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Some seem to miss the point. It's not about creating unbreakable DRM which will serve RIAA/MPAA faultlessly till the sun goes nova. It's about throwing enough obstacles at the casual copier and as much as they can at the professional pirate to keep them at bay for the next few years, till the next great media format and DRM tech come along.
Forget about vista. The only OSes my company supports are W2K, XP and the windows server editions. And I'm not talking about a small 20-employee company either. We have about 500 machines spread across 4 sites.
How does this affect product reliability and quality? Will we start getting better stuff than the crap linksys junk I've had the misfortune of using so far?
Every single Linksys consumer / home wireless product I've used has been much more expensive and worse quality than even cheap taiwan made no-name brands or stuff like planex which costs 1/2 as much as linksys in terms of product life and reliability.
Bush cited the ``unusual and extraordinary threat'' to national security and foreign policy of the United States
Yeah, fuck right. Same as what der Führer did. In a few months we'll all be out on the streets chanting "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer". Way to go. Glad I don't live in the US. One such maniac is enough for a long time.
A friend of mine d/l'd this and showed me. The stuff is pretty much illegible. This looks more like a media stunt to whip people up into a frenzy before the actual launch.
China will be truly free from their commie overlords only when a soviet style revolution happens, or if there's a huge general uprising and overthrow of their beloved "leaders".
China will never become another USA and it is foolish to want that. You'd probably see them becoming a socialist democracy sort of like a combination of India, Germany and Russia. That'll do for now.
As for their inter-tubes, till their yoke is lifted, don't expect any miracles under their current administration.
Or you can simply switch back to something lighter like Win2K which positively screams and wipes the floor with XP on an older machine with 256megs of RAM... a machine on which vista will not even install.
On a more serious note, Win2K is no longer in production nor is it supported, but you can get win2k real cheap these days, and it's one of their most stable OSes to date. Just be prepared to spend an hour on downloading and installing updates, and you're all set.
'We've finally come to realize that self-regulation by industry hasn't worked.'.
Wow, Einstein, what a brilliant deduction. When, save for very niche industries, has self regulation ever worked? The uncontrolled free market, self regulation, etc is all fine and dandy for large companies who squeeze everything out of small players or the consumer.
Just look at the oil industry for instance. Exxon's CEO was paid what? 35 million last year? While the prices of fuel keep going through the stratosphere. Where's the 'self regulation' there? It's an artificial cap on prices just below the limit of robbing us blind, where people would explode, march up to Exxon or Shell and blow them up. There's no self regulation here.
It applies to most other industries. Unless there's a balance between government regulation and control, vs uncontrolled free market, society is headed for collapse, just as in Soviet Russia where the government controlled everything. The uncontrolled free markets we're seeing in the 'western' world is unsustainable, and the smart ones know that. Our economy 'grows' by raping the environment, exploiting poor countries with natural resources, polluting water sources and the air, indiscriminate logging, and depleting natural resources. Give it a few decades, and we're all burnt out.
I bought a gateway PC in 2000. Out of the box, the stupid thing would freeze any time the CD-RW drive was accessed. I booted with a linux live CD and it turned out to behave the same way, so I guessed it was a hardware problem. That was my last attempt at gateway. I called them and returned the system for a full refund, called Dell the next day and was up and running within the week. Haven't trusted gateway since then.
Contrary to this guy's experience, I had a pretty reasonable response from gateway. Maybe the tech support this guy reached was located overseas at you know where?
Monsanto has a long history of using a combination of tactics, bribery, force and unethical means to get their products sold world wide.
This has apparently become a huge problem in developing countries like India where farmers are committing suicide in the thousands, because they are too poor to keep re-purchasing monsanto seeds every year - thanks to the terminator gene infested crops they do not germinate.
Contrary to what monsanto claims, the plants ability to resist pests and the use of pesticides has not declined.
In China, there have been huge uproars about how genetically modified Bt cotton, designed to control bollworm, is encouraging the spread of other types of insect pests. There has been a huge impact on the insect ecology, which is resulting in new problems for farmers.
Don't forget, Monsanto was one of the companies who produced and supplied agent orange ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange ) during the vietnam war, and they wouldn't blink before screwing half the world if it profited them.
God is purely a man-made concept, created in history when he couldn't explain things that were happening, and later used as a tool by the church or other religious leaders to control the population.
