> Go start a business, THEN you can comment on how to do or do not like the salary structure.
So... only the rich mangement class are allowed to even voice an opinion on pay structure and labor issues ? That sounds... surprisingly like the current U.S. system, actually.
>> Maybe someone would enlighten the rest of us on why a certain bit size is better than another, >> and why we currently use 8/16/32/64, instead of 12/24/48/96 ?
Because powers of 2 are easier to work with in binary.
> A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security > systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
Apparently the Microsoft code-signing system is one of them.
We can go back and forth all day long about the quality of that or any book; it happens to be one I get a great deal of use from. Fact of the matter is, there are open, standard public-key infrastructures that are designed such that this "problem" wouldn't be a problem at all, just a barely noticed update to the CRL that wouldn't disturb anything else in the system. Microsoft got infected with the Not Invented Here syndrome, and Windows admins are now suffering the results.
This thread is tiresome, so I'll leave it at that. Cheers. =)
> The certificate that was used to sign the control is still valid... > revoking the certificate would cause all of them to become invalid.
This just indicates a braindead design of their PKI. If they're going to be using a certificate to sign controls, then they need to keep a control revocation list associated with each certificate.
Read 'Applied Cryptography' by Schneier. It's better than drugs.
Then why don't you mirror it so the rest of us can download (and subsequently mirror) it without having to register ? The GPL guarantees you that right. =)
>> Isn't it amazing when you read something written in your own language and don't understand a word of what's being said?
This should have come with a warning similar to the ones on a lot of linux kernel options: If you don't have any idea what this is talking about, then it doesn't affect you. This is only important to those of us who run our own DNS servers; the root servers are basically the "upstream" source from which all other DNS servers get their information.
>> I'm sorry to disagree with the modder, but to WAKE a furby you shake it. To make it COO, you turn it upside down
Nope. Inversion wakes it up. When you invert an already-awake furby, it's saying "Whoa !" because it's scared. It'll actually say "Me scared" in Furbish, and later in its life-cycle it says the same in English.
The reason I know this is I wanted to write a program to make a furby talk to my laptop's IRDA port. =D
>> Regardless, The RIAA has every right to pursue its goals (i.e., profit) using legitimate business practices
Bribing Congressmen to pass a rampantly unpopular law that criminalizes fair use copying rights does not fall under the heading of "legitimate business practices". Neither does deploying technological measures to make it impossible to exercise said rights.
I'm disgusted by how many so-called libertarians are so quick to jump to the defense of the RIAA when it's obvious they have no interest whatsoever in playing by the rules of the fair market. The market has sent a pretty unequivocal message that they want the middle man out of the loop, so the middle man tries alternately to make it either illegal or impossible not to play by their rules. Bleh.
Last but not least the 10K III's....I've got (4) four of them operating in a RAID 0 array and combined they're considerably quieter than my 7200RPM IDE drive. Virtually silent in fact.
What about heat ? I may need to buy some of these =)
>> So in your opinion that means you can steal the software >> to, as that is the SOLE PURPOSE OF THE MOD-CHIP.
I usually don't respond to trolls, but in this case I think it's worth pointing out that there are several original development projects for xbox (not just Linux) that the hardward is uniquely suited for. For instance, you can play divx at full speed full screen on a modded xbox.
> Also, why aren't there three sub processors one that does the actual operations, > one that controls all data input making sure no cycles go without processing data, > and one with data output making all results immediately available for display or what > not next clock cycle (all three should be programmable with their own instruction > sets and use the same registers).
Sounds like fun, but the machine would be a living nightmare to program for. Witness the playstation 2 for a real-world example of this design mentality.
>> Then we buy as many non-DRM compliant gadgets as we want
Reality check. How long do you honestly think it'll take, after DRM-enabled hardware is deployed, for non-DRM enabled hardware to be labeled a circumvention device under the DMCA ?
Hell, the CBDTPA (Hollings bill) already effectively does this, and Congress can't _wait_ to sign it into law.
>> Surely "How much does this sound like the original?" is a better test than "Which sounds best?"
Only if the goal of the developer is to create a codec which is closer to the original, rather than one that sounds great. I'd call that one a judgment call, actually.
>> If you've got the software and want to make it work with a non-Apple drive, chances are that you've pirated the software
So, because in your expert estimation there's a greater than 50.0% chance that all people in this situation are stealing, we will declare the act itself to be illegal because that's more convenient to enforce than just punishing the ones doing the stealing...
Apologies for the sarcastic tone, but it's this kind of asinine thinking that killed napster, that caused DeCSS so much trouble, that will ultimately leave us having to buy seperate copies of CDs for the home, the car, the office, etc. etc. There are already PERFECTLY good laws against stealing, you don't have to make a law preventing copying as well, and there are very legal and ethical uses of the ability to copy, some of which (backups) are explicitly guaranteed under copyright law.
