The RFID tag wouldnt have packets actually routed to it, the company that makes them or the warehouse that uses them would have a big block and these would point to their website with an individual page for each stating its purpose etc (yes i know its stupid and they could just have one page that takes the 'id' number but this is what i mean about if you build it they will come, someones gonna find a reason to do this sooner or later)
It might seem like overkill but the old adage "if you build it they will come" applies here. The more your addressing system can support, the more people will start using it for more and more pointless things - everything will have its own ip, rfid manufactureres will give their tags ip's because they can, cars will get their own all phones will, packages will - just so you can type the ip to track it (and once its delivered the ip will point to that card-board box forever) we're already talking about toasters with addresses its just going to get more and more complicated and the reasons for giving addresses will be more and more pointless (a toaster could easily survive on a subnet) the best solution is a system that can work with addresses of any length (bangs head on table) but people will still demand that their grains of sand have a 50 byte address, just be grateful for exponentials!
This is the problem, in the US or UK for example the government could never impose a law like that but if they just word it slightly differently they could just about sneak it in. How about requiring phone companies to keep a recording of their customers last few calls and messages for say 1 hour, if theres a 'major terrorist attack' these calls could be quickly accessed by the police based on the call locations and maybe even voice recognition? it would only be a slippery slope to exend that to 24 hours and more and redefine 'major terrorist attack'. I dont think we realise quite how free we have it by being able to talk (reasonably) freely but we have to stop pig-fucking politicians who are after our rights for their financial and/or crazy fundamentalist gain, let this be a lession for us to try harder to keep our freedoms.
Not to mention this system will be broken within hours - rot13, different languages, weird txt-codes - there are a million ways to get round a dumb filter.
Seems like this shouldnt have been a problem - the engineers predicted it would last 30 years when they designed it in 1981 and its still predicted to run out around 2010, id call that spot on and if no-one bothered to design the systems to be easily upgradable then its their fault. All serial numbering systems should have a basic plan for extension even if its not expected to be needed for decades, and all applications that use the numbers should be designed with that in mind!
It so obviously has nothing to do with "rogue states" designing and simulating nuclear weapons (they can cluster lots more less powerful processors or get them from somewhere else) and everything to do with the sales reputation that comes from being the manufacturer whos product is so powerful its classed as a restricted export weapon. I wonder how much Intel is paying and when IBM will get in on it.
The rule could be "you're old enough to see all these things when you're old enough to decode the complex perl one-liner self-recurring regex filter i wrote"
You really do have to put this into perspective - the police are just trying to rid the world of dangerous criminals and these people _are_ dangerous criminals! You have no idea what goes on in these dark rooms - hardcore drugs, rape, terrorist organisation, gang violence - the average cinema is a hotbed of criminal activity. Just the other day 4 men were arrested after gang-raping a 14 year old girl and beating her so much she is in a critical condition, and this happened in the back row of Touch Of Pink! Kids are being pushed into drugs and prostitution while watching Barney, gangs of teenagers with semi-automatic weapons often get involved with shoot-outs! I think its fair to say their are privacy issues, but im sure you just want to be able to watch the movie like anyone else without fearing for your life!
Why not script a remote computer to grab records at a very low rate - 1 a second or 1 a minute or even 1 an hour? It can build up the database and it would seem like normal everyday usage?
I think pedophiles with camcorders get less time in most countries including the US? MPAA's copyright is far more important of course. I wonder how long before having your hand chopped off will be a punishment for breaking DRM?
You miss the point: most of the people who rip and share on p2p know how to get past the DRM with their eyes closed. Most people who know nothing about p2p but just want to do simple fair-use things (eg watch a DVD on their old TV by plugging it into the VCR, or copying a CD for their car or incase the kids break it) generally don't know how to by-pass the DRM. So the DRM is only doing its intended job when it stops people who are knowledgable enough to know about sharing on p2p but not knowledgable enough to know about by-passing the DRM, this is a very small group.
