Apparently not. The point AOL is making is that they're the only ones that can introduce content, so users don't have to worry about malware on the network. And AOL has no real reason to put its own malware in, since it already has a business model for the system which has been proven workable for decades.
You do understand that sticking a Faraday cage around the chip, as they're proposing, makes it unable to be read while the passport is closed regardless of how rich terrorists are, right? You can't exactly bribe electromagnetic shielding.
Goodness! You'd better tell the State Department that. They certainly seem to think that it's RFID. It's not their fault; NIST told them. I'm sure they'll be eager to hear from an expert like you.
Obvious: If you're a new college grad willing to work 100 hours a week for mediocre benefits, there are companies willing to take you up on your offer.
Not so obvious: If you're a new college grad and are NOT willing to work 100 hours a week for mediocre benefits, there are still companies willing to take you up on your offer. You just need to be good at what you do, and willing to ask for what you want.
Seriously. If there's one group that truly, truly SUCKS at contract negotiations, it's geeks. There's enough money in the industry to pay competent people a good wage, but if you cream your pants at the very thought of EA sticking you in a mildewy basement for $20 a week, that's what you're gonna get.
A computer may be considered "hacked" even if the hacker doesn't have root control. Sending out two million penis enlargement spams per day... serving as a proxy to hack other computers... scanning subnets for vulnerabilities... none of these things require root access.
And even preventing arbitrary code execution is only a partial step. What is code? It isn't just opcodes that are processed by the CPU's instruction decoder; it's also bytecode which is executed by a virtual machine, or even the FSM generated by a regular expression. No OS can catch that.
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! YOU KNEW HOW BIG IT WAS WHEN YOU FUCKING STARTED!!!!
Well, you gotta understand, the partition probably looked smaller from the outside. Think about it... the formatter had just been vacuuming for seven and a half hours... no wonder it thought the partition was too big!
The most controversial of the police proposals is the demand to be able to hold without charge a terrorist suspect for three months instead of 14 days. An Acpo spokesman said the complexity and scale of counter-terrorist operations means the 14-day maximum is often insufficient.
"The complexities and timescales surrounding forensic examination of [crime] scenes merely add to the burden and immense time pressures on investigating officers," he said. Three-month periods would help to ensure the charge could be sustained in court.
Wow. "Civil liberties are a pain in the arse for us to respect... so could we get rid of them?"
In my opinion, the only humane way to look at the rights of the accused is to look at a rhetorical someone who has been wrongly accused. How would Mr. Jones feel about being imprisoned for three months so that police could take their sweet time figuring out what, if anything, to charge him with?
KK: Linux is legacy, but it will be a start. Legacy? Riiight. No Linux fanboy here, but I know bullshit when I see it. In the context of a multicore processor such as the cell processor, Linux IS legacy, because it is not a microkernel architecture. He's saying that it'll run, but the kernel won't take full advantage of the hardware.
In the case of the Cell, operation systems are applications. Wah? You appear not to understand the concept of native OS virtualization. I suggest you read up on it; it's an interesting move, and one that's been years in coming.
The kernel will be running on the Cell, and multiple OSes will be running on top of that as applications. Bah? Again... if you're not familiar with the technology, learn about it.
I'm sure the guys clever. But he's not technical in the slightest. Look to thine own self.
You heard it because it's the oldest line in the NRA's propaganda file. "The streets are safer when criminals don't know who's armed." The fallacy, of course, is that if only an insignificant proportion of the population carries concealed weapons, criminals will not have reason to assume that a given potential victim is armed.
And at about the same time, President Kennedy was assassinated! Well, that's enough proof for me; the banning of pot was clearly a plot to kill trees, keep Blackie down, and shoot the president!
A little testy, aren't you? Read the original post to which I was replying. The original poster's implied contention was that the easily-measurable dynamics of a performance were insufficient to reproduce that performance.
Believe it or not, there isn't much more to it than pressing buttons. The striking of a particular note contains few variables: the time at which the note is pressed, the velocity at which the hammer is propelled, and the length of time during which the note is sustained (some piano effects involve the speed at which the key is lifted, but this is rare in most performances). Pedals are a simple question of displacement over time.
Sure it is. It's telling you to ask Jeeves and InterActive Corp., that they can vouch for the story's authenticity. With Slashdot, it's best to double-check these things.:-D
So does that mean that DRM schemes in general are not copyrightable?
Yes.
But what I'm sure you meant to ask is:
So does that mean that DRM schemes in general are not enforceable by the DMCA?
No.
The DMCA was never intended to provide the ability to copyright anything that couldn't already be copyrighted; it was intended to give legal enforceability to technologies for "protecting" copyrighted works. In this case, the court held that there were no remedies under the DMCA since there was no copyrightable work.
GSM phones cannot be used to dial anything, not even 911, without a SIM card which is/was valid for the home service area of the phone.
Sure they can, most of them. All of them manufactured since mid-2000. Over the summer I worked at a place that made cellphone games, and hence I was surrounded by dozens of phones without SIM cards. The GSM ones we used would all bitch at you if you tried to dial something other than 911 without a SIM card, but 911 dials fine. In fact, a lot of phones change their default menu to have a single option, to call the emergency line. I did that by mistake more than once.
Of course, analog and CDMA will also dial 911 without a problem.
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there's no way I can make a serious comment
Apparently not. The point AOL is making is that they're the only ones that can introduce content, so users don't have to worry about malware on the network. And AOL has no real reason to put its own malware in, since it already has a business model for the system which has been proven workable for decades.
