What's The Difference Between DRM And A Virus?

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Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers

Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers 11/05/2003 10:59 AM
What do you if you're in an unchartered area with no reasonable law enforcement, and criminals are running rampant? You convince everyone to become the "enforcement" arm and find someone rich enough to pay them to help fight crime. Microsoft can't be bothered to fix a few of the holes in their programs that make it incredibly easy to pass on viruses, so instead, they're setting aside $5 million for anti-virus bounty hunters who can track down anyone responsible for worms, trojan horses or viruses. The rewards will be given out in $250,000 wads of cash from Bill Gates wallet increments. So, now, who's going to round up an anti-virus posse?

ISU Interfaces: What is the Difference?

ISU Interfaces: What is the Difference? 08/17/2004 11:34 AM

How Big is the Difference Between
Websites?

How Big is the Difference Between
Websites? 01/18/2004 10:26 PM

"see if you can work out the difference"

"see if you can work out the difference" 09/27/2004 02:37 AM

vive la difference

vive la difference 02/17/2004 08:47 AM
She claimed to be a sporting champion whose brave and public battle against cancer turned her into a national hero across France. But when Florence le Vot was asked to become the patron of a charity to tackle the disease her conscience finally got the better of her.

Speed Difference

Speed Difference 06/30/2004 10:42 PM
I finally decided to run internet speed tests between my Airport Extreme, 802.11G, wireless connection and my wired ethernet connection. I ran the DSL Reports...

Top Tip: Difference between L2 and L3
cache?

Top Tip: Difference between L2 and L3
cache? 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
What is L2 cache? What is L3 cache? What is the major difference between the two.

The difference between POST and GET

The difference between POST and GET 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

How important is the ability to tell the difference between data sent by POST and data sent by GET (i.e in the query string) when developing web applications? Some web frameworks (such as PHP) provide separate mechanisms for accessing POST and GET data. Others (such as Python's cgi module) provide a single interface to form information that doesn't distinguish between the two. I already have a strong opinion on this but I'm going to leave it open for discussion here for a bit before weighing in.

"points us towards one key difference "

"points us towards one key difference " 04/23/2004 04:28 PM

Difference of Opinion

Difference of Opinion 07/18/2004 03:12 PM
Last Sunday's column, about the entertainment industry's latest effort to restrict our ability to make use of the copyrighted material we've purchased, took the technology industry to task for a belated response. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, challenged me on that, saying the response was as quick and effective as he's seen from the industry to any challenge. Shapiro was, indeed, quick to jump into the fray, but the bulk of the tech industry didn't wake up nearly fast enough. Meanwhile, I'll take this opportunity to ask you again to contact your U.S. senators and express your strong opposition to the bill in question, S.2560. There's no time to waste. The text of Shapiro's note, edited slightly with his permission, is posted below. More...

Making a Difference

Making a Difference 01/01/2005 06:54 PM
New Year's

The Difference Between GNU/Linux
Distributions

The Difference Between GNU/Linux
Distributions 05/05/2004 09:54 AM

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle 02/12/2004 02:44 AM
This week, Techdirt got a lot of attention for pointing out the extraordinarily different takes on a speech by former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi from blogger s and a reporter from Reuters. If you read the different accounts, you would have sworn they were at entirely different speeches. Lots of websites picked up on that story and linked back to us - but now, former Reuters reporter Jeremy Wagstaff (who writes for Far Eastern Economic Review and WSJ.com - and on his own excellent blog) is taking me to task for calling the Reuters report "spin". He says there's a very important difference between "spin" and an "angle" and points out (absolutely correctly) that a journalist's job isn't necessarily to write up a summary of the entire speech, but to pick out the newsworthy point and write about that. He points to other press coverage of the same speech and notes that they all pick up on a different aspect of the speech. He also gives the standard reporter's excuse about deadlines and how things accidentally "creep into" stories where they don't belong. He points out (once again, correctly) that one of the nice things about blogs is that they give an alternate source for more info and context which the reporters don't do (it's not their job). These are all good points, and worth thinking about - but I still don't take back my original comments. While a reporter's job is to find out what's newsworthy and write about it, that does not mean taking something out of context - which is clearly what was done with that Reuters article. If you listen to the speech, Trippi spends the entire speech talking about what a revolutionary force the internet is when it comes to politics. Whether you believe that or not, if you read the Reuters report, you don't get that impression at all. You get the impression he blamed the internet. Giving people the impression of something that clearly was not being said is not an angle. It's spin (scroll down to spin) - and Reuters should be ashamed.