As for discouraging, does it really? looking at the numbers from above, you're going to piss off the people who just wanted fair-use and the other side are going to get the old "don't eat from the tree" - i.e if something is forbidden, people will want to do it more. Again theirs a small section of people who will know how to by-pass but just wont be bothered and in this particular case, "not being bothered" really means "not being bothered to hold down the shift key".
Are they admitting themselves that the DRM is totally crap and easily by-passed and that most rippers will easily be able to get this on the P2P networks thus defeating the entire purpose of the system because now only clue-less users will be stopped by it and its mainly these clue-less users who wish to honestly copy the CD for fair-use reasons?
Assult or vandalism even for someone with a serious previous record will get you 1 year maximum and if you have no previous record you'll get off with no time at all! Infact you can go much higher, unarmed robbery horay!
Now lets see, for a 10 year second offence camcorder violator.. you could for the same sentence have got your self a lovely new voluntary manslaughter or even better: rape of a child with force! YES! the MPAA considers their work so important that two camcorder recordings of their films are as bad as raping a child! well that settles it, i think it should be the electric chair the 3rd time!
Ok now its fucking gone too far. We simply have to protest this, mass protest is the only way - get everyone you know to get everyone they know to bring camcorders to every movie they see - if the cinema staff try to stop you going in: push them out of the way, or even beat them to the ground, assult isnt exactly going to get you into much trouble anymore!
Guns would never actually be banned though (if they are you can mail me a hat and ill eat it) un-locked computers on the other hand, that just might work. I think i worded it badly: If you created a comparison graph of who stood to loose the most sales Britney and her peers and their record execs would be at the top and these are the people who are behind the laws and these are the people with lear-jets and coke habits. People are free to make money, but they certainly arnt free to use that money to influence the government and this is whats happening, thats why no-one cares when low-wage workers face the loss of their way of life but suddenly people take notice when its the high-end of the scale. At the end of the day, everyone wants a fair deal and the public arn't getting it.
Ok not most but allot of people make shit loads. The smaller bands out there mostly work concerts which is really what its all about.
The rights they are screwing with involve banning P2P totally and/or enforcing mandatory copyprotection in everything. No-one is talking about banning guns or making it illigal to open your cars hood or own a screwdriver but this is whats happening in the computer world and its not happening because of ethics its happening because they have more money and the government listens to the rich.
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The bottom line is: I don't think its that much of an issues that the music labels might loose a business model entirely. Jobs have been lost for less and just because a small group of over-paid people happens to be on the line it certainly doesnt mean we should loose rights. Factories close all the time and 1000's loose thier jobs just like that, and all it gets is a 10 minute news item. No-one ever suggests we should have continued the manual production line instead of using robots. There are far fewer people who stand to loose much over loss of CD sales and most of them make enough in a year to retire for ever. The industry is saturated with bad music and acts that all sound the same and frankly it wouldnt be such a disaster if it collapsed. I don't believe for a minute that suddenly no-one would produce music, small-time groups probably wouldnt even tell the difference, neither would those with serious fan-bases, music concerts would still be popular, but you probably wouldnt be able to make millions off crappy boy-bands that churn out the same headache inducing crap every month and the side-effect would be many people not bothering to start their own group because "theres not enough money in it" oh what a loss!
For years CDs have been sold on the economic principle of supply and demand - people have been prepared to pay nearly as much as a concert ticket to buy a CD (say 1/2 - 1/3) because in their head they figure "i can listen to the CD 100's of times so it must be worth it. Meanwhile the labels and to some extent the artists have thought "well i can sing this song once and sell it 1000's of times!" Now the consumers have started to figure that they can get music for free, this is also how supply and demand works, no its not the same as shop-lifting or raiding the warehouse! so get over it. Governments have no right to screw with our rights over this.
While we're on the subject can someone explain why every single dentist in london is located in a converted-house surgery allong a very very long road of houses (always on a long road) in the absolute middle of nowhere? sometimes you see 5 in a row on the same road, but in the middle of nowhere - no shops or anything? I think the whole teeth thing comes from the stereotypical english man who is from a time before dentists and electricity. Its kinda like looking at a redneck and saying all americans walk around with shot-guns and say "geet off ma land".
