the algorithms (MD5 and to some extent SHA-1) have been broken to allow you to construct a piece of data which hashes to the same value as the original.
However, in the majority of applied uses it's still extremely unlikely that the newly-constructed piece of data will have any of the OTHER properties of the original, apart from the MD5 sum.
Sure, you can create an MP3 data stream that has the same MD5 checksum as a Beatles tune, but if you try to listen to it, odds are 0.999... that it's just going to sound like static.
And regarding the PSP, that was just an obvious and total failure.
No.
Just, No.
Though I do believe that Nintendo will ultimately continue to dominate the handheld console market, there's no denying that Sony has really given them a run for their money. Nobody has ever been able to do that in the market before -- not Sega, not Atari, not Tiger, not whomever it is that makes the GPX2, whatever that is.
Similar to Subway. They can expand so massively because their costs are so low, courtesy of shit product.
No, actually, Subway expands so massively because it's easy and cheap to obtain a Subway franchise. Few Subway restaurants are operated by the corporate parent -- most are just small owner/operators who had $12,000 to spare and decided to give sandwich sales a try.
Quizno's, in comparison, costs franchisees about twice as much in startup costs. Entrepreneurs are simply going to be less likely to take the risk.
Why would you need access to the cockpit from the cabin, or vice versa, during the flight anyway?
To provide the pilots access to lavatory and galley facilities.
To minimize the engineering complexity of the aircraft (easier to build a plane with one cabin and one external door than a plane with two unconnected cabins).
To maximize profit capacity on the craft (building in separate facilities for the cockpit means getting rid of 2-3 rows of sets, not even including the engineering costs).
American copyright allows an individual to import audio recordings from foreign countries for personal use. IIRC you don't even have to prove that the foreign entity had IP rights to the recording in its home country, although AllOfMP3 says that it does. You'll often see obvious bootleg CDs in the "imports" section of music stores due to this clause; they get away with it because it is legal.
Just like you should have the rights to download OS or applicaiton updates forever? If you weren't happy with your music choice at the time you should not have purchased it, simply because it's improved later does NOT give you the right to receive a free upgrade.
Um, this is Slashdot. OF COURSE we think that buying a software product entitles us to free upgrades and candy forever!
I am on record as purchaseing/owning the right to listen to those songs
Actually, you are on record as having the right to listen to That Particular Recording of those songs.
The question is, if they take the same performance of a song and re-master it, does that qualify as The Same Recording, or a different one? My personal opinion is "I'll know it if I hear it", but I'm not sure what kind of legal standard could be applied to the distinction.
For the love, what a bunch of fear-mongering horse shit.
Remember the boy who cried wolf? Just because global warming is being blamed for EVERYTHING does not determine whether it is actually responsible for something.
What this new stuff really does is *disconnects* the UI design from the source code, so that a designer can use one tool to work on the UI while a progammer uses visual studio to put some code behind it.
That's new? I thought that visual IDEs had decoupled UI building from code writing, like, 10 years ago...
Clearly YOU didn't like the design of that product you worked on, because you were the guy who had to match up the layout on-screen with the backend data representation, and you felt your job was made much harder than it needed to be.
But does that mean the design SUCKED? What do non-tech-savvy users have to say about it?
On the flip side of the coin, I've used products where the UI layout was TOO closely tied to the underlying data model, and that can suck too. What works best for the computer and what works best for the human are often not one and the same.
the effect (if not the intent, but really the intent too) is to disenfranchise the kinds of people who don't have driver's licenses and for whom buying a replacement ID is an onerous burden, namely the poor
Are you kidding me? I got a replacement NJ driver's license two week ago; the out-of-pocket cost to me was $11. Are there really people with so little money that they can't afford to spend a Hamilton once every 4 years to affirm basic rights of citizenship?
Hell, I'll pony up the 25 cents a month myself and sponsor a poor man's ID card, if it means this ridiculous "valid identification = poll tax" argument can be put to rest.
The rights regarding freedom of speech that you are promoting are American law. You can argue all you want that they are universal human rights, but they're not. They're part of American culture and the American legal system
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
-- Article 19, United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
its the availablity of homebrews. that and the huge amounts of pirated software thats available for it....none of which, unfortunately, will work on the newly-sold PSPs with version 2.0 firmware preloaded.
I don't care what they try, they will never surpass the level of realism of the original NES Legend of Zelda.
Everyone knows that in REAL LIFE, a young elf like Link is exactly as wide as he is tall, can only move in the four cardinal directions, and goes "beep beep beep beep beep" when he's not feeling well.
Think about it, if you knew you could download OO.o for free and anyone with Office could open/edit/save the files you'd made in it
I can do that know, if I use OO.o's "Save As..." features.
Sure, the MS Office document formats don't work EXACTLY like natively-created ones, but that true even of natively-created ones. It works well enough for basic information exchange.
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we all know that the malware only gets more sophisticated and polished over time.
Proof of this can easily be obtained by comparing Windows 3.0 to Windows XP.
the algorithms (MD5 and to some extent SHA-1) have been broken to allow you to construct a piece of data which hashes to the same value as the original.
However, in the majority of applied uses it's still extremely unlikely that the newly-constructed piece of data will have any of the OTHER properties of the original, apart from the MD5 sum.
Sure, you can create an MP3 data stream that has the same MD5 checksum as a Beatles tune, but if you try to listen to it, odds are 0.999... that it's just going to sound like static.
I didn't even realize Atari's 1989 handheld game console even HAD a web browser!
They keep introducing cool features and web applications. But major new products? Nada.
What is a "product" but a collection of cool new features and applications that has a frame (and possibly a price tag) attached around it?
