DRM is not patent law. DRM is a nesecity to protect copy rights. I'm all for GOOD DRMs. In order to get what I would consider good DRMs, you need one of two things: 1) Unilateral agreement in all media production branchs, content providers, DVD/CD Player creators, PC Software, etc... or 2) A bohemoth monopoly that can market a single standard across all mediums with enough force to make it work.
DRMs are a device that will help drive digital content innovation. With out DRMs there are tons of pitfalls for content delivery, you either need to charge enough so that the few sales will cover the development costs($3000 graphcis application), or drop the price so low(iTunes) that piracy loses its appeal and depend on a volume of sales. But anyone in the middle ground is in a rough spot. Software/Content that is expencive enough to make pirating worth it, but not expensive enough to cover the manufacturing costs.
We just need innovation and cooperation to get an acceptable standard to the customer. Unfortunatly we are stuck with this craptastic Digital Rights Mis-management from companies like Sony.
This isn't the type of thing you can just slide in Ninja style and expect no one to notice, this is something that has to be an open standard with lots of consumer awareness. A progression over years of hardware integration and the slow but methodical replacement of current media. I would say 5 years on hardware alone, and probrably another 5 on top of that for media conversion and consumer acceptance. But after 10 years, you could have an industry standard DRM system that was just as accepted as CDs are now.
Is it any wonder why technology companies are fleeing the US? Why would a company release a VOIP solution from the US when they could relocate their company to another country and export the software via the internet with out fears of government persecution from the US. Encryption, communications, stem cells, etc... The US is headed down a bad road where the only people with money are the Lawyers.
No shit. I was just turned down for a contract because I didn't have 5 years of.Net experience. Hello,.Net went gold in 2002. Unless I invented a time machine in my basement, I don't think I'm going to be able to get those extra 2 years for them.
Realistic. IT jobs are not what they were in the bubble days. Its not like it was when any young buck with a days worth of experiences could get a job pulling 100k. It is much mroe like any other growing knowledge field, the better paying jobs are more competetive but there are plenty of entry level oppertunities. And its not like the IT industry is going to disappear anytime soon. Sure, some IT companies will outsource, but most IT workers are employed by non-IT industry companies. And your average medium sized company isn't going to trust their network systems to a remote admin company in Pakistan. Your local leasing company isn't going to trust a company from India to get their custom application fine tuned to their specific needs.
I'm with you there. My team is in the top 2k. And the nice thing about Folding is that they actually write research papers based on the findings. Its nice to see my PC working for something that is improving the scientific community's knowledge.
That was the tag line on the last thumb drive I purchased. If this thing isn't like having more then 144 floppies in my pocket, I'll have nothing to do with it.
-Rick
Building from scratch? Maybe. But most of us are building replacement computers. We already have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and likely all the hard drive space we need.For $800 you could get a $250 graphics card, a $250 proc, and have $100 for case, mobo and memory each. Just for fun, I threw one together:
XION case w/ 450w power supply: $65
Biostart nForce4 mobo: $78
AMD Anthlon 64+ 3800: $282
Corsair 1gig value select DDR400: $85
Gigabyte Dual GForce 6800 (SLI on 1 card): $220
Supply your own IDE/SATA hard drive, monitor, keyboard and mouse and you have a 1 off generation machine for $730 (well under $800 even w/ shipping).
For $1600 you can get a XPS600 which is a slightly slower (intel 3g) machine with similar memory(2x512), a slightly slower graphics card (gForce 6800). But it comes with a hard drive (160g), a 17" monitor, Windows XP, and generic speakers. Are those extra's worth $800+? Drop $100 on some nice speakers and a copy of XP OEM at new egg and you still have $600 to drop on a monitor. $600 will get you a much nicer 19-20" monitor that will make the dell special look like crap.
