Re:Speed and direction?
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Fine then. You're grounded!
Seriously though - a friend of mine has two kids, 13 and 15. They didn't know what a record even was. Or a cassette tape! She pulled out a box of her old music and they rooted through it like it was straight from Area 51.
Speed and direction?
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Suddenly, everyone under the age of 25 was terribly confused. CDROMs only spin one way, and the read speed doesn't change the playback.
The artist (or whomever they have signed away their ownership rights to..) is the owner of the music. The whole system is fucked, so people justify ripping off the corporation, which in turn rips off the artist
If you, as a musician, are willing to do business with people who you admit are ripping you off right at the get-go, I have no sympathy for you. Give these goons fifteen bucks so you can get your dime? Not a chance in hell.
if the choice was between having advertising unremovably intertwined with your free (illegal) music
There is the problem in a nutshell. You've come up with a fantastic idea! Now, how do you implement it?
Build ads into the P2P app? Hackers will have an anti-advert patch out inside of two days. Besides, nobody sits and watches their P2P app anyways. Mingle it with the MP3 files? Use Audacity and clip those bits out.
Exactly how are you going to force someone to watch advertising?
Maybe I'm taking you too literally here, but remember that no fuel cell system aimed at the mass market take pure hydrogen as an input, mainly because of it's inherent danger (think Hindenburg).
I can name another substance which is also seriously dangerous. Flammable, volatile, explosive, and has additives that cause cancer. Can also spontaneously combust in the presence of some common chemicals, like Drano.
I mean, it's not like anyone out there actually has a disassembler or anything. If there was anything worth digging for in their binary drivers, someone would have disassembled that bit and posted it as code already.
Seriously, I've always wondered how someone can do it. The RIAA, this assistant principal...anyone.
How do they know, beyond a resonable doubt, who did it?
Seems like in this case you'd need logs from Myspace on what user and IP address did the deed. Then, you'd need logs from the ISP to match the IP to the account. Then, you'd need to prove which computer had that IP. And then, you'd need to prove who was actually on it at the time. And finally, wouldn't you have to prove that the box wasn't hacked/owned by someone else at the time?
It seems like you'd always have a reasonable doubt defense. "Your Honor, granted the attack came from my machine, but it wasn't me. I found a Zotob worm on my machine, and this person at high school who doesn't like me is always in the computer lab..."
And the better question is why not? Provided that there is sufficient judicial oversight, why shouldn't VOIP coversations of suspected criminals be monitored?
Well, I haven't argued anywhere that they shouldn't be monitored. It's not the judicial oversight that worries me. It's the technical oversight.
Let me clarify my objections a bit. In order for this hack to work, some authorized person has to sneak something onto your system. And as soon as it's on your system....it's on your system. You have it. If you find it and can figure out what it is, nothing is stopping you from using it on other people. In short, it's only a matter of time until the hackers DO get it. And then they'll be listening in on VOIP.
To summarize the summary, this is wildly irresponsible. I can't believe people smart enough to write this software are dumb enough to think they can contain it. Absolute morons, I'd call them.
the 'Superintendant Trojan', a spyware program designed to allow eavesdropping on VoIP conversations
Ok, so it's spyware. It sneaks onto a system and installs itself. Gotcha. That moves us to point two:
it will only be distributed to investigation agencies in the hopes of keeping it out of the hands of malicious hackers
Ok. Got it. So to sum up, what they're saying is that they don't want anyone to get it, but they need to install it on a target's system in order for it to work. And a target would be someone the law was interested in who was computer literate. Like, say....hackers, for instance.
A company can contract to China where they pay workers less than our minimum wage. It would be illegal here, but not there. So they move the work to China. Or Mexico. Effectively bypassing an American law.
But it's different for people. For example, an American cannot go to Amsterdam, then come home and test positive and keep their job. Or even better yet, read up on Dmitry Sklyarov. A Russian citizen that broke an American law on Russian soil. Then had the bad fortune to come here. And get arrested for it!
Unreachable for us. Maybe not unreachable for them.
IMHO, what we don't know about physics is probably much larger than what we do know. And any civilization with a few million years to sit around and think about it might know more about the topic than us.
The last job I quit was meetings-happy. They were a small engineering shop, maybe a dozen people. And they all manufactured and programmed a very simple line of widgets. Maybe a dozen models, two cpus. One of them was a 8051 just to let you know how simple these widgets are. There were 3 code bases common to the widgets. Really - no big deal.
So...how do you keep that many people busy on such simple crap? Filler Meetings.
We would have daily meetings. And progress meetings. And status meetings! The status meetings were the worst. Nevermind the fact that you could do 95% of that through email - we would be summoned all to a big room. And all 12 guys would have to tell the boss what they're working on, how long it would take, where they were at, and so on. So you'd sit in a meeting for 2 hours just to deliver your 10 minutes worth.
