Modded and hacked the marsian who bought it is now making a fortune with his brand new TV Set-Top box on wheels. NASA shouldn't have put all the paytv-codes in there...
I have a radio-alarmclock to wake me up in the morning so I'm exposed to the latest batch of Pink, Kylie, Eminem & Co for about 30 minutes every day.
It's a good way to drive me out of bed but the sheer crudity and primitiveness (is there some hidden agenda that prevents them from putting more than ~4 accords into one song?) of these mainstream products makes me normally (with very rare exceptions) switch it off as soon as I get to the button...
I guess there is only so much you can do with music when your main goal is to appeal >90% of the "target audience" and your sound engineers are instructed to make it "safe for cheap radio speakers".
Let me know when there is something worth buying from them. Until then lets just keep on spreading their crap to those who care about it until that superficial "music monopoly" is out of money and goes away. No loss, no tears.
Full ack. If you are worried about what you're downloading you'd better get a PGP-signature or at least md5/sha-hash from a trusted source and compare.
Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings.
When you translate this for a cellphone it would sound like this:
Device may record your shopping habits (GPS), deliver advertising (screensaver?), collect private information (record phone calls/destinations) or modify your system settings (Remove/block phone numbers/addresses/notes related to competitor?).
It's beyond me why anyone in their right mind would only consider using a software/device that shamelessly admits to do all these things. IMHO Legislation should take care of these gnats ASAP.
I was too disgusted to move on after page 3 or so when I just couldn't stand the messy layout any longer. There are FIFTEEN (15!) banner/text ads on every page (plus one in a popup).
Backspace? On my first typewriter there was no way to move the head backwards. It didn't even have a paper-tray so in order to insert a new sheet the whole thing (3723 pieces) had to be completely taken apart and then reassembled, screw by screw.
And don't get me started on the red ink cartridge. I passed out several times during refill!
SPEWS might act responsible, many other blocklists apparently do not. I frequently get my E-Mail bounced because some stupid list (or malconfigured client of that list) considers my ISP "bad".
Last time that happened was only 5 days ago and evaluating the bounce notice was a particular bitter expirience:
recip@somewhere: x.x.x.x does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 Policy analysis reported: Dynamic/Residential IP range listed by easynet.nl DynaBlock - http://dynablock.easynet.nl/errors.htm rcpt=recip @somewhere Giving up on x.x.x.x.
Not only does the quoted URL give a 404 but on top of that the homepage http://dynablock.easynet.nl explains that this blocklist has been discontinued on Dec 01 '03!
Very nice, my mail was zapped by a blocklist that was shutdown a month ago.
This is not the first time this kinda thing happens to me. I see my mail eaten by spamcop, spews and others frequently.
So, I tell you from my expirience: The blocklist-approach creates a lot more serious problems than the one it tries to solve. Spam wastes bandwidth and ressources but when important mail gets randomly sucked up by a blackhole (pun intended..) that is much worse!
What are we supposed to do? Switch ISP until we find one that doesn't get blocked as often? Ring up our ISPs and ask them to negotiate with the blocklist operators?
Unfortunately, I'm not ready to live without Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, SoundForge and Flash MX. And I suppose I would probably absolutely have to run Excel etc every once in a while.
Photoshop and Flash MX would run fine in VMware. The performance loss is significant but a >2GHZ machine can run them at worthwhile speed. Soundforge would be no fun but Illustrator, AfterEffects and ofcourse Excel might do just as well as ps/flash.
Since you two guys seem to actually own such a shuttle case I must ask you a question that's bugging me for a while.
Don't these things make noise like a vacuum cleaner?
The noise that I'm getting from the CPU-fan that's strapped on my athlon xp 1800 from the inside of the Chieftec 601 bigtower under my desk is pretty annoying for me already. I have invested in a "silent" PSU (really silent unless you press your ear against the fan-grill) and a very quiet cpu-fan. But still the machine adds a significant noisefloor to the room when I turn it on. The cpu-fan is creating this noiselevel alone (empirically proven by finger-sticking-method) even though most people seem to consider that fan-model to be the quietest 80mm you can get.
So how much airflow (fans#) is needed to keep an athlon cpu cool in such a small housing? And can you give a hint about how much noise goes with that?
