Didn't you mean 9.35 - 11.48 kilometers per liter? Only we obtuse USians use those mpg measurements, right? Every other reasonable creature on earth uses metric because it is easily divisible by 10. Oh well, it's almost time for me to go... What Swatch Time is it?;-)
The problem with just doing that is it's a temporary solution. Once quantum computers are out, RSA encryption becomes worthless.
This is the part I don't understand. How does adding two states to a bit make RSA worthless? Instead of two states in binary, on/off, you have four states On/KindaOn/KindaOff/Off. Yeah, binary can accomplish that in 2 bits. So even if you divide by 2, a 2048 bit RSA is still effectively 1024. Just double the key size and you are right back where you started. I don't get it. Anyone care to explain how one of these non existent, magical quantum computers are going to shatter conventional encryption like John Travolta?
fuck you, you stinking fucks. this is where anti-americanism stems from. right here, from your stinking ignorance and disrespect.
Shesh, no sense of humor? Loosen up. It's no wonder Americans don't like the French. You misunderstand our culture;-) Here's a tip: When Americans make a joke about you, we're expecting you to make one about us in return... like so. Give as good as you get, it's all in good humor:-) Being indignant just makes you look snooty.
Back to the topic... I find it amazing that the land of the Berne Convention may stand against software patents. The French should really make up their minds. Do they want to screw the public or not?
If they have the moral and legal right to seek action against people who pirate music in the case where piracy is costing them lots of sales, then they have that same right in the case where it doesn't hurt them much or at all (or even helps them).
You mean to tell me you see no difference in organized crime pressing counterfeit copies of cds, replicating them right down to the artwork and jewel cases, and a 12 year old sharing a lossy compressed version of the songs online?
There is an enormous difference. Organized crime sells the counterfeit copies, keeping all the profit and literally stealing sales from the copyright owners. The 12 year old merely infringes on their temporary monopoly. We've got thirty frickin' posts about "It's not stealing, it's infringment!!!" You come along, doublespeak your way through the same argument, get +5 insightful, and 8 trailing posts that saying "You're right, but they LIED"?? Did you borrow Steve Jobs' RDF this morning or something? Good grief, I wish more people actually understood copyright. This is one of the PRIMARY reasons copyright law is so screwed up. It makes no distinction between the twelve year old fans, and the mobsters with guns.
Go ahead and wow 'em with your next distorted argument. Let me guess, performing a Metallica cover at the amphitheater is the same as singing Happy Birthday at Denny's, right?
No. If I am a business I can say things are bleak if they are great or things are great if they are bleak. They aren't misreporting the numbers they are merely not giving the full picture.
If you are a publicly traded company you can't. RIAA is just a trade association, so I don't know how much trouble they can get into for misleading the public. However, depending on how AOL, Sony, and friends go about 'not giving the full picture,' they can easily land themselves in class action lawsuits and hefty fines.
When Jane initially met Tarzan of the Jungle, she was immediately attracted to him, and during her questions about his life, she asked him how he had sex.
"Tarzan not know sex," he replied.
Jane explained to him what sex was.
Tarzan said, "Oh... Tarzan use hole in trunk of tree."
Horrified, she said, "Tarzan you have it all wrong, but I will show you how to do it properly." She took off her clothes and laid down on the ground. Here" she said, "you must put it in here!"
Tarzan removed his loincloth...stepped closer with his huge manhood and then gave her an almighty kick right in the crotch.
Jane rolled around in agony for what seemed like an eternity Eventually she managed to gasp for air and screamed, "What in the Hell did you do that for?!"
They were found guilty and supposedly paid the price they deserved. The open debate about the severity of the fine is irrelevant.
And shortly thereafter, they had the law changed to legalize price fixing for online music distribution.
The record industry already has an antitrust exemption that allows record companies to jointly negotiate royalty rates for digital distribution. Late last year, the music industry convinced Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to insert language into the EnFORCE Act (Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003) that would extend that exemption to "physical product configurations" such as CDs. That bill is still in committee.
After finding HatchMusic, I think I understand him now. It's not just the lobbyist bribes that motivate him. He must actually think that if he spreads enough KY Jelly on the American public's rectum for the RIAA, they'll give him "money for nothin' and chicks for free".
