The Wikipedia page on TrueCrypt already indicates that the volumes can pretty much be detected since they are always divisible by 512, it's just impossible to PROVE they are TrueCrypt volumes...
This is not new, Walmart has been doing this for years. After you drive out competition, slow down R&D, and raise your prices, you get fat and slow. And when a nice lean company comes in and challenges you, you die of a heart attack.
Every poet is a cannibal and every artist is a thief.
Not true - there's quite a difference between imitating a certain writing/painting/musical style and wholeheartedly copying an artistic work without so much as mentioning that it's been done before.
Honestly the person who takes something obscure (by a local or a widespread standard) and makes it "accessible" or "relevant" is as much of an artist as the original creator...
Making something accessible is fine, as long as you mention where it came from. FYI, when you "make something accessible" without giving credit in your term paper, it's called plagiarism.
And as far as attribution goes you're applying a more modern standard than was ever considered at the time. The same accusation could be made against The Beatles, Dylan, Clapton, Sabbath, Muddy Waters... Leadbelly, Blind Lemon. (if that list doesn't make the point then very likely you're just prejudiced against old music)
I like old music and have a great deal of respect for the artists you mentioned, actually I had never heard of Leadbelly before Nirvana covered one of his songs on their Unplugged album. Nonetheless, Led Zep was sued by Willie Dixon for their liberal use of his material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin
While they may never have given official credit in a way that would be required now they did successfully turn many people on to the music of blues heroes like Willie Dixson.
You can only turn someone on to a musical artist if you mention them specifically. I have listened to Led Zeppelin, but was never turned on to Willie Dixson because no credit was given to him and I had never heard of him until I found out about this whole rip off fiasco. Had his name been mentioned either in the songs or on the album insert/art, I might have been inclined to listen to some of his work.
p.s.
Consider a relevant translation of artwork.. who would know a classic movie like Kurasowa's The Seven Samurai if it wasn't for the Magnificent Seven?
Or is "The Departed" less of a great piece of art because it is an Americanization of a foreign film?
I actually saw the original Seven Samurai on TV a few times, I've never seen the Magnificent Seven. The Departed is probably one of my favorite movies. Caveat: there is a difference between adapting a movie for a foreign audience with a different language/culture and wholeheartedly ripping off music/lyrics. In these two movies, the originals were attributed and recognized.
Right, because everyone works in the same town they live in. There's no roads or cars over there in Tuscarora, no sir. If it weren't for those crickets, life would be pretty dull!
Overclocking in and of itself is "doing something wrong", as you are pushing components beyond their manufacturer specified limits. The machine I was overclocking was custom built from good parts, it was not a Dell or HP etc. By the way how do you even try overclocking one those? The BIOS is typically locked down and devoid of OC options.
At any rate, my point is that by doing any sort of overclocking you are decreasing MTBF and reliability and increasing failure modes, even if you do it the "right way" as you claim. I personally don't think the marginally higher benchmark scores are worth the time or cost. This is not to say that overclocking is a bad hobby or anything, if that's how people want to spend their time, money, and get their thrills, go right ahead. It is interesting to find out what the actual limits of certain hardware is, if you have deep enough pockets to do so.
Just keep in mind that, when you're boasting about how great overclocking is and how it makes your cheaper processor as fast as a higher end one, etc., I'm thinking there's not much difference between you and the guy who rolls down the street in the Civic with the coffee can exhaust, body kit, and rims that cost more than the car - at the end of the day, it's still a Civic...
It doesn't. If this makes any sense, what a believer believes, only applies to the believer.
what if i believe i am not born with original sin?
You are free to believe whatever you want.
i am rejecting catholic dogma. now: how do you deal with such a person?
Once again, you are free to believe or reject what you will, I don't feel you are superior or inferior to me because of your spiritual beliefs. I do believe everyone has unique value and talents to offer the world.
