Of course what the BBC article doesn't mention is that for the first year you are under contract to keep the digibox powered on and connected to the phone socket so it can upload your tv and advert viewing habits.
No problem about 8 million boxes powered on all night as long as they sell a few more boxes of washpowder!
My point was that since I charge my player 'docked' to the hifi and not my PC I can't sync at the same time. Perhaps the rest of my text wandered a bit.
Not only do they suck but they are shutting down all the decent software. My favourite free personal firewall - Sygate has just been bought out by Symantec and guess what:
Well they'll have a hard time stopping me from using it. If anyone else thinks it was a good product too grab it from their site before they realise it's still there;-)
Forget about the 'rootkit' part of the Sony software for the minute, I am concentrating on the player software that is installed at the same time. Mark Russinovich found:
I dug a little deeper and it appears the Player is automatically checking to see if there are updates for the album art and lyrics for the album it's displaying. This behavior would be welcome under most circumstances, but is not mentioned in the EULA, is refuted by Sony, and is not configurable in any way. I doubt Sony is doing anything with the data, but with this type of connection their servers could record each time a copy-protected CD is played and the IP address of the computer playing it.
The only difference between this and iTunes' behaviour is that you can switch off the ministore.
Now I'm not looking to have Apple publicly flogged over this but they should be upfront about their customers privacy.
Ideally I'd like to see mandatory full disclosure of the purpose of all network communications in a simple checklist form when you install (like the nutritional information on food products?) Unfortunately it isn't going to happen any time soon:-(
I have an Archos GMini400. My charging lead is next to the hifi so I can plug it in there and use it instead of a CD player. The good part is that when it's on charge it has an AC power profile that keeps the backlight on all the time and the HDD spinning for longer.
I use SynchronizeIt to update the library, EAC / Lame for ripping. I have never bought music from an online store except a non-DRMed album from Magnatune
I don't have an iPod simply because they're much more expensive than the Archos.
This is where we're going to differ I think, It's the action that is bad not necessarily the company. I'd have the same criticisms if Linus put code into the kernel that phoned home to kernel.org.
Jesus people, save your outrage for things that are truly evil, like the Sony Root-Kit.
...which was detected as Spyware by virtually every Antispyware vendor for sending your CD playing history back to Sony!! But guess what, 'it isn't stored' according to Sony.
I don't believe I'm reading this. Sony said that they weren't collecting the information sent back from their player software and nobody believed a word they said.
Of course they are storing it, why wouldn't they? Nobody outside of Apple can prove otherwise.
I've nothing against Apple but this new version of iTunes is Spyware pure and simple.
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Real Networks did a very similar trick some time ago.
I think that Roland is a trolling account. If you look at his posting history there are things like "Repost of Roland's article, so you don't pay him to RTFA:" (#13236573)
Just to be devils advocate, it doesn't cost us anything does it. I assume that, like me, most people here hardly ever click on banner ads or block them or would google for the product seperately?
I can see it becoming quite difficult to isolate the story submitter from any income from a linked page in any case.
1. The getthefacts website doesn't work on Firefox1.0.4 on Fedora4. The text in the Flash banner is offscreen! You would have thought that a site designed to help migrate people from Linux to Windows would actually work on Linux in the first place!
2. Mod what down, you replied to the article you muppet...
No, because as the rotation of the earth slows down the geosynchronous orbit increases in height until (in the distant future) 1 solar day lasts over a month and the geosynchronous orbit is over 250,000 miles.
Basically, friction between the ocean the the earth causes the earth to spin the tidal bulge in advance of the moons rotation. Harnessing wave power increases that friction and slows the earth down faster.
I like the part where it says that, eventually the moon will eventually become a geosynchronous satellite, not that we need worry too much about it.
According to the FAQ on the NTP homepage "NTP uses UTC as reference time"
Further down there is a discussion of how leap seconds are handled. I was curious so I checked my computer clock (which is synced using NTP) against my alarm clock (which uses the radio signal from the MSF service and they are the same. So it seems that NTP must have observed leap seconds contrary to your original post.
Ah it's a bit simpler than that. The ? characters are unicode garbage. You can't even delete the files in explorer or from the command prompt due to the weird name.
Of course, if explorer could manipulate the files that would defeat the copy protection so they have to break the filesystem to make the system secure. Now in any normal windows directory that would be fine, except roaming profiles ships application data to and from the server, hence the error.
You can sometimes solve the problem with individual apps by allowing everyone full control of the c:\Program Files\BadApp This works with Sonar4.
However, don't get me started on copy controlled apps. How about this error message from my sons workstation whilst trying to copy his roaming profile:
Windows cannot copy file C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application
Data\SecuROM\UserData\???????????p???????? to location
\\Server\Home\user\Profile\Application
Data\SecuROM\UserData\???????????p????????
The company concerned were very friendly but the only solution they could offer was to delete the directory and not use the application. Shouldn't it then say on the box, "not compatible with PCs that are part of a domain?"
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They are really cracking down for security's sake
They are cracking down for moneys sake, proof: show me a either a device driver containing malware or a company that offers free driver signing.
Of course what the BBC article doesn't mention is that for the first year you are under contract to keep the digibox powered on and connected to the phone socket so it can upload your tv and advert viewing habits.
No problem about 8 million boxes powered on all night as long as they sell a few more boxes of washpowder!
