What the USA lack is a war in their own territory -- to cure their militaristic adventurism.
Bring it the fuck on. I would only hope that whatever nation decided to do this, that they would actually get troops into the cities to be slaughtered by the American civilians. We'd end up coining a new holiday and I'd get another paid day off work in the year. Plus, we'd get to compete with the neighbors who think they have better guns than we do.
You think this would "cure our militaristic adventurism"? hahahahah! It would just give the national guard a chance to stretch their legs, and maybe get my fellow Americans some excersize so they can drop a little weight.
Here I sit with 5 moderator points, but alas your post already has a score of 5. Would that I could moderate you up further, but I cannot. So instead, I post to this thread to salute you by forfeiting my ability to moderate any other posts.
Yeah, but by the time my turn comes around on the XDCC list and I finish receiving it at 1.05 kilobytes per second, the DVD will be out, ordered, delivered, and playing on my television.
E. Starting three months after the entry of this Final Judgment to the Court, Microsoft shall make available for use by third parties, for the sole purpose of interoperating or communicating with a Windows Operating System Product, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (consistent with Section III.I), any Communications Protocol that is, on or after the date this Final Judgment is submitted to the Court, (i) implemented in a Windows Operating System Product installed on a client computer, and (ii) used to interoperate, or communicate, natively (i.e., without the addition of software code to the client operating system product) with a Microsoft server operating system product.
The big question is, can Samba benefit from this, or are the conditions of the released information going to make it incompatible with the GPL? And can the information be dirty/clean intellectually transferred between one tainted person and one "clean" person even with whatever type of NDA they put on the agreement?
I'm just waiting for Tom's Hardware to do a video with one of these supercomputers in the event of "total cooling failure." Of course, total cooling failure would mean something like the cooling system springs a leak, all the cooling liquid runs out on the floor, the copper cooling panels "fall off" (just like those damned heatsinks are always doing), the laws of thermodynamics are modified by God, and Q decides to change the gravitational constant of the universe bringing the earth unusually close to the sun. This all will likely cause the Opteron CPUs to smoke and burn out, giving Tom an opportunity to point out that if the Pentium 4 were used, it would just slow down to 10 frames per second when playing Quake 3.
Doh! Gotta end this post, the damned heatsink just fell off my Athlon again. Those wacky fucking heatsinks always jumping off.
Boy: Whew! You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington. But I wonder who that sad little scrap of paper is?
I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill. And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well, it's a long, long journey To the capital city. It's a long, long wait While I'm sitting in committee, But I know I'll be a law some day At least I hope and pray that I will But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage.
BILL: Well, I got this far. When I started I wasn't even a bill, I was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed, so they called their local Congressman, and he said, "You're right, there oughta be a law." Then he sat down and wrote me out and introduced me to Congress. And I became a bill, and I'll remain a bill until they decide to make me a law.
I'm just a bill Yes I'm only a bill, And I got as far as Capitol Hill. Well, now I'm stuck in committee And I'll sit here and wait While a few key Congressmen discuss and debate Whether they should let me be a law. How I hope and pray that they will, But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: Listen to those Congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you. BILL: Yeah, I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide toreport on me favorably, otherwise I may die.
Boy: Die?
BILL: Yeah, die in committee. Ooh, but it looks like I'm gonna live! NOW I go to the House of Representatives, and they vote on me.
Boy: if they vote yes, what happens?
BILL: Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.
Boy: Oh no!
BILL: Oh yes!
I'm just a bill Yes, I'm only a bill And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill Well, then I'm off to the White House Where I'll wait in a line With a lot of other bills For the president to sign And if he signs me, then I'll be a law. HOW I hope and pray that he will, But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?
BILL: Yes, that's called a veto. If the president vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that time you're so old...
Boy: By that time it's very unlikely that you'll become a law. It's not easy to become a law, is it?
BILL: No!
But how I hope and pray that I will, But today I am still just a bill.
