I'm only responsible for the DSL link itself. Assuming I can prove that to be working, I pretty much abandon them. Helping them to fix spyware would be impossible anyway...
No such debate is possible, at least not in a condition that could be described as rational.
Somehow, a impressive fraction of people like you and I have been brainwashed into liking copyright laws as they are now. Something similar to the principle of "americans don't want to punish the rich, they want to become rich" is at work here. Everyone belongs to a garage band, and doesn't want to see their MP3s stolen. They write shareware, and the reason no one sends in the $5 paypal must be because of piracy, etc. To these people, copyright is a good thing, and needs to be agressively enforced. No matter what.
I don't believe they'll change their opinion even after such action leaves both the internet and the public domain a wasteland. The irony here is that if they did, even our corrupt politicians would be hard-pressed to ignore the lack of popular support for things like INDUCE, DMCA, NET. For every one of you that writes your congressmen against such bills, someone else writes extolling their virtues... we read their posts, even in this article.
I wish to make up fictional losses too. I could get all sorts of grants, welfare, and tax refunds. If I incorporate an some sort of IP company, will that be enough?
If these are true losses, and can be enumerated so exactly, are they filing them in their taxes or not?
Why I get 5 calls a night from one idiot or another who has enabled automatic update without knowing it, download SP2, and subsequently had their entire IP stack screwed. Is that a feature?
I'm quite serious. I've also got a kroger card, CVS, ukrops, food lion, etc. We could have a proper database, maybe even have it auto-email your new set for the week, complete with the barcode font stuff. Print it up on a shiny label, attach to card, voila!
The thing is, it'd only be fun if it were high-profile (alot of us have to do it), and then it will be sued out of existence.
Actually, I don't dispute your explanation, just the conclusion. Those people who can't do math will continue, encouraging others to try again (hey, if he's still doing it, maybe it still works!). Those people will in turn encourage others... and somehow this becomes self-sustaining.
Truly, if this logic held, we would have been done with pyramid schemes in the early 20th century.
I've often thought about a website devoted to courtesy card havoc. Maybe everyone uploads their number, and each week you print off a new barcode for yours. We could even have a week where we all use the same number simultaneously...
Think about it. We'd drive the poor sap crazy that tries to do the actual data mining. "Here he is buying $500 worth of groceries in upstate NY, and 6 minutes later he is buying peanut butter with foodstamps in florida!"
Of course, how long before the cease and desist letter was mailed?
As a power user though, I don't want them going nazi, deciding what OS's can be used with it, what ports are fair game. Too far away for DSL myself, I have to get cable, which *does* do that.
Personally, I don't get it. What happened with cars? I don't remember ever reading stories about the 1920s, with 9 out of 10 drivers being wreckless speeding maniacs, who didn't bother to tighten lugnuts, who flew down the road wearing blindfolds. Why do they do this with computers?
I work phone support for a DSL ISP. People get pissed when you tell them they've been suspended because of it. It's never their fault (or so they fanatically believe). Sometimes it's my fault, other times it's the ISP.
Slashdot is always raving about how SP2 does or doesn't protect against this or that... irrelevant. The number of people who call up wanting help configuring 98 and ME for DSL is astounding. None have ever heard of linux, mozilla, adaware. The exceptions tend to loathe the mentioning of such software ("You want me to use netscape, isn't that like 10 years old?". And yes, I'm aware of the irony in such a statement from someone wanting to get 98 working right).
They're all used to computers continually screwing up, and they've got everyone else to blame for their lack of taste in software, their lack of skill in configuring a safe machine, and the wasteland that the public internet becomes because of those shortcomings.
I plan on sidestepping the issue by pretending ignorance. I work evening shift in a phone support cube farm, and sometimes people borrow my machine (temporary space for a new trainee, someone else's machine is being worked on by IT, etc).
Especially since I don't think any scans are often enough to pinpoint when it happened, and that it's not any software that a reasonable person could find objectionable (after all, I have to get java working with it, so that our stupid in-house apps will work).
With ideal compression, they are technically the same. Add some metadata that explains tone of voice, pacing, rhythum, cadence... 100 megs worth of samples of your voice. Why record the actual waveforms when they could be synthesized with a decent level of fidelity to the original?
I guess the only limiting factor at all, would be whether cpu performance increases more than storage in the coming years.
Partially. Firefox with java requires a registry entry, which is my problem. The machine already has java 1.4.x, so in theory, just adding the NS###.dll's to the plugin dir would do the trick. Still not working though.
