I don't think there is any way the defendant can not loose this case. Until the Freedom of information is practiced by our governments, they are going to continue to fuck around with a patchwork of futile laws about how one is allowed use the signals one picks up from the air, copy the permutations of bits on ones harddisks, or write programs.
Personally I think its pretty scary, the TV signals are in the air all around us, how the fuck can they not be public domain?
If people were looking at the Internet the way they should be looking at it, they would see that this is no different than having a bigscreen TV in bar, which I understand is compeletly legal. But no: the Internet has be the great medium for corporate prostitution of the 21st century, not a place where people like to hang out, so we might as well forget it...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
...Now I ask you, where else can a band attract over-weight white guys from another time zone to come to a club, buy some drinks, have a sex change, shave their hair off, and join the underground lesbian impressionist sculpting scene?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yeah, I know what Samba is, its that thing I never got to work properly and then gave up on when I migrated my last computer to the right OS.
But from the article, it sounded like firing up 98 and logging into the companies domain was his solution to being able to work in Australia. Which would indicate that Linuxcare uses an NT based VPN...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
If australia is so concerned about loosing their technology-apt youth, maybe they should interview them about what sort of laws will scare them off. Internet censorship might have an insie-tinsie little effect on peoples attitudes for example...
Our Samba developer better hope that the code is free from any of those aweful harmful magic words that transform nice pretty kids into hateful massmurderers.
Also, I'm not a drooling fang-toothed windows hater (I just don't use if I don't have to) but exactly are Linuxcare firing up 98 boxes for?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
As did the Argentinian Tango legend Enrique Cadicamo, at the age of 99. And as did about 410,000 other people I don't know.
I don't want to disrespect this death: I try to keep a constant post in my heart reserved for thoughts of the suffering, mourning and dying outside my life, my world, and my knowledge. I really think that does more than slapping up a headline here everytime a semi-celebrity dies.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yeah, but dude, you realize that none of us ever had any eyesight except our own. Since there in no good way to qualify the way things look (hot-cold and a few more being the best you can get for colors).
Fact is, what looks like a sunset to you, might be what I see in a frying pan, and what Stevie Wonder sees as Rob Maldas face. Could explain why I preffer breakfast to a romantic outing...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yeah, I know. It was just a very lame early morning attempt at being funny. I got what was coming to me for it I guess.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Re:Only anti-Linux FUD or all FUD?
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Stopping the FUD
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Could we please stop with all the blaiming of the "Slashdot community" for everything. To a certain extent there is no slashdot community, just a bunch of individuals posting their state of mind. It seems that in almost any thread there is a comment along the lines of the "Slashdot community" being guilty of some horrible sin (we are zealots, flamers, mailbombers, fuddists, etc etc), yet for some reason these posts always get moderated up by the very "community" that is guilty.
There is a huge difference between a slightly exagerated personal statement about NT's percieved suckyness in a comment, and FUD as practiced by Microsoft and their equals. For them it is an adopted, controlled, and intentional process of discrediting the alternatives to their products. For them it is about making money, and countering any threats to their means for doing so: and, in the case of Microsoft, barred by absolutly no proffesional ethics (and that's not FUD, thats the conclusion of the US legal system).
No one is sitting in centrally located boardrooms in the middle of "Slashdot community" and making descisions about how we ought to discredit Microsoft (or, at least, no one has told me about it). I doubt very many of the posters here have financial incentives for wanting to discredit Microsoft. A lot of anti-MS sentiment comes through here because the people who post here are people who use and love computers, and they feel legitimately fucked over by them.
Maybe sometimes emotion gets the better of truth here: but that is far from FUD.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
You are so gone if you think getting publicity is difficult in this day and age. The companies may have been willing to fuck any band that didn't go the conventional way until now, and the radio stations may have been their whores, but those days are gone.
On the web, there are people who know what symbiosis means. Give it two years and watch.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
thanks for the heads up about the Schneier, I forgot to check the crypto-gram this month. I should have known better than to ask without checking what he had to say about it first.
I really think this article (the zdnet version of the dvd article from the crypto-gram) should have been run on Slashdot.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Just to get this straight, it wasn't about karma envy. I don't suffer from karma envy, I lost it somewhere around 100. I haven't even looked at Sig11's user page in ages:-).
Mostly it was just that I sort by score and don't like the idea of having to scoll past a long faq on every post (and I don't want to lower the long post cut threshhold either). There are places to get FAQs...
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I have read that FAQ before, and iirc he posted just about the whole thing. Karma has become something that people aspire for here, and I don't think that setting an precident where we get FAQs spammed to every thread is a great idea.
FAQs are usually well mirrored...
(oh, and to the dumbo who moderated my comment here up: you realize that if you agreed with me, you would have spent the point better moderating the previous post down.)
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I usually recommend people to pirate the cd, and then send a $1 donation to the band. That is more than they will see of your money should you buy the cd.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Do away with me for being offtopic, but I really don't think that this should have been moderated up all the way. It wasn't really called for here, a simple link would have been good enough.
