No, the reason why we have draconian DRM is that people like you keep buying privative software. Do you truly believe that the software industry will halt? that if you don't pay for software humanity will stop producing software? Try again.
You can't stop innovation. People will create, no matter what you do. If we ALL stopped buying ANY kind of software for 24 months we'll see a new copyright law that doesn't suck, we'll see software that is standards compliant, in short, the world would change. And all you have to do, is just use only Free Software for 24 months, and then, you'll be using Free Software for ever, because all software will be Free. We'll still pay for software, just in a different way.
It's people like you, that complain about DRM and then rush to the iTunes store to get a new song that are keeping us in the dark ages of information.
You would have taken the money, banged all the hot scientologists you could get your hands on, gotten the fuck out of there, and called it a night. Just like the rest of us;) (And like this guy, off course)
Now, looking back at the movie with fresh eyes, I can't help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest. In the end, did Scientology get me laid? What do you think? No way do you get any action by boldly going up to a woman and proclaiming, "I wrote Battlefield Earth!" If anything, I'm trying to figure out a way to bottle it and use it as birth control. I'll make a mint!
Read the whole interview. It's totally worth it. A mans odyssey while trying to get laid at all costs.
I agree. My point was precisely showing the other people saying that the system could be exploited how hard and improbable an exploit like that would be.
It's had a vulnerability because microsoft made it. Vulnerabilities are their signature. And, as I explained before, it was a microsoft product (which means it wasn't fixed).
Leaving aside vulnerabilities on any particular implementation, the only possible attack vector I see would be a bruteforce approach. Basically, a user in one VM creates random n bytes size files with all possible combinations of files of that size (off course, this would only be feasible for very small files, but/etc/shadow is usually small enough, and so is everything on $HOME/.ssh/). Eventually, the user would create a file that would match a copy on another VM. Off course, this would be useless without a way to check if another file was matched and deduplication took place. If the deduplication solution has any virtual guest software (like vmware tools), and that tool shares this kind of information with other systems, it might be possible, but that's a big might.
Any reasonably implemented deduplication solution should be 100% transparent to the guest, and very secure.
And, to all the people talking about "shared resources", deduplication doesn't create "shared resources". Deduplication is not similar to symbolic links (ln -s). If you want to compare it to links, you have to compare it to hard links, and that would be hard links that automatically dereferenced and created a new copy of the file with all the blocks as soon as the user wanted to write to that file. Remember, as soon as the file changes on any given guest, the information is not the same anymore, and so that file is not de-duplicated anymore. A user can change his copy of the file, not other people's files.
Hey, slow down cowboy. Explain that concept to me again. I don't know if it's applicable here, but if we find a way to implement it, it might just prove revolutionary.
I work in the quality assurance department of Geeknet Inc, Slashdot's parent company. We are constantly looking for ways to improve all the sites on our network.
I don't know if this method you propose, that, if I understand correctly, would involve parsing the content of the html document linked, and having an editor analyze the output of such html document after being rendered (let's call it, reading the story), is at all possible. But if we implement it the right way, it might prove useful.
We'll get our research team to work over this reading-the-story concept. It's something absolutely novel to us, so it might take a while. We'll let you know when we reach a conclusion, so that we might license this reading-the-story technology from you.
Yes, I agree. But the main issue with that paradigm is that many times the expense of one of your locations (and the quality of that location) is substantially lower than the other.
Example: I run servers on the US, Brasil and Argentina. The US server has better, cheaper bandwidth than the other two. Also, since this are VoIP servers, sometimes the services I send the calls to are in the US anyway, so even if the call goes originally to Argentina's POP, I'm still forwarding it to some IP in the US anyway.
So, in that case, I want the Arg/Brasil locations for other traffic (that's why there are there), and for local connectivity, but balancing our main traffic there makes no sense from any point of view. So, I only failover to those servers when I have an issue in our main location.
Sometimes, you have many resources you can use in emergencies, but you don't want to use them when the main location is clearly cheaper and better.
Most laptop's "mic in" port is actually stereo. The only issue is, a real line-in expects a Phantom, while the mic-in doesn't. You can do one of two things:
a) Buy a phantom remover, or make your own. They are very cheap, and you can even make one in 10 minutes with only basic soldering skills Google for it. b) If it's something quick, and quality isn't a major issue, you can try setting the gain for that port really down and recording that way. It works fine most of the time.
Stop looking for USB devices with a line-in. I've already looked, there are none.
Triangulation based on cellphone towers works, and it's been used for years, even before cellphones you could triangulate radio signals. It basically works in the same way GPS does, except the towers are closer than satellites, and it's less accurate.
In Argentina, Movistar provides you with that information. Basically, you have a service where you can send a text message to a given number, asking for location information of a given cellphone. The mobile you are trying to track gets an SMS requesting authorization. If the owner replys with a 1, you get the info through SMS. This service doesn't actually triangulate, it just tells you at how many meters the mobile is from the tower it's currently connected too based on signal strenght, so it only uses one tower, and basically says "Mobile phone XXXXXX is within 100 meters of ". it's pretty accurate.
