Anyways, the full context of 1984 can only be realized in a populous society in which the only barriers are government-induced. In the 1940's, there were plenty of other barriers that have since disappeared (like the lack of cheap and plentiful transportation.)
The internet has profited many people but it also has brought many problems, such as sex, violence and feudal superstitions
I like how feudal superstitions rank amongst the top threats to a Communist government.
"In order for our government to work, you're not allowed to think like that, nor be presented with such ideas."
Such a government seems like it would have to rely upon barriers that prevent intercommunication of popular ideas amongst its citizens, especially with such a large population. Wouldn't it be interesting if 1984 became true in China?
I chide the story submitter for not ending his submission with a question. Allow me to suggest on:
"Could the Internet be the end of China as we know it?"
I must say that there should be a clean, concise list of security flaws that should never appear within a web browser, and each browser should be forced to undergo testing against that list before being released.
To have such fundamental flaws appear, whether by accident or negligence, is unacceptable.
Furthermore, the browser "industry" and the commercial sector NEED to come up with some guidelines as to how to promote and ensure online security for financial transactions and personal data.
For example, it's almost impossible for the casual or sophisticated user to easily determine whether a frame that appears within a website actually belongs to that website, or another. For example, if you have an online account with MBNA credit card, and make an online purchase, some vendors will display an MBNA authentication page which asks you to login to your online account to verify the purchase.
The problem is that this authentication page appears as a frame within the online vendor. How can you tell whether that frame is a legitimate MBNA page, or just a clever phishing attack? The browser gives no indication as to whether the frame belongs to MBNA or the vendor.
PayPal suffers from the same thing. I hate clicking on the "Make a Donation" button of some sites, and then seeing the PayPal login appear within a frame of the original site. That prevents me from making a donation - with today's complicated scripting invocations and what not, I don't feel trusting enough to type my account info and password into some frame which happens to appear in the middle of some other organization's website.
I can't BELIEVE that MBNA and PayPal would promote such idiotic practices, much less allow them to happen.
I don't earn money for work I did 20 years ago, or even 1 month ago.
That's probably because you don't create works of intellectual property for a living.
No one else gets the right to earn money for years old work.
What about investors, who invest in companies and real estate? The whole idea of retirement is to make money off "years old work".
Bach and Mozart produced far more music and worked far harder then the Beatles ever did, for basically nothing by todays standards.
Yes, but compared against the standards of 2,000 years ago, they lived much more comfortably. Are you saying we should base contemporary laws on arbitrary standards of the past?
Why doesn't the telecom industry learn ?
Guys, what about hiring ONE competent cryptographer to design a wireless protocols ?
As with most paid employees, a cryptographer's competence decreases as his job security increases.
It's only a hacker who has nothing legitimately to gain that would find an exploit like this. Unless he's a crazy researcher who put his life on hold to find some obscure flaw with hyperthreading processors.
This could be like the Date-rape drug. A friend of mine was slipped that drug in his drink in Barcelona. He ended up handing over his laptop, his cell phone, and his wallet to a perfect stranger. Now, that effect could be construed as trust, or it could be construed as turning off all reasoning abilities. But I guess, from the perspective of a pharmacological company, they might prefer call it "trust" instead.
This is Off Topic, I know, but could someone tell me who this Anonymous Coward is that keeps replying to/. articles with random text? I've noticed this on the last several articles.
Is he using this board as a steganography channel?
However, recent research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it was more likely a shift in climate, rather than hunting, that caused the over-sized organisms to die-out (via Nature and the BBC)."
They died out because they were over-sized! If they were right-sized, they would still be alive! Everyone knows that obesity is the leading cause of anguish and suffering.
Or wait, I'm sorry, they were right. I forgot that climate shifts due to human activity are the cause of all evil.
I wish we could, but their products are too damn good.
