I am amused that it took too long to get homebrew running in the Xbox 360... I thought that homebrew was already running.
Funny that in the case of the Wii, homebrew has been running very well since quite some time now.
In fact, due to the terrible "official" releases available for the Wii (all the games are soo boring, or as the guy at Zero Punctuation put it, they seem made for wand-shaking-retards), the homebrew has been a breath of fresh air.
I have had the Wii since the day it came out (I *preordered* it, with high hopes) but it is has been a general disappointment. I am waiting for an OK RPG (not kid-oriented) or an RTS (for which the Wii control would serve really well!)... Although nowadays I guess it would be better to port any of the open source RTS...
I challenged someone to come up with malware that elevates privilege, and you present a site that sells hardware based keyloggers.
Your next challenge is explaining how having a separate computer from the kids will protect it from a hardware keylogger.
*sigh*, I am sorry we all are too fast for you.
1. Get a separate computer from your kids 2. Keep your computer with sensitive information out of reach of your children. 3. Let them buy their keyloggers 4. Avoid unwillingly sharing your work/bank/personal information on the last P2P pirating app that your kids install.
How can you trust that a user hasn't used a privilege escalation to install a rootkit already? You can't trust apt-get, or yum, or anything.
How do you know that the CD image doesn't contain hacked software?
How do you know that the compiler hasn't been hacked in with a hidden precompiled message?
How do you know that the website with the MD5 summaries isn't a Man-In-The-Middle?
At some point, you have to take a good look and decide that it's good enough. And the "compromise" position that you have to take with Linux is sooo much more secure than the Windows alternative. True, I don't know for *sure* that no local users have compromised the systems. But then, I never do, truthfully, anyway. But I do have some pretty strong assurances, and that's good enough for almost anyone.
Privilege escalation? You've got to be kidding me. I challenge you to find an example of malware that attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities. There might be a few out there, but based on my experience administering hundreds of windows boxes used by kids over the last ten years, they are not even remotely common.
In the real world where risk/reward ratio is considered, a separate limited account for the kids is an acceptable solution.
Whether you're talking about encryption software or stego software, if it's a program that not a lot of people have installed, then just by virtue of having it on your machine, you'll attract suspicion if your machine is seized.
Using a portable program like [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/hide-in-picture/]hide-in-picture[/url] along with some easy to use portable GUI to make it easier to hide several files is a suitable solution.
On the one hand, you could have such program (along with any indexing it creates) in a USB thumb drive, or just upload it somewhere in a server where you always have access (thus, you do not need it in your computer while passing through unreliable points).
On the other hand, pictures are something that everyone has in their computers (I have around 4GB of pictures taken with 5megapixel cameras...). Thus, it should be trivial to hide whatever information in such libraries.
The steganography technology already exists, what is still lacking is software which makes it easy and convenient to use it. That is what truecrypt did for cryptography.
The issue is with truecrypt (or other crypto program) is that even when using a portable version, a fast WinDirStat scan will yield some big files.
So private uncommercial sharing has to stay criminalized just _in order_ artists can earn money from their art? Why do they _have_ to live from their art? Just because someone says so? Cant they just do something else not based on enforcement of a artificial scarcity (copyright) and do their art as a hobby in their free time, like they did for thousands and thousands of years before copyright?
Do we as a society at large really want to support criminalizing our fellow filesharers just in order to enable a certain activity (art) to be performed at a professional, for-profit level? I know the industry wants that, but do _we_, the democratic majority, really want this?
You raise some interesting points. I thing what *we* want is a compromise. Everybody wants to get something from their work, whatever that work is. It may be art, science, technology, etc.
The case of "art" is a complex one. Take as an example a Painting. An original painting, say by Octavio Ocampo may sell around 2,000 US dollars. However, the "digital" representation of such work should be free.
In a similar way, in theatre, when someone participates in a play, they should be payed, however, the *digital* version of such play should be free. The first one requires an effort while the last one (digital distribution) is free.
Finally, going into musical art. The live performances should be charged while the recording should be free. The problem here comes with the fact that the authors must make an effort to create the digital version (like studio time and cost). The question is how do we pay that?
See, we rush to take this as an inevitable conclusion, but we could still be here arguing over illiegal immigration, voting on American Idol, and crying over Soap Opera weddings. If we don't try, it won't just happen.
Just to put some perspective, the low-end side of the date is Five hundred million or:
500,000,000
The human civilization has only been around for about 6000 years (from say,bronze age to Today).
This means that, when the sun starts getting unsuitable to life, civilization will have advanced for 499,994,000 years.
