Brazil is one of the toughest places to import products. Amazon certainly has an advantage as a larger company which has always been based on the internet, and so has probably been dealing with international trade for a while. Barnes & Noble, being a brick and mortar business expanding into internet trade, hasn't dealt with international crap as much and might not see enough advantage to playing by Brazil's trade rules since it would only be for its apparently not that successful e-book business.
No need to match the serial numbers if you can correlate them with enough crap. Once a serial is connected to Facebook then it's matched. But hey, who needs embedded serial numbers when we have tracking cookies?
Encrypting with one key and decrypting with another is a feature of RSA. Simpler encryption schemes use a single key for encryption and decryption, but there are certain advantages to being able to give away a "public" key. Essentially, the keys are two large prime numbers that are related to each other in a way that is simple to generate but hard to reverse engineer. NP-hard to be exact, but that's a mathy thing that won't matter unless another mathy thing happens (proving that P=NP which is unlikely). Actually it doesn't matter which key is public and which is private; the point is just that anything encrypted with one key can only be decrypted with the other, and vice versa.
So in a sense, B's public key does "know" something about B's private key but you can't use that knowledge to actually recreate B's private key. You can only use it to recognize things which have been encrypted with B's private key.
I wish I could just mod this -1 Troll. Because it's not good to feed the trolls, I would encourage others who disagree to simply ignore and wait for those free market moderators to fix this. If the free market works that way, that is.
It really doesn't matter whether those Russians want their secret police back or they are genuinely interested only in tracking stolen phones. Either way, this is still old Russia once again: promising cutting-edge technology be designed, built, and massively deployed for a purpose that >99% of people will never see for themselves. At least if somebody figures it out the system doesn't actually exist, they're a criminal that isn't going to want to speak up for fear of giving away their criminal behavior. They used to have to make the ones who notice...disappear.
Mac or gentoo? Hm...what a strange suggestion. Buy an expensive system where (almost) everything will work right away, but you're fucked if you want to do something not preordained? Or build a system where you can do literally anything you want...but it won't boot right until you've fucked with it for a week? Choices, choices...
No but they made it so you have to use their special utility and gigabytes of developer libraries. The user experience was way better with nLite in XP and I suspect the need for Vista's extra junk was the anti-piracy crap.
Speaking of anti-piracy crap, I still can't get over the fact that between the two times I installed Windows Vista, first pirating it and the second time legitimately owning it as an OEM upgrade, the anti-piracy junk in Vista left me alone as long as I was a dirty pirate but locked me out of my other more legitimately installed system.
The end result is still users getting screwed in the long term. If it's inevitable, then we should at least try to make it not as bad. It's not like we're really going to solve any open culture problems anyway until the "content publishing" industries go away and everyone is in a real free market trying to publish things themselves (with the internet).
All you people that mercilessly assaulted the idea of HTML5 DRM extensions, this is the result. If there's no standardized way for Netflix to not use Silverlight, then they'll just use something else proprietary. How likely do you think it is that Firefox will get these proprietary extensions? Sure DRM is evil and ineffective, but pointing that out won't make it go away. There has to be some way that every browser can build in the hooks and let a web site install their own DRM plugin without needing to restart anything. Oh wait, we could have had that but you said no!
Where Stallman says no, Ballmer sees opportunity for big profit.
Aaaaand read TFA. The summary is absolutely f***ing terrible. The article is precisely about why these reactors need to be retired, the reasons they aren't, and an economic argument that they shouldn't have been built in the first place (I think they should have but that's beside the point). The summary implies that retiring these reactors is some kind of scam to "extract concessions from rate-payers". That phrase may appear once in TFA, but it's as an argument not to rely on nuclear power in the first place and not to never retire the reactors as I feel the summary implied.
Please don't talk about "early" retirement like it's bad to retire nuclear plants too early. The real problem in the world is that they are not being retired at all long past their originally intended lifetime. These power plants are literally blowing up. Every first world nuclear disaster involves an old power plant that should have been retired a long time ago. This is a serious problem caused by people thinking that they can just eke a little more out of these reactors instead of spending the huge amounts it takes to build new ones. So please, don't tell the world that we should be wary of "early" retirement like there are even any reactors that young anymore.
