Most large companies use one or the other for messaging. Both make it fairly easy to encrypt all of your traffic, but neither has good support for third party encryption. Your best hope right now would be some third party plugin on the client, but that makes it less likely to be used. It also make administration in a large environment very difficult.
We aren't just talking about changing algorithms here. If this "discovery" is all they are claiming it could very well mean that all public key crypto is insecure. Companies like Cisco, Verisign, and MS have encouraged enterprise customers to spend a lot of money on PKI as an enabling technology for everything from secure email to remote access. That may be down the drain if in fact, "Everything you know about public key cryptography is wrong."
You are right, and this is a major stumbling block to widespread acceptance of encryption in the civilian world. The military and other organizations with a strong need to keep secrets are used to playing these games, but corporate America just isn't. Current applications aren't flexible enough to plug-and-play cryptography, changing crypto systems often means a complete redeployment of the application, or worse yet a new application.
Imagine the conversation with the CIO when you tell him he has to throw out his 1 year old meesaging platform because some guy figured out how to factor very large numbers effeciently and your current platform doesn't support eliptical curve cryptography.
Note that there have been rumors of an RSA cracker built by a three-letter agency in custom silicon before this, but until analyzing Bernstein's paper I had always dismissed them as ridiculous paranoid fantasies. Now it looks like such a device is entirely feasible and, in fact, likely.
There has always been speculation that the NSA could break RSA, but it was dissmised as paranoid by most "in the know." Most of the mathematicians didn't believe that they were that much ahead of the rest of us. Now that this technique is known it explains how the spooks may be able to break crypto everyone else believed was "unbreakable" if they had previously made this discovery.
But now, armed with the precedent from this case, plaintiffs will be able to take down the labels easily. To avoid legal expenses, the labels will likely voluntarily comply.
Settlements are usually not considered legal precedent.
The analogy was in reference to what you are buying and what you can do with it.
When you buy a saw you are buying a saw, you are not buying any of the patents, trademarks, or copyrights, that cover the design and manufacture the saw.
When you buy a game you are buying a CD and a license to use the copyrighted material in a certain way. Other than certain limitations spelled out in the law (e.g. Fair Use) you only have the rights granted you in the license. Period. You may not agree with EULAs on software, but absent the EULA you have no license to any of the copyrighted material which will almost certainly entitle you to fewer rights than the EULA would grant.
Using the copyrighted material in a way inconsistant with this license is copyright infringement, DMCA or not using bnetd may very well violate the EULA.
The term you are groping for is "Substancial non-infringing uses" CD burners, floppy drives, VCRs cassette tapes, photo copiers, etc. have substancial non-infringing uses. Nintendo will argue that this product does not.
Proetto claims police violated the state's wiretapping law by looking at the messages without first obtaining a warrant. Proetto also claims his Fourth Amendment privacy rights were violated.
The defence will argue that:
Since PA law requires the consent of both parties for private recordings the transcripts were not lawfully obtained by the girl. If the girl could not legaly record the conversations then the police would need a court order to do so. So sayeth the 4th Ammendment. The defence can also argue that the girl was acting as an "agent" of the police when collecting the evidence.
The prosecution may argue that the Police would not have needed a court order to intercept the email, making the "two-party" issue irrelevant.
It seems the question at hand is if the PA "two-party" law applies to email, if it does then there is indeed a search and seizure issue and the evidence possibly gets thrown out. If the PA court finds that it doesn't apply, or that it does apply but still admits the evidence you will see this case in the Supreme Court.
I don't know what the fourth ammedment to the PA constitution says, but I assume they are alleging violations under the Fourth Ammendment to the US Constitution. THAT is a federal issue.
How many children a woman has during her life is not really a usefull statistic when trying to determine population growth. It is much more usefull to compare birth and death rates.
According to the CIA Factbook: Birth rate: 14.2 births/1,000 population (2001 est.) Death rate: 8.7 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
So for each death approximately 1.6 children are born. This would indicate population growth.
The fact that 2.8 children are born for "every two people" does not tell us anything about population growth. Depending on life expectencies, infant mortality rates and sex distribution of the population that could indicate growth or shrinking.
