I'm tired of ridiculous hardware design, particularly involving screens. The iMac, for example, gives me gas. It's like a big, multi-colored buttoc. And the mouse is like a breast, so you can fondle as you hack. A decent software interface is where it's at. This new Amiga looks like something you'd find in the batcave.
While I was once a big Amiga fan (like in 87 or so), I'm turned right off by overly curvacious plastic. Give me one of those new, 18" flatscreens and a box hidden somewhere under the desk, and cool software.
...and yesterday, when my girlfriend opened her mailbox, she was alarmed to notice that the envelope containing her VISA statement had been opened. As crypto-preventable crime against "law-abiding citizens" (whoever the hell they are) increases, we'll see this sort of legislation get thrown out, by public demand. N.B., the asswipe that opened the VISA statement was probably the postman!
Yah see here's where the self-incrimination difference between the UK and the States kicks in. Even so, what can a judge really do, if you say that your key was on a floppy that you destroyed when the pigs walked in (I use floppies like this myself, for certain circumstances, on a box with no swap)?? How can you be held in contempt, if you swear you don't know the key, and can prove you don't have it? The only solution for governments is to ban crypto, outright, and privacy too, while they're at it...
And also, what about secure, offshore storage? The market for it is certainly going to increase, if this kind of legislative crap keeps up.
...without mandatory, key-escrow compliance, that is. The only effect this will have is that people will use unbreakable encryption. The odd thing about the whole article was that it seemed to suggest that a "decryption order" would mean that the target data would automagically be decrypted... What the hell?
Encryption control is all or nothing. And certainly, key escrow means useless encryption. One thing - I'm getting f'n sick and tired of hearing about "pedophiles" and "terrorists". If encryption is banned, outright, they will be the only suckers who still use it!
Amen. I'm right behind you (out the door, that is). The thing is, if you've got a few degrees or at least a decent amount of experience, the market is such that you don't *have* to work on anything even tangentially related to M$, and certainly not at a financial loss. The situation is, everyone in M$ who has gotten filthy rich, HAS. And their APIs are just plain unintellectual. Totally non-stimulating. And yes, that matters, to a lot of people, I think. The smart hacker today finds a fresh startup with a load of stock options, a crazy idea, and funding, and goes at it. Hell, even most of the old giants like IBM and HP and Sun can provide more stimulating projects than hacking windows spew. I even enjoyed my last stint at Nortel more than any windows job.
It needs to be fired up, even if it only supports the Linux-recognizable fs types. It seems to me this shouldn't be devastatingly hard, given the existing code; perhaps more a matter of organizing the expertise for various filesystems.
Just you watch - The Evil Empire will start using things like BO2k as anti-open-source propaganda. Probably to their own long-term detriment, but I bet they do it anyway.
The chance probably is so small that it's nothing to worry about, but it irks me somewhat that some bunch of curious suckers think they have the right to flip the on-switch on a device that could *possibly* condense the earth to the size of a marble, or turn it into a big ball of strangeness, not that the latter would effect a perceptable change.
Anyway, they'd better master the graviton or get warp-fields working, or discover a limitless energy source sometime soon, 'cause it's time these colliders produced some useful results. I mean, really, what do W and Z vector-bosons have to do with powering spacecraft?
I sure wish some sort of definite, linux consortium could be formed, like for GNOME, whereby vedors could post and archive their drivers. Perhaps this already exists in one form or another, but it really needs to be *completely* centralized.
Yes, yes, but I was only really referring to the suite of walkman-like players (most notably, RIO), and their collective ability to play non-encrypted mp3s. If all of the makers of these devices are forced (either legally, or by inter-corporate financial presure) to comply with the recording industry's standards, then it will only really be possible to play do-it-yourself digital tunes *on a computer*. Currently, garage-band X can cut mp3s, release them on the net, and expect that everyone with a RIO will be able to listen; if the Industry has the player-manufacturers by the balls, there will be no "unsigned" music market.
To me, the scary thing about this whole business is that the Recording Powers have once again succeeded in preventing home users to use a great digital medium to play their home-created material. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't it be impossible in "Phase II" and beyond, for home users to play back tracks, on one of RIO and friends, even if they wrote and recorded the material themselves? Or will it still be possible to encrypt your own (homemade/mixed) songs yourself, so you can listen to them on your own player, assuming the actual recording was done elsewhere? What I'm really getting at is, will it be possible to distribute your own, free music, with appropriate (meaningless) encryption, if necessary, so that others can listen to it on a RIO, or will only the recording industry have the power to do that?
In general, I never use swap on Linux. If you have 128Mb+ RAM and aren't doing anything spectacular, why bother with swap? The kernel often finds excuses to use it, bogging the sys down with disk access...
