And make for fscking sure you weren't carrying a cell phone with a battery in it, driving a car with OnStar, or doing anything else that can put you anywhere near the location of the AP you're connecting to. Oh, and avoiding cameras would probably be good, too.
Fair enough--%s/possession\ crime/posessession\ statutory\ liability/ and %s/crime/infringement/ in the above and we're square. Either way, we're fucked.
If they make the act of having infringing files a possession crime, so long as you haven't deleted the MP3 and can't prove its provenance (and who but the most anal-retentive (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) can, even for the ones they've purchased), then you are in a state of continuously committing the crime.
And a P.S. to that one: Google and MSN are two pretty huge ad networks. So anyone using Gmail or MSN can be tracked trivially by Google and Microsoft across sites using their respective ads. And perhaps some people give valid information when signing up for webmail . . .
Yeah, but the advertising networks that advertise on the midget pr0n site, the beer bong site, the church site, etc. are all pushing Flash ads from the same domain and know what sites their ads were served from, so his hypothesis isn't all that flawed.
At least Skype is still OK (as it's located in Luxemburg).
And is still 1/3 owned by eBay, a publicly traded U.S. company. IOW, dream on if you don't think they have CALEA infrastructure warmed up and ready to serve your conversations at a moment's notice.
No, you didn't and yes they did, I concede.
The point I'm making is that as more things are delivered electronically, those with monopoly or near-monopoly power over electronic distribution (e.g. Apple: iTMS music, movies, audiobooks; Amazon: e-books) can force the content provider's hands if they want to (case in point: Apple) but don't have any incentive to so long as the DRM keeps their customers inside their walled gardens while they can pass blame to the "big *AA/guild meanies" in the content industry and laugh all the way to the bank.
The public records example you cite really chaps my ass. It was okay for them to be public records when people who could spend time at the courthouse during the day (or send their clerks during the day) where the only ones with practical access, but god forbid they were online and you could look up Mayor Quimby's or some judge's traffic violations, property taxes, or divorce records. If they're not public records, seal them from everyone. If they are public records, put them online. There is no middle ground.
Also, DRM is a problem that affects virtually every other ebook reader and has been hobbling the industry since before the iPad was a twinkle in Jobs' eye. Go protest outside the publishers and authors' associations that are actually causing the problem.
That's what the purveyors of these Digital Restrictions Management ecosystems would have us believe. And was proven to be bullshit--Jobs reluctantly gave up that lock-in by pulling DRM from iTMS music only in the face of competition from Amazon. When a company like Apple controls access to so many customers, they are (and proved they are) in a position to dictate to the content distribution industry as to the removal of DRM.
It should be an overclocker's paradise there! Of course, better get the best rig you can get starting out, because I'm pretty sure Newegg's shipping isn't as cheap to there.
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And make for fscking sure you weren't carrying a cell phone with a battery in it, driving a car with OnStar, or doing anything else that can put you anywhere near the location of the AP you're connecting to. Oh, and avoiding cameras would probably be good, too.
I used to be able to but these days I have trouble memorizing the digits.
I can factor large primes for you, no sweat, no quantum computer required. Now composites of large primes, there a quantum computer might help you.
Thanks!
MD5? Magnet link? Not that I would seek it out or anything.
Fair enough--%s/possession\ crime/posessession\ statutory\ liability/ and %s/crime/infringement/ in the above and we're square. Either way, we're fucked.
If they make the act of having infringing files a possession crime, so long as you haven't deleted the MP3 and can't prove its provenance (and who but the most anal-retentive (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) can, even for the ones they've purchased), then you are in a state of continuously committing the crime.
I think the issue is that the over-40 coders are being asked to get on the carousel.
FTL FTL.
It's the H1Bs.
Our numbers don't look very good. After all, didn't a Google executive pretty much tell us that if we've nothing to hide we've nothing to fear?
And a P.S. to that one: Google and MSN are two pretty huge ad networks. So anyone using Gmail or MSN can be tracked trivially by Google and Microsoft across sites using their respective ads. And perhaps some people give valid information when signing up for webmail . . .
Do you think the ad networks never buy information from the using their ads?
Yeah, but the advertising networks that advertise on the midget pr0n site, the beer bong site, the church site, etc. are all pushing Flash ads from the same domain and know what sites their ads were served from, so his hypothesis isn't all that flawed.
When they support encryption, I'll give it a try.
And is still 1/3 owned by eBay, a publicly traded U.S. company. IOW, dream on if you don't think they have CALEA infrastructure warmed up and ready to serve your conversations at a moment's notice.
I was thinking "health insurance company's dream."
I think you mean WTO. But I like WTF better!
No, you didn't and yes they did, I concede. The point I'm making is that as more things are delivered electronically, those with monopoly or near-monopoly power over electronic distribution (e.g. Apple: iTMS music, movies, audiobooks; Amazon: e-books) can force the content provider's hands if they want to (case in point: Apple) but don't have any incentive to so long as the DRM keeps their customers inside their walled gardens while they can pass blame to the "big *AA/guild meanies" in the content industry and laugh all the way to the bank.
The public records example you cite really chaps my ass. It was okay for them to be public records when people who could spend time at the courthouse during the day (or send their clerks during the day) where the only ones with practical access, but god forbid they were online and you could look up Mayor Quimby's or some judge's traffic violations, property taxes, or divorce records. If they're not public records, seal them from everyone. If they are public records, put them online. There is no middle ground.
That's what the purveyors of these Digital Restrictions Management ecosystems would have us believe. And was proven to be bullshit--Jobs reluctantly gave up that lock-in by pulling DRM from iTMS music only in the face of competition from Amazon. When a company like Apple controls access to so many customers, they are (and proved they are) in a position to dictate to the content distribution industry as to the removal of DRM.
And of course I replied to myself. Please see my reply to your post above :)!
I knew there was a reason I printed that to PDF before I posted! Also, archive.org has got it, at least until the takedown there.
Wonder if the guy who wrote this will be upset.
It should be an overclocker's paradise there! Of course, better get the best rig you can get starting out, because I'm pretty sure Newegg's shipping isn't as cheap to there.