That's a very good point. But the only problem with using non-terminating keys is that someone eventually finds them, publishes them on the Internet and the whole pirating software thing continues (with nullifies the reason for using the renting system).
The online world is starting to realize, that to make money on the internet, you must be in the porn industry. Soon everyone will do it, Micro-Porn, IBM-porn, SunPorn, X-XX Consortium:)
(I know I know, many of these already make money, and the X Consirtium don't work for money, I'm just having fun here)
Here's why I believe breaking encryption should be legal.
Basically, because it encourages better end products. Using the example of DVD encryption. If you can't break the encryption then well, you're stuck with whatever decrypters you're forced to buy. Good or bad. If people can legally decrypt the code then it means that the way to make money is the make the decrypter/player better than the competition's. Faster, easier to use, nifty features and eye candy, etc.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to load my old MS Word documents under another word processor. What if my new word processor is way better than MS Word.
Same as how I don't really see how reverse engineering is wrong. It means you have to stay one step ahead (feature, speed, size wise) of the competition that are busy reverse engineering your product.
This in my mind is what capitalism is about. Making money because you have the better product, not because you have a strangle hold because no one will support other encryptions and no on is allowed to decrypt your information.
Off topic I know, but I wonder how many of the people running MSIE are actually like me, running linux, but using Opera configured to identify itself as MSIE...
Maybe this is Bush helping our economies. By starting a Cold War, hell, even a fullscale war, our western economies will flourish. That have in the past. With the need to build bombs and all there's jobs for everyone.
Or not. I don't think Bush would be that bright... or whatever you would call someone doing this on purpose... well... he might be that insane...
But I just live north of the border, what do I know.
Isn't it illegal to tape record a conversation with out written consent? In that any recording is rendered useless in court if you don't have permissions of the courts to record or permission from the involved parties?
Get your boss' email address onto a few dozen spam email lists. He/She might change his/her attitude after a few weeks of non-stop spamming. And make sure you get all of their email addresses, not just the work one.
And don't ever mention it, let your boss bring it up, otherwise they might suspect it was you and fire you for some obscure reason.
How come when a government official propses some legislation it must be that the citizens of that area are blind and stupid?? Has it gone through yet? No. Also, don't forget that once voted in, the population has little sway over what the politians do, that is unless that politians are doing something that will get the not voted in the next election. Oh wait, but they don't care cause now they get a $65,000 severence package if they don't get voted back in... hmm, maybe we are blind and stupid.
Anyhow, I think that the legislation was intended to be more of a standard. And I think (I think, I'm not totally sure) movies in Canada are rated by an independant board, we don't use the the same rating as the US anymore, so you can't argue about the freely put on labels by the movie companies.
But I also have to agree, I think that the current rating system on the boxes is quite adequate, but what fails to happen is the enforcement which is what I think the government is going for. If you are under 16 in the US, you can't rent an R movie. I think they want the same sort of thing. If a video game is rated 18+, then people under 18 won't be allowed to buy it. Id checks and everything at the store counter.
We'd still be using gopher:)
The 60s were where it was at for military innovation. Nothing like a cold war to fuel the fires of iginuity. But everything has been stepping stones. Wanna bet some guy didn't just design a wheel one day, he (I can't tell gender under all of the caveman furs, so I default to he) probably found a slightly round rock, noticed something, and enhanced it. Hell, maybe the wheel was an old tree log, no invention there, just a discover.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but I'm not sure how spamming causes such a loss of money? You get spam, you click the delete button, or possibly the block sender button (depending on your email client). Yah, I get pissed off like everyone else, especially when I get a good email account that I like, but this is analogus to getting flyers in the mail, I hate flyers. I grab those flyers and put them in the recycling bin.
Having said that, yes I believe that all mail servers should not allow relaying. And there are ways around not allowing relaying for off site people to send mail. The system keeps a log, if the account has logged in in the last 5 minutes, then as long as their IP is the same, they can send mail. Of course this requires the person the check their email before sending. And of course it has some holes, but it's better than just allowing mail to bounce on through. I can't believe how much of my spam comes through the crosswinds.net mail servers. At least it used to.
