...and leave. There are many places in the world where these problems don't exist. Most of them are about a 30 minute drive east of where you live now.
The phrase, "You can run but you can't hide." comes to mind. Imagine, if you will, that you ran away from towns where computers were becoming commonplace.
Initially there were no laws about what you could or couldn't do with a computer. Now we have the computer fraud and abuse act, and agree that cracking security ( even weak BS), without permission shouldn't be allowed. Well, some of us agree. I don't. I think that folks should be able to hack stuff they're expected to use and rely on so long as they don't do anything but immediately inform the authorities of the exploit vectors once the cracks are discovered to bear potentially malicious fruit.
Now, care to re-examine the issue you have with cameras? For the sake of argument let's say you fear the camera version of computer crackers. Your solution is to move away to a less technologically advanced part of town from those that are incorporating computers everywhere, despite your concern that any sufficiently skilled teenager could start a nuclear war with them as easily as they could kick off a game of digital chess. Well, what happens when the tech is cheap and ubiquitous enough that you've no where else to move but a bunker in the desert? No, the answer is to make a stand somewhere and try to change the laws to ensure your concerns about the new technology are addressed. Namely that it's illegal for photo-hackers to ruin your life, or that the cameras aren't recording everything everywhere or whatever it is you're running from.
Imagine if we took your approach to every action the government took that we didn't like: Just run away. Oh boy, what a country that would be eventually, as you found yourself running right back into the places where the things that you didn't like were done to escape the greater of two evils.
What would you do if your child started doing some crap you didn't like? Run away? Hint: You should treat them like kids, don't abandon your government. That's the equivalent of running out on a helpless child because they reached into their diaper and smeared crap on the wall, or pissed on you soon as you took off the diaper. You're the citizen / parent. YOU get to clean up the mess, and hopefully teach them not to do these things again.
There are no good reasons for DRM. It exists solley to enforce artificial scarcity. It's not hard to eliminate all piracy. I've done it. It's simple. It doesn't take DRM, it takes common sense: You say, "Hey, I need $X to do this work." Then you get $X. Then you do the work. If you got funded by society to do the work via crowd funding or a grant, etc. then you upload the digital token of your efforts to everyone for "free" (you've already been paid to do the work) -- use a.torrent if you need free bandwidth. It's how I make money working on FLOSS. Company needs some bugfix or a new feature, or something customized to meet their need, or even just installed / maintained: I do the work to configure the 1s and 0s just so, get paid for it. Move on to the next job. I don't have to seek rent by selling copies, that's boring and economically corrupt. Doing work for money is a time tested business model. "Intellectual Property" is a newfangled scam -- It's a personal futures market for yourself that guarantees society (and thus yourself) will benefit less overall.
Doing the work first then Selling the copies to make up the cost of production [+profit] is gambling. What if you don't make those sales? Instead: Get free market research and avoid making things no one wants to buy -- Ask the public directly for the money you need to proceed. After they pay you for your work, you can simply do more work to make more money. This is how all other labor markets work.
Strict copyright laws were meant to restrict greedy publishers and prevent them from ripping off artists. In a time when copies were expensive and copy machines were rare, 14 years was thought to be the high end of rights durations. Now everyone has a copy machine (computer) -- They're everywhere in almost every device, copies are so cheap they're in near infinite supply, and now the greedy publishers have subverted the system making the strict laws apply to all people instead of themselves. Meanwhile the artists can get buy by the way they've always been able to: By withholding their work until payment is assured. Hint: That's why bands have to go on tour to make any real money -- They have to work to get paid
The public benefits by having a public domain full of rich and relevant works. Publishers have destroyed the public domain by making copyrights last over 3 generations of humans: Artist + 70 = you have kids @ 30, they die 40 years after you, your grandkids die 70 years after you do... After your grandkids are dead the copies enter the public domain? That's gross. DRM aims to ensure that not only will everyone be dead by the time digital goods enter the public domain, but that it will be impossible to copy them even when it becomes legal to do so. For this reason alone you should never even consider DRM. Copyright laws already exist, if that's not enough for you then you're a greedy ignorant ingrate and you deserve to starve or do physical labor for a living -- Such minds aren't worth extracting information from, IMO.