As a final note, if you find the KY Jelly comment a bit graphic, you'll be glad to know Orrin Hatch handed the pornography industry a blank check recently. What's not to like about the man?
And if you have that you're just a cheap a$$ bastard for not buying the music.;)
Last I heard, you had to actually purchase the music and have a iTMS account for Fairplay to work. It won't work on that AAC file you grabbed off of Kazaa, because you don't have a valid key to begin with. This is clearly a fair use issue, not one of copyright infringement.
I just burned my ability to mod this discussion, but that had to be said.
...lessons that provide an immediate neato benefit to keep the students interested. Show them how to permanently levitate something, and then explain the science behind it.
Learning is made easier with immediate results that make students wonder 'Why? How?' Otherwise, it's dry, boring, and students don't learn anything. They memorize what they'll need just long enough to pass the test and then forget it.
You're overlooking the major issue. Cost. Everything mentioned would cost money for conversion and what the US has is 'good enough'. Rather than comparing this to metric, I would liken it more to beta/vhs.
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here, but right now free software isn't there yet. In many instances, it would actually cost more to use free software than it does to use closed source solutions. That produces no driving force to change in the US. If you want evidence of this assertion, look at this slashdot article.
Nations like China are interested in Linux from a national security standpoint. Being held hostage by a closed source American OS is simply unacceptable to them. Cost is secondary.
Right now, the Linux user base is tiny compared to Windows, so the developer base is as well. Converting China to Linux will cause global ripple effects. Capitalists don't care what China uses, or why, they just want money. So development efforts will intensify in the US as well as the foreign nations using Linux.
Given significant increases in development efforts, free software will become more cost effective than closed source solutions. The US will be forced to convert or loose its competitive edge. The 'forced' part of that statement is where patent issues arise. Those who stand to loose the most by a US conversion to free software (and we all know who they are) will use patent issues to resist it.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war.
Take one part secure eBook format, one part trusted computing, and one part extensible markup. Mix vigorously and serve with a side of Freedom fries.
They could easily buy "The Beatles", although, they'd probably just buy the Trademark and be done with it.
In regard to the record companies wanting a price hike, here's my theory. Raise prices, kill all the online stores and hire a few developers to replicate what has been done already. When you're a monopolist, you think like one.
The record industry already has an antitrust exemption that allows record companies to jointly negotiate royalty rates for digital distribution. Late last year, the music industry convinced Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to insert language into the EnFORCE Act (Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003) that would extend that exemption to "physical product configurations" such as CDs. That bill is still in committee.
That's legalized price fixing, courtesy our good buddy Orin Hatch. With Apple in the middle, they're losing their grip on distribution and they know it. That's why they are asking the industry for a "standard format" of copy restricted music. They want to know what format their portable player should support, and what brand of file to include on their double sided crypto disks.
That doesn't excuse the fact that the battery system was very poorly designed, and Apple overcharged to get a replacement battery that users shouldn't have needed so soon anyway.
Apple introduced a battery replacement program within days of the original complaint. Anyone who even bothers to look at the thing knows that battery replacement isn't going to be easy. It's something great grandparent should have known when he bought the iPod, and whining about it after the fact is simply that. 100 bucks ain't cheap by Slashdot standards, but the battery itself costs 40-50 bucks. 50-60 bucks for service is hardly what I would call unreasonable. A lot of your 'pragmatic' Windows users pay more than that to have their OS reinstalled every 6 months.
As for "shouldn't have needed so soon anyway", I'm no battery expert, but if you buy a brand new battery, it's only got a one year warranty. Do you think Apple products should defy science because they cost a couple hundred bucks? Better file a complaint about those Air Jordans then. The shoes are expensive but they don't allow you to fly!
Or a portable CD player, but again, only Apple makes those. Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic, etc certainly don't.
You can't seriously be suggesting I can replace a portable MP3 player with a cd/walkman. 1000 songs. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 jewel cases. Surely you jest.
Apple apologists are the most amazing bunch of people that I have ever encountered.
