In the future, I expect corporate desktops may well have a 20GB or 30GB flash partition to hold the OS and apps (as well as things like browser cache, temp files and such) with all the user data (documents, emails etc) being stored on a fast file server (or servers) in a server room with a few TB worth of big, regularly backed up hard disks.
AACS was not cracked, what has happened is that people are taking the title keys out of the memory of software players and using it along with an implementation of the published AACS standard.
You can either choose to buy a SIM and then a phone separately or you can go for a contract and get a phone that is cheaper than you would normally pay. However, the downside to the lock-in is that you may have features disabled (of course if you own a Motorola, you can use FLEX editing to enable the features again:)
Mods are not a problem in the general case, mods become a problem when they expose otherwise hidden content (see Hot Coffee) that was put there by the games developers and that is inappropriate for the rating given to the game.
The best place to start would be to allow those labels who want to sell their music on the iTunes store without the DRM attached. That way, all the music coming from those labels (RIAA etc) who insist on DRM, will still get their DRM but other music would be DRM free. It could be done with absolutely no visible difference to the user.
If Jobs was serious about his anti-DRM stance, he would either allow DRM free music on the iTunes store or he would come out with a clear statement as to why he cant allow it
Irrespective of any contributory copyright infringement, in order for VMWare and Parallels to be able to run OS X, they would need to emulate the trusted computing chip. And that is a violation of the DMCA and similar laws around the world.
The best way to ensure that Wal-Mart cant push you around is to have a product or products that Wal-Mart can't do without and that you have a monopoly on the sale of. Thats why Wal-Mart can't push the MPAA around by insisting on "Let us sell movies without DRM or we will stop selling all your movies" (and of course that makes the assumption that Wal-Mart would even want to sell DRM free movies, a store like Wal-Mart would probably LIKE the "vendor lock-in" that you get with DRM)
What will be interesting is if Obama gets up for the Democrats and Hillary gets up for the Republicans. Then the United States will have no choice to elect either a black person or a women as president of the united states. (and to all those that think the president should be a white male, the only worse outcome for president than Obama or Hillary would be if Oprah Winfrey got elected president)
One issue is the car manufacturers themselves. Recently one petrol company here in Western Australia started offering a 20% bio-diesel 80% normal diesel blend called Gull Bio-D. The problem is, people (especially those with new cars still under warranty) are reluctant to use this new fuel unless the car manufacturers will come out with a clear statement "Gull Bio-D is safe to use in your diesel powered car and can be used without voiding the warranty" (or something similar)
Actually, phone phreaking became obsolete when the phone companies upgraded to new digital switching systems that moved all the signaling and control out-of-band and sending tones down the phone line didn't work to get free calls anymore.
This is bill from the BIAA (Banking Industry Association Of America). If you drop support for this privacy bill thingo, we will make sure there is a "bank error in your favor"...
IANAL but from what I have read, all the license clause says is that if you want to run vista home in a virtual machine, you need one license for each copy of vista home you are running (whereas vista pro lets you use a copy in a VM even if its already being used on the real machine too).
Or am I reading it wrong and Vista Home prevents running it in a VM even when you aren't using that same licensed copy of Vista Home elsewhere (e.g, if its running inside a VMWare image hosted on a linux machine)?
And by Cisco Systems (just think of all the money to be made selling upgrades to all those routers where you just plug in a box with a bunch of big disks and install a software update and it does all the government mandated logging for you without any effort on the part of the admins)
There are 3 things that are loosely connected to "Net Neutrality" 1.QoS. QoS means giving, say, VoIP packets first dibs at what bandwidth is available and then giving, say, BitTorrent the rest of the bandwidth. If no VoIP packets are being sent, BitTorrent would be able to use 100% of the bandwidth (assume for example purposes that only VoIP and BitTorrent are ever being sent over this link). This is something ISPs SHOULD be allowed to do and shouldn't be charging extra for.
2.Traffic Shaping. This means restricting the amount of bandwidth that BitTorrent (say) gets regardless of what else is being sent. Even if BitTorrent is the only thing on the link, it still cannot use the entire bandwidth available. This is something ISPs should NOT be allowed to do.
and 3.Discrimination. This is what people talk about when they talk about giving more bandwidth to CNN than to YouTube or giving more bandwidth to Comcast VoIP than to Vonage. This is also something ISPs should NOT be allowed to do.
