IIRC this is not entirely correct. The s-boxes (I believe thats what they are called, the routine that handles the permutation anyways) were selected so that they were secure against the differential cryptoanalysis, but not against linear.
I'll deffer any questions to Schneier (cause you do own it, right??)...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
who is likely to forget how to inflate a fucking life jacket? When they are flying over land?
Life jackets:
Yes, it has happened that airplanes went down in water, but its a freak accident nowadays. The chances of not breaking a plane against the surface when landing (if a wing tip goes down first, the plane will flip and completely break) are very small.
Seatbelts:
I know that seatbelts in airplanes are for turbulance, not crashing. Any flight over the bay of bengal will convince of that.
But all safety aside, wouldn't it be nicer if they rolled back in your seat??
Windows:
Yes, it doesn't matter, but it illustrates my point.
Its not that I am against doing anything for safety, I'm just saying that the current regulations are more or less the same ones created in the 1940s, and while some are good, all are very outdated.
I don't agree about the photo id thing, we used to need photo IDs to take the subway here (they have non-personal cards now). Big deal.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Or even better, file a class action suit claiming that class action suits, because of their unpredictable outcomes, cost, and monetary reward, are, in fact, illegal gambling...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
I'd rather suffer a small annoyance and get home safe to see my family.
This is just a matter of what one considers a "minor" annoyance. If getting home alive was more important to you than any annoyance you shouldn't be flying. Hell, you shouldn't have left home at all (yes, that is annoying).
And IF electronics, contrary to what I have heard, DO cause a risk, I would be much happier if the airlines solved the problem technically, rather then trying to ban there way out of it. I don't like to imagine my life at jeopardy because people are sneeking onboard there pdas and walkmen.
A technical solution is always superior to legal one.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
If you are annoyed by this, have you ever wondered why they have to have a light attendant showing you how to use the life-jacket and put on the oxygen mask on EVERY flight? Even though there are probably only one or two people who have never flown before and they could take them aside before boarding?
Ever hear of a modern incident where the passengers actually got any use of the life jackets? Ever wonder why they do that drill even on flights that don't go over any water?
Ever wonder why airplane seat-belts look like they are from the 40s, when ones that rolled up like in a car would be less annoying and safer (three point protection)?
Ever wondered why the windows on every make of airplane are exactly the same size? What good getting in "crash position" will do you?
I could on...
That electronics should actually be a threat to aircraft is a myth. Any such problems could easily be fixed anyways. Welcome to the world of regulation, my friend! These rules go back to the dawn of commercial flight in 40s and 50s, when seat-belts looked like that, when planes actually crash landed on the water, and when anything that created radio transference was strange and scary.
Apparently, nobody wants to renegotiate these rules because it is such hell trying to agree, and well, the passengers aren't complaining.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
If Microsoft needs to do hands on tests to figure that linux is unfriendly to newbies who can't rtfm and are trying to manage their own machines, they really are as stupid as many people here seem to think.
The problem for MS is that a large portion of their constumers are not in this situation at all. I probably could not get many of my non-geek relations to move to Linux today, because they manage their own machines to some extent and don't have the enough interest to learn something new and complex.
My parents (and my surfin grandma), however, never do any management or installation on their own windows machinse anyways, so if it wasn't for the MS-Office thing I could move them straight over any day now (if they were still living in the same country as me that is). All they have to do is learn to click on an icon in KDE instead of Windows 98.
As Linux gets more and more simple and the average knowledge of computer users increases, the middle group is shrinking.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Corel are planning to make money, probably a lot of money, from code that the free software community produced. They have a right to do that, and nobody (well almost nobody) is angry about it, but the "we" in question does have the right to be touchy if they even come close to stepping on "our" toes.
I think it is good that the community puts its foot down to show that the GPL is no matter to be taken lightly, even if it wasn't really necessary in the case. Certainly, if it has caused a couple of companies hungry to do dig in on the Linux distribution goldmine with as little open source as possible to reconsider, no one has really been hurt.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
The reality of hacking peoples home computers really complicates the whole legal issue. When does it become a crime?
Is checking if someone has any globally shared SMB volumes hacking them? Or does it depend on whether they wanted me to find them or not? And how am I supposed to know that?
