As I have heard, read, and understood, the FBI has devices they can just SET near the wire/line and it picks it up via electrical waves outputted by the wire/line. So, in reality, it isnt really a 'wiretap'. I could see this as being a way to get around the law
No such luck. The courts have ruled that sense-enhancing techology requires a warrant. For example, using thermal imaging to see if you are using heat lamps to grow MJ is a no-no. Nice FUD though.
MD5 hashes could be completely transparent to users. A trusted server or set of servers could contain hashes of all the most requested/likely-to-be-spoofed files. Since there is nothing litigatable (new word?) about md5 hashes, there is no reason to farm out the hashes.
New versions of p2p software would simple not return results that failed the hash--new users would never even know there was checking going on.
For $1.00 you can get speeds of up to 300Kbs. For $1.50 you can get speeds of 500Kps, but that's only available on newer movies, such as Ali.
Personally I think this is a great idea. It's not really direct competition with movie theatres or video stores; it's a new niche that won't eat into either market and should be embraced by the MPIAA. Oh well.
There have been a number of "Game prodigies" who excelled at several games. Omar Sharif, for example, who was a bridge, chess and checkers champion. Learning any one of these games is like learning a programming language--it makes it much easier to learn a second. If you know one language you will find it much easier to pick-up a second programming language than a complete beginner.
There's some interesting stuff in this paper. He says The first [misconception] is that deep corporate pockets are an advantage when growing new businesses. They are not. Too much cash allows those running a new venture to follow a flawed strategy for too long. Having barely enough money forces the venture's managers to adapt to the desires of actual customers, rather than those of the corporate treasury, when looking for ways to get money
Microsoft tends to solve problems by throwing money at them, but if this article is correct, that is a flawed strategy. The excess cash allows them to keep a flawed product on the shelves (e.g. XBox) long past the point where a poorer company would be focusing on improving the product to make it match the customers needs.
why not have a sign that just says 'radiation: keep out!' in a few common current languages?...It's not like we can't change the sign if a new language comes along
Because we can never predict when disaster will strike. Changing the languages every few years would work fine until nuclear disaster strikes, and then everyone will be too busy with other stuff to update the signs. If we are going to do this silly thing, timeless languages are the way to go.
I will bet any amount of money you like that soon after they build the thing they will have to pass laws to keep souvenir hunters out...and this is while we know what is buried underneath.
10,000 years from now the place will be a magnet for the sort of people who visit stonehenge now.
This sort of thing could be avoided if companies used confirmed opt-in. That is, when you enter your email address they send an email address to that account with a unique url in it. They only email you their newsletters if you you click the link.
That also prevents your email address from being maliciously signed up to these sorts of lists, so it's the sort of thing every reputable mailing list should do.
Of course, no spammer is going to bother with confirmed opt-in, so we need to go after ISPs that allow these non-confirmed lists to remain on their net-space.
Ok, let's see if I understand the judge's argument: The DMCA doesn't prevent fair use, it just makes it more difficult: ``The fair user may find it more difficult to engage in certain fair uses with regard to electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use is still available.''
Ok, now we're on the slippery slope, because now we can encrypt any digital content without preventing fair use. The judge is speaking about electronic books, but this argument applies to audio, video, and so on...
The judge agrees that software code is speech and is protected by first amendment rights, but then he proceeds to limit those rights even though fair use is a recognized right.
SPEWS operates on the principle of collateral damage. If an ISP refuses to remove spammers on their system they expand the listings to include non-spammers.
Basically they want to make it as inconvenient as possible for the ISP's legitamate customers so that the ISP is pressured to change their ways from the inside.
I agree that you're in a difficult situation, but nothing else works.
If you honestly believe Krammik stands a chance, you must not have seen the games with deep blue.
Actually the games were close, and Deep Blue had a number of advantages that Fritz doesn't have. First, Kasparov didn't have any Deep Blue games to review--think how much of an advantage a football team would have if their opponents had no idea what their playing style was. Second, Kasparov prepared incorrectly. In fact, he trained by playing games against Fritz, but Deep Blue had a completely different playing style. Kramnik has none of these disadvantages. He's playing against a comercially available game with thousands of previously played games available for review. If Kasparov had games of Deep Blue available for study prior to the match he would have won--there's not a whole lot of doubt about this. Fritz may or may not be better than Deep Blue, but Kramnik is the heavy favorite. --
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No such luck. The courts have ruled that sense-enhancing techology requires a warrant. For example, using thermal imaging to see if you are using heat lamps to grow MJ is a no-no. Nice FUD though.
MD5 hashes could be completely transparent to users. A trusted server or set of servers could contain hashes of all the most requested/likely-to-be-spoofed files. Since there is nothing litigatable (new word?) about md5 hashes, there is no reason to farm out the hashes. New versions of p2p software would simple not return results that failed the hash--new users would never even know there was checking going on.
For $1.00 you can get speeds of up to 300Kbs. For $1.50 you can get speeds of 500Kps, but that's only available on newer movies, such as Ali.
Personally I think this is a great idea. It's not really direct competition with movie theatres or video stores; it's a new niche that won't eat into either market and should be embraced by the MPIAA. Oh well.
There have been a number of "Game prodigies" who excelled at several games. Omar Sharif, for example, who was a bridge, chess and checkers champion. Learning any one of these games is like learning a programming language--it makes it much easier to learn a second. If you know one language you will find it much easier to pick-up a second programming language than a complete beginner.
Microsoft tends to solve problems by throwing money at them, but if this article is correct, that is a flawed strategy. The excess cash allows them to keep a flawed product on the shelves (e.g. XBox) long past the point where a poorer company would be focusing on improving the product to make it match the customers needs.
Food for thought, anyway.
Ok, computer translations are getting better, but reading a translated german website is like getting instructions from Yoda.
Because we can never predict when disaster will strike. Changing the languages every few years would work fine until nuclear disaster strikes, and then everyone will be too busy with other stuff to update the signs. If we are going to do this silly thing, timeless languages are the way to go.
10,000 years from now the place will be a magnet for the sort of people who visit stonehenge now.
The best possible marker would be none at all.
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That also prevents your email address from being maliciously signed up to these sorts of lists, so it's the sort of thing every reputable mailing list should do.
Of course, no spammer is going to bother with confirmed opt-in, so we need to go after ISPs that allow these non-confirmed lists to remain on their net-space.
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This explains drivers in So Cal. Those cellphones are using up all their available neurons. Not that they had that many free to begin with.
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Ok, now we're on the slippery slope, because now we can encrypt any digital content without preventing fair use. The judge is speaking about electronic books, but this argument applies to audio, video, and so on...
The judge agrees that software code is speech and is protected by first amendment rights, but then he proceeds to limit those rights even though fair use is a recognized right.
Basically they want to make it as inconvenient as possible for the ISP's legitamate customers so that the ISP is pressured to change their ways from the inside.
I agree that you're in a difficult situation, but nothing else works.
If you honestly believe Krammik stands a chance, you must not have seen the games with deep blue.
Actually the games were close, and Deep Blue had a number of advantages that Fritz doesn't have.
First, Kasparov didn't have any Deep Blue games to review--think how much of an advantage a football team would have if their opponents had no idea what their playing style was.
Second, Kasparov prepared incorrectly. In fact, he trained by playing games against Fritz, but Deep Blue had a completely different playing style.
Kramnik has none of these disadvantages. He's playing against a comercially available game with thousands of previously played games available for review. If Kasparov had games of Deep Blue available for study prior to the match he would have won--there's not a whole lot of doubt about this.
Fritz may or may not be better than Deep Blue, but Kramnik is the heavy favorite.
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