Most crypto algos are not NP complete. You can solve 'em it just takes a ton of time (but you can calculate how long it's going to take.) Doing NP complete problems in O(n) time won't help you break crypto at all.
Look, I'm as much anti-copyright as anyone. And I'll haply use the results of these warez kids. But I don't really have much sympathy for them. They got lazy and stupid. They should have been using more secure setups, and been a lot less 'interconnected' operationally. (I'm not saying don't socialize, but for god sakes, don't go around giving out shell accounts and stuff to everybody).
The other thing is, how are these groups funded? As far as I can tell these kids are warezing just so they can feel like big criminals (witch they are, if he FBI is putting so much work into catching them) but they aren't making any money, are they? If so, how?
If you want to ruin the rest of your life standing up the CoS go ahead. It may be noble to stand up to evil, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. The information was all on the web anyway, a google search would have gotten it for you. Fight evil yes, but choose your battles to.
Those crazy Japanese. First they build the Super-kamakamode[sic] that can detect a single photon, and now they have ablity to emit them one at a time to!
And that doesn't even get into their cool anime and hot women.
But seriously, this is going to require a bit of work before it's totally practical for mass usage, right now they would have to use a huge photomultiplier tube in order to actually sense a single photon. I think it'll be a while before CCD or CMOS light detection is that good...
Or hey, maybe we'll all go back to vacuum tube computers:P
And that doesn't even get into their cool anime and hot women.
But seriously, this is going to require a bit of work before it's totally practical for mass usage, right now they would have to use a huge photomultiplier tube in order to actually sense a single photon. I think it'll be a while before CCD or CMOS light detection is that good...
Or hey, maybe we'll all go back to vacuum tube computers:P
This is fantastic news for Sklyarov, personaly. And I for one am glad to see this played out on the more traditional copyright battlefeilds... between companies without worrying about anyone going to jail. Not to mention against people in another country as well. So unless Russia agrees to extradite these people not to much can happen to them, other then having their US (and possibly other WIPO nations) frozen.
But ultimately, this is still a loss for our freedoms and everything. Adobe had to consider the public outcry in the computer world. The Hollywood conglomerates won't. The US DOJ still proved that they're willing to go out and do 'the real thing' against individual programmers. And there was no legal victory for the EEF or any of the anti-DMCA people (not that I think Sklyarov should have martyred himself). Hopefully we'll be able to get the thing overturned, but it's going to be harder to defend a Russian company with the lead programmer testifying against them, then the sympathetic coder with a family back home.
Who would you rather piss off? Steve Case, or Osama Bin Laden. Both may be 'evil' in a certain light, but while AOL users may be stupid they aren't out on suicide bombing runs.
I wouldn't get into a legal battle LRONs minions over some stupid AC comment.
Microsoft isn't going to make your life into a living hell or anything...
I had a couple posts modded to -5 once, after a bug in slashcode that allowed images to be embeded in comments. I stuck a few in (nothing offensive). After a while a script was run that killed all image tags and modded them to -5.
I've already gotten about 394 comments posted in the month or so I've been here (and karma hovering around 50 now)
When they reimported all the old files into the DB I checked my old account. Almost 4,000 comments. michal is basicaly insulting everyone who uses slashdot 'alot' instaid of just posting boring and poorly thought out stories.
Try an experiment: go to kuro5hin.org, advogato.org, any random message board, and start posting "Turd Report" comments. Take note of the mean time before you're banned from the site.
Well, it would depend on the velocity, but having spent a lot of time on k5 -- more then/. up until a couple weeks ago:( -- I'd guess it would probably be modded to zero quickly, where it can't be seen by normal users.
Yeh, it would be 'censored' but its a completely transparent system, one that any 'trusted' user (basically anyone that posts a lot) can audit.
k5 gets one order of magnitude more hits. But 2 or 4 orders of magnitude fewer 'crap' posts. (there are also safety features to prevent automatic flooding. But unlike slashdot's obnoxious 20 second/2 minute rule and lameness filter, since they are actually applied intelligently and based on the human dependent mod system). In fact There are fewer 'zero' posts every week then there are front page stories.
The real problem with slashdot is that you seem to, basically, hold your readership in contempt (especially CmdrTaco). While other sites try to foster a real sense of community you (guys) seem to be actively discouraging it.
What does the distance to the moon have to do with anything?
And the reason it would be cheaper is that the moon already has a 'structure' we can build upon. Setting down a square mile of solar cells would be a lot easier then building a square mile rigged structure.
Microsoft came out against that law the (SSSCA). Jesus. It was Disney and Fox and other motion picture companies that backed the law. Virtually everyone in the tech industry balked at it. Including MS
Microsoft can license this patent to whomever they want. Apple will probably buy one, if it becomes popular (can't be the 'leading' AV OS if your OS can't read the most common digital formats). Sun and other UNIX vendors could license it as well. I doubt we'll ever see this on Linux. Unless crap like the SSSCA or whatever become real.