If it is legal for me to check, can someone get charged with piracy for not disabling Windows Filesharing for the network card connected to the cable/adsl adapter? If that is just considered an accident, then what about me leaving mp3 as the password on the mp3 account of my firewall computer (which also happens to be my mp3 player)?
"Oops, it seemed so convenient, and I sure the lights were always blinking, but aren't they supposed to??"
Or the opposite:
"This man hacked my machine by connecting and trying common passwords!" (mp3:mp3)
It seems a big issue that if our regimes intend to keep prosecuting based on these actions, they at least put down laws regarding what is what - that are not based on conjectures about both accused and victims intents...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
They have to solve their own problems in their own society, and suggesting that they copy a society as amazingly homogeneous as Sweden (or Switzerland, for that matter), is just wrong.
Sweden is not a homogeneous society. Thats a myth dating back to the sixties. Sweden today is 20% first or second generation immigrant...
Unfortunetly for all those of us who wish for a world of total integration, this _has_ led to many of the same social problems you see in America (though, on the whole, Sweden has tried different solutions).
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Probably you would refer to American women as, well, "American women". And if you want to refer specifically to "white" people you might say "Caucasion American".
There are plenty of good reasons to have a name for a group besides "crappy categorization".
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
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I had a bunch of these ready, the most apparent is that at one Nanogram a piece, 2^128 devices would still have a mass something like 10^5 times as much as the earth. But then I realized it was this sort of examples that the guy I was replying to complained about.
The IETF did the write thing by choosing to go to 128 bits rather than 64, and given that I don't think we have to much to worry about.
But then consider the flip side, if we think that getting the entire terrestrial Internet to move to ipv6 (with only 2 billion or so Nodes) is a big task, imagine moving the entire Wormhole-Switched MilkyNet, spanning a million planets with 2^108 Nano-sized nodes each, in a few hundred years...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
As much as I respect TBL, I think in many ways the common idea of that the web is the Net is very unfortunate. Yes, is a great medium for many purposes, and an acceptable one for others (forums like/. for example), but it is not the end all be all of the Internet.
Will we loose the Web to the Disney's, the Elizabeth Dole's, and the Bertelsman Foundation's of the world? Maybe. It is a frightening concept, but we are still little fish in their world, and they have proved too many times before that they are willing to take battle at a loss to safegaurd their worlds against freedom and progress.
BUT, with or without the Web, freedom on the Internet will not go away. Freedom, as weak a meme as it may seem in theory, has proved next to impossible to take away once it has been granted. We will just have to find another distribution system to move to, maybe one that is less comfortable for the dancing baloney of the superficial book burners of the world, but that fosters freedom even more than TLB's Web, still little more than a way to ask for documents off peoples file servers, will ever be.
As long as we are connected, nothing else really matters.
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
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I believe it was Kahn who mentioned concern for the 2^128 limit during the Internet's 30th birthday discussion debate. Of course all limits are stupid, but they are also awfully convenient.
It will take Nanomachines before we break 2^128 nodes,and once Nanotek happens we will have quite a lot of things to consider about the way our world works, of which the number hosts on the Internet does not really rank. I think we can sleep safely knowing that the people we are fucking things up for are not ourselves, but our children (and they deserve it, dog gonnit, the lazy little bastards!)
About the memory thing: Consider that 128 bits is exactly the length you need for a truely safe crypto key (assuming it is your own info you are locking in, it can be symetric). If the world is heading where I think it is, it's about time to start practicing memorizing those...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Bussiness is not quite that simple. No serious site is going to want someone posting uninformed flamebait all the time (except maybe/., I'm still here after all) because every time Dvorak pisses us off he turns us off from PCMag. Everytime he prints something so blatantly phony he reminds us about the shallow level of analysis on PCMags site.
He is not getting it any closer to being a site I regularly visit. Which is what he actually should be doing to keep his editors happy...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Firstly, the PC isn't much of games station itself any more. The PCs CPUs are so unfitting for modern 3D games that more and more of the load is being moved off the processor and onto the accelerator cards every day. Witness the new Nvidia card with the funny name, which does every part of the graphics processing from geometry setup and on. Gamers also invest in dedicated games soundcards, also equiped with their own chips for sound processing. Gamers regularly keep their games on a seperate harddrive, and besides OS I can't remember a single reason to have a CD-rom drive in my machine.
