. Technology that allows other people to trust information coming out of your machine is useful.
Yeah?
Instead of saying "palladium is evil", we should be pushing for comparatively open implementations.
No, Palladium is evil. You can't get around the fact that Microsoft's planned hardware domination is evil by wishing it did things it won't. M$ does not deserve to be "engaged" because, as a condition of using their software, they have demanded the right to seach through your files and delete those they feel violate copyright. The intent is in the EULA now. If you want authentication, look to kerbos and other real efforts. M$'s efforts are so clumsy paranoid and lock down centric, it's doubtful their machines will even run, much less be useful or trusted.
XP will get Paladium anytime they feel like giving it to you. The EULA clearly states that you must accept windows updater uploads. So why would you use, much less "pirate" XP?
What's more astonishing that you would claim the general population is so ignorant, yet advocate the thing you fear. Then again, three harvard students bought into this whole bogus notion. This is my review of their article.
It's a research paper. For school. It's not journalism, not a "cleverly planted story," it's a bloody academic essay. It is sitting in a student's directory on a Harvard server.
These three students must be some of those new "grassroots" Microsoft has been trying to buy on campuses. Harvard, that's almost as costly as Tulane, so these three must have been expensive to confuse or corrupt.
Anyone who uses the term "piracy" for unauthorized file violation is clueless to begin with. Other midless gems from these three include:
"Napster was the first system to integrate the end user into the distribution process."
"industry would like to return to the days when investigation and legal actions were sufficient to counter a reasonably sized set of professional pirates."
And the critical flaw, "if Microsoft delivers on the promises of its next-generation secure computing base for Windows, then clients can also be assured of secure storage and curtained memory."
The author's research is lacking. They reference 17 works, mostly popular press articles with one or two intersting texts. One reference they omitted is Microsoft's EULAs which require forced upgrading and Microsoft's right to search your files and delete those they considercopyright infringing.
Anyone who considers the control Microsoft now demands of it's user's computers could not think that Microsoft would ever extend "protection" to user content or clients programs. They promise to do it now, despite a lack of tools. Chances are that Microsoft will delete all peer to peer client programs they find.
Shame on Harvard. I've got to give this student paper an A for effort and the fluent ability to state the obvious but an F in research and critical reasoning. The music and film industry blinders these students wear prevent them from exploring the use of P2P for anything but "piracy". The whole idea of "trusted computing" aiding "piracy" is a juvenile conivance of wishful thinking. It lacks all the things Universities are supposed to be full of, honesty and critical thinking.
Some of the software we have now is too stubborn to let you enter anything else than a 5-digit zip code.
It's amazing how pathetic closed source development is. In the free software world change is not a problem. Putting M$ into the mix is an invitation to global headaches.
2 - How much dya bet you'd have to use those longish cryptic zipcodes as registration keys in future Microsoft products ?
One day, a contented M$ exec was looking at his warm, humming data server. After a reboot, he called up a few random addresses of registered M$ users so that he could feel the reach and power of his company. An intern looking over his shoulder asked, "Where's Dublin 2?" and the exec was unable to answer. Realizing the embarassment he caused, the intern wished he could dissapear and later he was fired.
This scheme is a result of that awareness of ignorance - other people knew things the exec did not. The situation must be remedied. It's too bad the intern did not ask his next question, "Who is Sherlock Holmes?" Now we have the proposed M$ address system.
It does not bring enough money and control to Redmond, and it works too well. We must have all mail as easy to abuse as Outlook, as reliable as Windoze and as constant as Word formats. We also need to charge every user $250/year for what used to be free services. In the end, we can call it Microsoft Mail and not allow anyone else to use the term Mail to describe a messaging system.
Get you a Zaurus and you have a jam box. It works with MP3s and a little work gives you a terminal and a ogg player. CF can be used to swap large amounts of data with those laptops you envy, and you can get a CF reader for your desktop. The 5500 goes for about $200 now, and it's much more flexible than other portable music players. You can even, gasp, program it to do some work. The peeping calender is only useful for jobs at big dumb companies where they have lots of meetings.
I just finished an MBA where laptops were required... We weren't allowed to use Macs
I knew evil forces were conspiring to make M$ morons out of the big dogs. An attatchment to Word and other horrid programs seems to be part of the clueless indocrtination. I can only imagine what your teachers would tell you about Linux.
are that any laptop will be lucky to survive 4 years of college. Most of our laptops limped through the end of the 2-year program - and it didn't matter whether they were cheap or expensive.
