The more MS believes that their current generation of protection is adequate, the less likely they'll devote more time and research into making a system that makes hacking that much harder.
You mean insecurity through obscurity? Oh wait, doesn't Microsoft already do that?
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...manage people's expectations, fears and prejudices.
Dont' you mean:...manage people's unreasonable demands, superstitions and ignorance.
'Play mp3, ultra long time. You record ultra looong time. Yeah baby... digital. It play digital all night long, ultra looooong time'.
Offtopic: the PDA part would make a pretty good inside joke to boot in the military. Reason being PDA is an acronym fo "public display of affection". See what I mean?
One thing I hadn't noticed before is the AT-style keyboard-lock/reset button cutout was already there on the metal case chasis.
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If the people who had invented the atomic bomb had known what they were setting up the last half of the twentieth century for, do you think they would have agreed to do it?
I especially like the second strip in the "Boink" series:
Calvin: Ok Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
Calvin: Brother! You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a brilliant idea! Hit the button, will ya?
Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
There were extreme supply issues with the G4 initially, due largely to Motorola's inability to deliver the 7400 chips in adequate supply. This was further compounded by an "errata" in the initial revision of the 7400 that effectively lowered the ceiling of the chip to 450Mhz. As a result, all models of the G4 were "speed dumped" in October. The PowerMac G4 PCI was decreased in speed to 350 Mhz, for the same $1599 price tag. Existing orders for the G4 PCI/400 were largely honored.
>What really needs to happen is for Sony and Handspring and Palm to dump their proprietary module formats and get Palm OS to support Game Boy cartridges. Oh, yeah.
Money is still the RIAA's only driving force... no matter which way the issues flow, it's always about the money.
I happen to think it's laughable when organizations like this become highly-publicized hypocrites.
Well, look at it this way:
It's a big "I-told-you-so" to all those zeolots out there who defended the RIAA, under the pretense that the RIAA was acting in the artists' best interest, they were not, and here we are.
Maybe now everybody who thought the RIAA was doing the artists' a favor will realize that the only side the RIAA is taking is it's own.
No matter what the RIAA says, or does, it's in there own interests. Nevermind that in the case of Napster it happened to coincide with those of the artists'.
Whether it be a matter of fair use, or artist royalites, it's all speed bumps to be rooted up and destroyed by their lawyers, on their way to the almighty dollar!
The fundamental problem is that people are reading things into the advertising - things which are perhaps implied but certainly not stated - and making connections in their heads that don't exist, driven by wishful thinking.
But that's just it, i't implied and very misleading. Do you think the average joe is reading the fine print?
Oh, sure. Marketing is shaking John Doe's hand, but the legal department is giving him the finger.
...If the supermarket were having a sale on oranges, and they only had 20 left, and you wanted 40, would you throw a fit and stomp the 20 to the ground? What on earth would that accomplish, other than giving the store a good reason not to let you in again?
Your analogy is flawed. The supermarket (according to your analogy) promised no specific amount of oranges. So, indeed, he would have no right to throw a fit about the oranges. On the other hand, DSL providers promise nkbps of bandwidth. Besides, if 40 oranges where indeed promised in a sale, he might be able to get a raincheck. You can't get a raincheck on bandwidth.
In conclusion, there is an alternative in the supermarket situation, while the is none in the DSL situation, other than rebellion that is. And no, I suspect he cannot find another provider considering they get all their bandwidth from the telcos (which are selling it at 100:1 according to another post), if indeed the provider isn't the telco itself.
Now what they might be doing is check things like the User-Agent header sent by web browsers. If they see request coming from Win98 IE and Linux Mozilla at the same time, they have something.
That's not really conclusive. Since different User-Agent headers can concievably appear when someone is using multiple vmware virtual machines, along with different browsers within them.
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The more MS believes that their current generation of protection is adequate, the less likely they'll devote more time and research into making a system that makes hacking that much harder.
You mean insecurity through obscurity? Oh wait, doesn't Microsoft already do that?
...manage people's expectations, fears and prejudices.
...manage people's unreasonable demands, superstitions and ignorance.
Dont' you mean:
Right?
'Hey G.I., you like PDA?'
'You like PDA? You like MP3'
(holds out PDA)
'Play mp3, ultra long time. You record ultra looong time. Yeah baby... digital. It play digital all night long, ultra looooong time'.
Offtopic: the PDA part would make a pretty good inside joke to boot in the military. Reason being PDA is an acronym fo "public display of affection". See what I mean?
and thirdly, how will they store the incredible abount of data flying through the pipes?
I'm sure the equipment required to do this will fit somewhere in their 1 billion dollar budget.
