I'm reading the leaked document and don't see that anywhere. It looks to me more like they are trying to make the legal climate in other countries more like it already is in the US regarding IP Infringement, not prevent legitimate operators from distributing their work through P2P.
to get into heaven and since unborn children haven't been they aren't allowed in and go to purgatory instead. But I'm not religious so what do I know...
New York residents pay sales tax for online purchases at least once on everything purchased online. In addition to NYS income tax you get the option of documenting all of your online purchases or paying a flat fee, which is in my case $57. Given that that so many online retailers charge NY state sales tax is collected by most online retailers anyway there is no way that my sales tax liability is that much but like most I just pay the flat fee because avoiding it is to much work and the risks of not doing so far outweigh the $40 I could be saving.
Personally when I am building a new machine I almost always take the sound card from the old machine because it is one of the few things that isn't going to offer much improvement by upgrading... I would guess that this is pretty typical and that Creative is trying to give people an artificial reason to buy another sound card rather than recycle an old one.
From what I recall of the ACLU compliant they asserted that there had been harm due to the mere existence of the program, not because any one in particular was wiretapped. Apparently some of the people who came to the ACLU seeking legal counsel would not speak freely over the telephone and the ACLU and/or their clients had to absorb travel cost that would not have been necessary if the government wasn't illegally spying on people.
Certainly from personal experience I know plenty of people (who are not generally paranoid) who have become increasingly guarded in their speech over the phone... I am not talking about anything sketchy but legitimate criticisms of Bush, Iraq, etc. So I find it very easy to believe that the ACLU's clients are doing the same.
The point of developers getting it first (through MSDN) is to make sure that any compatibility problems get resolved before your customers, who could very well be volume buyers, upgrade their systems.
The article you cite seems to confirm that what developers are complaining about is in fact happening.
Just audit 2%-3% of the precincts randomly. If there is a problem it will most likely show up there... in which case it would be time to talk about a state wide recount. Actually this seems like a good idea to me as the general rule to how vote counting should be handled, regardless of if there is controversy over the results or not.
The Phenoelites say that, by contrast, they have so far been unsuccessful in their attempts to crack the package collection slips used at the German Post Office's parcel stations, and the online tickets used by German railways. The two-dimensional codes of the latter have clearly been secured additionally with encryption methods, said FX, and this was something he strongly urged as a general practice for the proponents of automation.
if you need data security you should be using the industry standard tools. Encryption, digital signatures, or keyed hashes could be used to make the data more tamper resistant. Checksums, while useful for error detection, will not... what you have suggested is trivial to reverse engineer given a few valid bar codes.
A better way to defeat guessing would be to encrypt the SKU, ID number, etc and decrypted in the terminal... but at the end of the day any security you put on the barcode can be defeated with a photocopier.
As others have pointed out the real problem lies with non-geeks not understanding the concept of trusted and untrusted data.
Developing for mobile is a pain generally... having a phone that is easy to develop for would be a good thing for both mobile developers and consumers.
Which is basically your local over-the-air stations... They can switch everything else over to digital unless they have an agreement with the content owner that requires them to provide it over analog.
AT&T and Verizon get out of it by not carrying any analog channels. Cable has this option as well, but will have to provide Set Top Boxes to all of their subscribers (just like AT&T and Verizon do) which they don't do now, especially in small and rural markets.
Also this doesn't apply to all, or even most, channels it only applies to must carry channels, which are channels that the cable company (or telco) is required to provide... requiring them to provide these channels to all of their subscribers makes sense to me.
"The greatest barrier to creativity is a lack of boundaries" is not really true. What they try, and fail, to get at is that being "creative" is easier the more information you have about the problem domain. In TFA they compare difficulty in "writing a story" compare to "writing a story about...". Because the second problem gives more information about the problem. This has been well understood for a long time.
In the example they give providing some information about the "problem" that needs to be solved (e.g. more redundancy? less packet loss? Reduce operating costs?) will probably give good results, not because it provides "boundaries" but because it provides "information" and changes the problem from a sythesis problem to an analysis problem. Of course creating this information in the first place is a non-trivial task.
This would basicaly make it illegal to have non-DRMed content on your windows machine unless you have disabled the administrative shares (e.g \\127.0.0.1\c$).
