They should leave the AC patch in place -- but change its functionality so that:
People using it can no longer post as AC
and
People using it no longer have to view AC posts
Aside from that, not sure what the AC patch you are referring to actually does, although I do know it has nothing to do with/. or Anonymous Coward. This post was a bit of sarcasm -- if you happen to have fallen into a sarchasm and don't get it, don't bother moderating!
Know what? To get around this, one would need only use already existing software for HDTV tuner cards -- some source is available, making it possible to write your own app which ignores these dirty bits. Clean and simple. The technology to circumvent this is already in place and it hasn't even been implemented yet!
If you are gonna record something to burn to a DVD, you're probably gonna record it to your PC anyway!
THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE NEEDS TO TAKE THE FOLLOWING LINS TO HEART:
We want quality content. We will pay for quality content. We will not pay for crap or ads! If there are more ads that content in a given hour of programming, we will likely know that in advance and will take measures to record the content and eliminate the ads from it before consumption. While this may take longer, this is what we will do. We see new products in stores and (along with new stores) on billboards - we don't need to find out about them in advertisments which interrupt the content we wish to consume. We want to preview a substantial portion of the content we are going to spend money on before we spend money on it or we want to be able to return it for a full refund if we are not satisfied with its quality. We want to be able to consume content in any way we choose. We will do all of these things. If we have to force your company into financial ruin to do so, we will. We will consume only as much crap and advertising as is strictly necessary to make the decision that we do not like your company. Then you're through. Someone who is willing to meet our demands will take your place. We won't miss you. Take this to heart and you may survive!
I don't do any 3D rendering, but I believe I do more processor-heavy work than the average Carlos - sp. big numerical differential equation and bigbigbig linear optimization stuff in Maple - and my tienda-de-descuentos K6-II still crunches the stuff faster than I could ever desire.
then I guess I'd say this... "You don't need more processing power!"
my guess is that the processors are already sitting on a shelf in a warehouse somewhare and for the next two years they'll be working on the bandwidth issues between RAM, L2 cache, L1 cache, and the CPU, as well as a few other minor things to tweak the hell out of X86-64 and basically make such a processor worthwhile!
It appears that you are implying that I need to know how it works? Maybe because my system got infected? That is incorrect. I choose to know how it works in case a friend (or myself, yes, but that is unlikely) gets infected. This has worked to my advantage, as two of them did and I got a couple dinners out of removing it and, as one of them was my boss, a recommendation from him to the owner of the company, that at some point when a position opens up I be promoted into the IT department (because I was able to explain to him how it works, why it works, what it does, how he got it, and why he won't get it again because he is patched against it). I did all this without insulting anybody or making them feel stupid and they now both understand the importance of patching, as well as other security related items I discussed with them and have both demonstrated to me that they are now following good security practices.
Welchia, either because it is poorly coded or because it was intended to do so, overloads the RPC service until it crashes by inundating it with requests that are used to, among other things, send mass e-mails containing the worm. This may allow it to spread to a few machines on every occurance, given a fast connection, but over dialup, you likely won't see it spreading much. If the BIOS were flashed before the crash/forced reboot (the system reboots 60 seconds after the RPC service crashes, giving warning that it is about to reboot -- during this 60 seconds, the virus is dead in its tracks -- it relies on RPC to do its thing and that is no longer running), systems using dial-up would rarely, if ever, be able to send a single message, let alone enough to cause the virus to spread quickly -- and even with the fastest broadband connection, you may see a system send out about 2 or 3 messages before the crash -- and remember, when they reboot, they won't actually boot at all... not a good way to spread, if you ask me.
Next time, research what a particular virus does, how it does it, how its dependancies (in this case RPC) work, and how the rest of the system if affected by the loss of these dependancies -- and do this before somone has to school you on it.
One of us is posting flamebait and just got flamed. I'll let the/. moderators decide who is who.
most interresting, except that, if you have ever seen a box with welchia connected to ANY network (internet or LAN) it usually will reboot within a minute or two. not much time to spread, there, buddy... although I think a minute or two would be record time for anyone likely to get one of these worms to have thier computer booted without crashing anyway...
reading the blurb for this article, then your post, and realizing that SCO is full^H^H^H^Hoverflowing with BS -- already knew they were full of it -- I think I know what this is all about...
