Most people smart enough to program such a thing are also smart enough to know it can never work. People who do create/sell/push drm solutions are selling snake oil.
Your best bet is to use PGP and simply encrypt your data, and trade public keys with your intended recipients. And plan ahead - once someone can see it, assume they can always see it. The whole "revoking a key" bit is the snake oil part of DRM.
This reminds me of the controversy when Feynman diagrams were first shown. These diagrams were a much simpler way of expressing complex summations - but the old-school (some pretty impressive names) felt that these diagrams were a dumbing-down and that the historical mathematics were the proper way to express these systems.
Feynman diagrams are just another way of looking at things. It's another viewpoint of the same thing.
Java and C don't map so well. There are some things for which only C makes sense currently, such as driver development. Java is a virtual machine. Although it's possible to beat, mangle, and force java into submission and make it do those things, that's not what it's for. All those JNI libraries that Java needs to actually talk to your machine - they're written in C. AFAIK, nobody is writing an OS or even drivers in Java. I'd even bet that the first few implementations of Java were written in C/C++.
When Java is the first thing you learn, you learn sloppy IMHO. You just assume there is a garbage collector. You can allocate whatever you want, whenever you want, and not have to think about scope. If you ever do have to do some system work later on in your career - all of these notions will be new. You'll have to think about pointers, and the size of an object in memory, and how long you should hold on to it before you free up that memory. You'll suffer serious setbacks when it's time to program down to the wire.
Java is a beautiful language - my personal favorite - for application development, but application development isn't all there is.
...so were the Founding Fathers when they signed the Declaration of Independence. And Martin Luther King when he fought established racism with peaceful civil disobedience. And Gandhi when he fought for civil rights and against discrimination and foreign domination. And Rosa Parks when she sat in the front of the bus.
RIAA will use this to justify further restrictions on P2P software.
So far, the RIAA hasn't shown any signs of restraint whatsoever. I don't think haxx0ring their webpage is suddenly going to spur them on to new heights.
They're already about as depraved as you can get anyways.
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Nah, how about a bunch of press releases saying that "the RIAA was wrong to sue music fans for sharing songs therefore we are dropping all the charges" and then seeing if the judge would say that if it was a cracked site or the RIAA itself.
The linchpin of the RIAA's lawsuit factory rests on the supposition that an IP address is exactly identical to a person. What the IP address does is legally identical to a person doing it. That's their argument.
So, if their website were to be hacked, wouldn't that exact same rule apply to whatever content was there? Their IP address is legally the same as the person/corporation/entity who owns it, right? That IS their argument, after all.
So why not use that against them in a legal sense?
It would be brilliant. The RIAA lawyers when they were brought into court for whatever happened to be uploaded there would have to make the argument that an IP address DOES NOT equate to the owner of the IP address in order to defend themselves.
They'd have to make our argument for us, and in front of a judge.
Because if a robot had feelings, it could determine its own behavior. The great DA solved this puppy long, long ago:
The scientists at the Institute thus discovered the driving
force behind all change, development and innovation in life,
which was this: herring sandwiches. They published a paper
to this effect, which was widely criticized as being extremely
stupid. They checked their figures and realized that what they
had actually discovered was `boredom', or rather, the practical
function of boredom. In a fever of excitement they then went
on to discover other emotions, Like `irritability', `depression',
`reluctance', `ickiness' and so on. The next big breakthrough came
when they stopped using herring sandwiches, whereupon a whole
welter of new emotions became suddenly available to them for
study, such as `relief', `joy', `friskiness', `appetite', `satisfaction',
and most important of all, the desire for `happiness'.
This was the biggest breakthrough of all.
Vast wodges of complex computer code governing robot behav-
iour in all possible contingencies could be replaced very simply.
All that robots needed was the capacity to be either bored or
happy, and a few conditions that needed to be satisfied in order
to bring those states about. They would then work the rest out
for themselves.
And that's why Eddie, the shipboard computer is always happy to help the humans - that's his "happy" goal. That's why the doors sigh with pleasure when they open and say "thank you for making a simple door very happy". They're happiest when they do door stuff - let people through them, open and close efficiently, etc.
It's comedy, I know. But it's also really amazingly good thinking.
We have an article about how a class action suit can proceed against the RIAA. Scroll down a bit and there is a story about Microsoft opening up their binary formats. For free. Download them from their webpage. Scroll down a bit more and there is an article about a trial finally being set to see what SCO owes Novell.
What gives?
Did I slip through some wormhole in space and land in a universe where wishes are granted? Is it April 1st? Next thing I expect to see is a release date for Duke Nukem Forever.
I may just buy some lottery tickets on the way home tonight, just to see if the streak continues.
It's a great idea, but stores arrange their shelves and produce specifically to get people to impulse shop. That's why the candy is near the cash machines - so your kids will freak out while you're standing there waiting, in the hopes that you'll cave in and buy them the candy so they'll shut up. The less time you spend in the store, the less changes for you to impulse buy something.
Stores would never do anything that would decrease your time being exposed to their products.
