I never said he was guilty, I said he won't get off by claiming that the US has no jurisdiction over the actions of people who are not citizens. You don't seem to disagree.
If I sell you an illegal product, Visa is not liable for handling your money, and UPS is not liable for delivering the goods. I don't really see a difference here.
Actually, the transactions took place entirely within the US. Customers paid a company in the US and downloaded the application from a file server in the US. Unless I've been misinfomed.
He and his company offered the product for sale in America from a server in Chicago. There's clearly no dispute over jurisdiction. The fact that he's not a citizen and that the work was done elsewhere is irrelevant.
If you don't like MHz comparisons, why just make up new numbers to compare to MHz ratings? Why not start marketing on a whole new metric, like MIPS or MFLOPS?
If AMD were to start selling processors based on MFLOPS I suspect Intel would have to publish their own numbers. It would be obvious to consumers that the two ratings were not comparable - that is, if you see an ad with a "1200 MHz" machine and a "35 MFLOPS" machine you don't assume the former is 35 times faster.
Yeah, I realized only after posting that the article I thought was about this technology was about another. However, you can get access to IBM's patents from that site.
"Alice must make a decision in her own mind about whether Carol is a trusted signer."
"Once Alice has a good key for Carol and marks it as trusted, she can then extend the WoT by then getting keys which Carol has signed."
You seem to be contradicting yourself. I agree with you up until the second last paragraph. Alice has a good key for Carol because she trusts Bob to sign keys. But the trust stops there - she shouldn't trust Carol to sign keys! As you said originally, she should know Carol and judge for herself if she can be trusted to sign keys.
Here's an explanation I found on Home Theater Forum:
"...Animeigo is NOT doing Robotech, they are doing the original Japanese seres that Robotech used for its animation. Robotech is edited from the original and has a different script and storyline, and the Animeigo release will not have an English dub, just as Robotech doesn't have an Japanese track.
If you want Robotech, the ADV version is the only one."
I'm not saying I like playing around with the interface rather than playing the game. What I like is the fact that in Diablo I/II I'm taking a risk by equipping a long bow when enemies can just rush me and beat the hell out of me while I'm switching weapons. I think that risk makes the game more fun.
Okay, some of these changes are great. "Repair All" should have been there fron the beginning, and two resolutions are better than one.
But some of these changes seem like they'll change the game for the worse. Double stash size? The fact that the stash is too small is good - it makes you decide what you really want, and makes collecting a full set of items more difficult (provided you don't buy from others).
Also, the weapon switch hotkey thing. In terms of realism, the old way didn't really take long enough (you try unstrapping a shield from your arm and drawing a longsword and see how long it takes). Now you can switch instantly?
And while I love the fact that sockets/gems will actually be useful, I don't like the fact that I'll be told exactly what a gem will do before I socket it. I pay enough attention to numbers already.
I was constantly tempted to paint over frat party advertisements with "THIS IS NOT A BILLBOARD" in huge letters. But I thought there was a pretty good amount of legitimate artistic expression overall.
DIVX consumers were likely to understand how the system worked ("what's that phone line for again?") Newer right-restricting technologies are more cleverly hidden. What percentage of American DVD purchasers do you think understand what region encoding is? I'd wager it's about 20% and getting lower every day. Everything they see for sale is R1 - they don't have to know about it.
Devices like MP3 players are already incorporating content controls - nobody knows they're there. The same will be true of content sensitive HDTVs, speakers, etc. The average consumer will never attempt to "cheat" and will never even be aware of the limitations.
Under these conditions I really don't think consumers will reject content controlling devices.
I don't think my comment was elitist. I care about DVD and home theater, probably more than most Slashdot readers, and I think related news is perfectly appropriate here.
But that's not what this story is - it's not even a request for technical information. It's a request for advice on buying electronic equipment. As I said, there are forums all over the web for just this purpose.
And I'm familiar with the concept of filtering - are you suggesting I filter Hardware, Ask Slashdot or Cliff? I don't want to exclude any of those - I just want the editor to be a bit more selective.
Macrovision can be a problem for people who have no interest in making VHS copies. Personally, I tried to use an RF modulator to hook up my DVD player to my older TV, but Macrovision wouldn't let me.
Also, the idea that Macrovision is completely invisible on direct non-component connections is just not true. Most of the time there's no noticeable difference, but plenty of people see degraded performance on setups that should be completely kosher.
I find it infuriating that completely legitimate users have to put up with these inconveniences and quality compromises in the name of copy protection.
The author mentioned timestamps, but timestamps have all of the same problems GPS data have.
