Just post anything at all about the situation as an AC and get modded really high.
Where are the backups to your statements?
This reminds me of when there was the large Exodus outage, and in the explanaion story an AC claimed to be some chick who was abuse my Taco (funny since Taco is in Michigan, Exodus cage is very not in Michigan, etc).
Moderators: don't mod up stuff unless there is PROOF or this person has put a real name behind their statements. Posts like this are just trolls meant no spread disinformation.
Let's look at this from an economics perspective: marginal cost vs. marginal benefit.
What is the marginal cost of this new CD protection scheme? People who can't play legitimate copies of CDs they have purchased, the loss of the ability of some people to backup their CD, and the extra expense of licencing this scheme from a company (like how Macrovision is licenced).
What is the marginal benefit of this scheme? Since we know that they can copy the data anyways (since any CD player plays music), we know that at least marignally degraded copies can still be made easily (and who'll notice at 128kbits MP3?). We also know that perfect digital copies can still be made with a little more effort (for those who like higher bitrates;)). Once this effort is expended, though, it requires no further effort as everyone can make a perfect digital copy.
The benefit is so small as to be non-existant, especially compared to the increased base cost of reproduction!
This is not a smart decision. And like the flawed logic that MP3s caused CD sales changes (who here has seen sales data of 10 years with all other factors accounted for so we can see if the responding variable and controlled variable are, in fact, related?), the way the market works should ensure that efforts like these don't last very long -- just make sure to educate people whom you know about this scheme, and hope the distribution method between of artists to art enjoyers changes soon.
If you're reading that from people who are republocrats, don't use those numbers. They only split people between really conservative, and very conservative. Now, if you had several parties (like Canada, et all) where there was a conservative party, a liberal party, a labour party, a more conservative party, etc, you could potentially say how many citizens are "at least conservative enough, or in agreement with the views, of the conservative party" to support them (and imply they are conservative).
They could've just been snapping up any domains with "Warcraft" in the title. If "worldofhalflife.com" is registered, does that mean Half-Life will come out in MMORPG format?
Apparently, yes. I suspect that laptops with wireless cards are filling the role that web appliances were supposed to fill.
Yes, I know my grandma who knows nothing about how to setup such a network would love to buy a laptop (1500$), WAP (500$), 801.11b NIC (200$), and the related stuff for the network -- as well as maintain and understand it. Rather than, say, an 800$ "simple" webpliance she can just use with no more training or help from me. (All prices in CDN.)
Once you realize that for every person who could setup and afford such a wireless laptop setup, you have a few hundred thousand who would go the eVilla route.. you see why Sony just made a silly move. Probably because of fears that the eVilla would work out like the PS2 for their bottom line (they are being sold under cost right now..).
You said it only rips at 0.6x. I ripped many classical, metal, electronic, etc, CDs using GRIP and the oggenc that comes with Slackware. On a TBird 1Ghz. I get a min 2.5x. At max, I see as high as 3.5-4x.
You must be doing something very wrong, or you're lieing.
So the little scenario you pointed out is not happening, at least not right now.
And even if Dmitri is unhappy about being a pawn, well, Adobe made the choice for him. Now he has no choice. Adobe, meanwhile, tries to play both sides off the middle by going, "ohh, sorry, we really didn't mean it." I swear they put out ROT13 just because they wanted to arrest someone and prove that the DMCA makes life for corporate america safe.
Or, if we interpret this karma whoring post another way:
"... why would anyone protest for this Dmitry fellow, aside from just being part of groupthink?
Has the DMCA affected anyone here personally?"
Back under you bridge! Anyone using the term 'groupthink' is either a troll or a whore. Grow up, and realize that groups of people can have shared goals/ideals.
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" All OS would do is guarantee that MUST give it away."
All it means is that some of the code is out under a licence that makes it friendly for people to use it in other free software projects. It could've been a way to get the hard work of the Be people out of the sinking ship, like Netscape did with Mozilla. Oh well. Our loss because some people there were perhaps uneducated about sharing the software.
Ahh, ok. I wasn't even thinking about the lawsuit over the licence thing because 1) I don't think MS cares, and 2) the warez scene doesn't seem to consider the consequences much:)
As for the rest, I only skimmed the article, and skimmed the comments. The discussion here generally peters out too quickly for me to want to get involved anyways. 2-3 days tops. --
You can't be daft enough to assume that the OEM didn't make sure to pass on the full cost of a Win98 install licence in their profit marign, regardless of the actual price from MS to them. Or are you?
