> It can also be used to verify the authenticity of > footages, lets say the doctored photo in Time > magazine yesterday.
But you certainly don't need such a program for such a purpose. GPG/PGP is enough. Sign your content and nobody can alter it (without breaking the signature). But this has *nothing* to do with DRM.
If every reporter signs the photos he created, there would be no attempt to change a photo because the signature would be obviously broken.
Hmm, the article mostly addresses economical issues, not the technical ones. In my sense, after reading through the article, I have no new clue about building wifi networks... Thought it would contain technical things, I'm a bit disappointed..:)
Its basically the same as with copyright. You can argue similar in the copyright field. Anyway, copyright enforcement works, at least for the business sector.
Take e.g. CO2 lasers. They are cheap, can relatively easy be made at home (http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm) and at the wavelength of about 10um, nearly nothing is that reflective.
> [...] (hey..it's a US company) [...] Yes, but do you want american media to be a megaphone of the american government? Isn't neccessary to postulate as much independent coverage as possible? CNN, Aljazeera & Co. is influencing the public opinion. You don't get informed by either sides......unfortunately, you need both "extreme" sides, just to get "information" as the intersection of the opinion of both sides...
Interestingly enough, games like "Age Of Empires" were not banned from germany. I guess it is because in "age of empires", your are using catapults, bows and similar things. In C&C, you use today's weapons to fight your virtual war...
And somehow, the people responsible for the ban think that killing by a bow is better than killing by a nuclear weapon. Very coherent reasoning.
Perhaps, of course, they don't ban AOE because it's from Microsoft;)
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I've found it. It's at KSK@uruklink-net-iraq.
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Actually, I've seen that this will happen and took a mirror of the uruklink.net/iraq/ website today (12:00 MET). I anyone is interested in miroring it (I can't provide the bandwidth probably needed), post me your eMail here and I will give you a link to a zip archive. Just don't want to get my isp angry, that's all.
I want to make clear the origins of that word. Sorry for hurting you by refering to an unspecified ship in the carribean sea.
What do you accuse me of? Political incorrectness?
I think it's quite clear that not every ship in the carribean sea is full of pirates. Don't see the devil everywhere.
security - The average user is (or should be...) afraid of his/her emails being intercepted and has a positive view of email _security_. And credit card numbers don't like to be transferred unecrypted, hence _security_ for online shopping is needed.
trusted computing platform alliance - TRUST?
All this comes often along with a repeated mention of "the consumer", "the customer" or "customer/consumer-oriented".
What happy are we - the consumers - about all this security and protection we get from the trustworthy record labels and software companies. They save us of from the hell of being captured by evil software pirates.
The PR people are thinking very much about their words.
Until the time arrives when DRM will be built" into every speaker you buy and the construction of paper sheets with attached magnets and coils falls under the DMCA or EU-DMCA or whatever.
Sounds silly?
Intel is on the way to integrate DRM into monitors so that you can't intercept the signal and record it (e.g. a movie). It's called HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection.
From a society point of view, if you outlaw napster & co., it get's harder. If copyrighted material is only available "underground", it may get harder to spot.
Ok, but palladium/tcpa is meant to be the *last* step in conquering the users PC in terms of copy protection. No way out. It is designed for that. It is not another bad block on your CD/DVD or anything like that. It's below all other stuff. I don't think your argument is right, look at the traditional movie/audio market, it seems that they got crazy really after they discovered napster & co.
From the article: "... leads to incoherent rhetoric..." The only rhetoric I hear and see all the time are the many euphemisms used by the "DRM industry".
drm - I best manage my rights by deciding freely what to do with the data on my PC
1.: They can. They are not using these computers for their daily work. Are you kidding?! 2.: You have probably seen enough of these boxes and stuff so you won't go into a computer museum. But others haven't, are interested, and they go. 3. There is sometimes older scientific data, still of relevance, that has to be recovered.
Interestingly enough, the old technology is not considered the best, at least not as a backup medium. This is the thing most of the preservation efforts go and should go into.
Admitted, paper lasts very long, there is enough ancient evidence:)
But look e.g. here http://www.osta.org/technology/cdqa13.htm,
they say that CD-Rs last 50-200 years(!) Compare that to magnetic tapes, discs, etc.
But the final solution for very important data may well be the engraving into gold-plated aluminium, as the NASA did it for pioneer 10...
It seems that mechanically changed media (stones, CD recordables etc.) have the longest lifetime.
I'm from europe, not the U.S. But it's basically the same here. I'm wondering where free software/open source fits into this discussion. At the moment, the IT world creates these "imaginary good" software and sells it through worldwide copyright agreements (WIPO etc.) to the western people and the 2nd/3rd world. So...
