But as far as I know, ANY software encryption is breakable. If you can see how the decode process works, you can duplicate it.
True, any process can be duplicated, however any data cannot be. If any encryption algorithm is good you won't be able to break it even if you have the well-commented source code.
What encryption does is merge two peices of information, the plaintext and the key into one. If you have any two of those things, then you can get the 3rd. but if you only have one, you can't get anything else.
However, when you are talking about copy protection its different. In order to get the plaintext, you need to have both the cyphertext and the key. That means that the key has to come with the plaintext (or in this case, plainvideo). You should be able to see the problem here...
Well, had I clicked on the link, I would have seen my own website, since I'm running apache.
I have to say I really hate that, I mean, the 404 page was supposed to be a place of art, not a stupid error message. It turns out that you have to have a certan 'amount' of HTML on a page in order for it actualy display the page
When I implemented my own HTTP server in java, I set it up to *always* send HTTP 200's even when there's an error, so the user always sees the custom message, instaid the IE blather.
I don't see how this is 'revolutionary' or whatever. It dosn't seem any better then windows/mac. But it isn't surprizing from someone who actualy takes the time to download backstreetboys MP3's
Boring, played out, and the same as everything else... yay.
Almost every GUI out there sucks ass, Apple's included. Is this supposed to be great just beacuse its made by a guy who helped make MacOS's interface?
fight to the death anything that threatens its intellectual property
Um, well then maybe the DOJ will just have to kill it. What's their deal anyway? I'd rather see windows opensourced then have M$ split up (I honestly think splitting up M$ at this point would just agrivate the situation). Don't these guys realize that they lost
But, not that interesting. Its just a list, no details. I suppose they figure we already know this stuff is, I sure don't (other then the FFT, quicksort, and optimizing compiler). I would have liked to have seen a more indepth description of what each algorithem did and what its impact had actualy been...
well, a Linux desktop is basically the same as a windows desktop, if you use the right WM. So, Linux wouldn't be any harder to use then windows
And if you can hold someone's hand, a command line is a lot easier to teach then a gui. What's easier to say "Type 'cp/bla/fu/par.txt/home/foo/bar.txt'" or "Ok, open up "Mac HD" look for the folder called "bla", open that. got it? open the folder called 'fu', ok? then find par.txt. Once you do that, leave that window open, but go back to the mac HD, and open up the folder called 'home' and then 'foo' inside that. Then drag the file called par.txt inside the other folder into the first one. yeh. Then like, kind of 'click' on the name of the icon, no, no the name... the little words underneath the icon. yeh. for like, a second or two, and then when you can edit it, change it to 'bar.txt' yeh. ok good.
I downloaded Corel 'LinuxOS' and burned a CD rom. It was the first ISO I could find. I spend most of my time in windows, and although I'm not a 'computer novice' by any stretch of the imagination, I found corel's graphics display settings pretty similar to windows. (you could even right-click on the desktop and to properties:)
Un fortunetly, trying to change the display properties totaly hoesd the install, and I had to do a clean reinstall from the CD... but the interface was easy to use.:P
"How can sci-fi compete in an era where computers process millions of bits per second, our cities our powered by the Atom, and man travels through the stars?"
Simple, we'll make up new stuff. And that's the same answer I'd give to the question about sci-fi posted in the topic. There may not be a limit to human ingenuity, but there sure as hell isn't one on human imagination. When the sci-fi ideas of today are realized, we'll make something else up
There's also the possibility of writing 'not so far out' books like Jurassic Park, and to an even grater extreme, Cryptonomicon (witch didn't really use any unmade technology)
Also, there's been very little development in space travel lately, so non-earth based sci-fi will still be 'original'.
I really doubt that a realization of a few technical ideas is going to kill sci-fi.
Btw, check out the 'sci-fi/cyberpunk' book I'm writing [cheap plug:P]
dude, do you even know what CO$ is about? If there was any of that in there, I'm sure it was accidental.
Actualy, randism is just as much a religion as anything else, since it seeks to give you a perfic sense of 'truth' and understanding based on false premises.
