Lets not forget to mention the US government's content control that is just as "evil" as China's except Americans get a no-win chance at defending DeCSS, or other fair-use rights. I think the "good guys" are benefiting from merging business and government, this way the US can say it isn't government suppression its legal-mumbo jumbo.
Or how about the recent raid at Indymedia in Seattle for IP logs and a cold-war style gag order.
Echelon anyone?
The US acts just like any big government, but it can afford slightly better PR/propaganda.
No thats not the point. The Napster client would put in the message, so the source you're downloading from does have the real song. You just can't get it.
Sure its a waste of bandwidth, but it'll serve the RIAA's needs. Bastards.
Make a mental list of all the proper names, rarely used words, and phrasing in most songs and you'll see how easily software can be confused by the whole mess.
Song length wouldnt work too well either as you can just add a silent second or two to your already rot-13'd song name and ID3 tag.
If you really want to punish someone, let them download songs by their real name and just have the client replace the mp3 data with a short speech on a loop for the exact length and data of the song. After 20 or so "You have downloaded a copywritten song" tracks you won't go near Napster again.
Also, I'm curious to know which independant labels want Napster distributing their songs.
Isnt this the same simplistic old creative vs. productive view? There will always be the creativly reckless finding new things that the productive can clean-up, make friendly, market etc.
The fringe always provides choices for the mainstream to choose from.
The ice-crystals created by freezing water within cells will cause more damage than can be expected to be repaired. After a certain point, its just unrepairable. Even with multiple miracles in nanotech and medicine, the best you can hope for is coming out with a 40 something IQ.
I know there's software for this, my ISP used it once on me. The best part is that it said I had an open relay when in reality the Exchange server was already patched. I can't imagine this kind of software being very hard to write. First scan for port 25, get a list of mailservers, run a mail message through to yourself. Once your mailbox is nice and full you can read the headers and send letters to sys admins. I'm sure that part can be automated too.
Imagine if this was the download of the week at Cnet's download.com. Expect lots of network scanning and firewalls going off at first, then a quiet spam free internet.
Then again there are other ways to spread spam without open relays.
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Open mail relays are how spammers manage to send out thousands of emails, not web-based free email. For some reason there never seems to be a lack of open relays.
First of all its Troops not Troopers and I think duality is very well made but if you can't figure out the ending I can see why you'd think it had a bad plot.
Seriously, these are very short films, you can't have character development and a long script in 2 minutes.
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I'm kind of curious as to why you think a CDROM is not much data at all. Are we that blown away by the whiz-bang of PC gadgetry that we can't turn our perspectives back 20 or 30 years to see how mind-blowing 700 megabytes is especially in such a small disc?
That being said, making biological statements on mechanical objects is kinda silly. Would you be more comfortable if it fit on a DVD or a 8mm tape? Am I allowed to use compression?
As someone already pointed out this is the "god of the gaps" argument, which I'm sure is fun to play but scientific advancement usually wins out. Not that there aren't huge problems with the materialistic cosmology, but its a popular working model explaining lots of natural phenomenon to a high degree of accuracy.
Also, picking one religious viewpoint and assuming that specific one is truth kinda kills any credibility you might have had with this crowd.
At the same time scientific materialism really has little to say about issues religion focuses on like morality or nature of self, consciousness, existence, etc. The problem of gaps of knowledge isn't about quickly filling them in, but shows you the limitations of current knowledge.
I don't think we have enough reliable information, or information enough to pick extreme sides like "card carrying atheist" or "creationist troll" and calling it quits. I see both groups as people with a deep need to believe in *something* as agnosticism doesn't seem to do it for them.
Now we return to the hackneyed arguments of those who have all the answers.
Wow, that's a scary thought because I can completely see the consumer demand for a "real" dog that doesn't leave a mess, eat, and can be shut off (paralyzed/hibernation). Once someone starts to get serious about something like this and the demand is high enough then politicians get bought and protesters are removed/ridiculed in the media. This could easily happen in techno-phillic Japan, with their dog renting services and strict no-pet policies in most buildings.