*Takes bow* Thank you so very much. We're all honored being the most amazing people you've ever encountered!:-)
When it was revealed the Apple sold a $300 super-walkman that needed a $100 exchange for a refurbished iPod & battery after a year,
Wait... Did you see a battery door on the floor model or something? At what point did the salesman tell you about a cheap battery replacement program? Oh, you thought, "I payed $BIGDOLLARS for something and now you owe me the world." Next you'll tell me the cigarette manufactures owe you a lung transplant because they only had a warning label on the pack for a couple of decades before your disease.
Now the some bleating shit about security patches:
"Apple is not revealing exploits to protect us"
Would would your reaction be if Steve Ballmer got up and said "patches do not matter, we are withholding them for your protection"?
Apple is withholding patches? Wow, they must have money to burn, ya know, developing patches for the sheer joy of it. Every time a problem has become public, I have a fix via software update within a few days. What? They need to deliver a white paper on the exploit, complete with code examples and a root kit too?
The argument "Well, the CIA used NeXT, so OSX is secure" holds no water either.
Well, how about, "The core of the OS is wide open for your inspection and repairs, so knock yourself out." Show me the exploits.
I hear Steve Jobs is going to ask you to drink the kool-aid! Get your cup ready!
Well, there's still vendor lock-in because of the, uh, hrm, let me get back to you on this one...
iPod: Only plays Fairplay files or files without Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Meaning you have to have an iPod if you want your iTunes to go, or you have to buy from the iTMS if you have an iPod and purchase music online. Apple has already shown quite publicly that it has no intention to license Fairplay to other stores and I'm baffled. How is that any different that saying only Apple software is allowed on Apple hardware? Wouldn't it drive iPod sales to license Fairplay to other stores at some small cost to their iTMS loss leader?
I guess it would depend on speed and mass. Too fast and it's gonna orbit further out than the moon. Won't be much of a base, since we haven't been back there since the 70s. Too massive and we have a tidal problem. The surfers might like it though:-)
They'll need to raise prices to cover the cost of the conversion too!
I've got a better idea. Instead of changing the technology, let's change the law. The law has made everyone a criminal. The law has made copyright something largely ignored by the people. The blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the legislature. 28 years is more than long enough for copyright.
Hey, after using this, you think I could send my 'friend' a settlement letter in the mail? I could open up a mailboxes etc. spot for the return address;-)
Mozilla has crypto built in. So does IE. You can generate a certificate and get it signed for free at Thawte. Why not provide a simple interface to use that signed certificate so end users can encrypt their own email, solving the problem for those people who care?
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Didn't you mean 9.35 - 11.48 kilometers per liter? Only we obtuse USians use those mpg measurements, right? Every other reasonable creature on earth uses metric because it is easily divisible by 10. Oh well, it's almost time for me to go... What Swatch Time is it? ;-)
- The problem with just doing that is it's a temporary solution. Once quantum computers are out, RSA encryption becomes worthless.
This is the part I don't understand. How does adding two states to a bit make RSA worthless? Instead of two states in binary, on/off, you have four states On/KindaOn/KindaOff/Off. Yeah, binary can accomplish that in 2 bits. So even if you divide by 2, a 2048 bit RSA is still effectively 1024. Just double the key size and you are right back where you started. I don't get it. Anyone care to explain how one of these non existent, magical quantum computers are going to shatter conventional encryption like John Travolta?- fuck you, you stinking fucks. this is where anti-americanism stems from. right here, from your stinking ignorance and disrespect.
Shesh, no sense of humor? Loosen up. It's no wonder Americans don't like the French. You misunderstand our cultureBack to the topic... I find it amazing that the land of the Berne Convention may stand against software patents. The French should really make up their minds. Do they want to screw the public or not?
You mean to tell me you see no difference in organized crime pressing counterfeit copies of cds, replicating them right down to the artwork and jewel cases, and a 12 year old sharing a lossy compressed version of the songs online?
