Yes, but those people can get into trouble for that.
What this sets up is for the RIAA to be able to attack any site they want. An if/when there is retaliation, the retialliators can be caught and sent to jail.
Great law. I don't know, I think my confidence in Congress just went up. I'm now fairly confident that Congress is rapidly approching the point where I don't like any action they are trying to take. They are making progress in approching perfection in their ability to do absolutely the wrong thing every time.
People are actually very fed up with the upgrade cycle for PC's. You are already seeing the results in the continuing downturn for the PC makers. There is no need to upgrade. By telling users they need a whole new system to upgrade every year you will see a large consumer revolt.
But, I keep hoping that there will be consumer revolts in other areas. Sometime they happen, sometimes they don't. This one really needs to cause a revolt, or the consumer will find themselves (at least in the electronic sense) in chains.
No, they wouldn't claim to have invented PKI. They're claiming that Palladium is totally and completely new.
What Palladium really is to true and complete evil. They're a proven Monopoly, there should be no way in hell they should be allowed to put a piece of hardware in every PC that could conciveably only let Microsoft OS's run on PC's. Oh and rember they've patented DRM OS, everyone else who tries to build one will have to pay royalties to MS. AND the government might just require all OS's to be DRM OS's. It is a terrifying thought that the government would even begin to think about this path.
Don't fool yourself, Microsoft only cares about one thing, crushing the competition. Which incedentialy is what many businesses do, but Microsoft also happens to be one of IMHO the most unethical companies on earth.
I'm sure their slogan right now is "Palladium isn't done til Linux won't run."
The US founding fathers broke a lot of laws, yet their goal was to set up their own country with its own government, not end civilization.
There comes a point when people need to protest a government that no longer adaquately represents them. One such protest is to disobey laws that are viewed as bad or unjust. If enough people (see aformentioned founding fathers) protest then there can be change.
I will use decss on my PC because I think the DMCA is a bad law. To that end I also will not pirate any DVD's. My rights should be covered over fair use, but my actions are deemed illegal by the DMCA. I choose not to follow it.
Oh and to keep this on topic, software patents are bogus and should not be honored either. Copyrights (and copylefts for that matter are valid), but to patent software is stupid.
For non-sorenson encoded quicktime movies I've found that both Xine and MPlayer play them better and do better at scaling than does the crossover plugin.
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No, I just wish it would have worked decent in the first place.
How damn confusing does setting up a database connection need to be anyway?
No Software Engineers are not the new artists, they just like to think they are.
I used to work with someone who continually referred to programming as "art" and not "science".
THAT is exactly what the problem with software is. Along with the fact that these "artists" feel the need to continually be creating and recreating programs that users (at least the rational ones anyway) just want to work.
Definition for Legacy system - A system that works.
How does this jibe with the absolute control of consumer devices that they are attempting to buy with their senator (Hollings)?
I mean the law (CDBDTDBDD... whatever the hell its called) could be intrepreted as making linux illegal due to the ability that would exist enabling users to remove the code for filesystems that would enforce the copy protection.
We keep hearing about the big studios going with linux, and then they want a lame law that would severly hurt it (and be unconstitutional on the basis of violation our free speech rights). Are they that clueless....
Bull, your example above is dependent on a exploit completely dependent on a particular application, or at most a particular library. It would be very hard to make a cross platform exploit.
I also think any exploit of this kind would be very hard to impossible to create. Finding a buffer overrun in the portion of image programs (or libraries) dealing with displaying jpegs would be very hard due to the fact that those libraries would be designed to deal with a large variation in file types and sizes, where buffer overruns generally occur when the program expects an exact data size, but does not have capacity to deal with more data.
I see the only method for a image viewer program to be turned into a virus distribution program would be through adding some sort of image processing plugin that would pick up the embedded code and run it.
In any case the only way for you to have to worry about jpg viruses would be to already have caught a virus that would inrepret them. But if you already have a virus why would the writer bother infecting you jpgs, it wouldn't cause a problem for other people unless they already had the primary virus.
