We open at the gates of some airforce base, somewhere.
The armed guard at the gate stops a car that tried to slip passed the checkpoint without the proper stickers.
"Let me in! I need to see your computers"
"Which computers? and let's see some identification."
"All of your computers."
"I don't see you on our list.. you can turn around right here"
"I'm not on your list, this is a suprise audit"
"We don't do suprises here. What are you looking for on our computers?"
"We're looking for...uh.. illegal software"
"Step over here please. *picks up radio* Colonel, we have detained a possible threat to national security. He was trying to sneak in and look at our computers... yeah, something about illegal software..."
Or you can be productive and secure at the same time by getting a second or third monitor. I'd like to see them try and use this on me, with my 3 monitor xinerama setup.
"Is the MCP still around, only he's calling himself Windows?"
No, Tron 2.0 takes place outside of the computer now.. and the MCP is an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) now. It's also been reclassified from Fantasy to Horror.
" Any real determined thief won't mess with the locks when the car's covered in breakable glass;)"
It really depends on what the thief wants to steal. If he wants your stereo, he'll happily smash a window to take it. If he wants your car, he won't smash a window. Replacing a smashed window will cost you $100-$200. A brand new stolen car will sell for $500-$1000 to a chopshop (yes, a $50,000 vehicle will only fetch $1000). It's too expensive to break a window.
It all comes down to the value of the item being protected. If the cost of the item isn't that much more than the cost of stealing it, then people won't bother. If stealing it damages the item too much (broken windows or crappy quality VCDs) people won't bother. DRM companies need to figure that out.
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well i don't know about you, but I don't have a phone jack right next to my TV. And my wife frowns on my stringing phone cord throughout the house.
So I have two choices... use one of those horrible "add an extention" plugs that plugs into a power socket, or use 802.11b capabilities.
" Have a look into a Toslink digital audio connector some time. It's using a plain old LED to transmit information. It looks to the naked eye like it's on solid, there's no flicker whatsoever. What would you "think" if you saw that? Your gut reaction is totally off base here."
No I agree with him! And remotes too! There's no way remotes can work. I press the button on the remote, and I don't see any light. Infrared? Nah I don't believe that any electrical device can see things that I can't!
All disney has to do is expand the Copyright term by 4 more years and we can pounce on them!
Jacob Grimm died in 1863. Disney's Snow White and the 7 dwarves came out in 1937. That's 74 years later.
All Disney needs to do is expand the copyright term by 4 more years and we can point out that if this copyright term had been in effect when Disney started out, they wouldn't have been able to make the world's first full length animated feature film.
I always find it ironic that Disney makes such a big deal about copyright, yet they made their living off other people's past-copyrighted work. Snow White, Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty.
Disney owes their livelihood to public domain works.. particularly The Grimm Brothers' intellectual property.
This is actually a win32 worm, with a.net virus payload.
" On PCs loaded with Windows XP and other.Net-enabled computers, however, Sharpei would additionally infect files in four other folders. If those files were opened, the virus would run again."
The.net half is a true virus, and spreads among.net executables.
So fix the blurb before we get 4 billion posts talking about GPL violations.. oops. too late.
That being said, read the reviews on download.com, people are not happy at all with the new version. Although that doesn't say much since most of them are obviously clueless.. (half of them said "why fix it if it wasn't broken?" aparently missing the fact that it WAS broken.)
"Frank, sourceforge needs more hits... we'll need to buy a few banner ads"
"Nah, I've got a better idea, why not post an Ask Slashdot question where the most obvious answer is 'sourceforge'? Like 'where can I find a bunch of open source developers?'"
It was a pretty funny aution. The seller had put up a completely white picture and said "I've tried to take several pictures of it.. but every picture comes out completely white. it's as if some power is overexposing the film". He also had a little note at the bottom of the auction "Note: Will not sell to Nazies or other evil men".
127.0.0.1 is too obvious... and they may filter that out.
However, since most people don't know that the entire 127 block is loopback, why not use 127.5.49.56 or something like that? It looks like a real ip... yet it's exactly the same as 127.0.0.1
People make the mistake of thinking A=B thus B=A. when it comes to peer review and security. It's not that type of relationship though
Peer review doesn't guarrantee security.. but lack of peer review guarrantee's a lack of security.
