Olivier's made like 30 appearances since he died. You can't get some actors off the stage.
One amusing thing about Sky Captain was the way Angelina Jolie is in all the ads and trailers and only appears in the movie for about 5 minutes. "Launch the amphibious attack!"
Speech technology is a good comparison. Speaker-independent speech recognition is cheap and fairly reliable now but I don't see it appearing in any consumer items other than cell phones which already have the mike and audio processor. If nobody is willing to pay a few bucks for speech input, why would they go to a great deal of trouble for mind control other than in the few and very expensive cases that require it -- like the full body paralysis folks. That isn't a big enough market to drive costs down from the laboratory curiosity level.
Sure. Imagine that there is a huge car company with a bad business model going bankrupt that appeals to the government to artificially support them at the expense of the taxpayers... Oh wait, that's really happening.
It might just because I've been skimming, but I haven't been able to find much by way of technical detail on how CIPAV works, namely what vector it uses to infect target machines, and what operating system(s) it "supports."
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You might be the victim of one of the crooks who reprogram controllers in smaller flash to report as larger. It works fine until you wrap around and overwrite your file system. Beware of great deals on eBay.
According to the report, cell phones and digital music players have been used to transfer plans related to criminal activity, and therefore presumably could be grounds for suspicion. Podcasting is also suspicious.
I am told that terrorists now have access to a medium that can't be wiretapped, can be folded or rolled up for ease of concealment, and can be destroyed in seconds with an ordinary match. I'm hoping that the authorities don't paper over this threat. This stuff is so cheap it practically grows on trees.
Save the current state to a config file, disconnect from the running windows (and other resources), start the new version which reads the config file and connects to the windows, kill the first process.
I didn't say anything about reliability and I didn't say anything about voiding your warranty. I said the myth is that the drives are the same internally. They aren't. 15K enterprise fibre channel drives come off different assembly lines from consumer 7200 rpm SATA drives. The 15K drive is MORE sensitive to vibration and is deliberately MORE sensitive to errors because it is intended to go in a commercial RAID array instead of a cheesy PC case. It's also better to fail the drive and replace it than for it to get slower and slower as it relocates bad blocks like a consumer drive. I've lost half the drives in my EVA array over 5 years.
Since you believe they are the same, here's a simple challenge. Give me the model numbers of an enterprise drive and the "same" consumer drive. I probably have both kicking around here somewhere. I'll take them apart and post picture of the guts.
If you read the warranties, you will see that enterprise scsi/fibre channel drives are warranted for 24x7 operation. Consumer ATA/SATA drives are not. The myth that they are really the same thing with a different interface is silly.
What CPU would this program run on? The same one that runs your current malware? What's to stop you from being tricked into downloading and running a modified copy of this program that installs the virus while the OS is running?
The only way to be certain to prevent this is a hardware switch to prevent writing to flash. There is nothing you can do in software that an evil program can't also do.
There should also be a huge surcharge on Mario Kart applied to the uninsured motorists accident fund. While we're at it, America's Army could be taxed to fund the new push in Afghanistan, and the Bee Movie game could be taxed to find a cure for the honeybee diseases. Let's get creative. In this recession we need to find new ways of extracting money from people. Gamers obviously have too much.
So, to use your argument, if I wanted to argue that I should have the RIGHT to use the Linux kernel however I see fit (including, potentially, in a closed-source application), you'd be in favor of that. Because that should be my right as a consumer of the code, to determine how I want to use it... right.... right? Sorry, but that's not how it works. If the GPL rights-holder gets to use copyright law to dictates "terms of use" for GPL'ed content, then the DRM'ed rights-holder gets to use copyright law to dictate THEIR terms of use as well. If you don't like those terms, feel free to use something else, just as lots of people who don't like GPL license terms use BSD or even (gasp!) closed-source code.
Too bad for your argument that you have exactly the rights you describe for the Linux kernel, including modifying it and using it in your own closed source application. What you do not have is exactly the same as what the music customer does not have -- the right to distribute copies. That would be breaking exactly the same law - copyright.
DMCA criminalizes modifications of your own copy of bits which you have purchased, regardless of whether you plan to distribute. Can't you see how wrong that is?
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but they get the their lobby to "bribe" the legislature to pass regulations in their favor
True. They should just go back to the old way of doing things. "Accidentally" cut the competition's cables.
Olivier's made like 30 appearances since he died. You can't get some actors off the stage.
One amusing thing about Sky Captain was the way Angelina Jolie is in all the ads and trailers and only appears in the movie for about 5 minutes. "Launch the amphibious attack!"
