MS antispyware should rather show the threat level the user represents to the computer by analyzing the number of unused files squirreled on the desktop, viruses & spywares on the system, time spent on configuration panel, number of time a double click is performed when a single click is expected etc.
True, collecting fingerprints is easy and the scanner can be lured. Iris is other business... but it's still vulnerable to "fake login screen" phishing technics.
It's free.fr in France. Heavily geek oriented...
( NO connection kit, RJ45 by default (usb possible),modem router with configurable NAT and wifi, free phone, free TV, 1Go adless webpages,
official linux support, fixed IP etc)
I'm so gonna miss my ISP:(((
Err... here 20Mbps is already available for $30/mo + phone and dsl-tv. How is the DSL landscape in the US... I am going to study in the US in september. What connection speed can I expect ? Are there any geek-friendly provider ? (Mine for exemple provides a local mirror for almost all linux distro)
Not necesseraly.
Say the file is encrypted and you have a permisison to read signed by the author.
You give your permission to read to the player, the player read the permission's ID and send it to the server to obtain a deciphering key ( the server can revoke the permission by removing it's ID from it's base ). The server sends a signed deciphering key. The player deciphers the stream and plays it.
Wait your are going to tell me, I can then alter the source code to make it record the stream !
Yes you can, but you shouldn't. That's the point. It's not going to prevent people from doing bad stuff, but it will be a non-trivial reminder.
Why is internet the only place where one considers that you "shouldn't be able to perform an illegal
act". In real life anyone can do shop-lifting...
Everything that can be heard can be listened. True.
But
a) Quality is lost
b) see DRM as a 'in case you forgot the license
agreement' protection scheme.
It can be bypassed, sure but heck you can also bypass the store security system.
Why this title might sound trollistic it is not.
AFAIK when I download an MP3 I want to listen it, perdio - not print its periodogram on toilet paper
or any other cabalistic use. Granted, I am a geek and I could want to do something a little odd with the file. Well, free market has an answer to this, if I desperatly want to own completly a protected file I can pay the market's price for that.
Listen-once file ? This is restrictive, but it also means it's cheaper. I prefer to have the option to buy a listen-once file if it's my intention and it is cheaper. So what's the real problem with DRM ? IMHO, the biggest deal here is DRM encryption and protection methods. They should be completly open and patent free. If a society owned DRM protection schemed, it could get the lion's share mentioned in the article. However, if artists can use standardized protection system to protect their work and distribute it on the internet (that's where bittorrent can come handy) then the edge of music industry over sales will fall sharply. And that's good for creation.
Thank you for phrasing it so clearly.
That is precisely my opinion.
Btw, my parents fall in A... *sigh*
Give a man a shell command, he will be happy for the
day... give him man pages, he will ask you for the command anyway.
Well I dind't mean that specifically for spywares. They are frightened to dive in, hence their reluctance to read manuals for example. They won't try to understand because trial implies action. I don't mean they are literally frightened, on the contrary, most of them are completly careless when they should fear... They will open a more than dubious attachment but be afraid if their desktop actions swtiched position.
People ain't up to the task of using a computer. Most people are frightened, they have no idea what's going on... they merely repeat cryptic memorized sequence of actions to do everyday tasks but they are just not "getting it".
Sad news: this is unavoidable, a gap is going to widen between people. Earlier "breaktrhoughs" in technology didn't need much understanding... take the wheel. But the automobile has been around since a century and people still can't drive ! Ever wonder why plane is safer than road ? The car is not intrinsequely more dangerous, on the contrary, but generally the pilots are trained professionals. I think technology is going to split between ultra-simple computers meant for web (and web will include applications such as wordprocessing etc) and the real-thing.
is plain stupid. Who needs access to the outside world to download illegal mp3s when... on a student's campus. Seriously, if these folks have their personal computers on an intranet, nothing preents them to do massive file sharing through ftp servers and the like.
I guess they have many electronic documents as well... Does the order apply to "not deleting the file". More specifically, how do they intend to enforce this order ! They can't obviously sit and ensure that no shredding is performed or no document is deleted !
Will work enough to sound appealing and make people try to use it, won't work enough to be practical and thus will be very frustrating. Most of speech AI look good on the... facade, but one stumbles extremly quickly on their shortcomings.
I cannot access the article at this moment but I am very suspicious of how accurate / scientific this simulation is. It surely is an amazing artistic work but heck, we don't even know the mass density of the universe (related to its curvature). Yet that sounds like a required data to make a simulation. This simulation should be ruled by the equations of general relativity which is still drafty.