I'll be a little more impressed when I hear that you've turned down a heart transplant, bible thumper. Heart disease runs in my family, and it's morons like you who are standing in the way of perfect heart transplants. I hate to use a movie as an example, but look at John Q. The guy was fighting to get his kid on a LIST of people waiting for other people to DIE, just so they can cut out their organs and hope to hell that they are accepted in the recipient's body. What a sick joke if we can just grow them ourselves. If you don't want your stem cell grown heart, don't take it. But stay the fuck out of the way of me and my benefits of medical research. I don't begrudge you your principles and beliefs, but the minute you try to shove them on others, you can cram the father, the son, and the holy ghost back up Mary's cunt and tell her to give birth to it elsewhere.
Call me a troll if you like, but I will tell you this: If you stand in the way of human progress, you will be crushed.
And then for him to say "I want what's best for Star Trek and the Trekkies" - we're Trekers, not Trekkies.
Dude, I hate to burn karma on an idiot like you, but you are obviously one of these fucking morons who can tell us exactly why Wolverine's Adamantium skeleton is affected by magentic fields in current Volume 4 Issues 8-12, but not in previous Volumes 1-3, while explaining to everyone that you were "before we were punk", why you are more of a fan of band X because you bought their first album before they were popular, etc etc etc. Maybe you're one of those real nutcases who has himself convinced that he can speak Klingon, or perhaps you learned to speak Japanese from watching Anime.
Kids, the moral of the story is this. Being a "nerd", reading comics, loving fantasy and sci-fi stuff, etc, is all fine. Seriously. But trying to be the expert of one little thing and correcting people based on irrelevent semantics, exposes that you are not merely a nerd, but a FUCKING INSECURE MORON. You're about as impressive as those guys who run around spouting about the advantages of the v-tec system in their 10 year old 4 cyl stock Honda (which they senselessly red-line daily).
In short: Being an idiotic expert in the semantics of something no one cares about, makes you look like a jackass.
I have experienced this recently. I started working for Company X as a "tech kiddie." That early stage in a computer professional's career where he makes something like $10-$12 an hour. As time went on my skills increased, through my work and my own self-learning. I also learned from conferences and tutorials I attended on my own money and on scholarships and grants I earned.
Although my company contributed to the growth of my skills, they paid me by the hour for that time so I don't owe them anything for the learning I gained on their clock time.
So after working for Company X for 3 years, and being tapped as a programmer (skills partially from college that I pay for) and a network administrator, my pay was still $11.50 an hour. My friends and associates where making much more. Finally, one of my friends offered to get me a job where he worked. I explored the company, interviewed, and went through the whole process. When I was told it was a sure thing at the new company, I informed the President and CEO of Company X that I would be leaving for the new company and that I had a couple people qualified to take over my old position, one of whom was already an employee, but did not work with computers in his job. I offered to train them to do my job before I left.
The CEO had to make a decision at that point. He had a computer professional on staff whom he was paying less than he was apparently worth (since someone else was willing to pay more). He decided he would match the salary offered by the new company. I was more than happy to retain my current position at that new salary (driving distance, my own personal office, etc were better at Company X anyway). My new salary was not a major drain on company resources (I maintain the accounting DB too, so I know). It was the owner's decision to make an offer to keep me. If he didn't trust me anymore or didn't like me anymore because I went looking elsewhere, why would he counter-offer to keep me?
People in positions like this in business aren't stupid (in regards to business). They know people go where the money is, and that if someone is offering 20% or more, the employee is likely to move. They would be stupid if they didn't.
I have worked another year and a half at that company with zero problems.
I'm actually leaving the company (again), to move to a company that is offering 20% more. However, this time I am not going to accept a counter-offer. This is because the new employer will be offering opportunities to learn things that are not possible in my current job.
It's a choice between two people. The "boss" can decide to make a counter offer. If he does, you can choose one of two job offers depending on which you prefer. If you have to worry about your boss thinking ill of you because he had to make a counter-offer and give you a big raise to keep you, then you are working for a childish unrealistic person anyway. And your boss must know that if you can get one job offer elsewhere, you can probably get more. The whole idea of counter-offering is to KEEP the employee. If he treats you like trash, you're going to be job-seeking again. I believe that 90% of businessmen know that having to counter-offer to retain valuable employees is just part of business. The other 10% should be avoided as employers. The concept of company "loyalty" is just a way to use psychological tools such as guilt to manage employee behavor. The only reason to employ the term loyalty in this context is to try to convince the employee not to make a pragmatic decision. In this economy, take the highest pay in the set of all jobs that you are willing and able to work.