This wouldn't be that hard to do, not any harder then making a user secure OS like Linux, OpenBSD or, in theory Windows NT/2k/XP.
I mean, just add 'copy' to the things you can do with a file (like read, write, execute). If it can't be copied, then only allow DRM compliant programs (all digitally signed by M$ of course) to open them. Easy easy. Of course, this can't really stop you from accessing the data if you have physical access to the machine, any more then Linux and Open BSD can protect your data from hacking if the hackers (or, say the FBI) has unlimited physical access to the machine.
On the other hand, throw in DRM certified hard drives and sound cards (perhaps a DRM OS would not allow non-certified hardware to run. Perhaps with a Nintendo-style Lockout chip even). And you create one tough nut to crack. Basically you've got to turn the wide open PC into a closed box. As long as you've got good memory protection, it's not hard at all. (Just like how your Linux box is 'closed' to people without root access).
Anyway, it doesn't say anywhere that MS will do this, though given their apparent stance on copyrights and the like, it wouldn't surprise me (you can't even save Mpeg files in the new media player. What a crock)
I have to say this passage from the patent I found humorous though.
Piracy of digital content, especially online digital content, is not yet a great problem. Most premium content that is available on the Web is of low value, and therefore casual and organized pirates do not yet see an attractive business stealing and reselling content. Increasingly, though, higher-value content is becoming available. Books and audio recordings are available now, and as bandwidths increase, video content will start to appear.
(and wrong. I've been snagging movies off the net (and no, not just pr0n) for years.)
Last I checked, "possession of stolen property" was still a crime.
I'm talking about LAW. Not hyperbole. Not your fantasy. the LAW. No where, no where at all, in any law, is copyrighted material considered "stolen" The fact that you equivocate "copyright violation" with theft does not have any bearing on the LAW.
Last I checked...
If you're so good at 'checking' why don't you look it up and see for your own god damn self. Then come back and show us all where it says that possessing copyright infringed property is the same as possessing 'stolen' material.
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They can crack RSA crypto in O(n^123,312,352) The world is doomed!!!!
'polynomial time' can still be a long-ass time.
Most crypto algos are not NP complete. You can solve 'em it just takes a ton of time (but you can calculate how long it's going to take.) Doing NP complete problems in O(n) time won't help you break crypto at all.
Of course, here he can post stuff for free, and have it seen by a wider audience.
Look, I'm as much anti-copyright as anyone. And I'll haply use the results of these warez kids. But I don't really have much sympathy for them. They got lazy and stupid. They should have been using more secure setups, and been a lot less 'interconnected' operationally. (I'm not saying don't socialize, but for god sakes, don't go around giving out shell accounts and stuff to everybody).
The other thing is, how are these groups funded? As far as I can tell these kids are warezing just so they can feel like big criminals (witch they are, if he FBI is putting so much work into catching them) but they aren't making any money, are they? If so, how?
Is how did they manage to get their site shut down? I mean I can see TI pulling the plug, but how did they manage to pull the site?
If you want to ruin the rest of your life standing up the CoS go ahead. It may be noble to stand up to evil, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. The information was all on the web anyway, a google search would have gotten it for you. Fight evil yes, but choose your battles to.
Mod the other post I did as redundant. Seesh.
Those crazy Japanese. First they build the Super-kamakamode[sic] that can detect a single photon, and now they have ablity to emit them one at a time to!
:P
And that doesn't even get into their cool anime and hot women.
But seriously, this is going to require a bit of work before it's totally practical for mass usage, right now they would have to use a huge photomultiplier tube in order to actually sense a single photon. I think it'll be a while before CCD or CMOS light detection is that good...
Or hey, maybe we'll all go back to vacuum tube computers
. First they build the Super-kamakamode[sic] that can detect a single photon, and now they have ablity to emit them one at a time to!
:P
And that doesn't even get into their cool anime and hot women.
But seriously, this is going to require a bit of work before it's totally practical for mass usage, right now they would have to use a huge photomultiplier tube in order to actually sense a single photon. I think it'll be a while before CCD or CMOS light detection is that good...
Or hey, maybe we'll all go back to vacuum tube computers
This is fantastic news for Sklyarov, personaly. And I for one am glad to see this played out on the more traditional copyright battlefeilds... between companies without worrying about anyone going to jail. Not to mention against people in another country as well. So unless Russia agrees to extradite these people not to much can happen to them, other then having their US (and possibly other WIPO nations) frozen.
But ultimately, this is still a loss for our freedoms and everything. Adobe had to consider the public outcry in the computer world. The Hollywood conglomerates won't. The US DOJ still proved that they're willing to go out and do 'the real thing' against individual programmers. And there was no legal victory for the EEF or any of the anti-DMCA people (not that I think Sklyarov should have martyred himself). Hopefully we'll be able to get the thing overturned, but it's going to be harder to defend a Russian company with the lead programmer testifying against them, then the sympathetic coder with a family back home.
