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I do not have experience with dynamic disks, but there is no reason why you would not be able to use a USB HDD as a boot device. I know I have booted to grub off of one (accidently when backing up to a HDD in a USB enclosure), and I would would expect Windows and Linux to boot fine after that as long as they have USB mass storage support. Some BIOSes have "USB-HDD" as one of the boot order options. I assume any new one would have that or and equivalent.
You had trouble getting 2D Radeon drivers running? I have a computer with an ATI card that I just run fglrx with hardware acceleration disabled, but the kernel radeon drm driver should work fine for 2D. Well, that and radeonfb if you want terminals at higher res. Or are some newer/rarer cards not supported by those drivers?
Spyware mostly gets installed by riding along with other apps like Kazaa. If Linux becomes popular, Linux spyware will become popular. Maybe it won't have root privs, but user privs are enough.
As I understand it, if a cell phone is connected to the network, it is pretty easy to figure out where it is. I assume that having GPS on the phone improves the precision. The only way to make a cell phone that is untrackable is to turn it off.
Yes, I know about that loophole. It is fine if you have a few songs that you want to convert. Of course, it degrades the quality a bit when you reencode it, but no one is going to notice that. There are a few problems:
It requires access to a computer with iTunes on it authorized to play the music files you have bought. This should not be too much of a problem because you must have bought the music with such a computer in the first place. On the other hand, it could cause a problem with future hardware.
That method is painfully slow. One CD takes about 20-30 minutes with a 48x CD writer/reader. If you have a large collection converting all of it will take a long time.
This is not really breaking the DRM. If the DRM is broken, then you would have the source code to a OSS player that could play your DRMed files. If I remember correctly from reading about hymn/playfair (please correct me if I am wrong), they only work on an authorized computer because the DRM uses hardware information as part of the key.
I was about to reply to you with a link to a tool for cracking the iTunes DRM, but a little research reveals that no such tool exists. At least, the existing tools do not work with the most recent version of iTunes. The hymn project has some help topics on their forums explaining how to not use the latest version of iTunes so you can still use hymn. So much for that.
Well, is the DreamCast considered part of the GCN/PS2/XBox generation? Or is it considered between the PSX/N64 generation and that generation? I think of it as the former.
Ummm... the disc that came with the Wind Waker pre-order special offer, you mean? I have that and it has OoT and a special harder version of OoT that was planned as a 64DD game. I do not remember seeing the NES Zeldas on it.
The GameCube cannot do surround sound, but it can fake 5.1 using Dolby Pro Logic II (a system that does its best to convert 2.0 sound to 5.1; DPL1 did 2.0 to 4.0, IIRC). Factor 5 (I think...) developed a method to tweak the stereo output so that DPL2 would work as well as possible. This was first used by Rouge Leader (a launch title), but has been used by a few other games since. Supposedly, it sounds just as good as real 5.1, but I do not have a surround system, and I have only heard about it from Nintendo fansites.
I guess I do not know much about WPA, but I assumed that it encrypts each packet in a way such that only the computer and the access point it is communicating with can read the packet.
I remember reading in Scientific American a few months ago about work being done on making a wireless networking technology that would allow for wireless meshes in order to make covering an area with wifi easier and allow for redundant paths. I think with 802.11b, an AP can be set to talk to other APs or clients, but not both, so doing the same thing would take many more APs.
I think it is pretty clear that current routing protocols would not work for a large-scale wireless mesh, but that makes sense: they were not designed to handle a large-scale wireless mesh. Of course, the last point in your post covers why a wireless mesh is a bad idea even if you had it running on SAPWMRP (Super Awesome Perfect Wireless Mesh Routing Protocol).
I do not think that is really something to worry about with WPA on the network. I think the really problem is that 802.11a/b/g are not designed for such a mesh to work, and the technology for it to work does not really exist yet (that I know of).
I have a problem with the "I have nothing to hide" argument in general, but specifically with encryption: if only messages that need to be secret are encrypted, then encryption on message is a red-flag for important content. If all messages were encrypted, then it would be harder to pick out a single message and determine that it is even worth the effort to attempt to decrypt it.
There are two Gaim encryption plug-ins which are being actively developed. One is gaim-encryption ("Gaim-Encryption uses NSS to provide transparent RSA encryption as a Gaim plugin."), which is Gaim-only. The other is OTR, which can be used with any AIM client on Windows, Linux, or Mac (there is a plug-in for Gaim and a proxy server for other clients). I have both installed, but I have trouble getting my friends to use them, even the ones who use Gaim. Unforunately, Gaim does not support Trillian's encryption nor AIM's official client's encryption, and, as far as I know, no one is working on either.
Umm... if the problem limiting speed is the ISP's backbone connection and not just the lack of a super fast last-mile connection, why do we keep hearing about really fast, really cheap broadband in places like Tokyo and South Korea?
This has been discussed before. The reason it does not work is simple: they would not be looking for requests to non-paying servers and downgrading their priority; they would be looking for requests to paying server and upgrading their priority. Your encrypted packets are not recognized by the system, so they get left at the default low priority.
I had a NetFlix subcription a few years ago and they were doing this then. Your priority in the queue for a movie is higher the less movies you got from them the previous month. I fail to see a problem with this. If you get few movies, you get what you want quickly. If you get many movies, it may take a bit a longer to get what is at the top of your queue, but you get more movies over all. Obviously, this also means that new customers get top priority (zero rentals the previous month).
May I ask what the people who do not like this think would be a better way to prioritize the queue?
Huh? I thought StarForce had been broken. I remember it being discussed before in SlashDot threads, although I do not personally own any StarForce games. (Daemon Tools does a fine job on older copy protection schemes.)
