You are correct. This form of anonymonity is designed simply to disguise the sender from the reciever. (and perhaps vice-versa)
The whole point is to thwart the type of investigation used by the RIAA where they download a file, then track down and prosecute the sender.
It does not prevent the ISPs from sniffing out who is sending to whom if they were inclined to do so (they aren't).
However you may really be onto something with that last idea. You've got extra overhead anyway, so just add a random 0-something number of extra hops on the end. Doesn't have to be many as long as it is fairly random.
Still doesn't conceal the origin from an ISP or an agency tied in at the ISP (Carnivore part 3, anyone?).
"I have -- for an IA32 architecture consumer/home PC. Have you installed one on a SPARC box? You can't! NVIDIA don't provide a SPARC architecture build. Have you installed one on a RISC PC? You can't! NVIDIA don't provide an ARM architecture build. Have you installed one on an iMac? You can't! NVIDIA don't provide a POWERPC architecture build."
Have you ever seen a SPARC version of a geforce card? Cause I sure havent! Can you even put another video card in an iMac? We are talking about hardware designed to work with a specific other kind of hardware. Do these other systems even have an compatible slot?
What do you want? Sounds like you don't have any reasonable request, just a lot of religous fervor.
Apple has been one of the biggest proponents of the "just works" and "it shouldn't need a manual" ideas.
I remember the spot on ads showing people trying to make sense of a windows 3.1 manual. It was high comedy, and quite true.
They have shifted the focus from computers "for the rest of us" to high tech chic.
They have engendered the very mindset that they rightly scorn now. In the early mac days, it was important for them to be the easy to use alternative to other PCs. But now they have that image by default and they are now trying (and succeeding) to create a new image as the computer that the best people use.
The only problem with that is, they seem to be dropping one for the other.
This is the real key issue. Regardless of how the box or manual is labeled, any reasonable person would expect that the official Apple music software will not destroy an Apple ipod. So much for "just works".
.. for VB coders to make the jump to the OOP way of doing things. VB 6 coders are in a spot where they must choose among new platforms, none of which (even VB.net) is a small learning curve.
One of the biggest reasons new programmers get hooked on VB is the ease of doing GUIs (while most other languages you are exposed to in school make GUIs look like some kind of spanish inquisition), if you can replicate that expierence in a more robust language, then you'll see VB dropped like a plague ridden swamp rat carcass.
Fortunately I had a Java teacher that made it a point to show us how non-impossible GUI programming can be. But in almost every other langauge I was taught, it was all CLI based examples. You may have seen one example of a windows app, but the subject was kept out of scope.
But when you start looking at VB, right away you are making things that are more like real programs than "hello world" examples. It seems to me that there's no reason that in the world of resuable code that a similar expierence could not be produced using true OOP languages.
I was hopeing for something like that when I picked up MS C++.net, and found just another iteration of the same interface.
...they know that most of the owners of these doomed units will simply run down to the retail store and buy the latest/greatest rather than futz around with trying to get the card fixed.
Most of us can't afford the new tech every time it comes out, so we grab on to any excuse*ahem*good reason to justify upgrading we can.
Myself, I bought a GF4 that very much definetly had a fan on the board in the picture in the box, but when I got it home; no fan. It works ok, but doesn't tolerate overclocking too well.
Eh, that's just as well, since the board it replaced roasted after the fan died.
You're right about where the jobs are (internal apps). But even that area is bleeding jobs, just not as fast. Maybe in your company jobs have increased, but a few bright spots can't correct the glut of programmers. We have way too many people in the field and more entering every day on the promise of a "high paying IT career".
As computing becomes de-mystified, programming becomes just another form of moderately skilled labor.
Sure, the quality of all these new programmers may be less than even the average guy in the IT heyday, but we all should know by now that quality is not job #1 while the stock price is the end all and be all of success.
Nope, the installer chokes on needing another exe file. Something to do with windows inatller I think. Thats under regular wine on Mandrake.
