If you are curious about why the TrustedID site returns false answers when you input bogus info, here is a pretty good hint. https://twitter.com/rayjwatson...
Dear AlexKing,
Instead of accusing RIM of disabling your "bountied" software, why don't you open source it so that we can all look for bugs in the implementation? After all, when the bounty was offered no one told any of the contributors that this would be for a commercial, closed source product, and many of us who contributed to the project are angry and disappointed that it was hijacked for a proprietary, closed project.
Open it up!!!
from the "about" page: Professional co-location was/is out of the question simply because of the costs and I did/do have bigger plans than to be able to host this kind of thing at home. To be honest, if this thing grows any bigger I'll be moving the whole shebang to a datacenter after all... Prices have dropped quite a bit since about two years ago and now. But, until then, all this comes from my server at a friends house where he has an amazing 10mbit up&down.
Well, I guess he USED to be your friend, until you slashdotted his internet connection....
I am not so sure that apple "came calling"- in fact, Apple was just about to close a deal to buy Be,Inc.- who had a pretty stellar, multimedia-centric little OS- and Jobs had a fit and offered NeXT instead.
the other little tidbit that is interesting about this story is that Be, Inc. was run by a former apple CEO, Jean-Louis Gassée
p.s.- i think Palm eventually bought BeOS, but I could be wrong about that
forget the sacrifice to a goat, lets safe our Aussie friends bandwidth by posting this here...
[...]
On the other side of the globe, nearly two kilometres beneath the earth, in a cold, gloomy chasm, you can find a small slice of Australia.
The sheer plunge near the bottom of the world's deepest cave, in a remote part of Georgia, doesn't automatically instantly inspire comparisons with Alan Warild's home country. It's bitterly cold, forever dark and usually damp. But since the veteran caver climbed to its dank depths last month it has incongruously borne Australia's name.
The 49-year-old from Newtown was invited to lead a 25-strong team of cavers from Russia and Ukraine on a world-record 1830-metre descent into the Krubera-Voronia cave in Abkhazia, Georgia.
At the end of the nine-day journey down the corkscrew-shaped hole, the triumphant team told Mr Warild it would name the final drop "Viva Australia" in his honour.
"One of the Russians had the idea to name it in my honour since I was the first to go down - I suppose I was pretty chuffed," the self-effacing caver said.
"It's not my favourite cave, because it's about 3 degrees at the bottom and it's muddy and you have to dive in one part. But it's a great challenge and a bit of a thrill to stand somewhere where no human being has ever stood before." Advertisement Advertisement
The previous world record for the deepest caving expedition, 1710 metres, was set in the same cave in 2001. But Mr Warild and his fellow travellers took a different route, passing through a sump filled with icy water to descend 120 metres further. "We went as far as we could, we hit a pit full of water and decided to leave it for another trip."
The Australian Speleological Federation said it had received an unconfirmed report that a team of Ukrainians was currently attempting to better Mr Warild's record. But the name for the drop would remain, it said.
"People like Alan are the modern-day equivalent of the explorers in the 19th century, others like me follow in their footsteps later," said federation president, John Dunkley.
"That name will stay and be put on maps of the cave in future. It's a significant achievement and shows the respect Alan has overseas. He's a well-known name and one of the top three in the world when it comes to deep and difficult caves."
Mr Warild discovered his unusual hobby when he was 13, on a school excursion to the Wee Jasper caves near Yass. Since then he has explored deep caves around the world.
"Australia doesn't really have any deep ones," he said. "The deepest is in Tasmania, almost 400 metres. The best, in my opinion, is Muruk, in New Guinea. It's about 1250 metres.
"I grew up in the Sutherland Shire and I always loved the outdoors. I think that's the only way I can explain it.
If you read through the actual posting, it is apparent that this while may be the first GDI/JPEG-based worm, but it is certainly not going to be the worst.
