The assertion is absolutely correct. DMCA is working fine.
DMCA was designed to protect copyright, and it is protecting it.
The question we should be asking ourselves is whether or not copyright (the way it is righ now) is protecting public interest.
I counted about one and a half minutes before the student was taken by force. What was the time limit, anyway? I think 2 minutes is little time already, let alone less than that. Even though the limit might have been less then the one and a half minutes he used, he clearly asked for 2 minutes, and his request was granted since he was allowed to keep on speaking. If speaking that long was that offensive, why didn't they just cut off the mic? Why didn't they interrupt the student the minute he asked for the 2 minutes? Again, why didn't they cut off the mic, for Christ sake? This sort of thing isn't supposed to be handled by police force. That's why taks usually have a mediator, or at least someone that controls the sound system. Whoever was responsible for coordinating this talk did a really lousy job at least.
Quoting the Wiki:
The exact nature of cortisone's anti-inflammatory nature remained a mystery for years after however, until the leukocyte adhesion cascade and the role of phospholipase A2 in the production of prostaglandins and leukotrienes was fully understood in the early 1980s Yet, everybody used it. Does anybody even know how the process of healing woks? How "cure" works?
First of all, people have to set apart real homeopathy form "scam" homeopathy. Even though the "flu syrup" you're taking right now is made out of some strange root or leaf, this syrup probably isn't a homeopathic drug. One medicine isn't homeopathy just because is a so called "natural treatment". The are pharmaceutical procedures that must be followed in order to produce a homeopathic medicine.
Homeopathy follows the Similia Similus Curantur principle ("like cures like"), where you take something that causes a certain illness and dilute this substance in an infinitesimal solution. The resulting solution will possess curative properties against the same illness the original poison causes.
The process of producing a homeopathic drug includes diluting the original substance in water and shaking the solution so water molecules interact with this original substance's molecules evenly. The problem everybody has about homeopathy is dilution. Dilution types in homeopathy are labeled by letters and numbers (i.e. C1, C12, C100). For instance, C1 dilution is the so called "mother tincture" diluted 1 in 100 parts water. The mother tincture is by itself a dilution made from the original substance.
C2 is C1 diluted in 100 parts of water. C3 is C2 in 100 parts water, and so on. So, doing some math, we can see that C1 will probably get 1/100 of the "mother tincture". C2 will get 1/100 from C1, and so on. The rest is water. This yields the following fomula:
Cn = C(n-1) / 100
If we expand that to create a relationship to the source "mother tincture" (MT), we'll have:
Cn = MT / (100^n)
Using a dilution above C100 is a very common practice in homeopathy, actually it's possible to have even higher dilutions (i.e. C200). So, based on the formula, we would have this for C100:
C100 = MT / (100^100) = MT / (10^2)^100 = MT/10^200
I think we all remember Avogadro's number, which is the number of molecules in one mole. That number is approximately 6.02*10^23
As we can see in the calculations, in C100, MT gets divided in more the 10^200 parts, which is way bigger than the Avogrado's number. So, in an utlimate analysis, C100 contains only water, nothing else. Even in face of this, it is homeopathy's contend that a homeopathic drug in C100 will possess curative properties. Some people listen to this as "water cures", and that's the problem. Yet, thousands successful cases of homeopathy use have been reported around the globe, and I am also talking about veterinary homeopathy (which dismisses many of the placebo arguments).
The fact is that there is convincing evidence that the therapy works, but nobody knows exactly how. We are only beginning to understand some pretty astonishing facts about our world with new discoveries in physics and chemistry, things that would be considered crazy before, and yet some dismiss the possibility that water may be changed in a way that makes it have unusual and beneficial effects over our health.
BTW, anyone care to explain to me how the hell Sulfasalazine (SULFA) works as an anti-inflammatory? I guess that should be fairly easy since everybody is using it these days.
