You hit it right on the button 40% profit margins are an impossibility unless you are getting away with paying off a lot of political grease! That is unheard of in any other business sector. It is a.net result of the ability of MS to effectively control business information exchange with their software. All the low paying entry level jobs that I see posted usually include the ability to run a windows computer with ms office products. O'Rielly is right the company should have been split up, so were a few judicial people, (that are now out of work) that suggested the Ma bell standard oil like remedy. Too late we have allowed it to happen and the MS/Intel cartel will just drive everbody else out of info exchange.
99 little buttons to push on my screen 99 little buttons to push Mouse one down and push it around 98 little buttons to push (repeat 98 times) There are no more little buttons to mouse on my screen no more buttons to mouse. My mouse it is hung and just for some fun I'll cfdisk the whole fucking thing!
The post was not a troll. the truth about the.Net framework is that it is designed eventually to only alow tcpa key coded web pages to be displayed on an MS browser. Anyone who is stupid enough to think that MS is not in the business of trying to lock up all internet communication deserves what is coming. Something that will make you raise your right arm and alow access to your wallet in salute! Really read this guy he is biased but he is right! http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Just for your further info here is some of the way it is being done;
Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions - TCPA / Palladium / NGSCB / TCG Version 1.0 Ross Anderson
Translations into German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Hebrew and French. This document is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Additions since July 2002 are at the foot of this document. See also the Economics and Security Resource Page which gives a lot of background to the issues raised here.
Microsoft has renamed Palladium NGSCB - for `Next Generation Secure Computing Base' and pronounced `enscub', while TCPA has been renamed (somewhat brusquely) as TCG - for the Trusted Computing Group. Meanwhile, opposition is mounting. Expect further twists and turns as the battle develops. And read on...
1. What are TCPA and Palladium?
TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will build on the TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features. Palladium has recently been renamed NGSCB while TCPA has been renamed TCG; however I'll continue to refer to them here by their original names as they are still more widely used.
2. What does TCPA / Palladium do, in ordinary English?
It provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious application is digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a Palladium platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.
TCPA / Palladium will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. Pirate software can be detected and deleted remotely. It will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buying it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: Palladium could be the answer to his prayer.
There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are `born classified' and can't be leaked electronically to journalists. Auction sites might insist that you use trusted proxy software for bidding, so that you can't bid tactically at the auction. Cheating at computer games could be made more difficult.
There is a downside too. There will be remote censorship: the mechanisms designed to delete pirated music under remote control may be used to delete documents that a court (or a software company) has decided are offensive - this could be anything from pornography to writings that criticise political leaders. Software companies can also make it harder for you to switch to their competitors' products; for example, Word could encrypt all your documents using keys that only Microsoft products have access to; this would mean that you could only read them using Microsoft products, not with any competing word processor.
3. So I won't be able to play MP3s on my PC any more?
With existing MP3s, you may be all right for some time. Microsoft says that Palladium won't make anything suddenly stop working. But a recent software update for Windows Media Player has caused controversy by insisting that users agree to future anti-piracy measures, which may include measures that delete pirated content found on your computer. Also, some programs
Well as second generation processor fritz comes into being, it will be essential that internet communication be only to MS system dlls. Otherwise how could internet communication become exclusive? Message security encoding on the internet is the next.Net target. It will make it easy for only Intel and MS approved devices to decode internet traffic. So hurray only Intel and MS will achieve trusted.Net info provider status. The castration of the free flow of internet traffic is next, as servers change to Fritz chips. Traffic without hardwired MS key locks will become impossible. Wake up this is an attempt by US government backed radical corporate despots to control internet communications. European countries are starting to wake up to what is going on, we in the west are just alowing it to happen on the pretext of trusted computing! The very future freedom of information, knowledge and speech is at stake. Kind of makes Castro look benevolennt, if we allow an information tirany like this to take place!
'Compared to the rock bottom eMachines which includes WinXP home'
Well there you have it E-machines should also rebate customers who are willing to remove the WINxp themsevles then E-machines should get an oem rebate from Microshaft themselves. Oh shit but that would not be good for the upcoming cheap universal distribution of Fritz chips!
Raise your fucking right arm when you say the name Microsoft you monkey!
After watching the ultramatic bed commercials. I can just envisage a couple lying there why little Johnny next door tweaks some remote and proceeds to make a person sandwich.
I would use Le Sacre to test codec fidelity. Atleast the striking runs in seconds all over the place. The bitonality and all the other distortion causing merriment of Igor Stravynsky would expose digital compression codecs for music for what they really are. A medium for half deaf listeners. Fidelity my arse!
