Somebody tell the fucking-DMR that not everybody runs their fucking-browser at fucking-640 x fucking-480. FUCK!! Scroll, scroll, scroll scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, if they'd just let the text flow, it'd wrap to my window size. FUCK!! I hate that.
That's what I'm led to understand, but you'll only be able to record manually, or pause live TV. You won't get the TiVo guide, you won't get any automatic recordings, no Season Pass. no ratings, no Thumbs Up. Basically, you get none of the stuff that makes it better than a VCR, or a capture card on your PC.
Now, I have the Phillips 6000 DirecTV with TiVo, so it may be different for my box, which can also get programming info - DirecTV info, not TiVo info - over-the-satellite.
Your TiVo needs to know what shows you watch, not TiVo, inc. It downloads the schedule, your PVR finds the shows and records them. Even if there was some reason to upload that data, there's no reason that they'd HAVE to track it.
Sure there is. Ever heard of AC Nielsen? They are the guys who tell the networks how many people are watching the shows, so the networks can set advertising prices. Neilsen pays people to keep a log of their viewing habits and report it periodically.
TiVo may be moving to a position where they can displace Neilsen by offering the networks and advertisers a user base that not only tells them exactly what they are watching, but how much they like it, and whether or not they found a commercial appealing (by noting whether it was skipped). Neilsen only *wishes* they could do that. This is TiVo's future, I think.
I can imagine an ad-supported TiVo that showed targetted, uninterruptible ads before playback of recorded shows. I would find that a fair tradeoff for all that the TiVo offers in return. But I paid for a lifetime membership, so I reserve the right to skip all commercials as long as I live.:)
You completely and utterly do not understand. One week with a TiVo, and you will. You want a TiVo for all the reasons you said you didn't want one. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
I watch more TV now that I did before, because the TiVo has always got something interesting for me to watch. I spend no time channel surfing anymore. None at all. The TiVo does it for me.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how the TiVo could learn what sort of programs I like, without making a record of what programs I give Thumbs Up to. I guess if I watch something subversive, I should not press the Thumbs Up button, lest the Feds get clued in to my viewing habits (as if anything on TV is remotely subversive - haha! little pun there).
I suppose they could beam mind-reading rays alongside the satellite signal, you know, on a sideband or something. Then they could find out what I like without me having to even press a button. But I'm sure your aluminum foil hat would protect against that sort of thing.
What happened to the days when a company produced a product and just SOLD IT, instead of trying to profit off every single thing they possibly could?
Oh yeah, TiVo is rolling in profits. Look, the service is: you tell it what you like, it remembers your choices and finds similar things on the schedule that you might otherwise overlook, and records them for you. That's what the fucking service IS. You may as well complain about your computer needing a phone line to browse websites.
I don't see wal-mart trying to track what I buy, and they're doing great.
That's because they are much better at tracking you than Safeway.
I don't have to plug my Nintendo into a phone line to get it to let me play games, why should I have to in order to watch TV?
You don't. The phone line is optional. You only need it if you want the guide, and the proactive record-what-you-like features.
The enforcement problem (or rather, the lack of enforcement problem, or even more to the point, the complete impracticality of enforcement problem) is why requirements to label spam are doomed to failure. Big time.
I live in California, and get maybe one spam a week with ADV: in the subject (hundreds without). Multiply that by hatever percent of 23 million Californians are using email. Big fucking lot of difference the California law has made. The spam still flows and filtering on ADV: stops one or two a week. Yeah. Right.
Good plan.
That alone is good enough. He wants to gain marketshare.
Solaris is the most polular platform for Oracle. People buy big Sun machines so they can run Oracle on the platform where it runs best. If Oracle keeps producing a Solaris version that meets customer needs, customers will continue to buy big Sun machines to run it on.
If Oracle produces a Linux version that does not meet customer needs, no one will buy it no matter how low the TCO.
Kids who launch Outlook worms find themselves on the wrong side of the door when the FBI comes a-knockin'.
Sysadm who installs RC5 client is charged with felony trespass of the very systems he is responsible for maintaining.
