Vista comes with home network media sharing (in Windows Media Player, the menu under the 'Library' tab, 'Media Sharing...'.
Two Vista machines on the same LAN can share media with each other, even if the media is DRM'd (maybe there is a no-sharing flag available.) there are a number of restrictions that lock it down to local use only, but the protocol works with the XBOX 360 and many 3rd party devices. (to play DRM files, the device needs to support it)
WMP 11 on XP only has server-side functionality built in, while the XBOX 360 is client only, so it can be used without Vista.
This is separate from the 'Media Center Extender'
Myself, at home I use Hauppage MVP's which are incompatible, and run Linux themselves, but I'm trying to write a conversion layer so they'll play media from MCE/WMC. DRM wouldn't work, but I avoid DRM media myself.
Even if you encrypt your private/incriminating documents, many parts and hints of them remain. For example, application temp files, thumbnails, recently used lists, page file, clipboard, dead space in disk sectors, browser history, saved login credentials...
A solution I suggest is to first create an encrypted drive (such as with TrueCrypt) and install 'portable' Virtual Machine software on the encrypted drive, and run any application that uses your confidential data within that VM.
The result should be that any system data that changes as a result of using the private data would be isolated to the Virtual 'sandbox', which is wholly contained within the encrypted partition. Ideally, anyone who then obtains your hardware without your authorization won't even have any clues as to the nature of the hidden data.
Not perfect, unless the Virtual Machine was designed for that reason. I believe many allow sharing the clipboard, and may themselves get swapped out to the host machines unencrypted disk, But you may reduce the leaked information to a small fraction of the leaks from just encrypting your documents.
You'll also want to use an encrypted connection to a network proxy.
I actually did contract test work at Microsoft, testing a Vista component that used the network.
So I ran its networking through a seperate machine that ran ethereal, and studied the logs in great detail. I also watched for any 'privacy issues'. Basically, anytime Vista 'phones home' it's required to be by the user Opt-In, and never as a default. If you didn't read the EULA/Privacy Policy, etc. and just kept hitting 'I Agree', 'Accept' and 'Next' every dialog... you might get some things you didn't expect
say you visit a HTTPS url... aside from what actually appears on the page (content + ads) you may need: the digital certificates for the signing authority, revocation lists, accurate time, to check for expiration, DNS, Sytle Sheets, DTDs... a lot of that can be cached, but at some point they may be automatically downloaded.
Playing a (non-DRM) song?, you may get the album information automatically.
Plus all the non-MS software 'phoning home', Adobe Acrobat reader, Quicktime Updater, HP printer drivers, anti-virus updates, *Peer Guardian blocklist updates*
As for the incoming connections mentioned in the article, it seems well within Homeland Securities domain to scan for botnet and such infected machines, in order to defend against DOS attacks on critical infrastructure (like root DNS servers).
I once did a Google search for 'attrs' using Firefox on a Linux box. What popped up was a box asking me to accept a Department of Defense digital signature, served from a DOD server.
why? Google had suggested I was looking for 'atrrs' which was a DOD term, and Firefox tried to pre-load the first result, which was a DOD run website, which popped up the certificate from a site I did not intend to visit! If there is a conspiracy, then Google, Mozilla, and Slackware are in on it.
Perhaps, a prior universe had a different set of dimensions.
string theory may point to there being about about 10-11 dimensions I think depending on if Time is counted as a dimension. aside from the three(or four) we use often, there are 7 other dimensions that loop back upon themselves in the tiniest of distances.
My thought is, that the smallest 'things' that we can figure exist (bosons, mesons, photons...) are what they are depending upon which combination of those 7 dimensions they are looped around. Perhaps if a particle has Mass, it's looped around dimension 5, if it has Magnetism dimension 6, Strong force 7, Weak force 8... if two particles are looped around the same dimension, they will attact each other because they 'pinch' that dimensional 'tube' (instead of the classic model of a depression in a rubber sheet)
When a Universe collapses, its unbounded dimensions (in our case, up/down, left/right, and forward/back) may collapse into a closed loop, while presently closed loop dimension might break open and expand, each time giving a different combination of dimensions, and therefore forces.
The only fair way to prevent those born rich from staying rich is to confiscate all babies at birth, and randomly reassign them to other parents. (or raise them all in institutions).
