> I'm sorry to tell you, but Fair Use rights are > only really an issue here at Slashdot. Outside > of this niche of tech opinion, the rest of the > world doesn't care all that much.
My experience is that people care a great deal about fair use, but that industries tend to be ahead of the average consumer and try to slip by unfair limitations in order to maximize profits. Corporations are compelled to do this - it's their raison d'etre.
What's potentially worse in this case is that the same corporate entities that have an interest in stepping on fair use in the name of profit also control many media outlets - so the potential for lost consumer rights is subject to censorship.
I'd be interested to hear any examples of those media outlets permitting or censoring reports of anti-consumer features of various DRM schemes. Anyone?
> So, would this not also fall under the problem > of Man-in-the middle attacks?
No, not unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the implementation. If the stream is eavesdropped, that OTP/key is discarded. Read the article for how QM helps to ensure this assumption.
That said, it should be obvious that this scheme is potentially vulnerable to DoS attacks. Just keep eavesdropping, and the sneaky bastards using QKD can't exchange keys.
> And they developed this for searching for > "industrial objects". Riiighht.
I'll take the sinister uses with the good on this one. This is really exciting for engineers and tinkerers alike, because it means less time reinventing the proverbial wheel.
Let's say I need gizmoX but it's not manufactured anymore. Fuck! No knock-offs, either. The local CNC shop says they can make it for me but they need a model. 3D modeling could take a while unless you have something similar to start with.
So instead of PORING over an industrial parts catalog and missing the one close-enough part you needed but didn't expect to find under "444_T91_fillets" or whatever, you just search for matches using dimensions, materials, etc. Just a few minor tweaks to the mesh, export, send to the shop, and you just saved a lot of time.
That said - the design and manufacturing industries have been writing ad hoc programs for searching for parts and tooling since the proliferation of computers, but it's nice to see that a general-purpose algorithm that could be more or less universally applicable is evolving from the efforts thus far.
> the PC model is kind of really not that good of an idea,
this completely depends on what your requirements are. terminal servers have disadvantages:
1) economy requires large investments along the upgrade path. you keep replacing one monster server each X years.
2) all eggs in one basket. if your 'mainframe' is down, so is everything else
3) a generalized OS/hw config can only do everything so well. compromises must be made, and all sorts of conflicts can occur without clever planning, preparations, special peripherals, and/or workarounds. you don't have to worry about this with specialized hw (e.g. a media PC, a game PC, an office productivity box, a recipe kiosk for the kitchen, a car PC, a palm, etc). this works in an office, which has relatively heterogeneous needs and lots of money, compared to a household which has all of these totally unrelated needs and (probably) not a ton of cash or credit lying around for each upgrade.
4) networks are not yet fast, responsive or ubiquitous enough. if i want 30 fps video, i want it now, and i want it wherever i am, then i can't serve it off of a mainframe. maybe someday, but not yet.
Does anyone know the origin of the name? It seems like they just started enumerating domain name strings starting with null until they found one that wasn't taken...
They are illegal in the US and probably elsewhere. Listen to the latest episode of off the hook... something about interfering with others' right to communicate. Though it's all relative - you have to accept destructive interference with, say, most 2.4 GHz devices (cordless phones & non-wimax wi-fi) because they are unlicensed under a certain output power. But due the the licensed allocation of mobile phone bw, you're technically protected by the good ol' FCC.
> but try that excuse on a black guy after > telling a racist joke and see if you don't get > punched in the face.
because that's the reaction that most black men have when they sense racism in you. bam! right in the face.
those sexist jokes are funny because they are so stupid. when cars were becoming popular, knee-jerk legislators (somewhere in the south??) made it mandatory to run ahead of the car furiously flailing flags to warn of an approaching woman driver, or something like that. now that's fucking funny!
not technically a bike, but a coker big one is a damn geeky piece of human-powered machinery... and it can keep up with a bike, too (depending on the efficiency of the rider).