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That's million with an M. Not going down but staying steady or flat as they put it.
Freaking analyists, this isn't about the viablilty of the business or the technology. This is purely about them not being able to make money off the stock price.
To these people your company is a failure if they can't make money off you. Nevermind if you are actually making a nice profit.
Feh!
AVI is more like a container than a particular format. The problem would be getting all the required codecs available for all the platforms.
Since the DRM would have to hook in to the player or OS at some point, I have doubts that we will see DRM in an open source environment any time soon. (see the whole DVD/CSS debacle for a prime example).
By the book you are probably right, but in reality (in a real court of "law"), copyright/patent/IP violation is guilty until proven innocent. Espically in civil court. Never mind that most people cannot afford to defend themselves in civil court.
Yes.
The tool is just that, a tool, legally and morally neutral. It's what is done with the tool that is either legal or illegial.
Stealing music (with or without p2p) is already illegial.
Hunting knives are very popular with murderers and rapists, why shouldn't we ban them then? What about "slim-jims"? (those bar things the locksmith uses to unlock a car) Those are real popular with car thieves?
The list of things that make great tools for crime are almost endless. Once we start labeling things a tools of crime, we begin to make instant criminals, the burden will be on individuals to prove that they are only doing lawful things. Instead of the burden being on law enforcement to prove that they are doing unlawful things.
Also, p2p does not give absolute privacy. People can still get your IP, and thus obtain your location. And there's plenty of anarchy on the web (and even more on IRC, where IPs are visible to everyone). Note that before p2p, music piracy was already going on on the web and ftp sites. We would be better served by prosceuting the offedners than by trying to take all thier toys.
If we're talking about IT (I can't speak for other fields, you'd better be open to possibilities from any angle. It's not like theres a shortage of available workers out there.
Even if you have to temporarily take a job in whichever sector you weren't looking for; more than likely you'll be jumping ships within a year or two to a better job/employer.
Just make sure what you do will have a positive effect on your resume.
And keep your eye out for possiblities even after you get your job. Keeping an good resume in the job search engines is a good thing to do, even if you're employed. (Ex: I got called with an nice offer hours before finding out I was about to hit the road, it pays to be visible)
When I worked for a state agency, myself and just about all new hires were kept in a permanent temporary status. This actually made sense for my job, a temporary part-time job, but they used this method for all empolyees up to a certian pay level.
We would be terminated and re-hired in the payroll systems every 90 days or so to keep it legal. It was automatic, so you kept getting your timecards like always.
Permanent slots were like little holy grails.
Software patents all seem to be simliar: means of doing X with a computer.
It's like the better mousetrap scenario, if I invented one, I wouldn't be prevented from patenting one just beacuse the mousetrap in general already exists.
But with software patents anyting that does this certian thing X on a computer, regardless of wether it's a new and improved way of doing it, is right out.
This will kill advancement in the software field, as noone can afford to do anything that's already been done before (even if they can do it better).
Welcome to the dark ages, here's your torch.
Like you just said, anonymonity is good sometimes, depending on how it's used. But above that, you say that anonymonity is only useful for breaking the law. You're putting anyonomity to good use right now.
Just because something (anonymity) allows you to do someting illegial, dosen't make the thing itself bad. There are plenty of perfectly legal things to say or distribute that one might would want to distribute with anonymity.
Your argument seems to be saying that only criminals need to worry about privacy ("if you have nothing to hide, then why would you mind a random search of your home").
Yes, criminals do have a vested interest in keeping secrets, but that does not mean that we should all live under constant surveilance.
Criminals also like to use bolt cutters, does that mean we should ban them?
I'm not saying that people should be stealing music, but saying that the means they use for doing so is inherently bad is a broad overgeneralization.
That another system does it better is a pretty weak indcitment. As is your anonymity = evil argument. One could say the same thing of posting as an AC.
