http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft/transitionR Its not quite something you can buy today but you can put down a deposit and they have already passed all the regulatory hurdles and are soon to start production. And yes it IS a car that flies. (although if you want to fly in it, you need to find a runway)
1.Change DMCA s512 to impose penalties on anyone who sends a take-down notice for content for content they do not own. This stops take-down notices being sent when the entity doing the sending doesn't actually own the content they are claiming to own.
2.Change the DMCA and other laws to state clearly that any search engine or aggregator that uses automatic content collection systems (like Google or Bing or similar) gets 100% legal immunity for the content aggregated by their sites (i.e. takes away the ability for copyright holders to target or go after search engines because of content their spiders pick up)
3.Change DMCA s103 to state that it is NOT a DMCA violation if you are breaking protection for the purpose of using content if you have permission from the copyright holder to make or use copies of the content.
This means that it would be legal to break protection on phones, games consoles and other things in order to run "homebrew" or "side-load" software where the copyright holder has given permission for such uses.
It also means that for example its legal to crack protection on proprietary camera RAW formats so you can access the photos you took without buying the proprietary tools to access it.
4.Do something to handle "orphan works" (that is, works where the copyright holder cant be located). Plenty of old works (e.g. old computer games) cant be enjoyed again because no-one can identify who actually owns the rights.
5.Pass laws to once and for all declare that APIs are not copyrightable (and end the Oracle v Google fight over API copyright for good)
What I want to know is why satellite TV operators (i.e. DirecTV and Dish Network) get exempted from paying fees even though they likely cost the FCC just as much in administration costs as the cable providers do...
What I want to know is when the US government is going to declassify the REAL top speed of the SR-71. (that is, the fastest speed it was ever recorded as being flown at rather than the fastest speed it was rated to fly at, the fastest speed it was designed by Lockheed to fly at or the fastest speed the air force allowed its pilots to fly it at or the fastest speed the air force is willing to admit it flies at)
Didn't you watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? The captured aliens and their ship returned to the 24th century thanks to the energy of a US atomic bomb test... (The episode in question was broadcast on TV here last night:)
Here is an idea of how to make a chip-and-pin type technology that is secure: 1.When the user inserts their chip enabled card into the card reader, the chip tells the reader to ask for the users PIN (under this system there would be no such thing as a chip-and-sign card, all cards would require the user to enter their PIN if the reader supports the technology) 2.The card reader provides the merchant account number, payment amount and entered PIN to the chip on the card. 3.The chip combines the merchant account number, payment amount, entered pin and some sort of unique value (the unique value is designed to prevent replay attacks of captured data) into a single piece of data that is then encrypted and signed using a secret key held only in the card chip and the bank computer systems) 4.The card then provides the resulting packet along with enough of the card number and other info to allow the various bank computers to route the packet to the right bank and right account (but not enough information to allow the use of the card in online or other card-not-present transactions) 5.The card is routed to the correct bank system which uses the stored secret key to decode the transaction information (and verify the signature) and then processes the transaction. 6.The results of the transaction (i.e. whether the transaction is successful and the customer has enough funds or not) gets sent back to the merchant terminal that then tells the user and merchant if the transaction succeeded.
Oh and the chip itself would not store any information about the PIN, it would just take the entered pin and send it along with the other details to the bank who would (if the pin is incorrect) send back a "bad PIN" error to the terminal to display to the user/merchant.
Assuming the cryptography chosen is strong enough and the keys are hard enough to extract (whatever they use in the latest generation of mobile SIM cards to keep the keys from being extracted seems like it could work here) then the only real issue would be merchants using hacked terminals (or man-in-the-middle devices between the terminal and card) that pass the card a higher amount for the transaction than the amount displayed to the user. And if the technology to do it is available, the solution to that is to have a little display screen capable of displaying the dollar amount the card is about to authorize (one that can be seen even when the card is inserted into the merchant terminal) to allow the user to verify the value before entering their PIN into the reader.
I dont know which country you are from but here in Australia most of the payment machines in stores read chips. Never seen an ATM that reads chips though.
The lesson the content producers NEED to learn (but are unlikely to pick up on anytime soon) is that if the only legal way to watch a particular show is to buy expensive cable/satellite TV and then buy an expensive channel package on top of that (which is the only way to legally watch this new season of Breaking Bad here in Australia) people will continue to pirate.
