Is is only a matter of time before ads will be removed by some nice piece of software that's available for free download. Just as with DRM "protection".
How strange that US judges can order the most stupid things from people. Here, if you are convicted for something, you cvan get a fine, community labour or jailtime. When it's traffic related your license can be revoked in certain cases, and that's it. A judge ordering someone not to use a computer would be laughed out of court.
And that is in this war not the US occupation force. Makes just as little sense as a Vietnam game where you can't play the Vietcong side, what's the fun in a game you can't win?
At least Symbian also runs on compact devices with a normal keypad and NO touchscreen. I don't like touchscreens, I want to pack my phone in a decent leather case and use it while it's still in it which is virtually impossible with touchscreens.
The most practical solution is to wait a short time before some Chinese company markets it to China and then order it there. In countries where politicians are not bribed by the US corporations they don't care about stupid US laws.
A. China will concentrate on Asia, South-America and the EU.
B. China's economy will not grow 10% a year but only 7%. Still much more than any western economy.
And most importandly:
China doesn't need its US$ anymore, stops buying US debts and dumps their US$ reserves on the market. The US learns from experience what the word "hyperinflation" means and their economy collapses completely.
No, it's something typical American. In The Netherlands, the police can come looking for evidence but you are not forced to give them anything voluntarily like passwords or locations where documents are stored. If they can't find it they can't use it, and if it later turns up anyway you can not be punished for something like "withholding evidence".
In civilized countries where you have the right to get a fair trial you cannot be forced to cooperate with the government to nail yourself.
The already mentioned Wikipedia article (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Skype) mentions the use of RSA but is not sure. Why are you so sure they don't use asymmetric crypto?
But is has one main advantage over all other clients: decent encryption. When governments start complaining they can't decrypt the calls, like the Indian did, you know you're on the right track.
[quote]Why can't you or anyone else respect the wishes of someone who wants to block that kind of content from their machine?[/quote]
As long as I can be sure that the blocking software is installed by the same person using that machine, OK with me. But I somehow have the impression that most of this software is run by people to censor the net for others, and that is not something I would cooperate with.
Why bother with websites when you have p2p? Protecting websites against a determined adversary is hard, as Pirate Bay shows us. Put it on a completely decentralized network with included search functions like eMule and Gnutella and noone, not even the US governmant, can stop it.
Being civil because thei're Brittish? That must be the reason every mainland country in Europe associates "Brittish soccer fans" with the worst kind of hooligans?
Yes, The Netherlands. Down,loading books, music and movies is legal (technically, copying for your own personal use is legal, wether you own a legal copy or not) and you pay when buying CD's and DVD's (which are therefore mass-ordered in Germany (www.opus.nl) to avoid the tax or bought from vendors who ignore it). We don't pay extra for memory cards, USB sticks or harddrives although the lobbyists are trying.
And we have the same problem: the collecting organisation resides in luxury offices and claims they have lost too much gambling on the stock market to pay the artists.
And you wouldn't copy a car...
Wait, when my replicator could make a new Ferrari using the metals and plastics from my 15 year old wreck that broke down last week, I certainly would!
Publishers are misusing copyright laws here too and asking exorbitant prices for publications. Fortunately there is a way out: http://arxiv.org/ , which is becomming more and more popular.
You could of course place it on a server of your own and distribute it, I don't think Google would try to stop you. I'm a Nokia user and download apps from all over the internet, but never used the official OVI appstore. You can only access it from your phone and can't store installers for backup purposes from there, no thanks.
Even worse, some countries require their citizens to show an ID card if any police officer asks one. Not doing so in The Netherlands results in a fine of 50 Euro's. Of course all against terrorism. In practice it is mostly used to screw you more when you ride a bicycle at night without lights.
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Is is only a matter of time before ads will be removed by some nice piece of software that's available for free download. Just as with DRM "protection".
And those that didn't come back? A death sentence for burglary seems rather harsh to me, even for US standards.
Ah, well, the question still remains how the judge is going to check wether he used encryption or not.
The Netherlands, but as far as I know that's the situation almost everywhere in Europe.