Solid state is all well and good, except for the trouble upgrading it if a security flaw is found in the firmware, and if the firmware can be upgraded, and a security hole is found.. a cracker could lock you out of the machine before you patch it, and then you`d be stuck with returning it to the manufacturer to be repaired - costly.
Okay, you make some valid points, but honestly, how easy is it to upgrade a FreeBSD or Linux server? How much downtime do you have? Now compare that to downloading a little firmware patch and then uploading it through the web interface. And many of these firmware devices have the passwords stored in NVRAM which can be cleared if you have physical access to the unit. Thus if you were rooted, and the password changed, you would clear the NVRAM, log into the unit, set the password, upload the patch via HTTP, and bam, you're up and running. Compare that to the costs of the downtime of a rooted server, and cleaning the system of backdoors and SUID files.
The firmware box wins in the long run. Especially if it's well designed.
As for JetDirect boxes getting stolen, well, if you can get into my building, disconnect 3 parallel printer plugs (which are screwed in with two handscrews each), an Ethernet plug, and the power plug, and then of course, score the adapter itself, without being noticed, I'd be impressed.
Heck, for all that trouble, you might as well steal CPUs, memory, and hard drives from my NOC.
You know what? Your post was brilliant and absolutely correct every step of that way, until you threw in that conclusion. Geez. What a way to ruin a great post.
"Either the Internet will be abandoned, or there will be heavy, heavy government regulation of who can connect and how."
That's just silly.
The number of businesses that rely on the internet to survive, dollar-wise, now far outweigh the number of businesses who are as fed up as you claim. What will happen is that people will make more solid state type servers. Email servers in firmware style setups will be common. Look at Network Attached Storage. What else is that, except a firmwared File Server? Same thing with JetDirect Print Hubs. Beats having to actually run a print server.
THAT is how the industry will respond to the problem you so nicely described.
Give me a break. My handle has no bearing on the content of my post.
Besides, how many BasharTegs do you know? So what my name is pulled from a book? At least I'm not RAZOR1 or DRDOOM18. Far worse are those who copy their handles from other people, thus creating a massive deluge of tards with the same name making it impossible to have any kind of unique online identity.
I know this is just a joke, but seriously the hell it is ! This damned "product" is a frickin retarded application which autoinstalls SmartRipper, DVDx, and VCDEasy, and then gives you stupid little pictures that tell you how to configure them. I figured I'd get a nice all in one solution, and instead I got this horseshit. I could write the same thing in VB in 30 seconds. Or better yet, a batch file that runs the 3 installers, and then launches IE/Netscape to read a.htm file. This is a TOTAL rip off. Do NOT support these morons repackaging free software and then trying to play on everyone's good side by fighting the DMCA.
Mod this post up, because I got ripped off and I am admitting it so that other people don't make the same mistake.
Yeah, you're one of those guys who if the next Einstein or Newton.. such as Stephen Hawking.. where to appear and do amazing works today, he would still be inferior to the great minds of the past. There can be no music made today that compares to the classics. There can be no architecture today that compares to the classics. There can be no genius today that compares to the classics. This world we live in today is simply not accepting of superior humans, and/or their superior works. Nothing done from this point forward can ever compare with what has been done in the past.
If that's truly the case, we live in a terribly sad world. A world in which there is nothing new, only regurgitated reruns from the past.
Since that's not the case, I suggest you go read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Well, lets see what they actually said, since you have a score of 5 for such amazing insight. You're saying similar code will look similar. Perhaps, but lets see what Blizzard is actually saying.
24. One instance of Defendants' copying is found by examining the BNETD source code, which is available to the public at Sourceforge.com. On information and belief, in order to provide unfettered access to the BNETD servers for illegitimate users of unauthorized copies of Blizzard programs, Defendants reproduced and incorporated into the BNETD server program the code for Blizzard's proprietary client-side key check software that executes certain login functionality including the First CD Key Check, described above, altering it so as not to perform any CD Key check function. Defendants' copying was so blatant that Defendants included the programming bug described above in the BNETD code. The duplication of such a unique bug in the BNETD code shows wholesale, deliberate and willful copying on the Defendants' part.
