Very interesting point! See e.g. the the weather-rocket nearly nuclear "accident" (found no better URL yet): http://politicaltexan.com/wwwboard/messages /43.htm l
A little bit OT: There are real reasons why nuclear weapons should be abandoned now. They are still dangerous, but most people forgot them since they thought "oh it will get all better now" at end of the cold war. Their existence seems to be even more threatening than in the cold war.
But this reminds me that someone should develop/build something better than rockets for reaching the space. They've been used for a too long time now.
There are alternatives... electromagnetic propulsion, laser heated plasma propulsion etc.pp. It is technically feasible. But noone seems to be interested in it. The scientists doing such stuff are unfortunately short of money...
> Space race will detached itself from burocracy and popularity rates.
How will space race detach from popularity rates?! I mean, if space exploration is going to get privatized, it will even more depend on popularity rates.
This is no opinion, I just think it's a flaw in your argumentation.
Are there any surveys that show that the majority of europeans support this SH**?? We live in a democracy?! WHY HAVE THESE F*CKING COMPANY-LOBBIES MORE RIGHT THAN THE CONSUMER THEY SHOULD SERVE??? Are our governments finally infiltrated by the corporate mafia?!
Sorry for ranting. But I think its pretty clear. I'm feeling helpless. One notes the unfair situation here by the amount of argument the anti-software-patent-side has to do to let the politicians just LISTEN to their arguments. The pros say: Hey we need software patents because they are good for the economy. And the economy is good for you. Period. And the politicians follow. Uhhhh.... Maybe I should grow up. Maybe I shouldn't bother. This is clearly the wrong forum to say that, I know... But where else?
I would by one, if I only had enough money:(
Like all the other toys which are usable but essentially superfluos.
But maybe I should not complain, studying physics to get my hands on knobs of interesting, expensive and cool toys at work time;)
... is how the current copyright system evolved. Is it only me who see it influenced mainly by national political interests? First, the U.S. were not very aware of copyright issues, having not a law like the europeans (according to the article). Probably the euros tried hard to prevent other countries from stealing intellectual property. Now it is the western world preventing poorer countries to do that (with the U.S. at the forefront!)
I feel confirmed in thinking that these IP laws (copyright, patents etc.) are founded by hypocritical arguments.
> Fallout comes from unused fissile material or material contaminated when it cam in direct contact with the material.
NO, you are wrong. The fission products are highly radioactive. So you can of course "optimize" the amount of U/Pu "burned", but the result is highly radioactive. There is no clean bomb, sorry. Don't even speak about thermonuclear weapons, they create lots of neutrons...
Nukes have no "use" for military targets nowadays. They hurt the civilians.
Of course a bit of inequality seems to be necessary to stimulate competition... But.... if one citizen has 100 times more money than another one, things go clearly wrong. NO ONE can work >100x harder or more effective compared to an average person.
And this much money means power. Too much power in hands not allowed to have so much power.
The figure "100" is of course subject to argument:)
Why not venus? Some scientists say it is as probable as on mars to find life there... Admitted, the surface of venus is just too hot, but wouldn't a balloon floating through venus' athmosphere (at temperatures comparable to earth's) an idea? I often thought about that, I just don't know why noone is considering it yet. Seems to be an easier goal for human space travel. And, venus is nearer to earth than mars. First of all, we could send unmanned balloons.
In a hundred years? The Free Software Foundation will rule the world, of course! The will be no binaries left, just source, so there will be only scripting languages:)
- Isn't flying in general, especially by a concorde extremly fuel-consuming?!
- As I remember my early physics courses, friction is roughly proportional to the square of speed, isn't it? And then calculate the energy/kilometer traveled...
- Isn't that another reason why flying should only be used for transcontinental travels?
Wouldn't it be rather simple to crash a train? And the modern trains have also 500 & more people on it. I mean, there are no security checks etc. for you if you want to go by train. For me, it seems to be an easy target for the terrorists.
Isn't this a very good working tactic - i.e. a "salami tactic"? You introduce a bill over and over again, and if it does not work, you make some "adjustments", let it pass and several month/years later, you implement more of your "goal"?!
