Is this the same PhysicsGenius who posted the referred question? If so, you might or might not be a genius at physics, but your reading skills leave something to be desired.
He still advocates illegal activity
To quote from Kevin's answer to (I think) your question:
I don't encourage, and in fact, discourage anyone from doing any illegal activity that affects other's property rights. However, I do advocate hacking in the sense that it does not amount to illegal or unethical behavior. Since the cost of computing is significantly lower nowadays, one activity may involve setting up a LAN with different computing platforms and attacking those systems in order to find vulnerabilities.
Which part of that statement is encouraging illegal activity? He's simply suggesting that one can "hack" (not "crack"--learn to distinguish the two terms or suffer the wrath of/.) on your own personal computer/LAN without the need to illegally access 3rd party systems. And he states quite clearly in the opening sentence that HE DISCOURAGES ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES (in caps so you catch it this time).
You also say:
and seems oblivious to the basic idea of penal theory./
Oh, you mean the part where he was held in prison for 4.5 years without any charges filed against him? Well, let's just take a look at what the Constitution of the United States has to say about the subject:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger;
Now, let's take a look at the facts of the case: Kevin was arrested in February 1995. The indictment was not filed against him until September 1996. That's roughly 19-20 months that Kevin sat in prison (8 of them in solitary confinement) while there were no charges filed against him.
so i can say, with certainty, that my personal life has been greatly and adversely affected by spam
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that your life has been adversely affected by spam filtering? I mean, if you didn't have the filter on, you would have received her email (along with hundreds of crappy emails), right?
Oh, I think I saw a game using this!
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"Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle!"
I joined the US Army after playing America's Army. If they hadn't added that "picking up $4 hookers in the Phillipines" mod I probably wouldn't have done it, though.
The whole Playstation 2's lack of units during its release was partially their fault
Explain how. Rambus does not physically produce RAM, nor do they sell RAM. They simply license the technology they came up with to other companies, who are responsible for producing the chips.
If you knew the posistion of every particle in the universe, as well as all physic laws and plotted this into a computer, would you be able to figure out the future by fast-forwarding?
Why not use a system that charges the unit by the rotation of the tire, storing the energy in a capacitor? It seem to me like that would be the ideal way to power such a system.
Nowadays most R&D centers within a company operate as a separate business unit, whose "customers" are the other business units. In a sense, almost everything that gets funding at a modern R&D center is commercial in the sense that the R&D guys have to "sell" the research (usually to the other business units) in order for it to survive.
Uh, what's wrong with it? I had no trouble installing one. The only problems I had modding my xbox involved the DVD-ROM being picky as to which discs it would take.
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If you have a US driver's license, you can get an international driver's license just by going to your nearest AAA office, filling out a form, and paying a small fee. You then get a little booklet you have to carry around with your regular license, which basically amounts to a bunch of pages that say "this is a driver's license" in several languages.
RTFM. Or in this case, title 17. Specifically the section about "limitations of exclusive rights for copyright holders" or something to that effect. It's illegal according to the statute.
What if I own the CD and am too lazy/unable to rip it myself, but want to listen to it on my PC? If I *only* download mp3s of songs from CDs that I actually own, is that illegal?
Yes, it is illegal. You are only entitled to make/use copies of the media you bought.
If only Willam Shatner had provided such in-depth, technical answers to questions about the physics of warp travel. He could have even quoted from
the FAQ just like Brian!
I was a little disappointed by the answers that just reiterated the TCPA FAQ, but then again if I didn't know much about it, that's probably what I'd do, too. For example:
The crypto-processor and key storage are provided by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). A TCPA enabled system will have a TPM on the motherboard. This TPM can be disabled, as per TCPA specification, if the user wants to opt-out.
Unless the operating system is designed to refuse to run uness TCPA is enabled.
A universal garage door opener is a tool. Tools are made for their utility, and as such can be utilized with both good and bad intentions.
Your comment sounds suspiciously like the RIAA's argument that Napster should be shut down. Again, just because I could use a hammer to break a window, doesn't mean the hammer couldn't be used to build a house as well.
"the Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
How exactly is keeping a copyright on Steamboat Willie (whose inventor has been dead for many years) promoting the "progress of science and the useful arts"? Maybe instead of focusing on the "limited times" portion the supreme court should take a look at the intent of the Constitution. Also, there seems to be a huge discrepancy between the "limited time" for a patent, and the "limited time" for copyright. This means that more than likely we'll be seeing IBM lobby congress to extend patents, and they'll have a good case since the bunch of goons on the bench now are so short-sighted.
I would love to be at one of the meetings (say, at AMD) where the executives decide that adding DRM support to the processor is a good idea, and that every processor they produce is going to have it built in. I honestly don't see the logic in this decision. How is adding this technology going to sell more PCs (and hence more processors)? Who are AMD's biggest customers, and why are they asking for DRM? And if they're not, why is AMD bothering with the extra development costs?
According to Gobble's post to bugtraq the exploit detailed is NOT used by the worm, but was "discovered" while developing the worm. So, a patch for this one exploit doesn't mean anything, assuming the rest of the post is true.
Are you one of those people who blames violence on video games? I don't know about you, but I don't have any trouble differentiating games and reality.
I think the user interface sorta makes sense. We are finally at the point where most people buying cars grew up playing video games, where they learned to drive a car around a virtual environment using a joystick or a console controller like that of the Playstation. Why not use the same interface for driving around in real life?
