All that the hack does is to intercept the unprotected AAC stream from iTunes before it gets to the iTunes client where the protection is applied.
This is simply exploiting an implementation detail, which can be (and probably will be) fixed in some future release, where the approriate protection will be applied at the server before streaming to the client.
It certainly *is* possible to protect an original source of any signal from unauthorized use - you won't prevent copying, trying to do that is futile, but a faithful reproduction of an encrypted file is useless without the key to decrypt it.
What you can not stop is someone copying the audio from the sound output, or the video from the video output. These will NOT be faithful reproductions of the original, but will be close enough for most purposes, and once converted back to digital form they can be copied and re-used ad infinitum without any further degradation. This is what Apple finaly seem to have convinced the music execs about, and why they have very relaxed rules about conversion/burning -- its just an acknolwegement of reality.
The Java part is a red herring, it can be made to run on just about any platform. Also the Jave Enterprise System offerings from Sun are not written in Java - yes, they do have some Java components, but the majority of the code is C/C++. the Java labeling is just Sun marketing stupidity.
The real reason for the choice of AMD is the 64 bit architecture of the chip. If you have been following the news about the rival AMD and Intel 64 bit offereings, you will have noticed that any somewhat unbiased observer gives the AMD chip a big edge over the Intel chip.
Intel have problems with their 64 bit architecture, which is sowing in the low adoption rate of that device.
AMD on the other hand, is doing very well.
Sun chose the best architecture, and thus the best (potential) performance. The fact that it also sticks one in the eye of intel is a fortuitous by-product.
BPL (broadband over electricity distribution lines) has been pretty much abandoned/banned in most of the world because of the interference it causes. Of course, in the US, interference has to be balanced against MONEY, so its still somehwta alive here. Especially with the newest version, which doesn't spew its guts all over the SW spectrum, but zaps the... wait for it... 5GHz band!
No wonder the FCC is so benevolent as to donate this spectrum to wireless internet services - they know its about to become useless thanks to pollution from BPL.
RedHat have given up on Linux for the masses, and are now only interested in you if you fit into one of two categories:
You are an enterprise willing to cough up several hundred dollars per Linux load.
You are a nerd who is dumb enough to take Fedora, QA it for them, and (hopefuly) provide them with fixes for whatever problems you discover.
This isn't Open Source give and take, its Open Source exploitation. As soon as Fedora starts to look somwhat stable, thanks to the hard work of the people who fix it, it will get replaced with the next release which will contain yet more code that RH is hoping you will fix for them. The nice stable code will then find its way into the enterprise releases - which you will have to buy if you want to reap the rewards of the hard work by the OS community.
What is wrong with an X is that the Democratic party has already made the assertion that a large part of its voters are so brain damaged that they can't read, can't poke a hole in a piece of paper, and are incapable of lining up a name with the box to mark the X in.
Of course, the dead voter, on whom the Democratic party depends so much would have REAL problems picking up a pencil...
My firewall/router was running RH9 until this week when I switched over to using devil-linux (http://www.devil-linux.org). Its a version which runs from a CD, and keeps its config on a floppy (write protected).
The end result is a system from which I removed the disks - much quieter, much less heat. And if someone should ever break into the system, I just re-boot and the system is re-set, all hacks are obliterated.
It can also be configured to run from a USB storage device, so that would make a system with no moving parts at all. Take a look at it, and forget about those failing disks in your firewall!
Totalm CRAP!!! Why do you people continue to parrot garbage like this when you obviously base your knowlege on watcing some removed-from-reallity movie??
Go read a basic book on aircraft. Aircraft are presurized by bleeding compressed air from the engines into the cabin (after cooling it first). And how does the air remain fresh ?? BY BLOWING OUT OF THE HUGE HOLES AT THE TAIL-END OF THE AIRCRAFT.
There are ALREADY big holes in the cabin, and you don't see passengers being sucked out do you?
How much difference do you think a 9mm hole or two is going to make to the air pressure?? Even if a window goes, there will NOT much more than a strong draught.
Do you think air-marchals have magic bullets???
You have got to be joking! Search the archives on news.bbc.co.uk or telegraph.co.uk. You will find that since the total gun ban took effect in England crime has sky rocketed, with guns crime against unarmed people leading the charge.
