I think it's totally within your right to run your open network. Then when somebody uses your open network to cause havoc and destruction, you should be held liable as a facillitator of their crimes. Seems totally fair to me.
How the fuck is this insightful?
Really under this idiot's logic, libraries are a breeding ground for terroists, and some poor librarian has to go to jail is a crime is ever comitted with a library computer.
What about internet cafes? What about calling AOL from a damned payphone? You are full of shit.
Will someone with some sense please mod this guy into oblivion?
Right on. It's all just frickin' McCarthyism.
Seriously, just go through and replace every instance of the word 'terrorist' with the word 'communist'
If you don't agree with them, you're helping the terrorists and therefore are one.
Really, it's amazing.
Does anyone remember that whole rat out your terrorist neighbor program they wanted? Replace terrorist with communist and you'll see who the true enimies of freedom are.
The LAST thing these people need is more information. They had all the infomation they need to stop 9/11 from happening and they fucked it up. They need to get smarter about how they handle the info they do have. (Read as: We need smarter people in charge.)
Your interpretation is wrong.
Nope, yours is.
The reason they put the data on the PC does not dictate what you can do with it, the law does.
You are forgetting about the doctine of first sale. This states that if I buy something copyrighted I am automatically given certain legal rights, unless I sign a contract otherwise. So if when buying a gateway, I don't have to sign a contract, I am given certain rights to all the data on that computer. One of those rights being personal use.
Wrong. Criminals, in general, aren't very good with guns.
Really, they're awful. Do you think the average thug actually takes his 'gat' to the range to practice?
Take your average NRA member and your average violent felon, put them at fifty paces and see who walks away.
The whole "having a gun doesn't help you" thing is a total myth. Just like that study that claimed "a gun in the home is X times more likely to kill a faimly member that protect you." That study was b.s. and it was debunked long ago.bonus linkYet another link
You're going to have a tough time thinking up a scenario where having a gun wouldn't help against the average mugger, burglar, stupid gang member, etc.
Ex: A mugging. I have no warning. Even if someone get's the drop on me, they wouldn't know I have a gun, concealed. I give them my wallet, they turn around, and I pull out my gun. I win. He either freezes and gets arrested (so I get my wallet back), or he tries to draw (in which case I shoot him and still get my wallet back). Note that I can also make the choice not to draw the gun at all, in which case I am not any worse off than I would have been without one.
I don't think guns are for everybody, but they were invented for a reason, and that reason was to improve your chances of coming out of a life or death battle with another person. They're pretty damned good at what they were designed for. That's why police forces and militaries have been using them for hundreds of years.
I think your characterization of your average gun owner waving his gun around and shooting his kid is ridiculous. Yes, kids get killed with their parent's guns, but this is because they find the gun and shoot themselves, not because their parent shot them. It's also criminaly negligent and anyone who has an unlocked gun, in the same house as a kid who doesn't understand guns, should be charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
I was pretty excited about this thing until I made it to this FAQ entry:
Q : Can it auto-rotate? (descend safely in the case of engine failure)
A : No.
As cool as being able to fly around would be, I value my life. They say the provide a balistic parchute in case of engine failure. They don't seem to mention how you would survive going through the blades though. Do they detach, or do you just hope you're insanely lucky?
I can't tell you exactly how this thing is supposed to work (the atricle doesn't have enough information) but I can give you some ideas:
Expample one:
Radar detector detectors. These work by detection the frequency emitted by the local oscillator inside certain radar dectectors. The workaround wich followed was for radar detector manufacturers to simple change their LO frequencies.
Example two:
Store anti-shoplifting mechanisms. Those little tags that they put on just about everything these days are actually small electric circuits tuned to resonate at a specfic radio frequency. when you walk though the entrance/exit of the store, you walk between at a transmitter and a receiver. The tx/rx transmits at two radio frequencies. One is the frequency of the tags and one isn't. When a person walks through the gate, the amplitude of both frequencies at the reciever drops. If a tag passes through the gate, the one frequency is going to drop in amplitude more than the other, because of the resonance of the tag. Shoplifter nailed.
Something similar to either one of these methods might be usable, but I can't tell you which one as the article doesn't give this type of information.
These guys are just begging to make the front page of fuckedcompany.com.
Any bets on how long it will take them to get there?
Seriously, do they really expect people to pay them for a few lines of crappy javascript?
