Seems kinda similar to George and Tonys democratic decision to ignore the UN's twisted sense of democracy (wtf is up with all these countries 'voting' on stuff!? wheres the bribery?!). Maybe what I think is democracy (accepting a decision from the majority even though its not the one you wanted) isnt? Microsoft (although under no obligation to follow the UN) are also big players with the ability to break away from anything they don't like and take the market with them. Actually im surprised we even use tcp/ip, email, html and http! i guess those were the last things to slip through...
All i need is for this on slashdot, can this go in the slash-code? In my settings i could set daily quotas/limits and my account would just be locked out from posting or my IP banned for x hours. Locking out root and taking your internet connection away isnt going to help most people since their work needs the internet and maybe root. I got through most addiction problems by just getting rid of all my games, after 2 days you don't even miss them although damn soldat, those assholes have to make it only 10mb! i just download it when ever i want it and then delete it. Of course there were afew times when i got weak and tried to recover things from my HD but i got wise to that and overwrote. Now slashdot is pretty much my only distraction from work, damn i hate slashdot you are ruining my life you hear!?! must stop using slashdot! the reason this would work best in slash code is that there's pretty much no way to by-pass it. Of-course it will never happen, the page-views for adverts would just go down the drain.. maybe a subscription only option? really you guys would have that happy feeling of knowing that you had increased productivity in the entire world geek community!
The nice people at the DVDCCA would be happy to sell you a license for their great product, which not only has been cracked, but was cracked about 5 years ago! Im not exactly sure what the point of selling an expensive copy-protection system thats been broken is (since the only people that are going copy it are going to know about DeCSS anyway) but if you want to burn your money on crap its up to you. I think 1000s of poor filmmakers get ripped off by these people every year they just accept paying the license when they could just release the DVD without CSS and exactly the same number of illigal copies (maybe minus 1) would be made.
Actually America has such a free economy that you can even buy and sell judgements, legislation and foreign political favours and unlike some of these wannabe free economies you dont have to worry about having your head cut off if you get found out!
This is why im no good at business - I would have thought "hmm virtual girlfriend letting you pay real money for virtual gifts that are just records in a database and some pictures/icons, thats the fucking stupidest thing ive ever heard" but im guessing they've done the ground work and figured that theres acutally a market for this! I would love to be in on that, fuck meetings would go something like "lets release another product.. how about a new car, ok ill make a car icon, we should be done buy lunch time, lets charge $500 for it, what a bargin". wow sometimes making money is really easy.
Why don't these companies just say they don't make DVD chips/players. The RIAA sells CDs that violate the CD specification and it gets away with it because it doesnt sell 'CDs'. Anyway the MPAAs methods should be illigal, region coding is totally over the line and you are fully within your right to disable/bypass it for fair-use (ie buying DVDs abroad)
Actually i already had 3 of my posts on slashdot deleted for that (look for the red text) which was just a joke, in fact i didn't even threaten the dick-wad i just said maybe someone could use the laser on him or words to that effect. do i actually have to put a disclaimer on all my posts that vaguely in some round-about way threaten that ass wipe now? i can see why you need a law like that but screw that America is getting more oppressive everyday, i wouldn't be surprised if big paintings of Bush started appearing with people like me being publicly beheaded everyday for saying anything bad. - i guess they're just sore cos i got comments deleted on slashdot nahnahnah nah nah!
It might seem hard for you to grasp but I have this ability to see that while a government might be total ass hole pricks the people of the country can be (mostly) sane and normal. So while i think the French government have big issues in the sanity department I would go in the general direction against nuking the whole country. Vanunu is like Kevin, no-one said "oh screw Kevin lets go free someone who is suffering real abuse", so in conclusion, go fuck yourself you redneck hick.
400,000 people a year have their lives totally ruined not by drugs but by george bush.. wow what a fucking asshole, id love to see him hang no matter how wrong that is..
BLUNKET! i should have known that fucking whore was behind this. Im pretty sure that violates the Human Rights act - you can't incriminate yourself! and what if you have actually honestly lost the keys through no fault of your own (eg by using Skype). Its a bullshit law is what it is, and in this country when you follow a bullshit law you are as bad as the people who made it!
every bit you add on to your key-length doubles the time needed for a brute force attack (in theory) and it doesnt take many bits before the number of combinations is enough to keep all the computing power in the world happy for centuries - even some encryption you could do with a pen and paper could be strong enough to thwart acres of cpu power
Im talking end-to-end encryption done by the user through software/plug-ins or an suitable phone. Once you're sure you have each-others keys you're good to go (btw a man in the middle attack here would work _but_ if the first thing you say when you make the call is "my key ends x7fGh8K is that what you have?" then the attacker will have a hard time!
