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I'm sure these sports organisations only know what the MPAA has told them about DeCSS.
I agree. Since when do sports leagues have an interest in the movie industry? I can understand the government getting involved to defend their law, but this is ridiculous. What's next, Catholic Church Condemns DeCSS?
Look on the bright side. At least it's not the flashing "WINNER!" banner. Whoever is responsible for that deserves to be belt-sanded to death.
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Wasn't there a story a while back about somebody projecting messages onto a mountainside using a laser? I remember there was a site where you could send in your own messages, but I don't remember the URL.
I'd love to see someone project DeCSS right on top of the letters of the Hollywood sign. No way they could miss that message. Unfortunately, I'm halfway across the country from there, without even a dinky laser pointer, so I couldn't help much even if there is someone crazy enough to try that.:)
$50 a month for 60 hours. You want more than 60 hours? TFB, that'll cost you $2 an hour more!
Sounds like the local telco-monopoly. $30 for 100 hours/month of 56k (or, more accurately, 46k), anything over is $1/minute, something like $10-20/month to upgrade to 200 hours. They don't even have unlimited service here, though the company site claims it's part of their standard dialup package. Of course, corporate HQ is in the big cities ~80-100 miles away from the local branch, so we're probably not a priority upgrade.
Even gnutella have a 'central' server that we connect to (correct me if i got this wrong); gnutellahosts.com or some such?
That's the major problem with P2P. There always has to be an index somewhere if you want Joe Sixpack and his buddy John Q. Public to be able to find you. If it's a static IP, they shut you down. If it's on a dynamic DNS service, they call up Judge Kaplan and get the service shut down, appealing to some twisted "providing DNS versus hosting the server is a distinction without a difference" logic.
For starters, maybe each client thats running this search using 'moving-anon-guntella' would broadcast a query over a limited ip range . ..
Bad idea. All the RIAA has to do is have some people watch that port range for matching packets, do a quick whois on ARIN to get your ISP's address, and pass it down to the lawyers.
On the other hand, if we want to have servers/indexers with changing ip's (an about to be disconnected server would inform other servers to take over the load and a new server would tell existing servers that it is available for service), the main problem would be for clients to know where are the servers.
IIRC, gnutella actually does something like this (isn't that what the ath.cx hosts are?). As I said above, though the servers themselves might be sheltered somewhat, there's nothing stopping the RIAA from having the dynamic DNS service shut down your account, driving them to bankruptcy, etc. Now, if you could find/make a dynDNS/index server in another country that would refuse to cooperate with the RIAA, you might have something. Barring that, it's either word-of-mouth, or up to your head in legal quicksand.
Pollution free? Maybe air pollution free, but I doubt that it is noise pollution free!
I remember seeing an article about scramjets a while back. IIRC, it's based on the engine that gave the "buzzbomb" rockets in WWII their name. With a name like buzzbomb, it has to be loud and annoying.
At least it will fly so fast that you won't hear it for long, and by the time the noise hits, it will be long gone.
That's assuming you still have eardrums left after a sonic boom at mach 7. And forget about suing for damages. At that speed, the lawyers will never catch them.
Uh-oh. Better get the ion cannon ready in case some crazy wild-haired scientist discovers how to extract gold from it, and a bald guy with only one name starts harvesting it and trying to take over the world with his cult of beret-wearing flame-tank-having third-world revolutionaries who also have only one name.
Do you really think ICANN and Congress will just sit by and allow this?
In a word, yes. There's really nothing they can do about it. They'd have no reason to be concerned anyway, because even if AOL did create new TLDs, nobody except AOL customers and those who willingly switched to AOL's new root would see them. It's the same as the keyword thing they already use. To put it simply, the ICANN domains can flow downstream into AOL, but the AOL keywords can't flow upstream into ICANN.
Now if you're against capitalism you're also anti-democratic.
Let me enlighten you...
