Anonymity on the Internet is like copyright on the Internet. It doesn't exist. Strange, how proponents of one always seem to be so deathly against the other.
You have no control over the data you own, but neither do you control the information about you.
I have moved those lawyers - or some of them - but I have done so, and will continue to do so - not to attack the Internet and its culture but for its benefit and to protect it. For its benefit.
Wow, see? Its really because he loves, and he only wants the best for us. Gee, I'm so happy to be loved by you:) I'll go ahead and delete all my mp3s now, just for you.
Did anyone else notice that he was giving this speech at Real? And when all know what champions of privacy they are.
I would guess that most of the software we have today, and almost all of the hardware would be years behind in its development if the designs were not owned by anyone,
Hardware isn't copyrighted, it's patented. There is actually a pretty big difference. As for software, it seems that there is quite a bit of money to be made in open-source, so the idea that copyright is needed in order for people to be paid to write software isn't particularly valid. Just because something seems right doesn't mean that it is.
I think that there should be restrictions on what you can do with information, for a short amount of time, if someone wants to copyright it. But, I think that our current situation has gone way to far.
A one time pad is when you encrypt data with a key of the same size. If you were talking about computers, you could XOR one file with another one of the same size. Now, you need both the output file, and the file you used to encrypt with. Untill you get both, the cypher could *anything* that fits that size.
I write out the alphabet several times and then randomanly write down numbers [0..9][0..9][0..9] next to the letters and make 1 copy of this sheet and give it to my agents.
erm... wouldn't you need to use [0..26]? I'm not really sure what your trying to describe. Why would you need to write the alphabet?
Anyway, just xor with a file the same size as the data, if you want secure communications.
Still, now after the CSS debacle, I'm always inclined to hold out the possibility that someone designing the system has screwed up royally.
Um, there's a pretty big diffrence between the UK's intelegence system, and DVD-CCA. Only one of them is likely to screw up, especialy since copy protection isn't even theoretically possible.
At the time I was fairly happy that he was being punished for his crime, but now, now I realize he wasn't stealing, he was just trying to share!
No, he was stealing; because when he took your CDs (physical objects) you were deprived of them. If he broke into your car and used a laptop to rip+encode all your CDs, then put them all back where they were, would you care? Probably, most people wouldn't like the idea of someone entering their car/home when they aren't there. But, that isn't the point.
Lets take another example. A friend of yours borrows your CD collection. He doesn't tell you, but at home, he rips+encodes all of them into MP3s, later he is caught doing the same with someone else's CDs, would you be happy then? I doubt it, since you would be the one breaking the law. But it wasn't sharing it was stealing right? Have you ever let anyone borrow your CD's? Then you are a thief. (the culpability for copyright violation lies in the distributor, not the consumer)
I don't understand why some people can't come to terms that they are stealing. I have, and I don't really care that I am.
Well, I'm glad you have. But you are still not stealing. When you steal something, you deprive someone of that something. When you copy something, you don't deprive anyone of anything. The copyright holders will have a harder time selling you something, but if the opportunity cost of loosing you as a customer wasn't much (if you were not going to buy it anyway, or if you couldn't afford it). Then the 'value' of what you stole is nothing.
But Stallman's views on Intellectual Property as just expressed do not represent my belief in Copyright (if you don't have Copyright, then you don't have the GPL),
And, really, your views are just so important.
If you don't have copyright, you don't have a GPL. You also don't need a GPL, ether.
Anyway, is it our fault if some lazy journalist, or ESR wants to assign the opinions of one person to the whole?
I personally see what's wrong with searching the hard drives of these people, it was done by court order, not by the airline on there own (and then backed up by the courts, that would be pretty bad).
Honestly, if you get arrested for a crime, the police, with a court order, can search though your belongings. This includes data on your computer (in fact, they can just take your computer and never return it if they want, they should probably not be able to do this though)
We as a society have decided to give special protection to airline companies to protect them from Strikes and things like that. The guy doing the sickout was breaking the law, so he had his hard drive searched (I think, If I'm wrong then his drive should not have been searched). Monica Lewinsky also had her email searched, as I'm sure many, many people who have broken the law have as well.
This isn't a 'big brother' thing on the part of the airline, only on the part of the government. If you don't agree with it, blame them and try to change the system. But remember, the laws need to be applied fairly.
Actually, there was an article in wired about this a year or so ago, about a guy who recovered deleted email. Apparently, people are more likely to incriminate themselves more in email then anything else
Honestly, I don't really have a problem with people using the term 'piracy'. People don't really connect it with 'robbery on the high seas' anymore. And another poster was right using the word 'sharing' also has an emotional connotation.
