Not that it matters. This is just yet another plugin.
I don't know where TFA gets its ideas about AJAX, but it's only insecure if you don't do best practices (or, as I've seen in some places, if you're doing worst practices.)
The RIAA member companies run a business, and as a result, I gotta assume the shareholders and the execs are just out to do what any businesspeople are: make a profit. You know, the whole "It's not really that they're bad people; they just don't know a better way to do things" argument. Even if they ARE bad people, they have to realize that bad PR cuts into their profits about as far as piracy does - they're replacing one loss with two (legal fees plus bad PR).
It's probably naive on my part to think that they'd even listen to such crazy talk as holding actual pirates responsible for piracy, or enabling user interoperability without compromising the first point - the MP/RIAA has become so entrenched in their padlock line of thinking that they wouldn't even bother looking at another alternative - but hey, I like to think my sort of idealism has its place.
I'm going to have to disagree with you; a 95 year long copyright isn't a holdover from the past. The 14-and-14 year copyright of 1790, I think, would suit everyone better.
Hey, Ray, I gotta say I respect you and everything you do to keep us at Slashdot and across the inter webs informed about the RIAA's legal mishandlings.
I would like your opinion - not as a lawyer, but as a consumer - on an Open Letter I wrote for the RIAA / MPAA. It's linked in my sig.
The short version: I put forth an olive branch, a light criticism of DRM, and a potential alternative means for enabling media interoperability, prevention of casual piracy, ensuring the correct defendant for anti-piracy litigation, and doing all of this using existing and future media formats.
The law isn't on the RIAA's side here. The school has no responsibility to prevent filesharing on their networks, much like Verizon doesn't. In fact, the only persons who have responsibility are those actively engaged in torrenting.
Now, I'm all for bandwidth throttling or connection suspension for bandwidth abuse - the IT department has to ensure access to all its 'customers' - but playing stoolie for the RIAA is not their job, not on a single legal document.
Seriously, it's the wont of most people to fail to learn anything. Ask your average voter why he votes the way he does - you'll notice that, nine times out of ten, it's a stupid reason like, "Well, I just don't like the other guy" or, "I think he's got an honest face".
Goddamnit, why do I get punished for being able to type 90 WPM??
True. Penn's been quietly looking the other way for ages - hell, I even know that a few of their IT slaves tell the students to use PeerGuardian to keep the higher ups and the RIAA the hell out of their torrents.
Well, sometimes. The student has to be one of the 'cool' ones, not one of the assholes that wants to know why his email isn't working every freaking day, even though he just can't follow the damned instructions to set up Outlook.
The *woosh* you hear is the sound of sarcasm flying completely over your head.
I wasn't suggesting the AACS processing key was a math problem (the open implementation of AACS is, though - but also, that one's free to implement and use). I was sardonically suggesting copyrighting a math problem whose solution is a number that the AACS-LA used to own as a trade secret - but which lost that status some time in February.
Yet the maker of the drive neglected to pay a similar license to play AACS protected content in Linux?
Fuck but this is academic. No players exist for linux, and that's the problem you don't seem to understand. Like with DVD, if no one supports linux, linux will support itself on the cleverness of its developers. If you don't provide for linux, we'll crack your shit and be protected by the DMCA's interoperability clause (a precident set in the DeCSS case; sure it was ordered off the interwebs, but only as an injunction; DVD Jon eventually won).
"I'm sorry, there's no reason Linux should get special treatment. ("Special treatment" in that they think they're entitled to it for free when nobody else is.)"
Funny. I see HD-DVD drives coming with WinDVD/HD for free. Strange that Linux doesn't get the same benefit.
We don't want anything for free. We want to watch what we've paid for.
That said, read the link on my sig. I think you'll find it and enlightening letter about an alternative to DRM.
Actually, I keep trying to compress the 128-bit number into 15 characters that are web-legal, but I haven't found anything that can do it. Also, whatever the transform, I'd have to include it in my sig, so it becomes redundant, too. Oh well.
Sorry. Copied and pasted it from a java prime factorizer that can handle big numbers. Assume the LHS x's are multiplication symbols, and the RHS one is a variable.
But you knew that, you were being facecious. It's what I get for having an error in my own facecious post.
Actually, the turbines wouldn't 'drag' on cars. The breeze caused by the cars, and which assists the cars' passage, would be siphoned off to the turbines. The net effect is similar to drag, in that the wind assist is now gone.
"I'm the last one to defend the MPAA, but the only reason for sharing this number is so that cheapskates can get free movies. Right?"