Money can buy an advantage, in games, politics, life, employment, etc. etc. that's what money is FOR. If you couldn't improve the situation of you and yours with it, why would anyone want it?
Money is a unit of convienient conversion. A specific amount of money will buy a given amount of gasoline, electricity, time of a skilled professional, or more time of unskilled labor, ounces of gold, tons of granite, real estate...
It's a great improvment over the barter system, since if you have X hours of time available as a Web Developer, you can aquire Y slices of Pizza, even if noone who has excess Pizza needs a Web Designed.
If I have a loaf of bread, and you have a jar of jelly, we are both better off trading some bread for some jelly, and both having sandwiches. But if I have the bread, and I want butter on it, and you only have jelly... well, your fingers are gonna get sticky. Unless, you can give me something symbolic to represent the intrinsic value of an amount of bread, and I'll give you some bread, then take the symbolic object to someone with butter, and trade it for butter, then the butter guy gives you the object when he needs jelly...
If there is a need to stop distracted driving, how about external distractions?
Ban all road-visable billboards, bumper/window stickers, vanity license plates, car colors other than black, white, or grey, and roof over all roadways so nothing in the sky can distract.
Well, just the act of suing an independant rating system for giving him a bad rating (rather than deciding, for the good of his industry, to give some counseling on how lawyers likely should be rated), shows a certain amount of petulance and a certain amount of wanting his reputation to remain unquantized.
In short: I'm never hiring this asshole.
Well, how do you plan to defend against those charges of child molestation?
Matlock never lost a case... maybe you could hire him.
Then I concatenated the arrays together, giving a little less than 1.2 TB of space from 1.6 TB of drives; if I had just RAID'd the 4 300 gig drives, and mirrored the 200's I would have only had 1.1 TB available, and the drive accesses would be imbalanced.
I could also grow the array, since it was built as concatenated, so later when I got 4 400GB drives I raided them then tacked them on for 2.4 TB total.
When this idea was 'invented', web browsers were new, and the idea of a browser plug-in was to allow the playing of media, like.GIF's,.WAV's, and.FLI's on a web page.
Taking that idea of a plug in, writing one that makes it's own connection to a server to provide interactive data appears to be the basic 'invention'.
When I looked through Google Groups (USENET Archive) I could find nothing mentioned prior to then that mentioned an interactive plugin.
My thought is, because it's such a bad, horrible, wrong idea.
Browser plug-ins are not portable, between platforms, OS's or browsers. They run in native code, and need hardware access to render video/audio and access the network making them difficult to secure. They hurt maintainability, accessability and localizability. They can be used for DOS attacks on third parties. Have version compatibility issues, etc. etc. You're basically throwing away the entire point of a standards based browser, in favor of a single-use executable.
Patenting browser plugins that get embedded in pages was like patenting shooting yourself in the foot.
A couple years ago while studying p2p protocols, and contemplating writing one myself to release anonymously. I wrote a program that emulated a Kazaa node with the ability to monitor and modify traffic passing through it.
I then added the ability to query and download files, and while experimenting with making it cache queries to others, added a slight bug, in that instead of giving the actual address of the resource, it kept spitting out my address... Shortly after, I realized I had a dandy means for a DOS attack if I wanted to.
Hopefully modern p2p is more secure, but I doubt it.
Slashdot Mirror
Vista comes with home network media sharing (in Windows Media Player, the menu under the 'Library' tab, 'Media Sharing...'.
Two Vista machines on the same LAN can share media with each other, even if the media is DRM'd (maybe there is a no-sharing flag available.) there are a number of restrictions that lock it down to local use only, but the protocol works with the XBOX 360 and many 3rd party devices. (to play DRM files, the device needs to support it)
WMP 11 on XP only has server-side functionality built in, while the XBOX 360 is client only, so it can be used without Vista.
This is separate from the 'Media Center Extender'
Myself, at home I use Hauppage MVP's which are incompatible, and run Linux themselves, but I'm trying to write a conversion layer so they'll play media from MCE/WMC. DRM wouldn't work, but I avoid DRM media myself.
Wow, and what if the guy they were looking for was the one who stole your car, and was escaping in it?
Even if you encrypt your private/incriminating documents, many parts and hints of them remain. For example, application temp files, thumbnails, recently used lists, page file, clipboard, dead space in disk sectors, browser history, saved login credentials...
