Mad props to Warp, DRM is something for free files at most, you dont want to pay for a crippled file (in probably an inferior format anyway). If i had paid for a DRMd file i would be much more likely to find some tools to crack it and then share it just to spite them, with Warp i would be so happy that they had respected me i would respect them to (even though their entire collection is probably availiable on kazaa anyway).
It cant be worse than cheesy christmas music, that stuff is the worst. Some twat singing about santa and his fuckwit elvs in the christmas snow, and you can tell by his voice that he has an stupid smile on his face and greased back hair - you can just imagine him smoking that pipe and sitting by the open fire. Still, it demonstrates how Vivendi feels about music - it seems to be nothing more than a bit-stream with a price tag to them, i wonder if they have an automated system to sell all this music and if any humans in the company actually listen to it?
Maybe its time for some new human rights laws to keep up with technology. For example a law that says everyone has the right to not be forced to use their physical body for identification (apart from a simple photo id) and they must be given a choice - eg a swipe/photo card instead of palm prints or iris recognition. Are their any current laws on your biometric rights? The only law i know of in the UK that even comes close is the Data Protection Act which is pretty cool. Its certainly time for governments to think about it.
I feel sorry for the programmers that worked on Photoshop because i can tell that the decision to implement counterfeit prevention was a management one and if it was me i would be very pissed off that some idiot had demanded that i taint my software with a stupid mechanism that hasnt a chance in hell of working properly. What did they think they would achieve? would criminals suddenly give up because the latest version of photoshop wouldnt let them open money? im no expert but im almost certain that the system wouldnt prevent even one single counterfeiter. To me it says that Adobe management hold a very arrogent view on their products, (well actually ive thought that since Dimitry Sklyarov and this and i just hope that the negative impact it has on the programs performance and price is bloody minimal.
Lawyers don't "work" havnt you ever seen ally mcbeal? They give the pen pushing work to the interns and then when they have won the case, they leech off all the winnings in various ways. Their job is to figure out how they can get the most money from you.
We dont need more anti-spam software none of it works 100% and when it does someone just comes up with a new way around it. what we do need are secretaries. hot, spam filtering secretaries! Who's with me here?
Everyone is now in such a state about when they are next going to be hijacked and will they be on that plane or will it hit someone they know. Most of this panic seems to be restricted to America and watching CNN etc i can see why. All that is reported all day long is what terror alert level the country is on, and after 10 minutes watching it starts to make me look around suspiciously too. I was comming home from my holiday last friday (Egypt>Rome>London:) and at the end of our flight a couple of armed police casualy escorted 2 arab/egyptian looking men off the plane. they were then let go in the terminal as we walked passed after their documents had been checked but i couldnt help thinking that it had been a totally random search or a sugestion by a computer. Then when i got my connection my luggage didnt follow. Apparently everyones luggage was held for "security reasons" although im not exactly sure, it came 2 days later. I also couldnt help thinking that this was a totally un-needed precautionary "just in case" security reason. Well they shouldnt have bothered, my mum forgot to take her nail scissors out of her hand luggage, they didnt spot that. Security is just becoming jumpy and lax at the same time and its just pissing people off. Good security involves stopping people from doing dangerous things, not randomly targetting people because 10 characters of their name match a terrorist.
oh btw no-one checks bottled drinking water, could you not fill that with acid or petrol?
oh fuck looks like im gonna be on the blacklist now
yep, windows is about choice, personally my choice is Kazaa Lite and eMule (and sometimes gnutella) and no MS bullshit DRM players - all far superior to iTunes, i can get 100's more songs and practically anything else, i only rarely get a bad download and its DRM free. Even better its money free too! If the artist wants a donation and i feel they should get one i would gladly give them something, but unfortunately very few of them have paypal accounts or even a hotline, it just seems to me that 50cent doesnt want my money!?;)
I think it has better DRM, dont forget DRM is a good democratic thing that will empower technological innovation and freedom of choice and its certainly not a draconian method of hardware control or a license to print money by whoever owns the key
Microsoft bought or stole most of their [sarcasm][annoying hand quote gesture]'technology'[/annoying hand quote gesture][/sarcasm] over the years, why would they make WMA?
What if instead of trying to hide something in a specific image for example, you gave the steganographic software a selection of say 100 images and got it to choose which one would be best suitable to hide the data so it was hardest to find. While it might take alot of processing power to do this for a large selection it would make finding allot harder. Oh wait were supposed to be making it easier:P, how about banning all steganographic software and research under the PATRIOT III act and then only criminals will use it? Im not sure what the USAF is trying to get at here, if someone just thought it would be cool to do then fine, but if they are hoping to use it to catch terrorists then its stupid - you cant go through every email, IM, phone call, sms, fax, snail mail, telegram, VoIP call and website in the world looking for something dodgy, even if none of it was encrypted theres just too much!
