The hardware id is apperantly a 128bit number.
Good luck sweeping a 128bit keyspace for all possible combinations.
Even the chance of finding a few valid id's are slim, and for even that to happen MSFT would have to allow you to do BILLIONS of attempts.
This is not a practical hack, nor a worthwile effort. (It's not nice harassing random strangers by blocking their XBOXen)
I'm sure you can think of something better to do with your time...
...last I checked the US law enforcement agencies reach extended well into Norway, for example. (Remember DeCSS)
Some of the stupider US laws seems to have a more or less global reach.
It's only a matter of time until they disappear entirely [yahoo.com] and are delisted [yahoo.com].
And what do we care? VA isn't linux.
In fact you could bancrupt all commercial linux distributions and linux related companies, and it wouldn't kill linux. Just a setback, and a recoverable one at that.
The only thing that kills an open source project is when the developer community loses interest in it. With linux, I don't see that happening anytime soon...
It was good while it lasted. Guess it's time to stop buying my music and start stealing it like everyone else.:(
That was essentialy an abbreviation of a letter I just sent their local branch. They are digging their own grave, and they are too stupid to see it.
I once bought 10 CD's a month.
Those days are over though.
I will never, ever buy a CD I can't rip to ogg or mp3, to listen to from work, or on my mp3 enabeled phone or on any computer on my home LAN. I don't think I am alone in this.
...is promote OSS in the EU administration and in the member states administration.
It would have the tripple advantage of:
Lower costs. (In the emedium to long run, say 2 years to break even.)
Inject some much needed energy in the IT sector.
Not take the risk of having important EU/state data held "hostage" in proprietary formats. And thus decrease the EU's dependance on a single private and unaccountable foreign entity. (Yes Bill, I am looking at you!)
...oh, yeah, and as a side effect Microsoft would loose significant marketshare in a pretty large market. But I don't think punishment should be the top priority, I would rather see them aim for less vulnerability to future abuses of the MS monopoly.
Keep in mind that there are over 60 thousand employees at Microsoft. All of us have families and mortgages to pay just like you
And what those 60 000 people do, or more to the point, what their executives do effects millions of people all over the world in a negative way.
No wonder people are "anti-microsoft". I have no beef with MS emplyees, but the pracices of MS the company is a daily annoyance to me and gets _me_ home later to _my_ family.
Even if you work at MS you must be blind not to see why a lot of computer professionals have no trouble finding reasons to dislike MS products.
...and of course there is the howling mass of teenage slashroids. They annoy me too sometimes.
No, since he (according to the communist manifesto) doesn't believe in private property he couldn't steal. In a true communism (not that any ever has existed) everything is owned by the community. Thus everything is already yours (and everyone elses too) and can't be stolen.
Well,thats the idea anyway. Noone has been able to implement it since it's, well... human nature to be a greedy sod and wanting more than your neighbor and all that.
I would just love to hear an explanation of that one.
A communist thief is an oxymoron because a communist does not belive in private property.
I can't believe they don't teach this stuff in school, or were you just not paying attention?
If you want to bash communsm, read the communist manifesto. You will probably find it more interresting to disagree with them if you know what they are actually saying? no?
It depends, the right tool for the right job and all that.
Things they are good for:
Tracers are used to direct the fire of rapidly firing weapons, like a machinegun. (ie. instant visual feedback)
Or to point others to a certain target. (ie. squad leader has tracers and direct the squads fire)
The point here is to quickly overwhelm the target with your firepower and destroy them before they fire back effectivly.
Things they are not so good for:
Well, you don't see snipers using them for obvious reason. If you are a soft target and don't have overwhelming firepower you are very much interested in consealing your location, giving it away is suicide, you could as well use the tracer to shoot yourself to save time.
Anyway, as I stated before, I don't like weapons. Not even those with big friggin' lasers that would otherwise be the very definition of coolness;-)
I am not an American.
I am afraid however that the current US administration, with it's focus on using military force to solve issues, will polarize the political climate in the world even further than today and create a really nasty situation for _all_ a few years from now.
This will not be good for anybody, american or otherwise.
Only Al Quaida and their ilk will like it. A polarization between the "christian world" and the "muslim world" is at the top of their wish list.
Mr Rumsfelt and his friends are hard at work making this a reality. Huge mistake. And we might all end up paying for it. They are creating legions of new enemies.
I have actually seen that sign on a live weapon, and whats more, it makes sense to have that much rediculed thing there.
It was a directional mine, and the front and back was reasonably similar except for the sign (that was in embossed so you could feel even if it was to dark to read it properly).
Someone deploying it while under stress might concievably have turned it the wrong way and as a consequence taking out his entire squad if it weren't for that sign.
Sure they look stupid, but those signs actually serve a purpose.
That said, i don't like weapons. Not even if they include a big friggin' laser.
How can libertarianism in any way, shape or form be called "middle"?
