From the Register:
Both antivirus firm F-Secure and security information site SysInternals.com identified the copy protection scheme as a rootkit. F-Secure and other antivirus firms - including Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus - have release signatures for their antivirus software suites to detect the presence of the Sony BMG code.
If the pirates can't buy the CDS to begin with, then they won't be able to copy them over The Internet, will they?
What portion of society do you exclude before the rules have to change?
I think that's pretty brilliant idea the troll (or serial poster) was suggesting. Piracy ends when records are sold less. So when the number of sold records reaches zero or gets even close the piracy rate declines. When no one produces records they don't have to mind piracy and they can concentrate on taking over the users' computers...
Now to think about it, isn't that piracy too? Like the pirates in 18th century took over ships and these DRM CD's take over computers. What's the difference?
Depends on the location. Muzzy lives in Finland, where a consumer has a limited right to reverse-engineer software they have legally received. This right is also non-contractable, so you can't give this right away in a contract, the part of the contract that holds limitations to reverse-engineer is invalid.. Also a common lawyers' opinion is that EULAs don't hold yet no one has tested them in court. Seems to me that companies' lawyers consider the EULA invalid too. After the money has changed hands you can no longer place new limits to the use of a product.
Now that Muzzy has the facts that were obtained legally, using them is free. You can't violate an EULA by reading a website criticizing the software.
I run quite a big forum, most active in its kind in Finland. One day in June the site just didn't let anyone sign in or show threads or messages. So I login:
[x@x forum]$ mysql -p x Enter password: Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Didn't find any fields in table 'backup_yabbse_instant_messages' Didn't find any fields in table 'backup_yabbse_log_activity' Didn't find any fields in table 'backup_yabbse_log_errors' Didn't find any fields in table 'yabbse_members' Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 168027 to server version: 4.1.11-Debian_2woody1-log
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> select * from yabbse_members; ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: 'yabbse_members.MYI' (errno: 145) mysql>
After that I repaired my members table, losing all the rows. Luckily backups were recent enough, losing only 7 latest registered members (of some thousands).
After that, I occasionally get MySQL error messages from the e-mail warning system, but repair table helped and didn't lose data.
Form a frickin' army instead of blowing up school buses. What's so complicated?
I guess they lack the money, weapons and education.
The wall is being built in response to attacks; to claim that it is the cause of attacks that started long before it was even considered is breathtakingly nonsensical.
The wall is a part of a vicious circle: Poverty drives into desperation, desperation into suicide attacks. Israeli then control Palestinians even tighter, creating more poverty.
Besides, the wall violates the rights of those who don't participate in violent attacks. It's not the rights of terrorists we're talking but the rights of an ordinary man.
The only reason why cellphones haven't been literally cooking our brains is because they aren't powerful enough to produce any immediate noticeable effects, even after a prolonged period of use.
Actually, I think you're wrong. I've been taught that the way microwave oven operates is that the energy of the photon is equal to the water molecules lowest vibration energy level. I did my quantum physics courses in the university some time ago, but this I remember clearly: Professor said that absorption is heavily frequency dependent thing and therefore cellular phones shouldn't be a problem.
I don't have my physics book by me right now and the links I find on the web can't really confirm this as one forum says one thing and the other says another.
Even wikipediadoes this.
So I propose someone built a 2GHz or 3GHz microwave oven, if it works then I'll have to accept that it's not frequency dependent. Otherwise I'll hold my Physics professor as an authority in this case.
This is the same Nokia...... that lobbied hard to push for unlimited software patentability in the EU!
Nokia is a big company. A huge one, actually. Big companies benefit from software patents and therefore Nokia benefits from software patentability. That's why Nokia is in favour of software patents.
Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend, sometimes it isn't. Nokia is no exception.
They should do what they want. Thus you can do what you want... leave... It's called a free market for a reason.
