To all the people that feel really good about this because they are sick of microsoft being attacked about this: Good for you, you deserve it, enjoy because it won't happen again this year;-)
Now to all the linux zealots here: To make sure that this doesn't become a problem we NEED to patch EVERY machine we can find and tell EVERYONE that has a linux box to patch it, why? because NOW it's funny, there isn't a worm out with a remote exploit of GPM that triggers an error Identd to give away your "Games" password so you can log on and become root;-)
but we must make sure that this disappears ASAP or else this sure as hell won't be funny anymore.
PLEASE make sure that we won't get staroffice macro virusses, sircam 4 linux etc... THAT we will be the laughing stock of the entire software world... I'll bet that microsoft competetion management (r) is already producing FUD on this....
No, but there would have to be A LOT of keys to each song, OR they would have to dynamically encrypt a song for everyone that's downloading it (that would be the only way then)
short of that, there must be a system, and if there is a system to it that has multiple keys, someone will hack it...
plus it isn't really encryption, he's talking about a way to add noise to the music, it will prob. be possible to create an application that just filters out the noise in some way...
This really is a wonderful idea, and I love it... but how long will it take before this is hacked?
If they can make a furby talk english they can also hack this...;-)
I also think that most people that love music or the band will buy their music, and the people that pirate it would never have bought it in the first place, so why spend millions of dollars on some kind of encryption that will be hacked in a few weeks (at most) anyway?
"We've got a few feelers out, and hope very much that he'll submit to an interview soon."
I sincerely hope they don't find him, because if they do, how easy would it be for microsofts $$$?
I am very impressed with this efford, keep up the good work and for the love of god please don't make us wear "free Beale Screamer" t-shits....
If you take this artcle about microsoft wanting to deliver "AOL like services", this seems to be a logical step for AOL.
This could get very interesting, I don't think this is a browser war, I think it's an ISP war...
Would YOU distribute software of your newly aquired #1 competitor??;-)
one of the freedoms is the "freedom to read/modify and learn" from the source. If he is just learning from the source and reimplementing it, there is no problem.
Is wine in violation with microsoft copyright?
I just really hope they improved the installation routine, because I really hated it... Maybe I'm just too big of a fan of YaST2
(insert flame on memory usage here)
I think it's very hard to block spammers on the ISP site, the only thing that could help some is that (I forgot the name) list of open-relays. That would probably help.
I think that it is up to the user to deceide from what IP block it wants mail and from what not. It should just be easier for the user to set up these blocks, maybe client side maybe ISP side... with the current broadband internet connections some spam that is filtered local isn't too much of a problem. However it would suck for all ISDN and 56K people... it's still a waste
conclusion: give the user the tools to sort it out for himself... NOT getting mail you want is worse than getting some you DON'T want
You know what really really makes me mad? The fact that the whole fucking world is talking crap about privacy, people dump shit on the government for taking their privacy, security cameras invade privacy and what else the "people" talk about. And under there noses is a company (let's call them Microsoft) that sells them an OS that they'll install, presents them with a nice dialog and asks if the user wants to create a passport.
PEOPLE WILL create those things... and people WILL use them and in a short while there is a company that has your Creditcard number, expiration date, all your favorite files, knows your surfing habits, knows who your friends are, knows what you like to buy, can present you with "special offers"
I've been preacing this ever since I heard about the passport thing, and passport is pretty old now.... PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HEAR AND DON'T WANT TO KNOW as long as they can get their daily dose of minesweeper....
And we, the geeks, have seen this coming for quite some time now, but (as always with microsoft) by the time the people know what hit them, it's too late to turn back, all e-commerse sites will be.NET and will require your passport to get to your safely stored creditcard informatation...
The world makes me sick, and most of all these ignorant people that don't seem to care about this kind of privacy.
But what can we do? Well since I hope there are some more talented writers than myself here, write a column for your (local) newspaper... convince people... THIS IS IMPORTANT
and for all the techies: check out.GNU something simular to.NET but with privacy in mind...
As the AC above points out, this sounds more like a weapon than a way to generate power. Plus I think that the beam will be VERY inefficient, and I think you need a fairly large area on which to "collect" the power since I hardly think this will be extremely accurate.
