I assume it's illegal to make a copy and give away the original while retaining the copy. But what is true is that it is legal to make copies for personal use. Every 5 years the librarian of congress reviews requests for exceptions to the DMCA and this last time decided to allow copies for personal use and backup of DVDs as an exception.
that is a marginal loss to the owner of the copyright
You can't assume that's true. The friend the disk was loaned to may never have bought the movie. It's not a loss if the purchase wasn't ever going to happen. And like you mentioned, it might equally be considered a marginal gain, because the borrower could recommend the movie to others, and cause purchases that otherwise may not have happened.
Are you serious? Or trolling? You can copy the DVD image super easy, bit-for-bit, without breaking any encryption using a program like ImgBurn, and right now it's legal in the US to do so for personal use. You can then play it back on your computer legally using an ISO mounter like DaemonTools, and a legal DVD player program like PowerDVD. This is a legal chain of use. It's legal to backup a DVD by making a bit-for-bit copy of the disk. It's legal to mount the ISO of that image. And it's legal to playback that ISO with a piece of decryption software that is correctly licensed for it.
They can sue if they can show that your work is a derivative of the Disney work
Not exactly true either. They can sue without of the evidence of infringement if they're so inclined. They'll lose if the evidence is against them, but they'll still put a heavy financial burden on the party they'll sue. If Disney thinks they can bankrupt the defendant, and it's worth the cost, then they can sue with practically no standing.
That's why corporate ownership of copyright is a financially asymmetrical and unfair legal allowance. The richest media companies can buy up whatever properties they want and then tie up smaller parties in a civil suit subsequently incurring disproportionate expense on the defendant. They can then offer a settlement deal, and give the smaller party a cheaper option than winning in court. If Disney loses in court, it's objective is still realized by the bankruptcy of the defendant. If the defendant instead settles, they promise to censor their work irrespective of whether or not the work was infringing. If Disney wins, it gets to expand the scope of its intellectual property and bankrupt the defendant. Its a no-lose situation for Disney if the value of the defendant's property is equal to or greater than court costs.
Titan's not a planet, but it's fairly nearby (ie within the solar system), and has rain and mud. As long as you count liquid methane and ethane falling from the sky as rain, and tholin tar as mud.
As far as I know, modern cars are designed to crumple, and smash externally in order to dissipate shock in an accident as much as possible.
For instance, if you have a very rigid-bodied vehicle and a crumply-bodied vehicle, you'll most likely experience more acceleration in an accident with the stiff bodied vehicle, as the crumply vehicle takes more time to come to a complete stop. Going from 60mph to 0mph in 100 milliseconds exerts ~27.34G on the occupant. If you can double the period of acceleration from 100 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, you can half the G load to ~13.67G, which is much more survivable.
I don't know how much the crumple zones and pliability of the frame contribute exactly, but in life or death situations every little bit counts, as far as the highly risk averse public is concerned.
Exactly This. Mod this guy up. I know that with me, this comes from an immature childish place, but I can't stand the thought of not even making a dent on the world. I don't care if I'm forgotten, as long as I can do something to make the world better.
Try all the F# Keys. It might take a while, as they might have set the pause for FKeys to be something braindead stupid like 1/3rd of a second or some bullshit like that. so try all of them: F1 Through F12. If none of them work, and neither Delete nor Escape, nor the Space Bar works, then I gotta say you've wasted your money.
Although, there might be a jumper on the mobo (literally a couple of prongs bridged with a piece of plastic holding some foil) that you can break and refit that can reset your bios so it'll tell you what buttons to push.
Also, try unplugging your HDD and see what the error screen says. It may tell you what to hit on startup in order to get to your UEFI/BIOS.
Too bad the user can't manage his own hardware now. We're at the mercy of the mobo manufacturers, as they decide who's keys are trusted by default (ie microsoft ONLY). If I have to go to microsoft in order to be allowed to boot BSD on my own motherboard, then my property rights are being violated. I'm not leasing or borrowing my mobo, I've bought it. That means nobody else has a right to tell me I can't do whatever I want with it (within legal limits). The only feature of UEFI so far is to wrest control from the actual owner of the hardware. This is just as bad as DRM. Nobody woke up this morning and said to themselves "I wish I could buy a desktop computer that let me do less with it than my current machine." Nobody goes to iTunes thinking "I wish I could buy a song that plays on fewer devices than what I have" and nobody thinks "I wish I could buy a movie that plays on my cellphone, but I sure would be pissed if it could play on my TV, Kindle and laptop too"
UEFI so far is only a bad thing. I currently own a motherboard that claims to have "dual uefi" whatever that means, and I still can't disable secureboot even with a manual. That's simply not an option. The manufacturers, in collusion with microsoft, have figured out a way of forcing me to use windows 8. I don't want to use windows 8. And my only alternative is counting my current mobo as a loss of $120, and buying either a used mobo (who knows how damaged it is), or a mobo that's been sitting in a warehouse a few years (better than the former, but still iffy. Why are they there in the first place? Why haven't they been sold yet?)