SCO owns/. (Of course nobody will admit it!)
News was slow one day
/. heads said do SCO "Hey! Make us some news! Try to fuck over Linux! But don't actually DO anything -- we don't want to get sued into oblivion or anything!"
if the author put some nasty BIOS flashing code in the worm, it would spread to maybe 6 PCs before all of them were useless and unable to spread it any more...
And it would majorly kick ass to put 16 of these bad boys on a mobo! Even though Linus had nothing to do with their making, unless they started the project before he quit several months ago!
that read "CERN is currently using a beta version of the system to store data from the Large Hardon Collider" and thought "Well, it would be great for all of my pr0n, but I don't think I'd want any gay pr0n, let alone 1PB of it!"
Other than that, show us some benchmarks! Is it fast enough to capture uncompressed video to?
Imagine the uber-l33t PVR you could build with this! a hundred TV tuner cards, capture ALL your favorite shows -- and your friends' favorite shows -- and all the HBO and skinemax flicks! I mean... uncompressed.. of course! why waste valuable CPU cycles on compression? then, when you've catalogued every movie, every show, every commercial, every thing that has been on TV since you got the shit set up, well... you notice that you've only used about a quarter of your storage! now you're pissed! you wasted all that money on space that's gonna go unused?!?! so you start compressing everything into DVD compatible MPEG-2, DivX, VCD compliant MPEG-1, VCD2.0 compliant MPEG-2, Real, WMV, Hasbro VideoNOW, and whatever other formats you can think of -- now if a friend wants a show or movie in a specific format, no problem! Okay, you have 1/4 of a PB left. Good enough -- now to watch all the pr0n you captured from the playboy channel!
I could mod a reader and burner for about $3 a piece with some wire and a 2-channel dipole slide switch.
Clip the wires to the motor that spins the disc. For this example, we'll assume that they are red and white. The switch will have 6 leads on it, one pair for the input (wires from the board), and two for the output.
Connect the wires to the middle pair - the input set. Be sure to connect red to one side and white to the other.
Now, connect red-to-red and white-to-white on one of the remaining pairs.
Finally, connect red-to-white and white-to-red on the remaining pair.
Modify the face plate of the drive to accomodate the switch
If you do know absolutely understand everything in this post, do not attempt it. You run the risk of toasting your drive or wasting the $3 on the switch to hook it up to do absolutely nothing.
Don't violate the DMCA by doing this in the US and then copying a Game Cube game. You can try to burn your backps and what-not in this manor with the disc spinning in reverse -- however, I have not tried this and do not know if the drive will be able to identify the CD-R media to burn to it if it is spinning in reverse. In fact, I don't think it will. You may be able to let the disc spin in the proper direction while the drive identifies it, then flip the switch before burning the disc. No guarantees -- again, I haven't tried this.
Good luck to all. If you do this, let me know if it works. If you toast your drive or waste your time/money -- oh well, I'm telling you right now that's likely to happen, not my fault.
It's my computer. If I want to record everything that happens on it, I can. Same with my phone. If I want to record it, I can. I cannot, however, do the same to your computer or phone without facing criminal charges if I get caught.
I am appalled by that comment. As a two-time victim of identity theft (I shred everything and burn it, but when they put a gun to your head and demand your wallet, which has your DL and SS card in it you're fucked), I can most certainly speak to the fact that it DOES deprive one of thier ability to use thier identity.
I was seriosly considering an alias or forging a new identity for myself the first time it happened. I was arrested twice on outstanding warrants for things these people did using my identity. They even went so far as to threaten to charge me with identity fraud because "This guy lives in Detroit. He called us and said this address was on his credit report."
If that isn't depriving me of the ability to use my identity, then please tell me, what is?
A year later, I got that mess taken care of (a year is QUICK to fix ID theft).
A month later, I was held a gunpoint again. That's when I learned not to carry my SS card in my wallet.
I tracked these people down using my credit report and internet phone directories in about 2 hours. This was 2 months ago. The robbery happened 6 months ago. MY detective could not do this in 4 months which I why I did. Not that he knows who they are and where to find them all he has to do is get a warrant, search thier apartment (I'll post the address if you want, anyone in Detroit is welcome to harrass them) and find credit card opened in my name, my cell phone which they stole, and anything else they have that they stole from me (or just use thier address on my credit report) and arrest them.
