I don't really get it... As high-speed internet connections become more popular and capacity increases, there's really nowhere to go but up. Another $5-$10 price drop may moderate that, but I don't think it will do much. Although piracy will always be more widespread among those with less disposable income and more free time on their hands, with the current state of affairs you really only need to spend a minute or two doing a search with your favourite p2p client and it will take care of the rest; not exactly a big time expenditure, even if you throw in a $0.75 CD blank and 10 minutes for burning.
I don't think the lack of a set-top DivX player is holding back piracy much... First of all, some will still prefer the picture quality of their monitor to the advantages of screen size and comfortable seating available in their living rooms. But, more importantly, VCD/SVCD-capable DVD players are already filling that role to a small degree; what will happen when DVD[-+]R drives and media become more affordable, and burning your DVD rentals is just a click of the mouse away?
Hey coward! Did you misunderstand? The people above
On to the meat of the troll-feeding:
>>Get a real OS that runs 90% of the world's software and you won't have these problems
I don't get it... Windows may run the largest percentage of the world's (commercial consumer-intended) software, but even Microsoft themselves make misleading statements about their Windows-targeted products' functionality and delay releases all the time.
>>The world is so tired of you linux losers complaining that no one supports your software.
1) Speak for yourself. 2) What does that have to do with this?
>>Get a job, and pay for your software.
Which they did... And now they're pissed off because the vendor misled them.
>>Nothing runs on your crap OS? Well, you get what you pay for.
Really? Well, you're the one who paid for your crap OS, my friend. So, you tell us: was it worth it? And, while you're busy bashing linux users, has it occurred to you that the growth of linux increases OS functionality and lowers prices even for those who can't/won't use it? Or is the joke on you?
>>You made a choice, live with it and shut up.
Well, gee, if you feel so strongly that way, why don't you do the same? =)
>Sure you could plug a laptop in, but who wants to drop $300-400 for a cheap laptop that will probably get confiscated. For the same price you could by 4-5 Dreamcasts.
If you can get me 4 dreamcast ethernet adapters for US$300 (even without dreamcasts to go with them), I'll buy them off of you right now. Dreamcast BBA's are selling on ebay for $100-$150. You can barely buy two dreamcasts with ethernet adapters for $300, let alone four.
Why would you be spending $300+ anyway? An obsolete yard sale notebook should do the trick, and I can't see one setting you back more than $150.
>Because it is completely automated and it is small and easy to hide.
If there's completely automated software for DC, you can bet that there's such software for PC too. And, if you choose the right laptop, it would be even smaller than a DC. There are plenty of obsolete subnotebooks that would fit the bill.
But sniffing with a Dreamcast? Ethernet adapters for the dreamcast so rare as to sell second-hand for double their original list price or more... That would total to $250+ including an ebay-purchased DC, for a system with extremely limited local storage that wouldn't do anything more than an old 486 or early pentium system I could buy at a garage sale for $30 could. And well-hidden network and power connections mean that you'd pretty much have to put it in a ceiling or wiring closet anyway; I can't see how the somewhat smaller size would matter much.
Reformatting the ad may be novel; but, so what? As far as I can tell, the bit about reformatting is only mentioned in the description; not in any of the patent claims. And, while the description may have interesting ideas about potential applications of the patented invention, or, say, charming stories about flashes of insight, odes to the inventor's feline muse, and brief dissertations about the meaning of life, it has nothing to do with the scope of the patent. The patent covers only the invetions described in each claim. That is all.
Note: I just skimmed a lot of the "further comprising [...]" claims, and I hope someone will be good enough to smack me upside the head in a reply if reformatting actually is in a dependent claim somewhere. Not that that matters to the scope of the patent -- since things covered by the dependent claims are a subset those covered by the core claims anyway.
