They could however use the TCPA system to decrypt messages USING your private key though, until the root compromise was discovered and removed.
The whole idea is that TCPA detects the root compromise as soon as it happened. As you point out after that, the white papers don't explain in detail how it does this, but it does give an overview.
As for keeping the key in the user's head--these are pretty damned large numbers. I have memorized my social security number, bank account numbers, and various passwords, but memorizing private keys as they increase in length will become, for practical purposes, impossible. (People who memorize whole books or thousands of digits of pi are generally considered exceptions outside the geek community...)
Okay, so TCPA is not evil, as I had been led to believe. I have a nagging question about it, though, that I need answered before I consider it a Good Thing.
Let's say I'm sitting and twiddling my thumbs, or serving rather a lot of MP3's to the Internet at large, or something, and my computer crashes. Uh-oh, the hard drive can't be read. Looks like I need to boot from another drive to fix it. Trouble is, when I try to do so, TCPA interrupts and tells me I'm trying to boot from a different system, which isn't allowed. How do I repair my drive?
Of course, as a Mac user, I guess I don't have to worry about this much anyway (Apple still hasn't signed up for TCPA, right?). Besides, maybe in the Wintel/*nix-other-than-OS-X world I know so little about, there's a simple way to overcome this. But wouldn't a simple way to overcome it involve using software to make the switch? It's either that or jumpers on the motherboard, right? So the question stands.
Somebody fill the void in my brain! I long to know!
I'm posting this using a computer running Mac OS X Server. Do you think I paid for it? I'm a college student (==broke). Of course I didn't throw away $1000 on some OS just so i could serve my music (on Louise) more easily (ah, the irony). I found Server on LimeWire (a Gnutella client)...along with MS Office X, Adobe Photoshop, and countless other pieces of software.
It's not that I haven't ever paid for software, it's that the software I've paid for cost what it was worth: $7-10. So much for cost not being a motivating factor behind file sharing. Bigger apps are obviously worth more, but $400 for Office is exhorbitant. The one normally priced piece of software I've bought was a $90 disk utility called Data Rescue X that seemed to be the only thing that would get my music back after one of my hard drives crashed. But you'd better believe I tried the software first.
Games cost $50. Think about it. I think the main reason games aren't so popular there is that game demos are widely available and are free to download.
This would be more accurate:
Games cost $50. Think about it. I think the main reason games are so popular there is that game demos are widely available and are free to download.
I don't buy something I can't try first. I buy shareware, I buy music I've already downloaded, etc. If I were in the market to buy a car, I would want to take it for a test drive; this is no different.
Incidentally, I think if more people would take this shop-around attitude to purchases, more people would have Macs...but I'll stop there before the moderators shout, "Off-topic!"
So don't use P2P...get your music directly from me.
Louise: Serving the music piracy community since 2002; serving the cinema piracy community since 2003.
Not that I guarantee quality of all my files...but I do go through and weed out duplicates and broken files every once in a while, to keep some semblance of quality in the collection...this is, after all, my own personal MP3 collection as well.
Disclaimer: I am a freshman in college meaning I have very little real, direct experience with...anything.
Nonetheless, I have a brain with which to think, and perhaps more importantly I have connections.
Specifically, my dad is a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, and all my life I've heard tales from work at the dinner table.
The popular idea that the media are liberal is a myth. This myth is perpetuated by the fact that many reporters, both for newspapers and for TV stations, are liberal, and sometimes manage to put a liberal spin on stories. People read this liberal spin as representing the industry.
But the spin is just the most obvious manipulation of society by the media. More subtle is the way in which they choose what to cover in the first place.
My dad is incredibly liberal; he's very much in favor of socialism, if that gives you any idea. This has a direct effect on the way he writes stories, so it has a direct effect on what his readers think. It also has an effect on what he wants to cover--but not necessarily on what he covers. Countless times I've heard him rant about a story he found having to do with city, county or state politics that he desperately wanted to cover--corrupt politicians are everywhere, at every level of government. Countless times I've he's said days later that he researched and wrote the story, but the paper wouldn't run it because the editors, who ultimately decide what gets printed, wanted to stay on the good side of the executives, who after all are rich and therefore Republicans.
The bottom line is that reporters, like any middle-class, working-class citizens, tend to be liberal, but the newspapers are owned by conservatives to whom the editors have to cater. An analagous situation is no doubt the case in television news.
To take my case outside the news media, listen to Tom Petty's new album, The Last DJ. The whole album, with the exception of one song, is a slam at the music industry and the way that the record labels steal from the artists. The chorus of one of the songs includes the line, "You get to be famous, I get to be rich." This is obviously a very liberal view Petty is expounding.
