For all practical purposes, https is dead. There is no way browsers will carry around the hundreds of thousands of possibly-stolen-so-unsafe certificates fingerprints (to consider these tainted/revoked). The only way forward is probably to move away to an incompatible protocol. And if possible, cure some of the X509 wrong ways.
I did not see it mentioned, but it is still doubtful that Wifi is health-clean. We do not know for sure, and it might be discovered one day, that too much electomagnetic noise (and especially the one generated by wifi) is nocive. This day would be the day the wired internet will be the only one allowed in public areas (esp. since it looks like a small quantity of EM waves is not dangerous).
JPEG is (roughly) a discrete cosine transform, followed by a filter on high frequencies, followed by Huffmann encoding (which is lossless). This is probably the Huffmann encoding that they did remove and replace with one of the more efficient compression algorithms, and something that could indeed be much more efficient than simple huffmann encoding. So they still take advantage of all the strengths of JPEG related to the human perception model, but they still gain in compression. Huffmann is great to compress oft-appearing sequences, and is a great general-purpose lossless encoding, but there are other that do a better job of it.
In other words, you did not understand what they did.
Moreover, most universities will consider that games are not a good reason to allow P2P to go through to university dorm.
Moreover, univ admin already often download and make local mirrors of linux distribs, which is the other main "legit" source of P2P.
Please note that I do not fully accept those reasons, but pragmatic compromises (clogged Internet pipes) certainly have to be taken into account.
Security through obscurity never worked that much, will work much worse now. However, I do not see worms using such tools to propagate better. Worms just try to infect everyone and do not care about being glued in honeypots.
It's not. It's against the law to encourage people to kill the doctors that do the abortion operations. It's against the law to post their portraits with "Wanted" written under it.
The french legal system is ENTIRELY different from that of the US, UK, and Canada. Their views on "inalienable rights" are far more limited than ours, and it reflects in this particular situation. For example, did you know that in
the french criminal justice system, all suspects are GUILTY until PROVEN INNOCENT? Sounds backwards, doesn't it?
That's because from our point of view, it IS backwards.
Bullshit. It is just plain false. France even has laws that prevent media to show people with manacles until they are proven guilty.
What is at stake is wether Yahoo! has to take care of the law in a country where it makes business. Well, the French courts think they do. This has nothing to do with free speech. This has to do with selling war objects that offend their memories.
What was asked was not to remove any (French-)illegal objects from auctions. It was to make unaccessible to French people these objects. If Yahoo! decided that it was best for its business to remove these for everybody, well... it's Yahoo!'s choice.
Verisign is a private commercial company. As such, it can be regarded as more accountable than ICANN, because it has to answer to its shareholders and its consumers, which is a lot more than can be said for ICANN.
Well, a private commercial company is not accountable to its consumers when it is in a situation of control over a monopoly. It is only accountable to its shareholders, and it makes very few people with respect to the Internet users.
At the end of the page, there is a table with the price in FF (divide by 7 approx. for US$).
I do not agree with this tax for this real reason: the author society that will redistribute the money is one of the most unclear and devious company, they have no clear accountability, it's awful.
I also do not agree with the principle, but life is full of compromises.
In fact, setting an off-shore web site might be a violation of the DMCA. After all, setting an off-shore web site is a way to circumvent copyright protections... isn't it?
I'd just like to respond to the biological piracy thing. This has already happened. This is the reason why you can drink coffee. Coffee has long been a secret, very well guarded, until someone could steal some grains and export them. Then some plants were offered to countries as presents by the thiefs. So Dutchland, Spain, France, Britain, all ended up with coffee, and planted it in their colonies.
So, coffee is already issued from biological piracy. And it will happen again.
Yes, I gather this from what has been said before. However, Linux kernel can be patched, it's one of the main strengths of Linux. It reminds me of the people saying "There is no SMB support under Linux" because you have to recompile the kernel to make it work !