Even free markets (which actually don't exist anywhere) have laws that guide a company what it can do and what it can't do. Laws regulating free speech and the definition of free speech vary throughout the world. To make it clear, I know nothing about Canadian laws, but in some other countries even companies trying to limit freedom of speech is illegal. This could be the case.
Free market needs limiting, for example think about the case where two presidential candidates are running for presidency. The other one owns 90% of automotive industries and the other one 90% of hospitals and medical supplies. The first one is injured in an automobile accident and is rushed to a hospital owned by the second one. Now the hospital states "We have our right to choose our customers. Please don't bleed to death on our floors, thank you."
(Relatively) free market is a good thing, but it needs regularization by government -- and the amount needed is an opinion that varies by person. In the end, free market is a very good worker but it makes a terribly bad boss.
What does a business benefit, if their current software does the job? Is a new version of Word going to suddenly make all of a secretary's documents better? Are their spreadsheets suddenly going to command more attention?
The new version is able to open the documents by those who have the new version. Therefore everyone who wants to open those files must upgrade.
And as far as IE7 is concerned, what will it bring to a business whose intranet is optimized for IE6?
Nothing in the intranet but I bet someone does a site that relies on the IE7 functions and then all hell breaks loose. Will they fix the CSS bugs? I don't think so. Please, fix at least the margin doubling bugs and other annoyances. On the other hand, they might add new bells and whistles like scrollbar colors and other proprietary css tags without the company prefix like nice browsers do.
I remember a book by A. Tanenbaum - Modern Operating Systems (2nd ed., 2001) - stating that buffer overruns have been there for 30 years and still they keep reappearing. It has been used to gain privileges for ever and it will be used as long as low-level programs with no buffer length checking are used.
So this talk about 8-10 years is complete bullshit. That's when THEY had to start thinking about it after the famous Pings of Death and stuff. Because the Windows was never intended to work in a possibly hostile environment.
My bank uses one-time pad combined with a secret number. Each time (or actually before) I run out of one-time passwords they send me another by mail. I can continue to use my old pad as long as I haven't started the next one or ran out of passwords. The information is SSL encrypted and I can use SSH to log in if I wish to do so in case I don't have a HTTPS capable browser on my hands.
When I transfer money outside my own personal accounts I'm also asked a randomly chosen certification password from the list. Therefore peeking my secret number and my next in sequence number isn't enough to steal my money.
Works great, never had a single problem. I use SSH mostly since that feels most safe and I get an alert if I mistype the address or the keyfile has been changed. I trust SSH more than I trust HTTPS since the majority will be using HTTPS anyway.
They should implement inflation into the game. That would take care of the duping (call it forging money) instead of harming everyone. Now all the prices go up once in a while and your gold treasures loses it's value. Control the amount of inflation as a function of how much there is money per player in the game. This won't fix everything instantly but it will slowly converge.
I think there is one in Russia, but I don't know the URL. It got some free advertising in the papers because apparently they aren't paying to the music producers and they might be controlled by mafia. Anyway, you can download music there in MP3 format in quality you want. You pay by transfer size, so more money means better quality. All the new hits and stuff.
Profit by Jeff Bezos 1) Patent the obvious 2) Rewrite the patent and try again 3) Rewrite the patent and try again 4) Rewrite the patent and try again 5) Rewrite the patent and try again 6) ??? 7) PROFIT! $$$
Oh, let's not also forget that it'd put the idea of court orders, seartch warrants, the right to be innocence until proven guilty (admittedly already fading), and a whole host of other rights in their graves.
I disagree. In North-Europe it's usual that even the illegally collected evidence counts. Abuse of power (police) is usually much more harsher a crime.
In Finland, there was one case where the police did an undercover operation to known drug seller. Too bad that at the time they didn't have rights to buy drugs undercover, resulting two officers charged and convicted of drug trading. Even more, the seller got an easier sentence because he was interpreted to be selling the drug out of request made by officers. Especially it was bad because it was planned. This in effect circumvents the "guilty man walking because of technicality" cases.