That's not really an option. I can't change anything permanently. Was hoping for an exploit that gives me a temporary admin cmd.exe, I install, and then reboot. No one knows how it was installed then.
Doesn't even have to be a new exploit. Just as long as it works. And as I said, I'm not a script kiddy, so a local-only exploit would be fine too.
Knows where a person could find a pre-compiled, local only 2k/XP administrator access binary? Something that would just open a cmd.exe with the correct privileges, to say, install java on Firefox?
I'm not a script kiddy, just not patient enough to go through the 3 month process of maybe getting it approved to be installed by IT...
I used to think of SG1 as rather lame. It's a knockoff of a decent big budget movie, with second rate actors, etc.
Then I started watching it. They do decent with the science. They do get "magical" stuff, but they do with it what I would think they would... here they are with an ancient artifact with instantaneous travel, and 8 years later, they're building a starship? That's forward. Plus the death glider, trying to retrofit it, and screwing up (and the recall device is rather clever).
It's not asimov, it's not B5, but its pretty decent all the same. Only the worst episode even approach Voyager (and incidentally, only those that are the best of Voyager, haha!).
In comparison, the cast of Voyager seems to be moving backwards (even as lame fuckwits B & B give them what truly are magical technologies for free). I just watched the episode where they get "letters from home" the other day. God was it horrible. They have computer technology 4 centuries ahead of us, but they have to send neelix around "handing out" letters? I work in an office where people people 30 feet from each other use email to communicate. And it's only 2004.
Also, I must credit SG1 with another thing. Take "7 Days". I can believe that a tiny team on the NSA might be able to handle this, but they absolutely refuse to hire extras. The guy in the wheelchair needs this alien device implanted so he can walk? Oh, and the director of the time travel project also happens to be a surgeon, and does it? Puh-leeeeze.
In SG1, you always get the sense that yeh, it's a small project, but not *that* small. If they need to lock the place down, there are 20 or 30 airmen there with guns, immediately. If they need some specialist, one is brought in. It works.
Not his fault. He was afraid of being canceled, sped up the story a bit to finish in 4 seasons... and then he got approved anyway. So 5 is has a bit of filler.
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That's an example, idiot. Do you know what those are? It's an illustration of one of the (sometimes many) possible scenarios that follows the preceding rule. Think about this very carefully. If your 1040EZ tax return shows:
For example: Gross Annual Income $6000, then your blahblah blah...
Do you fill in $6000, no matter what? No, it's an example, not an exhaustive list of every single possibility. Maybe he doesn't even intend for it to have that meaning, but if I was marked wrong on some important test, I'd then protest this an ambiguous, or even poorly worded question.
What you are using is the definition of cryptographic symetry, and yet I don't see that term used even once.
So, this "right" that you speak of, you think its a good idea?
I mean, it didn't even really exist until relatively recently, historically-speaking. But, I don't usually appeal to tradition... if it's a good idea, it's a good idea. And for the record, as the framers of the Constitution laid it out, I think it was (and still is) a good idea. Too bad it's been corrupted beyond any good use now.
As it is now, there are too many flaws. Some of my vintage computers, I can't buy the software for, I can't download it legally. I'm hardly stealing from them either, they don't seem to want my money. By the time it would be legal to distribute this software so that it isn't lost to history, the floppies will be brown goo (gray dust?) and ruined. (However, with 14/28 year protection, they would have earned every penny that they did earn, and I'd still be able to protect them as a historical curiosity.)
I can think of 20 different situations like the above, and that's just me personally. Copyright as it stands now, doesn't protect the right things. There is no way to add exceptions here and there to correct them, and they are literally fatal flaws. Here's another.
With Hollywood's new lengthened copyright, you'd think that even older movies would now have value (where previously they would be worthless, because copyright had, or was about to expire). Why are they still letting movies rot in vaults? Which one will be the Mona Lisa of the 20th century, that they let be ruined? Can you point out that one obscure film, so we can save it, and let them keep copyright on all the other crap ones? Why are they allowed to check out all of them from the Library of Congress, so that no public copies exist?
Copyright, as it is now, is harmful and worthless.
Besides, they aren't pirating your dumb libtomcrypt, are they? (Again, I don't know, but even if they are, certainly not to the extent of say, Blade 3) See? It protects them, whom you claim to hate, but not you. Let's assume they are pirating your software... do you think you can get the FBI to give a fuck about you, to actually raid someone? Do you think that you'll get the special attention they would get in court, the favors? Do you think that legislators will be moved to change copyright to favor you, once you sue those pirating libtomcrypt?