I think they used a sight that involved lining up the cross hairs with 2 towers that were either side of the dams which would indicate that they were the right distance away to drop, and on the water they used two angled lights that intersected on the surface at the right height.
There are certian levels of threat that i would respond to, but in the end, if i couldnt share online i would just do it the 100% untraceable way (with much faster data flow) i.e CD swapping with friends. DVDs can be ripped and swapped easily so can CDs and obviously there is nothing they can do about it (if i can see it i can copy it theory). People will continue to pirate/share whatever you want to call it - look at drugs, they have a much higher criminal risk yet they are practically as availiable as if they were on the shop shelves around the world.
I admire the MPAA in a very small way for taking this view but on the other hand i hate the fuckers and think its just a publicity stunt. Most film trailers i see i think "wow thats shit, but i wouldnt mind seeing that big explosion bit, i think ill download it - its not good enough to pay for" Make films that are good enough that i am willing to pay for them and i probably will. Make the same old shit and ill just watch it for free.
At the moment im between both. Some of the hardware support on Linux just gives me a headache but thats nothing to do with either community, it just seems that most hardware manufacturers concentrate on windows. Sure you can shop around and find some excellently supported hardware for Linux but me and lots of others just dont have the money.
Windows comes with jack shit. Until you get to NT their notepad doesnt even do search and replace and Ctrl+S doesnt save. Most linux distros come with so much that you almost never need the sort of apps that have become the essential after-install things in windows. If windows came with text and hex tools of the like of TextPad and Kate that would be cool. Almost every major Linux distro comes out of the box with feature packed compression, graphics and office tools, Windows comes with wordpad and paint, and sometimes zip support.
Microsoft cant compete with free and open and bullying hardware companies into exclusiveness is not fair play, neither is locking people in with proprietry formats and DMCA threats, and pursuading intel/amd to make windows-only TCPA chips. Infact, given fair play only and short of re-designing their entire OS and philosophy, they could never win back true geeks from *nix or anyone whos seen the free/OSS light. Its like converting the pope.
ok how about a string of lights where each was individually controllable - each socket contained a simple switch that would look on a serial data bus for its individual code and switch its light on or off accordingly. To set it up you would drape the lights around randomly and then point a camera at the tree/house/bush etc. A computer would use the camera to calibrate by switching each light one by one and noting the position on the camera until it built up a rough pattern of light positions (this would take anything from seconds to minutes depending). Then you could use the lights as a crude dot-matrix display. The light detection routine wouldn't be that hard to do, and you could even have the lights pulse at a certain frequency to make detection easier for the computer. A step further would be to place the camera more than once to build up a 3D model of light positions. I think there are already mass produced components that can respond when they detect their code on a serial interface, imagine the possibilities given enough lights and cheap production?
It makes you wonder why the US government mandated GPS. It adds to the cost of the phone and it could have been done other ways - like yours. Maybe one of the GPS hardware companies donated some money to *cough* get the law passed.
How do you know that selecting "off" actually turns it off? Theres all sorts of sneaky things the phone manufacturers could be putting in there - maybe at the US governments request, its not conspiracy theory anymore, its simply a case of a few lines of closed source code and hardware that responds to a base-station ping with your current location.
What the hell does Iraq have to do with it? France have every right to hold their own opinions, does America think that just because they caught Saddam they now have the moral superiority of everyone? The site should be chosen on scientific suitability and somewhere where it wont be at risk of sabotage or control by any one government, it shouldnt be chosen based on the political views of some government in a totally unrealated matter. Its just childish like the Galileo demands.
Im actually relieved, i was scared that people could actually be that stupid, incompetent and negligent. It made me feel somehow superior but also very scared and pissed off. I was mostly scared because it made me think - what if people like that were in charge of other systems - like nuclear weapons and auto-pilots etc, it made me pissed off because i thought "hey thats not fair, even i could do their jobs better than them but no, they get it." Now im relieved that they are just criminals.
Thats total bullshit, using that method you could easily get a high ratio of content to html request traffic, a fake file could consist of megabytes while the html traffic for it would consist of less than a kilobyte! True stenography would be too costly and only an absolute last resort, or for sending short amounts of data such as addresses, codes and other control data. Just remember, your a 0 AC because your a moron. Im right and have karma to burn
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Mad props to Warp, DRM is something for free files at most, you dont want to pay for a crippled file (in probably an inferior format anyway). If i had paid for a DRMd file i would be much more likely to find some tools to crack it and then share it just to spite them, with Warp i would be so happy that they had respected me i would respect them to (even though their entire collection is probably availiable on kazaa anyway).