Incorrect, over. That number is the only way to view HD DVD movies on Linux.
And honestly, you'd think the MPAA had learned their lessons when it came to such things. Take the examples of DeCSS and Flash:
DeCSS was a copy protection scheme on a high-demand good for which interpoerability was not provided on Linux. The Linux devels, as such, hacked away until they could watch movies on Linux. Result: Protection and content monopoly broken.
Flash has had Linux versions for as long as I can remember. Result: open source flash libraries have stagnated due to disinterest.
Who wants to hack a media format when you can be enjoying the media? Conversely, if you want to enjoy the media, and can't, you have incentive to hack its format.
Nah, I get what you're saying. Bush is a dick, and so are the assholes who call the French 'surrender monkies' and similar things as part of an argument. It's just the below I take offense to:
"No, it's the taunting attitude of americans that really bugs me."
That attitude is shared by most of our peculiar breed of ape. No, seriously; you can see it on BBC World news and other international news channels (just turn on the english subtitles). Essentially, making fun of someone you disagree with has somehow become an accepted and integral part of political discourse. I suppose it counts as an easy way to distill a concept into an easily digestible quip.
Not saying that you should make policy on it, but to take it for what it is: an oversimplified analysis of incomplete information, twisted into humor for the purpose of obtaining a reaction.
"Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: "We hear you.""
From the post: "We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."
I don't take offense to that conclusion. Violent videogames give an adrenaline rush, and quite possibly a short term burst of increased agressive behavior.
I question the wisdom of creating a whole media stink around the affair, when videogames were clearly a minor factor in things like Columbine and Virginia Tech.
Those kids were fucking crazy to start with. Don't screw the rest of us because they had a skewed view of reality.
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No, he's not. He's saying that, like a neodymium magnet in Wal*Mart, a serious theif will figure out how to activate the chip.
Or, he won't care; a serious theif is most likely going to sell the things anyway.
Not that it matters. This is just yet another plugin.
I don't know where TFA gets its ideas about AJAX, but it's only insecure if you don't do best practices (or, as I've seen in some places, if you're doing worst practices.)
The RIAA member companies run a business, and as a result, I gotta assume the shareholders and the execs are just out to do what any businesspeople are: make a profit. You know, the whole "It's not really that they're bad people; they just don't know a better way to do things" argument. Even if they ARE bad people, they have to realize that bad PR cuts into their profits about as far as piracy does - they're replacing one loss with two (legal fees plus bad PR).
It's probably naive on my part to think that they'd even listen to such crazy talk as holding actual pirates responsible for piracy, or enabling user interoperability without compromising the first point - the MP/RIAA has become so entrenched in their padlock line of thinking that they wouldn't even bother looking at another alternative - but hey, I like to think my sort of idealism has its place.
Hey, mods, pay attention. Well written PP was going for Flamebait!
I'm going to have to disagree with you; a 95 year long copyright isn't a holdover from the past. The 14-and-14 year copyright of 1790, I think, would suit everyone better.
Yeah. Most likely they'll advise the RIAA that they can't actually win the case, and are very likely to lose a bunch if they can't settle.
Hey, Ray, I gotta say I respect you and everything you do to keep us at Slashdot and across the inter webs informed about the RIAA's legal mishandlings.
I would like your opinion - not as a lawyer, but as a consumer - on an Open Letter I wrote for the RIAA / MPAA. It's linked in my sig.
The short version: I put forth an olive branch, a light criticism of DRM, and a potential alternative means for enabling media interoperability, prevention of casual piracy, ensuring the correct defendant for anti-piracy litigation, and doing all of this using existing and future media formats.
Heh. You'd think that, wouldn't you?
The law isn't on the RIAA's side here. The school has no responsibility to prevent filesharing on their networks, much like Verizon doesn't. In fact, the only persons who have responsibility are those actively engaged in torrenting.
Now, I'm all for bandwidth throttling or connection suspension for bandwidth abuse - the IT department has to ensure access to all its 'customers' - but playing stoolie for the RIAA is not their job, not on a single legal document.
Sounds like how things get done.
Seriously, it's the wont of most people to fail to learn anything. Ask your average voter why he votes the way he does - you'll notice that, nine times out of ten, it's a stupid reason like, "Well, I just don't like the other guy" or, "I think he's got an honest face".
Goddamnit, why do I get punished for being able to type 90 WPM??
True. Penn's been quietly looking the other way for ages - hell, I even know that a few of their IT slaves tell the students to use PeerGuardian to keep the higher ups and the RIAA the hell out of their torrents.
