drop support for your old hardware in the next release, the decision is theirs.
Linux, BSD and hurd are both good choices because they are vendor independant, solathing solaris will never be.
I would like to see the future and see if sun eats their words about embrassing a free OS. Linux is on a roll, this seems a regyard action by sun. If they had done it 5 years ago it might have made a difference... NOw I doubt it.
Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts. This basically allows the media company to resell slots that are rightly that of the stadiums. Also if a advertiser lost out to a competitor, the could get a media company to replace the add. Coke and Pepsi spring to mind.
The problem is not knowing if it will or will not happen. If Advertisers knew it would happen, they would not pay so much for stadium adds, and the stadium would probably charge more for coverage, which seems fair.
I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew....
It could however be claimed it was a good thing... as media companies can localise the ads for say the super bowl to each state it was broadcast in. However advertisers buy slots knowing that they will get national/international coverage.
Probably this is a thing that requires some regulation, as it seems at the moment its buyer beware!
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Except of course if they embed a public key into the software and have the activation encrypted with the private one.
You back to just hack binaries again, which they can resist a little by making it difficult to get at the files, cos you do not have a OS yet.
Your need a boot disk or a real OS to mount the drive to install the crack. We are getting to the stage where it is to hard for lamers to do, which probably covers 99% of users, so thats not to shabby a system in my view (from their point of view).
James
And VCD as lots of legitmate uses? I think not... but that is a supported standard, hmmm it looks very like DVD in file structure. The companies know people will not use the standard if its not available to the home burn market, if you look at the companies involved I doubt they want to shoot themselves again. The hardware companies never wanted CSS.
hell the layout of a DVD disk is open, just some of the files within the file system and noddy encrypted.
James
I find the quest for the holy grail of perfect encryption/perfect protocol rather odd.
Why do we put locks on doors? To stop people walking in an stealing our stuff, So lets lock the windows, fair enough better security, people are less likely to break in that good. Fit an alarm?
So why not fit better locks? etc etc every upgrade costs money, and as it gets more expensive I get less return on my money. However this is completely ignoring one factor, insurance!
My SSL connection to buy a porn flick via my credit card... Hmm, how much do I care about it being broken.. well a thief just wants my number, my gf might be interested in my buying porn.
My GF does not have the skills to break the encryption, so SSL is secure. A thief, well so long as the Credit Card company pays up if someone else uses it I really don't care.
A tool should be fit for the job, SSL with real world insurance is seccure for credit cards, the day they don;t pay out, SSL falls!
James
I think ebooks will take along time before they can replace paper books. They do not require a power source to start with. You can have multiple books open at the same time Only limited by desk top space, and can be annotated with a "pencil" non -perminant or "Pen" object. Yup you can do that with a computer but an extra monitor each book you want open to extend you desktop gets expensive. With Paper books I find the Black on fladed white interface quite pleasing on the eye and can be front rather than back lit.
James
I have had cable for the last 5 years +
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The companies I have used were from oldest to newest... as I have moved arround the country and people got bought
Cable Leicester (first experience and still had the best service, free locals..
Diamond Cable (bought CL, really crap scraped free locals
Videotron (Ok Service and free locals again)
Cable And Wireless (Bought Videotron, ans scrapped free locals so kept old contract)
Cable London ([NTL] No free locals however, 10 pounds for unlimited access ISP, no call charges.... also are installing my cable modem on 20th of December, time to install a winblows box to be "installed"
James
Normally I would defend my country, I do think the UK, and particulary London rocks, however internet technology wise government has no clue at all, we are falling behind we are nto a premiere place to go, if things are not change soon and fast, we will have fallen so far behind, it will too late.
James
I found the url for adaptive optic glasses We need the two combined! James
We need to link this with the adaptive vision system the new Sciensist had an article about which adjusts lens in the same way they do mirrors in a telescope, this allows all inperfections in the eye to be fixed and allows you to see an object at 20 meters that someone with 20:20 vision can see at 6
James
I don't understand how the digital signature thing is going to work, Someone hi-hacks the domain (One the get a nice denal of service attack for up to 12 hours :-) The could change all the information on the domain. Whats to stop them generating a new digital signature? May be paying for verisol [heh they should merge] to do it for them. (The could claim they lost the old one....).
