What is the name of that method of evesdropping on a user by intercepting the radiation from the monitor?
This brings a whole new meaning to evesdropping using the video output.
And even if the output is encrypted, somthing tells me that there would either be one master key, or some sort of escrow system that we have no control over. It seems like this technology would be great for the feds, and maybe a silent part of MS's agreement with the DOJ.
"We will market this technology, making it so pervasisve as to be the prefered method. Once everyone is using it, you can evesdrop on anyone, since we will give you the master key. In return, you slap our wrists on this other thing."
I agree with you. I was very surprised to see that a/. reader made such an astute observation, then saw the italics had already ended.
I really would like to take every "When will they get a clue, and realize they can't stay in business charging for something they used to give away" posts in every article posted about such a case and make the said/.'er choke on it.
It isn't that I don't like the complaining about having to pay for something I used to enjoy for free, I do it all the time. It is the added attitude "When will they get a clue". Especially when it is obvious that it is them that have no clue.
They are both illegal. If that was the definition of the class that he put the two of the crimes in, then he was not incorrect at all.
There is no difference except the actual charge and subsequent penalty you get. The are both crimes. They are the same, no different.
I spout off about Cornell's law library also, but I can read it first.
Just because there are different gradations of a crime doesn't mean they are different crimes.
So there is no difference, and in your exhuberance to point out how ignorant someone else might be, made it painfully obvious that you yourself, by your inability to grasp the concept of many grades of the same crime, are quite ignorant.
Now for the simple math. If I distribute 1 ROM image to ten people, and they distribute it to ten people, and the ROM itself was $10, then you are guilty of the same crime as if it was worth $50000. The limit is $1000 retail value, which you achieved when you made or caused to be made the 110 copies of the $10 piece of software.
I know this is total flame bait, but I have to bite.
Tis iste exists for the same reason MS exists, and the same reason any other commercial venture exists.
The exist to MAKE MONEY.
How do they make money? PAGE HITS.
What brings in page hits? ENCITEFUL ARTICLES.
All major news outlets know this. Newspapers could care less if you are informed. They want you to read their paper/watch their tv show/whatever to pay attention to their ads. If they can prove that a lot of people are reading/watching/listening they can charge more for their ads.
With the web is almost the same, but you get paid by the click throughs.
How do you increase the average click through/user? YOU DON'T.
So how do you increase your click throughs? GET MORE PAGE HITS.
How do you get people to hit more pages? BY PISSING THEM OFF, SCARING THEM, or telling them something they really want to hear (re-read the first two options if you need ideas on what people really want to hear).
This is the basic strategy of all news media, and slashdot is no different. They aren't promoting MS bashing, the readers are. They just cater to the readers.
or your both of your neighbors and all their children...
People will keep buying music regardless. Their car cd-players, and home cd-players will play them, and if they don't, their new players will play their old CD's.
Consumers are so used to getting screwed into buying "upgrades" to correct home made problems, they won't even blink.
And people won't stop paying for music in the copy protected future anymore than they don't buy macrovision protected DVD's now.
Even if everyone that read/. (not just the ones that think this is an infringment of their rights) didn't buy music anymore, from this day forward (which will never happen), the record labels would hardly notice it.
If it is the only way music is being sold, it is the only way music is being purchased. And people won't stop purchasing entertainment.
And do you think ASUS will tell you where to replace that fan at?
I can't stand the fact that about 9 months into the life of my computer (still under warranty, but old enough to have the reciept lost) my fan is failing.
I can find every size of CPU fan imaginable, but no one carries these tiny littel buggers. I tried calling ASUS, just to ask them where I might be able to order, and that is no help. They don't answer their phone messages or email ever.
Evolution doesn't imply anything of the sort. Whether or not we have appendecies isn't good or bad. If we can live without them, and someone is born without one, he doesn't die. He isn't better or worse than me. He impregnates a female with the same genetic trait, then their child doesn't have one, still not better or worse.
