At least your joe-job sounded PG-13. When crypto trolls in sci.crypt wanted me off the scene they posted child porn with my home address and phone number (neither kept secret, but obviously I didn't want them tied to that). After the initial wave of kiddie porn, they decided to re-post my posts in thousands of groups. When my 2nd book was coming out they re-posted a single post I wrote about the book (sans URL) and included the URL. Net result, lots of death threats, spam, hate mail, and low reviews on Amazon from people who have never read the book.
The sad thing is, if someone really wants to cause hell for another it's not all that hard. 99% of net users are ignorant to how trustworthy things like a "from" address are. In fact, we had to joe-job [privately] one irate poster who kept assuming joe-jobs were impossible with email. So my brother and I sent him emails with his name and address on them. (this was all in private, not public). In the end he told us to leave him alone (and we did) and he never really conceded the point.
People are dumb. This just proves they're also mean.
Which is why I study music instead now. The Internet is just too much of a waste.
Seriously. Is decency at such a low ebb that people have to stoop to attacking victim services and defense organizations? Seriously. Maybe if these people put half the time and energy they did into stealing they could actually get a real job and sleep well for a change instead of ripping people off all the time.
And while they're at it, they could stop sporging sci.crypt and other groups. That'd be nice.:-)
They shouldn't as the "promised design" of the core 2 duo, is 2 cores that share a L2 cache. If they had 2 dies, but only 1 core each they wouldn't share the L2 cache and it wouldn't be the design they have been marketing.
That said, it should be easy to tell those apart [aside from taking the heat spreader off]. A simple cache latency check between cores will tell you which is which.
The problem is you only care about whom the media makes important, and the media is a pawn of those in power [not political power, think $$$ power].
Look at the Tsunami. Who honestly gave two shits about the locals 1 day before the Tsunami hit? Nobody. Were they living a first-world life? Hardly. They lived in mud huts along a flood plain. Now all of a sudden we're all made to care about them?
In reality, a society that can't itself adjust to an enlighten state can't become one by having reason forced upon them. Just like a kid must come to terms with life on their own, so must an immature society. I won't help the dictators ruin their country, but I won't stand in the way to stop them either. If the citizens themselves don't overcome their flaws, then they're not going to.
Look at North America. When all was said and done, the original colonies were backwards, witching hunting, slave owning, racist biggots. We, for the most part, learned to behave "better." Nobody from Europe told us how to act. As a result, we overcame racism [overall] much quicker than even older areas like South Africa.
I'm not holding a gun to any Iranians. What's stopping them from organizing against the police state?
Who are you to tell Iran how to run their Internet? Free speech may be a right in America, Canada, and most other countries, but it's hardly universal.
Should all countries have free speech? I think so. Does what I think count? Not really.
The Internet is global, just not all countries choose to participate in the same fashion. In this case, Iran wants to censor websites they deemed harmful. Do I agree with their position? No. But should I really care? Not really. Let the Iranians fix their own damn country.
That's hardly true and you were so wordly you'd know it.
For example, in France it would be illegal for me to post on a blog "I support the Nazi party, hail hitler!". Yet here in Canada and the USA it's perfectly legal [maybe not acceptable but it's legal]. If the Internet is so "global" why is it not illegal here too?
I'm sorry, why am I supposed to care again? First, off, I'm not some xenophobic "woohoo my country is the best" zealot.
I just don't get why I'm supposed to care about the internal problems of every nation on Earth.
Did you know that in America [and Canada] that two responsible gay people can't live together without contempt, or marry in a willing church? Did you know we still permit affirmative action to take place. etc, etc, etc. How about we concern ourselves with our country, they concern themselves with theirs, and we're all set.
Heck, in Ontario, there are already plans to pull democracy backwards, see this for an example of how to take democracy (what little we have left) out of our hands and into special interest groups. When seats are appointed no longer by ridings [or better yet, popular vote] we end up with a shitty place to be. When minorities get to influence policy we'll end up with a province running out of control. Chasing the fantasy of every naysayer.
Arrg I was gonna mod in this thread but I have to reply...
Sure, you are free to mod your Wii, but they don't have to support it, and you don't have to run updates (just don't bitch when future games don't run). Nintendo sold you a Wii, they intend to support the Wii. If you mess it up, it's your OWN DAMN FAULT.