Well, sometimes. The student has to be one of the 'cool' ones, not one of the assholes that wants to know why his email isn't working every freaking day, even though he just can't follow the damned instructions to set up Outlook.
Wow. Way to harsh the mellow, dude. Lawyer jokes are as old as the sun; relabeling it as 'anti-lawyer rhetoric' is just retarded.
The *woosh* you hear is the sound of sarcasm flying completely over your head.
I wasn't suggesting the AACS processing key was a math problem (the open implementation of AACS is, though - but also, that one's free to implement and use). I was sardonically suggesting copyrighting a math problem whose solution is a number that the AACS-LA used to own as a trade secret - but which lost that status some time in February.
Yet the maker of the drive neglected to pay a similar license to play AACS protected content in Linux?
Fuck but this is academic. No players exist for linux, and that's the problem you don't seem to understand. Like with DVD, if no one supports linux, linux will support itself on the cleverness of its developers. If you don't provide for linux, we'll crack your shit and be protected by the DMCA's interoperability clause (a precident set in the DeCSS case; sure it was ordered off the interwebs, but only as an injunction; DVD Jon eventually won).
"I'm sorry, there's no reason Linux should get special treatment. ("Special treatment" in that they think they're entitled to it for free when nobody else is.)"
Funny. I see HD-DVD drives coming with WinDVD/HD for free. Strange that Linux doesn't get the same benefit.
We don't want anything for free. We want to watch what we've paid for.
That said, read the link on my sig. I think you'll find it and enlightening letter about an alternative to DRM.
Dude, I hate to post a "me too", but you rock.
Actually, I keep trying to compress the 128-bit number into 15 characters that are web-legal, but I haven't found anything that can do it. Also, whatever the transform, I'd have to include it in my sig, so it becomes redundant, too. Oh well.
Sorry. Copied and pasted it from a java prime factorizer that can handle big numbers. Assume the LHS x's are multiplication symbols, and the RHS one is a variable.
But you knew that, you were being facecious. It's what I get for having an error in my own facecious post.
3:15 EST: Digg is back down.
I find it funny that Digg has, for the first time, self-dugg.
Actually, the turbines wouldn't 'drag' on cars. The breeze caused by the cars, and which assists the cars' passage, would be siphoned off to the turbines. The net effect is similar to drag, in that the wind assist is now gone.
Can you copyright a math problem? 'Cos if so, then I own the below.
2^6 x 5 x 19 x 12,043 x 216,493 x 836,256,503,069,278,983,442,067 = x
Solve for X and express in big-endian hexidecimal.
"I'm the last one to defend the MPAA, but the only reason for sharing this number is so that cheapskates can get free movies. Right?"
Incorrect, over. That number is the only way to view HD DVD movies on Linux.
And honestly, you'd think the MPAA had learned their lessons when it came to such things. Take the examples of DeCSS and Flash:
DeCSS was a copy protection scheme on a high-demand good for which interpoerability was not provided on Linux. The Linux devels, as such, hacked away until they could watch movies on Linux. Result: Protection and content monopoly broken.
Flash has had Linux versions for as long as I can remember. Result: open source flash libraries have stagnated due to disinterest.
Who wants to hack a media format when you can be enjoying the media? Conversely, if you want to enjoy the media, and can't, you have incentive to hack its format.
Nah, I get what you're saying. Bush is a dick, and so are the assholes who call the French 'surrender monkies' and similar things as part of an argument. It's just the below I take offense to:
"No, it's the taunting attitude of americans that really bugs me."
That attitude is shared by most of our peculiar breed of ape. No, seriously; you can see it on BBC World news and other international news channels (just turn on the english subtitles). Essentially, making fun of someone you disagree with has somehow become an accepted and integral part of political discourse. I suppose it counts as an easy way to distill a concept into an easily digestible quip.
Not saying that you should make policy on it, but to take it for what it is: an oversimplified analysis of incomplete information, twisted into humor for the purpose of obtaining a reaction.
"Update: 05/02 05:44 GMT by J : New blog post from Kevin Rose of Digg to its users: "We hear you.""
From the post:
"We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."
fuckin 'ey, Kevin!
I don't take offense to that conclusion. Violent videogames give an adrenaline rush, and quite possibly a short term burst of increased agressive behavior.
I question the wisdom of creating a whole media stink around the affair, when videogames were clearly a minor factor in things like Columbine and Virginia Tech.
Those kids were fucking crazy to start with. Don't screw the rest of us because they had a skewed view of reality.
It's worse. They're the Evil Dead. Someone call Bruce Campbell!