The only "free" Windows is a warezed one you put on clean hardware you build from components.
But this is not that a person's security affects everyone else, as in the case of your licence. It's that peer to peer is essentially like life -- you filter on the client side, and don't get your panties in a knot about what other people do.
The point I was making is that the US government, because of their puritan background, seems to like the idea of dictating what may or may not happen between two consulting adults in a private bedroom, among other things. --
What's next for banning? The pics you take of your girlfriend when you're both 16 or 17? "Racey" skirts and short-shorts?
Get this -- people, logical, rational people -- like porn, sex, even double anal penetration!. They like their `divx porn,` their `preteen saving private Ryan,` their `stays crunchy (even steely Dan, citizen steely)` -- and especially their `Rage against the Gina Wild`!
Although I don't see fuck anywhere, maybe these people are developing a secret code `f--k` and `a--l` that will be deployed against US Congress(too bad it was caught)?
What's next? Licences to use a p2p client? Do you yankees like living in Stalin's Russia? How about typewriter licences because people write (horrors) sex stories?
People will get exactly what they want by hook or by crook. Try what you might to marginalize it, I bet all the people is the US congress jerked off to Daddy's pinups in the 1940s! --
For a moment there, just a moment, I thought ISPs had done something useful -- cracked down on filesharing built into OSes.
How many systems are compromised because of a shared "C:" drive in Windows? How many windows VBS worms which spread over NetBIOS? How many SunRPC attacks? And even LPD..
@Home did something useful when it started scanning for open NNTP servers, as well as SOCKS server. They also nicely block the "default" ports on BO an NetBus. Why can't they do something even better by blocking 111, 136-139, and 515 (incoming and outgoing)?
No, this article is just about targetting people who use the unlimited like it is unlimited, which pisses off the ISPs ("Of course we don't actually mean what we say."). --
"Businesses are growing so frustrated by the unreliability of the public Internet... that many have moved their most critical applications to alternative semiprivate networks."
They ran corporate data on the web at large, probably in plain text! What idiot does this? Every house, every business should have its own internal network which only has a limited bridgo to the internet through a stateful firewall which does packet inspection.
If you want a "direrct connection," then have any packets destined for a certain IP go through via IP Masq. Properly implemented, you can have any internal boxes which can't otherwise be proxied (because of a broken client protocol, perhaps) be masqd. And, on the inside, you get all the corporate guarantees you want -- as well as having a nice, central place for VPN, etc, implementation.
But these corporate people are too stupid for this, I guess. After all, the techs who understand this want to be doing their work, not participating in manager meetings. --
Slackware Linux is not meant to be opperated "bare." The reccomended security configuration includes an in incredible A.I. system abbreviated as "S.Y.S.O.P." Through its amazing abilities, the S.Y.S.O.P. system monitors a steady feed of bug reports (the famed B.U.G.T.R.A.Q. system, first implemented in 1997 as an experiment in networking S.Y.S.O.P. systems over long distance, high latency networks in an asynchronus way) for information on what to do with the system. They will tirelessy maintain and care for you server installation, and can ever create whole new bits of software in the pursuit of their goals!
While you Debian people may be happy to just blindly upgrade your BIND installation every few weeks, it has been found that through proper use of a S.Y.S.O.P. system, you can ditch the automated upgrades by moving to another DNS server altogether! These amazing devices will also help end users if they are clustered sufficiently to preventy burnout.
An intelligient S.Y.S.O.P. -- no server should be without one!
That's stupid. It's like saying, "If you hadn't been in the way of the bullet, you wouldn't have been shot."
That's stupid. It's like saying "If you're too dumb to read `Unsafe at any speed,` you deserve te drive a deathtrap."
There are supposed to be federal standards on products because (surprise, surprise) in a capitalist system, the govermment is supposed to be a manifestation of the people which ensures safety and protection from negative influences. This is why you don't have to worry about dieing from over-the-counter pilss bottles, or poison water supplies. The government should also protect the general populace from lemon software, because there is no way every single person who needs software can become enough of an expert to pick the best software.
This is similar to an arument for capitalsim from the 18th and 19th century -- do you have time te haggle for everything you buy, or should stores compete on price and quality? It sure reduces the
amount of haggling you have to do.
Question: is it possible to make a complex piece of software provable secure? Answer: no.
