I remember reading a couple of days ago about DRM-specific instructions being included in the ATA standard. So, does the SCSI standard have any DRM-like instructions? If not, anybody else see this as a way of getting DRM into the enterprise market? Last place I want DRM hardware is MY server!
It turns out Luddites don't know how to use software properly
So does that mean that most people are Luddites? In short, yes. When was the last time that a normal (non-technical) manager wanted to change their computers to Linux?
I seem to recall that elephants communicate using low frequency waves. I wonder what any elephants that might have been within range thought of the crap they were hearing.
I got out of trouble by talking over the assistant principal's head. He was an ex-football coach that most people wouldn't want to piss-off. Somehow, I think I failed at pissing him off; I'm certain he knew that I was intentionally talking over his head, but now I wonder...
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's Sabrina and I don't think it was a software company. More of a computer hardware company. Think IBM, but smaller.
Plus it was a remake of an earlier movie (same name) with Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn.
But I wouldn't call it anything similar to being a programmer. Real programmers don't make that much money!
Companies will take action and institute policies against downloading copywritten materials. This will be their defense against the company being liable for the downloading.
I agree. It's a shame that none of these companies have the backbone to tell the RIAA and MPAA to back the fuck off!
that physical access is the best, and sometime the easiest, way to gain control of a computer.
For the most part, I think this may have been more of an oversight on the software engineering team not to come up with all of the possibilities that one could try to gain access to the computer. Still, this should not even remotely be a possibility!!
SO I ask this: how can a post asking a question about open source be offtopic?
It's offtopic because the topic is a story on why a guy left Microsoft. NOT Mozilla or web browsers in general. If he wants his question answered, he can post it as an ask slashdot question!
On this topic, I hope M$ continues to ignore this guy. It could be very scary if they actually do anything he says... even if it is in PHB babble.
1.) concerned with security and everyone getting files has an account with me, sftp only. 2.) had a bunch of computer illiterates who only know how to surf the web, http only. 3.) allowing a bunch of people who don't necessarily have an account with me, ftp and http.
That said, a combination of all three should be sufficient for just about anybody who wants/needs the files. I use ftp (sftp when it's available) to transfer information between my office and home computers. Of course, if it's a big project with several people working on it, why not use a CVS repository?
Somebody more familiar with the issue can correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes my explanation.
Most CD drives today are rated according to their linear velocity. I think, not sure, that most CD drives spin at a constant angular velocity (RPM, rad/s); therefore, when you are near the center of the disc, the linear velocity is slower (lin_vel = radius * ang_vel, or something similar to this at least). Similarly, near the outer edges, the linear velocity is substantially larger.
In the good old days, most CD drives were rated according to their angular velocity. The CD always spun fastest when reading near the center of the disc and slowed down when reading the outer edges. You can only spin a disc so fast before it tears apart. (Some guys did an experiment to see how fast you can spin a CD before tearing apart; however, I forget the URL.) If I remember correctly, I think these drive maintain a more uniform transfer speed off the CD as well.
Commerical blockers block more sites than they should. They have economic incentives to block more sites than they should.
But due to CIPA, wouldn't there be an economic incentive for a company to block with a narrower set of sites? I mean, since there are a lot of libraries that would need a more narrow set, couldn't they release something along the lines of a library or public access version which would more closely satisfy the requirements?
Plus, is it just me or is this more of a case of nobody sells a blocker like this so this law should be illegal? Please, just hire some CS students/recent grads and pay them to create a blocker for you!
Actually, according to most state laws and regulations, an engineer is someone who has:
(1) Completed a four year degree in "engineering." (2) Taken the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and passed with a grade of 70 or better. (3) Worked for 7 years (I think) under a registered professional engineer. (4) Taken and passed the Professional Engineer (PE) exam.
Only after the above four steps have been completed can one truely call themselve an engineer. Exceptions include when the position that a person holds is titled something engineer, such as county engineers who are usually former construction contractors.
If we were to begin attacking either Iraq or North Korea, what amount of damage could they do by launching worms like this towards the US? Furthermore, what are the chances that they are busy looking for more exploits like this? After all, the US government does use a lot of M$ software.
You think they might let me get a patent on a personal transportation vehicle powered by a hydrocarbon deconstructor and exergy waster turning circular discs?
Any other ideas as to how to get a patent on blatently prior art?
When was the last time starting checking to see how long you stayed at the mall, or how far you drove today, or anything else you do in your car? How often do they correlate it to your VIN and/or yourself? That's the invasion of privacy!
