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This article is so rediculous. Bluetooth is designed for small devices that would usually be used over usb or rf.
But lets just assume that the entire reason for bluetooth was for wireless LAN type usage. Then it is still not dead unless we say that 802.11b was dead a few years back when there weren't that many wireless access points to buy, or back when microsoft hadn't even added 802.11b support yet.
Bluetooth networking is done over the PAN specification from the bluetooth working group, it basically just takes traffic in layer two and opens an L2CAP tunnel to encapsilate the traffic in BNEP (Bluetooth Network Encapsilation Protocol) then sends to a NAP or GN device (covered in the PAN spec). The NAP or GN then unencapsilates the BNEP traffic and, if its a NAP, sends it out in the form of regular ethernet traffic. There are only a few NAP and GN devices on the market, and microsoft hasn't even implemented the PAN spec yet. So how can it be dead before it's even alive.
I don't say that the sperm that ends up at the bottom of my shower is dead babies.
After PAN is widely used it will be a decent wireless solution for homes. It has very limited range but pretty good bandwidth, more than 802.11b by far.
My house is litered with linux and FreeBSD boxes, in fact out of my entire house's computers (roomates included) there is only one windows box. The damn tv box. We have considered greatly trying to switch to linux but there are too many huge problems in the way.
1. Although linux does have alot of great video and audio players, and support for lots of good codecs we have at least 40gigs of video (out of over 200 gigs) that uses codecs that will only play in windows media player. This video isn't usually the best quality, most of it is anime and various american cartoons (aqua teen hunger force, dr katz) and some is tv shows (mr show, snl, kids in the hall) but we still want to watch all of this.
2. We have normal cable and an ati radeon 7500 all-in-wonder, with guide plus + this makes our own little homemade tivo, which is really nice since we can record shit into mpeg-2 and encode it into divx after editing which you can't do with tivo yet. This software isn't available in linux and frankly, never will.
3. Although linux has made a lot of advancments in getting good drivers for controllers there are still alot of controllers without linux drivers, we happen to have one and like it very much. We have an archive of over 30gigs of roms (full mame set included) and yah, they will run in linux but we can't use one of our best controllers.
That's about it, the biggest problem being the bullshit windows media player only video codecs, its really pisses me off that people even use them to encode video but, they do, and im not gonna go and try to find that video somewhere else. I love the idea of the linux media box but it will probably end up being like java.... good idea, but damn the implementations.
In japan anime is as big as blockbuster movies here. They don't think of them as "cartoons" they think of them as art. Now how can you try and convey that the japanese voice actors, under the guidance of the ORIGINAL director of the anime represent those characters less than an american voice actor with no guidance except that of a corporate marketing team trying to push the anime on a new audience, while savagly ripping out anything risky in the anime to make it more suitable for animerican 8 year olds.
My only point is that anime is made as art by someone who has a vision and when brought to america some company will buy it and tear alot of what he was trying to convey out of it. Yes the dvds have both language tracks, i know this, i have them, but if someone in japan ever took a speilberg movie and dubbed it and cut out parts of it and threw in little bits about eggnog in the dubbing becuase they thought it would reach a new audience he would be one pissed off man.
I personaly think that it's a good thing that anime is getting bigger in the US cause it means it's easier for me to find good dvd's but I still hate it when they take a great anime like Cowboy Bebop and give it a large theatre release with a HORRIBLE dubbing.
Sony put their neck out and released Metropolis subbtitles in theatres and it did quite good, and I wish that others would have the same mentality to release something in a better state. I am a huge bebop fan and for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet... It's fuckin great
I downloaded the movie about one month after it's theatre release in japan, and I bought the hong kong import of the dvd about 5 months ago and its really really good... WITH THE ORIGINAL VOICE ACTORS. Cowboy bebop had some the most amazing japanese voice actors in an anime and they embodied the characters, the dubbing takes the reason I love all of the characters out of each one.
In the american dubbing, Spike isn't a badass, faye isn't the hottest yet seriously tough woman to ever be in an anime, Jet isn't super tough, and Ed is not funny. What is ed without "Baka, Baka, Baka". Thats all I have to say, I encourage everyone to see the subtitles version of this anime, it is among the best anime ever made. If you like anything about the series you will love the movie.
