I only know of one browser which can lie about its ID, this is Opera (exlusion made of wget and other script based web clients), I am not even sure Opera is the most popular browser on linux (at least I do not use it!!;-) )
I think using search engine statistics, gives a fairly good measure of what OS are out there... But really, one cannot claim not to be sheep and still ask the herd to walk with him!!
But there is an attitude among free software people that can be summarized as "I freely choose to make no money from my software work, therefore everyone else must be denied the right to make money from software".
That's the thinking behind the GPL. It might work from the ivory tower of a MacArthur Foundation grant at MIT,
but it isn't viable in the real world.
This is an untrue statement. I suggest you read the GNU.org pages. : The word
``free'' above pertains to freedom, not price. You may or may not pay a price to get GNU software. Either way,
once you have the software you have three specific freedoms in using it. A lot more can be found on this
site regarding free software and money.
You can also consider Redhat and check out their webstore to find out if they do not make money on
software
I freely choose to make no money from my software work "No they do not."
therefore everyone else must be denied the right to make money from software I have never heard about Oracle being sued for including freesofware in their products?
Everyone has the right to make money from their work, in my understanding/opinion the GPL strongly hints anotherway of doing so. If others want to do it the traditional way, fair enough but others may opt for different techniques.
A last point : SCO is suing IBM, this does by no ways mean that IBM is guilty, at least until the trial is over.
I'd like to know who's funding such research? In a full genetically explainable world, you do not need to pay for mass education or rehab... Only save who is savable...
By opposition if the social interaction theory prevails then we ought to spend Xtra money on schools, rehab programs, etc...
I am not stating which is best or true, I just have the feeling that in one case like the other anthropology results are dictated by those who are paying for them.
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Ah... I wouldn't worry about it too much... The rest of the world will follow soon;-).
to use md5 as compression algorithm, you would need a look-up table that is exacly as large as the data you compressed I regret you missed the point of humour (I shall try harder next time). However the sentence above is above does not make sense : I would be curious to know how you build a one to one lookup table from a finite, discrete set to infinite, discrete set. Let me know, we may have a mathematical breakthrough here;-). OTOH I agree with the orginal author of this thread, MD5 is safe as computing and testing a several MB file to get the same md5 sum would take far to much calculation for any machine; having this file almost match an existing mp3 or divx but in lower quality is impossible.
Thanks for providing the link to a site that I had to register to be able to read.
If you read my previous post you may notice that I was talking mainly about France. My understanding is that the bit regarding free speech mainly concerns Mr. Schröder, in which case I do not understand why you include France. Though I would be tempted to consider this article as biased (as is your comment: The fact that the US is would only discourage them from it.*), I would mainly put this on a cultural misunderstanding: Talking about Mr. Schröder's internationnal politics is free speech; talking about his hair dye is merely gossip and a privacy issue;this might be a subtle difference but I want it to stay this way as I do not care about:
*Shröder's hair dye *Mitterand's hidden daughter *Clinton's cigars. Insinuating that the British press acts the way it does for political reasons is already according too much credit to the quality of the British press at present(BTW I happen to be half British so this is not a matter of racism)
To come back on the main toppic according to EFF and Robin Gross it seems that US is at present the most restricting country when it comes to IP and Digital expression (please consult the yro section for further details) as Digital expression is bound to develop in the coming years that's where the focus on free speech should go, be it in the US, the EU or the rest of the world. The fact of the matter is that your are missing my point, because a stupid allusion of mine (for which I appologise) to Mr Powell comments, which is that associations supporting digital rights do not make enough publicity. Precisely I agree that there are free speech issues in France and the rest of Europe, and this is why I would like more publicity.
* Regarding this comment, I have to admit I do not understand why expressing disagreements on global politic matters allows claiming that these disgreement are motivated uniquely by the fact that it comes from the US. You are being a bit egocentrical here.
I think there are groups in Germany and France that are working hard
So she claims! I happen to live in this part of "Old Europe", and I cannot say these groups are very vocal. If they show up I might get involved. If something like EFF exists in France, it certainly lacks publicity.
I agree. As a matter of fact, whether the password in '1234' or '4AQKZZZz)))@@' is perfectly irrelevant to the issue: As most devices have the same default password and average users do not change it. Any Joe with the same device can break through them.
The head of Økokrim's computer crimes division said that the reasons for the appeal would be in their offices Monday afternoon.
Could this mean that they are appealing just for the sake of it? Like in : "We do not know for what we are doing this but we shall let you know as soon as we find out!!!"
an open zero-knowledge protocol and checkable afterwards.
The only issue is that voting implies that you are who you claim to be! Technically is seems difficult to break the link between identification and vote... especially if you want it to be checkable afterwards.
