Interesting thought, and yes, I agree. This would eventually have to be appealed to the Supreme Court, as I'm sure the backers of the DMCA have the 'fat wallets' to take it there. Would the little guy getting abused have the funds... I don't know?
The court would have to rule that the DMCA is unconstitutional, not simply stupid. There needs to be an expansion of the anti-DMCA arguments that would show this unconstitutionality to the court, something more than free speech arguments if you ask me (not that these arguments are false, but that seems to be shakey ground these days). We'll know more about how the court thinks on similar issues once it rules on Lessig's arguments in the Eldred case.
Because of all of this, for now, simply winning the case and narrowing the use of the DMCA would be a good start.
"His supporters believed -- and still do -- that Sklyarov's program represents free speech protected by the First Amendment."
Can someone explain this argument to me? I honestly do not get it. My understanding is that free speech means that the government can't throw me in jail for saying "DMCA sucks!" But just because I have freedom of speech doesn't mean that I can do malicious things with my speech and expect no consequences. I can be prosecuted for yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theatre, so why can't I be prosecuted if my speech is malicious in some other way? Also, how can you justify interpreting 'speech' in this broad way? I can't imagine the framers would agree. Just honestly curious, no flame please.
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I think you have oversimplified the difference between the two. Your analogy is appealing at first, but it doesn't correspond well to evolutionary processes. The fact the random (or manufactured) genetic mutations can produce changes within species is easily proven. We can can observe the process just as we can observe your walking across your living room.
But can we observe speciation or massive shifts from one type of organism to another? No. We know how you you could walk from SF to NY, but exactly how does a dinosaur become a bird or a monkey become a man? There are vague and general theories, but the case is far from closed. Evolutionists respond that we shouldn't expect to see this happening because of the vast amounts of time required, when pressed on this issue.
Now, I may have given away my bias, but I'm trying to be objective here. On the one hand, we understand the process very well, we can observe it in nature, and reproduce it in the lab. On the other hand, we have some "what if's", "maybe's", and such. Nothing observable. I think that warrants some special care to distinguish between the two. Economics on any scale uses concepts such as supply and demand, the rationality of individual choice, etc. but I had to take a microeconomics class as well as a macroeconomics clss. Apparently, it is still important to know the difference between the two.
No, they will not become mainstream. They would, were it not for the fact that the law and the corporate media distributers and such are restricting many of the popular uses of an operating system and software. DRM and security protocols will continue to make matters worse. It would be like buying a toaster that you're not allowed to make toast with or that Wonder Bread designs their bread to go soggy in. It would make a good paperweight!
I do not believe this is an illegal practice, such as predatory pricing. To target specific demographics (regional wealth or lack of it,etc.) would be predatory. This is simply competing for business. And it's a smart move for them in the long term.
...if there is a member of your team getting trounced, ask this question:
Will this member be advantagous to us in the long run?
If yes, then help out the member at the expense of yourself. If no, then let member die (or in this case, spin them off)
I am a firm believer in learning lessons from simple things and applying them to bigger ones, and this is not a difficult strategy to understand. What I can't figure out is what possible long-term benefit can AOL be? Any ideas?
Like any other type of security strategy, a proper one should have several layers of defence. I think this idea is an excellent one, and would serve well as one layer in a complete strategy. Another good layer might be trapping. Of course heuristics and signature scanning should be used as well. The most important layer of all IMHO... training. Human training.
From the sound of this article, the FCC chair back then was hesitant to give something away for free that would raise billions for him in sales, but did so to see if it would have a positive impact on the eceonomy. If their weren't great results (documentable), these senators have their work cut out for them.
You don't need filters if the fan is always blowing out. Besides, there's always going to be dust in the box anyway, you just open it up and blow it out with Anti-static air. Looks like you could blow out that cooling unit too. That's a good thing to do every 6 mo. or so anyway, depending on the environment.
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Terms of Use you need to download the Movielink Manager Software to use the service. Is there any reason why they couldn't just port this software for Mac, without breaking their DRM schema? Does the Windows operating system offer any inherent advantage to DRM over Apple, or is this just a political statement?
I think you missed the point. We are talking about the OBSERVATION of nature, which is much different than designing something from scratch to take advantage of laws of physics. I didn't think I had to make that difference explicit, but then, that assumes that you read the posts...
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand the huge fear about genetically altered food. Sure it would be bad if say, a large number of plants were altered to take in oxygen and release CO2, but why can't I eat such a plant? It's not like my body is going to absorb their DNA, actually my enzymes and acids will break the food down and absorb the nutrients, then get rid of the waste. As long as a company can show that any genetic alterations do not make the plant produce poisons, what's the big deal? I've been wondering this for a while, and help would be appreciated.
