in other news today the FBI raids the offices of SnoSoft in search of DMCA prohibited cracking tools, they immediately sieze compilers, source code, and felt markers.
This guy has obviously developed a system that works for the most part.
It seems to make sense from a logical standpoint, how do we aquire knowledge, by querying those that know, wether it be from books, or people, we generally then reguritate the knowledge found in the book, only people that make discoveries are really doing anything other then this.
This system won't replaced a scientist in ability to learn, but it will replace the average joe who is answering a question not in his field, is most likely just regurgitating knowledge he found from someone else. I find ALICE to be a good commentary on the intelligence of society in general.
How is this article precedent setting, he was selling pirated video games which makes it easy for them to establish that the mod chip's were illegal because he was installing them to allow them to play video games he was selling. It's sort of like a crowbar, its completely legal to have, but if you are breaking into someone house with one its considered B&E equipment. It looks like Sony and the media are trying to focus on the mod chip angle and not the real issue of video game piracy, piracy has always been illegal, and i would doubt that if you're not selling pirated games, they could arrest you for mod chipping.
Why do we need C#, its just a java syntax, with different class names. A different VM, and different byte code. Really it doesn't seem like their is much point to this whole C# business other then when MS feels like it they change the C# license, or start sueing other companies for IP infringement. Doesn't seem like that good of an idea. At least Sun isn't in the market position to start pushing their weight around. Personally, I would rather see development into a better JVM. The.NET framework on linux seems to be just a way for MS to get its hooks into Open Source with out actually having to do anything, we're inviting them in. Does the.NET framework actually provide anything that isn't easily achievable with other tools? I would think that if someone wanted to build extremely fast portable GUI apps they would write them in C/C++ using portable libraries such as GTK. As far as network services go, java seems plenty fast. And speeding up java is probably only a matter of better JVM's and / or compilers. Hopefully the lasting effect of.NET will be to encourage Sun to improve java.
Most of us sped, most people on the road speed. LETS BAN CARS!, Somehow I don't think so. If someone is doing something illegal, charge them. Otherwise, don't pretend their doing something illegal. Have you heard of Fair Use? Even if 90% of the traffic was legal thats no reason to ban the protocol entirely. How would you like it if you couldn't drive because everyone else sped.
ISP's like yours are shit.
Fair Use says I can record something off the radio and use it for myself. Whats the problem if that recording comes off someone else's hard drive. People like your management is why the sound of silence can be copyrighted. I don't have a problem with artists making money for their music. But until they are I don't plan to buy CD's.
I just put Gnome 2 into my system, looks really great, I've been hearing great things about the changes to the API, its much faster tho I havent gotten my Aqua skins to work with it yet:(
I imagine from MS's security attempts that there will be a fatal flaw from a design standpoint that can't be fixed. I would imagine that odds would be in support of a crypto-key embedded in a chip. Now the problem is, if John Doe buys a Paladium system what stops him from using his neighbours information to register with Microsoft, thus becoming Jane Doe. So, now Jane Doe buys a computer and finds she cant register, now they have to swap the keys around, or tell Jane Doe she isnt her. This kind of thing is going to piss alot of people off which probably means that the crypto in the chip will have NVRAM or something else to reprogram it for a new key. Even if this system is secured with PKI it will probably share a common key built into the hardware, as its going be be expensive to custom fab each chip. Or, on the other hand the operating system will have to know how to determine the key. At which point you start to build a distributed.net client for the purpose of cracking the key. Albeit these systems will probably have to be built outside of the US to avoid DMCA, but thankfully OS's like OpenBSD are built outside of the US so there is a good chance of having the knowledge to defeat these crypto systems outside of the US.
"The revenue from software comensates engineers, graphic artists, database programmers, hardware specialists, debuggers and a multitude pof contractors, partners and vendors. In the US , the software sector accounted for approximately 319 million jobs in 2001" I just checked with the Census Bureau and there are only 287 million people in the US, so I guess in addition to everyone being employed in software there are 40 million hidden people working in software. If they cant even check basic facts, I wouldnt want to know what falasies are in the opinion section.