Not being a US resident, I am not sure of which law your are refering to. My memories claim that it was Bush Sr who announced the coming of a new world order it seems that others on the web remember this event also
However I did not wish to polemic on whether B or C were best, I was just quoting (hence the quotes).
Nothing is to be taken for granted...
The fact of the matter is that industry only exists through its consumers... Although the resources are oddly spread out through the world demographics are growing consumers elsewhere. Consider India and China (900M + 1250M ) the two of them represent around 1/3 of the consumers on the planet. Do you believe these will go on playing Washingtons rules forever? All good things come to a end, the Pax Romana did, and so will G. Bush'es "New World Order".
Regarding patenting plants in the US, I think India did the same thing, I feel/believe this is more of a reaction of protection than anything else (i.e f* it before it f*s you!)
Honestly... I pity you guys who live in USA, it seems that this stupid law (amongst others, like (C) length) and the dirty habit of sorting competition through court is going to kill off new business and innovation. OTOH this is a good opportunity for emerging countries less regarding on these aspects.
From the previous posts I have looked up MythTV and Freevo...
Nowhere does MythTV mention they support DVD playing, whereas Freevo does... Isn't this big drawback from MythTV?
... I work in the European branch of an American company. I think everyone signs this and... ignores it. I actually imagine the company could not care less either provided the work is done and no BIG mistake is done. I suppose getting you to sign this is a way of making it easier to get rid of you when and if they want to as I am sure that everyone has done at least once something against the ethic guideline (after all, ringing home to say you'll be late is personnal usage!!)
When you see the "Things to keep in mind", it looks more like a provocating hoax than facts.
Besides,
Next, all media on the machine is cataloged, and
the full list is sent back to the RIAA headquarters (through specially
crafted requests over the p2p networks), where it is added to their records
and stored until a later time, when it can be used as evidence in criminal
proceedings against those criminals who think it's OK to break the law.
this is maybe because I am European and do not understand the subtelness of US law, but I do not understand how data stored on the plaintive's hardware can be used as evidence in a court. Everyone knows such data can be forged. If such a situation was possible, maybe one could prove the RIAA have been hacking his bank account!
One step futher: Given that Linux is GPL the flaw can be not only shown but demonstrated... given this is GPL I suppose we can expect a 2.4.21 or 22 to correct these flaws.
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I only know of one browser which can lie about its ID, this is Opera (exlusion made of wget and other script based web clients), I am not even sure Opera is the most popular browser on linux (at least I do not use it!! ;-) )
I think using search engine statistics, gives a fairly good measure of what OS are out there... But really, one cannot claim not to be sheep and still ask the herd to walk with him!!
This is an untrue statement. I suggest you read the GNU.org pages. :
The word ``free'' above pertains to freedom, not price. You may or may not pay a price to get GNU software. Either way, once you have the software you have three specific freedoms in using it.
A lot more can be found on this site regarding free software and money.
You can also consider Redhat and check out their webstore to find out if they do not make money on software
Or take a look at OSI's point of view (Payoff for Entrepreneurs).
To sum up my point of view:
I freely choose to make no money from my software work
"No they do not."
therefore everyone else must be denied the right to make money from software
I have never heard about Oracle being sued for including freesofware in their products?
Everyone has the right to make money from their work, in my understanding/opinion the GPL strongly hints anotherway of doing so. If others want to do it the traditional way, fair enough but others may opt for different techniques.
A last point : SCO is suing IBM, this does by no ways mean that IBM is guilty, at least until the trial is over.
Well... as your sig states I suppose.
Didn't you mean "motherfsckers"?
So why not just make a service pack to run on 2K also?
Well, he, at least can spell his name.
I'd like to know who's funding such research? In a full genetically explainable world, you do not need to pay for mass education or rehab... Only save who is savable...
By opposition if the social interaction theory prevails then we ought to spend Xtra money on schools, rehab programs, etc...
I am not stating which is best or true, I just have the feeling that in one case like the other anthropology results are dictated by those who are paying for them.
Ah... I wouldn't worry about it too much... The rest of the world will follow soon ;-).
Anyone has a link to the ACME web site?
to use md5 as compression algorithm, you would need a look-up table that is exacly as large as the data you compressed ;-).
I regret you missed the point of humour (I shall try harder next time). However the sentence above is above does not make sense : I would be curious to know how you build a one to one lookup table from a finite, discrete set to infinite, discrete set. Let me know, we may have a mathematical breakthrough here
OTOH I agree with the orginal author of this thread, MD5 is safe as computing and testing a several MB file to get the same md5 sum would take far to much calculation for any machine; having this file almost match an existing mp3 or divx but in lower quality is impossible.
Thanks for providing the link to a site that I had to register to be able to read.
