I work at a major PC chip company as an engineer, and I've been told that I will have to continue to work on my 400MHz PII laptop for another year. This will be a 4 year IT cycle, which is certainly not what we want our CUSTOMERS doing, but it gives one pause doesn't it.
Personally, I spend a LOT of time staring at Windoze hour glasses. Probably adds up to several hours a month, which doesn't take long to add up to the company wasting a LOT more money by not getting me a new PC, but hey... whatever. I'll keep wasting those hours staring at the hourglass until the company decides that spending $1500 on a new laptop will have a positive ROI, although I can prove it right now... no wonder productivity isn't improving much.
From now on, never tell any dumbass idiot government morons that their networks are insecure or else you go to jail. Fine, I can pretend the Emperor has clothes even when he is stark, fscking naked, but Al Queda is going to laugh all the way to the fscking bank.
In my opinion someone should indite this Grand Jury for Indictment While Under the Influence. This is the craziest, stupid bullshit I've ever fscking seen.
So, remember, from now on, never tell any government official that their networks are insecure, or else you go to jail. Just tell any muslim terrorists you know instead. As far as I know, THAT is still legal.
The difference here is that DISH OWNS that box you think is yours. You are leasing it or the flash card inside it that they hose. At the VERY least you bought the box from them, so it is a contract dispute between the two of you.
The MPAA owns not one God-damned thing on my PC, and I have no contracts with them. If they hack my PC, I'll sue them 10 ways from Sunday, unless this idiotic law passes.
Of course, it screws everything ELSE up, so if he goes to Gnome 2.0, he is going to be even MORE unhappy.
"There are two times in your life where everyone you know gets dressed up and comes to a church to stare at you; when you get married and when you die. It's no coincidence that they are so alike." - Chris Jones
Nothing will turn customers against you faster than attacking them. You have to wonder at sheer stupidity of suing music filesharers when in all likelihood they are some of the RIAA's best customers.
This will at least be interesting, especially since it is not entirely clear that filesharing music in a non-profit manner is illegal, despite what the RIAA would like everyone to think.
As a final note, the economy is doing abysmally, which makes me wonder why the RIAA is so shocked that their CD sales are down. The first thing to go in a bad economy is disposable income, and CDs are nothing if not frivolous crap bought with disposable income. Is the RIAA immune to economics and their sales decrease completely due to these "horrible filesharers", or are they just suffering like everyone else in this economy, only they are looking for a scapegoat to try and sue to stop their business model from eventually evaporating?
Use a massive array of Hubble-like (but much cheaper) telescopes to scan space. When an asteroid on an intercept course is found, target it with a high intensity COIL (Chemical Oxygen Iodine) or similar type laser. it would probably have to be space based.
The laser will ablate away material from the surface of the asteroid. This in turn will give the asteroid a delta V (or thrust) in a vector that nudges it out of its collision course.
Obviously the earlier we see the asteroid the better, otherwise there might not be enough time to thrust it out of the way.
Maybe I am being sentimental, but does anyone else think that Gaak should be given more space than the rest of the robots? I mean, he's already demonstrated that hates being penned up, so it would be cruel to go back to penning him up with the others.
I think they should respect Gaak's wishes and give him more room. Maybe even take him outside for walks sometimes....
Where is the SPCR (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots) when you need them!
And most courts have ruled that click through EULAs are worth as much as the electrons they are printed on, which is NADA. In any case, they did not reverse engineer the software, they reverse engineered the PROTOCOL, which is entirely different.
I am also aware of what insightful means. Your post comparing reverse engineering to shoplifting was FAR from insightful. What's insightful about comparing two things that are light years apart?
If they modded it as a troll it would have been far more relevant. I have difficulty believing even you could seriously compare reverse engineering to shoplifting.
I mean, you don't work for M$, the BSA, the RIAA, Disney or the MPAA do you?
I don't think it's a strawman, but even if it is, it is a relevant strawman and I can prove it with symbolic logic.
I was merely pointing out the fallacy of supporting our enemies.
Do YOU think that the DMCA is an immoral/evil piece of legislation? I certainly do and most Slashdotters appear to agree. If so, then it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to support a company that will take whatever money you give them and recycle back into OUR government to try and pass more laws like the DMCA.
Obviously if you LIKE the evil piece of shit the DMCA is, then by all means support them. But if you DON'T like the DMCA, but you want to try to justify your lust for this game and hence buy it, then I want you to think long and hard about it, because you are giving aid and succor to the enemy.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - MLK Jr.
Reverse engineering something is in no possible way equivalent to shoplifting something.
