IE using 300 MB memory? That is a whole lot of 5.1 porn movies simultaneously playing. I haven't seen IE at over 25 MB during normal usage (i.e. not crashed/frozen). But that's just me...
"there is nothing unusual about technology being used to protect intellectual property."
Hey, did the RIAA just tell us that many music publishers commonly pirate open-source code into rootkits and place them on their CDs as common practice?
A pure audio CD is never interpreted as data by anything, in fact it's not interpreted at all, it's just a dump of raw data to be sent to the DACs.
Sooo... is it data or not?
You could say a lot of the same stuff about JPEG, GIF, etc. They're all well-defined formats and shouldn't ever be interpreted as anything but images. But still, there are problems...
Go browse an audio CD in Explorer, and you get a bunch of.cda files. Windows did have to do something for that to be displayed, and I'm sure some computation occurred there. And CDDB lookups certainly do some processing.
I think that audio CDs have the *potential* to carry bad things (viruses, spyware, rootkit... whatever) but just to be clear, it's not like I think Sony or anybody else is going to produce one of these CDs anytime soon.
I don't think this is completely unacceptable. You have to install it as root/admin to begin with, so just imagine that running Firefox one time as root/admin is simply the last step in the installation process.
Having said that, I can't imagine it being too hard for the installer to initialize the installation without manually having to run Firefox. Why don't they?
Conversion from truecolor to indexed PNG is lossy.
And so is conversion from truecolor to 256-color BMP, and so, in fact, is cropping a BMP to include the middle 27.6% of the image. Is BMP lossy?
Of course not. You can do things to any file to lose information, and reducing the number of colors in an image is obviously one of them. You can't say text files are lossy just because you can convert a Unicode text file to ASCII and lose some characters in the process.
Then what Free format was designed to replace JPEG?
I don't think there are any formats comparable to JPEG currently, and I know that there certainly aren't any in widespread use. That's the whole point of this article. If JPEG users get screwed, then we're in serious trouble. Think about how many photos on the web are in JPEG format, and how many photos on people's computers are JPEG.
I went to the site with Firefox on Linux and it gave me a popup telling me that a page will load telling me I will need to download some file. So I push OK, and it redirects me to the same page so that popup happens again. Infinite loop. Anyone else get this?
Why are you comparing Sony's rootkit to the hidden flag in Windows/DOS? On modern systems, that bit barely does anything at all. If you set Explorer to show hidden files, then hidden files behave basically the same as unhidden files. If you do dir/a, you will see the hidden files. When you execute a command on hidden files, no external program is redirecting system calls, causing your OS to behave in nonstandard ways.
What makes this Sony thing a rootkit is that standard system calls don't work as usual on $sys$anything. If you try to view these files in Explorer, you get nothing. If you do dir/a, you get nothing. It's a rootkit because it hijacks standard system calls to avoid detection.
Ok so Taiwan can't invade China and China can't invade Taiwan (though that one may be a bit shaky). Now what makes Taiwan's military superior to China's, as you initially claimed? Just because we think China is more inclined to invade Taiwan than the other way around doesn't make Taiwan stronger just because we think it is more likely to be on the defensive.
To look at it another way (obviously hypethetically), if two powerful militaries X and Y invaded China and Taiwan, whose military do you think would stand a better chance at resisting the invasion? Or to look at it offensively, if China and Taiwan were to invade X and Y, whose military would have a better chance?
This debate is getting very pointless.
I was referring to the war in which the Communists beat the Nationalists, which would be the Revolution of 1949. Since then, Taiwan's never been militarily superior to the mainland. Can you imagine (hypothetically, of course) Taiwan invading China and taking over?
I don't know why you'd think i was talking about selling guns, but just to clarify, I was thinking more along the lines of jets and advanced weaponry. Surely those have quite a significant impact on military strength.
Taiwan has a stronger military than China... that's why they lost the War, even with US help, right?
And how does America have "nothing to do with it"? It's been selling military equipment to Taiwan for who knows how long. Surely supplying military equipment does have something to do with military strength.
I'd like to see you buy a house in China for a couple thousand dollars. One that you'd be able to live in for more than two days.
Property prices in China are comparable to those in the US. True, a lot of goods and services are cheaper there, but the price of broadband, relatively speaking (in terms of income), it's still cheaper in China.
I don't know if hundreds of thousands of Tibetans actually died or not (seems like there's not many of them to begin with), but don't forget that something like forty million ethnic Chinese died as a result of the collectivism stuff too.