How strange that US judges can order the most stupid things from people. Here, if you are convicted for something, you cvan get a fine, community labour or jailtime. When it's traffic related your license can be revoked in certain cases, and that's it. A judge ordering someone not to use a computer would be laughed out of court.
And that is in this war not the US occupation force. Makes just as little sense as a Vietnam game where you can't play the Vietcong side, what's the fun in a game you can't win?
At least Symbian also runs on compact devices with a normal keypad and NO touchscreen. I don't like touchscreens, I want to pack my phone in a decent leather case and use it while it's still in it which is virtually impossible with touchscreens.
The most practical solution is to wait a short time before some Chinese company markets it to China and then order it there. In countries where politicians are not bribed by the US corporations they don't care about stupid US laws.
A. China will concentrate on Asia, South-America and the EU. B. China's economy will not grow 10% a year but only 7%. Still much more than any western economy. And most importandly: China doesn't need its US$ anymore, stops buying US debts and dumps their US$ reserves on the market. The US learns from experience what the word "hyperinflation" means and their economy collapses completely.
No, it's something typical American. In The Netherlands, the police can come looking for evidence but you are not forced to give them anything voluntarily like passwords or locations where documents are stored. If they can't find it they can't use it, and if it later turns up anyway you can not be punished for something like "withholding evidence". In civilized countries where you have the right to get a fair trial you cannot be forced to cooperate with the government to nail yourself.
I see work for the author of NoScript.
Nice, this one would also not be hindered by armoured glass so it might be quite usefull for a bank robber.
The already mentioned Wikipedia article (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Skype) mentions the use of RSA but is not sure. Why are you so sure they don't use asymmetric crypto?
But is has one main advantage over all other clients: decent encryption. When governments start complaining they can't decrypt the calls, like the Indian did, you know you're on the right track.
[quote]Why can't you or anyone else respect the wishes of someone who wants to block that kind of content from their machine?[/quote] As long as I can be sure that the blocking software is installed by the same person using that machine, OK with me. But I somehow have the impression that most of this software is run by people to censor the net for others, and that is not something I would cooperate with.
Why bother with websites when you have p2p? Protecting websites against a determined adversary is hard, as Pirate Bay shows us. Put it on a completely decentralized network with included search functions like eMule and Gnutella and noone, not even the US governmant, can stop it.
You mean that the "befehl ist befehl" excuse was accepted by the Americans in the neurenberg trials and the other Nazis got away with it?
Being civil because thei're Brittish? That must be the reason every mainland country in Europe associates "Brittish soccer fans" with the worst kind of hooligans?
Yes, The Netherlands. Down,loading books, music and movies is legal (technically, copying for your own personal use is legal, wether you own a legal copy or not) and you pay when buying CD's and DVD's (which are therefore mass-ordered in Germany (www.opus.nl) to avoid the tax or bought from vendors who ignore it). We don't pay extra for memory cards, USB sticks or harddrives although the lobbyists are trying. And we have the same problem: the collecting organisation resides in luxury offices and claims they have lost too much gambling on the stock market to pay the artists.
And you wouldn't copy a car... Wait, when my replicator could make a new Ferrari using the metals and plastics from my 15 year old wreck that broke down last week, I certainly would!
Publishers are misusing copyright laws here too and asking exorbitant prices for publications. Fortunately there is a way out: http://arxiv.org/ , which is becomming more and more popular.
You could of course place it on a server of your own and distribute it, I don't think Google would try to stop you. I'm a Nokia user and download apps from all over the internet, but never used the official OVI appstore. You can only access it from your phone and can't store installers for backup purposes from there, no thanks.
Even worse, some countries require their citizens to show an ID card if any police officer asks one. Not doing so in The Netherlands results in a fine of 50 Euro's. Of course all against terrorism. In practice it is mostly used to screw you more when you ride a bicycle at night without lights.
Apple is 3rd in the smartphone market, behind RIM and much, much behind Nokia.
Wasn't some Russian writer who published a similar story about a wizard boy sued? He did copy the concept but certainly didn't copy Rowlings work.