My original point to all this was that it is not nationalism or organized religion that is the problem - they may be convenient scapegoats, but not the ultimate source of responsibility. If you take away nationalism and organized religion, the problem is still there. Maybe now it's political systems, or economic systems, or what job you do, or what kind of car you drive. No matter what, certain people will always find a way to quantify themselves as "superior". I just think it's bad form to blanket bash any group and put the responsibility on them. Further, it is the "I have a better path than you" that sparks ingenuity, creativity, positive competition, and multiple solutions for a given problem. My question to you is - are you willing to give that up in order to avoid the "bad" that also results?
Doing something wrong doesn't inherently make someone inferior, it just means they made a mistake.
Is someone who got into a car accident less of a human being than someone who did not?
Furthermore, your comments about original sin are off the mark. Catholics believe everyone, *EVERYONE*, is born with original sin. It is not a point of inferiority or superiority, but something that is common to all mankind. If I am Catholic and believe that my religion frees me from original sin, then I would be inclined to convert others to my religion, not kill, maim, or enslave them.
All comparisons aside, the pope's assertion doesn't compel me to go do violence to Protestants or any other religious group, or view them as lesser human beings. I may view them as on a wrong spiritual path, but certainly not inferior to myself.
nationalism and organized religion are forces in this world which must be defeated if we are all to live in peace
I disagree with your blanket statement about organized religion, and with blanket statements in general. It is this kind of closed minded thinking that causes problems in the first place. There are a number of organized religions that work towards peace and the civil treatment of all human beings, I point you to the Catholic Church's pope as an example.
Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with being proud of where you come from, as long as you are willing to accept that others will also be proud of where they come from, and have value to offer.
Increased bus speed = decreased stability, as it affects other components aside from the processor (and just because the processor can take it doesn't mean the other hardware can). I tried this years ago with an AMD Athlon XP processor that hadn't been "unlocked", meaning that you couldn't change the multiplier, just the FSB Mhz. I went through 3 processors, 2 motherboards, 1 RAM module, a graphics card and many annoying BSODs and system freezes before I gave up on overclocking that rig (it was water cooled too).
I still like AMD products and believe they give you good value, but I don't think overclocking gives you any meaningful results. It's probably more trouble than it's worth, and as mentioned, the HDD is the biggest throughput bottleneck anyway.
Good point - I guess Buffalo is just an easier target (and more likely to give in to legal pressure) since it is selling the infringing items retail. The court injunction in the USA cost them millions of dollars in sales. This article points out that the patent relates to using OFDM technology to boost throughput: http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2008/10/different_interpretation_of_buffalo_csiro_patent_appeal.html
I don't quite understand how CSIRO patented a technology that has been around as long as CDMA cellular systems (which also uses OFDM).
Also, to answer your question, no, you don't pay royalties, because you already paid for the individual components. Unless those components came with a EULA, you are free to use them and resell them as you wish.
Mod parent up please - a very good point. In order for Dell, Apple, Microsoft, etc. to capitalize on CSIRO's research, they had to first establish design, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and logistics channels to sell the retail product(s) in question. All of those things cost money that CSIRO either didn't have or wasn't willing to spend to bring their "research" to market. Does CSIRO deserve a piece of the pie? Yes. Do they deserve to make a giant mess out of everything to get that piece of the pie? No.
All kidding aside, I really wish they would improve the entire patent system/process. Anyone that's familiar with Buffalo's wireless routers knows their products got pulled from shelves for months due to patent litigation. Yes, it hurts Buffalo, but it also hurts their customers. Is it really necessary to pull products off shelves while the litigation is going on? In the end, if the company is found not to be infringing, then business continues as usual. If it is infringing, then it pays some royalty based on number of infringing units sold. That sounds like a good way to make everyone happy without pulling products off shelves and destroying free market competition.
it doesn't land you in jail, or has the potential prospect of landing you in jail. If there is even the possibility of going to jail, then for me, it doesn't pay. There's already enough to worry about aside from dropping the soap...
