Earlier today Microsoft announced that it had managed to form a deal with the federal government, giving Microsoft 100 percent possession of the senate, house of representatives and several minor state governments.
At the press conference Mr. Gates said, "Uh, yes, We believe that we can make our platform more secure by outlawing all open-source or free software applications."
The Redmond based company also plans to annex the continents of Asia and South America later this fall....
In other news, the United States of Bill has annonced one free Windows XP licence for anyone knowing the whereabouts of one Linus Torvalds...
In short, that's the vendor's problem, not the consumer. When the vendor makes a choice about how they market their material, email is one of many options...
No. When I see naked bodies popping up on my screen, it's my problem. For about the last year I've been recieving several pornographic emails a day in all three of my accounts. I turned 18 one month ago. I, for one, don't want to see that.
Don't tell me "If you don't want to see it, set up a spam filter.". Spammers try to get by filters. Fake senders, subject lines, misspelled text, use of images instead of text... Using a spam filter is an obvious sign I don't want spam. Spammers only hope that I'm addicted to pr0n, so I'll visit their site. All they want is to hook another soul.
Everyone here familiar with the federal 'Do Not Call' list for telemarketers? Wouldn't it be possible to create a similar product for the web? A 'Do Not Spam' list? Anyone sending say... 100 emails a day would have to cross-reference the recipients addresses with those on the list. And just maybe to support the thing... pay a dollar per account to get your name added... maybe... If you care enough about your kids to keep them from seeing pr0n, pay the buck, if not, don't pay the dollar. Kinda like a mixture of the preposed Public Domain Enhancement Act and the federal 'Do Not Call' list.
DRM lets you send stuff to people you don't trust, because you trust that the software will prevent the people you do not trust from taking actions you wish to prevent.
Well ya, you're right, but in the case it's be used, we are the people the RIAA, MPAA and everyone else doesn't trust. We, being anyone with any form of access to a computer.
So the question (or just one of the main) is, Why should I invest in a platform that will keep me from copying/burning/reading/deleting/modifing/anything else you could possible ever want to do you data? Do I want to plainly accept the fact that people selling me content dont trust me to get out the Wal-mart parking lot without trying to steal their intellectual property?
Digital Rights Management is nothing of the kind. In all honesty, it is Digital Rights Prevention.
Listen! I just heard about this great new format! It's called RTF!
Sorry about that, but really, remember RTF? Accepts text formating, compatible with almost every word processor (Including, may I add, M$ Office, Open Office and even Wordpad.), and get this, they don't change documents formats with every release in an attempt to lock users into their own office suite.
Here's the thing. With their "Trusted Computing" Platform, all the bugs have to be ironed out before shipping, otherwise the chain of trust is broken. After the first bug, it is no longer Trusted Computing, but Fairly Trustable Computing.
Who would have ever thought of on demand movies or video games? Well for starters, a hotel I stayed at for an FFA convention in Montgomery, Alabama let me watch video on demand (Kinda-like pay-per-view), but also let me play video games in my room (the controller was the only thing in my room. All the rest of it was probably down at the desk). You'll just choose what game you wanted, an they would start it up.
TV-on-Demand - Ingenious. Doesn't ReplayTV or Tivo do something like that?
Music on Demand - Oh, kinda like MP3.com / Kazaa / or Internet Radio?
It sounds like all microsoft's ideas have already been used.
There actually two major ways to make your windows box safe, fast, secure and bloat free.
1)
a) Repartition the drive
b) Install Linux (Redhat, Mandrake, Suse), just don't use anything from Caldera or SCO.
c) Install only packages you want.
This creates a relatively safe, secure and fast system.
For a faster, more stable and more secure system, however...
2)
a) Format your harddrive without adding any system files.
b) Remove keyboard, mouse and all input ports
c) Pay armed mercenaries to continually guard your PC from unauthorized access.
This gives you a computer which boots (or fails to) extremely fast, will never crash, is extremely secure and has no unneccessary bloat, whatsoever!
Yeah... That was a good one. I installed it almost as soon as it came out. Ended up screwin' my computer over so bad I had to completely reinstall all my OS and software. Yeah. Forget Windows Update. I feel safer knowin' that hackers wanta destroy my computer.
