"It is always possible that somebody somewhere will break the protection," concedes William H. Whitmore Jr., SunComm's vice president of marketing... "But it will be far too difficult for the average user."
Gee, how many times have we heard that one before?
Didn't the cellphone and cable TV companies who are now whining about cloning, say something like that when they put weak encryption into their systems?
I'm baffled how this scheme will slow down ripping more than slightly. It sounds like it won't stop programs like CloneCD and Exact Copy. So people will just have to use different ripping software.
Sony (owner of several major record labels) has finally thrown in the towel and started selling an
in-dash MP3 CD player. If copy protection takes off,
I wonder what Sony will tell people who buy these MP3 players and then find they can't rip Sony copy-protected CD's to play in them.
VLSI design, code optimization, resource
allocation, you name it.
For more info on P vs. NP, see the classic
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the
Theory of NP-Completeness by Garey and Johnson.
Note, by the way, that quantum computers
are not generally thought able to
solve NP-hard problems in P-time.
They can solve in P-time a class of problems
called QBP, which is believed to sit between
P and NP in difficulty. Quantum computing
suddenly got a lot of press when Peter Shor
discovered that factoring is in QBP.
However, factoring is probably not NP-hard.
and some other laptops use the ATI Rage 128 chipset
which is supposed to be pretty good. Not being
a gamer I can't review the gaming qualities but
I have an A20p and like it a lot. The a20p has 1400x1050 screen resolution, the later ones have 1600x1200! Yum!
The way I read the article, they offered to stop bothering the Why files site if the university paid money to FOX, not the other way around. Of course to me that shows they're completely in it for the loot--if they were willing to allow the whyfiles name to be used at all, they're not worried that it will confuse viewers into thinking it's related to the X files.
If CDDB were to put the database it's assembled from user contributions into a.bzip file like FreeCDDB does and let people download it (even temporarily, for long enough to set up a few mirrors) then it can do whatever it wants with its software and service, with no complaint from me. Then the.bzip file can be merged into FreeDB and those who want to keep using CDDB can do so.
rotating disks cheap, solid state disks expensive
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I prefer to use solid state disks (CF card with PC card adapter) because I don't like the noise that a hard disk makes in my laptop in a quiet room. A 128 meg CF card is around $200. That's enough space for a reasonable Linux system and some user files, but not enough to let you be wasteful. So a compressed fs would be helpful.
Quikwriting is supposed to be quicker to use than Graffiti, though the learning curve is maybe steeper. There's already been a/. thread about it, linked from the Quikwriting page.
as far as I can tell. It follows all the Dogma rules and the game of chess has fascinated people to the point of devoting their lives to it and thousands of books have been written about it.
Is this really what the Dogma proponents had in mind?!!
One of the most obvious places to put these things is on currency. That will be the end of anonymous cash transactions. Security at the airport will know exactly how much cash you have in your pocket (because of metal detector scan) and they'll know the serial number of each bill.
Muggers will figure out how to detect it at a distance too.
It won't have to be illegal to remove the tags: removing it will just invalidate your money.
Do it on the server side--conditionalize the html you send on the user-agent header.
Then your pages will work even for users who turn off JS (like I do).
Ssh (the protocol, not just particular implementations) always seemed like a half-done kludge to me, a quick substitute for telnets/ftps (telnet or ftp over SSL) done at a time when SSL wasn't readily available.
These days, OpenSSL is widely distributed (included in Red Hat 7, for example) and runs on lots of platforms; and SSL is simply a more mature protocol than SSH. SSL supports certificate based authentication at both the client and the server ends--as normally used, it's much less vulnerable to MITM attacks than SSH; there's a big CA infrastructure including commercial CA's that check real-world credentials, so you can be reasonably sure the host you're connecting to is what it says it is; there are also plenty of hardware SSL authentication devices (e.g. smart cards containing X509 cert/key pairs) so you don't have to worry about your keys getting accidentally copied, etc. etc.
Maybe there's a good reason that SSH usage is increasing rather than decreasing, but I haven't figured it out. Any thoughts?
You can just ask for a DNA test after you're arrested, to see if it matches the sample from the victim's fingernails. Being in the database is of no help at all.
First of all everyone interested in this thread should check out the book Database Nation, which discusses DNA testing at some length among other things.
Second, where this is going is DNA samples will routinely be taken from all newborns in the hospital at birth. So the DNA database will include everyone, not just criminal subjects. Be very afraid.
There are many Linux IRC clients, and many French-language IRC channels. Hang out on them and talk to people.
But really though, language learning is best done in face to face conversations with real humans, not with computers, not with tape recordings, not with telephones. Your best bet is to either go to France for a while, or sign up for an intensive language class where you live.
The person who posted that going to Montreal doesn't count is pretty much correct. The dialect there is very weird. I speak enough French to converse (not fluently) with French people and can read French ok, but can't understand a thing anyone says in Quebec. There are a lot of French tourists there, and they have an easier time than I do, but it's hard for them too. It's like the difference between London English and Texas English.
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I'm baffled how this scheme will slow down ripping more than slightly. It sounds like it won't stop programs like CloneCD and Exact Copy. So people will just have to use different ripping software.
Sony (owner of several major record labels) has finally thrown in the towel and started selling an in-dash MP3 CD player. If copy protection takes off, I wonder what Sony will tell people who buy these MP3 players and then find they can't rip Sony copy-protected CD's to play in them.
