Well if that's true, then I would argue that that's all the more reason for them to be included in the protocol. If we want this thing to get signed, the US has to be on its side, period.
If they're not producing the same amount of greenhouse gases than the USA or the EU, then adopting the Protocol should not be too big a deal for them, and they should be able to handle it.
Er, they both ratified it a couple of years ago, as have 124 other countries. For some reason the USA continues to believe that it doesn't have to be responsible for picking up the mess it's making, unlike most of the world who're quite happy to deal with what they produce...
Bush comment on the Federal law appears to be trying to give the impression that he agrees that minors should not be executed. Shame his actions don't back that up.
Gary Graham was executed in Texas in June 2000, for a crime he committed when 17. Gov. Bush supported the execution.
How many lines of code are there in the Linux kernel? Don't have sources to hand at the moment, but I'd wager that 168,000 lines may actually be greater than the total size...
Once had a contract to write the code for a website for $WEBCO. $WEBCO's managers insisted that all code was writting in VBScript as that was "what our developers all work in".
Finally managed to meet one of their devs last year - found out that they write almost exclusively in perl and had finally managed to get the budget to do a rewrite so they could maintain it better...
university studies have shown that their reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict is often very biased in favour if Israel.
Whuh?? Any time they do a big report on conditions in the occupied territories you can't hear yourself think for the anguished screams of "Bias!" from the Israeli lobby.
Anyway, the beeb are one of the few UK news sources that's actually bothered to report the facts properly rather than just repeating the government line - see their coverage of Frances threatened veto for an example. (Funny how "Not until the inspectors say they can't achieve any more" turned into "Never ever" by the time it crossed the channel for most news sources...)
I've found that under some circumstances trying to do complex subqueries using joins can end up an order of magnitude slower - just something to watch out for...
A data security method and apparatus that provides an exceptional degree of security at low computational cost. The data security arrangement differs from known data security measures in several fundamental aspects. Most notably, the content of the message is not sent with the encrypted data. Rather, the encrypted data consists of pointers to locations within a virtual matrix, a large (arbitrarily large), continuously-changing array of values. The encryption technique is therefore referred to as Virtual Matrix Encryption. Furthermore, the data security arrangement uses a very large key of one million bits or more which creates a level of security much higher than any other existing method. The key is not transferred but is instead created from a file of any size that is available on both a computer used to send a secure message and a computer used to receive a secure message. The term Virtual Key Cryptographic as used herein to refer to techniques in which a key is recreated at a remote location from an electronic file without any transmission of the key itself. The file may be a system file, a file downloaded from the Internet, etc. A smaller, transaction-specific key, e.g., a 2,048 bit key, is sent end-to-end and is used in conjunction with the very large key to avoid a security hazard in instances where the same file is used repeatedly to create the very large key.
We did it just on PC. The whole idea of trying to ensure that someone voted either online or at the ballot box, but not both, seemed like far too much effort.
As far as security goes, we used the hash to make it very difficult to guess a password. The main problems were things like interception of the emails giving out uid/password combos, but you'd have that problem in a normal election with postal ballots.
You're right that for SU elections it's simply not worth the effort for someone to crack the system and that paper ballot is infinitely less secure - I can think of at least 5 ways of rigging an election at UCL, mainly involving bribing ballot box staff.
The Bristol system had a third party organisation running it (who I worked for). We used a hash of various bits of info about the student to generate a password, then emailed them out to all the voters. One vote allowed for each uid, password combo, votes stored seperately and automatic counting of STV.
There's also been some use of internet voting in Student Union elections in the UK, which are also legally binding. I worked on one of the first systems, for Bristol SU, a few years ago but I'm still not convinced you could apply the system to a national election.
Well OK then. Good to know that we don't have to worry about being randomly shot... unless of course you get offended in which case fire away! pop a cap in their ass, they deserve it! After all, they pissed you off! And you being such a nice guy and all...
Congratulations, you've just summed up US foreign policy.
If I could get the MS Paperclip to speak at me from all directions, I think I could be even more productive at work.
What are you talking about - he already does that. Clippy's my special friend. Some people pretend they can't see him, but he says they're lying. Sometimes he says I should kill them all. I like Clippy.
