I think the right to be anonymous is more important than knowing who said what. You just know that the politicians put this law in place so that they could harass or politically destroy those who would speak against them. It's a "strategic *law* against public participation".
...which they'd look up in their cache and find that it's already been sufficiently indexed; the only thing it would do to them is add your site's (Microsoft equivalent of) PageRank to www.microsoft.com.
If you're using an algorithm, rather than discrete, non-sequential random numbers stored in a database, for your CD keys, you deserve to have them cracked.
Anonymity would be the only real way to do that, and that's not even guaranteed. You air it against TSA prohibition, and suddenly the world will be seeing a lot less of you.
It's part of Verizon's business plan that users can only get phones through them, because they can then tack on that two year contract at all times. They don't want a transferable SIM card.
What has happened instead is that time periods have been extended, more and more money has been made, which has concentrated the means of distribution into fewer hands, with the net effect of decreasing the amount of art (music, literature etc.) that is widely available.
Realistically, if you go that route of logic in US politics, people will start calling you a communist. Sad but true.
I fully expect that AT&T, if they figure enough people will do this, will just shut down data service for a couple of hours that day. Or possibly ban anyone actually using it more than a certain amount.
Everyone (or at least, most people) here at Slashdot knows that on a network as large as the internet, no blacklist method will achieve 100% accuracy.
This, of course, means that Senator Conroy is either completely ignoring the technical results, or the technical results are being flubbed to match Senator Conroy's agenda.
Are others in your parliament actually going to vote for this bill, or is he more of a rogue senator who isn't actually supported?
They'd have a very hard time taking away the right of first sale, so there are usually transfer clauses.
Of course, the actual software product is hardware locked and that lock is stored in their database remotely such that you can only ever use it on one computer, so whether or not it's legal is actually irrelevant.
The reason that Blizzard et al are attempting to keep server code private is that if you only have one (or a central group of) server(s), you can tie that server into your billing / CD key verification server and make sure that people pay to play, which is not the case with private servers.
Ongoing payment is the core business reason for MMOs. Of course they're going to use everything in their arsenal to protect it.
Because the FBI and others are positively *drooling* over access to a database of everyone's entire search history, and they'll almost certainly get it.
I expect to see extreme lobbying and a new copyright amendment (possibly to a "must-pass" military spending bill) tabled shortly that removes this restriction. Ironically, it will be presented as "helping the poor artists" who are being "destroyed by piracy".
Err... he wasn't suggesting that users make their own shell scripts, he was suggesting that the developers of a program release shell scripts with it to determine what / how it will run; users would then run the script rather than the binary directly.
It's been used all throughout modern distributions, especially Ubuntu. Take a look at your process list some time; you'll find several processes with a suffix "_real" because the program that took the place of the actual name was replaced with a script that setup the environment in advance of running the actual binary.
The whole point of having this data open to the public is to allow the public to read and process it. If they can't load it into alternative environments to analyze it, the data effectively becomes useless; sort of a "transparency theatre" where none really exists.
I don't really understand why you consider CSV to be evil; it's one of the most simple, well-known formats around. Yes, you can change the separator, delimiter, and record-end characters to be something else, but all you have to do is tell people which characters you're using (though generally, IMHO people should stick to commas, quotes, and newlines). In addition, practically every CSV import routine can accept alternatives for these characters.
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Slashdot's a little behind today, it seems.
I think the right to be anonymous is more important than knowing who said what. You just know that the politicians put this law in place so that they could harass or politically destroy those who would speak against them. It's a "strategic *law* against public participation".
Censorship is the road to fascism.
...which they'd look up in their cache and find that it's already been sufficiently indexed; the only thing it would do to them is add your site's (Microsoft equivalent of) PageRank to www.microsoft.com.
That's not a bug, that's by design. How else are they supposed to only DDoS Unix and Mac servers and leave Windows servers alone?
As long as I can yell "KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!" through the voice chat, I'm happy.
...if your company's leadership has the collective personality of an asshole.
If you're using an algorithm, rather than discrete, non-sequential random numbers stored in a database, for your CD keys, you deserve to have them cracked.
EA makes me run from any EA game. ;^)
It's enforced obsolescence. If you can't play the game you bought last year, it means you need the one they released this year.
Simple marketing.
Anonymity would be the only real way to do that, and that's not even guaranteed. You air it against TSA prohibition, and suddenly the world will be seeing a lot less of you.
I believe they call that "treason".
Never travel to Slovakia.
It's part of Verizon's business plan that users can only get phones through them, because they can then tack on that two year contract at all times. They don't want a transferable SIM card.
What has happened instead is that time periods have been extended, more and more money has been made, which has concentrated the means of distribution into fewer hands, with the net effect of decreasing the amount of art (music, literature etc.) that is widely available.
Realistically, if you go that route of logic in US politics, people will start calling you a communist. Sad but true.
I fully expect that AT&T, if they figure enough people will do this, will just shut down data service for a couple of hours that day. Or possibly ban anyone actually using it more than a certain amount.
Everyone (or at least, most people) here at Slashdot knows that on a network as large as the internet, no blacklist method will achieve 100% accuracy.
This, of course, means that Senator Conroy is either completely ignoring the technical results, or the technical results are being flubbed to match Senator Conroy's agenda.
Are others in your parliament actually going to vote for this bill, or is he more of a rogue senator who isn't actually supported?
They'd have a very hard time taking away the right of first sale, so there are usually transfer clauses.
Of course, the actual software product is hardware locked and that lock is stored in their database remotely such that you can only ever use it on one computer, so whether or not it's legal is actually irrelevant.
The reason that Blizzard et al are attempting to keep server code private is that if you only have one (or a central group of) server(s), you can tie that server into your billing / CD key verification server and make sure that people pay to play, which is not the case with private servers.
Ongoing payment is the core business reason for MMOs. Of course they're going to use everything in their arsenal to protect it.
Because the FBI and others are positively *drooling* over access to a database of everyone's entire search history, and they'll almost certainly get it.
Can I have some of what you're smoking?
I expect to see extreme lobbying and a new copyright amendment (possibly to a "must-pass" military spending bill) tabled shortly that removes this restriction. Ironically, it will be presented as "helping the poor artists" who are being "destroyed by piracy".
*shrugs*
Different results for different people, I guess. It works for me, and apparently many others.
I am enjoying the fact that this has turned into a deep discussion about cookies.
C IS FOR COOKIE, THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!
Err... he wasn't suggesting that users make their own shell scripts, he was suggesting that the developers of a program release shell scripts with it to determine what / how it will run; users would then run the script rather than the binary directly.
It's been used all throughout modern distributions, especially Ubuntu. Take a look at your process list some time; you'll find several processes with a suffix "_real" because the program that took the place of the actual name was replaced with a script that setup the environment in advance of running the actual binary.
Do some research before bringing out the flames.
You're missing the point.
Flash is great for animation.
Flash is horrible for tabulated data.
The whole point of having this data open to the public is to allow the public to read and process it. If they can't load it into alternative environments to analyze it, the data effectively becomes useless; sort of a "transparency theatre" where none really exists.
I don't really understand why you consider CSV to be evil; it's one of the most simple, well-known formats around. Yes, you can change the separator, delimiter, and record-end characters to be something else, but all you have to do is tell people which characters you're using (though generally, IMHO people should stick to commas, quotes, and newlines). In addition, practically every CSV import routine can accept alternatives for these characters.