Besides, I see more problems with police violence in the US than I see problems with illegal evidence in the Europe. And no, I'm not trying to start a flame war.
In effect, they're claiming that because they had a robots.txt any page that might have been on the internet archive was there illegaly, and shouldn't have been used as evidence.
I've always wondered why evidence that was illegaly brought up can't be used in court. It just makes no sense that murder weapon got illegally from the murderers house does not count as evidence. Of course, the illegal action must be punished, like in this case the possible copyright infringement. However, it should not limit the facts that it gives out.
RTFA, they're sued because they're claimed not following robots.txt, not because they had the content. Ie. claim is that they're illegally harvesting the pages.
BBC has these interesting Terms of Use here. Obviously they can't enforce these Terms, so I wonder what their purpose was:
You may not copy, reproduce, edit, adapt, alter, republish, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use this audio in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use.
You read it wrong: What you should concentrate on is "except for your own personal, non-commercial use." That dilutes all that was said before, limiting the ban for other uses, like you couldn't take a clip and use it in your radio commercial background promoting your products.
So read it as "you may do to this piece of music anything you like to do as long as it's for your personal use."
Nice that they still have those longdirectorynames as longdi~1 in the prompt if you happened to use 16-bit programs. Oh, and winver really does seem to work. Nice work, MS!
Why do people not count Hussein as a terrorist? How many hundreds of thousands of murders do you have to commit before people think you're a bad guy these days? Chemical weapons, torture, murder, mass graves, invading a neighboring country then burning the oil fields as he left...the list goes on and on. He was a terrorist.
I disagree. Terrorist is someone who attacks civilians to spread terror to gain power. A tyrant is someone who has the power and wishes to remain in power. Terrorists want to spread fear of the unknown as tyrants want to spread fear of the known. Everyone in Iraq knew where Saddam Hussein lived, no one in the Western world knows for example where Bin Ladin lives.
Of course, one could argue that terrorist is the todays "communist", label that you give to your enemies. "If you aren't by my side, you're on the side of a terrorist."
I think George W. Bush is wrong, Al Queda doesn't hate freedom, they want the freedom. Limiting others' freedom is the way they're trying to take to gain theirs.
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From the Register: Both antivirus firm F-Secure and security information site SysInternals.com identified the copy protection scheme as a rootkit. F-Secure and other antivirus firms - including Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus - have release signatures for their antivirus software suites to detect the presence of the Sony BMG code.
F-secure blog tells also about this. Then they give removal instructions. What more do you need?
What portion of society do you exclude before the rules have to change?
I think that's pretty brilliant idea the troll (or serial poster) was suggesting. Piracy ends when records are sold less. So when the number of sold records reaches zero or gets even close the piracy rate declines. When no one produces records they don't have to mind piracy and they can concentrate on taking over the users' computers...
Now to think about it, isn't that piracy too? Like the pirates in 18th century took over ships and these DRM CD's take over computers. What's the difference?
Depends on the location. Muzzy lives in Finland, where a consumer has a limited right to reverse-engineer software they have legally received. This right is also non-contractable, so you can't give this right away in a contract, the part of the contract that holds limitations to reverse-engineer is invalid.. Also a common lawyers' opinion is that EULAs don't hold yet no one has tested them in court. Seems to me that companies' lawyers consider the EULA invalid too. After the money has changed hands you can no longer place new limits to the use of a product.
Now that Muzzy has the facts that were obtained legally, using them is free. You can't violate an EULA by reading a website criticizing the software.
Competent interrogators and torturers use psychology. Mental torture is torture too. It's no secret that Mossad and CIA use torture in interrogation.
