The Lancet study is bogus as it is based on flawed sampling of the data. To arrive at the figure of 100,000 Iraqi dead, Lancet simply *interviewed* 998 families in 33 communities. The resulting extrapolated death toll ranged from 8,000 to 194,000. Well done.
- In Canada, if you need to see a specialist for anything not life threatening, be prepared to wait months for an appointment - In Canada, if you need prostate cancer surgery, be prepared to wait months - In Canada, if you need a new hip or a new knee, be prepared to wait YEARS - In Canada, if you need an MRI to examine the knee you twisted playing basketball, be prepared to wait months and months - In Canada, everybody has the same universal health care. Unfortunately, that health care is is universally of poor quality.
All the hardware wizadry that ATI can come up with won't matter a damn thing unless they get their drivers straightened out. ATI has a long and sordid history of terrible, terrible driver support - crashes/lockups/glitches etc. etc. (I'm talking Windows here). Take a look at alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati to see how badly many are faring with this new card, even though many reviewers claim that ATI has fixed their historical driver problems.
Apparently the passenger, Barbara Olsen, made the phone call from within a locked bathroom stall on her cell phone. She called shortly before the plane crashed.
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It says, "...the Content Scrambling System (CSS) decryption key also resides on the physical disc cannot be copied, and without the decryption key, the.VOB video won't play from the DVD or from your hard disk..."
Wrong, wrong. The DeCSS key recovery attack designed by Frank Stevenson can be applied to the.VOB ciphertext directly as in the DeCssPlus application. You can decrypt the.VOB ciphertext without having to access any of the keys on the DVD. The bottom line is that CSS is a very weak cryptosystem, further crippled by the fact that it is based upon the concept of a trusted client.
Further on in that article, they go on to blame Xing for forgetting "..to encrypt its decryption key." What a load. They didn't forget anything. The bottom line is that in order for software to decrypt the DVD, the player key needs to be in plaintext at some point in the software execution.
This just further reinforces Bruce Schneier's valid point about the impossibility of having a trusted client. Watermarking attempts will eventually fail as well.
"He's the perfect anti-technology hero in a technological age, but like this movie, and like others in the genre, isn't blowing up box offices. "
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesBoxOffice/us.html
It premiered at #1 in the US last weekend, grossing $19million US. I think it has had a relatively good start (haven't seen it myself and probably won't). Compare this to one of the movies that Katz highlights - Gattaca. It only grossed $12.34million US in 1997 (the year it was released).
(Source http://www.boxofficereport.com/ybon/97gross.shtml)
If Napster wants to go to a pay-per use method, then what's the point of peer to peer sharing? If I'm paying $2-$10 a month for this service, I expect *quality*.
I don't want to have to try to download 10 different versions of the same song to get a download rate faster than 5KBytes/sec. I don't want to search through lists of poorly/incorrectly named song files.
If I'm paying for it, I want 30KBytes/sec minimum. I want full 320kbps MP3 files. I want *every* song from *all* of the record labels participating. I don't want to see only what is on the hard drives of the other people who are on the same server as me.
The reason Napster succeeds is that it is free, so everybody has a low expectation for the quality of service. If your cable TV only worked certain times of the day, and some of the channels were intermittent, you would not be happy. But for antenna channels? You just keep adjusting those rabbit ears as best as you can and grin and bear it. Why? Because you don't pay for it.
It all comes down to control. The artist should be in control because it's their copyright.
But right now, it's not the artist's copyright. It's the record label's. Now, an artist is considered a 'work for hire' and the record label owns all of the rights to all of the songs that were recorded while the artist is under contract, for perpetuity. For more on this, see Courtney Love's article on Salon.com.
Hopefully they didn't encrypt that info using a World War II Enigma machine, like how the Canadian Department of National Defense went to the war museum to pull out some artillery pieces for the Gulf War.
Chuck D *has* put Public Enemy songs for free download as MP3. See: http://208.178.101.42/tech/feature/1999/06/01/hiph op/print.html (Brief mention in 2nd paragraph).
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The Lancet study is bogus as it is based on flawed sampling of the data. To arrive at the figure of 100,000 Iraqi dead, Lancet simply *interviewed* 998 families in 33 communities. The resulting extrapolated death toll ranged from 8,000 to 194,000. Well done.
