How do they know that your Windows key is more legit than an identical key used 2 months ago?
Its like when people purchase games and the serial has already been registered.
Clever hackers create a random valid key which is used before the person with the legit box, when the person with the legit boxed version connects its too late, that magic number has already been used.
Which applications do you allow internet access by default and which do you block? How do you identify them? by name? by size? by version? by location?
Do you have a signing process where every application gets rights only after it has been registered and approved by microsoft?
How the hell can the patent office survive for so much longer?
This Real patent is just stupid "Click to stream", I'm actually wondering whether its announcement comes on the back of the changes Microsoft made to force people to click to activate?
They should be bouyed up by the yellow stream coming out of every web developers *censored* as they piss all over them with newer improved methods for getting the data across.
On that score, does anyone know which sites use Helix so I can blacklist them? (hosts format would be nice;))
The article also mentions that Real shouldn't even have it anyway:
The new patent is known as a continuation patent, with additional claims based on an original filing in November 1994. One of the challenges that will confront RealNetworks in enforcing the patent is an earlier one owned by Apple Computer. Apple applied for a patent related to its QuickTime technology for streaming media in May 1994, before RealNetworks' first filing. The Apple patent, No. 5,561,670, for "method and apparatus for operating a multicast system on an unreliable network," was issued in October 1996. It appears the patent office examiners did not consider it in their evaluation of the RealNetworks patent.
My boss just got himself a widescreen LCD (against my better judgement of course) now he's discovering the main drawback for people who use their machines like we do.
Its a lovely display, running local applications in the natural resolution (1440 x 900) is a pleasure to the eyes and having the extra width is nice, however he spends approximately 50% of his day using VNC onto machines with 1280*1024 displays. This wasn't a problem before because he could just full screen it, now all I hear is muffled cursing because the screen no longer fits. Its amusing really, and proves sometimes higher sounding specs really aren't all they are cracked up to be.
The easy way around that is getting your client to recognise when a user+tempcode@example.com address is used it asks you when it should expire when you recieve the first mail with it. Hell, you should be able to expire any temp address and move all future mails to the bin without your oversite.
That way you can happily give out addresses without the client and pick up the pieces later.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck (x) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
I remember seeing this a few days ago and thinking they couldn't manage it, but slashdot has broken all coding records and implemented it already;)
The one thing thats worrying me though is that I'm a paying member here on slashdot, so theres a bug somewhere still.
Ahhh well, if slash can do it, so can I - heres the posting I made in the previous article: Forget muting commercials, this is TV - when the ad break comes on, will I be able to switch channels?
What about the advertising on the other channels that I'm missing.
What if I am flicking around the channels (from a sanctioned spot) and happen upon a commercial, will I not be able to continue to the next channel?
I can't argue with your thoughts infact they come pretty close to my own experiences. I have found its good to keep a live cd handy (either knoppix or more recently Ubuntu) for when people ask about Linux, it lets them dip their toes without ruining anything, and if they like the experience I give them some more assistance in setting up. Its always easier to show somebody a working system than try to explain the reasons why they should use it. I won't however push people away from the OS they are using and have 100% hardware coverage with (its usually the OS they got with their machine).
Slashdot Mirror
How do they know that your Windows key is more legit than an identical key used 2 months ago?
Its like when people purchase games and the serial has already been registered.
Clever hackers create a random valid key which is used before the person with the legit box, when the person with the legit boxed version connects its too late, that magic number has already been used.
OMG Ponies is a great style.
It should be locked as the default for every account with negative karma.
Put yourself in Microsofts shoes.
Which applications do you allow internet access by default and which do you block?
How do you identify them? by name? by size? by version? by location?
Do you have a signing process where every application gets rights only after it has been registered and approved by microsoft?
Welcome to Palladium.
Thanks.
I just tried this and managed to knock over a drink, drop the phone, crack my monitor stand and lose my mouse ball down the back of the radiator.
Mental note: Purchase heavier desk.
xcopy \internet \internet2\old /A /E /H
s/pedestrian/hedgehog
Don;t be silly, of course Linspire isn't derived from Debian, its derived from Windows.
O'Brian: Captain, ensign Jones won't be joining you on any more away missions....
How the hell can the patent office survive for so much longer?
;))
This Real patent is just stupid "Click to stream", I'm actually wondering whether its announcement comes on the back of the changes Microsoft made to force people to click to activate?
