The point you missed, I think, is that you can also overwrite an existing firmware. You'd have to be halfway insane to do so, as there's still no way to bring back a truly bricked console (sans something like an Infectus chip), but there's no technical reason I'm aware of that you couldn't patch the various IOS versions _in place_ to ignore the DVD checks. Frankly, from the descriptions I've read, it doesn't even seem that hard to do if you've got the right skills.
So, you're right that this custom IOS isn't going to enable softmod-style piracy on its own, but it's almost certainly an indicator that it'll be possible by the end of the year, and probably widespread by mid-2009.
I work for AOL-TWX, and the folks who bought it last time got significantly more generous severance packages than that during the lay-offs, like "4 months paid". Clearly, there's no iron-clad rule. I'd stick around.
Folks need to mod the parent up, because (s)he's right on the money, including the metaphor. This is a visual chat room generator, not a SL competitor.
Totally agree. I'd only add that it's not even just your CS skills that'll matter when you're 45 - the non-technical abilities to communicate effectively, manage your time, advocate for projects, etc. are probably just as important to getting things done as how fast you can hammer out a line of C, draw a UML diagram, design an algorithm, or whatever. The loner, anti-social tech geek is probably not the personality that successful software engineers and programmers will want to take...
Also, the work force is nice in that your extra-curric skills _do_ count for more than they did getting into college. So if you go learn Linux backwards and forwards through attending a LUG or something, that's going to be a tremendous asset to you.:)
Who modded this as informative? The parent is plain wrong - it's the PLAYERS which all must implement mandatory support for profile 2.0, not the discs.
Besides, profile 2.0 discs are backwards-compatible with profile 1.0 and profile 1.1 players. If you buy a 1.0 or 1.1 player, it'll play those 2.0 discs just fine, albeit without some of the extra features (which are of debatable value so far anyways). Manufacturers will only be allowed to make profile 2.0 players, but your old player should work fine with new discs.
I was hoping HD-DVD would win, but that doesn't excuse FUD about BR-D. There's enough non-FUD to criticize it with without resorting to distortions of fact.
"How exactly do I get internet streaming radio in my car? Or uncensored music / talk broadcasts?"
Your cellphone, of course. Any 3G phone has way more than the necessary bandwidth to support those applications. Latency isn't a factor in this sort of application.
Very true. City-wide WiFi makes very little sense given how US cell providers are trying quite hard to roll-out 3G/3.5G/4G services. Right now, those are a little on the expensive side, but competition and better technology will eventually drive them lower.
Hotspots are a bit more sensible, but I still think those will eventually disappear with ubiquitous cell phone data coverage.
"The other reason is: civilian cryptography is NOT the NSA's story. "
If that's actually the reason it's not in there, they need to rename the place "The NSA Museum". The current name, however, is "The National Cryptologic Museum", and they should be covering all things cryptological - including the civilian side of things. It's not the technology that matters so much as the applications and the legal issues. Even just covering the issues PGP had with foreign export laws would have been enlightening.
But, even moreso, you've just described why civilian crypto applies to an "NSA Museum". NSA has suggested slight tweaks to algorithms more than once, from what I understand, and these have sometimes had startling revelations in terms of enhanced security more than a decade later. Clipper, if anyone remembers that fiasco, also had NSA involvement. Love them or hate them (I admit to more of the former), but they've had a serious presence on the civilian side of things, even if indirect.
However, I can say for a fact that I know that the folks in charge of the museum know about this particular criticism, so we can hope that they change their minds.
Gygax's biggest impact, setting-wise, was Greyhawk. How many video games are based off Greyhawk? None, as far as I know.
He left before AD&D 2E, and AD&D 1E was horrifically broken as a rules system. The gold box games succeeded in spite of the system, not because of it.
The reason that the SSI / Bioware / Black Isle games succeeded was not because of the D&D rules, but because of good writing, good settings, and good programming. The D&D connection is mostly peripheral. Witness Fallout's success even after divorcing itself from GURPS for an example of why this is true.
I asked the question, and, yeah, I was not terribly impressed with the answer. It was nice to hear them acknowledge 3.5E as a mistake - that alone might get me to consider 4E.