I may sound very silly here...... but shouldn't the western world - with the power it still has - promote the complete abolishment of copyright, patents etc.? - I'm not afraid of is the destruction of the software industry by that. If there is a demand for software, someone will write it. Maybe he will hide the source, but in the long term, this behaviour will lose. - this would be true globalization, everyone gets the same access to software
There is one big important assumption here: That the work of today will completely change into "brain work". But isn't that a thing the IT industry promotes and the people working there have as their self-perception?
The same thing happens when you, e.g., stop a bicycle tire from spinning by gripping the brake pad. This produces heat. The total angular momentum is still there, but in a form that can't be converted back into rotation of the bicycle tire.
Wrong. It can and it will. Read my other post. If you already admit that the momentum remains the same in the earth-moon-system, and now it is converted to heat, where is the momentum afterwards?
Heh, but not that diffuse as you might expect. Besides that you can't really have a "fixed point" in space to see that, the molecules are diffuse IN EARTH'S SYSTEM. But seen e.g. from the center of the solar system (~ center of the sun), the atmosphere is still turning around the earth in roughly *one* angular direction(1). And, no, no rotation can be irreversibly stored in heat. Think about it: Thermodynamics came from *molecular kinetics*. Boltzmann & Co. have applied the laws of mechanics in small scale to gain statistical formulas. All thermodynamic laws are *statistical*.
(1) - If it would not be the case, there would be a big slowdown of the atmosphere's rotation relative to the ground and a slight slowdown of the solid earth relative to the atmosphere system (averaged, of course). The energy would be pop up as a heated atmosphere, right. But seen from space, earth's angular momentum does not change.
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> It can also be used to verify the authenticity of
> footages, lets say the doctored photo in Time
> magazine yesterday.
But you certainly don't need such a program for such a purpose. GPG/PGP is enough. Sign your content and nobody can alter it (without breaking the signature). But this has *nothing* to do with DRM.
If every reporter signs the photos he created, there would be no attempt to change a photo because the signature would be obviously broken.
Hmm, the article mostly addresses economical issues, not the technical ones. :)
In my sense, after reading through the article, I have no new clue about building wifi networks...
Thought it would contain technical things, I'm a bit disappointed..
Its basically the same as with copyright.
:)
You can argue similar in the copyright field.
Anyway, copyright enforcement works, at least for the business sector.
I have not said if it is good or bad
Take e.g. CO2 lasers. They are cheap, can relatively easy be made at home (http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm) and at the wavelength of about 10um, nearly nothing is that reflective.
> [...] (hey..it's a US company) [...] ...unfortunately, you need both "extreme" sides, just to get "information" as the intersection of the opinion of both sides...
Yes, but do you want american media to be a megaphone of the american government?
Isn't neccessary to postulate as much independent coverage as possible?
CNN, Aljazeera & Co. is influencing the public opinion. You don't get informed by either sides...
Interestingly enough, games like "Age Of Empires" were not banned from germany.
;)
I guess it is because in "age of empires", your are using catapults, bows and similar things. In C&C, you use today's weapons to fight your virtual war...
And somehow, the people responsible for the ban think that killing by a bow is better than killing by a nuclear weapon. Very coherent reasoning.
Perhaps, of course, they don't ban AOE because it's from Microsoft
I've found it. It's at KSK@uruklink-net-iraq.
Actually, I've seen that this will happen and took
a mirror of the uruklink.net/iraq/ website today (12:00 MET).
I anyone is interested in miroring it (I can't provide the bandwidth probably needed), post me your eMail here and I will give you a link to a zip archive.
Just don't want to get my isp angry, that's all.
Standards - ok. But do patents really make sense in an economical way?
h tml
Software patenting is hot debated issue, but what about "ordinary" patents?
I've found an interesting link to an article totally against patents:
http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.
I want to make clear the origins of that word. Sorry for hurting you by refering to an unspecified ship in the carribean sea. What do you accuse me of? Political incorrectness? I think it's quite clear that not every ship in the carribean sea is full of pirates. Don't see the devil everywhere.
You're wrong here?
We are talking about the Department Of Digiland Security, not Homeland Security.
And to add a few more:
/consumer-oriented".
security - The average user is (or should be...) afraid of his/her emails being intercepted and has a positive view of email _security_. And credit card numbers don't like to be transferred unecrypted, hence _security_ for online shopping is needed.
trusted computing platform alliance - TRUST?
All this comes often along with a repeated mention of "the consumer", "the customer" or "customer
What happy are we - the consumers - about all this security and protection we get from the trustworthy record labels and software companies. They save us of from the hell of being captured by evil software pirates.
