Not really, the server is going to know exactly what its served you right down to the byte - thats its job, it might be possible on a low-level to just ditch the packets and keep confirming that you've got them (even if they have errors) that might save a tiny bit of time but its not worth it really. We can only hope they have just screwed up the implementation - as they very often do even on good ideas.
I was trying to work out how much my music collection is worth to me and i reckoned for the average track i would pay between 10p-50p, and something i liked maybe 50p-1, anything teeny-poppy would be worth less than 10p. I dont think people deserve in the range of millions for one pretentious im-so-amazing-and-special song thats been made up of reused melodies and badly sounding midi instruments.
Also i went to Egypt recently and their exchange rate is totally messed up! 2 egyptian pounds is worth about as much as 1 to us but the exchange rate is 11 egyption pounds to the british pound! the result - you can have a good full lunch in the best hotels in egypt for the same price as mcdonalds in london!
Ok im sure they have fucked up and not done this properly so it can be hacked (i hope). But the fact remains, if you have to download an advert to get to the content (which either comes with the ad at the end of the data stream or wont download until the server has confirmed that the ad has downloaded) we are screwed and there is very little we can do to hack around it!
Somethings that spring to mind: *people download the advert once and use some sort of p2p system to distribute the ad-free version around. *we make blocking software anyway and just block the advert as a strike against the corporations even though we still have to download it. *we just boycott them.
ok maybe its a good idea in this case, but no-less it was totally fueled by last weeks headlines and its wanting to lead to something stupid by the idiot politicians such as nationwide net censorship
For the benifit of people outside the UK ill tell you what this is, this is some total bullshit FUD bandwaggon that everyone and their dog is jumping on. Last week it was all over the front pages that the internet was to blaim for pedophiles and that in 1988 35 pedophiles were arrested but last year it was 600 (figures from my memory, might be wrong). Ofcourse this means that the internet has some magic way of taking normal people and somehow turning them into pedophiles! the result - total witch hunt and FUD. Then there was "more concern" because of mobiles and "3G technology" making the internet more mobile so now parents wouldnt be able to know what their kids were looking at! So now its all about saving the childeren. Of course no-one in their right mind would think that supervising young kids when they're online and explaining to them the dangers and the obvious common sense things would be a solution. This is a pretty minor thing, no-one uses wap anyway and its not total censorship just proof of age but the principle is there for some major censorship.
I suggested that ages ago but no-one cared - your laptop could spend its time scanning for like minded nodes and you could even have a request list for it to try and forfil. If the police stopped you you could say "hey not my fault im sharing copyrighted material - its that damn windows security!"
Sorry some one fill me in - how is this theft?? if anything the FBI have been involved in theft of his computers. Did he actually take the source code and delete the original? Granted it might not be right but i really hate when its called theft, its not theft, theft is when you actually loose something, not a hypothetical sale or integrety of your data.
57% is hardly a major statistic? And tech shops havnt got to the same point as clothes stores where they have special areas for us guys to sit and stare into space in peace.:P
I think Apples product isnt necessarily the best, its just become a fashion accessory, and walking around with white headphones is so this year. I wouldnt be surprised if people just buy white headphones or another mp3 manufacturer doesnt make their product look similar. Until next year ofcourse when it will be all about blue headphones!
It doesnt say anywhere (or does it??) that it can link up with other Aireo's so whats the point? sticking a wireless link in it just so you dont have to plug the cable into your computer!? Ok so it could be cool if you want to leave it in the car or something but its not designed as a car stereo box so you would have to be pretty lazy to justify that. What would be really cool is if it could communicate with other mp3 players on the street so you could listen to what others were listening to (like jacking in with headphones but wireless) or even better, swap music with people. Im guessing they didnt do this for "legal" reasons but hopefully someone will come up with a firmware hack.
Well for one example: DVD was designed long before filesharing and it has the most heinous DRM mechanisms that dont even have anything to do with piracy: region encoding so they could control the market, fast-forward/skip restrictions so they could decide what you could fastforward (eg to stick adverts in the beginning of the disk which i have seen done). And players that have the ability to switch regions 3 times and then your locked into one. DivX was around before and planted the seed of "you buy this disk and we charge you per-play" and there are plenty more systems that simply give the corporations more ways to rip you off or control what you do.