Also everyone should realize that when companies dub most anime they take out alot of things such as swearing and sexual content, particularly if there is any references to homosexuality and cowboy bebop is no exeption to this. It's blatent censorship and everyone pretty much ignores it because if the companies didn't do it you would have to watch subtitles, since these companies usually try to market anime to an age group 10 years younger than the original audience.
No 3 are developers and 2 are testers, and then I have another friend who does webdev on contract. They ALL have heard absolutely nothing about this.
Just because Microsoft says something doesn't mean they'll do it. What's really scary is when they announce shit they actually are going to do.
This article is the most motivating article I have ever read. He not only tries to write code that will port well in order to insure his product gets to as many people as possible, but unlike other stupid software companies he refuses to overextend his company to more the 17 people.
I've worked at alot of companies and one thing is for sure. Everything starts to go to shit when you can't walk over and talk to all the other developers.
This would be the ideal company to work for and they make the ideal product. Then they let the community do the beta testing. I love this man. His ideas are harsh on the MS way to do things which is probably why they work so well. Instead of employing rediculous amounts of people inefficently turn a mediocre product and then either market it to hell and back to make everyone think they need it, or force all of their existing customers onto it.
They keep a small number of really smart people in one room and turn one of the best products out, and let the product practically sell itself. This is how things would be in an ideal world, but the idea of making the best product so that people will pick it over others is wearing thin, esspecially now that Microsoft has bought most of the GL patents from SGI.
Your completely missing the point. Security is something that everyone should be aware of and trying to use as much as possible. If they were to wait a year until a better encryption was properly implemented into everyday wireless networking then they could insure a much more secure access point.
Just becuase you know its a public untrusted network doesn't joe nobody does. They feel safe beacuse it's regulated by the airport therefore they will do things on the network you probably shouldn't do in an untrusted network. Just like people who do insecure wireless netoworking in there home and then bitch when all their information and credit card numbers are compromised.
If you are runnning an open network or anything open to multiple users (even a shell server) you should try to protect the security of your users as much as possible, you shouldn't forget about it just because you know you wont do anything stupid on it.
Great idea but what are they gonna do for security. Last time I check all the security for wireless networking sucked... BAD. The only encryption methods that have been heavily implemented are old and easy to break exept the one apple JUST released for 128 bit encyption for use with airport.
When you fix the problem of people using WinXP boxes with raw sockets as vocal points for DDOS attacks and I dont have to worry about it affecting my network, then I'll stop bitching about raw sockets.
Read the internet transparency RFC (RFC2775 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2775.html). That RFC describes alot of problems with P2P and the reasons for them. Then read the use of P2P that microsoft plans on implelementing. Every problem with P2P is amplified includeing security risks.
These boxes look great but everything I read about the new render farms show that people like dreamworks are all switching to large linux render farms and SGI just for front end or no SGI at all and using the new big G4's from apple.
This is rediculous. Microsoft keep bastardizing and screwing up good ideas for security on thier and other's products. P2P is a great idea, but the implementation they are trying to do WILL NOT WORK. It will be really easy to use and have no real security just like MS's version of kerberos.
They ripped all the security features out of kerberos to make it more "useable", and their justification for this, to quote Dave Thompson at the RSA conference is "If it's not easily useable then nobody uses it and hence it isn't secure" he was also quoted as saying something along the lines of how hard kerberos is on UNIX because of all that "command line stuff".
Another show of MS idiocy is the use of "raw sockets" in XP. This is a known security issue and the MS justification is that "raw sockets implementations are already present in Linux, VMS, Unix, Mac OS X, and even in previous versions of Windows." (quoted from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default. asp?url=/TechNet/security/news/raw_sockets.asp.
While yes, it is true that unix will use raw sockets, it only uses them mitigated and ONLY ROOT CAN DO IT. WinXP allow raw socket use without mitigation or accnowledgment of access level BY DEFAULT. This isn't a security issue that MS released and then was notified about, this is something everyone with half a brain knows is a horrible idea.
But anyway, I'm all worked up now and I'm gonna go back to work creating a rediculously secure network around the windows machine my company has since MS obviously isn't going to make my job easy..... EVER, so theres no point in waiting for them to wise up when I can cover my network in OpenBSD firewalls.
I heard that the new thing will be putting a hundred procs on a board instead of designing a better arcitecture for the processor itself. This is the new intel modow. Everyone hop on board.
What it looks like to me is that they are trying to get all the NVidia stuff. NVidia has a deal with SGI to view and write alot stuff that interfaces with SGI machines and OpenGL in order to rape the graphics possibilities. This is also why the linux driver for NVidia cards is half open source and half closed source. If MS can take that capability out of NVidia cards by gobbling up all the patents and not allowing NVidia to do this anymore then theoretically they could force NVidia (one of the biggest manufacturers of video card) to pull out of raping OpenGL for graphics and instead use DirectX. Then MS would be justified in stopping its support of GL.
Microsoft has been known to find extemely large security holes and not release patches for them until the holes are public. This is a good device for spin control. I would completely support a law that slapped them with a fine when they did stuff like that. Also Microsoft takes longer than any other vendor to release patches once alerted to security holes, exept for SCO. SCO will flat out not patch security problems that they know about. Me and friend sent a security that allow remote access penetration in SCO UNIX over 3 years ago that has yet to be patched, we send them a reminder every 6 months or so and they still just do nothing.
All they are looking it is setting up encryption for peer to peer conversation within the home. THIS ISNT BAD. I wish they had decent encryption for my wireless network right now. I'm seriously paranoid about getting wireless hacked... mostly because I've done it to other networks in my area. It's a security risk for you at home and coming up with a good encrypted authentication is a damn good idea.
The company I work for has done nothing but lose stock and become even more of a horrible work environment. Some of the pissed off employess started http://joelkocher.com (Joel Kocher) is our new CEO. When the site is up it's pretty funny and includes a shockwave rap of our bafoon CEO.
Blacbox has been imune to all the windows user friendly annoyances for a long time now. There is no start/kde/gnome menu bar or menu so you can open the default applications. There is one scriptable menu that is used be right clicking on the background. There are no stupid icons in the background doing nothing but taking up ram screaming please use me if you dont know how to use command line. You can have an insane amount of workspaces and grab single applications from each workspace into the current workspace in seconds from the afformentioned menu. Oh and it uses close to NO system resources.
Yesterday i went to the Cheesecake Factory in Seattle which, if youve never been to it, is basically like eating in a yuppie restaraunt with great cheesecake and looks on the inside like a post modernistic vaginal cavern. Anyway, while i was waiting I noticed that the really nice flat touch screens they had were using KDE with a custom program for seating everyone, which must have also been backed by a UNIX machine of somekind so they can easily page you on that little platic advertisement pager they give so that they dont have to look at you while you wait the 2 hours it takes to get a seat since grandma can't finish her cheesecake in under 4 and a half hours.
Everything I have read so far has led me to believe that this will just be another god damn summonfest like FF8, that was the best thing about FF9 was it wasn't summon oriented like FF8. Once you got the right gaurdian forces there was no point in really playing the game anymore, it was just "IFRIN I CHOOSE YOU!",
I think I'll sit FFX out and play some more final fantasy tactics and chrono trigger. The greats never die:)
There are also ALOT of new tax breaks for small buisnesses. During a recession the smartest thing to do is help out small buisnesses through tax breaks, and online retailers are just a whole lot of small buisnesses, with the exeption of amazon and a few others.
At defcon 8 DPS was at defcon and Burrows straight up social engineered his way into the server room and rooted the main box. So technically we had just won but they disqualified him cuase they wouldn't acknowledge social engineering as valid.
Before defcon 8 DPS (dead [protocol] society) had pretty much dominated the social engineering contests but defcon 8 was the first year they decided to stop doing the social engineering contests so we were forced to improvise.
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This article is so rediculous. Bluetooth is designed for small devices that would usually be used over usb or rf.
But lets just assume that the entire reason for bluetooth was for wireless LAN type usage. Then it is still not dead unless we say that 802.11b was dead a few years back when there weren't that many wireless access points to buy, or back when microsoft hadn't even added 802.11b support yet.