It would be more effective (actually necessary in this cats) to propegate the virus by another method than embedding it in a jpg. This of course makes infecting jpgs just a destructive side effect of the primary virus on a data file and not much else.
First off, Roaming profiles suck, they are a pathetic workaround to what sun is doing here with the desktop and the smart terminals.
Second, no matter what you do you still have to answer the users call about where their latest desktop wallpaper is and how to get the last five bookmarks back.
All of the windows stuff (with the exception of terminal server) is a pathetic workaround to get you an envrionment that moves with you around the network.
The sun ray with smart cards is so much better than ghosting it isn't even funny.
I love hearing the users fuss and complain about their settings, and browser favorites, and desktop links, that aren't there anymore because you recovered a ghost image. And don't tell me you can ghost your users machines often enough to not run into this. Oh and keeping them from being able to make changes to the ghost image opens up a whole other can of worms.
Also restoring a ghosted image could be fast but you're still talking at least minutes and possibly hours to less than a second with the sun ray.
Just wait, if they really get what they want you will not have to wait long to hear them crying about how they're not making very much money, and their new totally controlled media isn't selling well.
This will happen because of the disastorous effects their technology limiting will have on the computer industry. Think about it this way: If the pentium had been declared illegal technogoly and never sold by intel, where would the computer industry be today (hint: you'd be still clinging to your old 386). The argument can be made that intel would have come up with something, but that something would have to live up to the letter of the law, and that would be orders of magnitude more difficult for them, meaning increased lead time to new products (ie. you'd still be clutching your 386 technology). And God forbid they come up with regulations that would not be feasible to implement in new technology and still have the technology be even remotely affordable.
Don't think regulations can be written like that, well they already have. The FDA's part 11 regulations on electronic records have the distinction of being largely unfeasible, and what is feasible is very expensive.
Total Media Control == Enourmous Economic Depression
What? In Jedi, Leia refers to foggy memories of her mother... This means that her mother must have lived with her on Alderaan AFTER Anakin turned into Vader.
His mother's death is what turns him over to the dark side. He's stared sliding down the dark path already.
Yeah, there'll be a black market in this stuff. But businesses that buy computers and other electronics will have to contend with all this crap they put in to stop copying will be a hassle to businesses, who may face tougher and tougher tecnical problems to work around.
I believe that if this comes to pass the impact on the IT Industry would be destructive on a scale never seen before. The great depression would look like a picnic as the ripple effects roll through the entire ecnonmy. But at least you won't be copying TV or Movies or Music on your computer, but who will be buying that anyway.
I'm totally serious about this. How many of you out there are going to buy crippled PC's and other devices, or will you just go with what you have that does what you want. How much performance will be lost. What expense to the IT Industry will the addition of these features incur. Will the industry hold up? The answer is no. If this concept ever passes it will destroy the world economy, period.
That is the only movie I left the theater wishing that I hadn't seen it. To this day I try to put it out of my mind. Aliens is one of the best movies ever made and then they go and stomp all over it in the sequel. I hate the people that made Alein 3.
Even though I left the theater dissapointed in Episode I, nothing compares to dissapointment of Alien 3.
The biggest thing is that he doesn't remember the Lars homestead where he apparently lives for years. Maybe he gets damaged in the next movie and gets selective amnesia.
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No, no, that's Linux has not yet succeded as a Desktop OS. Just wait.
Yes, but those people can get into trouble for that.
What this sets up is for the RIAA to be able to attack any site they want. An if/when there is retaliation, the retialliators can be caught and sent to jail.
Great law. I don't know, I think my confidence in Congress just went up. I'm now fairly confident that Congress is rapidly approching the point where I don't like any action they are trying to take. They are making progress in approching perfection in their ability to do absolutely the wrong thing every time.
People are actually very fed up with the upgrade cycle for PC's. You are already seeing the results in the continuing downturn for the PC makers. There is no need to upgrade. By telling users they need a whole new system to upgrade every year you will see a large consumer revolt.
