Sorry I had to make you go look in the dark corners...;)
IIRC, these were 3Com 3C509 thin net cards, and they were designed to be DEC compliant. (DEC used to have a situation where they did lock software to MACs, so when you had to replace a NIC, which did fail back then, you had to match the old MAC so your software would work. Or so the guy told me - I fortunately never worked on those systems:) I also believe these EEPROMs were poppable. In fact, IIRC, almost all EEPROMs on 3Com cards were socket based back then, I remember always wondering why before I found out about the MACs.
Oh, and as a special treat, the MACs were all set to 00-00-00.... guess what that does?:)
the original hardcoded MAC address is always visible to the OS somehow. Just changing the setting does not lose that information. I was under the impression that there was no such thing as a hard-coded number. Why do I say this? Because one fine day many years ago I received a shipment of 100 ethernet cards all with identical MACs. That was one fun day as those cards rolled out into the network...
Processor serial numbers are about as innocuous as a privacy concern as if you used your grocery store loyalty card. To say that someone is going to target you because you have a certain loyalty to the grocery store is ludicrous. I don't share your ambivalence, yet agree with your point. They might haul you into jail, however, for buying large amounts of plastic forks, rubbing alcohol, and a couple of other items though.
Uniquely identifying systems is ESSENTIAL to the current internet and DRM problems. Wrong. It's completely irrelevant and impossible to uniquely identify a system on the internet. It is ESSENTIAL to have unique connections. Identity is essential for law enforcement types, not the internet. For instance, do I care that I connect to machine 1 or 1,000,000 of those answering for google.com? DRM in this scenario is irrelevant, and any argument in support of that is already terminally flawed. (DRM's problems are that DRM exists at all)
Just think, if a processor serial number had become a standard, they may not have decided so fast that they needed TPM and per-machine iTunes authorizing so hackneyed, and so on. Of course you can be uniquely identified on the internet. How much crazy hashing crap like this would it have made totally unecessary? TPM exists purely to serve DRM. See above. QED.
I guess "contractors" covers a broad range of possibilities.
Let's refine that by anyone doing architectural drawings that would have need of measurements to build something an addition. That significantly reduces the pool size.
Contractors probably already own Autocad or something like it, not to mention probably have the requisite knowledge to perform this rather trivial function as well. If not, they won't be my contractor.
MACs are changeable. BIOS can also be changed, but the flash procedure is a PITA, especially on a regular basis. Disk serials, on the other hand, I have less experience with. However, having roughly 20 disks at hand, even this poses little difficulty for me to change, especially with Partition Magic's cloning capabilities.
It's still more trouble than I would go through - it's easier just to not use Skype.
Target. Central Market (HEB brand store - we don't have the regular HEBs around here). Kroger. Tom Thumb (part of Safeway).
Those are the main ones besides Costco. Having 3 big dogs, my dog food comes from either Costco, Target or Petsmart, depending upon whether the latter two have a sale. I don't do oil anymore, as the dealer price for changing it is sub $20. When I did, I bought it a case at a time, usually @ Costco.
Steaks: Costco has very good meat products. Rib Eye is usually around $7/lb for Choice (or whatever the second highest grade is). Ground beef is around $2/lb. Skinless boneless chicken breasts run about $2.69/lb. You can sometimes get these things for less at other stores, but in the case of the beef, you won't be getting the same quality. In the case of the chicken breasts, the come in vacuum sealed pairs recently, which is very convenient for freezing (a necessity when buying 8 lbs at a time;)
But for a direct replacement of Walmart goods, I go to Target (we have a Super Target right across from the SuperCenter Walmart). Even though they were both built recently within 6 months of each other, the Target is clean, crisp, and welcoming. The Walmart has that standard harsh lighting, and in general is just less clean, trashy, unorganized, cluttered. It looks old. The prices at Walmart may be a couple of pennies less for some things, but that's not enough of a reason for me to go there.
That's awesome. I'd heard a rumor or two about that, so even the only thing I gave him credit for writing (however badly) turns out to be nothing more than more stolen code.
He really is the most over-rated person on the planet. (That was not a popular opinion in 91, nor in 97, when I was tasked with architecting a rather largish NT/Exchange rollout despite my misgivings about using either.)
Since the 1978 Copyright Act, none of those items are required. The only thing that's required is that it is your own original work. Copyright is automatic.
Not true - no DRM system was ever developed for the CD. If it has DRM on it, it does not meet theCD Audio spec. That it plays on CD Audio EQ is irrelevant.
BTW, does this mean that having Linux installed on a computer and putting one of these buggered "DRM'd" non CD Audio discs into it that you'll be violating the DMCA?
Ahh, it's actually easy to "collect" them. No collection is necessary, merely a deflection into a rapidly degrading orbit (ie, burn up in atmostsphere). This can be accomplished by a ship that definitely would fit the definition of a "scow". (From wikipedia: A scow, in the original sense, is a flat bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul garbage or similar bulk freight; cf. barge.)
