A secret simply cannot be contained this way. It sounds like they're relying on people to be honest - the data isn't even watermarked individually in each person's brain - so how can they really be surprised?
It doesn't have to be fully contained, just kept off the front pages enough that the jury pool for September's trial is relatively uncorrupted. As it is, anyone who cares enough to go searching can find it, but that extra step may be enough to make sure only a fraction of potential jurors will have heard it and therefor be ineligible.
It's standard security, really - nothing is truly secure, you just have to decide what level of attack you want to stop.
Of course it's going to make file sharing illegal! File sharing (of copyrighted content) SHOULD be illegal! And it's immoral! It's not your copyright!
The important thing is to make sure the record companies can't shut down entire networks because they're used to share copyrighted material, stifling research into P2P that that could be used to share open material. Going after individuals who share and download copyrighted files is perfectly appropriate, though, and I don't see why people are so outraged when the record companies do it.
I mean, now I won't have the right to circumvent DRM-protected files so I can play them on linux? In the future, if they begin to sell DRM-crippled CD's and CD player, I won't have the right to circumvent it's DRM scheme so I can put the music on my iPod (as an example only)?
Sure you will - neither of those are copyright infringement. The law (as I understand it from the quote) says that circumvention will be illegal only if it's for the purpose of infringement, which means that making a carbon copy of a CD is illegal (because it just gives you a second copy that you can't use anywhere you couldn't use the first one) but converting it to another format to play on a device you own that doesn't support the CD should be fine. (Possibly you'd be expected to destroy the CD after conversion to comply with the letter of the law.)
Doesn't work when the phone is on the charger. Doesn't work when the phone is in the pocket of a thick coat, especially when the coat is hanging on a chair. I keep forgetting to change it off vibrate when I put it in one of these two places.
Fuzzy memory can be a problem, though. Was it "...to come to their country's aid" or "...to come to the aid of their country"? Did you use punctuation, and if so, which? I created a gpg passphrase and stupidly used two sentences - was never able to recover my keys again, because I couldn't remember if I used one or two spaces between the sentences, or if the first ended with a period or an exclamation mark. (Actually, I tried all 4 variations of that, and none worked, so I must have forgotten something else - but with such a long passphrase, I couldn't even begin to think of the many possible variations on what I got wrong. With a password, I can at least try changing each letter at a time if I've gotten something wrong, on the assumption I only made one mistake. Of course, I'm not saying passwords are good either - I hate them.)
(Pssst... you're not society as a whole. I agree with fm6, for instance - seems harmless enough to me, in this case - so please don't pretend to speak for me. Maybe I'm just an aberration - but then again, maybe you're just an aberration.)
I'm not a GC expert, but I think this is not universally true, in the sense that you can use the MMU hardware to trap writes.
Triggering a page fault that has to be passed to a user handler (which is what my textbook recommends - I haven't looked at this outside of that one course) is still slow. Slower than the alternative, which is to do nothing, at least.
It's Wednesday now - we found that too many people were using it as an excuse to just do nothing on Friday, since if you knock off early for beer, you're not missing *real* work.
Canada in the 80's introduced the GST, the most hated tax ever. It was a large factor in completely destroying the Conservative party - which is a shame because, although it's a pretty bad tax, it's better than the horrible hidden tax that it replaced. The weird thing is, the government mandated by law that you couldn't hide the tax in the price - meaning any time a consumer bought anything, they'd see the hated words GST at the bottom of their sales slip and remember how badly the government "screwed them over". I can't figure out why they'd do that, considering how much it cost them.
I don't understand how this could work. Your tax bracket depends on the *total* amount you make. If you have two jobs, how can each job take the appropriate amount out of your paycheck? What about deductions and loopholes and all that crazy stuff? It seems to me like you'd have to do just as much paperwork, but spread out in little chunks throughout the year instead of once at tax time. (Who wants to have to file a "my mother is sick; she is now a dependant" form and then a year later file to say "my mother just died; she's no longer a dependant", while still having to deal with the emotionals? Much better to just either put her on you yearly tax form or leave her off.)
The way it works here in Canada is that they do some half-assed calculations when you start a job to decide how much to take off (by giving them employee a form to fill in where you estimate how much you'll make from other sources and things). I've never in my life bothered to fill the form in correctly, so they always take off the base amount and then at tax time I discover whether I owe a chunk or get a chunk refunded. (It's usually been a refund since I was in school and had massive tuition to claim until recently. If I were smart I'd arrange it so I always owe at tax time so at least I can earn interest on the money in the meantime, but I'm lazy.)