Capitalism is a type of economy in which companies can compete with absolute freedom.
Democracy is a type of government in which the people are in complete control of the country.
The two are not inseparable, nor do they make up the whole foundation of the US government.
In true capitalism, there would be no antitrust suits, welfare, or any other type of economic regulation or assistance by the government. The opposite of capitalism is socialism. The most well-known form of socialism is communism. Now, before you go off on a cold-war all-communists-must-die steak, you should learn the facts. Yes, socialism is a totally government-controlled economy, however, and this is the thing that far too many people don't realize, it is not tied to a dictatorship like in the USSR and Cuba. It is entirely possible to have a socialist democracy, or a capitalist dictatorship. As I said before, economy and government are not inseparably linked.
Imagine a network lab. In this lab, there are several programmers. While the boss is out of the room, he does not know whether the programmers are working on the latest bugfix, putting together a completely new piece of software, playing Quake, or sleeping on the job.
In quantum terms, while the boss in the lab observing the programmers, they are in particle state, doing one thing at a time. But when the boss is out of the room, no longer able to observe them, they change to a wave state, and can be said to be doing everything at once. The boss returns, and they collapse back into particle state. Therefore, to increase productivity, the boss should stay out of the lab.
Basically, quantum computing would allow you to use the quantum wave properties to test all possible answers at once. Rather than trying to find a weakness in an encryption scheme, you could crack it by trying every possible key instantly...
If you put a quantum computer to your ear, can you hear the MPAA screaming?
Where I live, we're right along the state line, and the phone company actually gives us local for about 2-3 towns in each area code, which is really annoying because the only ISP that's a local call from here (and also happens to be owned by the phone company) insists that $30/month is quite a fair price for 100 hours/month of access.
I think the fee might be to cover for people who borrow a CD, download all the songs on it, and then return it. Doesn't make total sense, though, because those people could always rip the songs on their own. More likely, they just want to pull a Microsoft and derail the competition. If they take out MP3.com, they don't have to worry about all those indie bands. They'd take down the internet for a nickel.
Maybe they could write up a distributed-computing program that uses excess bandwidth/CPU time to monitor traffic for voice data, and possibly give a small reward for the capture of these phone-pirates? I can see it now: BigBrother@Home
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Windows API libraries to help the average programmer write small, efficient programs like Microsoft does. Remember: They're not bugs, they're features.
I agree. Since when do sports leagues have an interest in the movie industry? I can understand the government getting involved to defend their law, but this is ridiculous. What's next, Catholic Church Condemns DeCSS?
I think that rather than moving to Washington, they should launch the whole government into space for the good of mankind.
Look on the bright side. At least it's not the flashing "WINNER!" banner. Whoever is responsible for that deserves to be belt-sanded to death.
I'd love to see someone project DeCSS right on top of the letters of the Hollywood sign. No way they could miss that message. Unfortunately, I'm halfway across the country from there, without even a dinky laser pointer, so I couldn't help much even if there is someone crazy enough to try that. :)
Sounds like the local telco-monopoly. $30 for 100 hours/month of 56k (or, more accurately, 46k), anything over is $1/minute, something like $10-20/month to upgrade to 200 hours. They don't even have unlimited service here, though the company site claims it's part of their standard dialup package. Of course, corporate HQ is in the big cities ~80-100 miles away from the local branch, so we're probably not a priority upgrade.
That's the major problem with P2P. There always has to be an index somewhere if you want Joe Sixpack and his buddy John Q. Public to be able to find you. If it's a static IP, they shut you down. If it's on a dynamic DNS service, they call up Judge Kaplan and get the service shut down, appealing to some twisted "providing DNS versus hosting the server is a distinction without a difference" logic.
Bad idea. All the RIAA has to do is have some people watch that port range for matching packets, do a quick whois on ARIN to get your ISP's address, and pass it down to the lawyers.
