I guess I don't understand the point of having monitor output being regulated:
"Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management (PVP-OPM) makes sure that the PC's video outputs have the required protection or that they are turned off if such protection is not available."
This one, however, does make sense to me:
"Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) provides encryption of premium content as it passes over the PCI Express (PCIe) bus to the graphics adapter. This is required when the content owner's policy regards the PCIe bus as a user-accessible bus."
I would think this one is a little more important in stopping piracy.
Good question. Just finished a book where a hacker wanted to get back at the city government agency that had laid him off. His hack involved turning all the street lights in Washington D.C. to green.
Little did he realize that traffic backed up so far in one area that it was backing up on a freeway exit. A crash happened and fatalities ensues. Guy went to jail. However, this falls under manslaughter.
A 911 service now falls under terrorism (possibly). Thanks to Homeland Security I would bet it would get a harsher penalty.
True life story is of a guy from my neck of the woods, Rajib Mitra, who was recently given 8 years in federal prison because he interfered with police radio frequencies.
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Mitra, 26, was convicted in March of two counts of transmitting communications to a protected police computer. Madison police testified that the Brookfield man blocked their radio signals intermittently over several hours Halloween night 2003 and later broadcast sex sounds after losing a court case over a parking ticket Nov. 11.
"It's not New York or Sept. 11, it's based on immaturity by the defendant," Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim O'Shea said. "But it is domestic terrorism."
You're still putting words in my mouth. "Don't bother us we didn't do anything so wrong" would mean that I am defending my hacking activities. I don't have any hacking activies! You should go find someone that actually said that and argue with them.
As far as my suggestion that someone needs to put a firewall up, it is simply what I suggest and do for my family and friends. JUST like I would tell the same people to stay away from a high-crime area. When someone gets mugged, I certainly want the mugger to go to jail. Never once did I say this shit you put down:
"if you don't take responsibilty for your actions and don't hold others accountable for theirs"
Hahahahaha. Yea, I bet we could do a study on how much money this guy cost us for writing a stupid article.
"The only crimes that have death as a punishment are high treason and murder."
Crimes Punishable by The Death Penalty"
-Capital Drug Trafficking.
-Train wrecking.
-Capital Sex Battery.
-Aggravated Kidnapping.
-Aircraft Hijacking.
-Terrorism.
-Kidnaping with bodily injury, or ransom when the victim dies.
However, I'm sure a death is involved in anything saying 'aggravated' or 'capital'.
Well, you bring up a nice point about non-monetary losses. But what was your point?
If I went to your father's house and burned it down while he was away, he'd lose all his digital pictures too. (Not to mention his house & everything else inside it). Without any deaths involved, I don't think ARSON carries the death penalty.
"But you say, he does not deserve to have those pictures unless he knows enough to have a firewall and active virus protection (he is on a pension and money is precious) and he should have a backed them up (a CD writer is nice but extra money) and he should know how to back them up (the time for that education is effectivly passed believe me)"
When did I say that? I've never said that. It makes me mad that you said that.
First of all, there is no cost in protecting your computer. ZoneAlarm, Sygate, and others are free firewalls. AVG and others are free anti-virus protectors. Using your ISP's web-version of email is free too (or at least just don't use Outlook) and those 3 things should cover it for your dad.
The real tragedy here is that his son hasn't come to visit and installed those applications for him already! Get the hell off slashdot and visit your dad!!:)
Personally, I'd just read the book, and return it 10 minutes before midnight, and then get the goodies and the book back 11 minutes later.
I can't imagine wanting to scan in all those pages and hand it over to a release group. Don't get me wrong, I don't have high morals, I just can't imagine the undying need to read a book 6 days before hand, especially with the amount of work it would take to scan in.
I got a nasty note from my DSL provider one month about breaking my invisible EULA agreement an downloading too much one month.
When I switched back to cable, I specifically asked them if they cared how much I downloaded. They said they didn't care at all. As long as I was aware of my own responsibility of the content I was downloading, hint, hint, wink, wink.
So it's really up to your ISP, and their current confidence in their capacity.
I disagree. Stealing a loaf of bread (so as not to die of starvation) amounts to cutting the theif's hands off in some countries. You like that idea?
So what should hacking amount to? 7 years ago I was accused of hacking by a police officer because I told him I was programming on a Mud that was based in another state.
Hacking could easily be described as anyone who logged into another server with someone else's login/password. (Logging into NYT's web page with bugmenot) Deserves the Death Penalty? I think not.
So what DOES constitute a death-penalty hacking event? Something that causes a company 1 million dollars worth of lost profit? A life is worth that? Ok, how about 1 billion dollars, or a kazillion? Problem is, ****ALL**** companies, the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA have lied and and inflated their so-called losses by a gross amount. How can you put a life of a person in the hands of corporate greed?
There are OTHER things that need to be fixed first. I don't see how a multi-criminal rapist would get an easier sentence than a kid who altered a VB script that was already out there. I don't see how this whole article could even be considered when the crooks at Enron get off without the death penalty first. Truth is, the author is just pissed off his computer crashed one day I'm sure.