Bluetooth networking is done over the PAN specification from the bluetooth working group, it basically just takes traffic in layer two and opens an L2CAP tunnel to encapsilate the traffic in BNEP (Bluetooth Network Encapsilation Protocol) then sends to a NAP or GN device (covered in the PAN spec). The NAP or GN then unencapsilates the BNEP traffic and, if its a NAP, sends it out in the form of regular ethernet traffic. There are only a few NAP and GN devices on the market, and microsoft hasn't even implemented the PAN spec yet. So how can it be dead before it's even alive.
I don't say that the sperm that ends up at the bottom of my shower is dead babies.
After PAN is widely used it will be a decent wireless solution for homes. It has very limited range but pretty good bandwidth, more than 802.11b by far.
My house is litered with linux and FreeBSD boxes, in fact out of my entire house's computers (roomates included) there is only one windows box. The damn tv box. We have considered greatly trying to switch to linux but there are too many huge problems in the way. 1. Although linux does have alot of great video and audio players, and support for lots of good codecs we have at least 40gigs of video (out of over 200 gigs) that uses codecs that will only play in windows media player. This video isn't usually the best quality, most of it is anime and various american cartoons (aqua teen hunger force, dr katz) and some is tv shows (mr show, snl, kids in the hall) but we still want to watch all of this. 2. We have normal cable and an ati radeon 7500 all-in-wonder, with guide plus + this makes our own little homemade tivo, which is really nice since we can record shit into mpeg-2 and encode it into divx after editing which you can't do with tivo yet. This software isn't available in linux and frankly, never will. 3. Although linux has made a lot of advancments in getting good drivers for controllers there are still alot of controllers without linux drivers, we happen to have one and like it very much. We have an archive of over 30gigs of roms (full mame set included) and yah, they will run in linux but we can't use one of our best controllers. That's about it, the biggest problem being the bullshit windows media player only video codecs, its really pisses me off that people even use them to encode video but, they do, and im not gonna go and try to find that video somewhere else. I love the idea of the linux media box but it will probably end up being like java.... good idea, but damn the implementations.
I want some of what your smoking.
In japan anime is as big as blockbuster movies here. They don't think of them as "cartoons" they think of them as art. Now how can you try and convey that the japanese voice actors, under the guidance of the ORIGINAL director of the anime represent those characters less than an american voice actor with no guidance except that of a corporate marketing team trying to push the anime on a new audience, while savagly ripping out anything risky in the anime to make it more suitable for animerican 8 year olds.
My only point is that anime is made as art by someone who has a vision and when brought to america some company will buy it and tear alot of what he was trying to convey out of it. Yes the dvds have both language tracks, i know this, i have them, but if someone in japan ever took a speilberg movie and dubbed it and cut out parts of it and threw in little bits about eggnog in the dubbing becuase they thought it would reach a new audience he would be one pissed off man.
I personaly think that it's a good thing that anime is getting bigger in the US cause it means it's easier for me to find good dvd's but I still hate it when they take a great anime like Cowboy Bebop and give it a large theatre release with a HORRIBLE dubbing.
Sony put their neck out and released Metropolis subbtitles in theatres and it did quite good, and I wish that others would have the same mentality to release something in a better state. I am a huge bebop fan and for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet... It's fuckin great
I downloaded the movie about one month after it's theatre release in japan, and I bought the hong kong import of the dvd about 5 months ago and its really really good... WITH THE ORIGINAL VOICE ACTORS. Cowboy bebop had some the most amazing japanese voice actors in an anime and they embodied the characters, the dubbing takes the reason I love all of the characters out of each one.
In the american dubbing, Spike isn't a badass, faye isn't the hottest yet seriously tough woman to ever be in an anime, Jet isn't super tough, and Ed is not funny. What is ed without "Baka, Baka, Baka". Thats all I have to say, I encourage everyone to see the subtitles version of this anime, it is among the best anime ever made. If you like anything about the series you will love the movie.
