Why is this -1 Flamebait? My WinXP laptop isn't patched past SP1 and it doesn't matter. Why? because the only programs that I allow to talk to the internet are up to date and Microsoft don't make them so there is no need to patch what is never going to be attacked.
One tip though, don't use the Windows firewall if your going to do this as it lets all MS software through by default. Sygate is good, despite the fact that Symantec have bought it and discontinued the product you can still get it by searching for spf.exe on fileindex.net or similar.
I'm going for b) Somebody else can do it better/cheaper
Namely all those n00bs that don't know how to use EAC/LAME and botch the job of ripping. I even got a recording off the radio once - complete with the DJ voice over at the end.
I've avoided all copy protected titles apart from one online store that didn't disclose the fact that a title was crippled.
However, according to this article The Reg thinks that the average punter doesn't care and that Sony have got off mostly unscathed where the publics reaction is concerned.
Uh, don't think so. If gas is $6/gallon, people won't commute anymore.
It's pretty much that over here, 'gas' is about £0.90 per litre * 3.785 = £3.41 per US gallon * 1.7145 = $5.84 per US gallon
I agree with your analysis though, driving huge SUVs is pissing all your dollars into foreign pots when it could be spent in the local economy instead. Not that that's a criticism, I don't spend all my money wisely. You pay it and take your choice as they say.
Almost certainly DRM'd on account of the costs that would be incurred in replacing them:
Factor in lawsuits that Sony BMG could face, and it's worth wondering whether the costs of XCP and its aftermath might even exceed whatever piracy losses the company would have suffered without it.
There's a message here somewhere isn't there... lets see, the XCP system hasn't kept a single album off the internet, it's infected 2 million PCs with malware and they've p*ssed all the revenue from 50 artists up the wall.
I'm so glad I'm not the Sony employee that proposed the deal with First4Internet.
This is fortunate as I moderated in the last discussion of this and I don't want to rob the person I modded up!
In the UK we're still able to purchase mobiles without telling the network any personal information. As such I'm finding it hard to get excited about the potential for abuse or invasion of privacy. Lets face it, who would use cell phone records to trap serious criminals when they are likely to either:
Buy an anonymous SIM
Turn the f**king thing off when you're doing something wrong
You've murdered someone and you're too stupidto do either of the above
Go ahead, track that data until the cows come home. Just don't make it illegal to switch it off or get a bad signal:-)
They're way off track with this one. It should be the responsibility of the person monitoring their PC to ensure that no Anti-Spyware programs are installed. If they can't do this they obviously don't have the authority to deploy a keylogger.
Anti-Spyware companies are only doing their job.
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I've been reading the Flu Wiki as mentioned in a previous post on/. but one question remains in my mind.
If we sucessfully ride out the pandemic at home or whatever without becoming infected, presumably we could still pick it up in the environment or in future seasonal flu outbreaks which contain H5N1. So is it going to take it's cut of us anyway no matter what we do?
In which case, I may aswell just continue as normal. No point losing your job if you survive and if you don't it won't matter:-(
Enterprises using Skype risk a communication barrier with countries and institutions that have already banned the service.
So follow our advice, ban it and create a communications barrier first?
Seriously though, isn't Skype bad? Close source, uses your bandwidth for other users. If it becomes the dominant standard surely that leaves it open to being milked for all it's worth by eBay?
The unauthorised distribution of music over the internet is against the law. It infringes the legal rights of artists and record companies. And it's bad for music.
How hollow those words ring now, let me paraphrase in light of what Sony is accused of.
The unauthorised tampering with users computers is against the law. It infringes the legal rights of customers. And it's bad for music.
If there is one thing I'm sick of it's being preached to in this manner by corrupt, self serving sleazy corporate fat cats.
Then we need a website that will collect donations from people and forward them directly onto the artist.
I don't want to rip off the people whose music I enjoy but I certainly aren't going to pay money to record companies who spend most of it licensing DRM crap like this and only paying 10% to the people who actually do the work.
It shouldn't be illegal provided that it's operated as a 'tip jar' should it?
