..The next super cool new thing they have obviously been working on for some time, the "iDiot".
iDiot is Apple's new product, new marketing strategy, and, new lack of intellectual property.
As a matter of fact, Apple is looking into trademarking the total absence and void of intellectual property whatsoever, as part of its iDiot marketing.
/am a little late //companies can do dumb things when they don't need to please the smart people anymore.
Software like this, especially software like this, needs to be shared.
For the good of mankind.
And before anyone says a word about IP or profit motive, take a few minutes to think about how unchecked/unrealistic profit motive has lead the US and world economy.
Yes, the inventors/innovators (yup, that means the grad students as well professor) of this should make a tidy profit. This should not preclude non-profit use, and especially not preclude open discussion of how to make such potentially live saving technology better.
Its time for med-tech (and pharma) to come out of greed's dark ages.
So I am thinking, the independent musicians of the world need something like a EULA, something that would get around the "$ound Exchange" compulsory license.
Is it possible? Would it have to be wrapped in a 'software program'?
Or does this sound like the standard practice of established and entrenched business?
"No, that new thing wont work, keep buying our old thing..."
Or in the case of the RIAA "keep buying our old thing, or else!"
I currently remove spyware, and install firefox, for people who dont know jack about computers. And thats most people.
I take the spyware out then slap them lightly on the hand and tell them NOT to use "internet explorer" anymore. And then feel bad about taking thier money.
There are quite a few more spyware than can be googled, one often has to manually scan the system dll's and.exe's for really stupid nonsensical names, a recent favorite was max733t.exe.
I forget the exact dll name, but this morning i was scanning one of my own systems dll's with process explorer, and the vendor names roll by.. and i see "pace anti-piracy".! I use move-on-boot to delete the sucker, and guess what? System boots a LOT faster.
I submitted the NYT story, and the BBC story, that i now seem to have lost the link to... at 2 in the morning:) and it sees to have turned into the 5:35 am story..
But it IS remarkably more humorous because M$ has posted the reuters story.
Whats also interesting is just how bad norton and mcaffe, or rather the consumer versions ive seen lately, tend to be at protecting machines. The ONLY reason i still like symantec is the fact that do and publish research.
I couldent find a link to the actual "threat assesment report" er, the current one anyway, on the symatec website. If anyone has it, please post that sucker.
And for a little more than a 40gig iPod, you can get an 80gig Neuros.
They totally kick ass.
You can broadcast to any fm radio with it, nice in any car... plug the charger into the wall and all the recievers in your house will pick it up! (undocumented) can you say personal radio station?
You can record with it, up to 48khz.wav...
Oh, yeah! did I mention its also a harddrive?
(and no, they dont give me any kickbacks for posting this, nor do i work for them. I just love the product:)
Whant tools are the RIAA using to get into peoples boxes?
How do we geeks keep the RIAA out of our boxes? So we can teach laymen to do the same...
Do firewalls work for this?
Those should be the real concerns here!
What can we do now ?
Because at some point, the whole concept of trading vastly inferior copys of the original media, thereby giving a non-corporate non-radio outlet for artists/media will be widely recognized as the legal and acceptable activity that it is.
Until then, we need to batton down our TCP Ports!
(and if this has already been beat to death, sombody kindly e-mail me a link! puhleeez?:))
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..The next super cool new thing they have obviously been working on for some time, the "iDiot".
iDiot is Apple's new product, new marketing strategy, and, new lack of intellectual property.
As a matter of fact, Apple is looking into trademarking the total absence and void of intellectual property whatsoever, as part of its iDiot marketing.
/am a little late
//companies can do dumb things when they don't need to please the smart people anymore.
For the good of mankind.
And before anyone says a word about IP or profit motive, take a few minutes to think about how unchecked/unrealistic profit motive has lead the US and world economy.
Yes, the inventors/innovators (yup, that means the grad students as well professor) of this should make a tidy profit. This should not preclude non-profit use, and especially not preclude open discussion of how to make such potentially live saving technology better.
Its time for med-tech (and pharma) to come out of greed's dark ages.
So, bear with me here.. music is bits right?
So I am thinking, the independent musicians of the world need something like a EULA, something that would get around the "$ound Exchange" compulsory license.
Is it possible? Would it have to be wrapped in a 'software program'?
Should be a law against going into the office full of shit.
Mod parent up!