First of all, unless I missed it- this code does not even self-replicate (i.e.- it doesnt mail itself to others, or post itself to usenet, or otherwise exploit vulnerable systems)
I would expect to see some script kiddies combine this proof of concept trojan with some social engineering type email worms, and then t**THAT** will be a nasty worm.
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I ended up getting a cracked copy written over the original master floppy. Cracked, so the copy protection wouldn't fire, but not pirated... I only had the one copy and it was on the original media.
not to nitpick, but if it was cracked, then by definition it was pirated, regardless of your legality or license.... at least by today's standards (see DMCA)
not disagreeing with your post, just pointing out what a different world we live in now.
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to the mods who are too young to have memorized the entire Hayes AT command set, this post is +1 informative, please mod it appopriately.
to the mods that ever used an amber monitor on a single-floppy PC XT or PC AT, you gotta admit this guy summarized the old days pretty well- give him +1 insightful.
To everyone else: why don't we ever talk about CP/M anymore these days?
UTD Information Resources officials said Sept. 10 they are reversing their previous decision to ban private wireless access points in Waterview Park after the discovery of an FCC ruling prohibiting such a move.
In a Sept. 8 letter distributed throughout Waterview Park, UTD threatened disciplinary action against residents running personal wireless access points. The move was intended to solve connectivity issues, said Doug Jackson, director of information resources.
However, a public notice dated June 24, 2004, from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) - which regulates all wireless signals in the United States - affirmed that consumers have the right to install and operate wireless access points.
The access points allow private DSL or cable modem Internet connections to be shared among multiple people within range of the access point.
The FCC notice also states, under the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC holds exclusive jurisdiction over the regulation of radio frequency interference issues.
"Based on what they (the FCC) say, I'm going to have to back away from the policy," said Bill Hargrove, executive director of information resources. He suspects the university could make an argument to support the decision, "but it's not worth the brouhaha."
The initial policy sparked a firestorm among affected students on websites including waterviewsux.com, utdmercury.com and slashdot.org, a national online discussion forum of technical issues.
Many students expressed anger over a portion of the distributed letter which speculated that users with private access points may be engaging "in activities... such as peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted materials."
"It infuriated me, to see it insinuating that we were all pirates for choosing to use our own Internet connection. It made my blood boil pretty quick," said senior electrical engineering major Trent Jacobs.
Jacobs installed DSL in his Phase Two apartment several years ago before the wireless network existed and continues to use it so he can access his computer as a file server from off-campus, which cannot be done through the campus network. He also said he cannot access UTD's wireless network in some parts of his apartment.
IR is working on various solutions to improve the connection and the access point policy was seen as one method to combat the troubles the system has had, Jackson said.
"We went out and did some serious investigation and discovered a correlation between locations with multiple access points and the people with connectivity issues," Jackson said.
Once the IR department asked users to turn off their access points, the problems went away, he said.
Previously, only a few existed on campus but, "we went from a handful to hundreds this fall," Jackson said.
The connectivity problem stems from the fact that, if not told to do otherwise, many wireless cards will automatically connect to the strongest signal available. In Waterview's case, a network card might jump onto a neighbor's stronger access point instead of the possibly weaker UTD wireless network. The network swap can cause a "denial of service" conflict and a failure to connect to the Internet, Jackson said.
IR officials said they hoped shutting down personal access points would stop cards from arbitrarily swapping their signal source.
Other universities including George Washington, Georgia Tech and UT Austin presently ban private wireless networks, although only in university-owned residences.
Hargrove also took into account the fact UTD does not own all of the apartments.
If you run an ISP, and are worried about some government agency forcing you to sacrifice your subscibers rights,
heres a good place to start to learn about the latest battles.
http://www.eff.org/minilinks/archives/cat_free_spe ech.php
I meant "unfortunately" in the sense that it's not a very good precendent to have extradition law applied to imprison members of other nations for up to fifteen years outside of their home country.
My use of that word did not mean to imply that he was a hero or rebel.
