I tend to agree with Roberston and his views on ditigal music. Its funny to me how when Microsoft wants to design digital rights management into its products, people complain how it is unjust and how Microsoft is just plain evil. However, when Apple releases their new system of distributing music, it is considered revolutionary and ground breaking. The only real thing Apple did was institute DRM into their program so the music labels would sign an agreement. Hasn't anyone realized that you can only listen to these files on Apple software and hardware? To me, that seems very limiting. Now, I don't own an Apple, but I still am able to see that they have a death grip over your files in this new system of theirs. Some may argue and say that you can put it on your iPod, listen to it in iTunes, and burn a cd from the music that you buy. However, what if you want an MP3 Cd like Robertson mentioned? What if you don't own an iPod, or down the road someone designs a player that you would rather own than the iPod? Guess what, you new "Apple" music collection won't work on it. I still believe that once you own an MP3 file, you should be able to do whatever you want with it for your own personal use. I don't necessarily agree with sending it all over the whole world, but fair use has to come into play here. I just want to be able to listen to my music when/where and on what I want. I don't need Apple to treat me like a vandal and only allow me to keep my music, which is no longer Apple's music, only on their computers and in their players.
Yea...schools can be really strict on this. Trust me...I know. Let me tell you my sad, sad story. Our school webpage has a ranking of the most visited pages on their site. Our school announcements come over the TV but our homeroom didn't get the TV announcements but we did have access to laptops and the announcements on the school's. The link to this page was at the bottom of teh most viewed links, so my friends and I thought it would be cool to have that the number one link just for kicks. So, being the geek that I am, I made a 2 line php script that accessed the page a bunch of times. I ran it an night and low and behold it accessed the school's site 60,000 times that night. I didn't think it would be having any affect on their network (being run at night and all) and it was run for another night. Well, the school noticed and I got busted. (Not sure how they knew it was me but whatever.) They called me a hacker and said that I slowed down the schools entire network (even during the day when the program wasn't running). I don't see how this was possible, but I got blamed for it anyway. For my punishment I wasn't allowed to use a school computer for a marking period. I didn't think I would have gotten in trouble for something like that. Because I have never been punished before in highschool, I just expected a "Don't do that again, crackhead" and that would have been the end of it. Guess i was wrong.
I have to agree that an interest needs to be there before the club will be successful. Last year, two friends and myself decided to start a Computer Science club for the school. We got all the official work done with the principal and got a teacher to supervise. We had a few meetings but never really evolved beyond that. One large thing that held us back is that the school never really supported computer science in a large way. We would have never been able to get computers to use for the clubs experimentation or learning. Our school has no student accessable servers and all of the desktops run a "secrurity" program called fortress (which locks you out of doing everything but running programs they allow and saving to one directory). I could see their faces now if I asked to have full access to a whole lab (even if we did want to build it ourselves). Also, my schools computer science cirriculum is in shambles. I have "Programming in C++" this year, yet I sleep in class or surf the internet almost everyday. Our teacher reached the point where she didn't know what she was teaching after half the year. Now she just hands out copies of code and has us type it into the IDE (which by the way is a depricated Borland TurboC++ 1.3 circa 1980) and compile it. Half the time the code won't even work because our compilier is so old. At one point one of the students was teaching the class. Its kinda sad, and I hope things will be better next year. However, I seriously doubt this as my schools budget got turned down. Its probably really bad for me to come from this environment, wanting to be a Computer Science major next year in college. Oh well...
And can someone explain to me why you would want to do this for $20,000? Are the Russians really that hard up for money that they would try this scheme? If I was someone who was incredibly rich (and didn't care how my money was spent) I would send a box with a camera in it so I could see if it actually got to space.
Nor do they talk about terms of service, which is where DSL stomps all over what was left of cable's ass. Read a typical cable modem service ToS some time -- go on, I dare you! You can't run anything but Windows, you can't run NAT, you can't run services, you can't leave your computer on when you're not in front of it. Now read a DSL ToS for comparison.
I have comcast cable and I have pretty much broken all of the things that you have mentioned. I don't think comcast really cares about any of this, as they have never said anything to me.