Anyways, what problems do I have with logitech? I hate the fact that they change their wireless receiver base every time they come out with a product. I just upgraded my wireless mouse to a 1000 series laser mouse, but I had to buy the new laser / keyboard combo because I didn't want two RF adapters on my desk. Can't logitech figure out a better way to deal with this?
Also, I hate the mouse button compatibility that Logitech has yet to resolve. Microsoft mouses just seem to support all the buttons.
I didn't get to watch the video, because I'm at work, but instead let me respond to an article I read on MSNBC regarding how Star Wars Episode 3 set box office records.
"Revenge of the Sith" rang in a whopping $50 million on its opening Thursday, a single-day record boosted by eagerly anticipated midnight showings, and its total receipts since then beat the four-day $134.3 million opening of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." The George Lucas film has also grossed $144.7 million overseas for a total of $303 million worldwide.
"The reaction to the movie is absolutely spectacular," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution at Twentieth Century Fox.
Yeah, no shit??
Theater owners, studios and marketing partners were pleased to see "Star Wars" jump-start the summer movie season.
Theater owners were also pleased to see their retirement goals reach completion over the course of just 4 days. Popcorn manufacturers were also unable to prevent themselves from getting multiple orgasms by just thinking about it.
"It's a very strong start to what will hopefully be a very strong summer," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
In other words, this movie will make up for the flood of absolutely crap films we'll be subjected to during the summer.
The Adam Sandler-Chris Rock remake of "The Longest Yard" and the animated zoo tale "Madagascar" open in wide release during Memorial Day weekend, traditionally one of the busiest movie viewing times of the year.
The three-day Memorial Day weekend is traditionally the best time to be subjected to the harbinger crap of the summer.
But "Star Wars" - which has sold an average of eight tickets per second online at Fandango.com - could remain at the top of the box office despite the competition.
Suspected to boost Star Wars online sales was the direct link to Fandango.com from popular nerd site, Slashdot.org, which has posted 749 stories regarding Star Wars Episode 3 during the past two weeks.
"I think we have a shot to be No. 1 next week even with two giant pictures coming out," Snyder said.
"Any by giant, I mean absolutely craptacular!" Snyder was thought to have been overheard saying.
The third and final installment in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy chronicles the transformation of the heroic Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker into the villainous Darth Vader.
Although, it's hard to determine when Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker was really a hero, as opposed to being just a really big whiner.
Studio exit surveys showed the audience - usually dominated by men for sci-fi films - was 58 percent male and 42 percent female, with nearly half the viewers under age 25, Snyder said.
In other news, this is thought to be the first event in which the number of male geeks had exposure to live women in a ratio of 6 to 4.
"Revenge of the Sith" is the first "Star Wars" film to earn a PG-13 rating.
When asked why it wasn't rated PG, Jar Jar Binks stated, "Meesa couldsa made eeiiit PG, if meesa couldsa talked more!"
Seriously, put a robot in the hangar bay, it plugs in, then NETWORK OWNED! you can open any jail cell, tell exactly where the prisoner are, open any door and even control the elevators.
The Empire should look into using firewalls.
Well, what you forgot is that R2D2 is equipped with buffer overflow exploits that take advantage of Windows -59768 B.C. (remember, it happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away (but not long ago enough or far away enough to elude Bill Gate's grasp (Ah, so that's how Emperor Palpatine/Bill Gates came into power.)))
Want to see something funny? Browse the prior Slashdot article regarding SWE3/BitTorrent at threshold 5. Do you see any Score 5:Insightful posts supporting copyright at all? No.
Now browse at threshold -1, and look for Score -1:Troll. AH, there's all the posts supporting copyright!
Wow, are you saying someone is actually TAKING the copyright from someone else when they copy?
No, you are violating the author's right to determine how his conceptual work is copied and distrubted. What you are taking is something else, which I describe in a response to another post within this thread.
So you know what the really funny thing is? I'm really not big on downloading things. I do, however, like to release the software I have made to the world for free. In other words, I've put my creative works where my mouth is. You know, for the *public* good--that odd thing these IP laws were supposed to benefit.