The Higgs boson has nothing to do with our puny concept of a "god" we created in our minds and impose on others. It is pure science, the exact antithesis of organized religion as we know it today.
Whatever Redhat says, the fact remains that SELinux is an incredibly complex, and incredibly undocumented (or under-documented) piece of software. It took me two months to really understand how it worked and what exactly to configure when I needed to fine-tune access rights and permissions on our servers. That is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Redhat is not going to get much traction from this unless there is a very easy to use tool (preferably with GUI) to configure and customize SELinux, out of the box. The default tools on RHEL allow a few options during install time, but it is truly primitive.
There really doesn't need to be this huge love/hate relationship with SELinux, in fact why not just throw it out and use something far simpler and neater? There are several options out there. Off the top of my head I can think of GRSEC : http://www.grsecurity.net/
We've been using this on two of our server farms and it's been doing a superb job, and it is very very easy to customize compared to the SElinux nightmare.
Seriously, are any of you musicians here? Played in a rock band at school or college? You need to be there to know how much passion, time and effort goes in to figuring out the right chords, phrasing, intonation and solos. From my experience, public tab sharing has mostly been a way for amateur musicians to quickly learn the song they love and would love to play.
The way I see it is that this is a body blow for amateur musicians and those who jam on weekends for fun. This has nothing to do with intellectual property, large scale piracy, or file sharing on the net.
The MPAA/RIAA/NMPA are doing this because "they hate our freedoms"!
This test, to a large extent, tells us about the output of the codecs, rather than tell us about the differences between 128k/256k encoding. For a really meaningful test, we must ensure that each song was encoded using the exact same settings.
I can create 256k MP3's which sound worse than 128k MP3's, both from the same WAV. There are a large number of customizations you can use in the encoding process which can really affect the output.
Instead of polluting the environment by burning 20,000 books, why doesn't this jerk call or dump them at a recycling center? Or maybe he's the kind of guy who only drives 10-mpg SUV's. To me it sounds like a publicity stunt.
As a long time opera/ff/moz user since the opera 3.62 days I must say Opera kicks ff/moz butt every single time, in terms of raw speed and response time. There's nothing ff/moz can do to match that, short of a complete rewrite. I mean just look at the mess gecko is.
If you want more proof, run opera and ff on a slower machine with less RAM and cpu muscle, you'll see ff sometimes go slower than IE.
When I buy a phone, I want a no nonsense phone which I can be guaranteed will work all the time, without exception. My sony ericsson does that today, and hasn't failed me, ever. I have a few apps on it, gmail, opera mini, etc, and they all do just what they should and nothing more.
Let me see... the year 2009, Windows Vista mobile (just for example) on your shiny new phone, 800MB for the OS, 100MB for antivirus, 500MB for all the other apps, takes 15 minutes to boot, drops calls at random, reboots at random, BSOD's once in a while - you have to remove the battery to reset it, allows you to download virii to your hearts content, etc.
No thanks. I am not stupid. Microsoft will have to bomb every phone company out of existence before I think of getting a MS-based phone. Dealing with a PC running windows is bad enough.
Btw, I'm not exaggerating on some of these - my friend's O2 phone would crash, drop calls, or just freeze every now and then. They had to run through software update after update for a while before it was half way useable.
Schneier's utopia may be a nice place to live in but the reality is that it is far cheaper and quicker to bring code to the market as we see it today.
If we resort to mathematical proofs of correctness and security for every product, the life cycle would be 4 years for each product, and something like WinZip will cost you $500 a copy.
Your boss has chosen to walk a very dangerous path. If you guys are raided, you're the one who installed the software and you will be hauled up. You will have to testify in court. If you are prepared for this, then make sure you document every bit and scrap of evidence which can be used to save your ass. Offline, in a secure place.
That said, I've seen many many companies (friends working there) resort to h4x0r3d software and none of them get caught. I wonder how they have the guts to pull it off.
Playing around with pirated software at home for fun is one thing, but at a corporate level the stakes are on a totally different level altogether.
The value of digg is only as good as its members, which is in this case, groups of "friends" who go around digging their buddies stories and burying others. This is no better than, say, San Pedro prison or other such fiefdoms ^H^H^H^H^H communities.
Anyone expecting democracy and freedom of speech in digg lives in a fool's paradise.
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Some seem to miss the point. It's not about creating unbreakable DRM which will serve RIAA/MPAA faultlessly till the sun goes nova. It's about throwing enough obstacles at the casual copier and as much as they can at the professional pirate to keep them at bay for the next few years, till the next great media format and DRM tech come along.
Forget about vista. The only OSes my company supports are W2K, XP and the windows server editions. And I'm not talking about a small 20-employee company either. We have about 500 machines spread across 4 sites.
Parents to school : "Give it to me for free or STFU".
How does this affect product reliability and quality? Will we start getting better stuff than the crap linksys junk I've had the misfortune of using so far?
Every single Linksys consumer / home wireless product I've used has been much more expensive and worse quality than even cheap taiwan made no-name brands or stuff like planex which costs 1/2 as much as linksys in terms of product life and reliability.
And the point being? Also, how are you going to use vi or any cmdline based util on the iphone when there's no keyboard?
Bush cited the ``unusual and extraordinary threat'' to national security and foreign policy of the United States
Yeah, fuck right. Same as what der Führer did. In a few months we'll all be out on the streets chanting "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer". Way to go. Glad I don't live in the US. One such maniac is enough for a long time.
I wonder how much this will affect your brains or fry your nuts.
A friend of mine d/l'd this and showed me. The stuff is pretty much illegible. This looks more like a media stunt to whip people up into a frenzy before the actual launch.
China will be truly free from their commie overlords only when a soviet style revolution happens, or if there's a huge general uprising and overthrow of their beloved "leaders".
China will never become another USA and it is foolish to want that. You'd probably see them becoming a socialist democracy sort of like a combination of India, Germany and Russia. That'll do for now.
As for their inter-tubes, till their yoke is lifted, don't expect any miracles under their current administration.
Or you can simply switch back to something lighter like Win2K which positively screams and wipes the floor with XP on an older machine with 256megs of RAM... a machine on which vista will not even install.
On a more serious note, Win2K is no longer in production nor is it supported, but you can get win2k real cheap these days, and it's one of their most stable OSes to date. Just be prepared to spend an hour on downloading and installing updates, and you're all set.
'We've finally come to realize that self-regulation by industry hasn't worked.'.
Wow, Einstein, what a brilliant deduction. When, save for very niche industries, has self regulation ever worked? The uncontrolled free market, self regulation, etc is all fine and dandy for large companies who squeeze everything out of small players or the consumer.
Just look at the oil industry for instance. Exxon's CEO was paid what? 35 million last year? While the prices of fuel keep going through the stratosphere. Where's the 'self regulation' there? It's an artificial cap on prices just below the limit of robbing us blind, where people would explode, march up to Exxon or Shell and blow them up. There's no self regulation here.
It applies to most other industries. Unless there's a balance between government regulation and control, vs uncontrolled free market, society is headed for collapse, just as in Soviet Russia where the government controlled everything. The uncontrolled free markets we're seeing in the 'western' world is unsustainable, and the smart ones know that. Our economy 'grows' by raping the environment, exploiting poor countries with natural resources, polluting water sources and the air, indiscriminate logging, and depleting natural resources. Give it a few decades, and we're all burnt out.
100Mbps to the home, wow nice, now I can get much faster pr0n downloads and 100x more v14gra spam.
I bought a gateway PC in 2000. Out of the box, the stupid thing would freeze any time the CD-RW drive was accessed. I booted with a linux live CD and it turned out to behave the same way, so I guessed it was a hardware problem. That was my last attempt at gateway. I called them and returned the system for a full refund, called Dell the next day and was up and running within the week. Haven't trusted gateway since then.
Contrary to this guy's experience, I had a pretty reasonable response from gateway. Maybe the tech support this guy reached was located overseas at you know where?
Monsanto has a long history of using a combination of tactics, bribery, force and unethical means to get their products sold world wide.
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This has apparently become a huge problem in developing countries like India where farmers are committing suicide in the thousands, because they are too poor to keep re-purchasing monsanto seeds every year - thanks to the terminator gene infested crops they do not germinate.
Contrary to what monsanto claims, the plants ability to resist pests and the use of pesticides has not declined.
In China, there have been huge uproars about how genetically modified Bt cotton, designed to control bollworm, is encouraging the spread of other types of insect pests. There has been a huge impact on the insect ecology, which is resulting in new problems for farmers.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/patent/chinacotto
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2011/stories/20
Don't forget, Monsanto was one of the companies who produced and supplied agent orange ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange ) during the vietnam war, and they wouldn't blink before screwing half the world if it profited them.
