And, they already are- Didn't you see the RIAA announcement of profit loss post-Napster, where they decided that the loss MUST be due to CD-RW sales?
I burn occasional data backups and CD-R of the photos I take with my digital camera, or music I record with my guitar and microphones, but I haven't bothered to try and backup my music CDs.
I've attempted to convince my friends to join me in my boycott, and succeeded in getting my brother to not buy DVDs, but everyone else doesn't seem to understand- they're still saying "Don't worry, the geeks will defeat those protection measures!" -- my telling them "If you change the laws, the geeks won't have to!" seems to have little effect.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Average"--
I own 500 CDs, kept in 5 of those "100 cd binders," and I'd own more, but I've stopped buying CDs or DVDs in light of Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti's public comments.
I don't get music from Napster, KaZaa, or any other file-sharing network, I simply listen to the discs I currently own, what's broadcast on radio, or what I feel like playing on my guitar and recording to hard drive.
Sure, there are releases I've been tempted by, but I'll continue denying the record and movie houses my money until they stop presuming that I'm inclined to commit acts they'd like labelled as 'criminal.'
I always figured my CD collection was average, my friends own more than a thousand!
FAX - it gets read, you get snail mail back, and the snail mail may be relevant.
by this method,
Helms - wrote that he supported Ashcroft.
Edwards - sent a copied speech he made on the Senate floor, irrelevant to what I wrote him about.
Price - wrote back a letter stating that he was concerned about safe-guarding our civil liberties in the wake of the tragedy and that he shared my concerns.
I met Price briefly at a public appearance he made- he said if I wrote his office a letter and marked it PERSONAL, that he'd get it instead of an aide, and that we could schedule some time to discuss my concerns.
Email has seemed to leave a lesser impression that printing and mailing my letters, or faxing them.
Yes, but the dang gears inside the robot capsela kit weren't made of hardened plastic, and the lousy thing broke. My parents and grandparents spent so much money on the things... cool concept, bad production.
Except that, even if the corporation didn't order the criminal action, if they benefitted from it, then they are liable. If they didn't benefit from it, but instead, a sole employee benefitted, the sole employee is liable.
And when the criminal activity was theft, unless you can identify the sole employee, you're screwed.
The only problem with such a survey that you didn't cover is, how would a visitng politician tell accurately which respondants, or percentage of respondants were his contituents.
After all, the politician only is responsible to his constituents, and not the whole of the internet.
If you've got a sure-fire method for handling this, I'd love to help implement it.
Actually, it is - in the same way that Explorer is the Windows GUI and Desktop.
Finder also happens to be the name that is given to file browser windows, but Finder is the Mac GUI for all versions of 9.x and prior. (In OS X it was Desktop, but has been renamed Finder- although in OS X, it's a process. In 9.x and earlier, it's the whole GUI, and that's it.)
In Windows, Windows Explorer is the file browser, Internet Explorer is the Internet browser, and Explorer.exe is the whole GUI the mess sits on.
I faxed all of my congressmen a week ago.
Helms wrote back saying he supported Ashcroft in every way. Edwards sent back a photocopy of some unrelated speech he gave on the Senate floor.
Price wrote back a relevant response in which he promised to be mindful of civil liberties, and shared my concerns about 'backdoors' in encryption- his was the most relevant response I received. I spoke very briefly with him this morning at a community meeting, and am going to try and schedule some face time with him to talk about PATRIOT ( H.R. 2975, the House version of the ATA) - I don't want to mix messages and bring in the SSSCA at that time, but if I can establish a rapport, then I can bring up SSSCA at a later date.
He seemed to indicate that roving wiretaps might pass, but that indefinitely detaining a non-citizen wasn't going to be passed.
The military takes a fair amount of its research from large corporations like IBM, whose employees are vetted for security. IF we can't develop crypto in academia, hire the academics to R&D at large corporations, the military loses another source of their R&D.
In the 32 years since UNIX began it's existence, the "consumer" we speak of has changed. In 1969 when UNIX began, my mother would never have had a computer. My father-in-law wouldn't attempt to use a computer to alter his digital photography work.
In the 70's, IBM had a huge mainframe with terminals they sold to the Washinton Post to replace typesetting. The typesetters union revolted, struck, and made a general mess of the place with ink. The system failed, not due to this, but due to the fact that, by the time it was completed, millions invested, microcomputers were beginning to appear, not running UNIX, that had the power to set type. A few years later, and desktop publishing became possible. Aldus marketed Pagemaker, got bought by Adobe, and hit one out of the park.
As much as I like UNIX, and I do, it was never meant for tomorrow's consumer, who no longer has to tolerate a steep learning curve.
I don't have to fool with punch cards, or physically adding platters to the hard drive- I don't have to wait for my printout at the chain driven lineprinter. The consumer is an ever moving target, and the Next Big product always makes it easier for that consumer.
