No, corporations want to control what you do with the works they sell you, something copyright nor first sale doctrine does not give them the right to do.
No, corporations don't want to sell you anything, they want to license/lease/rent it to you.
Get's around all those pesky "user rights" everyone keeps waffeling on about.......
there is nothing on the system as important as the user's data in his home directory.
Agree. That's why I back up the users data daily regardless of OS. If that fancy new screensaver/kernel-compile/email-attachment nukes their data I have a backup (which they get if they ask nice and promise to be more careful in future;-)
As for the in UNIX it's only a user account that gets trashed not the whole system thing, may I ask how many admins have hardened their systems against a local attack? Remember:
are primarily interested in making profit before giving people what they actually need.
Therein lies the answer.
Ralph Nader wrote "unsafe at any speed" which finally awoke people to the fact that cars were dangerous and that safetey features were a good thing.
Before you know it, manufacturers of cars build safeteyinto the cars because it's what the consumer wnats and therefor it's what the producer wants.
Now.... how does this apply to a market dominated by a monopoly where getting accurate non-hyped info on 'safetey' and 'reliability' is near impossible?
Microsoft is like any other company, they do what benefits them.
Competition = consumer-driven-markets ==> what the consumer wants is what is in the best interest of the manufacturer to produce.
Monopoly = manufacturer-driven market ==> the consumer is forced to put up with whatever is on offer which may not be what they want.
Why do you think we got clipp (universally despised) instead of stability (desperatley wanted) in Word?
Point it at a TV showing static (or Springer or something else with no inteligent signal) and voila!
Granted you'd have to downsample the output, but even at a few frames per second and only a few bytes of randomness per frame you could generate much faster than you can type.
... and I think last time one comment summed it up:
What makes you think users who write passwords on post-it-notes stuck to the monitors aren't going to blue-tack the dongle to the laptop for "ease of (ab)use?"
... I'd say that most universities turn out computer science students who know how to program applications.
Not in my expirience... heck, they teach programming by starting with JBuilder!!
Don't get me wrong, JBuilder is a great for some things, but it's a lousy introduction to programming.
I've worked with newbis out of uni who didn't know what a static variable are and who think that function parameter are just something you do in UNI to please the lecturer (you know, like puting comments in code.....)
In order to trust the image taken by the camera you'd have to trust a lot more than the pixels!
WHEN and WHERE the picture was taken is as importanas as WHAT is displayed, otherwise what's to stop someone snapping a picture, mangling it and then photographing the mangled picture?
So, unless you include GPS in the camera and sign the GPS info as well, not much point in signing the picture.
Next, how do you prove the GPS wasn't spoofed? (i.e. record the GPS signals at the desired time/location and then re-broadcast them to the camera later/somewhere else).
<flamebait> Of couse, all this will be solved once I get my web-cam connected to my windows-palladium-DRM box.
IIRC Palladium includes features to lock and unlock content based on time/date.
For this feature to be of any use, the system must have accurate and trusted time (what's the point of having exam results that I can only view after the exam if I can change the system clock and cheat?).
This implies that unless I connect my computer to a trusted server, this type of content will be unavailable to me.
Does this mean my computer MUST be connected to the internet to work?
I guess you won't mind sending me a cheque then for the exess usage my company didn't pay for when some yahoo ran amok and installed SETI all over the place!
In defence of SETI, it's license EXPRESSLY prohibits this, but that obviously doesn't stop anyone.
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When the target stops moving.
Which will be roughly about the same time Bovines achieve lunar orbit.
on adverage 24 hours a day
;-)
WOW, so some of them were running more than 24 hours a day?
sorry, couldn't resist
No, corporations want to control what you do with the works they sell you, something copyright nor first sale doctrine does not give them the right to do.
No, corporations don't want to sell you anything, they want to license/lease/rent it to you.
Get's around all those pesky "user rights" everyone keeps waffeling on about.......
there is nothing on the system as important as the user's data in his home directory.
;-)
Agree. That's why I back up the users data daily regardless of OS. If that fancy new screensaver/kernel-compile/email-attachment nukes their data I have a backup (which they get if they ask nice and promise to be more careful in future
As for the in UNIX it's only a user account that gets trashed not the whole system thing, may I ask how many admins have hardened their systems against a local attack? Remember:
remote non-root exploit + local root exploit = remote root exploit
The "start your DRM-enabled ebook reader, then your screenshot program so you can export the thing to LINUX' type of attacks.
Sure there is...
rpm --install *.src.rpm
start reading!
By the time you're done, unfortunatley, the sun will be a small, cold, black rock.
The like a vegetarian comment is chilling.