Many large ISPs (via their PR and marketing flunkies) will claim that unless they are allowed to do points 2 and 3, they will be unable to provide service at all because all their customers will sit on BitTorrent or YouTube all day downloading large videos. This is a blatant LIE. ISPs DO NOT need to throttle or discriminate in order to provide good service. They are only going down that road because they don't have the guts to do the RIGHT thing and make the bandwidth hogs pay more for their service. And with the monopoly markets we have now (at least in America), customers will have no choice but to accept the new download limits.
ISPs who have "download limits" but wont tell you exactly what criteria (how much traffic etc) will get you cut off or limited or whatever are the worst.
Any talk of using this drug to treat cancer will last about as long as it takes for the drug company lobbyists to drive to the offices and homes of whoever it is that is responsible for giving approval for using this drug to treat cancer (and the researchers doing the research) and walking in the door with briefcases full of CA$100 bills and notes from their bosses.
IANAL but I believe FCC rules would prohibit such a device, especially as it most likely could be changed quite easily to spy on all cellular communication instead of just listening to what it is supposed to.
Another effort that is "open" is the OpenEZX project for motorola EZX phones. Basicly the EZX phones contain a "baseband" processor and chipset and software that is a modified version of the hardware/software running on normal non EZX phones like the RAZR etc and then another more powerful CPU (Intel XSCALE I think) that runs the linux kernel and a bunch of userland stuff which communicates to the baseband side by sending AT commands to the BP side and getting responses back.
Motorola have released the source code to the kernel and several userspace opensource apps such as glibc, ash and many others. The "open" part is the OpenEZX project who have taken the motorola provided kernel sources and can in fact send AT commands to the baseband processor and get responses back. Work continues on improving the kernel (including getting the port to kernel 2.6 from the stock motorola 2.4 functioning better) as well as producing userland applications to handle phone functions (for example, writing or adapting some kind of daemon to replace the existing motorola closed source tapisrv daemon and handle AT command communications with the baseband processor.
It is also possible to write your own applications and run them alongside the motorola software stack (either in JAVA with the motorola SDK or in whatever you can compile with a suitable arm-linux cross compiler).
Its not truly "open" (all the stuff on the baseband side is completely closed and protected by the same code signing stuff motorola use on their non linux phones for one thing plus the only documentation is what can be learned from the published kernel and app source) but right now, its the best choice for someone wanting an "open" phone that is actually a usable mobile phone as opposed to some expensive "development tool" aimed at people wanting to do mobile development that is totally useless as an actual phone. (or, like the trolltech phone, isn't as open as the manufacturer would have you believe).
This is what I think computer related courses should be split up into: 1.Computer Science (this is where all that fancy math stuff comes from) 2.Software Engineering (this would have lots of practical programming as well as courses covering things like testing, code coverage, code quality, peer review of code and such that you see in real software engineering shops) 3.Information Systems (this would cover systems analysis, software design, database design and the other stuff you need if you are going to design programs) and then some kind of internet or networking course that covers stuff like TCP/IP, HTTP, the internet, the web, HTML, internet programming (PHP, Perl, javascript etc). Maybe have one course for the lower levels (how to configure routers, subnetting and all that kind of stuff) and one for the upper levels (how to work at the application layer)
Unlike the 8800 series cards which were advertised as "vista ready", no-one from Nvidia ever said that the nforce2 board would be officially supported under vista.
Did Logitec ever claim that they were going to support Vista with this particular mouse? This lawsuit is being talked about because NVIDIA claimed that these video cards would work with Windows Vista and they don't.
It would be like Motorola claiming that their new phone will be compatible with a new network from Cingular when in fact they don't have the software to enable the phone to talk to the new network.
There are 2 problems: 1.Nvidia claimed that these cards were "vista ready" "Direct3D 10 ready" etc. Since they do not have usable vista drivers for these cards, those claims are a lie. The cards are not usable with Vista. and more to the point 2.They refuse to acknowledge any of the problems. In fact, they are actively censoring mention of anything to do with these cards and vista.
I suspect that if they came out and said "yeah, we know these cards don't work so good on vista. We are working on it and will have drivers available for Vista as soon as we can" instead of trying to censor the discussion and deny that anyone would ever want to use an 8800 series card with Vista it would make people a lot happier.
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In the future, I expect corporate desktops may well have a 20GB or 30GB flash partition to hold the OS and apps (as well as things like browser cache, temp files and such) with all the user data (documents, emails etc) being stored on a fast file server (or servers) in a server room with a few TB worth of big, regularly backed up hard disks.