Legal recourse... it's nice to watch someone tossed in jail for something like this, but I haven't seen Dick Clark put in jail for the Publisher's Clearing House crap mail.
To me, the law isn't the answer, tighter mail servers, and tighter free email systems (like hotmail... but don't ask me for details on how to make them tighter so they're less likely used for spamming, I don't know, I'm not about to think about it right now 'cause I'm not fixing them right now), and your mouse pointer over the delete, or your finger on the delete key.
Not so hard is it? Oh yah, and don't worry about it... but if you get 10000 messages a day, stop using your email account to sign up for stuff on the Internet!! Create a spam email account for that purpose!
It's funny when you look at it. Greenhouse gasses cause more heat retained. Could cause more cloud cover, causing less heat absorbed... could this mean it evens out in the end? Well, it means that we're going to be more efficient with the radiation that makes it through the clouds. We wouldn't want to waste the other radiation so we let the clouds deal with it. That'd be an interesting twist.
Referring the clouds... ahh aren't unpredictable chaos systems fun? I did one chapter of chaos in a differential class and suddenly realized that if tested, my brain could really really hurt.
There are ways to help lessen our effect on the world. But to the extremists, realize, everything has an effect on the planet! We can't remove it without killing ourselves, and then some other thing will change the environment somehow. Endless cycle. But yes, we are doing a lot of change very suddenly (suddenly by Earth standards). Solution? No solution, but lessening? Strict radical worldwide government regulation. Likely hood of acceptance, nil. It would cost too much up front (ie that transit system posted a few days ago).
It's kind of interesting how we bind outselves up with this thing called money. It controls what everyone does, and yet, it is simply a man made concept. At a risk of sounding red, real true communism (not Stalinism) would help to solve this sort of thing, BUT, human nature would not allow it to work, we all want to get a head of the next person. Unfortunately a corporate run world (if not totally, we're almost there) will not solve these problems unless they stand to make a quick buck.
Either we solve everything, or hope our population decreases to, oh 1 billion? Come one, remove the weak!! What, you mean I'm one of the weak? I changed my mind!
It looks like to me that most of the people having troubles are the die-hard HTML, ASP, CGI, etc etc. A trend perhaps? It always seemed to me that this whole web programming thing seemed kind of thin as a career move. To me it looks more along the lines of say, doing art or music. For a while the demand could be there for your talents but then wish, market downturn and it's not a required skill anymore.
Also, it has seemed like that sort of thing (web programming) is something almost anyone can pick up on their own or in a one or two year program. The demand as the article said, is still out there for engineers, thing 4-5 years for a bachelors. With that much training you're more marketable.
Getting a job on little or no degree (diploma's included) seem to me as a starting point. Get the job, get working, save money, get a bachelor's in something, otherwise you're expendable.
But that's just my humble inexperienced position. Two more years and real world hear I come, then I get to learn how wrong I really am about everything:)
I think the point was that if the majority want something, the law should change to suit what the majority want (hence calling it a democracy). This would be regardless of money.
Unfortunately I can see many problems in going along with what the majority want, because there are times when you really don't want the majority running a country. Funny how everything works in theory, but not in practice.
Except for one problem, if anyone wants to do a video conference and the computer selects the camera that shows them your bat sitting in your chair, but no you. Then you might be in trouble for abuse of the system.
I figure as long as you aren't required to use it. There would be times in the day when I don't want anyone to follow me around as I'm pacing the halls tearing hair out because of a project that just isn't working. In which case, I leave the bat in my office and put a message or something on it "Storming around in anger, Please Do Not Disturb". Problem solved.
How is it determined what is posted and what is rejected anyways?? I've tried to post some really interesting stuff (like how to make silicon chips smaller by transmitting light waves through them but this had to be done by changing the silicon form) that always gets rejected. It never fails. And all I see are movie reviews and things.
