Copying a snippet might be questionable (if that) but linking is just not debatable, a link is the same as a book reference and there ain't no way in hell anyone is going to pry that bit of free speech out of our hands.
I think most password cracking comes from looking at the postit-note next to the keyboard, trying their name and then resorting to "suckmydick". Most intrusion isnt from outsiders trying sophisticated attacks on obscure buffer overflows (although that doesnt mean its ok) but from someone who looked over your shoulder and is browsing your files now you've gone to lunch. Common sense security precautions are the thing you have to teach first.
very true, there are definately two issues here and heads should be rolling for both. The problem is that now one of them is probably gonna get lost in the noise of the other, either that or no-one will give a crap. probably the latter.
Why on earth is the music industry allowed to choose what CDs to send so they can dump whatever stock they would otherwise send to a landfill? This is not a settlement its crap. They should be settling with money or with a selection of _all_ their CDs or those at the courts will. Fuck those bitches totally. The AG was should have refused every single one and asked for more. Lets make a settlement were the defendant is allowed to empty all the fluff out of their pockets and see how that goes down.
Were talking corruption here, how reliable does it need to be?
I've often thought politicians should be treated more like juries - they bloody well shouldnt be talking to the prosecution behind everyones back, brown envelopes or not.
Because if you're gonna take the risk of pissing off Wall Street you need to have some serious ass, Google is pretty big so they can push their weight - maybe the story should be called "Google wants Wall Street to Fail" which would be kinda like an indie band becoming mega stars and using their weight to get rid of the labels.
Thats not what its about, and its not what they said, and google is hardly a little guy, but being a technology company full of geeks, they probably looked at this way of doing things, decided it was the stupidest most inefficient thing they had ever seen and made it better. most of the investors are getting the same deal, the only people who loose out are people we dont give a shit about anyway (not that they're are gonna be homeless now, but you never know, they might not be able to upgrade the lear-jet this year).
To stay competitive a country cannot afford too many people earling lots with little to show for, and with the internet their function is largely defunct.
So how long be for politicians get replaced by the internet - since their main function is to take money from corporate interests and pass legislation why not replace all that with a web-form?
Thats their biggest problem - technology has reached the point where most people can affort equipment that used to be only found in studios. Average PCs can used to create and render decent 3D movies, edit video and mix/compose music and create games. You can rig basic motion capture with a couple of video cameras and (hate to say it) Flash has produced a massive culture of animation from the masses.
You simply cannot allow the masses access to this sort of technology or they will start creating their own entertainment and giving it away free!! even worse, some of them will be motivated by... the love of art.. instead of money!! these people are going to make better films than the studios and all they will want in return is recognition and maybe a bare amount of money! - Don't think it will happen? look at open and free software! the software industry didnt ban compilers and hex editors quickly enough, and the media industry hasnt banned their tools quickly enough either, but we can only hope they both do soon otherwise we will be forced into having... better stuff for less money and that would be a disaster (for the big players).
In America (well to the US government and its buddies) freedom means their freedom - ie all the biggest politicians and corporations in their big ol' network of friends. This is about their freedom to stay at the top, make as much as they can and to never let anyone else reach their level. You see in the technology industry more than most others, making giant corporations from your garage is more possible than ever before (do i need to explain why?). This ability is pretty scary if you're high up on the ladder - you don't want to be knocked off by some geek inventing something so how can you stop this? Patents is one way - most people cant afford the time or money for even one patent, but if you have a hole department pushing them out you can build up a big portfolio in no-time. DRM is another way, using the DMCA to cut off an entire line of products, but there is allot left to do in that department - for example its still legal to own un-DRM protected digital audio recording equipment can you believe it!! Oh and of course tax-breaks help a bit, interesting that they only seem to help the very top richest people? Or is there some magic tax break we missed that gives average and poor people an amount of money large enough to by a Big Mac?
The US government hates the freedom of everyone who isn't in its little clique, the terrorists who have their own twisted agendas are a convenient side track, but effectively work the same way (if you're in the little group of friends you get to push everyone else around and get them to do your dirty business, fly planes, cut off heads etc.)