Yes, freenet and friends exist and are under active developement. And there are more promising concepts waiting to be explored. Seems like the *IAA can only lose if they intend to enter an arms race with academia.
The music business will never die. It just changes in the process of evolution. New technology changes our lives every day, why should it leave the music/media industry alone?
It'd be trivial to modify the clients to check the hash of the currently requested file against some sort of centralised database or a set of "forbidden" hashes released alongside or independently from the program. I assume it would also be technically feasible to have some sort of 3rd party software running perhabs in the host OS or even on the ISP server analyse the P2P traffic, generate hashes for the transmitted files and detect whether the hashes match known, well-spread pirated versions. However I think that'd require an enormous amount of infrastructure to do that, if it is in fact doable at all. On a sidenote, even if an ISP detected an "illegal" hash, that hash could still belong to an altogether different file and only match by pure chance. It's not bloody likely, especially not for another meaningful file, but still.
I agree this could be technically possible but as you suggested the required infrastructure would be unimaginable large. Any implementation limited to the client side can be circumvented via
hacked proxies speaking/altering the p2p protocol..until encryption is added
patches to the application itself (the cracker-camp will be at it in hordes)..until DRM is broadly deployed
unauthorized "3rd party implementations" of the p2p protocol or just a different protocol that doesnt come with such restrictions..hard to defeat unless particular software gets outlawed
Any measure beyond that would require deployment of sniffer/monitoring-software on a massive scale. Would Big Brother tolerate a Big Sister on his playground?
I think your digital content/money comparison is a bit far off. Money is a currency, a token with no actual "content". Protecting the financial system against fake money and other fraud is a completely different ballgame than protecting volumes of content - e.g. long bitstreams of audio/video - against duplication.
As long as audio and video are consumed in an analog fashion (through eyes & ears) there will be a way to (in the last instance) chain up an output device to a recording device.
If the DRM-guys realize their threats and enable a spy chip in everybody's box we're ofcourse looking at a different situation. But if that happens we have bigger problems than pirate copies of the latest hollywood frobnitz...
I was gonna say something similar. Anyone who has ever worked/played with a Yamaha RX5 (LCD display 2x14 chars) will appreciate the interface evolution.;-)
While such a broad investigation might actually help to shut down some spammers I still wouldn't ask for it in anything louder than a whisper voice.
I don't want to think about what kind of privacy intrusions would go along with such an effort and your "squeezing"-vocabulary related to government organizations dealing with ISPs and banks makes me a bit nervous.
But you also mentioned a different aspect, one that sounds more comfortable (and maybe just as effective) to me. As you said, most of that viagra and moneymaking crap being advertised is illegal in first place. So why not just extend regular anti-fraud and fax-spam laws to cover it?
Generally my idea of an implementation would be in the form of a public "robinson list" for E-Mail addresses. Everybody can subscribe their E-Mail addresses to the list, advertisers would be obligated to stay up to date with that list and not send unsolicited E-Mail to any address on the list.
When your address is on the list and you receive spam - track down the spammer (spamhaus and friends show its possible) and report him.
If such an approach was backed up by legislation and enforced ($$$-fines) it might quickly mute most of the spammers (except maybe those that are really hard to track).
I think the spam problem could be solved this way without the big FBI/CC-fraud investigation hammer. After all the most annoying and persisent spam-senders have already been identified (see spamhaus etc. again).
The way I see it, you have a warcrime if one side bombs the other's cities. You have a mutual agreement if you decide to retaliate with the same medicine they fed you.
I think any invividual that participates in such an agreement should be prosecuted (= put behind bars).
But that's my personal idealism.
In the long run we just need to learn to solve our conflicts before they escalate so far. At that point in the war they probably threw everything at each other that they had (except for the A-Bomb). If another war at the current (or a future) technology level escalates to that stage there will be much more devastating "mistakes" (the "oops I wiped your city"-class).
I know this is probably obvious and common sense. At least I hope so...
Disclaimer: No, I don't believe in the perversion of "surgical warfare".
Yes m'aam. This I think has asociated observation in aluminum irregardless of it was plaid by year as a really mute point in time on a steel-belted radio tire.
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Someone tell the NASA guys to enable mod_gzip on their client.
Modded and hacked the marsian who bought it is now making a fortune with his brand new TV Set-Top box on wheels.