Lancet Civilian Death Report Kills the Truth
- In Canada, if you need to see a specialist for anything not life threatening, be prepared to wait months for an appointment
- In Canada, if you need prostate cancer surgery, be prepared to wait months
- In Canada, if you need a new hip or a new knee, be prepared to wait YEARS
- In Canada, if you need an MRI to examine the knee you twisted playing basketball, be prepared to wait months and months
- In Canada, everybody has the same universal health care. Unfortunately, that health care is is universally of poor quality.
All the hardware wizadry that ATI can come up with won't matter a damn thing unless they get their drivers straightened out. ATI has a long and sordid history of terrible, terrible driver support - crashes/lockups/glitches etc. etc. (I'm talking Windows here). Take a look at alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati to see how badly many are faring with this new card, even though many reviewers claim that ATI has fixed their historical driver problems.
Meet the new ATI, same as the old ATI.
I submitted this story to Slashdot a month ago but it was rejected.
"2002-03-08 04:12:16 Aquarium Hobbyist Mailing List Under Attack (articles,news) (rejected) "
Apparently the passenger, Barbara Olsen, made the phone call from within a locked bathroom stall on her cell phone. She called shortly before the plane crashed.
Correct link here.
It says, "...the Content Scrambling System (CSS) decryption key also resides on the physical disc cannot be copied, and without the decryption key, the .VOB video won't play from the DVD or from your hard disk..."
Wrong, wrong. The DeCSS key recovery attack designed by Frank Stevenson can be applied to the .VOB ciphertext directly as in the DeCssPlus application. You can decrypt the .VOB ciphertext without having to access any of the keys on the DVD. The bottom line is that CSS is a very weak cryptosystem, further crippled by the fact that it is based upon the concept of a trusted client.
Further on in that article, they go on to blame Xing for forgetting "..to encrypt its decryption key." What a load. They didn't forget anything. The bottom line is that in order for software to decrypt the DVD, the player key needs to be in plaintext at some point in the software execution.
This just further reinforces Bruce Schneier's valid point about the impossibility of having a trusted client. Watermarking attempts will eventually fail as well.
"He's the perfect anti-technology hero in a technological age, but like this movie, and like others in the genre, isn't blowing up box offices. " http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesBoxOffice/us.html It premiered at #1 in the US last weekend, grossing $19million US. I think it has had a relatively good start (haven't seen it myself and probably won't). Compare this to one of the movies that Katz highlights - Gattaca. It only grossed $12.34million US in 1997 (the year it was released). (Source http://www.boxofficereport.com/ybon/97gross.shtml)
If Napster wants to go to a pay-per use method, then what's the point of peer to peer sharing? If I'm paying $2-$10 a month for this service, I expect *quality*. I don't want to have to try to download 10 different versions of the same song to get a download rate faster than 5KBytes/sec. I don't want to search through lists of poorly/incorrectly named song files. If I'm paying for it, I want 30KBytes/sec minimum. I want full 320kbps MP3 files. I want *every* song from *all* of the record labels participating. I don't want to see only what is on the hard drives of the other people who are on the same server as me. The reason Napster succeeds is that it is free, so everybody has a low expectation for the quality of service. If your cable TV only worked certain times of the day, and some of the channels were intermittent, you would not be happy. But for antenna channels? You just keep adjusting those rabbit ears as best as you can and grin and bear it. Why? Because you don't pay for it.
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Dude. It was a joke.
if that face scanning software would mistaken me for every other asian male.....cause, you know, we all look alike, right?
Well if the guy is only on dial-up, you might see 56.6kbps extra bandwidth. Big freaking deal.
So what's next? Are they not going to allow me to rent a car just because I'm under the age of 25? Oh wait. They already do that.
So how was this posting flamebait?
get some damn optical image stabilization, or a tripod, or a stack of newspapers, a picnic table, or something!
It all comes down to control. The artist should be in control because it's their copyright.
But right now, it's not the artist's copyright. It's the record label's. Now, an artist is considered a 'work for hire' and the record label owns all of the rights to all of the songs that were recorded while the artist is under contract, for perpetuity. For more on this, see Courtney Love's article on Salon.com.
That reflects your circle of friends more than anything. Everyboy I know that are very successful all attended university.
Hopefully they didn't encrypt that info using a World War II Enigma machine, like how the Canadian Department of National Defense went to the war museum to pull out some artillery pieces for the Gulf War.
Mr. Dre, Mr. NWA, Mr. AK, F*** Tha Police but you sick NetPD on me today?
Chuck D *has* put Public Enemy songs for free download as MP3. See: http://208.178.101.42/tech/feature/1999/06/01/hiph op/print.html (Brief mention in 2nd paragraph).