Sure, you can wipe the PC and go on your merry way ( unless TPM is in place ), but don't count on getting online. It would be trivial to require this 'monitor' to be wedged in down in your IP stack before you can connect to an ISP ( sort of like how AOL and NetZero did it ).
Even worse, if you try it, the ISP might report you to the government as an attempt to 'circumvent'.
I think when the rubber hits the road, they will be 'standard' looking net books and not those weirdo 'concepts'.
But if as another post stated is true and the 99 dollar price tag is misleading, why spend 250+ on one of those when you can get an atom and be a bit more compatible?
Too bad if true, for $150 id get one in a heartbeat. Any more then that then a regular low end laptop makes more sense to me.
To get around the 'client security agent' tracking your apps/keystrokes/etc, use a VM and NAT the network connection. To get around the network tracking of what comes out of the VM you buy another PC and stick it at your parents or friends house somewhere else as a VPN server then use it to do all your 'sensitive' work. Then let them track it, its encrypted. The stuff you don't care about, go thru the school's network directly.
I suppose you could use one of those free/pay proxies instead of a 'home VPN', but that would be a bit more obvious what you were doing and set off some red flags ( or is blocked in the first place ).
Im assuming in this case its your PC and you can install whatever you please.
Sounds like you haven't got things setup properly. We have *hundreds* of high load VMs running on just a few ( super high end ) hosts all running off a SAN across 2 fiber channels to each host back to the SAN ( 2 for redundancy, not load balance ).
HA works perfectly as currently designed ( auto restarting of machines if a host drops out ). If you look into the new offerings from VMWare, it wont even drop a packet on a "protected guest" if a host goes down.
Ya i'm a fanboy, but they have a great product so its easy to be one.
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im sure you can. Now, if he was a physics graduate, perhaps not.
While i agree, think beyond that: Think WTO/UN and the whole world slowly becoming a monitored nanny-state.
Sure, you can wipe the PC and go on your merry way ( unless TPM is in place ), but don't count on getting online. It would be trivial to require this 'monitor' to be wedged in down in your IP stack before you can connect to an ISP ( sort of like how AOL and NetZero did it ).
Even worse, if you try it, the ISP might report you to the government as an attempt to 'circumvent'.
Few people i know are medicated, at any level.
Is that unlocked 99 or are you still 'tethered' to the service provider for a few years?
If we all become part of some huge cloud and share our ( mostly mobile ) resources by default, it may apply even to the most lowly of text editors.
We are screwed no matter what we do as they are far more advanced then us.
I think when the rubber hits the road, they will be 'standard' looking net books and not those weirdo 'concepts'.
But if as another post stated is true and the 99 dollar price tag is misleading, why spend 250+ on one of those when you can get an atom and be a bit more compatible?
Too bad if true, for $150 id get one in a heartbeat. Any more then that then a regular low end laptop makes more sense to me.
Well, its already been banned at the office because of this.
So indirectly the indian government did demand it.
The Indian government might have demanded it.. stranger things have happened.
By several providers of 'content filter devices'.
Or they will deny you access.
To get around the 'client security agent' tracking your apps/keystrokes/etc, use a VM and NAT the network connection. To get around the network tracking of what comes out of the VM you buy another PC and stick it at your parents or friends house somewhere else as a VPN server then use it to do all your 'sensitive' work. Then let them track it, its encrypted. The stuff you don't care about, go thru the school's network directly.
I suppose you could use one of those free/pay proxies instead of a 'home VPN', but that would be a bit more obvious what you were doing and set off some red flags ( or is blocked in the first place ).
Im assuming in this case its your PC and you can install whatever you please.
Oh, and consider protesting.
From a immature child. " i'm special i want it my way. my way!! or ill take my toys away".
If he pulls out of the US he can deal with import taxes/restrictions that would hurt Microsoft much more.
Well, those aren't exempt either if the industries get their way.
I believe the industry knows that you cannot stop 100% of software piracy. I don't think that's their goal.
Its also not the governments goal. Their goal is to use this as an excuse to get citizen support of reduction of our rights.
The sheep or the herder?
Its too bad they cant throw the RIAA out of court for being stupid.
I think the FTC has less restrictive rules they operate under.
Or web hosting service?
Seems like a hosting service to me.
If they are not liable for their mistakes in certifying then what value is their approvals?
Sure, if you lie to them its your fraud and its not their fault, but if they make the mistake...
Its how they finally nailed him. Couldn't catch him actually doing anything wrong so they crafted this backdoor way to nab him.
Of course one thing the RIAA will not think of is that if there are convictions/fines via this route, they wont get a dime.
Never said that the people at large have the balls to do it, but i think many agree that its the only true answer.
Be it armed revolution or voter revolution ( if you haven't lost total faith in the system yet ) its the only way out.
Sounds like you haven't got things setup properly. We have *hundreds* of high load VMs running on just a few ( super high end ) hosts all running off a SAN across 2 fiber channels to each host back to the SAN ( 2 for redundancy, not load balance ).
HA works perfectly as currently designed ( auto restarting of machines if a host drops out ). If you look into the new offerings from VMWare, it wont even drop a packet on a "protected guest" if a host goes down.
Ya i'm a fanboy, but they have a great product so its easy to be one.