It's been 2 months now that he has had this information and he has done nothing! I call him EVERY DAY and get "They don't answer the phone." I called them last week and they answered. I called him and he said he was going over there. He didn't.
The guys that did it the first time are probably still out there as well.
I tell you, I strive to keep my credit clean. This happens. I clean it up. It happens again. This will take time to clean up.
Just on the off chance that these people may be reading this, I know you live on Cruse street, in apartment 1 of the building you live in. I know your name, Kim, phone number (last 4 are 1564), full address, age, your SSN, enough to do to you what you did to me. My detective also knows this. I'll know if you move, when you move, where you move to. I'll know any alias you use. I'll track you down for as long as it takes to get a competent detective to nail your ass to the wall. Live it up now, bitch. You'll rot when the day comes.
Now that that is out of the way, ID theft is just that; theft. Know it. And don't carry your SS card on you. Lock it in a safe.
I normally don't reply to ACs, but did you even read scove's post? which is what I was replying to. In the context of that post, my response was more than relavent (sp? i know it's wrong) and should not have been moderated as a troll. As I'm fairly certain that it was you, AC, who moderated me, and as such I must say, reveal yourself, I need a few foes to add to my list.
I troll is, by definition, someone who posts to a board without reading and understanding the topic of discussion on that board. A troll would post a reply to somone without first fully reading and understanding it or why it was posted.
It is aparent to me, AC, that you either did not fully read my post or did not fully understand it or why I posted it. According to above definition, and your lack of willingness to reveal your identity (perhaps terrible karma and the inability to post more messages than you already have today?) what, exactly, are you? I don't normally feed trolls and, as mentioned above, I tend to ignore ACs; I'm making an exception for you.
You are a special case.
Back to the topic at hand. The school doesn't need WiFi. Simple as that. However, someone posted earlier stating that the lawsuit was similar to "Turn it off now and pay nothing, or go to court and pay alot". Have you, by chance, looked at pricing on network switches and CAT-5 cable lately? If the building is of a moderate size and they have more than a few computers to network, they'd be paying alot. Possibly (not likely, but possibly) more than court costs will be.
explosions can be very distracting. Espescially if they happen an inch from your face or in your pocket -- or anywhere in your vehicle, for that matter. Even a headset won't save you there, buddy!
But, I wonder, if my phone exploded and caused an accident, could I sue the manufacturer?
And, in other news, a Beowulf cluster of exploding Nokias has just taken out the terrorist group known as Al-Queda. God Damn, about friggin' time! Oh--- sorry, we're still on th air, aren't we? **POP** **BANG** **POP** **POP** OH FUCK! MY PHONE! Uhmm... and yours? And... Is everybody okay? It appears that all of us had Nokia phones on the set tonight; and... uhmm... they all exploded. Can't sue though. Wouldn't feel right, after they got rid of Osama for us.
I know -- wishful thinking. But at least I'm thinking.
Excuse me, I work at Burger King and must respond to this.
First off, fuck you very much, kind sir, for your derogitory (sp?) implications toward my place of work.
Secondly, registers in most stores currently use 10-base ethernet, but now that most stores (at least in my franchise) have DSL and the rest have sat connections, they will soon be linked to each other via a Wi-Fi network, which the computers in the office will also be linked to. This will allow them to transmit daily sales statistics via a VPN rather than the current dial-up connection being used for this purpose. This will also allow reports to be pulled from the office computers, so employees no longer have to be at a register to pull a sales or time-clock report.
Lastly, the above networking future of the stores is just the reason these parents would not let thier kids work at Burger King -- if it is such a problem for them at school!
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They should leave the AC patch in place -- but change its functionality so that:
/. or Anonymous Coward. This post was a bit of sarcasm -- if you happen to have fallen into a sarchasm and don't get it, don't bother moderating!
People using it can no longer post as AC
and
People using it no longer have to view AC posts
Aside from that, not sure what the AC patch you are referring to actually does, although I do know it has nothing to do with
Know what? To get around this, one would need only use already existing software for HDTV tuner cards -- some source is available, making it possible to write your own app which ignores these dirty bits. Clean and simple. The technology to circumvent this is already in place and it hasn't even been implemented yet!