Its more like buying a car, being told that you can only use an authorized CD player in said car, getting pissed off and shoehorning a non-authorized one in ANYWAY, and then sharing this information with others.
Sure the car company is pissed off since they won't make as much money, but they were being unethical to begin with and it is your right to do with your property as you wish. AND REVERSE ENGINEERING IS AND ALWAYS SHOULD BE LEGAL!!!!!!!!!
Wrong. Evil is evil. Trying to stop people from using their LEGALLY PURCHASED software in any way they want to is evil. Now granted, it's not evil on the scale of mass murder, but it is still evil and you shouldn't support them if you are an ethical person.
Blizzard may not LIKE that bnet reverse engineered their protocol, but bnet did absolutely nothing wrong. They did NOT use Blizzard's IP, they just used black box methods to figure out what was happening and be able to reproduce it. That is not , nor should it ever be illegal. If it IS illegal, then kiss SAMBA goodbye and start kissing M$ behind, because every lower cost engineering solution that relies on reverse engineering will go bye bye.
Think about this carefully. Agreeing with Blizzard is agreeing with IBM that no IBM clones should have ever been allowed to be produced, since THEY were all reverse engineered.
I stand by my arguement. Blizzard is evil and no decent person should support them.
I sure as hell won't be buying Warcraft III, and if any of you who like open software have any moral fortitude whatsoever you won't either.
If you support Open Source and buy Warcraft III then you are like a Gypsy buying luxuries from the Nazis. They've been attacking your kind but you still support them? Crazy. Let Blizzard rot in the hell they so very much deserve. Not only do they spy on their customers, now they sue people who haven't done anything other than reverse engineer stuff to make an alternative to Blizzard's piss poor network.
Heck, once they even MENTIONED the DMCA they lost me for a customer for all time. Evil people use evil legislation, and Blizzard is evil. Don't support them. Let capitalism work here for a change.
What the heck do you consider whining? Complaining that your company is screwing the employee out of a decent salary? I mean, that's the who point isn't it? What's a trooper? Someone who sits there and takes it day after day without saying anything until finally they start looking for something better?
For individual users who just need to back stuff up. They have a 1GB space limit (which I assume is internally imposed) so that users cannot back up their ENTIRE drive, but important business data can be. It is fairly customizable too.
I mean, if he ever wants to get out of jail, Elcomsoft doesn't really have a choice but to defend itself.
Besides, given the state of the Russian police, the FBI could just buy them off with a few bulletproof vests and they'd have every Elcomsoft employee on a plane to NYC in 8 hours.
No dear dumbass, we are not a representative democracy. We are a republic, pure and simple.
Several of our founding fathers had a definate fear of the ignorant masses running the country, thereby resolving that this would never happen, and that we would be best off with elected "masters" running our country for us.
Yes, but the results of unfettered capitalism (i.e. Corporations) are AMORAL.
Or more correctly UNIMORAL. They have only one guiding principle: "Maximize shareholder value". Literally ANYTHING that isn't illegal and furthers this aim corporations will do.
Thus the type of capitalism that much of the world exercises is AMORAL or UNIMORAL, and since most of the rest of us are a BIT deeper than that, we (quite rightly) think of the results of capitalism as being effectively IMMORAL.
Personally, I don't trust a corporation any farther than I can throw it.
The electronic packaging and most/all OEM chassis are designed to shield the processors' EMI from other components or devices. Before any processor is released, they are tested (in a chassis or ten) according to the FCC EMC requirements. Regulations are sometimes good.
Unfortunately at my company, and probably quite a few others, many employees seem to think that "occaisional personal business" is the same as "downloading porns and mp3s". This was the entire reason I supported my employers decision to block internet access.
And I'm sure all employees did that too didn't they. NOT! If you supported removing internet access because a few people surfed porn or MP3s, then you are an IDIOT. There's a solution for misuse that doesn't involve cutting off the access (which is like cutting off your nose to spite your face). It's what my company does. It's called FIRE THE PEOPLE WHO MISUSE! After suitable warnings of course.
Resistant means that differential cryptography was much less likely to break it.* In all likelyhood the reason the NSA did this was to prevent the USSR from being able to routinely crack financial transactions and play havoc with our banks and markets.
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I work at a major PC chip company as an engineer, and I've been told that I will have to continue to work on my 400MHz PII laptop for another year. This will be a 4 year IT cycle, which is certainly not what we want our CUSTOMERS doing, but it gives one pause doesn't it.