It cant be worse than cheesy christmas music, that stuff is the worst. Some twat singing about santa and his fuckwit elvs in the christmas snow, and you can tell by his voice that he has an stupid smile on his face and greased back hair - you can just imagine him smoking that pipe and sitting by the open fire. Still, it demonstrates how Vivendi feels about music - it seems to be nothing more than a bit-stream with a price tag to them, i wonder if they have an automated system to sell all this music and if any humans in the company actually listen to it?
Maybe its time for some new human rights laws to keep up with technology. For example a law that says everyone has the right to not be forced to use their physical body for identification (apart from a simple photo id) and they must be given a choice - eg a swipe/photo card instead of palm prints or iris recognition. Are their any current laws on your biometric rights? The only law i know of in the UK that even comes close is the Data Protection Act which is pretty cool. Its certainly time for governments to think about it.
I feel sorry for the programmers that worked on Photoshop because i can tell that the decision to implement counterfeit prevention was a management one and if it was me i would be very pissed off that some idiot had demanded that i taint my software with a stupid mechanism that hasnt a chance in hell of working properly. What did they think they would achieve? would criminals suddenly give up because the latest version of photoshop wouldnt let them open money? im no expert but im almost certain that the system wouldnt prevent even one single counterfeiter. To me it says that Adobe management hold a very arrogent view on their products, (well actually ive thought that since Dimitry Sklyarov and this and i just hope that the negative impact it has on the programs performance and price is bloody minimal.
Lawyers don't "work" havnt you ever seen ally mcbeal? They give the pen pushing work to the interns and then when they have won the case, they leech off all the winnings in various ways. Their job is to figure out how they can get the most money from you.
We dont need more anti-spam software none of it works 100% and when it does someone just comes up with a new way around it. what we do need are secretaries. hot, spam filtering secretaries! Who's with me here?
Everyone is now in such a state about when they are next going to be hijacked and will they be on that plane or will it hit someone they know. Most of this panic seems to be restricted to America and watching CNN etc i can see why. All that is reported all day long is what terror alert level the country is on, and after 10 minutes watching it starts to make me look around suspiciously too. I was comming home from my holiday last friday (Egypt>Rome>London:) and at the end of our flight a couple of armed police casualy escorted 2 arab/egyptian looking men off the plane. they were then let go in the terminal as we walked passed after their documents had been checked but i couldnt help thinking that it had been a totally random search or a sugestion by a computer. Then when i got my connection my luggage didnt follow. Apparently everyones luggage was held for "security reasons" although im not exactly sure, it came 2 days later. I also couldnt help thinking that this was a totally un-needed precautionary "just in case" security reason. Well they shouldnt have bothered, my mum forgot to take her nail scissors out of her hand luggage, they didnt spot that. Security is just becoming jumpy and lax at the same time and its just pissing people off. Good security involves stopping people from doing dangerous things, not randomly targetting people because 10 characters of their name match a terrorist.
oh btw no-one checks bottled drinking water, could you not fill that with acid or petrol?
oh fuck looks like im gonna be on the blacklist now
yep, windows is about choice, personally my choice is Kazaa Lite and eMule (and sometimes gnutella) and no MS bullshit DRM players - all far superior to iTunes, i can get 100's more songs and practically anything else, i only rarely get a bad download and its DRM free. Even better its money free too! If the artist wants a donation and i feel they should get one i would gladly give them something, but unfortunately very few of them have paypal accounts or even a hotline, it just seems to me that 50cent doesnt want my money!? ;)
I think it has better DRM, dont forget DRM is a good democratic thing that will empower technological innovation and freedom of choice and its certainly not a draconian method of hardware control or a license to print money by whoever owns the key
I'm amazed they've waited so long.
upgrade cycle lock-in, switch and bait, emergency bandwaggon jumping, waiting for the right moment to do hardware DRM, DOJ problems, etc...
Microsoft bought or stole most of their [sarcasm][annoying hand quote gesture]'technology'[/annoying hand quote gesture][/sarcasm] over the years, why would they make WMA?
Ok so HP is making a deal with apple, but wheres this exciting side effect they talk of?
What if instead of trying to hide something in a specific image for example, you gave the steganographic software a selection of say 100 images and got it to choose which one would be best suitable to hide the data so it was hardest to find. While it might take alot of processing power to do this for a large selection it would make finding allot harder. Oh wait were supposed to be making it easier :P, how about banning all steganographic software and research under the PATRIOT III act and then only criminals will use it? Im not sure what the USAF is trying to get at here, if someone just thought it would be cool to do then fine, but if they are hoping to use it to catch terrorists then its stupid - you cant go through every email, IM, phone call, sms, fax, snail mail, telegram, VoIP call and website in the world looking for something dodgy, even if none of it was encrypted theres just too much!
