I look forward to 4/8-way smp opteron rigs with quad-channel DDR400 support, featuring 4-16 DIMM slots and multiple 64bit/66mhz PCI, multiple gig-e on hypertransport.
I remember seeing an article on The Register a while back describing a mechanism in Windows XP to prevent "unauthorized music" from being played AT THE DRIVER LEVEL. That was the most frightening thing I had read about Microsoft's monopoly control yet. If the OS controls the device, then you CANNOT read/write to it without the OS's, and therefore Microsoft's, permission! Remember, in Linux you can write directly to and from audio devices (/dev/audio) because the OS provides this for you. I imagine that music will be digitally signed, remote servers will be paged for permission, and then it will play if approved.
The bonus is that Microsoft has never, and probably WILL never, understand security, so this will be trivial to circumvent. But trivial for the 0.1% of computer users who realize that there are alternatives to Microsoft. For the 99.9% who use the default config, it will be WMA or bust.:(
Does anyone have any ideas how we can get around this?
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I remember screening business plans that made predictions like that...
Everytime I hammer that IP, I smell smoke. What gives?
I look forward to 4/8-way smp opteron rigs with quad-channel DDR400 support, featuring 4-16 DIMM slots and multiple 64bit/66mhz PCI, multiple gig-e on hypertransport.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those...
Which way were you going to moderate?
Are you the same guy that's trying to sue those college kids for $97 trillion dollars?
Having a Slashdot editor post several dupes in honor of April Fool's Day is sort of like Saddam celebrating by gassing 10,000 Kurds.
Of course, if duplicate stories are an April Fool's prank, then the editors must believe that every day is April Fool's on Slashdot.
Darwin's coronary?
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Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 04, @04:07PM
from the iriver-are-you-listening dept.
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Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 04, @04:07PM
from the timothy-are-you-reading dept.
Congratulations on getting a post on Slashdot!!
:P
Now... how 'bout that dining room floor?
"Currently, They were sold by $1 million."
All your base are belong to us.
And yet have some trouble spelling 'ridiculous'... amazing software, that Windows!
I remember seeing an article on The Register a while back describing a mechanism in Windows XP to prevent "unauthorized music" from being played AT THE DRIVER LEVEL. That was the most frightening thing I had read about Microsoft's monopoly control yet. If the OS controls the device, then you CANNOT read/write to it without the OS's, and therefore Microsoft's, permission! Remember, in Linux you can write directly to and from audio devices (/dev/audio) because the OS provides this for you. I imagine that music will be digitally signed, remote servers will be paged for permission, and then it will play if approved. The bonus is that Microsoft has never, and probably WILL never, understand security, so this will be trivial to circumvent. But trivial for the 0.1% of computer users who realize that there are alternatives to Microsoft. For the 99.9% who use the default config, it will be WMA or bust. :(
Does anyone have any ideas how we can get around this?
They'll run FreeBSD, like the rest of Yahoo. ;)