I completely agree. This company is responible for holding a man hostage. Their executives should be meeting with the EFF now. Forcing Dmitri to spend a weekend in jail for this shows no good will by Adobe.
no shite - any nation where you have to pay over 40% of your income to the gov is socialist in my book.
The irony of it is that they're allowed to record us without our knowledge. Like the superbowl face matching they did this year, and the recording of crowds in NY.
The cops love surveillance, as long as they're the only ones doing it.
There are some programs in the Debian distribution that aid with password generation - and some even make easier-to-remember passwords (although they invariably give up *some* security)
gpw "generates pronounceable passwords. It uses the statistics of three-letter combinations (trigraphs) taken from whatever dictionaries you feed it."
makepasswd "generates true random passwords by using the/dev/random feature of Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability. It can also encrypt plaintext passwords given on the command line."
pwgen "generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. Depending on how the program was installed, these words contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in. Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word."
Yeah it sucks. More people should use software like mutt. It makes dealing with pgp-signed/encrypted messages so easy. (I hear gnus is really good too, but mutt was much easier for me to learn)
I think the best thing to do is just sign (not encrypt) all your email to your non-crypto using friends. That way they can still read your email, but they'll have to use a pgp aware mua to verify your sig. Hopefully, your friend will eventually be encouraged to use decent software to get this function. Then you're 99% of the way there and you can start exchanging encrypted emails.
Wow! I think the bar for amazing/. articles has been raised dramatically. Dan makes the excellent point that while we should be aware of the issues, as programmers we should concentrate as much energy as possible on writing great software.
What reason does NASA have for not releasing the source? It's not like they're a business - this is purely scientific. Slap a GPL (or BSD) on these babies and let everyone take a gander...
As an American, I have inalienable rights under the constitution to protect my privacy.
Then don't buy their music.
Or if you really want to listen to music, just listen to the stuff that is over 20 years old (or listen to CDs for as long as you can). Despite what our current laws say, these older works should be under public domain.
Nothing wrong with a little civic disobedience. Just need to be a little selective about it.
Governments are supposed to set up conditions that allow for private markets. They are not supposed to be in the market themselves. That is unfair and leads to corruption. Not to mention lack of competition.
That's wonderful that Russia has a 13% flat tax (if true), but that doesn't justify the government monopolizing a business sector that should be entirely private.
Think intel, amd, ibm, sun, etc. Not energia and nasa.
I think we might be advocating a road frought with peril in pushing for tourism through NASA.
NASA was organized to provide for scientific exploration of space. It is a form of socialism to construct such an organization, but our society has determined that it is a trade-off worth making, as there has been little profitablity to be gained from early space exploration.
That seems to be changing.
It seems there are now possibilites for a profitable space program - and that should preclude government involvement. We have already seen first hand results of large socialist programs, and it is never good.
Ideally, we should see NASA's role slowly diminish in the coming decades, until it vanishes completely. I see nothing wrong with continuing ISS, but it should be in a completely scientific context.
The public would not be happy to provide vacations for a wealthy few in a tax-subsidized program.
There is a reason the Russian government doesn't mind charging space tourists - they are a socialist state. Let's not begin to follow their footsteps to socialism.
Then what is Roxio infringing on? That still hasn't been made clear. Roxio is using another service. How do you infringe on someone by using another service?
No true Free Software/Open Source hacker/advocate would support professional PR spin. PR guys would probably write something unrecognizable from their true beliefs.
But I would be interested to see what it would look like.
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I agree with you again.
I'd even love to make a documentary helping him escape.
Justice would be imprisoning the Senators, Congressmen and President who wrote and signed the DMCA into law.
I completely agree. This company is responible for holding a man hostage. Their executives should be meeting with the EFF now. Forcing Dmitri to spend a weekend in jail for this shows no good will by Adobe.
Protest ON!
no shite - any nation where you have to pay over 40% of your income to the gov is socialist in my book.
The irony of it is that they're allowed to record us without our knowledge. Like the superbowl face matching they did this year, and the recording of crowds in NY.
The cops love surveillance, as long as they're the only ones doing it.
hah! That was better than my previous comment:)
I've always wanted to be a borg!