This goes on until appendices are no longer around, and the genetic freak is the odd 1 in a million that is born with one. Still not any better or worse than I am today.
You infer improvement because you don't fully understand evolution. It doesn't imply anything, and doesn't have any inherent meaning.
Development Costs, not the price tag, is what the addage is refering to. And there is a lot of development cost in Linux. Not only in real money (Red Hat does pay developers to contribute to the cause, as well as others), but in opportunity costs also. It may be the hobby to most of the developers, but they a) give up time to deveop, and b) give up the opportunity to make money in other endeavors. There are real costs associated with Linux.
And fast.... Hello???? As a clone of a product that existed already when Linus started, and it is just not getting really enterprise deployable after 10 years... That doesn't constitute fast.
If you had to chose to wait 10 years ot get a free clone, or start your office today for a small price, you are going to start your office today.
And Good, well, that is obviously subjective.
So linux is arguably Good, not cheap (development costs), and not fast (development time). Linux is a perfect example to support this addage, not refute it.
I just got into an amazingly poorly written program after about a year, and was bewildered by the names, and what they really meant. And it was my code. And yet, I couldn't disagree with you more.
The streamlining that was discussed by the parent isn't for the sake of the coder, it is for the sake of the user. Mostly your argument is founded in long names really don't hurt anything. And if that is true, than long, descriptive names do their job. Here is a prime example of where they do make a difference. Here the variable names (for variables, and even javascript, or vb script embedded in a page) could make a tremendous amount of difference. And that is wht you would be stream lining for.
As for superfluous naming, well that can be just as bad, and unreadable as short names. Addled is addled, and you can use short (maybe more than 3, this isn't RPG afterall) descriptive names, without having to type an entire sentence.
junk1, junk2, junk3 will never be a good idea, but if your form has 4 variables, and you name them FNm, LNm, MI, and Age, I don't think anyone will be confused.
I understand why we need anonymous voting. But sometimes I think we need a system that has everyones votes associated with them in some way. I always worry about the old addage that you don't have to own the people casting the votes, you just have to own the people that count the votes.
In any system, paper, black balls, or electronic, the problem always exists. If everyone drops a black ball into a box, who is to say some slight of hand wasn't used change the contents. Just cause I hit the button for 1, and maybe even see the count for who I voted for go up by 1, who is to say that it won't go back down as soon as I walk away from the screen.
A division of the house/roll call vote is the only time when everyone knows the count was fair.
What we need is to figure out a way where I can check to see if my vote was counted, and counted correctly. If we are using electronic voting, maybe an electronic reciept of some kind. I could check what I voted at any time, and I could check to make sure "their" copy of my ballot looks like my copy.
For this to work, maybe even allow for the database of all ballots be able to be downloaded. I could then get a bunch of my friends together with the copy I have. Do my count, see if that count equals the main count, then spot check my friends reciepts. You could then concievably check an entire town/state/country.
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I had a very interesting thread on here a while back about free speech requiring anonymity to really be free.
Someone told me I was full of it, and the conversation ensued.
His point was actually a semantic one, but he didn't clarify it at first.
Freedom of speech is predicated by the ability to say things anonymously (I had said, inadvertantly that they needed to be said anonymously).
If I say an al Quida member said something, you will discard it unless it was a threat. If I say muslim said something, you will discard it almost as quickly. If I was to say a WASP said something, you'd probably listen to what they had to say.
With the narrow mindedness of today's society, if I wanted to try to make the point that we should be able to forgive those involved with the 9/11 attacks, because that was my religious beliefs, I might be singled out by other christians (by Sunday morning) and beaten.
I wouldn't be particularly ashamed of what I had said, but I don't want to take a beating for it. And this is just a very basic example of the pressures that can be applied agregiously based on an attribution of a quote. For a truly free flow of ideas, anonymity has to be allowed for.