Ignoring terrorists for the moment, what about the rest of us?
Most of us agree that use of encryption is probably a good thing. (Envelope as opposed to postcard and all that.)
So, how do we get normal folks to use encryption? By creating tools that interface well with the tools normal folks use. If that means writing a plugin to outlook, so that the braindead can encrypt the latest virus they're trying to pass me, we should do it.
The study is about detecting stego when normal tools are used for the encryption. It doesn't suggest that the message is easily extracted, and it's foolish to suppose that terrorists will only use the most commonly available tools.
What can we do to get normal folks to use stego, PGP, or other forms of encryption?
I think that we spend a lot of time on Slashdot arguing about Linux and it's place on the desktop, when we could be focusing on encryption as well, and how to make it ubiquitous.
Here's what Steve Jobs said in Fortune in 1996. "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth--and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
This was before Jobs returned to Apple. Having returned to Apple, he's doing what every business man should do, milk product for all the money he can. Work on the next great thing? A consumer-usable Unix, ala Mac OS X.
It seems that anti-encryption/anti-strong-encryption legislation is coming, whether we want it or not.
In the emotional need to do *something, anything*, Congressmen are drafting and voting on legislation without review or testimony from folks like yourself who happen to know the technology rather than just want to give Law Enforcement broad powers.
Do you agree that we're about to be railroaded into a bad spot as far as secure communications/transactions are concerned?
Will you continue to use PGP or other strong encryption after it's existence is outlawed?
Given the worst possible future outlook with regard to strong encryption, what will you do/encourage others to do, and what is our best option for securing our communications in this case?
Well, there's the benefits of PPC architecture- consider that IBM uses a similar chip for their RS/6000 servers that run AIX. The chip in the iBook is a mobile IBM PPC. You could do a LOT worse than to get the iBook and dual boot Linux (one of the many PPC distros) and OS X (which is a mach kernel with FreeBSD around it, wrapped in a pretty and responsive GUI.)
You can replace the master cylinder with out having to drain the brakes.
You undo the brake lines from the master cylinder, unbolt the master cylinder from the vacuum booster, and when you ready the new one, fill it up in the air, and pump the piston till fluid comes out the holes for the lines.
the lines themselves are still full up and the holes in the master cylinder are primed..so you succeed in not introducing any air into the system without having to bleed the brakes all the way out after changing the master cylinder.
And the 95 Chevy Lumina APV I was speaking about didn't have OBD-1 or II, it had it's own chevy thing that needed a $400 scanner to read.
Snap-on and Matco also make readers for it, also for $400. No matter how you do it, it's a rip.
What I want to know is, what country are these scientists going to go to, and can I emigrate as well?
I love America as I have known it, but a country with laws such as the ones we see coming down cannot be called America, without insulting the freedom I have grown to love.
Cars:
Yes and no. Already cars are equipped with On-Board Diagnostics that can only be read by the dealer or special code-readers.
The dealer gets $70 a pop to tell you what the car thinks is wrong with itself.
The dealer then takes the opportunity to try and sell you a new transmission to make the codes go away.
Three weeks of thinking the thing through, and it turns out to be spark plug wires- but with all the computerized crap, it doesn't fail as if it were spark plug wires, and here's why-
First, all of the other computer controlled systems were over-reacting to account for the bad spark, so it didn't show the symptoms of bad wires, and
Second, they now use 40kv on the wires instead of the lesser voltages they used to, so even tho the wire was broken, the spark was jumping the gap in the wire and firing the plug weakly and late.
I predict a day when the manufacturers will only allow the car to be worked on at the authorised code reading stations to prevent people from not buying unneeded transmissions.
And they still charge 80 bucks for plug wires for this car.
The only way the masses become educated is after they feel the pinch when bad laws come into being. You can't educate them on what "might happen" because they're sure you're a crazy idiot, and such laws could "never happen" in their vision of America.
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And, they already are- Didn't you see the RIAA announcement of profit loss post-Napster, where they decided that the loss MUST be due to CD-RW sales?
I burn occasional data backups and CD-R of the photos I take with my digital camera, or music I record with my guitar and microphones, but I haven't bothered to try and backup my music CDs.
I've attempted to convince my friends to join me in my boycott, and succeeded in getting my brother to not buy DVDs, but everyone else doesn't seem to understand- they're still saying "Don't worry, the geeks will defeat those protection measures!" -- my telling them "If you change the laws, the geeks won't have to!" seems to have little effect.
Carly must have realized that you can't make profits when paying fees to use everyone else's patents!
I'm pleased that Apple chose this route as a customer, and dissapointed that IBM hasn't, as an employee. Not surprised, just disappointed.
