Can't think of a better reason to try Linux or Mac.
I do have one. It is called Norton Internet Security and it comes preinstalled on most branded computers: After 30 trial days you get the message "You have to pay or else we will not protect you anymore" (IMHExperience not that they did really in the first place...)
Sorry if I look like trolling. This is a brilliant example: Two policemen were hijacked from their work (arresting criminals) to serve corporation's interests. Additional time will be wasted by a judge and money thrown into attorneys fees.
IMHO this is detriment to public security and a waste of taxpayers money. A decent society would not keep this happening.
The US patent system is not the best in the world because there can't be one. As soon you accept the idea of protectiong ideas you promote the economically implicit concept of scarcity of resource and various forms of implementation that are economically inefficient (monopolies and such).
On slashdot people discusses about software patents knowing that they apply the most to high technology and computer science. Unfortunately they apply also to other things including medicine (drugs).
Do not forget what happened a short while ago in Brazil when the president was criticised for an allerged violation of a patent. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18490388/
My S6000FD camera face recognition works fairly well, recognizes the faces of: 1) real people 2) faces on poster 3) even paintings of faces. So I could just go to the ATM, show a natural size picture of the face of the card owner and the trick would be done. It would be nice to have a count of false positives of this website for a demostration: http://www.polarrose.com/
I've been working for a brief time in a society dealing with security measures. I clearly remember the issue with fingerfrint readers in third world countries where the thieves used to cut the finger from the victim (we were selling a sensor that also measured temperature and heartbeat). Biometrics are generally a very bad idea.
Thanx I had help finding those sites in Google! Maybe they don't get the attenction they deserve maybe I am not really good at searching. There is also this one http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/
750$ per infringment is ridicolous by any standard except when you consider the amount of money that has been spent to "lobby" this law. So please mod the parent as "informative" as this is the real issue behind the question.
Eventually you are missing the point. KisMac is a tool that can discover APs and Point to Point wireless network, Crack WEP, Crack WAP (given a dictionary) and make Injection Attacks with selected hardware (prism cards mostly). So it's just not a purely listening software neither limited to only apple basestations (Airport).
So long the problem is that Germany choose to make illegal tampering with telecomunications, which could be good, but eventually forgot to leave a exception of fair use for research pourposes which is not good.
I am not very scared. We have a telecommunication law here (italy) that states that electronic communications can be relayed by a third server but not eversdropped or altered. If something like a ISP would be inserting commercials inside a page served by someone else then it would be infringing the law. IANAL and don't know much about the US Law but a consumer group would take a couple of minute to file a winning sue: It's like a postman opening the letters and inserting leafleets inside... wouldn't that be illegal in the US?
You seem to ignore that for 99% of musicians guitar, basses and drums are a HOBBY rather than a career. But for those who see it as such then comes the confrontation with something worse than a undetermined instable salary: The monopolistic experience.
I guess that if it is happening we're gonna see on the box written clearly in cubic letters "PLEASE DONT GO TO THIS ADDRESS TO UPGRADE THE CAMERA BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL". You hit the point! I add another few examples that come from real life.
Italian Limits for 14Y/O motorbikes: A motorbike to be driven by a 14y/o boy has to obej there rules - Cubature Less than 50CC - Less than 5HP - Max speed less than 45Km/h. As we all know anyone riding a bike is hungry power and speed let alone if he's 14 y/o and likes taking unuseful risks. The moped industry adapted promptly => It is usual for those motorbikes to ship with a "diopter" that can be removed by anyone with a little knowledge and a screwdriver - thought the operation is illegal most do it. After the operation you get a screaming monster capable of 80Km/h
Euro3 limits for pollution: These are limits to the quantity of pollution that approved engines can emit. They are classified into classes cubic centimeters. What happens is that if the engine is big enought it can emit more CO2 and still fall into the limits. What was the response of the moped industry?:D => Most mopeds built now have a bigger engine castrated by "firmware" (Electronic injection) that consume and perform as much as the previous model BUT fall into the new standard imposed by the eurocrats. Since the engine is more capable there there always been keen people able to trick it for a price (also stands true for BMW limitators on bigger cars).
In Italy it is forbidden for anybody to monitor internet trafic. This is stated in a recent article by the national press agency ANSA that I gladly translate for the slashdot readers:
ROMA, 18 LUG - An italian court "ruled illegal for anyone to monitor network trafic". This is as declared by the innovation responsible of the green party, Mr. Cortiana. As announced by the green leader the Giudges approved the points forwarded from the Privacy Authority in the case of Peppermint against Telecom. This is a important ruling, sais Cortiana, because this set a important principle: On the internet it is a (exclusive) duty of law forces and judges to investigate and enforce the law.