That's not funny. I'm in the same situation. I purchase all of my software, even expensive packages like Photoshop. I don't download music or movies illegally. I write software that I personally would want to use, and then release it for free.
Clearly, you were not able to form whatever notion you had into something coherent and you appear to be compensating for your muddled notions of where the divisions exist in law with bluster, but that's immaterial now.
Now, that's funny.
You skipped over the definition of "take" -- as used in "theft" it clearly implies that one no longer has it. I mean, would you say that X stole Y's book if X had actually photocopied it and left them with the original?
I think you're overlooking a few things here.
First, let's say a guy name J.R.R. Tolkien writes a story called "The Hobbit". Let's also assume that, as was common during the time period in which he lived, he wrote the the story in non-electronic format.
Now, I agree that you can physically sneak into his house and "steal" his book, "taking" it so that he no longer has access to it, and I'm sure he would be dismayed and bemoan the state of the world to all he encountered. That would be "theft" of not only his conceptual work, but also the physical form in which it was manifested.
When J.R.R. Tolkien decides to sell his story, do you think he sells the actual "book" to the publisher? And in turn, does the publisher sell the actual "book" to one lucky consumer? NO.
Instead, J.R.R. Tolkien sells an exclusive or non-exclusive right to distribute that conceptual work, which the publisher then sells in a form of the publisher's choosing (which may be book, magazine, imprinted toilet paper, etc.) Of course, some publishers may not have the right to publish such material on imprinted toilet paper, depending upon the publisher's contract with the author.
When you buy a book, you're not buying the author's conceptual work. Rather, you're buying the medium made available by the publisher, as well as a publisher's license to use that medium to enjoy the author's conceptual work. You are not purchasing the ability to redistribute or rebroadcast the author's conceptual work.
When you download a movie illegally, you are:
1. Bypassing the publisher's license to enjoy the author's conceptual work, effectively "stealing" the use of the license.
2. Depriving the author the privilege of gaining compensation for your enjoyment of his conceptual work, effectively "stealing" his compensation payment.
When you upload a movie illegally, you are:
1. Infringing upon the publisher's license, which prohibits the unauthorized duplication and distribution of the author's conceptual work.
2. Providing a new distribution outlet that allows others the ability to gain access to the author's conceptual work, without the author's permission. An author should be permitted to make decisions regarding the distributors who distribute his conceptual work.
3. Circumventing or "stealing" a revenue stream from the current distributor. I agree that if there are multiple current distributors, it can be impossible to tell whose revenue stream was affected.
4. Circumventing or "stealing" a revenue stream from future distributors, which may distribute the movie in a different medium than current distributors. For example, a work may be distributed in movie theaters and then later by DVD distributors. Each of these circumvented revenue streams affects the author and distributors.
But in the end, here's the part where we really disagree: I don't think that people should be able to have legal
Slashdot Mirror
If I recall correctly? How old are you?
Anyways, the full context of 1984 can only be realized in a populous society in which the only barriers are government-induced. In the 1940's, there were plenty of other barriers that have since disappeared (like the lack of cheap and plentiful transportation.)
I like how feudal superstitions rank amongst the top threats to a Communist government.
"In order for our government to work, you're not allowed to think like that, nor be presented with such ideas."
Such a government seems like it would have to rely upon barriers that prevent intercommunication of popular ideas amongst its citizens, especially with such a large population. Wouldn't it be interesting if 1984 became true in China?
I chide the story submitter for not ending his submission with a question. Allow me to suggest on:
"Could the Internet be the end of China as we know it?"
To have such fundamental flaws appear, whether by accident or negligence, is unacceptable.
Furthermore, the browser "industry" and the commercial sector NEED to come up with some guidelines as to how to promote and ensure online security for financial transactions and personal data.
For example, it's almost impossible for the casual or sophisticated user to easily determine whether a frame that appears within a website actually belongs to that website, or another. For example, if you have an online account with MBNA credit card, and make an online purchase, some vendors will display an MBNA authentication page which asks you to login to your online account to verify the purchase.