The PR people are thinking very much about their words.
Until the time arrives when DRM will be built" into every speaker you buy and the construction of paper sheets with attached magnets and coils falls under the DMCA or EU-DMCA or whatever.
Sounds silly?
Intel is on the way to integrate DRM into monitors so that you can't intercept the signal and record it (e.g. a movie). It's called HDCP -
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection.
Look here:
http://www.digital-cp.com/
From a society point of view, if you outlaw napster & co., it get's harder. If copyrighted material is only available "underground", it may get harder to spot.
Ok, but palladium/tcpa is meant to be the *last* step in conquering the users PC in terms of copy protection. No way out. It is designed for that. It is not another bad block on your CD/DVD or anything like that. It's below all other stuff.
I don't think your argument is right, look at the traditional movie/audio market, it seems that they got crazy really after they discovered napster & co.
From the article: ..."
"... leads to incoherent rhetoric
The only rhetoric I hear and see all the time are the many euphemisms used by the "DRM industry".
drm - I best manage my rights by deciding freely what to do with the data on my PC
copy *protection* - what does it protect?
piracy - I am not on a ship in the carribean sea.
etc.pp.
Sure they meant iraq not ipaq, didn't they?
This is just another form of advertisement. See how many vistors amazon.com attracts... even a slashdot story pops up :)
I agree with all the stuff you said,
except the 0.7 V drop along the red diode.
You can calculate that from the energie of a red photon:
U: Voltage
e: Electron charge
h: Planck's constant
c: Speed of light
l: Wavelength of light
U*e=(h*c)/l
=> U=(h*c)/(l*e)
With l=650nm, I get a voltage drop of about 1,9V.
Measuring the voltage of a red led on my desk, I get about 1,97V.
1.: They can. They are not using these computers for their daily work. Are you kidding?!
2.: You have probably seen enough of these boxes and stuff so you won't go into a computer museum. But others haven't, are interested, and they go.
3. There is sometimes older scientific data, still of relevance, that has to be recovered.
1. the netherlands are not poor....
2. it's a museum...
3. there is old that has to be conserved. (See my other post).
Interestingly enough, the old technology is not considered the best, at least not as a backup medium. This is the thing most of the preservation efforts go and should go into.
:)
Admitted, paper lasts very long, there is enough ancient evidence
But look e.g. here http://www.osta.org/technology/cdqa13.htm,
they say that CD-Rs last 50-200 years(!)
Compare that to magnetic tapes, discs, etc.
But the final solution for very important data may well be the engraving into gold-plated aluminium, as the NASA did it for pioneer 10...
It seems that mechanically changed media (stones, CD recordables etc.) have the longest lifetime.
I'm from europe, not the U.S. But it's basically the same here.
... but shouldn't the western world - with the power it still has - promote the complete abolishment of copyright, patents etc.?
I'm wondering where free software/open source fits into this discussion.
At the moment, the IT world creates these "imaginary good" software and sells it through worldwide copyright agreements (WIPO etc.) to the western people and the 2nd/3rd world. So...
I may sound very silly here...
- I'm not afraid of is the destruction of the software industry by that. If there is a demand for software, someone will write it. Maybe he will hide the source, but in the long term, this behaviour will lose.
- this would be true globalization, everyone gets the same access to software
There is one big important assumption here: That the work of today will completely change into "brain work". But isn't that a thing the IT industry promotes and the people working there have as their self-perception?
Just my 2c.
The same thing happens when you, e.g., stop a bicycle tire from spinning by gripping the brake pad. This produces heat. The total angular momentum is still there, but in a form that can't be converted back into rotation of the bicycle tire.
Wrong. It can and it will. Read my other post. If you already admit that the momentum remains the same in the earth-moon-system, and now it is converted to heat, where is the momentum afterwards?
Heh, but not that diffuse as you might expect. Besides that you can't really have a "fixed point" in space to see that, the molecules are diffuse IN EARTH'S SYSTEM. But seen e.g. from the center of the solar system (~ center of the sun), the atmosphere is still turning around the earth in roughly *one* angular direction(1). And, no, no rotation can be irreversibly stored in heat. Think about it: Thermodynamics came from *molecular kinetics*. Boltzmann & Co. have applied the laws of mechanics in small scale to gain statistical formulas. All thermodynamic laws are *statistical*.
(1) - If it would not be the case, there would be a big slowdown of the atmosphere's rotation relative to the ground and a slight slowdown of the solid earth relative to the atmosphere system (averaged, of course).
The energy would be pop up as a heated atmosphere, right. But seen from space, earth's angular momentum does not change.