I see the recent batch of articles about MS patches as a response to the release of Vista. MS decided that the heavily enhanced security in Vista was worthy of a ton of press so I think it's fair that/. or any other tech site keep track of the validity of these claims, especially in the begining while MS's statements concerning Vista security are still fresh.
Although I do believe that MS made some good improvements to security in Vista it would seem that it's actual performance falls short of their claims. My bias comes from a real desire for security. As an IT guy who administers Windows and Linux boxes I'm interested in stories concerning both. But I think it's fair to state that MS's track record on security warrants a lot more security then Linux.
Not to mention I just want to be able to play my HD content on Linux. I'm tired of leaving a copy of other OS's around just for these types of things.
There are no technical barriers to playing this type of content on Linux only legal barriers and as far as I'm concerned it's discrimination. Do the *IAA have an obligation to provide players or compatible software for Linux? No. But when someone else comes along and picks up a piece of the market that they choose to ignore they try to shut it down. It's a clear violation of anti-trust laws at this point.
And why are they so worried about having *more* customers, even if they choose not to get into the game of facilitating the enjoyment of their content on alternative platforms?
Think what you want but there are many other reasons besides "free stuff" why the *IAA need to be smacked down and hard.
Let's say you use a password to store your banking information, and that password is "dumbass5." Now a blog posts that your password to your banking account is "dumbass5." Would you call it censorship when you retained an attorney to shut down that blog/forum/site? More specifically, would you call it censorship that infringed on your rights? I would be more likely to simply change my password and slap myself silly for picking such a stupid one. And before we use your analogy any further I need answers; how did this blog get my password? Did I somehow give it to them but with a note that says "Hey, here's the password but don't use it unless I'm around"? Because that is essentially what the MPAA does, give you the key and then tell you it can only be used in the way they want. Which is not how copyright or DMCA is supposed to work. Fair use still counts for something (for now anyway).
But that's the problem with analogies. Yours sucks, so does mine. I like analogies, especially car analogies, but there is almost always a way to prove an analogy flawed and I find that, in general, they are mostly used to prop up one side of an argument that is pretty weak.
If this number should be protected by free speech, is it also free speech for me to publish your name, birthday, ssn, and credit card number?
Well if these peices of generally easily obtainable pieces of information were not used (stupidly) as verification for identity then why would anyone care?
Just as the DMCA and DRM schemes in general are easily breakable so too are the security schemes cooked up for identity verification. In general people keep the information you mention a secret, but only because we're forced to by idiotic uses of them.
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And friends they may thinks it's a movement. And that's what it is... The/. News Site AntiDMCA Movement and all you have to do to get in is to type it the next time a new story is posted.
(something like that and with apologies to Arlo):-)
btw what's this 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 you are all talking about?
That hex code is the HD-DVD processing key everyone's trying to get to all points of the Internet. Is that what 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is? Huh...
No you're not wrong. Even the default behaviour notifies root when someone tries to invoke it and fails. I'm not sure of the granularity but I am pretty certain that there are a number of configuration options for use in sudoers that set up notification for various invocations by different groups and users. (E.g. notify when random luser even tries to invoke sudo, only notify for adam-admin when his password is entered incorrectly).
Not to say that any old user can come along and figure this out quickly and easily but the facility is there for distros to design tools around it or to just provide a sane, default configuration.
Linus himself is probably the most clear cut example of this. Please don't misunderstand, I'm not intending to put down Linus in any fashion,
I do understand what you're saying and I tend to agree. Linus definately has it hard, he's about as high profile as it gets. I still think he does a pretty good job of staying unbiased though, at least as much as I can tell from my place on the sidelines.
And now this is going to sound like bashing, but I can't hold back, to me the name that comes to mind first and foremost when reading your post is Miguel De Icaza and Novell. I'd like to believe his stance on where he is right now is genuine and that he doesn't just drink the Novell kool aid but it's hard to say and he definately ends up sounding like the company apologist these days whenever he discusses Novell.
Corporate sponsership of free software doesn't have to mean buying out all right and title to it, I guess what I menat in my original post is that it's up to each projects' developers to make sure that doesn't happen to them. That and a little pressure and scrutiny from the end users of said projects.