DRM = Digital Restrictions Management: An artificial method of restricting the functions available to the user of an audio, video or other digital playback device even if the user owns the device and is operating it in their own home. DRM is coupled with the DMCA (see below) to make illegal the sale, possession, import, manufacture or discussion of devices which could be used to by-pass the DRM system for any purpose. Devices include certain cables, components, computer software, instructions, schematics, video and audio recordings, artwork, music and discussions.
FTA = Forced Trade Arrangement A trade arrangement that is designed to seem beneficial to both sides but on closer inspection is forced by one side (dominant) who has the only leverage. This is usually for the purpose of unfairly balancing trade between the two sides and between small and large businesses for the benefit of the dominant side and larger businesses. The arrangement my include the provision of new laws (always from the dominant side) and import/export restrictions - see Extortion.
DMCA = Draconian Mandate Copyright Act A 21st century legislation having the (unintentional?) side-effect of hindering technological innovation, freedom of speech, fair-use, consumer rights and scientific research. The law paves the way for mandatory use of DRM (see above) in all consumer devices and a ban on importing devices that do not contain approved DRM (see FTA) the DMCA has already been responsible for the incarceration of innocent people (deemed innocent under the DMCA) and of people deemed innocent under local and or international human rights law.
Actually i think they might be on to something here - we live in a democratic society right? so how about we put it to the people, do you want:
a) Mandatory devices on all digital audio recorders that control what you can and cant record and recording off digital radio (just like you used to record off analog radio) to be illigal.
or b) No high quality digital _Disney_ radio service
Yes we can all live without Disney (i've been living without them for years)
Most people don't see or care about the CD logo, if its a round silver disk in a square case its a CD to them. Infact thats an under-statement: 99.99% of people don't notice the CD logo, its so un-important in their buying of the CD that its a joke to say "no you cant display it" because no-one cares. If i were philips i would throw the book at them. Demand they not only don't display the logo but that they have a big massive "THIS MAY NOT WORK IN YOUR CD PLAYER, THIS IS NOT A CD" sticker or just not sell CDs. Not that i agree with that sort of crap normally but if its against these assholes you gotta do as much as you can to screw them over - If i was rich id have a fun time buying out Philips and the DVDLA and telling all the record labels i hated to piss off bwahhahahaha then the world would be with out britney! (actually i would buy out the labels and then fire all the boy-bands and generic teeny-pop hoes and tell them they couldnt work anywhere else because i owned their identity.
LRM is a Legal Rights Management system designed to control legal rights given to corporations for the protection of humanity. The system will allow corporations to exist and to run business under fair-trade conduct but will prevent them from stealing the rights of others. LRM will also provide mechanisms to control corporations for the purpose of new and exciting business methods such as limited time models and restricted mergers. under the *IT TACA DA PISS Act, LRM will be mandatory for all registered corporations. The following is a brief guide to the key features of the proposed LRM:
- Limited Time Models: Corporations will be allowed to use business models for a limited time only determined by public vote. For example, the distribution and sale of plastic disks containing digitally encoded video and audio maybe restricted by public vote to a time of (for example) 1 year. After this time the corporation or corporations would be forbidden from practising this business model.
- Restricted Mergers: The number of mergers or 'buy outs' a corporation will be permitted to perform would be determined and hard coded into this legislation. After the allowed number of mergers a corporation would have to be liquidated (the assets rewarded to the tax payer) and rebuilt to regain its allowance.
- Fair-trade Conduct: A democratic process will exist for the regulation of all corporate entities. Voting by the general population will determine rules by which corporations must follow. Such rules could include the restriction of DRM technology in products that are deemed 'aggressive' by the voters and the clear labelling or banning of products that attempt to tamper with the parameters of existing playback devices (such tampering if not clearly labelled may be deemed criminal intrusion of a remote computer system). Flaws in products may also require clear labelling including the lack of security measures deemed vital at the time of production.
