I see what you're getting at (PuTTY on a USB key is our friend), but it would be nice not to have to tunnel around paranoid stupidity to begin with. I guess the next step in the war of escalation will be for people to have whole AJAX based remote desktops and surf from home over HTTPS, and perhaps tunnel other protocols over TLS/SSL to avoid stateful packet inspection. Of course, in places that paranoid, one slip-up and some power tripping eye-tee "administrator" calls security.
The "investors" deserved what they got. They took a gamble hoping an immoral and (it turns out) illegal attempt to hijack Linux would pay off. They lost.
ISTR a Slashdot story a year or so ago about just such a camera--but for video, and comments in the story immediately realized the potential for avoiding confiscation of photos at protests and such. Unfortunately, it is indeed an idea whose time has come.
. . . confiteor. Best not to have columunists with an audience complaining that WGA is screwing over legitimate purchasers, so after a a little quid pro quo, his copy conveniently became "inadvertently pirated." Hogwash.
if you want to play Windows-only games you need a copy of Windows. it'll work on a Macbook as well as any other computer.
That's the best selling point of all of today's Macs--that they can run Windows. Because it's certainly not because their hardware is anything special--just the same off-the-shelf commodity crap Dell et al use. At least when they were using the slow PPC chips, they cried about the "megahertz myth" to try to explain why PCs were running rings around Macs speed-wise.
"Lax DRM" is the camel's nose underneath the tent. Did you expect them to start out with something blatantly intrusive? Of course not. They're helping to boil the frog, along with MS and the rest of the "trusted" computing gangsters.
Sorry to rain on anyone's parade, but Apple has always been more monopolizing and litigous, if not as predatory and successful businesswise, as Microsoft.
Exactly--what the Mac fanbois don't want to admit to themselves much less anyone else is that Apple is just like Microsoft, only not nearly as successful at it.
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This is a buzzword. Full of crap. "Trusted computing" is simple an implementation of hardware that can be controlled to execute software or not based on the fact who you trust. It is perfectly normal and it will be implemented as it is valuable. It neutral as technology - same as kitchen knife, I can make a delicious food with a knife, I can also stab you with it - does this mean that knifes are bad? No that only means that people stabbing other people are bad. Same with Trusted Computing, DRM, hardware level execution protection - it is neutral.
It's only neutral if the owner of the hardware is given all the keys, including the endorsement keys. Otherwise, it's an evil system of control.
I would think another source of revenue (that they certainly wouldn't talk about if true) would be trading on the buzz they can find out about before everyone else does (e.g. searches regarding mergers before they're public). Even though this would be trading on inside information morally, it probably wouldn't be legally, since Google isn't an insider.
. . . once it's impossible to access any legitimate "premium content" without a machine with a Fritz chip. With Dell, Apple, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft all onboard, and people wanting to watch new movies on their game consoles/DVD players/online banking terminals, there should be plenty o' sales all around once Vista arrives.
It was repealed some time ago, 5-4, by five "justices" of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was a nice experiment, but the American Replublic has faded some time ago in favor of the Empire/Police State.
That CPU is only $145.99 at Newegg. So you paid about $400 after rebate plus sales tax on $550 for 1GB of RAM, a 250GB 7200 RPM SATA disk, a Lightscribe DVD-burner, and a non-transferrable OEM license for XP. Maybe not a horrible deal, but not a no-brainer either, considering the time to remove the HP ad/spy/bloatware if you really want to run XP.
While this may not be a specific exercise of PATRIOT Act powers, it is a lot like wiretapping in that communication is being surreptitiously monitored and logged by an uninvited third party. This gets the sheeple used to the idea they can be watched, so when it actually is a warrantless wiretap, no one blinks an eye.
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I see what you're getting at (PuTTY on a USB key is our friend), but it would be nice not to have to tunnel around paranoid stupidity to begin with. I guess the next step in the war of escalation will be for people to have whole AJAX based remote desktops and surf from home over HTTPS, and perhaps tunnel other protocols over TLS/SSL to avoid stateful packet inspection. Of course, in places that paranoid, one slip-up and some power tripping eye-tee "administrator" calls security.
