Well, you could use some of that header info to your advantage. Just send some pink-o, commie, left-wing, government conspiracy drivel to those at the top of the header list and make it look like it came from your grandparents.
Poof!! They get removed from some of their friends' forwarding lists. At the very least, they stop forwarding stuff to you.
OK, at the very, very least, you get written out of their will, but I can see that you're a man of principles and you won't let that deter you from doing what is right.
... what makes this conjecture even more frustrating is the fact that 1 and 2-dimensional forms of this conjecture were incredibly easy to prove, as well as 4 and up have been solved, and were reasonably easy as well. Yet for some reason the 3 dimensional version does not lend itself easily to a simple proof.
Hey! That sounds like the old tri-sexing an angle problem: the 1-, 2- and 4- problems are easy, but tri-sexing is really hard.
MP3 is not cd quality, even it its maximum bits. it doesn't come in a case or on a disk. No art work, no lyrics, no stickers.
Everyone is different, of course, but groups of us have similar characteristics. My wife is a "visual" person. She's likely to say, "Yeah, the music's OK, but look at the cover art! The colors are just awesome!" She'd rather watch a video of the song than listen to just the audio.
Some people are more aural. They don't care if there's a case or cover art or even a CD. As long as the music is playing in their ears, that's all that's important.
Others take it one step further - they don't even need the sound in their ears. After they've heard a particularly good song a few times, they can mentally reproduce the important features without hearing the sounds again.
I know this to be true because I'm somewhere between the last two types. (For those telepathics out there, Blue Danube Waltz seems to be playing in my head right now if you care to tune in. It's the Vienna Philharmonic's version and they do it rather well.)
So what is the RIAA trying to protect? The artwork and physical CD? No problem. They can keep them.
The songs in my head? Good luck chumps, those are mine.
The sound waves? Ahh, now we're into one of those gray areas. The exact data on the original masters? Yep, they own 'em. Me, trying to sing "Sk8ter Boi"? Nope, (and they'd probably pay me royalties to stop). How about a third or fourth generation cassette tape? Maybe.
Legally, it's hard to define, but operationally it's easy: they claim anything that resembles their copyrighted property that has monetary value. High quality MP3s fall into this category because people 1) accept them as substitutes for the CD (which has value) and 2) many people have said they would be be willing to pay for MP3s. That third or fourth generation cassette tape probably has zero value, so the RIAA likely doesn't care.
File trading of low quality copies is certainly in the music industry's best interest. You hear a song you like and you want a copy that sounds good so you buy the CD. Trading high quality MP3s is different. The copy is good enough and if the rest of the CD sucks (a whole 'nuther issue) you're not going to buy it. It's the whole carrot-and-stick thing. You want that carrot, but you don't want to pull their damn wagon. Most people feel insulted when put in this kind of a position, and rightfully so. Maybe that's why everyone is so passionate about file sharing - we take the insult personally.
So it seems that trading low quality MP3s of individual songs (not the whole CD) puts you on fairly firm ground ethically, especially if the music industry is putting out great music. You'll tend to buy the product and the copy can be viewed as advertising. If the music mostly sucks and you're just picking the gems from the rubbish, you're depriving the music industry of their livelihood. The fact that their livelihood is based on a flawed product does not give anyone the right to steal it.
I've heard "Check out the indies" many times here. That's our ethically correct option. If the RIAA's product mostly sucks, go find another product. If the RIAA's music is good enough to steal, then maybe it doesn't suck all that much, huh?
I'm sure it would be possible to condense 16+ of experience and interaction in a virtual world into the span of say, a few weeks of hyperlearning.
Let's start with the assumption that you're correct.
Add to this the fact that the human brain develops from birth to maturity in roughly 18 years, give or take.
The gist of the idea is that we could take a six-year-old and zap in 16 years of experience and then he could just bypass school. But a six-year-old's brain is not able to handle the concepts, so we'd have to wait until he's 18 or 20.
So what does he do with those 12 years while he's waiting for maturity to set it?
What can be done to stop sales and marketting (and politicians) from diluting perfectly good technical terms.
The solution to this problem has already been given by Douglas Adams at the end of Hitchikers' Guide.
The scientists and techies convinced everyone that a large asteroid would hit the Earth in a few years. They decided to build three huge spaceships to ferry everyone off the planet. Since the marketeers and politicians were so important to the success of the new colony on a distant planet, they insisted that they should leave on the first ship so they could set up the economy and the government before everyone else arrived.
As soon as the first ship left, the techies announced that there was no asteroid and the Earth was now free of marketeers and politicains.
