The point is that it was illegal to crack the encryption, and illegal to distribute the tool for doing so. If anyone doubts that it was really illegal, check out the DMCA.
<P>Wrong. U.S. law does not apply to the citizens of the Netherlands. --------
"I already have all the latest software."
CSS is immoral. The engineers who designed CSS should have understood the consequences of what they where told to make, and should not have made them. That's their social responsibility.
Those engineers probably, for one reason or another, didn't have a choice. So, instead, they designed a weak encryption system.
Think about it. CSS was designed to have multiple keys in each DVD movie, so that if one were compromised, it could be eliminated from future DVD discs. However, some brilliant engineer decided it was his moral obligation to weaken the system. The result was CSS. --------
"I already have all the latest software."
It took you this long to realise that North American legal systems are screwed beyond logic? It's been getting worse for decades! --------
"I already have all the latest software."
No, the whole problem is that every teen is using it as their OS. Every teen also isn't old enough to have a credit card (at least where I live), and Q3A for Linux isn't being sold in any stores around here, but the Windows version is.
If id would have let Activision publish Q3A4L, and it was in as many stores as the windows version, I'd have been able to buy it. As it stands, I cannot. --------
"I already have all the latest software."
But Unix could be *much* better. If you compare Linux to Windows, you'll love Linux much better. But try comparing it to QNX, BeOS, MacOS, Amiga(OS), etc, etc. In comparison, Linux is a bloated, inconsistent waste of resources.
Miguel's concern was that instead of comparing Linux to the great OSes, and realizing how far we have yet to go, we compare it to Windows and then say "what a good OS we have," and nothing improves. --------
"I already have all the latest software."
Use the PyGimp extension, which allows you to write GIMP plugins in Python. Python is one of those few *intuitive* languages, and is perfect for the GIMP. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
If ISPs would start providing IPv6 connections, software developers would accelerate supporting it, and soon the average use could use the IPSec layer built in to IPv6.
The problem is that ISPs say "we have to wait for software to be available for consumers", and software developers say "we have to wait for IPv6 availability to consumers". I say, "get your asms in gear!" -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I believe that Apple has helped push the industry forward, unlike another company (which shall remain nameless) which has proved more of an anchor.</I>
<P>Commodore. Microsoft would have gotten nowhere if Commodore had done any advertising. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO GET STATS FROM MY SEBSERVER! *Huff, huff*
Anyway, I'm not sure what you expect when you use these online hard-drive services anyway. I'd encrypt everything I didn't want people to see, or I would just plain keep it on my hard drive. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Oh well, could be worse - I could be an Amiga user! Now they're really crazy! *duck*
You said it. What's most irritating about being an Amiga user is that everybody seems to think there's nothing to learn from the Amiga. So, we consistently have huge, inefficient software and hardware, or somewhat-well-designed, but horribly expensive systems, hitting the market. And if I complain, I'm either told I'm too old for the computer industry (I'm 17!), or the classic "The Amiga is dead, get a PC."
Macs are better than PCs with Windows. Linux is better than Windows on a PC. But I have yet to see a better hardware/software combination than the Amiga.
The point of this rant? Well, be glad you "*duck*"ed, I guess. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I personally use Webalizer (sorry, forgot the link), a little perl script that looks at your apache access logs and displays stats in nice little pie charts and the like. It tells me the top 6 or so URLs being accessed on my site. If all 6 were thiscommercialgame.iso, I'd notice. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Sympatico sucks. They filter (badly) all outgoing HTTP requests, they give you annoying NATted pseudo-IPs, they have high latency, and they just generally suck.
Note that I'm not saying DSL sucks, just Sympatico DSL. Our cable provider is much better, here in Regina, SK. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
They're probably getting FLOODED with WareZ. When you look at your traffic stats, and the top ten are all along the lines of diablo2_disc1.iso, you notice. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I think the QuakeWorld Forever project did something useful like this. It had a way of using an encrypted client authentication system.
Bascially, you generated a key, then you compiled the client with it and told the server to accept clients using that key. That way, the source was entirely open. Everyone could build secure clients, just not the same secure clients that the server would accept.
In this way, the distributed.net people could distribute a working, open-source client and server, without having to allow every hacked version of it to mess with their statistics. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
This is a small program to reseed the Linux kernel random number generator with data from soundcard.
Audio is ready periodically from a stereo soundcard, the difference is taken between the left and right channels, the difference is hashed and credited to the KRNG.
Using the difference between the left and the right channels should eliminate some external signals (e.g. 50/60hz power cycle). -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I don't say people should be thrown in jail and the key thrown away after the first offense, but what gets my angry is when people have 60 some *convictions* in a short time, and are still getting out. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
The 80x86 chips have been obsolete since they were first made. The only reason they got any part of the market over, say, Motorola chips was because: 1. They were US-made, so typical nationalist American bought it. 2. The early Microsoft wrote BASIC for it.
I always preferred the MC68000 chips.
(And no, I don't like Macs either.) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Yes, I agree that guy's idea of "no logical absolutes" was a bit crazy, but are you suggesting Debian's wrong? (Don't want to flame if you're not) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
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The point is that it was illegal to crack the encryption, and illegal to distribute the tool for doing so. If anyone doubts that it was really illegal, check out the DMCA.
<P>Wrong. U.S. law does not apply to the citizens of the Netherlands.
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"I already have all the latest software."
