No worries, pepsi & coca-cola lobbyist will be out there defending the right to play violent games and for all income levels to have equal access to abortion.
If I remember correctly they were asking for $20.000 in copyright violations from single unemployed parent with income around $30.000 a year. According to the latest report (according to annual report filed at nasdaq) sales and operating revenues for sony was $66,912mil for last year, so they sould be made to pay two thirds of that, which would equal to
Despite the subject dear to most of us, we shouldnt ignore the fact that he is essentially claiming that developed software is free. He is totaly ignoring the costs incured in developping the software, and only accounting for the costs incured in copying it.
In his t-shirt example he is claiming the price of $20, which without doubt is probably 99% manufacuting expenses and remaining 1% design expenses when spread over the first 100.000 copies. However, for software the ratio is the opposite, with 1% material costs (packaging, manual, cd, etc) and 99% design expenses, again spread over the first 100.000 copies or what not.
I bought an old style metallic trashcan from ikea, about 50cm high and a radius of 20cm, where I store all my computer related hardware. Looks really cool, only problem is that some *#%$_)* friends of my girlfriend think it's a trashcan!I have developed this really fast method of searching the trashcan. I pour the content of the trashcan on the floor, pick up what ever it was I was searching for, and throw the rest of the stuff right back in.
The time not spent on organizing probably out weights the time actually spent on searching, as I don't regularly dive for the stuff in the trashcan.
there is a good point with the obscurity trough spam; not that its impossible to detect, but its still more difficult than a PGP encrypted message; that can simply be pattern matched.
another idea might be that you could aswell first pgp encrypt it and then masqurade it as spam. sure the spam might end up being a bit long but it would be relatively easy to do. that way one could enjoy both strong mathematical security aswell as security trough obscurity.
couldnt you take a hash like value of the dna, so that it cant be used for anything but matching another sample? most ppl seem to object to the fact that dna shows additional information about ppl, this if possible should be a way around it.
one thing that can't be stored on the client side is signed/encrypted characters. reason is that then a character can be presented twice to the server. let's say you happen to die, all you have to do is log out and log back in and give the old character. ofcourse by keeping 1-way hash of the latest character on the server side removes the problem.
this on the other hand creates a new problem; if the client side crashes (which isn't rare concidering which platform is most popular for gaming), the client side doesn't have the latest version of the character any longer, and the server doesnt accept the old one because it's hash value doesn't match.
this would result in either permanently keeping the characters on the server, or atleast caching them for some time to the client can re-connect within reasonable time. again we can go on and argue about what should be reasonable in this case.
"There's a technical piece [at Sharky Extreme]..."
sure, it throws around fancy words, and uses working metaphores that a 4 year old would understand. One has to read 20 lines to get one usefull piece of information from the article.
"The Itanium may not consistently run 20 operations per cycle, but the potential is there and proper coding and compiling should yield efficient usage of the CPU."
Intel had the core ready years ago, but they have failed to implement a working assembly compiler until recently, I wonder how well it _REALY_ works, and if there will be any alternatives to intels own compiler. It's difficult to imagine that others would come up with alternatives in less than a year, when it took intel years to implement it in the first place. Atleast if intel wont open source their compiler.
Hmm, true in a sense, but you cant regulate your QOS on almost any service provider, you cant buy true burst bandwidth, nor should you want committed bandwidth asfaik.
I myself would prefere to pay by the megabyte I send, if the provider cant provide me with the capacity they'll lose money that I would be willing to pay, which in turn generates competition.
What is the point of having some dedicated bandwidth with a cable modem for example if you cant use it? Unless you are running a web server you get very very low usega rate with dedicated bandwidth, and what happens when your bandwidth needs increase without warning?
I myself have cabel modem, and I use my mobile phone to surf with my laptop while I'm on the move, and even tough the mobile phone costs way more to use; 10 cents a minute for 43kbits/s, against my cabel modem that gives me 500kbytes/s in theory and costs 40$/month, I feel the mobile phone rates are more fair as I only pay for what I actually use.
Perhaps there is no disadvantage to us, as we know how to turn it on and off. But what about the other ppl, those that dont understand what signatures are and how they work. It would be interresting to know if the option is on by default.
Also interresting is that MickeySoft controls the driver signatures; this means they can regulate what hardware they have to support. And ofcourse, it is well known that whatever is an option today is a standard tomorrow in M$ world.
It is therefore my oppinion this allows M$ to grab a huge amount of power over both consumers and developpers, as they can regulate what consumers can use on their platform, today it's only the computer illiterate (is that the correct word?), but tomorrow it may be all of M$ users.