If you're using Windows, late versions of Nero support burning bin/cue. To assemble a bin/cue from your [properly-formatted] MPGs, use GNU vcdimager under cygwin.
Unless I misunderstand grandparent, he is referring to host-based firewalling. You're both wrong. The latest versions of Windows and the Linux kernel include OS-based (re: kernel) support for IP filtering.
How was Godzilla 2000 anything like King Kong? In the end the big guy reigns supreme, his human and non-human enemies destroyed while the city burns around him. Maybe you saw a different movie than I did.
Anyway, G2K try to be any more serious than any other campy monster film made from the 60s onward. G2K is an homage to that, but with marginally better acting and special effects. The story is not totally coherent, but again, it is much better than the super campy 60s and 70s.
For those who liked G2K, the similar G v. Megaguirus was just released on DVD. More disjointed plot, but more action and better ooh-ahh moments than G2K.
> Many citizens have no idea that Senators should > not be majority elected
maybe that's because it's not so cut-and-dry, or they really think you're wrong. hell, the constitution was amended in disagreement.
i see why an anarcho- or cryptocapitalist would dislike the income tax, but it could be worse - i've seen people here arguing for more spending and property taxes (which seem like the least practical, sensical way to levy taxes).
The article is about electronic balloting, not Internet voting.
There's nothing terribly scary about the technology, but rather under what circumstances it is being deployed - the trust relationships are not properly arranged, because the system is closed and it is written and operated by a large corporation. Voters should not trust a corporation.
Otherwise, I'd say electronic balloting has a potential to be more secure and accurate than mechanical machines and plain ballot boxes. The technology to do so exists now, it's just being employed poorly.
> If the original author has already made $$$ > from a work, then why shouldn't they be forced > to compete and innovate with other authors > (commercially) who want to extend that work? > Because it's easier to lobby congress with > those original $$$, and create a legal > situation where you can sit on your thumb > playing golf and still wrack in the dollars.
The answer to the question is that the author gets a reprieve as mandated by law. This is a planned, deliberate economic incentive (without which, btw, George could not have exploited economies of scale to create such a grand, opulent visual orgy. star wars would be a dime novel or nothing without the visuals).
Not everyone rests on their laurels an manipulates laws. Also, not everyone is dead-set against non-profit fan art (Lucas, for example). They are just against coat-tailers, which is their right since that is how the law is designed. In 2050 you can sell all the fan art you want, but until then its George's party and that much at least is fair IMHO.
In there small way KFC is threatening freedom of speech.
How do you mean?
Why is this restricted model somehow better for society just because it creates shareholder value in the pockets of a few?
Because we don't live in a hive - at least, not yet. The society constructed in the Western world currently has mechanisms in place to allow autonomous, individual pursuit for people or corporations.
KFC Corp. keeps trade secrets because it's in its own interest. If they are going to give back, it will be on their terms. This is perfectly legal and by design.
I remember vaguely seeing some footage of her sitting (smiling?) near a VC or NV artillery emplacement while it was firing, presumably at Americans. Imagine someone having pulled that in Iraq or Afghanistan. They'd be public enemy #3 faster than you can say Gitmo.
Slashdot Mirror
> I'm sorry to tell you, but Fair Use rights are
> only really an issue here at Slashdot. Outside
> of this niche of tech opinion, the rest of the
> world doesn't care all that much.
My experience is that people care a great deal about fair use, but that industries tend to be ahead of the average consumer and try to slip by unfair limitations in order to maximize profits. Corporations are compelled to do this - it's their raison d'etre.
What's potentially worse in this case is that the same corporate entities that have an interest in stepping on fair use in the name of profit also control many media outlets - so the potential for lost consumer rights is subject to censorship.
I'd be interested to hear any examples of those media outlets permitting or censoring reports of anti-consumer features of various DRM schemes. Anyone?
> So, would this not also fall under the problem
> of Man-in-the middle attacks?