Doesn't per-seat licensing seem to go against the whole of the GNU/Linux spirit.
I mean its one thing to charge for support, thats fine by me. But, why should support cost more if your mail server supports 5 users or 5000 users?
From what I understand UnitedLinux is just a standardization of where things are located and the init style, and possibly a different installer for each distriubtion. So, it essence they would be charging for support, and not development.
Per-seat licensing seems silly to me. It makes me think of email support for Exchange, where the email you send to Microsoft for support actually counts against your daily licensed limit for Emails sent through the MTA.
Microsoft could open source their code in a way that lets them still collect royalties, and lets people make modifications, and if they resell the modifications the person purchasing the modification is required to own the software. I mean it would probably make support hell for the techies having to figure out what patches some idiot put into Outlook. But, I think they could make money and have source code available. I think bare minnimum if they showed the source they would have better security, and a better product with out loosing money. I don't think they'd ever license something GPL. But, hopefully in the future we might see some code on our next Windows CD. And releasing code would probably help get that pesky gov't off their back.
Talking in bars and in public is why people are in jail right now, talking in public removes an expectation of privacy. Before this law if the police saw you dealing drugs on the street corner they could still arrest you. The police monitoring public places doesnt really concern me. ITS PUBLIC. not private. Public by nature is not private and your rights are not being infiringed.
Notice how the article talks about DDR 266 having 2.1GB/sec and DDR333 having 2.7GB/sec. PC1066 has bandwidth effectively equal to DDR 266, and even on his tests the memory seems to give a about a 2% performance advantage. Rambus isn't really a break through, and it will soon be antiquated by cheaper DDR 333 which has 600MB/sec speed advantage over PC1066.
If this is the way these companies want to treat their customers, by denying them their right to watch the movie in a format of their choosing, or simply to to look around and take a peek at whats happening.
In effect the DMCA prevents me from making a DVD player of my own because in order to transmit the video I must break their encryption which they claim is a copy protection device.
Personally, I think if they are going to be like this we should use the resources at our disposal to find other means of media content in a non-encrypted and open environment. Namely USENET's exentsive archive of movies in DIVX and VCD format.
I dont have to go to a movie theatre or to the rental store to get my movies, that is a choice of mine, and if the big labels want my business they should make the movies accessible to me in a format that I can work with. For now, DIVX and VCD are alot more convienent to me then what the big labels are giving me as options to view their movies.
If PanIP got the patents in 1996, doesn't that make sites such as eBay which was created in 1995 as prior art? I'm mean ebay is a pretty good example of prior art for a video-based sales terminal. Or perhaps ATM machines that have been around since the 70's / 80's. I think this case should be a cakewalk.
I really hope that your not refering to me complaining about bribing. I realize that its an in effective system (re: political donations) but it's every person and companies right to donate to a political party, and it turns into a system for bribing, but so be it. Just work with in the system to make it work for us and not them. Because realistically, if people cared enough they have alot more lobby power then the corporations, because corporations don't get votes. I'm not complaining about bribing just saying that we should be the ones out bribing companies like Disney.
You make a good case about how to argue highly-technical (well to vast majority at least) cases. The system really is pooched. And argueing for free speech (or free code) probably isnt going to be recieved well unless its put in the context of books. (ie. if i publish the source code to the DeCSS in a book I can go to jail.) Hmm... maybe one of us should try that so it forces the comglomerates to take a bad case to court.
When I look at the amount of money that Hollywood groups give to Senator Hollings, I think that its an amount that the supporters of the 'open source' movement could match. I think that if everyone who reads slashdot on a regular basis took up a collection for the EFF to be used to 'support' (read: buy off) law makers we could more then equal their buy offs by each donating $10. Personally, I would like to see open source lobby groups show up on the donation sheets of law-makers. What do you think about this idea? I'm willing to talk to the EFF and see if they will setup a pay-pal account for people to donate and help us encourage laws to be written that favour intellectual stimulation.