I don't know what version of windows you were using on your box, but mine runs XP and I can say that I love its stability, and the only time its ever crashed on me was when I installed a driver which didn't work. For a workstation I would imagine that Linux would rock; but as far as my personal home desktop goes, I can't say the same. I enjoy playing games in Windows as well as some of its more polished features such as being able to connect to my digital camera without ever having to install a driver. These are the kind of things that I miss when running linux. Personally, without more support from hardware manufacturers I don't think linux will ever quite be on the level of windows for a personal home desktop.
Well I think that no matter what job you look at, you will have to deal with some amount of Windows boxes. While Linux or Unix might be arguably better for a server, Windows is still the king of the desktop and workstation. I like Linux and think that its great, but I wouldn't replace Windows with it for my primary desktop.
What I am saying is wrong about you position is how you say that things are on the "dark side" and such. We are on the "dark side" compared to what? Keeping with the metaphore, what or where would you consider the light side? Surely, evil cannot exist without good to compare it with. This is what I meant about my previous post. I know that there is corruption in this country and I hate it as much as everyone else. I just don't think that things are as bad in this country as some make it out to be.
Do you actually think it is that bad here in the US? Sure, our government has its problems, as does every government or institution on the face of this Earth. However, I think that what we have is much better than you would find anywhere else. The fact that you can say things like you just said without being shot or punished in any way is a great testament to the freedoms we have here in America. If you think it's bad here, you should try living somewhere else first.
Yes...but I can see why companies would not want to hire a hacker, as most companies would not hire anyone with a previous record. I think that it's only fair that if a company has policy that they don't hire people with criminal records that this should be universal with no discrimination.
As far as the theme of this article applies to this situation, I don't really think that hacking the phone system as a child is something that should be held against an adult. Phone service is expensive, unfairly so if you ask me. As the author states, as a poor student there wasn't much of a choice if you wanted to communicate with others. Also, does it actually cost any more to send a signal over long distance than short distance? I don't see why a phone call should be viewed as long distance or local. In actualality, you probably didn't really cost the phone company anything. Although, my opinions could be influenced by growing up in a time when I can send my packets around the world for just the price of an ISP.
Mitnick argued that hackers, if reformed, make excellent security consultants because of their nature of pushing technology to the limits and their skills in penetrating computer systems.
The hard part is trying to figure out if the hacker is really reformed. After all, these are people who spent the majority of their time decieving, cracking, and evading detection. Given proper access to a system, it would be overly easy for them to cover their steps.
As much as I love ILM and what they are able to do with technology and movies, this doesn't seem like that great of a thing. If all they are writing about in the article is being able to see how the film they just shot will line up with a rough animatic, then thats not that great. I'm guessing what they have is much like what Weta Digital had to make the cave troll and other stuff in Balin's Tomb. Now, I would have been shocked and surprised if they said they could render a CGI scene with full effects, shaders, and the like in real time. That will be an accomplishment. What they have now (if its really like what Weta has) is no more than a video game with input based on the positions of sensors rather than a controller.
My high school has had a similar program for about 2 or 3 years now. Its called Powerschool and made by Apple. It keeps track of our grades, attendance, and all that good stuff. As soon as teachers enter the grades on their computers at school, the updated quarter average along with the grades of each assignment is available online. I like the system because it allows me to keep track of my grades all through the quarter, so I am never surprised when report cards roll around. Our school gives each student a unique number (that is not based on anything else) and a random password inorder to access the system.
I agree with what you have said. Simply hearing that some poor college student is getting sued for billions of dollars is enought to make most people stop and think if leaving kazaa running in the background is really worth it or not. I can't see this case really going through the courts, and I feel what the RIAA is doing is really wrong. Hopefully other people in America will realize this and try and find a way to change something.
When considering what had happened to this student upon reading it when it was first posted, I began to think about a system of distributing music that might make it harder for the RIAA punish you legally. Suppose you had a FTP server running in your college of choice. You could set up a system where all members of the college could access a webpage and give you the username part of their university email address. (Say just the username part of username@college.edu) Then each week you email them a randomly created password to access your FTP server with all the music stored on it. This way, only students at your college could recieve the password and if the RIAA felt so inclined as to break in or access your FTP server you could state that they did so illegally, which might make their legal case bunk (i'm not sure if this is accurate...any corrections are welcome). This might work better than a p2p program that is open for all.