Now, the second part: You may have patents confused with copyright. Designing a substite system in a "clean room" style (e.g. ensuring that your design isn't a derivative work of whatever design it's substituting for) doesn't violate the original design's copyright. But, patents cover all devices that fit the claims, whether or not their designers knew about the patent and/or other devices under the patent.
Although, if the patented invention could be recreated in a clean room setting fairly easily, you might have an argument that it is obvious given the state of the art, and thus unpatentable. I'm not sure what exactly you would need to demonstrate to show obviousness, though.
>lpd (line printer daemon) not deactivated. >Er, yes, that's because I like to be able to print. >Mail daemon is on and collecting mail from the network. >Where the heck else is smtp going to collect mail from??
It could just be routing mail between local accounts. Maybe that configuration isn't so common anymore, but it does have the longest history. Anyway, what's important security-wise is that local routing doesn't require an SMTP server.
>Negative: 3.14 named DNS server not deactivated. >Correct; it is serving DNS for my home LAN. It wouldn't perform that task very well if it was deactivated. >samba smb rc script not deactivated. >Er, right. That's because I use SMB. >All quite silly, and that's just part of it.
Okay... It's not like you don't have your reasons for running the things that are being flagged. But simply having more services running makes your system more vulnerable to attack. That's what's being indicated.
>Note that the whole home LAN is firewalled, but for some reason it didn't bother checking for that!
Huh? The firewall may improve the security of your network, but it doesn't really affect the security of your system itself. And, even then, either the linux box in question is doing the firewalling, and thus one side is exposed, or it isn't, and so the firewalling is being done on another system, and would be difficult to detect. Although, if your system is the firewall box, it would be useful to be able to make sure that no unnecessary services were active on the outer connection.
If you ask me, the second-button context menus omnipresent in post-3.x Windows releases are really handy; the saved cursor travel time and convenience really add up. AFAIK, virtually all Mac apps that implement context menus (usually because of a port from Windows) make you hold down the button longer than a normal click length to invoke the menu. Does the amount of time spent by new users on differentiating the buttons really outweigh these? What is the paradigm being broken? I had always thought that the cursor was a hand metaphor; and a hand is more of a multi-purpose tool than a single button mouse would seem to allow for.
Not that anyone one asked me. =)
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>Face it, profiling of passengers based on race, national origin, religion, demenor, etc. has worked very well for El Al.
Well, gee, here's a better way to be extra sure that hijackers don't squeeze through: just don't let anyone on planes at all.
To put it another way, I don't think many of those who are against racial and religious profiling care if it's effective or not.
But, just for the sake of argument, I also think that the US has too great a variety of enemies (and too great a variety of friends, for that matter) for racial and religious profiling to be particularly effective or economical.
Profiling may work well for El Al. But, Quantas doesn't fly to Los Angeles out of Cincinnatti, Raymond. Think about it... Hijackings in Israel are fairly polarized along racial and religious lines; but there's a laundry list of groups and causes behind US hijackings.
I just noticed that. So, are these new status indications just fuzzy text labels corresponding to the hidden numbers, or is this an indication that the karma system has been replaced?
>Exchange IMAP doesn't do any of the groupware features...
Okay,
>Outlook thru WINE is slow and unreliable
okay,
>Dual-booting means rebooting to check mail, and you still need the Windows and Office licenses.
Windows licensing, sure; Exchange seat licenses include Outlook licensing (AFAIK; MS might have changed this for the newest Exchange release). And it's not like you would buy an Office license just to use Outlook.
>VMWare works but is slow and expensive (not as expensive as a second PC, but still expensive)
VMWare & co. are slower than native, but not overwhelmingly so in my experience. (Although my experience with VMWare is primarily with going the other way, running non-UI-intensive linux servery stuff on Windows boxen). Anyway, I'd imagine that the average primary PC for someone running a linux desktop is a bit more speedy than what you'd give out as a secondary system intended only for e-mail use to begin with; the speed impact may not matter that much. However, if the e-mail systems are all repurposed legacy desktop POSes, there could be a cost savings over VMWare (although that would depend on the cost of everything from maintenance to power and real estate).
