The collateral damage, to the people mentioned mentioned in a leak, in the fight for freedom is just as acceptable as the collateral damage to civilians during wartime.
I heard a story about a man who got himself on as many mailing lists as possible. He was getting two entire mailbags full of junk mail every day which he burned in his wood stove to heat his house.
Not particularly environmentally friendly, given all the glossy catalogs and plastic windows, but still ingenious.
Bender:Sir, I volunteer for a suicide mission, sir!
Zapp:You're a brave robot, son. But when I'm in command, every mission's a suicide mission.
In fact, even VHS tapes are software. The tape has special instructions encoded on it to tell the machine what to do. When the end of a tape is reached, a special signal is transmitted to the VCR which instructs it to stop playing and start rewinding the tape.
Also, there is a digital bit which encodes whether the tape can be recorded on or not. This bit is located at the left rear corner of the VHS tape. If the bit is present, recording is possible, if absent, it is not. Even complex data can be transmitted to the playback device by this piece of information - when the bit is zero and the record button is pressed, the tape instructs the machine to eject itself.
And VHS tapes are specially designed to be read only by a particular computer program, embedded in the logic chips of the VCR.
I am "very excited" by this "ruling" by "The Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District." It "seems" that they have "finally done the right thing." I look forward to "more rulings of this nature." Finally some judges that "understand" the nature of "digital media" and "copyright."
I mean really! This, and every other content/encryption/copyright issue is moot.
Copy protection has never and will never work. Someday scientists will discover a law, much like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which explains why this is so.
In the mean time, reality speaks for itself. Pass all the laws you want. Make all the encryption you can invent. It will be hacked, bypassed, ignored and laughed at. The more difficult you make it for us to just enjoy a movie, the more incentive to create software and devices to subvert. Make it easy, convenient and fair, and I'll happily pay.
You think the war on drugs was a failure? At least there were real physical objects to chase after. The ephemeral nature of digital transmission and storage makes any attempt to regulate it impractical and impossible.
So sue, sue, sue your little hearts out, while we are happily swapping and downloading, breaking DVD encryption, digital watermarking and digital books.
The "most powerful" country in the world can't even catch terrorists, how is anyone going to catch bits of data?
Meanwhile I'm going to spend my money paying for more bandwidth and hardware, not being gouged renting or purchasing CDs, DVDs or anything else. I haven't bought a CD in over a year. With the money I save I'll be buying DVD burner.
Verizon is asking everybody in the DC area to stay off of ANY phone line unless it is an emergency.
Verizon didn't turn off their automated calling system which called to tell us that the call-waiting service we had ordered had been switched on, and that we could listen to instructions on how to use it.
How about a new required CS/sys engineer class:
Financial planning 101
Homeless shelters? Why don't these people move back into their parent's basements? Seriously, this is taking resources away from people who need them. Imagine the yuppie pulling up to the food line in his SUV wearing the $1000 suit.
And finally, get a job! Swallow your pride and work at McDonalds. There is still 4% unemployment people!
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The collateral damage, to the people mentioned mentioned in a leak, in the fight for freedom is just as acceptable as the collateral damage to civilians during wartime.
Untie!
Maybe we just need a really big pringles can
...now even our superheroes are getting outsourced to india. Maybe we can outsource our president next.
This just in:
New kind of car puts mechanics out of business
New kind of pipes put plumbers out of business
New kind of building has no need of superintendent.
As long as there is technology, there will be a need for people to make it work.
I heard a story about a man who got himself on as many mailing lists as possible. He was getting two entire mailbags full of junk mail every day which he burned in his wood stove to heat his house.
Not particularly environmentally friendly, given all the glossy catalogs and plastic windows, but still ingenious.
Bender:Sir, I volunteer for a suicide mission, sir!
Zapp:You're a brave robot, son. But when I'm in command, every mission's a suicide mission.
BIFF was the invention of Joe Talmadge in 1988, soon taken over by Richard Sexton and then imitated by many. Here are some links to the history:
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http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/B1FF
http://www.vrx.net/richard/biff.html
D00DZ!!!!!
H0W B0UT MY 1ST P0ST?!!
B1FF
And now let me tell you how the Sept. 11 bombing impacts on my area of research.
Don't forget to be afraid, and give me lots of money for more research so you can feel safe.
Maybe it is time for a new Slashdot category: Sept. 11?
p.s. why does my sarcasm seem to go over everyone's head?
Kif , I have made it with a woman! Inform the men
can you crash an airplane into a enemy's buildings?
Allah is my co-pilot
In fact, even VHS tapes are software. The tape has special instructions encoded on it to tell the machine what to do. When the end of a tape is reached, a special signal is transmitted to the VCR which instructs it to stop playing and start rewinding the tape.
Also, there is a digital bit which encodes whether the tape can be recorded on or not. This bit is located at the left rear corner of the VHS tape. If the bit is present, recording is possible, if absent, it is not. Even complex data can be transmitted to the playback device by this piece of information - when the bit is zero and the record button is pressed, the tape instructs the machine to eject itself.
And VHS tapes are specially designed to be read only by a particular computer program, embedded in the logic chips of the VCR.
I am "very excited" by this "ruling" by "The Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District." It "seems" that they have "finally done the right thing." I look forward to "more rulings of this nature." Finally some judges that "understand" the nature of "digital media" and "copyright."
I mean really! This, and every other content/encryption/copyright issue is moot.
Copy protection has never and will never work. Someday scientists will discover a law, much like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which explains why this is so.
In the mean time, reality speaks for itself. Pass all the laws you want. Make all the encryption you can invent. It will be hacked, bypassed, ignored and laughed at. The more difficult you make it for us to just enjoy a movie, the more incentive to create software and devices to subvert. Make it easy, convenient and fair, and I'll happily pay.
You think the war on drugs was a failure? At least there were real physical objects to chase after. The ephemeral nature of digital transmission and storage makes any attempt to regulate it impractical and impossible.
So sue, sue, sue your little hearts out, while we are happily swapping and downloading, breaking DVD encryption, digital watermarking and digital books.
The "most powerful" country in the world can't even catch terrorists, how is anyone going to catch bits of data?
Meanwhile I'm going to spend my money paying for more bandwidth and hardware, not being gouged renting or purchasing CDs, DVDs or anything else. I haven't bought a CD in over a year. With the money I save I'll be buying DVD burner.
Have fun storming the castle!
Verizon is asking everybody in the DC area to stay off of ANY phone line unless it is an emergency.
Verizon didn't turn off their automated calling system which called to tell us that the call-waiting service we had ordered had been switched on, and that we could listen to instructions on how to use it.
Don't these people know how to save?
How about a new required CS/sys engineer class:
Financial planning 101
Homeless shelters? Why don't these people move back into their parent's basements? Seriously, this is taking resources away from people who need them. Imagine the yuppie pulling up to the food line in his SUV wearing the $1000 suit.
And finally, get a job! Swallow your pride and work at McDonalds. There is still 4% unemployment people!