There's absolutely no reason for me to put someone away if I can be personally punished for making a mistake, but not be personally rewarded for making the right decision.
AOL is a major player in the sender community - if you had ever gone to MAAWG's conferences, you'd know that. The fact that they're not terribly popular on Slashdot is meaningless. In fact, I'd argue that Google's relatively closed-mouth approach to working with the sending community makes them _less_ relevant than AOL, Yahoo, and the other players.
Preface: nothing I say is the official word of my employer, nor do I represent their views. This is all my personal opinion.
Speaking as someone who's actually privy to the details of DKIM implementation at a major ISP, the bank is going to want us to discard that email, or at the very least, toss it in the junk folder. You won't even see that email, most likely, and if you do, it's going to be in a place to make you _very_ suspicious of it. Most likely, the bank will also be telling you to disregard all non-DKIM-signed communications, too.
DKIM isn't the perfect solution. Neither is SPF. But when you take the two of those together and then start applying some of the interesting work that's being done on reputation systems, you have something which might be surprisingly effective against spammers, because it actually makes use of _cryptographic_ security instead of some easily-forged headers.
Any mailer who wants to get ahead of the curve should implement SPF now (it'll take all of ten minutes for most mailers) and then start looking into getting DKIM going. DKIM is still a bit off, but it's definitely something you will want to do when it becomes feasible.
As far as I'm aware, that's not true. Microsoft ditched the "two separate kernel paths" paradigm with Windows XP. Longhorn _should_ be just a derivative of Vista, albeit a much more polished one. The system is pretty obvious at this point - consumer release (XP), server release (Server 2003), consumer release (Vista), server release (Server 2008). All they're doing is putting the newer Server 2008 kernel into Vista, no different than upgrading my kernel in Linux.
I'm definitely open to someone with a source correcting me, though.
This is basically the same argument as "why have cell phone service? Let's just have TCP/IP data and let people run VoIP over it!", except you'd substitute VoIP for "multicast video streaming". I think, eventually, we'll get there, but one thing at a time.
I think you need to distinguish between racial hatred (often unearned by individuals) and individual dislike (by individuals who earned it).
I forgive Bobby Fischer in the sense that I don't want him burning in hell on my account. That's not the same as me loving him and actually being sad that he's gone.
I don't know his friends and family. Let them cry for him, not me. I'm not going to be some insincere Slashdotter who pretends he cares about everyone on earth when he really doesn't.
And I don't dream of winning some grand chess match - I dream of improving the world in far more direct ways than some meaningless chess game. I don't even see how you can think that his world championship somehow makes up for the hate that he spewed later on. He may have made the world a slightly better place, but he screwed it up and made it a slightly worse place.
There are good people for you to cry over. Bobby Fischer is not one of them.
When did "neurotic" come to mean "hateful and bigoted"? Stalin led the USSR to victory in WWII - that doesn't mean I'm going to start eulogizing the guy, because we all know what a total bastard he was in so many other ways.
I never said anything bad about Bobby Fischer, but judging from the articles I'm seeing, he's said plenty bad about me as a Jewish-American. Why should I shed tears over the guy? Or is it somehow different when you spew rhetoric against groups rather than individuals?
"For me it's not worth it. I get a bigger thrill out of seeing my networth rise then I would out of driving a fancier car."
I find it absolutely fascinating that you apparently seem to think there's some sort of moral superiority when a "rising networth" (aka, money) gives you pleasure than things.
I'm fiscally responsible, too - but it's what you do with money that should be the goal, not accumulating it. That's my opinion, anyways.
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The point you missed, I think, is that you can also overwrite an existing firmware. You'd have to be halfway insane to do so, as there's still no way to bring back a truly bricked console (sans something like an Infectus chip), but there's no technical reason I'm aware of that you couldn't patch the various IOS versions _in place_ to ignore the DVD checks. Frankly, from the descriptions I've read, it doesn't even seem that hard to do if you've got the right skills.
So, you're right that this custom IOS isn't going to enable softmod-style piracy on its own, but it's almost certainly an indicator that it'll be possible by the end of the year, and probably widespread by mid-2009.