So whats better? being able to play a game without having cheaters or the ability to cheat at a _computer game_ without being a criminal? Keep in mind that its always going to be impossible to stop cheating all the way, the best you can do is design the game as well as you can and keep a look out for new ways of cheating.
Natural white light is a mixture of light 'rays' all at millions of different frequencies (in our visible band) our eyes are sensitive in a way to all these frequencies but we peak at 3 very specific frequencies. When all these different natural light rays come in and hit the screen it only reflects the ones that fall into one of the 3 R G & B frequencies which is a small percentage out of all those random frequencies, so not much light gets reflected and it appears black. The projecter however only sends light out in those 3 frequencies so if it sends out 33.3% red rays, 33.3% green rays and 33.3% blue rays, you get 100% of the rays reflected back and our eyes say its white. (I got D in physics)
I call prior art on myself (should be in some old slashdot posts). One dumb-terminal touch-screen palm-pilot sized device to control all the other devices you have in your pockets eg mobile, mp3 player, laptop (in brief case) etc. Except i thought it would be better wireless so it could interface with say a public computer in an airport to give you a map and tell you were your gate is. How will you control something in your pocket if it doesnt have skin contact? (apart from throwing out all your clothes and buying foil lined fabric)
Company cars ready to chauffeur employees from work and home - imagine their relaxation at being driven to work in the morning in a nice smoked glass car with soft music and maybe some internet access for the morning slashdot read, then when they get to work they might actually do work instead of reading slashdot (psychologically they will have left slashdot behind in the car) then driven home away from crowded buses or trains and without having to deal with traffic. It might not be that expensive - especially if you car pool and shift the start times around.
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The RFID tag wouldnt have packets actually routed to it, the company that makes them or the warehouse that uses them would have a big block and these would point to their website with an individual page for each stating its purpose etc (yes i know its stupid and they could just have one page that takes the 'id' number but this is what i mean about if you build it they will come, someones gonna find a reason to do this sooner or later)
I bet you 300 addresses that in 30 years you will want more!
It might seem like overkill but the old adage "if you build it they will come" applies here. The more your addressing system can support, the more people will start using it for more and more pointless things - everything will have its own ip, rfid manufactureres will give their tags ip's because they can, cars will get their own all phones will, packages will - just so you can type the ip to track it (and once its delivered the ip will point to that card-board box forever) we're already talking about toasters with addresses its just going to get more and more complicated and the reasons for giving addresses will be more and more pointless (a toaster could easily survive on a subnet) the best solution is a system that can work with addresses of any length (bangs head on table) but people will still demand that their grains of sand have a 50 byte address, just be grateful for exponentials!
This is the problem, in the US or UK for example the government could never impose a law like that but if they just word it slightly differently they could just about sneak it in. How about requiring phone companies to keep a recording of their customers last few calls and messages for say 1 hour, if theres a 'major terrorist attack' these calls could be quickly accessed by the police based on the call locations and maybe even voice recognition? it would only be a slippery slope to exend that to 24 hours and more and redefine 'major terrorist attack'. I dont think we realise quite how free we have it by being able to talk (reasonably) freely but we have to stop pig-fucking politicians who are after our rights for their financial and/or crazy fundamentalist gain, let this be a lession for us to try harder to keep our freedoms.
Not to mention this system will be broken within hours - rot13, different languages, weird txt-codes - there are a million ways to get round a dumb filter.
Seems like this shouldnt have been a problem - the engineers predicted it would last 30 years when they designed it in 1981 and its still predicted to run out around 2010, id call that spot on and if no-one bothered to design the systems to be easily upgradable then its their fault. All serial numbering systems should have a basic plan for extension even if its not expected to be needed for decades, and all applications that use the numbers should be designed with that in mind!
It so obviously has nothing to do with "rogue states" designing and simulating nuclear weapons (they can cluster lots more less powerful processors or get them from somewhere else) and everything to do with the sales reputation that comes from being the manufacturer whos product is so powerful its classed as a restricted export weapon. I wonder how much Intel is paying and when IBM will get in on it.