Not only did you not read the article, you didn't read the *blurb*. The submitter specifically said he used to us Turbo Tax on the Web for $30 - which costs less than what you just suggested, and is more convenient - but is too cheap to pay the $30.
I think he's crazy - to me, the $30 is well worth it to make my taxes easier and faster - but that's not the point here. There's already a way better solution for Linux users than you just gave in your attempt to score points.
You have the right to time-shift into the *future* - if you receive a broadcast, you've got the right to store it up and watch it at leisure. There's no reason you should have the right to infringe copyrights to time-shift to *before* you receive the signal. (At least, this is my view of the morality involved, not what the law says.)
Plug-and-play Linux for small businesses? That would be Nitix, which has been around since 1997, although it was only bundled with the "Net Integrator" server hardware and so didn't get its own name until last year. (Or maybe it was the year before, I can't recall.)
Version 4.0 got released not long ago (no version inflation here, we actually used point releases - gasp!) Upgrades are offered through authenticated download, and have to be manually triggered, so you don't need to worry about incompatibilities showing up unexpectedly, but a big notice shows up on your server status page when a new release is available. Patch releases are made to older lines to fix security holes (similar to the Debian security branch) in case you don't want to upgrade for fear of breakage.
Oh, hey, and it even works as a "franchise opportunity", since the small-business sales are done through VARs. Sounds like in 1998, Roblimo had the exact same idea the NITI founders had in 1997, except they went on to actually do it.
The links I listed above are the corporate pages written by marketing - Slashdot geeks will be more interested in the Wiki.
The front page articles, that have been highlighted as especially good, are similar to stable snapshot releases. Because it's only a single article (or group of related ones) it's small enough to be reasonably verified.
What it really shows is how broken the electoral college is. A 1% change in the polls is enough to kick an entire state from Democrat to Republican or vice versa and change the party totals from near even to a huge lead. (The flipping is made more frequent by the way Tanenbaum adds polls which can't be directly compared to the map, but you can still see how disproportionate an effect a tiny change has.)
Anyone else think for a minute that the ad below the story was a graphic of the new logo? I got the Sybase one with a big red demon-guy shaking money out of someone's pockets. With the BSD-demon connection I thought it was plausible, but bizarre.
So Rene, you are just like every Quebecer I ever met. You have a girls name to start. You piss and moan that you actually have to pay for some things. The government never gives you enough "for free", even though your whole useless province is TOTALLY funded by the rest of Canada, and you STILL complain about it.
You know, I agree with everything else you wrote, but I'm from Quebec too, and you lost me with bit.
The ironic thing is that "the poor" get better care in the U.S. (yes, even those without insurance), than everyone gets in Canada: they at least have a chance to get surgery that does not exist in Canada for lack of skilled surgeons and antequated technology.
The most common treatment needed is not emergency surgery, though. What about preventative care? In the US the uninsured have to pay for treatment of minor issues so they're likely to let them slide until it gets desperate, which costs the system more in the long term.
Moreover, I just don't believe you that the service provided to non-payers in the US is better than the service in Canada. You've obviously got a severe idiological bias against single-payer health care (as I have the opposite), so there's no way I can trust your anecdotal evidence. Give me hard numbers comparing the two, and I'll bet you Canada performs at least equally on all measures except waiting times for unnecessary surgery. (Note that "unnecessary" - most of the time, if you need critical care, you *don't* have to wait in line, no matter what the horror stories say. In your example, the 70% failure rate makes it a borderline case.)
Anyone who supports such a system is, at very least, an accessory to murder. Given how sacrosanct socialized health care is in Canada, it's probably fair to say most Canadians thus qualify as murderers or accessories thereto, by this standard.
Let me get this straight - you think $130 for 20 minutes is a fair price to pay for health care, and you are irate that the government covers it for you. So should the poor just be screwed, then?
It's the other way around, at least if you're a Canadian who's moved to Ontario: to obtain a "Health Card" (yeah, right, as if it'll get me to a decent doctor faster than cash will in the U.S.), you must sign a form agreeing to never leave the province.
No, you just have to agree to give up your card if you ever move out of Ontario. Which makes sense, cause it's an Ontario card.
