"SafeAudio works by degrading the digital code. The CD will still play on an ordinary player or through a computer's speakers or headphones. But it cannot be copied. Macrovision says that the changes made to the music are not discernible."
If this is so, all we have is software protection. This can be broken. End of story.
"As I said, the match wasn't how they found Larry"
Actually, population-wide DNA matches is starting to happen, and we'll be seeing more and more of that. In such a case, the DNA will be their only evidence. Clever proscecutors will be able to persuade judged with pretty numbers that 'he must have done it'. This is scary!
At the moment, our 50.000 : 1 stats are based on mathematics. we need to *test* the realy probability, and we'll probably see that we are a lot more alike than stats predict
Too bad only Mundie is there to defend the closed-source model. It would have been nice to get opinions from other companies as well. Can't Adobe or Corel send someone to join the discussion? This way it's just MS bashing.
"The fact is that no modern computer, no matter how powerful it gets, will ever be capable of creating true AI."
I'b be carefull with reasoning like that. If Moore's law will keep on going we might very well have powerfull enough CPU time in 100 years. That's not tomorrow, but certainly not never
"A more far reaching example is the cooked research funded by oil companies which was designed to undermine arguments against green-house gas emission reductions"
This research is sponsored by a company that benefits from a specific outcome of this research. This specific examples can not be used to say all funded research is biased, as a lot of research (e.g. drug research) is to get to *a* solution, no matter which one
Having services like this means
-you have to stay online all the time (or else you cannot reach you files)
-one server breakdown means you cannot access your own stuff
-one clever hack means you get into everyting everyone has made/kept/etc
Try this with a piece of paper, then with your laptop:
1) fold it 5 times
2) tear it up in peaces
3) pour coffee over it
3) drop it from 50 meters
4) stand on it
5)tape it back together, and try reading the document.
1) the tapes from the Vietnam war are not readable by any present-day computer
2) electronic media go off after some time (50 years is a short time when it comes to true conservation).
No video tape or floppy disk can hold data even that long. But CD's you say? Well now that we are all moving to DVD at the moment there is a good chance CD's will no longer exist in 20 years. DVD may become obsolete in 100 years (probably less). In the mean time I can still read the papyrus dead sea scrolls written ages ago. saying that SGML will stick around is not enough to know that digital media has a long (>200 years) lifespan.
just to give an impression, Europeans may try:
http://www.revoy.nl/index.html
http://www.lasonic.com/
http://www.comtronics.nl/enter.html (in dutch sorry)
http://www.labway-europe.nl/products.htm
http://www.lenco.de/
http://www.hiteker.nl/
Americans shouldn't need region free DVD's as region1 DVD's are the quickest releases and the cheapest anyway *sob*.
That's not the point.
the IPIX patent will probably not hold in court, because (apparently) other people have developed similar techniques on their own. The point is that they have more money than you. Therefore they will sue you untill you are broke. And then they win.
The sad thing really is that patent laws were created to protect the little man-with-good-idea against the BigCompany. This has taken 1 180deg spin here (hmmm how ironic)
Erm... expecting everyone to double check every piece of information themselves is not what you should expect. escpecially when written in a language very few people understand. The Bible should have been written better. Now why don't you go and put more effort in that?
Slashdot Mirror
or we start using IPv6
I know Jon regularly 'sees the light'
but filing this story under enlightment is maybe a bit off...
or is it just me?
"SafeAudio works by degrading the digital code. The CD will still play on an ordinary player or through a computer's speakers or headphones. But it cannot be copied. Macrovision says that the changes made to the music are not discernible."
If this is so, all we have is software protection. This can be broken. End of story.
"As I said, the match wasn't how they found Larry"
Actually, population-wide DNA matches is starting to happen, and we'll be seeing more and more of that. In such a case, the DNA will be their only evidence. Clever proscecutors will be able to persuade judged with pretty numbers that 'he must have done it'. This is scary!
At the moment, our 50.000 : 1 stats are based on mathematics. we need to *test* the realy probability, and we'll probably see that we are a lot more alike than stats predict
Too bad only Mundie is there to defend the closed-source model. It would have been nice to get opinions from other companies as well. Can't Adobe or Corel send someone to join the discussion? This way it's just MS bashing.
this might actually be interesting, as M$ is now shipping their SDK's with all kinds of GNU applications (gcc etc).
"The fact is that no modern computer, no matter how powerful it gets, will ever be capable of creating true AI."
I'b be carefull with reasoning like that. If Moore's law will keep on going we might very well have powerfull enough CPU time in 100 years. That's not tomorrow, but certainly not never
brilliant; however I don't think the martians will be happy about your shipping costs or your phone charges
it seems like everybody Has First-Amendment Rights as long as it does not interfere with the RIAA =(
"A more far reaching example is the cooked research funded by oil companies which was designed to undermine arguments against green-house gas emission reductions"
This research is sponsored by a company that benefits from a specific outcome of this research. This specific examples can not be used to say all funded research is biased, as a lot of research (e.g. drug research) is to get to *a* solution, no matter which one
Having services like this means
-you have to stay online all the time (or else you cannot reach you files)
-one server breakdown means you cannot access your own stuff
-one clever hack means you get into everyting everyone has made/kept/etc
sounds scary
According to Gates, GPLd software "makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work.
erm.. and in what aspect is that different from the stuff Mr Gates is making himself?
Try this with a piece of paper, then with your laptop:
1) fold it 5 times
2) tear it up in peaces
3) pour coffee over it
3) drop it from 50 meters
4) stand on it
5)tape it back together, and try reading the document.
finally: carry 200 of them in 1 hand
paper is here to stay
1) the tapes from the Vietnam war are not readable by any present-day computer
2) electronic media go off after some time (50 years is a short time when it comes to true conservation).
No video tape or floppy disk can hold data even that long. But CD's you say? Well now that we are all moving to DVD at the moment there is a good chance CD's will no longer exist in 20 years. DVD may become obsolete in 100 years (probably less). In the mean time I can still read the papyrus dead sea scrolls written ages ago. saying that SGML will stick around is not enough to know that digital media has a long (>200 years) lifespan.
I can still read paper written on 2000 years ago. Try and do that with *any* digital technology...
just to give an impression, Europeans may try:
http://www.revoy.nl/index.html
http://www.lasonic.com/
http://www.comtronics.nl/enter.html (in dutch sorry)
http://www.labway-europe.nl/products.htm
http://www.lenco.de/
http://www.hiteker.nl/
Americans shouldn't need region free DVD's as region1 DVD's are the quickest releases and the cheapest anyway *sob*.
That's not the point.
the IPIX patent will probably not hold in court, because (apparently) other people have developed similar techniques on their own. The point is that they have more money than you. Therefore they will sue you untill you are broke. And then they win.
The sad thing really is that patent laws were created to protect the little man-with-good-idea against the BigCompany. This has taken 1 180deg spin here (hmmm how ironic)
Erm... expecting everyone to double check every piece of information themselves is not what you should expect. escpecially when written in a language very few people understand. The Bible should have been written better. Now why don't you go and put more effort in that?