What if I open my browser for the first time (probably for the session), and typed in the URL. I still dont know if the page has a link to it, so am I possibly doing a criminal act? How about when i want to go to a company's site, or a product's, and i guess the URL. Then? This, my dear people, is just plain stupid!
IIRC, Palladium works on the workstation (probably servers too, but lets just talk of the client side for now). Now, this thing could be implemented totally independently of palladium.But then, it'll do wonders for M$ if its used _with_ palladium.Its just plain DRM at the NIC/Router level.
I agree, that the end is the same(DRM), and the approach is _very_ similar(at the hardware level), but this looks somewhat different than palladium to me. I'm no palladium expert, infact, i'm not an expert in anything, but I see a slight difference between this and palladium. And this looks much more horrible than palladium itself. We had talks of "I am safe from palladium! I use *nix/OSX/whatever" and "we'll stick to old computers" on various fora, including/. but then think of it - we'll be taken in the loop whenever the ISP or the univ in my case decides to buy the M$ routers. There goes the traffic on Napster/Gnutella ports. I bet that it'll be logged and sent to M$ at the very least. Oh and before you think of using a different proggie which uses a different port, be aware that M$ can upgrade those routers with a patch or something blocking out ports based on the logs that they get. Its _possible_. And we, the non-M$ ppl could be locked out (i think i'm thinking too far on this, but then this is M$ we're talking about), for the router wouldnt allow the non-M$ NICs in our machines to interface. Or to appear less evil, and to make M$-NICs appear better, it can just give them a "preference" over the others. Why not? It's happened with browsers and apps!
Maybe I'm paranoid. But What if i'm not? *shudder*
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Its supposed to be yadda yadda you insensitive clod!
Native formats are the best thing for making shure that you keep the intended formating.
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Shurely, you must be using the M$-word spellchecker
incase you didnt get it. it was a joke. chill.
What if I open my browser for the first time (probably for the session), and typed in the URL. I still dont know if the page has a link to it, so am I possibly doing a criminal act? How about when i want to go to a company's site, or a product's, and i guess the URL. Then? This, my dear people, is just plain stupid!
Lets see... who all think that pov is an underpaid M$ employee, who is also forced to have a hotmail address!!!
--gera.
IIRC, Palladium works on the workstation (probably servers too, but lets just talk of the client side for now). Now, this thing could be implemented totally independently of palladium.But then, it'll do wonders for M$ if its used _with_ palladium.Its just plain DRM at the NIC/Router level.
I agree, that the end is the same(DRM), and the approach is _very_ similar(at the hardware level), but this looks somewhat different than palladium to me. I'm no palladium expert, infact, i'm not an expert in anything, but I see a slight difference between this and palladium. And this looks much more horrible than palladium itself. We had talks of "I am safe from palladium! I use *nix/OSX/whatever" and "we'll stick to old computers" on various fora, including
Maybe I'm paranoid. But What if i'm not? *shudder*
--gera.
they could access you're network anytime.
It's your, and not you're. Learn that they're different.
your - belonging to you
you're - you are. (just as in learn that they're different)
--gera.
He's the one who co-authored the MSN messenger protocol.
/me is too lazy to google it, go do it yourself!
Btw, the document describing the protocol comes with the gaim source tarball, available here.
--gera.