There's also a business savvy reason for this... no empire lasts forever. Investing in the company that holds the most market share may seem like a sure thing.. but once you're at the very top there's really no where to go but down. The underdogs have room to grow, so while they're riskier, they have a much greater possibility to return profits for investors.
Google sells their API, which they wrote from the ground up. The only thing they use that isn't theirs is *occasionally* zope/plone and whatever web server du jour. Apple built one of the first computers, wrote their own OS which for a very long time didn't even use standard cabling methods that the rest of the world did (IDE ribbons cabled in reverse?! wtf!?). Now the modern MacOS does use BSD code, so I will concede that one. But the prior OS's were 100% apple.
See, Apple and Google wrote their own software from the ground up. Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer, and for BASIC took a large amount of publically accessible code from the homebrew club, and decided he would put a copyright on it since no one else had bothered. He basically stole the work from other poeple and made his fortune. For that reason alone I will never have respect for microsoft.
First, get a kensington lock for your laptop.
Next, get a copy of lojack for laptops. Numerous laptop manufacturers have bios modules which work with L4L so even if a thief were to steal your laptop and replace the hard drive, it will simply reinstall as soon as there is another OS put on it. Even if your laptop doesn't have the bios module, it still installs to a portion of the hard drive that won't regularly be destroyed short of a low level format.
Think they'd let us purchase a small chunk for esoteric value? The machine itself isn't leaking radiation and I know there's a ton of nuclear physicists out there that would love a small chunk. Plus it'd prolly be worth more than selling it for scrap if they opened it to the scientific community.
Why is it that decent posts like this get rated down? Stupid mods.
I do agree.. google isn't the only one that keeps large stores of information and records - only google has their business modeled around storing and manipulating this data.
So, this policy violates data retention laws that THIS ADMINISTRATION pushed through. Also, it violates the presidential records act. But, I'm guessing this will be yet another thing John Q Public ignores because they're too busy watching Dancin with the Stars and American Idol to care - bread and circuses.
Ubuntu is on a 6 month release period - every 6 months there is a new LTS version released which is supported for 6 years (I may be off on the number of years).
I hope she wins so long as she's an open source advocate. Having the full Blu-Ray spec being forced open would be very sexy indeed especially to reverse engineers and PS3 hackers. Plus I'd be much happier seeing the scientist who developed the technology get the cash, and not Sony just because I, like many/.'ers, despise multinational conglomerates.
Ah, I stand corrected. Nice catch:) I thought that once DVD/HD-DVD was regular uncompressed MPEG-2 video that was simply encrypted? I'm by no means an expert on video.
Hey all, thanks for the ton of responses! I should have been a bit more descriptive - I'm a tech at my company, and the network admin, so I can pretty much do as I please with my kit. However we're mandated by company policy to have lojack4laptops installed and our motherboards have a bios module that does this without our interaction - sadly the module only works in windows. I was going to dual boot but vista won't shrink the partition small enough for me to do so (for some reason it has stuff stored at the end of the partition and won't let me shrink more than like 400mb) and partition magic chokes on resizing the vista version of NTFS. Otherwise I'd have a full on install of linux on here as it is. The fact that WUBI installs inside windows seemed to be a nice option since I'd no longer have to redo my partitioning. Does it run in a virtualized mode with generic vanilla hardware like VMware? Or will it take full advantage of the machine just as if it was a normal install?
Anyone have any information about this? I prefer having a linux environment but my work laptop *must* run windows thanks to company software. This seems like it may be a much better solution for me compared to, say, cygwin.
Back when I was starting law school they covered how specific warrants had to be - for instance, usually a warrant to raid a home had to specifically mention what portion of the house had to be searched (cabinet on second floor in rear of house), down to exactly what items were expected and where they were expected to be found (pot plants are found on top shelf). This way no one could just point their finger at someone else and say "They have something illegal in their home! Raid agogo!" Now, someone clicks a link that could be entirely by accident, posted elsewhere as a gag hyperlink, whatever, and their entire home can be raided with feds seizing a ton of personal affects when the whole time it could have been done by someone who briefly hopped on their wireless network. All of this based on a warrant that seems to have no specific location, details, etc, of any sort of locations that can be searched. Nor does it contain a way to exactly identify the user (unless they're using MAC address - not like that can be spoofed or anything). Sad, very sad.
Why was this rated troll? Seems like a completely justified response to me... some mods are just stupid:(
I admit, now that blu ray has been cracked I may actually look at purchasing a player. I don't 'do' closed standards.. or effectively closed standards (as DVD has long been considered to be effectively open thanks to deCSS)
As long as the content ultimately gets decrypted/decoded to a format which is percievable to human senses, it can be cracked. There is nothing stopping a dedicated pirate from going, pixel by pixel, dumping the current pixel color values into a massive 2d array - in fact in the pre-deCSS days there was a program that worked with PowerDVD by doing that very thing. Dump all the pixelvalues as arrays into a screenshot bypassing Windows, then stream together the screenshots in a video format of your choice, and you've got uncompressed, perfect digital video. From there you can just run a male to male cable from your stereo out jack to an audio input, and you've got your sound. Mux them together and you've got everything you need to make your pirated copy. Its low tech, but it works. The fact is, no matter what these antipiracy groups do, they can *NOT* beat technology with more technology. Because all it takes is a bored geek with a soldering iron and some spare time to bring down their house of cards.
