I personally intend to teach my children (should I someday have any, geek stereotypes and all) to detest "the law". but at any rate, I think that the article here was saying something like <METAPHOR> no one has houses, all of our possessions are piled on our lawns, out in the open. we can all agree that going onto someone else's lawn and taking things is wrong, but maybe the best solutions all around would be to build houses, because as a few dozen people are saying, you can just walk over there and grab stuff. While we're at it, maybe we should be holding the carpenters accountable for charging us for houses, but only building ankle high fences. </METAPHOR> then again, I may be wrong...
you should look into what "profession" means. inasmuch as neither "programming" nor "software engineering" has a formal system for dividing themselves sharply from the rest of the world (think doctor, lawyer, plumber here), they don't constitute a profession.
Unless your card is something really, really odd... that is two controllers. Actually, probably only one controller, but with two "channels". Each 40 pin header is one channel and can support two devices. I've never seen otherwise, and I've seen lots of oddball hardware. P.S. If that is a CMD640 chip on it, consider replacing it.
[NOTE: Despite what I may seem to imply, I reserve my opinion on the ethical and moral issues of all real conflicts. The following post applies equally well to any technologically imbalanced conflict. I mean no disrespect or offense in the use of my collective pronouns.]
A techwar is geared towards destroying things like buildings and vehicles. As these things go away, or if they were never there, the techwar becomes moot. Take a hundred men, put them in a building, they are now targets for smart weapons. Put them loosely in a forest or jungle, or desert, or village, and they become effectively immune to smart weapons. Is it, therefore irrational for someone, who has already challenged someone several orders of magnitude larger, to fail to cower and surrender when our mighty air power destroys what little technology he had?
View everything to date as a test of our resolve. In order to do the job right, we will need lots of troops, or lots of time. What we blow up with video-guided bombs is just a diversion. Make everyone feel a sense of progress, until, suddenly it will hit... We are barely better off than we were before we started. Will we be willing to commit once that becomes obvious? Or will we congratulate ourselves for the job well done, and move on?
was there something like this on /. before?
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I seem to remember seeing something about buying old silos a while back here, but I can't find it. Anyone know where to go should you be in the market looking for such things?
When my computer boots it says PENTIUM-MMX CPU at 225MHz. Has Intel ever made a 225MHz CPU? No, so where did it come from? My BIOS. My BIOS executes the CPUID instruction, which reports family, model, stepping, but not speed. BIOS then multiplies 75 (bus speed) by 3 (multiplier) to get the CPU speed. I assume that the CPUID (or any other) instruction could be made to read from a little ROM and report the speed, alerting users to potential mischief on the part of their vendors. But why do that? There is already a serial number stamped on P2s, if you are putting a ROM on the CPU, why not put the serial number in there instead of or in addition to other related stuff. That way, Intel can make a big fuss about how they care about this and are doing something about that, while not really doing anything in particular. As to licensing for a CPU. Any software that locks to a serial number is as brain-dead as software that locks to a particular family/model/stepping or any other identifier in the system. If they want to enforce licensing well they will use dongals. That way they have control over the identifier, and you have control over which ONE machine you want the dongal plugged into. Next up. Unless Microsoft and company want to master a new CD for each CPU, the Windows (or whatever) setup program will negotiate with the CPU's challenge/response serial number thingie. When this happens, a value will be stored somewhere (registry anyone?) which, if not matching the live one it just got from the CPU, the software stops, moans, self-destructs, whatever. Ask yourself, is there really any way to do this? Can we not simulate the process and then put the bogus, but workable key wherever it goes?
Ways to complicate life for people trying to break this: Pass laws (won't really stop anyone). Require intervention (once or often) with a remote server acting as license master (pointless, doesn't need the CPU serial number, think StarCraft). Well there is an infinite number of ways to make this task more difficult. Each of which has at least one workaround.
In the end what do we gain? What do we lose? It's debateable either way. If we were required to use our VIN as a password would that be a gain or a loss? I'm tired, I'll sleep now. Hope this makes sense in the morning.
