CSS is key-based encryption, and guess what, keys are small.
Yes, but the point is: if the key and algorithm are easy to hand out, and the user has a strong incentive to do so, then it's not secure. So the point stands that CSS is crap.
Their software also attempts to delete the source mp3 once conversion is complete.
This is really appalling. This fact should be included in all articles talking about Music Clip / ATRAC / Sony Palm discussions. I for one consider this denial of service and theft of my documents. Class action lawsuit anyone?
Nice troll. But you don't go out and drive a specific period of time - you drive somewhere, which is a fixed number of miles away. So accidents per mile is a totally relevant measure. That people now drive more has more to do with changing lifestyles and not much to do with regulations everyone ignored anyway.
What kind of effort would it take for interactive television to evolve into a more web-like open garden model?
Who cares? ITV will fail again and again until investors stop wasting their money on it.
(Clay's right about email, though. But the very lackluster experience of WebTV suggests that - surprise! shocker! sending email on television is a pain and not worth the trouble. So people will keep buying cheap PCs and not waste their time with whatever crapola the cablecos come up with.)
also like smart cards,
there won't be any real-world cases to drive micropayment adoption by consumers.
Smart cards - How useless for consumers! Yet the pundits have continued to squawk about how "smart" they are, as if this means they have any value. It's like the people who kept predicting that we would have digital cash (Mondex et al.), not realizing that this subtracts value for the buyer relative to the ubiquitous, low-cost, and easy-to-use credit card.
We should get Clay to log on from time to time just to deflate the dumb ideas that come up on Slashdot.
I put Napster third on a list of uprisings of massive, uncoordinated civil disobedience in the last
100 years, after the 55 mph speed limit and Prohibition.
That's one of the better comparisons I've heard for Napster. If not Napster, something else.
When 55 was the law, and sanctimonious safety-types were squawking about how it was saving so many lives (it wasn't), no lawmaker dared require speed governors on cars because everyone knew that the rules were widely ignored.
I remember a few years ago when they finally repealed the last bits of 55 - one of the good things the new Republican congress did. Caltrans had road crews out pasting sixes on all the speed limit signs around the bay area - and they were getting honks and cheers from passing motorists!
Maybe it's Orrin Hatch, but in any case someone needs to start talking about this when the RIAA bitches and moans about widespread infringement...
Actually not a joke - automatic probes or not, it's very important to do a regular self-examination. A good friend of mine lost her mother because she failed to detect cancer until it was too late - this was shocking to me, but I guess many women just don't check for lumps!
Article looks like a big ad?
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Print out the paper phone article, it will work just about as well.
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I'm not throwing it away - I'm losing it! I'm on my third phone - the previous one was lost in a cab, and the previous to that was analog and is now a useless brick in a cardboard box. Average lifetime
(Of course I want to keep it longer than that! Hopefully the current one will last a few more years.)
Well, if I throw away (or lose in a cab) one cellphone with a big-ass battery, a large cardboard box, lots of cellophane, and 24 thick phone bills every two years - or one prepaid paper phone every three months - which one generates more trash?
I know which one pisses off those angry about our Disposable Society (tm), but that's not the relevant question.
I liked the inventor's rationale...
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Altschul, talking on her cell phone, lost her connection and became so angry that she wanted to heave the device out the window. She didn't because the phone was too expensive.
Can we have paper laptops for the same, um, killer app?
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Maybe it's because, um, it's crappy, proprietary, and copy-controlled? And if so, won't the same thing happen to Clie?!
Yes, but the point is: if the key and algorithm are easy to hand out, and the user has a strong incentive to do so, then it's not secure. So the point stands that CSS is crap.
Well, at least it didn't convert them all to Sony ATRAC!
Gawd, what an awful web site! Totally weird and unhelpful (unless you're a spouse looking for relief).
Their software also attempts to delete the source mp3 once conversion is complete.
This is really appalling. This fact should be included in all articles talking about Music Clip / ATRAC / Sony Palm discussions. I for one consider this denial of service and theft of my documents. Class action lawsuit anyone?
Music Clip / ATRAC is famously user hostile. I for one won't touch it with a 10-foot pole. MP3 or nothing for me.
"gratuito y libre" could be the new slogan for GNOME...
(3) Banner ad leads to TCP_error or 404 or missing page or somewhere else.
Enough of these have reduced my click-throughs due to wasted time.
Can you imagine if Slashdot took two week pledge breaks every 4-6 months like public radio? My head hurts just contemplating it!
Nice troll. But you don't go out and drive a specific period of time - you drive somewhere, which is a fixed number of miles away. So accidents per mile is a totally relevant measure. That people now drive more has more to do with changing lifestyles and not much to do with regulations everyone ignored anyway.
Who cares? ITV will fail again and again until investors stop wasting their money on it.
(Clay's right about email, though. But the very lackluster experience of WebTV suggests that - surprise! shocker! sending email on television is a pain and not worth the trouble. So people will keep buying cheap PCs and not waste their time with whatever crapola the cablecos come up with.)
Smart cards - How useless for consumers! Yet the pundits have continued to squawk about how "smart" they are, as if this means they have any value. It's like the people who kept predicting that we would have digital cash (Mondex et al.), not realizing that this subtracts value for the buyer relative to the ubiquitous, low-cost, and easy-to-use credit card.
We should get Clay to log on from time to time just to deflate the dumb ideas that come up on Slashdot.
That's one of the better comparisons I've heard for Napster. If not Napster, something else.
When 55 was the law, and sanctimonious safety-types were squawking about how it was saving so many lives (it wasn't), no lawmaker dared require speed governors on cars because everyone knew that the rules were widely ignored.
I remember a few years ago when they finally repealed the last bits of 55 - one of the good things the new Republican congress did. Caltrans had road crews out pasting sixes on all the speed limit signs around the bay area - and they were getting honks and cheers from passing motorists!
Maybe it's Orrin Hatch, but in any case someone needs to start talking about this when the RIAA bitches and moans about widespread infringement...
is here.
Correct. A Mac version would require a twelve minute reboot.
Because of the death of the general purpose PC! The industry is moving to special purpose devices, right? I read it in Slashdot so it must be true...
Actually not a joke - automatic probes or not, it's very important to do a regular self-examination. A good friend of mine lost her mother because she failed to detect cancer until it was too late - this was shocking to me, but I guess many women just don't check for lumps!
Indeed!
Print out the paper phone article, it will work just about as well.
I'm not throwing it away - I'm losing it! I'm on my third phone - the previous one was lost in a cab, and the previous to that was analog and is now a useless brick in a cardboard box. Average lifetime (Of course I want to keep it longer than that! Hopefully the current one will last a few more years.)
Guess when Iridium will splash?
I know which one pisses off those angry about our Disposable Society (tm), but that's not the relevant question.
Can we have paper laptops for the same, um, killer app?
it's called a cell phone
anyone else is an impostor!