I'm not that familiar with the SACD standard, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious... but can a normal DVD-ROM drive play back the audio from an SACD?
If so, what's to stop me from using any normal audio recording application along with an appropriate soundcard (Like, say, a Lynx AES16 with the output looped back to the input? Sure, there'll be a very, very slight drop in quality (that no human should ever notice) since you're going from a full rate DSD stream down to a 24-bit/192khz PCM signal, but you'd have to drop down to at least that to burn your backup copy to a DVD-A disk anyhow, so it shouldn't really matter, should it?
Depending on your desired standard of living, 20$ an hour is quite a liveable wage. If uou can work for a month or two and then sit on your ass doing nothing for several afterworks and still have the equivelant cash of a 20$/hour full time position, that's not a bad deal.
I think what they mean is appending../ to the end of a URL in an attempt to sneak back to the previous directory.
For instance, when you put in the URL http://www.foo.com/, that might map to the/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs folder on the webserver (or whatever, dependendant on your tastes in operating systems and web servers). But what if you put in http://www.foo.com/../? If the system's secure it should just redirect you back to/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdoc, but if the designers didn't catch this, it might drop you straight into/usr/local/etc/httpd/.
That's a good point. If you're legally allowed access to the data (because you paid for an account giving you rights to that data), and are prevented by only technical problems from getting in, what are you allowed to do? If you have an account on a site, and it's login system goes down and won't allow anyone in, are you allowed to (non-destructively) hack your way in to access the data in your account anyway?
1. Make device with horrible crippling DRM.
2. Provide instructions to angry customers about how to circumvent the DRM, thus tricking them into violating the DMCA.
3. Sue customers.
4. Profit!!!
You wrote:
"What if, for instance, the software simply claims to be licensed "Under the terms of the GNU GPL"? Which version is it supposed to reference? From a legal standpoint either party could argue that it might be licensed under the terms of ANY existant version of the GPL license!
From a legal standpoint, the GPL ~SPECIFICALLY STATES~ that if the code is ambiguous about which version of the GPL it adheres to, it may be used under any published version of the license subject to the choice of the user.
No, you can use it just fine. In the phrase 'Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC', 'tablet' is being as used as an adjective to describe the PC. A tablet PC is a type of PC, not a type of tablet.
So, when presented with the options of choosing a name for their new product that is either A) meaningless but pronouncable and fairly easy to remember phonetically (i.e. Centrinu, Celeron) or B) actually has some vague correlation to what the technology is about (HyperThreading, EM64T), they choose to do neither, settling on one that is neither catchy nor related to what the product actually does.
Keep in mind, though, that the vast, vast majority of video cards you're likely to ever see in a Mac are by nVidia or ATI.
In the PC world, at least, I know both companies basically just offer one driver package for each series of cards. Got an ATI card? Download the Catalyst package. Got an nVidia card? Download the Forceware package.
The fact that 90% of video cards anyone's likely to use can be supported by basically porting 2 packages likely makes supporting the hardware much easier.
First 'freedom fries', and now 'freedom toasters'? C'mon people, changing the names of such everyday things just because a country pissed us off is silly. Why not just call it a French toaster like the rest of the world?
But don't you see? They ~are~ already profitting from it.
According to you sales of Naruto headbands and other Naruto merchandise in Brazil is doing quite well, which is surprising considering the show doesn't even air in Brazil.
The company might not be making money selling their products (television shows) to Brazilian customers (TV stations), but thanks to BitTorrent they're making money selling their products (merchandise) to Brazillian customers (Brazilian anime 'pirates').
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I don't think this isn't really what the author meant about the backups being compromised.
If you were a hacker, and had just broken into someone's computer/network, would you start playing around and messing things up as soon as you got in?
Hell no. Only a moron would do that. You would (very quietly) install another backdoor or two, to make sure you can still get in, and then you'd wait five or six months, maybe a year or so, and ~then~ start causing trouble.
If you start making a mess right away, there's a good chance you'll get detected, and they'll do something about it to lock you out, maybe even going back to those backups and restoring them. That's no good.