When I get phone calls from people asking me to fix their Conficker infected PCs, my first comment to them isn't "Told you so! Seems like you should have spent a small amount of time patching your machine". Not only would that be bad business, but most people in that situation don't understand the fundamentals at work here. If they did, I wouldn't be getting calls in the first place. That's where I come in, fix/configure their PC appropriately, and educate them as best I can. Telling me I should have patched machines I have no control over after the fact isn't very helpful...
"The Obama administration plans to create a new military command to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve U.S. offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, according to current and former officials familiar with the plans."
Right, because the military does such a good job of keeping up with the latest in security, see yesterday's sat com article:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/151225
I think I'll join the kick in nads faction - what would have been really cool is if the Conficker author had used his talent for something constructive, not destructive. I'm sure any IT professional who has spent hours dealing with the fallout of Conficker will agree, as I personally spent a good amount of time rebuilding machines that got infected.
It is actually different from other utilities - the electric company doesn't cap how much electricity you use, neither does the water company, you can use as much as you want, or rather, as much as can flow through given the physical limitations of your electric wires/breakers and plumbing pipes. Your bandwidth, on the other hand, is capped, and is well below the theoretical limits of the coax or fiber optic medium it travels through. When Time Warner etc. design their systems, they do so with these caps in mind. So they only reason they would need to add capacity (spend money) would be to add more users (make more money).
Please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that Turntin's source of revenue is based on a database of work created by other people (students). It would only seem fair that, regardless of whether or not the work was published, the authors should receive some kind of compensation for Turntin's use of their paper(s), since without these papers, they would not have a service to offer.
I think you missed the part where the FCC busted the guy from New Jersey:
"In February of last year, FCC investigators used a mobile direction-finding vehicle to trace rogue transmissions to a Brazilian immigrant in New Jersey."
While the focus of the article is the abuse in Brazil, I'm sure it's happening in the USA (evidenced by above quote) as well as other countries.
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The Wikipedia page on TrueCrypt already indicates that the volumes can pretty much be detected since they are always divisible by 512, it's just impossible to PROVE they are TrueCrypt volumes...
Be enlightened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt
This is not new, Walmart has been doing this for years. After you drive out competition, slow down R&D, and raise your prices, you get fat and slow. And when a nice lean company comes in and challenges you, you die of a heart attack.
Every poet is a cannibal and every artist is a thief.
Not true - there's quite a difference between imitating a certain writing/painting/musical style and wholeheartedly copying an artistic work without so much as mentioning that it's been done before.
Honestly the person who takes something obscure (by a local or a widespread standard) and makes it "accessible" or "relevant" is as much of an artist as the original creator...
Making something accessible is fine, as long as you mention where it came from. FYI, when you "make something accessible" without giving credit in your term paper, it's called plagiarism.
And as far as attribution goes you're applying a more modern standard than was ever considered at the time. The same accusation could be made against The Beatles, Dylan, Clapton, Sabbath, Muddy Waters... Leadbelly, Blind Lemon. (if that list doesn't make the point then very likely you're just prejudiced against old music)
I like old music and have a great deal of respect for the artists you mentioned, actually I had never heard of Leadbelly before Nirvana covered one of his songs on their Unplugged album. Nonetheless, Led Zep was sued by Willie Dixon for their liberal use of his material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin
While they may never have given official credit in a way that would be required now they did successfully turn many people on to the music of blues heroes like Willie Dixson.
You can only turn someone on to a musical artist if you mention them specifically. I have listened to Led Zeppelin, but was never turned on to Willie Dixson because no credit was given to him and I had never heard of him until I found out about this whole rip off fiasco. Had his name been mentioned either in the songs or on the album insert/art, I might have been inclined to listen to some of his work.
p.s. Consider a relevant translation of artwork.. who would know a classic movie like Kurasowa's The Seven Samurai if it wasn't for the Magnificent Seven? Or is "The Departed" less of a great piece of art because it is an Americanization of a foreign film?
I actually saw the original Seven Samurai on TV a few times, I've never seen the Magnificent Seven. The Departed is probably one of my favorite movies. Caveat: there is a difference between adapting a movie for a foreign audience with a different language/culture and wholeheartedly ripping off music/lyrics. In these two movies, the originals were attributed and recognized.