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I see the recent batch of articles about MS patches as a response to the release of Vista. MS decided that the heavily enhanced security in Vista was worthy of a ton of press so I think it's fair that /. or any other tech site keep track of the validity of these claims, especially in the begining while MS's statements concerning Vista security are still fresh.
Although I do believe that MS made some good improvements to security in Vista it would seem that it's actual performance falls short of their claims. My bias comes from a real desire for security. As an IT guy who administers Windows and Linux boxes I'm interested in stories concerning both. But I think it's fair to state that MS's track record on security warrants a lot more security then Linux.
Considering the top two sponsers of this particular "think tank" are MS and Novell I think you may be on to something...
42!
...he shouted, fleeing in mad glee.
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Not to mention I just want to be able to play my HD content on Linux. I'm tired of leaving a copy of other OS's around just for these types of things.
There are no technical barriers to playing this type of content on Linux only legal barriers and as far as I'm concerned it's discrimination. Do the *IAA have an obligation to provide players or compatible software for Linux? No. But when someone else comes along and picks up a piece of the market that they choose to ignore they try to shut it down. It's a clear violation of anti-trust laws at this point.
And why are they so worried about having *more* customers, even if they choose not to get into the game of facilitating the enjoyment of their content on alternative platforms?
Think what you want but there are many other reasons besides "free stuff" why the *IAA need to be smacked down and hard.
Nice.
But that's the problem with analogies. Yours sucks, so does mine. I like analogies, especially car analogies, but there is almost always a way to prove an analogy flawed and I find that, in general, they are mostly used to prop up one side of an argument that is pretty weak.
If this number should be protected by free speech, is it also free speech for me to publish your name, birthday, ssn, and credit card number?
Well if these peices of generally easily obtainable pieces of information were not used (stupidly) as verification for identity then why would anyone care?
Just as the DMCA and DRM schemes in general are easily breakable so too are the security schemes cooked up for identity verification. In general people keep the information you mention a secret, but only because we're forced to by idiotic uses of them.
Something better than Digg has to exist. All this censorship is getting ridiculous.
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Something better has been around for a while now. It's called
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Yes but is live and kicking!.
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I for one welcome our new movie overlords.
All 0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 of them.
And we serve both kinds of beer! Bud *and* Bud Lite. What'll it be?
(something like that and with apologies to Arlo)
So how long have you been married? Strangely I stopped getting the happy ending after we got married...
Well sure that's bad and all but at least they didn't post 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 on their site...
That's the great thing about good ideas...
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In fact I think I've come close to reading at least 0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 good ideas since I began reading
Link:
Oops.
Sorry 'bout that.
Seriously, even quoting "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" for the exact match returns:
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,420 for "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0". (0.17 seconds)
Link:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 must be a very popular number!
...via my webhost and registrar for simply hosting:A) A textbook implementation of the AACS protocol and
B) Hex strings You mean this one? 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
No you're not wrong. Even the default behaviour notifies root when someone tries to invoke it and fails. I'm not sure of the granularity but I am pretty certain that there are a number of configuration options for use in sudoers that set up notification for various invocations by different groups and users. (E.g. notify when random luser even tries to invoke sudo, only notify for adam-admin when his password is entered incorrectly).
Not to say that any old user can come along and figure this out quickly and easily but the facility is there for distros to design tools around it or to just provide a sane, default configuration.
What, in S. Korea?
Hmm, I really should RTFA.
Linus himself is probably the most clear cut example of this. Please don't misunderstand, I'm not intending to put down Linus in any fashion,
I do understand what you're saying and I tend to agree. Linus definately has it hard, he's about as high profile as it gets. I still think he does a pretty good job of staying unbiased though, at least as much as I can tell from my place on the sidelines.
And now this is going to sound like bashing, but I can't hold back, to me the name that comes to mind first and foremost when reading your post is Miguel De Icaza and Novell. I'd like to believe his stance on where he is right now is genuine and that he doesn't just drink the Novell kool aid but it's hard to say and he definately ends up sounding like the company apologist these days whenever he discusses Novell.
Corporate sponsership of free software doesn't have to mean buying out all right and title to it, I guess what I menat in my original post is that it's up to each projects' developers to make sure that doesn't happen to them. That and a little pressure and scrutiny from the end users of said projects.