Many businesses generate terabytes of data every day. It's just that a lot of that data isn't stored permanently for future reference. Of course, there are some businesses who store massive amounts of data even now. A.C. Nielson, a market research company, basically stores EVERY transaction on EVERY point-of-sale system in their network, for products that they are tracking (which they track easily over 10,000 products). This comes out to rougly 10GB of data per product, or over 100TB of data.
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No, wait...I think that logic makes sense if I look at it with one eye closed, standing on my head.
To quote from Kevin's answer to (I think) your question:
Which part of that statement is encouraging illegal activity? He's simply suggesting that one can "hack" (not "crack"--learn to distinguish the two terms or suffer the wrath of /.) on your own personal computer/LAN without the need to illegally access 3rd party systems. And he states quite clearly in the opening sentence that HE DISCOURAGES ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES (in caps so you catch it this time).
You also say:
Oh, you mean the part where he was held in prison for 4.5 years without any charges filed against him? Well, let's just take a look at what the Constitution of the United States has to say about the subject:
Now, let's take a look at the facts of the case: Kevin was arrested in February 1995. The indictment was not filed against him until September 1996. That's roughly 19-20 months that Kevin sat in prison (8 of them in solitary confinement) while there were no charges filed against him.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that your life has been adversely affected by spam filtering? I mean, if you didn't have the filter on, you would have received her email (along with hundreds of crappy emails), right?
"Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle!"
I joined the US Army after playing America's Army. If they hadn't added that "picking up $4 hookers in the Phillipines" mod I probably wouldn't have done it, though.
Explain how. Rambus does not physically produce RAM, nor do they sell RAM. They simply license the technology they came up with to other companies, who are responsible for producing the chips.
Not according to Heisenberg.
You could always distill it, then inject it directly into your blood stream.
Why not use a system that charges the unit by the rotation of the tire, storing the energy in a capacitor? It seem to me like that would be the ideal way to power such a system.
Or on a metal plate visible through the front windshield of every car produced.
MS is also trying to track my movements; I found a SERIAL NUMBER stamped on the bottom of my xbox. Those bastards never stop infringing my rights.
Nowadays most R&D centers within a company operate as a separate business unit, whose "customers" are the other business units. In a sense, almost everything that gets funding at a modern R&D center is commercial in the sense that the R&D guys have to "sell" the research (usually to the other business units) in order for it to survive.
All you'd have to do to defeat your solution would be to send along a few extra packets that guessed the hash (based on ping time, for example).
This is basically the same way TCP connection hijacking works, by guessing the TCP packet IDs coming from the server.
Uh, what's wrong with it? I had no trouble installing one. The only problems I had modding my xbox involved the DVD-ROM being picky as to which discs it would take.
If you have a US driver's license, you can get an international driver's license just by going to your nearest AAA office, filling out a form, and paying a small fee. You then get a little booklet you have to carry around with your regular license, which basically amounts to a bunch of pages that say "this is a driver's license" in several languages.
I think the dead giveaway will be when they select Ben Affleck to be on the landing team.
RTFM. Or in this case, title 17. Specifically the section about "limitations of exclusive rights for copyright holders" or something to that effect. It's illegal according to the statute.
Yes, it is illegal. You are only entitled to make/use copies of the media you bought.
I was a little disappointed by the answers that just reiterated the TCPA FAQ, but then again if I didn't know much about it, that's probably what I'd do, too. For example:
Unless the operating system is designed to refuse to run uness TCPA is enabled.
Your comment sounds suspiciously like the RIAA's argument that Napster should be shut down. Again, just because I could use a hammer to break a window, doesn't mean the hammer couldn't be used to build a house as well.
How exactly is keeping a copyright on Steamboat Willie (whose inventor has been dead for many years) promoting the "progress of science and the useful arts"? Maybe instead of focusing on the "limited times" portion the supreme court should take a look at the intent of the Constitution. Also, there seems to be a huge discrepancy between the "limited time" for a patent, and the "limited time" for copyright. This means that more than likely we'll be seeing IBM lobby congress to extend patents, and they'll have a good case since the bunch of goons on the bench now are so short-sighted.
I would love to be at one of the meetings (say, at AMD) where the executives decide that adding DRM support to the processor is a good idea, and that every processor they produce is going to have it built in. I honestly don't see the logic in this decision. How is adding this technology going to sell more PCs (and hence more processors)? Who are AMD's biggest customers, and why are they asking for DRM? And if they're not, why is AMD bothering with the extra development costs?
According to Gobble's post to bugtraq the exploit detailed is NOT used by the worm, but was "discovered" while developing the worm. So, a patch for this one exploit doesn't mean anything, assuming the rest of the post is true.
Are you one of those people who blames violence on video games? I don't know about you, but I don't have any trouble differentiating games and reality.
I think the user interface sorta makes sense. We are finally at the point where most people buying cars grew up playing video games, where they learned to drive a car around a virtual environment using a joystick or a console controller like that of the Playstation. Why not use the same interface for driving around in real life?
Many businesses generate terabytes of data every day. It's just that a lot of that data isn't stored permanently for future reference. Of course, there are some businesses who store massive amounts of data even now. A.C. Nielson, a market research company, basically stores EVERY transaction on EVERY point-of-sale system in their network, for products that they are tracking (which they track easily over 10,000 products). This comes out to rougly 10GB of data per product, or over 100TB of data.