I wrote: Most likely Google just wants to expand Google Moon the way it did with Google Maps [google.com] when they added the Street View [google.com] feature. Since Google couldn't find any company up to the task they came up with this lame excuse just to hide the fact that they've opened up a public bid for the outsourcing of Google Moon's "Crater View" feature. Some anonymous coward wrote: I seriously hope that you are joking. You're saying that Google is spending 30 million dollars in order to get a view mediocre pictures of the moon for the future "Crater View" feature. Why would Google need to make a prize to get a few extra pictures of the moon when NASA has provided us with enough of them to build up a fairly accurate image of the various land structures. Damn, I'm bad with jokes! I thought this one over and over so the sarcasm would be neat, and in the end I get people thinking I really meant that. Damn!!!
Most likely Google just wants to expand Google Moon the way it did with Google Maps when they added the Street View feature. Since Google couldn't find any company up to the task they came up with this lame excuse just to hide the fact that they've opened up a public bid for the outsourcing of Google Moon's "Crater View" feature.
(Technicalities to above statement) Whether or not it just retrieves keys from the smart card (after a PKI exchange) that are used to decode the session (which I hear gets renewed quite frequently while you're watching) or the smart card actually spews the decrypted stream itself, I'm not sure, but basically if you can take remove the smart card out of the picture, you have a straight shot at their entire service unencrypted. The smart card is only responsible for decrypting the keys, which you're right to assume are renewed frequently.
Ok, I must admit, you're right about what TFA says. But the problem is what it doesn't say. Tell me, if you can tie together anonymous posts based on the the way they were written, what stops the same system from tying anonymous posts and non-anonymous posts together? Also, what would be the ultimate reason for tying up anonymous posts anyway? I'm sure it's not just to understand the migratory patterns of extremists posts throughout the web.
The underlying principle behind CAPTCHAs can be used to defeat this system.
In a CAPTCHA, information is encoded in a medium that is only understandable by humans. Machines would be unable to intercept a message encoded as a CAPTCHA. This way, nothing could be collected.
A simplified example of that would be displaying the contents a forum post/thread as a rendered image instead of plain text. Of course the idea can be improved a lot, but that's the basic principle.
An anonymity wise forum software can be easily created with that in mind. If the idea spreads, there will be nothing left for the "dark spider".
Even if the CAPTCHA model is badly designed or breaks in a way that allows the "dark spider" to extract the text though some AI technique, the extraction alone would make the whole "dark web" unfeasible due to the massive computational resources that would be required (i.e. millions of pages to decode).
Also, natural language obfuscation techniques could be applied so the software is unable to pinpoint the specific pattern that ties anonymous posts to non-anonymous posts. This way, even if the spider beats the CAPTCHA model, it would still be unable to identify the anonymous poster.
Well, my conclusion is someone that is willing to spend considerable money and resources to remain anonymous (i.e. terrorists) will still be able to remain anonymous. The problem is that the average user might not have the same luck. Who would've thought!
Lemme see. I have one of them funky new iPods that holds, what, 40,000 songs? And let's see, I'm going to fill it up with ringles? Hmmm. I don't think I'll bother putting the ringtone on the iPod, but the three songs? Sure. So, let's see. Divide 40,000 by 3 = 13,333.33 ringles. Each ringle is $6? 6 x 13,333.33 = $80,000. And that doesn't include sales tax. Here in Toronto, that's 14%, making it $91,200.
WTF ARE THESE IDIOTS THINKING??? That I'm going to spend over NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS to load up my 160gig iPod?
Fine! So let's assume you buy the same songs from Apple. iTunes charges 0.99 per song, so the math would be 99 cents per song, 40,000 songs, something around 20 grants for everything (and without taxes!). Are you willing to pay that much, then? Is that what you're saying?
Going to the right place, looking the right direction, dressing the right way, using the right perfume, having the right car, saying the right word, asking the right question. There are so many things that are barriers for the first contact and get irrelevant along the relationship. Some times I wonder how many lonely people out there might have missed the chance to meet someone that was also lonely (and willing to get together) simply because they both didn't have the right tools. The likelihood of that happening just amazes me.