IIRC, gnutella actually does something like this (isn't that what the ath.cx hosts are?). As I said above, though the servers themselves might be sheltered somewhat, there's nothing stopping the RIAA from having the dynamic DNS service shut down your account, driving them to bankruptcy, etc. Now, if you could find/make a dynDNS/index server in another country that would refuse to cooperate with the RIAA, you might have something. Barring that, it's either word-of-mouth, or up to your head in legal quicksand.
I remember seeing an article about scramjets a while back. IIRC, it's based on the engine that gave the "buzzbomb" rockets in WWII their name. With a name like buzzbomb, it has to be loud and annoying.
At least it will fly so fast that you won't hear it for long, and by the time the noise hits, it will be long gone.
That's assuming you still have eardrums left after a sonic boom at mach 7. And forget about suing for damages. At that speed, the lawyers will never catch them.
I always wondered how those missiles could blow up a car, but not even make a dent in something as thin as a garage door...
Uh-oh. Better get the ion cannon ready in case some crazy wild-haired scientist discovers how to extract gold from it, and a bald guy with only one name starts harvesting it and trying to take over the world with his cult of beret-wearing flame-tank-having third-world revolutionaries who also have only one name.
He didn't say which 5 minutes.
In a word, yes. There's really nothing they can do about it. They'd have no reason to be concerned anyway, because even if AOL did create new TLDs, nobody except AOL customers and those who willingly switched to AOL's new root would see them. It's the same as the keyword thing they already use. To put it simply, the ICANN domains can flow downstream into AOL, but the AOL keywords can't flow upstream into ICANN.
Let me enlighten you...
Capitalism is a type of economy in which companies can compete with absolute freedom.
Democracy is a type of government in which the people are in complete control of the country.
The two are not inseparable, nor do they make up the whole foundation of the US government.
In true capitalism, there would be no antitrust suits, welfare, or any other type of economic regulation or assistance by the government. The opposite of capitalism is socialism. The most well-known form of socialism is communism. Now, before you go off on a cold-war all-communists-must-die steak, you should learn the facts. Yes, socialism is a totally government-controlled economy, however, and this is the thing that far too many people don't realize, it is not tied to a dictatorship like in the USSR and Cuba. It is entirely possible to have a socialist democracy, or a capitalist dictatorship. As I said before, economy and government are not inseparably linked.
In quantum terms, while the boss in the lab observing the programmers, they are in particle state, doing one thing at a time. But when the boss is out of the room, no longer able to observe them, they change to a wave state, and can be said to be doing everything at once. The boss returns, and they collapse back into particle state. Therefore, to increase productivity, the boss should stay out of the lab.
Basically, quantum computing would allow you to use the quantum wave properties to test all possible answers at once. Rather than trying to find a weakness in an encryption scheme, you could crack it by trying every possible key instantly...
If you put a quantum computer to your ear, can you hear the MPAA screaming?
That's kind of the idea behind quantum computers. Each quantum bit would have 32 possible values, which is equivalent to 5 binary bits.
It it just me, or does this sound like something Judge Kaplan would say?
Those sites are trying to do the exact same thing Nike does. You pay them, you get to be a walking ad for their products.
I suppose it'd be hard to keep something like that going while the culture at large uses Sunday.
Probably means "sham of a..."
I hate monopolies.
I think the fee might be to cover for people who borrow a CD, download all the songs on it, and then return it. Doesn't make total sense, though, because those people could always rip the songs on their own. More likely, they just want to pull a Microsoft and derail the competition. If they take out MP3.com, they don't have to worry about all those indie bands. They'd take down the internet for a nickel.
Maybe they could write up a distributed-computing program that uses excess bandwidth/CPU time to monitor traffic for voice data, and possibly give a small reward for the capture of these phone-pirates? I can see it now: BigBrother@Home
Down tracking bad creator of translations possible will be? Them grammar teaching so manual VCR not be not comprehending and similar sounding as Yoda?