IF you mark the envelope and letter PERSONAL, it gets directly to the representative.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Average"--
I own 500 CDs, kept in 5 of those "100 cd binders," and I'd own more, but I've stopped buying CDs or DVDs in light of Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti's public comments.
I don't get music from Napster, KaZaa, or any other file-sharing network, I simply listen to the discs I currently own, what's broadcast on radio, or what I feel like playing on my guitar and recording to hard drive.
Sure, there are releases I've been tempted by, but I'll continue denying the record and movie houses my money until they stop presuming that I'm inclined to commit acts they'd like labelled as 'criminal.'
I always figured my CD collection was average, my friends own more than a thousand!
Here's how to get your letter through:
FAX - it gets read, you get snail mail back, and the snail mail may be relevant.
by this method,
Helms - wrote that he supported Ashcroft.
Edwards - sent a copied speech he made on the Senate floor, irrelevant to what I wrote him about.
Price - wrote back a letter stating that he was concerned about safe-guarding our civil liberties in the wake of the tragedy and that he shared my concerns.
I met Price briefly at a public appearance he made- he said if I wrote his office a letter and marked it PERSONAL, that he'd get it instead of an aide, and that we could schedule some time to discuss my concerns.
Email has seemed to leave a lesser impression that printing and mailing my letters, or faxing them.
Because carriage returns in plain text aren't the same from *nix to Win to Mac.
Loading up a document in notepad and having it linewrap with non-alphabetic charachters is fugly.
PDF avoids this problem, but with a size trade-off.
Like he said, if you want to make them into text, go for it, but for him, his preference was PDF.
Yes, but the dang gears inside the robot capsela kit weren't made of hardened plastic, and the lousy thing broke. My parents and grandparents spent so much money on the things... cool concept, bad production.
Now erector, that was awesome!
I don't have the linksys base, I bought the techworks base.
It sets up from any browser that can do java, so it was a breeze to do from OS X.
The only linksys advantage is, if you get two Linksys, you can bridge them wirelessly.
Except that, even if the corporation didn't order the criminal action, if they benefitted from it, then they are liable. If they didn't benefit from it, but instead, a sole employee benefitted, the sole employee is liable.
And when the criminal activity was theft, unless you can identify the sole employee, you're screwed.
The only problem with such a survey that you didn't cover is, how would a visitng politician tell accurately which respondants, or percentage of respondants were his contituents.
After all, the politician only is responsible to his constituents, and not the whole of the internet.
If you've got a sure-fire method for handling this, I'd love to help implement it.
Actually, it is - in the same way that Explorer is the Windows GUI and Desktop.
Finder also happens to be the name that is given to file browser windows, but Finder is the Mac GUI for all versions of 9.x and prior. (In OS X it was Desktop, but has been renamed Finder- although in OS X, it's a process. In 9.x and earlier, it's the whole GUI, and that's it.)
In Windows, Windows Explorer is the file browser, Internet Explorer is the Internet browser, and Explorer.exe is the whole GUI the mess sits on.
I faxed all of my congressmen a week ago.
Helms wrote back saying he supported Ashcroft in every way. Edwards sent back a photocopy of some unrelated speech he gave on the Senate floor.
Price wrote back a relevant response in which he promised to be mindful of civil liberties, and shared my concerns about 'backdoors' in encryption- his was the most relevant response I received. I spoke very briefly with him this morning at a community meeting, and am going to try and schedule some face time with him to talk about PATRIOT ( H.R. 2975, the House version of the ATA) - I don't want to mix messages and bring in the SSSCA at that time, but if I can establish a rapport, then I can bring up SSSCA at a later date.
He seemed to indicate that roving wiretaps might pass, but that indefinitely detaining a non-citizen wasn't going to be passed.
You're sure there are only four vowels in Hebrew?
kamatz
patach
chataf patach
segol
chataf segol
serei
chirik
cholam
cholam chaser
shuruk
kubutz
sh'va
So even if you eliminate the final vowels, there are a few more than four.
*SURE* I want to spend $800 on a phone that does 384kbit/s video...
ALL I have to do is- give up any sense of privacy in my whereabouts to Government (big brother) Agencies....
As cool as it sounds, as much as I've wanted to have video phone, I think I will have to PASS.
No thanks.
"pause log"
"resume log"
These commands seemed to work- other than that, you're pretty much on top of things.
Not so-
The military takes a fair amount of its research from large corporations like IBM, whose employees are vetted for security. IF we can't develop crypto in academia, hire the academics to R&D at large corporations, the military loses another source of their R&D.
In the 32 years since UNIX began it's existence, the "consumer" we speak of has changed. In 1969 when UNIX began, my mother would never have had a computer. My father-in-law wouldn't attempt to use a computer to alter his digital photography work.