But, I keep hoping that there will be consumer revolts in other areas. Sometime they happen, sometimes they don't. This one really needs to cause a revolt, or the consumer will find themselves (at least in the electronic sense) in chains.
Yeah, you could pray. But remember AMD labeled their latest chip with an XP.
No, they wouldn't claim to have invented PKI.
They're claiming that Palladium is totally and completely new.
What Palladium really is to true and complete evil. They're a proven Monopoly, there should be no way in hell they should be allowed to put a piece of hardware in every PC that could conciveably only let Microsoft OS's run on PC's. Oh and rember they've patented DRM OS, everyone else who tries to build one will have to pay royalties to MS. AND the government might just require all OS's to be DRM OS's. It is a terrifying thought that the government would even begin to think about this path.
Don't fool yourself, Microsoft only cares about one thing, crushing the competition. Which incedentialy is what many businesses do, but Microsoft also happens to be one of IMHO the most unethical companies on earth.
I'm sure their slogan right now is "Palladium isn't done til Linux won't run."
Ummm, because they're generally HUNDREDS of dollars cheaper.
I really like the look of the iPaq, but for $600-$750, I could buy another desktop. For another $200-300 I could buy a full fledged laptop.
Yeah the Netherlands, don't they have the loose drug and sex laws?
But hyperlinks, oh my they had better ban those.
Hypocrites.
The US founding fathers broke a lot of laws, yet their goal was to set up their own country with its own government, not end civilization.
There comes a point when people need to protest a government that no longer adaquately represents them. One such protest is to disobey laws that are viewed as bad or unjust. If enough people (see aformentioned founding fathers) protest then there can be change.
I will use decss on my PC because I think the DMCA is a bad law. To that end I also will not pirate any DVD's. My rights should be covered over fair use, but my actions are deemed illegal by the DMCA. I choose not to follow it.
Oh and to keep this on topic, software patents are bogus and should not be honored either. Copyrights (and copylefts for that matter are valid), but to patent software is stupid.
For non-sorenson encoded quicktime movies I've found that both Xine and MPlayer play them better and do better at scaling than does the crossover plugin.
No, I just wish it would have worked decent in the first place.
How damn confusing does setting up a database connection need to be anyway?
No Software Engineers are not the new artists, they just like to think they are.
I used to work with someone who continually referred to programming as "art" and not "science".
THAT is exactly what the problem with software is. Along with the fact that these "artists" feel the need to continually be creating and recreating programs that users (at least the rational ones anyway) just want to work.
Definition for Legacy system - A system that works.
Discussion, ok.
How does this jibe with the absolute control of consumer devices that they are attempting to buy with their senator (Hollings)?
I mean the law (CDBDTDBDD... whatever the hell its called) could be intrepreted as making linux illegal due to the ability that would exist enabling users to remove the code for filesystems that would enforce the copy protection.
We keep hearing about the big studios going with linux, and then they want a lame law that would severly hurt it (and be unconstitutional on the basis of violation our free speech rights). Are they that clueless....
oh wait, maybe they are.....
Bull, your example above is dependent on a exploit completely dependent on a particular application, or at most a particular library. It would be very hard to make a cross platform exploit.
I also think any exploit of this kind would be very hard to impossible to create. Finding a buffer overrun in the portion of image programs (or libraries) dealing with displaying jpegs would be very hard due to the fact that those libraries would be designed to deal with a large variation in file types and sizes, where buffer overruns generally occur when the program expects an exact data size, but does not have capacity to deal with more data.
I see the only method for a image viewer program to be turned into a virus distribution program would be through adding some sort of image processing plugin that would pick up the embedded code and run it.
In any case the only way for you to have to worry about jpg viruses would be to already have caught a virus that would inrepret them. But if you already have a virus why would the writer bother infecting you jpgs, it wouldn't cause a problem for other people unless they already had the primary virus.
