I recall there was a proof of concept modification of GCC that would add itself to any GCC complied with it, a Compiler Virus...
How about a program that specifically attacks chip design software, and adds malware to any chips that are layed out for production. With the millions of transistors on a modern chip, who would notice a few more? and who would know that multiplying 563473563 by 756481984 turns off all memory access interupts, allowing the following instructions to read/write anything they want?
What about wireless multicasting?, there could be transmission towers in every large city, and they could use some wireless technology to send images and audio into everyones home.
oh, wait.
anyway, there are these neat things called 'forward error correction' and 'fountain codes'; where you add parity to the data as you send it out, so that if a few bits are missing, the loss can be dectected, and if small enough, corrected. Like RAID, but for data streams instead of storage. A digital signal receiver could snag the packets it's interested in from a dense stream or multiple channels, and decode onto a local disk for buffering.
Shows would be fed into a fountain code generator, which would start spewing out small packets of data at intervals for the next week, which would then be broadcast over the area, with interested parties capturing packets until they have the complete show stored. cheap receivers might only listen to one radio frequency at a time, while top-end ones could snag and decode dozens of channels simultainiously (for an apartment building/hotel or such)
A content provider could encrypt programs, so that if a new episode would normally air on sunday night, the program could be streamed and collected before then, and at the appointed time the encryption key is broadcast, also handy for pay per view. if small, critical parts are missing, or the viewer wasn't planning on watching the until the last moment, the missing bits could be single-cast over wires.
This could still work for 'live' events, if enough channel space was reserved during the event, even with priority given to live events, everything else could squeeze into the gaps
would work, from the users viewpoint like a Tivo/ReplayTV/other DVR.
add some flags for the Emergency Broadcast System (do current HDTV standards accommidate EBS?)
Well, Microsoft, technically does have a government granted monopoly, along with most other companies and artists; in the form of government granted patents and copyrights, so I suppose a strict interpretation of the term can apply.
They did sell a version of XP in Europe without Media Player, that being XP 'N' edition.
Most of it's sales were people buying it by mistake.
Media player I could live without, but a version of Windows without Internet Explorer would be utterly stupid... have you ever tried to download a web browser without already having a browser? It's like buying a car without tires.
The people, who if I were them, would be pissed off the most about this... (aside from english teachers for that phrasing) one of the game developers who was working on a game that would have been great, but the company died for lack of funding.
Imaging the number of student game developers who could have made retail products given a share of that much money.
we could have had a shitload of games ported to Linux and/or Macintosh, if the funds were applied directly to something like Cedega... but instead, not just the money itself is lost, it also makes the game industry as a whole look bad.
I wonder if Jack Thompson is connected to the Phantom?
It's my understanding that those laws were origionally written for government granted monoplies, such as Phone, Electric, Garbage, Water, Sewer, and Gravity providers.
The idea being that you can't have 12 different electric lines, 8 different water pipes, and a half dozen fleets of garbage trucks servicing the same neighborhood, so the local government decides which single company will provide each service. You used to only be allowed to use phone company phones on phone company lines, at an outragous markup.
In a true Monopoly, there is only, and literally one provider.
In Microsoft's case, I have never heard of a government agency requiring ordinary citizens (not contractors/vendors to the agency) to use Windows.
While MS's methods of gaining dominance in the market may not have always been nice; but as a public, for-profit corporation, they are obligated to make as much money as they reasonably and legally can, without violating their corporate charter; or they could be sued by their shareholders.
I'd rather get in trouble for doing my job too well, than not well enough.
But, in the end, whatever the highest judge says, is effectivly the law, even if they are wrong as to a strict interpretion of the law, Microsoft was getting too powerful.
Take for example the little bluetooth dongle I have sitting in the back of my PC, I use it with my palm Lifedrive, and a VNC client to remote into my desktop from nearly anywhere in the house, or in reasonable range outside.
with a hop, skip and a jump... at home I have Palm VNC over TCP/IP over Bluetooth to the Windows box, network connection shared to the Linux box, which is running DVArchive (a ReplayTV emulator) in a Java VM, which uses HTTP/UPnP to connect to my ReplayTV DVR, and I can change TV channels from my handheld.