The most important aspect the games usage of my pc shares with the pc usage is the interface, and lets face it, besides the mouse and quake, the pc interface is far from ideal for gaming.
On the flip side however, combining one of Sun's dumb clients like the Ray with a next generation games console like the Playstation 2 seems like a very realistic idea. The only thing they are really missing is a good Internet connection (I can't imagine remote running applications over a modem like the dreamcast), and support for a monitor besides the TV.
I would say that this is a MORE natural marriage then that of the PC and the games station, which is quickly converging into two machines in one box.
(I have always hated consoles and their stupid single player games, btw. This is not console vs pc gaming post.)
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
It says a good deal about the health of this forum (slashdot) that you were moderated up for this comment: in just about any political debate you would have been flooded with comments attacking you relentlessly for evening drawing a breath to defend the undefendable.
Pedophiles fall within the realms of what I refer to as the "terrophiles", the group of people who, through their unquestionable evil, can be used as an argument for any infringement on freedom.
There other such groups: Terrorists of course (see any cryptography vs US regime article) and even normal sex offenders (how many privacy advocates are out there fighting for the sex offenders who, having served their time, are seeing their names publicly displayed and posted?)
There was a large debate here a few years ago regarding whether possession of Child Pornography should be made illegal. My favorite quote from the whole debate was from one of the proponents of the law, who said, quote:
"Human rights do not apply to pedophiles."
Time to call Webster's and redefine human I guess.
Another quote I remember from the whole CDA debate, which I believe comes from Wired or somewhere like that stated:
"alt.sex.bondage.hamster.duct-tape is a good place to start, because who is going to defend someone who does _that_ to a hamster?"
On a different topic, child porn is far from the only illegal information by our current regimes. Besides any information that you may have aquired without its "owners" permission, threats, computer programs (viruses, troyans, other malware) and even certain knowledge (cryptography, weapon plans) are all illegal today. Even hacking a site on the Internet, highly punishable almost everywhere is in reality just the creation and distribution of information (tcp/ip packets).
Try asking to have any of the above back, and you are bound to here about the terrophiles. I promise...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
It seems American companies are willing to just about anything to spy and generally make life suck for there employees, but at the same time I keep hearing about how companies are scrambling to find people for there technical jobs.
If having to worry about finding another job is not a problem, why would anybody stay at a company when it starts spying on you, forbidding you to send private email etc etc? Is this just a matter of greed, because I know that as far as I am concerned some level of freedom at a job is worth a number of K $s.
Maybe I'm just not disillusioned enough yet...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Yeah, its so great that we are point fingers and screaming censorship and oppression because a city in a democratic country won't let kids go to Internet cafes during school hours. Goes to show that America has finally matured in it's attitude to other countries and cultures!
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
You find this very easy to apply to foreign governments like the horrible godawful Serbia and Iraq, but you seem to have forgot to mention that the governments that have been most active in strangling freedom on the Internet lately have been America's, the EU's, and Australia's regimes.
Which just happens to be pretty much the entire western "democractic" world...
Of course, unlike Iraq and Serbia which are run by horrible power hungry people whose single goal is to oppress there citizens, our benivolent governments are doing this to fight the horrible terrophiles. We should thank them!
My ass. How free are you yourself when it comes down to it? And are you dumb or just uninformed?
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Read up on SDMI, it uses watermarks, and the hardware checks files of all kinds for the watermarks. Copying the music from the soundcard won't help. Nor will making your own mp3s because future cds will have watermarked music as well.
Yes, this means degraded quality of cds.
Making a software player that doesn't give a fuck about the watermark is obviously easy (keep your current mp3 player) but the same cannot be said for hardware.
Maybe someone will figure out a way to strip the watermark off the file (some sort of interpolation of the music I guess), but I don't know how realistic that is...
- /. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
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IIRC this is not entirely correct. The s-boxes (I believe thats what they are called, the routine that handles the permutation anyways) were selected so that they were secure against the differential cryptoanalysis, but not against linear.
