Engineering species changes and evolution, or even starting from scratch (building intelligent machines) is far less time consuming that waiting for random/natural evolution.
The Stationers had a goverment sponsered publishing monopoly starting in 1557 and lasting 137 years.
Of course this led to suppression and censorship.
So when the United States was founded, publishing monopolies were to be limited if not eleimitated entirely. The compromise was a 14 year copyright once renewable by 14 years by the author. The copyright purpose was explicitly to promote advancement.
Fast forward to now. Corporations have been given the rights of persons. Government granted publishing monopolies (copyrights) have being extened to be 120 years. And the most control and profit from these monopolies goes not to the original authors, but the media companies (the modern Stationers).
DRM attempts to go beyond any government limits, and establish complete control of publishing media.
This way, the text differnces could be easily seen, with meld, xxdiff,.... Even if it was text/xml followed by therest.zip, that would be ok too.
As it stands, to do simple differencing, application specific knowledge is needed.
Often, with source code or documents, using diff to verify changes is very useful Even though ooffice uses xml, putting it in a zip container makes it similar to binary formats, as it becomes harder to compare.
it seems like since microsoft put all the security holes in, its only natural that they should provide you with the software to deal with the results of the holes.
The constitutional purpose of allowing copyright monopolies was to "promote science and art". Obviously there is little advancement if the end result even after the hundred(s?) year copyright is a pile of bits in an unknown format.
but if the algorithm is secret, and disallowed from being reverse engineered (DMCA), then brute force guessing of algorithms and keys could take an "long" time.
The argument that the public can reverse engineer and decrypt the media in 120 years places an obvious amount of undue burdon on the public.
The movie/audio cartel has fooled itself to believe that if only they could DRM'd everything, then they could milk even more money out of the consumer.
But it's not true. Even if you round up the all the pirates that raid software and music cruise ships, and shackle everyone in DRM, profits will not go up. Profits may actually go down, because the demand may go down, because the copying was providing free advertisement and creating interest in the product.
> The user will still see something online that says "Click here for free screensavers!" and > guess what, they'll click there for free screensavers.
If I compile an application, say: main(){system("rm -rf/");}, then put it online, call it coolscreensaver, then have a link like you said, saying "Click here for free screensavers!".
If a user clicks on that in Linux, using firefox, or thunderbird, what happens? Nothing. Save to disk where?
If your were able to find examples in Linux where an uninformed user can easily be tricked to run a plugin or macro or executable, I would say that is a design flaw, not the users problem. Please submit a bug report if you find any of these.
I'm not sure why there is a need to defend these "features" or the company that puts them it, when these "features" are they are the cause of most viruses and spam in the world. Do you like the spam and viruses.
The protection of DRM by the goverment (From FCC regulation or DMCA type laws) is at odds with Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.
This clause lets the government assign exclusive rights of a work for a limited amount of time (to encourage science and art).
Currently, No DRM has an expiration or time limits of any kind, so by protecting or mandating DRM, the government is in effect allowing exclusive rights of a work and unlimited amount of time ( with no regard to the effect of this on art and science ).
I bought a DVD player early on, partly because I knew it was standard mpeg2, and there were DVD-ROMS becoming available (but I didn't know about DRM then). I suspect there are many other early tech. adopters here. I will not be buying HD-DVD until the DRM is overcome. I wonder where the rest of slashdot is on this.
Perhaps a slashdot poll is needed.
I will buy HD-DVD/Bluray:
1) As soon as one of them is sold. 2) When one of these formats wins 3) When the DRM is removed or overcome 4) When the price drops 5) When the HDDVD-ROM/RW is available. 6) 1-5 7) When Hell exists and is frozen
CSS is just encryption. Discs can be copied without decrypting them. Instead of preventing copying the media, was CSS does attempt to do is prevent watching the media (on an unapproved player).
The primary purpose of decrypting the media, is to watch it. If you bypass CSS for the purpose of making illegal copies, then perhaps you are "circumventing copy protection". But if you are just decrypting the disc to watch it (or remove commercials), you are just decrypting the disc to watch it (or remove commercials).
And DMCA is bad law contricts previous fair use rulings, and I would argue violates Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution by giving unbounded control of a work (by protecting infinite DRM).
