It's not about legal rights. It's not about freedom of the press.
Just because you have the right to criticize doesn't mean there aren't repercussions to doing so. You criticize your meal ticket/benefactor at your own risk. This has always been true, it's not at all new.
And it's not about a police state when it isn't the police telling you you can't do it.
Anyway, this isn't about criticizing the NCAA, it's about monitoring the athletes so signs of rule-breaking can be caught earlier. It likely won't go anywhere as schools aren't really interested in enforcing the rules anyway. It'll just be one more way the NCAA can later punish a school after infractions. As all schools will be mostly ignoring stuff like this, it'll be easy pickens to selectively punish some schools for it if they think they are not on the level.
But it has nothing to do with this. Two factor authentication would mean one of the factors could actually destroy itself. If you have the algorithm in your head, then you face the same problem as this article points out, the government (or other rubber hose wielder) can try to force you to use the algorithm to decrypt the data they want.
The two-factor thing is about taking the control out of your own hands on purpose, you can't do that when it's all in your head.
Patents cover creative works. Making a connector to mate another is not creative, it's functional.
They cannot stop people from making cables, just keep them from calling them HDMI cables.
They can call them HDMI-compatible cables though.
If you could stop companies from making compatible cables/connectors then all those unlicensed "iPod compatible" accessories wouldn't exist.
HDMI patents quite likely would keep you from making HDMI devices, because being active devices they would use other technologies that the HDMI group was able to patent.
No one cares about the losses of the banks. But the banks guaranteed the deposits in their banks. And the government guaranteed those deposits. And then the Iceland government actually took possession of the bank's assets. The Icelandic government has to make good on their promises to depositors.
By not doing so, their currency has gone soft and isn't freely convertible with other currencies. How this makes Iceland not a problem I don't know.
The EU countries are headed for trouble because there are countries depending on borrowing to get by and their cost of borrowing is now too high. This is because by EU regulation they were not allowed to be bailed out so the countries had to borrow individually based upon their own credit. Now, even though bailouts are allowed, the political will is flagging.
I agreed leaving the Euro would help Greece a lot.
That's 1991, before mp3. Let's set you didn't mean mp3, what else did you mean in 1991? There was no other digital formats except CD and DAT and MiniDisc was compatible with them because it used S/PDIF as input and output. You set a timeline to 1991 and then complain about things that don't make sense in 1991.
Proprietary doesn't mean anything in this context. Secure Digital is proprietary too, it's just widely adopted. Probably the SD Card Association was more reasonable on pricing than Sony when it comes to licensing fees. And SD took off.
MagicGate is no different than the "Secure" part of Secure Digital. Device makers can use it to write content in such a way that it can only be read back on that device.
HDCP is Intel, not Sony.
I'm not sure where SDMI came from I can't find any info that says Sony was behind it.
A lot better things than MiniDisc came out later, but in 1991, it was the best thing going. Sony stupid kept trying to ride that instead of jumping into the new business of mp3 players and they paid the price for it.
Because if you put an mp3 on your MiniDisc, the player couldn't play it, just as if you put an ATRAC file on your mp3 player. So no, it wasn't PERFECTLY capable of laying down mp3s to MD.
In 2002, you probably should have gotten an mp3 player instead of a MiniDisc player.
MiniDisc was the only game in town and there was nothing wrong with creating ATRAC when there was nothing else out there.
Besides, it didn't matter that it used ATRAC because it only output and input PCM data, just like a CD player or DAT recorder did. It only input and output 32Khz PCM audio in real-time. There was no USB and transferring 200MB (the size of a MiniDisc) over serial was impractical.
SCMS (the copy protection) was annoying, but it was put on because of the labels, Sony didn't want to limit their product. But their previous product, DAT was driven off the market by the music labels, so if they wanted their new venture to succeed they had to do something for the labels. It was trivial to strip.
Sony continuing to use ATRAC for music once storage-based players came around that you loaded by copying files was dumb. They should have noticed it was hurting their products' viability a lot earlier.
He says the software would show the person's picture on all the machines at the store. So he must have installed it on a lot of their computers.
In my experience it's that plus slow seeders.
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There is sometimes a "keepalive" seeder for a torrent, but that seeder won't give more than a few K per second. I guess it's better than nothing, but it's really frustrating.
All in all, most things work quite well. Especially anything that is moderately popular.
Don't expect you'll be able to download everything at max speed though. Sometimes there just aren't enough other people offering it.
NTMLv1 was the problem and it hasn't been used unless talking to very old servers in a very long time. You could always turn off NTLM password storage (since XP at least) and in Vista and Windows 7 it is off by default.
NTMLv2 uses a challenge response system and so you can't offline crack it in the same way.
The difference is that the restore is done on-device now (over the air updates). And the device sends a nonce to get an APTicket.
The restore app must be hacked to save the nonce and the APTicket together, and now since the app is on the device, it's going to be more difficult than it was before.