The case Peppermin Jam Records VS Telecom originated when the Swiss firm Peppermint used scare tactics like those employed by the RIAA sending 3636 notification letters to Italian Users sharing licensed music on P2P network. Those letters were containing a invitation to deposit a sum of money or face a trial. Telecom initially opposed but was forced to deliver the names. Now the Giudges overturned this previous ruling.
Cortiana also criticises the private firm: "Internet is not a 'nobody's land' where there are no rules and you can apply do-it-yourself laws, also on the internet real world citizenship rights apply" and continues as "business models should adapt and cosider that network sharing is a collective cognitive process"
To blunty summarize most computer users are computer illiterated. They all know how to push the big power button run Norton and get viruses. But to ask them to switch email provider or operate in a safe conscious way is a too difficult taks.
Enrico
P.S. If you are reading slashdot you are part of a minority.
Olive Oil = Mixture of refined oils including olive oil - Treatment might include decolouring - deodoring - precipitating acids - adding colours Extra Virgin Olive Oil = 100% olive oil whith only partial treatment - Infact only filtering is allowed
But I like more greek standars by which every olive oil is "extra virgin" like the italian PLUS they have to state the acidity on the bottle.
You might wonder why acidity is important. Here is a brief explaination: When a mature olive falls it starts decomposing. In the process the fats become acid. Thus olives with a low acidity are those well preserved and processed just at the right time. Oils with hight acidity are usually made from poor grade olives fallen on the ground and then collected with nets or veils to save on manpower.
Besides, "effectively control the legal system" in the context of RUSSIA? That's a legal system in need of MAJOR work. Frankly, I'd rather the RIAA give a helping hand with getting it up to snuff than most of the local talent.
I'd fix it for you:
Besides, "effectively control the moral values" in the context of USA? That's a moral system in need of MAJOR work. Frankly, I'd rather AL QUAEDA give a helping hand with getting it up to snuff than most of the local talent.
You're right. But to me it looks like it's even harder to shrink a Optical Drive or Hard Disk... Maybe the overall shriking will be some quarter of millimeter and the casing will evolve yust like the nano did (aluminium?)
1) By the laws of Murphy you are going to lose them anyway.
2) The idea of the phone-home software is rather old. I use WildPalm's "Phonesecure" since I had a nokia 7650 and it still runs brilliantly on the 6630.
The only almost absolutely effective solution would be to blacklist the IMEI - This way the thieve should unlock, then disable the soft then reprogram the eeprom. The last step is not really easy given the amount of DRM crap that most companies are putting into phones to prevent reverse engineering.
Enrico
Microsoft SAM & OLPC in the video
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Photosynth Demo
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Listening to the voice of the commenter I could'nt help to notice that in some passages it is exacly the same as Microsoft SAM speech engine! Maybe a strange compression artefact (or more unlikely a playback performance:D). Also if you look behind the presenter in some scenes it is visible a green OLPC with the antenna raised! (it is on the left looking from the public)
The original question of the 1:1 digital COPY is a very smart one, since according to its definition theft has to deprive someone of its private property. So I reply to this one you pose as it is fairly easy. The question you pose is wrong: No you can't.
You cant in the first place because there is a specific right for the owner to enjoy the view of his front lawn and secondly you might also damage the grass and thus deprive the value of the lawn. In other words you'd have to be invisible and etheral to do that... or be a playmate, possibly naked, that would grant my permission.
I could go on talking about Jesus Christ and his very criminal succesful attempts to copy wine bread and fishes but I guess that's already been discussed here.
Be careful on this one! This is going to put upside down the notion of "innocent until proven guilty" that is the base of IusRomanum (Diritto Romano or Roman Law foundation). If we reject it and accept the "guilty until proven innocent" approach for these trivial instances then we can expect something similar to those memories of the past: Gestapo, SS, Spanish Inquisition and so on...
Now you can't sell them in shops so it's official. It's just a new kind of semiprivate property, you own the plastic but all the contents belong to RIAA. That's a good point not to buy them in the first place. Let's hope this crazyness is going to teach something to these people.
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I do have one. It is called Norton Internet Security and it comes preinstalled on most branded computers: After 30 trial days you get the message "You have to pay or else we will not protect you anymore"
(IMHExperience not that they did really in the first place...)
Sorry if I look like trolling. This is a brilliant example: Two policemen were hijacked from their work (arresting criminals) to serve corporation's interests. Additional time will be wasted by a judge and money thrown into attorneys fees.