He was out of jail, but not out of the proverbial frying pan. He couldn't leave, and he could still have been convicted and stuck in jail later.
Who would you rather piss off? Steve Case, or Osama Bin Laden. Both may be 'evil' in a certain light, but while AOL users may be stupid they aren't out on suicide bombing runs.
I wouldn't get into a legal battle LRONs minions over some stupid AC comment.
Microsoft isn't going to make your life into a living hell or anything...
I had a couple posts modded to -5 once, after a bug in slashcode that allowed images to be embeded in comments. I stuck a few in (nothing offensive). After a while a script was run that killed all image tags and modded them to -5.
I've already gotten about 394 comments posted in the month or so I've been here (and karma hovering around 50 now)
When they reimported all the old files into the DB I checked my old account. Almost 4,000 comments. michal is basicaly insulting everyone who uses slashdot 'alot' instaid of just posting boring and poorly thought out stories.
Try an experiment: go to kuro5hin.org, advogato.org, any random message board, and start posting "Turd Report" comments. Take note of the mean time before you're banned from the site.
/. up until a couple weeks ago :( -- I'd guess it would probably be modded to zero quickly, where it can't be seen by normal users.
Well, it would depend on the velocity, but having spent a lot of time on k5 -- more then
Yeh, it would be 'censored' but its a completely transparent system, one that any 'trusted' user (basically anyone that posts a lot) can audit.
k5 gets one order of magnitude more hits. But 2 or 4 orders of magnitude fewer 'crap' posts. (there are also safety features to prevent automatic flooding. But unlike slashdot's obnoxious 20 second/2 minute rule and lameness filter, since they are actually applied intelligently and based on the human dependent mod system). In fact There are fewer 'zero' posts every week then there are front page stories.
The real problem with slashdot is that you seem to, basically, hold your readership in contempt (especially CmdrTaco). While other sites try to foster a real sense of community you (guys) seem to be actively discouraging it.
Wow, you sure showed him!
It's to late for that. Everyone lost respect a long time ago. Lets just hope kuro5hin gets back up quick!
What does the distance to the moon have to do with anything?
And the reason it would be cheaper is that the moon already has a 'structure' we can build upon. Setting down a square mile of solar cells would be a lot easier then building a square mile rigged structure.
No one paid for netscape.
Dude, I tried that. The exe just opens up in notepad.
With text/plain it simply treated it like a normal .exe file. (asked if I wanted to save/open whatever)
Microsoft came out against that law the (SSSCA). Jesus. It was Disney and Fox and other motion picture companies that backed the law. Virtually everyone in the tech industry balked at it. Including MS
Microsoft can license this patent to whomever they want. Apple will probably buy one, if it becomes popular (can't be the 'leading' AV OS if your OS can't read the most common digital formats). Sun and other UNIX vendors could license it as well. I doubt we'll ever see this on Linux. Unless crap like the SSSCA or whatever become real.
This wouldn't be that hard to do, not any harder then making a user secure OS like Linux, OpenBSD or, in theory Windows NT/2k/XP.
I mean, just add 'copy' to the things you can do with a file (like read, write, execute). If it can't be copied, then only allow DRM compliant programs (all digitally signed by M$ of course) to open them. Easy easy. Of course, this can't really stop you from accessing the data if you have physical access to the machine, any more then Linux and Open BSD can protect your data from hacking if the hackers (or, say the FBI) has unlimited physical access to the machine.
On the other hand, throw in DRM certified hard drives and sound cards (perhaps a DRM OS would not allow non-certified hardware to run. Perhaps with a Nintendo-style Lockout chip even). And you create one tough nut to crack. Basically you've got to turn the wide open PC into a closed box. As long as you've got good memory protection, it's not hard at all. (Just like how your Linux box is 'closed' to people without root access).
Anyway, it doesn't say anywhere that MS will do this, though given their apparent stance on copyrights and the like, it wouldn't surprise me (you can't even save Mpeg files in the new media player. What a crock)
I have to say this passage from the patent I found humorous though.
Piracy of digital content, especially online digital content, is not yet a great problem. Most premium content that is available on the Web is of low value, and therefore casual and organized pirates do not yet see an attractive business stealing and reselling content. Increasingly, though, higher-value content is becoming available. Books and audio recordings are available now, and as bandwidths increase, video content will start to appear.
(and wrong. I've been snagging movies off the net (and no, not just pr0n) for years.)
Last I checked, "possession of stolen property" was still a crime.
I'm talking about LAW. Not hyperbole. Not your fantasy. the LAW. No where, no where at all, in any law, is copyrighted material considered "stolen" The fact that you equivocate "copyright violation" with theft does not have any bearing on the LAW.
Last I checked...
If you're so good at 'checking' why don't you look it up and see for your own god damn self. Then come back and show us all where it says that possessing copyright infringed property is the same as possessing 'stolen' material.