The GoF wrote a terse and succinct technical manual. Most books don't contain such a density of concepts and information. There's not really enough examples given to make it all click together, so additional reading would be good. All of the books you recommend are excellent. I'd advise reading them alongside GoF though, not before. Additionally, find some code, real world implementations beat book examples any day.
Except, the same applies to the US. You have slander laws that inhibit free speech. National security laws, public safety laws, protection orders, fraud laws, perjury laws, disorderly conduct laws etc. At least with this it is defined clearly and articulately, if still somewhat open to interpretation.
I don't think anyones cracked 'Open Magic Gate', Sony's ATRAC3 DRM scheme/D&D spell. Please, feel free to correct me, with detailed descriptions and links if you don't mind.
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You bring up some good points but left out one minor detail.
What better way to equate piracy with stealing than to slap a big lock on it?
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Even given the proper tools, it's a major pain in the arse for Joe Blow to decrypt CSS for example. The average consumer has trouble burning a data CD, let alone decrypting and copying DRMd content. It doesn't stop him downloading the divx torrent though, so I guess the bank vault is open even if just a fraction actually do the crack.
Fundamentally, you're spot on. It is a hell of a lot worse than bank vault security. You can't have the party it's secured against also the one it decrypts for. It just makes no sense! All DRM is crackable by definition, they know this, they just want to make it as much of a hassle as possible.
From what I gather the answer is no. There are alternatives to those two products, but that's a different kettle of fish. Here's some OO.o compatible alternatives if you're game to try and replace the whole lot.
1 cubic centimetre of seawater at sealevel weighs 1 gram. It takes 1 joule of energy to raise 1 cubic centimeter of dry air 1 degree C. To see the improvements, convert this statement to inches, pounds, and Fahrenheit.
He shared with the journalists that according to the American National Education Association every year near 6,000 young Americans kill themselves under the influence of music like that.
While the rest kill themselves on a diet of Top 40, easy listening and country music. Help reduce suicide today, buy a child some heavy metal albums!
Time Warner - $3,780,000
CBS Corp - $5,440,000
News Corp - $3,420,000
Recording Industry Assn of America - $1,501,400
Motion Picture Assn of America - $1,800,000
Broadcast Music Inc - $1,360,000
Viacom Inc - $1,475,000
Sony BMG Music Entertainment - $720,000
Sony Corp of America -$320,000
Sony Electronics - $445,000
Sony Pictures Entertainment - $400,000
etc.etc.
Total For TV/Movies/Music: $72,433,974
And that's just lobbyists in 2006. I'd stick to writing letters and getting ignored rather than forking out cash and getting ignored.
Or, perhaps they could stop wasting your money on bridges to nowhere and provide prisons, schools and hospitals with those funds. No 'fuzzy socialistic blanket' required.
I refer you to the parent post, henceforth known as 'Exhibit A'. Here the defendants claims prior art on their back porch, but it clear this information only became public knowledge a whole entire four minutes after the plaintiffs initial patent deceleration. I move that 'Exhibit A' be struck from the record and summarily dismissed.
Where's your responsibility to fairly and honestly honour your contract of employment? You can't ethically or morally pocket company funds and expect your employers not to want to set things right. If they underpaid you $1000, I'd bet you'd want to set things right.
Regardless of anything else, this bank is monumentally stupid. By graciously admitting error and fixing their foolish mistake, they could have generated goodwill. At this rate, expect them to lose all these customers, a good chunk of their relatives, friends and casual acquaintances, and everyone else who hears about this through newspaper, radio, tv, internet etc.
They're not selling me a debt if I'm accessing my savings account. In that case, I've pre-purchased credit from them, given them my money so they can invest it and return a fraction of the profit as interest, while I pay fees allowing for convenient access to my funds. I am the customer of the bank, purchasing access to my credit with my fees. The ATM is just me completing that transaction with the bank. They are still the service provider, I am still the customer.
You're lucky they corrected it. I've went through months of trials trying to get a series of mischarges dropped before ditching that bank. The total was less than $80, yet they would prefer to lose a decade long customer over trivial amounts than correct an obvious error.
I have seen a grand total of 1 machine that also put out $10 notes, pity it's gone now though. For some reason I really liked being able to get $10 and $30 amounts.
How dare the evil corporations tell us what to do when they erroneously give us money that isn't ours! How dare they demand to take back what they created! It's a pity we live in a society where anyone can become an entrepreneur, start up a company and reap the rewards of its success.
