The grandparent's point is that the first purchaser could, in theory, take the included source code, remove any copy protections, recompile, and distribute it himself, also under the GPL. He could even sell it as long as he distributes the source.
It's also easier to let through and trace. Heck, with short wave there's no way to tell the location of receivers so it can't be leaked, intentionally or unintentionally. With web pages, a group like the NSA might conceivably even be able to track a connection through proxies-they wouldn't need to know the content of the message because it's not secured on the server end.
If I were a spy, I'd lean more toward the use of stegonography so at least it isn't totally obvious that a code is being used. Might as well wear a hat that says 'I am a Spy." Stegonography is less likely to be human readable though. I suppose you could put in a sequence of numbers into a data file like a picture at a set index so someone opening it with a hex editor could read them off but a clumsy technique like that would introduce glaring artifacts to the picture, if it was even still valid at all.
I got the joke. My comment was directed solely at its parent. Now that you mention it though, the joke doesn't work if you don't consider SW-ANH to be a remake of Hidden Fortress.
they already made a remake of The Hidden Fortress. It is called: S--- W--- Episode 4. Serious.
IMHO the relationship between Hidden Fortress and Star Wars is overrated. There are a FEW similarities, mostly in characters. The plots don't really have that much to do with each other. I'm sure it was an inspiration, and earlier drafts of A New Hope may have been closer (I understand the differed significantly from the final product) but it certainly doesn't qualify as a remake.
Star Wars is actually a lot closer to 'Where Eagles Dare.' Watch it and see. Sure, there aren't any obvious droid characters, but I wouldn't make too much of that congruence. The characters in Hidden Fortress who are analogues for the droids are shifty army deserters who 'Obi Wan' tricks into dragging a fortune in gold around-at one point they also draw straws with the intention that the winner rape the Princess! Yeah, smells like a remake to me.
That said, this post probably qualifies as a one man 'Revenge of the Nerd' so those people thinking of spending millions to bring it to the big screen needn't bother.
"...transmission 'errors' or rather detection errors could skew the result......Again, what my receiver says is a 1 may not be what your receiver says, based on power at your position, etc... So who know..."
They'd have to find a way to avoid this themselves, since the sender and receiver will most likely be in different locations and might have to use different equipment.
1. Make a clumsy nerd pass at some hot woman 2. Receive painful, ego-shattering rejection. 3. Take pill. 4. Suddenly 2. doesn't seem so bad... 5. ??? 6. Profit (7. Repeat)
Actually, this business plan is not iterative, it's recursive. See, the pill makes you forget so your unknown step 5 is actually step 1 which leads to step 2 and so forth. This leads us to two conclusions-your step 7 is redundant and you never reach step 6. I guess it's back to business school for you.
"And who's gonna fly it, kid - you?"
"You bet! Why, I -"
"Recording music ain't like dusting crops, boy. Without precise calculations you'd bury yourself in the mix, or sound too close to a pop tartlet, and that would end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"
"And who's gonna advertise it, kid - you?"
"You bet I could! I'm not such a bad... Wait, what was the question?"
Well the young men refused to go to Vietnam, the communists 'won', and sure enough, tens of thousands of Vietnamese did come to the US and take our jobs.
Fortunately, this was offset in part by the fifty thousand American deaths in the war, not to mention some thousands more removed from the workforce by crippling injuries. We have parity, yay!
What little science and technology there was in The Prisoner wasn't really imagined: it was mostly contemporary actual science. No. 2, et al, pretty much tried to drug, brainwash, and generally mind-f*ck No. 6 into saying why he resigned. What "imagined science and technology" was there? The automatic, sliding doors?
The 'Rover' device that chases him down when he tries to escape. It looks like a weather balloon. Also many of the psychological ploys they try on him seem to me beyond current (and certainly 1960s era) abilities and theories.
I propose that an international standard system of junk-science measures be used, and that the measurement of speed be 'thicknesses of a human hair per thousandth of the time it takes to blink'
How many furlongs per fortnight does that come out to?