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How will they top themselves now? Try to patent the question mark? Sue Algore for infringement of thier Internet IP?
The whole point is to thwart the type of investigation used by the RIAA where they download a file, then track down and prosecute the sender.
It does not prevent the ISPs from sniffing out who is sending to whom if they were inclined to do so (they aren't).However you may really be onto something with that last idea. You've got extra overhead anyway, so just add a random 0-something number of extra hops on the end. Doesn't have to be many as long as it is fairly random.
Still doesn't conceal the origin from an ISP or an agency tied in at the ISP (Carnivore part 3, anyone?).Good thinking.
Have you ever seen a SPARC version of a geforce card? Cause I sure havent! Can you even put another video card in an iMac? We are talking about hardware designed to work with a specific other kind of hardware. Do these other systems even have an compatible slot?
What do you want? Sounds like you don't have any reasonable request, just a lot of religous fervor.I remember the spot on ads showing people trying to make sense of a windows 3.1 manual. It was high comedy, and quite true.
They have shifted the focus from computers "for the rest of us" to high tech chic.
They have engendered the very mindset that they rightly scorn now. In the early mac days, it was important for them to be the easy to use alternative to other PCs. But now they have that image by default and they are now trying (and succeeding) to create a new image as the computer that the best people use.The only problem with that is, they seem to be dropping one for the other.
This is the real key issue. Regardless of how the box or manual is labeled, any reasonable person would expect that the official Apple music software will not destroy an Apple ipod. So much for "just works".
One of the biggest reasons new programmers get hooked on VB is the ease of doing GUIs (while most other languages you are exposed to in school make GUIs look like some kind of spanish inquisition), if you can replicate that expierence in a more robust language, then you'll see VB dropped like a plague ridden swamp rat carcass.
Fortunately I had a Java teacher that made it a point to show us how non-impossible GUI programming can be. But in almost every other langauge I was taught, it was all CLI based examples. You may have seen one example of a windows app, but the subject was kept out of scope.But when you start looking at VB, right away you are making things that are more like real programs than "hello world" examples. It seems to me that there's no reason that in the world of resuable code that a similar expierence could not be produced using true OOP languages.
I was hopeing for something like that when I picked up MS C++Most of us can't afford the new tech every time it comes out, so we grab on to any excuse*ahem*good reason to justify upgrading we can.
Myself, I bought a GF4 that very much definetly had a fan on the board in the picture in the box, but when I got it home; no fan. It works ok, but doesn't tolerate overclocking too well.Eh, that's just as well, since the board it replaced roasted after the fan died.
mmmm... burning geforce....You're right about where the jobs are (internal apps). But even that area is bleeding jobs, just not as fast. Maybe in your company jobs have increased, but a few bright spots can't correct the glut of programmers. We have way too many people in the field and more entering every day on the promise of a "high paying IT career". As computing becomes de-mystified, programming becomes just another form of moderately skilled labor. Sure, the quality of all these new programmers may be less than even the average guy in the IT heyday, but we all should know by now that quality is not job #1 while the stock price is the end all and be all of success.
A minor statistical blip does not a recovery make. The globa economy continues to eat it's young.....
Nope, the installer chokes on needing another exe file. Something to do with windows inatller I think. Thats under regular wine on Mandrake.
That's million with an M. Not going down but staying steady or flat as they put it. Freaking analyists, this isn't about the viablilty of the business or the technology. This is purely about them not being able to make money off the stock price. To these people your company is a failure if they can't make money off you. Nevermind if you are actually making a nice profit. Feh!
.....we are.
AVI is more like a container than a particular format. The problem would be getting all the required codecs available for all the platforms.
Since the DRM would have to hook in to the player or OS at some point, I have doubts that we will see DRM in an open source environment any time soon. (see the whole DVD/CSS debacle for a prime example).