Isn't there good third party PVR software for Mac? There's a fair amount of PVR software for Windows, and presumably there are a comparable number of Macheads wanting PVR capabilities on the cheap; although perhaps Mac folk would have a strong preference for the polished all-in-one-product-ness of Tivo-type systems despite the expense and lack of digital video access.
And, another obstacle: Apple doesn't sell systems with built-in video I/O anymore. I find this kind of strange, given their kitchen sink attitude towards feature integration, and their historically good pre-G3 PowerMac AV models. Their adoption of standard PCI and AGP slots on the bigger boxen should make this a non-issue. However, many companies market PCI/AGP hardware separately for Mac and PC, sometimes even to the point of selling similar but incompatible (and sometimes feature-reduced, e.g. Apple TV tuners) products on the Mac side. Anyone know why that is? It doesn't make any sense to me.
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How does bad bundled software make the cards awful? Although I haven't found the ATI TV tuner bundled software to be unreliable, it isn't as full-featured as the standalone PVRs. But, since there's a fair amount of better WDM-compatible PVR software out there, it's not like you're stuck with the quality of ATI's bundled solution...
"For the Linux users this makes it necessary to have a second Windows box just for email."
Do you mean that literally? If yes, I wonder why you aren't using one of the many cheaper options. Off the top of my head:
- Exchange IMAP support - Outlook through WINE (not sure about Outlook Exchange support under WINE) - Outlook on a Windows session in VMWare - Dual booting Windows to run Outlook
[snip -- no, you're not getting your hands on my IP, you little devils, you.]
bbr01-p0-0.ekgv01.exodus.net (209.1.169.1) 63.594 ms 63.786 ms 64.192 ms bbr02-p3-0.okbr01.exodus.net (206.79.9.9) 68.463 ms 63.592 ms 63.789 ms bbr02-p4-0.wlhm01.exodus.net (209.1.169.45) 88.655 ms 89.120 ms 88.507 m dcr03-g2-0.wlhm01.exodus.net (64.14.70.65) 88.775 ms 89.418 ms 89.015 ms csr03-ve241.wlhm02.exodus.net (64.14.70.138) 92.827 ms 91.359 ms 89.139 64.28.66.204 (64.28.66.204) 89.260 ms 89.179 ms 88.957 ms slashdot.org (64.28.67.150) [open] 137.414 ms * *
Overkill for simple reverse DNS, I know, but way cooler.
BTW, can anyone identify wlhm, btw? okbr seems to be Oak Brook, IL., but then it's mysteryland.
Simply looking at more centralized cabling plans, the cost for cable itself would be more. But wouldn't the reduced support costs (no wiring closets -- less power conditioning, air conditioning, floor space -- and easier maintenance) outweigh that?
AG seems to have caved in rather easily to RIAA pressure (consider their relatively early implementation of some file blocking, and their recent switch to subtractive blocking since additive blocking wasn't doing a very good job). I'm not sure if they even have the resources for a good legal defense, let alone a move offshore.
P.S. Your spelling is great. But your reasoning about English majors and correct spelling is a bit sloppy. =)
I was about to go on a merciless tirade about careless/. editors who double-post stories, until your post made me recall the truth. Apparently, the story I was deja-vuing about was on k5 and not on Slashdot.
So, what, I'm confusing/. stories and k5 stories now? *shudder* What next? Total mental collapse? =)
For some reason, I remember the story I was deja-vuing about being just Mindless Link Propagation to some major news site. Of course, a quick check reveals that it isn't. I don't know why I remember it that way -- K5 moderators don't let as blatant MLP posts through to the front page as easily as the Slashdot PtBs do. At least some poor slashdot editor isn't guilty of MLPP (what MLPing an MLP post would be).
"What's next, they're gonna make chips outta chicken feathers?"
