Wow, it sucks to work there. All I had to sign was a paper saying that what I created on the clock and with their resources was theirs (which is perfectly reasonable IMHO).
And even with that, I have been able to get some things open sourced.
I would never take a job that claimed ownership on everything I do unless they are paying me for everything I do (hourly that works out to about 16 hour days, I'll take that overtime)
Not that I'm really clear on what you'd export to...
PEM or DER encoded pkcs12 files, or just seperate files for key and certs, like every other application in the world understands.
the cert had to exist outside the keychain to begin with, so you shouldn't need to export those...
If I delete the only copy outside of keychain, is it unreasonable to expect me to be able to export it?
'keys' don't really make sense outside of another Keychain
A key could certainly only exist inside of keychain (generate a thawte email signing keypair with safari and watch this happen)
And of course it makes sense outside of keychain, not every application uses keychain, some (such as mozilla/thunderbird/firefox) use their own certificate/key repository. Not to mention non osx platforms, is it unreasonable to expect to be able to move an identity cert and key to a non os x machine?
The inability to export has been fixed in Tiger, HOWEVER it still will not let you export your own private keys. Quite annoying.
A good example of this is the "export" function in OS X's KeyChain Access tool. It is ALWAYS (as in 100% of the time) greyed out. To date nobody (including apple) has been able to explain why. This basically means you can never export certs or keys that you have in keychain.
And no easy way to have an encrypted home directory, or make encrypted disk images (oh I know how to do it with a loopback file system, but most people don't)
And much less application support (don't show me 500 aim clones that Linux has, OS X can run those through X11 and fink anways, show me the Office or Photoshop or Quicken apps)
And a nighmare getting periferals configured and working
Oh and generally really crappy battery life, with (as much as I like Linux) the worlds worst power management features and tools.
Look, I love using Linux and it is the only OS on my desktops (except for one headless windows box for the sporatic DLL or ISAPI I have to write). However, after owning a few top of the line Dell notebooks and Thinkpads, I will never go back to x86 based laptops now that I have a powerbook. Having everything from power management, wireless, long battery life, and application compatibility just working is such a nice way to live:)
If you were just talking desktops, I kinda agree. Laptops on the other hand, I feel there are simply no x86 based laptops that can compete with the powerbook line on price, performance, features, etc. I have noticed the powerbooks line (and to a much lesser extent, the ibook line) making a massive comeback in higher education. Whereas I would used to go to various conferences and see over 90% thinkpads and some dells, now is seems well over half the people attending have powerbooks, and that number just keeps growing.
Granted higher ed is a small subset of the population, but I have been noticing more apple laptops in other groups as well.
No, they just probably figured it was not worth the trouble. The anti-piracy methods they have is place are currently more than any other disk based console I am aware of.
No, this strange and easily debunkable (is that a word?) rumor has to stop, for crying out loud. The GC disk does not, and has never spun backwards. It spins clockwise just like every other optical disk. However, for some strange reason, every discussion board on the net seems to have someone claiming otherwise.
However, and this is probably where the confusion comes from, the disks are written backwards in a sense. The data is written to them from the outside in, instead of from the inside out like all other disks. And they are encrypted in some fashion (probably like DVD-CSS). Otherwise they are normal mini DVDs.
Just to repeat GameCube disks do NOT spin backwards.
If I recall correctly, I believe the drive in the Gamecube spins the opposite way of other drives.
Nope, that is one of those strange rumors that just will not die. What happens is the data is written from the outside of the disk to the inside (backward from how optical and magnetic disks normally work) so that is where people probably got the misconception.
What you say is true, and I don't know why the "backward spin" myth is so prevelent when it is so damn easy to check. I suspect it is because people hear that the data is written backward (outside to inside) and cannot wrap their minds around that concept so it becomes the disk spinning backwards.
I agree, but I would say that going back to the constitution would be a major rewrite from where we are now. And not copyright law at all would be better than this mess.
They are using the Windows Media Rights Manager to encrypt their content. This has not been cracked yet.
(1) Yes ithas. It has been broken in the past and WILL be broken in the future. Without Paladium-like hardware support to physically keep the private key away from the user, DRM is simply an impossible promise . It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people can take it seriously when looking at how it works. Even with hardware support it is sketchy, it is almost a given that the hardware scheme will be broken as well over time. There is no DRM scheme on earth that has not been broken yet. The entire concept is flawed. And regardless of all of that, the analog hole makes it all pointless anyway.