Have you ever put you sife in the hands of the software used in hospitals? Software engineering is all about provably correct software. If you spend a little extra effort up front, and are warry of the problems involved, you can build provably correct systems. The same thing applies to physical engineering of things like cars. Yeah, there will still be the odd problems, but I'm sure the occasional software recalls are less annoying than hourly reboots, and less danergous than a crash in the software managing you concorde. The Shuttle sure runs on some provably correct code. --
* Flash ads - haven't found anything that reliably removes the big flash ads from Excite or ZDNet or such.
I've found that deleting or not installing Flash helps 100%! I've yet to see a Flash ad since I removed that code from my browser. Why should I use a format that is closed and lacks proper ACLs (like cookies on browsers other than Mozilla/Konq).
* Popups - sure, I can get rid of most of 'em, but there are a lot of sites now with little pop-up "informational" boxes that break once I've filtered them out.
* Clever site programmers - some sites are actually splitting their javascript into multiple strings, concatenating them somehow at the browser, then "eval"ing them. Hard to catch those, as they've been stealthed past any keyword filter
And these sites are fundamentally broken in my browser because I disable Javascript. Why? Because client/side scripting is stupid (why have my client trust some server code? Why have the server trust data given back by insecure clients?). All the sanity checks are just the same (if not more) even if you use "client-side" validation.
IJB + no Java + no Javascript means I get fast, good web content. No crap in the way of good ol' XHTML 1 + CSS2 content (with images scattered about for flavour).
"I took a quick walk around the manual and checked out some of the examples, but it seems to me that C (or C-like languages) just aren't all that suitable for scripts. "
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor... Fujitsu got that working in 2000 "They've debuted fluid bearing motors in their MPF series. First introduced by Seagate in its 7200 RPM Medalist Pro, fluid bearings rapidly faded away as problems surfaced from the heat caused by leaked fluid."
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Silly me, I thought that the US funded the terrorist attacks on itself.
Just post anything at all about the situation as an AC and get modded really high.
Where are the backups to your statements?
This reminds me of when there was the large Exodus outage, and in the explanaion story an AC claimed to be some chick who was abuse my Taco (funny since Taco is in Michigan, Exodus cage is very not in Michigan, etc).
Moderators: don't mod up stuff unless there is PROOF or this person has put a real name behind their statements. Posts like this are just trolls meant no spread disinformation.
Let's look at this from an economics perspective: marginal cost vs. marginal benefit.
;)). Once this effort is expended, though, it requires no further effort as everyone can make a perfect digital copy.
What is the marginal cost of this new CD protection scheme? People who can't play legitimate copies of CDs they have purchased, the loss of the ability of some people to backup their CD, and the extra expense of licencing this scheme from a company (like how Macrovision is licenced).
What is the marginal benefit of this scheme? Since we know that they can copy the data anyways (since any CD player plays music), we know that at least marignally degraded copies can still be made easily (and who'll notice at 128kbits MP3?). We also know that perfect digital copies can still be made with a little more effort (for those who like higher bitrates
The benefit is so small as to be non-existant, especially compared to the increased base cost of reproduction!
This is not a smart decision. And like the flawed logic that MP3s caused CD sales changes (who here has seen sales data of 10 years with all other factors accounted for so we can see if the responding variable and controlled variable are, in fact, related?), the way the market works should ensure that efforts like these don't last very long -- just make sure to educate people whom you know about this scheme, and hope the distribution method between of artists to art enjoyers changes soon.
When the colours are the ONLY major selling point of your prodict, that's an issue.
Otherwise, choice is king. Have you ever changed the plate on your cell phone? How about getting a couch to match your other parts of your house?
Consumers are colour concious, in addition to being aware of the computational features.
If you're reading that from people who are republocrats, don't use those numbers. They only split people between really conservative, and very conservative. Now, if you had several parties (like Canada, et all) where there was a conservative party, a liberal party, a labour party, a more conservative party, etc, you could potentially say how many citizens are "at least conservative enough, or in agreement with the views, of the conservative party" to support them (and imply they are conservative).
They could've just been snapping up any domains with "Warcraft" in the title. If "worldofhalflife.com" is registered, does that mean Half-Life will come out in MMORPG format?
Doubtful.
Apparently, yes. I suspect that laptops with wireless cards are filling the role that web appliances were supposed to fill.
Yes, I know my grandma who knows nothing about how to setup such a network would love to buy a laptop (1500$), WAP (500$), 801.11b NIC (200$), and the related stuff for the network -- as well as maintain and understand it. Rather than, say, an 800$ "simple" webpliance she can just use with no more training or help from me. (All prices in CDN.)