No "cracking" is needed. You don't need to crack the encryption. It is public knowledge. Plenty of open source software allows you to decrypt movies, to allow you to watch your purchased movies with flexibility.
As soon as the DRM can be overcome, then "fair use" is possible.
Before then, it is just controlled encrypted data, which you may able to watch under certain conditions and restrictions: conditions and restrictions which are likely to change.
The DVD format and DRM have become an unofficial open standard.
inefficient/wasteful/greedy population growth (evidently, everyone needs an SUV, and lots of disposible goods/toys) is the cause for global warming, so such an event could be a balance.
The most amazing things that exists on Windows is the viruses.
These are things that you cannot live without, in Windows.
Most MS applications allow you to embed viruses into each application document format. This makes for an ideal virus breeding ground. Especially when coupled with IE or Exchange which allow these documents/viruses to be installed with very little resistence.
With later versions of the OS, there a warning that comes up, if you don't have "virus protection" software that helps work around the weak design. I think it pops up a message that says:
"OMG, you are running with like no virus checking software. Are you crazy?"
"Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for LIMITED times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . .."
> Keep in mind, that the Constitution restricts government behavior, not private behavior
By passing laws like DMCA, which protect and enforce infinite DRM, the government is violating this clause.
The purpose of Copyrights and Patents was to allow a _temporary_ monopoly on some writing/invention, in order to encourage art and science.
DRM is an attempt of some to overstep copyright and patent laws, and write their own.
Existing unbounded DRM, has no expiration, so in essense is attempting to impose an infinite copyright. Infinite copy restrictions are against current law and the original intent of copyright law. Unbounded DRM is illegal, and can only hinder art and science.
All this talk about "catching up to Windows" and "catching up to XP" is quite backwards to me.
For me, I recently tried to actually use Windows XP for work. I felt like my hands were tied, and I wanted the flexibility that Linux gave me. The Windows tool bar is primative, I wanted KDE. The Command window is little different that Win95 command window. I wanted Konsole, or another modern shell. Add-on software, compilers that are naturally available (install or a apt-get/yum command away) in Linux, aways seam awkward in Windows. Drive letters and two char dos newlines, yuck. And the requirement of virus software to work around MS bugs really does not help with my impression of security and stability.
So I switched back to Linux for good, and run the win apps that I must using Wine.
As for OS-X, I have a dual-booting Mac Mini-PPC. I tried OSX for a while, but again felt too limited. I just wanted to run KDE, firefox and thunderbird. So again, I use Linux alone.
The point of copyright and patent law was to allow an author to have monopoly rights on some invention/information for a _Limited amount of Time_ to encourage art and science.
DRM, by it's nature is attempting to circumvent any legal end to the information/invention monopoly.
There is no built-in expiration of DRM control, so it conflicts with the intent of the constitution.
DRM does not encourage the advancement of art and science. It encourages information hoarding, and exploitation.
TV over IP really requires Multicast or "Peercast"
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They have not thought it through if think they can have unicast connections to half the US or World, when the final episode of the "I married a random person" reality show is on.
I guess that's where the DRM comes in. Nobody will want it, so no problem.
"Would it truly be the end of democracy for individuals to be able to prove their vote"
Perhaps not, though it could lead to some corruption.
But, I am not really seeing what is gained by such a system.
If the your vote was wrong. There is really nothing you could do about it. Your "anonymous voter-code" is anonymous, so you cannot prove that was you, or you found it on the street. And you cannot prove who you intended to vote for. I suppose you could complain, and the number of complaints could help calculate a loose voting error statistic.
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Engineering species changes and evolution, or even starting from scratch (building intelligent machines) is far less time consuming that waiting for random/natural evolution.
The Stationers had a goverment sponsered publishing monopoly starting
in 1557 and lasting 137 years.
Of course this led to suppression and censorship.
So when the United States was founded, publishing monopolies were to be limited if not eleimitated entirely. The compromise was a 14 year copyright once renewable by 14 years by the author. The copyright purpose was explicitly to promote advancement.
Fast forward to now. Corporations have been given the rights of persons. Government granted publishing monopolies (copyrights) have being extened to be 120 years. And the most control and profit from these monopolies goes not to the original authors, but the media companies (the modern Stationers).
DRM attempts to go beyond any government limits, and establish complete control of publishing media.
