Fixing a security hole in a piece of software is (usually) fairly straightforward and inexpensive. Fixing a hole in a building's security can cost alot of time and money in renovation, planning, construction, etc.
The problem with telling people about this bill, as previously stated, is that they just don't care. You can give someone a perfect schpiel on the massive downsides to this legislation and they'll just look at you and say "so?"
I wrote an editorial for my highschool's newspaper that was intended to bring this bill to the reader's attention, and get them to realize that this is a BAD THING. Everyone i had proofread it (not just for spelling and grammar, but to see if the average joe could understand the concepts) said they just didn't care. When the article ran, our newsroom recieved calls asking why this was such a big deal, and telling us that the alarmist tone that the piece was written in was too harsh.
I know several people who want to get into the music industry (as artists) that SUPPORT this bill. They don't want anyone copying their music and not paying for it. And while that is a wish i understand, they refuse to see how this bill does not prevent that.
As long as the yuppies get to drive their SUVs and talk on AIM, they're happy.
Probably my biggest concern with this thing is how long will the screen last? Being rotateable and flexible is cool and all, but that's just asking for something unexpected to happen. It looks pretty easy to snap off.
My Clie's screen has become scratched to HELL from everyday (very light) use, and the screen is not covered under the warranty.
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It'd be cool if they released a memory stick-slot using 802.11b addon. I'd get it for my Clie in a second. Of course, then i'd have to buy another wireless base station for browsing while at school.
Makes me glad i got my Peg 610 when i did. All the cool features of this new model aren't worth the extra $200 or $300, especially for what i use it for.
Yup. They had like one guy doing the port (maybe a few more), and he finished it. Then Sierra pulled the plug and made him give up the source. He probably kept a copy for personal use, of course, but that doesn't help us Mac users.
Wow. Offered a full time programming job at 12? Dayyyyum. I haven't even figured out pointers and arrays, and i'm 16.
The TA thing is a shame, yes. You obviously have some talent and would have been a great aide to the program. Hell, i wish my school taught something other than Visual Basic, let alone run tech camps. How old were you when you were set to go there? 9? 10?
However, you don't really need a job at 12 or 13. An internship? That would be alot better someone who is really interested in the subject, like you or me. But a real job? No. Bosses can be real assholes and take complete advantage of you, not everyone out there is your friend. Those laws are meant to and do protect you.
Some form of job shadowing or limited internship should be offered to young people such as yourself. Don't swet it though, you still have tons of free time; when highschool comes, that will all change.
What happens if the kid voids the contract? I know that he is no longer responsible, but does he have to delete all the source code he's gotten? Does he have to give everything he got from the contract back/up?
Again, before his packets get ANYWHERE, they have to go through that proxy his ISP is running. Setting another proxy would just be sending him through two.
The ammount of data you can cram down the pipe has no bearing on your ping unless you saturate the pipe. And, frankly, Quake packets are TINY. Its the speed of the routers your data has to go through that effects your ping. Why do 56ks suck for gaming? Because they have to convert the signal from digital to analog, and your ISP has to do the opposite. Your nifty cable modem is 100% digital and completely avoids that nasty ms-adding conversion. But you have to go through hardware other than the wires, which is what adds the pings. Put 50 routers on a 100mbit LAN in between 30 computers and the Quake server, and have them all connect and play. See how your pings change.
Whether you have a 1" pipe or a 30ft. pipe, it doesn't matter - a drop is still a drop.
If i understand that correctly, they mean to say that the software part of the copy protection has to be OSS? Wow, very cool. Of course, good luck keeping people from using the open source info to block the copy protection in the hardware.
That is exactly why i'm considering sending my letter in both a handwritten and ASCII form. If they can't read my chicken scratches, there's the nice computer paper for them to enjoy.
Pursuant to our legislation, if the private sector determines that the selected technological solution needs to be updated or modified, they may do so. Such a change might be warranted because the technologies or encoding rules in use have been compromised by hackers or pirates.
What makes Mr. Hollings think that these new technologies won't be cracked again? And exactly what warrants a change? Your precious entertainment industry doesn't make $10 billion in a year?
Or, technological improvements may be developed that ensure greater security for content, or more readily take into account consumers or researchers' fair use expectations.