That seems like the perfect ship to deflect things.... a big honking blunt bow made of nice thick steel.... at least until we get deflectors a la Star Trek...:)
Didn't Arthur C Clarke or Isaac Asimov detail this problem years ago and posit that a space garbage service would have to be setup to collect this stuff?
And right now, what reason do developers have for switching to DX10? Minimize their potential market? That's not how they work. While MS owned properties such as Ensemble might go DX10 only, for the next 2-3 years, at least, DX9 will still rule.
Why? 1) They're anti-american. Remember back about 15 years ago, when Sam Walton was still alive before the big take-over? Walmart bought american. Made in america was everywhere. Now, if you find something that was made in america, it's usually something someone dropped.
2) They do treat their employees abysmally. See Costco for how you treat employees right.
3) Groceries? I'll skip the green meat and wilted/unripe veggies thank you.
4) Their stores seem cluttered, dirty, and just unorganized.
5) And finally, selection, or rather the lack of it.
As for Sam's club, Costco usually has a better selection, better quality of product, and is almost always cheaper (on identical items, Sams was always more expensive, from CD/DVDs, books, to chips, beer, wine, and even TVs.
Now, to get back on topic - Walmart's online store will be a flop unless they give us a reason to go there. $15 downloads won't do it. $10 downloads won't do it. Sub $5 with no DRM might do it. Tying their service to purchases made at their stores may prop it up.
I believe the first true quantum leap in multi-player games were the MUDs, like DikuMUD. Circa late 80s, the initial round of MMOs with hundreds of people online in a single world playing both co-operatively and PVP, collecting, trading, building, etc.
You can't be serious. That's 11% of theatrical releases! Could you imagine if a retail store had an 11% shrink rate? (Hint for those unfamiliar with retail: 11% is head-rolling territory).
Look, I disagree with the RIAA as much as the next/.'er. But this statistic simply doesn't prove what the author was hoping to prove. Actually - that's an 11% attempted rate. What does it really mean? Seriously?
So 11% of the movies were taped with a camcorder. Ok, fine. What happened after that? They had a whole 10 people download it before word got out it sucked horrendous road kill?
Did you expect differently? After all, SP1's release date was announced prior to the official "consumer" release date, and possibly prior to the "biz" release date (I admit I wasn't quite following the news releases with baited breath, so...)
I'm trying to remember whether I have computers that are 8 years old. That'd be 1998/99 with PIIs or PIIIs in them. IIRC, many came with FPM or DDR RAM with a maximum configuration in the 512MB-1GB range. I have a 1996 era Pentium and PP180 still hanging around, and I certainly wouldn't try XP on either of those. The PP ran NT 4 until about 5 years ago, when it was shutdown for a while. The Pentium is still running 95, don't ask....
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Sorry I had to make you go look in the dark corners... ;)
:)
IIRC, these were 3Com 3C509 thin net cards, and they were designed to be DEC compliant. (DEC used to have a situation where they did lock software to MACs, so when you had to replace a NIC, which did fail back then, you had to match the old MAC so your software would work. Or so the guy told me - I fortunately never worked on those systems:) I also believe these EEPROMs were poppable. In fact, IIRC, almost all EEPROMs on 3Com cards were socket based back then, I remember always wondering why before I found out about the MACs.
Oh, and as a special treat, the MACs were all set to 00-00-00.... guess what that does?
Funny enough, the batch of 100 NICs with identical MACs we got were 3Com. From what I remember, changing them wasn't that hard.
I guess "contractors" covers a broad range of possibilities.
Let's refine that by anyone doing architectural drawings that would have need of measurements to build something an addition. That significantly reduces the pool size.
Contractors probably already own Autocad or something like it, not to mention probably have the requisite knowledge to perform this rather trivial function as well. If not, they won't be my contractor.
Instead, it'll be touched by the cheek, so it'll get all nice and greasy....
Heck, they're not only trying to tell people what music to like, they're trying to CREATE the "music" they're telling people they like.
MACs are changeable. BIOS can also be changed, but the flash procedure is a PITA, especially on a regular basis. Disk serials, on the other hand, I have less experience with. However, having roughly 20 disks at hand, even this poses little difficulty for me to change, especially with Partition Magic's cloning capabilities.
It's still more trouble than I would go through - it's easier just to not use Skype.
Target. Central Market (HEB brand store - we don't have the regular HEBs around here). Kroger. Tom Thumb (part of Safeway).
Those are the main ones besides Costco. Having 3 big dogs, my dog food comes from either Costco, Target or Petsmart, depending upon whether the latter two have a sale. I don't do oil anymore, as the dealer price for changing it is sub $20. When I did, I bought it a case at a time, usually @ Costco.