I work for AOL-TWX, and the folks who bought it last time got significantly more generous severance packages than that during the lay-offs, like "4 months paid". Clearly, there's no iron-clad rule. I'd stick around.
Folks need to mod the parent up, because (s)he's right on the money, including the metaphor. This is a visual chat room generator, not a SL competitor.
I _completely_ agree, and this is easily the most insightful post I've seen on the topic in a year or two.
Totally agree. I'd only add that it's not even just your CS skills that'll matter when you're 45 - the non-technical abilities to communicate effectively, manage your time, advocate for projects, etc. are probably just as important to getting things done as how fast you can hammer out a line of C, draw a UML diagram, design an algorithm, or whatever. The loner, anti-social tech geek is probably not the personality that successful software engineers and programmers will want to take...
:)
Also, the work force is nice in that your extra-curric skills _do_ count for more than they did getting into college. So if you go learn Linux backwards and forwards through attending a LUG or something, that's going to be a tremendous asset to you.
Actually, I take it back - players have to be mandatory 1.1. Same stuff applies, though.
Who modded this as informative? The parent is plain wrong - it's the PLAYERS which all must implement mandatory support for profile 2.0, not the discs.
Besides, profile 2.0 discs are backwards-compatible with profile 1.0 and profile 1.1 players. If you buy a 1.0 or 1.1 player, it'll play those 2.0 discs just fine, albeit without some of the extra features (which are of debatable value so far anyways). Manufacturers will only be allowed to make profile 2.0 players, but your old player should work fine with new discs.
I was hoping HD-DVD would win, but that doesn't excuse FUD about BR-D. There's enough non-FUD to criticize it with without resorting to distortions of fact.
Totally agree. Besides, a little ruthlessness can be an asset in some situations... and in some situations, too much altruism can be harmful.
"How exactly do I get internet streaming radio in my car? Or uncensored music / talk broadcasts?"
Your cellphone, of course. Any 3G phone has way more than the necessary bandwidth to support those applications. Latency isn't a factor in this sort of application.
Very true. City-wide WiFi makes very little sense given how US cell providers are trying quite hard to roll-out 3G/3.5G/4G services. Right now, those are a little on the expensive side, but competition and better technology will eventually drive them lower.
Hotspots are a bit more sensible, but I still think those will eventually disappear with ubiquitous cell phone data coverage.
"The other reason is: civilian cryptography is NOT the NSA's story. "
If that's actually the reason it's not in there, they need to rename the place "The NSA Museum". The current name, however, is "The National Cryptologic Museum", and they should be covering all things cryptological - including the civilian side of things. It's not the technology that matters so much as the applications and the legal issues. Even just covering the issues PGP had with foreign export laws would have been enlightening.
But, even moreso, you've just described why civilian crypto applies to an "NSA Museum". NSA has suggested slight tweaks to algorithms more than once, from what I understand, and these have sometimes had startling revelations in terms of enhanced security more than a decade later. Clipper, if anyone remembers that fiasco, also had NSA involvement. Love them or hate them (I admit to more of the former), but they've had a serious presence on the civilian side of things, even if indirect.
However, I can say for a fact that I know that the folks in charge of the museum know about this particular criticism, so we can hope that they change their minds.
I don't normally whore out my blog, but here we go with a post about my own trip there:
http://david.zakar.com/blog/?p=118
Relevant section:
"This leads into my two biggest complaints about the museum:
* There is basically no substantial coverage of post-Korean War crypto.
* There is absolutely no coverage of civilian advancements and events."
I'm glad that they fixed the former, but did they finally give civilian advancements their due?
I'd argue otherwise to the videogames, honestly.
Gygax's biggest impact, setting-wise, was Greyhawk. How many video games are based off Greyhawk? None, as far as I know.
He left before AD&D 2E, and AD&D 1E was horrifically broken as a rules system. The gold box games succeeded in spite of the system, not because of it.
The reason that the SSI / Bioware / Black Isle games succeeded was not because of the D&D rules, but because of good writing, good settings, and good programming. The D&D connection is mostly peripheral. Witness Fallout's success even after divorcing itself from GURPS for an example of why this is true.