It's like if I remove the front left tire from my car, then bitch that Ford won't service it under warranty because I should be free to do whatever I want to my care.
Simple fact is, if you mod your console hardware you run the chance of being shutout of future gaming. Which is why you just don't mod it, or you buy two and have one for games which won't run modded.
FTA I was able to successfully bypass security in many system call wrappers by creating unmanaged concurrency between the attacking processes and the wrapper/kernel. This was possible on both uniprocessor systems and multiprocessor systems.
What's this about attacking multi-core processors?
The processors aren't broken, you could race a process in a uni and SMP system just the same. And in reality, your syscall security should be in there kernel itself, where any copies taken of data are passed internally to the required functions after policy checking.
No the way it works is it's not illegal to possess copied audio cds [or mp3s]. It's illegal to distribute them. We pay a levy which means we are entitled to copies.
So basically downloading is legal, uploading is illegal.
EULAs are notoriously unenforceable in court. Mostly because they're not present at the time of purchase. You can't tact on agreement requirements after the purchase has been made.
Otherwise, what's to stop your landlord or bank from demanding more money after you sign a lease/mortgage? Or your car dealer from telling you your car is worth $10k more now and they've upped your car payments?
Sad but true. It's all done on purpose though. If they put helpful error messages then you wouldn't have to call IBM support to sort out why you get a 4621 error or whatever. I lost entire days due to not knowing why a benchmark run would complete.
Not only that but there are cases were wireless just doesn't work. For example, if my file server is in the basement and my media device in the upstairs living room, wireless may be hit or miss. However, a $30 cat-5 run will work just fine all the time. Even when you're in the same room, when everyone else is running wifi it might get bogged down. Especially if you live in a younger neighbourhood.
I think wifi has *already* replaced quite a few cat-5 networks [or network attachments]. the 'n' revision just makes things sweeter.
Yeah but Oracle and IBM DB2 get away with that because their software is so hard to use that casual users won't do it themselves. Most of their business is based on support anyways.
Having worked on DB2 internally, even *I* needed to get help debugging error messages, and sometimes even the IBM veterans didn't even know what they meant.
This is what happens when you only have 16 error codes that read like "network failure" or "database failure". Ok I'm exaggerating, but in all honesty, most of their error codes map to at least a half-dozen DISTINCT and often MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE problems.
If you plan on using the "pay me after I release the software" business model, the solution is simple. Write quality software, that is abundantly useful, and provide shit all no service to unlicensed users. If people really need your software and need help they'll pay for it.
That being said, a simple one-time CD key entry combined with online activation is probably enough to stop most casual pirates. Doesn't have to WGA style, just a simple one-time "is this key taken" check.
You can turn off many of the auto-format features which I totally agree are for shit.
At least it's not as bad as word... let me give an example
1. Put item in basket
2. Put another item in basket
At this point we (example paragraph text that breaks the mold) blah blah blah
New.Section()
At this point suppose I click on "Style" and go to a number list. What number do you suppose Word starts with? Yeah you got it. 3!!!! Because the text "at this point we" and the new section header got lumped in with the numbered list above.
You wouldn't believe how many times this caught me when I was writing my book.
Hehehehe. Or, more realistically, just use OOo in Windows. At my office [admittedly not a huge office] the windows users have both Word and OOo installed. If they're working on an internal doc [or something made from the engineering team] they use OOo. If they're writing something for a client they use Word. In the end, anything that was in either format gets turned into PDF before giving it out. So what we used internally really doesn't matter.
I thought it was common knowledge that most exit routes were owned by the very people, people think they need to keep secrets from.
Personally, I'm more afraid of some script kiddie stealing my ID than the man listening to my thoughts... but then again I grew up in Canada, not Bosnia or whatever:-)
The annoying bit is they actually spent time and money [and memory] coding this up. I mean on it's own a computer won't act like a bitch with a scraped knee (thanks Kevin Smith). So they actually took time away from say fixing the hundreds of open holes to code this up. What a fucking ripoff.