Okay, so they're stating that this bug in their client side CD key check code is very obvious. They're stating that the bug exists in the BNETD code.
Now, can you explain to us please, in your pseudo-computer science 5 karma hyped perspective, why exactly properly reverse engineered code, which would have to be derived from packet analysis (just like many other video game hax0rs do), would include a code bug that is shared with the original source? A far more likely possibility is that the BNETD people used a disassembler like W32DSM, traced into the code and found the first CD Check, and did a simple literal conversion of the assembly there into some C instructions (thus preserving the bug).
None of this "someone must have broken into their building and stolen the code" bullshit.
The source code is right there in the binary, if you know how to view it.
None of this "similiar code will look the same" bullshit.
If someone reverse engineers a protocol or cdkey checker through _legit_ means, a bug in the original source code would NOT be copied unless it effected the transmitted results. Since the first CD key check is ENTIRELY client side, it was obviously taken from a disassembled copy of their binary EXE.
If you are going to do something like that, you can at _least_ try to "cleanroom" the code. Read what the other programmer is doing, write down on paper the math involved in his key generation and validation. Then rewrite your own version from scratch. Using that method *MIGHT* make it legal. But this kind of stupidity is blantant theft of code, and is terribly obvious to anyone with any knowledge of programming, disassembling, cracking, etc.
I could repeat the claim that if this were copied from Linux, like a certain header file that was copied from FreeBSD way back when (variable names and comments hardly changed!), people would be throwing a fit. But in this instance, the gamers want to play but not pay, so the code theft is not the issue. Blizzard's case isn't entirely about fighting emulation. It's about fighting code theft, and the theft of their game by beating their copyprotection.
I would have supported BNETD too, if it weren't obvious they stole code.
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Bring it the fuck on. I would only hope that whatever nation decided to do this, that they would actually get troops into the cities to be slaughtered by the American civilians. We'd end up coining a new holiday and I'd get another paid day off work in the year. Plus, we'd get to compete with the neighbors who think they have better guns than we do. You think this would "cure our militaristic adventurism"? hahahahah! It would just give the national guard a chance to stretch their legs, and maybe get my fellow Americans some excersize so they can drop a little weight.
Subject line troll? Have we truly sunk that low?
Someone needs to write a trolling-on-slashdot is dead post.
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These cycles would be a lot better spent on something constructive like the protean folding project.
We can use some of distributed.net's power to spell check this guy's post!
Debian makes slime worms?!
So now they have two products, Linux and slime worms. Interesting.
Hahahah. I love this guy. I know it seems like the Soviet Russia shit isn't funny anymore, but it is.
Too bad we haven't heard much from the Tiger Penis Soup troll in several months. I wonder where his jawa hating ass is.
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Here I sit with 5 moderator points, but alas your post already has a score of 5. Would that I could moderate you up further, but I cannot. So instead, I post to this thread to salute you by forfeiting my ability to moderate any other posts.
Yeah, but by the time my turn comes around on the XDCC list and I finish receiving it at 1.05 kilobytes per second, the DVD will be out, ordered, delivered, and playing on my television.
Makes no sense, you could just copy the prototypes out of the .c files and compile it manually...
E. Starting three months after the entry of this Final Judgment to the Court, Microsoft shall
make available for use by third parties, for the sole purpose of interoperating or
communicating with a Windows Operating System Product, on reasonable and
non-discriminatory terms (consistent with Section III.I), any Communications Protocol
that is, on or after the date this Final Judgment is submitted to the Court, (i) implemented
in a Windows Operating System Product installed on a client computer, and (ii) used to
interoperate, or communicate, natively (i.e., without the addition of software code to the
client operating system product) with a Microsoft server operating system product.
The big question is, can Samba benefit from this, or are the conditions of the released information going to make it incompatible with the GPL? And can the information be dirty/clean intellectually transferred between one tainted person and one "clean" person even with whatever type of NDA they put on the agreement?