Once you realize that for every person who could setup and afford such a wireless laptop setup, you have a few hundred thousand who would go the eVilla route.. you see why Sony just made a silly move. Probably because of fears that the eVilla would work out like the PS2 for their bottom line (they are being sold under cost right now..).
You said it only rips at 0.6x. I ripped many classical, metal, electronic, etc, CDs using GRIP and the oggenc that comes with Slackware. On a TBird 1Ghz. I get a min 2.5x. At max, I see as high as 3.5-4x.
You must be doing something very wrong, or you're lieing.
Straight from 2600: "SKLYAROV RELEASED ON BAIL AFTER THREE WEEKS"
So the little scenario you pointed out is not happening, at least not right now.
And even if Dmitri is unhappy about being a pawn, well, Adobe made the choice for him. Now he has no choice. Adobe, meanwhile, tries to play both sides off the middle by going, "ohh, sorry, we really didn't mean it." I swear they put out ROT13 just because they wanted to arrest someone and prove that the DMCA makes life for corporate america safe.
This is why we don't browse with something as inherintly broken by design as Javascript turned on :)
This has been a long time coming, as Newsforge reported on this a month ago :)
Or, if we interpret this karma whoring post another way:
"... why would anyone protest for this Dmitry fellow, aside from just being part of groupthink?
Has the DMCA affected anyone here personally?"
Back under you bridge! Anyone using the term 'groupthink' is either a troll or a whore. Grow up, and realize that groups of people can have shared goals/ideals.
" All OS would do is guarantee that MUST give it away."
Excuse me. Where in the GPL licence or the BSD licence does it say you can't sell for money the software?
Oh, that's right -- nowhere does it say that.
All it means is that some of the code is out under a licence that makes it friendly for people to use it in other free software projects. It could've been a way to get the hard work of the Be people out of the sinking ship, like Netscape did with Mozilla. Oh well. Our loss because some people there were perhaps uneducated about sharing the software.
Ahh, ok. I wasn't even thinking about the lawsuit over the licence thing because 1) I don't think MS cares, and 2) the warez scene doesn't seem to consider the consequences much :)
As for the rest, I only skimmed the article, and skimmed the comments. The discussion here generally peters out too quickly for me to want to get involved anyways. 2-3 days tops.
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Windows:
1 Win98 (included with machine): $0
You can't be daft enough to assume that the OEM didn't make sure to pass on the full cost of a Win98 install licence in their profit marign, regardless of the actual price from MS to them. Or are you?
The only "free" Windows is a warezed one you put on clean hardware you build from components.
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That is pretty damned newsworthy.
But this is not that a person's security affects everyone else, as in the case of your licence. It's that peer to peer is essentially like life -- you filter on the client side, and don't get your panties in a knot about what other people do.
The point I was making is that the US government, because of their puritan background, seems to like the idea of dictating what may or may not happen between two consulting adults in a private bedroom, among other things.
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What's next for banning? The pics you take of your girlfriend when you're both 16 or 17? "Racey" skirts and short-shorts?
Get this -- people, logical, rational people -- like porn, sex, even double anal penetration!. They like their `divx porn,` their `preteen saving private Ryan,` their `stays crunchy (even steely Dan, citizen steely)` -- and especially their `Rage against the Gina Wild`!
Although I don't see fuck anywhere, maybe these people are developing a secret code `f--k` and `a--l` that will be deployed against US Congress(too bad it was caught)?
What's next? Licences to use a p2p client? Do you yankees like living in Stalin's Russia? How about typewriter licences because people write (horrors) sex stories?
People will get exactly what they want by hook or by crook. Try what you might to marginalize it, I bet all the people is the US congress jerked off to Daddy's pinups in the 1940s!
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For a moment there, just a moment, I thought ISPs had done something useful -- cracked down on filesharing built into OSes.
How many systems are compromised because of a shared "C:" drive in Windows? How many windows VBS worms which spread over NetBIOS? How many SunRPC attacks? And even LPD..
@Home did something useful when it started scanning for open NNTP servers, as well as SOCKS server. They also nicely block the "default" ports on BO an NetBus. Why can't they do something even better by blocking 111, 136-139, and 515 (incoming and outgoing)?
No, this article is just about targetting people who use the unlimited like it is unlimited, which pisses off the ISPs ("Of course we don't actually mean what we say.").
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"Businesses are growing so frustrated by the unreliability of the public Internet... that many have moved their most critical applications to alternative semiprivate networks."