As much as I would love to see George Bush forced to hand over all his dodgy money, the government gets its money from... YOU! this is just another way of charging for it. The whole thing is just stupid tho, terrorists will catch on and use encryption and so the only place to evesdrop will be from good old-fashioned hidden bugs and some guys in a van with pizza (thats a really fun job and i would love to see more of them created). Although that probably costs allot more than grabbing a copy of their data stream.
you cant regulate encryption like you can regulate guns. anyone with a pencil and paper can symetrically encrypt a very strong message, even the most basic computer/programming environment can be used for encryption/decryption. You cant seriously build a system to scan every byte thats ever sent or recieved through any ISP or phone and match it against all known data formats and dictionaries to determine if its hiding something.
not totally true, if you're calling local people you can meet with them before to swap keys (or atleast afew digits from a hash) friends of friends can exchange your public keys for you and the internet can also be used - people could all quite simply start using encryption in day to day things (start with email its easy to install a plugin) and it would all happen much too fast for anyone to stop. Suddenly we would all have a secure path with which to negotiate more keys it would be a loosing battle on the other side.
So basically they dont care about searching you, they don't mind if you have a lighter aslong as its a normal looking lighter that they've seen before and they're perfectly content with the story that you are a smoker. And your absolutely sure no-one has said to them "hey, you better leave smokers alone they're big business"?
Thats what i said! smoking _is_ banned theres absolutely no use for a lighter you don't need one, but someone _did_ try to blow up a plane with one. There are plenty of things you could do with a lighter for fucks sake even if its only setting fire to some paper or a seat it could be enough distraction for something else.
A sick part of me really wants to see the next terrorist hi-jacking involve a lighter, just so I can see the look on Georges face as he realises what hes done.
So after asking you if you would take your shoes off and then accepting that you dont want to, they let you through... with a lighter... 4 times... and you dont see anything wrong with that!?!?!
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Seems kinda similar to George and Tonys democratic decision to ignore the UN's twisted sense of democracy (wtf is up with all these countries 'voting' on stuff!? wheres the bribery?!). Maybe what I think is democracy (accepting a decision from the majority even though its not the one you wanted) isnt? Microsoft (although under no obligation to follow the UN) are also big players with the ability to break away from anything they don't like and take the market with them. Actually im surprised we even use tcp/ip, email, html and http! i guess those were the last things to slip through...
All i need is for this on slashdot, can this go in the slash-code? In my settings i could set daily quotas/limits and my account would just be locked out from posting or my IP banned for x hours. Locking out root and taking your internet connection away isnt going to help most people since their work needs the internet and maybe root. I got through most addiction problems by just getting rid of all my games, after 2 days you don't even miss them although damn soldat, those assholes have to make it only 10mb! i just download it when ever i want it and then delete it. Of course there were afew times when i got weak and tried to recover things from my HD but i got wise to that and overwrote. Now slashdot is pretty much my only distraction from work, damn i hate slashdot you are ruining my life you hear!?! must stop using slashdot! the reason this would work best in slash code is that there's pretty much no way to by-pass it. Of-course it will never happen, the page-views for adverts would just go down the drain.. maybe a subscription only option? really you guys would have that happy feeling of knowing that you had increased productivity in the entire world geek community!
The nice people at the DVDCCA would be happy to sell you a license for their great product, which not only has been cracked, but was cracked about 5 years ago! Im not exactly sure what the point of selling an expensive copy-protection system thats been broken is (since the only people that are going copy it are going to know about DeCSS anyway) but if you want to burn your money on crap its up to you. I think 1000s of poor filmmakers get ripped off by these people every year they just accept paying the license when they could just release the DVD without CSS and exactly the same number of illigal copies (maybe minus 1) would be made.
Actually America has such a free economy that you can even buy and sell judgements, legislation and foreign political favours and unlike some of these wannabe free economies you dont have to worry about having your head cut off if you get found out!
Erm she looks about 10 years old! i think maybe its a hint at Artificial Life's next product "Virtual Child Molestation Subject"
This is why im no good at business - I would have thought "hmm virtual girlfriend letting you pay real money for virtual gifts that are just records in a database and some pictures/icons, thats the fucking stupidest thing ive ever heard" but im guessing they've done the ground work and figured that theres acutally a market for this! I would love to be in on that, fuck meetings would go something like "lets release another product.. how about a new car, ok ill make a car icon, we should be done buy lunch time, lets charge $500 for it, what a bargin". wow sometimes making money is really easy.
