RTS, This Argument seems to be reversing the case. reading further, He says that you should never modify open source software, and that it's better to go with proprietry (sic, it's too late at night to spell good) software, so that you can modify it (what!?).
It also states that the output of a GPL program is derived work, which is stated specifically not to be the case in the GPL.
One thing I have to argue though is that the FSF says that communicating through sockets is linking, which I think is BS, that's like saying because two books are both written in the same language, that they are derived works.
That's self evident by the use of the word infectious. I've never heard anyone other than Microsoft refer to licenses being infectious.
Anyway is this guy implying that I can redistribute derrivative works of Microsoft software. Some how I think MS Legal would have something to say about that.
Ahh, you're not familiar with the New Zealand government. In this country we have to buy Information that's under Crown Copyright (in other words it was made with NZ tax). I found out about this when I went to get a copy of the LINZ Land survey, and was expected to pay $1000 for just the topography in an obscure format which has no documentation, and seems to be made by a company that no longer exists(?).
Our government also encourages monopolies and trade cartels (Telecom, CHH, Petrol Companies), and gives grants to foriegn countries to exploit our resources (mining, gas, forestry).
I also understand that the government recently gave a large tax write-off to Newline Cinema for making Lord of the Rings and King Kong here. but what can you do.
I just watched the video, and you're not missing anything. It's just a bomb being dropped on a road, you can't even see what it's being dropped on. I mean ohh, scary a big black cloud.
I really can't believe this is censored. Why? What is it hiding?
Wow, that looks, um, really awful! Seriously, WB3.0 on Amiga looks better than that. It looks like some one ate a huge bowl of jelly (jello in murcan?) and vommited all over the screen.
Really, I played around with it yesterday and managed to crash it twice inside an hour. Mind you it *is* fucking spiffy. Too bad Nvidia have denounced it, which basically means it'll never happen. On the other hand, Reading Nvidia's reasons why Xgl is wrong, it sounds like you will soon be able to exactly what Xgl does with COMPOSITE and glxcompmgr.
Can I add a question, does anyone know if I can have expose without Xgl at the moment? First OS-X thing I have thought was not-dumb.
QUOTE
Ultimately, Microsoft is coming round to the fact that it cannot write away the open source movement. There is a very popular saying : If a group of weak sticks are bound together, the combined strength can be even more than a single stout stick.
Did you just call the F/OSS software movements Fascist?
I knew I shouldn't have woken up this morning.../QUOTE
No, I think he just called the open source movement a faggot (bundle of stickS).
>Is it possible to make a computer without and Chipset "trusted computer" DRM in its chipset?
You don't need to. You can still run whatever you want on "trusted computers", just avoid application's that make use of it.
Trusted Computing isn't the same as Content Protection on Game Consoles. It's just a hardware crypto engine, designed to prevent you from moving your music and video's to another machine. In short, if you don't want to have to re-purchase your music every time you change machines, don't buy digitally restricted media, and don't use programs that make use of TCPA.
This is true of current TCPA implementations, if it detects you aren't running a "trusted" platform, it refuses to decrypt content.
Hence, running a non-trusted OS is the same as running that OS on a non-TCPA machine, since non-TCPA machines won't be able to play content anyway, as they won't have a valid key to get stuff encrypted to them. Of course you could always get a Scanning Electron Microscope, and read the keys out of a DRM chip, and use those with an emulator, but that's about the only way 'round it.
Gran Turismo is the single best (modern) console game I've ever played. I'm going with whoever has GT, probably sony.
I never understood how people can play FPS and RTS on console, without a mouse I'm hosed, especially with the huge dead-zones on Current Analog noobsticks.
I haven't seen a single game on Xbox that has made me want one. Gran Turismo on it's own is enough for me to buy PS3 and there will most likely be 2 releases for PS3, along with the mini GT's like GT:Concept.
As for platform fighters, I'll stick with neo-geo.
Yes, but OS/2 is a single-user operating system (it was when I last used it?), and hence once a fool clicks on a virus, it's all over, as the user can write to anything he wants.
I had this conversation with a friend who was asking if storage technology will be in demand forever. I told him I don't think it will, I think it will become a situation where you will have more than you could possibly ever need and wouldn't have any need for more. There's just a limit to the kind of data that people, especially normal consumers, are going to want to store./QUOTE
That's ridiculous Microsoft will just keep making windows more bloated, and media companies will keep telling us we need higher definition video and audio.
More seriously though, as disk space and processing speed increase, people will develop richer and more creative ways to store information. Just think back ten years before we had MPEG-4 encoding, and MPEG2 was impossible to do with pc's, back then 250GB would of seemed impossible to usefully fill.