Windows Extended is one of them. They provide a Windows XP Application Server for you to store your files and stuff on... comes with Office XP.. etc...
http://www.windowsxd.com/
Yeah.... No one understands that proprietary protocols really really suck. Currently I'm trying to get apache to pick up the NTLM username from IE during times when our PDC is down, since users change computers frequently and we have no roaming profiles, I cant set a cookie to pick it up if the PDC is down. End result. When the PDC goes down so does apache.
One interesting thing about the Norrath economy is the low GNU (Gross National Unix) of Norrath, when one looks at the number of clients in the game and the number written for UNIX (0) it is impossible to not come to the conclusion that has Norrath has the lowest GNU in the world. In further notes, Bill Gates announced plans to buy Norrath outright, renaming in MS World v1.0.
Here is an easy way to get DOS from any Windows 9X, into safe mode with command prompt. (DOS) and then attrib -sr msdos.sys (i think thats the attributes you need to remove) and then edit the msdos.sys file you will see a line that says
BootGUI = 1 || BootGui = YES simply change to 0/NO, reapply attributes to the file, and reboot... suddenly you no longer get the Windows GUI. Need windows? Just type win from the command line like in the old 3.1 days
I work as Senior Tech Support, and its not really any big suprise that audio galaxy has spyware... We've known this in the Tech Support world since it came out. Usually the spyware also has a nasty habit of screwing with your TCP/IP stack and associated registry keys that results in the loss of your connection, until you rebuild the registry keys.
Post news in slashdot, not stuff that people in tech support know.
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in other news today the FBI raids the offices of SnoSoft in search of DMCA prohibited cracking tools, they immediately sieze compilers, source code, and felt markers.
This guy has obviously developed a system that works for the most part.
It seems to make sense from a logical standpoint, how do we aquire knowledge, by querying those that know, wether it be from books, or people, we generally then reguritate the knowledge found in the book, only people that make discoveries are really doing anything other then this.
This system won't replaced a scientist in ability to learn, but it will replace the average joe who is answering a question not in his field, is most likely just regurgitating knowledge he found from someone else. I find ALICE to be a good commentary on the intelligence of society in general.
How is this article precedent setting, he was selling pirated video games which makes it easy for them to establish that the mod chip's were illegal because he was installing them to allow them to play video games he was selling.
It's sort of like a crowbar, its completely legal to have, but if you are breaking into someone house with one its considered B&E equipment.
It looks like Sony and the media are trying to focus on the mod chip angle and not the real issue of video game piracy, piracy has always been illegal, and i would doubt that if you're not selling pirated games, they could arrest you for mod chipping.
Mawk Chicken anyone?
Why do we need C#, its just a java syntax, with different class names. A different VM, and different byte code. Really it doesn't seem like their is much point to this whole C# business other then when MS feels like it they change the C# license, or start sueing other companies for IP infringement. Doesn't seem like that good of an idea. At least Sun isn't in the market position to start pushing their weight around. Personally, I would rather see development into a better JVM. The .NET framework on linux seems to be just a way for MS to get its hooks into Open Source with out actually having to do anything, we're inviting them in. Does the .NET framework actually provide anything that isn't easily achievable with other tools? I would think that if someone wanted to build extremely fast portable GUI apps they would write them in C/C++ using portable libraries such as GTK. As far as network services go, java seems plenty fast. And speeding up java is probably only a matter of better JVM's and / or compilers. Hopefully the lasting effect of .NET will be to encourage Sun to improve java.
Most of us sped, most people on the road speed. LETS BAN CARS!, Somehow I don't think so. If someone is doing something illegal, charge them. Otherwise, don't pretend their doing something illegal. Have you heard of Fair Use? Even if 90% of the traffic was legal thats no reason to ban the protocol entirely. How would you like it if you couldn't drive because everyone else sped.