(2) Then it is not p2p in any form. Windows Media Rights Manager works quite simply as I have described in my previous post. How do you release something on a p2p network and control it after n+1 steps? Setting up a system that distributes DRMed content from A to B is easy (see itms, napster2, etc). I have yet to see anyone solve the problem of passing DRM content from A to B to C unless you are using a single key to encrypt everything, in which case you lose individual control anyway.
I'm making the assumption that this uses DRM and is actually p2p. So how on earth could that possibly work?
Just a quick primer, DRM (at least in any existing form) is nothing more than public key encryption turned upside down. A private key is generated on your machine and the public key is sent to the server (in the case of itunes or napster v2). The public key is used to encrypt any files you "purchase" so that only the private key can decrypt it. So far so good, but that is just simply public key encryption. What makes it DRM is that the software attempts to "hide" your own private key from you, the rational being that if you can access your own key, you can decrypt the data at will and save it rather than letting the application place all kinds of restrictions on you.
If this seems like an incredibly ignorant and technologically weak idea it is only because that is exactly what DRM is.
So how do you pull something like that off in a P2P environment? Who handles keys? Who encrypts stuff and to whom? I can only see this working with a flat fee based system where everyone has access to everything which has been encrypted with the same key. Of course as soon as that one key is "found" (and it will be, it has to be in every player on the network), the whole system falls apart.
Details on this would be nice (and not too much to ask from a news for nerds site), right now there just seems to be empty marketing blurbs.
aimed at stopping international copyright infringement..at what point did US law become International law?
Beats me, they way you wrote that it looks like you are quoting me saying that. I certainly never said anything of the kind.
Unfortunately, while the US cannot enforce its laws internationally, there has been no problem getting other countries to "harmonize" their laws and enforce them.
Why do I get the idea that this new IP czar isn't going to be concerning himself much with corporations abusing copyright law to silence their critics and prevent parody and satire being made about their property?
And is he going to work toward finding a middle ground between fair use and IP protection?
Well, duh. Where is the money in that? Expect to see copyright violation successfully linked to pirates (arrrr matey) and then terrorism (copyright jihad!) in the future. We must do all we can to protect the patriotic, campaign financing, copyright holding, megacorps from the greedy citizenry.
"if you excercise your fair use rights than then terrorists have already won"
I am just glad they found a cause better than education to give money to. I was affraid my kids might get an educaion.
They are getting an education in how government operates and where its priorities are.
Copyright law, as intended, has certainly jumped the shark and needs to be completely re-writen or eliminated (which, while not ideal would be a better situation than we are heading toward)
Copying a videocasette is slightly more involved than copying computer software (or mp3s, what have you)
Videocassettes and DVDs are tangible, and it would cost me a ton of money to make 10,000 duplications of them. Software on the other hand only costs me as much as the hard drive space it takes up, and hard drive space is mighty cheap these days.
and basically manage illegitimate content distribution at the same time
You do realize this means nothing more than attempt to sue everyone who shares a file of any type with a name resembling any movie title. And ultimately declaring that I2 cannot police itself and control should be turned over to them.
And gee, there are no counter examples *caugh*vietnam.
Besides, I wouldn't call the Iraq situation exactly over. A few more soldiers put bullets into the heads of wounded Iraqi soldiers and the population might just rise up en mass against the US.
On the flip side, if they keep abducting innocent people (like that poor woman who dedicated her life to helping Iraq) and killing them, then their cause gets little sympathy (rightfully so).
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f you just want to deter prying eyes a substitution cipher using multiple substitutions and several different substitutions schemes offers a reasonable level of encryption for virtually no computational effort. (This is the way Enigma works and after all, it did take Alan Turing to break it).
The Poles broke it, they even invented the "computers" (bombes) that automated the further breaking of it. Turing (not to diminish the contributions he made to BP) really just vastly improved on their methods and created a much more sophisticated machine to break it.
...so ready to call on the coercive power of the State... ...Those vast powers I referred to, having grown to frightful proportions over many years... ...The readiness of the State to use its violent power is all too troubling...
Wow, you do realize we are talking about video games here right, Mr Perspective? This is an electronics company bringing a lawsuit against people violating their copyright, not jack booted thugs keeping down the populous with violence and "the state" exercising "terrible power". Learn the difference.
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Actually the phrase you are looking for is "love of money is the root of all evil"
Finkployd
Wow, it sucks to work there. All I had to sign was a paper saying that what I created on the clock and with their resources was theirs (which is perfectly reasonable IMHO).
And even with that, I have been able to get some things open sourced.
