Does anyone have information on how this idea works?
Okay, you have a remote encryption key (Me to keyserver: "Please make this key publicly available until 5/5/2002") which you can use to decrypt documents for a while.
But what is to stop people taking a copy of this key, or of the decrypted message? Do you have to run a "trusted software" reader to view the message?
Either way, it sounds like the equivalent of sending a Yahoo card - "Click here to view your message, which we will store for 3 months"
But then, screenshots are still admissable in court.
My parents bought a Tiny computer, despite all campaigning to the contrary (they have still not used the DVD player, or the scanner) - recovery CD formats the hard drive (i.e. it's not a real O/s CD which would let you keep your data)
When I got my PC, I had the local one-guy shop build it, and I still phone him for help occasionally. (Ever try that with BigPCStore Ltd?) - the problem is, most people will never find out how crap their PC is until it's too late. They're being treated as consumer products now, which means that companies with "brand recognition" (i.e. full-page adverts in the Times) get clueless companies buying PCs from them.
"We're not allowed to talk to anyone who mentions linux" a guy in PC world told me the other day, as I quizzed him about the "Windows 95 or later" requirements of each of their modems.
And the namespace is organised in what way? "net", "com", "org", and the like are free-for-alls.
Of the hundreds of registered country codes, only 4 (uk, fr, de, au) are being used. The rest have been sold to domain-name prospectors, as "us" is about to be.
But then, what did we expect to happen, when we gave the same amount of namespace to an island without houses (nevermind DNS servers) as to the whole of North America?
You mean, it's unlawful to patent "the signing of electronic documents", because it's only legally possible to patent "the addition of a PGP-standard base-64 signature to the 'signature' property of an XML document"
Or along those lines. Any patent covering an idea is, by definition, invalid.
Why not mirror the UK system, which works reasonably well:
co.uk - commerical (sounds better than com.uk)
ac.uk - academic, universities, schools, etc
org.uk - organisations, charities, and the like
gov.uk - official government sites
net.uk - UK network providers ?
Of course, in the US, I guess each state would be interested in providing it's own DNS server:
ak.states.us
nd.states.us
tx.states.us
(the.states. makes it legible to a non-american)
It sounds very much like: if Acme motors and Acme chemicals are fighting over a domain name, the registrar should just split it down the middle, and give chemicals.acme.us to one of them, and motors.acme.us to the other.
After all, if you don't have a monopoly on the Acme name, you shouldn't have a monopoly on the acme.us domain either.
Would the registrars be technically able to split contested domains into 3rd-level domains?
The EU? Surely you're referring to the only area in the world to *have* rights legally protected, as opposed to the US which is at the top of Amnesty International's list of human-rights abusers.
Yes, that means that you kill more people than Burma does. Yes, that means you kill children, and yet still consider yourself the "free world"
Look, IT WAS RETURNED ON THE CHARGE OF BEING A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION. Can somebody please explain to me what was copied? Does somebody own american copyright on how to design these serial cables?
The possible uses for the cable have no relevance whatsoever, for the same reason that cooking knives are not illegal, nor is hot coffee, nor are bowls of water.
"The percieved normal use for coffee is that of burning people, therefore we are impounding your caffenated drink under assault laws. As everyone knows, or should know, the centre of the coffee industry is Belgium, thus we require you to stand trial in a Belgian court"
Can the americans please grow up, and spend some time fixing their legal system? It's so annoying that nobody from the free world dares to visit, and the EFF's AGM has to be in Canada.
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Is it just my flawed understanding, or is this becuase the states gave some of their powers to the federal government?
If this were so, then surely it would make sense for those powers to be limited and strictly enumerated.
On the other hand, this would imply that the state government reserves all power not explicitly granted to the constitution.
Making backup copies of CDs that you've purchased is considered fair use here in the UK, and is perfectly legal.
Strangely, music companies get paid a portion of the cost of blank CDs sold, to "compensate" for them not being able to sell extra CDs when the originals break.