I think they used a sight that involved lining up the cross hairs with 2 towers that were either side of the dams which would indicate that they were the right distance away to drop, and on the water they used two angled lights that intersected on the surface at the right height.
has anyone seen the remote-controlled dragonfly? I cant find it anywhere, links?
There are certian levels of threat that i would respond to, but in the end, if i couldnt share online i would just do it the 100% untraceable way (with much faster data flow) i.e CD swapping with friends. DVDs can be ripped and swapped easily so can CDs and obviously there is nothing they can do about it (if i can see it i can copy it theory). People will continue to pirate/share whatever you want to call it - look at drugs, they have a much higher criminal risk yet they are practically as availiable as if they were on the shop shelves around the world.
I admire the MPAA in a very small way for taking this view but on the other hand i hate the fuckers and think its just a publicity stunt. Most film trailers i see i think "wow thats shit, but i wouldnt mind seeing that big explosion bit, i think ill download it - its not good enough to pay for" Make films that are good enough that i am willing to pay for them and i probably will. Make the same old shit and ill just watch it for free.
Do I smell a patent here?
Slashdot counts as prior art right?
Cant get to the site, looks like its suffering /.
At the moment im between both. Some of the hardware support on Linux just gives me a headache but thats nothing to do with either community, it just seems that most hardware manufacturers concentrate on windows. Sure you can shop around and find some excellently supported hardware for Linux but me and lots of others just dont have the money.
Windows comes with jack shit. Until you get to NT their notepad doesnt even do search and replace and Ctrl+S doesnt save. Most linux distros come with so much that you almost never need the sort of apps that have become the essential after-install things in windows. If windows came with text and hex tools of the like of TextPad and Kate that would be cool. Almost every major Linux distro comes out of the box with feature packed compression, graphics and office tools, Windows comes with wordpad and paint, and sometimes zip support.
Microsoft cant compete with free and open and bullying hardware companies into exclusiveness is not fair play, neither is locking people in with proprietry formats and DMCA threats, and pursuading intel/amd to make windows-only TCPA chips. Infact, given fair play only and short of re-designing their entire OS and philosophy, they could never win back true geeks from *nix or anyone whos seen the free/OSS light. Its like converting the pope.
ok how about a string of lights where each was individually controllable - each socket contained a simple switch that would look on a serial data bus for its individual code and switch its light on or off accordingly. To set it up you would drape the lights around randomly and then point a camera at the tree/house/bush etc. A computer would use the camera to calibrate by switching each light one by one and noting the position on the camera until it built up a rough pattern of light positions (this would take anything from seconds to minutes depending). Then you could use the lights as a crude dot-matrix display. The light detection routine wouldn't be that hard to do, and you could even have the lights pulse at a certain frequency to make detection easier for the computer. A step further would be to place the camera more than once to build up a 3D model of light positions. I think there are already mass produced components that can respond when they detect their code on a serial interface, imagine the possibilities given enough lights and cheap production?
It makes you wonder why the US government mandated GPS. It adds to the cost of the phone and it could have been done other ways - like yours. Maybe one of the GPS hardware companies donated some money to *cough* get the law passed.
How do you know that selecting "off" actually turns it off? Theres all sorts of sneaky things the phone manufacturers could be putting in there - maybe at the US governments request, its not conspiracy theory anymore, its simply a case of a few lines of closed source code and hardware that responds to a base-station ping with your current location.
Well its either that or the country that nuked (heavily civilian) Hiroshima and Nagasaki ;)
What the hell does Iraq have to do with it? France have every right to hold their own opinions, does America think that just because they caught Saddam they now have the moral superiority of everyone? The site should be chosen on scientific suitability and somewhere where it wont be at risk of sabotage or control by any one government, it shouldnt be chosen based on the political views of some government in a totally unrealated matter. Its just childish like the Galileo demands.
Im actually relieved, i was scared that people could actually be that stupid, incompetent and negligent. It made me feel somehow superior but also very scared and pissed off. I was mostly scared because it made me think - what if people like that were in charge of other systems - like nuclear weapons and auto-pilots etc, it made me pissed off because i thought "hey thats not fair, even i could do their jobs better than them but no, they get it." Now im relieved that they are just criminals.
Thats total bullshit, using that method you could easily get a high ratio of content to html request traffic, a fake file could consist of megabytes while the html traffic for it would consist of less than a kilobyte! True stenography would be too costly and only an absolute last resort, or for sending short amounts of data such as addresses, codes and other control data. Just remember, your a 0 AC because your a moron. Im right and have karma to burn