I can't recall the syntax off hand, but it is possible to create a file using dd in linux that has a file size larger than the capacity of the disk. You could actually create a file that is 4.9 gigs and call it Speed.iso or whatever other craptacular movie the RIAA has put out.
People want it because it's all they ever hear. The radio plays almost entirely the big label bands; so all most people know about are the big label bands. The biggest problem (from the RIAA standpoint) with P2P is not lost sales from people downloading new music; it's people discovering new music that they don't control. Then people can go to shows and buy CDs, and the RIAA doesn't get any money. The beauty of the Internet is that it is so distributed and anyone can publish information (attracting reader/listeners is the difficult part). I'd love to develop a website where fans can give tribute to band for their work, find new artists, hear about show, but I just don't have the time... I think the future of music is going to be independent artists making their own music and selling it/distributing it themselves, then they use live performances to make money, and if the songs are good enough, I think some people will buy them.
I've heard that the average artist makes about 8 cents per album sold. If I can produce a CD and sell it myself for $8 + S&H I've increased my profit 100 fold (minus negligible production costs). That means instead of selling 100,000 I have to sell 1,000. In my opinion that is pretty doable if the album was good enough to make 100,000 by today's standards. Granted, there are a lot of upfront costs that labels cover, but recording equipment is getting cheaper, and computers are getting better at doing some of the technical work (I am talking out of my ass about equipment).
As far as Linux gaining market share. I have to agree that 90%+ of all users don't want to do an OS install (Linux or Windows), and as long as Windows is the leading desktop OS most computers will come with it, and most people will know it, and most people will want to stick with it. The only way to get people to change is to show them the advantage of doing so (perhaps this is applicable). From the manufacture side, if I can pump out all of my machines with one OS that means I only have to make sure my hardware works with one OS (reduced costs), and I can reduce the complexity of my production line. As long as there isn't strong demand for alternative OSes there won't be many vendors really pushing the other OSes. I say this and know that it is possible to buy HP notebooks with SuSE and other machines with Linux flavors, but when I was on the HP website I couldn't actually get a price for the notebook with SuSE preinstalled.
To give my own experience, I installed Red Hat 8.0 a few years ago on an old machine after building a new box to run Windows 2k. Now I'm at the point where I'd like to switch to entirely Linux, but there are a few things I use in Windows that I don't want to give up and can't switch (Quicken with automatic downloads from my banking sites). My next machine I'm going to build will be more powerful than my Windows box and I'm going to run Linux on it. I'm hoping that is another good stepping stone. So I like to think I have an open mindedness towards both OSes for the advantages they provide.
I'd also like to add that I have ripped all of my CDs into MP3s and I rarely listen to my actual CDs. I find that most of the time I'm listening to music it is more convenient to just add a few tracks to my play-list than it is to find a CD to play. Plus I can add a few tracks from several albums and get a variety of music without having to constantly stop what I'm doing to change tracks. If M$ came in and said you can't transfer your MP3s to another computer, or listen to them over the network that is a SIGNIFICANT incentive for me to not use their operating system, and more than likely it would cause to not use Longhorn.
Unfortunatly, most users are stupid. They don't know enough to patch their system. Many of the rest don't care. I think that individuals should start being held liable for damage done from unmaintained systems.
If you delete everything on the machine, then the virus can't propagate. What would have to happen is the virus would have to have a delay, and then there is a risk that it will be discovered before the payload (deletion) takes place. Futher, I think most of the virus writers think of it more as a game, and don't really want to destroy data so much as see what they can accomplish.
Would you rather destroy Rome or own it?
I'm also opposed to the integration of all of the devices, but I can definatly see the appeal. I have an old HP315 digital camera that I rarely use because the quality is poor. I want to get a good digital SLR and try to get into photography, but I haven't had the will to fork over the cash. If I did get one, then I'd probably use my old camera time and again when I'm doing something where I might lose or break the camera (getting drunk at a party).
With a camera phone I wouldn't expect to get great pictures, but I might just want to send a pictures to another friend's phone or get a picture of something I might want to buy (I think Best Buy gets mad about that) so I can look up more info online. I know I could just write it down in my PDA, but taking a pictures is faster and easier.
The bottom line is that I can go out and spend a lot of money on a device that will be top of the line, but if I just want occasional casual use, then why not get a cheap integrated replacement with the cell phone I want to replace anyway. I didn't read the article, but I'd assume that manufactures are concerned about losing the casual buyers.
Does anyone know if it would be illegal to write a plugin that would automatically click the links on all popup pages, images of the generic ad size, and other frequent locations for ads? Then, the program would use idle bandwidth to just surf around on those pages and just trash the output? Ideally, it would have to wait some semi random amount of time say between 5 sec and 2 min before going on to a link (perhaps base it on the size of the page?).
I'm sure this would be much more difficult to detect than having a large group of people from one area just click the same links over and over, and if you have a more spontaneous time you might not get detected as a bot.
Another useful feature for this plugin would be to have it attempt to find products to ad to the shopping cart. (My understanding is that ad companies also collect this information).
And if someone wrote a virus to add this code to IE through one of the numerous exploits, I don't think any company would be paying for Internet advertisements.
I have been sitting at home using my hands free with my phone by my monitor and it totally jacks my display. It also tends to interfere with my speakers. A lot of the time I can see the interference on my monitor before the phone even starts to ring, although I think a lot of the time it ends up just being the phone checking to see if I have messages or anything. In any event, I really find it annoying when my monitor has sync problems, but if the navigational equipment on a plane starts acting up there are much bigger problems than not being able to play Counter Strike.
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I can't recall the syntax off hand, but it is possible to create a file using dd in linux that has a file size larger than the capacity of the disk. You could actually create a file that is 4.9 gigs and call it Speed.iso or whatever other craptacular movie the RIAA has put out.
