But it has always seemed to me that shipping a commercial closed source product based on.Net is a huge challenge to ensure that it remains closed source. What do people do? Do they simply rely on one of the many obsfucation products out there?
At least in the good old days you could guarantee that disassembling your binary didn't give someone your C code without a bucket load more work
This should been a welcomed effect of DRM. Everyone is basically saying "pretty pictures, but the story sucks", and at almost 3 hours long I'd hate to be stuck in the cinema wading through that.
Is there any real security risk in this? I suspect it is very small.
The risk to this is not a danger to troops. The risk of this is having a completely un-edited video source available to people who would have a field day if the official US proclamation of what happened was visibly different from the recorded video stream
No, this is a fundamental law of Slashdot commenting. Each article must contain the following topics in the comments:
1) I, for one, welcome our X overlords
2) Windows Sucks
3) Compare X to Apple
4) Will it run (on) Linux?
5) Some sort of big brother/tinfoil hat BS
6) The MPAA/RIAA are douchebags.
Commenting will continue on an article until these are satisfied, at which point it will decrease at a logarithmic pace.
Somewhere in a darkened room Natalie Portman can be heard gently sobbing into her bowl of slowly cooling Grits
Lawnmower-to-laptop battery adapter. Wheel Cart not included.
That was also mentioned in TFA.. along with some ludicrous idea about being able to swap batteries on a laptop when their charge had been depleted. Obviously the author is not an Apple fan-boi
Hmm.. After that statement I think that I will proclaim "OzPeter's law" as a corollary to Godwin's law:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Apple approaches 1"
Long links in twitter messages significantly reduce the amount of available characters.
Google is really going to look foolish when my new, extensible length twitter service comes out. This new service will allow arbitrary length messages and thus totally eliminate the need to link shortening.
Although I haven't yet named my new service, I am leaning towards calling it "eMail", but I need to check if that name has already been taken.
Hang on. He only proved that he can't read, we need proof that he can't write either before Slashdot hires him..
Well the offer is only for a junior position, so he can't be expected to both not be able to read and not be able to write. Just one of those skills is a requirement for this entry level position. However with the excellent in-house training available at Slashdot, I'm sure his writing skills will start to degrade in mere weeks - if not days
Well, we do business with China and Saudi Arabia. Just Saying....
Well the US has to do trade with China - especially given how much US debt they own. <conspiracy>And as for the Saudi's its just another regime to get in bed with in order smooth over US interests in the ME</conspiracy>
Reverse engineering a complete video driver is an impressive feat. However it is a reactive process and not a proactive process. Presumably when NVidia changes their driver architecture (to suit future hardware) won't this all have to be done over from scratch?
There are lots of things which are perfectly legal yet something one would prefer to keep private.
There was an example of this in richmond, VA 3 years or so ago. There was an art teacher here who was using his Ass to paint pictures and actually sell on the Internet [1]. He had a video of his process on youtube, but in that video he wore a disguise, used a pseudonym and generally tried to disconnect himself from his professional life. However it all came to light and he was hounded out of his job. See this article in the Washington Post.
[1] Its his choice to call it Art. But then again I have a painting on my wall from a famous US pornstar who painted her tits and impressed them on paper - see her [NSFW [2]??] catalogue here
[2] Is nude art NSFW? What about the nudes by the old masters?
indeed it seems a failure... I just checked my own area and virtually nothing is posted. But I also hated the look and feel of the site. It just felt like a site I'd want to avoid.
My point was more to show that the laws are ri-fucking-diculous by giving a solution equally ridiculous.
Given your +4 interesting mod at the moment I think that you might have failed! Of course I probably failed by missing on your implied sarcasm tags as well:D
Which unfortunately will be a magnet for people who do want to have inappropriate conversations with kids.
I think that's part of the proposal's point: Better that the kids are off somewhere else, and any adults there are criminals, than that all adults anywhere be considered criminals just for innocently socializing with other parties online who happen to be underage.
If you can't trust/prove that who you are talking to on *this* Internet is an adult or a kid, how are you ever going to create another parallel system that somehow magically sorts out who the participants are based on some abstract idea such as age.
It seems more and more reasonable to give kids their own version of the internet completely. That way we wont get crazy someone think of the children laws.
Which unfortunately will be a magnet for people who do want to have inappropriate conversations with kids.
Segmentation and/or punishment will never compete with the benefits of supervision *and* education
I'm not arguing that I would not be speeding, just that the points lost and the fine to be paid should be determined between the effective speed limit and the ticketed speed. In VA the fine is calculated as a $$amount for every mph over the speed limit.
As further examples, on I-64 you can drive about 72-75 mph in a 65 zone without being pulled over. But on I-95 leaving DC if you are not doing 80-85 mph then you are hazard to the other traffic, but at those speeds you don't get pulled over either
Can you argue that you shouldn't pay your speeding ticket because not everyone who was speeding got a speeding ticket?