I am English (well... was, now naturalized American), and really regret the state if fear that my relatives in England live in now.
Please don't parrot the mindless garbage spewed out by the likes of the Brady organization -- look for yourself at the real effects of banning personal protection.
IMHO, if you can afford $1,500, and you really do appreciate the work people have put in over the year, by all means give it.
I have received bonuses which have been more than that, and I have received considerably less. In the cases where the bonus was low ($50 to $150) it probably caused more ill-will than not giving anything. What the company said (different companies BTW) was something to the effect:
To show our appreciation for your efforts over the last year, we are making a bonus payment this year.
When the bonus is $50 before tax, and you think back to the number of hours you have worked, and the dedication you have shown, that level of payment comes close to being an insult. It would have been better spent on a Christmas party or something similar.
But if you are relying on certification to ease the task of interviewing/selecting a candidate for a job, then you are probably wasting your time.
To put it simply, parrots can get certified. You don't have to understand a thing, just remember what you were told.
You don't want a parrot, you want a penguin:-)
Also remember that certification gets out of date rapidly - ultra rapidly in the Linux world. So that certificate may not be worth much anyway if its more than 6 months old. So are you willing to give the time to these certified people to keep up to date, and keep their certification up to date ?
It is truly sad that Concorde service has come to an end. I am old enough to remember the whole history of the project, and my father actually worked on some of the Concorde components.
I noted the comments earlier about old-fashioned cockpits and non-turbofan engines - well, just remember that Concorde was essentially designed with slide-rules. Computer simulations just were not up to it in those days. Certainly, computing was not at the stage where a glass-cockpit was even conceivable. Let alone practical. As for turbo-fan engines, do they really work at 60,000 feet?
As for being cost effective, for the airlines BA and Air France, it actually was. It only becomes a loss maker if you insist on taking into account all the R&D. That loss was picked up by the consortium that built the planes, not BA or Air France.
The thing that killed the aircraft was purely and simply American sour grapes when Boeing finally admitted that their own late entry into supersonic air travel was over budget, overdue and over weight and would never fly. There were plenty of American airline with options to buy, but they all pulled out when the American government then decided to ban overland commercial supersonic flight, making the aircraft practically useless to American airlines. Of course, many military aircraft continue to fly supersonic over the American mainland, and cows still give uncurdled milk, children are not thrown from their beds by the sonic shock-wave, and there are not hoards of angry sleep-deprived and shell-shocked American citizens beating at the doors of congress to limit this evil.
As far as reliability goes, one fatal crash in 30 years of operation is actually pretty good. Admittedly, the somewhat spectacular film of the doomed flight didn't help.
I was actually lucky enough to make a concorde flight once, London to Washington DC. That really IS the way to make that trip, and it could have been commonplace now... Unfortunately, Boeing had its way, and its failure to be able to copy the Concorde was mitigated by its friends in Congress making it a moot point.
Remember to thank those people who represent you next time you are sitting on an 11 hour flight from London to LA.
What a browser manufacturer does is up to them. If they want to take any error message and turn it into an advertizing opportunity, thats their choice, people will either use that browser or junk it and use a better one.
What verisign has done is to take away the choice.
Also, you are assuming that the web=the internet. This is absolutely not true. The internet is used for many, many more things than just browsing web pages.
What verisgn has done is to essenially say screw the other users, we can make money from the web browser users, and if it breaks other applications, thats just tough.
The real issue though is the abuse of their position as trustee of the.com and.net servers. they have taken that position of trust, and used it simply to force people to their services (in addition to breaking other services).
They are calling their trustee position "Verisign Directory Services" - it is patently NOT a Verisign Directory, it is not owned by anyone, they just been entrusted with its care and feeding. They have hijacked it (or at least are attempting to).
Unfortunately, there is no real analogy to try to illustrate to you how terrible what they have done is. The usual one of dialing a wrong telephone number and being just connected to directory information is not really that close.
I am filtering spam at the MTA (sendmail) with RBL and open relay plus the usual credibility checks like valid sender domain etc + SpamAssassin set up with beysian filtering primed with 1,000+ spam and ham mails.
The result? about one piece of spam per day in my mailbox, and something like 60+ spam e-mail in my spam-box.
This stuff really works. I am amazed just how well.