I'll deffer any questions to Schneier (cause you do own it, right??)...
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/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
who is likely to forget how to inflate a fucking life jacket? When they are flying over land?
Life jackets:
Yes, it has happened that airplanes went down in water, but its a freak accident nowadays. The chances of not breaking a plane against the surface when landing (if a wing tip goes down first, the plane will flip and completely break) are very small.
Seatbelts:
I know that seatbelts in airplanes are for turbulance, not crashing. Any flight over the bay of bengal will convince of that.
But all safety aside, wouldn't it be nicer if they rolled back in your seat??
Windows:
Yes, it doesn't matter, but it illustrates my point.
Its not that I am against doing anything for safety, I'm just saying that the current regulations are more or less the same ones created in the 1940s, and while some are good, all are very outdated.
I don't agree about the photo id thing, we used to need photo IDs to take the subway here (they have non-personal cards now). Big deal.
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Or even better, file a class action suit claiming that class action suits, because of their unpredictable outcomes, cost, and monetary reward, are, in fact, illegal gambling...
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I'd rather suffer a small annoyance and get home safe to see my family.
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
This is just a matter of what one considers a "minor" annoyance. If getting home alive was more important to you than any annoyance you shouldn't be flying. Hell, you shouldn't have left home at all (yes, that is annoying).
And IF electronics, contrary to what I have heard, DO cause a risk, I would be much happier if the airlines solved the problem technically, rather then trying to ban there way out of it. I don't like to imagine my life at jeopardy because people are sneeking onboard there pdas and walkmen.
A technical solution is always superior to legal one.
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Are you kidding, I'm going after my Postal company, they make the stamps and sell them after all, even releasing limited series stamps sometimes.
Or how about the government, they make all those soon to be rare coins, right?
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If you are annoyed by this, have you ever wondered why they have to have a
light attendant showing you how to use the life-jacket and put on the oxygen
mask on EVERY flight? Even though there are probably only one or two people who
have never flown before and they could take them aside before boarding?
Ever hear of a modern incident where the passengers actually got any use of the
life jackets? Ever wonder why they do that drill even on flights that don't go
over any water?
Ever wonder why airplane seat-belts look like they are from the
40s, when ones that rolled up like in a car would be less annoying and safer
(three point protection)?
Ever wondered why the windows on every make of airplane are exactly the same
size? What good getting in "crash position" will do you?
I could on...
That electronics should actually be a threat to aircraft is a myth. Any
such problems could easily be fixed anyways. Welcome to the world of
regulation, my friend! These rules go back to the dawn of commercial flight in
40s and 50s, when seat-belts looked like that, when planes actually crash
landed on the water, and when anything that created radio transference was
strange and scary.
Apparently, nobody wants to renegotiate these rules because it is such hell
trying to agree, and well, the passengers aren't complaining.
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If Microsoft needs to do hands on tests to figure that linux is unfriendly to newbies who can't rtfm and are trying to manage their own machines, they really are as stupid as many people here seem to think.
The problem for MS is that a large portion of their constumers are not in this situation at all. I probably could not get many of my non-geek relations to move to Linux today, because they manage their own machines to some extent and don't have the enough interest to learn something new and complex.
My parents (and my surfin grandma), however, never do any management or installation on their own windows machinse anyways, so if it wasn't for the MS-Office thing I could move them straight over any day now (if they were still living in the same country as me that is). All they have to do is learn to click on an icon in KDE instead of Windows 98.
As Linux gets more and more simple and the average knowledge of computer users increases, the middle group is shrinking.
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Corel are planning to make money, probably a lot of money, from code that the free software community produced. They have a right to do that, and nobody (well almost nobody) is angry about it, but the "we" in question does have the right to be touchy if they even come close to stepping on "our" toes.
I think it is good that the community puts its foot down to show that the GPL is no matter to be taken lightly, even if it wasn't really necessary in the case. Certainly, if it has caused a couple of companies hungry to do dig in on the Linux distribution goldmine with as little open source as possible to reconsider, no one has really been hurt.
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The reality of hacking peoples home computers really complicates the whole legal issue. When does it become a crime?