When you create a signature with a timestamp, where does the time come from? If you're using only software, the timestamp is probably coming from the operating system, which thinks the time is whatever you tell it it is. It's not especially hard to generate an incorrect timestamp.
So in both cases we have to rely on trusted hardware, which is always a tricky thing. Even if I have a hardware device which includes a clock as well as the ability to store keys and generate timestamps, I still have to trust that all of the code involved is bug-free and the clock is correct. And it's easy to make sure the clock is correct only if you assume a few different parties can be trusted.
So sure, you can make a GPS receiver that signs and timestamps its data. But you have to trust everything inside the box, you have to trust the people who created the firmware, and you have to trust that the box can't be modified. Even the most secure hardware devices are subject to attacks. And this doesn't even address the question of where the GPS signal itself might bve coming from...
I heard a woman describe her experience in her own words on NPR. She showed her ballot to a poll supervisor and asked who she had voted for. When told, "Buchanan", she asked for a new ballot. The supervisor told her it was too late, took the ballot from her hand and deposited it in the ballot box.
Granted, this could be faked, but I wouldn't call it hearsay.
No, I don't think they were given questionaires. I think someone compiled the answers from their previous statements. So n/a doesn't mean they refused to answer, just that they haven't happened to answer yet.
Okay, so there's a journal article which discusses a problem contained within Minesweeper. In order for this to be interesting, he would have had to prove the problem NP-complete and provide a polynomial time solution for it. As far as we know he did neither. The gist of the article is, "There's a theoretical problem in Minesweeper, and gosh, isn't the P=?NP question interesting?"
Furthermore, even if a proof that P==NP were handed down by God encryption wouldn't become useless. Most of the fundamental problems in encryption are not provably NP-complete.
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I'm really surprised PayPal hasn't done this considering the problem they're having with spoofed mail.
In fact, it makes me wonder if they had a reason to decide against it.
I never said he was guilty, I said he won't get off by claiming that the US has no jurisdiction over the actions of people who are not citizens. You don't seem to disagree.
If I sell you an illegal product, Visa is not liable for handling your money, and UPS is not liable for delivering the goods. I don't really see a difference here.
Actually, the transactions took place entirely within the US. Customers paid a company in the US and downloaded the application from a file server in the US. Unless I've been misinfomed.
A company selling a product in America is subject to American laws prohibiting the sale of that product. Very simple really.
He and his company offered the product for sale in America from a server in Chicago. There's clearly no dispute over jurisdiction. The fact that he's not a citizen and that the work was done elsewhere is irrelevant.
If you don't like MHz comparisons, why just make up new numbers to compare to MHz ratings? Why not start marketing on a whole new metric, like MIPS or MFLOPS?
If AMD were to start selling processors based on MFLOPS I suspect Intel would have to publish their own numbers. It would be obvious to consumers that the two ratings were not comparable - that is, if you see an ad with a "1200 MHz" machine and a "35 MFLOPS" machine you don't assume the former is 35 times faster.
Yeah, I realized only after posting that the article I thought was about this technology was about another. However, you can get access to IBM's patents from that site.
here. Jeez, it's hard to find real information about this.
More technical information can be found at the IBM Research display technology site.
"Alice must make a decision in her own mind about whether Carol is a trusted signer."
"Once Alice has a good key for Carol and marks it as trusted, she can then extend the WoT by then getting keys which Carol has signed."
You seem to be contradicting yourself. I agree with you up until the second last paragraph. Alice has a good key for Carol because she trusts Bob to sign keys. But the trust stops there - she shouldn't trust Carol to sign keys! As you said originally, she should know Carol and judge for herself if she can be trusted to sign keys.
Here's an explanation I found on Home Theater Forum:
"...Animeigo is NOT doing Robotech, they are doing the original Japanese seres that Robotech used for its animation. Robotech is edited from the original and has a different script and storyline, and the Animeigo release will not have an English dub, just as Robotech doesn't have an Japanese track.
If you want Robotech, the ADV version is the only one."
> I think you misunderstand the point of a game.
I doubt you actually think that.
I'm not saying I like playing around with the interface rather than playing the game. What I like is the fact that in Diablo I/II I'm taking a risk by equipping a long bow when enemies can just rush me and beat the hell out of me while I'm switching weapons. I think that risk makes the game more fun.
Okay, some of these changes are great. "Repair All" should have been there fron the beginning, and two resolutions are better than one.
But some of these changes seem like they'll change the game for the worse. Double stash size? The fact that the stash is too small is good - it makes you decide what you really want, and makes collecting a full set of items more difficult (provided you don't buy from others).
