Blizzard makes money off of games. In fact, Battle.net earns them no value, no reward in your own terminology. God. Blizzard, and everyone else, are just plain stupid here - let bnetd run, and Blizzard makes MORE money, for crying out loud. How the heck can it be bad to offer people MORE ways to play a game you're selling?!?
The issue here is that Blizzard uses its battle.net server to check CD keys. If an invalid key was used, Blizzard could block that users access to battle.net, and thus, effectively block that persons ability to play online. bnetd allows users to compete online without use of valid CD keys. I am not saying Blizzard will make more or less money one way or the other, nor am I commenting on the legality of Blizzard's/bnetd developers' actions, but I think Blizzard's logic is by sllowing people to play online with invalid/duplicate CD keys piracy will be more rampant, and thus they will make less money.
fdisk (9x) and diskpart (XP) both come with Windows and will format drives. IIRC, Windows can't format a currently mounted drive, or the drive it is currently using for system resources. If I have a need to format my hard drive, I usually just boot off my Windows or Debian CD and do it from there anyway.
Won't there be compatibility issues, considering older Palm apps don't use the SuperVZ processor? Or are the instruction sets between the newer and older chips similar enough? If there are applications written for the SuperVZ processor, will there be issues with running these programs on older Palms?
Exactly. You will never stop all people from breaking it, but as long as you make it sufficiently hard to do, most people won't bother trying to break it.
It's kind of like mail in rebates versus instant ones.. even adding a simple step like mailing a form in for your rebate will greatly reduce the number of people who actually bother going for the rebate.
How can you apply the same logic to firearms as you do to an entertainment device? One is designed for entertainment and storage, and the other is designed specifically to hurt or kill. Killing people is a big deal. One individual copying a piece of software is not.
That's comparing the loss of human life to an individual copying software.
I didn't really see it a clever hack, or having noteworthy consequences considering the limited number of iPods and the fact most store machines typically run demos. I can see where you are coming from in that you see it as funny/nerdy/etc.. I don't find it particularly amazing is all.
They won't. Apple is concerned with other desktops and software products using its Aqua theme. Slashdot using an Aqua-ish theme poses no threat to Apple in any way; why would Apple sue Slashdot?
Apple touts the iPod's ability to act as an external hard drive as one of its selling points. This person was using it as an external hard drive. Why is this newsworthy?
If you are going to read this book and look for samples to write secure code, you are going to pick up the wrong book. This book is a cornerstone in building a strong foundation and understanding of security engineering.
If one was looking for a book with samples of writing secure code, does anyone have any recommendations?
Most people don't even know that there are other choices than Windows, and still rely on Windows applications. What will these users use instead? What would PC manufacturers put on their PCs? Somehow I think Windows is still going to be around for a while..
I agree with the fact that it is definately possible (and common practice) to charge large markups on "hip" items. However, this is more true at the lower price end, where the markup still results in a product most people can afford. When you begin to mark up more expensive items, say a $1000 computer, you are talking more about a markup of $4000, which will put the product far outside the price range of most in the market for a computer.
The Internet perhaps doesn't replace the shopping mall, but it is very important. Many small businesses make money by filling a niche market. If they set up a physical store, they might not stay in business, because there would not be enough interest in the area. However, if they set up an online store, they have made their store accessable to anyone with an interest in their product. For example, there are multiple online-only stores devoted to selling imported videogames, and making money at it.
microsoft is going to have to do something FAR more impressive to convince me they have a good reason to scuttle the most re-purposeable protocol on the internet.
Where is anyone in the article implying Microsoft is the solution to this? Where does anyone in the article express interest in eliminating HTTP?
This article is about breaking the dependance on HTTP for all tasks. There are places where HTTP makes a lot of sense, and places where it doesn't. The main goal expressed was to develop a standardized protocol to use when HTTP doesn't make sense. (e.g. p2p support, transactions that take extended periods of time)
Quotes from the article (emphasis mine): (please note that Box is the Microsoft engineer being interviewed)
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Box likes to think of HTTP as the "cockroach of the Internet" because "after the holocaust it will be the only protocol left standing."
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"One of the big challenges facing Web services is our reliance on HTTP," said Box. However, there is nothing wrong with HTTP per se, as its ubiquity and high dependability means it is the only way to get an a reliable end-to-end connection over the Internet, he added.
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"We have to do something to make it (HTTP) less important," said Box.
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Note he did not express any desire to elimite HTTP.
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Several working groups are working on the problem at the W3C, the organisation responsible for Web standards. And even though Microsoft is working on the problem too, Box did say that Microsoft is unlikely to succeed alone.
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Therefore if anyone is going to try to "scuttle" anything (which is not what this article suggests, see above), it is going to be a group effort, not tied solely to any one vendor.
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"Microsoft has some ideas (on how to break the independence on HTTP), IBM has some ideas, and others have ideas. We'll see," he said. But, he added, "if one vendor does it on their own, it will simply not be worth the trouble."