Actually the police called me several times when others complained [the average netizen doesn't get what joe-jobs are]. Fortunately for me the police were smart enough to realize what was going on and they only called me to make sure I knew what was going on.
And why did I abandon it? Because I can't enjoy it anymore. Suppose I come up with a new cool algorithm or implementation idea or whatever. Whom do I share it with? None of my local friends are into cryptography, I don't lecture at a university, and I can't talk on usenet/etc without provoking people. I'm just not willing to engage in the practice publicly anymore. Usenet in particular was my outlet for sharing ideas and getting feedback.
Not only that, but when the shit was going down it wasn't like anyone really had my back. I was basically left alone to be tormented, humiliated, and insulted. Why should I keep working on it for others when at the first sign of trouble they all turn around and run away. And that's hardly the first time I was left alone. When I was trying to get into univ [4-5 years ago]. I'd have univ prof's using the libraries, requesting features, using my materials, but they'd hardly lift a finger to help me out.
Anyways, I can't see myself enjoying working on it anymore. And instead of becoming a self-loathing couch potato, I decide to focus my energies on something else positive in my life. I love the piano, always have, always will. Now that I'm not working on LT in my spare time I have all the time in the world to work on music. To me it's a nice trade, at the rate I'm going I'll be up there in skill level in a year or two and I'll really get a kick out of entertaining myself and others at the piano.
Bingo. Remember that when ads started on the web they were mostly inline simple ads, a gif banner at the bottom or top. It was only when they started appearing everywhere, and then hijacking the browser that people became vigilant against them.
Google style ads are fine IMHO. I've even clicked on a few to pursue learning about a service [for rizzle].
Slashdot Mirror
At least your joe-job sounded PG-13. When crypto trolls in sci.crypt wanted me off the scene they posted child porn with my home address and phone number (neither kept secret, but obviously I didn't want them tied to that). After the initial wave of kiddie porn, they decided to re-post my posts in thousands of groups. When my 2nd book was coming out they re-posted a single post I wrote about the book (sans URL) and included the URL. Net result, lots of death threats, spam, hate mail, and low reviews on Amazon from people who have never read the book.
The sad thing is, if someone really wants to cause hell for another it's not all that hard. 99% of net users are ignorant to how trustworthy things like a "from" address are. In fact, we had to joe-job [privately] one irate poster who kept assuming joe-jobs were impossible with email. So my brother and I sent him emails with his name and address on them. (this was all in private, not public). In the end he told us to leave him alone (and we did) and he never really conceded the point.
People are dumb. This just proves they're also mean.
Which is why I study music instead now. The Internet is just too much of a waste.
Seriously. Is decency at such a low ebb that people have to stoop to attacking victim services and defense organizations? Seriously. Maybe if these people put half the time and energy they did into stealing they could actually get a real job and sleep well for a change instead of ripping people off all the time.
:-)
And while they're at it, they could stop sporging sci.crypt and other groups. That'd be nice.
They shouldn't as the "promised design" of the core 2 duo, is 2 cores that share a L2 cache. If they had 2 dies, but only 1 core each they wouldn't share the L2 cache and it wouldn't be the design they have been marketing.
That said, it should be easy to tell those apart [aside from taking the heat spreader off]. A simple cache latency check between cores will tell you which is which.
Go Korea! hehehehe
Maybe this is China's way of making using the Interweb "scary?"
The problem is you only care about whom the media makes important, and the media is a pawn of those in power [not political power, think $$$ power].
Look at the Tsunami. Who honestly gave two shits about the locals 1 day before the Tsunami hit? Nobody. Were they living a first-world life? Hardly. They lived in mud huts along a flood plain. Now all of a sudden we're all made to care about them?
In reality, a society that can't itself adjust to an enlighten state can't become one by having reason forced upon them. Just like a kid must come to terms with life on their own, so must an immature society. I won't help the dictators ruin their country, but I won't stand in the way to stop them either. If the citizens themselves don't overcome their flaws, then they're not going to.
Look at North America. When all was said and done, the original colonies were backwards, witching hunting, slave owning, racist biggots. We, for the most part, learned to behave "better." Nobody from Europe told us how to act. As a result, we overcame racism [overall] much quicker than even older areas like South Africa.
I'm not holding a gun to any Iranians. What's stopping them from organizing against the police state?