I have been thinking this for years.
The only way to fight botnets in the wild is to release some carefully crafted anti-bot's into the wild.
Or maybe have anti-bots in strategic places throughout the net, much like the human body does with Lymph nodes.
Time to fight fire with fire.
Fry: Look out! We're heading straight for those trees!
Leela: Yeah, yeah, relax. Trees down.
Trees: (mechanical voice) Trees down.
[The trees go down and Fry and Leela ski over them.]
Fry: Cool. Hey, what do you do if you want the trees up?
Trees: (mechanical voice) Trees up.
[The trees go up and one takes Fry with it.]
Fry: (hoarse) Trees down!
Trees: (mechanical voice) Trees down.
..this being said about the Pentuim II, the Pentium III, and the P4.
:)
That "average users" did not need such processing power.
Personally, I cant wait for a super computing system that will fit nicely in the closet.
And dosent heat the whole house
Or does this sound like the standard practice of established and entrenched business? "No, that new thing wont work, keep buying our old thing..." Or in the case of the RIAA "keep buying our old thing, or else!"
What?!?!?!?
.torrent yet?
:)))
No
I would love to do some "independent verification"
So I am over at my inlaws house the other day, and of course, they ask me about a sick PC..
So i manage to download Process Explorer, and guess what process is using ~90% of the processor cycles?
Norton Antivirus.
De-installing Norton was strangely easy, and a boot scan with avast! showed... no malware.
The system cripping 'virus' in this case, was Norton Antivirus.
Or does the logical extension of this chart:
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http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell_Dis
Make it look a little more like a HAL than a Cell?
And sending a probe a few billion miles out to get a sound sample from an icy moon DEFINATLY counts as hard techno.
But Knoppix 3.6? Absolutely rocks.
Its good looking, rock solid, and full of good apps, and its debian, so its apt-able if you do want to go ahead and install it.
I have a freaking liver-brained 60 year old running it, and he cant break it.
He's broken SuSE, Red hat (anyone can do that i know), and mandrake.
Knoppix!!!
Or is Google starting to look like Big Brother?
And I probably dont have to build a dual proc box to run it.
he diddnt have a TiVO...
I currently remove spyware, and install firefox, for people who dont know jack about computers. And thats most people. I take the spyware out then slap them lightly on the hand and tell them NOT to use "internet explorer" anymore. And then feel bad about taking thier money. There are quite a few more spyware than can be googled, one often has to manually scan the system dll's and .exe's for really stupid nonsensical names, a recent favorite was max733t.exe.
I forget the exact dll name, but this morning i was scanning one of my own systems dll's with process explorer, and the vendor names roll by.. and i see "pace anti-piracy".! I use move-on-boot to delete the sucker, and guess what? System boots a LOT faster.
I submitted the NYT story, and the BBC story, that i now seem to have lost the link to... at 2 in the morning :) and it sees to have turned into the 5:35 am story..
But it IS remarkably more humorous because M$ has posted the reuters story.
Whats also interesting is just how bad norton and mcaffe, or rather the consumer versions ive seen lately, tend to be at protecting machines. The ONLY reason i still like symantec is the fact that do and publish research.
I couldent find a link to the actual "threat assesment report" er, the current one anyway, on the symatec website. If anyone has it, please post that sucker.
I own one, read about 'em right here on good ol /.
.wav...
:)
And for a little more than a 40gig iPod, you can get an 80gig Neuros.
They totally kick ass.
You can broadcast to any fm radio with it, nice in any car... plug the charger into the wall and all the recievers in your house will pick it up! (undocumented) can you say personal radio station?
You can record with it, up to 48khz
Oh, yeah! did I mention its also a harddrive?
(and no, they dont give me any kickbacks for posting this, nor do i work for them. I just love the product
Whay concerns me here is:
:))
Whant tools are the RIAA using to get into peoples boxes?
How do we geeks keep the RIAA out of our boxes? So we can teach laymen to do the same...
Do firewalls work for this?
Those should be the real concerns here!
What can we do now ?
Because at some point, the whole concept of trading vastly inferior copys of the original media, thereby giving a non-corporate non-radio outlet for artists/media will be widely recognized as the legal and acceptable activity that it is.
Until then, we need to batton down our TCP Ports!
(and if this has already been beat to death, sombody kindly e-mail me a link! puhleeez?