I wished that instead of zip files, a text based container like a http-sequence-like mime content or chunked data segments was used:
... ...
....
Content-type: text/xml
Content-length: 2000
Content-type: image/jpeg
Content-length: 600
This way, the text differnces could be easily seen, with meld, xxdiff,
Even if it was text/xml followed by therest.zip, that would be ok too.
As it stands, to do simple differencing, application specific knowledge is needed.
Often, with source code or documents, using diff to verify changes is very useful
Even though ooffice uses xml, putting it in a zip container makes it similar to binary formats, as it becomes harder to compare.
it seems like since microsoft put all the security holes in, its only natural that they should provide you with the software to deal with the results of the holes.
What does this have to do with a browser?
The constitutional purpose of allowing copyright monopolies was to "promote science and art". Obviously there is little advancement if the end result even after the hundred(s?) year copyright is a pile of bits in an unknown format.
but if the algorithm is secret, and disallowed from being reverse engineered (DMCA), then brute force guessing of algorithms and keys could take an "long" time.
The argument that the public can reverse engineer and decrypt the media in 120 years places an obvious amount of undue burdon on the public.
Most people do not realize, that electric vehicles were in "common" use 100 years ago, and invented long before that.
This is why 100 years ago, they assumed now we would have flying cars. But actually, we have barely moved forward.
The movie/audio cartel has fooled itself to believe that if only they could DRM'd everything,
then they could milk even more money out of the consumer.
But it's not true. Even if you round up the all the pirates that raid software and music cruise ships, and shackle everyone in DRM, profits will not go up.
Profits may actually go down, because the demand may go down, because the copying was providing free advertisement and creating interest in the product.
> The user will still see something online that says "Click here for free screensavers!" and > guess what, they'll click there for free screensavers.
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If I compile an application, say: main(){system("rm -rf
then put it online, call it coolscreensaver, then have a link like you said,
saying "Click here for free screensavers!".
If a user clicks on that in Linux, using firefox, or thunderbird, what happens?
Nothing. Save to disk where?
If your were able to find examples in Linux where an uninformed user can easily be tricked to run a plugin or macro or executable, I would say that is a design flaw, not the users problem. Please submit a bug report if you find any of these.
I'm not sure why there is a need to defend these "features" or the company that puts them it, when these "features" are they are the cause of most viruses and spam in the world. Do you like the spam and viruses.
The protection of DRM by the goverment (From FCC regulation or DMCA type laws) is at odds with Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.
This clause lets the government assign exclusive rights of a work for a limited amount of time (to encourage science and art).
Currently, No DRM has an expiration or time limits of any kind, so by protecting or mandating DRM, the government is in effect allowing exclusive rights of a work and unlimited amount of time ( with no regard to the effect of this on art and science ).
I bought a DVD player early on, partly because I knew it was standard mpeg2, and there were DVD-ROMS becoming available (but I didn't know about DRM then). I suspect there are many other early tech. adopters here. I will not be buying HD-DVD until the DRM is overcome. I wonder where the rest of slashdot is on this.
Perhaps a slashdot poll is needed.
I will buy HD-DVD/Bluray:
1) As soon as one of them is sold.
2) When one of these formats wins
3) When the DRM is removed or overcome
4) When the price drops
5) When the HDDVD-ROM/RW is available.
6) 1-5
7) When Hell exists and is frozen
CSS is just encryption. Discs can be copied without decrypting them. Instead of preventing copying the media, was CSS does attempt to do is prevent watching the media (on an unapproved player).
The primary purpose of decrypting the media, is to watch it.
If you bypass CSS for the purpose of making illegal copies, then perhaps you are "circumventing copy protection".
But if you are just decrypting the disc to watch it (or remove commercials), you are just decrypting the disc to watch it (or remove commercials).
And DMCA is bad law contricts previous fair use rulings, and I would argue violates Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution by giving unbounded control of a work (by protecting infinite DRM).
Illegal under what law exactly?
No "cracking" is needed. You don't need to crack the encryption. It is public knowledge. Plenty of open source software allows you to decrypt movies, to allow you to watch your purchased movies with flexibility.
As soon as the DRM can be overcome, then "fair use" is possible.
Before then, it is just controlled encrypted data, which you may able to watch under certain conditions and restrictions: conditions and restrictions which are likely to change.