At the company I work for, our main office is on the other coast. We're a splinter office (well an acquisition really) of about a dozen guys. The guys on the coast really don't have any idea where I'm at anyways. I've done several projects and never even seen the other guys on the team. I email them status and code, they email me requests.
And that's true at the office I'm in too when the project is in-house. Had a guy two cubes down from me get added to my project, and he had to ask me my name. He had forgotten. We still got things done though, once he remembered who I was.
Point is, I've worked a lot with people I've never seen while sitting in my cube. If I was at home, I honestly think people wouldn't even know, much less care. Meet your deadlines and you've done your part. And I do. I only go in to the office most times just because it's expected of me. It doesn't really help in any way.
I hook them into an old pc, wipe them with BCWipe, and then dispose of them. My preferred method is to put them in old machines, install Linux, and give them to Goodwill.
So EMI will no longer farm out its enforcement duties to the RIAA.
So if you countersue, your suit will actually be applied to the person who brought the suit in the first place and not their disposable puppet.
This is why mob bosses contract hits out - makes it harder for the law to find them. What we have here is a mob boss who is unhappy with his hitman and is going to do his own hits. Should make it easier for the law to reach the responsible party.
It would be a layer off the onion at least, which would help.
"The IP address simply can help you know who paid for the internet access, but not who was using what computer on a network. In fact, this even had some people suggesting that, if you want to win a lawsuit from the RIAA, you're best off opening up your WiFi network to neighbors. It seems like this strategy might actually be working. Earlier this month the inability to prove who actually did the file sharing caused the RIAA to drop a case in Oklahoma and now it looks like the same defense has worked in a California case as well. In both cases, though, as soon as the RIAA realized the person was using this defense, they dropped the case, rather than lose it and set a precedent showing they really don't have the unequivocal evidence they claim they do."
Well, whaddya know?
I don't even own any WiFi equipment for fear of someone using my connection to do something questionable...but now maybe I will buy one. Nothing like a get out of jail free card, y'know?
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And yet, interestingly, an OS has been written in Lisp.
Yeah, I've heard of it. Isn't it called Emacs?
Ba dump bump! Thanks, I'll be here all night. Try the veal.
Most people smart enough to program such a thing are also smart enough to know it can never work. People who do create/sell/push drm solutions are selling snake oil.
Your best bet is to use PGP and simply encrypt your data, and trade public keys with your intended recipients. And plan ahead - once someone can see it, assume they can always see it. The whole "revoking a key" bit is the snake oil part of DRM.
This reminds me of the controversy when Feynman diagrams were first shown. These diagrams were a much simpler way of expressing complex summations - but the old-school (some pretty impressive names) felt that these diagrams were a dumbing-down and that the historical mathematics were the proper way to express these systems.
Feynman diagrams are just another way of looking at things. It's another viewpoint of the same thing.
Java and C don't map so well. There are some things for which only C makes sense currently, such as driver development. Java is a virtual machine. Although it's possible to beat, mangle, and force java into submission and make it do those things, that's not what it's for. All those JNI libraries that Java needs to actually talk to your machine - they're written in C. AFAIK, nobody is writing an OS or even drivers in Java. I'd even bet that the first few implementations of Java were written in C/C++.
When Java is the first thing you learn, you learn sloppy IMHO. You just assume there is a garbage collector. You can allocate whatever you want, whenever you want, and not have to think about scope. If you ever do have to do some system work later on in your career - all of these notions will be new. You'll have to think about pointers, and the size of an object in memory, and how long you should hold on to it before you free up that memory. You'll suffer serious setbacks when it's time to program down to the wire.
Java is a beautiful language - my personal favorite - for application development, but application development isn't all there is.
...so were the Founding Fathers when they signed the Declaration of Independence. And Martin Luther King when he fought established racism with peaceful civil disobedience. And Gandhi when he fought for civil rights and against discrimination and foreign domination. And Rosa Parks when she sat in the front of the bus.
Being a scofflaw puts you in pretty good company.
RIAA will use this to justify further restrictions on P2P software.
So far, the RIAA hasn't shown any signs of restraint whatsoever. I don't think haxx0ring their webpage is suddenly going to spur them on to new heights.
They're already about as depraved as you can get anyways.
Nah, how about a bunch of press releases saying that "the RIAA was wrong to sue music fans for sharing songs therefore we are dropping all the charges" and then seeing if the judge would say that if it was a cracked site or the RIAA itself.
The linchpin of the RIAA's lawsuit factory rests on the supposition that an IP address is exactly identical to a person. What the IP address does is legally identical to a person doing it. That's their argument.
So, if their website were to be hacked, wouldn't that exact same rule apply to whatever content was there? Their IP address is legally the same as the person/corporation/entity who owns it, right? That IS their argument, after all.
So why not use that against them in a legal sense?
It would be brilliant. The RIAA lawyers when they were brought into court for whatever happened to be uploaded there would have to make the argument that an IP address DOES NOT equate to the owner of the IP address in order to defend themselves.
They'd have to make our argument for us, and in front of a judge.
You couldn't ask for a better precedent.