You are completely wrong. America was considered to be a single continent, divided into North, Central, and South America. That changed in the 50s, when the USA wanted to get out the word that they had their own fucking continent.
America was named after Americo Vespucio. He named ALL OF THIS LANDS, North to South, America.
Also, why do YOU get to determine the name of South America? Why do YOU get to define that we are "The Americas"? Only in USA textbooks we are called "The Americas". Nowhere else. Spain, the country that discovered all of America calls the whole continent America.
There are songs from a variety of countries refering to "America" as the whole continent.
I think you have been brainwashed by the education in your country, and I think you believe you are too important. I think you should shut the fuck up.
Not only you guys have wine, there's a reason most varieties are named after French regions.
France still produces the best wine in the world, period.
Regardless of what the ignorant gringos say, France knows how to live. In fact, the only thing I don't like about France is that they won't let us use their names anymore (Why do I have to say "blue cheese" instead of just Roquefort?
It probably supports VNC, so you can probably connect to any kind of host OS. Again, it's better to just build a cheap Atom based microitx pc next to the TV.
This is just the usual "breakthrough" that is nothing but old technology applied to X. Like the usual useless patent "doing whatever ON THE INTERNET"
You can buy cheap devices that have a VGA out plus 4 USB ports that can be used to create thin terminals. This is the same thing except it has a HDMI out instead of VGA.
And the extra processing power is probably to support bigger resolutions and have short enough latencies to be able to support video.
That $200 price was in Argentinian Pesos (52 dollars), That's a reserve 2004 I was talking about from the wine club, so, a little more expensive than the other younger wines under of the same label. Benjamin Nieto is exported, but under a different label (can't remember the name right now)
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No, the reason why we have draconian DRM is that people like you keep buying privative software. Do you truly believe that the software industry will halt? that if you don't pay for software humanity will stop producing software? Try again.
You can't stop innovation. People will create, no matter what you do. If we ALL stopped buying ANY kind of software for 24 months we'll see a new copyright law that doesn't suck, we'll see software that is standards compliant, in short, the world would change. And all you have to do, is just use only Free Software for 24 months, and then, you'll be using Free Software for ever, because all software will be Free. We'll still pay for software, just in a different way.
It's people like you, that complain about DRM and then rush to the iTunes store to get a new song that are keeping us in the dark ages of information.
You would have taken the money, banged all the hot scientologists you could get your hands on, gotten the fuck out of there, and called it a night. Just like the rest of us ;) (And like this guy, off course)
Now, looking back at the movie with fresh eyes, I can't help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest.
In the end, did Scientology get me laid? What do you think? No way do you get any action by boldly going up to a woman and proclaiming, "I wrote Battlefield Earth!" If anything, I'm trying to figure out a way to bottle it and use it as birth control. I'll make a mint!
Read the whole interview. It's totally worth it. A mans odyssey while trying to get laid at all costs.
I agree. My point was precisely showing the other people saying that the system could be exploited how hard and improbable an exploit like that would be.
http://xkcd.com/225/
So, Blade Runner was about de-duplication?
It's had a vulnerability because microsoft made it. Vulnerabilities are their signature.
And, as I explained before, it was a microsoft product (which means it wasn't fixed).
Leaving aside vulnerabilities on any particular implementation, the only possible attack vector I see would be a bruteforce approach. Basically, a user in one VM creates random n bytes size files with all possible combinations of files of that size (off course, this would only be feasible for very small files, but /etc/shadow is usually small enough, and so is everything on $HOME/.ssh/). Eventually, the user would create a file that would match a copy on another VM. Off course, this would be useless without a way to check if another file was matched and deduplication took place. If the deduplication solution has any virtual guest software (like vmware tools), and that tool shares this kind of information with other systems, it might be possible, but that's a big might.
Any reasonably implemented deduplication solution should be 100% transparent to the guest, and very secure.
And, to all the people talking about "shared resources", deduplication doesn't create "shared resources". Deduplication is not similar to symbolic links (ln -s). If you want to compare it to links, you have to compare it to hard links, and that would be hard links that automatically dereferenced and created a new copy of the file with all the blocks as soon as the user wanted to write to that file. Remember, as soon as the file changes on any given guest, the information is not the same anymore, and so that file is not de-duplicated anymore. A user can change his copy of the file, not other people's files.
Hey, slow down cowboy. Explain that concept to me again. I don't know if it's applicable here, but if we find a way to implement it, it might just prove revolutionary.
I work in the quality assurance department of Geeknet Inc, Slashdot's parent company. We are constantly looking for ways to improve all the sites on our network.
I don't know if this method you propose, that, if I understand correctly, would involve parsing the content of the html document linked, and having an editor analyze the output of such html document after being rendered (let's call it, reading the story), is at all possible. But if we implement it the right way, it might prove useful.