>> you did not PURCHASE your copy of iDVD. It came bundled with the computer
The price for the software license came "bundled" into the total purchase price as well, there's no distinction that any reasonably sane person can determine here. I exchanged a sum of money for a drive, some software, cables, a manual, some styrofoam moulding and a cardboard box, and a portion of the sale value went to the manufacturers of every one of those items.
>> Invoking first sale for a piece of software that comes with your hardware is ludicrous
Keep your laws off my wallet. It's clear that you're out of your damn mind.
>> If I purchase a CD-R with Adaptec Easy CD Creator... I can't turn around and sell Adaptec Easy CD Creator because I never purchased it.
Sure you did, and sure you can. You don't think adaptec collected a "license fee" from you on that transaction ? Stop speaking nonsense.
>> what price would YOU set for the standalone iDVD?
Whatever you wanted. We don't have a state-controlled economy yet. You could sell it for $2000 or offer to trade it for a sack of magic beans and a 1997 low-mileage subaru station wagon if you wanted to, and I could dicker you down to $1845 and a case of oriental-flavored ramen. The transaction would be perfectly legal in all cases.
>> Apple also wishes to ensure some quality of the user experience
Apple's wishes have no bearing on how I use things that I've legally purchased. If they don't want me doing things they might not have anticipated with their hard/software, or even things they explicitly disapprove of, then they'd better withdraw their products from the market.
>> Maybe a sign 'please shut off your cell phones.' Alot of people just forget
I don't know where you go see movies, but I haven't seen one in about five years that hasn't been preceded by some little picture of a dancing tub of popcorn or some such nonsense, reminding me to buy coke, throw away my trash, buy coke, don't talk, buy coke, turn off my cell phone, and buy coke. Point is, the messages are there, people just do not give a damn. And that, you can't legislate. (Although I expect it to soon be mandatory to buy coke.)
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> Go start a business, THEN you can comment on how to do or do not like the salary structure.
So... only the rich mangement class are allowed to even voice an opinion on pay structure and labor issues ? That sounds... surprisingly like the current U.S. system, actually.
>> Maybe someone would enlighten the rest of us on why a certain bit size is better than another,
>> and why we currently use 8/16/32/64, instead of 12/24/48/96 ?
Because powers of 2 are easier to work with in binary.
> They aren't playing ANY of the latest games.
Sure they are, they're just playing them on their Playstation 2 like sensible people. =)
> A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security
> systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
Apparently the Microsoft code-signing system is one of them.
We can go back and forth all day long about the quality of that or any book; it happens to be one I get a great deal of use from. Fact of the matter is, there are open, standard public-key infrastructures that are designed such that this "problem" wouldn't be a problem at all, just a barely noticed update to the CRL that wouldn't disturb anything else in the system. Microsoft got infected with the Not Invented Here syndrome, and Windows admins are now suffering the results.
This thread is tiresome, so I'll leave it at that. Cheers. =)
> The certificate that was used to sign the control is still valid ...
> revoking the certificate would cause all of them to become invalid.
This just indicates a braindead design of their PKI. If they're going to be using a certificate to sign controls, then they need to keep a control revocation list associated with each certificate.
Read 'Applied Cryptography' by Schneier. It's better than drugs.
How is it that they implemented a cryptographic signature system and don't provide for revocation? Surely somebody's missed something here...
> Kinda intrusive for a GPL thing, no?
Then why don't you mirror it so the rest of us can download (and subsequently mirror) it without having to register ? The GPL guarantees you that right. =)
>> Isn't it amazing when you read something written in your own language and don't understand a word of what's being said?
This should have come with a warning similar to the ones on a lot of linux kernel options: If you don't have any idea what this is talking about, then it doesn't affect you.
This is only important to those of us who run our own DNS servers; the root servers are basically the "upstream" source from which all other DNS servers get their information.
>> To be sure, I give the fuckers /dev/random. If lucky, it'll screw their terminal and they won't bother me.
/dev/random.
But if you're supremely unlucky, it'll drop them to a SUID root perl process. Do not taunt
4. Submit the report with the command: mv /dev/null
There's a bug in step 4 of your process. I just submitted a bug report with more details.
>> I'm sorry to disagree with the modder, but to WAKE a furby you shake it. To make it COO, you turn it upside down
Nope. Inversion wakes it up. When you invert an already-awake furby, it's saying "Whoa !" because it's scared. It'll actually say "Me scared" in Furbish, and later in its life-cycle it says the same in English.
The reason I know this is I wanted to write a program to make a furby talk to my laptop's IRDA port. =D
>> I think that this would be the same as not letting Stephen Hawking leave the country because he knows too much
Last I checked he was in England anyway, serving in the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge.
>> Regardless, The RIAA has every right to pursue its goals (i.e., profit) using legitimate business practices
Bribing Congressmen to pass a rampantly unpopular law that criminalizes fair use copying rights does not fall under the heading of "legitimate business practices". Neither does deploying technological measures to make it impossible to exercise said rights.
