Was linux ever even ment to be secure locally? You can stick it in single user mode, or just nick the hard-drive. Meanwhile IE is counting its 80th root exploit...
You cant legislate peoples morals. The reason most people don't go around killing each other isn't because its illegal but because they don't want to. It might sound stupid but just let people use P2P and see what happens, meanwhile make products better - e.g. put more things like music videos and multi-format tracks on CDs, make dual DVD-CDs that play in old CD-players but include much more on the DVD part. It costs nothing to just stick the existing music videos in decent quality in the disk. Most people can't be bothered to rip mp3's or wait for them to download so if you have mp3 versions on your CD they will see it as a time saver if they have an mp3 player. Carry rare music that people can't find in most stores or they will resort to Kazaa. Give away things with CDs that just can't be downloaded - lazy artists who spend most of their time miming and think they can just stick their generic voice on a crappy cover, how about you try personally signing some of your CDs? do more concerts, after all music was originally a live art until recording devices allowed people to get lazy. Get off your high horse and stop being so full of your 'IP' allot of music is treated by the label as worthless - its played over and over on radio, tv and in shops where people listen to it for free (ok the radio etc is actually paying but the listener is perceiving it as free) which means people get used to the idea of hearing your song for free, If i hear an entire song in a shop and on the radio several times, why in my mind would i figure i have to pay to hear it again? People download music because they really don't understand the concept of having to pay for it, it doesn't feel like stealing ergo people will do it and whatever 'law' is applied will be largely ignored.
With multi-cores and such soon all CPUs will be dual/quad CPUs. what would be even better is a hardware interface (like AGP is to graphics) for CPU's instead of this 'sticking it in a socket in the middle of the motherboard' approach, then you could just keep adding more and more CPUs and even keep the old ones (converter boards would let you plug in even older cpus). It would be pretty impressive getting it to work with different memory/cpu/bus speeds and having a fool-proof multi-cpu management system cheaply and in the basic PC specs but damn it would be cool.
The Java industry would die within months and old C/C++ programmers and assembly hackers would be in total demand with many hours of work required.. Hey what are we waiting for!!
Wouldn't it be safer and more secure to use WiFi to transmit and use some sort of PDA/Hacked portable WiFi radio to listen? It would have the added bonus of being two-way allowing you to transmit back to your ham radio and also to change song tracks? And obviously the most important advantage - mobile porn..
Ah what can I say? bugmenot usually works great:\ Everyones always been going on that Slashdot should have some sort of distributed mirror system (to save slashdotting sites) which would also solve this, and every year someone says "look, heres a nice mirroring system" and it never gets used...
I remember getting hooked on Sims 1 untill I realised it was a totally retarded game, because the clock runs so fast it can take you several hours to just make coffee and walk to the front door in the morning.
Just tried again - I was going to post a logon but now i find its not working for me either! I read the article fine but now 5 different logons have failed. Its a bitch, they probably do a daily purge of suspect accounts.
Lucky certain Chinese manufacturers are on our side, they will build players/recorders with intentional flaws (ie a jumper block or a couple of things you can solder together) that allow you to disable any stupidness. Aslong as they keep these flaws as innocent as they can these things will sell like hot cakes when the word spreads that any geek with a screw-driver can fix your equipment to play/record anything. This will happen until the 'capitalist' entertainment industry pursuades the US government to ban them, free market style.
Ok what everyone here needs to understand is that the general public will buy this, they will pay more and they will throw out their old equipment and DVDs. Don't think for a second you can do anything to stop this awesome marketing train - these companies employ some of the worlds greatest experts, they could sell people their own piss if they wanted to. Just be happy that you have the basic engineering skills needed to get around it, obviously no box in my home is ever going to be honouring a broadcast flag and I know that goes for most slashdotters and their friends/family.
Its called bugmenot and if you had done your homework you would know that its also availiable as a Firefox extension meaning passing through NY Times security will take you about 1 second.