The gravitational waves! They're all in your mind!
You do understand that sticking a Faraday cage around the chip, as they're proposing, makes it unable to be read while the passport is closed regardless of how rich terrorists are, right? You can't exactly bribe electromagnetic shielding.
Goodness! You'd better tell the State Department that. They certainly seem to think that it's RFID. It's not their fault; NIST told them. I'm sure they'll be eager to hear from an expert like you.
Obvious: If you're a new college grad willing to work 100 hours a week for mediocre benefits, there are companies willing to take you up on your offer.
Not so obvious: If you're a new college grad and are NOT willing to work 100 hours a week for mediocre benefits, there are still companies willing to take you up on your offer. You just need to be good at what you do, and willing to ask for what you want.
Seriously. If there's one group that truly, truly SUCKS at contract negotiations, it's geeks. There's enough money in the industry to pay competent people a good wage, but if you cream your pants at the very thought of EA sticking you in a mildewy basement for $20 a week, that's what you're gonna get.
A computer may be considered "hacked" even if the hacker doesn't have root control. Sending out two million penis enlargement spams per day... serving as a proxy to hack other computers... scanning subnets for vulnerabilities... none of these things require root access.
And even preventing arbitrary code execution is only a partial step. What is code? It isn't just opcodes that are processed by the CPU's instruction decoder; it's also bytecode which is executed by a virtual machine, or even the FSM generated by a regular expression. No OS can catch that.
Well, you gotta understand, the partition probably looked smaller from the outside. Think about it... the formatter had just been vacuuming for seven and a half hours... no wonder it thought the partition was too big!
KK: Linux is legacy, but it will be a start.
Legacy? Riiight. No Linux fanboy here, but I know bullshit when I see it.
In the context of a multicore processor such as the cell processor, Linux IS legacy, because it is not a microkernel architecture. He's saying that it'll run, but the kernel won't take full advantage of the hardware.
In the case of the Cell, operation systems are applications.
Wah?
You appear not to understand the concept of native OS virtualization. I suggest you read up on it; it's an interesting move, and one that's been years in coming.
The kernel will be running on the Cell, and multiple OSes will be running on top of that as applications.
Bah?
Again... if you're not familiar with the technology, learn about it.
I'm sure the guys clever. But he's not technical in the slightest.
Look to thine own self.
You heard it because it's the oldest line in the NRA's propaganda file. "The streets are safer when criminals don't know who's armed." The fallacy, of course, is that if only an insignificant proportion of the population carries concealed weapons, criminals will not have reason to assume that a given potential victim is armed.
And at about the same time, President Kennedy was assassinated! Well, that's enough proof for me; the banning of pot was clearly a plot to kill trees, keep Blackie down, and shoot the president!
A little testy, aren't you? Read the original post to which I was replying. The original poster's implied contention was that the easily-measurable dynamics of a performance were insufficient to reproduce that performance.
Yes, I realize all that. Thanks for playing, though.
Believe it or not, there isn't much more to it than pressing buttons. The striking of a particular note contains few variables: the time at which the note is pressed, the velocity at which the hammer is propelled, and the length of time during which the note is sustained (some piano effects involve the speed at which the key is lifted, but this is rare in most performances). Pedals are a simple question of displacement over time.
The email from GoDaddy.com then leaned forwards over the table, jiggling seductively and breathing deeply.
We can use this DNA to create a super-race of people who aren't guilty of crimes!
Close.... a super-race of people who aren't guilty of crimes, but are really suspicious-looking.
That's not even a sentence.
:-D
Sure it is. It's telling you to ask Jeeves and InterActive Corp., that they can vouch for the story's authenticity. With Slashdot, it's best to double-check these things.
It has reached the point where proving a number prime is MUCH easier than finding any factors of it.
Great! Now all we have to do is find a way to prove that ALL numbers are prime, and our factoring needs will be a thing of the past!
So does that mean that DRM schemes in general are not copyrightable?
Yes.
But what I'm sure you meant to ask is:
So does that mean that DRM schemes in general are not enforceable by the DMCA?
No.
The DMCA was never intended to provide the ability to copyright anything that couldn't already be copyrighted; it was intended to give legal enforceability to technologies for "protecting" copyrighted works. In this case, the court held that there were no remedies under the DMCA since there was no copyrightable work.
Oh, and the "normal telephone experience" travels faster than the speed of light?
Ever called someone overseas?
if someone made an anti-pigeon-shitting device that allowed me not to get splattered by bird feces, I'd take it and run away gleefully laughing.
HEY! Come back with my umbrella, you fucker!
Yeah, right. We're downloading bootlegged copies of Ocean's 12 because we hate not being able to draw Mickey Mouse cartoons. Fight the power!!!
IMPORTANT: Use a PLASTIC bottle.
...or wear a ski mask.
GSM phones cannot be used to dial anything, not even 911, without a SIM card which is/was valid for the home service area of the phone.
Sure they can, most of them. All of them manufactured since mid-2000. Over the summer I worked at a place that made cellphone games, and hence I was surrounded by dozens of phones without SIM cards. The GSM ones we used would all bitch at you if you tried to dial something other than 911 without a SIM card, but 911 dials fine. In fact, a lot of phones change their default menu to have a single option, to call the emergency line. I did that by mistake more than once.
Of course, analog and CDMA will also dial 911 without a problem.