I think the idea that most of us our missing is this. Most PC users buy their computers from Dell, Gateway, or some other big vendor. These vendors will ultimately sell TCPA/Palladium enabled computers. So, the real question should be: In the future will those of us who build our own systems be able to escape the issue of having TCPA/Palladium on our systems courtesy of the big players?
I think PC game sales are declining because PC games lost their only redeeming quality -- better game play. Also, the problem is that with consoles, people were/are mesmerized by pretty graphics and PC game designers thought they had to have equal or better graphics than the consoles. Well, that meant that the overall quality of the game went down because they were focusing too much time and energy on the graphics instead of the game play. I have bought fewer games cumulative since I was a freshman in high school (class of '95) than I did any single year before I started high school. The reason -- the games just suck! I still play most the games I bought before then -- Ultima I-IV (never was a big fan of any of the ones after IV), Pirates!, the original Civilization (although I have bought most of the newer versions as well), and others like these that have focused more on forcing you to have good strategical and analytical skills, not good reflexes.
Then again, I may just be part of a dying breed of computer gamers.
Elcomsoft has sold copies of their programs to the FBI and other branches of the US government. So, why are they attacking in court a company that they are willing to support by buying their software. Granted the DOJ buying it may just mean that they just needed the evidence. But the FBI, surely they have a more sinister reason for the purchase. Maybe they are hoping to that Elcomsoft will either win the case or perhaps an appeal and their supplier of toys would still be around.
Now, why would Microsoft own any copies? I wonder if our fiends... er, excuse me, friends in Redmond are looking for more information on Adobe's file standards. Or perhaps this will crack other copy protection schemes that M$ has been using???
When I was a newbie, I just printed out the HOWTO's that I needed. Now, when I try to remember something cool I learned three or four years ago reading the howto's, I just look them back up. But the problem is I just don't know what I did with that damned notebook that has them printed in...
Slashdot Mirror
When I click on their News1 link, I get:
/news.html was not found on this server.
Not Found
The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
So I guess no news != good news?
I remember reading a couple of days ago about DRM-specific instructions being included in the ATA standard. So, does the SCSI standard have any DRM-like instructions? If not, anybody else see this as a way of getting DRM into the enterprise market? Last place I want DRM hardware is MY server!
It turns out Luddites don't know how to use software properly
So does that mean that most people are Luddites? In short, yes. When was the last time that a normal (non-technical) manager wanted to change their computers to Linux?
whether or not they asked for a meal without pork
Let's not forget about all of those Jewish terrorists either!
I seem to recall that elephants communicate using low frequency waves. I wonder what any elephants that might have been within range thought of the crap they were hearing.
I got out of trouble by talking over the assistant principal's head. He was an ex-football coach that most people wouldn't want to piss-off. Somehow, I think I failed at pissing him off; I'm certain he knew that I was intentionally talking over his head, but now I wonder...
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's Sabrina and I don't think it was a software company. More of a computer hardware company. Think IBM, but smaller.
Plus it was a remake of an earlier movie (same name) with Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn.
But I wouldn't call it anything similar to being a programmer. Real programmers don't make that much money!
I mean, we'd have half the students in Australia in jail.
Only half! I would bet it would be higher than that. I think here in the US it's probably close to 75% of the students, maybe even higher.
Companies will take action and institute policies against downloading copywritten materials. This will be their defense against the company being liable for the downloading.
I agree. It's a shame that none of these companies have the backbone to tell the RIAA and MPAA to back the fuck off!
that physical access is the best, and sometime the easiest, way to gain control of a computer.
For the most part, I think this may have been more of an oversight on the software engineering team not to come up with all of the possibilities that one could try to gain access to the computer. Still, this should not even remotely be a possibility!!
SO I ask this: how can a post asking a question about open source be offtopic?
... even if it is in PHB babble.
It's offtopic because the topic is a story on why a guy left Microsoft. NOT Mozilla or web browsers in general. If he wants his question answered, he can post it as an ask slashdot question!
On this topic, I hope M$ continues to ignore this guy. It could be very scary if they actually do anything he says
If I were ...
1.) concerned with security and everyone getting files has an account with me, sftp only.
2.) had a bunch of computer illiterates who only know how to surf the web, http only.
3.) allowing a bunch of people who don't necessarily have an account with me, ftp and http.
That said, a combination of all three should be sufficient for just about anybody who wants/needs the files. I use ftp (sftp when it's available) to transfer information between my office and home computers. Of course, if it's a big project with several people working on it, why not use a CVS repository?
Somebody more familiar with the issue can correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes my explanation.
