This just proves that the journey is as important as the destination. Both digg and slashdot will ultimately have to remove most of the instances of the number eventually, but digg is doing it in secret. Ultimately, slashdot will get a DMCA notice, and can chose whether or not to fight it. If they do what they did last time, then they'll come out as heroes. If the comments disappear in the dead of night and people notice, they'll get attacked.
All that is needed for AACS to be cracked is for one guy to break it. Out of a few hundred trying. Then they pass it along to everyone else. Even if the crack ultimately requires hardware alterations, you only need a few rippers to get 75% of the major releases. AACS may ultimately succeed in making an unlicensed player impractical, but it won't stop pirates and hackers.
Additionally, Dell may have to buy licenses for MP3/MPEG4/Flash/whatever software it bundles. Average Joe can download a licenseless MP3 software player and get away with it, but Dell can't.
The full version of WP's current articles is a XML dump of 4.7 GB. That alone fits on a DVD. Then there are about 60GB of images (plus all the images in Commons). Getting a copy of every article you want would take up at least a Dual-Layer Blu-Ray even with the best of compression (you can put it in a database smaller than the XML dump), and you can down-res most larger images.
They realized they couldn't do that, so instead they picked a few hundred articles, and got the most accurate copies they could. It'd be great if they could do that for the whole corpus of WP articles, but that's not currently feasible in terms of optical storage, processing power, fact-checking, etc.
Sounds a lot like a high-end Mac Pro (shipping for months) with a nicer graphics card. Dell Precision 690s are a bit pricier, but they do the same thing (admittedly, I envy the SAS built-in). I assume HP has a similar model, but I didn't check.
How is this news? Intel attached a marketing name to a product that has existed for months and is the logical extension of having dual-socket boards and quad-core chips. I mean, it's basically (2*2)*2 - dual-core processors (2) on MCM (*2) in a two-socket (*2) board. There's exactly no advancement going on here.
Any chance of something like this for Thunderbird?
Well said. I've sat here for a few minutes, and I can't think of much for Firefox, but the Thunderbird list might as well be a mile long. Thunderbird needs Mail.app import and Spotlight integration for starters.
TextEdit.app can already read.doc files with most features. I'm sure one could work around the limitations. Yeah, editing it will be a pain in the ass, but it's doable.
The fact that Intel could go to the C2D architecture from low-end to dual-socket server in the space of 6 months is the killer here. Even if 65 nm Barcelonas can give AMD parity on the high-end and mid-range, it'll be 9-12 months before they're all over AMD's lineup. In graphics, it's the same story. By the time R600 gets out the door, G80 will be all over Nvidia's line-up. AMD has a lot of work to do to catch-up on the speed/specs front.
In this instance, that doesn't really matter. People don't deliberately keep large piles of pointless bits or stuff with a bunch of useless bits at the end on their hard drives. It'd be blatantly obvious what is a collision-attack file and what isn't. If it's an MP3 with a large bunch of bits tagged somewhere to make the MD5 match, then it's a plant.
I never said hardware hacking was hard, just that the software cracking community > console hacking community > Consumer Electronics hacking community.
The odds of a hardware player being blacklisted are slim. Software players are much easier to hack, and until they're tightened considerably, or Trusted Computing becomes the norm, they'll be the ones people focus on. If a hardware player is hacked, it'll probably be the Xbox360 HD-DVD drive or the PS3 Blu-Ray drive, because there are already active mod-scenes in the console world, and so a lot is known about them. There really aren't hackers who mess with stand-alone players. I mean, maybe there's 1-2 guys chatting in a forum, but there are lots of software crackers, and there are lots of console modders, many of whom have a lot of experience and knowledge.
Additionally, the AACS group probably doesn't have the stones to brick a standalone player.
Insightful? Shuttleworth is independently wealthy from a previous internet business, and his mission from day one has been a mass Linux desktop. Don't believe me? Look at Bug #1 in Ubuntu "Microsoft has a majority market share". Ubuntu isn't market-driven. Shuttleworth has said that he'll support the distribution himself out-of-pocket if need be.
I don't think those concerns are valid, nor do they reflect much knowledge of the situation.