They should be bouyed up by the yellow stream coming out of every web developers *censored* as they piss all over them with newer improved methods for getting the data across.
On that score, does anyone know which sites use Helix so I can blacklist them? (hosts format would be nice
The article also mentions that Real shouldn't even have it anyway:
The new patent is known as a continuation patent, with additional claims based on an original filing in November 1994. One of the challenges that will confront RealNetworks in enforcing the patent is an earlier one owned by Apple Computer. Apple applied for a patent related to its QuickTime technology for streaming media in May 1994, before RealNetworks' first filing. The Apple patent, No. 5,561,670, for "method and apparatus for operating a multicast system on an unreliable network," was issued in October 1996. It appears the patent office examiners did not consider it in their evaluation of the RealNetworks patent.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Hi, this is Joe, your ex loyal customer.
Since you lot spend so much time posting on slashdot, I found another vendor.
Joe.
Isn't that more indicative of the drivers used in Windows XP though?
Or were the benchmarks done in OSX then in Windows in which case other issues could arise.
Also, newer beta drivers are always improving things and tweaking applications.
Theres no way you could determine if the Mac driver was underclocking in OSX without doing the benchmarks in OSX.
> L
You are on slashdot.
You can see the headlines.
> Read headlines
There are 12 old articles.
> N
You are in the mysterious future.
There is 1 article here.
> RTFA
I'm sorry, you cannot do that.
> open article
You open the article in the mysterious future.
> L
It is empty in the comments section, You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
A specialist co processor for processing your spyware and spam would be double plus good.
I actually like the idea of a co processor sitting there, but I wonder why you wouldn't just stick another opteron in and write custom code?
If we stopped breeding golfers, then who would my grandkids produce TPS reports for?
So far your the only one upset about something.
Did you get a login page to write as well?
I just grabbed it (again) to test the mirror, heres the link to CodeMonkey.mp3
Back to work tomorrow after nice long Easter break - thanx for posting this Scuttle. ;)
Its going on my playlist in the morning
My boss just got himself a widescreen LCD (against my better judgement of course) now he's discovering the main drawback for people who use their machines like we do.
Its a lovely display, running local applications in the natural resolution (1440 x 900) is a pleasure to the eyes and having the extra width is nice, however he spends approximately 50% of his day using VNC onto machines with 1280*1024 displays.
This wasn't a problem before because he could just full screen it, now all I hear is muffled cursing because the screen no longer fits.
Its amusing really, and proves sometimes higher sounding specs really aren't all they are cracked up to be.
Dude: Hui Wu invented this new chip that saves loads of power.
Bloke: Who?
Dude: Yes
Bloke: so who invented this chip.
Dude: Hui did.
Bloke: Thats what I'm asking you.
Dude: Yer I know, Hui did.
Bloke: Quit it and tell me who invented the chip.
Dude: Im not joking, Hui did.
The easy way around that is getting your client to recognise when a user+tempcode@example.com address is used it asks you when it should expire when you recieve the first mail with it.
Hell, you should be able to expire any temp address and move all future mails to the bin without your oversite.
That way you can happily give out addresses without the client and pick up the pieces later.
This article advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may
have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal
law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential
employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been
shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
(x) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
Done...
I tried to tag "throwing dummy out of the cot" but it wanted to split them up.
It certainly is more presentable.
I hate the way imdb links don't name the film in question.
Even if it was some parameter like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869?TheQuietEarth would be better
I remember seeing this a few days ago and thinking they couldn't manage it, but slashdot has broken all coding records and implemented it already ;)
The one thing thats worrying me though is that I'm a paying member here on slashdot, so theres a bug somewhere still.
Ahhh well, if slash can do it, so can I - heres the posting I made in the previous article:
Forget muting commercials, this is TV - when the ad break comes on, will I be able to switch channels?
What about the advertising on the other channels that I'm missing.
What if I am flicking around the channels (from a sanctioned spot) and happen upon a commercial, will I not be able to continue to the next channel?
I can't argue with your thoughts infact they come pretty close to my own experiences.
I have found its good to keep a live cd handy (either knoppix or more recently Ubuntu) for when people ask about Linux, it lets them dip their toes without ruining anything, and if they like the experience I give them some more assistance in setting up.
Its always easier to show somebody a working system than try to explain the reasons why they should use it.
I won't however push people away from the OS they are using and have 100% hardware coverage with (its usually the OS they got with their machine).