$7.5 million isn't huge. It's nothing. Compared to the value of the average multinational corporation (eg Proctor and Gamble, Ford, GM, General Electric, the list goes on), it wouldn't amount to a single day's worth of revenue. Take them for every dime, and then another ten times that amount so the executives will have to sleep in the gutters, and be spat upon by us commoners.
Execution is too mild. All we get of them is a news report describing an operating room where a nurse sterilizes the injection site, they're injected, and they stop breathing in a few minutes.
I'd rather they be tortured to death over the course of a full year. Publicly available on the internet via IPTV and a highlights reel of the most gruesome violations.
That's the whole point of the death penalty right? To discourage misbehavior? What's better than showing a whole year's worth of literally bleeding-edge suffering in real-time? That makes perfect sense as a way of deterring those involved in corporations from doing things that are illegal. Torture one or two as horrifically as possible for directly harming the people of the US, and watch the rest all fall in line.
It's a guarantee of retribution. But it doesn't technically prevent any ill befalling firefox users. It simply makes doing something bad on purpose less attractive, not harder.
I used to be very interested in steganography in my adolescent years. Mainly because the home pc was shared and I wanted to find a way of storing porn on it in a more undetectable way than building a folder hierarchy, or putting it in a system folder. I don't bother with steganography anymore, as I don't really care that much anymore what someone might find on my machines
Yeah. That's why this type of steganography detection is really hard to actually implement. Another commenter replying to me outlined a number of cryptanalysis methods that don't seem to rely on a known clean copy. Although, they do seem to rely on bitmaps and known information about camera sensors. I'd expect an easy way to screw up an analysis would be to change to a lower bit-depth apply a few randomly tuned effects, re-encode the photo to a different codec, and then do the steganographic embedding. Then the camera sensors' noise profiles wouldn't really matter since the image is somewhat chaotically altered from the sensor's raw output.
You can look to see if the image is bit-for-bit the same as a known clean image on the internet. EG you intercept an image in an email that also appeared on, say, 9gag. You do a check to see if the image is in the same resolution, the same codec, etc. If you know they're the same format and such, you can delta the two images, if there's a difference you look to see if the difference is on the least significant bits. If so, that's pretty strong evidence that the image has a seganographic message in it.
Other than doing a delta technique with a known clean image, I don't have any idea off the top of my head for cryptanalysis methods of finding evidence for image steganographies.
I've actually trained my dog to get out of the way when I tell him "excuse me"
It's the best thing I've ever trained an animal to do. I'm in the kitchen and he's underfoot: "excuse me" and he get's his ass out of there. I'm on the war path to the bathroom in the middle of the night? "ExcuseME!", haven't tripped over him or stepped on his tail ever since I trained him with that neat little trick.
It was super easy to do too. Just box him into a narrow hall and leave a door open at the end. Start saying excuse me as you shove him back. Do it once or twice a day, he'll completely get it in a week, if not sooner. And then just say excuse me whenever he needs to be out of the way. It's wonderful.
The characters talked to them like they were intelligent.
"Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?" Obi-Wan Kenobi
I suppose that isn't talking to a droid but it was said probably within microphone-shot of at least one service droid with a lot of simulated personality.
ABX at 192kbps and I can't hear the difference, which is good enough for me. Granted I don't have the best ears. I don't mean to be overly enthusiastic, it's just nice having a codec that serves basically all purposes.
I don't use it for music really. That's all in FLAC (storage) and Vorbis (players) already, but I do use it for video nowadays. I usually encode at 48kbps at 44.1kHz and it sounds better to me that AAC-HE-PS while using the same space. And it's a free and open codec too, so I have all the unjustified moral superiority to wave around too.
Have you not heard of Opus? It's a fucking sweetass new codec that beats speex quality-wise for voice compression at equal bitrates, but works equally well for web-radio beating AAC-HE v1 and v2, is better than MP3/AAC/OGG at regular video soundtrack rates (eg 96kbps) and does High-Def lossy audio better than AC3 (192kbps to 448kbps). It's a fucking amazing codec, and it's already out in beta. VLC and Foobar2000 already plays it. It already has support in FFMPEG and MPlayer.
Have you been that awsome in the the last ten years? NO YOU HAVE NOT.
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I assume it's illegal to make a copy and give away the original while retaining the copy. But what is true is that it is legal to make copies for personal use. Every 5 years the librarian of congress reviews requests for exceptions to the DMCA and this last time decided to allow copies for personal use and backup of DVDs as an exception.