Personally, I think we should use the word 'coping' to describe the act, and 'violating copyright' to describe the crime (if any). Those terms are unambiguous, and have no negative connotation. Using loaded terms to describe the actions of people you don't like is the first sign of someone who doesn't have a valid argument.
Actualy, this goes back to the well regulated militia thing in the constitution. Supposedly well regulated meant something different then it does today.
But the issue with hacker is, The only people who ever used the term for 'general computer geek' are hardcore Unix nerds. Everyone else was using it to describe someone who breaks into computer systems. Anyway, words can have more then one meaning, but Linux would have been better off if people like ESR had just said an 'OS designed by geeks' instead of calling it an 'OS designed by hackers' and then trying to redefine the word 'hackers'.
Plus, how much does a blank MD go for? I'd hate to have to spend $150 to do a single 60 minute porno...
I don't know about video MD, the disk is slightly different (larger size, probably). But a music disk goes for like $1.50 at sears. Way cheaper then a zip disk (witch pisses me off, since the digital storage capacity of a music disk is about 120 megabytes)
Based on that info, I'd say the videodisks probably go for like $5 for something. Plus, there overwrite able, so you can burn your movie to CD or something, and use the same disks for more porn
This has got to be one of the coolest things I've ever heard of. Java based, minidisk video, Ethernet...
Now what I really want to do know is, Will it be possible to load custom.class files on the thing? And I take it java+Ethernet means Jinni, is this correct? As far as I know, you need to put the entire Java API on a device if you use Java at all, If they let you upload code to the thing, I'd be willing to bet there will be a ton of games/addons for the thing pretty quickly. Its got to have a pretty fast CPU.
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And honestly, people. As we all know, these programs are nothing more than FTP but automated and with some clever search features.
:) and 'gnutellanet' for searching.
Actualy, gnutella uses HTTP for file transfers (HTTP rockes
Therefore, we had to burn the village in order to save it. The raping and pillaging was just an added bonus.
:P
You know what you are? your a filty pirate!!!
Avast ye mattie, arr. The mp3 bootie shal be ours.
you are just a moron
The guy said that annyonimity is only a tool of criminals.
Of course it colapsed beacuse it was unjust.
Just like China and Cuba. oh, wait...
Anonymity on the Internet is like copyright on the Internet. It doesn't exist. Strange, how proponents of one always seem to be so deathly against the other.
You have no control over the data you own, but neither do you control the information about you.
from the speech:
:) I'll go ahead and delete all my mp3s now, just for you.
I have moved those lawyers - or some of them - but I have done so, and will continue to do so - not to attack the Internet and its culture but for its benefit and to protect it. For its benefit.
Wow, see? Its really because he loves, and he only wants the best for us. Gee, I'm so happy to be loved by you
Did anyone else notice that he was giving this speech at Real? And when all know what champions of privacy they are.
This guy, has chosen death.
I'd like to point out, though, that of all communications mediums, the internet is the one with the least anonymity
I would guess that most of the software we have today, and almost all of the hardware would be years behind in its development if the designs were not owned by anyone,
Hardware isn't copyrighted, it's patented. There is actually a pretty big difference. As for software, it seems that there is quite a bit of money to be made in open-source, so the idea that copyright is needed in order for people to be paid to write software isn't particularly valid. Just because something seems right doesn't mean that it is.
I think that there should be restrictions on what you can do with information, for a short amount of time, if someone wants to copyright it. But, I think that our current situation has gone way to far.
A one time pad is when you encrypt data with a key of the same size. If you were talking about computers, you could XOR one file with another one of the same size. Now, you need both the output file, and the file you used to encrypt with. Untill you get both, the cypher could *anything* that fits that size.
I write out the alphabet several times and then randomanly write down numbers [0..9][0..9][0..9] next to the letters and make 1 copy of this sheet and give it to my agents.
erm... wouldn't you need to use [0..26]? I'm not really sure what your trying to describe. Why would you need to write the alphabet?
Anyway, just xor with a file the same size as the data, if you want secure communications.
Still, now after the CSS debacle, I'm always inclined to hold out the possibility that someone designing the system has screwed up royally.
Um, there's a pretty big diffrence between the UK's intelegence system, and DVD-CCA. Only one of them is likely to screw up, especialy since copy protection isn't even theoretically possible.
What would be the point of extending open source into closed source if you can't make any money off it (beacuse of a lack of copyright law)
. The owner of that information has a right to control the terms under which it is used.
But, why should they? What purpose does it serve in society to have something you created 'controlled' 90 years after you die?
Piracy is exactly the right word. People who download music without paying for it are stealing. Period.
Why? Question Mark.
At the time I was fairly happy that he was being punished for his crime, but now, now I realize he wasn't stealing, he was just trying to share!