Law enforcement has the discretion not to arrest and charge and prosecutors have the discretion not to prosecute.
I would posit that there is a difference between law enforcement attempting (but failing) to enforce a law because they do not have enough man power, and choosing not to enforce a law because of some random personal preference.
That cops in the US don't bother to ticket all speeders (and in Virginia the law is written that there is no justification for exceeding the speed limit) is puzzling. But every now and again they have a zero tolerance crack down and the following week people are speeding again. Why should those people traveling during the crackdown be held to stricter compliance than any other time during the year?
Imagine the outcry if the cops decided to selectively enforce theft, assault or rape cases
Taking this sort of totally off-topic thats one argument I'd love to use in the USA against speeding tickets. If you are on a freeway in Virginia then the cops won't pull you over unless you are doing more than about 15 mph over the limit (ie 80 in a 65 zone) , but they ticket you for the speed above the posted limit. I'd love to argue that the effective speed limit is at the point where they consider it worthwhile to come after you and not the posted limit. Thus you should be ticketed for the speed above the effective limit.
I experienced this to some extent when working in Magnetogorsk, Siberia in '94. The hot water for a lot/all of the town was supplied centrally and piped all over the place in 1m diameter pipes (above ground).
Aside from the efficiency issues due to heat loss from the pipes, the main fun factor in this system was that the distribution was not terribly fine grained. As a result the authorities shut down the hot water for entire sections of the city when they wanted to do extended maintenance - and by that I mean up to a month at a time.
Its amazing how short a time it takes to get enough hot water for a bath when you are heating it up one saucepan at a time on a stove!
Hopefully the people who will be reliant on the excess data centre heat won't have the same dependency problems. Its much easier to hook up a spare electrical system than it is to re-pipe hot water
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But it has always seemed to me that shipping a commercial closed source product based on .Net is a huge challenge to ensure that it remains closed source. What do people do? Do they simply rely on one of the many obsfucation products out there?
At least in the good old days you could guarantee that disassembling your binary didn't give someone your C code without a bucket load more work
This should been a welcomed effect of DRM. Everyone is basically saying "pretty pictures, but the story sucks", and at almost 3 hours long I'd hate to be stuck in the cinema wading through that.
Is there any real security risk in this? I suspect it is very small.
The risk to this is not a danger to troops. The risk of this is having a completely un-edited video source available to people who would have a field day if the official US proclamation of what happened was visibly different from the recorded video stream
No, this is a fundamental law of Slashdot commenting. Each article must contain the following topics in the comments: 1) I, for one, welcome our X overlords 2) Windows Sucks 3) Compare X to Apple 4) Will it run (on) Linux? 5) Some sort of big brother/tinfoil hat BS 6) The MPAA/RIAA are douchebags. Commenting will continue on an article until these are satisfied, at which point it will decrease at a logarithmic pace.
Somewhere in a darkened room Natalie Portman can be heard gently sobbing into her bowl of slowly cooling Grits
Lawnmower-to-laptop battery adapter. Wheel Cart not included.
That was also mentioned in TFA .. along with some ludicrous idea about being able to swap batteries on a laptop when their charge had been depleted. Obviously the author is not an Apple fan-boi
Hmm .. After that statement I think that I will proclaim "OzPeter's law" as a corollary to Godwin's law:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Apple approaches 1"
Al! I've leaped into a URL! Quick, what does Ziggy say?
Ziggy says its fine to walk around with no pants on
Here's your answer: http://bit.ly/4kb77v
Bastard!
Long links in twitter messages significantly reduce the amount of available characters.
Google is really going to look foolish when my new, extensible length twitter service comes out. This new service will allow arbitrary length messages and thus totally eliminate the need to link shortening.
Although I haven't yet named my new service, I am leaning towards calling it "eMail", but I need to check if that name has already been taken.
Hang on. He only proved that he can't read, we need proof that he can't write either before Slashdot hires him..
Well the offer is only for a junior position, so he can't be expected to both not be able to read and not be able to write. Just one of those skills is a requirement for this entry level position. However with the excellent in-house training available at Slashdot, I'm sure his writing skills will start to degrade in mere weeks - if not days
See? I can also miss one tiny, important detail!
Oh crap, I hope I don't start writing for Slashdot...
Sorry .. too late .. the employment offer has already been sent out
Well, we do business with China and Saudi Arabia. Just Saying....
Well the US has to do trade with China - especially given how much US debt they own. <conspiracy>And as for the Saudi's its just another regime to get in bed with in order smooth over US interests in the ME</conspiracy>
Reverse engineering a complete video driver is an impressive feat. However it is a reactive process and not a proactive process. Presumably when NVidia changes their driver architecture (to suit future hardware) won't this all have to be done over from scratch?
