Tackhead (54550) on 2003.09.19 16:24 (#7004985) wrote: "But if they're suspected of criminal activity, law enforcement has the right to attempt to crack that security by whatever means they deem fit".
To which I say: Rubber hoses liberally applied to one of the parties of the comunication works wonders in breaking security.
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Anonymous Coward wrote: "I believe in god".
I feel sorry for you. Your life must be a living hell what with constantly looking over your shoulder hoping the boogeyman doesn't get you for some minor infraction of long obsolete rules and regulations and constantly having to remind the chief boss fairy what a worthless piece of shit you are. If he's out there floating around somewhere, he probably already knows it with out you having to remind him.
I sincerely hope that someday, you will grow up and realise that all there is is nature and that we are merely parts of that nature. Boogeymen and hobgoblins like the religious believe in simply do not exist.
You wrote: "So, you have people trading crappy live recordings made through sub-standard microphones, placed 100 yards away from the performers, that picked up the sound from so-so PA speakers and fed a consumer-grade portable recorder insisting that they need lossless compression for the audio treasures that they that they exchange."
Perhaps they don't want the sound quality to degrade any further than it already has?
Skjellifetti (561341) wrote: "Not likely, he's a Senator from Utah. You know, that state where SCO is HQ'd. Maybe the EPA or the CDC should take a look at putting a quarantine around Utah. Something seems to causing a local epidemic of extra stupidity. I hope it isn't something you can catch. "
All I want to know is why the fuck are the hardware makers so damn reluctant to tell you how to use thier products (as in write drivers for them)? Does Microsoft have that much of a stranglehold on them or is there some other consideration (such as possible appropriation of trade secrets or some other such nonsense.)
The reason you cannot read anything meaningful into that is that the whole thing is either bullshit or someone describing a very bad trip on some kind of hallucinogenic -- probably ergot fungus.
Come to think of it, the whole fucking bible is bullshit. And the koran and talmud and all the rest of them.
Well, if you -really- want to stir up the fear-mongers, how about customised bacteriological weapons: They'll kill whoever they're programmed for and ignore everyone else (or just make them a little sick instead of dead.)
You can show a "True Believer" any amount of evidence you want that thier belief is wrong and they will still find a justification for thier beliefs. It is a congenital mental defect that is far too widely spread ahd has been capitalised on by con-artists, hucksters, politicians, religicos, and other such frauds since time immemorial. These are the kinds of morons who will let the priest bone them up the ass and call it god's love.
Not FUD. I see it as an intentional effort to point out what a ridiculous piece of shit-headed crapola this particular retarded bit of bought-and-paid-for legislation actually is. Broadly interpreted, the DMCA effectively makes criminals out of just about anybody who uses a computer for just about any reason. I guess embedded devices without a network connection might be excluded, but IANAL. The folks who wrote it obviously were not thinking of the consequences of thier actions (or were paid to write it that way by thier corporate constituients), and the folks who voted it into law need to be fitted with perspex belly-buttons so they can see where they are going -- after they are voted out of office.
If the poor babies at RIAA are so fucking concerned that thier pre-release music might get out on the 'net, why not herd all the music reviewers into a controlled area and let them listen to it there? The CD never need leave the grubby hands of the music producers until it is ready for release.
I am suspecting that the way this works is that there is supplied with the disc a separate authentication key that the user enters into his PC. Software would then modulate the CD-R's laser in a manner similar to a CD writer. The smart card looks for that signal and returns the appropriate response, I.e. the decryption key.
I think that the fancy CD is just -part- of a total programme here.
So what? It is just this kind of boring infrastructural stuff that holds the world together. If Linux can run a cash register well enough that the company can almost forget that it even -has- cash registers (i.e. high reliability / availability coupled with low upkeep); then this is a big win in the long term. Other people with cash registers (particularly the Windows-based ones) are going to look at Sherwin-Williams and go "hey, I think those guys are on to something" and at least think about converting when the time comes to do so.
"The variation in cooking power between microwaves wouldn't be fixed by sticking some kind of identifier on meals - they already have these, they're called barcodes. You're assuming every microwave is going to be programmed with some kind of lookup table telling it how to cook each item, which is all fine and dandy until I want to cook a product that was produced after the microwave and which it therefore knows nothing about"
How about something that requires no new technology, lookup tables, or any of the rest of that happy horseshit: Another poster pointed out that if you knew how much energy to pump into a given food item, you could cook it uniformly -if- you knew how much your microwave put out and adjusted the cooking time accordingly. So you do this: [1] Convince microwave oven makers to add an "joules" button to the ones already there. This button would inform the microwave that whatever was punched in of the keyboard represented total cooking energy rather than cooking time. The microwave would "know" how much power it can put out and would do the simple math needed to arrive at cooking time. (energy / power = time). [2] Convince the food makers to label thier products with the amount of cooking energy needed to properly and consistently cook the food. [3] (The hard part) Convincing the consumers that this is a good idea. The average American consumer is a drooling fucking moron anyway, so it might take a major education campaign on the part of the nuker and food makers to convince him that keying in "12300 joules" is no harder than keying in "5:00 minutes".
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devphil (51341) wrote on 2003.11.12 19:45
>You cannot apply a technological solution to a >sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Bullets are excellent technological solutions to sociological problems like this one.
Oh, yeah! Blame Canada.
Speak for yourself, troll.
Tackhead (54550) on 2003.09.19 16:24 (#7004985) wrote: "But if they're suspected of criminal activity, law enforcement has the right to attempt to crack that security by whatever means they deem fit".
To which I say: Rubber hoses liberally applied to one of the parties of the comunication works wonders in breaking security.
Anonymous Coward wrote: "I believe in god".
