Already paying $100 a month for my comcast broadband (no tv, just BB) and have often thought while looking the the multiple wireless routers in my local area that it wouldn't be that hard to partner and link with them as an out of band network; take this kind of pipe dream on a larger scale and you have a way to avoid much of the broadband hastle altogether, the internet grew as well as it has because it was a common carrier construct, take that away and you've turned each and every BB provider into the AOL of old, closed, lame and extremely limited in the content you might want. All of the large carriers today rode on the backs of others, this was a publicly (tax) funded network to start and this goes back to idea of selling air to breath; the money I pay is for a fast link in but certainly not for the "value" ad that comcast provides, I don't use their mail servers and would prefer not to see the ad-space they've sold to others........
Your honor and members of the Jury the defendant is guilty of one thing and one thing only, he chose to use a horribly insecure operating system and has been framed; Unbeknownst to him some neck breaking homicidal script kiddies compromised his system and began searching google for the means and method to kill and dispose of a body using a lake. Using this information along with his schedule (outlook) and his preferred billing address (microsoft passport) they planned and successfully carried out the senseless random murder of his beloved wife..............
OK, I am not a lawyer but thinking aloud I have began to giggle.
1. Sony root kit is a DRM device used to control/limit how one uses the content on Sony/BMG discs.
Circumvention of a DRM device is a clear violation of the DCMA.
2. Microsoft has stated that it will release a *fix* to remove the Sony root kit.
Microsoft is violating the DCMA on your behalf.
So thinking about this, if you play the files without the rootkit on a Windows or Macintosh PC you've violated the DCMA, if you remove the kit you have violated the DCMA.
like the other posters, open up a web service; make the front end really neat, put a speedometer gauge on it.
post a java applet that measures bandwidth to your *clients* and list below the speedometer (which shows aggregate bandwidth used) the highest sustained throughput for say the top 30 users.
then post it to slashdot and boing boing as a contest, with the top rated clients winning a nintendo revolution, xbox 360 and playstation3 dream system.
after the above (a hard days work) go to sleep and when you wake up you'll find a brand new world awaits.
this is good news but what really should happen first is a suitable replacement for the M$oft backend, opening myself to suggestions here but until you replace the server we are all at the mercy of Microsoft and their usual patch it to break it mentality.
Again, overall I think the patent system needs a lot of reform; but innovations only appear to be common sense after they've been introduced; and my statement (not arguing) about cheap commodity hardware still holds true, even at a low level there is software in there; and going forward much of what defines the hardware is the software. The real problem with software patents as I see it is defining at what point is it patentable, your example is valid, Carmack was the first to really make something of the idea but Bilodeau and Songy beat him to the punch by 3 years, Carmack might have been able to get this reversed but I am pretty sure the blackmail fee's were less then the legal challange for something that really could have been done a number of ways.
The DRM folks already have an eye aimed in the direction of the opensource folks; Its pretty obvious that most DRM removed is done so with the assistance of opensource and/or free/shareware.
A fair amount of funding for opensource projects come from companies that stand to gain something from the development that occurs and/or the good press provided; without patents much of what we use today (you like that fancy computer in front of you right)? wouldn't exist and/or wouldn't be so cheap that you could own it. This isn't really a defense for the kind of patents that have been filed; filing a patent on something because it seems that no one else has is a horrible thing (nintendo patents sanity comes to mind) but the system is set up to reward those who innovate.
and so I ramble but my point is this:
I've spent the good portion of 5 years trying to get the fortune 500 company I work for to openly accept GPL/GNU software as the good thing it is; a clause of this nature will most likely make all of the work a loss as this company regularly files patents and a good majority of them are accepted; Some will say this is a choice; I suspect this kind of approach will work, it will make successful companies look elsewhere for the tools they need and will prevent some of the good development being done from being released into the wild........
Some day in the far distant future I can imagine wings being given to astronauts who have dared to take their space craft into an atmosphere, until that day this does seem to be an inappropriate thing to give a pilot for leaving the atmosphere.......
Either way its good to see NASA stepping up after awarding basically the same thing to the first 'privately funded' astronaut.
The trick to all of this isn't fair use, you have that, its breaking DRM that these media idiots are using as a vehicle to their means. what would make this interesting would be a copy program that doesn't simply extract but one that *keeps* the DRM intact; take the teeth away from the maggots. Some would consider this still a violation but that comes down to method; hand the copy to them and ask for a copy...... only real problem might be where the key is written.
That would require a player that would read a key from a non-standard location, making the player would be a violation as well but much harder to explain in court, shouldn't be that hard to hack a legitimate player to read the keys from elsewhere.