Point of correction: The airplane wing is less a product of nature than physics. Funny thing is, it was looking at the way birds flew that kept many people from discovering how to keep a plane in the air. All the way back to da Vinci (maybe before), people had designed flapping wings, like birds. The ornithopters were a miserable failure, and it wasn't until this idea was jettisoned that flight really took off (pun intended).
Not to take away from your point, though. Studying nature is often extremely fruitful.
High level languages like Ruby, Python, or even Java are strongly recommended for all new projects. The reason these languages are more secure (in theory) is that they don't have pointers. Most security vulnerabilities that involve breaking program code involve manipulating pointers-in fact, many programming bugs are generally related to pointers in some way. As with the OS issue noted above, do not mistake this for invulnerability. You're simply less likely to be compromised using this particular attack vector with a high level programming language.
I guess we better throw out everything other language, since these are "strongly recommended for all new projects." Here's a better idea: why not just write the software in the language best suited for the job, or that you're more familiar with, and code it to check for unexpected data.
Since a lot of people here are saying that this type of filtering won't work, how about this:
TAX SPAMMERS!
I'm sure this idea can't be original, but think about it... if you don't want someone to do something, just charge them like crazy for it. (RIAA nodds, internet radio sobs) Hey, here's a legitimate reason to read others' email headers! But seriously, what barriers would keep something like this from working?
Can they record analog info?
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That kind of surveillance would, however, be limited to obtaining a suspect's telephone number, IP address, URLs or e-mail header information--not the contents of online communications or telephone calls.
I wonder... is email header information analogous to the address, return address, and postmark of a snail-mail letter? Is the post office currently allowed to track these w/o a warrant?
How much time would the gov waste if we all sent blank emails to Kabul?
Very funny! I agree that the average Joe is still going to be lost with the technical aspects of this article, but the author does generalize...
And you can't drive as fast when it's raining, even though your car has windshield wipers and headlights and a roof and a heater, all of which protect you from caring about the fact that it's raining (they abstract away the weather), but lo, you have to worry about hydroplaning (or aquaplaning in England) and sometimes the rain is so strong you can't see very far ahead so you go slower in the rain, because the weather can never be completely abstracted away, because of the law of leaky abstractions
I've heard a lot of people say that they can't believe how many homes, schools, and other buildings were destroyed by the huge thunderstorms that hit the states this past weekend, or that many people died. Hello, we haven't yet figured out how to control everything! American (middle to upper-class) life is a leaky abstaction. We find this out when we have a hard time coping with natural things that shake up our perfect (abstacted) world. That is what we all need to understand.
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I just don't believe this could have been leaked, not with the M$ Prime Directive "security is top priority"...
This sounds like a great idea for city-folk, but for country folk like myself, I think we're out of luck. Sprints PCS towers are great, but they are concentrated around urban areas. I can use my Sprint phone at work, but at around the same place every day on my commute home, I begin to lose signal. Many of my friends have that problem as well.
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Interesting thought, and yes, I agree. This would eventually have to be appealed to the Supreme Court, as I'm sure the backers of the DMCA have the 'fat wallets' to take it there. Would the little guy getting abused have the funds... I don't know?
The court would have to rule that the DMCA is unconstitutional, not simply stupid. There needs to be an expansion of the anti-DMCA arguments that would show this unconstitutionality to the court, something more than free speech arguments if you ask me (not that these arguments are false, but that seems to be shakey ground these days). We'll know more about how the court thinks on similar issues once it rules on Lessig's arguments in the Eldred case.
Because of all of this, for now, simply winning the case and narrowing the use of the DMCA would be a good start.
I think you have oversimplified the difference between the two. Your analogy is appealing at first, but it doesn't correspond well to evolutionary processes. The fact the random (or manufactured) genetic mutations can produce changes within species is easily proven. We can can observe the process just as we can observe your walking across your living room.
But can we observe speciation or massive shifts from one type of organism to another? No. We know how you you could walk from SF to NY, but exactly how does a dinosaur become a bird or a monkey become a man? There are vague and general theories, but the case is far from closed. Evolutionists respond that we shouldn't expect to see this happening because of the vast amounts of time required, when pressed on this issue.
Now, I may have given away my bias, but I'm trying to be objective here. On the one hand, we understand the process very well, we can observe it in nature, and reproduce it in the lab. On the other hand, we have some "what if's", "maybe's", and such. Nothing observable. I think that warrants some special care to distinguish between the two. Economics on any scale uses concepts such as supply and demand, the rationality of individual choice, etc. but I had to take a microeconomics class as well as a macroeconomics clss. Apparently, it is still important to know the difference between the two.
No, they will not become mainstream. They would, were it not for the fact that the law and the corporate media distributers and such are restricting many of the popular uses of an operating system and software. DRM and security protocols will continue to make matters worse. It would be like buying a toaster that you're not allowed to make toast with or that Wonder Bread designs their bread to go soggy in. It would make a good paperweight!