There is an enormous difference. Organized crime sells the counterfeit copies, keeping all the profit and literally stealing sales from the copyright owners. The 12 year old merely infringes on their temporary monopoly. We've got thirty frickin' posts about "It's not stealing, it's infringment!!!" You come along, doublespeak your way through the same argument, get +5 insightful, and 8 trailing posts that saying "You're right, but they LIED"?? Did you borrow Steve Jobs' RDF this morning or something? Good grief, I wish more people actually understood copyright. This is one of the PRIMARY reasons copyright law is so screwed up. It makes no distinction between the twelve year old fans, and the mobsters with guns.
Go ahead and wow 'em with your next distorted argument. Let me guess, performing a Metallica cover at the amphitheater is the same as singing Happy Birthday at Denny's, right?
If you are a publicly traded company you can't. RIAA is just a trade association, so I don't know how much trouble they can get into for misleading the public. However, depending on how AOL, Sony, and friends go about 'not giving the full picture,' they can easily land themselves in class action lawsuits and hefty fines.
When Jane initially met Tarzan of the Jungle, she was immediately attracted to him, and during her questions about his life, she asked him how he had sex.
"Tarzan not know sex," he replied.
Jane explained to him what sex was.
Tarzan said, "Oh... Tarzan use hole in trunk of tree."
Horrified, she said, "Tarzan you have it all wrong, but I will show you how to do it properly." She took off her clothes and laid down on the ground. Here" she said, "you must put it in here!"
Tarzan removed his loincloth...stepped closer with his huge manhood and then gave her an almighty kick right in the crotch.
Jane rolled around in agony for what seemed like an eternity Eventually she managed to gasp for air and screamed, "What in the Hell did you do that for?!"
"Tarzan check for bees."
And shortly thereafter, they had the law changed to legalize price fixing for online music distribution.
Surprise! There's a name I'm always hearing good news about: Orrin Hatch. You know, the DMCA's author. The 'nuke your hardware with a file sharing virus' guy. The infamous software pirate himself?
After finding HatchMusic, I think I understand him now. It's not just the lobbyist bribes that motivate him. He must actually think that if he spreads enough KY Jelly on the American public's rectum for the RIAA, they'll give him "money for nothin' and chicks for free".
As a final note, if you find the KY Jelly comment a bit graphic, you'll be glad to know Orrin Hatch handed the pornography industry a blank check recently. What's not to like about the man?
Last I heard, you had to actually purchase the music and have a iTMS account for Fairplay to work. It won't work on that AAC file you grabbed off of Kazaa, because you don't have a valid key to begin with. This is clearly a fair use issue, not one of copyright infringement.
I just burned my ability to mod this discussion, but that had to be said.
Learning is made easier with immediate results that make students wonder 'Why? How?' Otherwise, it's dry, boring, and students don't learn anything. They memorize what they'll need just long enough to pass the test and then forget it.
You're overlooking the major issue. Cost. Everything mentioned would cost money for conversion and what the US has is 'good enough'. Rather than comparing this to metric, I would liken it more to beta/vhs.
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here, but right now free software isn't there yet. In many instances, it would actually cost more to use free software than it does to use closed source solutions. That produces no driving force to change in the US. If you want evidence of this assertion, look at this slashdot article.
Nations like China are interested in Linux from a national security standpoint. Being held hostage by a closed source American OS is simply unacceptable to them. Cost is secondary.
Right now, the Linux user base is tiny compared to Windows, so the developer base is as well. Converting China to Linux will cause global ripple effects. Capitalists don't care what China uses, or why, they just want money. So development efforts will intensify in the US as well as the foreign nations using Linux.
Given significant increases in development efforts, free software will become more cost effective than closed source solutions. The US will be forced to convert or loose its competitive edge. The 'forced' part of that statement is where patent issues arise. Those who stand to loose the most by a US conversion to free software (and we all know who they are) will use patent issues to resist it.
- Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war.
Take one part secure eBook format, one part trusted computing, and one part extensible markup. Mix vigorously and serve with a side of Freedom fries.Try http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop.html
In regard to the record companies wanting a price hike, here's my theory. Raise prices, kill all the online stores and hire a few developers to replicate what has been done already. When you're a monopolist, you think like one.
- The record industry already has an antitrust exemption that allows record companies to jointly negotiate royalty rates for digital distribution. Late last year, the music industry convinced Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to insert language into the EnFORCE Act (Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003) that would extend that exemption to "physical product configurations" such as CDs. That bill is still in committee.
