Isn't this another good argument against monopolies?
You could use the same argument against "standards." But you wouldn't. Yes, if everything were made completely different from everything else, sure, it would be harder to mount large scale attacks against anything. You would have to tailor your exploit to all of the different architectures you are interested in. The downside of course is that you will have thousands of people constantly working on different designs for the same wheel. Promoting diversity within even a company like Microsoft would likely accomplish the same thing, but once again, would be highly impractical.
You're off your rocker son:) Someone searching for playboy is obviously interested in NAKED WOMEN. Presenting competing products is HOW ADVERTISING WORKS.
That's not how advertising works.. that's how trademark infringement works.
This would be like me constructing a building that looks like a Burger King, putting the Burger King logo on the front, but when customers come in the door, informing them that it's actually a McDonalds..
"Burger" & "King" are certainly English words.. but you are using their popularity which was gained from someone elses hard work to profit from it. That's obviously unfair, and exactly why trademarks exist.
proposes an interesting way to get a manned mission to Mars - leave them there.
I think we should have some sort of official voting process to decide who gets chosen for these missions. I know I could think of a few people I would like to nominate.
Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.
I think it's clear they are all refering to SkyOS. It's been rumoured that HP is planning on dropping HP-UX in favor of SkyOS sometime in 2004.
Hacker culture really does suck. A bunch of pasty-faced smelling fat t-shirt wearing beer stained straight edge libertarian or obnoxious green pedophiles come together to explore how many ways they can produce the same buffer overflow and call it brilliance.
Yeah, DefCon is just like that. A bunch of guys in a conference room.. gang-raping children, tossing beer all about, but not actually drinking it, for moral reasons.. and then having a big circle jerk when they discover new buffer overflows. They might all be dressed up like Adolf Hitler.. just for good measure.
Yeah, that's good advice. Last time I threatened legal action against a company, they responded by filing a lawsuit against me for threatening a lawsuit against them, and won so much money that I had to declare bankruptcy
At first I thought you were serious, but then realized you were someone who's both never had a company, and never been involved in a civil case before. Because that's almost exactly what can happen. Either that, or you spend so much money defending your position that you go bankrupt. If you think it's never happened, or doesn't happen often.. get a clue.. and learn to use google.
1) Pay a lawyer a small fee to have him write a letter to the offending company suggesting that their GPL violation will result in litigation if they don't work with you to resolve the problem.
2) The offending company's legal department will probably ignore you if you address them directly, so it helps a lot to have a lawyer write the letter (and send it certified mail with return receipt - that always scares people)
3) Pray they don't actually call you on your shit and put your company out of business.
Let people hang out, and they will take advantage by bringing in starbucks and filling your ashtrays.
Don't allow outside food or drink of course..
But also, I think the idea about hiring chicks is a great one really, for this demographic.
Using something like Alcohol 120 is a good idea also.. Having identical PCs of course is a good idea, and maintaining a master image on some locked up computer to ghost out to the game PCs seems mandatory. That way, really.. who cares if a Windows installation gets trashed.. you can automate image pushes every night. That way you greatly reduce the chances of people installing trojans, keyloggers, trainers, etc. Any changes will just get nuked every night.
It sounds like a fun idea. Definitely more viable these days than even just a couple of years ago. "LAN Party" is almost a mainstream concept now..
You would be able to add more content to a single disc. Perhaps rather than buying "The Sopranos" season 1 and having 10 discs to keep track of.. These new discs might be able to reduce that clutter down to maybe 2 discs, double sided.
See this is an example of the kind of argument people will make in favor of this new technology without taking into account how it will actually be implmented. Frankly, I'm disgusted at the whole thing.
Sure they COULD fit more than 4 episodes of The Sopranos on one of these new discs, but will they? Of course not. More often than not you buy a DVD with TV episodes on it, and they don't even try to fill the DVD.. let alone take advantage of multiple layers. All this will be is another way to screw the consumer, force people to upgrade their collections, and add new security features.. which may or may not hold.
