Use nuclear. Problem solved. Try to find insurance for your nuclear plant. You can't. And if you can't insure it, there's obviously something very wrong with the associated risks.
"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. "
Pardon? You only pardon people who DID crimes. But this wasn't a crime, but whistleblowing ON CRIMES.
So the thing you do is put Snowden in witness protection and start persecuting the upper echelons of the NSA for treason against the people of the United States.
yeah, so what? As long as the source isn't out there, it's useless (except for you).
By the way, I also wrote something that can be used to weed out duplicates; it's a file indexer (fileindex.pl) which will allow you to index one set of files, and then check another set for duplicates (or add to the index). It's useful if you have a set of files (which you may want to process in the future) and new files are coming in, so you can check the new files against the already existing ones (or, if you indexed the old ones also before you've changed them, against old versions of already existing files).
And if the EXIF info is good, and the filenames are bad, I also wrote a script to rename files according to the EXIF information. Same for EPUB. http://seegras.discordia.ch/Pr...
"The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living. "
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech to House of Commons, 1841
I tried it with my collection. It mostly can't cope with my mkv files; it might play them, but it can't read the metadata or the covers (which actually ALL my files have, just as all of them are mkv).
Jup. Take "Stealing". It's a crime. So that's why you get imprisoned 2 years and fined $183'000 for stealing a dollar. Because that $1 is probably the maximum amount of damage his DOS has inflicted.
Speaking of C. This would just about make all the software Microsoft or Oracle ever wrote a copyright infringement. Because they used C or a derivative thereof.
Ah, yes, it sure helps to lobby for strong copyright protections so the poor won't be able to afford education. And while we're at it, also lobby for veto-rights on ideas, so if any poor sob has the same idea as you already patented can be sued into oblivion.
However, a lot of companies will be more comfortable if an agency from their own country will be spying on them, if only to keep US-companies from getting business intelligence.
From that point of view, the USA just got too greedy with their industrial espionage.
I don't see where patents (what you probably meant) come into this debate. They don't have anything to do with "content creators".
And besides, in contrast to copyright, there is an extremely strong case that patents are ONLY destructive and have no benefit to society at all. So throwing in patents there makes me (and actually just about anyone who ever did a scientific investigation on the patent system) need to disagree.
Well, patents might behave like that. Or they might not. Because there is actually NO data on why patents should foster innovation. People (and even scientists) just think they do, but any investigations so far turned up no positive correlation. So the verdict from 1851 still stands: Besides the caveats, by which one man attempts wrongly to appropriate to himself the bounty which the State gives for invention and which properly belongs to another, the granting patents “inflames cupidity,” excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits, bestows rewards on the wrong persons, makes men ruin themselves for the sake of getting the privileges of a patent. Patents are like lotteries, in which there are a few prizes and a great many blanks. Comprehensive patents are taken out by some parties, for the purpose of stopping inventions, or appropriating the fruits of the inventions of others, &c. Such Consequences, more resembling the smuggling and fraud caused by an ill-advised tax than anything else, cause a strong suspicion. that the principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. (The Economist, 1851)
...I remember thinking that no sane citizens of any democratic country would ever allow the the state to amass such abusive and intrusive powers.
Well, it's not actually new. Democracies very much have the power to turn themselves into fascist states. Just take a look at Germany in 1932 or the USA today.
The DOJ, which illegally seizes domains from foreign holders? The DOJ which orchestrates illegal raids in New Zealand? The DOJ which is the bully of the Content Mafia?
It seems that these are not really the most technical-minded people, and you expect them to advise on Computer Security?
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Use nuclear. Problem solved.
Try to find insurance for your nuclear plant. You can't.
And if you can't insure it, there's obviously something very wrong with the associated risks.
http://imcosys.com/ sells the imcoV6L, an e-ink reader which runs on android (2.3.1, sadly). So you can use whatever android-software there is.
"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. "
Yep, this actually could fit to what the NSA did.
Pardon? You only pardon people who DID crimes. But this wasn't a crime, but whistleblowing ON CRIMES.
So the thing you do is put Snowden in witness protection and start persecuting the upper echelons of the NSA for treason against the people of the United States.
yeah, so what? As long as the source isn't out there, it's useless (except for you).