Are cut and pasted faqs going to start occuring at the top every/. article?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
In many ways, I think there is a shift of view here so new that while I see it among us geeks, it has yet to proliferate into the general public. With the PC, and with the coming of age of open, free operating systems, we have reached a point where we dare ask for control over our machines, or more specifically, that they serve us, and no one else.
If you think back ten years, technology was about companies. A new system or format would come out, and we would all praise the creators for giving us new technology (ok, not everyone, but people who like new technology). We didn't ask for input into the design, and didn't complain very vocally when they were designed for the good of the companies rather than the consumer. The people creating these formats are still stuck in that age where they, a small number of large companies, controlled the means by which we also used them.
But those days are over. I simply will not invite a machine into my house unless it serves my agenda, and my agenda alone. I don't want a black box that keeps secrets from me, spies on me, controls my freedom, or generally tells me what I can and can't do. I believe that this attitude is the only way we can keep the integrity over our machines in the techno future, and I believe it will spread.
Regarding the specifics of making these disks hard to crack, they really only have a few options. They could put more keys on each disk, so that they can quickly stop printing one key once it is known to be cracked (damage control, but it means people will have to keep updating their players). And they can use stronger crypto (if they can get by the regulations which seems very difficult), but that only means makes the known plaintext attack that the CSS crackers used to attain all the other keys when they had one implausible, they would still have get first one.
I'm interested in hearing for people with better insight then myself into this sort of programming, if it is plausible to write a program where the key cannot be retrieved from the memory when the encryption is going on? After all, GPG complains about insecure memory everytime I run it, but that is from other users: this is worse, since it will be me trying to scan the memory for the key. Can it really decrypt things right under my nose without showing what transformations are being applied when analyzed carefully?
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
However, if I'm not wrong, it's still the judge that grants the preliminary injunction, and that is a bad sign. Any judge with sense would simply have held Amazon in contempt of court for attempting to make a mockery of the patent system in this way.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The US government is already regulating this market without asking the rest of the world what they think, so the line between that and them controlling it is really hair thin.
If the americans are so afraid of their national tld, they might as well have the non-national ones as far as I care.
- We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes of course. The last thing we want is a bunch of pretend laws and rights that can't be enforced.
You only have a right to privacy to the extent that it is possible to guarantee that privacy. And no law, only cryptography, can do that.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
(So if he wins, he wins. If he loses, he doesn't lose.)
Well if this is his plan he is still an idiot. Read my lips: NOBODY WINS IN CASINO GAMBLING.
People gamble for the same reason that others are shopaholics: they like loosing money. Nobody wins.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yes. Go right ahead. If I cared I would encrypt my communications.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I don't think there is any way the defendant can not loose this case. Until the Freedom of information is practiced by our governments, they are going to continue to fuck around with a patchwork of futile laws about how one is allowed use the signals one picks up from the air, copy the permutations of bits on ones harddisks, or write programs.
Personally I think its pretty scary, the TV signals are in the air all around us, how the fuck can they not be public domain?
If people were looking at the Internet the way they should be looking at it, they would see that this is no different than having a bigscreen TV in bar, which I understand is compeletly legal. But no: the Internet has be the great medium for corporate prostitution of the 21st century, not a place where people like to hang out, so we might as well forget it...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
...Now I ask you, where else can a band attract over-weight white guys from another time zone to come to a club, buy some drinks, have a sex change, shave their hair off, and join the underground lesbian impressionist sculpting scene?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
You mean sort of like praticing medicine without a license?
I mean, who really cares whether your doctor actually went to med-school or saw a documentary on surgery on Discovery, as long as he can hold scalpal!
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
> I mean, really, show me ONE PLACE where the Bible refers to the missionary position or anal sex,
You are correct. There is NONE.
So, pray tell, what exactly were the sodomites planning to with those angles which the two virgin daughters were not good for?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yeah, I know what Samba is, its that thing I never got to work properly and then gave up on when I migrated my last computer to the right OS.
But from the article, it sounded like firing up 98 and logging into the companies domain was his solution to being able to work in Australia. Which would indicate that Linuxcare uses an NT based VPN...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
If australia is so concerned about loosing their technology-apt youth, maybe they should interview them about what sort of laws will scare them off. Internet censorship might have an insie-tinsie little effect on peoples attitudes for example...
Our Samba developer better hope that the code is free from any of those aweful harmful magic words that transform nice pretty kids into hateful massmurderers.
Also, I'm not a drooling fang-toothed windows hater (I just don't use if I don't have to) but exactly are Linuxcare firing up 98 boxes for?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I heard that in Kansas its illegal to teach evolution in school...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
It thinks its time you re-read '1984'.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
As did the Argentinian Tango legend Enrique Cadicamo, at the age of 99. And as did about 410,000 other people I don't know.
I don't want to disrespect this death: I try to keep a constant post in my heart reserved for thoughts of the suffering, mourning and dying outside my life, my world, and my knowledge. I really think that does more than slapping up a headline here everytime a semi-celebrity dies.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yeah, but dude, you realize that none of us ever had any eyesight except our own. Since there in no good way to qualify the way things look (hot-cold and a few more being the best you can get for colors).