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What is the name of that method of evesdropping on a user by intercepting the radiation from the monitor?
This brings a whole new meaning to evesdropping using the video output.
And even if the output is encrypted, somthing tells me that there would either be one master key, or some sort of escrow system that we have no control over. It seems like this technology would be great for the feds, and maybe a silent part of MS's agreement with the DOJ.
"We will market this technology, making it so pervasisve as to be the prefered method. Once everyone is using it, you can evesdrop on anyone, since we will give you the master key. In return, you slap our wrists on this other thing."
I agree with you. I was very surprised to see that a /. reader made such an astute observation, then saw the italics had already ended.
/.'er choke on it.
I really would like to take every "When will they get a clue, and realize they can't stay in business charging for something they used to give away" posts in every article posted about such a case and make the said
It isn't that I don't like the complaining about having to pay for something I used to enjoy for free, I do it all the time. It is the added attitude "When will they get a clue". Especially when it is obvious that it is them that have no clue.
They are both illegal. If that was the definition of the class that he put the two of the crimes in, then he was not incorrect at all.
There is no difference except the actual charge and subsequent penalty you get. The are both crimes. They are the same, no different.
I spout off about Cornell's law library also, but I can read it first.
Just because there are different gradations of a crime doesn't mean they are different crimes.
So there is no difference, and in your exhuberance to point out how ignorant someone else might be, made it painfully obvious that you yourself, by your inability to grasp the concept of many grades of the same crime, are quite ignorant.
Now for the simple math. If I distribute 1 ROM image to ten people, and they distribute it to ten people, and the ROM itself was $10, then you are guilty of the same crime as if it was worth $50000. The limit is $1000 retail value, which you achieved when you made or caused to be made the 110 copies of the $10 piece of software.
I know this is total flame bait, but I have to bite.
Tis iste exists for the same reason MS exists, and the same reason any other commercial venture exists.
The exist to MAKE MONEY.
How do they make money? PAGE HITS.
What brings in page hits? ENCITEFUL ARTICLES.
All major news outlets know this. Newspapers could care less if you are informed. They want you to read their paper/watch their tv show/whatever to pay attention to their ads. If they can prove that a lot of people are reading/watching/listening they can charge more for their ads.
With the web is almost the same, but you get paid by the click throughs.
How do you increase the average click through/user? YOU DON'T.
So how do you increase your click throughs? GET MORE PAGE HITS.
How do you get people to hit more pages? BY PISSING THEM OFF, SCARING THEM, or telling them something they really want to hear (re-read the first two options if you need ideas on what people really want to hear).
This is the basic strategy of all news media, and slashdot is no different. They aren't promoting MS bashing, the readers are. They just cater to the readers.
or both of your neighbors...
/. (not just the ones that think this is an infringment of their rights) didn't buy music anymore, from this day forward (which will never happen), the record labels would hardly notice it.
or your both of your neighbors and all their children...
People will keep buying music regardless. Their car cd-players, and home cd-players will play them, and if they don't, their new players will play their old CD's.
Consumers are so used to getting screwed into buying "upgrades" to correct home made problems, they won't even blink.
And people won't stop paying for music in the copy protected future anymore than they don't buy macrovision protected DVD's now.
Even if everyone that read
If it is the only way music is being sold, it is the only way music is being purchased. And people won't stop purchasing entertainment.
And do you think ASUS will tell you where to replace that fan at?
I can't stand the fact that about 9 months into the life of my computer (still under warranty, but old enough to have the reciept lost) my fan is failing.
I can find every size of CPU fan imaginable, but no one carries these tiny littel buggers. I tried calling ASUS, just to ask them where I might be able to order, and that is no help. They don't answer their phone messages or email ever.
Evolution doesn't imply anything of the sort. Whether or not we have appendecies isn't good or bad. If we can live without them, and someone is born without one, he doesn't die. He isn't better or worse than me. He impregnates a female with the same genetic trait, then their child doesn't have one, still not better or worse.