I'm just waiting for Tom's Hardware to do a video with one of these supercomputers in the event of "total cooling failure." Of course, total cooling failure would mean something like the cooling system springs a leak, all the cooling liquid runs out on the floor, the copper cooling panels "fall off" (just like those damned heatsinks are always doing), the laws of thermodynamics are modified by God, and Q decides to change the gravitational constant of the universe bringing the earth unusually close to the sun. This all will likely cause the Opteron CPUs to smoke and burn out, giving Tom an opportunity to point out that if the Pentium 4 were used, it would just slow down to 10 frames per second when playing Quake 3.
Doh! Gotta end this post, the damned heatsink just fell off my Athlon again. Those wacky fucking heatsinks always jumping off.
That's rather like the PPC instruction set!
LPS - Launch Photoshop
DGB - Do Gaussian Blur
ES - Encode Sorenson
DS - Decode Sorenson
CSAWEF - Create Switch Ad With Ellen Feiss
And my personal favorite:
BICPUWPBIGBASE - Beat Intel CPU With Proprietary Benchmark Involving Gaussian Blurs And Sorenson Encoding
Boy: Whew! You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington. But I wonder who that sad little scrap of paper is?
...
I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage.
BILL: Well, I got this far. When I started I wasn't even a bill, I was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed, so they called their local Congressman, and he said, "You're right, there oughta be a law." Then he sat down and wrote me out and introduced me to Congress. And I became a bill, and I'll remain a bill until they decide to make me a law.
I'm just a bill
Yes I'm only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well, now I'm stuck in committee
And I'll sit here and wait
While a few key Congressmen discuss and debate
Whether they should let me be a law.
How I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: Listen to those Congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you.
BILL: Yeah, I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide toreport on me favorably, otherwise I may die.
Boy: Die?
BILL: Yeah, die in committee. Ooh, but it looks like I'm gonna live! NOW I go to the House of Representatives, and they vote on me.
Boy: if they vote yes, what happens?
BILL: Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.
Boy: Oh no!
BILL: Oh yes!
I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I'm off to the White House
Where I'll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the president to sign
And if he signs me, then I'll be a law.
HOW I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Boy: You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?
BILL: Yes, that's called a veto. If the president vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that time you're so old
Boy: By that time it's very unlikely that you'll become a law. It's not easy to become a law, is it?
BILL: No!
But how I hope and pray that I will, But today I am still just a bill.
MAN: He signed you, Bill Now you're a law!
BILL: Oh yes!!!
I'll be a little more impressed when I hear that you've turned down a heart transplant, bible thumper. Heart disease runs in my family, and it's morons like you who are standing in the way of perfect heart transplants. I hate to use a movie as an example, but look at John Q. The guy was fighting to get his kid on a LIST of people waiting for other people to DIE, just so they can cut out their organs and hope to hell that they are accepted in the recipient's body. What a sick joke if we can just grow them ourselves. If you don't want your stem cell grown heart, don't take it. But stay the fuck out of the way of me and my benefits of medical research. I don't begrudge you your principles and beliefs, but the minute you try to shove them on others, you can cram the father, the son, and the holy ghost back up Mary's cunt and tell her to give birth to it elsewhere.
Call me a troll if you like, but I will tell you this: If you stand in the way of human progress, you will be crushed.
Dude, I hate to burn karma on an idiot like you, but you are obviously one of these fucking morons who can tell us exactly why Wolverine's Adamantium skeleton is affected by magentic fields in current Volume 4 Issues 8-12, but not in previous Volumes 1-3, while explaining to everyone that you were "before we were punk", why you are more of a fan of band X because you bought their first album before they were popular, etc etc etc. Maybe you're one of those real nutcases who has himself convinced that he can speak Klingon, or perhaps you learned to speak Japanese from watching Anime.
Kids, the moral of the story is this. Being a "nerd", reading comics, loving fantasy and sci-fi stuff, etc, is all fine. Seriously. But trying to be the expert of one little thing and correcting people based on irrelevent semantics, exposes that you are not merely a nerd, but a FUCKING INSECURE MORON. You're about as impressive as those guys who run around spouting about the advantages of the v-tec system in their 10 year old 4 cyl stock Honda (which they senselessly red-line daily).
In short: Being an idiotic expert in the semantics of something no one cares about, makes you look like a jackass.
I understand what they're saying and find it very enlightening. Thank you Slashdot, for this great information.
