Oh, don't worry... they can't possibly win this case.
Yes they can win. They can win by harassing, intimidating, and causing the anti-spyware companies to spend so much money defending themselves that they either go out of business, or leave companies like this one's products off their list.
The only way they can't win is if they are heavly fined for filing frivilous lawsuits, and the money given to the defendants.
IANAEE (...An Encryption Expert), so I'm asking someone who is.
Accepted, although yet to be demonstrated in the real world on actual keys, that quantum computing may well easily compromise public key encryption systems that rely on the one-way difficulty of factoring the product of large primes. My question is, is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) weakened in any way by quantum computers?
Like the Kansas Board of Education, we need to proactively discard these so-called "scientific theories" and go back to Intelligently Designed machines, like the abacus.
Yes, anything we can't see ourselves probably isn't real and can only be explained by a higher power. Nobody has seen 4 billion years of Evolution actually happen, so it probably didn't.
And everyone who looks at a Q-bit sees something different!
This regulation makes one giant assumption: That the first feasible quantum computers will be developed and built here.
In a world of outsourcing to other countries, as well as the fact that the USA doesn't have a monopoly on brain power, this whole idea could be rendered meaningless the moment someone decides to build their Q-puter[tm] in any other country with less onerous regulations!
Dell could never pre-install linux on their systems - unless if it was a paid version. If they did, they'd have to support it which would level their margins - if not pull it into the negative.
It would be nice if Dell did preload Linux simply because that would be there way of saying that this version of Linux is certified by us to run on this unmodified system.
After all, that's one of my main arguments for buying Dell -- the fact that they build 10's of thousands of the same configuration of PC, and can therefore afford to ensure that all the components play nice with each other. It avoids the problems encountered by a DIY approach to building your PC.
My main argument against buying Dell is their refusal to sell systems with superior AMD 64-bit dual processor cpu's.
How about an equivalent hardware "open source" processor (read AMD) choice in your Dell hardware. Especially now that you're selling the AMD processors themselves!
Otherwise this just comes across as a slimy legal trick to aid Intel in their defense against AMD's lawsuit.
As this was discussed on/. a bit ago, the best reason for NAT is to create islands of IP addresses for your network, otherwise you have to renumber everything when you change service providers.
Wrong for two reasons:
1: Your new service provider just puts your existing, personally owned (or given to you for free by the naming authority) IPv6 addresses into their routing tables. Everyone that had your number before still finds you at the same place.
2: How does IPv6 stop you form NATing your own personal network if this is still your desire?
The real truth is that IPv4 addresses currently have value due to scarcity. An IPv4 address range has a tangible value that can be sold, rented, leased, or hoarded. With essentially unlimited IPv6 addresses the value of IPv4 address space loses virtually all of its value, static IP addresses shouldn't command any premium anymore, and the barrier for entry of new ISP's is diminished. Certainly the current power structure likes things just as they are.
"We happen to work in an industry that survives on complexity, address scarcity and insecurity," Geoff Huston, senior Internet research scientist at Apnic, said. "This is where the margins come from, and we are not innovators in this industry any more. We've learnt that optimism doesn't create a business case. All those people disappeared along with the dotcom boom," he said.
That is a stupid statement. It would be more accurate to say either "limps along" or "thrives" instead of "survives" in this context. The steam engine industry undoubtedly felt the same way about the internal combustion engine when it was first proposed.
Of course, Ipv6 isn't enough. It's not enough until every atom in the Universe can have it's own unique IP address, after which we can discuss the strings that create them.
is well ahead of adoption in this market so everyone is deferring.
Maybe it will be IPv7 by the time it's adopted.
Better yet, why not name it IPv2005, so everyone will have to take it up by the end of the year lest they be left behind? Sure sounds better than IPvXP or IPvVista, doesn't it?
The anti-virus vendors deserve to be ripped as well over this. Not for not knowing about it in the first place, although F-Secure was apparently hot on the trail of it. Instead for saying that while they will flag it now, they don't plan on actually removing it!
I expect my AV program to remove unwanted crap off of my system. Not capitulate to the media interests. It's like when Microsoft's recently purchased adware/spyware app suddenly stopped flagging as malicious the unwanted software from a company they'd just purchased, and which they'd previously flagged and removed before!
If I was Bill Gates, I'd be pissed and calling up Sony and threatning to send them up the bomb... Think of how many more people this will drive from windows to MACS.
Definitely Insightful! This certainly harms Window's reputation yet again, while leaving other OS's untouched. MS should sue -- but then again they're trying to strike a deal to market Sony-BMG music at the same time.
But there HAS to be a few clever electrical and computer engineers out there who will make a new company *specifically* to have non-drm chips.
There are already 10's of millions of non-TPC computers in the world. You should be able to live the rest of your life buying cheap used computers off of eBay to use.
Finally, Sony really doesn't have any solid defense against the charge that they violated the Consumer Protection Against Consumer Spyware Act, *unless* the act specifies that spyware can only be classified as such if it submits personally identifiable information back to the authors or a third party. I'm not too clear on that regard- anyone have information they can add on that count?
Your IP number is part of the "Phone Home" packet, along with the time you were using that IP. For an RIAA lawsuit that's all they need for starters. I'd say therefore that it's pretty identifyable.
Stay away from Dell too. After I was rear-ended in a car accident, my PCMCIA slot was damaged, but the machine worked fine otherwise...
Take the Insurance Company and Dell to your Small Claims court. Include all you additional expenses (e.g. court filing fees, telephone charges) to the cost of your repair. Chances are good one or both of them will have to pay.