Speech technology is a good comparison. Speaker-independent speech recognition is cheap and fairly reliable now but I don't see it appearing in any consumer items other than cell phones which already have the mike and audio processor. If nobody is willing to pay a few bucks for speech input, why would they go to a great deal of trouble for mind control other than in the few and very expensive cases that require it -- like the full body paralysis folks. That isn't a big enough market to drive costs down from the laboratory curiosity level.
Sure. Imagine that there is a huge car company with a bad business model going bankrupt that appeals to the government to artificially support them at the expense of the taxpayers ... Oh wait, that's really happening.
It might just because I've been skimming, but I haven't been able to find much by way of technical detail on how CIPAV works, namely what vector it uses to infect target machines, and what operating system(s) it "supports."
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While we're at it, why are Country and Western lumped together, but Folk is separate?
You might be the victim of one of the crooks who reprogram controllers in smaller flash to report as larger. It works fine until you wrap around and overwrite your file system. Beware of great deals on eBay.
If a cell fails, you can't read or write that cell.
If a gate fails in a page, you lose access to the page.
If a gate fails in the overall control logic, you lose access to the whole device.
Is there something I'm missing? Did you think there were oil changes or brake shoes? It's one silicon chip with metal on it.
According to the report, cell phones and digital music players have been used to transfer plans related to criminal activity, and therefore presumably could be grounds for suspicion. Podcasting is also suspicious.
I am told that terrorists now have access to a medium that can't be wiretapped, can be folded or rolled up for ease of concealment, and can be destroyed in seconds with an ordinary match. I'm hoping that the authorities don't paper over this threat. This stuff is so cheap it practically grows on trees.
RFC2 might be older, but the first page is missing.
Or for applications that are slow and unresponsive all the time.
Sorry. The real journalists were all covering the Natalie Hollaway murder during that time. Nicer climate than Utah.
Save the current state to a config file, disconnect from the running windows (and other resources), start the new version which reads the config file and connects to the windows, kill the first process.
We could always just install a really, really big hosts file.
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I didn't say anything about reliability and I didn't say anything about voiding your warranty. I said the myth is that the drives are the same internally. They aren't. 15K enterprise fibre channel drives come off different assembly lines from consumer 7200 rpm SATA drives. The 15K drive is MORE sensitive to vibration and is deliberately MORE sensitive to errors because it is intended to go in a commercial RAID array instead of a cheesy PC case. It's also better to fail the drive and replace it than for it to get slower and slower as it relocates bad blocks like a consumer drive. I've lost half the drives in my EVA array over 5 years.
Since you believe they are the same, here's a simple challenge. Give me the model numbers of an enterprise drive and the "same" consumer drive. I probably have both kicking around here somewhere. I'll take them apart and post picture of the guts.
I don't have to. Intel already has:
http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/enterprise_class_versus_desktop_class_hard_drives_.pdf
If you read the warranties, you will see that enterprise scsi/fibre channel drives are warranted for 24x7 operation. Consumer ATA/SATA drives are not. The myth that they are really the same thing with a different interface is silly.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=performance_considerations&vgnextoid=eecf5b1142aec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
What CPU would this program run on? The same one that runs your current malware? What's to stop you from being tricked into downloading and running a modified copy of this program that installs the virus while the OS is running?
The only way to be certain to prevent this is a hardware switch to prevent writing to flash. There is nothing you can do in software that an evil program can't also do.
Everybody talks about the exons. Won't someone please think of the introns?
If they have enough money to do this project, why haven't we cut their budget yet?
There should also be a huge surcharge on Mario Kart applied to the uninsured motorists accident fund. While we're at it, America's Army could be taxed to fund the new push in Afghanistan, and the Bee Movie game could be taxed to find a cure for the honeybee diseases. Let's get creative. In this recession we need to find new ways of extracting money from people. Gamers obviously have too much.
So, to use your argument, if I wanted to argue that I should have the RIGHT to use the Linux kernel however I see fit (including, potentially, in a closed-source application), you'd be in favor of that. Because that should be my right as a consumer of the code, to determine how I want to use it... right.... right? Sorry, but that's not how it works. If the GPL rights-holder gets to use copyright law to dictates "terms of use" for GPL'ed content, then the DRM'ed rights-holder gets to use copyright law to dictate THEIR terms of use as well. If you don't like those terms, feel free to use something else, just as lots of people who don't like GPL license terms use BSD or even (gasp!) closed-source code.
Too bad for your argument that you have exactly the rights you describe for the Linux kernel, including modifying it and using it in your own closed source application. What you do not have is exactly the same as what the music customer does not have -- the right to distribute copies. That would be breaking exactly the same law - copyright.
DMCA criminalizes modifications of your own copy of bits which you have purchased, regardless of whether you plan to distribute. Can't you see how wrong that is?
I thought it was just:
svn co https://trident.nnsa.gov/svnroot/fogbank --username=guest --password=topsecret
It's the first intelligently designed evolving system.