Steaks: Costco has very good meat products. Rib Eye is usually around $7/lb for Choice (or whatever the second highest grade is). Ground beef is around $2/lb. Skinless boneless chicken breasts run about $2.69/lb. You can sometimes get these things for less at other stores, but in the case of the beef, you won't be getting the same quality. In the case of the chicken breasts, the come in vacuum sealed pairs recently, which is very convenient for freezing (a necessity when buying 8 lbs at a time;)
But for a direct replacement of Walmart goods, I go to Target (we have a Super Target right across from the SuperCenter Walmart). Even though they were both built recently within 6 months of each other, the Target is clean, crisp, and welcoming. The Walmart has that standard harsh lighting, and in general is just less clean, trashy, unorganized, cluttered. It looks old. The prices at Walmart may be a couple of pennies less for some things, but that's not enough of a reason for me to go there.
Many thanks! (And props to /.'s message system!!!)
That's awesome. I'd heard a rumor or two about that, so even the only thing I gave him credit for writing (however badly) turns out to be nothing more than more stolen code.
He really is the most over-rated person on the planet. (That was not a popular opinion in 91, nor in 97, when I was tasked with architecting a rather largish NT/Exchange rollout despite my misgivings about using either.)
Since the 1978 Copyright Act, none of those items are required. The only thing that's required is that it is your own original work. Copyright is automatic.
hint - there is no autorun functionality... it's a service running within Windows. All the CDROM does is notify that a disk was inserted.
Who says the banner isn't copyrighted?
It has words?
It is art (paint/ink)?
It is copyrighted.
Not true - no DRM system was ever developed for the CD. If it has DRM on it, it does not meet theCD Audio spec. That it plays on CD Audio EQ is irrelevant.
BTW, does this mean that having Linux installed on a computer and putting one of these buggered "DRM'd" non CD Audio discs into it that you'll be violating the DMCA?
Ahh, it's actually easy to "collect" them. No collection is necessary, merely a deflection into a rapidly degrading orbit (ie, burn up in atmostsphere). This can be accomplished by a ship that definitely would fit the definition of a "scow". (From wikipedia: A scow, in the original sense, is a flat bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul garbage or similar bulk freight; cf. barge.)
:)
That seems like the perfect ship to deflect things.... a big honking blunt bow made of nice thick steel.... at least until we get deflectors a la Star Trek...
Didn't Arthur C Clarke or Isaac Asimov detail this problem years ago and posit that a space garbage service would have to be setup to collect this stuff?
And right now, what reason do developers have for switching to DX10? Minimize their potential market? That's not how they work. While MS owned properties such as Ensemble might go DX10 only, for the next 2-3 years, at least, DX9 will still rule.
Yeah, I'm a parent. I don't shop at Walmart.
Why?
1) They're anti-american. Remember back about 15 years ago, when Sam Walton was still alive before the big take-over? Walmart bought american. Made in america was everywhere. Now, if you find something that was made in america, it's usually something someone dropped.
2) They do treat their employees abysmally. See Costco for how you treat employees right.
3) Groceries? I'll skip the green meat and wilted/unripe veggies thank you.
4) Their stores seem cluttered, dirty, and just unorganized.
5) And finally, selection, or rather the lack of it.
As for Sam's club, Costco usually has a better selection, better quality of product, and is almost always cheaper (on identical items, Sams was always more expensive, from CD/DVDs, books, to chips, beer, wine, and even TVs.
Now, to get back on topic - Walmart's online store will be a flop unless they give us a reason to go there. $15 downloads won't do it. $10 downloads won't do it. Sub $5 with no DRM might do it. Tying their service to purchases made at their stores may prop it up.
I believe the first true quantum leap in multi-player games were the MUDs, like DikuMUD. Circa late 80s, the initial round of MMOs with hundreds of people online in a single world playing both co-operatively and PVP, collecting, trading, building, etc.
Those were the days....
So, then, do we really know the movie was taped?
Look, I disagree with the RIAA as much as the next
So 11% of the movies were taped with a camcorder. Ok, fine. What happened after that? They had a whole 10 people download it before word got out it sucked horrendous road kill?
Did you expect differently? After all, SP1's release date was announced prior to the official "consumer" release date, and possibly prior to the "biz" release date (I admit I wasn't quite following the news releases with baited breath, so...)
But are you sure you got what was released? After all, the specs hanged hugely since 05.
do you have any sources for that? I'd love to have even more dirt on BG, most overated subhuman ever.
I'm trying to remember whether I have computers that are 8 years old. That'd be 1998/99 with PIIs or PIIIs in them. IIRC, many came with FPM or DDR RAM with a maximum configuration in the 512MB-1GB range. I have a 1996 era Pentium and PP180 still hanging around, and I certainly wouldn't try XP on either of those. The PP ran NT 4 until about 5 years ago, when it was shutdown for a while. The Pentium is still running 95, don't ask....