Most equations lead to cahotic behavior... we have trouble simulating three bodies because of the unstability of the system...
nope not really,
however it was available long before X had it...
In fact the two parts were a bit unrelated. Kind of lack a "meanwhile" in between.
I really enjoy the fact that things have been moving since xorg forked but I have the impression that they carry too much legacy with X. Warning, that's what made Windows so slow to evolve, MSDOS legacy (Win95,98,Me), single User legacy (still problematic in XP!). X is slow, has a gigantic memory footprint and is, in my opinion one of the weakest point for linux on desktop. There are many proof of concept projects, mostly based on OpenGL that seem very promising.
As an astrologer he should believe in destiny... If the comet was blown up it was meant to be and already written in the stars. Why would he worry about that ?
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wtf... alpha blending has been around natively in windows since W2K. It wasn't used but it was there and many mods allowed context menu to set windows transparency.
o x-composite is still slow like hell... o e17 will us software blending...
Why not plug the phone directly into a RJ11 slot ?
(a 56ko card actually is ~10euro + you don't trash your existing phone). I guess once this is done everything else is just software...
I know they are various issues for linux on the Desktop, hardware beeing the most proeminent.
I remember the first time I tried to install linux... The installation program asked me:
"Do you want me to set the symbolic link ?"
( ln -s/usr/linux-blahblah/usr/linux I guess )
Well, install has gone a good way since. The real problem is not here, the real problem is people.
Yep.
Most people don't understand crap using a computer... They use learned sequences of actions to use their apps but have absolutely no clue of why they are doing so. Most people WILL get very confused if you switch their windows taskbar from botton to top. Try that, really.
They don't know how to orientate in the city, they just know that to go to work they should take right right left left right straight ahead for 100 meters, left left and right. Should they take a wrong turn they will be completly lost.
Most people have a hard time with mac or with windows... geez, most people have a hard time with a microwave !
You can't be ahead in technology and easy to use for everyone. It's like asking a quantum physic book to provide new theoretical breakthroughs and then complaining that your grandmother can't understand it.
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MS antispyware should rather show the threat level the user represents to the computer by analyzing the number of unused files squirreled on the desktop, viruses & spywares on the system, time spent on configuration panel, number of time a double click is performed when a single click is expected etc.
True, collecting fingerprints is easy and the scanner can be lured. Iris is other business... but it's still vulnerable to "fake login screen" phishing technics.
Put now your finger on the scanner to play this drm-protected wma. Well... kinda better than hardware fingerprinting anyway. But way more spooky.
It's free.fr in France. Heavily geek oriented... ( NO connection kit, RJ45 by default (usb possible),modem router with configurable NAT and wifi, free phone, free TV, 1Go adless webpages, official linux support, fixed IP etc) I'm so gonna miss my ISP :(((
Err... here 20Mbps is already available for $30/mo + phone and dsl-tv. How is the DSL landscape in the US... I am going to study in the US in september. What connection speed can I expect ? Are there any geek-friendly provider ? (Mine for exemple provides a local mirror for almost all linux distro)
Not necesseraly. Say the file is encrypted and you have a permisison to read signed by the author. You give your permission to read to the player, the player read the permission's ID and send it to the server to obtain a deciphering key ( the server can revoke the permission by removing it's ID from it's base ). The server sends a signed deciphering key. The player deciphers the stream and plays it. Wait your are going to tell me, I can then alter the source code to make it record the stream ! Yes you can, but you shouldn't. That's the point. It's not going to prevent people from doing bad stuff, but it will be a non-trivial reminder. Why is internet the only place where one considers that you "shouldn't be able to perform an illegal act". In real life anyone can do shop-lifting...
Everything that can be heard can be listened. True. But a) Quality is lost b) see DRM as a 'in case you forgot the license agreement' protection scheme. It can be bypassed, sure but heck you can also bypass the store security system.
Why this title might sound trollistic it is not. AFAIK when I download an MP3 I want to listen it, perdio - not print its periodogram on toilet paper or any other cabalistic use. Granted, I am a geek and I could want to do something a little odd with the file. Well, free market has an answer to this, if I desperatly want to own completly a protected file I can pay the market's price for that. Listen-once file ? This is restrictive, but it also means it's cheaper. I prefer to have the option to buy a listen-once file if it's my intention and it is cheaper. So what's the real problem with DRM ? IMHO, the biggest deal here is DRM encryption and protection methods. They should be completly open and patent free. If a society owned DRM protection schemed, it could get the lion's share mentioned in the article. However, if artists can use standardized protection system to protect their work and distribute it on the internet (that's where bittorrent can come handy) then the edge of music industry over sales will fall sharply. And that's good for creation.