I asked the question, and, yeah, I was not terribly impressed with the answer. It was nice to hear them acknowledge 3.5E as a mistake - that alone might get me to consider 4E.
Correction: it'll end all convictions, period.
There's absolutely no reason for me to put someone away if I can be personally punished for making a mistake, but not be personally rewarded for making the right decision.
AOL is a major player in the sender community - if you had ever gone to MAAWG's conferences, you'd know that. The fact that they're not terribly popular on Slashdot is meaningless. In fact, I'd argue that Google's relatively closed-mouth approach to working with the sending community makes them _less_ relevant than AOL, Yahoo, and the other players.
Preface: nothing I say is the official word of my employer, nor do I represent their views. This is all my personal opinion.
Speaking as someone who's actually privy to the details of DKIM implementation at a major ISP, the bank is going to want us to discard that email, or at the very least, toss it in the junk folder. You won't even see that email, most likely, and if you do, it's going to be in a place to make you _very_ suspicious of it. Most likely, the bank will also be telling you to disregard all non-DKIM-signed communications, too.
DKIM isn't the perfect solution. Neither is SPF. But when you take the two of those together and then start applying some of the interesting work that's being done on reputation systems, you have something which might be surprisingly effective against spammers, because it actually makes use of _cryptographic_ security instead of some easily-forged headers.
Any mailer who wants to get ahead of the curve should implement SPF now (it'll take all of ten minutes for most mailers) and then start looking into getting DKIM going. DKIM is still a bit off, but it's definitely something you will want to do when it becomes feasible.
As far as I'm aware, that's not true. Microsoft ditched the "two separate kernel paths" paradigm with Windows XP. Longhorn _should_ be just a derivative of Vista, albeit a much more polished one. The system is pretty obvious at this point - consumer release (XP), server release (Server 2003), consumer release (Vista), server release (Server 2008). All they're doing is putting the newer Server 2008 kernel into Vista, no different than upgrading my kernel in Linux.
I'm definitely open to someone with a source correcting me, though.
This is basically the same argument as "why have cell phone service? Let's just have TCP/IP data and let people run VoIP over it!", except you'd substitute VoIP for "multicast video streaming". I think, eventually, we'll get there, but one thing at a time.
"Which is the difference: Microsoft taxes the economy without adding value, while Apple introduces products people voluntarily buy."
Please. I can't buy Mac hardware without buying MacOS X. That's lock-in, too.
I think you need to distinguish between racial hatred (often unearned by individuals) and individual dislike (by individuals who earned it).
I forgive Bobby Fischer in the sense that I don't want him burning in hell on my account. That's not the same as me loving him and actually being sad that he's gone.
I don't know his friends and family. Let them cry for him, not me. I'm not going to be some insincere Slashdotter who pretends he cares about everyone on earth when he really doesn't.
And I don't dream of winning some grand chess match - I dream of improving the world in far more direct ways than some meaningless chess game. I don't even see how you can think that his world championship somehow makes up for the hate that he spewed later on. He may have made the world a slightly better place, but he screwed it up and made it a slightly worse place.
There are good people for you to cry over. Bobby Fischer is not one of them.
When did "neurotic" come to mean "hateful and bigoted"? Stalin led the USSR to victory in WWII - that doesn't mean I'm going to start eulogizing the guy, because we all know what a total bastard he was in so many other ways.
I never said anything bad about Bobby Fischer, but judging from the articles I'm seeing, he's said plenty bad about me as a Jewish-American. Why should I shed tears over the guy? Or is it somehow different when you spew rhetoric against groups rather than individuals?
I addressed your point about alternative ports, if you had bothered to read what I wrote:
"since any halfway decent spam fighting software views emails that contains URLs with non-standard ports as "high likelihood spam"."
"For me it's not worth it. I get a bigger thrill out of seeing my networth rise then I would out of driving a fancier car."
I find it absolutely fascinating that you apparently seem to think there's some sort of moral superiority when a "rising networth" (aka, money) gives you pleasure than things.
I'm fiscally responsible, too - but it's what you do with money that should be the goal, not accumulating it. That's my opinion, anyways.