Sorry if I was unclear, my point was that the suggested ISP equipment backdoors are different from regular phone wiretaps for exactly the reasons you specified (and others have given). The NSA wiretaps sound like they have been done by installing new equipment at AT&T, which allowed more than was needed for regular police wiretapping. I do not know how they collect data from the system, but it would be quite amusing if it turned out to be over the internet and someone cracked the protections.
Excuse me, but when did copy protection end? Well, maybe it took a break. I guess I have a few early CD games and some floppy games (early 90's) with no copy protection, but almost every game released in the past 8+ years has some form of copy protection and recently almost every game has StarForce on it.
Uh, yes. If it is traveling through the airwaves and you can read it without physically trespassing on my (or anyone else's, for that matter) land, then go ahead, read it. It would be my fault for not using strong enough encryption (or a wired connection) if you get something I wanted to be secret.
Do you have something against the regular police wiretaps done with warrants? Those started a long time ago. The current rules for them are about 30 years old. On the other hand, I do not believe that the civil liberties advocates on this site ever were in support of the warrantless NSA wiretapping.
There is still the odd man out providing competition. If what MS and Sony are offering is not what the public wants, then Nintendo will happily provide it. They have expressed interest in keeping costs low as opposed to keeping features/graphics high. In the next few years, we will see which business model works better.
You could always just MD5 the CD. (Replace MD5 with your favorite crypograhic hash function.) Or, even better, MD5 the individual tracks, so it would even recognize tracks on collections. As you are already reading them to rip them, it would not be much more work. The problem is that it would not be useful for just playing CDs because it would only have the song/album metadata after reading the entire track/CD. Also, in the case that the data is not already in the database, the user would not be asked to enter it until after the CD was ripped, which would be annoying. Of course, there is the even better solution of publishers actually using CD Text in the first place so the data is already on the CD.
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Better organization sounds like a good idea, but perhaps it could be done with less work for the editors. I believe those pages already have standard templates that are used, so couldn't you just make the templates special? I mean, provide a way for a template variable to be treated as metadata for a page, so if you have a song template and an artist variable, a search could be done for songs by that artist. It would not make sense to give this treatment to the vast majority of template arguments, so there would have to be special way to mark them. Then again, you could also just use categories and include variable categories in the template (ex. <includeonly>[[Category:Songs by {{{artist}}}]]</includeonly>). A recursive category display could show a similar listing to the IMDB listing. Ex. Actor has subcategories TV shows with Actor and Movies with Actor, the Actor category could be made to show the contents of its subcategories. The again, that would still appear not as "smart" as the IMDB system which knows to list by year in that instance and alphabetically/by relavance in searches (and include "also known as" titles in searches).
I agree that Wikipedia has trouble dealing with locations. It is a hard problem in part because that pretty much requires graphics to work well.
On the other hand, there is no logical reason for the original trilogy to still be protected under copyright. They are nearing 30 years of age. Should they not have fallen into public domain by now? It would certainly have made the whole original series not on DVD problem a moot point.
There are certainly those who violate reasonable copyrights, and that will never be stopped, but not all copyrights are reasonable.
Nice, lower gamma. Now, I really want HD-DVD! Seriously, the HD-DVD does look noticably nicer in that comparison, but why is it so much darker? You would think proper color correction in screenshots taken on the same device would not be a problem.
It would be interesting to see a link for that, but your point stands: if you post something "friends-only" then you are trusting everyone you have marked as a friend and the site you post it to (as well as any routers on the way, but that is getting a bit too paranoid).
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Uh, why could one not just run a Windows mail client and encrypt the files? You could even use the win32 build of Evolution that was on/. a few days ago if you wanted.
I have thought about that. In theory, the web mail provider could create an app that would act as a mini web server running on your computer which would do all of the actions requiring the private key. You could have it show a pop-up every time it is needed saying what it will do and ask for your passphrase.
It does not matter. A person's fingerprint is not a secret. You leave them everywhere. (Unless you wear gloves all the time.) I assume the cashier watches the customer scan their fingerprint, so they know the fingerprint belongs to the customer. If someone comes in and tries to scan a finger not connected to anything, the cashier will probably suspect something.
Actually text-to-voice tech has gotten pretty good. I remember seeing a/. article with a site where you could type in text for a server-side text-to-speech program to make into a wave file that almost sounded human (certainly on the other side of the uncanny valley). I think the tech let you use a person's voice as a basis for the computer voice. Of course, transfering intonation is a whole other problem, for which I do not think there is an easy solution.