By the way, I also wrote something that can be used to weed out duplicates; it's a file indexer (fileindex.pl) which will allow you to index one set of files, and then check another set for duplicates (or add to the index). It's useful if you have a set of files (which you may want to process in the future) and new files are coming in, so you can check the new files against the already existing ones (or, if you indexed the old ones also before you've changed them, against old versions of already existing files).
And if the EXIF info is good, and the filenames are bad, I also wrote a script to rename files according to the EXIF information. Same for EPUB. http://seegras.discordia.ch/Pr...
"The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the words of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living. "
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech to House of Commons, 1841
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~...
Simple: White hats publish, black hats don't.
I tried it with my collection. It mostly can't cope with my mkv files; it might play them, but it can't read the metadata or the covers (which actually ALL my files have, just as all of them are mkv).
http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/matroshka-and-the-state-of-movie-metadata/
Oh, I just mentionned it: http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/patents-on-bronze-age-technology/ There's more than 3000 years old prior art on that.
"This is a door bolt. On a Computer":
http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/patents-on-bronze-age-technology/
(So far the oldest thing I could find some people got a patent on. It's at least 3200 years old).
If you hadn't mentioned this, I would have needed to.
And yes, this applies to dolls and building blocks too.
Jup. Take "Stealing". It's a crime. So that's why you get imprisoned 2 years and fined $183'000 for stealing a dollar. Because that $1 is probably the maximum amount of damage his DOS has inflicted.
Speaking of C. This would just about make all the software Microsoft or Oracle ever wrote a copyright infringement. Because they used C or a derivative thereof.
Oh yeah. I was system administrator of its ISP at that time.
Ah, yes, it sure helps to lobby for strong copyright protections so the poor won't be able to afford education. And while we're at it, also lobby for veto-rights on ideas, so if any poor sob has the same idea as you already patented can be sued into oblivion.
Hypocrisy at its best.
Actually, children up to the age of around 6 are unable to differentiate between reality and fiction. Those and politicians, apparently.
However, a lot of companies will be more comfortable if an agency from their own country will be spying on them, if only to keep US-companies from getting business intelligence.
From that point of view, the USA just got too greedy with their industrial espionage.
As long as XBMC is not able to read metadata in movie files, it's not ready for the living room anyway.
I quite simply won't buy if there's any DRM. Maybe I'll get a pirated version, maybe not, but in any case you've lost a customer.
The Florida government is sending a message: "We give a fuck about justice and due process"
I don't see where patents (what you probably meant) come into this debate. They don't have anything to do with "content creators".
And besides, in contrast to copyright, there is an extremely strong case that patents are ONLY destructive and have no benefit to society at all. So throwing in patents there makes me (and actually just about anyone who ever did a scientific investigation on the patent system) need to disagree.
Well, patents might behave like that. Or they might not. Because there is actually NO data on why patents should foster innovation. People (and even scientists) just think they do, but any investigations so far turned up no positive correlation. So the verdict from 1851 still stands:
Besides the caveats,
by which one man attempts wrongly to appropriate to himself the bounty
which the State gives for invention and which properly belongs to another,
the granting patents “inflames cupidity,” excites fraud, stimulates men
to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public,
begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits,
bestows rewards on the wrong persons, makes men ruin themselves for the
sake of getting the privileges of a patent. Patents are like lotteries,
in which there are a few prizes and a great many blanks. Comprehensive
patents are taken out by some parties, for the purpose of stopping
inventions, or appropriating the fruits of the inventions of others,
&c. Such Consequences, more resembling the smuggling and fraud caused
by an ill-advised tax than anything else, cause a strong suspicion. that
the principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just.
(The Economist, 1851)
No, it bloody well didn't. But if the British only had social networking theory, they would have gotten this Paul Revere.
...I remember thinking that no sane citizens of any democratic country would ever allow the the state to amass such abusive and intrusive powers.
Well, it's not actually new. Democracies very much have the power to turn themselves into fascist states. Just take a look at Germany in 1932 or the USA today.
The DOJ, which illegally seizes domains from foreign holders? The DOJ which orchestrates illegal raids in New Zealand? The DOJ which is the bully of the Content Mafia?
It seems that these are not really the most technical-minded people, and you expect them to advise on Computer Security?
I'd rather follow the NSA Guidelines http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml