I recall the time some cops in Albuquerque (New Mexico, that's in the USA:-) who decided they were so much in a hurry to get some Krispey Kreme doughnuts they took an unscheduled diversion in the helicopter, landed in the car park to buy some, and flew off. No reports of their specific punishment, but I'll bet they were in deep doo-doo!!
There comes a time when a government turns on the very people it was designed to nurture, and the results can be disasterous.
they already have in the USA, the UK and other parts of Europe. however, the population having been nurtured on a diet of reality TV, made fat and complacent, the citizens haven't much noticed nor do they care. However, when the next big recession comes, the populace will get exceeding upset at the amount of money the gov'ts have wasted on so calle security measures that haven't worked on only taken away their privacy.
I genuinely believe that western gov'ts have become afraid of their peoples, that the burden of taxes, regulation, invasion of privacy, loss of rights, and corporate rape of society will lead to a dramatic swings in the political landscape with mass contempt for the government and police.
The Roman Empire didn't collapse due to invasion, it rotted away at the core. Are we also allowing our society to rot from the inside out?
in a move uncharacteristic of/. I'll say you're completely right that not tightly coupling the usb device to the executability of the program weakens it to make bypassing it easy. hmm. I guess if the USB dongle only cost a dollar, it might prevent some casual copying, but then your customer only needs to get fed up with it once and download the crack, and thus help them discover piracy.
I only discovered bit torrenting and p2p when I couldn't rip my legitimately owned copy-protected Sony music CD to listen to on my mp3 player, so I know from personal experience that you don't want yr customers to consider a crack as a legitimate business tool!
I too would use USB cryptographically secure device, *IF* creating the software represented a huge investment in personnel time. I would only require the dongle for install, but not for *every* time run, just occasionally for validation, and allow the user to say "not this time,I'm not at home" provided they had previous successful validations. Replacement of broken dongles would be done for minimal fee (basically, at cost).
The idea is to prevent piracy without upsetting the user or preventing them from using the software at any time unless the were persistently abusing it.
so, if you are likely to live in a house for at least 25 years, use quite a lot of electricity, get enough sunlight to generate sufficient electricity to make them worthwhile, you might just recover your costs or even make a profit!
seems like the argument's a no-brainer for those of us in northern europe: instead of PVs, invest in better heat insulation, in waste heat recovery/heat pumps, in double or triple glazing, in waste water recovery/recycling etc... all can have a distinct environmentally positive impact almost immediately and with care needed become an environmental problem for both manufacture or diposal.
there's quite bit of UV in sunlight, so for photovoltaic panels which are to be used outdoors this is a real gain.
the cost of making PV panels is still too high compared to the energy you can harvest using them (I choose to use "harvest" specifically because they capture energy from the sun rather than generating from oil for example) over the expected lifetime of the panels. the other problem with PV panels is the environmental cost of manufacture + transport + ancillary electronics to make them useful and the cost of disposing/recycling. whether photovoltaics will reach the desired efficiency to make them economically and environmentally cost effective before biological (algae, bacteria etc which can "generate" methane or hydrogen for fuel) systems are perfected is an interesting question.
How many Linux systems go beyond FAT and ext2/3? Not many I'd image.
Suse10.2 allows you to choose between ext2, ext3, reiser, xfs, fat16, fat32, veritas-alike-whose-name-I-forget. If you install it, you can also do squashfs and cramfs. You can also mount in read-only mode iso9660/joliet and udf images, macintosh hsfplus, ntfs. If you want network it will do novell-ncp, andrew, coda, plan 9, samba/cifs, nfs; there's even user-space filesystems that do stuff over ftp...
And doubtless there are others because you can recompile your kernel, they're just not included due to license issues.
So, Windows rules, huh?
I am shamed to admit but I used to use the same password on many sites, only using unique passwords for those I regarded as important. It was only when at one job the employer terminated the employment of many staff (financial problems) and we were forced to leave the building without returning to our desks that I realised that saving passwords on a work computer was not a good thing (my then former colleagues would have had access to my password saves in firefox and thus access to my default pass).
Since then I've been using supergenpass which allows you to have a unique password for each web site generated using a master password and a hash of the domain.
I no longer save passwords in firefox, and the passwords used on websites are nicely random too. Moreover, I only need to remember my master password and so can use any computer.
not just the ease of downloading cdroms and dvds over broadband, and the ease of installing, but also perhaps because people are more likely to have more than one computer so that they can experiment and break the OS on one machine and then use their other to get help. When I first installed linux I had only one machine, although it was dual boot, so if I broke it the fix/test cycle was much harder.
remember that the customer of the radio station is the advertisers, not the listeners who are merely "bait" to get the advertisers hooked into giving the station money.
... excepting when the listener is paying a subscription; sadly, especially in the case of TV, the consumer/listener often still has to suffer advertising.
I've been a suse user since 8.1, and as long as you know to never install the novell zen management stuff, it's always been pretty good (10.1 was a bit substandard).
