if you're not in encrypted communities for PIRATING, you're in it for TERRORISM.
Yes your absolutely right - everybody who wants to collobarate in secret must be a terrorist! All those scientists and their future patents! Or those pharmaceutical researchers! Terrorists of the free world! Capitalist pigs!
If you can't detect the thick layer of sarcasm, please sod off.
No it's really a system built to trade and share recipes on the internet. The name refers to the wasted jism that you put into the cookies you bake for your enemies.
Well with afaik this mac-based geek knows (as a primary platform - I've got plenty of OS's via VMWare on the mp xeon box) crackers are the guys that crack software copyright protection. That's not really that difficult, as long as you have the experience and knowledge.
Then there's the hackers, which produce amazing works of art in the the form of software.
Then there are the dispised "skript kiddies" [provide your own wierd capitalizations here] which just download some shiznit and target it at random hosts.
I think we just call the virus writers assholes, and the site defacers are "ircops" or their sycophants. (Hi Efnet!)
This subway lasted long enough for me to take my son to the mall on it, years after I had last ridden it. Good enough I suppose! The TC subway had always been the way to get into Downtown Fort Worth with a minimum of parking headaches.
I'm all choked up! My son thought it was f'in cool. The route overlooks the trinity river as you enter the tunnel below a bluff upon which downtown Fort Worth sits.
Apple simply needs to add a proprietary ASIC (application integrated circuit) to the motherboard to keep clone makers at bay.
Oh PLEASE, you know how long that would last? If folks can crack hardware dongled 3D/Media apps, they would get through an ASIC in a day, maybe two. I find it difficult to believe the ASIC couldn't be cracked anymore than any other hardware dongle. That's all that would be. Go ahead encrypt the code in memory, etc. that won't stop a cracker. I read from the field: some clever folks at connectix were so afraid of playing pirated PSX games, that VGS (virtual gamestation) did some funny stuff with encrypted code and phoning home that fooled some crackers, but not all. The hardware dongle won't stop folks, unless Apple intends to stop selling their OS at retail. I somehow doubt they would ever support various goober-with-a-screwdriver intel boxes trying to run their OS. I don't see Microsoft doing that either.
Apple could use the cheap pc components to bring their prices down. They'd be able to say their machines run at the same MHz as pcs. But if you wanted to run Mac OS X on Intel, you'd still have to buy a computer from Apple
Cheap! Yes, Cheap is good for hours of frustration. Thankfully, most of that is confined to software, rather than hardware problems these days. Nobody has really done that well with being both a software and hardware company. The business model seems to fail. Sun and IBM of course still ship hardware and software. IBM is all about being a services company, and nobody else is going to make hardware that runs the software for their computer. It's just not commodity. Neither is Sun hardware, excusing the Hitachi and Fujitsu variants.
It would be asinine for Apple to try to sell commodity PC Hardware to the masses. What would be the point? Even IBM brass has stated that's just a business to keep their current clients all with IBM, a mindshare concern rather than a profit center.
All that being said, Apple intel boxes make sense if their business model shows that it's very important for Apple to sell support, and to provide that support, certified hardware is mandatory. Parametric (Pro/ENGINEER) doesn't sell its own hardware, they have Dell and HP, etc. certify their systems for compatibility, and then they provide support.
OrangePC's for Mac, etc.
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Well, there have been PC cards for Macintosh machines for a long, long time, so I guess you can cram an expensive 'PC' (we'll call it 'an IBM' for the old time Mac Zealots) in a Mac case.
Unfortuntely, these cards are no longer offered - perhaps the power requirements got too obscene for the PCI bus to provide power. I bet nobody thought of hooking up a drive connector to a PCI card back then (as with a Radeon 9700)
I would definetly be in the market for this, as its one less @#$#$#@ box under my desk. I don't need more than a ~1Ghz Pentium III pc (or two). A dual Centrino on a PCI card would be a bonus. Yes I would like to bring it up as a window under os X or X (or optionally full screen cheap but decent 2d-accelerated video out the back of the card)
Anybody going to make that card for me? I believe the highest performance model ever offered by any of the manufacturers was the OrangePC (OrangePC 660 - AMD K6-2/400 @100 MHz bus, L2 cache) That's too pokey for today, plus there's no driver support for doing things between modern versions of the OS, or support for newer macs than a B&W G3.