This begs to identify just exactly what to decompile means. If by observing the activity sequence of a functioning binary, then cloning those functions your are breaking a patented process of program execution then we are all screwed. Including Microsoft. However If execution process functions are not patentable, then the writing of unique software to achieve a given function is something like a musical song. Where the meaning of the song may be the same as another song but the melody and words are unique.
Therefore software that achieves a function different in code from other software that achieves the same function can be seen as a separate intellectual creation.
Now that I have given myself a headache reasoning this trough I will say goodnight.
Sounds like another silly anon coward that replaced the kernel rather than doing the sensible thing and keeping the old 2.4 config as well. It is the first release it is going to take time. Read all documentation an the changes before config, and always back up your old kernel. The first law of Linux. This aint windows you have a choice! Oh sorry you could do that with XP, well sort of,
Use windows update; then watch as some app gets broken or your computer slows down to shit, and worst of all YOU CANNOT REMOVE YOUR shit ass windows update without a re-install. What Windows junkies do not know is that us poor stupid linux users can use more than one kernel config, we can tweak installs, reconfig stuff and customise to our hearts content, 2.6 is no different it just gives users the ability to try it out and find the bugs real fast. Keep watching how many get squashed with just this/. article. Then eat your heart out.
Now if they could just do the same thing with beer nuts, pretzles, and chicken wings that would be usefull.
For a real beer drinkers heaven go to Stinkies a 24/7 pub, attach catheter, give waitress credit card, and begin bindge. Taxi or Paramedics will be called when beer glass is full without being drunk from for more than 2 hours.
Yes I see what you mean. It is something that could work. The problem with MS broadband zombies however is a different matter and could easily be addressed by changing the default behaviours of MS mail and core interfaces to block all non native scripts and exes. The average granny (like an Aunt of mine ) thinks that by simply running Norton AV she cannot be a target. So far I have deflected all sorts of crap coming from her. She just likes to be able to forward things to everyone with the click of a mouse. One piece of crap I got from here actually crashed my X server using Wine, it was funny when I saw what the MS VB script was! What I am trying to say is the spam problem is caused predominantly by the MS mail interface and system command software, and IPs that make money from spam companies!
A button is a simple gui trigger. KDE made it look they way they did so that MS junkies could still have their fix. The code that is behind those buttons is what counts and if KDE had cloned that code it would not be a viable interface, and would cause user priviledge system crashes just like NT4. MS is very good at designing buttons and desktops however what happens with the buttons you mouse click is problematic and quite often causes that funky hour glass and mouse pointer to hang then makes NT crash. NT is garbage, Citrix NT is worse and that is the way things are plain and simple. Multi user control, shadow passwords, resource allocation is not an MS strong point until they included other peoples ideas from BSD and possibly sysv code in 2000 and XP PRO. Why else would MS buy a SCO licence?
My favorite bits are the concept of toolian or whatever the hell they call that allocation limit work around nowadays... what a piece of crap, no wonder overflows are so hard to predict and debug in MS code. You can tell MS code a mile off because it smells like an Italian Restaurant. There are alot of meatballs writing it and the spaghetti is hidden in the source.
Last comment was a post from a dedicated Hot Mail user! Serve that up to the dead crowd leave being dead to the Greatfull. As I listen to 'Poor Peter' on my bsd box.
I am not an apple user however I know alot of musicians and sound/vid people that are. PC hardware sucks! Even some of the high end stuff is crap, the motherboard, case, power supplies, and generally every component made for pc are cheap crap. Vid cards that are proprietary to the PC are the same. I use a (P)iece of (C)rap myself, and spend my sound dollars on real recording equipment, good mics mixers and 24/96 dat. I use a PC only for MS office and Linux, it is useless for anything else.
"Considering Microsoft's claims of ownership over technologies like CIFS, does this mean Microsoft may also launch SCO-style attacks against Free Software/Open Source?"
Well this is the very heart of the matter to close access to the internet from platforms other than MS approved software, Ms is trying desparately to co-opt htm. ISO standards do not mean squat to MS and they threaten their.Net dominance strategy. This is the whole purpose of CIFS. I am supprised that there is not more independant news media that have picked up on this blatent monopolistic usury of the public! The CIFS licence is unenforceable as it is an obvious attempt to exclude internet communication competition from non signers. The net needs to seek international legislation to prevent exclusive standardized protocals, and ensure an open standard. It is fine if governments use other net channels for law enforcement and the military that can be blocked but not a monopolistic corporation like Microsoft!
If you did plug a usb camera into a web server you might get to actually see the spaced out google eyed Martians that are really the reason why the Linux kernel works so well.