The trick to stopping piracy is to make it available in a form that does NOT require purchasing expensive cable/satellite TV and paying for vast amounts of content that you dont want just to get the few shows worth watching. But as long as Rupert Murdoch and his Foxtel empire (and the Foxtel-owned Showcase channel in particular) continue to throw vast sums of money at HBO, AMC and other overseas producers of premium high-quality drama, that's never going to happen.
I am not convinced that its about piracy vs legit content so much as it is about doing whatever it takes (including bandwidth caps etc) to reduce or eliminate the ability for people to use the Internet as an alternative way to get their content instead of paying the big bucks to Comcast for Cable TV.
It sounds like the Ubuntu Mobile people are saying "hey, we want to ship this with no binary blobs but we recognize that in order to get certain features such as a cellular modem or a 3D-capable GPU we may have no choice but to go with a binary blob if we cant find hardware that is 100% open"
They should have stuck to x86 (including x86 tablets) to leverage the huge base of software already written for x86 rather than porting Windows to a new platform with basically no advantages over x86 and a bunch of disadvantages (including the fact that existing software wont work).
I still read the very local papers that have very specific news connected to the local area as that kind of news isn't readily available online. But these are only published once a week and are distributed free to the area they serve.
I dont pay for newspapers or news content, most of my "general news" comes either from watching news on free-to-air TV (especially on the ad-free national government-run broadcaster, the ABC) or from reading online news sites (again I read the ABC news website a lot)
If the country where the child porn originates is a country where the law, the enforcement of the law or the law enforcement agencies are such that prosecution of the scumbags who create this filth isn't going to happen (e.g. Russia where the criminals responsible for child porn, cybercrime, spam, phishing scams etc etc are part of criminal gangs who have ties all the way to Putin himself) then we here in the west should be using political, diplomatic, trade and other pressure to get things changed.
From reading the Google information, it looks like they added something similar to the Microsoft "Protected Media Path" (i.e. verification at the hardware and OS level that the system components, kernel, hardware drivers, video and audio systems etc haven't been tampered with) combined with frameworks designed to allow apps to easily integrate DRM into video decoding (including hardware video decoding)
The real problem is that the religious extremists who believe that porn is the tool of the devil and should be wiped from the face of the earth have far too much political power and influence.
I hate child pornography and other exploitation and believe the people who create and distribute that filth are the scum of the earth and should be locked up in some hellhole jail for the rest of their lives but at the same time I dont believe that ANY content, no matter how foul or bad (or how bad it is for the people depicted in the images) is bad enough that there is a need to impose internet censorship on people who haven't specifically chosen to have their internet connection filtered.
What we need to do is to find out where the child porn comes from in the first place then use all the diplomatic, political, trade and legal pressure we can in order to get the governments in the countries where the exploitation is taking place to go arrest (and lock up) the scumbags who create this stuff.
Heck, if we are willing to go after Russia (WTO etc) because of allofmp3.com, why aren't we willing to do the same and go after Russia over child porn?
Maybe if Hollywood eliminated the delay between a films US opening date and its opening date in other countries like Australia, less people would download a copy from the internet instead of waiting for the local opening date.
But unfortunately I need to buy home phone line rental from Telstra in order to get ADSL2+ from TPG (for various reasons TPG home phone or Naked isn't an option) Bring on the NBN I say (although that said, I have no doubt that no matter who is in government and no matter which ISP you are choosing for your NBN service, no-one is going to say no to the US spooks)
The problem is that most people continue to believe the government when they say "if we dont listen to most of the worlds communications, America is at risk of being hit with a terror attack that makes 9/11 look tiny by comparison" (even though the RIGHT way to catch the terrorists is to stop collecting all this data and spend money on more PEOPLE. People who can analyze the data they do have to find the one needle in the haystack that points to the next bad guys. People who can interpret satellite/drone/spy-plane/etc imagery of known or suspected terrorist training camps. People who can collect boots-on-ground Intel (do spy agencies still use actual human operatives that infiltrate the bad guys?). And people who can write software to run on the NSA supercomputers to help with finding that needle in that haystack.
All that collecting surveillance data on half the worlds communications is going to do is to make the haystack bigger and the needle harder to find.
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http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft/transitionR
Its not quite something you can buy today but you can put down a deposit and they have already passed all the regulatory hurdles and are soon to start production.
And yes it IS a car that flies. (although if you want to fly in it, you need to find a runway)
1.Change DMCA s512 to impose penalties on anyone who sends a take-down notice for content for content they do not own. This stops take-down notices being sent when the entity doing the sending doesn't actually own the content they are claiming to own.