-Rick
-Rick
Head to Tom's Hardware or other high end review site. Look for their killer rig review from 6 months ago/1 generation off. Buy those parts and assemble. You'll have a next to top end machine at a fraction of the cost with a parts list that has been fully pounded out by the pro's.
for DRMs. The big issue is that the DRM must be transparent enough to not effect the consumers, but strong enough that it discourages (not prevents) infringement. The best possible solution is at the hardware level. But at this point, with millions of CDs in circulation, you can't alter the hardware and break compatibility with existing disks. The key for the DRM industry is the next medium. CD will always be a weekness though. A high quality unsecured media. In order for DRMs to succed the RIAA/MPAA needs 3 things. A universal secure hardware based DRM (that in itself is a pipe dream), a new medium that offers something better then the current options (ie: Digital downloads and HD/Blue DVDs), and a marketing department that can convince main stream America to move up to the latest greatest.
The universal hardware DRM is a key. Because if a person doesn't HAVE to break your DRM to move their music from the PC to iPod to home sterio to car sterio to work, they wont. But you need a system that can be run in all of those places, and you need it to be cheap.
"Because the first choice is ridiculously, brain-dead easy. That's why."
You are implying that the person breaking the law has an average level of intellegence. Haven't you seen "Maximum Exposure", "Real Police Videos", or any of the other caught on tape shows. They prove one thing, most criminals are dumb. True, there are a few gems in the rough, but by and large, the criminal element of society is not the brightest bulb in the box.
"Where's the notoriety in this? Oooh. I hacked a windows box. I'm so l33t."
Try, I hacked 3.4 million Windows boxes. I'm so l33t. I now have a bot network that can cripple massive pipes. Spam emails to millions of people per hour. Shut down major media outlets. Decimate online services (sales/games/gambling). Run distributed key cracking engines, etc.
Compared to: I hacked 20 debian boxes. I can flex my online epeen and spam an IRC channel!
CNN doesn't care about 20 nuebs who left their systems unsecured. CNN doesn't even care about Windows vulnerbilities. CNN cares about the monitary impact. So CNN will report on the person who creates a huge botnet and attacks high profile online organizations with it.
"But would a hacker do it? Yes, I think so. Especially if he'd just been directly challenged to do so by someone who thinks the wall between Windows and Linux in a dual-boot system is so impenetrable..."
True, it is possible, and significantly more likely if you go pissing off the guy with the knowledge (weapons) to pull it off.
Similar to getting killed in a big city. Is there a chance you could get hit by stray gun fire from uncheck street warfare between color clashing gangs? Yes. But you are significantly more likely to get shot if you piss off your drug dealer.
Take off the tin foil hat. The amount of work it would take to write such an exploit would be huge and would only get a tiny fraction of the market. There's no profit in it, there's no notoriety for it.
Why rob a bank? Because that's where the money is.
Why write viri for Windows/IE? Because that's where the users are.
"I know you were modded up informative but the law does not say police have carte blanch to search your car."
Nope sorry. Thanks to the combination of the seat belt law and the patriot act police can now pull you over for not wearing a seat belt and immediately search your vehicle. No warrent needed. Because as we all know, terrorist don't wear seatbelts. (In the US)
The 12 stupid people remark is a cliche. Its used in movies (12 Angry Men, Runaway Jury, etc..). Yes, it is a bit insulting and belittling, but its partially true. There are 3(11) types of people on a jury. Those that want to be that, those that feel an obligation to be there, and those that are too dumb to get out of being there.
The only person I know of who actually wanted to be on a jury was an unemployeed friend who was about to get booted from his apartment. Most of the people I know who have served did it out of 'duty'. And I have known a few people who bitched and moaned about it but were either too dumb, or lacked the testicular fortitude (ie: Balls) to get out of serving.
So true. In the consulting world, the faster/better you code, the sooner you are out of a job. If you don't have the social networking skills to keep contacts and jobs lined up, you may have to resort to the methods described in TFA. (shudder)
I disagree. It is a tool. It works best when used correctly. I have a small app that constantly checks for database updates and refreshes a frame when there is an update. Tiny app, but AJAX could make it significantly better with only a tiny bit of code and an AJAX plug in. The larger and more complexe the service, the more fore-thought and design that is needed. But the tool is just as effective, in small or large projects.
Low sales and low air time = low demand. Artists make their money touring, and if they have limited sales and air time, they'll have a hell of a time getting their name known and raising concert attendance.
"Seems to me that Sony hired some blackhats to get the job done for them."