His reporti is about completely different site,
http://opensourceenergy.org/ != http://opensource.nokia.com/
I run quite a big forum, most active in its kind in Finland. One day in June the site just didn't let anyone sign in or show threads or messages. So I login:
[x@x forum]$ mysql -p x
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Didn't find any fields in table 'backup_yabbse_instant_messages'
Didn't find any fields in table 'backup_yabbse_log_activity'
Didn't find any fields in table 'backup_yabbse_log_errors'
Didn't find any fields in table 'yabbse_members'
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 168027 to server version: 4.1.11-Debian_2woody1-log
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> select * from yabbse_members;
ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: 'yabbse_members.MYI' (errno: 145)
mysql>
After that I repaired my members table, losing all the rows. Luckily backups were recent enough, losing only 7 latest registered members (of some thousands).
After that, I occasionally get MySQL error messages from the e-mail warning system, but repair table helped and didn't lose data.
I guess they lack the money, weapons and education.
The wall is being built in response to attacks; to claim that it is the cause of attacks that started long before it was even considered is breathtakingly nonsensical.
The wall is a part of a vicious circle: Poverty drives into desperation, desperation into suicide attacks. Israeli then control Palestinians even tighter, creating more poverty.
Besides, the wall violates the rights of those who don't participate in violent attacks. It's not the rights of terrorists we're talking but the rights of an ordinary man.
Actually, I think you're wrong. I've been taught that the way microwave oven operates is that the energy of the photon is equal to the water molecules lowest vibration energy level. I did my quantum physics courses in the university some time ago, but this I remember clearly: Professor said that absorption is heavily frequency dependent thing and therefore cellular phones shouldn't be a problem.
I don't have my physics book by me right now and the links I find on the web can't really confirm this as one forum says one thing and the other says another. Even wikipedia does this.
So I propose someone built a 2GHz or 3GHz microwave oven, if it works then I'll have to accept that it's not frequency dependent. Otherwise I'll hold my Physics professor as an authority in this case.
Nokia is a big company. A huge one, actually. Big companies benefit from software patents and therefore Nokia benefits from software patentability. That's why Nokia is in favour of software patents.
Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend, sometimes it isn't. Nokia is no exception.
Even free markets (which actually don't exist anywhere) have laws that guide a company what it can do and what it can't do. Laws regulating free speech and the definition of free speech vary throughout the world. To make it clear, I know nothing about Canadian laws, but in some other countries even companies trying to limit freedom of speech is illegal. This could be the case.
Free market needs limiting, for example think about the case where two presidential candidates are running for presidency. The other one owns 90% of automotive industries and the other one 90% of hospitals and medical supplies. The first one is injured in an automobile accident and is rushed to a hospital owned by the second one. Now the hospital states "We have our right to choose our customers. Please don't bleed to death on our floors, thank you."
(Relatively) free market is a good thing, but it needs regularization by government -- and the amount needed is an opinion that varies by person. In the end, free market is a very good worker but it makes a terribly bad boss.
The new version is able to open the documents by those who have the new version. Therefore everyone who wants to open those files must upgrade.
And as far as IE7 is concerned, what will it bring to a business whose intranet is optimized for IE6?
Nothing in the intranet but I bet someone does a site that relies on the IE7 functions and then all hell breaks loose. Will they fix the CSS bugs? I don't think so. Please, fix at least the margin doubling bugs and other annoyances. On the other hand, they might add new bells and whistles like scrollbar colors and other proprietary css tags without the company prefix like nice browsers do.
I think the subject was supposed to read, "Why I hate PDF files."
And the subtitle should've been "Why I use this most annoying font ever, Comic." There's even a couple of sites tributed to this magnificent font.
There's a load of much more readable fonts. Of course, if you don't want people to read your text then go for it!
I remember a book by A. Tanenbaum - Modern Operating Systems (2nd ed., 2001) - stating that buffer overruns have been there for 30 years and still they keep reappearing. It has been used to gain privileges for ever and it will be used as long as low-level programs with no buffer length checking are used. So this talk about 8-10 years is complete bullshit. That's when THEY had to start thinking about it after the famous Pings of Death and stuff. Because the Windows was never intended to work in a possibly hostile environment.