Fighting the incredibly slow response of Adobe's website, I managed to read the Q&A they provide on activation. It starts by saying that it doesn't change the license agreement in any way.
Well, the obviously didn't read the Photoshop 7 license agreement they sent me. It allows me to make a copy on a portable machine, and use that copy - as long as both are not being used at the same time.
Activation locks the binary to a single machine, so, since they say they are not changing the license terms, how are they going to honor them?
Send me a free copy to register seperately on my laptop?
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All that the hack does is to intercept the unprotected AAC stream from iTunes before it gets to the iTunes client where the protection is applied.
This is simply exploiting an implementation detail, which can be (and probably will be) fixed in some future release, where the approriate protection will be applied at the server before streaming to the client.
It certainly *is* possible to protect an original source of any signal from unauthorized use - you won't prevent copying, trying to do that is futile, but a faithful reproduction of an encrypted file is useless without the key to decrypt it.
What you can not stop is someone copying the audio from the sound output, or the video from the video output. These will NOT be faithful reproductions of the original, but will be close enough for most purposes, and once converted back to digital form they can be copied and re-used ad infinitum without any further degradation. This is what Apple finaly seem to have convinced the music execs about, and why they have very relaxed rules about conversion/burning -- its just an acknolwegement of reality.
The Java part is a red herring, it can be made to run on just about any platform. Also the Jave Enterprise System offerings from Sun are not written in Java - yes, they do have some Java components, but the majority of the code is C/C++. the Java labeling is just Sun marketing stupidity.
The real reason for the choice of AMD is the 64 bit architecture of the chip. If you have been following the news about the rival AMD and Intel 64 bit offereings, you will have noticed that any somewhat unbiased observer gives the AMD chip a big edge over the Intel chip.
Intel have problems with their 64 bit architecture, which is sowing in the low adoption rate of that device.
AMD on the other hand, is doing very well.
Sun chose the best architecture, and thus the best (potential) performance. The fact that it also sticks one in the eye of intel is a fortuitous by-product.
No wonder the FCC is so benevolent as to donate this spectrum to wireless internet services - they know its about to become useless thanks to pollution from BPL.
You are an enterprise willing to cough up several hundred dollars per Linux load.
You are a nerd who is dumb enough to take Fedora, QA it for them, and (hopefuly) provide them with fixes for whatever problems you discover.
This isn't Open Source give and take, its Open Source exploitation. As soon as Fedora starts to look somwhat stable, thanks to the hard work of the people who fix it, it will get replaced with the next release which will contain yet more code that RH is hoping you will fix for them. The nice stable code will then find its way into the enterprise releases - which you will have to buy if you want to reap the rewards of the hard work by the OS community.
Of course, the dead voter, on whom the Democratic party depends so much would have REAL problems picking up a pencil...
Last time I looked, the PAL colour burst frequency was 4.4336175MHz ...
It had a filestore with file versioning - about 30 years ago.
The end result is a system from which I removed the disks - much quieter, much less heat. And if someone should ever break into the system, I just re-boot and the system is re-set, all hacks are obliterated.
It can also be configured to run from a USB storage device, so that would make a system with no moving parts at all. Take a look at it, and forget about those failing disks in your firewall!
I just sent tham a note to the effect that they honor my contract or get sued.
Totalm CRAP!!! Why do you people continue to parrot garbage like this when you obviously base your knowlege on watcing some removed-from-reallity movie??
Go read a basic book on aircraft. Aircraft are presurized by bleeding compressed air from the engines into the cabin (after cooling it first). And how does the air remain fresh ?? BY BLOWING OUT OF THE HUGE HOLES AT THE TAIL-END OF THE AIRCRAFT.
There are ALREADY big holes in the cabin, and you don't see passengers being sucked out do you?
How much difference do you think a 9mm hole or two is going to make to the air pressure?? Even if a window goes, there will NOT much more than a strong draught.
Do you think air-marchals have magic bullets???
You have got to be joking! Search the archives on news.bbc.co.uk or telegraph.co.uk. You will find that since the total gun ban took effect in England crime has sky rocketed, with guns crime against unarmed people leading the charge.
I am English (well... was, now naturalized American), and really regret the state if fear that my relatives in England live in now.
Please don't parrot the mindless garbage spewed out by the likes of the Brady organization -- look for yourself at the real effects of banning personal protection.