The rule could be "you're old enough to see all these things when you're old enough to decode the complex perl one-liner self-recurring regex filter i wrote"
Ohh that was fun, i think i'll vote republican!
You really do have to put this into perspective - the police are just trying to rid the world of dangerous criminals and these people _are_ dangerous criminals! You have no idea what goes on in these dark rooms - hardcore drugs, rape, terrorist organisation, gang violence - the average cinema is a hotbed of criminal activity. Just the other day 4 men were arrested after gang-raping a 14 year old girl and beating her so much she is in a critical condition, and this happened in the back row of Touch Of Pink! Kids are being pushed into drugs and prostitution while watching Barney, gangs of teenagers with semi-automatic weapons often get involved with shoot-outs! I think its fair to say their are privacy issues, but im sure you just want to be able to watch the movie like anyone else without fearing for your life!
Why not script a remote computer to grab records at a very low rate - 1 a second or 1 a minute or even 1 an hour? It can build up the database and it would seem like normal everyday usage?
What they mean is their database runs on "EasyDB123 Trial Version" and they cant give more than 10 queries per day or they will be forced to upgrade.
I think pedophiles with camcorders get less time in most countries including the US? MPAA's copyright is far more important of course. I wonder how long before having your hand chopped off will be a punishment for breaking DRM?
You miss the point: most of the people who rip and share on p2p know how to get past the DRM with their eyes closed. Most people who know nothing about p2p but just want to do simple fair-use things (eg watch a DVD on their old TV by plugging it into the VCR, or copying a CD for their car or incase the kids break it) generally don't know how to by-pass the DRM. So the DRM is only doing its intended job when it stops people who are knowledgable enough to know about sharing on p2p but not knowledgable enough to know about by-passing the DRM, this is a very small group.
As for discouraging, does it really? looking at the numbers from above, you're going to piss off the people who just wanted fair-use and the other side are going to get the old "don't eat from the tree" - i.e if something is forbidden, people will want to do it more. Again theirs a small section of people who will know how to by-pass but just wont be bothered and in this particular case, "not being bothered" really means "not being bothered to hold down the shift key".
Are they admitting themselves that the DRM is totally crap and easily by-passed and that most rippers will easily be able to get this on the P2P networks thus defeating the entire purpose of the system because now only clue-less users will be stopped by it and its mainly these clue-less users who wish to honestly copy the CD for fair-use reasons?
According to the Massachusetts sentencing guidelines (all i could find)
Assult or vandalism even for someone with a serious previous record will get you 1 year maximum and if you have no previous record you'll get off with no time at all! Infact you can go much higher, unarmed robbery horay!
Now lets see, for a 10 year second offence camcorder violator.. you could for the same sentence have got your self a lovely new voluntary manslaughter or even better: rape of a child with force! YES! the MPAA considers their work so important that two camcorder recordings of their films are as bad as raping a child! well that settles it, i think it should be the electric chair the 3rd time!
Ok now its fucking gone too far. We simply have to protest this, mass protest is the only way - get everyone you know to get everyone they know to bring camcorders to every movie they see - if the cinema staff try to stop you going in: push them out of the way, or even beat them to the ground, assult isnt exactly going to get you into much trouble anymore!
Fuck them, enough is enough.
Guns would never actually be banned though (if they are you can mail me a hat and ill eat it) un-locked computers on the other hand, that just might work. I think i worded it badly: If you created a comparison graph of who stood to loose the most sales Britney and her peers and their record execs would be at the top and these are the people who are behind the laws and these are the people with lear-jets and coke habits. People are free to make money, but they certainly arnt free to use that money to influence the government and this is whats happening, thats why no-one cares when low-wage workers face the loss of their way of life but suddenly people take notice when its the high-end of the scale. At the end of the day, everyone wants a fair deal and the public arn't getting it.
Ok not most but allot of people make shit loads. The smaller bands out there mostly work concerts which is really what its all about.
