Which also makes me wonder why, if someone were intent on illegality, they couldn't put their own little faraday cage around the car's ECU. A little box made of copper with a drain wire to the car frame too hard to implement?
A lot of the cars I've worked on have pretty much *that* already done. The ECU is typically housed in something metal, attached to a ground, in case something bad happens inside it... well, at least that's the case with German cars, I've seen a few Japanese cars that use plastic.
Anyhow, I fail to see how this type of thing could be reliably effective. I've read stories about cars being hit by lightning and being able to continue, just with a big black mark on the roof.
If Google were to do something stupid ( force ads | pull funding ) there would be a GPL Firefox port without the Google entanglements up within *minutes* - and that's assuming that Mozilla themselves wouldn't choose to just give Google the finger and keep things how they want it.
The *worst thing* that can happen here is Mozilla losing a significant amount of funding and being returned to mozilla.org of old. That's not a problem, because it was old, unfunded mozilla, that gave the world Firefox to begin with. Stop freaking out. The beauty of open source software is that it's separate from the corporate bullshit that can so easily kill good projects.
I'm really tired of games coming out saying that they are 'Native OS X' when they are actually Windows binaries running in Cider (which is essentially Wine). There's two issues for me with this:
1) Windows binaries running in wine certainly do not have an OS X feel to them, and are sometimes buggy and usually slow. However this is being seen as 'good enough' when it really shouldn't be. It's 'good enough' for the hobbyist, but it shouldn't be good enough for any company that considers themselves a real game company.
2) Cider isn't giving all that much back to the wine project; which while I can see why they wouldn't, I think it's a matter of social responsibility that they do.
Are there any real-world effective laptop encryption solutions?
Are there any real-world effective encryption solutions, period?
Encryption, overall, is a slippery slope of hate and doom. The only way (currently) to encrypt something is to use a key that's long enough to take a 'really really long time' to guess. Unfortunately, 'really really long time' shortens with growing processor power.
It wasn't all that long ago that we were using 40bit encryption for online banking. . . now that's unthinkable, we're using longer keys . . . with longer keys comes more overhead, and we're not any closer to a real solution to the encryption problem.
Expoential systems cannot exist in perpetuity. We need to come up with a new system for encryption or have fewer secrets, I'm a fan of the latter.
God Bless you for pointing this out to all of those who don't know.
Of course you can use an N-button mouse- OS X is awesome, and very configurable. The assumption that the hardware and software can be so "Good" but not support a two button mouse is absurd.
Didn't I just get flamed a while back for saying that Apple's 'Classic mode' was a decent way of handling backwards compatibility? I was told it was dumb, slow, and didn't help developers transition- though the point of my post was more Carbon... anyhow.
Now that Microsoft is going to do it, is it somehow a 'better idea?'
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I read that as "Post tits"
You'll spook the bots.
A lot of the cars I've worked on have pretty much *that* already done. The ECU is typically housed in something metal, attached to a ground, in case something bad happens inside it... well, at least that's the case with German cars, I've seen a few Japanese cars that use plastic.
Anyhow, I fail to see how this type of thing could be reliably effective. I've read stories about cars being hit by lightning and being able to continue, just with a big black mark on the roof.
Seriously, folks. This is non-news.
If Google were to do something stupid ( force ads | pull funding ) there would be a GPL Firefox port without the Google entanglements up within *minutes* - and that's assuming that Mozilla themselves wouldn't choose to just give Google the finger and keep things how they want it.
The *worst thing* that can happen here is Mozilla losing a significant amount of funding and being returned to mozilla.org of old. That's not a problem, because it was old, unfunded mozilla, that gave the world Firefox to begin with. Stop freaking out. The beauty of open source software is that it's separate from the corporate bullshit that can so easily kill good projects.
Yes. Next Question.
Yep. Mod Parent Up.
I'm really tired of games coming out saying that they are 'Native OS X' when they are actually Windows binaries running in Cider (which is essentially Wine). There's two issues for me with this:
1) Windows binaries running in wine certainly do not have an OS X feel to them, and are sometimes buggy and usually slow. However this is being seen as 'good enough' when it really shouldn't be. It's 'good enough' for the hobbyist, but it shouldn't be good enough for any company that considers themselves a real game company.
2) Cider isn't giving all that much back to the wine project; which while I can see why they wouldn't, I think it's a matter of social responsibility that they do.
... So we can play games and read our email.
If you eat the pills of Spanish Fly when the dog is in sight... You end up in jail.
Who's up for starting an open source, good, unbreakable WGA alternative, and giving it to Microsoft for free?
Here, use this. You're stuff will get pirated less.
Are there any real-world effective encryption solutions, period?
Encryption, overall, is a slippery slope of hate and doom. The only way (currently) to encrypt something is to use a key that's long enough to take a 'really really long time' to guess. Unfortunately, 'really really long time' shortens with growing processor power.
It wasn't all that long ago that we were using 40bit encryption for online banking. . . now that's unthinkable, we're using longer keys . . . with longer keys comes more overhead, and we're not any closer to a real solution to the encryption problem.
Expoential systems cannot exist in perpetuity. We need to come up with a new system for encryption or have fewer secrets, I'm a fan of the latter.
It's Life, Jim. But not as we know it.
Such a shame that I can't mod this past +5 Redundant.
. . . . Is this the new '50 Cent' game?
Strange that they would bundle it with Ubuntu.
God Bless you for pointing this out to all of those who don't know.
Of course you can use an N-button mouse- OS X is awesome, and very configurable. The assumption that the hardware and software can be so "Good" but not support a two button mouse is absurd.
legaltorrents.com has exactly Zero seeders on the entire site.
The thing's gotta have a tailpipe.
Has anyone else played with a MythTV backend recording to a uPnP share? I've started watching TV with my PS3 already. . .
Didn't I just get flamed a while back for saying that Apple's 'Classic mode' was a decent way of handling backwards compatibility? I was told it was dumb, slow, and didn't help developers transition- though the point of my post was more Carbon... anyhow.
Now that Microsoft is going to do it, is it somehow a 'better idea?'
Apparently the starting price doesn't meet their suggested retail.
You can now buy an airline ticket using cash, or pounds of kelp.
OMG CLONED DOGS!
Who would have guessed that Raccoon City was in Korea?
That's the best sig ever.
I, for one, welcome our firstborn overlords.
Because you certainly sound smart. . .
Sting told you that, and he's been proven unreliable.