Big companies have a staff of lawyers hired on full-time. Lawyers want to keep their job and prove they're useful. Thus, every time a new version of the product comes out, they must also generate a new version of the EULA.
Presumably "light years" will continue to be scientifically accurate. However, the term may eventually end up being similar to terms like "far east" and "mid-east" (east from Europe) and "invertebrates", terms which tell more about the perspective of the group who named it than about the thing itself.
No... Rootkits CHANGE the results of system API calls for everything running on the system, to try to hide the fact that there are suspicious processes and files on your system.
RootKitRevealer doesn't change any results of API calls at all.
RootKits are a fairly precisely-defined thing, I don't think there's as much grey area here as you think there is.
Your examples show that SOME local-government-funded cooperatives fail and are no better (or worse) than existing corporate monopolies on cable/phone. However, other examples show that sometimes they CAN do better. By making local cooperative networks ILLEGAL, you're making it impossible to have the good situations that can come about from local government + community cooperatives. And since people VOTE and have a CHOICE, they can always request for change if they think the course of action is heading in the wrong direction. If you make this illegal, then citizens have NO VOTE on this issue, especially in light of how widespread phone/cable monopolies are.
Holy smokes, someone on slashdot who actually knows what they're talking about, and is willing to submit themselves to the moderation and redicule of random 15 year olds. It's too bad there's not a better way to recognize people for being actually knowledgable in their field, beyond avid armchair lawyers that seem to proliferate on slashdot.
ACTUALLY... Until the Blogosphere digs up solid evidence of the Cobert/Hitler link, Stephen Colbert's statement on the Daily Show can be considered invocation of Godwin's law, and therefore anyone responding to his statement (outside of intelligence-gathering or fact-checking) is probably violating Godwin's law themselves.
There IS a constitutional basis for shifting power towards states (away from federal) with regards to alcohol. See the 21st amendment:
Section 2.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
I understand that courts have interpretted this more generally (eg. also giving states more power in cases that are less than outright prohbition). My guess is that this is the basis for states having more power in tobacco cases as well.
I tried my nearest Panera bread's wifi when I moved into my new apartment and was waiting on cable. Two things made me think that very few people actually utilize their free WiFi, despite there being a big "free WiFi!" sticker on the door.
the place is trendy/upscale, and the prices reflect that. The people behind the counter were even a little snooty... two of them were having a little cat fight behind the counter once. Anyway, I looked VERY out of place when I whipped out my laptop and started loading geeky apps to try to figure out why I couldn't connect.
secondly, their WiFi didn't actually work. They had some problem in the "back room". The guy at the counter gave me an 800 number to call, and the guy on the line said he'd try to reset some things. After several tries of this (at $7.00 per try, though the sandwiches were better than average I guess), it still wasn't working. The guy behind said they had printed brochures on the wifi coming eventually. He just generally gave me the impression that nobody tried to actually use it.
(before you reply: I was able to connect to the access point, get an IP and DNS, and it would respond to some of my packets, but I could never get the DNS server to respond. Also, this was in a pretty populated area in a northern suburb of chicago, so it's not as if there weren't wifiers around)
(not to mention that what microsoft has done so far isn't anywhere near as loopy as what other companies have done with the DMCA in the name of "security"... so it's not unbelievable that Microsoft could take this thing further)
What's to prevent them from stating in their EULA that they won't let you upgrade Windows when you're running it inside a virtualizer (vmWare, bochs, etc), for "compatibility" or simply security reasons?
What if they do the same thing for systems that have Linux INSTALLED on the same system but not running at the same time, for "compatibility" reasons?
Yeah, "slippery slope" arguments have caveats... there are a handful of legal barriers that they'd have to sidestep to take this the whole way. And Microsoft has a history of only dipping their toes into this kind of thing, and never taking the entire plunge. But if the only thing keeping them from going all the way is the resulting public outrage, then I think we have a clear duty to publicize this more.
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Adding data2.length to the check is basically just increasing the number of bits used for the hash (and thus reducing the number of chunks of data that hash to the same value, and increasing the amount of time required to find a collision). However, length turns out to be a very poor thing to hash on (non-linearity is prized in hash functions, and you can't much more linear than the length function). If you're going to set aside more space for a hash value, it's better to use a longer hash or multiple hashes together.
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So SHA-1 was created by the NSA, and was broken nine years after it was released. Is there any chance that the NSA knew it had a secret weakness, and promoted it for that specific reason?