As for the rest, I hope your green card works out, and that you enjoy America very much.
Sure, not all teens have a drivers license, but in Ontario and Quebec at least, health cards are valid photo ID. If you don't have a health card, not being able to rent videogames is the least of your problems...
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So why is it public domain now? It's nowhere near 70 years or whatever from the creation date.
A secret simply cannot be contained this way. It sounds like they're relying on people to be honest - the data isn't even watermarked individually in each person's brain - so how can they really be surprised? It doesn't have to be fully contained, just kept off the front pages enough that the jury pool for September's trial is relatively uncorrupted. As it is, anyone who cares enough to go searching can find it, but that extra step may be enough to make sure only a fraction of potential jurors will have heard it and therefor be ineligible. It's standard security, really - nothing is truly secure, you just have to decide what level of attack you want to stop.
Of course it's going to make file sharing illegal! File sharing (of copyrighted content) SHOULD be illegal! And it's immoral! It's not your copyright! The important thing is to make sure the record companies can't shut down entire networks because they're used to share copyrighted material, stifling research into P2P that that could be used to share open material. Going after individuals who share and download copyrighted files is perfectly appropriate, though, and I don't see why people are so outraged when the record companies do it.
I mean, now I won't have the right to circumvent DRM-protected files so I can play them on linux? In the future, if they begin to sell DRM-crippled CD's and CD player, I won't have the right to circumvent it's DRM scheme so I can put the music on my iPod (as an example only)? Sure you will - neither of those are copyright infringement. The law (as I understand it from the quote) says that circumvention will be illegal only if it's for the purpose of infringement, which means that making a carbon copy of a CD is illegal (because it just gives you a second copy that you can't use anywhere you couldn't use the first one) but converting it to another format to play on a device you own that doesn't support the CD should be fine. (Possibly you'd be expected to destroy the CD after conversion to comply with the letter of the law.)
Doesn't work when the phone is on the charger. Doesn't work when the phone is in the pocket of a thick coat, especially when the coat is hanging on a chair. I keep forgetting to change it off vibrate when I put it in one of these two places.
Fuzzy memory can be a problem, though. Was it "...to come to their country's aid" or "...to come to the aid of their country"? Did you use punctuation, and if so, which? I created a gpg passphrase and stupidly used two sentences - was never able to recover my keys again, because I couldn't remember if I used one or two spaces between the sentences, or if the first ended with a period or an exclamation mark. (Actually, I tried all 4 variations of that, and none worked, so I must have forgotten something else - but with such a long passphrase, I couldn't even begin to think of the many possible variations on what I got wrong. With a password, I can at least try changing each letter at a time if I've gotten something wrong, on the assumption I only made one mistake. Of course, I'm not saying passwords are good either - I hate them.)
(Pssst... you're not society as a whole. I agree with fm6, for instance - seems harmless enough to me, in this case - so please don't pretend to speak for me. Maybe I'm just an aberration - but then again, maybe you're just an aberration.)
I'm not a GC expert, but I think this is not universally true, in the sense that you can use the MMU hardware to trap writes.
Triggering a page fault that has to be passed to a user handler (which is what my textbook recommends - I haven't looked at this outside of that one course) is still slow. Slower than the alternative, which is to do nothing, at least.
How many of those free accounts are active, though?
It's Wednesday now - we found that too many people were using it as an excuse to just do nothing on Friday, since if you knock off early for beer, you're not missing *real* work.
Canada in the 80's introduced the GST, the most hated tax ever. It was a large factor in completely destroying the Conservative party - which is a shame because, although it's a pretty bad tax, it's better than the horrible hidden tax that it replaced. The weird thing is, the government mandated by law that you couldn't hide the tax in the price - meaning any time a consumer bought anything, they'd see the hated words GST at the bottom of their sales slip and remember how badly the government "screwed them over". I can't figure out why they'd do that, considering how much it cost them.
