...is there something fishy about trusting Microsoft to manage confidential data?
Yeah, it's better than Passport, where they not only manage the data but store it too -- but for true privacy, shouldn't the relevant code be open for all to see? At least the encryption algorithm, anyway...
Big Brother needs this information to protect us. Big Brother only has our own best interests in mind. We should all love Big Brother.
21 years ahead of Welles' prediction, but still...
Not only can untrained techs cause obvious damage due to a slipped screwdriver etc, but if unaware of ESD damage, a tech can cause random failures of components that can be maddeningly difficult to diagnose. I've seen systems pass intensive memory tests with flying colors half the time, and lock up the other half. No apparent pattern, until I would check the prior work orders and see that Joe Schmo was the last tech to work on the box, last week.
(Joe's name has been changed to protect the clue-challenged, of course.)
As long as PC architecture is open, and PC programs are available that play the DRM'ed audio, there will always be a way to make a digital copy of the audio. Ideally, write an audio output driver that captures everything passed to it in non-DRM format. If nothing else, create a PCI-based sound card that does this same thing in hardware, capturing the signal before it passes to the DAC.
There ought to be a way that BitTorrent could be expanded to regular websites. It's quite possible, except for the legal problems. Perhaps if there were a robots tag specifically allowing this?
ECS and exploding caps go waaay back. I used to see P6IWT-ME boards -- they were infamous for finding a new way to fail every week. Blown caps, cracked heatsink hold-downs, you name it.
I wouldn't use a daughterboard CPU if I were given one. I wouldn't use an ECS board if I were given one. Combining both in one package? Wow. What's the warranty on 'em -- or have they dropped that?
PVMPOV (a parallel build of POV-Ray) is impressive on a large cluster -- first demonstrate it running on one unit, then on the entire cluster, for effect.
Big Brother says that you should trust your ASP.
Big Brother says that local computing is inefficient and slow and unnecessary.
We should all trust Big Brother.
</sarcasm>
A computer based on the premise of relying on someone else to host your applications would be so scary as to make running standalone apps on WinME look at least as individualistic and techno-savvy as compiling your own Linux kernel is now. Browsing the Web for information is one thing; relying on an ASP not under your control for basic computing is quite another.
I'm not sure what would be scarier -- the privacy issues or the lack of reliability.
They can have my local computing capability when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers, thankyouverymuch.
Just make sure it's done right; we were in a hotel with Wi-Fi pay-per-day access; turned out that they were only blocking port 80. SSH over to my Linux gateway at home, set up a proxy on 8080, name its IP in the browser and we were surfing...
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...is there something fishy about trusting Microsoft to manage confidential data?
Yeah, it's better than Passport, where they not only manage the data but store it too -- but for true privacy, shouldn't the relevant code be open for all to see? At least the encryption algorithm, anyway...
Yes -- thanks. (Oops.)
Big Brother needs this information to protect us. Big Brother only has our own best interests in mind. We should all love Big Brother. 21 years ahead of Welles' prediction, but still...
Not only can untrained techs cause obvious damage due to a slipped screwdriver etc, but if unaware of ESD damage, a tech can cause random failures of components that can be maddeningly difficult to diagnose. I've seen systems pass intensive memory tests with flying colors half the time, and lock up the other half. No apparent pattern, until I would check the prior work orders and see that Joe Schmo was the last tech to work on the box, last week. (Joe's name has been changed to protect the clue-challenged, of course.)
Badgerbadgerbadger... (C'mon -- *someone* had to say it...)
As long as PC architecture is open, and PC programs are available that play the DRM'ed audio, there will always be a way to make a digital copy of the audio. Ideally, write an audio output driver that captures everything passed to it in non-DRM format. If nothing else, create a PCI-based sound card that does this same thing in hardware, capturing the signal before it passes to the DAC.
If it helps knock the zombie effectively offline, the user is more likely to notice that there's a problem.
Automatic DDOS of spammers. Very cool!
...and DOWN it goes!
There ought to be a way that BitTorrent could be expanded to regular websites. It's quite possible, except for the legal problems. Perhaps if there were a robots tag specifically allowing this?
What a concept! Wow!
With all of these great works online, will the masses bother to read them?
I know. Depressing, isn't it?
It probably discusses *gasp* Evolution.
Apparently that's no longer in fashion, among the "Intelligent Design" proponents...
...that the theater owners think that showing science films is too controversial or not interesting to the general public...
...or that they're probably right.
Yes, but a quick visit to a sports page could certainly pay off handsomely, if you're the only one in the office pool who has inside information!
(Like your ISP, though, don't get caught!)
Found via Google... http://strawberry.resnet.mtu.edu/pub/gcc/gcc/snaps hots/4.0-20050109/
What next, a ShotgunRack class?
ECS and exploding caps go waaay back. I used to see P6IWT-ME boards -- they were infamous for finding a new way to fail every week. Blown caps, cracked heatsink hold-downs, you name it. I wouldn't use a daughterboard CPU if I were given one. I wouldn't use an ECS board if I were given one. Combining both in one package? Wow. What's the warranty on 'em -- or have they dropped that?
PVMPOV (a parallel build of POV-Ray) is impressive on a large cluster -- first demonstrate it running on one unit, then on the entire cluster, for effect.
Hmm. I might just; I have an OnHand watch PC!
Assuming YGGDRASIL ~= Overclockix... YGGDRASIL Gormly Groks Daunting Recursive Applications Stressing Integrated-circuit Logic
Big Brother says that you should trust your ASP.
Big Brother says that local computing is inefficient and slow and unnecessary. We should all trust Big Brother.
</sarcasm>
A computer based on the premise of relying on someone else to host your applications would be so scary as to make running standalone apps on WinME look at least as individualistic and techno-savvy as compiling your own Linux kernel is now. Browsing the Web for information is one thing; relying on an ASP not under your control for basic computing is quite another. I'm not sure what would be scarier -- the privacy issues or the lack of reliability. They can have my local computing capability when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers, thankyouverymuch.
Just make sure it's done right; we were in a hotel with Wi-Fi pay-per-day access; turned out that they were only blocking port 80. SSH over to my Linux gateway at home, set up a proxy on 8080, name its IP in the browser and we were surfing...