Your works only have merit because of the culture you've borrowed from to make them relevant. Try to create something 100% of your own creation -- It is impossible to do so and for it to have any worth. I know, I've tried it. I've invented my own languages and wrote my own stories and jokes and poems in them. They are worthless to the world because only I can read these works. Even though I tried not to I found myself borrowing some literary concepts from culture at large in the writing of these works -- It was impossible not to borrow from the collective culture that we're all a part of. To put your tiny comparative amount of effort into a work then monopolize on the amalgamation for generations is disgusting -- We raised your brain, and that's the thanks we get?! Adding DRM to completely rob the culture that you benefit by is abhorrent.
Don't operate by way of artificial scarcity. Attempting to do so is counter to nature. Humans are data duplicating mac
Sure sure, just one question, why are they morons?
I will answer you, but first you must complete my next "experiment": Text your parents, "n car wrek hlp", then turn your phone off for at least 12 hours.
You're correct. Not that way though. It was just an observation. I mean, if there's no conclusion or hypothesis that doesn't mean you can't call it an experiment, but you're a fucking moron if you do.
There was a post here recently from a teacher who was looking for inspiring SF books to give his students as a summer project.
As a result, I discovered "The Martian", (it's on Amazon for a buck), which, with expletives removed, would be perfect for young kids.
When I was in grade school I went to my local library and ventured into the adult sci-fi section. I checked out a bunch of books with sex and swear words in them. The librarian didn't raise an eyebrow, but I did later. I felt so grown up and mature that I could read such things, and not make a big deal about it. Some of the more colourful sexual metaphors were lost on me, which I only discovered after reading the books again later as a teen.
I'm not sure what folks have against exposing kids to "adult" literature. I mean, I can remember being in the 3nd grade and overhearing a girl asking another one if she'd ever "finger fucked" herself; Even so far back as in Pre-Kindergarden Day-Care we learned from each other only a few new swear-words that our parents hadn't inadvertently taught us themselves. Most 1st graders know all the 4 letter words, in fact, they have to know them -- How else do you think they keep from repeating them at inappropriate times? Why remove the expletives? Just explain that it's not polite to say those words since some people get offend by them (and watch the kids all laugh at you, "duh"). Cursing is learned years before cursive -- It's something some kids learn at age 2 or 3; The ones that learn later are ill prepared to participate in society.
How about we just attach a giant magnet to the back of space craft similar to what you'd see behind the rear or front tires of an RV to pick up road debris before it punctures the tires.
That's a bit like trying to keep bullets from hitting you by fanning them away with a folded bit of paper. Actually, no... It's exactly like that.
De-orbiting shit is dumb as hell. Raw material is worth a lot more in space. If it can be "mulched" and refined in space then you can simply use it IN SPACE to make more spacecraft. The cost of getting things out of this gravity well greatly increases the value of any usable materials NOT on Earth. De-orbiting them devalues the material greatly by re-adding the gravity tax.
That said, I can see that since they might not have the infrastructure to process or utilize the first bits of asteroids anywhere but down here on Earth, and that the rarity and collectible nature of the space stuff would offset the gravity tax, so for their initial proof-of-concept trials it sounds like a decent idea. However, mining asteroids for Earth-bound materials is not a wise long term goal. Once you start building things in space you'll be kicking yourself for every ounce of usable material you wasted by throwing it at Earth -- Except if it's stuff that we truly don't have down here in great quantities. Gold?! Pah! We've got whole buildings full of the stuff just sitting around, not even being used, not really valuable, I mean we gold-leaf wooden signs and picture frames and even Ethernet terminals, or just wear the damn stuff like it's cheap decorative jewelery. Diamonds? Don't make me laugh, they're so plentiful that the diamond dealers buy up every last bit and sit on em just to drive the price up. Make a space stream of these goods and the local markets will manipulate the prices to bring your costs just under enough to be profitable -- then raise 'em back up when you're bankrupt.
Eventually the space materials economy will pick-up and you'll lose your edge as the first to market in orbital construction materials. It's a dumb move to waste any temporary advantage therein: The stuff you mined will only go down in value as time drags on...
Hell, work your way up to some big uninteresting iron rocks. Yeah, we have big rocks down here, but they're not up there. Guess how much a mobile orbiting gravity generator would be worth if you needed to use one as a gravity tug or cue-ball to save Earth from a life-threatening asteroid? You would have the "defense" budget of the entire world at your disposal -- Way more valuable than a chunk of space gold.
So, what's the best way to express this? Spend your money on an Ouya?