May be developed? Who is going to develop these technologies? Who is going to pay the creator the liscensing fees to implement them in new devices? Oh, the consumer you say?
...the time has come to achieve a voluntary marketplace solution to the growing threat of online piracy. We have been, and continue to be, eager to work out a voluntary solution, for that is in the best interests of everyone involved,
especially the American consumer.
Voluntary? Last i heard, we didn't have to volunteer to be arrested in order for the cops to slap the cuffs on. What if i don't volunteer to have this piece of trash copy protection installed on my consumer electronics?
I could pick these guys apart some more, but my karma is low enough, i don't wanna make TOO big an ass of myself.
These guys did the necessary kernel hacks to OS X in order to get it running on the legacy Macs, so i wouldn't expect it to take too long for someone to do the same for these boards. I'd LOVE to be able to build my own Mac.
How much of the "over the hill white guy" population do the people who run the tech industry make up? 1, 2% at most? I'd say i was fairly accurate. Ok, i was still being an asshole and generalizing that group of people.
Lemme rephrase my comment:
Congresscritters (all of which are white over the hill males, i believe) are given a choice:
a) fund space exploration and asteroid colission warning programs that, while very significant to the human race (read: our survival) in the future, don't really hold a lot of interest in the eyes of the public. "Hey, we haven't been hit yet, or found any life, why should we care?"
b) use those same funds to bend over and take it from the entertainment industry in exchange for enough cash for a reelection campaign.
So its safe to assume that one of these hitting a well populated area is bad.
Are we sure the blast would be comparable to that of a nuclear explosion? I know the two have been compared before, but do they always translate perfectly?
A crater 700 meters wide means pretty big damage for the surrounding area, right? Is there any info out there on how big of an area would be affected by an impact of that (relatively) small size?
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Well, you could, but it wouldn't make much sense.
Fixing a security hole in a piece of software is (usually) fairly straightforward and inexpensive. Fixing a hole in a building's security can cost alot of time and money in renovation, planning, construction, etc.
The problem with telling people about this bill, as previously stated, is that they just don't care. You can give someone a perfect schpiel on the massive downsides to this legislation and they'll just look at you and say "so?"
I wrote an editorial for my highschool's newspaper that was intended to bring this bill to the reader's attention, and get them to realize that this is a BAD THING. Everyone i had proofread it (not just for spelling and grammar, but to see if the average joe could understand the concepts) said they just didn't care. When the article ran, our newsroom recieved calls asking why this was such a big deal, and telling us that the alarmist tone that the piece was written in was too harsh.
I know several people who want to get into the music industry (as artists) that SUPPORT this bill. They don't want anyone copying their music and not paying for it. And while that is a wish i understand, they refuse to see how this bill does not prevent that.
As long as the yuppies get to drive their SUVs and talk on AIM, they're happy.
Probably my biggest concern with this thing is how long will the screen last? Being rotateable and flexible is cool and all, but that's just asking for something unexpected to happen. It looks pretty easy to snap off.
My Clie's screen has become scratched to HELL from everyday (very light) use, and the screen is not covered under the warranty.
Its "klee-ay."
I thought Sony sold one. Huh.
It'd be cool if they released a memory stick-slot using 802.11b addon. I'd get it for my Clie in a second. Of course, then i'd have to buy another wireless base station for browsing while at school.
The silkscreen buttons are now simulated. A good idea - more screen realestate for things like showing pics.
Makes me glad i got my Peg 610 when i did. All the cool features of this new model aren't worth the extra $200 or $300, especially for what i use it for.
Yup. They had like one guy doing the port (maybe a few more), and he finished it. Then Sierra pulled the plug and made him give up the source. He probably kept a copy for personal use, of course, but that doesn't help us Mac users.
Ok, so when will they get to porting Half-Life to the Mac?
Wow. Offered a full time programming job at 12? Dayyyyum. I haven't even figured out pointers and arrays, and i'm 16.
The TA thing is a shame, yes. You obviously have some talent and would have been a great aide to the program. Hell, i wish my school taught something other than Visual Basic, let alone run tech camps. How old were you when you were set to go there? 9? 10?
However, you don't really need a job at 12 or 13. An internship? That would be alot better someone who is really interested in the subject, like you or me. But a real job? No. Bosses can be real assholes and take complete advantage of you, not everyone out there is your friend. Those laws are meant to and do protect you.