If you are gonna record something to burn to a DVD, you're probably gonna record it to your PC anyway!
THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE NEEDS TO TAKE THE FOLLOWING LINS TO HEART:
We want quality content. We will pay for quality content. We will not pay for crap or ads! If there are more ads that content in a given hour of programming, we will likely know that in advance and will take measures to record the content and eliminate the ads from it before consumption. While this may take longer, this is what we will do. We see new products in stores and (along with new stores) on billboards - we don't need to find out about them in advertisments which interrupt the content we wish to consume. We want to preview a substantial portion of the content we are going to spend money on before we spend money on it or we want to be able to return it for a full refund if we are not satisfied with its quality. We want to be able to consume content in any way we choose. We will do all of these things. If we have to force your company into financial ruin to do so, we will. We will consume only as much crap and advertising as is strictly necessary to make the decision that we do not like your company. Then you're through. Someone who is willing to meet our demands will take your place. We won't miss you. Take this to heart and you may survive!
I don't do any 3D rendering, but I believe I do more processor-heavy work than the average Carlos - sp. big numerical differential equation and bigbigbig linear optimization stuff in Maple - and my tienda-de-descuentos K6-II still crunches the stuff faster than I could ever desire.
then I guess I'd say this... "You don't need more processing power!"
my guess is that the processors are already sitting on a shelf in a warehouse somewhare and for the next two years they'll be working on the bandwidth issues between RAM, L2 cache, L1 cache, and the CPU, as well as a few other minor things to tweak the hell out of X86-64 and basically make such a processor worthwhile!
I like the WOPR, fuck the Big Mac!
This book is written very aesthetically and with a substantial amount of style.
It appears that you are implying that I need to know how it works? Maybe because my system got infected? That is incorrect. I choose to know how it works in case a friend (or myself, yes, but that is unlikely) gets infected. This has worked to my advantage, as two of them did and I got a couple dinners out of removing it and, as one of them was my boss, a recommendation from him to the owner of the company, that at some point when a position opens up I be promoted into the IT department (because I was able to explain to him how it works, why it works, what it does, how he got it, and why he won't get it again because he is patched against it). I did all this without insulting anybody or making them feel stupid and they now both understand the importance of patching, as well as other security related items I discussed with them and have both demonstrated to me that they are now following good security practices.
Not bad for a burger-flipper, eh?
Out of gas, no more flames from me today. Sorry.
Welchia, either because it is poorly coded or because it was intended to do so, overloads the RPC service until it crashes by inundating it with requests that are used to, among other things, send mass e-mails containing the worm. This may allow it to spread to a few machines on every occurance, given a fast connection, but over dialup, you likely won't see it spreading much. If the BIOS were flashed before the crash/forced reboot (the system reboots 60 seconds after the RPC service crashes, giving warning that it is about to reboot -- during this 60 seconds, the virus is dead in its tracks -- it relies on RPC to do its thing and that is no longer running), systems using dial-up would rarely, if ever, be able to send a single message, let alone enough to cause the virus to spread quickly -- and even with the fastest broadband connection, you may see a system send out about 2 or 3 messages before the crash -- and remember, when they reboot, they won't actually boot at all... not a good way to spread, if you ask me.
/. moderators decide who is who.
Next time, research what a particular virus does, how it does it, how its dependancies (in this case RPC) work, and how the rest of the system if affected by the loss of these dependancies -- and do this before somone has to school you on it.
One of us is posting flamebait and just got flamed. I'll let the
most interresting, except that, if you have ever seen a box with welchia connected to ANY network (internet or LAN) it usually will reboot within a minute or two. not much time to spread, there, buddy... although I think a minute or two would be record time for anyone likely to get one of these worms to have thier computer booted without crashing anyway...
POINT!
reading the blurb for this article, then your post, and realizing that SCO is full^H^H^H^Hoverflowing with BS -- already knew they were full of it -- I think I know what this is all about...
/. (Of course nobody will admit it!)
/. heads said do SCO "Hey! Make us some news! Try to fuck over Linux! But don't actually DO anything -- we don't want to get sued into oblivion or anything!"
