Kind of interesting, but.. I think people are much more concerned about RFID than they should be.
Passive low frequency RFID's which are generally what people are 'scared' of are just little reflectors for radio frequency. They emit their serial number. Whoopty doo. The cheapest ones, which we are likely to see used in retail situations transmit on 30Khz to 500Khz.
What's to stop someone from bringing a jammer into the store? Or broadcasting fake ID numbers at the antenna? The possibilities of destroying the credibility of collected data by jamming legitimate traffic or spamming with bogus traffic seem to be fairly obvious?
The great thing is, because each manufacturer will have it's own numbering scheme, the IDs probably won't even be encrypted.
Do you ever think that there are smart people on the inside who fight against this type of thing by 'working with the system'?
By the nature of their efforts thay are most probably subtle and secretive.
Example.
* The person who worked on the Xbox motherboard who laid out all the exposed solder/no-solder points close to each other for bypassing the bios.
Heh. Have you ever produced any work that contained intellectual property? A term paper? Written a book? Wrote songs that ended up on a CD?
Is this a foreign concept for burger flippers and back-hoe operators?
People who produce music and try to sell it are basically betting that their music is good enough to win market share and provide them with supplimental or hopefully primary income.
If you want a bunch of music that's untested and unfiltered by big record labels, then go to mp3.com and download a bunch of mp3s recorded in people's basements who want to give their music away for free.
If you want the new 50 Cent album and you download it rather than pay for it, then, well, that's stealing his intellectual content.
It doesn't matter if you're making an exact duplicate of his work and 'he won't miss it'. It doesn't matter if you wouldn't have bought it anyway, it wouldn't matter if you claim you're not stealing it.
Napster deprived record labels and artists (but mostly record labels) of the money they would have otherwise recieved in a world where p2p fileswapping didn't exist.
And just because you don't respect the RIAA, or the record label doesn't give you the right to steal.
So, here's a hint for you. You can't rationalizing your way through your life, take responsibility for what you steal, or go buy it. Just stop hiding behind such a weak argument.
Napster was a revolutionary idea because it made p2p file sharing the easiest that any package had ever done up until it was released. But trading copyrighted material without the copyright owners permission is STILL stealing.
That's funny. I make a good point, stir up some interesting debate, and my post is modded -1. I guess the moderators were so busy downloading mp3s they didn't spend the time to think about my post.;)
While the unobservent viewer might liken Napster to the legend of Robin Hood, if you take a step back and realize that Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the down-trodden and poor who had no food or freedom, Napster just facilitated the theft of music.
I guess you could make the argument that music and information want to be free and that life without music would be a terrible existence, but the only difference between Napster and shoplifting a CD is physical evidence.
But are telecine/cam records really what's hurting the film industry? Sounds like a lot of effort for very little pay-off.
Granted there's always a market for somebody who would like to see the Matrix Reloaded captured on someone's pen-camera, but is that really the demographic that the movie industry is losing money from?
A tool (Apple's software) that can be used for presenting performance metrics versus another product (Adobe's) could be considered a benchmarking tool. The point being that Apple's software is probably a little more tailored to OSX than Adobe's dual-platform software.
Essentially, what's the point of comparing metrics of video processing programs if Adobe's isn't crafted specifically for the nuances of OSX, and Apple's is? It's apples and oranges.
They include Valfrid Paulsson, a former director-general of the government's environmental protection agency, Soren Norrby, the former campaign manager for Keep Sweden Tidy, and the former managing directors of three waste-collection companies.
None of these people are environmentalists. One is an Ex-Government mouthpiece, a former campaign manager for Keep Sweden Tidy (former is the key word here), present occupation sounds like Waste-Management Lobbist and a bunch of waste collection companies. And their argument is purely money oriented. Waste-Collection companies find that it's unprofitable to recycle. This isn't about what's really good for the environment.
What would be best? Using less! But people won't do that. They like the convienence. They don't want to have to remember to bring a Nalgene bottle with them everywhere they go. They want to say 'Ah, I'm thirsty, and only poor people drink out of drinking fountians, and there isn't one around here anyway, so I'll plunk another dollar down for a bottle which I'll promptly throw away.
