All it takes is for two "professional-level" webcomics (PvP, Dilbert, etc..) which almost always update daily,
Close counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear weapons; not in this tontine. You miss, you're out.
None of these guys are (IMHO) old-style sydicate pros-- those guys have better things to do than take candy from children. PVP also doesn't qualify-- it has to be at least a M-F daily; MWF folk need not apply. Although I wonder if David Willis could have gotten in with his Roomies Redux/Shortpacked/Walky (TR/MWF/S-when-the-fans-pay) mix. Moot now.
Are p2p networks covered by our right to gather? Our right to associate? Our right to privacy? Which amendments will apply to the laws being challenged?
As I understand it, the primary challenge is entirely interpretation of current copyright law, with its foundation in Article 1, section 8. To grossly oversimplify (and IANAL), MGM &c claim the technology is fundamentally for copyright violation, and that they should be able to collect damages from the Grokkers for the infringements; the Grokkers say it has substantial non-infringing uses, and that the actions of the users are the fault of the users, and go collect money from them.
The proposed legislation to ban peer to peer would need to be challenged on 1st amendment grounds, but that's not the case before the court. MGM &c are not directly challenging the legality of the product, but merely claiming the maker has responsibility for its consequential use. It may touch on the issues, but that's not where the focus lies.
Those of us who use BitTorrent to get Linux distros and legal content don't really appreciate the fact that 30% of the entire Internet's traffic is from the transfer of pirated BitTorrent files, especially if that potentially leads to anti-P2P legislation.
I'm sure we'll find a technical solution to the problems presented by this Tragedy of the Commons just like we were able to find a technical solution for the similar one with Spam.
The music in itself doesn't bother me. In fact, I rather liked the contrast to the vast symphonic majesty of the other Trek pieces; a theme that starts simple, but builds and grows more complex-- in a way, representing the state of the proto-federation. But IMNSHO, the presense of the singers detracts from the music.
The problem isn't that the lyrics are bad-- it's that they're there.
"Also, if they hang up on you, respect that and don't call back. If you call repeatedly, that can be harassment."
Some people call that "telemarketing".
Here in the US, I seem to recall that telemarketers and bill collectors are legally limited to one call per day... so do limit yourself to that until a C&D comes to you personally. (IANAL, YMMV, OVWPBL.) Besides, there will probably be lots of people who want have a word with these folk....
[E]ither I missed the class where we were told what the civilization 'types' were OR I myself did too many bonghits and I missed the Type 3 civilization reference on ST-TOS
Earth is pre-Type I; Sagan apparently calculated us at about 0.7 on the Kardashev Scale.
I will be, of course, the last to neglect the accomplished efforts: the virtual library developed by the national Library of France (BNF) under the name of Gallica - which proposes already 80 000 works on line and 70 000 images, and which will offer soon the reproduction of large French newspapers since the XIX E century - is installed with the gratitude of many researchers and citizens, and it serves our influence around the world; but it saw only State grants, inevitably limited, and our own resources, with difficulty and valiantly mobilized. Our annual expenditure amounts only to one thousandths of that announced by Google.
Or, in other words: "Hey, morons! I've been working on this, but I can't match their efforts when I'm being outspent by this much!!!
Perhaps it's more subtle in the original French, but Jeanneney seems to be more whining about the limited funding that the government has provided for the National Library's efforts so far, and waving the twin red-white-and-blue flags of French national pride and the insidious spread of American culture to draw attention to the problem.
He's not saying it's a bad thing in itself... but he's saying if the American culture is not to overwhelm the rest of the global culture, Europe needs to get with the program... or be forgotten.
I've gotta rant about something I discovered after a recent rental at BlockBuster: UNSKIPPABLE TRAILERS.
This is not limited to Blockbuster's rentals, but to retail vendor's DVDs as well. When I encounter such on DVDs I've bought, I use my computer to rip a copy that removes the "skip" protection from the trailers. I retain it on the FBI warning, because I feel the skip protecton is appropriate there. (The irony does not escape me.) I then put the original on the shelf, and play the copy from then on.
When I encounter it on rental DVDs, I do the same thing-- but retain the DVD copy when I return the original. (Even larger dose of irony....) Companies trying to make unskippable trailers for rental videos are losing the sales opportunity.
As for Blockbuster, I stopped doing business with them a while back. They sent a $5 late fee bill to a collection agency, without even attempting to contact me first; I paid up, destroyed my rental card, and have avoided them since. Instead, I do my modest amount of rental business with Hollywood Video and a local shop, both of whom still charge late fees... but wait to collect them until the next time I try to rent a movie, however long that may be. Which, as far as I am concerned, is just fine.