Where I sit right now I here a refrigerator, monitor hum, automobile traffic, PC fans, 60hrz noise various from electrical devices, etc etc etc...
To think of the PC as a silent device is not going to cut it for anyone who truly listens. For the musician, recording engineer, and HIFI guru they are, have been and always will be the biggest (P)iece of (C)rap ever to pretend to play music or do audio/video work. The rf sig/noise is silly, the leaf blowers fans are rediculous the digital recording and video editing interfaces are toys. So the video card companies can change their ways, it still doesn't change the fact that the cheap mass market design of the PC is still only good as a toy, and is best suited for use by brain dead gamers and MS office junkies. The PC cannot replace pro level stuff, unless you are willing to use high grade components at which point Apple becomes much cheaper!
You obviouly have not seen the scientific and learning tools available throught Linux. If the Chinese had to license all that software through MS based companies or even try to dev their own with MS tools it would bankrupt them!
That is a typical MS stupid solution! I e-mail Web sites for info about particular things. This idea cannot work for websites and those who use e-mail to develope ideas and share ideas. It is a typically Microsoft bone headed idea. The only way to eliminate spam and keep the net usefull is to knock the ISPs that make money from spammers off the net. It is very obvious that those that make bulk mailings from a single original source like spammers are easy to trace, because they are not legit businesses. And most importantly fix the spam viruses for f'in windows software once and for all by blocking scripts for user mail distribution functions. It is absolutely stupid that MS Windows is the only software out there that will alow unprivileged scripts to run without the input of a frigging user. It is absolutely the most rediculous thing about Windows.
The problem with the net is that legit business that use bulk mail out are getting very pissed at Microsoft and ISPs that alow spammers. In short it is the ISPs that do not try to keep track of their bulk mailers that is the problem, along with Microsoft mail software interfaces. Get rid of those two things and spam will go away.
Unfortunately for the same reason why you always get genetalia enlargement e-mail spam, most people really want a bigger one of everything. They are just afraid to admit it! So you keep getting spammed because some goof balls are stupid enough to reply, I am just supprised there is no breast enlargement spam scams on the net yet. Maybe women are not quite as stupid. However they get suckered into the bigger everything auto consumer crap just as much as anyone else.
I am a classical guitarist and have often thought of this possibility. I also fly fish and love old cane rods. There is nothing like bamboo technology! So a bamboo bikes make a hell of a lot of sense. Really picks my but when people ignore the craftsmanship of centuries and are ignorant of the real possibilities. Same thing goes for hemp, and I do not mean the kind you smoke. So all you enviro tech ignorant plastic and aluminum junkies can just eat dust. Oriental bamboo tech can replace much of the environmentally ignorant technologies of our wastefull western manufacturing methods. There is no reason why the two technologies cannot co-exist and mingle. If we reduce our dependance on resource hungry wastefull methods then this is the way of the future.
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You hit it right on the button 40% profit margins are an impossibility unless you are getting away with paying off a lot of political grease! That is unheard of in any other business sector. It is a .net result of the ability of MS to effectively control business information exchange with their software. All the low paying entry level jobs that I see posted usually include the ability to run a windows computer with ms office products. O'Rielly is right the company should have been split up, so were a few judicial people, (that are now out of work) that suggested the Ma bell standard oil like remedy. Too late we have allowed it to happen and the MS/Intel cartel will just drive everbody else out of info exchange.
99 little buttons to push on my screen 99 little buttons to push
Mouse one down and push it around 98 little buttons to push
(repeat 98 times)
There are no more little buttons to mouse on my screen no more buttons to mouse. My mouse it is hung and just for some fun I'll cfdisk the whole fucking thing!
The post was not a troll. the truth about the .Net framework is that it is designed eventually to only alow tcpa key coded web pages to be displayed on an MS browser. Anyone who is stupid enough to think that MS is not in the business of trying to lock up all internet communication deserves what is coming. Something that will make you raise your right arm and alow access to your wallet in salute! Really read this guy he is biased but he is right! http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Just for your further info here is some of the way it is being done;
...
Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions
- TCPA / Palladium / NGSCB / TCG
Version 1.0
Ross Anderson
Translations into German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Hebrew and French. This document is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Additions since July 2002 are at the foot of this document. See also the Economics and Security Resource Page which gives a lot of background to the issues raised here.