How would you plan to install or run an SSH client on a locked-down Windows machine? (Assuming competent admins).
Ouch - or on her stomach!
The "investors" deserved what they got. They took a gamble hoping an immoral and (it turns out) illegal attempt to hijack Linux would pay off. They lost.
Nice troll--looks like it was a little too subtle, though.
ISTR a Slashdot story a year or so ago about just such a camera--but for video, and comments in the story immediately realized the potential for avoiding confiscation of photos at protests and such. Unfortunately, it is indeed an idea whose time has come.
Incentive to download the plugin :).
. . . confiteor. Best not to have columunists with an audience complaining that WGA is screwing over legitimate purchasers, so after a a little quid pro quo, his copy conveniently became "inadvertently pirated." Hogwash.
if you want to play Windows-only games you need a copy of Windows. it'll work on a Macbook as well as any other computer.
That's the best selling point of all of today's Macs--that they can run Windows. Because it's certainly not because their hardware is anything special--just the same off-the-shelf commodity crap Dell et al use. At least when they were using the slow PPC chips, they cried about the "megahertz myth" to try to explain why PCs were running rings around Macs speed-wise.
Ooh .. a Jobs cum-swallower put me on his foes list. I'm so bummed ;(.
"Lax DRM" is the camel's nose underneath the tent. Did you expect them to start out with something blatantly intrusive? Of course not. They're helping to boil the frog, along with MS and the rest of the "trusted" computing gangsters.
Sorry to rain on anyone's parade, but Apple has always been more monopolizing and litigous, if not as predatory and successful businesswise, as Microsoft.
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Exactly--what the Mac fanbois don't want to admit to themselves much less anyone else is that Apple is just like Microsoft, only not nearly as successful at it.
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I'm sure you'll have no problem installing that on the locked-down-six-ways-from-Sunday machines at libraries.
It's only neutral if the owner of the hardware is given all the keys, including the endorsement keys. Otherwise, it's an evil system of control.
AFAIK, digging up information on a willing person and presenting isn't illegal.
I would think another source of revenue (that they certainly wouldn't talk about if true) would be trading on the buzz they can find out about before everyone else does (e.g. searches regarding mergers before they're public). Even though this would be trading on inside information morally, it probably wouldn't be legally, since Google isn't an insider.
Glad you feel that way. BTW, the company bathroom stall cameras reveal you're not wiping well enough. And please wash your hands, champ.
Oh, the humanity.
. . . once it's impossible to access any legitimate "premium content" without a machine with a Fritz chip. With Dell, Apple, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft all onboard, and people wanting to watch new movies on their game consoles/DVD players/online banking terminals, there should be plenty o' sales all around once Vista arrives.
It was repealed some time ago, 5-4, by five "justices" of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was a nice experiment, but the American Replublic has faded some time ago in favor of the Empire/Police State.
Okay, okay, I give. The fax won't be necessary :).
I'm sure there is, but the Pavilion at Circuit city for $550 doesn't have the X2 -- do you have a link to one that does?
That CPU is only $145.99 at Newegg. So you paid about $400 after rebate plus sales tax on $550 for 1GB of RAM, a 250GB 7200 RPM SATA disk, a Lightscribe DVD-burner, and a non-transferrable OEM license for XP. Maybe not a horrible deal, but not a no-brainer either, considering the time to remove the HP ad/spy/bloatware if you really want to run XP.
While this may not be a specific exercise of PATRIOT Act powers, it is a lot like wiretapping in that communication is being surreptitiously monitored and logged by an uninvited third party. This gets the sheeple used to the idea they can be watched, so when it actually is a warrantless wiretap, no one blinks an eye.
Look, see? We are using all these new police state powers for something besides drug and intellectual property enforcement. Really!