You'll have to hand-code (from source to binary) every bite of the compiler you use and then type it in through a BIOS that you've also hand coded -- entering the BIOS code through a set of toggle switches on the front panel.
The worst part isn't that publishers produce "updated" editions that really haven't changed. The worst part is that professors are not allowed to use old editions of textbooks because of the accreditation bodies, no matter what the subject is. How many times has calculus or physics changed in the last 50 years anyway? Doesn't matter, everybody has to pretend that 12th edition physics is more up-to-date than 11th edition physics.
I'm not an economist, but somehow I doubt that if the incentives for drug research went away all those people would work on preventive medicine instead. Anyway, at least patents have sane expirations so after the patent is up then the drug costs $30/mo instead of $1000/mo. I'd rather have that than the drug not existing at all.
Does an audio/video codec have access to anything in the underlying system? I mean, surely there will be bugs for buffer overflow, etc. but I would expect a DRM plugin to have less access to the computer than Flash, Silverlight, or even Javascript.
What's to say that Netflix wont choose an encryption scheme that has a Microsoft Windows only CDM?
The W3C is giving Netflix the opportunity to choose a cross-platform CDM where before they could only support platforms that Microsoft had "blessed" with Silverlight. Why would they did pick a Windows-only scheme if there's no advantage to that over Silverlight? Worst case, things stay the same. Big whoop.
Betteridge's law does not apply in every situation. It applies to headlines questioning whether a factual statement is true or false, i.e. "Is Obama really a Muslim?" (obviously not, or else the headline would be "Obama is Really a Muslim"). It does not apply to headlines questioning values like "Obama's Faith - Does it Really Matter?" (if the headline answered that question, why would anyone read the article?)
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Brazil is one of the toughest places to import products. Amazon certainly has an advantage as a larger company which has always been based on the internet, and so has probably been dealing with international trade for a while. Barnes & Noble, being a brick and mortar business expanding into internet trade, hasn't dealt with international crap as much and might not see enough advantage to playing by Brazil's trade rules since it would only be for its apparently not that successful e-book business.
Citation needed.
Also, a proper troll wouldn't need to resort to being offensive towards random social groups ill-equipped to defend themselves.
Video or it never happened.
No need to match the serial numbers if you can correlate them with enough crap. Once a serial is connected to Facebook then it's matched. But hey, who needs embedded serial numbers when we have tracking cookies?
Strictly speaking nobody has the "need" for it. There might be a few things that use it but nothing irreplacable or even best in the industry.
Literally? Like, this was in the news? You probably mean "figuratively" but that would be quite a video if it exists.
Encrypting with one key and decrypting with another is a feature of RSA. Simpler encryption schemes use a single key for encryption and decryption, but there are certain advantages to being able to give away a "public" key. Essentially, the keys are two large prime numbers that are related to each other in a way that is simple to generate but hard to reverse engineer. NP-hard to be exact, but that's a mathy thing that won't matter unless another mathy thing happens (proving that P=NP which is unlikely). Actually it doesn't matter which key is public and which is private; the point is just that anything encrypted with one key can only be decrypted with the other, and vice versa.
So in a sense, B's public key does "know" something about B's private key but you can't use that knowledge to actually recreate B's private key. You can only use it to recognize things which have been encrypted with B's private key.
I wish I could just mod this -1 Troll. Because it's not good to feed the trolls, I would encourage others who disagree to simply ignore and wait for those free market moderators to fix this. If the free market works that way, that is.
It really doesn't matter whether those Russians want their secret police back or they are genuinely interested only in tracking stolen phones. Either way, this is still old Russia once again: promising cutting-edge technology be designed, built, and massively deployed for a purpose that >99% of people will never see for themselves. At least if somebody figures it out the system doesn't actually exist, they're a criminal that isn't going to want to speak up for fear of giving away their criminal behavior. They used to have to make the ones who notice...disappear.
