Good to see the system works. You would wonder what would happen if said hacker was working for a company on a similar closed source program. Would it have been detected?
I consider it's still humans competing with other humans playing chess. On one hand we have a chess-master using all the power of his brain, on the other some computer people using a high-powered computer.
When a computer can learn to play chess by itself and then beat the top players, then we have something to look at.
Anyway, he's more of a 'tool' in my eyes. But I agree with his views on the ABC. Just listen to triple J in the morning if you want an example of biased reporting. The fact that I agree with their views 99% of the time doesn't matter. It makes me cringe to hear their constant anti-america/anti-howard/anti-business attacks.
Of course he is still a 'Luddite'. Any politician is going to be the same. The important thing is that he has good people around him that know what they are talking about, and that he listens to them. From the sounds of this bill, this has been the case on this occasion at least
Sounds like a pretty good idea. But then anything is good as long as car companies do something other than those annoying ads that have killed so many top songs lately.
incorporating encryption into the electronic transmission of election results
You mean to say that initially they were not going to encrypt the results? That would have been fun. Just pick up the transmission, change a 'few' select votes and send the same signal.
suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."
How about spending that crashing and testing time on windows instead???
those things are great, but they are for the web. I still have to pay my $30 a month or whatever, and I can still be shut down by the government or stuffed around by the ISP if they so desire.
What we need is to break away from the infrastructure we use now so that anyone can acess the internet, for free, whereever they are in the world. Maybe some time of universal wireless connection. Dreaming sure, but we can do these things.
Why not have a giant doom 3 map as entry? You login, and it you can't make it to the final gate, you can't get access. It would be fun to run past the dying n00bs as you bunny hop towards the goal;)
the problem I have found with mySQL is the 'internal' distribution clause in their license. This is different to standard the standard concept of distributing it externally.
Also from their examples page
http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing-examples.html
If you are selling a non-GPL application that requires MySQL and works with a webserver, then you need to provide commercial MySQL license(s) to your customers. Now this is all well and good, the mySQL guys should earn good money for what they do. But if you do contact them, all you will get is a response saying 'well, you better buy a commercial license just in case'. I don't like that. If they are going to charge for something then do it and make it clear what they are trying to do. IMHO they are using doubt over the GPL to sell licenses
and I'll say it again, 'this internet is stuffed'.
Anyone else have the dream whereby us computer people create a new internet and leave this heap of crap behind for corporate and marketing types to die in?
And whilst we are at it, lets do away with the ISP's and telcos so information doesn't cost anything anymore. Surely we can work something out?
Just remember though that mySQL is NOT free for commercial applications. You will need a license for each server you setup for replication, and this can get very expensive very quickly.
All of these stories were covered extensively on the ABC in Australia. I wouldn't be surprised if they raise them all again just to have another shot at America.
Lets face it, we had a good run, downloaded a lot of free stuff and burned a lot of CD's. Did we ever think that it would really last forever?
Sure we can fight the good fight, but I think it's time we redirected our efforts to the next scam. That way the general media can go on for the next 10 years about pirating music whilst we have safely moved onto something else.
Any ideas?
I'm sure I misunderstand but
it allows one copy of HL2 per machine
Does that mean I can't install 2 copies on my own machine? Well fair enough.
I bought the neverwinter nights expansion recently, unfortunately the CD was a bit flaky so it would barely install properly. After about 4 hours of work on the net, I managed to make a backup of the CD that I could trust would work in 6 months time.
I don't mind product activation 'provided' you can backup the CD without digging around for special tools, and there is a nice system in place whereby if you re-install/upgrade your PC it can be re-activated.
And it would also be nice if these measures start to work if they dropped the prices back down to the levels before they raised them to combat piracy. Can't see that happening though
looks like everyone is happy again
www.ausgamers.com
The recent reaction to the upcoming Call of Duty demo has caught us here at Activision by surprise. We're appreciative and excited about of the high level of enthusiasm the game has received throughout the gaming community. Due to the tremendous demand for the demo - we are answering the call by not only making the demo freely available to all gamers at the same time, but early - This Friday Night - just in time for the long weekend.
you can't blame them too much for trying something like this. Is there any chance we will be seeing more of it? Nah I think not.
Game developers want you to play their demos, so pulling something like this, which can only limit the number of people playing it, is sure to fail.
It's the old rule of the internet, anything you can buy somewhere, you can get free somewhere else. It won't be long before a gaming site that apposes this stuff becomes popular and so the cycle will continue
The people at Gaim are great, I have no doubts at all they will be able to connect if they really want to.
But I think the questions is more will they? not can they? Because if Microsoft really wants to stop them from connecting, they have a lot more weapons than just encrypted protocols.
Can't someone just right another worm to stop the worm stopping the worm?
It's all getting a bit silly isn't it. The worse thing is that every incident like this is just another piece of ammunition for the pro-DRM companies.
It also encourages the conspiracy theory people. After all why shouldn't Microsoft enjoy these worms so that people demand that their computers be locked down and be *safe* from the outside world
Slashdot Mirror
the 'Flash Click to View' plugin for Firebird.
found here (texturizer). Anything Microsoft puts out will hopefully get the same treatment.
The day of the machines is the day we try to play chess with them, and they tell us to piss off because they have better things to do.