Will EU constitution make a difference?

Will EU constitution make a difference? 06/19/2004 05:48 AM
A deal has been reached on the first constitution for the European Union after hours of talks at the EU summit. But will it work?

The Difference Between Innovation And
Invention

The Difference Between Innovation And
Invention 03/22/2005 07:03 PM
For all the talk about protecting innovation, we've often pointed out that the patent system seems to do the exact opposite -- making it more difficult for those who are actually innovating, while giving money to those who haven't done anything at all. Last year, Michael Schrage wrote an interesting piece pointing out the very important diffe rences between invention and innovation, where he noted that innovation is more important -- but the patent system is more about protecting invention. Basically, plenty of people or companies who "invented" an idea were never able to capitalize on the idea at all. It took others who actually innovated and built off that idea to make a product that actually had an impact on the world. Helping to prove that point are a bunch of example cases where the initial inventor of something wasn't the one to make it valuable. In a market driven economy, the real winner is the company that can make something valuable through innovation -- not the inventor who happens to come up with something that the market may or may not want.

the difference between a winner and a
hero

the difference between a winner and a
hero 08/28/2004 01:24 PM
showing how Paul Hamm represents the worst of contemporary america

Is There A Difference Between Piracy And
Promotion?

Is There A Difference Between Piracy And
Promotion? 08/10/2004 03:43 PM
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a piece by Larry Lessig looking at how the comic industry in Japan was thriving based on copycat comics that would normally be seen as infringing works in the US, forcing entertainment industry lawyers to shut down these fan-created efforts. In something of a followup to that piece, Henry Jenkins has written about how so-called "piracy" has been a huge help in making Japanese anime popular and commercially viable in the US. Clearly, the easy distribution of digital content has different effects -- some of which are beneficial and some of which are harmful -- for the creators of that content. By assuming that only one of these effects exist, companies that are cracking down on "piracy" without realizing they may be hurting free promotional activity are doing damage to their own business.

Where Just 5,708 Votes Made All the
Difference

Where Just 5,708 Votes Made All the
Difference 08/14/2004 01:00 PM
Many Badger State residents seem focused on the United States' role in Iraq, and the issue divides the state.

A Space Makes All the Difference

A Space Makes All the Difference 05/05/2004 03:55 AM

What's in a Name?: CMS Watch (formerly CMSwatch) ran into a copyright problem you wouldn't quite expect.

CMS Watch is now two words instead of one, following a short spat with Swatch AG over our trademark. We capitulated in the face of deeper legal pockets and are now pushing the search-and-replace limits of our own CMS...

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On a difference between wonks and
geeks...

On a difference between wonks and
geeks... 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

Here's a suggested difference between geeks and policy wonks that might go some distance towards making the two groups get on with one another better. It is my contention that the two groups simply have radically different registers and types of interaction. Policy wonks - like all politically oriented people - are encouraged to think in terms of combative point-making. The most respected and well-thought through acts of Parliament being those that have been fought over the most. The most convincing politicians are the ones who have solid positions that they can stick with and defend. Political life is a combative life, with positions being tested and retested before they're taken out into the world. In terms of doing things you want to know that the thing you're going to do is the right thing before you get too far down the line, particularly when the consequences of getting things wrong are so potentially enormous.

The life of the creative geek community is very different. The atmosphere of an event like ETCon is not one of absolutist positions (or at least it is on occasion but it's mostly frowned upon), but of gradual accretion, iteration and development. Particularly (but not exclusively) in those realms where development requires time but not a lot of capital investment, ideas are thrown out into the world to see if they'll stand or fall. Those that succeed are iterated upon. Those that fail are either abandoned or taken further by other groups who will try to solve the errors and mistakes that surround them. In terms of making things, each new idea is expected to be flawed and clumsy and full of holes and everyone knows it and works from that point onwards. It's the model of the technologist community as competitive craftspeople, and it operates on the assumption that whether something will be successful or unsuccessful / useful or useless is something that must be left up to how people interact with it and its take-up with a community. You make it the best you can, in the way you think is right, and let the world decide if you got it right...

I think this is the distinction that explains why there are so many disagreements between the groups. One group looks for immediate application where there may be only potential. One group sees possibility where there is no immediate practical benefit. And in talking to each group, you have to use a different register. There's no point talking RDF to policy wonks, because they'll see no application until you can show them something made with RDF that they consider actually politically useful. And there's no point telling technologists that their creations are politically naive, because they'll consider them works in progress, building from a position of naivety towards - in time - something legitimately useful and ground-breaking.

It's a difficult job - understanding which register to use in which circumstance - but it's an important one for those people who have to straddle disciplines. Because one way or another they're going to have to work with geeks or wonks who will by necessity have a very different mind-set. Being aware of the distinction will not only create the possibility of legitimate discussion (and minimise the possibility of large cross-disciplinary enmities) but also inspire actual creativity to emerge between the disciplines...

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Linux vs. Windows: What's The
Difference?

Linux vs. Windows: What's The
Difference? 07/01/2004 05:19 PM

C# vs. Java: Debate the difference

C# vs. Java: Debate the difference 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
CNET Mar 10 2003 1:23AM ET

The Difference Between Offer And Provide

The Difference Between Offer And Provide 05/28/2004 12:31 AM
Yesterday, there was a lot of attention paid to Comcast's decision to catch up to other US broadband providers and add a VoIP option to their list of services. In the announcement they focused on how this VoIP service would be offered to the 40 million homes they service. Most of the press picked up on that number and it became a big story. However, it looks like that 40 million is a bit misleading. Comcast may reach almost 40 million homes - but most of those only get cable TV service. Only 5.5 million currently receive broadband access from Comcast - which is a significantly smaller number. Obviously, the number of broadband subscribers will grow (perhaps rapidly) and offering a bundled VoIP offering could even help it grow - but it's a still quite far away from actually providing 40 million users VoIP. Technically, a company like Vonage could go out and claim that they're "offering" VoIP to a much larger audience - because Vonage can be used on almost any broadband line. It's all in the difference between "offer" and "provide."

The Difference Between What You Want To
Happen And What's Happening

The Difference Between What You Want To
Happen And What's Happening 12/29/2003 01:44 PM
We've writt en about Magnatunes and the Creative Commons a few times before, so yet another article on Magnatunes and the Creative Commons isn't all that interesting. However, this one makes a very good point which is worth repeating. The article asks, if people can get their music for free, why would they bother paying for CDs. The response, which Magnatunes founder basically tells them, is that they're asking the wrong question. People are already downloading music for free, and thus, the recording industry needs to figure out a way to adjust to that reality. The original question (what happens if people can get their music for free?) is like asking "but, what happens to buggy makers when automobiles are around?" The answer seems obvious to everyone, except those involved in the recording industry: they adapt or die. The recording industry is so focused on what they want to happen, that they've missed what's actually happening. The article also suggests that, so far, Magnatunes is doing quite well, and has the potential to be a viable longterm business - based on the idea of giving away music as a promotional good.

Search Engines: What's the Difference?

Search Engines: What's the Difference? 05/13/2004 06:24 PM
Yahoo! Google and Ask Jeeves go toe-to-toe in frank discussion of which technology yields the best results.

Top Tip: Difference between Cisco and
Netgear routers?

Top Tip: Difference between Cisco and
Netgear routers? 09/03/2004 06:05 PM
I have never config a Cisco router before, could anyone tell me where I can learn about it? Also, I would like to know what's the difference between, say, setup Cisco 1721 router and Netgear WGT624 router???