The VirtualPC route has never interested me too much - every time I've demoed it, its never been quite fast enough for the tasks I wanted it for - like compiling for win32 or a developer install of sql server, etc.
A prime example of why Software Patents are just wrong. These types of works are copyrighted. Software apparently gets to have it both ways. Why is it in the better interests of the public to encourage legal action on a grand scale for work that should be only copyrighted, not also patented? Of course, its copyrighted too, but once a corporation gets that patent on a little piece of the work, it doesn't matter if somebody can reverse engineer it. It's still "theirs". You stole their idea!
from Article I, Section 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Software programming patterns and techniques are a discovery? Does anyone really believe that? Perhaps only legislative action can fix this. I imagine it will cost the economy at large billions of dollars before that happens. I suppose it comes down to whether the big guns in software marketing with lobbying dollars and political influence (Hi Bill!) swing for/against the issue. A court may take issue on whether this qualifies as Invention, but I doubt it they'll see it the right way.
I haven't seen FreeNet mentioned in reply to this. I would have expected the slashdot editor to have mentioned this in the usual comments they leave behind. Or even the Wired.com writer.
I encourage you to check out their work: freenetproject.org [Google Cache]
Yes it is P2P, and they've been working on a solution to this problem a fair bit longer than newsbooster could have been. I expect the new arrival probably has security problems that could be exploited by an government who wanted to repress the information.
I think it's an excellent piece of work to address this very issue of keeping information free, that the Danish ISP had a problem with. I haven't checked out their solution, but FreeNet strives to make sure no one node can be identified as the publisher or source/cache of the story. When oppressive regimes seek to restrict the information available to the public, this is an effective weapon. The content stored on the nodes is encrypted and segmented; no one node stores the entire body of work, and information is retained based on its popularity (actual requests) among the network.
Freenet is not designed to host the latest unreleased movie.MPG or.SHN of an album. I have no idea how effective or comparable it is to systems designed to do this with their swarming downloads, etc.
From the freenet homepage: Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to creating secure namespaces. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.
This is a paltry sum of total damages awarded. File a request to be excluded from the class. I will.
---from the notice---
(1) EMD shall pay $6,500,000 in Cash and $8,500,000 in Non-Cash Consideration;
(2) WEA shall pay $13,650,000 in Cash and $15,750,000 in Non-Cash Consideration;
(3) Universal shall pay $18,850,000 in Cash and $21,750,000 in Non-Cash Consideration;
(4) Sony shall pay $12,523,500 in Cash and $14,701,500 in Non-Cash Consideration; and
(5) BMG shall pay $12,776,500 in Cash and $14,998,500 in Non-Cash Consideration.
If you do not request exclusion from the proposed Settlement and you serve the Court and Counsel with timely notice, as provided on page 11 below, you have the right to appear at the Fairness Hearing and comment on whether the proposed Settlement and other matters being considered should be finally approved by the Court.
--snip several pages to page 11 as referenced---
If you do not wish to be bound by the terms of the proposed Settlement described in this Notice, you may request to be excluded from the Settlement. To do so, you MUST send a written request for the exclusion to:
Compact Disc MAP Antitrust Litigation Administrator
Post Office Box 1643
Faribault, Minnesota 55021-1643
Your request for exclusion must be postmarked by or before March 3, 2003, must clearly state that you want to be excluded from the Settlement, and must provide your full, legal name(s), address, telephone number, and the name and number of this Litigation (In re: Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1361). NO REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION WILL BE CONSIDERED VALID UNLESS ALL OF THE INFORMATION DESCRIBED ABOVE IS INCLUDED IN ANY SUCH REQUEST. If you do not request exclusion, you will be bound by the terms of the Settlement, even if you do not file a Proof of Claim. If you validly request exclusion from the Settlement, (1) you will be excluded from the Settlement, (2) you will not share in the proceeds of the proposed settlement which are available for distribution as described above, (3) you will not be bound by any judgment or release entered in this Action, and (4) you will retain the option to pursue your claims, if timely, on an individual basis at your own expense against the Defendants.
The Ad Council is not financed or funded, or linked at all to the government. The Ad Council is made up of advertising agencies and related businesses doing philanthropic work, in the form of promoting public issues. (Unless you believe in goverment conspiracy control of madision avenue or such) Let's just take it for granted you can believe they are who they say they are.