NASA shouldn't have put all the paytv-codes in there...
They figured it out: the image processing module has failed.
/var/log/spirit/subsys/gimp.log
Transcript:
# grep -i error
GIMP error: could not apply filter fooscript_tint(0xFF0000)
Ack.
And he also missed out on rule #1: If you want people to read your stuff then add pretty pictures!
No biggie, when talking about the *IAA these terms tend to be exchangable. ;-)
The *IAA would probably pick up the list of "5 stars"-traders for their next batch of c&d blackmail...
Music?
I have a radio-alarmclock to wake me up in the morning so I'm exposed to
the latest batch of Pink, Kylie, Eminem & Co for about 30 minutes every day.
It's a good way to drive me out of bed but the sheer crudity and primitiveness (is there some hidden agenda that prevents them from putting more than ~4 accords into one song?) of these mainstream products makes me normally (with very rare exceptions) switch it off as soon as I get to the button...
I guess there is only so much you can do with music when your main goal is to appeal >90% of the "target audience" and your sound engineers are instructed to make it "safe for cheap radio speakers".
Let me know when there is something worth buying from them. Until then lets just keep on spreading their crap to those who care about it until that superficial "music monopoly" is out of money and goes away. No loss, no tears.
Full ack.
If you are worried about what you're downloading you'd better get a PGP-signature or at least md5/sha-hash from a trusted source and compare.
Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings.
When you translate this for a cellphone it would sound like this:
Device may record your shopping habits (GPS), deliver advertising (screensaver?), collect private information (record phone calls/destinations) or modify your system settings (Remove/block phone numbers/addresses/notes related to competitor?).
It's beyond me why anyone in their right mind would only consider using a software/device that shamelessly admits to do all these things. IMHO Legislation should take care of these gnats ASAP.
I was too disgusted to move on after page 3 or so when I just couldn't stand the messy layout any longer.
There are FIFTEEN (15!) banner/text ads on every page (plus one in a popup).
I guess my three clicks alone made them $30...
Backspace?
On my first typewriter there was no way to move the head backwards. It didn't even have a paper-tray so in order to insert a new sheet the whole thing (3723 pieces) had to be completely taken apart and then reassembled, screw by screw.
And don't get me started on the red ink cartridge. I passed out several times during refill!
SPEWS might act responsible, many other blocklists apparently do not.
p @somewhere
I frequently get my E-Mail bounced because some stupid list (or malconfigured client of that list) considers my ISP "bad".
Last time that happened was only 5 days ago and evaluating the bounce notice was a particular bitter expirience:
recip@somewhere:
x.x.x.x does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 Policy analysis reported: Dynamic/Residential IP range listed by easynet.nl DynaBlock - http://dynablock.easynet.nl/errors.htm
rcpt=reci
Giving up on x.x.x.x.
Not only does the quoted URL give a 404 but on top of that the homepage http://dynablock.easynet.nl explains that this blocklist has been discontinued on Dec 01 '03!
Very nice, my mail was zapped by a blocklist that was shutdown a month ago.
This is not the first time this kinda thing happens to me.
I see my mail eaten by spamcop, spews and others frequently.
So, I tell you from my expirience: The blocklist-approach creates a lot more serious problems than the one it tries to solve. Spam wastes bandwidth and ressources but when important mail gets randomly sucked up by a blackhole (pun intended..) that is much worse!
What are we supposed to do?
Switch ISP until we find one that doesn't get blocked as often?
Ring up our ISPs and ask them to negotiate with the blocklist operators?
There must be better options...
It has to be so expensive because nobody buys it. *shrug*
Unfortunately, I'm not ready to live without Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, SoundForge and Flash MX. And I suppose I would probably absolutely have to run Excel etc every once in a while.
Photoshop and Flash MX would run fine in VMware.
The performance loss is significant but a >2GHZ machine can run them at worthwhile speed. Soundforge would be no fun but Illustrator, AfterEffects and ofcourse Excel might do just as well as ps/flash.
Since you two guys seem to actually own such a shuttle case I must ask you a question that's bugging me for a while.
Don't these things make noise like a vacuum cleaner?