I dunno... when your entire security is dependent on the user being able to notice slight pixel changes on the screen, something seems a little broken...
Should ISP's single out my multiplayer-tetris game and block its traffic? No.
Should the telephone's Universal Service Fund (created half a century ago) apply to my multiplayer-tetris game, but not apply to anything else on the 'net? No.
Are you an insightful guy for trying to imply that they're at all related, let alone revealing a contradiction? No.
ORR.... stick with OS-X, and live without these apps. I mean, certainly it comes down to the fact that if you're more comfortable with one particular program or the other, you're more likely to stick with the platform to use it, but still... it's starting to become almost rediculous to try to compare any ONE package of proprietary programs (as impressive as Apple's is) with any full linux distribution, you simply get such a huge diverse set of apps with linux.
Mozilla has a ton of javascript in it. In fact, if you take the javascript part and compress it, and take everything else and compress it, you'll see that javascript is about ONE THIRD the total compressed size of Mozilla. This is clearly a design decision, and isn't really something that can be "addressed". There are various kinds of caching that can speed up javascript execution somewhat, but I'm sure Mozilla already implements at least a few of these. On the other hand, this heavy reliance on javascript means that there are a gajillion addons.
In my mind, this is the exact same dichotomy between Vim proponents and Emacs proponents. Emacs has a great deal of interepretted functionality. Vim has a small memory footprint. Some people like one, other people are partial to the other.
If you completely offload MPEG2 decode to the TV (because your CPU can't handle it), doesn't that prevent you from overlaying a live stream with PVR interface graphics? (eg. as seen in about half the MythTV screenshots)
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Visit the EFF broadcast flag page, scroll down about halfway, and look under the Linux/Windows/Mac sections on the left.
Yeah, but if they simply added the digital audio out, it would be perfect for a client/server-style PVR, where the Mac Mini sits near your TV, and all the HDTV data comes in to it over Ethernet. Please Apple, please add digital audio as a build-to-order option, and I swear I'll buy one. I really don't want to have some other box that's almost the size of the Mac Mini just for digital audio.
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Thank goodness for "the company of single attractive women"! Where would we be without it?
Big companies have a staff of lawyers hired on full-time. Lawyers want to keep their job and prove they're useful. Thus, every time a new version of the product comes out, they must also generate a new version of the EULA.
Presumably "light years" will continue to be scientifically accurate. However, the term may eventually end up being similar to terms like "far east" and "mid-east" (east from Europe) and "invertebrates", terms which tell more about the perspective of the group who named it than about the thing itself.
RootKitRevealer doesn't change any results of API calls at all.
RootKits are a fairly precisely-defined thing, I don't think there's as much grey area here as you think there is.
Your examples show that SOME local-government-funded cooperatives fail and are no better (or worse) than existing corporate monopolies on cable/phone. However, other examples show that sometimes they CAN do better. By making local cooperative networks ILLEGAL, you're making it impossible to have the good situations that can come about from local government + community cooperatives. And since people VOTE and have a CHOICE, they can always request for change if they think the course of action is heading in the wrong direction. If you make this illegal, then citizens have NO VOTE on this issue, especially in light of how widespread phone/cable monopolies are.
MOD THIS POST UP. It's like post #500 but it deserves to be read more.
Holy smokes, someone on slashdot who actually knows what they're talking about, and is willing to submit themselves to the moderation and redicule of random 15 year olds. It's too bad there's not a better way to recognize people for being actually knowledgable in their field, beyond avid armchair lawyers that seem to proliferate on slashdot.
ACTUALLY... Until the Blogosphere digs up solid evidence of the Cobert/Hitler link, Stephen Colbert's statement on the Daily Show can be considered invocation of Godwin's law, and therefore anyone responding to his statement (outside of intelligence-gathering or fact-checking) is probably violating Godwin's law themselves.
- Section 2.
I understand that courts have interpretted this more generally (eg. also giving states more power in cases that are less than outright prohbition). My guess is that this is the basis for states having more power in tobacco cases as well.The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Yes, I did. Here's a hint: if you see packets being sent off to the DNS server, and no DNS server ever replies, then your web browser can't do squat.
- the place is trendy/upscale, and the prices reflect that. The people behind the counter were even a little snooty... two of them were having a little cat fight behind the counter once. Anyway, I looked VERY out of place when I whipped out my laptop and started loading geeky apps to try to figure out why I couldn't connect.