On the other hand, if you wait, then by the time you start causing noticeable damage, they've already made new backups several times. With your exploits already in them. So they can restore the backups, and you can log right back in. The only way to get uncompromized backups will to use very old ones, from before you got in in the first place.
Patience is a virtue, in hacking just as in everything else.
Erm... um.. er. *head explodes*
You do know what an md5 is, right?
By 'giving it the right md5', they have turned their 'garbage file' into the actual song. At least, that's the only remotely easy way to 'give it the right md5'.
If it's got the same md5, the odds are 99.99% that it is the same file. The odds of managing to create a different file with the same md5 are incredibly miniscule.
Show me a 300$ game console will let me play a game at 1600x1200 resolution using a keyboard and mouse while simultaneously playing a movie on the secondary monitor and displaying MSN Messenger conversations on the third screen... this theoretical console must also be able to send the audio from the video game and the audio from the movie to the mixer via two distinct left/right cable pairs using balanced connections.
Until such a console exists, my 2000$ computer certainly isn't emulating a 300$ console.
What's the big deal? Just go to their electronics section and pick up one of those fancy photo printers and a pack of paper. They probably even have the kind that don't need a computer, if you're the stupid/old sort who can't handle complex technology.
Either way, they get your money and you get your pictures. It doesn't really make a difference.
While I agree with the main point that they could fairly easily ensure that OS X would only run on their own motherboards, I would like to point out that the Apple 'graphics system'*, as you refer to it, is, on any recent Mac, some form of standard issure ATI or Nvidia card, and thus would be a relatively easy element to match on a PC platform.
* Well, you said 'grapics', not 'graphics', but I won't nitpick.
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I'm not that familiar with the SACD standard, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious... but can a normal DVD-ROM drive play back the audio from an SACD?
If so, what's to stop me from using any normal audio recording application along with an appropriate soundcard (Like, say, a Lynx AES16 with the output looped back to the input? Sure, there'll be a very, very slight drop in quality (that no human should ever notice) since you're going from a full rate DSD stream down to a 24-bit/192khz PCM signal, but you'd have to drop down to at least that to burn your backup copy to a DVD-A disk anyhow, so it shouldn't really matter, should it?
Depending on your desired standard of living, 20$ an hour is quite a liveable wage. If uou can work for a month or two and then sit on your ass doing nothing for several afterworks and still have the equivelant cash of a 20$/hour full time position, that's not a bad deal.
I think what they mean is appending ../ to the end of a URL in an attempt to sneak back to the previous directory.
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs folder on the webserver (or whatever, dependendant on your tastes in operating systems and web servers). But what if you put in http://www.foo.com/../? If the system's secure it should just redirect you back to /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdoc, but if the designers didn't catch this, it might drop you straight into /usr/local/etc/httpd/.
For instance, when you put in the URL http://www.foo.com/, that might map to the
That's a good point. If you're legally allowed access to the data (because you paid for an account giving you rights to that data), and are prevented by only technical problems from getting in, what are you allowed to do? If you have an account on a site, and it's login system goes down and won't allow anyone in, are you allowed to (non-destructively) hack your way in to access the data in your account anyway?
1. Make device with horrible crippling DRM.
2. Provide instructions to angry customers about how to circumvent the DRM, thus tricking them into violating the DMCA.
3. Sue customers.
4. Profit!!!
You wrote: "What if, for instance, the software simply claims to be licensed "Under the terms of the GNU GPL"? Which version is it supposed to reference? From a legal standpoint either party could argue that it might be licensed under the terms of ANY existant version of the GPL license!
From a legal standpoint, the GPL ~SPECIFICALLY STATES~ that if the code is ambiguous about which version of the GPL it adheres to, it may be used under any published version of the license subject to the choice of the user.
I think I speak for most Slashdotters when I say 'Cool. Sounds neat.' while understanding only 80% of what you just said.
Dear lord, that's the most original Soviet Russia joke I've heard this year.
You sir, win.
'we'* did not decide that it wasn't okay. If you're saying 'we', then the government has already won.
* well, you, I'm not American myself.
A black hole must, by definition, be infinitely small in size. If it's the size of the universe, it's not a black hole, and won't function as one.