The noise that I'm getting from the CPU-fan that's strapped on my athlon xp 1800 from the inside of the Chieftec 601 bigtower under my desk is pretty annoying for me already. I have invested in a "silent" PSU (really silent unless you press your ear against the fan-grill) and a very quiet cpu-fan. But still the machine adds a significant noisefloor to the room when I turn it on. The cpu-fan is creating this noiselevel alone (empirically proven by finger-sticking-method) even though most people seem to consider that fan-model to be the quietest 80mm you can get.
So how much airflow (fans#) is needed to keep an athlon cpu cool in such a small housing? And can you give a hint about how much noise goes with that?
Yes, freenet and friends exist and are under active developement.
And there are more promising concepts waiting to be explored.
Seems like the *IAA can only lose if they intend to enter an arms race with academia.
And if they're wrong, the music business dies.
The music business will never die. It just changes in the process of evolution.
New technology changes our lives every day, why should it leave the music/media industry alone?
I agree this could be technically possible but as you suggested the required infrastructure would be unimaginable large.
Any implementation limited to the client side can be circumvented via
- hacked proxies speaking/altering the p2p protocol
..until encryption is added
- patches to the application itself (the cracker-camp will be at it in hordes)
..until DRM is broadly deployed
- unauthorized "3rd party implementations" of the p2p protocol or just a different protocol that doesnt come with such restrictions
..hard to defeat unless particular software gets outlawed
Any measure beyond that would require deployment of sniffer/monitoring-software on a massive scale.Would Big Brother tolerate a Big Sister on his playground?
Hmmm. Don't forget Darl McBride is going to be looking for a job soon, too...
Would anyone be more qualified?
I think your digital content/money comparison is a bit far off. Money is a currency, a token with no actual "content". Protecting the financial system against fake money and other fraud is a completely different ballgame than protecting volumes of content - e.g. long bitstreams of audio/video - against duplication.
As long as audio and video are consumed in an analog fashion (through eyes & ears) there will be a way to (in the last instance) chain up an output device to a recording device.
If the DRM-guys realize their threats and enable a spy chip in everybody's box we're ofcourse looking at a different situation. But if that happens we have bigger problems than pirate copies of the latest hollywood frobnitz...
I was gonna say something similar. ;-)
Anyone who has ever worked/played with a Yamaha RX5 (LCD display 2x14 chars) will appreciate the interface evolution.
While such a broad investigation might actually help to shut down some spammers I still wouldn't ask for it in anything louder than a whisper voice.
:-)
I don't want to think about what kind of privacy intrusions would go along with such an effort and your "squeezing"-vocabulary related to government organizations dealing with ISPs and banks makes me a bit nervous.
But you also mentioned a different aspect, one that sounds more comfortable (and maybe just as effective) to me.
As you said, most of that viagra and moneymaking crap being advertised is illegal in first place. So why not just extend regular anti-fraud and fax-spam laws to cover it?
Generally my idea of an implementation would be in the form of a public "robinson list" for E-Mail addresses. Everybody can subscribe their E-Mail addresses to the list, advertisers would be obligated to stay up to date with that list and not send unsolicited E-Mail to any address on the list.
When your address is on the list and you receive spam - track down the spammer (spamhaus and friends show its possible) and report him.
If such an approach was backed up by legislation and enforced ($$$-fines) it might quickly mute most of the spammers (except maybe those that are really hard to track).
I think the spam problem could be solved this way without the big FBI/CC-fraud investigation hammer. After all the most annoying and persisent spam-senders have already been identified (see spamhaus etc. again).
Just my 2cents
The way I see it, you have a warcrime if one side bombs the other's cities. You have a mutual agreement if you decide to retaliate with the same medicine they fed you.
I think any invividual that participates in such an agreement should be prosecuted (= put behind bars).
But that's my personal idealism.
In the long run we just need to learn to solve our conflicts before they escalate so far.
At that point in the war they probably threw everything at each other that they had (except for the A-Bomb). If another war at the current (or a future) technology level escalates to that stage there will be much more devastating "mistakes" (the "oops I wiped your city"-class).
I know this is probably obvious and common sense.
At least I hope so...
Disclaimer: No, I don't believe in the perversion of "surgical warfare".
Watch Schindler's List, then try again.
Yes m'aam.
This I think has asociated observation in aluminum irregardless of it was plaid by year as a really mute point in time on a steel-belted radio tire.