I agree with you! Great thoughts, thank you for sharing them with us!
I have experienced this recently. I started working for Company X as a "tech kiddie." That early stage in a computer professional's career where he makes something like $10-$12 an hour. As time went on my skills increased, through my work and my own self-learning. I also learned from conferences and tutorials I attended on my own money and on scholarships and grants I earned.
Although my company contributed to the growth of my skills, they paid me by the hour for that time so I don't owe them anything for the learning I gained on their clock time.
So after working for Company X for 3 years, and being tapped as a programmer (skills partially from college that I pay for) and a network administrator, my pay was still $11.50 an hour. My friends and associates where making much more. Finally, one of my friends offered to get me a job where he worked. I explored the company, interviewed, and went through the whole process. When I was told it was a sure thing at the new company, I informed the President and CEO of Company X that I would be leaving for the new company and that I had a couple people qualified to take over my old position, one of whom was already an employee, but did not work with computers in his job. I offered to train them to do my job before I left.
The CEO had to make a decision at that point. He had a computer professional on staff whom he was paying less than he was apparently worth (since someone else was willing to pay more). He decided he would match the salary offered by the new company. I was more than happy to retain my current position at that new salary (driving distance, my own personal office, etc were better at Company X anyway). My new salary was not a major drain on company resources (I maintain the accounting DB too, so I know). It was the owner's decision to make an offer to keep me. If he didn't trust me anymore or didn't like me anymore because I went looking elsewhere, why would he counter-offer to keep me?
People in positions like this in business aren't stupid (in regards to business). They know people go where the money is, and that if someone is offering 20% or more, the employee is likely to move. They would be stupid if they didn't.
I have worked another year and a half at that company with zero problems.
I'm actually leaving the company (again), to move to a company that is offering 20% more. However, this time I am not going to accept a counter-offer. This is because the new employer will be offering opportunities to learn things that are not possible in my current job.
It's a choice between two people. The "boss" can decide to make a counter offer. If he does, you can choose one of two job offers depending on which you prefer. If you have to worry about your boss thinking ill of you because he had to make a counter-offer and give you a big raise to keep you, then you are working for a childish unrealistic person anyway. And your boss must know that if you can get one job offer elsewhere, you can probably get more. The whole idea of counter-offering is to KEEP the employee. If he treats you like trash, you're going to be job-seeking again. I believe that 90% of businessmen know that having to counter-offer to retain valuable employees is just part of business. The other 10% should be avoided as employers. The concept of company "loyalty" is just a way to use psychological tools such as guilt to manage employee behavor. The only reason to employ the term loyalty in this context is to try to convince the employee not to make a pragmatic decision. In this economy, take the highest pay in the set of all jobs that you are willing and able to work.
A mindless "Down with the Champ! Up with the Underdog!" attitude?
Yeah, nothing like our usual down with Microsoft, up with Linux posts right?
Okay, you make some valid points, but honestly, how easy is it to upgrade a FreeBSD or Linux server? How much downtime do you have? Now compare that to downloading a little firmware patch and then uploading it through the web interface. And many of these firmware devices have the passwords stored in NVRAM which can be cleared if you have physical access to the unit. Thus if you were rooted, and the password changed, you would clear the NVRAM, log into the unit, set the password, upload the patch via HTTP, and bam, you're up and running. Compare that to the costs of the downtime of a rooted server, and cleaning the system of backdoors and SUID files.
The firmware box wins in the long run. Especially if it's well designed.
As for JetDirect boxes getting stolen, well, if you can get into my building, disconnect 3 parallel printer plugs (which are screwed in with two handscrews each), an Ethernet plug, and the power plug, and then of course, score the adapter itself, without being noticed, I'd be impressed.
Heck, for all that trouble, you might as well steal CPUs, memory, and hard drives from my NOC.
You know what? Your post was brilliant and absolutely correct every step of that way, until you threw in that conclusion. Geez. What a way to ruin a great post.
"Either the Internet will be abandoned, or there will be heavy, heavy government regulation of who can connect and how."
That's just silly.
The number of businesses that rely on the internet to survive, dollar-wise, now far outweigh the number of businesses who are as fed up as you claim. What will happen is that people will make more solid state type servers. Email servers in firmware style setups will be common. Look at Network Attached Storage. What else is that, except a firmwared File Server? Same thing with JetDirect Print Hubs. Beats having to actually run a print server.
