This will really help to prevent that one single copy of a movie that needs to be made for the bittorrent/emule/whatever crowd.
Yes, one single copy. I guess thats too hard to understand. They can add all the protection mechanisms they want, once a single copy is made somehow (and there are people that LIVE just for removing those mechanisms) it will be out on the net and that is that.
It's only 2005 though, can't expect them to give up their analog mindset just yet.
One analyst opines that Mircosoft is appearing to soften its image to become kinder and gentler. 'They don't want people to hate them anymore. They've learned from their mistakes.' Hmmm."
Yes, renaming the company is a good, first step.
Dunno if that croatian naming touch will get them very far though...
Probably don't want to have to rebuy all their corporate "M$" branded coffee mugs, calendars and Mercedes-Benz's...
So observers coming along and looking at the environment in order to get a picture of the world tend to see the same 'preferred' states.
Techno-speak for "rose-tinted-glasses"?
Seriously though, thinking about it makes your brain hurt: Did the scientists working on this create the necessary state "they preferred" inadvertently in order to discover the state they wanted to see?
...between online roleplaying and other games, even online ones is the amount of time needed to get "into the game" every time you play.
If I compare my Everquest addiction (which is over) to my Counter-Strike addiction (which is being revived) I'd say that I can pop in for a quick game of CS, but just as quickly log out again and go off to some social activity, whereas EQ would keep me tied to the screen.
The problem with EQ (and AO, DAoC, whatever) is that you need on average around an hour just to get going in the game. You need to get to some place where you can kill something, find a group, wait for friends, etc etc...
Once you enter the high level game in any online RPG you will have to sacrifice even more time. 24-hour non-stop playing sessions of a 50+ member guild for some rare item are not uncommon in the very high end game.
THAT's when your life starts going down the drain...
... what the correct way to treat a Celine Dion CD is.
Summary of article:
a.) Buy black marker
b.) paint underside of CD completely black
Next up: The correct way to treat your boy group cds.
a.) Buy some acetone
b.)...
10,000 years from now, some sort of asimovian space society will inhabit the earth. A bunch of history students will read through this debate while doing research in the united earth standard library and laugh their asses off.
Here are a couple of things mentioned in these comments as likely occurrence during the next 10,000 years.
* slaves
* wooden tools
* cannibalism
* greens;)
HEY SPACE PEOPLE! I KNEW BETTER! NOW GO AND UNFREEZE ME FROM THE CRYOGENICS LAB ALREADY!!
I have a "broadband" internet connection by Valve's definition, which is to have at least 256KB/s.
I have 768KB/s DSL. Using Steam is not exactly fast.
Downloading the newest Counter-Strike Beta (1.4) via Steam took about 30 minutes, on a weekday, outside of any peak internet usage as far as I can tell.
This would be bearable, since you only have to do it once and occassionally upgrade to newer versions.
What really bugs me though is that it takes five times (I clocked it) longer to get into the game than connecting to a Counter-Strike 1.3 server. Now why the hell does that have to be?
On a tangent, I'd care less if it would take 10 times as long to connect if the touted anti-cheat features actually work.
Being from Germany, maybe I can describe my perceptions of the "local angle" here.
The German Government is likely less altruistic than people suspect here. The danger is clearly for German/European businesses being spied upon by you-know-who.
If you read the original release, you'll notice (near the bottom) the initiative is by the ministry of economics. They are trying to create awareness for IT security in the German corporate environment.
Maybe German politicians figured out that criminals (political radicals, organized crime, etc.) are already using crypto, so they have little to lose by having businesses adopt crypto on a large scale...
Your mileage may vary, just my 0.02, yadda yadda...
Finally! A PC with the meagre performance of a laptop/notebook, a heftier pricetag and it carries around as well as a small japanese car.
Oh wait...
Seriously though, I recently had to decide between a notebook and a new PC. After giving it some serious thought, I came to the conclusion that I need to be able to move my machine easily from one place to the next every few weeks, but I do not need to use it while in transit between those places...
You'd be surprised to how many people this applies that think they need a notebook.