One of the newer issues in this area is that the music companies should lose their cut of each CDR drive sold, now that their media is self-declared "uncopiable"
I believe, in the last year or so, blank CDRs increased in price from £0.50 to £1.50 in the UK. Anyone care to venture a reason why?
If I take a photo of someone in the street, and they turn out to be a model, am I depriving them of "potential earnings" from the model-shoot I "ought" to have paid for?
No! Of course not, they haven't gone to any effort for which they should get paid.
If you're curious about a new musical style, you can download a few songs to see if you like it, and which bands are best. Then you can buy the CD to save yourself weeks of download time on a modem.
Alternatively, you could pay £15 each for all the CDs that you *might* like, and accept the loss on the ones which are no good.
Which would you prefer?
Which would the CD shop prefer?
Your browser is an illegal program designed to COPY and PIRATE information from the internet, where you would otherwise have PAID for magazines. You are STEALING money from the newspapers. Please delete your browser immediately.
Ahh dear -- you lose sky-1 and its 6-year-old repeats, it's 3-show itinerary, and it's 7-minute advertising breaks.
I try not to watch TV, but I find the mute button works great on adverts. That's why some movie adverts are really slow, with a lot of text onscreen - they're aiming at people fast-forwarding a muted video recording.
I'm sure we all can't wait for the lawsuit against kettle / coffee / beer / toilet manufacturers for allowing us to skip the adverts anytime we want.
Man-in-the-middle attack. French computers autoupdate from american servers. The request goes through Britain, and the response is replaced by a trojan. French operating systems become vulnerable to "big-5" surveillance.
As the saying goes, "never trust a program you didn't compile yourself" - when did you last check Windows' source-code?
Exactly. So you give them a username with access to "/etc/staroffice" and "/boot" ONLY (or whatever, I'm new to linux;)
That's the difference between a secure o/s and an insecure one. You can run autoupdate, and give it a username with read/write access to the directories it needs, and not to your documents, or to other programs.
Okay, I've filtered out about 90% of 300 emails so far, and I've not yet got any false-positives by deleting HTML email. I've got 2 emails from hotmail accounts (yeah, I was deleting anything with hotmail.com in it until I found a couple people I know were still using it) but neither of the hotmail ones had HTML in them.
I've used many email programs with their default settings (outlook express, outlook, Kmail, Pegasus, etc) and I don't recall ever sending HTML.
I've now cut my filters down to about 4/5 rules (HTML, remove, unsubscribe, and variations) so all I need to do now is figure out a regular expression to match 8-bit ascii subject-lines.
So as I say, "Delete HTML anything" has filtered out several hundred spam messages (i.e. most of them) and not one "real" email. That looks like a very good rule to me!
This isn't about the difference between VB and VC and VJ++ - note what the writer said about "skinnable languages"
It's about the difference between Perl and Basic, between AppleScript and Cobol. Between languages which are as different as Arabic is to English. Different not because of some words that are changed, but because the entire mindset of those who use them is different.
<analogy style="yours">So you understand Java? Well, if you're not an idiot, you'll find it easy to learn Assembler</analogy>
<analogy style="microsoft's">We are multi-lingual. We support american english, australian english, Queen's english, estuary-english, scottish-english, and CAN-YOU-SPEAK-ENG-ER-LISH english</analogy>
I get quite good results with my anti-spam filter, just by deleting (i.e. not downloading) anything with "
Seriously, has anyone ever received a "real" email which contained HTML formatting? I've not yet got any false-positives by deleting HTML emails.
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Does anyone have information on how this idea works?
Okay, you have a remote encryption key (Me to keyserver: "Please make this key publicly available until 5/5/2002") which you can use to decrypt documents for a while.
But what is to stop people taking a copy of this key, or of the decrypted message? Do you have to run a "trusted software" reader to view the message?
Either way, it sounds like the equivalent of sending a Yahoo card - "Click here to view your message, which we will store for 3 months"
But then, screenshots are still admissable in court.