Lets hope doggie AI is advanced before this becomes feasable and profitable.
Why can't the "libertarian" in you and others see that business works within the framework of government and its laws thus its only fair game for consumers to use the same framework to protect themselves.
I can't begin to see why law should only be the tool of business because you think we have too many. If the government has helped to create an unfair situation counter-laws and repeals make perfect sense.
This all begs the question on how long it would take a government agency with good computing resources to brute a good passphrase? Say I have a 50 character phrase that isn't vulnerable to a dictionary attack how much protection is it from organizations with real computing power?
The only solution to this problem I see is after x amount of time you should just assume its been compromised and revoke it and probably keep it on a floppy.
No I don't like spam, but its still a technical problem at its core. We're not seeing the 'true cost' of spamming, at least system admins and ISPs aren't. Bandwidth, diskspace, cpu time, etc. The internet community has been spoiled by promise of 'mail all you want.' I don't see why there aren't caps on email messages per month to lower internet access costs and offer premium accounts to mail crazy users.
I know we're heard close open relays a million times, but even that doesnt seem to help when free email accounts are readily available. Keep spam and spam lists legal but make the law force them to put a string in the subject like or somesuch for quick and easy filtering straight to the garbage or bulk folder. Let legitimate ISPs offer their services and sell expensive premium accounts like 100,000 emails this month = $1500.
If this was done we'd see legitimate business using spam and the fly by nights take off and people might actually scroll through their 'bulk' folders looking for deals from Sears and Crate and Barrel, etc and consider spam more like mail coupons instead of the crap it is today.
I don't see it as being a "dumb users" problem, as is the typical slashdot fare for answering any question that starts with 'why.' Look at how easy hushmail is, if you can work hotmail you can work hushmail.
The problem to me seems more like this takes place in an industry that hasn't embraced hardware encryption for LANs let alone encryption for casual email. Once we show "dumb users" that the internet can be made a lot safer vendors will be making crypto products with hushmail like usability regradless of the government's anti-crypto chilling effect.
I hope the job you land in the states immediately starts paying out benefits because hospitals don't give coupons or price breaks regarding how much safety enginering was put into the thing you just crashed. Not to mention the standard of care your HMO is going to give you might surprise your average cynical european.
Once you've spent some time in the one of the 44 million without insurance you'll be back in heathrow in a heartbeat.
Why bother with such sophisticates like missiles and navigations when you can load up a ship with a good size nuke and park it next to NY. Drop off your suitcase nuke in the middle of a big city, etc.
Sure, they've denied it ever caused cancer and had tons of "proof" from well-financed studies. Big Tobacco didn't admit that smoking led to cancer until 1998. Lying, manipulating, advetising focused on children, these things make them liable and I have no sympathy for them.
Its very easy in hindsight to ride the high horse now that you can see through their deception. Your "everybody knows" attitude is pretty unconvincing as everybody knew asbestos was safe. Let thetruth.com keep up the good work, especially when most of their ads are aimed at children, the very group big tobacco was trying to hook.
Is this surprising? The world's richest country cannot provide healthcare for millions of its citizens and business is making decisions on whether you live or die.
Nice strawman, now how do those odds compare to anything about debris and re-entry? Not at all.
The facts are the 250 to 1 is amongst the worst if not the worst odds in re-entry history. Using your "logic" why care about death when eventually we're all gonna die?
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Lets not forget to mention the US government's content control that is just as "evil" as China's except Americans get a no-win chance at defending DeCSS, or other fair-use rights. I think the "good guys" are benefiting from merging business and government, this way the US can say it isn't government suppression its legal-mumbo jumbo.
Or how about the recent raid at Indymedia in Seattle for IP logs and a cold-war style gag order.