Microsoft has renamed Palladium NGSCB - for `Next Generation Secure Computing Base' and pronounced `enscub', while TCPA has been renamed (somewhat brusquely) as TCG - for the Trusted Computing Group. Meanwhile, opposition is mounting. Expect further twists and turns as the battle develops. And read on
1. What are TCPA and Palladium?
TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will build on the TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features. Palladium has recently been renamed NGSCB while TCPA has been renamed TCG; however I'll continue to refer to them here by their original names as they are still more widely used.
2. What does TCPA / Palladium do, in ordinary English?
It provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious application is digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a Palladium platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.
TCPA / Palladium will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. Pirate software can be detected and deleted remotely. It will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buying it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: Palladium could be the answer to his prayer.
There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are `born classified' and can't be leaked electronically to journalists. Auction sites might insist that you use trusted proxy software for bidding, so that you can't bid tactically at the auction. Cheating at computer games could be made more difficult.
There is a downside too. There will be remote censorship: the mechanisms designed to delete pirated music under remote control may be used to delete documents that a court (or a software company) has decided are offensive - this could be anything from pornography to writings that criticise political leaders. Software companies can also make it harder for you to switch to their competitors' products; for example, Word could encrypt all your documents using keys that only Microsoft products have access to; this would mean that you could only read them using Microsoft products, not with any competing word processor.
3. So I won't be able to play MP3s on my PC any more?
With existing MP3s, you may be all right for some time. Microsoft says that Palladium won't make anything suddenly stop working. But a recent software update for Windows Media Player has caused controversy by insisting that users agree to future anti-piracy measures, which may include measures that delete pirated content found on your computer. Also, some programs
Well as second generation processor fritz comes into being, it will be essential that internet communication be only to MS system dlls. Otherwise how could internet communication become exclusive? Message security encoding on the internet is the next .Net target. It will make it easy for only Intel and MS approved devices to decode internet traffic. So hurray only Intel and MS will achieve trusted .Net info provider status. The castration of the free flow of internet traffic is next, as servers change to Fritz chips. Traffic without hardwired MS key locks will become impossible. Wake up this is an attempt by US government backed radical corporate despots to control internet communications. European countries are starting to wake up to what is going on, we in the west are just alowing it to happen on the pretext of trusted computing! The very future freedom of information, knowledge and speech is at stake.
Kind of makes Castro look benevolennt, if we allow an information tirany like this to take place!
Well there you have it E-machines should also rebate customers who are willing to remove the WINxp themsevles then E-machines should get an oem rebate from Microshaft themselves. Oh shit but that would not be good for the upcoming cheap universal distribution of Fritz chips!
Raise your fucking right arm when you say the name Microsoft you monkey!
After watching the ultramatic bed commercials. I can just envisage a couple lying there why little Johnny next door tweaks some remote and proceeds to make a person sandwich.
ZAP
I would use Le Sacre to test codec fidelity. Atleast the striking runs in seconds all over the place. The bitonality and all the other distortion causing merriment of Igor Stravynsky would expose digital compression codecs for music for what they really are. A medium for half deaf listeners. Fidelity my arse!
Therefore software that achieves a function different in code from other software that achieves the same function can be seen as a separate intellectual creation.
Now that I have given myself a headache reasoning this trough I will say goodnight.
Sounds like another silly anon coward that replaced the kernel rather than doing the sensible thing and keeping the old 2.4 config as well. It is the first release it is going to take time. Read all documentation an the changes before config, and always back up your old kernel. The first law of Linux. This aint windows you have a choice! Oh sorry you could do that with XP, well sort of,
Use windows update; /. article. Then eat your heart out.
then watch as some app gets broken or your computer slows down to shit, and worst of all YOU CANNOT REMOVE YOUR shit ass windows update without a re-install. What Windows junkies do not know is that us poor stupid linux users can use more than one kernel config, we can tweak installs, reconfig stuff and customise to our hearts content, 2.6 is no different it just gives users the ability to try it out and find the bugs real fast. Keep watching how many get squashed with just this
For a real beer drinkers heaven go to Stinkies a 24/7 pub, attach catheter, give waitress credit card, and begin bindge. Taxi or Paramedics will be called when beer glass is full without being drunk from for more than 2 hours.
Yes I see what you mean. It is something that could work. The problem with MS broadband zombies however is a different matter and could easily be addressed by changing the default behaviours of MS mail and core interfaces to block all non native scripts and exes. The average granny (like an Aunt of mine ) thinks that by simply running Norton AV she cannot be a target. So far I have deflected all sorts of crap coming from her. She just likes to be able to forward things to everyone with the click of a mouse. One piece of crap I got from here actually crashed my X server using Wine, it was funny when I saw what the MS VB script was! What I am trying to say is the spam problem is caused predominantly by the MS mail interface and system command software, and IPs that make money from spam companies!
