As for the BIOS, couldn't they just pop open the case, pull the pin, and clear the CMOS? There goes your "security" fix, right down the drain
Excatly, that's why I said glue is the best solution, no software hack to get around it.
Heck, if you're really on the ball you could replace the bios in software with full USB support without cracking the case.
The folks in this example aren't worried about the 20 bucks they'll recoup on eBay in 10 years or so.
They're afraid of the multi-gajillion dollar class action HIPAA suit filed against them when some janitor walks out with 40 gigs worth of medical records on his iPod.
What about the ones built into the motherboard itself, which is the norm for cheap workstations?
It would have been possible to disable then in the BIOS, and then password protect it. Too time consuming, though. It only takes about two seconds to squeeze a tube of glue.
Glue's a really good solution, if you never need the ports anyways - better than any potentially hackable software solution anyways.
Sometimes the best answers to these tough IT problems are still found out in "meatspace".
As usual, Microsoft continues to push the blame elsewhere instead of fixing their damn OS!
Linux works the same way, why don't the kernel folks fix their damn OS?
What's this kernel automounter permissions shit? Users should be able to mount what they want, and if it has the ability to do bad things to the system, it's the OS's fault!
It tells you straight out that liberals could be really really creative, so long at they're allowed to take other people's ideas as their own without retribution.
Check it out! I wrote Doom 3! And Citizen Kane! I'm super creative!
I'd say that even in ancient Greece, if Plato merely copied word-for-word the works of Socrates, and presented it as his own work, it would have been considered wrong and they would have made him drink hemlock too.
Copyright doesn't prevent you from using someone elses ideas, it prevents you from copying their work - at least it's supposed to.
I don't think plaigarism should ever be considered "good". It may not be theft in a physical sense, but as far as morality goes, it's on the same level.
The GPL is the best example of how wrong copyright law is. Microsoft should have the freedom to take whatever the hell they want from the linux kernel! You can't own an idea, Linus, quit trying to oppress me just to suit your ego.
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You are absolutely right.
Microsoft should be able to use all the GPLed code it wants, and to hell with the conditions of the license.
Who really loses if they decide to base a new server package on the linux kernel, without credit to the authors?
I'm not being smug or sarcastic, either. If you accept that IP is bad, then you can't pick and choose who should be protected and who shouldnt.
IP protects the little guys more often than it does the big ones. Startups like TiVo would have a tough time if Sony could just flood the market with their own products at half the cost.
Seems as though "respected academics" can't resist a soap box.
Who signed in the DMCA and Sonny Bono acts? Damn you cold hearted Bush republi--- huh?
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Well, author of TFA is a liberal, and it's close to election time, so he has to throw in a "IP laws hurt everybody - and the only ones who want them are those bastard conservatives!" quip.
I've always found it shameful when professors and acedemics shoehorn their political views into what are supposed to be insightful academic papers.
I once had a biology professor who would waste countless hours of lecture time going on about how great vegans are and how awesome greenpeace and PETA are, and would spout all kinds of pseudo-science hippy crap. Half of what he was saying was typical flat out lies and PETA idiocy. I eventually dropped the course and complained to the administration, nothing came of it though.
The guy was supposed to be teaching mitosis and DNA's and shit, not pontificating about how the "hole in the ozone" and "global warming" are caused by people who eat meat.
Oh yeah, to the PETA folks, cows are vegetables in my book. So are chickens. Bitch when you see me bite into a giant panda burger.
You used to be able to draw "dots" on the resulting screen, used for whats called "particle effects", like mud spraying out of the back wheel of an offroad racer, for instance. Very simply (quicky) drawn because you're just handing out x,y coordinates for htem.
Now, rather than just colored dots, you can use textures or sprites (little pictures). So instead of a cloud of brown dots coming from a dirt bikes rear tire, you could have little chunks of rocks and grass. Or rather than a cloud of red dots coming out of a guys head when you shoot it, you could have little chunks of brain and skull.
You also had heroes like Han who would do the right thing, but get dirty doing it.
I wouldn't even go that far. Originally, Han was just about the bucks. He wanted nothing to do with saving Leia, until Luke tells him she's a rich princess who will give him a wad of dough.
Then there's the Leia-Han "If money is all you want then thats what you'll get" (paraphrasing) scene.
I remember having a slightly uneasy feeling about Han - like he could betray Luke and Obi-Wan at any moment. Someone would just have to offer him some more dough.
He doesn't become a "good guy" until the closing moments of the movie, when he swoops down from nowhere to pick Darth off of Luke's tail. I remember that scene being a bit of a surprise to me, I thought Han was long gone. Sure I was a kid, and more easily misled, but that's how I remember his character.
Lucas turned him into another white knight goody goody, and the movie already has it's share of those with Luke and Ben.
It's been said Lucas was inspired by old samurai movies and westerns. Han was kind of like a ninja mercenary, who learns at the last minute how to "walk the true path".
So far as I'm concerned, patents have never been "bad". They aren't psuedo-perpetual like copyright, they expire in 7 years, and they're more easily fought and defended.
