When the recipient of the message, Bob, is also the pirate, Carol, it means the pirate gets the cypher, the cypher text, and the key. As Doctorow explains, better than me, this simply cannot work, end of story.
I think the idea here is that "Box" is the recipient, who prevents "Consumer" from accessing the decoded plaintext in re-digitizable form.
If you write a JPEG library and give it to me for free, would it be fair for me to write a JPEG utility using it and sell it, given that basically all I wrote was a UI?
Yes, because you're not selling the JPEG library itself (or if you are, your buyers are very stupid since they could've gotten it for free). Your customers are paying for the added value of the UI you wrote; why should I resent you selling it, just because it prereqs my free code?
If you are able to sell the UI, this implies it's not trivial to write. Otherwise, customers would have written their own instead of paying for yours; or I would have whipped up a free one and included it with the library. So, it seems fair for you to be able to charge for it, if you feel the need to do so.
This being before programmable computers; it was all done by hand using punch-cards and ledger-books.
"Yes, I know we haven't any computers on which to run this programme; and it may be decades, perhaps even a century until we do; but by thunder! until that day we shall at least keep decent and orderly records of our change history!"
There would need to be a "superego filter" that could tell when you were distracted ; and suspend typing until you were concentrating on the main task again (or maybe divert the nonprofessional thoughts into your private blog).
Have you ever tried pointing out a star with a laser pointer?
Yes, Alpha Centauri, and I had to wait 8 friggin' years for the little dot to appear (plus at that distance you could barely even see it). Totally not worth the trouble...
It's kind of sad, because all these users need is a firewall (preferably external), secure browser, and, most importantly, some education.
IMHO, what these users need is for their "computer" to be a VMWare image running on a blade-server. In a datacenter run by competent administrators, who know what a 'firewall' is, and how to do things like 'virus scans' and 'automated backups'.
What they should have at home is a high-speed graphics terminal, not capable of being 0wnzd or misconfigured, because it has no configuration other than power-on and power-off. This would require broadband (getting back to the original topic) at whatever rate you need to support a remote display.
Add water, bah! My self-heated coffee packs use small pellets of Plutonium-238 to stay nice and hot for up to eighty-seven years; just open and drink! (please dispose of container responsibly afterwards)
As another poster mentioned, there's no gain in these devices, so after a few stages of friction loss and imperfections in the mechanisms, the whole thing will lock up.
Maybe mechanical gain could be obtained from a pulley-weight-escapement mechanism, like the one from the Lego grandfather clock ? Each state-change of an output rod might allow the escapement to turn a notch and provide extra power (so the input rods aren't under any extra load).
Has anyone given any thought as to how a programming language should be structured so that it would be easy to code by waving things with particular smells in front of the computer? If not, why not?
I guess I just never thought of it. OK, let's name it SACHET, the olfactory-based programming environment. Can anybody out there with synaesthesia give some suggestions on (for example) what a while-loop should smell like?
No problem: inflated polyvinyl replica of Natalie Portman, take about 15 minutes, using 1 kg of hydrocarbon feedstock and ambient nitrogen.
The grits, um, for foodstuffs it's actually still cheaper and safer to harvest those from plants, so we just extrude them from USP-grade starch feedstock. Enjoy...
(frickin' pervs ; a new replicator and/that/'s the first thing you want to make)
Grandma:
Well that's all well and good but do it have W3C standard SVG rendering?
Me: Well uhh, no.
Grandma: That's no good then! When I try to view my cross-stitch charts it just shows me an empty box. Or did you expect our needlework club site to store everything as giant GIFs?
I can see it now. Marvels lawyers all sign up for CoH so they can fly around in the game looking for alleged IP infringers. Hmmm, I wonder what super heroes they would create?
Harvey Birdman (Attorney at Law) !
(No, wait, then they would get sued by Cartoon Network...)
OK, but acccording to the Internet Movie Database 'gojira' was already the nickname for a very large, tough-looking man who worked at Toho; which they reused for the monster.
Just put electrical tape over the IR sensor. Problem solved.
But then some idiot will market the "TV-B-Broke" (a fist-sized rock) that permanently disables the TV in less than 3 seconds, and doesn't even need batteries.
("Danger! Irate bar patrons may also use this device as a 'Face-B-Broke'")
The point is that it is "good enough" to stop the average person from lifting the material.
The Internet is approaching 1 billion users. If just one person is determined enough to bypass the DRM, the other 999,999,999 now have access. Those are poor odds.
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AP: So, when are you going to remake THX-1138 with the
violence taken out, and with added furry muppets?
Lucas: I am hoping to get to that sometime this decade.
There will be many other changes too: better SFX
during the tunnel chase scenes; and the drab white
backgrounds will be digitally replaced with more
colorful ones. You know, I originally wanted the
setting to be brightly colored, but we just didn't
have the paint and wallpaper technology back then.
how am I supposed to catch the monkey and win hentai dvd's made out of pressed viagra now, without resorting to credit cards?
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So, I posed the question to the group "How many leaves are on that tree outside the window?" It was a ~30 foot tall, bushy tree in the height of summer. I hoped he'd take the bait.. I thought this was going to be very hard to "get right", and it would even be difficult come up with a plausible answer.
I can give you the exact answer, but I will need a chainsaw and someplace to dispose of the limbs.
3) in the law of defamation (libel and slander) publication of an untruth about another to at least one single person. Thus one letter can be the basis of a suit for libel [...]
IANAL, but maybe folks should hire one and sue for libel when they are the victims of wrongful DMCA takedown notices:
- A written notice was sent to an ISP, accusing someone of something defamatory (copyright infringement).