Copyright laws were never meant to be abused in this way. Its a shame that our society has let this situation progress to the horrible condition that it is presently in. Reading this article reminds me of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, I really feel like never paying for a CD again. The thing that really boils my blood is that its a giant corporation that is sueing these poor college students, not the artists - the ones who should really own the music that they produce. The artists get ripped on their own works of art, and the consumer gets ripped off paying for it. The only people that win are the recording labels. I'll "steal" all the stinking music I want. Copyright laws were intended to protect someone from claiming that they produced an original work or idea, not to give mega-corporations the right to rip everyone off. Thomas Jefferson wrote about copyright laws and he said that the right of owning property is something that a society grants its citizens and it is not a natural right. The society can change how it looks upon property (copyright laws) at any minute. I think its time that we change the way our copyright laws work. If Congress won't listen to its citizens and only to corporations that pad their pockets, they it is time that we rebel! We have a right to rebel and change our government when they listen to corporations over citizens. This is something that our founding fathers, and many intellectuals throught history would support. Why are we letting ourselves get walked all over, when our country is supposed to be one of "freedom", "democracy", and "rule by the people"? We need to change this now before it is too late!
If the system isn't abused, and only sites containing child pornogrophy are blocked, then I think that this is an excellent idea. Only good can come frome blocking these types of sites, which contain images that are already illegal.
A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use.
hahaha....like a kernel isn't a large scale project designed for everday use.
ah you see...ther is logic behind the figuring out the whole half-empty, half-full thing. If the glass was originally full and half of it was drank, then the glass is half empty. If the glass was originally empty and filled half way, then it is half-full. You see its all very simple.
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I tend to agree with Roberston and his views on ditigal music. Its funny to me how when Microsoft wants to design digital rights management into its products, people complain how it is unjust and how Microsoft is just plain evil. However, when Apple releases their new system of distributing music, it is considered revolutionary and ground breaking. The only real thing Apple did was institute DRM into their program so the music labels would sign an agreement. Hasn't anyone realized that you can only listen to these files on Apple software and hardware? To me, that seems very limiting. Now, I don't own an Apple, but I still am able to see that they have a death grip over your files in this new system of theirs. Some may argue and say that you can put it on your iPod, listen to it in iTunes, and burn a cd from the music that you buy. However, what if you want an MP3 Cd like Robertson mentioned? What if you don't own an iPod, or down the road someone designs a player that you would rather own than the iPod? Guess what, you new "Apple" music collection won't work on it. I still believe that once you own an MP3 file, you should be able to do whatever you want with it for your own personal use. I don't necessarily agree with sending it all over the whole world, but fair use has to come into play here. I just want to be able to listen to my music when/where and on what I want. I don't need Apple to treat me like a vandal and only allow me to keep my music, which is no longer Apple's music, only on their computers and in their players.
yes C code works fine, but the advanced c++ code that we are supposed to be "learning" now doesn't always compile correctly.
Yea...schools can be really strict on this. Trust me...I know. Let me tell you my sad, sad story. Our school webpage has a ranking of the most visited pages on their site. Our school announcements come over the TV but our homeroom didn't get the TV announcements but we did have access to laptops and the announcements on the school's. The link to this page was at the bottom of teh most viewed links, so my friends and I thought it would be cool to have that the number one link just for kicks. So, being the geek that I am, I made a 2 line php script that accessed the page a bunch of times. I ran it an night and low and behold it accessed the school's site 60,000 times that night. I didn't think it would be having any affect on their network (being run at night and all) and it was run for another night. Well, the school noticed and I got busted. (Not sure how they knew it was me but whatever.) They called me a hacker and said that I slowed down the schools entire network (even during the day when the program wasn't running). I don't see how this was possible, but I got blamed for it anyway. For my punishment I wasn't allowed to use a school computer for a marking period. I didn't think I would have gotten in trouble for something like that. Because I have never been punished before in highschool, I just expected a "Don't do that again, crackhead" and that would have been the end of it. Guess i was wrong.