In areas where no power exists, village "life support systems" can be established to provide potable water, lights, modern communications, refrigeration, information, and perhaps a few sewing machines, he said.
What's the point? isn't it cheaper to just build solar cells there? You'll have to put wires in the ground anyway from the reception point to the village...(I guess they are not going to put the entire village in the microwave)
I don't see much use in this, I think a lot of practical problems have to be solved first... and I don't see this being used to "power a few sewing machines" very soon, this sounds as some expensive technologie....
If I understand correctly it is possible to change the magnetic state of this material... Maybe this FINIALLY means our persistent RAM??
I might be way off here
How big are those pictures??? The square root of 25,344 is about 159... That means that the pictures will be 159x159 in size... pretty small don't you think??? This also means that the thing has about 2 megabyes of memory on board... which also isn't too impressive...
"* A set of promises to keep compatibility with various APIs, broadly construed (XUL 1.0 is an API), until a 2.0 or higher-numbered major release. All milestone releases and trunk development between 1.0 and 2.0 will preserve frozen interface compatibility. Mozilla 1.0 is a greenlight to hackers, corporations, and book authors to get busy building atop this stable base set of APIs."
I must say that I find this a very "mature" perspective and this is clearly showing that the people of mozilla know what they are doing and how they should do it!
Mozilla for world-domination (using mozilla since 0.6 BOY did THAT suck!!)
Check QT/Palmtop
and handhelds.org very cool, also check pocketlinux this is really the most beautiful PDA distro I've ever seen!!
If they can only make installation a bit easier...
What I find most disturbing is not that these kids don't know everything about computer history but that they also don't seem to care... I must admit that I didn't know all the people mentioned in the story on binary but I looked up the bios if those people...
This is happening all around us and not only in computer history, how many kids care about history at all??? How many kids know stuff about the first world war, Newton and the old philosophers like Aristoteles ???
I've got THE solution for ALL your problems: being above every law, it should be no problem for you to break into every backbone in the world and reroute all taffic trough your own servers, that way you'll be able set fire on the house of every copyright violator!
Ow yeah and while you are at it, do the same for all/. readers, because they are likely to hate you...
GRRR
You could use this as a GREAT way to transport internet to non-cabled places (or poorly cables places)
Get a full 100Mb link (as a backbone) to a town and split it there to 1 or 2 Mbits... you could serve a lot of people that way!
Would sure come in handy where I live!!
"IBM's proposed solution looks at the problem from the most important perspective: the end user's. How do I/T customers want computing systems to function? They want to interact with them intuitively, and they want to have to be far less involved in running them. Ideally, they'd like computing systems to pretty much take care of the mundane elements of management by themselves."
So... they want to cut on I/T staff by letting the computers manage themselves? This seems a very bad idea to me.
I currently work as a sysadmin and I also have a lot of contact with end-users. Users like it when they have a problem, someone comes over, talks a little, fixes the probem.
They want to be helped by a person that acts nice to them, that's why I think you'll probably always will need I/T staff.
and from a more technical point of view: What if the computer fucks up? All these systems will probably "think alike" and if one Computer thinks that considering the managment of the PC it's a good idea to whipe the harddrive... more will probably follow...
"Some politicians fear that the two services, Pressplay and MusicNet, would be anti-competitive and unfairly dominate the market."
Please, I know the european (politician) way of thinking (I'm from holland) and the line should read:
"Some politicians fear that the two services, Pressplay and MusicNet, will pay too little taxes" That's why we are having trouble buying stuff from america or outside the EU for that matter. But MP3's that you download... how can they stop that???
Well... at least that's what I think
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To all the people that feel really good about this because they are sick of microsoft being attacked about this: Good for you, you deserve it, enjoy because it won't happen again this year ;-)
;-)
Now to all the linux zealots here: To make sure that this doesn't become a problem we NEED to patch EVERY machine we can find and tell EVERYONE that has a linux box to patch it, why? because NOW it's funny, there isn't a worm out with a remote exploit of GPM that triggers an error Identd to give away your "Games" password so you can log on and become root
but we must make sure that this disappears ASAP or else this sure as hell won't be funny anymore. PLEASE make sure that we won't get staroffice macro virusses, sircam 4 linux etc... THAT we will be the laughing stock of the entire software world... I'll bet that microsoft competetion management (r) is already producing FUD on this....