What? Your defenition of birthrate doesn't make any sense. How are you counting the population? Are you claiming that every year 2 children times the population of the US are born? And that isn't enough for replacement? That's absurd. A much more useful measure would be a ratio of births:deaths. If this was 1:1 that would be no net gain, a ratio of 2:1 would mean the population is growing. to have a shrinking population you would have to have a lower birthrate than deathrate.
Hey genius, your vote does count. The Neilson families are chosen randomly to represent the distribution of households in the US. So your vote counts proportionally to the number of households with the same taste as you.
If they got this sort of information just from people who had PVR's or who volunteered you would have a statistical problem. It is difficult to draw generalizations from self-selecting samples. The people making TV shows don't care what you watch, they care what the majority of your demographic watches. If you have fringe tastes no one is interested and you get screwed. It isn't an accident, it's by design.
According to the USNO:
"Through the use of ancient observations of eclipses, it is possible to determine the average deceleration of the Earth to be roughly 1.4 milliseconds per day per century."
So the slowing caused by the tides is approx. 1,000 times stronger than this "global warming" effect.
Also, leap seconds are not inserted every year, but "as needed".
The United States must always adhere to the Geneva Convention, even with people who never signed it, or we will never be trusted to adhere to the Geneva Convention.
This statement is a paradox. Geneva convention only applies between signatory countries. The whole point is that it represents a quid pro quo. It is very likely that the results of extending the benefits of the convention to terrorists, or non-signatory nations would actually be detrimental. If waring parties know that they will get the benefits of the Convention without signing, what is the incentive to sign?
Without a mutual agreement, it would be like saying, "We don't care if you tourture your POWs, but we are going to be nice to ours.
The Bush administration is absolutly correct. Extending Geneva protections to non-covered groups is a Bad Idea. We can still treat them humanely, but we shouldn't do it under the Convention.
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As long as they keep paying the premiums.
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How is this different than my real-world bank giving me $25 for opening an account with direct deposit?
When you deposit money in your account at a banks it is still your money. Customers accounts are show as a liability on the bank's books. What the bank is allowed to do with that moeny is limited by regulation, and how accessable that moeny is to you is also regulated. If the bank goes under you get 100% of your money back. If the bank catches on fire, is robbed, is sold, etc., you get 100% back.
When you have money in your PayPal account it is not your money. PayPal is not a bank. They are not regulated. When you put money in your account you are paying PayPal for the "service" of holding and/or transferring that money.
PayPal can do anything they want with that money, because it is theirs. They can put it in bonds or they can bet on the ponies. If they lose it all that sucks for you. If PayPal goes bankrupt, get in line with the rest of the creditors. If they are bought, sold, or dissolved -- good luck. PayPal has recently gotten in the habit of "freezing" accounts for arbitrary reasons and violating their own TOS when they are threatened with chargebacks.
Last but not least, I know that I can walk into my bank on any day they are open and walk out with every penny of the money in my account in cash. When and how you can get money out of your PayPal account is entirely at the discretion of PayPal.
These are all things that cause certain people to believe that at some point in the future PayPal "dollars" will be as useful as Flooz driving down the value relative to US$. Hence the question about shorting the PP$.
Bzzt. You are only innocent until proven guilty in _criminal_court_ Your "guiding principle" has no bearing on anything else.
How do you think customs works? "I think this stuff is cocaine, but I don't have a search warrant so I can't test it, you know 4th ammendment and all. I guess we should just send it on its way!" Ha! When you ship something into or out of this country expect it to be opened, rifled through and if the Customs officer can't determine that it is permitted it will be held up.
I think this guy is getting the screw job from UPS, not USC, if it was Customs, he should get notice and instructions on how to appeal.
I'm not sure if you are aware that lots of people are allowed to make mominations for the peace prize and there are usually hundreds every year, but even if George Bush was nominated you wouldn't know it because the nominees are SECRET
Also could you please explain why Bush would be such a bad nominee, but Yasser Arafat, leader of one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world is a good candidate?
Having just attended a sales presentation for one of these companies I can tell you latency is very good. Streaming DVD's and videoconferencing at 30fps simultaneously over 4 optical hops.
There are downsides though. The company we talked to is really only interested in selling the equipment to telcos, and is only in the network services business to prove the network works. If I was a shareholder I would also worry that they were willing to provide the equipment (at $90,000 per) so that we could be a network services customer for a couple grand a month.