I have to agree that an interest needs to be there before the club will be successful. Last year, two friends and myself decided to start a Computer Science club for the school. We got all the official work done with the principal and got a teacher to supervise. We had a few meetings but never really evolved beyond that. One large thing that held us back is that the school never really supported computer science in a large way. We would have never been able to get computers to use for the clubs experimentation or learning. Our school has no student accessable servers and all of the desktops run a "secrurity" program called fortress (which locks you out of doing everything but running programs they allow and saving to one directory). I could see their faces now if I asked to have full access to a whole lab (even if we did want to build it ourselves). Also, my schools computer science cirriculum is in shambles. I have "Programming in C++" this year, yet I sleep in class or surf the internet almost everyday. Our teacher reached the point where she didn't know what she was teaching after half the year. Now she just hands out copies of code and has us type it into the IDE (which by the way is a depricated Borland TurboC++ 1.3 circa 1980) and compile it. Half the time the code won't even work because our compilier is so old. At one point one of the students was teaching the class. Its kinda sad, and I hope things will be better next year. However, I seriously doubt this as my schools budget got turned down. Its probably really bad for me to come from this environment, wanting to be a Computer Science major next year in college. Oh well...
And can someone explain to me why you would want to do this for $20,000? Are the Russians really that hard up for money that they would try this scheme? If I was someone who was incredibly rich (and didn't care how my money was spent) I would send a box with a camera in it so I could see if it actually got to space.
Nor do they talk about terms of service, which is where DSL stomps all over what was left of cable's ass. Read a typical cable modem service ToS some time -- go on, I dare you! You can't run anything but Windows, you can't run NAT, you can't run services, you can't leave your computer on when you're not in front of it. Now read a DSL ToS for comparison.
I have comcast cable and I have pretty much broken all of the things that you have mentioned. I don't think comcast really cares about any of this, as they have never said anything to me.
I don't know what version of windows you were using on your box, but mine runs XP and I can say that I love its stability, and the only time its ever crashed on me was when I installed a driver which didn't work. For a workstation I would imagine that Linux would rock; but as far as my personal home desktop goes, I can't say the same. I enjoy playing games in Windows as well as some of its more polished features such as being able to connect to my digital camera without ever having to install a driver. These are the kind of things that I miss when running linux. Personally, without more support from hardware manufacturers I don't think linux will ever quite be on the level of windows for a personal home desktop.
Well I think that no matter what job you look at, you will have to deal with some amount of Windows boxes. While Linux or Unix might be arguably better for a server, Windows is still the king of the desktop and workstation. I like Linux and think that its great, but I wouldn't replace Windows with it for my primary desktop.
What I am saying is wrong about you position is how you say that things are on the "dark side" and such. We are on the "dark side" compared to what? Keeping with the metaphore, what or where would you consider the light side? Surely, evil cannot exist without good to compare it with. This is what I meant about my previous post. I know that there is corruption in this country and I hate it as much as everyone else. I just don't think that things are as bad in this country as some make it out to be.
Do you actually think it is that bad here in the US? Sure, our government has its problems, as does every government or institution on the face of this Earth. However, I think that what we have is much better than you would find anywhere else. The fact that you can say things like you just said without being shot or punished in any way is a great testament to the freedoms we have here in America. If you think it's bad here, you should try living somewhere else first.
Yes...but I can see why companies would not want to hire a hacker, as most companies would not hire anyone with a previous record. I think that it's only fair that if a company has policy that they don't hire people with criminal records that this should be universal with no discrimination.
As far as the theme of this article applies to this situation, I don't really think that hacking the phone system as a child is something that should be held against an adult. Phone service is expensive, unfairly so if you ask me. As the author states, as a poor student there wasn't much of a choice if you wanted to communicate with others. Also, does it actually cost any more to send a signal over long distance than short distance? I don't see why a phone call should be viewed as long distance or local. In actualality, you probably didn't really cost the phone company anything. Although, my opinions could be influenced by growing up in a time when I can send my packets around the world for just the price of an ISP.
