It won't fly, for a very simple reason: "Content producers" will not be able to make as much money as if they sold one cartridge to everyone who borrows one.
Since it's been "advertised" on Slashdot, most crackers know it, and they won't bother with it. So, nobody will know if the honeypot is genuinely bogus...
Hmph, sounds like sour grapes to me. Don't feel too bad though, I wish
it was me up there, too.
I wished that, too, until the husband of a friend's sister became an astro-nut.
I never had expected that someone educated enough to make it up there would
be such a goddammed asshole.
But seriously, why bother with space at all then? Either people will be
living and working in that environment, in which case we need to develop the
technology to cope with that environment as well as familliarity with that
envronment, or people won't be living/working in that envronment, in which
case, why bother with it at all?
We should bother, yes, but until we have cheap surface-to-orbit transport,
we better not waste what little capability lifting up expensive and bulky life-support
systems.
With missions that are as important and as expensive as the repair, maintenance,
etc, redundancy is a high priority. If these robots were operated from the
ground and failed, it could takes months before astronauts could come fix
the problem themselves.
Not really. Reduntancy would be much cheaper with robots than with astronauts;
and since you won't need the same safety precautions with teleprecense robots
than with humans, you could very well get as much as 5 times the capacity as
with humans, this with full reduntancy.
You may have a point initially, but in the long run the main reason to go to space is exactly that: space. The earth is, after all, only so large.
You are perfectly correct; my remark goes strictly for low earth orbit operations; further up, the lag would be intolerable, so a human presence there would definitely be needed.
Indeed, we have to move out, sooner or later. However, it is unreasonable to do so unless we have reliable cheap (by a factor of 40 to 100) surfact-to-orbit transportation. Until then, the cost of lofting people up should be used far more wisely; telepresence is one such way of doing so.
Then why bother with astro-nuts at all? The weight of that life-support system hurled into orbit would mean so much extra capability in orbit!
In close earth orbit, the transmission lag time could stay tolerable; nothing proper training shouln't be able to fix. (The russians only used people with no driving experience to control their remote-controlled Lunokhod roving lunar probes, so they would not get hindered by earthly reflexes...)
And ground tele-workers could work in shifts so the action would occur 24/4, instead of being shut down for several hours every day.
The space shuttle is nothing but a tin-can jallopy to inflate the egoes of a picked few space/science-jocks.
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Look, with the trillion dollar tax cut, and plans for smaller government, what people seem to forget, even with smaller government, you'll still have a country filled with idiots unless you educate the masses on how to use this technology.
Can't you see that the bourgeois, who are more and more ruling this world, have no use for smart people? All the bourgeois need is a horde of obedient, dull servants to crank-out the wares they become rich by selling them to a hord of obedient, dull consumers who buy the stuff without question?
Of course, this is a blatantly short-term scheme, but can you blame the stupid bourgeois for not being able to think for the long-term general good of Society? After all, the bourgeois have but selfish impulses.
If I go up to a soda-machine owner and say, This machine gives
out free Cokes, then press a button and watch a Coke drop, should
I expect to go to jail?? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I would expect the soda-machine
owner to be grateful that someone pointed out the flaw, so that it could be
fixed.
At least, you ougha keep the Coke...
But, nowadays, you'd be perhaps labelled as a terrorist.
"I don't want to go to jail," said Edelman, who graduated from Harvard in June, and who plans to study law there this fall. "I want to go to law school."
I wish I were present at Dmitri Sklyarov's presentation at Defcon. When
the Fed came up to arrest him, we should have come up on stage and said, If
you take him, you'll need to arrest me too, similar to Ghandi's or MLK's
passive resistance.
You'd have been arrested, indeed, but charged for obstructing a police officer...
The USA is both. "Democracy" and "Republic" are not
opposites.
Democracy:
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power
is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected
agents under a free electoral system.
a state having such a form of government: The United States of America
and Canada are democracies.
a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
political or social equality; democratic spirit.
the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class;
the common people with respect to their political power.
Republic:
a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled
to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly
by them.
any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary
head of state.
(cap.) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Cf. First
Republic, Second Republic, Third Republic, Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic.
(cap., italics.) a philosophical dialogue (4th centuryb.c.) by Plato dealing
with the composition and structure of the ideal state.