Good to see the system works. You would wonder what would happen if said hacker was working for a company on a similar closed source program. Would it have been detected?
You can already get them. I have one installed on my computer. When I pressed it, I was taken to here(slashdot)
I consider it's still humans competing with other humans playing chess. On one hand we have a chess-master using all the power of his brain, on the other some computer people using a high-powered computer.
When a computer can learn to play chess by itself and then beat the top players, then we have something to look at.
Anyway, he's more of a 'tool' in my eyes. But I agree with his views on the ABC. Just listen to triple J in the morning if you want an example of biased reporting. The fact that I agree with their views 99% of the time doesn't matter. It makes me cringe to hear their constant anti-america/anti-howard/anti-business attacks.
Of course he is still a 'Luddite'. Any politician is going to be the same. The important thing is that he has good people around him that know what they are talking about, and that he listens to them. From the sounds of this bill, this has been the case on this occasion at least
Sounds like a pretty good idea. But then anything is good as long as car companies do something other than those annoying ads that have killed so many top songs lately.
incorporating encryption into the electronic transmission of election results
You mean to say that initially they were not going to encrypt the results? That would have been fun. Just pick up the transmission, change a 'few' select votes and send the same signal.
well said, but slashdot would be a lonely place with out the RIAA around to bitch about.
suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."
How about spending that crashing and testing time on windows instead???
those things are great, but they are for the web. I still have to pay my $30 a month or whatever, and I can still be shut down by the government or stuffed around by the ISP if they so desire.
What we need is to break away from the infrastructure we use now so that anyone can acess the internet, for free, whereever they are in the world. Maybe some time of universal wireless connection. Dreaming sure, but we can do these things.
Why not have a giant doom 3 map as entry? You login, and it you can't make it to the final gate, you can't get access. It would be fun to run past the dying n00bs as you bunny hop towards the goal ;)
the problem I have found with mySQL is the 'internal' distribution clause in their license. This is different to standard the standard concept of distributing it externally.s .html
Also from their examples page
http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing-example
If you are selling a non-GPL application that requires MySQL and works with a webserver, then you need to provide commercial MySQL license(s) to your customers.
Now this is all well and good, the mySQL guys should earn good money for what they do. But if you do contact them, all you will get is a response saying 'well, you better buy a commercial license just in case'. I don't like that. If they are going to charge for something then do it and make it clear what they are trying to do. IMHO they are using doubt over the GPL to sell licenses
and I'll say it again, 'this internet is stuffed'.
Anyone else have the dream whereby us computer people create a new internet and leave this heap of crap behind for corporate and marketing types to die in?
And whilst we are at it, lets do away with the ISP's and telcos so information doesn't cost anything anymore. Surely we can work something out?
Just remember though that mySQL is NOT free for commercial applications. You will need a license for each server you setup for replication, and this can get very expensive very quickly.
All of these stories were covered extensively on the ABC in Australia. I wouldn't be surprised if they raise them all again just to have another shot at America.
Lets face it, we had a good run, downloaded a lot of free stuff and burned a lot of CD's. Did we ever think that it would really last forever?
Sure we can fight the good fight, but I think it's time we redirected our efforts to the next scam. That way the general media can go on for the next 10 years about pirating music whilst we have safely moved onto something else.
Any ideas?
How many forms they are going to get containing a very long list of pirated files, and a rather offensive picture of a man bending over...
I'm sure I misunderstand but
it allows one copy of HL2 per machine
Does that mean I can't install 2 copies on my own machine? Well fair enough.
I bought the neverwinter nights expansion recently, unfortunately the CD was a bit flaky so it would barely install properly. After about 4 hours of work on the net, I managed to make a backup of the CD that I could trust would work in 6 months time.
I don't mind product activation 'provided' you can backup the CD without digging around for special tools, and there is a nice system in place whereby if you re-install/upgrade your PC it can be re-activated.
And it would also be nice if these measures start to work if they dropped the prices back down to the levels before they raised them to combat piracy. Can't see that happening though
looks like everyone is happy again www.ausgamers.com The recent reaction to the upcoming Call of Duty demo has caught us here at Activision by surprise. We're appreciative and excited about of the high level of enthusiasm the game has received throughout the gaming community. Due to the tremendous demand for the demo - we are answering the call by not only making the demo freely available to all gamers at the same time, but early - This Friday Night - just in time for the long weekend.
you can't blame them too much for trying something like this. Is there any chance we will be seeing more of it? Nah I think not.
Game developers want you to play their demos, so pulling something like this, which can only limit the number of people playing it, is sure to fail.
It's the old rule of the internet, anything you can buy somewhere, you can get free somewhere else. It won't be long before a gaming site that apposes this stuff becomes popular and so the cycle will continue
But according to Apple the G5 is 10% quicker under their latest benchmark tests.
The people at Gaim are great, I have no doubts at all they will be able to connect if they really want to.
But I think the questions is more will they? not can they? Because if Microsoft really wants to stop them from connecting, they have a lot more weapons than just encrypted protocols.
Can't someone just right another worm to stop the worm stopping the worm?
It's all getting a bit silly isn't it. The worse thing is that every incident like this is just another piece of ammunition for the pro-DRM companies.
It also encourages the conspiracy theory people. After all why shouldn't Microsoft enjoy these worms so that people demand that their computers be locked down and be *safe* from the outside world