I tried ubuntu but found no compelling reason to switch, in fact I found it held me back: The partitioner is MUCH better in suse's yast than the appalling one in ubuntu. What I really like is that I can (get an intern student to) build a machine with suse, with raid and it's all pretty much point and click - even encrypted disks on mirroring is trivial to do.
With enough video surveillance in cities it will be able to be abused and peer into unsuspecting households.
indeed, consider the fuss of that woman whose cat was filmed by Google... tho' in that case I think it was more because she wanted either fame or some of G's money.
if someone says that "if you have nothing to hide", simply ask them two questions: 1/ how much do you earn? 2/ how often do you have sex or masturbate?
it is inevitable they will take offense. Point out to them that their salary can be estimated from their job and their lifestyle, and their sex life is surely perfectly normal and the same as everyone else so if they won't answer they must be doing something illegal or immoral!
in both cases most people would be willing to answer the questions in specific circumstances, in the first case to their tax or pension advisor, in the second to their doctor... but in both cases they would expect the conversation to be kept private.
there has been such an effort for many years, but it hasn't gained ground. heck, I barely remember to keep my entries up to date. http://counter.li.org/
you can find industrial IP-rated anti-vandal keyboards which are designed for kiosks, fully sealed and therefore could be swabbed with almost any sort of solvent.
Sharp don't know how to sell products, it seems. I think the Z 6000 died in the USA because they were anticipating a tie-in with IBM (who were somehow involved in the Opera port) and whatever it was planned never happened.
You can still buy them though, check out the wiki at www.oesf.org and the forums.
There was even a WinCE version sold by Hitachi called the Flora, basically a 6000W (bluetooth and wifi) with more memory.
good point, but you slightly missed what they really want do do... e.g charge Microsoft for preferential treatment, so they can take a slice of MSNs revenue, because people would use the nice quick MS search in preference to the slow Google... and then of course Google want to get back on top so they bid more to get best network transit.
so yes, it's double-dipping, but by dipping into the content provider's revenue by marginalising access to the customer.
the source has always been GPL... the problem is that the tools for building are Microsoft proprietary (i.e. no gcc/g++), and therefore once you've built XBMC from source you're effectively violating MS's rights, and so the binaries are not downloadable except from "interesting" sources.
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I'm all in favour of free trade and the free flow of data and information, so I'm doing MY bit for globalisation by hitting some torrent sites ASAP!
In all seriousness, I would very cheerfully make an honesty payment to the original artists and performers for all the mp3 files that I'm, er (cough) evaluating, that they would have received as royalties from the sale of a CD. I reckon that would cost me in total less than a few hours net income. Since I've provided the media and the distribution channel, would seem unreasonable to pay the retail price!
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I recall the time some cops in Albuquerque (New Mexico, that's in the USA :-) who decided they were so much in a hurry to get some Krispey Kreme doughnuts they took an unscheduled diversion in the helicopter, landed in the car park to buy some, and flew off. No reports of their specific punishment, but I'll bet they were in deep doo-doo!!
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There comes a time when a government turns on the very people it was designed to nurture, and the results can be disasterous.
they already have in the USA, the UK and other parts of Europe. however, the population having been nurtured on a diet of reality TV, made fat and complacent, the citizens haven't much noticed nor do they care. However, when the next big recession comes, the populace will get exceeding upset at the amount of money the gov'ts have wasted on so calle security measures that haven't worked on only taken away their privacy.
I genuinely believe that western gov'ts have become afraid of their peoples, that the burden of taxes, regulation, invasion of privacy, loss of rights, and corporate rape of society will lead to a dramatic swings in the political landscape with mass contempt for the government and police.
The Roman Empire didn't collapse due to invasion, it rotted away at the core. Are we also allowing our society to rot from the inside out?
I only discovered bit torrenting and p2p when I couldn't rip my legitimately owned copy-protected Sony music CD to listen to on my mp3 player, so I know from personal experience that you don't want yr customers to consider a crack as a legitimate business tool!
I too would use USB cryptographically secure device, *IF* creating the software represented a huge investment in personnel time. I would only require the dongle for install, but not for *every* time run, just occasionally for validation, and allow the user to say "not this time,I'm not at home" provided they had previous successful validations. Replacement of broken dongles would be done for minimal fee (basically, at cost).
The idea is to prevent piracy without upsetting the user or preventing them from using the software at any time unless the were persistently abusing it.
seems like the argument's a no-brainer for those of us in northern europe: instead of PVs, invest in better heat insulation, in waste heat recovery/heat pumps, in double or triple glazing, in waste water recovery/recycling etc... all can have a distinct environmentally positive impact almost immediately and with care needed become an environmental problem for both manufacture or diposal.
there's quite bit of UV in sunlight, so for photovoltaic panels which are to be used outdoors this is a real gain.
the cost of making PV panels is still too high compared to the energy you can harvest using them (I choose to use "harvest" specifically because they capture energy from the sun rather than generating from oil for example) over the expected lifetime of the panels. the other problem with PV panels is the environmental cost of manufacture + transport + ancillary electronics to make them useful and the cost of disposing/recycling. whether photovoltaics will reach the desired efficiency to make them economically and environmentally cost effective before biological (algae, bacteria etc which can "generate" methane or hydrogen for fuel) systems are perfected is an interesting question.