Who are you to tell Iran how to run their Internet? Free speech may be a right in America, Canada, and most other countries, but it's hardly universal.
Should all countries have free speech? I think so. Does what I think count? Not really.
The Internet is global, just not all countries choose to participate in the same fashion. In this case, Iran wants to censor websites they deemed harmful. Do I agree with their position? No. But should I really care? Not really. Let the Iranians fix their own damn country.
That's hardly true and you were so wordly you'd know it.
For example, in France it would be illegal for me to post on a blog "I support the Nazi party, hail hitler!". Yet here in Canada and the USA it's perfectly legal [maybe not acceptable but it's legal]. If the Internet is so "global" why is it not illegal here too?
Oh that's right, because you're full of shit.
I'm sorry, why am I supposed to care again? First, off, I'm not some xenophobic "woohoo my country is the best" zealot.
I just don't get why I'm supposed to care about the internal problems of every nation on Earth.
Did you know that in America [and Canada] that two responsible gay people can't live together without contempt, or marry in a willing church? Did you know we still permit affirmative action to take place. etc, etc, etc. How about we concern ourselves with our country, they concern themselves with theirs, and we're all set.
Heck, in Ontario, there are already plans to pull democracy backwards, see this for an example of how to take democracy (what little we have left) out of our hands and into special interest groups. When seats are appointed no longer by ridings [or better yet, popular vote] we end up with a shitty place to be. When minorities get to influence policy we'll end up with a province running out of control. Chasing the fantasy of every naysayer.
I'd like to think the ideal situation is not to alienate users, even those who aren't buying as many [any] games. They're not microsoft after all.
And given the track record with the GBA/DS so far they're not really causing a fuss.
Arrg I was gonna mod in this thread but I have to reply ...
Sure, you are free to mod your Wii, but they don't have to support it, and you don't have to run updates (just don't bitch when future games don't run). Nintendo sold you a Wii, they intend to support the Wii. If you mess it up, it's your OWN DAMN FAULT.
It's like if I remove the front left tire from my car, then bitch that Ford won't service it under warranty because I should be free to do whatever I want to my care.
Simple fact is, if you mod your console hardware you run the chance of being shutout of future gaming. Which is why you just don't mod it, or you buy two and have one for games which won't run modded.
FTA I was able to successfully bypass security in many system call wrappers by creating unmanaged concurrency between the attacking processes and the wrapper/kernel. This was possible on both uniprocessor systems and multiprocessor systems.
What's this about attacking multi-core processors?
The processors aren't broken, you could race a process in a uni and SMP system just the same. And in reality, your syscall security should be in there kernel itself, where any copies taken of data are passed internally to the required functions after policy checking.
No the way it works is it's not illegal to possess copied audio cds [or mp3s]. It's illegal to distribute them. We pay a levy which means we are entitled to copies.
So basically downloading is legal, uploading is illegal.
Why not use their clout and money to start educating people about how computers and the internet work?
:-)
Oh yeah, because the more independence and knowledge users gain the less dependent they are on Windows for making their computer go.
Whoops...
EULAs are notoriously unenforceable in court. Mostly because they're not present at the time of purchase. You can't tact on agreement requirements after the purchase has been made.
Otherwise, what's to stop your landlord or bank from demanding more money after you sign a lease/mortgage? Or your car dealer from telling you your car is worth $10k more now and they've upped your car payments?
Sad but true. It's all done on purpose though. If they put helpful error messages then you wouldn't have to call IBM support to sort out why you get a 4621 error or whatever. I lost entire days due to not knowing why a benchmark run would complete.
Not only that but there are cases were wireless just doesn't work. For example, if my file server is in the basement and my media device in the upstairs living room, wireless may be hit or miss. However, a $30 cat-5 run will work just fine all the time. Even when you're in the same room, when everyone else is running wifi it might get bogged down. Especially if you live in a younger neighbourhood.
I think wifi has *already* replaced quite a few cat-5 networks [or network attachments]. the 'n' revision just makes things sweeter.
Yeah but Oracle and IBM DB2 get away with that because their software is so hard to use that casual users won't do it themselves. Most of their business is based on support anyways.