After clicking a few of the CSS3 links in the article, it looks like CSS3 is broken up into modules, which may depend on other modules. I guess then a browser could claim to fully support CSS3 module X even if it does not support all of CSS3.
I was just pointing out one possible opposition to your proposal. Only allowing registered voters to donate to campaigns could have an interesting effect on campaigns. Then again, companies would probably just find loopholes and donate through registered voters somehow.
What is wrong with IPv6 NAT? Using NAT because you do not have enough addresses (like most home users do now) is one thing, but I see nothing wrong with NATing a bunch of computers which are supposed to be locked-down and should never be acting as servers to the public internet. Obviously, other security measures have to be used, but NATs do help. Or are you saying that in such a case, the computers should have routeable IPs, and the router should be set up with the proper ACLs?
Huh? Why would home users not have global addresses? Just using the 6to4 or whatever addressing every ipv4 address gets you some thousands of ipv6 addresses, right?
3. No contributions without voter registration info attached. If you cannot vote in a given election, you cannot contribute to those election campaigns.
So, relatives who live out of state are not allowed to help their family in a Congressional election?
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
The Congress need not have anything to do with a new amendment. In fact, if the amendment is going to restrict the power of the Congress, then it is ridiculous to expect them to propose it. If you want it to happen, then talk to your state legislature. It is a lot easier to get heard by a more local representative anyway. Good luck, you will need it.
How are you disagreeing with the grandparent? Yes, the change would have to occur at the federal and not local level, but the grandparent never specified one. If 18-20 year olds actually voted for their congressmen in significant numbers, then it would be more likely that a law would be passed to change that.
Wasn't the line-item veto ruled unconstitutional? I think the proper way to prevent unrelated clauses from slipping into laws would be to change the Senate/House rules on the scope of bills and how they may be revised. The problem is, those rules are decided by Congress, and they will not change them.
That is not the same. There is nothing stopping you from putting, say, a PSX game disc into your PC (or DC for that matter) and playing it. PS2, XBox, and XBox 360 games are all on DVDs, they may be signed, but they are not encrypted. Once again, there is nothing stopping you from playing those games on the sufficiently powerful computer if someone or group has taken to time to create an emulator. (I have left out GCN and cartridge based systems because, while they may be legally emulated, getting the games onto your PC is more difficult.) Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft may not want emulators, but they are doing anything to actively prevent them from being used other than producing the best hardware for their games to run on.
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Sorry if I was unclear, my point was that the suggested ISP equipment backdoors are different from regular phone wiretaps for exactly the reasons you specified (and others have given). The NSA wiretaps sound like they have been done by installing new equipment at AT&T, which allowed more than was needed for regular police wiretapping. I do not know how they collect data from the system, but it would be quite amusing if it turned out to be over the internet and someone cracked the protections.
Excuse me, but when did copy protection end? Well, maybe it took a break. I guess I have a few early CD games and some floppy games (early 90's) with no copy protection, but almost every game released in the past 8+ years has some form of copy protection and recently almost every game has StarForce on it.
Uh, yes. If it is traveling through the airwaves and you can read it without physically trespassing on my (or anyone else's, for that matter) land, then go ahead, read it. It would be my fault for not using strong enough encryption (or a wired connection) if you get something I wanted to be secret.
Do you have something against the regular police wiretaps done with warrants? Those started a long time ago. The current rules for them are about 30 years old. On the other hand, I do not believe that the civil liberties advocates on this site ever were in support of the warrantless NSA wiretapping.
There is still the odd man out providing competition. If what MS and Sony are offering is not what the public wants, then Nintendo will happily provide it. They have expressed interest in keeping costs low as opposed to keeping features/graphics high. In the next few years, we will see which business model works better.
You could always just MD5 the CD. (Replace MD5 with your favorite crypograhic hash function.) Or, even better, MD5 the individual tracks, so it would even recognize tracks on collections. As you are already reading them to rip them, it would not be much more work. The problem is that it would not be useful for just playing CDs because it would only have the song/album metadata after reading the entire track/CD. Also, in the case that the data is not already in the database, the user would not be asked to enter it until after the CD was ripped, which would be annoying. Of course, there is the even better solution of publishers actually using CD Text in the first place so the data is already on the CD.