It would be more effective (actually necessary in this cats) to propegate the virus by another method than embedding it in a jpg. This of course makes infecting jpgs just a destructive side effect of the primary virus on a data file and not much else.
First off, Roaming profiles suck, they are a pathetic workaround to what sun is doing here with the desktop and the smart terminals.
Second, no matter what you do you still have to answer the users call about where their latest desktop wallpaper is and how to get the last five bookmarks back.
All of the windows stuff (with the exception of terminal server) is a pathetic workaround to get you an envrionment that moves with you around the network.
Yeah, ghosting, thats the ticket.
The sun ray with smart cards is so much better than ghosting it isn't even funny.
I love hearing the users fuss and complain about their settings, and browser favorites, and desktop links, that aren't there anymore because you recovered a ghost image. And don't tell me you can ghost your users machines often enough to not run into this. Oh and keeping them from being able to make changes to the ghost image opens up a whole other can of worms.
Also restoring a ghosted image could be fast but you're still talking at least minutes and possibly hours to less than a second with the sun ray.
Just saw a Phillips ad for one on TV this week. It looks pretty cool, I would guess that it costs a fortune.
Just wait, if they really get what they want you will not have to wait long to hear them crying about how they're not making very much money, and their new totally controlled media isn't selling well.
This will happen because of the disastorous effects their technology limiting will have on the computer industry. Think about it this way: If the pentium had been declared illegal technogoly and never sold by intel, where would the computer industry be today (hint: you'd be still clinging to your old 386). The argument can be made that intel would have come up with something, but that something would have to live up to the letter of the law, and that would be orders of magnitude more difficult for them, meaning increased lead time to new products (ie. you'd still be clutching your 386 technology). And God forbid they come up with regulations that would not be feasible to implement in new technology and still have the technology be even remotely affordable.
Don't think regulations can be written like that, well they already have. The FDA's part 11 regulations on electronic records have the distinction of being largely unfeasible, and what is feasible is very expensive.
Total Media Control == Enourmous Economic Depression
However if RedHat and Mandrake and Slack, don't avoid this. We will end up with a truly "united" linux.
Everyone will run Debian.
Yep, I dumped Caldera for Red Hat when they pulled this per seat bullshit.
... I will have to give Debian a try.
All Red Hat has to do to blow the doors off so-called "UnitedLinux" is not go to a per seat license.
Scratch them off the list of distros other than Red Hat and Mandrake that I will try. Someday, though
What? In Jedi, Leia refers to foggy memories of her mother... This means that her mother must have lived with her on Alderaan AFTER Anakin turned into Vader.
His mother's death is what turns him over to the dark side. He's stared sliding down the dark path already.
You think I'm going to sell my original tapes at a garage sale? Think again.
Just wait until Katz's article about how insensitive "The Two Towers", will be.
Its coming.
Yeah, there'll be a black market in this stuff.
But businesses that buy computers and other electronics will have to contend with all this crap they put in to stop copying will be a hassle to businesses, who may face tougher and tougher tecnical problems to work around.
I believe that if this comes to pass the impact on the IT Industry would be destructive on a scale never seen before. The great depression would look like a picnic as the ripple effects roll through the entire ecnonmy. But at least you won't be copying TV or Movies or Music on your computer, but who will be buying that anyway.
I'm totally serious about this. How many of you out there are going to buy crippled PC's and other devices, or will you just go with what you have that does what you want. How much performance will be lost. What expense to the IT Industry will the addition of these features incur. Will the industry hold up? The answer is no. If this concept ever passes it will destroy the world economy, period.
That is the only movie I left the theater wishing that I hadn't seen it. To this day I try to put it out of my mind. Aliens is one of the best movies ever made and then they go and stomp all over it in the sequel. I hate the people that made Alein 3.
Even though I left the theater dissapointed in Episode I, nothing compares to dissapointment of Alien 3.
The biggest thing is that he doesn't remember the Lars homestead where he apparently lives for years. Maybe he gets damaged in the next movie and gets selective amnesia.