Ok lets see now: My iBook charger outputs 24.5v @ 1.875A. Based on an electricity price of 5.5p per KHW (I plucked that from the first thing I could google) which is pretty high and probably lower for commercial outlets.. anyway i digress.. thats 0.003p per hour. Now lets take an average cup of Starbucks and break it down:
Price: ~£2.50 Costs: ~£0.80
and there for the amount of time I would need to sit there charging my laptop before they started loosing money:
~680 hours or about 1 month!
Obviously that makes some assumptions: a) I would only buy one cup off coffee for the whole month and would live off drinking out of the toilet for the rest of the time (an improvement)
b) They probably wouldnt let me stay overnight
and
c) I would actually have to go to Starbucks for more than an hour - the time after which you can no-longer stand its nuvo art fake prints and dirty seats.
This is so no big deal, its in all these places interests to just let people plug their laptop in for an hour or so, the WiFi and coffee price will more than make up for it.
All I can say is they better not bother trying any DRM bullshit, if it can't share all media, skip adverts etc etc its a useless pile of crap (actually i think shit even has more uses than a PVR/media center with DRM)
Im with you on that, its just another stupid media "Tonight on Hysteria, laser pen attacks on planes! could this be the next 9/11? what you don't know _could_ kill you" bullshit. However there have been several cases where pilots have seen lasers including this one, im guessing this guy was just very lucky (or unlucky) and got it in the cockpit for a second, then they managed to find him because he was stupid enough to keep on doing it, just another idiot with a laser.
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Was linux ever even ment to be secure locally? You can stick it in single user mode, or just nick the hard-drive. Meanwhile IE is counting its 80th root exploit...
Nice knowing you when the feds turn up with a warrent for 'illegal electronic components' - btw that will apply to all countries.
More to the point.. how do you hack this good for nothing piece of shit?
..or if the prostitute you just picked up was actually some guy and he had a flame thrower hidden in that thong.
You cant legislate peoples morals. The reason most people don't go around killing each other isn't because its illegal but because they don't want to. It might sound stupid but just let people use P2P and see what happens, meanwhile make products better - e.g. put more things like music videos and multi-format tracks on CDs, make dual DVD-CDs that play in old CD-players but include much more on the DVD part. It costs nothing to just stick the existing music videos in decent quality in the disk. Most people can't be bothered to rip mp3's or wait for them to download so if you have mp3 versions on your CD they will see it as a time saver if they have an mp3 player. Carry rare music that people can't find in most stores or they will resort to Kazaa. Give away things with CDs that just can't be downloaded - lazy artists who spend most of their time miming and think they can just stick their generic voice on a crappy cover, how about you try personally signing some of your CDs? do more concerts, after all music was originally a live art until recording devices allowed people to get lazy. Get off your high horse and stop being so full of your 'IP' allot of music is treated by the label as worthless - its played over and over on radio, tv and in shops where people listen to it for free (ok the radio etc is actually paying but the listener is perceiving it as free) which means people get used to the idea of hearing your song for free, If i hear an entire song in a shop and on the radio several times, why in my mind would i figure i have to pay to hear it again? People download music because they really don't understand the concept of having to pay for it, it doesn't feel like stealing ergo people will do it and whatever 'law' is applied will be largely ignored.
Im happy with this, I'll just burn it to CD and see how the program tries to delete that copy..
Stil waiting for GTA-Online with a map of half the US...
With multi-cores and such soon all CPUs will be dual/quad CPUs. what would be even better is a hardware interface (like AGP is to graphics) for CPU's instead of this 'sticking it in a socket in the middle of the motherboard' approach, then you could just keep adding more and more CPUs and even keep the old ones (converter boards would let you plug in even older cpus). It would be pretty impressive getting it to work with different memory/cpu/bus speeds and having a fool-proof multi-cpu management system cheaply and in the basic PC specs but damn it would be cool.
