My guess is that no one removes the encryption because the datapath is secure: you can't even open the file to read the bytes without a security license. And you certainly wouldn't be allowed to copy any bytes that you're allowed to read outside of the trusted computing secure sandbox.
You mean like modchips where those guys from california got arrested for selling modded xboxes? No civilized nation is likely to remain outside this consortium for long, free trade agreements will force everyone into line with the content owners. When even China is starting to make noises about cracking down on piracy, I think all hope is pretty well lost.
You're assuming that you can still legally own a CRT based display in 20 years, and that unique per disc watermarking won't allow them to track down who performed this feat.
The whole point of this exercise is to make a pirated work impossible. A free work has no encryption, so it plays wherever you want. A studio work has encryption which can only be decrypted by DRM devices, and the whole path from disc to screen/speakers is encrypted, so copying is impossible. In the (studios) ideal world, you can't even stick a camera in front of the screen to record because digital watermarking tells your camera not to record the image. Granted, a fully secure situation like this is a fair ways off, but the studios are taking the long view, and this is a necessary step along a perhaps 50 year long road to get there (most of the years required are spent waiting for non DRM managed devices to break down mechanically).
The next step in this path of course is to outlaw the building of such dongles. Given the level of crypto handshaking required, building a dongle will not be an in your garage type of project, so whoever does manage to build such a dongle will be exposing their company to significant legal liability.
It was poorly planned. They tried to keep too many secrets from the audience, which just wound up making the show hard to get attached to. Compare it to lost: lost only gives you a few mysteries at a time, and always wraps up a few before delivering the next batch. Firefly really needed better writers and better planning.
Well, surely you'd agree that as a simple mathematical problem, the set of users who would consider bothering to upgrade to firefox at all, much less firefox 1.5 is a proper subset of the set of users who would search for janet jackson's nipples.
Maybe you meant to include the quotes, in which case: Your search - "Bea Arthur humping a Camel" - did not match any documents. (yet, i'm sure their index of slashdot will pull it up soon)
also no luck with Your search - "Shannon Doherty doing coke off a dead hookers butt" - did not match any documents. same result for 'of'
All in all, the bea arthur hits are more interestingly relevant than you might expect.
I thought the author of that line in the show clearly had never played blind chess, where the rules are all the same, but indeed you are not allowed to see your opponents pieces. Every time you commit a move, a moderator does the following:
1) if the move is illegal, the moderator makes you take it back and tells you why (ie exposes your king to check) 2) if the move captures an opponents piece, he tells you which one 3) if the move puts your opponent in check he tells you so 4) if the move achieves checkmate he congratulates you
Well, I can't offer you your favorite sports teams, but people drive to their snow sports from the bay area every weekend. In fact, it's popular enough that a lot of people like to get an early start on friday to dodge the snow sports traffic. For public transit... yeah you're pretty much out of luck. The bay area has some, but it doesn't go enough places yet.
I think as long as the human animals involved can make an informed choice and aren't physically forced or coerced to participate, PeTA will indeed be thrilled.
I didn't mean to slight other tech areas, mostly just to point out that the OP's salary levels seemed excessively low to me. And of course since I went with silicon valley, i'm not exactly sure if Boston etc really offer competitive salary. Of course, as much as I dislike the bay area, you'd have to pay me even that much more to live in Boston/Beltway/NYC (mostly due to weather, and in NYC you have to deal with new yorkers). SoCal is nice, but I haven't seen a huge demand there yet (when recruiters start begging me to move down there as opposed to begging me to move laterally in the bay area, i'll consider it). So far SV just has by far the best deal in terms of product of salary and quality of life (for me... obviously people enjoy different things).
Anyone going into CS should be willing to move to silicon valley. You can add $50k to your salary levels, and while you'll pay through the nose for your housing, you'll also be able to easily max out 401k retirement investing, and that has a pretty amazing payoff in the long run.
A better question might be whether you have ever been treated exceptionally at all (positively or negatively) based on your gender. A lot of women find both sides equally unappealing, and simply wanted to be treated neutrally. That can make comp-sci unattractive for many women as well (say women who dread being drooled over by their 90% male classmates).
I think he meant for you to parse '90 pound glasses' as the type of glasses being worn.
I could be wrong, though, there are plenty of over-weight 90 pound wimplings in CS for sure. In English of course they'd be under-weight 70 pound wimplings thanks to the lower pay making excessive snacking prohibitive.
I think the central prejudice operating here is two-fold: a) prejudice based assumption that girls don't like icky (hence, no one expects girls to go into waste management) b) prejudice based assumption that CS is not icky from a rational person's perspective (have you looked at who works in this field? ick! no wonder girls won't go into the field!)
Who owns the media? Rich people in privileged places. It's just more of rich people clapping for themselves, hoping the plebes won't rise up and kill them if they applaud loudly enough for themselves.
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My guess is that no one removes the encryption because the datapath is secure: you can't even open the file to read the bytes without a security license. And you certainly wouldn't be allowed to copy any bytes that you're allowed to read outside of the trusted computing secure sandbox.
You mean like modchips where those guys from california got arrested for selling modded xboxes? No civilized nation is likely to remain outside this consortium for long, free trade agreements will force everyone into line with the content owners. When even China is starting to make noises about cracking down on piracy, I think all hope is pretty well lost.
Yep, windows media has been a sitting duck for what, 2 years now, and the cracks are all over the place ... oh wait, no they aren't.
Strong encryption based drm will work just fine.
You're assuming that you can still legally own a CRT based display in 20 years, and that unique per disc watermarking won't allow them to track down who performed this feat.