Unfortunately, he will probably be convicted, since the Department of Justiucs has already made agreements with his fellow DrinkOrDie members to shorten their sentences if they testify against him. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109806,0 0.asp
Does the Broadcast Flag mean I will see a poor/downrezzed picture on my older HDTV?
The broadcast flag would, in theory, allow a content provider to tell the HDTiVo to play back a broadcast at 480p instead of the 720p or 1080i quality that it was broadcast with.
"The most important thing in the FCC's broadcast flag rules is that the broadcast flag cannot be used to prevent recording. That is not the intent of the broadcast flag, and even the MPAA in its comments filed to the FCC agreed that it should not restrict consumers from recording or copying for personal use. For that matter, the FCC doesn't have the authority to mandate something that overrides copyright law which allows us to record and copy for personal use.
The FCC rules do not require devices to reduce the resolution of flagged HD material when it is output in analog form. (The FCC did not take any action to close the "analog hole".) However, devices will be required to reduce the resolution of flagged HD material when it is output in digital form over a signal path that is not secure. The HDTiVo's HDMI connection has the HDCP encryption, so the rule isn't applicable.
The FCC rules also spell out how recorders are to comply with the broadcast flag. First, recorders have to preserve the flag. If the flag is there when it's recorded then it has to be there when it's played back. Second, recorders have to encrypt the stored content using an approved method so it can't be used elsewhere, except by other compliant products."
-- Wayne Bundrick
"The broadcast flag prevents flagged content from being passed via unprotected digital outputs (unprotected Firewire or DVI). Digital output must be protected by 'approved' mechanisms... namely 5C(DTCP, HDCP, CPRM, D-VHS) approved protections.
The only affect the broadcast flag could have on the HDTivo is that the DVI connection may require use of a DVI/HDCP compliant connection.
All that being said, there are additional copy restrictions (copy never, copy once, etc.) that can be applied above and beyond the broadcast flag by DirecTV (or any MSO). The FCC has issued guidelines on what types of restrictions can be imposed based on the content type (Broadcast, Subscription Channels, Premium Channels, PPV, VOD, etc). In the most restrictive case, premium content (like PPV) can be marked as 'copy never'. Even when content is marked as 'copy never', it is still allowed to be buffered/paused by a PVR for up to 90 minutes."
-- dt_dc
This article really highlights just how out-of-control the broadcast flag has become.
As an owner of the HR10-250, the high definition Directivo, I wonder if this $1000 box will become worthless next July?
that is an incredible idea, and probably deserves its own topic (ask Slashdot maybe?).... but how would you prevent someone either in the group or outside of the group from patenting it, or, worse yet, just blatantly ripping off the design?
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comparing *declarations* , the phrase "MINDFUL of the desire and commitment..." just doesnt quite have the same catchiness as "We hold these truths to be self evident", does it?
c'mon now, if you are gonna extol open source, shouldnt you claim it as self evident?
This is a very valid, and very true, point.
They really don't care about the.001 per cent that can circumvent it anyway- its the "critical mass" of average joes and janes that cause concern.
I would also add to your point that this can be seen in the "click to accept" agreements- no one really expects the user to read and understand them, but they do want the user to THINK that the software issuer grants and decides what is or will be "fair use".
I am happy someone is doing more than just adding neon or chrome to an otherwise-boring beige box.
Many of you may think this is wierd, but I am happy to see people express themselves inside or outside of the PC.
Slashdot Mirror
If you are curious about why the TrustedID site returns false answers when you input bogus info, here is a pretty good hint. https://twitter.com/rayjwatson...
Dear AlexKing, Instead of accusing RIM of disabling your "bountied" software, why don't you open source it so that we can all look for bugs in the implementation? After all, when the bounty was offered no one told any of the contributors that this would be for a commercial, closed source product, and many of us who contributed to the project are angry and disappointed that it was hijacked for a proprietary, closed project. Open it up!!!
from the "about" page: Professional co-location was/is out of the question simply because of the costs and I did/do have bigger plans than to be able to host this kind of thing at home. To be honest, if this thing grows any bigger I'll be moving the whole shebang to a datacenter after all... Prices have dropped quite a bit since about two years ago and now. But, until then, all this comes from my server at a friends house where he has an amazing 10mbit up&down.