Echelon anyone?
The US acts just like any big government, but it can afford slightly better PR/propaganda.
Napster forces upgrades. This thread is about how Napster could do what the RIAA wants.
You're just jealous, if a god did your tech support then you'd certainly be impressed.
In the meantime I just settle for Bill Gates to do my tech support. Nice guy on the phone, ass in person.
No thats not the point. The Napster client would put in the message, so the source you're downloading from does have the real song. You just can't get it.
Sure its a waste of bandwidth, but it'll serve the RIAA's needs. Bastards.
Make a mental list of all the proper names, rarely used words, and phrasing in most songs and you'll see how easily software can be confused by the whole mess.
Song length wouldnt work too well either as you can just add a silent second or two to your already rot-13'd song name and ID3 tag.
If you really want to punish someone, let them download songs by their real name and just have the client replace the mp3 data with a short speech on a loop for the exact length and data of the song. After 20 or so "You have downloaded a copywritten song" tracks you won't go near Napster again.
Also, I'm curious to know which independant labels want Napster distributing their songs.
Isnt this the same simplistic old creative vs. productive view? There will always be the creativly reckless finding new things that the productive can clean-up, make friendly, market etc.
The fringe always provides choices for the mainstream to choose from.
Land it in your neighbor's yard and watch the hilarity ensue. Make sure to plant some radio gear tuned to the spycraft in his garbage can first.
The ice-crystals created by freezing water within cells will cause more damage than can be expected to be repaired. After a certain point, its just unrepairable. Even with multiple miracles in nanotech and medicine, the best you can hope for is coming out with a 40 something IQ.
I know there's software for this, my ISP used it once on me. The best part is that it said I had an open relay when in reality the Exchange server was already patched. I can't imagine this kind of software being very hard to write. First scan for port 25, get a list of mailservers, run a mail message through to yourself. Once your mailbox is nice and full you can read the headers and send letters to sys admins. I'm sure that part can be automated too.
Imagine if this was the download of the week at Cnet's download.com. Expect lots of network scanning and firewalls going off at first, then a quiet spam free internet.
Then again there are other ways to spread spam without open relays.
Open mail relays are how spammers manage to send out thousands of emails, not web-based free email. For some reason there never seems to be a lack of open relays.
First of all its Troops not Troopers and I think duality is very well made but if you can't figure out the ending I can see why you'd think it had a bad plot.
Seriously, these are very short films, you can't have character development and a long script in 2 minutes.
I'm kind of curious as to why you think a CDROM is not much data at all. Are we that blown away by the whiz-bang of PC gadgetry that we can't turn our perspectives back 20 or 30 years to see how mind-blowing 700 megabytes is especially in such a small disc?
That being said, making biological statements on mechanical objects is kinda silly. Would you be more comfortable if it fit on a DVD or a 8mm tape? Am I allowed to use compression?
As someone already pointed out this is the "god of the gaps" argument, which I'm sure is fun to play but scientific advancement usually wins out. Not that there aren't huge problems with the materialistic cosmology, but its a popular working model explaining lots of natural phenomenon to a high degree of accuracy.
Also, picking one religious viewpoint and assuming that specific one is truth kinda kills any credibility you might have had with this crowd.
At the same time scientific materialism really has little to say about issues religion focuses on like morality or nature of self, consciousness, existence, etc. The problem of gaps of knowledge isn't about quickly filling them in, but shows you the limitations of current knowledge.
I don't think we have enough reliable information, or information enough to pick extreme sides like "card carrying atheist" or "creationist troll" and calling it quits. I see both groups as people with a deep need to believe in *something* as agnosticism doesn't seem to do it for them.
Now we return to the hackneyed arguments of those who have all the answers.