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>>And of course microsoft decided to come out with encryption in W2K so those files would pretty much be lost if you had that setup.
Well, files might not be accessible from linux while encrypted, but you could just turn the encryption off before toasting Windows...
I don't really get it... As high-speed internet connections become more popular and capacity increases, there's really nowhere to go but up. Another $5-$10 price drop may moderate that, but I don't think it will do much. Although piracy will always be more widespread among those with less disposable income and more free time on their hands, with the current state of affairs you really only need to spend a minute or two doing a search with your favourite p2p client and it will take care of the rest; not exactly a big time expenditure, even if you throw in a $0.75 CD blank and 10 minutes for burning.
I don't think the lack of a set-top DivX player is holding back piracy much... First of all, some will still prefer the picture quality of their monitor to the advantages of screen size and comfortable seating available in their living rooms. But, more importantly, VCD/SVCD-capable DVD players are already filling that role to a small degree; what will happen when DVD[-+]R drives and media become more affordable, and burning your DVD rentals is just a click of the mouse away?
Hey coward! Did you misunderstand? The people above
On to the meat of the troll-feeding:
>>Get a real OS that runs 90% of the world's software and you won't have these problems
I don't get it... Windows may run the largest percentage of the world's (commercial consumer-intended) software, but even Microsoft themselves make misleading statements about their Windows-targeted products' functionality and delay releases all the time.
>>The world is so tired of you linux losers complaining that no one supports your software.
1) Speak for yourself.
2) What does that have to do with this?
>>Get a job, and pay for your software.
Which they did... And now they're pissed off because the vendor misled them.
>>Nothing runs on your crap OS? Well, you get what you pay for.
Really? Well, you're the one who paid for your crap OS, my friend. So, you tell us: was it worth it? And, while you're busy bashing linux users, has it occurred to you that the growth of linux increases OS functionality and lowers prices even for those who can't/won't use it? Or is the joke on you?
>>You made a choice, live with it and shut up.
Well, gee, if you feel so strongly that way, why don't you do the same? =)
AMD has its own fabs, and fabs all of its own chips, right?
I'm not sure who Transmeta contracts with, though.
>Sure you could plug a laptop in, but who wants to drop $300-400 for a cheap laptop that will probably get confiscated. For the same price you could by 4-5 Dreamcasts.
If you can get me 4 dreamcast ethernet adapters for US$300 (even without dreamcasts to go with them), I'll buy them off of you right now. Dreamcast BBA's are selling on ebay for $100-$150. You can barely buy two dreamcasts with ethernet adapters for $300, let alone four.
Why would you be spending $300+ anyway? An obsolete yard sale notebook should do the trick, and I can't see one setting you back more than $150.
>Because it is completely automated and it is small and easy to hide.
If there's completely automated software for DC, you can bet that there's such software for PC too. And, if you choose the right laptop, it would be even smaller than a DC. There are plenty of obsolete subnotebooks that would fit the bill.
Sure, on-site network security is a problem too.
But sniffing with a Dreamcast? Ethernet adapters for the dreamcast so rare as to sell second-hand for double their original list price or more... That would total to $250+ including an ebay-purchased DC, for a system with extremely limited local storage that wouldn't do anything more than an old 486 or early pentium system I could buy at a garage sale for $30 could. And well-hidden network and power connections mean that you'd pretty much have to put it in a ceiling or wiring closet anyway; I can't see how the somewhat smaller size would matter much.
Reformatting the ad may be novel; but, so what? As far as I can tell, the bit about reformatting is only mentioned in the description; not in any of the patent claims. And, while the description may have interesting ideas about potential applications of the patented invention, or, say, charming stories about flashes of insight, odes to the inventor's feline muse, and brief dissertations about the meaning of life, it has nothing to do with the scope of the patent. The patent covers only the invetions described in each claim. That is all.