The truth of this is, recycling in the long run probably isn't cheaper, but it is better for the environment. By recycling, we keep our finite resources circulating rather than throwing things away.
So, boohoo if the waste management companies don't want to recycle. If the government is forcing these programs on waste-management, voters should support subsidies to waste-management to ensure that recycling continues.
So while it's about profit, sometimes you have to pay more to do the right thing.
The gluttony of resources at rock-bottom prices is just unrealistic. Nobody wants to pay the true price now. They just want discounted convienence by making future generations pay the price.
The headline on this story is misleading.
Another guy saying his 'biggest problem' is that he wishes he had a way of kicking the floppy out of the drive bay?
I'm suprised any of this is an issue. Trying to find complex solutions for relatively easy problems.
As far as remote administration, you can get cheap motherboards that support redirection of the console to a tty. Then hook the tty up to a terminal server, modem, etc. And that's it. These types of motherboards are fairly easy to find. Probably cheaper than some ridiculous LCD screen bling-bling interface.
Or buy a machine that's meant to be remotely administered (Sun).
Don't trick your colo machines out with Icy Hot Hardwarez.
Seems too much like the 'E-Mail us and the starving kids will get 1 cent of food for every e-mail we get!' pranks.. Or maybe the guy is building a spam database of known-good-emails?
Or am I the only one that thinks a request to e-mail spam to someone is just too blatant? All he needs to do is post on Usenet or Slashdot with his real e-mail address.. There have been many uninteresting stories about 'journalists' gathering statistics on getting spam..
Asking for it to be sent to you seems almost ridiculous.
That people don't seem to understand that journalists will write stories that are loosely based on facts, or blatantly untrue merely to evoke a reaction? Fluff journalism at it's best.
I'm sure if you rounded up every Weird Al Yankovick fan who trades parody mp3s, you'd impact the P2P traffic by on millionth of a percent, and you'd have to feed those three guys lunch while you detain them.
More than likely they're just decoding the p2p control streams and finding out what the filenames they're transferring are, rather than fingerprinting the actual data.
You can afford to make sweeping decisions about what's approved or unapproved material when it's your infrastructure.
'You'd think that the mouth-pieces for the anti-copyprotection front were storing their original DVDs and CDs in a rock sander for the urgency with which they call for the abolishment of copy-protection and DRM.'
Slashdot Mirror
I'd rather paypal the author $1 than register with yet another e-mail harvesting 'service'. :(
I'm really getting tired of 'Is X,Y, or Z doomed?' based stories.
-n
J. Jonah Jameson
P. T. Barnum
F. Murray Abraham
Then you turn around, and there's Craig T. Nelson. And he's a stand up guy.
Merely a means to an end: Counterstrike 2! Lets hope they do some rigid security enhancements to limit cheating.
Passive low frequency RFID's which are generally what people are 'scared' of are just little reflectors for radio frequency. They emit their serial number. Whoopty doo. The cheapest ones, which we are likely to see used in retail situations transmit on 30Khz to 500Khz.
What's to stop someone from bringing a jammer into the store? Or broadcasting fake ID numbers at the antenna? The possibilities of destroying the credibility of collected data by jamming legitimate traffic or spamming with bogus traffic seem to be fairly obvious?
The great thing is, because each manufacturer will have it's own numbering scheme, the IDs probably won't even be encrypted.
By the nature of their efforts thay are most probably subtle and secretive.
Example.
* The person who worked on the Xbox motherboard who laid out all the exposed solder/no-solder points close to each other for bypassing the bios.
Is this a foreign concept for burger flippers and back-hoe operators?
People who produce music and try to sell it are basically betting that their music is good enough to win market share and provide them with supplimental or hopefully primary income.
If you want a bunch of music that's untested and unfiltered by big record labels, then go to mp3.com and download a bunch of mp3s recorded in people's basements who want to give their music away for free.
If you want the new 50 Cent album and you download it rather than pay for it, then, well, that's stealing his intellectual content.
It doesn't matter if you're making an exact duplicate of his work and 'he won't miss it'. It doesn't matter if you wouldn't have bought it anyway, it wouldn't matter if you claim you're not stealing it.