- The restriction of 'tools' for the purpose of by-passing LRM Lawyers, Head-quarter Relocation, Campaign Contributions, 'Politicians', Sponsored School Education Programmes and 'Remakes' will be banned, their use, trafficking, sale, possession and discussion will be offences subject to fines of up to $10,000,000,000 (which will be rewarded to the tax payer) or 2 years corporate suspension (from a tall building).
*IT TACA DA PISS Act: It Takes Ages Creating A Decent Anagram Politicians IMFO Should Stop.
I know this is so so off-topic, but its kinda fitting and without even reading the article im sure its obvious this is this years nomination for crazyest crack-induced suggestion by a corporation so its just not worth it. All these media giants are going crazy over making sure their films and 'entertainment' are protected more than most government documents (although in reality we all know how secure DRM is and how well people look after their laptops full of secret data) but theres a really interesting trend you can see for yourself on imdb.com - on the world-wide top rated of all time film list, almost every film was made before the last ten years, but on the world-wide top box-office earning list, almost all the films (that have made the most money) are from the last ten years. So to sum up, all the media companies are really keen to make sure you buy their films, yet they have been poor films but more money than ever before! infact almost every new release seems to be a box-office record breaker, but lets not forget, the last ten years have given us Gigli, Torque and Crossroads! how can they be making so much money with so much crap? My theory is its a conspiracy (obviously) and they are trying to get rid of the means for the masses to make their own entertainment (limit the quality of cameras and audio equipment without a license) after that and DRM they can make us watch whatever they want, why? because (double conspiracy) they have embedded subliminal messaging into films that will turn us into their slaves! the new overlords are comming!
sorry i kinda discredited the rest of the post there..
You re-install windows by booting to fdisk or a similar program, then you select your partition and hit delete and then recreate it, then you put your windows disk in and install. With windows this is needed about once a year for the OS to remain useable. As soon as its installed you want to get the latest patches and fixes and service packs from another machine (or get them before you re-install) if you can and delete all the short cuts to IE, then install firefox or opera and your problems are solved. I would really like to see Microsoft forced by law to admit that their software is full of bugs on the box in big letters - just like "smoking kills" on cigarette boxes.
You cant expect all parents to able to afford to pay for schools like that, even if they do it doesnt mean that they will pull their kids out if the school starts something like this, its just not that simple. Thats if the parents actually know and care about whats happening. There are lots of places you can fix problems from but i think fixing the government is the number one solution that will fix most other things. We simply cannot live with corrupt governments and corporations pushing them around, its exactly the same as members of a jury being friends or relatives to the prosecution or defense, they are infact carefully chosen to have nothing to do with eachother and not even talk to eachother, i know thats hard to do for a government but if thats the way it has to be then im sorry, leaders cant have any privacy.
yes they should have intelligent discussions, but this is as music-industry sponsered, one-sided biased lecture on why they are going to hell if they touch kazaa. This is just as bad as Bushes teen sex crap teaching kids how wrong everything is and how you're gonna get aids just from thinking the wrong way. But kids arnt so dumb even at a young age, sure they'll sit in the lession and do the work-sheet and think of words that describe copyright law so the teacher can go round the class room and ask them. They'll even make the stupid posters "don't copy that floppy" and such. The second the bell goes they will not give a toss, we were all kids we all know the deal.
Er thats slightly twisted, the whole point of governments controlling anything is that they are ment to be unbiased and not standing to make a profit. Would you rather have bloody corporations teaching your kids? i dont think so - thats the whole problem here, other organisations wanting in on what kids learn and the government is too corrupt to stop it. The government should have no interest in any one group or side, they should be unbiased and trust-worthy and having leaders with best friends in corporations is just plain wrong. - corporate education is why you get school books full of nike adverts and "coke sponsered maths".
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excellent idea, but everyone needs a page to link to instead of ZD explaining why the link isnt there. Oh google, you know you want to do this for us?
Copying a snippet might be questionable (if that) but linking is just not debatable, a link is the same as a book reference and there ain't no way in hell anyone is going to pry that bit of free speech out of our hands.
sorry, fuck the government bitches totally! they probably settled with it because one of their buddies was on the other side of the court room.
