You really think that the recent legal decision is going to dramatically change anything? Really?
I figure a bunch of new political ads might fool a few people, but they are going to push a roughly equal number of people towards the correct level of cynicism.
So unless there are a bunch of even better liars waiting in the wings, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
If the encryption is properly implemented, the repeated cycles should not reveal any information, but it works better to just use a larger key (encrypting twice with 2 different 2 bit keys should be roughly equivalent to encrypting once with a 3 bit key, 4 different 2 bit keys would be equivalent to a 4 bit key and so on, so just going up to a much larger key is probably easier).
It must be sort of fun to be so histrionic, I mean, when she canceled her card, she would be getting her life back, which would probably be an awesome feeling.
I bet if you waited a year, "Net result? Your COMPUTER is now locked to service contracts" would still not be true for the majority of the people that read your comment.
it sounds like it might be possible to have a different sessions on different screens, but it also sounds like it would be awkward (no moving windows between screens, and it isn't obvious that the screens could each have their own desktop object, I'm just assuming it might work).
I'm talking about the several years where what I said was true. I apologize for making a statement on the internet without fully qualifying each and every nuance (I expected it to be common knowledge on/. that Apple sold DRM encumbered media for quite some years).
And when it is in direct contradiction of your current behavior, it is simply propaganda. Jobs understood that he would benefit from not using DRM, that doesn't mean he was unwilling to sell music using DRM.
No executioner is truly opposed to execution, and all that.
I'm not sure being a major shareholder and CEO of the company selling the most DRM encumbered music really qualifies as being "on record as opposing DRM", I would count it as fairly clear tacit approval.
I would agree that it is obvious that he understood the downsides of using DRM (as a content provider...) and didn't necessarily want to use it, but it sure wasn't exactly opposition.
So, swallowing the tail here, do you really expect your whining about their whining to change their attitudes and actions?
No? Then why bother?
(Note that I completely agree with you about it being a choice, and that I don't see the apocalyptic future that is brought up when the importance of user freedom is discussed)
If you are talking about things that are interesting, you should speak about people paying attention to them, not being interested in them, it helps you avoid saying things that are tautological (i.e. "many people are only interested in things interesting *to them*", which is universally true, simply by definition).
I agree 100% with your sentiment, but the joke answer is that there is no comparison between US censorship and Chinese or Iranian censorship, in the US, they are good at it.
Yes, yes, the $20,000 was a consequence of calculating rough gas costs for driving 100,000 miles (which I see as a reasonable abstract unit of ownership), not a consequence of my deep knowledge of battery technology (but it really isn't nuts to think that the gas to go 100,000 miles might only cost $10,000 for a medium sized sedan).
So the point was more about starting to roughly quantify what the battery needs to cost to be competitive than it was about claiming the mass production cost of some technology that doesn't even quite exist yet.
Those numbers certainly make a compelling case for the Prius (I looked at more than the 2 vehicles you linked and the Prius stands out from the crowd).
I do wonder how much the popularity of the Prius factors into the low depreciation though (I wouldn't be real surprised if the high first year depreciation was related to silly people trading in last years Prius for this years Prius and taking a bath on it for the shiny).
You can do some rough extrapolating based on the rather unaffordable price of something like the Tesla Roadster or the Chevy Volt, but my point was more that gasoline isn't particularly expensive, so the battery better be more than semi-affordable.
I'm not sure why you are so indignant that I would draw a comparison with current operating costs (and my post does do an OK job of pointing out that the battery better not cost $50,000, and so on).
"Affordable" isn't going to be anytime soon, at least not for comparison shoppers. Even at $5 a gallon, a decent sedan will go 100,000 miles on $20,000 of fuel (and neither of those assumptions are particularly aggressive, that $20,000 might get you closer to 250,000 miles).
It depends a little on how you define 'high'. If tax rates are high enough, they can suppress economic activity to the point that tax revenues decrease (this is what right wing pundits mean when they talk about the Laffer curve; of course, they conveniently avoid discussing anything resembling evidence that current rates are actually that high).
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You really think that the recent legal decision is going to dramatically change anything? Really?
I figure a bunch of new political ads might fool a few people, but they are going to push a roughly equal number of people towards the correct level of cynicism.
So unless there are a bunch of even better liars waiting in the wings, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
If the encryption is properly implemented, the repeated cycles should not reveal any information, but it works better to just use a larger key (encrypting twice with 2 different 2 bit keys should be roughly equivalent to encrypting once with a 3 bit key, 4 different 2 bit keys would be equivalent to a 4 bit key and so on, so just going up to a much larger key is probably easier).