The technology is pretty cool, apparantly the only weather that affects it is dense fog, and as long as "any" light will pass the link will stay up even if the LOS is obscured by objects. The company we talked to puts cameras in the units so if the link os broken their NOC can actually look out and see if somethin is in the way. Apparantly this came in handy when a cruise ship on the Hudson sailed infront of one of their links.
At the moment they are claiming 99.999 uptime but they do put in terrestrial backup for all of their links.
Later this year they are supposed to release a smaller inside mounted unit that is essentially a replacement for point-to-point 802.11. Nice except for the price tag ~$30,000.
What I would like in a boss is what I have right now. He knows more about the business than me, but he knows that he'll get the technical information he needs from me. He knows the right questions to ask and knows that he can trust my answers. It is his job to synthesize the information he is getting from various sources and make the decision that is best for the company. Sometime he takes my advice, sometimes he doesn't, but I try not to second guess him. I just remind myself that I'd probably be as good at his job as he'd be at mine.
Outside of work my boss has a life, and he recognizes I do too. He knows there wouldn't be any point in grinding me up just to get a little more productivity. I'm sure he'll never put a DVD player in the break room (although there is Cable TV) but I only work about 8 hours a day so I can watch movies at home if I want.
I've never understood why geeks are willing to work 12 hour days to help some VC get rich as long as they get nice breakrooms, free caffine and foosball/table tennis. And dvd/vcd/mp3/cd players? Why would you need that at work? Total productivity killer. Go to work, do your job, go home. If you can't get your job done in 40hrs a week (and you aren't incompetant) then you boss should hire more people.
Some of my best friends keep "drinking the kool-aid" (what an ironically appropriate metaphor). Only to get totaly screwed in the end. This seems to be even more prevelant in programmers than other geek type jobs.
Someone please explain to me what is so great about foosball that it makes programmers not feel exploited by a company that expects them to work 80 hours a week?
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You seem to be confusing the words "active" and "passive"
Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange
Most large companies use one or the other for messaging. Both make it fairly easy to encrypt all of your traffic, but neither has good support for third party encryption. Your best hope right now would be some third party plugin on the client, but that makes it less likely to be used. It also make administration in a large environment very difficult.
We aren't just talking about changing algorithms here. If this "discovery" is all they are claiming it could very well mean that all public key crypto is insecure. Companies like Cisco, Verisign, and MS have encouraged enterprise customers to spend a lot of money on PKI as an enabling technology for everything from secure email to remote access. That may be down the drain if in fact, "Everything you know about public key cryptography is wrong."
You are right, and this is a major stumbling block to widespread acceptance of encryption in the civilian world. The military and other organizations with a strong need to keep secrets are used to playing these games, but corporate America just isn't. Current applications aren't flexible enough to plug-and-play cryptography, changing crypto systems often means a complete redeployment of the application, or worse yet a new application.
Imagine the conversation with the CIO when you tell him he has to throw out his 1 year old meesaging platform because some guy figured out how to factor very large numbers effeciently and your current platform doesn't support eliptical curve cryptography.
From the referenced post:
Note that there have been rumors of an RSA cracker built by a
three-letter agency in custom silicon before this, but until
analyzing Bernstein's paper I had always dismissed them as
ridiculous paranoid fantasies. Now it looks like such a device
is entirely feasible and, in fact, likely.
There has always been speculation that the NSA could break RSA, but it was dissmised as paranoid by most "in the know." Most of the mathematicians didn't believe that they were that much ahead of the rest of us. Now that this technique is known it explains how the spooks may be able to break crypto everyone else believed was "unbreakable" if they had previously made this discovery.
But now, armed with the precedent from this case, plaintiffs will be able to take down the labels easily. To avoid legal expenses, the labels will likely voluntarily comply.
Settlements are usually not considered legal precedent.
That seller has 6,185 positive feedback. That immortality device must really work!
The analogy was in reference to what you are buying and what you can do with it.
When you buy a saw you are buying a saw, you are not buying any of the patents, trademarks, or copyrights, that cover the design and manufacture the saw.