I think most password cracking comes from looking at the postit-note next to the keyboard, trying their name and then resorting to "suckmydick". Most intrusion isnt from outsiders trying sophisticated attacks on obscure buffer overflows (although that doesnt mean its ok) but from someone who looked over your shoulder and is browsing your files now you've gone to lunch. Common sense security precautions are the thing you have to teach first.
Windows XPs new password policy manager: "Im sorry, that password has already been taken by user john, please choose another"
very true, there are definately two issues here and heads should be rolling for both. The problem is that now one of them is probably gonna get lost in the noise of the other, either that or no-one will give a crap. probably the latter.
Why on earth is the music industry allowed to choose what CDs to send so they can dump whatever stock they would otherwise send to a landfill? This is not a settlement its crap. They should be settling with money or with a selection of _all_ their CDs or those at the courts will. Fuck those bitches totally. The AG was should have refused every single one and asked for more. Lets make a settlement were the defendant is allowed to empty all the fluff out of their pockets and see how that goes down.
Were talking corruption here, how reliable does it need to be?
I've often thought politicians should be treated more like juries - they bloody well shouldnt be talking to the prosecution behind everyones back, brown envelopes or not.
Buying lots and lots of 1GB hard-drives?
Because if you're gonna take the risk of pissing off Wall Street you need to have some serious ass, Google is pretty big so they can push their weight - maybe the story should be called "Google wants Wall Street to Fail" which would be kinda like an indie band becoming mega stars and using their weight to get rid of the labels.
Thats not what its about, and its not what they said, and google is hardly a little guy, but being a technology company full of geeks, they probably looked at this way of doing things, decided it was the stupidest most inefficient thing they had ever seen and made it better. most of the investors are getting the same deal, the only people who loose out are people we dont give a shit about anyway (not that they're are gonna be homeless now, but you never know, they might not be able to upgrade the lear-jet this year).
To stay competitive a country cannot afford too many people earling lots with little to show for, and with the internet their function is largely defunct.
So how long be for politicians get replaced by the internet - since their main function is to take money from corporate interests and pass legislation why not replace all that with a web-form?
Thats their biggest problem - technology has reached the point where most people can affort equipment that used to be only found in studios. Average PCs can used to create and render decent 3D movies, edit video and mix/compose music and create games. You can rig basic motion capture with a couple of video cameras and (hate to say it) Flash has produced a massive culture of animation from the masses.
You simply cannot allow the masses access to this sort of technology or they will start creating their own entertainment and giving it away free!! even worse, some of them will be motivated by... the love of art.. instead of money!! these people are going to make better films than the studios and all they will want in return is recognition and maybe a bare amount of money! - Don't think it will happen? look at open and free software! the software industry didnt ban compilers and hex editors quickly enough, and the media industry hasnt banned their tools quickly enough either, but we can only hope they both do soon otherwise we will be forced into having... better stuff for less money and that would be a disaster (for the big players).
A big 2-fingered 'fuck-you' salute would be a more appropriate logo, but i don't think anyone would notice that either.
In America (well to the US government and its buddies) freedom means their freedom - ie all the biggest politicians and corporations in their big ol' network of friends. This is about their freedom to stay at the top, make as much as they can and to never let anyone else reach their level. You see in the technology industry more than most others, making giant corporations from your garage is more possible than ever before (do i need to explain why?). This ability is pretty scary if you're high up on the ladder - you don't want to be knocked off by some geek inventing something so how can you stop this? Patents is one way - most people cant afford the time or money for even one patent, but if you have a hole department pushing them out you can build up a big portfolio in no-time. DRM is another way, using the DMCA to cut off an entire line of products, but there is allot left to do in that department - for example its still legal to own un-DRM protected digital audio recording equipment can you believe it!! Oh and of course tax-breaks help a bit, interesting that they only seem to help the very top richest people? Or is there some magic tax break we missed that gives average and poor people an amount of money large enough to by a Big Mac?