That thesis you quoted is powerful stuff and seems to rule such methods out completely. However how does this apply to, say a thermonuclear weapon in which the fusion fuel is inertially confined whilst fusion reactions take place. I seem to recall some hairbrained scheme for generating power from 'bombs' by letting them off underground and using the resulting heat to generate electricity. There was also Daedalus which was supposed to travel to the stars using just such a method.
Let me highlight the areas that I have a problem with. First from the Daedalus article.
Daedalus would be propelled by a fusion rocket using pellets of deuterium/helium-3 mix that would be ignited in the reaction chamber by inertial confinement using electron beams. 250 pellets would be detonated per second, and the resulting plasma would be directed by a magnetic nozzle.
From page 122 of Todd Riders thesis:
Transient nonequilibrium burning systems [are ruled out] which try to produce enough fusion power before the partible distributions equiligrate (eg. ICF, bombs, and pulsed beam methods).
Essentially Lerners device is not in thermodynamic equilibrium it is effectively a small fusion bomb in which fresh fuel is confined and fired 1000 times per second. It doesn't recycle the errant particles back into the fusion reaction it allow the reaction to quench and starts another quickly afterwards.
First4Internet, a company in Oxfordshire UK. supplied the Rootkit and DRM.
Don't sit there bottling it up! tell them what you think about their wonderful software. Hurry up though, there is a good chance that the order book isn't as full as it they would like:-)
This is great stuff, we should thank Sony. Whereas most media companies chip away at our rights little by little, Sony have waded in, done a big steaming dump on them and planted a day-glo flag into it!
I hope all of you at work have sent the article to IT security pointing out that Sony audio cds will get their Windows boxes r00ted:-)
Go for it, it's not like there will be any shortage of oil. The BBC are running an article on how it is becoming more and more attractive to exploit Arctic petroleum.
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NT4 at mine - beat that!
Why is this -1 Flamebait? My WinXP laptop isn't patched past SP1 and it doesn't matter. Why? because the only programs that I allow to talk to the internet are up to date and Microsoft don't make them so there is no need to patch what is never going to be attacked.
One tip though, don't use the Windows firewall if your going to do this as it lets all MS software through by default. Sygate is good, despite the fact that Symantec have bought it and discontinued the product you can still get it by searching for spf.exe on fileindex.net or similar.
I'm going for b) Somebody else can do it better/cheaper
Namely all those n00bs that don't know how to use EAC/LAME and botch the job of ripping. I even got a recording off the radio once - complete with the DJ voice over at the end.
It would be like saying that coke must allow drinks other then coke to be stocked in coke fridges.
You're thinking of the Unilever case.
I've avoided all copy protected titles apart from one online store that didn't disclose the fact that a title was crippled.
However, according to this article The Reg thinks that the average punter doesn't care and that Sony have got off mostly unscathed where the publics reaction is concerned.
It's pretty much that over here, 'gas' is about £0.90 per litre * 3.785 = £3.41 per US gallon
* 1.7145 = $5.84 per US gallon
I agree with your analysis though, driving huge SUVs is pissing all your dollars into foreign pots when it could be spent in the local economy instead. Not that that's a criticism, I don't spend all my money wisely. You pay it and take your choice as they say.
There's a message here somewhere isn't there... lets see, the XCP system hasn't kept a single album off the internet, it's infected 2 million PCs with malware and they've p*ssed all the revenue from 50 artists up the wall.
I'm so glad I'm not the Sony employee that proposed the deal with First4Internet.
The alien was a beach ball!!! However, I think that adds to the film. I've got it on DVD - a classic if ever there was one.
In the UK we're still able to purchase mobiles without telling the network any personal information. As such I'm finding it hard to get excited about the potential for abuse or invasion of privacy. Lets face it, who would use cell phone records to trap serious criminals when they are likely to either:
Go ahead, track that data until the cows come home. Just don't make it illegal to switch it off or get a bad signal
I wonder when they are going to start suing the record companies then!
They're way off track with this one. It should be the responsibility of the person monitoring their PC to ensure that no Anti-Spyware programs are installed. If they can't do this they obviously don't have the authority to deploy a keylogger.
Anti-Spyware companies are only doing their job.
