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I'm not going to put my bank account, or anything else importance on the line for a system that claims that "they way MOST people think is different" all you need is someone smart enough to formulate the most likely responses to a certain ink blot, or set thereof, or just someone who knows you really well (I've seen numerous cases of people who were close to each other giving nearly identical responses to ink-blots). Until you can slap on a label that says this is absolutely better than you sitting down, clearing your mind and picking a word completely out at random, I won't touch it. NOBODY I know can guess my common password. It has nothing to do with me, not something I like, or have interest in, or even know much about, I don't know anyone who fits that description either. After that I threw up a PHP script to give me a 4 digit random # and scrambled that in a random fashion. Lot of work to go through? Yes, but I've NEVER had to do it again because it's NEVER been compromised. So that was worth the 15 minutes or so of time I spent on it. 12 digit password, not breakable by a dictionary attack, I never give it out regardless so social eng. isn't going to work, and its completely unrelated to me, so even if you could guess the WORD portion of it, you still only won half the battle. That seems alot more secure than "well, most people give different responses". Meh, whatever, passwords are good as long as people are not stupid, same person who's stupid enough to write down their text password will write down their response to the inkblot too. Or, like some people at my work, they just TELL other people....so dumb. How about a device that, instead of showing ink-blots, send 10,000 volts coursing through your ass if you do something stupid with your password?
"But the fact remains that these devices are illegal access devices, and as such, are illegal." The ones that are flashed with a SPECIFIC list of ATMEL programming which are ONLY good for DTV hacking are illegal yes. Otherwise, no, they most certainly are not illegal, my apparently illegal use for this device is for smart-card operated door locks. Same NDS cards used by DTV work in this system. Want a cheap set of spare "keys" go on ebay and buy old H card (since they phased H out you cannot POSSIBLY tell me thats illegal) for dirt freakin cheap.
And for the record ALOT of programmers don't come pre-flashed. Just like mod-chips, all they are is EEPROMS and electronics until you tell them to be something else. Same way mod-chip sellers get away with it COULD be copied by the DTV guys, but either most people are too stupid, or most people just don't care and want to make a quick buck. Either way your "fact" is only a fact in the very stictest confines of your wording. IF they are flashed, and flashed with a script that cannot be used for anything other than DTV hacking, then they are illegal to buy or sell. But last I checked none of the parts in the recipe for these readers is restricted in any way shape or form, not as individuals, and not as an assembled whole.
Well, you can't be selective about it is the point. If I have a patent of a copyright, it is my duty to defend my patent or copyright. I cn't pick and choose, I have to defend it from everyone, or risk losing it. I can think of serval federal review bodies who would LOVE to see SCO doing something like that, only taking potshots at OTHER people selling Linux but not their own.
Ok so since when did it become ok for MY tax dollars to go towards protecting the copyrighted material of a company? You are taking MY money away to ensure the flow of money to someone ELSE....what the fuck?
It's not randomly selected songs, it the GOOD songs. Nobody is saying "Hey I'm logging on to iTunes and I'm going to find all the tracks by then, I'm just going to throw darts to see which ones I buy!".
QUITE the opposite. They are saying "I'm logging on to iTunes and I'm going to find all the tracks by and buy the ones I have heard and KNOW to be good tracks." I personally see NO problem with this WHATSOEVER. MY money, if YOU want it, you have to offer ME what I want! Otherwise, you won't be getting my money period.
With this I will NEVER buy another CD again....these artists are absolutely RETARDED. Make aWHOLE CD worth of good music and I will buy ALL of those tracks. Make only 2 good songs on the entire CD, and I'm only going to buy those two songs.
You know if I write 3 scripts in my offtime and sell them to my employer, and only one of them is any good, he would never buy all three. If I built four houses but only two off them were built straight, nobody would buy the other two. But "artists" seem to think it's ok to make 3 good songs out of 12 and force me to pay for the crappy ones. Get real....
Until they surgically remove their heads from their asses I won't be buying ANY more CD's and nothing, online or otherwise, from any of the groups mentioned in the article.
I've tried that version myself, and, sadly, it does not properly limit the bandwidth being used, it either dropps off several K beow where I tell it, or several K above where I tell it. On average I get about a 3K/Sec window of control, which means I either risk droppinginto a lower share bracket or max out my connection and kill my download.