I'm disgusted by how many so-called libertarians are so quick to jump to the defense of the RIAA when it's obvious they have no interest whatsoever in playing by the rules of the fair market. The market has sent a pretty unequivocal message that they want the middle man out of the loop, so the middle man tries alternately to make it either illegal or impossible not to play by their rules. Bleh.
Last but not least the 10K III's....I've got (4) four of them operating in a RAID 0 array and combined they're considerably quieter than my 7200RPM IDE drive. Virtually silent in fact.
What about heat ? I may need to buy some of these =)
>>If you haven't tried Gentoo yet, what are you waiting for?
emerge system, that's what.
>> I've seen so many people blame the corruption of money, but I see no proof.
Lik-sang is shut down, Microsoft isn't. QE-MF-D.
>> So in your opinion that means you can steal the software
>> to, as that is the SOLE PURPOSE OF THE MOD-CHIP.
I usually don't respond to trolls, but in this case I think it's worth pointing out that there are several original development projects for xbox (not just Linux) that the hardward is uniquely suited for. For instance, you can play divx at full speed full screen on a modded xbox.
>> Long gone are the days of the IPC and IPX,machines you could ... generally
>> not treat very carefully, and they would keep on running
Until the IDPROM chip burned out on them. -sigh- I've lost more machines that way.
f idprom@ 1 xor f mkp...
> Also, why aren't there three sub processors one that does the actual operations,
> one that controls all data input making sure no cycles go without processing data,
> and one with data output making all results immediately available for display or what
> not next clock cycle (all three should be programmable with their own instruction
> sets and use the same registers).
Sounds like fun, but the machine would be a living nightmare to program for. Witness the playstation 2 for a real-world example of this design mentality.
>> Then we buy as many non-DRM compliant gadgets as we want
Reality check. How long do you honestly think it'll take, after DRM-enabled hardware is deployed, for non-DRM enabled hardware to be labeled a circumvention device under the DMCA ?
Hell, the CBDTPA (Hollings bill) already effectively does this, and Congress can't _wait_ to sign it into law.
>> Surely "How much does this sound like the original?" is a better test than "Which sounds best?"
Only if the goal of the developer is to create a codec which is closer to the original, rather than one that sounds great. I'd call that one a judgment call, actually.
>> If you've got the software and want to make it work with a non-Apple drive, chances are that you've pirated the software
So, because in your expert estimation there's a greater than 50.0% chance that all people in this situation are stealing, we will declare the act itself to be illegal because that's more convenient to enforce than just punishing the ones doing the stealing...
Apologies for the sarcastic tone, but it's this kind of asinine thinking that killed napster, that caused DeCSS so much trouble, that will ultimately leave us having to buy seperate copies of CDs for the home, the car, the office, etc. etc. There are already PERFECTLY good laws against stealing, you don't have to make a law preventing copying as well, and there are very legal and ethical uses of the ability to copy, some of which (backups) are explicitly guaranteed under copyright law.
>> Sounds like handwaving.
So that's what handwaving sounds like...
>> you did not PURCHASE your copy of iDVD. It came bundled with the computer
... I can't turn around and sell Adaptec Easy CD Creator because I never purchased it.
The price for the software license came "bundled" into the total purchase price as well, there's no distinction that any reasonably sane person can determine here. I exchanged a sum of money for a drive, some software, cables, a manual, some styrofoam moulding and a cardboard box, and a portion of the sale value went to the manufacturers of every one of those items.
>> Invoking first sale for a piece of software that comes with your hardware is ludicrous
Keep your laws off my wallet. It's clear that you're out of your damn mind.
>> If I purchase a CD-R with Adaptec Easy CD Creator
Sure you did, and sure you can. You don't think adaptec collected a "license fee" from you on that transaction ? Stop speaking nonsense.
>> what price would YOU set for the standalone iDVD?
Whatever you wanted. We don't have a state-controlled economy yet. You could sell it for $2000 or offer to trade it for a sack of magic beans and a 1997 low-mileage subaru station wagon if you wanted to, and I could dicker you down to $1845 and a case of oriental-flavored ramen. The transaction would be perfectly legal in all cases.
>> Apple also wishes to ensure some quality of the user experience
Apple's wishes have no bearing on how I use things that I've legally purchased. If they don't want me doing things they might not have anticipated with their hard/software, or even things they explicitly disapprove of, then they'd better withdraw their products from the market.
>> Maybe a sign 'please shut off your cell phones.' Alot of people just forget
I don't know where you go see movies, but I haven't seen one in about five years that hasn't been preceded by some little picture of a dancing tub of popcorn or some such nonsense, reminding me to buy coke, throw away my trash, buy coke, don't talk, buy coke, turn off my cell phone, and buy coke. Point is, the messages are there, people just do not give a damn. And that, you can't legislate. (Although I expect it to soon be mandatory to buy coke.)