Mitnick argued that hackers, if reformed, make excellent security consultants because of their nature of pushing technology to the limits and their skills in penetrating computer systems.
The hard part is trying to figure out if the hacker is really reformed. After all, these are people who spent the majority of their time decieving, cracking, and evading detection. Given proper access to a system, it would be overly easy for them to cover their steps.
As much as I love ILM and what they are able to do with technology and movies, this doesn't seem like that great of a thing. If all they are writing about in the article is being able to see how the film they just shot will line up with a rough animatic, then thats not that great. I'm guessing what they have is much like what Weta Digital had to make the cave troll and other stuff in Balin's Tomb. Now, I would have been shocked and surprised if they said they could render a CGI scene with full effects, shaders, and the like in real time. That will be an accomplishment. What they have now (if its really like what Weta has) is no more than a video game with input based on the positions of sensors rather than a controller.
Throw together some code and get free pizza and a new graphics card :-P
My high school has had a similar program for about 2 or 3 years now. Its called Powerschool and made by Apple. It keeps track of our grades, attendance, and all that good stuff. As soon as teachers enter the grades on their computers at school, the updated quarter average along with the grades of each assignment is available online. I like the system because it allows me to keep track of my grades all through the quarter, so I am never surprised when report cards roll around. Our school gives each student a unique number (that is not based on anything else) and a random password inorder to access the system.
I agree with what you have said. Simply hearing that some poor college student is getting sued for billions of dollars is enought to make most people stop and think if leaving kazaa running in the background is really worth it or not. I can't see this case really going through the courts, and I feel what the RIAA is doing is really wrong. Hopefully other people in America will realize this and try and find a way to change something.
When considering what had happened to this student upon reading it when it was first posted, I began to think about a system of distributing music that might make it harder for the RIAA punish you legally. Suppose you had a FTP server running in your college of choice. You could set up a system where all members of the college could access a webpage and give you the username part of their university email address. (Say just the username part of username@college.edu) Then each week you email them a randomly created password to access your FTP server with all the music stored on it. This way, only students at your college could recieve the password and if the RIAA felt so inclined as to break in or access your FTP server you could state that they did so illegally, which might make their legal case bunk (i'm not sure if this is accurate...any corrections are welcome). This might work better than a p2p program that is open for all.
So that seemingly made up excuse for the explosion of the truck in MIB caused by light reflecting off of some gas is now about to be a reality.
Copyright laws were never meant to be abused in this way. Its a shame that our society has let this situation progress to the horrible condition that it is presently in. Reading this article reminds me of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, I really feel like never paying for a CD again. The thing that really boils my blood is that its a giant corporation that is sueing these poor college students, not the artists - the ones who should really own the music that they produce. The artists get ripped on their own works of art, and the consumer gets ripped off paying for it. The only people that win are the recording labels. I'll "steal" all the stinking music I want. Copyright laws were intended to protect someone from claiming that they produced an original work or idea, not to give mega-corporations the right to rip everyone off. Thomas Jefferson wrote about copyright laws and he said that the right of owning property is something that a society grants its citizens and it is not a natural right. The society can change how it looks upon property (copyright laws) at any minute. I think its time that we change the way our copyright laws work. If Congress won't listen to its citizens and only to corporations that pad their pockets, they it is time that we rebel! We have a right to rebel and change our government when they listen to corporations over citizens. This is something that our founding fathers, and many intellectuals throught history would support. Why are we letting ourselves get walked all over, when our country is supposed to be one of "freedom", "democracy", and "rule by the people"? We need to change this now before it is too late!
that MS will just sue all the people that they gave the discs to once they install the software.
If the system isn't abused, and only sites containing child pornogrophy are blocked, then I think that this is an excellent idea. Only good can come frome blocking these types of sites, which contain images that are already illegal.
"We'll definitely be evaluating Linux...the POS system."
Isn't it great how words can get twisted?
A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use.
hahaha....like a kernel isn't a large scale project designed for everday use.
ah you see...ther is logic behind the figuring out the whole half-empty, half-full thing. If the glass was originally full and half of it was drank, then the glass is half empty. If the glass was originally empty and filled half way, then it is half-full. You see its all very simple.