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Why does this crash my Firefox 1.0.7 on Linux? Has this been filed as a bug, or is it just me that experiences this?
IE using 300 MB memory? That is a whole lot of 5.1 porn movies simultaneously playing. I haven't seen IE at over 25 MB during normal usage (i.e. not crashed/frozen). But that's just me...
"there is nothing unusual about technology being used to protect intellectual property."
Hey, did the RIAA just tell us that many music publishers commonly pirate open-source code into rootkits and place them on their CDs as common practice?
A pure audio CD is never interpreted as data by anything, in fact it's not interpreted at all, it's just a dump of raw data to be sent to the DACs.
Sooo... is it data or not?
You could say a lot of the same stuff about JPEG, GIF, etc. They're all well-defined formats and shouldn't ever be interpreted as anything but images. But still, there are problems...
Go browse an audio CD in Explorer, and you get a bunch of .cda files. Windows did have to do something for that to be displayed, and I'm sure some computation occurred there. And CDDB lookups certainly do some processing.
I think that audio CDs have the *potential* to carry bad things (viruses, spyware, rootkit... whatever) but just to be clear, it's not like I think Sony or anybody else is going to produce one of these CDs anytime soon.
I don't think this is completely unacceptable. You have to install it as root/admin to begin with, so just imagine that running Firefox one time as root/admin is simply the last step in the installation process.
Having said that, I can't imagine it being too hard for the installer to initialize the installation without manually having to run Firefox. Why don't they?
Conversion from truecolor to indexed PNG is lossy.
And so is conversion from truecolor to 256-color BMP, and so, in fact, is cropping a BMP to include the middle 27.6% of the image. Is BMP lossy?
Of course not. You can do things to any file to lose information, and reducing the number of colors in an image is obviously one of them. You can't say text files are lossy just because you can convert a Unicode text file to ASCII and lose some characters in the process.
Then what Free format was designed to replace JPEG?
I don't think there are any formats comparable to JPEG currently, and I know that there certainly aren't any in widespread use. That's the whole point of this article. If JPEG users get screwed, then we're in serious trouble. Think about how many photos on the web are in JPEG format, and how many photos on people's computers are JPEG.
I went to the site with Firefox on Linux and it gave me a popup telling me that a page will load telling me I will need to download some file. So I push OK, and it redirects me to the same page so that popup happens again. Infinite loop. Anyone else get this?
Why are you comparing Sony's rootkit to the hidden flag in Windows/DOS? On modern systems, that bit barely does anything at all. If you set Explorer to show hidden files, then hidden files behave basically the same as unhidden files. If you do dir /a, you will see the hidden files. When you execute a command on hidden files, no external program is redirecting system calls, causing your OS to behave in nonstandard ways.
What makes this Sony thing a rootkit is that standard system calls don't work as usual on $sys$anything. If you try to view these files in Explorer, you get nothing. If you do dir /a, you get nothing. It's a rootkit because it hijacks standard system calls to avoid detection.
Ok so Taiwan can't invade China and China can't invade Taiwan (though that one may be a bit shaky). Now what makes Taiwan's military superior to China's, as you initially claimed? Just because we think China is more inclined to invade Taiwan than the other way around doesn't make Taiwan stronger just because we think it is more likely to be on the defensive. To look at it another way (obviously hypethetically), if two powerful militaries X and Y invaded China and Taiwan, whose military do you think would stand a better chance at resisting the invasion? Or to look at it offensively, if China and Taiwan were to invade X and Y, whose military would have a better chance? This debate is getting very pointless.
I was referring to the war in which the Communists beat the Nationalists, which would be the Revolution of 1949. Since then, Taiwan's never been militarily superior to the mainland. Can you imagine (hypothetically, of course) Taiwan invading China and taking over? I don't know why you'd think i was talking about selling guns, but just to clarify, I was thinking more along the lines of jets and advanced weaponry. Surely those have quite a significant impact on military strength.
Taiwan has a stronger military than China... that's why they lost the War, even with US help, right? And how does America have "nothing to do with it"? It's been selling military equipment to Taiwan for who knows how long. Surely supplying military equipment does have something to do with military strength.
I'd like to see you buy a house in China for a couple thousand dollars. One that you'd be able to live in for more than two days. Property prices in China are comparable to those in the US. True, a lot of goods and services are cheaper there, but the price of broadband, relatively speaking (in terms of income), it's still cheaper in China.
I don't know if hundreds of thousands of Tibetans actually died or not (seems like there's not many of them to begin with), but don't forget that something like forty million ethnic Chinese died as a result of the collectivism stuff too.