No, I'm not trying to be clever, I just don't know any better.
The colonists broke the law to form the US. I live in Canada. We managed to become our own country without breaking the law. We just followed what the population wanted and used to proper channels to get what we wanted.
But if you live in a democracy, then the laws are made by the majority. What is just is determined by popular opinion. Back in the times of ancient greeks, petophilia was okay, now it isn't. We can't say they are wrong, just from a different era with different values. To us they are icky and gross.
The point is, if the majority of the population does not believe something is right, they change. Or they put someone in government that will. That is the way democracy works (at least ideally, I know it's not that simple, but the concept holds true to some degree). If enough people wanted pot legal, you see people that want pot legal being elected into office. Get enough of them and you suddenly have legal pot.
I pseudo-agree!! Before you know it murder's will be claiming freedom of speech and expression. In their minds it may be art, what they did, but does that make it okay?
Everyone's paranoid that the government is out to spy on them. Look, if you don't do anything illegal, what do you have to worry about? What's the alternative, a wonderful government that doesn't spy on anyone internal or external? Hey that'd be great, but wouldn't work unless every other government was the same. Then one would spy on the other and BAM!
On the other hand something like this would be great with some controls in place as to how the government uses it. But I don't believe for an instant that such a device works as well as claimed. Maybe someday in the future, but not today.
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That's a very good point. But the only problem with using non-terminating keys is that someone eventually finds them, publishes them on the Internet and the whole pirating software thing continues (with nullifies the reason for using the renting system).
(I know I know, many of these already make money, and the X Consirtium don't work for money, I'm just having fun here)
Basically, because it encourages better end products. Using the example of DVD encryption. If you can't break the encryption then well, you're stuck with whatever decrypters you're forced to buy. Good or bad. If people can legally decrypt the code then it means that the way to make money is the make the decrypter/player better than the competition's. Faster, easier to use, nifty features and eye candy, etc.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to load my old MS Word documents under another word processor. What if my new word processor is way better than MS Word.
Same as how I don't really see how reverse engineering is wrong. It means you have to stay one step ahead (feature, speed, size wise) of the competition that are busy reverse engineering your product.
This in my mind is what capitalism is about. Making money because you have the better product, not because you have a strangle hold because no one will support other encryptions and no on is allowed to decrypt your information.
What are your thoughts?
Off topic I know, but I wonder how many of the people running MSIE are actually like me, running linux, but using Opera configured to identify itself as MSIE...
Or not. I don't think Bush would be that bright... or whatever you would call someone doing this on purpose... well... he might be that insane...
But I just live north of the border, what do I know.
I seem to remember hearing that somewhere.
Just remember though, if you're moving, then you'll be obvious by, well, the slew of cameras pointing everywhere at you!!
Thelonious Monk... oh that's a good spoof... *wipes tear from eye* ahhh, good piano playing though.
And don't ever mention it, let your boss bring it up, otherwise they might suspect it was you and fire you for some obscure reason.
So when we say high speed internet, is that the speed of the plane or the internet connection.
Anyhow, I think that the legislation was intended to be more of a standard. And I think (I think, I'm not totally sure) movies in Canada are rated by an independant board, we don't use the the same rating as the US anymore, so you can't argue about the freely put on labels by the movie companies.
But I also have to agree, I think that the current rating system on the boxes is quite adequate, but what fails to happen is the enforcement which is what I think the government is going for. If you are under 16 in the US, you can't rent an R movie. I think they want the same sort of thing. If a video game is rated 18+, then people under 18 won't be allowed to buy it. Id checks and everything at the store counter.
And there I was trying to find it under my bed. Geez, I lose everything else under there.
We'd still be using gopher :)
The 60s were where it was at for military innovation. Nothing like a cold war to fuel the fires of iginuity. But everything has been stepping stones. Wanna bet some guy didn't just design a wheel one day, he (I can't tell gender under all of the caveman furs, so I default to he) probably found a slightly round rock, noticed something, and enhanced it. Hell, maybe the wheel was an old tree log, no invention there, just a discover.