A solution I suggest is to first create an encrypted drive (such as with TrueCrypt) and install 'portable' Virtual Machine software on the encrypted drive, and run any application that uses your confidential data within that VM.
The result should be that any system data that changes as a result of using the private data would be isolated to the Virtual 'sandbox', which is wholly contained within the encrypted partition. Ideally, anyone who then obtains your hardware without your authorization won't even have any clues as to the nature of the hidden data.
Not perfect, unless the Virtual Machine was designed for that reason. I believe many allow sharing the clipboard, and may themselves get swapped out to the host machines unencrypted disk, But you may reduce the leaked information to a small fraction of the leaks from just encrypting your documents.
You'll also want to use an encrypted connection to a network proxy.
Any technology that is distinguisable from magic is insufficently advanced
I actually did contract test work at Microsoft, testing a Vista component that used the network.
So I ran its networking through a seperate machine that ran ethereal, and studied the logs in great detail. I also watched for any 'privacy issues'. Basically, anytime Vista 'phones home' it's required to be by the user Opt-In, and never as a default. If you didn't read the EULA/Privacy Policy, etc. and just kept hitting 'I Agree', 'Accept' and 'Next' every dialog... you might get some things you didn't expect
say you visit a HTTPS url... aside from what actually appears on the page (content + ads) you may need: the digital certificates for the signing authority, revocation lists, accurate time, to check for expiration, DNS, Sytle Sheets, DTDs... a lot of that can be cached, but at some point they may be automatically downloaded.
Playing a (non-DRM) song?, you may get the album information automatically.
Plus all the non-MS software 'phoning home', Adobe Acrobat reader, Quicktime Updater, HP printer drivers, anti-virus updates, *Peer Guardian blocklist updates*
As for the incoming connections mentioned in the article, it seems well within Homeland Securities domain to scan for botnet and such infected machines, in order to defend against DOS attacks on critical infrastructure (like root DNS servers).
I once did a Google search for 'attrs' using Firefox on a Linux box. What popped up was a box asking me to accept a Department of Defense digital signature, served from a DOD server.
why? Google had suggested I was looking for 'atrrs' which was a DOD term, and Firefox tried to pre-load the first result, which was a DOD run website, which popped up the certificate from a site I did not intend to visit! If there is a conspiracy, then Google, Mozilla, and Slackware are in on it.
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane laughter]
Why not just force them to share their Fiber lines like the Copper lines?
as for the battery life, couldn't you just plug the transformer into a UPS/generator?
If there are no damages, you can't sue (using tort law).
However, there is no such requirement for criminal charges.
I just hope that the next president doesn't give blanket pardons to the previous administration.
I think using a domestic vacuum cleaner on electronics is a bad idea, I've heard they generate a bit of static electricity...
Perhaps, a prior universe had a different set of dimensions.
string theory may point to there being about about 10-11 dimensions I think depending on if Time is counted as a dimension. aside from the three(or four) we use often, there are 7 other dimensions that loop back upon themselves in the tiniest of distances.
My thought is, that the smallest 'things' that we can figure exist (bosons, mesons, photons...) are what they are depending upon which combination of those 7 dimensions they are looped around. Perhaps if a particle has Mass, it's looped around dimension 5, if it has Magnetism dimension 6, Strong force 7, Weak force 8... if two particles are looped around the same dimension, they will attact each other because they 'pinch' that dimensional 'tube' (instead of the classic model of a depression in a rubber sheet)
When a Universe collapses, its unbounded dimensions (in our case, up/down, left/right, and forward/back) may collapse into a closed loop, while presently closed loop dimension might break open and expand, each time giving a different combination of dimensions, and therefore forces.
They can smell fear.
If you are a novice user alone with a machine it will crash, just to taunt you.
However, if a confident tech support person is watching, it will know not to crash.
Remember, your computer HATES you, and wants nothing less than your total mental destruction, meatbag.
I'd rather have $250 in remorse than $700...
The only fair way to prevent those born rich from staying rich is to confiscate all babies at birth, and randomly reassign them to other parents. (or raise them all in institutions).
Money can buy an advantage, in games, politics, life, employment, etc. etc. that's what money is FOR. If you couldn't improve the situation of you and yours with it, why would anyone want it?
Money is a unit of convienient conversion. A specific amount of money will buy a given amount of gasoline, electricity, time of a skilled professional, or more time of unskilled labor, ounces of gold, tons of granite, real estate...
