It would be so very difficult for someone to write a little program that, when stripping the DRM, randomized a couple of pieces of punctuation to break the hash that the vendor is storing along with the sales record of the individual book.
In which case they just resort to diff, to remove your hacks and restore the hash.
It's a dense, well-researched overview of China's cold-war like cyberwar tactics against the US to regain its past historical glory and world dominance.
How do I know how much of it I should believe? (Other than the fact that I read it on the internet.)
Yeah, you'd have to be delusional to think that countries play nice with each other, but seriously, how do we know how much of this is fact and how much is fearmongering (or cashing in on existing fears), or politics?
This is no different than what the Allies did with Enigma and Magic; unfortunately once you know a system is compromised the enemy will stop using it, so while everyone is hewing and crying over the loss of security, what this means is that it'll just be that much harder to stop plots as the bad guys won't use these systems any more.
Are you suggesting that international terrorist organizations, organized crime, and foreign spies trusted their telephones as secure communications until this came out?
All this will catch is small-time operators. Oh, wait - it won't catch them either, because they won't be calling suspicious phone numbers.
Like a lot of other businesses, the film industry is averse to risk.
Which, unfortunately, is probably the best business strategy for mass-market products. If you want art you'll have to look for something where big money isn't involved.
The Romans ate bread, not pasta. Noodles were invented in China, and didn't reach Europe until the late middle ages. The first record of pasta being made in Italy was in 1154.
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is this whole thing a joke? why would the terrorists solicit money from jewish organizations?
In case you haven't noticed, not every terrorist and terrorist-wannabe is a genius.
Unfortunately, this idea is out there now.
We'll have two more bc articles on Slashdot this week.
It would be so very difficult for someone to write a little program that, when stripping the DRM, randomized a couple of pieces of punctuation to break the hash that the vendor is storing along with the sales record of the individual book.
In which case they just resort to diff, to remove your hacks and restore the hash.
Wouldn't they need the approval of everyone who contributed to the GPL'd version in order to do this?
What's a 'barron'?
It's a dense, well-researched overview of China's cold-war like cyberwar tactics against the US to regain its past historical glory and world dominance.
How do I know how much of it I should believe? (Other than the fact that I read it on the internet.)
Yeah, you'd have to be delusional to think that countries play nice with each other, but seriously, how do we know how much of this is fact and how much is fearmongering (or cashing in on existing fears), or politics?
This is no different than what the Allies did with Enigma and Magic; unfortunately once you know a system is compromised the enemy will stop using it, so while everyone is hewing and crying over the loss of security, what this means is that it'll just be that much harder to stop plots as the bad guys won't use these systems any more.
Are you suggesting that international terrorist organizations, organized crime, and foreign spies trusted their telephones as secure communications until this came out?
All this will catch is small-time operators. Oh, wait - it won't catch them either, because they won't be calling suspicious phone numbers.
This iteration of Superman has been going on for 2.5 hours?! It's definitely getting stale by now. Time for a reboot.
Don't worry, there will be a dupe story in a few days. Or maybe tonight.
Like a lot of other businesses, the film industry is averse to risk.
Which, unfortunately, is probably the best business strategy for mass-market products. If you want art you'll have to look for something where big money isn't involved.
IM3 was very entertaining, and I walked out thinking I'd go see it again. But before I got home I was already in "that was just dumb" mode.
Short answer, there's a massive disconnect between the critics and the audience on this one.
8.2 on IMDB right now.
I've never had any use for critics, but OTOH I still haven't heard anything from non-critics that makes me want to go see it.
Maybe they mean "unlimited storage" the same way your ISP means "unlimited bandwidth".
The sad fact that nobody wants to admit is that ubiquitous surveillance just works.
Yeah, but the question is who it works for.
I apologize for the abrupt end to my sentence.
OK, we're placated.
Because sex is unnatural.
Can't this just die already?
What did you want, a vampire teen romance? A Star Wars pre-prequel? Another Superman movie?
Also, the Federation is more likely to contact us and invite us to join, when we give up using intelligent species as experimental subjects.
Radiation will probably kill them before they get there.
making public officials look bad.
pasta.
The Romans ate bread, not pasta. Noodles were invented in China, and didn't reach Europe until the late middle ages. The first record of pasta being made in Italy was in 1154.
So Pastafarianism is an Oriental religion?
On the down side, they had to change their concrete marketing slogan from "It keeps the Germans out" to "It keeps the seawater out".
WWARS (What Would Ayn Rand Say)
"Money should be restricted to your social betters."
Also, she'd probably write a masturbation fantasy for rich people, about how much their social inferiors would suffer after a Rapture of the Rich.
This is supported by the same people who are outraged at wasteful government spending, right?
A real tear jerker, it was.
In 2100 they'll probably still be a lot cooler than Kansas.