"You could even have a small boot section that decrypts the rest of the OS."
I'm guessing you haven't heard of the "bootloader" in terms of removing copy protection? They even use them on some of the best smartcard technology out there so it'd be quite the challenge to get this to remain a viable option.
I've heard that the 3-letter government agencies could retrieve data even if the drive were wiped 80 times BUT I also know from friends who are former hackers turned LEO that they actually don't have to look beyond someone doing a simple format most of the time since people are typically stupid in that regard.
Did your uncle buy it before or after the 99/4A's were $50 and had zero support? I loved the TI's sound and some of its graphics capabilities but it was waay too slow and unusable for my tastes.
Jealous much? The fact that to this day it is still impossible for a PC, Mac or otherwise to display two screens with different resolutions *on the same display* is only the beginning of why your ignorance and snobbishness shows. Pre-emptive mutitasking, the Video Toaster/Flyer, Lightwave, and the genlocking abilities are other prime examples of why most of us are glad your opinion is just that. Heaven forbid we mention how it could boot a full multitasking OS with GUI in under 880k. Nah, not innovative at all...freakin' REVOLUTIONARY is more like it.
I guess you're right, I didn't quite realize that we had once again changed jurisdiction since most of this discussion came about while talking about US law as well.
Maaaybe, but there are a lot of people showing enough support that the Libertarian Party is listening and his message is simple and easy to understand.
"I'm equally as screwed with OSS software, since I'm not a programmer and hiring a team of programmers is prohibitively expensive."
You ever stop to consider this crazy concept we call "test environments", "test servers", etc.? You don't put something like that into production immediately, you test the damn thing till you know it's not gonna screw your business up and then and only then do you implement it on your production machines. This is much cheaper than hiring programmers, and it's completely contrary to what M$ would want you to do(since they would also want you to pay for an additional license for your test machine..not a problem for those of us who use Linux). M$ took down my design company for a week after a critical update went totally wrong, so this scenario isn't hypothetical by any means. It is a matter of "when", not "if".
Doug Stanhope, the comedian, is running for President in 08. He's serious and I'm seriously voting for him since he's not going to waffle or lie if he doesn't yet know what to do about an issue. http://www.dougstanhope.com/ for more info and links to his myspace pages that tell more than I can.
You needed to read that wikipedia entry a little better before making that assertion. From the entry you cited:
"In some jurisdictions, assault is used to refer to the actual violence, while in other jurisdictions (e.g. some in the United States, England and Wales), assault refers only to the threat of violence, while the actual violence is battery."
This is why you hear the term "assault and battery".
Ok, I was with you until you stated that the 9/11 terrorists didn't come through Canada. Where can I find this?
Everyone I know thinks that they came through Mexico and I'm one of the few who state otherwise. Please expound on this as I've never heard that at all and I typically keep up with this type of stuff.
Judge?!?!? What happened to the jury? They are the ones who actually *convict* someone afterall. And it'd take a semi-knowledgeable lawyer about 30 seconds to prove that wifi can be cracked. No biggie. Next!
Encryption, logins, and logs aren't going to prevent any of this from happening. Have you not heard of an internet cafe? Pay $15 cash and all that becomes useless and untraceable. I'm not even going into the cracking of wifi keys on private access points, which btw is the reason they'll never successfully prosecute someone running ANY currently manufactured wifi access point, open or "secured". What's worse is you prestented the same line of thinking as the politicians who don't let the obvious facts get in the way of their witch hunts.
What do you mean "retarded Elmo toy craze that went on a few years ago"?!?!? Didn't you hear that one started all over again? I forget what this new Elmo is(ElmoTX or something like that?) but Elmo's back and he's taking Cambodia by storm...no wait..that's Rambo IV...well Elmo *is* back even if I can't remember what it's about.
"and the same ppl are claiming that global warming is a myth."