Err, no. Sony licensed a product that was developed by a bunch of ass hats. Sony, while incompetent, could sue the party they licensed the software from for many of their wohs.
err, no. Everything over 1024 is blocked by default by damn near every firewall I've ever seen. I think even the Windows XP firewall have it all blocked by default (if you turn on the firewall).
Better just to run it over port 80, so long as you aren't running a web server. But should you really be downloading pron and warez on your production web box? And port 80 is open for web traffic.
The problem with distributed lists though is distributed points of security breaches. Think if someone from the RIAA or Sony joined the party, all they would have to do is search for 1 song they hold the rights to and blamo, they have a list of IPs of every person who has that song. And I don't really mean every person, because the list effects would be huge.
Your best bet would be to use some sort of 6degrees of seperation and social architexture to get file lists. ie: Bob is "friends" with Jim and Jon. Bob invites Saley. Saley searches for a file, her search hit's Bob's (1 degree), Jim's and Jon's (2 degrees) shares, but not their friends. If Saley adds Jon to her "Friends" list, she would be able to search Jon's friends too.
Someone could (read: RIAA would pay someone to) exploit the system to make a huge listing. A bit of recursion and friend adding and you could rapidly dig up a pretty comprehensive list. And since the client is in the enemy's hand it would be imposible to prevent. The only bright side is that you could likely backtrack who the person was who sent out the invite to them.
Visual Studio.Net is the integrated development environment (IDE) for.Net applications. There are 3 versions available, VS.Net 2002, VS.Net 2003, and VS.Net 2005. The year is often shortened to 2k (2000) and the last digit (5). So "VS.Net 2k5" is the short hand way of typing "Visual Studio.Net 2005"
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DRM is not patent law. DRM is a nesecity to protect copy rights. I'm all for GOOD DRMs. In order to get what I would consider good DRMs, you need one of two things: 1) Unilateral agreement in all media production branchs, content providers, DVD/CD Player creators, PC Software, etc... or 2) A bohemoth monopoly that can market a single standard across all mediums with enough force to make it work.
DRMs are a device that will help drive digital content innovation. With out DRMs there are tons of pitfalls for content delivery, you either need to charge enough so that the few sales will cover the development costs($3000 graphcis application), or drop the price so low(iTunes) that piracy loses its appeal and depend on a volume of sales. But anyone in the middle ground is in a rough spot. Software/Content that is expencive enough to make pirating worth it, but not expensive enough to cover the manufacturing costs.
We just need innovation and cooperation to get an acceptable standard to the customer. Unfortunatly we are stuck with this craptastic Digital Rights Mis-management from companies like Sony.
This isn't the type of thing you can just slide in Ninja style and expect no one to notice, this is something that has to be an open standard with lots of consumer awareness. A progression over years of hardware integration and the slow but methodical replacement of current media. I would say 5 years on hardware alone, and probrably another 5 on top of that for media conversion and consumer acceptance. But after 10 years, you could have an industry standard DRM system that was just as accepted as CDs are now.
-Rick
Is it any wonder why technology companies are fleeing the US? Why would a company release a VOIP solution from the US when they could relocate their company to another country and export the software via the internet with out fears of government persecution from the US. Encryption, communications, stem cells, etc... The US is headed down a bad road where the only people with money are the Lawyers.
-Rick
No shit. I was just turned down for a contract because I didn't have 5 years of .Net experience. Hello, .Net went gold in 2002. Unless I invented a time machine in my basement, I don't think I'm going to be able to get those extra 2 years for them.
-Rick
Realistic. IT jobs are not what they were in the bubble days. Its not like it was when any young buck with a days worth of experiences could get a job pulling 100k. It is much mroe like any other growing knowledge field, the better paying jobs are more competetive but there are plenty of entry level oppertunities. And its not like the IT industry is going to disappear anytime soon. Sure, some IT companies will outsource, but most IT workers are employed by non-IT industry companies. And your average medium sized company isn't going to trust their network systems to a remote admin company in Pakistan. Your local leasing company isn't going to trust a company from India to get their custom application fine tuned to their specific needs.
-Rick
364.089 floppies in my pocket? I'm so going to the beach!