CSS is immoral. The engineers who designed CSS should have understood the consequences of what they where told to make, and should not have made them. That's their social responsibility.
Those engineers probably, for one reason or another, didn't have a choice. So, instead, they designed a weak encryption system.
Think about it. CSS was designed to have multiple keys in each DVD movie, so that if one were compromised, it could be eliminated from future DVD discs. However, some brilliant engineer decided it was his moral obligation to weaken the system. The result was CSS.
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"I already have all the latest software."
It took you this long to realise that North American legal systems are screwed beyond logic? It's been getting worse for decades!
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"I already have all the latest software."
Try playing Quake with a >600 ping on a satellite.
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"I already have all the latest software."
If id would have let Activision publish Q3A4L, and it was in as many stores as the windows version, I'd have been able to buy it. As it stands, I cannot.
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"I already have all the latest software."
But Unix could be *much* better. If you compare Linux to Windows, you'll love Linux much better. But try comparing it to QNX, BeOS, MacOS, Amiga(OS), etc, etc. In comparison, Linux is a bloated, inconsistent waste of resources.
Miguel's concern was that instead of comparing Linux to the great OSes, and realizing how far we have yet to go, we compare it to Windows and then say "what a good OS we have," and nothing improves.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Use the PyGimp extension, which allows you to write GIMP plugins in Python. Python is one of those few *intuitive* languages, and is perfect for the GIMP.
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"I already have all the latest software."
No, the long-term solution is the security built into IPv6. Push your ISP for IPv6 today!
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"I already have all the latest software."
If ISPs would start providing IPv6 connections, software developers would accelerate supporting it, and soon the average use could use the IPSec layer built in to IPv6.
The problem is that ISPs say "we have to wait for software to be available for consumers", and software developers say "we have to wait for IPv6 availability to consumers". I say, "get your asms in gear!"
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"I already have all the latest software."
LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I believe that Apple has helped push the industry forward, unlike another company
(which shall remain nameless) which has proved more of an anchor.</I>
<P>Commodore. Microsoft would have gotten nowhere if Commodore had done any advertising.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO GET STATS FROM MY SEBSERVER! *Huff, huff*
Anyway, I'm not sure what you expect when you use these online hard-drive services anyway. I'd encrypt everything I didn't want people to see, or I would just plain keep it on my hard drive.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Oh well, could be worse - I could be an Amiga user! Now they're really crazy! *duck*
You said it. What's most irritating about being an Amiga user is that everybody seems to think there's nothing to learn from the Amiga. So, we consistently have huge, inefficient software and hardware, or somewhat-well-designed, but horribly expensive systems, hitting the market. And if I complain, I'm either told I'm too old for the computer industry (I'm 17!), or the classic "The Amiga is dead, get a PC."
Macs are better than PCs with Windows. Linux is better than Windows on a PC. But I have yet to see a better hardware/software combination than the Amiga.
The point of this rant? Well, be glad you "*duck*"ed, I guess.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I personally use Webalizer (sorry, forgot the link), a little perl script that looks at your apache access logs and displays stats in nice little pie charts and the like. It tells me the top 6 or so URLs being accessed on my site. If all 6 were thiscommercialgame.iso, I'd notice.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Sympatico sucks. They filter (badly) all outgoing HTTP requests, they give you annoying NATted pseudo-IPs, they have high latency, and they just generally suck.
Note that I'm not saying DSL sucks, just Sympatico DSL. Our cable provider is much better, here in Regina, SK.
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"I already have all the latest software."
They're probably getting FLOODED with WareZ. When you look at your traffic stats, and the top ten are all along the lines of diablo2_disc1.iso, you notice.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I think the QuakeWorld Forever project did something useful like this. It had a way of using an encrypted client authentication system.
Bascially, you generated a key, then you compiled the client with it and told the server to accept clients using that key. That way, the source was entirely open. Everyone could build secure clients, just not the same secure clients that the server would accept.
In this way, the distributed.net people could distribute a working, open-source client and server, without having to allow every hacked version of it to mess with their statistics.
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"I already have all the latest software."
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"I already have all the latest software."
This is a small program to reseed the Linux kernel random number generator with data from soundcard.
Audio is ready periodically from a stereo soundcard, the difference is taken between the left and right channels, the difference is hashed and credited to the KRNG.
Using the difference between the left and the right channels should eliminate some external signals (e.g. 50/60hz power cycle).
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"I already have all the latest software."
Well said. I agree on almost every point.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Nope. Good ol' North America. But are you suggesting that Europe is technically better, and therefore full of fags?
The logic of it all!
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"I already have all the latest software."
It's called "Vorbis", so they should use the extension ".vbs"
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"I already have all the latest software."
But most of the time it does mean that.
I don't say people should be thrown in jail and the key thrown away after the first offense, but what gets my angry is when people have 60 some *convictions* in a short time, and are still getting out.
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"I already have all the latest software."
The 80x86 chips have been obsolete since they were first made. The only reason they got any part of the market over, say, Motorola chips was because:
1. They were US-made, so typical nationalist American bought it.
2. The early Microsoft wrote BASIC for it.
I always preferred the MC68000 chips.
(And no, I don't like Macs either.)
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"I already have all the latest software."
Yes, I agree that guy's idea of "no logical absolutes" was a bit crazy, but are you suggesting Debian's wrong? (Don't want to flame if you're not)
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"I already have all the latest software."