Sony is patenting a method for games console discs to be tied to the console unit they're first ran on. No second hand game sales or loaning of games
Just wait until they find out that this absolutely kills sales of the PS3 console. Sharing, selling off old games to buy new ones, and copying of games is one thing that keeps sales high. Take that away from a console that is already about to set a new high-price record as it is, and you're going to shoot yourself in the foot.
Then the other shoe drops when a PS3 has to be replaced because of damage, theft, or other. When the legally purchased games quit working it really hits the fan, after which Sony has to release a workaround to this problem. And once that workaround is out in the wild, all this effort has been for naught plus terrible customer relations yet again!
Sony is definitely in the running for dumbest company yet!
But the shows will only be available over Comcast on Demand, not for download. That's lame:(
Don't worry, it won't last. Don't expect any network to restrict themselve to only a single distribution channel of paying customers. Soon enough everything will be available everywhere.
How quickly the other fall in-line with Apple's ABC tie-in. Suddenly electronic content distribution is the next big thing. Now all we wait for is to see each content provider to provide content from all sources beyond these exclusive deals -- which shouldn't take long considering that there's money to be made.
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Yes they can win. They can win by harassing, intimidating, and causing the anti-spyware companies to spend so much money defending themselves that they either go out of business, or leave companies like this one's products off their list.
The only way they can't win is if they are heavly fined for filing frivilous lawsuits, and the money given to the defendants.
Accepted, although yet to be demonstrated in the real world on actual keys, that quantum computing may well easily compromise public key encryption systems that rely on the one-way difficulty of factoring the product of large primes. My question is, is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) weakened in any way by quantum computers?
Yes, anything we can't see ourselves probably isn't real and can only be explained by a higher power. Nobody has seen 4 billion years of Evolution actually happen, so it probably didn't.
And everyone who looks at a Q-bit sees something different!
In a world of outsourcing to other countries, as well as the fact that the USA doesn't have a monopoly on brain power, this whole idea could be rendered meaningless the moment someone decides to build their Q-puter[tm] in any other country with less onerous regulations!
It would be nice if Dell did preload Linux simply because that would be there way of saying that this version of Linux is certified by us to run on this unmodified system.
After all, that's one of my main arguments for buying Dell -- the fact that they build 10's of thousands of the same configuration of PC, and can therefore afford to ensure that all the components play nice with each other. It avoids the problems encountered by a DIY approach to building your PC.
My main argument against buying Dell is their refusal to sell systems with superior AMD 64-bit dual processor cpu's.
Otherwise this just comes across as a slimy legal trick to aid Intel in their defense against AMD's lawsuit.
Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
Sounds like "Springtime for Hitler" with different costumes. :^)
Aren't you forgetting about Dark Matter?
Why 128-bits is so we never have to go through this again. One last transition to IPv6 and that's it for life.
Wrong for two reasons:
1: Your new service provider just puts your existing, personally owned (or given to you for free by the naming authority) IPv6 addresses into their routing tables. Everyone that had your number before still finds you at the same place.
2: How does IPv6 stop you form NATing your own personal network if this is still your desire?
"We happen to work in an industry that survives on complexity, address scarcity and insecurity," Geoff Huston, senior Internet research scientist at Apnic, said. "This is where the margins come from, and we are not innovators in this industry any more. We've learnt that optimism doesn't create a business case. All those people disappeared along with the dotcom boom," he said.
That is a stupid statement. It would be more accurate to say either "limps along" or "thrives" instead of "survives" in this context. The steam engine industry undoubtedly felt the same way about the internal combustion engine when it was first proposed.
Of course, Ipv6 isn't enough. It's not enough until every atom in the Universe can have it's own unique IP address, after which we can discuss the strings that create them.
I, for one, will welcome the end of the NAT kludge.
Maybe it will be IPv7 by the time it's adopted.
Better yet, why not name it IPv2005, so everyone will have to take it up by the end of the year lest they be left behind? Sure sounds better than IPvXP or IPvVista, doesn't it?
And you're surprised by this because...
I expect my AV program to remove unwanted crap off of my system. Not capitulate to the media interests. It's like when Microsoft's recently purchased adware/spyware app suddenly stopped flagging as malicious the unwanted software from a company they'd just purchased, and which they'd previously flagged and removed before!
They're all thieves!
Definitely Insightful! This certainly harms Window's reputation yet again, while leaving other OS's untouched. MS should sue -- but then again they're trying to strike a deal to market Sony-BMG music at the same time.
I see the makings of a Slashdot Sig in your comment.
There are already 10's of millions of non-TPC computers in the world. You should be able to live the rest of your life buying cheap used computers off of eBay to use.
Your IP number is part of the "Phone Home" packet, along with the time you were using that IP. For an RIAA lawsuit that's all they need for starters. I'd say therefore that it's pretty identifyable.
Take the Insurance Company and Dell to your Small Claims court. Include all you additional expenses (e.g. court filing fees, telephone charges) to the cost of your repair. Chances are good one or both of them will have to pay.
Just wait until they find out that this absolutely kills sales of the PS3 console. Sharing, selling off old games to buy new ones, and copying of games is one thing that keeps sales high. Take that away from a console that is already about to set a new high-price record as it is, and you're going to shoot yourself in the foot.
Then the other shoe drops when a PS3 has to be replaced because of damage, theft, or other. When the legally purchased games quit working it really hits the fan, after which Sony has to release a workaround to this problem. And once that workaround is out in the wild, all this effort has been for naught plus terrible customer relations yet again!
Sony is definitely in the running for dumbest company yet!
Well, we know the answer to that. Next we want to know, will it kill Intel?
Notice that unlike Google, MS can't even come out with a simple statement against doing Evil.
Don't worry, it won't last. Don't expect any network to restrict themselve to only a single distribution channel of paying customers. Soon enough everything will be available everywhere.
The water has turned out to be warm after all.