OT, but... Actually, global warming could be a myth, and I'm not one to believe in ID or any of that silly superstitious crap. The reason it may be a myth is simple: volcanoes. Each one puts out more pollution in a day than we can possibly put out in our lifetimes, IIRC, and when the major content of that pollution is sulfur dioxide, it changes to sulfuric acid when it hits moisture, which creates a COOLING effect because H2SO4 acts as a mirror.
From http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/1 0/23/5718:
Nature lent credence to this radical idea through two events, the 1982 eruption of the volcano El Chichón and the more recent eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The eruption of Pinatubo left large quantities of water droplets containing sulfuric acid, each of which reflected some of the sun's energy away from the earth--enough in fact to cool the earth at a rate of about 0.5 oC/yr for almost two years after the eruption.
While this article wasn't saying that we were facing global cooling(they wanted to use the idea to fight global warming), any increase in volcanic activity would create that exact effect. So at the moment, the warming aspect isn't quite so set in stone as we would like to think.
Are you that obtuse that you can't read between the lines OR notice what the real issue is here?
The "if(OS=LINUX)" doesn't have to come in a ***Windows*** exe, or did you not think about that? And most of the malware like this doesn't portray itself as an.exe but can be a dll or otherwise AND on video sites like TFA is talking about, you go to download the video and are unable to view it and then they suggest you use their codec, not once will you see "http://blah.com/blah/blah.exe" since most is done with ActiveX or the like. The weak link here isn't the computer or operating system. PEBCAM.
"If you want me to run something on MY computer, I have a RIGHT to see the source code."
First things first, it is usually less of THEM wanting something run on your computer and more likely YOU wanting to run it. If it's freeware that scenario is lots more likely since they don't make money for every installation, etc. so they couldn't care less.
Next, you don't have a "right", you have a desire. If they publish the source code then you have the right to view it, otherwise you're SOL. You're likely not a king or otherwise powerful enough person to get such things done so put your words in some perspective.
I don't know why others might not release their drivers' source but I know that Broadcomm apparently can't do it for at least some of their wireless cards because they apparently can be tuned into some military-only frequencies and needless to say that's not a good thing.
"He was extremely impressed by the stone and gave me a dollar-quote that was a few hundred times what I paid. Of course, didn't put it through lab tests, though"
See my post above about why this is the case. An unmounted diamond(or fake) sells for FAR less than a mounted one. If you tried to sell the ring back to a jeweler, they would offer you the unmounted value of the diamond which makes some people think the diamond lost its value where it actually goes up in value a minimum of 12% per year.
"Diamonds are sort of boring for her now -- she sees how little they store value over time versus gold, and they're not very useful in a financial emergency (versus gold or platinum)."
I think you are misunderstanding diamonds in this aspect. A diamond's value goes up a minimum of 12% per year regardless of market trends as opposed to gold which fluctuates according to some idiot's thoughts on inflation. Now let me clarify, that's NOT to say that a diamond RING will go up in value, just the unmounted diamond. That's where most people get confused because an unmounted diamond sells for a lot less than one mounted but when you try to sell a diamond ring back to a jeweler they offer you the unmounted price(sometimes not that much but their price is based on the appraised unmounted value) and maybe $5 for the ring itself so it appears as though the diamond's value has dropped. Befriend a jeweler and ask them if that's not the case. BTW, you can make money in gold but it's not a guaranteed thing. I have a friend who makes BANK buying used diamonds thanks to this knowledge.
"But now that it's over, what good will be had by forcing us to pay an "SGI Tax" on anything to do with graphics for the next N years?"
The same good it does us to pay the "Ford Tax" or "Chevy Tax" on items *they* patented and others are using. We do that ALL THE TIME. You make it sound like sour grapes. They failed so they should give up their intellectual property?!?!?
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"You could even have a small boot section that decrypts the rest of the OS."