I like listening to Led Zeppelin songs, but they actually took a lot of their material from other artists (without giving proper credit) -
http://therecord.blogs.com/blogovich/2007/09/led-zeppelin-as.html
Right, because everyone works in the same town they live in. There's no roads or cars over there in Tuscarora, no sir. If it weren't for those crickets, life would be pretty dull!
Overclocking in and of itself is "doing something wrong", as you are pushing components beyond their manufacturer specified limits. The machine I was overclocking was custom built from good parts, it was not a Dell or HP etc. By the way how do you even try overclocking one those? The BIOS is typically locked down and devoid of OC options.
At any rate, my point is that by doing any sort of overclocking you are decreasing MTBF and reliability and increasing failure modes, even if you do it the "right way" as you claim. I personally don't think the marginally higher benchmark scores are worth the time or cost. This is not to say that overclocking is a bad hobby or anything, if that's how people want to spend their time, money, and get their thrills, go right ahead. It is interesting to find out what the actual limits of certain hardware is, if you have deep enough pockets to do so.
Just keep in mind that, when you're boasting about how great overclocking is and how it makes your cheaper processor as fast as a higher end one, etc., I'm thinking there's not much difference between you and the guy who rolls down the street in the Civic with the coffee can exhaust, body kit, and rims that cost more than the car - at the end of the day, it's still a Civic...
Ah, my mistake - "broadband for all initiative" had a free-ish ring to it.
If I couldn't afford broadband I would definitely take free 2Mb/sec over dial-up, no contest.
why should what a catholic believe apply to me?
It doesn't. If this makes any sense, what a believer believes, only applies to the believer.
what if i believe i am not born with original sin?
You are free to believe whatever you want.
i am rejecting catholic dogma. now: how do you deal with such a person?
Once again, you are free to believe or reject what you will, I don't feel you are superior or inferior to me because of your spiritual beliefs. I do believe everyone has unique value and talents to offer the world.
My original point to all this was that it is not nationalism or organized religion that is the problem - they may be convenient scapegoats, but not the ultimate source of responsibility. If you take away nationalism and organized religion, the problem is still there. Maybe now it's political systems, or economic systems, or what job you do, or what kind of car you drive. No matter what, certain people will always find a way to quantify themselves as "superior". I just think it's bad form to blanket bash any group and put the responsibility on them. Further, it is the "I have a better path than you" that sparks ingenuity, creativity, positive competition, and multiple solutions for a given problem. My question to you is - are you willing to give that up in order to avoid the "bad" that also results?
Doing something wrong doesn't inherently make someone inferior, it just means they made a mistake. Is someone who got into a car accident less of a human being than someone who did not?
Furthermore, your comments about original sin are off the mark. Catholics believe everyone, *EVERYONE*, is born with original sin. It is not a point of inferiority or superiority, but something that is common to all mankind. If I am Catholic and believe that my religion frees me from original sin, then I would be inclined to convert others to my religion, not kill, maim, or enslave them.
All comparisons aside, the pope's assertion doesn't compel me to go do violence to Protestants or any other religious group, or view them as lesser human beings. I may view them as on a wrong spiritual path, but certainly not inferior to myself.
nationalism and organized religion are forces in this world which must be defeated if we are all to live in peace
I disagree with your blanket statement about organized religion, and with blanket statements in general. It is this kind of closed minded thinking that causes problems in the first place. There are a number of organized religions that work towards peace and the civil treatment of all human beings, I point you to the Catholic Church's pope as an example.
Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with being proud of where you come from, as long as you are willing to accept that others will also be proud of where they come from, and have value to offer.
Increased bus speed = decreased stability, as it affects other components aside from the processor (and just because the processor can take it doesn't mean the other hardware can). I tried this years ago with an AMD Athlon XP processor that hadn't been "unlocked", meaning that you couldn't change the multiplier, just the FSB Mhz. I went through 3 processors, 2 motherboards, 1 RAM module, a graphics card and many annoying BSODs and system freezes before I gave up on overclocking that rig (it was water cooled too).