When you buy a game you are buying a CD and a license to use the copyrighted material in a certain way. Other than certain limitations spelled out in the law (e.g. Fair Use) you only have the rights granted you in the license. Period. You may not agree with EULAs on software, but absent the EULA you have no license to any of the copyrighted material which will almost certainly entitle you to fewer rights than the EULA would grant.
Using the copyrighted material in a way inconsistant with this license is copyright infringement, DMCA or not using bnetd may very well violate the EULA.
But if you buy a circular saw and you then copy the design and start selling your own saws..... lawsuit!
You are assuming a court would agree with you that the definition of "computer program" would include cartridge based games.
You are _assuming_ that making a backup of your games is 1) non-infringing, and 2) that it will be a substantial use of this device.
There is no evidence to support either of these assumptions.
The term you are groping for is "Substancial non-infringing uses"
CD burners, floppy drives, VCRs cassette tapes, photo copiers, etc. have substancial non-infringing uses. Nintendo will argue that this product does not.
From the article:
Proetto claims police violated the state's wiretapping law by looking at the messages without first obtaining a warrant. Proetto also claims his Fourth Amendment privacy rights were violated.
The defence will argue that:
Since PA law requires the consent of both parties for private recordings the transcripts were not lawfully obtained by the girl. If the girl could not legaly record the conversations then the police would need a court order to do so. So sayeth the 4th Ammendment. The defence can also argue that the girl was acting as an "agent" of the police when collecting the evidence.
The prosecution may argue that the Police would not have needed a court order to intercept the email, making the "two-party" issue irrelevant.
It seems the question at hand is if the PA "two-party" law applies to email, if it does then there is indeed a search and seizure issue and the evidence possibly gets thrown out. If the PA court finds that it doesn't apply, or that it does apply but still admits the evidence you will see this case in the Supreme Court.
I don't know what the fourth ammedment to the PA constitution says, but I assume they are alleging violations under the Fourth Ammendment to the US Constitution.
THAT is a federal issue.
How many children a woman has during her life is not really a usefull statistic when trying to determine population growth. It is much more usefull to compare birth and death rates.
According to the CIA Factbook:
Birth rate: 14.2 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate: 8.7 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
So for each death approximately 1.6 children are born. This would indicate population growth.
The fact that 2.8 children are born for "every two people" does not tell us anything about population growth. Depending on life expectencies, infant mortality rates and sex distribution of the population that could indicate growth or shrinking.
What? Your defenition of birthrate doesn't make any sense. How are you counting the population? Are you claiming that every year 2 children times the population of the US are born? And that isn't enough for replacement? That's absurd. A much more useful measure would be a ratio of births:deaths. If this was 1:1 that would be no net gain, a ratio of 2:1 would mean the population is growing. to have a shrinking population you would have to have a lower birthrate than deathrate.
Hey genius, your vote does count. The Neilson families are chosen randomly to represent the distribution of households in the US. So your vote counts proportionally to the number of households with the same taste as you.
If they got this sort of information just from people who had PVR's or who volunteered you would have a statistical problem. It is difficult to draw generalizations from self-selecting samples. The people making TV shows don't care what you watch, they care what the majority of your demographic watches. If you have fringe tastes no one is interested and you get screwed. It isn't an accident, it's by design.
According to the USNO:
"Through the use of ancient observations of eclipses, it is possible to determine the average deceleration of the Earth to be roughly 1.4 milliseconds per day per century."
So the slowing caused by the tides is approx. 1,000 times stronger than this "global warming" effect.
Also, leap seconds are not inserted every year, but "as needed".
The United States must always adhere to the Geneva Convention, even with people who never signed it, or we will never be trusted to adhere to the Geneva Convention.
This statement is a paradox. Geneva convention only applies between signatory countries. The whole point is that it represents a quid pro quo. It is very likely that the results of extending the benefits of the convention to terrorists, or non-signatory nations would actually be detrimental. If waring parties know that they will get the benefits of the Convention without signing, what is the incentive to sign?
Without a mutual agreement, it would be like saying, "We don't care if you tourture your POWs, but we are going to be nice to ours.
The Bush administration is absolutly correct. Extending Geneva protections to non-covered groups is a Bad Idea. We can still treat them humanely, but we shouldn't do it under the Convention.
As long as they keep paying the premiums.
How is this different than my real-world bank giving me $25 for opening an account with direct deposit?