I'm not even pissed about bodies not being cold, I'm pissed about PEOPLE TALKING WITHOUT FACTS. We know nothing about the shooter, and people are talking about his motives and passing blame. We know nothing about how the response went on the police side, and we have no idea whether having more students armed would have helped. I mean, there's plenty to say about how we could have prevented this, and being just up the road at Univ. of Virginia with lots of friends at VT, I certainly how we go over in detail how these things can be improved, but WE NEED THE FACTS FIRST. Throwing out there random stuff about gun control or video games doesn't help until we know if its relevant.
You say it sarcastically, but it's worth pointing out that one guy with two 9-mils is able to inflict enough terror to grab the headlines for a few days. If there were 2-3 of these within 2 weeks, you'd have a type of terror attack that we can't deal with through the current methods.
How do you know it happened just now. It could have happened 3 months ago, and they're just telling us now. For all we know, those programmers could have been reassigned last year (in like Oct) and are now heading back to Leopard (which is why we now have a time estimate on release)
They're most hated among the Consumerist's voters. And given that every round of voting was the top story on Digg for a whole day, the poll is the measurement of what that extremely limited subset of the population thinks. The rest of the public hardly knows them at all, and doesn't hate them for their indiscriminate attacks on the innocent and guilty alike. That's a big win, and suggests competence on the part of their PR staff, even if they do have it easy with their companies owning the mainstream media.
This is an organization hiring as a temporary press agent the press agent of another organization. It doesn't represent a strategic alliance at all, merely acknowledgement of the fact that this RIAA press guy is good. Which should be pretty obvious when you figure that the RIAA sues children, but half the country just knows them from sales certifications.
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This just proves that the journey is as important as the destination. Both digg and slashdot will ultimately have to remove most of the instances of the number eventually, but digg is doing it in secret. Ultimately, slashdot will get a DMCA notice, and can chose whether or not to fight it. If they do what they did last time, then they'll come out as heroes. If the comments disappear in the dead of night and people notice, they'll get attacked.
All that is needed for AACS to be cracked is for one guy to break it. Out of a few hundred trying. Then they pass it along to everyone else. Even if the crack ultimately requires hardware alterations, you only need a few rippers to get 75% of the major releases. AACS may ultimately succeed in making an unlicensed player impractical, but it won't stop pirates and hackers.
Additionally, Dell may have to buy licenses for MP3/MPEG4/Flash/whatever software it bundles. Average Joe can download a licenseless MP3 software player and get away with it, but Dell can't.
The price difference between losing the crapware and losing Vista could well be wash. But you can run Ubuntu well on a non-$800 machine.
Darth Vader did something at the end to earn our forgiveness. As far as I can tell, Jack Valenti didn't kill the Emperor.
I live in the vicinity of Alexandria (well, about 60-90 minutes away). Is there any way regular spam-targets like me can help?
The full version of WP's current articles is a XML dump of 4.7 GB. That alone fits on a DVD. Then there are about 60GB of images (plus all the images in Commons). Getting a copy of every article you want would take up at least a Dual-Layer Blu-Ray even with the best of compression (you can put it in a database smaller than the XML dump), and you can down-res most larger images.
They realized they couldn't do that, so instead they picked a few hundred articles, and got the most accurate copies they could. It'd be great if they could do that for the whole corpus of WP articles, but that's not currently feasible in terms of optical storage, processing power, fact-checking, etc.
Sounds a lot like a high-end Mac Pro (shipping for months) with a nicer graphics card. Dell Precision 690s are a bit pricier, but they do the same thing (admittedly, I envy the SAS built-in). I assume HP has a similar model, but I didn't check.
How is this news? Intel attached a marketing name to a product that has existed for months and is the logical extension of having dual-socket boards and quad-core chips. I mean, it's basically (2*2)*2 - dual-core processors (2) on MCM (*2) in a two-socket (*2) board. There's exactly no advancement going on here.
Any chance of something like this for Thunderbird?
Well said. I've sat here for a few minutes, and I can't think of much for Firefox, but the Thunderbird list might as well be a mile long. Thunderbird needs Mail.app import and Spotlight integration for starters.