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For all practical purposes, https is dead. There is no way browsers will carry around the hundreds of thousands of possibly-stolen-so-unsafe certificates fingerprints (to consider these tainted/revoked). The only way forward is probably to move away to an incompatible protocol. And if possible, cure some of the X509 wrong ways.
# wtf? with the binary blob: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
here$ cat
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS rev 161"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
EndSection
here$ xrandr -o 1
(turns his head to the right)
I agree with the security argument.
I did not see it mentioned, but it is still doubtful that Wifi is health-clean. We do not know for sure, and it might be discovered one day, that too much electomagnetic noise (and especially the one generated by wifi) is nocive. This day would be the day the wired internet will be the only one allowed in public areas (esp. since it looks like a small quantity of EM waves is not dangerous).
JPEG is (roughly) a discrete cosine transform, followed by a filter on high frequencies, followed by Huffmann encoding (which is lossless). This is probably the Huffmann encoding that they did remove and replace with one of the more efficient compression algorithms, and something that could indeed be much more efficient than simple huffmann encoding. So they still take advantage of all the strengths of JPEG related to the human perception model, but they still gain in compression. Huffmann is great to compress oft-appearing sequences, and is a great general-purpose lossless encoding, but there are other that do a better job of it.
In other words, you did not understand what they did.
Moreover, most universities will consider that games are not a good reason to allow P2P to go through to university dorm. Moreover, univ admin already often download and make local mirrors of linux distribs, which is the other main "legit" source of P2P. Please note that I do not fully accept those reasons, but pragmatic compromises (clogged Internet pipes) certainly have to be taken into account.
Security through obscurity never worked that much, will work much worse now. However, I do not see worms using such tools to propagate better. Worms just try to infect everyone and do not care about being glued in honeypots.
mèl was just an abbreviation -- it never was a word.
Do you use Tel in current language? Same status.
Ok it worked for fax (which is fac-simile abbreviated), but it was an abbreviation.
It's not. It's against the law to encourage people to kill the doctors that do the abortion operations. It's against the law to post their portraits with "Wanted" written under it.
Bullshit. It is just plain false. France even has laws that prevent media to show people with manacles until they are proven guilty.
What is at stake is wether Yahoo! has to take care of the law in a country where it makes business. Well, the French courts think they do. This has nothing to do with free speech. This has to do with selling war objects that offend their memories.
What was asked was not to remove any (French-)illegal objects from auctions. It was to make unaccessible to French people these objects. If Yahoo! decided that it was best for its business to remove these for everybody, well... it's Yahoo!'s choice.
Well, a private commercial company is not accountable to its consumers when it is in a situation of control over a monopoly. It is only accountable to its shareholders, and it makes very few people with respect to the Internet users.
In fact, the tax is about 3.7 FF for a CD-RW, about 0.5 US$. You can find the draft at this page: http://www.culture.fr/culture/actualites/politique /copie-privee.htm
At the end of the page, there is a table with the price in FF (divide by 7 approx. for US$).
I do not agree with this tax for this real reason: the author society that will redistribute the money is one of the most unclear and devious company, they have no clear accountability, it's awful.
I also do not agree with the principle, but life is full of compromises.
That's all, no need to bother you any more.
In fact, setting an off-shore web site might be a violation of the DMCA. After all, setting an off-shore web site is a way to circumvent copyright protections... isn't it?
I'd just like to respond to the biological piracy thing. This has already happened. This is the reason why you can drink coffee. Coffee has long been a secret, very well guarded, until someone could steal some grains and export them. Then some plants were offered to countries as presents by the thiefs. So Dutchland, Spain, France, Britain, all ended up with coffee, and planted it in their colonies.
So, coffee is already issued from biological piracy. And it will happen again.
Btw, I juste browsed and "History of Coffee" will probably yield the complete story in any search engine, e.g. http://www.greenmountaincoff ee.com/scripts/history.asp.
Yes, I gather this from what has been said before.
However, Linux kernel can be patched, it's one of
the main strengths of Linux. It reminds me of the people saying "There is no SMB support under Linux" because you have to recompile the kernel to make it work !