But now that the feature has stayed in RealPlayer for a year, its real impact will be not on piracy but on the perceived legitimacy of ripping programs. Specifically, it will significantly damage their reputation.
Using wireless to offload traffic from the wired network is like walking to avoid traffic jams. Thanks to the price of gas, people have been driving less and walking more. People will switch technologies whenever the existing ones hit a threshold of impracticality.
And if you have to call it GNU/Linux, at least get the punctuation right. It certainly isn't "GNU Linux", which would imply that Linux is a product of the GNU project; it even says so on their web site.
In school, I learned dozens of tricks for performing arithmetic faster, generally base-10-specific and with tons of special cases. I can't say that I've used a single one of these tricks since then, other than the rule for multiplying single-digit numbers by nine. The fact is that there are a few arithmetic algorithms that are important, like long division, which is useful because it can be generalized to polynomials and other situations. Most of the arithmetic they teach you in school, however, is crap that should be done with a calculator.
That has a bit to do with it, but mainly its at $136 a barrel because the dollar isn't worth as much as it used to be. I thought the dollar isn't worth anything because the price of oil is being set so high by American oil firms.
Of course, the problem with trying to understand the economy is that all reasoning is circular.
So if I had decided to post this comment anonymously from an internet cafe or local library, and I did something which met the arbitrary criteria of cyberbullying, who would get thrown in jail for two years?
Think of it this way. In 2000, the Democrats lost some of their votes to Mr. Third Party (also known as tweedle-doo). And guess who got elected as a result of that?
...Might as well patent "bi pedal motion", sue everyone in the world and get it over with. Except that would only affect people with two legs, not everyone. Yeah, people could avoid being sued by crawling around all day instead of walking.
in a country with Sunday shopping, abortion rights and same-sex marriage...[h]uman rights commissions are vestigial organs, a historical correction that no longer serves any useful function So they're acknowledging the theory of evolution?
Yay! I get to yell "false dichotomy" and then provide no acceptable middle ground in response, like everyone else who criticizes someone's argument on Slashdot!
Seriously, the problem is that it is always a slippery slope. Having an invasion of privacy is unacceptable; preventing the courts from collecting evidence is unacceptable. But thanks to government and media FUD, the balance will always be shifting toward the former, through loopholes and ambiguously-worded "security" laws. So there really is a tendency toward a dichotomy.
Now everyone can criticize arguments with Boolean logic instead of informal fallacies. Oh, dear...
"Conventional" encryption algorithms can be brute forced even without the correct key - it will just take a really long time. As I understand it, the point of quantum cryptography is that it is completely impossible to break, because the transmission would be scrambled the moment someone tries to tap the connection.
Don't expect the above to be completely correct, though - I'm hardly a cryptography expert (which doesn't stop me from putting a reference in my sig).
Basically, before 1.5, Java sucked. The language was too simple for the scale of the programs it was intended for. People seem to forget how important an update 1.6 was, though. It added a zillion different library functions that it should have had a long time ago. (Array slicing? Radial gradients?)
I don't know what the problem is that people seem to have with NullPointerExceptions. If you have a good understanding of the language, Eclipse's conditional breakpoints will help you find the cause of most problems of that type quite quickly.
I used to have a little toy that would do this. You turned it on and it stuck to the wall and climbed up very slowly. Its primary function was running out batteries.
But a lot of the time technology is used as an excuse to reopen issues happily settled long ago, on things like the first sale doctrine, or the intrusion of the government into the private lives of citizens. I don't recall the second issue ever being happily settled. Isn't that what conservatives and liberals have been fighting over for years?
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No, no, the point was it will damage the legitimacy of the other ripping programs, by having Real associated with them.
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Copying Windows and Office is obsolete. These days, you just throw on Ubuntu and OpenOffice.
And if you have to call it GNU/Linux, at least get the punctuation right. It certainly isn't "GNU Linux", which would imply that Linux is a product of the GNU project; it even says so on their web site.
I'd say the ultimate copy protection would be an awful, expensive product. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to be working for the music industry...
In school, I learned dozens of tricks for performing arithmetic faster, generally base-10-specific and with tons of special cases. I can't say that I've used a single one of these tricks since then, other than the rule for multiplying single-digit numbers by nine. The fact is that there are a few arithmetic algorithms that are important, like long division, which is useful because it can be generalized to polynomials and other situations. Most of the arithmetic they teach you in school, however, is crap that should be done with a calculator.
Of course, the problem with trying to understand the economy is that all reasoning is circular.
So if I had decided to post this comment anonymously from an internet cafe or local library, and I did something which met the arbitrary criteria of cyberbullying, who would get thrown in jail for two years?
Why do I get the feeling this law is impractical.
Think of it this way. In 2000, the Democrats lost some of their votes to Mr. Third Party (also known as tweedle-doo). And guess who got elected as a result of that?
...Might as well patent "bi pedal motion", sue everyone in the world and get it over with. Except that would only affect people with two legs, not everyone. Yeah, people could avoid being sued by crawling around all day instead of walking.Hmm...
Yay! I get to yell "false dichotomy" and then provide no acceptable middle ground in response, like everyone else who criticizes someone's argument on Slashdot!
Seriously, the problem is that it is always a slippery slope. Having an invasion of privacy is unacceptable; preventing the courts from collecting evidence is unacceptable. But thanks to government and media FUD, the balance will always be shifting toward the former, through loopholes and ambiguously-worded "security" laws. So there really is a tendency toward a dichotomy.
Now everyone can criticize arguments with Boolean logic instead of informal fallacies. Oh, dear...
I hope I know which one is me.
See, I do I know what sarcasm is!
Unless I was the other one...
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Perhaps the one titled "MP3" in English?
Why would advertisers care? They don't have any music being pirated (or obtained legally, for that matter).
Maybe they should have sent Baidu a DMCA notice instead. </sarcasm>
Great, now even the moderations are making copies of themselves!
(Where's that +1 Redundant option?)
"Conventional" encryption algorithms can be brute forced even without the correct key - it will just take a really long time. As I understand it, the point of quantum cryptography is that it is completely impossible to break, because the transmission would be scrambled the moment someone tries to tap the connection.
Don't expect the above to be completely correct, though - I'm hardly a cryptography expert (which doesn't stop me from putting a reference in my sig).
Don't forget .NET! You have your wonderful names like "System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisibleAttribute".
Basically, before 1.5, Java sucked. The language was too simple for the scale of the programs it was intended for. People seem to forget how important an update 1.6 was, though. It added a zillion different library functions that it should have had a long time ago. (Array slicing? Radial gradients?)
I don't know what the problem is that people seem to have with NullPointerExceptions. If you have a good understanding of the language, Eclipse's conditional breakpoints will help you find the cause of most problems of that type quite quickly.
I used to have a little toy that would do this. You turned it on and it stuck to the wall and climbed up very slowly. Its primary function was running out batteries.
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Of course, now it's switched sides...
Wait a minute... are you saying there's actually another person on /. who looks at the previews submitting them?