Fact is, what looks like a sunset to you, might be what I see in a frying pan, and what Stevie Wonder sees as Rob Maldas face. Could explain why I preffer breakfast to a romantic outing...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Yeah, I know. It was just a very lame early morning attempt at being funny. I got what was coming to me for it I guess.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Could we please stop with all the blaiming of the "Slashdot community" for everything. To a certain extent there is no slashdot community, just a bunch of individuals posting their state of mind. It seems that in almost any thread there is a comment along the lines of the "Slashdot community" being guilty of some horrible sin (we are zealots, flamers, mailbombers, fuddists, etc etc), yet for some reason these posts always get moderated up by the very "community" that is guilty.
There is a huge difference between a slightly exagerated personal statement about NT's percieved suckyness in a comment, and FUD as practiced by Microsoft and their equals. For them it is an adopted, controlled, and intentional process of discrediting the alternatives to their products. For them it is about making money, and countering any threats to their means for doing so: and, in the case of Microsoft, barred by absolutly no proffesional ethics (and that's not FUD, thats the conclusion of the US legal system).
No one is sitting in centrally located boardrooms in the middle of "Slashdot community" and making descisions about how we ought to discredit Microsoft (or, at least, no one has told me about it). I doubt very many of the posters here have financial incentives for wanting to discredit Microsoft. A lot of anti-MS sentiment comes through here because the people who post here are people who use and love computers, and they feel legitimately fucked over by them.
Maybe sometimes emotion gets the better of truth here: but that is far from FUD.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
"Hello, I would like the combination to your safe, I can pay you for it, but not until after I rob you," probably won't fly...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
You are so gone if you think getting publicity is difficult in this day and age. The companies may have been willing to fuck any band that didn't go the conventional way until now, and the radio stations may have been their whores, but those days are gone.
On the web, there are people who know what symbiosis means. Give it two years and watch.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
thanks for the heads up about the Schneier, I forgot to check the crypto-gram this month. I should have known better than to ask without checking what he had to say about it first.
I really think this article (the zdnet version of the dvd article from the crypto-gram) should have been run on Slashdot.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Just to get this straight, it wasn't about karma envy. I don't suffer from karma envy, I lost it somewhere around 100. I haven't even looked at Sig11's user page in ages
Mostly it was just that I sort by score and don't like the idea of having to scoll past a long faq on every post (and I don't want to lower the long post cut threshhold either). There are places to get FAQs...
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I have read that FAQ before, and iirc he posted just about the whole thing. Karma has become something that people aspire for here, and I don't think that setting an precident where we get FAQs spammed to every thread is a great idea.
FAQs are usually well mirrored...
(oh, and to the dumbo who moderated my comment here up: you realize that if you agreed with me, you would have spent the point better moderating the previous post down.)
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I usually recommend people to pirate the cd, and then send a $1 donation to the band. That is more than they will see of your money should you buy the cd.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Do away with me for being offtopic, but I really don't think that this should have been moderated up all the way. It wasn't really called for here, a simple link would have been good enough.
Are cut and pasted faqs going to start occuring at the top every
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
In many ways, I think there is a shift of view here so new that while I see it among us geeks, it has yet to proliferate into the general public. With the PC, and with the coming of age of open, free operating systems, we have reached a point where we dare ask for control over our machines, or more specifically, that they serve us, and no one else.
If you think back ten years, technology was about companies. A new system or format would come out, and we would all praise the creators for giving us new technology (ok, not everyone, but people who like new technology). We didn't ask for input into the design, and didn't complain very vocally when they were designed for the good of the companies rather than the consumer. The people creating these formats are still stuck in that age where they, a small number of large companies, controlled the means by which we also used them.
But those days are over. I simply will not invite a machine into my house unless it serves my agenda, and my agenda alone. I don't want a black box that keeps secrets from me, spies on me, controls my freedom, or generally tells me what I can and can't do. I believe that this attitude is the only way we can keep the integrity over our machines in the techno future, and I believe it will spread.
Regarding the specifics of making these disks hard to crack, they really only have a few options. They could put more keys on each disk, so that they can quickly stop printing one key once it is known to be cracked (damage control, but it means people will have to keep updating their players). And they can use stronger crypto (if they can get by the regulations which seems very difficult), but that only means makes the known plaintext attack that the CSS crackers used to attain all the other keys when they had one implausible, they would still have get first one.
I'm interested in hearing for people with better insight then myself into this sort of programming, if it is plausible to write a program where the key cannot be retrieved from the memory when the encryption is going on? After all, GPG complains about insecure memory everytime I run it, but that is from other users: this is worse, since it will be me trying to scan the memory for the key. Can it really decrypt things right under my nose without showing what transformations are being applied when analyzed carefully?
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
However, if I'm not wrong, it's still the judge that grants the preliminary injunction, and that is a bad sign. Any judge with sense would simply have held Amazon in contempt of court for attempting to make a mockery of the patent system in this way.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The US government is already regulating this market without asking the rest of the world what they think, so the line between that and them controlling it is really hair thin.
If the americans are so afraid of their national tld, they might as well have the non-national ones as far as I care.
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.