Note: I just skimmed a lot of the "further comprising [...]" claims, and I hope someone will be good enough to smack me upside the head in a reply if reformatting actually is in a dependent claim somewhere. Not that that matters to the scope of the patent -- since things covered by the dependent claims are a subset those covered by the core claims anyway.
Now, the second part: You may have patents confused with copyright. Designing a substite system in a "clean room" style (e.g. ensuring that your design isn't a derivative work of whatever design it's substituting for) doesn't violate the original design's copyright. But, patents cover all devices that fit the claims, whether or not their designers knew about the patent and/or other devices under the patent.
Although, if the patented invention could be recreated in a clean room setting fairly easily, you might have an argument that it is obvious given the state of the art, and thus unpatentable. I'm not sure what exactly you would need to demonstrate to show obviousness, though.
>lpd (line printer daemon) not deactivated.
>Er, yes, that's because I like to be able to print.
>Mail daemon is on and collecting mail from the network.
>Where the heck else is smtp going to collect mail from??
It could just be routing mail between local accounts. Maybe that configuration isn't so common anymore, but it does have the longest history. Anyway, what's important security-wise is that local routing doesn't require an SMTP server.
>Negative: 3.14 named DNS server not deactivated.
>Correct; it is serving DNS for my home LAN. It wouldn't perform that task very well if it was deactivated.
>samba smb rc script not deactivated.
>Er, right. That's because I use SMB.
>All quite silly, and that's just part of it.
Okay... It's not like you don't have your reasons for running the things that are being flagged. But simply having more services running makes your system more vulnerable to attack. That's what's being indicated.
>Note that the whole home LAN is firewalled, but for some reason it didn't bother checking for that!
Huh? The firewall may improve the security of your network, but it doesn't really affect the security of your system itself. And, even then, either the linux box in question is doing the firewalling, and thus one side is exposed, or it isn't, and so the firewalling is being done on another system, and would be difficult to detect. Although, if your system is the firewall box, it would be useful to be able to make sure that no unnecessary services were active on the outer connection.
"has more sonic range than CDs"
... So, what is it?
Sonic range? What?
Dynamic range: no...
Frequency range: no...
If you ask me, the second-button context menus omnipresent in post-3.x Windows releases are really handy; the saved cursor travel time and convenience really add up. AFAIK, virtually all Mac apps that implement context menus (usually because of a port from Windows) make you hold down the button longer than a normal click length to invoke the menu. Does the amount of time spent by new users on differentiating the buttons really outweigh these?
What is the paradigm being broken? I had always thought that the cursor was a hand metaphor; and a hand is more of a multi-purpose tool than a single button mouse would seem to allow for.
Not that anyone one asked me. =)
Dead link. 404... Got another one?
OpenSSH on Cygwin. It's free. I'm not sure if Cygwin provides enough unixy hooks to support sftp, but I'd imagine it does...
>Face it, profiling of passengers based on race, national origin, religion, demenor, etc. has worked very well for El Al.
Well, gee, here's a better way to be extra sure that hijackers don't squeeze through: just don't let anyone on planes at all.
To put it another way, I don't think many of those who are against racial and religious profiling care if it's effective or not.
But, just for the sake of argument, I also think that the US has too great a variety of enemies (and too great a variety of friends, for that matter) for racial and religious profiling to be particularly effective or economical.
Profiling may work well for El Al. But, Quantas doesn't fly to Los Angeles out of Cincinnatti, Raymond. Think about it... Hijackings in Israel are fairly polarized along racial and religious lines; but there's a laundry list of groups and causes behind US hijackings.
I just noticed that. So, are these new status indications just fuzzy text labels corresponding to the hidden numbers, or is this an indication that the karma system has been replaced?
>Exchange IMAP doesn't do any of the groupware features...
Okay,
>Outlook thru WINE is slow and unreliable
okay,
>Dual-booting means rebooting to check mail, and you still need the Windows and Office licenses.