Personally, I spend a LOT of time staring at Windoze hour glasses. Probably adds up to several hours a month, which doesn't take long to add up to the company wasting a LOT more money by not getting me a new PC, but hey... whatever. I'll keep wasting those hours staring at the hourglass until the company decides that spending $1500 on a new laptop will have a positive ROI, although I can prove it right now... no wonder productivity isn't improving much.
From now on, never tell any dumbass idiot government morons that their networks are insecure or else you go to jail. Fine, I can pretend the Emperor has clothes even when he is stark, fscking naked, but Al Queda is going to laugh all the way to the fscking bank.
In my opinion someone should indite this Grand Jury for Indictment While Under the Influence. This is the craziest, stupid bullshit I've ever fscking seen.
So, remember, from now on, never tell any government official that their networks are insecure, or else you go to jail. Just tell any muslim terrorists you know instead. As far as I know, THAT is still legal.
The difference here is that DISH OWNS that box you think is yours. You are leasing it or the flash card inside it that they hose. At the VERY least you bought the box from them, so it is a contract dispute between the two of you.
The MPAA owns not one God-damned thing on my PC, and I have no contracts with them. If they hack my PC, I'll sue them 10 ways from Sunday, unless this idiotic law passes.
"There are two times in your life where everyone you know gets dressed up and comes to a church to stare at you; when you get married and when you die. It's no coincidence that they are so alike." - Chris Jones
slit their own throats.
Nothing will turn customers against you faster than attacking them. You have to wonder at sheer stupidity of suing music filesharers when in all likelihood they are some of the RIAA's best customers.
This will at least be interesting, especially since it is not entirely clear that filesharing music in a non-profit manner is illegal, despite what the RIAA would like everyone to think.
As a final note, the economy is doing abysmally, which makes me wonder why the RIAA is so shocked that their CD sales are down. The first thing to go in a bad economy is disposable income, and CDs are nothing if not frivolous crap bought with disposable income. Is the RIAA immune to economics and their sales decrease completely due to these "horrible filesharers", or are they just suffering like everyone else in this economy, only they are looking for a scapegoat to try and sue to stop their business model from eventually evaporating?
My money is on the latter.
Use a massive array of Hubble-like (but much cheaper) telescopes to scan space. When an asteroid on an intercept course is found, target it with a high intensity COIL (Chemical Oxygen Iodine) or similar type laser. it would probably have to be space based.
The laser will ablate away material from the surface of the asteroid. This in turn will give the asteroid a delta V (or thrust) in a vector that nudges it out of its collision course.
Obviously the earlier we see the asteroid the better, otherwise there might not be enough time to thrust it out of the way.
Maybe I am being sentimental, but does anyone else think that Gaak should be given more space than the rest of the robots? I mean, he's already demonstrated that hates being penned up, so it would be cruel to go back to penning him up with the others.
I think they should respect Gaak's wishes and give him more room. Maybe even take him outside for walks sometimes....
Where is the SPCR (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots) when you need them!
And most courts have ruled that click through EULAs are worth as much as the electrons they are printed on, which is NADA. In any case, they did not reverse engineer the software, they reverse engineered the PROTOCOL, which is entirely different.
I am also aware of what insightful means. Your post comparing reverse engineering to shoplifting was FAR from insightful. What's insightful about comparing two things that are light years apart?
If they modded it as a troll it would have been far more relevant. I have difficulty believing even you could seriously compare reverse engineering to shoplifting.
I mean, you don't work for M$, the BSA, the RIAA, Disney or the MPAA do you?
I don't think it's a strawman, but even if it is, it is a relevant strawman and I can prove it with symbolic logic.
I was merely pointing out the fallacy of supporting our enemies.
Do YOU think that the DMCA is an immoral/evil piece of legislation? I certainly do and most Slashdotters appear to agree. If so, then it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to support a company that will take whatever money you give them and recycle back into OUR government to try and pass more laws like the DMCA.
Obviously if you LIKE the evil piece of shit the DMCA is, then by all means support them. But if you DON'T like the DMCA, but you want to try to justify your lust for this game and hence buy it, then I want you to think long and hard about it, because you are giving aid and succor to the enemy.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - MLK Jr.
Whoever modded this as Insightful is an idiot.
Reverse engineering something is in no possible way equivalent to shoplifting something.
Its more like buying a car, being told that you can only use an authorized CD player in said car, getting pissed off and shoehorning a non-authorized one in ANYWAY, and then sharing this information with others.
Sure the car company is pissed off since they won't make as much money, but they were being unethical to begin with and it is your right to do with your property as you wish. AND REVERSE ENGINEERING IS AND ALWAYS SHOULD BE LEGAL!!!!!!!!!