The US government hates the freedom of everyone who isn't in its little clique, the terrorists who have their own twisted agendas are a convenient side track, but effectively work the same way (if you're in the little group of friends you get to push everyone else around and get them to do your dirty business, fly planes, cut off heads etc.)
DRM = Digital Restrictions Management:
An artificial method of restricting the functions available to the user of an audio, video or other digital playback device even if the user owns the device and is operating it in their own home. DRM is coupled with the DMCA (see below) to make illegal the sale, possession, import, manufacture or discussion of devices which could be used to by-pass the DRM system for any purpose. Devices include certain cables, components, computer software, instructions, schematics, video and audio recordings, artwork, music and discussions.
FTA = Forced Trade Arrangement
A trade arrangement that is designed to seem beneficial to both sides but on closer inspection is forced by one side (dominant) who has the only leverage. This is usually for the purpose of unfairly balancing trade between the two sides and between small and large businesses for the benefit of the dominant side and larger businesses. The arrangement my include the provision of new laws (always from the dominant side) and import/export restrictions - see Extortion.
DMCA = Draconian Mandate Copyright Act
A 21st century legislation having the (unintentional?) side-effect of hindering technological innovation, freedom of speech, fair-use, consumer rights and scientific research. The law paves the way for mandatory use of DRM (see above) in all consumer devices and a ban on importing devices that do not contain approved DRM (see FTA) the DMCA has already been responsible for the incarceration of innocent people (deemed innocent under the DMCA) and of people deemed innocent under local and or international human rights law.
Actually i think they might be on to something here - we live in a democratic society right? so how about we put it to the people, do you want:
a) Mandatory devices on all digital audio recorders that control what you can and cant record and recording off digital radio (just like you used to record off analog radio) to be illigal.
or b) No high quality digital _Disney_ radio service
Yes we can all live without Disney (i've been living without them for years)
Most people don't see or care about the CD logo, if its a round silver disk in a square case its a CD to them. Infact thats an under-statement: 99.99% of people don't notice the CD logo, its so un-important in their buying of the CD that its a joke to say "no you cant display it" because no-one cares. If i were philips i would throw the book at them. Demand they not only don't display the logo but that they have a big massive "THIS MAY NOT WORK IN YOUR CD PLAYER, THIS IS NOT A CD" sticker or just not sell CDs. Not that i agree with that sort of crap normally but if its against these assholes you gotta do as much as you can to screw them over - If i was rich id have a fun time buying out Philips and the DVDLA and telling all the record labels i hated to piss off bwahhahahaha then the world would be with out britney! (actually i would buy out the labels and then fire all the boy-bands and generic teeny-pop hoes and tell them they couldnt work anywhere else because i owned their identity.
I think 3 is "Re-write laws to cover your ass"
LRM is a Legal Rights Management system designed to control legal rights given to corporations for the protection of humanity. The system will allow corporations to exist and to run business under fair-trade conduct but will prevent them from stealing the rights of others. LRM will also provide mechanisms to control corporations for the purpose of new and exciting business methods such as limited time models and restricted mergers. under the *IT TACA DA PISS Act, LRM will be mandatory for all registered corporations. The following is a brief guide to the key features of the proposed LRM:
- Limited Time Models:
Corporations will be allowed to use business models for a limited time only determined by public vote. For example, the distribution and sale of plastic disks containing digitally encoded video and audio maybe restricted by public vote to a time of (for example) 1 year. After this time the corporation or corporations would be forbidden from practising this business model.
- Restricted Mergers:
The number of mergers or 'buy outs' a corporation will be permitted to perform would be determined and hard coded into this legislation. After the allowed number of mergers a corporation would have to be liquidated (the assets rewarded to the tax payer) and rebuilt to regain its allowance.