My bank uses one-time pad combined with a secret number. Each time (or actually before) I run out of one-time passwords they send me another by mail. I can continue to use my old pad as long as I haven't started the next one or ran out of passwords. The information is SSL encrypted and I can use SSH to log in if I wish to do so in case I don't have a HTTPS capable browser on my hands.
When I transfer money outside my own personal accounts I'm also asked a randomly chosen certification password from the list. Therefore peeking my secret number and my next in sequence number isn't enough to steal my money.
Works great, never had a single problem. I use SSH mostly since that feels most safe and I get an alert if I mistype the address or the keyfile has been changed. I trust SSH more than I trust HTTPS since the majority will be using HTTPS anyway.
They should implement inflation into the game. That would take care of the duping (call it forging money) instead of harming everyone. Now all the prices go up once in a while and your gold treasures loses it's value. Control the amount of inflation as a function of how much there is money per player in the game. This won't fix everything instantly but it will slowly converge.
I think there is one in Russia, but I don't know the URL. It got some free advertising in the papers because apparently they aren't paying to the music producers and they might be controlled by mafia. Anyway, you can download music there in MP3 format in quality you want. You pay by transfer size, so more money means better quality. All the new hits and stuff.
Only if it works with Windows 2003 Server, which is based on NT technology.
Profit by Jeff Bezos
1) Patent the obvious
2) Rewrite the patent and try again
3) Rewrite the patent and try again
4) Rewrite the patent and try again
5) Rewrite the patent and try again
6) ???
7) PROFIT! $$$
I disagree. In North-Europe it's usual that even the illegally collected evidence counts. Abuse of power (police) is usually much more harsher a crime.
In Finland, there was one case where the police did an undercover operation to known drug seller. Too bad that at the time they didn't have rights to buy drugs undercover, resulting two officers charged and convicted of drug trading. Even more, the seller got an easier sentence because he was interpreted to be selling the drug out of request made by officers. Especially it was bad because it was planned. This in effect circumvents the "guilty man walking because of technicality" cases.
Besides, I see more problems with police violence in the US than I see problems with illegal evidence in the Europe. And no, I'm not trying to start a flame war.
In effect, they're claiming that because they had a robots.txt any page that might have been on the internet archive was there illegaly, and shouldn't have been used as evidence. I've always wondered why evidence that was illegaly brought up can't be used in court. It just makes no sense that murder weapon got illegally from the murderers house does not count as evidence. Of course, the illegal action must be punished, like in this case the possible copyright infringement. However, it should not limit the facts that it gives out.
RTFA, they're sued because they're claimed not following robots.txt, not because they had the content. Ie. claim is that they're illegally harvesting the pages.
You may not copy, reproduce, edit, adapt, alter, republish, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use this audio in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use.
You read it wrong: What you should concentrate on is "except for your own personal, non-commercial use." That dilutes all that was said before, limiting the ban for other uses, like you couldn't take a clip and use it in your radio commercial background promoting your products.
So read it as "you may do to this piece of music anything you like to do as long as it's for your personal use."
Nice that they still have those longdirectorynames as longdi~1 in the prompt if you happened to use 16-bit programs. Oh, and winver really does seem to work. Nice work, MS!
I disagree. Terrorist is someone who attacks civilians to spread terror to gain power. A tyrant is someone who has the power and wishes to remain in power. Terrorists want to spread fear of the unknown as tyrants want to spread fear of the known. Everyone in Iraq knew where Saddam Hussein lived, no one in the Western world knows for example where Bin Ladin lives.
Of course, one could argue that terrorist is the todays "communist", label that you give to your enemies. "If you aren't by my side, you're on the side of a terrorist."
I think George W. Bush is wrong, Al Queda doesn't hate freedom, they want the freedom. Limiting others' freedom is the way they're trying to take to gain theirs.
What about real plus imaginary number of kicks? Or would that be too complex?