No, no, the funny thing to think about is all the terrorists going and *upgrading* their current encryption software because of a change in the word doc formats... inadvertently installing a backdoored compliant version. Microsoft will save the day, yet again!
As good as this parallel is, there is a substantial inversion going on nowadays. In the old days of exploring, most of the crew were essentially thugs, biomass to keep the ship/sled/canoes going. All the *truly* intellegent people, ignoring the single great explorer on each of these expeditions (grudgingly giving them the benefit of a clue) stayed at home, and didn't have these problems with their fingers rotting off and discovering that fruits really are good for you in moderation. Nowadays we send our absolute best and brightest (or at least the best and brightest we can muster). These folks are precisely the people that wanted to keep their teeth and other extremities in the first place.
Besides, in the olden days of exploration, most people didn't even start with teeth and all their fingers...
I'd just like a Quake 3 environment in which I could map an X terminal to any arbitrary flat surface... if only for the cool factor. Something like this would be a strange combination of Snow Crash and.NET... but it might be fun.
Just damn lucky those zombies don't have sex with anything though...
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I am unimpressed. What you need to do is somehow include a goatse.cx link in that image, and cleverly incorporate the [goatse.cx] bit that slashcode inserts now into the penis itself.
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Its clear to me that the 'p2p' fad as begun to slip away, through a combination of people realizing it was nothing new and TLA's realizing that that part of the natural order must be crushed in order to maximize profits. (Thats right people, be afraid... they don't want to *ensure* profits, they want to *maximize* them, so throw any images of altruism out the window please).
In comparison, I'd like to draw your attention to another recent buzzword/fad combination, the repeating rifle. Previous to its adoption as a standard military tool, it was employed by some individuals to great effect. Later, as one side adopted it wholesale, it gave an unbelievable advantage to a single army (The United States of Napster). Nowadays, however, everyone has a repeating rifle, thanks largely to the datahaven provided by the USSR... cheap AK-47's are available anywhere in the world, usually for about US $25. At this point it was a moot point, since the buzzword race had moved to nuclear weapons by this time.
Where my analogy breaks is I don't think.NET and 'internet services' are anywhere near nuke significance. Someone else must be coming up with something... somewhere...
Hate to be a cynic, but since when has *anyone* paid for email that didn't want to? Its been a free-via-ads industry since at least 1995... practically an ice age ago in internet time.
*unless* they do something silly like use a virtual filesystem on top of the normal one (which will tend to require a messy client).. The crack for this will probably be as simple as regedit.
In my experience most of this isn't designed to save the rental fee... its to save the $8-$12-$whatever *theater* fee. Movies on the internet traditionally don't respect the release schedule that the MPAA thinks will make them the most money.
If they cripple the movie in this way, release-time-wise, they will completely fail to even put a dent in most trading of their film. The coolest part of downloading a movie, and the only reason not to rent it, is to see it in your home before average joe dumbfuck can.
Re: How long will it take to crack... people might not even bother unless there is a clear quality difference. The alternatives already exist.
Glad to know that your congressman has an intern that cares about the issues. Don't delude yourself that it will have reached the (wo?)man himself unless it comes in bulk, and from many constituents.
I've known senate interns, some of the more crackpot letters become forwarded emails.
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Oceania == Mostly America, ignoring such puny outcrops as airstrip 1.
Airstrip One == UK.
In the case that you --> are being assaulted...
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You need to tie those nouns and verbs together, buddy.
Don't forget the BSD sockets, they are pretty much airtight...
Your toaster?
Welcome to the starlight ballroom... "Fly me to the moon...." WHAM!!!
Hah, but then they find the plaintext of the message, XOR it against the file they intercepted, and there it is! An image of the suspects. :)
0123 4567 8910 1112
Infinitely more secure than spaceballs.
No, no, the funny thing to think about is all the terrorists going and *upgrading* their current encryption software because of a change in the word doc formats... inadvertently installing a backdoored compliant version. Microsoft will save the day, yet again!