2.Change the DMCA and other laws to state clearly that any search engine or aggregator that uses automatic content collection systems (like Google or Bing or similar) gets 100% legal immunity for the content aggregated by their sites (i.e. takes away the ability for copyright holders to target or go after search engines because of content their spiders pick up)
3.Change DMCA s103 to state that it is NOT a DMCA violation if you are breaking protection for the purpose of using content if you have permission from the copyright holder to make or use copies of the content.
This means that it would be legal to break protection on phones, games consoles and other things in order to run "homebrew" or "side-load" software where the copyright holder has given permission for such uses.
It also means that for example its legal to crack protection on proprietary camera RAW formats so you can access the photos you took without buying the proprietary tools to access it.
4.Do something to handle "orphan works" (that is, works where the copyright holder cant be located). Plenty of old works (e.g. old computer games) cant be enjoyed again because no-one can identify who actually owns the rights.
5.Pass laws to once and for all declare that APIs are not copyrightable (and end the Oracle v Google fight over API copyright for good)
What I want to know is why satellite TV operators (i.e. DirecTV and Dish Network) get exempted from paying fees even though they likely cost the FCC just as much in administration costs as the cable providers do...
What I want to know is when the US government is going to declassify the REAL top speed of the SR-71. (that is, the fastest speed it was ever recorded as being flown at rather than the fastest speed it was rated to fly at, the fastest speed it was designed by Lockheed to fly at or the fastest speed the air force allowed its pilots to fly it at or the fastest speed the air force is willing to admit it flies at)
Didn't you watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? The captured aliens and their ship returned to the 24th century thanks to the energy of a US atomic bomb test... (The episode in question was broadcast on TV here last night :)
Here is an idea of how to make a chip-and-pin type technology that is secure:
1.When the user inserts their chip enabled card into the card reader, the chip tells the reader to ask for the users PIN (under this system there would be no such thing as a chip-and-sign card, all cards would require the user to enter their PIN if the reader supports the technology)
2.The card reader provides the merchant account number, payment amount and entered PIN to the chip on the card.
3.The chip combines the merchant account number, payment amount, entered pin and some sort of unique value (the unique value is designed to prevent replay attacks of captured data) into a single piece of data that is then encrypted and signed using a secret key held only in the card chip and the bank computer systems)
4.The card then provides the resulting packet along with enough of the card number and other info to allow the various bank computers to route the packet to the right bank and right account (but not enough information to allow the use of the card in online or other card-not-present transactions)
5.The card is routed to the correct bank system which uses the stored secret key to decode the transaction information (and verify the signature) and then processes the transaction.
6.The results of the transaction (i.e. whether the transaction is successful and the customer has enough funds or not) gets sent back to the merchant terminal that then tells the user and merchant if the transaction succeeded.
Oh and the chip itself would not store any information about the PIN, it would just take the entered pin and send it along with the other details to the bank who would (if the pin is incorrect) send back a "bad PIN" error to the terminal to display to the user/merchant.
Assuming the cryptography chosen is strong enough and the keys are hard enough to extract (whatever they use in the latest generation of mobile SIM cards to keep the keys from being extracted seems like it could work here) then the only real issue would be merchants using hacked terminals (or man-in-the-middle devices between the terminal and card) that pass the card a higher amount for the transaction than the amount displayed to the user. And if the technology to do it is available, the solution to that is to have a little display screen capable of displaying the dollar amount the card is about to authorize (one that can be seen even when the card is inserted into the merchant terminal) to allow the user to verify the value before entering their PIN into the reader.
I dont know which country you are from but here in Australia most of the payment machines in stores read chips. Never seen an ATM that reads chips though.
The lesson the content producers NEED to learn (but are unlikely to pick up on anytime soon) is that if the only legal way to watch a particular show is to buy expensive cable/satellite TV and then buy an expensive channel package on top of that (which is the only way to legally watch this new season of Breaking Bad here in Australia) people will continue to pirate.
The trick to stopping piracy is to make it available in a form that does NOT require purchasing expensive cable/satellite TV and paying for vast amounts of content that you dont want just to get the few shows worth watching. But as long as Rupert Murdoch and his Foxtel empire (and the Foxtel-owned Showcase channel in particular) continue to throw vast sums of money at HBO, AMC and other overseas producers of premium high-quality drama, that's never going to happen.
No but I bet the US feds would love to see all those involved with mega sent to Guantanamo Bay :)
Actually, NVIDIA have made moves towards opening up parts of the Tegra driver stack with plans to open source more going forward.