Also everyone should realize that when companies dub most anime they take out alot of things such as swearing and sexual content, particularly if there is any references to homosexuality and cowboy bebop is no exeption to this. It's blatent censorship and everyone pretty much ignores it because if the companies didn't do it you would have to watch subtitles, since these companies usually try to market anime to an age group 10 years younger than the original audience.
No 3 are developers and 2 are testers, and then I have another friend who does webdev on contract. They ALL have heard absolutely nothing about this. Just because Microsoft says something doesn't mean they'll do it. What's really scary is when they announce shit they actually are going to do.
This article is the most motivating article I have ever read. He not only tries to write code that will port well in order to insure his product gets to as many people as possible, but unlike other stupid software companies he refuses to overextend his company to more the 17 people.
I've worked at alot of companies and one thing is for sure. Everything starts to go to shit when you can't walk over and talk to all the other developers.
This would be the ideal company to work for and they make the ideal product. Then they let the community do the beta testing. I love this man. His ideas are harsh on the MS way to do things which is probably why they work so well. Instead of employing rediculous amounts of people inefficently turn a mediocre product and then either market it to hell and back to make everyone think they need it, or force all of their existing customers onto it.
They keep a small number of really smart people in one room and turn one of the best products out, and let the product practically sell itself. This is how things would be in an ideal world, but the idea of making the best product so that people will pick it over others is wearing thin, esspecially now that Microsoft has bought most of the GL patents from SGI.
I have about 5 friends that regretably work for the evil empire in the Redmond campus. Hey a buck is a buck.
They didn't hear anything about this yesterday at work and they are DEVELOPERS. The first thing they saw about this, was of course here on slashdot.
Your completely missing the point. Security is something that everyone should be aware of and trying to use as much as possible. If they were to wait a year until a better encryption was properly implemented into everyday wireless networking then they could insure a much more secure access point.
Just becuase you know its a public untrusted network doesn't joe nobody does. They feel safe beacuse it's regulated by the airport therefore they will do things on the network you probably shouldn't do in an untrusted network. Just like people who do insecure wireless netoworking in there home and then bitch when all their information and credit card numbers are compromised.
If you are runnning an open network or anything open to multiple users (even a shell server) you should try to protect the security of your users as much as possible, you shouldn't forget about it just because you know you wont do anything stupid on it.
Great idea but what are they gonna do for security. Last time I check all the security for wireless networking sucked... BAD. The only encryption methods that have been heavily implemented are old and easy to break exept the one apple JUST released for 128 bit encyption for use with airport.
When you fix the problem of people using WinXP boxes with raw sockets as vocal points for DDOS attacks and I dont have to worry about it affecting my network, then I'll stop bitching about raw sockets.
Read the internet transparency RFC (RFC2775 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2775.html). That RFC describes alot of problems with P2P and the reasons for them. Then read the use of P2P that microsoft plans on implelementing. Every problem with P2P is amplified includeing security risks.
These boxes look great but everything I read about the new render farms show that people like dreamworks are all switching to large linux render farms and SGI just for front end or no SGI at all and using the new big G4's from apple.
This is rediculous. Microsoft keep bastardizing and screwing up good ideas for security on thier and other's products. P2P is a great idea, but the implementation they are trying to do WILL NOT WORK. It will be really easy to use and have no real security just like MS's version of kerberos.
. asp?url=/TechNet/security/news/raw_sockets.asp.
They ripped all the security features out of kerberos to make it more "useable", and their justification for this, to quote Dave Thompson at the RSA conference is "If it's not easily useable then nobody uses it and hence it isn't secure" he was also quoted as saying something along the lines of how hard kerberos is on UNIX because of all that "command line stuff".
Another show of MS idiocy is the use of "raw sockets" in XP. This is a known security issue and the MS justification is that "raw sockets implementations are already present in Linux, VMS, Unix, Mac OS X, and even in previous versions of Windows." (quoted from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default
While yes, it is true that unix will use raw sockets, it only uses them mitigated and ONLY ROOT CAN DO IT. WinXP allow raw socket use without mitigation or accnowledgment of access level BY DEFAULT. This isn't a security issue that MS released and then was notified about, this is something everyone with half a brain knows is a horrible idea.