Face it, if you make affordable hardware, people will find ways to use (and abuse) it.
quote(stuff){ They didn't "leave it out", they never had any reason to put one in, anymore than they would put a floppy-drive, paralel port, or 25-pin serial-port in their machines. }
A machine without a serial port! But how would you access the console without graphics?
That's totally preposterous! Insane! As if the whole world's gone mad, ARGHHHHH!
>I also don't remember getting any "points" for murdering innocent people. I guess I picked up their money, but it >also is a pain 'cause the cops would come after me. I actually tried to AVOID killing people because of this.
Uhm, in GTA:SA you improve your "gangsta rating" or is it "Criminal Rating", I forget, anyway you improve it by killing people, you improve it even more by destroying aircraft and busting ballas.
I fail to see how hacking OS/X will actually hurt Apple. Most people who buy apple either buy it because they need it professionally, or because they have lots of money and want to be trendy. Neither of these markets is going to be using illegal cracks on beige-boxes. The first group because of liability, and the second because it's not really trendy using ripped software on your Dell.
The people who do use this will be the "0mG 1 4m s0 l33t w4r3z d00dz", who make up a very small part of the computing world, and an almost non-existant part of Apples Customer base.
And to all those people who say that cracking is some-how wrong and evil. If you pay for software, it is reasonable that you should use it however you see fit, regardless of the license agreement (in fact where I live once you buy software this is true, even if the license says you can't modify the software you still can).
Warezing of with copies of software you haven't paid for is an entirely different issue, and one I no longer condone.
ompany requires RFID injection Published: 2006-02-10
Click here for Core Impact! Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of a new requirement to access their company's datacenter.
Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the policy with the hopes of increasing security in the datacenter where video surveillance tapes are stored. In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a release from spychips.com said on Thursday.
Although the company does not require the microchips be implanted to maintain employment, anyone without one will not be able to access the datacenter, according to a Register article.
Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent discovery of Jonathan Westhues, where the security researcher showed the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant's authentication. When contacted, those at CityWatcher were unaware of the chip's security issue, according to the spychips.com release.
Interesting. I feel like I won the lottery last month, and am currently boning a supermodel. Oddly enough, those feelings seem to have no effect on reality as observed by everyone else.
I'm waaaaay tired of people who can't see the distinction between not knowing absolutely everything and not knowing anything. Take the time off to do the math & prove me wrong, and you can tell the world how full of shit I was during your acceptance speech for the Nobel.
blah blah, etc, etc... and one last thing, I'd just like to say Anonymous Coward from slashdot, You were so full of shit!
Anonymous Coward said: <quote> Right on the money.
We here about telescopes viewing 13 billion year old images from near the beginning of the universe. But if the universe is 14 billion years old, and we are seeing light from 13 billion years ago, that means that we (Earth) must be moving at 13/14's the speed of light away from the origin of the universe.
No? </quote>
It could be that at one stage we were moving faster than light away from the center of the universe, and we started to slowed down, but they (who? I dunno, those links on slashdot?) tell us that is impossible.
What I do know is that I don't understand quantum grand-scale physics, and it has no bearing on the type of work I do. I think I'll leave it to the experts 'til I can get my Hyperdrive Space Fighter.
>I know that I would never abuse that position but it's tough trying to decide based on interviews if someone else >would. It's the thing that keeps me up at night when we bring a new person on board.
This is a good reason for auditing. All actions taken by sysop's should be accounted for, both for security and maintainablility. Systems should be logged to a log box that only the senior sysop/CIO/HOD/whatever has access to, and the logs should be audited and any logins that aren't documented should be investigated.
Not to say that you shouldn't first hire trust-worthy staff, but you still need to mitigate risks, and auditing is also a very important tool to track compromises from external parties.
I practise the same techniques at home, I don't have a dedicated log box (waste of power), but I cross log every machine, so there is four copies of every syslog. I also document every change I make, so that I can keep track of why things are such.
Slashdot Mirror
RTS,
This Argument seems to be reversing the case. reading further, He says that you should never modify open source software, and that it's better to go with proprietry (sic, it's too late at night to spell good) software, so that you can modify it (what!?).
It also states that the output of a GPL program is derived work, which is stated specifically not to be the case in the GPL.
One thing I have to argue though is that the FSF says that communicating through sockets is linking, which I think is BS, that's like saying because two books are both written in the same language, that they are derived works.
That's self evident by the use of the word infectious. I've never heard anyone other than Microsoft refer to licenses being infectious.