Now, having listened to this album, listen to the radio a bit. Let me know if you hear any of these songs.
Basically, Petty was allowed to publish this album because he's a big name and the companies knew it would sell. That's the only reason he was allowed to get away with it, and even with that in mind I suspect that that one song, the exception mentioned above, had to be included to keep the label happy.
The result is that on the surface the media put a liberal spin on everything, but the persistent motives behind the long-term behavior of the conglomerates owning the media companies are always conservative.
Hey, what's the worst that can happen? My computer slows to a crawl, maybe crashes, maybe gets hacked. Anyway, I just turn off guest access till the hubbub is over, and meanwhile I get to brag of having been/.ed.
More likely not very many people choose to actually follow the link, and those that do realize that my connection is terribly slow for uploading. (I really expected better of a college dorm...oh well.)
Hmmm, I can still ping louise.dhs.org...not surprising since it's my own computer, but that means I can still resolve the host name to an IP address. I can also connect to myself via FTP (the above link works for me). Mayhaps the problem is at your end. Or maybe U of M's "ResComp" (residential computing) are as incompetent at keeping me online as they have shown themselves to be all year.
Craving a real connection...craving an apartment where I can have such a connection...craving money with which to pay for it all...craving popcorn...mmm.........
Where did you get the $.5-1 million figure? I'd bet the RIAA invented those numbers to aid them in their fight against piracy and fair use.
[Posted using a dual 1.25 GHz Power Mac running Mac OS X Server 10.2.3 and serving up 60 gigs of music to whoever wants it. Visit ftp://louise.dhs.org/ for more details.]
What's to guarantee that trusted features will stay opt-in forever? Once this is legislated, our tyrannical government will find ways to extend the original legislation in any way possible.
We need to get the lizards and aliens out of office or we'll all be wishing we lived in a country as free as Iraq.
If you ask me, Microsoft and their monopoly aren't nearly as dangerous to this country as Republicans and Democrats and their duopoly. Before we worry about competition in the software industry, maybe we should open the political industry to competition. I'm for OSG--open source government! Vote for Linus in 2004!
As was pointed out after the recent Macworld and the release of Safari and Keynote, Apple seems to be attacking Microsoft on more and more fronts. If you're looking for a new version of AppleWorks that has the feature set to compete with Office, you may only have to wait.
I don't know about Keynote (I don't have much use for presentation software), but if Safari is any indication, such an update would be enough to kill Office for Mac. Hey, Safari is still in beta and already it's good enough to have replaced IE for most purposes on my machine. The only time i still use IE is for playing Go on Yahoo--the applet doesn't work quite right in Safari.
Anyway, I'm hoping for a modestly priced (maybe free? I doubt it) Apple-branded competitor to Office X within the next couple of Macworlds. Just idle speculation.
Think iWorks.
Did you read the story? Gobe went belly-up when Be did. A company that makes money by writing software for a particular OS generally does not last long if that OS disappears.
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If Apple is the Harley Davidson of the computing industry, just call me a member of the computer world's Hell's Angels.
I have a friend with a PBG4 (600MHz, I believe) named Virginia running OS X 10.2.3 who uses Safari with no trouble. It loads pages quickly, generally renders them error-free, and doesn't crash.
I have a PMG4 2x1.25 GHz named Louise running OS X Server 10.2.3 (why? because I can) and I have tried Safari. It crashes frequently while loading www.versiontracker.com, generally loads pages extremely slowly and renders them incorrectly.
What do you want from a beta? Safari probably has issues with multiprocessor systems, or with Server. I'll use it when they release it for real; till then (though I know I'll get plenty of flak for it on/.) I'll stick with IE.
There is an exemption to this if you as an individual import a single copy of any work at any time and intend only to keep them and not redistribute them.
So, in other words, downloading a copy of a song from a host in Europe, where it's in the public domain, is perfectly legal as long as you only intend to listen to it and not distribute it.
This is perfectly reasonable. So is the fact that it is not legal to distribute such music in the U.S. once downloaded. The former will not keep the RIAA from making such single-imports illegal by buying off Congress, and the latter will not keep me from distributing any such music I download along with all the other music I already illegally offer for free, illegal download. So far the RIAA's efforts have not affected me.
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They could however use the TCPA system to decrypt messages USING your private key though, until the root compromise was discovered and removed.
The whole idea is that TCPA detects the root compromise as soon as it happened. As you point out after that, the white papers don't explain in detail how it does this, but it does give an overview.