I would never take a job that claimed ownership on everything I do unless they are paying me for everything I do (hourly that works out to about 16 hour days, I'll take that overtime)
Finkployd
Not that I'm really clear on what you'd export to...
PEM or DER encoded pkcs12 files, or just seperate files for key and certs, like every other application in the world understands.
the cert had to exist outside the keychain to begin with, so you shouldn't need to export those...
If I delete the only copy outside of keychain, is it unreasonable to expect me to be able to export it?
'keys' don't really make sense outside of another Keychain
A key could certainly only exist inside of keychain (generate a thawte email signing keypair with safari and watch this happen)
And of course it makes sense outside of keychain, not every application uses keychain, some (such as mozilla/thunderbird/firefox) use their own certificate/key repository.
Not to mention non osx platforms, is it unreasonable to expect to be able to move an identity cert and key to a non os x machine?
The inability to export has been fixed in Tiger, HOWEVER it still will not let you export your own private keys. Quite annoying.
A good example of this is the "export" function in OS X's KeyChain Access tool. It is ALWAYS (as in 100% of the time) greyed out. To date nobody (including apple) has been able to explain why. This basically means you can never export certs or keys that you have in keychain.
Finkployd
That may be, I gave up on Thinkpads after the T23.
I should look at the T40 sometime.
I think the point was that the market at large does not seem to think so.
Finkployd
And no easy way to have an encrypted home directory, or make encrypted disk images (oh I know how to do it with a loopback file system, but most people don't)
:)
And much less application support (don't show me 500 aim clones that Linux has, OS X can run those through X11 and fink anways, show me the Office or Photoshop or Quicken apps)
And a nighmare getting periferals configured and working
Oh and generally really crappy battery life, with (as much as I like Linux) the worlds worst power management features and tools.
Look, I love using Linux and it is the only OS on my desktops (except for one headless windows box for the sporatic DLL or ISAPI I have to write). However, after owning a few top of the line Dell notebooks and Thinkpads, I will never go back to x86 based laptops now that I have a powerbook. Having everything from power management, wireless, long battery life, and application compatibility just working is such a nice way to live
Finkployd
If you were just talking desktops, I kinda agree. Laptops on the other hand, I feel there are simply no x86 based laptops that can compete with the powerbook line on price, performance, features, etc. I have noticed the powerbooks line (and to a much lesser extent, the ibook line) making a massive comeback in higher education.
Whereas I would used to go to various conferences and see over 90% thinkpads and some dells, now is seems well over half the people attending have powerbooks, and that number just keeps growing.
Granted higher ed is a small subset of the population, but I have been noticing more apple laptops in other groups as well.
Finkployd
No, they just probably figured it was not worth the trouble. The anti-piracy methods they have is place are currently more than any other disk based console I am aware of.
No, this strange and easily debunkable (is that a word?) rumor has to stop, for crying out loud. The GC disk does not, and has never spun backwards. It spins clockwise just like every other optical disk.
However, for some strange reason, every discussion board on the net seems to have someone claiming otherwise.
However, and this is probably where the confusion comes from, the disks are written backwards in a sense. The data is written to them from the outside in, instead of from the inside out like all other disks. And they are encrypted in some fashion (probably like DVD-CSS). Otherwise they are normal mini DVDs.
Just to repeat GameCube disks do NOT spin backwards.
Finkployd
If I recall correctly, I believe the drive in the Gamecube spins the opposite way of other drives.
Nope, that is one of those strange rumors that just will not die. What happens is the data is written from the outside of the disk to the inside (backward from how optical and magnetic disks normally work) so that is where people probably got the misconception.
What you say is true, and I don't know why the "backward spin" myth is so prevelent when it is so damn easy to check. I suspect it is because people hear that the data is written backward (outside to inside) and cannot wrap their minds around that concept so it becomes the disk spinning backwards.
Finkployd
I agree, but I would say that going back to the constitution would be a major rewrite from where we are now. And not copyright law at all would be better than this mess.
Finkployd
They are using the Windows Media Rights Manager to encrypt their content. This has not been cracked yet.
(1) Yes it has. It has been broken in the past and WILL be broken in the future. Without Paladium-like hardware support to physically keep the private key away from the user, DRM is simply an impossible promise . It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people can take it seriously when looking at how it works. Even with hardware support it is sketchy, it is almost a given that the hardware scheme will be broken as well over time. There is no DRM scheme on earth that has not been broken yet. The entire concept is flawed.
And regardless of all of that, the analog hole makes it all pointless anyway.
