People who sexually abuse children, whether or not they publish the photos, are criminals.
People who enjoy looking at child pornography are sick.
Child porn on the internet is just bits.
Bearing in mind the tendency of governments to ban tools with criminal uses (guns, DeCSS, Napster), I think it's a good thing that we're now one step further away from banning Gimp.
I remember the aliens TC for the original Doom. The first time I opened the doors on sub-level 37 and saw all the ichor, I shuddered, thought to myself "I'm never going in there", and let the doors close again.
I never did finish the game. I always ended up out of ammo in the cargo bay, and Sigourney Weaver notwithstanding, you can't kill a mother alien with just an exoskeleton.
Some of us were adding *emphasis* to our/email/ long before HTML was thought of. Typing habits are hard to break. Besides, typing * is a lot quicker than typing <b> and doesn't have the same catastrophic effect if you forget to close the tags.
Re:The problem with all these equations...
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I agree. The odds of "another earth" - a planet so strikingly similar to ours that it would be amazing if intelligent humanoid life *didn't* develop - are so low that N=1 is a reasonable assumption. However, we know so little about the possible environments in which intelligent life can develop (because our sample size is one), it is not possible to assert that this is the actual result of the Drake equation.
So, unless Congress passes a law, how exactly is Microsoft going to stop me doing what was described? Steve Ballmer could show up with a baseball bat and smash my keyboard, but (a) I have others; and (b) Congress has passed laws against that, too.
It will be illegal to sell or import a device that doesn't include DRM. It will be illegal to write software to bypass the built-in DRM. There may be a market for devices that can be hacked, but it will be a black market. And, as the Randroids are fond of pointing out, the government *can* hold a gun to your head.
That's training and education. What you need is 2 days where no-one's going to bother you with other work so you can train yourself.
I hate those training classes where by the fourth day you know more about the subject than the instructor, or where the examples just plain don't work (like using Word97 as a COM container). Others have been really useful (Guerrilla COM springs to mind).
You must have read a different GPL than I did.
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You only have to make the source available to people you distribute the binaries to. So if you sell source & binaries in the same box for $70, there is no need for you to provide either for free. Of course, you can't prevent your customers from giving it away for free, but that's a separate problem.
Not that I'd put any kind of idiocy beyond Berkeley city council, but did they really do this? As any fool know, Myanmar and Burma are the same place. And their government is certainly worthy of condemnation.
Well, since there are fewer/.ers than South Dakotans (by a factor of almost 2), I suppose all of them could be there.
Actually there seem to be a lot of Minnesotan/.ers in comparison to the amount of high tech in the state. Or maybe I just notice it because I live here.
I smell a poll. Is CowboyNeal reading?
Terrorists Nuke South Dakota
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... not many Slashdotters killed.
[cf. Small Earthquake in Peru for the humor impaired moderators]
Unfortunately, a one-time pad has to be at least as large as the message it is encrypting (and random data doesn't compress well!). So you could do a Russian doll kind of thing with a really large OTP to start with, so you could encrypt a message and the next OTP, but your OTPs would get successively smaller. Better than nothing, I suppose, but still mostly more hassle than its worth.
The Germans were using a variation on this in Cryptonomicon. The idea is that given an initial seed, you can generate a "key of the day" that appears random. In this case they're using an initial seed to generate a whole one-time pad.
However, it isn't secure. If you know the algorithm, you only(!) have to search the keyspace of the initial seed.
There are already movies on DVD that are in the public domain. While the compilation is copyrighted, most of the actual movies on The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913 are out of copyright, even allowing for Sonny Bono.
Who uses the list is a separate question from how they generate the list. In this instance, the method they use to generate the list is causing a problem.
If your query crashes my server, I agree, I should fix my server. But if I ask you to stop sending the query until I get it fixed, I think that's a reasonable request.
I've never liked the open relay test based spam filters. Of course, they have a right to list who they want on their list, and if I run a publicly accessible SMTP server I can expect all kinds of bizarre malformed SMTP headers to arrive. However, when you are a self-appointed policeman of the internet, you should first be a good netizen. One of the things good netizens do not do is repeatedly exploit bugs in other people's software to bring down services. Imagine if netcraft started crashing some obscure OS/2 web server with its queries. We'd expect them to stop querying those servers, at the very least, and at best to fix their query.
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Bearing in mind the tendency of governments to ban tools with criminal uses (guns, DeCSS, Napster), I think it's a good thing that we're now one step further away from banning Gimp.