Sure there was a choice, they could have not added it at all. It's poorly acted (was just a dress rehersal), doesn't add to the movie, and in fact makes it stupid, just as bad as the Greedo thing.
Why would a professional bounty hunter like Greedo miss from point blank range?
Why would Jabba hire Greedo at all if he and his entourage are already there?
Why would Jabba not kill Han the second he steps on his tail? I mean, he's supposed to be the most ruthless mob boss in the galaxy, you think he'd put up with an insult like that? (Go find a mob boss, and step on his toes, see what happens)
Plus, the new scenes with the CG effects look out of place, and make the rest of the movie look stupid.
Not that I get too worked up about it, it's just an overrated movie in the end.
I think you need to get out a dictionary and find out what irony means.
And the moz guys built google into firefox already.
Which raises a question; now that google is a big corporate advertising concern, is hardcoding google into firefox, etc, really ethical? Maybe ethical isn't the word I want, but for all the bitching about choice around here... Maybe I want to choose something other than google? Can you do that in firefox?
Why is anyone who likens this to AOL, or mentions that Google (now a publically traded corporation) might use this as a source of profit getting modded down as troll or flamebait?
Hell, you should be modded redundant. Of COURSE google will sell keywords.
When it comes time to show numbers to investors, all their lovey-dovey altruistic bullshit will be forgotten.
I thought he was talking about AOL keywords, I've never heard the phrase "internet keywords" before, and assumed he just thinks AOL *is* the internet like so many others.
Guess that makes me a "troll".
BTW, I'll bet cash money that >10% of slashdot readers have AOL.
BTW#2, there's really nothing wrong with AOL, except for lame geek elitism.
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As for the BIOS, couldn't they just pop open the case, pull the pin, and clear the CMOS? There goes your "security" fix, right down the drain
Excatly, that's why I said glue is the best solution, no software hack to get around it.
Heck, if you're really on the ball you could replace the bios in software with full USB support without cracking the case.
The folks in this example aren't worried about the 20 bucks they'll recoup on eBay in 10 years or so.
They're afraid of the multi-gajillion dollar class action HIPAA suit filed against them when some janitor walks out with 40 gigs worth of medical records on his iPod.
What about the ones built into the motherboard itself, which is the norm for cheap workstations?
It would have been possible to disable then in the BIOS, and then password protect it. Too time consuming, though. It only takes about two seconds to squeeze a tube of glue.
Glue's a really good solution, if you never need the ports anyways - better than any potentially hackable software solution anyways.
Sometimes the best answers to these tough IT problems are still found out in "meatspace".
As usual, Microsoft continues to push the blame elsewhere instead of fixing their damn OS!
Linux works the same way, why don't the kernel folks fix their damn OS?
What's this kernel automounter permissions shit? Users should be able to mount what they want, and if it has the ability to do bad things to the system, it's the OS's fault!
You can do it in linux too by not letting users mount such devices.
Hell, by default linux sort of prevents users from using CDs or floppies too.
Of course, knee-jerk conspiracy theory, Free as in Freedom!
Listen, you ass!
Did you not RTFA?
It tells you straight out that liberals could be really really creative, so long at they're allowed to take other people's ideas as their own without retribution.
Check it out! I wrote Doom 3! And Citizen Kane! I'm super creative!
I'd say that even in ancient Greece, if Plato merely copied word-for-word the works of Socrates, and presented it as his own work, it would have been considered wrong and they would have made him drink hemlock too.
Copyright doesn't prevent you from using someone elses ideas, it prevents you from copying their work - at least it's supposed to.
I don't think plaigarism should ever be considered "good". It may not be theft in a physical sense, but as far as morality goes, it's on the same level.
That's OK, Einstein came up with an independant (and superior) reimplementation of gravity.
I like to think what the world would look like if Pythagoras had patented his theorum. Think about it! No more diagonal lines!
Or if Plato filed for some copyrights: "I think, therefore I owe royalties!"
Excellent effort!
But to REALLLLY burn karma, watch and learn:
The GPL is the best example of how wrong copyright law is. Microsoft should have the freedom to take whatever the hell they want from the linux kernel! You can't own an idea, Linus, quit trying to oppress me just to suit your ego.
You are absolutely right.
Microsoft should be able to use all the GPLed code it wants, and to hell with the conditions of the license.
Who really loses if they decide to base a new server package on the linux kernel, without credit to the authors?
I'm not being smug or sarcastic, either. If you accept that IP is bad, then you can't pick and choose who should be protected and who shouldnt.
IP protects the little guys more often than it does the big ones. Startups like TiVo would have a tough time if Sony could just flood the market with their own products at half the cost.
It's an election year.
Seems as though "respected academics" can't resist a soap box.
Who signed in the DMCA and Sonny Bono acts? Damn you cold hearted Bush republi--- huh?
Well, author of TFA is a liberal, and it's close to election time, so he has to throw in a "IP laws hurt everybody - and the only ones who want them are those bastard conservatives!" quip.
I've always found it shameful when professors and acedemics shoehorn their political views into what are supposed to be insightful academic papers.