I do not believe this is an illegal practice, such as predatory pricing. To target specific demographics (regional wealth or lack of it,etc.) would be predatory. This is simply competing for business. And it's a smart move for them in the long term.
...we nickname this rabbit 'Bugs'.
...if there is a member of your team getting trounced, ask this question:
Will this member be advantagous to us in the long run?
If yes, then help out the member at the expense of yourself.
If no, then let member die (or in this case, spin them off)
I am a firm believer in learning lessons from simple things and applying them to bigger ones, and this is not a difficult strategy to understand. What I can't figure out is what possible long-term benefit can AOL be? Any ideas?
The most anoying thing to me is that many big books are so repetitive that they waste my time.
What was that address?
No I wouldn't do THAT, but that would be a good place to mail all of your AOL cd's to.
Like any other type of security strategy, a proper one should have several layers of defence. I think this idea is an excellent one, and would serve well as one layer in a complete strategy. Another good layer might be trapping. Of course heuristics and signature scanning should be used as well. The most important layer of all IMHO... training. Human training.
The FCC did something similar in 1997 to see "whether this is pie in the sky or part of the 21st-century reality."
I haven't read yet about any conclusions drawn from that experiment though.
From the sound of this article, the FCC chair back then was hesitant to give something away for free that would raise billions for him in sales, but did so to see if it would have a positive impact on the eceonomy. If their weren't great results (documentable), these senators have their work cut out for them.
Oh no... I hope they don't really make it to earth and kill everything!
Wait, Enterprise could just sling-shot around the sun for a do-over... never mind.
You don't need filters if the fan is always blowing out. Besides, there's always going to be dust in the box anyway, you just open it up and blow it out with Anti-static air. Looks like you could blow out that cooling unit too. That's a good thing to do every 6 mo. or so anyway, depending on the environment.
According to the Terms of Use you need to download the Movielink Manager Software to use the service. Is there any reason why they couldn't just port this software for Mac, without breaking their DRM schema? Does the Windows operating system offer any inherent advantage to DRM over Apple, or is this just a political statement?
I think you missed the point. We are talking about the OBSERVATION of nature, which is much different than designing something from scratch to take advantage of laws of physics. I didn't think I had to make that difference explicit, but then, that assumes that you read the posts...
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand the huge fear about genetically altered food. Sure it would be bad if say, a large number of plants were altered to take in oxygen and release CO2, but why can't I eat such a plant? It's not like my body is going to absorb their DNA, actually my enzymes and acids will break the food down and absorb the nutrients, then get rid of the waste. As long as a company can show that any genetic alterations do not make the plant produce poisons, what's the big deal? I've been wondering this for a while, and help would be appreciated.
Point of correction: The airplane wing is less a product of nature than physics. Funny thing is, it was looking at the way birds flew that kept many people from discovering how to keep a plane in the air. All the way back to da Vinci (maybe before), people had designed flapping wings, like birds. The ornithopters were a miserable failure, and it wasn't until this idea was jettisoned that flight really took off (pun intended).
Not to take away from your point, though. Studying nature is often extremely fruitful.
Does this mean another round of annoying commercials?
I guess we better throw out everything other language, since these are "strongly recommended for all new projects." Here's a better idea: why not just write the software in the language best suited for the job, or that you're more familiar with, and code it to check for unexpected data.
Since a lot of people here are saying that this type of filtering won't work, how about this:
TAX SPAMMERS!
I'm sure this idea can't be original, but think about it... if you don't want someone to do something, just charge them like crazy for it. (RIAA nodds, internet radio sobs) Hey, here's a legitimate reason to read others' email headers! But seriously, what barriers would keep something like this from working?
I wonder... is email header information analogous to the address, return address, and postmark of a snail-mail letter? Is the post office currently allowed to track these w/o a warrant?
How much time would the gov waste if we all sent blank emails to Kabul?
I've heard a lot of people say that they can't believe how many homes, schools, and other buildings were destroyed by the huge thunderstorms that hit the states this past weekend, or that many people died. Hello, we haven't yet figured out how to control everything! American (middle to upper-class) life is a leaky abstaction. We find this out when we have a hard time coping with natural things that shake up our perfect (abstacted) world. That is what we all need to understand.
I just don't believe this could have been leaked, not with the M$ Prime Directive "security is top priority"...
*places tongue in cheek*
This sounds like a great idea for city-folk, but for country folk like myself, I think we're out of luck. Sprints PCS towers are great, but they are concentrated around urban areas. I can use my Sprint phone at work, but at around the same place every day on my commute home, I begin to lose signal. Many of my friends have that problem as well.
Has anyone else seen this in there area?
I wonder if they'll let HP put everything they find there...