Are you fucking DAFT?! You have to connect the Ouya to the Internet AND give it your credit card information before you can even use it. It requires a mandatory firmware update out of the box. Then, EVERY game must be Free To Play in some capacity. As a game dev I want to like the OUYA, but it's shit. I can't even just put a full version of a game and demo version out and have you buy the game outright if you want -- Nope, instead I have to create an in-app-purchase and lock away features calling the locked neutered game a "demo", and then I have to check with the Ouya DRM servers before you start playing the full version of the game (better be connected to the Internet, always). Other games that are "free to play" and funded via in-app-purchased micro-transactions are roughly equivalent to "always online DRM", you doofus.
Ouya == Free To Play PITA == Always Online DRM. You want to escape this crap?! So do I. Game on your damn PCs. PLEASE!
Are you implying that they're not aware of themselves? I mean, they are obviously self aware. They just have less awareness than you. Try not to apply such terms in a chauvinistic manner. You're not that special, and the article supports this assertion.
The salts aren't meant to be secure. They are commonly stored in plain text right next to the [password hashes] in the database. The salt's actual job is not to prevent a hacker from [cracking] that user's [password hash] [and discovering the password], but to [slow] the hacker [down by preventing them] from being able to [crack] all the [password hashes] at once. The salt effectively "messes up" the hash of the password so that that even if multiple user's have the exact same password they will have different [password] hashes. We all know many users use "1234" as their password. If each user has a random salt applied to the [password hash] and if the hacker [cracks] one user's [password hash], he can't look at all the other users with the same hash and know that they all have the same password. The hacker has to spend the time cracking each password [hash] individually.
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I feel ya', man.
I thought congress approved a bill to suspend the RICO act when it applies to corporations?
No, the bill was to suspend rational thought when it's applied to copyrights.
I disagree. Zero factor authentication works beautifully for everything online.
For the physical world, there's cold hard cash -- The Great Authenticator.
Even easier solution: Repeal Copyright.
...and leave. There are many places in the world where these problems don't exist. Most of them are about a 30 minute drive east of where you live now.
The phrase, "You can run but you can't hide." comes to mind. Imagine, if you will, that you ran away from towns where computers were becoming commonplace.
Initially there were no laws about what you could or couldn't do with a computer. Now we have the computer fraud and abuse act, and agree that cracking security ( even weak BS), without permission shouldn't be allowed. Well, some of us agree. I don't. I think that folks should be able to hack stuff they're expected to use and rely on so long as they don't do anything but immediately inform the authorities of the exploit vectors once the cracks are discovered to bear potentially malicious fruit.
Now, care to re-examine the issue you have with cameras? For the sake of argument let's say you fear the camera version of computer crackers. Your solution is to move away to a less technologically advanced part of town from those that are incorporating computers everywhere, despite your concern that any sufficiently skilled teenager could start a nuclear war with them as easily as they could kick off a game of digital chess. Well, what happens when the tech is cheap and ubiquitous enough that you've no where else to move but a bunker in the desert? No, the answer is to make a stand somewhere and try to change the laws to ensure your concerns about the new technology are addressed. Namely that it's illegal for photo-hackers to ruin your life, or that the cameras aren't recording everything everywhere or whatever it is you're running from.
Imagine if we took your approach to every action the government took that we didn't like: Just run away. Oh boy, what a country that would be eventually, as you found yourself running right back into the places where the things that you didn't like were done to escape the greater of two evils.
What would you do if your child started doing some crap you didn't like? Run away? Hint: You should treat them like kids, don't abandon your government. That's the equivalent of running out on a helpless child because they reached into their diaper and smeared crap on the wall, or pissed on you soon as you took off the diaper. You're the citizen / parent. YOU get to clean up the mess, and hopefully teach them not to do these things again.
There are no good reasons for DRM. It exists solley to enforce artificial scarcity. It's not hard to eliminate all piracy. I've done it. It's simple. It doesn't take DRM, it takes common sense: You say, "Hey, I need $X to do this work." Then you get $X. Then you do the work. If you got funded by society to do the work via crowd funding or a grant, etc. then you upload the digital token of your efforts to everyone for "free" (you've already been paid to do the work) -- use a .torrent if you need free bandwidth. It's how I make money working on FLOSS. Company needs some bugfix or a new feature, or something customized to meet their need, or even just installed / maintained: I do the work to configure the 1s and 0s just so, get paid for it. Move on to the next job. I don't have to seek rent by selling copies, that's boring and economically corrupt. Doing work for money is a time tested business model. "Intellectual Property" is a newfangled scam -- It's a personal futures market for yourself that guarantees society (and thus yourself) will benefit less overall.