A button is a simple gui trigger. KDE made it look they way they did so that MS junkies could still have their fix. The code that is behind those buttons is what counts and if KDE had cloned that code it would not be a viable interface, and would cause user priviledge system crashes just like NT4.
MS is very good at designing buttons and desktops however what happens with the buttons you mouse click is problematic and quite often causes that funky hour glass and mouse pointer to hang then makes NT crash. NT is garbage, Citrix NT is worse and that is the way things are plain and simple. Multi user control, shadow passwords, resource allocation is not an MS strong point until they included other peoples ideas from BSD and possibly sysv code in 2000 and XP PRO. Why else would MS buy a SCO licence?
My favorite bits are the concept of toolian or whatever the hell they call that allocation limit work around nowadays ... what a piece of crap, no wonder overflows are so hard to predict and debug in MS code. You can tell MS code a mile off because it smells like an Italian Restaurant. There are alot of meatballs writing it and the spaghetti is hidden in the source.
Last comment was a post from a dedicated Hot Mail user! Serve that up to the dead crowd leave being dead to the Greatfull. As I listen to 'Poor Peter' on my bsd box.
I am not an apple user however I know alot of musicians and sound/vid people that are.
PC hardware sucks! Even some of the high end stuff is crap, the motherboard, case, power supplies, and generally every component made for pc are cheap crap. Vid cards that are proprietary to the PC are the same. I use a (P)iece of (C)rap myself, and spend my sound dollars on real recording equipment, good mics mixers and 24/96 dat. I use a PC only for MS office and Linux, it is useless for anything else.
"Considering Microsoft's claims of ownership over technologies like CIFS, does this mean Microsoft may also launch SCO-style attacks against Free Software/Open Source?"
.Net dominance strategy. This is the whole purpose of CIFS. I am supprised that there is not more independant news media that have picked up on this blatent monopolistic usury of the public! The CIFS licence is unenforceable as it is an obvious attempt to exclude internet communication competition from non signers. The net needs to seek international legislation to prevent exclusive standardized protocals, and ensure an open standard. It is fine if governments use other net channels for law enforcement and the military that can be blocked but not a monopolistic corporation like Microsoft!
Well this is the very heart of the matter to close access to the internet from platforms other than MS approved software, Ms is trying desparately to co-opt htm. ISO standards do not mean squat to MS and they threaten their
If you did plug a usb camera into a web server you might get to actually see the spaced out google eyed Martians that are really the reason why the Linux kernel works so well.
To think of the PC as a silent device is not going to cut it for anyone who truly listens. For the musician, recording engineer, and HIFI guru they are, have been and always will be the biggest (P)iece of (C)rap ever to pretend to play music or do audio/video work. The rf sig/noise is silly, the leaf blowers fans are rediculous the digital recording and video editing interfaces are toys. So the video card companies can change their ways, it still doesn't change the fact that the cheap mass market design of the PC is still only good as a toy, and is best suited for use by brain dead gamers and MS office junkies. The PC cannot replace pro level stuff, unless you are willing to use high grade components at which point Apple becomes much cheaper!
You obviouly have not seen the scientific and learning tools available throught Linux. If the Chinese had to license all that software through MS based companies or even try to dev their own with MS tools it would bankrupt them!
The problem with the net is that legit business that use bulk mail out are getting very pissed at Microsoft and ISPs that alow spammers. In short it is the ISPs that do not try to keep track of their bulk mailers that is the problem, along with Microsoft mail software interfaces. Get rid of those two things and spam will go away.
Unfortunately for the same reason why you always get genetalia enlargement e-mail spam, most people really want a bigger one of everything. They are just afraid to admit it! So you keep getting spammed because some goof balls are stupid enough to reply, I am just supprised there is no breast enlargement spam scams on the net yet. Maybe women are not quite as stupid. However they get suckered into the bigger everything auto consumer crap just as much as anyone else.
I am a classical guitarist and have often thought of this possibility. I also fly fish and love old cane rods. There is nothing like bamboo technology! So a bamboo bikes make a hell of a lot of sense. Really picks my but when people ignore the craftsmanship of centuries and are ignorant of the real possibilities. Same thing goes for hemp, and I do not mean the kind you smoke. So all you enviro tech ignorant plastic and aluminum junkies can just eat dust. Oriental bamboo tech can replace much of the environmentally ignorant technologies of our wastefull western manufacturing methods. There is no reason why the two technologies cannot co-exist and mingle. If we reduce our dependance on resource hungry wastefull methods then this is the way of the future.