It's a great improvment over the barter system, since if you have X hours of time available as a Web Developer, you can aquire Y slices of Pizza, even if noone who has excess Pizza needs a Web Designed.
If I have a loaf of bread, and you have a jar of jelly, we are both better off trading some bread for some jelly, and both having sandwiches. But if I have the bread, and I want butter on it, and you only have jelly... well, your fingers are gonna get sticky. Unless, you can give me something symbolic to represent the intrinsic value of an amount of bread, and I'll give you some bread, then take the symbolic object to someone with butter, and trade it for butter, then the butter guy gives you the object when he needs jelly...
If there is a need to stop distracted driving, how about external distractions?
Ban all road-visable billboards, bumper/window stickers, vanity license plates, car colors other than black, white, or grey, and roof over all roadways so nothing in the sky can distract.
Anyone who looks at the pictures dies in seven days.
How does this differ from Microsoft (and other corporations) being required to retain e-mail logs?
It's not uncommon for a court to order data retention.
I once found an online game that allowed me to bet negative amounts, so I lost a lot.
Until I bet negative one billion... and crashed it.
Well, just the act of suing an independant rating system for giving him a bad rating (rather than deciding, for the good of his industry, to give some counseling on how lawyers likely should be rated), shows a certain amount of petulance and a certain amount of wanting his reputation to remain unquantized.
In short: I'm never hiring this asshole.
Well, how do you plan to defend against those charges of child molestation?
Matlock never lost a case... maybe you could hire him.
So, how do you decline a EULA?
Do you just send the item back to the seller?, who pays shipping?
Imagine if a few hundred people each ordered a new PC, and found they disliked the EULA, so returned them all?
It sounds just like Peer Guardian, except it uses PG's block list as an allow list, and vice versa...
You can put RAID 5 on varying size disks.
I had 4 300GB drives, and 2 200GB drives.
I broke them up into 100GB partitions, and layed out the RAID arrays:
A1 = [D1P1 D2P1 D3P1 D5P1]
A2 = [D1P2 D2P2 D4P1 D6P1]
A3 = [D1P3 D3P2 D4P2 D5P2]
A4 = [D2P3 D3P3 D4P3 D6P1]
Then I concatenated the arrays together, giving a little less than 1.2 TB of space from 1.6 TB of drives; if I had just RAID'd the 4 300 gig drives, and mirrored the 200's I would have only had 1.1 TB available, and the drive accesses would be imbalanced.
I could also grow the array, since it was built as concatenated, so later when I got 4 400GB drives I raided them then tacked them on for 2.4 TB total.
When this idea was 'invented', web browsers were new, and the idea of a browser plug-in was to allow the playing of media, like .GIF's, .WAV's, and .FLI's on a web page.
Taking that idea of a plug in, writing one that makes it's own connection to a server to provide interactive data appears to be the basic 'invention'.
When I looked through Google Groups (USENET Archive) I could find nothing mentioned prior to then that mentioned an interactive plugin.
My thought is, because it's such a bad, horrible, wrong idea.
Browser plug-ins are not portable, between platforms, OS's or browsers. They run in native code, and need hardware access to render video/audio and access the network making them difficult to secure. They hurt maintainability, accessability and localizability. They can be used for DOS attacks on third parties. Have version compatibility issues, etc. etc. You're basically throwing away the entire point of a standards based browser, in favor of a single-use executable.
Patenting browser plugins that get embedded in pages was like patenting shooting yourself in the foot.
A couple years ago while studying p2p protocols, and contemplating writing one myself to release anonymously. I wrote a program that emulated a Kazaa node with the ability to monitor and modify traffic passing through it.
I then added the ability to query and download files, and while experimenting with making it cache queries to others, added a slight bug, in that instead of giving the actual address of the resource, it kept spitting out my address... Shortly after, I realized I had a dandy means for a DOS attack if I wanted to.
Hopefully modern p2p is more secure, but I doubt it.
Apperently, I grew up next door to a child molester.
However, I didn't know this until I was an adult. He apperently molested 30-40 boys in the neighborhood, but not me.
I was right next door, but I was never chosen, what was wrong with me? Why didn't he choose me? being neglected was a heavy blow to my self esteem.
Several of the posts appear to mention someone at the game company being fired.
If so, there is no way they would give any details, for fear of a lawsuit by the now former employee.