When you deposit money in your account at a banks it is still your money. Customers accounts are show as a liability on the bank's books. What the bank is allowed to do with that moeny is limited by regulation, and how accessable that moeny is to you is also regulated. If the bank goes under you get 100% of your money back. If the bank catches on fire, is robbed, is sold, etc., you get 100% back.
When you have money in your PayPal account it is not your money. PayPal is not a bank. They are not regulated. When you put money in your account you are paying PayPal for the "service" of holding and/or transferring that money.
PayPal can do anything they want with that money, because it is theirs. They can put it in bonds or they can bet on the ponies. If they lose it all that sucks for you. If PayPal goes bankrupt, get in line with the rest of the creditors. If they are bought, sold, or dissolved -- good luck. PayPal has recently gotten in the habit of "freezing" accounts for arbitrary reasons and violating their own TOS when they are threatened with chargebacks.
Last but not least, I know that I can walk into my bank on any day they are open and walk out with every penny of the money in my account in cash. When and how you can get money out of your PayPal account is entirely at the discretion of PayPal.
These are all things that cause certain people to believe that at some point in the future PayPal "dollars" will be as useful as Flooz driving down the value relative to US$. Hence the question about shorting the PP$.
Bzzt. You are only innocent until proven guilty in _criminal_court_ Your "guiding principle" has no bearing on anything else.
How do you think customs works? "I think this stuff is cocaine, but I don't have a search warrant so I can't test it, you know 4th ammendment and all. I guess we should just send it on its way!" Ha! When you ship something into or out of this country expect it to be opened, rifled through and if the Customs officer can't determine that it is permitted it will be held up.
I think this guy is getting the screw job from UPS, not USC, if it was Customs, he should get notice and instructions on how to appeal.
Also could you please explain why Bush would be such a bad nominee, but Yasser Arafat, leader of one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world is a good candidate?
Having just attended a sales presentation for one of these companies I can tell you latency is very good. Streaming DVD's and videoconferencing at 30fps simultaneously over 4 optical hops.
There are downsides though. The company we talked to is really only interested in selling the equipment to telcos, and is only in the network services business to prove the network works. If I was a shareholder I would also worry that they were willing to provide the equipment (at $90,000 per) so that we could be a network services customer for a couple grand a month.
The technology is pretty cool, apparantly the only weather that affects it is dense fog, and as long as "any" light will pass the link will stay up even if the LOS is obscured by objects. The company we talked to puts cameras in the units so if the link os broken their NOC can actually look out and see if somethin is in the way. Apparantly this came in handy when a cruise ship on the Hudson sailed infront of one of their links.
At the moment they are claiming 99.999 uptime but they do put in terrestrial backup for all of their links.
Later this year they are supposed to release a smaller inside mounted unit that is essentially a replacement for point-to-point 802.11. Nice except for the price tag ~$30,000.
What I would like in a boss is what I have right now. He knows more about the business than me, but he knows that he'll get the technical information he needs from me. He knows the right questions to ask and knows that he can trust my answers. It is his job to synthesize the information he is getting from various sources and make the decision that is best for the company. Sometime he takes my advice, sometimes he doesn't, but I try not to second guess him. I just remind myself that I'd probably be as good at his job as he'd be at mine.
Outside of work my boss has a life, and he recognizes I do too. He knows there wouldn't be any point in grinding me up just to get a little more productivity. I'm sure he'll never put a DVD player in the break room (although there is Cable TV) but I only work about 8 hours a day so I can watch movies at home if I want.
I've never understood why geeks are willing to work 12 hour days to help some VC get rich as long as they get nice breakrooms, free caffine and foosball/table tennis. And dvd/vcd/mp3/cd players? Why would you need that at work? Total productivity killer. Go to work, do your job, go home. If you can't get your job done in 40hrs a week (and you aren't incompetant) then you boss should hire more people.
Some of my best friends keep "drinking the kool-aid" (what an ironically appropriate metaphor). Only to get totaly screwed in the end. This seems to be even more prevelant in programmers than other geek type jobs.
Someone please explain to me what is so great about foosball that it makes programmers not feel exploited by a company that expects them to work 80 hours a week?
As a college student, how many other larges groups of people have you been exposed to?