Not exactly sure what area your talking about but as someone presently sitting inside the StorageTek campus I can assure you that near the campus there are little if any problems regarding access to broadband; two wireless providers (WiFi and Sprint Broadband, Qworst DSL and ISDN and Comcast) I have a 6 down 1 up link and it works just fine.
As to the purchase, this a great fit for both STK and SUN.
I have a piece of host rock on my desk as a paperweight, its purple and yellow (you can guess that the yellow isn't sulfur) you can find this stuff all over the place in Colorado; After reading this veritable cookbook I figure I can get a bunch of these and using my home centrifudge (gas dryer, should be able to heat these rocks to 64 degrees right?) I should be able to get some usable fuel out of my dryers outlet (hot air, lighter U235) this should all be really simple.
Now the Plutonium fuelled bomb should be much easier as it would seem I can just drive over to Rocky Flats and pick some up with a berylium happy meal, they lost 50-80 lbs of the stuff during their hay day, all I gots to do is get me a geiger counter and go looking for it like I would jewelry at the beach; and don't forget item #1 in the plutonum bomb diagram, the trigger, a source of neutrons, or what the heck a neuron generator, think I have one of those in my car, lets see.........
My understanding about the copy of ROTS available via BT, FTP and US Mail for those with friends nice enough is that its a studio work copy, not a shaky cam or a midnight theatre transfer but a copy from luc@Sarts, obviously the people who did this knew it was wrong but the MPAA is really trying to control distribution chains, PTP isn't Pay per Play friendly, I read earlier in this post that TCP/IP is to blame, really by this logic it is, really if given the choice the media folks would put a DRM chip on each hard drive, network interface, CPU, Burner, ETC. Welcome to the new world.
As I sit here using Safari...... I wonder what this page would look like using IE; If you don't want your code vastly changed with little in the way of documentation don't release it OSS, the GPL says little in how you can modify code and much in your responsibility to release said modifications; Apple is paying, PAYING, folks to modify OSS code to better suit their customers needs, Safari is far from being the best browser and often I find myself using Firefox but wouldn't it be worse of Apple to take an OSS project and not improve it?
I watched a couple of episodes and couldn't quite figure out why I kept thinking about Ziggy, Farscape and a show called voyagers; just couldn't watch it after that.....
Just to get the question of bias out of the way, I'm typing on an Apple laptop.
Twice this week I've had to help customers either remove or completely rebuild/restore Windows because of spy/malware.
In the first case the machine was 'enhanced' with a 'search-bar' that replaced key parts (read dll's) of IE, removal of this 'enhancement' would render the machine unuasable, while this software was installed previous to installed SP2 and the most recent batch of Microsoft issued security patches it none the less went undetected by the OS and was only found when NAV was ran.
Now I understand that Microsoft has argued that what you add to IE is your own fault and to some point I agree, but only in the case where you realize your installing software; If you install fast freddy's pronfinder tool bar you most likely want others to watch you. But Microsoft should concede that the browser, which they've stated is truly part of the OS should be treated wtih more care then if it were just an application (as it should be).
Given that security usually comes at the cost of some ease of use; Microsoft has choosen to make its OS easy and at the same time they choose to ignore the customers demands for more secure default for firstrun. It would not be hard to lock the machine down until its had a chance to check for patches/updates/service packs (call them what you will).
Recently I've read about motherboard manufacturers building appliance style firewalls into their onboard ethernet, sounds like a cool option but they're doing it because their primary audience *NEEDS* it, and truly this might be best for all of us, so long as the filters can be configured to curb outbound traffic as well.
yet another obvious attempt by Microsoft to discredit a company or product that they see as a threat to their ever shrinking market space; good ol screaming balmer would have you use Windows media with *new and improved* drm. Too bad it doesn't sound good and too bad that the 'theives' format on my iPod is aac and protected aac.
If these were deployed globally and constructed in a manner that would allow satellite monitoring; well, my thought is why not build em to go bang as well? Power goes in areas where it can be used (cities) and the if the country becomes unfriendly we add a little green glass (trinatite) to the tourist attractions.
Slashdot Mirror
Already paying $100 a month for my comcast broadband (no tv, just BB) and have often thought while looking the the multiple wireless routers in my local area that it wouldn't be that hard to partner and link with them as an out of band network; take this kind of pipe dream on a larger scale and you have a way to avoid much of the broadband hastle altogether, the internet grew as well as it has because it was a common carrier construct, take that away and you've turned each and every BB provider into the AOL of old, closed, lame and extremely limited in the content you might want. All of the large carriers today rode on the backs of others, this was a publicly (tax) funded network to start and this goes back to idea of selling air to breath; the money I pay is for a fast link in but certainly not for the "value" ad that comcast provides, I don't use their mail servers and would prefer not to see the ad-space they've sold to others........