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I personally intend to teach my children (should I someday have any, geek stereotypes and all) to detest "the law". but at any rate, I think that the article here was saying something like
<METAPHOR>
no one has houses, all of our possessions are piled on our lawns, out in the open. we can all agree that going onto someone else's lawn and taking things is wrong, but maybe the best solutions all around would be to build houses, because as a few dozen people are saying, you can just walk over there and grab stuff. While we're at it, maybe we should be holding the carpenters accountable for charging us for houses, but only building ankle high fences.
</METAPHOR>
then again, I may be wrong...
you should look into what "profession" means. inasmuch as neither "programming" nor "software engineering" has a formal system for dividing themselves sharply from the rest of the world (think doctor, lawyer, plumber here), they don't constitute a profession.
Unless your card is something really, really odd... that is two controllers. Actually, probably only one controller, but with two "channels". Each 40 pin header is one channel and can support two devices. I've never seen otherwise, and I've seen lots of oddball hardware. P.S. If that is a CMD640 chip on it, consider replacing it.
Some good points there, but we can't all run. (etc.)
Solaris I believe, after giving NT a try. I think NT is in there somewhere, however, because hotmail is multi-layered.
[NOTE: Despite what I may seem to imply, I reserve my opinion on the ethical and moral issues of all real conflicts. The following post applies equally well to any technologically imbalanced conflict. I mean no disrespect or offense in the use of my collective pronouns.]
A techwar is geared towards destroying things like buildings and vehicles. As these things go away, or if they were never there, the techwar becomes moot. Take a hundred men, put them in a building, they are now targets for smart weapons. Put them loosely in a forest or jungle, or desert, or village, and they become effectively immune to smart weapons. Is it, therefore irrational for someone, who has already challenged someone several orders of magnitude larger, to fail to cower and surrender when our mighty air power destroys what little technology he had?
View everything to date as a test of our resolve. In order to do the job right, we will need lots of troops, or lots of time. What we blow up with video-guided bombs is just a diversion. Make everyone feel a sense of progress, until, suddenly it will hit... We are barely better off than we were before we started. Will we be willing to commit once that becomes obvious? Or will we congratulate ourselves for the job well done, and move on?
I seem to remember seeing something about buying old silos a while back here, but I can't find it. Anyone know where to go should you be in the market looking for such things?
doesn't Microsoft have a patent/trademark thingie on "shelf"?
When my computer boots it says PENTIUM-MMX CPU at 225MHz. Has Intel ever made a 225MHz CPU? No, so where did it come from? My BIOS. My BIOS executes the CPUID instruction, which reports family, model, stepping, but not speed. BIOS then multiplies 75 (bus speed) by 3 (multiplier) to get the CPU speed. I assume that the CPUID (or any other) instruction could be made to read from a little ROM and report the speed, alerting users to potential mischief on the part of their vendors. But why do that? There is already a serial number stamped on P2s, if you are putting a ROM on the CPU, why not put the serial number in there instead of or in addition to other related stuff. That way, Intel can make a big fuss about how they care about this and are doing something about that, while not really doing anything in particular.
As to licensing for a CPU. Any software that locks to a serial number is as brain-dead as software that locks to a particular family/model/stepping or any other identifier in the system. If they want to enforce licensing well they will use dongals. That way they have control over the identifier, and you have control over which ONE machine you want the dongal plugged into.
Next up. Unless Microsoft and company want to master a new CD for each CPU, the Windows (or whatever) setup program will negotiate with the CPU's challenge/response serial number thingie. When this happens, a value will be stored somewhere (registry anyone?) which, if not matching the live one it just got from the CPU, the software stops, moans, self-destructs, whatever. Ask yourself, is there really any way to do this? Can we not simulate the process and then put the bogus, but workable key wherever it goes?
Ways to complicate life for people trying to break this: Pass laws (won't really stop anyone). Require intervention (once or often) with a remote server acting as license master (pointless, doesn't need the CPU serial number, think StarCraft). Well there is an infinite number of ways to make this task more difficult. Each of which has at least one workaround.
In the end what do we gain? What do we lose? It's debateable either way. If we were required to use our VIN as a password would that be a gain or a loss? I'm tired, I'll sleep now. Hope this makes sense in the morning.