You bastards have been systematically killing, imprisoning, and torturing the Irish for centuries.
Yes we did, in the past. Then we grew up and worked out that you can't just go around bombing the crap out of people who disagree with you or have resources you want.
The only way to actually solve the problems that cause situations like NI, 911 and every other fsckup in the history of mankind is to find out what the problems really are, discuss them and reach a compromise which is agreeable to both parties. Most other civilised countries have worked this out too - why hasn't the US?
Pick a nice date like January, 2003, and just swear off ANY CD/Movie Ticket/DVD purchases for a month.
Cue immediate press release from both organisations along the lines of "See, our sales are down again and it's all because of these evil hackers". A boycott's only going to be effective if the majority of the population know about if (even if they don't support it).
Surely this would mean that distributing a schematic for an A/D converter would be trafficking in a circumvention device - is the USG going to force all electronic textbooks to be rewritten?
Of course we can only have innovation if the innovaters get all the money. After all, imagine all the fuss IBM would have kicked up if some upstart company had come along and reverse-engineered their BIOS for the original PC
Perhaps it would be worth writing to non-US hardware manufacturers and pointing out that this law will either force them to include (expensive) DRM technology in their products, or face being excluded from the US markets.
I can't really see UK manufacturers quietly agreeing to include "features" mandated by the US Senate...
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Hardware manufacturers aren't going to make seperate versions of processors, motherboards etc with and without DRM - they'll just produce the DRM one and distribute it throughout the world.
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Well if that's true, then I would argue that that's all the more reason for them to be included in the protocol. If we want this thing to get signed, the US has to be on its side, period. If they're not producing the same amount of greenhouse gases than the USA or the EU, then adopting the Protocol should not be too big a deal for them, and they should be able to handle it. Er, they both ratified it a couple of years ago, as have 124 other countries. For some reason the USA continues to believe that it doesn't have to be responsible for picking up the mess it's making, unlike most of the world who're quite happy to deal with what they produce...
Don't be silly. Haven't you heard - it was the Russians.
Bush comment on the Federal law appears to be trying to give the impression that he agrees that minors should not be executed. Shame his actions don't back that up.
Gary Graham was executed in Texas in June 2000, for a crime he committed when 17. Gov. Bush supported the execution.
How many lines of code are there in the Linux kernel? Don't have sources to hand at the moment, but I'd wager that 168,000 lines may actually be greater than the total size...
Narrowing it down furthur, it appears to be something to do with enterprise functionality and not necessarily anything in the kernel...
Heh.
Once had a contract to write the code for a website for $WEBCO. $WEBCO's managers insisted that all code was writting in VBScript as that was "what our developers all work in".
Finally managed to meet one of their devs last year - found out that they write almost exclusively in perl and had finally managed to get the budget to do a rewrite so they could maintain it better...
MSE is optimised for up to 5 concurrent connections, after that it starts slowing down *a lot*.
/is/ free...
Having said that, if you manage your connections properly in the front end you shouldn't have too many problems and it
university studies have shown that their reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict is often very biased in favour if Israel.
Whuh?? Any time they do a big report on conditions in the occupied territories you can't hear yourself think for the anguished screams of "Bias!" from the Israeli lobby.
Anyway, the beeb are one of the few UK news sources that's actually bothered to report the facts properly rather than just repeating the government line - see their coverage of Frances threatened veto for an example. (Funny how "Not until the inspectors say they can't achieve any more" turned into "Never ever" by the time it crossed the channel for most news sources...)
I've found that under some circumstances trying to do complex subqueries using joins can end up an order of magnitude slower - just something to watch out for...
A data security method and apparatus that provides an exceptional degree of security at low computational cost. The data security arrangement differs from known data security measures in several fundamental aspects. Most notably, the content of the message is not sent with the encrypted data. Rather, the encrypted data consists of pointers to locations within a virtual matrix, a large (arbitrarily large), continuously-changing array of values. The encryption technique is therefore referred to as Virtual Matrix Encryption. Furthermore, the data security arrangement uses a very large key of one million bits or more which creates a level of security much higher than any other existing method. The key is not transferred but is instead created from a file of any size that is available on both a computer used to send a secure message and a computer used to receive a secure message. The term Virtual Key Cryptographic as used herein to refer to techniques in which a key is recreated at a remote location from an electronic file without any transmission of the key itself. The file may be a system file, a file downloaded from the Internet, etc. A smaller, transaction-specific key, e.g., a 2,048 bit key, is sent end-to-end and is used in conjunction with the very large key to avoid a security hazard in instances where the same file is used repeatedly to create the very large key.
