> So I don't know about that town, but it would be impossible to restrict access by IP > address in these parts. Or at least you would have to allow potential access to many > millions of people...
That would be three orders of magnitude better than allowing access to six billion people.
> The result is that movie rights, which are potentially very valuable and currently > factor into the incentives that go into writing a book (this is where the whole idea of > derivative works originates from), end up being only worth a fraction of their actual > value to the author.
"Actual value to the author"? The rights are worth exactly what he can get for them.
> Both options could leave authors worse off than the current system.
> Movie studio X actually begins production of the film 3 years into the copyright of the > book, and finishes just as the 5 year copyright is expiring.
They created a derivative work (an exclusive right of the copyright owner) during the term of the copyright and so infringed.
> The movie becomes a blockbuster, and studio X sucks up all the profits, while not > handing a penny to the author.
The movie that becomes a blockbuster is not that of studio X but that of studio Y which did come to an agreement with the author and so was able to bring its movie out six months before the copyright expired.
> And the very first thing the users will do is write down the encryption key, so they > don't forget it.
That's exactly what they should do, unless it's a corporate machine subject to central key management. They also should, of course, put the key somewhere secure and seperate from the computer.
> It is always coming from countries, that themselves have a historical grudge against > them, hoard (one of) the largest collection(s) of chemical, biological and not only > possible but real nuclear weapons. And they actually used them on foreign countries.
> So single or dual-generation colony ships are feasible if you go fast enough...
Stronger: if you can manage about 1 gravity of acceleration for on the order of one year you can reach any point in the universe. Just don't try to go home.
>...but the journey is even more one-way than the Altantic crossing to the British > Colonies.
Interstellar travel at relativistic speeds is time travel.
> At least relativity would make trans-planetary governance difficult...
> Also, 90% of the population aren't computer programmers. Debugging should simply be > disabled, by default, and require installation of additional userland tools and > root/Administrator privileges to ENABLE the capability (not necessarily Administrator > privileges to exercise the capability once it's enabled on a system).
Excellent idea. Programmers shouldn't mind doing a one-time configuration change to enable debugging. The change could even be made by the debugger postinst script./home should also be mounted noexec. Yes, I know there are ways to work around that, but it adds a significant barrier to many attacks.
> My next question is this: I assume that this is a real company...
Why do you assume that?
>...making this "technology" that is important only for its semi-believable bluster. > So how do we get in on such a gravy train?
I think that getting on somebody's gravy train is the goal of the inventors of this gadget. Getting it publicized is the first step. The thing will never be deployed, of course, but if they can make the right connections some doofus executive in the entertainment industry might buy their patents for a few million.
Traditional ethnic organized crime hits mostly people of their own ethnicity because their neighbors are conveniently close at hand. Online, though, it's just as easy to hit an EUian as a neighbor. Even if Russians are hit with the same probability as anyone in the world the result is a net positive cash flow into Russia.
There is a great deal to be learned from the study of embryonic stem cells. They are, after all, what the people working with adult cells are trying to emulate.
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> By visiting Google's ad-preferences page, the user can opt out of having their surfing
> habits tracked...
The user can also opt out of having their surfing habits tracked by blocking Google and DoubleClick cookies.
> So I don't know about that town, but it would be impossible to restrict access by IP
> address in these parts. Or at least you would have to allow potential access to many
> millions of people...
That would be three orders of magnitude better than allowing access to six billion people.
> The result is that movie rights, which are potentially very valuable and currently
> factor into the incentives that go into writing a book (this is where the whole idea of
> derivative works originates from), end up being only worth a fraction of their actual
> value to the author.
"Actual value to the author"? The rights are worth exactly what he can get for them.
> Both options could leave authors worse off than the current system.
So what?
> Movie studio X actually begins production of the film 3 years into the copyright of the
> book, and finishes just as the 5 year copyright is expiring.
They created a derivative work (an exclusive right of the copyright owner) during the term of the copyright and so infringed.
> The movie becomes a blockbuster, and studio X sucks up all the profits, while not
> handing a penny to the author.