Remember this the next time you hear about an asteroid warning from the techies at NASA.
I prefer to keep the job and become a cynical sadistic lazy immoral pencil-stealing morale-lowering whining obstructionist trying to inflict the most damages while precisely following orders.
Maybe if you fuckheads had something better to do than boo our kids playing hockey, we'd take you seriously.
Maybe if our kids played better hockey, Canadians would take us more seriously, eh?
On another totally off topic, when you Canadians finally get around to applying for Statehood, please have each Province apply separately. Fifty-one stars on the flag would suck.
I'm not sure what you mean by "immediate harm can be done via the internet".
Reading a book on bombmaking, researching, getting the materials, testing, etc. can cause harm. The book is a factor, but not the immediate cause of the harm.
Enticing a child to meet a moletser at the mall via a chat room is more "immediate" both in terms of time and, more importantly, direct causation. The latter meaning is what I had in mind.
While in these examples, the bombmaking plans could have come from the Internet and the molester could have used some means other than the Internet, it still remains that the Internet gives one the ability to act (even if only "verbally"). Books do not.
What about the guy who thinks it's cute to log on through the local library and send death threats to whitehouse.gov? When the Secret Service shows up at the library and the records are shredded, who do they bust? The librarian.
Or what about the creep who uses the library's Internet connection to download pr0n, then goes into the men's room to masturbate? What do you say to the 8-year-old who walks into the men's room and discovers him? What do you say to the kid's mother when little Johnny tells her about it?
More to the issue, when you ban the creep from using the library computers and he sues you, you'd better have those logs to support your case.
On The Other Hand - what you read is nobody else's business. If Big Brother feels that a book or video on explosives is subversive, let Big Brother summon up the kahoonas to burn these subversive materials publicly and take the consequences. Don't hide behind the librarians and make them do your dirty work.
The difference here is that books/videos are read-only. Internet access is not. Since immediate harm can be done via the Internet, more restrictions should apply.
1964-ish - IBM introduces the 360 line. The competition is RCA/Spectra, Sperry/UNIVAC, and a GE monster that looks like a big brown art-Deco toaster and still uses vacuum tubes. The software is free as in beer/speech. IBM's software only runs on IBM hardware, so why not?
1972-ish - IBM introduces the 370 line. The software is still free. The competition is non-existant.
1975-ish - Amdahl introduces the 470 line. It uses IBM's free software with very little modification. IBM shrugs.
1978-ish - Amdahl's market share steadily increases. They have no software development costs, so their prices are much lower than IBM's. IBM says, "Damn!"
1980-ish - Hitachi and Fujitsu announce IBM compatable mainframes. IBM cries, "Not fair!"
1981-ish - IBM's new OS is not free-as-in-beer. Many parts of it are OCO (object code only). Over the next 20 years, most of the OS disappears behind the OCO curtain. (There are no restrictions about reverse engineering, though, because most old systems people can read binaries like they are source, anyway.)
1982-ish - As mainframes and their software become more expensive, universities opt for smaller computers that run Unix. AT&T makes Unix (and the source code) free to colleges and universities. "Open Systems" becomes the buzzword around IT circles. "Open Systems" is a secret code for "Unix".
1990-ish - Microsoft announces Windows. Everyone shrugs. There is no source, but you can get a copy of the diskettes from just about anyone you know.;-)
1996-ish - An internal IBM group asks what can be done to stem the Unix tide. The answer: open up your source code. Nothing comes of this effort.
2000-ish - First Hitachi, then Amdahl/Fujitsu drop out of the IBM compatable mainframe market. IBM snickers.
2001-ish - Microsoft gets serious about copy protection and authentication. An internal Microsoft memo asks, "Where's the source?"
2002-ish - Microsoft gets serious about security. An internal Microsoft memo questions whether there is any source.
Present - Universities still teach "Computer Science" which is heavy on theory. They need source code. They get source code with Unix/Linux. Students learn Unix/Linux. Students graduate and work for companies. The new graduates push for Unix/Linux because that's what they know. Companies continue to lean toward Unix/Linux. IBM says, "Damn!" Microsoft copyrights "Damn!" and says, "Damn!"
As explained in 2010, "He was trapped. HAL was told to lie by people who found it easy to lie. HAL didn't know how to lie, so he couldn't function. "
That "explanation" in 2010 was revisionist in the extreme. In 2001 HAL had predicted that an assembly would fail soon. The ground-based backup computer (identical to HAL) predicted otherwise. One of the computers was wrong, but which one? The solution was to put the part back in service and see if it failed. If so, HAL is vindicated and can continue the mission. If the part doesn't fail, HAL is wrong and his future is uncertain.
