Well, the truth is that ThePirateBay never did copy other people's work, it was the people seeding and leeching the torrent that did so, and broke the law, even in Sweden.
That is the essence in this case, thepiratebay folks are only maintaining a site which indexes and presents user content (ie torrents), no where along the line do they infringe on someone's copyright. The scary part is that you can easily draw parallels, and perhaps eventually cite precedence, from thepiratebay to for example google or even ISPs, as they both contribute to illegal downloads. The latter will likely be the next group up for court, which is already happening in Denmark and Norway.
Note, my above post is about symmetric cryptography, not asymmetric cryptography. When it comes to asymmetric (public key) cryptography, which relies on computationally difficult problems such as prime factoring, quantum computing has a lot more potential. Factoring a prime number in O(log n^3) (Shor's algorithm) is an enormous improvement and would be devastating for traditional public key cryptography. Of course, we'd still have quantum cryptography.
In theory, quantum computers would allow hackers to crack today's toughest coded messages.
That's an overstatement. A quantum computer will not suddendly magically crack the strongest codes. Yes, certain algorithms designed for quantum computers, like Grover's algorithm, will reduce the time needed to find the key of a symmetrical cipher with about half the number of bits in the key. However, given for example a 256-bit key you would still have ~2^128 keys to check and afaik 2^128 still takes quite sometime to crack....
From TFA: Why it's the best "Celebration galas at this online loan company are star-studded: Kid Rock performed at the 2006 holiday gala and The Black Eyed Peas were featured performers at the company's 20th anniversary party."
Judging by that line-up of artists I wouldn't even want to work in an adjacent area!
To quote Futurama: Stephen Hawking: "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?"
Sure 70 years ago landing on the moon was ridiculous, sure, even suggesting that continents moved 70 years ago was ridiculous. Today space-travel to other solar systems seems as ridiculous, but I think history has shown that what we deem impossible today, based on our current view of the universe, is often possible tomorrow.
I'll stick to the cliché, the only thing predictable about the future is that it is unpredictable.
Anyone remember Cutie McWhiskers from the episode mother's day? That was a giant teddy bear with lasers for eyes. Wonder if that will be their next bear-project:).
Perhaps you should invest in a new addition of your law books.
1. The recently revised "åndsverklov" strictly prohibits the downloading of copyrighted material under most circumstances. 2. You are allowed to break the copy protection if the media is not playable on relevant equipment, but in general it's not permitted.
Quoting Åndsverksloven 53a: Det er forbudt å omgå effektive tekniske beskyttelsessystemer som rettighetshaver eller den han har gitt samtykke benytter for å kontrollere eksemplarfremstilling eller tilgjengeliggjøring for allmennheten av et vernet verk.
Det er videre forbudt å: a) selge, leie ut eller på annen måte distribuere, b) produsere eller innføre for distribusjon til allmennheten, c) reklamere for salg eller utleie av, d) besitte for ervervsmessige formål, eller e) tilby tjenester i tilknytning til
innretninger, produkter eller komponenter som frembys med det formål å omgå effektive tekniske beskyttelsessystemer, eller som kun har begrenset ervervsmessig nytte for annet enn slikt formål, eller som i hovedsak er utviklet for å muliggjøre eller forenkle slik omgåelse.
Bestemmelsen i denne paragraf skal ikke være til hinder for forskning i kryptologi. Bestemmelsen i første ledd skal heller ikke være til hinder for privat brukers tilegnelse av lovlig anskaffet verk på det som i alminnelighet oppfattes som relevant avspillingsutstyr. For tekniske innretninger til beskyttelse av et datamaskinprogram gjelder i stedet det som er bestemt i 53c.
Bestemmelsene i første ledd skal ikke være til hinder for eksemplarfremstilling etter 16.
How is it possible to create a list of the most important people in technology throughout history and _not_ include Shannon. Jeez, the guy is the father of information theory and digital circuit design!