Nope, they're sealed - the RIAA won the fight to keep them out of the public eye, citing possible damage to other lawsuits in progress.
TextEdit.app can already read .doc files with most features. I'm sure one could work around the limitations. Yeah, editing it will be a pain in the ass, but it's doable.
Yawn...
I can't wait to see the irony of that getting modded "Redundant"
The fact that Intel could go to the C2D architecture from low-end to dual-socket server in the space of 6 months is the killer here. Even if 65 nm Barcelonas can give AMD parity on the high-end and mid-range, it'll be 9-12 months before they're all over AMD's lineup. In graphics, it's the same story. By the time R600 gets out the door, G80 will be all over Nvidia's line-up. AMD has a lot of work to do to catch-up on the speed/specs front.
In this instance, that doesn't really matter. People don't deliberately keep large piles of pointless bits or stuff with a bunch of useless bits at the end on their hard drives. It'd be blatantly obvious what is a collision-attack file and what isn't. If it's an MP3 with a large bunch of bits tagged somewhere to make the MD5 match, then it's a plant.
I never said hardware hacking was hard, just that the software cracking community > console hacking community > Consumer Electronics hacking community.
The odds of a hardware player being blacklisted are slim. Software players are much easier to hack, and until they're tightened considerably, or Trusted Computing becomes the norm, they'll be the ones people focus on. If a hardware player is hacked, it'll probably be the Xbox360 HD-DVD drive or the PS3 Blu-Ray drive, because there are already active mod-scenes in the console world, and so a lot is known about them. There really aren't hackers who mess with stand-alone players. I mean, maybe there's 1-2 guys chatting in a forum, but there are lots of software crackers, and there are lots of console modders, many of whom have a lot of experience and knowledge.
Additionally, the AACS group probably doesn't have the stones to brick a standalone player.
I know! I came in with 2 questions:
1) How's the Mail.app importing?
2) Does it work with Spotlight
These are crucial questions that affect whether I even consider switching, and the info pages say nothing.
Insightful? Shuttleworth is independently wealthy from a previous internet business, and his mission from day one has been a mass Linux desktop. Don't believe me? Look at Bug #1 in Ubuntu "Microsoft has a majority market share". Ubuntu isn't market-driven. Shuttleworth has said that he'll support the distribution himself out-of-pocket if need be.
I don't think those concerns are valid, nor do they reflect much knowledge of the situation.
I'm not even pissed about bodies not being cold, I'm pissed about PEOPLE TALKING WITHOUT FACTS. We know nothing about the shooter, and people are talking about his motives and passing blame. We know nothing about how the response went on the police side, and we have no idea whether having more students armed would have helped. I mean, there's plenty to say about how we could have prevented this, and being just up the road at Univ. of Virginia with lots of friends at VT, I certainly how we go over in detail how these things can be improved, but WE NEED THE FACTS FIRST. Throwing out there random stuff about gun control or video games doesn't help until we know if its relevant.
You say it sarcastically, but it's worth pointing out that one guy with two 9-mils is able to inflict enough terror to grab the headlines for a few days. If there were 2-3 of these within 2 weeks, you'd have a type of terror attack that we can't deal with through the current methods.
How do you know it happened just now. It could have happened 3 months ago, and they're just telling us now. For all we know, those programmers could have been reassigned last year (in like Oct) and are now heading back to Leopard (which is why we now have a time estimate on release)
Um, it's defined...in TFA
;-)
Um, read that again, and see if you can find the problem.
They're most hated among the Consumerist's voters. And given that every round of voting was the top story on Digg for a whole day, the poll is the measurement of what that extremely limited subset of the population thinks. The rest of the public hardly knows them at all, and doesn't hate them for their indiscriminate attacks on the innocent and guilty alike. That's a big win, and suggests competence on the part of their PR staff, even if they do have it easy with their companies owning the mainstream media.
This is an organization hiring as a temporary press agent the press agent of another organization. It doesn't represent a strategic alliance at all, merely acknowledgement of the fact that this RIAA press guy is good. Which should be pretty obvious when you figure that the RIAA sues children, but half the country just knows them from sales certifications.
Yeah, slashdot summaries can be a bit misleading at times.