This seems to be a pretty common misconception. Maybe the Ad Council could state who they are a bit better so americans could figure it out... nah that would just waste funds earmarked for PSA's
If you had read the advisory first, you wouldn't go shooting your mouth about how overly complex Sendmail is, or how its possible to create a cf file that can emulate a Turing machine, or how it used to be full of buffer overflows, etc, etc.
The build process was trojaned... even the news posting mentioned that it was just like the OpenSSH trojaning. The actual source code files weren't altered, just the makefiles & scripts.
You should all know by now to block port 6667 on your firewalls, waste of fricking time;-)
You have several options for your right to steal! You can continue to use Kazaa or Gnutella: you just need to find somebody willing to proxy your connection across the internet who is willing to blow their bandwidth on your connection. Look into ssh port forwarding. Don't expect to actually find somebody more willing to do this than your university.
You could find some OTHER variety of electronic theft protocol. There are several out there, far more advanced, and some even more time consuming than even the common Peer to Peer services. (Hard to believe!)
But isn't gnutella fun!
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Yes your absolutely right - everybody who wants to collobarate in secret must be a terrorist! All those scientists and their future patents! Or those pharmaceutical researchers! Terrorists of the free world! Capitalist pigs!
If you can't detect the thick layer of sarcasm, please sod off.
No it's really a system built to trade and share recipes on the internet. The name refers to the wasted jism that you put into the cookies you bake for your enemies.
Well with afaik this mac-based geek knows (as a primary platform - I've got plenty of OS's via VMWare on the mp xeon box) crackers are the guys that crack software copyright protection. That's not really that difficult, as long as you have the experience and knowledge.
Then there's the hackers, which produce amazing works of art in the the form of software.
Then there are the dispised "skript kiddies" [provide your own wierd capitalizations here] which just download some shiznit and target it at random hosts.
I think we just call the virus writers assholes, and the site defacers are "ircops" or their sycophants. (Hi Efnet!)
This subway lasted long enough for me to take my son to the mall on it, years after I had last ridden it. Good enough I suppose! The TC subway had always been the way to get into Downtown Fort Worth with a minimum of parking headaches.
I'm all choked up! My son thought it was f'in cool. The route overlooks the trinity river as you enter the tunnel below a bluff upon which downtown Fort Worth sits.
Apple simply needs to add a proprietary ASIC (application integrated circuit) to the motherboard to keep clone makers at bay.
Oh PLEASE, you know how long that would last? If folks can crack hardware dongled 3D/Media apps, they would get through an ASIC in a day, maybe two. I find it difficult to believe the ASIC couldn't be cracked anymore than any other hardware dongle. That's all that would be. Go ahead encrypt the code in memory, etc. that won't stop a cracker. I read from the field: some clever folks at connectix were so afraid of playing pirated PSX games, that VGS (virtual gamestation) did some funny stuff with encrypted code and phoning home that fooled some crackers, but not all. The hardware dongle won't stop folks, unless Apple intends to stop selling their OS at retail. I somehow doubt they would ever support various goober-with-a-screwdriver intel boxes trying to run their OS. I don't see Microsoft doing that either.
Apple could use the cheap pc components to bring their prices down. They'd be able to say their machines run at the same MHz as pcs. But if you wanted to run Mac OS X on Intel, you'd still have to buy a computer from Apple
Cheap! Yes, Cheap is good for hours of frustration. Thankfully, most of that is confined to software, rather than hardware problems these days. Nobody has really done that well with being both a software and hardware company. The business model seems to fail. Sun and IBM of course still ship hardware and software. IBM is all about being a services company, and nobody else is going to make hardware that runs the software for their computer. It's just not commodity. Neither is Sun hardware, excusing the Hitachi and Fujitsu variants.
It would be asinine for Apple to try to sell commodity PC Hardware to the masses. What would be the point? Even IBM brass has stated that's just a business to keep their current clients all with IBM, a mindshare concern rather than a profit center.
All that being said, Apple intel boxes make sense if their business model shows that it's very important for Apple to sell support, and to provide that support, certified hardware is mandatory. Parametric (Pro/ENGINEER) doesn't sell its own hardware, they have Dell and HP, etc. certify their systems for compatibility, and then they provide support.