That's legalized price fixing, courtesy our good buddy Orin Hatch. With Apple in the middle, they're losing their grip on distribution and they know it. That's why they are asking the industry for a "standard format" of copy restricted music. They want to know what format their portable player should support, and what brand of file to include on their double sided crypto disks.Apple introduced a battery replacement program within days of the original complaint. Anyone who even bothers to look at the thing knows that battery replacement isn't going to be easy. It's something great grandparent should have known when he bought the iPod, and whining about it after the fact is simply that. 100 bucks ain't cheap by Slashdot standards, but the battery itself costs 40-50 bucks. 50-60 bucks for service is hardly what I would call unreasonable. A lot of your 'pragmatic' Windows users pay more than that to have their OS reinstalled every 6 months.
As for "shouldn't have needed so soon anyway", I'm no battery expert, but if you buy a brand new battery, it's only got a one year warranty. Do you think Apple products should defy science because they cost a couple hundred bucks? Better file a complaint about those Air Jordans then. The shoes are expensive but they don't allow you to fly!
You can't seriously be suggesting I can replace a portable MP3 player with a cd/walkman. 1000 songs. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 jewel cases. Surely you jest.
Apple apologists are the most amazing bunch of people that I have ever encountered.
*Takes bow* Thank you so very much. We're all honored being the most amazing people you've ever encountered! :-)
When it was revealed the Apple sold a $300 super-walkman that needed a $100 exchange for a refurbished iPod & battery after a year,
Wait... Did you see a battery door on the floor model or something? At what point did the salesman tell you about a cheap battery replacement program? Oh, you thought, "I payed $BIGDOLLARS for something and now you owe me the world." Next you'll tell me the cigarette manufactures owe you a lung transplant because they only had a warning label on the pack for a couple of decades before your disease.
Now the some bleating shit about security patches: "Apple is not revealing exploits to protect us"
Would would your reaction be if Steve Ballmer got up and said "patches do not matter, we are withholding them for your protection"?
Apple is withholding patches? Wow, they must have money to burn, ya know, developing patches for the sheer joy of it. Every time a problem has become public, I have a fix via software update within a few days. What? They need to deliver a white paper on the exploit, complete with code examples and a root kit too?
The argument "Well, the CIA used NeXT, so OSX is secure" holds no water either.
Well, how about, "The core of the OS is wide open for your inspection and repairs, so knock yourself out." Show me the exploits.
I hear Steve Jobs is going to ask you to drink the kool-aid! Get your cup ready!
Flamebait.
Well, there's still vendor lock-in because of the, uh, hrm, let me get back to you on this one...
iPod: Only plays Fairplay files or files without Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Meaning you have to have an iPod if you want your iTunes to go, or you have to buy from the iTMS if you have an iPod and purchase music online. Apple has already shown quite publicly that it has no intention to license Fairplay to other stores and I'm baffled. How is that any different that saying only Apple software is allowed on Apple hardware? Wouldn't it drive iPod sales to license Fairplay to other stores at some small cost to their iTMS loss leader?
I guess it would depend on speed and mass. Too fast and it's gonna orbit further out than the moon. Won't be much of a base, since we haven't been back there since the 70s. Too massive and we have a tidal problem. The surfers might like it though :-)
I've got a better idea. Instead of changing the technology, let's change the law. The law has made everyone a criminal. The law has made copyright something largely ignored by the people. The blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the legislature. 28 years is more than long enough for copyright.
Then I go find the dude hardware,
Was that a Dell reference?
pull it out of the rack, and throw it into the garbage.
Apparently so! ;-)
But if it's cameras checking our cars today, will we have to have RFID chips in our drivers licenses tomorrow to monitor our movements?
I hate to break the bad news to you, but...
Hey, after using this, you think I could send my 'friend' a settlement letter in the mail? I could open up a mailboxes etc. spot for the return address ;-)
We're hiring like mad but won't touch someone without a degree.
Yeah, like this guy. He is totally screwed. He didn't even graduate!
Why do you need to work for someone else? You have spare time, a computer, and a compiler, right? Build it, and they will come.
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