Open source has the potential to be secure because it has peer review. (Again, there's no guarrantee that anyone will look at the code, or if they do, find any or all security flaws that exist in the code).
Closed source cannot possiblity be secure because it lacks peer review.
That's how it boils down.
Open source _could_ be secure.
Closed source _can't_ be secure.
If it'll make you feel better, everyone on sourceforge can offer a money-back guarrantee.:)
I think that's the most you'll ever see in terms of liability. "If this software doesn't do what it's supposed to, can I return it and get a full refund?"
You think that the makers of space heaters are getting sued? After all, place a space heater near some curtains and you'll burn down your house.
Of course not.. they slap a warning sticker on the box and they've covered their ass. Slap a warning sticker on software... "This software is presented AS-IS", and you're fine (yes, even Microsoft)
But money-back guarrantees if the software fails to perform as advertised could be a more common occurrance (even if the company doesn't provide a money back guarrantee, you may be entitled to one in the future).
I actually recieved this email (I run a project on sourceforge). I didn't fill it out, but I had thought about it.
They did some good trolling.. they refered to the project by name, said that the project was related to the survey they were doing, etc etc.
As far as the 34% of SF developers versus 2.4% of the LK list... that's easy. Not everyone who reads the Linux Kernel mailing list is a developer.. but nearly everyone who runs a sourceforge project is.
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"Future Crew reassembled, broke up, faded out, tried to get into the games biz, etc. Their site has been offline for awhile."
What do you mean "tried" to get into the games biz? Who do you think created Max Payne? Remedy Entertainment was created by 4 Future Crew members.
As far as the rest of the demo scene is concerned.. it's still very much alive.. and Assembly is still held every year.
So what you're saying is Lomberg is making predictions about a several billion year old weather system with less than 350 years worth of viable data?
No wonder there are sceptics.
God I'd love to see that.
...uh.. illegal software"
We open at the gates of some airforce base, somewhere.
The armed guard at the gate stops a car that tried to slip passed the checkpoint without the proper stickers.
"Let me in! I need to see your computers"
"Which computers? and let's see some identification."
"All of your computers."
"I don't see you on our list.. you can turn around right here"
"I'm not on your list, this is a suprise audit"
"We don't do suprises here. What are you looking for on our computers?"
"We're looking for
"Step over here please. *picks up radio* Colonel, we have detained a possible threat to national security. He was trying to sneak in and look at our computers... yeah, something about illegal software..."
Or you can be productive and secure at the same time by getting a second or third monitor. I'd like to see them try and use this on me, with my 3 monitor xinerama setup.
"Is the MCP still around, only he's calling himself Windows?"
No, Tron 2.0 takes place outside of the computer now.. and the MCP is an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) now. It's also been reclassified from Fantasy to Horror.
" Any real determined thief won't mess with the locks when the car's covered in breakable glass ;)"
It really depends on what the thief wants to steal. If he wants your stereo, he'll happily smash a window to take it. If he wants your car, he won't smash a window. Replacing a smashed window will cost you $100-$200. A brand new stolen car will sell for $500-$1000 to a chopshop (yes, a $50,000 vehicle will only fetch $1000). It's too expensive to break a window.
It all comes down to the value of the item being protected. If the cost of the item isn't that much more than the cost of stealing it, then people won't bother. If stealing it damages the item too much (broken windows or crappy quality VCDs) people won't bother. DRM companies need to figure that out.
well i don't know about you, but I don't have a phone jack right next to my TV. And my wife frowns on my stringing phone cord throughout the house.
So I have two choices... use one of those horrible "add an extention" plugs that plugs into a power socket, or use 802.11b capabilities.
" Have a look into a Toslink digital audio connector some time. It's using a plain old LED to transmit information. It looks to the naked eye like it's on solid, there's no flicker whatsoever. What would you "think" if you saw that? Your gut reaction is totally off base here."
No I agree with him! And remotes too! There's no way remotes can work. I press the button on the remote, and I don't see any light. Infrared? Nah I don't believe that any electrical device can see things that I can't!
" Your unwarranted presupposition is why this article is so interesting. My first reaction too was 'there's no way.'"
That's odd, my first reaction was "What are people doing in my closet?!"
Unless people can scan LED lights through walls, I think i'm good.
All disney has to do is expand the Copyright term by 4 more years and we can pounce on them!
Jacob Grimm died in 1863. Disney's Snow White and the 7 dwarves came out in 1937. That's 74 years later.