The way DRM is going is to the hardware level. Its far too easy for people to break software DRM because all it takes is a few debugging tools. The best thing to do is to start getting into hardware hacking early - play around with PICs and stuff (playstation mod chips are PICs) and get to the point where your as comfortable as if you were with a software debugger. DRM is restricted by the 'if you can see it you can copy it' rule and eventually even the best DRM systems finish with an unencrypted data stream or an enable signal. Law is not going to be on our side so if we want our electronics free from artificial restrictions we are gonna have to fight it ourselves and make a mockary of the DRM industry. Screw them all before they start coming out with DRM chips that call the cops or blow-up in the users face if they are tampered with. And stop them before it becomes illigal to own so much as a multimeter without a license.
I would call myself a standard geek (only had one geek failure on the latest/. poll) but even i think this is too nerdy. I wouldn't even stand near it!
Dont forget, Bill of Rights - freedom of the press to be owned by people with certain interests and party affiliations and freedom of the press to _not_ report certain things. Im not saying its bad, im just saying that they are free to say or not say what they like.
What if you put quotes around the whole paper - then maybe the computer will be tricked into thinking its a "quote" and the prof wont notice (if the " is in a smaller type);)
As for the trial, maybe im missing something but why doesnt the university submit the papers themselves or just have their own internal system?
What they are trying to describe is a world where people have dumb-terminals that connect to computing providors, similar to an ISP, but a CSP. These CSPs will handle everything and give you net access and fix problems and you wont have to worry about maintaining your computer or upgrading every year. More to the point, the CSPs will handle DRM for all your music, video and entertainment needs. You will buy a song and no file transfers will need to take place, it will stream to you and deduct 50 cents per play from your account, same with films, video-games and extra software etc. That also explains why they are having such a hard time with the names and with giving it to us straght - they need to hide this vision behind business bullshit speak. Personally i would find it a rather big blow to wake up to a world where conventional computer hardware is either restricted or just too expensive (because everyone else is using CSPs, PCs just wont be made as much and thus prices go up). I dont want to be forced into using their service and their system and their DRM bullshit.
The issue here is that the record companies etc are under threat because their business model is to be made redundant, why shouldnt it? its evolution, if there are no record companies, there is no middle-man for artists and listeners to go through, artists can do the job themselves and you go from a system where fame is manufactured to one where the artists that people like get the popularity they deserve by natural selection. And if the artists are pissed because they wont get _as_much_ money, that just goes to show that money is all they are after, should we really be supporting them? should we be suffering DRM and restrictions to our freedom because some assholes want a bigger jet?
Let's just see who knee-jerk replies before reading down this far
Careful, politicians might be reading this, and they are too young to understand sarcasm, they might grow up thinking that licensing computers is a good idea, and boom, next thing you know mandatory electronics licensing and of course Microsoft is the one providing the 'smart' cards.
What we really need is a way to keep stupid politicians who have absolutely no idea about the subject area from using computers and making knee-jerk laws that fuck over our freedoms.
Microsoft + Browsers is not a good combination, they never fix security holes, and given that they cant even get the most basic CSS box model implemented to the W3C rec. can you blame them? There are so many improvements to IE they could have made, it would have taken less than a week to patch in an option to 'block' pop-ups, or an option to turn off all the extra things scripts can access - such as browser controls. But since they didn't fix Outlooks similar problem for god-knows how long (have they even fixed it yet?) it seems unlikely that they would waste their precious time on something so minor. It all seems a bit phishy to me, what scares me the most is that the logical explanation for all this is that Microsoft is either totally incompetent, or, they're corrupt and are doing this on purpose for some business reason.
Oh please this is getting fucking stupid. Fair enough if you patent something very complex and impressive thats taken years of work, but really, most patents are just a joke - literally! if i was a patent clark i would actually just tell some of these people to fuck off and come back when they had something real, this patent is literally about some bloody dots, it pisses me off, its not even as though they even invented email, domain names or url formatting!! copyright law is a big joke.
What is expected to happen, is that contractors will install the intelligent lamp posts in areas. They'll provide the basic traffic telemetry and telematic services that the Government requires - and then they'll have the rest of the bandwidth free to sell on, providing other services.
I'd rather get free net access to be honest, considering the sort of draconian crap my taxes could be going into i think its the least i could get back. Infact free unrestricted country wide super-high bandwidth wireless net access for everyone might make me forget about afew Blair/Labour shortcomings HINT HINT
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Not really, the server is going to know exactly what its served you right down to the byte - thats its job, it might be possible on a low-level to just ditch the packets and keep confirming that you've got them (even if they have errors) that might save a tiny bit of time but its not worth it really. We can only hope they have just screwed up the implementation - as they very often do even on good ideas.