The problem is that this authentication page appears as a frame within the online vendor. How can you tell whether that frame is a legitimate MBNA page, or just a clever phishing attack? The browser gives no indication as to whether the frame belongs to MBNA or the vendor.
PayPal suffers from the same thing. I hate clicking on the "Make a Donation" button of some sites, and then seeing the PayPal login appear within a frame of the original site. That prevents me from making a donation - with today's complicated scripting invocations and what not, I don't feel trusting enough to type my account info and password into some frame which happens to appear in the middle of some other organization's website.
I can't BELIEVE that MBNA and PayPal would promote such idiotic practices, much less allow them to happen.
That's probably because you don't create works of intellectual property for a living.
No one else gets the right to earn money for years old work.
What about investors, who invest in companies and real estate? The whole idea of retirement is to make money off "years old work".
Bach and Mozart produced far more music and worked far harder then the Beatles ever did, for basically nothing by todays standards.
Yes, but compared against the standards of 2,000 years ago, they lived much more comfortably. Are you saying we should base contemporary laws on arbitrary standards of the past?
To be technical, Life simulated cellular automata, which can demonstrate, but is not limited to, growth.
Ugh. Yes, I know. You don't have to say it.
At least it didn't end with a stupid question, like "Is this the end of desktops as we know it?"
As with most paid employees, a cryptographer's competence decreases as his job security increases.
It's only a hacker who has nothing legitimately to gain that would find an exploit like this. Unless he's a crazy researcher who put his life on hold to find some obscure flaw with hyperthreading processors.
Time for WUSB...
This is Off Topic, I know, but could someone tell me who this Anonymous Coward is that keeps replying to /. articles with random text? I've noticed this on the last several articles.
Is he using this board as a steganography channel?
If the monkey were on a tree, how would customers reach it?
This is just the kind of crap that will happen when you take away a company's ability to innovate using patents and patent infringement lawsuits.
For those of you who are uninformed, that was a sarcastic statement.
Make my day. Mod this as Score:5, Insightful
They died out because they were over-sized! If they were right-sized, they would still be alive! Everyone knows that obesity is the leading cause of anguish and suffering.
Or wait, I'm sorry, they were right. I forgot that climate shifts due to human activity are the cause of all evil.
This might become the newest husband-wife scam to extort money out of large companies.
Anyways, what problems do I have with logitech? I hate the fact that they change their wireless receiver base every time they come out with a product. I just upgraded my wireless mouse to a 1000 series laser mouse, but I had to buy the new laser / keyboard combo because I didn't want two RF adapters on my desk. Can't logitech figure out a better way to deal with this?
Also, I hate the mouse button compatibility that Logitech has yet to resolve. Microsoft mouses just seem to support all the buttons.
News flash: lightsabers aren't columns of light at finite lengths.
"Revenge of the Sith" rang in a whopping $50 million on its opening Thursday, a single-day record boosted by eagerly anticipated midnight showings, and its total receipts since then beat the four-day $134.3 million opening of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." The George Lucas film has also grossed $144.7 million overseas for a total of $303 million worldwide.
"The reaction to the movie is absolutely spectacular," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution at Twentieth Century Fox.
Theater owners, studios and marketing partners were pleased to see "Star Wars" jump-start the summer movie season. "It's a very strong start to what will hopefully be a very strong summer," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. The Adam Sandler-Chris Rock remake of "The Longest Yard" and the animated zoo tale "Madagascar" open in wide release during Memorial Day weekend, traditionally one of the busiest movie viewing times of the year. But "Star Wars" - which has sold an average of eight tickets per second online at Fandango.com - could remain at the top of the box office despite the competition. "I think we have a shot to be No. 1 next week even with two giant pictures coming out," Snyder said. The third and final installment in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy chronicles the transformation of the heroic Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker into the villainous Darth Vader. Studio exit surveys showed the audience - usually dominated by men for sci-fi films - was 58 percent male and 42 percent female, with nearly half the viewers under age 25, Snyder said. "Revenge of the Sith" is the first "Star Wars" film to earn a PG-13 rating.It's either -59768 A.D. or it's 59768 B.C.