God is purely a man-made concept, created in history when he couldn't explain things that were happening, and later used as a tool by the church or other religious leaders to control the population.
The Higgs boson has nothing to do with our puny concept of a "god" we created in our minds and impose on others. It is pure science, the exact antithesis of organized religion as we know it today.
Whatever Redhat says, the fact remains that SELinux is an incredibly complex, and incredibly undocumented (or under-documented) piece of software. It took me two months to really understand how it worked and what exactly to configure when I needed to fine-tune access rights and permissions on our servers. That is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Redhat is not going to get much traction from this unless there is a very easy to use tool (preferably with GUI) to configure and customize SELinux, out of the box. The default tools on RHEL allow a few options during install time, but it is truly primitive.
There really doesn't need to be this huge love/hate relationship with SELinux, in fact why not just throw it out and use something far simpler and neater? There are several options out there. Off the top of my head I can think of GRSEC : http://www.grsecurity.net/
We've been using this on two of our server farms and it's been doing a superb job, and it is very very easy to customize compared to the SElinux nightmare.
Seriously, are any of you musicians here? Played in a rock band at school or college? You need to be there to know how much passion, time and effort goes in to figuring out the right chords, phrasing, intonation and solos. From my experience, public tab sharing has mostly been a way for amateur musicians to quickly learn the song they love and would love to play.
The way I see it is that this is a body blow for amateur musicians and those who jam on weekends for fun. This has nothing to do with intellectual property, large scale piracy, or file sharing on the net.
The MPAA/RIAA/NMPA are doing this because "they hate our freedoms"!
This test, to a large extent, tells us about the output of the codecs, rather than tell us about the differences between 128k/256k encoding. For a really meaningful test, we must ensure that each song was encoded using the exact same settings.
I can create 256k MP3's which sound worse than 128k MP3's, both from the same WAV. There are a large number of customizations you can use in the encoding process which can really affect the output.
Instead of polluting the environment by burning 20,000 books, why doesn't this jerk call or dump them at a recycling center? Or maybe he's the kind of guy who only drives 10-mpg SUV's. To me it sounds like a publicity stunt.
As a long time opera/ff/moz user since the opera 3.62 days I must say Opera kicks ff/moz butt every single time, in terms of raw speed and response time. There's nothing ff/moz can do to match that, short of a complete rewrite. I mean just look at the mess gecko is.
If you want more proof, run opera and ff on a slower machine with less RAM and cpu muscle, you'll see ff sometimes go slower than IE.
When I buy a phone, I want a no nonsense phone which I can be guaranteed will work all the time, without exception. My sony ericsson does that today, and hasn't failed me, ever. I have a few apps on it, gmail, opera mini, etc, and they all do just what they should and nothing more.
Let me see... the year 2009, Windows Vista mobile (just for example) on your shiny new phone, 800MB for the OS, 100MB for antivirus, 500MB for all the other apps, takes 15 minutes to boot, drops calls at random, reboots at random, BSOD's once in a while - you have to remove the battery to reset it, allows you to download virii to your hearts content, etc.
No thanks. I am not stupid. Microsoft will have to bomb every phone company out of existence before I think of getting a MS-based phone. Dealing with a PC running windows is bad enough.
Btw, I'm not exaggerating on some of these - my friend's O2 phone would crash, drop calls, or just freeze every now and then. They had to run through software update after update for a while before it was half way useable.
So what? Just because we /.ers are nerds doesn't mean the judge is.
Schneier's utopia may be a nice place to live in but the reality is that it is far cheaper and quicker to bring code to the market as we see it today.
If we resort to mathematical proofs of correctness and security for every product, the life cycle would be 4 years for each product, and something like WinZip will cost you $500 a copy.
Your boss has chosen to walk a very dangerous path. If you guys are raided, you're the one who installed the software and you will be hauled up. You will have to testify in court. If you are prepared for this, then make sure you document every bit and scrap of evidence which can be used to save your ass. Offline, in a secure place.
That said, I've seen many many companies (friends working there) resort to h4x0r3d software and none of them get caught. I wonder how they have the guts to pull it off.
Playing around with pirated software at home for fun is one thing, but at a corporate level the stakes are on a totally different level altogether.
Anyone expecting democracy and freedom of speech in digg lives in a fool's paradise.