No, but there would have to be A LOT of keys to each song, OR they would have to dynamically encrypt a song for everyone that's downloading it (that would be the only way then)
short of that, there must be a system, and if there is a system to it that has multiple keys, someone will hack it...
plus it isn't really encryption, he's talking about a way to add noise to the music, it will prob. be possible to create an application that just filters out the noise in some way...
This really is a wonderful idea, and I love it... but how long will it take before this is hacked? ;-)
If they can make a furby talk english they can also hack this...
I also think that most people that love music or the band will buy their music, and the people that pirate it would never have bought it in the first place, so why spend millions of dollars on some kind of encryption that will be hacked in a few weeks (at most) anyway?
"We've got a few feelers out, and hope very much that he'll submit to an interview soon."
I sincerely hope they don't find him, because if they do, how easy would it be for microsofts $$$?
I am very impressed with this efford, keep up the good work and for the love of god please don't make us wear "free Beale Screamer" t-shits....
If you take this artcle about microsoft wanting to deliver "AOL like services", this seems to be a logical step for AOL.
;-)
This could get very interesting, I don't think this is a browser war, I think it's an ISP war...
Would YOU distribute software of your newly aquired #1 competitor??
one of the freedoms is the "freedom to read/modify and learn" from the source. If he is just learning from the source and reimplementing it, there is no problem.
Is wine in violation with microsoft copyright?
I just really hope they improved the installation routine, because I really hated it... Maybe I'm just too big of a fan of YaST2
(insert flame on memory usage here)
I think it's very hard to block spammers on the ISP site, the only thing that could help some is that (I forgot the name) list of open-relays. That would probably help.
I think that it is up to the user to deceide from what IP block it wants mail and from what not. It should just be easier for the user to set up these blocks, maybe client side maybe ISP side... with the current broadband internet connections some spam that is filtered local isn't too much of a problem. However it would suck for all ISDN and 56K people... it's still a waste
conclusion: give the user the tools to sort it out for himself... NOT getting mail you want is worse than getting some you DON'T want
Let's put it this way if they can make a furby talk english
I rest my case
It's a nice peice of equipment, but not competition for my iPaq... I hate to have this in my pocket all day...
(sorry this is meant as a serious remark) would be nice as a cluster node don't you think??
You know what really really makes me mad? The fact that the whole fucking world is talking crap about privacy, people dump shit on the government for taking their privacy, security cameras invade privacy and what else the "people" talk about. And under there noses is a company (let's call them Microsoft) that sells them an OS that they'll install, presents them with a nice dialog and asks if the user wants to create a passport.
.NET and will require your passport to get to your safely stored creditcard informatation...
.GNU something simular to .NET but with privacy in mind...
PEOPLE WILL create those things... and people WILL use them and in a short while there is a company that has your Creditcard number, expiration date, all your favorite files, knows your surfing habits, knows who your friends are, knows what you like to buy, can present you with "special offers"
I've been preacing this ever since I heard about the passport thing, and passport is pretty old now.... PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HEAR AND DON'T WANT TO KNOW as long as they can get their daily dose of minesweeper....
And we, the geeks, have seen this coming for quite some time now, but (as always with microsoft) by the time the people know what hit them, it's too late to turn back, all e-commerse sites will be
The world makes me sick, and most of all these ignorant people that don't seem to care about this kind of privacy.
But what can we do? Well since I hope there are some more talented writers than myself here, write a column for your (local) newspaper... convince people... THIS IS IMPORTANT
and for all the techies: check out
end rant
As the AC above points out, this sounds more like a weapon than a way to generate power. Plus I think that the beam will be VERY inefficient, and I think you need a fairly large area on which to "collect" the power since I hardly think this will be extremely accurate.
In areas where no power exists, village "life support systems" can be established to provide potable water, lights, modern communications, refrigeration, information, and perhaps a few sewing machines, he said.
