Comment WTFA? (Score 1) 277
Where's The Fucking Article?
What The Fuck,Aye?
Where's The Fucking Article?
What The Fuck,Aye?
You are wrong.
Part 15 says:
1) Your device MAY NOT cause harmful interference.
2) Your device must ACCEPT any interference received, including that which may cause undesired operation.
There is no skinny man behind a curtain pulling levers and pushing buttons, there is ONLY the GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ!
I would consider donation to Wikipedia if you didn't treat us like shit over on Wikia. Serving spyware via drive-by downloads is one thing, you can claim you didn't know about it, but disabling the accounts of wiki editors when they talk about moving off Wikia because of it? Making malicious edits to the new wiki after they move? Playing games with Google to keep wikia's pagerank above the pagerank of the departed? That's childish and immoral. You can make WIkia the "Roach Motel" of wiki if you like, but remember, eventually the motel is full and gets thrown away.
As far as I am concerned you can't go bankrupt quickly enough. It's a pity that wikipedia must die with you, but I absolutely refuse to feed your ego or reward your dishonest behavior.
"Us" means my employer, of which I am one of the founding employees. We don't qualify for an IPv6 allocation because the minimum IPv6 allocation size is larger than what used to be the minimum IPv4 allocation, and is far beyond our needs. We would not be able to justify the usage of an entire block, so ARIN won't give us one. (Which is good; We don't need that much space.) So I am not necessarily attached to my IPv4 block because it is IPv4, I am attached to it because it is mine.
Since this is Slashdot, we'll use a car analogy: Assume that you have bought a new car, and shortly after your purchase, someone decides that the roads are too crowded and everyone who has less than 4 friends must ride a bus. Cars are now reserved for people who can fill all of the seats all of the time. Everyone who rides a bus must be going to places approved by the bus owners at times approved by the bus owners. Any travel otherwise is forbidden, unless you are taking a large group with you. Since I use my car to do my job, and the bus owners are very unlikely to accommodate my business needs aboard their bus, giving it up means I lose my job. So even though it's in the best interest of everyone else that I fall upon my sword and commit suicide so they can declutter the roads, I am too big of a chicken to become an hero, and I will selfishly hang on to my car until such time as someone comes to kill me and take it.
This isn't an option for us. We qualified for address space under ARIN's old rules, and as such, we own a directly allocated IPv4
With this stuff in mind, I intend to defend my IPv4 allocation until such time as ARIN forcibly reclaims it.
Oh, this is easy! We'll just beat you with this rubber hose until you give up the key.
The beatings shall continue until the key is revealed!
How did Apple manage to get these faults into the phone in the first place? They must have spies deeper than we originally thought!
For shame, to stoop to sabotage! Will Jobs stop at NOTHING?
Later model teletypes had lower-case letters. Mine even has graphics printing capability.
I've been on IRC with a teletype before. It's not anything new or unusual.
No, we called a Teletype. TTY for short.
Sony could have prevented the whole PS3 jailbreak fiasco without exposing their games to piracy if they had simply given homebrew/hobby developers the same access to the hardware as their commercial developers.
The drive to jailbreak the PS3 was purely because of the restrictions placed on the OtherOS environment. (OtherOS has no access to the RSX graphics hardware and restricted access to the Cell SPUs.)
First some background:
All software in the PS3 is cryptographically signed, and Sony already has multiple signing keys for different applications. Software is either signed by the programmer with a key present in Sony's SDK during development, or signed by Sony for production releases.
There are three main types of PS3 hardware.
PS3 TOOL is the development machine. It has an extra processor in it that runs a debug monitor allowing manipulation of the Cell and RSX. Tool can run programs signed with Sony's SDK key or signed with Sony's release keys. Tool also has twice the RAM of a retail PS3 and a blu-ray emulation function. It cannot play Blu-ray movies.
PS3 TEST is a development test machine intended for use in QA. It does not have the debug processor, and is identical to retail hardware with the exception that it has a second ethernet interface for use with debugging software, it has the blu-ray emulation function, and it can run programs signed with Sony's SDK key or the release keys.
The last version is the garden-variety retail PS3.
The blu-ray emulator used in TOOL and TEST lacks the cryptographic signature present on retail disks, so if you make a image of a retail disc and try to load it with the emulator, it will fail to decrypt.
Only executables signed with the SDK key can be used with the blu-ray emulator. This means you can't use a tool or test machine to pirate released software.
Here's what Sony needs to do:
First, make a homebrew/hobby developer package and sell it. The SDK and TOOL provided ABSOLUTELY MUST be absolutely identical in every way to that supplied to commercial developers. Pricing should be high enough to make a profit, but low enough to be obtainable. Say, $1500-2500 or so. There should be no software support entitlement (to control costs), and a non-disclosure agreement on any proprietary technologies in the SDK.
Second, make a homebrew/hobby version of the PSN. There is already a developer version of the PSN, and this would ensure that everyone stays separated. Access to the homebew/hobby PSN must be conditioned upon acceptance of the non-disclosure agreement. Then create some message boards or forums in the PSN. This would enable the hobby/homebrew programmers to communicate with one another while being assured they are in compliance with the NDA. Consider allowing commercial developers access to the hobby/homebrew PSN as well, so if we find anything interesting they get access to it too.
The third item is the only item that is really new. There should be some sort of release mechanism where games can be released from the homebrew/hobby community to the rest of the world running retail hardware. This shouldn't be free - Sony needs to pay their bills, and it would discourage releasing crap that sucks. Homebrew releases should be prevented from generating profit for the programmer, to keep commercial developers from using the homebrew SDK as a cheap substitute for the commercial SDK. The homebrew developer would pay Sony's QA costs, and once the QA passes, the release is cryptographically signed and becomes a free item in the PSN online store. If the game has serious commercial potential, perhaps an agreement could be made between Sony and the programmer for a full commercial release, with Sony keeping the majority of the proceeds. This is so there is an incentive for upgrading from the homebrew SDK to the commercial SDK if you are interested in making a profit.
It is of EXCEEDINGLY VITAL importance that the only difference between a commercial SDK and homebrew SDK be the software support entitlement and ability to generate a profit.
If there are any technical limitations in the homebrew SDK that are not present in the commercial SDK, people will be motivated to jailbreak, and we will have the present situation all over again.
As long is there is no reason to jailbreak the machine other than piracy, everyone wins. (Except the pirates, and nobody important cares about them.)
In addition, the presence and popularity of this homebrew/hobby SDK would also give Sony more credibility when prosecuting pirates.
I think programming on an old machine should be required for any sort of programming course. It would teach people to conserve resources and think about how the machine works.
He who cannot program in 64K cannot program in more.
They didn't get to push the ditching switch in the hudson river incident, which is why it sank so quickly.
Airbus Industrie documentation specifies that an A320-family aircraft landed intact on the water (which is highly improbable, but...) with the ditching mode activated should float for at least three days.
That is an ideal case, of course.
Valve blogged about it, which is what drove a big chunk of those sales.
The game is basically first-person Dwarf Fortress. Your job is mine riches out of the ground while not dying.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson