...the greedy bastards who run these media companies...
I can honestly say without tongue in cheek that I misread "media" as "mafia" on the first read.
Maybe if these companies wouldn't be so evil they'd improve their image. And I don't mean trying to do some high-profile good to spin-balance their must-profit-evil acts.
It may be splitting hairs between buying devices with ports labeled IEEE 1394 or Firewire but not labeled i.Link, but it really comes down to whether Sony gets paid for every S/PDIF port.
If one really wants to boycott Sony, one must determine how far to go. Will you not buy anything with a S/PDIF port, an i.Link port, a single Sony-branded chip on a daughterboard, or anything which utilizes a Sony-owned patent?
These companies are large enough and their fingers in enough pies that a total boycott will end up hurting the boycotters more than the company.
(Sony was boycott-worthy when they made their CD players so that they would refuse to play CDs burned on anything other than Music CD-R media so that independent unsigned artists seeking to distribute their works themselves still had to give media-attached royalties to the RIAA to ensure their disks would play. I'm told Sony's current players are not so hindered.)
CALLY: Sooner or later, Blake is going to attack Federation Central Control on Earth itself. And for that attack we shall need all the weapons we can get.
BLAKE: And where better to get them than the Weapons Development Base?
AVON: It is a triple-A security installation.
VILA: We have got into those before.
AVON: Usually with your screams of protest ringing in our ears. Are you telling me that you're in favor of this idea?
VILA: No, not exactly, I just don't think it's stupid.
[But ORAC reports the base is currently on maximum security alert.]
GAN: Someone must have made an attack on the base.
Boycotting Sony is well and good, but can you take it to the extent of not buying anything with a S/PDIF port? The S stands for Sony, and the ports are on stereo equipment, motherboards, and sound cards everywhere.
OK, you may have a defense based on a right to adapt the menu scripts (.ifo), but that doesn't necessarily extend to the right to adapt the motion picture (.vob) that the menu scripts start and stop.
And what of DVDs where subtitle tracks contain buttons that branch to other video (follow the white rabbit)? And doesn't each VOB know where to go next once its end is reached? That's a goto.
And besides, isn't splitting hairs like that between programs and data like saying you can adapt the word processor but not to the extent where you can actually read any documents with it?
If you read the opinion you'll see it is limited to software programs, not music or movies.
Maybe movies on VHS, but DVDs aren't just the storage of a movie for linear playback. Many commercial DVDs contain some programmed scripts that control how the content is played back. It has the capability to set and read variables and perform conditional branching.
Oh no, the Internet will be fragmented into a multitude of incompatible networks. Instead of one network we'll have lots of other networks, and we'll have to find some way to connect them to each other so we can communicate across them, some way of inter-networking them together. That-- that's never been done before!
That is troublesome. That says you aren't allowed to keep any secrets from Blizzard if they could possibly be related to cheating. It's the old "the innocent have nothing to hide" saw.
I've thought about it more and, technically, removing the Sony rootkit doesn't circumvent a copyright protection device, it just circumvents a detection prevention device for a copyright protection device. They could get hassled over the DMCA, but it wouldn't stick. IANAL.
But what if the rootkit it detects was a government rootkit hiding monitoring software on a terrorism suspect's computer who just happens to also play Blizzard's game? Alerting the user or uninstalling the kit could be a breach of national security. I'd doubt a clause in the EULA banning terrorists from playing the game would satisfy investiagors.
Blizzard is going to have to find a flaw in the kit to penetrate its cloak, but they may have to resort to rootkit tactics themselves to get underneath it.
Man, I feel your pain. I'm having to run FCP4 and DSP2 on a Blue & White G3 upped to a 550 MHz G4. I have a backlog of video to encode that I put off because I don't want to dedicate it for days at a time to encoding. To go to a 1 GHz G4 ZIF would cost $350.
Switching to a G5 now would require another patch to the installer and applications or upgrading to FCP5 since versions that would run refuse to on a non-AGP Mac.
At least DSP2 stopped crashing every time I added a new asset to the project, but I still wait to install 10.4.3 for fear of more Firewire problems.