No, not unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the implementation. If the stream is eavesdropped, that OTP/key is discarded. Read the article for how QM helps to ensure this assumption.
That said, it should be obvious that this scheme is potentially vulnerable to DoS attacks. Just keep eavesdropping, and the sneaky bastards using QKD can't exchange keys.
> And they developed this for searching for
> "industrial objects". Riiighht.
I'll take the sinister uses with the good on this one. This is really exciting for engineers and tinkerers alike, because it means less time reinventing the proverbial wheel.
Let's say I need gizmoX but it's not manufactured anymore. Fuck! No knock-offs, either. The local CNC shop says they can make it for me but they need a model. 3D modeling could take a while unless you have something similar to start with.
So instead of PORING over an industrial parts catalog and missing the one close-enough part you needed but didn't expect to find under "444_T91_fillets" or whatever, you just search for matches using dimensions, materials, etc. Just a few minor tweaks to the mesh, export, send to the shop, and you just saved a lot of time.
That said - the design and manufacturing industries have been writing ad hoc programs for searching for parts and tooling since the proliferation of computers, but it's nice to see that a general-purpose algorithm that could be more or less universally applicable is evolving from the efforts thus far.
> the PC model is kind of really not that good of an idea,
this completely depends on what your requirements are. terminal servers have disadvantages:
1) economy requires large investments along the upgrade path. you keep replacing one monster server each X years.
2) all eggs in one basket. if your 'mainframe' is down, so is everything else
3) a generalized OS/hw config can only do everything so well. compromises must be made, and all sorts of conflicts can occur without clever planning, preparations, special peripherals, and/or workarounds. you don't have to worry about this with specialized hw (e.g. a media PC, a game PC, an office productivity box, a recipe kiosk for the kitchen, a car PC, a palm, etc). this works in an office, which has relatively heterogeneous needs and lots of money, compared to a household which has all of these totally unrelated needs and (probably) not a ton of cash or credit lying around for each upgrade.
4) networks are not yet fast, responsive or ubiquitous enough. if i want 30 fps video, i want it now, and i want it wherever i am, then i can't serve it off of a mainframe. maybe someday, but not yet.
> It'd be a lot neater to handle.
but not yet practical for the avg. home user.
Does anyone know the origin of the name? It seems like they just started enumerating domain name strings starting with null until they found one that wasn't taken...
...
a1.com? no, steak sauce.
a2.com? nope. taken.
a3.com? porn site.
a9.com? unregistered. dude, we've done it!
They are illegal in the US and probably elsewhere. Listen to the latest episode of off the hook... something about interfering with others' right to communicate. Though it's all relative - you have to accept destructive interference with, say, most 2.4 GHz devices (cordless phones & non-wimax wi-fi) because they are unlicensed under a certain output power. But due the the licensed allocation of mobile phone bw, you're technically protected by the good ol' FCC.
> but try that excuse on a black guy after
> telling a racist joke and see if you don't get
> punched in the face.
because that's the reaction that most black men have when they sense racism in you. bam! right in the face.
those sexist jokes are funny because they are so stupid. when cars were becoming popular, knee-jerk legislators (somewhere in the south??) made it mandatory to run ahead of the car furiously flailing flags to warn of an approaching woman driver, or something like that. now that's fucking funny!
not technically a bike, but a coker big one is a damn geeky piece of human-powered machinery... and it can keep up with a bike, too (depending on the efficiency of the rider).
If you're using Windows, late versions of Nero support burning bin/cue. To assemble a bin/cue from your [properly-formatted] MPGs, use GNU vcdimager under cygwin.
gorbachev> I'll give you a free clue: it's one of the two
gorbachev> Northern American nations.
I guess the Soviets only pointed their scary ICBMs at two of us...
> Tell that to the people who died on 9/11. Oh,
> wait, you can't, sorry. Tell the surviving
> families they're irrational instead.
Not everyone who lost someone to this tragedy agrees that we should be afraid in its wake.