And what's up with calling pop-up blockers "theft-tools". Theft is an actual crime. If I go around all day accusing innocent people of crime, you can be faily sure that I'm eventually going to get sued for slander. Calling a web browser a theft tool, might just be enough to land them a big fat libel suit. I really hope it is. I hope they get sued into oblivion for making wild accusations about non-existant crimes. If you don't like me blocking pop-ups that's fine, but calling me a criminal for doing it might just be legally actionable.
Do you have a link to back that up?
I've installed mplayer before and I've found everything he said to be true (the GCC annoyance, the failure to create/?/win32, the insulting faq entry, etc). I've never seen another faq EVER that asked what I was doing on linux if I didn't know how to add a new path for libraries (excuse me for not being BORN knowing how to do that). From my personal experience with mplayer, the maitainer seems like a RTFMing asshole.
BTW, I just checked and that faq entry has been changed in the current version. I assume he got enough flames from people like the author of that article that he changed it. If you looked at the mplayer faq from the time that article was published, you could find a fairly insulting response.
If they were using ffmpeg why didn't their old code support all the codecs ffmpeg does?
Come one didn't it ever occur to you that maybe they were using a pirated version of the xbox sdk?
That would be a good reason to loose the original project too and it would fit a lot more with the facts. Now that this exists, they would want to get rid of any proof that their project ever violated MS' copyrights.
I'm not saying that this is the only way it could have gone down. But think about it for a minute, doesn't it make a little more sense?
How about tis quote directly off the xbox media player front page:
On another note, and this is one I have to address myself, our friends the GPL zealots are complaining that the win32 build in the download section is violating the GPL because it does not contain sources.
The win32 player on this site does not contain ANY GPL source code. I should know since I wrote the codec completely from scratch reverse engineering the divx 3.11 bitstream myself. The switch to ffmpeg happened when RUNTiME and I joined forces. I'm quite pround of my codec. Although it didn't support nearly the range of codecs that ffmpeg does and it didn't even support divx 3.11 as well as ffmpeg does it was about 20-25% faster than ffmpeg, using some unique optimizations.
They opened it when they started including GPL'ed code
Can you prove otherwise? It's going to take more than some RTFMing jerk making unsupported accusations to convince me.
How do you like your zaurus?
I'm thinking about picking one up this Christmas.
Have you had any trouble with that sliding panel?
I heard somewhere about a double sysmlink problem that happens when trying to run apps off SD cards. Have you run into that?
What are the few minor bugs you were going to return your zaurus for?
Agreed, ATI has never made my old AIW pro card work right under ANY OS. How old is that card? WTF is their excuse?
ATI:Yeah we'll sell you hardware, just don't expect it to work correctly.
That's why I bought an NVIDIA card last year. Yeah, the TV-in/out isn't as nice as that of the all-in-wonder series, but at least it works. Even under linux.
Oh yeah, that's right too, NVIDIA actually releases linux drivers. And they actually support them. I sent their support email a message just to thank them for doing this (and to let them know it's why I bought an NVIDIA card) and I got a message back within two days saying "thanks for the encouragement"
I realize I'm just one person with one type of ATI card, but has anybody else read about all the driver issues they've had? Just the issues with their radeon series have been pretty bad.
So yeah everyone can, go ahead and scoff at NV's newest card because ATI already has a card out with those features. I'll wait to buy a card from a company that doesn't have so many driver issues.
BTW, I haven't blacklisted ATI forever. They can redeem themselves if the want. But it's porbably going to take a year of no more driver bs for me to ever want anything from them.
A simple grep through the sources is inadequate to determine if the string copying is insecure or not. Chances are, most of those copies work with strings of a known length.
But here's the problem: Even if every single one of those instances of strcpy is a string of "known length" all they have to do is be wrong about that known length and you've got a potential buffer overflow. Strcpy could be secure if used perfectly, but can you ever be sure your code is perfect?
I'll agree that a grep through the source does not qualtify and a security evaluation though.
Not necessarily.
My registrar offers free email forwarding.
If they set it up that way, they can point it wherever they want. But if they do it that way, the to address will be whatever@spamarchive.org or something. Still easy to figure out where it's coming from.
Quite simply- nuclear weapons are USELESS. Notice how lots of countries don't have 'em, and are much better off for it?
They sure were useless during WWII.
Just like having a military at all is useless right?
Who needs one of those thingies?
After all, the world is full on nice people and no one would ever dream of attacking another country.