There are lots of things which are perfectly legal yet something one would prefer to keep private.
There was an example of this in richmond, VA 3 years or so ago. There was an art teacher here who was using his Ass to paint pictures and actually sell on the Internet [1]. He had a video of his process on youtube, but in that video he wore a disguise, used a pseudonym and generally tried to disconnect himself from his professional life. However it all came to light and he was hounded out of his job. See this article in the Washington Post.
[1] Its his choice to call it Art. But then again I have a painting on my wall from a famous US pornstar who painted her tits and impressed them on paper - see her [NSFW [2]??] catalogue here
[2] Is nude art NSFW? What about the nudes by the old masters?
indeed it seems a failure ... I just checked my own area and virtually nothing is posted. But I also hated the look and feel of the site. It just felt like a site I'd want to avoid.
My point was more to show that the laws are ri-fucking-diculous by giving a solution equally ridiculous.
Given your +4 interesting mod at the moment I think that you might have failed! Of course I probably failed by missing on your implied sarcasm tags as well :D
I think that's part of the proposal's point: Better that the kids are off somewhere else, and any adults there are criminals, than that all adults anywhere be considered criminals just for innocently socializing with other parties online who happen to be underage.
If you can't trust/prove that who you are talking to on *this* Internet is an adult or a kid, how are you ever going to create another parallel system that somehow magically sorts out who the participants are based on some abstract idea such as age.
It seems more and more reasonable to give kids their own version of the internet completely. That way we wont get crazy someone think of the children laws.
Which unfortunately will be a magnet for people who do want to have inappropriate conversations with kids.
Segmentation and/or punishment will never compete with the benefits of supervision *and* education
So if the cops know they have an uncertainty, why is the fine calculated as
$$Amount x (Ticketed Speed - Posted Speed)
That is the discrepancy I am arguing about
I believe you meant "to paraphrase a quote from Men In Black".
FTFY. Past tense :P
I'm not arguing that I would not be speeding, just that the points lost and the fine to be paid should be determined between the effective speed limit and the ticketed speed. In VA the fine is calculated as a $$amount for every mph over the speed limit.
As further examples, on I-64 you can drive about 72-75 mph in a 65 zone without being pulled over. But on I-95 leaving DC if you are not doing 80-85 mph then you are hazard to the other traffic, but at those speeds you don't get pulled over either
Can you argue that you shouldn't pay your speeding ticket because not everyone who was speeding got a speeding ticket?
Law enforcement has the discretion not to arrest and charge and prosecutors have the discretion not to prosecute.
I would posit that there is a difference between law enforcement attempting (but failing) to enforce a law because they do not have enough man power, and choosing not to enforce a law because of some random personal preference.
That cops in the US don't bother to ticket all speeders (and in Virginia the law is written that there is no justification for exceeding the speed limit) is puzzling. But every now and again they have a zero tolerance crack down and the following week people are speeding again. Why should those people traveling during the crackdown be held to stricter compliance than any other time during the year?
Imagine the outcry if the cops decided to selectively enforce theft, assault or rape cases
DRM solely exists to provide corporations more control over the products they sell. It in no way is beneficial to the informed user.
So therefore the informed users, or the people who provide the majority of votes, would never vote for DRM.
FTFY
And how much lobbying would you expect corporations to do to ensure that the general public is not well informed??
Taking this sort of totally off-topic thats one argument I'd love to use in the USA against speeding tickets. If you are on a freeway in Virginia then the cops won't pull you over unless you are doing more than about 15 mph over the limit (ie 80 in a 65 zone) , but they ticket you for the speed above the posted limit. I'd love to argue that the effective speed limit is at the point where they consider it worthwhile to come after you and not the posted limit. Thus you should be ticketed for the speed above the effective limit.
However I am too chicken to put this to a test :D
If we lived in a true democracy (for the people), DRM would never exist
If you lived in a true democracy you would get the laws that people voted for - this may or may not include DRM
To quote Men In Black
A person is smart, but people are stupid
I experienced this to some extent when working in Magnetogorsk, Siberia in '94. The hot water for a lot/all of the town was supplied centrally and piped all over the place in 1m diameter pipes (above ground).
Aside from the efficiency issues due to heat loss from the pipes, the main fun factor in this system was that the distribution was not terribly fine grained. As a result the authorities shut down the hot water for entire sections of the city when they wanted to do extended maintenance - and by that I mean up to a month at a time.
Its amazing how short a time it takes to get enough hot water for a bath when you are heating it up one saucepan at a time on a stove!
Hopefully the people who will be reliant on the excess data centre heat won't have the same dependency problems. Its much easier to hook up a spare electrical system than it is to re-pipe hot water