Anyway is this guy implying that I can redistribute derrivative works of Microsoft software. Some how I think MS Legal would have something to say about that.
Ahh, you're not familiar with the New Zealand government. In this country we have to buy Information that's under Crown Copyright (in other words it was made with NZ tax). I found out about this when I went to get a copy of the LINZ Land survey, and was expected to pay $1000 for just the topography in an obscure format which has no documentation, and seems to be made by a company that no longer exists(?).
Our government also encourages monopolies and trade cartels (Telecom, CHH, Petrol Companies), and gives grants to foriegn countries to exploit our resources (mining, gas, forestry).
I also understand that the government recently gave a large tax write-off to Newline Cinema for making Lord of the Rings and King Kong here. but what can you do.
Yes but early explorers did it for *personal* gains.
QUOTE: ...
/dev/null' on a busy multi-user system. Amazing what some people throw away.
/QUOTE
;)
/dev/null_log /me grins evilly
I feel sorry for (postmaster at localhost dot com)
Just like 'cat
(yes, I'm only kidding and no, I know that doesn't work.)
That gives me an idea for a kernel hack
I think I'll call it
Also Minix, if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks man, that's the best sum-up of the Bible I've ever seen. Care to do Islam or Hindu?
I just watched the video, and you're not missing anything. It's just a bomb being dropped on a road, you can't even see what it's being dropped on. I mean ohh, scary a big black cloud.
I really can't believe this is censored. Why? What is it hiding?
Wow, that looks, um, really awful! Seriously, WB3.0 on Amiga looks better than that. It looks like some one ate a huge bowl of jelly (jello in murcan?) and vommited all over the screen.
Really, I played around with it yesterday and managed to crash it twice inside an hour. Mind you it *is* fucking spiffy. Too bad Nvidia have denounced it, which basically means it'll never happen. On the other hand, Reading Nvidia's reasons why Xgl is wrong, it sounds like you will soon be able to exactly what Xgl does with COMPOSITE and glxcompmgr.
Can I add a question, does anyone know if I can have expose without Xgl at the moment? First OS-X thing I have thought was not-dumb.
QUOTE
/QUOTE
Ultimately, Microsoft is coming round to the fact that it cannot write away the open source movement. There is a very popular saying : If a group of weak sticks are bound together, the combined strength can be even more than a single stout stick.
Did you just call the F/OSS software movements Fascist?
I knew I shouldn't have woken up this morning...
No, I think he just called the open source movement a faggot (bundle of stickS).
>Is it possible to make a computer without and Chipset "trusted computer" DRM in its chipset?
You don't need to. You can still run whatever you want on "trusted computers", just avoid application's that make use of it.
Trusted Computing isn't the same as Content Protection on Game Consoles. It's just a hardware crypto engine, designed to prevent you from moving your music and video's to another machine. In short, if you don't want to have to re-purchase your music every time you change machines, don't buy digitally restricted media, and don't use programs that make use of TCPA.
This is true of current TCPA implementations, if it detects you aren't running a "trusted" platform, it refuses to decrypt content.
Hence, running a non-trusted OS is the same as running that OS on a non-TCPA machine, since non-TCPA machines won't be able to play content anyway, as they won't have a valid key to get stuff encrypted to them. Of course you could always get a Scanning Electron Microscope, and read the keys out of a DRM chip, and use those with an emulator, but that's about the only way 'round it.
I remember playing Flying circus on Amiga, it was only 4 weeks ago.
Gran Turismo is the single best (modern) console game I've ever played. I'm going with whoever has GT, probably sony.
I never understood how people can play FPS and RTS on console, without a mouse I'm hosed, especially with the huge dead-zones on Current Analog noobsticks.
I haven't seen a single game on Xbox that has made me want one. Gran Turismo on it's own is enough for me to buy PS3 and there will most likely be 2 releases for PS3, along with the mini GT's like GT:Concept.
As for platform fighters, I'll stick with neo-geo.
Yes, but OS/2 is a single-user operating system (it was when I last used it?), and hence once a fool clicks on a virus, it's all over, as the user can write to anything he wants.
QUOTE:
/QUOTE
I had this conversation with a friend who was asking if storage technology will be in demand forever. I told him I don't think it will, I think it will become a situation where you will have more than you could possibly ever need and wouldn't have any need for more. There's just a limit to the kind of data that people, especially normal consumers, are going to want to store.
That's ridiculous Microsoft will just keep making windows more bloated, and media companies will keep telling us we need higher definition video and audio.
More seriously though, as disk space and processing speed increase, people will develop richer and more creative ways to store information. Just think back ten years before we had MPEG-4 encoding, and MPEG2 was impossible to do with pc's, back then 250GB would of seemed impossible to usefully fill.
Face it, if you make affordable hardware, people will find ways to use (and abuse) it.
quote(stuff){
They didn't "leave it out", they never had any reason to put one in, anymore than they would put a floppy-drive, paralel port, or 25-pin serial-port in their machines.
}
A machine without a serial port! But how would you access the console without graphics?
That's totally preposterous! Insane! As if the whole world's gone mad, ARGHHHHH!
I agree with you entirely about home solar power, it's a bloody stupid idea.
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However does this constitue under $5/watt
700 million dollars / 200 million watts = $3.5/watt, and that's AU$.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s3
Admittedly it's not PV, but it's still solar power.
>I also don't remember getting any "points" for murdering innocent people. I guess I picked up their money, but it
>also is a pain 'cause the cops would come after me. I actually tried to AVOID killing people because of this.
Uhm, in GTA:SA you improve your "gangsta rating" or is it "Criminal Rating", I forget, anyway you improve it by killing people, you improve it even more by destroying aircraft and busting ballas.
I fail to see how hacking OS/X will actually hurt Apple. Most people who buy apple either buy it because they need it professionally, or because they have lots of money and want to be trendy. Neither of these markets is going to be using illegal cracks on beige-boxes. The first group because of liability, and the second because it's not really trendy using ripped software on your Dell.
The people who do use this will be the "0mG 1 4m s0 l33t w4r3z d00dz", who make up a very small part of the computing world, and an almost non-existant part of Apples Customer base.
And to all those people who say that cracking is some-how wrong and evil. If you pay for software, it is reasonable that you should use it however you see fit, regardless of the license agreement (in fact where I live once you buy software this is true, even if the license says you can't modify the software you still can).
Warezing of with copies of software you haven't paid for is an entirely different issue, and one I no longer condone.
Not to mention that CD's and DVD's are pressed (and therefore Identical). I can't see Record Companies using CD-R's, just to water-mark cd's.
Ever wondered why games have CD-key's.
ompany requires RFID injection
Published: 2006-02-10
Click here for Core Impact!
Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of a new requirement to access their company's datacenter.
Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the policy with the hopes of increasing security in the datacenter where video surveillance tapes are stored. In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a release from spychips.com said on Thursday.
Although the company does not require the microchips be implanted to maintain employment, anyone without one will not be able to access the datacenter, according to a Register article.
Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent discovery of Jonathan Westhues, where the security researcher showed the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant's authentication. When contacted, those at CityWatcher were unaware of the chip's security issue, according to the spychips.com release.
Posted by: Peter Laborge
BTW fp.
Interesting. I feel like I won the lottery last month, and am currently boning a supermodel. Oddly enough, those feelings seem to have no effect on reality as observed by everyone else.
I'm waaaaay tired of people who can't see the distinction between not knowing absolutely everything and not knowing anything. Take the time off to do the math & prove me wrong, and you can tell the world how full of shit I was during your acceptance speech for the Nobel.
blah blah, etc, etc
and one last thing, I'd just like to say Anonymous Coward from slashdot, You were so full of shit!
Nah, can't see it happening.
Anonymous Coward said:
<quote>
Right on the money.
We here about telescopes viewing 13 billion year old images from near the beginning of the universe. But if the universe is 14 billion years old, and we are seeing light from 13 billion years ago, that means that we (Earth) must be moving at 13/14's the speed of light away from the origin of the universe.
No?
</quote>
It could be that at one stage we were moving faster than light away from the center of the universe, and we started to slowed down, but they (who? I dunno, those links on slashdot?) tell us that is impossible.
What I do know is that I don't understand quantum grand-scale physics, and it has no bearing on the type of work I do. I think I'll leave it to the experts 'til I can get my Hyperdrive Space Fighter.
I'm going to focus on making perl self-aware.
>I know that I would never abuse that position but it's tough trying to decide based on interviews if someone else >would. It's the thing that keeps me up at night when we bring a new person on board.
This is a good reason for auditing. All actions taken by sysop's should be accounted for, both for security and maintainablility. Systems should be logged to a log box that only the senior sysop/CIO/HOD/whatever has access to, and the logs should be audited and any logins that aren't documented should be investigated.
Not to say that you shouldn't first hire trust-worthy staff, but you still need to mitigate risks, and auditing is also a very important tool to track compromises from external parties.
I practise the same techniques at home, I don't have a dedicated log box (waste of power), but I cross log every machine, so there is four copies of every syslog. I also document every change I make, so that I can keep track of why things are such.