He also used some kind of powder to see what were the most common keys used on a keypad
did you mean tourettes?
When you think about it, they do go of like gun turrets: ra-ta-ta-ta-ta!!
They [the RIAA] will be the Judge, Jury and Executioner:
Judge RIAA: You are hereby charged with illegal distribution of IP.
Judge RIAA: The punishment is death.
Judge RIAA: How do you plead?
MP3-Trader: N-n-not guilty!
**BOOM**
Judge RIAA: I knew you would say that.
One thing I hadn't noticed before is the AT-style keyboard-lock/reset button cutout was already there on the metal case chasis.
If the people who had invented the atomic bomb had known what they were setting up the last half of the twentieth century for, do you think they would have agreed to do it?
Yeah, they set up us the bomb.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I especially like the second strip in the "Boink" series:
Calvin: Ok Hobbes, press the button and duplicate me.
Hobbes: Are you sure this is such a good idea?
Calvin: Brother! You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a brilliant idea! Hit the button, will ya?
Hobbes: I'd hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress... Here you go.
[BOINK]
Hobbes: Scientific progress goes "BOINK"?
Calvin 1: It worked! It worked! I'm a genius!
Calvin 2: No your not you liar! I invented this!
And if Valdrax's info isn't good enough, here's a link: www.apple-history.com.
Remember the whole G4 fiasco? I wonder how many people actually bought one of those 350 mhz G4 processors....
Huh?
Huh yourself. Here's an excerpt from www.apple-history.com.
There were extreme supply issues with the G4 initially, due largely to Motorola's inability to deliver the 7400 chips in adequate supply. This was further compounded by an "errata" in the initial revision of the 7400 that effectively lowered the ceiling of the chip to 450Mhz. As a result, all models of the G4 were "speed dumped" in October. The PowerMac G4 PCI was decreased in speed to 350 Mhz, for the same $1599 price tag. Existing orders for the G4 PCI/400 were largely honored.
"you think linus gives a crap about fuckin eyecandy GUI like Aqua/MacOSX?"
Envious or not, Linus must "give a crap" or he wouldn't have mentioned it.
Well since Linus was talking about the Mach microkernel, as opposed to userland/Aqua, he in fact DID NOT mention it.
the adults over 30!!!!!!
If this moronic law passes there is always that. After all, I'd highly doubt it'd be enforceable elsewhere.
But then again this is at the vendor level. So who's to say the consumers would even be aware of this...
>What really needs to happen is for Sony and Handspring and Palm to dump their proprietary module formats and get Palm OS to support Game Boy cartridges. Oh, yeah.
Maybe NCR can force them to do it.
Money is still the RIAA's only driving force... no matter which way the issues flow, it's always about the money.
I happen to think it's laughable when organizations like this become highly-publicized hypocrites.
Well, look at it this way:
It's a big "I-told-you-so" to all those zeolots out there who defended the RIAA, under the pretense that the RIAA was acting in the artists' best interest, they were not, and here we are.
Maybe now everybody who thought the RIAA was doing the artists' a favor will realize that the only side the RIAA is taking is it's own.
No matter what the RIAA says, or does, it's in there own interests. Nevermind that in the case of Napster it happened to coincide with those of the artists'.
Whether it be a matter of fair use, or artist royalites, it's all speed bumps to be rooted up and destroyed by their lawyers, on their way to the almighty dollar!
The WORLD has security flaws! and other randomness
Oh the irony!!!
Don't forget Atari.
> So, likely you will be able to make a less than perfect copy with no problem
Which is what illegal mp3s are, and the "less than perfect" aspect doesn't seem to have deterred anyone.
So why exactly is DataPlay going to be any different?
But for that specific reason? A radio station? I doubt it.
But that's just it, i't implied and very misleading. Do you think the average joe is reading the fine print?
Oh, sure. Marketing is shaking John Doe's hand, but the legal department is giving him the finger.
Your analogy is flawed. The supermarket (according to your analogy) promised no specific amount of oranges. So, indeed, he would have no right to throw a fit about the oranges. On the other hand, DSL providers promise nkbps of bandwidth. Besides, if 40 oranges where indeed promised in a sale, he might be able to get a raincheck. You can't get a raincheck on bandwidth.
In conclusion, there is an alternative in the supermarket situation, while the is none in the DSL situation, other than rebellion that is. And no, I suspect he cannot find another provider considering they get all their bandwidth from the telcos (which are selling it at 100:1 according to another post), if indeed the provider isn't the telco itself.
That's not really conclusive. Since different User-Agent headers can concievably appear when someone is using multiple vmware virtual machines, along with different browsers within them.
Then it'll be great for lan parties. No fuss, and very portable.