> Don't let some paranoid school sysop get you
> expelled just because you tried pulling up a
> web page they happen not to like.
Or, don't accept being placed at the mercy of a sysop, and advocate for privacy.
> after Columbine and increasing crime waves in
> schools you will see cameras everywhere.
and worse - there were cameras at columbine, recording the shooting but not preventing anything.
Unless I misunderstand grandparent, he is referring to host-based firewalling. You're both wrong. The latest versions of Windows and the Linux kernel include OS-based (re: kernel) support for IP filtering.
...it's all well and good. but can the speech recongnition module parsebork? if so, it will be the ultimate presentation tool:
"Now gentlemen, pleese-a turn your ettenteeon to-a sleede-a twelve-a. bork!bork!bork!"
caffeine == teaine, n'est ce pas?
How was Godzilla 2000 anything like King Kong? In the end the big guy reigns supreme, his human and non-human enemies destroyed while the city burns around him. Maybe you saw a different movie than I did.
Anyway, G2K try to be any more serious than any other campy monster film made from the 60s onward. G2K is an homage to that, but with marginally better acting and special effects. The story is not totally coherent, but again, it is much better than the super campy 60s and 70s.
For those who liked G2K, the similar G v. Megaguirus was just released on DVD. More disjointed plot, but more action and better ooh-ahh moments than G2K.
> Many citizens have no idea that Senators should
> not be majority elected
maybe that's because it's not so cut-and-dry, or they really think you're wrong. hell, the constitution was amended in disagreement.
i see why an anarcho- or cryptocapitalist would dislike the income tax, but it could be worse - i've seen people here arguing for more spending and property taxes (which seem like the least practical, sensical way to levy taxes).
The article is about electronic balloting, not Internet voting.
There's nothing terribly scary about the technology, but rather under what circumstances it is being deployed - the trust relationships are not properly arranged, because the system is closed and it is written and operated by a large corporation. Voters should not trust a corporation.
Otherwise, I'd say electronic balloting has a potential to be more secure and accurate than mechanical machines and plain ballot boxes.
The technology to do so exists now, it's just being employed poorly.
They are using it to help run their business. They are definitely making money from it.
Funny that. More irony - every time I see a state trooper he is on his mobile phone (driving way the fuck above the speed limit, of course).
> If the original author has already made $$$
> from a work, then why shouldn't they be forced
> to compete and innovate with other authors
> (commercially) who want to extend that work?
> Because it's easier to lobby congress with
> those original $$$, and create a legal
> situation where you can sit on your thumb
> playing golf and still wrack in the dollars.
The answer to the question is that the author gets a reprieve as mandated by law. This is a planned, deliberate economic incentive (without which, btw, George could not have exploited economies of scale to create such a grand, opulent visual orgy. star wars would be a dime novel or nothing without the visuals).
Not everyone rests on their laurels an manipulates laws. Also, not everyone is dead-set against non-profit fan art (Lucas, for example). They are just against coat-tailers, which is their right since that is how the law is designed. In 2050 you can sell all the fan art you want, but until then its George's party and that much at least is fair IMHO.
In there small way KFC is threatening freedom of speech.
How do you mean?
Why is this restricted model somehow better for society just because it creates shareholder value in the pockets of a few?
Because we don't live in a hive - at least, not yet. The society constructed in the Western world currently has mechanisms in place to allow autonomous, individual pursuit for people or corporations.
KFC Corp. keeps trade secrets because it's in its own interest. If they are going to give back, it will be on their terms. This is perfectly legal and by design.
Fehler.
Why do you insist on using this primitive form of anonymous communication? Your grammar nazi brain is capable of so much more.
I remember vaguely seeing some footage of her sitting (smiling?) near a VC or NV artillery emplacement while it was firing, presumably at Americans. Imagine someone having pulled that in Iraq or Afghanistan. They'd be public enemy #3 faster than you can say Gitmo.