As for keeping the key in the user's head--these are pretty damned large numbers. I have memorized my social security number, bank account numbers, and various passwords, but memorizing private keys as they increase in length will become, for practical purposes, impossible. (People who memorize whole books or thousands of digits of pi are generally considered exceptions outside the geek community...)
Okay, so TCPA is not evil, as I had been led to believe. I have a nagging question about it, though, that I need answered before I consider it a Good Thing.
Let's say I'm sitting and twiddling my thumbs, or serving rather a lot of MP3's to the Internet at large, or something, and my computer crashes. Uh-oh, the hard drive can't be read. Looks like I need to boot from another drive to fix it. Trouble is, when I try to do so, TCPA interrupts and tells me I'm trying to boot from a different system, which isn't allowed. How do I repair my drive?
Of course, as a Mac user, I guess I don't have to worry about this much anyway (Apple still hasn't signed up for TCPA, right?). Besides, maybe in the Wintel/*nix-other-than-OS-X world I know so little about, there's a simple way to overcome this. But wouldn't a simple way to overcome it involve using software to make the switch? It's either that or jumpers on the motherboard, right? So the question stands.
Somebody fill the void in my brain! I long to know!
Maybe he'll overdose on #5 and we won't have to worry about it.
I'm posting this using a computer running Mac OS X Server. Do you think I paid for it? I'm a college student (==broke). Of course I didn't throw away $1000 on some OS just so i could serve my music (on Louise) more easily (ah, the irony). I found Server on LimeWire (a Gnutella client)...along with MS Office X, Adobe Photoshop, and countless other pieces of software.
It's not that I haven't ever paid for software, it's that the software I've paid for cost what it was worth: $7-10. So much for cost not being a motivating factor behind file sharing. Bigger apps are obviously worth more, but $400 for Office is exhorbitant. The one normally priced piece of software I've bought was a $90 disk utility called Data Rescue X that seemed to be the only thing that would get my music back after one of my hard drives crashed. But you'd better believe I tried the software first.
Games cost $50. Think about it. I think the main reason games aren't so popular there is that game demos are widely available and are free to download.
This would be more accurate:
Games cost $50. Think about it. I think the main reason games are so popular there is that game demos are widely available and are free to download.
I don't buy something I can't try first. I buy shareware, I buy music I've already downloaded, etc. If I were in the market to buy a car, I would want to take it for a test drive; this is no different.
Incidentally, I think if more people would take this shop-around attitude to purchases, more people would have Macs...but I'll stop there before the moderators shout, "Off-topic!"
So don't use P2P...get your music directly from me.
Louise: Serving the music piracy community since 2002; serving the cinema piracy community since 2003.
Not that I guarantee quality of all my files...but I do go through and weed out duplicates and broken files every once in a while, to keep some semblance of quality in the collection...this is, after all, my own personal MP3 collection as well.
Disclaimer: I am a freshman in college meaning I have very little real, direct experience with...anything.
Nonetheless, I have a brain with which to think, and perhaps more importantly I have connections.
Specifically, my dad is a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, and all my life I've heard tales from work at the dinner table.
The popular idea that the media are liberal is a myth. This myth is perpetuated by the fact that many reporters, both for newspapers and for TV stations, are liberal, and sometimes manage to put a liberal spin on stories. People read this liberal spin as representing the industry.
But the spin is just the most obvious manipulation of society by the media. More subtle is the way in which they choose what to cover in the first place.
My dad is incredibly liberal; he's very much in favor of socialism, if that gives you any idea. This has a direct effect on the way he writes stories, so it has a direct effect on what his readers think. It also has an effect on what he wants to cover--but not necessarily on what he covers. Countless times I've heard him rant about a story he found having to do with city, county or state politics that he desperately wanted to cover--corrupt politicians are everywhere, at every level of government. Countless times I've he's said days later that he researched and wrote the story, but the paper wouldn't run it because the editors, who ultimately decide what gets printed, wanted to stay on the good side of the executives, who after all are rich and therefore Republicans.
The bottom line is that reporters, like any middle-class, working-class citizens, tend to be liberal, but the newspapers are owned by conservatives to whom the editors have to cater. An analagous situation is no doubt the case in television news.
To take my case outside the news media, listen to Tom Petty's new album, The Last DJ. The whole album, with the exception of one song, is a slam at the music industry and the way that the record labels steal from the artists. The chorus of one of the songs includes the line, "You get to be famous, I get to be rich." This is obviously a very liberal view Petty is expounding.