Privacy? I mean, they can sniff your connection and analyze your traffic?? This sounds terrible. Isn't this forbidden by privacy laws? I think, here in germany, it is (not 100% sure), but isn't it also in the U.S./NZ elsewhere? And some providers here have also such silly TOS...
Very interesting would be the application of today's data mining technologies to the data the government collects. Maybe it can find out whom you voted for with an error 5% or something like that....SCARY...
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I think that can be managed. There is a repository holding the signed originals or you make the signature out of the data in the image that will not be altered by cropping etc. You have of course make that relatively tolerant so that it doesn't complain about the noise added by printing/scanning. But DRM would help here, either:)
IANAFD. (I am not a freenet developer). First of all, freenet is only p2p. There are no servers. But freenet is designed to scale well and this means that they have good routing algorithms.
Why don't they use freenet? Not that I propose copyright infringement, but I would not like other people watching me as I'm copying data, maybe just to the neighbour via the LAN - and using a p2p tool for it...... and with freenet, the activity would be untraceable.
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I'm not working in a DRM company, but I guess the overall plot is like this:
1. You get a watermarked and encrypted version of a file (say music) via public http/ftp. 2. You call the company, give them a hash of the encrypted file (so that they can compare it to their database), transfer money on their account and in turn, they 3. send you your *individual* decryption key. 4. you play the music, copy it freely, but don't think about giving it to someone else... BANG! Because it will be watermarked, they can track the originator down.
Ok, there is one weakness left and this is probably the one every DRM-defeating scheme will exploit in the long term. The watermarking. If you known how it has been done, you can of course overwrite/kill the hidden hints in your media. But that's the very reason why companies try to hide especially the watermarking process. There is of course still the possibility of an attack (multiple people buying the same song and comparing their individually stamped versions), but it gets really hard to circumvent. Even if its only software.
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A problem with this is, that it commits OSFS developer's resources to patent research and not to development!
It is merely a temporary solution.
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Very interesting point!s /43.htm l
See e.g. the the weather-rocket nearly nuclear "accident" (found no better URL yet):
http://politicaltexan.com/wwwboard/message
A little bit OT: There are real reasons why nuclear weapons should be abandoned now. They are still dangerous, but most people forgot them since they thought "oh it will get all better now" at end of the cold war. Their existence seems to be even more threatening than in the cold war.
They are doing cool stuff!
But this reminds me that someone should develop/build something better than rockets for reaching the space. They've been used for a too long time now.
There are alternatives... electromagnetic propulsion, laser heated plasma propulsion etc.pp.
It is technically feasible. But noone seems to be interested in it.
The scientists doing such stuff are unfortunately short of money...
> Space race will detached itself from burocracy and popularity rates.
How will space race detach from popularity rates?!
I mean, if space exploration is going to get privatized, it will even more depend on popularity rates.
This is no opinion, I just think it's a flaw in your argumentation.
And:
* Patents should not affect open source/free software.
Are there any surveys that show that the majority of europeans support this SH**??
We live in a democracy?! WHY HAVE THESE F*CKING COMPANY-LOBBIES MORE RIGHT THAN THE CONSUMER THEY SHOULD SERVE???
Are our governments finally infiltrated by the corporate mafia?!
Sorry for ranting. But I think its pretty clear.
I'm feeling helpless. One notes the unfair situation here by the amount of argument the anti-software-patent-side has to do to let the politicians just LISTEN to their arguments. The pros say: Hey we need software patents because they are good for the economy. And the economy is good for you. Period.
And the politicians follow. Uhhhh....
Maybe I should grow up. Maybe I shouldn't bother. This is clearly the wrong forum to say that, I know...
But where else?
I would by one, if I only had enough money :(
Like all the other toys which are usable but essentially superfluos.
But maybe I should not complain, studying physics to get my hands on knobs of interesting, expensive and cool toys at work time ;)
... is how the current copyright system evolved.
Is it only me who see it influenced mainly by national political interests?
First, the U.S. were not very aware of copyright issues, having not a law like the europeans (according to the article). Probably the euros tried hard to prevent other countries from stealing intellectual property. Now it is the western world preventing poorer countries to do that (with the U.S. at the forefront!)