Napster deprived record labels and artists (but mostly record labels) of the money they would have otherwise recieved in a world where p2p fileswapping didn't exist.
And just because you don't respect the RIAA, or the record label doesn't give you the right to steal.
So, here's a hint for you. You can't rationalizing your way through your life, take responsibility for what you steal, or go buy it. Just stop hiding behind such a weak argument.
Napster was a revolutionary idea because it made p2p file sharing the easiest that any package had ever done up until it was released. But trading copyrighted material without the copyright owners permission is STILL stealing.
http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/
Up to a terabyte even.
-n
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I guess you could make the argument that music and information want to be free and that life without music would be a terrible existence, but the only difference between Napster and shoplifting a CD is physical evidence.
Granted there's always a market for somebody who would like to see the Matrix Reloaded captured on someone's pen-camera, but is that really the demographic that the movie industry is losing money from?
-n
Yeah. That sounds ethical.
Essentially, what's the point of comparing metrics of video processing programs if Adobe's isn't crafted specifically for the nuances of OSX, and Apple's is? It's apples and oranges.
-n
Well.. duh.
Now show me the Apple benchmarking tool written by Apple that'll exersize Apple operating system tricks and I'm sold!
Oh wait, you just did.
'top' apparently is the best tool for monitoring boxen. :)
None of these people are environmentalists. One is an Ex-Government mouthpiece, a former campaign manager for Keep Sweden Tidy (former is the key word here), present occupation sounds like Waste-Management Lobbist and a bunch of waste collection companies. And their argument is purely money oriented. Waste-Collection companies find that it's unprofitable to recycle. This isn't about what's really good for the environment.
What would be best? Using less! But people won't do that. They like the convienence. They don't want to have to remember to bring a Nalgene bottle with them everywhere they go. They want to say 'Ah, I'm thirsty, and only poor people drink out of drinking fountians, and there isn't one around here anyway, so I'll plunk another dollar down for a bottle which I'll promptly throw away.
The truth of this is, recycling in the long run probably isn't cheaper, but it is better for the environment. By recycling, we keep our finite resources circulating rather than throwing things away.
So, boohoo if the waste management companies don't want to recycle. If the government is forcing these programs on waste-management, voters should support subsidies to waste-management to ensure that recycling continues.
So while it's about profit, sometimes you have to pay more to do the right thing.
The gluttony of resources at rock-bottom prices is just unrealistic. Nobody wants to pay the true price now. They just want discounted convienence by making future generations pay the price. The headline on this story is misleading.
Another guy saying his 'biggest problem' is that he wishes he had a way of kicking the floppy out of the drive bay?
I'm suprised any of this is an issue. Trying to find complex solutions for relatively easy problems.
As far as remote administration, you can get cheap motherboards that support redirection of the console to a tty. Then hook the tty up to a terminal server, modem, etc. And that's it. These types of motherboards are fairly easy to find. Probably cheaper than some ridiculous LCD screen bling-bling interface.
Or buy a machine that's meant to be remotely administered (Sun).
Don't trick your colo machines out with Icy Hot Hardwarez.
Microsoft should view anyone who wants to view their source code as a marauding barbarian?
Sounds about right.
-n
GET USED TO IT HITLER!
Or am I the only one that thinks a request to e-mail spam to someone is just too blatant? All he needs to do is post on Usenet or Slashdot with his real e-mail address.. There have been many uninteresting stories about 'journalists' gathering statistics on getting spam..
Asking for it to be sent to you seems almost ridiculous.
-n
That people don't seem to understand that journalists will write stories that are loosely based on facts, or blatantly untrue merely to evoke a reaction? Fluff journalism at it's best.
More than likely they're just decoding the p2p control streams and finding out what the filenames they're transferring are, rather than fingerprinting the actual data.
You can afford to make sweeping decisions about what's approved or unapproved material when it's your infrastructure.
'You'd think that the mouth-pieces for the anti-copyprotection front were storing their original DVDs and CDs in a rock sander for the urgency with which they call for the abolishment of copy-protection and DRM.'
AND I CUT IT OUT!..
I suck at the internet.