- Fair-trade Conduct:
A democratic process will exist for the regulation of all corporate entities. Voting by the general population will determine rules by which corporations must follow. Such rules could include the restriction of DRM technology in products that are deemed 'aggressive' by the voters and the clear labelling or banning of products that attempt to tamper with the parameters of existing playback devices (such tampering if not clearly labelled may be deemed criminal intrusion of a remote computer system). Flaws in products may also require clear labelling including the lack of security measures deemed vital at the time of production.
- The restriction of 'tools' for the purpose of by-passing LRM
Lawyers, Head-quarter Relocation, Campaign Contributions, 'Politicians', Sponsored School Education Programmes and 'Remakes' will be banned, their use, trafficking, sale, possession and discussion will be offences subject to fines of up to $10,000,000,000 (which will be rewarded to the tax payer) or 2 years corporate suspension (from a tall building).
*IT TACA DA PISS Act:
It Takes Ages Creating A Decent Anagram Politicians IMFO Should Stop.
I know this is so so off-topic, but its kinda fitting and without even reading the article im sure its obvious this is this years nomination for crazyest crack-induced suggestion by a corporation so its just not worth it. All these media giants are going crazy over making sure their films and 'entertainment' are protected more than most government documents (although in reality we all know how secure DRM is and how well people look after their laptops full of secret data) but theres a really interesting trend you can see for yourself on imdb.com - on the world-wide top rated of all time film list, almost every film was made before the last ten years, but on the world-wide top box-office earning list, almost all the films (that have made the most money) are from the last ten years. So to sum up, all the media companies are really keen to make sure you buy their films, yet they have been poor films but more money than ever before! infact almost every new release seems to be a box-office record breaker, but lets not forget, the last ten years have given us Gigli, Torque and Crossroads! how can they be making so much money with so much crap? My theory is its a conspiracy (obviously) and they are trying to get rid of the means for the masses to make their own entertainment (limit the quality of cameras and audio equipment without a license) after that and DRM they can make us watch whatever they want, why? because (double conspiracy) they have embedded subliminal messaging into films that will turn us into their slaves! the new overlords are comming!
sorry i kinda discredited the rest of the post there..
You re-install windows by booting to fdisk or a similar program, then you select your partition and hit delete and then recreate it, then you put your windows disk in and install. With windows this is needed about once a year for the OS to remain useable. As soon as its installed you want to get the latest patches and fixes and service packs from another machine (or get them before you re-install) if you can and delete all the short cuts to IE, then install firefox or opera and your problems are solved. I would really like to see Microsoft forced by law to admit that their software is full of bugs on the box in big letters - just like "smoking kills" on cigarette boxes.
You cant expect all parents to able to afford to pay for schools like that, even if they do it doesnt mean that they will pull their kids out if the school starts something like this, its just not that simple. Thats if the parents actually know and care about whats happening. There are lots of places you can fix problems from but i think fixing the government is the number one solution that will fix most other things. We simply cannot live with corrupt governments and corporations pushing them around, its exactly the same as members of a jury being friends or relatives to the prosecution or defense, they are infact carefully chosen to have nothing to do with eachother and not even talk to eachother, i know thats hard to do for a government but if thats the way it has to be then im sorry, leaders cant have any privacy.
yes they should have intelligent discussions, but this is as music-industry sponsered, one-sided biased lecture on why they are going to hell if they touch kazaa. This is just as bad as Bushes teen sex crap teaching kids how wrong everything is and how you're gonna get aids just from thinking the wrong way. But kids arnt so dumb even at a young age, sure they'll sit in the lession and do the work-sheet and think of words that describe copyright law so the teacher can go round the class room and ask them. They'll even make the stupid posters "don't copy that floppy" and such. The second the bell goes they will not give a toss, we were all kids we all know the deal.
Er thats slightly twisted, the whole point of governments controlling anything is that they are ment to be unbiased and not standing to make a profit. Would you rather have bloody corporations teaching your kids? i dont think so - thats the whole problem here, other organisations wanting in on what kids learn and the government is too corrupt to stop it. The government should have no interest in any one group or side, they should be unbiased and trust-worthy and having leaders with best friends in corporations is just plain wrong. - corporate education is why you get school books full of nike adverts and "coke sponsered maths".