Then HAL reads Dave's lips as he suggests that if HAL is wrong, he will have to be shut down. Faced with a possible "death penalty", HAL decides that self-preservation is top priority and the means to ensure it is to kill the crew.
Very logical, but not very ethical.
Many humans have found themselves in just such a position and as a result, many other humans have died.
One of the rumored new restrictions is that you may not mask the identity of a network connection. In your opinion, does this refer to the identity of each machine or the identity of the subscriber (who might be responsible for several machines behind a firewall, e.g.)?
In other words, are we talking about "people" or "boxes"?
"because if they did give a shit, they would realize that GSM is better for them, because every other nation around them uses it!!!.
"
Not for long, home-boy.
Every other nation around them didn't speak English fifty years ago, either, but the times, they are a-changin'.
Okay, all you Yanqui-bashing whiners out there, this is how Pax Americana works:
You speak English - and like it. Brits are allowed to speak with their humorous accent, but that's only because they're grandfathered.
You use CDMA for your cell phones, SAE for your nuts and bolts, S/M/L/XL for your clothing sizes. (And nobody -not even Bozo the Clown- wears a size 42 shoe.)
You eat at your local McDonalds at least once a week. You do have the freedom to choose: Pepsi or Coke!
And, since we're being vulgar here, who the fuck gave Europe permission to go to daylight savings time a week early. Those doofuses almost made me miss my wife's birthday party and for that, I say:
Cub Scouts - Pinewood Derby - remember those days? Some 10-year-olds built their own cars and some obviously were built by Dad.
The problem? Dads wanted to get involved and compete vicariously through their kids.
The solution? Hold a separate, no-holds-barred race for Dads only where anything goes and there is no spending limit on exotic parts and materials. That way Dads are not competing against kids.
For online games, just host two versions, one "straight" where cheating is not tolerated, and the other where cheating is necessary and appreciated as an art form.
Patents have NOTHING to do with DMCA.... Intel CAN'T go after individual OCers with this patent.
Very true, but...
If I crack the OC protection and patent my crack, I can sue OCers for infringing my patent when they crack the OC protection. I'll just have to get in line behind Mr. Ashcroft who'll be prosecuting them for DMCA violation.
Given the choice of being in line in front of or behind Mr. Ashcroft, I'd choose "behind".
According to the block diagram, they compare the (divided down) system clock with a 32.768KHz reference crystal. I'm thinking they can't put the ref crystal on the CPU die, and if it's external it can be replaced with a slightly (or grossly) faster one.
... which was discussed several months ago on/. IIRC, goes into much more detail on the dynamics of the cat-and-mouse game of DRM and copy distribution and is very insightful about the possible outcomes.
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Poof!! They get removed from some of their friends' forwarding lists. At the very least, they stop forwarding stuff to you.
OK, at the very, very least, you get written out of their will, but I can see that you're a man of principles and you won't let that deter you from doing what is right.How fitting.
Hey! That sounds like the old tri-sexing an angle problem: the 1-, 2- and 4- problems are easy, but tri-sexing is really hard.
I should know. I tried. Dislocated my hip.Who says math can't hurt ya?
All IT managers who used to be techies are required to get a lobotomy. This is standard industry procedure, but it's not even mentioned.
Sheesh!1. The astronauts use it to write in their notebooks.
2. The notebooks sell at auction 30 years later.3. Profit!!
Everyone is different, of course, but groups of us have similar characteristics. My wife is a "visual" person. She's likely to say, "Yeah, the music's OK, but look at the cover art! The colors are just awesome!" She'd rather watch a video of the song than listen to just the audio.
Some people are more aural. They don't care if there's a case or cover art or even a CD. As long as the music is playing in their ears, that's all that's important.Others take it one step further - they don't even need the sound in their ears. After they've heard a particularly good song a few times, they can mentally reproduce the important features without hearing the sounds again.
I know this to be true because I'm somewhere between the last two types. (For those telepathics out there, Blue Danube Waltz seems to be playing in my head right now if you care to tune in. It's the Vienna Philharmonic's version and they do it rather well.)So what is the RIAA trying to protect? The artwork and physical CD? No problem. They can keep them.
The songs in my head? Good luck chumps, those are mine.The sound waves? Ahh, now we're into one of those gray areas. The exact data on the original masters? Yep, they own 'em. Me, trying to sing "Sk8ter Boi"? Nope, (and they'd probably pay me royalties to stop). How about a third or fourth generation cassette tape? Maybe.