Each meeting ended with this one managers arguing with the head of engineering for about a half an hour, as a bonus. It was like watching a married couple argue. We all refered to the argument as EOM, "End of Meeting", the final stage in the meeting handshake protocol.
Meetings, meetings, meetings. Made me NUTS. It always reminded me of this poster, working there.
Honestly, I've had days there where I've spent entire day in meetings. Even though we had a meeting the day before. All over a 8051 driven widget.
Thank The Powers That Be that I no longer work there.
Best one I've personally spent any time with is IDA. Check out all the stuff this thing can do. I'm especially fond of those wingraph charts in the large gif they have there.
Microsoft has released two successive patches aimed at disabling the tool. The first worked--but the hacker, known only by the pseudonym "Viodentia," quickly found a way around the update, the company alleges. Now the company says this was because the hacker had apparently gained access to copyrighted source code unavailable to previous generations of would-be crackers.
Um, hello? People have been disassembling code to disable copy protection since the first days of the warez scene. You don't need the source. All the source does is speed things up a bit.
Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at 3.16GHz, said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer
So it's some sort of Pentium-ish beastie with 80 floating point units, not an 80 core CPU.
Although, I could easily find a use for either one. Just off the top of my head, an 80 FPU machine would be an excellent science/simulation machine. And it'd probably make some fairly decent graphics for games. You could use that much floating point for voice recognition without taxing your machine very much. You wouldn't need a special graphics card anymore either - just allocate a dozen or so FPU units to plotting 3D graphics and simply stamping them into a display memory buffer.
An 80 core machine would be excellent for system simulation. Imagine things like Wine and VMware running with that much elbow room. Or you could split the taskload up for networked applications like WETA's render lab. The whole render lab would fit on a desktop.
More computing power is always better. Well, until The Terminator finally makes it back to Intel's lab and smashes the prototype, anyways.
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Fine then. You're grounded!
Seriously though - a friend of mine has two kids, 13 and 15. They didn't know what a record even was. Or a cassette tape! She pulled out a box of her old music and they rooted through it like it was straight from Area 51.
Suddenly, everyone under the age of 25 was terribly confused. CDROMs only spin one way, and the read speed doesn't change the playback.
I really fail to see what incentive a cracker would have in making someone's legitimate copy of Vista appear to be illigitament.
To answer your question, please read this. To summarize, some people are flat-out bastards.
The artist (or whomever they have signed away their ownership rights to..) is the owner of the music. The whole system is fucked, so people justify ripping off the corporation, which in turn rips off the artist
If you, as a musician, are willing to do business with people who you admit are ripping you off right at the get-go, I have no sympathy for you. Give these goons fifteen bucks so you can get your dime? Not a chance in hell.
if the choice was between having advertising unremovably intertwined with your free (illegal) music
There is the problem in a nutshell. You've come up with a fantastic idea! Now, how do you implement it?
Build ads into the P2P app? Hackers will have an anti-advert patch out inside of two days. Besides, nobody sits and watches their P2P app anyways. Mingle it with the MP3 files? Use Audacity and clip those bits out.
Exactly how are you going to force someone to watch advertising?
People on this site must be 2 years old.
It's called sarcasm, my man. Check into it. Like anyone with a Mac would buy a Zune. Here's $200, buy a vowel.
Microsoft should ship each Zune with a Mac virus.
Maybe I'm taking you too literally here, but remember that no fuel cell system aimed at the mass market take pure hydrogen as an input, mainly because of it's inherent danger (think Hindenburg).
I can name another substance which is also seriously dangerous. Flammable, volatile, explosive, and has additives that cause cancer. Can also spontaneously combust in the presence of some common chemicals, like Drano.
Gasoline.
I mean, it's not like anyone out there actually has a disassembler or anything. If there was anything worth digging for in their binary drivers, someone would have disassembled that bit and posted it as code already.
Finally, judges being clueless about software played into our hands for once. He probably took those two disks home and put them in his toaster.
...now, who you gonna get with enough cash to buy a lawyer and challenge it?
It's a shame, but that's how it works.
"The Bene Gesserit witch must leave!"
Virtual cardboard crack.
Seriously, I've always wondered how someone can do it. The RIAA, this assistant principal...anyone.
How do they know, beyond a resonable doubt, who did it?
Seems like in this case you'd need logs from Myspace on what user and IP address did the deed. Then, you'd need logs from the ISP to match the IP to the account. Then, you'd need to prove which computer had that IP. And then, you'd need to prove who was actually on it at the time. And finally, wouldn't you have to prove that the box wasn't hacked/owned by someone else at the time?
It seems like you'd always have a reasonable doubt defense. "Your Honor, granted the attack came from my machine, but it wasn't me. I found a Zotob worm on my machine, and this person at high school who doesn't like me is always in the computer lab..."
Safedisc. Or Discguard. Or Safecast. Or SecuROM. Or...