- secondly, their WiFi didn't actually work. They had some problem in the "back room". The guy at the counter gave me an 800 number to call, and the guy on the line said he'd try to reset some things. After several tries of this (at $7.00 per try, though the sandwiches were better than average I guess), it still wasn't working. The guy behind said they had printed brochures on the wifi coming eventually. He just generally gave me the impression that nobody tried to actually use it.
(before you reply: I was able to connect to the access point, get an IP and DNS, and it would respond to some of my packets, but I could never get the DNS server to respond. Also, this was in a pretty populated area in a northern suburb of chicago, so it's not as if there weren't wifiers around)Intel platforms supporting VT [Vanderpool hardware virtualization support] will ship in 2005 for desktop and Intel Itanium Processor based servers, so running Windows underneath a virtual machine manager will become even more popular than it is now, so it's a tossup. Agreed though, OS security is harder to control if you allow some outside piece of code to be called every time you try to talk to hardware. (eg. hundreds/thousands of times per second)
(not to mention that what microsoft has done so far isn't anywhere near as loopy as what other companies have done with the DMCA in the name of "security"... so it's not unbelievable that Microsoft could take this thing further)
What's to prevent them from stating in their EULA that they won't let you upgrade Windows when you're running it inside a virtualizer (vmWare, bochs, etc), for "compatibility" or simply security reasons?
What if they do the same thing for systems that have Linux INSTALLED on the same system but not running at the same time, for "compatibility" reasons?
Yeah, "slippery slope" arguments have caveats... there are a handful of legal barriers that they'd have to sidestep to take this the whole way. And Microsoft has a history of only dipping their toes into this kind of thing, and never taking the entire plunge. But if the only thing keeping them from going all the way is the resulting public outrage, then I think we have a clear duty to publicize this more.
Adding data2.length to the check is basically just increasing the number of bits used for the hash (and thus reducing the number of chunks of data that hash to the same value, and increasing the amount of time required to find a collision). However, length turns out to be a very poor thing to hash on (non-linearity is prized in hash functions, and you can't much more linear than the length function). If you're going to set aside more space for a hash value, it's better to use a longer hash or multiple hashes together.
So SHA-1 was created by the NSA, and was broken nine years after it was released. Is there any chance that the NSA knew it had a secret weakness, and promoted it for that specific reason?
I dunno... when your entire security is dependent on the user being able to notice slight pixel changes on the screen, something seems a little broken...
Should the telephone's Universal Service Fund (created half a century ago) apply to my multiplayer-tetris game, but not apply to anything else on the 'net? No.
Are you an insightful guy for trying to imply that they're at all related, let alone revealing a contradiction? No.
ORR.... stick with OS-X, and live without these apps. I mean, certainly it comes down to the fact that if you're more comfortable with one particular program or the other, you're more likely to stick with the platform to use it, but still... it's starting to become almost rediculous to try to compare any ONE package of proprietary programs (as impressive as Apple's is) with any full linux distribution, you simply get such a huge diverse set of apps with linux.
In my mind, this is the exact same dichotomy between Vim proponents and Emacs proponents. Emacs has a great deal of interepretted functionality. Vim has a small memory footprint. Some people like one, other people are partial to the other.
If you completely offload MPEG2 decode to the TV (because your CPU can't handle it), doesn't that prevent you from overlaying a live stream with PVR interface graphics? (eg. as seen in about half the MythTV screenshots)
Visit the EFF broadcast flag page, scroll down about halfway, and look under the Linux/Windows/Mac sections on the left.
Also, starting July 1, companies are accountable to the FCC to make their software+hardware difficult to be "defeated or circumvented merely by an ordinary user using generally-available tools or equipment ... [including] specialized electronic tools or software tools that are widely available at a reasonable price". Before July 1, companies have no incentive to do this, and while they may release upgrades that add Broadcast Flag functionality to pre-July-1 hardware, they're not required to do this, and aren't required to make it difficult to continue using older code.
- 480p - XBox Media Center
- 708p - Mac Mini
- 1080i - x86 >2.8GHz, or equivalent
So, the Mac Mini may not be enough in all cases, right?Yeah, but if they simply added the digital audio out, it would be perfect for a client/server-style PVR, where the Mac Mini sits near your TV, and all the HDTV data comes in to it over Ethernet. Please Apple, please add digital audio as a build-to-order option, and I swear I'll buy one. I really don't want to have some other box that's almost the size of the Mac Mini just for digital audio.