It's bullshit really.. and it's maddening. You buy hundreds of VHS tapes, they come out with DVD. You buy hundreds of DVDs, get a DVD burner, feel satisfied that the standard will be here for awhile.. now this. It will be years and years before there are any HD-DVD burners, and they will likely cost around $1,000.. if history is any indicator.
Not sure about where you live, but many places here will hold a 20 or 50 up to the light and look for the metallic strip. It's in a different place on each denomination, along with having the words 'twenty' or 'ten' on the strip.
There is actually much more to it than just the strip, but that link is for the older bills anyway. There is also UV on the bills that will show up under black light, microprinting, colorshifting ink, colored interwoven threads.. etc. I've seen some counterfeit bills that have passed, but usually they are of very shitty quality and half the time the person trying to pass them gets caught.
Those funky butterfly-head screws on the Sega Megadrive didn't keep me out. Glue sure as heck won't. I bet ten bucks this thing gets modded faster than it gets bought.
There are ways of making fairly secure physical devices. Banks use them in some of their encryption modules that they don't want people trying to get keys out of. I mean, even the ol' lever on the inside of cable boxes kept most people from rechipping their boxes. There are at least more sophisticated ways than using proprietary screws anyway.
However, that said.. I think I agree with you. I doubt they will invest in any secure technology, and you will have people taking parts out to put in their PCs and tinkering with it to no end. I'm sure people will find ways to "rent" games over this system and keeping them and all kinds of other fun things.
If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical.
First I was wondering why I had never heard of this show, and so I went to the website. Then I was wondering why they were all so ugly.. then I realized it's an English show.
What this has done is screw over customers like me who have problems running games with Securom. I own the game, but can't play it online anymore courtesy of Blizzard adding this new line of security. I guess maybe the exe can be hacked for cheating. If so, that's fair enough to add a CRC check to Battle Net, but if it's to stop people playing without a CD that's just retarded, especially when so many people routinely have problems with Securom.
Local CRC checks and the like will never work anyway. Whatever the EXE does to calculate the CRC to send to their servers can be faked. The only thing that sometimes works is a serial number that needs to be sent to the server to be authenticated against a DB of known serial numbers. Not just an algorithm that can match any one of a couple or a few million numbers.
Fear not. There is going to be plenty of trendy, crappy stuff that your son will want when he is old enough.
Well, better that he's young.. otherwise he might ask you to waste money on a PS2. *duck*
Honestly.. I think this BreaKey thing is kind of cool. If anyone had read the article.. they'd know that it's a little more involved than just breaking things and tossing them. Each key potentially has a prize associated with it. Each key also has a serial number hidden by a scratch off pad. So, you go to school.. beat some kid, and take his key. Now you have 2 keys & 2 serial numbers.. you can enter both of these on the web site and battle other people. If you win you get the prizes associated with both his key and yours. You can also choose to just cash your keys in without risk.. but there may be no prize for that key. So really.. it's kind of a neet idea I think. They also track stats online. When I was a kid, I probably would have loved this.
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Isn't this another good argument against monopolies?
You could use the same argument against "standards." But you wouldn't. Yes, if everything were made completely different from everything else, sure, it would be harder to mount large scale attacks against anything. You would have to tailor your exploit to all of the different architectures you are interested in. The downside of course is that you will have thousands of people constantly working on different designs for the same wheel. Promoting diversity within even a company like Microsoft would likely accomplish the same thing, but once again, would be highly impractical.
You're off your rocker son :) Someone searching for playboy is obviously interested in NAKED WOMEN. Presenting competing products is HOW ADVERTISING WORKS.
That's not how advertising works.. that's how trademark infringement works.
This would be like me constructing a building that looks like a Burger King, putting the Burger King logo on the front, but when customers come in the door, informing them that it's actually a McDonalds..