THAT is how the industry will respond to the problem you so nicely described.
"rule 1: understand the foreign culture"
Which in the case of India means Tiger Penis Soup and forehead dots!!!
"inimaginative" ?
Give me a break. My handle has no bearing on the content of my post.
Besides, how many BasharTegs do you know? So what my name is pulled from a book? At least I'm not RAZOR1 or DRDOOM18. Far worse are those who copy their handles from other people, thus creating a massive deluge of tards with the same name making it impossible to have any kind of unique online identity.
I know this is just a joke, but seriously the hell it is ! This damned "product" is a frickin retarded application which autoinstalls SmartRipper, DVDx, and VCDEasy, and then gives you stupid little pictures that tell you how to configure them. I figured I'd get a nice all in one solution, and instead I got this horseshit. I could write the same thing in VB in 30 seconds. Or better yet, a batch file that runs the 3 installers, and then launches IE/Netscape to read a .htm file. This is a TOTAL rip off. Do NOT support these morons repackaging free software and then trying to play on everyone's good side by fighting the DMCA.
Mod this post up, because I got ripped off and I am admitting it so that other people don't make the same mistake.
Yeah, you're one of those guys who if the next Einstein or Newton.. such as Stephen Hawking.. where to appear and do amazing works today, he would still be inferior to the great minds of the past. There can be no music made today that compares to the classics. There can be no architecture today that compares to the classics. There can be no genius today that compares to the classics. This world we live in today is simply not accepting of superior humans, and/or their superior works. Nothing done from this point forward can ever compare with what has been done in the past.
If that's truly the case, we live in a terribly sad world. A world in which there is nothing new, only regurgitated reruns from the past.
Since that's not the case, I suggest you go read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
24. One instance of Defendants' copying is found by examining the BNETD source code, which is available to the public at Sourceforge.com. On information and belief, in order to provide unfettered access to the BNETD servers for illegitimate users of unauthorized copies of Blizzard programs, Defendants reproduced and incorporated into the BNETD server program the code for Blizzard's proprietary client-side key check software that executes certain login functionality including the First CD Key Check, described above, altering it so as not to perform any CD Key check function. Defendants' copying was so blatant that Defendants included the programming bug described above in the BNETD code. The duplication of such a unique bug in the BNETD code shows wholesale, deliberate and willful copying on the Defendants' part.
Okay, so they're stating that this bug in their client side CD key check code is very obvious. They're stating that the bug exists in the BNETD code.
Now, can you explain to us please, in your pseudo-computer science 5 karma hyped perspective, why exactly properly reverse engineered code, which would have to be derived from packet analysis (just like many other video game hax0rs do), would include a code bug that is shared with the original source? A far more likely possibility is that the BNETD people used a disassembler like W32DSM, traced into the code and found the first CD Check, and did a simple literal conversion of the assembly there into some C instructions (thus preserving the bug).
None of this "someone must have broken into their building and stolen the code" bullshit.
The source code is right there in the binary, if you know how to view it.
None of this "similiar code will look the same" bullshit.
If someone reverse engineers a protocol or cdkey checker through _legit_ means, a bug in the original source code would NOT be copied unless it effected the transmitted results. Since the first CD key check is ENTIRELY client side, it was obviously taken from a disassembled copy of their binary EXE.
If you are going to do something like that, you can at _least_ try to "cleanroom" the code. Read what the other programmer is doing, write down on paper the math involved in his key generation and validation. Then rewrite your own version from scratch. Using that method *MIGHT* make it legal. But this kind of stupidity is blantant theft of code, and is terribly obvious to anyone with any knowledge of programming, disassembling, cracking, etc.
I could repeat the claim that if this were copied from Linux, like a certain header file that was copied from FreeBSD way back when (variable names and comments hardly changed!), people would be throwing a fit. But in this instance, the gamers want to play but not pay, so the code theft is not the issue. Blizzard's case isn't entirely about fighting emulation. It's about fighting code theft, and the theft of their game by beating their copyprotection.
I would have supported BNETD too, if it weren't obvious they stole code.