A squeezeplay or a mexican standoff?
seriously this is a cool thing but the jokes will continue!
Sounds like a pr0no I rented once......
Your honor and members of the Jury the defendant is guilty of one thing and one thing only, he chose to use a horribly insecure operating system
and has been framed; Unbeknownst to him some neck breaking homicidal script kiddies compromised his system and began searching google
for the means and method to kill and dispose of a body using a lake. Using this information along with his schedule (outlook) and his preferred billing address (microsoft passport) they planned and successfully carried out the senseless random murder of his beloved wife..............
or even simpler; google made him do it.
thanks, thought something looked wrong, AFTER hitting the submit button.
$p = DCMA; $t = DMCA;
while() { s/$p/$t/g; print }
OK, I am not a lawyer but thinking aloud I have began to giggle.
1. Sony root kit is a DRM device used to control/limit how one uses the content on Sony/BMG discs.
Circumvention of a DRM device is a clear violation of the DCMA.
2. Microsoft has stated that it will release a *fix* to remove the Sony root kit.
Microsoft is violating the DCMA on your behalf.
So thinking about this, if you play the files without the rootkit on a Windows or Macintosh PC you've violated the DCMA, if you remove the kit you have violated
the DCMA.
Comments?
like the other posters, open up a web service; make the front end really neat, put a speedometer gauge on it.
post a java applet that measures bandwidth to your *clients* and list below the speedometer (which shows aggregate bandwidth used)
the highest sustained throughput for say the top 30 users.
then post it to slashdot and boing boing as a contest, with the top rated clients winning a nintendo revolution, xbox 360 and playstation3 dream system.
after the above (a hard days work) go to sleep and when you wake up you'll find a brand new world awaits.
this is good news but what really should happen first is a suitable replacement for the M$oft backend, opening myself to suggestions here but until you
replace the server we are all at the mercy of Microsoft and their usual patch it to break it mentality.
Again, overall I think the patent system needs a lot of reform; but innovations only appear to be common sense after they've been introduced; and my statement (not arguing) about cheap commodity hardware still holds true, even at a low level there is software in there; and going forward much of what defines the hardware is the software. The real problem with software patents as I see it is defining at what point is it patentable, your example is valid, Carmack was the first to really make something of the idea but Bilodeau and Songy beat him to the punch by 3 years, Carmack might have been able to get this reversed but I am pretty sure the blackmail fee's were less then the legal challange for something that really could have been done a number of ways.
This looks like a good first step;
The DRM folks already have an eye aimed in the direction of the opensource folks; Its pretty obvious that most DRM removed is done so with the assistance of opensource and/or free/shareware.
A fair amount of funding for opensource projects come from companies that stand to gain something from the development that occurs and/or the good press provided; without patents much of what we use today (you like that fancy computer in front of you right)? wouldn't exist and/or wouldn't be so cheap that you could own it. This isn't really a defense for the kind of patents that have been filed; filing a patent on something because it seems that no one else has is a horrible thing (nintendo patents sanity comes to mind) but the system is set up to reward those who innovate.
and so I ramble but my point is this:
I've spent the good portion of 5 years trying to get the fortune 500 company I work for to openly accept GPL/GNU software as the good thing it is; a clause of this nature will most likely make all of the work a loss as this company regularly files patents and a good majority of them are accepted; Some will say this is a choice; I suspect this kind of approach will work, it will make successful companies look elsewhere for the tools they need and will prevent some of the good development being done from being released into the wild........
again, I ramble......
Some day in the far distant future I can imagine wings being given to astronauts who have dared to take their space craft into an atmosphere, until that day this does seem to be an inappropriate thing to give a pilot for leaving the atmosphere.......
Either way its good to see NASA stepping up after awarding basically the same thing to the first 'privately funded' astronaut.
The trick to all of this isn't fair use, you have that, its breaking DRM that these media idiots are using as a vehicle to their means. what would make this interesting would be a copy program that doesn't simply extract but one that *keeps* the DRM intact; take the teeth away from the maggots. Some would consider this still a violation but that comes down to method; hand the copy to them and ask for a copy...... only real problem might be where the key is written.
That would require a player that would read a key from a non-standard location, making the player would be a violation as well but much harder to explain in court, shouldn't be that hard to hack a legitimate player to read the keys from elsewhere.