-Rick
I'm with you there. My team is in the top 2k. And the nice thing about Folding is that they actually write research papers based on the findings. Its nice to see my PC working for something that is improving the scientific community's knowledge.
-Rick
That was the tag line on the last thumb drive I purchased. If this thing isn't like having more then 144 floppies in my pocket, I'll have nothing to do with it. -Rick
Building from scratch? Maybe. But most of us are building replacement computers. We already have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and likely all the hard drive space we need.For $800 you could get a $250 graphics card, a $250 proc, and have $100 for case, mobo and memory each. Just for fun, I threw one together: XION case w/ 450w power supply: $65 Biostart nForce4 mobo: $78 AMD Anthlon 64+ 3800: $282 Corsair 1gig value select DDR400: $85 Gigabyte Dual GForce 6800 (SLI on 1 card): $220 Supply your own IDE/SATA hard drive, monitor, keyboard and mouse and you have a 1 off generation machine for $730 (well under $800 even w/ shipping). For $1600 you can get a XPS600 which is a slightly slower (intel 3g) machine with similar memory(2x512), a slightly slower graphics card (gForce 6800). But it comes with a hard drive (160g), a 17" monitor, Windows XP, and generic speakers. Are those extra's worth $800+? Drop $100 on some nice speakers and a copy of XP OEM at new egg and you still have $600 to drop on a monitor. $600 will get you a much nicer 19-20" monitor that will make the dell special look like crap. -Rick -Rick
A fraction of the cost of what? The idea is to be cheaper than Dell. Who want's to blow $2000(Dell) on a computer that can be built for $800(NewEgg)?
-Rick
Head to Tom's Hardware or other high end review site. Look for their killer rig review from 6 months ago/1 generation off. Buy those parts and assemble. You'll have a next to top end machine at a fraction of the cost with a parts list that has been fully pounded out by the pro's.
-Rick
for DRMs. The big issue is that the DRM must be transparent enough to not effect the consumers, but strong enough that it discourages (not prevents) infringement. The best possible solution is at the hardware level. But at this point, with millions of CDs in circulation, you can't alter the hardware and break compatibility with existing disks. The key for the DRM industry is the next medium. CD will always be a weekness though. A high quality unsecured media. In order for DRMs to succed the RIAA/MPAA needs 3 things. A universal secure hardware based DRM (that in itself is a pipe dream), a new medium that offers something better then the current options (ie: Digital downloads and HD/Blue DVDs), and a marketing department that can convince main stream America to move up to the latest greatest.
The universal hardware DRM is a key. Because if a person doesn't HAVE to break your DRM to move their music from the PC to iPod to home sterio to car sterio to work, they wont. But you need a system that can be run in all of those places, and you need it to be cheap.
-Rick
"Because the first choice is ridiculously, brain-dead easy. That's why."
You are implying that the person breaking the law has an average level of intellegence. Haven't you seen "Maximum Exposure", "Real Police Videos", or any of the other caught on tape shows. They prove one thing, most criminals are dumb. True, there are a few gems in the rough, but by and large, the criminal element of society is not the brightest bulb in the box.
"Where's the notoriety in this? Oooh. I hacked a windows box. I'm so l33t."
Try, I hacked 3.4 million Windows boxes. I'm so l33t. I now have a bot network that can cripple massive pipes. Spam emails to millions of people per hour. Shut down major media outlets. Decimate online services (sales/games/gambling). Run distributed key cracking engines, etc.
Compared to: I hacked 20 debian boxes. I can flex my online epeen and spam an IRC channel!
CNN doesn't care about 20 nuebs who left their systems unsecured. CNN doesn't even care about Windows vulnerbilities. CNN cares about the monitary impact. So CNN will report on the person who creates a huge botnet and attacks high profile online organizations with it.
-Rick
"But would a hacker do it? Yes, I think so. Especially if he'd just been directly challenged to do so by someone who thinks the wall between Windows and Linux in a dual-boot system is so impenetrable..."
True, it is possible, and significantly more likely if you go pissing off the guy with the knowledge (weapons) to pull it off.