If libertarianism isn't extreme I don't know what is. I'm not trying to bash it (at least not today), I'm just sayin it's not in any way in the middle of the political spectra. Not even in the US.
Libertarian ideas are pretty radical by most standards.
...but they can give money with certain conditions attached. Like: "Here, take this $DOLLAR_VALUE, but you'll have to convince us that you'll only buy Intel boxes running MS software. (Thus giving us a substantial amount of $DOLLAR_VALUE back and further entrenching the MS monopoly, while giving us a PR boost.)"
Charity is very often self serving and calculating. It is also a relatively inexpensive complement to advertising. And good PR is essential for any self respecting illegal monopoly.
Use a proxy in the US then. I'm sure you can find one.
One would think that someone who displays the Cult Of The Dead Cow as his/her homepage would know that.
The guy who was shot in sweden lived (though just barely, he took a 9mm in the chest), eventually made a full recovery, went to trial and recieved a harsh sentence for throwing stones at the police.
The guy in italy however was shot in the head and died at the scene.
I had friends at the scene in Sweden, and it was a really fucked up mess. Total chaos, with protesters throwing stones at the police and the police throwing, and finally shooting back. Total confusion with totally innocent people getting in the way.
In some places in Europe (for example Sweden) the licences was handed out for free to those who promised to actually deploy the network the fastest and widest.
Stupid companies made stupid promises, and though they never paid a penny for the licences they still demand a bailout from their own completely voluntary promises from a few years ago.
Hopefully, the governments in those countries will just sit back and let the whiners fail. They dug their own hole, and now they get to sit and sulk in it. Their places will be taken by the more realistic telcos, that didn't promise the princes and half the kingdom for a license and because of that are much better of now. They can always buy their network from the loudmouth companies when they start to bleed.
This is a great example of how things should work. The people get a network, the smart companies trive and the stupid fail. A little darwinism for the corps.
It's a sweet irony that the same companies who are now begging for a bailout are the same ones that used to be the strongest opponents to government involvement in the 90's.
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Count me in!
I'm going to use it as an el cheapo web server and for oggenc when im not gaming.
Huge thanks to the XBox/Linux people.
But I'm bloody well not giving you my email adress.
The hardware id is apperantly a 128bit number.
Good luck sweeping a 128bit keyspace for all possible combinations.
Even the chance of finding a few valid id's are slim, and for even that to happen MSFT would have to allow you to do BILLIONS of attempts.
This is not a practical hack, nor a worthwile effort. (It's not nice harassing random strangers by blocking their XBOXen)
I'm sure you can think of something better to do with your time...
...last I checked the US law enforcement agencies reach extended well into Norway, for example. (Remember DeCSS)
Some of the stupider US laws seems to have a more or less global reach.
...the Haloween document is only available on the XBox.
It's only a matter of time until they disappear entirely [yahoo.com] and are delisted [yahoo.com].
And what do we care?
VA isn't linux.
In fact you could bancrupt all commercial linux distributions and linux related companies, and it wouldn't kill linux.
Just a setback, and a recoverable one at that.
The only thing that kills an open source project is when the developer community loses interest in it.
With linux, I don't see that happening anytime soon...
It was good while it lasted. Guess it's time to stop buying my music and start stealing it like everyone else. :(
That was essentialy an abbreviation of a letter I just sent their local branch. They are digging their own grave, and they are too stupid to see it.
I once bought 10 CD's a month.
Those days are over though.
I will never, ever buy a CD I can't rip to ogg or mp3, to listen to from work, or on my mp3 enabeled phone or on any computer on my home LAN.
I don't think I am alone in this.
Sorry, this is not my mother tongue...
But, yes, the unintended apocalyptic visions are entertaining.
It would have the tripple advantage of:
But I don't think punishment should be the top priority, I would rather see them aim for less vulnerability to future abuses of the MS monopoly.
Keep in mind that there are over 60 thousand employees at Microsoft. All of us have families and mortgages to pay just like you
And what those 60 000 people do, or more to the point, what their executives do effects millions of people all over the world in a negative way. No wonder people are "anti-microsoft".
I have no beef with MS emplyees, but the pracices of MS the company is a daily annoyance to me and gets _me_ home later to _my_ family.
Even if you work at MS you must be blind not to see why a lot of computer professionals have no trouble finding reasons to dislike MS products.
...and of course there is the howling mass of teenage slashroids. They annoy me too sometimes.
No, since he (according to the communist manifesto) doesn't believe in private property he couldn't steal.
,thats the idea anyway. Noone has been able to implement it since it's, well... human nature to be a greedy sod and wanting more than your neighbor and all that.
In a true communism (not that any ever has existed) everything is owned by the community. Thus everything is already yours (and everyone elses too) and can't be stolen.
Well
..."communist thieves" is an oxymoron"...
I would just love to hear an explanation of that one.