C'mon Neo-Cons where's yer balls for a REAL fight?
Sensibly in their pants, not dangling in the breeze... and not glowing in the dark. And they'd like to keep it that way.
The only direct option the US has there is to start a war that must go nuclear. Demonstrating their full half a gram of sense, they are trying to convince the Chinese that the nutjob next to them needs to be reigned in. Remember: efficiency is intelligently applied laziness.
The Internet ad industry is causing an arms-race they won't be able to win. But maybe that control is the ultimate plan of the ad industry
You are ascribing intelligent design to the blind watchmaker of economics. The "ad industry" is roughly as unified as "the American People". Some of them are intelligent, thoughtful, creative, long-sighted individuals. Some want a fast buck no matter what happens five years from now. Guess which group is running pop-unders? And guess how the other group within the industry feels about that?
I am totally mystified now. Why tripwire a filesystem that can't be changed.
The achilles heel of any security system is the security system itself. EG, most clever viruses/spyware immediately attempt to disable (or subvert) common antivirus software. "Quis custodet ipsos custodes?" Thus, the interest in running a security check based from a write-once, read-many medium. (The deeply paranoid can worry about whether the BIOS has been compromised, but beyond cursory checks, that's a level of exploit to worry about only if you've deeply pissed off the NSA.)
As I understand, the tripwire system can be used to analyze any attached drive, not just the root. Thus, you can boot to CD distro, fingerprint the hard drive, save resulting database to removable (and securable) media like a Zip disk; remove media and CD, and reboot to normal system. When you suspect compromise, boot back to CD to investigate.
In short, you're not tripwiring a filesystem that can't be changed... but you are putting tripwire itself on a filesystem that can't be changed-- and therefore, can't be compromised. Provided the CDR isn't in a rewriteable drive, there is nothing that any rootkit can do to compromise it, not matter how deeply the system is affected.
Anyway it looks pretty cool.
Damn straight. I'm downloading that distro now....
Of course, there are standardized tools to generate md5 sums of files. A good rootkit, before replacing a file, determines the md5 checksum of the file. Then, when then easily-detectable standardized tools ask for the checksum, the rootkit intercepts the request and feeds the tool garbage.
...provided of course that the system is running. If you have booted the system from a separate known-clean read-only disk-- like, say, a KNOPPIX CD from a USB CD-ROM drive, the poor rootkit is essentially defenseless.
The usefulness of being able to run, for example, Tripwire from a known clean OS makes me wonder why it isn't standard on KNOPPIX. Does anyone know of a CD distro that offers Tripwire or similar MD5 based integrity utility standard?
No; it's not geologically stable enough. However, if you will provide me with (a) a job providing similar work for similar pay and benefits, and (b) continued access to high speed internet, I will cheerfully move to the top of Yucca Mountain and let you load it with the planned concrete-encased vitrified waste.
Wave power is a total ridiculosity [...] Photovoltaic trumps them all
Long term, large-scale space based solar might be viable, not necessarily using photovoltaics-- but we need a beanstalk first. Also, check out the fact article "Artificial Photosynthesis" in the current (Apr. 2005) issue of AnalogSF for a discussion of why photovoltaic may not be such an optimal solar solution. Biodiesel is a good idea, if the energy profit ratio can ever be made sane.
Dismissing wave power outright is excessive. It's certainly not a silver bullet, but some deployment might prove appropriate as part of a "diversified energy portfolio".
I believe estimates state that if 25% of all crop land was hemp, the USA would be self sufficiant.
Such estimates are often wildly optimistic, with yield in gallon-equivalent per acre high, and neglecting any fuel and energy use required to cultivate, harvest, and process the biofuel crop into biofuel.
Lavasoft has found a new way to make money. Aparrently Ad-Aware no longer removes WhenU spyware.
Lavasoft has put out something on that in their press release yesterday. The removal is not because of bribes, but because apparently WhenU no longer meets their threat threshold to be included in the spyware definitions database.
Ironic source to answer that....
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Which *one* of SHA-2?
According to
this news piece,
NIST is planning on switching to -256 or -512. In a nice touch, the piece adds:
Burr said no complete implementation of the SHA-1 function has been successfully attacked. "SHA-1 is not broken," he said, "and there is not much reason to suspect that it will be soon."
