Jack Horner the paleontologist has been saying this for several months- he even had a special on TLC where he talked about it and presented his evidence. (I believe that's where CNN got their image from). Why dont they have any mention of him in the article? He's probably the one who suggested this idea in the first place, being the T-rex guy of paleontology. If you do a google search for "jack horner t rex" you find plenty of stories about his research on this particular subject.
a day or 2 ago, i started thinking about the DMCA and how those who support it defend it...
usually, they say something like "its to prevent hackers from learning about and exploiting the weaknesses before we have time to fix them" or some similar reason. fair enough, this is valid; i can see how this would be a good thing for preventing software piracy and that sort of thing.
But, when it comes to security and vulnerability to attack, don't I have a right to know? Did I waive that right in an EULA? I'm pretty sure that if this happened with any other kind of product, the government would swoop down and set things right.
Think about it. What if ford had kept the firestone recall under wraps (this "vulnerability" can "crash" the "application" and we don't want hackers/competitiors to exploit it). Yeah- good plan... But I'm the one riding in it! This situation sounds pretty ridiculous when its a "real world" product and not software.
Has anyone else come to this conclusion or know how consumer protection got written out of the DMCA? I'm scratching my head here.
call me old fashioned, but i hate it when programs use the windows registry- especially the "small" gimmicky ones that i'm probably going to delete in a month anyway.
IMO, unless you write a program that depends heavily on the registry, use an.ini file instead. it makes the program easier to uninstall and makes windows overall less bloaty while you run it.
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Jack Horner the paleontologist has been saying this for several months- he even had a special on TLC where he talked about it and presented his evidence. (I believe that's where CNN got their image from). Why dont they have any mention of him in the article? He's probably the one who suggested this idea in the first place, being the T-rex guy of paleontology. If you do a google search for "jack horner t rex" you find plenty of stories about his research on this particular subject.
a day or 2 ago, i started thinking about the DMCA and how those who support it defend it...
usually, they say something like "its to prevent hackers from learning about and exploiting the weaknesses before we have time to fix them" or some similar reason. fair enough, this is valid; i can see how this would be a good thing for preventing software piracy and that sort of thing.
But, when it comes to security and vulnerability to attack, don't I have a right to know? Did I waive that right in an EULA? I'm pretty sure that if this happened with any other kind of product, the government would swoop down and set things right.
Think about it. What if ford had kept the firestone recall under wraps (this "vulnerability" can "crash" the "application" and we don't want hackers/competitiors to exploit it). Yeah- good plan... But I'm the one riding in it! This situation sounds pretty ridiculous when its a "real world" product and not software.
Has anyone else come to this conclusion or know how consumer protection got written out of the DMCA? I'm scratching my head here.
call me old fashioned, but i hate it when programs use the windows registry- especially the "small" gimmicky ones that i'm probably going to delete in a month anyway. IMO, unless you write a program that depends heavily on the registry, use an .ini file instead. it makes the program easier to uninstall and makes windows overall less bloaty while you run it.