It is not a big stretch to think that some LUSER with too much time on his hands and too little technical knowledge and a "How To Get Rich Suing Everyone For Dummies" book could get this guy his very own criminal indictment for exploiting flaws on a computer network, a transgression he ought to know is tantamount to supporting terrorism or even - heaven forbid - cracking a cipher on RIAA-owned media.
That's exactly what it is, although "upper right" is northwest. Sigma Orionis, far outside the field of view of the camera, is the illuminating star. Most of the stars seen in the image are foreground objects seen hanging in front of the clouds behind them.
Back at the start of the 1990s the general consensus in the computing industry was that UNIX could never succeed outside academia because it was chronically insecure.
Citations, please? By most accounts, Unix had already penetrated far outside academia by the time the 1990's rolled around.
...UNIX generally and Linux in particular are not exactly fault free....How can anyone who runs sendmail throw stones at Microsoft?
So what? Does one sin excuse the other? Is there any lack of focus on Unix and Linux security issues? If I run IIS do I give up the right to criticize Apache?
...sendmail is a textbook case in how to write software that can never be secure.
Never is a long time. What box-breaching flaws are in the latest release? Oh, you were referring to those older releases still installed all over the place. Like the old NT 4 boxen, and the unpatched IIS, and Win95's nukable TCP stack, and... yeah.
My retort is the same as Microsoft's: UPGRADE
The program breaks every single one of the rules Bruce and Adam set out.
Bruce and Adam are not the only ones writing rules. Appealing to authority plays well to the unwashed masses who don't know any better. That's why it's a favorite of Microsoft spin doctors (and government spin doctors, and media spin doctors, and...)
UNIX only became secure as a result of trial and error.
This is partly why it has the level of trust that it does. We have experience with it, and know what to expect.
For many years the main contribution to the security world from the UNIX security architecture folk was discouraging people from using shaddow [sic]password files.
I think you meant "encouraging people to use shadow password files".
Win2K and XP have Kerberos and PKI integrated into their core.
What does that mean?
The standard condfiguration supports IPSEC, S/MIME, SSL, Kerberos, Smartcard login, Encrypted File system. Measuring security in terms of cryptographic features Microsoft wins hands down (Microsoft are good on features).
Microsoft is also good at winning irrelevant feature comparison contests. What is there to assure anyone that these features are any more secure than the other featureful crap that got Microsoft into trouble in the first place? How do we know these services do not harbor even bigger holes than the ones we know about already elsewhere in the OS? At least with IIS, we can have a clue that it ought not be left turned on except where it is required. Who is going to turn off security "features" as a matter of course, even if it's the right thing to do, as it is with IIS features? Today's features are tomorrow's embarrasing exploit. It matters not one bit whether the features are characterized as the "security" type of features. If they are written poorly, they can be exploited. If they are not needed, but are enabled anyway, they pose a needless risk. Needless risk is where Microsoft excels.
The problem I see for Linux is complacency. There are too many weenies out there whose knowledge of security is actually minimal who tell people Linux is secure because that is what they have been told.
That's pretty fucking funny. Complacency on the part of MCSE-types is why Microsoft software is such a problem. Nimda was not propagated by web servers running on Linux. It was propagated by IIS webservers running on Microsoft systems operated by complacent Microsoft admins.
But Linux users and distro preparers are learning. Newer distros come with everything turned off. Even after it was shown that unwitting NT and W2K users' PCs were propagating worms because the users had no idea a web server was even running, much less that it needed patching, XP still comes with everything turned on.
Wake me up when XP2 ships, and let me know if stuff is still on out of the box.
Windows has a great security architecture that the crappy applications completely bypass.
If it was a great architecture, the apps would not be able to bypass it.
My DirecTiVo does all the stuff you mentioned, except for the PIP thing, which is hardly missed (why do I need PIP when I can record whats on the other channel and view it later?). It is also the best home entertainment appliance I have ever owned. The only other appliance that came close was the plain jane Hughes DirecTV receiver I had before it.
