is that MS changes the terms they use and the way the menus are arranged in each succesive version. This is what prevents casual users from being familiar with the OS. Programs have options, settings, and preferences, all of which are the same thing. Win98 to Win2000, well, find changed to search, Dial up networking lost it's icon status and is now a hyperlink called Network and Dial up settings. etc. , etc. There are so many changes that it makes it prohibitive to even know the full vocabulary you need to operate a computer.
In his address at HAL, Ferguson reviewed a well-known published attack on a reduced-round version of the Rijndael algorithm, which was discovered before Rijndael became the final AES. The cryptographer also presented an algebraic formula that describes the structure of Rijndael. If the formula is solved, Ferguson believes that the Rijndael block cipher could be broken.
This right here was kinda stuck in the middle of the article in an odd place, but seems worthy of more depth. Anyone in the know care to comment?
I can't help but think the DMCA has a clever side effect, probably dreamed up by the NSA, in that it propogates bad encryption. Then they don't have to work as hard to crack it themselves.;)
yeah, it hit home for me the other day when I saw a tv commercial for plastic. WTF? is there a human being that does not know what plastic is? What exactly is the demographic they're tring to reach here, 2 year olds just learning to talk?
I fuckin hate that bitch. I was watching some congressional hearing about content labeling on c-span and Hillary Rosen was testifing, and she refered to "I shot the sheriff" by Eric Clapton, to point out a song that would be censored but was ok or some such crap. Umm sorry bitch but that's actually a Bob Marley song. Just shows you that the recording industry only cares about the bottom line, as whoever is more popular now apperently gets credit as the author.
(That is, a card from outside the US will be settled in dollars, and you'll be charged a slightly inflated convertion rate.)
I had always heard that using a CC actually gives you a pretty reasonable conversion rate compared with those little conversion stores. What is the best way to convert currency?
Look like michael wathces Dark Angel;)
seriously, that word comes from the defenestration of prauge, a historical tossing event, and about the only thing I remember from my AP european histroy class. I had never heard it in any context but that until the other night when they had master p of all people giving us a demonstration of the word on fox's Dark Angel. Now that I see it in michael's context I like it, good word for the move to linux from windows.
Not to mention the fact that a dollar today is worth more than it is tommorow (inflation, intrest). Buy a crt, put those extra $ in the bank and in 3-5 years it will pay for a new monitor.....
well, I dunno about cross platform between more than one console, but the game 4x4 evolution will let you play dreamcast vs. pc and mac. kinda cross platform.
What scare me most about the arrest ruling is that many states have legalized inventory searches of you car when it is impounded, which is what they do when they arrest you... get it? If a cop can arrest you for damn near any traffic violation, they're gonna tow and search your car. So it gives a cop total discretion to search your car without a warrant...
Just another reason for government to adopt open standards and share as in the OSS community. Obviously goverments are saving money by not having to write these codes themselves, instead adopting codes written for profit by a company. What the should be doing is working together to create these codes. Sure, Bumfuck, TX can't afford to maintain an up to date code by themselves, but if it's Bumfuck, TX and Bumfuck, OK and Bumfuck, AZ, etc. combining funds to create and maintain an open standard, then it is very feasable for this to happen. And it could work with all kinds of redundant stuff our government does. Just think how many different systems are being paid for again and again with our tax money. God damn, reading slashdot is weird now, most the stuff I see on here just pisses me off.
who sees that they're just going to use this watermarking to break compatibility with old players in about 3-5 years? Yeah, It's new DVD 2.0, with better picture quality and sound. Just buy a new player and your entire movie collection again.
I hope that cloning does someday become widespread, just for the elimination of DNA evidence. With thousands of people with the same DNA the courts will soon have to disregard DNA evidence. Which is good because it's a flawed science that courts believe to be infallible.
the closest camera is about twenty yards from my front door.
And your ok with this? I personally don't mind camera's in public laces (i.e. shopping malls), I can see the benefit there, and it does outweigh your right to privacy, hell, you're in a public place. But on street corners in neighborhoods? If this camera is 20 yards from your house (shouldn't that be meters in britain?) you can bet that camera can see right in you living room window, your front yard, what lights in your house are on, what times you come and go. I guess the equivalent would be a cop that stands on your corner and watches you and the street, but just stands there when your in trouble.
>I'd say more the RIAA's latest way of generating revenue. RIAA members made HUGE bank with the transition over to CD.
Good point, but knowing the RIAA they'll, instead of initially making money off this format, use it to undercut the price of cd's for the purpose of adoption. "Hey this new backstreet boy's cd is $15, but this dataplay disc with the same content is only $12."
I think they're smart enough to sacrifice the current profits in order to finally get a secure music format that they can eventually mold into a pay per play system. Don't be fooled by this shit! Just wait till these are widely adopted, then the shit will hit the fan. Unfortunetly I'm preaching to the choir here...
But you could copyright your entire playlist. Copyright law allows for copyrighting of databases, even if just public info. Playlist is just a simple database, hence it's copyrightable, hence any way you encrypt your playlist is a copy protection scheme.
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is that MS changes the terms they use and the way the menus are arranged in each succesive version. This is what prevents casual users from being familiar with the OS. Programs have options, settings, and preferences, all of which are the same thing. Win98 to Win2000, well, find changed to search, Dial up networking lost it's icon status and is now a hyperlink called Network and Dial up settings. etc. , etc. There are so many changes that it makes it prohibitive to even know the full vocabulary you need to operate a computer.
