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Report from the ACM DRM Workshop
Anonymous Coward writes "There's open skepticism from researchers about the ability of DRM to solve Hollywood's copy protection problems. Read Edward Felten's review here... Papers from the workshop are available online as well."
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Why is this in the Developers section, yet the left-hand colum shows Nov. 18 as the last article? Is it really that tough to keep track of these things?
(Except CT, who's engaged.) So, yes, dates are really that difficult.
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All you /. CS majors with any half-assed knowledge should go work on DRM projects. We will flood the job-market with DRM security specialists, who are secret /. agents. Why?
/. agents, you will implement the algorithm poorly in the great tradition of software engineering. You will then leak the information to /. as an Anonymous Coward. But we will all know you are a /. secret agent.
/. doesn't have a Q (RIP Desmond Llewelyn), you will have to pick up your secret agent gadgets at Best Buy.
Because you will all go out there and proliferate great pieces of trite on how your algorithm is the greatest thing since the chastity belt. Heck it could even be the perfect DRM algorithm. But remember you are all secret
Sorry,
Sig Nazi- "No Sig for you, come back 1 year."
All you slashtards can lick my chocolate starfish - I just took a very greasy dump.
Did you love the crazy antics of the FBI and CIA last century? The 6 million plus body count not good enough though?
Enter the brand spankin' new Department of Homeland Security.
Yes big brother has finally arrived, sure he's 18 years late, but hey better late than never.
In addition to creating this great new social control agency lets look at what other yummy tidbits where snuck into this bill:
Gut a Senate amendment that would prohibit the government from signing contracts with companies that move their headquarters offshore -- where they don't have to pay U.S. taxes.
Gee that is really fucking helpful for security!
WHAT THE FUCK!
ok ccontiuing on...
Allow the Department of Homeland Security to hold advisory committee meetings in secret, so no one will know what corporation are really controlling it.
hmmm...
Enact new liability protection for pharmaceutical companies for the vaccines they make.
So if i take a smallpox vaccine and i end up sterile or with cancer it's now illegal to sue. Well fucking thanks congress i fucking feel safer already.
Theres plenty more but findinng the other juicy tidbits is left as an excersize to the reader.
Oh and that's all in addition to the new constition shredding, secret detaining of immegrants, movement tracking and all around oppresion-o-rific dept of homeland security.
Basically the rich people are really scared now that they realize the 5.5 billion people that aren't americas all want to fucking kick their ass so they have taken the liberty to spend our tax dollars to keep themselves safe.
I mean knowing the government is gonna be recording all my library records and movements from state to state and correspondence with friends and relatives makes me feel so much fucker safer....well ok not really.
But at least the rich people will be safe now.