What makes you think MS won't cave and build DRM into XBox2, giving them control over how you use the PVR and the data it records? I don't even think "cave" is the right term. "Execute lucrative licensing agreements" with MPAA companies is more like it.
If you had read the review, you would have known that the Voyager web browser supports a pluggable HTML engine, for which Opera has made a plugin. So yes, it renders HTML at least as well as Opera 5.:)
...the AOL software could be configured to override Windows and launch a version of Red Hat's Linux operating system, sources said.
Good idea. NOT! Although, if anyone can bring the joys of dual-booting to the masses, it's AOL.
With such a move, AOL Time Warner could potentially make significant inroads into Microsoft's bread-and-butter business.
What, pissing off its customers and the OSS movement all at the same time?
An even graver challenge to Microsoft would be for AOL Time Warner to develop a rival operating system that works exclusively with the media giant's own Internet service provider, its Web browser or proprietary content.
That's an even better idea, make the public associate dual-booting and Linux with AOL, busy signals, lousy customer service, spam-by-the-buckets, yeah, that'll topple Redmond.
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The interior of a meteorite that is large enough to survive re-entry, but small enough not to blast a crater, is untouched and unheated. An ablation crust forms that is only a millimeter or so thick. Bacterial spores can survive in the interior of the rock, untouched by the heat of re-entry.
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I don't care how much you say the RIAA was screwing the artists ...
I think this whole debate needs a little dose of sanity.
Then stop introducing your argument with "I don't care what you say." It will help a lot, really.
Somebody tell the fucking-DMR that not everybody runs their fucking-browser at fucking-640 x fucking-480. FUCK!! Scroll, scroll, scroll scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, if they'd just let the text flow, it'd wrap to my window size. FUCK!! I hate that.
That's what I'm led to understand, but you'll only be able to record manually, or pause live TV. You won't get the TiVo guide, you won't get any automatic recordings, no Season Pass. no ratings, no Thumbs Up. Basically, you get none of the stuff that makes it better than a VCR, or a capture card on your PC.
Now, I have the Phillips 6000 DirecTV with TiVo, so it may be different for my box, which can also get programming info - DirecTV info, not TiVo info - over-the-satellite.
Where does it get the machine-readable guide data?
Your TiVo needs to know what shows you watch, not TiVo, inc. It downloads the schedule, your PVR finds the shows and records them. Even if there was some reason to upload that data, there's no reason that they'd HAVE to track it.
:)
Sure there is. Ever heard of AC Nielsen? They are the guys who tell the networks how many people are watching the shows, so the networks can set advertising prices. Neilsen pays people to keep a log of their viewing habits and report it periodically.
TiVo may be moving to a position where they can displace Neilsen by offering the networks and advertisers a user base that not only tells them exactly what they are watching, but how much they like it, and whether or not they found a commercial appealing (by noting whether it was skipped). Neilsen only *wishes* they could do that. This is TiVo's future, I think.
I can imagine an ad-supported TiVo that showed targetted, uninterruptible ads before playback of recorded shows. I would find that a fair tradeoff for all that the TiVo offers in return. But I paid for a lifetime membership, so I reserve the right to skip all commercials as long as I live.
Where do you get machine-readable guide data, so your homebrew can record all the Simpsons and Enterprises and 24s and West Wings?
Oh. I thought so. Move along, nothing to see here but a geek with a capture card. YAWN.
You completely and utterly do not understand. One week with a TiVo, and you will. You want a TiVo for all the reasons you said you didn't want one. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
I watch more TV now that I did before, because the TiVo has always got something interesting for me to watch. I spend no time channel surfing anymore. None at all. The TiVo does it for me.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how the TiVo could learn what sort of programs I like, without making a record of what programs I give Thumbs Up to. I guess if I watch something subversive, I should not press the Thumbs Up button, lest the Feds get clued in to my viewing habits (as if anything on TV is remotely subversive - haha! little pun there).
I suppose they could beam mind-reading rays alongside the satellite signal, you know, on a sideband or something. Then they could find out what I like without me having to even press a button. But I'm sure your aluminum foil hat would protect against that sort of thing.