Well, I guess he USED to be your friend, until you slashdotted his internet connection....
I am not so sure that apple "came calling"- in fact, Apple was just about to close a deal to buy Be,Inc.- who had a pretty stellar, multimedia-centric little OS- and Jobs had a fit and offered NeXT instead.
the other little tidbit that is interesting about this story is that Be, Inc. was run by a former apple CEO, Jean-Louis Gassée
p.s.- i think Palm eventually bought BeOS, but I could be wrong about that
there is already a hack available to tell the TiVo to ignore this setting (as well as the broadcast flaf for that matter)
Most slashdot users will simply patch their kernel's and tivoapp and move on.
but you can always move there and outsource them http://www.kaminternational.com/main.asp
forget the sacrifice to a goat, lets safe our Aussie friends bandwidth by posting this here...
[...]
On the other side of the globe, nearly two kilometres beneath the earth, in a cold, gloomy chasm, you can find a small slice of Australia.
The sheer plunge near the bottom of the world's deepest cave, in a remote part of Georgia, doesn't automatically instantly inspire comparisons with Alan Warild's home country. It's bitterly cold, forever dark and usually damp. But since the veteran caver climbed to its dank depths last month it has incongruously borne Australia's name.
The 49-year-old from Newtown was invited to lead a 25-strong team of cavers from Russia and Ukraine on a world-record 1830-metre descent into the Krubera-Voronia cave in Abkhazia, Georgia.
At the end of the nine-day journey down the corkscrew-shaped hole, the triumphant team told Mr Warild it would name the final drop "Viva Australia" in his honour.
"One of the Russians had the idea to name it in my honour since I was the first to go down - I suppose I was pretty chuffed," the self-effacing caver said.
"It's not my favourite cave, because it's about 3 degrees at the bottom and it's muddy and you have to dive in one part. But it's a great challenge and a bit of a thrill to stand somewhere where no human being has ever stood before."
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The previous world record for the deepest caving expedition, 1710 metres, was set in the same cave in 2001. But Mr Warild and his fellow travellers took a different route, passing through a sump filled with icy water to descend 120 metres further. "We went as far as we could, we hit a pit full of water and decided to leave it for another trip."
The Australian Speleological Federation said it had received an unconfirmed report that a team of Ukrainians was currently attempting to better Mr Warild's record. But the name for the drop would remain, it said.
"People like Alan are the modern-day equivalent of the explorers in the 19th century, others like me follow in their footsteps later," said federation president, John Dunkley.
"That name will stay and be put on maps of the cave in future. It's a significant achievement and shows the respect Alan has overseas. He's a well-known name and one of the top three in the world when it comes to deep and difficult caves."
Mr Warild discovered his unusual hobby when he was 13, on a school excursion to the Wee Jasper caves near Yass. Since then he has explored deep caves around the world.
"Australia doesn't really have any deep ones," he said. "The deepest is in Tasmania, almost 400 metres. The best, in my opinion, is Muruk, in New Guinea. It's about 1250 metres.
"I grew up in the Sutherland Shire and I always loved the outdoors. I think that's the only way I can explain it.
If you read through the actual posting, it is apparent that this while may be the first GDI/JPEG-based worm, but it is certainly not going to be the worst. First of all, unless I missed it- this code does not even self-replicate (i.e.- it doesnt mail itself to others, or post itself to usenet, or otherwise exploit vulnerable systems) I would expect to see some script kiddies combine this proof of concept trojan with some social engineering type email worms, and then t**THAT** will be a nasty worm.