If you read my previous post you may notice that I was talking mainly about France. My understanding is that the bit regarding free speech mainly concerns Mr. Schröder, in which case I do not understand why you include France.
Though I would be tempted to consider this article as biased (as is your comment: The fact that the US is would only discourage them from it.*), I would mainly put this on a cultural misunderstanding: Talking about Mr. Schröder's internationnal politics is free speech; talking about his hair dye is merely gossip and a privacy issue;this might be a subtle difference but I want it to stay this way as I do not care about:
*Shröder's hair dye
*Mitterand's hidden daughter
*Clinton's cigars.
Insinuating that the British press acts the way it does for political reasons is already according too much credit to the quality of the British press at present(BTW I happen to be half British so this is not a matter of racism)
To come back on the main toppic according to EFF and Robin Gross it seems that US is at present the most restricting country when it comes to IP and Digital expression (please consult the yro section for further details) as Digital expression is bound to develop in the coming years that's where the focus on free speech should go, be it in the US, the EU or the rest of the world. The fact of the matter is that your are missing my point, because a stupid allusion of mine (for which I appologise) to Mr Powell comments, which is that associations supporting digital rights do not make enough publicity.
Precisely I agree that there are free speech issues in France and the rest of Europe, and this is why I would like more publicity.
* Regarding this comment, I have to admit I do not understand why expressing disagreements on global politic matters allows claiming that these disgreement are motivated uniquely by the fact that it comes from the US. You are being a bit egocentrical here.
On the other hand checksumming is not a garanty of uniqueness : If not it would be called compression (Cool a 4 minute song on a MD5 checkum).
I think there are groups in Germany and France that are working hard
So she claims! I happen to live in this part of "Old Europe", and I cannot say these groups are very vocal. If they show up I might get involved. If something like EFF exists in France, it certainly lacks publicity.
I agree. As a matter of fact, whether the password in '1234' or '4AQKZZZz)))@@' is perfectly irrelevant to the issue: As most devices have the same default password and average users do not change it. Any Joe with the same device can break through them.
The head of Økokrim's computer crimes division said that the reasons for the appeal would be in their offices Monday afternoon.
Could this mean that they are appealing just for the sake of it? Like in : "We do not know for what we are doing this but we shall let you know as soon as we find out!!!"
an open zero-knowledge protocol and checkable afterwards.
The only issue is that voting implies that you are who you claim to be! Technically is seems difficult to break the link between identification and vote... especially if you want it to be checkable afterwards.
Do you have some reference, I could read regarding this?
Not being a US resident, I am not sure of which law your are refering to.
My memories claim that it was Bush Sr who announced the coming of a new world order it seems that others on the web remember this event also
However I did not wish to polemic on whether B or C were best, I was just quoting (hence the quotes).
Nothing is to be taken for granted...
The fact of the matter is that industry only exists through its consumers... Although the resources are oddly spread out through the world demographics are growing consumers elsewhere. Consider India and China (900M + 1250M ) the two of them represent around 1/3 of the consumers on the planet.
Do you believe these will go on playing Washingtons rules forever? All good things come to a end, the Pax Romana did, and so will G. Bush'es "New World Order".
Regarding patenting plants in the US, I think India did the same thing, I feel/believe this is more of a reaction of protection than anything else (i.e f* it before it f*s you!)
Honestly... I pity you guys who live in USA, it seems that this stupid law (amongst others, like (C) length) and the dirty habit of sorting competition through court is going to kill off new business and innovation.
OTOH this is a good opportunity for emerging countries less regarding on these aspects.
From the previous posts I have looked up MythTV and Freevo...
Nowhere does MythTV mention they support DVD playing, whereas Freevo does... Isn't this big drawback from MythTV?
... I work in the European branch of an American company. I think everyone signs this and... ignores it.
I actually imagine the company could not care less either provided the work is done and no BIG mistake is done.
I suppose getting you to sign this is a way of making it easier to get rid of you when and if they want to as I am sure that everyone has done at least once something against the ethic guideline (after all, ringing home to say you'll be late is personnal usage!!)
When you see the "Things to keep in mind", it looks more like a provocating hoax than facts.
Besides,
Next, all media on the machine is cataloged, and the full list is sent back to the RIAA headquarters (through specially crafted requests over the p2p networks), where it is added to their records and stored until a later time, when it can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings against those criminals who think it's OK to break the law.
this is maybe because I am European and do not understand the subtelness of US law, but I do not understand how data stored on the plaintive's hardware can be used as evidence in a court. Everyone knows such data can be forged. If such a situation was possible, maybe one could prove the RIAA have been hacking his bank account!
Why? Don't you think it is too late for him?
One step futher: Given that Linux is GPL the flaw can be not only shown but demonstrated... given this is GPL I suppose we can expect a 2.4.21 or 22 to correct these flaws.