First off: I am a lawyer, but not admitted to the bar anywhere in the US, so things might be different there. Generally, his heirs / estate should be able to get that kind of information. It probably involves notarized letters, perhaps even a court order, but it certainly can be done.
As to his local linux box, unless he used encryption, that's fair game also. I see no moral problems with either.
Not much of an issue. There is software for that, some formula editors, or people use TeX in the first place, etc. Also, just because you have a large arsenal of symbols at your disposal does not mean you will need all of them. As a mathematician, say, you will probably only need a handful of non standard ones in any given paper, and those are easy to access. Where this matters most is on the receiving end: Here, on the other hand, we have one font that can display virtually all the symbols you would ever need, and the end user need not worry about inputting them.
Much confidence is inspired by a website that does not work with Firefox, and wants to harvest your email address to allow you downloading their beta software (well, font).
Nah. We (as in: Europeans) have enjoyed reliable landline telephony for quite some time, thank you very much. It's just that I don't need one: Internet access is done via cable, for everything else there is the cell phone. The advantage is that you're calling a person, and not a a place (where this person might be, or not.)
It's cheap, reliable and decidedly low-maintenance. I don't think this trend can be reversed. It'll just take the US a few more years to get there, but it's inevitable.
Warrant? No, they didn't bother. They just "asked nicely", and Visa & Co let them have the necessary information, ie who payed a certain amount to a certain recevier during a given period in the summer of 2006.
To obtain that information, they needed to go through the records of roughly 30 or so million credit card holders. Reasonable? I don't think so.
Hate to bust your bubble, but that's simply not true. Every bank that I ever exchanged money at had a copy of "the book". I have no idea who produces it, but it has information and pictures of (almost, I guess) all the world's exchangeable bank notes, including pictures, safety features and so on. You wouldn't get away with this with, say, Slovenian Tolar, much less with the Euro.
Yes it does cover derivative works, certainly over here. And of course, the translation is the authors or publisher perogative. So, although I still consider this a fairly ambitious fan project (that IMO won't hurt the sales, come Nov 8) the publishers have every right to go after them. It's just that it might not be a very smart move.
Oh puh-lease. Where do you live, dude? In my country (Austria) spam is illegal, but that doesn't mean I don't get any. I get little local spam, true, but my fair share of enlarge-your-penis and buy-iagra junk like everybody else.
I mean, FM radio is a basically a passive technology, from the user's point of view at least. The information is there, and I pick it up from the airwaves. I don't quite see how anybody can determine what frequency my receiver is tuned to?
Stenography is just another form of encryption, and a weak one at that.
Actually, no. Certainly, steganography can additionally use encryption (of any kind, BTW, including the cipher of your choice), but it is not "just another kind of encryption".
The primary reason is simple - it is security through obscurity.
Not really. That's a bit like saying cryptography is security by obscurity, since you must'nt make public the password. True, there are stronger and weaker forms of steganography (just as with cryptogtaphy in general), and some are easier to detect than others.
It is mathematically impossible to hide information in another medium that cannot be figured out.
I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to prove that. The well-respected german computer magazine c't reviewed a few of the more popular steganography applications in their last-but-one issue.
It is true that in many cases they were able to detect hidden information. (Which is enough to "break" it, since steganography is to designed to hide the mere fact that information has been exchanged).
The signal carrying the second data stream will always be recongnizable.
That's simply not true. You must not, of course, always overwrite the least significant bit or things like that, since this is relatively easy to figure out with statistical analysis.
Child pornography involving children above the age of 9 was legal in the 70s in some european countries (yes REAL children). Was there this big boom in child sexuality in the general population for that reason? Not that I've found any record of.
Where I come from (=Austria) child pornography is explicitly forbidden, including virtual cp. But the age of consent being 14, pornographers could easily make moves with such young actresses.
To make a long story short: They don't. (Not that I would be aware ouf, at least.) Why? There's simply no money to be made that way.
(I don't think "Barely Legal" would be a success if they featured 14-year-olds.)
So, in closing: I don't understand why virtual cp should be illegal, provided that no children get molested.
What's next? Art? Literature? (Hey, "Lolita", anyone?)
Will I be allowed to take pictures of my own children, runing around naked in my back yard? Will I be allowed to show them to anyone?
I was looking into the exact same issue a while ago. (Turned out we really didn't need Linux support in the end, but I did some research.)
Somebody told me that the German company
ZeitControl (=Timecontrol) provides Linux drivers for at least some of their cards. (They have magnetic ones as well as cards with embedded microchips, like modern ATM cards).
You might also want to look at
this page. If there is a smart card command line utility for Linux, chances are there must be some supported readers.
Good luck!
"The spam-banning is a very good idea, but it has to be implemented very carefully, so as not to tread on freedoms.".
Quite frankly, I consider not receiving UCE/UBE in the first place a kind of freedom. The talk about "free commercial speech" is a two-edged sword. Sure, advertising / direct marketing is needed. I don't obejct to it.
What I do obejct to, though, is ruthless spamming, forged headers, and all the other things we have come to know and hate.
Opting out, which you appear to favour, is not a solution for me. And I certainly won't reply with "unsubscribe" in the subject.