I've got a 10 year old IBM thinkpad and don't see how anyone could destroy it. I got it because I watched one like it survive years of soils data aquisition at the hands of a truck driver who's favorite tool was a hammer. It's a little slow, but I was able to drop in a nice big hard drive and pc card wifi. What do you business dudes do to your laptops?!
Transcription is a total waste of time. Notes are good for reference, or not at all. When your assignments require you to hit a keyboard do that and integrate it into whatever else you use. If you have a machine that can transcribe spoken words to text, woderful. Consider it another handout like the teacher would give you. Put it behind your notes and mark it up as you see fit.
I used two three ring binder for my courses. One for notes and handouts, the other for assignments. I wrote dates and page numbers on the notes to keep them in order. Assignments I turned in got into the other binder along with floppies or CDs.
not really part of Microsoft's plan to overtake the world.
"Letting the researchers decide" is a clear means of pushing M$ crap. While we might imagine people spinging up to do the work, M$ is still up to it's tricks and not everyone knows how to set up a cluster. Between a shortage of trained people ready to move and Paladium, M$ stands to suck up sales. NASA and others have shown the way, but M$ has blocked better schemes before. Just look at the last article on running a reasearch lab with free software. The winners were drowned in a sea of astroturf.
Beowulf clusters are the best solution to many problems and individual researchers are building them.
The bottom line for Microsft is that such a policy shift would provide potential platforms for their sales while huring companies like SUN. They know things about Paladium that we don't.
This would be interesting if EBay had any real competition. But attempts to set up competing auction sites have consistently failed
Now they have one more reason to fail, but it has nothing to do with market forces, freedom or the American Way. You telling me I can't do something obvious because you did it first is bogus. I might like to run a trading site for the fun of it, that's they way ebay started. If it makes lots of money, like ebay did, goodie for me. If not, no big deal. Me paying you money for nothing is not something I care to do. Screw off.
This thing is going to make 18,200 megawatts. That's about 18 nukes worth of electricity by current standards as 1,000 megawatt turbines are the largest proctical currently. If you factor in the cost of lost land, human displacement, artifacts lost and additional distribution requirements, it might have been cheaper to build 18 nukes closer to where people live.
All bets are off in a land where people take bribes to do things wrong. If they are having trouble making this big rock, they might not make such good nuke either.
The dam will ultimately be able to crank out 18,200 megawatts of energy a year, the equivalent of 26 nuclear power plants
Them's small plants. Most plants make a gigawatt, so it's only equivalent to 18 plants or so. If the generation is confined to one spot, your distribution costs go up, not to mention the massive construction costs already incured. Nukes might have been cheaper than this block headed thing.
But a lot of Westerners apparently think it's ok to bash the chinese for protecting their people, there's so many of them what's a million prematurely dead?
You will have to ask the Chinese Communist party for the answer to that question. Flood deaths are a result of bankrupt colective agriculure policies and poor flood protection schemes. A damb is one of many ways to prevent flooding. It may or may not be the best way, but don't pretend the party cares about the Chinese people or that the west does not. A poorly built damn will kill more people than doing nothing and fewer people still would die if the stupid communists would simply let people do as they pleased but provided them with needed information like storm and flash flood warnings.
No problem, take it on the air plane. Just don't plug that ethernet cable in.
The other day, I read a story about flights between New York and Miami only taking 2.5 hours. The terrorists, who now make that flight take six hours or more, have won. I'm going to cry in my beer now. I've mostly driven since 9/11 and my one or two flighs involved humiliating searches and unbearable delays.
53F is not far from 43F, the temperature recommended on their web page. If my room were that cold all the time, I might want to warm my beer. In South Louisiana, cold beer is good.
Remember, a peltier works both ways...Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
Insulated undies for those of you inclined to rest that cold beer in your lap. The rest of us will simply drink our beer. Cozies, what a waste of effort.
Whether it's my mom or another engineer, I feel pretty good about telling them XP is a solid OS that can do what they need. (likewise with IE)
I feel the same way about Debian and Mozilla. Last time I checked you could get a CD set for $8, and it comes with more text editors and spread sheets than you know what to do with. Oh yeah, it also can't be remotly exploited as easily, has no built in spys and has no demeaning click through submissions. By the same token, I feel confined, badgered and disrepected anytime I'm forced to use M$ software and it's pathetic single screen, network unaware GUI. Some people do strange things to their mom, not me.
isn't DRM all about protecting content (personal information) based on the wishes of the owner of that content?
DRM is about someone else claiming ownership of your computer as a condition for listening to music or watching a movie. That ownership extends to everything you put onto that machine. This is the exact oposite of digital privacy. The idea is well devined in M$'s EULAs espeially for Media Player. It was demonstrated here.