Slashdot was never only about 'hard' news, and what you consider interesting, other people may not. If you want, you can simply filter JK anyway. I really doubt posting a few storys that don't interest a few people is going to drive them away
Besides, if slashdot's 'valuation' was the only thing that mattered to to the oweners, then it would be nothing but sensationalism, like the local news or Dateline or something.
Sure you can. The problem with the sci-fi / cyberpunk (sciberpunk?) scene is that, with notable exceptions such as Stephenson's Snow Crash, too much emphasis is put on the technology.
So, write your own book:)
Actualy, Gibson's books (who defined the type) don't really revolve around technology at all, there more about the effects of technology on society. He actualy wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter:P
Slashdot Mirror
It should be clear by now that patents like this do more harm than good.
Why? What harm has come from this? Save the embarasment to BT when this thing is thrown out of court.
especialy since patents only last 30 years.
God damn you're stupid
Thank you
But as far as I know, ANY software encryption is breakable. If you can see how the decode process works, you can duplicate it.
True, any process can be duplicated, however any data cannot be. If any encryption algorithm is good you won't be able to break it even if you have the well-commented source code.
What encryption does is merge two peices of information, the plaintext and the key into one. If you have any two of those things, then you can get the 3rd. but if you only have one, you can't get anything else.
However, when you are talking about copy protection its different. In order to get the plaintext, you need to have both the cyphertext and the key. That means that the key has to come with the plaintext (or in this case, plainvideo). You should be able to see the problem here...
Well, had I clicked on the link, I would have seen my own website, since I'm running apache.
I have to say I really hate that, I mean, the 404 page was supposed to be a place of art, not a stupid error message. It turns out that you have to have a certan 'amount' of HTML on a page in order for it actualy display the page
When I implemented my own HTTP server in java, I set it up to *always* send HTTP 200's even when there's an error, so the user always sees the custom message, instaid the IE blather.
What a shock!
I never saw this comming, not at all!
Why can't someone engineer a two handed device that is efficient for typing and mouse pointing?
:P.
Someone already did. Actualy, the same guy who invented the mouse.
They decided that it wasn't 'userfrendly' enough
What I'd really like, though would be a one handed device, use two computers at once
I don't see how this is 'revolutionary' or whatever. It dosn't seem any better then windows/mac. But it isn't surprizing from someone who actualy takes the time to download backstreetboys MP3's
Boring, played out, and the same as everything else... yay.
Almost every GUI out there sucks ass, Apple's included. Is this supposed to be great just beacuse its made by a guy who helped make MacOS's interface?
I'd bet that most of these 10 algortihms were first introduced before 1970.
You're right. I know this beacuse they listed the actual date right there on the page...
fight to the death anything that threatens its intellectual property
Um, well then maybe the DOJ will just have to kill it. What's their deal anyway? I'd rather see windows opensourced then have M$ split up (I honestly think splitting up M$ at this point would just agrivate the situation). Don't these guys realize that they lost
But, not that interesting. Its just a list, no details. I suppose they figure we already know this stuff is, I sure don't (other then the FFT, quicksort, and optimizing compiler). I would have liked to have seen a more indepth description of what each algorithem did and what its impact had actualy been...
Don't forget windows has a very usefull commandline as well...
Hrm, I got my first PC in 1995, and I've never had an IRQ conflict in my life.
Its called PCI, most computers havn't got an ISA bus card in them at all.
Hypercard rocks, I don't know how it compares to VB, well, actualy I do. They arn't even really the same thing.
But I'd rather use hypercard on an old monocrome mac then M$ powerpoint. And I really, really, hate macs....
well, a Linux desktop is basically the same as a windows desktop, if you use the right WM. So, Linux wouldn't be any harder to use then windows
/bla/fu/par.txt /home/foo/bar.txt'" or "Ok, open up "Mac HD" look for the folder called "bla", open that. got it? open the folder called 'fu', ok? then find par.txt. Once you do that, leave that window open, but go back to the mac HD, and open up the folder called 'home' and then 'foo' inside that. Then drag the file called par.txt inside the other folder into the first one. yeh. Then like, kind of 'click' on the name of the icon, no, no the name... the little words underneath the icon. yeh. for like, a second or two, and then when you can edit it, change it to 'bar.txt' yeh. ok good.