"Burger" & "King" are certainly English words.. but you are using their popularity which was gained from someone elses hard work to profit from it. That's obviously unfair, and exactly why trademarks exist.
proposes an interesting way to get a manned mission to Mars - leave them there.
I think we should have some sort of official voting process to decide who gets chosen for these missions. I know I could think of a few people I would like to nominate.
Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.
I think it's clear they are all refering to SkyOS. It's been rumoured that HP is planning on dropping HP-UX in favor of SkyOS sometime in 2004.
Hacker culture really does suck. A bunch of pasty-faced smelling fat t-shirt wearing beer stained straight edge libertarian or obnoxious green pedophiles come together to explore how many ways they can produce the same buffer overflow and call it brilliance.
Yeah, DefCon is just like that. A bunch of guys in a conference room.. gang-raping children, tossing beer all about, but not actually drinking it, for moral reasons.. and then having a big circle jerk when they discover new buffer overflows. They might all be dressed up like Adolf Hitler.. just for good measure.
Seriously.. what the hell are you talking about?
2600, the pedophile quarterly
Should I be worried that someone who can't differentiate between "site" and "sight" has a shoot first policy?
:)
Should I be worried that someone who can't differentiate between good humor and idiocy should be allowed to post to Slashdot?
Yeah, that's good advice. Last time I threatened legal action against a company, they responded by filing a lawsuit against me for threatening a lawsuit against them, and won so much money that I had to declare bankruptcy
At first I thought you were serious, but then realized you were someone who's both never had a company, and never been involved in a civil case before. Because that's almost exactly what can happen. Either that, or you spend so much money defending your position that you go bankrupt. If you think it's never happened, or doesn't happen often.. get a clue.. and learn to use google.
1) Pay a lawyer a small fee to have him write a letter to the offending company suggesting that their GPL violation will result in litigation if they don't work with you to resolve the problem.
2) The offending company's legal department will probably ignore you if you address them directly, so it helps a lot to have a lawyer write the letter (and send it certified mail with return receipt - that always scares people)
3) Pray they don't actually call you on your shit and put your company out of business.
...if you intended to give away the code for free in the first place, why are you so concerned that someone is taking it and profiting off of it?
I think the Rap Dictionary would call that a case of "Playa' Hatin'"
What is the Best Way to Handle a GPL Violation?
Shoot on site!!
Let people hang out, and they will take advantage by bringing in starbucks and filling your ashtrays.
Don't allow outside food or drink of course..
But also, I think the idea about hiring chicks is a great one really, for this demographic.
Using something like Alcohol 120 is a good idea also.. Having identical PCs of course is a good idea, and maintaining a master image on some locked up computer to ghost out to the game PCs seems mandatory. That way, really.. who cares if a Windows installation gets trashed.. you can automate image pushes every night. That way you greatly reduce the chances of people installing trojans, keyloggers, trainers, etc. Any changes will just get nuked every night.
It sounds like a fun idea. Definitely more viable these days than even just a couple of years ago. "LAN Party" is almost a mainstream concept now..
The best of luck to you!
You would be able to add more content to a single disc. Perhaps rather than buying "The Sopranos" season 1 and having 10 discs to keep track of.. These new discs might be able to reduce that clutter down to maybe 2 discs, double sided.
See this is an example of the kind of argument people will make in favor of this new technology without taking into account how it will actually be implmented. Frankly, I'm disgusted at the whole thing.
Sure they COULD fit more than 4 episodes of The Sopranos on one of these new discs, but will they? Of course not. More often than not you buy a DVD with TV episodes on it, and they don't even try to fill the DVD.. let alone take advantage of multiple layers. All this will be is another way to screw the consumer, force people to upgrade their collections, and add new security features.. which may or may not hold.