Just slip a self-installing, invisible VNC server onto the bank computer (hopefully not easy), along with a tiny bluetooth dongle, and have your way with their network remotely, and continuosly
The USB dongle was quasi-free; $15, with a $15 rebate (which I have never received, just like the last 4 rebates I submitted from things bought at Fry's...) so if I never got it back, no huge loss.
I'd go for a 50/50 chance of death to get into space; not that they would take me.
But the very nature of an ICU is that without it the person would be dead; while without a space program astronauts would be perfectly safe.
Hospitals have enough liability problems without making them share the blame for a malicious outside attack.
What would be an interesting question; is if for example someone was shot and in Intensive Care, and some malware stuck and the patient died... Who would be the murderer?, the Shooter or the Programmer? Could both be convicted for seperate acts that contributed to the death? (Say, Attempted Murder for the shooter, and Manslaughter for the programmer), or could both be convicted of the same murder?
Probably not a new question, consider if someone was stabbed, and the ambulance was hit by a drunk driver, and the delay caused the patient to die... dosn't require fancy computers.
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like hiring a Supermodel to wash the dishes.
like buying a BMW and filling up at ARCO.
like renting out a Mansion for your cats.
You can love France, and still hate the French.
Just like the only thing bad about the South, is Southerners.
I just want one drive that'll play HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and Laserdisc.
Yes you have...
How many Seconds in a Minute?
How many Minutes in a Hour?
I recall there was a proof of concept modification of GCC that would add itself to any GCC complied with it, a Compiler Virus...
How about a program that specifically attacks chip design software, and adds malware to any chips that are layed out for production. With the millions of transistors on a modern chip, who would notice a few more? and who would know that multiplying 563473563 by 756481984 turns off all memory access interupts, allowing the following instructions to read/write anything they want?
There's plenty of food, the usual cause of starvation nowdays is government denying food to portions of their own population.
Mr. Dictator would rather feed his army, than the people who might depose him.
Is that Google might just show the ends of books.
Imagine Googling "Star Wars" and the results are:
Leia is Lukes Sister
Darth Vader is Lukes Father
Lando turns them in
Mitochoridians cause the force
Snape kills Dumbledore
Google 'attrs'
But that would imply that Sun and MS are on the same side, which considering Java...
What about wireless multicasting?, there could be transmission towers in every large city, and they could use some wireless technology to send images and audio into everyones home.
oh, wait.
anyway, there are these neat things called 'forward error correction' and 'fountain codes'; where you add parity to the data as you send it out, so that if a few bits are missing, the loss can be dectected, and if small enough, corrected. Like RAID, but for data streams instead of storage. A digital signal receiver could snag the packets it's interested in from a dense stream or multiple channels, and decode onto a local disk for buffering.
Shows would be fed into a fountain code generator, which would start spewing out small packets of data at intervals for the next week, which would then be broadcast over the area, with interested parties capturing packets until they have the complete show stored. cheap receivers might only listen to one radio frequency at a time, while top-end ones could snag and decode dozens of channels simultainiously (for an apartment building/hotel or such)
A content provider could encrypt programs, so that if a new episode would normally air on sunday night, the program could be streamed and collected before then, and at the appointed time the encryption key is broadcast, also handy for pay per view. if small, critical parts are missing, or the viewer wasn't planning on watching the until the last moment, the missing bits could be single-cast over wires.
This could still work for 'live' events, if enough channel space was reserved during the event, even with priority given to live events, everything else could squeeze into the gaps
would work, from the users viewpoint like a Tivo/ReplayTV/other DVR.
add some flags for the Emergency Broadcast System (do current HDTV standards accommidate EBS?)
Who would expect a group of Republicans to do anything against any large business?
If anything can be said to support Microsoft, at least they don't make tobacco products.
Here's your new puppy.
No, you can't take it out of the cage, because you might kill it.
But you can look at it all you want, you just arn't allowed to pet it.
Well, you can pet it, but only if you wear these boxing gloves so you can't actually feel it.
Why? because there are some naughty children who would hurt the puppy.
I know you wouldn't hurt the puppy.
Yes, I know you paid for it, fed it, and love it.
But you still can't touch him.
Isn't he cute though?
Are those keys in your pocket?
You arn't allowed to have keys anymore.