I don't understand how this could work. Your tax bracket depends on the *total* amount you make. If you have two jobs, how can each job take the appropriate amount out of your paycheck? What about deductions and loopholes and all that crazy stuff? It seems to me like you'd have to do just as much paperwork, but spread out in little chunks throughout the year instead of once at tax time. (Who wants to have to file a "my mother is sick; she is now a dependant" form and then a year later file to say "my mother just died; she's no longer a dependant", while still having to deal with the emotionals? Much better to just either put her on you yearly tax form or leave her off.) The way it works here in Canada is that they do some half-assed calculations when you start a job to decide how much to take off (by giving them employee a form to fill in where you estimate how much you'll make from other sources and things). I've never in my life bothered to fill the form in correctly, so they always take off the base amount and then at tax time I discover whether I owe a chunk or get a chunk refunded. (It's usually been a refund since I was in school and had massive tuition to claim until recently. If I were smart I'd arrange it so I always owe at tax time so at least I can earn interest on the money in the meantime, but I'm lazy.)
Not only did you not read the article, you didn't read the *blurb*. The submitter specifically said he used to us Turbo Tax on the Web for $30 - which costs less than what you just suggested, and is more convenient - but is too cheap to pay the $30. I think he's crazy - to me, the $30 is well worth it to make my taxes easier and faster - but that's not the point here. There's already a way better solution for Linux users than you just gave in your attempt to score points.
You have the right to time-shift into the *future* - if you receive a broadcast, you've got the right to store it up and watch it at leisure. There's no reason you should have the right to infringe copyrights to time-shift to *before* you receive the signal. (At least, this is my view of the morality involved, not what the law says.)
Version 4.0 got released not long ago (no version inflation here, we actually used point releases - gasp!) Upgrades are offered through authenticated download, and have to be manually triggered, so you don't need to worry about incompatibilities showing up unexpectedly, but a big notice shows up on your server status page when a new release is available. Patch releases are made to older lines to fix security holes (similar to the Debian security branch) in case you don't want to upgrade for fear of breakage.
Oh, hey, and it even works as a "franchise opportunity", since the small-business sales are done through VARs. Sounds like in 1998, Roblimo had the exact same idea the NITI founders had in 1997, except they went on to actually do it.
The links I listed above are the corporate pages written by marketing - Slashdot geeks will be more interested in the Wiki.
(Disclaimer: I am a former employee.)
The front page articles, that have been highlighted as especially good, are similar to stable snapshot releases. Because it's only a single article (or group of related ones) it's small enough to be reasonably verified.
Or? Why or? Why "simply"? It's both, obviously.
What it really shows is how broken the electoral college is. A 1% change in the polls is enough to kick an entire state from Democrat to Republican or vice versa and change the party totals from near even to a huge lead. (The flipping is made more frequent by the way Tanenbaum adds polls which can't be directly compared to the map, but you can still see how disproportionate an effect a tiny change has.)
Anyone else think for a minute that the ad below the story was a graphic of the new logo? I got the Sybase one with a big red demon-guy shaking money out of someone's pockets. With the BSD-demon connection I thought it was plausible, but bizarre.
Hell, *Timmins* has one.
So Rene, you are just like every Quebecer I ever met. You have a girls name to start. You piss and moan that you actually have to pay for some things. The government never gives you enough "for free", even though your whole useless province is TOTALLY funded by the rest of Canada, and you STILL complain about it. You know, I agree with everything else you wrote, but I'm from Quebec too, and you lost me with bit.
The most common treatment needed is not emergency surgery, though. What about preventative care? In the US the uninsured have to pay for treatment of minor issues so they're likely to let them slide until it gets desperate, which costs the system more in the long term.
Moreover, I just don't believe you that the service provided to non-payers in the US is better than the service in Canada. You've obviously got a severe idiological bias against single-payer health care (as I have the opposite), so there's no way I can trust your anecdotal evidence. Give me hard numbers comparing the two, and I'll bet you Canada performs at least equally on all measures except waiting times for unnecessary surgery. (Note that "unnecessary" - most of the time, if you need critical care, you *don't* have to wait in line, no matter what the horror stories say. In your example, the 70% failure rate makes it a borderline case.)
Anyone who supports such a system is, at very least, an accessory to murder. Given how sacrosanct socialized health care is in Canada, it's probably fair to say most Canadians thus qualify as murderers or accessories thereto, by this standard.
You are a twisted and bitter individual.
The communist chickens have come home to roost.
How does a troll like you get a +1 Karma bonus?
Let me get this straight - you think $130 for 20 minutes is a fair price to pay for health care, and you are irate that the government covers it for you. So should the poor just be screwed, then?
Sure, not all teens have a drivers license, but in Ontario and Quebec at least, health cards are valid photo ID. If you don't have a health card, not being able to rent videogames is the least of your problems...