What happened to the days when a company produced a product and just SOLD IT, instead of trying to profit off every single thing they possibly could?
Oh yeah, TiVo is rolling in profits. Look, the service is: you tell it what you like, it remembers your choices and finds similar things on the schedule that you might otherwise overlook, and records them for you. That's what the fucking service IS. You may as well complain about your computer needing a phone line to browse websites.
I don't see wal-mart trying to track what I buy, and they're doing great.
That's because they are much better at tracking you than Safeway.
I don't have to plug my Nintendo into a phone line to get it to let me play games, why should I have to in order to watch TV?
You don't. The phone line is optional. You only need it if you want the guide, and the proactive record-what-you-like features.
Why are you so upset at People for the Ethical Treatment of Airheads?
OK, folks, start barraging them. The more crap that fills their server, the more seriously they'll take the situation.
Or the more quickly they'll begin refusing email to uce@ftc.gov. Or give you an autoresponse telling you to send your complaint to tosemail1@ftc.gov.
They act in response to a high level of public complaints. So complain.
That's right, and the USA Patriot Act will help stop terrorism. It's really worth it. Trust me.
The enforcement problem (or rather, the lack of enforcement problem, or even more to the point, the complete impracticality of enforcement problem) is why requirements to label spam are doomed to failure. Big time.
I live in California, and get maybe one spam a week with ADV: in the subject (hundreds without). Multiply that by hatever percent of 23 million Californians are using email. Big fucking lot of difference the California law has made. The spam still flows and filtering on ADV: stops one or two a week. Yeah. Right.
Good plan.
Well, Linux is more popular than Solaris.
In bed.
That alone is good enough. He wants to gain marketshare.
Solaris is the most polular platform for Oracle. People buy big Sun machines so they can run Oracle on the platform where it runs best. If Oracle keeps producing a Solaris version that meets customer needs, customers will continue to buy big Sun machines to run it on.
If Oracle produces a Linux version that does not meet customer needs, no one will buy it no matter how low the TCO.
Kids who launch Outlook worms find themselves on the wrong side of the door when the FBI comes a-knockin'.
Sysadm who installs RC5 client is charged with felony trespass of the very systems he is responsible for maintaining.
It is not a big stretch to think that some LUSER with too much time on his hands and too little technical knowledge and a "How To Get Rich Suing Everyone For Dummies" book could get this guy his very own criminal indictment for exploiting flaws on a computer network, a transgression he ought to know is tantamount to supporting terrorism or even - heaven forbid - cracking a cipher on RIAA-owned media.
You're that guy on the TV commercials, aren't you? "Dude, you shoulda bought a Dell."
How about money laundering? Seems like Entropia is ripe for that kind of activity...
That's exactly what it is, although "upper right" is northwest. Sigma Orionis, far outside the field of view of the camera, is the illuminating star. Most of the stars seen in the image are foreground objects seen hanging in front of the clouds behind them.
Back at the start of the 1990s the general consensus in the computing industry was that UNIX could never succeed outside academia because it was chronically insecure.
...UNIX generally and Linux in particular are not exactly fault free. ...How can anyone who runs sendmail throw stones at Microsoft?
...sendmail is a textbook case in how to write software that can never be secure.
... yeah.
Citations, please? By most accounts, Unix had already penetrated far outside academia by the time the 1990's rolled around.
So what? Does one sin excuse the other? Is there any lack of focus on Unix and Linux security issues? If I run IIS do I give up the right to criticize Apache?
Never is a long time. What box-breaching flaws are in the latest release? Oh, you were referring to those older releases still installed all over the place. Like the old NT 4 boxen, and the unpatched IIS, and Win95's nukable TCP stack, and
My retort is the same as Microsoft's: UPGRADE
The program breaks every single one of the rules Bruce and Adam set out.
Bruce and Adam are not the only ones writing rules. Appealing to authority plays well to the unwashed masses who don't know any better. That's why it's a favorite of Microsoft spin doctors (and government spin doctors, and media spin doctors, and...)
UNIX only became secure as a result of trial and error.
This is partly why it has the level of trust that it does. We have experience with it, and know what to expect.