In the 70's, IBM had a huge mainframe with terminals they sold to the Washinton Post to replace typesetting. The typesetters union revolted, struck, and made a general mess of the place with ink. The system failed, not due to this, but due to the fact that, by the time it was completed, millions invested, microcomputers were beginning to appear, not running UNIX, that had the power to set type. A few years later, and desktop publishing became possible. Aldus marketed Pagemaker, got bought by Adobe, and hit one out of the park.
As much as I like UNIX, and I do, it was never meant for tomorrow's consumer, who no longer has to tolerate a steep learning curve.
I don't have to fool with punch cards, or physically adding platters to the hard drive- I don't have to wait for my printout at the chain driven lineprinter. The consumer is an ever moving target, and the Next Big product always makes it easier for that consumer.
Ignoring terrorists for the moment, what about the rest of us?
Most of us agree that use of encryption is probably a good thing. (Envelope as opposed to postcard and all that.)
So, how do we get normal folks to use encryption? By creating tools that interface well with the tools normal folks use. If that means writing a plugin to outlook, so that the braindead can encrypt the latest virus they're trying to pass me, we should do it.
The study is about detecting stego when normal tools are used for the encryption. It doesn't suggest that the message is easily extracted, and it's foolish to suppose that terrorists will only use the most commonly available tools.
What can we do to get normal folks to use stego, PGP, or other forms of encryption?
I think that we spend a lot of time on Slashdot arguing about Linux and it's place on the desktop, when we could be focusing on encryption as well, and how to make it ubiquitous.
If you're going to quote, get the source right:
Here's what Steve Jobs said in Fortune in 1996. "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth--and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
This was before Jobs returned to Apple. Having returned to Apple, he's doing what every business man should do, milk product for all the money he can. Work on the next great thing? A consumer-usable Unix, ala Mac OS X.
Sounds like he's sticking with his plan.
Phil,
It seems that anti-encryption/anti-strong-encryption legislation is coming, whether we want it or not.
In the emotional need to do *something, anything*, Congressmen are drafting and voting on legislation without review or testimony from folks like yourself who happen to know the technology rather than just want to give Law Enforcement broad powers.
Do you agree that we're about to be railroaded into a bad spot as far as secure communications/transactions are concerned?
Will you continue to use PGP or other strong encryption after it's existence is outlawed?
Given the worst possible future outlook with regard to strong encryption, what will you do/encourage others to do, and what is our best option for securing our communications in this case?
Well, there's the benefits of PPC architecture- consider that IBM uses a similar chip for their RS/6000 servers that run AIX. The chip in the iBook is a mobile IBM PPC. You could do a LOT worse than to get the iBook and dual boot Linux (one of the many PPC distros) and OS X (which is a mach kernel with FreeBSD around it, wrapped in a pretty and responsive GUI.)
You can replace the master cylinder with out having to drain the brakes.
You undo the brake lines from the master cylinder, unbolt the master cylinder from the vacuum booster, and when you ready the new one, fill it up in the air, and pump the piston till fluid comes out the holes for the lines.
the lines themselves are still full up and the holes in the master cylinder are primed..so you succeed in not introducing any air into the system without having to bleed the brakes all the way out after changing the master cylinder.
And the 95 Chevy Lumina APV I was speaking about didn't have OBD-1 or II, it had it's own chevy thing that needed a $400 scanner to read.
Snap-on and Matco also make readers for it, also for $400. No matter how you do it, it's a rip.
95 Chevy Lumina APV's were different-
some used OBD-II and some didn't.
Mine didn't. It takes it's own funky reader that sells for $400 and you can't just go and buy documents on it.
Matco and Snap-On make readers for it, but again, those also cost $400.
Either way, it's a no win.
What I want to know is, what country are these scientists going to go to, and can I emigrate as well?
I love America as I have known it, but a country with laws such as the ones we see coming down cannot be called America, without insulting the freedom I have grown to love.
Cars:
Yes and no. Already cars are equipped with On-Board Diagnostics that can only be read by the dealer or special code-readers.
The dealer gets $70 a pop to tell you what the car thinks is wrong with itself.
The dealer then takes the opportunity to try and sell you a new transmission to make the codes go away.
Three weeks of thinking the thing through, and it turns out to be spark plug wires- but with all the computerized crap, it doesn't fail as if it were spark plug wires, and here's why-
First, all of the other computer controlled systems were over-reacting to account for the bad spark, so it didn't show the symptoms of bad wires, and
Second, they now use 40kv on the wires instead of the lesser voltages they used to, so even tho the wire was broken, the spark was jumping the gap in the wire and firing the plug weakly and late.
I predict a day when the manufacturers will only allow the car to be worked on at the authorised code reading stations to prevent people from not buying unneeded transmissions.
And they still charge 80 bucks for plug wires for this car.
The only way the masses become educated is after they feel the pinch when bad laws come into being. You can't educate them on what "might happen" because they're sure you're a crazy idiot, and such laws could "never happen" in their vision of America.