AACS was not cracked, what has happened is that people are taking the title keys out of the memory of software players and using it along with an implementation of the published AACS standard.
You can either choose to buy a SIM and then a phone separately or you can go for a contract and get a phone that is cheaper than you would normally pay. However, the downside to the lock-in is that you may have features disabled (of course if you own a Motorola, you can use FLEX editing to enable the features again :)
Mods are not a problem in the general case, mods become a problem when they expose otherwise hidden content (see Hot Coffee) that was put there by the games developers and that is inappropriate for the rating given to the game.
The best place to start would be to allow those labels who want to sell their music on the iTunes store without the DRM attached. That way, all the music coming from those labels (RIAA etc) who insist on DRM, will still get their DRM but other music would be DRM free. It could be done with absolutely no visible difference to the user.
If Jobs was serious about his anti-DRM stance, he would either allow DRM free music on the iTunes store or he would come out with a clear statement as to why he cant allow it
Can someone tell me exactly what these politicians, lobby groups etc hate about MySpace and why they want to shut it down, block it or restrict it?
The question is, would cloning the apple TPM and keys be considered a DMCA violation or would it fall under the "interoperability" clause of the DMCA?
Irrespective of any contributory copyright infringement, in order for VMWare and Parallels to be able to run OS X, they would need to emulate the trusted computing chip. And that is a violation of the DMCA and similar laws around the world.
The best way to ensure that Wal-Mart cant push you around is to have a product or products that Wal-Mart can't do without and that you have a monopoly on the sale of. Thats why Wal-Mart can't push the MPAA around by insisting on "Let us sell movies without DRM or we will stop selling all your movies" (and of course that makes the assumption that Wal-Mart would even want to sell DRM free movies, a store like Wal-Mart would probably LIKE the "vendor lock-in" that you get with DRM)
What will be interesting is if Obama gets up for the Democrats and Hillary gets up for the Republicans. Then the United States will have no choice to elect either a black person or a women as president of the united states. (and to all those that think the president should be a white male, the only worse outcome for president than Obama or Hillary would be if Oprah Winfrey got elected president)
One issue is the car manufacturers themselves. Recently one petrol company here in Western Australia started offering a 20% bio-diesel 80% normal diesel blend called Gull Bio-D. The problem is, people (especially those with new cars still under warranty) are reluctant to use this new fuel unless the car manufacturers will come out with a clear statement "Gull Bio-D is safe to use in your diesel powered car and can be used without voiding the warranty" (or something similar)
The US seems to have a thing for using Corn in places where Sugar would be more appropriate.
:(
Its not just the ethanol production, they also have this stupid idea to use corn sweetener instead of sugar in their soft drinks
It wouldn't surprise me if quite a few people are buying PS3s only because they happen to be (right now) the cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market.
Actually, phone phreaking became obsolete when the phone companies upgraded to new digital switching systems that moved all the signaling and control out-of-band and sending tones down the phone line didn't work to get free calls anymore.
This is bill from the BIAA (Banking Industry Association Of America).
If you drop support for this privacy bill thingo, we will make sure there is a "bank error in your favor"...
IANAL but from what I have read, all the license clause says is that if you want to run vista home in a virtual machine, you need one license for each copy of vista home you are running (whereas vista pro lets you use a copy in a VM even if its already being used on the real machine too).
Or am I reading it wrong and Vista Home prevents running it in a VM even when you aren't using that same licensed copy of Vista Home elsewhere (e.g, if its running inside a VMWare image hosted on a linux machine)?
And by Cisco Systems (just think of all the money to be made selling upgrades to all those routers where you just plug in a box with a bunch of big disks and install a software update and it does all the government mandated logging for you without any effort on the part of the admins)
There are 3 things that are loosely connected to "Net Neutrality"
1.QoS. QoS means giving, say, VoIP packets first dibs at what bandwidth is available and then giving, say, BitTorrent the rest of the bandwidth. If no VoIP packets are being sent, BitTorrent would be able to use 100% of the bandwidth (assume for example purposes that only VoIP and BitTorrent are ever being sent over this link). This is something ISPs SHOULD be allowed to do and shouldn't be charging extra for.
2.Traffic Shaping. This means restricting the amount of bandwidth that BitTorrent (say) gets regardless of what else is being sent. Even if BitTorrent is the only thing on the link, it still cannot use the entire bandwidth available. This is something ISPs should NOT be allowed to do.
and 3.Discrimination. This is what people talk about when they talk about giving more bandwidth to CNN than to YouTube or giving more bandwidth to Comcast VoIP than to Vonage. This is also something ISPs should NOT be allowed to do.