Now, having listened to this album, listen to the radio a bit. Let me know if you hear any of these songs.
Basically, Petty was allowed to publish this album because he's a big name and the companies knew it would sell. That's the only reason he was allowed to get away with it, and even with that in mind I suspect that that one song, the exception mentioned above, had to be included to keep the label happy.
The result is that on the surface the media put a liberal spin on everything, but the persistent motives behind the long-term behavior of the conglomerates owning the media companies are always conservative.
Of course they list Apple first.
Three cheers for the one PC manufacturer who doesn't think PC stands for Politically Correct!
Aren't most of the rest of those companies also listed in the TCPA member list?
Euchre works for me too, but for some reason Safari breaks on Go. Go figure (so to speak).
Hey, what's the worst that can happen? My computer slows to a crawl, maybe crashes, maybe gets hacked. Anyway, I just turn off guest access till the hubbub is over, and meanwhile I get to brag of having been /.ed.
More likely not very many people choose to actually follow the link, and those that do realize that my connection is terribly slow for uploading. (I really expected better of a college dorm...oh well.)
Anyway, yes, I'm asking for it. Bring it on!
Hmmm, I can still ping louise.dhs.org...not surprising since it's my own computer, but that means I can still resolve the host name to an IP address. I can also connect to myself via FTP (the above link works for me). Mayhaps the problem is at your end. Or maybe U of M's "ResComp" (residential computing) are as incompetent at keeping me online as they have shown themselves to be all year.
Craving a real connection...craving an apartment where I can have such a connection...craving money with which to pay for it all...craving popcorn...mmm.........
Where did you get the $.5-1 million figure? I'd bet the RIAA invented those numbers to aid them in their fight against piracy and fair use.
[Posted using a dual 1.25 GHz Power Mac running Mac OS X Server 10.2.3 and serving up 60 gigs of music to whoever wants it. Visit ftp://louise.dhs.org/ for more details.]
It's not just a post, it's 1.1 posts compressed to look like a single one.
What's to guarantee that trusted features will stay opt-in forever? Once this is legislated, our tyrannical government will find ways to extend the original legislation in any way possible.
We need to get the lizards and aliens out of office or we'll all be wishing we lived in a country as free as Iraq.
If you ask me, Microsoft and their monopoly aren't nearly as dangerous to this country as Republicans and Democrats and their duopoly. Before we worry about competition in the software industry, maybe we should open the political industry to competition. I'm for OSG--open source government! Vote for Linus in 2004!
As was pointed out after the recent Macworld and the release of Safari and Keynote, Apple seems to be attacking Microsoft on more and more fronts. If you're looking for a new version of AppleWorks that has the feature set to compete with Office, you may only have to wait. I don't know about Keynote (I don't have much use for presentation software), but if Safari is any indication, such an update would be enough to kill Office for Mac. Hey, Safari is still in beta and already it's good enough to have replaced IE for most purposes on my machine. The only time i still use IE is for playing Go on Yahoo--the applet doesn't work quite right in Safari. Anyway, I'm hoping for a modestly priced (maybe free? I doubt it) Apple-branded competitor to Office X within the next couple of Macworlds. Just idle speculation. Think iWorks.
Did you read the story? Gobe went belly-up when Be did. A company that makes money by writing software for a particular OS generally does not last long if that OS disappears.
If Apple is the Harley Davidson of the computing industry, just call me a member of the computer world's Hell's Angels.
I have a friend with a PBG4 (600MHz, I believe) named Virginia running OS X 10.2.3 who uses Safari with no trouble. It loads pages quickly, generally renders them error-free, and doesn't crash.
/.) I'll stick with IE.
I have a PMG4 2x1.25 GHz named Louise running OS X Server 10.2.3 (why? because I can) and I have tried Safari. It crashes frequently while loading www.versiontracker.com, generally loads pages extremely slowly and renders them incorrectly.
What do you want from a beta? Safari probably has issues with multiprocessor systems, or with Server. I'll use it when they release it for real; till then (though I know I'll get plenty of flak for it on
There is an exemption to this if you as an individual import a single copy of any work at any time and intend only to keep them and not redistribute them. So, in other words, downloading a copy of a song from a host in Europe, where it's in the public domain, is perfectly legal as long as you only intend to listen to it and not distribute it. This is perfectly reasonable. So is the fact that it is not legal to distribute such music in the U.S. once downloaded. The former will not keep the RIAA from making such single-imports illegal by buying off Congress, and the latter will not keep me from distributing any such music I download along with all the other music I already illegally offer for free, illegal download. So far the RIAA's efforts have not affected me.