Legally, it's hard to define, but operationally it's easy: they claim anything that resembles their copyrighted property that has monetary value. High quality MP3s fall into this category because people 1) accept them as substitutes for the CD (which has value) and 2) many people have said they would be be willing to pay for MP3s. That third or fourth generation cassette tape probably has zero value, so the RIAA likely doesn't care.File trading of low quality copies is certainly in the music industry's best interest. You hear a song you like and you want a copy that sounds good so you buy the CD. Trading high quality MP3s is different. The copy is good enough and if the rest of the CD sucks (a whole 'nuther issue) you're not going to buy it. It's the whole carrot-and-stick thing. You want that carrot, but you don't want to pull their damn wagon. Most people feel insulted when put in this kind of a position, and rightfully so. Maybe that's why everyone is so passionate about file sharing - we take the insult personally.
So it seems that trading low quality MP3s of individual songs (not the whole CD) puts you on fairly firm ground ethically, especially if the music industry is putting out great music. You'll tend to buy the product and the copy can be viewed as advertising. If the music mostly sucks and you're just picking the gems from the rubbish, you're depriving the music industry of their livelihood. The fact that their livelihood is based on a flawed product does not give anyone the right to steal it.I've heard "Check out the indies" many times here. That's our ethically correct option. If the RIAA's product mostly sucks, go find another product. If the RIAA's music is good enough to steal, then maybe it doesn't suck all that much, huh?
Let's start with the assumption that you're correct.
Add to this the fact that the human brain develops from birth to maturity in roughly 18 years, give or take.The gist of the idea is that we could take a six-year-old and zap in 16 years of experience and then he could just bypass school. But a six-year-old's brain is not able to handle the concepts, so we'd have to wait until he's 18 or 20.
So what does he do with those 12 years while he's waiting for maturity to set it?I grimmace in anticipation of the replies.
From Animal House:
Bluto: Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?Otter: The Germans??
Boone: Forget it, he's rolling.The solution to this problem has already been given by Douglas Adams at the end of Hitchikers' Guide.
The scientists and techies convinced everyone that a large asteroid would hit the Earth in a few years. They decided to build three huge spaceships to ferry everyone off the planet. Since the marketeers and politicians were so important to the success of the new colony on a distant planet, they insisted that they should leave on the first ship so they could set up the economy and the government before everyone else arrived.As soon as the first ship left, the techies announced that there was no asteroid and the Earth was now free of marketeers and politicains.
Remember this the next time you hear about an asteroid warning from the techies at NASA.Rob S. !!
I didn't know you read Slashdot!Maybe if our kids played better hockey, Canadians would take us more seriously, eh?
On another totally off topic, when you Canadians finally get around to applying for Statehood, please have each Province apply separately. Fifty-one stars on the flag would suck.Teacher: Did you complete your library research assignments?
Class (in unison): We couldn't - the library was Slashdotted again.Reading a book on bombmaking, researching, getting the materials, testing, etc. can cause harm. The book is a factor, but not the immediate cause of the harm.
Enticing a child to meet a moletser at the mall via a chat room is more "immediate" both in terms of time and, more importantly, direct causation. The latter meaning is what I had in mind.While in these examples, the bombmaking plans could have come from the Internet and the molester could have used some means other than the Internet, it still remains that the Internet gives one the ability to act (even if only "verbally"). Books do not.
Or what about the creep who uses the library's Internet connection to download pr0n, then goes into the men's room to masturbate? What do you say to the 8-year-old who walks into the men's room and discovers him? What do you say to the kid's mother when little Johnny tells her about it?
More to the issue, when you ban the creep from using the library computers and he sues you, you'd better have those logs to support your case.On The Other Hand - what you read is nobody else's business. If Big Brother feels that a book or video on explosives is subversive, let Big Brother summon up the kahoonas to burn these subversive materials publicly and take the consequences. Don't hide behind the librarians and make them do your dirty work.
The difference here is that books/videos are read-only. Internet access is not. Since immediate harm can be done via the Internet, more restrictions should apply.1964-ish - IBM introduces the 360 line. The competition is RCA/Spectra, Sperry/UNIVAC, and a GE monster that looks like a big brown art-Deco toaster and still uses vacuum tubes. The software is free as in beer/speech. IBM's software only runs on IBM hardware, so why not?
1972-ish - IBM introduces the 370 line. The software is still free. The competition is non-existant.1975-ish - Amdahl introduces the 470 line. It uses IBM's free software with very little modification. IBM shrugs.
