The MPAA wins this battle... but it still remains to be seen who's going to win the war. So this 'strategy' doesn't work - our fair-use rights are worth fighting for. We need to find new, legal or semi-legal ways of fighting back against the MPAA. Let's take THEM to court. Let's use their laws against them. Let's show them who's boss. The fundamental law of business is that the customer is always right - they seem to have forgotten that, so it's time to teach them.
Oh no, 3100 people got Nimda in a Gamespy Arcade installer. Oh no, a virus infected a webserver (who would have imagined something like THAT happening?). Oh no, the users have to download a free virus scanner like AVG to remove it. Oh no, it was their choice to download Gamespy Arcade in the first place.
Oh no, this is absolutely nothing.
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It's a buffer overflow in CSRSS.exe - The console service. It seems like CSRSS hasn't changed in like 5 years. As I understand, it comes from an error which is detected (trying to write before the beginning of a buffer), but not handled.
It's not like our country protects us with military and law enforcement or anything. We don't owe them nothing, 'specially no dumb 'pledge of allegiance'.
I've had this problem with IE multiple times - it's some sort of bug in their http support. And it happens to anything - I was unable to download the Visual Studio Service Pack, Gentoo Linux, and a couple game demos, along with an IE patch. It does seem to go away in Moz though, but Moz has enough problems with HTTP of its own (like the pipelining features).
I don't own an XBox so I can't check the EULA... but it seems to me like chipping your XBox, or running uncertified games, would be outlawed in the EULA. If so, that would mean Microsoft could sue XBox owners who chip their boxes.
Anyone with an XBox care to paste part of the eula or anything?
This 'article' is nothing more than a plot by the illuminati to make up for their failed 'divx' project. Echelon is nothing more than another assault on our freedom!
They're going to brainwash us all and turn us into goose-stepping communist robots! GET OUT OF MY TEETH!
The watchers of those watching the watchers can be watched by the watchers themselves, thus guaranteeing that all the watchers, even the watchers OF the watchers, are watched. Then, just in case, we can have some watchers of the watchers of the watchers of the watchers, making sure everything goes smoothly.
That with easier access to wireless internet, the/. editors will finally be able to NOT POST THE SAME THING MULTIPLE TIMES? This is truly the wave of the future;)
For those of us without much experience in the encryption and networking fields, anyone mind explaining exactly what this does? I read the page but I'm not sure I understand exactly what's going on.
Creating a sentient robot: $13,060,022,050.33 Pitting it against other robots in battle: $150,759,032.42 Teaching it to repeat 'I'm sorry dave, I can't do that' incessantly, and sing 'Daisy': Priceless
That is SO not even possible... it's stupid. Think about it from a programming perspective:
You have to design your entire browser, OS, and all components, with the fact that anyone can rip out pieces of them and put in their own versions, in mind. You have to put in multiple layers of error checking, compatibility features, etc. And publish all your specs, just so Joe Blow can screw around with your libraries and then give your tech support a call, pissed off that they don't work anymore.
As a programmer, this idea pisses me off. If they don't want to be flexible, fine, then don't use their components - forcing them to ALLOW people to cripple their products (Imagine if Netscape crippled IE when you installed it, or if RealPlayer crippled Media Player when you installed it, or if AOL crippled windows' networking when you inst... oh wait, it does that)
It's much better to simply allow you to REMOVE the components - but then you have to deal with the fact that apps that use those components, won't work. The ability to insert a Media Player, Internet Explorer, etc. component into any app when I need a quick solution, is very, very useful. No other company has provided both things until recently (Netscape didn't have any simple embedding solution for a very, very long time, and Mozilla barely has one... QuickTime's embedding support is pathetic, and RealPlayer is just trash.)
Simply, this is a dumb idea. True, Windows should be easier to alter, but forcing MS to overaccomodate their competition and leave themselves blatantly open to attack, is downright stupid. If the same was asked of any other major commercial software company, they'd refuse. Can you replace the Netscape rendering engine? The RealPlayer media architecture? Hell no. Why? Because it wouldn't be realistic.
Mickey Mouse was created by Ub Iwerks. His original name was Mortimer Mouse. Ub used to be partnered with Walt Disney. It's all explained in Bill Peet's auto-biography.
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The MPAA wins this battle... but it still remains to be seen who's going to win the war. So this 'strategy' doesn't work - our fair-use rights are worth fighting for. We need to find new, legal or semi-legal ways of fighting back against the MPAA. Let's take THEM to court. Let's use their laws against them. Let's show them who's boss. The fundamental law of business is that the customer is always right - they seem to have forgotten that, so it's time to teach them.
It is my worst fears realized. A beowulf cluster, now in the hands of the evil drug cartels!