No, he was stealing; because when he took your CDs (physical objects) you were deprived of them. If he broke into your car and used a laptop to rip+encode all your CDs, then put them all back where they were, would you care? Probably, most people wouldn't like the idea of someone entering their car/home when they aren't there. But, that isn't the point.
Lets take another example. A friend of yours borrows your CD collection. He doesn't tell you, but at home, he rips+encodes all of them into MP3s, later he is caught doing the same with someone else's CDs, would you be happy then? I doubt it, since you would be the one breaking the law. But it wasn't sharing it was stealing right? Have you ever let anyone borrow your CD's? Then you are a thief. (the culpability for copyright violation lies in the distributor, not the consumer)
you can stick data in HTML files using the <a href=data:[data]> to embed data in HTML files.
:(
To bad it dosn't work, though
I don't understand why some people can't come to terms that they are stealing. I have, and I don't really care that I am.
Well, I'm glad you have. But you are still not stealing. When you steal something, you deprive someone of that something. When you copy something, you don't deprive anyone of anything. The copyright holders will have a harder time selling you something, but if the opportunity cost of loosing you as a customer wasn't much (if you were not going to buy it anyway, or if you couldn't afford it). Then the 'value' of what you stole is nothing.
But Stallman's views on Intellectual Property as just expressed do not represent my belief in Copyright (if you don't have Copyright, then you don't have the GPL),
And, really, your views are just so important.
If you don't have copyright, you don't have a GPL. You also don't need a GPL, ether.
Anyway, is it our fault if some lazy journalist, or ESR wants to assign the opinions of one person to the whole?
I personally see what's wrong with searching the hard drives of these people, it was done by court order, not by the airline on there own (and then backed up by the courts, that would be pretty bad).
Honestly, if you get arrested for a crime, the police, with a court order, can search though your belongings. This includes data on your computer (in fact, they can just take your computer and never return it if they want, they should probably not be able to do this though)
We as a society have decided to give special protection to airline companies to protect them from Strikes and things like that. The guy doing the sickout was breaking the law, so he had his hard drive searched (I think, If I'm wrong then his drive should not have been searched). Monica Lewinsky also had her email searched, as I'm sure many, many people who have broken the law have as well.
This isn't a 'big brother' thing on the part of the airline, only on the part of the government. If you don't agree with it, blame them and try to change the system. But remember, the laws need to be applied fairly.
Actually, there was an article in wired about this a year or so ago, about a guy who recovered deleted email. Apparently, people are more likely to incriminate themselves more in email then anything else
piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Piracies. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?. See Pirate.] 1. The act or crime of a pirate.
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2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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piracy n 1: robbery on the high seas; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it [syn: buccaneering]
2: the act of falsely representing the ideas or work of others as your own [syn: plagiarization, plagiarisation] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
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Honestly, I don't really have a problem with people using the term 'piracy'. People don't really connect it with 'robbery on the high seas' anymore. And another poster was right using the word 'sharing' also has an emotional connotation.
Personally, I think we should use the word 'coping' to describe the act, and 'violating copyright' to describe the crime (if any). Those terms are unambiguous, and have no negative connotation. Using loaded terms to describe the actions of people you don't like is the first sign of someone who doesn't have a valid argument.
Actualy, this goes back to the well regulated militia thing in the constitution. Supposedly well regulated meant something different then it does today.
But the issue with hacker is, The only people who ever used the term for 'general computer geek' are hardcore Unix nerds. Everyone else was using it to describe someone who breaks into computer systems. Anyway, words can have more then one meaning, but Linux would have been better off if people like ESR had just said an 'OS designed by geeks' instead of calling it an 'OS designed by hackers' and then trying to redefine the word 'hackers'.
COPYING
And that, can be a violation of Copyright law.
Plus, how much does a blank MD go for? I'd hate to have to spend $150 to do a single 60 minute porno ...
I don't know about video MD, the disk is slightly different (larger size, probably). But a music disk goes for like $1.50 at sears. Way cheaper then a zip disk (witch pisses me off, since the digital storage capacity of a music disk is about 120 megabytes)
Based on that info, I'd say the videodisks probably go for like $5 for something. Plus, there overwrite able, so you can burn your movie to CD or something, and use the same disks for more porn
This has got to be one of the coolest things I've ever heard of. Java based, minidisk video, Ethernet...
.class files on the thing? And I take it java+Ethernet means Jinni, is this correct? As far as I know, you need to put the entire Java API on a device if you use Java at all, If they let you upload code to the thing, I'd be willing to bet there will be a ton of games/addons for the thing pretty quickly. Its got to have a pretty fast CPU.
Now what I really want to do know is, Will it be possible to load custom
Even without code upload, its still pretty slick
GPS is one way, only. However a pager/cellphone is not. The idea would be for the cellphone to report your position to the add server.
Thats probably one of the main problems, that people have with it.