But anyway, I'm all worked up now and I'm gonna go back to work creating a rediculously secure network around the windows machine my company has since MS obviously isn't going to make my job easy..... EVER, so theres no point in waiting for them to wise up when I can cover my network in OpenBSD firewalls.
I heard that the new thing will be putting a hundred procs on a board instead of designing a better arcitecture for the processor itself. This is the new intel modow. Everyone hop on board.
What it looks like to me is that they are trying to get all the NVidia stuff. NVidia has a deal with SGI to view and write alot stuff that interfaces with SGI machines and OpenGL in order to rape the graphics possibilities. This is also why the linux driver for NVidia cards is half open source and half closed source. If MS can take that capability out of NVidia cards by gobbling up all the patents and not allowing NVidia to do this anymore then theoretically they could force NVidia (one of the biggest manufacturers of video card) to pull out of raping OpenGL for graphics and instead use DirectX. Then MS would be justified in stopping its support of GL.
Microsoft has been known to find extemely large security holes and not release patches for them until the holes are public. This is a good device for spin control. I would completely support a law that slapped them with a fine when they did stuff like that. Also Microsoft takes longer than any other vendor to release patches once alerted to security holes, exept for SCO. SCO will flat out not patch security problems that they know about. Me and friend sent a security that allow remote access penetration in SCO UNIX over 3 years ago that has yet to be patched, we send them a reminder every 6 months or so and they still just do nothing.
All they are looking it is setting up encryption for peer to peer conversation within the home. THIS ISNT BAD. I wish they had decent encryption for my wireless network right now. I'm seriously paranoid about getting wireless hacked... mostly because I've done it to other networks in my area. It's a security risk for you at home and coming up with a good encrypted authentication is a damn good idea.
The company I work for has done nothing but lose stock and become even more of a horrible work environment. Some of the pissed off employess started http://joelkocher.com (Joel Kocher) is our new CEO. When the site is up it's pretty funny and includes a shockwave rap of our bafoon CEO.
Blacbox has been imune to all the windows user friendly annoyances for a long time now. There is no start/kde/gnome menu bar or menu so you can open the default applications. There is one scriptable menu that is used be right clicking on the background. There are no stupid icons in the background doing nothing but taking up ram screaming please use me if you dont know how to use command line. You can have an insane amount of workspaces and grab single applications from each workspace into the current workspace in seconds from the afformentioned menu. Oh and it uses close to NO system resources.
Yesterday i went to the Cheesecake Factory in Seattle which, if youve never been to it, is basically like eating in a yuppie restaraunt with great cheesecake and looks on the inside like a post modernistic vaginal cavern. Anyway, while i was waiting I noticed that the really nice flat touch screens they had were using KDE with a custom program for seating everyone, which must have also been backed by a UNIX machine of somekind so they can easily page you on that little platic advertisement pager they give so that they dont have to look at you while you wait the 2 hours it takes to get a seat since grandma can't finish her cheesecake in under 4 and a half hours.
Everything I have read so far has led me to believe that this will just be another god damn summonfest like FF8, that was the best thing about FF9 was it wasn't summon oriented like FF8. Once you got the right gaurdian forces there was no point in really playing the game anymore, it was just "IFRIN I CHOOSE YOU!", I think I'll sit FFX out and play some more final fantasy tactics and chrono trigger. The greats never die :)
There are also ALOT of new tax breaks for small buisnesses. During a recession the smartest thing to do is help out small buisnesses through tax breaks, and online retailers are just a whole lot of small buisnesses, with the exeption of amazon and a few others.
RIP
Here lies DOS
"I can't beleive is actually died"
"Yeah I thought it would never die"
"Wait a second.. I think its moving"
"WOW whats in it"
"I'll find out"
C:\>ls
'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
"Dammit, I hate DOS, why dont they just use real commands"
"Wanker"
Die
At defcon 8 DPS was at defcon and Burrows straight up social engineered his way into the server room and rooted the main box. So technically we had just won but they disqualified him cuase they wouldn't acknowledge social engineering as valid. Before defcon 8 DPS (dead [protocol] society) had pretty much dominated the social engineering contests but defcon 8 was the first year they decided to stop doing the social engineering contests so we were forced to improvise.