This is obviously great news for companies willing to have an open source driver, but not willing to pay for its development or to release specifications. Sadly, I don't think this will help certain companies, like NVidia and ATI, whos drivers contain third-party proprietary pieces, which they don't want out in the open, or?
Of course, any initiative that may result in more well written drivers for Linux is a great and welcomed one!
They've obviously been around Unix-versioning numbers for too long, where version 0.11 is greater than version 0.2 and version 0.50 is greater than 0.5.
Not to mention that 3DES doesn't actually use three keys, but only two. The way it works is that you encrypt with the first key, decrypt with the second key and the encrypt again with the first key. And the 8 parity bits do not add any security and are thus not counted, so no matter how you stretch it, 3DES only has 112bit keys (2x56).
I hope there are some restrictions on the way a unit looks. God knows I'd be pissed off if I saw a foreign settler next to one of my cities, but in actuality it was a disguised knight.
I actually agree. I stopped using KDE after 1.0 and started using window managers such as windowmaker, afterstep, etc.
The only thing with kde 1.0 that I really disliked was the themes. For some odd reason kde.themes.org was filled with horrible yellow/green on black themes. You couldn't find a sensible theme in the bunch at all! Thankfully focus today is not only on functionality, but also on appearence. And now that Linux has a larger audience we actually have some people with talent when it comes to graphical design.
Too bad we can't say the same thing about their TV-streaming. It's actually quite strange that the goverment talks about open standards, but when asked to supply the webstreams in an open format they refused, sticking with a Microsoft format: Reply from goverment on this issue.
Of course, nobody really expects much from our culture minister Valgerd... Currently holding the rank of our countries most unpopular minister.
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Well, the truth is that ThePirateBay never did copy other people's work, it was the people seeding and leeching the torrent that did so, and broke the law, even in Sweden.
That is the essence in this case, thepiratebay folks are only maintaining a site which indexes and presents user content (ie torrents), no where along the line do they infringe on someone's copyright. The scary part is that you can easily draw parallels, and perhaps eventually cite precedence, from thepiratebay to for example google or even ISPs, as they both contribute to illegal downloads. The latter will likely be the next group up for court, which is already happening in Denmark and Norway.
Actually hidings choices/features can be a smart thing to do sometimes. Although not directly about GUI design, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200 is an extremely interesting video about the paradox of choice.
Oh, and a new copy (dupe) of some random email every second day!
Note, my above post is about symmetric cryptography, not asymmetric cryptography. When it comes to asymmetric (public key) cryptography, which relies on computationally difficult problems such as prime factoring, quantum computing has a lot more potential. Factoring a prime number in O(log n^3) (Shor's algorithm) is an enormous improvement and would be devastating for traditional public key cryptography. Of course, we'd still have quantum cryptography.
In theory, quantum computers would allow hackers to crack today's toughest coded messages.
That's an overstatement. A quantum computer will not suddendly magically crack the strongest codes. Yes, certain algorithms designed for quantum computers, like Grover's algorithm, will reduce the time needed to find the key of a symmetrical cipher with about half the number of bits in the key. However, given for example a 256-bit key you would still have ~2^128 keys to check and afaik 2^128 still takes quite sometime to crack....
From TFA:
Why it's the best
"Celebration galas at this online loan company are star-studded: Kid Rock performed at the 2006 holiday gala and The Black Eyed Peas were featured performers at the company's 20th anniversary party."
Judging by that line-up of artists I wouldn't even want to work in an adjacent area!
To quote Futurama:
Stephen Hawking: "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?"
Sure 70 years ago landing on the moon was ridiculous, sure, even suggesting that continents moved 70 years ago was ridiculous. Today space-travel to other solar systems seems as ridiculous, but I think history has shown that what we deem impossible today, based on our current view of the universe, is often possible tomorrow.
I'll stick to the cliché, the only thing predictable about the future is that it is unpredictable.
Anyone remember Cutie McWhiskers from the episode mother's day? That was a giant teddy bear with lasers for eyes. Wonder if that will be their next bear-project :).