Thank you for phrasing it so clearly. That is precisely my opinion. Btw, my parents fall in A... *sigh* Give a man a shell command, he will be happy for the day... give him man pages, he will ask you for the command anyway.
Well I dind't mean that specifically for spywares. They are frightened to dive in, hence their reluctance to read manuals for example. They won't try to understand because trial implies action. I don't mean they are literally frightened, on the contrary, most of them are completly careless when they should fear... They will open a more than dubious attachment but be afraid if their desktop actions swtiched position.
People ain't up to the task of using a computer. Most people are frightened, they have no idea what's going on... they merely repeat cryptic memorized sequence of actions to do everyday tasks but they are just not "getting it". Sad news: this is unavoidable, a gap is going to widen between people. Earlier "breaktrhoughs" in technology didn't need much understanding... take the wheel. But the automobile has been around since a century and people still can't drive ! Ever wonder why plane is safer than road ? The car is not intrinsequely more dangerous, on the contrary, but generally the pilots are trained professionals. I think technology is going to split between ultra-simple computers meant for web (and web will include applications such as wordprocessing etc) and the real-thing.
is plain stupid. Who needs access to the outside world to download illegal mp3s when... on a student's campus. Seriously, if these folks have their personal computers on an intranet, nothing preents them to do massive file sharing through ftp servers and the like.
a third degree felony...
I guess they have many electronic documents as well... Does the order apply to "not deleting the file". More specifically, how do they intend to enforce this order ! They can't obviously sit and ensure that no shredding is performed or no document is deleted !
Quantum mechanics states that this is not possible with finite energy.
Will it support raid-5-fingers ?
Err.. the nail fully replaced... I mean, when the nail is half replaced, half of the data is lost. Does it implie that you should not cut your nails ?
Does it include the gun Han Solo used to shoot first ?
Will work enough to sound appealing and make people try to use it, won't work enough to be practical and thus will be very frustrating. Most of speech AI look good on the... facade, but one stumbles extremly quickly on their shortcomings.
I cannot access the article at this moment but I am very suspicious of how accurate / scientific this simulation is. It surely is an amazing artistic work but heck, we don't even know the mass density of the universe (related to its curvature). Yet that sounds like a required data to make a simulation. This simulation should be ruled by the equations of general relativity which is still drafty. Most equations lead to cahotic behavior... we have trouble simulating three bodies because of the unstability of the system...
nope not really, however it was available long before X had it... In fact the two parts were a bit unrelated. Kind of lack a "meanwhile" in between. I really enjoy the fact that things have been moving since xorg forked but I have the impression that they carry too much legacy with X. Warning, that's what made Windows so slow to evolve, MSDOS legacy (Win95,98,Me), single User legacy (still problematic in XP!). X is slow, has a gigantic memory footprint and is, in my opinion one of the weakest point for linux on desktop. There are many proof of concept projects, mostly based on OpenGL that seem very promising.
As an astrologer he should believe in destiny... If the comet was blown up it was meant to be and already written in the stars. Why would he worry about that ?
wtf... alpha blending has been around natively in windows since W2K. It wasn't used but it was there and many mods allowed context menu to set windows transparency.
o x-composite is still slow like hell...
o e17 will us software blending...
*sigh*
Why not plug the phone directly into a RJ11 slot ? (a 56ko card actually is ~10euro + you don't trash your existing phone). I guess once this is done everything else is just software...
I know they are various issues for linux on the Desktop, hardware beeing the most proeminent. I remember the first time I tried to install linux... The installation program asked me: "Do you want me to set the symbolic link ?" ( ln -s /usr/linux-blahblah /usr/linux I guess )
Well, install has gone a good way since. The real problem is not here, the real problem is people.
Yep.
Most people don't understand crap using a computer... They use learned sequences of actions to use their apps but have absolutely no clue of why they are doing so. Most people WILL get very confused if you switch their windows taskbar from botton to top. Try that, really.
They don't know how to orientate in the city, they just know that to go to work they should take right right left left right straight ahead for 100 meters, left left and right. Should they take a wrong turn they will be completly lost.
Most people have a hard time with mac or with windows... geez, most people have a hard time with a microwave !
You can't be ahead in technology and easy to use for everyone. It's like asking a quantum physic book to provide new theoretical breakthroughs and then complaining that your grandmother can't understand it.