I'm actually thankful I had WinAmp 2.78 on my computer, due to version 5 being a complete hog on my system.
But I hear ya. Due to LARGE hard drives, I've never needed to clean up my downloads directory either, or atleast nothing more than sorting by size and getting rid of anything above 30MB
Well, you bring up valid points which may turn out to be true. But Paypal was popular before eBay bought them.
Personally, I think its popularity only worked because buyers don't have any costs. It's up to the merchant to take on the costs (anyone accepting more than $500/month must use a premium account).
Due to PayPal screwing me out of $500, and the horror stories other have had, I would gladly look into ANY viable competition to Paypal. I would be glad to jump ship.
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At the end of college, I was freaking out too. I was working full time at a programming job, and staying up late programming for classes. My right pinky started to go numb, and I figured it was way too early in my career for this to start!
I switched to the split keyboards also, and the numbness went away. Thank goodness.
You should have heard my wife curse for the first few weeks trying to type emails on the new keyboards! I didn't think it was that bad, but it messed her up big time. Of course now, it's no big deal. I was able to pick up a Microsoft Natural keyboard at a garage sale last year for $1. I use it at work now.
That's awesome you were able to see every inch of the USA in only two trips. You've got the U.S. nailed down EXACTLY. I bet you biked the whole thing too.
I'm sure if we wanted to be exactly like the Europeans, we wouldn' thave left.
He was fired for disobeying his employer's instructions.
No, that's not it. But it's not worth arguing over.
What's really ironic about the whole thing is that the Dean would probably benefit the MOST (long term) from the professor telling the truth. After all, the Dean was completely pressured by the SGAE with a software license inspection. If they're anything like the BSA, who can fine you $150K or more when they find one unlicenced copy of Windows XP... the very financials of the whole university was at stake.
And for what? Talking to students about the truth?
You should read hiadam's post right above yours. As he mentions, the card isn't sending anything valuable in response. The internal number stays secret on the card, and only returns a VALUE that is calculated inside the card. (The calculation being against the internet 'secret' number, and the transaction number just received from the cashier/bank).
That means that a thief could follow you, send out thousands of seed values a minute and get back the card's returning values for each one.
Is this encryption good enough that this wouldn't be enough info needed to crack? Because once he knows the card's internal number, he can walk up to a cashier, the bank will give a seed value for that specific transaction and know the correct value to send back to verify.
Those have been annoying me more and more also. They're longer now, you know. What also gets me is the no-skip logo intros, which can add up depending on how many houses were invovled. Even the menu entries are getting long, not to mention showing scenes of the actual movie!! (sucks if you haven't seen the movie yet) And the absolute worse is the no-skip commercials, although those are very very few. For now.
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It's not going to happen. You'll make the switch eventually.
"Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management (PVP-OPM) makes sure that the PC's video outputs have the required protection or that they are turned off if such protection is not available."
This one, however, does make sense to me:
" Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) provides encryption of premium content as it passes over the PCI Express (PCIe) bus to the graphics adapter. This is required when the content owner's policy regards the PCIe bus as a user-accessible bus."
I would think this one is a little more important in stopping piracy.
Little did he realize that traffic backed up so far in one area that it was backing up on a freeway exit. A crash happened and fatalities ensues. Guy went to jail. However, this falls under manslaughter.
A 911 service now falls under terrorism (possibly). Thanks to Homeland Security I would bet it would get a harsher penalty.
True life story is of a guy from my neck of the woods, Rajib Mitra, who was recently given 8 years in federal prison because he interfered with police radio frequencies.
------
Mitra, 26, was convicted in March of two counts of transmitting communications to a protected police computer. Madison police testified that the Brookfield man blocked their radio signals intermittently over several hours Halloween night 2003 and later broadcast sex sounds after losing a court case over a parking ticket Nov. 11.
"It's not New York or Sept. 11, it's based on immaturity by the defendant," Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim O'Shea said. "But it is domestic terrorism."
As far as my suggestion that someone needs to put a firewall up, it is simply what I suggest and do for my family and friends. JUST like I would tell the same people to stay away from a high-crime area. When someone gets mugged, I certainly want the mugger to go to jail. Never once did I say this shit you put down:
"if you don't take responsibilty for your actions and don't hold others accountable for theirs"
Hahahahaha. Yea, I bet we could do a study on how much money this guy cost us for writing a stupid article.
"The only crimes that have death as a punishment are high treason and murder."
Crimes Punishable by The Death Penalty"
-Capital Drug Trafficking.
-Train wrecking.
-Capital Sex Battery.
-Aggravated Kidnapping.
-Aircraft Hijacking.
-Terrorism.
-Kidnaping with bodily injury, or ransom when the victim dies.
However, I'm sure a death is involved in anything saying 'aggravated' or 'capital'.
If I went to your father's house and burned it down while he was away, he'd lose all his digital pictures too. (Not to mention his house & everything else inside it). Without any deaths involved, I don't think ARSON carries the death penalty.