.org or .net is! And they can be spoof attacked today.
Clearly have the signature has to be registered on the root servers and half on the child. How is the root one populated? Surely it will be populated the same way the registry for
All it seems to do is to add some delay into the process, ie it takes longer to get verisol to build you a signature, anyone can spoof a company letter head! It might protect IBM or Nike, but not the little guys, cos no one knows much about them letter head wise, company offices et al.
I hear you say it! But it will buy us time, well I had my domain jacked it took netsol 1.5 months and lots of phone calls, to return it to my possession, so it may by time, but netsol will squander it! My domain redirected to a nice p0rn site for a few days, (the guy wanted access to things for its quick return).
PS it was jacked that way, cos I was stupid enough to have other people register it for me, I hold my own keys now, that is lession one, may sure you have the keys to your domain not some domain name business!!!! (Plus if they go bust they might take your domain with them!)
James
Unix is not an OS, Pah!
OS is an operating system, that has a kernel and something on top of it. Your toast might have an OS on it, your moble phone has an OS on it, does not mean you want to use it for anything other than its dedicated purpose in life.
An OS does not have to have a GUI, there again you could say your CD player has a GUI, it has a screen on it after all.
It all does not matter in my book if iGeeks want to restrict the term who cares? I don't it will stop lots of companies buying there unix platforms. I felt the article, was another Mac are better. And personally I care not! Macs being largely irrelivent these days, let them think what they like. I doubt they will change their minds or me [we] ours.
Another non news debate in my book, its not going to change a thing.
Ok so how come there has been a petition for an mwave modem driver (Built in modem on Thinkpads) or specs for it for the last year or more and IBM COMPLETELY refuses to do anything. The might release some of there source code, they might put linux on some of there "cool" hardware, but I doubt they will give us anything we ask for. Cos they have not in the past! And we have asked repeatedly, There are over 900 people on it! Check for yourself here
James
When mindstorms came out, some lego executives were worried about people hacking the bricks, and wondered if they should stop it. However they decided if people have bought it they can do what they like with it! and this would only increase demand for it. They were correct and now lego mindstorms I believe is more than 50% of their revenue stream. GO LEGO! Shame DC did not have the forsight of looking at things that have already happen!
James
I am a europian, so reading the list of people I get to choose from...
Looking at the pool of people we get to pick from One professor, 2 telecoms people, 1 leader of a chamber of commerce (seems to specialise of being on advisory boards) and 1 domain name registar.
And there was me thinging this was to stop big businesses having complete control...! France and Deutsche Telecom hmmm...! I think the tables are stacked enough already...!
I guess Oliver Popov (professor) and Maria Livanos Cattaui (chamber of commerce and only woman canidate have my vote). As the look the most independant of a bad bunch.
I WANT A VETO VOTE! At university we had a canidate called RON, Re Open Nominations..... very useful...
I guess though we only have ourselves to blaim, just who can possibily afford to go to the meetings if you do not have outside backing to cover the costs and a flexible work to allow you the time.. Answer pretty much companies with visted interests! Fortunately the other Zones seem to have a better spread of acedemics who are the other group of people with the time....
James
Solar panels even though they do produce less energy than that used to manufacture them do come into there own when you have to transmit the power to remote locations, as building the infrastructure to transmit it and the loses in transmission must also be factored in, everything is not black and white...
Another thing that supprised me when I read the New Scientist, was the fact that DAMs (which some people would consider good for the environment) produce 2 times more green house gases in the earily years then, as much as a coal fired powerstation in later years. The roting vegitation in stagant water produced alot of methane.
That article did not answer the one question I wanted to know. WHO will own the UNIX name. If Caldera got it we might get linux and BSD using the UNIX name. That would be boost to corportate credibility.
