No he didn't. That's an assumption. It is theoretically possible that he wrote the entire code by hand directly with no testing whatsoever. Beyond that, he did not write the code to decrypt, just a friendly user interface to it. That's the whole point of libraries, independant pieces of code that you pass data to and from using a simplified interface.
Which makes it a contract dispute, not an act of copyright infringment. So they should leave the author the hell alone, as he has no proven contract with them, and nowhere in the contract does it say you can't write these kinds of programs.
I have no problem with it if they want to go ahead and sue each individual person who unencrypts their music for breech of contract, and seeks to revoke their license to use the material. Then they will only find the ones that are doing it for non-fair-use.
The point is that they believe the risks involved in changing the light are outweighed by the potential that it will cause mass reform in regards to speeding. They think that this will save more accidents and lives by slowing everyone down.
I think this is poposterous. Not only will it not slow people down other than while approaching lights they've remembered do this, just to speed through even faster when they get close enough to get away with it. It's been proven by scientific studies that people are more likely to speed due to a stopsign or stoplight because the subconciously feel the need to make up for lost time.
There are far too many risks to just implement this willy-nilly. The parent brings up a good point with timing, how can you be sure you won't cause an accident by going red so quickly that they can't stop? People are not going to be prepared for this behavior, it's likely to cause mass confusion and accidents during it's implementation.
I'd rather see automated ticket-writing machines than this... as much as I'm against automated ticket-writing.
I agree. In my mind this application is very similar to one of those fake-cassette tape thingies that allow you to play a cdplayer through a car stereo that only has a cassette deck. All I want to do is play my music on my PocketPC PDA which doesn't have a cd player, or in this case, an AAC player.
Probably a troll, but I'll bite, because it needs to be said.
It is fair use because you can't otherwise play music that you have paid for on portable equipment not "recommended" (ie. sold by) iTMS. Not to mention that you also can't play it on Linux and FreeBSD. Also to note is that you can't otherwise play the music in a music player other than their music player (ie. I can't play it in Winamp, I have to use ITunes).
Theft by definition requires deprving someone of something that belongs to them. In this case they're not depriving anyone of anything. Oh yeah, and did I mention they PAID FOR IT.
It's that time again... Seems like people would eventually get the point that programs are free speech. I can't wait to see the poems and prime numbers that get produced for this (remniscent of DeCSS).
I understand finding a collision (two things that when crypted yield the same result) is considered a goldmine in breaking an encryption algorithm.
How does finding a collision help break the encryption? Does anyone know the technicalities of why this allows you to break an encryption algorithm, to me, who has no clue, this seems just like a coincidence and not very useful, but i'd like to be enlightened.
Oh... you mean americans aren't the only ones in the world that speak english? I guess that's the price we pay for using slashdot as our only means of contact to the world around us.;-)
Since by the same measure, Microsoft can track a user by the personal information given through the passport/hotmail registration procedure through every website you visit using THEIR browser, every program you run on THEIR operating system, every document you read/write with THEIR office application. Innocent until proven guilty. When they start using this for an invasion of privacy, then you can complain, at this point they haven't even offered the service, how can you complain that they've invaded your privacy.
Besides, if you don't like it, don't create an account and go back to wearing your tinfoil hat. They aren't using strongarm tactics to force you to use their product.
What you've failed to mention is that it's also very difficult to find the source of bass in comparison to other frequencies. It's omnidirectional and it will actually carry through the ground better than it will through the air, and if he really cranks on it, it will sound like it is coming from every house in the area, literally. The underground vibrations will carry even better through the concrete than the ground. When that concrete starts vibrating, it's going to cause fluctuation in air contained within the house. Because houses are nearly airtight, the house will then be moving more air with each fluctuation than the open air will be moving on its own. The end result is, if you walk by a nearby house, you'll think it's coming from that house.
Of course this is all spoiled now, because he's given away where he is =)
That's a good idea. I'm going to make an addon for IE that does spell checking and auto-fixing. Now if we can just get the spelling and grammar trolls to use it so we don't have to listen to them grumble.
Are there any Linux users here that are now more likely to purchase from the iTunes Music Store? How about slimp3/squeezebox users? Non-iPod portable player users? I'm guessing this tool is of legitimate use to a vanishingly small number of people.
At the risk of sounding trollish: are you fucking retarded?
That being said, let's define your use of legitimate. If you mean LEGAL, then i'll give you it's not of legal use to anyone. If you mean useful for those who do not plan to do anything more than listen to their own music on their own equipment and have no intentions of distribution, then you're dead wrong. I don't have an IPod, they're expensive, but I like iTMS and I'd love to use the music that I PAID FOR on my own choice of music players(my iRiver) instead of being forced into using apple's player. I'd also love to listen on a linux box.