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Is checking if someone has any globally shared SMB volumes hacking them? Or does it depend on whether they wanted me to find them or not? And how am I supposed to know that?
If it is legal for me to check, can someone get charged with piracy for not disabling Windows Filesharing for the network card connected to the cable/adsl adapter? If that is just considered an accident, then what about me leaving mp3 as the password on the mp3 account of my firewall computer (which also happens to be my mp3 player)?
"Oops, it seemed so convenient, and I sure the lights were always blinking, but aren't they supposed to??"
Or the opposite:
"This man hacked my machine by connecting and trying common passwords!" (mp3:mp3)
It seems a big issue that if our regimes intend to keep prosecuting based on these actions, they at least put down laws regarding what is what - that are not based on conjectures about both accused and victims intents...
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They have to solve their own problems in their own society, and suggesting that they copy a society as amazingly homogeneous as Sweden (or Switzerland, for that matter), is just wrong.
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Sweden is not a homogeneous society. Thats a myth dating back to the sixties. Sweden today is 20% first or second generation immigrant...
Unfortunetly for all those of us who wish for a world of total integration, this _has_ led to many of the same social problems you see in America (though, on the whole, Sweden has tried different solutions).
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Who needs statistics, go for a walk for Christs sakes. You'll find slums here- yes, gangland - no...
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Probably you would refer to American women as, well, "American women". And if you want to refer specifically to "white" people you might say "Caucasion American".
There are plenty of good reasons to have a name for a group besides "crappy categorization".
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I had a bunch of these ready, the most apparent is that at one Nanogram a piece, 2^128 devices would still have a mass something like 10^5 times as much as the earth. But then I realized it was this sort of examples that the guy I was replying to complained about.
The IETF did the write thing by choosing to go to 128 bits rather than 64, and given that I don't think we have to much to worry about.
But then consider the flip side, if we think that getting the entire terrestrial Internet to move to ipv6 (with only 2 billion or so Nodes) is a big task, imagine moving the entire Wormhole-Switched MilkyNet, spanning a million planets with 2^108 Nano-sized nodes each, in a few hundred years...
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As much as I respect TBL, I think in many ways the common idea of that the web is the Net is very unfortunate. Yes, is a great medium for many purposes, and an acceptable one for others (forums like
Will we loose the Web to the Disney's, the Elizabeth Dole's, and the Bertelsman Foundation's of the world? Maybe. It is a frightening concept, but we are still little fish in their world, and they have proved too many times before that they are willing to take battle at a loss to safegaurd their worlds against freedom and progress.
BUT, with or without the Web, freedom on the Internet will not go away. Freedom, as weak a meme as it may seem in theory, has proved next to impossible to take away once it has been granted. We will just have to find another distribution system to move to, maybe one that is less comfortable for the dancing baloney of the superficial book burners of the world, but that fosters freedom even more than TLB's Web, still little more than a way to ask for documents off peoples file servers, will ever be.
As long as we are connected, nothing else really matters.
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I believe it was Kahn who mentioned concern for the 2^128 limit during the Internet's 30th birthday discussion debate. Of course all limits are stupid, but they are also awfully convenient.
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
It will take Nanomachines before we break 2^128 nodes,and once Nanotek happens we will have quite a lot of things to consider about the way our world works, of which the number hosts on the Internet does not really rank. I think we can sleep safely knowing that the people we are fucking things up for are not ourselves, but our children (and they deserve it, dog gonnit, the lazy little bastards!)
About the memory thing: Consider that 128 bits is exactly the length you need for a truely safe crypto key (assuming it is your own info you are locking in, it can be symetric). If the world is heading where I think it is, it's about time to start practicing memorizing those...
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Bussiness is not quite that simple. No serious site is going to want someone posting uninformed flamebait all the time (except maybe
He is not getting it any closer to being a site I regularly visit. Which is what he actually should be doing to keep his editors happy...
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Firstly, the PC isn't much of games station itself any more. The PCs CPUs are so unfitting for modern 3D games that more and more of the load is being moved off the processor and onto the accelerator cards every day. Witness the new Nvidia card with the funny name, which does every part of the graphics processing from geometry setup and on. Gamers also invest in dedicated games soundcards, also equiped with their own chips for sound processing. Gamers regularly keep their games on a seperate harddrive, and besides OS I can't remember a single reason to have a CD-rom drive in my machine.