There are some programs in the Debian distribution that aid with password generation - and some even make easier-to-remember passwords (although they invariably give up *some* security)
/dev/random feature of Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability. It can also encrypt plaintext passwords given on the command line."
gpw "generates pronounceable passwords. It uses the statistics of three-letter combinations (trigraphs) taken from whatever dictionaries you feed it."
makepasswd "generates true random passwords by using the
pwgen "generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. Depending on how the program was installed, these words contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in. Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word."
Just add something like
keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
to your ~/.gnupg/options and mutt does *all* the work of verifying/decrypting emails.
Yeah it sucks. More people should use software like mutt. It makes dealing with pgp-signed/encrypted messages so easy. (I hear gnus is really good too, but mutt was much easier for me to learn)
I think the best thing to do is just sign (not encrypt) all your email to your non-crypto using friends. That way they can still read your email, but they'll have to use a pgp aware mua to verify your sig. Hopefully, your friend will eventually be encouraged to use decent software to get this function. Then you're 99% of the way there and you can start exchanging encrypted emails.
Point being: Sign everything!
Wow! I think the bar for amazing /. articles has been raised dramatically. Dan makes the excellent point that while we should be aware of the issues, as programmers we should concentrate as much energy as possible on writing great software.
So hop to it;)
Instead of trying to make robots that play soccer, why don't they come up with a better goal. Like say, robots that can lay fiber?
mpeg would be fine by me
What would Jenna Bush do?
Jenna Bush would fuck me like the lefty-socialists are trying to fuck America:
hard
I'm looking forward to the day when the average 1000-person company is wealthier than our bloated federal government.
When I grow up, I want to execute subsidizes and other wealth-sucking programs.
Sorry, the equivalent to a G4-450 is not a P2/3-450, it's a P4-1700.
We are not interested in MHz here, we are interested in who has the faster processor period.
The fastest Mac CPU is a G4-450 and it gets spanked around like a step-child by the Athlon-1200/P4-1700.
What reason does NASA have for not releasing the source? It's not like they're a business - this is purely scientific. Slap a GPL (or BSD) on these babies and let everyone take a gander...
If fiber is that close to homes/apts, how difficult would it be just to go fiber all the way? It seems like we're close to getting over the last mile.
No more of this pussy 600kbit stuff, let's go for 100mbit!
Someone better get busy inventing Anti-Matter blast shields.
There should be a pretty good market for them in Israel in a couple of decades...
What is this "restriction of high warp speeds... enacted by the federation."
Was this from DS9? What was the reason?
As an American, I have inalienable rights under the constitution to protect my privacy.
Then don't buy their music.
Or if you really want to listen to music, just listen to the stuff that is over 20 years old (or listen to CDs for as long as you can). Despite what our current laws say, these older works should be under public domain.
Nothing wrong with a little civic disobedience. Just need to be a little selective about it.
Governments are supposed to set up conditions that allow for private markets. They are not supposed to be in the market themselves. That is unfair and leads to corruption. Not to mention lack of competition.
That's wonderful that Russia has a 13% flat tax (if true), but that doesn't justify the government monopolizing a business sector that should be entirely private.
Think intel, amd, ibm, sun, etc. Not energia and nasa.
I think we might be advocating a road frought with peril in pushing for tourism through NASA.
NASA was organized to provide for scientific exploration of space. It is a form of socialism to construct such an organization, but our society has determined that it is a trade-off worth making, as there has been little profitablity to be gained from early space exploration.
That seems to be changing.
It seems there are now possibilites for a profitable space program - and that should preclude government involvement. We have already seen first hand results of large socialist programs, and it is never good.
Ideally, we should see NASA's role slowly diminish in the coming decades, until it vanishes completely. I see nothing wrong with continuing ISS, but it should be in a completely scientific context.
The public would not be happy to provide vacations for a wealthy few in a tax-subsidized program.
There is a reason the Russian government doesn't mind charging space tourists - they are a socialist state. Let's not begin to follow their footsteps to socialism.
Yeah. Someone at the USPTO should really be introduced to freshmeat and google.
I wonder what tools they usually use to search for prior works (if they do any search at all)?
Maybe they're *not* infringing.
Then what is Roxio infringing on? That still hasn't been made clear. Roxio is using another service. How do you infringe on someone by using another service?
No true Free Software/Open Source hacker/advocate would support professional PR spin. PR guys would probably write something unrecognizable from their true beliefs.
But I would be interested to see what it would look like.