The DVD format and DRM have become an unofficial open standard.
inefficient/wasteful/greedy population growth (evidently, everyone needs an SUV, and lots of disposible goods/toys) is the cause for global warming, so such an event could be a balance.
The most amazing things that exists on Windows is the viruses.
These are things that you cannot live without, in Windows.
Most MS applications allow you to embed viruses into each application document format. This makes for an ideal virus breeding ground. Especially when coupled with IE or Exchange which allow these documents/viruses to be installed with very little resistence.
With later versions of the OS, there a warning that comes up, if you don't have "virus protection" software that helps work around the weak design. I think it pops up a message that says:
"OMG, you are running with like no virus checking software. Are you crazy?"
Article 1, Section 8
."
"Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for LIMITED times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . .
> Keep in mind, that the Constitution restricts government behavior, not private behavior
By passing laws like DMCA, which protect and enforce infinite DRM, the government is violating this clause.
The purpose of Copyrights and Patents was to allow a _temporary_ monopoly on some writing/invention, in order to encourage art and science.
DRM is an attempt of some to overstep copyright and patent laws, and write their own.
Existing unbounded DRM, has no expiration, so in essense is attempting to impose an infinite copyright. Infinite copy restrictions are against current law and the original intent of copyright law. Unbounded DRM is illegal, and can only hinder art and science.
All this talk about "catching up to Windows" and "catching up to XP" is quite backwards to me.
For me, I recently tried to actually use Windows XP for work. I felt like my hands were tied, and I wanted the flexibility that Linux gave me. The Windows tool bar is primative, I wanted KDE. The Command window is little different that Win95 command window. I wanted Konsole, or another modern shell. Add-on software, compilers that are naturally available (install or a apt-get/yum command away) in Linux, aways seam awkward in Windows. Drive letters and two char dos newlines, yuck. And the requirement of virus software to work around MS bugs really does not help with my impression of security and stability.
So I switched back to Linux for good, and run the win apps that I must using Wine.
As for OS-X, I have a dual-booting Mac Mini-PPC. I tried OSX for a while, but again felt too limited. I just wanted to run KDE, firefox and thunderbird.
So again, I use Linux alone.
Firefox->File->Open File.
/tmp/xxx
/tmp while you are typing, without completion overwrite, /tmp/mp/xxx
/etc/tc/fstab /etc/termcapc/fstab.
Type in:
The GTK completes
so you end up with:
If this manages to work the first time, backspace the whole thing, and you
will see the bug.
Or, try to type '/etc/fstab'
You get something like:
or better:
I guess if you type poorly, this interface is for you.
Type a letter, look to see if it completed for you, type the next letter,...
The bug exists from RH9 to FC5.
Obsolete floptical media.
No MD-ROM.
Proprietary format.
If you want a disc, what's wrong with a 3.5 inch DVD+RW?
In the long run, no moving parts(flash) will be the obvious choice.
MD could make a comeback when Zip-Discs do.
The point of copyright and patent law was to allow an author to have monopoly rights on some invention/information for a _Limited amount of Time_ to encourage art and science.
DRM, by it's nature is attempting to circumvent any legal end to the information/invention monopoly.
There is no built-in expiration of DRM control, so it conflicts with the intent of the constitution.
DRM does not encourage the advancement of art and science. It encourages information hoarding, and exploitation.
They have not thought it through if think they can have unicast connections to half the US or World, when the final episode of the "I married a random person" reality show is on.
I guess that's where the DRM comes in. Nobody will want it, so no problem.
This is similar to the "add 'in bed' to fortune" joke.
... on the internet
Except this is the business model.
Add "on the internet" to your fortune or anything else.
It is patentable, unless someone beat to to it.
Examples:
Fortune says: "Don't wait for happiness, buy it now"
Patent: Buy it now
Fortune: Do not sell your horse, if you can instead sell you cat.
Patent: Online cat bidding system
"Would it truly be the end of democracy for individuals to be able to prove their vote"
Perhaps not, though it could lead to some corruption.
But, I am not really seeing what is gained by such a system.
If the your vote was wrong. There is really nothing you could do about it. Your "anonymous voter-code" is anonymous, so you cannot prove that was you, or you found it on the street. And you cannot prove who you intended to vote for.
I suppose you could complain, and the number of complaints could help calculate a loose voting error statistic.