Since most windows users are not tech-savy enough to do this it makes it a defacto crime to posses music which is not protected by DRM.
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and has to pass laws pursuant to our treaty obligations and if those laws can still be found unconstitutional.
I'm reading the leaked document and don't see that anywhere. It looks to me more like they are trying to make the legal climate in other countries more like it already is in the US regarding IP Infringement, not prevent legitimate operators from distributing their work through P2P.
to get into heaven and since unborn children haven't been they aren't allowed in and go to purgatory instead. But I'm not religious so what do I know...
New York residents pay sales tax for online purchases at least once on everything purchased online. In addition to NYS income tax you get the option of documenting all of your online purchases or paying a flat fee, which is in my case $57. Given that that so many online retailers charge NY state sales tax is collected by most online retailers anyway there is no way that my sales tax liability is that much but like most I just pay the flat fee because avoiding it is to much work and the risks of not doing so far outweigh the $40 I could be saving.
That your identity can be used to open new accounts (e.g. credit cards) in your name.
Personally when I am building a new machine I almost always take the sound card from the old machine because it is one of the few things that isn't going to offer much improvement by upgrading... I would guess that this is pretty typical and that Creative is trying to give people an artificial reason to buy another sound card rather than recycle an old one.
I understand about shutting down the peering points but aren't there some rules about actively blocking traffic?
thats a big jump from room temp...
From what I recall of the ACLU compliant they asserted that there had been harm due to the mere existence of the program, not because any one in particular was wiretapped. Apparently some of the people who came to the ACLU seeking legal counsel would not speak freely over the telephone and the ACLU and/or their clients had to absorb travel cost that would not have been necessary if the government wasn't illegally spying on people. Certainly from personal experience I know plenty of people (who are not generally paranoid) who have become increasingly guarded in their speech over the phone... I am not talking about anything sketchy but legitimate criticisms of Bush, Iraq, etc. So I find it very easy to believe that the ACLU's clients are doing the same.
Recent Decisions are favoring the telcos over the MSOs... not that it really matters in this case.
The point of developers getting it first (through MSDN) is to make sure that any compatibility problems get resolved before your customers, who could very well be volume buyers, upgrade their systems. The article you cite seems to confirm that what developers are complaining about is in fact happening.
Just audit 2%-3% of the precincts randomly. If there is a problem it will most likely show up there... in which case it would be time to talk about a state wide recount. Actually this seems like a good idea to me as the general rule to how vote counting should be handled, regardless of if there is controversy over the results or not.
A better way to defeat guessing would be to encrypt the SKU, ID number, etc and decrypted in the terminal... but at the end of the day any security you put on the barcode can be defeated with a photocopier. As others have pointed out the real problem lies with non-geeks not understanding the concept of trusted and untrusted data.
Developing for mobile is a pain generally... having a phone that is easy to develop for would be a good thing for both mobile developers and consumers.
In that case they will be covered by this just as much as cable.
Which is basically your local over-the-air stations... They can switch everything else over to digital unless they have an agreement with the content owner that requires them to provide it over analog.
AT&T and Verizon get out of it by not carrying any analog channels. Cable has this option as well, but will have to provide Set Top Boxes to all of their subscribers (just like AT&T and Verizon do) which they don't do now, especially in small and rural markets. Also this doesn't apply to all, or even most, channels it only applies to must carry channels, which are channels that the cable company (or telco) is required to provide... requiring them to provide these channels to all of their subscribers makes sense to me.
"The greatest barrier to creativity is a lack of boundaries" is not really true. What they try, and fail, to get at is that being "creative" is easier the more information you have about the problem domain. In TFA they compare difficulty in "writing a story" compare to "writing a story about ...". Because the second problem gives more information about the problem. This has been well understood for a long time.
In the example they give providing some information about the "problem" that needs to be solved (e.g. more redundancy? less packet loss? Reduce operating costs?) will probably give good results, not because it provides "boundaries" but because it provides "information" and changes the problem from a sythesis problem to an analysis problem. Of course creating this information in the first place is a non-trivial task.
Since most windows users are not tech-savy enough to do this it makes it a defacto crime to posses music which is not protected by DRM.