Reasonable privacy of data can only be assured by demand and true ownership of computers by their owners. You should not do business with information rapists who demand the ability to collect and distribute information that has little to do with product quality. Laws should be passed requiring companies to state what information they collect and who they share it with so that people can have their preferences. If you and those companies don't really own your computer, all the above efforts are in vain. The real owner can collect and use the information and lie about how they got it.
DRM is evil, pure and simple. My privacy is better gaurded by not having a machine loaded with spys. You know that, don't you?
gave up the ability to have privacy when I started using the internet in 1994. From that point on I have assumed that I am a public figure and anyone can know anything about me.
I bank online, pay my bills online, and pay my taxes online.
Wow, what a troll. Did you give up privacy in snail mail because anyone can open an envelope? Because you bank online, you are willing to have a webcam in your toilet? OK fine for you, but don't force that choice on the rest of us. Your attitude is dangerous and so is Mr. Kanellos's.
What you and Michael Kanellos gloss over is the difference between data that's being made available. Public records online? Great, it spares everyone a walk to the courthouse. What I look like when I'm pissed kept by the government? No thanks, that's a pointless waste of my money as well as invasive and abusive. It's currently against the law to publish another person's recognizable likeness for comercial purposes. Not distinguishing between the kinds of data that are useful and those that are harmful creates fear about the ability to publish and the recording instuments themselves.
The biggest problem is not too much publication but too little. Imaging in the future will be pervasive and so should publication. Cameras are already small enough that hours of full video and audio can be recorded by a device that fit's into your pocket. They will only get smaller and cheaper. We should all be able to share what we record with our friends and the world. Discresion should remain a thing of private manners. Kiss and tell has always been looked down on but it's never been against the law nor should it. Already reactionary idiots are trying to limit who can run mail and web servers. The kinds of fears Mr. Kanellos raises falls right into their hands. Irrational fears will be used to abuse indivduals, companies will continue their abuses while the rest of us are silenced and unable to complain about it.
I chose to expand my web presence and all of the good things it has brought me. New peer groups, contact with my family and friends, better news service and better communications all around. I also chose to keep others, private and public, from abusing information about me. I can encrypt my email and everyone should. This kind of thing will bring greater communciation because the media will be trusted as private. To paraphrase Rhodes, no natural resource can save a people who violate the post and lack respect for each other.
An insulting anonymous coward asks me, What color is the sky in your world, fanboy?
It's a beautiful cloudless blue with a little atmospheric moisture giving it a characteristic whiteness in Baton Rouge today. I can tell you this because I'm not bussy fixing M$ crap today. It's so nice outside, I think I'll go for a bike ride this afternoon. Where do you want to go today, shill?
Hire contractors, and pay for software vendors because if there is a mistake you just dump the blame onto them, cut ties, and your job is secure.
That mindset has always been silly and now it's dangerous. What happens to a moron who keeps buying stuff that sucks when he could get stuff that works for much less? Hmmm? The test case implementations of Linux enterprise wide are out and enough people know about them that it's in Forbes and the Economist read by the big dogs. The folks mindlessly clinging to M$ are going to be reduced to very few and fired. They can then go home and practice with pirated XP junk till the BSA hauls them to jail.
You say If you even proposed that deal I would bet that MS would tell you to get lost. "What are you going to do? Not use Office?"
The answer is yep. Open Office today, Debian/Red Hat and KOffice next year with Star Office here and there to deal with those pesky hold outs still suffering under M$. Open Office can get you over the immediate pain and suffering while M$ get's it's act together. Once M$ does, tell your employees to move their work they could not get at under Open Office to forms they can use. Once your data is liberated you won't ever get stuck again or feel compelled to bend over for M$ licensing. Migrate now.
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Yeah?
Instead of saying "palladium is evil", we should be pushing for comparatively open implementations.
No, Palladium is evil. You can't get around the fact that Microsoft's planned hardware domination is evil by wishing it did things it won't. M$ does not deserve to be "engaged" because, as a condition of using their software, they have demanded the right to seach through your files and delete those they feel violate copyright. The intent is in the EULA now. If you want authentication, look to kerbos and other real efforts. M$'s efforts are so clumsy paranoid and lock down centric, it's doubtful their machines will even run, much less be useful or trusted.
What's more astonishing that you would claim the general population is so ignorant, yet advocate the thing you fear. Then again, three harvard students bought into this whole bogus notion. This is my review of their article.
These three students must be some of those new "grassroots" Microsoft has been trying to buy on campuses. Harvard, that's almost as costly as Tulane, so these three must have been expensive to confuse or corrupt.