It's bullshit really.. and it's maddening. You buy hundreds of VHS tapes, they come out with DVD. You buy hundreds of DVDs, get a DVD burner, feel satisfied that the standard will be here for awhile.. now this. It will be years and years before there are any HD-DVD burners, and they will likely cost around $1,000.. if history is any indicator.
Does that have something to do with Goatse.cx?
A cigar box full of porn!
Not sure about where you live, but many places here will hold a 20 or 50 up to the light and look for the metallic strip. It's in a different place on each denomination, along with having the words 'twenty' or 'ten' on the strip.
There is actually much more to it than just the strip, but that link is for the older bills anyway. There is also UV on the bills that will show up under black light, microprinting, colorshifting ink, colored interwoven threads.. etc. I've seen some counterfeit bills that have passed, but usually they are of very shitty quality and half the time the person trying to pass them gets caught.
1'v3 b33n us1ng th3 1nt3rn3t f0r 10 y34rz and l00k 4t m3, 1'm f1n3!!!!!!!!!
Am I the only one that finds it "out of character" for a guy who will be 70 years old in 10 days to be the one that leaked the film?
Well, he was in Godfather II.. maybe he's working for the MOB!
They don't look very well made (when was the last time you saw rivets on the outside of you connectors like those USB ports?)
Those aren't rivets, they are "secure" screws.. the kind the phone company uses on payphone panels. You can buy the bits though.. I have them.
Those funky butterfly-head screws on the Sega Megadrive didn't keep me out. Glue sure as heck won't. I bet ten bucks this thing gets modded faster than it gets bought.
There are ways of making fairly secure physical devices. Banks use them in some of their encryption modules that they don't want people trying to get keys out of. I mean, even the ol' lever on the inside of cable boxes kept most people from rechipping their boxes. There are at least more sophisticated ways than using proprietary screws anyway.
However, that said.. I think I agree with you. I doubt they will invest in any secure technology, and you will have people taking parts out to put in their PCs and tinkering with it to no end. I'm sure people will find ways to "rent" games over this system and keeping them and all kinds of other fun things.
they have to sort out their operating practices to have any hope of succeeding
They might want to invest in a spell checker too.
If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical.
Looks like a good show anyway, kind of like Office Space I guess.
If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical.
First I was wondering why I had never heard of this show, and so I went to the website. Then I was wondering why they were all so ugly.. then I realized it's an English show.
What this has done is screw over customers like me who have problems running games with Securom. I own the game, but can't play it online anymore courtesy of Blizzard adding this new line of security. I guess maybe the exe can be hacked for cheating. If so, that's fair enough to add a CRC check to Battle Net, but if it's to stop people playing without a CD that's just retarded, especially when so many people routinely have problems with Securom.
Local CRC checks and the like will never work anyway. Whatever the EXE does to calculate the CRC to send to their servers can be faked. The only thing that sometimes works is a serial number that needs to be sent to the server to be authenticated against a DB of known serial numbers. Not just an algorithm that can match any one of a couple or a few million numbers.
Fear not. There is going to be plenty of trendy, crappy stuff that your son will want when he is old enough.
Well, better that he's young.. otherwise he might ask you to waste money on a PS2. *duck*
Honestly.. I think this BreaKey thing is kind of cool. If anyone had read the article.. they'd know that it's a little more involved than just breaking things and tossing them. Each key potentially has a prize associated with it. Each key also has a serial number hidden by a scratch off pad. So, you go to school.. beat some kid, and take his key. Now you have 2 keys & 2 serial numbers.. you can enter both of these on the web site and battle other people. If you win you get the prizes associated with both his key and yours. You can also choose to just cash your keys in without risk.. but there may be no prize for that key. So really.. it's kind of a neet idea I think. They also track stats online. When I was a kid, I probably would have loved this.
All that chatter, with the codewords they use, could possibly be understood by a football field full of Linux rackmounts, and might foil something.
You don't need much technology to predict future terrorist attacks. I just used google.. and look what I found!