Not exactly sure what area your talking about but as someone presently sitting inside the StorageTek campus I can assure you that near the campus there are little if any problems regarding access to broadband; two wireless providers (WiFi and Sprint Broadband, Qworst DSL and ISDN and Comcast) I have a 6 down 1 up link and it works just fine.
As to the purchase, this a great fit for both STK and SUN.
Thought Einstein was classified in the INTP; your link agrees.
http://www.typelogic.com/intp.html
I have a piece of host rock on my desk as a paperweight, its purple and yellow (you can guess that the yellow isn't sulfur) you can find this stuff all over the place in Colorado; After reading this veritable cookbook I figure I can get a bunch of these and using my home centrifudge (gas dryer, should be able to heat these rocks to 64 degrees right?) I should be able to get some usable fuel out of my dryers outlet (hot air, lighter U235) this should all be really simple.
Now the Plutonium fuelled bomb should be much easier as it would seem I can just drive over to Rocky Flats and pick some up with a berylium happy meal, they lost 50-80 lbs of the stuff during their hay day, all I gots to do is get me a geiger counter and go looking for it like I would jewelry at the beach; and don't forget item #1 in the plutonum bomb diagram, the trigger, a source of neutrons, or what the heck a neuron generator, think I have one of those in my car, lets see.........
My understanding about the copy of ROTS available via BT, FTP and US Mail for those with friends nice enough is that its a studio work copy, not a shaky cam or a midnight theatre transfer but a copy from luc@Sarts, obviously the people who did this knew it was wrong but the MPAA is really trying to control distribution chains, PTP isn't Pay per Play friendly, I read earlier in this post that TCP/IP is to blame, really by this logic it is, really if given the choice the media folks would put a DRM chip on each hard drive, network interface, CPU, Burner, ETC. Welcome to the new world.
As I sit here using Safari...... I wonder what this page would look like using IE; If you don't want your code vastly changed with little in the way of documentation don't release it OSS, the GPL says little in how you can modify code and much in your responsibility to release said modifications; Apple is paying, PAYING, folks to modify OSS code to better suit their customers needs, Safari is far from being the best browser and often I find myself using Firefox but wouldn't it be worse of Apple to take an OSS project and not improve it?
I watched a couple of episodes and couldn't quite figure out why I kept thinking about Ziggy, Farscape and a show called voyagers; just couldn't watch it after that.....
Good news, we have a cure for your cancer.
Bad news, Bruno here is going to administer it.
OK, flying mower doesn't seem to be that crazy, a flying mower that can do what appear to be unbalanced/eggdrop loops!!!
It also appears to be prop pulled, my first assumption was that this was a heli conversion, hats off to this 'hobbyist'
After all, our customers had a choice.
Just to get the question of bias out of the way, I'm typing
on an Apple laptop.
Twice this week I've had to help customers either remove or
completely rebuild/restore Windows because of spy/malware.
In the first case the machine was 'enhanced' with a 'search-bar'
that replaced key parts (read dll's) of IE, removal of this
'enhancement' would render the machine unuasable, while
this software was installed previous to installed SP2 and the most recent batch of Microsoft issued security patches it none the less went undetected by the OS and was only found when NAV was ran.
Now I understand that Microsoft has argued that what you add to IE is your own fault and to some point I agree, but only in
the case where you realize your installing software; If you install fast freddy's pronfinder tool bar you most likely want others to watch you. But Microsoft should concede that the browser, which they've stated is truly part of the OS should be treated wtih more care then if it were just an application (as it should be).
Given that security usually comes at the cost of some
ease of use; Microsoft has choosen to make its OS easy and
at the same time they choose to ignore the customers demands
for more secure default for firstrun. It would not be hard to lock the machine down until its had a chance to check for patches/updates/service packs (call them what you will).
Recently I've read about motherboard manufacturers building appliance style firewalls into their onboard ethernet, sounds like a cool option but they're doing it because their primary audience *NEEDS* it, and truly this might be best for all of us, so long as the filters can be configured to curb outbound traffic as well.
states that most Windows users are using stolen copies of the now defacto OS.
yet another obvious attempt by Microsoft to discredit a company or product that they see as a threat to their ever shrinking market space; good ol screaming balmer would have you use Windows media with *new and improved* drm. Too bad it doesn't sound good and too bad that the 'theives' format on my iPod is aac and protected aac.
If these were deployed globally and constructed in a manner that would allow satellite monitoring; well, my thought is why not build em to go bang as well? Power goes in areas where it can be used (cities) and the if the country becomes unfriendly we add a little green glass (trinatite) to the tourist attractions.
I thought this was another folding@home screensaver;
Still this bodes well for the paper industry, long offices are truly paperless people will find uses for this dangerous (read papercut) weapon.