Hell, I gave it to her last year.
Yeah, if ONLY linux were an std...
This guarantees it will go to court proper... if he is convicted, that will be trouble... but if he isn't, its a bigger victory.
An innocent verdict is a stronger precident than a guilty one, even if we have to trade one-for-one...
They you eat the stick, thus disarming him!
That was beautiful! Somebody kick it up...
But how are you going to open bottles and tighten bolts on your way home? Teeth are much more mass/fuel effecient than spanners will ever be...
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was a Russian mission at first. Teaches me to not read the article...
As good as this parallel is, there is a substantial inversion going on nowadays. In the old days of exploring, most of the crew were essentially thugs, biomass to keep the ship/sled/canoes going. All the *truly* intellegent people, ignoring the single great explorer on each of these expeditions (grudgingly giving them the benefit of a clue) stayed at home, and didn't have these problems with their fingers rotting off and discovering that fruits really are good for you in moderation. Nowadays we send our absolute best and brightest (or at least the best and brightest we can muster). These folks are precisely the people that wanted to keep their teeth and other extremities in the first place.
Besides, in the olden days of exploration, most people didn't even start with teeth and all their fingers...
I'd just like a Quake 3 environment in which I could map an X terminal to any arbitrary flat surface... if only for the cool factor. Something like this would be a strange combination of Snow Crash and .NET... but it might be fun.
Thats a good way to seed echelon-annoyance-sigs...
See also another review of similar technology here.
Just damn lucky those zombies don't have sex with anything though...
I am unimpressed. What you need to do is somehow include a goatse.cx link in that image, and cleverly incorporate the [goatse.cx] bit that slashcode inserts now into the penis itself.
Its clear to me that the 'p2p' fad as begun to slip away, through a combination of people realizing it was nothing new and TLA's realizing that that part of the natural order must be crushed in order to maximize profits. (Thats right people, be afraid... they don't want to *ensure* profits, they want to *maximize* them, so throw any images of altruism out the window please).
.NET and 'internet services' are anywhere near nuke significance. Someone else must be coming up with something... somewhere...
In comparison, I'd like to draw your attention to another recent buzzword/fad combination, the repeating rifle. Previous to its adoption as a standard military tool, it was employed by some individuals to great effect. Later, as one side adopted it wholesale, it gave an unbelievable advantage to a single army (The United States of Napster). Nowadays, however, everyone has a repeating rifle, thanks largely to the datahaven provided by the USSR... cheap AK-47's are available anywhere in the world, usually for about US $25. At this point it was a moot point, since the buzzword race had moved to nuclear weapons by this time.
Where my analogy breaks is I don't think
I mean... I was really pully for NTFS, I wasn't expecting ext3 to even be in the running...
Hate to be a cynic, but since when has *anyone* paid for email that didn't want to? Its been a free-via-ads industry since at least 1995... practically an ice age ago in internet time.
It isn't even an issue of linux support.
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*unless* they do something silly like use a virtual filesystem on top of the normal one (which will tend to require a messy client).. The crack for this will probably be as simple as regedit.
In my experience most of this isn't designed to save the rental fee... its to save the $8-$12-$whatever *theater* fee. Movies on the internet traditionally don't respect the release schedule that the MPAA thinks will make them the most money.
If they cripple the movie in this way, release-time-wise, they will completely fail to even put a dent in most trading of their film. The coolest part of downloading a movie, and the only reason not to rent it, is to see it in your home before average joe dumbfuck can.
Re: How long will it take to crack... people might not even bother unless there is a clear quality difference. The alternatives already exist.
Glad to know that your congressman has an intern that cares about the issues. Don't delude yourself that it will have reached the (wo?)man himself unless it comes in bulk, and from many constituents.
I've known senate interns, some of the more crackpot letters become forwarded emails.
Alcoholics Anonymous don't let me drink no more... :(
(Using ? in the sense where it matches 0 or more rather than 1 or more, as the regex langague being used wasn't formally defined in the parent post!)