And if you can hold someone's hand, a command line is a lot easier to teach then a gui. What's easier to say "Type 'cp
I downloaded Corel 'LinuxOS' and burned a CD rom. It was the first ISO I could find. I spend most of my time in windows, and although I'm not a 'computer novice' by any stretch of the imagination, I found corel's graphics display settings pretty similar to windows. (you could even right-click on the desktop and to properties :)
:P
Un fortunetly, trying to change the display properties totaly hoesd the install, and I had to do a clean reinstall from the CD... but the interface was easy to use.
"How can sci-fi compete in an era where computers process millions of bits per second, our cities our powered by the Atom, and man travels through the stars?"
:P]
Simple, we'll make up new stuff. And that's the same answer I'd give to the question about sci-fi posted in the topic. There may not be a limit to human ingenuity, but there sure as hell isn't one on human imagination. When the sci-fi ideas of today are realized, we'll make something else up
There's also the possibility of writing 'not so far out' books like Jurassic Park, and to an even grater extreme, Cryptonomicon (witch didn't really use any unmade technology)
Also, there's been very little development in space travel lately, so non-earth based sci-fi will still be 'original'.
I really doubt that a realization of a few technical ideas is going to kill sci-fi.
Btw, check out the 'sci-fi/cyberpunk' book I'm writing [cheap plug
Of course sciance is a busness, at least, you can make a lot of money doing it, thats for sure...
It's giving Britney Spears and Bill Gates some needed competition in the "Worst Thing Ever To Happen, Ever" category.
Brittany's not that bad. Just mute the TV when her video comes on.
mmm... Brittney...
She's the american version of Rei Toei. Don't feel bad, she must have been grown in a lab.
dude, do you even know what CO$ is about? If there was any of that in there, I'm sure it was accidental.
Actualy, randism is just as much a religion as anything else, since it seeks to give you a perfic sense of 'truth' and understanding based on false premises.
No Jar Jar :P
Slashdot was never only about 'hard' news, and what you consider interesting, other people may not. If you want, you can simply filter JK anyway. I really doubt posting a few storys that don't interest a few people is going to drive them away
Besides, if slashdot's 'valuation' was the only thing that mattered to to the oweners, then it would be nothing but sensationalism, like the local news or Dateline or something.
lighten up, man. Actualy, I wrote a windows program that drew a bouncing ball on the screen, in something like 23 lines of code once. Just add an icon
; c eHandle(),MAKEINTRESOURCE(10 5)));}
#include <afxwin.h>
class BallWindow : public CFrameWnd{
public:
BallWindow(){LoadFrame(128);
SetWindowPos(&wndTop,40,40,300,332,SWP_DRAWFRAME)
double hello[5] = {50,50,.2,.25};
for(int i = 0; i afx_msg void OnPaint();
double data[5];
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()};
void BallWindow::OnPaint(){CClientDC dc(this);
for(int i = 0; i 260){data[i+2] -= data[i+2]*2;}
data[i] += data[i+2];}
dc.FillSolidRect(0,0,300,300,0x00a0a0a0);
dc.DrawIcon(data[0],data[1],LoadIcon(AfxGetInstan
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(BallWindow, CFrameWnd)
ON_WM_PAINT()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
class BootStrap : public CWinApp{
public:
virtual BOOL InitInstance(){m_pMainWnd = new BallWindow;
m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow(m_nCmdShow);
return TRUE;}};
BootStrap NEAR application;
Sure you can. The problem with the sci-fi / cyberpunk (sciberpunk?) scene is that, with notable exceptions such as Stephenson's Snow Crash, too much emphasis is put on the technology.
:)
:P
So, write your own book
Actualy, Gibson's books (who defined the type) don't really revolve around technology at all, there more about the effects of technology on society. He actualy wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter
#include <afx.h>
:P
.class file would be around 800 bytes or so
int winmain(int a, int b, char* c, int d){
MessageBox(0,"World","Hello",0);
}
thats exactly 16k compiled, without an icon.
I don't know what java stuff you'd need to do, but I'd be the