I remember the aliens TC for the original Doom. The first time I opened the doors on sub-level 37 and saw all the ichor, I shuddered, thought to myself "I'm never going in there", and let the doors close again.
I never did finish the game. I always ended up out of ammo in the cargo bay, and Sigourney Weaver notwithstanding, you can't kill a mother alien with just an exoskeleton.
Some of us were adding *emphasis* to our /email/ long before HTML was thought of. Typing habits are hard to break. Besides, typing * is a lot quicker than typing <b> and doesn't have the same catastrophic effect if you forget to close the tags.
I agree. The odds of "another earth" - a planet so strikingly similar to ours that it would be amazing if intelligent humanoid life *didn't* develop - are so low that N=1 is a reasonable assumption. However, we know so little about the possible environments in which intelligent life can develop (because our sample size is one), it is not possible to assert that this is the actual result of the Drake equation.
I do not call myself liberalistic. I usually describe myself with word you might actually find in a dictionary.
However, I will still not slam this comment as "socialistic propaganda". Instead, I shall slam it as "incoherent troll".
So, unless Congress passes a law, how exactly is Microsoft going to stop me doing what was described? Steve Ballmer could show up with a baseball bat and smash my keyboard, but (a) I have others; and (b) Congress has passed laws against that, too.
You can put a tree in your gas tank. You just have to bury it really deep and wait a few million years.
Likewise, writing a virus shouldn't be a problem if operating systems run untrusted code in a sandbox, and people don't propogate them carelessly.
You did.
Unless you are also a troll, in which case the answer would be me.
It will be illegal to sell or import a device that doesn't include DRM.
It will be illegal to write software to bypass the built-in DRM.
There may be a market for devices that can be hacked, but it will be a black market. And, as the Randroids are fond of pointing out, the government *can* hold a gun to your head.
That's training and education. What you need is 2 days where no-one's going to bother you with other work so you can train yourself.
I hate those training classes where by the fourth day you know more about the subject than the instructor, or where the examples just plain don't work (like using Word97 as a COM container). Others have been really useful (Guerrilla COM springs to mind).
You only have to make the source available to people you distribute the binaries to. So if you sell source & binaries in the same box for $70, there is no need for you to provide either for free. Of course, you can't prevent your customers from giving it away for free, but that's a separate problem.
Not that I'd put any kind of idiocy beyond Berkeley city council, but did they really do this? As any fool know, Myanmar and Burma are the same place. And their government is certainly worthy of condemnation.
Well, since there are fewer /.ers than South Dakotans (by a factor of almost 2), I suppose all of them could be there.
/.ers in comparison to the amount of high tech in the state. Or maybe I just notice it because I live here.
Actually there seem to be a lot of Minnesotan
I smell a poll. Is CowboyNeal reading?
... not many Slashdotters killed.
[cf. Small Earthquake in Peru for the humor impaired moderators]
I don't know. I imagine so.
Taco: I can type a lot in 19 seconds. Your limit sucks!
Unfortunately, a one-time pad has to be at least as large as the message it is encrypting (and random data doesn't compress well!). So you could do a Russian doll kind of thing with a really large OTP to start with, so you could encrypt a message and the next OTP, but your OTPs would get successively smaller. Better than nothing, I suppose, but still mostly more hassle than its worth.
The Germans were using a variation on this in Cryptonomicon. The idea is that given an initial seed, you can generate a "key of the day" that appears random. In this case they're using an initial seed to generate a whole one-time pad.
However, it isn't secure. If you know the algorithm, you only(!) have to search the keyspace of the initial seed.
There are already movies on DVD that are in the public domain. While the compilation is copyrighted, most of the actual movies on The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913 are out of copyright, even allowing for Sonny Bono.
The title of the race would imply that it's run on sand. If that's true, 20 miles per day is very impressive.
Beer should be free (as in beer)!
http://www.uk.research.att.com/spirit/
Who uses the list is a separate question from how they generate the list. In this instance, the method they use to generate the list is causing a problem.
If your query crashes my server, I agree, I should fix my server. But if I ask you to stop sending the query until I get it fixed, I think that's a reasonable request.
I've never liked the open relay test based spam filters. Of course, they have a right to list who they want on their list, and if I run a publicly accessible SMTP server I can expect all kinds of bizarre malformed SMTP headers to arrive. However, when you are a self-appointed policeman of the internet, you should first be a good netizen. One of the things good netizens do not do is repeatedly exploit bugs in other people's software to bring down services. Imagine if netcraft started crashing some obscure OS/2 web server with its queries. We'd expect them to stop querying those servers, at the very least, and at best to fix their query.