Because if a robot had feelings, it could determine its own behavior. The great DA solved this puppy long, long ago:
The scientists at the Institute thus discovered the driving force behind all change, development and innovation in life, which was this: herring sandwiches. They published a paper to this effect, which was widely criticized as being extremely stupid. They checked their figures and realized that what they had actually discovered was `boredom', or rather, the practical function of boredom. In a fever of excitement they then went on to discover other emotions, Like `irritability', `depression', `reluctance', `ickiness' and so on. The next big breakthrough came when they stopped using herring sandwiches, whereupon a whole welter of new emotions became suddenly available to them for study, such as `relief', `joy', `friskiness', `appetite', `satisfaction', and most important of all, the desire for `happiness'.
This was the biggest breakthrough of all.
Vast wodges of complex computer code governing robot behav- iour in all possible contingencies could be replaced very simply. All that robots needed was the capacity to be either bored or happy, and a few conditions that needed to be satisfied in order to bring those states about. They would then work the rest out for themselves.
And that's why Eddie, the shipboard computer is always happy to help the humans - that's his "happy" goal. That's why the doors sigh with pleasure when they open and say "thank you for making a simple door very happy". They're happiest when they do door stuff - let people through them, open and close efficiently, etc.
It's comedy, I know. But it's also really amazingly good thinking.
Hayden is Star Wars, not Star Trek. That's why he doesn't know it.
Ok. Bitter retorts, sarcasm, and soul crushing pessimism. We're back to normal.
I was worried there for a moment.
Will she take SCO licenses instead?
"Honest - they're worth about 600 bucks a piece. Ask your husband."
We have an article about how a class action suit can proceed against the RIAA. Scroll down a bit and there is a story about Microsoft opening up their binary formats. For free. Download them from their webpage. Scroll down a bit more and there is an article about a trial finally being set to see what SCO owes Novell.
What gives?
Did I slip through some wormhole in space and land in a universe where wishes are granted? Is it April 1st? Next thing I expect to see is a release date for Duke Nukem Forever.
I may just buy some lottery tickets on the way home tonight, just to see if the streak continues.
Just the Linux port of it.
Has any punishment they've received been equal to or greater than the benefits they receive as a monopoly?
It's a great idea, but stores arrange their shelves and produce specifically to get people to impulse shop. That's why the candy is near the cash machines - so your kids will freak out while you're standing there waiting, in the hopes that you'll cave in and buy them the candy so they'll shut up. The less time you spend in the store, the less changes for you to impulse buy something.
Stores would never do anything that would decrease your time being exposed to their products.
At the company I work for, our main office is on the other coast. We're a splinter office (well an acquisition really) of about a dozen guys. The guys on the coast really don't have any idea where I'm at anyways. I've done several projects and never even seen the other guys on the team. I email them status and code, they email me requests.
And that's true at the office I'm in too when the project is in-house. Had a guy two cubes down from me get added to my project, and he had to ask me my name. He had forgotten. We still got things done though, once he remembered who I was.
Point is, I've worked a lot with people I've never seen while sitting in my cube. If I was at home, I honestly think people wouldn't even know, much less care. Meet your deadlines and you've done your part. And I do. I only go in to the office most times just because it's expected of me. It doesn't really help in any way.
Put one of these in your window. Simple.
The amount of energy you spend studying a thing, changes a thing. Who knew this would apply to Google? Apparently Google must use quantum computers.
I hook them into an old pc, wipe them with BCWipe, and then dispose of them. My preferred method is to put them in old machines, install Linux, and give them to Goodwill.
So EMI will no longer farm out its enforcement duties to the RIAA.
So if you countersue, your suit will actually be applied to the person who brought the suit in the first place and not their disposable puppet.
This is why mob bosses contract hits out - makes it harder for the law to find them. What we have here is a mob boss who is unhappy with his hitman and is going to do his own hits. Should make it easier for the law to reach the responsible party.
It would be a layer off the onion at least, which would help.
Study a little physics and you won't have to ask questions like that anymore.
Hey, how about that? Here's a link an article about it.
"The IP address simply can help you know who paid for the internet access, but not who was using what computer on a network. In fact, this even had some people suggesting that, if you want to win a lawsuit from the RIAA, you're best off opening up your WiFi network to neighbors. It seems like this strategy might actually be working. Earlier this month the inability to prove who actually did the file sharing caused the RIAA to drop a case in Oklahoma and now it looks like the same defense has worked in a California case as well. In both cases, though, as soon as the RIAA realized the person was using this defense, they dropped the case, rather than lose it and set a precedent showing they really don't have the unequivocal evidence they claim they do."
Well, whaddya know?
I don't even own any WiFi equipment for fear of someone using my connection to do something questionable...but now maybe I will buy one. Nothing like a get out of jail free card, y'know?
I'd have compiled my own from the source. Still not running an exe from an AC.
...would you mind posting it?
Sorry pal, this is Slashdot. Source or GTFO.
Doesn't that mean you can burn out the flash memory in about two minutes because of the limited number of write cycles?
...
Ok, I'm kidding. Wear leveling. But it was just too obvious of a /. thing to not post it. At least I didn't make an In Soviet Russia joke. Right?