Look at the Xbox, with its whole encryption/authentication scheme. That was broken after a few months.
Really? Then where's the Linux boot CD ISO to download and burn that I can use in my unmodded XBOX without the purchase of any other hardware or exploitable software?
I've wanted raised floors, but not for cooling. I just want to hide the power and data cables. I figure just a 3" rise in the floor would be sufficient.
If it wasn't my basement I'd just put outlets in the floor, and if I didn't want it also to serve as my theater room I'd consider outlets in the ceiling.
Not really. The presence of the rootkit has a measureable effect. They just have to have Warden create a file with a name starting with $sys$ and then test to see if it is still there. If it has disappeared, it has detected the presence of the rootkit.
How accessible are other rootkits to the average WoW cheater? I haven't done any searches, but surely nothing compares to being able to walk in to a record store and buy pluton^H^H^H^H^H^H a rootkit.
And it is always the latest of the breed that would be the most desireable, especially when it could be found on many systems innocently. The rootkit comes with it's own human shield of innocents.
And Blizzard would violate the DMCA if they removed Sony's DRM software that restricts access to Sony's so-protected copyrighted works.
Sony has opened a Pandora's Box distributing and installing the rootkit. Blizzard spies on what programs you run. The question is not whether two wrongs make a right but rather whether two wrongs make an actionable case, and on whom.
I'm sure there are other ways to exploit this rootkit: hiding porn stashes from a nosy spouse would be another one. The Blizzard WoW cheating just happens to relate to recent news stories and rises to the top.
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The difference is that not even the extremists on the the atheist left have proposed the death penalty for starting a church.
I'd think extremists on the fundamentalist right would feel that to be a prerequisite.
...because their Charisma sucks.
I guess there must be something wrong with me then. I've never played a Zelda game. I skipped the home Nintendo craze.
Still, for a real fan of the game, these images would probably be great to have printed on bedspreads.
Maybe if these companies wouldn't be so evil they'd improve their image. And I don't mean trying to do some high-profile good to spin-balance their must-profit-evil acts.
And if you fill the ship with a material denser than water?
Apparently his point didn't sink in.
It may be splitting hairs between buying devices with ports labeled IEEE 1394 or Firewire but not labeled i.Link, but it really comes down to whether Sony gets paid for every S/PDIF port.
If one really wants to boycott Sony, one must determine how far to go. Will you not buy anything with a S/PDIF port, an i.Link port, a single Sony-branded chip on a daughterboard, or anything which utilizes a Sony-owned patent?
These companies are large enough and their fingers in enough pies that a total boycott will end up hurting the boycotters more than the company.
(Sony was boycott-worthy when they made their CD players so that they would refuse to play CDs burned on anything other than Music CD-R media so that independent unsigned artists seeking to distribute their works themselves still had to give media-attached royalties to the RIAA to ensure their disks would play. I'm told Sony's current players are not so hindered.)
(edited for brevity)
CALLY: Sooner or later, Blake is going to attack Federation Central Control on Earth itself. And for that attack we shall need all the weapons we can get.
BLAKE: And where better to get them than the Weapons Development Base?
AVON: It is a triple-A security installation.
VILA: We have got into those before.
AVON: Usually with your screams of protest ringing in our ears. Are you telling me that you're in favor of this idea?
VILA: No, not exactly, I just don't think it's stupid.
[But ORAC reports the base is currently on maximum security alert.]
GAN: Someone must have made an attack on the base.
VILA: Who'd be stupid enough to do that?
AVON: [Snaps his fingers] Justify "stupid."
Boycotting Sony is well and good, but can you take it to the extent of not buying anything with a S/PDIF port? The S stands for Sony, and the ports are on stereo equipment, motherboards, and sound cards everywhere.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I get an uneasy feeling when companies start trademarking truth.
OK, you may have a defense based on a right to adapt the menu scripts (.ifo), but that doesn't necessarily extend to the right to adapt the motion picture (.vob) that the menu scripts start and stop.
And what of DVDs where subtitle tracks contain buttons that branch to other video (follow the white rabbit)? And doesn't each VOB know where to go next once its end is reached? That's a goto.