Haha.
BTW, the only thing I can think of, that anyone would accuse me of pirating, in over 5 years, is some O'Reilly PDF's. Of course, just a week ago, I went to Barne's and Noble, and bought $90 worth of their books. Maybe they should arrest me?
Funny that you have no trouble holding others at fault, as long as you can wrap it in words that make you sound as if you always accept personal responsibility yourself, and as long as the blame is leveled at those you are trying to demonize.
I agree, on some level. Fat people are fat because they eat too much. They should stop chowing down so damn much. However, McDonald's is so very far from innocent here. Let's see. They inundate children's minds with stupid, vacuous commercials, children who are home watching tv because both parents are at work trying to make ends meet with a minimum wage job. Commercials that don't sell food even... they sell "fun" and lifestyles and lord knows what else. They sell happymeal toys. There are people 30 years old, who have literally grown up seeing only these kinds of commercials... advertising run amok. No longer does advertising serve to make someone already interested in the product aware that it does exist and is available, it serves to try to brainwash us in a way that is morally amiguous enough that we don't murder them vigilante-style. I don't even watch TV, and still I can't escape the damn things.
Unteaching teachers? You should believe it. Of course, that's not even the reason the public education system exists, to teach, I mean. Their sole purpose is to prepare people to be better workers and consumers, for instance, as above. Of course, it's illegal to remove your child from the clutches of this monster, gee, I wonder if that's because of the situation I described in the former paragraph.
So tell me, why is it you refuse to blame corporations or mindless government bureaucracies? Maybe it's because you in some way, identify with them? You should be a little more honest before you start leveling sarcastic "home of the blameless" remarks, or at the very least, be a little more clever in how you do so.
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Am I the only one here older than age 12?
I'm only responsible for the DSL link itself. Assuming I can prove that to be working, I pretty much abandon them. Helping them to fix spyware would be impossible anyway...
No such debate is possible, at least not in a condition that could be described as rational.
Somehow, a impressive fraction of people like you and I have been brainwashed into liking copyright laws as they are now. Something similar to the principle of "americans don't want to punish the rich, they want to become rich" is at work here. Everyone belongs to a garage band, and doesn't want to see their MP3s stolen. They write shareware, and the reason no one sends in the $5 paypal must be because of piracy, etc. To these people, copyright is a good thing, and needs to be agressively enforced. No matter what.
I don't believe they'll change their opinion even after such action leaves both the internet and the public domain a wasteland. The irony here is that if they did, even our corrupt politicians would be hard-pressed to ignore the lack of popular support for things like INDUCE, DMCA, NET. For every one of you that writes your congressmen against such bills, someone else writes extolling their virtues... we read their posts, even in this article.
I wish to make up fictional losses too. I could get all sorts of grants, welfare, and tax refunds. If I incorporate an some sort of IP company, will that be enough?
If these are true losses, and can be enumerated so exactly, are they filing them in their taxes or not?
Why I get 5 calls a night from one idiot or another who has enabled automatic update without knowing it, download SP2, and subsequently had their entire IP stack screwed. Is that a feature?
I am not a rocket scientist.
However, my limited understanding of aerodynamic science tends to suggest that, in parachutes, drag is a *good* thing. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm quite serious. I've also got a kroger card, CVS, ukrops, food lion, etc. We could have a proper database, maybe even have it auto-email your new set for the week, complete with the barcode font stuff. Print it up on a shiny label, attach to card, voila!
The thing is, it'd only be fun if it were high-profile (alot of us have to do it), and then it will be sued out of existence.
Actually, I don't dispute your explanation, just the conclusion. Those people who can't do math will continue, encouraging others to try again (hey, if he's still doing it, maybe it still works!). Those people will in turn encourage others... and somehow this becomes self-sustaining.
Truly, if this logic held, we would have been done with pyramid schemes in the early 20th century.
I've often thought about a website devoted to courtesy card havoc. Maybe everyone uploads their number, and each week you print off a new barcode for yours. We could even have a week where we all use the same number simultaneously...
Think about it. We'd drive the poor sap crazy that tries to do the actual data mining. "Here he is buying $500 worth of groceries in upstate NY, and 6 minutes later he is buying peanut butter with foodstamps in florida!"