Ah yes, the September that never ended (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
In case anybody is in need of an English translation of the current Norwegian copyright law: http://www.ub.uio.no/ujur/ulovdata/lov-19610512-00 2-eng.pdf
Perhaps you should invest in a new addition of your law books.
1. The recently revised "åndsverklov" strictly prohibits the downloading of copyrighted material under most circumstances.
2. You are allowed to break the copy protection if the media is not playable on relevant equipment, but in general it's not permitted.
Quoting Åndsverksloven 53a:
Det er forbudt å omgå effektive tekniske beskyttelsessystemer som rettighetshaver eller den han har gitt samtykke benytter for å kontrollere eksemplarfremstilling eller tilgjengeliggjøring for allmennheten av et vernet verk.
Det er videre forbudt å:
a) selge, leie ut eller på annen måte distribuere,
b) produsere eller innføre for distribusjon til allmennheten,
c) reklamere for salg eller utleie av,
d) besitte for ervervsmessige formål, eller
e) tilby tjenester i tilknytning til
innretninger, produkter eller komponenter som frembys med det formål å omgå effektive tekniske beskyttelsessystemer, eller som kun har begrenset ervervsmessig nytte for annet enn slikt formål, eller som i hovedsak er utviklet for å muliggjøre eller forenkle slik omgåelse.
Bestemmelsen i denne paragraf skal ikke være til hinder for forskning i kryptologi. Bestemmelsen i første ledd skal heller ikke være til hinder for privat brukers tilegnelse av lovlig anskaffet verk på det som i alminnelighet oppfattes som relevant avspillingsutstyr. For tekniske innretninger til beskyttelse av et datamaskinprogram gjelder i stedet det som er bestemt i 53c.
Bestemmelsene i første ledd skal ikke være til hinder for eksemplarfremstilling etter 16.
How is it possible to create a list of the most important people in technology throughout history and _not_ include Shannon. Jeez, the guy is the father of information theory and digital circuit design!
This is obviously great news for companies willing to have an open source driver, but not willing to pay for its development or to release specifications. Sadly, I don't think this will help certain companies, like NVidia and ATI, whos drivers contain third-party proprietary pieces, which they don't want out in the open, or?
Of course, any initiative that may result in more well written drivers for Linux is a great and welcomed one!
They've obviously been around Unix-versioning numbers for too long, where version 0.11 is greater than version 0.2 and version 0.50 is greater than 0.5.
I'm still working on assexual reproduction, divide, mmmrmm Divide damn it!
Your link is broken, you meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_gas_tragedy without the trailing slash.
Not to mention that 3DES doesn't actually use three keys, but only two. The way it works is that you encrypt with the first key, decrypt with the second key and the encrypt again with the first key. And the 8 parity bits do not add any security and are thus not counted, so no matter how you stretch it, 3DES only has 112bit keys (2x56).
Pssst, like the NSA doesn't have quantum computers behind that triple fence that can brute force 256bit keys in an instant.
Now, shut up and help me find my tinfoil hat.
I hope there are some restrictions on the way a unit looks. God knows I'd be pissed off if I saw a foreign settler next to one of my cities, but in actuality it was a disguised knight.
I actually agree. I stopped using KDE after 1.0 and started using window managers such as windowmaker, afterstep, etc.
The only thing with kde 1.0 that I really disliked was the themes. For some odd reason kde.themes.org was filled with horrible yellow/green on black themes. You couldn't find a sensible theme in the bunch at all! Thankfully focus today is not only on functionality, but also on appearence. And now that Linux has a larger audience we actually have some people with talent when it comes to graphical design.
Too bad we can't say the same thing about their TV-streaming. It's actually quite strange that the goverment talks about open standards, but when asked to supply the webstreams in an open format they refused, sticking with a Microsoft format: Reply from goverment on this issue.
Of course, nobody really expects much from our culture minister Valgerd... Currently holding the rank of our countries most unpopular minister.
Shinier than yours, meatbag!
Q: What is the difference between a dead dog and a dead lawyer in the road.
A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.
Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server.
Hmm, am I the only one that thinks of X-mas when reading that line?.