Hahaha, user agent sniffing eh. I clicked on your link, got the error page. Downloaded user agent switcher - Bingo!
:-)
Banana Republic works fine under Suse Linux 10, Firefox 1.0.7, User Agent Switcher 0.6.8 set to report "IE6 / Windows XP"
Alternatively just bypass the front page where the test is performed
Here
It's a good thing I would say, although I bet story formatting doesn't score as many comments than the last one about 'frequent' submitters.
Anyway, I think the material from these should end up in a FAQ somewhere on the site. It would be too bad to lose it in the archive of old articles.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/slashdot.org/sum
My point was that since I charge my player 'docked' to the hifi and not my PC I can't sync at the same time. Perhaps the rest of my text wandered a bit.
Not only do they suck but they are shutting down all the decent software. My favourite free personal firewall - Sygate has just been bought out by Symantec and guess what:
;-)
Important Notice: Effective November 30th, 2005 all Sygate consumer firewall products will be discontinued.
Well they'll have a hard time stopping me from using it. If anyone else thinks it was a good product too grab it from their site before they realise it's still there
The only difference between this and iTunes' behaviour is that you can switch off the ministore.
Now I'm not looking to have Apple publicly flogged over this but they should be upfront about their customers privacy.
Ideally I'd like to see mandatory full disclosure of the purpose of all network communications in a simple checklist form when you install (like the nutritional information on food products?) Unfortunately it isn't going to happen any time soon
I have an Archos GMini400. My charging lead is next to the hifi so I can plug it in there and use it instead of a CD player. The good part is that when it's on charge it has an AC power profile that keeps the backlight on all the time and the HDD spinning for longer.
I use SynchronizeIt to update the library, EAC / Lame for ripping. I have never bought music from an online store except a non-DRMed album from Magnatune
I don't have an iPod simply because they're much more expensive than the Archos.
Apple is not Sony.
This is where we're going to differ I think, It's the action that is bad not necessarily the company. I'd have the same criticisms if Linus put code into the kernel that phoned home to kernel.org.
Jesus people, save your outrage for things that are truly evil, like the Sony Root-Kit.
...which was detected as Spyware by virtually every Antispyware vendor for sending your CD playing history back to Sony!! But guess what, 'it isn't stored' according to Sony.
I don't believe I'm reading this. Sony said that they weren't collecting the information sent back from their player software and nobody believed a word they said.
Of course they are storing it, why wouldn't they? Nobody outside of Apple can prove otherwise.
I've nothing against Apple but this new version of iTunes is Spyware pure and simple.
Real Networks did a very similar trick some time ago.
m >Link
http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/realjb.ht
People were pissed at them at the time and they should be pissed at Apple too IMO. Spying is spying, period.
I think that Roland is a trolling account. If you look at his posting history there are things like "Repost of Roland's article, so you don't pay him to RTFA:" (#13236573)
I think This is the real one.
Just to be devils advocate, it doesn't cost us anything does it. I assume that, like me, most people here hardly ever click on banner ads or block them or would google for the product seperately?
I can see it becoming quite difficult to isolate the story submitter from any income from a linked page in any case.
From the article the Windows partitioner tried to tell me my 200GB IDE drive only had a 130GB capacity.
This one got me a little while back. WindowsXP SP1 added support for 48bit LBA disks which is needed to access any disks larger than 128GB.
Info Here
This unfortunately means that you need a boot CD of XP>SP1 at installation time.
You're way out of date, Apparently, Roland has a new job with ZDNet now. Interesting article, he comments on how he's been slashdotted a few times.
:-)
In any case, where on earth did he buy those glasses
1. The getthefacts website doesn't work on Firefox1.0.4 on Fedora4. The text in the Flash banner is offscreen! You would have thought that a site designed to help migrate people from Linux to Windows would actually work on Linux in the first place!
2. Mod what down, you replied to the article you muppet...
No, because as the rotation of the earth slows down the geosynchronous orbit increases in height until (in the distant future) 1 solar day lasts over a month and the geosynchronous orbit is over 250,000 miles.
Explanation
Basically, friction between the ocean the the earth causes the earth to spin the tidal bulge in advance of the moons rotation. Harnessing wave power increases that friction and slows the earth down faster.
I like the part where it says that, eventually the moon will eventually become a geosynchronous satellite, not that we need worry too much about it.
If you subscribe to NASA Science News you get to read about it on December 23rd. Link
Click "Join mailing list" at the top.
According to the FAQ on the NTP homepage "NTP uses UTC as reference time"
Further down there is a discussion of how leap seconds are handled. I was curious so I checked my computer clock (which is synced using NTP) against my alarm clock (which uses the radio signal from the MSF service and they are the same. So it seems that NTP must have observed leap seconds contrary to your original post.
Dunno, haven't tried that, I'll give it a go. cheers, J
Ah it's a bit simpler than that. The ? characters are unicode garbage. You can't even delete the files in explorer or from the command prompt due to the weird name.
Of course, if explorer could manipulate the files that would defeat the copy protection so they have to break the filesystem to make the system secure. Now in any normal windows directory that would be fine, except roaming profiles ships application data to and from the server, hence the error.
However, don't get me started on copy controlled apps. How about this error message from my sons workstation whilst trying to copy his roaming profile:
The company concerned were very friendly but the only solution they could offer was to delete the directory and not use the application. Shouldn't it then say on the box, "not compatible with PCs that are part of a domain?"