Apple never wanted downgrades before, that's why they stopped signing old code per device a while back, hence the "save your blobs" movement.
They're not good guys. They're just making messes and making things harder on people than they need to be.
As long as you keep making them seem like a big deal, they'll keep messing with more and more sites until nearly everyone comes to regret "making a monster".
.NET apps and Silverlight apps will run very well on ARM processors, unlike code compiled to x86 or x86-64..NET is used on Xbox 360 also, and it's PowerPC.
And Microsoft will be thrilled to have every app they can which they can claim actually works on ARM Windows as well as x86 Windows.
I think these guys are making incorrect assumptions.
They had a very significant uncontained engine failure incident. And yet the crew spent 50 minutes going down a list of airplane computer fault codes to figure out what went wrong.
This kind of situation is where you can pull out the iPad for reference. Otherwise, the pilots have to go on what they know and what the computers/instruments tell them.
'The iPad is considered a Class 1 electronic device, meaning it is stowed during takeoff and landing under Federal Aviation Administration regulations.'
So your book reader has to be stowed and this iPad is too.
The PS3 had a lot of power when new. But since it was such a far-out architecture, developers had to work to get to it. And developers generally aren't interested in doing so. They'd rather just port their C code over and type make.
A system that is a little less powerful but much more conventional (like Xbox 360) could easily cost less and produce better games overall, even if the absolute top levels of capability are reduced.
It's closer to contactless chip-and-pin. It includes a secure element (transactor) in the device, it's challenge response and the transaction takes place inside the secure element instead of the credential being passed outside the device where it can be copied.
I'm not saying you can't defraud it, but it's a lot harder than RFID, magstripe or raised letters.
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It's not about legal rights. It's not about freedom of the press.
Just because you have the right to criticize doesn't mean there aren't repercussions to doing so. You criticize your meal ticket/benefactor at your own risk. This has always been true, it's not at all new.
And it's not about a police state when it isn't the police telling you you can't do it.
Anyway, this isn't about criticizing the NCAA, it's about monitoring the athletes so signs of rule-breaking can be caught earlier. It likely won't go anywhere as schools aren't really interested in enforcing the rules anyway. It'll just be one more way the NCAA can later punish a school after infractions. As all schools will be mostly ignoring stuff like this, it'll be easy pickens to selectively punish some schools for it if they think they are not on the level.
I've done this for years.
But it has nothing to do with this. Two factor authentication would mean one of the factors could actually destroy itself. If you have the algorithm in your head, then you face the same problem as this article points out, the government (or other rubber hose wielder) can try to force you to use the algorithm to decrypt the data they want.
The two-factor thing is about taking the control out of your own hands on purpose, you can't do that when it's all in your head.
Patents cover creative works. Making a connector to mate another is not creative, it's functional.
They cannot stop people from making cables, just keep them from calling them HDMI cables.
They can call them HDMI-compatible cables though.
If you could stop companies from making compatible cables/connectors then all those unlicensed "iPod compatible" accessories wouldn't exist.
HDMI patents quite likely would keep you from making HDMI devices, because being active devices they would use other technologies that the HDMI group was able to patent.
No one cares about the losses of the banks. But the banks guaranteed the deposits in their banks. And the government guaranteed those deposits. And then the Iceland government actually took possession of the bank's assets. The Icelandic government has to make good on their promises to depositors.
By not doing so, their currency has gone soft and isn't freely convertible with other currencies. How this makes Iceland not a problem I don't know.
The EU countries are headed for trouble because there are countries depending on borrowing to get by and their cost of borrowing is now too high. This is because by EU regulation they were not allowed to be bailed out so the countries had to borrow individually based upon their own credit. Now, even though bailouts are allowed, the political will is flagging.
I agreed leaving the Euro would help Greece a lot.
You mentioned a timeline when you said:
'When they were released,'
That's 1991, before mp3. Let's set you didn't mean mp3, what else did you mean in 1991? There was no other digital formats except CD and DAT and MiniDisc was compatible with them because it used S/PDIF as input and output. You set a timeline to 1991 and then complain about things that don't make sense in 1991.
Proprietary doesn't mean anything in this context. Secure Digital is proprietary too, it's just widely adopted. Probably the SD Card Association was more reasonable on pricing than Sony when it comes to licensing fees. And SD took off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Openness_of_standards
'MagicGate'
MagicGate is no different than the "Secure" part of Secure Digital. Device makers can use it to write content in such a way that it can only be read back on that device.
HDCP is Intel, not Sony.
I'm not sure where SDMI came from I can't find any info that says Sony was behind it.
A lot better things than MiniDisc came out later, but in 1991, it was the best thing going. Sony stupid kept trying to ride that instead of jumping into the new business of mp3 players and they paid the price for it.
Because if you put an mp3 on your MiniDisc, the player couldn't play it, just as if you put an ATRAC file on your mp3 player. So no, it wasn't PERFECTLY capable of laying down mp3s to MD.