Doing the work first then Selling the copies to make up the cost of production [+profit] is gambling. What if you don't make those sales? Instead: Get free market research and avoid making things no one wants to buy -- Ask the public directly for the money you need to proceed. After they pay you for your work, you can simply do more work to make more money. This is how all other labor markets work.
Strict copyright laws were meant to restrict greedy publishers and prevent them from ripping off artists. In a time when copies were expensive and copy machines were rare, 14 years was thought to be the high end of rights durations. Now everyone has a copy machine (computer) -- They're everywhere in almost every device, copies are so cheap they're in near infinite supply, and now the greedy publishers have subverted the system making the strict laws apply to all people instead of themselves. Meanwhile the artists can get buy by the way they've always been able to: By withholding their work until payment is assured. Hint: That's why bands have to go on tour to make any real money -- They have to work to get paid
The public benefits by having a public domain full of rich and relevant works. Publishers have destroyed the public domain by making copyrights last over 3 generations of humans: Artist + 70 = you have kids @ 30, they die 40 years after you, your grandkids die 70 years after you do... After your grandkids are dead the copies enter the public domain? That's gross. DRM aims to ensure that not only will everyone be dead by the time digital goods enter the public domain, but that it will be impossible to copy them even when it becomes legal to do so. For this reason alone you should never even consider DRM. Copyright laws already exist, if that's not enough for you then you're a greedy ignorant ingrate and you deserve to starve or do physical labor for a living -- Such minds aren't worth extracting information from, IMO.
Your works only have merit because of the culture you've borrowed from to make them relevant. Try to create something 100% of your own creation -- It is impossible to do so and for it to have any worth. I know, I've tried it. I've invented my own languages and wrote my own stories and jokes and poems in them. They are worthless to the world because only I can read these works. Even though I tried not to I found myself borrowing some literary concepts from culture at large in the writing of these works -- It was impossible not to borrow from the collective culture that we're all a part of. To put your tiny comparative amount of effort into a work then monopolize on the amalgamation for generations is disgusting -- We raised your brain, and that's the thanks we get?! Adding DRM to completely rob the culture that you benefit by is abhorrent.
Don't operate by way of artificial scarcity. Attempting to do so is counter to nature. Humans are data duplicating mac
Replace all corrupted clowns chosen by rigged popularity contests with math.
Question: What do you use to rig a popularity contest with?
Math can be trusted.
Yes, but not the people doing the math.
Public data can be verified.
You can GIGO the same errors over and over.
Anything short of "free to know for everyone everywhere forever" has no place in public policy space.
Where's the torrent for this data? Oh, right... guess it "has no place in public policy space" then, eh?
Sure sure, just one question, why are they morons?
I will answer you, but first you must complete my next "experiment": Text your parents, "n car wrek hlp", then turn your phone off for at least 12 hours.
Geeks need t' lighten up.
You're correct. Not that way though. It was just an observation. I mean, if there's no conclusion or hypothesis that doesn't mean you can't call it an experiment, but you're a fucking moron if you do.
News for tards. Ass that blathers.
That's not science fiction, though.
Sure, and Animal Farm was just about some talking pigs that got uppity.
Oh sure, and what, The Matrix was just a movie about how corporations subjugate humanity?
There was a post here recently from a teacher who was looking for inspiring SF books to give his students as a summer project.
As a result, I discovered "The Martian", (it's on Amazon for a buck), which, with expletives removed, would be perfect for young kids.
When I was in grade school I went to my local library and ventured into the adult sci-fi section. I checked out a bunch of books with sex and swear words in them. The librarian didn't raise an eyebrow, but I did later. I felt so grown up and mature that I could read such things, and not make a big deal about it. Some of the more colourful sexual metaphors were lost on me, which I only discovered after reading the books again later as a teen.
I'm not sure what folks have against exposing kids to "adult" literature. I mean, I can remember being in the 3nd grade and overhearing a girl asking another one if she'd ever "finger fucked" herself; Even so far back as in Pre-Kindergarden Day-Care we learned from each other only a few new swear-words that our parents hadn't inadvertently taught us themselves. Most 1st graders know all the 4 letter words, in fact, they have to know them -- How else do you think they keep from repeating them at inappropriate times? Why remove the expletives? Just explain that it's not polite to say those words since some people get offend by them (and watch the kids all laugh at you, "duh"). Cursing is learned years before cursive -- It's something some kids learn at age 2 or 3; The ones that learn later are ill prepared to participate in society.