Well, time to start wearing a ski mask while I drive... ;)
In his address at HAL, Ferguson reviewed a well-known published attack on a reduced-round version of the Rijndael algorithm, which was discovered before Rijndael became the final AES. The cryptographer also presented an algebraic formula that describes the structure of Rijndael. If the formula is solved, Ferguson believes that the Rijndael block cipher could be broken.
This right here was kinda stuck in the middle of the article in an odd place, but seems worthy of more depth. Anyone in the know care to comment?
I can't help but think the DMCA has a clever side effect, probably dreamed up by the NSA, in that it propogates bad encryption. Then they don't have to work as hard to crack it themselves. ;)
yeah, it hit home for me the other day when I saw a tv commercial for plastic. WTF? is there a human being that does not know what plastic is? What exactly is the demographic they're tring to reach here, 2 year olds just learning to talk?
I fuckin hate that bitch. I was watching some congressional hearing about content labeling on c-span and Hillary Rosen was testifing, and she refered to "I shot the sheriff" by Eric Clapton, to point out a song that would be censored but was ok or some such crap. Umm sorry bitch but that's actually a Bob Marley song. Just shows you that the recording industry only cares about the bottom line, as whoever is more popular now apperently gets credit as the author.
umm, I believe the quote is "The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave"
weezer fuckin rocks baby!
(That is, a card from outside the US will be settled in dollars, and you'll be charged a slightly inflated convertion rate.) I had always heard that using a CC actually gives you a pretty reasonable conversion rate compared with those little conversion stores. What is the best way to convert currency?
Look like michael wathces Dark Angel ;)
seriously, that word comes from the defenestration of prauge, a historical tossing event, and about the only thing I remember from my AP european histroy class. I had never heard it in any context but that until the other night when they had master p of all people giving us a demonstration of the word on fox's Dark Angel. Now that I see it in michael's context I like it, good word for the move to linux from windows.
Not to mention the fact that a dollar today is worth more than it is tommorow (inflation, intrest). Buy a crt, put those extra $ in the bank and in 3-5 years it will pay for a new monitor.....
well, I dunno about cross platform between more than one console, but the game 4x4 evolution will let you play dreamcast vs. pc and mac. kinda cross platform.
and out of this world. that kicked ass.
What scare me most about the arrest ruling is that many states have legalized inventory searches of you car when it is impounded, which is what they do when they arrest you... get it? If a cop can arrest you for damn near any traffic violation, they're gonna tow and search your car. So it gives a cop total discretion to search your car without a warrant...
Just another reason for government to adopt open standards and share as in the OSS community. Obviously goverments are saving money by not having to write these codes themselves, instead adopting codes written for profit by a company. What the should be doing is working together to create these codes. Sure, Bumfuck, TX can't afford to maintain an up to date code by themselves, but if it's Bumfuck, TX and Bumfuck, OK and Bumfuck, AZ, etc. combining funds to create and maintain an open standard, then it is very feasable for this to happen. And it could work with all kinds of redundant stuff our government does. Just think how many different systems are being paid for again and again with our tax money. God damn, reading slashdot is weird now, most the stuff I see on here just pisses me off.
That would explain why the prevue channel will crash at my house sometimes, the video is fine but the listings just repeats the AT&T (bleh) logo.
Oh please god let this be better than DS9. What a pile o crap
who sees that they're just going to use this watermarking to break compatibility with old players in about 3-5 years? Yeah, It's new DVD 2.0, with better picture quality and sound. Just buy a new player and your entire movie collection again.
I hope that cloning does someday become widespread, just for the elimination of DNA evidence. With thousands of people with the same DNA the courts will soon have to disregard DNA evidence. Which is good because it's a flawed science that courts believe to be infallible.
the closest camera is about twenty yards from my front door.
And your ok with this? I personally don't mind camera's in public laces (i.e. shopping malls), I can see the benefit there, and it does outweigh your right to privacy, hell, you're in a public place. But on street corners in neighborhoods? If this camera is 20 yards from your house (shouldn't that be meters in britain?) you can bet that camera can see right in you living room window, your front yard, what lights in your house are on, what times you come and go. I guess the equivalent would be a cop that stands on your corner and watches you and the street, but just stands there when your in trouble.How does an NDA like that work? Does everyone in the company have to sign? Or does it just affect employees without their knowledge?
>I'd say more the RIAA's latest way of generating revenue. RIAA members made HUGE bank with the transition over to CD.
Good point, but knowing the RIAA they'll, instead of initially making money off this format, use it to undercut the price of cd's for the purpose of adoption. "Hey this new backstreet boy's cd is $15, but this dataplay disc with the same content is only $12." I think they're smart enough to sacrifice the current profits in order to finally get a secure music format that they can eventually mold into a pay per play system. Don't be fooled by this shit! Just wait till these are widely adopted, then the shit will hit the fan. Unfortunetly I'm preaching to the choir here...But you could copyright your entire playlist. Copyright law allows for copyrighting of databases, even if just public info. Playlist is just a simple database, hence it's copyrightable, hence any way you encrypt your playlist is a copy protection scheme.
what do you mean the cigarette rolling paper industry? don't you mean the joint rolling paper industry?
There already is a site kind of like that, /. had a story on it a while back, www.bountyquest.com, they have cash for you if you find prior art...