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Just shows you need to get out more. Lots of the jokes required knowledge of the outside world. So, if you're a head-down geek, paying attention to only what went on in your computer, it's no wonder you wouldn't get the jokes.
You do have a choice. Granted MS is a monopoly, but that does not mean that you personally have to run their crap. It just means that MS has the ability to push things over on OEMs and the like, it is not the same thing as having a gun pointed at your head.
Well, I personally may have a choice, but the unwashed masses do not. That's what "effective monopoly" means. Linux is just beginning to enter their radar, and both you and I know it's not ready for prime time.
In the mean time, it might open up internet software distribution to more companies. Bringing new software titles with the improved security. That is a benefit to the consumer.
"Might"?? That's awful slim pickings, given all the disadvantages being discussed.
Quit your damn whining, get a job, and stop getting caught up in the/. propaganda.
You, sir, are a moron. I'm in the 40+ category of the latest Slashdot poll, and I've been gainfully employed in the computer business for 20+ of those years. Being concerned about privacy issues is not onlyt the arena of people in college. You've let your mental stereotype blind you.
If a few web sites start asking users to switch it on and run software that uses it, you'll be left with two choices. Be identified or not.
Of course, the issue here is that we now see that the serial number can be turned on and off at will, and by extension without the user's knowledge. This makes the option of turning it off meaningless.
Previously you still had the option of not running an OS, software, etc that doesn't access the feature. You the consumer still have the freedom to decide.
Not while Microsoft has an effective monopoly on the desktop.
Lets say if you were buy or download Quake3 shareware version at the store or off the internet. If you like this game, they could send you a set of binaries customized around your id#.
That's fine, but there is no evidence that any company that sells such software would make any provision for handling situations such as machine upgrades or selling the software to somebody else. Historically, with dongle-based software copy protection, it's been very hard to get companies to address issues such as destroyed dongles.
Microsoft has shown every evidence of trying to tie their software to a particular desktop, and charging for the priviledge of moving the software to a different machine. (In fact, the current Microsoft EULA says that you cannot transfer the software to a different computer - you have to purchase another copy. This is a provision that I think many people find unfair. A CPU PSN provides a method to police this, thus immortalizing the unfairness.)
The bottom line is this: Intel has put this feature in with little or no indication as to what the advantage is to the consumer. All the benefits appear to be on the side of corporations who want to sell things to or otherwise track the consumer. Do you have any compelling reason why a CPU PSN is an advantage to the consumer?
Still, despite the best intentions of the RIAA, it's tough to envision a time, at least in the near future, when the industry will be able to rein in the Net.
What I want to know is this: What the hell do you record in a music-playing condom? What piece of music would be appropriate? "Stranger in the Night" ???
Better yet, is it a straight audio recorder? We could have all kinds of amusing sounds.
It's optionally a module. You can compile it as a module or compile it into the kernel. I personally chose the latter option because I'm going to be using it all the time - no sense being able to unload it.
He used to be interesting, but he's written the same column for 15+ years now, and it's gotten very tiresome. And this is a guy who manages to use his GPS and laptop to tell him where he managed to roll his SUV in Death Valley. Gads. I use the same combo, but I think I'll not drive quite so fast.
I spent Sunday (1/24/99) running an Australia Day BBQ at my house which left me no time to pay attention to the server or I'd have noticed the greatly accelerated hit rate brought on by the posting to slashdot. When the last guest had left and I checked my email, I found a sympathy note about the poor little server having been slashdotted to death and a pointer to slashdot.
What had happened is that I'd left it wide open (no root password) thinking that maybe one or two visitors might show some initiative and log in and explore around. I wasn't at all worried about anybody breaking anything since the 16MB flash can be "reset" just by attaching an IDE drive and dd'ing back the image of/dev/hda, all you lose are the accumulated statistics.
What I didn't reckon on was having so many entrepreneurial spirits logged on simultaneously, or on someone deciding it would be better to shut the machine down before some real damage was done (fat chance). After rebooting and straighten out a couple of "fixed" files, I decided with regret that maybe a root password would be needed after all if only to avoid these problems.