Why don't these companies just say they don't make DVD chips/players. The RIAA sells CDs that violate the CD specification and it gets away with it because it doesnt sell 'CDs'. Anyway the MPAAs methods should be illigal, region coding is totally over the line and you are fully within your right to disable/bypass it for fair-use (ie buying DVDs abroad)
ok.. not as bad but you know what i mean..
Actually i already had 3 of my posts on slashdot deleted for that (look for the red text) which was just a joke, in fact i didn't even threaten the dick-wad i just said maybe someone could use the laser on him or words to that effect. do i actually have to put a disclaimer on all my posts that vaguely in some round-about way threaten that ass wipe now? i can see why you need a law like that but screw that America is getting more oppressive everyday, i wouldn't be surprised if big paintings of Bush started appearing with people like me being publicly beheaded everyday for saying anything bad. - i guess they're just sore cos i got comments deleted on slashdot nahnahnah nah nah!
It might seem hard for you to grasp but I have this ability to see that while a government might be total ass hole pricks the people of the country can be (mostly) sane and normal. So while i think the French government have big issues in the sanity department I would go in the general direction against nuking the whole country. Vanunu is like Kevin, no-one said "oh screw Kevin lets go free someone who is suffering real abuse", so in conclusion, go fuck yourself you redneck hick.
You're welcome, its not like i ever plan to visit the US.
400,000 people a year have their lives totally ruined not by drugs but by george bush.. wow what a fucking asshole, id love to see him hang no matter how wrong that is..
BLUNKET! i should have known that fucking whore was behind this. Im pretty sure that violates the Human Rights act - you can't incriminate yourself! and what if you have actually honestly lost the keys through no fault of your own (eg by using Skype). Its a bullshit law is what it is, and in this country when you follow a bullshit law you are as bad as the people who made it!
every bit you add on to your key-length doubles the time needed for a brute force attack (in theory) and it doesnt take many bits before the number of combinations is enough to keep all the computing power in the world happy for centuries - even some encryption you could do with a pen and paper could be strong enough to thwart acres of cpu power
Im talking end-to-end encryption done by the user through software/plug-ins or an suitable phone. Once you're sure you have each-others keys you're good to go (btw a man in the middle attack here would work _but_ if the first thing you say when you make the call is "my key ends x7fGh8K is that what you have?" then the attacker will have a hard time!
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As much as I would love to see George Bush forced to hand over all his dodgy money, the government gets its money from... YOU! this is just another way of charging for it. The whole thing is just stupid tho, terrorists will catch on and use encryption and so the only place to evesdrop will be from good old-fashioned hidden bugs and some guys in a van with pizza (thats a really fun job and i would love to see more of them created). Although that probably costs allot more than grabbing a copy of their data stream.
you cant regulate encryption like you can regulate guns. anyone with a pencil and paper can symetrically encrypt a very strong message, even the most basic computer/programming environment can be used for encryption/decryption. You cant seriously build a system to scan every byte thats ever sent or recieved through any ISP or phone and match it against all known data formats and dictionaries to determine if its hiding something.
on that day i'll take the terrorists' side and suggest they go target the white-house instead of innocent people who are helpless to do anything.
not totally true, if you're calling local people you can meet with them before to swap keys (or atleast afew digits from a hash) friends of friends can exchange your public keys for you and the internet can also be used - people could all quite simply start using encryption in day to day things (start with email its easy to install a plugin) and it would all happen much too fast for anyone to stop. Suddenly we would all have a secure path with which to negotiate more keys it would be a loosing battle on the other side.
Perhaps we should just all (i mean everyone) start using encryption everywhere and make the whole thing pointless just so they give up..
So basically they dont care about searching you, they don't mind if you have a lighter aslong as its a normal looking lighter that they've seen before and they're perfectly content with the story that you are a smoker. And your absolutely sure no-one has said to them "hey, you better leave smokers alone they're big business"?
Thats what i said! smoking _is_ banned theres absolutely no use for a lighter you don't need one, but someone _did_ try to blow up a plane with one. There are plenty of things you could do with a lighter for fucks sake even if its only setting fire to some paper or a seat it could be enough distraction for something else.
A sick part of me really wants to see the next terrorist hi-jacking involve a lighter, just so I can see the look on Georges face as he realises what hes done.
So after asking you if you would take your shoes off and then accepting that you dont want to, they let you through... with a lighter... 4 times... and you dont see anything wrong with that!?!?!