I wish I could live on your planet.
And, get a damn clue. There is such a thing as a little nuke. You can use whatever amount of fissionable material you want. Below critcal mass, it's harder to detonate, but it can be done.
Now go read something about it kiddie.
I disagree. First off script kiddies don't really do very much. If they do ever write code, it's a tiny little program to do one or two things.
I don't think that any of them are going to write a super virus because that would take a lot of work. They may get a kick out of reformatting someone's box but the aren't going to code for months to be able to do so.
What I would worry about is someone writing a hacking application. It would have a database of most know root exploits for the last 20 years. You could pick your target IP address and it would use programs like nmap to try and figure out as much as possible about the target(s) and then it would start trying all know exploits for that system.
A program like this would actually be worth a serious black-hat hacker's time. Especially if it was written in a way the made it easy to update the database when new exploits were found. It could have a nice GUI and everything.
Luckily, someone white-hat would take the same program and extend it so that the database includes way to fix all the vulnerabilities. Sysadmins could run it on their own networks.
Actually it is a good law.
Monopolies are bad for the economy.
It's not my opinion, it economic fact.
Take econ101 somewhere and you'll learn about it.
Remove the blindfold from yourself. Learn about the way the world works. Not every law is a good law, but not every generalization can be applied universally.
What?!
How about realizing:
Since these apps are being written for free by people who want them, that's what they're going to write. These programmers aren't your peons to command. They're writing what they want to. If you want an app, write it, buy it, or pay someone else to write it. Don't demand that people who are writing free software for their own enjoyment stop, and start doing what you want.
BTW....there are people out there writing word processors. Where do you think abiword came from? You, yourself listed four. How many word processors do you need? I probably have about 10 differenent apps to do this installed on my linux system right now. I only use one or two (Abiword and openoffice). You should go here and see how much free software there is availible for linux.
Also, the way it stands, if I want to share my X apps with my Windows friends, I have to get them to either... And if you want to share your windows apps with me I have to get wine, and that means windows is flawed?
If you want an X app, you need X. Yes, that's correct, but it's not a mark against Xwindows. If you have a crappy X client on your machine, that doesn't mean that X itself is flawed. You should replace your crappy client. I'm sure plenty of people here can suggest clients that will actually work.
You complain that you can't get a dirt cheap Xwindows solution for windows and you campare it to citrix in the same post. Is citrix free?
I don't think you're being fair here. I'm running remote ssh-tunneled gaim from my home linux pc on a bsd machine in a computer lab a mile away. Both machines have X and it works. It's also not any slower than VNC would be. If I try to do this using a a toaster instead of a PC it's not going to work. This is not X's fault. The toaser doesn't have an X implemetation, so it can't connect to X.
Did you install X?
No seriously did you?
What window manager did you pick?
I switched from windows to redhat 7.2 last winter. I find the KDE UI to be much better than the windows UI.
It loaded with tons of little "nice touches." Like being able to hit ALT-F2 and type gg:thing i want to google search for. An you don't have to learn that to use it. You can still just start Konqueror and type in a location just like IE.
Another good example is 4 virtual desktops by default. Yeah, it confuses someone whos never seen it before for a couple minutes, but then they either love it or just don't use it and it doesn't bother them.
You really don't need to use CLI for very much, unless you want to. There's a GUI app to handle just about everything. The only thing you need CLI for is the really hardcore system administration stuff.
If you disagree with me on this stuff I'd like to read your reply, because I seem to have had a totally different experience than you.
AFAIK you can play every version of quake on linux. I have a copy of quake 3 for linux installed right now. It works great.
I'm also running the current version of limewire.
There are some apps you can get for linux and there are some apps you can't get for windows, but please pick valid examples. Windows doesn't always have the best software for a particular task either. Your generalizations are much too broad.
I'm not saying linux is always the best choice, I'm just trying to correct some misconceptions that non-linux users may have.
There's a difference between what you describe and opening a comic book store where you sell comics at below your cost, in an attempt to drive your comptitors out of business, so that you'll eventually have a monopoly on the market. Once you have your monopoly you can raise prices to recoup your losses.
What you describe is legal.
What I described isn't.
I would say microsoft falls somewhere in between. But, perhaps only because they're losing a small-medium sized amount of money on each sale, which they can always claim they plan to makes back on games.
It processes at "radio" frequencies.