Some form of job shadowing or limited internship should be offered to young people such as yourself. Don't swet it though, you still have tons of free time; when highschool comes, that will all change.
What happens if the kid voids the contract? I know that he is no longer responsible, but does he have to delete all the source code he's gotten? Does he have to give everything he got from the contract back/up?
They want to make it look like they're on the consumer's side.
"We wouldn't want the consumer to get an inferior product! We're on his side! We want him to have the best!"
Again, before his packets get ANYWHERE, they have to go through that proxy his ISP is running. Setting another proxy would just be sending him through two.
The ammount of data you can cram down the pipe has no bearing on your ping unless you saturate the pipe. And, frankly, Quake packets are TINY. Its the speed of the routers your data has to go through that effects your ping. Why do 56ks suck for gaming? Because they have to convert the signal from digital to analog, and your ISP has to do the opposite. Your nifty cable modem is 100% digital and completely avoids that nasty ms-adding conversion. But you have to go through hardware other than the wires, which is what adds the pings. Put 50 routers on a 100mbit LAN in between 30 computers and the Quake server, and have them all connect and play. See how your pings change.
Whether you have a 1" pipe or a 30ft. pipe, it doesn't matter - a drop is still a drop.
Yeah, it'd be cool until some script kiddie DoS's you.
If i understand that correctly, they mean to say that the software part of the copy protection has to be OSS? Wow, very cool. Of course, good luck keeping people from using the open source info to block the copy protection in the hardware.
That is exactly why i'm considering sending my letter in both a handwritten and ASCII form. If they can't read my chicken scratches, there's the nice computer paper for them to enjoy.
Pursuant to our legislation, if the private sector determines that the selected technological solution needs to be updated or modified, they may do so. Such a change might be warranted because the technologies or encoding rules in use have been compromised by hackers or pirates.
...the time has come to achieve a voluntary marketplace solution to the growing threat of online piracy. We have been, and continue to be, eager to work out a voluntary solution, for that is in the best interests of everyone involved,
especially the American consumer.
What makes Mr. Hollings think that these new technologies won't be cracked again? And exactly what warrants a change? Your precious entertainment industry doesn't make $10 billion in a year?
Or, technological improvements may be developed that ensure greater security for content, or more readily take into account consumers or researchers' fair use expectations.
May be developed? Who is going to develop these technologies? Who is going to pay the creator the liscensing fees to implement them in new devices? Oh, the consumer you say?
Voluntary? Last i heard, we didn't have to volunteer to be arrested in order for the cops to slap the cuffs on. What if i don't volunteer to have this piece of trash copy protection installed on my consumer electronics?
I could pick these guys apart some more, but my karma is low enough, i don't wanna make TOO big an ass of myself.
... feel really dumb for not catching these jokes?
When i set up my little brother's Hotmail account i chose to keep him off of that list. He still recieves gobs of spam every day.
Well, they've ported Darwin to the x86 architecture, but everything that makes OS X special (read: Aqua) is closed-source and will remain PPC-only.
I was just thinking about this.
These guys did the necessary kernel hacks to OS X in order to get it running on the legacy Macs, so i wouldn't expect it to take too long for someone to do the same for these boards. I'd LOVE to be able to build my own Mac.
Ok, here goes my karma (or what's left of it):
How much of the "over the hill white guy" population do the people who run the tech industry make up? 1, 2% at most? I'd say i was fairly accurate. Ok, i was still being an asshole and generalizing that group of people.
Lemme rephrase my comment:
Congresscritters (all of which are white over the hill males, i believe) are given a choice:
a) fund space exploration and asteroid colission warning programs that, while very significant to the human race (read: our survival) in the future, don't really hold a lot of interest in the eyes of the public. "Hey, we haven't been hit yet, or found any life, why should we care?"
b) use those same funds to bend over and take it from the entertainment industry in exchange for enough cash for a reelection campaign.
Which do they choose?
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So its safe to assume that one of these hitting a well populated area is bad.
Are we sure the blast would be comparable to that of a nuclear explosion? I know the two have been compared before, but do they always translate perfectly?
A crater 700 meters wide means pretty big damage for the surrounding area, right? Is there any info out there on how big of an area would be affected by an impact of that (relatively) small size?