It's still doing it a different way than Frauenhaufer does; It's called LAME 'cos LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. It's something different, that creates files that behave very much like mp3s are expected to.
It would be fud if he somehow implied that it's a problem in OSX. He didn't. He, in fact, went so far as to specifically state that the issue is not with OS-X at all, but with the third-party driver for the WiFi card, and made sure it was known that this issue affects all OS'es with support for that card. The fact that he used a mac was to prove that, yes, even the most 'secure' of the OSes is still vulnerable, because IT'S NOT AN ISSUE WITH THE OS.
Look, don't tell the mac fanboys, but they caused the ruckus, being so angry about their preh-shee-us status symbols vulnerability. This guy was just demonstrating an exploit.
All that shows is that he sucessfully hacked an Apple card, and used another card in an effort to not get Apple's sleek white helecopters to come in and fill him fully of well-designed bullets.
To which all the mac fanboys cover their ears and say 'No! No! Just go away! -1 Flamebait! -1 Flamebait!'
novel algorithm for decoding MP3. Such a thing, if it existed (which it probably cannot)
Actually, novel algorithms exist for both encoding and decoding. It's then believable that Sandisk built their MP3 players without any Frauenhoffer code.
This is more like the.GIF debacle - where a company claims responsibility for all code that creates or reads the format they designed. It's obviously bullshit, but apparently Frauenhoffer don't take US victories for free-and-open use as precedent.
"If that's all it was, then why has no one else been able to create an equivalent tool to Joerg's?"
I don't know about most of the CDRTools, but Linux 2.6 doesn't need cdrecord; you can just dd an ISO file to/dev/cd or/dev/dvd (they dropped the SCSI hack).
Meanwhile, I've been working on an ISO editing lib for the Slax team. The requirements for the project are that 1) it creates no temporary files, 2) it uses no hard drive space other than the destination file (and swap space if the OS deems it), 3) it can add, delete, extract and duplicate files from the VFS to/from the ISO, 4) It can do this directly to a CD-RW.
Any musician trying to make it realizes that the pile of cash is a loan, and that they won't get much actual money after the label decides to recoup it.
They need to couple this move with a system for easily booking gigs and travel, at post-gig expensing (short-term zero-interest loan to pay for the gig, with MySpace recovering the expenses plus a production fee from ticket sales, the remainder going to the bands)
I have no problem with non-DRM music either (in fact, I actively have a problem with DRM), but I do think that the music should be embedded, at download time, with an encrypted buyer signature, embedded wholesale into the audio with good DCT-resistant steganography.
'cos the labels tried to do that with metadata tags, and it just doesn't work that way.
Heh. You realize that most of the bands on MySpace want nothing to do with the Ramrod Inserting Association of America, right?
Clueless Scout: Hey! I'm with FUI Records. I relaly like your music, and I want to discuss getting you signed with us. MySpace Musician: Please do fuck off. I've got a gig to go to.
No, I'm saying that your bandwidth isn't shared on your IP block with other cable subscribers. I said nothing of traffic shaping, and neither did GP.
You're limited by the bandwidth your block can get between the home office and the wider internet, but they do have far more bandwidth to burn than the cable line to the home office does. Meanwhile, on cable you have this restriction too, in addition to the bandwidth sharing.
I'm curious about that, by the way. With the supposed competitiveness in broadband ISPs, why isn't Verizon, MCI, AT&T and such lighting up all the dark fibre I keep hearing about? It strikes me as strange that they're fighting legislation that would prevent them from using prioritization, and are doing all kinds of bandwidth shaping, always complaining that current use exceeds their capacity.
My theory: They're trying to garner the public opinion that they're giving a really great deal on access, so when they DO light up the fibre, they can charge exorbantly for it.
Aww, poor guy. Can't get your internets 'cos your tubes are clogged? Well, look. I'll tell you what. I have a baseball bat with razor blades glued on. If you'll just bend over, I can use it to clear your tube.
Seriously, dude. Stop smoking the crack, and next time you're faced with a decision to use either DSL or Cable, buy the one that doesn't give your neighbors the ability to waste all the bandwidth.