He gave units in Hz. There are no distance units involved here. He's not confusing length with anything, because he never mentioned length. Frequency is frequency and his joke is valid.
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I think it's totally within your right to run your open network. Then when somebody uses your open network to cause havoc and destruction, you should be held liable as a facillitator of their crimes. Seems totally fair to me.
How the fuck is this insightful?
Really under this idiot's logic, libraries are a breeding ground for terroists, and some poor librarian has to go to jail is a crime is ever comitted with a library computer.
What about internet cafes? What about calling AOL from a damned payphone? You are full of shit.
Will someone with some sense please mod this guy into oblivion?
Right on.
It's all just frickin' McCarthyism.
Seriously, just go through and replace every instance of the word 'terrorist' with the word 'communist'
If you don't agree with them, you're helping the terrorists and therefore are one.
Really, it's amazing. Does anyone remember that whole rat out your terrorist neighbor program they wanted? Replace terrorist with communist and you'll see who the true enimies of freedom are.
The LAST thing these people need is more information. They had all the infomation they need to stop 9/11 from happening and they fucked it up. They need to get smarter about how they handle the info they do have. (Read as: We need smarter people in charge.)
Nope, yours is.
The reason they put the data on the PC does not dictate what you can do with it, the law does.
You are forgetting about the doctine of first sale. This states that if I buy something copyrighted I am automatically given certain legal rights, unless I sign a contract otherwise. So if when buying a gateway, I don't have to sign a contract, I am given certain rights to all the data on that computer. One of those rights being personal use.
So, I have permission under copyright law to use those files, but the DMCA makes it illegal for me to translate them into a usable format.
Here are some more links about first sale:
Wrong.
Criminals, in general, aren't very good with guns.
Really, they're awful. Do you think the average thug actually takes his 'gat' to the range to practice?
Take your average NRA member and your average violent felon, put them at fifty paces and see who walks away.
The whole "having a gun doesn't help you" thing is a total myth. Just like that study that claimed "a gun in the home is X times more likely to kill a faimly member that protect you." That study was b.s. and it was debunked long ago. bonus link Yet another link
You're going to have a tough time thinking up a scenario where having a gun wouldn't help against the average mugger, burglar, stupid gang member, etc.
Ex: A mugging. I have no warning. Even if someone get's the drop on me, they wouldn't know I have a gun, concealed. I give them my wallet, they turn around, and I pull out my gun. I win. He either freezes and gets arrested (so I get my wallet back), or he tries to draw (in which case I shoot him and still get my wallet back). Note that I can also make the choice not to draw the gun at all, in which case I am not any worse off than I would have been without one.
I don't think guns are for everybody, but they were invented for a reason, and that reason was to improve your chances of coming out of a life or death battle with another person. They're pretty damned good at what they were designed for. That's why police forces and militaries have been using them for hundreds of years.
I think your characterization of your average gun owner waving his gun around and shooting his kid is ridiculous. Yes, kids get killed with their parent's guns, but this is because they find the gun and shoot themselves, not because their parent shot them. It's also criminaly negligent and anyone who has an unlocked gun, in the same house as a kid who doesn't understand guns, should be charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
I was pretty excited about this thing until I made it to this FAQ entry:
Q : Can it auto-rotate? (descend safely in the case of engine failure)
A : No.
As cool as being able to fly around would be, I value my life. They say the provide a balistic parchute in case of engine failure. They don't seem to mention how you would survive going through the blades though. Do they detach, or do you just hope you're insanely lucky?
I can't tell you exactly how this thing is supposed to work (the atricle doesn't have enough information) but I can give you some ideas:
Expample one:
Radar detector detectors. These work by detection the frequency emitted by the local oscillator inside certain radar dectectors. The workaround wich followed was for radar detector manufacturers to simple change their LO frequencies.
Example two:
Store anti-shoplifting mechanisms. Those little tags that they put on just about everything these days are actually small electric circuits tuned to resonate at a specfic radio frequency. when you walk though the entrance/exit of the store, you walk between at a transmitter and a receiver. The tx/rx transmits at two radio frequencies. One is the frequency of the tags and one isn't. When a person walks through the gate, the amplitude of both frequencies at the reciever drops. If a tag passes through the gate, the one frequency is going to drop in amplitude more than the other, because of the resonance of the tag. Shoplifter nailed.
Something similar to either one of these methods might be usable, but I can't tell you which one as the article doesn't give this type of information.