Wrong. Evil is evil. Trying to stop people from using their LEGALLY PURCHASED software in any way they want to is evil. Now granted, it's not evil on the scale of mass murder, but it is still evil and you shouldn't support them if you are an ethical person.
Blizzard may not LIKE that bnet reverse engineered their protocol, but bnet did absolutely nothing wrong. They did NOT use Blizzard's IP, they just used black box methods to figure out what was happening and be able to reproduce it. That is not , nor should it ever be illegal. If it IS illegal, then kiss SAMBA goodbye and start kissing M$ behind, because every lower cost engineering solution that relies on reverse engineering will go bye bye.
Think about this carefully. Agreeing with Blizzard is agreeing with IBM that no IBM clones should have ever been allowed to be produced, since THEY were all reverse engineered.
I stand by my arguement. Blizzard is evil and no decent person should support them.
I sure as hell won't be buying Warcraft III, and if any of you who like open software have any moral fortitude whatsoever you won't either.
If you support Open Source and buy Warcraft III then you are like a Gypsy buying luxuries from the Nazis. They've been attacking your kind but you still support them? Crazy. Let Blizzard rot in the hell they so very much deserve. Not only do they spy on their customers, now they sue people who haven't done anything other than reverse engineer stuff to make an alternative to Blizzard's piss poor network.
Heck, once they even MENTIONED the DMCA they lost me for a customer for all time. Evil people use evil legislation, and Blizzard is evil. Don't support them. Let capitalism work here for a change.
What the heck do you consider whining? Complaining that your company is screwing the employee out of a decent salary? I mean, that's the who point isn't it? What's a trooper? Someone who sits there and takes it day after day without saying anything until finally they start looking for something better?
For individual users who just need to back stuff up. They have a 1GB space limit (which I assume is internally imposed) so that users cannot back up their ENTIRE drive, but important business data can be. It is fairly customizable too.
http://www.connected.com/products/index.htm
Well apparently while you pay good attention in Comp Sci, you are sleeping your ass off in English.
Sedacious is not a word (at least not an English one). The world is salacious
salacious Pronunciation Key (s-lshs)
adj.
1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.
2. Lustful; bawdy.
Isn't his name Skylarov?
I mean, if he ever wants to get out of jail, Elcomsoft doesn't really have a choice but to defend itself.
Besides, given the state of the Russian police, the FBI could just buy them off with a few bulletproof vests and they'd have every Elcomsoft employee on a plane to NYC in 8 hours.
Yep... I never understood what's so hard to understand about the 2nd Amendment.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Every gun law we have infringes on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. How the fsck are they not all unconstitutional?
Several of our founding fathers had a definate fear of the ignorant masses running the country, thereby resolving that this would never happen, and that we would be best off with elected "masters" running our country for us.
Wasn't that Skynet?
"The phased plasma rifle with a 40 watt range." - Terminator
Or more correctly UNIMORAL. They have only one guiding principle: "Maximize shareholder value". Literally ANYTHING that isn't illegal and furthers this aim corporations will do.
Thus the type of capitalism that much of the world exercises is AMORAL or UNIMORAL, and since most of the rest of us are a BIT deeper than that, we (quite rightly) think of the results of capitalism as being effectively IMMORAL.
Personally, I don't trust a corporation any farther than I can throw it.
The electronic packaging and most/all OEM chassis are designed to shield the processors' EMI from other components or devices. Before any processor is released, they are tested (in a chassis or ten) according to the FCC EMC requirements. Regulations are sometimes good.
No $hit nothing happens, because we haven't been sending them checks in our letters asking them not to screw us over.
In this country you have to BUY a Senator before they give a rats a$$ about what you think.
I agree. Let's set up a Pay Pal account for a Senator on the Judicial Committe who doesn't have his head up his A$$.
Remember: "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Let's don't let this one get by like we did the DMCA.
Does anyone else think that this bill and the people proposing it are evil incarnate?
Unfortunately at my company, and probably quite a few others, many employees seem to think that "occaisional personal business" is the same as "downloading porns and mp3s". This was the entire reason I supported my employers decision to block internet access.
And I'm sure all employees did that too didn't they. NOT! If you supported removing internet access because a few people surfed porn or MP3s, then you are an IDIOT. There's a solution for misuse that doesn't involve cutting off the access (which is like cutting off your nose to spite your face). It's what my company does. It's called FIRE THE PEOPLE WHO MISUSE! After suitable warnings of course.
*See Applied Cryptography by Schneier.