I'm fairly surprised this has not been mentioned already: Relocate to a country not under the juristiction of the RIAA? Why not move to the U.K, Netherlands, Sweden or other areas of Europe.
Even locating the server to somewhere like Havenco's facility might be a viable option for a broadcaster desparately trying to save his/her station.
Seeing as how Microsoft's.NET advertising campaign was a blatant rip-off of IBM's infamous blue horizontal bars.
I wouldn't be surprised if you see a Microsoft software box in a completely white studio with the camera shooting it from all angles, and a fashionable tune in the background (Apple).
Was that the fastest slashdotting or what? Anyway, I came accross the PDF file for the new iMac, it's very detailed and it explains how to dismantle it without breaking anything...
Ye Gods, this thing will take over your living room. I can envisage a large "Real" hallmark on all your TiVo recordings, the "Real" jingle preceeding all your DRMified CDs.
I'm particularly surprised no-one has mentioned the iPod yet. Yes, I know it's Apple, and, that it was intended to be used on a Mac (and primarily as a music device, too).
Mediafour are creating software that will allow the iPod to interface with windows (no mention of Linux, though). Basically it will act just like a glorified hard drive. Here's the article. It's $400, come on! There are Firewire -> USB adapters doing the rounds anyway, so surely you could curtial $900. Oh, and the iPod's the size of a pack of cards.
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If they *did* plant trojans/backdoors/whatever nonsense - then what exactly would they do? Come on, it is highly unlikely that there'll be fibre optics being piped into Tora Bora.
Also, what the heck would they do? Bring down power stations? Governments? Residential suburbs more like. What kind of damage can you do do joe users computer apart from teaming thousands of infected boxen and DDoS some.gov box. Woo-hoo. Alot of damage done there...
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Speaking from a UK perspective, our academical network (JANET) has already rolled out something similar to this. OK, it's a fraction of 10gbps - at 622mbps. Obviously every university doesn't get that amount of bandwidth; it's usually around 155mbps going into each major city I think. However, I believe geant will pave the way for some serious warezing!
After nimda, codered and countless other virii, I've noticed several companies moving over to linux in the last few months. Could this pose a threat to the "migration"? It might very well do, not something I would look forward to, personally.
Admins "starting out" on linux may not know how to upgrade their kernels and out of fear move their network back to NT. Just a thought.
This is good news. Why? XP is just about to be shipped into retail stores. MSFT can't really do much about it now unless they release some Windows update - which is unlikely to catch 56k'ers attention much.
Napster died. KaZaA replaced it. KaZaA will die, something else will replace it for a few months (at least). Hopefully this will go on for another couple of years.
Maybe the next "napster" creators will find some sort of loop-hole in the law, or, host/register the software patent in a country with lax IT laws.
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Maybe it took him a week to write it.
we have brains. we can tell if a glass is empty or not. even a child can do this. what the fuck?
I'm fairly surprised this has not been mentioned already: Relocate to a country not under the juristiction of the RIAA? Why not move to the U.K, Netherlands, Sweden or other areas of Europe.
Even locating the server to somewhere like Havenco's facility might be a viable option for a broadcaster desparately trying to save his/her station.
Seeing as how Microsoft's .NET advertising campaign was a blatant rip-off of IBM's infamous blue horizontal bars.
I wouldn't be surprised if you see a Microsoft software box in a completely white studio with the camera shooting it from all angles, and a fashionable tune in the background (Apple).
Was that the fastest slashdotting or what? Anyway, I came accross the PDF file for the new iMac, it's very detailed and it explains how to dismantle it without breaking anything...
Here's the url.
Ye Gods, this thing will take over your living room. I can envisage a large "Real" hallmark on all your TiVo recordings, the "Real" jingle preceeding all your DRMified CDs.
Haven't you guys ever heard of a laptop with a broken screen? Heck, get one of them for next to nothing; stick a monitor on it whenever necessary.
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I'm particularly surprised no-one has mentioned the iPod yet. Yes, I know it's Apple, and, that it was intended to be used on a Mac (and primarily as a music device, too).
Mediafour are creating software that will allow the iPod to interface with windows (no mention of Linux, though). Basically it will act just like a glorified hard drive. Here's the article. It's $400, come on! There are Firewire -> USB adapters doing the rounds anyway, so surely you could curtial $900. Oh, and the iPod's the size of a pack of cards.
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If they *did* plant trojans/backdoors/whatever nonsense - then what exactly would they do? Come on, it is highly unlikely that there'll be fibre optics being piped into Tora Bora.
.gov box. Woo-hoo. Alot of damage done there...
Also, what the heck would they do? Bring down power stations? Governments? Residential suburbs more like. What kind of damage can you do do joe users computer apart from teaming thousands of infected boxen and DDoS some
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Hmm, it'd be pretty hard to slashdot geant.
Speaking from a UK perspective, our academical network (JANET) has already rolled out something similar to this. OK, it's a fraction of 10gbps - at 622mbps. Obviously every university doesn't get that amount of bandwidth; it's usually around 155mbps going into each major city I think. However, I believe geant will pave the way for some serious warezing!
Does it play ogg?
(everyone seems to ask this about anything remotely electrical posted on Slashdot).
I wonder what good the windows XP firewall would do in this scenario.
After nimda, codered and countless other virii, I've noticed several companies moving over to linux in the last few months. Could this pose a threat to the "migration"? It might very well do, not something I would look forward to, personally.
Admins "starting out" on linux may not know how to upgrade their kernels and out of fear move their network back to NT. Just a thought.
This is good news. Why? XP is just about to be shipped into retail stores. MSFT can't really do much about it now unless they release some Windows update - which is unlikely to catch 56k'ers attention much.
I think you're forgetting the fact that the state of mourning ended last week (or the week before).
Life has to go on. Slashdot isn't a current affairs news-source. It's a..er, computer orientated current affairs site.
Napster died. KaZaA replaced it. KaZaA will die, something else will replace it for a few months (at least). Hopefully this will go on for another couple of years.
Maybe the next "napster" creators will find some sort of loop-hole in the law, or, host/register the software patent in a country with lax IT laws.
We can only hope.