For many years the main contribution to the security world from the UNIX security architecture folk was discouraging people from using shaddow [sic]password files.
I think you meant "encouraging people to use shadow password files".
Win2K and XP have Kerberos and PKI integrated into their core.
What does that mean?
The standard condfiguration supports IPSEC, S/MIME, SSL, Kerberos, Smartcard login, Encrypted File system. Measuring security in terms of cryptographic features Microsoft wins hands down (Microsoft are good on features).
Microsoft is also good at winning irrelevant feature comparison contests. What is there to assure anyone that these features are any more secure than the other featureful crap that got Microsoft into trouble in the first place? How do we know these services do not harbor even bigger holes than the ones we know about already elsewhere in the OS? At least with IIS, we can have a clue that it ought not be left turned on except where it is required. Who is going to turn off security "features" as a matter of course, even if it's the right thing to do, as it is with IIS features? Today's features are tomorrow's embarrasing exploit. It matters not one bit whether the features are characterized as the "security" type of features. If they are written poorly, they can be exploited. If they are not needed, but are enabled anyway, they pose a needless risk. Needless risk is where Microsoft excels.
The problem I see for Linux is complacency. There are too many weenies out there whose knowledge of security is actually minimal who tell people Linux is secure because that is what they have been told.
That's pretty fucking funny. Complacency on the part of MCSE-types is why Microsoft software is such a problem. Nimda was not propagated by web servers running on Linux. It was propagated by IIS webservers running on Microsoft systems operated by complacent Microsoft admins.
But Linux users and distro preparers are learning. Newer distros come with everything turned off. Even after it was shown that unwitting NT and W2K users' PCs were propagating worms because the users had no idea a web server was even running, much less that it needed patching, XP still comes with everything turned on.
Wake me up when XP2 ships, and let me know if stuff is still on out of the box.
Windows has a great security architecture that the crappy applications completely bypass.
If it was a great architecture, the apps would not be able to bypass it.
My DirecTiVo does all the stuff you mentioned, except for the PIP thing, which is hardly missed (why do I need PIP when I can record whats on the other channel and view it later?). It is also the best home entertainment appliance I have ever owned. The only other appliance that came close was the plain jane Hughes DirecTV receiver I had before it.
What makes you think MS won't cave and build DRM into XBox2, giving them control over how you use the PVR and the data it records? I don't even think "cave" is the right term. "Execute lucrative licensing agreements" with MPAA companies is more like it.
I'd rather see VivendiUniversalBlowsWIPO.com go into a dispute. Now who's passing off what?
If you had read the review, you would have known that the Voyager web browser supports a pluggable HTML engine, for which Opera has made a plugin. So yes, it renders HTML at least as well as Opera 5. :)
But, I don't understand why they would have to own RedHat to do this.
Pfft! You silly... they're AOL !
...the AOL software could be configured to override Windows and launch a version of Red Hat's Linux operating system, sources said.
Good idea. NOT! Although, if anyone can bring the joys of dual-booting to the masses, it's AOL.
With such a move, AOL Time Warner could potentially make significant inroads into Microsoft's bread-and-butter business.
What, pissing off its customers and the OSS movement all at the same time?
An even graver challenge to Microsoft would be for AOL Time Warner to develop a rival operating system that works exclusively with the media giant's own Internet service provider, its Web browser or proprietary content.
That's an even better idea, make the public associate dual-booting and Linux with AOL, busy signals, lousy customer service, spam-by-the-buckets, yeah, that'll topple Redmond.
Sheesh.
It was the kernel of fire... the kernel of destruction... the kernel that took back what was ours. It was the kernel of rebirth... the kernel of great sadness... the kernel of pain... and the kernel of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of history. It was the kernel where everything changed. The year is 2001. The version: Linux 2.4.5
Cue martial music
The interior of a meteorite that is large enough to survive re-entry, but small enough not to blast a crater, is untouched and unheated. An ablation crust forms that is only a millimeter or so thick. Bacterial spores can survive in the interior of the rock, untouched by the heat of re-entry.