Somehow I think that, at that time either humanity has destroyed itself (or the planet, while playing their "nuclear energy" toys) or has matured enough to migrate to whatever other planet is suitable for life.
We don't need a new Beatles or Beach Boys, we need a new Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd!
I like to think of Dream Theater as similar to the bands you name. They have had some nice "concept albums" (Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory and A change of Seasons).
I agree that concept albums were really good. However, I think it is an "old people thing" to spend time listening to music.
Did you look funny at your parents or grandparents when they told you they used to turn on the radio at 5:00 to listen to X or Y program or music?
I guess kids these days think the same when they watch us playing our CD's (I am 28).
Erm... Right. Or we could just compare the notoriously bad working conditions in countries like the US and Japan with the conditions in places like Europe, Scandanavia, Australia and New Zealand. It's a shame
Just a note about the "unemployment" in Germany and maybe the UK:
In Germany, being unemployed means that the government gives you money to pay for your flat and to live a modest life. In total, it is 700 Euro ($990) per month. And that is just for one person, if both you and your partner are jobless, you will get some quantity (I am not sure if it is the same) x 2.
I know it the UK they have some unemployment payment scheme as well, where government also gets unemployed people housing (in Wales... [un]fortunately ). Even then, people can opt to sell the "big issue" and grab some spare cash for a Pint. I still do not know if in Germany it is possible to get an income while claiming unemployment cash.
However, I do know that it is possible to work (albeit, illegally) while receiving unemployment cash in Germany.
Thus, a lot of people which are jobless in Germany are so, not because there are no jobs but because they just not want to work. Everytime I walk around the streets of the German city where I live, I despise when some random guy is sitting in the street asking for some spare change. Just because I know they only want the money to get more beer.
Well I live in Germany and here Italian expatriates make the ice cream - and they use milk and cream instead of water - and still the cost of the materials is tiny compared to all over price.
And this is what I wanted to transport to OP: That paper and ink might not the largest cost in the producing a book.
Funny that I am living in Germany nowadays. And the Italian expats you talk about really make a great business of selling icecream. Fortunately some of the icecream they make is made of just wather (ohne milch).
But, returning to the main point. In Germany, people can expect to make at least 700 Euro from making icecream. Otherwise, they can opt for government's payment. Whereas in other countires the price of the labour must be priced cheaper and thus, ice-cream maker can only *dream* of getting 700 Euro a month (shit, even when I was working as a full time software developer in Mexico I got only about 400 euro).
Eh, this is relevant, not redundant. There are plenty of NSFW sites that could have been referenced in that post, so many people can't safely check for themselves where that IP goes.
That depends where you produce it. In Mexico, ice cream makers usually do not expect to get rich with their trade. And the most difficult thing for them is to buy the fresh fruit and the "cooked water"
Of course, I meant OpenOffice xhtml exporter!! *that* other expensive ("why is it so expensive?") propietary office application does not even export to xhtml!
I saw that offer from a quick search in Google. However, here in Germany those offers are really common ($1 netbook w/contract) and a similar contract with an iPhone is considerably more expensive.
So, using your same logic, a netbook is almost a hundred times cheaper than an iPhone.
You as well as other guy before have raised the point about that result.
In my opinion that is an advantage. Google results are sometimes so skewed towards "comptuer" related terms that you get lost in all the technical terms while actually looking for something about "real life" (try looking for "Gnu" for example).
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I am amused that it took too long to get homebrew running in the Xbox 360... I thought that homebrew was already running.
Funny that in the case of the Wii, homebrew has been running very well since quite some time now.
In fact, due to the terrible "official" releases available for the Wii (all the games are soo boring, or as the guy at Zero Punctuation put it, they seem made for wand-shaking-retards), the homebrew has been a breath of fresh air.
I have had the Wii since the day it came out (I *preordered* it, with high hopes) but it is has been a general disappointment. I am waiting for an OK RPG (not kid-oriented) or an RTS (for which the Wii control would serve really well!)...
Although nowadays I guess it would be better to port any of the open source RTS...
Stop crying, there is a place where you can write about your beloved Pidgey.
Mmm MD5?
LOL at your ridiculous strawman.
I challenged someone to come up with malware that elevates privilege, and you present a site that sells hardware based keyloggers.
Your next challenge is explaining how having a separate computer from the kids will protect it from a hardware keylogger.
*sigh*, I am sorry we all are too fast for you.