ISP's like yours are shit.
Fair Use says I can record something off the radio and use it for myself. Whats the problem if that recording comes off someone else's hard drive. People like your management is why the sound of silence can be copyrighted. I don't have a problem with artists making money for their music. But until they are I don't plan to buy CD's.
I just put Gnome 2 into my system, looks really great, I've been hearing great things about the changes to the API, its much faster tho I havent gotten my Aqua skins to work with it yet :(
I imagine from MS's security attempts that there will be a fatal flaw from a design standpoint that can't be fixed. I would imagine that odds would be in support of a crypto-key embedded in a chip. Now the problem is, if John Doe buys a Paladium system what stops him from using his neighbours information to register with Microsoft, thus becoming Jane Doe. So, now Jane Doe buys a computer and finds she cant register, now they have to swap the keys around, or tell Jane Doe she isnt her. This kind of thing is going to piss alot of people off which probably means that the crypto in the chip will have NVRAM or something else to reprogram it for a new key. Even if this system is secured with PKI it will probably share a common key built into the hardware, as its going be be expensive to custom fab each chip. Or, on the other hand the operating system will have to know how to determine the key. At which point you start to build a distributed.net client for the purpose of cracking the key. Albeit these systems will probably have to be built outside of the US to avoid DMCA, but thankfully OS's like OpenBSD are built outside of the US so there is a good chance of having the knowledge to defeat these crypto systems outside of the US.
Wait until the RIAA discovers NNTP, or IRC. Soon we won't be able to chat or recieve news in the name of copy protection.
I wonder what the RIAA would do if they found out that you could copy a CD and use a car to transport it.
DOWN WITH CARS!!!
m0rph
"The revenue from software comensates engineers, graphic artists, database programmers, hardware specialists, debuggers and a multitude pof contractors, partners and vendors. In the US , the software sector accounted for approximately 319 million jobs in 2001"
I just checked with the Census Bureau and there are only 287 million people in the US, so I guess in addition to everyone being employed in software there are 40 million hidden people working in software. If they cant even check basic facts, I wouldnt want to know what falasies are in the opinion section.
Doesn't per-seat licensing seem to go against the whole of the GNU/Linux spirit.
I mean its one thing to charge for support, thats fine by me. But, why should support cost more if your mail server supports 5 users or 5000 users?
From what I understand UnitedLinux is just a standardization of where things are located and the init style, and possibly a different installer for each distriubtion. So, it essence they would be charging for support, and not development.
Per-seat licensing seems silly to me. It makes me think of email support for Exchange, where the email you send to Microsoft for support actually counts against your daily licensed limit for Emails sent through the MTA.
Microsoft could open source their code in a way that lets them still collect royalties, and lets people make modifications, and if they resell the modifications the person purchasing the modification is required to own the software. I mean it would probably make support hell for the techies having to figure out what patches some idiot put into Outlook. But, I think they could make money and have source code available. I think bare minnimum if they showed the source they would have better security, and a better product with out loosing money. I don't think they'd ever license something GPL. But, hopefully in the future we might see some code on our next Windows CD. And releasing code would probably help get that pesky gov't off their back.
Talking in bars and in public is why people are in jail right now, talking in public removes an expectation of privacy. Before this law if the police saw you dealing drugs on the street corner they could still arrest you. The police monitoring public places doesnt really concern me. ITS PUBLIC. not private. Public by nature is not private and your rights are not being infiringed.
Notice how the article talks about DDR 266 having 2.1GB/sec and DDR333 having 2.7GB/sec. PC1066 has bandwidth effectively equal to DDR 266, and even on his tests the memory seems to give a about a 2% performance advantage. Rambus isn't really a break through, and it will soon be antiquated by cheaper DDR 333 which has 600MB/sec speed advantage over PC1066.