AOL: We abuse our users! They don't know any better! We put in place some false protections that are actually worse than the problems they cause themselves (quite a feat, if we say ourselves)! Netscape: Ok, we'll offer our browser for free! ??? Profit! (this model works better when its open source. Instead of paying lots of developers and bandwidth, you pay for a couple of lead developers and bandwidth)
Apple: We sell the best price point for high-end hardware and personal mp3 players (but indevices on the market. We package it with a seriously customized Unix distro. We have a zealotously faithful fanbase. We work hard to keep them faithful. Google: We are the gatekeepers of the internet. Others try to move in, but we persevere through sheer quality of service. And unobtrusive advertising.
Um... chit chat is like that. There are bound to be uncomfortable subjects. Just smile cheekily and get on with life.
e.g.: It's ok because he was getting treated and is OK. You know prostate cancer exists. You know the effects (and if you don't, you're not doing your, 'ok, when I get old...' research). Find it amusing and move on.
"How did this post get through Slashdots lame-posts-only filter?"...
*looks shifty-eyed*/whisper don't tell no one, ok./loudly OMFG! Linux rules! Mac's so much better than win! Bite it, M$! Mod parent up! Something about overlords!/whisper that'll fool 'em.
I know what you mean. I'm honestly the only dude in my department (well, aside from the token gay dude, but he's more of a girl than some of the girls there, and proud of it).
How do I deal?
They're coworkers. I involve myself in the dynamics of the job and the personalities of my coworkers. Anything less is... well, not doing your job.
If the problem is the respect of your peers, demand their respect. If you're unsure about something, think it through and try to get the right answer for yourself before asking for help (don't take hours to do it). Get things done both quickly and right.
No, I'm not assuming these things need to be said to women. It's how I learned to earn my coworkers' respect.
Also, -1 Flamebait to this article for assuming that being the 'only one' is a girl-only problem. Any new job comes with that feeling. It's just amplified when you're outside of your gender pool. Get over it, and get to work.
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not me. Mine's kinda strong.
It's still doing it a different way than Frauenhaufer does; It's called LAME 'cos LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. It's something different, that creates files that behave very much like mp3s are expected to.
It would be fud if he somehow implied that it's a problem in OSX. He didn't. He, in fact, went so far as to specifically state that the issue is not with OS-X at all, but with the third-party driver for the WiFi card, and made sure it was known that this issue affects all OS'es with support for that card. The fact that he used a mac was to prove that, yes, even the most 'secure' of the OSes is still vulnerable, because IT'S NOT AN ISSUE WITH THE OS.
Pay some fucking attention.
Even Elich doesn't claim it work on internal wifi.
Why the fuck must mac zealots be such zea-
Shit, answered my own question.
*shhh*
Look, don't tell the mac fanboys, but they caused the ruckus, being so angry about their preh-shee-us status symbols vulnerability. This guy was just demonstrating an exploit.
Daring Fucktard's challenge involves a clean, 3rd-party device free macbook. If you'll please note, the video had a 3rd-party card in it.
All that shows is that he sucessfully hacked an Apple card, and used another card in an effort to not get Apple's sleek white helecopters to come in and fill him fully of well-designed bullets.
To which all the mac fanboys cover their ears and say 'No! No! Just go away! -1 Flamebait! -1 Flamebait!'
novel algorithm for decoding MP3. Such a thing, if it existed (which it probably cannot)
Actually, novel algorithms exist for both encoding and decoding. It's then believable that Sandisk built their MP3 players without any Frauenhoffer code.
This is more like the .GIF debacle - where a company claims responsibility for all code that creates or reads the format they designed. It's obviously bullshit, but apparently Frauenhoffer don't take US victories for free-and-open use as precedent.
Wow. I post something deliberately misleading, and it gets modded informative.
Congratulations, slashdot. You failed the intelligence test. Now moderate PP as 'Troll -1', please.
"If that's all it was, then why has no one else been able to create an equivalent tool to Joerg's?"
/dev/cd or /dev/dvd (they dropped the SCSI hack).
I don't know about most of the CDRTools, but Linux 2.6 doesn't need cdrecord; you can just dd an ISO file to
Meanwhile, I've been working on an ISO editing lib for the Slax team. The requirements for the project are that 1) it creates no temporary files, 2) it uses no hard drive space other than the destination file (and swap space if the OS deems it), 3) it can add, delete, extract and duplicate files from the VFS to/from the ISO, 4) It can do this directly to a CD-RW.
Any musician trying to make it realizes that the pile of cash is a loan, and that they won't get much actual money after the label decides to recoup it.