To me theft of wireless means that you're sitting there, snorting traffic and running a decryption utility to process packets and ascertain a WEP or WPA key. Not really hard to do, but still akin to breaking and entering since the owners have obviously chosen to close off the network. I don't see a problem with breaking into such a thing a crime.
BUT if someone gets pressed for using an open wireless access point the owners are going to have to prove malicious intent especially since windows doesn't mind hopping from access point to access point.
So far my only real issue is that *something* is running in the background on my machine - it could be indexing, I'm not sure. You know how if you let your machine sit idle the hard drive light will slow from a constant solid light to mostly dim with an occasional blink of activity? I installed yesterday and its been going nonstop... and the machine has been rebooted a few times since as well. That can't be good for my hard disk. Its not really a real issue, more a slight concern as to why its doing it.
I hate to tell you but the recent headlines about 500,000+ servers being placed in botnets means that you're safer using AV software, especially in a networked environment. I mean, 500,000 servers compromised... and you tell me that all of those are being run by idiots? Doubtful. Even pros get tripped up. So what if you don't cruise anything bad, if you have an open fileshare, or an open port your computer is compromisable. A dumb user puts a file on there, and boom, you're no longer safe. Someone exploits their way into your system, runs arbitrary code, and suddenly you've got a trojan and your IP is posted all over the net for the world to see. Its extremely easy to get infected, and you're being illogical - simply because you haven't gotten a virus so far doesn't mean you won't. I've seen bottom and middle tier 'pros' going on vehemently about how they don't need virus scanners, and then the top tier experts just sigh and shake their heads when the pro suddenly has a virus because Betty in accounting loves opening word files, and gets infected with a 3 year old macro virus that any virus scanner on earth would have caught. If your computer was isolated and never to be connected to a network I still wouldn't be 100% confident about its security. If you put it on the net, you're psychotic not to use one.
Not to mention prior settlements can be rendered unenforcable, and can be taken to court because the RIAA will no longer have any legal standing on which to base its claims. In other words, everyone gets a clean slate.
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There's also a business savvy reason for this... no empire lasts forever. Investing in the company that holds the most market share may seem like a sure thing.. but once you're at the very top there's really no where to go but down. The underdogs have room to grow, so while they're riskier, they have a much greater possibility to return profits for investors.
Google sells their API, which they wrote from the ground up. The only thing they use that isn't theirs is *occasionally* zope/plone and whatever web server du jour. Apple built one of the first computers, wrote their own OS which for a very long time didn't even use standard cabling methods that the rest of the world did (IDE ribbons cabled in reverse?! wtf!?). Now the modern MacOS does use BSD code, so I will concede that one. But the prior OS's were 100% apple.
See, Apple and Google wrote their own software from the ground up. Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer, and for BASIC took a large amount of publically accessible code from the homebrew club, and decided he would put a copyright on it since no one else had bothered. He basically stole the work from other poeple and made his fortune. For that reason alone I will never have respect for microsoft.
First, get a kensington lock for your laptop. Next, get a copy of lojack for laptops. Numerous laptop manufacturers have bios modules which work with L4L so even if a thief were to steal your laptop and replace the hard drive, it will simply reinstall as soon as there is another OS put on it. Even if your laptop doesn't have the bios module, it still installs to a portion of the hard drive that won't regularly be destroyed short of a low level format.
Makes me wonder why there aren't more female programmers tbh... women *did* start the field...
Think they'd let us purchase a small chunk for esoteric value? The machine itself isn't leaking radiation and I know there's a ton of nuclear physicists out there that would love a small chunk. Plus it'd prolly be worth more than selling it for scrap if they opened it to the scientific community.
Why is it that decent posts like this get rated down? Stupid mods. I do agree.. google isn't the only one that keeps large stores of information and records - only google has their business modeled around storing and manipulating this data.
Its state doesn't matter, because it changed when it was observed. My guess is either alive or dead.
So, this policy violates data retention laws that THIS ADMINISTRATION pushed through. Also, it violates the presidential records act. But, I'm guessing this will be yet another thing John Q Public ignores because they're too busy watching Dancin with the Stars and American Idol to care - bread and circuses.
Ubuntu is on a 6 month release period - every 6 months there is a new LTS version released which is supported for 6 years (I may be off on the number of years).
I hope she wins so long as she's an open source advocate. Having the full Blu-Ray spec being forced open would be very sexy indeed especially to reverse engineers and PS3 hackers. Plus I'd be much happier seeing the scientist who developed the technology get the cash, and not Sony just because I, like many /.'ers, despise multinational conglomerates.
Well, looks like I'm going to have to make a hard plastic shell to put over all my network devices that covers everything but the fan ports. Sigh.