I was trying to work out how much my music collection is worth to me and i reckoned for the average track i would pay between 10p-50p, and something i liked maybe 50p-1, anything teeny-poppy would be worth less than 10p. I dont think people deserve in the range of millions for one pretentious im-so-amazing-and-special song thats been made up of reused melodies and badly sounding midi instruments.
Also i went to Egypt recently and their exchange rate is totally messed up! 2 egyptian pounds is worth about as much as 1 to us but the exchange rate is 11 egyption pounds to the british pound! the result - you can have a good full lunch in the best hotels in egypt for the same price as mcdonalds in london!
Ok im sure they have fucked up and not done this properly so it can be hacked (i hope). But the fact remains, if you have to download an advert to get to the content (which either comes with the ad at the end of the data stream or wont download until the server has confirmed that the ad has downloaded) we are screwed and there is very little we can do to hack around it!
Somethings that spring to mind:
*people download the advert once and use some sort of p2p system to distribute the ad-free version around.
*we make blocking software anyway and just block the advert as a strike against the corporations even though we still have to download it.
*we just boycott them.
ok maybe its a good idea in this case, but no-less it was totally fueled by last weeks headlines and its wanting to lead to something stupid by the idiot politicians such as nationwide net censorship
For the benifit of people outside the UK ill tell you what this is, this is some total bullshit FUD bandwaggon that everyone and their dog is jumping on. Last week it was all over the front pages that the internet was to blaim for pedophiles and that in 1988 35 pedophiles were arrested but last year it was 600 (figures from my memory, might be wrong). Ofcourse this means that the internet has some magic way of taking normal people and somehow turning them into pedophiles! the result - total witch hunt and FUD. Then there was "more concern" because of mobiles and "3G technology" making the internet more mobile so now parents wouldnt be able to know what their kids were looking at! So now its all about saving the childeren. Of course no-one in their right mind would think that supervising young kids when they're online and explaining to them the dangers and the obvious common sense things would be a solution. This is a pretty minor thing, no-one uses wap anyway and its not total censorship just proof of age but the principle is there for some major censorship.
I suggested that ages ago but no-one cared - your laptop could spend its time scanning for like minded nodes and you could even have a request list for it to try and forfil. If the police stopped you you could say "hey not my fault im sharing copyrighted material - its that damn windows security!"
Sorry some one fill me in - how is this theft?? if anything the FBI have been involved in theft of his computers. Did he actually take the source code and delete the original? Granted it might not be right but i really hate when its called theft, its not theft, theft is when you actually loose something, not a hypothetical sale or integrety of your data.
57% is hardly a major statistic? And tech shops havnt got to the same point as clothes stores where they have special areas for us guys to sit and stare into space in peace. :P
I think Apples product isnt necessarily the best, its just become a fashion accessory, and walking around with white headphones is so this year. I wouldnt be surprised if people just buy white headphones or another mp3 manufacturer doesnt make their product look similar. Until next year ofcourse when it will be all about blue headphones!
It doesnt say anywhere (or does it??) that it can link up with other Aireo's so whats the point? sticking a wireless link in it just so you dont have to plug the cable into your computer!? Ok so it could be cool if you want to leave it in the car or something but its not designed as a car stereo box so you would have to be pretty lazy to justify that. What would be really cool is if it could communicate with other mp3 players on the street so you could listen to what others were listening to (like jacking in with headphones but wireless) or even better, swap music with people. Im guessing they didnt do this for "legal" reasons but hopefully someone will come up with a firmware hack.
"There are still right-wing extremists, ultra-nationalists, and, increasingly, anti-Semites in Europe."
You havnt seen the neo-nazi groups in the US, or the kkk!
Well for one example: DVD was designed long before filesharing and it has the most heinous DRM mechanisms that dont even have anything to do with piracy: region encoding so they could control the market, fast-forward/skip restrictions so they could decide what you could fastforward (eg to stick adverts in the beginning of the disk which i have seen done). And players that have the ability to switch regions 3 times and then your locked into one. DivX was around before and planted the seed of "you buy this disk and we charge you per-play" and there are plenty more systems that simply give the corporations more ways to rip you off or control what you do.