They ran corporate data on the web at large, probably in plain text! What idiot does this? Every house, every business should have its own internal network which only has a limited bridgo to the internet through a stateful firewall which does packet inspection.
If you want a "direrct connection," then have any packets destined for a certain IP go through via IP Masq. Properly implemented, you can have any internal boxes which can't otherwise be proxied (because of a broken client protocol, perhaps) be masqd. And, on the inside, you get all the corporate guarantees you want -- as well as having a nice, central place for VPN, etc, implementation.
But these corporate people are too stupid for this, I guess. After all, the techs who understand this want to be doing their work, not participating in manager meetings.
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Sure it would..
Nuclear power, Russians, computers. It's an episode of James Bond waiting to happen.
To claim otherwise is only to whore towards the "Anti-MS bias" moderators.
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"Slackware needs some method of keeping current."
Slackware Linux is not meant to be opperated "bare." The reccomended security configuration includes an in incredible A.I. system abbreviated as "S.Y.S.O.P." Through its amazing abilities, the S.Y.S.O.P. system monitors a steady feed of bug reports (the famed B.U.G.T.R.A.Q. system, first implemented in 1997 as an experiment in networking S.Y.S.O.P. systems over long distance, high latency networks in an asynchronus way) for information on what to do with the system. They will tirelessy maintain and care for you server installation, and can ever create whole new bits of software in the pursuit of their goals!
While you Debian people may be happy to just blindly upgrade your BIND installation every few weeks, it has been found that through proper use of a S.Y.S.O.P. system, you can ditch the automated upgrades by moving to another DNS server altogether! These amazing devices will also help end users if they are clustered sufficiently to preventy burnout.
An intelligient S.Y.S.O.P. -- no server should be without one!
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That's stupid. It's like saying "If you're too dumb to read `Unsafe at any speed,` you deserve te drive a deathtrap."
There are supposed to be federal standards on products because (surprise, surprise) in a capitalist system, the govermment is supposed to be a manifestation of the people which ensures safety and protection from negative influences. This is why you don't have to worry about dieing from over-the-counter pilss bottles, or poison water supplies. The government should also protect the general populace from lemon software, because there is no way every single person who needs software can become enough of an expert to pick the best software.
This is similar to an arument for capitalsim from the 18th and 19th century -- do you have time te haggle for everything you buy, or should stores compete on price and quality? It sure reduces the
amount of haggling you have to do.
Have you ever put you sife in the hands of the software used in hospitals? Software engineering is all about provably correct software. If you spend a little extra effort up front, and are warry of the problems involved, you can build provably correct systems. The same thing applies to physical engineering of things like cars. Yeah, there will still be the odd problems, but I'm sure the occasional software recalls are less annoying than hourly reboots, and less danergous than a crash in the software managing you concorde. The Shuttle sure runs on some provably correct code.
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* Flash ads - haven't found anything that reliably removes the big flash ads from Excite or ZDNet or such.
I've found that deleting or not installing Flash helps 100%! I've yet to see a Flash ad since I removed that code from my browser. Why should I use a format that is closed and lacks proper ACLs (like cookies on browsers other than Mozilla/Konq).
* Popups - sure, I can get rid of most of 'em, but there are a lot of sites now with little pop-up "informational" boxes that break once I've filtered them out.
* Clever site programmers - some sites are actually splitting their javascript into multiple strings, concatenating them somehow at the browser, then "eval"ing them. Hard to catch those, as they've been stealthed past any keyword filter
And these sites are fundamentally broken in my browser because I disable Javascript. Why? Because client/side scripting is stupid (why have my client trust some server code? Why have the server trust data given back by insecure clients?). All the sanity checks are just the same (if not more) even if you use "client-side" validation.
IJB + no Java + no Javascript means I get fast, good web content. No crap in the way of good ol' XHTML 1 + CSS2 content (with images scattered about for flavour).
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"I took a quick walk around the manual and checked out some of the examples, but it seems to me that C (or C-like languages) just aren't all that suitable for scripts. "
Gee, it's a good thing PHP doesn't look at all like C, or have stdlib like fuctions, eh?
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Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor ... Fujitsu got that working in 2000 "They've debuted fluid bearing motors in their MPF series. First introduced by Seagate in its 7200 RPM Medalist Pro, fluid bearings rapidly faded away as problems surfaced from the heat caused by leaked fluid."
:)
As for the noise, the Fujitus MPD3084ATs I got in 1999 had very little. Oh well
Fujttsu may not be performance beasts, but for reliability, coolness, and quietness, they took the crown long ago.
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