First Microsoft went for the OS market
Next came the browser wars
This was followed by the battle of the servers and PDAs.
Soon afterward came the battle for the gaming console.
Now, I believe smart watches and smart cellphones.
I'm havin trouble thinkin' of anything in my life Microsoft hasn't tried to take over. (All of which they've lost so far. I use Linux, Mozilla, No Server or PDA, Nintendo 64, Casio Watch and Motorola Cellphone)
I don't cherish the thought of having one all-seeing, all-knowing presence touching every part of my daily life.
And I suppose people who cheat at online MMRGPs are just using undocumented program calls and extended functionality. It's all so clear now...
What would be great...
If someone was to reverse engineer the drivers, remove the "Optimisation", recompile and compare results. See what percent the "Optimisations" fudged the results.
Okay, I'm not familiar with the idea of key programs, but what would stop someone from copying the key from on program to another?
One more thing... Supposing someone technically smart, but without too much common sense decided to write a virus. A virus that would exploit some serious bug in the OS (been several in every version so far). Great. They save up enough money and then try to get their program keyed. Could Microsoft legally, and would they bother, not keying this virus?
Eventually a bug will be found within palladium. Someone will figure out a way to make a program appear to be keyed. Most likely a virus.
The whole idea of trusted computing is good in theory, but in practice it wont work. As soon as a flaw is discovered in one link, the entire chain falls apart. If a malicious program breaks the chain, my computer might think that W32/Klez.palladium is a trusted piece of software. That's crazy!
Okay... Trusted computing... Just running programs I trust... Kinda like not running an attachment just because it's there... Great...
Question though... what's to keep MS from trusting a piece of software that I don't? ex. Bonzi Buddy, Xupiter, Save Now... It just so happens that I don't trust those apps. I don't really care for anyone to tell my computer that I trust these programs. Because I really don't.
But legally, can Microsoft only trust who they want? Wouldn't they have to trust almost everyone? Can they legally say "We're not going to sign your programs as trusted" to anyone? Wouldn't that be anticompetitive, almost?
It isn't okay to run spyware/adware/malware on my system. Is is okay to run programs that I have written myself. So why has MS done the exact reverse of this!?
Do you relize how sad it is when you have to exploit a bug in a piece of code to be able to save data to a piece of hardware you already paid for? It's like not letting me put gas in my car that didn't come from Amaco or a Shell station. Sure, someone'll figure out how to crack it. But the idea of not trusting me with something I own makes me almost sick with anger!
Well, I figure ya'll know as well as I do, most people don't actually relize that an MP3 is just a file format. Much less have any idea what DRM is, ever heard of Palladium, or even begin to get the most basic idea behind encryption. Not that they don't care, no one tells them. Microsoft isn't tellin' them. The RIAA definately isn't telling them. Everyone on the side of DRM is trying to keep this hush hush. When they tried to sell copy protected CD's, they didn't want to put labels on them. They just want Joe Consumer to think everyone just stopped swappin files. It really is sad how bad this entire situation is.
In theory...
Small companies are good for the economy. They aren't very large, so they continually listen to their customers, in order to keep their support.
Large companies can better afford to sell products for less, so in the end the consumers should see savings.
In reality...
Have you ever watched "Max Headroom"? You know how all the companies are huge monopolies that decide what we (common man) should hear, see, and know? You should watch an episode or two.
Small business goes out of business be cause big business basically eats the small business. Big fish eat little fish. In the end the consumer only knows what we are told by the big fish.
Okay. If this is just some simulation, then when (and if) we get to the point in our simulated time where we have technology to simulate the world, that would me the computers supporting us would have to use double the resources, because it would be simulating us simulating the universe. So everytime the new simulation got to the point (assuming the guy in charge of us doesn't shut us down) where their technology could simulate the universe then it would require more power. Eventually, to support all the simulations, it would seem that we would need an infinite ammount of memory, because every level of simulation would add so much overhead. One more thing... just still assuming we are in a simulation... do you think we're running under Windows, *nix or Mac? Hmmmmm........