I opted for a 1Ghz Duron in the smallest quality case I could find, mx2-400, 256Megs of RAM, 100Gig WD drive, a combined DVD-Read/CD-Burner plus assorted other goodies including foremost a very good 15" TFT screen (for easier transportation than a CRT) and paid a mere $1k.
A notebook with the same specs would have set me back pretty much by $2k.
No contest there...
In all fairness, there are some downsides:
For one, I opted for a powerful but not very silent CPU cooler, since I don't trust to AMD CPUs playing nice in small cases. Also, I've sacrificed a bit of performance by chosing the ECS K7S5A mobo, but I couldn't resist on-board network and audio for $75.
I'm all for building smaller PCs, but not if I could build a pyramid of notebooks for the same money...
It actually appears quite low-flame and balanced, and unlike some Linux vs. Windows comparisons, goes into decent detail rather than just glib generalizations.
The problem with your logic is that Slashdot is a free service. You don't really have any right to complain about it at all - let alone about something so trivial as story categories.
I have another free service... it's called the Ramone service.
A guy called Ramone comes around your house and punches you in the face.
It's a free service so please don't complain;)
Also available: The Ramone Diet (guess what happens if he catches you with a burger) or The Ramone Non-Smoking plan (You don't want to know where he shoves the cigarette, trust me).
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Don't forget to export your morality with the laptops.
67 kW? Thats nice. Another 933 kW and we can mount it on my Cobra Mark III.
"DRM or die!"?
What is that? Famous last words?
Seems more like "support what your users want or die!" to me.
Cue braindead lawsuit by the tech-unsavvy against Mozilla in 5..4..3..2..
This will really help to prevent that one single copy of a movie that needs to be made for the bittorrent/emule/whatever crowd.
Yes, one single copy. I guess thats too hard to understand. They can add all the protection mechanisms they want, once a single copy is made somehow (and there are people that LIVE just for removing those mechanisms) it will be out on the net and that is that.
It's only 2005 though, can't expect them to give up their analog mindset just yet.
... welcome our new sheep overlords!
One analyst opines that Mircosoft is appearing to soften its image to become kinder and gentler. 'They don't want people to hate them anymore. They've learned from their mistakes.' Hmmm."
Yes, renaming the company is a good, first step.
Dunno if that croatian naming touch will get them very far though...
Probably don't want to have to rebuy all their corporate "M$" branded coffee mugs, calendars and Mercedes-Benz's...
So observers coming along and looking at the environment in order to get a picture of the world tend to see the same 'preferred' states.
Techno-speak for "rose-tinted-glasses"?
Seriously though, thinking about it makes your brain hurt: Did the scientists working on this create the necessary state "they preferred" inadvertently in order to discover the state they wanted to see?
...between online roleplaying and other games, even online ones is the amount of time needed to get "into the game" every time you play.
If I compare my Everquest addiction (which is over) to my Counter-Strike addiction (which is being revived) I'd say that I can pop in for a quick game of CS, but just as quickly log out again and go off to some social activity, whereas EQ would keep me tied to the screen.
The problem with EQ (and AO, DAoC, whatever) is that you need on average around an hour just to get going in the game. You need to get to some place where you can kill something, find a group, wait for friends, etc etc...
Once you enter the high level game in any online RPG you will have to sacrifice even more time. 24-hour non-stop playing sessions of a 50+ member guild for some rare item are not uncommon in the very high end game.
THAT's when your life starts going down the drain...
set mode(Nelson(Simpsons)==true)
point finger at Micro$oft.
Hah-Hah!
... what the correct way to treat a Celine Dion CD is. Summary of article: a.) Buy black marker b.) paint underside of CD completely black Next up: The correct way to treat your boy group cds. a.) Buy some acetone b.) ...
10,000 years from now, some sort of asimovian space society will inhabit the earth. A bunch of history students will read through this debate while doing research in the united earth standard library and laugh their asses off.
;)
Here are a couple of things mentioned in these comments as likely occurrence during the next 10,000 years.
* slaves
* wooden tools
* cannibalism
* greens
HEY SPACE PEOPLE! I KNEW BETTER! NOW GO AND UNFREEZE ME FROM THE CRYOGENICS LAB ALREADY!!