How many Linux systems go beyond FAT and ext2/3? Not many I'd image.
Suse10.2 allows you to choose between ext2, ext3, reiser, xfs, fat16, fat32, veritas-alike-whose-name-I-forget. If you install it, you can also do squashfs and cramfs. You can also mount in read-only mode iso9660/joliet and udf images, macintosh hsfplus, ntfs. If you want network it will do novell-ncp, andrew, coda, plan 9, samba/cifs, nfs; there's even user-space filesystems that do stuff over ftp...
And doubtless there are others because you can recompile your kernel, they're just not included due to license issues.
So, Windows rules, huh?
Since then I've been using supergenpass which allows you to have a unique password for each web site generated using a master password and a hash of the domain.
I no longer save passwords in firefox, and the passwords used on websites are nicely random too. Moreover, I only need to remember my master password and so can use any computer.
not just the ease of downloading cdroms and dvds over broadband, and the ease of installing, but also perhaps because people are more likely to have more than one computer so that they can experiment and break the OS on one machine and then use their other to get help. When I first installed linux I had only one machine, although it was dual boot, so if I broke it the fix/test cycle was much harder.
remember that the customer of the radio station is the advertisers, not the listeners who are merely "bait" to get the advertisers hooked into giving the station money.
... excepting when the listener is paying a subscription; sadly, especially in the case of TV, the consumer/listener often still has to suffer advertising.
I've been a suse user since 8.1, and as long as you know to never install the novell zen management stuff, it's always been pretty good (10.1 was a bit substandard).
I tried ubuntu but found no compelling reason to switch, in fact I found it held me back:
The partitioner is MUCH better in suse's yast than the appalling one in ubuntu. What I really like is that I can (get an intern student to) build a machine with suse, with raid and it's all pretty much point and click - even encrypted disks on mirroring is trivial to do.
3/ is question 1 proportional to question 2?
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With enough video surveillance in cities it will be able to be abused and peer into unsuspecting households.
indeed, consider the fuss of that woman whose cat was filmed by Google... tho' in that case I think it was more because she wanted either fame or some of G's money.
if someone says that "if you have nothing to hide", simply ask them two questions:
1/ how much do you earn?
2/ how often do you have sex or masturbate?
it is inevitable they will take offense. Point out to them that their salary can be estimated from their job and their lifestyle, and their sex life is surely perfectly normal and the same as everyone else so if they won't answer they must be doing something illegal or immoral!
in both cases most people would be willing to answer the questions in specific circumstances, in the first case to their tax or pension advisor, in the second to their doctor... but in both cases they would expect the conversation to be kept private.
there has been such an effort for many years, but it hasn't gained ground. heck, I barely remember to keep my entries up to date. http://counter.li.org/
you can find industrial IP-rated anti-vandal keyboards which are designed for kiosks, fully sealed and therefore could be swabbed with almost any sort of solvent.
my keyboard is now squeaky clean, too clean in fact... here's a picture
Sharp don't know how to sell products, it seems. I think the Z 6000 died in the USA because they were anticipating a tie-in with IBM (who were somehow involved in the Opera port) and whatever it was planned never happened.
You can still buy them though, check out the wiki at www.oesf.org and the forums.
There was even a WinCE version sold by Hitachi called the Flora, basically a 6000W (bluetooth and wifi) with more memory.
ultraportable laptop alternative? the Sony TX series are damn small, damn light, damn sexy and powerful, and damn expensive!
yes, it was made, called the Zaurus SL-6000L (well, you'd need to add a multi-gig CF card) :-)
good point, but you slightly missed what they really want do do... e.g charge Microsoft for preferential treatment, so they can take a slice of MSNs revenue, because people would use the nice quick MS search in preference to the slow Google... and then of course Google want to get back on top so they bid more to get best network transit.
so yes, it's double-dipping, but by dipping into the content provider's revenue by marginalising access to the customer.
the source has always been GPL... the problem is that the tools for building are Microsoft proprietary (i.e. no gcc/g++), and therefore once you've built XBMC from source you're effectively violating MS's rights, and so the binaries are not downloadable except from "interesting" sources.
use the include directive?
I'm all in favour of free trade and the free flow of data and information, so I'm doing MY bit for globalisation by hitting some torrent sites ASAP!
In all seriousness, I would very cheerfully make an honesty payment to the original artists and performers for all the mp3 files that I'm, er (cough) evaluating, that they would have received as royalties from the sale of a CD. I reckon that would cost me in total less than a few hours net income. Since I've provided the media and the distribution channel, would seem unreasonable to pay the retail price!