If you think about it for a second, it makes no sense. If you crushed the entire universe to a point, that would by definition change it's density.
Indeed, this sounds like the sort of behaviour one would expect of a blue state.
No, you can use it just fine. In the phrase 'Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC', 'tablet' is being as used as an adjective to describe the PC. A tablet PC is a type of PC, not a type of tablet.
If I had mod point you would be getting a +1 Insightful.
So, when presented with the options of choosing a name for their new product that is either A) meaningless but pronouncable and fairly easy to remember phonetically (i.e. Centrinu, Celeron) or B) actually has some vague correlation to what the technology is about (HyperThreading, EM64T), they choose to do neither, settling on one that is neither catchy nor related to what the product actually does.
Nice job, boys.
Keep in mind, though, that the vast, vast majority of video cards you're likely to ever see in a Mac are by nVidia or ATI. In the PC world, at least, I know both companies basically just offer one driver package for each series of cards. Got an ATI card? Download the Catalyst package. Got an nVidia card? Download the Forceware package. The fact that 90% of video cards anyone's likely to use can be supported by basically porting 2 packages likely makes supporting the hardware much easier.
First 'freedom fries', and now 'freedom toasters'? C'mon people, changing the names of such everyday things just because a country pissed us off is silly. Why not just call it a French toaster like the rest of the world?
But don't you see? They ~are~ already profitting from it.
According to you sales of Naruto headbands and other Naruto merchandise in Brazil is doing quite well, which is surprising considering the show doesn't even air in Brazil.
The company might not be making money selling their products (television shows) to Brazilian customers (TV stations), but thanks to BitTorrent they're making money selling their products (merchandise) to Brazillian customers (Brazilian anime 'pirates').
I don't think this isn't really what the author meant about the backups being compromised.
If you were a hacker, and had just broken into someone's computer/network, would you start playing around and messing things up as soon as you got in?
Hell no. Only a moron would do that. You would (very quietly) install another backdoor or two, to make sure you can still get in, and then you'd wait five or six months, maybe a year or so, and ~then~ start causing trouble.
If you start making a mess right away, there's a good chance you'll get detected, and they'll do something about it to lock you out, maybe even going back to those backups and restoring them. That's no good.
On the other hand, if you wait, then by the time you start causing noticeable damage, they've already made new backups several times. With your exploits already in them. So they can restore the backups, and you can log right back in. The only way to get uncompromized backups will to use very old ones, from before you got in in the first place.
Patience is a virtue, in hacking just as in everything else.
This os course, ignores the fact that C is a horrible language. If you don't know what you're doing, there's a chance of a buffer overflow.
Erm... um.. er. *head explodes* You do know what an md5 is, right? By 'giving it the right md5', they have turned their 'garbage file' into the actual song. At least, that's the only remotely easy way to 'give it the right md5'. If it's got the same md5, the odds are 99.99% that it is the same file. The odds of managing to create a different file with the same md5 are incredibly miniscule.
Show me a 300$ game console will let me play a game at 1600x1200 resolution using a keyboard and mouse while simultaneously playing a movie on the secondary monitor and displaying MSN Messenger conversations on the third screen... this theoretical console must also be able to send the audio from the video game and the audio from the movie to the mixer via two distinct left/right cable pairs using balanced connections. Until such a console exists, my 2000$ computer certainly isn't emulating a 300$ console.
What's the big deal? Just go to their electronics section and pick up one of those fancy photo printers and a pack of paper. They probably even have the kind that don't need a computer, if you're the stupid/old sort who can't handle complex technology. Either way, they get your money and you get your pictures. It doesn't really make a difference.
The grandparent was talking about ~moral~ choices... the ones you're talking about are more strategic or tactical choices.
While I agree with the main point that they could fairly easily ensure that OS X would only run on their own motherboards, I would like to point out that the Apple 'graphics system'*, as you refer to it, is, on any recent Mac, some form of standard issure ATI or Nvidia card, and thus would be a relatively easy element to match on a PC platform.
* Well, you said 'grapics', not 'graphics', but I won't nitpick.