Having studied Brazilian criminal law for a while -- and having worked in a DA's office for two years -- and furthermore begin married to a DA...
I think our sentencing guidelines are somewhat sensible, even if our prision system sucks.
B&E+theft (like the guy in the article) = 2 to 8 years hard-jail + fine.
No one can do more than 30 years time in a row (you can go out, make something wrong, and go back in, but if you are sentenced to, eg, 200 years, you will do only 30). This is because our Constitution forbids explicitally "life inprisonment" (obviously, it forbids death sentences too).
Primary felons with less than 4 years jail to serve can exchange for community services.
We have "hard-jail" and "sleep-in-jail" distinctions between crimes and misdemeanors.
will you be able to extract the DRM-protected content on your memorystick?
I repeat: YES, I will. If it's on *my* memorystick, I will extract it. If it requires a closed software to play it, I'll install such closed software under a hacked version of QEMU that instead of playing some stream writes it into a file. Digitally. I guess Akio Morita did not know what he was getting into when he had the CD/DAT idea "let's write everything digitally in the media".
Repeat after me: there is no DRM. It's cryptographically infeasible. One of the pillars of crypto is that the key must travel between Alice and Bob by a secured mean, so that Eve cannot get a hold of it. When Bob is schizo and Eve is the same as Bob, Eve has the key, so Eve has the message. Pristine. Not even quantum crypto can give a real DRM.
The thing is always in the hand of the user. With some tools, I can completely re-flash my cell phone. If I'm smart, I can even make the modifications I did stealth from the POV of the cell phone company. This is and will always be true, unless you start making appliances that explode when you open them. Or when you try to make any "illegal operation" with them.
All things are hackable. Ask any bomb-defuser guy in your city's PD. They make a living (and stay alive) hacking things that theoretically would blow up when hacked.
Then I couln't parse your post...
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The question was: "OverlordQ (264228): DES had a weakness nobody but the NSA knew about, so they recommended changes to it without saying the reasons for them. years later an attack was found against DES, but the NSA changes prevented it from being useful. Why would they change their tune to SHA-1?" The answer was: "bergeron76 (176351): [cough] Republican President [cough]
WRT: "I hope you're just trying to be funny and aren't seriously comfortable with PostgreSQL holding all of your critical financial data."
PostgreSQL is a nice, security- and data-integrity-oriented DBMS, with a good and proven track record, and I see no problem with it holding my financial data.
As a matter of fact, I really prefer it over proprietary DBMSs where I have no guarantee of what is going on.
And WRT the data itself, I think banks know better -- and therefore are very rigid -- about backup procedures, etc.
It makes perfect sense. With each version, the featureset changed. Once the featureset stopped changing, the versions stopped incrementing. With each release, the protocol changed. Once the protocol stabilized, the release number stabilized. With each sub-release, implementation details and hardware compatibility changes. With each sub-sub-release, some hardware types were added, bugs were fixed, some new extensions.
At my household, we have 2 tvs: one in the tv-den and the other in my room. Main TV stays on for 6 hours a day in workdays and 18 hours/day in weekends/holidays. It's a Sony Trinitron 29in that I bought one year before marrying (ie 1996 -- 9 years ago). ?By your math, it should have expired by now (20000 / (104*16+261*6) = 6,1 years) if it was a plasma TV, I would have to shell out 2 of them instead of one...
At least, not in my jurisdiction. Anyway, is it illegal in the US? As in, is it a criminal offense? Down here, a DDOS may be considered a civil illicit...
my point that "there will be no other Microsoft, ever" still stands. The players are there, the game has begun. Everyone else in in the audience. IMHO, evidently.
Look, it's called 'unstable'. What sort of impression do you think that gives people?
That it changes? Now, it's interesting you mention Ubuntu... as I really opted for it six months ago... I am posting this from a Warty+KDE machine and my laptop is a Hoary machine, ie, Sid.
If you mean a giant software company making commodity software like word processors, you're right
But you are wrong in this:
If you mean a giant software company in itself, you're wrong, OSS not withstanding. I support the OSS development model, but that doesn't stop someone from coming up with new tech "the old way"
Why? Because MS is a cash giant these days, and if anyone comes up with valuable new tech "the old way", MS will buy it instantly.
Competition can also hurt, by splitting up the resources into many small parts...
In the Free Software world, each developer works in the project he likes to work. People who like to hack L4/Hurd would possibly not like to hack Linux, hence they are not part of the same resource pool.
There is no technical reason why GPLv3 can't be more restrictive than GPLv2.
But GPLv3 being more restrictive than GPLv2 affects all the code that is GPLv2 only, that cannot be mixed with GPLv3 code. There is more GPLv2-only than GPLv2-or-later code (vide sf.net for stats), so this would break to almost a halt the v3 adoption for older projects (especially those project whose copyrights are not owned by a well-defined group -- like Linux) and would impair even it's adoption for new projects (can't link with GPLv2 libraries -- like Qt)
So, the only trick left in the hat is the LGPL trick -- to determine that GPLv3 code can optionally, when in combination with GPLv2 code, be licensed with v2. But this opens a huge hole in the new restrictions (patents, trademarks etc) that people might want to put in v3.
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Having studied Brazilian criminal law for a while -- and having worked in a DA's office for two years -- and furthermore begin married to a DA...
I think our sentencing guidelines are somewhat sensible, even if our prision system sucks.
