The Secret Service was orignally set up to deal with counterfeiting. This was quickly expanded to include the investigation of fraud directed at the government, then federal level financial and securities fraud, then identify theft, and they finally got the remit to go after "hackers" in PATRIOT.
The whole "taking a bullet for Dubya" thing is a sort of side-line they drifted into by accident. At the time of McKinley's assasination they got the gig. There weren't as many federal law enforcement agencies at that time, though I'm surprised the US Marshalls didn't get it.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were a troll when I was rude to you earlier. You're just confused. My bad!
So, let's lay it out. Tivo's new software has content protection in it. Owing to a bug, we've noticed.
It's like my large friend Mungo, who I've just sent round to your house with an axe. I can categorically assure you that Mungo is just going to stand in your front room. I am absolutely not going to phone him up and tell him to chop you into little bits. That nice Jewish family he chopped up last week? Oh, that was just a bug. I mis-dialed, it was a bad line, I said "Is that the Golden Bug Take Out?" and he thought I said "Take out the Goldbergs".We had a good laugh about it back at the office later.
Slight typo in your post there, Gigs. I think you meant to say:
"If you'll smoke a great big bag of crack like I just did, then read the whole fucking article, you'll see bugs in the Tivo software, bugs crawling all over your face, all sorts of things."
No, it's 100 songs period. the limts of what you can put on a ROKR are the size of the card (512Mb by default) and the DRM in iTunes that stops you putting more than 100 songs on the phone.
Well, the thing about the big consultancy firms that don;t make product is that they all suck, so when you try to pick of an example for a slashdot post, your odds of finding one that isn't useless are not good.
What you have here is an opportunity for a tremendous open source win against exchange, and you are about to stuff it up because you do not have a clue how to do it.
So, what you do right now is you go find someone who does know how to do it. And by that I mean someone who can demonstrate they know how. Which does not equate to having a low slashdot id; it equates to having done real projects of this scale.
So, how do you start? You ring IBM and get them to come in and talk to you. You ring Red Hat. You ring Accenture.
If you want impartial advice from someone who isn't a vendor (which is a good idea), then you go find some companies that has a million seat open source e-mail deployment in place and you see if you can get their messaging admin to talk to you.
Storage is a Mini-SD card. The pre-upgraded thing is them covering their backs; whoever you buy it from will normally ship it with a 512Mb card in the box, but of course they could be cheap and put a lower size card in there. How much can you upgrade it - I think there is a 1Gb miniSD available, not sure if I've seen a 2Gb yet. Anyone?
I suspect their gains from the color screen are related to manufacturing considerations. Everything has color screen these days, so I expect manufacturers prefer to make color.
I mean, last week I submitted a story about my imaginary friend Harvey getting Linux to run on a cheese sandwich. And did they post that? Nooooo. I had the Beowulf Cluster comment already written and everything.
Not actually a problem. Since your OS can only see the first 4Gb of that RAM, all the rest is a RAM disk. Unless you want 250 multiple OS's running in parallel.
But why, you ask, does it have that 2Tb storage? It's quite straightforward: the first set of stickers they printed were the wrong size for a SODIMM, so they stuck them on a Compact Flash card.
Anyhow, onto more important matters. When this story gets duped, I say we storm Taco Castle with pitchforks and burning torches. A riot is an ugly thing, and it's about time we had one. Who's with me?
I missed the original story on Slashdot, but figured it must be a dupe because it's a good slashdot story and it's several days old - saw it on some of my other RSS feeds.
Let me deal with your objections one by one
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Bruce gives 5 reasons why code signing is insecure. Let's look at your arguments that this is wrong, one by one. Reason one: your argument is that Bruce is correct. Oh. Reason two: you fully agree with Bruce, but point out that this particular security flaw is in there by design. Ah. Reason three: see reason two. Reason four: warming to your theme, you viciously agree with Bruce again. Reason five: for variety, this time your objection is that you do not understand what Bruce means.