Hey, bring that up with the marketing folks.
Ooops, Trolled again! Man, disidents like me need to be assassinated by the Slashdot Left Wing.
But Luke never knew his mother!
The Empire should look into using firewalls.
Well, what you forgot is that R2D2 is equipped with buffer overflow exploits that take advantage of Windows -59768 B.C. (remember, it happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away (but not long ago enough or far away enough to elude Bill Gate's grasp (Ah, so that's how Emperor Palpatine/Bill Gates came into power.)))
Now browse at threshold -1, and look for Score -1:Troll. AH, there's all the posts supporting copyright!
This place truly amazes me sometimes.
No, you are violating the author's right to determine how his conceptual work is copied and distrubted. What you are taking is something else, which I describe in a response to another post within this thread.
Look, I done started a flamewar!
Damn liberals.
That's not funny. I'm in the same situation. I purchase all of my software, even expensive packages like Photoshop. I don't download music or movies illegally. I write software that I personally would want to use, and then release it for free.
Clearly, you were not able to form whatever notion you had into something coherent and you appear to be compensating for your muddled notions of where the divisions exist in law with bluster, but that's immaterial now.
Now, that's funny.
You skipped over the definition of "take" -- as used in "theft" it clearly implies that one no longer has it. I mean, would you say that X stole Y's book if X had actually photocopied it and left them with the original?
I think you're overlooking a few things here.
First, let's say a guy name J.R.R. Tolkien writes a story called "The Hobbit". Let's also assume that, as was common during the time period in which he lived, he wrote the the story in non-electronic format.
Now, I agree that you can physically sneak into his house and "steal" his book, "taking" it so that he no longer has access to it, and I'm sure he would be dismayed and bemoan the state of the world to all he encountered. That would be "theft" of not only his conceptual work, but also the physical form in which it was manifested.
When J.R.R. Tolkien decides to sell his story, do you think he sells the actual "book" to the publisher? And in turn, does the publisher sell the actual "book" to one lucky consumer? NO.
Instead, J.R.R. Tolkien sells an exclusive or non-exclusive right to distribute that conceptual work, which the publisher then sells in a form of the publisher's choosing (which may be book, magazine, imprinted toilet paper, etc.) Of course, some publishers may not have the right to publish such material on imprinted toilet paper, depending upon the publisher's contract with the author.
When you buy a book, you're not buying the author's conceptual work. Rather, you're buying the medium made available by the publisher, as well as a publisher's license to use that medium to enjoy the author's conceptual work. You are not purchasing the ability to redistribute or rebroadcast the author's conceptual work.
When you download a movie illegally, you are:
1. Bypassing the publisher's license to enjoy the author's conceptual work, effectively "stealing" the use of the license.
2. Depriving the author the privilege of gaining compensation for your enjoyment of his conceptual work, effectively "stealing" his compensation payment.
When you upload a movie illegally, you are:
1. Infringing upon the publisher's license, which prohibits the unauthorized duplication and distribution of the author's conceptual work.
2. Providing a new distribution outlet that allows others the ability to gain access to the author's conceptual work, without the author's permission. An author should be permitted to make decisions regarding the distributors who distribute his conceptual work.
3. Circumventing or "stealing" a revenue stream from the current distributor. I agree that if there are multiple current distributors, it can be impossible to tell whose revenue stream was affected.
4. Circumventing or "stealing" a revenue stream from future distributors, which may distribute the movie in a different medium than current distributors. For example, a work may be distributed in movie theaters and then later by DVD distributors. Each of these circumvented revenue streams affects the author and distributors.
But in the end, here's the part where we really disagree: I don't think that people should be able to have legal