Windows licensing, sure; Exchange seat licenses include Outlook licensing (AFAIK; MS might have changed this for the newest Exchange release). And it's not like you would buy an Office license just to use Outlook.
>VMWare works but is slow and expensive (not as expensive as a second PC, but still expensive)
VMWare & co. are slower than native, but not overwhelmingly so in my experience. (Although my experience with VMWare is primarily with going the other way, running non-UI-intensive linux servery stuff on Windows boxen). Anyway, I'd imagine that the average primary PC for someone running a linux desktop is a bit more speedy than what you'd give out as a secondary system intended only for e-mail use to begin with; the speed impact may not matter that much. However, if the e-mail systems are all repurposed legacy desktop POSes, there could be a cost savings over VMWare (although that would depend on the cost of everything from maintenance to power and real estate).
Isn't there good third party PVR software for Mac? There's a fair amount of PVR software for Windows, and presumably there are a comparable number of Macheads wanting PVR capabilities on the cheap; although perhaps Mac folk would have a strong preference for the polished all-in-one-product-ness of Tivo-type systems despite the expense and lack of digital video access.
And, another obstacle: Apple doesn't sell systems with built-in video I/O anymore. I find this kind of strange, given their kitchen sink attitude towards feature integration, and their historically good pre-G3 PowerMac AV models. Their adoption of standard PCI and AGP slots on the bigger boxen should make this a non-issue. However, many companies market PCI/AGP hardware separately for Mac and PC, sometimes even to the point of selling similar but incompatible (and sometimes feature-reduced, e.g. Apple TV tuners) products on the Mac side. Anyone know why that is? It doesn't make any sense to me.
How does bad bundled software make the cards awful? Although I haven't found the ATI TV tuner bundled software to be unreliable, it isn't as full-featured as the standalone PVRs. But, since there's a fair amount of better WDM-compatible PVR software out there, it's not like you're stuck with the quality of ATI's bundled solution...
Wow... I guess all those folks who insist on storing their loose change in the freezer are going to be pretty put out about this. (!?)
Forgot to add:
- Outlook session on remote machine through Citrix (no idea about the costs)
"For the Linux users this makes it necessary to have a second Windows box just for email."
Do you mean that literally? If yes, I wonder why you aren't using one of the many cheaper options. Off the top of my head:
- Exchange IMAP support
- Outlook through WINE (not sure about Outlook Exchange support under WINE)
- Outlook on a Windows session in VMWare
- Dual booting Windows to run Outlook
Overkill for simple reverse DNS, I know, but way cooler.
BTW, can anyone identify wlhm, btw? okbr seems to be Oak Brook, IL., but then it's mysteryland.
Simply looking at more centralized cabling plans, the cost for cable itself would be more. But wouldn't the reduced support costs (no wiring closets -- less power conditioning, air conditioning, floor space -- and easier maintenance) outweigh that?
AG seems to have caved in rather easily to RIAA pressure (consider their relatively early implementation of some file blocking, and their recent switch to subtractive blocking since additive blocking wasn't doing a very good job). I'm not sure if they even have the resources for a good legal defense, let alone a move offshore.
P.S. Your spelling is great. But your reasoning about English majors and correct spelling is a bit sloppy. =)
I was about to go on a merciless tirade about careless /. editors who double-post stories, until your post made me recall the truth. Apparently, the story I was deja-vuing about was on k5 and not on Slashdot.
/. stories and k5 stories now? *shudder* What next? Total mental collapse? =)
So, what, I'm confusing
For some reason, I remember the story I was deja-vuing about being just Mindless Link Propagation to some major news site. Of course, a quick check reveals that it isn't. I don't know why I remember it that way -- K5 moderators don't let as blatant MLP posts through to the front page as easily as the Slashdot PtBs do. At least some poor slashdot editor isn't guilty of MLPP (what MLPing an MLP post would be).
"What's next, they're gonna make chips outta chicken feathers?"
Don't joke about that, man. =)