Because you might try to unlock the cage.
It doesn't matter if those are the keys to your house, you arn't allowed to have them.
No, even if you don't buy the puppy, it's illegal to have keys, because you might hurt puppies.
Your dad is a Locksmith? I'm calling the police.
Well, Microsoft, technically does have a government granted monopoly, along with most other companies and artists; in the form of government granted patents and copyrights, so I suppose a strict interpretation of the term can apply.
They did sell a version of XP in Europe without Media Player, that being XP 'N' edition.
Most of it's sales were people buying it by mistake.
Media player I could live without, but a version of Windows without Internet Explorer would be utterly stupid... have you ever tried to download a web browser without already having a browser? It's like buying a car without tires.
If you speak three languages, you're trilingual
If you speak two languages, you're bilingual
If you speak only one language... you're an American.
Iraq, and Gitmo arn't in the US...
The people, who if I were them, would be pissed off the most about this... (aside from english teachers for that phrasing) one of the game developers who was working on a game that would have been great, but the company died for lack of funding.
Imaging the number of student game developers who could have made retail products given a share of that much money.
we could have had a shitload of games ported to Linux and/or Macintosh, if the funds were applied directly to something like Cedega... but instead, not just the money itself is lost, it also makes the game industry as a whole look bad.
I wonder if Jack Thompson is connected to the Phantom?
I already know who's going to come out ahead from this whole thing.
The Lawyers.
It's my understanding that those laws were origionally written for government granted monoplies, such as Phone, Electric, Garbage, Water, Sewer, and Gravity providers.
The idea being that you can't have 12 different electric lines, 8 different water pipes, and a half dozen fleets of garbage trucks servicing the same neighborhood, so the local government decides which single company will provide each service. You used to only be allowed to use phone company phones on phone company lines, at an outragous markup.
In a true Monopoly, there is only, and literally one provider.
In Microsoft's case, I have never heard of a government agency requiring ordinary citizens (not contractors/vendors to the agency) to use Windows.
While MS's methods of gaining dominance in the market may not have always been nice; but as a public, for-profit corporation, they are obligated to make as much money as they reasonably and legally can, without violating their corporate charter; or they could be sued by their shareholders.
I'd rather get in trouble for doing my job too well, than not well enough.
But, in the end, whatever the highest judge says, is effectivly the law, even if they are wrong as to a strict interpretion of the law, Microsoft was getting too powerful.
Take for example the little bluetooth dongle I have sitting in the back of my PC, I use it with my palm Lifedrive, and a VNC client to remote into my desktop from nearly anywhere in the house, or in reasonable range outside.
with a hop, skip and a jump... at home I have Palm VNC over TCP/IP over Bluetooth to the Windows box, network connection shared to the Linux box, which is running DVArchive (a ReplayTV emulator) in a Java VM, which uses HTTP/UPnP to connect to my ReplayTV DVR, and I can change TV channels from my handheld.
Just slip a self-installing, invisible VNC server onto the bank computer (hopefully not easy), along with a tiny bluetooth dongle, and have your way with their network remotely, and continuosly
The USB dongle was quasi-free; $15, with a $15 rebate (which I have never received, just like the last 4 rebates I submitted from things bought at Fry's...) so if I never got it back, no huge loss.
"I'm sure people laughed at the brownshirts too."
Only once.
I wouldn't suggest having copyrights last until the creators death...
Murder shouldn't be profitable.
But saying that it has few viruses, is like saying Unicorns don't need rabies shots...
What about cats?, will it make energy and clean water from cats?
I'd go for a 50/50 chance of death to get into space; not that they would take me.
But the very nature of an ICU is that without it the person would be dead; while without a space program astronauts would be perfectly safe.
Hospitals have enough liability problems without making them share the blame for a malicious outside attack.
What would be an interesting question; is if for example someone was shot and in Intensive Care, and some malware stuck and the patient died... Who would be the murderer?, the Shooter or the Programmer? Could both be convicted for seperate acts that contributed to the death? (Say, Attempted Murder for the shooter, and Manslaughter for the programmer), or could both be convicted of the same murder?
Probably not a new question, consider if someone was stabbed, and the ambulance was hit by a drunk driver, and the delay caused the patient to die... dosn't require fancy computers.