I've been reading the Flu Wiki as mentioned in a previous post on /. but one question remains in my mind.
:-(
If we sucessfully ride out the pandemic at home or whatever without becoming infected, presumably we could still pick it up in the environment or in future seasonal flu outbreaks which contain H5N1. So is it going to take it's cut of us anyway no matter what we do?
In which case, I may aswell just continue as normal. No point losing your job if you survive and if you don't it won't matter
One of the reasons:
Enterprises using Skype risk a communication barrier with countries and institutions that have already banned the service.
So follow our advice, ban it and create a communications barrier first?
Seriously though, isn't Skype bad? Close source, uses your bandwidth for other users. If it becomes the dominant standard surely that leaves it open to being milked for all it's worth by eBay?
I would have modded it funny! However, if leaving out this image from the post was an attempt to avoid the flamebait mod it didn't work very well :-D
How hollow those words ring now, let me paraphrase in light of what Sony is accused of.
The unauthorised tampering with users computers is against the law. It infringes the legal rights of customers. And it's bad for music.
If there is one thing I'm sick of it's being preached to in this manner by corrupt, self serving sleazy corporate fat cats.
Then we need a website that will collect donations from people and forward them directly onto the artist.
I don't want to rip off the people whose music I enjoy but I certainly aren't going to pay money to record companies who spend most of it licensing DRM crap like this and only paying 10% to the people who actually do the work.
It shouldn't be illegal provided that it's operated as a 'tip jar' should it?
I'd do it myself if I had the time.
I'm surprised that the other paragon of insight, www.theregister.co.uk, did not report it as fact first.
Don't be
That thesis you quoted is powerful stuff and seems to rule such methods out completely. However how does this apply to, say a thermonuclear weapon in which the fusion fuel is inertially confined whilst fusion reactions take place. I seem to recall some hairbrained scheme for generating power from 'bombs' by letting them off underground and using the resulting heat to generate electricity. There was also Daedalus which was supposed to travel to the stars using just such a method.
Let me highlight the areas that I have a problem with. First from the Daedalus article.
Daedalus would be propelled by a fusion rocket using pellets of deuterium/helium-3 mix that would be ignited in the reaction chamber by inertial confinement using electron beams. 250 pellets would be detonated per second, and the resulting plasma would be directed by a magnetic nozzle.
From page 122 of Todd Riders thesis:
Transient nonequilibrium burning systems [are ruled out] which try to produce enough fusion power before the partible distributions equiligrate (eg. ICF, bombs, and pulsed beam methods).
Essentially Lerners device is not in thermodynamic equilibrium it is effectively a small fusion bomb in which fresh fuel is confined and fired 1000 times per second. It doesn't recycle the errant particles back into the fusion reaction it allow the reaction to quench and starts another quickly afterwards.
First4Internet, a company in Oxfordshire UK. supplied the Rootkit and DRM.
:-)
Don't sit there bottling it up! tell them what you think about their wonderful software. Hurry up though, there is a good chance that the order book isn't as full as it they would like
No, sheesh.
AP == Access point
WAP == Wireless Application Protocol
WAP Browsing == Looking at womens Waps
This is great stuff, we should thank Sony. Whereas most media companies chip away at our rights little by little, Sony have waded in, done a big steaming dump on them and planted a day-glo flag into it!
:-)
I hope all of you at work have sent the article to IT security pointing out that Sony audio cds will get their Windows boxes r00ted
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/databas
I suspect that it's a careless link on the part of the editors.
u alfunds/P132921.asp
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... yeah I know it's it's Saturday night. :-)
You can see the correct content here
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Investing/Mut
The pr0n link currently points to here
http://edpreview/content/Investing/Mutualfunds/P1
Warning, NSFW
Go for it, it's not like there will be any shortage of oil. The BBC are running an article on how it is becoming more and more attractive to exploit Arctic petroleum.
:-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4356014.stm
Spot the irony in the following statement;
The rapidly retreating Arctic ice cap is believed to contain a quarter of the world's petroleum resources.
Great, and burning this oil isn't likely to cause any further problems is it because all the ice will have gone