Having worked on DB2 internally, even *I* needed to get help debugging error messages, and sometimes even the IBM veterans didn't even know what they meant.
This is what happens when you only have 16 error codes that read like "network failure" or "database failure". Ok I'm exaggerating, but in all honesty, most of their error codes map to at least a half-dozen DISTINCT and often MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE problems.
Tom
If you plan on using the "pay me after I release the software" business model, the solution is simple. Write quality software, that is abundantly useful, and provide shit all no service to unlicensed users. If people really need your software and need help they'll pay for it.
That being said, a simple one-time CD key entry combined with online activation is probably enough to stop most casual pirates. Doesn't have to WGA style, just a simple one-time "is this key taken" check.
Tom
You can turn off many of the auto-format features which I totally agree are for shit.
...
At least it's not as bad as word... let me give an example
1. Put item in basket
2. Put another item in basket
At this point we (example paragraph text that breaks the mold) blah blah blah
New.Section()
At this point suppose I click on "Style" and go to a number list. What number do you suppose Word starts with? Yeah you got it. 3!!!! Because the text "at this point we" and the new section header got lumped in with the numbered list above.
You wouldn't believe how many times this caught me when I was writing my book.
As compared to LaTex where you do
\begin{enumerate}
\item blah1
\item blah2
\end{enumerate}
new paragraph text blah blah blah
\begin{enumerate}
\item blah1
\item blah2
\end{enumerate}
Does exactly what you think it should
Use TeX instead? :-)
Hehehehe. Or, more realistically, just use OOo in Windows. At my office [admittedly not a huge office] the windows users have both Word and OOo installed. If they're working on an internal doc [or something made from the engineering team] they use OOo. If they're writing something for a client they use Word. In the end, anything that was in either format gets turned into PDF before giving it out. So what we used internally really doesn't matter.
Seems to work well.
I thought it was common knowledge that most exit routes were owned by the very people, people think they need to keep secrets from.
... but then again I grew up in Canada, not Bosnia or whatever :-)
Personally, I'm more afraid of some script kiddie stealing my ID than the man listening to my thoughts
The annoying bit is they actually spent time and money [and memory] coding this up. I mean on it's own a computer won't act like a bitch with a scraped knee (thanks Kevin Smith). So they actually took time away from say fixing the hundreds of open holes to code this up. What a fucking ripoff.
Tom
Eitherway, remember we were designing levels on Pentiums and P2's back in the 90s. It should be possible for a Wii to do as much as a damn Pentium.
Wants me random levels damn it... hehehe
Actually the police called me several times when others complained [the average netizen doesn't get what joe-jobs are]. Fortunately for me the police were smart enough to realize what was going on and they only called me to make sure I knew what was going on.
...
And why did I abandon it? Because I can't enjoy it anymore. Suppose I come up with a new cool algorithm or implementation idea or whatever. Whom do I share it with? None of my local friends are into cryptography, I don't lecture at a university, and I can't talk on usenet/etc without provoking people. I'm just not willing to engage in the practice publicly anymore. Usenet in particular was my outlet for sharing ideas and getting feedback.
Not only that, but when the shit was going down it wasn't like anyone really had my back. I was basically left alone to be tormented, humiliated, and insulted. Why should I keep working on it for others when at the first sign of trouble they all turn around and run away. And that's hardly the first time I was left alone. When I was trying to get into univ [4-5 years ago]. I'd have univ prof's using the libraries, requesting features, using my materials, but they'd hardly lift a finger to help me out.
Anyways, I can't see myself enjoying working on it anymore. And instead of becoming a self-loathing couch potato, I decide to focus my energies on something else positive in my life. I love the piano, always have, always will. Now that I'm not working on LT in my spare time I have all the time in the world to work on music. To me it's a nice trade, at the rate I'm going I'll be up there in skill level in a year or two and I'll really get a kick out of entertaining myself and others at the piano.
blah blah blah
Bingo. Remember that when ads started on the web they were mostly inline simple ads, a gif banner at the bottom or top. It was only when they started appearing everywhere, and then hijacking the browser that people became vigilant against them.
Google style ads are fine IMHO. I've even clicked on a few to pursue learning about a service [for rizzle].
Tom