Of course, the news piece was over a week ago, and ya gotta love those government weasle words. =)
I suspect using multiple fingerprints (MD5+SHA-something) will probably be a practical step for the even the non-government paranoids in the short-term. The time for finding a dupe rise drastically with multi-fingerprint matching, especially given the current "attacks" have been only marginally computationally possible until quantum computing with hash-sized quantities of qbits is made to work.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a difference between paying $5 for Boardwalk and $5 for that +5 Mega Item of Doom to complete my Doom Set of Items?
I see the difference. However, I would note that if we're playing Monopoly, when I stop playing to go eat/sleep/getalife, you are obliged to stop, too-- you can't just keep running around the board to collect $200. This is not the case in MMORPGs, which can create inequities in PVP play.
Of course, introducing real-world money into the system brings in all of the real-world problems about inequity in THAT distribution. Money can counteract the inequities of game time, but the inequities in economics mean they can't be made to balance.
A friend never allows her SS # to be used for anything. Not banks, not schools, not health insurance.[...] It's only for her retirement, not for generic identification purposes.
Schools and health insurance makes sense. However, if you have an interest-bearing account, I was under the impression that banks do have statutory authority to get your SS# to report the interest income to the IRS. The only way I can think of around this is incorporation (perhaps of a trust? IANAL...) -- thus getting a separate corporate TIN.
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Close counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear weapons; not in this tontine. You miss, you're out.
None of these guys are (IMHO) old-style sydicate pros-- those guys have better things to do than take candy from children. PVP also doesn't qualify-- it has to be at least a M-F daily; MWF folk need not apply. Although I wonder if David Willis could have gotten in with his Roomies Redux/Shortpacked/Walky (TR/MWF/S-when-the-fans-pay) mix. Moot now.
As I understand it, the primary challenge is entirely interpretation of current copyright law, with its foundation in Article 1, section 8. To grossly oversimplify (and IANAL), MGM &c claim the technology is fundamentally for copyright violation, and that they should be able to collect damages from the Grokkers for the infringements; the Grokkers say it has substantial non-infringing uses, and that the actions of the users are the fault of the users, and go collect money from them.
The proposed legislation to ban peer to peer would need to be challenged on 1st amendment grounds, but that's not the case before the court. MGM &c are not directly challenging the legality of the product, but merely claiming the maker has responsibility for its consequential use. It may touch on the issues, but that's not where the focus lies.
I'm sure we'll find a technical solution to the problems presented by this Tragedy of the Commons just like we were able to find a technical solution for the similar one with Spam.
Oh, wait...
The problem isn't that the lyrics are bad-- it's that they're there.
When I use essentially the same search, I see 673. WTF?
Here in the US, I seem to recall that telemarketers and bill collectors are legally limited to one call per day... so do limit yourself to that until a C&D comes to you personally. (IANAL, YMMV, OVWPBL.) Besides, there will probably be lots of people who want have a word with these folk....
No, hopeful libertarians seems more like it. Dream on, everyone....
Lunch?
That's dendrochronology. "Endochronology" has to do with study of some of the odder properties of thiotimoline.
Earth is pre-Type I; Sagan apparently calculated us at about 0.7 on the Kardashev Scale.
Money-- and he has been. From an automatic translation (ironically via...) of the editorial:
Or, in other words: "Hey, morons! I've been working on this, but I can't match their efforts when I'm being outspent by this much!!!Perhaps it's more subtle in the original French, but Jeanneney seems to be more whining about the limited funding that the government has provided for the National Library's efforts so far, and waving the twin red-white-and-blue flags of French national pride and the insidious spread of American culture to draw attention to the problem.
He's not saying it's a bad thing in itself... but he's saying if the American culture is not to overwhelm the rest of the global culture, Europe needs to get with the program... or be forgotten.
In other words, "Publish or Perish."
This is not limited to Blockbuster's rentals, but to retail vendor's DVDs as well. When I encounter such on DVDs I've bought, I use my computer to rip a copy that removes the "skip" protection from the trailers. I retain it on the FBI warning, because I feel the skip protecton is appropriate there. (The irony does not escape me.) I then put the original on the shelf, and play the copy from then on.
When I encounter it on rental DVDs, I do the same thing-- but retain the DVD copy when I return the original. (Even larger dose of irony....) Companies trying to make unskippable trailers for rental videos are losing the sales opportunity.