B&E+theft (like the guy in the article) = 2 to 8 years hard-jail + fine.
No one can do more than 30 years time in a row (you can go out, make something wrong, and go back in, but if you are sentenced to, eg, 200 years, you will do only 30). This is because our Constitution forbids explicitally "life inprisonment" (obviously, it forbids death sentences too).
Primary felons with less than 4 years jail to serve can exchange for community services.
We have "hard-jail" and "sleep-in-jail" distinctions between crimes and misdemeanors.
I repeat: YES, I will.
If it's on *my* memorystick, I will extract it. If it requires a closed software to play it, I'll install such closed software under a hacked version of QEMU that instead of playing some stream writes it into a file. Digitally.
I guess Akio Morita did not know what he was getting into when he had the CD/DAT idea "let's write everything digitally in the media".
Repeat after me: there is no DRM. It's cryptographically infeasible. One of the pillars of crypto is that the key must travel between Alice and Bob by a secured mean, so that Eve cannot get a hold of it. When Bob is schizo and Eve is the same as Bob, Eve has the key, so Eve has the message. Pristine. Not even quantum crypto can give a real DRM.
The thing is always in the hand of the user. With some tools, I can completely re-flash my cell phone. If I'm smart, I can even make the modifications I did stealth from the POV of the cell phone company. This is and will always be true, unless you start making appliances that explode when you open them. Or when you try to make any "illegal operation" with them.
All things are hackable. Ask any bomb-defuser guy in your city's PD. They make a living (and stay alive) hacking things that theoretically would blow up when hacked.
care to explain?
The question was: "OverlordQ (264228): DES had a weakness nobody but the NSA knew about, so they recommended changes to it without saying the reasons for them. years later an attack was found against DES, but the NSA changes prevented it from being useful. Why would they change their tune to SHA-1?"
The answer was: "bergeron76 (176351): [cough] Republican President [cough]
Got it now?
They just don't realize it.
WRT: "I hope you're just trying to be funny and aren't seriously comfortable with PostgreSQL holding all of your critical financial data."
PostgreSQL is a nice, security- and data-integrity-oriented DBMS, with a good and proven track record, and I see no problem with it holding my financial data.
As a matter of fact, I really prefer it over proprietary DBMSs where I have no guarantee of what is going on.
And WRT the data itself, I think banks know better -- and therefore are very rigid -- about backup procedures, etc.
Nothing to see here, IMHO.
It makes perfect sense.
With each version, the featureset changed. Once the featureset stopped changing, the versions stopped incrementing.
With each release, the protocol changed. Once the protocol stabilized, the release number stabilized.
With each sub-release, implementation details and hardware compatibility changes.
With each sub-sub-release, some hardware types were added, bugs were fixed, some new extensions.
He would be a deus ex machina anyway... a God created by Man.
Send it to her insured (normally costs 5% over the value of the package).
the X windowing system is at Version 11 release 6 (X11R6) since the early 1990's.
South Korea. Near, full of American troops, and full of important-to-US factories.
actually, the good Doctor addressed many times religious issues, even if it was with the purpose of making religious people look fanatical.
At my household, we have 2 tvs: one in the tv-den and the other in my room. Main TV stays on for 6 hours a day in workdays and 18 hours/day in weekends/holidays. It's a Sony Trinitron 29in that I bought one year before marrying (ie 1996 -- 9 years ago). ?By your math, it should have expired by now (20000 / (104*16+261*6) = 6,1 years) if it was a plasma TV, I would have to shell out 2 of them instead of one...
At least, not in my jurisdiction. Anyway, is it illegal in the US? As in, is it a criminal offense? Down here, a DDOS may be considered a civil illicit...
Why do you loathe k3b? I simply love it (and I burn 2-3 cds a day)...
my point that "there will be no other Microsoft, ever" still stands. The players are there, the game has begun. Everyone else in in the audience. IMHO, evidently.
and give him a pencil and he'll kill much more people. Reference: George W. Bush. All depends on which pencil.
Now, it's interesting you mention Ubuntu... as I really opted for it six months ago... I am posting this from a Warty+KDE machine and my laptop is a Hoary machine, ie, Sid.
were designed for piracy. Bittorrent was designed to copy (large) files to (large) audience.
I went to the Torrent Site Status site, but I couldn't find any references to torrent sites in Brasil. Can you please elaborate?
In the Free Software world, each developer works in the project he likes to work. People who like to hack L4/Hurd would possibly not like to hack Linux, hence they are not part of the same resource pool.
There is no technical reason why GPLv3 can't be more restrictive than GPLv2.
But GPLv3 being more restrictive than GPLv2 affects all the code that is GPLv2 only, that cannot be mixed with GPLv3 code. There is more GPLv2-only than GPLv2-or-later code (vide sf.net for stats), so this would break to almost a halt the v3 adoption for older projects (especially those project whose copyrights are not owned by a well-defined group -- like Linux) and would impair even it's adoption for new projects (can't link with GPLv2 libraries -- like Qt)
So, the only trick left in the hat is the LGPL trick -- to determine that GPLv3 code can optionally, when in combination with GPLv2 code, be licensed with v2. But this opens a huge hole in the new restrictions (patents, trademarks etc) that people might want to put in v3.
Got it?
The point is: there will be no next Microsoft. So, it won't be you. Got it?