The consumers will select an album, which will then be transmitted directly to their personal computers via high-speed cable modems in less than ten minutes. Music executives say that consumers in the test market will be provided with a CD burner, a piece of hardware that will allow them to make physical CDs of the digitally delivered albums. IBM will encrypt the music so it cannot be copied after making the initial CD. IBM won't discuss details of the test, such as how the record companies will be paid.
And just how long after it's been burned to CD will it take to convert it to MP3?
If you're going to send a letter like this, please at least run it through a spelling checker first? A grammar checker wouldn't hurt either. ("...when I rad the article..." ???) I'm all for writing, but please let's make make a good impression.
Can be found at the Intel press release site. It appears that Intel will be working with RSA on incorporating RSA technology such as BSafe.
This actually makes me feel marginally better. RSA is sometimes fairly good about publicizing their algorithms. They are a pretty reasonable player in the encryption marketplace.
The "Last Dinosaur..." article is interesting, but there's a dangerous assumption early on: That there will always be unmodified growth following the early curve. To extrapolate the early growth in any unlimited future is bogus.
The classic demonstration in the flaws of unlimited extrapolation is the Elvis Analysis: In 1977, there were three Elvis impersonators. Last year, there were 28,000 Elvis impersonators. If you extrapolate this into the future, in the year 2015, every third person on the planet will be an Elvis impersonator.
The danger in any extrapolation is that as you "near" saturation, the growth curve must fall off, ultimately turning into an asymptotic approach to 100% (of whatever the environment is, anyway). There will always be some machine running Windows, thus Linux saturation will never reach 100%. The difference in any given extrapoation is that the definition of "near" will vary depending on the circumstances. "Near" could be as low as 40-50 percent - when X reaches 50% saturation, growth starts to slow.
I suspect that (a) We have to consider the server market separate from the desktop market; (b) When Linux reaches some significant fraction of units in each market (25%?), Microsoft will begin an all-out blitz which will affect growth in Linux's market share. In any case, this means that the idea of the continued exponential growth of Linux into the PC market is a short-term view -- the circumstances will not support it for much longer.
I contend that MS cannot continue it's growth. It's stock may be fairly valued, but they cannot continue there 40%+ growth per year, since their market is starting to reach saturation. They can't create the "churn" in their product suite the way they did before (Excel 4 to Excel 97) - the customers won't stand for it. The government will sit on them with this business about tying OS licenses to individual machines. Many businesses will be slowing down OS upgrade purchases while they (we) sort out the Y2K mess. There aren't that many big markets left. On top of things, this news won't help.
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Just shows you need to get out more. Lots of the jokes required knowledge of the outside world. So, if you're a head-down geek, paying attention to only what went on in your computer, it's no wonder you wouldn't get the jokes.
The trick refers to the little bits of meat left over when you're slicing salami in a deli.
I first heard of it in the 70s. Might even have been earlier.
You do have a choice. Granted MS is a monopoly, but that does not mean that you personally have to run their crap. It just means that MS has the ability to push things over on OEMs and the like, it is not the same thing as having a gun pointed at your head.
/. propaganda.
Well, I personally may have a choice, but the unwashed masses do not. That's what "effective monopoly" means. Linux is just beginning to enter their radar, and both you and I know it's not ready for prime time.
In the mean time, it might open up internet software distribution to more companies. Bringing new software titles with the improved security. That is a benefit to the consumer.
"Might"?? That's awful slim pickings, given all the disadvantages being discussed.
Quit your damn whining, get a job, and stop getting caught up in the
You, sir, are a moron. I'm in the 40+ category of the latest Slashdot poll, and I've been gainfully employed in the computer business for 20+ of those years. Being concerned about privacy issues is not onlyt the arena of people in college. You've let your mental stereotype blind you.
{copy emailed - I wouldn't want you to miss it.}
If a few web sites start asking users to switch it on and run software that uses it, you'll be left with two choices. Be identified or not.
Of course, the issue here is that we now see that the serial number can be turned on and off at will, and by extension without the user's knowledge. This makes the option of turning it off meaningless.
Previously you still had the option of not running an OS, software, etc that doesn't access the feature. You the consumer still have the freedom to decide.
Not while Microsoft has an effective monopoly on the desktop.