You can have undemocratic republics as well as democratic ones (Irak, Iran,
Lybia, Koreas, China, Cuba); likewise, democracies don't have to be republics
either (Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, Sweden)
To my knowledge, a number of DVD players can be made region-free by entering codes with the remote control - although this is never publicised by the manufacturers, because it'd land them in trouble: they'd be the ones breaking the law, not the end users
There is no law, anywhere in the world (including the US), which states that multi-region DVD players are illegal.
However, there is a DVD-CCA LICENSE which says so. But that is only a civil matter between the DVD-CCA and the licensees.
This whole matter of DVD region encoding becomes absurd when you really look at it. Hacking a DVD player to be multi-region is illegal, according to DMCA.
Nowhere does the DMCA says thou shalt not play a british DVD in thy DVD player. The DVD-CCA says so in it's license, but the purchasers of multi-region DVDs certainly aren't bound by the license itself.
He will not be arrested for breaking the DMCA, since region-breaking is not circumventing a copyright-protection device, especially if he owns the british license to whatever flick he's gonna show.
Perhaps he could get in trouble for either
Having a public performance of the movie he'll be showing (verboten under consumer movie licensing).
Breaking the terms of the DVD-CCA license.
Importing a non DVD-CCA compliant DVD player.
All this, perhaps, but most probably not for breaking the DMCA.
A friend of mine found a lawyer willing to help him with defense against an ITAR violation. (Read: Exporting strong encryption before the government eased up on regulations.) He then implemented RSA on his HP48 calculator. Calculator is now a munition. Justin lived in San Diego, so drove down to Tijuana. In the process of crossing the border, he carefully explained to the border guard/customs officer the exact manner in which he was breaking the law and should be arrested. Customs officer basically told him to fuck off, leave him alone, and go do his business in Tijuana.
Like if a customs officer at Tijuana had nothing else to worry about...
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It won't fly, for a very simple reason: "Content producers" will not be able to make as much money as if they sold one cartridge to everyone who borrows one.
Since it's been "advertised" on Slashdot, most crackers know it, and they won't bother with it. So, nobody will know if the honeypot is genuinely bogus...
Indeed, we have to move out, sooner or later. However, it is unreasonable to do so unless we have reliable cheap (by a factor of 40 to 100) surfact-to-orbit transportation. Until then, the cost of lofting people up should be used far more wisely; telepresence is one such way of doing so.
In close earth orbit, the transmission lag time could stay tolerable; nothing proper training shouln't be able to fix. (The russians only used people with no driving experience to control their remote-controlled Lunokhod roving lunar probes, so they would not get hindered by earthly reflexes...)
And ground tele-workers could work in shifts so the action would occur 24/4, instead of being shut down for several hours every day.
The space shuttle is nothing but a tin-can jallopy to inflate the egoes of a picked few space/science-jocks.
Of course, this is a blatantly short-term scheme, but can you blame the stupid bourgeois for not being able to think for the long-term general good of Society? After all, the bourgeois have but selfish impulses.
Once more, again, it's Microsoft's fault...
At least, you ougha keep the Coke...
But, nowadays, you'd be perhaps labelled as a terrorist.
I thought for a moment it was SpaMfford Wallace...
(A lot of "secondary" printer manufacturers use CANON print mechanisms/cartridges)
Poor HP is pouting, now.
The USA is both. " Democracy " and " Republic " are not opposites.
Democracy:
Republic:
- a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled
to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly
by them.
- any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
- a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary
head of state.
- (cap.) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Cf. First
Republic, Second Republic, Third Republic, Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic.
- (cap., italics.) a philosophical dialogue (4th centuryb.c.) by Plato dealing
with the composition and structure of the ideal state.
You can have undemocratic republics as well as democratic ones (Irak, Iran, Lybia, Koreas, China, Cuba); likewise, democracies don't have to be republics either (Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, Sweden)However, there is a DVD-CCA LICENSE which says so. But that is only a civil matter between the DVD-CCA and the licensees.
Perhaps he could get in trouble for either
- Having a public performance of the movie he'll be showing (verboten under consumer movie licensing).
- Breaking the terms of the DVD-CCA license.
- Importing a non DVD-CCA compliant DVD player.
All this, perhaps, but most probably not for breaking the DMCA.