CSV
How about we just attach a giant magnet to the back of space craft similar to what you'd see behind the rear or front tires of an RV to pick up road debris before it punctures the tires.
That's a bit like trying to keep bullets from hitting you by fanning them away with a folded bit of paper. Actually, no... It's exactly like that.
We found the "Master Gene", now all we need is the "Blaster Gene", and we'll finally be able to Run Barter Town!
Well, that's a false dichotomy. You assume the two are mutually exclusive.
De-orbiting shit is dumb as hell. Raw material is worth a lot more in space. If it can be "mulched" and refined in space then you can simply use it IN SPACE to make more spacecraft. The cost of getting things out of this gravity well greatly increases the value of any usable materials NOT on Earth. De-orbiting them devalues the material greatly by re-adding the gravity tax.
That said, I can see that since they might not have the infrastructure to process or utilize the first bits of asteroids anywhere but down here on Earth, and that the rarity and collectible nature of the space stuff would offset the gravity tax, so for their initial proof-of-concept trials it sounds like a decent idea. However, mining asteroids for Earth-bound materials is not a wise long term goal. Once you start building things in space you'll be kicking yourself for every ounce of usable material you wasted by throwing it at Earth -- Except if it's stuff that we truly don't have down here in great quantities. Gold?! Pah! We've got whole buildings full of the stuff just sitting around, not even being used, not really valuable, I mean we gold-leaf wooden signs and picture frames and even Ethernet terminals, or just wear the damn stuff like it's cheap decorative jewelery. Diamonds? Don't make me laugh, they're so plentiful that the diamond dealers buy up every last bit and sit on em just to drive the price up. Make a space stream of these goods and the local markets will manipulate the prices to bring your costs just under enough to be profitable -- then raise 'em back up when you're bankrupt.
Eventually the space materials economy will pick-up and you'll lose your edge as the first to market in orbital construction materials. It's a dumb move to waste any temporary advantage therein: The stuff you mined will only go down in value as time drags on...
Hell, work your way up to some big uninteresting iron rocks. Yeah, we have big rocks down here, but they're not up there. Guess how much a mobile orbiting gravity generator would be worth if you needed to use one as a gravity tug or cue-ball to save Earth from a life-threatening asteroid? You would have the "defense" budget of the entire world at your disposal -- Way more valuable than a chunk of space gold.
I signed up for you.
I'll just leave this here: Why Boycotts Fail Where Whining Tantrums Win.
So, what's the best way to express this? Spend your money on an Ouya?
Are you fucking DAFT?! You have to connect the Ouya to the Internet AND give it your credit card information before you can even use it. It requires a mandatory firmware update out of the box. Then, EVERY game must be Free To Play in some capacity. As a game dev I want to like the OUYA, but it's shit. I can't even just put a full version of a game and demo version out and have you buy the game outright if you want -- Nope, instead I have to create an in-app-purchase and lock away features calling the locked neutered game a "demo", and then I have to check with the Ouya DRM servers before you start playing the full version of the game (better be connected to the Internet, always). Other games that are "free to play" and funded via in-app-purchased micro-transactions are roughly equivalent to "always online DRM", you doofus.
Ouya == Free To Play PITA == Always Online DRM. You want to escape this crap?! So do I. Game on your damn PCs. PLEASE!
... when the mice become self-aware.
Are you implying that they're not aware of themselves? I mean, they are obviously self aware. They just have less awareness than you. Try not to apply such terms in a chauvinistic manner. You're not that special, and the article supports this assertion.
The salts aren't meant to be secure. They are commonly stored in plain text right next to the [password hashes] in the database. The salt's actual job is not to prevent a hacker from [cracking] that user's [password hash] [and discovering the password], but to [slow] the hacker [down by preventing them] from being able to [crack] all the [password hashes] at once. The salt effectively "messes up" the hash of the password so that that even if multiple user's have the exact same password they will have different [password] hashes. We all know many users use "1234" as their password. If each user has a random salt applied to the [password hash] and if the hacker [cracks] one user's [password hash], he can't look at all the other users with the same hash and know that they all have the same password. The hacker has to spend the time cracking each password [hash] individually.
FTFY.
Came here to post exactly this, thanks!
You're forgetting the golden rule.
i haven't downloaded a linux distro the normal way in years
Odd, so you don't torrent your distros?