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I'm tired of ridiculous hardware design, particularly involving screens. The iMac, for example, gives me gas. It's like a big, multi-colored buttoc. And the mouse is like a breast, so you can fondle as you hack. A decent software interface is where it's at. This new Amiga looks like something you'd find in the batcave.
While I was once a big Amiga fan (like in 87 or so), I'm turned right off by overly curvacious plastic. Give me one of those new, 18" flatscreens and a box hidden somewhere under the desk, and cool software.
It would be cool if you could use one of these licenses for local, digital broadcasting. ie no station identification, short of packet headers :-)
...and yesterday, when my girlfriend opened her mailbox, she was alarmed to notice that the envelope containing her VISA statement had been opened. As crypto-preventable crime against "law-abiding citizens" (whoever the hell they are) increases, we'll see this sort of legislation get thrown out, by public demand. N.B., the asswipe that opened the VISA statement was probably the postman!
Yah see here's where the self-incrimination difference between the UK and the States kicks in. Even so, what can a judge really do, if you say that your key was on a floppy that you destroyed when the pigs walked in (I use floppies like this myself, for certain circumstances, on a box with no swap)?? How can you be held in contempt, if you swear you don't know the key, and can prove you don't have it? The only solution for governments is to ban crypto, outright, and privacy too, while they're at it...
And also, what about secure, offshore storage? The market for it is certainly going to increase, if this kind of legislative crap keeps up.
...without mandatory, key-escrow compliance, that is. The only effect this will have is that people will use unbreakable encryption. The odd thing about the whole article was that it seemed to suggest that a "decryption order" would mean that the target data would automagically be decrypted... What the hell?
Encryption control is all or nothing. And certainly, key escrow means useless encryption. One thing - I'm getting f'n sick and tired of hearing about "pedophiles" and "terrorists". If encryption is banned, outright, they will be the only suckers who still use it!
Amen. I'm right behind you (out the door, that is). The thing is, if you've got a few degrees or at least a decent amount of experience, the market is such that you don't *have* to work on anything even tangentially related to M$, and certainly not at a financial loss. The situation is, everyone in M$ who has gotten filthy rich, HAS. And their APIs are just plain unintellectual. Totally non-stimulating. And yes, that matters, to a lot of people, I think. The smart hacker today finds a fresh startup with a load of stock options, a crazy idea, and funding, and goes at it. Hell, even most of the old giants like IBM and HP and Sun can provide more stimulating projects than hacking windows spew. I even enjoyed my last stint at Nortel more than any windows job.
It needs to be fired up, even if it only supports the Linux-recognizable fs types. It seems to me this shouldn't be devastatingly hard, given the existing code; perhaps more a matter of organizing the expertise for various filesystems.
...Probably, and much in the same way that Hussein is probably on the CIA's payroll...
Just you watch - The Evil Empire will start using things like BO2k as anti-open-source propaganda. Probably to their own long-term detriment, but I bet they do it anyway.
The chance probably is so small that it's nothing to worry about, but it irks me somewhat that some bunch of curious suckers think they have the right to flip the on-switch on a device that could *possibly* condense the earth to the size of a marble, or turn it into a big ball of strangeness, not that the latter would effect a perceptable change.
Anyway, they'd better master the graviton or get warp-fields working, or discover a limitless energy source sometime soon, 'cause it's time these colliders produced some useful results. I mean, really, what do W and Z vector-bosons have to do with powering spacecraft?
- A disgruntled hacker.
I sure wish some sort of definite, linux consortium could be formed, like for GNOME, whereby vedors could post and archive their drivers. Perhaps this already exists in one form or another, but it really needs to be *completely* centralized.
Yes, yes, but I was only really referring to the suite of walkman-like players (most notably, RIO), and their collective ability to play non-encrypted mp3s. If all of the makers of these devices are forced (either legally, or by inter-corporate financial presure) to comply with the recording industry's standards, then it will only really be possible to play do-it-yourself digital tunes *on a computer*. Currently, garage-band X can cut mp3s, release them on the net, and expect that everyone with a RIO will be able to listen; if the Industry has the player-manufacturers by the balls, there will be no "unsigned" music market.
To me, the scary thing about this whole business
is that the Recording Powers have once again succeeded in preventing home users to use a great digital medium to play their home-created material. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't it be impossible in "Phase II" and beyond, for home users to play back tracks, on one of RIO and friends, even if they wrote and recorded the material themselves? Or will it still be possible to encrypt your own (homemade/mixed) songs yourself, so you can listen to them on your own player, assuming the actual recording was done elsewhere? What I'm really getting at is, will it be possible to distribute your own, free music, with appropriate (meaningless) encryption, if necessary, so that others can listen to it on a RIO, or will only the recording industry have the power to do that?
In general, I never use swap on Linux. If you have 128Mb+ RAM and aren't doing anything spectacular, why bother with swap? The kernel often finds excuses to use it, bogging the sys down with disk access...