The whole point of this exercise is to make a pirated work impossible. A free work has no encryption, so it plays wherever you want. A studio work has encryption which can only be decrypted by DRM devices, and the whole path from disc to screen/speakers is encrypted, so copying is impossible. In the (studios) ideal world, you can't even stick a camera in front of the screen to record because digital watermarking tells your camera not to record the image. Granted, a fully secure situation like this is a fair ways off, but the studios are taking the long view, and this is a necessary step along a perhaps 50 year long road to get there (most of the years required are spent waiting for non DRM managed devices to break down mechanically).
The next step in this path of course is to outlaw the building of such dongles. Given the level of crypto handshaking required, building a dongle will not be an in your garage type of project, so whoever does manage to build such a dongle will be exposing their company to significant legal liability.
Yes, of course both sides play blind, that's why you have to have a 3rd person (or computer program, i know there are some out there) to moderate.
It was poorly planned. They tried to keep too many secrets from the audience, which just wound up making the show hard to get attached to. Compare it to lost: lost only gives you a few mysteries at a time, and always wraps up a few before delivering the next batch. Firefly really needed better writers and better planning.
Well, surely you'd agree that as a simple mathematical problem, the set of users who would consider bothering to upgrade to firefox at all, much less firefox 1.5 is a proper subset of the set of users who would search for janet jackson's nipples.
It's important to include the relevant google links for your searches:
+ a+Camel&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a &rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialt ml
i ng+coke+off+a+dead+hookers+butt&start=0&ie=utf-8&o e=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:off icial3 64891-9190430?v=glance&vi=quotes-trivia&n=130f &client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q =Shannon+Doherty+doing+coke+of+a+dead+hookers+butt &spell=1
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bea+Arthur+humping
(and the top hit):
http://www.shanmonster.com/archives/searchterms.h
http://www.google.com/search?q=Shannon+Doherty+do
(and the top hit):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CY67/002-3
(of course, google thinks maybe you meant: Shannon Doherty doing coke of a dead hookers butt
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=EoT&safe=of
(for which the top hit is the same)
Maybe you meant to include the quotes, in which case:
Your search - "Bea Arthur humping a Camel" - did not match any documents.
(yet, i'm sure their index of slashdot will pull it up soon)
also no luck with
Your search - "Shannon Doherty doing coke off a dead hookers butt" - did not match any documents.
same result for 'of'
All in all, the bea arthur hits are more interestingly relevant than you might expect.
I thought the author of that line in the show clearly had never played blind chess, where the rules are all the same, but indeed you are not allowed to see your opponents pieces. Every time you commit a move, a moderator does the following:
1) if the move is illegal, the moderator makes you take it back and tells you why (ie exposes your king to check)
2) if the move captures an opponents piece, he tells you which one
3) if the move puts your opponent in check he tells you so
4) if the move achieves checkmate he congratulates you
It's fun. Chess fans should try it.
My fault, I didn't get it the first read through. :-( Hmm, not really :-( what's the emoticon for embarassed?
Specifically, there was a period of time where haiku were very popular on the internet. Haiku have never been 'all the rage' otherwise.
What's doubleclick? Oh, I see they are some site in my blocklist.
Well, I can't offer you your favorite sports teams, but people drive to their snow sports from the bay area every weekend. In fact, it's popular enough that a lot of people like to get an early start on friday to dodge the snow sports traffic. For public transit ... yeah you're pretty much out of luck. The bay area has some, but it doesn't go enough places yet.
I think as long as the human animals involved can make an informed choice and aren't physically forced or coerced to participate, PeTA will indeed be thrilled.
I have a (male) friend who did that too. As a bonus he can code faster than anyone I know using his third arm.
I didn't mean to slight other tech areas, mostly just to point out that the OP's salary levels seemed excessively low to me. And of course since I went with silicon valley, i'm not exactly sure if Boston etc really offer competitive salary. Of course, as much as I dislike the bay area, you'd have to pay me even that much more to live in Boston/Beltway/NYC (mostly due to weather, and in NYC you have to deal with new yorkers). SoCal is nice, but I haven't seen a huge demand there yet (when recruiters start begging me to move down there as opposed to begging me to move laterally in the bay area, i'll consider it). So far SV just has by far the best deal in terms of product of salary and quality of life (for me ... obviously people enjoy different things).
Anyone going into CS should be willing to move to silicon valley. You can add $50k to your salary levels, and while you'll pay through the nose for your housing, you'll also be able to easily max out 401k retirement investing, and that has a pretty amazing payoff in the long run.
That was brilliant, well deserves a +5 funny, but I think the mods stopped reading before the last 6 words.
A better question might be whether you have ever been treated exceptionally at all (positively or negatively) based on your gender. A lot of women find both sides equally unappealing, and simply wanted to be treated neutrally. That can make comp-sci unattractive for many women as well (say women who dread being drooled over by their 90% male classmates).
I think he meant for you to parse '90 pound glasses' as the type of glasses being worn.
I could be wrong, though, there are plenty of over-weight 90 pound wimplings in CS for sure. In English of course they'd be under-weight 70 pound wimplings thanks to the lower pay making excessive snacking prohibitive.
I think the central prejudice operating here is two-fold:
a) prejudice based assumption that girls don't like icky (hence, no one expects girls to go into waste management)
b) prejudice based assumption that CS is not icky from a rational person's perspective (have you looked at who works in this field? ick! no wonder girls won't go into the field!)
At least they are rarely duping two articles on the frontpage these days. 4 days separation practically makes it a new article.
Who owns the media? Rich people in privileged places. It's just more of rich people clapping for themselves, hoping the plebes won't rise up and kill them if they applaud loudly enough for themselves.