You want to get more than your fixed wage? Earn it, don't cheat it.
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Naturally, Microsoft proposed it.
So, they wrote a book about how many templates are there in Dreamweaver.. what the hell does that have to do with programming, GoF or design patterns?
The GoF wrote a terse and succinct technical manual. Most books don't contain such a density of concepts and information. There's not really enough examples given to make it all click together, so additional reading would be good. All of the books you recommend are excellent. I'd advise reading them alongside GoF though, not before. Additionally, find some code, real world implementations beat book examples any day.
Except, the same applies to the US. You have slander laws that inhibit free speech. National security laws, public safety laws, protection orders, fraud laws, perjury laws, disorderly conduct laws etc. At least with this it is defined clearly and articulately, if still somewhat open to interpretation.
I don't think anyones cracked 'Open Magic Gate', Sony's ATRAC3 DRM scheme/D&D spell. Please, feel free to correct me, with detailed descriptions and links if you don't mind.
Does she have a sister?
What better way to equate piracy with stealing than to slap a big lock on it?
Fundamentally, you're spot on. It is a hell of a lot worse than bank vault security. You can't have the party it's secured against also the one it decrypts for. It just makes no sense! All DRM is crackable by definition, they know this, they just want to make it as much of a hassle as possible.
From what I gather the answer is no. There are alternatives to those two products, but that's a different kettle of fish. Here's some OO.o compatible alternatives if you're game to try and replace the whole lot.
1 cubic centimetre of seawater at sealevel weighs 1 gram. It takes 1 joule of energy to raise 1 cubic centimeter of dry air 1 degree C. To see the improvements, convert this statement to inches, pounds, and Fahrenheit.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
While the rest kill themselves on a diet of Top 40, easy listening and country music. Help reduce suicide today, buy a child some heavy metal albums!
Here's a sneak peek
You should team up with the timecube guy, then your robots could work 96 hours a day!
Time Warner - $3,780,000
CBS Corp - $5,440,000
News Corp - $3,420,000
Recording Industry Assn of America - $1,501,400
Motion Picture Assn of America - $1,800,000
Broadcast Music Inc - $1,360,000
Viacom Inc - $1,475,000
Sony BMG Music Entertainment - $720,000
Sony Corp of America -$320,000
Sony Electronics - $445,000
Sony Pictures Entertainment - $400,000
etc.etc.
Total For TV/Movies/Music: $72,433,974
And that's just lobbyists in 2006. I'd stick to writing letters and getting ignored rather than forking out cash and getting ignored.
Or, perhaps they could stop wasting your money on bridges to nowhere and provide prisons, schools and hospitals with those funds. No 'fuzzy socialistic blanket' required.
I refer you to the parent post, henceforth known as 'Exhibit A'. Here the defendants claims prior art on their back porch, but it clear this information only became public knowledge a whole entire four minutes after the plaintiffs initial patent deceleration. I move that 'Exhibit A' be struck from the record and summarily dismissed.
Where's your responsibility to fairly and honestly honour your contract of employment? You can't ethically or morally pocket company funds and expect your employers not to want to set things right. If they underpaid you $1000, I'd bet you'd want to set things right.
So it's not 'Here's the tubes pipe'?
Regardless of anything else, this bank is monumentally stupid. By graciously admitting error and fixing their foolish mistake, they could have generated goodwill. At this rate, expect them to lose all these customers, a good chunk of their relatives, friends and casual acquaintances, and everyone else who hears about this through newspaper, radio, tv, internet etc.
They're not selling me a debt if I'm accessing my savings account. In that case, I've pre-purchased credit from them, given them my money so they can invest it and return a fraction of the profit as interest, while I pay fees allowing for convenient access to my funds. I am the customer of the bank, purchasing access to my credit with my fees. The ATM is just me completing that transaction with the bank. They are still the service provider, I am still the customer.
That's not an exploit, that's a feature!
You're lucky they corrected it. I've went through months of trials trying to get a series of mischarges dropped before ditching that bank. The total was less than $80, yet they would prefer to lose a decade long customer over trivial amounts than correct an obvious error.
I have seen a grand total of 1 machine that also put out $10 notes, pity it's gone now though. For some reason I really liked being able to get $10 and $30 amounts.
You want to get more than your fixed wage? Earn it, don't cheat it.