1. Get a separate computer from your kids
2. Keep your computer with sensitive information out of reach of your children.
3. Let them buy their keyloggers
4. Avoid unwillingly sharing your work/bank/personal information on the last P2P pirating app that your kids install.
mail come in physical form?
Of course, don't you know how much does information weight?
How can you trust that a user hasn't used a privilege escalation to install a rootkit already? You can't trust apt-get, or yum, or anything.
How do you know that the CD image doesn't contain hacked software?
How do you know that the compiler hasn't been hacked in with a hidden precompiled message?
How do you know that the website with the MD5 summaries isn't a Man-In-The-Middle?
At some point, you have to take a good look and decide that it's good enough. And the "compromise" position that you have to take with Linux is sooo much more secure than the Windows alternative. True, I don't know for *sure* that no local users have compromised the systems. But then, I never do, truthfully, anyway. But I do have some pretty strong assurances, and that's good enough for almost anyone.
All those simple problems were solved 10 years ago.
It is just a matter of downloading/printing/reading/compiling/done.
Oh, and yeah, I made my own compiler in assembler (one cannot be sure that those binary compilers do not inject bad code to the a.out !)
Howdy fuck, that guy is completely gross. I didn't know Stallman was that dirty. That is the most disgusting thing I have seen in a while.
Windows, on the other hand, STILL, TODAY, HAS local root exploits that are plain UNPATCHED.
[citation needed]
Preferably for:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Privilege escalation? You've got to be kidding me. I challenge you to find an example of malware that attempts to exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities. There might be a few out there, but based on my experience administering hundreds of windows boxes used by kids over the last ten years, they are not even remotely common.
In the real world where risk/reward ratio is considered, a separate limited account for the kids is an acceptable solution.
LOL at your experience.
Challenge Accepted.
Any kiddo only needs 5 minutes to insert those between your PC and your keyboard to get all your passwords.
Next challenge?
Whether you're talking about encryption software or stego software, if it's a program that not a lot of people have installed, then just by virtue of having it on your machine, you'll attract suspicion if your machine is seized.
Using a portable program like [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/hide-in-picture/]hide-in-picture[/url] along with some easy to use portable GUI to make it easier to hide several files is a suitable solution.
On the one hand, you could have such program (along with any indexing it creates) in a USB thumb drive, or just upload it somewhere in a server where you always have access (thus, you do not need it in your computer while passing through unreliable points).
On the other hand, pictures are something that everyone has in their computers (I have around 4GB of pictures taken with 5megapixel cameras...). Thus, it should be trivial to hide whatever information in such libraries.
The steganography technology already exists, what is still lacking is software which makes it easy and convenient to use it. That is what truecrypt did for cryptography.
The issue is with truecrypt (or other crypto program) is that even when using a portable version, a fast WinDirStat scan will yield some big files.
And people wonder why big companies like Microsoft, IBM and others are in a constant race to patent everything.
> artists have to eat, too
So private uncommercial sharing has to stay criminalized just _in order_ artists can earn money from their art? Why do they _have_ to live from their art? Just because someone says so? Cant they just do something else not based on enforcement of a artificial scarcity (copyright) and do their art as a hobby in their free time, like they did for thousands and thousands of years before copyright?
Do we as a society at large really want to support criminalizing our fellow filesharers just in order to enable a certain activity (art) to be performed at a professional, for-profit level? I know the industry wants that, but do _we_, the democratic majority, really want this?
You raise some interesting points. I thing what *we* want is a compromise. Everybody wants to get something from their work, whatever that work is. It may be art, science, technology, etc.
The case of "art" is a complex one. Take as an example a Painting. An original painting, say by Octavio Ocampo may sell around 2,000 US dollars. However, the "digital" representation of such work should be free.
In a similar way, in theatre, when someone participates in a play, they should be payed, however, the *digital* version of such play should be free. The first one requires an effort while the last one (digital distribution) is free.
Finally, going into musical art. The live performances should be charged while the recording should be free. The problem here comes with the fact that the authors must make an effort to create the digital version (like studio time and cost). The question is how do we pay that?
The problem is
See, we rush to take this as an inevitable conclusion, but we could still be here arguing over illiegal immigration, voting on American Idol, and crying over Soap Opera weddings.
If we don't try, it won't just happen.
Just to put some perspective, the low-end side of the date is Five hundred million or:
500,000,000
The human civilization has only been around for about 6000 years (from say,bronze age to Today).
This means that, when the sun starts getting unsuitable to life, civilization will have advanced for 499,994,000 years.