As for Blockbuster, I stopped doing business with them a while back. They sent a $5 late fee bill to a collection agency, without even attempting to contact me first; I paid up, destroyed my rental card, and have avoided them since. Instead, I do my modest amount of rental business with Hollywood Video and a local shop, both of whom still charge late fees... but wait to collect them until the next time I try to rent a movie, however long that may be. Which, as far as I am concerned, is just fine.
Sensibly in their pants, not dangling in the breeze... and not glowing in the dark. And they'd like to keep it that way.
The only direct option the US has there is to start a war that must go nuclear. Demonstrating their full half a gram of sense, they are trying to convince the Chinese that the nutjob next to them needs to be reigned in. Remember: efficiency is intelligently applied laziness.
You are ascribing intelligent design to the blind watchmaker of economics. The "ad industry" is roughly as unified as "the American People". Some of them are intelligent, thoughtful, creative, long-sighted individuals. Some want a fast buck no matter what happens five years from now. Guess which group is running pop-unders? And guess how the other group within the industry feels about that?
The achilles heel of any security system is the security system itself. EG, most clever viruses/spyware immediately attempt to disable (or subvert) common antivirus software. "Quis custodet ipsos custodes?" Thus, the interest in running a security check based from a write-once, read-many medium. (The deeply paranoid can worry about whether the BIOS has been compromised, but beyond cursory checks, that's a level of exploit to worry about only if you've deeply pissed off the NSA.)
As I understand, the tripwire system can be used to analyze any attached drive, not just the root. Thus, you can boot to CD distro, fingerprint the hard drive, save resulting database to removable (and securable) media like a Zip disk; remove media and CD, and reboot to normal system. When you suspect compromise, boot back to CD to investigate.
In short, you're not tripwiring a filesystem that can't be changed... but you are putting tripwire itself on a filesystem that can't be changed-- and therefore, can't be compromised. Provided the CDR isn't in a rewriteable drive, there is nothing that any rootkit can do to compromise it, not matter how deeply the system is affected.
Anyway it looks pretty cool.
Damn straight. I'm downloading that distro now....
The usefulness of being able to run, for example, Tripwire from a known clean OS makes me wonder why it isn't standard on KNOPPIX. Does anyone know of a CD distro that offers Tripwire or similar MD5 based integrity utility standard?
No; it's not geologically stable enough. However, if you will provide me with (a) a job providing similar work for similar pay and benefits, and (b) continued access to high speed internet, I will cheerfully move to the top of Yucca Mountain and let you load it with the planned concrete-encased vitrified waste.
[...]
Photovoltaic trumps them all
Long term, large-scale space based solar might be viable, not necessarily using photovoltaics-- but we need a beanstalk first. Also, check out the fact article "Artificial Photosynthesis" in the current (Apr. 2005) issue of AnalogSF for a discussion of why photovoltaic may not be such an optimal solar solution. Biodiesel is a good idea, if the energy profit ratio can ever be made sane.
Dismissing wave power outright is excessive. It's certainly not a silver bullet, but some deployment might prove appropriate as part of a "diversified energy portfolio".
Such estimates are often wildly optimistic, with yield in gallon-equivalent per acre high, and neglecting any fuel and energy use required to cultivate, harvest, and process the biofuel crop into biofuel.
Lavasoft has put out something on that in their press release yesterday. The removal is not because of bribes, but because apparently WhenU no longer meets their threat threshold to be included in the spyware definitions database.
According to this news piece, NIST is planning on switching to -256 or -512. In a nice touch, the piece adds:
Of course, the news piece was over a week ago, and ya gotta love those government weasle words. =)I suspect using multiple fingerprints (MD5+SHA-something) will probably be a practical step for the even the non-government paranoids in the short-term. The time for finding a dupe rise drastically with multi-fingerprint matching, especially given the current "attacks" have been only marginally computationally possible until quantum computing with hash-sized quantities of qbits is made to work.
I see the difference. However, I would note that if we're playing Monopoly, when I stop playing to go eat/sleep/getalife, you are obliged to stop, too-- you can't just keep running around the board to collect $200. This is not the case in MMORPGs, which can create inequities in PVP play.
Of course, introducing real-world money into the system brings in all of the real-world problems about inequity in THAT distribution. Money can counteract the inequities of game time, but the inequities in economics mean they can't be made to balance.
Schools and health insurance makes sense. However, if you have an interest-bearing account, I was under the impression that banks do have statutory authority to get your SS# to report the interest income to the IRS. The only way I can think of around this is incorporation (perhaps of a trust? IANAL...) -- thus getting a separate corporate TIN.
How did she get the banks to STFU?