This goes on until appendices are no longer around, and the genetic freak is the odd 1 in a million that is born with one. Still not any better or worse than I am today.
You infer improvement because you don't fully understand evolution. It doesn't imply anything, and doesn't have any inherent meaning.
Development Costs, not the price tag, is what the addage is refering to. And there is a lot of development cost in Linux. Not only in real money (Red Hat does pay developers to contribute to the cause, as well as others), but in opportunity costs also. It may be the hobby to most of the developers, but they a) give up time to deveop, and b) give up the opportunity to make money in other endeavors. There are real costs associated with Linux.
And fast.... Hello???? As a clone of a product that existed already when Linus started, and it is just not getting really enterprise deployable after 10 years... That doesn't constitute fast.
If you had to chose to wait 10 years ot get a free clone, or start your office today for a small price, you are going to start your office today.
And Good, well, that is obviously subjective.
So linux is arguably Good, not cheap (development costs), and not fast (development time). Linux is a perfect example to support this addage, not refute it.
I couldn't disagree more.
I just got into an amazingly poorly written program after about a year, and was bewildered by the names, and what they really meant. And it was my code. And yet, I couldn't disagree with you more.
The streamlining that was discussed by the parent isn't for the sake of the coder, it is for the sake of the user. Mostly your argument is founded in long names really don't hurt anything. And if that is true, than long, descriptive names do their job. Here is a prime example of where they do make a difference. Here the variable names (for variables, and even javascript, or vb script embedded in a page) could make a tremendous amount of difference. And that is wht you would be stream lining for.
As for superfluous naming, well that can be just as bad, and unreadable as short names. Addled is addled, and you can use short (maybe more than 3, this isn't RPG afterall) descriptive names, without having to type an entire sentence.
junk1, junk2, junk3 will never be a good idea, but if your form has 4 variables, and you name them
FNm, LNm, MI, and Age, I don't think anyone will be confused.
I understand why we need anonymous voting. But sometimes I think we need a system that has everyones votes associated with them in some way. I always worry about the old addage that you don't have to own the people casting the votes, you just have to own the people that count the votes.
In any system, paper, black balls, or electronic, the problem always exists. If everyone drops a black ball into a box, who is to say some slight of hand wasn't used change the contents. Just cause I hit the button for 1, and maybe even see the count for who I voted for go up by 1, who is to say that it won't go back down as soon as I walk away from the screen.
A division of the house/roll call vote is the only time when everyone knows the count was fair.
What we need is to figure out a way where I can check to see if my vote was counted, and counted correctly. If we are using electronic voting, maybe an electronic reciept of some kind. I could check what I voted at any time, and I could check to make sure "their" copy of my ballot looks like my copy.
For this to work, maybe even allow for the database of all ballots be able to be downloaded. I could then get a bunch of my friends together with the copy I have. Do my count, see if that count equals the main count, then spot check my friends reciepts. You could then concievably check an entire town/state/country.
I had a very interesting thread on here a while back about free speech requiring anonymity to really be free.
Someone told me I was full of it, and the conversation ensued.
His point was actually a semantic one, but he didn't clarify it at first.
Freedom of speech is predicated by the ability to say things anonymously (I had said, inadvertantly that they needed to be said anonymously).
If I say an al Quida member said something, you will discard it unless it was a threat. If I say muslim said something, you will discard it almost as quickly. If I was to say a WASP said something, you'd probably listen to what they had to say.
With the narrow mindedness of today's society, if I wanted to try to make the point that we should be able to forgive those involved with the 9/11 attacks, because that was my religious beliefs, I might be singled out by other christians (by Sunday morning) and beaten.
I wouldn't be particularly ashamed of what I had said, but I don't want to take a beating for it. And this is just a very basic example of the pressures that can be applied agregiously based on an attribution of a quote. For a truly free flow of ideas, anonymity has to be allowed for.