:-(
Just try getting a vegetarian meal in your average restaurant.
Inferior quality, restricted choice, having to go without the entree and half the time you end up with non-vegetarian stuff anyway!
Sound like the future of non-DRM software to me
I wonder how Microsoft will convince consumers that loss of control is a good thing, and how long the convincing will take.
I must have forgotten when they convinced me that Clippy was a Good Thing before forcing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hintroducing it.
Seriously, do you really think they're going to even try to convince us? What's the point of having a monopoly if you can't (ab)use it?
... customers outside of wealthy countries cannot afford $199 for a version of XP and we will then adjust accordingly and fairly, ...
;-)
And, of course, the people in rich countries won't mind paying more
Region-coded XP? Region coded PC's?
Don't laugh, others have tried it!!
are primarily interested in making profit before giving people what they actually need.
Therein lies the answer.
Ralph Nader wrote "unsafe at any speed" which finally awoke people to the fact that cars were dangerous and that safetey features were a good thing.
Before you know it, manufacturers of cars build safeteyinto the cars because it's what the consumer wnats and therefor it's what the producer wants.
Now.... how does this apply to a market dominated by a monopoly where getting accurate non-hyped info on 'safetey' and 'reliability' is near impossible?
Microsoft is like any other company, they do what benefits them.
Competition = consumer-driven-markets ==> what the consumer wants is what is in the best interest of the manufacturer to produce.
Monopoly = manufacturer-driven market ==> the consumer is forced to put up with whatever is on offer which may not be what they want.
Why do you think we got clipp (universally despised) instead of stability (desperatley wanted) in Word?
well, I'll let you pick which end
/. that server.......
Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.
I wonder if we could
What about a cheap web-cam?
Point it at a TV showing static (or Springer or something else with no inteligent signal) and voila!
Granted you'd have to downsample the output, but even at a few frames per second and only a few bytes of randomness per frame you could generate much faster than you can type.
...chilling a wide variety of legitimate activities in ways Congress did not intend.
Call me paranoid, but I don't think they knew full well what is was going to do, or at least, their paymsters did.
... and I think last time one comment summed it up:
What makes you think users who write passwords on post-it-notes stuck to the monitors aren't going to blue-tack the dongle to the laptop for "ease of (ab)use?"
I regret to inform you that your comments are in violation of the laws of my country.
;-)
Please proceed to the nearest airport and fly here so we can prosecure you (if we give you a visa
... I'd say that most universities turn out computer science students who know how to program applications.
Not in my expirience... heck, they teach programming by starting with JBuilder!!
Don't get me wrong, JBuilder is a great for some things, but it's a lousy introduction to programming.
I've worked with newbis out of uni who didn't know what a static variable are and who think that function parameter are just something you do in UNI to please the lecturer (you know, like puting comments in code.....)
Surely with the organ shortage, human recipient should come first!
In order to trust the image taken by the camera you'd have to trust a lot more than the pixels!
WHEN and WHERE the picture was taken is as importanas as WHAT is displayed, otherwise what's to stop someone snapping a picture, mangling it and then photographing the mangled picture?
So, unless you include GPS in the camera and sign the GPS info as well, not much point in signing the picture.
Next, how do you prove the GPS wasn't spoofed? (i.e. record the GPS signals at the desired time/location and then re-broadcast them to the camera later/somewhere else).
<flamebait>
Of couse, all this will be solved once I get my web-cam connected to my windows-palladium-DRM box.
My server has no gcc.
How does it run slapper?
Terribly!
IIRC Palladium includes features to lock and unlock content based on time/date.
For this feature to be of any use, the system must have accurate and trusted time (what's the point of having exam results that I can only view after the exam if I can change the system clock and cheat?).
This implies that unless I connect my computer to a trusted server, this type of content will be unavailable to me.
Does this mean my computer MUST be connected to the internet to work?
nobody paying for it?
I guess you won't mind sending me a cheque then for the exess usage my company didn't pay for when some yahoo ran amok and installed SETI all over the place!
In defence of SETI, it's license EXPRESSLY prohibits this, but that obviously doesn't stop anyone.
by my count, 8/9(*) Windows voulnerabilities are directly attributed to Microsoft.
No two UNIX voulnerabilities can be blamed on the same supplier.
Is there a better argument for "MS is a monopoly and should be broken up"?
(*)I'm not counding "weak passwords", that's universal.
It's not a security patch, it's a FEATURE UPGRADE!!
:-)
(the feature being upgraded is the one that keeps script-kiddies out of your box
Keyboard?
Who needs a keyboard with voice type and a 17-button mouse (with 3 scroll-wheels)
How do you know which bugs go with what files?