- In the case described above, the accusation is untrue and a quick glance at the webpage would've shown this.
- Not even bothering to look first might be considered "reckless disregard for the truth".
Certainly the MPAA and RIAA have the right to send DMCA takedown notices vs. actual infringing materials; but don't they have a responsibility to at least check first (instead of blindly relying on filenames) ?
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I think the idea here is that "Box" is the recipient, who prevents "Consumer" from accessing the decoded plaintext in re-digitizable form.
Yes, because you're not selling the JPEG library itself (or if you are, your buyers are very stupid since they could've gotten it for free). Your customers are paying for the added value of the UI you wrote; why should I resent you selling it, just because it prereqs my free code?
If you are able to sell the UI, this implies it's not trivial to write. Otherwise, customers would have written their own instead of paying for yours; or I would have whipped up a free one and included it with the library. So, it seems fair for you to be able to charge for it, if you feel the need to do so.
They let you see the world around you is really full of subliminal messages and aliens.
Oh, and if your friend won't put them on, just beat the living crap out of each other for a half hour or so...
This being before programmable computers; it was all done by hand using punch-cards and ledger-books.
"Yes, I know we haven't any computers on which to run this programme; and it may be decades, perhaps even a century until we do; but by thunder! until that day we shall at least keep decent and orderly records of our change history!"
You could get around that by using subvocal microphones.
It'd be odd to see everyone sit around silently moving their lips, though...
There would need to be a "superego filter" that could tell when you were distracted ; and suspend typing until you were concentrating on the main task again (or maybe divert the nonprofessional thoughts into your private blog).
Yes, Alpha Centauri, and I had to wait 8 friggin' years for the little dot to appear
(plus at that distance you could barely even see it). Totally not worth the trouble...
IMHO, what these users need is for their "computer" to be a VMWare image running on a blade-server. In a datacenter run by competent administrators, who know what a 'firewall' is, and how to do things like 'virus scans' and 'automated backups'.
What they should have at home is a high-speed graphics terminal, not capable of being 0wnzd or misconfigured, because it has no configuration other than power-on and power-off. This would require broadband (getting back to the original topic) at whatever rate you need to support a remote display.
Add water, bah! My self-heated coffee packs use
small pellets of Plutonium-238 to stay nice and hot
for up to eighty-seven years; just open and drink!
(please dispose of container responsibly afterwards)
Maybe mechanical gain could be obtained from a pulley-weight-escapement mechanism, like the one from the Lego grandfather clock ? Each state-change of an output rod might allow the escapement to turn a notch and provide extra power (so the input rods aren't under any extra load).
I guess I just never thought of it. OK, let's name it SACHET, the olfactory-based programming environment. Can anybody out there with synaesthesia give some suggestions on (for example) what a while-loop should smell like?
No problem: inflated polyvinyl replica of Natalie Portman, take about 15 minutes,
/that/'s the first thing you want to make)
using 1 kg of hydrocarbon feedstock and ambient nitrogen.
The grits, um, for foodstuffs it's actually still cheaper and safer to harvest those
from plants, so we just extrude them from USP-grade starch feedstock. Enjoy...
(frickin' pervs ; a new replicator and
Grandma: That's no good then! When I try to view my cross-stitch charts it just shows me an empty box. Or did you expect our needlework club site to store everything as giant GIFs?
Harvey Birdman (Attorney at Law) !
(No, wait, then they would get sued by Cartoon Network...)
OK, but acccording to the Internet Movie Database 'gojira' was already the nickname for a very large, tough-looking man who worked at Toho; which they reused for the monster.
But then some idiot will market the "TV-B-Broke" (a fist-sized rock) that
permanently disables the TV in less than 3 seconds, and doesn't even need batteries.
("Danger! Irate bar patrons may also use this device as a 'Face-B-Broke'")
The Internet is approaching 1 billion users. If just one person is determined enough to bypass the DRM, the other 999,999,999 now have access. Those are poor odds.
Yes. Remove the heavy engine and transmission, and refit the vehicle with a mast and sails.
Plan your trips based on the forecasted wind-direction.
AP: So, when are you going to remake THX-1138 with the
violence taken out, and with added furry muppets?
Lucas: I am hoping to get to that sometime this decade.
There will be many other changes too: better SFX
during the tunnel chase scenes; and the drab white
backgrounds will be digitally replaced with more
colorful ones. You know, I originally wanted the
setting to be brightly colored, but we just didn't
have the paint and wallpaper technology back then.
Well, here's your chance to get rich: start your own online-payment services (PornPal, PlayPal, PillPal?) dedicated to pr0n, gambling, and medications.
I can give you the exact answer, but I will need a chainsaw and someplace to dispose of the limbs.
[Announcer] "Green Elf ... stepped in guano!"
[Green Elf] "Ewww!" (dies)
(insert-coins-to-continue-music)
Yes, but how else can it detect and place a goat icon next to goatse.cx links?
ObIANAL; but law.com does define publication as:
IANAL, but maybe folks should hire one and sue for libel when they are the victims of wrongful DMCA takedown notices:
- A written notice was sent to an ISP, accusing someone of something defamatory (copyright infringement).
- In the case described above, the accusation is untrue and a quick glance at the webpage would've shown this.
- Not even bothering to look first might be considered "reckless disregard for the truth".
Certainly the MPAA and RIAA have the right to send DMCA takedown notices vs. actual infringing materials;
but don't they have a responsibility to at least check first (instead of blindly relying on filenames) ?