And besides, isn't splitting hairs like that between programs and data like saying you can adapt the word processor but not to the extent where you can actually read any documents with it?
If you read the opinion you'll see it is limited to software programs, not music or movies.
Maybe movies on VHS, but DVDs aren't just the storage of a movie for linear playback. Many commercial DVDs contain some programmed scripts that control how the content is played back. It has the capability to set and read variables and perform conditional branching.
Sure. And typical keyboard is around four to six feet wide.
And yet only contains the letters A to G.
It was made in 1973. I'll be looking... backward to it coming out on DVD... before I was born....
Oh no, the Internet will be fragmented into a multitude of incompatible networks. Instead of one network we'll have lots of other networks, and we'll have to find some way to connect them to each other so we can communicate across them, some way of inter-networking them together. That-- that's never been done before!
Thus spake Nelson Muntz: "Haw haw!"
For the doctors in the similation...
they had to learn to ask questions of patients in such ways as, "How like a summer wind is the pain in your bowels?"
That is troublesome. That says you aren't allowed to keep any secrets from Blizzard if they could possibly be related to cheating. It's the old "the innocent have nothing to hide" saw.
I've thought about it more and, technically, removing the Sony rootkit doesn't circumvent a copyright protection device, it just circumvents a detection prevention device for a copyright protection device. They could get hassled over the DMCA, but it wouldn't stick. IANAL.
But what if the rootkit it detects was a government rootkit hiding monitoring software on a terrorism suspect's computer who just happens to also play Blizzard's game? Alerting the user or uninstalling the kit could be a breach of national security. I'd doubt a clause in the EULA banning terrorists from playing the game would satisfy investiagors.
Blizzard is going to have to find a flaw in the kit to penetrate its cloak, but they may have to resort to rootkit tactics themselves to get underneath it.
Man, I feel your pain. I'm having to run FCP4 and DSP2 on a Blue & White G3 upped to a 550 MHz G4. I have a backlog of video to encode that I put off because I don't want to dedicate it for days at a time to encoding. To go to a 1 GHz G4 ZIF would cost $350.
Switching to a G5 now would require another patch to the installer and applications or upgrading to FCP5 since versions that would run refuse to on a non-AGP Mac.
At least DSP2 stopped crashing every time I added a new asset to the project, but I still wait to install 10.4.3 for fear of more Firewire problems.
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Look at the Xbox, with its whole encryption/authentication scheme. That was broken after a few months.
Really? Then where's the Linux boot CD ISO to download and burn that I can use in my unmodded XBOX without the purchase of any other hardware or exploitable software?
I've wanted raised floors, but not for cooling. I just want to hide the power and data cables. I figure just a 3" rise in the floor would be sufficient.
If it wasn't my basement I'd just put outlets in the floor, and if I didn't want it also to serve as my theater room I'd consider outlets in the ceiling.
detecting it would be a bit troublesome...
Not really. The presence of the rootkit has a measureable effect. They just have to have Warden create a file with a name starting with $sys$ and then test to see if it is still there. If it has disappeared, it has detected the presence of the rootkit.
How accessible are other rootkits to the average WoW cheater? I haven't done any searches, but surely nothing compares to being able to walk in to a record store and buy pluton^H^H^H^H^H^H a rootkit.
And it is always the latest of the breed that would be the most desireable, especially when it could be found on many systems innocently. The rootkit comes with it's own human shield of innocents.
And Blizzard would violate the DMCA if they removed Sony's DRM software that restricts access to Sony's so-protected copyrighted works.
Sony has opened a Pandora's Box distributing and installing the rootkit. Blizzard spies on what programs you run. The question is not whether two wrongs make a right but rather whether two wrongs make an actionable case, and on whom.
I'm sure there are other ways to exploit this rootkit: hiding porn stashes from a nosy spouse would be another one. The Blizzard WoW cheating just happens to relate to recent news stories and rises to the top.
Intel: Computing at the (Depreciated) Speed of Light
IBM: Computing at the (Depreciated) Speed of Light
(Should have double checked the thread first.)
Intel: Computing at the (Depreciated) Speed of Light
Because he invoked MacGyver and the GP didn't.