Many large ISPs (via their PR and marketing flunkies) will claim that unless they are allowed to do points 2 and 3, they will be unable to provide service at all because all their customers will sit on BitTorrent or YouTube all day downloading large videos. This is a blatant LIE. ISPs DO NOT need to throttle or discriminate in order to provide good service. They are only going down that road because they don't have the guts to do the RIGHT thing and make the bandwidth hogs pay more for their service. And with the monopoly markets we have now (at least in America), customers will have no choice but to accept the new download limits.
ISPs who have "download limits" but wont tell you exactly what criteria (how much traffic etc) will get you cut off or limited or whatever are the worst.
Any talk of using this drug to treat cancer will last about as long as it takes for the drug company lobbyists to drive to the offices and homes of whoever it is that is responsible for giving approval for using this drug to treat cancer (and the researchers doing the research) and walking in the door with briefcases full of CA$100 bills and notes from their bosses.
IANAL but I believe FCC rules would prohibit such a device, especially as it most likely could be changed quite easily to spy on all cellular communication instead of just listening to what it is supposed to.
Another effort that is "open" is the OpenEZX project for motorola EZX phones.
Basicly the EZX phones contain a "baseband" processor and chipset and software that is a modified version of the hardware/software running on normal non EZX phones like the RAZR etc and then another more powerful CPU (Intel XSCALE I think) that runs the linux kernel and a bunch of userland stuff which communicates to the baseband side by sending AT commands to the BP side and getting responses back.
Motorola have released the source code to the kernel and several userspace opensource apps such as glibc, ash and many others.
The "open" part is the OpenEZX project who have taken the motorola provided kernel sources and can in fact send AT commands to the baseband processor and get responses back. Work continues on improving the kernel (including getting the port to kernel 2.6 from the stock motorola 2.4 functioning better) as well as producing userland applications to handle phone functions (for example, writing or adapting some kind of daemon to replace the existing motorola closed source tapisrv daemon and handle AT command communications with the baseband processor.
It is also possible to write your own applications and run them alongside the motorola software stack (either in JAVA with the motorola SDK or in whatever you can compile with a suitable arm-linux cross compiler).
Its not truly "open" (all the stuff on the baseband side is completely closed and protected by the same code signing stuff motorola use on their non linux phones for one thing plus the only documentation is what can be learned from the published kernel and app source) but right now, its the best choice for someone wanting an "open" phone that is actually a usable mobile phone as opposed to some expensive "development tool" aimed at people wanting to do mobile development that is totally useless as an actual phone. (or, like the trolltech phone, isn't as open as the manufacturer would have you believe).
This is what I think computer related courses should be split up into:
1.Computer Science (this is where all that fancy math stuff comes from)
2.Software Engineering (this would have lots of practical programming as well as courses covering things like testing, code coverage, code quality, peer review of code and such that you see in real software engineering shops)
3.Information Systems (this would cover systems analysis, software design, database design and the other stuff you need if you are going to design programs)
and then some kind of internet or networking course that covers stuff like TCP/IP, HTTP, the internet, the web, HTML, internet programming (PHP, Perl, javascript etc). Maybe have one course for the lower levels (how to configure routers, subnetting and all that kind of stuff) and one for the upper levels (how to work at the application layer)
Unlike the 8800 series cards which were advertised as "vista ready", no-one from Nvidia ever said that the nforce2 board would be officially supported under vista.
Did Logitec ever claim that they were going to support Vista with this particular mouse?
This lawsuit is being talked about because NVIDIA claimed that these video cards would work with Windows Vista and they don't.
It would be like Motorola claiming that their new phone will be compatible with a new network from Cingular when in fact they don't have the software to enable the phone to talk to the new network.
There are 2 problems:
1.Nvidia claimed that these cards were "vista ready" "Direct3D 10 ready" etc. Since they do not have usable vista drivers for these cards, those claims are a lie. The cards are not usable with Vista.
and more to the point 2.They refuse to acknowledge any of the problems. In fact, they are actively censoring mention of anything to do with these cards and vista.
I suspect that if they came out and said "yeah, we know these cards don't work so good on vista. We are working on it and will have drivers available for Vista as soon as we can" instead of trying to censor the discussion and deny that anyone would ever want to use an 8800 series card with Vista it would make people a lot happier.