Mac or gentoo? Hm...what a strange suggestion. Buy an expensive system where (almost) everything will work right away, but you're fucked if you want to do something not preordained? Or build a system where you can do literally anything you want...but it won't boot right until you've fucked with it for a week? Choices, choices...
Too bad there's no middle ground, huh?
No but they made it so you have to use their special utility and gigabytes of developer libraries. The user experience was way better with nLite in XP and I suspect the need for Vista's extra junk was the anti-piracy crap.
Speaking of anti-piracy crap, I still can't get over the fact that between the two times I installed Windows Vista, first pirating it and the second time legitimately owning it as an OEM upgrade, the anti-piracy junk in Vista left me alone as long as I was a dirty pirate but locked me out of my other more legitimately installed system.
Yes I did.
The end result is still users getting screwed in the long term. If it's inevitable, then we should at least try to make it not as bad. It's not like we're really going to solve any open culture problems anyway until the "content publishing" industries go away and everyone is in a real free market trying to publish things themselves (with the internet).
All you people that mercilessly assaulted the idea of HTML5 DRM extensions, this is the result. If there's no standardized way for Netflix to not use Silverlight, then they'll just use something else proprietary. How likely do you think it is that Firefox will get these proprietary extensions? Sure DRM is evil and ineffective, but pointing that out won't make it go away. There has to be some way that every browser can build in the hooks and let a web site install their own DRM plugin without needing to restart anything. Oh wait, we could have had that but you said no!
Where Stallman says no, Ballmer sees opportunity for big profit.
Aaaaand read TFA. The summary is absolutely f***ing terrible. The article is precisely about why these reactors need to be retired, the reasons they aren't, and an economic argument that they shouldn't have been built in the first place (I think they should have but that's beside the point). The summary implies that retiring these reactors is some kind of scam to "extract concessions from rate-payers". That phrase may appear once in TFA, but it's as an argument not to rely on nuclear power in the first place and not to never retire the reactors as I feel the summary implied.
Please don't talk about "early" retirement like it's bad to retire nuclear plants too early. The real problem in the world is that they are not being retired at all long past their originally intended lifetime. These power plants are literally blowing up. Every first world nuclear disaster involves an old power plant that should have been retired a long time ago. This is a serious problem caused by people thinking that they can just eke a little more out of these reactors instead of spending the huge amounts it takes to build new ones. So please, don't tell the world that we should be wary of "early" retirement like there are even any reactors that young anymore.
So...you'll have to install Gentoo then?
The worst part isn't that publishers produce "updated" editions that really haven't changed. The worst part is that professors are not allowed to use old editions of textbooks because of the accreditation bodies, no matter what the subject is. How many times has calculus or physics changed in the last 50 years anyway? Doesn't matter, everybody has to pretend that 12th edition physics is more up-to-date than 11th edition physics.
I'm not an economist, but somehow I doubt that if the incentives for drug research went away all those people would work on preventive medicine instead. Anyway, at least patents have sane expirations so after the patent is up then the drug costs $30/mo instead of $1000/mo. I'd rather have that than the drug not existing at all.
Does an audio/video codec have access to anything in the underlying system? I mean, surely there will be bugs for buffer overflow, etc. but I would expect a DRM plugin to have less access to the computer than Flash, Silverlight, or even Javascript.
Like the odds of anyone writing a closed-source graphics driver for Linux?
The W3C is giving Netflix the opportunity to choose a cross-platform CDM where before they could only support platforms that Microsoft had "blessed" with Silverlight. Why would they did pick a Windows-only scheme if there's no advantage to that over Silverlight? Worst case, things stay the same. Big whoop.
Standardization, not openness, is the primary goal of the W3C.
Betteridge's law does not apply in every situation. It applies to headlines questioning whether a factual statement is true or false, i.e. "Is Obama really a Muslim?" (obviously not, or else the headline would be "Obama is Really a Muslim"). It does not apply to headlines questioning values like "Obama's Faith - Does it Really Matter?" (if the headline answered that question, why would anyone read the article?)