You know you can't copy-and-paste google cache links, right? That one doesn't work, at least, and it's never worked for me.
That graph looks like Tux the penguin! Perhaps microsoft is trying to say something?
Actually, is it just me or is the site ALREADY slashdotted?
Oh no, 3100 people got Nimda in a Gamespy Arcade installer. Oh no, a virus infected a webserver (who would have imagined something like THAT happening?). Oh no, the users have to download a free virus scanner like AVG to remove it. Oh no, it was their choice to download Gamespy Arcade in the first place.
Oh no, this is absolutely nothing.
How will they deal with map hacks?
It's a buffer overflow in CSRSS.exe - The console service. It seems like CSRSS hasn't changed in like 5 years. As I understand, it comes from an error which is detected (trying to write before the beginning of a buffer), but not handled.
A fix has been available on MSDN for a while now. I forget the URL, but I was able to find it in about 2 minutes and fix it myself.
It's not like our country protects us with military and law enforcement or anything. We don't owe them nothing, 'specially no dumb 'pledge of allegiance'.
But does it have pigeon power?
A beowulf cluster of... of... *collapses from sudden heart attack*
I've had this problem with IE multiple times - it's some sort of bug in their http support. And it happens to anything - I was unable to download the Visual Studio Service Pack, Gentoo Linux, and a couple game demos, along with an IE patch. It does seem to go away in Moz though, but Moz has enough problems with HTTP of its own (like the pipelining features).
I don't own an XBox so I can't check the EULA... but it seems to me like chipping your XBox, or running uncertified games, would be outlawed in the EULA. If so, that would mean Microsoft could sue XBox owners who chip their boxes.
Anyone with an XBox care to paste part of the eula or anything?
Where's the photos of Britney Spears?
OH, THAT kind of balloons. Sorry, my mistake.
This 'article' is nothing more than a plot by the illuminati to make up for their failed 'divx' project. Echelon is nothing more than another assault on our freedom!
They're going to brainwash us all and turn us into goose-stepping communist robots!
GET OUT OF MY TEETH!
The watchers of those watching the watchers can be watched by the watchers themselves, thus guaranteeing that all the watchers, even the watchers OF the watchers, are watched. Then, just in case, we can have some watchers of the watchers of the watchers of the watchers, making sure everything goes smoothly.
That with easier access to wireless internet, the /. editors will finally be able to NOT POST THE SAME THING MULTIPLE TIMES? This is truly the wave of the future ;)
For those of us without much experience in the encryption and networking fields, anyone mind explaining exactly what this does? I read the page but I'm not sure I understand exactly what's going on.
Where's the 'instant slashdotting'? That's the ultimate in evil. Oh wait, they got hit by it themselves...
Creating a sentient robot: $13,060,022,050.33
Pitting it against other robots in battle: $150,759,032.42
Teaching it to repeat 'I'm sorry dave, I can't do that' incessantly, and sing 'Daisy': Priceless
For the love of God, don't install Slave Zero on it.
That is SO not even possible... it's stupid. Think about it from a programming perspective:
You have to design your entire browser, OS, and all components, with the fact that anyone can rip out pieces of them and put in their own versions, in mind. You have to put in multiple layers of error checking, compatibility features, etc. And publish all your specs, just so Joe Blow can screw around with your libraries and then give your tech support a call, pissed off that they don't work anymore.
As a programmer, this idea pisses me off. If they don't want to be flexible, fine, then don't use their components - forcing them to ALLOW people to cripple their products (Imagine if Netscape crippled IE when you installed it, or if RealPlayer crippled Media Player when you installed it, or if AOL crippled windows' networking when you inst... oh wait, it does that)
It's much better to simply allow you to REMOVE the components - but then you have to deal with the fact that apps that use those components, won't work. The ability to insert a Media Player, Internet Explorer, etc. component into any app when I need a quick solution, is very, very useful. No other company has provided both things until recently (Netscape didn't have any simple embedding solution for a very, very long time, and Mozilla barely has one... QuickTime's embedding support is pathetic, and RealPlayer is just trash.)
Simply, this is a dumb idea. True, Windows should be easier to alter, but forcing MS to overaccomodate their competition and leave themselves blatantly open to attack, is downright stupid. If the same was asked of any other major commercial software company, they'd refuse. Can you replace the Netscape rendering engine? The RealPlayer media architecture? Hell no. Why? Because it wouldn't be realistic.
XBox: $200
1-year subscription to XBox Live: $50
Getting to play halo on the internet before the PC and Mac users get to play it at all: Priceless
Mickey Mouse was created by Ub Iwerks. His original name was Mortimer Mouse. Ub used to be partnered with Walt Disney. It's all explained in Bill Peet's auto-biography.
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