Would More Drilling in America Make a
Difference?

Would More Drilling in America Make a
Difference? 06/19/2004 07:51 PM
Absent a major conservation campaign or a breakthrough in alternative fuels, the country can't sharply reduce its oil dependence.

Edwards Makes Little Difference in Polls
(AP)

Edwards Makes Little Difference in Polls
(AP) 07/11/2004 05:27 PM
AP - John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate was received favorably by the public, polls suggest, but it has made little difference so far in the race with President Bush.

Fat or thin--makes no security
difference

Fat or thin--makes no security
difference 12/15/2003 09:19 PM

Iraq: Will UN resolution make a
difference?

Iraq: Will UN resolution make a
difference? 06/08/2004 04:54 PM
The United Nations Security Council has approved a revised US-UK resolution for Iraq's future. Will it make a difference? Send us your comments.

Accessibility Issues Make a Difference

Accessibility Issues Make a Difference 04/05/2005 09:33 PM

The essential difference between
SmartTags and AutoLink

The essential difference between
SmartTags and AutoLink 03/14/2005 05:28 PM
I can't believe I'm joining this discussion, but everywhere I read about Google's AutoLink, I never see the essential detail that Google did right: links are only added after the user pressed the AutoLink button. It's not a toggle button, you have to press the button every time you visit a new page for the links to show up. ?

Hard and Soft Resets: What is the
Difference?

Hard and Soft Resets: What is the
Difference? 04/18/2004 02:59 AM

The Difference between Business and
Coach On United

The Difference between Business and
Coach On United 04/09/2004 07:57 PM
I used some frequent flyer miles to upgrade from Coach to Business on my flight to Japan yesterday. I usually...

Press Release, Spam, What's The
Difference?

Press Release, Spam, What's The
Difference? 07/29/2004 03:32 PM
It's amazing the level of stupidity to which PR people will sink. Just two weeks after we wrote about idioti c PR people submitting press releases to us when we clearly ask them not to, one company has sunk to a new low -- and it's making me wonder if PR pitches are officially spam under the law. First, instead of using the submission function, this PR spammer tracked down my email address. Not hard to do, but if you want anyone here to write about something, it makes our life much better to use the submission page. That's why we have it. If you're going to make our lives more difficult, why would we ever bother to make yours better by giving you free publicity? If you can't take the time to actually read the site and understand the process, why should we take the time to hype up your fake news? However, instead of just sending the usual note that PR people tend to do, this individual sent us FOUR press releases in a row, all using CAPITAL LETTERS and all marked URGENT. I honestly thought it was traditional spam at first, as I would any time I received four emails in a row written in capital letters from someone I didn't know. However, it's clearly been sent to us for posting purposes. The company in question (who I won't bother to name) has been mocked on certain other sites for its ability to take whitebox laptops mark up the price to ridiculous levels and then promote it as their own (you figure it out). None of the announcements are even remotely interesting to our audience, and anyone who had read Techdirt for more than a day would know not to bother submitting them. It's no surprise, of course, that this guy clearly does not read the site. However, when I looked closer at the emails in question, I think I could make a very convincing case that they are, indeed, spam as defined by the law. First, the message does not include, as required, the address of the company sending the PR spam. Second, the "from" line includes a name, but no email address. The guy didn't spoof a different email address, but somehow fudged the headers so that there's no email address in the from or reply-to fields. There is no option to opt-out. In fact, it's not easy to email them back to ask to opt-out because there's no reply-to email address. So, beyond just being entirely moronic, is this company guilty of spamming?

1, 2, 10, 40, 100, 200, 999 Million
People whats the difference

1, 2, 10, 40, 100, 200, 999 Million
People whats the difference 06/22/2005 02:12 AM

The number to pay attention to is 40 Million why is that important because thats the number of Credit Cards a hacker may have stolen. Yes 40 Million.

I am not surprised and I expect that before long we will be able to visit a website and enter our social security number or our credit card number to just find out if we need to live in fear that our entire world is about to be turned upside down.

