If Comcast is going to disrupt Bittorrent traffic, all users will see benefit from using encrypted Bittorrent, just to keep Comcast's systems from sending the RSTs to them. Even a UK user, talking to an American system. Legitimate traffic or otherwise.
That was about two years ago, when my university class required submitting works to turnitin. Since the prof also asked for "electronic copy" of these documents, I submitted ODFs. Wow did they get annoyed, they asked for "real" Word files, instead of saving them in some format nobody's heard of.
I was tempted to misleadingly add text (size 1pt font in header, white colour, etc etc) from Wikipedia, totally unrelated to the topic at hand, just to mess with their filters. In retrospect, I should have done exactly that.
No, the jury's job is to determine if she broke the law, *and* determine if the law makes sense. There's this notion called Jury Nullification that provides for juries to not convict despite violation of law.
If the article is to be believed, the evidence pointing to the defendant is pretty substantial. It wasn't only IP addresses and ISP logs. It was account names (a hint to all of you: don't use the same account name everywhere if you don't want to be identifiable across different environments) as well. At that level of clearly identifying the person, and with a description of the defendant also established as "computer literate" to the point that they knew exactly what they were getting into? I'd call them liable too.
Perhaps surprising to Slashdot, the members of the RIAA does indeed have the copyrights to the works in question.
Aside: if you don't agree with how the members of the RIAA operate, stop giving them your money. But that doesn't mean you get to download stuff off P2P; in the same way the GNU GPL enforces "no distribution" if they can't meet their combined obligations, neither do you get to download music (or movies, re members of the MPAA) just because you feel like it.
This is terribly oversimplified, but the law says a third party can not interfere with a contract between two other parties, or induce one of these parties to break the contract.
There's a term for that: privity of contract. A contract is between only the parties to the contract, not to any third parties.
What size are you expecting each image to take? Windows XP isn't exactly lax on storage space, and applications for them can take another gigabyte without difficulty. Preloading a few gigabytes does take a bit of time; I suppose after that you'd use Windows sharing.
I think the previous comments about Citrix or such are a better solution. Terminal services, while not exactly cheap, may also work well for you. For a Unix environment, xdmcp is feasible in many circumstances. But as far as smart clients go, I'd be less than enthusiastic about remote VMware images. For one, you'd still need to run (say) a Linux host operating system underneath, which has much of the same difficulties as you'd see in Windows.
Compare the two files, and you see that there were only 7 bits that changed, all on the 5th most significant bit of the affected byte.
I guess it's obvious from looking at the ps file in text form, but if it's that easy to mangle postscript to display two different layers (or is it changing comments or pointers? I am not a binary postscript parser.) I still don't think it's time to throw md5 away yet. Six months.
What other hashing alternatives are there these days? SHA-1 apparently has the same kinds of weaknesses.
I doubt your neighbouring drivers have any better taste in music than whatever station is repeating the same drivel they call music on the air. Sadly, there's a reason (other than sheer repetition) why "top 40" are there - people do like songs like that.
In the same vein, your taste in Chinese rap probably doesn't appeal to many people driving around you either.
But that doesn't mean the presence of encryption tools meant he was guilty. Encryption tools have many uses, some of which are good - like authentication and assurance of confidentiality. It's great to have encryption tools like PGP when you're sending an email to your broker that you want to issue a stock trade from your investments account. Or to be reasonably assured that discussing a prototype / secret business proposal will not be intercepted.
Encryption is merely a tool, to be used for both good and evil. A mail envelope can contain mail, or it can contain anthrax. An encrypted document could be a plot by terrorists, or it could be just any other email.
A user not willing to fix their problems should not be allowed to use shared resources where they can cause problems for others. If you're going to enforce any policy and actually try to fix things, the user issue must be managed first. It's not like you're going to deploy McAfee EPO or something on a student residence.
You could also try choking those ports down to dialup or slower speeds until they fix the issue, but something tells me they're not going to fix the source of the issue in any case.
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Firefox seems to use an internal clipboard. Mozilla suite doesn't. Meaning that if I were to select a location or copy a url in Mozilla I can expect to middle-click it into an xterm, for example, for a wget. Or that if I select a link from elsewhere, I can middle-click that into the location bar. Not so for Firefox.
Corel had a huge deal with the Ontario Board of Education a few years back, to get WordPerfect onto every computer. They got it installed... but nobody used it. The Microsoft hold was too strong by then. And this was like 2000. I don't think this had changed...
I recall talking to the "computer" teacher/sysadmin at the time, suggesting WordPerfect or StarDivison's Staroffice on the additional Word licenses the school held. His answer was basically "but nobody will use it." Educators after all aren't accountable for costs like private businesses would be.
It's reasonable that he was emotionally worked up writing this reply, but the stuttery nature (so many paragraphs of only two sentences!) made it particularly hard to read. It felt incoherent and rushed, like new insults were going straight from brain to keyboard with no later revision.
A note to email users - it's very easy to make a bad impression with informal writing style!
The difference is in what they don't do. Windows Media Player also has those links to "buy music" and has the license management/DRM. Media Player Classic plays media, that's about it.
Probably because there hasn't been any alternatives, since Microsoft has been stifling them. User indifference matters here; re Netscape vs. Microsoft.
You think it's your God-given right to a high standard of living, to be able to drive a gas-guzzling SUV, to be able to not even worry about how you'll survive to the next day. (I'm guilty of the same, seeing as I'm posting on/. at all.) But you have to remember that these are not rights, they are privileges. Privileges earned by providing a high value to people. If nobody wants the things you provide, it's not my, nor is it the Indians', responsibility to subsidize you.
There are billions of people in the world that would kill - and kill many - to have the kind of luxury you seem to take for granted.
Do you buy those cheaper SUVs? And cheaper items at Walmart? Or, heck, cheap gasoline? Those are things that cause the US to bleed money left and right.
The cause is not easy to accept... but the US has failed to produce sufficient value worldwide to match its consumption for quite a while now. You can look inward for a solution, by trying to convince your population to buy US goods, but when they just simply can't compete with Chinese, Indian, Indonesian goods, look at what the problem really is.
The solution isn't easy either... but like I said, the jobs will come gushing back when there is an absolute cost advantage in American labour. Your, and your nation's workers', task is to figure out how. It could involve being even more productive than before, to the point that 1 US worker can do more than 10 Indian workers at 1/10th the cost each. Or it could mean slashing your cost (salary) to a level that is lower than the Chinese. Why must YOU be the one to lower your own wage? Because the alternative is to not work at all.
(I heartily support the devaluation of the US dollar for this reason. A 50% slash in the dollar's value will immediately double the cost of foreign labour and import costs. It would also mean a massive slash to the US standard of living, but we already argue that it's too high as it is.)
Okay, I don't get your argument at all. You want to reach a trade equilibrium with India, despite their having a lower cost and standard of living. You're unwilling to lower your standard of living. And you're blaming it on them?
If they can indeed do your job cheaper than you, then you are inefficient at your job. Tough luck. If they as a NATION can do it cheaper than you, then why shouldn't the US choose to go with the cheaper option? Some organizations will pay the service premium of having local developers. An organization the behemoth of IBM, Global Services can, and should, locate anywhere where it thinks it will be competitive.
If you can't compete in the labor market, become more competitive. Or fall behind in the Darwinism that is the free market.
And what if they don't want your stuff? Or can't afford it because the wages there are too low to afford $15k new GM vehicles? I'm not exactly thrilled with the "open market" notion of "i buy your stuff if you buy mine."
Now if you said, let's devalue the US dollar so that you actually had an absolute cost advantage over India on something, go right ahead. Something tells me Americans, whose livelihood would drop 20%-40% on that action, would be rather unhappy though.
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If Comcast is going to disrupt Bittorrent traffic, all users will see benefit from using encrypted Bittorrent, just to keep Comcast's systems from sending the RSTs to them. Even a UK user, talking to an American system. Legitimate traffic or otherwise.
That was about two years ago, when my university class required submitting works to turnitin. Since the prof also asked for "electronic copy" of these documents, I submitted ODFs. Wow did they get annoyed, they asked for "real" Word files, instead of saving them in some format nobody's heard of.
I was tempted to misleadingly add text (size 1pt font in header, white colour, etc etc) from Wikipedia, totally unrelated to the topic at hand, just to mess with their filters. In retrospect, I should have done exactly that.
No, the jury's job is to determine if she broke the law, *and* determine if the law makes sense. There's this notion called Jury Nullification that provides for juries to not convict despite violation of law.
If the article is to be believed, the evidence pointing to the defendant is pretty substantial. It wasn't only IP addresses and ISP logs. It was account names (a hint to all of you: don't use the same account name everywhere if you don't want to be identifiable across different environments) as well. At that level of clearly identifying the person, and with a description of the defendant also established as "computer literate" to the point that they knew exactly what they were getting into? I'd call them liable too.
Perhaps surprising to Slashdot, the members of the RIAA does indeed have the copyrights to the works in question.
Aside: if you don't agree with how the members of the RIAA operate, stop giving them your money. But that doesn't mean you get to download stuff off P2P; in the same way the GNU GPL enforces "no distribution" if they can't meet their combined obligations, neither do you get to download music (or movies, re members of the MPAA) just because you feel like it.
There's a term for that: privity of contract. A contract is between only the parties to the contract, not to any third parties.
Uh, no. Applied computer networks, sure. But to call "anonymous browsing" computer science is akin to calling bricklaying "engineering".
Just as audio has the Analog Hole that can never be plugged, framebuffer access restrictions can't continue once it gets out of the DVI cable.
What size are you expecting each image to take? Windows XP isn't exactly lax on storage space, and applications for them can take another gigabyte without difficulty. Preloading a few gigabytes does take a bit of time; I suppose after that you'd use Windows sharing.
I think the previous comments about Citrix or such are a better solution. Terminal services, while not exactly cheap, may also work well for you. For a Unix environment, xdmcp is feasible in many circumstances. But as far as smart clients go, I'd be less than enthusiastic about remote VMware images. For one, you'd still need to run (say) a Linux host operating system underneath, which has much of the same difficulties as you'd see in Windows.
Compare the two files, and you see that there were only 7 bits that changed, all on the 5th most significant bit of the affected byte.
I guess it's obvious from looking at the ps file in text form, but if it's that easy to mangle postscript to display two different layers (or is it changing comments or pointers? I am not a binary postscript parser.) I still don't think it's time to throw md5 away yet. Six months.
What other hashing alternatives are there these days? SHA-1 apparently has the same kinds of weaknesses.
I doubt your neighbouring drivers have any better taste in music than whatever station is repeating the same drivel they call music on the air. Sadly, there's a reason (other than sheer repetition) why "top 40" are there - people do like songs like that.
In the same vein, your taste in Chinese rap probably doesn't appeal to many people driving around you either.
Yes, the crime is reprehensible and unforgivable.
But that doesn't mean the presence of encryption tools meant he was guilty. Encryption tools have many uses, some of which are good - like authentication and assurance of confidentiality. It's great to have encryption tools like PGP when you're sending an email to your broker that you want to issue a stock trade from your investments account. Or to be reasonably assured that discussing a prototype / secret business proposal will not be intercepted.
Encryption is merely a tool, to be used for both good and evil. A mail envelope can contain mail, or it can contain anthrax. An encrypted document could be a plot by terrorists, or it could be just any other email.
A user not willing to fix their problems should not be allowed to use shared resources where they can cause problems for others. If you're going to enforce any policy and actually try to fix things, the user issue must be managed first. It's not like you're going to deploy McAfee EPO or something on a student residence.
You could also try choking those ports down to dialup or slower speeds until they fix the issue, but something tells me they're not going to fix the source of the issue in any case.
Firefox seems to use an internal clipboard. Mozilla suite doesn't. Meaning that if I were to select a location or copy a url in Mozilla I can expect to middle-click it into an xterm, for example, for a wget. Or that if I select a link from elsewhere, I can middle-click that into the location bar. Not so for Firefox.