I love the idea of BT, but it's far from the greatest solution. I think the Kazaa method of assigning everyone a contribution rating is a MUCH better idea. That way, if it really DOES kill my upload, I can choose to be a lower priority than people who DO share. When you are talking about a system like Kazaa it hits some bumps, I mean there may only be a handfull of users who have the file, so I could sit in line forever. But on Kazaa it seems to be a little more ordered, as where Kazaa is like some free-for all bazzar of anything on your PC.
And before you say that me being a low prio. connection and maybe only hitting 20K is no better than BT, keep in mind that while I may still be capped at 20K i certainly won't be completely unable to check even my email while the download is going.
I am terribly aware of that solution, but when you are trying ti distribute to thousands and thousands of people, you can't expect to use a system that, to work smoothly, requires a Linux (or Unix really) based router be on the line to smooth things out for them.
The point here isn't a handfull of geek users who configure their own Linux routers, its thousands and thousands of people of varying degrees of intelligence and ability connecting to a system that just works.
Why is it that BitTorrent is the fix-all solution for the/. crowd? I for one HATE BT, because, seeing as I am on DSL, I usually get no more than 20K/Sec even when sharing to my maximum potential. Why you ask? Because due to the assymetrical nature of ADSL, once my upstream gets clogged, it cannot facilitate the neccisary ACK's that need to be sent out to the other end in order to ensure my download stays up.
In other words, if I'm uploading at my maximum speed, I can't reply quickly enough to tell the nodes I am downloading from that the last packet got through, so they resend it instead of the next packet until I can squeak out an ACK or two to let them know to move on.
BT is a nice concept, but in practice it needs work.
RIAA member and involved with the MPAA if I recall. But in reality, I like ALOT more of what the MPAA has in mind than whan RIAA has in mind, theres hope for the MPAA yet....RIAA however is lost to us.
You may know me from such educational films as "if you dont like a companies business practices, don't buy their product" and my feature film debut "Money Talks".
Seriously though people.
There are alternatives to Sony and MS, hell I can't remember the last time either company got my money....not for my OS, my TV, DVD player, head unit in my car, I don't think I own a single Sony or MS product. So I know I'M not contributing to the problem....are you?;)
To reply to the reply from my original post, eat me, I never said anything about it being fair he was libeled, I said the whole dramatic nonesense in his artice AND his forum thread were ridiculous "my status in the community is in jeopardy" omg, GET OVER IT. People say stupid, false, hurtful sh!t all the time, it's life, you deal with it, move on, and learn to ignore those people because they have their heads up their a$$es....if saying that makes me flamebait then, color me shocked, from the mature/. community of mods.
DRAMA!!!!
OMG! it's a f'ing video game, I got about 4 posts into that message board and I couldn't take it any more. Just blah blah blah I feel so dirty when I load AO now. OMFG....I hate to sound like a pr!ck but seriously people, its just a dumb article in NYT, why gamers give a d@mn about the NYT is beyond me, and why one lousy article is taken to this morbid extreme is also beyond me. I mean if one stupid NYT article that he KNOWS to be false can affect him this much, maybe his AO time really is a bad thing.
Since when does one platform make all the difference? I personally do not like the Ipod, sorry, just doesn't sit right with me. I like my Nomad just fine (and 6GB is PLENTY for me too btw).
Perhaps instead of the Ipod working so well here it could be "portable MP3 players". But then your post would be redundant and not insightful....as the article mentioned portable players.
The law isn't to protect you and me, it's to protect the people who pay the lawmakers....corporations. I gaurantee you if someone hacked into your PC, stole your credit card, and charged $1,000 to it the FBI wouldn't do sh!t. Factor in as much money as you want for your time in tracking it down. They wouldn't care, because you are not onpayroll at a corporation, so the damage is minimal. Money talks, same as always, and corporations have more of it than an individual. Now if you were a multi-millionaire and actively donated to political funds. I bet it would be different.
But in all seriousness, why would he want to work directly for the RIAA? As a senator he can take bribes (oh I'm sorry they don't call them bribes anymore) AND make a senators wages, at the same time!
MAYBE, they will replace her with somebody ten time s worse? Considering her lack of accomplishments (i.e. all those evil filesharers are still walking free) I wouldn't be suprised.
The whole point is a trusted network. WASTE isn't concerned with privacy between internal machines, it's goal is privacy from un-trusted nodes.
In other words, my Public Key is like the key to my house, I don't give it to somebody to give to my friend, I give it only to my friends. Because I have to trust anyone who has that key with the contents of my house. I have to trust they won't "break" in, and I have to trust they won't give it out.