Agreed. I bought a psion revo plus and 80% of my usage was reading ebooks, howtos, faqs, etc.
These guys are just begging to make the front page of fuckedcompany.com. Any bets on how long it will take them to get there?
Seriously, do they really expect people to pay them for a few lines of crappy javascript?
And what's up with calling pop-up blockers "theft-tools". Theft is an actual crime. If I go around all day accusing innocent people of crime, you can be faily sure that I'm eventually going to get sued for slander.
Calling a web browser a theft tool, might just be enough to land them a big fat libel suit. I really hope it is. I hope they get sued into oblivion for making wild accusations about non-existant crimes. If you don't like me blocking pop-ups that's fine, but calling me a criminal for doing it might just be legally actionable.
Do you have a link to back that up? /?/win32, the insulting faq entry, etc). I've never seen another faq EVER that asked what I was doing on linux if I didn't know how to add a new path for libraries (excuse me for not being BORN knowing how to do that). From my personal experience with mplayer, the maitainer seems like a RTFMing asshole.
I've installed mplayer before and I've found everything he said to be true (the GCC annoyance, the failure to create
BTW, I just checked and that faq entry has been changed in the current version. I assume he got enough flames from people like the author of that article that he changed it. If you looked at the mplayer faq from the time that article was published, you could find a fairly insulting response.
If they were using ffmpeg why didn't their old code support all the codecs ffmpeg does?
Come one didn't it ever occur to you that maybe they were using a pirated version of the xbox sdk?
That would be a good reason to loose the original project too and it would fit a lot more with the facts. Now that this exists, they would want to get rid of any proof that their project ever violated MS' copyrights.
I'm not saying that this is the only way it could have gone down. But think about it for a minute, doesn't it make a little more sense?
How about tis quote directly off the xbox media player front page:
They opened it when they started including GPL'ed code
Can you prove otherwise? It's going to take more than some RTFMing jerk making unsupported accusations to convince me.
How do you like your zaurus?
I'm thinking about picking one up this Christmas.
Have you had any trouble with that sliding panel?
I heard somewhere about a double sysmlink problem that happens when trying to run apps off SD cards. Have you run into that?
What are the few minor bugs you were going to return your zaurus for?
Agreed, ATI has never made my old AIW pro card work right under ANY OS. How old is that card? WTF is their excuse?
ATI:Yeah we'll sell you hardware, just don't expect it to work correctly.
That's why I bought an NVIDIA card last year. Yeah, the TV-in/out isn't as nice as that of the all-in-wonder series, but at least it works. Even under linux.
Oh yeah, that's right too, NVIDIA actually releases linux drivers. And they actually support them. I sent their support email a message just to thank them for doing this (and to let them know it's why I bought an NVIDIA card) and I got a message back within two days saying "thanks for the encouragement"
I realize I'm just one person with one type of ATI card, but has anybody else read about all the driver issues they've had? Just the issues with their radeon series have been pretty bad.
So yeah everyone can, go ahead and scoff at NV's newest card because ATI already has a card out with those features. I'll wait to buy a card from a company that doesn't have so many driver issues.
BTW, I haven't blacklisted ATI forever. They can redeem themselves if the want. But it's porbably going to take a year of no more driver bs for me to ever want anything from them.
A simple grep through the sources is inadequate to determine if the string copying is insecure or not. Chances are, most of those copies work with strings of a known length.
But here's the problem: Even if every single one of those instances of strcpy is a string of "known length" all they have to do is be wrong about that known length and you've got a potential buffer overflow. Strcpy could be secure if used perfectly, but can you ever be sure your code is perfect?
I'll agree that a grep through the source does not qualtify and a security evaluation though.
Not necessarily. My registrar offers free email forwarding. If they set it up that way, they can point it wherever they want. But if they do it that way, the to address will be whatever@spamarchive.org or something. Still easy to figure out where it's coming from.
Quite simply- nuclear weapons are USELESS. Notice how lots of countries don't have 'em, and are much better off for it?
They sure were useless during WWII.
Just like having a military at all is useless right?
Who needs one of those thingies?
After all, the world is full on nice people and no one would ever dream of attacking another country.
I wish I could live on your planet.
And, get a damn clue. There is such a thing as a little nuke. You can use whatever amount of fissionable material you want. Below critcal mass, it's harder to detonate, but it can be done.
Now go read something about it kiddie.