All Disney needs to do is expand the copyright term by 4 more years and we can point out that if this copyright term had been in effect when Disney started out, they wouldn't have been able to make the world's first full length animated feature film.
I always find it ironic that Disney makes such a big deal about copyright, yet they made their living off other people's past-copyrighted work. Snow White, Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty.
Disney owes their livelihood to public domain works.. particularly The Grimm Brothers' intellectual property.
This is actually a win32 worm, with a .net virus payload.
.Net-enabled computers, however, Sharpei would additionally infect files in four other folders. If those files were opened, the virus would run again."
.net half is a true virus, and spreads among .net executables.
" On PCs loaded with Windows XP and other
The
So fix the blurb before we get 4 billion posts talking about GPL violations.. oops. too late.
That being said, read the reviews on download.com, people are not happy at all with the new version. Although that doesn't say much since most of them are obviously clueless.. (half of them said "why fix it if it wasn't broken?" aparently missing the fact that it WAS broken.)
You want to know why no one called you back?
"God/Emporer Of Networing"
Not only is it a flippant remark, but you've misspelled all of the words which were longer than 3 letters.
People make jokes about spelling and grammar nazis on slashdot, but if you misspell anything on your resume, you're not going to get the job.
I have a policy not to give money to homeless people. You know they're just going to waste it on booze and cigarettes.
If anyone is going to waste my money on booze and cigarettes, it's going to be me, dammit.
"Frank, sourceforge needs more hits... we'll need to buy a few banner ads"
"Nah, I've got a better idea, why not post an Ask Slashdot question where the most obvious answer is 'sourceforge'? Like 'where can I find a bunch of open source developers?'"
"Great.. I'll get right on it.."
"Text based isn't better than graphics"
...and we all know the movie is always better than the book.. right?
Here is a little news blurb about it.
It was a pretty funny aution. The seller had put up a completely white picture and said "I've tried to take several pictures of it.. but every picture comes out completely white. it's as if some power is overexposing the film". He also had a little note at the bottom of the auction "Note: Will not sell to Nazies or other evil men".
In related news, Napster settles all of it's lawsuits by sending the plaintiffs an old jar full of pennies found in the attic.
127.0.0.1 is too obvious... and they may filter that out.
However, since most people don't know that the entire 127 block is loopback, why not use 127.5.49.56 or something like that? It looks like a real ip... yet it's exactly the same as 127.0.0.1
I like 127.127.127.127.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/23/1641216.shtm l
That's the article you're thinking of. Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers.
People make the mistake of thinking A=B thus B=A. when it comes to peer review and security. It's not that type of relationship though
Peer review doesn't guarrantee security.. but lack of peer review guarrantee's a lack of security.
Open source has the potential to be secure because it has peer review. (Again, there's no guarrantee that anyone will look at the code, or if they do, find any or all security flaws that exist in the code).
Closed source cannot possiblity be secure because it lacks peer review.
That's how it boils down.
Open source _could_ be secure.
Closed source _can't_ be secure.
If it'll make you feel better, everyone on sourceforge can offer a money-back guarrantee. :)
I think that's the most you'll ever see in terms of liability. "If this software doesn't do what it's supposed to, can I return it and get a full refund?"
You think that the makers of space heaters are getting sued? After all, place a space heater near some curtains and you'll burn down your house.
Of course not.. they slap a warning sticker on the box and they've covered their ass. Slap a warning sticker on software... "This software is presented AS-IS", and you're fine (yes, even Microsoft)
But money-back guarrantees if the software fails to perform as advertised could be a more common occurrance (even if the company doesn't provide a money back guarrantee, you may be entitled to one in the future).
Well that kind of gives an answer to every javahead that says "Why bother with Mono, when you have J2EE? What a waste of time."
Mono is at least opensource... can you say the same for J2EE? Will you ever be able to say the same?
You're the type of person who calls the cops on the local pirate radio station, aren't you?
I actually recieved this email (I run a project on sourceforge). I didn't fill it out, but I had thought about it.
They did some good trolling.. they refered to the project by name, said that the project was related to the survey they were doing, etc etc.
As far as the 34% of SF developers versus 2.4% of the LK list... that's easy. Not everyone who reads the Linux Kernel mailing list is a developer.. but nearly everyone who runs a sourceforge project is.