The patentWe did it just on PC. The whole idea of trying to ensure that someone voted either online or at the ballot box, but not both, seemed like far too much effort.
As far as security goes, we used the hash to make it very difficult to guess a password. The main problems were things like interception of the emails giving out uid/password combos, but you'd have that problem in a normal election with postal ballots.
You're right that for SU elections it's simply not worth the effort for someone to crack the system and that paper ballot is infinitely less secure - I can think of at least 5 ways of rigging an election at UCL, mainly involving bribing ballot box staff.
The Bristol system had a third party organisation running it (who I worked for). We used a hash of various bits of info about the student to generate a password, then emailed them out to all the voters. One vote allowed for each uid, password combo, votes stored seperately and automatic counting of STV.
There's also been some use of internet voting in Student Union elections in the UK, which are also legally binding. I worked on one of the first systems, for Bristol SU, a few years ago but I'm still not convinced you could apply the system to a national election.
Well OK then. Good to know that we don't have to worry about being randomly shot... unless of course you get offended in which case fire away! pop a cap in their ass, they deserve it! After all, they pissed you off! And you being such a nice guy and all...
Congratulations, you've just summed up US foreign policy.
Well, I recently got rejected for a position because I "don't have .NET experience". The 18 months C# I'd mentioned on my CV didn't seem to count...
If I could get the MS Paperclip to speak at me from all directions, I think I could be even more productive at work.
What are you talking about - he already does that. Clippy's my special friend. Some people pretend they can't see him, but he says they're lying. Sometimes he says I should kill them all. I like Clippy.
--At lunchtime I feed the unicorn.
You bastards have been systematically killing, imprisoning, and torturing the Irish for centuries.
Yes we did, in the past. Then we grew up and worked out that you can't just go around bombing the crap out of people who disagree with you or have resources you want.
The only way to actually solve the problems that cause situations like NI, 911 and every other fsckup in the history of mankind is to find out what the problems really are, discuss them and reach a compromise which is agreeable to both parties. Most other civilised countries have worked this out too - why hasn't the US?
Pick a nice date like January, 2003, and just swear off ANY CD/Movie Ticket/DVD purchases for a month.
Cue immediate press release from both organisations along the lines of "See, our sales are down again and it's all because of these evil hackers". A boycott's only going to be effective if the majority of the population know about if (even if they don't support it).
Unfortunately the same legislation also allows police forces to demand that ISPs retain logs of customer activity. The BBC has a more detailed story.
Surely this would mean that distributing a schematic for an A/D converter would be trafficking in a circumvention device - is the USG going to force all electronic textbooks to be rewritten?
This means it's lawful to sell DeCSS programs designed to decrypt the pre-1923 content
Bzzt, wrong answer
The judges latest order in the elcomsoft case (http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/2002050 8_dismiss_deny_order.pdf) rules that "all tools that enable circumvention of use restrictions are banned, not merely those use restrictions that prohibit infringement" (Page 10, lines 16-17).
In other words, you're not allowed to circumvent any use restrictions whatsoever, not even for the purposes of fair use etc.
Of course we can only have innovation if the innovaters get all the money. After all, imagine all the fuss IBM would have kicked up if some upstart company had come along and reverse-engineered their BIOS for the original PC
Ah... Hang on...
Perhaps it would be worth writing to non-US hardware manufacturers and pointing out that this law will either force them to include (expensive) DRM technology in their products, or face being excluded from the US markets.
I can't really see UK manufacturers quietly agreeing to include "features" mandated by the US Senate...
Hardware manufacturers aren't going to make seperate versions of processors, motherboards etc with and without DRM - they'll just produce the DRM one and distribute it throughout the world.
Total reduction in sales: 10.3%
Percentage of consumers not buying CDs: 23%
Are:
a) these figures screwy
b) the majority of consumers buying more CDs
c) my brain cells finally giving up and making me type nonsense?