If they were degrading Hulu streams, you'd have more of a point. Bittorent is just any old high-bandwidth file transfer as far as they're concerned though, and therefore low priority.
They've obviously got some sort of delusions if they presented themselves as an author. Did Dick's work turn them into an ersatz consciousness to carry on his work or something?
And it may in fact be worse than keeping paper records, because computer records carry a false impression of authority in that scenario. People often believe things because the computer "says so" or make incorrect assumptions about just where that information came from.
I'm not arguing that he's a hypocrite, although I didn't do a great job of making that clear. I just had an amusing image of "free software only" taken to its logical conclusion. As has been pointed out, though, "free software only" requires a lot less homebrew than I had previously assumed.
Clearly he's ahead of the curve of even parodic estimations of his dedication. I can only doff my hat and concede that when the man does free, he does it to the letter.
I love how they phrase it that the law will "let" ISPs store the data, too. They're passing a law that's going to make extensive long-term data storage mandatory, and it's the companies who get to pay for it. Isn't the government generous?
That's not software freedom, that's information freedom, though. Actually concepts like freedom of information mandate such destruction of data by those you hand it to.
On reflection, it seems that RMS has reached the conclusion that software freedom is beneficial, therefore the absence of software freedom is harmful, and furthermore that any absence of software freedom is unacceptable. I look forward to him publishing future articles from a home-built, hand-fabricated microcomputer, or perhaps some sort of elaborate open-source mechanical turing machine, when he decides that nonfree microcode is unacceptable.;)
No, that was about how doing tasks with web apps was bad. This is about how the whole concept of doing computing on a machine which is not under your control is wrong.
Did you even read the article? The whole point is that Windows 7 supports more formats than it used to, although MKV is not one of them . As far as Sony goes, they've been increasing support for file formats and containers from the outset, so whether it's in their interest or not, they've been doing what you want.
It is already possible from the PC to the 360, it's just that Win7 supports more codecs natively and therefore will happily stream more. The PS3 goes a step further and supports generic UPnP.
This is a reprint of an article from the magazine's 200th issue. (It's now on 201.) Seeing as the "super-consoles" were the biggest thing to happen after the magazine's inception, it's kind of appropriate that they chose to do an article on the most successful of them.
If that's so then I imagine it would be a protection from this, assuming Windows is assiduous about checking those files' checksums. It's implied in the article that it is not, but I'm not sure if the exploit was tested against a system with a TPM.
The remote access and priviledge level exploits are only possible after VBootkit has been patched into memory. Bitlocker protects against patching the OS on the disk but I don't think it offers any protection against changing the OS contents, beyond the "user input" requirement for boot (either a PIN or a physical device, which this software may or may not be able to bypass).
Scenes, actually. It's changed at that level of granularity, which explains some of the pacing issues I suppose. In terms of composition and dialogue it follows the comic more or less exactly except for omissions of 5- or 10-minute chunks, when arguably it could've done with a significant restructuring.
Actually, it needs local access by necessity, unless you can think of a way to boot by removable media on someone else's computer remotely. A device which can network boot might be vulnerable, if the required packets could reach it.
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Jingosim? Damn it.
(I'm not saying that the encryption is sinister, just that after so many contrived fist-pumping acronyms in the past decade, it's creepy.)
Somehow that makes it more sinister than calling it "RAZORBAK" or "AOK JINGOSIM".
If they were degrading Hulu streams, you'd have more of a point. Bittorent is just any old high-bandwidth file transfer as far as they're concerned though, and therefore low priority.
We can't accuse you of having a misleading name, that's for sure.
I would assume for the context that the books that google is removing from its index, are books that are inappropriate for google's index.
They've obviously got some sort of delusions if they presented themselves as an author. Did Dick's work turn them into an ersatz consciousness to carry on his work or something?
And it may in fact be worse than keeping paper records, because computer records carry a false impression of authority in that scenario. People often believe things because the computer "says so" or make incorrect assumptions about just where that information came from.
I'm not arguing that he's a hypocrite, although I didn't do a great job of making that clear. I just had an amusing image of "free software only" taken to its logical conclusion. As has been pointed out, though, "free software only" requires a lot less homebrew than I had previously assumed.
The post I just acknowledged and agreed with? That one?
Clearly he's ahead of the curve of even parodic estimations of his dedication. I can only doff my hat and concede that when the man does free, he does it to the letter.
I love how they phrase it that the law will "let" ISPs store the data, too. They're passing a law that's going to make extensive long-term data storage mandatory, and it's the companies who get to pay for it. Isn't the government generous?
That's not software freedom, that's information freedom, though. Actually concepts like freedom of information mandate such destruction of data by those you hand it to.
On reflection, it seems that RMS has reached the conclusion that software freedom is beneficial, therefore the absence of software freedom is harmful, and furthermore that any absence of software freedom is unacceptable. I look forward to him publishing future articles from a home-built, hand-fabricated microcomputer, or perhaps some sort of elaborate open-source mechanical turing machine, when he decides that nonfree microcode is unacceptable. ;)
No, that was about how doing tasks with web apps was bad. This is about how the whole concept of doing computing on a machine which is not under your control is wrong.
Did you even read the article? The whole point is that Windows 7 supports more formats than it used to, although MKV is not one of them . As far as Sony goes, they've been increasing support for file formats and containers from the outset, so whether it's in their interest or not, they've been doing what you want.
It is already possible from the PC to the 360, it's just that Win7 supports more codecs natively and therefore will happily stream more. The PS3 goes a step further and supports generic UPnP.
This is a reprint of an article from the magazine's 200th issue. (It's now on 201.) Seeing as the "super-consoles" were the biggest thing to happen after the magazine's inception, it's kind of appropriate that they chose to do an article on the most successful of them.
That's a damn shame, as you say his personal experience would've lent the storyline a great deal of integrity.
If that's so then I imagine it would be a protection from this, assuming Windows is assiduous about checking those files' checksums. It's implied in the article that it is not, but I'm not sure if the exploit was tested against a system with a TPM.
I overlooked it, it's explained well below.
The remote access and priviledge level exploits are only possible after VBootkit has been patched into memory. Bitlocker protects against patching the OS on the disk but I don't think it offers any protection against changing the OS contents, beyond the "user input" requirement for boot (either a PIN or a physical device, which this software may or may not be able to bypass).
Scenes, actually. It's changed at that level of granularity, which explains some of the pacing issues I suppose. In terms of composition and dialogue it follows the comic more or less exactly except for omissions of 5- or 10-minute chunks, when arguably it could've done with a significant restructuring.
Actually, it needs local access by necessity, unless you can think of a way to boot by removable media on someone else's computer remotely. A device which can network boot might be vulnerable, if the required packets could reach it.
A bootable CD-ROM that then boots the OS while performing the in-memory patching required to make the machine vulnerable.