Unfortuntely, these cards are no longer offered - perhaps the power requirements got too obscene for the PCI bus to provide power. I bet nobody thought of hooking up a drive connector to a PCI card back then (as with a Radeon 9700)
I would definetly be in the market for this, as its one less @#$#$#@ box under my desk. I don't need more than a ~1Ghz Pentium III pc (or two). A dual Centrino on a PCI card would be a bonus. Yes I would like to bring it up as a window under os X or X (or optionally full screen cheap but decent 2d-accelerated video out the back of the card)
Anybody going to make that card for me? I believe the highest performance model ever offered by any of the manufacturers was the OrangePC (OrangePC 660 - AMD K6-2/400 @100 MHz bus, L2 cache) That's too pokey for today, plus there's no driver support for doing things between modern versions of the OS, or support for newer macs than a B&W G3.
The VirtualPC route has never interested me too much - every time I've demoed it, its never been quite fast enough for the tasks I wanted it for - like compiling for win32 or a developer install of sql server, etc.
A prime example of why Software Patents are just wrong. These types of works are copyrighted. Software apparently gets to have it both ways. Why is it in the better interests of the public to encourage legal action on a grand scale for work that should be only copyrighted, not also patented? Of course, its copyrighted too, but once a corporation gets that patent on a little piece of the work, it doesn't matter if somebody can reverse engineer it. It's still "theirs". You stole their idea!
from Article I, Section 8:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Software programming patterns and techniques are a discovery? Does anyone really believe that? Perhaps only legislative action can fix this. I imagine it will cost the economy at large billions of dollars before that happens. I suppose it comes down to whether the big guns in software marketing with lobbying dollars and political influence (Hi Bill!) swing for/against the issue. A court may take issue on whether this qualifies as Invention, but I doubt it they'll see it the right way.
I haven't seen FreeNet mentioned in reply to this. I would have expected the slashdot editor to have mentioned this in the usual comments they leave behind. Or even the Wired.com writer.
I encourage you to check out their work: freenetproject.org [Google Cache]
Yes it is P2P, and they've been working on a solution to this problem a fair bit longer than newsbooster could have been. I expect the new arrival probably has security problems that could be exploited by an government who wanted to repress the information.
I think it's an excellent piece of work to address this very issue of keeping information free, that the Danish ISP had a problem with. I haven't checked out their solution, but FreeNet strives to make sure no one node can be identified as the publisher or source/cache of the story. When oppressive regimes seek to restrict the information available to the public, this is an effective weapon. The content stored on the nodes is encrypted and segmented; no one node stores the entire body of work, and information is retained based on its popularity (actual requests) among the network.
Freenet is not designed to host the latest unreleased movie .MPG or .SHN of an album. I have no idea how effective or comparable it is to systems designed to do this with their swarming downloads, etc.
From the freenet homepage:
Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to creating secure namespaces. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.
The Ad Council is not financed or funded, or linked at all to the government. The Ad Council is made up of advertising agencies and related businesses doing philanthropic work, in the form of promoting public issues. (Unless you believe in goverment conspiracy control of madision avenue or such) Let's just take it for granted you can believe they are who they say they are.
This seems to be a pretty common misconception. Maybe the Ad Council could state who they are a bit better so americans could figure it out... nah that would just waste funds earmarked for PSA's
If you had read the advisory first, you wouldn't go shooting your mouth about how overly complex Sendmail is, or how its possible to create a cf file that can emulate a Turing machine, or how it used to be full of buffer overflows, etc, etc. The build process was trojaned... even the news posting mentioned that it was just like the OpenSSH trojaning. The actual source code files weren't altered, just the makefiles & scripts. You should all know by now to block port 6667 on your firewalls, waste of fricking time ;-)
You have several options for your right to steal! You can continue to use Kazaa or Gnutella: you just need to find somebody willing to proxy your connection across the internet who is willing to blow their bandwidth on your connection. Look into ssh port forwarding. Don't expect to actually find somebody more willing to do this than your university. You could find some OTHER variety of electronic theft protocol. There are several out there, far more advanced, and some even more time consuming than even the common Peer to Peer services. (Hard to believe!) But isn't gnutella fun!