Better organization sounds like a good idea, but perhaps it could be done with less work for the editors. I believe those pages already have standard templates that are used, so couldn't you just make the templates special? I mean, provide a way for a template variable to be treated as metadata for a page, so if you have a song template and an artist variable, a search could be done for songs by that artist. It would not make sense to give this treatment to the vast majority of template arguments, so there would have to be special way to mark them. Then again, you could also just use categories and include variable categories in the template (ex. <includeonly>[[Category:Songs by {{{artist}}}]]</includeonly>). A recursive category display could show a similar listing to the IMDB listing. Ex. Actor has subcategories TV shows with Actor and Movies with Actor, the Actor category could be made to show the contents of its subcategories. The again, that would still appear not as "smart" as the IMDB system which knows to list by year in that instance and alphabetically/by relavance in searches (and include "also known as" titles in searches).
I agree that Wikipedia has trouble dealing with locations. It is a hard problem in part because that pretty much requires graphics to work well.
On the other hand, there is no logical reason for the original trilogy to still be protected under copyright. They are nearing 30 years of age. Should they not have fallen into public domain by now? It would certainly have made the whole original series not on DVD problem a moot point.
There are certainly those who violate reasonable copyrights, and that will never be stopped, but not all copyrights are reasonable.
Nice, lower gamma. Now, I really want HD-DVD! Seriously, the HD-DVD does look noticably nicer in that comparison, but why is it so much darker? You would think proper color correction in screenshots taken on the same device would not be a problem.
It would be interesting to see a link for that, but your point stands: if you post something "friends-only" then you are trusting everyone you have marked as a friend and the site you post it to (as well as any routers on the way, but that is getting a bit too paranoid).
Uh, why could one not just run a Windows mail client and encrypt the files? You could even use the win32 build of Evolution that was on /. a few days ago if you wanted.
I have thought about that. In theory, the web mail provider could create an app that would act as a mini web server running on your computer which would do all of the actions requiring the private key. You could have it show a pop-up every time it is needed saying what it will do and ask for your passphrase.
Good thing they are not using optical scanners, then.
It does not matter. A person's fingerprint is not a secret. You leave them everywhere. (Unless you wear gloves all the time.) I assume the cashier watches the customer scan their fingerprint, so they know the fingerprint belongs to the customer. If someone comes in and tries to scan a finger not connected to anything, the cashier will probably suspect something.
Actually text-to-voice tech has gotten pretty good. I remember seeing a /. article with a site where you could type in text for a server-side text-to-speech program to make into a wave file that almost sounded human (certainly on the other side of the uncanny valley). I think the tech let you use a person's voice as a basis for the computer voice. Of course, transfering intonation is a whole other problem, for which I do not think there is an easy solution.
After clicking a few of the CSS3 links in the article, it looks like CSS3 is broken up into modules, which may depend on other modules. I guess then a browser could claim to fully support CSS3 module X even if it does not support all of CSS3.
I was just pointing out one possible opposition to your proposal. Only allowing registered voters to donate to campaigns could have an interesting effect on campaigns. Then again, companies would probably just find loopholes and donate through registered voters somehow.
What is wrong with IPv6 NAT? Using NAT because you do not have enough addresses (like most home users do now) is one thing, but I see nothing wrong with NATing a bunch of computers which are supposed to be locked-down and should never be acting as servers to the public internet. Obviously, other security measures have to be used, but NATs do help. Or are you saying that in such a case, the computers should have routeable IPs, and the router should be set up with the proper ACLs?
Cisco thinks we need new routers. Color me surprised.
Huh? Why would home users not have global addresses? Just using the 6to4 or whatever addressing every ipv4 address gets you some thousands of ipv6 addresses, right?
The Congress need not have anything to do with a new amendment. In fact, if the amendment is going to restrict the power of the Congress, then it is ridiculous to expect them to propose it. If you want it to happen, then talk to your state legislature. It is a lot easier to get heard by a more local representative anyway. Good luck, you will need it.
How are you disagreeing with the grandparent? Yes, the change would have to occur at the federal and not local level, but the grandparent never specified one. If 18-20 year olds actually voted for their congressmen in significant numbers, then it would be more likely that a law would be passed to change that.
Wasn't the line-item veto ruled unconstitutional? I think the proper way to prevent unrelated clauses from slipping into laws would be to change the Senate/House rules on the scope of bills and how they may be revised. The problem is, those rules are decided by Congress, and they will not change them.
That is not the same. There is nothing stopping you from putting, say, a PSX game disc into your PC (or DC for that matter) and playing it. PS2, XBox, and XBox 360 games are all on DVDs, they may be signed, but they are not encrypted. Once again, there is nothing stopping you from playing those games on the sufficiently powerful computer if someone or group has taken to time to create an emulator. (I have left out GCN and cartridge based systems because, while they may be legally emulated, getting the games onto your PC is more difficult.) Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft may not want emulators, but they are doing anything to actively prevent them from being used other than producing the best hardware for their games to run on.