Anyone who uses the term "piracy" for unauthorized file violation is clueless to begin with. Other midless gems from these three include:
The author's research is lacking. They reference 17 works, mostly popular press articles with one or two intersting texts. One reference they omitted is Microsoft's EULAs which require forced upgrading and Microsoft's right to search your files and delete those they considercopyright infringing.
Anyone who considers the control Microsoft now demands of it's user's computers could not think that Microsoft would ever extend "protection" to user content or clients programs. They promise to do it now, despite a lack of tools. Chances are that Microsoft will delete all peer to peer client programs they find.
Shame on Harvard. I've got to give this student paper an A for effort and the fluent ability to state the obvious but an F in research and critical reasoning. The music and film industry blinders these students wear prevent them from exploring the use of P2P for anything but "piracy". The whole idea of "trusted computing" aiding "piracy" is a juvenile conivance of wishful thinking. It lacks all the things Universities are supposed to be full of, honesty and critical thinking.
It's amazing how pathetic closed source development is. In the free software world change is not a problem. Putting M$ into the mix is an invitation to global headaches.
One day, a contented M$ exec was looking at his warm, humming data server. After a reboot, he called up a few random addresses of registered M$ users so that he could feel the reach and power of his company. An intern looking over his shoulder asked, "Where's Dublin 2?" and the exec was unable to answer. Realizing the embarassment he caused, the intern wished he could dissapear and later he was fired.
This scheme is a result of that awareness of ignorance - other people knew things the exec did not. The situation must be remedied. It's too bad the intern did not ask his next question, "Who is Sherlock Holmes?" Now we have the proposed M$ address system.
It does not bring enough money and control to Redmond, and it works too well. We must have all mail as easy to abuse as Outlook, as reliable as Windoze and as constant as Word formats. We also need to charge every user $250/year for what used to be free services. In the end, we can call it Microsoft Mail and not allow anyone else to use the term Mail to describe a messaging system.
I knew evil forces were conspiring to make M$ morons out of the big dogs. An attatchment to Word and other horrid programs seems to be part of the clueless indocrtination. I can only imagine what your teachers would tell you about Linux.
are that any laptop will be lucky to survive 4 years of college. Most of our laptops limped through the end of the 2-year program - and it didn't matter whether they were cheap or expensive.
I've got a 10 year old IBM thinkpad and don't see how anyone could destroy it. I got it because I watched one like it survive years of soils data aquisition at the hands of a truck driver who's favorite tool was a hammer. It's a little slow, but I was able to drop in a nice big hard drive and pc card wifi. What do you business dudes do to your laptops?!
I used two three ring binder for my courses. One for notes and handouts, the other for assignments. I wrote dates and page numbers on the notes to keep them in order. Assignments I turned in got into the other binder along with floppies or CDs.
To follow your math joke, your ignorance is obvious.
Online acutions are as obvious as "one click" shopping or the assinity of patenting a numerical algorithm.
"Letting the researchers decide" is a clear means of pushing M$ crap. While we might imagine people spinging up to do the work, M$ is still up to it's tricks and not everyone knows how to set up a cluster. Between a shortage of trained people ready to move and Paladium, M$ stands to suck up sales. NASA and others have shown the way, but M$ has blocked better schemes before. Just look at the last article on running a reasearch lab with free software. The winners were drowned in a sea of astroturf.
Beowulf clusters are the best solution to many problems and individual researchers are building them.
The bottom line for Microsft is that such a policy shift would provide potential platforms for their sales while huring companies like SUN. They know things about Paladium that we don't.
Now they have one more reason to fail, but it has nothing to do with market forces, freedom or the American Way. You telling me I can't do something obvious because you did it first is bogus. I might like to run a trading site for the fun of it, that's they way ebay started. If it makes lots of money, like ebay did, goodie for me. If not, no big deal. Me paying you money for nothing is not something I care to do. Screw off.
All bets are off in a land where people take bribes to do things wrong. If they are having trouble making this big rock, they might not make such good nuke either.
Them's small plants. Most plants make a gigawatt, so it's only equivalent to 18 plants or so. If the generation is confined to one spot, your distribution costs go up, not to mention the massive construction costs already incured. Nukes might have been cheaper than this block headed thing.
You will have to ask the Chinese Communist party for the answer to that question. Flood deaths are a result of bankrupt colective agriculure policies and poor flood protection schemes. A damb is one of many ways to prevent flooding. It may or may not be the best way, but don't pretend the party cares about the Chinese people or that the west does not. A poorly built damn will kill more people than doing nothing and fewer people still would die if the stupid communists would simply let people do as they pleased but provided them with needed information like storm and flash flood warnings.