I once had a biology professor who would waste countless hours of lecture time going on about how great vegans are and how awesome greenpeace and PETA are, and would spout all kinds of pseudo-science hippy crap. Half of what he was saying was typical flat out lies and PETA idiocy. I eventually dropped the course and complained to the administration, nothing came of it though.
The guy was supposed to be teaching mitosis and DNA's and shit, not pontificating about how the "hole in the ozone" and "global warming" are caused by people who eat meat.
Oh yeah, to the PETA folks, cows are vegetables in my book. So are chickens. Bitch when you see me bite into a giant panda burger.
What does the "Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act" have to do with patents?
You used to be able to draw "dots" on the resulting screen, used for whats called "particle effects", like mud spraying out of the back wheel of an offroad racer, for instance. Very simply (quicky) drawn because you're just handing out x,y coordinates for htem.
Now, rather than just colored dots, you can use textures or sprites (little pictures). So instead of a cloud of brown dots coming from a dirt bikes rear tire, you could have little chunks of rocks and grass. Or rather than a cloud of red dots coming out of a guys head when you shoot it, you could have little chunks of brain and skull.
I agree, they dragged their feet getting 2.0 "official" that now that it's actually "official", it's wholly unimpressive.
Wow! Programmable pixel shaders! Holy moley! How about geometry instancing? No, not yet? Ok, I'll wait another decade.
arent the game developers always on the lookout for ways to get the massive linux gamers market
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There is no "massive linux gamer" market, and if their was, developers would have been allllll over it, OpenGL or not.
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I can't wait to try out some of these features, in 20 years when ATi implements them properly into their drivers, that is.
You also had heroes like Han who would do the right thing, but get dirty doing it.
I wouldn't even go that far. Originally, Han was just about the bucks. He wanted nothing to do with saving Leia, until Luke tells him she's a rich princess who will give him a wad of dough.
Then there's the Leia-Han "If money is all you want then thats what you'll get" (paraphrasing) scene.
I remember having a slightly uneasy feeling about Han - like he could betray Luke and Obi-Wan at any moment. Someone would just have to offer him some more dough.
He doesn't become a "good guy" until the closing moments of the movie, when he swoops down from nowhere to pick Darth off of Luke's tail. I remember that scene being a bit of a surprise to me, I thought Han was long gone. Sure I was a kid, and more easily misled, but that's how I remember his character.
Lucas turned him into another white knight goody goody, and the movie already has it's share of those with Luke and Ben.
It's been said Lucas was inspired by old samurai movies and westerns. Han was kind of like a ninja mercenary, who learns at the last minute how to "walk the true path".
That said, it's just a movie.
So far as I'm concerned, patents have never been "bad". They aren't psuedo-perpetual like copyright, they expire in 7 years, and they're more easily fought and defended.
No choice?
Sure there was a choice, they could have not added it at all. It's poorly acted (was just a dress rehersal), doesn't add to the movie, and in fact makes it stupid, just as bad as the Greedo thing.
Why would a professional bounty hunter like Greedo miss from point blank range?
Why would Jabba hire Greedo at all if he and his entourage are already there?
Why would Jabba not kill Han the second he steps on his tail? I mean, he's supposed to be the most ruthless mob boss in the galaxy, you think he'd put up with an insult like that? (Go find a mob boss, and step on his toes, see what happens)
Plus, the new scenes with the CG effects look out of place, and make the rest of the movie look stupid.
Not that I get too worked up about it, it's just an overrated movie in the end.
What federal law?
.357.
They aren't even banning the use of the spectrum. Are 2.4ghz cordless phones banned?
They're banning devices which could allow unauthorized access to *their* network.
"Federal law" says I have the right to bear arms, yet it's illegal for me to go bar-hopping with a concealed
Hmm, just how could state or municipal law, or even a particular bars "policy" trump something that's in the constitution?
Don't like it? Move off campus.
(BTW, the FCC isn't a legislative body, and their regulations aren't "federal law" anyways)
Yes they do, they have every right to tell you what you can and cant use in the dorms.
Guns are legal too, yet they have every right to ban them on campus.
You can't set up a WAP at my house either.
Wow.
Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight! (If it's not to dear)
I think you need to get out a dictionary and find out what irony means.
And the moz guys built google into firefox already.
Which raises a question; now that google is a big corporate advertising concern, is hardcoding google into firefox, etc, really ethical? Maybe ethical isn't the word I want, but for all the bitching about choice around here... Maybe I want to choose something other than google? Can you do that in firefox?
Why is anyone who likens this to AOL, or mentions that Google (now a publically traded corporation) might use this as a source of profit getting modded down as troll or flamebait?
Hell, you should be modded redundant. Of COURSE google will sell keywords.
When it comes time to show numbers to investors, all their lovey-dovey altruistic bullshit will be forgotten.
I thought he was talking about AOL keywords, I've never heard the phrase "internet keywords" before, and assumed he just thinks AOL *is* the internet like so many others.
Guess that makes me a "troll".
BTW, I'll bet cash money that >10% of slashdot readers have AOL.
BTW#2, there's really nothing wrong with AOL, except for lame geek elitism.