I'm guessing you haven't heard of the "bootloader" in terms of removing copy protection? They even use them on some of the best smartcard technology out there so it'd be quite the challenge to get this to remain a viable option.
I've heard that the 3-letter government agencies could retrieve data even if the drive were wiped 80 times BUT I also know from friends who are former hackers turned LEO that they actually don't have to look beyond someone doing a simple format most of the time since people are typically stupid in that regard.
Farker?
Did your uncle buy it before or after the 99/4A's were $50 and had zero support? I loved the TI's sound and some of its graphics capabilities but it was waay too slow and unusable for my tastes.
Jealous much? The fact that to this day it is still impossible for a PC, Mac or otherwise to display two screens with different resolutions *on the same display* is only the beginning of why your ignorance and snobbishness shows. Pre-emptive mutitasking, the Video Toaster/Flyer, Lightwave, and the genlocking abilities are other prime examples of why most of us are glad your opinion is just that. Heaven forbid we mention how it could boot a full multitasking OS with GUI in under 880k. Nah, not innovative at all...freakin' REVOLUTIONARY is more like it.
I guess you're right, I didn't quite realize that we had once again changed jurisdiction since most of this discussion came about while talking about US law as well.
Maaaybe, but there are a lot of people showing enough support that the Libertarian Party is listening and his message is simple and easy to understand.
Sorry to get to this so late but you don't understand that correctly. If someone faces jail time, they can have a jury.
I did, that's why I suggested such a thing in the first place.
"I'm equally as screwed with OSS software, since I'm not a programmer and hiring a team of programmers is prohibitively expensive."
You ever stop to consider this crazy concept we call "test environments", "test servers", etc.? You don't put something like that into production immediately, you test the damn thing till you know it's not gonna screw your business up and then and only then do you implement it on your production machines. This is much cheaper than hiring programmers, and it's completely contrary to what M$ would want you to do(since they would also want you to pay for an additional license for your test machine..not a problem for those of us who use Linux). M$ took down my design company for a week after a critical update went totally wrong, so this scenario isn't hypothetical by any means. It is a matter of "when", not "if".
Doug Stanhope, the comedian, is running for President in 08. He's serious and I'm seriously voting for him since he's not going to waffle or lie if he doesn't yet know what to do about an issue. http://www.dougstanhope.com/ for more info and links to his myspace pages that tell more than I can.
You needed to read that wikipedia entry a little better before making that assertion. From the entry you cited:
"In some jurisdictions, assault is used to refer to the actual violence, while in other jurisdictions (e.g. some in the United States, England and Wales), assault refers only to the threat of violence, while the actual violence is battery."
This is why you hear the term "assault and battery".
Ok, I was with you until you stated that the 9/11 terrorists didn't come through Canada. Where can I find this? Everyone I know thinks that they came through Mexico and I'm one of the few who state otherwise. Please expound on this as I've never heard that at all and I typically keep up with this type of stuff.
Judge?!?!? What happened to the jury? They are the ones who actually *convict* someone afterall. And it'd take a semi-knowledgeable lawyer about 30 seconds to prove that wifi can be cracked. No biggie. Next!
Encryption, logins, and logs aren't going to prevent any of this from happening. Have you not heard of an internet cafe? Pay $15 cash and all that becomes useless and untraceable. I'm not even going into the cracking of wifi keys on private access points, which btw is the reason they'll never successfully prosecute someone running ANY currently manufactured wifi access point, open or "secured". What's worse is you prestented the same line of thinking as the politicians who don't let the obvious facts get in the way of their witch hunts.
What do you mean "retarded Elmo toy craze that went on a few years ago"?!?!? Didn't you hear that one started all over again? I forget what this new Elmo is(ElmoTX or something like that?) but Elmo's back and he's taking Cambodia by storm...no wait..that's Rambo IV...well Elmo *is* back even if I can't remember what it's about.
I use Adsense and as far as I have been able to notice it gathers information from the website's content, not the user's browsing habits per se.