A communist thief is an oxymoron because a communist does not belive in private property.
I can't believe they don't teach this stuff in school, or were you just not paying attention?
If you want to bash communsm, read the communist manifesto.
You will probably find it more interresting to disagree with them if you know what they are actually saying? no?
So Saddam would have to wear a big stupid looking reflective hat?
Haha...
Imagine his public appearances, try being taken seriously as an ruthless dictator with that thing on his head.
In particular when they fire on him and his hat lights up like a disco ball and vaporize random bystanders.
Or... would he see that as a good thing?
Things they are good for: Things they are not so good for: Anyway, as I stated before, I don't like weapons. Not even those with big friggin' lasers that would otherwise be the very definition of coolness
I am not an American.
I am afraid however that the current US administration, with it's focus on using military force to solve issues, will polarize the political climate in the world even further than today and create a really nasty situation for _all_ a few years from now.
This will not be good for anybody, american or otherwise.
Only Al Quaida and their ilk will like it.
A polarization between the "christian world" and the "muslim world" is at the top of their wish list.
Mr Rumsfelt and his friends are hard at work making this a reality.
Huge mistake. And we might all end up paying for it.
They are creating legions of new enemies.
I have actually seen that sign on a live weapon, and whats more, it makes sense to have that much rediculed thing there.
It was a directional mine, and the front and back was reasonably similar except for the sign (that was in embossed so you could feel even if it was to dark to read it properly).
Someone deploying it while under stress might concievably have turned it the wrong way and as a consequence taking out his entire squad if it weren't for that sign.
Sure they look stupid, but those signs actually serve a purpose.
That said, i don't like weapons.
Not even if they include a big friggin' laser.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "is hot on ... the notion of zapping people,"
Is it just me, or does this make someone else worried.
That man is kind of scary...
If I'm right, and if the judge sees it too, look for Intentia to win the case and get damages of $1...
Swedish courts traditionally award far less damages than their American counterparts.
Look for something more along the lines of 1 SEK (= 1/9 USD)
;-)
And if you ask me, thats a lot more than they are worth.
What!
Copyright infringement!
Tell BSA to lobby for the immediate use of nukes.
Being a evil dictator was bad, but this is intolerable.
;-)
The questions seemed pretty biased to make anyone a libertarian. I got pretty close, and, trust me, I am no libertarian :-)
Anyway, I like the 2D view on politics used in this quiz. It says a lot more than the stereotypical left-right 1D perspective.
How can libertarianism in any way, shape or form be called "middle"?
If libertarianism isn't extreme I don't know what is.
I'm not trying to bash it (at least not today), I'm just sayin it's not in any way in the middle of the political spectra.
Not even in the US.
Libertarian ideas are pretty radical by most standards.
...but they can give money with certain conditions attached.
Like:
"Here, take this $DOLLAR_VALUE, but you'll have to convince us that you'll only buy Intel boxes running MS software. (Thus giving us a substantial amount of $DOLLAR_VALUE back and further entrenching the MS monopoly, while giving us a PR boost.)"
Charity is very often self serving and calculating.
It is also a relatively inexpensive complement to advertising.
And good PR is essential for any self respecting illegal monopoly.
I have two!
One at work (15") and one at home (18.1").
Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
On the downside my fastest box at home is a 450MHz PIII.
It's all about priorities...
I obviously prefer a nice fat screen that is restful for the eyes to a fast computer. I mean, it's not like emacs is hard on the cpu or anything.
Use a proxy in the US then.
I'm sure you can find one.
One would think that someone who displays the Cult Of The Dead Cow as his/her homepage would know that.
The guy who was shot in sweden lived (though just barely, he took a 9mm in the chest), eventually made a full recovery, went to trial and recieved a harsh sentence for throwing stones at the police.
The guy in italy however was shot in the head and died at the scene.
I had friends at the scene in Sweden, and it was a really fucked up mess. Total chaos, with protesters throwing stones at the police and the police throwing, and finally shooting back. Total confusion with totally innocent people getting in the way.
The aftermath is still playing out in the courts.
In some places in Europe (for example Sweden) the licences was handed out for free to those who promised to actually deploy the network the fastest and widest.
Stupid companies made stupid promises, and though they never paid a penny for the licences they still demand a bailout from their own completely voluntary promises from a few years ago.
Hopefully, the governments in those countries will just sit back and let the whiners fail. They dug their own hole, and now they get to sit and sulk in it.
Their places will be taken by the more realistic telcos, that didn't promise the princes and half the kingdom for a license and because of that are much better of now.
They can always buy their network from the loudmouth companies when they start to bleed.
This is a great example of how things should work. The people get a network, the smart companies trive and the stupid fail.
A little darwinism for the corps.
It's a sweet irony that the same companies who are now begging for a bailout are the same ones that used to be the strongest opponents to government involvement in the 90's.