And regardless of how strong it is, there would always be someone out there trying (and probably succeeding) to hack it
Trying and definitely succeeding. If a software SDMI verifier ever comes out, it'll be disassembled and cracked before you can say 'script kiddie'; otherwise, it'll just take a little longer for some grad student researching ultramicroscopy to take apart their SDMI Rio and map the chips. The only possible point of SDMI is to stall free copying until the industry pushes draconian laws through Congress and/or to make the pointy haireds at the top think Something Is Being Done.
Mumia Abu-Jamal murdered a police officer. He doesn't deserve the adulation he gets any more than Mitnick.
Mitnick and Abu-Jamal are criminals, always will be. Mitnick deserves everything he got and Abu-Jamal deserves what he's going to get, sooner or later.
The net is not a political body; it cannot grant rights. There is no such thing as "freedom of speech in the net"; there is only freedom of speech in legitimate political bodies.
Rights do not come from political bodies, legitimate or otherwise. Governments do not give people rights. If there is one idea of the past two thousand years that deserves to be remembered, it is that rights are inherent and innate to all people.
I don't know what the original poster's beef is, but I bought a system from Atipa last year...
They charged my credit card the day after I placed the order. They did not ship _anything_ for exactly 30 days - the legal limit for charging credit cards before shipping, and the only time a vendor has ever charged me before shipping.
During this 30 days I repeatedly called and asked when my order would be shipped. Each time I was told it would be shipped within two days.
They put an ATAPI CD-ROM in it, not the SCSI I ordered. I asked for an RMI number so I could send the wrong drive back and get refunded; they never did.
They told me my monitor would be shipped separately by a different company entirely. They could not or would not give me a tracking number for the monitor.
After I cancelled the monitor from my order, they did not reverse that part of my credit card charge until I spent literally months on the phone with them; in the end they reversed only a part of the charge.
On almost every contact I had with them, they told me their president, Jason Talley, was the only person who could fix the problem du jour. Every time I called I was told he was out of the office. Every time, I was told he would return my call. He never did, not once.
Atipa ripped me off, and they didn't even have the decency to be polite about it. I hope they go out of business, I hope Talley gets convicted on criminal charges, and I hope he gets raped in prison.
Umm, no, depleted uranium rounds are used in weaponry because it is dense.
Learn how to read. I said partially. If you think uranium's pyrophoric nature is INCIDENTAL (that's how it's spelled, incidentally), ask someone who was in a tank hit by a DU round if it's incidental.
If burning was a key point then phosphorous rounds would be used as more then just tracers.
Willie Pete is used for more THAN just tracers.
And learn some chemistry. Similar columns do not mean common chemical reactivities.
Okay, I should have pointed out that they're both in the actinide series, and the actinides do have similar chemical properties, for the same reasons as the lanthanides.
And while you're telling people who know at least as much about the subject as you do to go learn something about them, check up Mendele'ev's reasoning for placing elements in adjacent columns. Remember, nobody knew what an atomic weight was back then, so he wasn't just counting protons.
It's only two columns away from uranium on the periodic table, and remember: they use depleted uranium in tank-killing rounds partially because it burns very nicely.
When was the last time you got $40 out of the ATM and your receipt didn't say $41.50?
Just the other day. There still are a few financial institutions that realize that we realize ATMs are cheaper than human tellers, and therefore don't shaft their customers with ATM charges.
Somebody ripping off GPL software in way the this anonymous coward describes is damaging not because of the free ride gotten (we *want* you to have *free* code), but because it threatens to undermine the enforceability of the GPL.
What enforcability?
Last I heard, no court has ever, ever found against someone (or refused to) for violating the GPL; until that happens, talking about GPL violations is just lip flapping (unless a lawyer's doing it, in which case it's lip flapping at hundreds of dollars an hour.)
I heard RMS speak a few years ago and he bragged about companies releasing source rather than going to court. That proves only that those companies thought that was the most cost-effective thing to do, not that the companies thought the GPL had a shred of legal validity.
Times are indeed changing. Last year I chose to buy a box from Atípa mainly because they didn't think (at the time) that the free Unix world began and ended with Linux.
My mistake.
The box - or most of it, I should say - didn't ship until a month after they charged my credit card. When it did arrive, it had an ATAPI CD-ROM instead of the SCSI I ordered, the SCSI chain was unterminated so it wouldn't have booted at all... and the monitor didn't arrive at all. I had to call them to find out that the monitor - which they had already charged me for - was back-ordered. I told them to drop that part of the order and got a better monitor cheaper from someone else - but still had to spend several months playing phone tag with them before they refunded me.
On the rare occasions I could get someone on the phone who would admit to knowing about my order, I was usually told I had to talk to Jason Talley, the boss - who was never there and who never, ever, ever returned my calls. Even when they admitted shipping the wrong CD-ROM drive was their mistake, they never gave me an RMI for it so I could return the damned thing.
Of course, I was an idiot not to just buy parts and put them together myself. All the same, fuck Atípa.
The patent on the RSA algorithm dies in September, yes (and there'll be a hell of a party), and it's dead simple to implement independently, but I'd bet Netscape contains plenty of copyrighted or otherwise-patented code that'd be rather more time-consuming to duplicate in the clean room.
I won't make any comments on whether there will be a "release" quality version of Mozilla by September...
If you need encryption to hide secrets from your government, you're already screwed. They'll simply steal the keys off your machines, or coerce the information out of you.