Somehow I think that, at that time either humanity has destroyed itself (or the planet, while playing their "nuclear energy" toys) or has matured enough to migrate to whatever other planet is suitable for life.
We don't need a new Beatles or Beach Boys, we need a new Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd!
I like to think of Dream Theater as similar to the bands you name. They have had some nice "concept albums" (Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory and A change of Seasons).
I agree that concept albums were really good. However, I think it is an "old people thing" to spend time listening to music.
Did you look funny at your parents or grandparents when they told you they used to turn on the radio at 5:00 to listen to X or Y program or music?
I guess kids these days think the same when they watch us playing our CD's (I am 28).
We already have a "digital album format", which is pretty standard and the extension is usually RAR.
I would prefer the standard to be 7z myself but... one cannot have everything.
someone who will have a good sense of humor when we're both still there at 2 AM, and, of course, someone who has the skills required.
...
You're about to commit 40+ hours a week to working for me
Uh, you work at EA don't you?
I hope I never have to work in your company. And if you must do that in your current work, let me assure you there are better jobs out there!
Erm... Right. Or we could just compare the notoriously bad working conditions in countries like the US and Japan with the conditions in places like Europe, Scandanavia, Australia and New Zealand. It's a shame
Just a note about the "unemployment" in Germany and maybe the UK:
In Germany, being unemployed means that the government gives you money to pay for your flat and to live a modest life. In total, it is 700 Euro ($990) per month. And that is just for one person, if both you and your partner are jobless, you will get some quantity (I am not sure if it is the same) x 2.
I know it the UK they have some unemployment payment scheme as well, where government also gets unemployed people housing (in Wales... [un]fortunately ). Even then, people can opt to sell the "big issue" and grab some spare cash for a Pint. I still do not know if in Germany it is possible to get an income while claiming unemployment cash.
However, I do know that it is possible to work (albeit, illegally) while receiving unemployment cash in Germany.
Thus, a lot of people which are jobless in Germany are so, not because there are no jobs but because they just not want to work. Everytime I walk around the streets of the German city where I live, I despise when some random guy is sitting in the street asking for some spare change. Just because I know they only want the money to get more beer.
Well I live in Germany and here Italian expatriates make the ice cream - and they use milk and cream instead of water - and still the cost of the materials is tiny compared to all over price.
And this is what I wanted to transport to OP: That paper and ink might not the largest cost in the producing a book.
Funny that I am living in Germany nowadays. And the Italian expats you talk about really make a great business of selling icecream. Fortunately some of the icecream they make is made of just wather (ohne milch).
But, returning to the main point. In Germany, people can expect to make at least 700 Euro from making icecream. Otherwise, they can opt for government's payment. Whereas in other countires the price of the labour must be priced cheaper and thus, ice-cream maker can only *dream* of getting 700 Euro a month (shit, even when I was working as a full time software developer in Mexico I got only about 400 euro).
Eh, this is relevant, not redundant. There are plenty of NSFW sites that could have been referenced in that post, so many people can't safely check for themselves where that IP goes.
http://www.zoneedit.com/lookup.html
You're welcome
So you want the Author, the Lector, the Layouter, the Publisher, the Web-Designer, the Server Operator, etc pp to start begging on the street corner?
There was once a report on the production cost of ice cream for a café. The material (milk, fuit, cream) was the smallest part - something around 10% or so and profit the 2nd smallest. Then came the the rent for the outlet and the largest part where staff salaries.
That depends where you produce it. In Mexico, ice cream makers usually do not expect to get rich with their trade. And the most difficult thing for them is to buy the fresh fruit and the "cooked water"
(or Office xhtml exporter)
Of course, I meant OpenOffice xhtml exporter!! *that* other expensive ("why is it so expensive?") propietary office application does not even export to xhtml!
Currently, I'm using my DS, and it's adequate. It can scroll text, html, and pdf. Good return on a $7 cartridge, since I already had a DS.
I second that.
DSLibris + project guttenberg (or Office xhtml exporter) is all I need :)
a $1 netbook?
I saw that offer from a quick search in Google. However, here in Germany those offers are really common ($1 netbook w/contract) and a similar contract with an iPhone is considerably more expensive.
So, using your same logic, a netbook is almost a hundred times cheaper than an iPhone.
This really made me think... given that the Bing service is brand-new, it may be possible to (ab)use it to create something akin to "google bombs".
You as well as other guy before have raised the point about that result.
In my opinion that is an advantage. Google results are sometimes so skewed towards "comptuer" related terms that you get lost in all the technical terms while actually looking for something about "real life" (try looking for "Gnu" for example).