You got almost everything right. The only misconception is that those Apps don't have decent GUI. You probably don't know them, or just know a few. There are really great Apps out there, with clever GUI and pretty cool features. One that I'm really enjoying is iPhone Dock. Really cool.
Well, feeling ripped off is a kinda weird feeling, I wouldn't know how to put it in words. But when I buy tech stuff I usually think in terms of marketing value, or how much can I get if I wanna re-sell it. In this sense, there's a market dynamic that clearly was disrespected by apple. That prices wouldn't go down any time soon. I don't mind about price drops, but this one was just too soon. And I can't avoid thinking this was a well planned well calculated move. It's not like "wait until thanksgiving to buy the phone and it will be cheaper".
I was a little pissed the other post, and probably not with my best judgment, but I still think this price drop is not the same thing as a regular price drop. And believe I've gone through a lot of price drops.
And as for the whinnying, I'm really sorry for those that are not able to realize that consumers have a little power and accept every move from corporations without questioning it.
About the toaster, would you happen to have a spare? That's because since my phone is also a toaster I have given my old toaster away (talk about convergence). I even tried to use the phone, but for my surprise the damn thing is watter proof as well!
You realize there are 3rd party applications for the iPhone (and thus for ipod touch) already, right? They are no exactly supported by Apple, but they work just fine. Take a look: http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/
I own an iPhone, and this whole change of prices for the iPhone because of the new iPod just makes me feel like I was ripped off.
Is that even legal? I mean, one of the main things we are buying when we buy stuff like that (the latest cool phone) is the notion that prices are remain the same for a while. I bought the phone a month ago and I feel tricked by Apple.
I wouldn't mind signing up for class action suit against Apple.
Who is with me?
Copylet being torn apart by Tivolization and hypervisors... hmmm....
That only shows the many ways to hack the hacker's copyright hack!
Everything can be hacked!
One thing TFA isn't accurate about is how ATT and Apple are using their legal powers to retaliate.
Actually I haven't seen any real stories where lwayers were used to intimidate unlockers. George Holtz (GeoHot) even said he wasn't contacted by neither ATT nor Apple.
For all I know, the only case that was mentioned in the media was the one with iphoneunlocking.com that allegedly received a 3am call from some Silicon Valley Law firm in behalf of ATT (A fact that was promptly denied by ATT). What I believe is that iphoneunlocking.com has no unlocking software whatsoever and pulled out that lame excuse to cover up their "free publicity" stunt.
Has anyone heard of any real legal actions with regards to these cases from ATT or Apple?
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You're absolutely right. I should've used "extend" instead of "protect".
Yeah, I'll give you that, I should've used "extend" instead of "protect". I stand by the rest.
The assertion is absolutely correct. DMCA is working fine.
DMCA was designed to protect copyright, and it is protecting it.
The question we should be asking ourselves is whether or not copyright (the way it is righ now) is protecting public interest.
I counted about one and a half minutes before the student was taken by force. What was the time limit, anyway? I think 2 minutes is little time already, let alone less than that. Even though the limit might have been less then the one and a half minutes he used, he clearly asked for 2 minutes, and his request was granted since he was allowed to keep on speaking. If speaking that long was that offensive, why didn't they just cut off the mic? Why didn't they interrupt the student the minute he asked for the 2 minutes? Again, why didn't they cut off the mic, for Christ sake? This sort of thing isn't supposed to be handled by police force. That's why taks usually have a mediator, or at least someone that controls the sound system. Whoever was responsible for coordinating this talk did a really lousy job at least.
"Who will update the updaters?"