In 2002, you probably should have gotten an mp3 player instead of a MiniDisc player.
It did it over S/PDIF (usually optical).
I left two of those off.
It was 1991, dummy. mp3 came around in 1993.
MiniDisc was the only game in town and there was nothing wrong with creating ATRAC when there was nothing else out there.
Besides, it didn't matter that it used ATRAC because it only output and input PCM data, just like a CD player or DAT recorder did. It only input and output 32Khz PCM audio in real-time. There was no USB and transferring 200MB (the size of a MiniDisc) over serial was impractical.
SCMS (the copy protection) was annoying, but it was put on because of the labels, Sony didn't want to limit their product. But their previous product, DAT was driven off the market by the music labels, so if they wanted their new venture to succeed they had to do something for the labels. It was trivial to strip.
Sony continuing to use ATRAC for music once storage-based players came around that you loaded by copying files was dumb. They should have noticed it was hurting their products' viability a lot earlier.
Lock down the DVD and USB ports?
These computers are all on the internet. He didn't need to use the DVD drives or USB ports. Just go to a web page and download.
I don't know that you can actually lock down USB ports under Mac OS though, which is kind of dumb.
He says the software would show the person's picture on all the machines at the store. So he must have installed it on a lot of their computers.
There is sometimes a "keepalive" seeder for a torrent, but that seeder won't give more than a few K per second. I guess it's better than nothing, but it's really frustrating.
All in all, most things work quite well. Especially anything that is moderately popular.
Don't expect you'll be able to download everything at max speed though. Sometimes there just aren't enough other people offering it.
NTMLv1 was the problem and it hasn't been used unless talking to very old servers in a very long time. You could always turn off NTLM password storage (since XP at least) and in Vista and Windows 7 it is off by default.
NTMLv2 uses a challenge response system and so you can't offline crack it in the same way.
The difference is that the restore is done on-device now (over the air updates). And the device sends a nonce to get an APTicket.
The restore app must be hacked to save the nonce and the APTicket together, and now since the app is on the device, it's going to be more difficult than it was before.
Apple never wanted downgrades before, that's why they stopped signing old code per device a while back, hence the "save your blobs" movement.
These guys engaged in industrial espionage, pure and simple.
Why make it out like they are victims?
They didn't get time in prison for making iPad 2 cases, but instead for stealing the secrets necessary to make them before the iPad 2 even came out.
They're not good guys. They're just making messes and making things harder on people than they need to be.
As long as you keep making them seem like a big deal, they'll keep messing with more and more sites until nearly everyone comes to regret "making a monster".
.NET apps and Silverlight apps will run very well on ARM processors, unlike code compiled to x86 or x86-64. .NET is used on Xbox 360 also, and it's PowerPC.
And Microsoft will be thrilled to have every app they can which they can claim actually works on ARM Windows as well as x86 Windows.
I think these guys are making incorrect assumptions.
Is way off base.
Foxconn makes products under contract. Many many of the products they make are sold into China.
They do make few products under their own name plates which is maybe why the reporter is confused?
Also I think the reporter may be confused about what the company actually is. Hon Hai Precision is Foxconn.
In their ads at least.
Supposedly The HTC EVO 4G can do it if you have a 4G or wi-fi connection.
The HTC EVO is a Sprint phone, it doesn't use SIM cards.
Also, video isn't stored on the SIM card.
Maybe he means the memory card?
Removing the memory card requires removing the battery first on an HTC EVO. It's somewhat unlikely he did that discreetly.
Posting people's emails and passwords?
It's not comedic. These people are stealing user info and posting it and you say Sony looks like arrogant nincompoops?
Uh-huh.
By pulling out the manual? Can you even find the page you need?
Look at QANTAS flight 32.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32
They had a very significant uncontained engine failure incident. And yet the crew spent 50 minutes going down a list of airplane computer fault codes to figure out what went wrong.
This kind of situation is where you can pull out the iPad for reference. Otherwise, the pilots have to go on what they know and what the computers/instruments tell them.
It's right there in the article, fullymodo.
'The iPad is considered a Class 1 electronic device, meaning it is stowed during takeoff and landing under Federal Aviation Administration regulations.'
So your book reader has to be stowed and this iPad is too.
The PS3 had a lot of power when new. But since it was such a far-out architecture, developers had to work to get to it. And developers generally aren't interested in doing so. They'd rather just port their C code over and type make.
A system that is a little less powerful but much more conventional (like Xbox 360) could easily cost less and produce better games overall, even if the absolute top levels of capability are reduced.
It's closer to contactless chip-and-pin. It includes a secure element (transactor) in the device, it's challenge response and the transaction takes place inside the secure element instead of the credential being passed outside the device where it can be copied.
I'm not saying you can't defraud it, but it's a lot harder than RFID, magstripe or raised letters.
Slashdot, seriously stop it. You just look like tools repeating garbage like this.
Go back to pretending Second Life is popular or something.