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
The most important aspect the games usage of my pc shares with the pc usage is the interface, and lets face it, besides the mouse and quake, the pc interface is far from ideal for gaming.
On the flip side however, combining one of Sun's dumb clients like the Ray with a next generation games console like the Playstation 2 seems like a very realistic idea. The only thing they are really missing is a good Internet connection (I can't imagine remote running applications over a modem like the dreamcast), and support for a monitor besides the TV.
I would say that this is a MORE natural marriage then that of the PC and the games station, which is quickly converging into two machines in one box.
(I have always hated consoles and their stupid single player games, btw. This is not console vs pc gaming post.)
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It says a good deal about the health of this forum (slashdot) that you were moderated up for this comment: in just about any political debate you would have been flooded with comments attacking you relentlessly for evening drawing a breath to defend the undefendable.
/. is like a steer's horns, a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Pedophiles fall within the realms of what I refer to as the "terrophiles", the group of people who, through their unquestionable evil, can be used as an argument for any infringement on freedom.
There other such groups: Terrorists of course (see any cryptography vs US regime article) and even normal sex offenders (how many privacy advocates are out there fighting for the sex offenders who, having served their time, are seeing their names publicly displayed and posted?)
There was a large debate here a few years ago regarding whether possession of Child Pornography should be made illegal. My favorite quote from the whole debate was from one of the proponents of the law, who said, quote:
"Human rights do not apply to pedophiles."
Time to call Webster's and redefine human I guess.
Another quote I remember from the whole CDA debate, which I believe comes from Wired or somewhere like that stated:
"alt.sex.bondage.hamster.duct-tape is a good place to start, because who is going to defend someone who does _that_ to a hamster?"
On a different topic, child porn is far from the only illegal information by our current regimes. Besides any information that you may have aquired without its "owners" permission, threats, computer programs (viruses, troyans, other malware) and even certain knowledge (cryptography, weapon plans) are all illegal today. Even hacking a site on the Internet, highly punishable almost everywhere is in reality just the creation and distribution of information (tcp/ip packets).
Try asking to have any of the above back, and you are bound to here about the terrophiles. I promise...
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He's worth around $90 billion by last count I saw. MS stocks have done pretty well...
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This contradicts what Gormick said above.
Which is true?
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It seems American companies are willing to just about anything to spy and generally make life suck for there employees, but at the same time I keep hearing about how companies are scrambling to find people for there technical jobs.
If having to worry about finding another job is not a problem, why would anybody stay at a company when it starts spying on you, forbidding you to send private email etc etc? Is this just a matter of greed, because I know that as far as I am concerned some level of freedom at a job is worth a number of K $s.
Maybe I'm just not disillusioned enough yet...
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Yes, but the difference is one of implementation, not idea.
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Yeah, its so great that we are point fingers and screaming censorship and oppression because a city in a democratic country won't let kids go to Internet cafes during school hours. Goes to show that America has finally matured in it's attitude to other countries and cultures!
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You find this very easy to apply to foreign governments like the horrible godawful Serbia and Iraq, but you seem to have forgot to mention that the governments that have been most active in strangling freedom on the Internet lately have been America's, the EU's, and Australia's regimes.
Which just happens to be pretty much the entire western "democractic" world...
Of course, unlike Iraq and Serbia which are run by horrible power hungry people whose single goal is to oppress there citizens, our benivolent governments are doing this to fight the horrible terrophiles. We should thank them!
My ass. How free are you yourself when it comes down to it? And are you dumb or just uninformed?
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Read up on SDMI, it uses watermarks, and the hardware checks files of all kinds for the watermarks. Copying the music from the soundcard won't help. Nor will making your own mp3s because future cds will have watermarked music as well.
Yes, this means degraded quality of cds.
Making a software player that doesn't give a fuck about the watermark is obviously easy (keep your current mp3 player) but the same cannot be said for hardware.
Maybe someone will figure out a way to strip the watermark off the file (some sort of interpolation of the music I guess), but I don't know how realistic that is...
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