Lets say if you were buy or download Quake3 shareware version at the store or off the internet. If you like this game, they could send you a set of binaries customized around your id#.
That's fine, but there is no evidence that any company that sells such software would make any provision for handling situations such as machine upgrades or selling the software to somebody else. Historically, with dongle-based software copy protection, it's been very hard to get companies to address issues such as destroyed dongles.
Microsoft has shown every evidence of trying to tie their software to a particular desktop, and charging for the priviledge of moving the software to a different machine. (In fact, the current Microsoft EULA says that you cannot transfer the software to a different computer - you have to purchase another copy. This is a provision that I think many people find unfair. A CPU PSN provides a method to police this, thus immortalizing the unfairness.)
The bottom line is this: Intel has put this feature in with little or no indication as to what the advantage is to the consumer. All the benefits appear to be on the side of corporations who want to sell things to or otherwise track the consumer. Do you have any compelling reason why a CPU PSN is an advantage to the consumer?
egads.
From near the end:
Still, despite the best intentions of the RIAA, it's tough to envision a time, at least in the near future, when the industry will be able to rein in the Net.
Damn straight.
It's only a movie.
It's only a movie.
bablefish.altavista.com does a fair job of translating it.
What I want to know is this: What the hell do you record in a music-playing condom? What piece of music would be appropriate? "Stranger in the Night" ???
Better yet, is it a straight audio recorder? We could have all kinds of amusing sounds.
It's optionally a module. You can compile it as a module or compile it into the kernel. I personally chose the latter option because I'm going to be using it all the time - no sense being able to unload it.
He used to be interesting, but he's written the same column for 15+ years now, and it's gotten very tiresome. And this is a guy who manages to use his GPS and laptop to tell him where he managed to roll his SUV in Death Valley. Gads. I use the same combo, but I think I'll not drive quite so fast.
What about the MIDS Internet Weather Report? This sort of thing has been running for ages. http://www3.mids.org/weather/
And just how long after it's been burned to CD will it take to convert it to MP3?
If you're going to send a letter like this, please at least run it through a spelling checker first? A grammar checker wouldn't hurt either. ("...when I rad the article..." ???) I'm all for writing, but please let's make make a good impression.
either way, don't bother.
Can be found at the Intel press release site. It appears that Intel will be working with RSA on incorporating RSA technology such as BSafe.
This actually makes me feel marginally better. RSA is sometimes fairly good about publicizing their algorithms. They are a pretty reasonable player in the encryption marketplace.
The "Last Dinosaur..." article is interesting, but there's a dangerous assumption early on: That there will always be unmodified growth following the early curve. To extrapolate the early growth in any unlimited future is bogus.
The classic demonstration in the flaws of unlimited extrapolation is the Elvis Analysis: In 1977, there were three Elvis impersonators. Last year, there were 28,000 Elvis impersonators. If you extrapolate this into the future, in the year 2015, every third person on the planet will be an Elvis impersonator.
The danger in any extrapolation is that as you "near" saturation, the growth curve must fall off, ultimately turning into an asymptotic approach to 100% (of whatever the environment is, anyway). There will always be some machine running Windows, thus Linux saturation will never reach 100%. The difference in any given extrapoation is that the definition of "near" will vary depending on the circumstances. "Near" could be as low as 40-50 percent - when X reaches 50% saturation, growth starts to slow.
I suspect that (a) We have to consider the server market separate from the desktop market; (b) When Linux reaches some significant fraction of units in each market (25%?), Microsoft will begin an all-out blitz which will affect growth in Linux's market share. In any case, this means that the idea of the continued exponential growth of Linux into the PC market is a short-term view -- the circumstances will not support it for much longer.
I contend that MS cannot continue it's growth. It's stock may be fairly valued, but they cannot continue there 40%+ growth per year, since their market is starting to reach saturation. They can't create the "churn" in their product suite the way they did before (Excel 4 to Excel 97) - the customers won't stand for it. The government will sit on them with this business about tying OS licenses to individual machines. Many businesses will be slowing down OS upgrade purchases while they (we) sort out the Y2K mess. There aren't that many big markets left. On top of things, this news won't help.
When MS stock starts to slack, watch out.