Oh hell. Here's the list of those who have gone before.
And the better question is why not? Provided that there is sufficient judicial oversight, why shouldn't VOIP coversations of suspected criminals be monitored?
Well, I haven't argued anywhere that they shouldn't be monitored. It's not the judicial oversight that worries me. It's the technical oversight.
Let me clarify my objections a bit. In order for this hack to work, some authorized person has to sneak something onto your system. And as soon as it's on your system....it's on your system. You have it. If you find it and can figure out what it is, nothing is stopping you from using it on other people. In short, it's only a matter of time until the hackers DO get it. And then they'll be listening in on VOIP.
To summarize the summary, this is wildly irresponsible. I can't believe people smart enough to write this software are dumb enough to think they can contain it. Absolute morons, I'd call them.
Two things stand out right away. Point one:
the 'Superintendant Trojan', a spyware program designed to allow eavesdropping on VoIP conversations
Ok, so it's spyware. It sneaks onto a system and installs itself. Gotcha. That moves us to point two:
it will only be distributed to investigation agencies in the hopes of keeping it out of the hands of malicious hackers
Ok. Got it. So to sum up, what they're saying is that they don't want anyone to get it, but they need to install it on a target's system in order for it to work. And a target would be someone the law was interested in who was computer literate. Like, say....hackers, for instance.
I love things that are broken by design.
And I can prove it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Exhibit 1. Mansquito.
At least that's how I interpret it.
A company can contract to China where they pay workers less than our minimum wage. It would be illegal here, but not there. So they move the work to China. Or Mexico. Effectively bypassing an American law.
But it's different for people. For example, an American cannot go to Amsterdam, then come home and test positive and keep their job. Or even better yet, read up on Dmitry Sklyarov. A Russian citizen that broke an American law on Russian soil. Then had the bad fortune to come here. And get arrested for it!
unreachably distant point of light
Unreachable for us. Maybe not unreachable for them.
IMHO, what we don't know about physics is probably much larger than what we do know. And any civilization with a few million years to sit around and think about it might know more about the topic than us.
Check out this giant fly attacking Mt. St. Helens!
The last job I quit was meetings-happy. They were a small engineering shop, maybe a dozen people. And they all manufactured and programmed a very simple line of widgets. Maybe a dozen models, two cpus. One of them was a 8051 just to let you know how simple these widgets are. There were 3 code bases common to the widgets. Really - no big deal.
So...how do you keep that many people busy on such simple crap? Filler Meetings.
We would have daily meetings. And progress meetings. And status meetings! The status meetings were the worst. Nevermind the fact that you could do 95% of that through email - we would be summoned all to a big room. And all 12 guys would have to tell the boss what they're working on, how long it would take, where they were at, and so on. So you'd sit in a meeting for 2 hours just to deliver your 10 minutes worth.
Each meeting ended with this one managers arguing with the head of engineering for about a half an hour, as a bonus. It was like watching a married couple argue. We all refered to the argument as EOM, "End of Meeting", the final stage in the meeting handshake protocol.
Meetings, meetings, meetings. Made me NUTS. It always reminded me of this poster, working there.
Honestly, I've had days there where I've spent entire day in meetings. Even though we had a meeting the day before. All over a 8051 driven widget.
Thank The Powers That Be that I no longer work there.
That's fantastic. =)
Best one I've personally spent any time with is IDA. Check out all the stuff this thing can do. I'm especially fond of those wingraph charts in the large gif they have there.
Source code? Pfft. Who needs it?
A disassembler.
I mean come on! Really! Read this from TFA:
Microsoft has released two successive patches aimed at disabling the tool. The first worked--but the hacker, known only by the pseudonym "Viodentia," quickly found a way around the update, the company alleges. Now the company says this was because the hacker had apparently gained access to copyrighted source code unavailable to previous generations of would-be crackers.
Um, hello? People have been disassembling code to disable copy protection since the first days of the warez scene. You don't need the source. All the source does is speed things up a bit.
Not that I'd know anything about that. *ahem*
From TFA:
Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at 3.16GHz, said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer
So it's some sort of Pentium-ish beastie with 80 floating point units, not an 80 core CPU.
Although, I could easily find a use for either one. Just off the top of my head, an 80 FPU machine would be an excellent science/simulation machine. And it'd probably make some fairly decent graphics for games. You could use that much floating point for voice recognition without taxing your machine very much. You wouldn't need a special graphics card anymore either - just allocate a dozen or so FPU units to plotting 3D graphics and simply stamping them into a display memory buffer.
An 80 core machine would be excellent for system simulation. Imagine things like Wine and VMware running with that much elbow room. Or you could split the taskload up for networked applications like WETA's render lab. The whole render lab would fit on a desktop.
More computing power is always better. Well, until The Terminator finally makes it back to Intel's lab and smashes the prototype, anyways.