For example, the Intercast system, developed by Intel, allows entire HTML pages to be broadcast in unused portions of the TV signal.
Gee, this sounds virtually identical to the Teletext systems used in Europe for the past 30 years, only with IMG tags...
And regarding the PSP, that was just an obvious and total failure.
No.
Just, No.
Though I do believe that Nintendo will ultimately continue to dominate the handheld console market, there's no denying that Sony has really given them a run for their money. Nobody has ever been able to do that in the market before -- not Sega, not Atari, not Tiger, not whomever it is that makes the GPX2, whatever that is.
Similar to Subway. They can expand so massively because their costs are so low, courtesy of shit product.
No, actually, Subway expands so massively because it's easy and cheap to obtain a Subway franchise. Few Subway restaurants are operated by the corporate parent -- most are just small owner/operators who had $12,000 to spare and decided to give sandwich sales a try.
Quizno's, in comparison, costs franchisees about twice as much in startup costs. Entrepreneurs are simply going to be less likely to take the risk.
I'm sure the marketing teams at Microsoft have a plan for turning AOL into what they want it to be. ...MSN?
Why would you need access to the cockpit from the cabin, or vice versa, during the flight anyway?
To provide the pilots access to lavatory and galley facilities.
To minimize the engineering complexity of the aircraft (easier to build a plane with one cabin and one external door than a plane with two unconnected cabins).
To maximize profit capacity on the craft (building in separate facilities for the cockpit means getting rid of 2-3 rows of sets, not even including the engineering costs).
The biggest problem they have is signing all the checks Apple sends them.
I'm pretty sure they have an autopen machine that does the signing for them.
American copyright allows an individual to import audio recordings from foreign countries for personal use. IIRC you don't even have to prove that the foreign entity had IP rights to the recording in its home country, although AllOfMP3 says that it does. You'll often see obvious bootleg CDs in the "imports" section of music stores due to this clause; they get away with it because it is legal.
Is Russia part of the Berne convention?
Yes, it has been for the past 10 years.
Just like you should have the rights to download OS or applicaiton updates forever? If you weren't happy with your music choice at the time you should not have purchased it, simply because it's improved later does NOT give you the right to receive a free upgrade.
Um, this is Slashdot. OF COURSE we think that buying a software product entitles us to free upgrades and candy forever!
I am on record as purchaseing/owning the right to listen to those songs
Actually, you are on record as having the right to listen to That Particular Recording of those songs.
The question is, if they take the same performance of a song and re-master it, does that qualify as The Same Recording, or a different one? My personal opinion is "I'll know it if I hear it", but I'm not sure what kind of legal standard could be applied to the distinction.
For the love, what a bunch of fear-mongering horse shit.
Remember the boy who cried wolf? Just because global warming is being blamed for EVERYTHING does not determine whether it is actually responsible for something.
Why not name names???
If the claims were true, the author would be justified in naming hotels. However, if the claims were false, naming names could be libel.
Draw your own conclusions about the author's motives.
What this new stuff really does is *disconnects* the UI design from the source code, so that a designer can use one tool to work on the UI while a progammer uses visual studio to put some code behind it.
That's new? I thought that visual IDEs had decoupled UI building from code writing, like, 10 years ago...
Clearly YOU didn't like the design of that product you worked on, because you were the guy who had to match up the layout on-screen with the backend data representation, and you felt your job was made much harder than it needed to be.
But does that mean the design SUCKED? What do non-tech-savvy users have to say about it?
On the flip side of the coin, I've used products where the UI layout was TOO closely tied to the underlying data model, and that can suck too. What works best for the computer and what works best for the human are often not one and the same.
the effect (if not the intent, but really the intent too) is to disenfranchise the kinds of people who don't have driver's licenses and for whom buying a replacement ID is an onerous burden, namely the poor
Are you kidding me? I got a replacement NJ driver's license two week ago; the out-of-pocket cost to me was $11. Are there really people with so little money that they can't afford to spend a Hamilton once every 4 years to affirm basic rights of citizenship?
Hell, I'll pony up the 25 cents a month myself and sponsor a poor man's ID card, if it means this ridiculous "valid identification = poll tax" argument can be put to rest.
-- Article 19, United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Imagine a world where you could just buy a box of fuel pellets at the grocery store, since it's safe enough to keep in the aisles.
Imagine that you'll need fifty pounds of such pellets to top off the fuel storage system in your car.
Now does it make more sense to store these pellets on the shelf inside the store, or in a tank underneath a pump station out in front of the store?
its the availablity of homebrews. that and the huge amounts of pirated software thats available for it. ...none of which, unfortunately, will work on the newly-sold PSPs with version 2.0 firmware preloaded.
I don't care what they try, they will never surpass the level of realism of the original NES Legend of Zelda.
Everyone knows that in REAL LIFE, a young elf like Link is exactly as wide as he is tall, can only move in the four cardinal directions, and goes "beep beep beep beep beep" when he's not feeling well.
Oh, Aitch Cee Eye... not Aitch Cee Ell.
I was wondering why some blogspot "editorialist" has so upset about the state of hydrochloric acid.
Of course, because I do not have a multimillion dollar marketing budget, there is nothing I can do to get the word out about it.
You could always submit a story submission to Slashdot! I'm sure they'll approve it -- two or three times, probably!
Think about it, if you knew you could download OO.o for free and anyone with Office could open/edit/save the files you'd made in it
I can do that know, if I use OO.o's "Save As..." features.
Sure, the MS Office document formats don't work EXACTLY like natively-created ones, but that true even of natively-created ones. It works well enough for basic information exchange.