If this is the way these companies want to treat their customers, by denying them their right to watch the movie in a format of their choosing, or simply to to look around and take a peek at whats happening.
In effect the DMCA prevents me from making a DVD player of my own because in order to transmit the video I must break their encryption which they claim is a copy protection device.
Personally, I think if they are going to be like this we should use the resources at our disposal to find other means of media content in a non-encrypted and open environment. Namely USENET's exentsive archive of movies in DIVX and VCD format.
I dont have to go to a movie theatre or to the rental store to get my movies, that is a choice of mine, and if the big labels want my business they should make the movies accessible to me in a format that I can work with. For now, DIVX and VCD are alot more convienent to me then what the big labels are giving me as options to view their movies.
If PanIP got the patents in 1996, doesn't that make sites such as eBay which was created in 1995 as prior art? I'm mean ebay is a pretty good example of prior art for a video-based sales terminal. Or perhaps ATM machines that have been around since the 70's / 80's. I think this case should be a cakewalk.
I really hope that your not refering to me complaining about bribing. I realize that its an in effective system (re: political donations) but it's every person and companies right to donate to a political party, and it turns into a system for bribing, but so be it. Just work with in the system to make it work for us and not them. Because realistically, if people cared enough they have alot more lobby power then the corporations, because corporations don't get votes. I'm not complaining about bribing just saying that we should be the ones out bribing companies like Disney.
You make a good case about how to argue highly-technical (well to vast majority at least) cases. The system really is pooched. And argueing for free speech (or free code) probably isnt going to be recieved well unless its put in the context of books. (ie. if i publish the source code to the DeCSS in a book I can go to jail.) Hmm... maybe one of us should try that so it forces the comglomerates to take a bad case to court.
When I look at the amount of money that Hollywood groups give to Senator Hollings, I think that its an amount that the supporters of the 'open source' movement could match. I think that if everyone who reads slashdot on a regular basis took up a collection for the EFF to be used to 'support' (read: buy off) law makers we could more then equal their buy offs by each donating $10. Personally, I would like to see open source lobby groups show up on the donation sheets of law-makers. What do you think about this idea? I'm willing to talk to the EFF and see if they will setup a pay-pal account for people to donate and help us encourage laws to be written that favour intellectual stimulation.
Windows Extended is one of them. They provide a Windows XP Application Server for you to store your files and stuff on... comes with Office XP.. etc... http://www.windowsxd.com/
Yeah.... No one understands that proprietary protocols really really suck. Currently I'm trying to get apache to pick up the NTLM username from IE during times when our PDC is down, since users change computers frequently and we have no roaming profiles, I cant set a cookie to pick it up if the PDC is down. End result. When the PDC goes down so does apache.
This sounds like the beginning of a dilbert cartoon. Dilbert is too close to reality to be funny.
One interesting thing about the Norrath economy is the low GNU (Gross National Unix) of Norrath, when one looks at the number of clients in the game and the number written for UNIX (0) it is impossible to not come to the conclusion that has Norrath has the lowest GNU in the world. In further notes, Bill Gates announced plans to buy Norrath outright, renaming in MS World v1.0.
Here is an easy way to get DOS from any Windows 9X, into safe mode with command prompt. (DOS) and then attrib -sr msdos.sys (i think thats the attributes you need to remove) and then edit the msdos.sys file you will see a line that says BootGUI = 1 || BootGui = YES simply change to 0/NO, reapply attributes to the file, and reboot... suddenly you no longer get the Windows GUI. Need windows? Just type win from the command line like in the old 3.1 days
I work as Senior Tech Support, and its not really any big suprise that audio galaxy has spyware... We've known this in the Tech Support world since it came out. Usually the spyware also has a nasty habit of screwing with your TCP/IP stack and associated registry keys that results in the loss of your connection, until you rebuild the registry keys. Post news in slashdot, not stuff that people in tech support know.