You can't assume that's true. The friend the disk was loaned to may never have bought the movie. It's not a loss if the purchase wasn't ever going to happen. And like you mentioned, it might equally be considered a marginal gain, because the borrower could recommend the movie to others, and cause purchases that otherwise may not have happened.
Are you serious? Or trolling? You can copy the DVD image super easy, bit-for-bit, without breaking any encryption using a program like ImgBurn, and right now it's legal in the US to do so for personal use. You can then play it back on your computer legally using an ISO mounter like DaemonTools, and a legal DVD player program like PowerDVD. This is a legal chain of use. It's legal to backup a DVD by making a bit-for-bit copy of the disk. It's legal to mount the ISO of that image. And it's legal to playback that ISO with a piece of decryption software that is correctly licensed for it.
Not exactly true either. They can sue without of the evidence of infringement if they're so inclined. They'll lose if the evidence is against them, but they'll still put a heavy financial burden on the party they'll sue. If Disney thinks they can bankrupt the defendant, and it's worth the cost, then they can sue with practically no standing.
That's why corporate ownership of copyright is a financially asymmetrical and unfair legal allowance. The richest media companies can buy up whatever properties they want and then tie up smaller parties in a civil suit subsequently incurring disproportionate expense on the defendant. They can then offer a settlement deal, and give the smaller party a cheaper option than winning in court. If Disney loses in court, it's objective is still realized by the bankruptcy of the defendant. If the defendant instead settles, they promise to censor their work irrespective of whether or not the work was infringing. If Disney wins, it gets to expand the scope of its intellectual property and bankrupt the defendant. Its a no-lose situation for Disney if the value of the defendant's property is equal to or greater than court costs.
Titan's not a planet, but it's fairly nearby (ie within the solar system), and has rain and mud. As long as you count liquid methane and ethane falling from the sky as rain, and tholin tar as mud.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it. -Abe Simpson
As far as I know, modern cars are designed to crumple, and smash externally in order to dissipate shock in an accident as much as possible.
For instance, if you have a very rigid-bodied vehicle and a crumply-bodied vehicle, you'll most likely experience more acceleration in an accident with the stiff bodied vehicle, as the crumply vehicle takes more time to come to a complete stop. Going from 60mph to 0mph in 100 milliseconds exerts ~27.34G on the occupant. If you can double the period of acceleration from 100 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, you can half the G load to ~13.67G, which is much more survivable.
I don't know how much the crumple zones and pliability of the frame contribute exactly, but in life or death situations every little bit counts, as far as the highly risk averse public is concerned.
Oh, so it's just like Windows Server class at technical school?
Pickling too. Gotta love that delicious bacterial brew that keeps us safe from botulism.
Exactly This. Mod this guy up.
I know that with me, this comes from an immature childish place, but I can't stand the thought of not even making a dent on the world. I don't care if I'm forgotten, as long as I can do something to make the world better.
Try all the F# Keys. It might take a while, as they might have set the pause for FKeys to be something braindead stupid like 1/3rd of a second or some bullshit like that. so try all of them: F1 Through F12. If none of them work, and neither Delete nor Escape, nor the Space Bar works, then I gotta say you've wasted your money.
Although, there might be a jumper on the mobo (literally a couple of prongs bridged with a piece of plastic holding some foil) that you can break and refit that can reset your bios so it'll tell you what buttons to push.
Also, try unplugging your HDD and see what the error screen says. It may tell you what to hit on startup in order to get to your UEFI/BIOS.
Too bad the user can't manage his own hardware now. We're at the mercy of the mobo manufacturers, as they decide who's keys are trusted by default (ie microsoft ONLY). If I have to go to microsoft in order to be allowed to boot BSD on my own motherboard, then my property rights are being violated. I'm not leasing or borrowing my mobo, I've bought it. That means nobody else has a right to tell me I can't do whatever I want with it (within legal limits).
The only feature of UEFI so far is to wrest control from the actual owner of the hardware. This is just as bad as DRM. Nobody woke up this morning and said to themselves "I wish I could buy a desktop computer that let me do less with it than my current machine." Nobody goes to iTunes thinking "I wish I could buy a song that plays on fewer devices than what I have" and nobody thinks "I wish I could buy a movie that plays on my cellphone, but I sure would be pissed if it could play on my TV, Kindle and laptop too"
UEFI so far is only a bad thing. I currently own a motherboard that claims to have "dual uefi" whatever that means, and I still can't disable secureboot even with a manual. That's simply not an option. The manufacturers, in collusion with microsoft, have figured out a way of forcing me to use windows 8. I don't want to use windows 8. And my only alternative is counting my current mobo as a loss of $120, and buying either a used mobo (who knows how damaged it is), or a mobo that's been sitting in a warehouse a few years (better than the former, but still iffy. Why are they there in the first place? Why haven't they been sold yet?)