SCO owns
News was slow one day
And news has been plentiful ever since!
if the author put some nasty BIOS flashing code in the worm, it would spread to maybe 6 PCs before all of them were useless and unable to spread it any more...
Yeah, we'd really be up shit creek, man!
Linus is no longet a Transmetite
Linus no longer works for Transmeta
Linus left Transmeta months ago
Linus hasn't worked for Transmeta in months
And it would majorly kick ass to put 16 of these bad boys on a mobo! Even though Linus had nothing to do with their making, unless they started the project before he quit several months ago!
I have been getting telemarketing calls on my cell phone for a year now... how exactly do I go about filing a claim against these companies?
Preferably from someone who IAL
guessing that percentage to be about 75%
that read "CERN is currently using a beta version of the system to store data from the Large Hardon Collider" and thought "Well, it would be great for all of my pr0n, but I don't think I'd want any gay pr0n, let alone 1PB of it!"
Other than that, show us some benchmarks! Is it fast enough to capture uncompressed video to?
Imagine the uber-l33t PVR you could build with this! a hundred TV tuner cards, capture ALL your favorite shows -- and your friends' favorite shows -- and all the HBO and skinemax flicks! I mean... uncompressed.. of course! why waste valuable CPU cycles on compression? then, when you've catalogued every movie, every show, every commercial, every thing that has been on TV since you got the shit set up, well... you notice that you've only used about a quarter of your storage! now you're pissed! you wasted all that money on space that's gonna go unused?!?! so you start compressing everything into DVD compatible MPEG-2, DivX, VCD compliant MPEG-1, VCD2.0 compliant MPEG-2, Real, WMV, Hasbro VideoNOW, and whatever other formats you can think of -- now if a friend wants a show or movie in a specific format, no problem! Okay, you have 1/4 of a PB left. Good enough -- now to watch all the pr0n you captured from the playboy channel!
I could mod a reader and burner for about $3 a piece with some wire and a 2-channel dipole slide switch.
Clip the wires to the motor that spins the disc. For this example, we'll assume that they are red and white. The switch will have 6 leads on it, one pair for the input (wires from the board), and two for the output.
Connect the wires to the middle pair - the input set. Be sure to connect red to one side and white to the other.
Now, connect red-to-red and white-to-white on one of the remaining pairs.
Finally, connect red-to-white and white-to-red on the remaining pair.
Modify the face plate of the drive to accomodate the switch
If you do know absolutely understand everything in this post, do not attempt it. You run the risk of toasting your drive or wasting the $3 on the switch to hook it up to do absolutely nothing.
Don't violate the DMCA by doing this in the US and then copying a Game Cube game. You can try to burn your backps and what-not in this manor with the disc spinning in reverse -- however, I have not tried this and do not know if the drive will be able to identify the CD-R media to burn to it if it is spinning in reverse. In fact, I don't think it will. You may be able to let the disc spin in the proper direction while the drive identifies it, then flip the switch before burning the disc. No guarantees -- again, I haven't tried this.
Good luck to all. If you do this, let me know if it works. If you toast your drive or waste your time/money -- oh well, I'm telling you right now that's likely to happen, not my fault.
slashdot == a beowulf cluster of site-killing news-hungry troll-smacking incorrectly-modding simpsons-quoting soviet-russia-and-beowulf-cluster-and-profit-and-s co-joke-making sex-starved girlfriend-less nerds!
BTW... WTF is free-floating UNIX? I'm lacking in ability to RTFA!
Linus is king nerd. Think he actually have a girlfriend?
It's my computer. If I want to record everything that happens on it, I can. Same with my phone. If I want to record it, I can. I cannot, however, do the same to your computer or phone without facing criminal charges if I get caught.
I am appalled by that comment. As a two-time victim of identity theft (I shred everything and burn it, but when they put a gun to your head and demand your wallet, which has your DL and SS card in it you're fucked), I can most certainly speak to the fact that it DOES deprive one of thier ability to use thier identity.
I was seriosly considering an alias or forging a new identity for myself the first time it happened. I was arrested twice on outstanding warrants for things these people did using my identity. They even went so far as to threaten to charge me with identity fraud because "This guy lives in Detroit. He called us and said this address was on his credit report."
If that isn't depriving me of the ability to use my identity, then please tell me, what is?