I am not convinced that its about piracy vs legit content so much as it is about doing whatever it takes (including bandwidth caps etc) to reduce or eliminate the ability for people to use the Internet as an alternative way to get their content instead of paying the big bucks to Comcast for Cable TV.
Justin Beeber may be against this bill but I would be willing to bet that Universal Music Group who distribute his songs are in favor of it...
It sounds like the Ubuntu Mobile people are saying "hey, we want to ship this with no binary blobs but we recognize that in order to get certain features such as a cellular modem or a 3D-capable GPU we may have no choice but to go with a binary blob if we cant find hardware that is 100% open"
They should have stuck to x86 (including x86 tablets) to leverage the huge base of software already written for x86 rather than porting Windows to a new platform with basically no advantages over x86 and a bunch of disadvantages (including the fact that existing software wont work).
I still read the very local papers that have very specific news connected to the local area as that kind of news isn't readily available online.
But these are only published once a week and are distributed free to the area they serve.
I dont pay for newspapers or news content, most of my "general news" comes either from watching news on free-to-air TV (especially on the ad-free national government-run broadcaster, the ABC) or from reading online news sites (again I read the ABC news website a lot)
If the country where the child porn originates is a country where the law, the enforcement of the law or the law enforcement agencies are such that prosecution of the scumbags who create this filth isn't going to happen (e.g. Russia where the criminals responsible for child porn, cybercrime, spam, phishing scams etc etc are part of criminal gangs who have ties all the way to Putin himself) then we here in the west should be using political, diplomatic, trade and other pressure to get things changed.
This is the same mob who killed Sierra. And they nearly killed Ghostbusters: The Video Game. And not forgetting the bnetd lawsuits.
I refuse to purchase any of their product (not that it matters, all the games they make are crap anyway)
From reading the Google information, it looks like they added something similar to the Microsoft "Protected Media Path" (i.e. verification at the hardware and OS level that the system components, kernel, hardware drivers, video and audio systems etc haven't been tampered with) combined with frameworks designed to allow apps to easily integrate DRM into video decoding (including hardware video decoding)
The real problem is that the religious extremists who believe that porn is the tool of the devil and should be wiped from the face of the earth have far too much political power and influence.
I hate child pornography and other exploitation and believe the people who create and distribute that filth are the scum of the earth and should be locked up in some hellhole jail for the rest of their lives but at the same time I dont believe that ANY content, no matter how foul or bad (or how bad it is for the people depicted in the images) is bad enough that there is a need to impose internet censorship on people who haven't specifically chosen to have their internet connection filtered.
What we need to do is to find out where the child porn comes from in the first place then use all the diplomatic, political, trade and legal pressure we can in order to get the governments in the countries where the exploitation is taking place to go arrest (and lock up) the scumbags who create this stuff.
Heck, if we are willing to go after Russia (WTO etc) because of allofmp3.com, why aren't we willing to do the same and go after Russia over child porn?
I wonder if Rivest, Shamir and Aldeman would have released RSA as widely as they did if it wasn't for their patent.
Maybe if Hollywood eliminated the delay between a films US opening date and its opening date in other countries like Australia, less people would download a copy from the internet instead of waiting for the local opening date.
The greens have a stated policy of opposing internet filtering and censorship and supporting net neutrality.
But unfortunately I need to buy home phone line rental from Telstra in order to get ADSL2+ from TPG (for various reasons TPG home phone or Naked isn't an option)
Bring on the NBN I say (although that said, I have no doubt that no matter who is in government and no matter which ISP you are choosing for your NBN service, no-one is going to say no to the US spooks)
The problem is that most people continue to believe the government when they say "if we dont listen to most of the worlds communications, America is at risk of being hit with a terror attack that makes 9/11 look tiny by comparison" (even though the RIGHT way to catch the terrorists is to stop collecting all this data and spend money on more PEOPLE. People who can analyze the data they do have to find the one needle in the haystack that points to the next bad guys. People who can interpret satellite/drone/spy-plane/etc imagery of known or suspected terrorist training camps. People who can collect boots-on-ground Intel (do spy agencies still use actual human operatives that infiltrate the bad guys?). And people who can write software to run on the NSA supercomputers to help with finding that needle in that haystack.
All that collecting surveillance data on half the worlds communications is going to do is to make the haystack bigger and the needle harder to find.
I have a whole household full of IKEA products that have served me well for years, I see no reason why the same couldn't apply to these shelters too.