Corel had a huge deal with the Ontario Board of Education a few years back, to get WordPerfect onto every computer. They got it installed... but nobody used it. The Microsoft hold was too strong by then. And this was like 2000. I don't think this had changed...
I recall talking to the "computer" teacher/sysadmin at the time, suggesting WordPerfect or StarDivison's Staroffice on the additional Word licenses the school held. His answer was basically "but nobody will use it." Educators after all aren't accountable for costs like private businesses would be.
It's reasonable that he was emotionally worked up writing this reply, but the stuttery nature (so many paragraphs of only two sentences!) made it particularly hard to read. It felt incoherent and rushed, like new insults were going straight from brain to keyboard with no later revision.
A note to email users - it's very easy to make a bad impression with informal writing style!
Quite aware of that.
The difference is in what they don't do. Windows Media Player also has those links to "buy music" and has the license management/DRM. Media Player Classic plays media, that's about it.
It's the #1 player why?
Probably because there hasn't been any alternatives, since Microsoft has been stifling them. User indifference matters here; re Netscape vs. Microsoft.
Try using the free Media Player Classic.
The United States has declared the enforcement of a sovereign nation's own laws to be weapons of monopoly destruction.
/me installs the Wireless Power Distribution unit in the living room. Hope the cat doesn't go near the giant Tesla Coil arc!
Though Darwin can engineer smarter drivers, lawyers will ensure the propagation of the stupid.
lots of times, adults are very stupid
Kids learn that at the age of 5. If not earlier. Except they won't qualify the statement.
Don't roll your eyes at me, young man!
You think it's your God-given right to a high standard of living, to be able to drive a gas-guzzling SUV, to be able to not even worry about how you'll survive to the next day. (I'm guilty of the same, seeing as I'm posting on /. at all.) But you have to remember that these are not rights, they are privileges. Privileges earned by providing a high value to people. If nobody wants the things you provide, it's not my, nor is it the Indians', responsibility to subsidize you.
There are billions of people in the world that would kill - and kill many - to have the kind of luxury you seem to take for granted.
Do you buy those cheaper SUVs? And cheaper items at Walmart? Or, heck, cheap gasoline? Those are things that cause the US to bleed money left and right.
The cause is not easy to accept... but the US has failed to produce sufficient value worldwide to match its consumption for quite a while now. You can look inward for a solution, by trying to convince your population to buy US goods, but when they just simply can't compete with Chinese, Indian, Indonesian goods, look at what the problem really is.
The solution isn't easy either... but like I said, the jobs will come gushing back when there is an absolute cost advantage in American labour. Your, and your nation's workers', task is to figure out how. It could involve being even more productive than before, to the point that 1 US worker can do more than 10 Indian workers at 1/10th the cost each. Or it could mean slashing your cost (salary) to a level that is lower than the Chinese. Why must YOU be the one to lower your own wage? Because the alternative is to not work at all.
(I heartily support the devaluation of the US dollar for this reason. A 50% slash in the dollar's value will immediately double the cost of foreign labour and import costs. It would also mean a massive slash to the US standard of living, but we already argue that it's too high as it is.)
Okay, I don't get your argument at all. You want to reach a trade equilibrium with India, despite their having a lower cost and standard of living. You're unwilling to lower your standard of living. And you're blaming it on them?
If they can indeed do your job cheaper than you, then you are inefficient at your job. Tough luck. If they as a NATION can do it cheaper than you, then why shouldn't the US choose to go with the cheaper option? Some organizations will pay the service premium of having local developers. An organization the behemoth of IBM, Global Services can, and should, locate anywhere where it thinks it will be competitive.
If you can't compete in the labor market, become more competitive. Or fall behind in the Darwinism that is the free market.
And what if they don't want your stuff? Or can't afford it because the wages there are too low to afford $15k new GM vehicles? I'm not exactly thrilled with the "open market" notion of "i buy your stuff if you buy mine."
Now if you said, let's devalue the US dollar so that you actually had an absolute cost advantage over India on something, go right ahead. Something tells me Americans, whose livelihood would drop 20%-40% on that action, would be rather unhappy though.