They need to couple this move with a system for easily booking gigs and travel, at post-gig expensing (short-term zero-interest loan to pay for the gig, with MySpace recovering the expenses plus a production fee from ticket sales, the remainder going to the bands)
I have no problem with non-DRM music either (in fact, I actively have a problem with DRM), but I do think that the music should be embedded, at download time, with an encrypted buyer signature, embedded wholesale into the audio with good DCT-resistant steganography.
'cos the labels tried to do that with metadata tags, and it just doesn't work that way.
Heh. You realize that most of the bands on MySpace want nothing to do with the Ramrod Inserting Association of America, right?
Clueless Scout: Hey! I'm with FUI Records. I relaly like your music, and I want to discuss getting you signed with us.
MySpace Musician: Please do fuck off. I've got a gig to go to.
No, I'm saying that your bandwidth isn't shared on your IP block with other cable subscribers. I said nothing of traffic shaping, and neither did GP.
You're limited by the bandwidth your block can get between the home office and the wider internet, but they do have far more bandwidth to burn than the cable line to the home office does. Meanwhile, on cable you have this restriction too, in addition to the bandwidth sharing.
You know, it's not often someone calls me stupid... or immature... or claims I'm unlikable.... I'm generally forced to laugh at this point.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! I like you. You're funny. Even if you ARE a useless AC.
Naw, seriously. Post as a real human. Pussy.
I'm curious about that, by the way. With the supposed competitiveness in broadband ISPs, why isn't Verizon, MCI, AT&T and such lighting up all the dark fibre I keep hearing about? It strikes me as strange that they're fighting legislation that would prevent them from using prioritization, and are doing all kinds of bandwidth shaping, always complaining that current use exceeds their capacity.
My theory: They're trying to garner the public opinion that they're giving a really great deal on access, so when they DO light up the fibre, they can charge exorbantly for it.
Or, by modifying it slightly to operate on a range of ports rather than a single one.
Aww, poor guy. Can't get your internets 'cos your tubes are clogged? Well, look. I'll tell you what. I have a baseball bat with razor blades glued on. If you'll just bend over, I can use it to clear your tube.
Seriously, dude. Stop smoking the crack, and next time you're faced with a decision to use either DSL or Cable, buy the one that doesn't give your neighbors the ability to waste all the bandwidth.
You forgot game updates from Blizzard, Linux ISOs, large OSS software.
Mod parent up. Seriously.
AOL: We abuse our users! They don't know any better! We put in place some false protections that are actually worse than the problems they cause themselves (quite a feat, if we say ourselves)!
Netscape: Ok, we'll offer our browser for free! ??? Profit! (this model works better when its open source. Instead of paying lots of developers and bandwidth, you pay for a couple of lead developers and bandwidth)
Apple: We sell the best price point for high-end hardware and personal mp3 players (but indevices on the market. We package it with a seriously customized Unix distro. We have a zealotously faithful fanbase. We work hard to keep them faithful.
Google: We are the gatekeepers of the internet. Others try to move in, but we persevere through sheer quality of service. And unobtrusive advertising.
Um... chit chat is like that. There are bound to be uncomfortable subjects. Just smile cheekily and get on with life.
e.g.: It's ok because he was getting treated and is OK. You know prostate cancer exists. You know the effects (and if you don't, you're not doing your, 'ok, when I get old...' research). Find it amusing and move on.
"How did this post get through Slashdots lame-posts-only filter?" ...
/whisper don't tell no one, ok. /loudly OMFG! Linux rules! Mac's so much better than win! Bite it, M$! Mod parent up! Something about overlords! /whisper that'll fool 'em.
*looks shifty-eyed*
You can if he calls himself a sub-genius.
I know what you mean. I'm honestly the only dude in my department (well, aside from the token gay dude, but he's more of a girl than some of the girls there, and proud of it).
... well, not doing your job.
How do I deal?
They're coworkers. I involve myself in the dynamics of the job and the personalities of my coworkers. Anything less is
If the problem is the respect of your peers, demand their respect. If you're unsure about something, think it through and try to get the right answer for yourself before asking for help (don't take hours to do it). Get things done both quickly and right.
No, I'm not assuming these things need to be said to women. It's how I learned to earn my coworkers' respect.
Also, -1 Flamebait to this article for assuming that being the 'only one' is a girl-only problem. Any new job comes with that feeling. It's just amplified when you're outside of your gender pool. Get over it, and get to work.