Wow, that's a scary thought because I can completely see the consumer demand for a "real" dog that doesn't leave a mess, eat, and can be shut off (paralyzed/hibernation). Once someone starts to get serious about something like this and the demand is high enough then politicians get bought and protesters are removed/ridiculed in the media. This could easily happen in techno-phillic Japan, with their dog renting services and strict no-pet policies in most buildings.
Lets hope doggie AI is advanced before this becomes feasable and profitable.
Why can't the "libertarian" in you and others see that business works within the framework of government and its laws thus its only fair game for consumers to use the same framework to protect themselves.
I can't begin to see why law should only be the tool of business because you think we have too many. If the government has helped to create an unfair situation counter-laws and repeals make perfect sense.
This all begs the question on how long it would take a government agency with good computing resources to brute a good passphrase? Say I have a 50 character phrase that isn't vulnerable to a dictionary attack how much protection is it from organizations with real computing power?
The only solution to this problem I see is after x amount of time you should just assume its been compromised and revoke it and probably keep it on a floppy.
Anything with a DMZ port along with the WAN and LAN port will do ya. I use a 3com officeconnect firewall for a similiar setup.
No I don't like spam, but its still a technical problem at its core. We're not seeing the 'true cost' of spamming, at least system admins and ISPs aren't. Bandwidth, diskspace, cpu time, etc. The internet community has been spoiled by promise of 'mail all you want.' I don't see why there aren't caps on email messages per month to lower internet access costs and offer premium accounts to mail crazy users.
I know we're heard close open relays a million times, but even that doesnt seem to help when free email accounts are readily available. Keep spam and spam lists legal but make the law force them to put a string in the subject like or somesuch for quick and easy filtering straight to the garbage or bulk folder. Let legitimate ISPs offer their services and sell expensive premium accounts like 100,000 emails this month = $1500.
If this was done we'd see legitimate business using spam and the fly by nights take off and people might actually scroll through their 'bulk' folders looking for deals from Sears and Crate and Barrel, etc and consider spam more like mail coupons instead of the crap it is today.
I don't see it as being a "dumb users" problem, as is the typical slashdot fare for answering any question that starts with 'why.' Look at how easy hushmail is, if you can work hotmail you can work hushmail.
The problem to me seems more like this takes place in an industry that hasn't embraced hardware encryption for LANs let alone encryption for casual email. Once we show "dumb users" that the internet can be made a lot safer vendors will be making crypto products with hushmail like usability regradless of the government's anti-crypto chilling effect.
I hope the job you land in the states immediately starts paying out benefits because hospitals don't give coupons or price breaks regarding how much safety enginering was put into the thing you just crashed. Not to mention the standard of care your HMO is going to give you might surprise your average cynical european.
Once you've spent some time in the one of the 44 million without insurance you'll be back in heathrow in a heartbeat.
Why bother with such sophisticates like missiles and navigations when you can load up a ship with a good size nuke and park it next to NY. Drop off your suitcase nuke in the middle of a big city, etc.
Sure, they've denied it ever caused cancer and had tons of "proof" from well-financed studies. Big Tobacco didn't admit that smoking led to cancer until 1998. Lying, manipulating, advetising focused on children, these things make them liable and I have no sympathy for them.
Its very easy in hindsight to ride the high horse now that you can see through their deception. Your "everybody knows" attitude is pretty unconvincing as everybody knew asbestos was safe. Let thetruth.com keep up the good work, especially when most of their ads are aimed at children, the very group big tobacco was trying to hook.
"Yes sir we finally have confirmation, its a message full of swastikas. I'm afraid the Nazi party has taken over the world, begin the attack."
Is this surprising? The world's richest country cannot provide healthcare for millions of its citizens and business is making decisions on whether you live or die.
Or starting fires, property damage, etc. Its negligence, bring on the lawsuits.
Nice strawman, now how do those odds compare to anything about debris and re-entry? Not at all.
The facts are the 250 to 1 is amongst the worst if not the worst odds in re-entry history. Using your "logic" why care about death when eventually we're all gonna die?
*roll*