We'll get our research team to work over this reading-the-story concept. It's something absolutely novel to us, so it might take a while. We'll let you know when we reach a conclusion, so that we might license this reading-the-story technology from you.
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GeekNet INC.
Yes, I agree. But the main issue with that paradigm is that many times the expense of one of your locations (and the quality of that location) is substantially lower than the other.
Example: I run servers on the US, Brasil and Argentina. The US server has better, cheaper bandwidth than the other two. Also, since this are VoIP servers, sometimes the services I send the calls to are in the US anyway, so even if the call goes originally to Argentina's POP, I'm still forwarding it to some IP in the US anyway.
So, in that case, I want the Arg/Brasil locations for other traffic (that's why there are there), and for local connectivity, but balancing our main traffic there makes no sense from any point of view. So, I only failover to those servers when I have an issue in our main location.
Sometimes, you have many resources you can use in emergencies, but you don't want to use them when the main location is clearly cheaper and better.
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It's been like that for a long time.
Not only that, high quality cameras will have multiple CCDs.
A video camera with one 1/4 '' Sharp CCD is not the same as a camera with three Sony 1/3'' CCDs. Even if they both deliver 5 megapixel images.
Most laptop's "mic in" port is actually stereo. The only issue is, a real line-in expects a Phantom, while the mic-in doesn't. You can do one of two things:
a) Buy a phantom remover, or make your own. They are very cheap, and you can even make one in 10 minutes with only basic soldering skills Google for it.
b) If it's something quick, and quality isn't a major issue, you can try setting the gain for that port really down and recording that way. It works fine most of the time.
Stop looking for USB devices with a line-in. I've already looked, there are none.
Triangulation based on cellphone towers works, and it's been used for years, even before cellphones you could triangulate radio signals. It basically works in the same way GPS does, except the towers are closer than satellites, and it's less accurate.
In Argentina, Movistar provides you with that information. Basically, you have a service where you can send a text message to a given number, asking for location information of a given cellphone. The mobile you are trying to track gets an SMS requesting authorization. If the owner replys with a 1, you get the info through SMS. This service doesn't actually triangulate, it just tells you at how many meters the mobile is from the tower it's currently connected too based on signal strenght, so it only uses one tower, and basically says "Mobile phone XXXXXX is within 100 meters of ". it's pretty accurate.
Nooooooo! Sacrilege! Heresy!
You are completely wrong. America was considered to be a single continent, divided into North, Central, and South America. That changed in the 50s, when the USA wanted to get out the word that they had their own fucking continent.
America was named after Americo Vespucio. He named ALL OF THIS LANDS, North to South, America.
Also, why do YOU get to determine the name of South America? Why do YOU get to define that we are "The Americas"? Only in USA textbooks we are called "The Americas". Nowhere else. Spain, the country that discovered all of America calls the whole continent America.
There are songs from a variety of countries refering to "America" as the whole continent.
I think you have been brainwashed by the education in your country, and I think you believe you are too important. I think you should shut the fuck up.
Wow! Really? You have wines in France? ;)
Not only you guys have wine, there's a reason most varieties are named after French regions.
France still produces the best wine in the world, period.
Regardless of what the ignorant gringos say, France knows how to live. In fact, the only thing I don't like about France is that they won't let us use their names anymore (Why do I have to say "blue cheese" instead of just Roquefort?
We are the world's 5th biggest Wine Exporter. The whole world enjoys our wines.
Now, where are you from? Chile, California, or what other region with Inferior wines and ladies?
That chip has probably the same processing power the iPad has.
It probably supports VNC, so you can probably connect to any kind of host OS. Again, it's better to just build a cheap Atom based microitx pc next to the TV.
This is just the usual "breakthrough" that is nothing but old technology applied to X. Like the usual useless patent "doing whatever ON THE INTERNET"
You can buy cheap devices that have a VGA out plus 4 USB ports that can be used to create thin terminals. This is the same thing except it has a HDMI out instead of VGA.
And the extra processing power is probably to support bigger resolutions and have short enough latencies to be able to support video.
Ah Crap!, again?
Ok, this wines weren't counterfeit either.
They were (supposedly) wines saying to have certain qualities they didn't have.
It's normal to get a bottle saying to be a 1985 reserve that is actually a 2002 bottle. Still a very good wine, just cheaper and not that rare.
Now, how many cars promise to get certain amount of miles per galon, and km until you need a service, and don't actually get nearly even close?
That's a close enough analogy.
I could never survive to trip without tripping either ;)
And, agreed, the official Airport drink is Johnny Walker, BL
Can't help it dude. We are like cats and mouses.
That $200 price was in Argentinian Pesos (52 dollars), That's a reserve 2004 I was talking about from the wine club, so, a little more expensive than the other younger wines under of the same label. Benjamin Nieto is exported, but under a different label (can't remember the name right now)