My theory - Microsoft created a universe simulator that we all live in. That would explain all the things that go wrong, like Spontaneous Human Combustion, and Deja Vu! Of course!
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So how do they prove the old code is unaltered? The only thing to really do is reverse engineer a binary.
Earlier today Microsoft announced that it had managed to form a deal with the federal government, giving Microsoft 100 percent possession of the senate, house of representatives and several minor state governments.
At the press conference Mr. Gates said, "Uh, yes, We believe that we can make our platform more secure by outlawing all open-source or free software applications."
The Redmond based company also plans to annex the continents of Asia and South America later this fall....
In other news, the United States of Bill has annonced one free Windows XP licence for anyone knowing the whereabouts of one Linus Torvalds...
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I get really tired of spam though.
No. When I see naked bodies popping up on my screen, it's my problem. For about the last year I've been recieving several pornographic emails a day in all three of my accounts. I turned 18 one month ago. I, for one, don't want to see that.
Don't tell me "If you don't want to see it, set up a spam filter.". Spammers try to get by filters. Fake senders, subject lines, misspelled text, use of images instead of text... Using a spam filter is an obvious sign I don't want spam. Spammers only hope that I'm addicted to pr0n, so I'll visit their site. All they want is to hook another soul.
Everyone here familiar with the federal 'Do Not Call' list for telemarketers? Wouldn't it be possible to create a similar product for the web? A 'Do Not Spam' list? Anyone sending say... 100 emails a day would have to cross-reference the recipients addresses with those on the list. And just maybe to support the thing... pay a dollar per account to get your name added... maybe... If you care enough about your kids to keep them from seeing pr0n, pay the buck, if not, don't pay the dollar. Kinda like a mixture of the preposed Public Domain Enhancement Act and the federal 'Do Not Call' list.
Well ya, you're right, but in the case it's be used, we are the people the RIAA, MPAA and everyone else doesn't trust. We, being anyone with any form of access to a computer.
So the question (or just one of the main) is, Why should I invest in a platform that will keep me from copying/burning/reading/deleting/modifing/anything else you could possible ever want to do you data? Do I want to plainly accept the fact that people selling me content dont trust me to get out the Wal-mart parking lot without trying to steal their intellectual property?
Digital Rights Management is nothing of the kind. In all honesty, it is Digital Rights Prevention.
Hey, Is it just me, or is the RIAA's site dead in the water? Look's like someone's kill their site again.
Listen! I just heard about this great new format! It's called RTF!
Sorry about that, but really, remember RTF? Accepts text formating, compatible with almost every word processor (Including, may I add, M$ Office, Open Office and even Wordpad.), and get this, they don't change documents formats with every release in an attempt to lock users into their own office suite.
Your soul goes back to Richmond with everything else that you own.
Here's the thing. With their "Trusted Computing" Platform, all the bugs have to be ironed out before shipping, otherwise the chain of trust is broken. After the first bug, it is no longer Trusted Computing, but Fairly Trustable Computing.
Who would have ever thought of on demand movies or video games? Well for starters, a hotel I stayed at for an FFA convention in Montgomery, Alabama let me watch video on demand (Kinda-like pay-per-view), but also let me play video games in my room (the controller was the only thing in my room. All the rest of it was probably down at the desk). You'll just choose what game you wanted, an they would start it up.
TV-on-Demand - Ingenious. Doesn't ReplayTV or Tivo do something like that?
Music on Demand - Oh, kinda like MP3.com / Kazaa / or Internet Radio?
It sounds like all microsoft's ideas have already been used.
1)
a) Repartition the drive
b) Install Linux (Redhat, Mandrake, Suse), just don't use anything from Caldera or SCO.
c) Install only packages you want.
This creates a relatively safe, secure and fast system.
For a faster, more stable and more secure system, however...
2)
a) Format your harddrive without adding any system files.
b) Remove keyboard, mouse and all input ports
c) Pay armed mercenaries to continually guard your PC from unauthorized access.
This gives you a computer which boots (or fails to) extremely fast, will never crash, is extremely secure and has no unneccessary bloat, whatsoever!
Yeah... That was a good one. I installed it almost as soon as it came out. Ended up screwin' my computer over so bad I had to completely reinstall all my OS and software. Yeah. Forget Windows Update. I feel safer knowin' that hackers wanta destroy my computer.