Homeopathy follows the Similia Similus Curantur principle ("like cures like"), where you take something that causes a certain illness and dilute this substance in an infinitesimal solution. The resulting solution will possess curative properties against the same illness the original poison causes. The process of producing a homeopathic drug includes diluting the original substance in water and shaking the solution so water molecules interact with this original substance's molecules evenly. The problem everybody has about homeopathy is dilution. Dilution types in homeopathy are labeled by letters and numbers (i.e. C1, C12, C100). For instance, C1 dilution is the so called "mother tincture" diluted 1 in 100 parts water. The mother tincture is by itself a dilution made from the original substance. C2 is C1 diluted in 100 parts of water. C3 is C2 in 100 parts water, and so on. So, doing some math, we can see that C1 will probably get 1/100 of the "mother tincture". C2 will get 1/100 from C1, and so on. The rest is water. This yields the following fomula:
Cn = C(n-1) / 100
If we expand that to create a relationship to the source "mother tincture" (MT), we'll have:
Cn = MT / (100^n)
Using a dilution above C100 is a very common practice in homeopathy, actually it's possible to have even higher dilutions (i.e. C200). So, based on the formula, we would have this for C100:
C100 = MT / (100^100) = MT / (10^2)^100 = MT/10^200
I think we all remember Avogadro's number, which is the number of molecules in one mole. That number is approximately 6.02*10^23
As we can see in the calculations, in C100, MT gets divided in more the 10^200 parts, which is way bigger than the Avogrado's number. So, in an utlimate analysis, C100 contains only water, nothing else. Even in face of this, it is homeopathy's contend that a homeopathic drug in C100 will possess curative properties. Some people listen to this as "water cures", and that's the problem. Yet, thousands successful cases of homeopathy use have been reported around the globe, and I am also talking about veterinary homeopathy (which dismisses many of the placebo arguments).
The fact is that there is convincing evidence that the therapy works, but nobody knows exactly how. We are only beginning to understand some pretty astonishing facts about our world with new discoveries in physics and chemistry, things that would be considered crazy before, and yet some dismiss the possibility that water may be changed in a way that makes it have unusual and beneficial effects over our health.
BTW, anyone care to explain to me how the hell Sulfasalazine (SULFA) works as an anti-inflammatory? I guess that should be fairly easy since everybody is using it these days.
...the newest French diet!
Most likely Google just wants to expand Google Moon the way it did with Google Maps [google.com] when they added the Street View [google.com] feature. Since Google couldn't find any company up to the task they came up with this lame excuse just to hide the fact that they've opened up a public bid for the outsourcing of Google Moon's "Crater View" feature. Some anonymous coward wrote:
I seriously hope that you are joking. You're saying that Google is spending 30 million dollars in order to get a view mediocre pictures of the moon for the future "Crater View" feature. Why would Google need to make a prize to get a few extra pictures of the moon when NASA has provided us with enough of them to build up a fairly accurate image of the various land structures. Damn, I'm bad with jokes! I thought this one over and over so the sarcasm would be neat, and in the end I get people thinking I really meant that. Damn!!!
Most people have no idea that right exists.
Actually, most people don't have copyrights over the material that gets pulled off.
Most likely Google just wants to expand Google Moon the way it did with Google Maps when they added the Street View feature. Since Google couldn't find any company up to the task they came up with this lame excuse just to hide the fact that they've opened up a public bid for the outsourcing of Google Moon's "Crater View" feature.
Ok, I must admit, you're right about what TFA says. But the problem is what it doesn't say. Tell me, if you can tie together anonymous posts based on the the way they were written, what stops the same system from tying anonymous posts and non-anonymous posts together? Also, what would be the ultimate reason for tying up anonymous posts anyway? I'm sure it's not just to understand the migratory patterns of extremists posts throughout the web.
The underlying principle behind CAPTCHAs can be used to defeat this system.
In a CAPTCHA, information is encoded in a medium that is only understandable by humans. Machines would be unable to intercept a message encoded as a CAPTCHA. This way, nothing could be collected.
A simplified example of that would be displaying the contents a forum post/thread as a rendered image instead of plain text. Of course the idea can be improved a lot, but that's the basic principle.
An anonymity wise forum software can be easily created with that in mind. If the idea spreads, there will be nothing left for the "dark spider".