The movie that becomes a blockbuster is not that of studio X but that of studio Y which did come to an agreement with the author and so was able to bring its movie out six months before the copyright expired.
Perhaps they feel that their book has "social value".
Can we see an objective, non-ideological defintion?
> RIAA's problem with it's American cases is meeting evidence criteria that a crime was
> committed.
The RIAA is filing civil lawsuits, not criminal complaints.
> And the very first thing the users will do is write down the encryption key, so they
> don't forget it.
That's exactly what they should do, unless it's a corporate machine subject to central key management. They also should, of course, put the key somewhere secure and seperate from the computer.
> It is always coming from countries, that themselves have a historical grudge against
> them, hoard (one of) the largest collection(s) of chemical, biological and not only
> possible but real nuclear weapons. And they actually used them on foreign countries.
It's quite amazing to learn this about Japan.
The warhead is being developed by a different, somewhat more secretive group of amateurs.
> You're thinking single user, it's quite reasonable for multiple users to use a machine,
> even at the same time.
If you have a user who needs debugging you enable debugging. No such user is present on most machines (most of which are actually single user anyway).
> Furthermore, it often the right thing to run the debugger on the user's machine so you
> can actually see WTH the user has managed to break.
So you turn debugging on, do your work, and turn it back off again.
As long as debugging is disabled on most machines (especially those belonging to non-technical users) it is useless to crackers.
> So single or dual-generation colony ships are feasible if you go fast enough...
Stronger: if you can manage about 1 gravity of acceleration for on the order of one year you can reach any point in the universe. Just don't try to go home.
> ...but the journey is even more one-way than the Altantic crossing to the British
> Colonies.
Interstellar travel at relativistic speeds is time travel.
> At least relativity would make trans-planetary governance difficult...
Impossible, one hopes.
Go fast enough and it will take only a year or so of your time.
> Also, 90% of the population aren't computer programmers. Debugging should simply be
> disabled, by default, and require installation of additional userland tools and
> root/Administrator privileges to ENABLE the capability (not necessarily Administrator
> privileges to exercise the capability once it's enabled on a system).
Excellent idea. Programmers shouldn't mind doing a one-time configuration change to enable debugging. The change could even be made by the debugger postinst script. /home should also be mounted noexec. Yes, I know there are ways to work around that, but it adds a significant barrier to many attacks.
> But never the target of insurance companies.
Whatever gave you that idea? Soldiers can and sometimes do purchase private life insurance to supplement their government-sudsidized insurance.
> My next question is this: I assume that this is a real company...
Why do you assume that?
> ...making this "technology" that is important only for its semi-believable bluster.
> So how do we get in on such a gravy train?
I think that getting on somebody's gravy train is the goal of the inventors of this gadget. Getting it publicized is the first step. The thing will never be deployed, of course, but if they can make the right connections some doofus executive in the entertainment industry might buy their patents for a few million.
Are you saying that whitelisted programs are identified merely by name?
> I always thought the point of UAC was to push people to run as a normal user for their
> day to day operations.
Then non-admin would be the default. Is it?
Traditional ethnic organized crime hits mostly people of their own ethnicity because their neighbors are conveniently close at hand. Online, though, it's just as easy to hit an EUian as a neighbor. Even if Russians are hit with the same probability as anyone in the world the result is a net positive cash flow into Russia.
There is a great deal to be learned from the study of embryonic stem cells. They are, after all, what the people working with adult cells are trying to emulate.
Does the word "radio" ring a bell?
I live in the Midwest, on a farm, on a hill. I find the tornado warnings on the radio quite adequate.
> Instant messaging, bittorrent, games.
Those can all be removed (or not installed to begin with).
> He explained that the files associated with those applications and features are not
> actually deleted from the hard drive.
Why not?
From the original Strine?
> The random key is encoded at the quantum level in the sidebeam in the phase and
> amplitude, or brightness and colour, of a highly tuned laser beam.
Or is it just the gobbledegook it looks like?