My parents bought a Tiny computer, despite all campaigning to the contrary (they have still not used the DVD player, or the scanner) - recovery CD formats the hard drive (i.e. it's not a real O/s CD which would let you keep your data)
When I got my PC, I had the local one-guy shop build it, and I still phone him for help occasionally. (Ever try that with BigPCStore Ltd?) - the problem is, most people will never find out how crap their PC is until it's too late. They're being treated as consumer products now, which means that companies with "brand recognition" (i.e. full-page adverts in the Times) get clueless companies buying PCs from them.
"We're not allowed to talk to anyone who mentions linux" a guy in PC world told me the other day, as I quizzed him about the "Windows 95 or later" requirements of each of their modems.
And the namespace is organised in what way? "net", "com", "org", and the like are free-for-alls.
Of the hundreds of registered country codes, only 4 (uk, fr, de, au) are being used. The rest have been sold to domain-name prospectors, as "us" is about to be.
But then, what did we expect to happen, when we gave the same amount of namespace to an island without houses (nevermind DNS servers) as to the whole of North America?
You mean, it's unlawful to patent "the signing of electronic documents", because it's only legally possible to patent "the addition of a PGP-standard base-64 signature to the 'signature' property of an XML document"
Or along those lines. Any patent covering an idea is, by definition, invalid.
Why not mirror the UK system, which works reasonably well:
.states. makes it legible to a non-american)
co.uk - commerical (sounds better than com.uk)
ac.uk - academic, universities, schools, etc
org.uk - organisations, charities, and the like
gov.uk - official government sites
net.uk - UK network providers ?
Of course, in the US, I guess each state would be interested in providing it's own DNS server:
ak.states.us
nd.states.us
tx.states.us
(the
It sounds very much like: if Acme motors and Acme chemicals are fighting over a domain name, the registrar should just split it down the middle, and give chemicals.acme.us to one of them, and motors.acme.us to the other.
After all, if you don't have a monopoly on the Acme name, you shouldn't have a monopoly on the acme.us domain either.
Would the registrars be technically able to split contested domains into 3rd-level domains?
Ok, this guy helped invent ASCII, of all things.
What did BT do?
The EU? Surely you're referring to the only area in the world to *have* rights legally protected, as opposed to the US which is at the top of Amnesty International's list of human-rights abusers.
Yes, that means that you kill more people than Burma does. Yes, that means you kill children, and yet still consider yourself the "free world"
Look, IT WAS RETURNED ON THE CHARGE OF BEING A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION. Can somebody please explain to me what was copied? Does somebody own american copyright on how to design these serial cables?
The possible uses for the cable have no relevance whatsoever, for the same reason that cooking knives are not illegal, nor is hot coffee, nor are bowls of water.
"The percieved normal use for coffee is that of burning people, therefore we are impounding your caffenated drink under assault laws. As everyone knows, or should know, the centre of the coffee industry is Belgium, thus we require you to stand trial in a Belgian court"
Can the americans please grow up, and spend some time fixing their legal system? It's so annoying that nobody from the free world dares to visit, and the EFF's AGM has to be in Canada.
Is it just my flawed understanding, or is this becuase the states gave some of their powers to the federal government?
If this were so, then surely it would make sense for those powers to be limited and strictly enumerated.
On the other hand, this would imply that the state government reserves all power not explicitly granted to the constitution.
Making backup copies of CDs that you've purchased is considered fair use here in the UK, and is perfectly legal.
Strangely, music companies get paid a portion of the cost of blank CDs sold, to "compensate" for them not being able to sell extra CDs when the originals break.
One of the newer issues in this area is that the music companies should lose their cut of each CDR drive sold, now that their media is self-declared "uncopiable"
I believe, in the last year or so, blank CDRs increased in price from £0.50 to £1.50 in the UK. Anyone care to venture a reason why?
If I take a photo of someone in the street, and they turn out to be a model, am I depriving them of "potential earnings" from the model-shoot I "ought" to have paid for?