No, I agree that your position is a reasonable one: an ipod is not for you because you prefer a flash player. My point is just that this doesn't make the ipod bad, just something that is not entirely suitable for you. Is Apple destroying the flash market? Well, fair enough, they are a bit. People are buying the shuffle without regard to it's feature set but just because it's a cheap ipod. But I argue elsewhere that flash players are now cheap to the point of being disposable, so your choice is not being restricted too much.
Well, everyone in the MP3 player market is doomed.
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Apple is coming down from the high end, crushing all before it.
Meanwhile,at the low end flash based MP3 players are disposable. You can get a player that takes SD cards for £10, and 512Mb SD cards for £20.
Or, if that's too fiddly to give your kids, my local supermarket has basic MP3 flash players for £20.
Another interesting thing about Sony Walkmen to the slashdot crowd is the question: why don't Sony own the portable digital audio device market?
My belief is that DRM is the cause. All their digital players were stuffed with DRM features that, like all DRM features, did not stop professional pirates but sure as hell inconvenienced the customers.
Hell, I'm about to pay twice what I should for the memory card in my new pda because it's a Sony, so instead of a 512Mb SD card for £17 I have to get a £512Mb Memory Stick Duo Pro for £40 that ahs DRM features in it I don't want.
Well, I suspect anyone not standing within 12 feet of Steve Jobs will agree with your insight that a disk based ipod is a bad choice if you want a device with all the properties of a flash based music player. It's sort of inevitable that if you put a hard disk in something it's going to weigh more and not run on AA batteries.
Potential purchasers should also be aware that the ipod is also a bad choice if you want a blender, a load bearing beam in a skyscraper, or a vegetarian alternative for a dinner party.
Surprisingly good at scraping ice off your windshield though.
Well, of course. You know why they're hiring so many big brains that start-ups are having trouble starting up? Because they're trying to figure out a way to get a DNA sample over the internet, that's why!
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Not so!
The Secret Service was orignally set up to deal with counterfeiting. This was quickly expanded to include the investigation of fraud directed at the government, then federal level financial and securities fraud, then identify theft, and they finally got the remit to go after "hackers" in PATRIOT.
The whole "taking a bullet for Dubya" thing is a sort of side-line they drifted into by accident. At the time of McKinley's assasination they got the gig. There weren't as many federal law enforcement agencies at that time, though I'm surprised the US Marshalls didn't get it.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were a troll when I was rude to you earlier. You're just confused. My bad!
So, let's lay it out. Tivo's new software has content protection in it. Owing to a bug, we've noticed.
It's like my large friend Mungo, who I've just sent round to your house with an axe. I can categorically assure you that Mungo is just going to stand in your front room. I am absolutely not going to phone him up and tell him to chop you into little bits.
That nice Jewish family he chopped up last week? Oh, that was just a bug. I mis-dialed, it was a bad line, I said "Is that the Golden Bug Take Out?" and he thought I said "Take out the Goldbergs".We had a good laugh about it back at the office later.
Slight typo in your post there, Gigs. I think you meant to say:
"If you'll smoke a great big bag of crack like I just did, then read the whole fucking article, you'll see bugs in the Tivo software, bugs crawling all over your face, all sorts of things."
If you'll RTFA, you'll see it is about how the copyright owner on what you record can disable "keep until I delete" on their program.
No, it's 100 songs period. the limts of what you can put on a ROKR are the size of the card (512Mb by default) and the DRM in iTunes that stops you putting more than 100 songs on the phone.
One that already has an OS, and wants to buy a big box of talented OS developers to work on it.
Well, the thing about the big consultancy firms that don;t make product is that they all suck, so when you try to pick of an example for a slashdot post, your odds of finding one that isn't useless are not good.
I bet their suits are nice though.
If you buy one of these things and you cannot already touchtype properly, guess what? Not gonna do it for you.
What you have here is an opportunity for a tremendous open source win against exchange, and you are about to stuff it up because you do not have a clue how to do it.
So, what you do right now is you go find someone who does know how to do it. And by that I mean someone who can demonstrate they know how. Which does not equate to having a low slashdot id; it equates to having done real projects of this scale.
So, how do you start? You ring IBM and get them to come in and talk to you. You ring Red Hat. You ring Accenture.