$7.5 million isn't huge. It's nothing. Compared to the value of the average multinational corporation (eg Proctor and Gamble, Ford, GM, General Electric, the list goes on), it wouldn't amount to a single day's worth of revenue. Take them for every dime, and then another ten times that amount so the executives will have to sleep in the gutters, and be spat upon by us commoners.
Execution is too mild. All we get of them is a news report describing an operating room where a nurse sterilizes the injection site, they're injected, and they stop breathing in a few minutes.
I'd rather they be tortured to death over the course of a full year. Publicly available on the internet via IPTV and a highlights reel of the most gruesome violations.
That's the whole point of the death penalty right? To discourage misbehavior? What's better than showing a whole year's worth of literally bleeding-edge suffering in real-time? That makes perfect sense as a way of deterring those involved in corporations from doing things that are illegal. Torture one or two as horrifically as possible for directly harming the people of the US, and watch the rest all fall in line.
It's a guarantee of retribution. But it doesn't technically prevent any ill befalling firefox users. It simply makes doing something bad on purpose less attractive, not harder.
I used to be very interested in steganography in my adolescent years. Mainly because the home pc was shared and I wanted to find a way of storing porn on it in a more undetectable way than building a folder hierarchy, or putting it in a system folder.
I don't bother with steganography anymore, as I don't really care that much anymore what someone might find on my machines
Yeah. That's why this type of steganography detection is really hard to actually implement.
Another commenter replying to me outlined a number of cryptanalysis methods that don't seem to rely on a known clean copy. Although, they do seem to rely on bitmaps and known information about camera sensors. I'd expect an easy way to screw up an analysis would be to change to a lower bit-depth apply a few randomly tuned effects, re-encode the photo to a different codec, and then do the steganographic embedding. Then the camera sensors' noise profiles wouldn't really matter since the image is somewhat chaotically altered from the sensor's raw output.
You can look to see if the image is bit-for-bit the same as a known clean image on the internet. EG you intercept an image in an email that also appeared on, say, 9gag. You do a check to see if the image is in the same resolution, the same codec, etc. If you know they're the same format and such, you can delta the two images, if there's a difference you look to see if the difference is on the least significant bits. If so, that's pretty strong evidence that the image has a seganographic message in it.
Other than doing a delta technique with a known clean image, I don't have any idea off the top of my head for cryptanalysis methods of finding evidence for image steganographies.
I've actually trained my dog to get out of the way when I tell him "excuse me"
It's the best thing I've ever trained an animal to do. I'm in the kitchen and he's underfoot: "excuse me" and he get's his ass out of there. I'm on the war path to the bathroom in the middle of the night? "ExcuseME!", haven't tripped over him or stepped on his tail ever since I trained him with that neat little trick.
It was super easy to do too. Just box him into a narrow hall and leave a door open at the end. Start saying excuse me as you shove him back. Do it once or twice a day, he'll completely get it in a week, if not sooner. And then just say excuse me whenever he needs to be out of the way. It's wonderful.
Careful there, it's easy to stray into Sirius Cybernetics's Genuine People Personalities
And nobody likes those machines. Especially the sighing doors, the morose androids, and the hyperactive ship computers.
"Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?" Obi-Wan Kenobi
I suppose that isn't talking to a droid but it was said probably within microphone-shot of at least one service droid with a lot of simulated personality.
Also, you have to pay every time you pick up a friend. And you aren't allowed to drive it out of state, or pickup someone from out of state.
OnStar is pretty much a 1:1 equivalence though.
There are vegetables that aren't plants? Name Five distinct things that aren't in the same family or genus.
ABX at 192kbps and I can't hear the difference, which is good enough for me. Granted I don't have the best ears.
I don't mean to be overly enthusiastic, it's just nice having a codec that serves basically all purposes.
I don't use it for music really. That's all in FLAC (storage) and Vorbis (players) already, but I do use it for video nowadays. I usually encode at 48kbps at 44.1kHz and it sounds better to me that AAC-HE-PS while using the same space. And it's a free and open codec too, so I have all the unjustified moral superiority to wave around too.
You fucking troll.
Have you not heard of Opus? It's a fucking sweetass new codec that beats speex quality-wise for voice compression at equal bitrates, but works equally well for web-radio beating AAC-HE v1 and v2, is better than MP3/AAC/OGG at regular video soundtrack rates (eg 96kbps) and does High-Def lossy audio better than AC3 (192kbps to 448kbps).
It's a fucking amazing codec, and it's already out in beta. VLC and Foobar2000 already plays it. It already has support in FFMPEG and MPlayer.
Have you been that awsome in the the last ten years? NO YOU HAVE NOT.
Go home you stupid child.