I ended up getting a cracked copy written over the original master floppy. Cracked, so the copy protection wouldn't fire, but not pirated... I only had the one copy and it was on the original media.
not to nitpick, but if it was cracked, then by definition it was pirated, regardless of your legality or license.... at least by today's standards (see DMCA)
not disagreeing with your post, just pointing out what a different world we live in now.
to the mods who are too young to have memorized the entire Hayes AT command set, this post is +1 informative, please mod it appopriately.
to the mods that ever used an amber monitor on a single-floppy PC XT or PC AT, you gotta admit this guy summarized the old days pretty well- give him +1 insightful.
To everyone else: why don't we ever talk about CP/M anymore these days?
If anyone is still following this stroy- the university backed down after eing told of the FCC rules.
... such as peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted materials."
http://www.utdmercury.com/news/2004/09/07/News/Tru ce.Declared.In.Wireless.War-715827.shtml
UTD Information Resources officials said Sept. 10 they are reversing their previous decision to ban private wireless access points in Waterview Park after the discovery of an FCC ruling prohibiting such a move.
In a Sept. 8 letter distributed throughout Waterview Park, UTD threatened disciplinary action against residents running personal wireless access points. The move was intended to solve connectivity issues, said Doug Jackson, director of information resources.
However, a public notice dated June 24, 2004, from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) - which regulates all wireless signals in the United States - affirmed that consumers have the right to install and operate wireless access points.
The access points allow private DSL or cable modem Internet connections to be shared among multiple people within range of the access point.
The FCC notice also states, under the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC holds exclusive jurisdiction over the regulation of radio frequency interference issues.
"Based on what they (the FCC) say, I'm going to have to back away from the policy," said Bill Hargrove, executive director of information resources. He suspects the university could make an argument to support the decision, "but it's not worth the brouhaha."
The initial policy sparked a firestorm among affected students on websites including waterviewsux.com, utdmercury.com and slashdot.org, a national online discussion forum of technical issues.
Many students expressed anger over a portion of the distributed letter which speculated that users with private access points may be engaging "in activities
"It infuriated me, to see it insinuating that we were all pirates for choosing to use our own Internet connection. It made my blood boil pretty quick," said senior electrical engineering major Trent Jacobs.
Jacobs installed DSL in his Phase Two apartment several years ago before the wireless network existed and continues to use it so he can access his computer as a file server from off-campus, which cannot be done through the campus network. He also said he cannot access UTD's wireless network in some parts of his apartment.
IR is working on various solutions to improve the connection and the access point policy was seen as one method to combat the troubles the system has had, Jackson said.
"We went out and did some serious investigation and discovered a correlation between locations with multiple access points and the people with connectivity issues," Jackson said.
Once the IR department asked users to turn off their access points, the problems went away, he said.
Previously, only a few existed on campus but, "we went from a handful to hundreds this fall," Jackson said.
The connectivity problem stems from the fact that, if not told to do otherwise, many wireless cards will automatically connect to the strongest signal available. In Waterview's case, a network card might jump onto a neighbor's stronger access point instead of the possibly weaker UTD wireless network. The network swap can cause a "denial of service" conflict and a failure to connect to the Internet, Jackson said.
IR officials said they hoped shutting down personal access points would stop cards from arbitrarily swapping their signal source.
Other universities including George Washington, Georgia Tech and UT Austin presently ban private wireless networks, although only in university-owned residences.
Hargrove also took into account the fact UTD does not own all of the apartments.
"It (Waterview) falls into a gra
If you run an ISP, and are worried about some government agency forcing you to sacrifice your subscibers rights, heres a good place to start to learn about the latest battles. http://www.eff.org/minilinks/archives/cat_free_spe ech.php
I meant "unfortunately" in the sense that it's not a very good precendent to have extradition law applied to imprison members of other nations for up to fifteen years outside of their home country. My use of that word did not mean to imply that he was a hero or rebel.