In case they don't know their asses from a hole in the ground (and the odds are good), let me explain my issue with this war on terror allegory.
Fact of the matter is, The Brothers had this entire trilogy mapped out well ahead of 9/11. Matter of fact, they had it mapped out before the first movie came out. They have had it more or less mapped since they originally sat down to write the first one.
It's just another way to tie anything and everything you can to the "war on terror". Which is quickly becoming a self-perpetuating war on the ground that nobody "in charge" wants to let go. For the media guys it is the easy out for the slow news days, requires the most scant journalistic skills to "cover", the gov. loves it because it's a universal reason for damn near anything, even if it makes no sense, they just append that "helps the war on terror" label to the end and viola, suddenly your burning flags and killing babies if you disagree.
And for the record I didn't oppose the war in Iraq, I think peace protesters are retarded, and I think both GW and Gore are about the worst possible choices for president. I'm not left or right or green or indy on this topic. I don't like stupidity, I don't trust the gov. (with very good reason).
I personally have only seen it "cut out" the actual show twice in the 6 months+ I've had it, and I wouldn't trade Com. Adv. for anything! I love that feature!
I will be really disappointed if they remove these two features, and I wonder what the legal right is for them to change it after the fact, I mean I know they reserve the right to make feature changes, but it seems a little sweeping and broad to me to say that you can advertise the product based on a, in this case, a couple features your competition does not have (and the deciding factor for me) and then remove them after the fact.
I would hope that there would be some liability as to what "rights" these companies are allowed to reserve.
Was exactly what makes me NOT leary of the second one. So many people I know thought it was nothing more than an action flick....never the wiser in regards to the REAL message.
So I for one won;t be worried until I see it. I don't trust critics enough to even come close to worrying about a review like this.
That alone is the reason I think they will make it. Voodoo only had graphics cards, thats it, nothing else of note out there. But NVIDIA has the, currently, number one chipset for ahtlon's out there on the market.
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I'm not going to put my bank account, or anything else importance on the line for a system that claims that "they way MOST people think is different" all you need is someone smart enough to formulate the most likely responses to a certain ink blot, or set thereof, or just someone who knows you really well (I've seen numerous cases of people who were close to each other giving nearly identical responses to ink-blots). Until you can slap on a label that says this is absolutely better than you sitting down, clearing your mind and picking a word completely out at random, I won't touch it. NOBODY I know can guess my common password. It has nothing to do with me, not something I like, or have interest in, or even know much about, I don't know anyone who fits that description either. After that I threw up a PHP script to give me a 4 digit random # and scrambled that in a random fashion. Lot of work to go through? Yes, but I've NEVER had to do it again because it's NEVER been compromised. So that was worth the 15 minutes or so of time I spent on it. 12 digit password, not breakable by a dictionary attack, I never give it out regardless so social eng. isn't going to work, and its completely unrelated to me, so even if you could guess the WORD portion of it, you still only won half the battle. That seems alot more secure than "well, most people give different responses". Meh, whatever, passwords are good as long as people are not stupid, same person who's stupid enough to write down their text password will write down their response to the inkblot too. Or, like some people at my work, they just TELL other people....so dumb. How about a device that, instead of showing ink-blots, send 10,000 volts coursing through your ass if you do something stupid with your password?
"But the fact remains that these devices are illegal access devices, and as such, are illegal." The ones that are flashed with a SPECIFIC list of ATMEL programming which are ONLY good for DTV hacking are illegal yes. Otherwise, no, they most certainly are not illegal, my apparently illegal use for this device is for smart-card operated door locks. Same NDS cards used by DTV work in this system. Want a cheap set of spare "keys" go on ebay and buy old H card (since they phased H out you cannot POSSIBLY tell me thats illegal) for dirt freakin cheap.
And for the record ALOT of programmers don't come pre-flashed. Just like mod-chips, all they are is EEPROMS and electronics until you tell them to be something else. Same way mod-chip sellers get away with it COULD be copied by the DTV guys, but either most people are too stupid, or most people just don't care and want to make a quick buck. Either way your "fact" is only a fact in the very stictest confines of your wording. IF they are flashed, and flashed with a script that cannot be used for anything other than DTV hacking, then they are illegal to buy or sell. But last I checked none of the parts in the recipe for these readers is restricted in any way shape or form, not as individuals, and not as an assembled whole.
Yeah, sorry but you'd best have something INCREDIBLY fantastic behind your registration for me to even bother with 1/4 of that hassle.
