One difference. Having been through Cario, most bigwigs are not going to go under again. Especially with DRM. DRM is acceptable on someone else's computer, but when it's your corporation brought to its knees by this, do you think for a second that they'd invite it?
Some nice ideas there, but why do they make the clock take up a fifth of the screen? And the centered-text stuff? I thought that died with Win3.1... Ya know, I feel shallow talking about Windows Longhorn's visual appearance, but at the same time, this seems to be M$'s only real advantage with its recent versions of Windows... not that this will last till '06, tho.
How can you bomb a whole power grid? It'd be better to sabatoge a few critical components, or to somehow DoS them by making a sharp spike in demand. That's the whole idea behind things like the Internet: a system that has no single physical point of failure. You cannot disable the internet with a nuke, short of nuking the entire planet.
I know quite well that Stanford is a public institution, but many times, they get into deals where they do projects for corporations, since they might not get all the money otherwise, might have a corrupt leadership, or many other reasons. Check out the book "No Logo" by Naomi Klien for more on this depressing subject.
Problem: do it based on # of clock cycles, and some rich bastard will set it going with a Beowolf cluster for no other purpose than to get tax breaks... he might even claim the cluster as a business expense! Give the tax break based on individual participation, and someone could get a Zaurus and run BOINC on it, and get every bit as much back in taxes as Mr. Rich Bastard. So, therein is the problem: screw those that can't afford a personal Beowolf, or screw those that can.
Within the USA, "boink" is an innocent otomotpiea (sp?) that is often just to describe things that bounce or make other funny noises, as in the (Calvin and Hobbes) book "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink!'" by Bill Watterson.
Put on your tinfoil hats, kids! It's time for another of cgranade's paranoid rants!
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OK, call me paranoid, but I wont support folding@Home for two main reasons: first, I don't like the Pandora's box that's opened by that level of tampering with genetics. Look at the DMCA crap that's going on, and ask yourself if we're ready for this. I say, hell no. Which brings me to my second reason: who owns the results? I'm not going to "donate" my spare CPU cycles to some monolithic corporation that will use it to screw over consumers everywhere. That's just f***ing stupid... so until these two issues are resolved, I won't support folding. I will support ClimatePrediction.net, tho, since that's too critical to be concerned with money. I would love to use BOINC if I could selectively include/exclude projects, such as folding, which tick me off or rub me wrong in some way.
This effect could be amplified even further by a Melissa-like worm, if anyone remembers that. With so many lusers running M$ e-mail products, it wouldn't be too hard to find a way of making them e-mail out the spam themselves, so that if they don't FFB the spam, then they replicate it! Imagine. By sending one message, someone could take down all of Yahoo!, M$, Google, and a slew of small ISPs that would buckle under the outgoing traffic...
Why not? After all, Bush "innovated" with his electioneering techniques, and SCO "innovated" with their sue-your-own-customers-till-you-piss-'em-off-so-ba d-they'll-never-buy-from-you-again business model... not to mention RIAA's "innovation" with cutting back on individual rights, and MS's anti-capitalist "innovation."
I'd like to nominate collections frameworks as another fad that obviously didn't get the word that it should die. Painfully.
You take one look at Java Collections, and see a slew of overspecialized subclasses of underspecalized abstract root classes, so that its hard to do a key-pair lookup without writing one yourself, which defeats the purpose of the Java framework! </rant>
This is ot, but that method can be extremely effective at times... I've seen places that disable the right mouse button, which blocks half of the local security exploits under Windows.
No, but dual-mode CDs are not part of the CDA standard, as some data tracks mess up playing in licenced, compatabile CDA players. That's why the ECD "standard" is pushed more these days. I forget the technical names for different dual-mode standards, but that's what these disks are in actuality. I remember the old Sega CD games that stored bgm on tracks 2 and up and the game on track 1. That just played hell with an old version of MusicMatch when I tried to rip them. I've since sold my games, and thusly haven't tried it with a decent ripper.
If the DRM prog runs only on Windows, and you happen to own a Mac or Linux box, is that against DMCA? If so, expect some sh** to hit the fan. Either M$ is going to make a deal with RIAA and then sue Apple for making computers at all or some Linux or Mac owner is going to get more than a little pissed and finally give DMCA a real run for its money. Oh, well. A guy can dream, anyway.
Perhaps another idea for serial numbers is to somehow alter the black inbetween scenes in ways that play hell with Fourier series-based compression algorithms... or they could modulate the "cigarette burn" which people are already used to, or (god forbid!) just forget the whole thing and start making good enough movies (a la Matrix 2) that people will actually pay to go and see them.
...giving smaller films less of a chance at an oscar - just to prevent piracy. I think you have the effect and the side-effect confused here. Piracy is a nic eexcuse that allows them to screw over small studios. Just like RIAA uses porn as an excuse to crack down on us, MPAA uses us as an excuse to crack down on them.
The anime series Neo Ranga was converted from a low quality analog format to make the DVDs, and they have so many artifacts that when encoded in DivX, DivX;), 3ivX or XviD, many large brown spots arise which completely ruin the rips. Better copy-protection than anything I've ever seen...