IMHO this is detriment to public security and a waste of taxpayers money. A decent society would not keep this happening.
The US patent system is not the best in the world because there can't be one. As soon you accept the idea of protectiong ideas you promote the economically implicit concept of scarcity of resource and various forms of implementation that are economically inefficient (monopolies and such).
On slashdot people discusses about software patents knowing that they apply the most to high technology and computer science. Unfortunately they apply also to other things including medicine (drugs).
Do not forget what happened a short while ago in Brazil when the president was criticised for an allerged violation of a patent. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18490388/
I have the feeling that good artists are too many and can rise a unwanted competition to the million dollar cows that the industry feeds on.
t ertainment-tech-media-cz_lg_richwomen07_0118womens tars_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=29000
Make a reality check here http://downhillbattle.org/ and read about some of these golden cows here:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/17/richest-women-en
My S6000FD camera face recognition works fairly well, recognizes the faces of: 1) real people 2) faces on poster 3) even paintings of faces. So I could just go to the ATM, show a natural size picture of the face of the card owner and the trick would be done. It would be nice to have a count of false positives of this website for a demostration: http://www.polarrose.com/
I've been working for a brief time in a society dealing with security measures. I clearly remember the issue with fingerfrint readers in third world countries where the thieves used to cut the finger from the victim (we were selling a sensor that also measured temperature and heartbeat). Biometrics are generally a very bad idea.
Thanx I had help finding those sites in Google! Maybe they don't get the attenction they deserve maybe I am not really good at searching. There is also this one http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/
750$ per infringment is ridicolous by any standard except when you consider the amount of money that has been spent to "lobby" this law. So please mod the parent as "informative" as this is the real issue behind the question.
Enrico
If you drop your expenses in music they will increase the lobbying because any lost sale goes accounted as "lost due piracy".
:D
If you care I suggest reading this website: http://downhillbattle.org/ they add stickers to your proposal
Sirs,
Eventually you are missing the point. KisMac is a tool that can discover APs and Point to Point wireless network, Crack WEP, Crack WAP (given a dictionary) and make Injection Attacks with selected hardware (prism cards mostly). So it's just not a purely listening software neither limited to only apple basestations (Airport).
So long the problem is that Germany choose to make illegal tampering with telecomunications, which could be good, but eventually forgot to leave a exception of fair use for research pourposes which is not good.
Enrico
> Now if you excuse me, I gotta call the cable, telephone, and power companies and cancel my services.
Don't, my cousin did that and people calls him idiot.
I am not very scared. We have a telecommunication law here (italy) that states that electronic communications can be relayed by a third server but not eversdropped or altered. If something like a ISP would be inserting commercials inside a page served by someone else then it would be infringing the law. IANAL and don't know much about the US Law but a consumer group would take a couple of minute to file a winning sue: It's like a postman opening the letters and inserting leafleets inside... wouldn't that be illegal in the US?
You seem to ignore that for 99% of musicians guitar, basses and drums are a HOBBY rather than a career. But for those who see it as such then comes the confrontation with something worse than a undetermined instable salary: The monopolistic experience.
Please check out this site: http://downhillbattle.org/
I guess that if it is happening we're gonna see on the box written clearly in cubic letters "PLEASE DONT GO TO THIS ADDRESS TO UPGRADE THE CAMERA BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL". You hit the point! I add another few examples that come from real life.
:D => Most mopeds built now have a bigger engine castrated by "firmware" (Electronic injection) that consume and perform as much as the previous model BUT fall into the new standard imposed by the eurocrats. Since the engine is more capable there there always been keen people able to trick it for a price (also stands true for BMW limitators on bigger cars).
Italian Limits for 14Y/O motorbikes: A motorbike to be driven by a 14y/o boy has to obej there rules - Cubature Less than 50CC - Less than 5HP - Max speed less than 45Km/h. As we all know anyone riding a bike is hungry power and speed let alone if he's 14 y/o and likes taking unuseful risks. The moped industry adapted promptly => It is usual for those motorbikes to ship with a "diopter" that can be removed by anyone with a little knowledge and a screwdriver - thought the operation is illegal most do it. After the operation you get a screaming monster capable of 80Km/h
Euro3 limits for pollution: These are limits to the quantity of pollution that approved engines can emit. They are classified into classes cubic centimeters. What happens is that if the engine is big enought it can emit more CO2 and still fall into the limits. What was the response of the moped industry?