The rights they are screwing with involve banning P2P totally and/or enforcing mandatory copyprotection in everything. No-one is talking about banning guns or making it illigal to open your cars hood or own a screwdriver but this is whats happening in the computer world and its not happening because of ethics its happening because they have more money and the government listens to the rich.
The bottom line is: I don't think its that much of an issues that the music labels might loose a business model entirely. Jobs have been lost for less and just because a small group of over-paid people happens to be on the line it certainly doesnt mean we should loose rights. Factories close all the time and 1000's loose thier jobs just like that, and all it gets is a 10 minute news item. No-one ever suggests we should have continued the manual production line instead of using robots. There are far fewer people who stand to loose much over loss of CD sales and most of them make enough in a year to retire for ever. The industry is saturated with bad music and acts that all sound the same and frankly it wouldnt be such a disaster if it collapsed. I don't believe for a minute that suddenly no-one would produce music, small-time groups probably wouldnt even tell the difference, neither would those with serious fan-bases, music concerts would still be popular, but you probably wouldnt be able to make millions off crappy boy-bands that churn out the same headache inducing crap every month and the side-effect would be many people not bothering to start their own group because "theres not enough money in it" oh what a loss!
For years CDs have been sold on the economic principle of supply and demand - people have been prepared to pay nearly as much as a concert ticket to buy a CD (say 1/2 - 1/3) because in their head they figure "i can listen to the CD 100's of times so it must be worth it. Meanwhile the labels and to some extent the artists have thought "well i can sing this song once and sell it 1000's of times!" Now the consumers have started to figure that they can get music for free, this is also how supply and demand works, no its not the same as shop-lifting or raiding the warehouse! so get over it. Governments have no right to screw with our rights over this.
While we're on the subject can someone explain why every single dentist in london is located in a converted-house surgery allong a very very long road of houses (always on a long road) in the absolute middle of nowhere? sometimes you see 5 in a row on the same road, but in the middle of nowhere - no shops or anything? I think the whole teeth thing comes from the stereotypical english man who is from a time before dentists and electricity. Its kinda like looking at a redneck and saying all americans walk around with shot-guns and say "geet off ma land".
jealous enough to.. kill? good idea, you take the kid, ill destroy all the research!
(Disclaimer: this post is not conspiracy to comit homocide and arsen, im not threatening anyone you cant arrest me go fuck yourself fbi)
So whats better? being able to play a game without having cheaters or the ability to cheat at a _computer game_ without being a criminal? Keep in mind that its always going to be impossible to stop cheating all the way, the best you can do is design the game as well as you can and keep a look out for new ways of cheating.
Natural white light is a mixture of light 'rays' all at millions of different frequencies (in our visible band) our eyes are sensitive in a way to all these frequencies but we peak at 3 very specific frequencies. When all these different natural light rays come in and hit the screen it only reflects the ones that fall into one of the 3 R G & B frequencies which is a small percentage out of all those random frequencies, so not much light gets reflected and it appears black. The projecter however only sends light out in those 3 frequencies so if it sends out 33.3% red rays, 33.3% green rays and 33.3% blue rays, you get 100% of the rays reflected back and our eyes say its white. (I got D in physics)
I call prior art on myself (should be in some old slashdot posts). One dumb-terminal touch-screen palm-pilot sized device to control all the other devices you have in your pockets eg mobile, mp3 player, laptop (in brief case) etc. Except i thought it would be better wireless so it could interface with say a public computer in an airport to give you a map and tell you were your gate is. How will you control something in your pocket if it doesnt have skin contact? (apart from throwing out all your clothes and buying foil lined fabric)
Company cars ready to chauffeur employees from work and home - imagine their relaxation at being driven to work in the morning in a nice smoked glass car with soft music and maybe some internet access for the morning slashdot read, then when they get to work they might actually do work instead of reading slashdot (psychologically they will have left slashdot behind in the car) then driven home away from crowded buses or trains and without having to deal with traffic. It might not be that expensive - especially if you car pool and shift the start times around.
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