(2) Then it is not p2p in any form. Windows Media Rights Manager works quite simply as I have described in my previous post. How do you release something on a p2p network and control it after n+1 steps? Setting up a system that distributes DRMed content from A to B is easy (see itms, napster2, etc). I have yet to see anyone solve the problem of passing DRM content from A to B to C unless you are using a single key to encrypt everything, in which case you lose individual control anyway.
Finkployd
Or at least mentioned an act that is indecent in most southern states.
:)
Nice visual. Perhaps the next step after "jumping the shark" and continuing on should be called "raping the shark"
Finkployd
I'm making the assumption that this uses DRM and is actually p2p. So how on earth could that possibly work?
Just a quick primer, DRM (at least in any existing form) is nothing more than public key encryption turned upside down. A private key is generated on your machine and the public key is sent to the server (in the case of itunes or napster v2). The public key is used to encrypt any files you "purchase" so that only the private key can decrypt it. So far so good, but that is just simply public key encryption. What makes it DRM is that the software attempts to "hide" your own private key from you, the rational being that if you can access your own key, you can decrypt the data at will and save it rather than letting the application place all kinds of restrictions on you.
If this seems like an incredibly ignorant and technologically weak idea it is only because that is exactly what DRM is.
So how do you pull something like that off in a P2P environment? Who handles keys? Who encrypts stuff and to whom? I can only see this working with a flat fee based system where everyone has access to everything which has been encrypted with the same key. Of course as soon as that one key is "found" (and it will be, it has to be in every player on the network), the whole system falls apart.
Details on this would be nice (and not too much to ask from a news for nerds site), right now there just seems to be empty marketing blurbs.
Finkployd
aimed at stopping international copyright infringement ..at what point did US law become International law?
Beats me, they way you wrote that it looks like you are quoting me saying that. I certainly never said anything of the kind.
Unfortunately, while the US cannot enforce its laws internationally, there has been no problem getting other countries to "harmonize" their laws and enforce them.
Finkployd
Why do I get the idea that this new IP czar isn't going to be concerning himself much with corporations abusing copyright law to silence their critics and prevent parody and satire being made about their property?
And is he going to work toward finding a middle ground between fair use and IP protection?
Well, duh. Where is the money in that? Expect to see copyright violation successfully linked to pirates (arrrr matey) and then terrorism (copyright jihad!) in the future. We must do all we can to protect the patriotic, campaign financing, copyright holding, megacorps from the greedy citizenry.
"if you excercise your fair use rights than then terrorists have already won"
Finkployd
I am just glad they found a cause better than education to give money to. I was affraid my kids might get an educaion.
They are getting an education in how government operates and where its priorities are.
Copyright law, as intended, has certainly jumped the shark and needs to be completely re-writen or eliminated (which, while not ideal would be a better situation than we are heading toward)
Finkployd
Copying a videocasette is slightly more involved than copying computer software (or mp3s, what have you)
Videocassettes and DVDs are tangible, and it would cost me a ton of money to make 10,000 duplications of them.
Software on the other hand only costs me as much as the hard drive space it takes up, and hard drive space is mighty cheap these days.
and basically manage illegitimate content distribution at the same time
You do realize this means nothing more than attempt to sue everyone who shares a file of any type with a name resembling any movie title. And ultimately declaring that I2 cannot police itself and control should be turned over to them.
Finkployd
And gee, there are no counter examples *caugh*vietnam.
Besides, I wouldn't call the Iraq situation exactly over. A few more soldiers put bullets into the heads of wounded Iraqi soldiers and the population might just rise up en mass against the US.
On the flip side, if they keep abducting innocent people (like that poor woman who dedicated her life to helping Iraq) and killing them, then their cause gets little sympathy (rightfully so).
Finkployd
f you just want to deter prying eyes a substitution cipher using multiple substitutions and several different substitutions schemes offers a reasonable level of encryption for virtually no computational effort. (This is the way Enigma works and after all, it did take Alan Turing to break it).
The Poles broke it, they even invented the "computers" (bombes) that automated the further breaking of it. Turing (not to diminish the contributions he made to BP) really just vastly improved on their methods and created a much more sophisticated machine to break it.
Finkployd
Don't forget Zones. Gotta get me some of that.
...so ready to call on the coercive power of the State...
...Those vast powers I referred to, having grown to frightful proportions over many years...
...The readiness of the State to use its violent power is all too troubling...
Wow, you do realize we are talking about video games here right, Mr Perspective? This is an electronics company bringing a lawsuit against people violating their copyright, not jack booted thugs keeping down the populous with violence and "the state" exercising "terrible power". Learn the difference.