Well, it all depends how its implemented, atleast in theory its possible to implement a cryptographically safe system. Where a person can be authenticated, without risk of abuse by the authenticating party. Ofcourse copying the smart card on a physical level is always a problem, maybe someone here could shed some light into how safe smart cards realy are physically?
One thing that worries me is that if they are going to use a public key crypto to make digital fingerprints on all cards so new ID's cant be created without the master key. What happens if the master key is stoled, would this render all smart cards unusable? Sure the master key can be split to multiple keys, but in the end its just a bunch of numbers, once its lost its easy to hide and distribute, unlike existing passport production methods where you need some fancy equipment to produce a good looking copy.
Instead of trying to push some technology that is destined to fail, and that can be proven to be impossible to control, they should try to push e-cash. If there would be a wider acceptance of e-cash systems then they could sell the music on the net. Sure it can still be copied, but if the price/trouble for making one copy is more than it costs then they wont be copied too much. 5 years ago it costed as much to burn a CD as to buy a new audioCD so no-one almost bothered to make their own pirate copies of audio CD's.
They are insane to belive they can sell a product for less than it can be reproduces for at home. It should be obvious that making it illegal to copy music brings up the cost of making copies, where by there should at least theoretically be a proffit margin for selling music on the net.
Should you contribute some part of your costly hard disk and some bandwidth to running a freenet node? Without knowning what is actually being stored on your diskspace.
Freenet stores everything that is poppular, and if you dislike kiddie porn and are worried about your hardware being used to distribute that, then all the more reason to use freenet.
Why? Because you are one more user who does not use freenet for kiddie porn. There by bringing the average popularity away from kiddie porn. Which results in kiddie porn dissapearing faster from freenet.
Its all about popularity, the way ellections should be:-)
There was a document on microsoft.research.com about binary recompilation of existing code on the fly to addapt it to a constantly changing distributed environment.
They atleast claimed that they were able to run applications designed for one machine on multiple machines. I do relize this probably means highly-threaded well designed applications that normaly run on one machine, but still it's pretty cool. It's a pity I cant give a link to the document as research.microsoft.com aint responding:-P
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No worries, pepsi & coca-cola lobbyist will be out there defending the right to play violent games and for all income levels to have equal access to abortion.
If I remember correctly they were asking for $20.000 in copyright violations from single unemployed parent with income around $30.000 a year. According to the latest report (according to annual report filed at nasdaq) sales and operating revenues for sony was $66,912mil for last year, so they sould be made to pay two thirds of that, which would equal to
$44,608 mil.
Only fair, no?
Despite the subject dear to most of us, we shouldnt ignore the fact that he is essentially claiming that developed software is free. He is totaly ignoring the costs incured in developping the software, and only accounting for the costs incured in copying it.
In his t-shirt example he is claiming the price of $20, which without doubt is probably 99% manufacuting expenses and remaining 1% design expenses when spread over the first 100.000 copies. However, for software the ratio is the opposite, with 1% material costs (packaging, manual, cd, etc) and 99% design expenses, again spread over the first 100.000 copies or what not.
Netflix plans were also discussed in the economists this weeks issue. Here is a link to the an excerpt of the article :
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_i
I bought an old style metallic trashcan from ikea, about 50cm high and a radius of 20cm, where I store all my computer related hardware. Looks really cool, only problem is that some *#%$_)* friends of my girlfriend think it's a trashcan!I have developed this really fast method of searching the trashcan. I pour the content of the trashcan on the floor, pick up what ever it was I was searching for, and throw the rest of the stuff right back in. The time not spent on organizing probably out weights the time actually spent on searching, as I don't regularly dive for the stuff in the trashcan.
there is a good point with the obscurity trough spam; not that its impossible to detect, but its still more difficult than a PGP encrypted message; that can simply be pattern matched.
another idea might be that you could aswell first pgp encrypt it and then masqurade it as spam. sure the spam might end up being a bit long but it would be relatively easy to do. that way one could enjoy both strong mathematical security aswell as security trough obscurity.
couldnt you take a hash like value of the dna, so that it cant be used for anything but matching another sample? most ppl seem to object to the fact that dna shows additional information about ppl, this if possible should be a way around it.
one thing that can't be stored on the client side is signed/encrypted characters. reason is that then a character can be presented twice to the server. let's say you happen to die, all you have to do is log out and log back in and give the old character. ofcourse by keeping 1-way hash of the latest character on the server side removes the problem.
this on the other hand creates a new problem; if the client side crashes (which isn't rare concidering which platform is most popular for gaming), the client side doesn't have the latest version of the character any longer, and the server doesnt accept the old one because it's hash value doesn't match.
this would result in either permanently keeping the characters on the server, or atleast caching them for some time to the client can re-connect within reasonable time. again we can go on and argue about what should be reasonable in this case.