This might indeed be one of the rare cases where government intervention / regulation is needed. The problem, though, is that most spam comes from the US and/or overseas, so individual laws (spam is outright prohibited where I live, eg) are not the solution. States need to cooperate. If the EU could find a common position on this subject, it'd be a step in the right direction.
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First off: I am a lawyer, but not admitted to the bar anywhere in the US, so things might be different there. Generally, his heirs / estate should be able to get that kind of information. It probably involves notarized letters, perhaps even a court order, but it certainly can be done.
As to his local linux box, unless he used encryption, that's fair game also. I see no moral problems with either.
Pretty irresponsible behavior, in my book. They could've simply taken it down, obviously, but deliberately returning false positives is ugly.
Not much of an issue. There is software for that, some formula editors, or people use TeX in the first place, etc. Also, just because you have a large arsenal of symbols at your disposal does not mean you will need all of them. As a mathematician, say, you will probably only need a handful of non standard ones in any given paper, and those are easy to access. Where this matters most is on the receiving end: Here, on the other hand, we have one font that can display virtually all the symbols you would ever need, and the end user need not worry about inputting them.
Much confidence is inspired by a website that does not work with Firefox, and wants to harvest your email address to allow you downloading their beta software (well, font).
Nah. We (as in: Europeans) have enjoyed reliable landline telephony for quite some time, thank you very much. It's just that I don't need one: Internet access is done via cable, for everything else there is the cell phone. The advantage is that you're calling a person, and not a a place (where this person might be, or not.)
It's cheap, reliable and decidedly low-maintenance. I don't think this trend can be reversed. It'll just take the US a few more years to get there, but it's inevitable.
Warrant? No, they didn't bother. They just "asked nicely", and Visa & Co let them have the necessary information, ie who payed a certain amount to a certain recevier during a given period in the summer of 2006.
To obtain that information, they needed to go through the records of roughly 30 or so million credit card holders. Reasonable? I don't think so.
Ah, checking referrers? Am I missing anything here?
Hate to bust your bubble, but that's simply not true. Every bank that I ever exchanged money at had a copy of "the book". I have no idea who produces it, but it has information and pictures of (almost, I guess) all the world's exchangeable bank notes, including pictures, safety features and so on. You wouldn't get away with this with, say, Slovenian Tolar, much less with the Euro.
Well, I never knew.
Yes it does cover derivative works, certainly over here. And of course, the translation is the authors or publisher perogative. So, although I still consider this a fairly ambitious fan project (that IMO won't hurt the sales, come Nov 8) the publishers have every right to go after them. It's just that it might not be a very smart move.
Oh puh-lease. Where do you live, dude? In my country (Austria) spam is illegal, but that doesn't mean I don't get any. I get little local spam, true, but my fair share of enlarge-your-penis and buy-iagra junk like everybody else.
Can't be bothered to read the original paper, can you?
"Can anyone tell me what the average extra time is?" Whenever the sending MTA tries again, and between 1 and 4 hours have passed.
"I am not convinced that most of the spam comes from specialized email applications that can be fooled with a temporarily failure."
It doesn't really matter, it buys you at least one
hour of extra time, to perform additional traffic analysis, upate your IP-blocking lists etc.
"How does the algorithm adapt when aforementioned email applications adapt to 'greylisting'?" Sheesh. Read the bloody paper, please.
"What happends of we all install 'greylisting' filters and each email has to be resent several times?"
It's automatically whitelisted after the first successfull delivery.
If you had read the original paper, you'd know that possible spammers' reaction and adaption strategies have been well taken into account.
Actually, AFAIK there will be no way to turn Galileo off. It is designed as a commercial alternative to GPS, and supposed to be there to stay.
I mean, FM radio is a basically a passive technology, from the user's point of view at least. The information is there, and I pick it up from the airwaves. I don't quite see how anybody can determine what frequency my receiver is tuned to?
This article is from 1999.
Stenography is just another form of encryption, and a weak one at that.
The primary reason is simple - it is security through obscurity.
It is mathematically impossible to hide information in another medium that cannot be figured out.
The signal carrying the second data stream will always be recongnizable.
Where I come from (=Austria) child pornography is explicitly forbidden, including virtual cp. But the age of consent being 14, pornographers could easily make moves with such young actresses.
To make a long story short: They don't. (Not that I would be aware ouf, at least.) Why? There's simply no money to be made that way. (I don't think "Barely Legal" would be a success if they featured 14-year-olds.)
So, in closing: I don't understand why virtual cp should be illegal, provided that no children get molested.
What's next? Art? Literature? (Hey, "Lolita", anyone?) Will I be allowed to take pictures of my own children, runing around naked in my back yard? Will I be allowed to show them to anyone?
You might also want to look at this page. If there is a smart card command line utility for Linux, chances are there must be some supported readers. Good luck!
What I do obejct to, though, is ruthless spamming, forged headers, and all the other things we have come to know and hate.
Opting out, which you appear to favour, is not a solution for me. And I certainly won't reply with "unsubscribe" in the subject.
This might indeed be one of the rare cases where government intervention / regulation is needed. The problem, though, is that most spam comes from the US and/or overseas, so individual laws (spam is outright prohibited where I live, eg) are not the solution. States need to cooperate. If the EU could find a common position on this subject, it'd be a step in the right direction.