If you want impartial advice from someone who isn't a vendor (which is a good idea), then you go find some companies that has a million seat open source e-mail deployment in place and you see if you can get their messaging admin to talk to you.
Heh, maybe that's where Steve got the idea for the nano from.
Storage is a Mini-SD card. The pre-upgraded thing is them covering their backs; whoever you buy it from will normally ship it with a 512Mb card in the box, but of course they could be cheap and put a lower size card in there.
How much can you upgrade it - I think there is a 1Gb miniSD available, not sure if I've seen a 2Gb yet. Anyone?
I suspect their gains from the color screen are related to manufacturing considerations. Everything has color screen these days, so I expect manufacturers prefer to make color.
This is slashdot, we know you won't be using it for anything else.
Ditto. Did some training with an RAF guy, his toughbook looked like it ate ibooks and crapped ipod shuffles.
I mean, last week I submitted a story about my imaginary friend Harvey getting Linux to run on a cheese sandwich. And did they post that? Nooooo. I had the Beowulf Cluster comment already written and everything.
Not actually a problem. Since your OS can only see the first 4Gb of that RAM, all the rest is a RAM disk. Unless you want 250 multiple OS's running in parallel.
But why, you ask, does it have that 2Tb storage? It's quite straightforward: the first set of stickers they printed were the wrong size for a SODIMM, so they stuck them on a Compact Flash card.
Anyhow, onto more important matters. When this story gets duped, I say we storm Taco Castle with pitchforks and burning torches. A riot is an ugly thing, and it's about time we had one. Who's with me?
...does this count as a dupe? Or is there a statute of limitations thing going on here?
Yer kidding me, they actually have a mechanism for subscribers to point out a dupe and they don't use it? Are they insane?
I missed the original story on Slashdot, but figured it must be a dupe because it's a good slashdot story and it's several days old - saw it on some of my other RSS feeds.
Bruce gives 5 reasons why code signing is insecure. Let's look at your arguments that this is wrong, one by one.
Reason one: your argument is that Bruce is correct. Oh.
Reason two: you fully agree with Bruce, but point out that this particular security flaw is in there by design. Ah.
Reason three: see reason two.
Reason four: warming to your theme, you viciously agree with Bruce again.
Reason five: for variety, this time your objection is that you do not understand what Bruce means.
Are there tickets left for your talk?
No, I agree that your position is a reasonable one: an ipod is not for you because you prefer a flash player.
My point is just that this doesn't make the ipod bad, just something that is not entirely suitable for you.
Is Apple destroying the flash market? Well, fair enough, they are a bit. People are buying the shuffle without regard to it's feature set but just because it's a cheap ipod. But I argue elsewhere that flash players are now cheap to the point of being disposable, so your choice is not being restricted too much.
Apple is coming down from the high end, crushing all before it.
Meanwhile,at the low end flash based MP3 players are disposable. You can get a player that takes SD cards for £10, and 512Mb SD cards for £20.
Or, if that's too fiddly to give your kids, my local supermarket has basic MP3 flash players for £20.
Another interesting thing about Sony Walkmen to the slashdot crowd is the question: why don't Sony own the portable digital audio device market?
My belief is that DRM is the cause. All their digital players were stuffed with DRM features that, like all DRM features, did not stop professional pirates but sure as hell inconvenienced the customers.
Hell, I'm about to pay twice what I should for the memory card in my new pda because it's a Sony, so instead of a 512Mb SD card for £17 I have to get a £512Mb Memory Stick Duo Pro for £40 that ahs DRM features in it I don't want.
Well, I suspect anyone not standing within 12 feet of Steve Jobs will agree with your insight that a disk based ipod is a bad choice if you want a device with all the properties of a flash based music player. It's sort of inevitable that if you put a hard disk in something it's going to weigh more and not run on AA batteries.
Potential purchasers should also be aware that the ipod is also a bad choice if you want a blender, a load bearing beam in a skyscraper, or a vegetarian alternative for a dinner party.
Surprisingly good at scraping ice off your windshield though.
Well, of course. You know why they're hiring so many big brains that start-ups are having trouble starting up? Because they're trying to figure out a way to get a DNA sample over the internet, that's why!