No! Of course not, they haven't gone to any effort for which they should get paid.
If you're curious about a new musical style, you can download a few songs to see if you like it, and which bands are best. Then you can buy the CD to save yourself weeks of download time on a modem.
Alternatively, you could pay £15 each for all the CDs that you *might* like, and accept the loss on the ones which are no good.
Which would you prefer?
Which would the CD shop prefer?
Your browser is an illegal program designed to COPY and PIRATE information from the internet, where you would otherwise have PAID for magazines. You are STEALING money from the newspapers. Please delete your browser immediately.
Isn't this a violation of privacy rights?
It's not a violation of rights in England, and here we actually have rights (thanks to a EU convention that the US doesn't bother with)
Here, every 10th streetlight contains a camera (in the cities) and shops, plazas and the like are crammed with them.
US prison labour
Didn't crowds close down? Their site is displaying some out-of-date message about crypo export laws.
Echelon is said to use natural language parsing (i.e. knowing what's a noun, verb, etc) and reasonably sophisticated artificial intelligence.
It can probably read English as well as you can.
Look at Google's AI text-searching. Do you think the classified world is incapable of producing something better?
Ahh dear -- you lose sky-1 and its 6-year-old repeats, it's 3-show itinerary, and it's 7-minute advertising breaks.
I try not to watch TV, but I find the mute button works great on adverts. That's why some movie adverts are really slow, with a lot of text onscreen - they're aiming at people fast-forwarding a muted video recording.
I'm sure we all can't wait for the lawsuit against kettle / coffee / beer / toilet manufacturers for allowing us to skip the adverts anytime we want.
Or you could write a 10-line perl script to index the titles of all your documents. Then maybe another 10-line perl script to do searches on it.
It does sound quite useful actually. If you have any serious amount of information to categorise (spy agencies, perhaps?)
Man-in-the-middle attack. French computers autoupdate from american servers. The request goes through Britain, and the response is replaced by a trojan. French operating systems become vulnerable to "big-5" surveillance.
As the saying goes, "never trust a program you didn't compile yourself" - when did you last check Windows' source-code?
Exactly. So you give them a username with access to "/etc/staroffice" and "/boot" ONLY (or whatever, I'm new to linux ;)
That's the difference between a secure o/s and an insecure one. You can run autoupdate, and give it a username with read/write access to the directories it needs, and not to your documents, or to other programs.
Okay, I've filtered out about 90% of 300 emails so far, and I've not yet got any false-positives by deleting HTML email. I've got 2 emails from hotmail accounts (yeah, I was deleting anything with hotmail.com in it until I found a couple people I know were still using it) but neither of the hotmail ones had HTML in them.
I've used many email programs with their default settings (outlook express, outlook, Kmail, Pegasus, etc) and I don't recall ever sending HTML.
I've now cut my filters down to about 4/5 rules (HTML, remove, unsubscribe, and variations) so all I need to do now is figure out a regular expression to match 8-bit ascii subject-lines.
So as I say, "Delete HTML anything" has filtered out several hundred spam messages (i.e. most of them) and not one "real" email. That looks like a very good rule to me!
This isn't about the difference between VB and VC and VJ++ - note what the writer said about "skinnable languages"
It's about the difference between Perl and Basic, between AppleScript and Cobol. Between languages which are as different as Arabic is to English. Different not because of some words that are changed, but because the entire mindset of those who use them is different.
<analogy style="yours">So you understand Java? Well, if you're not an idiot, you'll find it easy to learn Assembler</analogy>
<analogy style="microsoft's">We are multi-lingual. We support american english, australian english, Queen's english, estuary-english, scottish-english, and CAN-YOU-SPEAK-ENG-ER-LISH english</analogy>
I get quite good results with my anti-spam filter, just by deleting (i.e. not downloading) anything with "
Seriously, has anyone ever received a "real" email which contained HTML formatting? I've not yet got any false-positives by deleting HTML emails.