First Microsoft went for the OS market
Next came the browser wars
This was followed by the battle of the servers and PDAs.
Soon afterward came the battle for the gaming console.
Now, I believe smart watches and smart cellphones.
I'm havin trouble thinkin' of anything in my life Microsoft hasn't tried to take over. (All of which they've lost so far. I use Linux, Mozilla, No Server or PDA, Nintendo 64, Casio Watch and Motorola Cellphone)
I don't cherish the thought of having one all-seeing, all-knowing presence touching every part of my daily life.
Course maybe privacy is a wee-bit old fashioned.
And I suppose people who cheat at online MMRGPs are just using undocumented program calls and extended functionality. It's all so clear now...
What would be great...
If someone was to reverse engineer the drivers, remove the "Optimisation", recompile and compare results. See what percent the "Optimisations" fudged the results.
One more thing... Supposing someone technically smart, but without too much common sense decided to write a virus. A virus that would exploit some serious bug in the OS (been several in every version so far). Great. They save up enough money and then try to get their program keyed. Could Microsoft legally, and would they bother, not keying this virus?
Eventually a bug will be found within palladium. Someone will figure out a way to make a program appear to be keyed. Most likely a virus.
The whole idea of trusted computing is good in theory, but in practice it wont work. As soon as a flaw is discovered in one link, the entire chain falls apart. If a malicious program breaks the chain, my computer might think that W32/Klez.palladium is a trusted piece of software. That's crazy!
Question though... what's to keep MS from trusting a piece of software that I don't? ex. Bonzi Buddy, Xupiter, Save Now...
It just so happens that I don't trust those apps. I don't really care for anyone to tell my computer that I trust these programs. Because I really don't.
But legally, can Microsoft only trust who they want? Wouldn't they have to trust almost everyone? Can they legally say "We're not going to sign your programs as trusted" to anyone? Wouldn't that be anticompetitive, almost?
It isn't okay to run spyware/adware/malware on my system.
Is is okay to run programs that I have written myself.
So why has MS done the exact reverse of this!?
Do you relize how sad it is when you have to exploit a bug in a piece of code to be able to save data to a piece of hardware you already paid for? It's like not letting me put gas in my car that didn't come from Amaco or a Shell station. Sure, someone'll figure out how to crack it. But the idea of not trusting me with something I own makes me almost sick with anger!
Would DRM let the computer boot to Linux CD? Could you compile programs with anything other than MS's own junk?
I don't know if any of you are familiar with XBox hackin, but if you're not, learn it fast.
Unless modded...
It can only use MS approved hardware...
Nothin' can be wrote to the Boot Sector...
If you mod it...
You can't connect to MS's XBox Live...
Circumventing it is illegal...
If MS used that approach to PC's...
Linux would be illegal (Circumventing MS's DRM)...
I would be stuck with MS Crap for eternity...
I plan on becoming omish....
In theory... Small companies are good for the economy. They aren't very large, so they continually listen to their customers, in order to keep their support. Large companies can better afford to sell products for less, so in the end the consumers should see savings. In reality... Have you ever watched "Max Headroom"? You know how all the companies are huge monopolies that decide what we (common man) should hear, see, and know? You should watch an episode or two. Small business goes out of business be cause big business basically eats the small business. Big fish eat little fish. In the end the consumer only knows what we are told by the big fish.
Okay. If this is just some simulation, then when (and if) we get to the point in our simulated time where we have technology to simulate the world, that would me the computers supporting us would have to use double the resources, because it would be simulating us simulating the universe. So everytime the new simulation got to the point (assuming the guy in charge of us doesn't shut us down) where their technology could simulate the universe then it would require more power. Eventually, to support all the simulations, it would seem that we would need an infinite ammount of memory, because every level of simulation would add so much overhead. One more thing... just still assuming we are in a simulation... do you think we're running under Windows, *nix or Mac? Hmmmmm........
My theory - Microsoft created a universe simulator that we all live in. That would explain all the things that go wrong, like Spontaneous Human Combustion, and Deja Vu! Of course!