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The first link Google lists is to this very Ask Slashdot... =)
Blizzard makes money off of games. In fact, Battle.net earns them no value, no reward in your own terminology. God. Blizzard, and everyone else, are just plain stupid here - let bnetd run, and Blizzard makes MORE money, for crying out loud. How the heck can it be bad to offer people MORE ways to play a game you're selling?!?
The issue here is that Blizzard uses its battle.net server to check CD keys. If an invalid key was used, Blizzard could block that users access to battle.net, and thus, effectively block that persons ability to play online. bnetd allows users to compete online without use of valid CD keys. I am not saying Blizzard will make more or less money one way or the other, nor am I commenting on the legality of Blizzard's/bnetd developers' actions, but I think Blizzard's logic is by sllowing people to play online with invalid/duplicate CD keys piracy will be more rampant, and thus they will make less money.
fdisk (9x) and diskpart (XP) both come with Windows and will format drives. IIRC, Windows can't format a currently mounted drive, or the drive it is currently using for system resources. If I have a need to format my hard drive, I usually just boot off my Windows or Debian CD and do it from there anyway.
Won't there be compatibility issues, considering older Palm apps don't use the SuperVZ processor? Or are the instruction sets between the newer and older chips similar enough? If there are applications written for the SuperVZ processor, will there be issues with running these programs on older Palms?
Exactly. You will never stop all people from breaking it, but as long as you make it sufficiently hard to do, most people won't bother trying to break it. It's kind of like mail in rebates versus instant ones.. even adding a simple step like mailing a form in for your rebate will greatly reduce the number of people who actually bother going for the rebate.
Why is this a troll?
Is IPv6 backwards compatible with IPv4?
How can you apply the same logic to firearms as you do to an entertainment device? One is designed for entertainment and storage, and the other is designed specifically to hurt or kill. Killing people is a big deal. One individual copying a piece of software is not.
That's comparing the loss of human life to an individual copying software. I didn't really see it a clever hack, or having noteworthy consequences considering the limited number of iPods and the fact most store machines typically run demos. I can see where you are coming from in that you see it as funny/nerdy/etc.. I don't find it particularly amazing is all.
They won't. Apple is concerned with other desktops and software products using its Aqua theme. Slashdot using an Aqua-ish theme poses no threat to Apple in any way; why would Apple sue Slashdot?
Apple touts the iPod's ability to act as an external hard drive as one of its selling points. This person was using it as an external hard drive. Why is this newsworthy?
If you are going to read this book and look for samples to write secure code, you are going to pick up the wrong book. This book is a cornerstone in building a strong foundation and understanding of security engineering.
If one was looking for a book with samples of writing secure code, does anyone have any recommendations?
Why is this redundant? Browse flat (ignore threads).. please tell me which comment posted before this that this is redundant to?
Most people don't even know that there are other choices than Windows, and still rely on Windows applications. What will these users use instead? What would PC manufacturers put on their PCs? Somehow I think Windows is still going to be around for a while..
I agree with the fact that it is definately possible (and common practice) to charge large markups on "hip" items. However, this is more true at the lower price end, where the markup still results in a product most people can afford. When you begin to mark up more expensive items, say a $1000 computer, you are talking more about a markup of $4000, which will put the product far outside the price range of most in the market for a computer.
The Internet perhaps doesn't replace the shopping mall, but it is very important. Many small businesses make money by filling a niche market. If they set up a physical store, they might not stay in business, because there would not be enough interest in the area. However, if they set up an online store, they have made their store accessable to anyone with an interest in their product. For example, there are multiple online-only stores devoted to selling imported videogames, and making money at it.
microsoft is going to have to do something FAR more impressive to convince me they have a good reason to scuttle the most re-purposeable protocol on the internet.
Where is anyone in the article implying Microsoft is the solution to this? Where does anyone in the article express interest in eliminating HTTP?
This article is about breaking the dependance on HTTP for all tasks. There are places where HTTP makes a lot of sense, and places where it doesn't. The main goal expressed was to develop a standardized protocol to use when HTTP doesn't make sense. (e.g. p2p support, transactions that take extended periods of time)
Quotes from the article (emphasis mine): (please note that Box is the Microsoft engineer being interviewed)
---
Box likes to think of HTTP as the "cockroach of the Internet" because "after the holocaust it will be the only protocol left standing."
---
---
"One of the big challenges facing Web services is our reliance on HTTP," said Box. However, there is nothing wrong with HTTP per se, as its ubiquity and high dependability means it is the only way to get an a reliable end-to-end connection over the Internet, he added.
---
---
"We have to do something to make it (HTTP) less important," said Box.
---
Note he did not express any desire to elimite HTTP.
---
Several working groups are working on the problem at the W3C, the organisation responsible for Web standards. And even though Microsoft is working on the problem too, Box did say that Microsoft is unlikely to succeed alone.
---
Therefore if anyone is going to try to "scuttle" anything (which is not what this article suggests, see above), it is going to be a group effort, not tied solely to any one vendor.
---
"Microsoft has some ideas (on how to break the independence on HTTP), IBM has some ideas, and others have ideas. We'll see," he said. But, he added, "if one vendor does it on their own, it will simply not be worth the trouble."
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