Here is the DOJ memo announcing this arrest, quite possibly the only document the DoJ has released with both Ashcorft's name on it and the spelling of warez with a "Z" http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/December/01_crm_6 43.htm
Unfortunately, he will probably be convicted, since the Department of Justiucs has already made agreements with his fellow DrinkOrDie members to shorten their sentences if they testify against him. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109806,0 0.asp
from the DirectiVo FAQ at Tivocommunity http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.ph p?s=00f9270813bbb29640cdb8edfdf17076&threadid=1514 43
... namely 5C(DTCP, HDCP, CPRM, D-VHS) approved protections.
Does the Broadcast Flag mean I will see a poor/downrezzed picture on my older HDTV?
The broadcast flag would, in theory, allow a content provider to tell the HDTiVo to play back a broadcast at 480p instead of the 720p or 1080i quality that it was broadcast with.
"The most important thing in the FCC's broadcast flag rules is that the broadcast flag cannot be used to prevent recording. That is not the intent of the broadcast flag, and even the MPAA in its comments filed to the FCC agreed that it should not restrict consumers from recording or copying for personal use. For that matter, the FCC doesn't have the authority to mandate something that overrides copyright law which allows us to record and copy for personal use.
The FCC rules do not require devices to reduce the resolution of flagged HD material when it is output in analog form. (The FCC did not take any action to close the "analog hole".) However, devices will be required to reduce the resolution of flagged HD material when it is output in digital form over a signal path that is not secure. The HDTiVo's HDMI connection has the HDCP encryption, so the rule isn't applicable.
The FCC rules also spell out how recorders are to comply with the broadcast flag. First, recorders have to preserve the flag. If the flag is there when it's recorded then it has to be there when it's played back. Second, recorders have to encrypt the stored content using an approved method so it can't be used elsewhere, except by other compliant products." -- Wayne Bundrick
"The broadcast flag prevents flagged content from being passed via unprotected digital outputs (unprotected Firewire or DVI). Digital output must be protected by 'approved' mechanisms
The only affect the broadcast flag could have on the HDTivo is that the DVI connection may require use of a DVI/HDCP compliant connection.
All that being said, there are additional copy restrictions (copy never, copy once, etc.) that can be applied above and beyond the broadcast flag by DirecTV (or any MSO). The FCC has issued guidelines on what types of restrictions can be imposed based on the content type (Broadcast, Subscription Channels, Premium Channels, PPV, VOD, etc). In the most restrictive case, premium content (like PPV) can be marked as 'copy never'. Even when content is marked as 'copy never', it is still allowed to be buffered/paused by a PVR for up to 90 minutes." -- dt_dc
This article really highlights just how out-of-control the broadcast flag has become. As an owner of the HR10-250, the high definition Directivo, I wonder if this $1000 box will become worthless next July?
that is an incredible idea, and probably deserves its own topic (ask Slashdot maybe?).... but how would you prevent someone either in the group or outside of the group from patenting it, or, worse yet, just blatantly ripping off the design?
comparing *declarations* , the phrase "MINDFUL of the desire and commitment..." just doesnt quite have the same catchiness as "We hold these truths to be self evident", does it? c'mon now, if you are gonna extol open source, shouldnt you claim it as self evident?
the comment was not flamebait, please check the link I included and mod appropiately
you may have thought they were over-reacting, but perhaps they assumed you were running Windows ME without patches. (plase mod this funny, its a joke)
it may be tinfoil-hat'ist, but couldnt a coke can be a miniture http://www.dirtybombdetector.com/ dirty coke bomb?
This is a very valid, and very true, point. They really don't care about the .001 per cent that can circumvent it anyway- its the "critical mass" of average joes and janes that cause concern.
I would also add to your point that this can be seen in the "click to accept" agreements- no one really expects the user to read and understand them, but they do want the user to THINK that the software issuer grants and decides what is or will be "fair use".
I am happy someone is doing more than just adding neon or chrome to an otherwise-boring beige box. Many of you may think this is wierd, but I am happy to see people express themselves inside or outside of the PC.
...and what makes you think they wouldn't do both?