Of course, how long before the cease and desist letter was mailed?
As a power user though, I don't want them going nazi, deciding what OS's can be used with it, what ports are fair game. Too far away for DSL myself, I have to get cable, which *does* do that.
Personally, I don't get it. What happened with cars? I don't remember ever reading stories about the 1920s, with 9 out of 10 drivers being wreckless speeding maniacs, who didn't bother to tighten lugnuts, who flew down the road wearing blindfolds. Why do they do this with computers?
I work phone support for a DSL ISP. People get pissed when you tell them they've been suspended because of it. It's never their fault (or so they fanatically believe). Sometimes it's my fault, other times it's the ISP.
Slashdot is always raving about how SP2 does or doesn't protect against this or that... irrelevant. The number of people who call up wanting help configuring 98 and ME for DSL is astounding. None have ever heard of linux, mozilla, adaware. The exceptions tend to loathe the mentioning of such software ("You want me to use netscape, isn't that like 10 years old?". And yes, I'm aware of the irony in such a statement from someone wanting to get 98 working right).
They're all used to computers continually screwing up, and they've got everyone else to blame for their lack of taste in software, their lack of skill in configuring a safe machine, and the wasteland that the public internet becomes because of those shortcomings.
I plan on sidestepping the issue by pretending ignorance. I work evening shift in a phone support cube farm, and sometimes people borrow my machine (temporary space for a new trainee, someone else's machine is being worked on by IT, etc).
Especially since I don't think any scans are often enough to pinpoint when it happened, and that it's not any software that a reasonable person could find objectionable (after all, I have to get java working with it, so that our stupid in-house apps will work).
Nice troll. Made me hit the parent link, thinking I brainfarted and forgot to include the important points of my idea.
But no, I said metadata. In particular, I said metadata that describes exactly the kinds of things you pointed out. Duh.
With ideal compression, they are technically the same. Add some metadata that explains tone of voice, pacing, rhythum, cadence... 100 megs worth of samples of your voice. Why record the actual waveforms when they could be synthesized with a decent level of fidelity to the original?
I guess the only limiting factor at all, would be whether cpu performance increases more than storage in the coming years.
Partially. Firefox with java requires a registry entry, which is my problem. The machine already has java 1.4.x, so in theory, just adding the NS###.dll's to the plugin dir would do the trick. Still not working though.
That's not really an option. I can't change anything permanently. Was hoping for an exploit that gives me a temporary admin cmd.exe, I install, and then reboot. No one knows how it was installed then.
Doesn't even have to be a new exploit. Just as long as it works. And as I said, I'm not a script kiddy, so a local-only exploit would be fine too.
Knows where a person could find a pre-compiled, local only 2k/XP administrator access binary? Something that would just open a cmd.exe with the correct privileges, to say, install java on Firefox?
I'm not a script kiddy, just not patient enough to go through the 3 month process of maybe getting it approved to be installed by IT...
And they'll be in reruns for the next 50 years. Doesn't mean you get to count them for this century.
Unfortunately, one isn't good, and the other too are '99 or earlier.
I used to think of SG1 as rather lame. It's a knockoff of a decent big budget movie, with second rate actors, etc.
Then I started watching it. They do decent with the science. They do get "magical" stuff, but they do with it what I would think they would... here they are with an ancient artifact with instantaneous travel, and 8 years later, they're building a starship? That's forward. Plus the death glider, trying to retrofit it, and screwing up (and the recall device is rather clever).
It's not asimov, it's not B5, but its pretty decent all the same. Only the worst episode even approach Voyager (and incidentally, only those that are the best of Voyager, haha!).
In comparison, the cast of Voyager seems to be moving backwards (even as lame fuckwits B & B give them what truly are magical technologies for free). I just watched the episode where they get "letters from home" the other day. God was it horrible. They have computer technology 4 centuries ahead of us, but they have to send neelix around "handing out" letters? I work in an office where people people 30 feet from each other use email to communicate. And it's only 2004.
Also, I must credit SG1 with another thing. Take "7 Days". I can believe that a tiny team on the NSA might be able to handle this, but they absolutely refuse to hire extras. The guy in the wheelchair needs this alien device implanted so he can walk? Oh, and the director of the time travel project also happens to be a surgeon, and does it? Puh-leeeeze.
In SG1, you always get the sense that yeh, it's a small project, but not *that* small. If they need to lock the place down, there are 20 or 30 airmen there with guns, immediately. If they need some specialist, one is brought in. It works.