The way DRM is going is to the hardware level. Its far too easy for people to break software DRM because all it takes is a few debugging tools. The best thing to do is to start getting into hardware hacking early - play around with PICs and stuff (playstation mod chips are PICs) and get to the point where your as comfortable as if you were with a software debugger. DRM is restricted by the 'if you can see it you can copy it' rule and eventually even the best DRM systems finish with an unencrypted data stream or an enable signal. Law is not going to be on our side so if we want our electronics free from artificial restrictions we are gonna have to fight it ourselves and make a mockary of the DRM industry. Screw them all before they start coming out with DRM chips that call the cops or blow-up in the users face if they are tampered with. And stop them before it becomes illigal to own so much as a multimeter without a license.
I would call myself a standard geek (only had one geek failure on the latest /. poll) but even i think this is too nerdy. I wouldn't even stand near it!
Dont forget, Bill of Rights - freedom of the press to be owned by people with certain interests and party affiliations and freedom of the press to _not_ report certain things. Im not saying its bad, im just saying that they are free to say or not say what they like.
What if you put quotes around the whole paper - then maybe the computer will be tricked into thinking its a "quote" and the prof wont notice (if the " is in a smaller type) ;)
As for the trial, maybe im missing something but why doesnt the university submit the papers themselves or just have their own internal system?
What they are trying to describe is a world where people have dumb-terminals that connect to computing providors, similar to an ISP, but a CSP. These CSPs will handle everything and give you net access and fix problems and you wont have to worry about maintaining your computer or upgrading every year. More to the point, the CSPs will handle DRM for all your music, video and entertainment needs. You will buy a song and no file transfers will need to take place, it will stream to you and deduct 50 cents per play from your account, same with films, video-games and extra software etc. That also explains why they are having such a hard time with the names and with giving it to us straght - they need to hide this vision behind business bullshit speak. Personally i would find it a rather big blow to wake up to a world where conventional computer hardware is either restricted or just too expensive (because everyone else is using CSPs, PCs just wont be made as much and thus prices go up). I dont want to be forced into using their service and their system and their DRM bullshit.
Yeah professionals, thats why the security in washington let a guy with bullets in his pocket on a plane to London the other day.
As soon as they find out that someone is speaking about rot13, the FBI will plan to arrive just as soon as they have finished their donuts.
The issue here is that the record companies etc are under threat because their business model is to be made redundant, why shouldnt it? its evolution, if there are no record companies, there is no middle-man for artists and listeners to go through, artists can do the job themselves and you go from a system where fame is manufactured to one where the artists that people like get the popularity they deserve by natural selection. And if the artists are pissed because they wont get _as_much_ money, that just goes to show that money is all they are after, should we really be supporting them? should we be suffering DRM and restrictions to our freedom because some assholes want a bigger jet?
Let's just see who knee-jerk replies before reading down this far
Careful, politicians might be reading this, and they are too young to understand sarcasm, they might grow up thinking that licensing computers is a good idea, and boom, next thing you know mandatory electronics licensing and of course Microsoft is the one providing the 'smart' cards.
What we really need is a way to keep stupid politicians who have absolutely no idea about the subject area from using computers and making knee-jerk laws that fuck over our freedoms.
Microsoft + Browsers is not a good combination, they never fix security holes, and given that they cant even get the most basic CSS box model implemented to the W3C rec. can you blame them? There are so many improvements to IE they could have made, it would have taken less than a week to patch in an option to 'block' pop-ups, or an option to turn off all the extra things scripts can access - such as browser controls. But since they didn't fix Outlooks similar problem for god-knows how long (have they even fixed it yet?) it seems unlikely that they would waste their precious time on something so minor. It all seems a bit phishy to me, what scares me the most is that the logical explanation for all this is that Microsoft is either totally incompetent, or, they're corrupt and are doing this on purpose for some business reason.
Oh please this is getting fucking stupid. Fair enough if you patent something very complex and impressive thats taken years of work, but really, most patents are just a joke - literally! if i was a patent clark i would actually just tell some of these people to fuck off and come back when they had something real, this patent is literally about some bloody dots, it pisses me off, its not even as though they even invented email, domain names or url formatting!! copyright law is a big joke.
What is expected to happen, is that contractors will install the intelligent lamp posts in areas. They'll provide the basic traffic telemetry and telematic services that the Government requires - and then they'll have the rest of the bandwidth free to sell on, providing other services.
I'd rather get free net access to be honest, considering the sort of draconian crap my taxes could be going into i think its the least i could get back. Infact free unrestricted country wide super-high bandwidth wireless net access for everyone might make me forget about afew Blair/Labour shortcomings HINT HINT
The most impressive story i will read today, and whats the picture in the article of? some bloody marching! why cant we see it?