Wow, you are lucky. In my small town and the surounding towns most houses get cable or nothing for high-speed. In some parts of town you can also get DSL, but it is much slower.
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I do not have experience with dynamic disks, but there is no reason why you would not be able to use a USB HDD as a boot device. I know I have booted to grub off of one (accidently when backing up to a HDD in a USB enclosure), and I would would expect Windows and Linux to boot fine after that as long as they have USB mass storage support. Some BIOSes have "USB-HDD" as one of the boot order options. I assume any new one would have that or and equivalent.
Ummm... it is caching applications. If your applications have your passwords hard-coded into them... well, that's just plain weird.
You had trouble getting 2D Radeon drivers running? I have a computer with an ATI card that I just run fglrx with hardware acceleration disabled, but the kernel radeon drm driver should work fine for 2D. Well, that and radeonfb if you want terminals at higher res. Or are some newer/rarer cards not supported by those drivers?
Spyware mostly gets installed by riding along with other apps like Kazaa. If Linux becomes popular, Linux spyware will become popular. Maybe it won't have root privs, but user privs are enough.
Link?
As I understand it, if a cell phone is connected to the network, it is pretty easy to figure out where it is. I assume that having GPS on the phone improves the precision. The only way to make a cell phone that is untrackable is to turn it off.
I was about to reply to you with a link to a tool for cracking the iTunes DRM, but a little research reveals that no such tool exists. At least, the existing tools do not work with the most recent version of iTunes. The hymn project has some help topics on their forums explaining how to not use the latest version of iTunes so you can still use hymn. So much for that.
Well, is the DreamCast considered part of the GCN/PS2/XBox generation? Or is it considered between the PSX/N64 generation and that generation? I think of it as the former.
Ummm... the disc that came with the Wind Waker pre-order special offer, you mean? I have that and it has OoT and a special harder version of OoT that was planned as a 64DD game. I do not remember seeing the NES Zeldas on it.
The GameCube cannot do surround sound, but it can fake 5.1 using Dolby Pro Logic II (a system that does its best to convert 2.0 sound to 5.1; DPL1 did 2.0 to 4.0, IIRC). Factor 5 (I think...) developed a method to tweak the stereo output so that DPL2 would work as well as possible. This was first used by Rouge Leader (a launch title), but has been used by a few other games since. Supposedly, it sounds just as good as real 5.1, but I do not have a surround system, and I have only heard about it from Nintendo fansites.
I guess I do not know much about WPA, but I assumed that it encrypts each packet in a way such that only the computer and the access point it is communicating with can read the packet.
I remember reading in Scientific American a few months ago about work being done on making a wireless networking technology that would allow for wireless meshes in order to make covering an area with wifi easier and allow for redundant paths. I think with 802.11b, an AP can be set to talk to other APs or clients, but not both, so doing the same thing would take many more APs.
The man in the middle attack was fixed a while ago with OTR2 (5 Nov 2005, to be precise).
I think it is pretty clear that current routing protocols would not work for a large-scale wireless mesh, but that makes sense: they were not designed to handle a large-scale wireless mesh. Of course, the last point in your post covers why a wireless mesh is a bad idea even if you had it running on SAPWMRP (Super Awesome Perfect Wireless Mesh Routing Protocol).
I do not think that is really something to worry about with WPA on the network. I think the really problem is that 802.11a/b/g are not designed for such a mesh to work, and the technology for it to work does not really exist yet (that I know of).
I have a problem with the "I have nothing to hide" argument in general, but specifically with encryption: if only messages that need to be secret are encrypted, then encryption on message is a red-flag for important content. If all messages were encrypted, then it would be harder to pick out a single message and determine that it is even worth the effort to attempt to decrypt it.
There are two Gaim encryption plug-ins which are being actively developed. One is gaim-encryption ("Gaim-Encryption uses NSS to provide transparent RSA encryption as a Gaim plugin."), which is Gaim-only. The other is OTR, which can be used with any AIM client on Windows, Linux, or Mac (there is a plug-in for Gaim and a proxy server for other clients). I have both installed, but I have trouble getting my friends to use them, even the ones who use Gaim. Unforunately, Gaim does not support Trillian's encryption nor AIM's official client's encryption, and, as far as I know, no one is working on either.
Umm... if the problem limiting speed is the ISP's backbone connection and not just the lack of a super fast last-mile connection, why do we keep hearing about really fast, really cheap broadband in places like Tokyo and South Korea?
This has been discussed before. The reason it does not work is simple: they would not be looking for requests to non-paying servers and downgrading their priority; they would be looking for requests to paying server and upgrading their priority. Your encrypted packets are not recognized by the system, so they get left at the default low priority.
I had a NetFlix subcription a few years ago and they were doing this then. Your priority in the queue for a movie is higher the less movies you got from them the previous month. I fail to see a problem with this. If you get few movies, you get what you want quickly. If you get many movies, it may take a bit a longer to get what is at the top of your queue, but you get more movies over all. Obviously, this also means that new customers get top priority (zero rentals the previous month).
May I ask what the people who do not like this think would be a better way to prioritize the queue?
Huh? I thought StarForce had been broken. I remember it being discussed before in SlashDot threads, although I do not personally own any StarForce games. (Daemon Tools does a fine job on older copy protection schemes.)
Wow, you are lucky. In my small town and the surounding towns most houses get cable or nothing for high-speed. In some parts of town you can also get DSL, but it is much slower.
What do you mean? Spelling seems to be doing quite badly in that war.
Complain to your congressmen? Move to a free country?
Umm... isn't the current Windows network stack based on the BSD one?