Having said that, yes I believe that all mail servers should not allow relaying. And there are ways around not allowing relaying for off site people to send mail. The system keeps a log, if the account has logged in in the last 5 minutes, then as long as their IP is the same, they can send mail. Of course this requires the person the check their email before sending. And of course it has some holes, but it's better than just allowing mail to bounce on through. I can't believe how much of my spam comes through the crosswinds.net mail servers. At least it used to.
Legal recourse... it's nice to watch someone tossed in jail for something like this, but I haven't seen Dick Clark put in jail for the Publisher's Clearing House crap mail.
To me, the law isn't the answer, tighter mail servers, and tighter free email systems (like hotmail... but don't ask me for details on how to make them tighter so they're less likely used for spamming, I don't know, I'm not about to think about it right now 'cause I'm not fixing them right now), and your mouse pointer over the delete, or your finger on the delete key.
Not so hard is it? Oh yah, and don't worry about it... but if you get 10000 messages a day, stop using your email account to sign up for stuff on the Internet!! Create a spam email account for that purpose!
Referring the clouds... ahh aren't unpredictable chaos systems fun? I did one chapter of chaos in a differential class and suddenly realized that if tested, my brain could really really hurt.
There are ways to help lessen our effect on the world. But to the extremists, realize, everything has an effect on the planet! We can't remove it without killing ourselves, and then some other thing will change the environment somehow. Endless cycle. But yes, we are doing a lot of change very suddenly (suddenly by Earth standards). Solution? No solution, but lessening? Strict radical worldwide government regulation. Likely hood of acceptance, nil. It would cost too much up front (ie that transit system posted a few days ago).
It's kind of interesting how we bind outselves up with this thing called money. It controls what everyone does, and yet, it is simply a man made concept. At a risk of sounding red, real true communism (not Stalinism) would help to solve this sort of thing, BUT, human nature would not allow it to work, we all want to get a head of the next person. Unfortunately a corporate run world (if not totally, we're almost there) will not solve these problems unless they stand to make a quick buck.
Either we solve everything, or hope our population decreases to, oh 1 billion? Come one, remove the weak!! What, you mean I'm one of the weak? I changed my mind!
Oh no that woudl be bad!! If you could feel with your hands in space, just think of how cold your hands would feel!!!!
Also, it has seemed like that sort of thing (web programming) is something almost anyone can pick up on their own or in a one or two year program. The demand as the article said, is still out there for engineers, thing 4-5 years for a bachelors. With that much training you're more marketable.
Getting a job on little or no degree (diploma's included) seem to me as a starting point. Get the job, get working, save money, get a bachelor's in something, otherwise you're expendable.
But that's just my humble inexperienced position. Two more years and real world hear I come, then I get to learn how wrong I really am about everything :)
Unfortunately I can see many problems in going along with what the majority want, because there are times when you really don't want the majority running a country. Funny how everything works in theory, but not in practice.
I figure as long as you aren't required to use it. There would be times in the day when I don't want anyone to follow me around as I'm pacing the halls tearing hair out because of a project that just isn't working. In which case, I leave the bat in my office and put a message or something on it "Storming around in anger, Please Do Not Disturb". Problem solved.
No, I'm not trying to be clever, I just don't know any better.
Imagine, if the patriots had lost, then everyone would be celebrating the day the evil seperatists lost.
The point is, if the majority of the population does not believe something is right, they change. Or they put someone in government that will. That is the way democracy works (at least ideally, I know it's not that simple, but the concept holds true to some degree). If enough people wanted pot legal, you see people that want pot legal being elected into office. Get enough of them and you suddenly have legal pot.
Warning, my opinions do not come with a warrenty.
I pseudo-agree!! Before you know it murder's will be claiming freedom of speech and expression. In their minds it may be art, what they did, but does that make it okay?
On the other hand something like this would be great with some controls in place as to how the government uses it. But I don't believe for an instant that such a device works as well as claimed. Maybe someday in the future, but not today.