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One difference. Having been through Cario, most bigwigs are not going to go under again. Especially with DRM. DRM is acceptable on someone else's computer, but when it's your corporation brought to its knees by this, do you think for a second that they'd invite it?
With the DRM shit, and all, why shouldn't it be blue? You'll be blue, to be sure.
Some nice ideas there, but why do they make the clock take up a fifth of the screen? And the centered-text stuff? I thought that died with Win3.1...
Ya know, I feel shallow talking about Windows Longhorn's visual appearance, but at the same time, this seems to be M$'s only real advantage with its recent versions of Windows... not that this will last till '06, tho.
How can you bomb a whole power grid? It'd be better to sabatoge a few critical components, or to somehow DoS them by making a sharp spike in demand. That's the whole idea behind things like the Internet: a system that has no single physical point of failure. You cannot disable the internet with a nuke, short of nuking the entire planet.
I know quite well that Stanford is a public institution, but many times, they get into deals where they do projects for corporations, since they might not get all the money otherwise, might have a corrupt leadership, or many other reasons. Check out the book "No Logo" by Naomi Klien for more on this depressing subject.
Problem: do it based on # of clock cycles, and some rich bastard will set it going with a Beowolf cluster for no other purpose than to get tax breaks... he might even claim the cluster as a business expense! Give the tax break based on individual participation, and someone could get a Zaurus and run BOINC on it, and get every bit as much back in taxes as Mr. Rich Bastard. So, therein is the problem: screw those that can't afford a personal Beowolf, or screw those that can.
I believe the problem was misstated in the prior post. I think that the definition is that x, y and z must be non-zero integers.
But what about the cars? I mean, they still pollute... computers are only one small part of global warming... significant, but small.
Within the USA, "boink" is an innocent otomotpiea (sp?) that is often just to describe things that bounce or make other funny noises, as in the (Calvin and Hobbes) book "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink!'" by Bill Watterson.
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Who cares, if at least the first and last letters are the same...
This effect could be amplified even further by a Melissa-like worm, if anyone remembers that. With so many lusers running M$ e-mail products, it wouldn't be too hard to find a way of making them e-mail out the spam themselves, so that if they don't FFB the spam, then they replicate it! Imagine. By sending one message, someone could take down all of Yahoo!, M$, Google, and a slew of small ISPs that would buckle under the outgoing traffic...
Red Hat v9's Bluecurve configurators call it by and don't recognize it without another key being pressed, iirc.
Why not? After all, Bush "innovated" with his electioneering techniques, and SCO "innovated" with their sue-your-own-customers-till-you-piss-'em-off-so-ba d-they'll-never-buy-from-you-again business model... not to mention RIAA's "innovation" with cutting back on individual rights, and MS's anti-capitalist "innovation."
Beats me, as I haven't heard of CDex, except in passing. That is, I've never used it.
I'd like to nominate collections frameworks as another fad that obviously didn't get the word that it should die. Painfully.
You take one look at Java Collections, and see a slew of overspecialized subclasses of underspecalized abstract root classes, so that its hard to do a key-pair lookup without writing one yourself, which defeats the purpose of the Java framework! </rant>
This is ot, but that method can be extremely effective at times... I've seen places that disable the right mouse button, which blocks half of the local security exploits under Windows.
No, but dual-mode CDs are not part of the CDA standard, as some data tracks mess up playing in licenced, compatabile CDA players. That's why the ECD "standard" is pushed more these days. I forget the technical names for different dual-mode standards, but that's what these disks are in actuality. I remember the old Sega CD games that stored bgm on tracks 2 and up and the game on track 1. That just played hell with an old version of MusicMatch when I tried to rip them. I've since sold my games, and thusly haven't tried it with a decent ripper.
If the DRM prog runs only on Windows, and you happen to own a Mac or Linux box, is that against DMCA? If so, expect some sh** to hit the fan. Either M$ is going to make a deal with RIAA and then sue Apple for making computers at all or some Linux or Mac owner is going to get more than a little pissed and finally give DMCA a real run for its money. Oh, well. A guy can dream, anyway.
What about those of us who rent it on DVD, rip it, then watch it later?
Perhaps another idea for serial numbers is to somehow alter the black inbetween scenes in ways that play hell with Fourier series-based compression algorithms... or they could modulate the "cigarette burn" which people are already used to, or (god forbid!) just forget the whole thing and start making good enough movies (a la Matrix 2) that people will actually pay to go and see them.
...giving smaller films less of a chance at an oscar - just to prevent piracy.
I think you have the effect and the side-effect confused here. Piracy is a nic eexcuse that allows them to screw over small studios. Just like RIAA uses porn as an excuse to crack down on us, MPAA uses us as an excuse to crack down on them.
The anime series Neo Ranga was converted from a low quality analog format to make the DVDs, and they have so many artifacts that when encoded in DivX, DivX ;), 3ivX or XviD, many large brown spots arise which completely ruin the rips. Better copy-protection than anything I've ever seen...
Now, thanks to MRI, we get to see pictures of very interesting things such as sex in an MRI tube...
Probably about as unintended as RIAA's lawsuits stopping people from file sharing... oh, wait... it hasn't...