For what value of guaranteed? If you get on a plane with a CDR full of data, you should be able to know whether someone accesses it or not.
At the moment, if you have needs that WPA2 doesn't meet, you probably need to worry about Van Eck phreaking too.
The most important question is not whether you are being paranoid, it is whether you are being paranoid enough.
It must be sort of fun to be so histrionic, I mean, when she canceled her card, she would be getting her life back, which would probably be an awesome feeling.
Why store it in a book?
I bet if you waited a year, "Net result? Your COMPUTER is now locked to service contracts" would still not be true for the majority of the people that read your comment.
Reading between the lines on the description for this tool:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx
it sounds like it might be possible to have a different sessions on different screens, but it also sounds like it would be awkward (no moving windows between screens, and it isn't obvious that the screens could each have their own desktop object, I'm just assuming it might work).
He was probably home schooled.
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You are missing a key aspect of the case; the U.S. government was the defendant, not the German government.
I doubt the German government even really cares.
I'm talking about the several years where what I said was true. I apologize for making a statement on the internet without fully qualifying each and every nuance (I expected it to be common knowledge on /. that Apple sold DRM encumbered media for quite some years).
And when it is in direct contradiction of your current behavior, it is simply propaganda. Jobs understood that he would benefit from not using DRM, that doesn't mean he was unwilling to sell music using DRM.
No executioner is truly opposed to execution, and all that.
I like how you praised their rejection of an authoritarian regime by instituting an authoritarian action.
I'm not sure being a major shareholder and CEO of the company selling the most DRM encumbered music really qualifies as being "on record as opposing DRM", I would count it as fairly clear tacit approval.
I would agree that it is obvious that he understood the downsides of using DRM (as a content provider...) and didn't necessarily want to use it, but it sure wasn't exactly opposition.
So, swallowing the tail here, do you really expect your whining about their whining to change their attitudes and actions?
No? Then why bother?
(Note that I completely agree with you about it being a choice, and that I don't see the apocalyptic future that is brought up when the importance of user freedom is discussed)
If you are talking about things that are interesting, you should speak about people paying attention to them, not being interested in them, it helps you avoid saying things that are tautological (i.e. "many people are only interested in things interesting *to them*", which is universally true, simply by definition).
I agree 100% with your sentiment, but the joke answer is that there is no comparison between US censorship and Chinese or Iranian censorship, in the US, they are good at it.
I generally find the behavior of property boards to be unbelievably curious.
You guys never would have been able to say that on Twitter, due to the character limit.
Yes, yes, the $20,000 was a consequence of calculating rough gas costs for driving 100,000 miles (which I see as a reasonable abstract unit of ownership), not a consequence of my deep knowledge of battery technology (but it really isn't nuts to think that the gas to go 100,000 miles might only cost $10,000 for a medium sized sedan).
So the point was more about starting to roughly quantify what the battery needs to cost to be competitive than it was about claiming the mass production cost of some technology that doesn't even quite exist yet.
Those numbers certainly make a compelling case for the Prius (I looked at more than the 2 vehicles you linked and the Prius stands out from the crowd).
I do wonder how much the popularity of the Prius factors into the low depreciation though (I wouldn't be real surprised if the high first year depreciation was related to silly people trading in last years Prius for this years Prius and taking a bath on it for the shiny).
That's a bit of a loaded comparison. Personally, I'd be more interested in comparisons with a used Accord or Camry, or maybe a brand new Hyundai.
You can do some rough extrapolating based on the rather unaffordable price of something like the Tesla Roadster or the Chevy Volt, but my point was more that gasoline isn't particularly expensive, so the battery better be more than semi-affordable.
I'm not sure why you are so indignant that I would draw a comparison with current operating costs (and my post does do an OK job of pointing out that the battery better not cost $50,000, and so on).
"Affordable" isn't going to be anytime soon, at least not for comparison shoppers. Even at $5 a gallon, a decent sedan will go 100,000 miles on $20,000 of fuel (and neither of those assumptions are particularly aggressive, that $20,000 might get you closer to 250,000 miles).
It depends a little on how you define 'high'. If tax rates are high enough, they can suppress economic activity to the point that tax revenues decrease (this is what right wing pundits mean when they talk about the Laffer curve; of course, they conveniently avoid discussing anything resembling evidence that current rates are actually that high).