"and the same ppl are claiming that global warming is a myth."
1 0/23/5718 :
OT, but... Actually, global warming could be a myth, and I'm not one to believe in ID or any of that silly superstitious crap. The reason it may be a myth is simple: volcanoes. Each one puts out more pollution in a day than we can possibly put out in our lifetimes, IIRC, and when the major content of that pollution is sulfur dioxide, it changes to sulfuric acid when it hits moisture, which creates a COOLING effect because H2SO4 acts as a mirror.
From http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/
Nature lent credence to this radical idea through two events, the 1982 eruption of the volcano El Chichón and the more recent eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The eruption of Pinatubo left large quantities of water droplets containing sulfuric acid, each of which reflected some of the sun's energy away from the earth--enough in fact to cool the earth at a rate of about 0.5 oC/yr for almost two years after the eruption.
While this article wasn't saying that we were facing global cooling(they wanted to use the idea to fight global warming), any increase in volcanic activity would create that exact effect. So at the moment, the warming aspect isn't quite so set in stone as we would like to think.
Are you that obtuse that you can't read between the lines OR notice what the real issue is here?
.exe but can be a dll or otherwise AND on video sites like TFA is talking about, you go to download the video and are unable to view it and then they suggest you use their codec, not once will you see "http://blah.com/blah/blah.exe" since most is done with ActiveX or the like. The weak link here isn't the computer or operating system. PEBCAM.
The "if(OS=LINUX)" doesn't have to come in a ***Windows*** exe, or did you not think about that? And most of the malware like this doesn't portray itself as an
"If you want me to run something on MY computer, I have a RIGHT to see the source code."
First things first, it is usually less of THEM wanting something run on your computer and more likely YOU wanting to run it. If it's freeware that scenario is lots more likely since they don't make money for every installation, etc. so they couldn't care less.
Next, you don't have a "right", you have a desire. If they publish the source code then you have the right to view it, otherwise you're SOL. You're likely not a king or otherwise powerful enough person to get such things done so put your words in some perspective.
Sad but sooo very true...and funny.
I don't know why others might not release their drivers' source but I know that Broadcomm apparently can't do it for at least some of their wireless cards because they apparently can be tuned into some military-only frequencies and needless to say that's not a good thing.
"He was extremely impressed by the stone and gave me a dollar-quote that was a few hundred times what I paid. Of course, didn't put it through lab tests, though"
See my post above about why this is the case. An unmounted diamond(or fake) sells for FAR less than a mounted one. If you tried to sell the ring back to a jeweler, they would offer you the unmounted value of the diamond which makes some people think the diamond lost its value where it actually goes up in value a minimum of 12% per year.
"Diamonds are sort of boring for her now -- she sees how little they store value over time versus gold, and they're not very useful in a financial emergency (versus gold or platinum)."
I think you are misunderstanding diamonds in this aspect. A diamond's value goes up a minimum of 12% per year regardless of market trends as opposed to gold which fluctuates according to some idiot's thoughts on inflation. Now let me clarify, that's NOT to say that a diamond RING will go up in value, just the unmounted diamond. That's where most people get confused because an unmounted diamond sells for a lot less than one mounted but when you try to sell a diamond ring back to a jeweler they offer you the unmounted price(sometimes not that much but their price is based on the appraised unmounted value) and maybe $5 for the ring itself so it appears as though the diamond's value has dropped. Befriend a jeweler and ask them if that's not the case. BTW, you can make money in gold but it's not a guaranteed thing. I have a friend who makes BANK buying used diamonds thanks to this knowledge.
"But now that it's over, what good will be had by forcing us to pay an "SGI Tax" on anything to do with graphics for the next N years?"
The same good it does us to pay the "Ford Tax" or "Chevy Tax" on items *they* patented and others are using. We do that ALL THE TIME. You make it sound like sour grapes. They failed so they should give up their intellectual property?!?!?