So that rules out the WSJ, MSN, Washington Post....and just about any other site I can think of....
Well, you can't be selective about it is the point. If I have a patent of a copyright, it is my duty to defend my patent or copyright. I cn't pick and choose, I have to defend it from everyone, or risk losing it. I can think of serval federal review bodies who would LOVE to see SCO doing something like that, only taking potshots at OTHER people selling Linux but not their own.
Ok so since when did it become ok for MY tax dollars to go towards protecting the copyrighted material of a company? You are taking MY money away to ensure the flow of money to someone ELSE....what the fuck?
It's not randomly selected songs, it the GOOD songs. Nobody is saying "Hey I'm logging on to iTunes and I'm going to find all the tracks by then, I'm just going to throw darts to see which ones I buy!".
QUITE the opposite. They are saying "I'm logging on to iTunes and I'm going to find all the tracks by and buy the ones I have heard and KNOW to be good tracks." I personally see NO problem with this WHATSOEVER. MY money, if YOU want it, you have to offer ME what I want! Otherwise, you won't be getting my money period.
With this I will NEVER buy another CD again....these artists are absolutely RETARDED. Make aWHOLE CD worth of good music and I will buy ALL of those tracks. Make only 2 good songs on the entire CD, and I'm only going to buy those two songs.
You know if I write 3 scripts in my offtime and sell them to my employer, and only one of them is any good, he would never buy all three. If I built four houses but only two off them were built straight, nobody would buy the other two. But "artists" seem to think it's ok to make 3 good songs out of 12 and force me to pay for the crappy ones. Get real....
Until they surgically remove their heads from their asses I won't be buying ANY more CD's and nothing, online or otherwise, from any of the groups mentioned in the article.
I've tried that version myself, and, sadly, it does not properly limit the bandwidth being used, it either dropps off several K beow where I tell it, or several K above where I tell it. On average I get about a 3K/Sec window of control, which means I either risk droppinginto a lower share bracket or max out my connection and kill my download.
I love the idea of BT, but it's far from the greatest solution. I think the Kazaa method of assigning everyone a contribution rating is a MUCH better idea. That way, if it really DOES kill my upload, I can choose to be a lower priority than people who DO share. When you are talking about a system like Kazaa it hits some bumps, I mean there may only be a handfull of users who have the file, so I could sit in line forever. But on Kazaa it seems to be a little more ordered, as where Kazaa is like some free-for all bazzar of anything on your PC.
And before you say that me being a low prio. connection and maybe only hitting 20K is no better than BT, keep in mind that while I may still be capped at 20K i certainly won't be completely unable to check even my email while the download is going.
I am terribly aware of that solution, but when you are trying ti distribute to thousands and thousands of people, you can't expect to use a system that, to work smoothly, requires a Linux (or Unix really) based router be on the line to smooth things out for them.
The point here isn't a handfull of geek users who configure their own Linux routers, its thousands and thousands of people of varying degrees of intelligence and ability connecting to a system that just works.
Why is it that BitTorrent is the fix-all solution for the /. crowd? I for one HATE BT, because, seeing as I am on DSL, I usually get no more than 20K/Sec even when sharing to my maximum potential. Why you ask? Because due to the assymetrical nature of ADSL, once my upstream gets clogged, it cannot facilitate the neccisary ACK's that need to be sent out to the other end in order to ensure my download stays up.
In other words, if I'm uploading at my maximum speed, I can't reply quickly enough to tell the nodes I am downloading from that the last packet got through, so they resend it instead of the next packet until I can squeak out an ACK or two to let them know to move on.
BT is a nice concept, but in practice it needs work.
RIAA member and involved with the MPAA if I recall. But in reality, I like ALOT more of what the MPAA has in mind than whan RIAA has in mind, theres hope for the MPAA yet....RIAA however is lost to us.
You may know me from such educational films as "if you dont like a companies business practices, don't buy their product" and my feature film debut "Money Talks".
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Seriously though people. There are alternatives to Sony and MS, hell I can't remember the last time either company got my money....not for my OS, my TV, DVD player, head unit in my car, I don't think I own a single Sony or MS product. So I know I'M not contributing to the problem....are you?
CAREFULL! They might mod you flamebait for that!
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To reply to the reply from my original post, eat me, I never said anything about it being fair he was libeled, I said the whole dramatic nonesense in his artice AND his forum thread were ridiculous "my status in the community is in jeopardy" omg, GET OVER IT. People say stupid, false, hurtful sh!t all the time, it's life, you deal with it, move on, and learn to ignore those people because they have their heads up their a$$es....if saying that makes me flamebait then, color me shocked, from the mature
DRAMA!!!!