I feel confirmed in thinking that these IP laws (copyright, patents etc.) are founded by hypocritical arguments.
> Fallout comes from unused fissile material or material contaminated when it cam in direct contact with the material.
NO, you are wrong. The fission products are highly radioactive. So you can of course "optimize" the amount of U/Pu "burned", but the result is highly radioactive.
There is no clean bomb, sorry.
Don't even speak about thermonuclear weapons, they create lots of neutrons...
Nukes have no "use" for military targets nowadays. They hurt the civilians.
Of course a bit of inequality seems to be necessary to stimulate competition...
:)
But.... if one citizen has 100 times more money than another one, things go clearly wrong.
NO ONE can work >100x harder or more effective compared to an average person.
And this much money means power. Too much power in hands not allowed to have so much power.
The figure "100" is of course subject to argument
Perhaps this would be the optimal opportunity to build an [optical] wireless mesh network?
Of course, this would be very daring, but isn't it something to consider when you are already planning such an innovative thing like town networking?
Why not venus?
Some scientists say it is as probable as on mars to find life there...
Admitted, the surface of venus is just too hot, but wouldn't a balloon floating through venus' athmosphere (at temperatures comparable to earth's) an idea?
I often thought about that, I just don't know why noone is considering it yet. Seems to be an easier goal for human space travel.
And, venus is nearer to earth than mars.
First of all, we could send unmanned balloons.
In a hundred years? :)
The Free Software Foundation will rule the world, of course!
The will be no binaries left, just source, so there will be only scripting languages
Ok, admitted, my post was a bit provocative by generalizing for any aircraft... sorry :)
This may sound very trollish on slashdot, but...
- Isn't flying in general, especially by a concorde extremly fuel-consuming?!
- As I remember my early physics courses, friction is roughly proportional to the square of speed, isn't it? And then calculate the energy/kilometer traveled...
- Isn't that another reason why flying should only be used for transcontinental travels?
Wouldn't it be rather simple to crash a train?
And the modern trains have also 500 & more people on it.
I mean, there are no security checks etc. for you if you want to go by train. For me, it seems to be an easy target for the terrorists.
Isn't this a very good working tactic - i.e. a "salami tactic"?
You introduce a bill over and over again, and if it does not work, you make some "adjustments", let it pass and several month/years later, you implement more of your "goal"?!
Privacy?
I mean, they can sniff your connection and analyze your traffic??
This sounds terrible. Isn't this forbidden by privacy laws?
I think, here in germany, it is (not 100% sure), but isn't it also in the U.S./NZ elsewhere?
And some providers here have also such silly TOS...
Very interesting would be the application of today's data mining technologies to the data the government collects. Maybe it can find out whom you voted for with an error 5% or something like that. ...SCARY...
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I think that can be managed. There is a repository holding the signed originals or you make the signature out of the data in the image that will not be altered by cropping etc. You have of course make that relatively tolerant so that it doesn't complain about the noise added by printing/scanning. :)
But DRM would help here, either
IANAFD. (I am not a freenet developer).
First of all, freenet is only p2p. There are no servers.
But freenet is designed to scale well and this means that they have good routing algorithms.
Why don't they use freenet? ... and with freenet, the activity would be untraceable.
Not that I propose copyright infringement, but I would not like other people watching me as I'm copying data, maybe just to the neighbour via the LAN - and using a p2p tool for it...
I'm not working in a DRM company, but I guess the overall plot is like this:
1. You get a watermarked and encrypted version of a file (say music) via public http/ftp.
2. You call the company, give them a hash of the encrypted file (so that they can compare it to their database), transfer money on their account and in turn, they
3. send you your *individual* decryption key.
4. you play the music, copy it freely, but don't think about giving it to someone else... BANG!
Because it will be watermarked, they can track the originator down.
Ok, there is one weakness left and this is probably the one every DRM-defeating scheme will exploit in the long term. The watermarking. If you known how it has been done, you can of course overwrite/kill the hidden hints in your media.
But that's the very reason why companies try to hide especially the watermarking process.
There is of course still the possibility of an attack (multiple people buying the same song and comparing their individually stamped versions), but it gets really hard to circumvent. Even if its only software.