"But you say, he does not deserve to have those pictures unless he knows enough to have a firewall and active virus protection (he is on a pension and money is precious) and he should have a backed them up (a CD writer is nice but extra money) and he should know how to back them up (the time for that education is effectivly passed believe me)"
When did I say that? I've never said that. It makes me mad that you said that.
First of all, there is no cost in protecting your computer. ZoneAlarm, Sygate, and others are free firewalls. AVG and others are free anti-virus protectors. Using your ISP's web-version of email is free too (or at least just don't use Outlook) and those 3 things should cover it for your dad.
The real tragedy here is that his son hasn't come to visit and installed those applications for him already! Get the hell off slashdot and visit your dad!! :)
Personally, I'd just read the book, and return it 10 minutes before midnight, and then get the goodies and the book back 11 minutes later.
I can't imagine wanting to scan in all those pages and hand it over to a release group. Don't get me wrong, I don't have high morals, I just can't imagine the undying need to read a book 6 days before hand, especially with the amount of work it would take to scan in.
When I switched back to cable, I specifically asked them if they cared how much I downloaded. They said they didn't care at all. As long as I was aware of my own responsibility of the content I was downloading, hint, hint, wink, wink.
So it's really up to your ISP, and their current confidence in their capacity.
Quit being such a pussy, and report it to them. I have yet to have them argue a replacement or a credit.
So what should hacking amount to? 7 years ago I was accused of hacking by a police officer because I told him I was programming on a Mud that was based in another state.
Hacking could easily be described as anyone who logged into another server with someone else's login/password. (Logging into NYT's web page with bugmenot) Deserves the Death Penalty? I think not.
So what DOES constitute a death-penalty hacking event? Something that causes a company 1 million dollars worth of lost profit? A life is worth that? Ok, how about 1 billion dollars, or a kazillion? Problem is, ****ALL**** companies, the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA have lied and and inflated their so-called losses by a gross amount. How can you put a life of a person in the hands of corporate greed?
There are OTHER things that need to be fixed first. I don't see how a multi-criminal rapist would get an easier sentence than a kid who altered a VB script that was already out there. I don't see how this whole article could even be considered when the crooks at Enron get off without the death penalty first. Truth is, the author is just pissed off his computer crashed one day I'm sure.
Could I see that list of cyberpunk books that cost more than 80 bucks?
Amen to that! I also wouldn't mind browsing the old (FASTER) format of allmusic.com either.
But I hear ya. Due to LARGE hard drives, I've never needed to clean up my downloads directory either, or atleast nothing more than sorting by size and getting rid of anything above 30MB
Personally, I think its popularity only worked because buyers don't have any costs. It's up to the merchant to take on the costs (anyone accepting more than $500/month must use a premium account).
Due to PayPal screwing me out of $500, and the horror stories other have had, I would gladly look into ANY viable competition to Paypal. I would be glad to jump ship.
I switched to the split keyboards also, and the numbness went away. Thank goodness.
You should have heard my wife curse for the first few weeks trying to type emails on the new keyboards! I didn't think it was that bad, but it messed her up big time. Of course now, it's no big deal. I was able to pick up a Microsoft Natural keyboard at a garage sale last year for $1. I use it at work now.
Or maybe even 3.
Awesome! Now I can charge more at the school yard! It sucked when Joe could copy his own CDR!
I'm sure if we wanted to be exactly like the Europeans, we wouldn' thave left.
So slap a misdemeanor charge on them, and fine them, much like a normal shoplifter would.
Why are they out to get Google, but letting Amazon do the exact same thing?
Personally, I'd rather have cold cans of Spaghettios, Minestrone soup, and baked beans as my "emergency stockpile". But to each their own.
I'm glad you get to play army at home once a year due to a mere 1-3 days without power & water. Sounds like fun. Got any glowsticks?
No, that's not it. But it's not worth arguing over.
What's really ironic about the whole thing is that the Dean would probably benefit the MOST (long term) from the professor telling the truth. After all, the Dean was completely pressured by the SGAE with a software license inspection. If they're anything like the BSA, who can fine you $150K or more when they find one unlicenced copy of Windows XP... the very financials of the whole university was at stake.
And for what? Talking to students about the truth?
You should read hiadam's post right above yours. As he mentions, the card isn't sending anything valuable in response. The internal number stays secret on the card, and only returns a VALUE that is calculated inside the card. (The calculation being against the internet 'secret' number, and the transaction number just received from the cashier/bank).
Is this encryption good enough that this wouldn't be enough info needed to crack? Because once he knows the card's internal number, he can walk up to a cashier, the bank will give a seed value for that specific transaction and know the correct value to send back to verify.
Those have been annoying me more and more also. They're longer now, you know. What also gets me is the no-skip logo intros, which can add up depending on how many houses were invovled. Even the menu entries are getting long, not to mention showing scenes of the actual movie!! (sucks if you haven't seen the movie yet) And the absolute worse is the no-skip commercials, although those are very very few. For now.