I have received bonuses which have been more than that, and I have received considerably less. In the cases where the bonus was low ($50 to $150) it probably caused more ill-will than not giving anything. What the company said (different companies BTW) was something to the effect:
To show our appreciation for your efforts over the last year, we are making a bonus payment this year.
When the bonus is $50 before tax, and you think back to the number of hours you have worked, and the dedication you have shown, that level of payment comes close to being an insult. It would have been better spent on a Christmas party or something similar.
So if Walgreens grinds to a halt because none of their products responds to the RFID scanners any more, does this classify as terrorism ?
To put it simply, parrots can get certified. You don't have to understand a thing, just remember what you were told.
You don't want a parrot, you want a penguin :-)
Also remember that certification gets out of date rapidly - ultra rapidly in the Linux world. So that certificate may not be worth much anyway if its more than 6 months old. So are you willing to give the time to these certified people to keep up to date, and keep their certification up to date ?
I noted the comments earlier about old-fashioned cockpits and non-turbofan engines - well, just remember that Concorde was essentially designed with slide-rules. Computer simulations just were not up to it in those days. Certainly, computing was not at the stage where a glass-cockpit was even conceivable. Let alone practical. As for turbo-fan engines, do they really work at 60,000 feet?
As for being cost effective, for the airlines BA and Air France, it actually was. It only becomes a loss maker if you insist on taking into account all the R&D. That loss was picked up by the consortium that built the planes, not BA or Air France.
The thing that killed the aircraft was purely and simply American sour grapes when Boeing finally admitted that their own late entry into supersonic air travel was over budget, overdue and over weight and would never fly. There were plenty of American airline with options to buy, but they all pulled out when the American government then decided to ban overland commercial supersonic flight, making the aircraft practically useless to American airlines. Of course, many military aircraft continue to fly supersonic over the American mainland, and cows still give uncurdled milk, children are not thrown from their beds by the sonic shock-wave, and there are not hoards of angry sleep-deprived and shell-shocked American citizens beating at the doors of congress to limit this evil.
As far as reliability goes, one fatal crash in 30 years of operation is actually pretty good. Admittedly, the somewhat spectacular film of the doomed flight didn't help.
I was actually lucky enough to make a concorde flight once, London to Washington DC. That really IS the way to make that trip, and it could have been commonplace now... Unfortunately, Boeing had its way, and its failure to be able to copy the Concorde was mitigated by its friends in Congress making it a moot point.
Remember to thank those people who represent you next time you are sitting on an 11 hour flight from London to LA.
What a browser manufacturer does is up to them. If they want to take any error message and turn it into an advertizing opportunity, thats their choice, people will either use that browser or junk it and use a better one.
What verisign has done is to take away the choice.
Also, you are assuming that the web=the internet. This is absolutely not true. The internet is used for many, many more things than just browsing web pages.
What verisgn has done is to essenially say screw the other users, we can make money from the web browser users, and if it breaks other applications, thats just tough.
The real issue though is the abuse of their position as trustee of the .com and .net servers. they have taken that position of trust, and used it simply to force people to their services (in addition to breaking other services).
They are calling their trustee position "Verisign Directory Services" - it is patently NOT a Verisign Directory, it is not owned by anyone, they just been entrusted with its care and feeding. They have hijacked it (or at least are attempting to).
Unfortunately, there is no real analogy to try to illustrate to you how terrible what they have done is. The usual one of dialing a wrong telephone number and being just connected to directory information is not really that close.
I am filtering spam at the MTA (sendmail) with RBL and open relay plus the usual credibility checks like valid sender domain etc + SpamAssassin set up with beysian filtering primed with 1,000+ spam and ham mails. The result? about one piece of spam per day in my mailbox, and something like 60+ spam e-mail in my spam-box. This stuff really works. I am amazed just how well.
Fighting the incredibly slow response of Adobe's website, I managed to read the Q&A they provide on activation. It starts by saying that it doesn't change the license agreement in any way. Well, the obviously didn't read the Photoshop 7 license agreement they sent me. It allows me to make a copy on a portable machine, and use that copy - as long as both are not being used at the same time. Activation locks the binary to a single machine, so, since they say they are not changing the license terms, how are they going to honor them? Send me a free copy to register seperately on my laptop?