Ah, I stand corrected. Nice catch :) I thought that once DVD/HD-DVD was regular uncompressed MPEG-2 video that was simply encrypted? I'm by no means an expert on video.
Hey all, thanks for the ton of responses! I should have been a bit more descriptive - I'm a tech at my company, and the network admin, so I can pretty much do as I please with my kit. However we're mandated by company policy to have lojack4laptops installed and our motherboards have a bios module that does this without our interaction - sadly the module only works in windows. I was going to dual boot but vista won't shrink the partition small enough for me to do so (for some reason it has stuff stored at the end of the partition and won't let me shrink more than like 400mb) and partition magic chokes on resizing the vista version of NTFS. Otherwise I'd have a full on install of linux on here as it is. The fact that WUBI installs inside windows seemed to be a nice option since I'd no longer have to redo my partitioning. Does it run in a virtualized mode with generic vanilla hardware like VMware? Or will it take full advantage of the machine just as if it was a normal install?
Anyone have any information about this? I prefer having a linux environment but my work laptop *must* run windows thanks to company software. This seems like it may be a much better solution for me compared to, say, cygwin.
Back when I was starting law school they covered how specific warrants had to be - for instance, usually a warrant to raid a home had to specifically mention what portion of the house had to be searched (cabinet on second floor in rear of house), down to exactly what items were expected and where they were expected to be found (pot plants are found on top shelf). This way no one could just point their finger at someone else and say "They have something illegal in their home! Raid agogo!" Now, someone clicks a link that could be entirely by accident, posted elsewhere as a gag hyperlink, whatever, and their entire home can be raided with feds seizing a ton of personal affects when the whole time it could have been done by someone who briefly hopped on their wireless network. All of this based on a warrant that seems to have no specific location, details, etc, of any sort of locations that can be searched. Nor does it contain a way to exactly identify the user (unless they're using MAC address - not like that can be spoofed or anything). Sad, very sad.
Why was this rated troll? Seems like a completely justified response to me... some mods are just stupid :(
I admit, now that blu ray has been cracked I may actually look at purchasing a player. I don't 'do' closed standards.. or effectively closed standards (as DVD has long been considered to be effectively open thanks to deCSS)
As long as the content ultimately gets decrypted/decoded to a format which is percievable to human senses, it can be cracked. There is nothing stopping a dedicated pirate from going, pixel by pixel, dumping the current pixel color values into a massive 2d array - in fact in the pre-deCSS days there was a program that worked with PowerDVD by doing that very thing. Dump all the pixelvalues as arrays into a screenshot bypassing Windows, then stream together the screenshots in a video format of your choice, and you've got uncompressed, perfect digital video. From there you can just run a male to male cable from your stereo out jack to an audio input, and you've got your sound. Mux them together and you've got everything you need to make your pirated copy. Its low tech, but it works. The fact is, no matter what these antipiracy groups do, they can *NOT* beat technology with more technology. Because all it takes is a bored geek with a soldering iron and some spare time to bring down their house of cards.
To me theft of wireless means that you're sitting there, snorting traffic and running a decryption utility to process packets and ascertain a WEP or WPA key. Not really hard to do, but still akin to breaking and entering since the owners have obviously chosen to close off the network. I don't see a problem with breaking into such a thing a crime. BUT if someone gets pressed for using an open wireless access point the owners are going to have to prove malicious intent especially since windows doesn't mind hopping from access point to access point.
So far my only real issue is that *something* is running in the background on my machine - it could be indexing, I'm not sure. You know how if you let your machine sit idle the hard drive light will slow from a constant solid light to mostly dim with an occasional blink of activity? I installed yesterday and its been going nonstop... and the machine has been rebooted a few times since as well. That can't be good for my hard disk. Its not really a real issue, more a slight concern as to why its doing it.
Not to mention that games like World of Warcraft push all patches/updates via bittorrent.
I hate to tell you but the recent headlines about 500,000+ servers being placed in botnets means that you're safer using AV software, especially in a networked environment. I mean, 500,000 servers compromised... and you tell me that all of those are being run by idiots? Doubtful. Even pros get tripped up. So what if you don't cruise anything bad, if you have an open fileshare, or an open port your computer is compromisable. A dumb user puts a file on there, and boom, you're no longer safe. Someone exploits their way into your system, runs arbitrary code, and suddenly you've got a trojan and your IP is posted all over the net for the world to see. Its extremely easy to get infected, and you're being illogical - simply because you haven't gotten a virus so far doesn't mean you won't. I've seen bottom and middle tier 'pros' going on vehemently about how they don't need virus scanners, and then the top tier experts just sigh and shake their heads when the pro suddenly has a virus because Betty in accounting loves opening word files, and gets infected with a 3 year old macro virus that any virus scanner on earth would have caught. If your computer was isolated and never to be connected to a network I still wouldn't be 100% confident about its security. If you put it on the net, you're psychotic not to use one.
Punch cards and FORTRAN.
Um, isn't this more or less how the movie Red Dawn began?
Not to mention prior settlements can be rendered unenforcable, and can be taken to court because the RIAA will no longer have any legal standing on which to base its claims. In other words, everyone gets a clean slate.