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The grandparent's point is that the first purchaser could, in theory, take the included source code, remove any copy protections, recompile, and distribute it himself, also under the GPL. He could even sell it as long as he distributes the source.
In Soviet Russia, kittens are allergic to YOU!
If I were a spy, I'd lean more toward the use of stegonography so at least it isn't totally obvious that a code is being used. Might as well wear a hat that says 'I am a Spy." Stegonography is less likely to be human readable though. I suppose you could put in a sequence of numbers into a data file like a picture at a set index so someone opening it with a hex editor could read them off but a clumsy technique like that would introduce glaring artifacts to the picture, if it was even still valid at all.
Compasses are broken now. The north pole of a magnet should point toward the south pole of the planet and vise-versa.
That's only allowed in Soviet Russia.
I got the joke. My comment was directed solely at its parent. Now that you mention it though, the joke doesn't work if you don't consider SW-ANH to be a remake of Hidden Fortress.
IMHO the relationship between Hidden Fortress and Star Wars is overrated. There are a FEW similarities, mostly in characters. The plots don't really have that much to do with each other. I'm sure it was an inspiration, and earlier drafts of A New Hope may have been closer (I understand the differed significantly from the final product) but it certainly doesn't qualify as a remake.
Star Wars is actually a lot closer to 'Where Eagles Dare.' Watch it and see. Sure, there aren't any obvious droid characters, but I wouldn't make too much of that congruence. The characters in Hidden Fortress who are analogues for the droids are shifty army deserters who 'Obi Wan' tricks into dragging a fortune in gold around-at one point they also draw straws with the intention that the winner rape the Princess! Yeah, smells like a remake to me.
That said, this post probably qualifies as a one man 'Revenge of the Nerd' so those people thinking of spending millions to bring it to the big screen needn't bother.
I've got no strings
To hold me down
To make me fret, or make me frown
I had strings
But now I'm free
There are no strings on me
-Michael Dell
They'd have to find a way to avoid this themselves, since the sender and receiver will most likely be in different locations and might have to use different equipment.
It's a pity one can't tag something a dupe twice. 'Cause that would be teh funny.
I'm inclined to think that this must be some weird fetish that they didn't catch. Not plastic flowerpots, but plastic flowerpot manufacturers.
Uwe Boll did not direct any of those movies.
1. Make a clumsy nerd pass at some hot woman
2. Receive painful, ego-shattering rejection.
3. Take pill.
4. Suddenly 2. doesn't seem so bad...
5. ???
6. Profit
(7. Repeat)
Actually, this business plan is not iterative, it's recursive. See, the pill makes you forget so your unknown step 5 is actually step 1 which leads to step 2 and so forth. This leads us to two conclusions-your step 7 is redundant and you never reach step 6. I guess it's back to business school for you.
It's probably because Gap is still pissed off from when Steve JObs was their CEO.
Mmmmmm. Fountains of enchiladas.
Obviously, the animal to engrave using a laser would be a friggin shark.
Please, that's hardly obfuscated by any reasonable definition of the word. F--
No. More like: Read someone other than Ballmer.
That's not Toronto, it's Raccoon City. I can see why you'd be confused though.
Buckyman! Maybe technically incorrect, but a lot more fun than your ideas to say.
"You bet! Why, I -"
"Recording music ain't like dusting crops, boy. Without precise calculations you'd bury yourself in the mix, or sound too close to a pop tartlet, and that would end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"
"And who's gonna advertise it, kid - you?"
"You bet I could! I'm not such a bad... Wait, what was the question?"
Fortunately, this was offset in part by the fifty thousand American deaths in the war, not to mention some thousands more removed from the workforce by crippling injuries. We have parity, yay!
Glass is no use. What you want is transparent aluminum. That's the ticket, laddy.
The 'Rover' device that chases him down when he tries to escape. It looks like a weather balloon. Also many of the psychological ploys they try on him seem to me beyond current (and certainly 1960s era) abilities and theories.
How many furlongs per fortnight does that come out to?