I disagree. First off script kiddies don't really do very much. If they do ever write code, it's a tiny little program to do one or two things.
I don't think that any of them are going to write a super virus because that would take a lot of work. They may get a kick out of reformatting someone's box but the aren't going to code for months to be able to do so.
What I would worry about is someone writing a hacking application. It would have a database of most know root exploits for the last 20 years. You could pick your target IP address and it would use programs like nmap to try and figure out as much as possible about the target(s) and then it would start trying all know exploits for that system.
A program like this would actually be worth a serious black-hat hacker's time. Especially if it was written in a way the made it easy to update the database when new exploits were found. It could have a nice GUI and everything.
Luckily, someone white-hat would take the same program and extend it so that the database includes way to fix all the vulnerabilities. Sysadmins could run it on their own networks.
What you need is a hot girl to come in one of those doors like in, "The Seven Year Itch" :)
If you lock them, that may never happen.
Actually it is a good law.
Monopolies are bad for the economy.
It's not my opinion, it economic fact. Take econ101 somewhere and you'll learn about it.
Remove the blindfold from yourself. Learn about the way the world works. Not every law is a good law, but not every generalization can be applied universally.
What?!
How about realizing:
Since these apps are being written for free by people who want them, that's what they're going to write. These programmers aren't your peons to command. They're writing what they want to.
If you want an app, write it, buy it, or pay someone else to write it. Don't demand that people who are writing free software for their own enjoyment stop, and start doing what you want.
BTW....there are people out there writing word processors. Where do you think abiword came from? You, yourself listed four. How many word processors do you need? I probably have about 10 differenent apps to do this installed on my linux system right now. I only use one or two (Abiword and openoffice). You should go here and see how much free software there is availible for linux.
Also, the way it stands, if I want to share my X apps with my Windows friends, I have to get them to either...
And if you want to share your windows apps with me I have to get wine, and that means windows is flawed?
If you want an X app, you need X. Yes, that's correct, but it's not a mark against Xwindows. If you have a crappy X client on your machine, that doesn't mean that X itself is flawed. You should replace your crappy client. I'm sure plenty of people here can suggest clients that will actually work.
You complain that you can't get a dirt cheap Xwindows solution for windows and you campare it to citrix in the same post. Is citrix free?
I don't think you're being fair here. I'm running remote ssh-tunneled gaim from my home linux pc on a bsd machine in a computer lab a mile away. Both machines have X and it works. It's also not any slower than VNC would be. If I try to do this using a a toaster instead of a PC it's not going to work. This is not X's fault. The toaser doesn't have an X implemetation, so it can't connect to X.
Did you install X?
No seriously did you?
What window manager did you pick?
I switched from windows to redhat 7.2 last winter. I find the KDE UI to be much better than the windows UI.
It loaded with tons of little "nice touches." Like being able to hit ALT-F2 and type gg:thing i want to google search for. An you don't have to learn that to use it. You can still just start Konqueror and type in a location just like IE.
Another good example is 4 virtual desktops by default. Yeah, it confuses someone whos never seen it before for a couple minutes, but then they either love it or just don't use it and it doesn't bother them.
You really don't need to use CLI for very much, unless you want to. There's a GUI app to handle just about everything. The only thing you need CLI for is the really hardcore system administration stuff.
If you disagree with me on this stuff I'd like to read your reply, because I seem to have had a totally different experience than you.
AFAIK you can play every version of quake on linux. I have a copy of quake 3 for linux installed right now. It works great.
I'm also running the current version of limewire.
There are some apps you can get for linux and there are some apps you can't get for windows, but please pick valid examples. Windows doesn't always have the best software for a particular task either. Your generalizations are much too broad.
I'm not saying linux is always the best choice, I'm just trying to correct some misconceptions that non-linux users may have.
There's a difference between what you describe and opening a comic book store where you sell comics at below your cost, in an attempt to drive your comptitors out of business, so that you'll eventually have a monopoly on the market. Once you have your monopoly you can raise prices to recoup your losses.
What you describe is legal.
What I described isn't.
I would say microsoft falls somewhere in between. But, perhaps only because they're losing a small-medium sized amount of money on each sale, which they can always claim they plan to makes back on games.
It processes at "radio" frequencies.
He gave units in Hz. There are no distance units involved here. He's not confusing length with anything, because he never mentioned length. Frequency is frequency and his joke is valid.