I feel sorry for you. Your life must be a living hell what with constantly looking over your shoulder hoping the boogeyman doesn't get you for some minor infraction of long obsolete rules and regulations and constantly having to remind the chief boss fairy what a worthless piece of shit you are. If he's out there floating around somewhere, he probably already knows it with out you having to remind him.
I sincerely hope that someday, you will grow up and realise that all there is is nature and that we are merely parts of that nature. Boogeymen and hobgoblins like the religious believe in simply do not exist.
So sue him for copyright violations already.
You wrote: "So, you have people trading crappy live recordings made through sub-standard microphones, placed 100 yards away from the performers, that picked up the sound from so-so PA speakers and fed a consumer-grade portable recorder insisting that they need lossless compression for the audio treasures that they that they exchange."
Perhaps they don't want the sound quality to degrade any further than it already has?
Skjellifetti (561341) wrote: "Not likely, he's a Senator from Utah. You know, that state where SCO is HQ'd. Maybe the EPA or the CDC should take a look at putting a quarantine around Utah. Something seems to causing a local epidemic of extra stupidity. I hope it isn't something you can catch. "
I think it is called "Mor(m)onism"
All I want to know is why the fuck are the hardware makers so damn reluctant to tell you how to use thier products (as in write drivers for them)? Does Microsoft have that much of a stranglehold on them or is there some other consideration (such as possible appropriation of trade secrets or some other such nonsense.)
The reason you cannot read anything meaningful into that is that the whole thing is either bullshit or someone describing a very bad trip on some kind of hallucinogenic -- probably ergot fungus.
Come to think of it, the whole fucking bible is bullshit. And the koran and talmud and all the rest of them.
I have a much simpler solution. Kill child molesters. One strike and you're DEAD.
So tell us, what is the -right- answer?
Well, if you -really- want to stir up the fear-mongers, how about customised bacteriological weapons: They'll kill whoever they're programmed for and ignore everyone else (or just make them a little sick instead of dead.)
Personally, I think she should eat -MY- diahhorrea. Madonna sucks.
All somebody had to do is get one of those WMP-enabled boxes in thier hands and reverse engineer the code. Maybe about a week afterwards?
Cool. Now we can just lay around all day, watch TV, stuff our gobs and fuck. Utopia at last.
Now, when are they going to come up with something that can print recreational drugs?
Fuck the moon conspiracists.
You can show a "True Believer" any amount of evidence you want that thier belief is wrong and
they will still find a justification for thier
beliefs. It is a congenital mental defect that
is far too widely spread ahd has been capitalised on by con-artists, hucksters, politicians, religicos, and other such frauds since time immemorial. These are the kinds of morons who will let the priest bone them up the ass and call it god's love.
Not FUD. I see it as an intentional effort to point out what a ridiculous piece of shit-headed crapola this particular retarded bit of bought-and-paid-for legislation actually is. Broadly interpreted, the DMCA effectively makes criminals out of just about anybody who uses a computer for just about any reason. I guess embedded devices without a network connection might be excluded, but IANAL.
The folks who wrote it obviously were not thinking of the consequences of thier actions (or were paid to write it that way by thier corporate constituients), and the folks who voted it into law need to be fitted with perspex belly-buttons so they can see where they are going -- after they are voted out of office.
Jusr remember that politicians are like diapers
and need to be changed often for the same reason.
If the poor babies at RIAA are so fucking concerned that thier pre-release music might get out on the 'net, why not herd all the music reviewers into a controlled area and let them listen to it there? The CD never need leave the grubby hands of the music producers until it is ready for release.
I am suspecting that the way this works is that there is supplied with the disc a separate authentication key that the user enters into his PC. Software would then modulate the CD-R's laser in a manner similar to a CD writer. The smart card looks for that signal and returns the appropriate response, I.e. the decryption key.
I think that the fancy CD is just -part- of a total programme here.
Gut feeling: It will be cracked in a week.
>Just a small question, are your senators pissing >the world off intentionally or is it really just >by accident?
Never blame on malice what can be explained by stupidity.
So what? It is just this kind of boring infrastructural stuff that holds the world together. If Linux can run a cash register well enough that the company can almost forget that it even -has- cash registers (i.e. high reliability / availability coupled with low upkeep); then this is a big win in the long term.
Other people with cash registers (particularly the Windows-based ones) are going to look at Sherwin-Williams and go "hey, I think those guys are on to something" and at least think about converting when the time comes to do so.
Personally, I would like to see this one succeed.
"Anonymous Coward" on 2002.05.04 13:10 wrote:
"The variation in cooking power between microwaves wouldn't be fixed by sticking some kind of identifier on meals - they already have these, they're called barcodes. You're assuming every microwave is going to be programmed with some kind of lookup table telling it how to cook each item, which is all fine and dandy until I want to cook a product that was produced after the microwave and which it therefore knows nothing about"
How about something that requires no new technology, lookup tables, or any of the rest of that happy horseshit: Another poster pointed out that if you knew how much energy to pump into a given food item, you could cook it uniformly -if- you knew how much your microwave put out and adjusted the cooking time accordingly. So you do this: [1] Convince microwave oven makers to add an "joules" button to the ones already there. This button would inform the microwave that whatever was punched in of the keyboard represented total cooking energy rather than cooking time. The microwave would "know" how much power it can put out and would do the simple math needed to arrive at cooking time. (energy / power = time). [2] Convince the food makers to label thier products with the amount of cooking energy needed to properly and consistently cook the food. [3] (The hard part) Convincing the consumers that this is a good idea. The average American consumer is a drooling fucking moron anyway, so it might take a major education campaign on the part of the nuker and food makers to convince him that keying in "12300 joules" is no harder than keying in "5:00 minutes".
So you're going to take out a patent for fucking?