For more info on P vs. NP, see the classic Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness by Garey and Johnson.
Note, by the way, that quantum computers are not generally thought able to solve NP-hard problems in P-time. They can solve in P-time a class of problems called QBP, which is believed to sit between P and NP in difficulty. Quantum computing suddenly got a lot of press when Peter Shor discovered that factoring is in QBP. However, factoring is probably not NP-hard.
Introductory articles on quantum computation>
and some other laptops use the ATI Rage 128 chipset which is supposed to be pretty good. Not being a gamer I can't review the gaming qualities but I have an A20p and like it a lot. The a20p has 1400x1050 screen resolution, the later ones have 1600x1200! Yum!
The way I read the article, they offered to stop bothering the Why files site if the university paid money to FOX, not the other way around. Of course to me that shows they're completely in it for the loot--if they were willing to allow the whyfiles name to be used at all, they're not worried that it will confuse viewers into thinking it's related to the X files.
See the LPF page on software patents, particularly the now-somewhat-dated position paper Against Software Patents.
If CDDB were to put the database it's assembled from user contributions into a .bzip file like FreeCDDB does and let people download it (even temporarily, for long enough to set up a few mirrors) then it can do whatever it wants with its software and service, with no complaint from me. Then the .bzip file can be merged into FreeDB and those who want to keep using CDDB can do so.
And remember... Lensmen eat Jedi for breakfast.
I prefer to use solid state disks (CF card with PC card adapter) because I don't like the noise that a hard disk makes in my laptop in a quiet room. A 128 meg CF card is around $200. That's enough space for a reasonable Linux system and some user files, but not enough to let you be wasteful. So a compressed fs would be helpful.
Quikwriting is supposed to be quicker to use than Graffiti, though the learning curve is maybe steeper. There's already been a /. thread about it, linked from the Quikwriting page.
Black is allowed for abstract games, according to rule #10. That would mean games like chess and Go.
Is this really what the Dogma proponents had in mind?!!
There's a plastic strip in the new bills. I haven't seen any evidence that it can be detected at a distance. There's no metallic strip.
Actually I think they added that later, because too many people were afraid they'd actually get in trouble for taking the tags off at home.
Any way to fix it?
Your idea is excellent and I've been wanting to do the same with most of my books, not just magazines. I've also been looking at those high speed scanners on ebay, but I just don't have space for one. However, a cheesy approach is to use a digital camera. Even a 2 megapixel consumer camera will give readable (but not OCRable) images if you just want to be able to look things up rather than relaxing and perusing. The Toshiba PDR-M4 is a good choice because it cycles quite fast. If you're real serious you could use a professional camera like a Nikon D1 (now about $3.5K) which might perform better given the volume you want to do. But even the S100 is great for impromptu copying of a few pages (I use a portable copy stand that's easy to take to the library, but for home use you should get something more solid. If you have the space for it, though, the high speed scanner method is probably the best approach. I definitely want to do it that way sooner or later, even though it means chopping up a lot of books. Yeah, people are horrified at that, because books are such a great information presentation medium (take to the beach etc.) but they're a terrible storage medium.
One of the most obvious places to put these things is on currency. That will be the end of anonymous cash transactions. Security at the airport will know exactly how much cash you have in your pocket (because of metal detector scan) and they'll know the serial number of each bill. Muggers will figure out how to detect it at a distance too. It won't have to be illegal to remove the tags: removing it will just invalidate your money.
Remember those tags on mattresses and furniture? Soon they'll be on everything, and they'll actually enforce them. This is scary.
Do it on the server side--conditionalize the html you send on the user-agent header. Then your pages will work even for users who turn off JS (like I do).
I'm going to transfer my remaining NSI domains to OpenSRS instead.
These days, OpenSSL is widely distributed (included in Red Hat 7, for example) and runs on lots of platforms; and SSL is simply a more mature protocol than SSH. SSL supports certificate based authentication at both the client and the server ends--as normally used, it's much less vulnerable to MITM attacks than SSH; there's a big CA infrastructure including commercial CA's that check real-world credentials, so you can be reasonably sure the host you're connecting to is what it says it is; there are also plenty of hardware SSL authentication devices (e.g. smart cards containing X509 cert/key pairs) so you don't have to worry about your keys getting accidentally copied, etc. etc.
Maybe there's a good reason that SSH usage is increasing rather than decreasing, but I haven't figured it out. Any thoughts?
You can just ask for a DNA test after you're arrested, to see if it matches the sample from the victim's fingernails. Being in the database is of no help at all.
First of all everyone interested in this thread should check out the book Database Nation, which discusses DNA testing at some length among other things. Second, where this is going is DNA samples will routinely be taken from all newborns in the hospital at birth. So the DNA database will include everyone, not just criminal subjects. Be very afraid.
There are many Linux IRC clients, and many French-language IRC channels. Hang out on them and talk to people. But really though, language learning is best done in face to face conversations with real humans, not with computers, not with tape recordings, not with telephones. Your best bet is to either go to France for a while, or sign up for an intensive language class where you live. The person who posted that going to Montreal doesn't count is pretty much correct. The dialect there is very weird. I speak enough French to converse (not fluently) with French people and can read French ok, but can't understand a thing anyone says in Quebec. There are a lot of French tourists there, and they have an easier time than I do, but it's hard for them too. It's like the difference between London English and Texas English.
It supports SONY brand CD-R's. It's a Sony DVD player after all. And then use the right dye type in Sony CD-R's.