People want it because it's all they ever hear. The radio plays almost entirely the big label bands; so all most people know about are the big label bands. The biggest problem (from the RIAA standpoint) with P2P is not lost sales from people downloading new music; it's people discovering new music that they don't control. Then people can go to shows and buy CDs, and the RIAA doesn't get any money. The beauty of the Internet is that it is so distributed and anyone can publish information (attracting reader/listeners is the difficult part). I'd love to develop a website where fans can give tribute to band for their work, find new artists, hear about show, but I just don't have the time... I think the future of music is going to be independent artists making their own music and selling it/distributing it themselves, then they use live performances to make money, and if the songs are good enough, I think some people will buy them. I've heard that the average artist makes about 8 cents per album sold. If I can produce a CD and sell it myself for $8 + S&H I've increased my profit 100 fold (minus negligible production costs). That means instead of selling 100,000 I have to sell 1,000. In my opinion that is pretty doable if the album was good enough to make 100,000 by today's standards. Granted, there are a lot of upfront costs that labels cover, but recording equipment is getting cheaper, and computers are getting better at doing some of the technical work (I am talking out of my ass about equipment). As far as Linux gaining market share. I have to agree that 90%+ of all users don't want to do an OS install (Linux or Windows), and as long as Windows is the leading desktop OS most computers will come with it, and most people will know it, and most people will want to stick with it. The only way to get people to change is to show them the advantage of doing so (perhaps this is applicable). From the manufacture side, if I can pump out all of my machines with one OS that means I only have to make sure my hardware works with one OS (reduced costs), and I can reduce the complexity of my production line. As long as there isn't strong demand for alternative OSes there won't be many vendors really pushing the other OSes. I say this and know that it is possible to buy HP notebooks with SuSE and other machines with Linux flavors, but when I was on the HP website I couldn't actually get a price for the notebook with SuSE preinstalled. To give my own experience, I installed Red Hat 8.0 a few years ago on an old machine after building a new box to run Windows 2k. Now I'm at the point where I'd like to switch to entirely Linux, but there are a few things I use in Windows that I don't want to give up and can't switch (Quicken with automatic downloads from my banking sites). My next machine I'm going to build will be more powerful than my Windows box and I'm going to run Linux on it. I'm hoping that is another good stepping stone. So I like to think I have an open mindedness towards both OSes for the advantages they provide. I'd also like to add that I have ripped all of my CDs into MP3s and I rarely listen to my actual CDs. I find that most of the time I'm listening to music it is more convenient to just add a few tracks to my play-list than it is to find a CD to play. Plus I can add a few tracks from several albums and get a variety of music without having to constantly stop what I'm doing to change tracks. If M$ came in and said you can't transfer your MP3s to another computer, or listen to them over the network that is a SIGNIFICANT incentive for me to not use their operating system, and more than likely it would cause to not use Longhorn.
Unfortunatly, most users are stupid. They don't know enough to patch their system. Many of the rest don't care. I think that individuals should start being held liable for damage done from unmaintained systems.
If you delete everything on the machine, then the virus can't propagate. What would have to happen is the virus would have to have a delay, and then there is a risk that it will be discovered before the payload (deletion) takes place. Futher, I think most of the virus writers think of it more as a game, and don't really want to destroy data so much as see what they can accomplish. Would you rather destroy Rome or own it?
Just make sure you don't sign up for a hook! That would make it too hard to type.
I'm also opposed to the integration of all of the devices, but I can definatly see the appeal. I have an old HP315 digital camera that I rarely use because the quality is poor. I want to get a good digital SLR and try to get into photography, but I haven't had the will to fork over the cash. If I did get one, then I'd probably use my old camera time and again when I'm doing something where I might lose or break the camera (getting drunk at a party).
With a camera phone I wouldn't expect to get great pictures, but I might just want to send a pictures to another friend's phone or get a picture of something I might want to buy (I think Best Buy gets mad about that) so I can look up more info online. I know I could just write it down in my PDA, but taking a pictures is faster and easier.
The bottom line is that I can go out and spend a lot of money on a device that will be top of the line, but if I just want occasional casual use, then why not get a cheap integrated replacement with the cell phone I want to replace anyway. I didn't read the article, but I'd assume that manufactures are concerned about losing the casual buyers.
You might want to try mutually assured lawsuits. You probably want your name on a document with correct grammer.
(...now I just have to wait to find out what grammer I messed up...)
How could you keep the bug from ever being found? I'm sure someone would eventually see it.
Does anyone know if it would be illegal to write a plugin that would automatically click the links on all popup pages, images of the generic ad size, and other frequent locations for ads? Then, the program would use idle bandwidth to just surf around on those pages and just trash the output? Ideally, it would have to wait some semi random amount of time say between 5 sec and 2 min before going on to a link (perhaps base it on the size of the page?). I'm sure this would be much more difficult to detect than having a large group of people from one area just click the same links over and over, and if you have a more spontaneous time you might not get detected as a bot. Another useful feature for this plugin would be to have it attempt to find products to ad to the shopping cart. (My understanding is that ad companies also collect this information). And if someone wrote a virus to add this code to IE through one of the numerous exploits, I don't think any company would be paying for Internet advertisements.
I have been sitting at home using my hands free with my phone by my monitor and it totally jacks my display. It also tends to interfere with my speakers. A lot of the time I can see the interference on my monitor before the phone even starts to ring, although I think a lot of the time it ends up just being the phone checking to see if I have messages or anything. In any event, I really find it annoying when my monitor has sync problems, but if the navigational equipment on a plane starts acting up there are much bigger problems than not being able to play Counter Strike.