Also, the weapon switch hotkey thing. In terms of realism, the old way didn't really take long enough (you try unstrapping a shield from your arm and drawing a longsword and see how long it takes). Now you can switch instantly?
And while I love the fact that sockets/gems will actually be useful, I don't like the fact that I'll be told exactly what a gem will do before I socket it. I pay enough attention to numbers already.
This is a forum in which most if not all messages will be anonymous. It seems to be very hard to keep signal above noise in this kind of forum.
Of course, there's plenty of censorship built in, in that unpopular / socially unacceptable statements will be more likely to be erased.
I wonder if they've considered the fact that 'good' people will use the chalk and 'bad' people will use paint...
I was constantly tempted to paint over frat party advertisements with "THIS IS NOT A BILLBOARD" in huge letters. But I thought there was a pretty good amount of legitimate artistic expression overall.
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DIVX consumers were likely to understand how the system worked ("what's that phone line for again?") Newer right-restricting technologies are more cleverly hidden. What percentage of American DVD purchasers do you think understand what region encoding is? I'd wager it's about 20% and getting lower every day. Everything they see for sale is R1 - they don't have to know about it.
Devices like MP3 players are already incorporating content controls - nobody knows they're there. The same will be true of content sensitive HDTVs, speakers, etc. The average consumer will never attempt to "cheat" and will never even be aware of the limitations.
Under these conditions I really don't think consumers will reject content controlling devices.
I don't think my comment was elitist. I care about DVD and home theater, probably more than most Slashdot readers, and I think related news is perfectly appropriate here.
But that's not what this story is - it's not even a request for technical information. It's a request for advice on buying electronic equipment. As I said, there are forums all over the web for just this purpose.
And I'm familiar with the concept of filtering - are you suggesting I filter Hardware, Ask Slashdot or Cliff? I don't want to exclude any of those - I just want the editor to be a bit more selective.
Macrovision can be a problem for people who have no interest in making VHS copies. Personally, I tried to use an RF modulator to hook up my DVD player to my older TV, but Macrovision wouldn't let me.
Also, the idea that Macrovision is completely invisible on direct non-component connections is just not true. Most of the time there's no noticeable difference, but plenty of people see degraded performance on setups that should be completely kosher.
I find it infuriating that completely legitimate users have to put up with these inconveniences and quality compromises in the name of copy protection.
Am I the only one who thinks it's unreasonable to use Ask Slashdot to help you pick a DVD player?
Come on, look around. Try Consumer Review, or Home Theater Forum. Or use your favorite search engine.
There are plenty of sites to help you evaluate electronics equipment, and they're all more appropriate places for this discussion than Slashdot.
The author mentioned timestamps, but timestamps have all of the same problems GPS data have.
When you create a signature with a timestamp, where does the time come from? If you're using only software, the timestamp is probably coming from the operating system, which thinks the time is whatever you tell it it is. It's not especially hard to generate an incorrect timestamp.
So in both cases we have to rely on trusted hardware, which is always a tricky thing. Even if I have a hardware device which includes a clock as well as the ability to store keys and generate timestamps, I still have to trust that all of the code involved is bug-free and the clock is correct. And it's easy to make sure the clock is correct only if you assume a few different parties can be trusted.
So sure, you can make a GPS receiver that signs and timestamps its data. But you have to trust everything inside the box, you have to trust the people who created the firmware, and you have to trust that the box can't be modified. Even the most secure hardware devices are subject to attacks. And this doesn't even address the question of where the GPS signal itself might bve coming from...
I heard a woman describe her experience in her own words on NPR. She showed her ballot to a poll supervisor and asked who she had voted for. When told, "Buchanan", she asked for a new ballot. The supervisor told her it was too late, took the ballot from her hand and deposited it in the ballot box.
Granted, this could be faked, but I wouldn't call it hearsay.
Sorry, there is more to the story than the first page (damn that tiny text). They DID answer questions directly.
No, I don't think they were given questionaires. I think someone compiled the answers from their previous statements. So n/a doesn't mean they refused to answer, just that they haven't happened to answer yet.
Just my impressions.
Okay, so there's a journal article which discusses a problem contained within Minesweeper. In order for this to be interesting, he would have had to prove the problem NP-complete and provide a polynomial time solution for it. As far as we know he did neither. The gist of the article is, "There's a theoretical problem in Minesweeper, and gosh, isn't the P=?NP question interesting?"
Furthermore, even if a proof that P==NP were handed down by God encryption wouldn't become useless. Most of the fundamental problems in encryption are not provably NP-complete.