Even if the CAPTCHA model is badly designed or breaks in a way that allows the "dark spider" to extract the text though some AI technique, the extraction alone would make the whole "dark web" unfeasible due to the massive computational resources that would be required (i.e. millions of pages to decode).
Also, natural language obfuscation techniques could be applied so the software is unable to pinpoint the specific pattern that ties anonymous posts to non-anonymous posts. This way, even if the spider beats the CAPTCHA model, it would still be unable to identify the anonymous poster.
Well, my conclusion is someone that is willing to spend considerable money and resources to remain anonymous (i.e. terrorists) will still be able to remain anonymous. The problem is that the average user might not have the same luck. Who would've thought!
Simple solution:
Just render everything (content + adds) as a single JPEG image or a flash video and stop whinnying for Christ's sake!
Fine! So let's assume you buy the same songs from Apple. iTunes charges 0.99 per song, so the math would be 99 cents per song, 40,000 songs, something around 20 grants for everything (and without taxes!). Are you willing to pay that much, then? Is that what you're saying?
P.S.: haven't read your title. :P
Going to the right place, looking the right direction, dressing the right way, using the right perfume, having the right car, saying the right word, asking the right question. There are so many things that are barriers for the first contact and get irrelevant along the relationship. Some times I wonder how many lonely people out there might have missed the chance to meet someone that was also lonely (and willing to get together) simply because they both didn't have the right tools. The likelihood of that happening just amazes me.
You got almost everything right. The only misconception is that those Apps don't have decent GUI. You probably don't know them, or just know a few. There are really great Apps out there, with clever GUI and pretty cool features. One that I'm really enjoying is iPhone Dock. Really cool.
If I wanna buy a new iPhone, should I wait until Christmas for prices to drop?
Well, feeling ripped off is a kinda weird feeling, I wouldn't know how to put it in words. But when I buy tech stuff I usually think in terms of marketing value, or how much can I get if I wanna re-sell it. In this sense, there's a market dynamic that clearly was disrespected by apple. That prices wouldn't go down any time soon. I don't mind about price drops, but this one was just too soon. And I can't avoid thinking this was a well planned well calculated move. It's not like "wait until thanksgiving to buy the phone and it will be cheaper".
I was a little pissed the other post, and probably not with my best judgment, but I still think this price drop is not the same thing as a regular price drop. And believe I've gone through a lot of price drops.
And as for the whinnying, I'm really sorry for those that are not able to realize that consumers have a little power and accept every move from corporations without questioning it.
About the toaster, would you happen to have a spare? That's because since my phone is also a toaster I have given my old toaster away (talk about convergence). I even tried to use the phone, but for my surprise the damn thing is watter proof as well!
You realize there are 3rd party applications for the iPhone (and thus for ipod touch) already, right? They are no exactly supported by Apple, but they work just fine. Take a look: http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/
I own an iPhone, and this whole change of prices for the iPhone because of the new iPod just makes me feel like I was ripped off. Is that even legal? I mean, one of the main things we are buying when we buy stuff like that (the latest cool phone) is the notion that prices are remain the same for a while. I bought the phone a month ago and I feel tricked by Apple. I wouldn't mind signing up for class action suit against Apple. Who is with me?
Copylet being torn apart by Tivolization and hypervisors... hmmm.... That only shows the many ways to hack the hacker's copyright hack! Everything can be hacked!
One thing TFA isn't accurate about is how ATT and Apple are using their legal powers to retaliate.
Actually I haven't seen any real stories where lwayers were used to intimidate unlockers. George Holtz (GeoHot) even said he wasn't contacted by neither ATT nor Apple.
For all I know, the only case that was mentioned in the media was the one with iphoneunlocking.com that allegedly received a 3am call from some Silicon Valley Law firm in behalf of ATT (A fact that was promptly denied by ATT). What I believe is that iphoneunlocking.com has no unlocking software whatsoever and pulled out that lame excuse to cover up their "free publicity" stunt. Has anyone heard of any real legal actions with regards to these cases from ATT or Apple?