A year later, I got that mess taken care of (a year is QUICK to fix ID theft).
A month later, I was held a gunpoint again. That's when I learned not to carry my SS card in my wallet.
I tracked these people down using my credit report and internet phone directories in about 2 hours. This was 2 months ago. The robbery happened 6 months ago. MY detective could not do this in 4 months which I why I did. Not that he knows who they are and where to find them all he has to do is get a warrant, search thier apartment (I'll post the address if you want, anyone in Detroit is welcome to harrass them) and find credit card opened in my name, my cell phone which they stole, and anything else they have that they stole from me (or just use thier address on my credit report) and arrest them.
It's been 2 months now that he has had this information and he has done nothing! I call him EVERY DAY and get "They don't answer the phone." I called them last week and they answered. I called him and he said he was going over there. He didn't.
The guys that did it the first time are probably still out there as well.
I tell you, I strive to keep my credit clean. This happens. I clean it up. It happens again. This will take time to clean up.
Just on the off chance that these people may be reading this, I know you live on Cruse street, in apartment 1 of the building you live in. I know your name, Kim, phone number (last 4 are 1564), full address, age, your SSN, enough to do to you what you did to me. My detective also knows this. I'll know if you move, when you move, where you move to. I'll know any alias you use. I'll track you down for as long as it takes to get a competent detective to nail your ass to the wall. Live it up now, bitch. You'll rot when the day comes.
Now that that is out of the way, ID theft is just that; theft. Know it. And don't carry your SS card on you. Lock it in a safe.
I normally don't reply to ACs, but did you even read scove's post? which is what I was replying to. In the context of that post, my response was more than relavent (sp? i know it's wrong) and should not have been moderated as a troll. As I'm fairly certain that it was you, AC, who moderated me, and as such I must say, reveal yourself, I need a few foes to add to my list.
I troll is, by definition, someone who posts to a board without reading and understanding the topic of discussion on that board. A troll would post a reply to somone without first fully reading and understanding it or why it was posted.
It is aparent to me, AC, that you either did not fully read my post or did not fully understand it or why I posted it. According to above definition, and your lack of willingness to reveal your identity (perhaps terrible karma and the inability to post more messages than you already have today?) what, exactly, are you? I don't normally feed trolls and, as mentioned above, I tend to ignore ACs; I'm making an exception for you.
You are a special case.
Back to the topic at hand. The school doesn't need WiFi. Simple as that. However, someone posted earlier stating that the lawsuit was similar to "Turn it off now and pay nothing, or go to court and pay alot". Have you, by chance, looked at pricing on network switches and CAT-5 cable lately? If the building is of a moderate size and they have more than a few computers to network, they'd be paying alot. Possibly (not likely, but possibly) more than court costs will be.
explosions can be very distracting. Espescially if they happen an inch from your face or in your pocket -- or anywhere in your vehicle, for that matter. Even a headset won't save you there, buddy!
But, I wonder, if my phone exploded and caused an accident, could I sue the manufacturer?
And, in other news, a Beowulf cluster of exploding Nokias has just taken out the terrorist group known as Al-Queda. God Damn, about friggin' time! Oh--- sorry, we're still on th air, aren't we? **POP** **BANG** **POP** **POP** OH FUCK! MY PHONE! Uhmm... and yours? And... Is everybody okay? It appears that all of us had Nokia phones on the set tonight; and... uhmm... they all exploded. Can't sue though. Wouldn't feel right, after they got rid of Osama for us.
I know -- wishful thinking. But at least I'm thinking.
Excuse me, I work at Burger King and must respond to this.
First off, fuck you very much, kind sir, for your derogitory (sp?) implications toward my place of work.
Secondly, registers in most stores currently use 10-base ethernet, but now that most stores (at least in my franchise) have DSL and the rest have sat connections, they will soon be linked to each other via a Wi-Fi network, which the computers in the office will also be linked to. This will allow them to transmit daily sales statistics via a VPN rather than the current dial-up connection being used for this purpose. This will also allow reports to be pulled from the office computers, so employees no longer have to be at a register to pull a sales or time-clock report.
Lastly, the above networking future of the stores is just the reason these parents would not let thier kids work at Burger King -- if it is such a problem for them at school!