^^Obvious closet Pbo supporter. Why shouldn't he have to prove he is a natural born citizen, considering that is a requirement to hold that office?
Anyway, I'm actually scared that the marijuana legalization is near the top of the list. That is the last thing we need right now in the times of poor education, glorification of stupidity and obnoxious behavior, and total sympathy with our enemies.
"Doping" the masses... I'm fairly certain I've read books about this... none of them ended well for the individual.
So you assume that because some people steal, all people steal, therefore wares should be free?
I'm not quite sure I follow your logic or reasoning on that one. However I will rebut by saying that one time keys could be used to watermark the content. Thus allowing any leaked wares to be traced to the purchaser of that specific key.
You will need to qualify your last statement if you want me to respond.
Build this cheap PC you allude to, then compare it to some real world tests using this new Asus beast.
I'll take any and all bets against your budget PC. FFS my new laptop has core2duo, 4gb ram, and a 9600GT 512mb, and there is no way in hell I would bet against it with my desktop p4, 2gb ram, and 6800gt. Well, unless I was retarded *cough*.
You've obviously never worked in the financial industry where we use one-time RSA keys every single day.
I've never heard of any DRM that is one-time. Most DRM I know if is "dial-home" DRM that must be authenticated on a per-use basis. I don't own an iPod so I'm not sure how the music DRM is, but many video games use the dial-home style DRM. One-time keys are quite different, perhaps you should read up on them.
On a side note, people tend to throw the term DRM around. Sometimes (like now) I think that word does not mean what they think it means. What is the difference between user authentication on a private site, and a public site with an encrypted message that requires foreknowledge of a passphrase? Something? Nothing? I'm being very serious with these questions.
While I agree that big business has become all too big in my wonderful country the USA; I disagree with all these socialist concepts and ideals. I don't want/need to pay more in taxes so you can have something you think you need for free. I think journalism is a valid profession, and I believe people working in their professions deserve fair compensation.
I think a more profitable (and completely non-socialist, yay!) idea would be to encrypt the content and charge people for a one-time-key. Combine this with two separate versions of the content: one free one riddled with many annoying ads and pop-ups, and the paid encrypted one sans the ads/pop-ups.
IIRC Howard Hughe's company is the parent company of DirectTV; since the beginning. I don't ever remember Fox owning it, or Sky.
A cursory examination of their Wikipedia article supports my recollection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directtv#History
I am always surprised at the quickness at which/. tends to claim incompetency with news like this. My first thought was basically, "haha turks, you're a bunch of turkeys." As in, yay for hacking an intentionally hackable and most probably filled to the brim with mis-information networked computer.
Please, you have the right to speak freely, and write freely. Thank the military for doing SOMETHING correctly, simply because you still have these rights.
It has a whopping 128k of expanded memory (I think it originally came with 64k), a 5.25" floppy drive, and 2 ROM expansion ports. It was my first computer with a wireless keyboard that uses IR and runs on AA batteries.
Still boots, though the floppy drive is a bit loud by today's standards heh. The monitor is a tad blurry as well but still very legible.
50% = downloading porn
50% = posting useless comments on a public forum
Yeah, I'd have to disagree and say you could do everything back then that you can today!
Slashdot Mirror
^^Obvious closet Pbo supporter. Why shouldn't he have to prove he is a natural born citizen, considering that is a requirement to hold that office?
Anyway, I'm actually scared that the marijuana legalization is near the top of the list. That is the last thing we need right now in the times of poor education, glorification of stupidity and obnoxious behavior, and total sympathy with our enemies.
"Doping" the masses... I'm fairly certain I've read books about this... none of them ended well for the individual.
So you assume that because some people steal, all people steal, therefore wares should be free? I'm not quite sure I follow your logic or reasoning on that one. However I will rebut by saying that one time keys could be used to watermark the content. Thus allowing any leaked wares to be traced to the purchaser of that specific key. You will need to qualify your last statement if you want me to respond.
Why not run FreeBSD with X.org and a fluffy wm like KDE3 or 4? I prefer FreeBSD on my desktop and even my laptop over Slackware, my preferred Linux.
I offer you this challenge:
Build this cheap PC you allude to, then compare it to some real world tests using this new Asus beast.
I'll take any and all bets against your budget PC. FFS my new laptop has core2duo, 4gb ram, and a 9600GT 512mb, and there is no way in hell I would bet against it with my desktop p4, 2gb ram, and 6800gt. Well, unless I was retarded *cough*.
You've obviously never worked in the financial industry where we use one-time RSA keys every single day.
I've never heard of any DRM that is one-time. Most DRM I know if is "dial-home" DRM that must be authenticated on a per-use basis. I don't own an iPod so I'm not sure how the music DRM is, but many video games use the dial-home style DRM. One-time keys are quite different, perhaps you should read up on them.
On a side note, people tend to throw the term DRM around. Sometimes (like now) I think that word does not mean what they think it means. What is the difference between user authentication on a private site, and a public site with an encrypted message that requires foreknowledge of a passphrase? Something? Nothing? I'm being very serious with these questions.
While I agree that big business has become all too big in my wonderful country the USA; I disagree with all these socialist concepts and ideals. I don't want/need to pay more in taxes so you can have something you think you need for free. I think journalism is a valid profession, and I believe people working in their professions deserve fair compensation.
I think a more profitable (and completely non-socialist, yay!) idea would be to encrypt the content and charge people for a one-time-key. Combine this with two separate versions of the content: one free one riddled with many annoying ads and pop-ups, and the paid encrypted one sans the ads/pop-ups.
Fire bad! Mmmkay?
IIRC Howard Hughe's company is the parent company of DirectTV; since the beginning. I don't ever remember Fox owning it, or Sky. A cursory examination of their Wikipedia article supports my recollection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directtv#History
I am always surprised at the quickness at which /. tends to claim incompetency with news like this. My first thought was basically, "haha turks, you're a bunch of turkeys." As in, yay for hacking an intentionally hackable and most probably filled to the brim with mis-information networked computer.
Please, you have the right to speak freely, and write freely. Thank the military for doing SOMETHING correctly, simply because you still have these rights.
It has a whopping 128k of expanded memory (I think it originally came with 64k), a 5.25" floppy drive, and 2 ROM expansion ports. It was my first computer with a wireless keyboard that uses IR and runs on AA batteries. Still boots, though the floppy drive is a bit loud by today's standards heh. The monitor is a tad blurry as well but still very legible.
50% = downloading porn 50% = posting useless comments on a public forum Yeah, I'd have to disagree and say you could do everything back then that you can today!