OMG! it's a f'ing video game, I got about 4 posts into that message board and I couldn't take it any more. Just blah blah blah I feel so dirty when I load AO now. OMFG....I hate to sound like a pr!ck but seriously people, its just a dumb article in NYT, why gamers give a d@mn about the NYT is beyond me, and why one lousy article is taken to this morbid extreme is also beyond me. I mean if one stupid NYT article that he KNOWS to be false can affect him this much, maybe his AO time really is a bad thing.
Or maybe he just likes to over dramatize?
You know, I really expected more from a /. post.
Since when does one platform make all the difference? I personally do not like the Ipod, sorry, just doesn't sit right with me. I like my Nomad just fine (and 6GB is PLENTY for me too btw).
Perhaps instead of the Ipod working so well here it could be "portable MP3 players". But then your post would be redundant and not insightful....as the article mentioned portable players.
The law isn't to protect you and me, it's to protect the people who pay the lawmakers....corporations. I gaurantee you if someone hacked into your PC, stole your credit card, and charged $1,000 to it the FBI wouldn't do sh!t. Factor in as much money as you want for your time in tracking it down. They wouldn't care, because you are not onpayroll at a corporation, so the damage is minimal. Money talks, same as always, and corporations have more of it than an individual. Now if you were a multi-millionaire and actively donated to political funds. I bet it would be different.
Hahaha, damn, it's a conspiracy!
But in all seriousness, why would he want to work directly for the RIAA? As a senator he can take bribes (oh I'm sorry they don't call them bribes anymore) AND make a senators wages, at the same time!
She just didn't have sharp enough teeth?
MAYBE, they will replace her with somebody ten time s worse? Considering her lack of accomplishments (i.e. all those evil filesharers are still walking free) I wouldn't be suprised.
Hahaha, I'm sorry, but, "really starting to f**k me off"???? Hahahaha, Pepsi d@mn near came out of my nose on that one.
The whole point is a trusted network. WASTE isn't concerned with privacy between internal machines, it's goal is privacy from un-trusted nodes.
In other words, my Public Key is like the key to my house, I don't give it to somebody to give to my friend, I give it only to my friends. Because I have to trust anyone who has that key with the contents of my house. I have to trust they won't "break" in, and I have to trust they won't give it out.
In case they don't know their asses from a hole in the ground (and the odds are good), let me explain my issue with this war on terror allegory.
Fact of the matter is, The Brothers had this entire trilogy mapped out well ahead of 9/11. Matter of fact, they had it mapped out before the first movie came out. They have had it more or less mapped since they originally sat down to write the first one.
It's just another way to tie anything and everything you can to the "war on terror". Which is quickly becoming a self-perpetuating war on the ground that nobody "in charge" wants to let go. For the media guys it is the easy out for the slow news days, requires the most scant journalistic skills to "cover", the gov. loves it because it's a universal reason for damn near anything, even if it makes no sense, they just append that "helps the war on terror" label to the end and viola, suddenly your burning flags and killing babies if you disagree.
And for the record I didn't oppose the war in Iraq, I think peace protesters are retarded, and I think both GW and Gore are about the worst possible choices for president. I'm not left or right or green or indy on this topic. I don't like stupidity, I don't trust the gov. (with very good reason).
I personally have only seen it "cut out" the actual show twice in the 6 months+ I've had it, and I wouldn't trade Com. Adv. for anything! I love that feature!
I will be really disappointed if they remove these two features, and I wonder what the legal right is for them to change it after the fact, I mean I know they reserve the right to make feature changes, but it seems a little sweeping and broad to me to say that you can advertise the product based on a, in this case, a couple features your competition does not have (and the deciding factor for me) and then remove them after the fact.
I would hope that there would be some liability as to what "rights" these companies are allowed to reserve.
Was exactly what makes me NOT leary of the second one. So many people I know thought it was nothing more than an action flick....never the wiser in regards to the REAL message.
So I for one won;t be worried until I see it. I don't trust critics enough to even come close to worrying about a review like this.
You even managed to turn a confirmed release date into some snide little jab at MS....very mature crowd here....
That alone is the reason I think they will make it. Voodoo only had graphics cards, thats it, nothing else of note out there. But NVIDIA has the, currently, number one chipset for ahtlon's out there on the market.