Most CD drives today are rated according to their linear velocity. I think, not sure, that most CD drives spin at a constant angular velocity (RPM, rad/s); therefore, when you are near the center of the disc, the linear velocity is slower (lin_vel = radius * ang_vel, or something similar to this at least). Similarly, near the outer edges, the linear velocity is substantially larger.
In the good old days, most CD drives were rated according to their angular velocity. The CD always spun fastest when reading near the center of the disc and slowed down when reading the outer edges. You can only spin a disc so fast before it tears apart. (Some guys did an experiment to see how fast you can spin a CD before tearing apart; however, I forget the URL.) If I remember correctly, I think these drive maintain a more uniform transfer speed off the CD as well.
Or at least I believe that's correct.
Commerical blockers block more sites than they should. They have economic incentives to block more sites than they should.
But due to CIPA, wouldn't there be an economic incentive for a company to block with a narrower set of sites? I mean, since there are a lot of libraries that would need a more narrow set, couldn't they release something along the lines of a library or public access version which would more closely satisfy the requirements?
Plus, is it just me or is this more of a case of nobody sells a blocker like this so this law should be illegal? Please, just hire some CS students/recent grads and pay them to create a blocker for you!
What are some other strange brewery devices?
Don't say car radiators as those have too many problems associated with them.
Has anybody else taken a look at his other lives?
I was laughing when I read the one in Brazil.
As far as I can tell this was posted last July, people.
Datestamp from the page: 07.02.2003 01:20
I'm even more confused on how he thought it was last July. If you use his misconception of the date stamp, this is about 5 months early.
Actually, according to most state laws and regulations, an engineer is someone who has:
(1) Completed a four year degree in "engineering."
(2) Taken the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and passed with a grade of 70 or better.
(3) Worked for 7 years (I think) under a registered professional engineer.
(4) Taken and passed the Professional Engineer (PE) exam.
Only after the above four steps have been completed can one truely call themselve an engineer. Exceptions include when the position that a person holds is titled something engineer, such as county engineers who are usually former construction contractors.
If we were to begin attacking either Iraq or North Korea, what amount of damage could they do by launching worms like this towards the US? Furthermore, what are the chances that they are busy looking for more exploits like this? After all, the US government does use a lot of M$ software.
Just my two cents though.
You think they might let me get a patent on a personal transportation vehicle powered by a hydrocarbon deconstructor and exergy waster turning circular discs?
Any other ideas as to how to get a patent on blatently prior art?
When was the last time starting checking to see how long you stayed at the mall, or how far you drove today, or anything else you do in your car? How often do they correlate it to your VIN and/or yourself? That's the invasion of privacy!
I think the idea that most of us our missing is this. Most PC users buy their computers from Dell, Gateway, or some other big vendor. These vendors will ultimately sell TCPA/Palladium enabled computers. So, the real question should be: In the future will those of us who build our own systems be able to escape the issue of having TCPA/Palladium on our systems courtesy of the big players?
I think PC game sales are declining because PC games lost their only redeeming quality -- better game play. Also, the problem is that with consoles, people were/are mesmerized by pretty graphics and PC game designers thought they had to have equal or better graphics than the consoles. Well, that meant that the overall quality of the game went down because they were focusing too much time and energy on the graphics instead of the game play. I have bought fewer games cumulative since I was a freshman in high school (class of '95) than I did any single year before I started high school. The reason -- the games just suck! I still play most the games I bought before then -- Ultima I-IV (never was a big fan of any of the ones after IV), Pirates!, the original Civilization (although I have bought most of the newer versions as well), and others like these that have focused more on forcing you to have good strategical and analytical skills, not good reflexes.
Then again, I may just be part of a dying breed of computer gamers.
Elcomsoft has sold copies of their programs to the FBI and other branches of the US government. So, why are they attacking in court a company that they are willing to support by buying their software. Granted the DOJ buying it may just mean that they just needed the evidence. But the FBI, surely they have a more sinister reason for the purchase. Maybe they are hoping to that Elcomsoft will either win the case or perhaps an appeal and their supplier of toys would still be around.
... er, excuse me, friends in Redmond are looking for more information on Adobe's file standards. Or perhaps this will crack other copy protection schemes that M$ has been using???
Now, why would Microsoft own any copies? I wonder if our fiends
When I was a newbie, I just printed out the HOWTO's that I needed. Now, when I try to remember something cool I learned three or four years ago reading the howto's, I just look them back up. But the problem is I just don't know what I did with that damned notebook that has them printed in ...