The Java industry would die within months and old C/C++ programmers and assembly hackers would be in total demand with many hours of work required.. Hey what are we waiting for!!
Wouldn't it be safer and more secure to use WiFi to transmit and use some sort of PDA/Hacked portable WiFi radio to listen? It would have the added bonus of being two-way allowing you to transmit back to your ham radio and also to change song tracks? And obviously the most important advantage - mobile porn..
Ah what can I say? bugmenot usually works great :\ Everyones always been going on that Slashdot should have some sort of distributed mirror system (to save slashdotting sites) which would also solve this, and every year someone says "look, heres a nice mirroring system" and it never gets used...
So wait, are you still a thief/pirate if you buy a pirate CD?
I guess you can always rely on making money from writing books taking advantage of mass fears and the yearly bandwagon?
I remember getting hooked on Sims 1 untill I realised it was a totally retarded game, because the clock runs so fast it can take you several hours to just make coffee and walk to the front door in the morning.
Just tried again - I was going to post a logon but now i find its not working for me either! I read the article fine but now 5 different logons have failed. Its a bitch, they probably do a daily purge of suspect accounts.
They seem to work ok once you've sent them back for replacement.. but 500GB is abit much too loose :\ Seagate seems to be the best, anyone?
ah thats a bitch. ask your admin to also block slashdot - problem solved..
Lucky certain Chinese manufacturers are on our side, they will build players/recorders with intentional flaws (ie a jumper block or a couple of things you can solder together) that allow you to disable any stupidness. Aslong as they keep these flaws as innocent as they can these things will sell like hot cakes when the word spreads that any geek with a screw-driver can fix your equipment to play/record anything. This will happen until the 'capitalist' entertainment industry pursuades the US government to ban them, free market style.
Funny, worked first time for me.
Ok what everyone here needs to understand is that the general public will buy this, they will pay more and they will throw out their old equipment and DVDs. Don't think for a second you can do anything to stop this awesome marketing train - these companies employ some of the worlds greatest experts, they could sell people their own piss if they wanted to. Just be happy that you have the basic engineering skills needed to get around it, obviously no box in my home is ever going to be honouring a broadcast flag and I know that goes for most slashdotters and their friends/family.
Its called bugmenot and if you had done your homework you would know that its also availiable as a Firefox extension meaning passing through NY Times security will take you about 1 second.
Ok lets see now: My iBook charger outputs 24.5v @ 1.875A. Based on an electricity price of 5.5p per KHW (I plucked that from the first thing I could google) which is pretty high and probably lower for commercial outlets.. anyway i digress.. thats 0.003p per hour. Now lets take an average cup of Starbucks and break it down:
Price: ~£2.50
Costs: ~£0.80
and there for the amount of time I would need to sit there charging my laptop before they started loosing money:
~680 hours or about 1 month!
Obviously that makes some assumptions:
a) I would only buy one cup off coffee for the whole month and would live off drinking out of the toilet for the rest of the time (an improvement)
b) They probably wouldnt let me stay overnight
and
c) I would actually have to go to Starbucks for more than an hour - the time after which you can no-longer stand its nuvo art fake prints and dirty seats.
This is so no big deal, its in all these places interests to just let people plug their laptop in for an hour or so, the WiFi and coffee price will more than make up for it.
Yes IT management, how did you know?
We're working on a very important air-traffic control system which uses dates so it got me thinking.
All I can say is they better not bother trying any DRM bullshit, if it can't share all media, skip adverts etc etc its a useless pile of crap (actually i think shit even has more uses than a PVR/media center with DRM)
Im with you on that, its just another stupid media "Tonight on Hysteria, laser pen attacks on planes! could this be the next 9/11? what you don't know _could_ kill you" bullshit. However there have been several cases where pilots have seen lasers including this one, im guessing this guy was just very lucky (or unlucky) and got it in the cockpit for a second, then they managed to find him because he was stupid enough to keep on doing it, just another idiot with a laser.