1978-ish - Amdahl's market share steadily increases. They have no software development costs, so their prices are much lower than IBM's. IBM says, "Damn!"1980-ish - Hitachi and Fujitsu announce IBM compatable mainframes. IBM cries, "Not fair!"
1981-ish - IBM's new OS is not free-as-in-beer. Many parts of it are OCO (object code only). Over the next 20 years, most of the OS disappears behind the OCO curtain. (There are no restrictions about reverse engineering, though, because most old systems people can read binaries like they are source, anyway.)1982-ish - As mainframes and their software become more expensive, universities opt for smaller computers that run Unix. AT&T makes Unix (and the source code) free to colleges and universities. "Open Systems" becomes the buzzword around IT circles. "Open Systems" is a secret code for "Unix".
1990-ish - Microsoft announces Windows. Everyone shrugs. There is no source, but you can get a copy of the diskettes from just about anyone you know. ;-)
1996-ish - An internal IBM group asks what can be done to stem the Unix tide. The answer: open up your source code. Nothing comes of this effort. 2000-ish - First Hitachi, then Amdahl/Fujitsu drop out of the IBM compatable mainframe market. IBM snickers.2001-ish - Microsoft gets serious about copy protection and authentication. An internal Microsoft memo asks, "Where's the source?"
2002-ish - Microsoft gets serious about security. An internal Microsoft memo questions whether there is any source.Present - Universities still teach "Computer Science" which is heavy on theory. They need source code. They get source code with Unix/Linux. Students learn Unix/Linux. Students graduate and work for companies. The new graduates push for Unix/Linux because that's what they know. Companies continue to lean toward Unix/Linux. IBM says, "Damn!" Microsoft copyrights "Damn!" and says, "Damn!"
(MP3 player or PC sound card) LINE-OUT ---> LINE-IN (Stereo)
Sometimes the simplest solutions are not the most obvious ones.That "explanation" in 2010 was revisionist in the extreme. In 2001 HAL had predicted that an assembly would fail soon. The ground-based backup computer (identical to HAL) predicted otherwise. One of the computers was wrong, but which one? The solution was to put the part back in service and see if it failed. If so, HAL is vindicated and can continue the mission. If the part doesn't fail, HAL is wrong and his future is uncertain.
Then HAL reads Dave's lips as he suggests that if HAL is wrong, he will have to be shut down. Faced with a possible "death penalty", HAL decides that self-preservation is top priority and the means to ensure it is to kill the crew.Very logical, but not very ethical.
Many humans have found themselves in just such a position and as a result, many other humans have died.In other words, are we talking about "people" or "boxes"?
Not for long, home-boy.
Every other nation around them didn't speak English fifty years ago, either, but the times, they are a-changin'.Okay, all you Yanqui-bashing whiners out there, this is how Pax Americana works:
You speak English - and like it. Brits are allowed to speak with their humorous accent, but that's only because they're grandfathered.
You use CDMA for your cell phones, SAE for your nuts and bolts, S/M/L/XL for your clothing sizes. (And nobody -not even Bozo the Clown- wears a size 42 shoe.)You eat at your local McDonalds at least once a week. You do have the freedom to choose: Pepsi or Coke!
And, since we're being vulgar here, who the fuck gave Europe permission to go to daylight savings time a week early. Those doofuses almost made me miss my wife's birthday party and for that, I say:
NUKE FRANCE !!I thought she was scheduled to appear on an album cover wearing this technology.
[rim shot]The problem? Dads wanted to get involved and compete vicariously through their kids.
The solution? Hold a separate, no-holds-barred race for Dads only where anything goes and there is no spending limit on exotic parts and materials. That way Dads are not competing against kids.For online games, just host two versions, one "straight" where cheating is not tolerated, and the other where cheating is necessary and appreciated as an art form.
Very true, but...
If I crack the OC protection and patent my crack, I can sue OCers for infringing my patent when they crack the OC protection. I'll just have to get in line behind Mr. Ashcroft who'll be prosecuting them for DMCA violation.Given the choice of being in line in front of or behind Mr. Ashcroft, I'd choose "behind".
Definitely "behind".According to the block diagram, they compare the (divided down) system clock with a 32.768KHz reference crystal. I'm thinking they can't put the ref crystal on the CPU die, and if it's external it can be replaced with a slightly (or grossly) faster one.
... which was discussed several months ago on /. IIRC, goes into much more detail on the dynamics of the cat-and-mouse game of DRM and copy distribution and is very insightful about the possible outcomes.