That said, I don't see how this can hurt Apple. For file sharers, AAC->CD->AAC may involve more quality loss but do file sharers care? Apple may make noises to protect its property but I doubt if this is the end of iTMS.
This isn't the first lossless crack for iTMS, there was a bug in quicktime that allowed lossless copying, it was just a pain in the ass.
Now I'll have to sift through 1000s of google responses when I search for anything containing nothing more than someone unimportant opinion, with 10,000 pictures of their boring life scattered throughout. Oh wait, blogging already does this, it's just going to get worse with the pictures to document things no one really cares about.
On the serious side, this is, in my opinion, the resolution of a problem that doesn't exist. It's very cool, it just isn't a very needed product.
I'm following it too. Because I like to ride the "latter" (motorcycles). He needs to pay with about 20 years of his life, and never being allowed to drive again. I don't think this is an appropriate punishment for everyone who happens to kill a motorcyclist by driving wrecklessly, but when you've been called on it as many times as him and refuse to change, you deserve it.
On that same note, Microsoft needs to have an appropriate punishment as well for their continued and blatent disregard for the laws of every country in the world. They need to be given a chance to comply with the laws and the slap-on-the-wrist fine they received. However, if they still fail to comply with anti-monopoly rulings and change the way they do business... after all the chances they've been awarded then they need to REALLY be punished. I'm thinking something along the lines of having their intellectual property right to collect money for use of their product needs to be revoked until such time as they can comply. Basically, if they don't sell a product that complies, then they should be restricted from selling any product at all. And to prevent them from holding out by simply not letting people have windows, their right to the exclusive distribution should be revoked, and users should be allowed to use a "communal, free" license to their software until such time as Microsoft can provide a copy of it that complies with rulings.
And you're entitled to your opinion. I happen to want to watch viacom channels, however, dish's strongarm contract-requirement tactics prevent me from switching to a carrier that values customer satisfaction more than bottom line.
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No he didn't. That's an assumption. It is theoretically possible that he wrote the entire code by hand directly with no testing whatsoever. Beyond that, he did not write the code to decrypt, just a friendly user interface to it. That's the whole point of libraries, independant pieces of code that you pass data to and from using a simplified interface.
Which makes it a contract dispute, not an act of copyright infringment. So they should leave the author the hell alone, as he has no proven contract with them, and nowhere in the contract does it say you can't write these kinds of programs.
I have no problem with it if they want to go ahead and sue each individual person who unencrypts their music for breech of contract, and seeks to revoke their license to use the material. Then they will only find the ones that are doing it for non-fair-use.
Jamon
The point is that they believe the risks involved in changing the light are outweighed by the potential that it will cause mass reform in regards to speeding. They think that this will save more accidents and lives by slowing everyone down.
I think this is poposterous. Not only will it not slow people down other than while approaching lights they've remembered do this, just to speed through even faster when they get close enough to get away with it. It's been proven by scientific studies that people are more likely to speed due to a stopsign or stoplight because the subconciously feel the need to make up for lost time.
There are far too many risks to just implement this willy-nilly. The parent brings up a good point with timing, how can you be sure you won't cause an accident by going red so quickly that they can't stop? People are not going to be prepared for this behavior, it's likely to cause mass confusion and accidents during it's implementation.
I'd rather see automated ticket-writing machines than this... as much as I'm against automated ticket-writing.
Jamon
I agree. In my mind this application is very similar to one of those fake-cassette tape thingies that allow you to play a cdplayer through a car stereo that only has a cassette deck. All I want to do is play my music on my PocketPC PDA which doesn't have a cd player, or in this case, an AAC player.
Jamon
Probably a troll, but I'll bite, because it needs to be said.
It is fair use because you can't otherwise play music that you have paid for on portable equipment not "recommended" (ie. sold by) iTMS. Not to mention that you also can't play it on Linux and FreeBSD. Also to note is that you can't otherwise play the music in a music player other than their music player (ie. I can't play it in Winamp, I have to use ITunes).
Theft by definition requires deprving someone of something that belongs to them. In this case they're not depriving anyone of anything. Oh yeah, and did I mention they PAID FOR IT.
It's that time again... Seems like people would eventually get the point that programs are free speech. I can't wait to see the poems and prime numbers that get produced for this (remniscent of DeCSS).
I was hoping for an explanation. Simply stating that it breaks the HASHing doesn't explain anything. You're just saying the same thing again.