True, but that doesn't mean encrypting your secrets is pointless. Rather, it recommends everyone encrypt everything:
They can't pull black bag jobs on all of us, and
If everything is encrypted, They'll have a hard time figuring out what's worth going after.
SSC (or whoever owns it these days, I'm behind) charges $1 to use the 'cool, it works with linux' trademark, because licensing it for free could lose its trademark status.
This would suggest Linus hunt down all the *linux* domain holders and shake them down for small change or lose the TM. Anyone more lawyerly than me know for sure? (And interesting that everybody and his monkey licenses copyrighted software w/o mutual consideration. Either copyright law differs here, or I'm totally wrong here, or both.)
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Trying and definitely succeeding. If a software SDMI verifier ever comes out, it'll be disassembled and cracked before you can say 'script kiddie'; otherwise, it'll just take a little longer for some grad student researching ultramicroscopy to take apart their SDMI Rio and map the chips. The only possible point of SDMI is to stall free copying until the industry pushes draconian laws through Congress and/or to make the pointy haireds at the top think Something Is Being Done.
Just think... decades' worth of Doctor Who. (Not to mention The Goodies.)
Mitnick and Abu-Jamal are criminals, always will be. Mitnick deserves everything he got and Abu-Jamal deserves what he's going to get, sooner or later.
Rights do not come from political bodies, legitimate or otherwise. Governments do not give people rights. If there is one idea of the past two thousand years that deserves to be remembered, it is that rights are inherent and innate to all people.
- They charged my credit card the day after I placed the order. They did not ship _anything_ for exactly 30 days - the legal limit for charging credit cards before shipping, and the only time a vendor has ever charged me before shipping.
- During this 30 days I repeatedly called and asked when my order would be shipped. Each time I was told it would be shipped within two days.
- They put an ATAPI CD-ROM in it, not the SCSI I ordered. I asked for an RMI number so I could send the wrong drive back and get refunded; they never did.
- They told me my monitor would be shipped separately by a different company entirely. They could not or would not give me a tracking number for the monitor.
- After I cancelled the monitor from my order, they did not reverse that part of my credit card charge until I spent literally months on the phone with them; in the end they reversed only a part of the charge.
- On almost every contact I had with them, they told me their president, Jason Talley, was the only person who could fix the problem du jour. Every time I called I was told he was out of the office. Every time, I was told he would return my call. He never did, not once.
Atipa ripped me off, and they didn't even have the decency to be polite about it. I hope they go out of business, I hope Talley gets convicted on criminal charges, and I hope he gets raped in prison.Learn how to read. I said partially. If you think uranium's pyrophoric nature is INCIDENTAL (that's how it's spelled, incidentally), ask someone who was in a tank hit by a DU round if it's incidental.
If burning was a key point then phosphorous rounds would be used as more then just tracers.
Willie Pete is used for more THAN just tracers.
And learn some chemistry. Similar columns do not mean common chemical reactivities.
Okay, I should have pointed out that they're both in the actinide series, and the actinides do have similar chemical properties, for the same reasons as the lanthanides.
And while you're telling people who know at least as much about the subject as you do to go learn something about them, check up Mendele'ev's reasoning for placing elements in adjacent columns. Remember, nobody knew what an atomic weight was back then, so he wasn't just counting protons.
Or just go away until you learn how to spell.
It's only two columns away from uranium on the periodic table, and remember: they use depleted uranium in tank-killing rounds partially because it burns very nicely.
Just the other day. There still are a few financial institutions that realize that we realize ATMs are cheaper than human tellers, and therefore don't shaft their customers with ATM charges.
What enforcability?
Last I heard, no court has ever, ever found against someone (or refused to) for violating the GPL; until that happens, talking about GPL violations is just lip flapping (unless a lawyer's doing it, in which case it's lip flapping at hundreds of dollars an hour.)
I heard RMS speak a few years ago and he bragged about companies releasing source rather than going to court. That proves only that those companies thought that was the most cost-effective thing to do, not that the companies thought the GPL had a shred of legal validity.
My mistake.
The box - or most of it, I should say - didn't ship until a month after they charged my credit card. When it did arrive, it had an ATAPI CD-ROM instead of the SCSI I ordered, the SCSI chain was unterminated so it wouldn't have booted at all... and the monitor didn't arrive at all. I had to call them to find out that the monitor - which they had already charged me for - was back-ordered. I told them to drop that part of the order and got a better monitor cheaper from someone else - but still had to spend several months playing phone tag with them before they refunded me.
On the rare occasions I could get someone on the phone who would admit to knowing about my order, I was usually told I had to talk to Jason Talley, the boss - who was never there and who never, ever, ever returned my calls. Even when they admitted shipping the wrong CD-ROM drive was their mistake, they never gave me an RMI for it so I could return the damned thing.
Of course, I was an idiot not to just buy parts and put them together myself. All the same, fuck Atípa.
Remember, when you browse someone's site, you browse every site that person has browsed...
I won't make any comments on whether there will be a "release" quality version of Mozilla by September...
Yes, for suitable values of "release"...
"Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers will always get you gold." - Machiavelli
True, but that doesn't mean encrypting your secrets is pointless. Rather, it recommends everyone encrypt everything:
This would suggest Linus hunt down all the *linux* domain holders and shake them down for small change or lose the TM. Anyone more lawyerly than me know for sure? (And interesting that everybody and his monkey licenses copyrighted software w/o mutual consideration. Either copyright law differs here, or I'm totally wrong here, or both.)