I am not sure about you but I think companies should be fined a HUGE outrageous amount of money every time they expose our personal information to the world. That money should be divided equally and given to the people who's data was stolen. Time for someone mainly Congress to get very tough and put down some legislation that has some teeth.

While we are at it scrap all of our SSN numbers and come up with something that can be protected. Better yet lets put a credit alert on every citizen in this country for the next 12 months so that they can raise awareness and get a handle on all of these breaches [BBC]

Programmer or Engineer? What's the
difference? By: David K. Every

Programmer or Engineer? What's the
difference? By: David K. Every 10/29/2003 12:13 AM
Some people call themselves "Programmers" and others call themselves "Software Engineers". "Engineer" seems to have more prestige in our society, so more people try to call themselves Engineers (even if they aren't). Of course anybody can call themselves whatever they want -- so what people call themselves makes little difference; however, there is a distinct difference between the two.

The Real Difference Between Humans and
Other Animals

The Real Difference Between Humans and
Other Animals 04/12/2005 01:50 PM

A couple of years ago Chelsea, our dog, accidentally got into a fight with a woodchuck (she was exploring a large hole beside the walking trail in the conservation are near our home, and the sharp-clawed woodchuck didn't like the invasion of her den and emerged and attacked). Chelsea was unsure what to make of this creature, and she first approached and barked, and then, when it squealed and lunged, she backed off and the woodchuck retreated. Chelsea seemed fine, and was a bit distraught but made no sound of distress, so we continued on our walk. The next day we noticed Chelsea was licking herself on one side and I went to check to see if she'd picked up some burrs. To my astonishment I found a gash four inches (10cm) long and nearly one inch (2.5cm) deep. It was invisible under her fur but was still bleeding -- a battle wound. If we hadn't been paying attention we would never have known. If it had been on a different part of her body she might have died. The wound required several stitches and a long time to fully heal. We resolved to keep a closer eye on her health from then on. A month ago, we were going out for groceries and, as usual, Chelsea came along for the car ride. With her arthritis and her hypothyroid condition she's a little tentative now about jumping into the back seat of the van, but she made it all right. We were doing up our seatbelts when suddenly Chelsea let out a terrible howl, just like a wolf's. We panicked and rushed back to see what was wrong, convinced she must have injured herself somehow. It was a cold day and my wife had strapped on her coat, and in walking through between the middle bucket seats to the back bench seat Chelsea had got caught and couldn't squeeze forward or back. She was completely unhurt, but was terrified and shaken by this experience of being trapped. A serious wound she took in stride without a whimper, but the thought of being immobilized, imprisoned was unbearable. How different she is from humans! From childhood we howl for help -- from parents and then when we're older from doctors -- at the first sign of pain. We measure out our childhood with band-aids. But we learn to take imprisonment stoically, silently, dutifully. Soon we even learn to lock ourselves in -- in our rooms with 'keep out' signs on the door, in seatbelts in locked cars,and in homes locked against outsiders, and some even in gated, wired 'communities' -- voluntary prisons. Our imprisonment grows from being forced to stand in the corner, to being forced to sit in oppressive classrooms, to victimization by the cliques and bullies in the schoolyard, to 'being grounded', to the humiliation of having to pay and volunteer for even more stifling 'education' in universities, to groveling for jobs, employment contracts and wage slavery, to the 'bonds' of matrimony, to addiction to consumption and debt, just another form of imprisonment, and finally to fear on a global scale -- of criminals at every turn, of terrorists and tyrants -- causing us to want to lock up our loved ones and put barbed wire around our whole country. This then, it seems to me, is the real difference between humans and other animals: We can take imprisonment but not pain, and all the rest of life on our planet can accept pain but finds imprisonment unbearable. Perhaps then it's not surprising that we call imprisonment without pain 'humane'. If you've ever watched chickens in battery cages, you know nature doesn't see it that way.

Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible
Difference?

Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible
Difference? 07/11/2004 04:16 PM

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