Anyone else know?
I understand finding a collision (two things that when crypted yield the same result) is considered a goldmine in breaking an encryption algorithm.
How does finding a collision help break the encryption? Does anyone know the technicalities of why this allows you to break an encryption algorithm, to me, who has no clue, this seems just like a coincidence and not very useful, but i'd like to be enlightened.
Oh... you mean americans aren't the only ones in the world that speak english? I guess that's the price we pay for using slashdot as our only means of contact to the world around us. ;-)
Since by the same measure, Microsoft can track a user by the personal information given through the passport/hotmail registration procedure through every website you visit using THEIR browser, every program you run on THEIR operating system, every document you read/write with THEIR office application.
Innocent until proven guilty. When they start using this for an invasion of privacy, then you can complain, at this point they haven't even offered the service, how can you complain that they've invaded your privacy.
Besides, if you don't like it, don't create an account and go back to wearing your tinfoil hat. They aren't using strongarm tactics to force you to use their product.
Jamon.
What you've failed to mention is that it's also very difficult to find the source of bass in comparison to other frequencies. It's omnidirectional and it will actually carry through the ground better than it will through the air, and if he really cranks on it, it will sound like it is coming from every house in the area, literally. The underground vibrations will carry even better through the concrete than the ground. When that concrete starts vibrating, it's going to cause fluctuation in air contained within the house. Because houses are nearly airtight, the house will then be moving more air with each fluctuation than the open air will be moving on its own. The end result is, if you walk by a nearby house, you'll think it's coming from that house.
Of course this is all spoiled now, because he's given away where he is =)
That's a good idea. I'm going to make an addon for IE that does spell checking and auto-fixing. Now if we can just get the spelling and grammar trolls to use it so we don't have to listen to them grumble.
At the risk of sounding trollish: are you fucking retarded?
That being said, let's define your use of legitimate. If you mean LEGAL, then i'll give you it's not of legal use to anyone. If you mean useful for those who do not plan to do anything more than listen to their own music on their own equipment and have no intentions of distribution, then you're dead wrong. I don't have an IPod, they're expensive, but I like iTMS and I'd love to use the music that I PAID FOR on my own choice of music players(my iRiver) instead of being forced into using apple's player. I'd also love to listen on a linux box.
This isn't the first lossless crack for iTMS, there was a bug in quicktime that allowed lossless copying, it was just a pain in the ass.
Jamon
Like that one time you got laid?
Seriously, the only people geeky enough to want this are just going to be watching slashdot all day anyway.
Jamon
Now I'll have to sift through 1000s of google responses when I search for anything containing nothing more than someone unimportant opinion, with 10,000 pictures of their boring life scattered throughout. Oh wait, blogging already does this, it's just going to get worse with the pictures to document things no one really cares about.
On the serious side, this is, in my opinion, the resolution of a problem that doesn't exist. It's very cool, it just isn't a very needed product.
Jamon
I'm following it too. Because I like to ride the "latter" (motorcycles). He needs to pay with about 20 years of his life, and never being allowed to drive again. I don't think this is an appropriate punishment for everyone who happens to kill a motorcyclist by driving wrecklessly, but when you've been called on it as many times as him and refuse to change, you deserve it.
On that same note, Microsoft needs to have an appropriate punishment as well for their continued and blatent disregard for the laws of every country in the world. They need to be given a chance to comply with the laws and the slap-on-the-wrist fine they received. However, if they still fail to comply with anti-monopoly rulings and change the way they do business... after all the chances they've been awarded then they need to REALLY be punished. I'm thinking something along the lines of having their intellectual property right to collect money for use of their product needs to be revoked until such time as they can comply. Basically, if they don't sell a product that complies, then they should be restricted from selling any product at all. And to prevent them from holding out by simply not letting people have windows, their right to the exclusive distribution should be revoked, and users should be allowed to use a "communal, free" license to their software until such time as Microsoft can provide a copy of it that complies with rulings.
Jamon
It's a dilbert reference, it means Pointy Haired Boss.
They are clearly labeled whether they are Female or Male on each end. Does it get more gender specific than that?
You obviously haven't been a a 'specialty' hardware shop lately.
Epson says they plan to ship it with a free gift! Your choice of either a Dish Scrubber or Laundry Soap.
Please, Not another BSD is dying troll... err oh.. n/m.
And you're entitled to your opinion. I happen to want to watch viacom channels, however, dish's strongarm contract-requirement tactics prevent me from switching to a carrier that values customer satisfaction more than bottom line.
This is exactly what Viacom is doing. Charging an extra fee in order to split the channel packages.