I still like AMD products and believe they give you good value, but I don't think overclocking gives you any meaningful results. It's probably more trouble than it's worth, and as mentioned, the HDD is the biggest throughput bottleneck anyway.
The patent was later modified from 10Ghz and up to all frequencies...
Good point - I guess Buffalo is just an easier target (and more likely to give in to legal pressure) since it is selling the infringing items retail. The court injunction in the USA cost them millions of dollars in sales. This article points out that the patent relates to using OFDM technology to boost throughput: http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2008/10/different_interpretation_of_buffalo_csiro_patent_appeal.html
I don't quite understand how CSIRO patented a technology that has been around as long as CDMA cellular systems (which also uses OFDM).
Also, to answer your question, no, you don't pay royalties, because you already paid for the individual components. Unless those components came with a EULA, you are free to use them and resell them as you wish.
Mod parent up please - a very good point. In order for Dell, Apple, Microsoft, etc. to capitalize on CSIRO's research, they had to first establish design, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and logistics channels to sell the retail product(s) in question. All of those things cost money that CSIRO either didn't have or wasn't willing to spend to bring their "research" to market. Does CSIRO deserve a piece of the pie? Yes. Do they deserve to make a giant mess out of everything to get that piece of the pie? No.
All kidding aside, I really wish they would improve the entire patent system/process. Anyone that's familiar with Buffalo's wireless routers knows their products got pulled from shelves for months due to patent litigation. Yes, it hurts Buffalo, but it also hurts their customers. Is it really necessary to pull products off shelves while the litigation is going on? In the end, if the company is found not to be infringing, then business continues as usual. If it is infringing, then it pays some royalty based on number of infringing units sold. That sounds like a good way to make everyone happy without pulling products off shelves and destroying free market competition.
it doesn't land you in jail, or has the potential prospect of landing you in jail. If there is even the possibility of going to jail, then for me, it doesn't pay. There's already enough to worry about aside from dropping the soap...
When I get phone calls from people asking me to fix their Conficker infected PCs, my first comment to them isn't "Told you so! Seems like you should have spent a small amount of time patching your machine". Not only would that be bad business, but most people in that situation don't understand the fundamentals at work here. If they did, I wouldn't be getting calls in the first place. That's where I come in, fix/configure their PC appropriately, and educate them as best I can. Telling me I should have patched machines I have no control over after the fact isn't very helpful...
"The Obama administration plans to create a new military command to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve U.S. offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, according to current and former officials familiar with the plans." Right, because the military does such a good job of keeping up with the latest in security, see yesterday's sat com article: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/151225
I think I'll join the kick in nads faction - what would have been really cool is if the Conficker author had used his talent for something constructive, not destructive. I'm sure any IT professional who has spent hours dealing with the fallout of Conficker will agree, as I personally spent a good amount of time rebuilding machines that got infected.
It is actually different from other utilities - the electric company doesn't cap how much electricity you use, neither does the water company, you can use as much as you want, or rather, as much as can flow through given the physical limitations of your electric wires/breakers and plumbing pipes. Your bandwidth, on the other hand, is capped, and is well below the theoretical limits of the coax or fiber optic medium it travels through. When Time Warner etc. design their systems, they do so with these caps in mind. So they only reason they would need to add capacity (spend money) would be to add more users (make more money).
Please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that Turntin's source of revenue is based on a database of work created by other people (students). It would only seem fair that, regardless of whether or not the work was published, the authors should receive some kind of compensation for Turntin's use of their paper(s), since without these papers, they would not have a service to offer.
I think you missed the part where the FCC busted the guy from New Jersey: "In February of last year, FCC investigators used a mobile direction-finding vehicle to trace rogue transmissions to a Brazilian immigrant in New Jersey." While the focus of the article is the abuse in Brazil, I'm sure it's happening in the USA (evidenced by above quote) as well as other countries.
NASA budget: $17.2 billion - DoD budget: $515.4 billion - nuff said...