In Italy it is forbidden for anybody to monitor internet trafic. This
n ews/2007-07-18_11897954.html
o -peppermint-vietati-i-monitoraggi-in-rete.html
is stated in a recent article by the national press agency ANSA that I
gladly translate for the slashdot readers:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/internet/
ROMA, 18 LUG - An italian court "ruled illegal for anyone to monitor
network trafic". This is as declared by the innovation responsible of
the green party, Mr. Cortiana. As announced by the green leader the
Giudges approved the points forwarded from the Privacy Authority in
the case of Peppermint against Telecom. This is a important ruling,
sais Cortiana, because this set a important principle: On the internet
it is a (exclusive) duty of law forces and judges to investigate and
enforce the law.
The case Peppermin Jam Records VS Telecom originated when the Swiss
firm Peppermint used scare tactics like those employed by the RIAA
sending 3636 notification letters to Italian Users sharing licensed
music on P2P network. Those letters were containing a invitation to
deposit a sum of money or face a trial. Telecom initially opposed but
was forced to deliver the names. Now the Giudges overturned this
previous ruling.
On this page http://www.hardwaremax.it/20070718767/network/cas
Cortiana also criticises the private firm:
"Internet is not a 'nobody's land' where there are no rules and you
can apply do-it-yourself laws, also on the internet real world
citizenship rights apply" and continues as "business models should
adapt and cosider that network sharing is a collective cognitive
process"
To blunty summarize most computer users are computer illiterated. They all know how to push the big power button run Norton and get viruses. But to ask them to switch email provider or operate in a safe conscious way is a too difficult taks.
Enrico
P.S. If you are reading slashdot you are part of a minority.
I guess the effects are even better if you soak the pills in ammonia :D
By definition by Italian Legal Standards:
Olive Oil = Mixture of refined oils including olive oil - Treatment might include decolouring - deodoring - precipitating acids - adding colours
Extra Virgin Olive Oil = 100% olive oil whith only partial treatment - Infact only filtering is allowed
But I like more greek standars by which every olive oil is "extra virgin" like the italian PLUS they have to state the acidity on the bottle.
You might wonder why acidity is important. Here is a brief explaination: When a mature olive falls it starts decomposing. In the process the fats become acid. Thus olives with a low acidity are those well preserved and processed just at the right time. Oils with hight acidity are usually made from poor grade olives fallen on the ground and then collected with nets or veils to save on manpower.
That's all
You're right. But to me it looks like it's even harder to shrink a Optical Drive or Hard Disk... Maybe the overall shriking will be some quarter of millimeter and the casing will evolve yust like the nano did (aluminium?)
I am almost sure that the new LED backlit LCD display will the be thinning factor. Apple is rumored buying them in asia.
1) By the laws of Murphy you are going to lose them anyway.
2) The idea of the phone-home software is rather old. I use WildPalm's "Phonesecure" since I had a nokia 7650 and it still runs brilliantly on the 6630.
The only almost absolutely effective solution would be to blacklist the IMEI - This way the thieve should unlock, then disable the soft then reprogram the eeprom. The last step is not really easy given the amount of DRM crap that most companies are putting into phones to prevent reverse engineering.
Enrico
Listening to the voice of the commenter I could'nt help to notice that in some passages it is exacly the same as Microsoft SAM speech engine! Maybe a strange compression artefact (or more unlikely a playback performance :D). Also if you look behind the presenter in some scenes it is visible a green OLPC with the antenna raised! (it is on the left looking from the public)
The original question of the 1:1 digital COPY is a very smart one, since according to its definition theft has to deprive someone of its private property. So I reply to this one you pose as it is fairly easy. The question you pose is wrong: No you can't. You cant in the first place because there is a specific right for the owner to enjoy the view of his front lawn and secondly you might also damage the grass and thus deprive the value of the lawn. In other words you'd have to be invisible and etheral to do that... or be a playmate, possibly naked, that would grant my permission. I could go on talking about Jesus Christ and his very criminal succesful attempts to copy wine bread and fishes but I guess that's already been discussed here.
Be careful on this one! This is going to put upside down the notion of "innocent until proven guilty" that is the base of IusRomanum (Diritto Romano or Roman Law foundation). If we reject it and accept the "guilty until proven innocent" approach for these trivial instances then we can expect something similar to those memories of the past: Gestapo, SS, Spanish Inquisition and so on...
Your CD's are NOT YOURS ANYMORE ;)
Now you can't sell them in shops so it's official. It's just a new kind of semiprivate property, you own the plastic but all the contents belong to RIAA. That's a good point not to buy them in the first place. Let's hope this crazyness is going to teach something to these people.
Enrico