Similar to getting killed in a big city. Is there a chance you could get hit by stray gun fire from uncheck street warfare between color clashing gangs? Yes. But you are significantly more likely to get shot if you piss off your drug dealer.
-Rick
Take off the tin foil hat. The amount of work it would take to write such an exploit would be huge and would only get a tiny fraction of the market. There's no profit in it, there's no notoriety for it.
Why rob a bank? Because that's where the money is.
Why write viri for Windows/IE? Because that's where the users are.
-Rick
"I know you were modded up informative but the law does not say police have carte blanch to search your car."
Nope sorry. Thanks to the combination of the seat belt law and the patriot act police can now pull you over for not wearing a seat belt and immediately search your vehicle. No warrent needed. Because as we all know, terrorist don't wear seatbelts. (In the US)
-Rick
The 12 stupid people remark is a cliche. Its used in movies (12 Angry Men, Runaway Jury, etc..). Yes, it is a bit insulting and belittling, but its partially true. There are 3(11) types of people on a jury. Those that want to be that, those that feel an obligation to be there, and those that are too dumb to get out of being there.
The only person I know of who actually wanted to be on a jury was an unemployeed friend who was about to get booted from his apartment. Most of the people I know who have served did it out of 'duty'. And I have known a few people who bitched and moaned about it but were either too dumb, or lacked the testicular fortitude (ie: Balls) to get out of serving.
-Rick
So true. In the consulting world, the faster/better you code, the sooner you are out of a job. If you don't have the social networking skills to keep contacts and jobs lined up, you may have to resort to the methods described in TFA. (shudder)
-Rick
I disagree. It is a tool. It works best when used correctly. I have a small app that constantly checks for database updates and refreshes a frame when there is an update. Tiny app, but AJAX could make it significantly better with only a tiny bit of code and an AJAX plug in. The larger and more complexe the service, the more fore-thought and design that is needed. But the tool is just as effective, in small or large projects.
-Rick
Fearless imortal mice?!? Maybe my "wanna see my spaceship" pick up line will start working again!
-Rick
Low sales and low air time = low demand. Artists make their money touring, and if they have limited sales and air time, they'll have a hell of a time getting their name known and raising concert attendance.
-Rick
"Seems to me that Sony hired some blackhats to get the job done for them."
Err, no. Sony licensed a product that was developed by a bunch of ass hats. Sony, while incompetent, could sue the party they licensed the software from for many of their wohs.
-Rick
err, no. Everything over 1024 is blocked by default by damn near every firewall I've ever seen. I think even the Windows XP firewall have it all blocked by default (if you turn on the firewall).
Better just to run it over port 80, so long as you aren't running a web server. But should you really be downloading pron and warez on your production web box? And port 80 is open for web traffic.
The problem with distributed lists though is distributed points of security breaches. Think if someone from the RIAA or Sony joined the party, all they would have to do is search for 1 song they hold the rights to and blamo, they have a list of IPs of every person who has that song. And I don't really mean every person, because the list effects would be huge.
Your best bet would be to use some sort of 6degrees of seperation and social architexture to get file lists. ie: Bob is "friends" with Jim and Jon. Bob invites Saley. Saley searches for a file, her search hit's Bob's (1 degree), Jim's and Jon's (2 degrees) shares, but not their friends. If Saley adds Jon to her "Friends" list, she would be able to search Jon's friends too.
Someone could (read: RIAA would pay someone to) exploit the system to make a huge listing. A bit of recursion and friend adding and you could rapidly dig up a pretty comprehensive list. And since the client is in the enemy's hand it would be imposible to prevent. The only bright side is that you could likely backtrack who the person was who sent out the invite to them.
-Rick
Unfortunatly, the only people to benefit from all that would be the lawyers.
-Rick
"Old School Gameplay Collides With Modern Graphics"
I was so hoping this was going to be a new uber graphics version of Nethack.
-Rick
Visual Studio .Net is the integrated development environment (IDE) for .Net applications. There are 3 versions available, VS.Net 2002, VS.Net 2003, and VS.Net 2005. The year is often shortened to 2k (2000) and the last digit (5). So "VS.Net 2k5" is the short hand way of typing "Visual Studio.Net 2005"
-Rick