James.
Now the paper clip will know which bit of the screen I am paying attention to. As plant itself in the middle of my field of vision. Right over my Xceeed xterm. Or perhaps the paper clip could move with your field of attention so you see it everywhere you look! AGh! the maddness of it all....
James
Well in the UK I know some newpapers go to great lengths to protect their sources. I have a friend who works for the Guardian newspaper. The police got into a habit of asking for all photos of demonstrations/riots. So now they develope the film, digitally encode the stuff and burn all the footage onto a CD. Then courieer it immediatly to Amsterdam! and destroy the film. When there the pictures can be browsed remotely by journalists and photographic quality images sent back if requied.
;-)
This was when the police ask for footage they have non but what was in the paper.. Sorry guys
Yup I got mine perhaps /. could have interviews with all the candiates so we could decide who is the best then all use our votes wisely.
James
So has everyone heard the Shashdot Emergancy Broadcast Addendum ?
The story about a young hacker gaining entry to the "linux underground", I heard this yesterday thought I would share, not sure how long its been up as it has not been announced!
JamesWe have to keep our eyes on HP-UX and Solaris!
Anyone want to guess on the time it takes? I am betting on HP-UX going next, and Sun keeping going to its last dying gasp.
There is a GUI builder shiped into DT/Motif on solaris, called dtbuilder, its not particularly wonderful, but is fine for throwing a quick user interface together.
It compiles on any version of Dt, I used it to write a quick tool, which works on both HP-UX and Solaris.
James
I have been playing my DVDs using my DXR2 card from Creative Labs, for months now. Though the software (The version I have is very basic, no forward and back, there may be a better version now) it works like a dream. No problems with CSS as the card handles that....
I play directly via the AC3 output to my widescreen TV. Not sure if graphics overlay works yet, though I don't like that mode. The software as is suits my needs perfectly. (Though I have been good and not bought any new DVDs).
Though the linux cache is quite amusing at times, with up to 15 minutes of my DVD in the cache...!
I hear that!
They may say the embrase Linux, but they refuse to share ideas with us. Such as the Mwave specs, they are still locked into the it has to be done our way deal rather than the Some way any way lets get it done approach.
I am not sure what the big deal is and why this is ment to be the death of linux. For a long time I user Solaris 2 X86, Orginally I used it because the developement environment was nice, ie. include files worked etc. Tailoring my hardware to fit that they supported.
... NOw I doubt it.
The I got a laptop, solaris would talk pcmcia to it, which is a pain if you want to do anything useful, like talk on a network! so it got linux
Next my mailserver network card kept stopping working under solaris (it was a supported 3com card) so I put linux on it the problem with the card went away!
So, its free whats the big deal? I do see IBM or SGI racing to make sun there OS vendor, why enhance someone elses OS with support for there hardware? Sun mainly sell hardware, the core OS is nothing compared to the price of that.
So Solaris 2 X86 may be free Driver support is nothing like as good as linux! Who is going to write drivers for that? When sun could snatch your work as they did to blackdown. What happens if they drop support for your old hardware in the next release, the decision is theirs.
Linux, BSD and hurd are both good choices because they are vendor independant, solathing solaris will never be.
I would like to see the future and see if sun eats their words about embrassing a free OS. Linux is on a roll, this seems a regyard action by sun. If they had done it 5 years ago it might have made a difference
Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts. This basically allows the media company to resell slots that are rightly that of the stadiums. Also if a advertiser lost out to a competitor, the could get a media company to replace the add. Coke and Pepsi spring to mind.
The problem is not knowing if it will or will not happen. If Advertisers knew it would happen, they would not pay so much for stadium adds, and the stadium would probably charge more for coverage, which seems fair.
I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew....
It could however be claimed it was a good thing... as media companies can localise the ads for say the super bowl to each state it was broadcast in. However advertisers buy slots knowing that they will get national/international coverage.
Probably this is a thing that requires some regulation, as it seems at the moment its buyer beware!
James