Not his fault. He was afraid of being canceled, sped up the story a bit to finish in 4 seasons... and then he got approved anyway. So 5 is has a bit of filler.
That's an example, idiot. Do you know what those are? It's an illustration of one of the (sometimes many) possible scenarios that follows the preceding rule. Think about this very carefully. If your 1040EZ tax return shows:
For example: Gross Annual Income $6000, then your blahblah blah...
Do you fill in $6000, no matter what? No, it's an example, not an exhaustive list of every single possibility. Maybe he doesn't even intend for it to have that meaning, but if I was marked wrong on some important test, I'd then protest this an ambiguous, or even poorly worded question.
What you are using is the definition of cryptographic symetry, and yet I don't see that term used even once.
So, this "right" that you speak of, you think its a good idea?
I mean, it didn't even really exist until relatively recently, historically-speaking. But, I don't usually appeal to tradition... if it's a good idea, it's a good idea. And for the record, as the framers of the Constitution laid it out, I think it was (and still is) a good idea. Too bad it's been corrupted beyond any good use now.
As it is now, there are too many flaws. Some of my vintage computers, I can't buy the software for, I can't download it legally. I'm hardly stealing from them either, they don't seem to want my money. By the time it would be legal to distribute this software so that it isn't lost to history, the floppies will be brown goo (gray dust?) and ruined. (However, with 14/28 year protection, they would have earned every penny that they did earn, and I'd still be able to protect them as a historical curiosity.)
I can think of 20 different situations like the above, and that's just me personally. Copyright as it stands now, doesn't protect the right things. There is no way to add exceptions here and there to correct them, and they are literally fatal flaws. Here's another.
With Hollywood's new lengthened copyright, you'd think that even older movies would now have value (where previously they would be worthless, because copyright had, or was about to expire). Why are they still letting movies rot in vaults? Which one will be the Mona Lisa of the 20th century, that they let be ruined? Can you point out that one obscure film, so we can save it, and let them keep copyright on all the other crap ones? Why are they allowed to check out all of them from the Library of Congress, so that no public copies exist?
Copyright, as it is now, is harmful and worthless.
Besides, they aren't pirating your dumb libtomcrypt, are they? (Again, I don't know, but even if they are, certainly not to the extent of say, Blade 3) See? It protects them, whom you claim to hate, but not you. Let's assume they are pirating your software... do you think you can get the FBI to give a fuck about you, to actually raid someone? Do you think that you'll get the special attention they would get in court, the favors? Do you think that legislators will be moved to change copyright to favor you, once you sue those pirating libtomcrypt?
Haha.
BTW, the only thing I can think of, that anyone would accuse me of pirating, in over 5 years, is some O'Reilly PDF's. Of course, just a week ago, I went to Barne's and Noble, and bought $90 worth of their books. Maybe they should arrest me?
Funny that you have no trouble holding others at fault, as long as you can wrap it in words that make you sound as if you always accept personal responsibility yourself, and as long as the blame is leveled at those you are trying to demonize.
I agree, on some level. Fat people are fat because they eat too much. They should stop chowing down so damn much. However, McDonald's is so very far from innocent here. Let's see. They inundate children's minds with stupid, vacuous commercials, children who are home watching tv because both parents are at work trying to make ends meet with a minimum wage job. Commercials that don't sell food even... they sell "fun" and lifestyles and lord knows what else. They sell happymeal toys. There are people 30 years old, who have literally grown up seeing only these kinds of commercials... advertising run amok. No longer does advertising serve to make someone already interested in the product aware that it does exist and is available, it serves to try to brainwash us in a way that is morally amiguous enough that we don't murder them vigilante-style. I don't even watch TV, and still I can't escape the damn things.
Unteaching teachers? You should believe it. Of course, that's not even the reason the public education system exists, to teach, I mean. Their sole purpose is to prepare people to be better workers and consumers, for instance, as above. Of course, it's illegal to remove your child from the clutches of this monster, gee, I wonder if that's because of the situation I described in the former paragraph.
So tell me, why is it you refuse to blame corporations or mindless government bureaucracies? Maybe it's because you in some way, identify with them? You should be a little more honest before you start leveling sarcastic "home of the blameless" remarks, or at the very least, be a little more clever in how you do so.
I challenge you to place the periods anywhere in that that results in a valid IPv4 address. You have to flip numbers too, just to make that work.