The other day, I read a story about flights between New York and Miami only taking 2.5 hours. The terrorists, who now make that flight take six hours or more, have won. I'm going to cry in my beer now. I've mostly driven since 9/11 and my one or two flighs involved humiliating searches and unbearable delays.
53F is not far from 43F, the temperature recommended on their web page. If my room were that cold all the time, I might want to warm my beer. In South Louisiana, cold beer is good.
Complex, my foot. It has "privacy policies" and what not, but the temperature is on the first page:
GUINNESS® Draught is best served at 42.8F.
Good stuff tastes good hot or cold. No temperature was marked on my can. -shoves can back under desk-
Insulated undies for those of you inclined to rest that cold beer in your lap. The rest of us will simply drink our beer. Cozies, what a waste of effort.
I feel the same way about Debian and Mozilla. Last time I checked you could get a CD set for $8, and it comes with more text editors and spread sheets than you know what to do with. Oh yeah, it also can't be remotly exploited as easily, has no built in spys and has no demeaning click through submissions. By the same token, I feel confined, badgered and disrepected anytime I'm forced to use M$ software and it's pathetic single screen, network unaware GUI. Some people do strange things to their mom, not me.
DRM is about someone else claiming ownership of your computer as a condition for listening to music or watching a movie. That ownership extends to everything you put onto that machine. This is the exact oposite of digital privacy. The idea is well devined in M$'s EULAs espeially for Media Player. It was demonstrated here.
Reasonable privacy of data can only be assured by demand and true ownership of computers by their owners. You should not do business with information rapists who demand the ability to collect and distribute information that has little to do with product quality. Laws should be passed requiring companies to state what information they collect and who they share it with so that people can have their preferences. If you and those companies don't really own your computer, all the above efforts are in vain. The real owner can collect and use the information and lie about how they got it.
DRM is evil, pure and simple. My privacy is better gaurded by not having a machine loaded with spys. You know that, don't you?
I bank online, pay my bills online, and pay my taxes online.
Wow, what a troll. Did you give up privacy in snail mail because anyone can open an envelope? Because you bank online, you are willing to have a webcam in your toilet? OK fine for you, but don't force that choice on the rest of us. Your attitude is dangerous and so is Mr. Kanellos's.
What you and Michael Kanellos gloss over is the difference between data that's being made available. Public records online? Great, it spares everyone a walk to the courthouse. What I look like when I'm pissed kept by the government? No thanks, that's a pointless waste of my money as well as invasive and abusive. It's currently against the law to publish another person's recognizable likeness for comercial purposes. Not distinguishing between the kinds of data that are useful and those that are harmful creates fear about the ability to publish and the recording instuments themselves.
The biggest problem is not too much publication but too little. Imaging in the future will be pervasive and so should publication. Cameras are already small enough that hours of full video and audio can be recorded by a device that fit's into your pocket. They will only get smaller and cheaper. We should all be able to share what we record with our friends and the world. Discresion should remain a thing of private manners. Kiss and tell has always been looked down on but it's never been against the law nor should it. Already reactionary idiots are trying to limit who can run mail and web servers. The kinds of fears Mr. Kanellos raises falls right into their hands. Irrational fears will be used to abuse indivduals, companies will continue their abuses while the rest of us are silenced and unable to complain about it.
I chose to expand my web presence and all of the good things it has brought me. New peer groups, contact with my family and friends, better news service and better communications all around. I also chose to keep others, private and public, from abusing information about me. I can encrypt my email and everyone should. This kind of thing will bring greater communciation because the media will be trusted as private. To paraphrase Rhodes, no natural resource can save a people who violate the post and lack respect for each other.
It's a beautiful cloudless blue with a little atmospheric moisture giving it a characteristic whiteness in Baton Rouge today. I can tell you this because I'm not bussy fixing M$ crap today. It's so nice outside, I think I'll go for a bike ride this afternoon. Where do you want to go today, shill?
That mindset has always been silly and now it's dangerous. What happens to a moron who keeps buying stuff that sucks when he could get stuff that works for much less? Hmmm? The test case implementations of Linux enterprise wide are out and enough people know about them that it's in Forbes and the Economist read by the big dogs. The folks mindlessly clinging to M$ are going to be reduced to very few and fired. They can then go home and practice with pirated XP junk till the BSA hauls them to jail.
The answer is yep. Open Office today, Debian/Red Hat and KOffice next year with Star Office here and there to deal with those pesky hold outs still suffering under M$. Open Office can get you over the immediate pain and suffering while M$ get's it's act together. Once M$ does, tell your employees to move their work they could not get at under Open Office to forms they can use. Once your data is liberated you won't ever get stuck again or feel compelled to bend over for M$ licensing. Migrate now.