their new digital bandwidth, that's supposed to carry HDTV, for anything they wish (pagers, wireless, etc.), and still broadcast HDTV on the analog bands that they're supposed to give back.
Any bets as to whether they give back the digital, or just keep it for a side business? It sure won't be used for digital broadcast, not when there's so many more lucrative uses.
Is anyone else envisioning astroturf-roots campaigns to save the old TVs? "Don't obsolete our TV, use the HDTV NTSC. Let the broadcasters do what they want with the digital bands, it's good for America!"
I think that the time lock and number of usage locks are applied to the SafeAudio toolkit itself, to restrict the usage of the toolkit by the replication facility. This can ensure that the facility is always using a recent version, as an old version would lock up.
Not a problem for the consumer. Just quality assurance for the labels, and a pain in the butt for the replication facility.
Macrovision copy protection, from what I've read, often causes problems with projection TVs, particularly if the signal runs through a video pre-processor first. A line doubler causes the macrovision perterbation to become visible in much the same way that a second inline VCR would.
Perhaps someone with a projection TV who hasn't disabled their Macrovision can comment.
You can print up a check with a laser printer, take it to a bank in some 3rd-world place that doesn't have particularly good law enforcement (such as the place the author of the scam alleges he is in), cash the check.
Yea, do this a bit and problems come back to the bank he's using, but you would not *believe* how lax some Russian banks were before they collapsed. Some countries have good standards, some do not, US banks sometimes extend the benefit of the doubt until they get burned.
Banks evolve, the Russian collapse helped to take care of that for Russia (in a very expensive way). But there was plenty of private enrichment on the way down.
Try this at a US bank, or other Western bank, and your but'll be in jail.
You provide him with your bank account routing info (the #s from the bottom of a check) and wait a few days for the big deposit. He makes a big withdrawal instead, and then is gone.
He's probably overseas (for jurisdictional reasons), but doesn't necessarily have to be.
From the description of one of the holdings (VRWR):
"Develop a 'virtual worker' system that allows populations normally engaged in migrant labor to work over the web instead. For example, develop a telepresent robot that picks oranges or strawberries while being controlled through the internet. Then, unionize both the robots and the telepresent workers."
Of course the executable files (and/or virus data files) are signed by trusted virus software vendors. I mean, they'd have to be. It'd be insane to expect it to work any other way.
So what's the point? The point is, the distribution sites don't get slashdotted.
The "Freedom Network" is not free as in beer, but free as in difficult-to-trace.
These guys are in business, and they do need to make money. If you think there aught to be a zero-cost system to provide these services to the public, go right ahead and set it up.
A radio play, I'd suppose, is a "dramatical work." Music isn't, it's non-dramatical, and is a musical work. The audio track of a movie is a dramatical work. The score is not.
"The Sound of Music" is probably a "dramatical musical work."
Check out Bruce Sterling's old essay"Outer Cyberspace" for a discussion of deployment strategies for these little buggers.
Yes, one or two might fall down crevases. So what. Get a bunch of 'em.
"And because they are small and numerous, they should be
cheap. The entire point of this scenario is to create a
new kind of space-probe that is cheap, small, disposable,
and numerous: as cheap and disposable as their parent
technologies, microchips and video, while taking
advantage of new materials like carbon-fiber,
fiber-optics, ceramic, and artificial diamond."
There've been a few comments about the kosherness of redirection (for tracking) on banner ads, because it's important to audit/track your advertisement redirects. Well, the default links are (I'm sure) paid advertisements as well. Why wouldn't Microsoft track their usage, to know how much to bill the linkees?
I wouldn't blow off Blowfish. I'm not sure about its exportability in machine-readable form (IANAL), but I think the code is solid, and I know it's undergoing and undergone extensive peer reviews / attacks.
When considering/.'s jurisdiction, remember that noone at/. violated the EULA.
It's possible that the individual who posted the spec to/. agreed to and violated the EULA, but that is an issue between Micro$oft and the poster, to be resolved in the jurisdiction of the poster.
Slashdot Mirror
(Check the date.)
If the inventor doesn't allege that his work is relevant to the current digital HDTV discussion, it probably isn't.
Any bets as to whether they give back the digital, or just keep it for a side business? It sure won't be used for digital broadcast, not when there's so many more lucrative uses.
Is anyone else envisioning astroturf-roots campaigns to save the old TVs? "Don't obsolete our TV, use the HDTV NTSC. Let the broadcasters do what they want with the digital bands, it's good for America!"
Not a problem for the consumer. Just quality assurance for the labels, and a pain in the butt for the replication facility.
Perhaps someone with a projection TV who hasn't disabled their Macrovision can comment.
I got a Physics MS. Worked for me just fine.
Yea, do this a bit and problems come back to the bank he's using, but you would not *believe* how lax some Russian banks were before they collapsed. Some countries have good standards, some do not, US banks sometimes extend the benefit of the doubt until they get burned.
Banks evolve, the Russian collapse helped to take care of that for Russia (in a very expensive way). But there was plenty of private enrichment on the way down.
Try this at a US bank, or other Western bank, and your but'll be in jail.
You provide him with your bank account routing info (the #s from the bottom of a check) and wait a few days for the big deposit. He makes a big withdrawal instead, and then is gone.
He's probably overseas (for jurisdictional reasons), but doesn't necessarily have to be.
More importantly, if you know why VValdo's wrong, chime in!
Willem Dafoe's real name is William Dafoe. Willem is a stage name he chose early in his career, becuse it was cooler than "William."
From the description of one of the holdings (VRWR):
Not hijacking. Clever prank.I suppose it's obvious by now, but this topic is about Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM.
So what's the point? The point is, the distribution sites don't get slashdotted.
These guys are in business, and they do need to make money. If you think there aught to be a zero-cost system to provide these services to the public, go right ahead and set it up.
"The Sound of Music" is probably a "dramatical musical work."
Yes, one or two might fall down crevases. So what. Get a bunch of 'em.
See "Other References", at the bottom. Presumably their patent adds some value to 1631, and isn't just a restatement of it.
There've been a few comments about the kosherness of redirection (for tracking) on banner ads, because it's important to audit/track your advertisement redirects. Well, the default links are (I'm sure) paid advertisements as well. Why wouldn't Microsoft track their usage, to know how much to bill the linkees?
Nifty bike, but not really fresh news. Dallas Semiconductor was riding it around at this year's Java1 show.
I wouldn't blow off Blowfish. I'm not sure about its exportability in machine-readable form (IANAL), but I think the code is solid, and I know it's undergoing and undergone extensive peer reviews / attacks.
It's possible that the individual who posted the spec to /. agreed to and violated the EULA, but that is an issue between Micro$oft and the poster, to be resolved in the jurisdiction of the poster.