I wasn't going to watch the movie. EpI pissed me off to much.
What I _will_ do now is download EpII off of IRC and fast forward through it.
...I'm not sold on "Steam" yet.
I have a "broadband" internet connection by Valve's definition, which is to have at least 256KB/s.
I have 768KB/s DSL. Using Steam is not exactly fast.
Downloading the newest Counter-Strike Beta (1.4) via Steam took about 30 minutes, on a weekday, outside of any peak internet usage as far as I can tell.
This would be bearable, since you only have to do it once and occassionally upgrade to newer versions.
What really bugs me though is that it takes five times (I clocked it) longer to get into the game than connecting to a Counter-Strike 1.3 server. Now why the hell does that have to be?
On a tangent, I'd care less if it would take 10 times as long to connect if the touted anti-cheat features actually work.
Being from Germany, maybe I can describe my perceptions of the "local angle" here.
The German Government is likely less altruistic than people suspect here. The danger is clearly for German/European businesses being spied upon by you-know-who.
If you read the original release, you'll notice (near the bottom) the initiative is by the ministry of economics. They are trying to create awareness for IT security in the German corporate environment.
Maybe German politicians figured out that criminals (political radicals, organized crime, etc.) are already using crypto, so they have little to lose by having businesses adopt crypto on a large scale...
Your mileage may vary, just my 0.02, yadda yadda...
Here's the google cache for the front page.
Here is the google cache for the linked article in the submission.
...now you might have to do without sunlight to be secure!
What is this sunlight you speak of?
... is Attack Of The Clones going to be if they're milking out the franchise with guitars now?
Lucas: "Quick, sell some more Star Wars licenses, no matter to whom - we can't delay the movie much longer!"
Which part of that article do I understand?
</Fry>
Citing a gamespot article is like linking to the NRA to prove that guns aren't dangerous.
/. you're preaching to the choir, so who cares.
It just won't convince anyone who believes otherwise.
Of course, here at
Note: I don't think guns or video games are dangerous or cause violence. I firmly believe those things can always be traced back to stupid people.
Isn't this another reason why source-based distros like Gentoo or Sorcerer should be given more consideration?
Surely a distro that compiles to your specific hardware during installation would solve this problem.
Or am I missing something extremely important?
...women have been abandoning the show in droves.
.!!!
But they've got Richard Dean Anderson
What would Patty and Selma say?
Hooray for progress!
...
Finally! A PC with the meagre performance of a laptop/notebook, a heftier pricetag and it carries around as well as a small japanese car.
Oh wait
Seriously though, I recently had to decide between a notebook and a new PC. After giving it some serious thought, I came to the conclusion that I need to be able to move my machine easily from one place to the next every few weeks, but I do not need to use it while in transit between those places...
You'd be surprised to how many people this applies that think they need a notebook.
I opted for a 1Ghz Duron in the smallest quality case I could find, mx2-400, 256Megs of RAM, 100Gig WD drive, a combined DVD-Read/CD-Burner plus assorted other goodies including foremost a very good 15" TFT screen (for easier transportation than a CRT) and paid a mere $1k.
A notebook with the same specs would have set me back pretty much by $2k.
No contest there...
In all fairness, there are some downsides:
For one, I opted for a powerful but not very silent CPU cooler, since I don't trust to AMD CPUs playing nice in small cases. Also, I've sacrificed a bit of performance by chosing the ECS K7S5A mobo, but I couldn't resist on-board network and audio for $75.
I'm all for building smaller PCs, but not if I could build a pyramid of notebooks for the same money...
It actually appears quite low-flame and balanced, and unlike some Linux vs. Windows comparisons, goes into decent detail rather than just glib generalizations.
/.?
So why exactly is this story on
=)
The problem with your logic is that Slashdot is a free service. You don't really have any right to complain about it at all - let alone about something so trivial as story categories.
... it's called the Ramone service.
;)
I have another free service
A guy called Ramone comes around your house and punches you in the face.
It's a free service so please don't complain
Also available: The Ramone Diet (guess what happens if he catches you with a burger) or The Ramone Non-Smoking plan (You don't want to know where he shoves the cigarette, trust me).