What's the point? isn't it cheaper to just build solar cells there? You'll have to put wires in the ground anyway from the reception point to the village...(I guess they are not going to put the entire village in the microwave)
I don't see much use in this, I think a lot of practical problems have to be solved first... and I don't see this being used to "power a few sewing machines" very soon, this sounds as some expensive technologie....
If I understand correctly it is possible to change the magnetic state of this material... Maybe this FINIALLY means our persistent RAM??
I might be way off here
Just pour some yoghurt over a thin plate of glass and let your processor grow!
How big are those pictures??? The square root of 25,344 is about 159... That means that the pictures will be 159x159 in size... pretty small don't you think??? This also means that the thing has about 2 megabyes of memory on board... which also isn't too impressive...
If you combine this with necoro , a realdoll and a voice synthesiser you'll have the ideal geek-toy... ;-)
"* A set of promises to keep compatibility with various APIs, broadly construed (XUL 1.0 is an API), until a 2.0 or higher-numbered major release. All milestone releases and trunk development between 1.0 and 2.0 will preserve frozen interface compatibility. Mozilla 1.0 is a greenlight to hackers, corporations, and book authors to get busy building atop this stable base set of APIs."
I must say that I find this a very "mature" perspective and this is clearly showing that the people of mozilla know what they are doing and how they should do it!
Mozilla for world-domination (using mozilla since 0.6 BOY did THAT suck!!)
Check QT/Palmtop and handhelds.org very cool, also check pocketlinux this is really the most beautiful PDA distro I've ever seen!!
If they can only make installation a bit easier...
This thing combined with an MP3 player... "the purring sound of your choice"
now THAT would be an improvement
What I find most disturbing is not that these kids don't know everything about computer history but that they also don't seem to care... I must admit that I didn't know all the people mentioned in the story on binary but I looked up the bios if those people...
This is happening all around us and not only in computer history, how many kids care about history at all??? How many kids know stuff about the first world war, Newton and the old philosophers like Aristoteles ???
I must say this does worry me...
Trolltech has some very interesting things like QT/Palmtop a fully fledged palmtop user interface with tools!
BTW nice restyle trolltech!
furthermore: on www.handhelds.org there are some really promising distros for ARM based PDAs
and finially a real beauty: Pocketlinux!! a verty nice distro!!!!
I really can't wait to try these distros on palm hardware!!!
I've got THE solution for ALL your problems: being above every law, it should be no problem for you to break into every backbone in the world and reroute all taffic trough your own servers, that way you'll be able set fire on the house of every copyright violator! /. readers, because they are likely to hate you...
Ow yeah and while you are at it, do the same for all
GRRR
You could use this as a GREAT way to transport internet to non-cabled places (or poorly cables places)
Get a full 100Mb link (as a backbone) to a town and split it there to 1 or 2 Mbits... you could serve a lot of people that way!
Would sure come in handy where I live!!
"IBM's proposed solution looks at the problem from the most important perspective: the end user's. How do I/T customers want computing systems to function? They want to interact with them intuitively, and they want to have to be far less involved in running them. Ideally, they'd like computing systems to pretty much take care of the mundane elements of management by themselves."
;-)
So... they want to cut on I/T staff by letting the computers manage themselves? This seems a very bad idea to me.
I currently work as a sysadmin and I also have a lot of contact with end-users. Users like it when they have a problem, someone comes over, talks a little, fixes the probem.
They want to be helped by a person that acts nice to them, that's why I think you'll probably always will need I/T staff.
and from a more technical point of view: What if the computer fucks up? All these systems will probably "think alike" and if one Computer thinks that considering the managment of the PC it's a good idea to whipe the harddrive... more will probably follow...
must...go....home....to...much...work...
"Some politicians fear that the two services, Pressplay and MusicNet, would be anti-competitive and unfairly dominate the market."
Please, I know the european (politician) way of thinking (I'm from holland) and the line should read:
"Some politicians fear that the two services, Pressplay and MusicNet, will pay too little taxes"
That's why we are having trouble buying stuff from america or outside the EU for that matter. But MP3's that you download... how can they stop that???
Well... at least that's what I think