By the book you are probably right, but in reality (in a real court of "law"), copyright/patent/IP violation is guilty until proven innocent. Espically in civil court. Never mind that most people cannot afford to defend themselves in civil court.
"Yea that is a great idea just write everyting in C, what a dork.. " Eh, sounds fine to me, let's go for it! :-P
Yes. The tool is just that, a tool, legally and morally neutral. It's what is done with the tool that is either legal or illegial. Stealing music (with or without p2p) is already illegial. Hunting knives are very popular with murderers and rapists, why shouldn't we ban them then? What about "slim-jims"? (those bar things the locksmith uses to unlock a car) Those are real popular with car thieves? The list of things that make great tools for crime are almost endless. Once we start labeling things a tools of crime, we begin to make instant criminals, the burden will be on individuals to prove that they are only doing lawful things. Instead of the burden being on law enforcement to prove that they are doing unlawful things. Also, p2p does not give absolute privacy. People can still get your IP, and thus obtain your location. And there's plenty of anarchy on the web (and even more on IRC, where IPs are visible to everyone). Note that before p2p, music piracy was already going on on the web and ftp sites. We would be better served by prosceuting the offedners than by trying to take all thier toys.
Why not say.....
hey if you can't write your own drivers, why are you running linux?
or
if you can't write your own shell scripts, why are you running linux?
Another bit of "silly user, linux is for real men", thinking.
It's not that Debain is extremely hard, it's not. It's just an attempt to make it more accessable to pepole who aren't as advanced as others.
If we're talking about IT (I can't speak for other fields, you'd better be open to possibilities from any angle. It's not like theres a shortage of available workers out there. Even if you have to temporarily take a job in whichever sector you weren't looking for; more than likely you'll be jumping ships within a year or two to a better job/employer. Just make sure what you do will have a positive effect on your resume. And keep your eye out for possiblities even after you get your job. Keeping an good resume in the job search engines is a good thing to do, even if you're employed. (Ex: I got called with an nice offer hours before finding out I was about to hit the road, it pays to be visible)
When I worked for a state agency, myself and just about all new hires were kept in a permanent temporary status. This actually made sense for my job, a temporary part-time job, but they used this method for all empolyees up to a certian pay level. We would be terminated and re-hired in the payroll systems every 90 days or so to keep it legal. It was automatic, so you kept getting your timecards like always. Permanent slots were like little holy grails.
Software patents all seem to be simliar: means of doing X with a computer. It's like the better mousetrap scenario, if I invented one, I wouldn't be prevented from patenting one just beacuse the mousetrap in general already exists. But with software patents anyting that does this certian thing X on a computer, regardless of wether it's a new and improved way of doing it, is right out. This will kill advancement in the software field, as noone can afford to do anything that's already been done before (even if they can do it better). Welcome to the dark ages, here's your torch.
Like you just said, anonymonity is good sometimes, depending on how it's used. But above that, you say that anonymonity is only useful for breaking the law. You're putting anyonomity to good use right now.
Just because something (anonymity) allows you to do someting illegial, dosen't make the thing itself bad. There are plenty of perfectly legal things to say or distribute that one might would want to distribute with anonymity.
Your argument seems to be saying that only criminals need to worry about privacy ("if you have nothing to hide, then why would you mind a random search of your home").
Yes, criminals do have a vested interest in keeping secrets, but that does not mean that we should all live under constant surveilance.
Criminals also like to use bolt cutters, does that mean we should ban them?
I'm not saying that people should be stealing music, but saying that the means they use for doing so is inherently bad is a broad overgeneralization.
says the owner of patent #1282211112: Method for online trolling.
That another system does it better is a pretty weak indcitment. As is your anonymity = evil argument. One could say the same thing of posting as an AC.
It's odd, because some stories get duped, while some relevant stories get blocked for fear of the RIAA lawyers.
Well, considering it's free, we're still getting more than we pay for.
Not every file on p2p is a copyright violation. Some people actually use it to share files of thier own making, or public domain material.