--typo
"There's a technical piece [at Sharky Extreme]..."
sure, it throws around fancy words, and uses working metaphores that a 4 year old would understand. One has to read 20 lines to get one usefull piece of information from the article.
"The Itanium may not consistently run 20 operations per cycle, but the potential is there and proper coding and compiling should yield efficient usage of the CPU."
Intel had the core ready years ago, but they have failed to implement a working assembly compiler until recently, I wonder how well it _REALY_ works, and if there will be any alternatives to intels own compiler. It's difficult to imagine that others would come up with alternatives in less than a year, when it took intel years to implement it in the first place. Atleast if intel wont open source their compiler.
Hmm, true in a sense, but you cant regulate your QOS on almost any service provider, you cant buy true burst bandwidth, nor should you want committed bandwidth asfaik.
I myself would prefere to pay by the megabyte I send, if the provider cant provide me with the capacity they'll lose money that I would be willing to pay, which in turn generates competition.
What is the point of having some dedicated bandwidth with a cable modem for example if you cant use it? Unless you are running a web server you get very very low usega rate with dedicated bandwidth, and what happens when your bandwidth needs increase without warning?
I myself have cabel modem, and I use my mobile phone to surf with my laptop while I'm on the move, and even tough the mobile phone costs way more to use; 10 cents a minute for 43kbits/s, against my cabel modem that gives me 500kbytes/s in theory and costs 40$/month, I feel the mobile phone rates are more fair as I only pay for what I actually use.
Perhaps there is no disadvantage to us, as we know how to turn it on and off. But what about the other ppl, those that dont understand what signatures are and how they work. It would be interresting to know if the option is on by default.
Also interresting is that MickeySoft controls the driver signatures; this means they can regulate what hardware they have to support. And ofcourse, it is well known that whatever is an option today is a standard tomorrow in M$ world.
It is therefore my oppinion this allows M$ to grab a huge amount of power over both consumers and developpers, as they can regulate what consumers can use on their platform, today it's only the computer illiterate (is that the correct word?), but tomorrow it may be all of M$ users.
Well, it all depends how its implemented, atleast in theory its possible to implement a cryptographically safe system. Where a person can be authenticated, without risk of abuse by the authenticating party. Ofcourse copying the smart card on a physical level is always a problem, maybe someone here could shed some light into how safe smart cards realy are physically?
One thing that worries me is that if they are going to use a public key crypto to make digital fingerprints on all cards so new ID's cant be created without the master key. What happens if the master key is stoled, would this render all smart cards unusable? Sure the master key can be split to multiple keys, but in the end its just a bunch of numbers, once its lost its easy to hide and distribute, unlike existing passport production methods where you need some fancy equipment to produce a good looking copy.
--typo
Instead of trying to push some technology that is destined to fail, and that can be proven to be impossible to control, they should try to push e-cash. If there would be a wider acceptance of e-cash systems then they could sell the music on the net. Sure it can still be copied, but if the price/trouble for making one copy is more than it costs then they wont be copied too much. 5 years ago it costed as much to burn a CD as to buy a new audioCD so no-one almost bothered to make their own pirate copies of audio CD's.
They are insane to belive they can sell a product for less than it can be reproduces for at home. It should be obvious that making it illegal to copy music brings up the cost of making copies, where by there should at least theoretically be a proffit margin for selling music on the net.
1. Something to keep the sun below the horizon; so that I can finnish this piece of code in time.
2. Neural link so that I can implement this great idea in C++ before the sun comes up.
3. Fail-safe hibernation, so that I can live in a world with a nerd majority.
4. An AI to worship!
5. A world without 08 - 22 shops, I hate to wake up just to go shopping!
--typo
Should you contribute some part of your costly hard disk and some bandwidth to running a freenet node? Without knowning what is actually being stored on your diskspace.
:-)
Freenet stores everything that is poppular, and if you dislike kiddie porn and are worried about your hardware being used to distribute that, then all the more reason to use freenet.
Why? Because you are one more user who does not use freenet for kiddie porn. There by bringing the average popularity away from kiddie porn. Which results in kiddie porn dissapearing faster from freenet.
Its all about popularity, the way ellections should be
Here we have one extreame view claiming that the other extreame is wrong, will ppl never learn? --typo
There was a document on microsoft.research.com about binary recompilation of existing code on the fly to addapt it to a constantly changing distributed environment.
:-P
They atleast claimed that they were able to run applications designed for one machine on multiple machines. I do relize this probably means highly-threaded well designed applications that normaly run on one machine, but still it's pretty cool. It's a pity I cant give a link to the document as research.microsoft.com aint responding
--typo